Chapter 10: Easily attracts butterflies

Just into the East Palace, a black shadow with a sharp wind came to the face, Su Yan under the shock of a head, then heard a spike crunch behind the ear, suddenly sour teeth, raw hit a sudden.

The teapot fell into smithereens, Zhu Hailin realized that something had almost happened, and jumped over in three or two steps, “Did you hit it?”

Su Yan shook his head and smiled, “Fortunately, Your Highness was merciful, and I was lucky to get off the mark.”

Zhu Hailin looked at him cross-eyed for a while, then suddenly let out his breath and said in a jarring voice, “What are you doing here.”

“I took stock of it, those old things your highness should be tired of playing with, and was thinking of changing another batch of fresh stuff, so I came to the East Palace to clean up.”

Zhu Hailin pursed his lips, see Su Yan sent the palace people to the shadow air bamboo and so on to move around, the same into the box, finally can not help but say: “Do not toss, not about those things.”

Su Yan searched for a new teapot and poured a cup of fresh tea and handed it over, “What’s going on?”

Zhu Hailin waved away the left and right chamberlains and said in a low voice: “I went to Father Emperor to talk about you, but was severely reprimanded. Father Emperor scolded me for not being diligent in my studies, only knowing how to play around and have fun all day long, and also said that in the future, you will be working in the imperial study in the afternoons, and will not be allowed to accompany me to fool around anymore.”

Su Yan dark sigh, soft voice: “Your Highness when you know the depth of love, the responsibility of the cut, the emperor is for your Highness can be better kind of learning performance of the text, cultivate your body and temperament, the future to do a prosperous and bright king.”

Zhu Hailin was stunned for a moment and slowly said, “I know. But if you are not in the East Palace, I feel that this hall is empty and cold, and I can’t help but want to whine and scream, and I feel like I’m going to go crazy if I stay for a long time.”

Su Yan was also stunned, suddenly laughed: “What silly words. You are the crown prince of the dynasty, the country’s prince, in the future to face a lot of it, can not be everything as expected. Even the emperor, there are many times when you can’t help it, you just don’t see it.”

Zhu Hailin was silent for a long time and said in a low voice, “The family of the Son of Heaven, the family of the people, each has its own difficulties.”

“You know it’s good.” Su Yan drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, “Alright, don’t droop listlessly, your highness forgets that you are only thirteen years old, what to pretend to be old and dignified.”

“Fourteen.” The Prince bit down heavily on the word.

Su Yan laughed, “Same as a brat.”

The Prince was unconvinced, “You’re only three years older than me, what’s the point of pretending to be old-fashioned.”

“I’m bigger than you mostly.” Su Yan slowly looked out the window.

Palace walls on that side of the sky a blue, blue, blue piercing people’s eyes pain, Su Yan stared hard, only to feel countless colorful debris from that above the separation, floating light gradually far away disappeared.

Only to this day does he truly feel what it means to be a world apart, what it means to have moved on.

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These days Su Yan got off school and only hired a carriage to run around the streets and alleys, looking for a suitable place.

The original day prospect of the emperor inadvertently asked, only to know that he taxed in the capital, then said that living without a fixed place is not a solution, give him two hundred taels of silver to buy the first house.

Su Yan thanked the grace, secretly a shame, since going to the capital to catch the examination so far, most of the night are hovering in the Qin Lou Chu Hall, where still remember these things.

Pick and choose, in the east city of Huanghua Square set a three courtyard, although not talk about spacious and grand, but wins in the quiet and elegant, especially on the street side of the pink wall of willow, peach and apricot especially prosperous, is very popular. The Church Department is not far from here, the wind vaguely floating over the soft silk bamboo, Yan Wan song blowing, is more to his liking.

He also did not bring much luggage, hastily moved into the new house, see the house for a long time no one air, the four inevitably accumulated some of the remains of the flowers and leaves, cobwebs and swallows mud, always have to buy two or three servants to take care of the small boy is.

Speaking of “buy”, Su Yan was originally very cold to this word, after all, is educated in modern times, and always feel a kind of guilty for providing a market for human traffickers, but then thought that since he had decided to become a human being, he should follow the customs of the countryside, and also relieved a little.

This era to buy an ordinary boy is also about two taels of silver, Su Yan picked two clean and clever-looking teenagers, and hired a cook and sweeping servants, let them go back to organize the mansion, he went to the street to find a restaurant to drink tea.

On the Taibai Tower, seated by the window, with a river of xiaobo and half a city of spring colors in his eyes, Su Yan sipped a rainy dragon well and sighed contentedly.

Suddenly heard footsteps on the stairs, the second accompanied by a smile, “Guest, upstairs window seat indeed has people, want to change a place?”

A man’s voice was loud and clear: “No change, no change, didn’t you say only one person? I’ll go up and take a look, and if it’s not too vulgar to get close to, there’s no harm in setting up a table.”

Su Yan heard this voice is a little familiar, turned his head to look at the youth on the upper floor, it is recognized, got up and bowed: “So it is the new section of the scholar Lang, rude rude rude.”

Cui Jinping in the tribute test will be mixed with him a familiar face, laughed: “Qinghe brother this set of rituals only cooperation to outsiders to see, what scholar not scholar, folded you and my friendship.”

Su Yan looked at his spirited face and smiled slightly, “That’s that’s that’s that’s that, if you don’t mind, I’ll treat Brother Ping Shan to tea.”

