The prince is not doing his job [traveling]

Glancing at Pei Ze, Xiao Yanzhi didn't say anything else, thinking that it would be great to make the dignified King Wu Cheng wronged at the door of a merchant's house for two days, so Xiao Yanzhi raised his chin and signaled Pei Ze to come in.

Pei Ze was taken aback, and hurriedly raised his foot to cross the threshold of Liu Mansion.

Seeing that Pei Ze finally entered the gate of Liu Mansion, Xu Ren and the others heaved a sigh of relief.

They were not nervous when they followed the prince to fight the enemy, and they were not nervous when they accompanied the prince to experience the dangers of the people in Chang'an City, but in the end they were most nervous when they accompanied the prince to chase his wife.

After finally entering the door, Pei Ze also heaved a sigh of relief, turned his head and said helplessly to Xiao Yanzhi: "Next time I run away from home and choose a place closer. Or I can buy another house in Chang'an City and keep it You ran away from home?"

Xiao Yanzhi gave Pei Ze a blank look, and said, "Still buying a house? Are you expecting me to leave home?"

"That won't work!" Pei Ze quickly followed up and held Xiao Yanzhi's hand, "I have to go home after playing outside."

Xiao Yanzhi tilted his head and jokingly said, "Go home after playing enough?"

As soon as he heard Xiao Yanzhi's tone, Pei Ze realized that something was wrong, and quickly changed his words: "Two or three days is about the same...No, it should be one day."

Xiao Yanzhi chuckled and ignored Pei Ze.

After ordering the servants to clean up the guest room, Liu Hanqing greeted her again, but this time she brought Xiao Junmeng with a big belly and their one-year-old son Liu Ming.

"I've met King Wu Cheng." Holding her son in her arms, Liu Hanqing just nodded slightly at Pei Ze.

Pei Ze also nodded slightly at Liu Hanqing, and then said gratefully: "Sorry for bothering you."

"My lord, you're being polite." Liu Hanqing smiled, "I heard that my lord and elder brother are returning to court, and my wife has been in a hurry to go to Chang'an. Now that my lord and my elder brother can come to Suzhou, it will be of great help to me."

After hearing Liu Hanqing's words, Xiao Yanzhi held back, but he still couldn't hold back, staring at Liu Hanqing and said: "Don't call me brother, it's weird."

Being called "brother" by someone two years older than him... It's not a must, why does Liu Hanqing use this name every time to disgust him?

"This..." Liu Hanqing glanced at Xiao Junmeng and said, "This is etiquette."

Xiao Yanzhi curled his lips indifferently, and then opened his mouth to refute, but Xiao Junmeng preempted these words.

"Brother Han Qing, leave him alone, my brother just thinks that calling him elder brother will make people mistakenly think he is older than you." Xiao Junmeng smiled, "And our Xiao family doesn't have so many polite manners, brother, do you think so? ?”

Xiao Yanzhi also laughed, and said: "Yes, yes, you have a big belly, you have the final say."

Xiao Junmeng blushed, glared at Xiao Yanzhi and said, "Brother, why are you still so unscrupulous no matter how many years have passed? I heard that you have brought the lord down, why don't you imitate the steadiness of the lord? "

Xiao Yanzhi cast a disdainful glance at Pei Ze, and said, "If I imitate him, how boring would it be for the two of us to stay together all day? The only fun every day is to stare."

As he said that, Xiao Yanzhi stared and put on a strange look, which made Xiao Junmeng and Liu Hanqing shake their heads and laugh, and Pei Ze helplessly pinched Xiao Yanzhi's palm.

After laughing, Xiao Junmeng suddenly frowned again, glanced at Pei Ze and asked Xiao Yanzhi, "Brother, how long will you stay in Suzhou this time?"

When Xiao Yanzhi came, Xiao Junmeng was happy, but when she turned around and went back to the room for a while, she felt sad again.

Seeing her brother again after three years, the first thing she said to him was "Brother, why are you here" instead of "Brother, you are back", she wanted to ask the servants to clean up a guest room for him, this There is no room belonging to her brother in the mansion, she happily enjoys the joy of reunion with her brother, but in a blink of an eye she feels sad for her brother's departure...

She and her brother's home are no longer in the same place.

Seeing Xiao Junmeng's sudden change of expression, Xiao Yan was taken aback, then smiled and stepped forward to pat Xiao Junmeng's head, saying: "Wait for your second and third brothers to come back first."

In fact, after he ran out from Prince Wucheng's mansion that day, he only planned to go around Chang'an City twice before going back, but when he rode around to the south gate of the city, he suddenly wanted to come to Jiangnan.

Not seeing each other for three years, he also misses his younger siblings very much, especially since he has not heard the news of Ren'an and Xiangsheng's marriage, he is very worried.Originally, he was thinking about finding a time to come to Jiangnan to see them, but Xu Lishan clung to Pei Ze, one business after another, as if he was afraid that Pei Ze would run away when he was free, so he wouldn't know what to do if he waited like this It's about time.So he gritted his teeth and planned to make things difficult for Pei Ze. Although he was not prepared for anything, he still rushed out of Chang'an City and headed south.

Unexpectedly, Pei Ze chased after him immediately. Calculating the time, Pei Ze probably left Chang'an without asking Xu Lishan for instructions.He was moved in his heart, so he decided to complete the scene of running away from home. In this way, if Xu Lishan pursues it, he can blame the fault on him who doesn't know the severity, and he has always been so ignorant He acted casually, and was not afraid of Xu Lishan's pursuit.

But now that he has come to Jiangnan, he still has to meet everyone he should meet. After all, the next meeting is far away. Knowing that Pei Ze will chase him regardless, he probably won't make things difficult for Pei Ze a second time.

