Yan Zhi cried hoarsely and failed to stop Yan Sui's east tour, so he had no choice but to accept the responsibility of supervising the country.
With the help of the Prince Regent and Wei Yang, Yan Sui can leave Beijing with peace of mind, and formally start his east tour on the grounds that Jiangzhou is auspicious.
Before leaving, Yan Sui took his nephew into his arms and gently rubbed his head to comfort him: "Jingyun, guard the capital. If I give birth safely, and you still have no intention of the throne when you return, I will not force you. If something unexpected happens to me -"
"Uncle Emperor, no! You will live a long life!" Yan Zhi interrupted anxiously, wiping his nose all over Yan Sui's shoulders.
"The world is unpredictable, and it's never wrong to leave a good way." Yan Sui squeezed his nephew's plump cheeks, "If anything happens to me, the edict passed down to you is behind the plaque in the imperial study."
"Uuwuwu Emperor Uncle... I'm still a child... Don't scare me!" Yan Zhi put his arms around Yan Sui's neck, crying heartbreakingly.
"Don't cry, crying makes my ears hurt, I don't want to die." Yan Sui took off his nephew from his neck, opened the curtain of Luanjia, and saw Xu Jiashi standing in front of the officials at the gate of the imperial city, and his heart sank for a moment With mixed feelings, "Good boy, listen to your uncle emperor."
As the carriages and horses started to move, Yan Sui lowered the curtain and did not look back, fearing that after one more look, he would be hard-pressed to make up his mind to leave.
Yan Sui closed his eyes, and the car stopped not far away, the sound of chasing footsteps came, and then the curtain was lifted, Yan Sui opened his eyes, and met Xu Jiashi's rapid breathing and burning gaze: "Your Majesty, Autumn is cold and cool, and the quilt is covered at night."
Xu Jiashi handed over a Xuanhu fur coat, and Yan Sui recognized that it was the one he had given him back then.
"Where did you find it?" Yan Sui's voice trembled.
The past is turbulent, and the coercion and humiliation at that time can also be cared for now.
"I found it when I was looking for the Phoenix Seal. I can't remember when I made it, but I wanted to give it to Your Majesty when I saw it. There are still many things that I probably wanted to give to Your Majesty but didn't have time to give it away." Relying on the curtain to cover it, Xu Jiashi leaned close to Yan Sui's ear, quickly kissed the earlobe, and then backed away, as a courteous gesture, "I will guard the capital until your Majesty returns!"
Yan Sui clutched the fox fur tightly and nodded with tears in his eyes.
The mountains are far away and the rivers are wide, and I want to go home before I set off.
I hope that when I come back, it will be a family reunion.
The team left the capital and boarded the boat from the shore in the evening. Chen Country has abundant water systems, with the Zhuojiang River as the mainstream. Except for Jingzhou, which is close to the grassland, it does not flow through. The cities of Chen Country are either near the sea or in the Zhuojiang River Basin.
Water can prosper or harm people.The floods in Jiangzhou this year, in addition to continuous rainfall, also caused the Zhuojiang River to burst its embankment, and corrupt officials embezzled funds for maintaining the river.
One of the purposes of Yansui's east tour was to check the water conservancy, so most of the trip was on the water by boat from west to east.
I don't know if it was the discomfort of being on the boat for the first time, or the reaction of pregnancy, but Yan Sui couldn't eat after boarding the boat. Pei Liangfang, who was accompanying him, told him not to stay in the cabin, and maybe it would be better to go to the deck to blow some air.
"The escorts and cooks on this trip are all selected by the Regent himself, especially those who serve on the big ship. They will never leak the news. Your Majesty doesn't use raw silk to corset his belly, and he doesn't feel dizzy, and he can't eat or sleep. Is it because of lovesickness?" Pei Liangfang joked and pressed Yan Sui's forehead to help him soothe.
"Perhaps." Facing the humid wind on the river, Yan Sui covered the fox fur on his legs, stroked the soft fur, suppressed his longing for Xu Jiashi, and sorted out the destinations of this trip in his mind: Yongzhou first, go see Look at the nephew's daughter-in-law; then Wuzhou, to test the loyalty of Wu Wang's family; and Jiangzhou, to comfort the people who rebuild their homes after the disaster, and see the place where Xu Jiashi grew up.The last stop is Bozhou, my mother's hometown.
Yan Sui set off in early September, met officials all the way, stopped and stopped, and arrived in Yongzhou in mid-September.He got off the boat and went ashore, and was entrusted by his nephew to give a gift for his 13th birthday to his niece and daughter-in-law who hadn't been married yet.
Female junior, holding golden bricks.
This kid really knows how to find a wife.
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In the capital.
Yan Zhi and the old king of Zhou became fishing friends, and almost became friends who talked about everything. When they were fishing in the palace, the old king of Zhou asked, "What did your highness give you on the queen's birthday?"
Yan Zhi picked up a fish: "What can I give? It's too expensive, and she will doubt the identity of the king; it's too ordinary, let the emperor's uncle go for nothing. In the honor of the old prince, what I give is the fish that I caught and dried." Dried fish."
The old king of Zhou recalled the secret guards who came and went like the wind that day, and they were all dispatched by one person. He didn't treat Yan Zhi like a child, and sneered while holding the fishing rod: "Is it those fish from before... Your Highness put the secret guards all in one place." Sent to protect His Majesty, aren't you worried about your own safety?"
Yan Zhi plucked the fish and threw it into the wooden barrel, and smiled: "What are you afraid of, there is the emperor's uncle protecting me. If there is anything wrong with me, the emperor's uncle will definitely divorce her husband, which is more uncomfortable than killing him."
