Red makeup against the world

Chapter 343 Melancholy

In the early morning of the next day, on the Luoshui pier, a passenger ship slowly docked.

This passenger ship has two floors. The bottom floor is home to ordinary people, shopkeepers who wander around the countryside, and small businessmen.On the second floor, there are scholars with fluttering Confucian robes, businessmen with some spare money, and some low-rank officials returning to Beijing with their female relatives.

Sun Zhitao stood on the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back and watched for a long while, seeing the flow of people on the pier, and the majesty of Luoyang City not far away.

He silently said in his heart: Wanzhen, I'm here.After half a year, from winter to summer, how are you in the capital?I can finally be in the same city and under the same sky as you.

He got off the boat, and Mo Zhu followed behind him, asking: "Master, shall we go to Songxi Academy first, or to the house in the city?"

As a famous family of poetry and books in the family of farming and reading, some members of the Sun family are officials in Beijing, and some of them are officials in various places and need to return to Beijing to appeal.Therefore, the Sun family has a lot of property in Luoyang.

The third house of the Sun family was no exception. They bought a small house in Beijing for their accommodation.

Mo Zhu asked this because before he went to Beijing, he was ordered by the young master to go to Xu's old house to inquire about Xu Wanzhen's movements in Beijing.

Ge Ma stayed in the old house of the Xu family. She and Mo Zhu were acquainted, and she sympathized with Sun Zhitao's infatuation with the young lady, so she told him that Mrs. Xu had moved out of the Tu family with Xu Wanzhen, in the house of Jiashanfang in Beijing. stay here.

Sun Zhitao said: "Go to the house in the city first, after tidying up, I will go to the academy to visit Master Tu Shan tomorrow."

He thought very clearly that since he came to study, he must put his studies first.Tu Shanchang is not only a great scholar of the dynasty, but also the great-grandfather of Xu Wanzhen, so he should be visited first in terms of emotion and reason.

The Sun family's house is not big, but the location is very good, it is located in Chen Nan's Zeshanfang, not far from the Xu family's house.On foot, it only takes a quarter of an hour.

The people looking at the house here are a middle-aged couple. After they received the news that the second young master was coming to live here for a long time, they worked hard to tidy up the house inside and out.

Sun Zhitao entered the door, he saw that it was clean and tidy, he nodded, and Mo Zhu rewarded the two of them with a few big coins.

Mo Zhu opened the luggage and tidied it up one by one, carefully stacking the books in the book box brought by the young master. He knew that these books were the most important thing for the young master.

The night was getting darker, after Sun Zhitao finished washing, he looked at the night sky outside the window with his hands behind his back, feeling an overwhelming melancholy in his heart.

I thought that when I arrived in the capital, my mood would be better, but now it seems that this is not the case.Will tomorrow's visit go well?Can I meet Tu Shanchang?Will Mrs. Xu meet him afterwards?
As the party who retired from the engagement, he didn't have any confidence in his heart.

He turned around and cut off the candlelight, took a book and began to study it seriously.That's all!Since the past is unpredictable, it is better to study hard.At least, the book will not fail itself.

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In the same night, Wu Rui hurriedly approached Zhuangzi in the eastern suburb of "Hefeng".Just within ten feet, someone in the dark whispered, "Who?"

Wu Rui cupped his hands on the spot, and said: "Wu Rui, please see Master Qian."

The man nodded slightly, and returned to the darkness again.

Wu Rui thought as he walked, as expected of the famous "Hefeng", even an ordinary Zhuangzi took precautions so well.

He had no doubt that if he couldn't answer or answered wrongly, that person would send the signal back to the villa.

Wu Zhengxiang just fell asleep with Xu Wanzhen, looking at her peaceful sleeping face, he couldn't move his eyes away as if he had been poisoned.

There were two soft cries of partridges in the courtyard, which was the secret signal he had agreed with Wu Rui.

Gently putting her hand back into the quilt, Wu Zhengxiang pushed open the door and went out, carefully closing the door for her.

He and Wu Rui came to the wing room, lit a candle, Wu Zhengxiang said: "After all, what do you find?"

Wu Rui was about to report back, but he found that his expression was restrained, he hadn't seen him in just a few days, and his master's martial arts realm had far surpassed him.How is this going?

You must know that there are no shortcuts in the journey of martial arts.There are countless masters in the rivers and lakes, could it be that they have practiced hard since childhood, coupled with their own talents and a certain amount of luck.How could it be possible to see him suddenly, and his martial arts are advancing by leaps and bounds?

Seeing his surprise, Wu Zhengxiang guessed what he was thinking, and didn't hide it, saying: "Don't be surprised, I got through Ren and Du's two veins the night before."

Wu Rui bowed his hands and said: "Congratulations, master!" The stronger Wu Zhengxiang is, the more stable he is.

Wu Zhengxiang smiled faintly. This time he was blessed by misfortune, and he was quite satisfied with the results of the training in the training ground during the day.

"After the master summoned yesterday, I arranged for people to lurk around Qi Wang's mansion, Zhaoyang Princess' mansion, Chu Wang's mansion, and Prince's mansion."

Since Wu Rui's surrender, Wu Zhengxiang handed over to him the people he secretly recruited.These people have great abilities and different ages, but they all have one thing in common, they are only loyal to Wu Zhengxiang.

These people were originally the trump cards he was going to use to fight against his aunt Chen.Wu Rui was originally the leader of the white team in "White Night", and he is very familiar with commanding subordinates and analyzing news.Under his hands, they can play a greater value.

But what Wu Zhengxiang didn't expect was that the first time these people were used was to monitor the four princes.

Wu Rui continued to report: "Except for the changes in the prince's mansion in these mansions, everything is as usual at King Qi, Princess Zhaoyang, and King Chu."

Wu Zhengxiang's pupils shrank, could it be that the prince really did this?
"Yesterday afternoon, people came out from the Prince's Mansion one after another. Two of them went to the vicinity of the Xu family in Jiashanfang, wandered around to inquire about the Xu family's activities, and made friends with the servants of the Xu family who came out to work. One went to the 'Splendid Story' in Nanshi , on the teahouse opposite, spying on the movement in the shop. There is another one, after finding the trace of the young master of the Xu family, he has been following him not far or near."

The people in the Prince's Mansion did not deliberately hide their traces, nor were they professionally trained.In Wu Rui's eyes, it was as simple and straightforward as telling him "we are investigating the Xu family's movements".

"What they inquired about, we pieced together the whereabouts of the young lady of the Xu family. In addition, I visited Jianchun Gate quietly. The prince once appeared when the young master and the eldest lady of the Xu family were out of the city the day before yesterday." Wu Rui finally concluded.

Wu Zhengxiang's eyes soared like essence, and the armrests under his hands were crushed into powder by him without a sound.His silent anger hovered in the house like a storm, making it even more frightening.

Intimidated by the power he radiated, Wu Rui leaned down and waited quietly for orders.

After a cup of tea, Wu Zhengxiang's turbulent emotions gradually calmed down.In this way, we can be sure that the prince must be behind this matter.

His place is not Dali Temple, and he doesn't need any conclusive evidence for trial and conviction.As long as he knows, that's enough!

Prince, you should never, never have attacked the person I care about the most.From now on, I will do everything possible to prevent you from ascending to the throne of God!
(End of this chapter)