The husband's son-in-law

"My lord is back."

Steward Zhou trotted in to report.

Li Zhouzhou was going to finish his meal, but when he heard this, he hurriedly put down his chopsticks and walked out. Li Zhaoxi took his sister-in-law's hand, and said, "Let's pick it up later, Dad must not be looking at me right now."

Brother Lin understood it as soon as he heard it, smiled clearly, and said, "Then listen to Fubao."

In front of the main courtyard, Li Zhouzhou had just stepped out of the arched door in the middle when he saw the dusty Mr. Xianggong. At this moment, the sun was setting and it was dusk, but the two looked at each other from a long distance away.

"Come out in such a hurry, this time should be for dinner." Gu Zhao approached and said.

Li Zhouzhou remembered it now, and explained to his servants, "Let brother Lin Fubao eat first, don't wait for me and adults to eat." Otherwise, the two children will have to wait until they are hungry.

The next person should be, busy to spread the message.

In the dining room of the main courtyard in the backyard, Brother Lin and Fu Bao did not start eating. Brother Lin wanted to wait in the yard, but after hearing the message from the servants, he thought for a while, and felt that it was not good to eat in Dad's yard, especially Dad. When they came back today, they ate this, not waiting for the elders to be bad.

"Understood, you tell the kitchen to prepare another table according to my father's taste." Li Zhaoxi talked to the servants, and said: "Sister-in-law, why don't we go to my yard to eat?"

Without waiting for the sister-in-law to speak, Li Zhaoxi muttered: "The yard in front is weird, maybe daddy and daddy have serious business, we won't be able to wait for a while, the food will be wasted if it's cold and won't taste good."

"Okay, then it's up to you." Brother Lin thought so, and agreed.

Li Zhaoxi smiled happily, and asked his servants to take away the vegetables and put them in boxes in his yard, and went back with his sister-in-law.

As Li Zhaoxi thought ahead, Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou really didn't have the time to eat - at least for a while.Li Zhouzhou knew why Xianggong came back, and after talking to the servants about how to settle the two boys, he turned to talk about business.

"It's been more than ten days, and I'm still unconscious. I'm drenched with ginseng decoction." Li Zhouzhou went to the side courtyard with Mr. Li, and frowned when he said it, "Xiao Tian said, if this continues, then It's dangerous."

Gu Zhao didn't say anything, he went to see first, if the Nanyi people were driven off the cliff by the Nanyi people, he would die if he died, what did he have to do with them? , this action is real.

Really risk your life.

Let's talk about the village under the forest, how did Nan Yi know that he could get in his way?It's about his family, so Gu Zhao couldn't help but think about it, he fell off a cliff, and such a bridge is always unusual.

The yard was locked, and there were guards inside, and Xiaotian was not there, but Steward Zhou's son was taking care of this man, scrubbing, feeding medicine and other trivial matters. The doorman opened the lock, Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou entered, and Steward Zhou's son saluted.

Gu Zhao waved his hand.

By this time the light had dimmed.

"Light on."

Gu Zhao walked in front of Zhou Zhou and said, "Stand farther away. You can breathe a sigh of relief if you fall off the cliff with such a serious injury. It's not like ordinary people—" I'm afraid it's like on TV. Not waking up, but actually looking for a chance to escape.

After Gu Zhao finished thinking about it, Jiongjiu was enlightened for a moment.

The style is a bit off.

By the light of the candle, he saw the face of the person lying on the bed. Gu Zhaogang teased himself for thinking too much, but when he saw the person on the bed, he immediately: ...

"Xianggong, do you know this person?" Li Zhouzhou saw that Xianggong's expression was complicated.

Even if this person is now haggard, thin and disfigured, and his face is pale like a plaster of the dead, then Gu Zhao will not be wrong—this person is the incompetent and captive Fourteenth Prince General Li.

"Well, we know each other."

"It's General Li."

Surnamed Li, Li Zhouzhou looked at the person on the bed, and quickly realized who it was, and was immediately at a loss and didn't know what to say.The husband and wife looked at each other, Gu Zhao pondered for a while, and said first: "There is no need to lock the courtyard door."

It means that you don't need to treat General Li as a thief, a spy, and a spy.

And now the person on the bed——Gu Zhao raised his hand to ask for the lampstand, Li Zhouzhou took it, held it close to him personally, and asked Mr. Xiang to take a closer look, while saying, "The injury is not a fake." It is really serious, there is torture Yes, there are also fatal injuries.