The old Zhou King's face darkened: "Your Highness, be careful! What kind of divorce! Nonsense! The royal family has always been ungrateful! For example, Your Highness, you keep saying that you have deep affection for that little girl, but after all, you are just using her as a cover to evade The throne is all!"
Yan Zhi turned his eyes and curled his lips: "Whatever you want to say. But the emperor is different from us. He is sincere to the regent. Hey, here comes the fish again!"
Seeing Yan Zhi fishing like onions, one at a time, the old king of Zhou was a little annoyed after not catching fish for a long time: "Your Highness has no hidden guards to protect him. If something really happened in the capital, His Majesty will be powerless to recover when he comes back."
Yan Zhi said indifferently: "Is the old prince taking this king as a hostage? Uncle Huang still has two hostages. What's the matter, even if we exchange one for two, we will not lose."
"What hostage?" Old Zhou Wang frowned.
"Tsk tsk, the old prince really doesn't know how to manage the relationship between father and son, I hope the regent can do better than you." Yan Zhi raised his eyes and saw Xu Jiashi returning from the palace, and quickly got up to greet him with a smile, flatteringly said, "Uncle Huang, Thank you for your hard work, my nephew will pour you a cup of tea—"
Xu Jiashi walked over with his hands behind his back, showing a stack of memorials, but the important national affairs that urgently needed to be approved were filled with ink brush annotations "At the beginning of a person, nature is kind": "This is how your highness corrects the memorials? Go back to the palace and come back again." !"
Yan Zhi stopped his feet, and his face collapsed: "Hey, it's not the amiable and lovely emperor uncle who came, but the cruel and domineering regent! 36 tricks, go first!"
Seeing his son chasing King Yongan, the old King Zhou put down his fishing rod and got up: "Hey——"
Yan Zhi took advantage of the opportunity to grab the door and ran wildly, Xu Jiashi stopped, turned around and stared at the old king of Zhou, without saying a word.
"Jia..." The old king of Zhou muttered for a while, but couldn't call out his son's name, "The little emperor has come to Yongzhou?"
Xu Jiashi let out a "hmm".
"He...he...has he sent a letter to report his safety?" The old king of Zhou rubbed his hands on his clothes, "you...he and you..."
Intermittent, unable to express the complete meaning, in fact, the old king of Zhou was also in a mess——
It is not difficult to analyze King Yong'an's words, managing the relationship between father and son...Xu Jiashi is about to become a father.Two children, the hostages are with the emperor... The old prince almost didn't doubt why a man could conceive, so he concluded that Yan Sui had a Xu Jia-style child——
Apart from each other, how can the two accommodate others?
So, he's going to be a grandpa soon?
But the son doesn't recognize him anymore, is the grandson still a grandson?
The old king of Zhou came to Xu Jiashi's side: "He toured east not only because of auspiciousness, right? He..."
"What exactly do you want to ask, so what if you ask?" Seeing Yan Zhi disappearing, Xu Jiashi didn't have much patience, "Now that the country of Chen is stable, His Majesty's trip is well known to the world, and officials from all over the world are afraid of causing problems in their own jurisdictions. Be extremely careful, and you won’t make any mistakes. No matter what you hope for, it’s just an empty dream. Fish with peace of mind, King Yong’an’s fishing skills have surpassed yours now, so don’t even think about it.”
"Are you threatening me?!" After some sarcasm, although with respect, he was extremely alienated, and the old king of Zhou was annoyed, "You think I will harm the little emperor? In your heart, I am already a cruel, merciless person gone?"
Xu Jiashi didn't answer directly, but said: "Sister, it's time to drink the medicine. The prescription left by Pei Liangfang is very effective. She already recognizes me and Ah Tu. When Pei Liangfang comes back and makes adjustments, maybe sister will recover .At that time, I won't owe the Xu family anything."
I thought I had said all the things that made each other sad, but I didn't expect to hear more heart-breaking words.
The old king of Zhou was dejected, he didn't owe each other, not to mention family affection, he didn't even have any hatred.
What the Yan family's son said was right, as expected, he would not manage a father-son relationship.After living for more than 50 years, in the end it is not as clear as a ten-year-old child.
"When will he return?" The old king of Zhou raised his old eyes, "How long are you going to watch for him?"
"Your Majesty will celebrate the New Year with me." Xu Jiashi said of Yan Sui, his eyes were full of tenderness, and at the same time, thoughts flooded uncontrollably, "If he doesn't return to Beijing, I will go find him. Where Your Majesty is, my heart is at ease." Office. The government is complicated, so I'll go back to the palace first."
The old king of Zhou watched his son leave, and his straight back instantly hunched.
Let's celebrate the new year together... It seems that the Xu family will have a baby at the end of the year...
——No, not the descendants of the Xu family. Although Ah Lian's surname is still Xu, he no longer has the slightest attachment to the Xu family.The Xu family was indeed sorry for him, and had no right to ask for anything extravagantly.
as big as World, nothing is nonexistent.The little emperor's male body is pregnant, it's hard to say whether it's auspicious or unlucky, and there's nothing rare about the children he's carrying...even if it's two...
But in the end it was the flesh and blood of the son he had raised for decades.
Don't you just want to have a family reunion in your life?
Yongzhou... the next journey is Wuzhou, right?
The old Zhou king had mixed feelings in his heart. He looked back at the fishing rod thrown by the pool. No one was holding the rod to control the bait. Instead, there were fish biting the hook, causing circles and ripples.
"Su Min, maybe it's time to let go?" Old Zhou Wang sighed.
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Yongzhou.
Yan Sui disembarked and did not stay in the local official residence, but temporarily lived in Yong'an Wangfu, summoned Yong'an Wang Taifu Zhang Dian, and instructed him to open a way for wealthy scholars to study in Yongzhou, following the Taotie Pavilion.
