Chapter 42: Young Master's Worries (2)
Zhao Gu laughed, "Young master, you are too polite. This is my duty."
Looking up at the sky, Zhao Gu said again: "It's getting late, and it's time to have dinner. I have asked my family to prepare some small wine and food. Su Wen, the young master, is good at drinking a lot. It just so happened that I, Zhao Gu, is also a drunkard. There are two jars of Yanguo Royal Wine rewarded by my master's father in my mansion. It's better to go to my mansion with me to talk to me, so I can stop drunk."
Zhao Zhang was good at drinking wine, and he couldn't help but salivate and almost nodded. After thinking about it, he shook his head with regret and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the days ago were my mother's day of worship. My mother was most disgusted with me drinking during her lifetime, so I quit drinking for one month every year."
Zhao Gu showed a sudden look on his face and said quickly, "Young Master does not need to apologize, you are making a mistake. Filial piety is a human nature. You can never forget the kindness of the raising of the previous king and the most filial person. How could you make a mistake? But you are making a mistake and lose your respect for the previous king and the next. You deserve to die."
Zhao Zhang waved his hand and said in a faint tone, "There are heavy words from generation to generation, and those who do not know are innocent. Besides, there are only a few people in the world who can remember the sun worship of the mother. What sins can you do if you are an outsider?"
Although Zhao Zhang's tone was plain, Zhao Gu could hear the strong resentment in it, and smiled slightly in his heart, but pretended not to know it on his face.
In fact, it is normal for Zhao Zhang to have resentment. Queen Han and his master's father have been married for more than ten years, and the relationship between husband and wife has always been peaceful. The master's father also respects and loves the gentle and virtuous Queen Han. However, since the master's father married Wu Wa, he has been as close as a vague person and favors the six palaces. From then on, he never stepped into the queen's bedroom. Queen Han was waiting day and night, waiting in the palace, but finally became ill after overwork. At the age of thirty, he was seriously ill. Even before his death, he did not wait for the figure of his master. Less than a month after Queen Han passed away, the master's father couldn't wait to make Wu Wa the queen. A few years later, it was Zhao Zhang's turn to lose his position as the prince.
If anyone like Zhao Zhang was like this, he would probably feel resentful. Zhao Zhang swallowed his anger and served his father with all his heart. He would get on the horse and fight for the generals, and he would be filial to his son, without any complaints. It was not easy to be so patient, which made Zhao Gu look down on the deposed prince of Zhao Zhang, and he would always make friends with him with all his heart and be prepared for any trouble.
Since they could not invite each other, Zhao Gu found an opportunity to leave. Zhao Zhang processed some backlog of documents in the palace. It was not until sunset that the candles were set and lit in the palace. He stretched out his waist and put down the bamboo slips. He called the palace servants to deliver a simple dinner, and after eating it voraciously, he got on the horse and left the palace and returned to the army camp outside the city.
Although the master's father gave Zhao Zhang the palace in Dai County to enjoy it, Zhao Zhang rarely stayed in the palace. He only worked in the palace for convenience during the day, and most of the time he had to return to the camp outside the city at night.
Like his father, he did not like the cumbersomeness of the palace. Compared with the magnificent palace, he was more willing to choose a military tent with the ground as the bed. Although it was simple, he was happy to be free. Moreover, there was a great advantage of staying in the army, that is, he could firmly control the army as soon as possible. Even if there was a change, he could still be controlled by the army to protect his own conscience. This crisis idea, which inherited from the nomadic people, greatly affected Zhao Yong, Zhao Zhang and his son, and was followed by them.
When I returned to the camp, it was already dark.
Zhao Zhang flew off the horse and threw the reins to the horse servant. Just as he was about to return to the camp, a personal soldier came forward to report, "Young Master, there is a middle-aged scholar who claimed to be his old friend from Gongzi Handan and had an old friend with Queen Han. I saw that he didn't look like a liar, and there were letters and seals left by Queen Han, so he asked him to stay in your side camp. He had been waiting for a day."
"The old friend of Handan Royal Palace." Zhao Zhang was stunned, feeling a little strange.
After he was ten years old, he left the palace and followed his father around for many years. He returned to Handan for no more than ten days a year, so where did he get old friends?
After taking the cloth handed over by his personal soldiers, it was indeed his mother's hand when he opened it. The content seemed to be a letter of recommendation, and the queen's seal was also covered with it. It seemed to be true.
Or is it old with my mother who lives in the palace? It's really strange.
"I understand, you go down first." Zhao Zhang waved.
"promise."
