Hold His Hand

Many temples in the Jin Dynasty are built on the mountain. To offer incense in the temple, you have to walk up many stone steps.

The wealthy families in central Beijing still like this kind of thing, thinking that it will make them appear devout.

But Jingning Temple is different, it is built at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by flat land, plus the temple is small, there are very few people who come to the temple to offer incense, most of them are nearby villagers.

But this kind of terrain also makes the house easier to build.

Lu Yanzhou spent money and asked nearby villagers to help, and within a few days, two rows of one-story houses were built around Jingning Temple, with a total of twenty rooms, and there was a kang in the house.

Lu Yanzhou was the first to move in, and invited the three Juren from the temple to live with him.

After packing up, Lu Yanzhou asked Chang Feng to watch in the temple, and then left with Lu Tao.

The original owner's father was an old man of Mr. Lu, and the Lu family was only in their twenties when the accident happened, but the original owner's uncles were all in their 50s and [-]s, and their children were all grown up.

The original owner had a total of seven cousins. After the accident in the Lu family, one of the cousins ​​married was also implicated. The whole family was beheaded. The husbands of two cousins ​​were generals of the Lu family army. They were demoted because they pleaded with the Lu family and took them away. The capital went to the border.

These three people were actually implicated by the Lu family, as for the other four...

There was a cousin who had been married for only a year and had just conceived a child. As a result, she died of illness suddenly. Well, she was only ten years old when the accident happened to the Lu family, but she was already engaged, so she was sent to her husband's house to avoid the death penalty. However, she "lost" not long after, and her whereabouts were unknown.

The so-called "death of illness" and "lost" are of course fake, but they were murdered. In contrast, the two monks who became monks after being divorced, although they are living poorly, are not bad—the two of them We live in the same nunnery, and now that our children have grown up, we visit them from time to time, so there is hope in life.

After the original owner grew up, he had contacted the two cousins ​​at the border. At this time, he had even persuaded his two cousin husbands to join King Rui, but he hadn't talked about it with King Rui yet.

When the original owner came to the capital, he went to see the two cousins ​​who lived in the nunnery and gave them some money.

Excluding the dead ones now, only the lost cousin whose original owner has not been found yet.On the original historical trajectory, King Rui would find her in a few months and give her a house and money.

King Rui also said in front of the original owner how pitiful the Lu family was, he respected Mr. Lu very much, and he would definitely reverse the case for the Lu family in the future.

The original owner was greatly moved after hearing this, and worked harder and harder to help King Rui plan.

Lu Yanzhou built a house in Jingning Temple because he wanted to bring his youngest cousin to live here.

The original owner's cousin is called Lu Rong, who was only ten years old when the accident occurred 17 years ago. At that time, the original owner's uncles thought of many ways to save the family. The children who were sent away included the original owner's nephew, but the original owner's. The nephew did not survive in the end.

As for Lu Rong, at that time her parents prepared generous gifts and hurriedly sent her to her husband's house where she had been engaged since childhood.

At that time, the Lu family did not expect Lu Rong's fiancé to marry Lu Rong, but only asked the other family to save Lu Rong's life.

Even if Lu Rong lives in a nunnery all his life, the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha is also acceptable.

But Lu Rong's fiancé's family was really cruel. They took the money from Lu's family and sold Lu Rong to a brothel.

Lu Rong was trapped in a brothel, and she never revealed her identity because she didn't want to discredit the Lu family. After ten years later, a man who had an old relationship with the Lu family accidentally saw Lu Rong, recognized her, and took her away. rescued.

But this person didn't dare to help Lu Rong too much, and only gave Lu Rong a sum of money enough to redeem her life.

Lu Rong redeemed herself, and then rented a house near Liuxiang, Huajie, and made a living by making clothes and combing hair for prostitutes.

King Rui accidentally got in touch with the person who helped Lu Rong redeem her body, and found Lu Rong after several searches. At this moment, he has not discovered Lu Rong's existence. Lu Yanzhou intends to take Lu Rong away in advance and hide it in Jingning Temple.

Sometimes the most dangerous place is the safest place.

A few days ago, Lu Yanzhou had already asked Lu Tao to inquire about Lu Rong, and he had already found out the whereabouts of Lu Rong, whose alias was "Fu Rong", so he went straight to the door.

When Lu Rong opened the door, the two looked at each other. Although they didn't speak, they both felt something.

Lu Yanzhou said: "Sister, go in and talk."

Lu Rong stepped aside and let Lu Yanzhou and Lu Tao go in.

Lu Yanzhou inherited the Lu family's height, but he doesn't look like the Lu family, but looks like his mother, but Lu Rong looks like the Lu family in every way.