After finishing the official business, it is the Yan family's private affairs.
Yan Zhi's daughter-in-law's birthday was on September [-]th, and Yan Sui sent someone to inquire about it, saying that they were a half-fisher and half-farmer family, and their living quarters were extremely shabby, so they really couldn't go there.
Pei Liangfang also advised Yan Sui not to go in person, but to call the little girl to come, Yan Sui said no: "Not to mention that the elders need to come to the door in person to be considered sincere, besides, Jing Yun did not confess her identity and asked the little girl to come Wouldn't that expose him?"
Pei Liangfang sighed: "Being an uncle is as thorough as His Majesty, and I can't find anyone else... Hey, I'm curious, what kind of congratulatory gift did King Yong'an prepare?"
Yan Sui shook her head: "Jing Yun won't let you open it, just ask me to hand over the things to my niece and daughter-in-law. After all, you are the one who puts the most things in your heart, so naturally find the best one to deliver."
Yan Sui wanted to personally go to the door of his future in-laws. Before leaving, Pei Liangfang stopped him: "Your Majesty is going out like this?"
"What's wrong with me like this? The clothes are already very plain."
"Your Majesty's belly..." Pei Liangfang pointed his eyes, "These days His Majesty summons officials through a beaded curtain and goes out in men's clothes. It's too easy to be discovered."
"If I don't wear men's clothes, do I want to wear women's clothes?" Yan Sui frowned.
Pei Liangfang raised his eyebrows, took out a set of women's clothes as if by magic, and dressed Yan Sui neatly.
Yan Sui supported her bun and blushed, "How can you do this?"
"Although I have excellent medical skills, it is hard to find a doctor with a thousand dollars. After all, the husbands of some pedantic female patients only seek medical women when they are terminally ill. I have to disguise myself. These methods can be regarded as saving lives."
Yan Sui was dubious, he vaguely remembered that there seemed to be women's clothes in the row of villains carved by Xie Ju earlier.
Yan Sui dressed up and took a sedan chair from the palace to the destination.The girl's surname was Xiao, and the poor parents were illiterate, so they didn't name the child. Because there were two older sisters, she called her Yaoniang.
Sure enough, the Xiao family was completely desolate, but before Yan Sui got out of the sedan chair and entered the door, he heard a burst of laughter.
Through the low fence, Yan Sui glanced at Shuangshun: "Birthday celebration is really a lively event."
During this east tour, in order not to leak any information, Yan Sui only brought Shuangshun as a personal attendant.
Since Yan Sui was wearing women's clothes, there was absolutely no reason for him to be accompanied by a servant, so Shuangshun couldn't escape Pei Liangfang's hands, and he dressed up like a pretty little maid. He turned his head and thought for a while: "Wait next year, Your Majesty will celebrate his birthday too." Bar?"
Yan Sui's heart moved, but he didn't say yes or no: "Call the door."
Farmers use fences to enclose their own courtyards. There is no knocker to knock on the so-called door, let alone pass through the inside layer by layer. With a yell, someone soon came to open the door.
Although he had never seen it before, Yan Sui immediately recognized her future niece and daughter-in-law——
The coarse cloth clothes could not conceal her beauty and vigor, with a double-ringed bun and a red headband, her facial features were beautiful and her eyebrows were delicate.Perhaps because of the wind and the sun, his skin was slightly dark, but he looked sharp, like a herring full of vitality.
She ran out quickly and saw Yan Sui, her eyes were a little disappointed: "Ma'am... who are you?"
Yan Sui was embarrassed by the sound of "madam", and after a while he had to bite the bullet and said, "Zhen... I'm Ji Zhi's... aunt... come to give the girl a birthday present."
Yan Zhi did not confess his identity to Xiao Yaoniang, otherwise they would not have dared to let him be the majestic King Yong'an as his son-in-law. At the same time, he concealed Yan's surname and called himself Ji Zhi following his mother's surname.
Before leaving, Yan Zhi repeatedly told Uncle Huang not to say anything.
When Shuangshun heard the word "aunt", she couldn't help but burst out laughing. Yan Sui gave the "little maid" a look, and Shuangshun immediately lowered her eyebrows and said, "Ma'am, the slave is wrong."
"Are you Azhi's aunt?" The little girl's eyes lit up again, but she quickly glanced at Yan Sui's attire, feeling a little dejected, and looked down at the muddy ground in front of the house after the rain: "Your shoes are dirty."
The cautious tone in his tone made Yan Sui feel distressed, the little girl is young but extremely intelligent.
No matter how much Jing Yun conceals her identity, her pampered temperament is difficult to change since she was a child.Even if he didn't say anything, people could guess that his status was either rich or noble, and he suddenly left without saying goodbye, the little girl was naturally disappointed.
Yan Sui reached out and rubbed the top of the little girl's hair, and said, "I'll wipe my shoes before entering the house, so I won't dirty your house."
The little girl looked up: "You..."
"Can you please let me in and sit down?" Yan Sui softly said.
Xiao Yaoniang nodded heavily, and then Yan Sui sent over the box containing the gift: "Jing Yun won't let me open it first, so I must hand it over to you in its entirety."
Xiao Yaoniang herself didn't even have an official name, let alone the difference between a name and a character, but she knew almost instantly that Yan Sui was referring to Yan Zhi.
After receiving the box, Xiao Yaoniang hugged her tightly in her arms, not knowing how to greet her, the nervousness was visible to the naked eye: "Ma'am... please!"
Yan Sui was invited into the farmyard, a place he had never set foot before——
The green vegetable bed is surrounded by the fence, and the seasonal vegetables and small vegetables climb along the brackets to form a green wall, and the curly tendrils hang small fruits.
Thatched huts with mud walls, muddy trails, and the smell of chickens and dogs.
