Hold His Hand

Lu Yanzhou learned a lot in the interstellar world, and worked hard to live longer.

He is much older than Xie Chengze, if he wants to spend more time with Xie Chengze, he must take care of his body.

Xie Chengze died of old age. On the day of his death, the aged Lu Yanzhou also closed his eyes.

Putting another soul fragment belonging to Xie Chengze into his heart, Lu Yanzhou turned around and entered the next world.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw an antique room with a faint scent of sandalwood.

He got up from the bed, rubbed his forehead, and got the memory of the original owner.

The original owner of his body was the prisoner.

The dynasty he lived in was called the Jin Dynasty, which was somewhat similar to the historical Ming Dynasty he had learned before, but not exactly the same.

When the world was in chaos at the end of the previous dynasty, the head of the Lu family at that time, the grandfather of the original owner who was stationed at the border at that time, rebelled and led his soldiers who had lost their salaries and could not afford to eat to rebel.

The original owner's grandfather was a rough man who was good at fighting, but not good at governing the world. In addition, he rebelled just to feed his subordinates...

After occupying a large territory, he weighed the pros and cons, defected to the late emperor who was almost as powerful as him at that time and had a good reputation, became a general under the late emperor, and followed the late emperor to conquer the world.

The original owner's grandfather didn't have any big ambitions. He just wanted to become a rich man after the world was in peace, so that his family members could live a good life.

At the beginning of the founding of the Jin Dynasty, he did live the life he wanted.

It's a pity that things are impermanent.

The most outstanding son of the late emperor, the Rongfu prince who had followed the late emperor in the north and south, died of illness in the third year of the late emperor's ascension to the throne!

The first emperor suffered a serious illness, but fortunately he survived in the end.

The first emperor had been fighting in his early years, so he didn't have many heirs, and he lost a lot during the war. After the death of Prince Rongfu, there was no suitable heir.

Fortunately, the first emperor was only 50 years old at the time. After opening the harem, he gave birth to two more sons.

Today is one of these two people.

He was born after the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, and he had no feelings for the founding heroes who followed the late emperor to conquer the world, and he especially hated them comparing him with the Rongfu Prince who died young.

In addition, most of the founding heroes did not read any books. After the world was peaceful, some of them did such stupid things as encroaching on land and embezzling... Today, I hate these founding heroes who rely on the old and sell the old.

The Lu family is one of the objects he hates.

The original owner's grandfather saved a lot of property during the war, and after the world was peaceful, he didn't do any evil things to make money, but he had a lot of friends, and his early friends always pleaded for mercy when they committed crimes, which hindered the present. eyes.

Forget it, the original owner's uncles are all well-developed limbs and simple-minded, and they all had a good relationship with Prince Rongfu back then. Lu Jiajun.

Can you not hate them today?

Seventeen years ago, the only brother in the world, one of the old sons of the late emperor, was killed for plotting against him, and the Lu family was framed and involved.

At that time, the grandfather of the original owner had passed away, and there was no one to protect the Lu family. Under the insistence of the present, he was sentenced to be executed. Only the original owner, who was still young, was rescued by loyal servants and sent to Jiangnan, a man who had been favored by the Lu family. At home, he was brought up by that Juren.

The original owner's father was the son of the stepmother who the original owner's grandfather married after the original wife's death, and he was also a different kind of Lu family - the rest of the Lu family wielded knives and guns, but he loved reading.

The original owner was influenced by him, and he also loved reading. The experience of his family being ruined when he was young made him study hard, and finally he was admitted to Juren at a young age.

After winning the imperial examination, he came to the capital from the south of the Yangtze River. At first, he was full of resentment and wanted to seek revenge on Jinshang. For this reason, he approached Jinshang's second son, King Rui, and advised King Rui to target the current prince. He wanted to make Jinshang's two sons Fight each other, it is best to die together.

Today, like the first emperor, he has few heirs. There are only two sons, the crown prince and King Rui.

The queen and the noble concubine have been fighting, and the relationship between the prince and King Rui is also very bad, and they don't like each other.

It was not difficult for the original owner to want the two to fight, but after he assisted King Rui, his mentality gradually changed.

