The emperor's heart alone

It's rare that Xu Yunjin actually stayed in Xu's mansion for a few days without taking a step out, causing Xu Yunqin to send someone to ask about it, Xu Yunjin dismissed him dumbfounded: "Really, I usually have such Aren't you going home?"

Qinghuan whispered to the side: "Isn't that right, the time Er Shao stayed in Xu's mansion was much shorter than the time he stayed outside."

Xu Yunjin pretended not to hear Qinghuan's words and Qingpela Qinghuan's small movements, and asked, "Is my father coming back today?"

"There is no news from the palace yet."

"Then where is my brother?"

"It is said that today I will go out to get together with my classmates, and I will come back later."

Xu Yunjin shook his head. Being in an official career is what makes him bored. He doesn't like to deal with people he doesn't like. If he wants to deal with people he doesn't like, he would rather never get involved. imperial court.

Perhaps this is called everyone has his own ambitions, Xu Yunjin prefers to live a free and arbitrary life, and the officialdom is really not suitable for him.In comparison, his eldest brother is more suitable and likes this kind of life.

"Prepare some hangover soup in the kitchen, and ask him to use some when the eldest brother comes back, so as not to get up with a headache the next morning. By the way, we have to prepare some food. They usually have empty stomachs when they drink outside. After a long time, the stomach should be fine." alright."

"Yes." Qingpei responded one by one, and didn't ask the servants to inform, but went to the kitchen to explain in person.

Seeing that Qingpei had gone far away, Qinghuan ran to Xu Yunjin's side and asked softly, "Second Young Master, why didn't I see Sister Cuihu today?"

Xu Yunjin gave him a sideways look, with a half-smile: "What? You want to find her?"

Qinghuan laughed a few times embarrassedly: "Well, that's not it, I'm just curious, ha, isn't sister Cuihu taking care of you by your side when you're usually at home? But why didn't you see it today? ?”

"Oh, it's nothing, Qingpei has something to do and let Cuihu handle it." Xu Yunjin tilted his head, "You want to find her?"

For some reason, Qinghuan always felt that Xu Yunjin's expression was very dangerous. He took a closer look. In fact, as usual, Xu Yunjin's face was expressionless, even the kind of creepy smile that was not a smile. He didn't put it on his face, but Qinghuan just felt that what Xu Yunjin asked himself now was very serious and solemn. If he answered something that wasn't what Xu Yunjin wanted, I'm afraid that his result...

Qinghuan shuddered, and took a small step back unconsciously: "Well, it's actually unnecessary, and I'm not in a hurry to find Cui... Sister, I think we'll wait until she comes back."

Xu Yunjin gave an "um" and didn't say anything more, while Qinghuan stood aside awkwardly and didn't dare to say anything more.

That night, Xu Yunting really came back very late, and the news came back from the palace that Xu Tao stayed in the palace overnight.Xu Yunjin didn't care either, Xu Tao didn't stay in the palace once or twice, there was nothing to worry about, Xu Yunting didn't care either, now he knew more news about the court than Xu Yunjin.

However, after this situation lasted for a few days, both Xu Yunjin and Xu Yunting couldn't sit still. The day after Xu Tao didn't return home, the capital was sealed off. At the same time, what made them even more worried was that there was no Send back any news about Xu Tao.

"No! We can't go on like this." Xu Yunjin and Xu Yunting sat in the study and talked in a low voice.

"If you don't think about it, Mother won't be able to hide it." Xu Yunjin frowned, his tone suppressed.Xu Jiashi and Xu Yunqin didn't know about the news that Xu Tao hadn't come back these days. Xu Yunqin didn't have to worry about it. Appearing in the room, at the beginning, the two reasons of "staying in the palace overnight" and "coming back too late, resting in the next room and leaving before dawn" can be used back and forth, but after a long time, Xu Jiashi became suspicious, no matter how busy she is, she won't be able to see each other for several days, right?

"Brother, is there any way you can find out the news?" Xu Yunjin asked in a low voice.

