The most unlucky crossing in history

Even in an era when information is not well-informed, even if it is not in a world where information explodes at a single point, if there is intention to create momentum, then unbelievable rumors can spread throughout the world in time.

For example, Prime Minister Xie and the boss of the Zhong family.

The rumor that Zhong Qiyun had an affair with Prime Minister Xie because of Chu Changyi was circulated in Jingzhao City the year before last, but some people gradually said, "Zhong Qiyun is actually making friends with the prime minister, and those rumors of rivalry are really laughable."

No matter whether the two are on good terms or against each other, they are just rumors that cannot be put on the table, and only some idlers have the thought to talk about them. Most of the literati who think they are high-spirited and dignified are mostly scornful of the rumors. bother.

This attitude remained unchanged until after the Northwest War.

When Prime Minister Xie and the Northwest Army were trapped in the Northwest, the Zhong family unexpectedly gave their all to help. The peasants who did not know the name of Dou heard that the Zhong family had the demeanor of everyone, and they were businessmen who really worked for the people. Those who know the truth and understand the political affairs will understand that even if the Zhong family disobeys the sacred order, they will definitely do their best to protect Xie Wenyuan comprehensively!

This is no longer a non-existent message, but something real and even thought-provoking.

Rescuing Xie Wenyuan when no one in the country could do it, and too many people dared not do it, the hidden connection and relationship must never be superficial.

In this way, even those poets and poets also talked about it.

Some people speculated that the rise of the Zhong family was probably due to Prime Minister Xie's help, and the entanglement of interests between Zhong Qiyun and Xie Wenyuan might not be sorted out clearly.

Some people also said that the interests may not be enough for the Zhong family to act like this. You must know that a smart person will weigh at that time. If Zhong Qiyun's choice is not to save Xie Wenyuan, but to conspire with the emperor to make Xie Wenyuan never return, just I'm afraid that Zhong Qiyun's "official and merchant" position will have to be pulled up again, and then he will have a power that merchants have never seen in thousands of years.

It's just that Zhong Qiyun saved Xie Wenyuan after all, and even guarded there for several months there, providing him with all supplies, gold and silver treasures at his disposal.

"Brotherhood is true if you think about it."

During the provincial examination season in Jingzhao City, talented and capable people from all over the country gather here.

Let go, but at the feet of the emperor in public, discuss the official appointed by the court, and this official is Xie Wenyuan, who is now so powerful.

In normal times, in Emperor Gao's far-off homeland that day, those who passed the imperial examinations would be able to discuss in private, but now, under the eyes of the prime minister, when the provincial examinations are approaching, in order to avoid impeding their official career, Ordinary moves will be more taboo.

But even so, some bold and willful people can't keep it from coming forward. It's such a strange thing for everyone in the court. If one person says a few words, there will naturally be the same wanton people who will respond. You say, I say In other words, the discussion of the Little Inn was lively.

"Money and power can make ghosts grind, but deep friendship can make people benevolent and righteous. Zhong Qiyun does this only because he has both benefits and affection."

"What kind of righteousness can make him do this?" A scholar shook his head and said, "Brother Zhou, I don't quite agree with this conclusion. Since ancient times, it is impossible for profit and affection to coexist. If Zhong Qiyun was seeking profit from the beginning, he was in contact with Xie Cheng. Therefore, under the entanglement, he will be coerced by Xie Cheng, so the love cannot be true. Since everyone just said that he can't make money, then I think that only the strong brotherhood can make him sacrifice his life for righteousness."

When the Jinyi scholar said this, a burst of laughter suddenly came from the south corner of the inn. Looking up with flushed eyes, he said forcefully: "Looking at you like this, I don't know, but do you have other ideas?"

The person in the south corner looked to be in his twenties. He was dressed in brocade clothes and was not tall but his eyes were bright. There was also a book boy standing beside him with his eyebrows raised. He looked like a rich man. style.This person knew that the scholar was annoyed by his laughter just now, but he never apologized, he just picked up the tea and said slowly: "I don't have a good opinion, it's just that I'm better informed than you guys."

Seeing his attitude, the scholar breathed a sigh of relief. Hearing the man's excellent official speech, he thought that the scholar in Jinyi was from Jingzhao City. He snorted: "Oh? I just don't know what this brother knows. Don’t us ordinary people from outside know?”