More than half a year ago, when Gu Zhao received the fourteenth prince who was stationed there, he actually had some emotions for the mixed Nanyi prince, but during that time, the people of Xinzhou were safe and free from foreign enemies— —

Scarred body, left shoulder pierced through, large and small scars on the body, some old, some new, some blurred, even after cleaning, it is ugly and horrible, her chest is covered with herbs, the skin of the whole body is pale, there is no trace of it. Bloody, like a corpse.

The man is still very young.Gu Zhao thought.

He didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Treat well and save lives as much as possible." Gu Zhao stood up and thought for a while, "The matter of General Li in our mansion - I want to report it."

Li Zhouzhou nodded, and then asked the housekeeper Zhou's son to take care of him carefully, and wait for Xiao Tian to come over tomorrow to check his pulse.

The couple went to the backyard.

Gu Zhao took Zhou Zhou's hand and caressed it. Li Zhouzhou didn't say a word, knowing that his husband was thinking about something. After a while, the two stepped into their yard, and Gu Zhaocai said: "Sometimes things in this world are too complicated and difficult to use black and white. to sum it up."

"I also had emotions because of the blood of General Li before."

Li Zhouzhou then said: "He has been in a deep sleep since he came back, and I don't know what General Li's temperament is, but I heard from my husband that he won a few battles before and protected the people of Dali, this is a merit, this is a good man. "

Gu Zhao nodded, thinking too much and having no solution.

"forget about it."

The servants prepared hot water early, and the food was a new table. Li Zhouzhou asked Li Zhaoxi and brother Lin, and when he learned that the two children ate in Li Zhaoxi's yard, he said, "Then tell them, it's finished eating." Take a rest early and come back tomorrow to say hello."

Xianggong is afraid that he doesn't have the energy to talk to the two of them.

After washing up, they lit the lamp and had dinner. After sitting for a while, the couple went to the yard to eat and walk. Gu Zhao was still thinking about General Li, "What did Xiaotian say?"

"People need to wake up first."

Gu Zhao thought, does this mean that if you don't wake up, you will be in a vegetable state?Now it's not like modern times and there are machines under maintenance. If you really become a vegetable, you will be completely finished.

"Then what was said on TV, asking the family members to talk more?" Gu Zhao muttered.

Li Zhouzhou had already gotten into the habit of saying things he didn't understand to his husband, so he asked him about TV.Gu Zhao said: "The box is square, and there are plays and scripts in it. The actors' acting is similar to watching a play now, but it is much more convenient."

It is also cheap to switch on and off at any time, and only need to pay for electricity and network fees.Now invite a theater troupe to come over to perform, and the ordinary small theater troupe will cost five taels of silver to sing a few operas.

"The family members of General Li, Mr. Xiang, don't have this." After listening to the explanation, Li Zhouzhou went back to the beginning of the conversation.

Gu Zhao: "His father passed away, and his mother is in the harem in the capital. It is impossible for several brothers to come here—" Anyone with a discerning eye can see that now the Holy Majesty, the sixth brother of the fourteenth prince, really doesn't treat this younger brother well. Look like a younger brother.

The fourteenth prince has a title of prince, a military general of the fifth rank and real power, and the mobilized troops may only be 8000 to [-]?This is still counting logistics. The last time I saw those soldiers, they looked mixed, good and bad.

"Not to mention his mother's relatives." Gu Zhaoxiang's tormented injuries, two fingers were broken——

How painful.

Li Zhouzhou thought, "Why don't you invite Xiao Rong to go over and have a look and talk? Although Xiao Rong is not a family member of General Li, but they are all from Beijing, and they went to the palace to study before, so there is still a chance to meet the prince, right?"

"...Why did I call Xiao Rong—" Gu Zhao hummed, seeing Zhou Zhou glaring at him, meaning to tell him to be more serious, and stop being jealous of Wuying, so he began to complain seriously: "Isn't Rong Si a member of the Fifth Prince's party?" , can you look up to Fourteen? There is also a difference in age, I am afraid that I am not familiar with it and have not dealt with it much."

This is true, when Rong Ye and Fourteen were in Beijing, they had no personal relationship.

"Then you say it." Li Zhouzhou couldn't figure it out, and the family members were talking about how to talk about it.

Gu Zhao thought that he was the one who chatted casually, talking about the TV dramas that didn’t show up, and didn’t know if it was true or not, but thinking that it was Rong Si who was talking about it in front of Fourteen, and it wasn’t him, he readily said sincerely: “It’s still Try it, Zhou Zhou, you are right, no matter how unfamiliar Rong Si is with the Fourteenth Prince, he should have more chances to meet him than us."

He has only two sides in total, and the total number of words he speaks is less than ten sentences.