The expression on Xu Yunting's face was not necessarily relaxed: "The news in the palace is very tight now, and it is difficult to spread the news inside."

"Then you can't just wait like this." Xu Yunjin couldn't help raising his voice. After speaking, he realized that his voice was too loud and paused. After a while, he spoke again, "Brother, can you enter the palace?" ?”

Xu Yunting smiled bitterly: "How can it be so easy?"

Xu Yunjin has a bad temper, and he was pampered and pampered since he was a child. To be honest, even Xu Yunqin was not favored by Xu Yunjin in the Xu Mansion. He is still easy to talk when following him, but when someone hinders him, he will never let it go easily as far as he can do it.

However, it is obvious that the current situation is beyond the reach of Xu Yunjin. Whether it is finding out about Xu Tao from the palace, or entering the palace to find Xu Tao's whereabouts, Xu Yunjin is helpless.Xu Yunjin leaned weakly on the back of the chair behind him, lowered his head, Xu Yunting who was beside him patted Xu Yunjin's arm, and comforted him: "Don't worry, Dad will be fine."

"...Now that's the only way to go." Xu Yunjin stood up, "Brother, I'm going back to the house first."

"Second brother!" Xu Yunting stopped Xu Yunjin who had walked to the door, "Don't do what you shouldn't do."

Xu Yunjin pursed his lips with his back to Xu Yunting, and suddenly said with a smile: "Brother, I have a sense of proportion."

There is an exquisite pavilion in the backyard of Xu's mansion. The pavilion was built in the center of the lake. On weekdays, Xu Yunjin likes to stay here the most. Now that Xu Yunjin is sitting in the pavilion, the expression on his face is not very good-looking.

Qinghuan was not waiting on the sidelines, but Qingpei was there, but there was some distance from Xu Yunjin. Xu Yunjin looked at the lake quietly, which made Qingpei, who was standing far away, a little worried. He was hesitating whether to go forward when he heard Xu Yunjin's voice: "Qingpei, has there been any news from Young Master Su recently?"

Xu Yunjin was grounded by Xu Tao, and he hasn't been out of Xu's house for a while. This doesn't mean that Xu Yunjin doesn't know about the outside news at all. Whenever something happens, news about Su Shao will always appear in front of Xu Yunjin in time. , and there are some very important news, they will talk about it when they stay together to ensure that the news will not be leaked during the transmission.

Qingpei walked closer to ensure that Xu Yunjin could hear his message: "Back to Second Young Master, there is only one thing, Su Shao's father and Zhao Second Young Master's father, like the master, have not returned home these days."

Xu Yunjin raised his eyebrows: "So, they were all left in the palace?"

Qingpei knew that Xu Yunjin was not asking him, so he didn't speak.

Xu Yunjin closed his eyes and fell into deep thought. He could roughly infer Xu Tao's whereabouts. The emperor probably left some important officials in the palace. The reason is unknown. However, even if Xu Yunjin knew this, he still couldn't be calm. Yes, he knows that there are many guards in the palace, and there are even many masters, but those people protect the emperor first, and then protect other people. As long as there is a slight difference in this, Xu Yunjin dare not imagine what happens.Moreover, Xu Tao, as a Diange scholar, is very close to the emperor's position. If an assassin really wanted to assassinate the emperor at that time, Xu Tao would very likely jump up and take the sword for the emperor.

Yes, that's right, Xu Tao is such a person, loyalty to the king is Xu Tao's creed all his life, Xu Yunjin has no doubt that Xu Tao will do such a stupid thing in order to save the emperor.

Xu Yunjin sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. If there is really no other way, he...

"Second Young Master! Second Young Master!" Qinghuan's yell brought Xu Yunjin back from his thoughts. Xu Yunjin turned his head to see Qinghuan who had already arrived at the lake and came towards the pavilion without making a sound. Qingpei hesitated for a moment, and then Glancing at Xu Yunjin's expression, he chose to remain silent.

