The identity of the direct son - Xu I's prosperous world

Xu Qilang went out of the study, found Li Zhi, Ji Heng's personal maid, and asked her in a low voice, "Where did Brother Heng go, really no one knows?"

The emperor came to Ji's mansion many times, almost every time it was litchi serving tea and snacks, and litchi once entered the palace to take care of Ji Heng, so she can be regarded as a well-informed maid, although her personality is lively and detached, It doesn't look like a very stable person, but since the shrewd and capable Xu family can put her next to Ji Heng and let her serve Ji Heng personally, it naturally shows that she is not as careless as she appears on the surface. On the contrary, she is not only smart, but also very safe. , and not a stage fright.

Li Zhi answered him in a low voice, "Today when the young master came back, the maidservant's expression was different from usual when he saw him, it was much darker, and then he had a long talk with his wife, after he finished speaking, the wife went out, and then he He also went out, and he didn't even bring the piano with him, but the coachman knew where he went. Besides, the young master stayed in the palace for a night last night, and when he came back today, he was holding his head in gauze, and his hand was injured , maybe there was some conflict with the emperor."

Li Zhi's analysis was very logical and reasonable. Xu Qilang gradually grew up. Although he was still a true temperament, he gradually understood the things in Vanity Fair and became more careful.

He thought for a while, then said, "Find someone to come back to brother Heng, and also to go back to aunt and uncle. If brother Heng really has any conflicts with the emperor, aunt and uncle are at home, so it will be easier to resolve."

Lizhi nodded in agreement, and Xu Qilang said, "Let Baoqin go find Brother Heng, he knows where Brother Heng likes to go best."

Lizhi went to work, and Xu Qilang went into the study to accompany the emperor himself.

The emperor was originally sitting on a chair, but now he was standing in front of the desk, taking out the paintings and calligraphy from the large blue-and-white porcelain jar next to the desk, only two or three of them were framed, and most of them were unframed. It's all written and drawn by Ji Heng himself.

Xu Qilang bowed and stood aside, and said, "These are all written and drawn by Brother Heng recently. He said that it is not easy to show them to others, and he will burn them after a while."

The emperor picked up one of them and unfolded it on the desk. It was a simple freehand painting, so simple that there were only a few strokes. The black lines outlined a world with white walls and green tiles. In front of the house with white walls and green tiles is In a piece of calm water, a peach tree with just pink buds stands next to the still water in front of the house. The little bit of pink is like rouge smeared on the cheeks of a beauty. There are swallows flying from afar to enter the white wall and green tiles. to the yard.

There is also an inscription next to it, to the effect that Taohuazhuang, where I lived when I was a child, has always been in my heart, and I don’t know when I can go back.

Looking at the date, it was painted three or four months ago, but it was not framed.

Although this painting has only a few strokes, it expresses the artistic conception. The emperor stared at the painting, as if his soul was about to be taken away by the painting, and he also went to the world of white walls and green tiles, still water and peach blossoms.

The emperor's heart has always been shallow. He has experienced too many deaths, and all the relatives around him have died, because in his heart, the Empress Dowager and Concubine Xu are really not relatives, and he is in a place like the palace. So he looks kind on the surface, but his heart is very cold. He will carefully consider things and people in that cold heart. Compared with the old fritters who have been in the officialdom for decades, he can have More scheming.

Just because he couldn't pin his feelings on others, he put the surging love of his first love on Ji Heng, which became even more intense and uncontrollable.

Looking at the painting, he knew that Ji Heng missed Jiangnan. Maybe Jiangnan was his hometown in his heart. The capital was just a place to live, but the emperor had no intention of letting him go back to Jiangnan to relieve his homesickness.He's just that selfish.

The emperor asked softly, "It says Taohuazhuang here, what is Taohuazhuang?"

Xu Qilang bowed and glanced sideways at the painting unfolded by the emperor, and said, "Go back to the emperor, this is Brother Heng's home outside Yangzhou City."

