boudoir

Chapter 165
Liuli received Master Xu's letter, and quickly asked Rui'er to order someone to pick him up into the mansion.At noon, she finally waited outside the Chuihua Gate for the carriage to pick him up. Seeing him getting out of the carriage, she couldn't help but have a sore nose, and flung herself into his arms desperately.

Xu Yuan's eyes were also red, he hugged her for a while and pushed her away: "You are a big girl, this is not our south side after all, it's not good for people to look at."

Liu Li said with tears in her eyes, "What are you afraid of? You are my uncle, you have been like this since you were a child, what else can people say about me?"

Xu Yuan smiled.

Because of the difference between men and women, it was inconvenient for Liuli to lead him in, so she prepared food and wine in the side flower hall under the second gate to welcome him.

"Yi'er really looks more like your mother the longer she grows." Xu Yuan sized her up for a moment, then sighed quietly.

Liuli picked up vegetables for him, seeing how deeply touched he was, she couldn't help feeling mixed feelings in her heart.

If according to Guo Xia's statement, my grandfather was really an official in the palace, then Xu Yuan and Jin Xuan were the only two disciples he accepted after resigning from office and going back to seclusion.At that time, they lived in a small village in the south of the Yangtze River, surrounded by mountains and rivers, peaceful and peaceful. Grandpa had a long beard and hair, and he was dressed in commoner clothes all day long, tending flowers and weeds in the yard.He was obviously amazing and talented, but he never opened a private school to teach. Xu Yuan and Jin Xuan became his lifelong disciples. After his grandfather passed away, they went to Sichuan, Shu and Gusu to make a living according to his will.

Both of them are two years older than Xu Niang, but since Xu Niang started studying with his grandfather, Liuli called them two uncles as long as she could remember. At that time, she thought that every family would have two There are people called Uncle Shi, so I have always regarded them as family members.Uncle Xu has a calm temper. He is a senior brother, and at that time he liked to hug her and take her to the market to play.Uncle Jin is more lively, so he always likes to tease her.When she grew up, Uncle Xu taught her poetry and books, and Uncle Jin taught her chess and piano.The reason why Liuli is playing bad chess now is all thanks to the restless Master Jin who was always restless to teach her.

The two of them have been with my grandfather for more than ten years, and they have obviously achieved something in their studies. They can have a better future in any exam, but before his grandfather passed away, he repeatedly asked them not to step into the officialdom, so they were sold in Sichuan and Sichuan. After buying tea, one opened a noodle restaurant in Suzhou.Soon after the grandfather died, the housekeeper also passed away, so Xu Niang and her wet nurse lived in the village with Liuli.Uncle Xu and Uncle Jin always came back to see them in turn every month, sending some money, food, cloth and so on, until when Liuli was nine years old, Xu Niang suddenly coughed up blood after a serious illness, hugging little Liuli who was at a loss After crying for a few days, when the weather got warmer and his body was getting better, he led the wet nurse and Liuli to Beijing.

Uncle Xu and Uncle Jin didn't know about this until they arrived in the capital. When they arrived, the wet nurse had already died from the disease on the way, and Xu Niang was living with Liuli in a dilapidated small inn.Uncle Xu and the others couldn't hold back Xu Niang, and later saw her coughing up blood, and Liuli hugging her, crying and refusing to let go, couldn't help but shed tears, and then went to He Mansion to inform He Cunli of the news .

But for some unknown reason, they refused to meet He Cunli, and kept taking care of them in secret.He waited for He Cunli to finally arrive and took care of them before leaving.That is to say, since then, Liuli has never seen them again, but only exchanged letters.In her previous life, she was a maidservant, and she was always watched for fear that she would run away, so they couldn't send letters out, so they didn't know her situation, but after she became Yuhua's dowry and went to Qifu, they rushed to the palace. It was too late to come to see her in the capital, at that time she had been tortured to death by Yuhua, and she didn't even have the ability to fight for herself to meet her.

As for whether Master Xu finally received her body after Liuli was beaten to death, that was already a matter of that world, and she had no way of knowing.

"Master, did you come to Beijing for business or something?" She let out a breath with her eyes downcast, closed her eyes to hide the urge to cry, and raised her head to ask.

Xu Yuan put down his chopsticks, looked at her and said, "I'm here for Master."

Liuli was a little surprised, "Grandpa?"

Xu Yuan nodded, glanced at her, and said, "Do you know the life of Master?"

Liuli was at a loss for words, and wanted to know something, but Guo Xia never personally said that Mr. Lanqing was her grandfather Xu Qiuyin, this was all her guess based on various signs, so she shook her head again.

Xu Yuan said: "I know you don't know, so I came this time to tell you."

Liuli hurriedly sat upright.Xu Yuandao: "We all know that Master's name is Qiu Yin, but his real name is not this. His surname is Xu, his character is 'Shen', and his name is 'Lan Qing'. At that time, outsiders respectfully called him Mr. Lan Qing. When Master was young, He is already a well-known talented scholar in the south of the Yangtze River, he was born in a family of scholars for generations, and someone in his ancestors once served as the teacher of the emperor, but he declined later."