He strode towards his tent. When he was about to reach the tent, Zhao Zhang slowed down and gave a wink to the two guards beside him. The two guards understood and drew out their swords and walked in quietly. Zhao Zhang held the hilt of the sword and then flashed in.
The years of endurance and humiliation have long helped Zhao Zhang develop a cautious and cautious nature. He knew that there will never be few people in this world who want him to die, so he must be extremely careful at all times.
He flashed in, but there was no stranger. There was only a middle-aged scholar in the tent sitting on the stairs and closing his eyes to rest. He was not panicked when he heard the movement. He just slowly opened his eyes and stood up, smiled and bowed to Zhao Zhang, and said in his mouth, "See the young master."
The man was about forty years old, with a fair face and a tall appearance, with a few strands of beautiful beards under his jaw, and was wrapped in a white and simple Confucian robe. He looked gentle and elegant from a distance, with a humble and gentleman look. His eyes were slender and his eyes were erratic, and there was a hint of femininity flashing from time to time. There was a smile on his lips, which made people feel quite uncomfortable when they looked at each other.
Zhao Zhang narrowed his eyes, the warning in his eyes did not disappear, and he asked in a deep voice, "Who are you and why do you have a letter from my mother?"
The scribe smiled and said, "Don't the young master really remember the villain?"
Zhao Zhang stared at him for a while, feeling a little familiar. After thinking for a long time, a thought flashed through his head and blurted out, "Are you Mr. Tian?"
The "Mr. Tian" in Zhao Zhang's air stroked his beard lightly and laughed, "Young master is so good at memory, but he still remembers the villain."
After saying that, he bowed seriously and said, "The villain Tian Buli, please see the young master. After not seeing each other for more than ten years, the young master became more and more powerful, no different from the kindness of the master's father back then."
Zhao Zhang was all alert at this time, and he used the sword to return to the sheath and laughed. He stepped forward and helped Tian Buli up and said with a laugh, "It turns out that it is really Mr. Tian. I didn't expect that we still have a day to meet again, which is really rare. After more than ten years of separation, Mr. still has the same style."
Tian Buli was indeed Zhao Zhang's old friend when he was in the palace, and was also one of his distant relatives who were streaking around the bush.
Tian Buli was originally a Duke of Qi. He was smart and famous when he was young. However, he was not upright and extremely romantic and lustful. He had an affair with the daughter of the then Qi Gongsun Long at the age of sixteen, and even made people feel angry. When Gongsun Long knew about it, he was furious and sent people to chase him everywhere, threatening to cut off his life and relieve his anger.
Although Tian Buli was a prince, he was unable to fight against the powerful ministers. In order to save his life, he had to leave his family and flee to Zhao State. He hid his name in Handan for three years. He knew that Gongsun Long died and dared to show his name to others. Naturally, Qi State could not go back, so he had to continue to rely on his cleverness to cheat and make a living in Handan.
It happened to meet Zhao Yong's wedding when he married the daughter of the King of Han as his queen. Tian Buli then remembered that his great-grandmother was from the Korean royal family. He was also a cousin with the great-grandmother of the Queen of Han.
So Tian Buli hurriedly ran to the palace to recognize his relatives. Queen Han was kind by nature. Although she didn't like this relative who was not even close, she couldn't bear to refuse him. Seeing that he was very good at writing, she asked him to be a famous attendant in the official school run by the palace.
A year later, Queen Han gave birth to Zhao Zhang. When Zhao Zhang was four years old, he was sent to the official school to study with many royal family members. Because he had this kind of relative relationship with Tian Buli, Queen Han asked Tian Buli to take care of Zhao Zhang's daily life and diet. Tian Buli was a specialist. He saw that although Zhao Zhang was young, he was the eldest son of King Zhao, and his mother was the head queen of the six palaces. Sooner or later, he would be made the crown prince and he would succeed to the throne as king in the future. So he tried his best to flatter him and tried his best to find some fun things to please Zhao Zhang.
Zhao Zhang was young, and seeing Tian Buli was so funny, he naturally became close to him. As well as Queen Han looked at Tian Buli, he agreed to find an opportunity to get an official position for him.
It’s a pity that this wandering son is hard to change his viciousness. After his situation improved slightly, he became proud again. He completely forgot the lessons he taught when he was a teenager. He recruited bees and butterflies everywhere under the banner of Queen Han in Handan and hooked up with noble women.
In the end, something ridiculous happened. The daughter of the Zhongda Doctor Yan Zhi was about to give birth to a child after less than July. After being asked, she realized that Hotan Buli had already had a miserable situation. Yan Zhi was furious and ran to the court to sue Si Kou's mansion, and Si Kou asked him to deal with it strictly.
Chapter completed!