The wheels of the cart were slowly pressing on the bluestone road. It had just rained last night, and the road was covered with puddles of various sizes. The carriage rolled over and made a creaking sound.
It was getting late now, and there were not many pedestrians on the street, but the crowd saw the eunuch's convoy approaching from a distance, and they kept out of the way. Yu Wenjun walked to the government office unimpeded all the way.
It is also because there are few people, so no one is surprised, Yu Wenjun, the majestic eunuch, why did he go back to his mansion through the side door? When Yu Wenjun saw the courtyard wall, his expression became serious again. He reined in his horse and stopped in front of the side door, looking secretly at the way he came. After the carriage in the middle of the team entered, he got off his horse and walked slowly into the mansion.
When they finally got home, many people had relaxed expressions on their faces. Yu Wenjun was wearing a wide-sleeved loose coat, with his hands behind his back, and he was dressed in style when he paced around, and his gestures and movements were full of celebrity demeanor. However, when he walked to the side of the carriage, with his own slow pace, he lowered his voice and said to the people inside: "This is it, I have wronged you, my lord."
The car curtain was still quiet, almost making one suspect that there was no one inside. After a while, a cold and indifferent voice came from inside: "Prefect Yu is very polite, and I will bother you a lot in the future, so don't be so polite."
The voice was cold and depressing, and for a moment it was impossible to tell the difference between male and female. Yu Wenjun understood, the person inside said it politely, but it was actually reminding him that he can no longer be called son.
Thinking of this, Yu Wenjun sighed quietly.
Two reign titles were changed this year. At the beginning of the year, Emperor Wudi of the Ming Dynasty died of illness. King Changshan took control of the government and became emperor under the **** of his party members.
The first Emperor Mingwu was the founding emperor. He was brilliant and powerful in the early days, and fought in the south and the north. However, after three years of becoming emperor, he inevitably contracted the common diseases of emperors, becoming hedonistic, extravagant, and suspicious.
The former prince judged Ming Wudi's indiscriminate murder in private, but he was reported and stabbed to the imperial court. King Changshan is the same mother and younger brother of the crown prince. He took the opportunity to unite with his close ministers to falsely accuse the crown prince of complaining to the emperor for a long time. Sure enough, the word "Chi" written by the prince himself was found.
Only the emperor can write an imperial edict. Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty abolished the prince's position in the East Palace, and ordered people to kill all the prince's children. The East Palace, which symbolized the crown prince, was filled with blood within a day. Only the crown prince's youngest son, Langya King Murong Yan, who was only thirteen years old, happened to be hunting outside the palace that day and was not affected by the killing. After the prince's subordinates heard these things, they sent a letter to King Langya regardless of life and death, and risked their lives to send Murong Yan out of the capital and hid it among the people.
King Langya is beautiful, good at archery, and quick in thinking. He is the most beloved grandson of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty. When Murong Yan was ten years old, Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty pointed at him in front of all his officials and said: "This son is the most like me." If it were ordinary people, this sentence was nothing more than to show the elder's love for his grandson, but in the emperor's family , this sentence is very meaningful.
After King Langya disappeared, King Changshan once proposed to arrest him and bring him to justice, but Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty had no choice but to divert him. The matter of Murong Yan's disappearance was put on hold. Everyone in Ye City knew that the youngest son of the abandoned prince was still alive, and some people wanted to find him out, but in the final analysis, no one dared to put it on the table.
Since last summer, Emperor Ming Wu's health has taken a turn for the worse, and he soon fell ill. Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty has been indulging in sensuality and feasting for a long time in the past few years. It is not surprising that he can't stand it. King Changshan took the opportunity to control the government and arbitrarily installed his party members. Although Emperor Ming Wu, who had always loved power like his life, knew about it, he was helpless.
