Brother Donggong

Cui Bicheng gave me a push and just let me sit on the big rock over there.

"Did you drink too much? Why are your feet so unstable? Be careful and break your neck. Don't be so timid, I didn't make it clear just now, you and the prince grew up together, childhood sweethearts, childhood sweethearts, brotherly love, these The whole world knows about it, and they know that you two are good, but they don't know how good it is. Moreover, the strange thing is..."

He leaned close to my ear and said, "Those who want to strangle you don't even know it. It seems that someone deliberately concealed it. They just know that the prince is your big backer, although you are always The prince reprimanded him with family law."

"There are also some people, most of these people are from the East Palace. They think that the prince is too kind to you, and your kindness is too deep, and you have not been so loyal to the prince, so they have been trying to get rid of you, but they seem I don't know the real relationship between you and the prince."

I turned my head to look at him, the tip of his nose facing mine.

"Old Cui, how did you know?"

"I?"

When he rolled his eyelids, he was delighted, "I have known about the whole world 500 years ago and 300 years later, what else can hide it from my eyes?"

As soon as I grinned, I wanted to cry, "Then do I have to die to thank the world?"

boom!

Whoops!

My forehead was knocked violently.

"Don't be so dejected. You are not a widow who has an affair. These things are just romantic affairs to you."

……

Affair.

You said it so lightly.

I glared at him.

Cui Bicheng stepped back, "But even if it's an affair, it should be ended, and it should be ended. How about the marriage I told you about? If you don't want Cui Laojiu's girl, Pei Su is indeed a good choice .”

Pei Su?

The prince—the power of the prince’s relatives plus the direct line of the direct line: Pei family—the head of the Pei family, the prince’s cousin, and the prince’s best friend: Pei Tan—Pei Tan’s third cousin: Pei Zi——Pei Zi’s younger sister: Pei Su.

It is a twine in a tangle, or a thread in a cobweb.

Although it is not a net, it is the silk that is woven into a net.

Cui Bicheng said, "Pei Zi and Pei Tan's discord is actually just jealous of Pei Tan's power in the court and in the clan. He wants to compete with Pei Tan for a day. Pei Zi and Pei Su's deceased mother Once she was kind to Pei Tan, she asked Pei Tan to take good care of her two children when she was dying, and Pei Tan also agreed. With Pei Tan around, the prince will not embarrass the siblings, so no matter what, the prince will never kill them. Pei Su.

It's perfect to have a woman like Pei Su as your wife.

She will give birth to you, and this kind of marriage can not only divide the Pei family, but also protect that woman from falling into the fate of the concubine. "

I lowered my head and looked at the stones under my feet.

The texture is clear and the edges and corners are sharp. It is not made by human beings, but by the magic of nature.

I don't speak, and he doesn't speak either.

I know that the matter between me and the prince is a thorn in Cui Bicheng's heart, although he has never shown a hint of pride.

He is a man of great wealth, but with a wild nature, just like the weeds in the crop fields outside his hometown Ranzhuang that can never be hoed clean.From the bottom of his heart, he hates all things and people who are on his head. He is like a beast trapped in a cage made of power, money and the criss-crossing court situation. His appearance may be gentle, gentle, or even fragile. , but actually untamed.

Last year's turmoil in Zhejiang was settled by me for him, he knew it, and I knew it too.

Cui Bicheng is not a god, he is too young, his forces want to shake the prince, it is like a mantis arm, the prince can move a finger and make him never recover.

He was also wrong about what happened last year. The things the prince said and the bad debts that were brought over were all true.This is the real reason why I absolutely can't run into the palace to mess with my father.When there is a big event, when something important happens, we must try our best to hide it from the sky, so that small things can fish in troubled waters.

So, at that time, I could only reconcile with the prince.

But even if it was Cui Bicheng's fault, he would never like the crown prince pressing on him and forcing him to submit!Since then, he has been weaving his own forces like crazy. He has walked more and more on this road, but I can't see where the final end of this road is.

"Chengyi, do you agree or not?"

I rubbed my chin and asked him, "Well, the old man talks, and the mediator pulls slenderness for three generations. I said Cui Tie's abacus, your abacus beads are crackling, take one step, look at three steps, look at four steps, use a small stone You can kill a nest of stupid birds, I can't understand, who are you going to sell me to, how many catties, how many taels, how many taels of silver, do you want me to help you count?"

There was a smile on his face, but there was silence in his eyes.He asked me softly, "Chengyi, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"I'm not talking nonsense, I just want to know, in the idea of ​​marrying me with the Pei family, did you think about it for me? Just a little bit?"

He squinted his eyes, as if countless gorgeous palace lanterns shone on the snow, shaking his eyes, he said, "If I say, everything I do is entirely for you, would you believe it or not?"

I shook my head quickly, "I don't believe it."

Cui Bicheng suddenly smiled, as if the clear water had been exposed on the frozen river.There was also a smile in his eyes.He said, "It's impossible for me not to think about you, but it's also impossible for me not to think about anything else."