There are smoked and dried fish hanging under the eaves. It rained not long ago, and the little girl said, "I need to light a fire and smoke it so that it won't get moldy. Ah Zhi's mouth is so tricky, you can eat even a little musty smell——"
Seeing Yan Sui holding her heart with one hand and holding her belly in the other, the little girl hurriedly said, "Ma'am, don't you smell the smell of fish?" Seeing her parents surrounded by a table of fish in the room, Xiao Yaoniang said embarrassingly, "I'll give it to you again." Ma'am, let's make some light dishes."
Yan Sui met the surprised gazes of Xiao's parents, sent the little girl back to her original seat and sat down, and said, "Don't cause trouble for Xiaoshouxing. I am Ji Zhi's aunt, and I am here to meet my future in-laws on Xiaoshouxing's birthday. .” Saying this, Shuangshun asked Shuangshun to present the gift.
The Xiao family's parents hurriedly wiped their hands, neither answering nor not answering.
Xiao Yaoniang pursed her lips: "Ma'am, why hasn't Ah Zhi come? He hasn't come for a long time... Is he not coming back?"
The parents of Xiao's family looked nervous and signaled with their eyes: "Yao Niang, don't talk nonsense..."
"How could it be?" Yan Sui realized that he had frightened the other family by being too abrupt, and his heart softened. He sat on a rough wooden bench and said sincerely, "Azhi's parents died early, and they only stay closest to me at home. , he recently went to Beijing to study with his master, and he has a lot of homework. I know everything about him. I am his elder, and I know what I say. If the two of you are willing, today will be regarded as the first visit, and we will formally propose marriage another day. In the next day, please move your family into the capital."
Xiao's parents looked at each other, feeling more and more uncertain.
Xiao Yaoniang was digging at the box with her head down, and heard her parents say: "Yaoniang's two older sisters are both married. Originally, we wanted to find a son-in-law for Yaoniang who didn't return to the clan, and he should also be a son-in-law for us to take care of. The young master is good at everything... just too good, our family can't afford it... please take back all the gifts, Madam, we really... can't afford it..."
The Xiao family's parents took the box from Xiao Yaoniang's arms, opened it inadvertently, and the snow-white fish fillets rolled down, and there was a note sandwiched between them, with words written on the front and back.
On one side is the character "plant" and on the other side is the character "fish".
So, is this the gift that Jing Yun has prepared for a long time?
"Father, mother, I have something to say to this lady." Xiao Yaoniang held the note in her hand and raised her head.
Xiao's parents looked at each other, sighed and said: "The food is getting cold, Madam, please sit down and wait a while." They went to the kitchen with the food.
Yan Sui and Xiao Yaoniang sat opposite each other.
Xiao Yaoniang asked: "Ma'am, what does this word mean?"
Yan Sui explained the meaning of the word Yu.
Xiao Yaoniang asked again, is there any word with the same pronunciation?
Yan Sui said yes, such as Huai Jin holding Yu's Yu.
After listening to what Yan Sui said, Xiao Yaoniang's brows widened, her eyes sparkling: "Madam, I won't go to the capital, A Zhi will come back." Her tone was very firm.
Yan Sui asked, "How do you know?"
Xiao Yaoniang traced the Zhizi with her fingertips: "A Zhi taught me to write his name, strokes horizontally and vertically. I don't have a name, and he always called me Xiaoyuer. I asked him to give me a formal one. Name, he always said wait, and now I've waited—"
The little girl raised the piece of paper, her expression no longer shy: "From now on, I will be called Xiao Yu. The white-haired fisherman on Jiangzhu is not Yu Huaijin holding Yu. A Zhi will come back, He said that there are few fish bones in the capital, but I don’t believe it. He said he would let me see it with my own eyes. I said, what are you doing at my house? He laughed again and said that he still prefers the dried fish I dried, even if there are many spines.”
Yan Sui was completely shocked by the words and deeds of the 13-year-old girl in front of him, and even more impressed by the tacit understanding between the two children——
A box of dried fish and a note are worth a thousand words.
Yan Sui unconsciously stroked his upper abdomen. It seemed that it was really impossible for Jing Yun to be the crown prince, and he had to rethink how to settle down with the children.
Yan Sui opened his mouth, originally he wanted to say that since he was not going to Beijing, he could hire a female husband in Yongzhou, and it would be good to study and practice calligraphy.But before he could say anything, he thought that it would be better to leave this matter to Jing Yun.
Yan Sui left the gift and got up to say goodbye, Xiao Yu sent him outside the fence, tiptoed and whispered to Yan Sui: "You are actually A Zhi's uncle, right?"
Yan Sui was startled, and his deliberately raised voice sank: "How do you tell? Where is the dress wrong?"
Xiao Yu shook his head: "I can't tell. You are so beautiful, like a fairy. Ah Zhi said I didn't believe it, but now I believe it... I don't know why you pretend to be a pregnant woman, but there is always your reason. Thank you for coming today. I have one more thing to ask of you."
Yan Sui's heart tightened: "About Jing Yun?"
Xiao Yu nodded: "Ah Zhi is usually happy with everyone, but I think he is not happy in his heart. Once, he told me after drinking with my father that in this world, he has only one relative, his uncle. No, only the uncle really loves him, even the parents don't like him..."
Yan Sui frowned, how could it be possible?Everyone in the world knows that Renzong regards King Yong'an as his favorite.The elder brother has been impartial and respectful of the rules all his life, and it can be said that he has given all his preference and pampering to Jingyun.
"He promised to fish with me and live a simple life together. I believe him. He said that his father was sorry for his mother and failed to protect his wife. It was a lifetime regret. He would not let me suffer any harm. , I believe him too."