I don't know if it is because people are about to die, it is easy to recall the past and yearn for family affection. In his illness, Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty missed his respectful and filial prince, and his amazingly talented grandson. In the winter of the eighth year of Zhangwu, Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty was seriously ill and could not return. He issued an edict on the sickbed to restore Murong Yan's title of King Langya. Although his father is still a commoner, Murong Yan's princely fiefdoms have all been restored to their original state.
When this edict is seen by King Changshan, it will be fine. King Changshan's jealousy and hatred grew stronger, and he set up a net in Yecheng, just waiting for Murong Yan to come back. Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty knew that time was running out, why did he take so much effort to announce to the world and restore the name of King Langya? Is it because I want to use this to convey the news, and I want to see Murong Yan again before he dies. However, Murong Yan is worthy of being the seed of their Murong family, something that the whole world can understand, but Murong Yan is still as cold as iron. He didn't come back, and there was no news at all.
Emperor Mingwu passed away with regret, and then King Changshan took control of the inner palace and outer court and ascended the throne as emperor. After he ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to change his Lao Tzu's year name, and then he ordered that Murong Yan be searched and arrested throughout the country, a reward of a hundred gold was offered to anyone who reported the news, and a thousand households would be awarded to those who personally caught him.
The entire Qi Dynasty was boiling because of this.
Yu Wenjun sighed with emotion as if he was afraid. At the end of last year, when they heard the imperial edict, it wasn't that they had never argued. Some people claim that King Langya is the only bloodline of the prince, and it is not suitable to take risks. However, more people feel that the hearts of parents in the world are pitiful. Emperor Mingwu's heart of boxing and thinking about his son is moved. Maybe Murong Yan should show up and take advantage of Emperor Mingwu's guilt to overthrow Chang. The king of the mountain rehabilitated the prince. The two groups of people were arguing endlessly, but Murong Yan, the person involved, remained calm from the beginning to the end, did not reply, ignored, and ignored it.
Yu Wenjun smiled wryly, now it seems that Murong Yan was right. As expected of a member of the royal family, his blood is cold by nature. He only turned fifteen years old this autumn, and he is actually more rational and calm than adults like them.
In this way, the security of the original hiding place is greatly reduced. Of course, you can hide if you want to hide, just stay behind closed doors. But Murong Yan has a special status, and he can't stop taking courses such as Literature, History, Art of War, Emperor's Mind, etc. If there are people coming and going every day, I'm afraid it will attract suspicion sooner or later. They discussed secretly for a long time among the prince's subjects who were hiding underground, and decided to take the risk of disguising Murong Yan as a woman and sending her to Guangling County in the name of concubine Ji. Yu Wenjun's acquaintances are varied and wide, and he often comes and goes in and out of his mansion, which will not arouse any suspicion. Moreover, the geographical location of Guangling County is just right, it is remote and unnoticed, but it is not far from important towns such as Yecheng.
The only imperfect link in this plan is probably Murong Yan's need to dress up as a woman, and the huge risk Yu Wenjun has to take. Everyone knew that this plan was to dance on the tip of the knife. If something happened and Yu Wenjun's family died, there would be many people involved.
But Yu Wenjun has extremely lofty political ideals, King Changshan is tyrannical, favors traitors, and their only hope in the Qi Dynasty lies in the son of the deposed prince. A sage said that he would die when he heard the truth, and Yu Wenjun was not as good as a sage, but he would give up his body for the righteousness of the world, and he, Yu Wenjun, was willing to give it a try.
Yu Wenjun left home this time to divert the matter of Murong Yan, and this matter was urgent, so he could only cruelly throw his daughter in the mansion. When they were parting from the others, they had already agreed on a secret code, and after a few days after the storm subsided, Yu Wenjun, in the name of recruiting his daughter a wife, successively brought Murong Yan's civil and military masters into the prefect's mansion.
