wife and king

Seven years later.

"My lord is here—"

Following an energetic announcement, Yan Cangling stepped into the main hall, and when he saw a person drinking tea leisurely in the hall, he smiled and nodded at that person: "The son of the majestic governor, I am really familiar with this king's mansion. Before the king arrives, drink your tea first."

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's a hot day, am I thirsty? Who knows that our lord will sleep until the sun is high before getting up to meet me, an ordinary man." Le Ziyou smiled brightly, put down the teacup and stood up, and walked forward go.He talked about the difference in status between the two, but he showed no sign of bowing down.Ever since he introduced Yan Cangling as his confidant, he has let go of his courage, acted recklessly, making fun of him.

"An audience? You really will make yourself look good." Yan Cangling patted Le Ziyou's chest, and the "ah" sound hung and then fell, full of contempt.But Le Zi had a face as thick as a wall, and she puffed out her chest, accepting the word "visit" contentedly.

Yan Cangling smiled and punched Le Ziyou, throwing off his obsequious support, Meteor strode to the chair and sat upright, took the fragrant tea handed by the maid, and took a sip leisurely: "What happened today?" Come see me when you have time, why don't you go looking for you, Yingyingyanyan?"

"I want to look for it." Le Ziyou also sat back in his seat and pressed his forehead with one hand in boredom, "Unfortunately, I met a person who always yelled in my ear. Injustice, injustice, I was noisy, so I brought him to harass you."

After hearing these words, Yan Cangling's eyelids twitched for no reason, always having a bad premonition.He squinted at the maids around him, waved them away, and said with a wry smile: "I know it's not a good thing for you to come looking for me. After all, which girl is stalking you again and wants me to drive you away."

"It sounds like I'm looking for fun every night, this time I'm talking about serious business." The smile in Le Zi's eyes gradually faded, and she rubbed her fingertips on the teacup, her voice sank: "Do you still remember what happened a few months ago?" The matter of the former Minister of the Ministry of War."

Yan Cangling's hands shaking the cover, and slowly put down his uplifted feet, looked down at the tea with lowered eyes, unable to see any joy or anger: "I remember. A month ago, the Minister of the Ministry of War was falsely accused of corruption and bribery for no reason. His whole family He was exiled to a place of bitter cold, and has never been heard from again.”

"False accusation? How do you know it's a false accusation." Putting his trembling into his eyes, Le Zi stretched his eyebrows and revealed a smile, but there was no surprise on his face.

"Heh," Yan Cangling put down the teacup with a sneer, and looked straight into Shang Le Ziyou's narrow eyes: "Shangshu of the Ministry of War is a rare upright person among the people I have seen. If he really knows how to embezzle and accept bribes, heh, I Let’s say it louder, the sun can rise from the west.”

"Yeah, even if you, who are in the officialdom, don't believe it, how can the common people believe it?"

"What do you mean by that?" Yan Cangling frowned, always feeling that there was something in Le Ziyou's words, "Could it be that something happened in the past few months." Because he was in a feudal land all year round, the news was quite closed. As a result, every time I hear the news, it is long past the fresh time.

"That's right, something happened, something you didn't expect." Le Ziyou smiled lightly, put down the teacup, tapped the coffee table with his fingers, and said loudly in the regular knocking sound, "There is a wealthy family in the capital. His surname is Wang, and he seems to have received the kindness of the Minister of the Ministry of War back then, and he is very grateful to his family, wishing to repay his kindness every day. Tell me, what will happen to the Wang family if this incident happened to the Minister of the Ministry of War.”

Yan Cangling paused, put one hand on the armrest, tapped his palm with a smile, and said, "What can they do? First, they must beat the drums to complain and do some useless actions, or they must bear the humiliation and wait for the opportunity."

"If it's the second one, what would it be like?"

"That's too much," Yan Cangling waved his hand, and smiled indifferently, "Either arrange to escort the Minister of the Ministry of War, or find someone who can be relied on to appeal for the Minister of the Ministry of War."

"Yes, guess what choice they made."

"Hahaha," Yan Cangling laughed three times, squinted his eyes, and looked at him with a pair of eyes that pierced Le Ziyou's mind: "I don't know you yet, since you have come to find me, the Wang family must have arrived Outside my residence, I am looking for a backer."

"Hahaha, you really know me, it's not in vain for me to make friends." Le Ziyou slapped the coffee table suddenly, straightened up suddenly, and pointed with a smile, "You have to meet this person, not only to meet, but also to be good." See you there."

