Chapter 112 111
Chapter 112 111
Temple fairs are occasions for families to go out and celebrate festivals together, and women can also show their heads without wearing veils.The wailing was quickly drowned in the crowd, Ye Sirui and Zhou Yi looked at each other, and immediately held Ye Kuang and squeezed past them as hard as they could.
"Who? Who lost the baby?"
"I! I!" A woman with a headscarf and a pale face responded. As soon as Ye Sirui squeezed past, she held her wrist firmly, "My young master is lost! Master! Good-hearted man! Please show mercy , help the slaves find it!"
Zhou Yi looked around cautiously, Ye Sirui asked her: "What clothes is your young master wearing? What hat is he wearing?"
"Young master, the young master is wearing a tiger-head hat and a red jacket. They are all brand new. Please, sir, please show mercy! If the master and wife find out, the life of this servant will be gone!" She He grabbed Ye Sirui's arm and knelt down.There are people coming and going around, and they will look at this scene a few more times, but when they hear that they have lost their children, they grab their own children and leave quickly, cursing bad luck repeatedly.
Zhou Yi has already jumped out of the crowd in a few steps.Ye Sirui didn't care to look at him, and clenched Ye Kuang's hand with the other hand, hiding him behind him so as not to scare him, "Don't worry, we will try our best to find it for you, who is your master? Answered?"
The woman relaxed a little at first, but immediately shook her head nervously when she heard his words, "I can't go back, I can't go back! The young master hasn't been found yet!"
"You go home and call back. He sent someone to help find it, and it will be found faster. The three of us, when will we find it?"
The woman didn't waver at all, she still shook her head and said with trembling lips: "No, no, if you notify the master, even if the young master finds it, the servant will die."
Ye Sirui saw that she reacted so strongly, so he had no choice but to hope that Zhou Yi had good eyesight and found her sooner. "You get up first, my friend has already gone to help you find it, it's useless for you to kneel like this." The woman finally stood up slowly, but still refused to let go of Ye Sirui's hand.Ye Kuang poked his head out from behind him, looking at the woman curiously.Ye Sirui tried his best to block her sight.Ye Kuang comforted her softly: "Don't worry, my master is amazing, and I will definitely find him."
The woman squeezed out an ugly smile like crying, Ye Kuang had no choice but to shrink back behind him.
Ye Sirui was afraid that Zhou Yi would not find them when he came back, so he stood there in such a strange posture.Now the passers-by no longer avoid them, but look at them interestingly and point their fingers.
Ye Sirui felt that the days felt like years, and he didn't know how long he stood there.He asked Ye Kuang, "Are you tired?"
Ye Kuang shook his head, "I'm not tired, we'll wait for Master to find her young master back."
Ye Sirui was very pleased because of his understanding and consideration.
"Master! Master is back!" Ye Kuang suddenly shouted loudly.Ye Sirui followed his gaze, and sure enough, he saw Zhou Yi holding a boy in his arms, stepping on the roof of the street all the way.The woman seemed to be petrified, staring at Zhou Yi.Seeing this, the people around also looked at it, and they were amazed.
"Isn't it?" Zhou Yi squeezed in and pushed the little boy in front of the woman.The little boy was wearing a tiger-head cap, a red jacket, and tiger-toe shoes on his feet. He was only about three or four years old, and with a candied haws in his mouth, he turned his head and stared at Zhou Yi reluctantly, and said vaguely, "Hello!" Tired!"
"Little ancestor, where did you go!" The woman cried and hugged the little boy, who twisted impatiently and swallowed the hawthorn in his mouth, "I'm going to buy a candied haws, where did you go ?”
The amazed onlookers hadn't dispersed yet, and this temple fair was not enough to be visited. Zhou Yi tugged at Ye Sirui, motioning him to leave quickly.
Ye Sirui sighed: "The woman is anxious, not for the safety of the young master, but for the punishment she will receive after telling her family."
"Isn't it normal to worry about your own safety?" Zhou Yi asked back.
"Nothing." Ye Sirui pressed his thoughts.They walked home quickly.Ye Sirui led Ye Kuang across the threshold, and the servant saluted him. After getting up, he deliberately lowered his voice, and said nervously: "Master, go to the main room quickly, the father-in-law from the palace is here!"
This is so strange, what are the people in the palace doing at his house in this new year?Firstly, he did not perform any meritorious service, secondly, he did not cause trouble, and thirdly, he was not so important that His Majesty traveled thousands of miles to give him gifts.Could it be that Shen Tang's case has reached the emperor's ears a few days ago?
Puzzled, Ye Sirui said to Zhou Yi: "Take Kuang'er back to the room from the side, so as not to run into them." Straightening his clothes, he strode into the main hall.The eunuch who delivered the order really sat on the main seat and drank tea, and the tea was served in fear in the hall.Ye Sirui went in and bowed his hands to salute, "Today I have time to take the child out to visit the temple fair, please excuse my father-in-law to wait for a long time.",
The eunuch immediately stood up and said politely: "This is a matter of our family's duty. Why should Mr. Ye be so polite?" Then he said: "Since Mr. Ye is back, let's take the order quickly."
"Eunuch, please be tolerant for a while longer." Ye Sirui begged for mercy, "It's inappropriate for an official to dress like this, please allow an official to enter and change into regular clothes."
"Only oral instructions, no decree, Lord Ye needn't be nervous." After the eunuch said this in a friendly manner, he suddenly put on a straight face, "Ye Sirui accepts the decree!"
