Drunk Yangzhou

Beijing Yundu

It was a rainy night in spring, and there was fog around the palace. Eunuch Feng, carrying a horn lantern, sent Su Yunpu, the servant of the household department, to the gate of the palace.

"I'm sorry for the trouble, Eunuch, go back to the palace and serve His Majesty to rest!"

"We'll be back now, it's getting late, Mr. Su can go!"

Su Yunpu handed the umbrella in his hand to the eunuch, put on an oil coat, and braved the rain and rode along the imperial city. Now that the Great Xia is in turmoil, food and silver are urgently needed when using troops, but the household department is short of money, and it is really stretched. Just now, after exhausting his words, he finally persuaded the emperor to use his internal funds and silver taels... Originally, this was a good thing, but he knew in his heart that the great summer was like a continuous rain curtain at this time, and he couldn't see the way forward. Thinking about it, he felt melancholy However, he sighed, turned his horse's head and headed west.

Before he took two steps, he saw Lu Yanqing, the servant of the Ministry of War, standing on his horse in the rain. Su Yunpu smiled reluctantly, "I'm going to find you."

"Why?" Lu Yanqing observed his expression, "The emperor disagrees?"

"The emperor agrees." Su Yunpu patted him on the shoulder, "Your military department has money available for the time being."

Lu Yanqing smiled, "Hey! That's a good thing, let's go and have a drink at my place!"

The area of ​​Lu Mansion is small, but there is also a pond and rockery in the backyard. The scenery is exquisite and quiet. The two sat opposite each other in the pavilion, watching the rain slanting, and the ripples on the surface of the pond were constantly rippling.

"You and I have been officials in the imperial court for eight years, and now we are less than [-] years old, and we have already worshiped the third rank... How to say, it should be enough." Su Yunpu smiled wryly, "But I still miss the first exam with you , When I was in high school, I can't go back to the state of mind of a young man who was "prosperous in spring breeze and horseshoe disease"."

"That's right." Lu Yanqing drank the wine in his glass calmly, "Big Xia at that time was still in a state of prosperity, I don't think it would be so decadent in less than ten years! I think I was still young at that time, and I didn't see such a thing. Undercurrents surge under the gorgeous skin!"

"Otherwise." Su Yunpu glanced at the handsome face of the person opposite, "We have no choice! If we don't take up official careers, we are still digging food in the loess. How many people died of starvation in the famine in Ludi a few years ago? If we don't go here If there is a way, you and I may be the ones who starve to death!"

Lu Yanqing's face froze, and he twirled the wine glass with his fingers, and asked, "Then how will we go? Have you ever thought about it?"

Su Yunpu was startled, and only covered it up: "What does brother Lu mean by 'in the future'?"

Lu Yanqing was silent for a moment, leaned over, and leaned closer to the man's handsome face, "Xiaogui, you and I grew up together since we were young, and I don't want to hide anything from you! Today I will say something outrageous for my brother... According to the current situation Look, sooner or later in the summer...we have to be prepared!"

Su Yunpu's heart beat wildly uncontrollably. In fact, he was holding the secret letter from Xiao Ge in his sleeve. He was pleasantly surprised and apprehensive, and asked tentatively: "Could it be that Brother Jiang Ping...has a future?" road?"

Lu Yanqing looked at his expression carefully: "I think Xiaogui already has plans."

When Su Yunpu was nervous, he couldn't help laughing out loud, "Those who know me, Lu Jiangping also... How about this, you and I will write down our respective ideas on this table to see if they are consistent?"

Lu Yanqing nodded, and sat back on the wooden stick. The two dipped their fingertips in the wine and wrote a word on the table.

When the palms were moved away, the faces of both of them became very ugly. The two characters were exactly one "Qin" and one "Xiao".

"Have you made up your mind yet?" Lu Yanqing sighed heavily, got up and stood with his hands behind his back, watching the raindrops on the pavilion slip from the cornices.

"Not yet..." Su Yunpu's joy just now was gone, "Forget it, let me... think about it..."

The flower carvings on the table became cold, and the wine marks of the words "Qin" and "Xiao" gradually disappeared.

It also rained on Mount Li that night, and in the morning of the next day, Xiao Ge woke up very early, and the moist and fresh breath rushed to his face with the wind, wrapped in the fragrance of grass and rosin in the forest, refreshing.Turning around the cloister is the Fengguan Terrace in the middle of Lishan Mountain. He stepped over and found that there was a person standing outside the sill.When the mountain wind suddenly picked up, the man's clothes were rolled up high, he was concentrating on looking at Lintong in the distance, he didn't even notice Xiao Ge approaching.

Following his eyes, Xiao Ge found that on the foothills of the mountains, every corner of the clear spring was accompanied by a strong pine tree. He couldn't help sighing softly, "The pine and spring are very suitable."

Fu Yiting looked back at him, "It's my father's preference. He said that if there is no spring in the pines, there will be less agility in the solemnity, and the spring will flow by itself, and it will be too frivolous. Putting the two together is extremely elegant." .”

