atypical prostitute

Chapter 14
After wiping off his cold sweat and putting on his outer robe, Liu Erlang was about to go back home when he heard a voice behind him: "Duke Wei is well these days."

It was Jun Fengxi who called him.

Liu Erlang didn't dare to be negligent, he reined in his horse and stopped, at this time the green ox cart was approaching, and in front of the cart a charming boy who looked like a girl opened the bamboo curtain.

According to rumors, Jun Fengxi, who was as handsome as a banished fairy, got out of the carriage and stood in front of the horse.

Holding a folding fan, it is as clear as water and as elegant as the wind.

When meeting the boy in red for the first time, Liu Erlang thought he would see a handsome man who surpassed heaven and earth, and Jun Fengxi stood in front of him, so he was greatly disappointed.Although Jun Fengxi was born well, she was above middle-aged, and there was nothing particularly good about her facial features, but this beautiful face was so indescribably comfortable that one couldn't bear it. I want to see it again and again.

Even the pretty boy who is as bright as clouds, compared with him, also loses his brilliance.

Liu Erlang sighed inwardly, with such an outstanding temperament, yet he became a courtier under the skirt of pomegranate, no wonder the world looked down on him.

"Father is still in good health, Mr. Laojun is worried."

Liu Erlang replied kindly, and Jun Fengxi also smiled slightly. His eyes were already a little lighter than ordinary people, but when he smiled now, the corners of his eyes were slightly slanted, which had the charm of rippling autumn water and unfathomable depth.

Inadvertently, I was stunned.

Liu Erlang hurriedly pinched his thigh fiercely, and then regained consciousness, and looked at the ox cart, and found that the back of the cart was full of luggage.

"Young Master Jun, do you really want to go to Hukou to see the peach blossoms?"

"The king of Changsha is in a hurry. If he doesn't leave the capital overnight, he may be trapped in the city in the future."

Although he smiled elegantly, it implied rejection, Liu Erlang didn't dare to ask, and just wrote it down silently.

But at this time, the spring breeze turned and sent a flying flower, which floated to the front, so the nine-stage cypress folding fan unfolded, and the petal fell on the fan as it should.

"give you."

Passing the folding fan to his chest, Liu Erlang realized that his hands were also as white as jade.

"Why?"

"Because there is nothing more important in this world than to keep Luohua."

Liu Erlang looked at him, but was afraid for no reason.

He didn't dare to pick up the fan. He had a feeling that Jun Fengxi's eyes were not looking at him at the moment. Deep in those watery eyes were white bones and a blazing fire.

……

……

Fu Zhusu was happy and quiet, and when Liu Erlang entered the study, he saw his uncle practicing calligraphy, and Li Ci was the only one serving the pen and ink.

I just grabbed the bun casually, wrapped it with a few strings of coral beads, and matched it with a goose-yellow spring shirt. The night wind blows, and it looks a bit green like an apricot blossom.At first sight of Li Ci's tenderness of bowing his head and rubbing the inkstone, Liu Erlang was also taken aback.

Then he came back to his senses and began to report what he had seen and heard in the Princess' Mansion today.

Fu Zhu listened quietly.

When mentioning the map of the mountains, rivers and community in the northwest with the red mark lying on the couch of the imperial concubine, Fu Zhu hummed.

Fu Zhu's face became serious when he recounted the funny laughter of the Changsha King and the eldest princess like a meditation machine.

Said that the princess mansion met Jun Fengxi who was going to Hukou, Fu Zhu put down his pen.

Li Ci sent a towel soaked in hot water, Fu Zhu took it, and asked while wiping his hands, "He really went to Hukou to see the peach blossoms overnight?"

"Yes."

When my uncle asked this question, he must have sensed something, so Liu Mengyun described in detail every word Jun Fengxi said and every action he made in front of the Princess Mansion.

After Fu Zhu wiped his hands, he began to pace the study.Li Ci's eyes followed him, and found that the more his cousin talked, the more serious his father's expression became and the slower his steps.Finally he stopped and ordered Liu Mengyun to take out the fan Jun Fengxi gave him.

took over.Open.

Cypress wood fan ribs, nine ranks, wider than common folding fans, white hemp paper fan surface, with pink spots that are so pale that they are almost invisible.

After looking over and over for a while, Fu Zhu suddenly said, "Yesterday His Majesty reprimanded the Ministry of Industry for being incompetent."

It seemed to be a sentence that had nothing to do with folding fans, but Li Ci knew why he brought it up.

