Qingzhou is more than two hundred miles away from the front line. On the second day after arriving in Qingzhou, the house was ready.It is a compound with three entrances, bought for 150 taels of silver.Fu Qiu had never seen the title deed, and when Dong Zi asked him to keep it, he felt quite strange. Although the emperor was rich in Si Hai, Si Hai was a thing without a title deed.

Holding the title deed in his hand, Fu Qiu really felt that this house was his own, every brick, every tile, every plant and every tree belonged to him. Fu Qiu couldn't help feeling a little eager in his heart. Dongzi made the bed, and he was beside him. Seeing that he is gearing up and wants to do it himself.

But Dongzi wouldn't let him do it.

Yuan Jinyu wrote "quiet" on his fan, which was supposed to be preposterous. This person probably studied hard in the cold window 20 years ago, and was accompanied by sage books all the way on the way to exile. As soon as he was released, he was upset and irritable all day long. There are endless things to say.

"Shall we stay in Qingzhou? When will we go to the border town to contact the Eighth Prince's army? Otherwise, I will go, but I'm not very good at martial arts, Dongzi, you have to go with me. Can the emperor do it by himself? Yilai stretched out his hand I'm used to opening my mouth when I eat, and staying at home is considered exercise, but no one talks to the emperor anymore, so I don't know what kind of boredom it will be. How about this, Dongzi, you ride a horse alone, and it takes two days to drive two hundred miles away. Brother will help you take care of your people and your cats..."

Fu Qiu couldn't bear it anymore and stuffed a cold steamed bun into Yuan Jinyu's mouth.

Yuan Jinyu stood by the door with an innocent face, chewing steamed buns, while looking at Fu Qiu under the bright sky.

Looking like a young man, he was born with red lips and white teeth, and he was spoiled and spoiled. Now that he is not in a hurry, after wiping his face clean, Bai Yu looks like a son of a rich family.

Dongzi straightened up and turned his head, facing Yuan Jinyu thoughtfully.

"Stay here first." Dongzi said concisely.

Fu Qiu nodded, "There is no rush to recruit the army." He had some plans in his mind.His tenth uncle was the most disliked by the imperial grandfather. In the words of his ancestors, "There is brute force in nothing, and a belly full of idiots".

Fu Qiu also felt that he was young, so he escaped and watched the situation first, and was not in a hurry to act.He can't even say that the tiger is in peace now. His country was a bad debt in the past. The Empress Dowager Song controlled the major noble families, and the Eighth Prince controlled the strongest army. After the Eighth Prince died, it would be difficult to go back.

Fu Qiu felt a little depressed, but the depression of young people always comes and goes quickly, and he forgets about it after lunch.Dongzi washed his feet, drove the yellow cat into the yard, built a nest for it, and tied the cat with a rope.At first the cat didn't go into the nest, but after sniffling, it felt the softness and warmth in the nest, so it gave in.

Yuan Jinyu took a bench to bask in the sun in the yard, and Dongzi came down from the house.

"Second brother."

Yuan Jinyu sat up, "Sleeping?"

"Yeah." Dongzi squatted on the steps not far away, and Yuan Jinyu also got off the bench and squatted facing him.

"You have suffered all these years." Yuan Jinyu's throat was sore.

He was originally the most favored youngest of the three brothers. Before he was exiled, Dongzi was also born to a wealthy family. When he was 12 years old, his father took him to see the Queen of Song. The Queen also gave him a Jade Buddha, saying yes When the prince is enlightened, please ask Yuan Dashi to be the prince's teacher, and let Yuan Xinpei be the prince's companion.

As a result, the companion is the companion, but as an eunuch.

The Dongzi in front of him no longer had the natural innocence and purity before entering the palace.

"It's time to turn 24." Yuan Jinyu touched Dongzi's eyebrows.

"Yeah." Dongzi lowered his eyebrows.

