Wine is indeed a good thing.
With it, people can release their inner feelings and desires, find true happiness in the release, and find the sublimation of their own spirit.
In a daze, Xiao Yu thought so.
With the wine in his arms, the night of joy made him feel like he was in the clouds in the sky. How he finally returned to Shuiyun Pavilion and Qingxue, he couldn't remember at all.
But after I woke up, I heard some fragments of words from other people's mouths.
That night he got into a mood, and sat on the roof drinking wine from pots with Pan Duo. The empty wine pot he threw away fell in the courtyard with a crackling sound, shattering on the ground.
When you are happy, you talk a lot, and when you talk a lot, you inevitably end up with beautiful articles.
Xiao Yu is very powerful. He always speaks well and his skills amaze everyone. He has created so many "unparalleled masterpieces" overnight.
Later, I heard Pan Duo say that the phrase "Kill one in ten steps and leave no trace in a thousand miles" made his heart surge. If the servant hadn't stopped him, he would have been ready to go to the end of the world with his sword. After hearing this, Xiao Yu could only Haha.
At that time, he did not know that under the eaves under him, a courtier who was extremely fond of poetry had been writing furiously.
Xiao Yu drank for most of the night, walked back and forth on the roof for most of the night, and recited poems in his mouth for most of the night.
That was really tiring for the audience. At first, he was reading every word, but then there were more and more good poems, and he became a little tired of enjoying the poems, and gradually became tired.
Even so, he worked hard and recorded carefully.
But later on, I copied the songs one by one into a volume, which was enough to keep me busy until noon the next day. I don’t know if I remembered them correctly.
And those poems and verses soon flowed out of the princess's palace, and were widely praised among the literati in Jiankang City, and even caused an uproar in the literary world, but that was all for another time.
In short, Xiao Yu remained silent when he heard others talking about the experience of that night. He only felt ashamed. He always told people that it was all drunken nonsense. He himself didn't know what he said that night. , but in the eyes of outsiders, they only think that the young prince is humble and low-key when he is awake, and does not like to show off.
Later, I heard that I was completely cut into pieces. I hit my head directly on the ground, rolled and fell from the eaves. This shocked everyone present, including the Prince Consort Pan Duo.
Fortunately, there are people under the eaves, and dozens or hundreds of hands are reaching into the air at the same time to pick up people.
Fortunately, there was no danger, and Xiao Yu's body that weighed more than a hundred pounds was finally caught by a bathing lady who didn't know how she got in.
The lady was tall and thick, as strong as a cow and as soft as a ball of cotton. That was why he didn't end up with "broken bones and tendons."
But after hearing about it, Xiao Yu still felt horrified, and he decided never to drink on the roof again, especially with Consort Pan.
All in all, I slept really deeply after this episode.
But I was still woken up by a loud noise.
Xiao Yu rubbed his sleepy eyes and got up from the bed. A few rays of sunlight happened to shine on his face along the edge of the window. The brilliant golden light was so bright that he still couldn't open his eyes.
He looked out the window drowsily, where the sound came from, as if several domestic servants were carrying something heavy.
Xiao Yu was not interested in this. He was about to fall back to sleep, and happened to see Qingxue packing clothes with her back to him.
He suddenly remembered that he should go home today.
He shouted lazily: "What time is it?"
Qingxue looked surprised and turned around.
"Ah! Little prince, you're awake!"
I saw that Qingxue looked a little haggard, but she was in good spirits. Her beautiful autumn eyes were looking at him with a smile. It seemed that this girl had been tortured by him and had not slept well all night.
"Tatsuki has just passed, young prince." The girl's eyes glanced out the window, "It's still dark, but the young prince drank so much wine last night. When he came back, he cried and laughed, and even vomited most of the tank. In a moment, he was full of energy. God hasn't come back yet, so why not sleep a little longer and wait for the servants and boys to put everything away before calling the young prince."
Xiao Yu smiled happily, stretched his waist, lay down on the bed again, hugged the brocade quilt and took a deep breath.
"It's time to go back today..."
