Reborn as King again

After dinner with Zhou Ling in Taibai Tower, Zhou Ling wanted to go around for a while, but I had other things to do, so I asked two guards to escort Zhou Ling back to the palace.

After Zhou Ling left, I let out a deep breath. Originally, Zhou Ling was not in my plan to leave the palace today. I just walked around with him for half a day before he left without suspicion. Wanfu followed me all the time. I still wanted to wander around the capital, so I stepped forward and asked, "Master, where else do you plan to go?"

I said, "Go to He Fu."

I have been to He Wenyan's mansion two or three times, and I know the exact location, so I walked towards He Mansion along the nearest path.

After walking for a while, I saw two figures not far ahead. They were He Wenliu and Xiaoluzi who had left Taibailou before. I thought they had returned home early, but I didn’t expect them to be wandering around the street. with.

I thought about taking a few steps to catch up with them, but I saw them walking into a store in a blink of an eye. I followed them and looked at the signboard of that store "Qi Baozhai". This store is a time-honored brand in Beijing. , sell some expensive four treasures of the study, or books and other things, but unfortunately I am not a student, so I have never been in this store. Sure enough, this kind of place full of literary and ink atmosphere is more suitable for He Wenliu's kind of obedient people. .

As soon as I walked into the store, I saw He Wenliu and Xiaoluzi standing by the counter. I didn't know what to say to the boss, but the boss said: "My customer, the workmanship of our cold and warm jade chess pieces is very good. Even if it is placed in the palace, it can be regarded as a top-grade item, at least 120 taels, your 100 taels is too little."

Little Lvzi was busy bargaining and said: "But we only have 100 taels of silver left in our hands. My son really likes your chess set, so you can sell it to us."

The boss also looked embarrassed, and said: "But we can't make a loss-making business, how about I keep this chess for you, and you can get 20 taels again when you go back, and I will sell it to you."

It seemed that He Wenliu had his eyes on something, and he didn't have enough money, and he was bargaining there. I walked to him slowly, and looked at the things on the counter. It turned out to be a set of Go. I asked, "What do you want?" Like it?"

He Wenliu was startled by the sudden voice around him, so he took two steps back, turned his head and saw that it was me, he was also surprised, and asked, "Why are you here?"

I didn't answer his question, instead I leaned forward to take a good look at what kind of chess it was. The boss saw me talking to He Wenliu, so he was a friend of the customer who wanted to buy his jade chess pieces, so he hurriedly opened his mouth Said: "Why don't you borrow 20 taels from your friend first? My warm and cold jade chess pieces are made of Tianshan Mountains. They are mined from the black stone mine and white stone mine on the top of Tianshan Mountain, and the chessboard is grown on Tianshan Mountain. Made of pine and cypress trees that have been around for thousands of years, the lowest price of 120 taels is definitely not expensive."

I grew up in the royal family, and I have never seen anything good. This pair of jade chess pieces must be a rare item in the folk, but it is not a high-quality item in the palace. If He Wenliu likes Go or something, I can definitely let people Go to the Internal Service and get some better ones for him.But seeing He Wenliu staring at the chess piece with glowing eyes, in order to make the beauty smile, I will help him advance money.

Thinking of this, I planned to take out the silver ticket and buy this chess set, but was interrupted by a child's voice. At some point, there was a little boy about five years old standing beside me. He is also a person who is either rich or expensive, and the child's eyes were as bright as He Wenliu's, and he said excitedly: "120 taels, I bought it."

I was actually preempted by a child. The little boy pulled the sleeve of a middle-aged man behind him, and said in an old-fashioned tone: "Father, pay quickly~"

I still know the father mentioned by the little boy, he is Su Zhongyi, the head coach of the Imperial Forest Army.It is impossible for Song Zhongyi not to know who I am, seeing me standing in front of the real dragon emperor, he was immediately dumbfounded, and said for a long time: "Emperor...Emperor..."

If He Wenwu's appearance cannot be described by compliment words, then Su Zhongyi is definitely the ugly type. Su Zhongyi's figure is as strong as a bear, with a red face and a thick neck. Shaking, smiling and full of yellow teeth, if there is anyone who doesn't judge people by their appearance, then it must be Su Zhongyi. Su Zhongyi didn't study much, but he has practiced martial arts well, and he is down-to-earth and loyal. , He is very popular in the Imperial Forest Army. He should have been the commander of the Imperial Forest Army in the previous life, but I had already ignored the government at that time, and Jia Fan made most of the decisions for me, so the Jia family watched Su Zhongyi couldn't be bribed, so he was simply charged with a trumped-up charge and sent to a remote area. I don't know what happened to Su Zhongyi in the end.

