Rong Xuan

The reason why Sima Xuan ran to the gambling house in the east of the city so anxiously in the early morning was because he had been cheated by Qing Jia many times before, and he was a little scared.

At dawn this morning, Sima Xuan finally received a definite message, saying that Princess Yongjia returned to Beijing early this morning.

Speaking of Zhao Qingjia, the princess of Yongjia County, her adoptive mother, His Royal Highness the Great Princess, passed away the year before last, and her adoptive father Concubine Han was also convicted and dismissed last year.

In this huge city of Chang'an, Princess Yongjia is now completely unaccompanied.

Although the eldest princess left her adoptive daughter with a wealth of property and countless real estate manors after she passed away, the only place Princess Yongjia is willing to settle down is this unrestricted house behind a gambling house left by her mother. Ask the garden.

"I've never heard anything reported from the servants all the way here from outside. Didn't you sneak in by prying my door and window again with your black face?" Princess Yongjia entered the door and saw Sima Xuan sitting at the round table warming the fire.

She raised her willow-leaf eyebrows with a cold expression, although her tone of voice was puzzled, her expression was not surprised at all, and she even showed a somewhat casual look upon closer inspection.

Princess Yongjia scolded Sima Xuan, first took off the cold clothes that were still covered with snow, and then sat down next to Sima Xuan, raised his chin to signal Sima Xuan to pour himself a cup of tea: "Come on, this time What are you looking for me for?"

Hearing this, Sima Xuan slightly raised his eyebrows.

I clearly came here in an open and aboveboard manner, the black lacquered four-horse carriage with azurite hangings and silver embroidered belts under the regulation of the Marquis Mansion in the old yellow hood is now parked at the gate of a gambling house, isn’t that enough? Is it conspicuous?

But in the end Sima Xuan obediently poured a cup of hot tea and handed it to Princess Yongjia, his expression looked a little cold, his voice was hoarse and nasal, "She's back."

She is finally back.

Although Princess Yongjia was somewhat unexpected by this, she was not surprised. She raised her sleeves and half covered the teacup brought to her mouth and took several sips of hot tea. Finally, she felt that her cold and numb body was a little smoother. Only then did he turn his head to look at Sima Xuan beside him.

Princess Yongjia nodded, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, and leisurely narrowed her bright eyes, which were full of probing scrutiny.

That demeanor is really like a noble and lazy rich cat: "About last year's incident of the fire in the back mountain of Wan'an Temple in Hezhou, when I was passing by Hezhou, I overheard a few words from my brother—"

As she spoke, she leaned towards Sima Xuan, deliberately lowered her voice, and looked a little mysterious: "To be honest, Sima Yuanchu, according to that person's temperament, would never let her off easily. What did you do? What is it?"

"What can I do?" Sima Xuan tilted his head, and looked back at Princess Yongjia frankly, with a pure and harmless handsome appearance: "Furthermore, as far as I know, brother Shen Qu Ji has never been a talkative person."

He wanted to trick Sima Xuan, but this person saw through. Princess Yongjia waved his hand, sat back and smiled, as if to say——Come on, it’s fine if others don’t understand you, I don’t know what you Sima Yuanchu is Is it virtuous?

Sima Xuan pursed his lips, raised his eyebrows, okay: "Then can you tell me, Brother Pingyu, where is he now?"

"Ping...?!" Princess Yongjia suddenly opened her half-closed eyes and stared straight at Sima Xuan, almost throwing out the teacup in her hand in shock.

After a pause, the princess still couldn't hold back, so she gave Sima Xuan a big slap on the left shoulder: "Sima Yuanchu! You are looking for death!"

"Hiss—" Following the slap of Princess Yongjia, Sima Xuan covered his left shoulder and dodged to the side, grinning and frowning, and the faint scar on the left forehead followed suit. Get up: "I said Zhao Qingjia, can you be more like a woman..."

"Injured again?" Princess Yongjia wasn't surprised anymore, instead she withdrew her hand and rubbed her chin thoughtfully with the back of her hand, and sighed: "Tsk, it seems that your old man's thoughts have not diminished in the past, hey, I Say, do you want me to be your peacemaker?"

"Come to the side to cool off..." Sima Xuan lowered his head, clutching his left collarbone and rested for a moment, his already somewhat hoarse voice became even more hoarse: "Where is the thing I want! "

"Here you are, you are a lunatic..." Princess Yongjia took out a neatly folded plain silk cloth from her sleeve pocket, rolled her eyes and threw it to Sima Xuan angrily: " Careful until the bamboo basket fetches water in the end, you have no place to cry. I have seen a fool like you, but Sima Gong is really unlucky. He was a hero for a lifetime. Xinyaner's grandson..."

Sima Xuan didn't pay attention to Zhao Qingjia's thoughts, she shook out the silk cloth with one hand and spread it on her lap to watch carefully, but after a while, the silk cloth densely covered with small letters was thrown to her feet In the charcoal basin, a burst of open fire ignited in the basin.

"..." Princess Yongjia blinked, and then blinked again.

Damn you, Sima Xuan, this is something that I have worked so hard to get, and entrusted my brother to get it by himself, and you just burned it like this? !

