overbearing

When Zhou Jiyao was still in Hanzhou to raise his younger brother, he remembered that Zhou Jirong had a special hobby of collecting things.The objects he kept carefully may not be very valuable, but they are extraordinarily strange.For example, the hard-working stone that he used for the first time to smash other people's heads, the small jar of honey that his uncle brought him, and the twisted and strange branches that fell from the tree. , withered cicada sloughs, dried earthworms, small fish the size of dried shrimps threaded on strings to dry on grass stalks, etc...

The first two Zhou Jiyao could still express his understanding, but he had no idea what the purpose of the other messy things were, and some of them even couldn't recognize what they were.But Zhou Jirong had his own opinions since he was a child, he just turned a blind eye to his elder brother's green and blue face, no matter what others think, he still likes to accept what he likes, and treats the mess like a treasure I packed my stuff in a small wooden box, and sometimes I hugged it to sleep at night.

Although we haven't seen each other for so many years, Zhou Jirong's collection of things is no longer the same as before, but the so-called nature is hard to change, and his habit is still there.

Zhou Jirong knew the importance of important matters, and important military intelligence maps and the like were not placed in this study.The emperor rummaged through several drawers, they were all ordinary accounts and some ordinary letters between him and his subordinates in the past two months, but in the last one he found something different.

He didn't bring those strange gadgets into Beijing, but Zhou Jirong obviously has a new collection, a branch of peach blossoms whose buds have dried up at the bottom of the drawer, a few snacks that are hard as stones and obviously can't be eaten again, two Stones with strange patterns, the slightly normal among these things are a few envelopes neatly placed aside and tied up with tape.

However, his brother was not surprised to see the things in front of him. On the contrary, it seemed unreasonable for these letters to appear here.Zhou Jiyao had an inexplicable sense of foreboding, and couldn't help but frowned slightly, feeling that his forehead was throbbing.But he only hesitated for a moment, and reached out to pick up the letter.

When Zhou Jirong arranged the dinner and came back, he saw his brother sitting in front of the desk and seemed to be in a daze. Zhou Jirong, with the mentality of vengeance, tiptoed over and suddenly threw himself on his brother's shoulder, and said with a triumphant grin: " He also said that I was smirking, you are also in a daze..."

He didn't see his elder brother's gloomy face clearly until halfway through the speech. For a moment, he instinctively sensed the danger, turned his face, put away his smile, straightened up, and asked seriously, "Brother, what are you thinking about?" Is it a big deal?"

While talking, he glanced around, and then he saw the things his brother was holding in his hand, and thought to himself that he scolded me just now, why did he have several letters like this, if this is how I know which bastard is suing me behind his back , See how I kill him when I turn around!He was thinking like this with malicious intentions in his heart, but he didn't show anything on his face. He took a few more glances, and suddenly felt that the handwriting on it looked familiar. Fuck, broken!

But Zhou Jirong has done a lot of bad things. As the saying goes, you can’t walk by the river without getting your shoes wet. He has already practiced his experience and experience in dealing with Dongchuang incidents.

At the moment, he was thinking of countermeasures quickly in his heart, but his face was extraordinarily calm, almost showing no clues.Although the few letters were written by Bai Tingyu, Bai Tingyu's temperament is stable and introverted, and he maintains a tacit understanding in the relationship between the two of them. Although he uses deep affection, he does not write the letter like Zhou Jirong. Believe in the rein, there is nothing he dare not say.

The content of these letters from him is nothing out of the ordinary, that is, he routinely talked about some affairs in the station, at most he greeted Zhou Jirong with concern at the end,

Zhou Jirong originally complained that his letter was written in a bland, unenthusiastic and intimacy manner, but at this moment, he should be thankful that Xiaobai wrote the letter in such an ordinary and well-regulated manner.

No one who reads such a letter can insist on thinking of it as a love letter.

Of course, his elder brother, who was already suspicious of the dark ghost at this time, was an exception.Although the content of the letter seemed to be a routine that couldn't be more normal, this thing was put together by Zhou Jirong and his weird gadgets, which was unusual in itself.You must know that Zhou Jirong's collections are never very valuable, but they all have special significance.

Zhou Jirong thought in his heart that he had to burn the letter in order to avoid any future troubles, but his face remained calm, he looked into the unclosed drawer with his head, and said in a flat voice: "Oh, why are you rummaging through Lao Tzu's things again? What!" He tried his best to understate what he said, and pretended not to see the letter his brother was holding in his hand intentionally or unintentionally.

The emperor here is full of anger, he thinks Zhou Jirong's seriousness in accepting these letters is very suspicious, but what is written in this letter is all business, and there is no ambiguity, obscenity or evil. If you want to take advantage of this, it really seems a bit unreasonable.

