Li Xiayu suddenly felt her sister's little hand holding her right hand tighten. She gently patted her sister's little hand twice and offered her hand to Xiaoman: "Sister, can you please run for us again?" Tell Wang Sima, we sisters will never forget the virtue of felt that day!"
"The virtue of felt?" Xiaoman looked at Li Xiayu's eyes curiously and confirmed that the other party was not joking: "Okay, I will pass the message to you two again, but I have agreed in advance that this will be the last time. !」
"That's natural! If Wang Sima still refuses to see our sisters this time, the little girl can just leave and I will never bother you again!"
Xiaoman looked at Li Xiayu's weak but firm eyes, and thought: "Okay, just wait here, I will bring Wang Wenzuo to you!" After that, she turned around and went out. .
As soon as Xiaoman went out, Li Suwen grabbed her sister's arm again: "Sister, do you think Wang Sima will--"
"Little sister!" Li Xiayu hugged his sister into his arms: "Don't worry, Wang Sima just didn't expect it to be you and me. After all, he thinks that after what happened last time, he will never see us again. If you have a chance, you won’t think it’s us!”
"That's what my sister said! But if he knew it was my sister, he would definitely run over quickly!" Li Suwen's eyes flashed with hope: "After all, my sister is so good-looking and has a distinguished status!"
"Alas!" Li Xiayu smiled bitterly after listening to his sister's words: "Wang Sima is a handsome young man and such a talented person. What kind of beauty has he not seen? As for identity, although you and I were born in an emperor's family, now we are not even The daughters of ordinary people are not as good as them. At least the daughters of ordinary people don't have to run on the streets at this time, and they can't even find a safe place..." Her voice became weaker and weaker, and finally tears filled her eyes.
At this time, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and Li Xiayu quickly turned around and wiped the tears from his face. Almost the next second, the door was pushed open.
"They are the ones who said the virtues of felt!" Aman pointed at Li Xiayu and said, "How about it? I didn't lie to you, did I? These two little ladies are so handsome! You didn't even look at it at the beginning. You really don't know. Anyway!".
Wang Wenzuo didn't speak, and glanced at the faces of Li Xiayu and Li Suwen expressionlessly. Just when they thought Wang Wenzuo was going to say that he didn't know them, Wang Wenzuo said in a deep voice: "Xiaoman, go out first, and guard the door. Don't let anyone know." Others come in!"
Xiaoman looked at Wang Wenzuo and then at Sister Li Xiayu, showed a sly smile, and said with a smile: "Okay, Sir, please don't worry, with me guarding the door, no one can disturb your tryst!"
As soon as the door of the room was closed, Wang Wenzuo gathered his hands and bowed down: "I don't know that your highnesses have arrived, but I didn't come to greet them from far away. Xiaoman just said it unintentionally, and I asked your highnesses to atone for their sins."
Hearing Wang Wenzuo call herself His Highness, Li Xiayu's eyes filled with tears, her heart was filled with sadness and sweetness at the same time. She suppressed the excitement in her heart: "Wang Sima, please get up. If we hadn't met Sister Xiaoman today, our sisters would have never met again." I can’t see you anymore either!”
"How could your two highnesses -" At this point, Wang Wenzuo paused. Apparently he couldn't think of what words to use to express the fact that two noble princesses were wandering alone on the streets of Chang'an late at night. After all, just stating this fact would be extremely rude.
"Wang Sima!" Li Suwen said impatiently, "Our sisters are no longer your Royal Highnesses. Now we are desperate. My sister said that you are the only one who can take refuge, so I found you here!"
"Suwen, shut up!" Li Xiayu's face turned red. She came from a 28-year-old daughter's family. Not to mention her status, she was an ordinary daughter who ran into a strange man's house and said she had no other place to go. This was also related to Yin Ben. What a difference.
Wang Wenzuo frowned, realizing that the situation might be more troublesome than he thought: "Your Highness, how about you tell me the whole story of the matter, and then I will know how to deal with it!
"Well!" Li Xiayu suppressed the shame in her chest, and then told the story from beginning to end. The more she talked, the more her hands and feet felt cold. At the end, she whispered: "I also know that our sisters are at the end of their rope. I just don’t want to be humiliated. You can do whatever you want with our sisters, even if you have to give them to that woman in the end.
