my demon

Chapter 55

The red sun is all over the sky, and the fire clouds form mountains.

The heat was unbearable, and as soon as Xiao Yan had free time, he ran to the mountain village, either to go paragliding, or to ride a horse, or to see the windmill they tried to make, or to try the newly made snacks.

Yu Kehui's younger sister, Yu Caiwei, is actually very good at making dim sum. She can make seven or eight different dim sums every day. He Chang'an saw that Zhu Rufeng sent a slender beauty, a woman from an aristocratic family, full of books, gentle and dignified, with two eyes shine.Hearing that it was Mr. Wu who asked to arrange a place to stay, he quickly arranged the chrysanthemum courtyard for the brothers and sisters of the Yu family. Seeing that they only brought a bookboy and a little maid, they immediately arranged several maids from the princess mansion to the chrysanthemum garden. Hush and ask for warmth, very thoughtful.

And Yu Kehui talked with He Changan a few times, and he saw that this manager He was obviously a servant in the palace, and he felt more at ease. After all, he couldn't be shameless and take advantage of others. He took the initiative to sort out the account books of the villa and the store, and soon the Shibo Secretary notified him to report to work as an official errand, so he rented a small room near Honglu Temple, full of enthusiasm. He was loyal to the emperor and devoted himself to serving the country, so he immediately went to work.

Yu Caiwei lived in the villa, and she was a little timid at first, but seeing He Changan being kind and attentive, there were many martial artists and family members in the front yard of the villa, and it was quite lively. There was also a guard Gan, who was unsmiling and very tall. I heard that he had just joined the job Forbidden army.Although she has a cruel temperament, she came out of the kitchen one evening and saw Guard Gan whispering to a woman in plain clothes in the woods. .The woman should have seen her, but she only waved slightly, and did not come to talk.

I think there are so many talented people who come to this villa, and they come and go. I heard that the guards of Zhu come here often. Sometimes I bring a little son of the Wei family. I heard that he is the grandson of the Duke of An. Good at talking, every time my younger sister calls her, she is very sweet.Sometimes there is a Mao lady who brings a group of young ladies over to pick flowers and sun rouge. She is also very kind when she sees her. I heard that she is a Lehu of Jiaofang, but she is generous and generous, and she is not ashamed of it at all.

Yu Caiwei gradually fell in love with this mountain villa, but she never once saw the little emperor in her brother's mouth, the current emperor, Emperor Yan Ping who ascended the throne at the age of five.

Yu Kehui said to her: "I originally thought that we should use the excuse of entering the palace to block that side, and then find some connections here. In any case, we should use the excuse of entering the palace to block back the prefect of Ji. But I feel that entering the palace may not be a dead end. My sister is beautiful and intelligent. I used to only think about who can be worthy of my sister. Now it seems that the young emperor is handsome and handsome. There are no hills and valleys in his chest, which perfectly complements my sister. It is high enough there, my sister has her own mind and wrist, and she may not be rigid in love, but may have a different world."

Yu Caiwei was born in a declining family, but she was stunningly beautiful. Although she was supported by her elder brother, she also knew that such appearance might cause trouble. Since she was a child, she only studied in her boudoir and stayed at home. This time she left her hometown for the first time, but for the sake of Avoiding misfortune, seeing the prosperity of the capital for the first time, and hearing what my brother said, I couldn't help feeling a little bit of admiration for this young emperor.

The emperor must have been here before. Occasionally, the martial law will suddenly become tense in the villa, and there will be five steps and one post at the bamboo courtyard. Although they are all young guards in their teens, they all have sullen faces and are extremely serious, and they will never let anyone pass by. , the kitchen will be tidied up as much as possible, He Changan will watch it personally, and will also ask Yu Caiwei to make a few snacks, and then order someone to send it away. At this time, Zhu's guards often come, and Wei Xiaogong sometimes comes and sometimes does not. Come.

But she has never summoned Yu Caiwei. Although Yu Caiwei is slightly disappointed, she has a faint premonition that she will not enter the palace.

"So how do you plan to arrange the girl from the Yu family now?"

Lich stretched out his bone hand, broke off a lotus pod, held it in his bone hand, and looked at it carefully.

Xiao Yan rested on the Lich's lap, stretched out his arms to touch the green lotus leaves half a person's height, and the lotus leaves were touching and squeezing the boat. Since the first time he took the boat that day, Xiao Yan fell in love with it. Get the feeling of being on a boat.

