Am I a scumbag?

Starry night, Green Willow Barracks, a little bit of light through the window.

Everyone is asleep, only a few guards are still watching the night.The guards who have been able to watch the night these days are very excited, whispering to each other as they pass by the camp.

King Lan has been sleeping in their tents for the past few days. In recent years, many young people have admired the Great Xia God of War? Can not be excited.

And God of War is so good-looking, so strong and so beautiful that it's almost astonishing.

In the past two days, many soldiers secretly picked up one or two small stones by Lan Wang's tent, and picked them up as souvenirs.

But no one knows that the emperor is actually in the camp tonight, and the Ninth Five-Year Lord is very close at hand.

Beside King Lan in the tent, Yan Yuliang was dishonest before going to bed.With a face of novelty, he went to touch the dagger under the pillow.Zhuang Qingqu had no choice but to pick it up and put it on the cabinet: "Okay, don't move around and be careful of getting hurt."

Yan Yuliang: "Qingqing, are you used to keeping a knife by your side every day?"

Thinking about it now, when he just woke up, it seemed that a handful was also tied to the curtain of the dragon bed.

Zhuang Qing Qu headed loudly: "That's not...! It's only like this in military camps and during wars. It doesn't happen on weekdays! It's okay, go to bed early."

The emperor let out an "oh" and slipped into his arms again. The bed in the camp was so hard and narrow that even the quilt was prickly. He changed several positions before he felt the prickling.

Zhuang Qingqu noticed it, and hugged the person in his arms tightly: "I have wronged Ah Zhao tonight."

Yan Yuliang shook his head, and the small animal rubbed against his shoulder frantically.Zhuang Qingqu had no choice but to tuck the quilt up for him: "Azhao, I told you it's late? I'm back in the palace, and you didn't have to come."

Yan Yuliang raised his face: "Yes, I know. But Qingqing, I miss you."

The stars are dotted with stars, the starlight falls in his eyes, and the breeze is gentle.Zhao, I miss you too.

Zhuang Qingqu hugged the person even tighter, but he opened his mouth in a hoarse voice. He hated himself for not being able to speak nice and sweet words for many years, so he just moved silently to the side of the bed, giving more of the narrow bed to his arms. people.

He can't speak sweet words, but the person in his arms is especially good at it.Yan Yuliang put his arms around his waist and twisted, with a cheerful voice buried in his head? Sucking and sucking in his arms: "Lan Lan still smells so good!"

Lan Wangyi froze and wanted to hide, but was hugged tightly again: "I am finally at ease now, I can't sleep well without Lanlan by my side. Lanlan is so huggable."

Saying that, Yan Yuliang pinched his thigh to his waist.

Zhuang Qingqu was going crazy.Holding him down with trembling fingertips, he hoarsely said, "Azhao!"

"You, don't talk, don't move..." He really couldn't help it.

After a long while, the person in his arms finally calmed down sleepily.

Zhuang Qingqu was also sleepy, his eyes slightly squinted and a twilight appeared in his eyes.Thinking in a daze, he didn't touch him now because he actually wanted to wait for Ah Zhao to think of some more things.

She wanted to wait for him to give him a definite answer when the time came, but felt a little ridiculous.The person in my arms is so sweet and so good, isn't it good to live like this for a lifetime?

"Azhao."

After a long while, he thought he was asleep, and said softly, "Ah Zhao, I hope you will remember everything quickly, and I hope you will never remember."

……

Yan Yuliang actually didn't sleep.

It's all here, he originally wanted to talk to King Lan, but after many days of military parade, King Lan was obviously haggard, and he couldn't bear it.

Half asleep, half awake, he hugged Zhuang Qingqu tightly, thinking that Du Jinyu had been calling him "Your Majesty" for three years, thinking that he was going to die so he dared to call him "Azhao" for the first time, so pitiful? What aggrieved look.

Strong and stubborn, gentle and stupid, I don't know how many wounds are peeled inside.

Still want to save face and suffer.

Yan Yuliang decided that he would try his best to preserve King Lan's dignity, and at the same time, he would definitely make up for all the love he owed him.The Dog Emperor is the best at this, and he must be able to do it.

