Wishing You Eternal Happiness - Chapter 77

In the imperial study room, Xiao Lie stayed awake late at night, staring at the secret letter in front of him that had been roasted by the fire and showing the shadow of the word, his expression was condensed, and for a long time, he handed it to Li Yuangui who was aside: “Burn it, pass my words, don’t need anything for now. Do, wait for my fate.”

Li Yuangui responded, received the letter, walked to a Boshan furnace in the corner of the temple, and lifted the lid.

At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, the emperor secretly sent Jinyiwei secret agents to sneak to the southern coast where the young emperor was most likely to disappear, and secretly track down his whereabouts. The Golden Dragon Island, where the Golden Face Dragon King is located, was naturally within the emperor’s sight. It’s just that the location of Golden Dragon Island is secretive. The Golden Face Dragon King is tightly organized and does not recruit outsiders at will, let alone get a glimpse of it. It was only a year later that he finally mixed in with a highly experienced spy and became a low-level sailor on the outskirts of Dragon King Island. He took care to spy on the Dragon King’s tribe. He gradually became suspicious that the Dragon King was the same Dong Chengzhu. This time the Japanese pirates attacked and all members of the Golden Dragon Island were dispatched. This person dared to get on the big ship where the Dragon King was and spied secretly. Within half a month, he finally got some news.

The secret letter memorial stated that when the Dragon King commanded naval battles, he used the banner of advancing and retreating. It was very much like the old guardian, and he became more and more certain of his identity. There was a boy on the same boat. The boy behaves like the master, not the servant, or the servant. He is about the same age as the young emperor who disappeared that year, and his identity is suspicious.

Li Yuangui put the paper into the furnace, and accompanied by a burst of flames filled with black smoke, the paper turned to ashes in the spices.

“Long live, the three watchdogs are over, long live the day after day’s hard work, it’s time to rest.”

Li Yuangui came back and persuaded.

Xiao Lie squeezed his eyebrows and got up a few times after the case.

“Do you want to call the noble concubine to bed?”

Xiao Lie waved his hand. Just as he was about to leave, a palace man bowed in and said that the prince would see him.

Xiao Lie was startled slightly: “What’s the matter?”

“The slaves and maids don’t know. The prince only said that there is something urgent, so people are waiting outside the hall at this moment.”

“Come in.”

Along with the sound of footsteps, Xiao Yintang walked in quickly. After bowing to salute, he got up and looked at Li Yuangui.

Li Yuangui bowed to him and exited the study.

“It’s so late, why are you still coming to see me?” Xiao Lie sat back, his expression faint.

After the incident happened from the crown prince, Xiao Lie’s expression remained the same when facing his son.

Xiao Yintang looked respectful, but his eyes flickered slightly, as if he was trying his best to suppress the mood at the moment: “My son knows his father and the emperor is struggling for state affairs. It’s so late tonight. I shouldn’t be disturbed again. It’s just a matter of great importance. I dare not dare. Delayed for half a minute. The father can still remember the time when he ordered his son to search for the young emperor Xiao Yu’s whereabouts? When the son went to Quanzhou, and returned to no avail, he never dared to forget about his father, so he left a name named Liu Yi His pro-accompaniment and thoughtful service, he secretly visited there, Huang Tian paid off, and this time he finally asked Erchen to find out some news!”

After he finished speaking, he glanced at the emperor, saw that his expression was still, and said: “The father should also know that the thief who is called the Golden Face Dragon King in the South Sea. Just recently, Liu Yi found the news that this Golden Face Dragon King is extremely good. It may be Dong Chengzhu from the Tianxi dynasty back then!”

Xiao Yintang looked at the emperor, saw that the emperor was still expressionless, he hesitated, and then said again: “Father, if this person is really Dong Chengzhu, because Shun’an has rebelled against the king, he has been living as a bandit. In the past few years, children heard about him. It’s fine if he has never harmed the people along the coast, but this Dong Chengzhu, he is very likely to hide the young emperor back then!”

He couldn’t hold back the excitement in his heart, and his voice became a bit louder: “Father, according to Liu Yi’s news, there is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy next to this golden-faced dragon king. He is unnamed and has a suspicious identity. He is called the little son, and my minister guessed that this little son is very likely to be Xiao Yu! Father, you think, this Dong Chengzhu was once the old ministry of Wei Guo Gong, and the relationship between Wei Guo Gong and Tian Xi was not shallow, Dong Chengzhu Wandering as a bandit, hiding Xiao Yu in the sea, waiting for the opportunity to make a comeback, wouldn’t it be logical?”