The emperor nodded, thinking that it was no wonder Ji Heng was so beautiful, it turned out that he grew up in such a place.

He has been staring at the painting, and the more he looks at it, the more he feels that the artistic conception of this painting is similar to Ji Heng's. Ji Heng's impression is just like this, clean and pure, as light as water, as tall and wide as the sky, yet with a hint of peach blossom. Crimson color adds to the beauty.

The emperor took out a few other scrolls to look at. Except for a painting of a family with a small bridge and flowing water in the south of the Yangtze River, the others were all written characters.

The emperor didn't expect Ji Heng to like Zhuangzi, because these few pictures were all about Zhuangzi, and one of them was "He who lives lives and dies, and he dies and lives."

The emperor knew that Ji Heng's handwriting had always been good, and he was also good at using lower case. The font was dignified and beautiful, and there was a sense of chic, but the words on it had the feeling of being strong through the back of the paper. But I always feel that the strength is imprisoned in a cage, and the strength cannot be broken free. If you want to say that it is chic, it is a big lack.

It's depressing to see.

But it does not have Zhuangzi's detachment at all.

The emperor thought, Ji Heng was still young, it would be bad if he thought that he was born only when he died, and that he was born when he died, but fortunately he looked like he couldn't break free.

The emperor sighed softly, and said to Xu Qilang, "Junqing's characters and paintings are both good, why don't you think you can't show them to others? Have you seen them all?"

Xu Qilang respectfully replied, "Back to the emperor, the grass-roots people will all look at it, because the maids are not allowed to clean the things in Brother Heng's study, and I often clean them up. Brother Heng feels that these things cannot be shown to others, and the grass-people don't dare to clean them." Randomly guessing the reason, but thinking about it, I probably think that the words and pictures are all about his mood at that time."

The emperor gave a soft "Oh", his eyes were as deep as a deep pool of autumn water, he looked at Xu Qilang quietly, and said, "Tell me about it."

Master Li, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, once told him that his youngest son had seen Ji Heng and Xu Qilang in the place of fireworks, and Xu Qilang said that he had admiration for Ji Heng.

The emperor was depressed for several days because of this, but he didn't do anything, because he could see that Ji Heng had no love for Xu Qilang.

But was he jealous and envious of Xu Qilang——Xu Qilang was able to express his feelings, and as Ji Heng's cousin, he lived in the same mansion with him and could see each other every day.

Looking at Xu Qilang now, Xu Qilang is a young man with a handsome appearance and a bit of a flair, with a pair of eyes full of innocence, and his words and deeds are also safe and thoughtful.

The emperor looked at him condescendingly, because Xu Qilang was just a grassroots person. As the emperor of a country, it was not easy for him to compete with him, and he also felt that it was not worth it, because although Ji Heng rejected himself, he also rejected Xu Qilang. Qilang, Xu Qilang obeyed Ji Heng in everything, but Ji Heng wanted to obey himself.

Xu Qilang didn't know what the emperor was thinking, but he looked at the calligraphy and paintings on the desk, and then replied, "Brother Heng has always been reticent, and always likes to keep everything in his heart." I never cry when I am sad, never get angry with others when I am angry, and never laugh when I am happy. Even if he has no hobbies, he doesn't love fancy clothes and beautiful things. Even if he likes to eat, he can taste it... So restraining himself, it seems that everything except himself is something outside of him, and everything outside of him is not allowed. He cares. However, he is always a person, and he cannot be completely free of emotions. He must have a channel to vent. Therefore, when he is free or has something on his mind, he likes to write and draw, and write and paint those emotions in the Put it on paper, and then burn it to a torch, I am afraid that he will feel that the mood at that time has disappeared with the fire, and he can return to the way he wants."

The emperor was stunned for a moment, and then stared at the "life is life, death is life, death is life".

