Minister Gu Ming can't take care of himself

Since Xu Guanchen and Xiao Qi were close friends since childhood, Xu Guanchen claimed to know him well.

Recently, there have been quite a lot of changes in the government, and he feels uneasy, and Xu Guanchen can understand.

He told Xiao Qi all about Yanbei's deployment, and told him all about where his confidantes and subordinates were and what they would do.

In the end, he left Xiao Qi with a string of rosary beads that he carried with him, and most people who knew Xu Guanchen would recognize this string of rosary beads.

When it came out, the sun was just slightly westward.

Seeing him coming out, Fei Yang, who was staying at the gatehouse eating snacks, jumped in front of him with a plate of snacks in one hand: "Eat."

The concierge also got up and bowed to him: "Young master, are you going back now?"

Xu Guanchen picked up a snowflake plum, but Feiyang ate it, smiled at the porter, and said: "Your Highness is busy with everything, I will go back first without disturbing you."

He returned the two plates of snacks in Feiyang's hand to the concierge, taught Feiyang to say "thank you", and left by the door.

The concierge sent him down the steps and said "walk slowly".

Xu Guanchen turned his head and waved at him.The concierge bowed his hand again, and went back through the side door.

Feiyang asked him, "Where are you going?"

"Go..." Xu Guanchen looked up at the sky, "Go home."

He has stayed in Yanbei this year, and Jinling is somewhat unfamiliar to him.

Following the memory from a year ago, Xu Guanchen went to the incense shop, bought a gourd of wine, and cut a piece of meat.

He practices Taoism, does not drink alcohol, and rarely eats meat, which is used for ancestor worship.

Dingguo's mansion is still under repair, and I don't know who in the court insisted on repairing his house.

It snowed in winter and it was not easy to start work.When he passed by at this time, there was no craftsman there, only the dismantled wood in disorder.

In the small ancestral hall, Xu Guanchen washed the wine glasses and dishes with well water.

The well water was cold, Feiyang tested the temperature of the water with a finger, quickly withdrew his hand, widened his eyes, and watched in amazement as he touched the water as if he didn't feel the cold.

Xu Guanchen arranged the cleaned cups, plates and dishes on the desk.

Fei Yang followed him like a small tail, Xu Guanchen pursed his lips and smiled: "Go out and play, there is a plum blossom forest to the north, and a pond to the east, be careful not to fall into it."

The ancestral hall is indeed boring, with neatly arranged memorial tablets, bright candles on the table, wine and meat sacrifices, solemn and solemn, and even the hanging curtains look lifeless.

Feiyang got the permission, and ran away on tiptoe.

Xu Guanchen lit three sticks of incense, held them flat in front of him, knelt on the grass futon and worshiped three times, and told the ancestors of Duke Dingguo's mansion: "The unworthy descendants have returned."

After toasting the incense, he kowtowed three more times, then knelt on the futon in a daze for a while, then felt that kneeling was not comfortable, so he simply sat cross-legged on the ground, leaning against the high feet of the desk.

The unworthy descendant Xu Guanchen was a little tired, he wanted to take a rest.

Their ancestors in Dingguo's mansion were not so unreasonable.

Xu Guanchen leaned against the foot of the table and glanced at it.

In this ancestral hall, the latest tablet is Xu Guanchen's grandfather, who went there four years ago.

The youngest at the time was Xu Guanchen's elder brother Xu Wen.It was only when Xu Wen died in Xiling ten years ago.Along with Xu Wen, there were also Xu Guanchen's father, brother and uncle. That year Dingguo Mansion held six funerals one after another.

The war with Xiling was unfavorable, and it was all thanks to Xiao Zhi's uncle, General Pei, to turn the tide.

Maybe he and Xiao Zhi are like polar opposites of yin and yang.

When Young Master Xu was dressed in sackcloth and knelt in front of Duke Dingguo's mansion, rubbing his eyes, Fifth Prince Xiao was invited out from the cold palace, and accompanied his uncle, riding a tall horse, strolling across the long street.

