King's Landing [Rebirth]

Sima Rong went out from the small gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion without any guards, and went straight to the utensil shop.

As soon as the shopkeeper saw him, he immediately went up to meet him, looked behind him, and said with a smile: "The little one was about to send someone to deliver a message to the young master, but unexpectedly the young master came over."

Sima Rong originally planned to try his luck, but when he heard it, he was pleasantly surprised and laughed: "Is there a reply so soon?"

"That's not true! I sent someone to send it over quickly, and His Royal Highness King Jing replied to the letter on the same day, and it didn't take long to go back and forth." The shopkeeper took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to him with a respectful expression. .

The shopkeeper is also a shrewd person. Although Xie Zhuo did not reveal the identity of the young master Yan Qing whom he served, and his reputation in Beijing was actually the prime minister's favored man, this person is really very generous, and he secretly communicated with Xie Zhuo. People like Zhuo and King Jing interacted extremely mysteriously. He thought they must be extraordinary people, so he naturally didn't dare to neglect them.

Sima Rong didn't care about his flattery, thanked him, took a few steps inside, and quickly opened the envelope.

There were two other letters stuffed in the envelope, one of which was in Sima Shan's handwriting, so it was naturally addressed to him, and the other was in an unfamiliar handwriting, it should have been written by Yuan Sheng to Lu Zixiu.

He put away Sima Shan's letter, opened Yuan Sheng's letter and quickly scanned it. In order to fulfill his promise to Lu Zixiu, he specially asked Yuan Sheng to write and send it, so that Lu Zixiu could feel at ease. Thinking about himself, I didn't expect Yuan Sheng to be very calm. He only talked about insignificant trifles throughout the article, and every line showed that he was doing very well. As for where he was and why he didn't show up, he didn't mention a word .

Yuan Sheng's handwriting is very beautiful, and his painting techniques must be quite delicate. As the saying goes, calligraphy is like a person, and so is painting. No wonder Lu Zixiu immediately became suspicious when he saw his paintings.

Sima Rong checked the letter paper over and over again, turned the envelope upside down again, looked inside and out, and made sure that there were no clues hidden, then folded the letter paper and stuffed it back, sealed the opening again, and handed it to the shopkeeper, saying: "Send it to the shopkeeper." Lu Manor, hand it over to Lord Lu."

The shopkeeper took it with both hands: "Yes."

Although the entire capital knew that the prime minister had a male favorite, very few people had seen the true face of this male favorite, and Sima Rong always took the road with few people, so he was not recognized all the way, but it was inevitable that there would be a male favorite. A few young women stuffed melon and fruit sachets for him, which is the custom in Dajin, so he didn't mean much, so he had no choice but to accept it with a smile.

It was noon when we returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, Sima Rong asked Wang Shuzhi to take him to have dinner together, and then went on a lake tour after the meal, but he couldn't refuse, so he had to bite the bullet and agree, seeing that Mrs. Wang was always treating him with a pleasant face, he was a little uncertain What exactly did the mother and son say.However, Mrs. Wang was born in a famous family and she is quite self-cultivated, no matter what feelings she has in her heart, she will never show it on her face.

It was night, Sima Rong read and destroyed the letters he had been carrying all day, remembering Mrs. Wang's elusive attitude, finally frowned and tapped his forehead, secretly reprimanded: "What are you thinking about?"Is it possible that I really will stay with him in this prime minister's mansion for the rest of my life?Even if Mrs. Wang was furious in secret and forced him to marry a wife and have children, that would be human nature, why not stop him by herself?

Sima Rong rubbed the center of his brows, and was taken aback for another moment. He felt more and more that his thoughts were outrageous, but once these outrageous thoughts took root in his mind, they couldn't stop growing wildly. It hurt so badly.

There was a knock on the door suddenly, Sima Rong woke up suddenly, stood up and walked over to open the door after a while, raised his eyes to see Wang Shuzhi's vague smile in the night, his expression was dazed, his mind was still Coil those lingering thoughts.

Wang Shuzhi's smile paused: "Yan Qing, what's wrong with you?"

