Neighbors with powerful ministers

Xie Jie didn't speak for a long time after listening.

The cold wind in late autumn, crossing the Qushui and piercing the waterside pavilions, came thousands of miles away and woke up Fang Chaoci's mind.He didn't care about wasting with Xie Jie here anymore, he directly took Xie Jie's hand, and took Xie Jie to the hall in front of the waterside rather forcefully.If you have anything to say, you can go back to the house and say it. There is no need to stand by the water and wait to get sick.The waterside pavilion is beautiful, but it is a pity that it does not keep warm.

Xie Jie was obediently led by Fang Chaoci, kept his head down and didn't speak the whole time, but he also cooperated through the cobbled backyard and entered the warm room.When he stepped over the gate, he turned around and looked at it, and suddenly smiled, because Fei Lian and Second Master were still following behind him.

"Do you feel like you are a mother chicken?" Xie Jie raised his head and asked Fang Chaoci.

The title "Mom" is used to call a nanny in Daqi.Xie Jie naturally also has his own nanny, not just one, produced by Ouchi, with guaranteed quality.But his mother didn't like that he was good at women's hands, and was too dependent on the nurses, so she sent all the nurses back to their hometowns to be raised early, and Xie Jie could only reward some things during the festivals to show her miss.

Fang Chaoci turned his head and looked at the three guys lined up in order of height behind him. He really had that meaning, and said helplessly, "Okay, son, let's sit down and drink some hot tea before talking."

"Er Zai! Er Zai!" Second Master got excited and kept shouting, "I'm not so unfilial, Er Zai!"

Xie Jie: In the past few years when he was away, his mother really taught the second master a lot of useless things.

Some birds will always die from their beaks.

Fei Lian kept bowing his body, watching Xie Jie and the second master's confrontation carefully, as if if something went wrong, it could carry the second master and run away at any time.

In the end, it was Fang Chaoci who came forward to save the siege and called Feilian to take the second master down to play.Fei Lian also seemed to really understand human speech, first he went out with his head on his stubborn little friend, and then he just picked it up and ran away.

The second master is still shouting: "Bold! Presumptuous! You can spank Shizi's ass?!"

Xie Jie: "..."

Fang Chaoci tried very hard not to laugh out loud.

"It was all many years ago!" Xie Jie blushed and explained a little furiously.His mother is just an ordinary mother, just like the mothers in ordinary people's homes, she will hug her son and call her sweetheart, and when she gets angry, she will grab the shoe uppers and chase after the mischievous son.Xie Xiaojie was too young and ignorant back then, he only learned from the people who served him in the palace that he was the son of the eldest son, he was the oldest, his mother couldn't beat him.

"What happened later?" Fang Chaoci guided Xie Jie to continue his reminiscence.

"Later? My mother roared angrily. My mother is still the eldest princess. The official's ass is beaten, so what are you Xie Jie?!" Xie Jie imitated his mother's words perfectly.His uncle always said that his mother was a beauty who was not suitable for talking, and that her face could still bluff people if she didn't speak, and everything would be exposed when she spoke.

"The officials have also been beaten?"

"Fight, why not. From uncle to uncle to cousin, no one has escaped. My mother is so courageous."

Just the time when Xie Jie broke his own arm in order to save the second master from falling from a tree, he heard the weather and wanted to beat his son, Emperor Ren and Emperor Wen, who was still the prince at that time, came to persuade him one after another. She insisted on opening her arms in front of Xie Jie, and respectfully said to the eldest princess: "If you want to blame the girl (aunt), you can blame me."

Then, the violent emperor concubine fulfilled Emperor Wen.Of course, in fact, it just looks scary. She is not a person who doesn't know how to measure, and she didn't hit hard, but just lightly. The main purpose is to scare the child.

To scare Xie Jie from doing such dangerous things in the future.

To scare Emperor Wen, don't do everything for his cousin.

Princess Dachang is very forward-looking, she said she is old at the age of three, she had expected that Xie Jie and Emperor Wen would suffer because of these character points, and wanted to break them up early.It's a pity that the two brothers still couldn't escape the limitations of their personalities in the end.

Memories are colorful, Xie Jie is always smiling.

