After dinner, the women washed the dishes and the children played.
The puppies and kittens in the yard were the targets of their pursuit. The orange cat was okay and jumped onto the roof with a swish, while the little pug was torn by the children with a sad look on its face.
With Pu Bucheng standing next to him, not only did he not dare to bark, he also stuck out his tongue and looked cute.
"Hey, that's right. To be a dog, you must be a good dog. It's your blessing to like you!" Pu Bucheng also put his hands behind his back and pointed at the dog.
Mr. and Mrs. Zhu were sitting in the pavilion.
There was a pot of strong tea between the two of them. Zhu Yunxi was leaning on the tea table with his chin in his hands. The old man was holding a cattail leaf fan in one hand and rubbing his feet in the other, with a contented look on his face.
"Comfortable!" The old man finally rubbed enough, took a big sip of tea, and said with a grin, "Let me tell you, my feet didn't have this problem of scratching in the first place! One year, I shared a bed with your damn grandpa.
Sleep with your feet next to each other and let him pass this problem on to us!"
As he said that, he grinned again, "That bastard grandpa of yours, one slipper smelled three miles in the wind and three feet in the headwind. Once when I went to a brothel, I was vomited directly by the girl who was accompanying me! Xu Tiande was so smelly at that time,
I won’t go out with him anymore, it’s a shame!”
Zhu Yunxi smiled and listened to the old man's old stories.
At this time, all he has to do is listen. Hearing one more word is a blessing to him, because it is very likely that he will never hear it again in the near future.
But after waiting for a long time, there was no message.
Zhu Yunxi looked at the old man, "What happened next?"
The old man didn't say anything, and his eyes fell on the laughing children in the distance. "Later, he died, and we got old!" As he said, he lowered his head and blew the non-existent dust on his lapel, "Will you come back?"
"Huh?" Zhu Yunxi didn't hear clearly.
"I say you go back, go back to the palace, don't waste your time here!" the old man said loudly.
"Grandfather, grandson..."
"Why, are you afraid that if we die, you won't be able to live anymore?" The old man squinted and scolded, "Fuck, if you hang around me every day, we won't die?"
"Man, it's been a day like this, how long have we been waiting for? We are just sitting here talking, and we are also waiting! Go back quickly, don't delay here!"
Zhu Yunxi felt sour in his heart, "Grandpa Huang, my grandson is fine..."
"Don't say you are the emperor. Even if you are not the emperor, and we are not the emperor, we are just ordinary people, and we will not let you delay us!" The old man said seriously, "Young people have young things, even if we are young, we are just ordinary people.
You are ordinary people, you have your home, you have your things, you have to go out to earn money, you have to work to support your family and take care of your children, why are you keeping an old man like us here?"
"Oh, you have to drag a living person with you when you are about to die? There is no such thing in the world." At this point, the old man sighed, "Go back, go back, you guys, it's easy to think! You are guarding us like this,
We feel good in our hearts. Maybe if you don’t guard us, we can live a few more days. Damn it, I’ve been asking you to live and die all day long, even if you don’t want to die, I’m going to die!”
"Grandpa Huang..."
"Get out!" The old man put down the cattail leaf fan heavily, "You want to get slapped on the bottom of your shoe, don't you?" He said, waving his hands impatiently, "We're fine, let's go back! Hey, the children are here, you can go about your business.
!”
Zhu Yunxi suppressed the sadness in his heart, walked behind the old man, and rubbed his shoulders, "It's not what you said, my grandson just wants to spend more time with you!"
"There is no banquet in the world that never ends!" The old man smiled, "At first we wanted to follow your grandma, but she abandoned us for almost twenty years." After saying that, he patted Zhu Yunxi's hand and said softly.
, "Dasun, come back! State affairs are the most important thing!"
Zhu Yunxi refused to move. He really wanted to hug the old man's neck and act coquettishly like Xiao Fu'er and Liu Jin did.
"You really have us in your heart, just remember what I told you!" The old man stretched out Zhu Yunxi's fingers and took a look, "Dasun, come back! Look, you haven't slept well these past few days, and there are knife and gun stabs in your hands.
Got it!"
Then, the old man turned around, stretched out his hand and pinched Zhu Yunxi's chin, "How old are you, and you still play coquettishly with your grandpa! Don't you think it's embarrassing? Come back, you've got a job, it's a sure thing!" He said,
Then he smiled and said, "There are only a few walking paths in this palace. If you really need something, you can still have time. Be obedient and go back! You, too, can give us some dignity!"
Zhu Yunxi was stunned, "Hey, I got it!"
