A glance at the spring breeze

A few leaves fell on Yin Xun's face with the warm wind, and as soon as the tips of the furry leaves covered Yin Xun's eyelashes, he woke up with a start.

He sat up and heard a voice next to him say: "Your Majesty, are you finally awake?"

Yin Xun looked around, and saw a young man squatting two steps away from him.The man had regular features and a pair of thick, black eyebrows.At this time, his two bright and dark eyeballs were staring blankly at Yin Xian, as if he was afraid that he would run away.

Yin Jian continued to look at the opponent's figure.This person is not considered strong, and his body is thin. He is wearing a blue thin shirt and half-length trousers.

"Are you... Cui Hong?"

Yin Jian had some impressions that the Cui Hong he saw in the cave was dressed in this way.

As expected, the other party nodded, and his dark eyes finally rolled for a moment, then flashed: "Yes, Your Majesty, Cui Hong is me."

Yin Jian glanced to the side again, and saw Yin Qin'er lying beside him.

But still not awake.

It wasn't until this moment that he suddenly realized that something was wrong, and looked up to a farther place——in his eyes, he saw a scene full of spring, surrounded by tall green bushes and lush grass.The beautiful sunlight pouring from overhead passes through the dense branches and leaves, forming scattered reflections on the grass.

It's just that there are no birds, butterflies and insects as companions, so I feel a little deserted.

But everything that can be seen is quite different from what I have seen before.

Yin Jian frowned, and a sense of defense rose in his heart: "I remember that this island was full of dilapidated dead trees and broken branches just now, but now it grows such lush and dense vegetation."

After hearing this, Cui Hong stood up, his face was a little dull and pale.I saw him standing with his hands behind his back, looking at the beautiful scenery nearby, and said with a sad expression: "Your Majesty, after Wu County was quietly moved away from Linzhou and turned into an island, it has changed beyond recognition. The prosperity at this moment is nothing more than It is short-lived, and it will disappear in a short time-on this island, the four seasons change every day, and in a day, autumn and winter are much longer than spring, as long as eight to nine hours, and in the evening, the sky It will rain cats and dogs all night long."

After a long time, Cui Hong didn't hear the Ninth Five Lord beside him speak.

then--

Yin Jian pursed his lips, eyes with extremely dark and deep pupils were half-drooped, his face obviously showed a different state of mind than before, and said: "Then...do you have a peach blossom forest here?"

"What?" Cui Hong couldn't react in time, and asked in surprise, "Your Majesty, why are you asking this?..."

Yin Jian coughed and pretended to be very calm: "It's nothing, it's fine if you don't have it."

For some reason, Cui Hong suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart - the emperor in front of him seemed to be ten years younger in an instant, like a young man who had a crush on the girl next door.

"Yes, but it's on the southern seashore. It's very far away from here. It's already noon. When we get there, the peach blossoms will have withered long ago."

seaside?

Coupled with the daily alternation of the four seasons...

Yin Jian couldn't help showing a little joy in his eyes.

In this way - it is very likely that the meeting between him and Ruan Lan while lying on the beach yesterday did not happen in a dream?

but……

Yin Jian frowned, thinking: If it's true, why didn't Ruan Lan come back?

It's really strange.

Yin Xian thought for a moment, and then said to Cui Hong: "It seems that you already knew the real situation in Wu County from the beginning. Then why didn't you explain it at the beginning, but made up a lie about the local officials' malpractice for personal gain."

Cui Hong sighed, in addition to being sad, there was also a hint of resentment in his expression: "Your Majesty, you don't know that the subordinates of Sun Zhifu of Linzhou and I have repeatedly explained the catastrophe that Wu County suffered, but They didn't believe all of them, and said that they had checked the government files by themselves, and there was no place called Wu County at all. Both legs were broken. Even so, I did not give up the idea of ​​seeking justice for the villagers who died in vain. After all, I watched them be killed with my own eyes! I knew that the Linzhou government could not save me... I had no choice but to Let's go to the imperial city and give it a try."

Yin Xian said: "So, you found your friend Meng Qishan when you were young?"

Cui Hong shook his head: "No, I didn't expect to find him at first, but I happened to meet him on the way to Beijing. As soon as I met Ah Shan, I wanted to tell Yu all the things that were not going well in my heart. He. But when I looked at my body, which was beaten all over by Linzhou guards, I already knew that no one would believe the truth that Wuxian disappeared in Linzhou out of thin air, so I had to slap him with Sun Zhifu and Wuxian magistrate Lies of favoritism and malpractice took advantage of the opportunity to scold the Linzhou government and vented the anger in my heart. But what I didn't expect was that Ah Shan, who was already dumb at the time, wanted to help me. He told me with a pen and paper that he had A way to infiltrate the imperial palace in person. I thought at the time, maybe the emperor... oh no, it was the emperor who would send people to investigate Wu County if he found out about it. It is extremely strict. Then will my relatives and friends be able to get revenge? So after that, I found a broken house to wait for the news of Ah Shan's entry into the palace; When someone found him, he had to hide in the house all day long, not daring to go out at will. However, after I waited in the dark for more than two months, I didn’t see Ah Shan coming back. So I guessed something might be wrong.”