"I worked so hard to get it for you, grandma, and you burned it just like that," Princess Yongjia stared at the ashes left after the silk cloth was burned, and turned her head to look at the people next to her meaningfully: " Sima Yuanchu, I think you have to pay me something to comfort my slightly hurt heart."

Sima Xuan seemed to be quite satisfied with the content on the silk cloth. Hearing Princess Yongjia's words, he turned his head and raised his eyebrows at her joyfully, as if to say - just say what you want.

Princess Yongjia pondered for a moment, leaned back on the chair with her elbows and rested her chin with her hands, raised her eyes and said: "The shadow guard you sent to my side, what are you calling?"

Just ask this?Sima Xuan blinked, looked at Princess Yongjia with some confusion, and finally said two words truthfully, "Sixteen."

After a moment of silence, Sima Xuan bowed his body and added: "Is it really not necessary to send someone here to help you find it? It seems that nearly two years have passed."

"No need," Princess Yongjia stood up, straightened her back a little tiredly, and kicked the legs of the round stool that Sima Xuan was sitting on: "If it's all right, then you can kneel down, my lord. The county chief has gone to have a rest, I am very tired."

"...Then you have a good rest first." Sima Xuan stood up, straightened his sleeves, bowed his hands politely to Princess Yongjia, "If you need help with anything, just send someone to find me."

Princess Yongjia nodded and waved at Sima Xuan.

"At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty," when Sima Xuan walked to the door, Princess Yongjia finally couldn't help it and called out to Sima Xuan who was about to open the door.

Sima Xuan stopped in response.

Princess Yongjia, who has always been careless, hesitated again, and her tone was cautiously probing: "She...but did she forgive you?"

When the sound fell, Princess Yongjia seemed to hear a light laugh from the person with his back turned to him, but that light laugh seemed to be not a laugh but a light sigh, which was not clearly heard.

"How could it be? The hatred of killing brothers and exterminating the clan should be utterly irreconcilable."

……

Since ancient times, men should be married and women should be married. This is the right way that no one in Dachao Kingdom can argue with, but when it comes to Sima Kun, the 16-year-old Qing Xu's heir, this sentence seems to be somewhat inappropriate.

"Second brother, you are back!" As soon as Sima Xuanfu stepped into the warming room, he was hugged by a ball of bells and whistles who jumped out from the slanting stab, crying: "If you don't come back, second brother, I'm afraid you will never come back again. I can't see your only younger brother, woo woo woo..."

"..." The small scar on Sima Xuan's forehead jumped a few times involuntarily—it was her half-brothers, Sima Kun and Sima Yuanzhi, the sons of Prince Qingxu.

Sima Kun's pounce was quite powerful, and it was no accident that he hurt the wound on Sima Xuan's front shoulder.

Sima Xuan pursed his lips, endured the pain from the wound under his shoulder, and wrestled his left arm out of Sima Kun's hand, and then used his right hand to grab the little ancestor by the back collar and carry him all the way to the round stool in the flower hall to sit on. with.

"This time, something bad happened again, let me tell you about it." Sima Xuan sat down in the round chair by the tea table, and looked at Sima Kun angrily.

The little maid who was waiting by the side lowered her head and came up to pour hot tea for the master and the prince.

"There is nothing else to do here for the time being, just go down and wait." Sima Xuan directly took the uncovered teacup from the little girl's hand, and ordered in a warm voice.

The little maid bowed her knees and said yes, but when she turned around, she couldn't help but sneak a glance at the handsome prince Sima Kun, who happened to be caught by Sima Kun who was reaching out to pick up the teacup.

The fair-skinned and handsome little prince's eyes are as bright as stars, just a casual glance can easily make people's hearts jump, and the little maid immediately ran out blushing.

Sima Xuan who witnessed the whole process: "..."

"Second brother, second brother," Sima Kun moved the stool to Sima Xuan's side, put his knees together, put his hands into his sleeves, lowered his eyebrows, and sat in an obedient posture, showing a gentle and kind-hearted appearance .

He said: "Second brother saved my younger brother's life! Mother, she doesn't know what kind of demon she is, she insists on forcing me to marry the eldest granddaughter of Deng Shichang's family in the cabinet. Second brother, do you know the granddaughter of the Deng family? I am I've seen it before, it's ugly! Her face doesn't look like—"

"Yuanzhi shut up!" Sima Xuan lowered his eyebrows and interrupted Sima Kun's words in a low voice while holding a teacup.

Sima Kun, who was fearless and fearless, immediately fell silent.

I saw Sima Xuan's eyebrows slightly raised, and the aura around him became colder and colder. There was no trace of anger in his tone, but Sima Kun couldn't help shrinking his neck.

"Where did you read so many sages' books and sages' teachings that you honored your grandson Xu? Which bastard taught you to comment on the appearance of a girl's family? Find it out and ask him for advice." Sima Xuan Shen Sheng said.

"...Your brother is wrong," Sima Kun sighed, and finally fell down on the table as if discouraged, with his chin resting on his two forearms. I still don't want to marry Deng Shichang's granddaughter, Second Brother, I don't want to marry her..."

