Pei Gonggui

Two days later, the hunting royal family returned from riding horses on the other side of the mountain, bringing back two carts of prey and tributes from various tribes in the north.

The emperor and all the princes who traveled through the mountains and rivers were exhausted and tired, and only after a night's rest did they regain their energy.The next morning, the red sun was rising, and after the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple had finished the farewell oath ceremony to bid farewell to all ethnic groups, the royal family and accompanying officials each got on the drive, assembled with the guards, and the brigade was fully dressed and set off. Return to the capital in a mighty way.

Because King Rui was dead, the original carriage and horses were used to escort Pei Yan, and the eldest son Jiang Xuan took the same carriage with Pei Jun.After getting in the car, Jiang Xuan picked up the curtains of the car and looked around, suddenly pulled Pei Jun's sleeve and said, "Uncle, the emperor seems to be looking at you."

Pei Jun hugged him on his lap, looked out the window following his words, and suddenly met Jiang Zhan who was not far away across the crowd.

At this time, Jiang Zhan was surrounded by the royal family and was standing by the car waiting to get ready. His face was whiter by the black fur collar of his fur robe, his eyes were frosty, and he looked at Pei Jun. , It took a long time to blink lightly.

Pei Jun didn't avoid his eyes, just stared quietly at the past, looking into those eyes, his mind seemed to be filled with thousands of thoughts, but he didn't seem to think about anything, and he didn't know what Jiang Zhan was thinking at this time.

In fact, he was very familiar with this scene.

This is the last few years of the previous life, after he and Jiang Zhan had quarreled several times, they often looked at each other silently in the hall, but unexpectedly, this life started so early, and it was already at the end of his original plan. It's all very different.

Up to now, when he looks at Jiang Zhan, maybe he just looks at those imprints that are still left on the corners of Jiang Zhan's eyes, brows and flesh and bones, those marks that belonged to Pei Jun in the old days, and if the love in the past is a wrecked car, then this car should be It's also too burdensome, but it's just that they have been traveling for a long time, and they are unwilling to admit it to each other. In the end, they can't escape the fate that should be destroyed and separated.

It would be better if they separated early and parted ways early.

"Let's drive!—"

With a long cry, the team set off.

This day coincides with the [-]nd day of the first lunar month, when the rainy solar term falls, the earth warms up, the ice melts, and there is no snow on the road every day.On the second day, Yan Yuliang took the time to eat at the posthouse, discussed with Pei Jun, and finally agreed to Jiang Yue's recommendation of Li Baoxin to join the official department, but when everyone dispersed, he finally asked Pei Jun:

"What if Prince Jin finally ... turned against us?"

He put Jiang Xuan in Fang Mingjue's hands, pulled Pei Jun out of the post house, and walked a little towards the river, holding the cigarette stick he snatched from Cui Yu in his hand, and frowned amidst the roaring tide: " Ziyu, we had agreed in the early years that we had to figure everything out together before doing anything, so I asked you this. Now it’s no different than when we were still in the school supervisor—we have the old and the young to support us now. With a big family, the matter is not about Mr. Mengmeng and the hidden erotic palace. The matter of you joining forces with Prince Jin is called forming a party if you say it lightly, and deceiving the emperor if you say it is dead. Although I don’t know what you agree with Why is the emperor making a fuss now, but just talking about your sister's incident, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you and the people of the Jiang family's generation in the future, if you lose the emperor's protection..."

He didn't go on, just glanced at Pei Jun worriedly, and coughed lightly, "Ziyu, do you really think that if we connect with Lord Jin, we can carry those? Lord Jin has ravines in his chest and a kunpeng in his belly. The person who is plotting must have a high position, if we don't hold back, how do we know that we are not being bridesmaids and wedding dresses for him?"

