Am I a scumbag?

King Lan left for three days.

On the afternoon of the first day, Xu Zizhen came.

King Lan asked him to come because he was afraid that the emperor would be lonely and asked him to talk with the emperor and report on the work of the official department.

On the afternoon of the second day, Xi Xingjian came.

King Lan asked him to come because he was afraid that the emperor would be lonely and asked him to talk with the emperor and report on the work of the Ministry of punishment by the way.

On the afternoon of the third day, Xi Xingjian came again.

King Lan asked him to talk to the emperor, anyway, he often went to work for other departments, and reported the work of other departments by the way.

Yan Yuliang: "Eh? It's Xi Qing again, I thought I would change someone today."

Xi Xing? Jian Sulai told the truth: "King Lan said that His Majesty would like to meet with Xu Qing and Xun Qing, the Qin Tianjian. Xun Qing really wanted to come, but it was a pity that King Lan did not allow it. He said that the minister and Xu Qing were upright, and that Xun Qing Demonic."

Yan Yuliang: "Hahaha."

Parrot: "Gah——Azhao is not allowed to laugh! Lan Wang is thousand years old, Lan Wang is wise and mighty, Azhao is an idiot, idiots are not allowed to laugh!"

Yan Yuliang: "..."

Xi Xing? Inspection: "..."

"Your Majesty. The ministers are here. Please forgive me for your direct remonstrance. Your majesty is like King Lan? Now that the monarch and ministers are in harmony, it is the joy of all the ministers. On that day, your majesty will return to the court. King Lan will stand on the left and right and will be dressed in white official clothes." He is also very humble and decent, and the ministers also praised him."

"But although this person has learned to be respectful on the surface, he still does what he wants in private! Not only does he touch the dragon's hand at will, he even dares to sit on an equal footing with His Majesty, and he even sleeps on the dragon bed to recuperate from his illness...all of this is very unethical."

The banquet said coldly, "Pfft."

Seeing him laughing, Xi Xing frowned more seriously, "Your Majesty, this is the Great Xia Ritual System, not a trivial matter! This parrot is even more guilty of chaos..."

Even the historian Zhou Yi'an, who was writing furiously next to him, silently shed tears for Xi Qing.

How can there be someone who has clearly seen all the truth, but still hasn't figured out what the relationship between His Majesty and King Lan is?

Yan Yuliang has also been convinced recently, he thought that he would not marry a wife and have children at the age of 28, and Lan Wang is romantic and has no wife.Even if not everyone knows about his relationship with King Lan, there should be many people who know it well.

Until that day when the ministers were sitting in a row in the small garden, and Yinger was serving refreshments, he said, "Ah, there is Qingqing's favorite hibiscus primrose cake", and the audience was dead silent.

Xu Zizhen: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, who is my dear...?"

Yan Yuliang: "Lan Wang."

Crowd: "???"

"Zhuang Qingqu, isn't Qingqing?"

Everyone suddenly realized: "So that's it! Oh, that should also be called Zhuang Qing? I thought it was His Majesty who finally found his sweetheart." The atmosphere finally became lively again.

Yan Yuliang didn't fully understand until then.

Even Jinyu's courtiers who have been around him for a year or two, even the deeply trusted Xi Qing and Xu Qing, don't know anything about him and King Lan.

……

Of course, I don't blame them. It is really the saying that Lan Wang conspired against him and his meritorious deeds are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. There is no one among the people who draws a short story about the two of them in private.

And even though King Lan's small garden had clearly sworn sovereignty that day, the officials managed to turn a blind eye to it.

After all, there have been a lot of emperors in the Great Xia Dynasty who were gossiping and flirting with their courtiers. It is not uncommon for the emperor to hold hands with his courtiers in private.

Alas, the officials are completely unreliable.Sure enough, only the courtiers who have served personally are the most likely to know the truth of everything.

As far as Yan Yuliang knew, the only person who could be regarded as his personal servant was Xun Chang.

Yan Yuliang: Okay, if you don't do anything, go ask him!

