Ten years later

No matter what, once you get on the right track, life flies by quickly.

Li Yuan lived in Beijing with peace of mind, and went to the palace every few days, unable to withstand Li Lian's request, and occasionally went to the East Palace to teach the prince how to ride and shoot.

Lin Ziqing goes to Chongwen Hall of East Palace to give lectures for the prince for three hours every day, and returns to Yongchang Square at night to play chess or discuss poetry and prose, always with Li Yuan.Within a few days, Lin Ziqing moved from the east courtyard to the main courtyard.He rests once every five days, and on the holiday, Li Yuan usually takes him out to have a look.When the two-month period was coming to an end, Lin Ziqing never mentioned the matter of returning to Lingzhou, as if he wanted to live like this forever.

But the early summer of the fourth year of Jiaping was destined not to be a peaceful season.

On the third day of May, the head of the Ministry of Industry who went to Yuzhou to investigate the farmland in detail was killed outside Yuzhou City.

The emperor was furious, and ordered his ministers to enter the Taiji Hall to discuss matters. He beat the case and said: "If you can kill court officials today, will it be against you tomorrow?"For the time being, Biejia and Sima will act as agents.

On the fourth day of May, Zhao Nuo, who was promoted to Zhongshushe, was the governor of Yuzhou, and he was ordered to take up his post immediately.

On May 24th, Zhao Nuo, the governor of Yuzhou, wrote a letter, listing Huang Wei's 78 crimes, 130 people who colluded with Yuzhou officials, soldiers and civilians were imprisoned, and [-] people were beheaded in the city.

When the news reached the capital, everyone was shocked by the emperor's thunderous tactics—don't say that this matter was all done by Zhao Nuo, if there was no emperor's order, how many dares Zhao Nuo would dare to act like this

Except for Lin Ziqing, who lives in Yongchang Fang and doesn't care about all affairs in the court, he is now idle, and these turbulent events have nothing to do with him.After Li Yuan heard about it, he smiled and praised: "It should be so." He and Li Lian are brothers, and they even have similar ideas.What law does not blame the public, and those who collude with each other to deceive the superiors and the subordinates should be dealt with like this, so why care about the false name!

The fire finally burned to the two people who watched the fire from the other side.

On the seventh day of the sixth lunar month, an edict was issued to restore the crown prince Taifu Lin Ziqing to be the right servant of Shangshu Province, add Jin Ziguanglu doctor, Henan Dao dethronement envoy, inspect all officials, and list their good and evil.

Li Yuan didn't have much opinion on this, he felt that a man should make contributions, and Lin Ziqing was in his prime, so it's nothing to be a general manager.If it wasn't for the decree this time, after Lin Ziqing finished his lecture, Li Yuan would have wanted to apply for an official position for him.

What Li Yuan didn't expect was that Li Lian actually wanted him to get involved, and even went out of the palace to persuade him: "Brother, just help me once."

Li Yuan said to him bluntly: "I'm still in my filial piety, if I didn't miss you, I should have gone to live in front of my parents' grave."

Li Lian came closer, raised his face and asked, "Can you win love?"

"Do you dare to take love for your mother's filial piety?" Li Yuan stared, "Aniang loves you for nothing."

Li Lian said in a low voice: "Isn't there no one who can use this? Auntie will definitely not blame the current state affairs."

Li Yuan sneered twice: "No one is available? Do you believe it when you say it?" Do you really think he didn't know anything about these years? people are available.

"Believe it, how believable are these words." Seeing that Li Yuan's expression was wrong, he said seriously, "Whoever is sent in the army, it is better to send it than brother."

"You have a big heart. Aren't you afraid that after I have military power, I will be unfavorable to you?"

Li Lian looked at Li Yuan almost sadly: "I told you to trust you earlier, so you should agree."

He felt that he was about to hug Li Yuan's arm and howl, but Li Yuan was indifferent to this and refused to let go.

"Brother, I really don't want to go," Li Lian said disappointedly, "That's fine, I won't bother you anymore." After speaking, he was about to leave.

Li Yuan stopped him and asked: "Is there really no one available, but me?"

Seeing Li Lian nodding his head, Li Yuan replied, "That's OK, no official position, I'll go."

Hearing this, Li Lian's expression suddenly became lively, and he said to him with joy, "Thank you, brother, you are so kind."

The official road from Chang'an to Yuzhou is flat and easy. They set off from Chang'an on June [-]th and arrived in Yuzhou City in only eight days.In the evening, Zhao Nuo, the governor of Yuzhou, led a group of officials in the government office who had not been imprisoned to host a banquet to welcome Li Yuan and Lin Ziqing.

