Ten miles of long pavilion, just east and west, north and south traffic arteries, Jiang Anyi and Zhang Keji to separate here, Jiang Anyi east into Fuzhou back to Kyoto, and Zhang Keji father and daughter from Fangzhou to the south, through Renzhou to Dezhou, to Xinqi County Pingshan Town Jiangfu. Parting, Zhang Zhen grabbed Jiang Anyi's clothes, tears in her eyes, and she was reluctant to give up.

Jiang Anyi's eyes were also a little moist, and he hurriedly raised his face to hide the tears that were about to fall, and inadvertently found that there was a mule cart parked in the forest not far ahead, and the man who drove the car was the old man Uncle Fang in front of the Hanging Flower Gate of Lufu. Old and weak, Uncle Fang held a long whip in his hand, trying his best to look at the people from the west.

"Brother Zhang, is that Uncle Fang?"

Following the direction of Jiang Anyi's finger, Zhang Keji shook his face and looked, it was Uncle Fang. couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, Zhang Keji urged him to step forward. At this moment, Uncle Fang also discovered him, and looked at the mask on Zhang Keji's face in a daze, with a puzzled look on his face.

Dismounted closely, Zhang Keji lowered his voice and said, "Uncle Fang, you are waiting for me." ”

Hearing the voice, Uncle Fang woke up like a dream, looked Zhang Keji up and down, nodded again and again, turned around and lifted the curtain. Inside the mule cart, a white-haired man and a woman sat side by side.

When Zhang Keji saw it, he knelt on the ground and cried in a choked voice: "Unfilial son to see his father." "He struck his head on the ground, fell to his knees, and wept bitterly.

With the help of Uncle Fang, the two old men got out of the car, the man was still strong and self-supporting, and the woman was already in tears, trembling her lips for a long time before she squeezed out a sentence: "Yue'er...... You...... Yue'er ......"

The man also had tears in his eyes, but he stared at Zhang Keji's face with a little inaccuracy, and asked suspiciously: "You are Ziyue, why are you still wearing a mask?" ”

Zhang Keji turned his face sideways, took off his mask with trembling hands, and when he saw the intact half of his face, it was Lu Ziyue. When the other half of the scorched face also turned around, the woman was startled, and subconsciously stretched out her hand to touch her son's face, and the sentence "My hard-working child" came out of her mouth, and her body was crooked and she fainted.

Lu Ziyue's father hurriedly stretched out his hand to hug his wife, staring at his son's half-ruined face, the corners of his mouth twitched, his body was shaky, and Uncle Fang hurriedly supported him. Zhang Keji stepped forward on his knees, hugged his parents' legs, stuck his head on them, and cried like a child.

The mother woke up slowly, looked at her son kneeling at her feet, squatted down, hugged Zhang Keji's head, and cried loudly: "Yue'er, my hard-working Yue'er, what's wrong with you?" My Yue'er, what's wrong with your face......" As he spoke, he gently rubbed Zhang Keji's charred dry face with his hand, and his two dizzy eyes were full of tears, and he was about to lose his eyes.

Zhang Keji hugged his mother and comforted him lightly: "It's okay, I accidentally caught fire and was burned, it's okay early, it's okay." ”

Lu Ziyue's father looked at the mother and son who were hugging each other blankly, remembering that his son was known as Lu Jiayushu back then, how graceful and suave he was, and now his face is ruined and his life is at the end of the world, all this has changed since the high school list, Lu Jialin is a scholar in the Ministry of Industry, his son's life is scattered, his family is bullied by the big house, and his children are all affected.

"I hate it so much", Lu Ziyue's father suddenly spit out three words, stared at his son's half-burnt face, and said softly: "Back then, it was because my father was weak that I agreed with your grandfather's idea of changing your ranking, which hurt your life, and I was sorry for you for my father." ”

Zhang Keji turned around, and Jiang Anyi led two horses to stand on the side of the road, blocking the eyes of pedestrians on the road. Zhang Zhen stood beside Jiang Anyi, curious and a little frightened, looking here.