In the past two days, Xun Chang was ordered by King Lan to draw astrology charts in the small black room of the Qin Tianjian, and he was forbidden to run around until the painting was finished.

But he can't run, Yan Yuliang can run.

Yan Yuliang: I will go in person!

Just asking doesn't mean you believe everything, and you won't die if you ask.Go secretly, Lanlan won't be angry... right.

Qin Tianjian's official uniform is royal blue, and the beautiful fox man wears it? It has a special style.

"A Liang is here." Xun Chang smiled slightly, his vermilion lips and fox eyes were curved, "I knew that A Liang would come from my divination this morning."

Xi Xingjian followed closely behind the emperor.

Even though he has a good relationship with Xun Chang, seeing that foolish appearance is also a headache: "Xun Qing! Seeing His Majesty, you should do it? Kneel down and salute! How can you just call the emperor 'A Liang'?"

Xun Chang flicked his red nails slowly, with an innocent face: "But there is a precedent in Daxia, Qin Tianjian, Xun Shi, can not kneel when seeing Yan Shi~"

Xi Xingjian: "You have a good head, Zhuang Qingqu also imitates your 'Azhao Azhao' barking all day long!"

Xun Chang: "Ah, this??? Zhuang Qingqu has been eccentric since he was a child, so it has nothing to do with me!"

A pot of porridge.

A large amount of unofficial historical materials, the historian is immersed in recording.

……

A few cups of fragrant tea in Qin Tianjian, Xun Changhu sighed.

"It's a pity~ It's a pity, although Ah Liang is here, he is still one step late!"

"A few days ago, Zhuang Qingqu came here earlier than Ah Liang, and exchanged with me something I've always wanted. The exchange condition is...tell me to shut up and not talk too much with Ah Liang."

After he finished speaking, he grinned and made a gesture of pinching his mouth.

"Qin Tianjian understands ghosts and gods. If you promise, you must never slip up. Ah Liangru? You regret not asking me carefully when entrusting your dream?"

He smiled brightly, and Emperor Jin Yu also kept smiling.

He just knew it!On that day, King Lan walked out of the city gracefully, didn't lock his door, didn't restrain his feet, and was willing to ask Xi Qing and Xu Qing to accompany him. He wondered why Lan Lan had become so broad-minded recently?

It turns out that all the effort to guard against death was spent here! ! !

But who is Yan Yuliang? Just shake your head!"

Xun Chang: "..."

Xi Xing checked: "..." That's okay too.

Yan Yuliang: "I am the real dragon emperor, why not? If I say I will do it, I will do it!"

After all, he took up Xun Chang's sleeves with an affectionate expression on his face: "Xun Qing was the elder when I was with me, and he knew the past the most. I will get straight to the point. Is it true that what happened back then..."

"I was childhood sweethearts with King Lan, because we loved to laugh and tease King Lan when we were young, which made King Lan fall in love with me. It took time to gradually open up, and finally fell in love with King Lan?"

After he finished speaking in one breath, Xun Chang nodded frequently at first.

But in the last two sentences, he raised his eyebrows and shook his head.

Yan Yuliang: Well, what's going on?The previous ones are all right, but in the end there is no mutual affection?

But such a story line is already Yan Yuliang combined with various signs of this period of time and the multi-faceted words of King Lan and Fuling, and considering King Lan's stubborn arrogance, he tried to think of the most reasonable one. An explanation has been given.

He went through it many times, and all aspects are reasonable, and all aspects have been proved.It shouldn't be wrong.

Xun Chang still shook his head.

Yan Yuliang: "Xun Qing, are you sure? If you think about it again, it's impossible not to be happy with each other!"

"Even if I have been puzzled for a long time, or I have misunderstood King Lan, or I have made false remarks, but I must have been moved in the end! Otherwise, if I didn't like it so much, I would How could Beijiang sacrifice himself to defend King Lan from arrows?"

The handsome fox man tilted his head when he heard this.

After pondering for a moment, he clapped his hands together, showing an expression of sudden realization, "So that's how it is, I admire it".

Yan Yuliang: This.

