Tanhualang

After saying a few words, Shen Jing suddenly remembered what Ding Bao said to herself in the study in the afternoon, and solemnly said to Zhao Heng: "Your Highness."

"Ok?"

"I didn't think carefully about Yan Yin." Shen Jing hesitated for a while, "If it is implemented, won't it cause His Highness a lot of trouble?"

Zhao Heng was drinking tea, when he heard the words, he looked up at him, paused, and put down the tea: "Ding Bao told you, right?"

"...Yes." Shen Jing lowered his eyes, "At that time, I only thought that this method could solve the problem of avoiding Shandong and transporting grain to the north, and reduce the resistance for His Highness to counter the rebellion. I never thought that once it was implemented... it would cause His Highness... trouble."

Zhao Heng paused and said, "Quiet."

"exist."

"Without your solution, the orphan is in a dilemma. Shandong's position is the key point between Beijing and Nanjing. There is no more room for maneuver than the north. It must be dealt with steadily and steadily. Attacking is the next strategy. Uncle Han Wang is counting. This is the reason why I stayed in Qingzhou and refused to go to Yunnan for a long time."

Zhao Heng took a sip of tea and said, "If the matter of Yan Yin is done well, it means that Uncle Han Wang has lost another handle. So you just think of a way, and do everything possible to make the manpower and material resources needed to carry out this matter, Just make a careful calculation. For the rest, I will find a way to solve it."

"……Yes."

After finishing the business, Shen Jing put away the bowls and chopsticks for the two of them, and went to the kitchen to put them down.When I came back from the kitchen, I saw Zhao Heng standing in front of his desk, holding a book in one hand and two or three pages of paper in the other. book, but accidentally saw this. You have a lot of fun."

Shen Jing leaned over and took a look: "...Ah, I made His Highness laugh."

At lunch time, taking advantage of half a moment of spare time, he casually wrote down on a piece of paper what he saw, heard, ate, and drank on the Qinhuai River last night, all in vernacular. Rafting Notes".

He scribbled two or three pages of this travel note, but before he finished it, the little boy called him to the study room, and he casually put the paper into the book at hand.Unexpectedly, it can be seen by Zhao Heng.

Shen Jing originally wanted to take it back from Zhao Heng, but Zhao Heng didn't intend to return it: "Can I let Gu Bai read one or two?"

"This... just leave it?" Shen Jing said helplessly, "It's just a whim, and it's just a record. The handwriting is scribbled and the language is vulgar, and I'm afraid it will hinder His Highness."

Zhao Heng has never been very forceful, but today he seemed to be particularly interested in this travel note, he raised his hand and shook the paper, and smiled half-truthfully, "Miao'an, you didn't say bad things about Gu in it, did you?" ?”

"No, no! Really not! Your Highness is thinking too much, how dare I!" Shen Jing quickly waved her hand to deny, and then realized that Zhao Heng was cheating him, so she had to sigh in a broken jar: "It's just that the writing is not good... ...Hey! Your Highness, just watch it if you want. Anyway, don’t make fun of me after reading it.”

"It doesn't matter." Zhao Heng sat down at the desk again, and slowly flipped through it, smiling while looking at it. When he turned to the second page, he couldn't help but read: "...There is a stage where I don't know where the play is sung. , quite peculiar, sounds like a northern accent, has a pleasing appearance, two blobs of rouge on the cheeks, looks like a horse monkey, and speaks like a donkey roaring—hahahaha! Miao'an, Miao'an! You are such a wonderful person!"

"..." Shen Jing turned her face away with some embarrassment, put her hand on her forehead, "Your Highness...that's absurd."

Zhao Heng finished flipping through the rest with a smile, put the paper back on the table, and turned around: "I have an unfeeling request."

"Your Highness, please speak."

"Your travel diary, cough," Zhao Heng seemed a little embarrassed, covered his mouth and cleared his throat, "Can I—make a copy?"

"...Huh?" Shen Jing was taken aback, "Well, Your Highness... this is just my random graffiti, it's really hard to be elegant—"

Zhao Heng's attitude is quite insistent: "I only use it for myself to see, and at most I will show it to one or two friends for fun. It will not be passed on outside."

After Zhao Heng said this, Shen Jing stopped insisting: "Then I have to make a fool of myself."

"It's not ugly at all. It's brilliant and full of wit. No wonder your father named you 'Miao'an'." Zhao Heng smiled and stood up, "You take the time to finish writing the rest, and bring them to me. Don't forget the first one. change."

"……Yes."

Sending Zhao Heng away, Shen Jing took the two or three pages of paper and looked at them. She couldn't help laughing for a long time, splashing ink while laughing, but within a quarter of an hour, she filled up the remaining page and finished. I wrote this article "A Taste of Rafting on the Qinhuai River".

After finishing writing, I copied it again, and halfway through it, I remembered that when Zhao Heng asked him for this travel note, he said, "At most, I will give it to one or two friends to enjoy."

Hearing this means, it should be to want to show others.I don't know who he is going to show this kind of informal and vernacular writing?

If you don't care about your rhetoric, you must be a close friend or someone close to you.Those who are close... Thinking of this, Shen Jing couldn't help thinking more wildly: Could it be... that it was for the person he loves?

Zhao Heng is young, but he is very self-sufficient. Not to mention that there is no concubine in the mansion, not even a housemaid or beauty, so cautious, is it because... he already has a sweetheart in private?

