My historian is dying every day

Yunzhu looked around in the backyard but couldn't find Li Gengnian, so she waved her hand to wipe off her sweat, and knocked on Wen Yanzhi's door with a huge purse in her arms: "Uncle, Zhuer is asking to see you."

Wen Yanzhi came to open the door for her, and saw that she was sweating all over her forehead from running, with a bag wrapped in her jacket, and immediately scowled: "What are you running? I forgot all the etiquette that Mother Xue taught you."

Yunzhu sticks out her tongue to admit her mistake, but she hears Qi Yu's voice from inside the room: "Wen Yanzhi, you have to train her to come inside, it's cold outside."

After Wen Yanzhi heard this, he casually slicked a bunch of broken hair from Yunzhu's braid behind her ears, and straightened her slightly crooked jacket: "Go ahead and pay your respects to the emperor."

"Okay." Yunzhu picked up her cuff again and wiped the sweat from her forehead before stepping steadily across the threshold.

Wen Yanzhi left the door open, followed Yunzhu into the house.A room was divided into inner and outer rooms, and the stove was burning very warmly. Qi Yu was sitting at the table in the outer room drinking calming tea brought by the imperial physician, and a few blueprints were spread on the table.

Yunzhu didn't understand, so he just stepped forward and knelt respectfully, kowtowed, and the child's voice said crisply: "Minister Qin Yunzhu, I respectfully wish the emperor good luck and peace."

Qi Yu put down the teacup, looked at the back of the little girl's head and smiled: "You're actually a polite person, I thought you were only good at playing tricks on people. Let's get down, come and talk to me."

Yunzhu stood up and slowly moved over.

Qi Yu asked, "How old are you?"

Yunzhu grabbed the hem of the skirt with her little hands, and carefully replied: "Report to the emperor, I will be nine years old in the first month of the first month."

Qi Yu couldn't help comparing her nephew to her, thinking that this girl was older than Qi Jue, and her temperament was quite good, "What books does your uncle teach you to read?"

Yunzhu glanced at Wen Yanzhi, pursed her lips, and replied honestly: "Uncle taught me four books, but my uncle is very knowledgeable, and the lectures are too difficult. I don't understand much, so I can only memorize a few chapters. On weekdays, Mama Xue taught the classics of filial piety and rules for women."

Qi Yu tilted his head and smiled at her: "What are you doing here looking for your uncle?"

Yunzhu lowered her eyes and hesitated for a while, rubbing her fingers on the purse in her arms: "Uncle said a few days ago that the emperor rehabilitated Zhu'er's father, Zhu'er wanted to come and ask my uncle..."

"What do you want to ask?" Wen Yanzhi couldn't help but soften his heart after hearing this, and didn't mention the lecture, just sat next to Qi Yu, and patted the chair beside him for Yun Zhu to sit over.

Yunzhu didn't move, looked at Wen Yanzhi's expression at the moment, and Fang asked him cautiously: "Uncle said in the past that my father was convicted of a crime, and the tombstone cannot be engraved with a name. Zhu'er just wants to know...now...Father Rehabilitation, isn’t it, can it be engraved?”

What she said was soft, but like a thin thread, which made Wen Yanzhi feel as if his heart was suddenly tied up and tied to a high place, and his chest felt cold for a while, so he didn't speak immediately.Seeing that he didn't respond to her, Yunzhu was afraid that he would say no, so she anxiously put the purse and jade tassels into Wen Yanzhi's hands, and said earnestly: "Zhu'er is rich, so I can carve a better one for my father." Monument, you don’t need to worry about my uncle this time.”

Wen Yanzhi fell into a heavy money bag, on which there was a word "Shen" embroidered with silver thread, and a string of jade tassels hung on the pawn, emerald green, the light from the furnace shone into his eyes. in the eyes.He raised his head to look at Yunzhu, and couldn't help but think of the scene of the Qin family's one house Wanhe in the past. When the brothers of the Qin family and the wives and concubines were laughing and laughing, Yunzhu ran across with several cousins ​​under the flower corridor. , he and Fang Zhitong accompanied Lao Qin to spread paper and draw pictures in the front yard, everything suddenly seemed like yesterday.

Now that the whole house was in its prime and ruined, and it fell beside him, there was only one Yunzhu.

He nodded heavily, "It can be engraved, and it will be engraved when we return to Beijing."

