Chapter 149: I’ll bet my life with you.

Su Yan was disheveled in the wintry winds of the waxing moon on the streets of the capital, with a crying baby nurse still clutching the sugar gourd on his chest.

He was so angry that he wanted to kill someone as he watched the nanny’s own father disappear into the downtown area.

After slowly calming down, Su Yan coaxed the crying little Shi Zi while pondering what to do at this moment. Send A Zhaoyao to the Military Horse Division, let the government officials send to the Yu Wang House? I guess they don’t dare to take this hot potato, afraid that they will abduct the son and plant the evidence.

I’ll go directly to the Yu Wang Mansion and hand over A Zhaoyao to the guards at the entrance. It seems feasible, even if the Yu Wang does not accept, I put the child towards the top of the steps and leave, they can not just stand by and watch the crying son of the world do not care about it.

After making up her mind, Su Yan used her sleeve to wipe her son’s tear-filled face clean, cursing King Yu’s scummy father for not having a heart, and being willing to throw away such a lovely son, and then holding the child as she walked to the nearby dental shop to hire a carriage.

Walking out a few steps, he turned back and asked the owner of the wine store, “Does the lamb wine in your store really strengthen the spleen and stomach and benefit the waist and kidneys?”

“That’s too capable!” The boss waved his wine spoon and boasted, “Especially for soreness in the waist and knees caused by kidney deficiency, drinking it twice will be effective. Our store’s lamb wine is the most famous in the entire capital.”

Su Yan decisively said, “Give me two altars.”

The wine jar is not too big to hang from your belt without interfering too much with your walk, you just have to be careful not to get kicked off by the child in your arms.

Yu Wang Fu is not far from here, in the northeast of the clarification of the Square. Su Yan walked to the dental firm, found that the carriage were hired to transport the New Year’s goods, had to rent a docile old horse, holding the child on the back of the horse, from the crowded streets and alleys between the slow slipping past.

Overdrive was wrapped in his arms, shaking his newly purchased rattle in his hands, happily screaming, “Ride a big horse, ride a big horse!” Su Yan stroked his little head and couldn’t help but smile.

Zheng Yangmen Street, a team of jinyiwei Tie Ride just galloped in from the south city gate, see the road is crowded, strangling the horse and slowing down.

After Shen Qi finished his errand, he rushed back from Daxing, a suburb of the capital, overnight, with the remaining traces of soot and falling snow all the way between his eyebrows.

He stopped at the intersection and said to the following Qianhu Shi Yanxiang and Wei Ying, “You guys lead the team back to the Yamen, I’m going to do some personal business. I won’t go to the yamen before the seventh day of the first lunar month, you guys arrange for the spring vacation roster, someone must stay in the yamen, and the guarding of the imperial prison must not be slackened even more.”

The two thousand men responded with a promise.

Lingguang Temple incident, Shi Yanshuang learned that Shangguan hid a “demon girl”, this is even more speculation that he wants to go to the rendezvous. The head of the criminal Qianhu was very good at running the Yellow Hussar, so he came forward and asked in a low voice: “When will Mr. Tongzhi invite our brothers to drink the wedding wine ah? It will not be a golden house to hide a girl for a lifetime, never drink it?”

Shen Qi was in a good mood and didn’t care about his old subordinate’s love of gossip, replying, “As long as he is willing, anytime.”

Shi Yanxuan pondered, this sentence seems to have a deep meaning, could it be that the Tongzhi Lord rushed to marry, people are still not willing to marry? He suspected that the other party is not an ordinary family woman, or simply a man, identity is not good exposure. So he tentatively asked: “What is it, the Tongzhi Lord talent and appearance of both power and power, the other side is not satisfied with what?”

Shen Qi laughed and gave him a light smack on the thigh with her riding crop, “Less prying into Shangguan’s private affairs, or your fiancée will know today that you have secretly kept two outside rooms.”

Shi Yanfeng’s heart thumped, and he immediately snapped his mouth shut.

Shen Qi traveled in the direction of Huanghua Square where Su Mansion was located, and pressed his leaping heart, finally arriving at the door of Su Mansion, he dismounted and knocked on the door.

Su Xiaojing came to answer the door gnawing on a marinated chicken claw, slurring his words, “Our lord is not here, please come back another time, Your Excellency.”

Shen Qi was stunned and said, “I’ve cast my obeisance before and made an appointment. Where did your lord go?”

Su Xiaojing shook his head.

Shen Qi frowned slightly and asked again, “Where is that frozen pear-faced guard?”

