On the first day Ji Hong returned to Beijing, he didn't rest at home, but went into the palace and confessed to the emperor.
At the beginning, he left a book and ran away in a fit of anger, which was the most reckless thing he did in his life. At that time, he didn't think that he would come back alive, so he naturally didn't want to think about the Duke's mansion, the court, or his future. What kind of impact will this departure have on the formed tripartite confrontation.
At that time, under the circumstances, under the circumstances, leaving was just his own willful choice.
Unexpectedly, later, the Ji family chose not to report his disappearance, and the Min family also chose to keep it secret. Tired up layer by layer, in the end, the emperor didn't know what the purpose was, not only concealed the truth for him, but also recruited genius doctors, and made a big show of the emperor, the sage, the minister, and the virtuous, which was enough The face of their Ji family.
Now that he came back, he naturally had to make up for all the things that he hadn't considered before.
When Ji Hong entered, the great eunuch Feng Jian was making tea, and he was dressed in a rich purple body. When the two stood side by side, he reminded him in a low voice that the Taoist emperor was not in a good mood at the moment. Pass. The high-ranking eunuch Si Gongtai had been smiling for decades, and the corners of his eyes were wrinkled. He Shi Shi ran to the case, put down the teacup lightly, and whispered: "Your Majesty, the little prince is here." , just outside the hall."
The emperor put down the ink pen: "Quickly pass it on."
In the imperial study room, the emperor, who is almost in his prime, still looks steady, upright, and kind-hearted. At first glance, there is always a little smile between his brows and eyes, and there are only a few more wrinkles than before he took the throne , but if you study it carefully, you can feel the majesty behind those kind eyebrows and eyes, which makes people unable and afraid to look directly.
The emperor summoned him today, and it was just to greet him. Between him and the emperor are virtuous emperors and favored ministers. The emperor can neither bring some obscure matters to the public court, nor can he work openly and aboveboard, so naturally he can only find him who has always said that he is not sick. He went to the palace to visit the imperial concubine as a pretense, but in fact he was talking about secret business in private.
It is precisely because Ji Hong is a person who is on the fringes of the court and does not form cliques or cliques. Although the position is awkward, he is also convenient and reassuring. The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty had no way to win over him, but they dared not ignore him, and their teeth itch with annoyance.
Therefore, although Bao Qi may lose the holy favor someday in the future, he will not be questioned by Xingshi for a while.
But Ji Hong's sinful attitude of "deceiving the emperor" must be done properly. The more he can plan now, the more he can fight for that young man in the future. As for the south, the emperor has heard some news, including the fire. It's just that when this matter reached the emperor's ears, there was only the sentence "The fire scene was extremely dangerous, and the son of Duke Li narrowly escaped death", but he didn't know that there was Yu Jinnian behind him.
The emperor was not at the age where he could not do what he wanted, but he was exhausted by the turmoil of the front and back palaces, so he didn't talk to him too much, and just gave him a century-old ginseng, and told him half-intimately, "When When I am free, I will also go to the harem to see your sister, she has been talking about you."
Ji Hong nodded in agreement, exited the imperial study, and deliberately waited for a while at the bottom of the steps before seeing Feng Jian come out.
The old man looked like a smiling Buddha, he was not in a hurry when he saw Ji Hong standing there, he took a dozen or so steps, and it seemed like he walked straight to the front. He paused his feet, arched his hands, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, do you have something to tell this old servant?"
ordered? In the imperial city, apart from the one in the imperial study at the moment, he is the only one who can give orders, and there is no one who can give orders to him. Ji Hong frowned invisibly, but he didn't show any impatience on his face. He just cut to the chase and said, "Eunuch Feng, the matter in the south..."
Any major events in the south are nothing more than Yu Jinnian's affairs.
Feng Jian also knew him, and her face trembled with laughter, looking at Wen Shan, in fact, there were countless knives hidden in the folds of her smile, just waiting for you to stab him in the back when you couldn't get up. Not only the tens of thousands of eunuchs on and off the Si Gongtai are looking forward to him, even the previous dynasty, I don't know how many hands are waiting to give him gifts, such as the first-class power officials of the Lu Party, they are even more in cahoots with him.