"Oh? Wait and see."

Yan Cangling and Le Ziyou smiled knowingly.

The man surnamed Wang was brought into the main hall by the attendants. When he saw Yan Cangling, he knelt down with a thud, kowtowed and kowtowed several times. The kowtow was so strong that Yan Cangling clicked tut in his heart, for fear that the whole place would be destroyed. Holes were gouged out of his head.

After kowtowing again and again, the man straightened up, his waist as straight as a gun, and he was about 40 years old. Although his face seemed to be exhausted due to running around, his eyes were full of energy and shining brightly, like the blue sky at night. Wolf, even Yan Cangling couldn't help but praise him.

"Grassman Wang Bin sees the prince."

"Wang Bin? Fang Weibin is both civil and military. I heard that you are a businessman. What is Bin?" Yan Cangling asked playfully instead of calling people up.When Wang Bin entered the mansion, he heard Le Zi couldn't help admiring Wang Bin's ability, and he was interested in it for a while, so he started to make things difficult.

Wang Bin didn't expect that Yan Cangling would pose such a difficult problem for him, but he only turned his thoughts around in his mind, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "Bin, the shape is like 'Bin'. The ancients said: Gentle and gentle, then a gentleman. If you are a writer , filthy language, those who are warriors, who bully the weak, those who have both civil and military skills, are proud of their talents, so what is the use of both civil and military skills. Although Caomin is a businessman, he is neither civil nor military, but the name is taken from the meaning of gentleness, intended to be a warning The grassroots should put etiquette first, regardless of literature or martial arts."

"Okay!" Yan Cangling couldn't hold back his palms and shouted, smiling so much that the corners of his eyes rolled up, he went to pull the man up, pushed him back on the chair regardless of Wang Bin's refusal, and called the maid to serve tea.

"This word won the heart of this king," Yan Cangling held him in prison, and Fang walked back to his seat to sit upright, "Hey, if you sit and sit, if you get up, I won't sit down anymore." Seeing the other party standing up again, he He was about to stand up, but Wang Bin immediately bowed to thank him, and sat down awkwardly.

Le Ziyou had been drinking tea silently without saying a word, at this moment, Fang slowly put down the teacup, jokingly said: "My lord, I said that this man is a talent, you just don't believe it, now you can see it. "

Yan Cangling gave him a sidelong glance, and then turned his attention to Wang Bin: "If you have something to say, you may as well speak it out, there is no need to be so embarrassed."

"Yes," Wang Bin pursed his lips, and raised his head to look directly at Yan Cangling. "I don't know if the lord has heard about the exile of Shangshu and his family from the Ministry of War." I have never forgotten the kindness of Master Shangshu, hoping to repay his kindness one day, but it is a pity that Master Shangshu is an honest person, and he does not want to accept the vulgar things sent by grassroots people, nor does he want to see grassroots people, so that this wish has not been fulfilled for many years. A month ago, Mr. Shangshu was suddenly found out for taking bribes and was exiled to a place of bitter cold. The grassroots were struck by lightning after hearing about it. Mr. Shangshu is just and upright. He has never been willing to be with villains. Because of the spread, Caomin was sure that he must have been murdered by a villain. But it is a pity that Caomin is alone and weak. He wants to save Lord Shangshu and his family, but there is no feasible way. , Love the people like a son, and you can speak in the court, so I raised my head to look for you, and begged you to avenge your lord Shangshu." After finishing speaking, he stood up and bowed to the ground, his respect was beyond words.

The other party was so outspoken that Yan Cangling sighed, and he smiled secretly: "Have you ever thought that if this king's ideas are at odds with yours, and this king will be a hindrance to the affairs of the Ministry of War Shangshu's family, what should you do?"

Wang Bin was solemn, he straightened his back again and again, and said sharply: "This can only be blamed on the grass-roots people who have blind eyes and mistrusted the high righteousness of the prince. But the grass-roots and low-class people are so great that they nod their heads and lose their lives. But if grass The fate of the people, if you can't exchange for a weak minister to correct the court's atmosphere, the death of the grassroots is not a pity!"

The smile on the corner of Yan Cangling's mouth was even bigger. He rested his cheek with one hand and knocked on the armrest with the other hand, and asked in a tone of what should you do: "But you know, the Minister of the Ministry of War has nothing to do with this king. Why is this king?" If you want to take risks for him, if this king does not handle it well, it will be this king who will lose his life. Although you are righteous and strict, this king also laments the lack of a good minister in the court, but this king always starts from himself in everything, no, this king How can this king benefit from helping the Minister of the Ministry of War?"

