Chapter 215 – Endless Love

Su Yan slowly chewed and swallowed the dried fruit, the sweet and sour seeping from his lips and teeth all the way to his heart. Zhu Hailin lowered his head and rattled around inside the plate, looking for kumquat flavor in the assorted preserved fruits – he himself didn’t like it, too sour, but Su Yan liked it.

Su Yan looked at Zhu He Lin, thinking that in another ten or twenty years, even if the passionate young man had become a deep and cold emperor, even if he would really come to the point where things were different, he would still clearly remember this scene in front of him, and remember the other person kneeling in front of the temple’s sacred plaque and swearing that he would never be disappointed in his life, and that he would never part for life, and that tears would flash in his eyes. The tears flashing in his eyes.

Don’t ask if it’s worth it, just ask if you want it.

There was no doubt that he was willing. To Zhu Hailin, he had a natural trust based on his past life history, as well as a heartfelt intimacy and fondness.

He wants to chop the waves for this young man, to save the tide of madness, to exhaust this life to push him to the altar of a generation of bright kings, so that he can get the honor and glory that should have belonged to him.

Zhu Helin picked another dried fruit and handed it over, Su Yan caught his finger and moved it away from his mouth and said, “I want to impeach the Wei family.”

Zhu Helin did not show surprise, but only frowned. This expression appeared on his usual carefree face, showing a hint of maturity. However, maturity meant facing more responsibilities, trade-offs, and worries.

“When?” He asked.

Su Yan replied, “The first court meeting after the Wanshou Festival.”

Zhu Hailin asked again, “What is the certainty of success?”

Su Yan smiled and didn’t answer.

Zhu Hailin’s frown tightened. The dried fruit at his fingertips fell into his palm, and he clenched his fists tightly and said, “I don’t think this is a good time.”

“Why?” Su Yan asked rhetorically.

Zhu He Lin was silent for a short while, and answered with some embarrassment, “Father …… treats me much less well than before.”

In the chat with Fubao just now, Su Yan also caught a little hint. He held the back of Zhu Hailin’s hand soothingly, “Little master forgot, I told you before, because the imperial master knows that young eagles can’t always be covered in the nest.”

Zhu Helin shook his head, “It’s not the same, father and son are connected, this time I can clearly feel that my father’s heart is getting farther and farther away from me. Right after …… the fire from Kun Ning Palace.”

The blazing fire that reflected the night sky, a spreading pool of blood in the square in front of the palace, and the cries of the palace people and the roar of the crown prince echoing in the firelight vaguely appeared before Su Yan’s eyes.

“Once some mistakes are made, is it true that there is no turning back and no more forgiveness?” Zhu Helin whispered sadly, “I must have disappointed father to the extreme, so in the past month, he barely set foot in the Eastern Palace, and no longer summoned me to go to the Hall of Nourishing Hearts at night to learn about government affairs, and even when I went to greet him every day, he often excused himself from seeing me. Even when we meet, we only routinely ask a few questions about schoolwork and disaster relief.”

Su Yan always think not to. Emperor Jinglong favored the crown prince for fifteen years, how many times the mischievous nonsense, chickens and dogs are tolerated, how will the crown prince because of the loss of his mother’s relics, anger and murder and break the love between father and son.

It is not that the murder is not serious, but in this feudal era, such cultural traditions, the palace people are just the imperial family in the eyes of the house slaves, there is no emperor will be for the wrong palace people to chastise the crown prince. Take down the Wei family, perhaps this is not the most mature time, but I can try to plan to the most promising time. Maybe once will not succeed, as long as there is still life, I will learn from those who advise the sage.

“In the past dynasty, when the treacherous prime ministers were monopolizing power and disrupting the government, a large number of magistrates rose up in protest, impeaching them with impeachments and fierce words, and never stopped during the past 20 years. Although they paid a heavy price, or were killed, or caned and exiled, but the impeachment was more than that, and finally made the traitorous prime minister get the punishment he deserved.

“This is the proper demeanor of a magistrate! Since I have worn this imperial historian’s robe with the patches of the Xiezhi, I must assume the appropriate responsibilities.”

“–Qinghe!” Zhu Helin couldn’t help but lean over to hug him, the clenched wet fruit preserves rolled off the couch from his palm, “It’s the greatest fortune of my life to have met you. You promise me that you will never leave my side, always support me, assist me, and share the beautiful country with me.”

