Pei Gonggui

Pei Jun brought Jiang Xuan back to the camp and entrusted Fang Mingjue, then went to see Pei Yan again, told her that the case was transferred to public law, and said that after returning to Beijing, she would be transferred to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

Originally, Pei Yan never thought that she would be able to escape the crime easily, but it was not that she was not looking forward to going out to reunite with her son. At this moment, hearing Pei Jun say that the situation was more serious, the suspense in her heart was undoubtedly filled with despair again, she paused for a moment, Finally, he sat down on the side of the bed, raised his hands and covered his face weakly, after a few breaths, a wordless and suppressed sob came out from behind his fingers.

It was very much like a female beast that licked its own wound but couldn't bear the severe pain, and finally came out alone in the wilderness under the moon.

Pei Jun felt that this kind of Pei Yan was strange to him.

For as many years as he lived in the previous life, he had never seen Pei Yan subdued, but in this life, he has been alone for several months, but he has seen Pei Yan's red eyes shed tears several times, and even now he is absolutely terrified. It seemed to be entangled with hemp, and the pain was like thread, so she couldn't help squatting slowly in front of Pei Yan, raised her hand very strangely, and put it on her shoulder carefully, but suddenly felt the slender shoulder under her hand tremble more and more violently.

He tried to pat her lightly, and then hesitantly frowned and called her name, trying to persuade her not to cry, but he felt that Pei Yan, who was weak and forbearing but couldn't hide her sorrow at this moment, reminded him of when he was very young—— He remembered that when Pei Yan was eleven or twelve years old, he had led him along the night road in Xixia Mountain.

At that time, the forest was dark and the animals were rustling, and the shadows of tall trees around looked like scary ghosts. Pei Yan held an old lamp with a faint flame in her trembling right hand. The younger brother stood behind him, turning his head from time to time and saying:

"Don't be afraid, sister is here."

Thinking about these words now, it only made Pei Jun feel bored.

He knelt down straight and held Pei Yan on his shoulders, patted and hissed slowly, and only after a while did he hear Pei Yan's hoarse cry from the thin brocade on his shoulder, broken and helpless She asked him eagerly: "How did this happen, Pei Jun...how did it become like this..."

Pei Jun held her face to wipe away her tears, but Pei Yan's tears soon gushed out from her eyes again, filling his fingers in an instant:

"Will I never see Xuan'er again?"

Pei Jun picked up his cuffs to wipe away her tears, frowned and said: "No, don't be stupid."

When Pei Yan calmed down a bit, Pei Jun withdrew from the tent, briefly talked with Xiao Lin about the situation, and then went to Cui Yu to see if there would be any clues in King Rui's autopsy, but Feng Jiru was also standing in the parking lot. In the small tent of King Rui's body, there was a ruler in his hand, presumably the defenders had brought a temporary coffin from a nearby town, and he was here to wait for the autopsy to finish and bury King Rui.

Since there was no authoritative accompanying him, and the case was serious enough, it was Cui Yu himself, Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, who performed the autopsy.When Pei Jun entered, Cui Yu was cutting the stomach of Prince Rui on the desk, and told Feng Jiru who was standing next to him not to dare to look up at all. Seeing Pei Jun coming at this time, he was as if he had been rescued, and he bowed to greet him and took a document in his hand. He handed it to him and said, "Lord Pei, the lunch banquet is ready. This is the official letter from the Haring Clan last night, saying that it is to be discussed at today's banquet. Just take a look."

"Since you have seen it all, you can go to the luncheon for me." Pei Jun only glanced at the golden lacquer stamp on the document, and then pushed it back to him, "I am responsible for the funeral ceremony of King Rui here." , if the emperor wants to go hunting with the ministries in the afternoon, you can accompany him, and you don't need to report to me."

Feng Jiru hurriedly took the paperwork and hey hey, he agreed, and hurriedly talked to Pei Jun about the preparations for the coffin and the expenses, then he turned his head and fled out of the tent while reciting "Amitabha Buddha" in a low voice.This caused Cui Yu to look up from the autopsy, and his eyes showed a look of boredom on the edge of the white cloth covering his mouth and nose, but he didn't speak, but turned his head and motioned to Pei Jun to let him go and have a look.

