【Xianze】Difficult to recite

When Li Hongcheng opened the door and came in, His Royal Highness had already changed his clothes, he raised his eyebrows, why was he so active today.

They are going to Yishiju today. Not long after the illegitimate son of Sinanbo came to Beijing, the emperor pointed out Princess Chen to him in order to take the inner treasury from the eldest princess. The assassination in Danzhou was unsuccessful. The Second Highness wants to see As soon as he saw this person, there was news that Fan Xian was going to have a banquet at Yishiju today, so Li Hongcheng booked a box next to them.

Although Second Highness Li Chengze didn't ask anyone to remind him this time, his expression was not energetic, his brows were furrowed, and he seemed a little tired.Li Hongcheng helped him into the carriage, jokingly said, did His Highness not sleep well last night?

Li Chengze shook his head and said, "No, it must be because he slept for too long."

Li Hongcheng smiled, and said: "I heard that the prince also asked Guo Baokun to inquire, and He Zongwei is also here."

"Today, Yishiju is very lively."

"His Royal Highness the Eldest Princess sent a message to let you enter the palace yesterday. I heard that you are not in good health?"

"I drank a little too much, and I blew the wind again. I felt a little hot, so I slept for a long time."

"Is it better now?" Li Hongcheng understood with a look of comprehension, "Our aunt, who didn't kill Fan Xian, would hand over her daughter and the treasury to others. She must be very angry. You don't want to go. Save yourself the trouble of being disturbed."

Hearing this, Li Chengze glanced at him, which was meaningless, but when he looked straight at him, Li Hongcheng didn't know, and touched his face, could there be something dirty?

But Li Chengze didn't open his mouth until the end, because Yishiju had arrived.

They arrived half a stick earlier in the morning than the three brothers and sisters of the Fan family, and when the dishes were all served, there was no movement in the box next door. From afar, they could hear noisy and immature voices chirping. Pompous, the exaggerated words used made Prince Jing's son scalded with tea.

Then a beautiful female voice reprimanded him: "Oh, don't be a country bumpkin who has never seen the world, okay!" She had just said this, and the Second Highness, who was seriously picking up the white fungus slices from the cold dish, raised his head to King Jing. Shizi gave a gossip smile.

Li Hongcheng coughed deliberately, and covered his face with a teacup.

The atmosphere in the room was delicate, and the footsteps of several people outside the room also shifted from the stairs to the corridor in front of the door.

"Ruo Ruo, let him tell, I really haven't seen it before."

"Sister! Look! I'll say I've never seen it before! How can there be such a good restaurant in that small place in Danzhou..." They entered the next door, but they could no longer hear what they were saying.

Li Hongcheng was silent for a long time before he was able to laugh, but the conversation was taken away. Li Chengze commented, "Hongcheng, you have good taste, and Miss Fan Fu has become more and more dusty."

Li Hongcheng shook his head with a wry smile: "It's just a joke of the father's generation, so it can't be taken seriously."

When I was young, because the Minister of the Ministry of Households had a good relationship with the emperor, and the family in Kyoto had close contacts, especially Prince Jing's Mansion and Fan Mansion, they wished they could share the same gate. At that time, Fan Ruoruo was the only daughter in Fan Mansion before Fan Sizhe was born. Bingxue is clever and knowledgeable, and Li Hongcheng is a childhood sweetheart with Li Hongcheng. Prince Jing and Fan Jian saw that they were a good match, so they agreed to marry.

But Fan Ruoruo, who came back from Danzhou, changed, not because of his appearance, she no longer called him brother, she said that I have a brother, and there is only one brother.She is talented and beautiful, which is known to the whole capital, but after that, she seldom went out to socialize, and stayed in the boudoir all day. Those who don't know may think that the daughter of the Fan family has some strange disease that cannot be seen. , until the advent of "Red Mansion".

Fan Ruoruo had always been generous, and said that she was only copying, but everyone knew that she only brought back one volume from Danzhou, and it was self-evident who wrote it.

Who is there in that small place in Danzhou?There was the emperor's wet nurse, Sinan Bo's mother, and an illegitimate child.

Li Hongcheng had wanted to see Fan Xian for a long time, perhaps even more eagerly than the Second Highness.