The next day? Early morning.

The emperor came last night!All of a sudden, the Green Willow Army became known to everyone.

Many young people in the Green Willow Army were young. When they joined the army, they heard that King Lan was going to rebel. It didn't take a year or two.Emperor Jinyu is a good emperor. Although this is a common opinion among the people, the people in the army still support the Great Xia God of War? Invincible.

But people are so strange, and they are very excited to hear that the emperor has really come.One part felt that wow, seeing what the emperor looked like was not a loss, while the other part admired the emperor's bravery and kindness to go to the meeting alone.

But at this moment, the macho emperor in their hearts was being washed by King Lan frowning.

To be precise, it is a rubbing face.

Is the condition of the barracks not good enough?But if you are sleeping or not, you put your face on the wall, and you just wiped the dust on your face and wall, making it look like a cat monkey, is that okay?

Yan Yuliang: "God is not fair."

King Lan: "What?"

Yan Yuliang: "Su Xu said, Qingqing, that you have been here in Green Willow Camp for four whole days, and you were so tired that you didn't even take a bath, but your body still smells spotless! Why did I only come here for one night? Oh, oh! pain!"

Lan Wang rubbed him with a wet cloth, rubbing hard hard.

In fact, he was very concerned about the fact that he slept with Ah Zhao in his arms without bathing for a few days, and he only hoped that Ah Zhao would not notice, even if he did...don't say it!

After the emperor washed his face, he just stopped by to inspect the soldiers.

The Great Xia army is well-trained, mighty and domineering.The black army looks neat and dignified.No wonder they were able to flatten Beimo and sweep Yingzhou!

Yan Yuliang looked at the sharp blade of the country in front of him with excitement and joy.

Inexplicably, he thought of his dog virtues when he just woke up two months ago - he also thought at that time that it was actually quite happy to be imprisoned by a stunning beauty.When I saw the face, my anger dissipated, and it was also romantic to die under the peony flowers.Even if he was killed, he would be luckier than those aggrieved emperors who were killed by fat ugly courtiers.

Think about the salty fish who was lying flat at that time, and then look at his country, his army, and the people around him.

In just two months, it seemed like ten years had passed.

And the unremembered ten years when he was in power seemed to have passed a hundred years in the world.

It's a good life.

The country is in your hands, and the beauty is by your side.In his ideal life as an emperor, he looked sideways at King Lan, who was wearing a silver helmet and was handsome and handsome like cast iron.

Really desperate.Emperor Jinyu, what virtue and what ability!He would not change the life of Emperor Wudi of Daxia for him!

……

King Lan arranged several trusted messengers to send the emperor back to the palace.

Messenger? Escort the emperor and deliver a letter by the way.[-]. Letter from King Fenglan to King Yingzhou.

The country of the mansion is vast and picturesque, and it is difficult to avoid the coveting of the surrounding countries that are eager to try.Fortunately, the new king of Beimo, Rama, was so disturbed by the Great Xia Mission. At present, there is a tendency to rein in his horse from a precipice. On the other side of Yingzhou, Zhuang Qingqu decided to personally write a letter to "beat friendly".

When he pacified Yingzhou in the seventh year of Jinyu, he had personally told the king of Yingzhou. "The first round is the tribute, and the next round is the garrison. There is no language to predict."

I hope King Yingzhou can remember this so that he can take care of himself.

King Lan rode his horse to send the emperor off halfway.Although he said goodbye to Chu Wei Palace in the evening, but the banquet was completely cold. There was no meaning of reluctance, and he still murmured a little bit.

Who said that last night? It's so good, I miss you, and I feel at ease when I'm by your side.Today? Who can't wait to slip back like an excited rabbit?

Zhuang Qingqu: "..."

"Azhao today? Do you want to see someone?"

Yan Yuliang: "Hey hey hey hey hey hey right, you guessed it."

It was because he smiled so brightly and looked forward to it, that King Lan frowned slightly and narrowed his eyes: "Who?"

Yan Yuliang: "Give Lanlan a hint, it's a talent I've wanted to meet for a long time~ but haven't been able to meet."

