Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

Outside the yamen of the sheriff's mansion, there were countless people who begged to see Ji Hanyu every day, so the yamen guards were used to chasing people away.

Not long after noon, everyone started to feel drowsy after eating a full meal. They saw a dusty carriage parked at the door, and the driver who drove out was an old man, wearing a cloth shirt, who looked like he was not a dignitary. People's groom.

The groom jumped down and walked straight towards the gate. The yamen servant thought to himself: Who is he looking for?Mr. Ji invited someone out for lunch. Mr. Zhong hasn't shown up for several days. Mr. Wang seems to be there, but he never sees guests during the lunch break...

"Who are you looking for?" the yamen servant asked preemptively.

The old man took out a name card and handed it to him, "My little brother, we are here to pay a visit to Mr. Ji Han Yuji. I wonder if he is in the yamen?"

The yamen servant showed a clear look, glanced at the post casually, and returned it to the other party without even seeing the name, "I'm really sorry, Mr. Ji is not in the yamen, if you are sure you want to meet, you can make an appointment first."

"An appointment?" the old man asked puzzled.

"It's just queuing, first come, first served, understand? Do you know how many people line up every day to see Mr. Ji? There must be order."

The old man ran back and said something to the people in the carriage. The curtain of the carriage stood still, and he didn't know what was said inside. The old man quickly turned around and asked kindly: "Brother, how can I get to Mr. Ji's mansion?" ?”

Seeing that he was old, the yamen servant couldn't bear him to make this trip in vain, so he reminded: "If you are on official business, you'd better make an appointment at the yamen, Mr. Ji is not often at home, so even if you wait at the door, you may not be able to see anyone. "

"Our master is a relative of Mr. Ji, and he came here specially to visit him."

There was no fluctuation in the yamen servant's heart. Since Mr. Ji came to power, there have been many people who come to visit relatives, but all South Vietnam knows that Mr. Ji is an orphan without father or mother, and only one teacher still cuts off ties. relatives?

"Are you from out of town?"

"Yes, we came from the north."

"Hey, then your news is quite behind. Mr. Ji has no relatives. People who seek relatives can't even enter the gate of Ji's mansion. You should have something to talk about."

Probably did not expect a janitor at the gate to be so difficult, the old man took out a small silver coin and gave it to him, "Then please help me, brother, how can we see Mr. Ji as soon as possible? My master is not in good health. Great."

Although the yamen servants saw the silver, although they were tempted, they did not accept it. Now that the yamen is treated well and the monthly salary is full, they have passed the age of seeing money.

"I really can't help you with this. There are dozens of people waiting in line ahead. If I let them know that you have jumped in line and sue the superiors, I will lose my job. Forgive me."

At this moment, a corner of the curtain of the carriage was raised, and a steady voice came out: "Uncle Yin, ask him how to get along the palace."

The yamen servant told them the locations of the Ji Mansion and the Wang Mansion, and it was their business whether they wanted to go there, and whether they could get in or not had nothing to do with them.

The old man jumped into the carriage, drove the carriage around and left, it seemed that he was indeed going to the palace, the yamen servant muttered to himself: Could it be some important person with background?How can the prince be seen by anyone.

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Li Xu was about to lie down and take a nap when he saw Liu Shu rushing over with a greeting card in his hand.

"Who's here?" Li Xu leaned on the bedside and asked.

Liu Shu's face was a little nervous, and he didn't know why, so he leaned over and handed the post to Li Xu, and whispered, "My lord, it's Song Wang!"

Li Xu didn't think of this person for a while, so he opened the post and looked at it, only to see that there was no title added in front of the name, which showed that he had no official position.

"Song Wang?" It sounded familiar.

Liu Shu reminded him: "It's that Song Yushi, Mr. Ji's elder brother!"

"Huh?" Li Xu raised his eyebrows in surprise, remembering that there was indeed such a person, Ji Hanyu strongly recommended him to become an official in South Vietnam, but didn't he say it was inappropriate later on?

Did Ji Hanyu still send the invitation letter?Then it was a surprise that he was able to come, and the position of the head of education was still vacant.

He jumped out of bed, changed into a neat set of clothes, and strode out, "Send someone to Ji Hanyu and ask him if he knows about Song Wang's coming." Logically, Ji Hanyu couldn't ignore such big news. Told him beforehand.

Liu Shu hurried to do it. When Li Xu walked into the living room, he saw a person with his back turned to him, admiring the painting hanging in the middle hall.

It was a landscape painting, majestic, with high mountains, creeks and waterfalls, sunrise and east mountains, and courtyard houses.

