Clan House

Song Yi, king of Chu, was the youngest son of Emperor Luo Yingzong at the age of 70.

When Song Yi landed as king, when he was three years old, his birth mother Concubine Tang made a big mistake and was ordered to commit suicide.Yingzong got a son when he was old, and he felt very sorry for the child.He sent Song Yi under the name of Zhonggong, who was already seriously ill at that time, but brought Song Yi with him to educate him personally.

Yingzong was crowned prince at the age of 30, and succeeded to the throne another year later. Before that, he lived in the palace as a prince and spent nearly [-] years in the hidden mansion.After Yingzong succeeded to the throne, he felt that the Forbidden Palace was too hot and dry to live in, so he expanded the hidden residence and renamed it Yanqing Palace, and he often lived here since then.

Song Yi lived with his father in Yanqing Palace since he was a child. After the death of Emperor Yingzong, he was taken to Beihai Palace by the Empress Dowager to live in Beihai Palace for several years. Now that the Empress Dowager passed away, he moved back to his childhood residence.He has an early memory, and his memory has been excellent since he was a child. Although he has been away for many years, he is still very familiar with the bricks and tiles of Yanqing Palace.Now that the elder has passed away, the huge palace has become Song Yi's private house, and there is no parent to take care of him here, so he has become the only master of the palace.

Song Yi moved back to Chu Palace a month ago. The officials in the palace were personally selected by Yingzong during his lifetime. He hasn't seen the owner for several years, and he still manages the palace in a tight manner.He was indifferent by nature, he had no preference for food and clothing, and he was not like ordinary children who like to play around.When there is nothing to do, Song Yi will go to study.He is still a child, and he has nothing important to do, so he spends most of his time reading.There is a Book Pavilion in the Palace of the King of Chu, and every time Song Yi reads a book, he will put it into the library. Now this Book Pavilion has a large collection of books.

When Song Jingxin came to the door, Song Yi was reading in Wensi Hall.This Wensi Hall was originally the Wensi Hall, a place specially allocated for him to study in the Yanqing Palace, and now it has been converted into the study of the King of Chu.Hearing that the crown prince and King Jin had arrived, Song Yi immediately put down the scroll and changed into the prince's regular clothes before coming out to entertain the guests.

Song Jingxin and Song Jingshi were invited to the flower hall for a while, they hadn't been to Yanqing Palace for many years, so they couldn't help looking around.I saw that the mansion has been completely renovated, although it is still surrounded by flowers and trees, and the mountains and rocks are exquisite, but it has been completely changed into the rule of the prince.The architectural layout of the Chu Palace is compact, and the landscape corridors and pavilions are exquisite and small, which is more intimate and pleasant than the majestic Forbidden Palace.Because there is only one master in the palace, and there are only a few palace people coming and going in the garden, it looks very deserted in the eyes of others.

Song Jingxin watched for a long time, but the owner didn't come to see him, so he closed the window boredly.He ate a few mouthfuls of desserts brought by the maid, but they were as tasteless as his master.Seeing that Song Yi never came, he chatted with King Jin: "This Yanqing Palace looks plain, but there are hidden secrets hidden in the plants, trees and stones inside. Every step and every scene are exquisite. It's no wonder that Emperor Yingzong liked to live here all the time. , Now that the huge palace belongs to the King of Chu, it is really a blessing."

"Isn't it?" Song Jingshi echoed, "When my father was not crowned king, more than a hundred people from three generations of our grandparents crowded in the East Palace, and it was very crowded. Now the emperor's uncle enjoys the huge palace all to himself before he has a family. It's really impressive. envious."

"You don't have to envy him." The waiter told Song Jingxin to send him off. He changed into a comfortable sitting position, put his legs on the armrest of the chair, and placed three peach blossoms on his knees: "His child , I don’t even have a playmate of the same age around me, and there is no one in the palace who is not afraid of him. Sleeping alone at night, I am afraid that if a thunder strikes, I will pee my pants.”

"The prince came to the door today, is he here to care if the king will pee his pants?" The immature child's voice sounded behind him, Song Jingxin suddenly turned around, and saw the little Chu king Song Yi standing in front of the flower hall.

"This kid walks without making a sound." Song Jingxin cursed inwardly, and then remembered that he had closed the windows, so he didn't even notice anyone walking over.He hastily put down his two legs, straightened his posture again, and bowed to Song Yi together with King Jin.

Song Yi seemed to be in a good mood, he didn't care about the gossip behind the prince's back, and still invited the two of them to sit down.I saw Song Jingxin approaching the King of Chu with a few peach blossoms in his hands, and said dog-leggedly, "I went out with my second younger brother today, and saw that the peach blossoms were blooming very well. I was thinking about the emperor's uncle, so I specially folded a few branches to give to the emperor's uncle." coming."