Lan Wang understood: "Oh, it's that? It's the new young man from the Ministry of Industry who is able to become a county magistrate in Wancheng despite failing many times. ? The name is very weird, what is it called...a pumpkin?"

Yan Yuliang: "It's Hu Lu!"

King Lan hummed inaudibly.

He knew the little boy.I don't know where the countryman came out, only 24, one year younger than him, he is very versatile in playing, and can easily capture the hearts of emperors with a few papers.

Just? It's unreasonable, most of the things are caused by demons!

"It's good to meet you," he thought in his heart, but he only raised his chin to Shi Guanxiao Zhou, who has never had any sense of presence. Remember, see if it's some kind of charlatan."

Yan Yuliang: "No, no, the Jiangxia Dam has been successful, and the Ministry of Industry has also passed the inspection. Then? Hu Aiqing is very powerful, and she is definitely not a liar!"

Zhuang Qingqu: "I also hope that he is not a charlatan, and I also hope that he can solve the flood in Luoshui in one fell swoop and benefit future generations."

"But if he can really solve the millennium-year-old trouble, I have to be curious. So many well-known? Famous? Well-educated people can't do it. A little-known? A young countryman , How did you get so much?"

Fu Ling: "Cough... Lord Lan's voice is hoarse, turn around? Go back and drink a couple more sips of longan sweet tea."

Drink more sweet, cover this sour gas!

Really not!It is not enough for the master to take down a bunch of people around His Majesty one by one over the years, but now even a countryman who has never met before?

……

Since Hu Lu was transferred to the capital, she didn't come to take office at all? She was directly transferred to Jiangxia to build a dam.

Now that the initial test of the dam has been successful, he has just returned from Jiangxia, and finally entered Beijing for the first time.

He can only stay in the capital for a month or so this time, and then he will be sent to Luoshui River to build a real dam. That is a big project and it may take a year or so to return. Come.

But he's already? Prepared to come.

After several days in Beijing, Hu Lu met many celebrities from the Ministry of Industry, all kinds of masters who are well-known in building roads and bridges, minting coins and smelting iron.The other party also thought that he was a rare talent, and everyone treated him warmly, took him to Xinghualou for dinner and told him the story of Xiao Qinhu, and Hu Lu finally saw the prosperity of Huadu far beyond imagination.

So during his one-month stay in the capital, he was busy writing many letters home every day, to his father and brother, to his master and brothers, and mailed them one by one.

[Brother: The capital city is very good, very prosperous.You also come and see. 】

【Master: Thank you Master for teaching me when Jiangxia Reservoir was built. When will Master come out of the mountain? 】

【Senior brother: The ceramic Fangziluo kiln you gave me last time is already in use, and the finished product is slightly flawed for some reason, do you want to come and give me some advice, brother? 】

【Junior Brother: Come on out of the mountains, Ministry of Industry? There is a lack of metallurgical leadership, and I have recommended you to them. 】

Letters were sent out one by one, with little response.

But Hu Lu still works hard to write every day.If Thaksin insists, there is hope. Maybe one day he will persuade a few brothers to come out of the mountain, or one day his father and uncle will change their minds.

Just like back then, when he became the county magistrate of Wancheng, he was finally qualified to write letters to the emperor, so he started writing letters one by one.

Although many seals were lost in the end, there were a few seals that were suddenly seen by the emperor one day, and then he was miraculously transferred to the capital to build a dam in Jiangxia.

Even today? He was summoned by the emperor alone.

The meeting with the Son of Heaven was in the afternoon, but early in the morning Hu Lu changed into a white official uniform and waited at home, unable to even eat.

The boss of the Ministry of Industry specially brought a few people along to the entrance of the palace: "The emperor is very gentle and easy to talk, you don't have to be afraid, young man."

Hu Lu entered the palace, walked through the jade road, and met the emperor.

The emperor is young and handsome.Although Hu Lu knew that he was not a few years older than herself, she was still amazed when she saw the real person.It was this person who rescued Daxia from the dire straits and brought him back to the thriving Kangzhuang Avenue in just ten years.And he is not the one who is exhausted in his imagination, but 28 years old and a boy with a pair of calm and bright mandarin duck eyes.