"Uncle Master is saying that Grandpa is really that Mr. Lanqing?!" Liuli couldn't help but lose her voice.

Xu Yuan said, "Have you heard of it?"

Liuli hesitated for a while, and said: "I have heard of it, but I don't know much about it."

Xu Yuan nodded: "You've heard it before. Who hasn't heard of Mr. Lanqing's name in the middle of Beijing? That year was the 12th year of Yanping, when the parties in the court were in turmoil. Master spent half a year thinking about it. Wrote a policy of governing the country and submitted it to the first emperor. After reading it, the first emperor was astonished and called his master into the palace. The situation of political chaos has greatly improved. The first emperor, Da Yue, wanted to make an exception to appoint his master to participate in politics in Zhongshu Province. The master refused because of his lack of qualifications back then. The first emperor refused to let him go, and finally let him Stay with me to take up the post of imperial pen servant.

"Because of his noble character, master attracted many fans, and became a figure in the capital's competition for a while. Master had no choice but to socialize for a while, and deeply felt that in the long run, he would become some people with ambitions." Left and right, so he only stayed in Qianning Palace day and night, and never went anywhere again. It happened that the late emperor gave him the privilege of entering and exiting the Library Pavilion at will, so he devoted himself to studying the strategy of governing the country, so as to relieve the late emperor's worries. Five years later, he Finally, I wrote a book called "The Collection of Yanxi Palace". At that time, the first emperor personally inscribed the words and asked them to print them out in volumes for the princes to read. They also stamped the imperial seal on the original book. This book It was circulated among the courtiers, and many ministers also rushed to read it, and at this time something happened, which finally led to Master's determination to resign."

Xu Yuan stopped here, Liuli hurriedly said: "What is it?"

Xu Yuan glanced at her, his voice lowered.

"Because of this book that has attracted worldwide attention, Master's reputation has been pushed to a new peak. At that time, the princes were fighting fiercely, and they all wanted to use Master for their own use. A big event happened in the capital that day. Wang was imprisoned by the prince at the time and sent to the prison of Dali Temple because a batch of battle armor was found in his mansion. Dou Jue, the young master, was also implicated, and all 340 people in the mansion were beheaded. The wife sent her two grandchildren away quietly before raiding the house. Many people knew about this in private. Those who sympathized with the Dou family secretly hoped that the two children would grow up safely, while others were spared no effort to find the truth. them.

"Finally one day, the prince's people captured two teenagers from Yanmen Pass and put them in the sky prison. It has been more than a year since the incident happened. Master felt that there was insufficient evidence of King Yong's rebellion, so he kept defending him. He collected evidence to exonerate him. When he heard that the two teenagers had been arrested, he immediately knelt down and begged the late emperor to spare their lives. When the crown prince heard about this, he was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so he did it overnight. When the master arrived with the late emperor's decree At that time, one of the two teenagers had already been killed. The other had also taken poison."

"Then he died later?!"

Liuli clutched the skirt of her shirt nervously.

"Of course that one is dead. The one who took the poison," Xu Yuan paused, took a heavy and slow breath, and said, "Master traveled through most of the palace city, carried him to the imperial physician's hall, and finally let the imperial physician general He was saved. Master was a literati, and he did not do any heavy work on weekdays, but that night, he insisted on carrying the descendant of the Dou family, which weighed more than a hundred catties, to the Imperial Medical Center step by step. It was seven or eight miles before and after. Far away! That's how he used his own strength to leave behind the Dou family who had never had any contact with him."

Liuli's face was wet, and she kept her voice steady, "What happened later? Where did the boy go? Why did Grandpa resign? Is the crown prince trying to kill him?"

Xu Yuan raised his neck and took a sip of the wine, swallowed it before looking at her again.His eyes were already red, "Later, the boy remembered Mr. Lan Qing's name forever, and stayed in Beijing. But no one knew him anymore. He worked hard to support himself, and waited The opportunity to repay the benefactor will come in the future. Not long after Mr. rescued him, he finally found the evidence that the prince was suspected of framing King Yong for rebellion. Everything, but for the sake of the stability of the country, he is no longer ready to pursue it.

"From this, the master knows that it is impossible to rehabilitate King Yong and the Dou family, and the prince has tried to win over the master, but the master has never accepted it. At this time, the prince has already regarded the master as a fear, although he has never treated him. What to do, but the master also felt the danger in the imperial court, and he was tired of it, so he proposed to the late emperor to resign. Before leaving, I even tore off a sleeve from the dragon robe and wrote a Daoist order to Master."

Liuli couldn't help but said, "What kind of edict is that?"

Xu Yuan shook his head and said: "Except for Master, no one knows what kind of edict it is. Even Jin Xuan and I have never seen it. Master only told me when he was dying that he put a bronze statue in the White Horse Temple outside Beijing. The box, the Taoist order is there, and it said that when the border is settled and Marshal Qi wins and returns to the court, let me give this to you."

(End of this chapter)