Cui jinping sprightly seat, “Qinghe brother now resides in the fifth grade, and is the prince’s front red, I heard that even the saint also on your eyes, this kind of politeness, but called me this from the sixth grade of the Hanlin Academy Cultivator have no place to hide.”

Su Yan waved his hand: “Do not say so, my younger brother is just lucky to have some luck, weekdays for the Crown Prince research grinding, running errands, as an errand boy, mixed mouth salary only. Unlike Ping Shan brother’s ambition, talent, Hanlin Academy is a very noble place to go, the future will certainly step by step, the future is unlimited ah.”

Cui Jinping eyes swept through a color of disdain, mouth slightly sigh: “Although I have the heart to serve the country, but I can not help living in a remote area, only to do a small official.”

Su Yan refilled his cup of tea, “There is an old saying in my hometown, called ‘when an official has no effort, it all depends on the antennae being thick’, although it is a bit biased, it is not unreasonable. Does Brother Ping Shan know what this antenna is?”

“Antennas ……” Cui Jinping chewed on the words with novelty.

Su Yan looked mysterious: “Look up.”

Cui Jinping looked up blankly and saw that the house was not able to speak, but only slowly shook his head.

The man who asked the question grunted in dissatisfaction, and the horsewhip ruffled up his face.

The moment the firelight illuminated, the surrounding crowd only felt a jade-white face like a pearl under the moon, colorful and dazzling, so dazzling that people did not dare to look at.

The man at the head stared at his eyes for a long time before he said, “The Brocade Guards have been ordered to arrest thieves and take out traitors, if they knowingly fail to report, they will be punished together.”

Su Yan saw his handsome physique, swarthy look, the hostility between the eyebrows can not be suppressed, as if a blade repeatedly calcined in the blood and fire, can not help but be wary, make drunken lethargy look: “I came all the way, only see the wind and flowers, do not see any suspicious characters.”

The chief of the Brocade Guards rolled over and dismounted, pinching his jaw with a sneer: ”You really didn’t see it? I’m afraid it’s a deliberate concealment. Now do not say, until the imperial edict prison, the torture instrument a move, naturally everything said.”

Su Yan in the heart of a pooh, have heard that the brocade guards arrogant, did not think that arrogant as such, wrongdoing is not so blatant to do it, no wonder in the TV series always when the villain.

He broke away from each other’s fingers, and smiled instead of being angry: “Your honor really wronged me, what I said is true, not to mention the wine sleepy road long but want to sleep, where there is still the spirit to look around.”

Brocade guards chief face eased a little, but the gaze is more and more burning bright intake of people, like a smile, not a smile: “In that case, and with me to go back to eat a bowl of sobering soup.”

The crowd of Tee Riders have revealed an unsympathetic look, an anxious urn voice called: “Thousand Household Lord, do not bother to talk, directly tied back is, the brothers are still waiting for out of the fire it.”

Amidst an apish cackle, the Brocade Guards’ Thousand Household reached out and touched Su Yan’s face.

Su Yan movement softly hold his fingers, the corner of the mouth especially with three laughs, but the eyes are not half a bit of spring, softly said: “Thank you Thousand Household Lord good intentions, just a come and go quite time-consuming, afraid of not being able to catch up with tomorrow’s Prince’s morning class, the emperor knows to punish me.”

His words were so thin that they could be heard by only one other person.

That Chito drew back his hand like a bee sting, “You’re ……”

Su Yan slightly nodded, tone of voice a vein of sincerity: “Thousand Household adults guarding the Imperial City is a great responsibility, when things are more interrogation is also should be. Tonight is just a misunderstanding, in my drunkenness, adults do not take it to heart, just think of it as a matter of no good.”

Thousand Household’s face changed slightly, that pair of habitually ruthless eyes, actually flowed out a trace of a mixture of gratitude of a different gaze, suddenly clasped his fist, whispered: “Many thanks.”

Su Yan guffawed.

The thousandth member of the Jinyiwei flew onto his horse and shouted, “Go!”

A cadre of Tei riding do not know why, some people are not willing to ask, was his ruthless whip on the body, do not dare to say more. Immediately the horses and men dust and go, turn eyes disappeared.

Su Yan took a long sigh of relief and smiled bitterly to himself, “It seems that my cheeks really need to be practiced to the point where they are thick and invisible, black and colorless, and I don’t know if that’s a good thing.”

He rubbed his still vaguely aching temples and raised his steps down the bridge, suddenly feeling that he had missed something, he turned back to look deeper into the shadows of the bridge hole, only darkness and no half-light could be seen.

Hesitating for a long time, he took off his outer shirt, dripped into the cold river water, touched one person, and half-helped, half-dragged him to get on the bank.

The man was dressed in a strong suit with a black scarf covering his face, his limbs were stiff and cold, and his eyes were closed tightly, as if he had fainted.

Su Yan peeled off the black scarf, only to see a face full of blood, barely can only see the outline of the features, as well as green and white as a dead man’s lip color. Stretching his fingers to the end of the nose to probe, as if there is still some wandering breath, busy pulling open the wet and cold lapel to press his chest.

The man suddenly trembled violently like a dying fish, his five fingers hooping Su Yan’s wrist, a chilling light shooting out from his eyes, and his right hand blade racking his shoulder.

Su Yan easily broke away from his powerless fingers, skittishly said, “Laozi risked being molested by bullies to save me, but you take the sword to point at me, good wow, you just give me a hard return, and hang up and throw it into the river to feed the wangbangs in a while.”

Anger surged in the man’s extremely open eyes, and his arm crumpled to the ground, but he really fainted.