Is it possible to say: General Li, get up quickly, or the new General Wang from the Xinzhou military camp will have to eat, drink, whore, gamble and recruit military prostitutes in the area under your jurisdiction, so go and fix this idiot.

Doesn't this kill the popularity?

"Then I'll tell Xiaorong tomorrow, it's getting late now."

"Zhou Zhou, why did you call me Xiao Rong? You called me Rong Ye before." Mrs. Gu tried his best to look serious, without any trace of jealousy.

Li Zhouzhou looked at his husband with a smile, put his last slap on his hand, and pulled back while smiling. It was getting late, it was dark, and it was time to go back to rest and go to sleep. He said: "A few days ago, Fu Bao I learned a piece of music, and when I came back, I played it jingle-dangling. I heard it lively, but I always felt something was wrong, so I went to ask Rong Ye..."

After asking, Rong Ye didn't speak, but cleaned his hands, sat down, played the piano, and played it again.

Li Zhouzhou finished listening: ...

"Xiao Rongqin plays the piano well, and the score is also good. People who listen to it feel sad and sad. They don't play the same piece of music with Fu Bao. We chatted for a while, and he can feel the deserted piano sound, and he has nothing to worry about clearly. Faintly, it's not that I feel pity for him, but I just feel that this person is different from the friends I have dealt with before."

That time, Rong Ye invited him to sit down, and the two drank a cup of tea.

"I can't talk about Qinqin, so he just talked about some small things about studying in the palace in Beijing."

Li Zhouzhou unbuttoned his clothes for his lord, while Gu Zhao wrapped his arms around Zhou Zhou. Li Zhouzhou was used to getting close to his lord, so he finished his sentence: "The prince in the palace has worked hard in his studies, and he has to learn the six arts of a gentleman." , I heard from him that sometimes the late emperor had to test the school himself, and if he failed the test, he would be punished by the palm of his hand."

"Scholars all over the world are like this. They get up early and stay late in the hot summer and severe cold. They have already enjoyed the blessings of imperial power and wealth." Gu Zhao said, kissing Zhou Zhou's cheek.

Li Zhouzhou nodded, "I just didn't expect the royal family to be strict with children. I heard from him that if you didn't do your homework well, the one who was beaten was the accompanying student. He was the accompanying student of the Eighth Prince at that time, and he had never been hit by the palm of his hand." Heart, it can be seen that it is powerful."

Then at some point, Li Zhouzhou's clothes were also untied, and before he finished speaking, Mrs. Gu took his wife to the bed and said slowly, but this time, he didn't mention his surname, just said something. Talk about the couple.

Early the next morning.

Brother Lin came to pay his respects, he came early, and when he heard the servants say that father and father hadn't woken up yet, he sat in the main hall and waited for a while, Fu Bao came.

"Morning sister-in-law, you came so early." Li Zhaoxi said hello to sister-in-law.

One of them was bored, and the two sat and had a conversation. After waiting for about two minutes, they saw the well-dressed father and father.The two said hello to each other one after the other.

Gu Zhao offered to sit down, and Li Zhouzhou offered to serve breakfast, so let's eat together without fussing.

"Li Zhaoxi looks good now, and she's kind of winking." Gu Zhao teased Fu Bao.

Fu Bao's eyebrows were all smiling and friendly, but he hummed twice and said: "I still can't make it, I came early today, and should be a little later."

"It's good that you know." Gu Zhao agreed without changing his expression.

Li Zhaoxi: ...Hmph!

Gu Zhao went to visit Li Lin again, and said, "We are a family now, so don't be too polite. I know you are a filial child, but your father and I are used to being free, and we don't follow the rules so much. You don't have to do it in the morning and evening." Strictly abide by it, if you want me to say it's Meng Jianyun who let you go alone after two days of marriage, and he went to work."

"Father, my husband is busy with business." Brother Lin first made amends for Meng Jianyun.

Li Zhouzhou was beside him, and said: "You, speaking of Xiao Meng in that way, forced Brother Lin to call him Mr. Meng. He used to talk about Meng Jianyun in front of me. If Xiao Meng heard it later, he didn't know What look."

The couple who have been married for many years are here to make fun of the thin-skinned young man.

Brother Lin's face was a little embarrassed, Li Zhaoxi was experienced in being teased and joked, and said solemnly: "Sister-in-law, don't be embarrassed, or I will laugh at you next time."

"Yes, you should learn from Fubao and have a thicker skin. What's the matter?" Gu Zhao said.

Li Zhouzhou made bean paste buns for Fu Bao, coaxed the children, and had a lively breakfast.

After breakfast, Li Zhaoxi didn't go to school today, so he went back to his yard to do his homework. When he was done, he asked his friends to go out to play, and Brother Lin took the loquat to the grocery store.