Thinking of this, the emperor raised his eyes and looked at his younger brother coldly. Seeing him calmly acting as if nothing happened, he sneered again in his heart. Zhou Jirong would not have reacted like this in the past. If there is nothing tricky about it, with Zhou Jirong's dog temper, it would be reasonable to jump up like a dog whose tail has been trampled on and catch whoever bites. He just complained and wanted to expose the matter.This is basically trying to cover up, and the more calm he deliberately behaves, the more he shows that he has a ghost in his heart.

His elder brother originally wanted to hold back his temper and have a good discussion with him, but seeing Zhou Jirong still pretending to be innocent and trying to get away with it, the fire in his heart was burning, and finally he couldn't help but waved his hand away. The letter slapped him in the face and said angrily, "You did a good job!"

Originally, Zhou Jirong could avoid it, but after thinking about it, he could understand his brother's mood, so he stood still.Zhou Jirong knew that his elder brother was not easy to be fooled by, and seeing his brother so angry, he knew it well. Seeing that today's matter was going to be overwhelmed, but thinking about it, it would sooner or later reveal the clues, and he didn't intend to keep covering it. go down.What's more, Xiao Bai is far away at the border, even if his brother is furious, he can't put Bai Tingyu into practice immediately.Even if his elder brother sends someone to arrest him, he still has a way to give Xiaobai a message first. Hanzhou is all his own people, and he can play the game of obedience and obedience. It's really a big deal for Xiaobai to live in the local mountain. Temporarily avoiding the limelight, and there is no local to lead the way, where does his brother go to get someone?

Now the situation is really secure for me, if his elder brother is willing to deceive himself and others to listen to his explanation, that would be the best, if he is not willing to let it go, he can just take this opportunity to speak up, anyway, what the elder brother can do right now is Xiaobai. Just spend more energy slowly convincing his brother.

He had made up his mind, so after being photographed, he could still look calm. While reaching out to pick up a few letters, he showed a brilliant tired smile and said lazily: "What's wrong with me? What are you so angry about!"

In fact, if his brother could get sick from anger like his uncle, Zhou Jirong might know how to restrain himself.But his elder brother and his uncle are different from head to toe, they obviously don't have that kind of gentle and refined temper and dejected feelings. Like a poor elder who has a son in his family who is not good enough, he is as irritable as thunder and throws the table and is furious, but he also wants to ask a monk to serve Da Baoer.

Zhou Jirong's elder brother's madness and fury were expected, and since he had an idea, he put on a posture of being a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water. Of course, most of the lectures that were so earnest to the point of coercion and lure, came in the left ear and out of the right ear, and peeped at the gap where his brother had finished scolding and justified his words, so he interrupted slowly, Take it easy and add fuel to the fire to distinguish between two sentences.

He still had a smile on his face and said: "What did I do? Aren't these just a few letters? Where should I put them? I put them in the lower drawer as soon as I picked them up. What do you think about this? If you insist on thinking that there is a problem, Then what do you think is what it is!"

Or he said again: "...I had nothing to do with Xiaobai back then, you insisted on getting involved in what I had with him! Now you think I have something to do with him, and you insist on forcing me to admit that there is nothing wrong with him! Brother, are you full? Is it enough?... I am such a big man, I have my own ideas about my affairs, so I really don't need to let you worry about it. You have the energy to coax concubines in the harem? Don't keep thinking about it on me. ! I really don’t need you to think about it!”

While he was mad at his brother, he also knew that his brother might not really do anything to him, but he might be soft-hearted when dealing with Xiao Bai, and he didn't care about his brother's ferocious expression at the moment, so he salivated at him Going up, he hugged his brother's arm half to please and half to threaten: "Brother, you can scold me and beat me if you want, but don't think about troublesome Xiaobai, this matter really has nothing to do with him. Even if you really don’t like women, it’s better to be with a man to save trouble, effort, and worry. Even if it’s not him, I’ll find another suitable person sooner or later! You can lose your temper at me if you’re unhappy, but don’t try to clean up Xiaobai Otherwise, I will run back to Hanzhou and never come back again! Anyway, apart from you, brother, I am not afraid of anyone else, and you can’t go to Hanzhou to catch me by yourself. Even if you really come to arrest me, I will not run away Is it? The world is so big, when the time comes, I will just go into any corner and see how you catch it!"

He also rubbed his face against Zhou Jiyao's arm, with a confident look on his face, and added: "I'm serious with you, I'm not joking! If you really want to touch Xiaobai, you will never see me again." Are you afraid? Are you willing to let me go?"

