Improper stepping stone for men

Time slipped by like running water, and in the blink of an eye, Zuo Yangyi had already stayed in the East Palace for half a year, during which he was almost cut off from the world, with the emperor's order, except for everyone in the East Palace, not to mention the people in Jinshouhou Mansion, Even the masters and servants in the harem have never seen him.

Because of this, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, who were envious of Jin Shouhou at first, gradually smelled a different breath, and the way they looked at him changed from the sour lemon before to a little sympathetic.

Most of them suspected that the prince actually angered the crown prince after entering the palace, and was executed in secret. His Majesty made that decree to cover up for his son. After a while, he could just find an excuse to say that he died unexpectedly. It's over.

Jin Shouhou himself also had this kind of suspicion. Although he felt that some mud would not stick to the wall, he was his own son after all. These days, he hinted to the emperor from time to time that he wanted his son to return to the mansion.

He didn't know what to do if the guess came true. After all, they were the father and son of the Tian family. He was a handsome prince outside, but the fate of the family was a matter of two people's words, and he couldn't compete with it at all. , but a result is always required.

The gossip in the capital quickly spread to the emperor's ears. For a while, he didn't know whether to be angry or laugh. The imagination of his courtiers is really rich.

But for the sake of the reputation of himself and the crown prince, he really couldn't continue to detain someone else's son, so he simply sealed up a second-class guard with a stroke of a pen, and asked him to guard the East Palace. Home.

Don't underestimate the second-class bodyguard, that is the fourth-rank official position. You must know that the number one scholar in the imperial examination usually enters the Hanlin Academy for writing, and starts from the sixth-rank official.

Although the military position in the current dynasty was lower than the civilian position, it was already a very high starting point for young people who had just entered the officialdom.

Besides, in the past six months, Zuo Yangyi, because the prince also joined Teacher Su's intensive training team after his health improved, and formed a deep friendship with him. The future prospects can be said to be limitless.

However, only those inside the East Palace knew about this matter. The emperor protected the only single Miao Miao so well that no one would dare to spread the news about the East Palace as long as he did not allow it.

The people outside are still sympathizing with the ill-fated Zhenshizi, but they don't know that their eyes are almost red with envy. How come I don't have such good luck and have been wronged since I was a child?

"I'm going to leave the palace soon," Zuo Yangyi had been looking forward to this since the first day he entered the palace, and when he really got what he wanted, he was actually a little reluctant, "During this time... …Thank you."

He wasn't the kind of person who didn't know what to do. Although at first he thought that this foster brother was deliberately torturing him, but after a while he realized that he was actually thinking of himself.

In fact, he has always been grateful in his heart, but at that time, he practiced too badly, and only by cursing him could he have the motivation to keep going, until now he finally said what he had hidden for a long time.

"Don't take it to heart, just treat it as compensation for me occupying your resources for more than ten years." Yang Yan said with a half-smile, "You don't have to be reluctant, His Majesty will hire me as a guard and teacher in the palace, and we will see each other often in the future. of."

Zuo Yangyi shuddered violently. He didn't expect that he still couldn't escape his clutches. The previous feeling of reluctance dissipated in an instant. He said "Oh—" with a blank face, not knowing how to show it. facial expressions to express your feelings.

"It seems that you are very happy?" Yang Yan opened his eyes and said nonsense, "Then I can rest assured."

Which eye did you see that I was happy?Zuo Yangyi had dead fish eyes.

But then he thought bitterly, since it is the guards training, then it is training all the guards, right?Knowing that I was not the only one who was being practiced, I didn't seem to feel so uncomfortable.

Probably because it was interesting to see his expression change, Yang Yan was amused and chuckled, and comforted him rarely: "The level of those guards is not as high as yours now, and the training intensity will not be greater than yours before. If you perform well, you may even be able to become an assistant teacher, which will be of great benefit to your future, work hard young man."

"Thank you so much." Zuo Yangyi gritted his teeth and said, if it wasn't for the obvious gloating in his eyes, maybe he really believed his nonsense.

When he was just starting training, he also said that this level of strength was just an appetizer. As a result, he just crossed his limit every time, forcing him to break through himself again and again.

Do you think you can relax with a weak partner?He also had such a naive idea when the prince was training with him, but this guy came up with targeted training...

I don't want to think about it, but when I think about it, my nose is full of tears. The only fun he is looking forward to is that when other people are collapsed and crying, he can watch the jokes as someone who has been there.

It's that humble.

"It's time, goodbye." Zuo Yangyi turned around indifferently, crying in his heart, it would be nice if this "goodbye" could take longer, but the emperor only granted him three days off.

