Early the next morning, Shen Jiyue couldn't wake up for a long time, and when she opened her eyes, the sky was already bright, and when she saw that there was no trace of Sima Xunian, there was a burst of green fragrance of grass and trees......

Turning her head, she saw the red candles hanging high outside the Luo tent, which was festive, she quickly straightened up and shouted softly outside, "Mingxin? ”

Mingxin heard the sound and walked in, and when he saw that Shen Jiyue had woken up, he hurriedly came over and picked up the red tent, and said with a smile, "Madam, you are awake, the adults got up half an hour ago, and told me not to disturb you, so that you can sleep well." As he spoke, he took off the prepared clothes on the wooden shelf, and stood quietly on one side waiting to change clothes for Shen Jiyue.

Madam...... Hearing Mingxin's change of words, Shen Jiyue blushed slightly, and said while getting out of bed and putting on her shoes, "He...... Don't you need to go to court to discuss things? ”

"My lord said that all officials who are married will be granted three days off by the imperial court."

"Oh......" Shen Jiyue responded while dressing, and suddenly she seemed to remember something, and exclaimed, "Hey! I'm afraid I'm missing the time to go back today, Mingxin, you should have called me ......"

Mingxin smiled, "Don't worry, the adults have already prepared, everything has been prepared, and you can set off to Shen Shilang's mansion later." Now the kitchen has just served breakfast, and the adults are drinking tea in the hall, waiting for you to eat together, you wash up first. ”

When Shen Jiyue heard this, she blamed herself for being snooze, so she quickly washed up.

In a short time, she walked out of the main room.

Although she lived in Sima Xunian's mansion for a while, she lived in Yuehuaju Villa and had never set foot in the main court, so she was not familiar with the road, so she only listened to Mingxin's way, walked through a small garden, bypassed a few corridors, and came to the hall. Along the way, she watched the scenery and listened to the sounds of the world, and had to admire Sima Xunian's design of the mansion very ingeniously, hiding the scenery in the courtyard and hiding the house in the scene, which is private and chic.

Sima Xunian saw Shen Jiyue coming from the side corridor, got up hurriedly, and walked out of the hall door to greet him.

Shen Jiyue was already graceful, and now there are green willows and new poplars in the courtyard against each other, and she is very polite, Sima Xunian straightened out her clothes and bowed her hands, "Madam, you are polite to your husband." ”

Shen Jiyue couldn't help but laugh when she saw him doing it.

Smiling like a flower...... Sima Xunian suddenly felt that the spring scenery in the court was beautiful......

Shen Jiyue sat down at the table and found that the breakfast utensils were Huaiyang cuisine, looking at the long-lost childhood flavor, she was both surprised and emotional, and couldn't help but feel a burst of sourness.

Seeing that she didn't move her chopsticks, Sima Xunian raised his chopsticks and sandwiched a piece of three-color soft rice cake for her and put it in her bowl, "Try the chef skills invited by Yiming from Yangzhou." After speaking, he put down his chopsticks and was about to serve her a bowl of red bean and eight-treasure porridge.

Shen Jiyue knew that Sima Xunian grew up in Yizhou, and later went to Liaodong with his father, and then fought in Bingzhou and Liangzhou, his taste should be more inclined to salty and fragrant, and Huaiyang's sweet and sour, there is a big gap, and now for himself, even the cook at home has changed...... Thinking about it, her eyes suddenly turned red, and she reached out to hold Sima Xunian's hand that served her porridge, and said softly, "Xunian...... I'll do it. ”

Sima Xunian suddenly grinned, and the smile overflowed his entire face, and he couldn't hide it......

The servant who was waiting for breakfast couldn't help but smile when he saw the intimate behavior of the two as if no one was around. Yi Ming couldn't stand it anymore, took two steps forward and coughed, and said softly, "Young Master, this ...... Breakfast may have to be tightened, and the in-laws are waiting for the new aunt to come to the door early in the morning. ”

Sima Xunian put away his smile, said "I know", and sat down to eat breakfast.

After breakfast, Sima Xunian accompanied Shen Jiyue to take a carriage to the mansion of the squire of the Criminal Department.

Shen Guangfeng stood outside the door to greet him, and Sima Xunian helped Shen Jiyue get out of the car and entered the mansion together. The Shen Mansion had already prepared a feast, waiting for Sima Xunian and Shen Jiyue, everyone exchanged a few words of greeting, and the guests and hosts took their seats.

This is the first time Sima Xunian has officially discussed with Shen Yong, and he is not very used to it, and his expression is slightly restrained, and Shen Yong saw the son of the old man, whose outline and demeanor were very similar to his father Sima Zebang, and he was slightly sentimental in his heart.