Yin Jian half-closed his eyes, and stroked the green leaves on the treetop beside him with his fingertips, thinking: "Then... Ruan Lan will go to find you."

"Yes—but in fact, I couldn't remember the name of that official later. When I was full of irritability, an official came to me suddenly and told me the news of Ah Shan's disappearance. After hearing that, I was very angry. He hated, sad and angry, couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and got angry with that lord. Unexpectedly, the lord official had a good temper, not only didn't he show any sullen expression on his face, he even said that he wanted me to write a The note, he will personally enter the palace and present it to His Majesty."

Following Cui Hong's words, Yin Xian recalled the scene at that time, and said, "Yes, I did receive the secret letter you wrote later, and immediately sent someone to check the files of Wu County, but it is true that I did not find the record of Wu County in Linzhou. I felt quite strange and sent someone to look for you, but you disappeared."

Cui Hong explained: "Just after Mr. Ruan left, I was found by that ruthless person. He sent someone to try to silence me. I had no choice but to leave again and hide in the dark, so I missed His Majesty's investigation. Afterwards, after some secret investigations, I found the surviving Zhou brothers in the Ruan Mansion. They told me that the person who killed my entire county was Chen Chuiling, the son-in-law of the current Princess Yueyang. The kind princess rescued them in secret and took them back to the mansion to protect them. The wimpy son-in-law did not dare to act presumptuously in front of the princess, so he could only turn a blind eye and let them live. But they were still afraid The son-in-law has a vicious heart and dare not reveal their true identities to others, so after coming to the Ruan Mansion, they fabricated a rough life experience and took the surname of the master of the Ruan family."

Now that he finally understood that the pair of handsome twin brothers in Ruan Lan's mansion were not real male favourites, Yin Xian felt a little better.

"But—" At this moment, Cui Hong changed the subject, and suddenly a trace of horror dyed the brows, "Just after Mr. Ruan left, I found out that the Zhou brothers disappeared inexplicably in the Ruan mansion, and the assassin under the son-in-law I have never been to the Ruan Mansion, so I can't help but wonder in my heart... Who did this. Combining what happened before, and after some deliberation on my part, I guess that there is another consort who is secretly helping him The master, and that master has been hiding around, often inseparable from the actions of the son-in-law, and quietly observing everything that happened..."

"Observe everything that happened." Yin Jian repeated, and with a sudden force on his hands, he accidentally pulled the leaves off the tree.

There is a faint green leaf fragrance between the fingers.

Yin Xian said: "In this way, the master who is good at hiding his whereabouts must have followed us to the island."

And those two Zhou brothers were killed.

"Exactly, Your Majesty, that's what I told Eunuch Zhang just now—that there may be other people on the island."

"Oh? Have you seen Yun Sheng?" Yin Jian dropped the leaf in his hand instantly, and looked around, "Where is he now?"

Since Cui Hong mentioned "Eunuch Zhang", it meant that Yun Sheng had been with Cui Hong for a certain period of time when he was unconscious, but now he could see Cui Hong, but Yun Sheng was not there.It's really strange, Yunsheng has served him by his side for many years, of course he knows that this is not something Zhang Yunsheng would do.

He must have other concerns.

Cui Hong scratched his ears, pressed his lips together and pressed down, and said, "He... I still find it strange, I told him that it is very likely that the person was hiding in the cave before, but Zhang When the father-in-law heard this, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed three times to His Majesty, asking me to take care of you, then turned and left, before leaving, he said..."

Suspicion gradually rose in Yin Xian's heart, and he raised an eyebrow: "What did you say?"

"He said—he'll come back as soon as he goes."

Yin Xian suddenly had an ominous premonition.

"Then when did he leave?"

Cui Hong apparently didn't expect Yin Jian to be so concerned about a young eunuch, so he thought for a while and said, "Not long ago, probably before half a stick of incense. Oh! By the way, he also said that he was originally from the Cen family , called Cen Kong, not Zhang Yunsheng, the name Zhang Yunsheng was given to him by His Majesty."

Yin Jian's body paused suddenly.

If he didn't say it, he would almost forget it.

It turned out that the name Zhang Yunsheng was actually named for him by himself.

So, what is the reason?