After Pei Jun listened to his words quietly, he frowned and thought about it under the windy day, and said in a deep voice: "Senior brother, Li Baoxin will follow you when he enters the Ministry of Officials, and King Jin just filled the vacancy to prevent Cai If Li Baoxin is really his confidant, he may not dare to rush into the sixth department as the first line. Since the people we want can't get in, and the people from the Cai family can get in but don't want it, then use this position to do it. It’s not bad to be a good person. Even if King Jin has a big plan in the future, there will be many places where the six departments will be used. There shouldn’t be a day when he will unload the mill and kill the donkey. But the official affairs of the court and the central government are complicated, how can the other families sit back and watch him dominate..."

"Do you believe in King Jin?" Yan Yu said loudly, bent over and knocked the cigarette ash on the ground, and extinguished the cigarette pot.

Pei Jun looked down at the fading sparks in the smoke pot, thought for a while and said, "I want to try."

"What should I do if I make a mistake?" Yan Yuliang put away the cigarette stick and looked at him.

Pei Jun avoided looking towards the Pentium River, and smiled: "I hope you don't make mistakes."

"Yes." Yan Yuliang smiled and tapped him on the shoulder with a cigarette stick, "Otherwise you would be the one who crossed the river first and demolished the bridge! I don't believe that you have no backs at all, and it will depend on who of you is better than the other."

After Yan Yuliang said this, he also walked away. Pei Jun blew for a while and Jiang Feng was about to find Jiang Xuan to get into the car, but when he turned around, he saw Qiu Yuanzhi smiling and waving to him in the Taiping motorcade not far away.

He looked around to see if there was no one there, then walked over to greet Qiu Yuanzhi to say hello, but when Qiu Yuanzhi opened his mouth, he agreed to give up the marriage.

——But it will never be so easy.

Qiu Yuanzhi leaned on the outer wall of the car and looked at Pei Jun with a smile, and slowly stretched out two fingers under the wide sleeves of the smoky green hunting clothes: "My condition is to trouble Mr. Pei and take a little more trouble to choose two clay pots for me. The craftsman brought them back to Taiping, so that I will ask the emperor to resign immediately after returning to Beijing, and I will leave customs and return to Taiping with the seriously ill Princess Guo in a few days."

Pei Jun heard it as expected, looked at Qiu Yuanzhi, and laughed: "Your Highness was determined not to, so why did you turn your grievances into pleasure after a three-day farewell, and deserve it so easily?"

Qiu Yuanzhi raised his sleeves and covered his lips with a chuckle, and said in a low voice, "I don't know if Mr. Pei has ever heard of an old saying in Taiping, which says, 'Don't neglect the words of noble people, those who neglect their words will suffer a lot'."

Before Pei Jun understood what he meant, Qiu Yuanzhi rolled up his hands and bowed like Pei Jun because of his words: "I changed my mind, but in fact, most of it was because of the hexagram that Mr. Pei gave a few days ago. At that time, I didn't realize it in anger. But when I think about it afterwards, I feel that the hexagram actually fits the current situation, and it seems to be arranged by God's will in the dark, so I dare not not listen to it."

Pei Jun chuckled: "Then His Highness is still negotiating conditions with the people arranged by God's will, isn't he afraid of committing God's wrath?"

Qiu Yuanzhi said: "Bringing craftsmen back to the country still needs to pass on the skills orally, and sorting out is not a quick and easy task. It is not as convenient and easy as bringing back the secret books and books. This is just to give an explanation to the monarch after returning to the country. In fact, if Mr. Pei does not want to be charged with treason, he only needs to explain the hexagram to me in detail, and point out the way for me, so I don't want craftsmen and the like."

"Your Highness is joking." Pei Jun raised his hands to clasp his fists with him, and rebuffed with a light smile, "Your Highness's life is rich and precious, and fortune-telling is a secret that cannot be revealed. Only that one word can shorten one's life. How dare I lie more? It's still treason." This country is easier. After returning to Beijing, I will definitely choose the second pottery craftsman to deliver to His Highness, and I hope His Highness will agree. Your Highness, take your leave."

Although Qiu Yuanzhi was unwilling to hear the words, he saw that Pei Jun was determined not to speak, but after thinking about it, he just nodded and said goodbye to Pei Jun.

So far, Pei Jun has paid off the two official debts owed to Jiang Yue.

