Daiyu reads novels every day

Daiyu invited Cai Hui to be alone in the Small Buddha Hall, just as she was reaching a critical point, she suddenly heard the voice of Bi Yuan talking to the young man outside.

"I don't know this young man..."

"I'm here to find my sister."

It turned out to be the youngest son of the Cai family, Cai Zeyan.

Cai Hui was about to get up.

Daiyu hurriedly pressed her hand, "Sister, wait a minute..."

"It must be that the Palace of the King of Yongjun saw that the Minnv's home was in decline, so he invited his younger sister to comfort him." Cai Hui was very transparent, forced a smile, and said quickly: "The Minnv is grateful, and I ask my sister to tell His Royal Highness that everything in the Minnv's home All good. My younger brother is reckless, don't let him bump into my sister—we'll meet again later."

Then there was the sound of the door, and the sound of Bi Yuan blocking it, as if Cai Zeyan was about to break in.

Daiyu was also startled, subconsciously pulled up the silk handkerchief to half cover her face, and saw Cai Hui give her a slight nod in greeting, and walked out quickly - she also covered her face with her sleeve as she walked out.

"How did my sister get here? Tell me to find it..."

Cai Zeyan asked anxiously and pleasantly, but didn't hear Cai Hui's answer. The footsteps gradually faded away, and the two siblings left quickly.

Biyuan opened the door and came in, helped Daiyu who was sitting softly on the futon, and said angrily: "This young master of the Cai family is really reckless, he doesn't look like a scholar, but rather..."

"You know what a scholar should look like again?" Daiyu interrupted with a smile, pulling the silk handkerchief in her hand, always feeling that Cai Hui looked strange when she left, what was wrong, but she couldn't tell for a while.

Outside, Cai Zeyan followed Cai Hui all the way back home to worship in the small Buddhist hall.

"I still want to recite scriptures silently, so go out." Cai Hui sat on the futon in front of the confession, clasped her hands together, looked at her nose with her eyes, and her heart with her nose.

"Sister, I'm going to study in Yongjun Prince's Mansion tomorrow."

"But are there any books missing?"

"I don't want to go." Cai Zeyan said suddenly, and then stepped forward to pull Cai Hui's arm.

Cai Hui dodged suddenly, hid beside the confession, and said coldly: "Don't you study hard? Don't you want to be famous? Don't you want to bear the incense of this family?"

"I...I can study at home and be with my sister..."

"I don't need you to accompany me!" Cai Hui said solemnly: "I have told you the truth countless times. If you really don't go to the county prince's mansion to study, from now on, you will never call me sister again!"

Cai Zeyan stopped abruptly, and the boy's red eyes were full of tears, "If you don't bark, don't bark! Originally..."

"Originally?" Cai Hui raised her eyebrows.

Cai Zeyan suddenly stopped talking, and bit his lower lip fiercely, like a mussel whose tender flesh had been pecked, and without a word, he turned around and ran out in big strides.

The dilapidated wooden door of the Small Buddha Hall was slammed against the wall by him, making an earth-shattering bang.

Cai Hui supported the confession case, her body trembled violently with the loud noise, her pale face lit up with incense, and she tried her best to calmly sit down on the futon.

The next day, Cai Zeyan, dressed neatly, appeared in front of the palace of the Prince of Yongjun with his books and bedding in his arms.

"Cai Zeyan is here?" Yong Chen was writing a memorandum to Emperor Jinglong, reporting everything in Jiangnan in detail. Su Shi, the real Cai Zeyan asked him to hand it over to Cai Hui.

"Master?" Seeing him in a daze, Su Zimo, who was sitting beside him, whispered, signaling if he needed to step down.

Yong Chen's eyes flickered, he let go of the jade ring in his hand, and said with a smile: "Sir, it's okay to sit down, this little son of the Cai family will also call you teacher when he comes."

For a while Cai Zeyan was brought in, Yong Chen looked him up and down, then smiled and said: "He is a sincere boy, he came with a bedroll - can you have your bed in the master's house?" He asked him to see him After passing Su Zimo, he encouraged Lianxi to take him down to rest first.

