Brother, did you confess today?

Xu Xiangfei was just from the rivers and lakes, and he had no practical help for the new emperor's ascension to the throne, so he was not qualified to enter the palace for a banquet, but the new emperor still remembered him, and also praised him at the banquet, rewarding him with a thousand taels of silver.

But to the courtiers, he was just "Zhu Xuguang's senior brother", that's all, even if he lived in the Hou Mansion, no one came to disturb him, so he was considered clean.

Xu Xiangfei likes it very much. He may not be acclimatized in the capital, or seeing Zhu Xuguang coming back, his heart is relieved, and his body that has not had any problems for a long time suddenly has a problem. Zhu Xuguang started to have a fever the night he returned after the banquet. Cough, I invited the doctor to come and said it was a cold, and simply prescribed a few medicines.

Yue Yu was so guilty, he just felt that he didn't take good care of his elder brother, and when he came back, he nestled next to Xu Xiangfei and touched his wrist: "Brother, are you better?"

"It's better." Xu Xiangfei was in better health than Yue Yu, after a day or two of rest, he felt much better, and the fever subsided, but he was still a little weak.

But he hadn't been lying on the bed like this for a long time, and after thinking about it for a while, he became happy, which made Yue Yu puzzled.

Xu Xiangfei put one hand on Yue Yu's shoulder, and pinched his soft cotton-like face, and teased himself with a smile: "Does this look like the first time you saw your elder brother? I was lying and moving like this at that time." I can't."

Yue Yu: "Brother...don't curse yourself like that."

But when he said this, Yue Yu really remembered that when Xu Xiangfei came to Liuzhou to recover from his injuries, didn't he just lie down with a pale face like this?

To say something embarrassing, Yue Yu secretly worried, thinking that this big brother is really pitiful, because he has seen too many things that are seriously ill and cannot afford to die, and he also wondered if the big brother he has never seen will be the last time he sees Bar?

Who could have imagined the future?

While the two were talking, Zhu Xuguang walked in with a medicine bowl, still frowning as before, and his face was covered with frost, which made the two of them who happened to be talking about that year suddenly burst out laughing.

Zhu Xuguang, who was inexplicably laughed at, stopped slowly, looking at this and then that.

Xu Xiangfei explained with a smile: "It's nothing, we miss the beginning."

"...What is there to miss." Zhu Xuguang probably knew what they were talking about, and put the medicine bowl that made people cry at first glance in front of Xu Xiangfei, "Brother, you will have candied fruit after drinking it."

"I'm not a child anymore." Xu Xiangfei took the medicine, drank it in one gulp in the eyes of the two, and then felt uncomfortable from the admiring eyes, "What do you mean?"

Zhu Xuguang took out the candied fruit, put it gently on his mouth, watched Xu Xiangfei eat it, and fixed his eyes on it: "It's a compliment to senior brother."

Xu Xiangfei also smiled: "Your senior brother has more than that."

Yue Yu also pursed his lips and smiled embarrassingly, feeling more and more reluctant. Zhu Xuguang was conferred the title of marquis and rewarded with a mansion, and he will be able to move out soon, but he can't bear to part with his eldest brother!

Alas, but ruining a marriage is not good. Even if Yue Yu has never experienced it, he knows it is not good to bother the two of them, and his brows become more and more sad.

Seeing this, Xu Xiangfei went to pinch his face again: "Why are you frowning again? I have never seen you so worried when I was studying."

Although Yue Yu was on the new emperor's side, he had no fame, and the new emperor planned to reopen the imperial examination, so Yue Yu would naturally end up, so he was not appointed an official again.

Now that it is closed, when the imperial examination comes out in the future, it will be difficult for Yue Yu to go, unless he is given a small official position first, but that will go against the original intention.

Xu Xiangfei had never taken the imperial examination, and he didn't know much about it, but his father was considered talented back then, and he was just a candidate. He didn't understand the meaning of being a candidate, and he only thought that it would be more difficult to be the first scholar.

Alas, scholars are really amazing.

"Reading is not difficult, just read it a few times and you'll be fine. It's just the principles in the book that need to be practiced. I'm still far behind."

Xu Xiangfei rubbed Yue Yu's head: "Brother believes in you."

Yue Yu was happy, and after staying with him for a while, he went back to read. Instead, Zhu Xuguang sat by the bed, Xu Xiangfei moved in, and Zhu Xuguang squeezed in, hugged him with one hand, and played with his senior brother's fingers.