Although the original owner had hatred in his heart, the education he had received since he was a child was to "learn literary and martial arts and sell them to the emperor's family". King Rui was used to being a good person and treated the original owner with various courtesy, so the original owner regarded King Rui as his bole. He began to work his life for King Rui sincerely.

What he asked was no longer to take revenge with his own hands, but to overturn the case for the Lu family after King Rui came to power.

Of course, the most important thing is... the original owner fell in love with King Rui.

Today, he was born after the first emperor ascended the throne and the stunning beauty who was selected. King Rui's mother, the noble concubine of the dynasty, is even more beautiful, and King Rui's appearance is also particularly outstanding.

The original owner was very talented and capable, so King Rui made some dramas like falling asleep on his feet to get closer to the original owner.The original owner liked men, so he fell in love with King Rui during this relationship.

After being tempted, the original owner sold his life to King Rui. For King Rui, the original owner pretended to get close to the prince and took the opportunity to frame the prince. In the end, the prince who suffered from heart disease was ruined and died of illness.

Of course, the original owner didn't end well either. In fact, King Rui already knew the identity of the original owner, Lu's family.He treated the original owner so courteously because he wanted to gain the contacts of the Lu family in the hands of the original owner.

When the crown prince passed away and King Rui ascended the throne, the original owner would have no effect on King Rui... King Rui had indeed overturned the Lu family's case, but he also ordered someone to poison the original owner, and those who were close to the original owner were also wiped out. kill.

After the accident in the Lu family, there were actually quite a few people who held injustice for the Lu family and secretly helped the original owner. The original owner also had some cousins ​​who were divorced or reduced to prostitution because they were married women, but they still survived.

It's different now, everyone is dead.

Lu Yanzhou: "..." The original owner's vision is really bad!

Na Rui Wang is ambitious and used to acting, he can tell it is not a good thing at first sight, if he really wants to help others or find someone to take refuge in, he can also find the prince, why bother to follow Rui Wang? !

By the way, the prince is Xie Chengze.

Xie Chengze's status in this small world is the current prince. He was born of the empress. He was named the prince not long after he was born. He has read poetry and books since childhood. He is a gentleman. The only problem may be that he suffers from heart disease.

Xie Chengze had always kept the disease well hidden, and few people knew about it, but the original owner discovered it later, and deliberately provoked Xie Chengze several times.

After the original owner tricked Xie Chengze out, he killed two young men in Xie Chengze's room, and then publicized that Xie Chengze liked men and abused others.

Lu Yanzhou didn't know what to say to the current situation.

The original owner wanted to avenge his family, but it couldn't be said to be too wrong - there was indeed something wrong with today's practice.

If the grandfather of the original owner hadn't turned to the late emperor back then, who is the person on the throne now?

Moreover, the Lu family did not participate in the rebellion, but they were ransacked and beheaded by the whole family, which is really pitiful.

But the one who has enmity with the original owner is clearly Jin Shang, why should he stare at the prince?Just staring at the prince was fine, he was too cruel to the prince, and in the end his hands were covered with blood—a lot of officials in the prince's family who were sincerely serving the people were framed to death by him.

What is the difference between him like this and today?

Fortunately, none of this has happened yet.

Right now, the original owner has been a counselor of King Rui for two full years, and he has already fallen in love with King Rui, but he has just met the prince with the help of King Rui, and has not yet murdered the prince.

In the past two years, the main thing the original owner has done is to help King Rui recruit his subordinates. Because he has a good impression of King Rui, the original owner has posted a lot of money, and even used his identity as the Lu family to let some of his uncle's old departments stand in the King Rui's side.

But more, he hasn't done yet.

Lu Yanzhou sat on the bed for a while, when he heard a knock on the door: "Master, are you up yet?"

"Already up." Lu Yanzhou said.

Hearing Lu Yanzhou's answer, a servant immediately came in with a basin and waited for Lu Yanzhou to wash.

After the original owner came to the capital, he bought a house in the capital to live in. In the past two years, he had contact with King Rui from time to time, but he avoided contacting people in private.

In the eyes of outsiders, he came to the capital from the south of the Yangtze River to take part in the scientific examination, and he is a talented scholar Lu Yanzhou.

There will be a try soon, and he is still the favorite to win.

After washing up, Lu Yanzhou took the boy out and entered a teahouse in Beijing.

This teahouse was opened by King Rui, and King Rui and his counselors often discuss "big things" here.