Sima Xuan had already heard from Liu Sheng that Prince Qingxu's residence wanted to marry the cabinet minister Deng Shichang, so he naturally knew why Princess Qingxu wanted her only precious son to marry Deng Shichang's granddaughter. After thinking about it, he decided to persuade him Yuan Zhi's words are good.

"Gongmen Hou's mansion married a wife who is a virtuous wife. The Deng family has been officials for many generations in Chang'an City. If you think about it, that girl should be regarded as a virtuous character. The word 'virtuous' is taken up by everyone. What's more Deng Shichang's family is still the duke's mansion, and even though it has become a marquis now, its strength should not be underestimated, looking at all the nobles with hairpin tassels in Chang'an, she is the best match for you."

Seeing that Sima Kun was about to refute, Sima Xuan sipped his tea to moisten his dry throat, and simply said: "If you are really worried, then let our eldest sister go and inquire for you."

"Big, big sister..." Sima Kun pursed his lips, secretly engaged in a good contest of interests in his heart, and finally was quite disappointed: "Forget it, big sister took the children with Qing'er and Huan'er in person, while working hard The servants of the entire General's Mansion have already worked very hard, and my younger brother is determined not to cause her any more trouble."

Sima Xuan didn't speak any more, just glanced at his younger brother Sima Kun who picked up the iron charcoal stick to poke the charcoal basin with a half-smile, and then picked up the teacup and ate tea by himself.

After a while, Sima Kun didn't know where Sima Kun was thinking. He who was poking the charcoal basin threw the charcoal stick on the floor with a bang, and stood up from the stool with a thud: "Second brother, I still I'm not reconciled!"

Sima Xuan didn't respond, instead he poured new tea into the empty teacup first, and then looked up at Sima Kun with the teacup in his hands.

Receiving the eyes of his elder brother Sima Xuan, Sima Kun bowed his hands and bowed to Sima Xuan, his voice was dull because of bending over, and eager because of unwillingness: "Second elder brother has been able to care for his second sister-in-law for many years, even if he has not been Shan Guo has persevered and struggled, so why can't the younger brother be like the second elder brother, what if he can find a bosom friend who can stay with him forever?"

"..." Sima Xuan lowered his gaze, and the hostility accumulating in his body from the sea of ​​blood and corpses flashed uncontrollably, frightening Sima Kun who was speechless.

Stay together forever?Shit!

Sima Xuan pursed his thin lips slightly, his stupid brother, should he be said to be young and ignorant or naive and idiot? !

Inexplicably, the huge flower hall was so quiet that only the sound of breathing could be heard. Suddenly, the charcoal in the charcoal basin ignited with a crackling sound. lips, slowly raised his head to look at Sima Xuan through the cover of his wide sleeves.

With just that one glance, it happened that Sima Xuan met his gaze, and Sima Kun's palms were covered with cold sweat.

He knew that he had poked his brother's only sore spot with his unscrupulous words, so he folded his hands and buried his head, not daring to speak again.

No wonder Sima Kun was timid.

Sima Xuan was originally a cold-faced person, and he was born in the army, so he always had a cold and fierce aura around him, especially when he was silent and expressionless, it would be easy for him to glance at anyone inadvertently. Can easily frighten the opponent to the point of weakness.

What's more, Sima Xuan's eyes will make people feel fear, there is no reason, but it comes from the bottom of his heart, a kind of fear of death.

Seeing that Sima Kun was dodging and not daring to meet his eyes, Sima Xuan put down the teacup, and his eyes fell on his knees a little bit erratically. When he realized that he was lost, his brother Sima was no longer in sight The figure of Kun, the word "Cao Hui" has already filled the atrium without knowing when.

Sima Xuan squeezed the space between his brows, his originally straight back suddenly relaxed, raised his hand to cover his eyes, and leaned back in the chair with a little slump—finally he still felt a little tired.

Sighing deeply, my younger brother is young and doesn't know that the world is difficult and people's affairs are not easy, so it's ridiculous that he would believe in something to stay together forever.

But sometimes, the beginning of the story is not a beautiful fate destined by the heavens, but a deliberate step-by-step plan.

However, the consequences will have to be borne by those who enter the game for the rest of their lives.

The author has something to say:

Author Jun (waving): Come, come, say hello to everyone.

Princess Yongjia (squinting eyes): "The rivers and lakes are far away, thank you for taking care of me."

Sima Kun (smiling with a mouthful of white teeth, dancing excitedly): "Hello everyone, I'm Sima Kun, you may not know me, but I think you must know my second brother, ha, my second brother is that' Yu In the Wanjun Formation, Shan Yu was taken directly to the head, Sima Yuanchu who was seventeen years old! Oh yes, I also have a sister-in-law, but she passed away unexpectedly last year, and my second brother has been depressed for a long time because of it—— Hey hey??—" (being carried away)

Sima Xuan, who carried Sima Kun away, said, "My younger brother is naughty, I'm laughing at you."

Princess Yongjia concluded her statement: "It's not that a family does not enter a house."