Yan Yuliang: "Ah! I finally met Hu Aiqing!"

Yan Yuliang: "The trip to Jiangxia? Aiqing worked hard. I have been listening to the Ministry of Industry. People talk about Aiqing. Hu Aiqing is versatile and can do everything. He is really a rare talent in the Great Xia! But the reason why I think Hu Aiqing is so good Not only because of Aiqing's meritorious service in water control, but also because of her ability to mint coins to control pottery, what I admire most is Aiqing's enthusiasm!"

Hu Lu wrote the letter, in fact, she has written it many times before.

Yan Yuliang is not sure whether he had no time to watch or pay attention before he lost his memory, or if he saw it but suffered from the treasury without money and could only ignore it.But even though there were so many times when there was no news, this person still did not change his original intention, and one letter after another finally caught his attention.

"Hu Aiqing, I still have a question I've always wanted to ask Hu Aiqing."

"Is Hu Aiqing...actually someone from Tianjifang?"

"Tianjifang has always been there, hasn't it?"

Seeing Hu Lu's astonished eyes, Yan Yuliang knew that he had guessed correctly.

For hundreds of years since the establishment of the Great Xia Dynasty, there has always been a folk sect called Tianjifang in the Jiangnan area.When the sect was in its heyday, there were as many as [-] sects of disciples. Among them, there was not a single successor who was skilled in agricultural handicrafts, brick and porcelain, candle paper, weapons and gunpowder, textile dyeing, salt and oil extraction, and coal mining and metallurgy. No, the skills are so ingenious that even the Ministry of Industry often asks them for help.

But later, during the Xuannian period about 30 years ago, shortly after Yan Yuliang's father took the throne, Tianjifang was persecuted by Prime Minister Tantai Rongyan.

The old owner of Tianjifang was persecuted to death, and the sect was besieged and burned by Tantai's heavy troops.

After the fire, there will be no Tianji Workshop in Daxia.

This unjust case was even more because of Tantai's single hand covering the sky, and he failed to clear up his injustice for 30 years.

It wasn't until the third year of Jinyu that Yan Yuliang punished and killed the rebellious minister Tantai and made it known to the world to comfort the wronged souls. The persecution and grievances suffered by Tianjifang were known to everyone.

After that, Yan Yuliang actually ordered people to search for the disciples of Tianjifang living among the people many times.In the past few years, Great Xia has been waiting for prosperity, and there is a great shortage of skilled craftsmen, but in the past few years, one or two suspected people have been found occasionally.They all refuse to admit that they are Tianjifang, and they are also resolutely unwilling to go out of the mountain.

Until Yan Yuliang got Hu Lu's memorial.

It's rare for a 24-year-old folk to know everything. Of course, it's unreasonable, unless there are a lot of capable people behind him who can do everything and are willing to teach him.

Yan Yuliang: "A few years ago, in Luoyun Kingdom, everyone rushed to buy Yunjin brocade in Daxia, while the silkworm brocade in Jiangnan was once unsalable because the embroidery was not as good as Yunjin. Later, people from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau told me that one day Suddenly, a sister-in-law with a loud voice changed the loom for them. Since then, silkworm brocade can easily embroider more complicated patterns than Yunjin. I didn't ask for any silver."

"Then? He is also from your Tianjifang, isn't he?"

Hu Lu: "Your Majesty should be talking about the second wife of the lower official, who specializes in brocade embroidery."

Yan Yuliang: "As expected, Tianjifang is still there."

Hu Lu: "Always there."

always there. The Tianjifang was burned more than 30 years ago, but fortunately, there are skilled craftsmen in the workshop, and a secret road was built early when it was built.

Although many innocent people died tragically, many were able to escape through the secret path, and since then lived in the mountains incognito, and have been hiding from the world for more than 30 years.

It's always been there, but no one wants to come out anymore.

Hu Lu is only 24 this year. He was not involved in the catastrophe that year, but his father, his teachers and uncles all lost their relatives and friends in the fire, and have been tortured for more than 30 years.

Although Hu Lu was born in the countryside, there were a lot of interesting things at home when she was young.

