On the risks and benefits of falling in love with a prince

The young Liu Rui knelt in front of the steward, coughing and begging for mercy.Zhao Tang walked over involuntarily, and waved to the manager: "Forget it, kid."

The steward said, "Thank you, Mr. Zhao!"

The little coolie immediately kowtowed: "Thank you, Mr. Zhao!" His voice was hoarse and his eyes were timid, which was not like Liu Rui.So Zhao Tang retreated from the trance, and continued to ask: "You come to work at such a young age, where are your parents?"

The little coolie didn't speak.The manager said: "Oh, Mr. Zhao, he has no father, his mother is a kiln sister who died of illness two months ago, I feel sorry for him and let him work."

Zhao Tang looked at the little coolie.The little coolie was thin and stood with his head bowed, rubbing his bare feet together.Zhao Tang felt sympathetic, and said: "My house lacks a boy who serves tea and water, and takes care of food and lodging, six hundred dollars a month, why?" The little coolie shook his head.

The manager slapped him on the head: "Chuyang! Master Zhao promoted you! You still don't kowtow to thank you!" Chuyang said: "Before my mother died, I was not allowed to associate with people from the government."

Zhao Tang laughed in astonishment: "I am a merchant, not a government official."

Chu Yang was straightforward: "You are wearing silk clothes, why are you not a government official?"

Zhao Tang laughed out loud.The manager continued to persuade Chu Yang to become more and more vigilant.Finally, the little boy turned his head and ran away.He ran faster than a rabbit, flapping his fat clothes.Zhao Tang looked at his back, feeling relaxed and happy.

Liu Rui would never run around like this, but he often runs like this.This child looks like Liu Rui, but his background and personality are like him, isn't it a godsend?

Zhao Tang was not in a hurry, waiting for Chu Yang to let go of his guard.However, for several days in a row, Chu Yang was nowhere to be seen on the pier. When he asked the steward, the steward spread his arms and said, "I haven't seen him for several days!"

Zhao Tang felt uneasy, and immediately summoned a few sailors who liked whoring, and asked for Chuyang's address.A sailor took Zhao Tang to Luxiang.At the end of Luxiang, there is a very dilapidated and very small house.Mat wall, wooden door.The sailor knocked on the door, and a man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks walked out of the door.

The sailor asked, "Where's Chuyang? Our Master Zhao wants to see him."

The man said: "What Chuyang? This is my home! There is a kiln sister who owes me money, so this house is given to me."

Zhao Tang had been hanging out in the market for a long time, so he didn't know what was going on, so he said sharply, "Where is Chuyang?"

The sailors moved at the sound and pushed the man to the ground.The man immediately cried out in pain.

"Excuse me, forgive me! I really don't know where he is! He probably... starved to death."

Zhao Tang kicked the man down and led the sailors around to inquire.Poor people have difficulty living by themselves, who cares about other people's children.Zhao Tang asked people to buy caramel, distributed it to the children nearby, and asked them about Chuyang's whereabouts.Finally, a child said: "He lives on the mountain, I'll take you there!" A group of people followed the child out of Luxiang and walked to the hillside near the pier.A hole was dug on the hillside, pots and pans were placed at the entrance of the hole, and leaves, quilts, and dirty clothes protruded from the hole.On the leaves lay a human figure, thin as a skeleton.He barely moved, coughing now and then, coughing up spots of blood.

Zhao Tang was shocked, and stepped forward to hug Chu Yang.Chu Yang was hot all over, and his breathing was weak. He curled up in Zhao Tang's arms, stretched out his claw-like hands, and hugged Zhao Tang's chest: "Mom, I'm cold."

Zhao Tang unbuttoned his outer robe, wrapped Chu Yang into his arms, and said to his opponent, "Go and invite the doctor."

Zhao Tang took Chu Yang home.

The kitchen cooked barley porridge, and he personally brought it to the bed and fed it to Chuyang spoon by spoon.Chuyang coughed badly, and he could only drink one spoonful after being fed three spoonfuls.Fortunately, the doctor came after a while.The doctors all fled from Luoyang during the war, and all of them spoke official dialect.The doctor looked at Chuyang's pulse, tongue, and eyelids, and listened to the breathing sound of his chest, showing a solemn look: "Master Zhao, this child is tuberculosis."

"It can't be cured?"

"It can't be cured! The disease spreads so badly that one person often gets sick and the whole family is wiped out."

The faces of the servants changed, and they retreated in unison, away from Chuyang.The manager said: "Master Zhao, why don't you...send him back? Let's leave him some food and clothing, and we've done our best."

Zhao Tang asked the doctor, "Is it absolutely impossible?"

The doctor hesitated and said: "When the old man was in Luoyang, he saw a genius doctor who could cure tuberculosis. Master Zhao really wanted to save him, so he had to go to Luoyang. If this genius doctor in Luoyang couldn't save him, then he really couldn't be saved."

Zhao Tang was silent.

Chuyang lay there, his eyelashes trembling slightly, and his eyes moved back and forth under the cover of his eyelids.As soon as Zhao Tang twisted his ear, he opened it, and said in a confused tone, "Where is this? Ah, Master Zhao, you saved me! Thank you, I should go back."

His voice is natural and his acting is lifelike - if there are no tears in his eyes.

Zhao Tang pondered for a moment, then asked Chuyang: "I will take you to Luoyang, how will you repay me?"

Chu Yang raised his head and chest, with a strong backbone: "My mother said before she died that I was not allowed to go to Luoyang."

Zhao Tang laughed angrily: "Did your mother tell you before she died to let you live well and be upright?"

"No. My mother said that there are many bad people in Luoyang, and the emperor is the worst. He will dig up babies in pregnant women's stomachs to make elixir."