Su Xiaojing threw away the chicken bones, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and answered with a crackle, “His Excellency told him to go to the blacksmith store to fetch a hot pot. He made a new hot pot, or according to the drawings drawn by His Excellency himself, and prepared it for the New Year’s Eve dinner!”

“Annual Dinner …… and who? Where?”

Su Xiaojing glanced at him strangely, “Where? The New Year’s Eve dinner is at home of course. Your Honor, Brother Chase, and me and Xiao Bei, there are only four people in our family, no more.”

New Year’s Eve dinner at home, of course.

We’re a family of four.

Chase Brother.

Shen Qi’s back teeth were about to sour and he gritted his teeth, “Let me in first and wait for him to come back in the hall.”

Su Xiaojing shook his head like a rattle drum: “His Excellency didn’t say to keep a guest, I can’t be His Excellency’s master as a boy.”

Shen Qi was helpless and retreated, “Then I’ll leave a letter for your family’s lord, and please be sure to pass it on once he returns.”

He took out from his bosom the carbon stick and book that the brocade guards carry with them, and wrote a few sentences briefly and concisely, saying that he would come again tomorrow, and in addition, he would live in the mansion for these few days, sweeping the path in order to wait for the noble guests to come to the door, and would not go to the official office.

Tear off the page folded, thought about it, enclosed with the letter ten taels of silver, handed to Su Xiaojing: “Little brother hard work, a little New Year’s gift, take to buy food.”

Su Xiaojing looked at him out of such a generous, eyes are straight, very moved, but ultimately shook his head, only received the paper, “My lord said, do not casually accept strangers’ wealth and gifts, who knows whether the other party is to send a bribe or under the bait, take people’s hands softly.”

His fingers left oily marks on the back of the paper, and Shen Qi’s eyes twitched at the corners of his eyes, worrying that he would be disliked by Su Yan for being unkempt.

Qinghe is such a clean person that when he rubbed a bloody handprint on his shoulder, he had to mumble and scrub for a long time. Now what if the paper is dirty and he doesn’t want to get his hands on it and just throws it away?

Shen Qi was about to write another one, but Su Xiaojing said “I’ll pass it on when my lord returns” and closed and locked the door.

Fierce reputation can stop the child night cry destroying the life of the seventh son, in front of Su imperial family rash young boy ate the door, but the heart can not be born evil and fire, only feel that the New Year’s Eve dinner should not be eaten in the mother’s home.

As well as Qinghe like to keep dogs? The North Zhenfu Si has raised a lot of dogs, fierce and agile, more than his brash and prickly guards, obedient, and abide by their duties. It’s better to keep a guard than a dog.

After Shen Qi left, not long after, Jing Hong chased back on foot carrying a large tin pot with nine compartments.

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Su Yan looked from afar, Yu Wang Fu’s brass nail red lacquer gate was open, like a pocket waiting for the prey to throw itself into the net, suddenly gave birth to a sense of vigilance.

Is one thinking too simply? Go up the steps, put the kids down, give a couple of explanations ……

Then the guard at the gate bellowed–

“Where did the outlaws come from, how dare they abduct the Prince of Yu! Arrest him!”

So he was tied up, gagged, and carried into the king’s mansion like a sacrificial lamb to heaven, and fell into the hands of the dog than King Yu, who was right in the center of the world. The king s mansion is as deep as the sea, calling the sky and the earth ……

OMG, almost fell for it!

Su Yan immediately turned his horse around and decided to go to the Shen Mansion as originally planned.

As for Overdrive, let’s bring him along for the time being, he’s quite well-behaved anyway, as long as he keeps bringing him things to eat, he won’t make a fuss, and he’s much better to bring up than his cousin’s family’s bear child in his previous life.

Su Yan came out from Clarification Square, Shen Qi came out from the neighboring Huang Hua Square, and both of them went to the Shen Mansion located in the west Hourong Square, so they bumped into each other at the intersection, both of them looking surprised.

Su Yan was more delighted than surprised, and laughed, “Seventh Lang is back, it’s a coincidence that he bumped into him here.”

Shen Qi was more surprised than happy, staring at the little doll in his arms, asking, “Whose child? How come you’re holding it for you.”

Su Yan didn’t want to mention the awful King Yu and was still thinking about how to muddle through. A overgrown seems to be frightened by Shen Qi, shrinking towards Su Yan’s arms, calling out, “Daddy!”

Shen Qi: “!!!”