The emperor has never worried about anyone so much except his younger brother in so many years, and he was almost pissed off by his words at this time, thinking sadly, what's the use of raising his younger brother so hard, raising him like a flower What is the use of jade?Raising him so hard that his wings will only choke on your words will make your heart ache, and he will only bend his elbows outwards and cooperate with outsiders to disobey you!What's the use?What the hell are you trying to figure out!

But even if this is the case, the emperor is still reluctant to part with this dog brother who was raised like a son, which is really sad.Naturally, he wouldn't make him happy so easily, but he also knew that this younger brother's irascible temperament, who was not afraid of anything that day, would really make him angry if he was really angry. He also doesn't meet his elder brother, but running around and hiding outside for three to five years, this heartless little bastard can really do it.

Zhou Jiyao refused to compromise, but at this moment he never mentioned how to deal with Bai Tingyu, and only said to Zhou Jirong with a gloomy face: "Don't even think about it! From today onwards, you will honestly stay in the mansion and think about it, and I will call the Yulin Army here Watching you, without my nodding, you can never think of taking a step out of this capital!"

After saying that, he walked away angrily.

In Zhou Jirong's opinion, this kind of treatment is considered light. Even though his brother beat him twice in a rage, he still didn't want to hit him hard. Zhou Jirong didn't feel much pain when he was used to beatings. Zhou Jirong's mental preparation for being interrupted is really not worth mentioning.He spoke eloquently and plausibly to his brother, full of nonsense, but in fact his hands were sweating. Seeing that his brother had temporarily died down, he hurriedly wiped his hands on his clothes twice, and then turned out again. With a fawning smile on his face, he courteously asked his brother to stay, saying: "Brother, why don't you leave after eating? It's all done now, you can't finish eating by yourself, it's a waste!"

The emperor was full of anger, seeing that he still had the intention to eat, he was so heartless to the point of heinousness, he glared at him, raised his hand and pushed him away, angrily swaying back to the palace.

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Zhou Jirong also didn't want to challenge his brother's anger value again and again, and he wasn't really planning to leave the capital for the time being, so he grounded his feet honestly. Anyway, he was not familiar with the capital, at most he just ran to the barracks, There are not many friends who have to move around.If my elder brother doesn't let me go out, I won't go out. Anyway, if he doesn't go out, Fang Zhen or Shi Weichen will just run errands for him every day. If he really wants to discuss something with him, those generals will also come to visit.

The emperor really did what he said, and doubled the already heavily guarded guards outside his mansion that day, like an iron barrel - not to guard against bad guys plotting wrongdoing, but to guard against Zhou Jirong's whim one day , It is not impossible to escape over the wall.

It's just that such intentions can only be put in the emperor's mind, and some words cannot be put on the bright side. For example, Zhou Xiaowang's brazen determination to cut off his sleeves is always inconvenient to publicize. It is only because of his hard work recently, allow him to rest for a while, the young prince of Zhou has always been favored by the Holy Grace, and others only think that the Holy Spirit is sympathetic to this younger brother, so it is a bold and reckless act to finally commit a crime of death if he wants to get this Lord The emperor reversed the scales.

Zhou Jirong knew that such an argument would not last long, and it would attract suspicion within a month at most.His elder brother probably never wants others to know the truth. People in Beijing who have daughters who are about to marry have a vague attitude towards him and avoid him, and then there are rumors that the little prince has become a broken sleeve. I'm afraid he really doesn't have to think about it. Looking for a wife in the capital.So his brother had to let him out sooner or later.

Knowing this, Zhou Jirong was not in a hurry at all, he was happy to say that he was sick at home, and from time to time he could accept gifts from others to visit him.

In the past month, the situation on the side of the Huns has changed again. The sons of Lao Shanyu fought among themselves, and the situation gradually became clear. The second prince who gained the upper hand was not the one who secretly sent envoys to negotiate a deal. , if he really takes power, the previous joint talks will be invalidated between two numbers,

Although Zhou Jirong stays at home, he has good eyes and ears, and the news has never been broken. Originally, the peace negotiation was just a temporary benefit. He has always been on guard against the Huns' rebellion. It doesn't matter to him whether he has the covenant or not.I don't think it's too strange to know this, but with such a change in the situation, it's not good for his brother to leave him alone, and the day when he will see the sun again is not far away, maybe he has to go back to Hanzhou to guard.So he thinks this is actually good news.

During these days, the emperor would go to his mansion whenever he was free, but he was calm and never mentioned this matter for several days.In the end, Zhou Jirong himself couldn't help but speak first.

When Zhou Jirong asked about this matter, he tried his best to be as serious as possible to show his worry, but unfortunately his elder brother knew everything about him, so he didn't know what kind of intestines were in his dog's stomach.

