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The innkeeper held his hands hidden in his sleeves, and said with a slight smile: "Looking at the bookishness of the little official, he can understand these explanations at once, and he should be a meticulous person. This person can understand people's hearts, and the little official should be better than an old man." It’s better to be more clear, why bother to embarrass the old man, an outsider?”

The king of Chu lowered his head.

The shopkeeper stood up on his knees, then put his hands together again, and said to her earnestly: "There is nothing difficult about parting, the difficult thing is not being able to see each other, and whether there is enough trust between the couple. Young people, don't cry too early. In the future There's still plenty of time left!"

"Old man, why are you exactly like that old monk in Daxiangguo Temple!"

The shopkeeper then turned around, looked up at Little Six, scolded the young man for being so rude, but still had a kind face on his face, and smiled at him, "The old monk is talking about the elder Zhizhen of Daxiangguo Temple? "

The leaker covered his mouth, "How do you know?"

The storekeeper smiled and said: "I often go to listen to the elders, and the elders say that I cannot become a Buddha because of too much greed!"

After thanking the store with a lot of money and sending it away, Xiao Liuzi walked back to the King of Chu.

"Ah Lang, I think that old man is here to swindle money. He speaks clearly and logically. I don't know where he learned the art of deception."

The King of Chu got up, threw the wet clothes to Little Six, put away the flowers and the letter, and exhaled lightly, "After washing, let's go, we can't miss the trip to Qishan."

"Oh!"

After lunch, the dark clouds cleared, the heavy rain stopped, and the sky became extremely bright after the gloom subsided.

"Ah Lang, the rain has stopped!" Little Six put away the umbrella he took out.

King Chu walked to the courtyard outside the teahouse and took a deep breath. After the heavy rain, the air was filled with sweetness, and the scenery of the empty mountain after the rain was smooth.

"Let's go!"

The shopkeeper walked out from the inside, stood on the high steps and looked down. While stroking his long beard, he smiled towards the courtyard and said, "Tigers and leopards are fighting, bears are roaring, animals are terrified, and they are dead. The king and grandson are back. You can't stay in the mountains for long."

The last sentence of "Recruiting Hermits" hovered in the courtyard. The King of Chu turned around, raised his head and looked up in surprise, and immediately took a step forward and bowed to the sky and said: "The knot in the heart suddenly becomes clear, and it is the luck of the younger generation to meet the guidance of an expert." .”

The chariots and horses gradually moved away, and the store owner returned to the teahouse, stretched his waist and lay down, squinting his eyes and sang: "Osmanthus trees grow densely in the secluded mountains, and the branches are curled up...Wang Sun You does not return, and spring grass grows. Xi luxuriant."

"Member, who is that person? It's really generous." Dr. Cha weighed the heavy money in his hand.

The innkeeper shook his head and tapped his raised knee with his fingers, "He is the son of the official family, Prince Chu!"

Dr. Tea’s hands shaking the teapot, he almost lost his grip and dropped the teapot. The shopkeeper hurriedly said, “This pot is worth a tael of silver. If you drop it, your wages will be deducted!”

Dr. Cha smiled and said, "Isn't it that you didn't fall?" Then he came forward in shock and said in a low voice, "Just a few of them? But why did the son of the official family appear outside the capital, and it seems that they are Going west..."

The storekeeper opened his eyes, "In the old days when the dragon descended into the cold abyss, it turned into a fish, and the fisherman shot it in the eye. It can be called a white dragon fish suit!" He turned his head and said, "What's the matter with the official's son? If the son of the family made a mistake, shouldn’t he be punished?”

"Then how can you be sure that he must be the king of Chu, even if he is the prince of a government office, you can't be sure?"

The shopkeeper stretched out his hand and flicked his finger on the forehead of Dr. Tea in front of him, "Boy, you don't know that, there are thousands of faces, the young man is not very old, but he is very deep in the city, and the waiter next to him is not the same. Not a man!"

