Tanhualang

After entering the city gate, Shen Jing saw a large sedan chair with Tibetan green sandalwood top hidden in the cave of the city gate. Ding Bao personally raised the curtain of the sedan chair and invited King Yu to get on the sedan chair, and then turned around to invite Shen Jing to ride with him.

The guard of Nanjing is not an ordinary official position, and it is difficult for people not around the emperor to find this position. This eunuch Ding Bao is old, and he is so familiar with the king of Yu. It is likely that he is a person left by the late emperor. Shen Jing knows how amazing it is. , and quickly refused, saying that he would just take a mule cart.

Ding Bao probably felt that he was someone close to King Yu, so he couldn't be neglected, so he insisted on taking the sedan chair:

"If you are tired all the way, don't suffer from that bump."

The two were resigning, and King Yu had already lifted the curtain of the big sedan chair behind:

"Eunuch Ding, your sedan chair is small. Let Miao An ride with me."

Ding Bao was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly echoed:

"Alright, alright."

Shen Jing was also taken aback, and hastily declined:

"Your Highness, I am driving a mule cart—"

Still holding the curtain of the sedan chair, King Yu said patiently:

"Come up."

He was concise and concise, but different from the approachable people along the way, he already carried the style of the past.In front of Ding Bao and other people, Shen Jing couldn't refuse anymore, said "yes" and obediently got on the sedan chair.

The team hurried into the cool night rain in Nanjing.

The pattering rain fell on the top of the sedan chair, tick-tock, and sometimes a gust of wind blew, and the moist moisture rushed in from the gaps in the sedan chair curtains, bringing a cool feeling.King Yu lifted the curtain and looked out, saying:

"It's about to enter the plum season."

"Yes." Shen Jing said, "There will be another four or five days. The rain hits Huangmeitou, and there will be no sun for 45 days."

King Yu nodded with a sleepy expression, but didn't make another sound.Shen Jing just pretended that he was tired, and quietly leaned against the wall of the car to rest.

There was nothing to say along the way, and after a while, a group of sedan chairs entered Ding Bao's tutelary mansion through the back door.After getting off the sedan chair, Ding Bao led the two of them through a courtyard and into a flower hall:

"Your Highness will live here first. When Xiaoyou comes, how about His Highness living in the Jiangning Weaving Department? I cleaned it up carefully before, and the place there is bigger, and it is convenient to me."

King Yu let the waiters untie his cloak, took the soup handed over by Ding Bao himself, and drank it with his head up:

"Eunuch Ding just arrange it. I don't worry."

"There are two rooms on each side of this hall, which are just divided into bedrooms and study rooms." Ding Bao turned to Shen Jing again, "The east and west rooms in the courtyard are all tidied up, but the west wing is quieter. Mr. Shen will live in the west wing temporarily?"

Shen Jing quickly thanked her.

When everything is arranged properly, the third watch has passed.

Fortunately, there are enough people here, and the waiters are also careful, so there is no need to be quiet and worry about the affairs at King Yu's place.

Shen Jing said goodbye to Ding Bao and King Yu, and followed her servants to the West Chamber.The hot water for bathing has already been prepared in the room, and after cleaning in a hurry, sweeping away the dust and exhaustion along the way, he plunged into the clean and soft bed and fell into a dark and sweet dream.

Although the journey was only four or five days long, Shen Jing was always worried. He drove during the day and had to be alert to the movement outside at night, making it difficult to sleep at night.

His body was not particularly strong and durable, and he was exhausted after a few days of tossing. Now, once he relaxes, he will naturally sleep in the dark.

He didn't know how long he had been asleep, but when he woke up, he saw that the sky outside was still dark, and there still seemed to be the sound of pattering rain outside the window. He still felt that he hadn't woken up, so he closed his eyes and continued to sleep.Woke up again, saw that it was still dark outside, and fell asleep again.

Just like that, he woke up and fell asleep, and had many strange dreams in the middle: sometimes someone called him softly from a distance, and sometimes he heard people coming and going in and out of the room, talking in a low voice beside him.The clearest dream is that I seem to be back in the inn on the road, he is falling asleep, and King Yu seems to have come to his room, standing beside his bed and softly calling his name:

"Miao An?"