Xiao Yu held the paper tightly in his palm, boldly said to Yan Sui: "Uncle, please let him come back soon!"
With the help of the Prince Regent and Wei Yang, Yan Sui can leave Beijing with peace of mind, and formally start his east tour on the grounds that Jiangzhou is auspicious.
Before leaving, Yan Sui took his nephew into his arms and gently rubbed his head to comfort him: "Jingyun, guard the capital. If I give birth safely, and you still have no intention of the throne when you return, I will not force you. If something unexpected happens to me -"
"Uncle Emperor, no! You will live a long life!" Yan Zhi interrupted anxiously, wiping his nose all over Yan Sui's shoulders.
"The world is unpredictable, and it's never wrong to leave a good way." Yan Sui squeezed his nephew's plump cheeks, "If anything happens to me, the edict passed down to you is behind the plaque in the imperial study."
"Uuwuwu Emperor Uncle... I'm still a child... Don't scare me!" Yan Zhi put his arms around Yan Sui's neck, crying heartbreakingly.
"Don't cry, crying makes my ears hurt, I don't want to die." Yan Sui took off his nephew from his neck, opened the curtain of Luanjia, and saw Xu Jiashi standing in front of the officials at the gate of the imperial city, and his heart sank for a moment With mixed feelings, "Good boy, listen to your uncle emperor."
As the carriages and horses started to move, Yan Sui lowered the curtain and did not look back, fearing that after one more look, he would be hard-pressed to make up his mind to leave.
Yan Sui closed his eyes, and the car stopped not far away, the sound of chasing footsteps came, and then the curtain was lifted, Yan Sui opened his eyes, and met Xu Jiashi's rapid breathing and burning gaze: "Your Majesty, Autumn is cold and cool, and the quilt is covered at night."
Xu Jiashi handed over a Xuanhu fur coat, and Yan Sui recognized that it was the one he had given him back then.
"Where did you find it?" Yan Sui's voice trembled.
The past is turbulent, and the coercion and humiliation at that time can also be cared for now.
"I found it when I was looking for the Phoenix Seal. I can't remember when I made it, but I wanted to give it to Your Majesty when I saw it. There are still many things that I probably wanted to give to Your Majesty but didn't have time to give it away." Relying on the curtain to cover it, Xu Jiashi leaned close to Yan Sui's ear, quickly kissed the earlobe, and then backed away, as a courteous gesture, "I will guard the capital until your Majesty returns!"
Yan Sui clutched the fox fur tightly and nodded with tears in his eyes.
The mountains are far away and the rivers are wide, and I want to go home before I set off.
I hope that when I come back, it will be a family reunion.
The team left the capital and boarded the boat from the shore in the evening. Chen Country has abundant water systems, with the Zhuojiang River as the mainstream. Except for Jingzhou, which is close to the grassland, it does not flow through. The cities of Chen Country are either near the sea or in the Zhuojiang River Basin.
Water can prosper or harm people.The floods in Jiangzhou this year, in addition to continuous rainfall, also caused the Zhuojiang River to burst its embankment, and corrupt officials embezzled funds for maintaining the river.
One of the purposes of Yansui's east tour was to check the water conservancy, so most of the trip was on the water by boat from west to east.
I don't know if it was the discomfort of being on the boat for the first time, or the reaction of pregnancy, but Yan Sui couldn't eat after boarding the boat. Pei Liangfang, who was accompanying him, told him not to stay in the cabin, and maybe it would be better to go to the deck to blow some air.
"The escorts and cooks on this trip are all selected by the Regent himself, especially those who serve on the big ship. They will never leak the news. Your Majesty doesn't use raw silk to corset his belly, and he doesn't feel dizzy, and he can't eat or sleep. Is it because of lovesickness?" Pei Liangfang joked and pressed Yan Sui's forehead to help him soothe.
"Perhaps." Facing the humid wind on the river, Yan Sui covered the fox fur on his legs, stroked the soft fur, suppressed his longing for Xu Jiashi, and sorted out the destinations of this trip in his mind: Yongzhou first, go see Look at the nephew's daughter-in-law; then Wuzhou, to test the loyalty of Wu Wang's family; and Jiangzhou, to comfort the people who rebuild their homes after the disaster, and see the place where Xu Jiashi grew up.The last stop is Bozhou, my mother's hometown.
Yan Sui set off in early September, met officials all the way, stopped and stopped, and arrived in Yongzhou in mid-September.He got off the boat and went ashore, and was entrusted by his nephew to give a gift for his 13th birthday to his niece and daughter-in-law who hadn't been married yet.
Female junior, holding golden bricks.
This kid really knows how to find a wife.
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In the capital.
Yan Zhi and the old king of Zhou became fishing friends, and almost became friends who talked about everything. When they were fishing in the palace, the old king of Zhou asked, "What did your highness give you on the queen's birthday?"
Yan Zhi picked up a fish: "What can I give? It's too expensive, and she will doubt the identity of the king; it's too ordinary, let the emperor's uncle go for nothing. In the honor of the old prince, what I give is the fish that I caught and dried." Dried fish."
The old king of Zhou recalled the secret guards who came and went like the wind that day, and they were all dispatched by one person. He didn't treat Yan Zhi like a child, and sneered while holding the fishing rod: "Is it those fish from before... Your Highness put the secret guards all in one place." Sent to protect His Majesty, aren't you worried about your own safety?"
Yan Zhi plucked the fish and threw it into the wooden barrel, and smiled: "What are you afraid of, there is the emperor's uncle protecting me. If there is anything wrong with me, the emperor's uncle will definitely divorce her husband, which is more uncomfortable than killing him."
The old Zhou King's face darkened: "Your Highness, be careful! What kind of divorce! Nonsense! The royal family has always been ungrateful! For example, Your Highness, you keep saying that you have deep affection for that little girl, but after all, you are just using her as a cover to evade The throne is all!"