"What are you worrying about again? Each of you, you have worries here and there, and you are alive, and all your troubles are taken care of by you."

Zhu Xuguang knew that Xu Xiangfei wanted him not to hide it, so he said generously: "I was thinking about Uncle Nan, I know that this Marquis has no real power, and he just moved out to look good, but Uncle Nan got angry and ignored me these days... ...I have already said that I intend to, why do you still force me to do something I don't want?"

Of course, he couldn't possibly feel that he was wrong. In terms of paranoia, he and Uncle Nan couldn't tell who was more ruthless than the other, but Zhu Xuguang also had to consider what to do with General Chang's old department.

The new emperor promised to thoroughly investigate the old cases of the Chang family. All the exiles were found, and those who were still in prison have been released. Finally reunited, although time has passed, but Zhu Xuguang thought, it should be their wish.

As for the remaining offshoots of the Chang family, Zhu Xuguang plans to visit them after a while and help them out. As the last direct descendant, that's all he can do.

He will not have any descendants, but the Chang family still has side branches. In a few years or more, when Zhu Xuguang leaves the capital completely, the Marquis position can be passed on to the side branches, which can be regarded as a replacement of the direct line.

The only thing that bothered him was Uncle Nan.General Chang's old troops could only be brought under Lixuan's subordinates, but Uncle Nan had a rebellious heart in the past, and Zhu Xuguang couldn't guarantee that the new emperor would not feel ill and worried about his safety.

If he thought about it, Uncle Nan was already old, and he had suffered many wounds from battles in the past, so it would be better to rest, but Uncle Nan was unwilling to retire, and even turned cold towards Zhu Xuguang who was obviously about to leave the capital.

Xu Xiangfei quietly listened to Zhu Xuguang's troubles, and sighed softly: "You are stubborn yourself, and you should understand Uncle Nan's persistence. Why don't you ask Uncle Nan if he stays in the capital, is there anyone to take care of my aunt? We also sent some things over there."

"I asked. Uncle Nan was hesitant. I suspect that he has already contacted his aunt, but he still doesn't want to go back to his hometown to see his wife and children."

"This..." He couldn't be persuaded anymore, Xu Xiangfei had nothing to say, and after thinking for a long time, he said: "I'll go see Uncle Nan tomorrow."

"Senior brother." Zhu Xuguang was reluctant, "Uncle Nan is cold-hearted towards me, and even more angry towards you, why should senior brother suffer?"

What Zhu Xuguang was most dissatisfied with Uncle Nan was probably that after Xu Xiangfei accidentally discovered Uncle Nan's identity, Uncle Nan forced Xu Xiangfei to hide it for many years, and also tried to make Xu Xiangfei leave Zhu Xuguang on his own initiative.

"Besides, brother Fenghan is still not healed..."

"It's because I'm not feeling well from the cold that I want to go at this time." Xu Xiangfei blinked slyly, "I don't think Uncle Nan can bear to scold me."

Zhu Xuguang: "..." The senior is indeed a senior.

He also knew that he had a stubborn temper, and Uncle Nan was also impatient, and the two would quarrel before they could speak a few words. Xu Xiangfei went to persuade him, maybe there would be a turnaround.

Zhu Xuguang didn't stop him, and started talking about other things.

"There are a lot of people looking for me for dinner these days, what about viewing flowers and composing poems, do I seem to be someone who knows these things?"

Xu Xiangfei was overjoyed: "Why don't you go, and let the senior brother see your poems."

"I don't want to go, and I won't if I go. I see these people are so tired that they are looking for me to inquire about the emperor's arrangements. What does this have to do with me?" Zhu Xuguang had a headache, "Senior brother is right, this place is really good not too good."

Xu Xiangfei smiled even more happily: "It's just that you and I are not so smart and can't control the power. This place is really prosperous."

"There are more prosperous places." Zhu Xuguang was not moved at all, "Let's leave earlier."

Xu Xiangfei didn't say a word, but he was very worried in his heart. He didn't know what the new emperor was thinking, whether there would be trouble again, and whether they could leave smoothly?

These things weighed on my heart, and I couldn't even sleep well at night. When I woke up in the middle of the night, Xu Xiangfei turned over in it and found a hand on his waist. On Zhu Xuguang's face, he felt that he was sweating again.

Xu Xiangfei was so surprised that he quickly wiped his cuffs, but he didn't wake him up. After all, it was just a nightmare. Once he almost died in the snow, Zhu Xuguang also had a lot of nightmares.

