Is Your Majesty jealous today?

Xi Xiuyuan was rewarded with a big house by the emperor.

It seems normal to outsiders, Xi Xiuyuan has military merits, and has already made a marriage arrangement with Princess Changle, it is only normal for the emperor to reward him with a mansion to get married.

King Cheng didn't want Xi Xiuyuan to move out, Prince Cheng's mansion was quite big, and when Xi Xiuyuan went out, who would listen to him drinking and bragging all day long.

But the son is too big to stay, and the house specially rewarded by the emperor is not easy to live in.The newly given house is also quite close to Prince Cheng's Mansion, within a quarter of an hour's walk, and Xi Xiuyuan can still walk over in the morning to greet Prince Cheng.

Xi Xiuyuan moved there in a short time.

In fact, it was Zheng Ru who kept reminding Xi Xiuyuan, "You have to accept the grace given to you by the emperor, go to the new mansion quickly, go quickly, you have to go."

As soon as Xi Xiuyuan left, both Xi Chi and King Cheng felt a little uncomfortable. After feeling uncomfortable for a while, King Cheng quickly invited an opera troupe to come to his house to sing an opera. Hook up.

Xi Chi was dragged by King Cheng to drink half of the wine last night. He listened to King Cheng nagging and talking about old things for half the night. As soon as the table was set up, Xi Chi got up from the bed quickly because his head hurt from the drama.

After waking up, Xiaojing asked Xiaojing to pack his things. Xichi planned to move in with his brother, and he didn't want to live with King Cheng these days.

Xiao Jing was a little worried: "The eldest son will not refuse to take you in, right? The emperor newly rewarded the new house, Mr. Xi, why are you going to join in the fun?"

Xichi said: "Elder brother, if you don't take him in, you have to take him in. I will stay here and never leave."

King Cheng didn't see Xiaojing going out with the burden. He called Xi Chi to dinner, and said a lot of words during the meal that "the male college should be married and the female college should be married" to force the marriage, and he was still puzzled: "The emperor I clearly promised to give you a marriage, why hasn't the marriage been settled yet?"

Xi Chi and Xi Xiuyuan have been deceiving King Cheng all along: "Maybe the emperor forgot."

"This king will turn around and remind the emperor of his old man." Cheng Wang said, "Tonight I will take out the treasured Xiaoyao brew, and we will never get drunk. By the way, there is a girl named Qingqing in Yanchun Tower who looks very good. Mei, do you want Dad to invite you to help out?"

Xi Chi rubbed the center of his eyebrows: "Father, as long as you are happy."

Anyway, he went to Xi Xiuyuan's house at night, and King Cheng couldn't find him at all.

As for Xiaoyao Niang, let King Cheng drink it with some Qingqing girl.

Xi Xiuyuan had already guessed the reason why Xi Chi took refuge with him——the steward of the palace had come to Xi Xiuyuan to complain, saying that King Cheng wanted to spend money to build a big theater at home.

King Cheng is not restrained by his wife, so he can be said to be the most carefree prince in the entire capital.

Xi Xiuyuan asked his servants to clean two clean guest rooms for Xichi and Xiaojing.

He intentionally teased Xichi: "Would you like to have a drink together tonight?"

Of course Xichi refused: "I don't want to drink anymore in my life. I drank a lot with my father last night, and I was dragged out by King Yu who came to Beijing the day before yesterday. Brother, don't tell anyone that I am here. I said I wasn't there."

Xi Chi was not an alcoholic in the first place, and it was okay to be with his peers. Everyone who was happy with each other had something in common. Being dragged by the elders to listen to their bragging was simply torture to death.

Xi Xiuyuan couldn't help laughing: "Okay."

During this period of time, Xi Xiuyuan was busy with official business, and he had to deal with official business in the study at night, so he had no time to take care of this younger brother.

In his opinion, Xi Chi is already very obedient, he doesn't fight, doesn't visit brothels, doesn't grab things with others, he is not a dandy at all, he is simply the best younger brother in the world.

Zhong Ye had just read a secret book when a secret guard came in quietly and whispered a few words in his ear.

He put the secret paper on the fire, the flame of the candle instantly engulfed the paper, and the ashes instantly fell down.

"what reason?"

"You know what King Cheng likes," An Wei said, "The second son is relatively simple, and he seems to be displeased with his behavior in the mansion. After the eldest son left, King Cheng became even more unscrupulous."

Zhong Ye sneered, "This old fox."

King Cheng is really used to being carefree, he has never married his wife again, and let his confidant butler manage the internal affairs of the mansion, an unmarried person should be more romantic, and outsiders can't criticize him.

Always standing in the right position, not too ambitious, has two good sons to continue the family business, he is the happiest in the whole capital.

Those who were about the same age and status as King Cheng didn't stop. They were all greedy and wanted to seek more. If their hearts were too greedy, people would not be as happy as King Cheng.

Zhong Ye remembered what he wrote in the secret document just now, and a trace of hostility flashed across his brows.

Rubbing between his eyebrows, Zhong Ye said: "Zheng Ru, change clothes for me, I'm going out of the palace."