This is also a good thing... The Lu family is tall and plain-looking, which made Lu Rong do most of the physical work in the brothel before, so she didn't suffer too much.

"Seventh Sister, I finally found you." Lu Yanzhou felt a little emotional.

Lu Rong stared at Lu Yanzhou for a while, her voice trembling: "Xiao Jiu, you look a lot like your aunt..." Lu Yanzhou ranked ninth among his cousins.

Lu Rong burst into tears, but she didn't cry out. She quickly wiped away her tears and asked, "How have you been living these years? Others... are you okay?"

Lu Yanzhou told everything he knew.

He was the only male of the Lu family who survived, five of the seven cousins ​​survived, two were in the border, two were in the nunnery, and the rest was the one in front of us.

In addition, Lu Yanzhou also said that he had already been admitted to Juren and planned to take the exam next year.

Lu Rong said: "That's fine, when you are admitted to Jinshi, you can marry a wife and revive the Lu family!"

Lu Yanzhou was stunned when he heard Lu Rong's words. In the original owner's memory, after Lu Rong met the original owner, he forced the original owner to avenge the Lu family, and kept forcing the original owner to kill King Rui. She helped the original owner deal with it. When he was a prince, he was never soft...

Lu Rong was much more active than the original master in avenging her family.

It's a pity that the original owner followed the wrong person. Afterwards, although King Rui overturned the case for the Lu family and gained favor from the courtiers, he wanted to kill the original owner.

At that time, Lu Rong rushed out and tried to assassinate King Rui, but was unsuccessful, and was hacked by the people around King Rui.

This time, Lu Rong didn't even mention a word of revenge?

Lu Yanzhou said: "Seventh sister, Jinshi has to take the exam, and revenge must be avenged."

Lu Rong was startled.

Lu Yanzhou laughed: "Seventh sister, don't say you don't want revenge."

Lu Rong trembled all over: "Of course I want revenge, I want to tear them into pieces! It's just that you are still young, and the Lu family needs you to pass it on..."

Lu Yanzhou knew why Lu Rong didn't come up this time and let him take revenge.

The original owner met Lu Rong through King Rui, and when Lu Rong saw that the original owner was doing things for the enemy's son, she was naturally furious.

He was different, he came to the door alone, Lu Rong didn't know his involvement with King Rui, so naturally hoped that he would live well.

Lu Yanzhou said: "Seventh Sister, right now I am King Rui's counselor, and I have already met the Prince."

Lu Rong frowned.

Lu Yanzhou said again: "Our family's enmity will definitely be avenged."

The Lu family is really wronged.

Back then, the original owner's grandfather and the late emperor rebelled almost at the same time, and they both occupied a large area of ​​land, and the original owner's grandfather was even more powerful.

If the grandfather of the original owner fought a battle with the late emperor, the great probability of winning would be the grandfather of the original owner.

The grandfather of the original owner couldn't bear to lose his life and didn't want too many people to die, so he took the initiative to seek refuge with the late emperor. At that time, the late emperor also promised the Lu family wealth and honor, and even gave the Lu family a gold medal to avoid death.

But if the Lu family is going to be wiped out today, these will be useless.

The blood of dozens of members of the Lu family, as well as many relatives and friends, stained Caishikou red 17 years ago.

Lu Yanzhou came here through transmigration, and his hatred for the emperor was not that strong, but he also felt that the Lu family should not be wronged.

Of course, he said this mainly because he knew that Lu Rong hated Jinshang very much and acted a little too aggressively.

He wanted Lu Rong to listen to him and figure it out slowly.

In recent years, Lu Rong has actually done some things for revenge. She contacted some people who had enemies with the royal family in the brothel, and set up an information network. The original owner was able to plot against the prince. She was the one who found the two young men who were killed in front of the prince.

She even asked her husband to pretend to be a Taoist priest and sneak into the palace to assassinate the emperor.

It's a pity that Lu Rong's husband didn't succeed, but was cut into pieces by five horses instead.

Lu Rong's husband will do it soon. If Lu Yanzhou doesn't stop him, his life will be wasted.

As for the emperor... According to the original historical trajectory, the emperor was already in poor health by taking pills indiscriminately. The emperor died soon after the pill was tampered with.

Of course, that was three years later.

Because the original owner was dedicated to working for King Rui, Lu Rong didn't tell the original owner many things.For example, about Lu Rong's husband, Lu Rong didn't tell it until the original owner poisoned the emperor.

Before that, the original owner didn't know that Lu Rong was married, but only knew that Lu Rong had a child with an unknown father.