"You don't have anything to say about His Highness's affairs?" Fang Chaoci felt that Xie Jie was so innocent, but rather scary. God knows that with Xie Jie's audacity, he is holding back some big moves.Just like the one in the palace today, when he tried to piece together the real purpose and plan for the first time, even Fang Chaoci was a little unbelievable.It is enough to see how terrible some people can become when they are silent.

People are always duplicity creatures.

"What?" Xie Jie looked at Fang Chaoci suspiciously, with the most sincere doubts in his black and white eyes, he really didn't expect what Fang Chaoci was asking, after all, they were still recalling Xie Jie's childhood anecdotes just now .

"His Highness is in Yingtian..."

"Oh, you guys are hiding things from me, of course I'm angry." Xie Jie's temper has always been quite strong, and even the slightest thing can make him explode. In this aspect, his personality is a bit like his mother's, " But, it's over."

Xie Jie is quick to get angry, but also quick to calm down.Especially for the people around him, as long as he doesn't touch the limit that he can't tolerate, he is always easy to forgive.

There is no way, who made him like them.

Fang Chaoci finally understood why Xie Jie had been silent just now, probably because he was sulking in the Cold War, this way of anger... Fang Chaoci stroked the rim of the blue teacup, and lowered his head to hide the corners of his lips.

"Don't worry, I know what you're worried about," Xie Jie originally wanted to hang on to Fang Chaoci for a while to make Fang Chaoci more worried, but when he couldn't get angry anymore, he didn't want to make Fang Chaoci worry anymore, so he Going back to Fang Chaoci, "I won't go to Yingtian Mansion to find my mother suddenly, I really don't know why you all miss me so much, am I such a ignorant person who just wants to make trouble?"

"you……"

"If you dare to answer 'you are', our friendship will come to an end." Xie Jie threatened seriously.It's like a little tiger that hasn't been weaned yet, but its teeth and claws are only the size of an ordinary kitten, and it still feels super fierce.

"Don't dare, I'm going to say that the prince is certainly not that kind of person, the prince cares more about the overall situation." Fang Chaoci took a sip of tea.

"That's about the same." Xie Jie didn't feel that Fang Chaoci was making fun of him with irony at all, and was very happy to take advantage of it, and then said, "You people, you are smart but you are mistaken by your cleverness, and you tend to think too much. Watch out for hair loss."

Fang Shaoqing, who was in his prime in his 20s, faced the sourness of being reminded to be careful of a mid-life crisis for the first time.

"Let me ask you, if I go to Yingtian Mansion, what can I do?" Xie Jie asked Fang Chaoci the rhetorical question he had asked himself in his heart. His silence just now was not just a cold war. He is a person with a lot of inner drama.Especially after having Tianshi.

"En?" Fang Chaoci looked at Xie Jie.

"Will I fight?"

"……Won't."

"Then I will line up?"

"Neither."

"Or do I have the eloquence of Lin Xiangru or Mr. Wolong, and I can persuade the barbarians to retreat?"

"Not likely."

Only then did Xie Jie lean back. The Fang family's chair was an official hat with a backrest. He spread his hands and shrugged, "That's all. I know how much I'm lagging behind."

This was the first time Fang Chaoci heard someone be so proud of being incompetent.

"If I go to Yingtian Mansion, not only won't be able to help, but it will also tire my mother to take care of me. If I don't pay attention, if Ying Tianfu sneaks into a traitor, kidnaps me, and threatens my mother, you will say that my mother is saving me. ?”

"How is this possible?" Fang Chaoci comforted Xie Jie.

"How is this impossible?" Xie Jie kicked the foot of the chair, interrupted the eye contact with Fang Chaoci, and turned his eyes to the left, "It's not like it never happened."

It's just that the object of the threat is not his mother, not his cousin.

Fang Chaoci's expression changed, and he quickly thought of the assassination of the late emperor in Jiangzuo, and there was indeed an inside story!Fang Chaoci after thinking about it, the first thing is to warn Xie Jie: "This matter must never be mentioned to anyone again, not even a little bit!"

Xie Jie was taken aback by Fang Chaoci's solemnity. In fact, in his opinion, this is not something that cannot be said, otherwise he would not say it to Fang Chaoci who has just gotten better.Although what he said was very vague, as long as he had the heart, he could still understand what Xie Jie meant.But since Fang Chaoci said so: "Don't worry, I won't say anything, not even my mother."

