The spring is late, the plants and trees are luxuriant, and the half-mountain pavilion with raised corners and flying eaves is like a solitary boat rising among the flowers and trees, sailing among the green mountains in the gentle spring breeze.
The sound of people seeing him off at the foot of the mountain was inaudible, and the "ding-ding" sound of the chess pieces on the chessboard was as clear as the chirping of tits.
Sima Daofu, Princess of Xin'an, who was wearing a long white silk dress, stood on the chrysanthemum stage for a while, looking at the chess players in the pavilion. The spectators were focused on the chess game. No one was looking at her.
He said: "Father, I want to go to the pavilion to enjoy the scenery." Before Sima Yu could agree, he came towards the pavilion with his snow-white dress in both hands.
Sima Yu couldn't stop him in time, so he had to follow him.
Chen Caozhi glanced at Wang Xianzhi, who was watching the chess game next to him. Wang Xianzhi was turning his head to look at Princess Xin'an. After just one glance, he turned back and stared at the chess game. His slender fingers flicked gently on his knees, as if playing the piano.
The king of Kuaiji is in front of us, so we can't turn a blind eye. Jiang Sixuan, Chen Caozhi, and Wang Xianzhi bowed to the king of Kuaiji, Sima Yu, but did not say anything. Weiqi was sitting in seclusion, and the common courtesy was exempted.
Sima Daofu, the princess of Xin'an County, did not make a big fuss in the mid-level pavilion. He quietly stood aside to admire the wonderful things. He looked at Chen Caozhi and Wang Xianzhi. He felt that their appearance was like spring orchids and autumn chrysanthemums, each of which excelled in their respective fields. Chen Caozhi was handsome and Wang Xianzhi was beautiful.
, thought to himself: "If I get these two as husbands, I will not be shaken even if I die!" He also thought: "A woman cannot marry two sons-in-law. Chen Caozhi and Wang Xianzhi can only choose one of them. Who should they choose?" After looking at it for a long time,
Can't decide.
At this moment, several fast horses galloped from the direction of Jiankang and entered the crowd of farewells. There was a sudden commotion. After a while, people rushed up the mountain, but it was Huan Mi, the leader of the army, who called out urgently: "Your Majesty - Your Majesty -
"
Huan Mi was in such a hurry, something big must have happened. King Sima Yu of Kuaiji welcomed him off the stage and asked: "Huan leads the army, what's going on?"
Huan Mi said: "Taicheng is reporting urgently. The emperor has taken too much elixir and is poisoned. He is angry and screaming in the palace. The palace officials are trying to change things. No one dares to come near. Please return to Taicheng as soon as possible."
Sima Yu sighed and asked, "Have you informed the Empress Dowager Chongde yet?"
Huan secretly said: "The Empress Dowager Chongde ordered people to ask King Kuaiji to return to Taicheng as soon as possible."
Sima Yu then followed Huan Mi down the mountain. After walking a few steps, he remembered that his daughter Sima Daofu was still at the pavilion, so he turned around and said, "Daofu, follow me down the mountain quickly."
Sima Daofu asked in surprise and joy: "Father, then I won't go to Jingzhou for the time being?"
Sima Yu said: "Let's set off immediately."
Sima Daofu was so disappointed that he responded: "Okay, my daughter will leave for Jingzhou now." His eyes passed over the faces of Chen Caozhi and Wang Xianzhi, and he slowly walked down the mountain pavilion.
Jiang Si
Can't fall behind.
Jiang Sixuan nodded to Chen Caozhi and said: "We will continue this game another day." He strode down the mountain pavilion.
Chen Caozhi has no official position, so there is no need to go to Taicheng to wait for orders, and there is no need to rush down the mountain.
Emperor Sima Pi was poisoned by bait poison. Chen Caozhi had known about it for a long time. This was due to his knowledge in his previous life. I remember that Sima Pi became ill only after he changed his name to Xingning. It took a year after the onset of the illness before he died. Now it is Long.
In the first year of He Dynasty, history has changed, and Sima Pi fell ill early!
While Chen Cao was packing up the chess pieces and putting them into the dowry, he thought: "Could it be that Lu Song's incident had irritated Emperor Sima Pi? Instead of being alert, Sima Pi had to increase the dose of the Three Immortals. It seems that Emperor Sima Pi was...