At this time, the civil servants at the banquet had already boarded their cars again, and the royal family members in the post house had eaten almost the same amount of chicken, duck and fish, and the wine was about to be served in the last round. , lowered his eyebrows and pasted the note "Yan Xiang" on it, and handed it over to Feng Jiru properly.

Feng Jiru saw it, sighed a little, and trotted to hand it to Pei Jun.

Pei Jun withdrew his gaze from the mingling of the kings' cups in the main hall, took the bill and opened the book, and saw that the delicacies, wine, meat and servants' food that should have been included in the royal family's expenses were included in the accompanying officials' account without any distinction. Among the expenses, the expenses of dozens of royal family members are more than ten times that of the hundreds of officials accompanying them.

With such a plan, the money will no longer be delivered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Sejong Pavilion, but will be transferred from the Yanxiang expenditure of the Ministry of Rites—that is to say, the huge taxes originally collected from various places have been allocated after a huge amount of money has been allocated. After part of it was handed over to the royal family for their enjoyment, every time the royal family went out to eat, hunt, drink and have fun, they still had to borrow money from the remaining taxes in the name of a banquet hosted by the Ministry of Rites.

But on the books, the money was spent by the courtiers. If the people want to complain, they can only blame the officials.

Without saying a word, Pei Jun took out his seal and stamped it, and asked Feng Jiru to find Fang Mingjue to check the bill. When he looked up, he saw Jiang Yue, who was sitting in the south seat at the table of the royal family and uncles in the main hall, Looking at him quietly amidst a table of laughter.

Jiang Yue's eyes were pure.He didn't smile, didn't take wine, and there was no meat in the bowl, but the brothers, uncles and nephews around him were all very happy, some were ordering, some were punching, lively and joyful, and they were talking with each other Telling jokes, they are no different from ordinary people eating, drinking and having fun in restaurants on street corners in the capital, except that they are only expensive in wearing brocade clothes, mink fur and jade crowns.

But among them, Jiang Yue was also wearing brocade clothes, sable fur, and a jade crown, but at this moment, he was different in the richness of this room.

If you don't look carefully, the difference is hard to notice.

Pei Jun leaned on the gatepost of the posthouse's outer yard, and smiled into Jiang Yue's eyes. Now he felt that Jiang Yue was very interesting.And Jiang Yue's eyes moved in his smile, knowing that Pei Jun caught his gaze, he raised his eyebrows and turned his face away, and went to talk to the kings again.

The smile on Pei Jun's face slipped into his heart even more, and he couldn't help shaking his head twice.

At this time, Fang Mingjue finished paying the bill inside, and led Jiang Xuan all the way out, saying "no money, no money".The child Jiang Xuan kept talking to Pei Jun all the time. At this time, he finally felt sleepy after eating a full meal. He said he wanted to sleep, so he rubbed his eyes and opened his hands to ask Pei Jun to hug him.

Pei Jun picked up Jiang Xuan, took another look at Jiang Yue, and went out with Fang Mingjue. After asking that Pei Yan had already eaten, he got in the car and waited.

At this time, he hugged Jiang Xuan and patted him lightly. Looking out of the window in the car, he saw the second prince Qiu Yuanzhi in the row of Taiping looking at the river.

Seeing this, Pei Jun couldn't help recalling Qiu Yuanzhi in his previous life, and felt sad for a moment.

In his previous life, Qiu Yuanzhi was also a man who liked good deeds and hated bad deeds. He wanted to take down Shayan so that he could occupy an important position in the Taiping royal family, which was famous for his military exploits. However, he later marched on Shayan but was defeated like a mountain. Nothing was achieved, and Taiping, who had been growing stronger day by day, became exhausted.

This made King Taiping very angry and disappointed, so he demoted him to the viscount and drove him to the South China Sea, with no hope of seizing the throne in his life.Not five years later, Qiu Yuanzhi, who was once ambitious, died in a foreign country at the age of 46.

Pei Jun put down the curtain of the car, and put Jiang Xuan's little jacket hat on for him. At this time, he put his arms around the sleeping child, and looked at his sleeping face in the brocade clothes. If the matter is changed, one stone can stir up thousands of waves, then perhaps Qiu Yuanzhi's embarrassing life will also be changed...