"This... this..." Wang Bin's words got stuck in his throat and he couldn't continue.His face was blue and red, and he always wanted to hold back a few words of rebuttal such as the righteousness of the country from his mouth, but when the words came to his mouth, he couldn't spit out a single word for some reason.

Yan Cangling laughed, and waved at Wang Bin: "Go home, I won't respond to you. Don't worry, I won't do anything to you, and I won't say anything about what happened today." He picked up the teacup, lowered his eyes to drink the tea, and stopped talking.

Wang Bin stood up in a daze, and glanced at Le Ziyou, but Le Ziyou couldn't make any suggestion as an outsider, so he could only shake his head at Wang Bin, and opened and closed his lips silently calling him to go back first. .

Wang Bin bowed and retreated resentfully, leaving only a sigh floating in the hall, the noisy main hall just now fell silent, only the sound of knocking lamps reverberated softly.

Le Ziyou picked up the tea, lifted the lid and blew the tea leaves on the water, and broke the silence unhurriedly: "I thought you would promise him."

"Oh, why do you say that?" Yan Cangling paused for a moment with his hands lifting the cover and leaf, and turned his eyes to Le Ziyou.

"Firstly, it's because his situation is similar to yours. Secondly, the minister of the Ministry of War is upright. He has been in power for many years and has a lot of connections in his hands. If you can save him, it will be much easier."

"I don't know what you're talking about." Yan Cangling lowered his head slightly, his eyelashes covered his pupils, so that his expression was very blurred.

"Hey, you can keep it a secret." Le Ziyou didn't poke it, but looked at the front facing screen of yellow flowers and li, with the image of thousands of galloping horses carved in the center hollow, galloping horses, raising their heads and neighing, vividly seeming to come from the screen. Leaping forward, a scene of gold and iron horses spread out in front of his eyes.He stared stupidly, with long and deep eyes, "The emperor is stupid, violently expropriating, the people are displaced, and the people are miserable. Do you still remember that we stole the border a few years ago? The originally fertile grassland was destroyed by the people. Feed on grass, and now there is no grass growing, and the wandering people even change their sons to eat. They... well, let’s not talk about this, you are a person with ambition. Seeing the world in these years, how can you not take action. This It's time for the world to change hands."

Yan Cangling just smiled and didn't continue talking. After a long time, he asked: "You said that there are similarities and minor differences between his situation and mine?"

Le Ziyou also didn't continue the topic just now, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Isn't it, you forgot why you came here today."

It was meant as a joke, but Yan Cangling, the clinker, was stunned for three times when he heard the words, facing the bowl of strong tea with strong fragrance, he couldn't drink it any longer.

The tea foam floated lightly in the water, and the warm breath fell into the water, causing the tea rings dotted in the water to sway outwards—this reminded him of that rainy day seven years ago for no reason.On that day, the bone-chilling drizzle kept falling, splashing silver flowers on the ground. He quietly held the food box and looked blankly at the direction where the man in the green shirt was leaving. He even forgot Chase up and ask the other party's name, so as to report back in the future.

That person is so beautiful, with just a gentle frown and smile, it seems to be able to wipe away the restlessness in people's hearts. The breeze blows slowly, lifts the layers of the person's clothes, and gently gives birth to a fairy wind, just like the sky of the nine heavens. Immortals from the upper and lower realms—so that Yan Cangling always thought that the full meal was just a drunken dream.But he held this dream day after day, and when he woke up to find the person in his dream, he lost the whereabouts of the person in his dream.Yan Cangling stared at the tea in a daze, for a moment, he didn't know whether he was looking at the cup of tea in his hand, or the young man in Tsing Yi.

"You haven't found him yet?" Le Zi interjected, pulling Yan Cangling's lingering thoughts back to reality.

Yan Cangling was startled for a moment, as if lamenting the helplessness of a lifetime, and shook his head: "No, it's been seven years, and the people I sent couldn't find him, and he seemed to have evaporated from the world. Maybe, yes Ascended to the immortals and left."

Seven years is but a blink of an eye, but to him, it seems as long as a lifetime.Having accepted the grace of that person for a meal, his dead heart was rekindled.He resolutely sneaked back home, and knelt for three days and three nights in front of his adoptive father, who was furious after hearing the news, without eating or drinking. , and finally he was not guilty.Fortunately, when he participated in the martial arts, he took care and changed his face so easily that he was able to avoid catastrophe so easily.

