Chapter 6 Section 5 Mrs. Huayang made a plan

After Ying Zhu said worriedly about his inspection trip to Guanzhong, Shi Cang couldn't help laughing. "Where does the smile come from, sir?" "An Guojun, why worry? I really don't understand." Shi Cang patted the straw mat, "The Liyang court meeting, the general situation has been decided, the old Qin Wang is going to hand over the power of governing the country, and An Guojun really doesn't notice it?" "Leave it to Cai Ze? He hasn't been knighted yet, I'm afraid the public will not be convinced." "With this planning, Cai Ze's title may be within ten days."

"What can I ask for in such a situation!" After a moment of silence, Ying Zhu sighed heavily, "The Liyang court meeting, but with Cai Ze as the axis, I am only the minister of ceremonies calling for advance and retreat. Afterwards, the father He also didn’t give me any instructions on state affairs. Sir, I just thought, Cai Ze is in charge of the real power of the state, and if something happens to the elderly father, how will I, the Prince Kongjue, deal with it? Such a situation, wouldn’t it be a great worry!” "Mr. An is really worrying for nothing!" Shi Cang shook his head and smiled helplessly, "Being sick for a long time, he is in constant fear, and he is suspicious, right?" Seeing Ying Zhu wryly smiling and not speaking, Shi Cang patted Looking at Jingtai, he said urgently, "It is clear that the important task of supervising the country is about to be shouldered, but you are suspicious of the old king and Cai Ze, and you are sluggish and lazy, but you can't cheer up. It is true that the old Qin king once had an accident, but how do you manage the country?"

"I'm ashamed, sir." Ying Zhu cupped his hands and smiled with a blushing face, "My father is always lukewarm, so I can't be at peace." "Lukewarm?" Shicang sneered slightly, "A man with a good strategy for governing Shu and a good figure in water control, but An Guojun did it so courageously that the old King Qin turned black and turned his horse to melt a river of icy water. When you meet such a son, can you regard him as a pillar? My teacher, old Mozi's admonition, it seems that An Guojun still doesn't care!" Ying Zhu was very embarrassed, he was silent for a long time, and suddenly said: "Sir, what evidence do you have for saying that I will supervise the country?"

"There is no proof." Shi Cang shook his head and smiled faintly, "An Guojun figure it out for himself, it's fine if you don't believe it." Ying Zhu was born with no temper, not only did he not take Shi Cang's coldness and impatience as an offense, his pale and vain face was filled with a modest smile: "Mr. Teacher, please forgive me." "Heavy words!" Shi Cang smiled and waved his hands, "An Guojun's strength is to compromise peace, but in a world of great controversy, you have to distinguish between superiors and inferiors, so blindly compromising seems powerless. But it's not hard to be self-sufficient." Good luck in the new year." After saying that, he stretched out a pair of black and thin long legs, two huge, dry bare feet almost stretched out in front of Ying Zhu's eyes, and as soon as he turned around, he took a big pottery bowl and held it up, "How about a bowl? ?” He clearly didn’t want to explain the state affairs so hard anymore.

Ying Zhu suddenly came to his senses, took the pottery bowl and drank it dry, like Shi Cang did, he wiped his mouth and said, "Sir, this earth medicine tea is very strange, after drinking it a few times, I feel that my spirit is good!" Shi Cang hehe A smile: "How? The old man said, don't ask me for a drink in the future." Ying Zhu said: "Sir, tell me about the recipe and cooking method, and I will do it myself in the future, so I won't bother you." Shi Cang is hehe again With a smile: "An Guojun is well versed in medicine, don't you know the 'water and soil three-part medicine'? I have tried it, and this herbal tea will be mediocre if you leave the bridge, mountains, water and soil." Ying Zhu said with emotion: "It doesn't matter, I will Just move Qiaoshan fruits, medicines, tea, and water to Xianyang.” “It’s so difficult!” Shi Cang sighed, “Qiaoshan gathers the essence of heaven and earth, and it will disperse when it leaves the mountain, which cannot be done by manpower.”

