Chapter 17 The Fifteenth Night in Kyoto Is Like a Dream

Great victory in northern Xinjiang, the imperial court ordered the whole country to celebrate.Young Master Fusu invites Meng Yi to talk to Penglai Pavilion at night. The two discuss national education and plan to write a letter to the emperor.However, Zhao Gao, who had a ghost in his heart, had a heavy complexion, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.After sending away the secret envoys from the capital, Zhao Gao was summoned by Concubine Li again... So Zhao Gao was even more afraid of this omnipotent Concubine Li... When the lanterns first came on, Meng Yi and his son Fusu met in an elegant room of Penglai Pavilion, and Meng Yi also brought his righteous sister Lan Yuan along.When Fusu and Lanyuan met each other, their eyes met, as if they were being discharged.Meng Yi smiled and said jokingly: "Sooner or later, Lan Yuan will be yours, and it won't be at this moment..." Fu Su and Lan Yuan blushed relatively, they got very close and nodded to Meng Yi as a thank you .Fusu seemed to have realized something, and then apologized: "Brother Meng, you also know that although I have been in the mansion for many years, I have several wives and concubines. They are all the will of the emperor, and no one dares to disobey. I have been thinking about Yuanyuan for a long time. See what to do, I just don't have time to discuss with you, I can't let Yuanyuan enter the mansion and become a concubine, so am I still a man of love and righteousness..." Lan Yuan was very moved when he heard that, tears had already filled the circles of his eyes, Stopping Fusu, he said: "Lan Yuan knows that you have caused trouble for the young master... I am the young master's person in this life, and it doesn't matter whether I have a status or not. As long as the young master treats me well, I will be satisfied and serve the young master for the rest of my life!"

Seeing that Meng Yi was left out in the cold instead, Fu Su was afraid of delaying tonight's business, lightly stroked Lan Yuan's hair, and said: "These things are not something that should be considered right now, and it will take some time to wait for me. It is easy to deal with this matter by reporting it to your father. I think your father will be satisfied with you as a daughter-in-law, please allow me a while? It seems that Brother Meng has been left out in the cold..." Lan Yuan was more moved, tears unconsciously The ground had already slipped down her smooth and delicate cheeks, she nodded calmly, looked shyly at her second elder brother and then at Fusu, and said angrily, "Well, you were the one who was in a hurry... I don't want to get married in my mind, and accompany you Mother's life..." The three looked at each other and smiled.

Meng Yi also blamed and said: "If I had known that you two are so lingering, I would not have come. I seem to have become a superfluous person." This made a pair of infatuated men and women laugh happily.Lan Yuan threw herself on Meng Yi coquettishly: "Huh, Second Brother wants to accompany me, or else, or..." Fu Su looked at the beauty under the candle lovingly, with a more secluded and heavenly charm, said "Otherwise, what's the matter? Are you afraid that if I eat you, you won't succeed? Your brother and I still have something to discuss, so you can show me the food for Bucha, and the shop assistant won't let him in." Lan Yuan knew that the two A respectable man with business to do, readily agreed, "No problem!"

After the tea was arranged, Lan Yuan closed the door and looked out at the night view from the window.At this time, the lights in Xianyang City were already dimmed, and people were really like a festival. Merchants tied ropes on the treetops and hung lanterns high above the streets to attract customers.In the juggling field not far away, gongs and bangs were beating from many places, and repertoires such as Huangdi's battle with Chiyou and Zhou Wuwang Ji's rebellion against businessmen were sung.There are also a few storytellers among them who actually said that Meng Tianyong fights against the savages...the voices rise and fall, and the cadence can be clearly heard in the night sky.Lan Yuan listened intently by the window, wanted to interrupt the conversation of the two men in the private room and let them come and listen, but couldn't bear it.