Li Zhouzhou and Gu Zhao went to Dad's yard to say hello.

Li finished his meal early in the morning, and now he will be weeding in the field with his trouser legs rolled up. Seeing that the two came, he didn't go back to the living room to talk. There is a pergola next to the cultivated vegetable garden. A bamboo dustpan was placed, and inside it were miscellaneous grain buns the size of a child's fist.

Gu Zhao looked at the thumbs up, the other family is just taking care of it, his father is honest.

"If you don't have a good appetite, you can eat it alive." Li Da likes to eat whole grain steamed buns, don't just eat meat or pickles, just eat it in one bite, it feels rough and gritty, and the more you chew, the more delicious it becomes.

The father and son had a conversation, and Li Da happened to have a rest, so he drove them away, "Come on, don't make fun of me, or you will go down and weed for me?" He said and handed over the hoe.

"..." Gu Zhao smiled obediently, "Father, I'll forget it, and I will definitely do it another day."

Li couldn't help laughing, and when the two of them walked away, he said: "It's still the same as before. At that time, it was hard, and I didn't want his skinny chicken body to go to the ground, and he just went to work. After a day of work, everyone will die." It’s almost gone, and I can come back the next day, but now I’m scared.”

Gu Zhao pulled Zhou Zhou to run fast. He understood his father's hobby of eating whole grains and going to the fields, and respected him very much, but he didn't want to participate.

"Father is teasing you." Li Zhouzhou said with a smile.

Gu Zhao said seriously: "I think if I stay here again, Dad will really teach me how to weed."

"...I'm here." Li Zhouzhou coaxed Mr.

It's like back in the village before, Master Xiao Gu was Zhou Zhou's beautiful and useless vase master.The two of them hadn't sighed a word or two before they sent someone to look for him, saying that Dr. Oda was here.

"Then I'll go ahead and have a look." Gu Zhao said.

Li Zhouzhou said: "I'll talk to Xiao Rong."

The couple split up, Li Zhouzhou went to Rong Ye's yard, not far away, skipped a few words of small talk, Li Zhouzhou went straight to the business, and Xiao Rong was not in a polite manner.

"There was a patient in the side courtyard where you lived in the front yard. My husband came back yesterday and recognized him. He is the fourteenth prince, General Li."

Rong Ye was drinking tea at first, but it was as cold as usual, but when he heard that the hand holding the teacup stopped, he looked at Li Zhouzhou.

"He was seriously injured, his life was in danger, and he fell from the cliff bordering Nanyi..." Li Zhouzhou explained the general situation, "I have been in a coma for almost half a month, and Xiao Tian said that if he still does not wake up, he will- —”

Rong Ye frowned faintly, "What can I do to help?"

He is neither a doctor nor a panacea.

"My husband said that maybe someone who is familiar with him can talk to him and tell some past events, which can wake up General Li. We don't have anyone familiar with General Li here. After thinking about it, you are the only one."

Rong Ye put down the teacup, not because he was indifferent, but because he said the truth: "I have no personal education with Shisi, and we are not very familiar with each other."

"I'll go."

Li Zhouzhou laughed, "I thought you wouldn't agree."

"Those people in Beijing, I didn't want to see them again, but Shisi, I don't have any personal education and I haven't made any enemies. If it's the Rong family, then let them die." Rong Ye said flatly, and stood up.

Li Zhouzhou stood up and led the way.

Oda just finished his pulse, but he still couldn't do it shaking his head, "The pulse condition is getting weaker and weaker, it really doesn't work, I'll use a needle..."

Gu Zhao thought it would be better with acupuncture, but the result was to stab at the door of life. Originally, he was preparing for a vegetative state. This stabbing would most likely return him to the west. Of course, there is also a small probability that he will wake up consciously.

...that is still being cautious.

At this time Rong Ye and Li Zhouzhou also came in.Rong Ye heard from Li Zhouzhou that Fourteen's injuries were serious, but when he saw that it was worse than he thought, he couldn't help being a little moved.Gu Zhao simply repeated what Xiaotian said, "...wait a little longer, if it doesn't work, just stab."

There was nothing they could do if they stayed here, Master Gu took Boss Li out and asked Rong Si to mutter in front of General Li.

The servant moved the chair by the bed, Rong Ye sat firmly, looked at Fourteen on the bed, was speechless for a moment, the quiet room was as quiet as a pin drop, Rong Ye was not a talkative person at first, after looking at it now, he finally opened his mouth up.

The first day was naturally dull, and the people on the bed were the same as before.

