dhibooks Chapter 452 Meeting
Chapter 452 Meeting
"Why did your majesty suddenly think of letting me attend the banquet?" Chu Zhuang looked at them and asked.
"The chief examiners of this year's scientific examination fall on the head of the Xue family. The Xue family is a party of princes. They will definitely take this opportunity to promote their own people." Yunhong explained to Chu Zhuang.
If the Xue family wants to promote themselves, even if Chu Zhuang is very good, it is very likely that they will suppress him.
In addition, there is still a Sima family in the middle of the court who is watching.
In order to prevent someone from tampering with Chu Zhuang in the imperial examination, Yunhong deliberately mentioned Chu Zhuang in front of Yu Wenchang.
Yu Wenchang was also a little interested in Chu Zhuang, sent someone to inquire, and thought it was a talent, and because of Yunhong's relationship, he summoned Chu Zhuang to the banquet.
And as long as Chu Zhuang showed his face in front of Yu Wenchang, it meant that Yu Wenchang was interested in Chu Zhuang. Even if the people below wanted to play tricks, they were afraid of Yu Wenchang and dared not attack Chu Zhuang.
"So that's the case." Chu Zhuang nodded, thanking him, "Second Brother has been worrying about my affairs."
Yunhong shook his head, this matter was nothing to him.
"Participating in a party is good, but it's also bad."
Yunhong looked at Chu Zhuang and reminded: "The emperor will definitely let you compose lyrics at the banquet. The quality of your lyrics must not be much worse than the ones written before, otherwise the emperor's impression of you may be..."
Chu Zhuang understood what Yunhong meant, but Chu Zhuang really didn't care much about writing lyrics.
The cultural essence condensed from the 5000-year Chinese civilization is in Chu Zhuang's mind.
"Second brother, don't worry." Chu Zhuang smiled and said in relief.
"Chu Zhuang is doing the lyrics, second brother, you can rest assured!" Yun Zhanfei said carelessly.
He has great confidence in Chu Zhuang.
Seeing Chu Zhuang's confident appearance, Yunhong felt much more at ease. It seemed that every time they worried about Chu Zhuang, it was unnecessary. This young man wanted to be stronger than they imagined.
The few people didn't waste much time in the yard, and set off for Xiangguo Temple.
……
Li family.
After Yunmengxi left from Chuzhuang, he ran directly to Li's house.
Li Chun had already cleaned up at this time, and he was slightly relieved when he saw Yunmengxi coming.
"It's already late, everyone set off first, let's hurry up and follow."
Yunmengxi and Li Chun got into the carriage, and then told Li Chun the plan that Chu Zhuang had told him before.
"Brother Chun, what do you think of this plan?" Yun Mengxi looked at Li Chun and asked.
"This?"
Li Chun's eyes were full of struggle and hesitation.
He was undoubtedly moved by the plan Yunmengxi mentioned.
He is nineteen this year, and Li's father and Li's mother gave him the final notice, and his marriage will definitely be arranged within this year.
But the window paper between him and Yunhong has never been pierced.
He wasn't even sure if Yunhong really had him in his heart.
The plan Yunmengxi said would allow him to see clearly Yunhong's feelings for him, and he really wanted to try it.
But this plan is based on deceiving Yunhong, and Li Chun is also afraid that Daotou Lai will not get the result he wants.
This made Li Chun's heart very tangled.
"Pure brother!"
Looking at Li Chun's appearance, Yunmengxi felt anxious, and persuaded him: "It's not harmful to try it out. If Brother Chun is worried that the second brother will blame him afterwards, you can say it was my idea. The second brother won't blame you. .”
"How can this be pushed on you?"
Li Chun shook his head directly, he is not the kind of person who would shirk responsibility.
If he decides to implement this plan, it is also his decision, no one can blame Yunmengxi.
"Then what should we do? We can't just watch the two of you continue like this." Yun Mengxi said with a low mood.
He really hoped that Yunhong and Li Chun could resolve the misunderstanding and be together.
Li Chun sighed slightly and said, "Even if I want to wait for him, but..."
It's not allowed at home.
Maybe this is the last chance for him and Yunhong.
If Yunhong really didn't care about him and just treated him as a younger brother, then he could give up on that, follow the family's arrangement to marry, and then bury Yunhong deeply in his heart.
If Yunhong is really interested in him, even at the risk of being expelled from the family, he will insist on waiting!
"Mengxi!"
