Chapter 52 The Rain

On the sixth day of the fifth month, just after the Dragon Boat Festival, it started raining heavily in Chang'an. Fortunately, it was not raining yesterday, otherwise the polo game would have been affected.

When he woke up from a hangover, Xue Chongxun realized that he was still in Wu Dalang's mansion. Wu Erlang was also drunk last night, and the three brothers got up at noon. Now Xue Chongxun still felt his mind was still groggy.

They sat in the open hall and sobered up. There was a beautiful woman in a white silk skirt in the wooden lattice door, burning incense and singing the zither. "Dong, dong..." The sounds of piano and rain turned into one. Xue Chongxun listened carefully for a while, but he couldn't hear any music. Poetry, song, music, chess, calligraphy, painting, bow, horse and sword skills. Among the cultivation of these noble children, the rhythm is Xue Chongxun's favorite, but he still had a piano score, so he suspected that the piano player did not read the score at all, but just played it with his heart.

The rainwater drips down from the tiles into a line, dripping into the ditch below, and the "bobo..." sounds lightly, like the accompaniment of the piano.

At this time, Xue Chongxun said, "My injuries have been almost done. I guess I will be transferred to the Ministry of Revenue or the Censorate this month to assist Liu An in managing the canal transportation as an imperial envoy. We brothers and others will not meet each other for a while. When we get together today, just say goodbye. There is no need to see each other off on the day of leaving, so as not to listen to you sighing."

The strong man Wu Erlang frowned and said, "Why are elder brother leaving the capital now?" Because Taiping and the prince's parties are still confronting each other, Wu Erlang has this statement.

Dalang Wu Chongmin pondered: "My mother has another job to send to her elder brother?"

Xue Chongxun thought that although the Wu brothers were still reliable, the royal family was all in the same circle after all. If it leaked, it would be bad. He did not admit it and said, "I can't help much in the capital. The transportation of canals is also a big deal. Liu An has not achieved any results after a year. He is also an official from his mother. I will go out to Beijing to see what's going on."

"When will I return?"

Xue Chongxun laughed out loud: "It's about winter." Of course, the Wu brothers didn't know why he was laughing.

Laughing can infect people, and Wu Chongmin also smiled heartily and said, "Then I won't send you my elder brother. We'll pick you up when you come back."

"I love hearing these words." Xue Chongxun smiled.

Wu Chongmin pointed to the woman playing the piano inside again: "I saw my elder brother looking at her several times. We happened to be drunk last night and didn't take a shower. We asked her to take a bath with my elder brother later."

Xue Chongxun shook his head quickly: "No need, I really don't have that intention. I'll leave first when I have some tea. I'll have some preparations before leaving."

"Why bother with elder brother? As long as it is not your sister-in-law, you can play with the women here." At this time, Wu Chongmin saw that Xue Chongxun was holding something in his hand, perhaps the hairpin given by Princess Jincheng, and he smiled, "It seems that elder brother is really concerned about Jincheng?"

Xue Chongxun said: "I can't even if I don't care about it... I can't accept my brother playing with my woman, even if she is a girl, so I won't do such a thing."

Wu Chongmin smiled and said, "It seems that the elder brother has not understood thoroughly. The husband is rich and powerful, and the young lady is handsome and beautiful. That's all."

"I used to be like you, thinking that I had seen through the essence." Xue Chongxun suddenly looked at Wu Dalang very seriously and said, "But later I realized that I was all self-deception. Everything in the world is there, and how can people be so easily understood?"

Wu Erlang slapped the table: "Brother, don't want it, I want it. Brother, let the woman who plays the piano accompany me later. If you can play the piano, you can use birds to play the flute, and you can play the flute."

Wu Chongmin laughed and said, "No, she can't give it to you, otherwise, she will burn the piano and cook the crane, waste good materials, and use no point, so she can't be happy to serve you. I'll show you the other few in a while, and I can do everything on the bed."

Xue Chongxun laughed for a while, then stood up, clasped his fists and said, "Then I will say goodbye. Don't send it to you. My brothers don't like that complicated thing."

After saying that, Xue Chongxun took an oil-paper umbrella from his servant and walked into the rain. The two brothers of the Wu family stood under the eaves and watched him go out. When Xue Chongxun walked to the door, he raised his hand without looking back and waved to the back.

After getting on the carriage, Xue Chongxun said to Pang Er: "Go to Yuwen's house."

... "Duke Wei Guo, please sit down, look at the tea, why are you so slow!" Yu Wenxiao's eyes showed a glimmer of joy. The wrinkles on his face were really shocking. It was originally a very serious and vicissitudes of life, but the joy was still beyond words at this time.

Xue Chongxun hurriedly said, "If you are not in the officialdom, you will not talk about your official position. You are the master of your age. Please... don't refuse, it's quite time-consuming."

"Okay, okay!" Yu Wenxiao glanced at his daughter beside him and sat on the chair in Zhengbei in a big way. Xue Chongxun also brushed his robe and sat down.

He pondered for a moment, and then said, "To visit today, two things are two things, one is to say goodbye..."

Yuwen Ji immediately raised her head and stared at Xue Chongxun in a daze.