The eunuch narrowed his eyes, pinched his slightly thin, but still ear-warming voice, and said: "Your Majesty has been upset for a long time, and this old servant is stupid, so I can't relieve His Majesty's worries. It's just that it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. The old slave can still do some chores, so he dare not bring them in front of His Majesty and trouble him."
After speaking, he raised his eyes and looked at Ji Hong and the rare ginseng in his hand.
What I said in this article is hidden, it is optional, that is, it is optional, or it is optional; "yes" depends on how "yes" is, it can be big, or it can be small. Yes, it all depends on what Ji Hong says and how he does it.
——Dog slave, the idea is to hit Li Guogong's head.
Although Ji Hong at this time was not yet to be controlled by a powerful official, he really didn't want to throw that young man in front of others so early, he had to give in and give him a favor. Fortunately, he has done too many concessions in these years, and he didn't feel humiliated because of being a slave. Since Feng Jian concealed some things for him today, he naturally planned long ago that there would be places to ask him in the future. It's just a matter of interests.
The hundred-year-old ginseng that had just been acquired changed hands in a blink of an eye.
Feng Jian was satisfied, and said in surprise: "I heard that the Twelve Princes arrived in Beijing two days ago, and they played the scriptures to enter the palace today. After calculation, it was almost a time, and the two princes did not meet at the gate of the palace." ?”
Ji Hong felt unhappy when he heard this name, and before he opened his mouth, he heard someone behind him say loudly: "Why, Eunuch Feng wants to punish the king for being late?"
"Yo, my lord!" Feng Jian bowed her waist immediately as soon as she turned her head, and said with an apologetic smile, "Look at what my lord said, but I've broken this old slave."
Yan Chang stopped, and cast a glance at Ji Hong: "The prince is here too? I heard that the prince gave up his glory and wealth in the first half of the year, and went to the Jiangnan water town to build a wild crane. Wang Xian envied, and said that he would go to you to drink and appreciate poetry in the future... But what is the matter with you, and you feel that dung is not as good as money, and you still come back to be the flower of the high mountains?"
Drinking and appreciating poetry? It's good if they don't fight!
Feng Jian used to know that the two of them did not get along, but he didn't know what kind of relationship there was between them. He only knew that when Ji Yan, the eldest son of the Ji family, was still there, he and Twelfth Lord were reading together. Grandpa is in a state of paralysis, and no one can understand anyone. Later, when Ji Yan died, the eldest son was replaced, and he and the Twelfth Lord looked at each other and hated each other. If it was not on a serious occasion, the two of them would not even say a good word to each other.
Feng Jian secretly glanced at the two of them, just watching the excitement without speaking.
Ji Hong said nonchalantly: "I think it's because the slaves at the bottom have a bad mouth, and it's not true when it spreads out. I was seriously ill before, and the medicine was gone. Seeing that the end is approaching, my father decided to send me to the south for recuperation for a while. Now I'm sick. See you, of course I will come back... If it gets to the prince, it will become a wild crane."
What he said is consistent with his Ji family's ups and downs, but someone has to believe it, right? What's more, there is still the largest "witness" hidden in the Yue Palace.
Yan Chang had already got Yu Jinnian, so he stopped arguing with him about these details, smiled and said: "That's my fault. As long as the son is well, speaking of it, my unsatisfactory sister has been asking me Inquiring, asking about the young master of the Ji family, I have the intention to match, but the prince always avoids people, and now he hides in the south, which really makes us sad."
Ji Hong was not willing to fight for power in this matter, and now that he has Yu Jinnian, he is even more afraid of avoiding it, so he said: "Hong's body is weak, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to take the responsibility of her husband."
This remark can be shallow or deep. If it is shallow, it means that he has a chronic illness, cannot manage the family business, has no skills, and cannot be a good match; but if it is deep, he is implying that he has no ability to be a husband. , can't be a normal man. This is terrible, if the girls in the world who are obsessed with Master Qingluan listen to it, their hearts will be broken all over the territory of Great Xia.
Even Feng Jian, an old eunuch who has become a master, couldn't help but look sideways at Ji Hong.
Only this kind of words that corrupt the dignity of a man are said by Ji Hong, but the cloud is clear and the wind is clear, and the gentleman is magnanimous, making it difficult for people to be willing to lower a level to laugh at him.