"Before I came to Beijing, my father married my eldest brother a wife, and my sister-in-law was two months pregnant before I left."

Dongzi's joy was calm, and Yuan Jinyu saw it when his eyes lit up.

"You like children?" Yuan Jinyu asked.

I can't say whether I like it or not, children are like a kind of hope.At that moment, Dongzi's mind flashed through those dark eyes on the window sill in that shiveringly cold room.

Yuan Jinyu thought he was feeling uncomfortable, held his hand, and said in a rough voice, "Brother will adopt one for you then."

Dongzi looked into his second brother's eyes motionlessly, pursed his lips, and his throat felt a little dry.

"There is something."

"Ok?"

"I'm not clean."

The wind blew past the bamboo sign hanging under the eaves, and Dongzi looked calmly at Yuan Jinyu, who couldn't hide his astonishment.

"I don't marry a wife either."

Yuan Jinyu's memory of Dongzi was still in his teens. Dongzi would have turned fourteen the year he entered the palace. If the Yuan family hadn't been in trouble, he would have grown up to be a figure that the ladies in the capital dream of.

"You want to guard the little emperor for the rest of your life?" Yuan Jinyu asked.

Dongzi didn't answer, stood up and adjusted his robe. He was very thin, and the robe was hanging on him, and the sleeves of the robe were swollen by the wind.He was quiet, like a tree, a stone tablet, or a big bell, standing still.

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I finally have my own home.

Fu Qiu slept soundly this time, and didn't even have a dream. When he woke up, the smell of stewed rice was already wafting from the yard.Dongzi was squatting by the kitchen door, peeling potatoes.Potatoes are boiled, covered with gauze, kneaded into mud, rolled into balls, fried in oil until golden, two fish, steamed and braised in brown sauce, green beans fried with sprouts until their skins are burnt.A soup was cooked with dried bamboo shoots, and green onions floated on the surface of the soup.

"This yard is too big, it's a bit empty for the three of us to live in." Yuan Jinyu said during the meal.

Fu Qiu was also thinking about how many people he wanted to buy, so he said, "Buy a few maids, servants, and so on. Just the flowers and plants will require two people to take care of them."

Dongzi listened and nodded.

"Tomorrow morning, I will pick someone." Yuan Jinyu said with a smile, "I have only served people for so many years, so I should find some people to serve you."

This was said to Dongzi, and Fu Qiu felt a little unhappy.But you can't say in front of Dongzi's brother, hey, your family is my slave.

Not to mention the original money to buy the house, but the small treasury now is all paid by the Yuan brothers.

Fu Qiu also noticed that Yuan Jinyu didn't call him the emperor, but only joked about it. He obviously didn't believe that Fu Qiu could return to the capital again.

He also promised Dongzi that he would be the chief executive.

So what, the manager is not a servant.

Thinking of this, Fu Qiu's face flushed red.

Dongzi picked out the belly meat of the two fish and put them in Fuqiu's bowl.

Yuan Jinyu "tsk tsk" when he saw it, and wanted to say something, but Dongzi glanced at him, and bowed his head in embarrassment.

After a meal, Dongzi lit up the lanterns in the three courtyards. The house was so big that it couldn't be suppressed by too few people, and it looked gloomy.Yuan Jinyu sat under the porch and told Fu Qiu about the road to exile.

"In those two years of famine, there was nothing to eat in the Northwest. The children of poor families were sold for 20 taels of silver each."

Fu Qiu stared curiously, "Isn't it poor? Can you still afford a child?"

Yuan Jinyu opened the fan with a "snap", and sly eyes appeared from behind the fan, "I can't buy food, I can only buy some human flesh."

"Human flesh..." Fu Qiu was stunned.

"I lied to you." Dongzi set up a low bench and hung up the lantern, and the white light illuminated the dark yard for a while.

"Is the Northwest really that poor?" Fu Qiu asked.