"Your Highness can still say it." Fang Chaoci rubbed his temples, "Just don't let other people know, it will be bad for you."

The matter of the late emperor is too sensitive. The most important thing is that some people have gone crazy because of the late emperor, and any possibility of letting the other party know must be eliminated.Even he didn't know what the man would do if he knew.

"Okay." Xie Jie was actually very clear about the priorities.

During the meal, Fang Chaoci also kept observing Xie Jie secretly, trying to determine whether he was talking nicely and wanted to relax their vigilance, or whether Xie Jie really wanted to understand.

Xie Jie occasionally noticed that Fang Chaoci looked at him, so he let the other party look at him openly, and would look back from time to time.Beauty's advantages are not taken for nothing.

On a round table, Zhan Huanran always felt that he was a bit redundant, even the rice was not delicious!

After chatting for a while after the meal, Fang Chaoci politely sent Xie Jie home, even though the house was next door.The dark streets, ancient brick walls, and red lanterns illuminate the way home.

Xie Jie was wearing Fang Chaoci's cloak, hugging the warm Fei Lian, always feeling indescribably happy, having a secret happiness of being fulfilled in his childhood dreams.

He didn't know why he felt that way, but that's how he felt.

It wasn't until he walked back to the gate of Xie's house that Xie Jie walked up the steps and was almost on the same level as Fang Chaoci standing below, then he said again: "Don't worry, I really won't sneak away. How difficult and dangerous is Jiang Zuo going to Yingtian? The most taboo thing is that the coach is restless."

"It's for my sake, it's not as good as the son's transparency." Fang Chaoci was completely relieved. One of Xie Jie's greatest strengths was that he was always afraid of hurting his relatives and friends.

"Because I know more things than you." Xie Jie couldn't help but groaned, his straight nose almost went up to the sky.But he regretted it after he finished speaking, all he knew came from Tianshi, if Fang Chaoci asked him, how should he answer?

...Xie Jie's previous conversation with Tianshi...

[How likely is it that the history you mentioned will be changed? 】After Xie Jie knew the truth about Guoba, the first thing he did was to ask Tianshi in his heart.

[History will not be changed! 】 Tianshi is very determined.

[Even if I didn't do what I should have done in history? 】

Tianshi: [How do you know that you are not doing what you should do in history? 】

Xie Jie thought about it, it seems to be the truth.In this way, he was relieved, although Tianshi was strictly guarded behind and refused to disclose any information about the future to Xie Jie, including whether his mother won or lost this battle.But it doesn't matter, Xie Jie already knows that his mother is the longest-lived princess in history.In other words, winning or losing is not important, as long as the person is still alive.All he needs to worry about is whether his mother will get hurt, not his life.

With this prerequisite, Xie Jie can analyze other things calmly, for example, he can't be the part that implicates everyone.

...the memory ends...

Fang Chaoci's dark eyes hide too many things that Xie Jie can't understand in the black night.

So this is ah.Fang Chaoci nodded secretly in his heart, with his thing there, it could indeed calm the prince's heart.I didn't want to come back at the beginning, it seems that I went on the right path.

Although Xie Jie didn't know how Fang Chaoci was relieved, as long as he made it clear, just in case, he still added a word: "I know my mother is the most powerful person in the world, she must It'll be fine."

"Your Highness has great blessings, and he is sure to be safe and sound." Fang Chaoci also said to Xie Jie with certainty.

"But you kept this from me, shouldn't you be punished?" Xie Jie rolled his eyes, it seemed that he was already planning to wait here for Fang Chao's resignation.

"Yes!" Fang Chaoci was not prepared to bargain at all.

"What do I say?" Xie Jie raised his eyebrows, crossed his chest, and looked at Fang Chaoci who seemed to be about the same height as him now. He liked the feeling of being side by side with him.

"It's what you say." Fang Chaoci smiled.

"Then let's get through the wall above Qushui first." Xie Jie had already made up his mind, and he would make Fang Chaoci agree with it no matter whether he agreed or not.

"Is this going?"

"I want to row a boat to find you. It's so boring to always walk. From now on, you will teach me the art of war and the formation of troops." Xie Jie doesn't know anything, but he can learn.Weak and incompetent today will only hold people back. He doesn't want to experience it again in the future, "When you feel that I am qualified to help, then send me to my mother. That's the decision, don't refute!"