At the end of the autopsy, it was only repeatedly confirmed that King Rui died of arsenic, there was no other reason, but the poison of arsenic is too common to be considered as a special clue, so Cui Yu signed with a sigh and handed over the body of King Rui to the Ministry of Rites The funeral was prepared, and the autopsy was completed at the same time, and three copies were ordered to be transcribed, one was reviewed by Dali Temple and then presented to the emperor, one was left in the Ministry of Punishment, and one was sent to Jin Wangye Jiang Yue as agreed.

It was noon at this time, when Pei Jun instructed the officers and soldiers to put King Rui in the coffin according to the etiquette system, and then wrote a brief letter of the Ministry of Rites with the pen and ink in the official account, it was almost evening when the account was released.

The light snow had stopped, the ground was sparsely covered with snow, and there was no more oppressive smell of corpses around him, only the bitter coldness remained. He and Cui Yu stood in the open space in front of the big tent, thinking about the prince, general, and treasured daughter, After death, he was still rotten and decayed into bones. While sighing, he suddenly heard Cui Yu looking at him from a distance, and said slowly:

"Ziyu, I always have a bad feeling about this incident."

Pei Jun kneaded his left hand with his right hand to relax, and looked at him tiredly: "How does it feel?"

Cui Yu shook his head and pondered for a moment, then said shortly: "I don't know, it's not very good anyway."

At this time, he looked not far away, and narrowed his eyes slightly against the light. When he found something, he raised his chin at Pei Jun: "Look, the emperor's hunters have returned."

Pei Jun followed his words and looked up, only to see that outside the half-man-high fence of the camp, there was indeed a team of hunters and horses returning to the camp with Sheng Jia.

Surrounded by officials and generals, Young Emperor Jiang Zhan was wearing a gray sable hat and a fox fur crane cloak, riding on a tall, snow-white and sturdy horse, holding the reins and slowly leading the horse into the camp.At the end of the day, under the warm light at dusk, Jiang Zhan looked around casually, and unexpectedly saw Pei Jun and Cui Yu standing outside the official tent in the distance. After a while, seeing that the two of Pei Jun hadn't moved, he lowered his head and called a guard to give orders.

After a while, the guard ran up to Pei Jun, bent down and respectfully said: "My lord Pei, the emperor has a chance to go hunting today, so I invite you to accompany me to the royal meal and taste the wild game together."

Hearing that Pei Jun had exchanged a glance with Cui Yu, he had no choice but to leave for a while. While thinking about Jiang Zhan's intentions, he also followed the guard to Jiang Zhan's horse. After seeing the ceremony, he looked up at Jiang Zhan He smiled and asked: "I heard that the emperor is hunting things?"

"But I shot a snow rabbit, let them roast it tonight." Jiang Zhan replied plainly, and just stretched out his hand to Pei Jun in a normal way, and he saw that he wanted Pei Jun to help him off the horse.

It is an intimate and easy-going gesture from the emperor to give his hand, and it is also a trust and honor to his courtiers. However, all the evidence points to the fact that Pei Jun's sister killed King Rui, and all the officials are waiting for Pei Jun to be affected by him. At that time, Jiang Zhan made this move, but it was a very clear hint of the direction of the wind.

The accompanying officials and generals looked at each other in surprise and did not dare to say a word, but at this moment, they all knew the emperor's intention to protect Pei Jun.

Pei Jun raised his hand to support Jiang Zhan's forearm under the vaguely envious eyes around him, leading Jiang Zhan to turn over from the saddle and throw the stirrups off the horse, while Jiang Zhan stood firmly on the snow, but continued to support his arm, He smiled lightly and said, "Pei Qing should be tired from being a director for one day, so let me go."

A group of courtiers behind him immediately knelt down and respectfully sent the emperor off, and Pei Jun said hello, and walked back to the camp with him, but the two of them did not speak along the way.

Jiang Zhan's tent was still burning with a particularly warm fire. When Pei Jun was sitting outside the screen and waiting for Hu Li to serve the emperor to change clothes, he saw a carved wooden letter box on the imperial case on the east side of the tent.This kind of letter box was common when he was a pedestrian in Honglu Temple in the past, and it was used to put official contracts of foreign countries or tribes.

——Could it be that there is a new agreement between the tribe and the imperial court?