The emperor squinted his eyes slightly without comment.

Xiao Yintang paused.

“Qie Erchen still has a concern! I don’t know if it should be said or not.”

“Speak.” The emperor looked at him.

“I know that Emperor Pei Youan has always trusted Pei Youan, and my children have no intention of slandering him. They just want to remind the emperor that Pei Youan is a person who is forbearing and deep, beyond the reach of ordinary people. Dong Chengzhu has a long history with him. He and Xiao Yu have a long history. It’s the teacher-student relationship. Now if Xiao Yu is still alive in the world, the father may have to guard against Pei Youan, lest accidents happen in the future!”

The emperor looked at Xiao Yintang without saying a word, thoughtfully.

Xiao Yintang gradually felt that the emperor’s reaction was extremely abnormal.

He is too calm, and it is strange to be calm.

From the first day when Xiao Lie was still the King of the Clouds, under the banner of supporting Xiao Yu as the emperor, although Xiao Lie had never said a word before him as a son, Xiao Yintang also knew that he His father shouldn’t really have such an idea.

The emperor’s dragon chair only has a chance. Who in the world doesn’t want to sit on it?

The reason why he played such a banner was just to let the world return to his heart and make things happen quickly.

The young emperor is very likely to have died. Even if he is alive, he will be reduced to a lonely young man in the true sense. Even if a few people are willing to embrace him, he will only live as a symbol, and he will truly master the world. In front of the audience, it is impossible for him to throw a splash of real meaning. To be found and then disappear, this is his most reasonable ending.

So tonight, when he received this news, Xiao Yintang was very excited.

In the inferior situation that the crown princess, Zhou Jin, Zhou Hou, and even himself, have seen evil against the emperor one after another, he is still eager to take advantage of this new and important news to win back the emperor’s father’s favor and trust in him as much as possible. .

Even if the dream he had had was true, Pei Youan was really his father’s illegitimate son. If Pei Youan dared to take a different position with the emperor on the matter of the throne, the emperor would never tolerate it.

Xiao Yintang was very sure about this.

However, at this moment, Xiao Lie’s reaction made him feel a little lost in his heart.

“If your news is true, then in your opinion, how should I deal with this matter?”

After a long while, the emperor suddenly spoke, his face was like water, he couldn’t distinguish his happiness or anger.

“Put Pei Youan on conspiracy to form a party? Pursue Young Emperor and get rid of him? Yintang, don’t forget how I promised to the people of the world. I listened to your voice, did I want to force me to remove Young Emperor? , Let me bear an unscrupulous infamy in front of the people of the world?”

Xiao Yintang was stunned, and he couldn’t believe his ears: “Emperor Father! The children don’t understand! Emperor Tianxi hates Emperor Father, trapped Emperor Father in Yunnan, and Emperor Father has forbeared for more than 20 years. After nine deaths, Fang finally became a great cause. Does the father really plan to be inferior to Xiao Yu’s child? How can he be treated like this by his father?”

The emperor got up after the case, strolled to the window, looked at the night, and after a moment, turned around and said: “Yintang, if I really promise to return this country to Xiao Yu, what are your plans?”

His words are gentle, like a father and son gossiping.

Xiao Yintang froze for a moment, and slowly kneeled down: “Thanks to the emperor, this world is the world of the emperor. How to deal with it is all up to the emperor. The children are only loyal to the emperor, and they are obedient!”

After he finished speaking, he lowered his head.

Xiao Lie looked down at him for a moment, and nodded: “If you can think about it like this, my father is very pleased. I will send someone to verify what you have just reported. You must not disclose it to a third person, and you don’t have to intervene anymore. .”

Xiao Yintang kowtowed, got up, stepped out, and when he stepped out of the palace where the imperial study was located, he stopped for a while and looked back.

The night was blurred, and his expression was a little tight. He cast his gaze to the lighted window behind him, and a ray of shadow flashed across his eyes, then turned his head and continued to move forward.

…

After Pei Youan left the palace, he returned to Pei’s mansion.

Mrs. Xin Pei Quan did not know that he was returning to Beijing tonight. Seeing that he was back suddenly, she learned that Jiafu was still in Quanzhou’s home to serve her grandmother after being ordered to return alone.