I just ask you to give us a quiet room and two pieces of white silk first, and then send the body to us when the matter is over! "
"Why did Your Highness say this?" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Actually, it's not a big deal. Your two Highnesses are sons and daughters of the Heavenly Family, people of wealth and wealth. The female officer and the maid are just two slaves of Her Majesty the Queen. If the slave does not respect the master, the master will be angry. According to the law, the penalty for killing a slave is only a hundred gold. If you put it on your two highnesses, you will at most be scolded by your majesty and think about it behind closed doors for a few days. Why should you say death!"
"But, my brother has already hanged himself in prison, let alone our sisters?" Li Xiayu whispered.
"Well, it must be Tian Cong who was deceived by Nugan. The emperor will definitely regret it when he learns the truth!"
"Then Wang Sima wants to send us two back to the palace?" Li Xiayu asked.
"The two highnesses are the flesh and blood of saints. It is only a matter of time before they return to the palace. However, the situation is still unclear. If Sheng Cong is deceived by others and accidentally kills the lives of the two highnesses in a rage, and something unbearable happens, wouldn't it mean that the saints are trapped in a trap? Righteousness?" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Absolutely not, as a minister, I can't do this!"
Hearing Wang Wenzuo's statement that he would not send himself and his sister back to the palace, Li Xiayu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "That's good. So what does Sima plan to do with us?" "
"I am currently living in Jin Renwen's house, and there are many people and many eyes. If your two highnesses also live here, if they are recognized by others, I am afraid that it will cause a lot of trouble! Why don't you two leave overnight with Xiao Man? We live together, and to the outside world we just call her Xiaoman's maid, but it's a bit rude, I don't know if that's okay!"
"That's great!" Li Xiayu knew that he and his sister were very beautiful. If they stayed at Jin Renwen's house, they would easily attract attention, let alone that Jin Renwen had met his sisters. But being with Xiaoman is a good idea since it's safe and won't attract anyone's attention.
"As for Xiaoman, it's best not to know the true identities of the two of you. If one less person knows, there will be less risk of leaks!" Wang Wenzuo thought for a moment and said, "The two highnesses just said that they are Wei Chen's distant cousins! "
"Okay!" Li Xiayu's face turned slightly red.
When Wang Wenzuo saw that Li Xiayu agreed, he walked out of the door and came in with Xiaoman a moment later: "You two cousins, please go with Xiaoman first. She has excellent swordsmanship and will be able to protect you two!"
"Thank you, Sister Xiaoman!" Li Xiayu gave Xiaoman a blessing with a blushing face.
"It doesn't matter, leave it all to me!" Xiaoman winked at Wang Wenzuo: "Well, what I said is right!
Sisters Xiaoman and Li Xiayu had just left, and Wang Wenzuo's face suddenly turned gloomy. This sudden change drew him into the political whirlpool of Chang'an again, even deeper than he originally expected. Learning about Li Sujie's death from Li Xiayu's sisters made Wang Wenzuo once again lament the cruelty of Li Tangzong's internal fighting. If he remembered correctly, it was very late for Wu Zetian to take action on Li Zhi's flesh and blood, at least until after Li Zhi's death. Obviously, it was not out of Wu Zetian's personal resentment, but to prevent these descendants from becoming the banner of the rebels. It was a preventive political killing.
But this time the killing of Li Sujie is different. Since Li Zhi is still alive, the son of a concubine cannot have much influence on the political situation. Then Li Sujie's death should be the emotional vent of Wu himself, or even a cruel official. Try to figure out the flattering behavior of your superiors. But no matter which one it is, it is not a good thing for Wang Wenzuo, because political killing is certainly an evil, but it is also a necessity of feudal autocratic imperial power. After all, it is better to have a few princes die than to have corpses everywhere in the civil war and the people have no way to live. . But killing because of the ruler's personal likes and dislikes is another matter entirely. This kind of killing is not only unhelpful to the autocratic imperial power itself, but even harmful. Wang Wenzuo could understand and even sometimes support the coldness and cruelty of Li Zhi and Wu, as long as it was for the stable rule of the empire, but he could not accept killings based on personal feelings. After all, the emperor belonged to the empire, but the empire did not. Son of Heaven.
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At noon the next day, Wang Wenzuo told Jin Renwen about his idea of recruiting evil boys, and received Jin Renwen's approval. With the help of Jin Renwen, Wang Wenzuo finished writing the memorial for the first time and submitted it. He said with emotion: "This memorial has to be written in Xi style.