Xu Guanchen, who was leaning against the counter table, suddenly leaned back and fell into the air, almost knocking over a row.

Xu Guanchen was startled, and stretched out his hand to grab something to stabilize his figure.After sitting firmly, he wiped his face, only to realize that God had just walked away for a long time.

The desk shook, two candles almost fell down and burned his hands, and a wine glass was poured on the desk.What Xu Guanchen bought was vegetarian wine, and it also had a full fragrance of wine, which dripped down the table and landed on the ground.

He picked up the wine glass, and suddenly something scratched his heart through the skin of his clothes. His heart, which has been cultivated for many years, seemed to be knocked several times by something.

I only poured three cups of the gourd vegetable wine I bought, and there is still more than half of it.

He picked up the gourd, weighed it, and smelled it twice, it seemed to be a little fragrant.

In fact, he doesn't drink, not only because of Taoism.

Mainly because I drank too much when I was young.

When Dingguo's mansion held six funerals, his grandfather, old Dingguo, couldn't think about it for a while, and poured medicine into the wine, planning to kill himself and his little grandson Xu Guanchen with the medicine.

Xu Guanchen was young and precocious, and realized something was wrong, so he secretly changed the drink and drank with the old Duke Ding.

He drank too much and lay on the threshold crying.Old Duke Ding rubbed his head and said "I'm sorry" to him.

As soon as the new year's festival was over, the old Duke Ding asked for an order to take him to Qingzhou to practice Taoism.

Maybe it was because he got hurt from drinking at that time, Xu Guanchen's eyes turned red when he drank alcohol, and he cried so much.

After ten years, Xu Guanchen picked up the wine gourd again by a strange coincidence.

Feiyang had a good time picking flowers and catching fish outside.Xu Guanchen held the wine gourd in a daze and forgot the time.

Until later, he made up his mind, raised his head and took a sip of vegetarian wine——

Unpleasant to drink.

Xu Guanchen's eyes turned red quickly as if he was dyeing in the cloth dyeing room, and he got up in a panic.In the ancestral hall, in front of the ancestors, it is not acceptable to swallow a sip of wine, nor to spit it out.

He got up, puffed his cheeks and pushed the door out.

But outside the door, when he didn't know it, it changed a lot——

Xiao Zhi was outside, while Fei Yang was guarding the door, not letting him in, it was the moment of stalemate.

"This person..." Feiyang was about to sue, but when he turned around and saw Xu Guanchen's appearance, he quickly forgot about suing, and said loudly, "Hamster."

Xiao Zhi also bowed his head, his face was hidden under the eaves where the candlelight could not see, so he couldn't see clearly.

Xu Guanchen patted Fei Yang's head, resisted, and swallowed the drink in his mouth.

Looking up again, Xiao Zhi had already left in a wheelchair pushed by his attendants.

Xu Guanchen looked at the sky, it turned out that it was already so late.His footsteps paused, and he followed Xiao Zhi with Fei Yang.

The carriage was waiting in front of Duke Dingguo's mansion. Before getting on the carriage, Xu Guanchen specifically told Fei Yang: "You are not allowed to use martial arts, don't talk too much, and don't touch things. If you see something you want, get out of the carriage and I'll give it to you." You do it."

Feiyang drooped his face, reluctantly nodded in agreement.

Xu Guanchen was still not at ease, and lowered his voice to scare him: "That man just now is very fierce... he is a tiger, if you annoy him, you will be eaten by him."

"Feiyang." Feiyang patted his chest confidently, "Better than a tiger."

Xu Guanchen made up his mind: "He is a big tiger, even I can't beat him."

Feiyang frowned, thought for a while, and finally nodded in agreement.

After getting into the carriage, Fei Yang sat down next to him, Xiao Zhi first glanced at Xu Guanchen, and then at Fei Yang.