The moving wooden dog and wooden horse made by the father, the Danqing of the uncle, the bamboo bird that the young teacher's mother can fly, the silver lock and silver bracelet made by the uncle...

Although there are many interesting things, everyone in the family of the master and uncle is very poor, and they often eat the last meal without finishing the next meal.Fortunately, later on his father looked upright and became a wealthy landlady in the city, that is, the son-in-law of Hu Lu's mother-in-law Mrs. Lu.

Mrs. Lu is also a strange woman.

I never thought that he was a guy who didn't do business, didn't know how to make money, and just knew how to bury his head in tinkering with wood. The stupid son-in-law was useless. On the contrary, he thought that the gadgets he made were very novel and interesting.

Anyway, the family was rich, so Hu Lu's father decided to stay with him? We had all the family? With Mrs. Lu's support, he made all kinds of interesting things for her to play with.

The master and uncle said that the burning of Tianjifang made them see clearly that the traitors in Daxia were in power and there was no cure.Therefore, for the rest of my life, I just want to be alone, and I don't want to take care of the troubled times.

Although he also taught many sons, daughters, and disciples the superb skills of Tianjifang, it was only for the sake of handing down the craftsmanship.The masters were very stubborn, and they were asked to swear that they would never leave the mountain.

All the disciples swore, but Hu Lu didn't.

It's not that he's special, it's just because he's the least capable among the juniors in Tianjifang.His father disliked him and didn't want to accept him as an apprentice, and his uncle and wife allowed him to take classes but didn't allow him to be a teacher.

In fact, Hu Lu also envied his senior brothers and sisters, all of whom could sit still and follow the master to study a craft well.

It's not like he likes everything and wants to learn everything. The result is that he has learned all kinds of skills in Tianjifang, and he can do it, but he doesn't specialize in it.

According to Hu Lu's father, this little boy is impetuous and likes to show off.

Although he is not good at arts and crafts, he likes to go to the city to help others all day long at a young age, helping the blacksmith to forge, and helping the wheat farmers to control pests. Everyone in the city calls him "little god" "Tong", but he was often beaten by his father.

His father: "Take care of yourself and stay out of your own business! Now that the world is dark and treacherous ministers rule, do you think you are a little bit smarter and can really help anyone?"

Although Hu Lu is young, she feels that what his father said is wrong.

Is the morals of the world related to helping others?If everyone is like his father? He obviously has the ability but hides it from others, won't the world be worse?

Finally, in the third year of Jinyu, Emperor Jinyu punished Tantai, the powerful minister, and Tianjifang was wronged.

That day his father and uncles opened a jar of 30-year-old wine.But after getting drunk for a while, the days in the mountains and countryside are still the same.

If Hu Lu doesn’t understand, go ask his father. Now that he has been wronged, why don’t we go out to the mountain and make good use of Tianjifang?As a result, his father scolded him severely, saying that outside is not a good thing, and if he doesn't want to be burned again, no one is allowed to go out, especially you!

As a result, Hu Lu was disobedient, and in the fifth year of Jinyu, she secretly applied for an imperial examination under the cover of her mother.

It's a pity that his family only taught craftsmen's skills and not the theory of sages since he was a child. He only passed the provincial examination, and he really failed the examination later.However, the first place in the township examination can be regarded as a talent, and he is known far and wide as a "child prodigy", so the job of the Wancheng county government came to him.

His father chased him all over the yard with a broom and beat him, then shut him up in a dark room.After a while of persuasion from his mother, his father finally threw the key to him: "Nizi, if you want to go, go, anyway, you have no skills, our old Hu's family has seven sons in total, and you are not short of one! "

"Go! Just leave? Don't come back!"

Hu Lu then went to the Wancheng County Yamen, and in five years was able to get better at everything. After becoming a county magistrate from the Yamen servant, she was finally qualified to write letters to the emperor, so she wrote letters every day.

He was different from his father, he didn't feel that Da Xia was hopeless.As an official in the county government, you can receive clear document plans and bank budgets every year.In his opinion, how the imperial court builds the country is clear and clear step by step. It has been working hard to make the people live a good life. Even their remote small? Small? Wancheng has never been ignored.

