Ten thousand people think gloom is reborn

Gusu is far away from the capital, Qinshu Chutian, and it has already entered the bitter summer, and ice cubes are placed in the carriage for me to travel at any time to cool down the heat. Even so, I still feel hot.This body is very similar to my original body, both afraid of the cold and too hot.

The sound of horseshoes rattling came from the front, followed by a man's deep voice, "Master, there are still ten miles away from Gusu, and we will arrive soon."

I paused, and then said through the car window, "I see."

The person who spoke to me was the leader of the private soldiers assigned to me by the emperor. Coincidentally, I had met this leader before. He was Song Nan, the general of the Song Dynasty who asked for help when Lin Chongtan and I met mountain bandits on our way.It is said that although he is skilled in martial arts, he has a bad temper and refuses to obey discipline, so he was demoted all the way, and now he is even demoted to be the leader of the prince's guard.

Song Nan was stunned for a long time when he saw me for the first time, but he didn't say anything, he knelt down and respectfully called me Ninth Prince.

Seeing that I was getting closer and closer to Gusu, the thoughts in my heart became more complicated, and even these days I always dreamed about the past.For a while I dreamed that I was sitting on the porch of Shanming Pavilion reading a book, and for a while I dreamed of watching the twins entangle my father, brother and mother.

Is it because of the feeling of being close to the hometown?

Because of this speculation, I find it funny again.

When the speed of the carriage slowed down, I heard shouts outside, "Welcome the imperial envoy to take time to come".The carriage did not stop and drove all the way into Gusu.

I pushed the corner of the car window and saw the Gusu where I was born and raised.The architectural scenery of Gusu is slightly different from that of the capital. It is more elegant, with carved beams and embroidered houses, white walls and black tiles with upturned eaves, houses are often built with water, camphor pavilions are as straight as crowns, and magnolias are evergreen in Korea.

After traveling for a few miles, the carriage finally stopped.Niu Xi waited on me to put on the veiled hat, and got out of the carriage. In front of me was the main entrance of the Lin family.When I entered the Lin Mansion for the first time, I used the back door because my status was not publicized, but now I can enter through the front door openly.

At this time, everyone in the Lin family was at the door, seeing me getting off the car, they immediately knelt on the ground and said a lot of flattering words.

Counting the time, I haven't seen them for nearly three years. The twins have grown much taller, and they are no longer the same as Xiao Douding.When I saw them for the first time, they were sitting in the arms of the nanny in the house, carved in powder and jade, like dolls in New Year pictures.

I turned slightly to avoid their kneeling, "There is no need to be too polite, I am here to confer the title on Master Lin, please stand up."

The father's face was still calm, but the elder brother, who had always been steady, couldn't help showing joy when he got up.Although it is not hereditary, the honor of being a marquis is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Entering the Lin Mansion again, the Lin Mansion, like the fairy pavilion in the sky, is like a faded painting. I have seen the extravagance and splendor of the palace, so I will not be surprised by the Lin Mansion again.

Walking to the main hall, I took the imperial decree from Niu Xi, "Lin Kunjie accepts the decree."

"Crassman Lin Kunjie welcomes the grace." My father knelt down in front of me, and the Lin family behind him also knelt down together.

I turned slightly sideways as before, and said: "By God's fortune, the emperor said: The Lin family is loyal to the country, Lin Kunjie is loyal to the country, Lin Kunjie is loyal to the filial piety, helps the weak, helps the poor, and helps the public. Waiting for Jiangyin, bestowed upon me!"

After a short pause, "Congratulations to Jiang Yinhou."

My father held up his hands, took the imperial decree from me, and put his head on the ground respectfully, "I will understand the holy will day and night, and dare not violate the holy grace."

I looked at my father and suddenly understood my father, no, it should be why the whole family valued Lin Chongtan more. Lin Chongtan can win all the honors, but I can't do anything.

After my father died, he smiled at me, "Please come inside, the imperial envoy, I have prepared food and wine for your arrival."

I glanced at Niu Xi, and Niu Xi suddenly said: "The imperial envoy is exhausted, and I may not be able to have dinner with Jiangyinhou at this time."

"It's because I didn't think carefully. Your Excellency's residence is ready, please come with me."

The residence my father prepared for me is no longer the original remote courtyard. The courtyard of this temporary new residence is obviously newly renovated, with red paint and golden lines, and carp and wall flowers.For three days in a row, I stayed behind closed doors, and no one from the Lin family dared to disturb me, except for one who didn't know what to do.

