In the same boat with the son

When Lin Xiu left the group of scholars, Li Wei's banquet was about to end.The Zhong family had a mansion in Luoyang, but they did not live in Li's residence.Ah Ru and Zan'er are about the same age now, but Ah Ru has a milder personality and is less proactive in making friends with others, while Zan'er has a more mature personality, so even if they are the same age, they are not very good at playing together.Especially at the age of twelve or thirteen years old, it can be regarded as just entering puberty, there is an inexplicable thorn in it, and it will not be warmed up quickly and sincerely like when it was a child.

When Li Zan saw his father resting with Lin Xiu, he couldn't accept it. At home, his father didn't live with his mother. Aunt Yun took care of her mother, but now his father was so close to a strange man. Still resting in one place, Li Zan really wanted to protest and criticize, but when he saw his father, he was very powerful, and he really lacked that kind of courage.

Since then, every day when Lin Xiu comes back from school, he will bring some delicious food made by A Su himself, sometimes pastries, sometimes beef strips, and sometimes some soup to share with these children, although Lin Xiu used to It will also be brought to Ada and Aru, but it will not be as convenient as it is now.Li Huang could see that Lin Xiu wanted to curry favor with Li Zan. Although Li Zan would show slanderous looks like a child when facing these meals, he only felt that this was for everyone, and there was nothing special about it.But little Ada cooperated very well every time, and became Lin Xiu's support more and more.

Li Zan just came to Luoyang, but Li Wei didn't let him and Fu Rutong go to teach him to study together, but invited him to teach him alone.Apart from his rejection of Lin Xiu, Li Zan is mature and steady, very sensible and well-behaved, never greedy for playfulness like ordinary children, and will do everything his father asks him to do seriously and hard.In fact, in his mind, his father has always been the object of his admiration. When his father was serving as the captain of Wuhuan at the border, he heard his mother say how brave his father was. Later, the Xianbei clan did not dare to invade when his father was in office.And when my father was a prefect in various places, I also heard from my mother that my father governed one side and was deeply loved by the people.

I remember when I was a child, my grandfather used to grind his head and said that his father was better than him, and he would be a better person than his father in the future.Even though he has grown up so much and his father has been away for many years, even when he is at home, his father will not be very close to him, and will only teach him seriously, but in Li Zan's heart, there has always been an indescribable admiration and fear for his father.

During this period of time, no matter how obedient and hard-working I was, I could only see my father sooner or later, and my father would not say much.Every time he saw his father being so gentle towards Lin Xiu, Li Zan couldn't tell whether he was envious or jealous.But later Li Zan discovered that whenever Lin Xiu showed his favor to him, he no longer expressed his disgust and rejection so obviously, and when he made Lin Xiu feel more comfortable, his father seemed to become a little gentler towards him.So Li Zan, at least on the surface, will no longer be as reluctant as he was at the beginning.

Every day, from breakfast to dinner, Li Zan only allowed himself to rest for half an hour at noon, and read some books by himself before going to bed at night. As far as Lin Xiu saw it, he felt that this child was so sensible that it made people feel distressed. Although it is different from the lively and well-behaved child like Ada.This day happened to be Lin Xiu's day off, he got up after a nap, and after learning that Li Zan was studying alone in his room, he asked Lu Zhu to bring some food, and went over with him to have a look.

The place where Li Zan studies is his own small study room. In the courtyard of the west wing, there is a clump of green bamboos in the courtyard. The leaves will make a soft rustling sound when the gust of wind blows through them.Li Zan was sitting in front of the open window reading a book, and some shades of tree shadows were reflected on the ground, looking very peaceful.

The window was not very high. Sitting kneeling in front of the desk, he could still see out of the window. Lin Xiu sat casually in the shadow outside the window, leaning his arms on the window sill and resting his chin on it. Sitting there looking at himself, a little awkward, couldn't help asking, "What are you doing here?"

Lin Xiu found it very interesting to see him like this, thinking that Li Wei should have been like this when he was a child, it was very amusing, and pointed to the tray of the guiding candle.Li Zan thought that this was considered a good intention, a little embarrassed and a little awkward, silently put the book on the case aside.Lin Xiu asked Lu Zhu to put the food on the table, and the servant next to Li Zan made a new pot of tea.

Ada doesn't need to learn Chinese characters today, and she sneaked a glimpse of Lin Xiu coming here with food. The afternoon sun was just right, and she saw Lin Xiu sitting on the ground. He rushed over happily, threw himself on Lin Xiu, and raised his head. The cuteness said, "Brother Lin Xiu, I want to eat too!"

Lin Xiu asked Li Zan, "You study all day, don't you want to play?" He flicked Ada's forehead lightly, "Just like this little kid, he only knows how to eat and play all day long!"

Hearing Lin Xiu scolding him, Ada replied in dissatisfaction, "Eating and playing are children's nature. Every child who doesn't like eating and playing is not a real child!" He ordered all the things he liked, then asked Lu Zhu to take them out for him, and sat beside Lin Xiu leaning against the wall to eat happily.

Lin Xiu couldn't help laughing when he heard his words.

After all, Li Zan is a teenager, and he thought it was cute when he saw Ada like that, but he felt that although it was very attractive, it was not his own life, so he couldn't help but slightly lowered his head, "But, Mr. Be like a father, so study hard."

"But even if you are like your father, you don't read all the time like this—although there are thousands of bells in the book and Yan Ruyu in the book, there are many things that are not in the book. If you My father just reads books, so he doesn't know what the year is like, how much the harvest will be, whether the people under his rule are fed or not, whether they are warmly clothed, whether they are living well, or where there are natural disasters, where there are human disasters, and where they are. I don’t know how to make the people live and work in peace—although they need to study, they can’t just study.”