Yan Zhi turned his eyes and curled his lips: "Whatever you want to say. But the emperor is different from us. He is sincere to the regent. Hey, here comes the fish again!"
Seeing Yan Zhi fishing like onions, one at a time, the old king of Zhou was a little annoyed after not catching fish for a long time: "Your Highness has no hidden guards to protect him. If something really happened in the capital, His Majesty will be powerless to recover when he comes back."
Yan Zhi said indifferently: "Is the old prince taking this king as a hostage? Uncle Huang still has two hostages. What's the matter, even if we exchange one for two, we will not lose."
"What hostage?" Old Zhou Wang frowned.
"Tsk tsk, the old prince really doesn't know how to manage the relationship between father and son, I hope the regent can do better than you." Yan Zhi raised his eyes and saw Xu Jiashi returning from the palace, and quickly got up to greet him with a smile, flatteringly said, "Uncle Huang, Thank you for your hard work, my nephew will pour you a cup of tea—"
Xu Jiashi walked over with his hands behind his back, showing a stack of memorials, but the important national affairs that urgently needed to be approved were filled with ink brush annotations "At the beginning of a person, nature is kind": "This is how your highness corrects the memorials? Go back to the palace and come back again." !"
Yan Zhi stopped his feet, and his face collapsed: "Hey, it's not the amiable and lovely emperor uncle who came, but the cruel and domineering regent! 36 tricks, go first!"
Seeing his son chasing King Yongan, the old King Zhou put down his fishing rod and got up: "Hey——"
Yan Zhi took advantage of the opportunity to grab the door and ran wildly, Xu Jiashi stopped, turned around and stared at the old king of Zhou, without saying a word.
"Jia..." The old king of Zhou muttered for a while, but couldn't call out his son's name, "The little emperor has come to Yongzhou?"
Xu Jiashi let out a "hmm".
"He...he...has he sent a letter to report his safety?" The old king of Zhou rubbed his hands on his clothes, "you...he and you..."
Intermittent, unable to express the complete meaning, in fact, the old king of Zhou was also in a mess——
It is not difficult to analyze King Yong'an's words, managing the relationship between father and son...Xu Jiashi is about to become a father.Two children, the hostages are with the emperor... The old prince almost didn't doubt why a man could conceive, so he concluded that Yan Sui had a Xu Jia-style child——
Apart from each other, how can the two accommodate others?
So, he's going to be a grandpa soon?
But the son doesn't recognize him anymore, is the grandson still a grandson?
The old king of Zhou came to Xu Jiashi's side: "He toured east not only because of auspiciousness, right? He..."
"What exactly do you want to ask, so what if you ask?" Seeing Yan Zhi disappearing, Xu Jiashi didn't have much patience, "Now that the country of Chen is stable, His Majesty's trip is well known to the world, and officials from all over the world are afraid of causing problems in their own jurisdictions. Be extremely careful, and you won’t make any mistakes. No matter what you hope for, it’s just an empty dream. Fish with peace of mind, King Yong’an’s fishing skills have surpassed yours now, so don’t even think about it.”
"Are you threatening me?!" After some sarcasm, although with respect, he was extremely alienated, and the old king of Zhou was annoyed, "You think I will harm the little emperor? In your heart, I am already a cruel, merciless person gone?"
Xu Jiashi didn't answer directly, but said: "Sister, it's time to drink the medicine. The prescription left by Pei Liangfang is very effective. She already recognizes me and Ah Tu. When Pei Liangfang comes back and makes adjustments, maybe sister will recover .At that time, I won't owe the Xu family anything."
I thought I had said all the things that made each other sad, but I didn't expect to hear more heart-breaking words.
The old king of Zhou was dejected, he didn't owe each other, not to mention family affection, he didn't even have any hatred.
What the Yan family's son said was right, as expected, he would not manage a father-son relationship.After living for more than 50 years, in the end it is not as clear as a ten-year-old child.
"When will he return?" The old king of Zhou raised his old eyes, "How long are you going to watch for him?"
"Your Majesty will celebrate the New Year with me." Xu Jiashi said of Yan Sui, his eyes were full of tenderness, and at the same time, thoughts flooded uncontrollably, "If he doesn't return to Beijing, I will go find him. Where Your Majesty is, my heart is at ease." Office. The government is complicated, so I'll go back to the palace first."
The old king of Zhou watched his son leave, and his straight back instantly hunched.
Let's celebrate the new year together... It seems that the Xu family will have a baby at the end of the year...
——No, not the descendants of the Xu family. Although Ah Lian's surname is still Xu, he no longer has the slightest attachment to the Xu family.The Xu family was indeed sorry for him, and had no right to ask for anything extravagantly.
as big as World, nothing is nonexistent.The little emperor's male body is pregnant, it's hard to say whether it's auspicious or unlucky, and there's nothing rare about the children he's carrying...even if it's two...
But in the end it was the flesh and blood of the son he had raised for decades.
Don't you just want to have a family reunion in your life?
Yongzhou... the next journey is Wuzhou, right?
The old Zhou king had mixed feelings in his heart. He looked back at the fishing rod thrown by the pool. No one was holding the rod to control the bait. Instead, there were fish biting the hook, causing circles and ripples.
"Su Min, maybe it's time to let go?" Old Zhou Wang sighed.
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Yongzhou.
Yan Sui disembarked and did not stay in the local official residence, but temporarily lived in Yong'an Wangfu, summoned Yong'an Wang Taifu Zhang Dian, and instructed him to open a way for wealthy scholars to study in Yongzhou, following the Taotie Pavilion.
After finishing the official business, it is the Yan family's private affairs.