The original owner was badly taught by the messy etiquette. Although she felt sorry for Lu Rong, she also looked down on Lu Rong because of Lu Rong's past, and she also disliked Lu Rong's children...

Lu Rong lost her husband, and her younger brother was still working for the son of the enemy. She was a little crazy in the end.

While Lu Yanzhou and Lu Rong were talking, there was the sound of crying in the room.

Lu Rong was taken aback, but Lu Yanzhou laughed: "Is that Seventh Sister's child?"

Lu Rong said: "Yes, that is my son, named Lu Xing."

"Show me." Lu Yanzhou said.

Lu Yanzhou came suddenly, and Lu Rong actually didn't completely let go of her guard against Lu Yanzhou, but Lu Yanzhou and Lu Tao are two big men, she is just a weak woman, it is difficult to resist, so she didn't resist at all, and brought Lu Yanzhou into the house.

The room was tidy, and there was a crying child on the kang who had been watching for only a few months.

Lu Rong went over to change the baby's diaper, then held it in her arms and coaxed it.

Lu Yanzhou looked at the child carefully, and the more he looked, the more satisfied he became.

After King Rui ascended the throne, he devoted himself to eradicating grass and roots, so the child naturally failed to survive.

The child who was only four years old at that time was poisoned to death together with the original owner.

As the saying goes, "Three years old is old". Judging from the memory of the original owner, this child is very smart and worth cultivating. Moreover, Lu Rong gave birth to this child in order to continue the blood of the Lu family. When the child was born, Lu Rong did not know that the original owner was still alive. .

This is the future head of the Lu family, how could Lu Yanzhou not like it?

Seeing that Lu Yanzhou liked her child, Lu Rong felt relieved and chatted with Lu Yanzhou.

Lu Yanzhou had the memory of the original owner and could tell a lot of things, which quickly put Lu Rong down.

At this time, Lu Yanzhou said again: "Seventh Sister, King Rui is looking for you recently. For safety's sake, pack up and leave with me. You can also help me."

According to the memory of the original owner, King Rui knew that the original owner was a descendant of the Lu family after the original owner showed concern for Lu Rong. Therefore, Lu Yanzhou was not afraid that King Rui would go to other cousins ​​to threaten him, but was only worried that Lu Rong would be killed by King Rui. Find exploits.

"What did he ask me for?" Lu Rong frowned.

Lu Yanzhou sneered: "Win the military officer over."

Many military officers today are from the Lu family.

It is true that most people did not dare to speak for the Lu family because they were afraid of causing trouble, but if King Rui showed kindness to the Lu family, they would definitely have a good impression of King Rui.

Lu Yanzhou told Lu Rong one by one what happened in the court today.

Lu Rong has been inquiring about all kinds of news these years, but she is limited by her status, so she can't inquire much. Now that Lu Yanzhou is explaining to her, she listens very carefully.

Finally, Lu Rong said: "Xiao Jiu, actually... I have someone I know who has sneaked into the palace."

Lu Rong told about her husband, but she didn't say that it was her husband, she only said that he was a man who had been favored by the Lu family and was willing to avenge the Lu family. Now he has sneaked into the palace disguised as a Taoist priest. To assassinate the emperor.

Lu Yanzhou said: "Seventh Sister, the assassination is too dangerous and not easy to succeed. Since this strong man has already entered the palace, why bother to assassinate him? It can be poisoned!"

"Poisoning?" Lu Rong frowned: "The dog emperor is very concerned about eating, and checks everything in the mouth. It is very difficult to poison."

Lu Yanzhou said: "As far as I know, some of the Taoist priests in the palace today have no real materials! You can either grab the handle or bribe them to add a small amount of toxins to the refined medicine. If you eat too much, you will naturally die, and that strong man will not be involved."

Lu Yanzhou wanted to save his brother-in-law.

As for the emperor... Even if it was Xie Chengze's father, he would not be relentless.

Today, he is paranoid, and in order to live forever, he has gone crazy. In his previous life, the original owner poisoned him and interrogated those Taoist priests. From the mouths of those Taoists, he learned that today, he has harmed many virgins and died at his hands. I don't know how many.

He even asked the prince and King Rui to bleed to help him practice the elixir of life.

Don't look at the queen and concubine fighting all the time, these two are actually not doing well in the harem, and today they want to become immortals, so naturally they hate these worldly burdens.

The Taoist priest who was favored by Jinshang could even call the queen around. There was a dispute between the queen and a Taoist priest before, and Jinshang asked him to kneel down and apologize.

The original owner was able to poison Jinshang to death with the help of King Rui, who, as his son, hated Jinshang very much.