Xi Xiuyuan was reading official documents under the lamp, when a servant suddenly came in and said, "My lord, there are noble people looking for you outside, and Eunuch Zheng came with him."

The nobleman accompanying Zheng Ru?

This young man had never met Zhong Ye before, so even if he guessed Zhong Ye's identity, he didn't dare to speak nonsense. If he made a mistake, he would lose his head.

Xi Xiuyuan quickly stood up and went out to meet him.

It really is the emperor.

He knelt down: "My humble minister kowtows to the emperor."

Zhong Ye glanced at him slightly: "Xi Qing, you don't need to be polite, get up. I have nothing to do tonight, and suddenly remembered that I have given you a new house, so I came out to see you."

Zhong Ye wanted to walk around, Xi Xiuyuan hurriedly followed behind him, he gave the young servant a wink and ordered people to light lanterns everywhere in the mansion.

Make it brighter so that the emperor can walk.

There is a moon in the sky today, the moon is quite round, and the clear light pours over the ground, Zhong Ye and Xi Xiuyuan's bodies are covered with moonlight.

Zhong Ye said: "Xi Qing lives alone now?"

Although Xi Chi did not allow Xi Xiuyuan to tell others his whereabouts, the emperor was not someone else. Xi Xiuyuan replied truthfully in front of the emperor: "My younger brother also lives here. He and his ministers are inseparable when they march and fight, and they are used to it."

Zhong Ye smiled on the surface: "Oh? You brothers have a very good relationship."

For some reason, Xi Xiuyuan always felt that Zhong Ye's words contained murderous intent, as if he was very dissatisfied with himself.

But—what did he say wrong?

Don't be polite, but let him tell the truth: my father's drinking and drinking is too annoying, my brother can't stand him, so he came to me?

Zhong Ye had an errand in his hand, which was not planned to be handed over to Xi Xiuyuan.

He originally wanted to use this errand to try out the two newly promoted officials to see how capable they are, and if they are good at handling things, they can continue to be promoted.

There is no doubt about Xi Xiuyuan's ability, Zhong Ye has already known it clearly, handing it over to Xi Xiuyuan will definitely complete it smoothly.Zhong Ye likes to do things that kill two birds with one stone, and he doesn't like to complete individual events alone.

Now he has changed his mind.

Because this is an errand out of Beijing.

Zhong Ye doesn't want to see Xi Xiuyuan in the capital at all now, especially when he sees that he and Xi Chi are deeply in love with each other.

"Recently, someone came up with a secret report to join Yang Guang and Yuejiang governor Xu Wenyuan," Zhong Ye said. "The officials who attended them said that during the Yingzhou rebellion, Yang Guang and Xu Wenyuan received a total of 200 million taels of silver from the rebel general Du Tinglong and gave it to Du Tinglong. The rebels provided the first cannons and other weapons."

Xi Xiuyuan's face changed slightly: "What? Mr. Yang, he actually—"

Behind Yang Guang is Chen Wang, who is Zhong Ye's uncle.King Rui's power was once cut by Zhong Ye using Gu Liang's affairs a year or two ago, and since then, King Chen has been much more cautious than King Rui.

The two emperor uncles, Zhong Ye, are not easy-going.

Zhong Ye said: "It's hard to tell whether this matter is true or not, and I'm worried about it now. Xi Xiuyuan, I want to send you to Yuejiang to investigate Xu Wenyuan, are you willing?"

Xi Xiuyuan hurriedly knelt down: "Serving the emperor is a minister's duty, of course I am willing."

Zhong Ye nodded: "Tomorrow you will leave in secret, this matter cannot be publicized to outsiders, and Chen Guang will keep it a secret from you."

Xi Xiuyuan hesitated for a moment: "Master Xu's official position is much higher than that of a minister, if he—"

Zhong Ye said: "I have given you a secret decree. If you have a conflict, you can decide everything. Even if he is not guilty, I will not punish you if you offend him."

Only then did Xi Xiuyuan feel relieved.

Although this errand is not easy, and it may take about half a year to go back and forth plus the time to handle the errands, this kind of work is very training, and many links in the process are more difficult than marching and fighting.

After all, what we have to deal with this time is not the rebels, but the big officials who don't know whether they have participated in the rebellion. They may be blocked and hurt by the court officials who colluded with them.

Xi Xiuyuan wanted to try his own ability. He wanted to know if he could successfully complete the task in a short time without Xi Chi's help.

The emperor trusted him so much and believed that he could handle this matter. Xi Xiuyuan was moved by entrusting him with so many responsibilities in just two years.

After explaining this, Zhong Ye said: "You said your brother lives here? Where is he? I want to see him."

Xi Xiuyuan was a little puzzled, what is there to see in Xichi at night...

No, Chi Chi is pretty.

And it's really fun to be with Xi Chi, he has a good personality, gentle, careful and smart, the only bad thing is that he doesn't respect his elder brother, who doesn't have Kong Rong's virtue of making pears and doesn't give up all the delicious food to his elder brother.

Xi Xiuyuan said: "He may have fallen asleep, you wait here, I will wake him up."

