Reincarnation of the powerful minister

"Is that what I wanted to do?" Su Yan wrapped a white cotton towel around his waist, soaked in the bathtub, and sighed sadly.

The maid by the pool held a basin of hot water and soaped his long, knotted hair. After cleaning it, he changed it to a new basin of water with sweet-scented osmanthus oil. Finally, he washed his messy hair softly. Wipe dry with a large cotton towel and put it on top of your head with a hairpin.

The king of Yu waved his hand to send all the maidservants back, and moved a few inches closer to Su Yan: "What happened? Why did you leave Beijing and suddenly appear in Datong?"

Su Yan asked back: "You don't know about Shen Qi?"

"If you know it, you know it, but what does it have to do with you." King Yu didn't take it seriously, "Just because you slept with Shen Qi, you can't just sit together."

Su Yan rolled his eyes at him: "...The prince really hasn't changed at all, he can say any hooligan words!"

King Yu laughed recklessly and coquettishly: "I am an open-minded hooligan, unlike my elder nephew who is doing public affairs for personal gain, and I am more and more like his father.

"Pooh!"

"Is he really angry with you because of Shen Qi's defection? Or did you forcefully protect Shen Qi in front of him, or let him go away in a moment of soft-heartedness."

A look of shame flashed across Su Yan's face, and he poured water on his body to cover it up. "I let people go. I also had some health problems at that time, so I simply took the blame and resigned."

King Yu immediately suppressed his smile, frowned and said: "I guess you will be stimulated, but I didn't expect it to be so serious. If it's just 'something went wrong', how could Zhu Helin let you go out of Beijing? How are you doing now? I'll go now Call a few medical officers for a consultation."

Amid the uproar when he got up, Su Yan grabbed his wrist: "No need, it's just that the emotion is out of tune, and it's healed now."

King Yu leaned over to look at Su Yan, and reached out to touch the colorful bruises on his shoulders and chest: "What are these injuries?"

"I fell." Su Yan flinched back, and smiled embarrassingly, "I left a letter to resign, and after leaving Beijing with Ah Zhui, I lived in seclusion in the mountains near Kelan County, Taiyuan Prefecture for a few months. At the beginning of the month, I While playing in the town, I was recognized by the people in the yamen. I was worried that they would report to the court to attract pursuers, so I set off again to go north. When I passed the Yanmen Pass area, I happened to meet the Oala cavalry fighting with the army led by Feng Shangshu. In the confusion, we I got separated from Ah Zhui and couldn't find him anyway, so I had to continue walking along the official road alone, until I reached Huairen."

"Have you suffered a lot along the way? Is it because you have been hungry for several days that you have no choice but to show up?"

"Three days."

King Yu was a little angry: Su Yan was born as an official, even if he was not in the family of Zhongming Dingshi, he was raised with tofu skin and flesh without worrying about food and clothing since he was a child, but he would rather starve for three days and get scars all over his body. He looks like a beggar, and he refuses to come to the palace for help in the first place.

"Now you are finally willing to come to the palace to beg me?"

Su Yan seriously corrected: "It's not a begging, it's a debt collection. When you left Beijing, you forced me to ride a horse and caused me to lose a silver crown. You said it yourself, and you will pay me a new one later. I don't want it." For a new hair crown, just convert it into silver. At the beginning, I spent five taels of silver to find a craftsman to make the crown, and the wages were not counted, and the fire consumption was not counted, only the net weight.

King Yu almost laughed angrily: "You are stubborn, and you don't take advantage of a penny, so what are you still soaking in my bathtub?"

"It was Your Highness who stripped me naked and threw me into the bathtub." Su Yan got up immediately, "But thank you very much, I owe it to you. Why don't Your Highness credit me for a suit of clothes, and I will pay you back when I make money?"

King Yu dragged Su Yan, who was about to climb up the edge of the pool, back into the hot water, and hugged him full of arms: "It's too late! I entered the tiger's mouth and wanted to get out. Who do you think I am, Tang Sanzang or Liu Xiahui?"

Su Yan let out a little exclamation, but didn't struggle in a panic. He gouged his forehead with his fingers: "What a rush! I'm not angry with you anymore, so don't try to scare me."

King Yu laughed loudly and let him get up to dry off behind the curtain.

There was a medicine box on the bench, Su Yan applied ointment to the bruises that he could reach, halfway through his middle clothes, King Yu opened the curtain and poked his head in and asked, "You can't reach your back, can I help you?"

Su Yan said "Oh", and handed him the medicine box casually.

King Yu came in wearing a black satin bathrobe, sat behind Su Yan and applied medicine to him.

"Leave it here, you can live in the palace as you please." King Yu said, "I'll send someone to help you find Jing Hongzui's whereabouts."

"No. I won't take advantage of you."

"...I took advantage of you, I beg you to keep it, okay?"