After talking for a while, seeing that the moon was already hanging on the top of the old tree, Shi Cang seemed to lose interest, so Ying Zhu left.Although Shi Cang had been snubbed and ridiculed a lot, Ying Zhu felt more at ease in his heart, and the depressed mood that had arisen from Li Yang Chaohui subconsciously dissipated.After all, Yingzhu's heart also had a faint gleam of light wandering in it, and once verified by a resourceful and famous person like Shicang, it naturally turned into a ray of light.Now that the general situation was clear, Ying Zhu thought of his son Ying Xi who had not been supervised for many days, and hurried to Shuanglin Garden by the big pond in the back garden.

This Shuanglin Garden is the smallest courtyard in the back garden. It was named after a willow grove and a bamboo grove. It was originally Yingzhu's own prince's study.When Yinghou Fanju surveyed all the princes and grandchildren, Yingzhu vaguely understood the secret, and immediately ordered the promising son Xi to move to Shuanglinyuan, where he studied for half a day and practiced martial arts for half a day.Originally, Yingxi lived in a spacious and simple military garden like a martial arts arena. He was not pleasing to the eyes of this quiet and elegant courtyard. If you don’t have the strength, don’t worry, don’t go!” Ying Zhu thought, and he couldn’t force his bow in such matters, so he had a private conversation with his son, and the brave young man Wu Xi frowned and said: "Stay here for three months, if not, I'll leave."

It was no coincidence that Yingxi had just moved into Shuanglin Garden for one month, when Yinghou Fanju came to the Prince's Mansion to discuss state affairs.It was said that Zi was discussing state affairs, but Fan Ju only dragged Ying Zhu around in the back garden of the mansion, chatting and discussing the world, and met princes and grandsons by chance.On that day, Fan Ju praised Shuanglinyuan's "both books and swords", and even said that the sixth son is a talent to be made!Soon, Yingxi was awarded a token to enter and exit the palace classics library at any time during the event. There were also rumors in the palace that An Guojun had taught his son well, and all kinds of discussions about re-establishing the prince gradually subsided.It was the first time that the young Yingxi was favored by the old king, and he was named "talented and civilized" among the princes and grandsons. He couldn't help being very excited, rushed into his father's study, waved his token and laughed, "Well done! Shuanglinyuan It's mine, no one will give it to me!" Although impetuous, but also innocent and straightforward, Ying Zhu took it as a sign that his son was "able to make", so there were all kinds of visits to Cai Ze and Qiao Shan to seek teachers. After painstaking efforts, it is only then that Shi Cang, a prodigal advisor, can help him. If it wasn't God's will, how could there be such a coincidence along the way?

However, Shicang had many plans in entering the mansion, but he never mentioned his son to him, so Ying Zhu always felt a little strange.Celebrities in the world are more concerned about being teachers than teachers who are paid by officials.For the former, students are the inheritors of their own knowledge and views on governing the world, and the cohesion of their lifelong hopes.For the latter, students are just the objects they are ordered to teach, and it is just a matter of state, and it is hard to say that they are serious and dedicated.But this is the case, the famous people in the world, but they have disciples, they regard it as if they are out of their own flesh and blood, and their concern is palpable.This Shi Cang has been in the government for many years, and he is a teacher of Yingxi, but he never speaks praise or criticism to his students, isn't it against the way of teachers?

The more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, Ying Zhu involuntarily quickened his pace. "Father?" Ying Xi ran out of the willow forest wearing armor and holding a Wu hook, panting and sweating, "It's the second watch and you haven't rested yet, what's the matter?" "Practice Wu Hook again?" Ying Zhu said lightly. "This Wugou is weird!" Ying Xi waved the thin moon-like curved sword in his hand, drawing a cold arc, "It's very different from the barbarian's sword and the Central Plains long sword. I practiced it for a month. Even if you know the word 'stroke', you don't even know the kung fu of chopping, hooking, stabbing, and picking..."