I won’t be able to do this for long -" Seeing Wang Xianzhi still sitting upright, he asked: "Brother Zijing also likes Go?"
Wang Xianzhi said: "I don't know how to play Go."
Chen Caozhi was slightly surprised and thought to himself: "If you don't know Go, what are you watching on the sidelines?"
Wang Xianzhi turned around and looked around and said: "This place is very beautiful. Zuo Taichong's poem said, 'I can wear a thousand robes and wash my feet thousands of miles away.' Playing chess on this pavilion is very elegant. I don't know how to play chess, but I can hear the sound of falling pieces." Very interested.”
Chen Caozhi smiled slightly and said: "Brother Zijing can be said to be happy when he wins and happy when he loses, which is beyond chess."
The sound of footsteps was soft and brisk. When Chen Caozhi turned around to look, he saw Sima Daofu, the princess of Xin'an County, leaving and coming back. He was running fast, a little out of breath, and his chest was heaving. He stood outside the pavilion and pointed at Chen Caozhi: "Wait a minute. Come on, I will marry you!" After saying that, he seemed to be shy, his face flushed, he turned around and hurried down the mountain.
Chen Caozhi was stunned and quickly turned around to look at Wang Xianzhi. Wang Xianzhi looked detached and indifferent, with a smile on his cheeks. It was the same as when he was watching chess before. The players were trying their best to figure out the game. He only listened to the sound of the pieces falling, and it didn't matter whether he won or lost. Quiet and interesting——
Chen Caozhi stood up and looked up the mountain road. Sima Daofu, the princess of Xin'an County, had disappeared. The crowd at the foot of the mountain was divided into two. Xi Chao and Gao Song did not return to Jiankang to visit the emperor's condition. They still went to Gushu and the officials to see him off. They all returned to the city.
Chen Caozhi was really dumbfounded. Just now he was worried about Wang Xianzhi, sympathized with Wang Xianzhi for mutilating his feet to resist Princess Xin'an's marriage, and pitied Xi Daomao for his misery and loneliness when he was forced to leave Wuyi Lane. He never expected that Sima Daofu would turn the tables. Coming towards him, "Just wait, I will marry you!" What are these words? This tone is simply seeking revenge, as if it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge -
Chen Caozhi said in his heart: "It's really unreasonable. Do I want to suffer on Wang Xianzhi's behalf? Although I can't bear to see Wang Xianzhi being forced to divorce Xi Daomao, I am by no means noble enough to sacrifice myself for him. What does Sima Daofu want to do? Force me to divorce Xi Daomao in the future. It is absolutely impossible for Wei Rui to divorce her and marry her. I am not a weak Wang Xianzhi. Wang Xianzhi's divorce from Xi Daomao is not only the pressure from the royal family, but also the pressure within the family. Both Xi Daomao's parents died. After Xi Chao's death, the Xi family declined, and her aunt Xi Xuan loved her. Xi Daomao has also passed away. Xi Daomao has no choice but to leave. But unlike Wei Rui, the Lu family is a noble family in Jiangdong. The power in Jiangdong is not comparable to that of the Xi family. I will never have pressure from the family. As for the princess of Xin'an who wants to become For Princess Xin'an, her father Sima Yu must become the emperor. Also, as long as Huan Ji does not conspire with his eldest brother Huan Xi to get rid of his uncle Huan Chong, Huan Ji will not be exiled to Changsha, and Princess Xin'an will not be exiled to Changsha. There is no reason to divorce Huan Ji, because more than 20 years after Huan Wen’s death, the Huan family’s power is still strong——”
He also thought: "But I haven't married Wei Rui yet. There is a long way to go in the three years. Huan Ji would be impatient to get rid of his uncle Huan Chong, and would be exiled early. Then Princess Xin'an would get divorced, and I am still unmarried. , Lu Shi resolutely refused to let Wei Rui marry me. On the contrary, King Sima Yu of Kuaiji said, "If I have a daughter of the right age, I would also like to take Cao as my son-in-law." If Sima Daofu insists on marrying me after the divorce, That would really be a big problem for me!"
Seeing Chen Caozhi frowning and thinking, Wang Xianzhi comforted him and said, "Brother Zizhong, please don't worry. Princess Xin'an is well-known for her words. She is already married to Huan Zhongdao. How can she still marry you? It's just a joke."