So, what about Pei Jun's life?

What would happen to his life if he stopped fighting for Jiang Zhan's mind and playing tricks?

Just thinking of this, he suddenly heard someone tap twice outside the car window, and the curtain was lifted, and it was Jiang Yue standing outside looking up at him.

Just as Jiang Yue was about to speak, Pei Jun quickly raised his index finger and pressed it to his lips, hissing: "Little ancestor fell asleep after a long time, my lord, please take pity on me."

Jiang Yue was taken aback for a moment, and when he realized that he was talking about Jiang Xuan, he really laughed, and said in a low voice, "Then come and find me tomorrow when you have time."

Pei Jun leaned his forehead against the window and squinted at him and asked with a smile, "What are you looking for?"

Jiang Yue asked indifferently: "I'm going back to Beijing tomorrow, don't you forget to help me reject Taiping's marriage?"

"Oh?" Pei Jun was puzzled, "What kind of marriage refusal, when will I respond?"

Jiang Yue watched him sing quietly: "I heard that you met Qiu Yuanzhi just now, and how it turned out, I will tell you in detail tomorrow." After speaking, he took out a kit from his arms and handed it to the window: "This It’s the sesame candy I stopped in the town to buy earlier, you can give it to Xuan’er. Maybe he can calm down while eating.”

Pei Jun took it and winked at him: "This is for Xuan'er? Then can I eat it?"

Jiang Yue stopped holding back his hand, and slowly put it behind his back, "I didn't know you liked sweets."

After a meal, he said in a low voice again: "Eat as much as you want, Xuan'er's teeth will be damaged if he eats too much."

After finishing speaking, he said goodbye, turned around, and drove to his own car.

Pei Jun watched his back quickly disappear behind the curtain of the car, and finally couldn't help but let out a muffled laugh. The next moment, he untied the bag in his hand, took out a piece of candy and stuffed it into his mouth. After a while, I just feel pure sweetness in my mouth.

That night, a group of people arrived at the last town outside the jurisdiction of Jingzhao, rested overnight, and set off again early the next morning for two hours before entering the five counties of Jingguan.

Pei Jun led Jiang Xuan all the way, eating sesame candies and talking, seeing the capital could be seen by lifting the curtain, he thought about it, carefully calculated the time, and thought it was time to go to Jiang Yue, so he ordered the driver to go first At the side of Fang Mingjue's car, Fang Mingjue asked Fang Mingjue to change to look at Jiang Xuan, and after a few instructions, he asked the driver to count his whips and got into Jiang Yue's car.

He tied up the empty sugar bag, held it in his hand, and only lifted the curtain until it was level with Jiang Yue's car window, then suddenly stretched out his hand and stuffed the sugar bag in from the side of Jiang Yue's car curtain.

The next moment the curtain moved, it was lifted by Jiang Yue opposite.

Jiang Yue held the end of the curtain and raised his eyebrows to look over. After a moment of helplessness, he only raised his hand and hooked his index finger at Pei Jun.

Pei Jun erased Jiang Xuan who wanted to go to his uncle's car together, got out of the car and lifted the curtain and got into Jiang Yue's compartment, seeing Jiang Yue in the car pouring out a small amount of water on the square table at the corner of the car beside him. Here comes a cup of herbal tea.

Pei Jun picked up the right wall on the other side of the square table and took a seat, took the small teacup handed over by Jiang Yue, and drank the tea in a sip. The mellow and sweet aftertaste was immediately felt in the mouth, and the floral fragrance was fresh.

He put down his cup and looked at Jiang Yue with a smile: "Good tea. Is this from Qiu Yuanzhi?"

Jiang Yue frowned and nodded: "That's right, I just sent it this morning, saying it was an apology. He said that Guo Ji was so disobedient that she became seriously ill, so she couldn't get married again. After he returns to Beijing, he will bring Guo Ji back to Taiping in a few days."

After speaking, he looked up at Pei Jun with doubts in his eyes: "What did you promise him? How could he easily agree to this?"