I nodded, "I believe this. However, I cannot agree to your idea."

"why?"

"Pei Su's background is not good enough. If the Crown Prince wants to kill her, Marquis Pei won't take care of her, and Pei Zi won't take care of her. There may be a woman in Yongjing City. If I marry her, I can live a stable life for a few years."

Cui Bicheng was delighted when he heard it, "Hey, what kind of fairy is this?"

"The only daughter of Liang Zheng, a cabinet scholar."

"Liang Zheng?" Cui Bicheng thought for a while, then raised his eyebrows, "That fat man Liang in the cabinet? Why does his daughter get extra generosity from the crown prince?"

"Because the crown prince is going to win over Fatty Liang, and the Pei family..."

I stood up, smelling the aroma of barbecue wafting from the pavilion, my mouth was drooling.

"Because the Pei family is already the crown prince's shackles."

The night was gradually getting darker, and just after the time for lighting the lamps, I suddenly heard bang, bang, bang——

Cui Bicheng and I also stood up from the boulder, walked back to the gazebo on the top of the mountain, and looked at the palace courtyard below the mountain while holding the railing.

After three loud salutes, the middle door of King Jia's Mansion opened wide, and everyone quieted down. They walked to the open space beside the gate of King Jia's Mansion one by one, knelt down, and waited quietly for something.

Following the entry of a group of Eastern Palace guards, an eight-person shoulder guard was carried in through the middle door.

There is a person sitting on the shoulder, wearing a black fox cloak, the thick black is not very clear in the night.

At this time, the owner of the palace, Jia Wang Yulan, came out from the crowd, stopped in front of Jianyu, and bowed to the ground.

Yu Lan said, "I don't know His Highness is coming, I'm sorry to welcome you."

The prince got off his shoulders, he stretched out his hand to untie his cloak, and Liu Congrong beside him stepped forward half a step, wanting to take his Xuanhu cloak, but the prince's hand was staggered, and he handed the cloak in his hand to Jia. before the king.

Yu Lan was taken aback.

Cui Bicheng glanced at me sideways, curled his lips, "This is too domineering. This is Prince Jia's mansion, not his East Palace! Besides, King Jia is still his own brother, and he hasn't ascended the throne yet! Cheng Yi , Yuchan, Cucumber, I bet ten taels of silver, and the Third Highness will definitely not hold a cloak for him."

I also think Wen Zhan has gone too far.

He came here specially to King Jia, and in front of so many people's shame on Yu Lan, he seemed to have never done such an inexplicable narrow-minded thing, although his mind was not very big.

"Jizhang, I'll bet you 100 taels of silver, King Jia will definitely take the crown prince's cloak with both hands."

The person who spoke was actually Du Yuchan. Holding the teacup that Cucumber had just handed to him, he looked at the group of people down the mountain, "Only in this way can he show his virtuousness and humility. The crown prince set up a show for him. A smart person like His Highness the Third Prince will definitely be able to sing. That's good, the Prince Jiawang is singing an excerpt at the gate of the Palace before the opera on the stage of Prince Jia's Mansion begins."

Cui Bicheng turned around and glared at him, "Yuchan, don't talk nonsense."

I glanced at Cucumber, Cucumber quickly lowered her head, Chu Qiangsheng glanced at this side, and then continued to look at Yongjing in the distance.

The mist from the heavy snow, just like thick ink droplets in the clear water, spreads out, contaminating everywhere, and it is impossible to see clearly.

Chu Qiangsheng pretended to watch for a while, then suddenly withdrew his staring gaze, and then said, "The show is about to start, and today we invited the most famous troupe in Yongjing, and they sang lively songs for three days. Yi, let's take a look together."

"Oh, okay." I quickly agreed. "Cucumber, hurry up, bring all the delicious food, and bring all the slices of meat you roasted."

Cucumber hurriedly packed the food basket.

Du Yuchan suddenly said, "I won't go there, I'll watch it here, it's pretty good."

Cui Bicheng also nodded, "Then I won't go there either, Cucumber, you leave two pieces of meat for me, I'll drink tea with Mr. Du and talk for a while, my house is right next door, we'll go back after a while. "

Cucumber quickly left some slices of venison for him.

At this time, under the rockery.

The prince said over there, "Brother Sanhuang, it's the first time for Xiao Wang to come to this mansion of yours, and I don't know how to get there. Please, Brother Sanhuang, lead the way?"

Sure enough, King Jia took the crown prince's cloak with both hands, straightened his waist, and handed the cloak to the little eunuch beside him who had been kneeling on the ground and waiting.

"Your Highness, this way please."

Yu Lan turned her body sideways, but she seemed a little arrogant.

I know that from this moment on, Yu Lan, who became King Jia, is no longer that lonely, gentle, but gloomy and chaotic literati. He has walked a path that he may have always dreamed of, but after all, it does not belong to him.