Li Yuan took the upper seat, but did not move the food and drinks on the table after entering the table, relying entirely on Lin Ziqing to deal with everyone.Fortunately, his status is high enough, and the people below are all subdued by Zhao Nuozhi, no one dares to disturb him without winking at this time.

While drinking wine, Li Yuan said to Lin Ziqing in a low voice: "I think this wine is quite similar to Yushan Niang at home." Yushan Niang was a kind of strong wine brewed by the people in the house when he was in Lingzhou, because it is extremely It is easy to intoxicate, and it is named after the meaning of "Jade Mountain is falling".

Lin Ziqing put down his wine glass and said with a smile, "Good eyesight, it's Yushan Niang." Seeing that the people below were half drunk and no one was paying attention to them, he explained to Li Yuan, "Your Majesty rewarded Zhao Mingfu. .”

Li Yuan carefully looked at the wine glass in front of him, and exclaimed with some surprise: "Yushan wine can be used to reward people, Jiulang really values ​​him."

At that time, there was a lot of scum in the wine, which was green or yellow, but the brewer didn't know what method the wine maker used, but the Yushan Niang was colorless, and it was more mellow and stronger than other wines.Its brewing process is complicated and requires much more grain than other wines, so it is extremely rare.When he was in Lingzhou, there was only one altar in the entire Chengguo mansion a year.After entering Beijing, Jiulang has been frugal year after year, and his life is worse than when he was in Lingzhou, and he will not produce much wine.Just offering a reward like this is enough to show that Zhao Nuo still has some weight in his heart.

"There are only two pots, one pot is on my table, and the other pot was on your table before. Zhao Mingfu probably saw that you have not moved, so he asked someone to take it away and exchange it for another bottle of wine." Because of whispering, Both of them moved closer to each other's side, Lin Ziqing's lips were very close to Li Yuan's ear at this moment.After realizing it, Lin Ziqing took a deep breath, turned his head to look at Zhao Nuo, and continued, "Zhao Ming's mansion can handle things, and His Majesty can use them easily."

Just at this time, a young servant came forward and replaced all the dishes in front of him with vegetarian dishes.Li Yuan glanced at Zhao Nuo, Zhao Nuo lowered his head and said: "I didn't notice before, and I failed to make the prince happy, I should be punished."

"Zhao Mingfu has a heart," Li Yuan held up a cup of tea and wished him far away with tea instead of wine, "I haven't congratulated Mingfu on his promotion yet."

After a few more polite words between the two, Li Yuan turned his head and found that Lin Ziqing was staring at the wine glass that had not been removed.Seeing that Li Yuan noticed him, he begged him: "If you don't drink, give it to me."

Li Yuan thought he liked the rare good wine, so he complied in one gulp, and only told him: "Don't get drunk."

"Don't worry, sir." After speaking, Lin Ziqing reached for the wine glass in front of Li Yuan and drank it down in one gulp.Neither Li Yuan nor he noticed that Lin Ziqing changed back to his old address.

Li Yuan was only focused on watching Lin Ziqing's smooth movements.After drinking a glass of wine, Lin Ziqing's slightly rosy cheeks turned crimson, and against the backdrop of the candlelight, it seemed that she had applied a layer of peach-colored blush.

At this time Lin Ziqing smiled at him again, revealing two dimples.This smile made Li Yuan a little stunned. For some reason, the words "beautiful appearance" and "Qiaoxiaoqianxi" popped up in Li Yuan's mind at this time.He spat at himself, if he uttered such comments on a woman's appearance, it would be a blasphemy to an important official in the court.

He hurriedly turned his head and ate a few mouthfuls of food, but Lin Ziqing kept looking at him with a smile on his face, making him uneasy.

After the banquet, when he returned to the room, Li Yuan realized that Lin Ziqing was a little drunk.He smiled and said to Lin Ziqing: "If you let you drink too much, you will be drunk."

"I'm not drunk yet," Lin Ziqing raised his head, his eyes were blurred, "I don't believe that you will test me, I can answer whatever you ask."

"Okay, I'm not drunk," Li Yuan said along with him in a good-tempered manner, "I'll ask someone to fetch some water for you."

But Lin Ziqing stopped him, pulled his sleeves, eyes were full of steam, raised his face and said: "Ziqing has something to say."

"I'm listening," Li Yuan stared at him.Speaking the truth after drinking, I don't know what Lin Ziqing will say.

Lin Ziqing smiled at him, and said slowly in a different tone than before: "Yuan Lang."

Lin Ziqing's voice was very soft, with a hint of softness in it.How could Li Yuan bear this kind of thing? He heard it in his ears, like a breeze brushing his ears, or like a feather scratching his heart.He called someone in, and after giving some instructions, he said to Lin Ziqing, "How deep is your obsession. I told you that this is not an appropriate name."