Very...not good.

Xun Chang was his most trusted personal minister back then, and even today the most trusted minister will believe that he and King Lan are "in love with each other".This shows what?

It means that he probably treated Lan Wang very badly back then!Not only "I treat you like a younger brother", but probably also did other shitty things!

That's why it's "heartless", that's why Fu Ling sighed and said that it's getting farther and farther away, and that's why Lan Lan is always so easy to get angry and so insecure!

Yan Yuliang: "So, what did I do?"

There is no answer to this question.

Xun Chang had something to say before going into detail, while Xi Xingjian was caught off guard by suddenly experiencing such a huge amount of information, and he was in a trance of doubting life.

Xiao Zhou, the historian, couldn't hold back, and secretly drew two stick figures.The painting is the poor Xi Qing whose soul has been taken out and only the lines are left.

……

At night? Back at the palace, Yan Yuliang tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

On the one hand, it was because suddenly there was no one around, and the quilt was cold and lonely, and only the rabbit lamp was on alone.On the one hand, it was also the words that he kept thinking about when Xun Chang finally grabbed him when he left Qin Tianjian, and poked his heart with his fingertips with a smile.

"Ah Liang, but you can't believe everything I see and hear."

"Although I have served the emperor all year round, I may not have seen the whole picture. Only you, A Liang, know the truth."

"After all, Ah Liang's usual behavior is unpredictable."

"Even if I was by A Liang's side back then, I was deceived many times by A Liang."

Although Xun Chang couldn't talk about his past in detail, he told a short story for Yan Yuliang to understand.

Xun Chang said that when he was helping Yan Yuliang with all his heart, he firmly persuaded Yan Yuliang to kill four times.

These four people have no grievances or enmities with him, and even one of them is the father of Yuwen Changfeng, his close friend.But just when Jinyu was waiting for a year of waste, this Yu Wenhua? Ji Laocheng would rather choose to be alone than to assist the new king. Xun Chang hated him for being talented and unfaithful, so he invited him to a banquet and said that he would kill him quickly.

In the same year of Jinyu, the crown prince and the third prince died and the other died, while the young but distinguished fourth prince Yan Luoying was still alive.

Xun Chang believed that children would grow up soon and would threaten the imperial power.Coincidentally, the imperial concubine passed away and the prince lost his father, so he advised Yan Yuliang to take advantage of the chaos and get rid of the fourth son as soon as possible.

The third time was to persuade Yan Yuliang to kill Tan Taihong.

The fourth time is playing please kill Zhuang Qingqu.

Seven years after Jinyu, Zhuang Qingqu relied on his outstanding military exploits, flying like a mad dog and challenging the emperor all the time.

And their Xun family vowed to assist the Yan family to guard the great Xia country from generation to generation. At present, he is a very emotional fox.

Absolutely pursue it? When it is broken, it will be broken, and there will be no future troubles.

He thought that Yan Yuliang also always put great importance on the great Xia and Jiangshan, so he would definitely listen to him.

The result was that Yan Yuliang did not kill Yu Wenhua? Ji, and ten years later Yu Wenhua? Ji became an intelligence officer in the Northwest.

The fourth prince who was "poisoned" twice at a young age, Yan Luoying, "resurrected from the dead" after Yan Yuliang took back the power of the court in the third year of Jinyu, and was also named the emperor's younger brother.Now, she is diligently managing a piece of land on the Luojing fief and giving birth to children, spreading branches and leaves for the Great Xia.

Tan Taihong, who was also not killed, delivered important information from Beimo many years later.

As for King Lan...

When Jinyu asked to kill King Lan in the seventh year, Xun Chang had completely seen the essence of Yan Yuliang's "I want everything".This person, relying on his cleverness, wants to do his best to protect every inch of the country and every household? To protect everyone who is cherished around him.

But how is this possible?

Xun Chang was very opposed to his idea.He believes in the iron blood of the emperor, leaving no future troubles, and the benevolence of those who are in power can easily be undone.