The scholar in Jinyi smiled and said: "Xiaosheng is also an outsider, but he just happened to be from Hangzhou, so he just happened to know about Xie Zhong and Xie, so

It's a little strange today, what's the point of these things? "Speaking of this, he shook his head: "Who in Hangzhou does not know that the owner of the Zhong family has a 'close relationship' with Xie Wenyuan and Prime Minister Xie?" "

As soon as these words came out, the inn lobby was silent for a long time, until a person asked, "Is it really the relationship between brothers?"

After hearing this, the scholar in Jinyi laughed loudly, nodded and said: "If you can be regarded as a brother who eats and lives together and sleeps together, then it is a brother."

Zhong Qiyun outside the door raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this. He had been away from Hangzhou for several months, but he didn't know when it was rumored in Hangzhou that he and Xie Wenyuan had "arrived to sleep", although he did make people publicize that he and Xie Wenyuan Wen Yuan has a very good relationship, but he never mentioned this matter.

Feeling a little more interested, Zhong Qiyun walked into the inn after thinking about it.

After all, it was still in ancient times. Although Zhong Qiyun was well-known, few people had seen him. In addition, he was of a moderate age, and he was dressed very plainly today. He was not much different from those scholars. To live in a hotel.

Zhong Qiyun said: "I don't stay in the store, I feel thirsty when I pass by here, and I want to drink some tea and eat some fruit snacks."

The shop waiter greeted him: "The guest officer on the second floor, please. The lobby is crowded today. There are two private rooms behind the second floor, which are cleaner."

Zhong Qiyun, who was just going to listen to some gossip, naturally didn't want that kind of cleanliness, he shook his head and said: "Don't bother, it's just me, just eat whatever you want, little brother, let's see where is suitable, I'm in the lobby Eat whatever you want and go."

After hearing this, Xiao Er thought that he couldn't afford the money for the private room, and his attitude lost the enthusiasm just now. He looked up and saw a table with only one person near the window in the south, next to Jin Yi Scholar, and raised his finger and said: "Since that's the case, the guest officer should go there and share the table with that person."

Zhong Qiyun looked along, nodded and smiled and said, "Then please ask my second brother to make me a pot of tea and prepare a plate of the best dim sum in your shop."

After Zhong Qiyun finished speaking, he walked towards that place. The person at the same table turned his back to him just now, and he hadn't seen it.

The man thought he had seen him a long time ago, so he was not surprised, he just smiled and said: "Brother Zhong, long time no see."

Zhong Qiyun looked at Linghu Qing, smiled and cupped his hands: "It's Brother Linghu," he sat down, and said: "I was originally

I thought that at this hour, only I, an idler, would have the leisure to come here to drink tea, but I didn't know that Brother Linghu was one step earlier. "

Linghuqing knew that Zhong Qiyun was saying that he didn't work in the court, but came here to find a job, he smiled and replied: "The world is safe and healthy these days, so there is nothing important about it, so naturally it's not my turn to be busy."

When Linghuqing said that, Zhong Qiyun didn't ask much, just smiled and didn't say much, but the scholar in Jinyi at the table next to them talked about it: "Everyone knows that Zhong Qiyun is twenty-seven this year, so old In an ordinary family, I am afraid that the eldest son will be able to marry a wife in two years, why do you think he has not married a wife at such an age? Why do you think he is so rich that he doesn't even have a concubine?"

Linghu, who was also twenty and seven years old, and also never married and had children, was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Zhong Qiyun, shook his head and laughed.

Zhong Qiyun looked at Linghu Qing who came to listen to the gossip but was accidentally stabbed by someone's words. At this time, Xiao Er had brought refreshments. Zhong Qiyun took the tea kettle on the table and poured a cup of tea for Linghu Qing, saying: "I wonder if Brother Linghu's family was ever urged to get married?"

Linghuqing took the tea, and said calmly: "Over the years, it may have been a hundred times." After drinking the tea, Linghuqing looked at Zhong Qiyun and said, "Now I am very envious of Brother Zhong, no one dares to urge you."

Zhong Qiyun smiled and didn't say much.