So Xu Xiangfei is also very proficient. He gently touched Zhu Xuguang's neck behind his ears, and then touched his forehead to the side of his face little by little. Arms go to sleep.

……

Waking up the next day, Zhu Xuguang got up early to practice swords, Yue Yu also went to study early, only Xu Xiangfei was left in a daze for a moment before getting up to wash.

After drinking the porridge and taking the medicine, Xu Xiangfei looked at his face in the bronze mirror: "I see that my complexion has improved a lot."

"It should be fine." Zhu Xuguang sat on the side after practicing the sword and carefully wiped the sword body with a handkerchief, "If it's still not good, I have to take my brother away no matter what I say."

Xu Xiangfei ignored his bad temper, just touched his face: "This is not good, Uncle Nan may be willing to scold me after seeing it."

Zhu Xuguang was speechless.

Xu Xiangfei put down the bronze mirror with a smile, and leaned forward to kiss Zhu Xuguang's lips: "Okay, wait for senior brother to come back."

He has never shown his face in the capital, and no one knows him when he walks on the street. He occasionally meets people in rich clothes on the road, and he should be an outsider, so he is not interested, and the journey is uneventful.

Although Xu Xiangfei doesn't like the capital city, this place is indeed quite safe, maybe the swords and swords are all hidden in the high walls.

Uncle Nan and his party didn't all go to Beijing. After the banquet, Uncle Nan only rented a yard in the suburbs of Beijing to live temporarily. He didn't want to pay attention to Zhu Xuguang, but he didn't want to pay attention to the stranger Lixuan, silently resisting the arrangement.

When Xu Xiangfei came to the door, several middle-aged men with big arms and thick waists were competing with each other. Uncle Nan was sitting at the stone table in the courtyard, and a young man waving a broom flashed past him from time to time. ground, drinking water coldly.

"Uncle Nan."

Xu Xiangfei's voice sounded, but it didn't attract the attention of other people in the courtyard. He just raised his head and looked at it. Only the young man who swept the floor wiped his forehead and said with a silly smile: "Oh, you are, are you that swallow? Sit down quickly. Ah, I'll make braised pork for you at noon!"

The young man was very happy, and ran to Uncle Nan in twos and outs, spreading his arms and muttering: "Uncle Nan, there is a guest here, give me some money to buy meat!"

Uncle Nan shook his beard, took out a bunch of copper coins from his pocket and threw them into the young man's arms: "Get lost!"

The young man was not defeated by the bad attitude, he let out a happy hey, threw down the broom and ran away, and his jumping back was enough to show his joy.

Xu Xiangfei watched him run away silently, then turned his head and sat straight in front of Uncle Nan, teasing: "Uncle Nan didn't feed this little brother? Look happy."

Uncle Nan didn't even lift his eyelids, and said coldly: "Are you here to be a lobbyist for that kid? Why bother, you didn't discuss it with me before, and now you don't need to explain, go back."

Xu Xiangfei coughed twice, his voice still a little hoarse, which stunned Uncle Nan, who was losing his temper on his own, and then raised his head to look at him carefully, and found that his face was pale and his eyes were bloodshot, and his expression eased a lot.

Uncle Nan also has a stubborn temper, and he is absolutely unwilling to apologize. He just turned his face away: "If you are sick, take care of it. Have you recovered from your original injury?"

He did vent his anger on Xu Xiangfei. Uncle Nan himself didn't take love seriously, so he naturally felt that Xu Xiangfei and Zhu Xuguang were not very smart, and they were entangled and entangled about this matter.

But back then Xu Xiangfei really planned to exchange his life for Zhu Xuguang's survival. As far as this kind of affection, no matter how harsh Uncle Nan was, he couldn't blame him.

No wonder Zhu Xuguang was so devoted to him.

"It's all right, Yu Langzhong's medical skills are very good." Xu Xiangfei smiled, "I know that Uncle Nan is angry, but my junior brother didn't tell me, that's how he does things, and he has a stubborn temper, Mr. Nanshu has a lot of things, so don't dispose of him. Don't be angry, lest you ruin your body."

Uncle Nan snorted softly: "Just speak up for him. If you persuade him, he might stay, but you don't want to."

