Reverse Junhou

Ren Ji smiled sarcastically: "As long as the Governor likes it."

He has been in the officialdom for so many years, so he naturally heard that Wen Xuechao meant something.But he didn't dare to speculate lightly, for fear of offending the young master, he could only respond in embarrassment.

The opera troupe hired by Ren Junshou came out of the backstage in a file, and the Nanqiang opened their voices, and the lingering sound lingered.Compared with the sonorous and powerful Beijing opera, Du Ling's opera troupe is a bit more tender.

On the stage is the part of the "Raining Bells" where thousands of miles of branches are broken to send the king away. The seventeen or eighteen-year-old daughter Lang stands outside the long pavilion, chanting "Yangliuan, dawn wind and waning moon", covering her face and choking , I will never meet you.

After the song was sung, all the officials present stood up and applauded.Ren Ji glanced at Wen Xuechao, who was seated above, and saw that the governor was dazzled, and he was quite engrossed in watching.In order to welcome the governor to go to the southeast, he spent a lot of money to invite the most famous theater troupe in the east to his house.

The actors were rewarded heavily, and Shi Shiran withdrew.

Ren Ji asked earnestly: "Is Mr. Wen satisfied with today's troupe of musicians?"

Wen Xuechao held the gourd sachet in his hand and couldn't stop playing with it. Hearing Ren Ji's question, he raised his glass and laughed, "This southern tune is really good. Your lord Ren has a heart."

After drinking a few cups, Wen Xuechao took Yang and Zhao to leave the table early on the grounds that the boat and car were exhausted.Ren Ji couldn't persuade him to stay, so he had to send someone to book a few upper-class rooms for the distinguished guests in Qilin Restaurant.

As soon as he left the county mansion, Zhao Yancheng noticed that Wen Xuechao's expression was not quite right.

Sure enough, Wen Xuechao was not planning to go back to the restaurant to rest, he stretched out his hand to take the reins from Bai Wan, and said to Zhao Yancheng and Yang Shuyue: "I will go to Yandong Military Camp to meet General Zhu, you have been running around for days, tonight Go back and have a good rest."

"Wen Xuechao, although I'm not familiar with you, I'm not a good person. You don't have to be so wary of me." Zhao Yancheng turned his back and whispered to Wen Xuechao, "Zhao will be in the future at any rate. It is the Lord of the Eastern Sea, if you need help with anything, just ask me directly."

Wen Xue took a deep look at Zhao Yancheng, then got on the horse and said, "Then thank the prince first."

He raised the reins and continued to drive the horse to speed up.Bai Wan didn't know why the lord was so eager to go to the Yandong military camp, but seeing the lord looked anxious and worried about something urgent, he hurriedly led several Habayashi guards to follow up.

When everyone arrived at the Yandong garrison outside Duling City, they were stopped outside the camp by the Yandong elite soldiers waiting in full force.

"Who is here!" shouted the guard.

"This is the governor of Yandong, Lord Wen Yuwen, and you have to open the door to greet him quickly." Bai Wan showed the badge of the Habayashi Guard.

The gatekeeper heard that it was the governor who came to visit, so he hurriedly sent someone to report to General Zhu.Only half a stick of incense, the head of the personal guard of General Zhu arrived. "Your Excellency, Governor Bai, the general has an invitation."

Zhu's and other generals' families have never liked Wen's, except that his daughter married as the crown prince and became the in-laws of Empress Wen, Zhu Liang has always been in harmony with Wen's family.The emperor ordered Wen's eldest son to go south as the governor, and he ignored it. He didn't know what the old thief Wen Shizhen was planning.

Today, when he heard that the governor had arrived in Duling, he was invited by Ren Ji to the county mansion to listen to music after he entered the city, he even laughed and scoffed.

The junior was really a junior, and he had only been in office for a long time before he was dazzled by Du Ling's flashy appearance.

He didn't expect Wen Xuechao to pay a surprise visit in the dead of night.