He was about to ask Jiang Zhan aloud, but Jiang Zhan said through the screen: "Pei Jun, I heard that this morning an imperial physician confessed to your sister's guilt, and the case of King Rui will be transferred to the Ministry of Criminal Justice."

There was a rustle of cloth from behind the screen, and Jiang Zhan's figure was blurred on the screen: "Both Cai Yang and King Jin want to drag you into the water, and the paperwork for your trial has also been handed over to me." Walking out from behind the screen in a cloak, he raised his hand and waved Hu Li out of the tent, looked at Pei Jun and said, "The law above is too clear, so I have to agree."

Pei Jun had expected this earlier, so he just nodded and said: "Yes, the emperor did the right thing."

At this time, the curtain has been lifted from the outside, and it is the handyman who brings in the dinner one by one and puts it on the table.Jiang Zhan sat at the table and said to Pei Jun, "Don't worry, your sister's crimes will never implicate you. After returning to Beijing, I will also warn Cai Yan to stay away from you—"

"Do you think my sister really killed King Rui?" Pei Jun sensed that something was wrong, and suddenly looked up into his eyes, and his smile gradually faded away, "Jiang Zhan, there is no sentence yet."

But Jiang Zhan held his hand on the table, and said slowly: "It's okay, Pei Jun, I didn't blame you for saying this. Your sister killed King Rui, and I will never blame her. Rui Wang's beating of his wife is a disgrace to the royal family. Even if he is alive, he will always be Cai's pawn in the Jiang family. He will always spoil our affairs in the future. It can be regarded as helping us by mistake.”

When he said this, his tone became more and more concerned: "I know that although you and your sister have been separated for ten years, blood is thicker than water, and you must not bear her to die in your heart, so I want to...stay in Beijing She pleaded guilty and was sentenced, so I will find someone to go to the prison to exchange her life. Then you can arrange a new name and a new place for her, send her out of Beijing and never come back, so that no one cares about her and she can spend her life in peace , I will never ask."

"...It wasn't her crime, why should she admit it?" Pei Jun pulled out his fingers, and squeezed his wrist tightly with his backhand, "Is it only the royal family's face that counts, but my Pei family's face isn't it?" Lost face? Could it be that my father died on the battlefield with great fame, and after being loyal, he had to rebel against the court? Could it be that King Rui was punished for beating his wife and son? My sister was beaten and scolded by him for ten years, but she still had to spend the rest of her life with fame Can't he be buried with him?... Plead guilty? What crime is she guilty of!"

"——Even if your sister didn't kill King Rui, the crime of her marrying the royal family and taking poison to avoid her child is hard to prove." Jiang Zhan's face gradually turned cold because of his words, and he couldn't move his wrist away Jun's finger, and endured until a row of soup delivery servants went out, and then continued to say: "Besides, you also said before that sin and innocence don't matter in this world at all, what matters is only a result--today Rui The death of the king is the result, and it is also a good result for us, with this result, what difference does it make if your sister did it or not?"

These words made Pei Jun loosen his grip on his wrist, "What did you say—"

"Pei Jun, we once wanted King Rui to die, didn't we? But just because the Cai family was by our side, we couldn't make it happen. Now that King Rui is dead today, as long as his death has nothing to do with us, then he is Does it matter who killed it? We just need someone to take the crime of killing King Rui, and your sister was beaten and scolded by him for several years and killed him. , I said that I will protect her, and you will send her out of Beijing, why are you so angry?" Jiang Zhan seemed to be puzzled why he didn't understand this truth, and at this moment he frowned and looked at him carefully, continuing to speak earnestly Said: "Except for the Cai family's big game in the royal family, we will act more smoothly in the future. After your sister pleads guilty and subdue the law, she will no longer be a burden to us. When you send her away, we can... ..."

--drag?To blame?send away?

—It doesn’t matter who committed it, and whether it was committed or not?

Jiang Zhan was still talking slowly, but Pei Jun suddenly felt like a gust of wind was pouring into his ears and thunder was hitting his head, making the words he heard turned into a guillotine with blunt rusty blades, It was exactly the same as the one that killed him in the previous life, but it couldn't be chopped off quickly.

They just cut and sharpened his neck endlessly, but Jiang Zhan, who was holding the knife, still spoke earnestly and well-reasoned—using his fair and delicate face, bright red and beautiful eyes, lips, explaining to him calmly and earnestly: The sacrifice is for the stability of the imperial power, and the imperial power only needs one person to die.