Xie Jie was afraid that Fang Chaoci would go back on his word.

Fang Chaoci naturally wouldn't refuse such a good thing delivered to his door, but he still wanted to tease Xie Jie: "How did your son know that I know the art of war? What if I don't know how?"

Xie Jie was taken aback, and shouted at him, Fang Chaoci is a literati, and he didn't know why he unilaterally believed that Fang Chaoci was omnipotent.Even his father Xie He is not really good at everything.

"I'm not omnipotent, but I still know a thing or two about the art of war." Fang Chaoci bowed deeply to Xie Jie under the moonlit night.

"Knowing is knowing, what do you know, you people really hate talking." Xie Jie found a fault to win back.

"Well, it's very annoying." Fang Chaoci only followed Xie Jie's words.

Xie Jie pouted, Fang Chaoci didn't refute at all, what should he do, this treacherous minister is really too cunning!

Finally, Fang Chaoci said to Xie Jie: "His Royal Highness Emperor Ji told me that when the son-in-law was alive, he wrote you a message, hoping that when you grow up, you will be as free and easy as a poet, eclectic."

"It's a pity that I didn't grow up, right?" Xie Jie stopped Fang Chaoci's mouth first.Shixian belongs to the kind of true temperament covering his ears and shouting "Don't listen or listen, you are all idiots, I am different from you, I want to be a god".Xie Jie felt that he would never be able to match Shixian's willfulness.

"You are also very free and easy," Fang Chaoci walked up the steps and looked closely at Xie Jie.He didn't want to say that Xie Jie didn't live up to expectations, but, "It's just that you are more like a talented Su."

Want to praise him.

"Great talent Su?"

"That's right, Su Dacai is 'so what if you are demoted? What if you have no money? Pork is also delicious, look at the type of Dongpo meat I studied'." Fang Chaoci looked at Xie Jie, as if he already knew him Very deep, he said firmly to him, "In my heart, you are such a person, and nothing can stop you from letting yourself be happy."

I slowly understood why I was unhappy, because I always look forward to a result.

……

But it was the same me when I was a child,

Spend an afternoon watching the ants move, waiting for the stones to bloom,

When I was young, I didn't look forward to the result, and when I was young, I didn't compromise on crying or laughing.

One by one Ma De "allow yourself to waste time"

Xie Jie usually does not expect the result when he does things. If he treats someone well, he really wants to treat him well, and he does not ask the other party to know or repay him; So he didn't care about Fang Chaoci's concealment from him, and he could easily be happy.

This has both advantages and disadvantages.

Fang Chaoci watched the back of Xie Jie go back to the mansion and gradually drifted away, until the double doors with nails closed completely in front of his eyes little by little.She blocked that green back, and also blocked his eyes from looking at him.

……

After Xie Jie returned to the mansion, he specially called the old man, the fourth son, and the eldest daughter Yingniang, but Qian Jia was not among them, fortunately or unfortunately.

Xie Jie had a sullen face, and the second master also imitated Xie Jie's sullen face.

Zhai Lao had a thump in his heart when Xie Jie went to participate in the Gathering next door today, but he had no reason to stop Xie Jie, he could only resign himself to fate.

"Why haven't you seen the morning newspaper lately?" Xie Jie didn't rush to make trouble, but just asked in a neutral manner.

This time, even Xie Erlang, who has the worst brain, understood that what they kept from the prince seemed to be exposed.

Chaobao is a private private tabloid, similar in nature to Dibao, but it is not a publication allowed by the government. There are true and false news, and some news that the court does not want the public to know, but the news in the general direction is definitely there and accurate of.Tabloids have a strong foundation among the people, and there are often newsstands selling tabloids in the morning market. Compared with Zheye and Wei Guangzheng's Dibao, Xie Jie prefers to read morning newspapers. He likes gossip that is true or false.

However, Xie Jie is not particularly addicted to the Morning Post. He doesn't read it for a few days, and he won't ask why he didn't buy the Morning Post today.He can't even remember it.

Zhai Lao has been avoiding Xie Jie from contacting the tabloids before, so as to see the truth of the outside world.

Xie Jie really didn't remember it.Asking him out of the blue now can only show that he actually knows everything.

"This old servant is guilty." The old man knelt down without any excuses or excuses.