Ye Sirui brushed his robe and knelt down.
"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said: Announcement of the punishment according to the procurator Siqian Ye Sirui will go to Beijing to face the Holy Spirit immediately, without delay, hereby."
Ye Sirui kowtowed and shouted long live, "My minister Ye Sirui accepts the order!"
He stood up, and the eunuch said with a smile: "Our family has completed the task." Ye Sirui hesitantly fumbled for the purse from his sleeve, but he just went out to play with Ye Kuang, and only brought scattered silver and copper coins.Just as he was hesitating, Chaming stepped forward and offered her purse, "Please take a trip to the father-in-law, please accept it with a smile."
"Then our family will not be polite to Mr. Ye." The eunuch took the purse.Ye Sirui took the opportunity to ask: "Please trouble me, my father-in-law. I asked for leave before His Majesty a few years ago, and said that I would return after the next year. Besides, I inspected Jiangbei Prefecture, and when I returned, I should also return to Pu County. What is your Majesty's business, please call me urgently." Entering Beijing?"
"How can our family dare to talk nonsense about His Majesty's matter? Just hearing from Eunuch Feng, His Majesty misses Lord Ye very much." He smiled all over his face, and his brows were wrinkled, "Lord Ye is very lucky."
Ye Sirui just smiled but said nothing, exchanged some polite words with him, and sent him out with tea.
The oral order says that there is no delay, so you can't steal even half a minute of leisure.Thinking of this, Ye Sirui strode straight towards his bedroom.Sure enough, Zhou Yi and Ye Kuang were sitting here, but it was Ye Kuang who taught Zhou Yi to read.Ye Sirui's room was originally a suite, and the inner room was originally used as a study room. Ye Sirui felt that the room was too big in the cold weather, so he asked them to seal the inner room and move the desk outside.Zhou Yi sat at the desk, and Ye Kuang stood with his hands behind his back, teaching him to read in a serious manner.
Ye Sirui's heart instantly softened.Zhou Yi raised his head to look at him when he heard the movement, and Ye Kuang immediately put away his posture when he saw him. "Uncle Rui, what happened?"
"It doesn't matter, Your Majesty invited me to Beijing." He deliberately omitted the level of urgency.Ye Kuang still frowned.Ye Sirui patted him, "You are so young, who did you learn from? It's nothing to do, but it's just another trip, and I'll be back in March at most. Go back to the house and play."
Ye Kuang reluctantly went out.Ye Sirui immediately turned to Zhou Yi, "Your Majesty invited me to Beijing immediately, and specifically ordered me not to delay."
After what he said, Zhou Yi also understood the seriousness. "I'll just pack my bags."
"Actually, I was thinking...it's not bad for you to stay here with Kuang'er." Ye Sirui said hesitantly.
"Where are you talking? Doesn't my promise to you count?" Zhou Yi said without hesitation, "I will accompany you wherever you go."
Ye Sirui knew his reaction, but he still wanted to talk about it because he was worried that there would be changes in the capital.But Zhou Yi answered this way, and he couldn't refute it at all. "Then pack up your things and get ready, we're leaving in two days."
Next, explain to Mother Wang that there is no need to mention tedious things such as packing luggage.In the afternoon of the [-]th day of the first lunar month, the group set out on the road.This trip was urgent, there was not much luggage except a few winter clothes, and there was no delay, so it was still only Ye Sirui, Zhou Yi, Cha Ming and the driver who drove the carriage, and the two carriages set off on the road.
There are many towns along the road covered with snow, even if it is a light vehicle, traveling day and night, it still takes a few days.When he arrived in the capital, Ye Sirui was rather regretful.He originally wanted to stay in Helin County to celebrate the Lantern Festival, take Kuang'er to watch the lanterns, and make a lantern himself by the way.What's more, the Lantern Festival is also for lovers and companions. When they go out for private meetings, they can't do anything with tea and tea by their side, not to mention the unpredictable will of the emperor, so there is no interest in celebrating the festival.
Zhou Yi didn't know his thoughts, but only calculated how many days away he was from the capital.
On the sixth day of January, I finally arrived in the capital.
The snow in the capital has melted, but it is still bitterly cold everywhere, and the vegetation has not sprouted yet.Ye Sirui sighed disappointedly: "I like the first snow in the capital the most. It is so white that it covers everything; what I dislike the most is when the snow has already melted in the late winter and early spring, or people trampled it badly. What can I do?" The unclean place is exposed."
Zhou Yi listened carefully, without saying a word.
There is an oral order for this trip to Beijing.The group of people still stayed in Zhuangyuan Building, but Ye Sirui hurriedly changed into official clothes as soon as he put down his luggage.There must be someone staring at the Zhuangyuan building, Ye Sirui hasn't changed his clothes yet, and someone downstairs has prepared a sedan chair to invite him in.
Ye Sirui wore his hat wings, and rushed to the familiar blue satin sedan in three steps at a time. When he saw the people waiting beside the sedan chair, he was even more startled and gave a deep bow. "Eunuch Lao Feng has been waiting for a long time."
Eunuch Feng wrinkled with a smile, "No hurry." He looked around and asked again: "I heard that Master Ye has a guard named Xia, where is it?"
"Xia Shu?" Ye Sirui didn't dare to hide it, "He came with me, waiting for orders in the restaurant."
Eunuch Feng nodded, "Very good, very good, Your Majesty ordered that Master Ye and Guard Xia be invited to enter the palace together."
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