"Then you give me a job."

"Being a stepfather for Ah Ji?"

Su Yan turned around and took a wet cotton towel and slapped the opponent's arm: "It's serious work!"

King Yu grabbed the wet cotton towel and pulled it, and Su Yan slammed into his chest unsteadily.King Yu lowered his head and rubbed the smooth forehead of the man in his arms with his lips, and let him go before he became angry. He said solemnly: "Staff, guest, counselor, whatever you want to call, food and shelter, no monthly salary, what do you want to buy?" Withdraw directly from the cashier."

"Master? I can do this." Su Yan stood up and put on his coat, and bowed his hands solemnly, "Then I will take care of you from Master Lao."

King Yu smiled and said, "My master will reward you with a meal first. Let's go, the banquets in the hall are all ready, and I will meet some of the people in charge in the mansion along the way."

Su Yan was very tired tonight, and he didn't want to waste energy on greetings, so he said, "I don't want to have a banquet. As for the bowl of stewed mutton, you took it away when I just started eating it. You asked someone to buy another bowl. Send it to my house."

The king of Yu agreed immediately, and asked again: "Just a bowl of noodles? It's too shabby. You live in the palace of the king. Do you want delicacies from mountains and seas?"

Su Yan felt that it made sense, he couldn't give Yu Wang any credit, he had to add more material. "Then ask the stall owner for an extra bowl of haggis stew, with tofu and no vermicelli. Don't use anything else, you can't finish it any more."

"You..." King Yu wanted to smile, but only stared at him with dark fire burning in his eyes, "If you don't go back to the house, I'll finish you right here."

Su Yan snorted, walked to the door, turned back and asked, "Which room do I live in?"

"If you don't live in the guest room and there are too many people, you can live in the left side hall next to the main hall."

Su Yan thought about it for a while, and didn't refuse: "Then, the prince first locks the rooms that I shouldn't enter, so that I won't enter by mistake, and I will ask the family to take care of me later."

King Yu couldn't help laughing: "I don't hide my beauty in a golden house, and I don't commit crimes. What is there to be shameful about? You can visit the whole palace as you like."

Su Yan picked up the new cloak and put it on his shoulders, and walked away with his hands behind his back.

King Yu wiped his lips with his fingertips, raised the corners of his mouth in aftertaste, and said to his back: "Take care of your body as soon as possible, and I will invite you to drink."

There is an extra guest in the palace.

The servants only said that they have never seen such a young, handsome and knowledgeable gentleman, who knows all kinds of strange things from all over the world, treats people kindly, and is deeply trusted by the prince.The lord does not avoid him in anything, he can do whatever he wants, and asks him to make up his mind with housework from time to time, it seems that he really hopes that he will take the lead.

Even the four-year-old son, Ah Chi, liked him, and called him "godfather" one by one, clamoring for him to take him out to play.

It was also rare for the prince to stay in the mansion for a few more days. He accompanied this Mr. Su around the city, and then took him to Lianglang Mountain outside the city to visit the ancient battlefields of Song and Liao and the relics left by the generals of the Yang family.

I don't know how King Yu made Su Yan let go on the mountain, and agreed to drink with him at night.The two of them came back on horseback in the afterglow. Just as Yu Wang excitedly ordered people to go to the cellar to get wine, Hua Ling, the commander of the guards, galloped back to the mansion, and said a few words to Yu Wang with a serious face.

Su Yan came out of the palace door after taking a bath, and happened to meet this scene.Hua Ling turned her head to see him, and was stunned: "Su...Master Su?"

King Yu patted Hua Ling's shoulder and made a silent gesture.Hua Ling nodded again and again as if suddenly realizing.

Su Yan walked over slowly, bowed his hands and saluted: "Commander Hua." Then he turned to King Yu, "It's been four or five days, can the prince find the whereabouts of Ah Zhui?"

"Still looking, there is no news yet. We don't want to make a fuss, so we can only search secretly, so as not to attract people..." King Yu glanced east, "eyes and ears."

Su Yan nodded understandingly: "I believe that the prince will do what he says, thank you very much."

King Yu felt a little guilty: "I have something to go out of the city, and I'm going to break my promise tonight, so I'll have a drink with you another day."

"Leaving the city overnight, is there something urgent?"

"Ah."

Su Yan lowered his eyes and changed his mind, and stepped forward to fasten his collar for King Yu: "The night is dark and windy, the wild roads outside the city are difficult to walk, and there are many passes and trenches to the north, the prince is careful all the way."

"Don't worry, I'll go back as soon as I go." King Yu stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to caress Su Yan's cheek, and suddenly realized that there was a stunned guy beside him, so he withdrew his hand and gave Hua Ling a look, then turned and left.

Hua Ling got stabbed in the eye for no reason, with a little grievance on his face, he hurriedly clasped his fists at Su Yan, and followed King Yu away.