Dr. Cha recalled today's six people, four of whom were tall and burly should be attendants, one with red lips and white teeth, and an extraordinary bearing should be the master, and the other who was about the same age as him should be his companion or personal attendant. There was no woman, so he wondered: "It's not a man, but the six people who came in are all men and no women?"

The storekeeper looked at Dr. Tea, "Just because he is not a man, doesn't mean he is a woman!"

Dr. Cha scratched the back of his head, unable to understand what the shopkeeper said, and said in confusion: "If you're not a man, you're a woman..."

"I'm ignorant, don't you know that all the nobles in the palace are not men!" The shopkeeper sat up, "It's a pity that you have stayed in Tokyo City, have you ever seen any house that takes eunuchs with you when you go out?"

"Don't say that there is no one in the family. If it is not a prince, even if there is one, he dare not order it. Now that the prince is in Kaifeng Mansion and King Zhao is in the Privy Council, there is only one King Chu who has just been dismissed from Dali Temple. Although King Zhao is also It's not long since the wedding, but the old man Zhao Wang has seen it before, and at that age, who else would he be if he wasn't the King of Chu!"

"Since you know he is the son of an official family, how dare you run over..."

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Boys and girls who are just beginning to love each other can't do without the word "love" and "desire". A young man like him who has been married for less than a year and misses his bride as soon as parting is often because of the lingering and sentimental feelings in the gentle village. Reluctant to leave, his reluctance is engraved all over his body, hey, you don’t understand even if I tell you, but you will know when you have a wife!”

"So that's it, Yuanwai is really smart!" Dr. Cha gave a thumbs up, admiringly looking at his boss's first-class tricks.

The shopkeeper looked at him with a cold face, touched the bald head under the handkerchief, and smiled slightly, "Go away!" Then put the handkerchief on his head, stretched his waist and lay down, "This king of Chu's move is comparable to King Zhao is much more generous."

After Dr. Tea left, the shop owner lowered his face from the laughter, looked outside the door, then closed his eyes and lay down slowly, "Don't really learn from Wang Sun, and finally come back as a ghost!"

Until late at night, the sound of the watchman's gong came into the mansion, and the lights in the study were still on. When the maid came in, she looked at the sleeping woman lying on the desk, and raised her eyebrows in distress, "What's wrong with the girl?" I can sleep in a place like this..."

She wanted to go forward to wake her up, but was held back by Xichun who was behind her, "Miss misses you too much, so don't bother her after finally falling asleep." Xichun then turned around and took off the cloak from the hanger, walked behind the chair and put it on Gently cover Xiao Youqing's body.

"It's dog days, why is the girl still holding a hand stove..."

Xichun shook her head and led her out, "The stove is a gift from my uncle."

"No wonder."

In the middle of the night, in the post house to Xijing, there was only one room left that had not been turned off.

The window was opened facing the mountain, and there was only darkness when looking out, and the strong wind drove the bamboo sea to howl in the mountain.

The person who had no intention of falling asleep took a shower and changed into clean clothes, looking out of the window full of melancholy, as if he had forgotten even his fear.

Leaving Tokyo was my plan, and I planned it all by myself. It's just that there is a couple in this plan, and now one is missing!

The King of Chu gently folded the clothes left by Xiao Youqing and put them in the box. At the same time, he also collected the love of his children. He went to the window and put down the pole. "Since you have come out, of course you must bring a gift back!"

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The heavy rain was hitting the old locust tree in the courtyard of the East Palace, and the crown prince was bending over to listen to the fetal sound in Liangdi's womb, "I heard from people in this palace that the last three months are the most important. Come back to see you, you have to be more careful, I have already sent someone to the Hanlin Medical Officer's Hospital to inform you."

"Physician Sun came to ask for pulse yesterday, and told my concubine that the fetal pulse is stable and the breath is strong, it may be... a little emperor's grandson."