But no matter how much he persuaded, Yan Yuliang said that Zhuang Qingqu had made great contributions to the country, and it was unreasonable to punish him.Later, Yan Yuliang was seriously injured and Bei Mo was seriously injured, Xun Chang was so angry that he almost ordered to kill him and didn't want to give him a light - so you don't listen to advice!Let you think you have played it well, and you are backlashed, right?

But Yan Yuliang is Yan Yuliang after all.

He can always make fun of the clever fox.

Four months after being seriously injured, I don't know what I can do, and I am happy to return hand in hand with King Lan.

Turn? Impossible into a possible man, not convinced?

Obviously, the situation he faces has always been the most difficult.Still trying to find a way.If there is no way, he will compromise, and if he cannot compromise, he will cheat.

Perhaps because he had deceived many people, he couldn't completely trust anyone afterwards.

The second prince may be lonely than anyone else.

But even so, he is still gentle and firm, with light in his eyes.There is no decadence or hesitation, turning the "absolutely impossible" that everyone thinks into the actual "okay" time and time again.

...Of course, who knows.Maybe not, after all, Xun Chang has been scared by this man repeatedly, and he deserves the emperor to comprehend it by himself.

But I still couldn't help it, and added a little fact——

"Ah Liang used to call Zhuang Qingqu 'Xiao Zhuang' all the time, never called him 'Qing Qing'."

"I don't know anything else, that's for sure."

"To tell you the truth, Zhuang Qingqu's temperament is supposed to be such that he can't do such a shameless thing."

"It can be seen how hungry and thirsty he is, how much he wants to coax you to call him nice?"

Yan Yuliang was both funny and heartbroken to hear it.

……

In the afternoon of the fourth day, Yan Yuliang had nothing to do after finishing the review of the papers. He not only ran to the Qin Tianjian to release Xun Chang, but also took him and Xi Xingjian out of the city in subdued clothes.

It's an inspection.

After listening to so many praises, after all, you can only understand by listening.Gotta see for yourself.

Yan Yuliang did not know how many times he slipped out of the palace when he was young, so he never expected that he would get lost at the entrance of the most familiar alley.

In my memory, this road was clearly recognizable back then—at the entrance of the alley, the richest "Xinghualou" in West Market had a large and ostentatious wooden tavern signboard that was extremely conspicuous.

However, the old place in my memory is now surrounded by several alleys facing all directions. The signboards of various shops are everywhere, and there is no familiar brand at a glance.

Xi Xing asked: "Your Majesty...where do you want to go, my lord? It's easy to get lost in the West Market, why don't you come and lead the way."

Yan Yuliang: "Then, go to Xinghualou?"

The West Market used to be small, so it was not easy to get lost.And the most central and most prosperous place is Xinghualou, a restaurant winding along Xiaoqin Lake.

Unexpectedly, Xi Xing asked again: "My lord, the site of the old Xinghualou store has long been changed into Gongyuan, and the new Xinghualou is now? There are five branches in West Market now, which one do you want to go to?"

Yan Yuliang: "The one closest to Xiaoqin Lake, or the biggest one."

Xi Xing checked: "There are three houses next to Xiaoqin Lake alone. They are located in different locations. They are all very large, and their business is booming every day."

Yan Yuliang: "..."

Xun Chang: "Hahaha, Ah Liang, let's just go for a stroll with us. For example? Today's West Market is different from before, and Yuwen Changfeng was completely ignorant and didn't know the way when he first came back."

Yan Yuliang was dragged into the bustling West Market.

There are many tourists, and the business of countless shops is booming.The girls carrying rain and dew ointment at the rouge and gouache stand are all dressed in colorful brocade.

Yan Yuliang looked at them, and recalled the first year of Jinyu, when colorful brocade was still a rare commodity in Luoyun Kingdom, the envoy brought it, and after opening the box, it was covered with pearls and shimmering, smoother and more tactile than ordinary silk.

It was also the first time for the emperor to see this thing. Hearing that Luoyun Kingdom wanted to ship a large number of new fabrics to Hong Kong, he couldn't help but smile wryly.Apart from the Zhuang family and Tantai family, no one in Daxia could afford to wear such extravagant things.