Yan Zhi's daughter-in-law's birthday was on September [-]th, and Yan Sui sent someone to inquire about it, saying that they were a half-fisher and half-farmer family, and their living quarters were extremely shabby, so they really couldn't go there.
Pei Liangfang also advised Yan Sui not to go in person, but to call the little girl to come, Yan Sui said no: "Not to mention that the elders need to come to the door in person to be considered sincere, besides, Jing Yun did not confess her identity and asked the little girl to come Wouldn't that expose him?"
Pei Liangfang sighed: "Being an uncle is as thorough as His Majesty, and I can't find anyone else... Hey, I'm curious, what kind of congratulatory gift did King Yong'an prepare?"
Yan Sui shook her head: "Jing Yun won't let you open it, just ask me to hand over the things to my niece and daughter-in-law. After all, you are the one who puts the most things in your heart, so naturally find the best one to deliver."
Yan Sui wanted to personally go to the door of his future in-laws. Before leaving, Pei Liangfang stopped him: "Your Majesty is going out like this?"
"What's wrong with me like this? The clothes are already very plain."
"Your Majesty's belly..." Pei Liangfang pointed his eyes, "These days His Majesty summons officials through a beaded curtain and goes out in men's clothes. It's too easy to be discovered."
"If I don't wear men's clothes, do I want to wear women's clothes?" Yan Sui frowned.
Pei Liangfang raised his eyebrows, took out a set of women's clothes as if by magic, and dressed Yan Sui neatly.
Yan Sui supported her bun and blushed, "How can you do this?"
"Although I have excellent medical skills, it is hard to find a doctor with a thousand dollars. After all, the husbands of some pedantic female patients only seek medical women when they are terminally ill. I have to disguise myself. These methods can be regarded as saving lives."
Yan Sui was dubious, he vaguely remembered that there seemed to be women's clothes in the row of villains carved by Xie Ju earlier.
Yan Sui dressed up and took a sedan chair from the palace to the destination.The girl's surname was Xiao, and the poor parents were illiterate, so they didn't name the child. Because there were two older sisters, she called her Yaoniang.
Sure enough, the Xiao family was completely desolate, but before Yan Sui got out of the sedan chair and entered the door, he heard a burst of laughter.
Through the low fence, Yan Sui glanced at Shuangshun: "Birthday celebration is really a lively event."
During this east tour, in order not to leak any information, Yan Sui only brought Shuangshun as a personal attendant.
Since Yan Sui was wearing women's clothes, there was absolutely no reason for him to be accompanied by a servant, so Shuangshun couldn't escape Pei Liangfang's hands, and he dressed up like a pretty little maid. He turned his head and thought for a while: "Wait next year, Your Majesty will celebrate his birthday too." Bar?"
Yan Sui's heart moved, but he didn't say yes or no: "Call the door."
Farmers use fences to enclose their own courtyards. There is no knocker to knock on the so-called door, let alone pass through the inside layer by layer. With a yell, someone soon came to open the door.
Although he had never seen it before, Yan Sui immediately recognized her future niece and daughter-in-law——
The coarse cloth clothes could not conceal her beauty and vigor, with a double-ringed bun and a red headband, her facial features were beautiful and her eyebrows were delicate.Perhaps because of the wind and the sun, his skin was slightly dark, but he looked sharp, like a herring full of vitality.
She ran out quickly and saw Yan Sui, her eyes were a little disappointed: "Ma'am... who are you?"
Yan Sui was embarrassed by the sound of "madam", and after a while he had to bite the bullet and said, "Zhen... I'm Ji Zhi's... aunt... come to give the girl a birthday present."
Yan Zhi did not confess his identity to Xiao Yaoniang, otherwise they would not have dared to let him be the majestic King Yong'an as his son-in-law. At the same time, he concealed Yan's surname and called himself Ji Zhi following his mother's surname.
Before leaving, Yan Zhi repeatedly told Uncle Huang not to say anything.
When Shuangshun heard the word "aunt", she couldn't help but burst out laughing. Yan Sui gave the "little maid" a look, and Shuangshun immediately lowered her eyebrows and said, "Ma'am, the slave is wrong."
"Are you Azhi's aunt?" The little girl's eyes lit up again, but she quickly glanced at Yan Sui's attire, feeling a little dejected, and looked down at the muddy ground in front of the house after the rain: "Your shoes are dirty."
The cautious tone in his tone made Yan Sui feel distressed, the little girl is young but extremely intelligent.
No matter how much Jing Yun conceals her identity, her pampered temperament is difficult to change since she was a child.Even if he didn't say anything, people could guess that his status was either rich or noble, and he suddenly left without saying goodbye, the little girl was naturally disappointed.
Yan Sui reached out and rubbed the top of the little girl's hair, and said, "I'll wipe my shoes before entering the house, so I won't dirty your house."
The little girl looked up: "You..."
"Can you please let me in and sit down?" Yan Sui softly said.
Xiao Yaoniang nodded heavily, and then Yan Sui sent over the box containing the gift: "Jing Yun won't let me open it first, so I must hand it over to you in its entirety."
Xiao Yaoniang herself didn't even have an official name, let alone the difference between a name and a character, but she knew almost instantly that Yan Sui was referring to Yan Zhi.
After receiving the box, Xiao Yaoniang hugged her tightly in her arms, not knowing how to greet her, the nervousness was visible to the naked eye: "Ma'am... please!"
Yan Sui was invited into the farmyard, a place he had never set foot before——
The green vegetable bed is surrounded by the fence, and the seasonal vegetables and small vegetables climb along the brackets to form a green wall, and the curly tendrils hang small fruits.
Thatched huts with mud walls, muddy trails, and the smell of chickens and dogs.