"Ninth Prince, Lin Chongtan asks to see you."

I sat under the window with the book in my hand, turned a page, "No see."

During this trip, Lin Chongtan wanted to meet me privately several times, but I refused. Sometimes when I got off the carriage to rest, he would always look over him unabashedly, and even wanted to get closer, but Niu Xi and Song Nan refused. Wait for someone to stop.

He also wrote me letters, but when I got them I burned them.

On the fourth day in the Lin residence, I asked someone to tell my father that I came this time for another purpose, to offer a stick of incense to the grandfather of the Lin family on behalf of the emperor.When the father heard this, he immediately started to arrange matters.On the fifth day, I took a carriage to the Lin family ancestral grave.

The ancestral tomb of the Lin family was very luxuriously repaired. I used the excuse of offering incense to my grandfather, and looked at the tablets of the gods one by one.

There is no "Lin Chundi" name.

I searched the cemetery without giving up, and finally saw an unnamed grave in the corner.When my father saw me standing in front of the unnamed grave, he immediately came over, "Ninth Prince..."

Before he finished speaking, I opened my mouth and said: "I am ordered by my father to pay a special visit to the ancestors of the Lin family. I don't know who this is, why doesn't he even have a name?"

The father was silent for a while before he said: "My wife gave birth to a stillbirth many years ago. Because it was a stillbirth and an ominous sign, I didn't name it."

The hand under my sleeve couldn't help trembling, "That's right, I'm sorry."

I couldn't stay here any longer, I hurriedly turned around to leave, but accidentally collided with Lin Chongtan's gaze.He was standing not far away, with complex eyes, I didn't want to take a closer look, so I told my father that the scorching sun was unbearable, and got into the carriage as soon as possible.

When I was the only one in the carriage, I gave up trying to hold back my tears.It turned out that from the time I was alive to after I died, I had no name in the Lin family.After a few more decades, no one will remember that Lin Chundi lived in this world, and the descendants of the Lin family will not offer incense to an unknown stillborn.

Maybe even decades, there will be no trace of Lin Chundi's life in a few years.Even if someone remembered, they would say that Lin Chundi was despicable and stole other people's works.

Two days later, I took a casual walk in the Lin Mansion wearing a veiled hat. In Gusu at night, the heat subsided a lot.Scattered in front of the hundred-year-old camphor in Lin's mansion, I stopped to look, and suddenly a gust of wind blew up the veil that covered my face, and then a voice sounded——

"Spring flute?"

I didn't move.

The person who called me rushed to me, ignored Niu Xi's obstruction, and grabbed my hand, "Chundi, are you back?"

Mother was about to reach out to lift my veiled hat, but I backed away, "Ma'am, you have mistaken the person."

"Impossible, my own son, how could I admit my mistake, you are Chundi. Chundi, when did you arrive at home, and why did you come back without telling your mother?" She cried so sadly that I couldn't help but pause for a while. Stop, Niu Xi saw that I didn't dodge any more, so she didn't stop my mother either.

The story of my mother crying while hugging me spread quickly in the Lin residence, and my father and elder brother hurried over to pull my mother away.The mother burst into tears, unwilling to leave, "That's Chundi, my husband, Chundi is back."

"Confused, what Chundi, Zong Ting, hurry up and take your mother back to the room." Father reprimanded sharply, but mother still couldn't stop crying, and even refused to leave.

"Why are you so cruel! Chundi didn't grow up with us, and it was hard to raise him by his side. You insisted on sending him to study at the Imperial College. If you didn't send him there, how could he plagiarize and commit suicide? It's my fault too, I don't care much about him, that kid wrote me home letters and asked me to write more letters to him, but I didn't write a few letters. Du Chundi's fault, he never wore the clothes I made with my own hands."

"Zongting!" My father seemed to be completely angry, and shouted the name of the eldest brother, and then said to me in a calm tone: "Ninth Prince, my wife has been ill recently, and I am talking nonsense. I hope the Ninth Prince will forgive me."

On the other side, the elder brother had already dragged the mother away with a few servants with a serious expression.

I glanced at the direction my mother left, and shook my head, "It's okay."

My father apologized to me again and again, and even invited me to a dinner with a gift himself the next day.Before going to the banquet this time, I took off the drapery hat on my head.

Everyone looked at me differently, even my father, who was always calm, was stunned for a moment, but he reacted quickly and immediately saluted me, "Ninth Prince."