"Seriously, it's not a joke."

"Stop making fun of me."

Li Hongcheng waved his hands, trying to save himself from embarrassment and helplessness, changed the topic and said, "Looking at the closeness and naturalness between their brothers, Fan Xian must not believe that the Liu family did the Danzhou assassination."

Li Chengze took a sip of sake, Yishiju's plum wine is famous all over the world, and only in this time-honored brand in Kyoto can you taste it, not even in the palace.

"so what?"

"It's always a problem."

"That has nothing to do with you and me."

Li Hongcheng didn't know what he was doing now that he put on a posture of staying out of it. The power of the internal treasury fell into his hands, and what he would use to fight against the prince's party.

Li Chengze put down his wine glass, tasted the bright-looking emerald chicken, and put down his chopsticks in one bite.He picked up the wine jug satisfactorily again, and tapped the rim of the glass with his fingers: "It's my aunt who underestimated him, she acted too hastily, and the gain outweighed the loss."

"It seems that you don't believe that Fan Xian is just a countryman."

"Who would believe it?" He cast his eyes out of the window, and there was a commotion downstairs, the carriage rollers were arrogant, shouting and scolding were everywhere, guessing that Guo Baokun brought his private guards to collect the books in public, his gaze became impatient for a moment, Xie Bian, who was half a step behind, walked to the window sill with his sword in his arms. Li Chengze looked away, picked up a edamame and put it in his mouth with his head raised. It’s really clean.’ That’s a character who has written a wonderful book through the ages.”

Li Hongcheng didn't speak up, so he didn't realize how haunting the book "Red Mansion" is. Although the style of writing is wonderful and the diction is exquisite, the story is too silly and sad, which doesn't suit his taste, so he prefers it. I like to read some military books, or stories about Jiang Hu such as the Seven Heroes and the Five Righteousness.

Xie Bi'an looked at it for a long time, then turned around and said: "The son of the servant of the official department and the prince's followers took the opportunity to make trouble."

Li Hongcheng also got up from the cushion at this time, moved to the edge of the window sill to watch the excitement, there was a lot of movement next door, and the young master of the Fan Mansion heard that Si Nanbo's reputation had been insulted, and ran downstairs with loud noises. Zhentian, seeing Fan Sizhe and Guo Baokun quarreling, Xie Bi'an said unexpectedly: "I didn't expect this Fan family to be quite human." Probably because he had seen too much of the imperial family's imaginary ways, and felt that Novelty.

Li Hongcheng has always known that Fan's mansion is not strict in discipline, and Fan Jian himself is not stingy. He heard from his father that the God of Wealth was a well-known wanderer in the capital when he was young, and he was an ordinary man in Cheng Wang's mansion back then. The young master's current sage is well-known on Liujing River.

Seeing that Fan Sizhe was about to be beaten up by Guo's servants, Xie Bi'an kindly asked his master, "Do you want to fight?"

"Don't steal someone's limelight." Li Chengze was eating salted edamame, thinking that it was much more delicious than that Lao Shizi Jade Chicken.

Li Hongcheng was still thinking about who this so-and-so was, so a white shadow flew out of the window next door, kicked the tyrannical servant, and protected his younger brother behind him.As for the person, he flew more than ten meters away, probably breaking a few ribs. Xie Bi'an couldn't help but clenched his sword tightly. The point of force, strength, and control of this kick were not easy.Li Hongcheng turned his head in surprise, and saw that His Highness the Second Highness was still sitting there peeling edamame, as if he didn't care about things outside the window at all.He helped the window sill, turned around and walked back, asking how did you know he would make a move?

Li Chengze concentrated on peeling the edamame without raising his head, and said, "Guess."

Of course he wasn't guessing.

The last time, Fan Xian made a move at this time. He remembered clearly that Guo Baokun and He Zongwei suffered a small loss here, and then suffered a big loss at the poetry meeting.He wondered if God would give him another chance just to make him stop standing in opposition to Fan Xian, so he came back before the assassination plan on Niulan Street.