After a while, Lan Yuan came in with a pot to refill his tea, and he heard the young master Fusu sigh: "... Hey! The quality of the people in the capital is low, but it can't be so low that they don't distinguish right from wrong, good from bad, and they see it in their eyes. There is no such country." Meng Yi said to Fusu with emotion: "Since Zhou implemented the system of enfeoffment and division, not only has it not played the role of solidarity and mutual assistance, but the enemy has become even more enmity. People's hearts are uncertain, the world is falling apart, and the small countries have few people. Everyone has their own destiny, and they have long become selfish and self-centered, so they don't listen to the emperor of Zhou. It has been in the same line for eight hundred years, and the original family relationship has long been changed beyond recognition. The family relationship has turned against each other for small profits, and the annexation wars continue In the end, I had no choice but to clean up the old mountains and rivers, make the final unification, and completely abandon the small country and few people with chronic diseases. It is really not easy to create such a situation, and it is indeed necessary to further strengthen the ideological education of the whole people. "

Fusu listened attentively to Meng Yi's reasoning, and very much agreed with Meng Yi's point of view.So he said: "But my father blindly uses punishments and laws to govern the country, but those princes and ministers ignore them, accept them indifferently, and passively resist. This will be counterproductive in the long run. I think so..." Meng Yi observed the young master carefully, the look in his eyes There seemed to be something in it, so he said directly: "Master, did you come prepared today?" He said, looking at Fusu steadily.Fusu immediately took out a bamboo slip from the inner sleeve of the sleeve, handed it to Meng Yi, and said modestly: "Fusu is not talented, and he can write a simple memorial. If he wants to make the article bigger, it can attract the attention of the emperor." , I have to ask Brother Meng for advice!"

"My son is too modest..." Meng Yi started to browse, and found "Education Theory of the Qin Min Empire".Meng Yi thought to himself, it is very rare for a grandson like Fusu to have such a nature, to have such a sense of responsibility, it is much better than those old masters who always use the sage ancestor system to deceive you and suppress you.Meng Yi first affirmed: "It's okay, just add some more actual content and give some ready-made examples, and it will be a superior work." Fu Su Dingding looked at Meng Yi: "Such a high evaluation? Are you Prevaricate me?" Meng Yi smiled and said, "I'm not good at perfunctory others, especially you, Young Master. Hey, why don't you show it to your teacher, Young Master, then I'm the master of literature..." Fu Su didn't take it seriously: "You don't even think about it, how could he allow me to write such an article, brother Meng worked hard to help me improve it." Meng Yi no longer hesitated, said: "That's fine!" A glass of water and wine, just pick up the fish-flavored shredded pork to eat.

Lan Yuan served the roast chicken and said in surprise: "Wow, it's all eaten up..." The two looked at Lan Yuan in confusion, and laughed loudly: "We ate it as we wished, and didn't leave it for you..." Lan Yuan put down the roast chicken and said seriously: "No, that's not what I mean... I didn't expect that I cooked two dishes casually, and they still suit your appetite." The two said in unison in surprise: "You did it. Gotta..." Fusu added affectionately: "Then I want you to come into the mansion even more!" "Let me tell you, how does it taste like our food..." Meng Yi said to himself.Lan Yuan yelled: "Come here, try this roast chicken..."

On the same night, Zhao Gao was depressed on the way back home, the windows of the car were not opened along the way, and he was alone in the dark, thinking about his thoughts.The driver was very puzzled: how could the owner be indifferent to such a lively night market?In fact, it is not an exaggeration to describe Zhao Gao's heart as sincere and fearful.The Yanziwu in the Northland is his greatest capital in this life, and it is an ideal base for him to stand up and become his master one day; or it is an ideal place to avoid disasters in the future.Those are still very far away, but the immediate danger is approaching step by step. Meng Tian is not only the "master" of the northern land, but also the "master" of the whole northern border. Can he not discover this place?Especially that Hun trafficker who loves to cause trouble... He hates this unworthy Evergreen Guang.After returning home, brothers, nephews and nephews gathered around to say hello, Zhao Gao walked towards the back hall silently as if he didn't hear him, and other people also rushed in, showing his hospitality.This is a scene that the Zhao family must repeat every day.In the court and in the palace, Zhao Gao was someone else's slave, but once he got home, he was the superior master.

He once hated his ancestors, but at the same time he was grateful that he belonged to Zhao Wang's family.His hatred is far greater than his gratitude, because his ancestors who were not favored in Zhao State were sent to Qin State as hostages, which made them, the younger generations, suffer humiliation and hardships.When his mother was a female slave in the harem, she gave birth to several younger brothers for him. They were all the illegitimate children of those lowly slaves, even after the Zhao family.Therefore, for so many years, Zhao Gao never called his mother, and even avoided meeting her.