He thought that he really did not understand Ji Heng as Xu Qilang.

Xu Qilang also said, "Brother Heng respects you very much, the Emperor, and he said that a man who is a confidant dies. Brother Heng has always lived a tiring and bitter life, and he was in very bad health a while ago, and he fainted several times. It's very useful. The whole family is worried about him, but he wants to comfort everyone that he's fine, so he's going to be strong. What's more, Jingli's words about him are really bad. If he doesn't say anything, his heart is the strongest. It must be uncomfortable. Your Majesty , if Brother Heng offends you somewhere, I beg you to forgive him for the sake of his efforts at such a young age."

The emperor sat in the chair behind the desk, still staring at Ji Heng's writing, without answering for a moment.

Xu Qilang stood there bowed, not daring to speak anymore.

Ji Heng was found by Baoqin and got into the carriage to drive back. Baoqin said, "The emperor is here."

Baoqin also had his own guesses in his heart, Ji Heng was injured after staying in the palace for one night, and Ji Heng left the palace without resigning from the emperor, all of which indicated that the relationship between Ji Heng and the emperor had changed. Now that the emperor is here, it is very meaningful.

Ji Heng just nodded lightly and didn't speak.

Back in the mansion, Ji Heng went straight back to his residence. At the gate of the courtyard and inside the courtyard, there was a look of three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry. They were all the emperor's personal guards, and the eunuchs who followed the emperor were One is Wang Hanqing, who is 40 to [-] years old. It is said that he served by the emperor's biological mother, Yi Guiren.

The emperor promoted him, in fact, to tell the queen mother on purpose that he had not forgotten the hatred of his biological mother.

In fact, Ji Heng did not support the emperor's confrontation with the empress dowager, but the emperor had his own ideas. The role of Ji Heng's words on the emperor was all up to the emperor's own discretion.

Ji Heng said hello to Wang Hanqing, because Wang Hanqing was an old man by Yi Guiren's side back then, and escaped the persecution of the queen mother after going through all kinds of hardships and survived to this day, and even climbed up to become a new rich man by the emperor's side, naturally It is very unusual.

But he didn't watch the growth and relationship between Ji Heng and the emperor like Liu Sheng and Zhang Hesheng did. Therefore, for Ji Heng, he was only passable on the surface, but he had some opinions on him in his heart.

The emperor brought Wang Hanqing to Ji's mansion, and Ji Heng already understood something in his heart, knowing that the grudge between him and the emperor had indeed been forged.

Wang Hanqing said to Ji Heng, "The emperor has been here for a long time."

He meant to blame Ji Heng.

Ji Heng didn't like Wang Hanqing very much, because Wang Hanqing was an old man, but he didn't show it at all, and he felt that it would be very good if the emperor could firmly hold such a person to do things.

Ji Heng made a two-sentence accusation, and then said, "Then please, Mr. Wang, go in and report that Ji Heng is back."

Eunuch Wang went in to report, and just after the report was finished, the emperor complained, "This is Junqing's house, why is he going to report when he comes in. Really..."

The emperor got up and went to pick up Ji Heng at the door. Eunuch Wang felt a little turmoil in his heart. He looked at Xu Qilang who was standing aside respectfully and bowed his head. The emperor was sullen and angry when he left the palace. Wang Hanqing thought that the emperor It is necessary to alienate Ji Heng from his heart, but unexpectedly Xu Qilang talked with the emperor for a while in the study, and the emperor became kind and eager to Ji Heng again.

The emperor stopped Ji Heng at the door, pulled him into the room, and said, "This is your home, what else do you need to report, you can just come in by yourself."

Ji Heng said softly and softly, "Your Majesty, how dare a humble minister be so presumptuous."

Before he could change his voice, when he softened his voice, his voice became softer and softer, and he couldn't distinguish between male and female. The emperor trembled again when he heard it, and said, "Don't say these false words to me."