Su Yan smiled, “Haven’t I already knelt at the late Empress’s divine tablet, kowtowed, and sworn an oath?”

“Say it again! Say it again! Say it again! I want to hear it!”

Su Yan was shaken to the point of dizziness by him, “Fine, I’ll say it – I vow to never lose sight of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for the rest of my life, and to keep my white hair on my head for the rest of my life.”

“It’s not His Highness the Crown Prince, it’s Zhu Hailin.”

Su Yan was helpless and said it again with a different title.

After he swore, Zhu Hailin still hugged tightly, his chin resting on the nape of his neck, murmuring, “What to do, what to do ……”

“What about?”

“Every time the little master feels that the like for you to the extreme, it is impossible to have one more point, but the next time we see each other again, it will give birth to more and more. A person’s heart, how can it fit endless like it, so go on not to hold up cracked it …… you say, little master what to do?”

Touched by this straightforward to almost pure affection, Su Yan hugged Zhu Helin back and sighed, “Be clear-minded and let nature take its course.”

Zhu Hailin seemed to be about to cry. He said in an extremely restrained trembling voice, “If you think you should go, then go, and Little Master will do what Little Master should do.”

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Su Yan did not stay in the East Palace for lunch. The little chef’s elaborate patterns were all prepared in vain, Fubo was a bit disappointed, but the crown prince was calm and ate up the two-person portion of the meal.

“Tomorrow is the All Souls’ Day, have you prepared all the birthday gifts for Father?” He asked.

Cheng Sheng replied, “Back to young master, it was all prepared a few days ago. The old slave has checked it several times to make sure it’s perfect.”

The Crown Prince said, “Add one more thing–I want to make a lamp with my own hands. You go and get the old courtiers who once served in Kunning Palace, and let them talk to me about how the Queen Mother’s favorite Green Lotus Lamp is made.”

–

Su Yan still left the palace through the Donghua Gate and took a carriage back home.

Jing Hong chased people outside the door, and as soon as he saw him, he said, “My subordinate is preparing to wait for your lordship outside the Imperial City Gate.”

“What happened?” Su Yan asked while walking into the mansion alongside him.

Jing Hong pursued, “The secret agent of the Northern Zhenfu Division has sent word that Lord Zuo, the langzhong of the Ministry of Punishment, has taken the paperwork and is going to lift Wan Xin.”

“Zuo Guangbi?” Su Yan pondered, “When I set up the task force, the Ministry of Justice said that such a big case, according to the law, they can not not participate in the trial, and sent a lieutenant Zuo Guangbi to be the deputy judge. I see that the left Langzhong may not have much enthusiasm for the truth of the case, a pair of strokes always staring at me behind the back, like trying to find fault. After the public trial conference is even whisked away, and the light wind of the imperial historian Chu Qiu compared to the inferior – I heard that these two people are still close friends? It feels a bit strange.”

“Your honor does not ask if Wan Xin has been raptured?”

Su Yan laughed, “If Wan Xin is so easily brought up by the Ministry of Justice, I’ll go and settle the score with Seventh Lang, and ask him if the Jin Yi Guards of the Northern Zhenfu Division are no longer useful.”

Seeing that His Excellency was so trusting of Shen Qi, Jing Hongchu could not help but taste it in his heart, but he still restrained himself and answered with a flourish: ”It’s all within His Excellency’s expectation. The Northern Zhenfu Division held the person to death, saying that the Jinyiwei only serves the imperial order, so that the Ministry of Justice to take the imperial decree to raise the person. Zuo Guangbi couldn’t argue, went away in a rage, and also put out a statement that let the North Township Division Shen Qi wait for the Ministry of Justice’s impeachment playbook of Lord Wang.”

“The Minister of Justice, Wang Ti Rui Wang Ta …… is a just and strong Xianghe.”

Su Yan recalled in the East Garden, Ye Donglou case, he was Feng to go to the evil designed to become a suspect. Wang Shangshu questioned him, not to speak of emotion only certified evidence, who face is not sold, the Yu Wang also as a suspect to try, that is called a strict law enforcement.

It was unlikely that someone like this would go on to become a sword in the hands of the Wei family. Perhaps there was some other inside story behind it that he was unaware of.