Zhao Gao suffered all kinds of humiliation, and in recent years, he has finally made a bright future, and his whole family has followed suit.Everyone has a clear understanding of the situation, without Brother Zhao Gao, they are not even as good as a dog on the street, so, can they not obey what Brother Zhao Gao says?Seeing the eldest brother's cold and tasteless appearance, everyone scrambled to please him.The second child went over ahead of time and pulled the leopard skin presented by Chang Qingguang again; the third child snatched the tea tray from the servant;After Zhao Gaogao settled down, Wen Tun said: "You all go out first, Jin Cheng, you stay..." Jin Cheng is the secret envoy of the capital.Everyone obediently withdrew, and only the secret envoy from Kyoto was left in the room.Zhao Gaogao said urgently in a low voice: "Immediately go to Yanziwu, and get all the insiders related to the Huns' human traffickers..." Zhao Gao made a beheading gesture.Another secret letter was handed over to the secret envoy of Kyoto. The guy's face was as sullen as a zombie, he embraced his saber, bowed and said, "This subordinate understands! I will never disgrace my mission." Zhao Gao seemed to feel less pressure in his heart, and said, "Go Come on, be careful all the way!" "Thank you master!" The secret envoy from Kyoto went out, and he wanted to leave Xianyang before closing the city gate. It wasn't until the secret envoy from Kyoto went out that the brothers, nephews and nephews gathered in Zhao Gao's inner hall again.The third child said flatteringly: "I said that the eldest brother must have something to do when he comes back, and they still insisted on going to the night market." The fourth child refused to accept it: "Third brother, it was obviously you who asked to go, but the second brother said that he was afraid that the eldest brother would have something to do when he came back. You didn't go..." "Fuck you four monkey heads, your mother is gone long ago, no one loves you anymore, let's see who will marry you a wife..." The second child has been admonished by Zhao Gao in recent years, he never does things publically, and silently stays by Zhao Gao's side, Seeing that the third and fourth children changed from bickering to pushing and shoving, I really wanted to say a few words about them, but I didn't say anything because of my eldest brother's face.But Zhao Gao seemed to be thinking about other things, allowing his two younger brothers to talk nonsense. The fourth child suddenly changed the subject and said: "Brother, you are too used to that Jin Cheng. He wants to learn some kung fu from him. Look at him." At this time, the second child was winking at the fourth child, Signaled not to make irresponsible remarks to Jin Cheng.The third child took it and said, "That is, from now on, you can tell our brother to do these things outside the house. He is an outsider after all..." "What can you do? Hmph..." Zhao Gao suddenly lost his temper, making the brothers feel puzzled, and quickly lowered their heads in fright.Zhao Gao became more and more annoyed: "Can you go to court for me or help me manage those princes and nobles? You, you, Zhao Ji, Zhao Xi, look at your virtues. Ten of them are not worth Jin Cheng's one. What can you do for me?" I know whoring women, cockfighting, and cricket fighting all day long. I married a woman for you in my house, but you still caused trouble for me outside, and you even wanted to mess with Ying Qiang's woman. I think you are tired of your life! No! Let me rest assured that I will cut you off now, so that the whole family will not be slaughtered in the future..." Zhao Gao raised his foot and kicked the third child on the head, and the second and fourth child were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy: "Brother, brother, please forgive me!" We...we don't dare anymore." This matter is about the third child, although Ying Qiang belongs to the royal family, but there are many royal families with the surname Ying, and Ying Qiang is in a bad state, his wife wants to climb high , but let Zhao Lao San take advantage of the loophole... "And you, Lao Si, what do you want to do? You want to shake the sky, okay, I will find you a ladder. I expected you to be the smallest, so I sent you to public school, and it will be fine in the future It’s good for you to get ahead, play truant and escape to Oasis Palace. Why don’t you escape to the horizon, so I don’t have to worry about it. You still want to learn Jin Cheng’s kung fu, hmph! In the next life, I’ll see you as a worthless thing..." "Master..." A family member approached Zhao Gao's ear and said, "Master, Concubine Li has an invitation, and someone is waiting in the outer hall." Zhao Gao's face was tense, and he said sharply, "You all go back first. Let's