A traitor

After finishing the matter, Su Qinglang was about to go back, but was told that Mrs. Sun wanted to see him.

In fact, he didn't want to see Mrs. Sun at first. After all, Sun Zizhong's death was caused by his carelessness. After all, he felt guilty and didn't know how to face the Sun family.

But thinking about it, Mrs. Sun had ignored him all these years, and now that she suddenly wanted to see him, it must be something important, so she went to see him in the end.

Because of the emperor's decree, the Sun family was expelled from the imperial city. Although there was some delay due to Sun Zizhong's funeral, their luggage was packed in advance.

The huge study room was empty as far as the eye could see. Su Qinglang walked in, only to see Mrs. Sun Fuzheng standing in front of the desk, packing papers.

He walked into the room, stopped in his tracks, bowed his hands and saluted, "Master Sun..."

Sun Zizhong's death hit the old matriarch quite a bit. It was as if more than half of his spirit had been drained from his whole body, and his body was no longer as good as before.

Seeing Su Qinglang, he coughed a few times and said in an old hoarse voice: "You are here..."

Su Qinglang hummed, and heard him say again: "The family packed their luggage in the past few days and found something. I think it should belong to you."

As he said that, he took out another dark black wooden box, put it on the desk and said, "There is this thing, after you read it, you should understand what's going on."

Su Qinglang was confused by what he said, but still nodded out of courtesy, walked over, and took two things in his hands.

When he was about to say goodbye and leave, he still stopped, looked back at him and asked, "When will your lord leave?"

Taifu Sun gave a bitter smile, and sighed slightly: "I'm not an adult now."

"It's not bad to be able to go home to take care of yourselves after being pardoned by the emperor, but His Royal Highness, Mr. Laosu will take care of you."

In Su Qinglang's memory, Sun Zizhong's grandfather was extremely strict, which may be the reason why he taught many princes that everything should be ruled out and clearly marked, especially for Sun Zizhong. He remembered that when he was young, he and Xie Yu and the others Come to play with his grandson, Mr. Sun is not happy, he may feel that they are some dudes, those who are close to Zhu Chi are close to Mo and those who are dark, will lead his honest and filial grandson to the wrong.

Over the years, everyone has been officials in the same dynasty, and they are both teachers of the prince and princess.It stands to reason that the two of them have plenty of opportunities to meet each other, whether on business or in private, but he and this Grand Tutor Sun have always been very cold and distant.

Because of his youth, he had a fear of Taifu Sun and always avoided him subconsciously, which is understandable.

In fact, there was another reason, and it was Xie Yu and the others.

Although Taifu Sun had a political disagreement with General Xie Yuan, he always admired him for his honesty and loyalty. He didn't hate what happened back then like Xu Jin did, but he was not very happy with him after all.

Su Qinglang felt a little uncomfortable for a while when he was talking to someone who had been alienated and feared for so many years in such a gentle tone.

After a while, he nodded and said: "Prince, Tai Tu don't have to worry, but on the way back home, the road is long, Tai Tu needs to take care of his health."

Taifu Sun hummed, looked at him but hesitated to speak, remained silent for a moment, and then asked: "Master Su, do you really think His Highness the Crown Prince is worthy of allegiance?"

Su Qinglang was taken aback, he didn't expect him to ask such a question.What's more, it was the prince's Taifu who said such words.

He turned his head, thought for a moment, and then replied: "There is an old saying that there is no distinction between teaching and learning. His Royal Highness is a bit dull, but he has a kind heart, and now he has grown. What's more, no one is born with ambition. Brave and utterly brave, as a teacher, preaching and teaching karma to dispel doubts, since the emperor ordered us to teach the prince, the purpose is for this."

Taifu Sun nodded thoughtfully, seeming to agree with Su Qinglang's answer.

But for some reason, he finally sighed: "His Royal Highness has improved a lot recently, but as the crown prince, after all... he is still a bit worse."

These words fell into Su Qinglang's heart, how sad and sad.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is dull and ignorant. He is not expected to be a prince or emperor at all. How could he not know such things?

It's just that he promised to be by his side, no matter how difficult the future is, he will help him and assist him. Once this oath is said, there is no possibility of changing it. Difficult, even knowing that the enemy on the other side is Mei Liusheng.

When he came out of Sun's house, he was holding something given to him by Sun Taifu in his hand. For some reason, he didn't want to go back to Mei's mansion, but just wanted to find a quiet place, look at Sun Zizhong's belongings, and stay quietly for a while.

Let the coachman drive the carriage and walk along the long street for a while, then suddenly remembered something, so let him turn around and rush to the Imperial College.

At this time, all the students in the Imperial College had gone home on vacation, and he was walking in the courtyard alone, in casual clothes, without anyone noticing him, let alone stopping him.

In recent years, the national power of the Southern Tang Dynasty has declined, and even the royal family is struggling, let alone building schools and adding utensils.

