Lei Yue Longmen

Seeing her gazing at the painting, looking at it again and again, Chuan Feiyan said with a smile, "These paintings were delivered recently. I haven't had time to sort them out, so they're all piled up here. Daddy After his death, there were too many of his relics. When Yiting and I went to Beijing the year before last, we went to Chuanshan to sort out a batch and brought them back to Beijing. The rest? Some of them were entrusted to my father's old friends during his lifetime. If you like, you can pick them up Pick a few and go back, after all, you were Dad's favorite student during his lifetime."

Cen Zhu said without hesitation: "Then can I just want this painting?"

Chuan Feiyan glanced at the long painting and nodded.

Cen Zhu took the painting back, unfolded it again in the bright room, carefully observed the people on the boat, his hands were trembling slightly.

There were four people in total on board.Standing tall on the prow of the boat is a woman in her 50s or [-]s, wearing a cloak of black feathers, with a peerless appearance.Her cloak was a little puffed up, revealing a deep white dress underneath, the hem of which was fluttering in the wind.

Standing behind her is a dark-clothed man in his fifties with a stern face. A black cloth-wrapped sword hilt protrudes from his left shoulder, and a jet-black scabbard protrudes from his right waist.Looking calmly at the woman at the bow of the boat, he has no doubt that if a dragon appears in the water at this moment, he will immediately rush to cover the woman under the sword glow.

And behind the two of them, sat a young girl in her twenties, fiddled with the river water under the boat, kept her eyes on the girl's left and right, and seemed to be laughing and talking to her.

The last boatman in coir raincoat was shaking lonely at the stern of the boat? The light boat had lost his face.

The first three people are obviously together, but they are definitely not husband and wife, father and daughter, mother and daughter relationship, nor are they like the master and servant of ordinary people.They seem to be close? Confidants, mutual dependence, mutual trust, such a combination, seems familiar.

Cen Zhu went to read the inscription and postscript which was more than 1000 characters long, and found the names of Mrs. Li, Chu Yang, and Qing Yuan from it. Her breath was almost taken away from her.

The date of this painting is clearly the first year of Emperor Xiandi's reign, that is, 43 years ago.

43 years ago...

For a moment, Cen Zhu suspected that the boatman had written the time wrongly.

In 43 years, if the little girl lived to the present, she would be about 70 years old.

The swordsman is nearly a hundred years old, or has long since passed away.

And that magnificent woman is at least eighty years old.

In the world? Is there such a coincidence?

The little girl is named Qingyuan, and the amiable old grandmother is also named Qingyuan, and there is a 40-year age difference between them.

The swordsman named Chu Yang had a deja vu look on his brows, and she seemed to have seen the sword behind him before on another person.

And this Mrs. Li, her demeanor, where can I find another one in this world?Her name is also Mrs. Li, is it the same person?

She read the inscription and postscript carefully again.Are you sure again that this painting was made by the boatman when he was 30 years old?Around the first year of the first emperor's succession to the throne, Chuanfuzi went to Beijing for the fourth time to take the exam. He was deeply disappointed by the darkness of the examination room and the rigidity of the students.Decided to give up the exam and go back to the hometown, go home to start an academy, and cultivate talents?On the way back to his hometown, he met Mrs. Li, Chuyang and Qingyuan on the river. They talked very happily, so they made an invitation to invite the three of them to Chuanshan Academy for a while in three years' time.Three years later, the Chuanshan Academy was completed, and the three of them came to the appointment. The boatman was very happy, and he chanted poems with them and talked about the past and the present until dawn.Three days later, he personally sent Mrs. Li, Chuyang, and Qingyuan away by boat, so he made this painting as a memory.

Cen Zhu remembered that when Huangling met Mrs. Li, she accidentally mentioned the name of the boatman and praised him as an "interesting person". match.At that time, when she mentioned the boatman, she used the tone of an ordinary or even a senior? When she heard that the boatman had passed away, she also had a look of sadness on her face.

These are not in line with her age at the time.

Could it be that she is so shallow that she doesn't know that there is such a beautiful and beautiful Mrs. Li in the world?