It's worth it.

At this moment, Pei Jun's right palm that was gently held by him could almost feel the sharp pain again, which finally caused him to uncontrollably squeeze out the thing that he had never dared to think about since he was reborn as a human being. question:

"Jiang Zhan, then this time—if I am the one who died this time, what should you do?"

After hearing this, Jiang Zhan shook his head almost immediately and said, "Pei Jun, how could I be willing to be you—"

"Why are you so reluctant!" Pei Jun raised his voice and stood up suddenly, his throat finally felt real pain from the roar, but he still said clearly: "I, Pei Jun, have been in the court for many years for you. You have paid so much and risked your life several times, but you use Deng Zhun to spy on me and pinch me. My Pei family's father hid sand for the imperial court and has not yet returned it. My sister gave birth to your Jiang family but was severely beaten. You take it for granted that she is a murderer. Rebellious shrew—did you call me here today just to let her confess? Did—”

"No! No! I'm only saying this for your own good, and for our own good. Why do you have to think of me like this!" Jiang Zhan was so angry that his face turned red, he got up and punched him angrily On the table, he shook a table of precious porcelain dishes softly, then turned around a few steps to the east, raised his hand and threw the letter box on the imperial case in front of Pei Jun, calling the golden scroll in the box The official document fell out and rolled all the way to Pei Jun's feet. When it stopped, it opened up because of the rollback——

And on it, there are two words written in gold ink:

marriage certificate.

Jiang Zhan smiled absurdly, and looked at Pei Jun with complete disappointment and blushing eyes: "I came here today to tell you——I want to marry a concubine, Pei Jun, I want to marry you!" I am a concubine! The Haring tribe entrusted me to be the chief concubine of the county, otherwise they will not give a cent of the war horses and tribute silver to the court... But when they are domineering over me at lunch today, you Where are you again? You are Xinzheng at one time, Deng Zhun at another time, Pei Yan at another time, and your nephew at another time, why did you ever take care of me? What position do I have in your heart!"

"——Didn't you say you would help me? Pei Jun, you said you would help me secure the throne, but today I believe you and indulge you, what is it in your eyes! We count What!" He threw all the folders and pens on the table towards Pei Jun's feet, but he was not angry enough, and he raised his hand and swept all the delicacies on the ground, causing the tent to be filled with the harsh sound of broken porcelain. And he himself was so angry that he coughed violently, his face became more and more red, and said: "You...cough! Cough cough...give it to me, get out..."

He raised his hand and grabbed the front of the front, trembling his fingers to the outside of the tent, and yelled at Pei Jun again: "Get out of here! — cough cough..."

Hu Li from the outside finally lifted the curtain and came in, his eyes widened when he saw the mess in the tent: "My lord Pei, how did you make the emperor angry?" He walked quickly to support Jiang Zhan and said: "Your Majesty, please calm down, your body will—"

"Go away!" Jiang Zhan raised his hand and gave him a push. He gave Pei Jun another resentful look while coughing, and walked behind the screen with a flick of his sleeves.

Hu Li wanted to persuade Pei Jun to bow his head, but Pei Jun didn't want to stay in this tent anymore.He didn't wait for Hu Li to speak, and he didn't care about Jiang Zhan behind the screen coughing heart-piercingly. He just turned around with a cold face and lifted the curtain to leave the tent.

For a moment, he almost bumped into the scorching arms of the handyman who brought the iron stove to roast rabbits outside the tent, and when he avoided the danger, he finally remembered——

On this trip, in fact, he was originally recruited by Jiang Zhan to eat the rabbit that Jiang Zhan accidentally hunted and killed together.

The only remaining afterglow before entering the account has completely faded at this time, and the dark blue night gradually fills the sky.

Pei Jun walked to an open space with his head depressed, took a deep breath in the cold wind torch around him, looked up and saw a half gibbous moon hanging on the dome, the surrounding cold stars were scattered, and the flying clouds moved, everything could not see the trajectory clearly, but when he lowered his head, What I saw was a mess of footprints on the snow: big and small, deep and shallow, from front to back, from left to right, from north to south, from east to west, all of them lead to each other, as if each had its own fate——

I just don't know when these marks were left, and I don't know who stepped on whom and who stepped on each of these footsteps, and I don't know if anyone among them has ever crossed and walked side by side, has anyone bothered to catch up, or has someone ever stepped on them? Stopped and waited, and there was someone who pulled hard—or even rushed forward in the wind and dust, but only had time to turn around and call out a name, and saw the person in the eyes gradually lost in the pushing of the crowd...

