After taking the envelope and opening it, there was a letter inside. Lu Heng shook the paper and opened the letter. After a cursory glance, he smiled slightly and put the envelope into his arms.
"Don't talk about this to others!" Lu Heng turned around, patted Agui on the shoulder, and whispered.
"Yes! Agui knows!" Agui nodded and replied in a muffled voice.
"By the way, there's one more thing!" Lu Heng thought for a moment, whispered in Agui's ear, and then waved Agui to go.
After Agui left, Lu Heng discovered that just now Wu Ningyuan had driven everyone out of the courtyard just to facilitate the conversation. Now, he was the only one left in the empty courtyard.
Ahem, this is my first time here and I don’t know the way!
Lu Heng looked around blankly, looking around the neat courtyard, and was shocked to find that he couldn't find even a single person.
After leaving the door, he walked around in a long circle, and then came to a courtyard. However, Lu Heng was extremely speechless and found that he had walked back and forth and somehow ended up in the kitchen.
In this yard, a little loli, about twelve or thirteen years old, oh no, it's a little girl, is squatting in the yard, with her back to herself, holding a green apple in her hand, and she is gnawing it vigorously.
Still sitting.
The sound of crackling made Lu Heng couldn't help but admire the little girl's good teeth. It was just spring, and the apple trees in the north were probably just blooming. Looking at the apple in the little girl's hand, she probably found it somewhere.
Woolen cloth.
The little girl, wearing a shabby sarong with bare feet, squatted there, forgetting herself and enjoying the delicious food. Suddenly she heard a knock on the door behind her, and the little girl trembled with fright, and the apple in her hand banged.
With a thud, it fell to the ground and rolled twice on the dirt floor, then was covered with dirt.
The little girl widened her eyes and looked at the scholar at the door in horror. Then she reluctantly looked at the dirty apple on the ground less than one meter away from her. Two bean-sized apples flashed in her big eyes.
Tears were rolling in her eyes. Her little mouth looked like she was about to cry.
"Don't cry!" Upon seeing this, Lu Heng hurriedly walked into the yard, bent down and picked up the apple from the ground. Then he washed the apple in a wooden basin on the side, and then wiped the apple with it.
Cut it into two, handed half to the little girl, and then took a bite of his own. He swallowed the unpleasant apple in two mouthfuls and smiled at the little girl, "It's very sweet!"
Seeing Lu Hengna frowning and eating the apple bitterly, the little girl smiled sweetly, then stretched out her dirty little hand and handed over the half of the apple: "Here you go!"
Looking at the little girl's dry skin due to malnutrition and her big, clear and bright eyes, Lu Heng lowered his head and looked at the half apple, feeling sour in his heart.
"Eat it!" Lu Heng smiled, stuffed the half apple back into the little girl's hand, and said softly.
"I don't dare to eat it!" The little girl looked at the half apple eagerly, then raised her head, saw a flash of sadness in the scholar's eyes, lowered her head and whispered.
"Why?" Lu Heng was heartbroken and his voice was trembling.
"Mama Luo will pinch me!" the little girl said, curling her lips, and the tears rolling in her eyes fell down like short pearls.
When Lu Heng heard this, his heart suddenly trembled. He stretched out his hand, held her hand, and then pushed up the sleeve full of holes. He saw that the skinny arm was covered with blue and purple, which was shocking.
Looking away from the scar, Lu Heng saw the little girl shedding tears, and felt sad. He sighed, stretched out his hand, wiped away the tears on her face, and stood up.
"Xiao Dapeng, come out!"
Lu Heng said calmly with his back to the door.
However, the trembling voice revealed how angry he was now.
"Hey, strategist!" The sound fell, and a big head popped out of the door. He smiled. After standing up, he greeted Lu Heng with a smile and kind eyes like a little daughter-in-law.
"What's going on?" Lu Heng turned his head, pointed at the little girl next to him, and stared at Xiao Dapeng with a trembling voice.
Xiao Dapeng looked along, and when he saw the little girl squatting on the ground, crying, he suddenly shouted in surprise: "Hey, Xiaohong, what's wrong with you?"