At this time, someone in the lobby has already mentioned: "In this way, Prime Minister Xie is also the same age but also unmarried..."

"That's right, given the status of the two of them, how could there be no one who will marry them?"

"A talented woman like Hu Ningyun, a beautiful woman like Chu Changyi, and a status like this Jingzhao Imperial City Princess and the daughter of a hundred officials are all out of place. Why?"

"It's not for waiting for that person, it's not for love, so why?"

Hearing this, Linghu Qing nodded her head in agreement, looked at Zhong Qiyun with a smile, and asked, "Hey, I don't know who Boss Zhong Qiyun is waiting for?"

Hearing this, Zhong Qiyun raised his eyes to look at Linghu Qing, also beaming with joy, and said: "Then, I don't know who Brother Linghu is waiting for?"

Linghu Qing felt a choke in her throat and couldn't say anything.

The two of them were extremely quiet here, while the conversation in the lobby over there became more and more lively.

"Hey, hey, how come the more you talk about it, the more it seems like hearsay? It's better not to say such unfounded things."

"How could it be hearsay, isn't this brother

You know, when Zhong Qiyun held a birthday banquet last year, my family members said that they saw Xie Cheng personally rushing to his house to congratulate him that day. "

When Zhong Qiyun heard this, he turned his head and took a closer look at the scholar in Jinyi. He saw that he looked a bit like an adult in Gusu City, so he understood why he knew this.

"Is there still this?"

The shopkeeper at the counter, who was thinking about his calculations but had been listening to the scholars discussing things, suddenly said, "Masters who come to Jingzhao may not know that there are actually some rumors circulating in Jingzhao recently."

"What does the shopkeeper know?"

The shopkeeper heard someone ask, cleared his throat, and said mysteriously: "There are many rumors in the imperial city, but most of these rumors may be true."

"Don't let the shopkeeper keep it up, just explain it to us!"

"Ahem, cough, in fact, in Jingzhao, in the past two days, some people have seen that the boss of the Zhong family has been staying in the prime minister's mansion since he returned to Beijing with the prime minister, and someone even saw Zhong Qiyun and the prime minister behaving intimately with the prime minister outside the prime minister's mansion at night, hugging endlessly .”

As soon as the words came out, many people in the hall sighed.

Zhong Qiyun frowned slightly.

The shopkeeper said again: "Also...my brother is in the red wedding business. He told me that the Zhong family ordered many precious gifts in Beijing, showing that they were planning to organize a wedding. , Many things were sent to the Prime Minister's Mansion."

"Could it be that you are still planning to get married?"

"This really disregards the principles of ethics!"

"Yes, what is the proper way for a man to marry a man?"

"Even the prime minister can't do this!"

Suddenly there was a lot of chatter in the hall, and the more Zhong Qiyun listened, the colder his expression became, until the commoner scholar at the table next to him spoke for the first time: "We don't know whether this is true or not, let's judge like this Is it too inappropriate?"

His voice is clean and clear, and his appearance is also Zhou Zhengjun, and his scholarly uprightness makes people feel comfortable, only to hear him say again: "Even if this is true, besides, whoever you like and who you want to marry with Qin and Jin, These are all their own people, after all, they have nothing to do with us, and we are not qualified to judge other people's private affairs, it is really not a gentleman's act for us to talk about it in private."

Seeing that there was no one to talk about, the commoner scholar said again: "Who is Xie Cheng, do you remember? He dared to fight against the powerful Wei He Dynasty in those days, oppressed the sky and saved the people of the two lakes from danger. May I ask, who is there in the court?"

Dare to do it?Divide the rights and interests of maritime merchants and merchants from all over the world, and reduce the agricultural tax that is difficult to move for a hundred years. May I ask, can anyone do it?You all know how powerful the Uighur is, right?Expelling the Uyghurs, regaining the territory, the World War I once again made the world surrender to the great country, and now who can sit here and talk about the country's affairs, which one is not the one who benefits?Let me ask, among those who are sitting, is there anyone who can do it?Looking at the time of the Han Dynasty...... Throughout history, it is rare for someone to do it. "

"Prime Minister Xie, Yu Guo is a great hero, and Yu Min is a rare virtuous prime minister. Such a person will be famous in history. When we scold him, we must not forget to ask: Do we have the qualifications to judge on behalf of history? .”