Qingxue said with a smile: "Does the young prince not want to go back?"
Xiao Yu looked at the ceiling and blinked: "I've been here for a long time, and I really don't want to leave..."
"Manager Cui came to the eldest princess's mansion early this morning and said that he would take the young prince back."
Xiao Yu's expression changed: "Why him?"
Qingxue didn't seem to notice the change on Xiao Yu's face. She was still immersed in folding clothes and said:
"Yesterday afternoon, the eldest princess sent Manager Lu to our palace to report the news. Maybe Manager Cui was informed."
"He's not dead yet?"
Qingxue's movements in her hands hesitated for a moment. She thought she had heard wrongly and looked back in confusion.
"My young prince, who did you just say is not dead?"
"I asked him why Cui Baliang is not dead yet."
Qingxue looked surprised. The young prince was usually friendly and gentle with everyone he talked to. Why did he curse the steward of the house today?
But there was one thing she had vaguely heard someone mention before, but she heard it in a hurry and it wasn't very true.
That was the day before when he returned from Jilong Mountain, the young prince really beat Cui Guanshi, and he hit him so hard that his face was disfigured.
Naturally, she had not seen it in person, so she only thought it was a rumor, someone was deliberately exaggerating.
But seeing the vicious expression on the young prince's face now, she couldn't help but believe it.
Xiao Yu seemed to have lost his temper.
"Where's Manager Huang? Why doesn't he come?"
"Slave... I don't know."
Xiao Yu angrily turned over and lay down with his back to Qingxue, then wrapped the quilt around himself.
Qingxue looked at his back and blinked, her eyes calm and soft, she continued to lower her head and fold the clothes again.
Afterwards, three or two young men came to the door to ask questions. Qingxue was not worried about their actions, so she followed them out.
It wasn't until three o'clock in the morning that the girl came back from outside.
When I entered the door, I found that my young prince was still lying on his back in the same position as before, but the brocade quilt was not wrapped as tightly as before, so he probably fell asleep again.
She wiped the sweat from her forehead, and as usual when the young prince was away, she quietly moved a chair to the courtyard, and sat on the edge of the pond to feed the koi.
As long as there are some noises in the house, Qingxue will put down the bait and lean forward to look inside.
But the young prince still had his back to him and had no intention of getting up.
Qingxue was wondering what her young prince was doing when she saw a familiar figure walking in from outside the courtyard.
Qingxue quickly stood up and stood aside in a dignified manner.
The person who came was disheveled and unkempt, wrapped in a wide silk robe, and stepped on wooden clogs that made a clicking sound.
When he saw Qingxue, he asked: "Where is Xiao Dalang?"
Qingxue blinked. This was the first time she saw Pan Duo looking like this. She wondered when the Prince Consort also started taking "Five Stone Powder". He looked like he was "walking away".
Qingxue ignored the doubts in her heart and bowed.
"Consort, the young prince hasn't gotten up yet?"
Pan Duo looked at the sky. It was already midnight and he was still lying in bed.
A mischievous idea arose in his heart, and she made a silencing gesture towards Qingxue.
After throwing off his clogs, he crept up behind Xiao Yu, ready to lift Xiao Yu's quilt.
Just when he was about to take action, Xiao Yu suddenly turned over and sat up, staring straight at him with a stunned look on his face.
"Consort Pan, what are you doing?"
"Haha..." Pan Duo just smiled dryly, "I want to wake you up!"
"I haven't slept all this time. I'm just lying here thinking about things!"
"What are you thinking about, you can't bear to leave my brother-in-law?" Pan Duo began to be intoxicated with himself again, "Xiao Dalang, we have been together for a long time, and I have always felt that we met each other late. I know your heart, no need to say more, if you are willing , my brother-in-law is willing to go to your house to accompany you at any time."
"Stop it! Stop it!" Xiao Yu pushed Pan Duo with a look of disgust, "I declare again that I am a straight man, and I am not in the same category as you, a man who puts on makeup, powder, and shaves his body hair."
Pan Duo was not angry, his eyes were still ambiguous.