When the little girl saw Xiao Dapeng, she immediately became happy and cried, "Uncle Dapeng!".
"Xiao Hong, don't cry. Who bullied you? Tell Uncle Dapeng!" Xiao Dapeng saw the little girl, tears falling down, and felt very distressed. He hurriedly ran over and picked up the little girl.
, asked with concern.
"Ah, it hurts!" the little girl giggled, looking very happy. But when Xiao Dapeng's hand touched her arm, the little girl suddenly screamed in pain.
Xiao Dapeng carefully picked up Yuzi and took a look. When he saw the scars on the little girl's arm, his face suddenly became extremely ugly.
"Who did it?" Xiao Dapeng asked in a deep voice with a cold light flashing in his eyes.
It seemed that this was the first time for the little girl to see Uncle Dapeng looking so scary. When she saw Uncle Dapeng looking like a hedgehog, with a dark face, she was so frightened that she dared not say a word.
On the side, Lu Heng saw the little girl trembling with fear, so he reached out and took her from Xiao Dapeng's hand. He stretched out his hand and patted the little girl's quilt. He turned his head and looked at Xiao Dapeng, whose face was as heavy as water. He frowned and asked.
Said: "Who is Ma Luo?"
Luo Ma! When Xiao Dapeng heard this, his face turned as dark as water.
Turning his head, Leopard's eyes flashed with frightening murderous intent, staring at the ajar kitchen door, and said solemnly: "Old bitch, get out of here!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the kitchen door was pushed open with a bang. An old woman in her forties rushed out of the room, rolling and crawling.
After she ran over, she cried and knelt on the ground, hugging Xiao Dapeng's feet, and cried out, "Master Xiao, please forgive me, this slave doesn't know!"
With a snap, Xiao Dapeng, extremely angry, waved his hand and slapped him in the face.
This slap was so powerful that it knocked the old woman to the ground, and two of her front teeth flew out.
At the same time, Lu Heng hugged Xiao Hong, turned around quietly, and covered Xiao Hong's eyes with his hands.
He didn't want those eyes, the clearest in the world, to see the bloody scene that followed.
"Damn, the prince asked you to treat her well, what the hell did you do?" Xiao Dapeng became angrier as he spoke. After glancing at the spot, he directly picked up a wooden stick and walked towards the old woman with gritted teeth.
go.
"It was him who beat Xiaohong, it doesn't matter, maid!" Seeing Xiao Dapeng coming over with a dark face and carrying a stick, the old woman's expression changed, and suddenly she pointed at Lu Heng and cursed crazily.
Hearing this, Lu Heng smiled, turned his head and looked at the old woman, shaking his head slightly.
Oh, you will not survive if you do something wrong!
Sure enough, when Xiao Dapeng heard what the old woman had said about framed the military advisor, he laughed angrily: "Haha, you are so brave, you old bitch, do you know who he is?"
When the old woman heard this, her expression suddenly changed.
After seeing Xiao Dapeng approaching with murderous intent, the old woman took two steps back. Suddenly, like a poisonous snake that had been gathering momentum for a long time, she rushed towards the scholar beside her.
"Military advisor, be careful!" Seeing a cold light flash in the old woman's hand, Xiao Dapeng shouted with a complexion on his face as he swung the bully and slashed at the old woman's waist.
A bang...
The old woman screamed and fell directly to the ground.
But it was not Xiao Dapeng's attack that worked, but the scholar's raised kick that hit her right in the face.
The strength and angle of this kick are both very clever.
He kicked the old woman on the bridge of her nose and injured her bones.
The old woman fell to the ground with her face covered in blood, covering her face and screaming in agony.
Lu Heng took back his feet and smiled slightly.
Haha, there is a super master next to me. No matter how weak I am, I can still learn one and a half moves. Unexpectedly, I actually used it today.
"***!" Xiao Dapeng, who was still frightened, was stunned for a moment, then became furious, picked up the stick, and rained down on the old woman.
Xiao Dapeng took action with anger and was very harsh.
After a few blows with the stick, the old woman could only breathe out and no breath came in. It seemed that she would not survive.
Lu Heng originally wanted to stop him with words, but wanted to see if he could pry through the old woman's mouth.