In just such a few days, the emperor was about to use his love on him. The few people were jealous in their hearts, but their faces were kind and warm. Madam Xin asked the next person to send him back to the house. Pei Quan and him After some remarks, Pei Youan returned to the courtyard where Jiafu used to live with Jiafu. After taking a bath, he walked out in a t-shirt, walked to the coat rack habitually, and walked a few steps. He looked up and saw that it was empty. Rihui prepared clean clothes for herself, stopped for a while, turned around, and went to the closet by herself, opened the door of the cabinet, and took a set of home-made clothes. When it was closed, the line of sight fell on the corner of the closet that was folded and placed in the closet. Above the outer cloak.

He still remembers this dress. That night, he rescued the disheveled girl in the post house of Chenjiang Mansion in Yunnan Province, took her back to his residence, and wrapped her body.

The clothes were old clothes at that time. Later, he ran around, forgetting that he still had such an external object, but he did not expect that at this moment tonight, he suddenly saw it folded neatly and left it in the closet. For a moment, she was in a daze, and there seemed to be a scene in front of her with her bare feet standing in front of her that night.

Pei Youan looked for a moment, put the clothes back in his hands, dropped his slender fingers on the old clothes, caressed, took it, shaken it, and put it on.

It was night, after the third watch, a figure pushed open the door of the open study room and entered.

There was no light in the study, and the south window was ajar. Pei Youan was sitting behind the case, and his figure was drawn by the cold moonlight in a lonely and half-dark silhouette.

After listening to the instructions, Yang Yun said in a low voice: “Don’t worry, my lord, I will send someone I trust to pass the news to General Dong as soon as possible. With my wife, I will also act according to the adult’s instructions and never dare to neglect.”

Pei Youan nodded: “Thank you. I have been following me all these years, and now I have to take risks. I am very grateful.”

“If it weren’t for the kindness of the country’s prince, my Yang family would have copied the whole family, and the subordinate’s life would have belonged to the adult. The subordinate was only puzzled by one thing…”

Yang Yun hesitated.

“The less people know about General Dong and the little son, the better. The subordinates really don’t understand. The prince’s people, even if they are aware of it, they are only two or three out of ten if they want to know it. Why did the adults deliberately arrange it? , Let all the prince’s people know? In this way, long live there, wouldn’t it be true?”

Pei Youan was silent for a moment, and answered the wrong question: “Yang Yun, what do you think of the court’s maritime ban?”

Yang Yun was startled: “Isn’t it because of preventing Japanese pirates?”

Pei Youan said: “This is just the appearance. Long live this person, ambitious, admiring the emperor’s virtue and luck, and he wants to be the holy god, and the martial arts. A Japanese pirate’s harassment will never cause Long live to retreat and defend the ground. He is not such a person. When I was in Quanzhou, the thing that worried me most still happened.”

Yang Yun was surprised: “The adults mean, Long live already knows the little son? The purpose of banning the sea is related to the little son?”

“When I received the urgent call of Long live, I became more sure of my previous guess. Long live knows that even if there is no ten, it is still ten or nine. He called me back just to test me. Even if I cover it up this time, he must be It can be verified soon. It’s also not as good as the sky. I thought that the matter of the little boy, even if the paper won’t keep the fire in the future, would not leak so quickly, but I didn’t expect that the Japanese pirate rebellion finally happened. . Since it was accidentally leaked, the time left for me is not much. The emperor’s heart is unpredictable, I am afraid I will be unable to protect myself in the future. If I am alone, I have nothing to worry about, but now there is still the Zhen family. If something happens to me, the prince will definitely not let the Zhen family go in the future, so I can only take the risk and force the prince to move first. As long as the prince moves, I am not afraid of not catching his omission.”

Yang Yun became more confused: “My lord, I really don’t understand. What does this have to do with the adult’s deliberate disclosure of information to the prince?”

Pei Youan smiled slightly: “You don’t understand. Heavenly father and son, family affection is often as thin as a piece of paper. If I am right, Long live and the prince, father and son are more jealous than trust. I am betting, I hope I can win. “

Yang Yun has always believed in Pei Youan’s wisdom and plans, in addition to repaying his kindness and admiration for righteousness and following willingly.

Since he arranged in this way, he must have his consideration.

Although Yang Yun was still puzzled, seeing that Pei Youan no longer explained, he shut up and stopped asking, but knelt down at the figure after the case: “Master Pei, take care.”

After the salute, Yang Yun got up and left quickly, disappearing into the night.

Pei Youan sat alone in the dim for a long time, looking at the shadow of the hourglass in the corner of the copper pot, she wanted to come sooner than the last time she used to limit herself to go back to the room to sleep, stretched her waist, got up, and stepped on the moon. Go back to the room.