Song Yi took a closer look at the peach blossoms, they were indeed in full bloom, and there was a smile in his eyes: "It is true that the king has failed the spring, the crown prince has a heart for the king of Jin." Song Yi didn't pick up the flowers, and told the little eunuch Wang Yu found a vase and put it in the book pavilion.

Taking advantage of the gap between Song Yi's speech, Song Jingxin turned his head and winked triumphantly at Song Jingshi: "Look, I said it will work!"

Song Jingshi was stunned when he saw that his elder brother picked a few flowers casually to please the emperor's uncle, and cast admiring eyes on Song Jingxin.

"Why did the crown prince and King Jin come out of the palace today?" Song Yi asked.

"This king is about to get married and build a mansion soon. The elder brother of the crown prince accompanied me to check the progress of the mansion." Song Jingshi replied, "It's a great honor to be a neighbor with the emperor's uncle."

Song Yi didn't accept his polite words, turned around and asked Song Jingxin: "Have you eaten yet?"

Song Jingxin didn't want to be treated as a fool, so she replied: "I used it before leaving the palace."

Song Yi nodded and said: "The king will not keep you in this way. It's still early in the morning. After you go to the palace to see it, go back to the palace early. Don't stay outside the palace." Then he called Wang Yu again: " Go to the kitchen and pack two boxes of pastries for the crown prince and King Jin, preparing to eat when they are hungry in the afternoon."

Wang Yu agreed, quickly packed two boxes of snacks, and sent the two princes away.

The two left the palace and sat back in the carriage.Song Jingshi casually opened a box of dim sum, took a piece of sugar cake and tasted it, the taste was naturally good, no different from the palace dim sum they were used to eating.He gnawed on half a piece and found it boring, so he threw it back into the food box. "The king of Chu is really boring. The snacks are as stable as the women in the deep palace. And he is too rude. He just sent us away like this. Anyway, he wants to let us have a meal."

"I said first that I have eaten, so the King of Chu won't be courteous to us." Seeing King Jin's disgusted expression, Song Jingxin picked out a piece of dim sum curiously, tasted it, curled his lips as before, and said, "Besides, you don't even The dim sum in Chu Palace is disgusting, if he really let you eat, you won't cry to death."

"That's true," Song Jingshi was also hungry when we talked about eating, he leaned over Song Jingxin's shoulder, and tugged at his brother's sleeve, "Hey brother, I want to eat the Sichuan-flavored hotpot from Wicker Street..."

In this room, Song Yi sent the two princes away, and returned to the Book Pavilion to study.Seeing that the peach blossoms that Song Jingxin had folded had already been placed in a vase by Wang Yu, he shook his head and said, "The crown prince picks whatever he chooses, so you can insert them anyway. It’s better to grow on the branches.”

He ordered the left and right to fetch the scissors, pruned the branches skillfully, and reinserted the vase. "You idiot, even if you are as stupid as that Song Jingxin, you should have seen it after following this king for so many years."

Wang Yu was three years older than Song Jingxin, a young eunuch with delicate features.At this time, he bowed his head and stood aside, humbly listening to his master's instruction.Seeing Song Yi's little hands fiddle with them a few times, adorning a few peach blossoms with great interest, I couldn't help admiring them.Seeing Song Yi playing with the flowers again, he became interested for some reason, and left the table with the book and went to the layman: "I haven't noticed that the weather is warmer, let's go sit in the garden."

Even when he was visiting the garden, Song Yi still couldn't leave his book.

He studied under Mei Duanyang, a great Confucian, who has no fame, and his father is Mei Taichu, the head of the Meilin Academy.Since the Taizong Dynasty, most of the Hanlin in Luo State came from Meilin, and Mei Taichu became the leader of the scholars in the field.Song Yi's teacher was personally arranged by Yingzong, he never asked his father what the meaning of doing this was, he only respected Mei Duanyang as a teacher, and Mei Duanyang also treated him as an ordinary disciple.

Song Yi began to practice calligraphy at the age of three, and listened to some superficial enlightenment stories told by Mei Duanyang. He read four books at the age of five, and studied history at the age of six.Unlike other people who read history books, Yingzong specially adjusted the files that were banned in the past dynasties, and handed over the piles of files to the master and apprentice for study.Now that Mei Duanyang went home on leave, he would not be able to return for a year or so, so Song Yi continued to study the classics and files according to his husband's list of leaving the front line.

In this room, Song Yi concentrated on reading, accompanied by the fragrance of flowers and birds singing in the garden, he felt refreshed.Wang Yu stood obediently by the desk, filling tea and ink for his master.All the palace people in the garden were quiet, they didn't dare to breathe while standing aside.

A servant walks in the garden with a broom in his hand, going to and from the waterside pavilion, repeatedly cleaning the fallen leaves.Song Yi concentrated on his studies without realizing it, but Wang Yu was attracted by his movements, he shook his whisk to signal the man to back down, so as not to disturb his master's study.But the man didn't seem to wink at him. Seeing that the King of Chu had his back to him all the time, he went out and knelt on the ground and shouted: "My lord!"