Xue Chongxun found her gaze and couldn't help but pause, and then continued: "Last year, Liu An, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, went down to rectify the canal transportation. It has been almost a year and it has not been effective. He was recommended by his mother, so his mother asked me to go down to see the situation and returned after a few months... Second, there is something I want to ask you to do. Last time I was trying to assassinate Bai Wuchang, who was trying to assassinate me at the City God Temple. I don't want to care about her, but I want to know the exact result, who is instructing me behind my back."

The old man hurriedly said, "Since Sanniang is under Xue Lang, I have nothing to hide from you. Bai Wuchang was indeed my person before, but after I entered the officialdom, she had betrayed me..."

Xue Chongxun raised his hand and interrupted him: "No need to explain, I know. It is precisely because she is your old subordinate that you know her better and most likely to find out the truth. Bai Wuchang's whereabouts are uncertain. I don't expect the government to have an official position... There is also an official position. Don't be promoted for the time being. If possible, it's better to resign the official first and then say it later. Do you understand this? "

Yuwenxiao nodded.

At this time, Xue Chongxun turned his gaze to Yuwen Ji. Seeing this, the old man said, "I'll go and urge someone to prepare supper." After that, he walked out.

There were only two people left in the room, Xue Chongxun and Yuwen Ji. Yuwen Ji was still standing in that corner, lowering her head and thinking about something. After a while, she said, "I said someone in Chang'an City said yesterday. Today, I don't understand. You said you can only marry a princess, why did you have to be the Princess Jincheng? She is going to Tubo to marry, aren't you asking for trouble for yourself?"

Xue Chongxun smiled and said, "You are jealous... In our Tang Dynasty, who are not a man of status has many wives and concubines? He follows the customs of the countryside. Even if I marry a princess, I will not leave you alone."

Yuwen Ji said coldly: "I'm not jealous, I'm just reminding you that if you really want to marry a princess, Jincheng is not a good choice."

Xue Chongxun shook his head: "I don't like the national policy of marriage. Anyway, the court has just decided on this matter. It will take some time to send Jincheng to Tubo. During this period, who knows what will happen? There are still opportunities."

Yuwen Ji lowered her head and said sadly: "I don't ask for fame, but I ask for the most important position in your heart. If you really love each other... Master said that being kind to others is the beauty of adulthood. I am a redundant person..." Yuwen Ji said this and shed a tear in her eyes, "I wandered around the world and wish you a long life together."

"Yuwen Ji!" Xue Chongxun stood up, walked to her, stretched out a corner of her sleeve to wipe her tears, "What are you saying? You don't know. In our Tang Dynasty, everyone has wives and concubines, and I will treat you all well."

Yuwen Ji slowly stretched out her hand, touched the injured place on Xue Chongxun's chest, and said softly: "I only have your heart... You must be careful with this person Jincheng. Although I don't know her, I know some of her things. Among the princesses in the palace, she has no power and no backing, and she is beautiful, so she must be excluded from being excluded. Now she is going to be treated as a victim and sent to Tubo. She is born with beauty, but has such unfair experiences. She is probably very scheming. I am not trying to say bad things about her, but I am afraid that Xue Lang will be deceived by women. I know women better than you... If she is treated like this and can maintain a peaceful and kind heart, then I will be convinced."

Xue Chongxun pondered, and Jin Cheng's smile and frown appeared in his mind. He immediately said, "She is such a person, as good as you. Although she was treated unfairly, she still maintains a beautiful heart. If you lose, can you get along well with her in the future? Promise me."

Yuwen Ji raised her head and tears were not dry yet, but she smiled and said, "If it's such a good person, not only men like it, but women also like it. Then I won't steal you from her, but I will steal her from you in turn, haha."

"Don't be afraid, the meat is rotten in the pot anyway. Then we can play whatever we want to avoid boredom." Xue Chongxun said with a wicked smile.

"Bad things!"

Xue Chongxun said in her ear: "You knew I was bad from the beginning."

Yuwen Ji's face turned red and she bit her vermilionate lips lightly, and whispered: "You have been led to ruin... When will you be as bad as Mengyunzhai?"

Xue Chongxun said: "I have to be busy preparing to set off these days and have to go to the court to hand over official documents. I have a lot of things and I have no mood. How about I still stay in Yinyunzhai when I come back?"

"Well..." Yu Wenji buried her head very low, and her ears were red.

"I'm leaving. If the two loves last for a long time, how can they stay together day and night? You have to survive first to stay together. Don't be sad, you'll stay in my heart all the time."

Yuwen Ji said: "I found that you have changed a lot... It's not because of Jincheng, right?"

"I'm jealous again." Xue Chongxun smiled.

After the two of them talked for a while, Xue Chongxun said goodbye and went out, and still asked Yuwen Ji to farewell and send him off. But when he was about to get on the carriage, he heard Yuwen Ji calling him.

He turned around and ran out when he saw Yuwen Ji didn't bring an umbrella. He stood at the door and looked at him. Xue Chongxun said, "Go back."

The rain was still falling, crackling on the oil-paper umbrella, gathering into water lines, sliding down along the edge of the umbrella.
Chapter completed!