"Wait a minute," Yang Yan stopped him, handed him a box, and said, "I didn't attend when you got married. old."

Zuo Yangyi's face turned dark, and he punched out the box, and roared in a low voice: "What the hell do you mean? See my joke?"

"Why did you say that?" Yang Yan withdrew his empty hand slowly.

"Fourth Su! I'm grateful that you specially brought me into the palace to practice and plan my future for me, but it doesn't mean that I can be humiliated by you." Zuo Yangyi almost didn't jump up as if he had been poked in a sore foot.

"The person Qin Yun wants to marry is you, a well-known talent in the capital, not me, a vulgar and ignorant peasant who was raised by a peasant woman. You came to bless us, what kind of heart do you have?"

"Idioms are used well. It seems that I haven't learned them in vain during this period of time." Yang Yan looked at him coldly, "But what do you mean 'raised by peasant women'? You look down on mother?"

"That's not what I meant, don't change the concept!" Zuo Yangyi said impatiently, "It's the people in the capital who look down on me. They say I'm vulgar and rude, that I've been raised and disabled, that I'm not good enough to be on stage, that I'm The mud doesn't stick to the walls..."

He felt sad when he heard those comments, but Mr. Hou's father only cared about his face and pressured him to study and learn etiquette all day long. Mrs. Hou would just tell him not to take it to heart, and then teach him how to To please my father.

And the servants in the mansion treat him respectfully on the surface, but they don't know how to laugh at him behind their backs, and the so-called friends they make are all for his current status, trying to make him loose and generous.

Although he is well-clothed and well-fed, he is living a rich life that he never dared to imagine before, but he is not happy. He is sad and has no one to complain about. Even the wife he married is thinking about other people.

Zuo Yangyi didn't know why, the person in front of him was supposed to be against him, but at this moment he couldn't help but pour out all the feelings he had suppressed for two years, like a flood that opened a gate and couldn't stop it.

Yang Yan's understanding of his life after returning to Jinshouhou Mansion is limited to what the original owner saw from the scriptures. After all, he is only a cannon fodder supporting role, and the book does not describe it in such detail.

He only knew that he had been ridiculed all the time, his father didn't like it, and his mother who cared about him left within a few years, and then he was deprived of the position of the eldest son, and only got a small amount of family property and was divided out of the mansion.

In the book, there was a lot about the disharmony between him and his wife, but it only said that although he didn't have a concubine room, he was fooling around in the romantic place all day long. He didn't say why the two didn't get along. have their own business.

"Who told you that Mrs. Zuo admired me?" Yang Yan said helplessly, "I didn't even see her face before. At that time, marriage proposals were all decided by the elders of the two parents. What both parties valued was family background. As for marriage It doesn't matter whether the person you love is me or you."

"Don't think I don't understand." Zuo Yangyi was not comforted by his words. "Although nobles value family background, they don't care about individuals at all. If we found out that we made a mistake before we negotiated, the Marquis of Nanxiang The government doesn't like me at all!"

Seeing his aggrieved expression, Yang Yan actually burst out laughing.

Zuo Yangyi: "!" She was about to explode with anger!

Seeing that he was on the verge of breaking out, Yang Yan withdrew his smile in time: "If you are willing to embarrass yourself with assumptions that don't exist, then go ahead and dig into the horns!"

"Anyway, the one who suffers in the end is yourself, and Mrs. Zuo who happened to marry you, who just happened to fulfill the wish of those villains who sow discord and deliberately watch jokes."

"But don't bring this matter on me in the future. It was already miserable enough for me to be the one who was abandoned. I don't want to be the laughing stock of others."

After he finished speaking, he waved his hand impatiently and said "Get out", before he could react, he pushed the wheelchair into the inner room, and closed the door heavily, with a look of disdain to talk to a fool look.

Zuo Yangyi was not untouched, thinking about it carefully, it seemed that he didn't have much feeling when he first knew about this marriage.

Later, I often heard the servants talking quietly behind my back, and then gradually became more and more resistant. When I saw my new wife's face was cold when I got married, I subconsciously thought that she was unwilling to marry me.

But in fact, these were all just his own conjectures. He never tried to verify what Qin Yunxin was thinking, and he just kept her cold and refused to give her a chance to get close.

Zuo Yangyi thought about it seriously, and left the palace with a lot of worries. The emperor only gave him a decree and didn't inform the Houfu, so no one came to pick him up outside the palace. Fortunately, the crown prince borrowed a horse for him, so he didn't have to walk back to the palace. .

But he never expected that he would not be able to enter the house.