"Your Highness—why is Brother Zhong An here?" Shen Jing said while trying to open his eyes, but he was too sleepy and couldn't fully open them. He struggled hard for a long time but it was in vain, so he had to tell King Yu "Forgive me for being rude, I really can't keep my eyes open... What orders does Brother Zhong An have?"

King Yu bent over and moved closer, speaking softly:

"I'll come see you."

Shen Jing continued to try hard to open her eyes, while thinking about the reason for King Yu's visit:

"Brother Zhong An... do you want to eat bean paste cake?"

"..." King Yu seemed to be taken aback, stretched out his hand to touch his forehead, and asked again, "Do you feel any discomfort?"

"It's just very sleepy..." Shen Jing said, being swept away by the turbulent sleepiness, she couldn't help but closed her eyes and fell asleep for a while.When he gathered up his strength and tried his best to open his eyes again, he found that King Yu was still there, so he had no choice but to hold on and said, "Brother Zhong An, let me sleep first... I'll make bean paste cakes after I wake up."

But why can't my eyes be opened?

Shen Jing wondered for a long time in her heart, vaguely remembered that she and King Yu had actually arrived in Nanjing, and suddenly realized: "...I am dreaming!"

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, King Yu in the dream laughed at him—if it was really King Yu, how could he laugh like this?

It really was a dream.

Having figured this out, Shen Jing simply stopped talking to King Yu in the dream, let alone resisting the sleepy eyes, and let herself fall asleep again.

Finally, when he finally woke up, he quietly looked at the bright sky outside and felt that he might have overslept.He pushed himself up and sat up, only to feel that all his strength was gone, probably hungry after sleeping for too long.

He got up from the bed with bleary-eyed eyes, tied up his hair sloppily, put on his clothes indiscriminately, then pulled on his shoes and wanted to go out to find someone to eat.

As soon as I walked to the door of the bedroom, I heard a girl shouting outside:

"Oh sir, why are you up!"

Shen Jing suddenly seemed to have caught a life-saving straw, holding on to the door frame and smilingly begging to the other party:

"Girl, can I trouble you to get me something to eat?"

That girl is very clever:

"Okay, you go back and lie down first!"

She first helped Shen Jing back to the bed and sat down, then ran outside:

"I'm going to get some food!"

The room was very damp, and there were faint traces of water on the ground, exactly like Huang Meitian in the south of the Yangtze River.It's just that although it wasn't sunny outside, it wasn't raining either.Shen Jingjing sat on the bedside and waited for the meal to come. After thinking about it, she got up and walked to the table under the window.As soon as he sat down, he saw King Yu walking in from the outside with a smile on his face:

"woke up?"

Shen Jing hurriedly got up and saluted, while messing around with the clothes on her body:

"I just fell asleep. I haven't finished describing it yet, so I'm sorry."

King Yu laughed even harder, and sat down across the round table:

"sit down."

Shen Jing obeyed her orders and sat down, just as the girl brought food, seeing that King Yu was there, she put the food on the table one by one after paying her respects: there was hot porridge, egg drop soup with brown sugar, and a small dish of sprinkles. Dessert with sweet-scented osmanthus.

Although these foods are simple, they exude bursts of aroma.Shen Jing was so hungry that his chest was on his back, but he couldn't move his chopsticks here, and he was slandering, so King Yu personally brought the porridge bowl to him:

"Try it. See if it's your craftsmanship, or the cook in Ding Bao's mansion."

"Your Highness has eaten?"

"Yeah." King Yu pushed the tray again, "Eat slowly."

Shen Jing picked up the spoon and ate a spoonful of porridge cautiously.The hot porridge is salty and palatable, and it arouses infinite hunger as soon as one eats it. He immediately ignored the presence of King Yu, picked up the porridge bowl and began to eat it. The bowl of hot porridge was about to bottom out when he heard King Yu faintly bringing Laughing voice:

"When you are full, then I can make some bean paste cakes for Gu."

"..." Shen Jing put down the porridge bowl, faintly feeling something was wrong.

King Yu suppressed a smile on his face:

"You slept for two days and two nights, you must have had enough sleep, you can finally open your eyes, right?"