"Second, Second Young Master." Qinghuan ran in a hurry, panting heavily in front of Xu Yunjin, couldn't speak for a long time, calmed down for a long time, and then shouted loudly, "Second Young Master! The master is back !"

Xu Yunjin stood up suddenly, knocked Qinghuan on the head with the fan in his hand, and reprimanded: "The guy who has done more than failed!" Then he waved his hand to signal Qinghuan Qingpei not to follow, and hurried towards Go to the front hall.

Xu Yunting hadn't come back at this time, Xu Jiashi hadn't arrived yet, so when Xu Yunjin came to the front hall, Xu Tao was the only one sitting in the front hall, just as Xu Yunjin wanted to ask Xu Tao something, Xu Jiashi hurried in Come: "Master!"

When Xu Tao saw Xu Jiashi, his exhausted expression immediately turned into joy, and he stood up to greet her: "Ma'am!"

Xu Yunjin silently covered his eyes with his fan, and silently turned his head away.

"Master, you are really serious. Even if you come back late these days, you have to go back to your room, so I will be worried." Xu Jiashi, who finally saw Xu Tao, complained after getting close to Xu Tao.

"...Ah?" Xu Tao was a little confused, and subconsciously looked at Xu Yunjin who was standing aside. Xu Yunjin received Xu Tao's signal and hurriedly smiled and said, "Isn't that right Dad, you come back so late every day, although I'm very busy, but I have to go back to my room to be with my mother, right? My mother is worried about this, I told my eldest brother that you are afraid that you will make your mother go to the next room to sleep, and my mother still doesn't believe me."

The news Xu Yunjin revealed was enough for Xu Tao to understand what happened, and he hurriedly said, "It's all my fault, it's all my fault."

"It's nothing, I'm relieved to see you come back safely." Xu Jiashi smiled, without doubting Xu Tao and Xu Yunjin's words.

Xu Tao and Xu Jiashi spoke a few more words, Xu Jiashi went back to the room first, and the expression on Xu Tao's face also returned to the usual seriousness towards Xu Yunjin: "Your ground restraint can be cancelled."

Xu Yunjin was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "That's a good relationship, these days have suffocated me."

A little bit of approval rarely appeared on Xu Tao's face: "Fortunately, you didn't cause me trouble this time."

Xu Yunjin laughed "hehe", causing Xu Tao to stare at him.

Once the foot ban was lifted, Xu Yunjin's life finally returned to normal.

During this period of time, the capital city was turbulent, almost all entertainment activities were forced to stop, and Xu Tao's return to the mansion seemed to indicate that everything would pass. The situation of people who dared to go out has improved a lot, restaurants, pawnshops and other shops have also reopened. Xu Yunjin went straight to Huancai Pavilion as soon as he left Xu's mansion.

"Xu Ershao, you haven't come for a while!" The old bustard of Huancai Pavilion saw Xu Yunjin's figure, and rushed to greet him with a bright smile on his face.

Xu Yunjin looked around, but didn't stop at the old bustard, and said "En", "Find me a room in the side room, and serve a table of good food. Young Master Su and the others will come later."

"No problem, no problem, then I will find someone to take you to the wing room now, Second Young Master." Xu Yunjin stopped the old bustard's gesture of reaching out to call Mr. Gui, "No need to call, master, go to Luoxue's place to rest first, and wait for Young Master Su and the others to arrive." Go call grandpa."

After Xu Yunjin finished speaking, he went upstairs, but was stopped by the bustard. Xu Yunjin raised his eyebrows and looked at the bustard. Look? How about, how about I find a new person for you, Second Young Master?"

Xu Yunjin didn't speak, but stared at the bustard with a half-smile.

The old bustard couldn't keep the smile on his face: "By the way, a new one came to our pavilion recently, and it looks very fresh. How about I arrange it for you, Second Young Master?"

Xu Yunjin said "En", and pointed upstairs, the bustard immediately called Guigong, and asked Guigong to take Xu Yunjin upstairs, Guigong hurriedly led Xu Yunjin up, halfway up, Xu Yunjin suddenly turned his head, He said slowly: "Luoxue is not someone hired by the master, there is nothing wrong with picking up guests, why bother to cover it up?"