"Zhen'er, come and meet your grandparents."

Zhang Zhen obediently lay on the ground and kowtowed: "I've seen grandpa, grandma." ”

"Your name is Zhen'er", Lu Ziyue's mother pulled up Zhen'er, looked at it carefully, and said: "Like your father, the contour of his face is very similar to your father's childhood, but these eyes are a little different." ”

As he spoke, he took off the bracelet from his hand, stuffed it into Zhang Zhen's hand, and sighed: "Girl, you have suffered with your father, and grandma is afraid that she will not be able to wait for the day you get married, so this bracelet can be regarded as a gift from grandma to you." ”

Lu Ziyue's father took out a small bag from the car and handed it to Zhang Keji. Zhang Keji took it, and it was heavy, it should be money. Uncle Fang said beside him: "Young Master Ziyue, the situation at home has not been good since you were beaten, and the eldest master is ......."

"Old Fang, don't say it", Lu Ziyue's father stopped Uncle Fang and said, took two steps back and said to his son: "Ziyue, knowing that you are still alive, your mother and I can also put our minds at ease." I know that you will not collude with foreign enemies, but the general record of the court has not been eliminated, and I am afraid that you will be caught in the net when you return to the Lu family, and many people in the clan are eager to take you to receive a reward. I don't ask where you are, you live by yourself, don't worry about me and your mother, if you don't clear your grievances, even if I and your mother die, don't come back to mourn. ”

Zhang Keji closed his eyes painfully, and when he opened them again, his father and mother had already gotten into the mule cart, and beckoned Uncle Fang and said, "Let's go, don't let people find out." ”

The mule cart started slowly, and Zhang Keji's father and daughter knelt on the side of the road to see each other off. Waiting for the mule cart to go away, Zhang Keji opened the small bag, which contained two silver tickets of fifty taels, a pile of silver or a few strings of copper coins, and a few strings of copper coins.

Thinking of his parents' white head, the old clothes on his body, and the situation revealed by Uncle Fang's words, with the Lu family's family background, his family was not like this, and it seems that his family is not doing well in the clan. Zhang Keji's heart was like a knife, and he hugged his burden tightly and wept.

Jiang Anyi came over and persuaded: "Brother Zhang, don't be too sad, there will be a chance to meet in the future, if you can think of clearing your grievances, maybe you can come to the door in a dignified manner." ”

It is not easy to clear up grievances, but the situation back then cannot be explained. Standing up with Jiang Anyi's support, Zhang Keji secretly thought, maybe my hope of seeing the light of day again lies in the lord.

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In October, the chrysanthemum fights the cold wind, and in the cold wind, Jiang Anyi entered the Yongchang imperial capital from Yanping Gate alone.

Returning to the heart is like an arrow, it is not an exaggeration at all, Jiang Anyi's heart has already flown back to his residence in Taipingfang, leaving Beijing in April and returning in October, Dong'er must not be able to eat and sleep unsteadily, and there are Yu Shi, Brother Zhang, Fan Shi, and Shishi, I don't know if Brother Li will try to pass the test, and his thoughts will pass over his heart, and his heart will become more and more desolate.

When approaching Taipingfang, Jiang Anyi changed his mind, he left Beijing this time to send off his relatives, to send an envoy to the desert, strictly speaking, Qincha, according to the rules of officialdom, the envoy can not return home first, to Guanglu Temple to live temporarily, waiting for the Son of Heaven to receive or issue an order before returning home.

Hit the horse and go to Guanglu Temple, the six departments and Jiuqing are all working in the imperial city, and as soon as they enter Hanguang Gate, someone came forward to greet "Lord Jiang, you are back". It was only a tea trip from Yuanguanglu Temple in front of Hanguang Gate, but Jiang Anyi walked for half an hour. The enthusiasm along the way made Jiang Anyi a little unbearable, and after a trip to the desert, how did he, a stunned officialdom, suddenly become a "fragrant dumpling".