"Jiangyin Hou, you don't need to be polite." I was ushered to the upper seat and sat down. My father was on my left, my elder brother was on my right, and Lin Chongtan was next to my elder brother.

The mother next to my father has returned to her usual gentle appearance, and she never called me Chundi on the table.She has been taking care of the twins at the table.The twins are now ten years old, and the two of them secretly looked at me several times. After I found out, I gave them a slight smile.

Somewhat encouraged by this laugh, they ran to the yard where I lived the next day.I asked Song Nan to let them in.

After the twins came in, they first saluted me, and then timidly called me Ninth Prince.I raised my hand and touched their heads, "Is there anything you can do for me?"

The elder brother of the twins, Yue Jing, took out the things behind him, "We came here to give the Ninth Prince the small wooden boat we made ourselves."

My younger brother, Yun Sheng, is more familiar than Yue Jing, and has already sneaked up to me and hugged me, "Brother Ninth Prince, do you like it?"

I took the small wooden boat from Yue Jing's hand, and saw that Yue Jing and Yun Sheng both had wounds on their hands, so I understood, "I like it, but your hands were injured because of this?"

As soon as these words came out, the twins hid their hands behind their backs, "No, no."

I deliberately lowered my face, "I don't like liars."

"Let's tell the truth! It's... an injury from being a small wooden boat."

"Since the injury proves that this thing is precious, why did you give me such a precious thing?" I asked the twins.

The twins are all next to me at this time, "We like Brother Ninth Prince, so we specially made a small wooden boat to send it here, and I hope Brother Ninth Prince will not dislike you."

I looked down at them, "But we just met, and you guys like me?"

Seeing my gentle tone, the twins reached out and hugged my arm, and said coquettishly: "'The red top is suitable for inheriting the sun, and the frost feathers are not stained with mud', the elder brother of the Ninth Prince is like a crane in the sky, so when we see the elder brother of the Ninth Prince, we will Can't help liking and getting close."

For a split second, I wanted to laugh out loud.

After years of not seeing each other, I could change from the monkey in the monkey crown to the crane in their mouth.

Because I couldn't help laughing, the twins mistakenly thought that I liked what they said, and the flattering words became smoother.I asked Niu Xi to bring them some snacks, which were obviously just their usual food, but they were very excited.

After talking to them for a long time, I mentioned one thing.

"It's strange to say that many people call me Lin Chundi, and your mother also called me by this name last time. Does this Lin Chundi look like me?"

In the afternoon, the twins were not so reserved in front of me, so they dared to say something.

"It's not like, how can he be compared with the Ninth Prince's brother? It's because my mother has been ill recently, and she was blinded by it."

"Yes, it's not like at all, it's very different, the difference between cloud and mud."

I didn't change my face, "Really? Who is that Lin Chundi? Do you know him?"

"Ah." The twins were a little flustered, but the younger brother Yun Sheng reacted quickly and said immediately, "He used to live in our house, because he had no father and no mother, and his father and mother were kind, so he recognized him as an adopted son, but it was only verbal." Admit it, there is no genealogy."

Hearing this, I finally couldn't control it, and quietly clenched my hands, "So, it is said that he has passed away?"

"Ah."

"Then can I meet the person who served by his side before? I'm quite curious about Lin Chundi. After all, everyone always calls me by Lin Chundi's name." I asked.

I have lived in the Lin Mansion these days, but I haven't seen Liangji. I wonder if he was kicked out because of me.If so, I would like to send him some money privately in someone else's name.

The twins looked at each other, and then said: "There used to be a book boy serving him, but after he passed away, that book boy died for the Lord."

When I heard the news, I was almost stunned.

Martyrdom?

How could Liangji be martyred?

Liangji had a sweetheart. Before coming to the capital, Liangji cried for several days with the purse embroidered for him by his sweetheart. Later, he asked me several times whether he could bring his sweetheart to the capital after I became an official.

"Master Chun, I really want to go back and see Rourou, do you think Rourou is still waiting for me?" Liangji often said to me like this.

At that time, I replied to him, "I must be waiting for you. When I graduate from Taixue, I will go back to Gusu with you, and handle your marriage by the way."

Hearing what I said, Liangji was so happy that his eyes curved into a line.

After the twins left, I immediately went to the study to write a letter.I handed the letter to Song Nan, "Please find a way to send this letter to Nie Wenle from the Nie family in the capital."