Suyan: “……”

Overdrive: “(ˉˉ )”

Shen Qi’s face sank, “Your son? Who gave birth to you, that flower girl from Rouge Alley? Last summer, when you just arrived in Beijing to take the examination, you hovered at her for half a year, and only after you left the tribute in March this year did you break the contact, don’t think you can hide it from me.”

Su Yan was busy explaining, “No no, I was just drinking flower wine and listening to a little song at Ruan Hong Banana s place, I didn t do anything else …… Why do I have to explain to you ah, you are not my father. And you and I didn’t know each other at that time, right?”

He thought about it and felt that something was wrong, and suddenly reacted, “–You’re investigating me? Shen Qi what do you want to do, don’t commit occupational disease at my place I tell you!”

More than investigating, Shen Qi also used the Jin Yi Wei outposts in Fuzhou Prefecture for public and private purposes, and turned Su Yan’s ancestors and his birth to the present day, and recorded them in a booklet with drawings, which was just like the popular illustrated talking books.

When he couldn’t see Su Yan’s face he flipped back and forth, looking for his own involvement from peering into the other’s short seventeen years of life.

Every time I read it, I felt that each other’s flesh and blood had bonded a little more, and eventually became bone in bone, flesh in flesh, and completely fused into one.

And Su Yan in just crossing over, and the prostitute Ruan Hong banana that point of ambiguity, where to escape the eyes of the brocade guards, immediately gave birth to a spicy hand to destroy the flowers of the killing heart – before the scene on the scene, just a prostitute willing to bead the tire knot to leave the bloodline, the future necessity of all kinds of entanglement, not as good as the first to get rid of it to prevent the problem before it occurs.

Su Yan keenly sensed the darkness under the other’s eyes, subconsciously wrapped his arms around A Zhaiyao and raised his voice: “What do you want to do? I’ve already said that it has nothing to do with Ruan Hongjiao, it wasn’t born from her!”

Overdrive couldn’t pick the remaining mung bean cake from his hand and called out anxiously, “Father, Overdrive is eating the cake.”

Shen Qi: “Then who gave birth? How can you call me father?”

Su Yan rolled her eyes and said the opposite, “I gave birth to myself, okay!”

Shen Qi stared at his waist and abdomen, revealing a hint of an odd expression, “Even if he got pregnant the first time, it’s still only seven months, it’s not time to give birth.”

“I’m a big man, how do I get pregnant? Do you have a hole in your head?” Su Yan when he mocked, gambling, “Want a son crazy, go find a woman to give birth to you, don’t look for me!” Saying this, he yanked the reins and turned around to leave.

Shen Qi hurriedly drove his horse forward, leaned down to hold his bridle, and said softly, “I was confused for a moment. You’re just joking, don’t mind.”

Su Yan also did not really annoyed, sighed: “You do not ask who this child, know the guarantee heart more diaphragmatic. Anyway, it is a temporary look, I will find a suitable person, to send back to his family.”

“…… You don’t want to say, so don’t ask. Go to my house first, and let the maidservant take care of this little brat.”

Su Yan also worried about such a small child, feces and urine can not get themselves, to the maidservant care is more appropriate, so nodded his head to agree.

The two rode side by side. The wine altar knocked hard on his hip bone, Su Yan came next and handed it to Shen Qi: “Here, Fire sickle’s return gift.”

He always wanted to send something to Shen Qi, but he always felt that it was not suitable. Shen Qi had borrowed his gold silk soft armor – actually sent it, but he thought it was too precious at that time and refused to accept it, and finally gave it back before leaving the capital. So the other party sent the fire sickle as a parting gift.

I do not know what to go back to, I’ve been to Shaanxi is not much to get out of the specialties, are a variety of cakes ah cake ah persimmon dates, the capital logistics smooth, what the north and south of the goods do not have?

I was going to think about it more, but I just bought myself lamb’s wine, so I’ll just turn around and give it to the other person as a reunion gift.

As for the New Year’s gift, it would have to be much more grand, and it would be delivered on the second or third day of the month when it was figured out.

Shen Qi took the wine jar, sniffed it and raised his eyebrows, “Lamb’s wine?”

Su Yan nodded: “Yes, the shopkeeper said that his family’s wine is the most famous in the entire capital, specializing in treating kidney weakness. Like soreness in the waist and knees ah whatsoever, it’s kinda right for (my) condition.”

The word “my” only existed in his mind, and he didn’t have the heart to say it out loud. So this sentence in the ears of Shen Tongzhi, it became another meaning.

Shen Qi: “……”

Shen Qi: “I know.”