"In the land of exile, the fields are barren, and the land there is not suitable for planting. The prisoners are pulled over wave after wave, and work during the day, but they can't always pay the food, and they can't even eat enough."

Fu Qiu thought for a while, "I remember that the Northwest is free of tax."

"Exemption of taxes is not enough. The people in that place have to wait for the court to release grain every year to survive." Yuan Jinyu sighed, "Most of the people living there are relatives of exiled officials. Most of them come from wealthy families, who know how to farm.”

"Then have you ever eaten human flesh?" Fu Qiu asked.

The corner of Yuan Jinyu's mouth twitched, and he said twice, "Have you ever eaten the little one, Your Majesty?"

Fu Qiu hugged the fluffy yellow cat and thought for a while, "Scholar Yuan is now Uncle Ten's hero, so the years in the northwest must have been not too bad."

Yuan Jinyu narrowed his eyes slightly.

"The emperor is smart."

So the exile of the Yuan family can't be all wronged, it's just that Dongzi's entry into the palace as a eunuch was a bit wronged, Fu Qiu raised his eyes.

Dongzi is hanging No.12 lanterns.

At this time, the courtyard was as bright as day.

"You don't need to hang up so much." Fu Qiu called Dongzi to come down.

Dongzi jumped off the stool, wiped his sleeves, and sat beside Fu Qiu, reaching out to hug the yellow cat.

"Do you want to go home or not?" As soon as the words were out of his mouth, Fu Qiu's eyes flickered, trying to find some emotion from Dongzi's face.Dongzi still had no expression on his face, and after a while he said slowly, "I don't remember much about my childhood."

"Father still misses you very much." Yuan Jinyu interrupted.

Dongzi frowned, and his voice came from the shadows.

"What I owe the old man, I have already paid it off."

Yuan Jinyu knew what was going on as soon as he heard it.At that time, Empress Song asked Yuan Xinpei to enter the palace as a eunuch, in exchange for the end of the Yuan family's exile, it was better than killing all the families.

"If you don't go back, then don't go back, and I don't want to go back either." Yuan Jinyu lazily shook his fan, leaned on the chair, and looked up at the lanterns, like many moons.

In the middle of the night, Dongzi made the bed for Fu Qiu, and Fu Qiu sat aside, watching him make the bed with rolling eyes.

If such a person is someone's husband, then that woman should be very lucky.He didn't talk much, and he was busy working all day long, and paid all the money for working outside.When I got home, I took care of the housework again, cooked delicious food, and was willing to serve others.

When Dongzi was silent, Fu Qiu often wondered what this man was thinking.

"Okay, I'm going to sleep soon. Tomorrow, I'll buy a few maids to take care of me. Be more careful." Dongzi stumbled a bit when he spoke, and he rarely spoke such long words.

Once upon a time in the palace, one of the most common words Fu Qiu said was, "It annoys me just looking at you".

At this time, Dongzi only needs to reply, "Yes".

Thinking of this, Fu Qiu blushed with guilt, held Dong Zi's hand, and said in a low voice, "Let's sleep together."

Dongzi silently pushed his hand away.

"It's not good to sleep with the emperor."

"Didn't we all sleep together on the road?" Fu Qiu grabbed his hand again.

"That's different." Lu is poor and only has one room.

"Now that you have money, you won't listen to me."

"..."

Dongzi couldn't say anything more, so he carried two thick quilts from the next room and spread them on the floor.

Fu Qiu looked at it and couldn't say anything more.After sleeping in the middle of the night, he got up to pee, and returned to the room, Fu Qiu looked down at Dongzi who was sleeping soundly, thought for a while, lifted his quilt, and simply slept on the floor with Dongzi.

The floor was cold and hard to sleep on.

Fu Qiu arched back and forth and couldn't sleep.

Dongzi woke up early because of his disturbance, sighed, and carried Fu Qiu to the bed.

Fu Qiu puffed out his eyes and looked at Dongzi motionlessly in the dark.