King Yu led a large group of guards out of the palace, and the sound of horseshoes gradually faded away.

Su Yan stood at the intersection of the street and looked at each other until he was completely out of sight, then turned and said to the two guards who were ordered to protect him: "You guys go back to the house first, I'll go to the pastry shop across the street to buy some preserved fruits and then go back. "

Guard A said: "Whatever you want, Mister, you can buy it in a lowly position."

Su Yan said, "I want to be quiet."

"What is 'Quiet'... er, who is it? Go and bring someone here."

Guard B tugged at his sleeve, and said in a low voice, "You idiot! Let's go." He said with an embarrassed smile at Su Yan, and pulled his companion away.

"You are stupid, Mr. Su feels bad if you didn't see our prince leave?"

"Uncomfortable? You mean... No way, you mean the two of them, that, that, that?"

"What about this and that, are you blind and didn't see what our prince looked like when he faced Mr. Su? That expression, that look, that tone of voice... Hey!"

"Don't say it, don't say it, be careful that the prince knows and asks us to eat army sticks."

Two guards muttered and walked up the steps at the entrance of the palace.

Su Yan withdrew his gaze, walked into the pastry shop at a leisurely pace, and said to the boss: "I heard that you have newly purchased a batch of carved dried fruit from Jingzhou. It is pleasing to the eye and refreshing to eat. I want to buy a few catties." Try it."

Carved candied fruit is sold in two, and the price is expensive. When the shop owner heard "a few catties", he smiled and said, "This young man really knows the goods! But the goods have just arrived, and they haven't been displayed yet. All the boxes are placed in the backyard, and they haven't been opened yet." , wait a moment."

Su Yan waved his hand: "There's no need to unpack it, I'm in a hurry to take it back to entertain the distinguished guests, and take the whole box away. Shopkeeper, do your own thing, just ask... ask that little brother to help me pick up the goods in the backyard." He stretched out his hand Pointing to the dark-skinned waiter at the counter with simple and honest eyebrows, "Also, I walked here and couldn't move it."

"Okay! Wu Xing, you go to the backyard to pick up the goods, greet this young master, and move it to the door of the house, do you hear me?"

The shop clerk muffled "Got it" and went into the backyard and moved a wooden box out.Su Yan happily paid the silver and walked out of the pastry shop, followed by the waiter.

When he got to a place where no one was around, Su Yan said in a low voice: "King Yu suddenly left the mansion and left the city after receiving the letter. I tricked him, but he didn't correct him at the moment. He acquiesced to go north, and he probably didn't follow the official path. You and Go up and see, what is he going to do, who is he meeting with?"

"Okay. I'll go right away, my lord, be careful." The waiter lowered his head, but what he said was Jing Hong's chasing voice.

The wooden box was placed outside the gate of the palace, and servants soon took over and carried it in.

The waiter left, but Su Yan didn't look back, and the door of the mansion closed behind him.

In the middle of the night, Su Yan tossed and turned on the bed for a long time, couldn't help getting up and getting dressed, carried a small lamp through the corridor, and came to the door of King Yu's study.

Some guards watching the night saw him, because the king of Yu had told him that Mr. Su could walk freely in the mansion at any time, so the guards saluted and continued to patrol.Su Yan pushed open the door of the study, stepped in, and raised the lantern to illuminate the rows of books on the wooden shelf.

There are all kinds of copybooks, history books, anthologies, ghosts... the most numerous are military books.

After carefully browsing back and forth, he walked to the desk and lit the oil lamp on the desk.The light shines on the drawer, and the brass handle is shiny because it is often polished by the skin.

Su Yan pulled the handle, and found that one of the drawers was locked, so he pulled out the wire from the hairpin, followed the lockpicking secret taught to him by Jing Hong, and opened that drawer after a little trouble.

There were many letters in the drawer, he took out the latest one on the face, carefully opened the outer envelope that had been opened, unfolded the letter paper, and moved it to the lamp flame for a closer look.

The letter was written by the king of Liao, saying that the emperor not only rejected the request of the princes, but also issued an edict to severely reprimand them, and strictly ordered not to increase the number of government soldiers without authorization.He couldn't bear it anymore, and planned to recruit private soldiers secretly, and persuaded the king of Yu to also expand his troops to protect himself, just in case.

After reading it, Su Yan couldn't help but frown. After thinking for a moment, he put the letter paper back into the envelope and put it back in the drawer.

After restoring everything to its original state, he took two Zhiguai books from the bookshelf, left the study, and returned to his bedroom.

Lying on the bed, Su Yan flipped through the book in his hand page by page, but didn't read a word.He thought about one question over and over again, until he couldn't sleep all night——King Yu often left the mansion and went out of the city, and his whereabouts were secretive. Did he go to recruit soldiers and buy horses, and have other schemes?