【Xianze】Difficult to recite

Fan Xian caused a great upheaval in the south of the Yangtze River. This time he didn't bring the third child with him, and he didn't have any scruples in doing things. The Ming old lady was forced to death, and Fan Xian's image among the people plummeted, but he didn't care about this kind of false reputation. .

Li Chengze was not idle in the capital, passively avoiding the palace's secret order to let him go to the Ye Mansion more, spending all day in Danbo Bookstore, almost becoming the second shopkeeper.After such a month has passed, everyone in the capital knows that if you go to Danbo Bookstore to buy books, if you meet the second prince and you can feast your eyes, you can buy one and get one free.

After finishing the last volume of "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio", Li Chengze raised his head, while Fan Sizhe slumped listlessly on the counter with his abacus beads in his arms.

"What's wrong?" He expressed his humanitarian concern.

Fan Sizhe turned his head slowly and looked at him sadly, with drooping eyes, like an abandoned puppy.

Although not brothers, in a sense, they are quite similar.Li Chengze was in a good mood, and thought of teasing a little: "Are you dumb? Don't talk about how the prince can relieve the people's worries."

Fan Sizhe was excited and spoke quickly: "When is Your Highness planning to return home?"

"It's still early."

Fan Sizhe collapsed again and yelled: "Oh, if you stay with me in this small shop if you are a rich man, I will die..."

"Why don't you just send one or two more books, and you can starve to death?"

"You can't die of hunger." Fan Sizhe replied, "but you earn less! You don't want to earn money, you only think about how to spread the money. This is not suitable. Anyway, it is not suitable for me. I beg you, where did you come from? Come back quickly." where to go!"

If Fan Ruoruo was here, he had to hit him again, how could he talk to the Second Highness?

Li Chengze closed the book, stretched his waist, without blinking his eyelids: "Tell me, how much is missing, your brother is not here, I will give you some pocket money."

"You are really my brother!"

"No, you're taking advantage of our Emperor, you're going to kill him." Facing the one who flew up to hug his thigh, Li Chengze wiped his neck to scare the child.

Fan Sizhe followed Fan Xian every day to eat farts, and he lost his respect for the royal family. This small scene really didn't scare him, maybe thick-skinned is also dark.

Teng Zijing went to pick up his son from class, and took Teng Xiaojing to the bookstore. He has been studying in Shangshan Private School for a while, and the husband did not take care of him because of the relationship with the Second Highness, nor did he look down on him because of his poor background. There was no special treatment, which made Teng Zijing very satisfied.On the way, I bought two candied haws. Teng Xiaojing hugged them and said that I would bring them to my second brother.

Teng Xiaojing hugged candied haws, Teng Zijing hugged him, scraped off his round nose, and said, why do you call Fan Xian an uncle, and calling him the Second Highness is your elder brother? Really, your second elder brother is better than you Little Uncle Fan was born two years early.

Teng Xiaojing said that an elder brother is an elder brother, an uncle is an uncle, and a father is a father.

Teng Zijing was taken aback, what do you call me?

The child guarded the candied haws vigilantly and buried it in his father's chest. He felt that the person coming from the opposite side was not kind, and his whole body was covered in black, which was very similar to his father's previous outfit.

Teng Zijing had noticed it a long time ago, but he didn't expect that the other party could actually stop him on the street. This really didn't seem like the way he went around.

Holding the soft sword behind his waist with one hand, he asked his former colleagues what advice he had, and the Second Highness let him out to pick up his son, but he hurried back to return to his command.

The other party shook his head and said that the dean invited him.

Ever since he went to Danzhou to carry out the assassination mission against Fan Xian, he had never been back to the Inspection Institute. To the Inspection Institute, he was considered a half-traitor.However, given Fan Xian's status in the courtyard, he wasn't too worried about what Dean Chen would really do to him, but the people who came didn't take him into the inspection courtyard, but headed straight out of the city.

Chen Pingping was not in the Inspection Institute. In Chen Yuan, he had not been in charge of the affairs of the institute for a long time. During Fan Xian's absence, everything was in Yan Bingyun's hands.

This was the first time he went to Chen Yuan, and he was not qualified to do so in the Inspection Institute before.

Chen Pingping is different from ordinary civil and military officials. His status in the court of the Qing Dynasty is too special, and he always refuses to go to the court because of illness, so he has time to live in the garden outside the city for many years, and the family in Beijing is basically I haven't lived there much.The two splashed ink characters on the plaque outside Chen Yuan were inscribed by the late emperor's relatives.

Teng Zijing muttered in his heart that the old dean wanted to see him, probably because of Fan Xian. Fan Xian is Chen Pingping's most important thing, and he is also his appointed successor. Don't look at Yan Bingyun who is in charge of everything in Beijing now. From now on, the entire Forensic and Inspection Institute will belong to Fan Xian.

