Volume 1 Xiao Yuanba Chapter 221 Xie Yulou was frightened
The Interpretation Building was originally in the embrace of the Moon Lake, surrounded by water on three sides. This building is built on the high part of the peninsula, and is a two-storey, three-story structure with heavy eaves, and the whole is a concave shape.
Chen Bingxiao said that the east building is a sister building, because it has one more corridor than the west building (that is, it is larger).
Li Dan paid attention to the difference between its shape and the window lattices on the exterior wall from the lamplight, and concluded that the west building was added later, and the time should be later than the east building. Chen Bing was taken aback when he heard this!
They crossed the trestle bridge on the fish pond between the two floors, and after the solemn attendants on the bridge communicated with Chen Bing with their eyes, they bowed down one after another, and Li Dan could see from their temperament and standing posture that although these people did not have weapons in their hands, they were obviously guards with martial arts.
The sound of the pipa came from upstairs, Chen Ji looked up, smiled and introduced, "This is "The Moon is Hazy", the song composed by the first king. Your Highness listens to this song tonight, and it must be because of the restlessness in your heart." After speaking, he made a gesture of please and motioned for Li Dan to go upstairs.
However, the king of the county is not upstairs, and here are all eunuchs, female officials, maids, and musicians. Seeing them come up, they all bowed down and saluted, Li Dan was stunned for a moment before he realized that they were doing this because of Chen Bing behind him.
When he came to the sound of the lute, he found that there was a curtain hanging at the entrance of the staircase, and two women sat on the embroidery pier behind them, but they were a couple, and even if he came up, he did not stop.
Looking ahead, a man in white clothes, with long hair and a shawl, and a small bun on his head, was hesitating in front of Zhang Shu's case.
Li Dan strode forward, stood five or six steps away, and clasped his fists: "May I ask if it is His Royal Highness the King of Fengning County?" Minister Li Dan saw that he was late, please forgive him!"
"Uh, Lord Li, that's wrong." Chen Bing hurriedly lowered his voice from behind, and hurriedly lowered his voice, while saluting the man: while hurriedly introducing: "This is His Royal Highness's younger brother Yicheng Gong, and the slave maid gave Yicheng Gong a salute."
"That's it, Old Chen, you know I've never liked these cumbersome etiquette." The man put down his pen and turned around.
Li Dan's eyes lit up, and he saw that he was tall, with a round face, a pair of clear eyes, and a silver satin jacket under the white linen robe, loosely tied with a strip of yellow silk, looking unruly.
"Go to your own homeland and let go, don't be a minister, a minister." He smiled on his white face, and the ends of his upper lip drooped slightly. Looking up and down, he nodded:
"You're Li Dan? I thought he was a big black man with a wide face and a wide nose and eyes like copper bells, but I didn't expect him to be a scholar, but his shoulders were thicker." After saying that, arch your hand:
"My name is Zhao Kuo, but I'm not the one in the Battle of Changping, the word Zongrui, everyone calls me Yicheng Gong. You can call it however you like, I don't care what it's called, a name is just a name, what do you want it to do if it's famous? Are you right?"
He said a lot in a row, which overwhelmed Li Dan, and it was easy to catch the air with a smile, and then *** said: "I've seen Yicheng Gong." Then he looked around, saw no one else, and asked in wonder:
"Are you alone upstairs? What are you doing here?"
"Whoa!" Zhao Kuo pointed to the sky, only to see a full moon hanging in the sky outside the wide open window.
"Today's full moon, I was looking for Brother Wang to have a good time, who knew that he came up with a topic and asked me to write a full moon poem, otherwise I would go home in a daze by myself, and I couldn't drink wine or listen to music! So I'm here to meditate."
"Huh?" Li Dan frowned, looked at the moon again, and asked, "Could it be that His Highness is not in a good mood?" Why else would it be difficult for him to compose poetry for you?"
"I'm in a bad mood." Zhao Kuo leaned in and whispered, "A person is wiping his armor inside! You're going to take my fat white nephew out of town tonight, it's no wonder he's in a good mood!"
"He's not going to lose his temper, is he?"
"It's hard to say." Zhao Kuo's eyes suddenly rolled: "Maybe you write a wonderful poem to make him happy, and he won't scold when he's in a good mood."