Later, I heard that Yingzhou and Luoyun bought a lot of brocade. Even today, ten years later, girls from big families in Yingzhou are still wearing brocade in fashion.

But the girl from a wealthy family in Daxia has long been tired of the brightly colored brocade.

Yan Yuliang has seen quite a few of them these days? None of them are princesses or princesses who wear brocade.On the contrary, folk girls like it very much. In the whole West Market, seven or eight out of ten are all colorful and luxurious pearls.

Passing by the public school and the orphaned kindergarten, the books are loud and clean, and the windows are bright and clean.

The women waiting for their children outside the public school were chatting loudly: "You said it would be great if we had some kind of school when we were young, with food and drink and money from the court. Hey, we should give birth late? 20 years, give birth? In the Jinyu Dynasty How comfortable is it?"

"Aren't you content? Don't you also learn from female celebrities in the court of Dongshi? If you learn how to embroider for others, you will get money!"

"By the way, I heard from my family's dead ghost that the Ministry of Industry has built a small canal in Jiangxia. After that, it will be built in the upper reaches of the Luoshui River, and the flood will be solved once and for all!"

"Ah, but, building a dam costs people and money, right?"

"You are stupid! Have you ever heard of Dayu's flood control? I don't even think about how much the food in the flooded fields is worth? It's money!"

"that's true."

The sky is getting dark, and the lights are coming on?

Yan Yuliang's stubborn nature has not changed, once he enters a shop that sells story books, his eyes shine brightly and he can't walk.

Xun Chang accompanied him to choose.The boss looked down at the illustrations of "The Legend of Wen Wo Xiao", and then looked up at Xi Xingjian, who had a cold face, stiff and at a loss.

This, this young man looks like the person in the painting!It's a pity that it's not as good as? The people in the painting wink like silk.

After finally returning with a full load from the Huaben shop, Yan Yuliang pounced on the candied Yingzhou plums from the next door.Most of the plums in Daxia are green plums, but those in Yingzhou are red plums, which can be stored for a long time after being candied without spoiling.It's just that they were sold individually in packages before, but now they are all sold loose.

Xi Xing asked: "Do you want to eat?"

In the past, one copper coin and one plum.Ten years later, three copper coins bought a large bag.

Yan Yuliang: "It's so cheap."

Xi Xing inspected: "It's rare these days. Some people buy this. It's too sweet."

Yan Yuliang didn't believe it, but after taking a bite, it felt too sweet.But it's so strange, I still remember that when I was young, I was shocked to eat this candied plum for the first time. Later, I would buy it every time I came to Xishi, and I thought it was better than the dim sum in the palace.

The good things in my memory back then are now completely incomparable to Yinger’s plum stew and Xiqing’s handmade prunes.

……

The night is getting darker.

Yan Yuliang: "It seems that along the way, I haven't seen a single beggar."

"Although there are many people and vendors, the ground is clean and there are no litters thrown around."

Everything is different from the memory.In the past ten years, Daxia's containment, containment, and rectification should be rectified, and in a blink of an eye, it has become truly well-organized and almost prosperous.

The children on the side of the road were eating candied haws and playing with small fireworks. The old man looked at them with a smile.Walking forward, there are more than ten high-rise buildings hand in hand, brightly lit, Yan Yuliang thought it was a newly built Buddhist temple for a while.

Xun Chang: "It's the Imperial Academy. The big one across the lake is the Gongyuan in the capital."

Yan Yuliang: "Huh? Moved to such a prosperous area?"

Xun Chang: "Aliang was moved. In the past ten years, many things have been done, such as tax reduction, labor reduction, resettlement of orphans, assistance in animal husbandry, road construction, bridge construction, and shipbuilding. But the imperial court has always attached great importance to public and private education, in order to give the people a A good example, so the Taixue and Gongyuan were moved to the most prosperous place in the capital."

"Look, Ah Liang, there are still You students over there?"