Dongzi had nothing to do with him, so he had to sleep on the bed too.Fu Qiu naturally arched into his arms, and put his head against Dongzi's neck. The heat made him gasp slightly, and he crossed his arms across Dongzi's chest.

"Don't call me the emperor in the future."

Dongzi didn't speak.

"It's easy to reveal your identity, wait until you return to the palace and call again."

"Ah."

"Tomorrow, when I go to buy someone, I don't need the maids. I want a few wives, and pick a dozen or so servants." Fu Qiu has his own plan. If he buys a maid, there will be chatter in the yard. Not too little.

"It's good to be honest and honest. Others can be taught slowly."

"it is good."

"You hold me."

"..." Dongzi didn't move.

"Just got out of bed, it's cold." Fu Qiu shrank.

Sensing Dongzi's arm embracing him, Fu Qiu liked this kind of intimacy very much. After all, he was only 15 years old, and he liked to play around when he was in the palace. Dongzi was the only one out of the palace, so it was very precious.

"Go to sleep."

Fu Qiu said lightly, fell asleep after a while, and Dongzi had already gone out in the morning.

It was high in the sun, and Yuan Jinyu was sitting on the porch reading a book. When he saw him coming out, he raised his eyelids, "Dongzi went out to buy someone, and he will be back soon. The food is on the pot, and the emperor will do it himself."

Fu Qiuyuan didn't point to Yuan Jinyu to serve him, but walked towards the kitchen with his shoes on.There are two white and fat steamed buns on the pot, fish porridge, and scrambled eggs.Fu Qiu managed to eat, and it was almost noon, he walked slowly to Yuan Jinyu, lowered his head and said to him, "Hello."

"Huh?" Yuan Jinyu lazily turned a page of the book.

"Don't call me... don't call me the emperor, my name is Fu Qiu."

Yuan Jinyu smiled and said, "Okay, Fu Qiu. Don't call me hello, you can call me Yuan Jinyu or Second Brother."

Fu Qiu had an older brother since he was very young, so he called out to his second brother and went to the front yard.

Yuan Jinyu didn't care about him, and read leisurely books as if his younger brother had come here for retirement.

It was almost noon, and a group of people cheered outside the yard. Fu Qiu stood up, and waved to Dongzi like a little daughter-in-law waiting for her husband to come home.

Dongzi turned his head and spoke to the two women, the twelve servants, an older middle-aged man, and an old man.

So a group of people met Fu Qiu and called him "Young Master" in a proper manner.

Fu Qiu waved his hands and only spoke to Dongzi, "What's for lunch?"

It's not like he hasn't seen many people before, but he's a little nervous right now. After all, the dozen or so people are his "citizens." He only saw that they were all dressed in coarse cloth, and there were two boys who looked only twelve or thirteen. , half of the arm was exposed, and the trousers were ripped, but the eyes looked very open.

Fu Qiu came back to his senses and felt a bit embarrassed to ask about the food as soon as they met, and explained, "There are so many people at once, is there enough food at home..."

"There are rice and vegetables. This is Li Ma, who can cook."

Looking at a very simple old lady, she came forward and bowed towards Fu Qiu.

"Then come in. Eat your lunch first." Fu Qiu let people in, only to see three or five servants each holding rice, noodles, meat and vegetables.

"Don't walk around, go straight along this road, the second yard." Dongzi said loudly from behind.

Fu Qiu couldn't hide his excitement and leaned forward, "I bought all of them?"

"Well. I'll give you the deed of sale later."

"They're all mine?"

"It's all." Dongzi smiled.

Fu Qiu rubbed his hands nervously, nodded repeatedly, "It's great that there are so many people."

The dozen or so people who had just bought in were talking in low voices. Standing on the steps, Fu Qiu felt that this large, empty courtyard was gaining popularity.Turning his head, Dongzi looked at him with a rare smile, so he went to hold Dongzi's sleeve, and walked towards the inner courtyard with a happy heart.

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