The so-called "big event" is naturally how to frame the prince and the people of the prince's family.

But when Lu Yanzhou came here today, except for King Rui, he never saw anyone else.

"Jizhi, you are here." Upon seeing Lu Yanzhou, King Rui smiled, and affectionately called Lu Yanzhou's word "Jizhi".

King Rui and the prince were born in the same year, both are 20 years old this year, while Lu Yanzhou's body has just turned 22 years old this year.

The ancestors of the Lu family lived at the border, and they were all soldiers. They were all tall and big. Lu Yanzhou was actually taller than King Rui, and looked more powerful.

It's a pity that the original owner has always acted like a little girl in front of King Rui, twitching...

Lu Yanzhou was in a delicate mood when he found out that King Rui, who in the original owner's impression was heroic and heroic, was actually smaller than him in height and weight.

When he observed King Rui, he also found that although King Rui was enthusiastic, he was actually aloof. It was a bit like I am a corporal, and my enthusiasm for you is that I value you and you have to be grateful.

The original owner still eats this set!

"Your Highness!" Lu Yanzhou treated King Rui like the original owner, and entered the backyard of the teahouse with King Rui.

This backyard is exclusive to King Rui, no one else came, so Lu Yanzhou and King Rui sat down by the stone bench in the courtyard, King Rui asked, "Jizhi, you have already met my brother, how do you feel?"

Lu Yanzhou said: "It's not as good as His Royal Highness, one out of ten." Xie Chengze is not as ruthless as King Rui in front of him!

King Rui was very happy. When he asked Lu Yanzhou for details, Lu Yanzhou did not hide it. After all, the original owner himself approached Xie Chengze under the arrangement of King Rui.

Xie Chengze was born as a prince and had outstanding knowledge. Officials in the DPRK and China naturally respected him very much, but Xie Chengze himself was very low-key and rarely appeared in front of others.

Only occasionally, he would go to the temple to offer incense.

The original owner lit sandalwood at home, read a few more scriptures, and after making preparations, he wandered around the temple from time to time.

That day, seeing that the temple took in some orphans without father and mother, the original owner thought of his old days, felt sympathetic, and helped the little novice in the temple take care of the children... While taking care of them, the original owner saw Xie Chengze as soon as he looked up.

Xie Chengze had a very good impression of the original owner, and the original owner had real talents and knowledge, so the two chatted very happily, but it was the first time they met, and they were talking about Buddhist scriptures and poems.

After Lu Yanzhou finished speaking, King Rui stretched out his hand and put it on the hand where Lu Yanzhou was holding the chess piece: "My emperor brother is used to making superficial things, and he doesn't know what he is pretending to be...Jizhi, please help me watch him. "

Lu Yanzhou trembled, and quickly withdrew his hand. Seeing King Rui looked over in surprise, he showed some shyness again.

But his goosebumps were all over the floor.

Lu Yanzhou knew that the original owner was interested in King Rui, now he looked at King Rui's behavior, and recalled the previous experience of the original owner... The original owner would be tempted by King Rui, and it had something to do with King Rui.

With King Rui acting like this, he clearly knew the original owner's intentions and deliberately seduced her.

Lu Yanzhou felt sick for a while, but he continued to chat with King Rui.

This is ancient times, when the imperial power is supreme, King Rui is a prince, it is very easy to kill him, he can't offend King Rui for the time being.

Moreover, if he stays with King Rui, he can also know what King Rui wants to do next, and maybe he can help Xie Chengze.

Fortunately, after Lu Yanzhou dodged the touch, King Rui did not continue to touch him.

As far as Lu Yanzhou knew, although King Rui hadn't married the concubine yet, there were already several women in the mansion, who obviously liked women, and probably didn't want to have any physical contact with him.

The previous "touching hands" should be because King Rui wanted to give him some sweetness.

"Jizhi, I will trouble you with my brother!" King Rui said again.

"It's my blessing to share His Highness' worries, but..." Lu Yanzhou showed hesitation.

King Rui asked, "What's wrong?"

Lu Yanzhou said: "Your Highness, I gave General Zhou a lot of money before, but now I'm ashamed..."

Back then, the original owner's grandfather conquered the world and grabbed a lot of gold, silver and jewels. He was afraid that future generations would spend money and ruin the family property, so he divided the money into three parts, one for spending, one for hiding at the border, and the other for hiding. In Jiangnan.