Rong Ye was not used to talking so much at first, so he chose some polite words when he opened his mouth. On the second day, Rong Ye came to visit Fourteen and brought his piano. On the third day, there was no movement...

Seeing that the fourteen pulses are getting weaker and weaker, sometimes I can't touch them.

Gu Zhao looked at Rong Si, "How about stabbing him?"

Rong Ye didn't understand why he made the decision.

"You two came from Beijing together, and you have studied together for a few years. This is the friendship of classmates. How much older are you than him? Then it's up to you to decide whether to stab or not?"

It's not that Mr. Gu is bragging, scholars nowadays value the friendship between classmates.Naturally, Rong Ye doesn't look like the Fourteenth Prince——

Gu Zhao became more serious, and said: "I'm afraid you don't know. It is said that the fourteenth prince was incompetent and captured by Nanyi. Among them, the people guessed that the public opinion led you to think about it. Don't mention these, the previous one For many months, Nanyi told Dali that he wanted a city in exchange for fourteen. Just a few days ago, I received a letter from Zhuzhou. impossible."

"Nowadays, Fourteen is an incompetent and useless wimp, and he is suspected of eating inside and outside. Life is not precious. He is like this now. If he procrastinates, he will die. Letting you make up your mind is not a burden for you. If you can't make up your mind, I will Come and do it."

Gu Zhao spoke bluntly, but if it was too blunt, it would be much harder to hear.

But Rong Ye didn't find it harsh, all of this wasn't decided by Gu Zhao, if he really wanted to trace the source, he wouldn't have to think about the pair of brothers in Jingli - he thought of this with a sarcastic sneer in his eyes.

"When you're in power, why are you talking about brothers and sisters?"

"At the beginning, the fifth prince was kind and caring to the people, but privately he was narrow-minded and jealous. He deserved to be a brother. On the surface, the sixth prince was weak, incompetent and jealous. He knew who to bully."

There is an age difference between Rong Ye and the fifth and sixth princes, and the courses for entering the palace are also divided according to age. He was originally the companion of the eighth prince, and his surname is Rong. The eunuchs and maids did not dare to make mistakes, they followed the rules.

Among the little princes, the eighth prince is the leader and takes the lead.The eighth prince relied on his status, he behaved in a good manner on weekdays, and he was considered friendly. Although he didn't like Shisi, who was born to a Nanyi woman, he showed that he was okay——

It's fine if you don't bully and make things difficult.

Until one day, in the archery class, the big class education and the small class education were originally separated from the east and west ends of the training ground. As a result, the second prince Kangjun Wang had a whim that day.

The second prince was brave and good at fighting. He was named the county king when he was older, and he still had the initials of Kang. He also had real power in the government office. Among the princes, his status was even more deterrent than the eighth prince who was born in the middle palace.

These younger brothers are all afraid—the younger ones are fine, because the second prince doesn’t like these little radish heads, he doesn’t pay attention to them, and doesn’t give eyes to them, so the younger brothers in the big class were tested, and the fifth and sixth princes were useless. The second prince said a few words in public.

The fifth prince was okay, he admitted his mistakes quickly, and said that he would definitely improve, unlike the second brother who even boasted.The sixth prince didn't have his elder brother's flexible mouth, so his face hung a bit, and he was caught and scolded by the second prince. Later, Wang Zetian came to invite him, saying that the sage was looking for the second prince and so on.

The second prince left.

The riding and archery class continued, the fifth prince pretended to be calm and didn't lose face, and continued to practice, but the sixth prince's face became hot, and he felt ashamed, but he couldn't beat the second prince—the second prince also left, with a tempered look. Turning around, I immediately stared at the little brothers who were in class at the other end.

He didn't dare to bully the eighth prince, after all, he was the queen's son, his mother had to be respectful in front of the queen, the others were the eleventh and twelfth princes, her mother's background was not very good, and her position was not high.

But the sixth prince didn't find fault with these two little princes, and picked fourteen to bully him.

Rong Ye didn't know why at that time, but later he guessed why the six princes chose fourteen in their mentality - because they bullied Eleven and Twelve, their mother status was not high and they were suspected of bullying the weak, but Fourteen's mother was a concubine, and the excuse was to teach The younger brother practiced riding and archery and beat him up. This is not considered bullying the weak, but also a sense of pleasure.

So what about the concubine's son?

And the eighth prince, who has always been the leader in the small class, saw the sixth prince bullying his "covered" younger brother, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything, hid aside, and even played a role in fueling the flames, lest he would be missed, It wasn't him who was beaten anyway.

It's just a bastard, just hit it.

Since then, Rong Ye has seen clearly that the Eighth Prince is unbearable.