Li Chun wanted to understand this, and his gaze became firm. He looked at Yunmengxi and said, "No matter what the result is, I want to try it! Please help me!"
Yunmengxi burst into surprise when he heard the words, and asked happily: "Brother Chun, do you agree?"
"Yeah." Li Chun nodded slightly.
"Brother Chun, we will be like this when the time comes."
Yunmengxi told Li Chun the detailed plan, and took out the plasma bag that Chu Zhuang gave him and put it on Li Chun's chest.
"Okay, the murderer we arranged wears a red string around his neck, and you'll know it's one of us when you see the red string." Yunmengxi instructed.
Just in case Li Chun would identify the wrong murderer, they marked it on purpose so that there would be no mistakes.
"Well, okay, I see."
Li Chunjiang Yunmengxi's plan was carefully written down, and he touched the blood bag on his chest, feeling nervous and anticipating.
……
The entrance of Xiangguo Temple is very hot, and there are not a few people who come to burn incense and worship Buddha today.
At the foot of the mountain, I saw a lot of carriages.
Xiangguo Temple is on the mountain. In order to show their sincerity, those who sincerely worship Buddha will choose to walk up.
Chu Zhuang and his party came to the foot of the mountain, looking at the high bluestone steps, Chu Zhuang raised his eyebrows.
"Let's go up."
Several people handed over the horse and carriage to the accompanying servants, and walked up the steps.
"Is that Yunhong?"
Sima Qitong sat in the carriage and looked at Yunhong's back with a surprised expression.
She did not expect to see Yunhong here.
Then she came back to herself.
Yunmengxi, Li Chun, Yunhong...
"Damn it! Yunhong must have come to see Li Chun!"
Thinking of this, Sima Qitong couldn't help but feel a pain in her heart.
"Miss Sima, let's go up."
Chu Zhangyang did not notice Sima Qitong's strangeness, so he spoke.
Sima Jincheng was worried about Sima Qitong and worried that she would ruin the plan, so he specially asked Chu Zhangyang to accompany him.
With Chu Zhangyang watching, Sima Jincheng could rest assured.
Sima Qitong had a cold face, and immediately ordered Zhao Tai after getting off the carriage: "Zhao Tai, as soon as Yunmengxi arrives at Xiangguo Temple, you will take the medicine immediately!"
She didn't want to give Li Chun and Yunhong a chance to meet, the thought of Yunhong and Li Chun being alone in a place she didn't know made her want to tear Li Chun apart.
"This..." Zhao Tai couldn't help being a little embarrassed when he heard Sima Qitong's words.
There are so many people during the day, and Yunmengxi and the others are traveling together, it is not easy to prescribe medicine!
And even if it is drugged, it will cause a lot of commotion, but it is inconvenient for them to take people away!
It's just that Sima Qitong is a young lady after all, so he can't refuse directly, so he can only focus on Chu Zhangyang.
Sima Jincheng had told him before he came to only obey Chu Zhangyang's orders.
"no!"
Chu Zhangyang naturally knew the pros and cons of it, so he bit the bullet and refused Sima Qitong's request.
"You!" Sima Qitong didn't expect that Chu Zhangyang would dare to disobey her order, and stared at him angrily with wide eyes.
"Miss Sima, taking medicine during the day is too noisy. Let's wait until night." Chu Zhangyang persuaded with a stiff face.
Zhao Tai also persuaded from the side: "That's right, Miss Sima, I'm not completely sure about poisoning in the daytime. If we startle the snake and arouse their ideas, then our plan will not be able to be completed."
"Humph!"
Sima Qitong glanced at the two of them and calmed down a little.
It's not unreasonable what they said, they can only be patient first.
"Let's talk about it tonight!"
After Sima Qitong finished speaking, she led Xiang'er and a group of servants up the bluestone steps.
Chu Zhangyang and Zhao Tai looked at each other, heaved a sigh of relief, and followed immediately.
……
"You guys rest in the room, I'll go around the back mountain."
As soon as he entered the wing room, before sitting for a while, Yunhong stood up and said to Chu Zhuang and the others.
Although I know that it will take some time for Li Chun and the others to climb up.
But instead of staying in the room, it's better to go to the back mountain and wait. In this case, he can see the other party as soon as Li Chun comes over.
Counting it, Yunhong has not seen Li Chun for more than a year.
The last time I said such hurtful things to him, I don't know if Li Chun would blame him in his heart...