"This young master Cai just left home, and he felt very sad. The slave just sent him in. He took a look before leaving, but saw this young master Cai wiped his tears." Lianxi said when she came back.

"Oh?" Yongchen fiddled with the jade ring again.

"For a scholar who is older than average, this young master of the Cai family is a bit taciturn." Su Zimo said with a smile: "I think it is the material that can calm down and study."

"Mr. Lao." Yong Chen paused, and said: "If there is anything wrong, please tell me in time, sir."

Su Zimo naturally agreed, but after he agreed, he suddenly felt strange, when he raised his eyes to look at Yong Chen——but saw that he lowered his head, his expression was normal, and he was writing the memorial again.

Yong Chen has revised this memorial for three days, but he still can't rest assured.The prince's elder brother's memorial was written on the way back to Beijing.Yong Chen didn't intend to, and accidentally saw the content - the whole content did not mention his Yong Chen.

The first edition written by Yong Chen was full of details; later, it was revised and included all the content related to the prince's brother; when I read it again the next day, I found it very boring, so I rewrote it again.

Now that I was writing, I became irritable again, and I simply pushed the pen and paper, and said to Su Zimo: "Please, sir, catch the knife for me. If the emperor still wants to know, I will tell you in person."

The prelude to the palace the next day is right.

Emperor Jinglong was frightened and angry after hearing about Concubine De, Fifth Prince, Ninth Prince, and Uncle Tian. He seemed to have a stroke syndrome, and now he only wrote with his left arm.During the period when the prince and Yong Chen went to the south of the Yangtze River, the sixteenth prince Yong Yi often accompanied Emperor Jinglong, reciting books every night to make the emperor fall asleep.

"Did you learn a lot during this trip to the south of the Yangtze River, little Seventeen?" Emperor Jing Long was amiable to Yong Chen at the moment, "Can you go and greet your mother and concubine when you come back?"

"I have indeed learned a lot from the elder brother of the prince..." Yong Chen said with a smile, "I originally planned to go down to pay my respects to the concubine mother."

"Go, go, Concubine Shu is thinking about you. Yongye also misses her brother - she even came to the Sizheng Palace yesterday to ask me if I want my brother." Emperor Jing Long laughed loudly as he spoke.

The sixteenth prince, Yong Yi, stood aside. In the past few months, he had rarely seen his father so happy.He recites books every night, wears the stars and wears the moon, but in exchange for his father's faint "Sixteen sons are good" - Thinking of this, Yong Yi glanced at Yong Chen complicatedly.

How could Yong Ye come to the Sizheng Hall?

Yong Chen didn't know why, subconsciously glanced at the elder brother of the prince, but saw the latter lowered his eyes thoughtfully.

Emperor Jinglong immediately sent a cabinet minister to discuss the aftermath of the Jiangnan imperial examination fraud case.Unexpectedly, Emperor Jinglong assigned such a good job of inviting people's hearts to the sixteenth prince Yong Yi—and the plan used was clearly what Yong Chen had read in the prince's elder brother's memorandum.

For a while, everyone retreated, and Yong Chen followed behind the prince's elder brother.

The crown prince Yongzhan has been a little out of his mind today, and he didn't realize it until Yongchen followed a corridor, and blamed Su Danmo with a smile: "Why don't you tell Gu—just let him follow behind like this." Then he stopped and waited. Yongchen came over.

"It's clearly what brother is thinking." Yong Chen took two quick steps, "I'm going to pay my respects to concubine mother, and go on the way with brother. But is there anything to worry about?"

"Why do you ask this question?"

Yong Chen smiled and said softly: "Brother seems to have hidden worries between his brows."

Prince Yongzhan was slightly stunned, looked up and saw that he had arrived at Yuqing Palace, and said: "You followed the wrong way." He pointed to the two little eunuchs who were carrying lanterns in front of him to lead Yongchen, "Let them follow. bright."