Li Dan looked at him, and then looked at the pen and paper on the case. Looking back at Chen Bing's low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, he didn't say a word, and thought: Hmph, these two brothers, won't they put up a dragon gate array here to test me, right?
"This ......, the minister's war is okay, and the writing and ink are a bit ordinary." He said deliberately embarrassed.
"Huh! I've heard of your Li Sanlang name!" Zhao Kuo puffed out his eyes: "'The sharp dischief startled the bird, and the grass moved to show the ambush and killing. It shouldn't be difficult to make such a poem, and to sing to the moon!"
"Why don't you tell a joke and see if you can make His Highness laugh?" Li Dan thought to himself, this must be a set! What is hidden behind the poetry?
"No, no! It's all a courtesan storyteller's little trick, how can he be elegant? I heard that Li Sanlang is the son of Li Wenchenggong, and I also heard that Zunjia's younger brother was the youngest talent in the province last autumn.
Could it be that the eldest son of your mansion is not as good as the demeanor of your son-in-law, or your Excellency's poem...... Didn't you do it yourself?" Zhao Kuo deliberately blinked his eyes.
Li Dan swallowed and foamed, there was no way to do it, and people took out his father's tablet again, and they used Li Shuo's sister-in-law to pressure themselves. "If you don't write poetry, won't you see Your Highness?" He asked.
"I'm afraid I won't even see my nephew!" Zhao Kuo smiled evilly.
Li Dan licked his lips and looked back at Chen Bing, this old thing was pretending to fight mosquitoes with dust, as if he hadn't heard it.
"In this way, Li Dan obeyed his fate. However, ......, Dan Fang is so desperate that he can't get it." Li Dan smiled slightly: "Please also ask the Duke of Yicheng to write first, and the minister can add the tail."
"Hah! You cunning!" Zhao Kuo couldn't cry or laugh, turned around and looked in a certain direction, Li Dan glanced in his direction, and saw that the curtain had moved. "Okay, then I'll do it first!" Zhao Kuo picked up the pen and licked the ink again, thought about it, and wrote:
Late to the state of the month, the success of today's people.
Jiyang Mountain is high, and geese have a return journey.
Yao Pian is still young, and Qinghui is sprinkled with scars.
Yo Yo returned to his hometown and talked to Jun En with his relatives.
This means that the father sees the moonlight and misses his distant son, and looks forward to his early return. After writing, Zhao Kuo handed over the pen: "Oh, it's your turn now, right?"
Li Dan smiled and bowed his hand, and took it without much pen, just licked it in the ink pool, and put down the pen with the remnant of the front, and the book was completed in one go. Zhao Kuo tilted his head behind his back and looked behind his back, and put his hand down after looking at it. I saw that his poem was:
Alone on the double floor to bathe in the autumn cold, the bright moon is like water and water like the sky.
The clear light on the river is thousands of miles, and the head and tail of the river are a total of one year.
"Good poetry, good spirit!" Zhao Kuo screamed unconsciously.
"Where, where? In fact, Yichenggong's length, calligraphy, and literary style are all better than me, and the minister admires it very much!" Indeed, Zhao Kuo's first-hand Zhao Mengfu calligraphy can be real, which makes people feel refreshed.
"Poetry doesn't win by the number of words."
Li Dan followed the sound and saw a young man walking out from behind the curtain, not as tall as Zhao Kuo, but his face and beard were somewhat similar.
He wore a gauze brocade robe, a jade belt around his waist, a small and delicate jade crown on his head with a hosta to wrap the hair on the top of his head, a belt made of red silk thread tied to his chin, and two turquoise beads at the end. Chen Bing hurriedly tugged at Li Dan's sleeve and motioned for him to salute.
"The minister has seen the king of the county, Chitose!"
"That's it." Zhao Yan waved his hand: "That's what my brother said just now, it's not a court meeting here, so you don't need to pay too much attention to it."
After he finished speaking, he walked over and looked at the two poems, nodded and smiled: "The second child is a talented man in my family, this one is really good. It's just that I read this poem alone, and I'm afraid that I will miss my son even more at that time!"
"Brother Wang's criticism is, I still haven't made you happy, sin, sin!" Zhao Kuo lowered his head and grimaced, then raised his head and smiled and confessed.
Zhao Yan didn't comment on Li Dan's poems, only looked him up and down, and then said with a smile: "The leader of the green shirt team who is rumored by everyone and is famous in Gandong turns out to be you, and it is really 108,000 miles away from what I imagined!" But you can make strong enemies fearful, and you will have something special about you."