"No need, just tell me the direction, and I'll go there by myself." Zhong Ye said, "It's getting late, you don't have to follow me, go back and pack up your things and go to bed early, and you have to leave Beijing for Yuejiang tomorrow morning."

Xi Xiuyuan didn't know what to say, the emperor gave orders, so he could only listen to the emperor.

Before leaving, Xi Xiuyuan took a special look at Zheng Ru, wondering if Zheng Ru would give him a wink to remind him of something, but Eunuch Zheng stood carefully beside Zhong Ye with lowered brows and eyes, without giving him any winks.

This errand is currently a secret, and the people in the household department cannot let the news out. Xi Xiuyuan will keep his mouth shut and will not tell Xichi and Cheng Wang, and it will not be too late when he comes back.

He said: "Okay, the minister is going to rest first."

Xi Chi is also a person who will come. When the emperor wants to leave tonight, let Xi Chi see the emperor off.

Xi Xiuyuan went back to his yard to arrange his entourage.

It was quiet in the middle of the night, and all the servant girls in Xichi's courtyard went to rest. Zhong Ye pushed open the courtyard door, and after entering, he saw a room with a light on. He raised his hand and knocked on the door.

Xi Chi didn't know who would come over late at night, he was surprised, put the brush in his hand on the pen holder, went out and opened the door.

The moonlight poured in from the outside, Chi Chi's ink hair was not tied up, and he was wearing a white thin coat with some ink marks on his clothes, giving him a scent of ink.

He raised his eyes in surprise: "Brother Yi? Why are you here? Come in quickly."

Zhong Ye walked in.

Xi Chi put on the coat that was put aside, it was already hot in early summer, so he didn't dress too neatly when he was writing in the room.

Zhong Ye said, "Are you painting?"

Xi Chi said: "If you can't sleep at night, write for a while."

"Brother, I have heard that your cursive script is a masterpiece, because the number of handed down is rare, so it is hard to find." Zhong Ye walked in and took a look, "It really is like a dragon leaping and a phoenix dancing, it is beyond words."

Xi Chi smiled: "When I was young, I practiced calligraphy so much that my arms would break. Rare things are more expensive. Only when I have no money will I sell calligraphy and paintings."

Zhong Ye said: "Yao's family is also one of the most powerful families in this dynasty, and Xi's family is also beautiful, so why do you bother to travel outside and suffer?"

"Everyone has his own aspirations." Xi Chi said, "I want to finish writing in one go, Brother Yi, please grind the ink for me by the side."

The ink ingots are self-made by Xichi. They are made by mixing a catty of pine smoke with pearls, musk, borneol, jade chips, plum slices, etc., and after [-] strokes of the pestle, there are ten pieces in this set. ten scenes.

Chi Chi always likes to do this when he is free.

Zhong Ye saw that the ink ingot was extraordinary: "The ink is fragrant and elegant, and its luster is like lacquer. Where is the ink produced?"

Xi Chi said: "I did it. I saved a lot in Linan's residence. I added gold leaf to copy the scriptures. I didn't bring many things with me when I went out. If my brother-in-law likes it, I will send it to the capital for a few days after I return to Linan." set."

The lights flickered a few times in the night, and a moth flew in.

After Xi Chi finished writing in one breath, he put down the pen in his hand, and took a wet cloth beside him to wipe his hands.

There were some ink spots on the white clothes.

Xi Chi suddenly remembered that in a book he once read, "From then on, the green temples look at the grass, the red sleeves add fragrance, the relatives are suspicious of immortals, and the article is Huaguo", but Zhong Ye is dressed in a black robe. .

"come over."

Xi Chi heard Zhong Ye calling him, so he walked in: "Brother Yi."

Zhong Ye pinched Xi Chi's delicate and white chin with his bony fingers, and wiped his nose with one hand: "There are ink spots on his face." Xi Chi let Zhong Ye wipe his face up for a while.

Zhong Ye's fingers slowly pressed Xichi's soft lips, the redness of which made people's heart skip a beat.

"Brother," Zhong Ye said in a slightly hoarse voice, "Did you know that brothers can kiss each other?"

Xi Chi's heart skipped a beat.

He really doesn't know!

He never thought of kissing Xi Xiuyuan!It's weird just thinking about it.It's fine for brothers to grab chicken legs. If they are too close, it's very strange.

Xi Chi said: "Brother Yi, are you kidding me?"

Zhong Ye laughed, and a trace of tenderness flashed across his handsome and cold face: "Yeah, I was joking."

Xi Chi kissed Zhong Ye on the cheek.

Zhong Ye always joked with him, talking about making golden cages and silver cages, and saying that brothers kissed each other.

Xi Chi is not someone who can't take jokes.

Who can't joke anymore.

After kissing, Xi Chi smiled: "However, brothers can really kiss."

A little moist softness is fleeting.

Zhong Ye raised his hand and touched the place where Xi Chi had kissed.

Seeing that Zhong Ye's expression was not right, Xi Chi seemed to be very concerned about this, so he added a few words: "Brother Yi, I'm also joking."

Zhong Ye narrowed his eyes.

It's okay, he doesn't take this as a joke.