"My lord, how can this be easy?" Pei Jun rested his elbows on the square table and looked at him with his chest pretending to be chilling. In danger, I made a divination for Qiu Yuanzhi, saying that his star position has shifted, and his luck is unknown. If he is obsessed and does not regret it, he may—"

"All right, all right." Jiang Yue interrupted him amusedly, and poured out another small cup of tea, "If the matter is related to your Ministry of Rites, and you don't want to talk about it, I won't ask. A joke about the hexagram of fate But you can’t do it, Mr. Pei should be careful with his words, and don’t go around telling people fortunes.”

He pushed the poured tea to Pei Jun's elbow, and thanked him softly: "Thank you for this, thank you."

"Thank you," Pei Jun picked up the small teacup again, and looked at him with a smile, "Xuan'er is so happy about the sesame sugar thing, I haven't thanked you yet, why don't you ask me again Get something? Let me pay you back."

"No need." Jiang Yue poured himself a cup of tea and shook his head, "That's a trivial matter, nothing to worry about."

At this time, there was a long cry from outside, and the sound of armored soldiers came. Someone announced that the capital had arrived, and reminded all the officials to prepare their identity seals and show them to the city guard one by one.

"This is the beginning of a strict investigation." Jiang Yue took out the prince's jade card, thoughtful.

Pei Jun also took out Shaofu's talisman, and said to him, "The spring is approaching. Recently, a large number of test subjects have poured into the capital. It would be better if the city defenses are more vigilant, so as not to mix in any bad guys and thieves, and then all departments will have troubles." , it’s not that we suffer.”

"Could it be that there are fewer villains and thieves in the city?" Jiang Yue laughed, "Aren't you and I the same? Isn't the surname Cai too?"

Hearing the words, Pei Jun looked at him and smiled, but didn't answer. He lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, and suddenly said: "Jiang Yue, I'm about to get off the car after passing the city defense. Pei Yan is going to be transferred to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. look."

Jiang Yue's eyes were clear, he nodded and said: "Okay. After that, the documents for this case will be transferred from Sejong Pavilion, and I will send someone to send a copy to your house. If there is anything else I can help, just come here Just look for me."

"...No, Jiang Yue." Pei Jun felt a little helpless, "I'm not talking about Pei Yan's case."

Jiang Yue couldn't help but tilt his head: "That's..."

"I mean, I'm going to get out of the car soon." Pei Jun looked at him solemnly, and said in a gentle voice, "There are a lot of things to do when we go back to Beijing, and we probably won't be free, so we just point out Maybe someday we will see you again, so...if you have anything else you want before then, please tell me right now, and I will do it for you."

Jiang Yue frowned slightly: "Why do you always give me things recently? Didn't I ask for the servant of the official department? What's the matter?"

"It's all right, don't ask."

The people from the city defense outside the window came to check, and Pei Jun was about to get out of the car, so he couldn't help feeling a little impatient: "Jiang Yue, what about other things? You don't want anything else except official affairs and your great career. ?”

Jiang Yue was taken aback when he heard the words, his eyes flickered towards Pei Jun, and he didn't know what to think of, so he turned his eyes away:

"No."

Pei Jun was almost terrified by him, but he still tried his best to hold back, Xu Xushan coaxed: "Anything is fine, Jiang Yue, really anything is fine, tell me, as long as I can do it."

But Jiang Yue just stared out of the window, and said more calmly: "You are Gu Haoxuan, and I don't lack anything."

At this moment, Pei Jun almost wanted to go up and grab him by the neck and shake it fiercely, but he wished he couldn't, so he had to ask him one last question in discouragement:

"Really gone?"

Jiang Yue hummed lightly, and said in a low voice, "No more."

Pei Jun's heart suddenly collapsed like a high-rise domino, almost making a crash.At this time, he looked at Jiang Yue, frowned and traced his outline with his eyes. When he was young, he stopped talking in a blink of an eye.

The city defense finally came, and quickly checked the two-person amulet respectfully, so Pei Jun silently glanced at Jiang Yue, then got up and got out of the car.