"And you are still young. Only at such an innocent age can you love something purely and passionately. Why not be more straightforward? A life like Ada's is so unrestrained and you can feel it, Only when you get in touch with what you love can you feel the beauty. Only when you know what you love can you know how to protect it, work hard, and live happily.”

In the end, Lin Xiu stared into Li Zan's eyes and said softly, "I hope you live happily".

Li Zan looked at Lin Xiu from a close distance, couldn't help being a little shy, lowered his head, and said in a muttered voice, "No one has ever said that to me before."

Lin Xiu couldn't help but smiled when he heard it, but his expression was slightly affected, as if he saw Li Zan when he was a child, he was a little distressed, and the feeling of pity couldn't stop rising, he raised his hand and touched Li Zan's head , stood up, patted the hem of his clothes, and led Lu Zhu away, only Ada, who was still eating happily, and Li Zan, who was staring at Lin Xiu's back in a daze, were left.

Listening to Lin Xiu's words, Li Zan understood some of them, and some of them didn't seem to understand very well. However, the meaning of don't stick to yourself, was fluttering slightly in his heart like the wings of a little butterfly. .

Besides, in the side hall of Chongde Hall, the afternoon sun shone in, but it was not very bright, and there were some shadows on the floor, giving it a dark feeling.But the gold carvings and jade construction, the Chinese candles and the silk, are also very rich.At this time, Emperor Huan was sitting on the main seat, Empress Deng was kneeling on the side, and Zhang Rang was serving beside Emperor Huan.There is a little palace maid kneeling in the palace, and her body can still be seen trembling.

Empress Deng raised her eyebrows, with a hint of provocation in her eyes, and said softly to Emperor Huan, "Your Majesty, this little girl said that she saw Zhang's nephew having a private meeting with that nobleman late at night a few days ago—"

Hearing this, Zhang Rang was shocked, and crawled to Emperor Huan's case, and knelt down.When Emperor Huan first heard about Liang nobles, he didn't realize which Liang nobles he was, but suddenly he thought that the one who was gifted to death by himself was later abolished as Empress Liang in the nobleman's tomb.It seems that this Deng Mengnv is going to step down even a dead person——

"Really? But that Empress Liang is dead and there is no proof. She is just a little maid, who knows if it is slander?!" Emperor Huan also called Empress Liang, but it meant a warning. It's better to hold back, but Deng Mengnv can't bear to swallow her anger.

Empress Deng called the maid beside her, and whispered a few words in her ear, she saw the maid hurried out, and brought a man in after a while, the man's clothes were very modest, and his appearance looked like this After being tortured for a few days, the man bent over and kowtowed as soon as he saw Emperor Huan, but when he raised his head slightly, it was the eunuch next to Queen Liang.

The eunuch told Queen Liang's orders that night, when and where, but did not say what Queen Liang and Zhang Rang did.This seems to say that Zhang Rang is a dirty harem at a small scale, and colluding with a rebellion at a large scale.Although it is unimaginable for normal people how Zhang Rang messed up the harem as a eunuch, the possibility has not been ruled out in history.Deng Mengnv said that the little palace lady happened to pass by there that day, and she was terrified at the time, so she hid in the dark until Queen Liang and Zhang Rang had left before returning to Queen Deng's residence, but she was very terrified at the time, and she couldn't promise to see it. If you don't clear it, you don't say it.

Emperor Huan was very upset when he heard it, so he had to ask Zhang Rang, "Did you really go to see Queen Liang that night?"

Zhang Rang was terrified when he heard that, "That day, the little father-in-law said that Queen Liang had something to do with the servant. The servant thought of the kindness of Queen Mother Liang, so he went to see Queen Liang, but he did nothing!"

Deng Mengnv sneered contemptuously, "You didn't do what you said?! Now the evidence is solid!"

Emperor Huan was very annoyed when he thought that Zhang Rang had always acted as the eyes and ears of the Queen Mother Liang before her death, and now this incident happened again.Now Deng Mengnv just wants to deal with him. If someone with a heart picks up trouble and treats Zhang Rang as a remnant of the Liang family, it will be even more troublesome.Deng Shi is in the limelight now, she had long thought that Zhang Rang was not pleasing to her eyes, and she would never let her go without letting her win once.Moreover, the eunuch Feng Hou is in the limelight, if Zhang Rang stays with him all the time, even though he is only a village lord, it is hard to guarantee that he is the biggest target.Emperor Huan went through it in a hurry, raised his eyes and stared at Queen Deng coldly, "Then according to the Queen's opinion, how should we deal with it?!" There was some danger in that tone, and Deng Mengnv couldn't help being careless when she felt it. up.

"Returning to Your Majesty, if Zhang Rang is said to be messing up the court, it can't be said, and he can't talk about colluding with rebels. The Holy Majesty has made Zhang the servant of the capital because of getting rid of Liang Ji-but it can't be justified without punishment. Why don't you demote Zhang Neishi to Guanneihou and send him to Xijing—"

When Zhang Rang heard that he was going to leave Luoyang and go to the deserted Chang'an, he was startled. He raised his eyes to look at Emperor Huan with pleading eyes, but Emperor Huan didn't look at Zhang Rang. He just said, "Just do as the queen wants—"

Zhang Rang felt as if a bucket of ice water was being poured down, and he felt that Emperor Huan was so cruel, seeing that he was about to send himself to the desolate Chang'an, didn't he already know that? !In the past, Emperor Huan might not be single-minded to himself when he was by his side, but now he not only left Luoyang Palace, but also Luoyang. The depression days in the future can be seen at a glance. Does Emperor Huan really want to be so ruthless to himself? !