Ning Chen Ling Xiao

After negotiating with the courtiers about trade, I have to talk to the envoys of the Huns. One side is my man and the other is my brother-in-law. Ling Xiao doesn't want to treat him badly, and this time Zhu Yu entrusts him with full authority, which shows his trust, Ling Xiao I have to pay more attention.

It has been a month since the taxation was negotiated. To be cautious, Ling Xiao only opened up the trade of a small number of items in the first two months. Many valuables, such as antiques, gold and silver jewelry, etc. are still not allowed to be traded. , but they are all food, fur, cloth and the like. During the two months of the trial, there have been some big and small problems. Fortunately, they are all communication matters. With the foundation laid by the North over the years, it is not difficult to solve them. , not to mention Ling Xiao and Zhu Yu's macro-control, all problems were solved.

After another three months, all the problems that should have arisen have been resolved. Ling Xiao and Zhu Yu also got started with this area. In July, the business in the north was completely opened up. , is also the longest cooperation, which has brought infinite blessings to future generations for more than a hundred years.

When the imperial court was rejoicing about the trade, even greater news came from the Tanxi fiefdom.

It was the time of the autumn harvest, and the Tanxi fiefdom, as the first fiefdom in Chu State that truly implemented the policy of apportioning the land to the mu, took the lead in presenting the tax details for the past six months. An account book was brought from Tanxi by Feng Xingjun, and Ling Xiao ordered it People took the tax revenue of the fiefdom in previous years, and compared the two, the tax revenue in the six months since the implementation of the New Deal has more than doubled compared to previous years!

The voices of opposition at the beginning were long gone, and the Manchu Dynasty congratulated Chu Yifeng on his way of governing the country, and Ling Xiao used such an account book to open the chapter of the Chu Dynasty's Huaqing prosperity.

Recently, good things have happened one after another. The whole palace is full of joy. Ling Xiao approved the booklet and wanted to print it, but he couldn't find Chu Yifeng. Ling Xiao found the little eunuch who followed Chu Yifeng: "Where is the emperor going to play?" gone?"

After all, the little eunuch didn't dare to play tricks with Ling Xiao, so he murmured, "Go...Go to the imperial garden and wrestle with the guards."

"Fall..." Ling Xiao lost his temper and waved his hands, "Ask the emperor to return to Chengqian Palace and say that Zi Junhou has something important to discuss."

Chu Yifeng went there for two hours, and when he came back, he was covered in dirt and his face was stained. Ling Xiao couldn't laugh or cry, so he ordered someone to deliver the papers on the desk, and came over to clean up for Chu Yifeng himself.

Chu Yifeng soaked in the vat and said triumphantly: "You don't know, just now we took turns to wrestle, whoever loses will go down. I won 23 matches in a row."

"So powerful?" Ling Xiao just changed into a rather elegant robe today, afraid that Chu Yifeng would get wet, carefully rolled up the wide sleeves and wiped Chu Yifeng's back, and said with a smile, "Then who will lose in the end? "

Chu Yifeng chuckled: "No one lost, didn't you tell me to come back, so I came back."

Ling Xiao rolled up Chu Yifeng's washed hair, and said, "It's okay to go and play, don't be careless, listen?"

"Yeah." Chu Yifeng agreed, and said with a flattering smile, "I don't have anything to do today, I just like to play this game, I know it well, it won't hurt me."

Ling Xiao chuckled, carefully flicked off the splashed water drops on the lapel of his clothes, and said: "I know you are boring, I just wanted to tell you that the Tanxi fiefdom has a good harvest this year, and the people there are very grateful for you. I begged my uncle for you to let you go on a tour of the Tan River, and let the people along the way see Long Wei."

"Really?!" Chu Yifeng stood up from the bucket with a "wow", and said happily, "Uncle agreed? Can he agree?"

Ling Xiao was splashed with water by Chu Yifeng, and the moon-white robe was stained with water, Ling Xiao was angry: "I didn't promise, I won't go!" Then he turned and went into the inner room, Chu Yifeng smiled and held the bath tub with one hand. The edge of the bucket jumped up and flipped out, and the inner garment that was pulled aside was put on and slipped inside, and said with a smile: "I didn't pay attention, I didn't pay attention, I'll wipe it for you..."

