A Piece of Li Song Changting Twilight

Qin Xiaolou went to court without resting at home for a few days.

In the court, Zhao Nanke praised him and Zhao Pingzhen and others for their achievements, and gave them a bunch of awards.A few days ago, Zuo Shilang of the household department was pulled down because of corruption, and Qin Xiaolou just filled the gap.

In fact, before this, Qin Xiaolou didn't know what position he would be assigned. Zhao Nanke didn't have any preconceptions, but Zhao Pingzhen was not half surprised when he heard the appointment, which meant that he was behind the decision. credit.

When Qin Xiaolou returned to the mansion that night, he received a seal letter from the official department, asking him to report to the official department as soon as possible, and then go to the household department to take office.At the same time, there were many congratulatory gifts from officials, and some people came to congratulate in person, but Qin Xiaolou called him sick and thanked him, so he couldn't even enter the gate.

Naturally, it was impossible for Zhao Pingzhen to be transferred back to Beijing with him. He left the mess in Pingcheng and ran away. Every day, a bunch of official affairs were sent from thousands of miles away for him to approve.It took him a long time to talk and talk, and finally he asked Zhao Nanke for a two-month vacation in the capital.

Unexpectedly, during Zhao Pingzhen's first month in Lin'an, except when he went to court, the time to see Qin Xiaolou in private was almost limited, and the invitations were repeatedly rejected.Qin Xiaolou didn't hide from Zhao Pingzhen on purpose, but just accompanied Qin Chengxue, and Qin Chengxue didn't want him to go so he didn't go.

Later, Zhao Pingzhen inevitably got a little angry, and found a day to stop Qin Xiaolou on his way back from the household department after finishing his work.He couldn't help but get into Qin Xiaolou's sedan chair, and ordered the bearers to put down the sedan chair and leave, so the sedan chair was parked in the middle of the main road, surrounded by the busy people around, but they didn't dare to approach it, chirping and pointing at the sedan chair. give pointers.

A curtain isolated Zhao Pingzhen and Qin Xiaolou from the noisy world around them, no matter how noisy the outside was, it would not harm Zhao Pingzhen at all.He pinched Qin Xiaolou's chin and said coldly, "I thought you were a smart person."

Qin Xiaolou looked at him calmly: "If Cheng Xue can recover, I wish I wasn't a smart person."

Zhao Pingzhen was indifferent to this: "You chose it yourself. You chose to become a scholar instead of going to the mountains with him to live in seclusion. You should have expected today's results. Now you are pretending to be a good brother hypocritically?"

Qin Xiaolou was silent for a while, then smiled: "Yes, I'm a hypocrite, and Cheng Xue's calamity was also caused by me, but the karma has returned to him. So what? I have been waiting for you for more than twenty years. He's not good. He's near the end of his life now, I only hope that in the past two or three years, his life will be easier."

Zhao Pingzhen squeezed his chin with more force: "He is happy, but I am not, so what should you do?"

Qin Xiaolou looked at him and said nothing.

Zhao Pingzhen snorted, flung his sleeves out of the sedan chair, and said: "I'll give you a day to figure it out! Even if you follow his heart, Hades will not increase his lifespan by two years; if you don't follow my heart , Your hard work in the past nine years will be in vain! I will wait for you in the mansion tomorrow, whether you come or not is the answer you give me." After saying that, he walked away.

The bearers who were driven away by Zhao Pingzhen waited tremblingly for a long time before returning to the sedan chair. However, the people in the sedan chair were not as angry as they expected, but asked calmly, "Are you still leaving?" Only then did he suddenly realize that he hurriedly got up the sedan chair and hurried away amidst the guidance of the masses.

At Youshi the next day, Prince Rui's Mansion and Qin Xiaolou arrived as scheduled.

Zhao Pingzhen set up a table in the yard. There were several jars of wine and two cups on the table. It was a beautiful sight to watch the moon and drink.He was not surprised when he saw Qin Xiaolou approaching lightly, as if he had expected Qin Xiaolou to come back.He poured a pot of wine for Qin Xiaolou kindly, without the aggressive attitude of the previous day: "You are here."

Qin Xiaolou responded, took the wine in his hand and drank it down.

Zhao Pingzhen looked at him with a smile: "I can only stay in Lin'an for another month. After this month, I will return to Pingcheng, and you stay in the capital. The mountains are high and the rivers are long, and I can't control you."