In the evening, all the friends who received the post came to drink the warm pot wine she bought for Nowo.

Cen Zhu recommended Jiang Xiaozhuang to Lou Manguan, and Lou Manguan immediately agreed when he saw Xiaozhuang's sturdy, big man.Fu Minzheng came half an hour later than the others, and Cen Zhu called out? Asking him to punish himself with three bowls, Fu Minzheng waved his hands again and again, "Forgive me this time, brother, I have a reason for this."

"If you don't make it clear, you won't be allowed to sit. If you lie, you'll get another three bowls." Zheng Langguan followed suit.

Only then did Fu Minzheng explain the reason for being late, "The superiors just came down with the news that an amnesty will be granted at the end of the year. We have to work overtime to check the list of pardons, and the crimes and punishments will be downgraded according to circumstances. ?."

Jiang Yiting is a good man, he smiled and said, "I can testify to this. He didn't lie."

Cen Zhu also laughed, "All right, I'll forgive you this time, and I won't forgive you next time."

She knew that the amnesty at the end of the year was probably the harbinger of Donggong's ascension to the throne. In fact, she was very excited, her wine glass kept shaking, but she tried to suppress it on her face, for fear that she would show her face if she was not careful.

"Hey, that's right," Lou Manguan asked Fu Minzheng suddenly, "Master Fu, I heard that your Ministry of Criminal Justice has brought a new remnant from Langshan. Is he on the amnesty list?"

"He is a traitor to the party. How can he be forgiven for the crimes of the barbarians?"

Cen Zhu thought to himself, this time Zhang Ha seems to be doomed.

"Didn't he escape long ago? Why was he arrested again?"

This case is now considered semi-public in Beijing? It's a secret, and Fu Minzheng didn't mince words.

"It's really embarrassing to say. This clam hasn't shown up since he escaped from Langshan three years ago. The imperial court sent documents to arrest him from all over the world. He hasn't been caught for more than a year. The Xinjiang rebellion caused chaos on both sides of the Zhuo River, and this clam suddenly appeared in the chaos and attacked five counties in a row, what do you think he did?"

"What's the matter?"

Fu Minzheng smiled and said, "He went to collect Gu Rentu's crockpots."

"What earthen pot?" Zheng Langguan just asked, and everyone in the audience waved their hands: "Eat, eat, don't ask about details, don't ask about details." Zheng Langguan suddenly realized, what does the earthen jar mean? After realizing it, I made an embarrassment.It turned out that Gu Rentu had killed too many people in his life, and was executed after his death. His body was divided into ten earthen jars, and distributed to five prefectures who had been tortured to show the public, so as to calm people's grievances.Is it dead without a whole body? Typical.

"I don't know which of his nerves is wrong. If he insists on collecting these earthen jars, he will kill people hysterically if he can't find the earthen jars. Gu Rentu? Most of those earthen jars were thrown into mass graves , where can I find it? In the end, he wandered through five counties, only to find one. Finally, the officials above were alarmed. At the beginning, the imperial court was all focused on countering the rebellion, so they didn’t notice that it was him, and they came forward How many times did he go to commit crimes? At the time, he really didn't kill the killer, probably because he was afraid of alerting the higher-ups, so it would be difficult to do it next time. The last time, he massacred officers and soldiers in Moyin County, that is, Langshan, and then He fled to the south of Ruijiang River and was arrested in Zuozhang County."

Is this clam and Gu Rentu worshiped? Brother, it's not surprising that he behaved like this.It's just that everyone heard the words, and they didn't speak for a long time.

Seeing that the atmosphere on the table was a little quiet, the smiling tiger quickly stood up and said, "Blame me, I shouldn't have said these things. You see, I have disturbed Cen Xiandi's banquet. Now I will punish myself with three cups to make amends and cheer you up." ?It was lively again.

After the banquet, Jiang Yiting wanted to take a look at Chuan Feiyan, Cen Zhuo said: "Senior sister is throwing up badly, won't you reveal yourself if you go?" Jiang Yiting was very depressed.