The bustard's expression became stiff, Xu Yunjin turned his head and continued to follow Mr. Gui up.

"Second Young Master, this is the room."

Xu Yunjin nodded slightly, indicating that Mr. Gui can go down.Xu Yunjin didn't push the door to enter right away, but looked around, and found that this newcomer in the old lady's mouth was treated really well. Not only did he have his own room, but the location of this room was really good.

Xu Yunjin slowly pushed open the door, and a scent wafted into his nostrils.

Xu Yunjin stood at the door, looked carefully at the furnishings in the room, and smiled.

"My lord, are you here to look for Caili?" The more intense fragrance was getting closer and closer to Xu Yunjin, Xu Yunjin's eyes fell on the woman's body, her skin was snow-covered, her eyes were bright and her teeth were bright, her voice was even softer and charming Health love.

Xu Yunjin slowly curled the corner of his mouth, Luoxue is the first red card of Huancai Pavilion, not the number one in the entire capital, she is also one of the best famous prostitutes, and because of the name of the five young masters in the capital, Luoxue has been red for a long time Well, there are very few people in the capital who don't know who is taking care of Luoxue.

From Xu Yunjin's point of view, the woman named Caili and Luoxue are two obvious types, and Caili's appearance is enough to squeeze into Luoxue's circle. I think Caili's redness is just a matter of time and luck That's all.

However, Xu Yunjin withdrew the smile on his face, and entered the room expressionlessly: "Close the door."

Caili, who was about to throw herself into Xu Yunjin's arms, was stunned for a moment, bit her lip and closed the door, turned around and continued to throw herself at Xu Yunjin, but was blocked by the fan in Xu Yunjin's hand.

"Grandpa~" shouted that it was a *, that was a complaint, if it was not strong enough, it would have already pounced on it.

Xu Yunjin walked to the table and sat down, knocking the fan on the palm of his hand: "I heard from the old bustard that you are new here?"

Caili smiled and said: "Yes, Caili is still a Qing Dynasty."

"That's really not easy. Looking at your age, it doesn't look like you have been trained in a brothel for several years. You are a newcomer?" Xu Yunjin smiled, "Which woman who just came to the brothel didn't cry? It’s really rare for someone who is looking for life and death to receive guests as readily as Caili.”

Caili's face became a little ugly, and she smiled: "Master, look at what you said, yes, there are many women who are unwilling when they are sold, but don't they all have to be forced to pick up customers in the end? Rather than being forced by a brothel It’s better to accept the guests than to accept them yourself, so there is more room for choice.”

The smile on Xu Yunjin's face was even wider: "That's right, that's right, you really appreciate Caili, if you don't appreciate Caili, you won't be able to meet me, Xu Ershao, today."

"So you are Xu Ershao?" Caili asked in surprise.

Xu Yunjin laughed heartily, but what he said froze Caili: "You know Master, so you don't have to pretend you don't know him."

"...Master, you are joking. This is Caili's first time seeing you, so how could she recognize you?"

"Don't know?" Xu Yunjin sneered, "It's best not to know each other, lest you get upset and let the bustard here kick you out." After saying that, Xu Yunjin got up and walked out, turning his head before pushing the door Come on, "By the way, I have to remind you, don't try to get anything from me, you can't afford the price."

Xu Yunjin, who walked out of the house, already had real anger on his face, and he didn't wait for Mr. Gui, who was waiting at the side, to come forward, and shouted directly: "Get the old bustard!"

Mr. Gui flinched, not daring to disobey Xu Yunjin's order at all, so he went downstairs to find the old bustard, who ran up to Xu Yunjin with a smile while wiping his sweat: "Second Young Master Xu, where is Miss Caili serving?" Not good? What made you dissatisfied, Second Young Master? Just say it, Second Young Master, and see if I'm not skinning her."