The prince then remembered the emperor's words again, so he sat up and looked at Liangdi's swollen belly, "Even if you can't be the grandson, it's fine if you are the eldest grandson of the emperor, the inner palace will have a new queen soon, if King Zhao becomes When he comes out, the East Palace will..."

"Your Highness, Liang Hanlin asks to see you."

The crown prince slightly raised his head, seeing that the time was not more than Chen Shi, "What is he doing here, is the court meeting so early today?" Immediately he got up and said, "Let him go to the study and wait for me!"

"Yes."

Liang Wenfu waited for a long time before the crown prince walked over, "Why are you free today, sir?"

Liang Wenfu bowed to the crown prince, "Why didn't His Royal Highness tell the minister about such a big matter as the king of Chu being transferred to Xiqi!" The order of the king of Chu's transfer was through the trial court, not an imperial edict issued by the emperor.

"Oh, the transfer order came out late, and the Zhengshitang only found out about it the day before yesterday. I haven't had time to tell my husband about it yet."

"Does your Highness know where Fengxiang Mansion is?"

"Fengxiang Mansion on Qinfeng Road, is there any problem?" The prince suddenly smiled and said, "Sir, don't you think that when you hear Qishan, you think of something like Fengming Qishan?"

"Don't worry, sir, His Majesty has absolutely no intention of cultivating it."

"But Qinfeng Road is on the border between Tubo and Xixia, and now there are [-] troops stationed there."

"He is going to be the county magistrate, not to manage the army. The soldiers in Xiao Huaide's hands have already made His Majesty fearful. How could he let the King of Chu command the soldiers? Mister is too unreasonable to worry about the sky!"

Liang Wenfu said in a deep voice, "If war breaks out!"

The prince turned his head and said in surprise, "War?"

"How could there be a war like this, I didn't hear the wind..."

"The military government and the government are opposed to each other, but any urgent military reports are reported directly to the emperor, how can the political affairs hall know!"

The prince suddenly became worried, "This palace has never thought of it!" Then he looked at Liang Wenfu meaningfully, "Sir, do you mean to get rid of the king of Chu first?"

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Under the heavy rain, on the way to Qinfeng, a group of people wearing dark narrow-sleeved short jackets surrounded a carriage on horseback, and four burly and middle-aged men were guarding beside the carriage.

"who!"

Dozens of horses were snorting, and the people on the horses stared fiercely, and one of them responded: "Yan Luo, who came to take your lives!"

Xiaoming's servant jumped off the carriage and cursed in a panic: "Presumptuous, do you know who is sitting in this carriage, who dared to assassinate the imperial court official, how many heads were lost?"

One of them gently drove his horse forward, drew out his waist knife, pointed at the carriage and said contemptuously: "Hmph, today we not only want to kill the court officials, but also assassinate the king!"

The people around the carriage moved towards the carriage in shock, and drew out the ring-shoulders to guard.

The people on the carriage walked down slowly, looked around, and said with their hands behind their backs: "Since you know my identity, you still dare to do this. It seems that some important people don't want me to return to Beijing safely. Is it the crown prince or King Zhao? Are you so There are many people, we are only six, and we can't escape even if we have wings. I know that you are also forced by others to do this shameless business. If you have a wronged person and a debtor, report your name so that I can know the enemy before I die. Who is it, I won't make a mistake and take you to death!"

"They're all about to die, what a lot of nonsense!" The man with the waist knife pulled the reins horizontally and ordered: "No one can be left behind. If you let one go, you will die tomorrow!"

In an instant, the lush grass on the side of the road was submerged in blood, the horse's hoof splashed blood-stained mud, and the sword was swung, and a hideous head flew from the shallow grass, and the headless man fell into the pool of blood in response. The group of horses fled in panic.

The heavy rain washed over everything, and a horse cry was submerged in the pool of blood. The blood from the galloping horse splashed on the cluster of white datura flowers on the side of the road. , like fire, in full swing!