Of course, he couldn't let Xie Chengze know about his attack on the emperor, because it was Xie Chengze's father after all.

Lu Yanzhou told Lu Rong that he wanted revenge, and he really planned to do it, but Xie Chengze was definitely not among his targets.

He has already planned to pursue Xie Chengze!

He also planned to let Xie Chengze sit on the throne in the future.

It is the people who suffer from the change of dynasty, and many people will die, which is not in his plan.

Lu Yanzhou talked a lot with Lu Rong, and Lu Rong immediately decided to terminate the original assassination plan. As for how she would contact her husband... Lu Yanzhou didn't care about these.

After meeting Lu Rong, he went back to Jingning Temple. As for Lu Rong, he will come over tomorrow.

At the same time, the people under Xie Chengze informed Xie Chengze of Lu Yanzhou's situation.

The time was short, and Xie Chengze only wanted to know about Lu Yanzhou's recent situation. Naturally, his subordinates did not investigate carefully. Xie Chengze only knew that Lu Yanzhou was from the south of the Yangtze River, and his family was rich.

These days, Lu Yanzhou has been living in Jingning Temple, and he has donated a lot of food for the abbot of Jingning Temple to help the poor people.

Seeing this, Xie Chengze recalled his first encounter with Lu Yanzhou.

At that time, Lu Juren was helping to take care of some children.

After thinking about it, Xie Chengze asked people to prepare - tomorrow he will go to Jingning Temple.

The prince often went to Jingning Temple to relax, and his subordinates immediately got ready.

On the second day, Xie Chengze changed into ordinary clothes and went to Jingning Temple with two guards. Of course, there were still people who pretended to be ordinary pilgrims and secretly protected him.

Xie Chengze's choice of Jingning Temple for relaxation is actually related to the fact that Jingning Temple is located at the foot of the mountain and there is no need to climb the mountain.

He had a serious heart condition and could not climb the mountain.

There are only eight monks in Jingning Temple. It is usually not lively, but today there are many people. When Xie Chengze approached, he saw a few old women cooking porridge, and there were many dirty children waiting to drink porridge.

Xie Chengze's eyes finally fell on one of the young men.

A young man in his early twenties was sitting on a bamboo chair with a broken desk in front of him, feeling the pulse of the children.

These children are dirty, he doesn't dislike them at all, and he will gently ask these children questions.

Xie Chengze's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, he covered his chest, and his face changed - did he have a heart attack?

Just thinking about it, Xie Chengze saw the person who was taking someone else's pulse come to him, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable?"

"I'm fine." Xie Chengze put his hands down and put his back behind his back.

Few people know about his heart disease.

His mother's family and the noble concubine's family already had enmity. Before his mother and noble concubine entered the palace, one was the most talented woman in the capital, and the other was known as the most beautiful woman in the capital. ...

If the imperial concubine knew that he was suffering from heart disease, she would definitely try her best to attack him!

Lu Yanzhou took a look at Xie Chengze and said with a smile: "Brother Cheng, your complexion is not very good-looking, are you cold? Go inside to warm up."

Xie Chengze was walking outside, using the pseudonym "Cheng Yuan", he would use rouge to cover up his bruised lips, but his face was still too pale, and it was really cold outside now... Xie Chengze responded, and followed Lu Yanzhou's instructions Introduced the house.

The room is not big, and half of the place is occupied by the kang, which makes it even smaller.But the hut is also good. At this time, a fire was burned under the kang, which made the whole house warm.

"This is my house. If you don't mind it, you can take a rest here and drink some water... I still have something to do, so I'll come in when I'm done." Lu Yanzhou said.

"Okay." Xie Chengze agreed, took off his shoes and got on the kang.

Lu Yanzhou was a little too affectionate when talking to him, but he didn't feel disgusted for some reason, he just felt his heart beat faster again.

There was a small table on the kang, Lu Yanzhou dug out two snacks, plated them and put them on the table, and found a pot of hot water to put on it, let Xie Chengze take whatever he wanted, and then went out.

The door was closed, and the papered windows could not let much light in. The room was much darker, but it was also extraordinarily warm.

Xie Chengze put his hand on the warm Kang, and after a while, he lay down slowly again.

In this way, he felt warm all over.

When the warmth enveloped his whole body, Xie Chengze let out a long breath.

This kang is for sleeping people, in such a place, he would not sit down no matter what.

But he not only got on the kang, but also lay down.

Covering his eyes with his hands, Xie Chengze sighed.

He didn't understand why he couldn't forget Lu Yanzhou before, but after seeing him again this time, he finally understood.

He was moved.