Jiangnan's share of the money is now in the hands of the original owner, and many of the Lu family's former staff are also in the hands of the original owner.

This is also the reason why the original owner can be relied on by King Rui - he has money and people, and he can always do well the things that King Rui has asked him to do.

But the original owner was willing to spend the Lu family's money to King Rui, but Lu Yanzhou was not.

He also wanted to get back the money the original owner had spent on King Rui.

King Rui's face changed slightly when he heard Lu Yanzhou's words.

The reason why there are only two sons, the crown prince and King Rui, is that since 17 years ago, he has been obsessed with alchemy and striving for longevity since he brought his younger brother and the founding fathers of the Lu family together. It's because I didn't go to court very much.

In such a situation today, of course he would not give money to his son. King Pianrui had longing for the throne, so he had to spend money to do this and that, so that he became very poor.

But Lu Yanzhou wanted the money, King Rui laughed dryly and asked Lu Yanzhou to go to the account of the teahouse to get the money.

"Thank you, my lord." Lu Yanzhou waited for King Rui to leave, and immediately went to the restaurant's account to collect a large sum of money.

This time, the original owner can only get back one-tenth of the money spent by King Rui, but if you take it a few more times, you can always get it back.

Putting a few vouchers from the bank in his arms, Lu Yanzhou left the tea house and went straight to the grain store in the city.

Da Jin already has a bank note, which is the one in his hand.As long as you take the money to the bank to deposit it, the bank will give you a corresponding voucher, which is commonly known as a bank note.

Whichever bank the money is stored in, you can only go to that bank to get the money with the bank notes, so the bank notes in the capital cannot be used in other places.

This kind of bank note is not easy to imitate, it is written by the owner of the bank himself, and it is stamped in duplicate.

Of course, the bank notes in the capital in his hand are very convenient to spend in the capital, and it is better than carrying money to buy things.

When Lu Yanzhou arrived at the grain store, he gave a bank note saying he wanted to buy grain, and then the grain store immediately sent someone to the bank to ask for someone. After the people in the bank saw it and confirmed that the bank note was genuine, they sold a lot of grain to Lu Yanzhou.

Lu Yanzhou said: "These grains will be sent to Jingning Temple outside the city tomorrow."

The temple where the original owner and the crown prince met was Jingning Temple. That temple would often help poor people. He sent food there, not only to earn merit, but also to meet Xie Chengze.

Naturally, the owner of the food shop didn't say anything else, after all, it didn't cost much to ask someone to deliver food.

In the old days, traffic was inconvenient and troublesome. It took Lu Yanzhou half a day to talk to King Rui in the morning, and another half day to buy food. After finishing his orders, it was almost dark, so he hurried home.

The original owner's house was bought from a retired official. Although it is not big, it can accommodate some servants. At this time, manpower is really cheap...

Besides the servant named Changfeng and a nurse named Lu Hai whom he brought from Jiangnan, the original owner also bought a servant in the capital.

The family's mother in her fifties is a cook, her two daughters are in charge of making clothes and doing laundry, and the father takes his son to do odd jobs and look after the door.

When Lu Yanzhou got home, the food was already ready, warmed in the pot, and brought out quickly.

The food in ancient times was not very good. It was completely different from the interstellar where Lu Yanzhou was in his last world. Fortunately, he was not picky.

After eating, Lu Yanzhou lit the oil lamp, took out a pen and paper to think about what he was going to do next, and wrote it down one by one.

After writing it down, he lit it again and burned it.

Early the next morning, Lu Yanzhou asked Lu Hai to prepare a carriage and took him to Jingning Temple.

It was already noon when he arrived, and the food he bought yesterday had already been delivered one after another.

It's very cold today, but the porters are wearing thin shirts and barefoot in straw sandals... Seeing their hands and feet cracked from the cold, and some people's bodies bent under the weight of the load, Lu Yanzhou couldn't help but sigh.

These porters all came from the same village, so Lu Yanzhou gave the leader a load of food and asked them to share it when they returned.

A load weighs only a hundred catties, and there are 20 people here, and each person can't share a few catties.