Yunzhu watched Wen Yanzhi's eyes turn red when he said this, and quickly grabbed Wen Yanzhi's sleeve and said, "Don't cry, uncle! Zhu'er is wrong, so I won't mention this matter anymore... Zhu'er now, every day The uncles are playing together, and the master is also very good..." She sniffed, and suppressed crying: "I don't want my uncle to cry anymore, uncle, don't cry..."

Wen Yanzhi raised his hand to rub her head, and forced a smile: "Good boy, uncle didn't cry. It's a good thing that Yunzhu misses her father."

Qi Yu sighed softly, got up and took the money bag and jade tassels from Wen Yanzhi's hands, put them back into Yunzhu's hands and held them: "Girl, your father's rehabilitation is a matter for the imperial court. You have already told the Ministry of Rites, you don’t need to worry about it anymore, what do you want to engrave when you go back, I will take you to Uncle Xue from the Ministry of Rites, and engrave it. Your Uncle Shen is kind, no matter what excuse you find to pretend to be cheated by you, you can do it with peace of mind. Just treat you well. Since he gave you the money, you can keep the flowers yourself. In the future, you can just buy what you like, and tell me what is missing. From now on, you will have a good time, why is your uncle crying? "

Yunzhu complied dumbfoundedly, holding the money bag and jade tassel in one hand, remembering Shen You's words just now, and still raised the other hand to wipe her eyes.This wipe seemed to arouse the sour gas in his chest more and more, the tears fell uncontrollably, and finally he knelt down and cried: "Yunzhu thanked the emperor for rehabilitating his father, Xie Xiaoshu took care of Yunzhu..."

Wen Yanzhi wiped his face, stood up and helped her up to wipe away his tears: "Okay, baby, Yunzhu won't cry..."

After finally coaxing Yunzhu to go back to the room, Wen Yanzhi turned back to the room and saw Qi Yu was concentrating on looking at his drawings.

Wen Yanzhi took the drawing away from his hand, and pushed the half-drunk Anshen tea back in front of him: "You stayed up all night last night, aren't you sleepy?"

Qi Yu picked up the teacup and drank it all in one go, then put it aside and said, "I'm dizzy, but the sleepiness is over."

He watched Wen Yanzhi standing beside him properly clearing the table, and after a long while, he said abruptly, "Brother Xian Wang has finished interrogating Prince Jing."

Wen Yanzhi paused, holding the drawing and frowning, "How?"

"It's really been planned for a long time." Qi Yu sighed, put the handful of blueprints into the wooden box for Wen Yanzhi, and then led them to sit on the Arhat's bed, and said slowly: "At the beginning of the year, there were nursery rhymes in Huainan, saying that King Kang wanted to When it came back, I sent the virtuous king to investigate. I am afraid that King Kang wanted to disrupt the society and seek the throne... But, it turned out that it was King Jing who made a noise and used King Kang to confuse us. In fact, it was King Jing who spread nursery rhymes, and it was King Jing who stole the Kowloon brocade. king……"

"When did Prince Jing know about the will?" Wen Yanzhi asked.

Qi Yu leaned on the soft pillow, shook his head and said, "It was the old King Jing who knew about the existence of the edict early in the morning, so he told his son that the successor who should be established in the edict of Emperor Yonghui was not necessarily the first emperor. As soon as Qin Wenshu's case came out, it was estimated that Old King Jing expected that the edict Qin Wenshu discovered was for himself, but before he could prove it, he was ordered to die by the former emperor. Since then, Qi Xuan has been eagerly searching for people related to the Qin family, hunting down and killing them. Lu Shiqiu, investigating Fang Zhitong, kidnapping Yunzhu...it's all him. In recent years, he has become more and more knowledgeable, and he knows how to worry about the purchase and management of Liubu. I thought he had finally woken up, but in the past two years...But It's a play."

He recalled that in mid-August, at Princess Leqiu's full moon wine, King Jing had respectfully asked him to name his daughter, and in a second thought, King Jing was yelling at him on Shouchang Mountain again.

"Sometimes I'm an emperor, and I'm confused..." Qi Yu raised his hand to grab Wen Yanzhi's hand and squeezed it, "Looking at so many people in the court, everyone laughs in front of me, but behind my back, everyone laughs." All of them are stabbing me. I thought my brother believed it, but the one who really believed it was a sick child who couldn't work easily, and the other two had their own thoughts, and what they did was not what the people of the world planned..."