"My son, please punish me." The fourth son and Yingniang also knelt down without complaint.In any case, they have lied to the prince.The son is the master, and they are the servants. It is wrong to deceive like this.

Xie Jie's eyes were red. He was really angry, very angry, but there was really no way to be angry with them for too long.

"Do you still dare to do it in the future?" The second master was beside him with a strange expression.

"Yes, do you still dare to do it in the future?" Xie Jie asked.

"Don't dare." Xie San'er is the most slippery, especially good at hitting snakes with sticks. He doesn't have evil intentions, on the contrary, he is very funny, "Our son is so discerning, he will definitely find out, I dare not .”

The old man glared at Xie San'er, wrong is wrong, there are so many glib words.

Xie Jie finally laughed through his tears. He is such a person with a low point of laughter, and he really can't help it.What he is most afraid of is that when he is angry on one side, someone is joking with him on the other side, because he is likely to laugh along with him.

"Okay, get up, don't lie to me in the future, you will really be sad."

"Starting tomorrow, half a year's expenses will be deducted." The old man punished himself.

"Yeah, you don't have to be so cruel." Half a year's money is still quite a lot, Xie Jie is a little bit reluctant to let the old man bring his whole family to suffer with him at such an age, "Let's punish him a little, and go out within half a year. I'll buy some snacks to eat, you guys watch!"

"Yes!" Almost no one had any objections, and even felt a little joyful.

Xie Jie: "..." This is really lacking dignity!

After the matter was settled, Xie Jie asked the old man what else he was hiding from him.

"Di Ji acquiesced to this matter."

"I knew that she was the worst." Xie Jie curled his lips, without his mother's acquiescence, no matter how courageous Zhai Lao is, it would be impossible for him to do such a betrayal.

"The queen mother has arrived in Jiangzuo, and the little emperor and the little prince were born in the palace."

Xie Jie nodded, he almost guessed it, since his mother is not going to pick up the queen mother, it is self-evident where the queen mother is: "Tomorrow I will go to the palace to visit."

"But your body..."

"I don't care! I'm going!" Xie Jie was already living at home so moldy, and now he finally made the old man feel ashamed of him, he would be a ghost if he didn't take advantage of it.

The old man knew he was wrong, so he could only admit it.

In the end, Xie Jie ordered the house owner to take out all the money he earned from renting the house and prepare for it.And once again raised the rent, he is not afraid of whether these tenants will be dissatisfied or not rent, because now it is a seller's market, he can do whatever he wants!

"There's no need to save the newly collected rent, just send it to my mother along with the previous rent." Xie Jie said.

"Yes!" The boss of the house was shocked, and there was an indescribable sense of pride in my family who had just grown up. He thought in his heart that it was indeed that he had underestimated his family's son before.Shizi actually thinks more comprehensively than anyone else.

On the second day, Xie Jie got up early again in the annoying wake-up call, had enough food and drink, and then prepared to leave for the palace to see his uncle and two little nephews.

Before going out, Xie Jie saw Er Ye and Fei Lian fighting.It should be that the second master thought they were fighting skills, but Feilian thought it was an interesting game.One cat and one bird compete to reach a higher place than the other, but they refuse to go too high and separate from each other.In this way, it increases step by step, back and forth, as if it is tireless.

The second master fanned his wings and dubbed: "No one can be taller than me! No one can!"

Fei Lian happily meowed along.

It happened that Fang Chaoci was standing at the gate, watching what happened in the yard here, and looked at Xiao Shizi jokingly: "Which childhood anecdote of yours is this?"

Xie Jie beat him to death and refused to admit that he sneaked through his mother's embroidered shoes back then.

The author has something to say:

Walking in *: This is really the name of Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty. History books generally say that Lin'an is the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, but it is not rigorous.Because the entire Southern Song Dynasty did not recognize Lin'an as their capital at all, the capital will always be Bianliang, and Lin'an is just walking.It is the temporary residence of the official family, sooner or later we will call back!Although, heck, no.

Mother*: In the Song Dynasty, a mother was generally referred to as a mother, a wet nurse as a mother, a adoptive mother as a maid, and a girl as... an aunt.Song Dynasty is really interesting 2333

Zhaobao*: It is similar to modern street tabloids, except that the gossip is not about celebrities.It is recorded in "Jingkang Yaolu", "Old Stories of Wulin" and "West Lake Old Man Fanshenglu".