A few teenagers of different races passed by, wearing Taixue school uniforms, and speaking Daxia fluently.

"In recent years, there have been more and more people studying abroad in Daxia. There are quite a few? They don't want to leave after they settle down."

Yan Yuliang felt that everything was fine in front of him, but he couldn't help but his voice was a little dry, and asked the people around him: "Then, what are we going to do next?"

Xi Xing? The inspection is serious and serious: "There are still many things to do. The Ministry of Criminal Affairs urgently needs to revise the code to make judgments more fair, meticulous and serious. The Ministry of Households should quickly recover salt rights and iron smelting to fill the treasury. The Ministry of Industry is the top priority. Raising horses, weapons, stockpiling food, repairing warships... should not be aggressive, but the army must be the strongest in a big country."

Xun Chang is not like Xi Xing? Jian is generally upright, but he only smiles slightly: "Ah Liang is not in a hurry, isn't everything going step by step?"

Yes, step by step.

Governing a large country is like cooking a small dish. You have to wait, be patient, and don't rush for a while.

But it's great to be able to see the achievements of the past ten years with my own eyes.Go to the end of the West Market? Xitou Banyan Yuliang looks across Xiaoqin Lake - the barracks of the Green Willow Army is stationed in the dark mountain over there.

Lan Wang is there.

During the ten years he had forgotten, he managed to live up to the world and the people, but he didn't know...whether he had failed that one person.

Miss him, want to see him.

I promised to come back soon! ?

In the middle of the night, the emperor rode his horse to the barracks. Xi Xing, Jian Zi, disagreed: "What kind of decency!"

Yan Yuliang: "Hahaha I've come out anyway, how about a military review?"

Xun Chang and the emperor were at odds with each other: "Hahaha Xiqing, you are only allowed to be accompanied by beauties at home every day, but the emperor is not allowed to go to see King Lan when he is lonely in the palace? What is your name, only the common people are allowed to light lamps and not set fire to the state officials? "

Xi Xing? Check: Forbearance, I will bear it!

There must be something wrong, how could the emperor be with King Lan...it must be because of the momentary confusion between His Majesty and his subjects!

When they arrived at the Green Willow Camp, Su Xu was drinking water at the door: "Pfft! Cough, Your Majesty, cough cough cough."

What is this dog emperor doing in the middle of the night? It's just a ghost, he's just sneaking around in casual clothes, why do he have to wear his daughter-in-law's favorite color of sumac?Or his daughter-in-law's favorite copper coin pattern!

How can he buy fabrics for his wife in the future?

Xun Chang: "I and Xi Qing won't go in, so as to save some people... sour."

King Lan practiced soldiers for a whole day, and tomorrow he has to get up early and go to bed early.

Su Xu reluctantly took the emperor there.

The environment of the military camp is not as good as that? In the palace, King Lan is doing something special.They only sleep in small rooms and on narrow hard beds like ordinary soldiers.

Yan Yuliang tiptoed to his bedside.Under the moonlight, Zhuang Qingqu, who was sleeping alone, frowned, with an awkward and frosty expression similar to that of his youth.

This is still a barracks.I don't know what kind of cold, hard and dirty place he sleeps in when he loves clean people so much when he is marching and fighting.

"Lan..."

The world was spinning for a while, the cold sharp weapon was pressed against the side of the neck, and the hands and feet were firmly held down.Yan Yuliang didn't even have time to finish calling Lan Lan.

In front of him, King Lan's eyes were full of vigilance and hostility, he gritted his teeth and pressed the dagger against his neck.

"Azhao?"

Yan Yuliang's heart was beating wildly, and before he could react, he was hugged again: "Azhao, why did you come here? Why didn't you make a sound? Are you hurt?"

Yan Yuliang shook his head, the dagger fell to the side and shone coldly.Good guy, good guy, this is the legendary Pilgrim!

Lan Lan was usually so clingy when sleeping with him in her arms, but she never thought that she would be so vigilant and fierce when sleeping alone.

So handsome and domineering.

But also very distressed.What kind of torture did you have to suffer to be like this, woo woo woo.