For him, the world is a vocabulary that only appears in stories, but for Pei Ze, it is probably a responsibility he has taken on since he was a child. He believes that Pei Ze will give up this responsibility for him, but he is reluctant to let Pei Ze become the one who abandoned the world. Regardless of Wu Chengwang.

Hearing the answer, Xiao Junmeng immediately tugged at Liu Hanqing's sleeve and asked, "When will the second and third brothers come back?"

Although the second and third brothers stayed in Jiangnan to do business, they only opened their shop in Suzhou. In the past three years, they were often away from Suzhou, sometimes going south by boat, and sometimes crossing the ocean to Silla. He ran to Tianzhu.

Every time those two people left, they carried a boatload of Jiangnan silk and tea, which they bought from the Liu family. When they returned, they carried a boatload of strange things. When they went to other places, the rest were sent to the shop they opened in Suzhou, but they were still sold, and they seemed to have made a lot of money, whether it was the second brother, the third brother, the Liu family and the Yan family, they all made money.

I heard from Han Qing that there are other people who also have the idea of ​​going overseas to trade this year, but I don't know if they can go as smoothly as my brother and the others.

Liu Hanqing thought for a while, and said: "A few days ago, the message said that they stopped in Guangzhou. Knowing that they are coming, they will probably come back by land first, and it will only be two days."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Junmeng curled her lips and said, "Why did they come back so early? Wouldn't it be better to just float back to Suzhou by boat as originally planned?"

In that case, my brother might be able to stay in Suzhou for a month.

Liu Hanqing pinched Xiao Junmeng's nose with a smile, and said, "Don't be unreasonable. If Ren'an and Xiangsheng really came back so late, Yanzhi wouldn't have waited."

Xiao Junmeng pouted, hugged Liu Hanqing's arm and said aggrievedly: "Brother won't want me if he has a prince."

Xiao Yanzhi shook his head and laughed: "You are all mothers, why do you still say such childish things? I am not afraid that your son will laugh at you."

"I'm younger than my brother, and I'm just a child in front of my brother," Xiao Junmeng stuck out his tongue, "And Ming'er is still young, so I don't understand."

"Come on, don't be poor here," Xiao Yanzhi patted Xiao Junmeng's head again, "You've been standing outside for a long time, let Hanqing take you back to your room to rest."

"Oh." Xiao Junmeng nodded, and then picked up Liu Ming from Liu Hanqing's arms and stuffed them into Xiao Yanzhi's arms, then slowly returned to the room with Liu Hanqing on his arm, "Brother, help me take a look."

Xiao Yanzhi hurriedly held Liu Ming steady, stared at Xiao Junmeng's back and said, "You girl! What are you going back to the room with Han Qing in such a hurry, you don't even want your son?"

Is there a thick-handed mother like her?

Liu Ming was a quiet child. He fell asleep silently when he was in Liu Hanqing's arms just now. He was suddenly woken up by Xiao Junmeng's rudeness. He stared at Xiao Yanzhi with big round eyes, his head turned Once crooked, he fell asleep on Xiao Yan's shoulder again.

Xiao Yanzhi couldn't laugh or cry: "This child must be like Han Qing, who doesn't recognize life, and can sleep anywhere."

The three children in his house didn't let others hug them, and Jun Meng didn't let strangers get close. She would cry when she got a little closer.

Looking at Liu Ming who seemed to be asleep, Pei Ze nodded and said, "Well, it's really not like you, you can't fall asleep if you change places."

Xiao Yanzhi pursed his lips and said, "I'm much better now."

Pei Ze raised his eyebrows and asked, "Did you fall asleep last night?"

"...That's because you are outside the door. If you stay in the inn, I will definitely fall asleep."

Besides, he wasn't in the room for the previous two nights, Pei Ze stood outside the door and stared at the heavy door, while he sat on the roof and looked at Pei Ze.

Pei Ze couldn't help pinching Xiao Yanzhi's cheek, and said with a smile, "Since you're so worried that you can't sleep, why don't you let me in?"

Xiao Yanzhi was speechless: "Who knows that you are so stupid that you don't know how to go to the inn."

"...I went out in a hurry and didn't bring any money."

Xiao Yanzhi twitched the corner of his mouth when he heard the words, and looked at Pei Ze with a delicate expression: "Did Xu Ren and the others bring them?"

"I'm sorry to ask."

Xiao Yanzhi was stunned and said, "Although you are older than me, you haven't reached the age to be forgetful, have you?"

Pei Ze turned his head to stare at Xiao Yanzhi and said, "All I can think about is you. I couldn't wait to chase you out because I was worried that you would encounter danger on the road. How could I want anything else?"

Xiao Yanzhi scratched the corner of his mouth and said in a low voice, "There won't be a next time."

Pei Ze sighed secretly, and said, "The next time you want to come to Jiangnan to see Junmeng, just tell me."

Xiao Yanzhi shook his head, and said with a smile: "Even if we go from Chang'an to Jiangnan quickly, it will take half a month to go back and forth. If it takes a few more days, it will be a month. I don't want to embarrass you, nor do I want to embarrass you. Xu Lishan. Besides, I didn't expect that Ren'an and Xiangsheng would become sea merchants. Once they go to sea, the return date is bound to be uncertain. This time I was lucky to catch up with them and come back soon. It may not be possible in the future."

"It's okay," Pei Ze held Xiao Yanzhi's hand, "In two years, when their business is stable, they won't have to go to sea in person."

"hope so."

Holding Pei Ze's hand instead, Xiao Yanzhi embraced the sleeping Liu Ming, and strolled leisurely with Pei Ze in the garden of Liu Mansion.