Lord, pay for the wine

I don't know what method and rhetoric Prince Rui used. In short, when the queen mother summoned Zong Jinyu again, the queen mother expressed her regret, and then pretended to be annoyed and said that Zong Jinyu must bring a princess who satisfied her, Zong Jinyu After expressing their guilt with great gratitude, the two talked about other trivial matters. After Zong Jinyu withdrew from Shoukang Palace, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, "His Royal Highness, the emperor is calling." It was the eunuch next to the emperor.

"The king will go now."

In Chengtian Palace, when the emperor saw Zong Jinyu coming, he put the ink brush aside, walked towards Zong Jinyu excitedly, and punched him: "Seventh brother, not bad, you can talk to the queen mother, even if you can talk to me Hearing that Lin Yushi's daughter told you that the portrait was in your hands, she would not marry Feijun, the Queen Mother was actually very satisfied!"

Zong Jinyu gently stroked the place where he was beaten: "Brother Huang praised my younger brother, he is my younger brother's father——"

"Okay, seventh brother, I was able to convince the emperor's uncle, and the emperor's uncle stepped forward, and he succeeded immediately!"

"What is the seventh brother doing?" The emperor looked at Zong Jinyu kneeling down and asked suspiciously.

"My brother wants to go out of Beijing, so I ask the emperor for permission!" Zong Jinyu kowtowed.

"Seventh brother got up first, if it's because he doesn't want to get married, the matter has already been settled, so why did the younger brother leave Beijing?"

Zong Jinyu stubbornly didn't get up, and replied: "My younger brother wants to travel around Beijing, so as to better understand other places besides the imperial capital so as to better assist the emperor!"

The emperor paced back and forth twice, and finally helped Zong Jinyu: "Seventh brother, get up, brother emperor!"

"Thank you, brother, for your kindness!" Zong Jinyu kowtowed again before getting up.

"It's just that the seventh brother needs to wait until the end of the draft."

"Yes, this younger brother knows. That younger brother will leave first, and this younger brother needs to inform mother and concubine as soon as possible."

"I'm ready!"

Looking at each other and smiling, Zong Jinyu left the palace.

Princess Rui was not willing to let her son leave, Zong Jinyu persuaded her for many days, but seeing that the draft was about to end, Princess Rui still didn't let go, Zong Jinyu couldn't leave without telling her mother and concubine.

One day, due to some delays, Zong Jinyu went to Yongfu Palace a few hours later than usual to pay his respects. When he entered, he found that his mother and concubine had a smile on her face and a relaxed expression. There are snacks and freshly brewed tea.

"Mother and concubine are well, did the father come here just now?"

Ying Gu who was busy next to her replied, "Your Highness hasn't come yet, it's just a rumor that he's having dinner at Yongfu Palace today."

"Then I'll help too!"

As soon as the trivial things were cleaned up, the prince came, and the few people chatted for a while and then passed on the meal.

During the dinner, Prince Rui said with emotion: "The three of us haven't had a meal together for a long time."

"Yes, father, after I leave Beijing, father will often visit mother and concubine."

"I will."

The concubine didn't speak, but there seemed to be water flowing in her eyes, and Yinggu had already wiped her tears with her handkerchief.

After the meal, several people talked for a while, and the princess finally acquiesced in Zong Jinyu's departure from Beijing.

The day before the draft ended, Zong Jinyu went to the Hall of Harmony to bid farewell.Prince Rui is writing.

"Father should rest well." Zong Jinyu stepped forward, only to see that the words on the paper were all "Xiu Ran"!

"Father, Xiuran is a person's name, right?"

Prince Rui put down his pen, and smiled wryly: "Jin Yu, you're leaving Beijing tomorrow."

"Is he still alive?" Zong Jinyu didn't answer directly.

"Father doesn't know either." Prince Rui stood up and walked to the window.

Zong Jinyu looked at the body of his father who was no longer young, and suddenly felt a lot of emotion.

"Perhaps, Erchen's departure from Beijing this time is not just for traveling."

"I sent someone to look for it at the time, but—"

"Take it as an opportunity, isn't the father not giving up!"

"...Why are you willing to help the father find him?"

"Take it as a deal. During the time I'm not in the capital, I hope the father will take good care of the concubine mother. The last time you went to the concubine mother, she was very happy!"

"……it is good."

Father is not young after all, to forgive such disrespectful tone and words.

Prince Rui Xuxu's story about the past when he was young, finally took out the fermented rice that had been preserved for several years, let Zong Jinyu taste and remember its taste, and then filled it with a delicate small wine pot, saying: "This is his wine. The wine brewed with my own formula is called 'Shiyi', which is brewed from the essence of ten kinds of flowers, and due to the flowering period and mutual restraint, very few are brewed."

"It's a beautiful wine!"

"That's right, the rest of the fathers dare not drink it anymore, for fear that they will never smell it again."

Zong Jinyu saw that his father was just sniffing vigorously but not tasting it. He felt helpless and sad. He was both a father and a concubine.

Prince Rui was so drunk by the smell of wine, Zong Jinyu sent someone to help Prince Rui onto the bed, and left with the small wine pot.