Sima Rong blinked, and hurriedly stepped aside, Wang Shuzhi would come over every night for a while, and they had a good understanding with each other, so naturally they didn't need to ask any more questions, but thinking that he would have some intimacy every time, he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, Thinking of the scene on the painting boat again, the roots of my ears also felt slightly hot, feeling guilty for some reason.

Wang Shuzhi was quite at ease, he sat down by himself, poured tea for the two of them, saw some unfinished official documents on his case, and said with a smile: "I remember when you first came, you said that you knew a little about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. , now it seems that it is true, compared with dealing with political affairs, the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are indeed only a little bit better."

Sima Rong didn't know what he meant by saying that suddenly, so he said humbly: "The prime minister appreciates it."

As the head of a hundred officials, the prime minister is under one person and over ten thousand, and there are more than tens of thousands of things to ask. Naturally, it is impossible to handle everything by himself. Therefore, many official documents are handled by his staff. Ever since Sima Rong left slavery , some of the official documents were sent directly to the prime minister's mansion and handed over to him. He knew that although Wang Shuzhi had always doubted his identity, he deliberately let it go, so he was not cautious in doing things, and he could do whatever he wanted. hide clumsy.

Seeing him sitting opposite, Wang Shuzhi showed dissatisfaction, got up and leaned next to him, leaned close to him, leaned on his forehead, carefully looked at his slightly drooping eyebrows, grabbed his wrist, pulled out the official document in his hand, and said with a smile: "Yan Qing, if the crown prince falls, should you accept me after your worries are settled?"

Sima Rong's eyes were slightly rippling, he was silent for a moment, and asked instead: "How is the prince?"

"Well... I can't catch the wrong place for now, wait for another two days."

Sima Rong didn't plan to catch the prince for any reason in the disaster relief, and now he just waited for his father to get sick again, so he nodded, didn't say any more, and completely put his previous questioning behind him.

Wang Shuzhi was not annoyed when he didn't get a response, he continued to look at him with a smile, and said in a low voice, "Yan Qing, did you dream about me last night?"

Sima Rong's complexion changed slightly, his eyes were a little flustered, and he didn't know how to deal with it.

Wang Shuzhi put him on his shoulders and turned him to face himself, raised his hand to touch his lips: "I was bitten by a mosquito again at night, why do you think this mosquito always likes to bite where it shouldn't? "

Sima Rong stared at his lips, dumbfounded, completely unable to remember what he had done, and said in surprise, "I never..."

"Huh? You don't have anything?" Wang Shuzhi looked at him inadvertently, and sighed with regret, "Oh! This mosquito is really hateful. I am waiting for you to bite me, but let it snatch it away." First of all, I really feel unwilling to think about it!"

Embarrassed, Sima Rong's face turned half dark in an instant.

Wang Shuzhi stroked his lower lip and said with emotion: "How many beautiful women are looking forward to kissing Fangze, such a precious thing, I voluntarily sent it to my door, Yan Qing, you are indifferent."

Sima Rong saw that his demeanor was flirtatious, and his throat was suddenly dry and hoarse, and when he heard the word "Fangze", he was used to his shamelessness, so he couldn't help but twitch his eyes.

After Wang Shuzhi sighed, he stopped teasing him, and took out the chessboard to play a game with him. After enjoying himself, he got up and said with a smile, "It's getting late, I should go back."

Sima Rong couldn't help being surprised to see that he walked to the door today without waiting for his order to evict him, and there was no lingering expression on his face. Thinking that his mother was here, she would definitely arrange a marriage for him, and suddenly felt a pain in his throat. It was a matter of course , thinking about it at this time, but I only feel that my heart is blocked.

Wang Shuzhi turned around and looked at him, seeing that he was about to speak, he hurriedly raised his hand to press his lips, smiled at him, then turned back, pulled the door with both hands, and quickly opened it with a "squeak".

"Heh!" A gasping voice suddenly sounded outside the door.

Sima Rong stared at Mrs. Wang who appeared here at some unknown time, dumbfounded.