~~
The carriage drove towards the outside of the palace. Zhu Yunxi opened the curtain and could vaguely see the old man standing on a high place with his hands behind his back, looking at him.
Tears fell silently down his eyes.
Tomorrow, what will happen tomorrow?
Zhu Yunxi really hopes that the sun will never rise tomorrow.
That meant that he and the old man lost another day.
~
"Did you tell our eldest grandson that we were not good?"
The children were still making noise outside the hospital, and the old man inside the house was waiting for Mr. Xi with a sidelong look.
"This..." Xi Laodao was a little scared and took a few steps back, "You didn't say anything?"
The old man wrinkled his nose and scratched his head with his big hands, "What the hell is it so fast? We don't think anything is wrong, so we're going to be in trouble?"
"No, no!" Xi Laodao said hurriedly, "Lao Dao just told the emperor to pay more attention to you..."
"If you tell lies again, I'll castrate you!" The old man made a stabbing gesture, and then thought about it, "How many more days are left?"
Xi Laodao said nothing.
"Let me ask you how many days do you have left?" The old man glared, "Don't worry, I don't want to settle a score with you, we just want to know how many days do we have left?" He said in a low voice, "There are some things that need to be explained!"
"not sure!"
"Cao! You can't say six!" the old man scolded, with a nonchalant look on his face, "Everyone has this day, isn't it just to leave? What a big deal? How many people just left in a daze, how many people are so damn sick
Why not die? We still know that we don’t have much time left, so it’s good to still have time to explain our funeral arrangements!”
Xi Laodao looked at the old man and moved back a few steps.
"We have been worthy enough in this life. There have been few heroes like us in history!" The old man sneered, "What the hell, Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu of Han, that's bullshit. The ancestors of the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty were born well to them. What a fool.
"
"If they had been born at the same time as us, they would have been beaten by Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, and they would have been beaten into the river to feed the fish! It's his grandma's fault!"
"We won't obey anyone in this life, damn..."
Xi Laodao took two steps back and saw that the old man's eyes were a little red.
Suddenly, the old man sighed and said, "What regrets do you have? We just want to see our sons..."
~~
The carriage stopped at the palace gate, and Zhu Yunxi walked slowly inside with the support of the eunuch.
For some reason, suddenly, he didn't have any strength left in his body.
As soon as they entered the Qianqing Palace, the bastard came over with two memorials in his hands, "Your Majesty, the memorials from Cao Guogong, hurry up!"
"Got it!" Zhu Yunxi sighed, opened it casually, and immediately looked up before looking at it.
"deliver an imperial order!"
"The slave is here!"
"Send a decree to all the vassal kings, asking them to return to the capital quickly. They must come to the capital within seven days! Hurry!"
~~
"Who is not afraid of death! And he knows he is going to die and has to wait for it!"
It was late at night, and the old man came into the house cursing, waving his hands and saying, "Get out of here!"
The palace people lowered their heads and stepped back carefully.
"Pu Bucheng, you mother-in-law, hurry up and help us! That's what we said before!"
The old man cursed again and put his slippers on the kang.
But instead of lying down, he opened the kang cabinet.
He took out a scroll from the cabinet and spread it out beside him.
The old man lowered his head and stared blankly at the person above. With red eyes and trembling hands, he gently touched the face of the person in the painting.
"Xiuying!"
The old man's voice became hoarse, "We are going to find you!"
With one word, tears fell down.
"It's our birthday and I'm going to find you. Remember, prepare the quilt, mattress, and socks for us. We're afraid of the cold!"
"Ugh...Xiuying, we are going to find you!"
Crying, the old man slowly lay down on his side, still looking at the portrait.
"This day goes so fast!"
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At Bei'anmen of the Forbidden City, Pu Bucheng got off the carriage without anyone's help.
Several red-clothed eunuchs were already kneeling there waiting. They were all respectable people in the palace, stamping and trembling, but at this moment they were all as well-behaved as children meeting their teacher.
"The Za family is not the master, who asked you to kneel to the Za family?" Pu Bucheng had a sullen face and the corners of his eyes twitched.
Several eunuchs heard the sound and stood up in fear.
"I called you here, something happened!" Pu Bucheng stepped inside, "The Za family is old and has inconvenient hands and feet. I need your help with some things. Can you do it?"
"Young men, please listen to the chief steward's arrangements!" several eunuchs said in unison.
"Keep your voice down!" Pu Bucheng frowned, "Quietly, don't disturb the emperor!" He said, giving a few eunuchs a stern look, "Whoever leaks the news will jump into the Yangtze River himself, do you listen?"
Several eunuchs nodded silently, looking ferocious.
This chapter has been completed!