Xu Guanchen introduced: "Feiyang. Yanbeiren's family is gone, so follow me."

Xiao Zhi asked unintentionally: "Fat sheep?"

It's really a nephew following his uncle.

Feiyang didn't like people calling him that, so he turned his head angrily and didn't look at him.

The carriage went like this for a while, but Xiao Zhi suddenly said, "It's time for a curfew."

Here's the explanation.

It's just that there was a long list of words behind, but Xiao Zhi didn't say it—the curfew was coming, and the commander in charge of the night watch changed six months ago, and he didn't recognize Xu Guanchen. Come pick him up.

This string of words has not been said, and no one knows.

Feiyang forgets things quickly, and now he is staring at the delicate-looking pastries in the carriage again, remembering in his heart that he promised not to touch things randomly, he dare not reach out, but he keeps staring at them tightly.

Xiao Zhi had also seen it a long time ago, and asked intentionally or unintentionally, "What's wrong with him?"

Xu Guanchen raised his hand to cover Feiyang's eyes: "He's fine!"

Xiao Zhi turned his head and let him go: "Move."

Feiyang understood this sentence, and even with his eyes covered, he could pick up a piece of snack accurately.

Xu Guanchen exclaimed from the bottom of his heart: The talent is extraordinary!

Feiyang broke the dim sum into two pieces, stuffed half of it to Xu Guanchen, and said in a tone of disgust, "Smelly."

He was disgusted that Xu Guanchen took a sip of wine, smelling of alcohol on his body.

Xu Guanchen resisted the urge to eat the little sheep raw, and ate the dim sum as if it were a little sheep.

Back at Prince Ning's Mansion, Xu Guanchen saluted and sent His Highness the Fifth Highness respectfully. After the figure of the Fifth Highness disappeared, he straightened up and went to his own yard.

Holding his hand full of dim sum, Feiyang defended Xiao Zhi vaguely: "It's not a tiger."

Those who give him snacks are good people.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Feiyang saw him frowning and asked, "You don't want to come?"

Xu Guanchen sighed: "I have to come."

Feiyang asked again: "Unhappy?"

"Not very happy."

I came back late, and I didn't do the homework that should be done during the day, so I had to make up at night.

Xu Guanchen went back to the room, washed his hair, combed his hair, lit some tranquilizing incense, and prepared to start today's meditation.

After lighting the incense, Eunuch Cheng knocked on the door outside: "Little Eunuch, Your Highness asked if you have time to chant scriptures."

But Xiao Zhi's original words are definitely not like this.

"Got it, I'll go."

Xu Guanchen tied up his hair, put on a Taoist robe, pinned his whisk on his waist, and pushed the door out.

Eunuch Cheng was waiting outside the door. When he saw him coming out, he quickly followed him, glanced at him, and said seriously: "What kind of enmity is there? It's been a year, little lord..."

Xu Guanchen quickened his pace and didn't listen to him.

On the way to Yanbei, it's not that he didn't think about writing a letter to Xiao Zhi, and even tied a knot with vanilla and put it in the envelope.

Don't say reply.A cold arrow was nailed to his side in the posthouse, and the cold arrow hit Xiao Zhi's hand with the same poison as Xiao Qizhong's at that time, which almost killed him.

At that time, in order to follow Xiao Zhi's wishes, General Pei set up a barrier on the official road to Yanbei, Xu Guanchen was stopped, and General Pei even acted as a messenger between them.

General Pei passed on Xiao Zhi's words, there were two sentences that Xu Guanchen remembered very clearly, one of which was: "If something happened to Xiao Qi again, you would come back on your knees and beg for another medicine for him, wouldn't you?"

General Pei didn't dare to look at Xu Guanchen when he said this, he only thought that Xiao Zhi was speaking in anger.

Another sentence is, let him go.

So Xu Guanchen complied with his order, rolled in Yanbei, and gave up his heart ever since.