Yong Chen didn't ask any more questions, he went back the way he came, and then went to Concubine Shu's palace; as usual, he poured two cups of tea down, only to see a aunt coming out of the room, and said that the concubine was not feeling well, see you another day.

"Where's Yong Ye?"

"The Eighteenth Prince has a wet nurse to take care of him, so His Highness the Duke of the County need not worry."

There was no intention of letting the two brothers meet at all.

Yong Chen sat silently, just when the aunt was a little uneasy, he nodded and said with a blank expression: "Please ask aunt to greet the concubine mother." He got up and left.

After he left, Concubine Shu came out from behind the screen, holding the curious Yong Ye by the hand.

"Mistress, you are too cruel to His Highness." The aunt sighed, "During the big wedding, Your Majesty relented, and later pointed out that Miss Cai's family was married to His Highness, and His Highness also listened to you. Just because His Highness followed this time." Went to Jiangnan..."

Concubine Shu remained silent, squatted down, stared at Yong Ye, smiled for a long time, and said softly: "Yong Ye is good. Was the game just now fun?"

"It's fun." Yong Ye's head was tiger-headed, and his black eyes were full of pride, "If I don't talk or move, I can last longer than before——Come again?" He shook Concubine Shu's hand, "Let my brother Come in again."

"he's gone."

Yongye looked at the expression of his mother and concubine, and suddenly ran out, as if he wanted to catch up with Yong Chen who had just left; however, his arms were firmly grasped, no matter what he was, he couldn't break away from his concubine's hand, His feet were slanted on the ground, his face was flushed red, his bright black eyes were wide open, as if he would burst into tears with a "wow" at any time.

"If you chase him out now, your brother will die."

The aunt at the side gasped, "Your Majesty!" she hurriedly went to guard the entrance of the hall.

Concubine Shu picked up her terrified little son, patted his back gently, pressed against his forehead, and coaxed softly: "It's a game, Yongye is not afraid. The back of the poem that Er Niang taught you a few days ago Is it? This is your father's favorite song..."

The days passed without haste.The sixteenth prince, Yong Yi, went to Jiangnan, and the person accompanying Emperor Jinglong was replaced by his youngest son, Yong Ye. The eighteenth prince was smart and studious, and could recite a hundred poems. The prince's grandson was not affected and still continued to study... In the blink of an eye, the sixteenth prince Yong Yi returned with honor, and another year and a half had passed.

"Master, East Palace invites you to come over."

Yong Chen was genuinely surprised.In the past one and a half years, Emperor Jinglong's health has improved, and he took the government affairs back into his own hands; the prince's elder brother first offered sacrifices to heaven on behalf of his father, and after returning, he studied behind closed doors, even if there were government orders, he also discussed with his subordinates.If it wasn't for the New Year's Eve, Yongchen would never have seen Prince Yongzhan.Although surprised, Yong Chen immediately dressed up and rode to the East Palace against the first snow this year.

"Brother called me?" Looking closely under the Yongchen lamp, he saw that the prince's elder brother was fine, so he said with a smile: "Looking at it, my elder brother seems to be a little whiter than during the Mid-Autumn Festival—you can see that you can't stay behind closed doors. .”

Prince Yongzhan smiled slightly, stretched out his hand to signal Yongchen to take his seat, and waited for Su Danmo to lead the people back before he said: "Today the sixteenth brother returns to Beijing..."

"But what did he say in front of the father?"

"That's not true. The sixteenth brother is cautious." Prince Yongzhan alternated his hands, warming his cool fingertips with his palms, and his eyes fell on Yongchen's front - where there are still a few snowflakes melting into the warm room tiny water droplets.

"elder brother?"

"Did you go to pay your respects to Concubine Shu recently?"

"No." Yong Chen forced a smile, "The last time we saw each other was at the Mid-Autumn Banquet, and I caught a glimpse from a distance." He hasn't seen the prince's brother for a long time, but he has a lot to say, "Brother, do you still remember the garden in Gusu? The lotus pond has drawn water, when will we go again..." Suddenly, he thought about it again, thinking of the agreement when he was in Gusu, and said: "Back then, my brother said that he would go to Changchun Garden to see the lotus when he returned to Beijing. Brother seldom goes out, and I won't be able to see you in a hurry—how about going tonight?"