Wen Yanzhi raised his hand and patted the back of his hand, sighed: "I heard from Guard Li that you had a quarrel with King Xian? From what you said in the past, the two of you have been on good terms since childhood. Why is that so?"

Qi Yu glanced at him, and smiled without meaning, "You listened to Li Gengnian's nonsense? He stood on the beam and listened to a few words, and he could play a script for you in his head. If the king and I really could quarrel It's good to wake up, but King Xian's temper..." He sighed.

"What did you say?" Wen Yanzhi asked while holding his hand.

Qi Yu said: "I just asked him, Huainan's affairs are all in his throat, Yu Wang fell ill in Beijing, why did he just want to find Kang Wang? ... The people's livelihood in the world, from the small Guozijian, from the mouth of the former emperor, to court. Zhong Baiguan, everyone is talking about it, Huainan is now a city that is in disrepair, and he can see the disaster sheds and roads when he stands here, but he is indifferent..."

Wen Yanzhi said in relief: "There are clues to prove that King Kang is alive, and it is human nature for the virtuous prince to want to find his brother."

"No, Wen Yanzhi..." Qi Yu shook his head, raised his hand to wipe his face in a funny way, and leaned back on the soft pillow to look at the ceiling, "Anyone can say that... King Yu said don't let the virtuous king come to Huainan, say The virtuous king found King Kang, and he might conspire with King Kang, Li Gengnian also said, you also said, their blood is thicker than water, and their flesh and blood are close relatives..."

Wen Yanzhi laughed: "Isn't that so?"

Qi Yu replied in a deep voice: "Yes. But you are all thinking wrong, King Xian didn't find King Kang for the sake of blood relatives."

Wen Yanzhi frowned: "Then why is he?"

Qi Yu let out a long breath, "To ensure that King Kang is really dead..." He glanced at Wen Yanzhi's surprised expression, raised the corners of his lips and asked him: "Wen Yanzhi, do you remember what I said? To be a good emperor, ten years, twenty years, is enough..."

Wen Yanzhi nodded suddenly: "I said it a long time ago, why do you remember it again?"

Qi Yu said: "I didn't just say this casually. I made a decision before I ascended the throne, and I definitely won't be the emperor for the rest of my life."

Wen Yanzhi said in shock: "Qi Yu, what are you talking about?"

Qi Yu smiled and patted his elbow, leisurely as if he was talking about other people's affairs: "Do you remember what happened before he ascended the throne? The prince was abolished, and King Kang was defeated and fled. Apart from these two, there is only I, King Xian, and King Yu, but King Yu is weak and sick, and too young, King Xian and King Kang are the descendants of Queen Ningshou, the first emperor, and my mother and queen are only noble concubines, so the King Xian is both a son and an elder , under the heavy pressure of Zhou, Lin, Tai, and Peng, and uphold the ancestral system, how can I become emperor so easily?"

Those things that Qi Yu thought of and took for granted after he ascended the throne, Wen Yanzhi suddenly realized at this moment that there were murderous intentions hidden in every step.

"The virtuous prince, also wanted to be emperor at that time?" Wen Yanzhi asked incredulously, "But you once said that he had picked himself out to avoid disaster."

"Among the torrents, the virtuous king has always been like this. But once King Kang and the prince are eliminated, he will face me, and the advantages of his background will be revealed again. Naturally, it will not be so easy to let go..." Qi Yu thought for a while, "About that time Except for me, they all always wanted to be emperors. But King Xian knows that he is not suitable for being an emperor, and he will not be able to sit on the throne securely. Dare to fight easily; but if he doesn't fight, he is afraid that his wife and children will be born in uneasiness... So, I made a deal with him—"

Wen Yanzhi guessed: "Are you coming to succeed Gu Heshan and let his heir be the next emperor?"

"That's right, I'm here to secure the throne and keep him safe and wealthy." Qi Yu nodded with his eyes closed, "And the virtuous king always knew that I was born with a broken sleeve and would have no heirs. After thinking about it, this deal is also a good deal for him. accepted."

"That's why King Xian spared no effort to track down King Kang's trace..." Wen Yanzhi frowned, "Is it actually to kill King Kang completely so that his son can successfully ascend the throne after you?"

Qi Yu nodded silently. Hearing what he said, he recalled for a moment that he had been watching flowers on horseback since he was a child, and finally smiled at himself: "Brother, there is really no one else who can do this."