Ningguo.
Outside the north of Guangling City.
On Peach Blossom Mountain.
There is a pavilion on Peach Blossom Mountain, named Guanpu Pavilion.
The Nalian Waterfall in February is less powerful than in summer and looks more delicate.
There is a tomb not far from the waterfall viewing pavilion.
Green grass has sprouted on the grave.
That tomb faces Peach Blossom Villa down the mountain. Sitting in front of this tomb, you can have a panoramic view of the entire Peach Blossom Villa.
At this moment, two people were sitting in front of the grave.
Two middle-aged men.
One was wearing a Confucian shirt and a Confucian crown. He was Li Wenhan, the dean of Zhuxia Academy in Guangling City!
The other one is wearing a brocade robe and has a powerful figure. He is Zhongli Ruoshui's father Zhonglisu!
The paper money in front of the grave has been burned, leaving only the lingering smoke.
Zhonglisu looked at Peach Blossom Villa below and asked, "When did you come back?"
Li Wenhan also looked at Peach Blossom Villa below and replied: "It's been three days."
"What are your plans for the future?"
"I am just a teacher, so of course I will continue to teach at Takeshita Academy."
Zhong Lisu turned to look at Li Wenhan and asked suspiciously: "Whose son is Chen'an...?"
Li Wenhan smiled slightly, "The son of Princess Yun'an!"
Zhong Lisu was shocked: "In the third year of Zhaohua, when Princess Yun'an Lu Xiaoyu and her horse Qiao Zitong disappeared, Princess Yun'an did not give birth to Li Chenan..."
Zhong Lizu was interrupted by Li Wenhan before he finished speaking.
"None of this matters anymore. Chen An has grown up beside me since he was a child. His surname is Li. I regard him as my own, even closer to him than to my own son."
"I devoted all my efforts to him, but unexpectedly he really disappointed me... and also made the princess disheartened."
"It's just that neither the princess nor I expected that a person's transformation would come so suddenly and so drastically!"
"On March 3rd of the year before last, he suddenly woke up, as if he had changed into a different person... You and I both know that he is not as low-key and tolerant as the rumors in the world say. He really can't even memorize the Three-Character Sutra! "
"But suddenly he can write poems, and they are the best poems that no one in the world can write!"
"Those poems and his painting Pingchun spread widely, and Princess Yun'an knew about it immediately."
"So, Princess Yun'an has been to Guangling City again. She has been to the tavern under the banyan tree, to Huaping Lake, and to Taohua Island to meet Shang Di."
"Of course, except for my wife and me, no one knows that she is Li Chenan's mother."
"She has never met Li Chenan face to face. She only glanced at Li Chenan from a distance."
"Then...she went to Kyoto."
"I don't know what she did after she went to Kyoto, but I think she must have met Mrs. Fan, she may have talked to the eldest grandson Jinghong under the crooked-neck tree in the Imperial City, and she must have Xi Wei had some tea."
"Perhaps it is for this reason that after Li Chenan went to Kyoto, he was able to receive care from so many people and became the regent of Ning Country with the support of those people!"
Zhonglisu suddenly realized.
The regent of Ningguo... In fact, these people were originally going to support Li Chenan to ascend the throne as emperor!
The deal between Princess Yun'an and the powerful people in Kyoto is probably to make Li Chenan ascend the throne as emperor!
It's just that Li Chenan chose to give up.
Is such a high-power position accessible to ordinary people?
Obviously impossible.
What's more, it only took Li Chenan half a year to enter Kyoto and he became the regent!
Wen Boyu is willing to go out to help Li Chenan manage this country, and this may also be entrusted by Princess Yun'an.
Li Wenhan spoke again at this time:
"Of course, I don't know what deal they reached, but no matter what, she paved the way for Li Chenan's future. It's just that Li Chenan went astray, and the originally prosperous road has entered a desperate situation."
"But maybe this is part of the deal!"
Zhong Lizu asked in surprise: "What does this mean?"
Li Wenhan pondered for three breaths, "I'm thinking that the deal between her and Mrs. Fan probably involves letting Li Chenan save Zhongli Ruoshui!"
"Otherwise, with Xi Wei's temperament, he will definitely not let Li Chenan give up state affairs and go to Shuzhou!"
"...she and Xi Wei are from the same group?"