In the prosperous and lively Guozijian in the past, the houses are much dilapidated, and even the flowers and plants in the courtyard are also depressed. Unlike them at that time, the painted buildings and carved railings, the red windows and green tiles, and the willows in spring are always in full bloom on the wooden frames. There are strings of wisteria flowers.

I still remember that at that time, they sat with their husband under the flower vines in the courtyard, burned incense and played the piano, played chess and sipped tea, showing off their elegance.

The master is knowledgeable and talented, and he is also strict with his students. His disciples are all versatile, especially their class, which can be called a good story in the Xinglin field.

It's a pity that people died and walked away later, until now, there hasn't even been a gathering.

Thinking of the time in the Xu family, seeing the young talents who followed Mr., Su Qinglang felt a lot of comfort in his heart. Some things will gradually disappear with the passage of time, but also in time, they will eventually disappear. Replaced by the next thing to make up.

He walked under the wisteria shelf, sat down next to the stone table, and put the things that Taifu Sun had given him on the table.

This is the place he used to come to often. It is quiet and no one is there. You can come here to endorse books and hide for a while. I still remember that once, he played under the pavilion for a while and felt bored. On the root, Xie Yu's name was engraved.

At that time, he was spoiled by his family members and was very mischievous. He didn't feel that this was a wrong thing at all, and even quickly threw it out of the sky.

Until the next day, he saw a person squatting under the flower shelf, trying to erase his engraved name with yellow mud.

He remembered that this method was used to heal trees in the fields and in the countryside. After comparing the two sides, he realized that he was wrong.

Although he felt guilty, but out of pride, he still brazenly pushed this matter to Xie Yu.

Anyway, since he was a child, Xie Yu didn't know how many times he had blamed him, big and small, and this time was not bad.

But Sun Zizhong was very angry. He just gave him a cold look, and then left with the wooden bucket filled with yellow mud.

For a long time after that, whenever he saw him, he always had a cold face. Only later did he know that his grandson Zhong saw him when he was engraving that day.

So it's not hard to imagine what kind of scum he was in Sun Zizhong's mind when he shifted the responsibility to Xie Yu.

But it's very strange, such a serious person like Sun Zizhong.In the end, he became friends with him.

A scroll, a wooden box, Su Qinglang looked down, and after a while, he still reached out to pick up the wooden box.

Taifu Sun said that when he saw this thing, he would understand what was going on.Perhaps, this has something to do with Sun Zizhong's betrayal of them.

So, he couldn't wait.

The wooden box was opened, but there were several letters inside, with the name of Sun Zizhong written on the red sticker.

This is Mrs. Sun's handwriting, and Su Qinglang recognized it. The two of them, grandparents and grandchildren, had a habit of communicating with each other in the past, and he also knew it.

Opening the letterhead, it was densely packed with words, after Su Qinglang finished reading it, he opened several other letters, looked at them, couldn't help but burst into tears, and his eyes were red.

The current emperor's extravagant and tyrannical government has caused the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty to live in poverty, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is dull and ignorant, so he cannot be the heir apparent at all.

If His Royal Highness Yiwang was still alive back then, His Highness the Crown Prince's current virtues would not be worthy of him at all. If His Royal Highness Yiwang was still alive, he would be the most suitable prince.

Page by page, sheet by sheet, as far as the eye can see, there are all such words and sentences.

He understands, he understands, if such a letter falls into the hands of the emperor, then the whole family will be punished, it must be their Sun family.

Back then, in the Guozijian, it was Qin Huan who lived with Sun Zizhong. It is not impossible to accidentally find such a letter.

So, in order to get back the letter and protect his family, he was threatened by Qin Huan and did such a shameful thing, how selfish!

He put down the letter, looked at the painting scroll lying on the stone table, hesitated for a moment, and stretched out his hand.

Taifu Sun said that it belonged to him, but he didn't remember any of Sun Zizhong's paintings.

As soon as the scroll was opened, he was attracted by the portrait on it, a woman in a red dress, holding a long whip in her hand, her heroic posture was unparalleled in the world.

He vaguely recalled that when Li Saisai was in prison, he had met Sun Zizhong. At that time, he said that a friend of his grandfather was working in the prison, so he came to see him.

On the day when he decided to get married, Sun Zizhong came to him for a drink.At that time, he was in a bad mood, full of reluctance. It turned out that he was not the only one who felt sad that day...

For a long time, he thought that Sun Zizhong and Li Saisai were just acquaintances, but unexpectedly, he was so, so...

Holding the painting scroll in his hand, Su Qinglang only felt pain in his heart and felt ashamed.

Time and time again, the concessions that were swallowed, the seemingly inadvertent cares, those self-righteous things, turned out to be someone who made such a big compromise...

Su Qinglang lowered her head, tears could not stop falling, and could no longer see that portrait.

After a long time, he pulled the corner of his lips bitterly: "Why are you so stupid..."