"Virtuous son-in-law, thinking back then, your father and I were still weak crown years, by chance, we met in Yangzhou, became close friends, and suddenly parted for nearly forty years. I am old and sick, and your father ...... but died in a foreign land...... It's me who is sorry for him. ”

"Uncle Yue, it's all from the past, so you don't need to mention it again." Sima Xunian frowned slightly, "Actually, my father also suspects that there is something else hidden in his wrongs, but Liaodong is remote and cannot be ascertained." I couldn't distinguish right from wrong, and I almost made a big mistake and punished myself. ”

Seeing this, Shen Guangfeng also picked up his wine glass and drank with him.

Shen Yong was very touched when he heard that Sima Zebang still trusted him after all the hardships, and he also raised his glass and drank it all......

"Yue'er, I met with the father of Xunian in the early years, his family is my dynasty clan, the ancestors relied on this relationship at the beginning of the founding of the country to get some shadows, but to the great-grandfather's generation gradually declined, and later moved to Yizhou, in Yizhou to marry a wife and have children, property settlement." Shen Yong took another glass of wine and continued, "When Brother Zebang was young, he had no intention of pursuing a career in business, and he only wanted to find a way out in business, so he went down the river in Yizhou, traveled to Yangzhou, and explored business opportunities by the way. I was a scholarly family, but I rarely encountered famine, my family was ruined and displaced, I followed the fleeing crowd all the way to Yangzhou to beg, and worked as a boatman, which is longer than Huaiyang...... In the year of the weak crown, I met Brother Zebang by chance and had a good conversation. Brother Zebang wanted to go to sea to the area of Baekje, Silla, so I took him on a boat. ”

"Oh? My father never mentioned the boat. Sima Xu said.

"It was because of this ship that changed the direction of our lives, I left the sea, and he gave up business. In the days when we went to sea, we talked about a lot of things, and we also had some ambitions for the community and people's livelihood. When we came back, we made an appointment to join the company and took it as our responsibility. ”

"Later...... You participated in the imperial examination together, and you were still in the same year? Shen Jiyue had already understood.

"We will meet again in ten years at the temple examination in ten years...... Of course, there are some other things in it, but it's all in the past, and there's nothing to say. After the death of the two brothers and sisters-in-law, I heard that your son-in-law had returned to your hometown and had visited your whereabouts in Yizhou, but there was no news, so I thought that you had also encountered an accident, and I felt very guilty, so I never mentioned the matter of Brother Zebang again. Ji Yue was still young back then, so she didn't know anything about you. ”

"No wonder...... When I first met Ji Yue, I asked her if she knew me, and she said she had no impression. Thinking of the scene at the beginning, Sima Xunian's heart tugged and he held Shen Jiyue's hand.

Shen Jiyue held him back...... Seeing that the atmosphere in the banquet was a little sad, she changed the topic, turned her head and asked Shen Yong, "I don't know how long my father can stay in Chang'an, and my daughter wants to stay with my father." ”

"How can there be a reason for the newlywed Yan'er to run back to her parents' house?" Shen Yong laughed out loud.

"Exactly, madam, where do you want to be a husband!" Sima Xunian was a little annoyed.

"Hehe, children, it's hard to part, it's normal for people to be separated. As a magistrate in Yangzhou, I can't leave the station for too long, and I will go back in two days. Again...... Xianzhi's father Zhou Dingbang died in exile before being rehabilitated, and Xianzhi returned to his hometown. ”

"The child knows."

"Son-in-law, I'll say a few more words. You are now a very human minister, you need to be extra careful in your actions and conversations, the court is treacherous, and I don't know which day disaster will fall from the sky. At present, Sima Yang and Qin Tianlin are fighting each other, each with a ghost, you had better not stand in line, only the order of the saint can be obeyed. ”

"Uncle Yue, speaking of which, I don't know much about something. Judging from the current situation, the Holy Lord must be Prince Yi Ning to inherit the throne, but Sima Yang doesn't seem to be very cooperative, obviously not wanting to adapt to the times, what good does this do him? ”

"Sima Yang and Sima You's brothers rehabilitated the Tibetan slave case, although the purpose is to bring down the prince, but it is always due to my kindness, I shouldn't have said him, but since you have entered the core of the court's decision-making, I have to remind you that Sima Yang does not seem to admire power and power, and takes the world as his own responsibility, but in fact it may not be. When I was lurking in Yangzhou, I had dealt with him privately, he and Sima You had very different personalities, they were completely two types of people, this time he was in the competition between the prince and the second prince. Moreover, if it is said that Prince Ning is sitting firmly on Mount Tai, I don't think so. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Sima Xunian's opinion on Shen Yong was a little surprised.