Seeing Yunhong's appearance, Chu Zhuang raised his eyebrows, but he knew what Yunhong was thinking.
"I go with you!"
Yun Zhanfei really thought that Yunhong was going to go around, so he stood up and said.
"Ahem..." Yunhong was choked, coughed and said, "No need, I can go around by myself, brother, you can stay here with Chu Zhuang."
Chu Zhuang curled his lips, obviously he didn't want Yun Zhanfei, the light bulb, so why dragged him in.
"Okay, be careful on your own." Yun Zhanfei didn't insist, nodded and instructed.
Looking at the back of Yun Hong leaving, Yun Zhanfei scratched his head, looked at Chu Zhuang and asked, "Chu Zhuang, do you feel that something is wrong with Yun Hong today?"
Along the way, Yunhong was a little distracted, and he was so preoccupied that he didn't know what he was thinking.
Chu Zhuang nodded, he is not blind, Yunhong's something is so obvious, how could he not see it.
"Do you know what happened to the second brother?" Yun Zhanfei sat beside Chu Zhuang and asked curiously.
"Second brother is here to see Li Chun." Chu Zhuang whispered in Yun Zhanfei's ear.
"Oh~"
Yun Zhanfei showed a clear look, and said angrily: "He said it earlier, I wouldn't go with him if he said it earlier!"
"Brother, today we have arranged a plan for Second Brother and Li Chun."
Chu Zhuang coughed, looked at Yun Zhanfei and said.
"Huh? For the two of them? What plan did you arrange?" Yun Zhanfei looked at Chu Zhuang suspiciously.
Chu Zhuang whispered the whole plan in Yun Zhanfei's ear.
Anyway, they were going to the back mountain later, and it was impossible for Yun Zhanfei to hide it, so it was better to tell him now.
"You are planning to deceive Yunhong!"
Yun Zhanfei stared at Chu Zhuang with wide eyes, his eyes filled with excitement.
"This is a well-intentioned deception..." Chu Zhuang thought for a while and said.
Yun Zhanfei rolled his eyes, he didn't disapprove of this plan, he even supported it, it's just...
"But your plan may be difficult to realize!" Yun Zhanfei frowned and said.
"Eh?"
Chu Zhuang was stunned for a moment, and asked suspiciously, "Why?"
"Second brother is accompanied by a shadow guard, and is protected by a shadow guard. Why did you send someone to hurt Li Chun?" Yun Zhanfei shook his head and said.
If it was really that easy to succeed, Yunhong would have died a thousand times long ago.
"Can't Huiming make a move?" Chu Zhuang looked at Huiming and said.
Huiming is the master!
"There are shadow guards dragging you, the second brother has legs, so he can't run?" Yun Zhanfei shook his head and said.
Yunhong was not stupid, he would stand there and wait for the assassin to kill him.
Can't run if you can't beat it?
Those shadow guards were very skilled, some of them were even stronger than the warriors. Although they couldn't beat Huiming, even if they tried their best, they would hold back Huiming and prevent him from hurting Yunhong.
"This is a bit troublesome!" Huiming frowned.
In a real fight, he would naturally be able to catch up with Yunhong, but he couldn't really hurt those shadow guards, so it would be a bit restrained in a fight!
"This is a bit troublesome..."
Hearing what Hui Ming said, Chu Zhuang also knew that the plan would not go as smoothly as he imagined.
Fortunately, I asked Yun Zhanfei in advance, otherwise, this plan may be in vain.
He touched his chin and murmured: "It seems we are going to implement plan B."
Yun Zhanfei and Huiming looked at Chu Zhuang in confusion, and asked, "Comparison? What comparison?"
"It's nothing."
Chu Zhuang shook his head, looked at the two of them and said, "Our plan needs to be changed. Huiming holds back the shadow guard, and then we let Mengxi do something against Li Chun!"
"I will join too!"
Yun Zhanfei didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, and said that he would also participate!
Chu Zhuang thought for a while, nodded and said: "It's okay, then you and Mengxi will come out together, big brother, and you will be responsible for holding down second brother, and Mengxi will attack Li Chun!"
"Good!" Yun Zhanfei said excitedly.
He has watched the entanglement between Yunhong and Li Chun for so many years, and they are not in a hurry, but he is in a hurry.
Now there is an opportunity to give them a push, and he is happy to participate.
"Okay, change your clothes now, brother, the clothes on you have to be changed, and you have to cover your face later."