"Cui Baliang is here again, why don't you let the people in your house stop him?" Xiao Yu said impatiently.
"Cui Baliang?" Pan Duo frowned, "Cui Baliang...are you talking about the steward in your house who is a slave and a bully?"
Xiao Yu stared at Pan Duo with dissatisfaction.
Pan Duo disagreed: "Don't hit the smiling person with your hand, and don't scold the gift-giver. He was not only polite and respectful to me, but also gave me a fist-sized box of luminous pearls. Xiao Dalang, don't you feel sorry for me."
Xiao Yu had no idea how valuable a box of luminous pearls was, but he was annoyed by Pan Duo's attitude towards the evil slave.
"As long as he comes, I won't leave!" Xiao Yu said, rolling up the quilt and lying down.
Pan Duo sat beside the bed and said with a smile: "I hope you stay here, but I'm afraid the eldest princess wants you to go back."
When Pan Duo mentioned Xiao Yuwan, Xiao Yu slowly sat up again and sat in front of Pan Duo with an unhappy look on his face.
Pan Duo looked at the pond outside the door, changed his usual casualness, and said calmly: "Xiao Dalang, do you know the details of Manager Cui?"
Xiao Yu shook his head.
"Why did you beat him that day in the palace?"
"Of course he set up a private court without my permission and beat to death more than 20 of my servants. Such a cruel and cruel person is really abominable."
"Then he was at fault?"
"Of course there are mistakes. Life is really precious, but he regards human life as worthless. If he makes the slightest mistake, he will be beaten to death or killed with a stick. How can a person who tramples on other people's lives in this way not be evil?"
"Xiao Dalang really thinks so?" Pan Duo looked at Xiao Yu with wide eyes, as if he was looking at a stranger.
"Yes, that's what I have in mind."
"Hahahaha..." Pan Duo suddenly laughed loudly, "Xiao Dalang, let's not talk about right or wrong for now. Let's go back to the topic just now. Do you know the details about Cui Baliang?"
"I don't know." Xiao Yu thought for a while and looked at Pan Duo with a puzzled face, "Pan Prince Consort knows?"
"Regardless of whether I know it or not, you originally beat him in the house, beat him to pieces, and distributed all his rights in your house. In the eyes of ordinary people, the prestige of Manager Cui has been completely destroyed. , he should have lost power. If this is the case, how could it be him who came to the house to welcome you back today? "
Xiao Yu felt that what Pan Duo said seemed reasonable.
"The prince-in-law means that even if I beat him, or even beat him to death, as long as I didn't beat him to death, no matter how I suppressed him before, not only would I not be able to shake his status in my Jiangxia Prince's Palace, but I would also Do you want me to lose my prestige in the house?"
Having said this, Xiao Yu couldn't help but take a deep breath and felt a little chill in his back.
Pan Duo smiled slightly: "It seems that the loss of prestige is not enough now. Your attendants and guards are still very loyal to you."
"Then the consort means that in the Jiangxia Palace, my identity is just a prisoner imprisoned in a cage? And people like Cui Guanshi are the guards guarding the prison. They monitor my every move at any time. Who can really The one who brought them down was not in the palace, but a force above the palace."
Xiao Yu did not go on to say that the only one who could be superior to the palace was Taicheng. Perhaps the person who had been pulling Cui Guanshi was the man sitting on the dragon chair.
The more he thought about it, the more Xiao Yu felt like he was walking on thin ice.
"Xiao Dalang, you are enthusiastic, not strict with etiquette, and don't admire the powerful, but you always have all kinds of weird ideas. What you just said opened my eyes. Haha... I have always regarded you as my confidant. Therefore, as a bystander, I have to remind you of some things."
"Haha, isn't Prince Consort Pan also a weirdo?"
"Weird? Haha..." Pan Duo stood up, walked to the window, and murmured to himself: "I, Pan Duo, have ambitions to reach the clouds, aren't I also this caged bird?"