He began to shuffle towards the southwest, shaking the dish soup splashed on the hem of his robe, and couldn't help but think of the last time Jiang Zhan threw things like this when Jiang Zhan was 15 years old.

It was the third year that Jiang Zhan became emperor, but the young emperor was still afraid of the criticism of his courtiers, so he repeatedly complained of illness and dared not go to the court. This naturally made military and political affairs be held in the hands of the cabinet and the Cai family, almost never It is no longer decided in front of the imperial court.

At that time, Jiang Zhan was troubled by this, and was troubled by it, but he still shrank himself in the imperial palace, never daring to stretch his head out, until one day, Pei Jun couldn't stand it anymore, so he got up early to go In the Chongning Hall, put Jiang Zhan on the Pearl Dragon Robe and carried it on his shoulders and walked into the Chaohui Hall. When he got there, Jiang Zhan pushed the unprepared young emperor into the hall while struggling in extreme panic. In front of civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

At that moment, the whispering discussion in the main hall came to an abrupt end, and after the supervisor in charge of ceremonies at the side realized it and called out "The emperor is here", all the officials in the hall knelt down in unfamiliar and surprised ways, looking at each other in a scattered manner. San shouted long live.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Zhan looked back at Pei Jun timidly, his body trembling, his eyes were red, his eyelashes were trembling, his lips were pale, and his fair and delicate face seemed to be in love with him. Said: "I want to go back, Pei Jun, take me back quickly!"

But Pei Jun just stood in the shadow behind the dragon screen in the corner of the hall, waved to Jiang Zhan sternly, and ordered him in a low voice:

"Sit on the throne, you are an emperor."

——That was the first time Jiang Zhan went to court.

Although he almost fell when he climbed the imperial steps, he finally knew that he was holding on to the sandalwood stand next to him, and finally sat nervously in the big golden chair on the high platform, suppressing his trembling guttural voice, imitating Pei Jun's daily teaching. In his words, he said:

"All the gentlemen are flat."

Jiang Zhan, who was at the back of the court that day, let out a lot of temper, coughing and yelling at him in the imperial study: "You hurt me! You just want me to make a fool of myself in front of all officials! You are no different from them!" In his good words and persuasion, he smashed all his pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and smashed a few bruises on his body. In the end, the imperial doctor came and left, and gave Jiang Zhan acupuncture. Jiang Zhan was also tired. It was only then that Jiang Zhan was coaxed, and seeing him sleeping peacefully on the couch, the battle was over.

Later, he began to force Jiang Zhan to go to the martial arts hall to attend lectures, and to discuss affairs in the Zongge Pavilion. Day after day, he calmed down under the dragon robe, and in the end, like his ancestors who hung in the ancestral hall, in the magnificent palace with carved beams and painted buildings, he became an emperor who was ups and downs in the vortex of power, no matter how calm he was. .

And in the next three years, five years, ten years... When Pei Jun thought that he had molded the frightened boy into a jade statue of the emperor who was unbiased and unbiased, he could finally let him go and put the right and left powers behind him , When sweeping the world, Jiang Zhan became suspicious of him because of the various powers he had accumulated over the years, so he gradually deviated from the track he originally set.

Looking back now, Pei Jun thinks that when he tried his best to pull Jiang Zhan forward, Jiang Zhan, who was on the same road, might have struggled to refuse, tried to catch up, and even shouted his name when he couldn't catch up. I lost my temper with him, but slowly, when Jiang Zhan could no longer keep up with him every time, and the situation between North Korea and China did not allow him to stop and explain more, he always thought: go faster Go ahead and wait for him. By then, everything will be clear.Unexpectedly, more and more people and more and more things are gradually pouring into the gap between the two of them, and they can only talk to each other in a hurry through the hustle and bustle and turmoil. Take care of each other and let each other trust each other. In the end, it is called "repay all loyalty" and "believe but never doubt". Facing the imperial power and making choices...all empty words.