Chen Caozhi was really suffering and couldn't tell, but now he asked Wang Xianzhi to comfort him. Things in the world are unpredictable. So what if he was familiar with "Shishuoxinyu"? Who would have thought that Princess Xin'an would turn the spear?
Chen Caozhi smiled and said, "Princess Xin'an may have admitted the wrong person."
Wang Xianzhi was stunned and asked: "Who did you identify by mistake?"
Chen Caozhi did not answer, but said: "Brother Zijing, your Majesty Shaogong Lanting's poem goes like this: 'Looking up at the blue sky, overlooking the Lushui River. The view is so small and boundless, and the eyes and principles are self-explanatory. The great creation of chemical engineering is all uneven."
Although the music of the group is different, it is nothing but new to me. This is a really good sentence, I will recite it from time to time." I said to myself in my heart: "Chen Caozhi, time is not waiting for me, you have to work harder."
…
When Chen Caozhi returned to Gu's house, Gu Kaizhi had already started painting "Three Heroes of Jiangdong". Now he had portraits of Gu Rong, Lu Ji and Lu Yun. Gu Kaizhi was familiar with them and wanted to draw the charm of the characters.
In the evening, Gu Minzhi returned from Taicheng and said that Emperor Sima Pi was in a daze and could not see things properly. All the officials asked Chu Suanzi, the Queen Mother of Chongde, to come to the court again and take charge as regent.
The next day was the Qingming Festival. Chen Caozhi and his third brother Chen Shang took Xiaochan, Ran Sheng and others out of Qingxi Gate early in the morning to offer sacrifices to the ancestors of the Chen family in the Tang Dynasty to the south. Xiaochan, Ran Sheng and others were all respectful.
Worship.
Xiao Chan thought of the old mistress's love and unknowingly burst into tears and said: "Little Master Cao, Madam Youwei and Zongzhi, Run'er must also be paying homage to the old mistress at this time, sweeping her grave, going on an outing, etc."
Think of us?"
Chen Caozhi looked to the south and saw the vast clouds and mountains. He was full of homesickness and family. He chanted softly: "——The fragrance fills the sleeves, but the road is far away. The scriptures are not valuable, but the time of farewell...
…”
Ran Sheng asked: "Xiao Langjun, when will we return to Qiantang?"
Chen Caozhi was silent for a while and replied: "I don't know."
Ran Sheng said: "I ride a fast horse and travel three hundred miles a day. I can get home in five days."
Chen Caozhi nodded and said: "By the way, I also want to learn horse riding, chess, calligraphy, and painting. I have studied Confucianism, Taoism, and Mystery for a long time. Learning to ride a horse is also a practical skill."
Ran Sheng said happily: "Young Master wants to learn to ride a horse, I can teach you. In the future, if you really miss Mistress Ding, Young Master Zong, Miss Run'er and the others, I will ride back with you to visit them."
, it only takes ten days to go back and forth——"
Chen Shang smiled and said: "Sixteenth brother, are you homesick? Xiao Sheng said it easily. Jiankang, Qian and Tang go back and forth for ten days. Do you think it is a rush march, which is too much for both humans and horses?"
Ran Sheng said: "That's half a month at most."
Chen Caozhi said: "Xiao Sheng is right. If I really miss my relatives, I will take the trouble to go back to my hometown to visit. Zhang Jiying said, 'Life is precious and you can enjoy yourself. How can you travel thousands of miles to invite famous nobles!'"
Due to family issues, my third brother and I have to travel around the world. In fact, what I look forward to most is to be reunited with my relatives and never be separated."
Ran Sheng said: "But if the young man had stayed in Chenjiawu, we wouldn't have so much land, we wouldn't have a shelter, and we wouldn't have access to Mingsheng Lake. It would also be difficult for the young man to marry Miss Lu."
Chen Shang laughed loudly and said: "Xiao Sheng can see it very clearly." He said to Chen Cao: "Why is the sixteenth brother's words so desolate? That Zhang Han Siyu happened after he was forty years old. The sixteenth brother
When you are in your prime, you must not think of hiding yourself."
Chen Caozhi smiled and said: "Third brother, don't worry. I just miss my deceased mother and my relatives in my hometown. I feel it occasionally. I take pride in hiding and retreat in order to advance. In the end, my ambition is also to be in the temple. How can I be alone in this world!"