"When the saint was still the prince, there was one wife and two concubines in the house, the main wife Wang, that is, the current queen Wang, and the two concubines were Qin and Liu, that is, the current Qin Guifei and Liu Jingfei, and the biological mother of the second prince was Liu Jingfei. These two masters, from the day they married the saint, had different statuses. Qin Guifei is actually the first wife of the saint, and it was the saint who took the initiative to ask the first emperor to marry, and she has deep feelings. If it weren't for making way for the Wang family, the current queen would be her. Moreover, the Qin clan also has a high status in the Right Fufeng Mansion. But Concubine Liu Jing is different, she was met outside the palace by chance, she came from a humble background, and her mother's family was almost powerless. All along, the saint has been lukewarm to her, she has a very docile personality, and she does not fight or grab, it stands to reason that the second prince has no capital to win the heir. But the second prince is the most similar to the saint, he has been favored since he was a child, and when he grew up, the saint also chose the first gate valve in the world for him - Hongnong Yang, as an in-law, this family affair has become his biggest political capital. Now that Yang Hui has fallen, except for Yang Anzhi, the Hongnong Yang family has no one at the core of decision-making in the saint, and no matter how capable the second prince is, he can only temporarily succumb to Qingzhou. ”

"The second prince has no capital...... So Uncle Yue, what do you mean, the prince still has capital?! But the prince has been involved in cases repeatedly, how could the saint be kind to him again? Could it be that the saint is still afraid of the Taiyuan Wang clan in Bingzhou? "Sima Xunian has been fighting in the two states of Bing and Liang for nearly ten years, and he knows a lot about the Taiyuan Wang family.

"Not bad. Virtuous son-in-law, you were born a few years later, if you had been in a state thirty years ago, I am afraid that there would be no place for you. The Taiyuan Wang clan followed Emperor Gaozu to start with military merits, and at the beginning of the Dacheng state, he guarded the border of the state. Thirty years ago, today's saint relied on the Wang family to conquer the northwest Yidi and repeatedly performed miraculous feats before he sat on the throne of the crown prince. After the death of his father and brother, it was difficult for people in the family to take on the big responsibility, and the power in the army gradually declined, so that the northwest Yidi had the opportunity to bully my dynasty, if it were not for you, I am afraid that my dynasty would have to humiliate and sue for peace. To this day, the key generals of the Bingzhou Assassin History and the Bingzhou Soldiers are still tightly tied to the hands of the Wang family. The saint to the queen is always a one-day husband and wife, and Prince Rong is her only son and the eldest son of the saint, not comparable to other princes. ”

"Moreover, the power of the Wang family in the army has not completely subsided, and the saint will not be too ruthless to Prince Rong." Shen Guangfeng added.

Sima Xunian recalled that when he was in the military department, there were indeed many subordinates from the Taiyuan Wang family, and if he had not made remarkable achievements in the war, he might not have been able to climb to the head of the Wang family, so he could fully understand Shen Yong's analysis.

Everyone was pondering, and Shen Guangfeng suddenly remembered something, "There are only seven sons in the Holy Lord, two of whom died before they could reach the prelude, and there are currently five princes, and only three of them are Prince Rong, Prince Ying, and Prince Ning...... Sima Yang wants to support the little prince, and he has the power behind the scenes?! ”

"Light wind, don't talk nonsense!" Shen Yong was slightly annoyed, "Fang just said to be cautious, why did you immediately stop your mouth open?!" ”

Shen Guangfeng knew that he was speechless, and hurriedly lowered his head.

The son-in-law thinks that what his brother-in-law said is true. Since Sima You and I met, he began to use me to open the way for his two brothers, although he repeatedly emphasized that he did not stand in line, but now that he thinks about it, he is probably standing in line for himself......" Sima Xunian glanced slightly, Sima You, it seems that it is not simple.

Shen Yong groaned slightly, and said slowly, "I'm afraid, the court will not be peaceful from now on...... I am close to the age of sixteen, and there is nothing to fear, but the virtuous son-in-law, Guangfeng, you two must think of a way out for yourself, even if you don't think about yourself, you also need to think about your wife and children. ”

Sima Xunian was pondering, and when he heard Shen Yong say this, he immediately replied, "Don't worry, Uncle Yue, in this life, I will do my best to stay together, even if I give up my life, I will not hesitate to do so." ”

When Shen Jiyue heard him say this, she was excited in her heart, and turned her head to look at Sima Xunian, her eyes couldn't help but turn red again...... She thought that she was upside down, and she almost fell into the dust, but fortunately with him, what more could her husband ask for in this life...... Therefore, he took his hand and tightened it again.

The estrangement of everyone was gradually eliminated, and they gradually talked happily with each other, and before they knew it, it was already evening, and Sima Xunian thanked Shen Yong and his son, and returned to the mansion with Shen Jiyue.

After listening to Shen Yong's words, Sima Xunian was suddenly surprised by many things in the court, and now that the second prince has left Chang'an, I am afraid it is just the beginning. This chess game is far bigger and more complicated than I imagined, but now that I am involved, not only myself, but also the Shen family, there is no way out......