"Look at you, you don't take me seriously! What's the matter, do you want to open Huancai Pavilion?" Xu Yunjin shouted angrily.

"Oh, Second Young Master, what do you say, we are a small Huancai Pavilion, there is no way we can offend Second Young Master." The old bustard's face was sweating even more, but at this moment, he couldn't care less Wiping off his sweat, he hurriedly asked Xu Yunjin to accompany him.

Xu Yunjin snorted coldly: "Master, it doesn't matter who you Huancai Pavilion wants to make popular, in short, don't try to step on your master, and don't even look at what kind of thing that Caili is. It's also thanks to the bustard that you put in a lot of effort to make her stand out. "Xu Yunjin raised his head and said loudly, "Master, let's leave the talk here today. Even if this colored glass is red, it is only a second- or third-rate one. Don't think about being the top leader or a red card. You, madam Let's see."

The old bustard's face changed slightly, Xu Yunjin's words in front of so many people had already decided Caili's fate.As I said before, with Caili's conditions, it is only time and luck to become popular, and she has no shortage of time, so the word "luck" is a big deal, otherwise there are not a few good-looking people in this brothel, How come there are so few red cards?It's not just luck.You have won the favor of this famous person, so naturally all boats will rise when the tide rises, and if you offend this famous person, it means that there will be no future for you.The former is like Luoxue because Xu Yunjin has occupied Huancai Pavilion for many years, while the latter is like Caili who offended Xu Yunjin and can only be a second- or third-rate prostitute.

"What Er Shao said is true, what Er Shao said is true." Even though the old bustard feels sorry for Caili, who is such a good seed, it is impossible to show it on his face. Should he choose to keep Caili popular, or choose not to offend Xu Yunjin? One of the five young masters in the capital, the bustard clearly distinguished, "Second young master, we have already prepared the wing room, I will take the second young master directly to the wing room."

Xu Yunjin said "En", and since then this matter has come to an end, Xu Yunjin no longer pursues it, but followed the old bustard to the wing, and brought Xu Yunjin into the wing, the old bust hesitated for a while, then asked: "Second Little, how about I go talk to Luoxue's guest and let Luoxue accompany you?"

Xu Yunjin shook his head: "No need, what I said before, Luoxue is not someone hired by my master, it is her freedom to pick up guests or not."

"Yes, yes, Second Young Master, you are right." The old bustard said with a smile on her face, and then she left the wing room, leaving only Xu Yunjin in the room.

Xu Yunjin stared at the door thoughtfully for a long while, then leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes to rest.

As for Luoxue, she had actually been standing outside the door just now.Hearing Xu Yunjin's words, Luoxue, whose face was full of joy, suddenly fell silent.

Luoxue lowered her head, her expression in a trance.I clearly know that for Xu Yunjin, it is just a pawn that can be used now and will be discarded in the future, but I am still willing to stay in his hands. I know everything, but I heard it with my own ears, but I still so sad.

Maybe it's because there is still a sliver of hope in her heart. She always thought that as long as Xu Yunjin didn't say it out, she would never believe that Xu Yunjin really didn't take herself seriously. There is a little emotion, she can't help thinking this way, and gradually her heart grows bigger, and this time agreeing to her mother's request is also keeping her own selfishness.She also wanted to see if Xu Yunjin didn't care about who served her when something like this happened?Whether she is Luoxue or the woman named Caili, is there no difference in Xu Yunjin's heart?

So when I saw Xu Yunjin come out of Caili's room with an angry face, the joy in my heart could not be described in words, so when I heard Xu Yunjin's cruel answer, my heart became so sad and lost.

"Oh, Luoxue, why are you standing outside?" The bustard who came out saw Luoxue standing outside with her head bowed, said in a low voice, closed the door carefully, ordered the people outside to be careful, and left with Luoxue "Luoxue, come back with me, let me tell you, when Xu Ershao comes again in the future, you must be careful to serve him, this time it's me..."

Luoxue didn't listen to what the bustard said, but when she turned the corner, she couldn't help but look back at the wing where Xu Yunjin was.