The peach blossoms are blooming, and the peach blossoms are flooding.

In March of Yangchun, peach blossoms are everywhere, and the spring breeze blows, and the petals fall like snowflakes.However, the officials along the two rivers have no leisure to appreciate the colorful beauty of fallen flowers.

Peach blossoms are in full bloom, spring water is flooding, and a little carelessness will be a disaster.

Flood control every year, floods every year, the main point of water control is nothing more than diverting floods and building embankments, dredging and plugging leaks, but it is extremely difficult to do so.Therefore, when the peach blossom flood arrives every year, when passing through the prefectures and counties, they will be ready for battle, and the dignitaries in the capital often take the opportunity to fight against each other.

Northwest is the first stop of peach blossom flood.

Liu Erlang obviously thought about it too, and murmured: "Isn't Uncle worried that the King of Changsha will make trouble by taking advantage of the peach blossom flood incident, and join my father's book?"

"If the King of Changsha's actions are aimed at the northwest, I'm not worried. I'm afraid. I'm afraid. It involves—a great cause for thousands of years!"

Liu Erlang froze immediately.

The eldest princess asked Wei Guogong's evaluation of the eighth prince, and the king of Changsha said, "I'm afraid it's not up to him when the time comes"!
"...The Liu Family is really going to be ruined by my nonsense?"

"Of course not. After all, the eldest princess is inextricably linked with my Fu family, and His Majesty also said that the eighth prince is indeed heroic and mighty, worthy of the world. Her question may have been unintentional. What King Changsha said It may not be intentional. I just don't know, if this matter really involves waste storage, what kind of role the princess wants my Fu family to play in this game of chess."

Li Ci listened silently, a little frightened.

Ask Wei Guogong's evaluation of the Eighth Prince may be really casual, but is the eldest princess really so negligent that Ren Jiangshan Sheji map is deliberately spread under the imperial concubine's couch?The king of Changsha went back and forth in search of chess friends, more like a test, to test the eldest princess, or...to test the Fu family?

Jun Fengxi's words and deeds seem elegant, but after thinking about it carefully, he is not in a cold sweat.

The king of Changsha is in a hurry, he does not want to worry about being trapped in Chuncheng, and keeps Luohua...

In connection with the appreciation that the emperor had expressed to Jun Fengxi, he was allowed to give him a false title...

——Jun Fengxi going out of Beijing is probably the emperor's move in the northwest!
It's just that she can think of it, and Fu Zhu has already guessed it right.

"Erlang, Jun Fengxi saw the snow in Xiliang the year before last, and he stayed temporarily in the Duke of Wei's mansion, so he knew your father acquaintance. I have heard that your father pays close attention to people, what does he think of this Jun Fengxi?"

"My lord's evaluation of him is only sixteen words: in the mortal world, wandering in the sky; without desire, without desire, unfathomable."

"Why?"

"Father said that when he saw this man for the first time, he felt the breeze blowing on his face and the running water gurgling. But after thinking about it carefully, he was afraid for no reason. He couldn't help but think of the swamp he had seen in the southwest when he was young. It was hidden deep in the dense forest. It’s just a pool of green water, but it’s actually a bottomless devil’s pool, the bottom of the water is full of bones, which can suck people in and swallow them up at any time.”

"Is it really that scary?"

"Your Excellency is very afraid of him. He once told the Eighth Prince that this person has been absent-minded until now. He has no desires or desires. This kind of person is the most terrifying. If you make friends with him, you must be sure. , will be turned upside down."

"That is to say, he may be a chess piece deployed by His Majesty in the northwest, but it is a chess piece that His Majesty cannot control."

But even if Jun Fengxi is really just looking at the flowers and water when he arrives at Hukou, his every move may still affect the situation in the northwest.Because behind him is His Majesty, and because of his own extraordinaryness.

The water is so clear that it is bottomless, but the depths of the aquatic plants are full of bones...

Li Ci secretly longed for a strange person who combined indifference and death into one, and couldn't help being curious about this person.It's just that her thoughts are not humane after all.

When Li Ci was thinking wildly, Fu Zhu looked at the moon and sighed: "This year's peach blossom flood will be bloody."

Liu Erlang hurriedly asked: "The fruit sent by the King of Changsha will be off the horse, will my uncle accept it or not?"

"The king of Changsha has managed the fiefdom in recent years, and he even encouraged the queen mother to manage the south of the Yangtze River. Now he intends to intervene in the northwest. Can I not accept the fruit he sent in the name of the queen mother?"