As soon as Zhu Liang put on his robe, he heard hurried footsteps coming from outside the tent.Before the personal guards stepped forward, Wen Xuechao reached out and opened the tent, and strode into the commander's tent.

"General Zhu, how is His Highness Fifth?" There was no sound in the tent, and Wen Xuechao could only hear himself breathing heavily.

The thoughts suppressed in his heart were about to pour out, he felt dizzy in his head, raised his hands to hold his forehead, and felt his hands were cold.

Bai Wan next to him coughed lightly, and Wen Xuechao realized that he had just broken into the tent, forgetting the status of seniority and inferiority for a moment.

"Master Wen is drunk, help him to sit down quickly." Zhu Liang didn't care about it, but instead ordered his personal guards to come forward and support Wen Xuechao.

Wen Xue waved her hand, and her whole body suddenly cleared up, and the discomfort in her heart gradually dissipated.He cupped his hands and saluted Zhu Liang as a junior before turning around and taking a seat at the bottom.

Zhu Liang waved his hand, sent all irrelevant people out of the tent, and said to Wen Xuechao indifferently: "Master Wen came late at night, is it for His Highness the Fifth Highness?"

Wen Xuechao knew that she was impulsive.For more than twenty years, it was the first time that he lost control in front of outsiders.

He has been intelligent and precocious since he was a child, and his mind is different from ordinary people.When he was young, his father and aunt regarded him as innocent and innocent, and his dandy friends regarded him as having no ambitions. Later, when he became an official in the court, his colleagues all lamented that the minister was magnanimous and never cared about trivial matters lightly.

He has heard too much and seen too much in these years, his face is calm and calm, and he has already carried a big mountain in his heart.

Zhao Qimiao was suspicious by nature, and Wen Xuechao grew up with the prince, always worried that his nature would be seen through one day.As time went on, he lost his sharpness more and more, and became the domineering but mediocre young master of the Wen family.

He wanted to live in peace in this life, but Zhao Fengci refused to let him do so.He broke in so recklessly and tore open his airtight chrysalis.The open fire hopes to melt the snow, but I don't know whether it will melt and disintegrate in the end, or a spark will start a prairie fire.

Bai Wan once felt that Mr. Wen was always calm and calm, and he acted at a leisurely pace, as if everything was under his control.Ever since I heard that ditty in Duling Mansion, Mr. Wen felt something was wrong.

Tingting's daughter, Lang with tears in her eyes, stood on the bank to bid farewell to those who were about to leave.As the people on the stage sang and danced, the music team also played Zheng music, and the sound of strong wind and rain suddenly came from all directions.The old man left, the woman put down the white kerchief to cover her face slightly, only revealing a pair of almond eyes.The music faded away, and thousands of words melted into the pool of tears.

It has been five years since he and Zhao Fengci parted ways in the heavy snow.

In the first year since His Royal Highness left Beijing, Wen Shizhen took a new aunt into Wenfu.The year after leaving Beijing, Wen Xuechao held a crowning ceremony, and there was a three-day banquet in the mansion, with drums and sheng being very lively.Three years after leaving Beijing, Wen Xuechao entered the court as an official, and the purple court uniform has never left her body since then.After four years away from Beijing, and the heavy snowfall in Beijing, he always felt that it was time for Zhao Fengci to come back.

Five years after he left Beijing, he went south to see if this man was alive or dead.

He is not his daughter's family, and the scene of holding hands and looking at tears in his eyes is too hypocritical for him.But when the heavy rain poured down and the woman on the stage burst into tears, the last fear in his heart disappeared.

All the way to keep calm and take it lightly, it's just that he is afraid that something will happen to that person, so he deliberately avoids thinking about it.

People on the stage accept their fate, but those in the audience don't. He wants to see people when he is alive, and he wants to see corpses when he is dead.

The fine wine lingered on his tongue, Wen Xuechao smelled of alcohol, snatched the rein from Baiwan's hand, and went straight to Yandong Camp.

Riding the horse and galloping all the way, Wen Xuechao's mind was in a mess.