Qin Xiaolou was a little worried that Zhao Pingzhen would bring him back to Pingcheng in a fit of anger, which would make him extremely difficult.In fact, Zhao Pingzhen had already started to clear up the relationship with Qin Xiaolou in the capital as early as the defeat of the Jin army, and planned to transfer Qin Xiaolou back to the capital after the battle.Even without Qin Chengxue, Qin Xiaolou originally wanted to return to Lin'an to be a Beijing official, because his ultimate goal was Prime Minister Wang.Joining the army is for the country firstly, and secondly for selfishness.If you stay in Beijing as an official, your promotion will be slow and your prestige will not be enough. You don't know when you will be able to shake the position of Wang Xiang, and going to the army is undoubtedly a fast way to make achievements.In fact, Qin Xiaolou knew what Zhao Pingzhen did for Qin Xiaolou, including the fact that he was dismissed as soon as he returned to the Beijing Household Department, which was also arranged by Zhao Pingzhen long ago, but the plan was implemented in advance.But Qin Xiaolou has always pretended not to know.What Zhao Pingzhen did for him exceeded his expectations, so he started to play dumb.

Qin Xiaolou returned a glass of wine to Zhao Pingzhen: "No matter how high the mountain is, no matter how long the water is, Zhenqing and I will wear it together for a day, a day and a month, how can I escape from your grasp?"

However, no one noticed at this time that the drinks in their hands reflected a full moon.So there is not only one sun, moon, and sky in this world.

Zhao Pingzhen laughed and said, "How can I not know, when will you be in my hand?"

Qin Xiaolou filled the two cups with wine, bumped his cup lightly, and sighed half-truthfully, "Since the day I stopped the sedan chair in the snow, I have lost everything in this life."

Zhao Pingzhen shook his hand, half of the wine in the cup was suddenly spilled.His eyes suddenly darkened, he threw the cup aside, and pulled Qin Xiaolou into his arms.Qin Xiaolou was caught off guard and spilled half of the wine in his hand.

Zhao Pingzhen opened and closed his lips, vaguely looking to say something, but he didn't utter a single word after a long time.He squeezed Qin Xiaolou's arm tightly, and said in extreme pain and restraint: "Qin Xiaolou, Mingdong, don't recruit me."

Qin Xiaolou was taken aback by him, he felt that his hands were so hot that he almost burned his arms through his clothes.Only when he got so close did he realize that Zhao Pingzhen's face was so red, even his eyes were bloodshot, that he looked drunk.It turned out that Zhao Pingzhen had already drank a lot of wine before Qin Xiaolou arrived.

This was Zhao Pingzhen's worst loss of composure in front of Qin Xiaolou in the past eight or nine years. Even when Qin Xiaolou thought of this sentence a few years later when he lived alone in the mountains and away from his officialdom, it was also the most forbearing but most tolerant thing Zhao Pingzhen said to him in his life. A word that expresses emotion.

"Don't recruit me..."

"Don't recruit me..."

However, Qin Xiaolou just looked at him indifferently and distantly: "I won't recruit you, I will obey you."

Zhao Pingzhen let out a long mouthful of hot air that smelled of alcohol, buried his face in Qin Xiaolou's neck, his rapid breathing gradually calmed down, and fell asleep after a while.

Qin Xiaolou summoned the servants of the palace to carry Zhao Pingzhen back to the room, poured hot water carefully to wipe his body clean, and put a scent of hangover effect on his pillow to prevent him from Woke up the next morning with a hangover and a headache.After finishing these thoughtfully, Qin Xiaolou did not sleep next to Zhao Pingzhen as usual, but secretly went to a side room in the backyard.

Zeng Honglian took off her coat, she was only wearing a bellyband, she was holding the candle and was about to blow it out, when she heard light footsteps outside the door, and then saw the wooden door being pushed open very slowly.Zeng Honglian was just surprised, not afraid.After all, this is Prince Rui's Mansion, and it is heavily guarded. No thief dares to enter the palace to make trouble in the middle of the night.If someone wanted to harm her, he wouldn't come in grandiosely seeing that the light in her room was still on.

When the door opened to allow people to come in, Qin Xiaolou squeezed in through the crack of the door, Zeng Honglian covered her mouth in surprise, and said after a while, "Master Qin, why are you here?"

Qin Xiaolou closed the door softly, smiled at her with his hands behind his back, "Your Majesty visited rashly, don't blame Madam."

Zeng Honglian was only wearing bellyband trousers, but she didn't feel shy at all. She bent her legs and sat on the edge of the bed, and said with a winking look: "Your Majesty Qin is so courageous, he came into the servant's room in the middle of the night to say Yes, or do you want to use it?"

Qin Xiaolou just stood by the door: "The next official came to find Madam to make a deal."

Zeng Honglian saw that he didn't seem to be interested in happy things, she frowned suspiciously, changed her posture and lazily leaned against the head of the bed: "What deal?"