"Uncle, what do you mean, the king of Changsha intends to go to the next level?"

Hearing "to a higher level", realizing that he might witness a usurpation, Li Ci hurriedly pricked up his ears, but Fu Zhu shook his head.

"He doesn't dare to risk the disgrace of the world. I can be sure that he supports the prince, but wants to protect the eighth prince."

"Why?"

"The prince is weak, and he will not easily kill the kings after he ascends the throne, so the king of Changsha supports the prince. But the new emperor's accession to the throne will definitely reduce the power of the vassal kings. The king of Changsha needs eight princes like this. The new emperor can't tolerate it, and the court can't tolerate it." 'The powerful feudal lord shielded him from the wind and rain."

"Then if you intend to change today—"

Liu Erlang's voice was trembling, and every word he said at the moment made him afraid, but excited at the same time.

"This is exactly my worry. The Eighth Prince takes into account the brotherhood and does not want to replace him, but the Emperor wants to take care of the future generations."

For the first wife of the Fu family to hire the crown prince Liang Di, in the eyes of others, it is a great wealth and wealth that is within easy reach, but only those in the game know that after this glory, it is like walking on thin ice.It is the luck of the prince and the Fu family that the eighth prince has no heart for the world.But if His Majesty has long been interested in the Eighth Prince, and presiding over Xiliang this time is determined to sharpen it, then how will the Prince deal with himself.

The eldest princess is always by your side, so she naturally knows what the emperor is thinking.If the emperor really wanted to change the crown prince, why did she tie the Fu family to the prince's chariot? What was the reason?
The question came back to the original point, what kind of role did she hope the Fu family would play in this imminent storage war?
"The road ahead is difficult, and the official career is bloody. If you are not careful, you will be rich and honored in the end."

Fu Zhu raised his head and sighed, his face was haggard.Li Ci knew that he was depressed, so he stood with his hands down, not daring to speak.

"How should the Fu family deal with themselves! How should the Fu family deal with themselves!"

Muttering and repeating, Fu Zhu suddenly said: "Li Ci, how do you think Daddy will break this predicament?"

Li Ci pondered for a long time, and said slowly: "My daughter doesn't understand government affairs, and she doesn't know how to break the situation. I just thought of a ridiculous sentence."

"Let's talk and listen."

Li Ci then took a deep breath: "Whoever has the biggest fist is the one who rules."

"It's really absurd."

Hearing Fu Zhu's sneer, Li Ci hurriedly lowered his head, but Fu Zhu immediately said: "Everyone knows that the Eighth Prince's fist is big, but no matter how big his fist is, is it bigger than the emperor? On the other side, but the Fu family has no chance to choose!"

The Fu family is already an imperial princeling.

"Then father..."

"From one to the end, the only way to survive is to follow the one to the end."

Having said that, Fu Zhu smiled wryly.

"Do you think this is pedantic? But it is the best way out I can find. With the current prestige of the eighth prince and the power of the queen in the palace, it is easy to want the crown prince. But he didn't want it, and even went to Xiliang to avoid the turmoil of the imperial court. Have you ever seen this point?"

Li Ci nodded. Fu Zhu had explained the court affairs to her many times, and she knew how the Eighth Prince was courteous to the Prince.

"But the Eighth Prince has no intention of taking the throne, and your Majesty has military power with him. Why does he accept it?"

The more outstanding the Eighth Prince's combat exploits, the more blatant the threat to the Prince.

In the current actions, is the Eighth Prince used as a whetstone to sharpen the Crown Prince, or is the position of the Crown Prince used as a bait to force the Eighth Prince?
"What the sage thinks is something I can't guess. There is no shame in facing Qin Muchu, but if the Fu family intends to seek refuge with the Eighth Prince at this time, even if the Eighth Prince succeeds, the Fu family will not be reused. On the contrary, they will Therefore, he was loathed and kept away by the new emperor, and eventually he could no longer set foot in the center."

Because the eighth prince is a person with moral and cleanliness.

"Since the jade garland was hired, it has been your mother's wish for Yuxin to enter the Yuzhang Palace. It is a woman's opinion! The Fu family's daughter's marriage cannot be discussed with the Tian family until the dust settles on the new emperor's enthronement. Any hookups. Only in this way can we recite a consistent chastity name, or keep Fu's lintel from falling!"

(Off-screen: Jun Fengxi is crying against the wind on the bullock cart, I traveled thousands of miles to Hukou, really to see the peach blossoms!)

(End of this chapter)