This is simply too much, Xu Xiangfei raised his eyebrows: "Of course I don't want to, he bit my hand at the first time, even if it is a relationship, he has been by my side for more than ten years, I don't say that I already know my junior brother very well, but I know it well... ...If he wants to, how can I persuade him? If I really persuade him, won't Uncle Nan be even more angry when he sees him listening to me like this? "

This is true, it seems that Xu Xiangfei has always been in front of the two of them, Zhu Xuguang has always been taciturn, and only clings to Xu Xiangfei, but Uncle Nan also knows in his heart that the two of them can only be said first by Zhu Xuguang. .

"But you, you two are serious!" Uncle Nan held back for a long time, and he could only complain like this, "You two are men, and you are brothers, maybe it's just an illusion of getting along for too long, and life and death depend on each other What? At this age, why can’t you see a bright future, why don’t you know how to start a family?”

Uncle Nan's chest heaved violently. Seeing himself talking Xu Xiangfei more and more silently, he felt uncomfortable for a while. He didn't feel happy at all. After all, he was watching a grown-up child...

He closed his eyes severely: "Swallow, let me ask you one more question, are they really inseparable?"

Xu Xiangfei hesitated to speak, shook his head slowly, but what he was talking about was not this: "Uncle Nan still feels that the younger brother doesn't want to stay in the capital just because of me? Is it just because I, a sinner, delayed the younger brother's future?"

"That's not what I meant." Uncle Nan hesitated, "Uncle never thought about it that way, and you are not a sinner."

"Junior brother is a soft-hearted person. If it's a battle in troubled times, and the people are really struggling to survive, and corpses are lying everywhere, he also understands that he should fight... But Uncle Nan, if you promise to let junior brother leave and go to Chenzhou, you already understand the throne." Only those who are sitting in the top position now have the ability to fight, and juniors absolutely cannot."

Uncle Nan was silent.

Xu Xiangfei continued: "If the younger brother stays, will he be another great general after 20 years?"

"You..." Uncle Nan choked, and slowly calmed down again, "Then what do you want from me? Seriously, I will see him wandering around in the world, at most he will have a reputation in the world, a villager, what future does he have! "

It's not that he doesn't understand that Zhu Xuguang shouldn't stay here, and he also understands that his group is actually a hidden danger in the eyes of the new emperor, but Uncle Nan just doesn't want to be reconciled. When a man gets together, he only cares about the rivers and lakes of the world.

This reluctance made Uncle Nan treat Zhu Xuguang coldly, but it didn't stop Zhu Xuguang from returning to Beijing early, and it didn't let him really seek anything.

To put it bluntly, it is awkward. If Zhu Xuguang really sat down and had a good chat like Xu Xiangfei, Uncle Nan might forget about it, but that kid didn’t even mention it. Seeing this, he even complained to his senior brother and asked the sick Xu Xiangfei to come Intercede, it's all about what.

Xu Xiangfei comforted him slowly: "We all understand Uncle Nan's thoughts, and we also know that you are actually doing it for his own good, but everyone has their own place to go, and the younger brother doesn't want to stay here, apart from his own thoughts, there are also forms of persecution, for the safety of all uncles , it’s best not to keep it.”

If Zhu Xuguang wanted to stay, he might not be able to get this position.

Uncle Nan snorted coldly: "Anyway, you're the one who will persuade you to do one thing and another. You just have this mouth. If you become an official, I'm afraid you will be uneasy."

"I'll take it as Uncle Nan's compliment." Xu Xiangfei wasn't afraid at all, "As Uncle Nan said, my junior brother and I are still young, and our brains are always unclear. Why don't we just let us go for it and wait for him to regret it? , isn’t there Uncle Nan?”

Uncle Nan felt better when he heard this, but he said unforgivingly: "Isn't there still your master? The old man ran all the way to the camp to let me release you because of you two worthless, saying that he can contact the emperor." , let me stop quickly. Huh, I don’t know him yet? If it wasn’t for you two, would he take care of these things?”

Xu Xiangfei also smiled: "Yes, yes, I also have to thank Master, and I will find him to have a good drink when I leave Beijing."

But soon he became puzzled again: "Although I know the master is very capable, I never thought that he could contact the emperor so quickly, but now he doesn't show up, and I haven't heard anything from anyone."

"I can't thank that Mr. Lin?" Uncle Nan snorted, "I'll let you, Uncle Lin, tell you about it. When he returns to his original post, he will be really proud of himself."

"So that's how it is." Xu Xiangfei thought for a while, "I didn't expect that the old people who were difficult to get together in the past would all see each other because of this."

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continue tomorrow