There are smoked and dried fish hanging under the eaves. It rained not long ago, and the little girl said, "I need to light a fire and smoke it so that it won't get moldy. Ah Zhi's mouth is so tricky, you can eat even a little musty smell——"
Seeing Yan Sui holding her heart with one hand and holding her belly in the other, the little girl hurriedly said, "Ma'am, don't you smell the smell of fish?" Seeing her parents surrounded by a table of fish in the room, Xiao Yaoniang said embarrassingly, "I'll give it to you again." Ma'am, let's make some light dishes."
Yan Sui met the surprised gazes of Xiao's parents, sent the little girl back to her original seat and sat down, and said, "Don't cause trouble for Xiaoshouxing. I am Ji Zhi's aunt, and I am here to meet my future in-laws on Xiaoshouxing's birthday. .” Saying this, Shuangshun asked Shuangshun to present the gift.
The Xiao family's parents hurriedly wiped their hands, neither answering nor not answering.
Xiao Yaoniang pursed her lips: "Ma'am, why hasn't Ah Zhi come? He hasn't come for a long time... Is he not coming back?"
The parents of Xiao's family looked nervous and signaled with their eyes: "Yao Niang, don't talk nonsense..."
"How could it be?" Yan Sui realized that he had frightened the other family by being too abrupt, and his heart softened. He sat on a rough wooden bench and said sincerely, "Azhi's parents died early, and they only stay closest to me at home. , he recently went to Beijing to study with his master, and he has a lot of homework. I know everything about him. I am his elder, and I know what I say. If the two of you are willing, today will be regarded as the first visit, and we will formally propose marriage another day. In the next day, please move your family into the capital."
Xiao's parents looked at each other, feeling more and more uncertain.
Xiao Yaoniang was digging at the box with her head down, and heard her parents say: "Yaoniang's two older sisters are both married. Originally, we wanted to find a son-in-law for Yaoniang who didn't return to the clan, and he should also be a son-in-law for us to take care of. The young master is good at everything... just too good, our family can't afford it... please take back all the gifts, Madam, we really... can't afford it..."
The Xiao family's parents took the box from Xiao Yaoniang's arms, opened it inadvertently, and the snow-white fish fillets rolled down, and there was a note sandwiched between them, with words written on the front and back.
On one side is the character "plant" and on the other side is the character "fish".
So, is this the gift that Jing Yun has prepared for a long time?
"Father, mother, I have something to say to this lady." Xiao Yaoniang held the note in her hand and raised her head.
Xiao's parents looked at each other, sighed and said: "The food is getting cold, Madam, please sit down and wait a while." They went to the kitchen with the food.
Yan Sui and Xiao Yaoniang sat opposite each other.
Xiao Yaoniang asked: "Ma'am, what does this word mean?"
Yan Sui explained the meaning of the word Yu.
Xiao Yaoniang asked again, is there any word with the same pronunciation?
Yan Sui said yes, such as Huai Jin holding Yu's Yu.
After listening to what Yan Sui said, Xiao Yaoniang's brows widened, her eyes sparkling: "Madam, I won't go to the capital, A Zhi will come back." Her tone was very firm.
Yan Sui asked, "How do you know?"
Xiao Yaoniang traced the Zhizi with her fingertips: "A Zhi taught me to write his name, strokes horizontally and vertically. I don't have a name, and he always called me Xiaoyuer. I asked him to give me a formal one. Name, he always said wait, and now I've waited—"
The little girl raised the piece of paper, her expression no longer shy: "From now on, I will be called Xiao Yu. The white-haired fisherman on Jiangzhu is not Yu Huaijin holding Yu. A Zhi will come back, He said that there are few fish bones in the capital, but I don’t believe it. He said he would let me see it with my own eyes. I said, what are you doing at my house? He laughed again and said that he still prefers the dried fish I dried, even if there are many spines.”
Yan Sui was completely shocked by the words and deeds of the 13-year-old girl in front of him, and even more impressed by the tacit understanding between the two children——
A box of dried fish and a note are worth a thousand words.
Yan Sui unconsciously stroked his upper abdomen. It seemed that it was really impossible for Jing Yun to be the crown prince, and he had to rethink how to settle down with the children.
Yan Sui opened his mouth, originally he wanted to say that since he was not going to Beijing, he could hire a female husband in Yongzhou, and it would be good to study and practice calligraphy.But before he could say anything, he thought that it would be better to leave this matter to Jing Yun.
Yan Sui left the gift and got up to say goodbye, Xiao Yu sent him outside the fence, tiptoed and whispered to Yan Sui: "You are actually A Zhi's uncle, right?"
Yan Sui was startled, and his deliberately raised voice sank: "How do you tell? Where is the dress wrong?"
Xiao Yu shook his head: "I can't tell. You are so beautiful, like a fairy. Ah Zhi said I didn't believe it, but now I believe it... I don't know why you pretend to be a pregnant woman, but there is always your reason. Thank you for coming today. I have one more thing to ask of you."
Yan Sui's heart tightened: "About Jing Yun?"
Xiao Yu nodded: "Ah Zhi is usually happy with everyone, but I think he is not happy in his heart. Once, he told me after drinking with my father that in this world, he has only one relative, his uncle. No, only the uncle really loves him, even the parents don't like him..."
Yan Sui frowned, how could it be possible?Everyone in the world knows that Renzong regards King Yong'an as his favorite.The elder brother has been impartial and respectful of the rules all his life, and it can be said that he has given all his preference and pampering to Jingyun.
"He promised to fish with me and live a simple life together. I believe him. He said that his father was sorry for his mother and failed to protect his wife. It was a lifetime regret. He would not let me suffer any harm. , I believe him too."
Xiao Yu held the paper tightly in his palm, boldly said to Yan Sui: "Uncle, please let him come back soon!"
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