But they were all very happy, they said good things one after another, packed up and went to pick it up for the second time - Lu Yanzhou bought a lot of food, and it took several trips to pick it all up.

"Amitabha, the benefactor is very kind." There was a lot of movement outside, and Jingning Temple was not a big temple, so the abbot came out in person and saluted Lu Yanzhou.

Lu Yanzhou quickly returned the gift.

According to what King Rui investigated, the people in Jingning Temple didn't know that the young man who would come here once or twice a month was the crown prince, so Lu Yanzhou didn't say much, he just said that he wanted to do some good deeds and donate food. to the temple.

"Thank you, benefactor!" The abbot of Jingning Temple was very happy.

Lu Yanzhou immediately said that he wanted to live in Jingning Temple for a while. As for the reason... many family members would disturb his study, and he wanted to find a quiet place to bury his head in his studies.

Naturally, there was no objection from Jingning Temple, and they also said that their temple had already taken in a few candidates who had gone to Beijing to rush for the exam and had no money to spend.

Usually, it is easy for a Juren to find a job in Beijing, but now there are only three or four months before the examination, and there are too many Juren in the capital, so it is difficult to find a job.

Unfortunately, accidents are prone to happen on the way to the exam. Whether it is encountering a gangster or getting sick, it may make the money emptied.

Such a juren, after coming to the capital, often can only seek refuge in a temple, and then earn some money by copying books or something.

Lu Yanzhou immediately decided to live here, and took out a bank note to ask Lu Hai to find someone to repair Jingning Temple. If possible, build a few more houses, so that more people can be taken in.

The monks at Jingning Temple responded to Lu Yanzhou's demands, and the abbot even gave up his house to Lu Yanzhou to live in.

Jingning Temple is not big, and it used to only have monks from their own temple, which could accommodate them, but recently it has taken in three Juren and some homeless children and elderly people, so the house is not enough.

Lu Yanzhou was not too polite, and stayed after adding some sesame oil money to the temple.

After all, it is said to be the abbot's house, but it is actually a small room with few pieces of furniture in it.

He was looking for someone to build a new house, but he had to build a kang, and he would live in the new house when the time came.

Lu Yanzhou had already made up his mind to guard Xie Chengze at Jingning Temple, and he would change places after he got to know Xie Chengze well.

Of course, he did this for another reason...

At the same time, the East Palace.

In the past few years, I have not fallen in love with the court, and many affairs in the court have been handed over to the prince.

It was already dark, but many lamps were lit in Xie Chengze's room so that he could continue to read the memorial.

After all the memorials were finally approved and put aside some that needed to be reviewed by the emperor, Xie Chengze got up and was about to go to sleep.

The East Palace is not big, but fortunately Xie Chengze is not married, so the place he lives in is fairly spacious. He simply wiped his body and looked towards the palace gate.

"What are you thinking, Your Highness?" The old eunuch who took care of Xie Chengze brought over a bowl of medicine.

"Nothing." Xie Chengze said.

He really wasn't thinking about anything, he just... wanted to go out for a walk again.

He suffers from heart disease and can't stand stimulation. When the mother is facing him, she is very careful and doesn't allow him to walk around.

After all, when others were bumped into, they were frightened, but he might have accidentally died.

Especially in the past few years, his condition has become more and more serious...Because indulging in sex is not good for his condition, his mother is obviously anxious to let him have an heir, but she still bears it.

But he was really uncomfortable being trapped in the East Palace, so every month, he would choose two days to go out for a walk.

He didn't dare to go to places that were too lively, he usually went to Jingning Temple.

The scenery there is beautiful, and there are no messy things, and the abbot is still a wonderful person... It can make him relax.

After meeting a scholar surnamed Lu last time, he missed Jingning Temple even more and always wanted to see him again.

He liked Lu Jizhi's face very much.

"Your Highness, take the medicine and go to bed early, and take care of your body." The old eunuch said again.

Xie Chengze took the medicine and drank it down. Seeing this, the old eunuch handed over another candied date.

Xie Chengze took it with a smile, ate it, rinsed his mouth with warm water, and went to bed.

It's just... I don't know why, but Lu Jizhi appeared in his dream.

He has grown up so much, and this is the first time he can't forget a person he has only met once... Xie Chengze was a little dazed, after thinking about it, he asked someone to check Lu Yanzhou's recent situation.