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Chapter 41: Gentle Red Clothes

The Prefect Palace is located in the center of the city. Four core main roads lead directly to the four square city gates. Four spacious auxiliary roads also use this as the starting point to directly connect to the four corners of the city wall. They are supplemented by a triple ring line, so that the entire city road is connected and connected, making the traffic accessible and convenient.

The Prefect's Palace covers a wide area. Apart from the palace groups and squares used for prefect's governance in front, the one behind is surrounded by high walls.

The inner palace is divided into multiple areas, and a main road connecting the north and south is divided into two halves. One is a connected or independent palace courtyard, and the other half is a huge garden pavilion, a civil and military school, aristocratic hall and medical clinic and other family buildings.

There is a big lake in the garden, which is divided into three pieces and connected to each other. There is a Tingyu Tower by the largest lake. The stone foundation is extremely high, and the upper stairs are divided into three floors, carved railings and jade, flying pavilions and flowing elixirs, towering and quiet, with a great view.

At this moment, there were many guards guarding the floor below Tingyu. Several maids brought fruit and tea snacks in. After a while, they quietly came out to guard the door. They carefully opened and closed the door, for fear that a little noise would anger the nobles upstairs.

It was late autumn at this time, but the garden was still full of green. However, the leaves of the few ginkgo trees near Tingyu Tower were yellow after all, and the golden area was very eye-catching against the blue sky.

The sound of horse hooves came from afar, and soon three riders rushed to the bottom of Tingyu Tower. The strong wind brought up yellow leaves, showing a little autumnal feeling.

The young man, who was the leader among the three riders, was tall and dressed in a big robe with red background and black patterns, had a high crown on his head, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and joyful corners of his lips. Before the good horse could stand firm, he jumped off the horse off the horse, and threw the whip to the guard who was coming up with a smile, "Are my mother upstairs?"

"Madam is upstairs," the guard replied while holding the horse in a hurry.

The young man ignored him and took two steps to step on Shiji. He turned around and said to the two behind him, "You are waiting downstairs," and said, "You are waiting downstairs," and said without caring about the response of others, he pushed open the door of the building and stepped into it.

The hall on the first floor of Tingyu Building is high and spacious, with luxurious decoration, but it is empty at this moment. The second floor is not as wide as the first floor, and there is no one. When the boy stepped onto the third floor, he felt that the light was much brighter. He saw that the doors and windows on the side of the lake were open, and the solid wood tables and chairs were placed beside the door. There was only a slender young woman sitting elegantly on the chair, holding her chin with one hand looking at the lake in the distance. She was wearing a red robe that was not gorgeous or delicate, and she was not overly enthusiastic, and she looked very comfortable.

"Mother," the young man walked a few steps to the young woman and sat down. He reached out to take a bunch of grapes from the table and picked two of them and threw them into his mouth. "I knew you were sitting in this Tingyu Building again, and I didn't know what it looks like in such a broken lake."

The young woman turned her head to look at the boy, showing a small and delicate face, with a gentle smile, and half doting in her eyes, "I heard the sound of you riding a horse and hitting the horse from afar. No matter how beautiful the scenery is, I feel no longer in my mood," she raised her hand and pointed to the clothes on the boy's body, "I ran away without even changing the court uniform, so that your father would inevitably scold you again when he saw it."

"My father should be still in the garrison at this time, how could he run to the back garden to scold me?" The boy smiled proudly for a while and then leaned forward to the young woman in a mysterious way and asked, "Mother, do you know what my father said at the meeting today?"

The young woman glanced at the boy and turned to look at the lake, "Whatever she said is all about your men. It sounds useless for her mother just a woman."

"Mother is useless. Yun'er has to take care of all these things," the young man came to the young woman to please him as if he was acting coquettishly, and then rubbed his chin and said seriously. "And what happened at the court meeting today is really strange. I didn't expect my father to arrange this brother whom I had never met, and I didn't expect that the brother would just respond like that." Seeing that the young woman had no intention of responding, he stood up and stood in front of the young woman blocking her gaze at the lake and said, "Mother, are you listening to me?!"

The young woman looked at him helplessly and picked up a teapot from the table and poured a glass of water and handed it to him, "You have to learn more about your father's temperament. How can you control people after being so impatient? Sit down and drink a cup of tea and say slowly."

The boy nodded and took the teacup and drank it all, then sat down next to the young woman and said, "Mother knows that I don't usually have such a hurry, but today's matter is indeed strange," he frowned slightly, "I have learned about the situation of returning home from all generations of hosts. The county magistrate always needs some rituals and regulations. After all, in name, it was a meritorious for entering Zhongjing as a county county, but this time there was nothing," he lowered his voice and said slowly, "I asked in private, and it is said that they are all the father's intentions..."

"Who did you ask for?" The young woman interrupted the boy's question and reached out to hand him a fruit.

"I asked Xiao Si to ask the guest who likes to wear white clothes from the county magistrate," he looked up at the young woman's face, and could not see any change at all, "What I just said is not the strangest thing. The strangest thing is that my father got angry at the court meeting today, inkstones and pen holders. These things are very caring for by my father on weekdays. This time he used them all to smash people, and it was broken!"

The young man shook his head and sighed for a while and said, "The Ganyuan Army and the Uehara Army are both in trouble. They are sent to the southern battlefield. Especially Du Rushan of the Uehara Army, who was almost beheaded by his father in anger. Fortunately, the county magistrate and the others were spared." The young man curled his lips and lowered his voice again and even put it in the young woman's ear and whispered, "Father also asked me to go to the city garrison army to be supervised!"

The young woman looked up at the boy, smiled and said nothing.

"Isn't my mother surprised?" The young man stared at the young woman's face for a while before he was puzzled, "This position was done by my father before he took over as the prefect. Now... what do you mean by father?"

The young woman gracefully peeled a grape and put it into the boy's mouth before she spoke slowly, "When he left the county, he would go to supervise the garrison army in the city before he ascended the throne."

The boy was stunned and asked, "Have you started doing it since I was so old?"

The young woman shook her head without answering, but took the second grape seriously, "How about your brother...?"

The boy frowned slightly and looked at his mother before saying, "It looks good. After all, it's the blood of our Luo family, but it's a bit aborted. My father asked him to go to Cangyan as a county ward. Mother, you know that Cangyan is very closed. My father meant to let him go to Cangyan for retirement. He agreed happily, and said he wanted to be a wealthy and idle person. This reaction was a bit beyond my expectations, but it was not a big deal." He sneered and opened his mouth to eat the grape handed over by the young woman and said ambiguously, "My father also said that I would take care of him more, and I agreed."

The young woman nodded and suddenly asked, "Who are there people who go to the palace with him?"
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