Although his life was saved, he didn't want to wander around because of it. Instead, he enlisted in the army with high ambitions and joined the army where his adoptive father was. He started as a pawn, slowly climbed to a high position, and made great contributions.

A few years ago, while marching one day, an old woman was rescued in a desolate place. The old woman accidentally saw the red mole on his chest, looked at his face for a long time, then knelt down and called him her son, At that time, he was very frightened, but later he learned about his life experience from the old woman: it turned out that he was the prince of the Huan Dynasty with a foreign surname—the son of King Yan. The concubine was depressed, she hadn't seen anything for many years, and she had been looking for him for more than ten years, and the old lady was his former nanny.

At that time, he still didn't believe it, but when he accompanied the old woman to Fangcheng, the fiefdom of King Yan, when he saw King Yan, the kindness that blood was thicker than water welled up from his heart. He didn't need to drop blood to recognize his relatives, so he knew that the other party was his own relatives, and immediately kowtowed to recognize his parents, and he also changed his name to "Yan Cangling". The original name of Mu Qing was easy to be a sign.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, because he had been depressed for many years, and his parents had only been together with him for a few years before they became ill and passed away one after another.The position of King Yan fell into his hands.

The ancestral King Yan was the hero who founded the country, and was exceptionally bestowed with the honor of a prince with a foreign surname. He lived in the city and held tens of thousands of households, held a military power, and guarded the southeast.It's just that because of their foreign surnames, they are afraid that the emperor will be taboo, and the descendants of King Yan's generation are all low-key people, guarding the fiefdom, not making waves, so that the family of King Yan is gradually declining. If they don't go to Beijing every three years, everyone will take this Yan Wang was forgotten.

Although restricted by law, King Yan is not allowed to leave his fief Fangcheng without authorization, but since Yan Cangling took over the throne, he has acted as an idle and idle prince on the surface, but behind the scenes he is trying to attract people's hearts with great profits. The city gate guards are all his people. In the eyes of Fangcheng officials, he is the sky and the emperor. As long as he wants to leave the city, he only needs to change his face and show the fish charm in his hand, and the city gate guards will arrest him without saying a word. Let him go, let him go wherever he wants.

Looking back on those years now, he can't help but sigh again, good luck tricks people.If he hadn't met that person back then, he would never have rekindled his determination, and he would never have enlisted in the army. He had to meet his nanny and get to know his parents.It is also appropriate to say that that person changed the rest of his life.It's just a pity, now that he has both power and power, he can't even find a single benefactor.

"A few years ago, I saw the picture scroll you drew. This person is indeed astonishingly beautiful. With such a good appearance, he is born in a good family, and he is a person from the middle of the capital. Logically, it is very easy to find him. How could he have disappeared for many years?" No audio?"

"You ask me, I ask who." Yan Cangling still didn't take a sip, put down the teacup, his expression was erratic, "I even left Fangcheng privately and went to the capital to search, but there was still no news."

Le Ziyou paused for a moment, staring at the floating leaves in the tea, spun a few words in his mouth, and couldn't help but say: "Have you ever thought that maybe that person...is dead? "

"Nonsense!" With a slap of the palm, the teacup immediately fell over with a clang, and the hot tea dripped down and fell all over the floor.Yan Cangling stood up almost angrily, and glared, "He won't die!"

Le Ziyou was so frightened by him that he almost jumped up from the chair, supported his heart and listened to his heart pounding: "What are you doing, it scares people to death. It's just a guess, why lose your temper properly."

Le Ziyou's words made Yan Cangling calm down, he sat down slowly, propped his forehead with one hand and apologized: "I'm sorry."

"Hey, look at you, you don't look like a prince. He will be fine, don't worry." They said comfortingly, but they both knew each other, and the word "death" was like a bond that could not be erased. The shadow of Yan Cangling was deeply planted in Yan Cangling's heart.

The atmosphere in the hall became subtle. Le Zi turned from raising his eyes to Yan Cangling's frowning, then stood up with a smile, and pulled Yan Cangling up without any scruples: "Don't be sad, let's go, I'll take you to a place." A place to relax."

Yan Cangling wanted to decline politely, but on second thought, it's okay to go out and have a look, but being bored in the mansion is also strangely uncomfortable, so he replied: "That's fine, let's go."

However, when Yan Cangling arrived at the so-called place of relaxation, his complexion suddenly turned black.