The villa naturally has a lotus pond, full of graceful lotus flowers.He wanted to enjoy the lotus with Mr. Jiuyao quietly. Although He Changan was worried that the little emperor would fall into the water, he also vaguely knew that Mr. Wu seemed to have great supernatural powers, so he didn't dare to say anything. He just got off the lotus boat and ordered People are guarding from a distance and are not allowed to approach.

Xiao Yan smelled the fragrance of the lotus, and said lazily: "Sit and think about the breeze blowing over the lotus leaves——I have entrusted Zhu Rufeng to forward a letter to the Eldest Princess so that Aunt Huang can worry about it. After going there for a few days, I went to Shushu to offer advice, the face of Honglu Temple was green, and Ji Zuoxiang was not very happy, thinking that he was reckless, but he still passed it to me."

The lich bone finger opened a lotus pod, and handed a blue lotus seed to Xiao Yan's mouth. Xiao Yan turned his head slightly, opened his mouth and put it in his mouth. Bone hands have an ice-sweet taste, like an ice bead rolling on the tip of the tongue.

When the weather gets hot, he loves being close to the Lich more and more. Once he gets close to the Lich, it feels cold and fragrant. He just practiced the light sword with the Lich, and it was very hot, even though he had washed and changed his clothes The gauze gown also refused to wear boots, only bare feet, still clinging to the lich greedily.

The little emperor always clings to him, and the Lich doesn't care.When the Son of Heaven was close to him, the real dragon's aura was constantly smearing over him, which really made his extremely weak soul and body very comfortable.He broke off all the lotus seeds and threw them into the crystal jar beside him. The crystal ice cubes in it were floating, pears, plums, fresh lotus root slices and other fruits were splashed, and he threw the cleaned empty lotus pods into the stern of the boat.Wu Yunduo sat there looking down at the water, turned her head to look at the empty lotus pod, stuck out her tongue and licked it twice, sucking away the trace of the dead soul of the lich remaining on it, and then turned her head to look at it with full concentration. Fish in the water.

Several branches of lotus and lotus pods were placed at the stern of the boat, all of which were picked by Xiao Yan just now. Some of them were messy and pressed on the stern of the boat, and the fragrance was overflowing. Xiao Yan touched those petals with his bare feet from time to time, feeling the red, white and white lotus The soft and cool texture of the petals rubs against the soles of the feet.These were the behaviors he absolutely could not have in the palace before, if he did it, he would be strictly stopped by the palace servants and reported to the Queen Mother.However, at this moment, the Lich turned a blind eye to it, and didn't seem to think that this was something out of place and etiquette.

The Lich picked up a book from the bow and read it.Xiao Yan saw "Shen Yi Shen Xiang" written on the spine of the book, and couldn't help laughing: "Are you going to learn physiognomy? Last time I watched "Zhou Yi Can Tong Qi", and I saw you watching "Interior View of Huang Ting" a while ago. through"."

The lich said: "That Fan Zuosi used to take time to stare at you and me that day. He was very rude. I thought he was meeting each other, so I cast a little confusion spell on him."

Xiao Yan was startled: "Hahahaha, the other day when he said that he was good at meeting, I immediately changed the topic, just not wanting to give him a chance to talk nonsense, people like them use the name of their superiors to say These ambiguous words, once the middle of the day, will spread everywhere, it is really hateful."

The lich said: "Some of these mysterious people are really talking nonsense, some pick up people's wisdom, and some secretly follow the law. It's still very interesting to see."

Xiao Yan was giggling, but in the afternoon of the hot summer day, he had just practiced swords and ran across horses, his body was quite exhausted, he was cool and pleasant by the Lich, gradually his eyelids became heavier and his breath was long, but he fell asleep.

The Lich saw that he was still stepping on the dazzling lotus petals with his bare feet, and he was still holding half a lotus in his hand, but he was already asleep, so he pulled a piece of silk gauze to cover him, stretched out his bony hand, and tapped it lightly. Xiao Yan lowered his jaw, seeing that he was completely asleep and didn't wake up at all, so he let him sleep too, only flipped through the book and read slowly.

Not to mention Xiao Yan's leisurely and leisurely side, but the study in Zuo Xiang's mansion is a bit solemn.

"After the Linjiang banquet, the students of the Fan family under the age of 40 participated in the autumn. The names of the students who participated in the autumn in various prefectures have come up. The news of Fan's participation in the autumn has spread, and many families in various places can't hold back. Everyone signed up."