It’s so difficult! "
"Haha, Sanlang, you just need to hire a better literary clerk. This stuff has been learned since childhood. It's a little late for you to learn it again at your age!" Jin Renwen said with a smile: "But your background is also It’s not low, but why is it so bad in terms of paperwork?”
"Side branch, it's a side branch!" Wang Wenzuo emphasized: "Everyone can do it anywhere!"
"But it doesn't matter. The official's report should be coming soon! He became the general of Dingyuan in less than thirty years. He is the direct descendant of the Langya Wang family, which is enough!" Jin Renwen said with a smile: "The ancients said that Yun Fugui What if you don’t return home and walk through the night in fine clothes? Sanlang, don’t you go back and take a look?”
"Go back and take a look?" Wang Wenzuo was stunned. He didn't miss his "hometown" at all in this era: "Do you have time?"
"Of course!" Jin Renwen said with a smile: "Of course you have to hurry when you come from Baekje, but you don't have to be in a hurry when you return from Chang'an. Anyway, the war in Baekje has already ended. How early will you go back and how late will it be? What's the big deal if you go back to heaven? At most, you can mention it to the Holy One when you say goodbye before leaving. How can the Holy One not agree with such a thing of adult beauty?"
"Yes!" Wang Wenzuo smiled forcefully.
"It's nothing! Sanlang, you not only got promoted in Chang'an this time, but also made a fortune. Half of Liu Weili's family wealth alone is no less than a million dollars. Why don't you put all this money away? Buy some land. , build a garden, and have two concubines, life is short, of course you have to build achievements, but there is no need to suffer too much!"
"Get money, buy land, get more money, buy more land! The main theme of East Asia has really not changed for thousands of years!" Wang Wenzuo slandered, but said: "Most of Liu Weili's property should be house property, right? Where? Is there anything that can be sold so easily?”
"Do you still need San Lang to worry about this?" Jin Ren asked with a smile: "Don't worry, the properties and mansions around Chang'an are the most sought-after. As long as they are available, people will rush to buy them. You just have to look at them when you sell them. Buyer, otherwise it’s easy to offend people?”
"Offend someone? What does this mean?"
"There are too many noble people in Chang'an City. If you sell to this one or not to that one, and if you don't choose the right person, you may offend someone accidentally. But you don't need to worry about this. I have already arranged it. Okay, just collect the money then!"
"Well, then I can only thank Brother Renshou!"
"Thank you! I have arranged everything for you. You are familiar with those Hu merchants anyway. All the copper coins will be exchanged for gold and silver ingots. This way the weight will be much lighter. First go to Luoyang by land, and then change to a good ship. You can go down the river, this day, tsk tsk, even I am a little envious!"
"Yes! With a hundred thousand guan in your pocket, riding a crane to Yangzhou is a rare and beautiful thing!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile.
"With a hundred thousand guan on his waist, he rode a crane down to Yangzhou!" Jin Renwen's eyes lit up: "Okay, okay, when the war subsides and Haidong is at peace, you and I will ask the emperor for an official position. You will be the governor of Yangzhou, and I will be the governor of Yangzhou." Great Governor, please also experience the scenery of the southeast!"
Hearing what Jin Ren asked, Wang Wenzuo couldn't help but feel moved, and a question he had always asked blurted out: "Brother Renshou wants to go to Yangzhou, so who will the throne of Silla belong to?"
Wang Wenzuo's question was like a steel needle that hit Jin Renwen's sore spot. He turned his head and said after a while: "Sanlang, you are the only one who has asked me this question for so many years!"
Wang Wenzuo felt a little regretful as soon as he said these words, but he couldn't hold back: "No matter what brother Renshou plans, I will fully support him!"
"Okay, okay!" Jin Renwen nodded: "Did you know? When I first came to Chang'an, my late father once said that after Baiji is destroyed, I will inherit the throne!"
"Let you inherit the throne? Then, wouldn't he lie to you?"
"I thought about this a few years ago, and there was some resentment in my heart, but as I got older, I gradually understood it. My father did intend to make me his heir, but as a king, many things cannot be controlled. Coupled with the subsequent changes in the situation, we can only go with the flow!" At this point, Jin Renwen paused for a moment: "But now that Baekje has been destroyed, my original vow has been fulfilled, and now I am free. No matter what you do, you are blameless!"
"Brother Renshou means
I see! Wang Wenzuo whispered: "I will go back to Baekje to prepare the front line for you, and you can just wait and see in Chang'an!"
"Good brother, I rely on you for everything!" Jin Renwen patted Wang Wenzuo on the shoulder.