He came up with something useful. But when he saw the old woman half-dead, he sighed regretfully but didn't say anything.
"Here, drag him out!" Xiao Dapeng threw the stick aside, turned around, and shouted towards the door.
After the two soldiers came in, they dragged the old woman out of the door.
Xiao Dapeng turned around and saw Xiaohong hiding in Lu Heng's arms, feeling full of guilt.
"Xiaohong, uncle, I...!" Xiao Dapeng hesitated, his eyes full of regret.
"Uncle, here it is!" Xiaohong smiled sweetly and handed the apple she had been hiding in her arms to Xiao Dapeng, her big eyes flashing.
"I... Xiao Dapeng looked at the half apple in Xiaohong's hand, choked with sobs, and two lines of hot tears rolled down his determined cheeks.
Xiao Hong was picked up by Xiao Dapeng from the street. Because the little guy looked very similar to the Cang Xue sisters many years ago, she was deeply loved by the big men in the mansion.
However, this group of people were busy with military affairs and had no time to take care of the children. In the end, they could only entrust the kitchen steward to take care of them. They never thought that that old bitch turned out to be such a cruel bastard. I was so kind.
Entrusting Xiao Hong to her almost hurt Xiao Hong.
Speaking of these, Xiao Dapeng's eyes were filled with regret.
"I wish I could beat her muscles!" Xiao Dapeng clenched his fists and thought excitedly, his eyes bloodshot.
"Ha..." Hearing this, Lu Heng smiled, thought for a moment, looked at Xiao Dapeng, and said, "Hit her muscles. It's probably impossible! But... can I hit the muscles of the person behind her?"
, it depends on your ability!”
"Ah?" Xiao Dapeng was stunned for a moment, his eyes full of disbelief. After thinking about it, he looked at Xiaohong who was happily eating an apple. He thought for a while, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Military advisor,
You mean, that old bitch is..."
Lu Heng nodded and said lightly, "Very likely!"
After thinking for a while, he turned around, looked at Xiao Dapeng and said, "Go and organize people, check around the house to see if there are any unfamiliar faces, and check if there are any secret passages in the house! I guess you will.
A great harvest! Remember, do it quietly and don’t alert others!”
"Yes, I know this!" Xiao Dapeng heard this, clasped his fists and said in a deep voice, then turned and left.
After Xiao Dapeng left, Lu Heng looked away from the door. He looked at Xiaohong, who was following him like a little kid, chewing an apple, and smiled and said, "Xiaohong, can you please take your brother to the back garden?"
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"Okay!" Xiaohong nodded and said happily.
"Xiao Hong is so good!" Lu Heng smiled, stretched out his hand, took Xiao Hong's little hand, and walked towards the back garden of the palace.
Along the way, we saw the spring scenery of the palace, lush forests and bamboos, gurgling streams, bypassed the covered bridge, passed through several arches, and arrived at the back garden of the palace. The Huainan Palace in Tokyo was once a residence given to Wu Ningyuan by the late emperor, so it seemed
The back garden is extraordinarily grand. Take the back garden, which is second only in size to the Royal Garden in the Imperial Palace. It has rockeries, flowing water, flowers, pavilions, and everything. Moreover, the layout of these landscapes is also particularly exquisite.
Every plant and tree invisibly highlights the majesty of the royal family.
There is also a rockery in the center of the lake that is similar to Yanshan Mountain. The jagged rocks are eye-catching.
I asked Xiao Hong who was leading the way. Xiao Hong was like a lark, chirping at the rockery, and excitedly talking about the allusions he heard from Zhan Xiong and others. This was the late emperor's way of commending Wu Ningyuan for leading his troops from the Turks.
He took the credit for retaking Yanshan from other people, and specially sent palace craftsmen to build it.
It took nearly a year to build this rockery. All the stones were taken from Yanmen Pass in Datong Prefecture. Moreover, the shape of the entire rockery was built completely according to the trend of Yanshan Mountain.
Looking at the rockery covered with green pines and cypresses in front of him, Lu Heng nodded, smiled slightly, and secretly praised in his heart, "Look at Shu, the emperor back then really valued Ning Yuan Gong very highly."