Yu Wenjun thought back and forth several times about what he was going to do next, and when he finally finished deliberating, he saw his precious daughter coming out of the backyard angrily. Yu Qingjia's lips were slightly pouted, and there seemed to be a bright light in her eyes. The whole person was finished with anger, shining brightly. Men are always slow to think about their daughters. Yu Wenjun didn't feel anything wrong, but asked with a sincere smile: "Jiajia, why did you come out? What did you have for lunch today? Did you have dinner?"
Yu Qingjia saluted Yu Wenjun first, rolled his eyes, and seemed to fall behind Yu Wenjun inadvertently: "Father, I heard that you brought a beautiful girl back?"
When Yu Wenjun heard this title, he was shocked. The one who hates others to mention his appearance the most, when he was in Yecheng, a high-ranking official's son joked, "Langya King Murong Yan, the appearance is really a woman, and she is ashamed." It's not as good as your good looks." Murong Yan heard from the side, without saying a word, he directly drew his bow and arrow, and went towards the person who spoke. The few people were laughing, they saw Murong Yan leading the bow, they thought it was a joke, but Murong Yan was serious and wanted to shoot them dead. They dodged in panic, but Murong Yan made another arrow after dodging an arrow, his movements were not rushed, it could be called elegant. In the end, if it wasn't for the envoys around Emperor Ming Wu to plead for mercy, I'm afraid someone would die that day.
Yu Wenjun wanted to remind his daughter, but on second thought, that's right, now Murong Yan is indeed a woman in name, and Yu Qingjia called him "beautiful girl" without reproach. Yu Wenjun could only remind him vaguely: "Jiajia, this is your elder, you have to be respectful and don't use such frivolous titles."
Yu Qingjia's eyebrows twitched unexpectedly.
She has always firmly believed that there is love between her father and mother. Although this relationship did not resist the family's destruction in the end, being handsome does not affect its original beauty. The love between parents supported all Yu Qingjia's fantasies about her future husband when she was a girl. Her ideal husband is a son who is as upright, open-minded, and clean as his father.
But now, the father she regarded as a role model not only brought back a concubine in a big way, but also showed displeasure, reminding herself not to insult her with concubine concubine and other frivolous words, but to treat her respectfully and treat her like a mother. Yu Qingjia pursed her lips and tried her best to restrain herself, but she still couldn't help the evil fire in her heart.
Yu Qingjia said: "Father, where is this... lady? When we meet for the first time, doesn't she come out to say hello?"
Yu Wenjun was taken aback again when he suddenly heard that King Langya was called "Lady". He told himself to try to get used to it, but on the other hand he was still worried. In a few years, if he dared to speak to King Langya like this, he would be beaten to death.
Yu Wenjun tried his best to choose his words carefully: "Jiajia, the horses and horses are exhausted, so we have to arrange for this distinguished guest to rest first. As for the ceremony, let's wait until another day."
This is too arrogant, right? As a concubine, she was already standing in the hall in person, any concubine who had just entered the house would dare not come to see her right away, but arrogantly said that she was tired today, so let's wait another day for the ceremony. Even if Yu Qingjia lost her mother, she would not tolerate such bullying.
"Father!" Yu Qingjia yelled heavily, "Even though this new lady is half my senior in terms of seniority, she is still different from her concubine after all. I came here in person, but did she avoid seeing her? "
"Jiajia!" Yu Wenjun hurriedly shouted, and was about to take his silly girl back, when he heard a low and cold voice from outside the door and window: "No need."
The eyes of the whole room turned slowly, through the five orchid and bamboo folding screens, the crane incense burner with a slender neck, and the blue curtains fluttering gently in the evening wind, a thin and slender figure was standing there.
As soon as Yu Qingjia raised his head, he met the other party's eyes. Although Yu Qingjia is not ignorant of the heights of heaven and earth, she also knows that her face is very beautiful, and she is almost invincible. But at this moment Yu Qingjia was not sure.
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Male and female can't tell the difference, cruel, ruthless, possessive, strong ancestral paranoia, genetically beautiful boy vs landlord's silly daughter