During these years, apart from writing letters to the emperor, Hu Lu wrote letters home every day.

Encourage master and uncle, and encourage brothers to go out of the mountain.It's a pity that the seniors were all taught to be very obedient since they were young. Only once did the seniors secretly reply him a letter.

【Junior brother Hu Lu: Master (Hu Lu's father) said that unless one day now? Emperor Xuanming personally bows his head to Tianjifang and admits his mistake, otherwise he will never allow us to go out of the mountain and enter the officialdom for the rest of his life. 】

Yan Yuliang: "The treacherous ministers of the Xuanming Dynasty have caused everyone in Tianjifang to suffer more than 30 years of injustice. The court is indeed duty-bound. On behalf of my father, I would like to visit the door one by one to apologize."

Hu Lu hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, no need!"

No need to apologize.Hu Lu knew his family better than anyone else. Although his father said he didn't care about world affairs, every time King Lan won a battle and regained his lost land, he would curse and secretly buy wine.

The same goes for his uncle, who said he would never go out of the mountain, but Hu Lu started working on the Jiangxia dam for a few days last month, when he received a letter from his uncle and scolded him severely, saying that his drawings were too bad to embarrass the family.

Then? He sent some of his powerful senior sisters over to help him.

Jiang Xia's officials who helped build the dam misunderstood him and envied him for his young age? A married woman? A bunch of people accompany him every day.

The same goes for other uncles and wives. They can't understand the poor quality of silk in the weaving bureau to change looms for others, and they can't understand how horses in the army can't teach people how to raise horses, but they are afraid of the same family? ? Often do good deeds without leaving a name.

"Uncles, uncles, and their temperaments are like that, and they are used to duplicity. If you want to tell the officials, the court only needs to find a few skilled craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry to discuss with them. If you come a few more times, they will... will come out."

After all, the people in Tianjifang have always been like that. If they are not as good as others, they must learn from teachers. If they are worse than others, they can't help being teachers.

Yan Yuliang: "Hu Aiqing, please say a little more!"

He really regretted not summoning this Hu Aiqing sooner. If he had known that all? All? Tianjifang was behind this person, he would have gone to snatch him away.Emperor Jinyu has always been good at robbing money, but robbing money is definitely not as good as robbing people.

With Hu Lu, he really won the world.

So Yan Yuliang grabbed Hu Lu and chatted for a whole afternoon and until very late, and figured out where Tianjifang was and what he would do in the past 30 years.

We talked for a while until King Lan came back from Green Willow Camp.

Zhuang Qingqu: "... who's inside?"

Yunfei Yinger: "It's that Hu Qing that His Majesty summoned this afternoon. Hey, Your Majesty chatted with this person so speculatively that they didn't even eat dinner."

Zhuang Qingqu: "Oh?"

Seeing Lan Wang squinting slightly, Yunfei Ying'er flicked his sleeves and strode in.

"So this is the famous Ministry of Industry? Hu Shuijian."

Unexpectedly, the mountain villager was quite fair and handsome, with the feeling of a ten-year-old Xu Zizhen. He should be able to see it if he dresses up well.

Hu Lu had never seen King Lan before.

At first, he was amazed by this man's cool and elegant woven golden robes, and then he couldn't help but wondered silently, what kind of a powerful person this must be... Even if you don't kneel down, you can't do it? realm?

He even took off his coat: "Azhao, I'm hungry."

The name of the current emperor is indeed Yan Zhao, but this!What exactly? !

When Lan Wang said this, Yan Yuliang also felt hungry, and he realized that he had been chatting with others so much that he forgot to eat dinner so late.

Zhuang Qingqu: "It's just right, Hu Qing will stay and have a light meal together."

Hu Lu: "This... yes!"

Because Tianjifang has many disciples, Mrs. Lu has taught Hu Lu to be self-restraining and respectful since she was a child. The young lady of a beautiful senior sister is not allowed to hold hands casually, and the same cannot be said for seniors and seniors.

But who is this great beauty? !Unexpectedly? Holding the emperor's hand in the palace? Not letting go!