The emperor didn't even have the strength to scold him anymore, he just said coldly: "It's nothing to do with you."

Zhou Jirong said: "Why is there nothing to do with me? We have to strengthen the border defense to guard against any changes by the Xiongnu, right? Hanzhou is my territory, and no one is more familiar with the situation in Jianzhou than me!" His brother's face sank again, Zhou Jirong thought to himself, no matter how ugly your face is, what I said is all the truth, you will have to let me go back to Hanzhou when the time comes.He was determined, and he was not in a hurry to clamor to go out at this moment.

As soon as Zhou Jirong changed the subject, he pushed the plate of snacks on the table forward, picked one up to eat, and said to his brother: "Two days ago, Zhuo asked the news, and the cheese brought over by the way, brother Do you want to eat or not?"

When the emperor heard that it was brought from Hanzhou again, he couldn't help but think of the Sophora elm money from before. He didn't have time to think about it at the moment, and afterwards he inevitably figured out the reason for Zhou Jirong's emphasis on other aspects. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became.This time it was aroused old and new hatred, he held back and didn't put the whole plate on Zhou Jirong's head, it was a sign of his self-cultivation, he just said with a cold face, "Don't eat!"

Zhou Jirong guessed that he was not in the mood to eat, so he smiled heartlessly at him, simply picked up the whole plate, sat down on one side of the railing with his feet crossed, and turned his head silently to look at the finger-sized peaches on the nearby tree. land no longer provoked his brother.

But his elder brother didn't like him no matter what he saw at the moment, and he looked at Zhou Jirong eating with relish, and said bitterly: "I have raised you so richly, but I want to degenerate myself! I take two Wild vegetable dumplings can make you so rare, do you have any face!"

Zhou Jirong is already shameless enough, these days when his elder brother came to scold him once, he regretted it, but it is true that he has been honed to become more slippery, and casual reprimands are no longer enough for him. It doesn't count.This will put the last two pieces of cheese into his mouth unhurriedly, and then he said slowly with a smile: "Brother, what you said is not complete, right, first of all, it's not entirely because of you that I grow up so big. You just raised me until I was eight years old, and then you left me in Hanzhou and you went to Beijing! Secondly, I don’t remember how to eat rich clothes and jade before I was eight years old. I only remember that I eat bran and swallow The vegetables grew to this size all by themselves, so don't take the credit from me for nothing!"

He contradicted his elder brother with these words from time to time, anyway, it was all for fun when he was idle and bored.His brother was almost numb from his anger, and he didn't bother arguing with him——Zhou Jirong was a crooked and quick-talking bastard, and he often talked more and more crookedly, and others rarely gained the upper hand—— So he walked away without any disagreement, and it was the same today.

Zhou Jirong was very considerate, when he saw that his brother was about to leave, he quickly stood up and followed him all the way to send him out.

The emperor asked him to reflect at home and not to leave the house, so Zhou Jirong sent his brother to the front yard, and waved his hand smilingly at the gate of the yard: "Brother, go slowly, come here often when you are free!"

Watching his elder brother go far without looking back, Zhou Jirong hummed a little song and staggered back to the yard where he lived, grabbed Fang Zhen who was ordered by him to sweep the yard as Xiaosi, He said happily: "Sweep the fart, hurry up and pack your luggage, we will be back to Hanzhou soon!"

Fang Zhen had long been looking forward to returning to Hanzhou to make meritorious deeds, and was even more delighted to hear the news than he was. As soon as he lost the broom, he went straight to the house, took two steps and turned back to look at Zhou Jirong in disbelief: "Young master, are you serious?"

Zhou Jirong said: "Why not take it seriously, when did I tell a lie! It would be fine if the Xiongnu's internal struggle has not been decided, but if one side wins, whether it is to appease their clansmen or make up for internal friction, it is just suffering One winter, when the cows and horses lose fat and have no meat, the first thing they do is plot against the Central Plains, just watch it if you don’t believe me!"

Fang Zhen believed what he said, and got a guarantee from him, so he skipped to clean up.

Zhou Jirong didn't expect anything good in his fight, but many things were good and not bad. After a few days, the situation in the Xiongnu changed again. Old Shanyu, who had been ill for several months, finally swallowed gas.With his death, the fights among his sons were brought to the fore, and in just a few days, the winner was decided like a windblown leaf. The second prince of the Xiongnu who had the upper hand before Take advantage of the trend.This person was also ruthless, as soon as he came to power, he tore up the covenant neatly, and in the name of eliminating traitors, he beheaded the brother who had previously made peace with the Central Plains, and then sorted out all the ministries into obedience in just a few days post.