Cui Hong said again: "Eunuch Zhang said that he is very grateful to Your Majesty for saving your life more than ten years ago. Now, he is going to repay the favor."

The grace of saving lives more than ten years ago——

……

Yin Jian remembered.

Just 12 years ago.

One day, Yin Jian, who had not yet been conferred the throne of Yu, looked at the lush green summer scenery outside the window, and suddenly wanted to travel far away from Beijing on a whim.So, because of his bad mood, he told his father and the teacher who taught him a long vacation.On the second day, he took his reading companion He Wei, and the two drove a carriage to Taiyuan.

In fact, he didn't do this entirely because he wanted to go out, but because his elder brother passed away not long ago, and the second elder brother Yin Cheng immediately stared at him, fearing that his younger brother would snatch his easy-to-get crown prince.

"Let's avoid it for now, don't provoke the unreasonable suspicion of the emperor." He thought to himself.

Who would have thought that along the way, he would actually save a young man whose whole family was murdered.

The young man passed out in a pool of blood in the room, holding the tail of a broken arrow in his left hand... and the arrow cluster part of the feathered arrow was pierced in——

Yin Jian and He Wei looked down and sighed.

It seems that this young man was shot with a hidden arrow in the chaos, but he blocked the arrow very quickly and chopped off the feathered arrow, but the cluster of arrows did not stop, but turned momentum.

He also got a blessing in disguise, lost his own lifeblood, and secured his life.

——Actually, I don’t know whether it’s a blessing or a curse.

Yin Jian was very distressed and asked his name.Yin Jian thought that his whole family had been killed by his enemies, so he might as well take him back to the palace.Otherwise, if his enemies knew that he was not dead, they would definitely kill him back.

The young man didn't answer, but his expression was in a trance, his thoughts were wandering, his lips were trembling, and he seemed to be calling out something vaguely.

"Your Highness, what is he talking about?" He Wei asked.

Yin Jian put one ear to the young man's mouth, and managed to hear clearly.

"Zhang... Yun... Sheng..."

"Zhang Yunsheng?" He Wei also heard it.

"En." Yin Zhen said, "If you stay here, it must be very dangerous. I am the third prince of the current dynasty. Come back to the palace with me, they will not have the guts to take your life."

At that time, Yin Jian was at the age when blood was flowing in his bones, he was kind-hearted, he was not deep in the city, and he was very courageous. He was very proud of his status as the third prince today, so he was not afraid of the revenge of those country bosses. He took Zhang Yunsheng back to the palace without authorization.

However, Zhang Yunsheng never took the initiative to tell Yin Jian about his family background, and Yin Jian was also afraid of exposing his scars, so he never asked.

One day, Yin Jian was painting according to the bamboo forest in front of the window, when suddenly there was a gust of strong wind blowing, and the black jade paperweight on the table was almost blown away, but the bamboos in front of him stood firm, facing it with iron bones. wind.

Zhang Yunsheng was grinding for him with peace of mind. He had been squatting there all afternoon grinding ink, and there was no sign of irritability or complaint on his face.When grinding, don't use too much force, and don't use too much force. You have to hold three points of force, which is the most tiring.If it was placed on other palace servants, the waist would have been sore and the back would have been sore after half a day. Although he didn't dare to shout, his complexion was definitely uglier than that of bitter gourd.

Yin Jian glanced at the bamboo in front of the window, then glanced at Zhang Yunsheng who was calm and composed next to him from the corner of his eye, and said on a whim: "The world says that bamboo is a gentle and elegant gentleman in the forest, and I think Yunsheng is just right for you."

Zhang Yunsheng, who has always been calm and composed, almost knocked over the inkstone in his hand after hearing His Highness's evaluation of him. He blushed and said, "Your Highness's praise."

"Where, I think Yunsheng's character is as tenacious and indifferent as the bamboo in front of the window. No matter how much wind and rain it encounters, it still stands firm. Let me change your name for you. Add a bamboo head to Zhang Yunsheng's new character. How? It can be regarded as placing my expectations on you in this life."

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Zhang Yunsheng, whose name had been changed, quickly kowtowed to thank him.

He kowtowed three times while thanking: "Your Highness' kindness, Yun Sheng will never forget it."

Unforgettable.

……

Looking back on the past twelve or thirteen years ago, Yin Jian felt as if it was just another day.

Now he and Yun Sheng are both in their thirties, they are not as young as they were then.At that time, he was still at the age of flesh and blood, and he couldn't hold the palace in his heart, so he was really not as stable and mature as he is now.

"Let's go." Yin Jian said to Cui Hong, "I will find a hidden place to settle the princess first, and then go to find Yun Sheng. I believe he will leave clues for us."

He said... go and come back.

Then I will definitely come back.

Will not break my word.