After speaking, he beckoned: "How about a drink with Gu?" The price of your Fengquan wine is high and rare, and the second child has been coveting it for a long time!" As he spoke, he turned around and walked towards the warm pavilion inside.
"Chitose praises. Those rumors in the market are unbelievable, and the minister himself went to the tea house to hear ......."
"Oh, and the result?" Zhao Kuo was interested.
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As a result, I escaped, alas! I can't bear to listen to it, what is it all about?" As soon as Li Dan told the story of Wannian, the brothers laughed.
The guest and host sat down and gradually got to the point. Li Dan told them that the carriage had arrived outside the palace gate, and there were still spear guards accompanying them. Chen Bing poured wine for the king of the county and said, "Those are all real elites. Tsk, the old slave was shocked when he looked at it, I really don't know how Lord Li can suppress these men!"
"Those people are all veterans of the former official army, and there are also good fighters selected from the soldiers who are anyway. The lowest is also the rank of sergeant, who has participated in no less than five battles and made meritorious achievements.
With their protection, the road will be safe." Li Dan paused when he said this, hugged his fist to the north, and said:
"Your Majesty sent a minister to Shangrao, the reinforcements are only on the surface, and the inside is to hope that His Royal Highness will be brought to Beijing, and then return with the official army who came to aid Gandong after participating in the Queen Mother's Christmas ceremony.
But when the minister heard that His Highness did not want to leave, he invited him to the Hajj to confirm what His Highness wanted."
"Are you worried that I will be influenced or even blackmailed by public opinion?" Zhao Yan picked up the wine glass: "Qing looks lonely like that?"
"Actually, Your Highness may not know that the minister came to Shangrao this time, and along the way, he collected and dispersed and abandoned the fortress, concentrated more than 3,000 officers and soldiers and more than 2,000 young men who could be organized as auxiliaries or regimental training, and collected tens of thousands of stone grains, and after recovering Guangxin, he seized the 30,000 stone grains accumulated there and was being transferred to Shangrao.
In this way, the Shangrao soldiers had enough food and food, and there was no problem in resisting the attack of 30,000 or 40,000 enemies. What's more, His Majesty has issued a decree ordering reinforcements from Zhejiang and Fujian to enter southeast Jiangxi, two of which are directed to the ...... of Guangxin Mansion."
Listening to Li Dan's introduction, the brothers had a light on their faces and nodded frequently.
"Lonely understands what Qing means." Zhao Yan thought about it and said, "But because of this, Lone can't leave Shangrao." He was resolute in his words:
"The army and the people are united with one heart and one mind, so that Shangrao can be defended, and the intention of the bandits to plague the city and call them lonely here can be frustrated. There is a lonely place, and the thief can't step into the palace even a step!"
"Yes!" Zhao Kuo put the cup on the table heavily: "When the time comes, I will also put it up and stand on the palace gate with Brother Wang. I want to see with my own eyes how those chaotic ministers and thieves walked in on the corpses of the descendants of the Zhao family!"
Li Dan almost squirted, you are all corpses and can you still see it? But he asked, "Chitose is worried about the dangers on the way to transfer, and the mountain is high and the road is dangerous?"
Zhao Yan smiled: "Didn't you bring a special carriage?"
"Yes, Chen specially informed Yu Gan's carriage factory that it had been modified, and it would not be a problem for three or five people to sit inside! And after special processing, it is lighter and softer than ordinary carriages, only slightly shaky, and there are no big bumps." Li Dan replied.
"When the battle is over, I'll buy a few to try. But forget it this time!" Zhao Yan said, "Let Xiao Tan try to ride for Gu first. If Lone is worried about the journey, how can he entrust the son of the world to you?"
After he finished speaking, he pointed with his hand: "Although this is not a lonely fiefdom, it is just like Lone's hometown. Who can put their neighbors at risk for their own safety? If there is such a person, how can he have the face to come back and face the villagers?
In the past, King Xiang wandered along the riverside, saying that he had no shame to see the Jiangdong fathers, is it better to be lonely than the ancients?" He sighed and drank the wine from his glass, and continued:
"Your Majesty sent you, Gu understands his intentions, please pass on this book of "Greetings and Guilty Excerpts" to Your Majesty on behalf of Gu. If you want to leave a bloodline for the lonely branch, Xiaotan is enough!