"Go and greet Concubine Shu when you have time."

Yong Chen was instantly quiet.

He is not stupid.In the past two years, the emperor's father took back the government order; the elder brother of the prince made an excuse to study;He was a little inexplicably apologetic and flustered, avoiding the eyes of the prince's elder brother, and asked, "But what poem did Yong Ye recite?"

"The sixteenth brother came back and did a good job. When I reported to my father, Yongye happened to be playing at the side." The prince Yongzhan stared at the few drops of water on Yongchen's front, and said softly: "The emperor has taught, and the people can be close. It cannot be lowered. The people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is solid and the country is peaceful."

The coldness on the way here was not cold, sitting in the Yuqing Palace, which was as warm as spring, Yongchen felt the chill piercing his bones, eroding every inch of it.

""Shangshu·Song of the Five Sons"." The crown prince Yongzhan was still indifferent, if nothing happened in the world, his eyes would be turbulent again.He calmly said: "At Yong Ye's age, it seems to be too early to read these." He waved his hand, stopping Yong Chen's powerless explanation, "Even if you really read it in private, it doesn't matter, just don't show it in front of others to be an excuse. wonderful."

Yong Chen only felt his face burn, "I'm going to find my concubine right now..."

"It's late at night, so don't be in a hurry." Prince Yongzhan took a sip of his tea and stood up.

Yong Chen was taken aback for a moment, the so-called bringing tea to the guests, he also stood up subconsciously, knowing that it was time to leave, but he felt reluctant to part with it.

"No need to say too much, I believe you." Prince Yongzhan patted him on the shoulder, dropped his hand, and wiped away the few drops of water on his front, "This is for the good of Yongye."

Yongchen's heart warmed up, and he felt a little relieved. He turned back and went out, and when he reached the threshold, he heard the prince's elder brother say calmly behind him: "You have been in Beijing for a long time. A few days ago, the generals of Japan and South Korea reported that they just needed manpower. At that time—would you like to go? Go back and think about it." After hearing this, Yong Chen only felt that his heart, which had just warmed up, was frozen into a lump of ice again.

Yongjun Palace.

"Zimo, what if I go to work in the northwest now?"

Su Zimo was taken aback, "Why did Your Highness say that?" Seeing Yong Chen's serious expression, which didn't seem like a joke, he said seriously: "The emperor is old now, although he is diligent in his administration, he is not as good as he was back then. According to the gossip, the emperor's health is not as good as it seems. Since the sixteenth prince came back, he has been going to the Sizheng Hall to greet him every day; but in the East Palace, he has not seen the emperor for ten months-such an extraordinary period, It is the time when His Highness is serving in Beijing. If you go to the northwest——waiting for the new king to practice Zuo, there is nothing you can do!"

"You think so too." Yong Chen smiled, "Why don't you mention my concubine mother and Yong Ye? Don't you dare to say it?"

"I don't dare to speculate on... the thoughts of the imperial concubine and empress."

"That's right, it may not be that my brother doubts me..." Yong Chen murmured, "It's just that I have to."

Even though he thought so, Yongchen still lingered in Beijing, and never mentioned the matter of going to the northwest until the year after the year when Princess Yuecancan came to find him.

Yue Cancan is now in the Biezhuang in the suburbs of Beijing, staying with her lover Mu Yi.Outsiders only think of Li Man'er, the intoxicated singer of King Yongjun, who is at odds with the princess, but they don't know that the prince and princess have never loved each other before.

"Yongchen, do you still remember the three-year agreement with me?"

That's right, on the wedding night, the bride's lover attempted to assassinate Yongchen.Yong Chen once made an agreement with Yue Cancan; when the three-year period expires, he will send Cancan back to see his parents and elder brothers. When he returns to the border of the Qiang Kingdom, Yue Cancan will use the excuse of loving his family and build a palace on the border to live there and never come back.

Time flies, it has been three years.