"Oh," Lin Ziqing lowered his head in frustration, then raised his head after a while and asked, "You call me by my name, and I call you by your name, what's wrong?"

Lin Ziqing was drunk, and he was still very drunk. Li Yuan said to himself in his heart that a drunk person has no logic, and he can't explain it clearly to him now, so he can't be truthful with him.

Li Yuan changed the subject and asked him: "Don't talk about this, you just said something you wanted to tell me, and I'm still waiting to hear it."

He suddenly became excited, and opened his mouth and said: "Yes. Ziqing wants to say, wants to say..." His voice gradually dropped, his eyes stared at Li Yuan in bewilderment, and after a while he shook his head and said, "Ziqing doesn't remember What do you want to say."

Li Yuan ordered the boy carrying clear water to put the basin on the side of the room, and at the same time picked up the hangover soup on the table, and handed it to Lin Ziqing: "Forget it if you don't remember, go to bed early, maybe you will remember tomorrow."

After finally coaxing Lin Ziqing to rest, Li Yuan who returned to the room was tossing and turning, and hadn't fallen asleep when the moon was in the sky.Lin Ziqing's smile lingered in his mind, and the heartstrings aroused by the phrase "Yuan Lang" never calmed down.

Although Lin Ziqing's appearance is a bit feminine, he has always behaved rigorously and orderly like an old pedant, even if his face is like a crown of jade, he will not make people think.

But today Lin Ziqing was drunk, but he completely abandoned his usual behavior, and even showed a bit of coquettishness.Li Yuan felt a little anxious, he cursed himself, Lin Ziqing respected him so much, how could he have such nasty thoughts.

Distraught, Li Yuan simply prepared to get up and go to the courtyard.But as soon as he sat up, he heard footsteps outside the house—pacing up and down at the door, it could not be the servants of the mansion.

"Who?" Li Yuan picked up his sword and walked towards the door.

"I disturbed you, Ziqing should be punished." A familiar voice came from outside, and Li Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

He lit the lamp, opened the door to let Lin Ziqing in, and said to him half-complainingly: "It's so late, what if I accidentally hurt you?"

Lin Ziqing lowered his head, making it difficult to see his expression: "I was going to sleep, but Ziqing just remembered that I have something to tell you."

Li Yuan didn't know whether to answer his words or not.Listening to the footsteps, Lin Ziqing should have been hesitant to come in, not to mention entering his courtyard late at night, he would never be talking to him about things like how to arrange tomorrow.

Lin Ziqing took a deep breath, raised his head and looked directly at Li Yuan.His eyes were so clear that Li Yuan's heart trembled.Li Yuan even had a premonition, always feeling that what he heard next would surprise him.

"Ziqing wants... to be by your side." While speaking, he suddenly grasped Li Yuan's right hand, and slowly said two words, "Always."

A thunderstorm exploded in Li Yuan's mind.

He was not stupid, so he could understand the meaning of Lin Ziqing's words, but after he understood it, he just felt more confused, even more difficult to accept than the first time he knew that he was in ten years.

This is all about what, he just got a little thought, when Lin Ziqing gave him such a bolt from the blue.

Lin Ziqing took another bold step forward, and his right hand climbed onto Li Yuan's arm.With Li Yuan's skills, if he didn't want to be approached by others, Lin Ziqing would definitely not be able to get within five steps of him.However, his mind was in a state of confusion at the moment, and his reaction was also much slower.After a few breaths, Li Yuan came to his senses and pushed Lin Ziqing away with his left hand.

Lin Ziqing was doused with cold water and calmed down quite a bit. He took a few steps back and stood still at a position far away from Li Yuan, as if Fang realized what he had done at this moment, cold sweat broke out all over his body .

Li Yuan looked at him coldly, and Lin Ziqing felt that the boiling blood in his body had cooled down.How could he not know what kind of situation he would fall into after he said this.I had hesitated before coming here, but with some drunkenness and impulsiveness, I finally put myself in a place where I would never be able to recover. Who can blame this.

"The minister made a slip of the tongue after drinking," he begged with a trembling voice, addressing him as alienated and polite, which foreshadowed that he would be a stranger in the future, "The prince should pretend he never heard what the minister said."

Li Yuan really didn't know how to deal with it. Many things popped into his mind at the moment, Lin Ziqing's actions when he saw him in the capital, the drunk smile, the look in his eyes before he spoke, and his reluctance for many years. The act of marrying a wife.All of this is so obvious, he should have seen it earlier, and he wouldn't be so overwhelmed by now.

Taking advantage of Lin Ziqing's suggestion, he nodded and promised, "Okay."

Lin Ziqing got this answer, smiled wryly, and left Li Yuan's room quickly without even resigning.

He came here in a hurry, and fled in the wilderness.