A few days after Li Chengze woke up, he found out the current situation. It was indeed back in the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, when Fan Xian had just entered Beijing.The Danzhou assassination planned by Li Yunrui failed, Teng Zijing faked his death and went to Beijing with Fan Xian, Guo Baokun and He Zongwei were slapped in the face for tearing up "Red Mansion" in public... The past is vivid in my memory, and it is really rolling along the wheel of history.

The dish was empty, he had peeled the last bean.Last time, he said to wait and see.Li Chengze sighed in his heart, why wait.

"Go ask Fan Xian to come up and sit down."

Naturally, it was Prince Jing's son who came forward, and after a farce ended, a guest was invited.He thought he would have to tangle with Fan Xian, but Fan Xian was straightforward, and turned around and told his younger siblings to return home first, but don't let anyone know that he was not in the carriage.What he said was not small, he didn't want to avoid anyone, he heard it clearly for Li Hongcheng, he thought that this person was not only bold, but also thoughtful, but his attention drifted involuntarily to the carriage, Fan After I finished my confession, I just bumped into his nervous sneak peek pretending to be serious.

"Why don't you ask His Royal Highness to send my younger siblings back home?" Fan Xian leaned closer, "If His Royal Highness refuses to agree, it means he doesn't give me Fan's face, or he is not sincere, so I won't join in the fun at tomorrow's poetry meeting. "

His request has to be said that although he made an inch of it, but... in the middle of his heart, Li Hongcheng put his face down, moved reluctantly, and gave Fan Xian a scheming conclusion, and went to be an escort in pain and happiness. , I said in my heart that I was doing it for the grand cause of the Second Highness, not out of selfishness that I couldn't refuse.

Seeing this scene on the window sill, Xie Bi'an snorted briefly, then got down from the window sill, walked behind the Second Highness, and still stood half a step away. This is a sword that can be wiped away by anyone who is close to him. The safe distance from the neck of the master who plots evil.

However, Li Chengze raised his chin.

Fan Xian didn't go upstairs from the main entrance, but directly flew up to the window sill on the second floor, which aroused the amazement of the people downstairs.He landed steadily, and with a wave of his hand, the window behind him was closed, and Li Chengze had already ordered Xie Bi'an to guard the door.

At this moment, this is a closed space, Li Chengze sat there cross-legged, this time he did not take off his shoes.

Fan Xian walked over briskly and sat down on the other side of the low table. The exquisite dishes on the table were not touched, only the plate of edamame was left with greenish salt water, piled in front of Li Chengze. There are bean shells that look like hills.Fan Xian propped his chin, wanting to eat something. His hands touched the chopsticks, and then he remembered that Li Hongcheng might have used them. He withdrew his hand resentfully, and said, "May I have a pair of chopsticks, Second Highness?"

"Hongcheng has never used it. Miss Fan is here, so he doesn't know how to eat." Li Chengze reassured him, noticing his address, "Do you recognize me?"

"I recognized it today." Fan Xian grabbed his chopsticks bluntly, and was disturbed by Guo Baokun and his like. Beggar's Chicken in Danzhou Tucai Restaurant.

Li Chengze raised his eyebrows curiously: "Beggar chicken?"

"Your Highness, do you know where the news is best in this world?"

"The Royal Study Room, the first section of the Inspection Institute, the harem." He looked at Fan Xian's expression, and added, "Either, it's a brothel."

Fan Xian puffed his mouth and chewed on the lettuce: "The brothel gives you [-] points for correct answers, and half of them are wrong. They are beggars, beggars, and displaced people. They use the ground as their shop, the sky as their cover, and the lotus leaves as their pots. The soil is used as a stove, and beggar chickens are made. The wisdom of the people is infinite, and the power in the hands of the most despised prostitutes and beggars is like a torrential flood."

Li Chengze tasted the meaning behind the words, "Is this reminding Xiao Wang that the people are the heaven?"

"No, since we are all in the same boat, and the people can carry the boat and capsize it, we might as well think about it for the people, so as not to get wet when the boat capsizes."

"On the same boat?" Li Chengze chewed on the accent, "You and I met for the first time today, how did I not know Mr. Fan was on my boat?"

"It's the boat of the people of the world." Fan Xian poked the table with his chopsticks, "What's the purpose of His Highness calling me here? It's not just to invite Fan to a simple meal, it's not delicious, so hurry up tomorrow I'm going to the mansion, I'll fry some potato shreds for His Highness, and wrap the rice with it."