Ji Tongzhen sat on the grand teacher's chair, watching the staff remain silent.

"The aristocratic clans have been entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River for many years. At the beginning, they did not enter the imperial examination because they looked down on the foreign dynasty and the puppet dynasty. I have a high opinion of them, but they haven't made any achievements, only because they are in the most affluent place in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are intertwined, so they can survive until now. Now the so-called entry into the WTO, I heard that King Duan personally went to the south of the Yangtze River to fight the plague. Visiting from the dead family, it was brought in!"

"Both Lu and Cui sent their daughters to go to Beijing with their elder brothers. Prime Minister, Prince Duan was ambiguous about establishing a queen. We only thought he was avoiding us from fighting with the queen mother, but we didn't expect that he was actually going to fight for her." The support of the family!"

"I heard that the emperor performed very well at the banquet, and I don't know what kind of deal was finally reached between King Duan and the family."

"I told the Prime Minister a long time ago that those two people should not be hired. Those two are obviously the bait thrown out by Xiao Ji, and the Prime Minister just gave them a pass. Although a city bureau and a Tianfu courtyard are nothing, but Others feel that the emperor is a signal of authority..."

Ji Tongzhen suddenly said: "The imperial power is supreme."

There was a slight silence in the study, and someone said again: "The emperor is still young, and now seeing that the queen mother has calmed down, the assistant prince has ulterior motives, right? He wants to use the opportunity of becoming a queen to sway the emperor, and the family enters the officialdom, so we must guard against it." Now only this poor family has the opportunity to jump into the Longmen, how can they change back to the old way, the poor family has no noble son, ha ha."

"There is no poor family in the upper class, and no noble family in the lower class. We will enter from the commoner. The Prime Minister planned to choose a concubine from a good family in the folk, and also to prevent this descendant from growing. If it is true that the family really has a female as the queen, it will be a day." I really want to make them turn over!"

Ji Tongzhen said lightly: "If you want the imperial examination, you have to follow our rules. What are you afraid of?"

The study room became quiet again, and Ji Tongzhen said slowly: "Qiu Wei is selected, and there will be an exam. The aristocrats take the exam in a hurry, even if they are talented, they may not be able to do anything. My dynasty is mainly after the founding of the Taizu. The three dynasties are too short. , Taizu valued martial arts, and the first emperor was good at Taoism. They have no use for martial arts. The emperor is a rare young emperor. It is not surprising that the aristocratic family is now eager to enter the world and fight for power."

Some people couldn't help laughing and said: "That's right. If you talk about policies and theories, you may not be able to write anything useful unless you are immersed in state affairs. They are nothing more than rural folks who talk high-spirited and talk about wars on paper. They have been out of date for a long time. If you want to talk about poetry, then It is true that their poems and books are heirlooms, but when it comes to imperial examination policy theory, that is not necessarily the case."

The atmosphere in the study was a little more relaxed.

But there was a book boy outside who sent a post: "It was sent at the door, and it was said that it was sent by the eldest princess's mansion. Ouyang's son-in-law sent a post to the prime minister. The autumn wind is blowing and the chrysanthemums are yellow. Tomorrow, the prime minister will be invited to eat crabs. Waiting for you." reply."

Ji Tongzhen was startled, took a look at the post, and wondered, "Ouyang's son-in-law has always lived and played in the mountains and rivers for a long time, why is this now?"

Someone guessed: "Last time I heard that the eldest princess had a quarrel with Cheng Enhou's mansion, because of the emperor's slight departure from the palace, and now there is a funeral at Cheng Enhou's mansion. It is said that Cheng Enhou was too sad and fell ill, so he closed the door to thank guests." It's been a long time, is the Eldest Princess trying to win over the Prime Minister?"

"The empress dowager can be said to be the emperor's mother, and the assistant prince also gave her face. This aunt of the emperor does not have a high status, and her relationship with Prince Duan is not so good. It seems that she doesn't have much contact with each other on weekdays."

"You don't understand. It is said that the relationship is okay. It's just that Ouyang's son-in-law avoids suspicion. After the princess Duanrou descended, she didn't communicate much. She gave birth to a little princess."

"Then why?"

Ji Tongzhen put the post on the table, and explained to the book boy: "Back to the son-in-law, thank you for the invitation, Ji will definitely go to the banquet."

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The red sun is all over the sky, and the fire clouds form mountains.

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