When the crowd dispersed in the barnyard, it was almost time, and it was already very late for the people of Xihe Village.

But no one was annoyed by anything, when they went home, the family dragged chairs and stools, and while walking, they talked with their families or neighbors about the things in the book, talking about who deserved to die, who was pitiful, and so on.

It's so late, the prince and Yuanjiang County Ling won't go back to the county seat, so they will stay in Xihe Village for one night, although the Yi family is not as good as the real mansion, but there are still some guest rooms.

It's just that the prince couldn't sleep this night, and he kept thinking about the process of telling the story before, and his father once said that Yi Shuyuan used books to entertain people and the world, and in this "Ming Tianyu" is more obvious.

After tossing and turning in the Yi family's guest room for a long time, the prince still got up from the bed.

"Someone!"

At the sound of an order, a voice immediately responded at the door.

"Your Highness? You haven't slept yet? ”

"I can't sleep, prepare pen, ink, paper, and inkstone."

The two guards guarding outside looked at each other, and one of them had no choice but to go to the Yi family's family and ask the other party to help prepare.

About a quarter of an hour later, in the guest room where the prince was temporarily staying, the four treasures of the study were placed on the table, and an oil lamp was also lit.

The prince put on thick clothes, and did not dress neatly, but wrote directly by the light in the middle of the night, and he wrote down at once what he had seen and heard today, and although it was impossible to record it completely, he also tried to be comprehensive.

Before dawn, the chickens in the village had already begun to chirp early.

The guards outside the prince's door had already been rotated, and now it was the other two, and when they couldn't help but yawn, the lights in the house had not been extinguished.

There can be no conditions in the palace here, and the prince doesn't want Yi Shuyuan to think that he is really pampered, so after the whole night, the hand holding the pen was frozen, but he didn't call anyone again.

"Ho"

The prince who put down the pen let out a cloud of white gas in his hand, rubbed his hands a few times and hid it in his clothes to warm his hands, more than a dozen pages had been written on the table, and the handwriting was dense and very small.

Originally, the prince also wanted to add a sentence at the end, "written on the night of the thirteenth day of the winter moon", but when he wanted to put pen to paper, he felt that this was a bit of a draw, after all, his father would definitely know that he wrote it overnight.

I wrote it down and my father himself learned the facts, although the result is not much different, but it still has some meaning.

"Someone!"

"In!"

The guards outside opened the door and came in, and a gust of cold wind poured straight into the room, blowing the lights swaying, and the paper on the table had a tendency to fly out, so that the prince couldn't help but reach out and hold down the table, and at the same time pulled his clothes and shrunk back.

Seeing this, the guards hurriedly closed the door.

"Sort out the books and texts on the table, load the letter and send it to Chengtianfu as soon as possible, there must be no mistakes!"

"Yes!"

The guard walked over, and the prince raised his hand and was shocked, only to find that the ink on several pieces of paper had not completely dried up, so that with a press just now, the ink on some of the words was wiped off, although it did not affect the reading, but it was also printed with a part of the palm print.

"Tsk, alas"

"Your Highness, do you want to rewrite one?"

"Forget it, just put it up like this, my father shouldn't blame me, I'm so cold and hungry."

There was a lot of dinner last night, but at the moment the prince still felt cold and hungry, and said with a smile while sorting out the papers on the table.

"Although the sky is still bright, I see that there is already cooking smoke in the Yi family's kitchen, it should be already making breakfast, Your Highness, sleep for a while, I will bring you something to eat later."

"Hmm!"

This will make the prince feel a lot more at ease, and as soon as the guards leave, he unbuttoned his clothes and slept under a somewhat cold quilt.

——

Xiang Ziji stayed in Yi's house for another day before leaving Xihe Village, and returned to the county seat with Yuanjiang County Order, if he lived for too long, it was inconvenient and easy to attract people's dislike, anyway, he had already knocked on the side and knew that Mr. Yi would stay at home for a while longer.

Of course, Xiang Ziji had no intention of leaving Yuanjiang County, and he had to wait for a reply from the Chengtianfu Palace.

It had been a while since this letter from Yuanjiang County arrived in Chengtianfu.

Emperor Dayong happened to be there when Tan Yuanshang was reading the letter, and the two read the letter together, and the emperor did not shy away from it.

The emperor was first excited that Yi Shuyuan was in Yuanjiang County, and then when he read through the contents of the prince's book, he was even more shocked.

"The rebellion of Nanyan Baiyu Dao, we have only just learned about it, and this Mr. Yi has already understood?"

Nan Yan's meticulous activities are rampant, although Dayong is restrained, but he is not without eyeliner in Nanyan, the prince may not know about Nan Yan, but the emperor can still occasionally know some things about Nan Yan.

Among the intelligence means, Tan Yuansheng's business is one of the important channels, and among the information in the past few years, the destruction of Bai Yudao is the most important.

And compared with the concise and concise information obtained by Chengtianfu, Yi Shuyuan's "Ming Tianyu" must be more detailed, even in the prince's letters.

Zhang Liangxi on the side said.

"Your Majesty, it is not surprising that Mr. Yi has a master like Long Feiyang as a friend, and he is a scholar of heaven and man, and he cares about the country, and he is particularly concerned about Nanyan's affairs and knows more about it."

The Emperor nodded, reminiscing about the beginning.

"Back then, Xiangshan Zen Academy, he and Long Feiyang took the first step and made an appointment to meet in the north, at that time he must have known a lot about Nanyan, this person must have a lot of friends in the rivers and lakes, and Long Feiyang is not the only one!"

With that, the emperor looked at the first half of the letter, which also mentioned the matter of the old sect leader.