The boss saw that there were still people who wanted this piece of chess, but after all, they came first, first served, so he smiled and said to the kid lying in front of his counter: "I'm sorry, young man, this set of chess pieces has been taken by the person next to you." The two young masters have taken a fancy to it, why don't you look at other things?"

When Song Zhongyi saw that the son he had brought was actually robbing the emperor, his already ugly face became even more distorted, and he wanted to explain: "I... the child is still young... you..."

But before Su Zhongyi finished speaking, the child looked very distressed, and after a long struggle in his heart, he said: "Then... well, a gentleman doesn't take what others like, so I don't want this game. There is no other good chess for me to see." Su Zhongyi punched his son on the head very depressed, and said helplessly: "You can't say a few words less!"

"Pfft——" He Wenliu smiled, as if he was amused by Song Zhongyi and his son, he looked at the child and said, "How old are you, you are still a gentleman, come on, I don't want this game, let it be you , or it will become like an adult bullying a child."

With an expression of "you said that", the child began to pull Song Zhongyi's sleeve again: "Father, pay quickly, this chess is a good thing, if you don't buy it, it will be gone."

Song Zhongyi looked at me, he didn't dare to snatch things from me, the emperor, after I nodded to him to express my approval, he took out the banknote from his pocket tremblingly, bought the jade chess piece from the boss, and then Turning around and bowing to us, he said, "My minister... Thank you, my minister."

I looked at the child holding the chessboard in my arms like a baby, and said, "Master Su, is this your child?"

Su Zhongyi was stunned, he didn't expect that I could call his name, but he quickly said: "Yes, this is Weichen's only son, Su Zhuo."

That Su Zhuo is a generous person, seeing his father introduce himself, he stepped forward and said hello politely: "Hello, Uncle."

Su Zhuo, I am also very familiar with this person. It seems that I have completely delegated the power in my hand to the Jia family. During an imperial examination, an all-rounder in civil and military affairs appeared. During the interview at the Golden Luan Palace, I saw his appearance. He was indeed a handsome and heroic man, and he answered the questions fluently. I don’t know where he got the second place. Top picks.Then at the Qionglin Banquet, a group of girls who were waiting to be married were all in the palace wanting to see the demeanor of this rare all-rounder in both civil and military affairs, but this all-rounder in both civil and military affairs gave everyone a dove.I sent people to look for him at that time, but he beat all the people to the ground by him, and ran back with injuries all over their bodies to report to me, and narrated what Su Zhuo said intact, roughly meaning that He took the imperial examination just to test his own strength. He thought that the emperor of Datong was incompetent, his relatives ruled over power, officials protected each other, and killed Zhongliang. , and sent more people to catch him back, but the building was already empty at that time, and then no matter how I searched, I couldn’t find Su Zhuo. After a period of time, seeing that there was no one to be seen, the matter was over.

Now that I think about it, it's no wonder that Su Zhuo said those words. His father was a loyal minister but was framed by others. How could he be an official again.Looking at the looks of Su Zhuo and Su Zhongyi, apart from the same surname Su, I really can't find any similarities between the two. I wonder if Su Zhuo was picked up by Su Zhongyi outside.

I patted Su Zhuo on the head and said with a smile: "He is a well-behaved person." Then I said to Su Zhongyi: "There are a lot of things recently, and I won't be so busy after a while, so I will bring Su Zhuo into the palace to let you know." I took a closer look, and it seems that Ji'er should have a companion to read."

"Accompany... to read? Yes." Su Zhongyi quickly agreed, but he was still not sure what I wanted to do. You must know that he, the chief instructor of the Imperial Forest Army, is only a sixth-rank official, and he is also a military officer. What about my son being a companion? It can't fall on your own head.

Leaving Qi Baozhai, I took He Wenliu's hand and walked towards He Mansion with him. He Wenliu didn't buy what he wanted, so I comforted him: "I'll wait for you to return to the palace later, and I will give you better chess."

He Wenliu glanced at me, as if to say, "You really comfort me like a three-year-old child?!" He Wenliu asked while walking, "Aren't you going back to the palace?"

"If you don't come back, I'm going to Hefu. We haven't seen each other for almost ten days, don't you miss me?"

"..." He Wenliu was silent.

Seeing that he didn't answer, I had to change the subject: "How is your chess skill?"

He Wenliu said lightly: "I am a teacher of Old Man Baizhu."