Ling Xiao took off his clothes and changed them, Chu Yifeng smiled and leaned over to rub against Ling Xiao: "I only wear this, it's cold..."

It was early autumn, and it was indeed a little cold. Ling Xiao couldn't help it, and he didn't change it himself. He went to bed with Chu Yifeng and pulled the quilt to cover him. Those who do not agree, talked to me for a long time, and finally agreed, my uncle and I will escort you, and the rest of you can watch and go back and forth for a month."

"One month?!" Chu Yifeng felt that his life was so happy recently, he didn't ask what route he was going to do, he just heard that he was going to scream so beautifully that he was going out for a month, and threw himself on Ling Xiao headless There was a burst of fuss without thinking, and he yelled: "One month! One month! One month!"

Ling Xiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he hugged Chu Yifeng and let him go crazy, Chu Yifeng finally calmed down a bit after having fun for a long time, and discussed with Ling Xiao with his fingers, who to bring and what to bring, and finally said: "Take Xianer again Well, I think he always looks weak and weak, and you can't take care of him on weekdays, so it's better to take him with you when you go out."

Ling Xiao had nothing to do, nodded: "Just as long as you like him."

Chu Yifeng didn't know what to think of and started the second round of madness, Ling Xiao couldn't help it, and finally put Chu Yifeng under him and executed the Fa on the spot...

It took half a month just to prepare for the trip, the queen mother went to Qin Tianjian to plan a good day, and gave her thousands of instructions, lest the two of them bump into each other outside.

"Don't worry, Queen Mother." Chu Yifeng smiled, "Why don't you worry about having Ling Xiao accompany you?"

The Empress Dowager gave Chu Yifeng an angry look: "If Xiao'er hadn't followed me, I wouldn't have let you go. It's agreed, it will be a month at most, no more." The latter sentence was addressed to Ling Xiao, who nodded: " Don't worry, Auntie, I know it well."

The Queen Mother took Chu Yifeng and told him for half a day, telling him to listen to Ling Xiao and Wei Zhengfu in everything, Chu Yifeng agreed, everything was ready, and the next day the emperor left the city with [-] elite soldiers and headed straight for Tanxi.

Ling Xiao was escorting him outside, and Chu Yifeng was sitting with Ling Xian in the carriage. Ling Xian hadn't seen Chu Yifeng for almost a year, and he missed him very much. Where are you usually? Why can't you see me?"

Chu Yifeng smiled: "I live in the palace, I can't come out on weekdays."

Ling Xian nodded: "My father said, if I study hard, I will be able to see you if I get the honor and enter the court."

Chu Yifeng smiled and said: "Your father will teach you that you don't need to get fame. When the little prince grows up, I will take you into the palace and study with you. That's how your father and I came here back then."

Ling Xian became happy when he heard this, it was much faster than what his father said!Ling Xian leaned close to Chu Yifeng and said affectionate words, but Chu Yifeng's thoughts went elsewhere, and he asked in a low voice, "Did your father say anything about me? Did you?"

Ling Xian didn't know what Chu Yifeng meant, so he thought for a while and said, "Father said...that he wanted me to strive for success. He said that in the future, I will inherit the title of Marquis Zijun. Your Majesty, you are desperate."

Chu Yifeng suddenly felt a pain in his heart, and nodded: "What else?"

Ling Xian hadn't seen Chu Yifeng for a long time, and he just wanted to behave well, thinking about what Ling Xiao said the first night when he adopted him, and then said: "My father also said...well, he also said that Junhou Zi should be like the royal family to protect the Wei family Same……"

That night Ling Xiao did not regard Ling Xian as a child, but only as his own flesh and blood, heir, and told him sternly: Zi Junhou is the supreme honor given to the Ling family by Emperor Da Chu. As long as Da Chu is still there, Ling Xiao The Zi Junhou of the family will be here, and this branch will be with the country forever.The person who inherits this title must sweat and bleed for the emperor all his life and swear allegiance to the death.