"Mr. Yi's return to Yuanjiang County this time may also have something to do with this Lu Xin. Liangxi, did I do something wrong when I banned the arrest station? ”

Tan Yuansheng, who was sitting on the soft couch together, immediately stood up and said.

"Your Majesty, the government and the opposition were even more turbulent back then, although there was a need for the arrest platform to exist in that era, the upper echelons had also been corroded a lot, and it was already too bloated, and the law enforcement power was also easy to abuse, although you were the crown prince, you already had to think about the future, and your choice at that time was not wrong!"

As he spoke, Tan Yuanshang thought for a moment and continued.

"Institutions like the Enforcement and Arrest Stage, lack of constraints, and when it is turbulent, the effect is immediate, but if it is allowed to continue, it will only cause disaster, and Nanyan's Bai Yu Dao is also an example!"

Zhang Liangxi hurriedly agreed.

"What Tan Gong said is extremely true!"

The emperor smiled and looked at Tan Yuanshang on the side.

"If you are willing to be an official, you are one of the assistants!"

"Hahaha"

Tan Yuanshang laughed.

"Your Majesty can say this, of course I'm happy, but I Tan Yuanshang doesn't want to be an official, and I'm not suitable to be an official, sometimes I'm too emotional, and I can still toss and turn in business, but officialdom is not suitable, and I'm too tired! Again."

Tan Yuansheng paused, looked at the emperor and said.

"I'm not an official, when Your Majesty is tired, there is always a good place to go!"

Hearing this, the emperor was also a little moved in his heart, but Tan Yuansheng's words were not over yet.

"What I am more curious about than being an official is that His Royal Highness's letter said that Mr. Yi's brother is nearly seventy years old, and this Mr. Yi doesn't seem to be very old, is there anything special about it?"

The emperor thought for a moment, shook his head, and said.

"When I saw that he was actually gray-haired, maybe he had also learned some Taoist techniques and knew some health preservation methods, I really hoped that he just had the same name as his father."

Or is this person extraordinary?

This was the first time that such doubts arose in the heart of the great Yongtianzi, but he did not say it, and he quickly laughed it off, and turned to think about the affairs of the country.

Chu Hang's side has also grasped some of the veins of Nanyan's fine works, and some of them have gone deep into the rivers and lakes, which was originally tricky, but the fall of Bai Yu Dao is an opportunity, after all, many of the previous fine works are related to Bai Yu Dao, plus the power of Nanyan is alternating between the government and the opposition, and it should not be able to take care of Dayong's side.

Of course, the emperor only thought about these things, and just let go of power, and his attention returned to the letter.

""Ming Tian Yu" can also be "Ming Tian Yu", and echoes the meaning of Bai Xiaojie's "Looking at the Sky Rain", the mystery in the story is fascinating, but the chaos of Nanyan's state affairs is more alarming, and I don't know how much Yuan Xiang Ji Er listened to, which one do you prefer, Ji Er or Heng'er?"

"Oh, can you ask me that? Wang Zi Ji and Wang Zi Heng are both talents, Your Majesty, think about it yourself! ”

Tan Yuanshang would never dare to express his opinion casually on this kind of matter, the relationship is good, but the phrase "companion is like a tiger" is not a joke, and no one can forget it, including him Tan Yuansheng.

"Your Majesty, the prince is still waiting for your reply."

Zhang Liangxi said this, and the emperor thought for a moment, but he still let go of many thoughts and suppressed some impulses.

"Let Ji'er come back, otherwise it may not be able to catch up with the New Year, Mr. Yi is rare to go home, and don't bother frequently, by the way, chase Lu Xin as the chief arrest of Jin Xin, give Lu Jia silk ten horses, one hundred taels of gold"

"Yes!"

——

This day is the third day of the lunar month, and the prince Ji made a special trip to Xihe Village again, and personally handed over a letter to Yi Shuyuan, and at the same time came to say goodbye, of course, this time he did not let the Yuanjiang County Order accompany him, and he did not even alarm the people in the village.

Also in the afternoon of the same day, Yi Shuyuan was invited by Yi Yongan to row a boat out to fish.

It's still the confluence of rivers and the old place, but this time the two of them haven't seen the fish bite the hook for a long time, and Yi Shuyuan also opened the handwritten letter from the son of Yong on the boat.

sprinkled nearly a thousand words, and almost didn't mention anything about asking Yi Shuyuan to be an official, but it seemed that every sentence was mentioning that he wanted him to become an official.

Gray Mian was lying on Yi Shuyuan's shoulder at the moment, looking at the contents of the letter with Yi Shuyuan.

"Hey, I'm not the one to be an official!"

Hearing Yi Shuyuan say this, Gray Mian was also happy.

"You say that, the emperor doesn't believe it, why don't you go and try it and let him know clearly?"

"Joke!"

"Oh, sir, it's drifting!"

Gray Mian reminded him that Yi Yongan over there had already lifted the pole suddenly, obviously the float on his side had also moved, and the pole was like a crescent moon when he mentioned it.

"Hahahaha, it's a big fish! Alas, no, no, what a big man, uncle, hurry, come on, hey, hey."

"Let go, this fish can't pull it up!"

"No—"

"Poof~", Yi Yongan, who was holding on to the fishing rod, was dragged directly into the water, and the cold and biting river water directly froze people stupidly, and he was wearing thick clothes, and the water couldn't be splashed.

"Uncle. Uncle, save me! ”

"Hold on, I'll pull you up!"

Yi Shuyuan shook his head, lifted the fishing rod and handed it over, letting Yi Yongan grab the fishing rod and climb up, while Yi Shuyuan's eyes looked deep in the river on one side, and the hook in his nephew just now was not an ordinary fish.

(End of chapter)