I'm afraid the father is still running away!

In May of the sixth year of Zhaoning, the second draft ended.

On the same day, Zong Jinyu bid farewell to the emperor's parents and left the capital, bringing only a servant.So he didn't know that Lin Yushi's daughter did not enter the harem as a concubine.

In May of the same year, in the suburbs of Yecheng.

In a small town about an hour's drive from Yecheng.

A gray-brown bundle was thrown from a small inn, followed by an emaciated man who was pushed to the ground in the chaos. Because the chaos continued, the fallen man was stepped on for a while. Don't worry, no one knows whether it was intentional or unintentional.

A young man got impatient with being pushed in the chaos, and shouted: "Stop the fuck! What does it look like to be so noisy? Don't you need to work?" He paused and took a breath , "Or do you all treat me as a dead man?"

The voice fell, and the young guys who had just made a fuss in the chaos and hoped that they would not deduct their wages scattered, and the instigator of this chaos—the person who did not pay for food and drink, after the chaos was over, his hair was scattered and his clothes were scattered on the ground. , a look of being bullied!

The young man leaned down to help the free-eating man up, and pushed the hair covering his face to the sides, revealing his smooth forehead and handsome face.

Looking at this white and clean appearance, he doesn't look like a poor person, so why can't he come up with money?The young man thinks about paying.It seems that the young master from some family came out to play and was either cheated or stolen. Hehe, the young man smiled maliciously, so he happened to fool around and become a buddy.

Seeing the state of their shopkeeper, the boys at the side all shook their bodies and wiped off their cold sweat.

"Is the skinny boy who was trampled on the ground over there your servant?" The young man pointed to the guy who was trampled to the ground but still yelled not to touch my young master, and asked with some disgust.

The man who eats and drinks for nothing nodded, but felt that it was not enough and added: "We grew up together!"

"That's it."

The young man was sitting on the chair next to him, with his arms resting on the table, his chin resting on one hand, and the other hand tapping on the table.

Glancing at the two boys who were still just watching but not working, they reprimanded: "What are you doing standing here? Why don't you go to work? You don't want the wages anymore? There's also your salary for this month, Xiao Er." But there are only fifty texts left, so if you don’t want it, just say it.”

Xiao Er, the boy who was accused by name and name, turned pale when he heard the words, and hurriedly smiled and said, "Don't tell me, the shopkeeper, I'm going to greet the guests, the shopkeeper. You really have to keep the fifty cash for me."

Throwing the sentence "Look at your performance", the young man focused his attention on the man who eats and drinks for nothing, and the little guy named Xiaoer went to work quickly, and the wages must be obtained, otherwise the previous spending My thoughts are wasted.

"Come here!" The young man called the man who eats and drinks for nothing.

Waiting for the man who eats and drinks for nothing to come to him, the young man carefully looked at his body, um... he is quite thin, what can he do?

"You should know that when you are away from home, pay back the money you owe, and pay the debt you owe!"

Seeing the free eating and drinking man nodded, the young man smiled.

"Then what if someone not only eats and drinks for free, but also behaves wildly on other people's land?" The young man stopped smiling and asked in a low voice, "Do you know what the consequences will be?"

The free-eating man shivered, and the thin and weak servant who was trampled on the ground struggled to stand between his young master and the young man: "We didn't act wild!"

"Really? What happened to the chaos just now? Why were you trampled to the ground?"

"You—that's your guy's unreasonable tricks!"

"Is my guy unreasonable? It's only natural to pay for meals. Are you doubting such a natural thing?"

"I didn't, I just—"

"Just what?"

"We're just running out of money and want to write an IOU—"

"Oh? Didn't you see the precautions at the entrance of the inn? My inn doesn't accept IOUs!"

"Even so, you...you can't take the jade around my young master's neck by force." Probably because he knew he was wrong, the boy's voice weakened a lot.

"If you don't have money to pay the bill, it's only natural to pay the bill with something valuable, don't you know?"

The boy stopped talking.

The young man took the time to straighten out his clothes.

The waiter who was clearing the table next to him pursed his lips when he heard their conversation: the shopkeeper is fooling people again, and he wants to find a cheap and easy-to-use guy again.Hearing too much of the shopkeeper's flicks, Xiao Er dragged Xiao San, who was also a cheap guy, to the back hall to help.Xiaosan obediently let him pull her.

"Then what should you do with the food money? I'm a small business, alas..." The young man held his forehead in distress.

The handsome man and his servant looked at each other, and they were both at a loss from their eyes.

The handsome man regained his composure, bit his lip and said, "I'll use the jade on my neck to pay the debt!"

"Master, you can't—"

"What else? We have to pay for what we eat at his house. My dad also said: 'You can't owe others!'"

"But this piece of jade is very important. If it's paid off, I won't come back, young master, think about it! Why don't you sell me!"

"No way! How can I sell you? We grew up together, you are my best friend, I can't not want you if I don't want Yu!"

Hearing this, the young servant embraced his young master with tears in his eyes, and shouted: "Master——"