Before Fang Caiqing came, Gu had authorized the second brother to organize the Zhao clan's sons and sons, personal guards, and Hu Cong in Shangrao City into a team to practice, and cooperate with the Honor Guard Division to inspect and protect the city.
In order not to cause trouble to Shangrao County, all the direct clan relatives moved into the palace and placed in various side halls and redundant barracks and courtyards, which were jointly funded and supported by the palace and the two princes of Yicheng and Xuancheng."
Li Dan was taken aback, this was completely different from the situation he had known in his previous life that the Ming Dynasty clan was scattered during the war! "W-Isn't that a lot of people?" He asked, confused.
"There aren't many, but it's less than five suits, we roughly calculated, there are only a hundred people, plus their slaves and guards, there are not many, and they can bear it!"
Zhao Kuo waved his hand indifferently: "Money and food, as long as you beat away the thief, you can still earn it, but if the city is ruined, what if you have ten thousand gold?"
"Yicheng Gong is so right!" Li Dan gave him a thumbs up, not only did he have a good impression of this free and easy duke. "So, the ministers will leave tonight, I don't know who His Highness has prepared for the prince?"
"That's them." After Zhao Yu finished speaking, he clapped his hands, and the two women playing music outside came in with their heads bowed with their heads in their arms, and Li Dan only then noticed that the sound of the pipa had already disappeared at some point.
"Two women?" Li Dan asked in surprise, "Isn't it an eunuch?"
"The eunuch is also ready, Chen Bing, you go and let them take the prince downstairs to prepare, let the carriage come in, and wait at the gate of Nanyuan." Seeing Chen Bing go out to spread the word, Zhao Yan sighed and said gently to the two women:
"You two raise your heads, this is Li Sanlang Li Gongzi, both step forward and salute." Li Dan listened, because he couldn't figure out what their identities were, so he wanted to get up and return the salute, but was stopped by the king of the county, so he had to sit in the chair and receive their blessings.
He lifted his hands with each other, and then he realized that they looked similar, and asked in surprise, "Are you sisters?"
"Hey, you got it right!" Zhao Kuo introduced with a smile: "Her two sisters are surnamed Wu, and they are both from Xingguo. When the Miao Rebellion was pacified, his father was captured in Ganzhou, and in order to avoid the crime, he dedicated the two daughters to the generals who led the army.
Who knew that the guy had taken too many bribes and the East Window incident occurred, and the imperial court arrested him and put him in prison. The sisters were ready to be sent to the Faculty Division. When my brother heard that he was very pitiful, he ransomed him as a righteous daughter and taught writing, calligraphy and painting, singing and dancing.
The one in the pink skirt on the left hand is called Ning'er, who is seventeen years old this year, and the one on the right hand is my sister Abin, who is fourteen years old this year."
Li Dan saw that the two of them were shy, and they were a little confused. "Since Chitose has already arranged for a eunuch to accompany him, why add two more women?"
"After all, eunuchs are not as meticulous and gentle as women."
"That...... Can you find two grandmothers?"
Zhao Kuo was a little impatient: "Why don't you Li Sanlang understand? In this city, how can Brother Wang rest assured that the two of them should stay in the city? Why don't you marry you Li Sanlang and take care of the prince by the way?"
"Uh, what? Marry me?" Li Dan was taken aback. Before they could speak again, Ning and Bin covered their faces and ran out with an "oops".
"You two hurry up and get ready, and set off with Saburo in a while!" Zhao Kuo shouted behind them.
"No, no, it's good to be slow down!" Li Dan felt a little dizzy, how could he talk about the matter of the son of the world, he had two more women?
"It's nothing to have two more people in the carriage to take care of, the point is...... Chitose, what kind of charter are you? The minister is confused." He turned his face and slammed upwards.
The brothers laughed, "Look, the majestic Li Saburo also has such a time!"
"No, Your Highness doesn't know, the minister has already discussed family affairs in Yugan, and he only went into the cave room." Li Dan hurriedly explained.
"Don't be too nervous." Hearing him say this, Zhao Yan also became serious again, saying, "These two children have been kept at home alone for many years and are regarded as treasures. Originally, he wanted to give Ning'er as a concubine to the second child, but his wife resolutely disagreed to enter the door, so he had to give up.