They got separated, so far apart that they never noticed it, and now, after time and life and death, and because of Pei Yan's case, Pei Jun finally understood—it turned out that the road that was paved under his and Jiang Zhan's feet in the previous life The ending was doomed from the very beginning: it turned out that they thought that each other was connected with each other and that they were in harmony with each other. So far, it seems that he has never understood Jiang Zhan, and Jiang Zhan has never understood him.

It turns out that those who travel together have never necessarily traveled together.

In the last three years of his previous life, he went north and south, discussing politics and mobilizing soldiers, and most of his conversations with Jiang Zhan were sent in letters. At the end of the chapter, he would pretend to ask Jiang Zhan if he had a son recently, urging him to give birth soon. An emperor's heir stabilized the hearts of the people.At the beginning, Jiang Zhan always replied patiently and vented his grievances, but later he gradually became more business-like, and later on, if Hu Li hadn't written a few words on behalf of him by chance, he would not have replied a single word.

So, how many times has he met Jiang Zhan during the three years when he couldn't be idle from opening his eyes to closing them? ...Can you count on one hand?But in those few encounters, he couldn't remember how many times he said "Jiang Zhan, you have to trust me".

Before everything changed, Jiang Zhan had summoned him for the last time in the Beihe Palace. The two of them were still like fish and water, having a good time together. In the end, Jiang Zhan lay on his chest with half-closed eyes, looking into his eyes with twinkling eyes. Li asked him very seriously:

"Pei Jun, are you still helping me?"

At that moment, he gave Jiang Zhan a very affirmative answer and begged him to trust him again. He gently stroked Jiang Zhan's hair, kissed Jiang Zhan's lips passionately, and after a few breaths of warmth dissipated, after a few months, autumn came and winter solstice However, what was waiting for him was a slash on the execution platform to sever all thoughts.

Before the guillotine fell, he knelt down to show the public, and when he lowered his head, he saw that the gap between the execution platform and the wood was either the grime that had been crushed for years, or the frost and snow that was so cold to the bone... At that time, when he saw his deathbed, he realized that when he was young, he had sacrificed for ginger. Mr. Zhan can die immediately, even if he is cut into pieces, he will not retreat half a step, but he never thought that death and death are not a way of expression, but just the ending of the tragic story of his previous life That's all.

The quarrel between him and Jiang Zhan today undoubtedly only proves that this evil debt is far more absurd than he once thought.

Unknowingly, the way back took a long detour, and when Pei Jun finally regained consciousness and walked back to Jiang Xuan's tent alone, he saw that candles were already lit in the tent, and the lights cast two figures, one large and one small, slightly on the tent. It was Fang Mingjue and his nephew Jiang Xuan.

He was about to lift the curtain to enter the tent, when he heard Fang Mingjue asking Jiang Xuan inside, "...then why do you like your seventh uncle, what's so good about your seventh uncle?"

Stopping his feet, Pei Jun couldn't help standing outside the curtains, raised his hand to raise some curtains and raised his eyebrows to look in.I saw Jiang Xuan crossing his short legs on the bed, jingling the jade bell in his hand, and said to Fang Mingjue full of air, "Look, this is a gift from Uncle Qi, isn't it beautiful?"

Seeing Fang Mingjue nodding helplessly, he continued to blink and said, "Seventh Uncle himself is also beautiful, and every time he comes to visit me in the mansion, he always brings me beautiful things."

"Then what about your uncle?" Fang Mingjue continued to be persuasive, "Why did you hit and scratch your uncle yesterday? Your uncle is also pretty."

Jiang Xuan felt a little wronged when he heard the words, and pouted: "Uncle is beautiful, but uncle is fierce. Uncle still hasn't returned my little flute."

At this moment, the baby looked up, and saw that there was a gap in the curtain behind Fang Mingjue, and it was the vicious and untrustworthy uncle he said was staring at him, and was so frightened that he yelled and hid behind Fang Mingjue to cry: "Uncle, uncle, uncle eavesdropping!"

Fang Mingjue turned around laughing, and when he saw that it was Pei Jun who came in through the curtain, he only greeted him with "Come back", and as expected, he looked at Pei Jun and lifted Jiang Xuan over and flicked his forehead: " Kid, you call me fierce? Talking bad things about the elders behind your back and wanting to take the flute back, you think so beautifully."