"Just want to be a swordsman?" Ying Zhu smiled coldly. "Even if you are a general, if you don't know all kinds of weapons, you will have no strength." "Even if you are proficient in all the soldiers in the world, you can't be a general like Bai Qi. It's just a lesson." "I didn't want to do it for nothing." Ying Xi muttered, "The left and right fathers just don't like me." "Go down to the pavilion, I have something to ask you." Ying Zhu walked to the bamboo grove with a dark face and sat on a stone pier under the thatched pavilion, then asked coldly: "Tell me, how much have you read with your husband these days?" Book?" Seeing that Ying Xi, who came over, just stood opposite with his head bowed and red ears red, Ying Zhu couldn't help feeling angry, "Say! What's going on?" "No, it's nothing." Ying Xi murmured and finally said, "I just don't want him to teach me." "What's the matter? Tell me!" Ying Xi gritted his teeth and began to talk like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube: "Old Shicang is very good at martial arts, and he is also proficient in military tactics, but he just didn't teach me! He just gave me a volume of "Mozi", and I was asked to recite it fluently in three months, and then Let's see if you can teach me. That old Mozi is clearly a heretic in the world, always loving, non-aggressive, and worrying about people's livelihood. Don't pay attention to me, just like this, no one pays attention to anyone." "Who is ignoring whom, and it's just wasted?" Ying Zhu asked dumbfoundedly. "So old, what do you want to do with him!" Ying Xi was confident. "There's no reason for that!" Ying Zhu's face changed suddenly, "You kid is so entrusted with the big and tough, are you just relying on a prince and grandson? But this is Qin, not Wei and Chu. Even princes and grandchildren must have talents and achievements to speak, otherwise you will only A commoner and a white man! Will you be arrogant if you know how to wield a few weapons? Bird! King Wu of Qin is overwhelmed, and he will end up in the end! You, you, you, you have completely forgotten how I told you..." screamed angrily , Ying Zhu only felt his blood surge up, a mouthful of blood suddenly spewed out, and his body fell limply on the stone table. "Prince doctor!" Ying Xi was shocked, and with a loud cry, she rushed forward and embraced her father's heavy and fat body, as if she was going to find the doctor on her back.At this moment, she heard a clear Wu language yelling from the bamboo forest: "Don't touch him! Do you know?" Ying Xi turned around in a daze, and saw a graceful woman in a yellow shirt and long hair shaking out of the whirling bamboo forest. Although his face is terrified, under the moon is heart-pounding. "Mother?" Ying Xi called out in surprise, then stood still under the pavilion. "Don't call me mother." The woman in the yellow shirt said coldly, then walked into the stone pavilion and embraced the unconscious Yingzhu.The woman opened Ying Zhu's eyelids with her right hand and took a look. With her left hand, she stuffed two pills into Ying Zhu's mouth. Then she pulled a small leather pouch around her waist and nibbled off the plug. Ying Zhu fed it through his slightly opened mouth.After three or five sips of water, Ying Zhu moaned intermittently, but his eyes never opened.The woman turned her head and smelled the blood splattered on the stone table, and said coldly, "Clean up the blood yourself, don't you know?" Without waiting for Ying Xi's answer, she squatted down and carried Ying Zhu's huge body on her back. "Mother, you can't do it, I'll come!" Ying Xi suddenly came to her senses, and strode over to take her father. "Such things don't require great effort, don't add to the chaos." The woman in the yellow shirt said lightly, and went out of the thatched pavilion, and turned her head and said, "Don't call me a mother, do you know?" Then she shook out of the courtyard step by step, and she didn't even walk. No sound.Ying Xi stared blankly at her father's huge body covering the willow-like woman, and she clearly wanted to catch up with her to take care of her, but her feet were pinned and she couldn't move.After a long time of numbness, Yingxi strode back to the room. A moment later, she came out in soft cloth clothes, and quietly walked through