“No matter what, Wan Xin must not be handed over to anyone else. Even if the Empress Dowager’s decree comes, I’ll still bring up the imperial decree that the Emperor gave to the task force earlier to argue on the basis of reason.”

Thinking about it, Su Yan was still a bit uneasy and added, “I’m going to meet with Seventh Lang.”

Jing Hong chased after him and stopped him, “Noon is almost over, your honor will have a meal first, turn around and my subordinates will escort your honor over.”

Hearing him say this, Su Yan realized that he was famished, and busily greeted Xiao Bei and Xiao Jing to come to the hall to eat together.

Can see that adults have something in mind, the two boys do not dare to play like usual, all honestly eat, work. After the meal, Su Yan went back to the house to change into a lightweight hiker, and got on the carriage to the Shen residence.

The journey is quite far, the afternoon meal is easy to sleepy, Su Yan dozed off in the rickety carriages.

Jing red chase let him pillow in his lap nap, thinking that this is to send his beloved to see another lover, how unwilling and smothered anger! Can not see and will miss the big thing, affecting the adult career and even life – a moment to feel that some things in life are both ridiculous, but also called people can not be helped.

The only thing that comforted him was that Shen Qi had not recovered from his serious injuries, and even if he wanted to get up and do something, Lord Su did not allow it. He just sat on the edge of the bed, holding hands and talking.

After they finished their business, they wanted to talk about private matters. Jing Hongchu deliberately did not avoid, holding a sword on the edge of the bed, as Shen Qi said “hanging rack”.

Su adults in the end thin skin, some too out of the ordinary words embarrassed to say in front of the two lovers, sat for more than half an hour, ready to get up and leave.

Shen Qi looked at Jing Hongchou with a murderous aura in his gaze.

Jing Hong chased after him and remembered that he seemed to have made an alliance with him a few days ago to fight against the imperial power together, so without any psychological burden and with a dead face, he said to Shen Qi: ”In the jianghu, whoever has a hard fist has the right to be reasonable. You want to reason with me? Wait until you’re not lying dead.”

Shen Qi was never a reasonable person, and he didn’t want to be reasonable with him at all. After holding his anger and watching the two men leave, he immediately ordered the steward to buy expensive herbs, what ginseng ganoderma lucidum meat taiyao, more good tight good buy. And asked Gao Shuo from the vast sea of Jin Yi Wei files, pick out a line of qi healing gongfu secret books to send.

So while taking tonic and practicing at the same time, he shortened the one-month period of recuperation to half a month, and rushed out at the critical moment – of course, this was an afterthought.

Su Yan consciously did all the preparations he could, and returned home to his bedroom, taking out the birthday gift he was going to offer to the emperor the following day and looking through it.

Jinglong emperor early years have Oracle, not allowed subjects to buy, waste of money and material resources to his tribute. If you have to congratulate the birthday, then offer some painting, calligraphy, music and other elegant things, do not have to be heirloom masterpiece, self-made more obvious intention.

The other day Su Yan thought about it, and felt that his words and paintings were not to the extent that they could be taken, but it was not difficult to get a copy of the sheet music –

There are so many classic folk music in the latter days, choose a tune that is melodious and melodious, like “Moonlit Night on the Spring River”, “Fishing Boat Sings the Evening Song” or something like that, he can hum it himself. Let the musicians to Gong Shang Ang Zheng Yu marked into the score, and then by the woman harmony to sing, and elegant and novel, how good.

After seven or eight days of tinkering on the side of the case, it basically took shape, and finally came up with a pipa and dongxiao ensemble version of the “Moonlit Night of Spring River Flowers” score for the emperor’s birthday gift.

Putting the box containing the music score on the desk, he then took out a cylindrical seal of goat’s fat jade from the drawer, the very same personal seal that Emperor Jinglong had given him.

Touch the seal head of the “Geun” two words, Su Yan with a compilation of strong red rope strung on the seal end of the luan dragon openwork carving, just can be hung on the neck.

Hanging a few hundred million dollars worth of cultural relics around his neck, Su Yan, who had been a hayseed for half of his life in his previous life, suddenly developed the feeling of “God, I’m a rich man too”.

He looked in the mirror, the sheepskin jade seal draped over his chest, he couldn’t tell in a trance whether the jade was whiter or his skin was whiter, and he thought it was quite appropriate, so he gathered his sash together and went to bed.