stay here... the second child." The two brothers hurriedly greeted Zhao Gao, and then walked out in despair.Zhao Gao asked in surprise: "She, call me...it's late at night..." The family said: "I asked. Someone came to talk about Mr. Hu Hai's establishment of the mansion. The concubine Li asked you to go over and want to know how it is going. It's gone!" Zhao Gao was like a mirror in his heart, seeing Meng Tian and Fu Su taking advantage of the momentum to raise their prestige, Concubine Li was even more anxious than Zhao Gao.When Zhao Gao heard the name Concubine Li at this moment, his heart was hanging high. He believed that this woman was a ticking time bomb, which might explode one day, not only blowing herself up to the sky, but also implicating innocent people.Zhao Gao looked at his second child who looked exactly like his own, and suddenly thought of a countermeasure, and couldn't help but feel joyful.He told his family: "Go and prepare the carriage..." When the two brothers were left, Zhao Gao said flatly, "Second brother, quickly change into my clothes..." The second child stared at his brother in surprise. "I asked you to pretend to be me to meet Li Concubine..." The second child turned pale with shock, "God...don't kill me! I..." The second child was trembling all over, and said: "No, no, no... ...Brother..." Zhao Gao slapped his younger brother on the shoulder bitterly, urging him: "Hurry up, don't let the third person know..." The second child had to put on Zhao Gao's clothes obediently, because he was covered all over. He was shaking non-stop, and his voice was unnatural: "Brother, I feel scared..." Zhao Gao said indifferently: "What are you afraid of, I will go too, pretending to be a family member, just to do an experiment, and there are many things to do in the future." Deal with this woman. Otherwise, she will cause serious trouble if she persists in pestering her." Zhao Gao dressed up his younger brother, and he wore a family dress casually, just when his family came to report that the car was ready.Zhao Gao rushed out the door and shouted that he knew, and then quietly told his younger brother: "She mainly asked about Mr. Huhai's crowning ceremony. Didn't you participate in it a few days ago? You may want to talk about Mengtian and Fusu later, so you just go ahead Nod, don't talk, remember?" The second child nodded indiscriminately, and said with a crying face: "Brother, you must be in front of me, or you will reveal your secrets..." "No prospect. All right!" Zhao Gao agreed to his younger brother. The two followed the visitor secretly into Concubine Li's inner palace through the side door at the corner of the palace wall.As soon as he arrived at the corner gate, the palace official said to the commoner Zhao Gao expressionlessly, "You wait here and let your lord go by himself." The younger brother was so anxious that he kept winking at him, Zhao Gao was also surprised, his whole body was skinny. Just change yourself.But he immediately returned to normal, pretending to be very obedient: "Yes..." About two hours later, when he came out dressed as his younger brother, he seemed to be a different person. Ignoring Zhao Gao, but directly slipped out of the palace wall around the corner under the leadership of the palace man without anyone noticing.Zhao Gao was baffled, and cursed in a low voice: "You boy is getting emotional, you want to rebel..." The younger brother said calmly, "Who wants to rebel, I will talk about it when I get back..." The two brothers got on the car silently and went home . As soon as the two brothers entered the inner hall, the younger brother took off Zhao Gao's clothes and threw it on the ground, saying: "From now on, you can deal with this kind of thing by yourself..." Zhao Gao was puzzled, and he couldn't get angry, and said: "How dare you kid?" Show me off, what's going on?" He slapped the second child on the head, and the second child said angrily: "She didn't want to discuss the matter of the Huhai Lifu at all...she wanted a man to talk to she……" "What—" Zhao Gao opened his eyes wide, his younger brother ignored him and went out of the inner hall to return to his own room.It's normal for women in the palace to need men, but what he couldn't figure out was, Concubine Li... Zhao Gao was even more afraid of this omnipotent Concubine Li because of this. The reason why Amusin, the Hun trafficker, had to go to Chang Qingguang was that since Meng Tian's incident made him lose his bamboo basket, he thought it was a humiliating failure.Back home, Amusin was no longer able to establish authority at home, and his wives and concubines unanimously held him out of the field.He had no choice but to use the money given by Chang Qingguang in his hand to keep trying to make friends with his wives and