Yong Chen was a little dazed, and asked: "Do you want to see your sister to say goodbye?" At the beginning, Yue Cancan's sister, Yue Jiaojiao, came to the Southern Dynasty together, but before she proposed marriage, because of the entanglement of the Ninth Prince, she invited herself to enter the Taoist temple.

"But it's unnecessary, it just adds to the sadness." Yue Cancan was a little unexpectedly ruthless, "In the future, you will look on my face and take care of my sister."

Yong Chen embarked on the road to send the princess home.Before leaving, I went to see Concubine Shu, and sure enough, the door was closed again; Yong Chen had already expected it, but it was not too uncomfortable. Ever since he persuaded the concubine mother not to make rash words years ago, the relationship between mother and child has become a tense bow. It will explode with a single flick.It was Prince Yongzhan who saw him off in person, sent him out of the city gate, and went straight to the Ten Li Changting Pavilion before saying goodbye to him.

Yue Cancan's heart is like an arrow. When he first set off, he wished he could fly back with his wings. The closer he got to the Qiang Kingdom, he hesitated. Maybe it's "more timid near the hometown".

When we reached the border, we could already see the azure Moon Lake, which was the place where Yue Cancan and Yongchen first met.

"Let's say goodbye here." Yong Chen looked at Yue Cancan who had changed into a red riding and archery outfit, feeling quite emotional, and patted her on the shoulder against Mu Yi's staring eyes, "If there are any difficulties in the future, Send someone to send me a letter." He joked with a smile: "It's always a couple, so I won't die."

Yue Cancan punched him on the shoulder, her beautiful almond eyes widened, "Bah! Who is going to die?" She took out a package of sealed kraft paper from her arms, "Here, it's for my sister. There is a letter in it." , and old things from childhood. I dare not meet her to say goodbye... Please hand it over to my sister when you return to Kyoto."

Yong Chen took the kraft paper, turned it upside down, and said with a smile: "So light? It seems that there is nothing valuable, so we can't bargain for it."

"Definitely hand it over to my sister." Yue Cancan emphasized again.

Seeing her solemnity, Yong Chen felt that the sisters were separated from each other, so they took care of it and said: "I promise you, I will hand it over to your sister." Saying this, he pulled the dragon horse over.

Yue Cancan backed away two steps, after Yong Chen got on the horse, suddenly knelt down, bowed to him three times slowly, then got up, whistled and called her red horse, then twisted onto the horse, galloped it, Only leaving Yongchen a back that gradually drifts away.

Seeing the red figure on the horse gradually disappearing, Yong Chen couldn't help but feel a little melancholy when he thought about the situation at the beginning of the day, from now on, seeing each other indefinitely.

Another sentinel came with a message from General Han Yue, "I haven't seen Your Highness for several years, I must not leave my post without authorization, but it is cheaper for Your Highness to come here.".

Yong Chen said with a smile: "General Han's current sentry post is very important - as soon as I go to the Qiang country, he will know there immediately." It's hard to argue, and Han Yue invited him, so he simply took his guards to the Northwest Army to reminisce with his former colleagues in the army, but he regained some of his youthful ambition, so he simply stayed in the army and only gave it to Emperor Jinglong. A memorial was issued to describe the matter of Yue Cancan, and begged to stay in the northwest for a while.

The cold winter in the northwest has not yet passed, and the sky is full of goose feathers and heavy snow.

On this day, Yong Chen was wrestling with Han Yue shirtless in the big tent, and the generals sat in a circle to watch and applaud.Although drinking is not allowed in the army, they still have to drink a bowl of alcohol before going on stage at this time.Northwest was drunk, Yong Chen only felt faintly drunk, and fell into a few rounds with Han Yue, regardless of the outcome, but broke out in a thin sweat; amidst the applause, he clenched his fists and wanted to end again, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the lotus in the corner. Xi killed the chicken and wiped his neck, gave himself a wink, begged for mercy, and then asked Lianxi what was the matter.

"Master, that, that...Miss Lin is here!"

Miss Lin?Lin Daiyu?