"You wait for another month. After one month, her belly will grow bigger. Even if you want to hide it, you can't hide it!"

The way Cen Zhu managed to persuade him that day was actually to tell him the truth.Her reasons are very simple. One is, after all, the child is still Jiang Yiting's flesh and blood, and he is a bit unreasonable to hide it from him; the other is, she believes that Jiang Yiting's "feelings" for the senior sister will not cause any harm to the senior sister. .

But she had the guts to do this, but she didn't have the guts to let Chuan Feiyan know.In case the truth is revealed, and she knows that she has "betrayed" her, her sandwich cake may be miserable.Therefore, no matter what he said, Jiang Yiting could not let Jiang Yiting break the secret.

Jiang Yiting had no choice but to walk away sullenly.

Near the end of the year, the superior really issued an imperial edict, saying that the superior was deeply ill and could no longer predict state affairs, and would abdicate at the beginning of next year and become the Supreme Emperor.The crown prince officially ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.Therefore, when the new year is approaching, the six departments of the imperial court are very busy, preparing for the upcoming ceremony of the new emperor's ascension to the throne.

And Cen Zhuo was "leisure" at home for a year, and was finally re-appointed by the court as her old servant. You have to pass the inspection before you can start working.Her partner also changed from Cui Moxian to Hua Pengcheng.And her original position of Deputy Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was taken by Zhao Chen who was recalled back to the capital. What? I didn't do much at my job, and the official examinations at the end of the year were horrible.If it weren't for Wang Zhongxu still thinking of her well, it is estimated that the right servant of the acting household department would not have her role.

However, regardless of whether it is a substitute or not, at least now she has the opportunity to enter the palace to face the "sage".On this day, she and Hua Jinpeng went to Gongming Pavilion to deliver the memorial. It happened that the Empress Dowager came to Gongming Pavilion to discuss matters with the elders of the pavilions.Cen Zhu stood quietly by the side, listening to her quick thinking and articulate expression of opinions, listening to the opinions of all parties, and finally deliberating and making a decision that convinced everyone.Cen Zhu doesn't know if she has noticed her, but every beat of her heart exists for her, looking at her, she is still calm, stable and dazzling in front of so many experienced? Self-confident, wielding the wisdom of his life and the innate demeanor of a king, Cen Zhu's whole heart is involuntarily falling, fascinated by her, and proud of her.

When she came out of Gongming Pavilion, she felt that she was about to suffocate.Hua Jinpeng called her several times but didn't hear her, "Ah?", with an expression of "You called me?" on his face.

Hua Jinpeng smiled and said, "I'm just reminding Mr. Cen that we're almost at the gate of the palace. It's time to check it out with the fish amulet." After speaking, he held up his copper fish amulet as a demonstration.This copper fish talisman is equivalent to the identity certificate of officials, and they must be registered when entering and leaving the palace gate?Cen Zhu has entered the palace so many times, how could he? Forget it, thinking to himself that Hua Jinpeng is really unnecessary.After these few days of getting along, she feels more and more that this servant Hua is good at everything, except that he is a bit of a mother-in-law?At that time, he was able to escape the catastrophe of northern Xinjiang, and it probably had something to do with his old? good guy? character.

Cen Zhu was about to hand over the fish talisman, when suddenly a small yellow door hurried over, whispered in her ear: "Lord Cen, Kang...Princess Kangde, please come with me."

Li Jingxi?Why is she looking for me?

Seeing this, Cen Zhu had no choice but to say hello to Hua Jinpeng who had already left the customs, and left with Xiao Huangmen.

The further he walked, the more deviated the road was, Cen Zhu once thought that he was going to lead him somewhere, put a sack on him, knocked him unconscious and took him away.But fortunately, after passing through a place similar to the imperial garden, he finally stopped in front of a side hall that said "Yanhai Pavilion" and said, "Lord Cen, please come inside."

Cen Zhu was puzzled, and after pushing the door open, he discovered that this was a book collection pavilion, with mountains of books and a sea of ​​books.She stopped in front of a bookshelf, and when she saw the person standing with books in front of her, she froze for a moment, and suddenly smiled.