the Populus euphratica forest outside the courtyard, along the sparkling large pool, and disappeared into a red sycamore forest. But when the cock crowed, Ying Zhu finally woke up, opened his eyes and sat up in surprise: "Madam? You? How did I get here?" The woman in yellow came to the couch with a small pottery bowl in her hand, touched it Ying Zhu smiled on his forehead and said, "It's fine if you don't burn it. Come on, it's time to take the medicine." Then he hugged Ying Zhu's neck, took a sip of the pottery bowl of concoction, and skillfully brushed away the knotted knot with the slender fingers of his right hand. With a beard, he pressed his red lips against Yingzhu's thick and wide mouth, and only heard a soft squeak, and he fed the medicine in a mouthful.After more than ten mouthfuls of feeding, beads of sweat appeared on Ying Zhu's forehead, so the woman in yellow shirt put down the pottery bowl and patted Ying Zhu's forehead, giggling and saying, "I'm sweating, I know it's hot, that's good! Ye Lai is shivering from the cold." How afraid of people, do you know? Come on, let’s talk on the big cushion.” Convenience landed on the back of Ying Zhu and stuffed a thick silk cotton cushion, but he himself sat on the felt under the couch, holding the side of the couch with his hands , only looked at Ying Zhu with a smile. "Ma'am," Ying Zhu gasped heavily, "Have you followed me all this time, Ye Lai?" "Yo, but it's so rare!" The woman in yellow shirt smiled, "People are boating in the pool to enjoy the moon, shouting like a cow, who can't hear it? Why don't you go and have a look?" "Xi'er didn't come with you?" "Foolish hands and feet will only add to the chaos, and it will be useless to ask him to come." "Did Xi'er tell you anything?" "Do you care? Really." The woman in the yellow shirt smiled coquettishly, "It's important to take care of yourself, so worry about it!" "Madam doesn't know something." Ying Zhu shook his head wearily, "Xi'er is the foundation of our family. If he fails to learn, I will not be able to secure my position as the crown prince. If not, why should I be so harsh on him?" The woman in the yellow shirt said with a smile: "This Yingxi is not successful, do you know that? If you care about it, you will be confused and blind." "Madam is bad!" Ying Zhu sighed, "You are Mrs. Huayang who was entrusted by the king, the wife of the prince, the mother of the children, and you are responsible for the education and education. Where to entrust it?" "Don't worry, do you know?" The woman in yellow patted Ying Zhu's big hand softly, "It's fate, so anxious to lose myself will work? It's a pity that I didn't have a son..." "Don't talk nonsense!" Ying Zhu turned his face and grabbed the smooth and delicate little hand, "You are twenty years younger than me, and it was already too late to marry me. Why do I blame you? Without you, Ying Zhu might have died earlier." It's gone..." "Okay, okay, let's not talk." The woman in yellow knelt up in front of the couch and carefully wiped the tears off Ying Zhu's face, "I'll sleep for another hour, I'll wake you up and take the medicine." "No, I can't sleep anymore." Ying Zhu pushed back the thin quilt and stood up, "I'm going to see Shicang, and we can discuss a solution." The woman in the yellow shirt thought for a while and said: "Don't move around, I'm going to see you off." After she said that, she turned around and said, "Push the cart in." Hearing the answer from the outside, a maid pushed a cart in a short while. The body of the two-wheeled cart is just big enough for one person to sit in. The seat armrests are wrapped in linen, and the wheels are wrapped tightly in thick leather.The woman in the yellow shirt didn't speak, she just set up a big cotton pad in the seat and said, "Come on, sit down." Then she helped Ying Zhu's huge body into the cart, turned around and ordered to the maid, "Fry it well." The medicine is waiting." Then he pushed the cart out of the dormitory and came to the back garden. Sitting in the car, Ying Zhu didn't feel the slightest jolt, nor heard the rattling of the wheels. It was like rafting in a pond, and he couldn't help sighing: "Ma'am, it's hard for you! This car is When was it built?" The woman in the yellow shirt smiled and said, "It has been built for many