"..."

After a moment of silence and sluggishness, a flash of inspiration flashed in my heart——

It was not a dream!

King Yu saw him suddenly realized and deeply regretted his slip of the tongue, couldn't help laughing and stood up:

"Miao'an, Miao'an! Hahahaha! You really live up to your name!"

He smiled and walked out:

"Come over to the study when you're full. Don't be busy making bean paste cakes. There are still some serious things waiting for you here."

The business that King Yu said was indeed a business.

Shen Jing looked at the table full of paperwork on the case, a little dazzled.Zhao Heng picked up one of them casually, opened it and spread it out in front of Shen Jing:

"Can you understand?"

Shen Jing took it and flipped through two pages carefully, and found that the booklet was a thick stack, filled with eloquence, and the content turned out to be a report on guards, weapons, weapons, and food reserves in Jiangsu Province, and her throat tightened:

"Your Highness, this—"

"This is the military information book reported by the Ministry of War in Nanjing." Yu Wang sat at the opposite round table, drinking tea in 100 years, and said casually, "There are also Anhui and Nanjing local books, and the ones next to them are."

"..."

"Study and study carefully. See if you can send me an easy-to-understand list."

"……Yes."

King Yu was drinking tea at the table while ordering Shen Jing:

"In addition to the military report from the Ministry of War, there are also money, grain, salt and water transport books from the Ministry of Households, which will be delivered tomorrow. You have sorted out the hard work of the past few days. If you don't understand anything, just ask Ding precious."

"Yes."

King Yu nodded, stood up and was about to go out, but when he reached the door, he suddenly turned around and asked:

"Look carefully, the order to be transferred is clear, especially the amount of soldiers, weapons, money and food, don't make any mistakes."

"……Yes."

Sitting quietly in King Yu's study, sitting there from morning until it was almost dark.

Since his father passed away at the age of 16, he has not sat in front of the desk for many years, and now he feels very tired after sitting for a day.In the evening, it started to rain again, and the light gradually dimmed. He tidied up the paperwork on the table and put them away by category. He stretched his arms, stretched his waist, stood up from the table, and picked up a piece of paper on the table. After stacking the neatly copied papers, he walked to the window, and by the light of the window, carefully read the contents of the papers again.

Before I finished reading, I heard someone knocking on the door, and I looked up to see King Yu standing at the door:

"How's it going?"

"Just transcribed it." Shen Jing hurried forward and handed over the paper in his hand, "According to His Highness's request, we sorted out the four major items of sergeant, ordnance, money, and food, and divided them into eleven minor items. The items mentioned are roughly the same, only some small items of ordnance and food in Anhui have not been separated."

King Yu took it, looked through it hastily, and walked to the side of the case.

Seeing this, Shen Jing quickly took the candlestick to the table and lit the candles on it one by one.

King Yu stood in front of the table and looked at the paper in his hand by the candlelight, frowning slightly while looking at it, with a different kind of sternness from the corners of his eyes and brows than usual.

Standing quietly at the side but a little distracted.Only now did he notice that King Yu was wearing a fine attire today, but it was different from the well-regulated official robes in the capital: white jade hair, dark blue background, embroidered Sihe Ruyi cloud cranes on the chest, shoulders and arms, He was covered with a dark blue floral gauze, and around his waist was tied a gold belt three or four fingers wide, made of eight treasures and pearls inlaid with eight treasures, making him look more and more slender and long-legged.The dim candlelight shrouded him, and it seemed to melt the sternness of his body, making him look luxurious and unrestrained.

This is also the first time Shen Jing realizes that King Yu's appearance is actually very outstanding.

He was still in a daze, Zhao Heng had already read the few pages in his hand, loosened his frowning eyebrows and nodded:

"good."

As he spoke, he picked up the pen on the table, dipped in the ink and drew a few places on the paper:

"Keep these small items. These add up. These don't."

"Yes." Shen Jing hurriedly stepped forward to take it, "I'll make another copy right now."

King Yu turned around and brushed off the creases on his sleeves:

"Let's transcribe tomorrow. Ding Bao has set up a banquet in front, and you go there with Gu."