As soon as Chu Zhuang finished speaking, Huiming took out the package on his back, which contained the cosmetic box used by Chu Zhuang for disguise, and luggage.It's just that Yun Zhanfei is too tall, and the clothes they brought didn't fit him well.
"I didn't bring any luggage, wait, I'm going out to find some clothes!"
Yun Zhanfei went out after speaking, there were so many people in the temple, it was very easy for him to find clothes.
……
Yunmengxi accompanied Li Chun and the others to climb up to the Xiangguo Temple, and the frail wives Shuang'er and Miss of the Li family who accompanied them were exhausted.
"Auntie, brother Chun is not feeling well, I will accompany him to the wing room to rest for a while."
Yunmengxi found Mrs. Li and gave Li Chun an excuse to get out.
"Chun'er is not feeling well?" Mrs. Li hurried over and asked, "What's wrong? I'll let the doctor take a look!"
"Mother, I'm fine. I'm just a little tired. I'll be fine after a while." Li Chun said hastily.
Seeing that Li Chun was fine, Mrs. Li breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at Yunmengxi and said, "Then Mengxi, you can accompany your brother Chun to the wing to rest for a while."
"Okay, Auntie."
Yunmengxi and Li Chun were slightly relieved to see that they passed the test smoothly.
When he came to the room, Yunmengxi closed all the doors and windows, and said to Shuang'er, who was served by Li Chun, "Xiaotian, you stay on guard in the room. If someone comes, you can say that brother Chun has fallen asleep. do you know?"
Xiaotian looked at Yunmengxi dumbfounded and said: "Young Master Mengxi, if you are found out, Madam will break the slave's legs!"
"Come back and bring you delicious food!" Yunmengxi tempted.
"This..." Xiaotian swallowed his saliva, glanced at Li Chun again, nodded reluctantly, and said: "Mr. Mengxi, you have to bring my son back properly!"
"Don't worry, I will definitely protect Brother Chun!" Yunmengxi assured, patting his chest.
"Brother Chun, let's go!"
Yunmengxi took Li Chun out through the back window, went directly to the roof, and left quietly.
"Hey! Mr. Yun married my son earlier, so there is no need to be so sneaky!" Xiaotian closed the window, shook his head and said helplessly.
"Brother Chun, have you brought everything?"
Yunmengxi brought Li Chun to the back mountain, saw Yunhong's figure from a distance, and reminded him.
"Well, I wear it close to my body." Li Chun touched his chest and nodded.
"Okay, let's go according to plan."
Yunmengxi nodded, and walked towards Yunhong with Li Chun.
"Second Brother! What a coincidence! You're here too!" Yun Mengxi looked at Yunhong and said with a smile.
Hearing this, both Li Chun and Yunhong looked a little embarrassed.
What a coincidence, it was obvious that they deliberately asked to meet here.
Yunmengxi knew that Li Chun's time to come out was limited, so he stopped teasing them, looked at Yunhong and asked, "Second Brother, where is Chu Zhuang, I'll look for him! When the time comes, I'll come pick up Brother Chun again." !"
"He's in Wing Room No. [-]."
Yunhong wished that Yunmengxi would leave quickly, so he said immediately.
"Okay, then I'll go first."
Yunmengxi glanced at Li Chun, then turned and left.
When Yunhong and Li Chun saw Yunmengxi's figure disappear, their embarrassing hearts just now slightly relaxed.
But after thinking about it, it was only the two of them right now. The two looked at each other, and their eyes quickly moved away, and the atmosphere became weird again.
In recent years, Yunhong and Li Chun have met only a handful of times.
Yunhong followed Yun Tingfeng on the battlefield most of the time, and even when he came back, Li Chun's family took him very seriously, and he didn't see each other every time.
The two haven't seen each other for a long time, so it's inevitable that they will be a little strange. Coupled with the ambiguous relationship between the two who are more than direct friendship but not full of love, this strangeness also has a unique embarrassment.
"Let's go." Seeing that Li Chun was about to bury his head in his chest, Yunhong pursed his lips and said with a chuckle.
"Well, okay..." Li Chun didn't dare to look into Yunhong's eyes, so he lowered his head and answered sullenly.
When he didn't see Yunhong, he still had the courage to refuse Yunhong's invitation to meet, but now that he saw someone, he was so nervous that he couldn't even utter a word.
Yunhong and Li Chun walked not far or near, one behind the other.