Listening to Xiao Ge, he always felt a little familiar. He thought about it carefully, and suddenly realized: "There seems to be such a strong pine accompanying the spring in Xiao's mansion. I haven't noticed it before. Now that Qi Shao said it, I think it's a coincidence."

"The previous generation liked this, but I don't have the pleasure." Fu Yiting slowly stretched out the cane whip from behind, "I like to play with this."

Although Li Yuankai repeatedly emphasized that he should hide his sharpness, Fu Yiting still couldn't help but want to show off his martial arts in the bright morning light, so he kicked off his suede soap boots, stepped on the fence and flew up, and the golden whip in his hand was broken by the sun. The clouds come out, drawing layers of translucent golden arcs, which seem to be able to compete with the rising sun for magnificence.The golden whip is already dazzling, and his sharp and heroic waist movements are also really good-looking. He is not inferior to his elegance in his vigorousness, and he shows his strength frequently in his lightness, making it dizzying for the eyes.

Xiao Ge was fascinated, but he saw that person jumping down the cliff, he was startled, he hurriedly stepped forward to look down the cliff.

Seeing him coming from the corner of his eyes, Fu Yiting pulled the corner of his mouth lightly, and leaped around the sea of ​​clouds in the early morning for a few weeks, then leaped up with the force of his whip Lingshi, and landed right in front of Xiao Ge.

After doing activities like this, Xiao Ge realized that he was actually still a young man, with a scent of rosin coming out of the thin sweat all over his body, his face seemed to be no longer so sharp, and the hot air from his mouth and nose was breathing heavily on his face.At this moment, Xiao Ge suddenly felt a little closer to him, but it was only a momentary thought. When he regained his composure, Xiao Ge took another half step back cautiously, "I heard that King Qin is good at using whips. Dancing, escaping into the sky, it's really beautiful."

Fu Yiting stared at the two swords on his waist and raised his eyebrows, "Xiao Wang also opened Fu Mou's eyes?"

"Martial art is really poor... I won't show my ugliness." Xiao Ge smiled and pointed to the harp placed in the center of the mountain pavilion, "You can play the qin to win Qin Wang Yiyue. I noticed it when I came here. This gilt phoenix head There are no more than three konghou in Great Xia..."

Fu Yiting squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "The land of Qin is the transportation fortress in the central and western regions. This treasure passed down from the Western Regions, Fu Mou is the first to get the moon."

Xiao Ge stepped forward, caressing the golden red beak of the piano head and the light brown lacquered body, "Coincidentally, there is also such a piano in Xiao's mansion, which was first brought back from Dunhuang."

Fu Yiting didn't speak, he had vaguely heard about the old story of his father and Xiao Wenzhou being in power together in Dunhuang and Yundian, and he thought he got this Qin at that time.

When he raised his eyes again, Xiao Ge had already sat down on the mat, his fine-boned fingers lightly twiddled the strings, and the translucent and clear rhyme like clear springs and flowing clouds leaked out.The curling melody entered the ears, soaked in the mind, and cleansed the heart.Fu Yiting looked at his elegant and slightly mad demeanor when he played the piano, and he didn't realize that he was insane. He didn't realize until the end of the song that this song was composed by Ruan Ji, one of the seven sages of the bamboo forest in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. ", I don't want to use konghou to play such a charm!

With such a flirtatious look, who can he seduce with joy and zither?

Fu Yiting was disdainful at first, and then he thought of this song as an insinuation that the imperial court was dark and sinister, and the political situation was almost the same as the current situation. He thought it was funny, but this guy actually used this method to persuade himself.

Fu Yiting pretended not to understand, clapped his hands and boasted bluntly: "It sounds good! It's more interesting than those piano girls!"

Xiao Ge saw that he was not playing the game, he smiled to himself, and put Qin aside.

"Brother Huaijie, Lishan thinks you have stayed enough, so why don't you go down the mountain and have a look?" Fu Yiting also sat down on the table, waved his hand, and immediately a beautiful maid with icy temples came forward, Hold a pot of boiling water to make tea for them.

"It's fine to go down the mountain. Just don't be too ostentatious." Wen Zheng secretly dispatched soldiers and horses to Xianyang two days ago, and Xiao Ge was not in a hurry to return to Guangling, because according to the rumors, everything in Yangzhou was still in order. I don't know if Su Yunpu of the imperial court will use it for himself.

"I understand that, just bring a few guards." Fu Yiting rubbed the blade on the cane whip with his fingertips, "Dignitaries in Qin love to wear Shu brocade, and Fu also likes it very much. To Xianyang, brother Huaijie, are you interested in taking a look?"

Xiao Ge had a thought. He knew that Sichuan King Chen Guangzu personally supervised the weaving of Shu brocade. This time, he might take the opportunity to get in touch with Chen Guangzu... But he couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in Fu Yiting's gourd for a while, so he held back. The lower eyelashes thought deeply.

Fu Yiting knew what he was worried about, and couldn't help but joked: "If I couldn't tolerate brother Huai Jie, I would have done it long ago. There is no need to go through all this trouble."

Xiao Ge laughed lightly when he heard the words, it would be really petty for him to evade, so he nodded in response:

"Forget it, listen and respect."