A Piece of Li Song Changting Twilight

Zhao Pingzhen likes to use "interesting" or "boring" when commenting on people and things.Anyone who looks good to his eyes, no matter male or female, is interesting; anyone whose appearance does not meet his precious eyes, even if he has great talent, is also boring; Begging in the streets is very interesting; what he doesn't like is being an emperor, which is also very boring.

Zhao Pingzhen is the second son of Emperor Chongming and Empress Mu, ranking fifth among brothers.His elder brother from the same mother was established as the prince since he was a child because he was the eldest son.Zhao Pingzhen is one of the most beloved sons of the emperor. He has been pampered and loved by his father, queen mother, and a prince brother since he was a child, so he has developed a careless temper. What is worth his attention.

The first time I met Qin Xiaolou, he was ten years old and Qin Xiaolou was seven years old.At that time, he didn't have any interest in Qin Xiaolou, he just had a quick meeting in the backyard of a certain official. At that time, he thought the child was beautiful, but he forgot about it in a blink of an eye.

Qin Xiaolou's father is the servant of the Ministry of Rites, and he and his original partner gave birth to a pair of brothers, Qin Xiaolou and Qin Chengxue.Later, his first wife died of illness, and he married another strong and pungent wife. From then on, Qin Xiaolou and Qin Chengxue's life in the Qin Mansion has not been as easy as it used to be.In a few years, the servant of the Ministry of Rites offended a certain dignitary in the court and was assassinated to death, thus the Qin family fell into decline.Not more than three months after his death, the surnamed wife took away all the money of the Qin family and eloped with a guard, and the servants dispersed like birds and beasts because they could not receive their salary.

The trees fell and the monkeys scattered. In just a few months, the once glorious Qin Mansion was defeated, leaving only ruins.

At this time, Qin Xiaolou was only 13 years old, and Qin Chengxue was only 11 years old. Although there were a few weak relatives in Beijing, they were eager to separate from them for fear of offending the powerful man. was driven to a dead end.

Zhao Pingzhen saw Qin Xiaolou again for the second time, and six years had passed since the last time.

On a snowy day, when his carriage was driving on the road in the capital, a young man who was not afraid of death rushed out from the slope and stopped his carriage, and shouted heartbreakingly: "Your Highness Fifth, please save my brother!"

The groom hurriedly stopped the horse, and Zhao Pingzhen almost fell over in the car, and angrily lifted the curtain: "Which bastard dares to stop Bengong's car?"

He saw a slender, unkempt boy kneeling in the snow and kowtowing.The boy's clothes were scantily clad, his left shoulder was exposed from his shoulder to his collarbone, his skin was crystal clear, and he firmly held Zhao Pingzhen's eyes.Zhao Pingzhen said: "Raise your head."

That boy was Qin Xiaolou.He raised his head obediently, and Zhao Zhenqing saw mottled dust sticking to his face and a patch of snow on his forehead.The most frightening thing was that his right eye was a shocking bruise and swollen like a fist, which was really unsightly.

Zhao Pingzhen clicked his tongue displeasedly: "It's boring."

The dirty Qin Xiaolou continued to kowtow to him: "Your Highness, please do me a favor and save my brother, he is dying soon."

Zhao Pingzhen didn't want to talk to him at all. Unexpectedly, the driver who drove for him had some friendship with Qin Shilang in the past. He recognized Qin Xiaolou at a glance and asked boldly, "Where is your brother?"

Qin Xiaolou stumbled to the side of the street, helped a semi-conscious young man back, then knelt down and kowtowed to Zhao Pingzhen again: "His Highness, please help him."

The young man who was helped by him was obviously seriously ill, with two clusters of abnormal blushes on his cheeks, his eyes were dazed and staring, and his figure was as thin as a willow leaf, as if he would be blown away by the cold wind at any time.

His face was clean, and he was neatly dressed. Although the clothes were old, they were made of good materials and could keep out the cold, unlike Qin Xiaolou's ragged clothes.

Zhao Pingzhen was wrapped in fox fur and held a pocket heater in his arms. He didn't know what it was like to suffer from the cold, but he despised Qin Xiaolou's sloppy attire from the bottom of his heart.He rolled his eyes around the face of the sick and dying young man, and found that the young man was quite handsome.He said: "Interesting. This is your brother? Who are you?"

The coachman replied on his behalf: "Your Highness Fifth, these two are Qin Wuya's sons."

Zhao Pingzhen thought for a while, then said "Oh" slowly: "The servant Qin who offended Prime Minister Wang? These two are his sons?

The coachman said, "Exactly."

Qin Xiaolou kept kowtow, Zhao Zhenqing didn't want to look at his face, said: "Okay, leave your brother behind, I just ask someone to save him. You can get out."

Everyone present was taken aback, but Qin Xiaolou was the quickest to come back to his senses.He made a long kowtow, and said in a loud voice: "Thank you, Your Highness." He got up and helped Qin Chengxue to hand it over to Zhao Pingzhen's servants. Zhao Pingzhen saw his swollen eyes, and his heart became more and more disgusted. I don't know how such a person could exist A beautiful brother.