years, and it was prepared for the old man, but today I taught you to run into it. I heard that Sun Bin used to sit on these two-wheeled carts back then, so I asked someone to get the design from Linzi Shangfang." , I built one in Xianyang, but this leather-wrapped wheel is my idea, do you know? Is it comfortable to sit on?” "Well, well, it's very comfortable!" Ying Zhu patted the armrest and praised again and again, "It's just that I need a maid to push the toilet, but you are too tired." Liang said, "Nong is the master, but I can't believe anyone, do you know?" Ying Zhu couldn't help laughing, imitating Chu Yin, and said: "You little girl, but it's a Gantang fruit, do you know?" The woman behind him also giggled and responded: "Gantang is Gantang, and you have to be soft and toothless." While chatting and laughing, they arrived outside the gate of the back garden, stopped and walked, Ying Zhu felt relieved, told Madam Huayang not to wait for him, and strode hurriedly into the simple small courtyard, bowed to see him, but heard There was silence in the courtyard.Ying Zhu was confused, so he gently pushed open the half-hidden wooden door of the big room in the middle. At a glance, all the couch tables were empty, but Shicang was nowhere to be seen.Looking carefully, he saw a piece of parchment on the empty desk slapping the stone inkstone on it in the morning breeze. on paper: Ying Zhu's hands were trembling, and his face was flushed with embarrassment.What can I say?Lao Shicang's words were full of barbs, and the words contained in every word were blatantly contemptuous and sarcastic towards his father and son.But, is what Lao Shicang said wrong?Isn't Ying Xi violent and impetuous?Isn't he the crown of the monkey?Shi Cang set up a scheme for himself, but he himself was secretive, unable to make bold and decisive suggestions, why didn't old Shi Cang feel that he was "conspiring nothing to the king"?Ying Zhu, oh Ying Zhu, have you been raped by your son?It's not the usual "unbearable to be treated as a national scholar"... "I know there is something wrong." Following a soft Chu language, Mrs. Hua Yang took the parchment, looked at it for a while, and then smiled, "This old man is solid, don't drag the words." Ying Zhu's complexion suddenly turned ugly, and he said coldly: "How solid are you? You clearly insulted my father and son." "Yo!" Mrs. Huayang smiled in surprise, and rubbed her hand on Ying Zhu's chest, "Nong, don't be angry. Good medicine is bitter, Lennon taught me all day." Ying Zhu couldn't help but blushed and smiled reluctantly: "It's too embarrassing for this old man to leave without saying goodbye." Mrs. Huayang smiled and said: "Quietly and ignorantly." Who knows, how embarrassing it is? You can’t make it up with yourself!” “Yes.” Ying Zhu let out a long breath and finally smiled in relief, “Let’s let go of this embarrassment, but it will be difficult in the future. Xi’er is both civil and military His reputation has been raging, but how will it end once he shows up? Father and king are in charge of politics in his later years, and there are often sudden changes. There is no great strategist around him, and everything is stretched. But you said, isn't it difficult?" "It's good, it's a good idea to think about this." Mrs. Hua Yang leaned against Ying Zhu, rubbing one hand on Ying Zhu's chest and abdomen, but her two big eyes only rolled around, "Is this good? Find a way out on this old man!" "The person has already left, how to seek the law? Really!" "Chasing!" Mrs. Huayang shook the parchment, "Listen, 'unexpected meeting, this old man would rather face Uncle Fan', this old man must have gone to find Fan Ju! If he follows the old man to find Fan Ju, can he Won't you help me? Think about it." "That's right!" Ying Zhu clapped his hands suddenly, "Yinghou will definitely help me, good idea!" Turning around, he strode out of the courtyard and hurried to the study in the front yard.Mrs. Huayang smiled faintly at Ying Zhu's back, then slowly pushed the two-wheeled cart and disappeared into the forest path outside the courtyard. At twilight, the two carriages each led a knight in plain clothes out of the back gate of the Prince's Mansion, out of the east gate of Xianyang, and galloped eastward on the wide Qinzhong official road.