Qin Xiaolou said: "Madam and the wife of Wang Huixi, the third son of Prime Minister Wang, have close contacts?"

Although Zeng Honglian was surprised, she nodded honestly.On weekdays, the wives of the princes and nobles in the capital would often gather together to have fun. Zhao Pingzhen did not have a regular wife, and Zeng Honglian, as a concubine, was very good at pretending to be powerful, so she even mixed into the circle of wives.Mrs. Wang and she are not peaceful women, they are like dogs of a feather, so the relationship between the two is closer, and they often call each other sister.

Qin Xiaolou asked again: "Do you have a love affair with Wang Huixi?"

Zeng Honglian's face changed slightly, and she was silent for a moment before answering: "Yes."

Qin Xiaolou pondered for a moment, then asked: "Madam, can you climb into Prime Minister Wang's bed?"

He asked this question bluntly and impolitely, Zeng Honglian's complexion immediately turned ugly, she snorted, and said with a half-smile: "Then Master Qin, will you let this servant climb into your bed?"

Qin Xiaolou said: "Madam is willing to be my man?"

Zeng Honglian couldn't figure out the meaning of his words for a while, and looked at Qin Xiaolou in confusion.

Qin Xiaolou said again: "Madam, if you want to leave the palace at any time, you can enter through the gate of my Qin residence."

Zeng Honglian was taken aback, she really didn't expect Qin Xiaolou to say such a thing.She thinks that her charm is not strong enough to make Qin Xiaolou fall in love with her, even the two of them haven't said a few words, so why did they suddenly bring up such a thing?When Qin Xiaolou mentioned Prime Minister Wang earlier, he presumably wanted to use her to do things.

Zeng Honglian sized him up from head to toe with sharp eyes: "Master Qin is just saying, why should the slaves leave King Rui to reject him, but want to go with you?"

Qin Xiaolou said very calmly: "You are just a concubine with Zhao Zhenqing. If you follow me, I can carry eight sedan chairs and make you a wife."

A trace of astonishment flashed in Zeng Honglian's eyes, but she was obviously not very tempted.

Qin Xiaolou said with a smile: "Before King Rui went out to fight, Madam was pregnant with a child, but unfortunately she lost it. Is this serious?"

Zeng Honglian's pupils shrank instantly, and emotions of unwillingness, resentment, and heartache surged up in an instant, and her face changed unpredictablely.

Zhao Pingzhen has been absurd for so many years. Counting the dewy love, there are dozens of women who have dealt with him, but now he has no children under his knees.In fact, it's not that he never had children, it's just that he didn't have the life of a father.Seven or eight years ago, one of his concubines gave birth prematurely in July, and finally both mother and child died due to dystocia; six years ago, he had a son, but he died of illness when he was one year old; four years ago, he was appointed as a Henan soldier At the same time as Grand Marshal Ma, Zeng Honglian also became pregnant, but within a few months she fell and lost the child.

——However, in fact, only the person involved knows how strange this fall is.It was also from that time that Zeng Honglian realized that even if she followed Zhao Pingzhen no matter how much she was favored, she would have no future.

The emperor was willing to let Zhao Pingzhen do it. One of the reasons was that Zhao Pingzhen had no heirs.If there are no heirs, there will be no double-mindedness, because the merits are always inherited by the descendants, even if the merits are high, the master can only be a courtier.Later, Zhao Pingzhen asked the emperor for Qin Xiaolou, and the emperor was willing to give it. One reason was that Zhao Pingzhen used this to make a big fuss, saying that he was sincere to Qin Xiaolou, implying that the emperor Qin Xiaolou could restrain him from marrying a wife and having children.

Zhao Pingzhen himself is very clear about this point, so he himself seldom favors women, and occasionally favors with reservations.He can give those people a lot of gold and silver treasures, and even allow them to be domineering, but he is extremely stingy in this regard.Zeng Honglian finally got a fish that slipped through the net. She thought she was really going to climb a branch and become a phoenix, but finally realized that everything was just a dream.

Looking at Zeng Honglian's face, Qin Xiaolou was confident, and smiled confidently: "I can still give Madam a child... Even, as long as Madam gives birth, no matter what, his surname will be Qin."

Zeng Honglian's eyes were completely bewildered.

A mother is more expensive than a child, even if a childless woman is domineering at the moment, what will happen if she becomes old and decrepit in the future?And if you marry Qin Xiaolou, let alone a regular wife who walks into the house, and a person like Qin Xiaolou...it is impossible to accept other women.She is the only mistress of the Qin family, and her child is the only flesh and blood of the Qin family.

Zeng Honglian heard herself reply in a trance: "Okay..."