The two big and one small chattered and laughed for a while, Fang Mingjue suddenly slapped his forehead and said: "By the way, Prince Jin came here just now. Seeing that you are not here, I left something for you."

As he said that, he pointed to the table, and Pei Jun looked along, and saw the wooden box that Jiang Yue used to change the medicine for him on the table.

"He just left?" Pei Jun got up and took the box to look, and saw that there were quite a lot of things inside.

"En." Fang Mingjue casually pointed in Pei Jun's direction, "I saw him going that way, didn't you see him?"

Pei Jun was taken aback, thought for a while, closed the medicine box, and finally shook his head.

——It turned out that he inadvertently took a long detour because of Jiang Zhan's affairs, but unexpectedly missed each other with Jiang Yue who was in the shortcut.

He slowly sat back on the bed, let Jiang Xuan hug his neck from behind and continued to beg the little flute, but he began to think unavoidably:

If he and Jiang Zhan were separated in the previous life, what about him and Jiang Yue?

If he and Jiang Zhan are on the same road but not on the same road, then he and Jiang Yue...should they be called walking on the same road instead of going on the same road?

Jiang Yue will always be in the same court situation with him, always advance and retreat with him carefully manage his own cards, but always stand opposite him.It's like two inkblots coming out at the same time. Although they have always been at the same speed and on the same sheet of paper, they seem to go hand in hand, but they have always been two lines that never meet. Maybe they will always walk together, but they will never be together. Face to face on the same road, let alone shoulder to shoulder.

And one step ahead, one step slower, turning one's head but not seeing each other, such a simple miss is indeed a very common thing.

"uncle!"

Seeing that Pei Jun ignored him, Jiang Xuan got anxious and grabbed him by the ear and yelled. Finally, Pei Jun turned around in pain and threw the little ancestor down on the bed with one hand. He still heard the child patted and screamed. : "Give me back my little flute, give me back my little flute!"

"If you continue to quarrel, I'll give it back to your seventh uncle, believe it or not?" Pei Jun gritted his teeth, and threatened him with a fierce face, which finally made Jiang Xuan's groaning stop, and pouting his mouth to face the wall again.

But at this time, Jiang Xuan was not sitting on the original blanket, but Pei Jun noticed that there was a gray sable fur handkerchief under the doll's buttocks.

"Whose is this?" Pei Jun picked up the hand, frowned and asked Fang Mingjue, "Your?"

When Fang Mingjue saw it, he said, "It belongs to Prince Jin. I had a quarrel with your nephew just now, and I probably forgot to take it away. Why don't you send it back? It's not far away."

But at this time, in response to his words, the candle in the tent flickered, causing Pei Jun to suddenly see blood on his hand in the flash before his eyes, he couldn't help shaking his arm, causing the gray mink's hand to fall back on the bed.

But at this moment, when he took a closer look with his bare hands, the blood was gone again.

Fang Mingjue was taken aback for a moment, and was about to ask him what's the matter, but Pei Jun sighed heavily, pushed the handle aside, frowned and said:

"...Forget it."

The next sentence is added: "I just came back from there, it's too cold to be too lazy to leave, I just give it to him when I meet tomorrow."

"But they will continue to hunt tomorrow, so I don't know if we can meet again." Fang Mingjue sat down at the table, found a piece of jerky from the food box on the table, chewed it, and said while chewing: "Hey Daxian, you Don’t you know yet? Prince Jin hunted a bear today, and when the defenders brought it back in the afternoon, I hugged your nephew and watched beside him.” He bit the jerky and gestured with his hands wide open, “Good guy , Such a long knife pierced the bear's heart! Hey, this Prince Jin is really powerful. He did a good job in learning in the palace school back then. It can be said that he was both civil and military. Tell me about the time..." He suddenly raised his hand Pulling out the jerky from his mouth, he lowered his voice and asked, "Why didn't the old emperor pass the big chair to him? It's a pity."

Pei Jun glanced at him, and was about to say, "Brother, let's fight against the wall", but in a blink of an eye, Jiang Xuan, who was supposed to be angry with the wall, turned his head and looked at him with teary eyes when he heard the name of the seventh uncle.

Pei Jun rubbed the child's head angrily and amusedly, thought for a while, and changed his words: "Where has my brother kissed a son before, can you agree to it? Look at my sister, I'll go and see her for a while." She won't even give it to her eyes, but once she hugs her precious son, she won't let go."