Suyan: “Know what?”

Shen Qi: “Last time, it wasn’t that my husband didn’t work hard, but you were always worried about being nearby-“

Su Yan was ashamed and embarrassed, “Shut up! Why are you driving blindly in the cold!”

Driving a car? What does it mean …… Is it the old man s car. Shen Qi said, “This time you and watch well, there are you suffer.”

Su Yan’s heart was a little flustered, and a little swinging, and his mouth was hard, “What this time, there is no this time, it is just to go and sit, chat and drink.”

Shen Qi concurred, “Right, right, chatting and drinking.”

As a result, when he arrived at the Shen Mansion, he lifted Overdrive out of Su Yan’s arms, threw him to the maidservant, and pulled him straight to the inner room.

Suyen struggled, “Chat ……”

“Talk in bed.”

“Drinking?”

“Get on the bed and feed.”

“Wait …… don’t pull …… what are you doing in the middle of the day …… you smell like dust and sweat, you should always take a shower!”

Shen Qi stopped and went to bathe resentfully.

Su Yan sat on the edge of the bed unkempt, alone and confused: what am I doing here? I can’t, it’s too much, I’m a straight man. No, this can be too tawdry, I am a bottom line straight …… straight or not straight have to have a bottom line, can not be self-indulgent.

He straightened out his clothes and went to his handmaiden to ask for Overdrive.

Overdrive had peed twice on the back of a horse halfway across the country, and had pooped in his pants just as he walked in the door, which had just been washed and cleaned and put into new clothes.

Su Yan held A Overdrive in his arms like a shield, nestled into the soft cushions of the study room’s Luohan couch, and began to draw ducks on the kang table and teach him to count.

Shen Qi quickly finished bathing, disappeared in the bedchamber, and went out to ask the maidservant with an iron color, and then immediately turned to the study.

Seeing the happy scene of a big and small child, he couldn’t help but twitch the corners of his mouth and asked, “Do you like the little cub that much?”

Su Yan laughed, “How cute is fleshy.” He patted the surface of the couch, “Come, drink and talk casually.”

Shen Qi was still in a state of desire. The fire was burning, but now suddenly there is no hurry, sitting on the couch, personally pouring wine.

The two of them talked about the experience of the past six months in detail. A overgrown can not understand, also can not sit, in the study crawling all over the floor, rummage everywhere, broke two pairs of good porcelain, and finally was carried away by the maid.

Su Yan said shyly, “Turn around and I’ll ask his family to pay for it.”

Shen Qi didn’t care about antiques, and it was more cost-effective to exchange two Ge Kiln Ice Cracked Vases for this little brat to get out of here.

He carried the kang table away, pressed Su Yan and said, “No need to pay for compensation, just let me have a kiss from his ‘father’.”

Su Yan snorted and laughed: “His father you really can not pro- Well ……” and then could no longer speak.

The two rolled around on the couch and kissed for a long time, Su Yan wrapped his arms around Shen Qi’s neck and panted, “I’m afraid that there will be a strange change in the Northern Desert, and the capital is not at peace, as soon as I came back, I smelled the odor of stupidity ……”

Shen Qi bit his earlobe and asked in a deep voice, “You always stand on the side of the crown prince, is it the emperor’s intention?”

Su Yan said: ”The royal master and the young master are very close to each other as father and son. Besides, the Wei family and I are already on the same page, and we must not let their ambitions succeed. Qilang, I’ll be honest and secretly say–“

He came to Shen Qi’s ear, “Zhu Helin is the next emperor. This is the destiny of heaven-even if the destiny of heaven is tampered with, I’m going to rigidly argue it back to the right path.”

Shen Qi was silent for a moment and said: ”He is still quite a bit short of the fire. Moreover, the emperor is still in his prime, and it’s hard to say what will happen in the next few decades. I’ll also be honest, don’t take sides too early. The fate of heaven is deep and hard to ask, and so is the heart of the emperor, there are unpredictable winds and clouds in the sky, and no one knows which gust of wind will blow tomorrow.”

He paused for a moment and added, “The Eastern Palace is being targeted, and the Viper case is just the beginning. The blood-pupil assassin who died of madness has more than one Hidden Sword Sect behind him. The crown prince might not survive the next assassination.”

“I know, but …… you take me as a lone gambler.” Su Yan looked at him with anticipation in his expression, “I’ll bet on Zhu He Lin.”

Shen Qi lowered his head and kissed his brow and said without thinking, “You bet and I’ll follow. My husband will bet with you with his life, and we will live and die together.”