Song Yi kept turning the pages of the book, but Wang Yu was taken aback, and immediately called someone to chase him away: "Slave with no winks, how dare you make a noise here, disturbing the prince's reading, how can you take care of it? !"

Seeing the man being held up by the guards, he didn't stop his mouth, and still yelled at Song Yi: "The prince saved the villain's life, please give the villain a chance to repay the prince..."

Song Yi seemed to have grown into the book, but he still ignored the man's yelling.It was getting dark in the back, and Song Yi went back to his room for dinner.Wang Yu waited at the side, seeing Song Yi chewing his food slowly, without speaking, he dared not ask any more questions.It wasn't until the meal was withdrawn and Wang Yu served tea again that the master opened his mouth: "Where is that person in the afternoon?"

"Go back to Your Highness, still hanging from the back." Wang Yu answered with bowed head, and after speaking, he took a peek at Song Yi's face, and said, "The man's injury hasn't healed yet, if he hangs up again, he might lose his breath. "

"Put it down, the stick is twenty. If you still have energy after that," Song Yi glanced at Wang Yu's nervous appearance, and smiled, revealing a slight dimple on his cheeks, "tell him to be your son." alright."

Suddenly having a son, Wang Yu was surprised and delighted.Because Song Yi was very strict and always called him stupid, he didn't dare to be too happy in front of his master.After Song Yi went to bed at night, Wang Yu quietly went to the lower courtyard to see his cheap son's injuries.Seeing that although the man was seriously injured, he was able to breathe a sigh of relief, so he kept praying to the moon.

Although he is Wang Yufu's son, this man is several years older than him, and looks to be in his twenties.His real name was Cui Jue, and he came from a wealthy family. His whole family was killed because he offended the powerful and powerful.He left the palace in desperation and begged to enter the palace to escape, but unexpectedly, he was dismissed as too old, and he was kicked out without even seeing the gate of the palace.He didn't know how to do it from the palace, he was seriously injured, and now he was heartbroken because he couldn't enter the palace. He fainted and fell to the ground before walking far, and happened to fall in front of the king of Chu's carriage.Song Yi had never seen anyone from his palace, so he woke up out of curiosity and questioned him a few times, listening to the tragic past.After that, Song Yi didn't say whether he believed it or not, but brought him back to the mansion.Now that the injury has healed, he wanted to show his face in front of Song Yi, thinking that he had other thoughts when he fainted that day.

The little eunuch babbled, but woke up the injured man.The man's face was pale, and the sharp brows were softened by his sickness, adding some poignant beauty to his handsome face.His eyes were foggy, he looked at Wang Yu suspiciously, and called out, "Eunuch?"

"Hey, don't call me father-in-law anymore." Wang Yu pulled a stool for himself and sat down, stretched out his hand to measure the man's eyebrows, and then patted his face, "His Highness, I promise you to follow our family in the future Live, you are the son of our family. This is the first time our family has adopted a son, and you are the eldest son of our family."

Cui Jue was surprised for a moment, and subconsciously wanted to get up and approach Wang Yu, but because of the action involved the wound, he frowned in pain.He didn't say anything, so Wang Yu didn't know the pain in his body, he just thought that this person didn't want to be his adopted son.This hurt self-esteem, Wang Yu broke the man's chin, raised his head and straightened his chest, and said to him: "Do you think our family is too young to be your father, ignorant idiot! Remember it for our family, Father-son-teacher-student is the rule of servants. There are too many people who want to recognize our family as fathers, don’t be ignorant of compliments!"

Cui Jue is a master who is able to bend and stretch. He saw that Wang Yu was the deputy servant of the sixth rank at a young age, and he knew that following him would have a bright future.Seeing that Wang Yu was angry, he immediately rolled off the plank bed and kowtowed three times, regardless of the pain, knocking Wang Yu off.

"The son kowtows to his godfather, and asks his godfather to give him a name."

"My son really understands the rules...but you and my son, you don't have to be so polite in the future." Wang Yuqian smiled twice, and then looked at the moon seriously, "You survived a catastrophe, and you will be a blessed person in the future, so your name is Wang Yongfu stop."

Wang Yu was very excited when he got his son that night.He lit the lamp, changed Wang Yongfu's medicine again, and gave him many advices.Wang Yongfu listened patiently to his nagging at first, but later he couldn't bear the medicine and fell asleep.Wang Yu was not angry either, and helped his son cover the quilt before slipping back quietly.

On the second day, Wang Yu helped Song Yi to wash and wash up. Wang Yu couldn't help yawning, and almost fell into the rice bowl while serving the meal.Song Yi repeatedly called him an idiot, but he just smirked and didn't mention it.

After that, more than a month passed, and finally came the day of the prince's wedding with King Jin.