This painting was not a masterpiece by a famous artist. Li Xu saw it by chance on the way south, and the price was cheap, so he bought it. If it wasn't for the fact that the other party didn't want to leave his hometown, he even wanted to bring the artist directly.

"This is... Mr. Song?" Li Xu asked.

The man turned around, revealing a face with Chinese characters, thick eyebrows, slightly raised eyes, high nose bridge, thin lips, expressionless face, he looked like a well-behaved person.

Li Xu and Song Wang should have met each other before, but that happened many years ago, he could be forgiven for not remembering, but the latter couldn't possibly fail to recognize Li Xu, so he bowed to Li Xu, "Crassman Song Wang , see the prince."

"Get up." Li Xu asked him to sit down, and he sat next to Song Wang, instead of the high-ranking host, obviously intending to draw the relationship between the two closer.

"Did Mr. Song come to South Vietnam after receiving Ji Hanyu's letter?"

"Half, Caomin received a letter from his junior brother more than half a year ago. He told about his experience in the past few years, and also said that he is now a high-ranking Nanyue county guard. Even a young man dares to put it in such an important position. Of course, my junior brother is talented, but he is just a fledgling, inexperienced, and it is too early to take on this big responsibility. Look at him, he stopped and stopped all the way, and he didn't enter the city until today."

Li Xu personally poured him a cup of tea, and said sincerely: "To tell the truth, Mr. Song, at that time, the king was in urgent need of someone to take charge of the education in South Vietnam. Master Ji recommended you, but considering your talent and experience, I felt that you were overqualified. So I dropped the idea.”

Song Wang raised his head and glanced at him. The young man was still very handsome, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, red lips and white teeth. He was similar to but different from the person in his memory. Although the Crown Prince in his memory was also gentle, he lacked a sense of affinity.

However, it is normal that there will be some changes.

"The lord is afraid that I won't be willing to be inferior to my junior brother?" Song Wang pointed out the point straightforwardly.

Li Xu had a good first impression of Song Wang. Knowing that he was a straight-forward person, he simply said, "This is indeed the main reason. Mr. Song's talent is unquestionable, and his character is also good, but the Nanyue County Sheriff is Ji Hanyu, you are brothers and sisters, so there will inevitably be estrangement."

Song Wang said expressionlessly: "You worry too much. Caomin is just a commoner now, with no official or position, so they don't care about who they are inferior to. However, Caomin has no intention of being an official and does not want to re-enter the officialdom."

Li Xu didn't have any hope that he would agree, and because he didn't know Song Wang well enough, he didn't have much feelings, so he dragged him to chat about the customs on the way south.

The two walked many of the same routes, saw the same scenery, and even ate at the same restaurant and slept in the same inn. The more they chatted, the more interesting they became. Even Song Wang's face had many expressions, and he was no longer rigid. Board it.

After an unknown amount of time, Liu Shu came in, refilled the hot tea for the two, and suggested, "My lord and Mr. Song, why don't you go to the Guanxin Pavilion by the lake? It's more suitable for a chat. "

Li Xu looked at the time and found that the two chatted for an hour, and this was only a part of it. No wonder the ancients had the idiom of talking at night while holding candles. He thought he could chat with Song Wang all night.

Song Wang got up and said: "On the way here, I heard that the prince is about to get married, and the grass-roots people have the cheek to ask for a wedding invitation."

"Naturally, the wedding is only three days away. Where will Mr. Song end up?"

"Caomin has just entered the city, and he hasn't met Junior Brother yet. If he is willing to take him in, he can live in Ji's Mansion."

Li Xu wanted to keep him in the palace, but the family was busy with the wedding these days, so he definitely couldn't take care of Song Wang, so he simply let his senior brother accompany him.

"Well, I will send you a post later, and the palace will hold a banquet tomorrow. Mr. Song can come and have a drink with me."

At this time, in addition to the big banquet on the day of the wedding, there are several days of banquets before and after the wedding, and the people who are close to each other are invited. Li Xu asked Song Wang to come over tomorrow, obviously because he valued him very much.

"The grass-roots are bothering you. The prince is busy. The grass-roots will leave first, and we will chat with the prince some other day." Song Wang had no chance to sit and chat with His Highness the Crown Prince before, but he did not expect him to be such a talkative person, and he had a faint connection. The feeling of talking very happily, as if the two are of the same generation.

Li Xu personally sent him out, and sent two guards to escort him to Ji Hanyu, then turned around and asked Liu Shu, "Have you seen Ji Hanyu?"