Li Chengze nodded: "It's not just for a meal, but also to remind you."

"What wake up?"

"The matter of Danzhou was written by the eldest princess."

Fan Xian's chopsticks stopped, "It's a big wake up."

Li Chengze smiled: "Actually, my aunt helped me, and the crown prince was just a cover. Most of the money in the internal treasury went into my pocket. She wants to kill you, and I don't agree."

"Why don't you agree?"

"Father wants to take away the inner treasury from my aunt, but you are just a pawn. Even if I kill you this time, as long as my father doesn't change his mind, there will be another one waiting to marry the princess to take over the inner treasury. Why don't I choose?" smart people to work together."

"That's why His Highness chose me."

"My aunt wants to make money with the emperor, but in this world, no one can calculate His Majesty the Emperor. I don't have the confidence, and I'm not that arrogant. I just want to live a good life."

Fan Xian raised his body slightly, took the jug, poured himself a glass, and filled the glass for Li Chengze.

"Your Highness knows current affairs, Fan Xian respects you."

He raised his wine glass and collided with another wine glass in mid-air, making a crisp sound.

Li Chengze took a sip, and seeing Fan Xian drank it down in one gulp, he had no choice but to empty his glass again.After drinking the cup, he got up from the cushion, patted his knees, and heard Fan Xian say, "I will ask His Majesty to take back the marriage offer."

He had heard this before at Prince Jing's Mansion last time, but this time Fan Xian didn't tell him the vulgar story about love at first sight, so he couldn't remind him that your chicken-legged girl was given to you by His Majesty the Emperor. marriage.

So he had no choice but to speak the familiar lines: "Fan Xian, I'll wait to see you, making trouble in Kyoto."

Li Chengze didn't go to the poetry meeting in Prince Jing's Mansion. At that time, he was in the backyard of Guangxin Palace, listening to Li Yunrui's recitation of the song "Deng Gao", no matter how many times he listened to it, he still wanted to praise it.

After Li Yunrui finished reading, he didn't comment. He only said that Guo Baokun had lost badly. He raised his eyebrows again and asked him what he said in the meeting with Fan Xian at Yishiju yesterday.

"Just make friends."

"Are you very optimistic about him?"

"My aunt has also read "Red Mansion", and today I saw this seven-character quatrain, so there is no disturbance in my heart?"

"'The predictions of the outcome of a game are not true, and the fragrance and tea are all sold out. If you want to know the signs of prosperity and decline, you have to ask the cold-eyed people on the sidelines.' The situation is not small, and he is a talented person, but so what?"

"My aunt doesn't want to admit that she once underestimated this illegitimate child."

Li Yunrui smiled lightly and shook her head, she said why would she not want to, what happened in Danzhou is because I underestimated the enemy, and such a good thing will never happen again.

"Second, the internal library's surname is Li. It cannot be changed to Fan. Moreover, it's not my internal library, it's ours."

"Auntie, you and I both know." Li Chengze picked up the transcribed song Deng Gao and said softly, "Neiku's surname is neither Li nor Fan, but her surname is Ye."

Li Yunrui smiled mysteriously when she heard such rebellious words, and she said, Cheng Ze, you seem to be a little different.

"Auntie, Fan Xian is not our enemy."

"You don't want to be his enemy."

"The mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows. Both of us will lose, and we will only make my father laugh at me."

Li Yunrui burst out laughing suddenly, the most beautiful and charming woman in Daqing was laughing so hard that she burst into tears, the hyacinths in the back garden were blooming just right, and Li Chengze's nose was uncomfortable, that's why he didn't like to come here palace.

"Chengze, you really deserve to be the son of the emperor's elder brother who most resembles him."

Li Yunrui wiped away the tears from laughing, and commented in a low voice. She looked at the handsome man sitting across from him. He didn't look like Emperor Qing in appearance, but he had the flavor of his youth in charm. , before touching the pair of white slender hands holding the poem scroll, she was interrupted.Li Chengze put down the transcribed poems and said, Auntie, you made a mistake.

"I'm not the one who's most like him."