The back garden covers a huge area. After walking for a long time, I still couldn't find where Liu Qingqing was.
Although there were warm spring scenery lingering in front of him along the way, Lu Heng, who was not thinking about it, was not very interested in seeing those red and green scenery.
Out of boredom, the maid who led the way started to joke.
"Xiao Hong, how old are you this year!" After talking all the way, Lu Heng asked while walking with his hands behind his back.
Xiaohong held the apple, rolled her big watery eyes, thought hard, and said seriously, "Xiaohong celebrates the National Day this year!!"
"Oh, hearing this, Lu Heng nodded, smiled slightly, as if recalling something, and said lightly: "You're still young, hehe, he's about to graduate from middle school!"
"Ah?" Xiaohong blinked, looking at the handsome and beloved scholar in front of her, her big eyes full of confusion.
Middle school, what is it?
Seeing Xiaohong's innocent big eyes full of confusion, Lu Heng realized that he was talking nonsense.
"Well, middle school means private school!" Lu Heng finally found a suitable explanation after thinking about it in his head.
After saying that, he turned around, looked at Xiaohong, and asked with a smile: "Has Xiaohong read a book?"
Xiaohong shook her head and said, "No, Uncle Dapeng and others said that studying is useless!"
After saying that, the little girl was very sure of her attitude. She looked at Lu Heng seriously and said, "Xiaohong is very obedient and doesn't study!"
Hearing this, Lu Heng couldn't help but sweat appeared on his forehead.
Fortunately, Xiao Dapeng and Zhan Xiong are not here, otherwise, these two guys would probably be in trouble again.
Squatting down, reaching out his hand and putting it on Xiaohong's shoulder, Lu Heng said to him seriously, "Don't listen to your uncle Dapeng's nonsense. How can studying be useless?"
"But, brother, what's the use of studying?" Xiaohong blinked and asked in confusion.
Well······
This sentence stopped Lu Heng.
Lu Heng was stunned there. For a moment, he really didn't know how to answer.
Study, go to college, and then find a good job?
What the hell is going on here? Not to mention that there is no university, even if there is a university, women probably won't be allowed to enter.
Study for Jinshi and win the top prize!
Ha, this seems even more nonsense. There has only been one female consort in history, and she was almost beheaded by the emperor.
Read books, write poems and lyrics!
Hehe, if you just do this, you might as well not study at all.
In this era, in this period, is it true that a woman's lack of talent is her virtue?
I thought about many benefits of reading in my mind, but found that none of them could convince me.
"Brother is lying!" Xiaohong saw this scholar brother standing there in a daze, and curled her lips, eh, she was very contemptuous.
Well······
Being despised by this little girl, Lu Heng couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. He smiled coquettishly.
After coughing, he looked at Xiaohong seriously and said in a deep voice, "Brother, I won't lie to you. Study hard. I promise, it will definitely be useful in the future!"
Well, it may not be useful for Xiaohong to read those Four Books and Five Classics, but what if it is chemistry, biology, and physics.
Oh, maybe there will be a female ancestor named Chongzhi, female Zhang Heng, or female grandson Simiao in the Great Zhou Dynasty!
Thinking of this, Lu Heng couldn't help but laugh, looked at Xiao Hong seriously, and said, "Don't worry, reading will definitely be useful, I promise!" "Yes, Xiao Hong's letter!" Xiao Hong saw the determination in the scholar's brother's eyes.
After that, she couldn't help but become serious. She could tell from the look in her brother's eyes that he didn't lie to him.
"Good boy!" After convincing the little girl, Lu Heng couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He raised his sleeves and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He secretly said in his heart that convincing the little guy is even harder than fighting.
"Let's go, uncle will take you to the back garden, let's look at the flowers!"
"Uncle, do you know the way?"
"Uh, okay. I don't know him. How about Xiaohong taking her brother to see the flowers?"
"good!"
The afternoon sun shone in the palace, and on the road leading to the back garden, the scholar was walking slowly with his hands behind his back. Beside him, the little girl was jumping around like a cute butterfly, her pigtails trembling.
In the bright sunshine, two shadows, one long and one short, were left on the mottled gravel road behind them.