He turned back to look at Xiao Yu, his eyes were wise and sharp: "Xiao Dalang, I don't think that Cui Guanshi did anything wrong. What he did was nothing more than the most common murder to establish power in the princely family. Some unscrupulous servants think that the master is too young. Bullying, what you did was a dereliction of duty and a violation of family law. You should have been killed. Manager Cui was just killing people to establish your prestige. But you beat Manager Cui, which made those who have been protecting the young prince in the palace Those in authority are heartbroken. Naturally, those who maintain the authority of the young prince are doing it for your own vested interests. Just like Manager Cui, as long as the prestige of the young prince is still there, he can make all the changes in the house. In other words, you are a community of interests.
"Although those lazy, speculative and slippery people are protected by the young prince, they may not be grateful. They will think that the master is weak and easy to bully. If that is the case, those servants will really not take you too seriously. By then the interest system of your Jiangxia Prince's Palace will collapse, and no one is afraid of you. Then it will be really over. By then, the Palace will no longer be your Pan Dalang's Palace, and all the slaves will only treat you as a decoration, even those treacherous sycophants. The villain will literally step on your neck and shit and piss on you.”
"Why……"
Xiao Yu sighed. This is a class issue. Pan Duo may not be right, but the limitations of the times make it difficult for him to think of these things.
Pan Duo continued: "But it is also beneficial for you to beat him. You are also establishing your authority and letting those upper-class slaves who want to help you exercise their master's rights know that their young master is not easy to bully. The key is to grasp it well. When it comes to salvation, you can’t overdo it, and you can’t go too far beyond the limit.”
Xiao Yu thought for a while, and his previous anger towards Manager Cui seemed to have calmed down a lot.
"Brother-in-law, I will remember Yan Yu from the bottom of my heart. I will have to think about it carefully after I go back."
"Is there anything I can think of?" Pan Duo rolled his eyes at him, "Some people are born noble, and some people are born like duckweeds. That's their destiny. Xiao Dalang, you are the most noble little prince in our Da Qi Empire. In these troubled times, why do you have to feel pity for those lowly slaves who are like grass and grass? If you really want to take care of it, there will be more than a million people in the Qi Empire who are hungry. Today the refugees are rebelling, and tomorrow the Tianshi Dao is causing trouble, how can you take care of it? Come here? Your compassion for the weak is your biggest weakness, which will bring you death. Don’t forget Xiao Dalang, this is the era you live in..."
Xiao Yu shook his head. He could not accept this view: "God has the virtue of good life, how can human life be as cheap as grass?"
"We are gifted with imperial power. We are all destined to come from high-ranking families. God has given us the responsibility to help the world, instead of letting us have overflowing compassion and grieving for those small lives all day long. Except for us In these classes, all other lives are worthless!”
Xiao Yu looked at Pan Duo with wide eyes. At this moment, he felt that this handsome man was so strange.
Due to the limitations of the times and the environmental background of life, it is understandable to have such thoughts.
And Xiao Yu is a soul piercer, so his way of looking at the world must be different from those of these ancients, but he can't just look down on people like Pan Duo.
Xiao Yu didn't refute anymore. He took a deep breath meaningfully and bowed deeply to Pan Duo.
Pan Duo looked calm and saluted in return.
"Brother-in-law, I'm leaving."
"Um."
After Xiao Yu finished speaking, he strode out, and a powerful aura that made people fearful emerged spontaneously.
Qingxue, who was staying in the yard, looked at Xiao Yu. She was startled by Xiao Yu's sudden aura, and hurriedly followed him.
Xiao Yu walked out of Yunshui Pavilion and saw three or two exquisite carriages parked on the roadside.
A man with a completely disfigured face and a mask stood solemnly at the foot of the steps with a group of servants.
Xiao Yu walked up to the man and looked down at the ugly butler who intervened and lowered his head.
"Little man...little man, Cui Baliang welcomes Prince Jiangxia back to his home."
"Cui Baliang..."
"The villain is here."
"If there is another time, I will still beat you. Do you know where you went wrong?"
Manager Cui's body trembled slightly, and he was about to speak.
The prince of Jiangxia had already passed him by with the steps of dragon and tiger.
"You know it, no need to say it!"
"Here."