"Fuck your mother, the emperor refines elixir?"

Chu Yang fell silent.Zhao Tang raised his head, looked around the room, and said, "Whoever agrees, I will reward you fifty gold."

Fifty gold can buy three acres of land, a cow, and a big girl with yellow flowers.The servants were agitated.Zhao Tang asked the doctor again: "Who is the name of the genius doctor? Can you write a letter and recommend him?" The doctor nodded repeatedly, but before he could speak, Chu Yang's face was flushed with tears, "Master Zhao... You are actually my dear father, right?"

Zhao Tang sized up Chuyang, and said, "I was suave and suave when I was young, and I couldn't bear such an ugly son as you!" Chuyang hiccupped and was stunned.

The temptation of fifty gold is far greater than the panic of contracting tuberculosis.Twenty young, strong, and quick-witted sailors took anti-tuberculosis medicine in advance and prepared to go to Luoyang.

Rich businessmen travel far away, which is very different from poor people traveling far away.They slowly baked embarrassing cakes, packed shrimp paste, dried radishes, brought spring and summer clothes, umbrellas, charcoal, and even salt.The well salt in Luoyang is bitter and astringent, while the sea salt in Erythrina Bay is salty and sweet, which can be used by the imperial court.

Such a grand preparation lasted until autumn and August, and the weather was neither too cold nor too hot, just in time for the road.Before leaving, Chu Yang ran up to Zhao Tang and said sullenly, "I heard you like men?"

Zhao Tang said, "So what?"

Chu Yang said: "Not much. Tell you, I won't sleep with you!"

Zhao Tang bent down to look at Chuyang, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, you're so ugly, I can't fuck."

Chu Yang blushed, and cried "Aww".

Zhao Tang laughed out loud.

They are on their way.

From Citong Bay to the north, to Cangwu County, abandon the car and board the boat, along the Lishui, Xiangshui, Dongting, Luoshui all the way up, and arrive at the port of Luoyang.The road is calm and the supplies are sufficient. Compared with the wind and waves at sea, it is almost gentle.

Ten years ago, Zhao Tang went from Linzhang to Citongwan, along the way there were ten rooms and nine empty ones, and there were many hungry people on the road.Ten years later, he went to Luoyang from Citong Bay. The houses along the coast looked like they were there, and the rice fields were golden.A bare-backed man harvests rice in the fields, and a woman wrapped in a blue handkerchief brings him meals.Bare-bottomed children are playing in the water on the shore.

When they arrived in Luoyang, the prosperity of the capital frightened the sailors, and Zhao Tang was also stunned: Luoyang's area is much larger than before, the city is densely populated and the buildings are tall.The streets that used to be full of sewage have been neatly repaired, and children are running around—Liu Rui has been on the throne for six years, and he does not accept concubines, does not draft girls, and returns a large number of court ladies to their hometowns.There are more girls, the population multiplies, and the capital has been expanded several times.

Zhao Tang walked on the streets of Luoyang paved with stone bricks, feeling mixed feelings in his heart.Liu Rui is not a good lover, but he is indeed a good emperor.He didn't love the wrong person back then.

Everyone came to the inn, took a rest, and then went out to find a famous doctor.Luoyang is the capital of the country, and the elites of the four quarters are gathered here. The doctor is also different from other places, living in a mansion and having a group of servants.Zhao Tang inquired about the famous doctor who could cure tuberculosis—this famous doctor had a heart to help the world. The poor did not take a penny to see a doctor, and the rich went to death to see a doctor.For the sake of Chuyang, Zhao Tang endured the pain of being slaughtered, and then made an appointment with the doctor to send Chuyang over.

After running this day, Zhao Tang's leg was broken, but when he returned to the inn, Chu Yang had disappeared.

Chuyang is a child, seeing the prosperity of Luoyang, it is possible to sneak out to play.Zhao Tang was furious, and dragged his legs to look for it again.Find Tianhe, but still haven't found it.There is a curfew in Luoyang, and at night, if a person wanders the streets for no reason, he will go to jail.Zhao Tang could only go back to the inn, fidgeting and waiting.At this time, a sailor came running out of breath: "Master, the young master is back, he was sent back!" Zhao Tang immediately walked out the door, and saw soldiers standing outside the inn.His heart beat heavily: "Why are there soldiers? Could it be Ruirui?"

Before Zhao Tang could finish thinking, a crisp voice called out: "Master Zhao, I'm back!"

Immediately, Chu Yang ran in the door, carrying rattles, candied haws, and a wooden windmill in his arms, and chewing something in his mouth.He walked up to Zhao Tang, raised his face, and smiled.Zhao Tang's blood rushed to the top of his head, his eyes turned black, and he raised his hand to slap him.

Chu Yang staggered from the beating, his toys were scattered all over the ground, and he began to cry.Zhao Tang raised his hand again: "Will you run outside next time?"

Before the slap fell, someone blocked it.Zhao Tang raised his head, and a young nobleman stood opposite him, pinching his wrist.

This man was twenty-five and six, wearing a Shu brocade robe with colorful rhombus inscriptions, a gold leather belt, and red boots.If an ordinary person is dressed in such colorful clothes, he will be submerged in the colors.And that young man's skin is fair, his eyebrows are dark, and his posture is like a pine and cypress. The colorful flowers become the little flowers that set off the pine and cypress.With tears in his eyes, Chu Yang hid behind the young man and looked timidly at Zhao Tang.

When Zhao Tang saw the young man, he felt familiar.The young man smiled and said: "Sir, the child is disobedient, just teach him slowly, how can you beat him?"

The person next to him immediately said: "This is General Yun, he sent the young master back."

Zhao Tang heard a "buzz" in his ear, and understood why the young man looked familiar.

General Yun - he is Yun Qi.