Chen Pingping was listening to an opera, and the young and beautiful girl of three or five years played a fairy tale of a fairy descending to earth to find true love. There was a hint of comfort in her eyes that were used to coldness, and her thin hands were gently stroking the gray wool blanket on her lap that had not changed for many years.Hearing that someone was coming, he moved his ears and beckoned him to sit down.

After a long time of silence, Teng Zijing was patient, and finally couldn't take it anymore.

"Dean, I'm still in a hurry to go back."

"Where are you going?"

"Fan Tesi asked me to protect His Highness the Second Highness and never leave him." He pushed Fan Xian out, even if Chen Pingping didn't want to sell her face, he still had to consider not slapping Fan Xian in the face.

Chen Pingping glanced over, and among them, the bully who belonged to the superior had nailed him in place and could not move. He knew that Chen Pingping was also a one-in-a-kind master before her leg was broken, but Chen Pingping, who was sitting in a wheelchair, was better than when she followed Zai Cheng. Chen Wuchang next to Wang Shizi was even more terrifying.

"I'm curious, why did Fan Xian ask you to protect the second child?"

"Dean, I'm just a guard. It's enough to know my duties. I don't ask why."

"Fan Xian chose you, it seems right." Chen Pingping waved the group of singers and dancers away, "Tell me what you think of the second child."

Teng Zijing thought for a while and said, "The mind is free and easy, not like a prince."

"Oh?" Chen Pingping raised her interest, "You mean he's not interested in that seat."

"I don't think so."

"What about Fan Xian?"

"Not much more."

Why did Fan Xian suddenly come up in the battle for the heir apparent?Teng Zijing didn't understand.

"Then tell me, since they don't want to compete for that seat, what are they plotting together all day long?"

"This question stumps me."

Chen Pingping took out a letter and threw it to him. The envelope was empty and there was no name.

"The Appraisal Institute cut it halfway, that brat Fan Xian, did he use all his literary talent in this kind of place?"

Under Chen Pingping's gaze, he opened the envelope. The thin paper was folded in two. It wasn't rice paper but ordinary printing paper. Maybe it was because he knew that the handwriting was ugly and he didn't use a brush. The crooked, ant-like font was Written in similar stone lead.

There was nothing special at the beginning. I briefly talked about what I did in Jiangnan, but I couldn’t help showing off a little in the middle of the words. I deviated from the official business and began to talk about the beautiful scenery in Jiangnan and local anecdotes.

"I don't know if you still remember the story I told you about the big green tree in Dongyi City and the idiot who counted ants. I also had such a tree in the yard of my residence in the south of the Yangtze River. Falling leaves, ants are busy carrying food for the winter, so they don’t have time to talk to me.”

"I got up early during the bidding days, and I was lucky enough to see the sunrise of the West Lake. It was different from the morning dawn in Kyoto. The sun in Kyoto was pale, but the sunrise in Jiangnan was warm and golden. I will never forget it once I saw it. , you must like it, I read it for you, you are not bad, I will tell you when I get back, if not, I will let Wang Qinian draw it."

"Haitang is here, and I told her that I gave you the Tianyi method. She chased me and chopped down three streets, but I was not injured, and she couldn't beat me. Also, don't use the cheat book as a table corner, I I will go back and ask Teng Zijing."

"I also met Uncle Ye this time. His Liuyun Sanshou is really good. Do you want to ask Ye Linger for some advice? Forget it, just kidding, don't take it seriously."

"I'll be back soon."

At the end of the letter, there is a little poem:

Spring is not old, the wind is thin and the willows are slanting.

Try it on the transcendent stage to see, half a city of spring flowers.

Amidst the rain, a thousand families are dark.

After the cold food, the wine sobered but consulted.

Hugh thinks about his old country, and will try new tea with new fire.

Poetry and wine take advantage of their time.

What a poem and wine to take advantage of the time.

But sending a homely letter full of gossip by the highest-secret postal route of the Inspection Institute is indeed extravagant and wasteful.Teng Zijing thought, well, no wonder the dean is angry.

He swore that I would hand it over to the Second Highness.

When Chen Pingping was able to throw out the letter, she didn't intend to withhold it. Just as she was about to ask him to assign a task, there was a commotion outside the courtyard, and then it fell silent again.He frowned slightly, his yard was surrounded by black cavalry, and the tiger guards sent by Emperor Qing, it can be said that it was more heavily guarded than the imperial palace, and not everyone could break into it.

Chen Yuan's old servant appeared at the entrance of the hall with a hunchback, walked over a few steps, and said that the door was for His Highness the Second Highness to see him, and there were two guards and a child.

Chen Pingping brushed off the gray blanket on her lap nonchalantly, "What is he here for?"

"Old Director Gui'an, I'm here to get my people back."

Li Chengze led Teng Xiaojing into the threshold slowly, holding a bunch of red candied haws in his hand.