Mrs. Wang's embarrassment flashed away, and she quickly regained her composure. She slapped the fan lightly in her hand, and smiled slightly: "It's a coincidence, so you are here?"

"Exactly." Wang Shuzhi stepped out of the threshold, took the fan in her hand to fan her, and said with a smile, "Why is mother here?"

"The capital city is hotter than Kuaiji, so I couldn't get used to it and couldn't sleep for a while, so I came out for a walk." Mrs. Wang glanced at Sima Rong, and said awkwardly, "I never thought this was Yan Qing's residence, it's really rude."

Sima Rongxin said that the nearby guards were neither deaf nor blind, so it would be strange to walk around casually, but his face was calm, and he cupped his hands and said, "Madam speaks seriously, I live in the prime minister's residence, and I am causing trouble for Madam."

"Where is it, you have to be appreciated by the prime minister, so you can live with peace of mind." Mrs. Wang smiled, took back the fan, and said to Wang Shuzhi, "After turning around for a long time, I finally feel a little sleepy. I should go back and rest." Turning around to leave, he turned the corner and disappeared after a while.

Wang Shuzhi shook his head and smiled, retreated back and closed the door again, turned around and looked at Sima Rong steadfastly, and said helplessly, "Mother followed me all the way, I wanted to stay a little longer, but I was worried that she would be tired from waiting outside for too long. It was because of anxiety that I lost that game of chess, what a shame!"

Sima Rong opened his mouth, remembering the loss just now, suddenly felt that he had become extremely strange, and couldn't help feeling panic.

Wang Shuzhi took a closer look at him, and took the opportunity to hold him in his arms: "If I don't go back again, I'm afraid I don't want to leave again."

Sima Rong regained his composure, broke away from him and took half a step back: "Prime Minister, go slowly."

Wang Shuzhi was a little pleasantly surprised to see him showing a bit of reluctance before, but now seeing that he had returned to his previous appearance, he couldn't help but look lonely, and nodded in response: "Okay."

Sima Rong sent him out, closed the door and stood there for a long time, thinking about the battle between heaven and man, until finally his legs and feet were numb, and then came back to his senses, and walked back to sit down in front of the desk, pressing the painful forehead. But the official document has not been moved for a long time.

Wang Shuzhi returned to the study, called Pei Liang in, hesitated to speak a few times, finally took a deep breath, and ordered: "Go and investigate Yan Qing to find out who he is."

Pei Liang was taken aback. Since he had a good impression of Sima Rong, he couldn't help asking, "Did Mr. Yan Qing do anything suspicious?"

Wang Shuzhi paused, and smiled wryly: "What's not suspicious? Don't talk about the previous things, just recently, the Yu family is going to be exhausted. I'm not in a hurry to deal with the prince, but he seems to be very concerned. You said that once the prince loses power , what does that mean?"

Pei Liang's complexion changed slightly: "There will be turmoil in the court."

"Exactly." Standing in front of the window, Wang Shuzhi raised his hand to pick up a petal that fell on the edge of the window, his expression was unclear, "Maybe he does have a grudge against the Yu family, but this grudge is far from as simple as I thought. It's probably not a coincidence that the two brothers Xie Yi and Xie Zhuo have been reused one after another recently. I said earlier that Yan Qing is not something in the pool, and what he does must have deep meaning."

Pei Liang looked puzzled: "Why did the Prime Minister suddenly... I remember that last time in Kuaiji, the Prime Minister said that there is no need to investigate him, and he also said that he would take a gamble."

Wang Shuzhi was silent for a while, then flicked the petals away, and said with a light smile, "Is it a gamble? It can be regarded as a win. But now, it seems that there are more important things that are holding him back."

Pei Liang was confused, scratched his head, didn't ask any more questions, clasped his fists in answer and left.

The room returned to silence, Wang Shuzhi was still standing in front of the window, with a slight smile on his lips, looking at the moonlight with a little expectation in his black eyes, and sighed softly: "If you don't find the crux, how can you prescribe the right medicine?"