"Yes, Lao Qi went. He said that Mr. Ji had lunch in a restaurant with several wealthy businessmen in the city. He was also very surprised to hear that Mr. Song came. He said that he did invite Mr. Song to South Vietnam, but he didn't say that he would come to South Vietnam Officer, the other party did not reply to him, he thought it would not happen."

Li Xu chatted with Song Wang for a while, and he was sure that his ultimate goal was South Vietnam, and there was no such thing as stopping by to take a look, but I don't know if he could guess the intention of Zhongji Hanyu in inviting him to South Vietnam.

He said that he had no intention of officialdom, but in Li Xu's view, he couldn't get rid of the bureaucratic atmosphere, and his words were full of people's livelihood. If such a person left the officialdom, he would be like a fish without water, and his life would be bad.

"Go and inquire about his trajectory after entering South Vietnam, and find out if he has done anything special."

Liu Shu responded immediately, as long as Song Wang went to villages and cities, he would leave traces. With the current connections between counties and towns in South Vietnam, news of Song Wang might have come back.

Besides, on Ji Hanyu's side, when he heard the people in the palace say that the elder brother is here, he even went to the palace, he was shocked speechless, hurriedly settled the noon entertainment, and hurried to the palace, only to learn that the elder brother had already left up.

He immediately turned back to the Ji Mansion, fearing that the senior brother would be stopped outside the door. The doorkeeper at home was used to being flattered, so he would inevitably be flattered.

Fortunately, his carriage was relatively fast, and he took a shortcut, so he happened to run into Song Wang at the door of his house.

Ji Hanyu looked at his relatives whom he had not seen for many years, his eyes were hot, and he strode forward to hug him, "It's great, I finally met senior brother."

Song Wang didn't expect such a warm welcome, he didn't hug him, he didn't push him away, he was a little dazed.

Fortunately, Ji Hanyu didn't hold him for too long, and after expressing his miss, he dragged him into the mansion, and said as he walked, "Brother, it's true, why don't you tell me in advance if you want to come, so that I can pick you up , and the house has to be tidied up, it came so suddenly, I was shocked."

It is rare for Ji Hanyu to show a little childishness in front of Song Wang. This is his unique demeanor in front of his relatives. No matter how old he is, he still looks forward to having relatives.

Song Wang and Ji Hanyu are actually not very close. He became an official in the court a few years after Han Yu was accepted as an apprentice. When he was dismissed from office and returned, he and Ji Hanyu were in Qingqiong Academy together, and because of their mentor, they did not see each other often. , When he left the academy, he hadn't seen Ji Hanyu.

He also heard about Ji Hanyu being expelled from the school, and the reason was very difficult to understand, so he first asked what he wanted to know, "What's going on with you and your junior sister?"

The corner of Ji Hanyu's mouth twitched, and he had forgotten about the little junior sister if he didn't mention it, so he said honestly: "She wants to marry me, but I don't want to marry her, so she framed me, saying that I was in chaos and abandoned all the time. , Master believed her words and expelled me from the sect."

This is really... an indescribable reason, Song Wang frowned tightly, and cursed in a deep voice: "Absurd! Marriage of a man and a woman, this kind of thing can be used to calculate, the younger sister is indeed spoiled by the master , then you came to South Vietnam with King Shun because of this?"

Ji Hanyu nodded, "At that time, I didn't know where to go or what to do. I happened to meet King Shun, and I felt like a good match, so I followed him all the way." Thinking of that journey, Ji Hanyu still had lingering fears.

"Then he promoted you to be the sheriff sincerely?" Song Wang was worried that his junior brother was being used by others and didn't know it, but King Shun probably wasn't that kind of person.

"The lord went south alone, and there was no one available around him. It happened that I was teaching the little princess in the palace, so I was recruited by the lord to be a strong man. The lord continued to have someone who could stabilize the sheriff's mansion, so he promoted me. Brother, don't worry, the lord is a man of great talent. My master will not cross the river and tear down the bridge."

"En." Song Wang agreed, and when he followed Ji Hanyu into the inner room, he felt that the mansion was very novel, and there were many things he had never seen before. He felt this way in the palace just now, and he thought it was the uniqueness of the palace.

"Your yard is well built, which is quite unusual."

Ji Hanyu said with a little pride: "Most of these are the inventions of the prince. I will tell you when I have time. Senior brother came here after a long journey. Go and rest quickly. I will send hot water and hot food to you."

Song Wang had caught a cold for the past few days and was really not feeling well. He was a little dizzy at the moment, so he was not polite to him.

After the elder brother settled down, Ji Hanyu thought about it, changed his official uniform and went to meet Li Xu, how they should treat the elder brother next depends on King Shun's will.