Qin Xiaolou exhorted in a low voice: "You must listen to the fifth prince." After saying that, he turned around and left.Qin Chengxue, who just didn't know about his personnel, felt that his brother was going away, and suddenly went crazy and shouted heartbreakingly: "Brother——brother——!"

Qin Xiaolou's whole body was shaken, and his footsteps became stiff and he couldn't move forward.He took another two steps cruelly. With some strength, Qin Chengxue broke away from the guard who was supporting him, ran to hug Qin Xiaolou's leg, and kept yelling: "Brother! Brother!"

Qin Xiaolou shed two lines of tears, and couldn't move anymore.

Zhao Pingzhen asked the coachman displeasedly: "What's the name of that handsome man?"

The coachman said, "Qin Chengxue."

Zhao Pingzhen said loudly: "Qin Chengxue, come here, I will take you back."

Qin Chengxue hugged Qin Xiaolou's leg tightly.

Qin Xiaolou tremblingly said: "Your Highness, can you let me take care of my younger brother for a few days, and I will definitely leave when he recovers."

Zhao Pingzhen thought it would be disgusting to take a look at his bruised eyes, and he couldn't sympathize with their brotherhood, so he said coldly: "Forget it, you all go away. Groom, let's go."

Seeing Qin Chengxue's unwillingness to let go no matter what, Qin Xiaolou couldn't bear to part with him.Bending down to hug him, she comforted him softly: "I won't go, Xue Cheng, I won't be separated from you."

Qin Chengxue hugged him and wailed loudly, Qin Xiaolou couldn't help his eyes hurt, and the two brothers hugged each other and wept.

The groom couldn't bear it, and boldly said: "Your Highness Fifth, you just...have pity on them."

Zhao Pingzhen glanced at him coolly, snorted suddenly, and said with a smile: "Forget it, give them 50 taels of silver."

When the servant handed over the money to Qin Xiaolou, Zhao Pingzhen suddenly said to the groom: "This money will be deducted from your salary."

It should be noted that 50 taels of silver is the salary of the groom for a whole year.In this way, his complexion suddenly became ugly.

Zhao Pingzhen sneered: "It's better to do good deeds yourself than to seek benefits from others. I am doing good for you, so you don't have to thank me." After saying that, he lifted the curtain, turned around and got into the carriage.

Zhao Pingzhen returned to the mansion, and soon forgot about Qin Xiaolou and Qin Chengxue brothers.

Another two years passed in the blink of an eye.

Zhao Pingzhen heard Qin Xiaolou's name again from the conversation of the people at the next table in a tavern when he was traveling in Weibo.This year, Qin Xiaolou participated in the imperial examination and won the No. 19 palace examination.It is said that the nineteenth place is nothing at all, but he was the youngest talented person in that year, only 15 years old.

The emperor held a literary meeting in the Peony Garden in Bianjing for the Jinshi of that year, but did not stop the people from watching.Qin Xiaolou has become famous since that literary meeting, and since then there has been such a poem in the capital: If you don't get a Jinshi, you will study indiscriminately, and if you don't see Xiaolou, you won't know sex.

In fact, when Zhao Pingzhen heard this poem from the people at the next table, he only felt that the name Qin Xiaolou was vaguely familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was.

The Fifth Prince Zhao has always been very interested in beauties, so he went to find out who Qin Xiaolou was after returning to the mansion.

A few days later, the spies came back and reported Qin Xiaolou's life experience to him one by one. When it was reported that he had a brother named Qin Chengxue, Zhao Pingzhen cried out in shock: "So it's him!"

Zhao Pingzhen finally remembered that he was stopped by Qin Xiaolou when he was 16 years old.However, he only remembered that Qin Xiaolou was ugly, and the Fifth Prince himself couldn't remember how ugly it was.Thinking back carefully, I vaguely remembered that he had a beautiful younger brother.

Zhao Pingzhen felt a little stuffy in his chest, and took out a fan and shook it as if there was nothing: "Go on. This Qin Xiaolou is really so talented, won the Jinshi at the age of 15?"

The spy smiled wretchedly: "Your Highness Fifth, he is dating this year's chief examiner, Gu Xiaojun."

Zhao Pingzhen closed his fan in surprise: "Gu Xiaojun? He is Prime Minister Wang's nephew, Qin Wuya died because he offended Prime Minister Wang, but his son is on good terms with Prime Minister Wang's nephew?"

Gu Xiaojun has always had a good reputation in court, and Zhao Pingzhen has met him a few times.He was a civil servant in his thirties, with a gentle appearance and a gentle temper.

Because of this, Zhao Pingzhen became interested in Qin Xiaolou, and felt that no matter what, he wanted to see what the unsightly boy looked like now, so that he could become famous in the capital.