After speaking, the inn fell silent, and Zhong Qiyun and Linghu Qing also sat there quietly.

I don't know when the hall slowly started talking again, but they didn't talk about Xie Wenyuan again.

Zhong Qiyun drank a few cups of tea with Linghu Qing, and ate two bites of snacks. One of the pickled candied fruit was sour and sweet, which was really good. Seeing that it was getting late, he called Xiao Er to order him to pack a portion and take it away.

But before leaving, he still stopped beside the commoner scholar just now, bowed his hands to greet him, and then asked: "I heard what your brother said just now, and I feel that your brother understands history and history, and I am deeply moved, but there is one thing I also want to discuss one or two with my brother."

The commoner scholar smiled slightly, "It's just that I read a few more history books. If you have anything to say, brother, just say it."

"If what you just said is true, then Zhong Qiyun really wants to marry Xie Wenyuan, what do you think?"

The scholar smiled when he heard it, "What's the use of what I think, I just said that it's all other people's private affairs. However, if Xie Cheng really married a man... I'm afraid there will be some gossip."

Zhong Qiyun responded: "What about gossip? Some people care, but some people don't necessarily care."

The scholar nodded: "Brother is right... do you know Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty?"

"......Know."

"Just now when Emperor Ai was mentioned below, the first thing that came to mind, brother, was the matter of his broken sleeve?"

Zhong Qiyun paused and nodded.

"Then do you know that when Emperor Ai first came to the throne, he actually wanted to do something beneficial to the people, and maybe even thought about getting rid of Wang Mang's power?"

Zhong Qiyun didn't speak, he really didn't know.

Seeing that he didn't answer, the scholar knew what he meant, and he didn't say much, just said: "If you put everything aside, history is wonderful and wonderful."

Here, a person has only a few decades, and if he wants to keep his name on it, he needs to spend his whole life doing amazing feats, whether it is good or bad, but even so, it is only a short time to stay in the official history. Counting the number of crosses is only a few pages, and it is only a few sentences that can be passed on by word of mouth.And Prime Minister Xie must be famous in history, and his achievements should be written into official history for future generations to look up to.But if he married a man, he would be the first man in history to marry a man. How do you think history should write about this matter? "

Zhong Qiyun shook his head, "I don't know."

"I think it's just one sentence: Husband Zhong Qiyun, the official history will not talk about these private matters, just as the "Historical Records" will not discuss the relationship between the first emperor and Lu Buwei, and bluntly stated that he is the son of King Zhuangxiang of Qin. When it came to this sentence, "Lv Buwei took the concubines of Handan who were good dancers and lived with them. They knew they were pregnant. Zi Chu never drank Wei, and said it when he saw it. Because it was his birthday, please. Lu Buwei was angry. Chu, wanting to fish for surprises, offered his concubine. Ji concealed her pregnancy, and when she reached the age, she gave birth to Zizheng. Zi Chu then made her his wife, what do you mean? That is to say, when Zhao Ji followed King Zhuangxiang of Qin Pregnant, now regardless of whether Mr. Wang wrote this paragraph because the ruler wanted to discredit the former Qin and threatened him to write it down, but one thing is known, so a sentence will leave much more reverie for future generations, and even later generations even write it down. Too many people believe that the first emperor mentioned in the unofficial history is actually the son of Lu Buwei, and it is clear that in the official history, the old man has clearly told future generations that he is the son of King Zhuang Xiang."

Seeing that Zhong Qiyun didn't speak, the scholar hurriedly explained: "Oh, I'm not saying these things to show off. I just want to say these things. People in the market are like this sometimes. The achievements will naturally be remembered, but compared to the achievements, Probably too many people will remember those strange and controversial things more, pass them on word of mouth, and even cover up their merits. Brother Cai also saw it just now, not to mention the world, but those of us who are selected from the world. ', and it is easier to remember those 'wonderful things'."

After a long time, Zhong Qiyun sighed slowly: "Xie Xiongtai for your advice, it's just that there are so many things to worry about in one's life..."

"Well, this is also reasonable, maybe, it depends on whether this person will take care of it?"