"Old man Baizhu?" I was a little incredulous. I remember that old man Baizhu was rumored to be a boy with white hair and the body of a half-immortal. He lived to be almost two hundred years old. One day of class is better than ten years of reading, but the old man Baizhu had passed away more than ten years ago.I turned my head and looked at He Wenliu again, no matter how I look at it, he doesn't look like the disciple of old man Baizhu. If he gets one percent of the true inheritance of old man Baizhu, why would he need my protection?

He Wenliu seemed to see my doubts, and explained and replied: "He didn't teach me anything, he just taught me how to play chess for a year."

"Can you tell me what's going on?" I asked curiously.

He Wenliu thought about it for a while, and said: "It seems to have happened when I was six or seven years old. At that time, my elder brother saw an old man who was hungry on the street, so he gave the old man a few pennies, but he pestered my elder brother. Don't let it go, saying that the lonely family wants to go back to their hometown but there is no money, and the elder brother is an extremely rigid person, thinking that it is wrong to get something for nothing, so he took the old man home and asked him to work in He Fu for a year. The old man was getting old and didn't do any heavy work, just sweeping fallen leaves or something. I didn't have anyone to play with me at the time, and the old man had nothing to do, so he always pulled me to play chess with him. I played chess with him for a year, until a year later, the old man left after earning enough money, and he told my elder brother and me his identity before he left."

When I heard this, I smiled and said, "Then your elder brother is so regretful that his intestines are green?"

He Wenliu nodded and said: "That's true. For a while, my elder brother always asked me what the old man Baizhu said to me. In fact, I didn't have much conversation with the old man, just playing chess. "

"So you still have this kind of experience," I said with a dejected face, "You keep it from me, you don't tell me anything, the most important thing between a husband and wife is honesty." It's limited to your honesty to me.

"But you never asked me." He Wenliu said a little aggrieved.

"Er..." I was blocked by He Wenliu's words. Indeed, He Wenliu is the kind of person who asks a little bit, and doesn't say anything if he doesn't ask. I just thought that he was only good at planting peonies. I also like to play chess, so I would like to ask him what else he is good at by the way: "Then what other specialties do you have?"

"Specialty?" He Wenliu didn't understand what I meant: "Which aspect do you mean?"

"Anything is fine, such as what honors have you won, or what do you like to do?" I need to dig more.

"According to what you said, I'm good at studying, although I'm not as good as my elder brother." He Wenliu smiled proudly: "I also participated in the provincial examination, and won the Juren."

"Juren? Then why didn't you take part in the imperial examination?" I was a little surprised, but He Wenliu was quite smart.

"I was too young at the time, and my elder brother said he wanted me to wait another three years." He Wenliu said, "I entered the palace later, so I didn't have the opportunity to take the imperial examination."

Fortunately, I didn't have the opportunity to take the imperial examination. I still hope that He Wenliu can stay in the harem obediently, but I pretended to regret and said: "It seems that I have delayed you. Maybe you can still enter the court as an official. Show your fists."

After I finished speaking, I obviously felt that He Wenliu's hand was trembling in my palm. I looked at him, and saw He Wenliu shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "It doesn't mean anything even if you are admitted to the first prize. He is suitable to be an official." He Wenliu is quite self-aware, he is indeed not suitable to be an official, because he is too easy to trust people, his heart is a little too soft, and he usually doesn't even say serious words, so how can he force each other in court? Impeaching others to elevate yourself?

"If you hadn't entered the palace, what would you have done?" I continued to ask.This kind of hypothetical question, the concubine of the harem is the last thing to be asked by the emperor. Even if they are asked, they will ramble and will not answer directly, because any answer is not good. If he wanted to show off his ambitions, the emperor would think that this man had ambitions and he must be eliminated. If a man said he only wanted to live in peace, he would be ridiculed by others and embarrass the family.If a woman is asked this question, if a woman says she will marry a good man, then the emperor will feel that she is wearing a cuckold. If a woman says she will never marry, no one will believe it, and the emperor will feel that she has been cheated. All in all, there is no answer. Please.

But to me, it doesn't matter whether I please you or not, I just want to know He Wenliu's thoughts.He Wenliu glanced at me and asked, "I like you, do you know that?"

"Yes." You said in bed.

"I think if I don't have a chance to enter the palace, I will leave the capital, walk around, and see more new people and things, then my feelings for you will fade away, and then I will find a place I like, and meet another People who like themselves, and then we will plant peonies all over the yard and live together.” He Wenliu was really not afraid of offending me, so he dragged out all the thoughts in his heart, and sure enough, if he didn’t enter the palace, there would be nothing in his future life. There will be no more of me.

After listening to He Wenliu's answer, I inadvertently asked: "Then why did you meet someone who likes you instead of someone you like?"

"Because one person I like is enough."