"How can this be the same?" Fang Mingjue pursed his lips, and instead of continuing the disrespectful words, he just said: "When we were having dinner today, Old Cui was also praising Prince Jin, saying that Prince Jin treated us six They are all very kind, unlike other princes who are domineering and instructing. He also asked me, did Prince Jin take special care of your Pei family? He said that he always felt that the prince was looking after your sister, and he looked cooler. , but I feel that he treats his nephews and grandchildren well, and his heart is very warm... Hey, when we were always fighting against Prince Jin, why didn't we feel that he was good everywhere?"

"Anywhere is fine, you can forget it." Pei Jun raised his hand and made his face ashamed, "In the past, Jiang——when the former Prince Jin asked our Imperial Academy to reduce the fee for writing and ink, why didn't you say that he was everywhere? Okay? At that time, the monthly subsidy of four taels of silver was missing, and you followed Yan Yuliang and me and scolded him one by one, and you said you didn’t recognize him, right?” Seeing Fang Mingjue looking around with guilt , and sneered at him again: "Now when people smile at you, you can praise them everywhere. Are you shameless? If Prince Jin waves at you tomorrow, I think your tail will wag."

"Go, go, you're just wagging your tail." Fang Mingjue touched his face, raised his hand and wanted to eat the jerky again.

Pei Jun got up and slapped him on the back of the hand: "It's so late to eat, aren't you afraid of accumulated food? Go, go, go back to sleep, I'm so tired today, I have to pack up the baby and go to bed early."

"This jerky is delicious." Fang Mingjue opened the box and stole a piece of jerky without fear of power, and said with a smile: "This is what Prince Jin brought to your nephew, and I also brought it for you all afternoon My child, what happened to eating two of you?"

Pei Jun snatched the jerky back from his hand, closed the box and pushed it aside, "What does it have to do with you what someone brings to the child?"

Fang Mingjue stuck out his tongue at him: "Anyway, I've been eating all afternoon, it's not bad. Let's go!" Then he quickly slipped out of the tent before Pei Jun was about to take off his shoes and hit him on the back. Let him laugh wantonly twice.

Pei Jun shook his head and sighed that Fang Mingjue must have become a habit of mopping up at the household department, and he was greedy for his nephew's dried meat.

As he thought about it, he conveniently chewed the jerky he had taken back in his mouth. Inadvertently, he felt that the meat was delicate and firm, with a moderate salty aroma and a bit of spicy taste, which was really delicious.After chewing a couple of bites, his stomach that hadn't eaten dinner started to sing, and finally felt very hungry, so he said in his heart that Jiang Yue's box of jerky came at the right time, just for him to fill up.

But when he opened the food box on the table, he saw that there was only half of the jerky left, so he couldn't help baring his teeth and scolding: "Fucking Fang Mingjue..."

Then he turned his head and saw Jiang Xuan on the bed staring at him with bright eyes, he held his breath silently, went out of the tent to order hot water, chewed the jerky and waited for the handyman to bring him, then got up Wringing out the towel, wiped Jiang Xuan's hands, feet and face, stuffed the doll under the bed, and ate the leftover jerky. Seeing that the doll hugged his seventh uncle's "beautiful" hand very lovingly, caressed gently The gray and white sable fur on the hands, looks like holding a docile and pleasant kitten in his arms.

"Uncle, shall we take it to uncle tomorrow?" Jiang Xuan asked him very softly.

Pei Jun put the empty jerky box back on the table, didn't want to pay much attention to him, just rinsed his mouth with hot water and scrubbed, then took off his coat and went to bed and hugged the child in his lap, exhausted He closed his eyes and said, "I'll talk about it after I sleep, and I'll take you there if I sleep well."

Jiang Xuan poked his head out of his arms, and tentatively asked: "Uncle, can you sing tonight?"

Pei Jun didn't open his eyes, just patted him on the back indiscriminately, and sighed: "Uncle is very tired today, how about singing to Xuan'er tomorrow?"

After he finished speaking, he didn't listen to Jiang Xuan's words for a long time.But after a while, a small warmth suddenly came over his forehead.

Opening his eyes, he saw Jiang Xuan gently touching his forehead, like a