The first time he competed with Zhao Fengci, he almost fell off the horse due to drinking too much.Zhao Fengci once told himself not to ride a horse after drinking, and Wen Lan laughed and said that his master hardly drank alcohol on weekdays.

It is true that he seldom drank alcohol in the past, but since entering the officialdom, he could not avoid drinking and drinking at banquets.Over the past few years, he has long been singing and drinking, forgetting Zhao Fengci's entrustment.

After Zhu Liang asked, Wen Xuechao gradually calmed down.Zhu Liang was probably afraid that he would talk nonsense after drinking and say something that shouldn't be said, so he hurriedly dismissed everyone in the tent.

Fortunately, I didn't go on talking just now, Wen's family belongs to the prince's faction, and should have nothing to do with His Highness the Fifth Highness.If he said something that shouldn't be said out of impatience, it would be true in front of others, and he would be unable to explain it clearly from now on.

Only Zhu Liang, Wen Xuechao and Bai Wan were left in the tent.Wen Xuechao replied to General Zhu's words: "Exactly."

Wen Xuechao was so calm, which was beyond Zhu Liang's expectation.Last month, Ren Ji sent the emperor the news that His Highness Five had rebelled against the enemy, and Zhu Liang followed up with a letter to clarify for His Highness.Now the emperor didn't make a statement, instead he sent a Wen family, he didn't know what the court was planning.

"His Highness Fifth fell into the hands of Wushou, I must have heard about it. Your Excellency came late at night, what else do you want to know?"

"The lower official wants to know if His Highness is alive or dead."

Zhu Liang took a deep breath and let out a long sigh: "The Wushou has not yet sent anyone to negotiate with Yandong, nor has he made a direct attack. His Highness must be safe for the time being."

Wen Xuechao asked: "Your Highness the Fifth Highness has not rebelled, Zhu Shuai should be clear in his heart, and I hope the general will give you an accurate word."

Zhu Liang's brows were full of anger: "The enemy is now, how could His Highness be treasonous!"

As soon as Zhu Liang's words came out, Wen Xuechao relaxed a little.He rubbed the center of his brows, and said slowly: "I came to Du Ling to assist Zhu Shuai in rescuing His Highness the Fifth Highness after receiving His Majesty's order."

Zhu Liang was still on guard: "Junliu Island has a complex terrain and numerous archipelagos. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The West Wing Army is good at water warfare, and it will be difficult to break through. What is the plan in Master Wen's mind?"

"Wen has no way to rescue him." Wen Xuechao put down his teacup, "I'm going south this time to negotiate with Wushou."

Wen Xuechao's request was extremely simple. He asked Zhu Liang to prepare an ordinary wooden boat for him, and only took two sailors with him, and set off for Junliu Island the next day.

Zhu Liang didn't know what bargaining chip Wen Xuechao was holding to negotiate with Wushou, but when he saw that this junior dared to enter the tiger's lair alone, he softened his attitude towards him: "There is a fleet of Yandong Army patrolling around Junliu Island. If you If you are in danger, send out the signal in time, and I will send people to help. But...the island is dangerous, and you are alone, is there really no problem?"

"It's not easy to get things done if there are too many people. Zhu Shuai waits for the news of the next official."

Zhu Liang hesitated to speak, but finally stepped forward and patted Wen Xuechao on the shoulder, saying, "Be careful in everything."

Wen Xuechao changed into the white robe she was used to wearing when she was young, and boarded the boat empty-handed.The big ship of the Yandong Army carried Wen Xuechao to Junliu Island dozens of miles away, Wen Xuechao disembarked and changed to a wooden boat, and disappeared from everyone's sight in an instant like duckweed.

"Wen Shizhen is willing to put his own son in danger in exchange for the life of the fifth son of the emperor. What is he planning?" Zhu Liang asked Bai Wan.

Bai Wan lowered her eyes and remained silent.He first met Master Wen during the autumn hunt six years ago.Master Wen was seriously injured in the forest, His Highness Fifth Highness's heartbroken expression is still vivid in his memory.

Master Wen's trip to the south this time is probably only for His Highness the Fifth Highness.