In the eyes of everyone, the current rite member Wailang is "fragrant and sweet", sent the desert to disappear, the Son of Heaven was furious, and sent the dragon guard to track down his whereabouts, almost to use troops against the desert, so the saint is extremely rare. Everyone wished that Jiang Anyi would die in the desert, so that there was one less person to compete for favor, and now that Jiang Anyi returned safely, it means that a new star in the political arena has risen, who doesn't want to get a little light in advance and leave a little favor.

Chen Yinguang had a hard time during this time, and he returned in embarrassment when he sent his relatives to the desert, and the Son of Heaven was angry with him and almost punished him, and even the prince was angry that he left Jiang Shi in the desert, and he was lukewarm to him when he entered the East Palace to teach. Later, Long Wei brought back the news that Jiang Anyi had absconded with the daughter of the Great Desert Khan and was missing, and Chen Yinguang's life was better.

There are two Shaoqing in Guanglu Temple, and when Chen was in the light, another Shaoqing Jia Nan was suppressed by him. Things in the world, either the east wind suppresses the west wind, or the west wind presses things, and now in Guanglu Temple, Chen Yinguang is a man with his tail between his legs, Jia Nan is naturally proud, and Song Sili, the secretary of Guanglu Temple, is happy to see two subordinates fighting back and forth, saving him from pondering his position.

Jiang Anyi came to Guanglu Temple, someone had already informed Shaoqing Jia Nan, this Shaoqing was forty years old, with a good body, and led his subordinates to pick him up from afar, and when he saw Jiang Anyi, he smiled and said: "Lord Jiang has returned without a lamb, it is the blessing of the court, and the saint must be happy to learn it, please inside." ”

His own servant took the reins, Jiang Anyi was surrounded by the stars like a moon to the Shaoqing official office, Song Sili went to the court, and Guanglu Temple was in charge of Jia Nan.

Chen Yinguang heard the commotion outside, and secretly thought about which small country's tribute envoy came to get the court's return gift. The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, but they didn't come to burn his cold stove, Chen Yinguang simply stood up and paced to the door to see what was going on. Seeing Jiang Anyi in the crowd at a glance, Chen Yinguang rubbed his eyes, yes, it was Jiang Anyi. God has mercy on me, Chen Yinguang recited the Buddha in his heart, this uncle finally came back safely, and my Chen Yinguang's bad luck will also pass.

"Anyi, Master Jiang." A loud scream, the sound was so loud that it surprised everyone. Jiang Anyi stood on his legs, and when he looked back, he saw Chen Yinguang trotting over from an official office on the side.

To be honest, Jiang Anyi has no good impression of Chen Yinguang. Chen Yinguang, who was in danger in the desert as a messenger, should fight with reason, but he didn't see him at all, and at first he thought that he and the mission staff were dying because of him, and he cried sadly, but he didn't know that he ran away first. Later, I thought that when Chen Yinguang recommended himself to be an envoy to the desert, it was very likely that he had benefited from Liman and put himself in danger.

Chen Yinguang ran in, grabbed Jiang Anyi's hand, and said excitedly: "Anyi, it's okay if you're fine, otherwise Chen will feel guilty for life." ”

Whether it's true or not, Chen Yinguang's expression is indeed in place, Jiang Anyi's heart warmed, and he smiled: "It's none of Lord Chen's business, the past is over." ”

"Okay, good, Anyi, you have a lot of adults, so that Chen is ashamed, and if you want to use Chen's place in the future, Anyi, you just have to speak." Chen Yinguang held Jiang Anyi's hand tightly, and the people of Guanglu Temple had to stand in the courtyard with him.

Jia Nan coughed lowly: "Lord Chen, it's a little inappropriate to stand in the courtyard and speak, please go and sit down in the lobby." ”

Chen Yinguang came to his senses and said repeatedly: "Yes, yes." Quickly send someone to report to the Son of Heaven, and say that Master Jiang has returned safely. ”

"Don't ask Lord Chen, Jia has already sent someone to deliver a letter to the court." Jia Nan replied with a smile.