"Of course, after all, Xi Wei was a frequent visitor to Shangchehou Mansion back then. Xi Wei's ideals not only affected Shangchehou Lu Zhanxiao, but also Princess Yun'an."
"Princess Yun'an is getting married to Qiao Zitong. This is Xi Wei's matchmaking!"
"..." Zhongli Su was stunned.
Li Wenhan added: "Qiao Zitong, everyone who knew Qiao Zitong back then thought he was just a down-and-out scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam."
"Is not it?"
"of course not!"
"Then who is he?"
"There used to be a very famous and mysterious family in the Yong Kingdom. It was called the Qiao Family Courtyard!"
"After Lu Zhanxiao destroyed the Yong Kingdom, the Qiao Family Courtyard quietly disappeared from the world. No one knows where they went, except Xi Wei!"
"Because Xi Wei once was Qiao Zitong's husband!"
"After the Yong Kingdom was destroyed, Xi Wei came to Kyoto, but except for a very few people, no one knew his true identity."
"It just so happens that my father Li Chunfu knows."
"After my father came into contact with Xi Wei for a period of time, he was also infected by Xi Wei's ideals... and he became one of Xi Wei's followers!"
"etc!"
Zhonglisu waved his hand: "Who is Xi Wei? Is he still alive?"
"No, Xi Wei is already dead. He died in the murder at the Chehou Mansion in the winter of the third year of Zhaohua!"
"Then you said Princess Yun'an went to Kyoto to find Xi Wei?"
"Although Xi Wei is dead, the flower of his ideal has quietly bloomed in the minds of many people, so Xi Wei is born again in the world."
This Xi Wei is not the other Xi Wei, they are just like-minded.
"...Since he is so mysterious, how did the emperor know that he was getting into Chehou Mansion that night?"
"The emperor didn't know, but someone tipped the emperor off!"
"who?"
Li Wenhan withdrew his gaze and looked at Zhong Lisu.
He didn't say who it was, but asked: "How is the relationship between the Marquis and his wife these years?"
Zhongli Su was startled, "I have been in Guangling City... They occasionally come to Guangling City to stay for a while. Their relationship should be very good... What do you mean by this?"
"no other meaning,"
Li Wenhan stood up and patted his butt, "I have to go home. There are still classes in the academy tomorrow."
"etc!"
Zhonglisu also stood up, "Where is Princess Yun'an?"
"have no idea."
"Since she knows that Li Chenan is her son, why hasn't she recognized this son in the past two years?"
"...Come on, if Chen An can come out of the Forgetting Tower alive, she will be your in-laws. If you come to Guangling City, you have to entertain her with good wine and good food."
"It's natural. What I want to ask is that after she and Qiao Zitong have been anonymous for so many years, she actually knows about Li Chenan... Have you always been in contact with her?"
Li Wenhan shook his head: "I am just a teacher. If Princess Yun'an doesn't come to Li Mansion, I have no news about her. But I do know that she left someone behind after she left Kyoto."
"who?"
"Yang Sixian!"
"...that Yang Sixian from the Fish and Dragon Society?"
"Yes, he has many identities. Even if you want to find him, it would be difficult...there is no need to look for him again."
"Let's go and talk to you. The main reason is that if Chen An really rescues Zhongli Ruoshui... you are his father-in-law. If something happens, I hope you can stand behind him. "
"Farewell!"
"What's going to happen?"
Li Wenhan stepped forward, "I don't know, the key depends on whether Chen An and your daughter can come out safely!"
"Father sent the Divine Guards to the Kingdom of Wu just to bring them out of the Forgetting Tower!"
Li Wenhan stopped and sighed: "If that's the case, that would be great!"
Zhong Lisu frowned and looked at Li Wenhan's back, "What do you mean...isn't that?"
Li Wenhan continued to move forward, "If you go to Kyoto, ask if the Marquis is okay!"
Zhong Lisu's eyes were full of doubts.
He watched Li Wenhan's back disappear. He withdrew his gaze and landed on the peach forest on Peach Blossom Mountain.
February is a cold spring day.
But there are a few peach blossoms that are not afraid of the cold and have bloomed.
Zhonglisu stretched out his hand and lightly touched the petals of a peach blossom.
After a while, he left Peach Blossom Mountain, boarded a carriage, and sped towards Kyoto.