That's why Yan Chang annoyed the members of Ji's family the most, others were all hypocritical, making them the only ones awake!
The two looked at each other, unable to continue the conversation, and left each other.
When they passed by each other, Feng Jian, who had been silent all this time, was suddenly surprised, and said: "My lord, why did you get a scratch on the back of your hand? But what kind of animal scratched it? You have lived in Yue for a long time. The palace has been idle for a long time, and there are often those wild cats and raccoons secretly making nests in it, they should go back and ask someone to clean it up, it’s not just to make trouble if they get hurt.”
Ji Hong didn't know what he was thinking, so he glanced back in a strange way, Yan Chang quickly hid his right hand in his sleeve, and said, "It's okay, it's not a fierce thing, it's just a little bastard who needs to be trained."
The people of the Great Xia Dynasty liked to keep watchdogs, but the nobles liked to keep cats.
Feng Jian naturally raised a cat to play with him on a whim, so she flattered: "Cats have the wildest temper, and they really need to be trained and trained."
Yan Chang just smiled and didn't answer.
Ji Hong went all the way out of the palace gate, Duan Ming was waiting for him outside, when he saw him come out, he came up and reported, saying it was two different things. One is that the carriage and horse team carrying Qing Huan Suisui and others at the back took some time to arrive due to the heavy rain in Fengxian County; Xingqing Wharf, which has long been abandoned in Gyeonggi Province, is just empty of people and boats.
"There are not many things found, and they have all been shipped back to the mansion."
Ji Hong seemed to be listening, but also didn't seem to be listening, as if he was thinking about something.
Riding the express train back to the mansion, Ji Hong went straight to the Kanghe Courtyard, pried open the box, and glanced at the things found on the boat. The man went all the way to Beijing calmly. The boat was so conspicuous that it was impossible for him to leak any information. However, every time the boat's whereabouts came to Ji Hong's hands, he either arrived two or three days late, or went around for a long time, and finally said that he was wrong. After getting off the boat, Ji Hong chased him all the way but failed to catch up—obviously, the boat took an unusual path, and someone suppressed the news for it.
Ji Hong pinched the side of the box with his fingers, faintly turning white: "The county magistrates who pushed back and forth along the way will remember, and they will check one after another afterward to see if they have corrupted the law!"
Duan Ming thought to himself, shouldn't he be in a hurry to find the whereabouts of the young master, why did he suddenly rush to investigate his corruption and pervert the law? But I just think about it like this, and I dare not say it, I just keep this matter in my heart, and I will do it in the future.
Ji Hong withdrew his hand, but felt his fingertips were sticky and slippery again. He took a closer look and saw that there were layers of hydrated things. He reopened the box and carefully inspected the edge of the box. Sure enough, he found something like white sand powder in the groove. I put it on the tip of my tongue and tasted it, it was salty.
So his eyes gradually dimmed: "Yan Tiesi."
He closed the box and didn't plan to take care of the side branches. After all, these things are there. As long as no one goes to startle the snake, they won't disappear suddenly, but will expand more and more wantonly. Ji Hong sat back at the table, picked up the freshly brewed tea, frowned, and didn't take a sip for a long time. Thinking of Yan Chang's hastily covering the back of his hand today, he was even more restless, and sat down for less than a moment. , I feel restless to sleep and eat.
Duan Ming couldn't understand him. A few days before the little miracle doctor was taken away, his young master worried about it a few times, and then he said it a few days later. Up to now, the word "Yu Jinnian" has never been mentioned. It seems that it has been a long time and I don't care anymore. If he hadn't been chasing the ship's track every day, Duan Ming would almost have thought that he had moved on.
Now that we have returned to Beijing, the boat is also in Beijing, so we have finally caught up, so we should be in a hurry, right
Who wants to get up again, Ji Hong still didn't talk about Yu Jinnian, but asked him: "Yan Chang's real sister, but Princess Ruyu?"
Duan Ming didn't know why he mentioned the princess who was not very favored in the previous two dynasties without any warning, he was taken aback for a moment, and then said "yes".
Ji Hong put the teacup on the table and said, "I heard that she has always wanted to see me, so let's make arrangements."
Duan Ming: ... And you said it wasn't empathy?