concubines.Seeing that the set was almost done, the eldest wife suddenly cried all day long for her daughter. Amusin's efforts were in vain, and he rode a fast horse overnight and went straight to Yanziwu. Chang Qingguang heard from his family that it was Amusin who came to see him, and he refused straight away: "No..." Amusin, who was shivering from the cold, begged the housekeeper with a mournful face to let him knock on the door of Chang Qingguang's house... The housekeeper helplessly spread his hands : "Aren't you embarrassing me?" Seeing that it didn't work, Amusin had to take out some silver taels and handed it to the manager, who pretended to be embarrassed and said: "Otherwise, it's just that the door is not locked properly. Let you force your way in..." Amusingo really broke in.The chief manager pretended to chase after him, and Amusin called all the way, Chang Qingguang, General Chang, and Master Chang changed their names back and forth, and came to the bedroom door of Chang Qingguang and his concubine. Chang Qingguang angrily wanted to punish the housekeeper, Amusin knelt down in front of him with a shameless face, and then offered all the treasures he stole from home, and put a pearl necklace on Chang Qingguang's half-naked concubine .The woman beamed with joy and began to intercede for Amusin.Only then did Chang Qingguang keep him, and the two began to collude again, discussing cooperation matters.Chang Qingguang put forward harsh conditions: "Amusin, the bounty you took from me has been paid off this time. But from now on, every person you take away from me must be cashed on the spot." Amusin said The son jumped up: "How can this work? It's still the same as before, I will come back to check out after I have processed the population..." "No." Chang Qingguang rebuffed straight away: "Last year about Meng Tian, ​​you caused me to lose faith in front of the master, and the master has ignored me until now. Brother, this is very bad for me, maybe one day Send someone, click! It will kill me." Amusin was dumbfounded, now that he was poor, where did he get the money.So he continued to beg: "Then why am I here to join you? Otherwise, you can lend me some more money..." Chang Qingguang thought over and over again: "Why don't you go back and ask your brother-in-law to turn over some money. His daughter is also married to him, so is he just a penny-pinching iron cock?" Amusin had no choice but to obey Chang Qingguang.With nothing else to do in his life, he learned how to traffic people.He is determined to rebuild a homeland through personal struggle. Amusin stayed in Yanziwu for a few days, and after thinking up a plan to deal with the Marquis of Gudu Xinzi, he got up and rushed to King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu.What a coincidence, just a few hours after he left, Jin Chengcheng, the secret envoy of the capital, drove into Yanziwu.Jin Cheng jumped up and down the saddle bridge, and yelled at Chang Qingguang who was coming towards him with a smile: "Your friend, where is that Hun trafficker?" There is a long way to go." "Come on, let me ask you where the trafficker is? The master asked me to kill him. There are other people related to this..." Chang Qingguang was secretly lucky. No matter what he said, the master didn't attack him. Fortunately. "Master Secret Envoy is talking about that Amusin? He seems to have disappeared in the world, and I have never seen him again. I am still looking for him. The matter has not been done, and the money has been spent. Do you think he dares to come?" Well, it’s no wonder I don’t want his life!” Jin Cheng looked very disappointed, and said bitterly: "This is a bitch, it's cheap for him. What about the others? Those guys who are in charge of contacting the Huns..." Chang Qingguang laughed dumbly: "It's the same with the Huns. This Amusin, I contacted him directly, where did the Huns come from?" Jin Cheng has been sullen since he entered Yanziwu, and Chang Qingguang hurriedly greeted the cook: "Hurry up and prepare meals for the secret envoy... Your Excellency, please take a seat." Jin Cheng also had to sit first, and took out the letter from his arms: "This is a letter from the master..." Chang Qingguang hurriedly opened it to read, and saw that it said: Meng Tian is already in charge of Northern Xinjiang, I hope General Chang will know the current affairs and restrain himself in time, if he dares to cause trouble for me again, let's speak clearly and settle the old and new scores together.I only need one order, and Jin Chengcheng, the secret envoy of Kyoto, can kill you in less than a cup of tea!He will stay with you for the time being, help you with border affairs, and then train and train sergeants, don't neglect! ... Chang Qingguang's face was soaked in cold sweat...