He grew up so big, it was the first time he fell in love with someone, and the person he was attracted to was actually a man.

"Your Highness..." The guard who followed Xie Chengze was a little worried.

Both of these two are Xie Chengze's confidantes, and they know Xie Chengze's physical condition... Xie Chengze said: "I'm fine, just a little cold."

The two guards stopped talking and just stood on one side.

Xie Chengze lay down for a while, and then sat up again, inevitably recalling the first time he met Lu Yanzhou.

That time, he had a good impression of Lu Yanzhou, and Lu Yanzhou kept looking for topics when talking to him, obviously he didn't hate him.

As for this time... Lu Yanzhou was very warm to him, and even let him go to bed...

Putting his hands on the Kang table and his chin, Xie Chengze couldn't help laughing.

But soon, he restrained his smile.

He likes Lu Yanzhou, but Lu Yanzhou doesn't necessarily like men.

Even if Lu Yanzhou likes men...he suffers from heart disease, he doesn't know how long he can live, and he has no future with Lu Yanzhou.

The only thing he can do, perhaps, is to look at Lu Yanzhou a few more times.

Lu Yanzhou was still outside to help people take their pulse and see a doctor.

This is what he agreed to before, so it's not good to just ignore it just because Xie Chengze came.

Be patient, Lu Yanzhou looked over one by one.

He studied medicine before and had contact with traditional Chinese medicine, but he didn't know much about it, but he didn't need very good medical skills to treat these children.

It is impossible for children with serious illnesses to survive in this era. The problems of these children are mainly malnutrition and parasitic infections.

In addition to giving them food and drink, these children have to take a bath and change their clean clothes, and it is best to take some deworming medicine.

After bandaging the wound of a wounded child, Lu Yanzhou hurried back to the house, and then saw Xie Chengze sitting on the Kang, drinking water.

Neither the original owner nor Lu Yanzhou cared much about the quality of life. The kettles and teacups in Lu Yanzhou's house were made of ordinary rough porcelain.

But Xie Chengze held the rough porcelain cup in his hand, but somehow it felt a little more noble.

Lu Yanzhou's eyes fell on Xie Chengze's hand.

Xie Chengze's hands were pale, with bruised and purple blood vessels clearly visible, and his nails were cyanotic... This is one of the external manifestations of a bad heart.

Looking up again, Lu Yanzhou saw Xie Chengze's pale face again, and his mood became even more gloomy.

"Jizhi, are you finished?" Xie Chengze asked with a smile.

"I'm done with my work," Lu Yanzhou smiled, followed onto the kang, and sat opposite Xie Chengze, "Brother Cheng, after that meeting, I've been wanting to see you again. After waiting for a long time, I finally saw you."

Xie Chengze's heart skipped a beat again, he lowered his head to drink water, and said after drinking, "I miss you very much too, but I'm busy at home and don't have time."

"Brother Cheng is busy? You should pay attention to rest, you are too thin." Lu Yanzhou said.After I finished speaking, I realized that what I said was a bit out of bounds.

He and Xie Chengze met for the second time, and this was still ancient times...but he couldn't restrain himself.

Fortunately, Xie Chengze didn't care, instead he smiled: "I remember."

After finishing speaking, Xie Chengze seemed to realize that something was wrong, and quickly changed the subject: "Jizhi, are you going to take the exam next year? I have a few books annotated by Mr. Wang Linyuan, and I will send them to you tomorrow."

Wang Linyuan is a great Confucianist in the world, and the official who presides over the examination this time is still his student.

The books he has annotated are very precious to this year's candidates, and most people can't get them out.

Xie Chengze gave Lu Yanzhou a big gift as soon as they met.

"How did this happen?"

"I fell in love with you at first sight." Xie Chengze said.

Both he and Lu Yanzhou are men, and he is still terminally ill, so he can't do many things.

It was impossible for them to be together, so he could only give Lu Yanzhou a little help, so that Lu Yanzhou could go more smoothly in the future.

Xie Chengze had already collected his mood, no matter whether it was his expression or his eyes, he didn't show anything wrong, when he looked at Lu Yanzhou, he only admired him.

Lu Yanzhou felt a little lost, and was about to say something, when someone knocked on the door, and immediately, the voice of a young monk in Jingning Temple rang out: "Young Master Lu, there is a woman who brought a child here, and she said she was robbed by gangsters. , would like to borrow a few days."

The houses here were all built by Lu Yanzhou. If someone came to ask for help, the abbot asked the little monk to come and inform Lu Yanzhou.

When Lu Yanzhou heard the words and opened the door, he saw Lu Rong holding the child, standing miserably not far away.