At this time, the entire team accompanying Shengjia to the capital was slowly moving into the city. Pei Jun took two steps, and saw that Cui Yu's chariots and horses on the east side had already followed the chariots and horses escorting Pei Yan out, forming a group of their own and waiting for the other party. A small door opened, and Cui Yu was picking up the curtain from the car and beckoning to him: "Zi Yu, come quickly, get in my car."

Pei Jun nodded and was about to walk as he said, but for some reason, his feet seemed to be filled with lead and he couldn't walk.

At this moment, his mind was full of Jiang Yue's lonely profile when he avoided his gaze again and again.

This made him frown and close his eyes, and shook his head, but he didn't retreat from all kinds of thoughts, and in the end he let out a deep sigh.

Finally, he opened his eyes, calmed down, turned around and turned back to Jiang Yue's car, lifted the curtain, and stepped into the car with one step.

Jiang Yue, who was sitting in the car, was taken aback when he saw him go back and forth, but before he could ask a question, he saw that Pei Jun had bowed and walked up to him, and quickly put one hand behind his ear On the wall, without waiting for his reaction, he quickly put another hand on the back of his neck, and in silence, he lowered his head and kissed his lips fiercely.

The kiss came so suddenly and violently that Jiang Yue's whole body was instantly petrified, and he stared wide-eyed into Pei Jun's eyes who were close at hand, his eyes were full of shock.

Pei Jun's kiss was filled with a smile, not only tossed and turned to meet Jiang Yue's lips and teeth, but the hand clasping the back of his neck gradually moved to his cheeks, and finally held his cheeks with both hands, and pushed the back of his head to the car Bi, gently bit his lips again, until a few breaths later, he ended the kiss with a long seal, pressed his forehead to his forehead, and the tip of his nose to his nose, fixedly looking at the astonished soul of the person in front of him. In the blink of an eye, he still didn't say a word, as if waiting for him to speak first.

Jiang Yue's lips were already bright red, and the roots of his ears were like vermilion. At this moment, his voice was hoarse and deep, and he managed to squeeze out a word: "You..."

"I'm afraid you'll never say it." Pei Jun brushed his thumb over the tip of his red ear, twisted a strand of his temple hair behind his ear, and smiled with a smile on his lips, "Why, don't you want this?"

Jiang Yue couldn't speak at all. At this moment, his whole body was leaning against the wall of the car behind him, dumbfounded, his eyes locked on Pei Jun's face, and his brows were tightly knit.

"Okay, I understand." Pei Jun nodded patiently, and said softly, "If you don't say it, you probably want it."

As he said that, he lowered his head and put his lips on Jiang Yue's lips again, and lowered his eyebrows and said: "Jiang Yue, I really have to go now, Lao Cui is waiting for me."

After finishing speaking, he stroked Jiang Yue's lips for the last time, bent his eyes and smiled, then turned around and opened the curtains and jumped out of the car. Not far away, Cui Yu yelled anxiously on the car window: "What are you going back to dawdle, come here quickly, the door Let's go!"

"Here we come." He smiled again and again, and hurried to open the curtain of Cui Yu's car, and squeezed into the car.

At this time, he opened the window and looked at Jiang Yue's car. He saw Jiang Yue leaning half of his body out from behind the front curtain, looking at him with his eyes fixed on his eyebrows. His face was still full of surprise, and his lips were still red. , The handsome face is full of red clouds, and "Unbelievable" is written on the whole face.

Pei Jun was very satisfied with this scene, and waved to Jiang Yue with a smile.

At this time, the small gate of the city defense finally opened, and Cui Yu hurriedly ordered to enter the city. When he turned his head, he saw Pei Jun sitting next to him, waving and laughing like Jiang Yue in the other car, so he raised his hand and pushed him anxiously. : "Ziyu, what's wrong with you promoting someone to the prince again?"

Pei Jun put down the curtain of the car, leaned back on the pillow in his car, and sighed, as if he knew the taste of the marrow, but also as if he was in a hurry:

"This time, I'm afraid I'm going to scare our Prince Jin crazy..."