Shen Jing was thinking about it, when she heard a knock on the door, she looked up and saw Xiao You pushed the door in, so she put away the pen and paper: "Are you done?"

"I'm done. I just waited for His Highness to rest." Xiao You leaned on the chair, "Oh, I'm exhausted. Do you have some hot tea?"

Shen Jing reached a bowl of hot tea and handed it to him: "Your Highness just came over, and the half pot left is yours. Take it easy, don't drink too much, you won't be able to sleep at night."

Xiao You gulped down a bowl of tea and wiped his mouth: "I'm so tired today, even if someone is playing drums in front of the bed, it won't prevent me from sleeping. Your Highness came over just now?"

"Yeah. I asked about Shiobiki's progress, and after eating half a bowl of noodles—"

After hearing this, Xiao You got up from the chair and looked at Shen Jing: "Your Highness ate half a bowl of noodles? Where are the noodles?"

"I made supper. I was eating when His Highness came down." Shen Jing didn't know why, and asked curiously, "But, it's His Highness's birthday today, why didn't the kitchen even prepare a bowl of longevity noodles?"

"It's not that the kitchen is not prepared. It's Your Highness—I don't usually like to eat that."

"Oh." Shen Jing replied and didn't take it seriously, but Xiao You glanced at him and said, "You have worked very hard these few days."

"It's okay." Shen Jing responded casually, sat down opposite, and said to Xiao Youdao, "I have a few things that I want to ask you for advice."

"what?"

"Today, Master Ding said that if His Highness uses salt in exchange for food, he will offend the Ministry of Household Affairs. He was going to explain it in detail on the way back, but he didn't have time. Which Lord of the Household Department is not on good terms with His Highness?"

"It's not that we are at odds with His Highness." Xiao You moved on the chair, "Beijing and Nanjing Household Ministers, one is a relative of Mr. Mingde, and the other is his disciple. Do you understand?"

Ouyang Jian, Duke of Mingde, was a former scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion. After retiring from the cabinet due to old age, he was named Duke of Mingde again.His granddaughter Ouyang Min is the current queen.Before Ouyang Jian entered the cabinet, he was the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

"Your Highness does not have any enmity with Mr. Mingde. But your Highness and Empress Dowager—ah. Our Highness has always been trusted and valued by His Majesty. It goes without saying, but Empress Empress once quarreled with His Majesty because of His Highness's affairs."

"Queen? Why?"

Xiao Youdao: "There are a lot of reasons involved here, you can't finish a sentence or two, and you will gradually understand in the future. But the most important thing is that after the first concubine is gone, the queen empress wants to take a piece of her own family. Miss, marry into the palace to be Princess Yu."

"..."

Xiao You sighed: "Accordingly, the empress did this matter... Firstly, the princess had only been gone for less than half a year; secondly, she did not discuss it with His Majesty because it was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. , She just said it in front of everyone. His Highness is not soft-tempered. At that time, his face was blue with anger. For His Majesty's sake, he didn't refuse too ugly, but in the end he pushed back the Queen's words. So Ding Grandpa just said that the matter of Yanyin involves the Ministry of Household Affairs, so it is a bit difficult to handle."

Shen Jing murmured: "...So that's how it is."

When the topic came to Princess Yu, Shen Jing suddenly thought of the travel note that Zhao Heng asked him tonight, endured and endured, and finally couldn't hold back: "Your Highness, he—"

"what?"

Shen Jing originally wanted to ask Xiaoyou if Zhao Heng had someone he loved, but she still felt that this was inappropriate, so she changed her mind and said: "His Royal Highness is coming tonight and wants me to change Yanyin's report. I asked him how to do it." Will it cause trouble for him, he wants me to just do it, if there is trouble, he will find a way to solve it."

After hearing this, Xiao You put down the tea bowl, and said earnestly: "Quiet, it can be seen that His Highness values ​​you very much. Don't let His Highness value you."

Shen Jing nodded absently: "...it's natural."

Early the next morning, Shen Jing reported to Zhao Heng's study with the transcribed "Records of Rafting on the Qinhuai River" and Yan Yinzi.Zhao Heng took "Journal of Interest" and read it again, and praised it again: "It is very lively and interesting, and it feels like being there when you read it."

"Small tricks are not worth mentioning."

Zhao Heng sat behind the desk, and immediately unfolded a piece of letter paper, filled his pen with ink: "Go and do your work."

Shen Jing bowed and left, and couldn't help but glance at the desk when the door was closed.Zhao Heng was facing the "Journal of Joy", seriously copying it on the letter paper, looking at it calmly and curiously: I don't know where this Yu Wang Chunxin is lost, so eager to write a letter, Hongyan will send Where does the letter go to the boudoir?

As soon as he went out and turned around, he saw Xiao You came forward and said with a smile: "Grandpa Ding sent someone over. He said it was inconvenient to bring someone here, so he invited the guests to his house. Please come over."

"Okay." Shen Jing nodded and said, "It must have been said yesterday, some adult who is proficient in the salt affairs of the household department. I'll go right away."

Shen Jing followed the carriage to Ding Bao's tutelary mansion, entered the door and was taken to the study room, first said hello to Ding Bao, then turned around and was surprised: the person Ding Bao invited turned out to be the one who had "molested" him before. His son Xu Wei.