Zi Junhou doesn't know how to fight and has no military power in his hands, but he wants to spend his whole life as the royal family just like the royal family guarding the Wei family.Born in the court, died in the court.

Ling Xiao made it clear that I regard you as the heir only because Chu Yifeng owes you a kindness. You must be worthy of the emperor's great kindness, worthy of the title of Zi Junhou, and assist him and help him throughout your life. You have to choose another person who is also loyal to the emperor, and pass on the title of Marquis Zijun to him. After doing these things, it can be regarded as repaying the emperor's kindness to you.

Ling Xian looked up at Chu Yifeng, and said in a childlike manner: "Your Majesty...you saved me, so I will definitely repay you, but did you save my father too? Does my father also owe you a great favor?"

Chu Yifeng's eyes turned red, and he shook his head: "No, I owe your father this life, and I owe it all my life."

There were many wonderful sights along the way. On the third day of departure, there was an autumn rain. Ling Xiao took advantage of the situation to intercede with Wei Zhengfu and stopped in the Baishui River for a day.

"It's raining, stay away." Ling Xiao opened the window to see the light rain outside, and said with a smile, "Come and see Feng'er, look under that plantain..."

Chu Yifeng took a closer look and smiled: "There is a little toad."

"Hush..." Ling Xiao took out two sets of clothes and an umbrella from a small box, and chuckled, "Don't disturb uncle, I'll take you out to play."

The two of them, neither in a car nor in a sedan chair, climbed over the wall under the cover of the shadow guards, and went straight to the market.

Chu Yifeng's face was flushed, excited and nervous at the same time, he couldn't help looking back, and said with a smile: "No one noticed?"

"No one." Holding an umbrella, Ling Xiao rubbed Chu Yifeng's head with his free hand, "The people behind are shadow guards, so don't pay attention to them."

Chu Yifeng nodded, still very excited, he generously took Ling Xiao's hand, and slowly started to stroll from the East City of Baishuijiang.The rain was not heavy, and there were not many stalls in the market. There were still some people who were shopping here and there. It was not that Chu Yifeng had never visited the market, but this time it felt fresh, and he felt like eloping with Ling Xiao Like a young couple, affectionate and nervous.

Seeing that Chu Yifeng wanted to buy everything, Ling Xiao bought them all and kept them. If he couldn't hold them anymore, he would hand them over to the shadow guards who followed him all the way.

The two walked and ate all the way, trying all kinds of snacks, Chu Yifeng likes fried tofu, Ling Xiao likes candied hazelnuts.Ling Xiao promised Chu Yifeng that when the little prince grows up, I will take you out of the palace. The world is so big that you have to visit every place and every place to finish.

Chu Yifeng said yes, when the time comes, I will be the Supreme Emperor, and I will take you, Zi Junhou, who has abdicated, to eat and drink for free in various fiefs.

Ling Xiao nodded, and said that he would go back to the northern fiefdom when he was tired from shopping. The gardens and hunting grounds repaired there for you have not been used much yet.

The two stopped and walked, and when the rain stopped, they came to a temple. Chu Yifeng asked the passerby what kind of temple it was, and the person smiled and said, "Our Temple of the Goddess of Mercy is amazing!" Chu Yifeng dragged Ling Xiao into it. , kowtow respectfully to Avalokitesvara together.

Ling Xiao asked Chu Yifeng, what else in this world do you not have?I also asked Guanyin, what else do you want, I always have a way to get it for you.

Chu Yifeng said no, I already have the best thing in the world, I have to worship Guanyin, thank you gods for your blessing.

The lottery from the Guanyin Temple is said to be very effective. Chu Yifeng urged Ling Xiao to ask for one, and he also asked for one, and they gave it to the old god to release the lottery. The old god took Ling Xiao's first, and shook his head for a long time. Come, just say: "Young master's fate depends on people and heaven, and there is no way to explain it."

Ling Xiao smiled lightly.