I've been at home for another year, and now it's happening to me." He paused abruptly, calmed his mind and continued:
"This building was actually renamed for her sisters. Alas, it's a pity that there is no banquet in the world! Lone just said that he would stay in Shangrao and fight to the end, but the outcome is unpredictable.
I don't want to see these two flowers being murdered while they are still budding, so I want to take this opportunity to ask you to take them away from Shangrao. In the future, there is no objection to taking care of Xiaotan or staying by your side, as long as they live comfortably, they will be satisfied."
"But ......."
"Nothing, this is the king's will!" Zhao Kuban raised his face and said.
Zhao Yan waved his hand to stop his younger brother and said sincerely to Li Dan:
"It's not a secret, her sisters didn't want to leave at first, but then Lone told them to marry you as a concubine, and Ning'er proposed to test your talents, which led to the part of composing poetry just now. Don't be annoyed
, that's why Lone had to think of this way to get them to agree to go."
"Your method is really," Li Dan cried and laughed, "How can I explain when I go home?" What should the subordinates say?"
"Externally, you still say that they are responsible for taking care of Xiaotan. As for how you explain it when you get home, make up your own mind."
"But what if they regret it in the future?"
"That's the path they chose." The king of the county said. Li Dan had nothing to say.
Chen Bing walked upstairs and said that everything was ready to stop, and the prince's luggage had been loaded, Li Dan got up: "Chitose, Yicheng Gong, why don't you go and send off the prince?" That's what the two of them mean.
They went out and walked to the west gate of the garden, and looked up and saw a large crowd of people. Zhao Kuo's eyes were sharp, and he immediately whispered to his brother, "Why is the princess here too?" The crowd parted and let them walk to the carriage.
Dressed like a little adult, Zhao Yuan respectfully saluted his father, Zhao touched his head and smiled, and then asked his wife softly, "There are foreign ministers, why are you here?"
"My son wants to travel far away, how can I not send it to my mother?" The princess's eyes turned red as she spoke. Li Dan saw that she was sad, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and the princess diverted her attention, blessed him, said her hard work, and asked him to take care of her.
Li Dan seemed to be very young when she heard her voice, and when she peeked at it, she felt that she was in her early twenties, but she seemed to be soft and weak, and there were always two maids around to support her.
Then the prince officially resigned, and the little doll said what had been taught long ago, and kowtowed on the carpet. Then Wu Ning and Wu Bin came up to resign.
Li Dan suddenly felt that the princess's voice had been raised three times, as if the posture of the housewife had instructed and instructed for a long time.
Then she watched her son get into the car accompanied by her second daughter, turned around and opened a celadon bowl from the tray held by the maid, grabbed a salt from it and threw it in front of the car (ancient custom, going out to sprinkle salt to drive away ghosts).
He watched the maids sprinkle salt all over the front and back of the carriage, and then turned around and left with a group of maids wiping their tears.
Li Dan looked at her back and suddenly realized that the two sisters must leave, they will not be able to stay in this house sooner or later!
They left, and the princess estimated that she would be able to sleep soundly and drink a glass of sweet water. No wonder the king of the county looks like a ghost, and now his eyes are still staring at the carriage and it is difficult to separate.
In the end, the two eunuchs who traveled with them came up and received the instructions of the king of Fanjun.
Since this place can't stay for a long time, Li Dan hurriedly said goodbye to the king of the county and the prince of Yicheng, pointed to the things that were placed on the ground and said with a smile: "The battlefield is far away, and I didn't bring any good things, these are all local products brought with the car, please smile at the prince!"
After saying goodbye, he was still sent out by Chen Bing, and he should have returned the same way. But outside the west gate of the palace, Deputy General Yu and the prefect were waiting to send off the son, and everyone exchanged pleasantries.
Li Dan told them to set up an ambush to lure the enemy tonight, and in the second half of the night, he asked the deputy general to send a team of 1,000 people to quietly go out of the city to help.
He also promised that after the battle, the more than 3,000 officers and soldiers gathered outside the city, 2,000 young men, and the three catapults that came with him would be left in the city.
The prefect was very happy to have 5,000 people to enrich the garrison, and Vice General Yu knew that Li Dan was going to give him another great blessing, and the two of them agreed to his requests, and the relationship became more intimate.