Both of them were pretentious, Yunhong was thinking about how to apologize to Li Chun, and Li Chun was thinking about Yunmengxi and the plan he had mentioned.
Yunhong stopped in his tracks, and took out an exquisite and beautiful white porcelain doll from his arms, which he himself kneaded and fired out of clay.
Since you are here to apologize, you can't just say a word, you have to make an apology!
Li Chun didn't expect Yunhong to stop suddenly, and bumped his head directly into his chest.
"Um...ah!"
Li Chun came back to his senses and quickly took a step back, but in a panic, he guessed a slippery rock in the snow, his body was unstable, and he fell back immediately.
"careful!"
Yunhong stretched out his arms to wrap around Li Chun's waist and hugged him into his arms.
Li Chun rested his hands on Yunhong's chest, subconsciously looked up, the eyes of the two met inadvertently, and his heart stopped beating for a quarter of an hour.
"Clumsy!"
Yunhong let go of Li Chun's hand, and in order to hide his embarrassment, he scolded in a low voice.
"Sorry……"
Because of Yunhong's reprimand, the charm that had been rising in Li Chun's heart immediately fell to the bottom, and he bowed his head and apologized aggrievedly.
Looking at Li Chun's appearance, Yunhong couldn't help being a little annoyed, and didn't know what was wrong with him. Every time he met Li Chun, he couldn't control his mouth.
The two wanted to face each other a little awkwardly, Yunhong coughed and said, "I blamed you last time because of Mengxi's incident."
Thinking of the angry words Yunhong said at that time, Li Chun couldn't help but his eyes turned red, he shook his head and blamed himself and said, "It's a good thing Mengxi didn't have any accidents, otherwise I wouldn't forgive myself."
At that time, he was the one who didn't keep an eye on Yunmengxi, so Yunhong blamed him, but he was not angry with him.
The reason why he did not agree to Yunhong's meeting was not so much that he did not want to meet him, but rather that he did not dare to meet him.
"This incident is not your fault."
Yun Hong frowned, looked at Li Chun and said, "I said those things to you because I was too anxious at the time."
"I know!" Li Chun looked up at Yunhong, lowered his head again, and said in a low voice, "I, I didn't blame you."
Yunhong didn't believe it in his heart, if Li Chun really didn't blame him, why would he not want to see him?
When he said he wanted to meet before, Li Chun came right away without saying a word.
"this is for you……"
Yunhong handed the white porcelain doll in his hand to Li Chun.
He didn't know what kind of apology he wanted to give Li Chun at first, but he had a flash of inspiration when he saw the doll that Chu Zhuang gave to Yunmengxi by chance, and decided to give this to Li Chun.
I think both of them should like it very much, right?
"this?!"
Li Chun looked at the puppet in front of him in surprise, widened his eyes, looked up at Yunhong in surprise, and asked in disbelief, "This is for me?"
"Apologize!" Yunhong pursed his lips tightly, and stuffed the doll into Li Chun's hands.
Li Chun held it carefully, seeing that the puppet was half imagined to him, and the corners of his lips could not stop rising.
Seeing Li Chun's appearance, Yunhong knew that he should like this gift quite a lot, and couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief in his heart, and it was not in vain that he spent so much time making the doll.
……
Yunmengxi found Room A No. [-], and knocked on the door: "Chuzhuang!"
"coming."
Hearing Yunmengxi's voice, Chu Zhuang immediately opened the door, saw a familiar face outside the door, and grabbed Yunmengxi's hand with his own hands.
"boom!"
Yunmengxi heard Chu Zhuang's voice here, thought it was Chu Zhuang coming, and didn't have any defenses in his heart, who knew that when he opened the door, he saw a strange face.
And this man dared to hold his hand.
Yunmengxi came to his senses, immediately withdrew his hand, and punched the man in the eyes with his backhand.
He dared to stand up for Yunmengxi's cheapness, he really had the guts of a bear!
"what!"
Chu Zhuang covered his eyes, tears came out of pain, he looked at Yunmengxi helplessly and said, "Mengxi, what are you doing?"
It's all right, he didn't do anything, why did you beat him as soon as we met?
Hearing the familiar voice, Yunmengxi was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses, stared at the strange man in front of him with wide eyes, and asked in horror: "Chu Zhuang?!"
Chu Zhuang touched his cheek and reflected.
Today, in order not to be recognized by others, he deliberately disguised himself.