Chu Yifeng asked him to release him again, and the old god was even more puzzled. It was obviously a lottery, but how could it be found out that his lifespan was not complete?

The old god explained to Chu Yifeng: "This young man is destined for a catastrophe. He must not join the army when he is 17 years old. He has to hide at home to escape the catastrophe."

Both Chu Yifeng and Ling Xiao couldn't hold back their laughter, and Chu Yifeng laughed and said, "You still say that you are effective. I'm already twenty-two this year. How can I break the catastrophe at the age of 17?"

Chu Yifeng looked small, but it was too short to say that it was fifteen or sixteen. The old god looked closely and it really didn't look like it. He was also surprised, what happened to today's lottery?Reluctantly, he had to give Chu Yifeng's lottery paper to him, and Ling Xiao took a look: on the bloody battlefield, who is not dead?

Ling Xiao and Chu Yifeng's hearts were moved when they saw it. The year Chu Yifeng was 17 years old was the year when he sent troops to fight against Zhang Ji's rebels!

Chu Yifeng looked up at Ling Xiao. It was that year when he was instigated by Chu Yijin and went to the battlefield in a foolish way, but was restrained everywhere. If Ling Xiao hadn't risked his life to go there, he would really have died There it is.

Chu Yifeng looked at Ling Xiao's still stunningly youthful face, and thought about that year, when Ling Xiao rode his horse all the way from the southeast on the endless Kushar Lake plain, he said to himself: "I come from the imperial city, It is ordered to assist the emperor and grandson to fight against the enemy."

Since that day, he has accompanied him through so many bloody storms, all the way to the present.

Chu Yifeng said in a hoarse voice: "This temple is really effective, it was originally my fate, Ling Xiao, it was you who changed my fate."

Ling Xiao chuckled: "My fate is up to me."

Regardless of the surprised expressions of the others in the temple, Chu Yifeng embraced Ling Xiao and buried his face on Ling Xiao's shoulder, hiding the tears in his eyes. After a while, he got up, pulled Ling Xiao together and kowtowed to Guanyin in a proper manner.

When the two got up, Ling Xiao casually threw the two lottery papers into the incense case, and said with a smile: "Look, the sky is clear, I just heard that there is a restaurant that makes good squirrel fish just one street further south, do you want to buy it?" eat?"

"I want to eat!" Chu Yifeng's eyes lit up, "Let's go, hurry up..."

Ling Xiao chuckled, put away the oil umbrella, and let Chu Yifeng take his hand to leave. On the lotus seat of the altar in the temple behind him, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva has a benevolent and benevolent figure, saving all sentient beings as before.

When the two knelt down just now, Chu Yifeng worshiped devoutly and piously, thanking the Great Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Avalokitesvara, thank the Greatly Compassionate and Greatly Compassionate Avalokitesvara, thank the Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Avalokitesvara, for giving Ling Xiao to me.

When the two knelt down just now, Ling Xiao took Chu Yifeng's hand and bowed deeply, thanking the Great Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Avalokitesvara, thanking the Greatly Compassionate and Greatly Compassionate Avalokitesvara, thanking the Greatly Compassionate and Greatly Compassionate Avalokitesvara, for giving Chu Yifeng to me.

Just for that glimpse when he was young, Chu Yifeng was willing to be subdued and trusted him all his life.For that pure and thorough love, Ling Xiao gave up his whole life and followed resolutely, the battlefield of swords and shadows, the court of intrigues, from the imperial city to Chaierzhuang to Badaiqiao to Longgui to Baishijiang to Kushaer Lake to Hehe Sand, a land of thousands of miles, what is it like? !

Whether it was the high spirits of winning a complete victory and capturing the imperial city together, or the resentment of being trapped in the north and not being able to return to the imperial city to wear filial piety after the death of Taizu, they shared love and disgrace and never left.

Autumn colors are as cool as water, and memories flow like rivers.

"I'll eat fish later, can I have some more wine? Sweet-scented osmanthus!"

"What kind of wine should I drink?!"

"Shall I have a drink? Huh?"

"Well... you can drink two taels."

"Okay, two taels is fine..."

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