Chapter 52 Xiajun Prefecture (4)
The space in the guest room seemed a little narrow, and the oil lamp was bright and dark, which could vaguely illuminate the cottage.
Ling'er snuggled in Liu Yixuan's arms, covered with a thin quilt. She slowly recovered from the shock she had just now, but she felt her eyelids were so heavy.
"Brother Xuan, I'm sleepy!" Ling'er yawned with her eyes half open.
"If you are sleepy, just go to bed. I'll be here to accompany you." Liu Yixuan smiled and comforted her, then moved the quilt slightly to her body.
"I'm sleeping, what should you do?" Ling'er asked.
"I'm here to protect you, so that you can save you from fear."
"Or...Brother Xuan, you should go to bed too. After rushing for a day, you must be tired too!"
If you are tired, Liu Yixuan must be very tired, but this lonely man and widowed woman will inevitably spark the spirit and flesh when she is alone. If she can't grasp it again and again, wouldn't she hurt Ling'er? After all, this is a feudal era where reputation is more important than life. If Ling'er is hurt because of her impulse, wouldn't she regret it?
"No need, I'm not tired. You can sleep on the bed. I'll just lie on the table." Liu Yixuan stood up and cleaned up a table next to him, brought a chair next to the bed.
"Look, isn't this good? You sleep in bed, I'll be here to guard you, go to bed, it's already very late!" Liu Yixuan persuaded Ling'er, while letting her lie on the bed and put a quilt on her. She felt that her upper and lower eyelids were fighting and she was so sleepy.
"Brother Xuan, will you always be with me in the house?" Ling'er asked stupidly while lying on the bed.
"Silly girl, of course I will always be with you. We will visit the Prince of Junzhou tomorrow! You should go to bed quickly and stop thinking about it!" Liu Yixuan only hoped that she would have a good rest and visit the Prince of Jun’s Mansion tomorrow.
"Brother Xuan, I can't sleep, tell me a story!"
"I'll go! When is this time? What story should I tell? Aunt, how old are you, you still have to listen to the story!" Liu Yixuan had no intention of telling her any stories, just asking her to sleep well.
"Just tell me one, I'll go to bed after listening!" Ling'er didn't know where the spirit came from, so she insisted on listening to the story now.
"Okay okay, okay, I really can't do anything to you. I'll tell you one! But I'll just say ok first, you just listen, don't ask me 'why', do you know?"
"Yes!" Ling'er nodded obediently.
"Then I will tell you a story about our high school physics teacher. At that time, we were learning Newton's second law, which is that the force that an object reaches is equal to the product of mass and acceleration. The physics teacher asked us, saying that a fat man and a thin man jumped from the ten floors at the same time. Who fell down first and fell to death. We all said that they fell down at the same time and fell to death, but our physics said..."
Liu Yixuan’s storytelling is really boring, Ling'er fell asleep in a while!
When Liu Yixuan saw Ling'er sleeping, he also dozed off on the table. Sleeping on the table is a necessary survival skill for students in the 21st century. Liu Yixuan lay on the table and even had a dream. In the dream, he returned to his former class and listened to the teachers talking about boring courses. For him, all this may be the past, or the future.
The next morning, the owner's rooster woke up the tenants in the store early. Since Liu Yixuan and Ling'er were asleep in the middle of the night, they would inevitably have a deeper sleep. Ling'er woke up first, and the first thing she did when she opened her eyes was to see if her brother Xuan was still by her side. Ling'er saw that Liu Yixuan was still asleep on the table, wearing only a few single clothes, and quickly got up to cover him with the blanket.
Liu Yixuan was sleeping soundly, and he drooled all over the table. Suddenly, he felt someone touching him. He woke up quickly, but saw that Ling'er was adding clothes to him, so he asked her: "Ling'er, are you awake?"
"Well, Brother Xuan, go to bed and I'm already asleep!"
"Ah? No need, it's dawn, it's time for us to eat something, and we'll have to go to the Prince's Mansion later!" As he said that, he was about to stand up.
Liu Yixuan felt his right arm was a little numb, and quickly stretched his arms and moved his muscles, "Oh, my arm is so numb, I have to move it. Let's go outside and take a look and find a place to wash!"
Liu Yixuan and Ling'er were dressed up, and Ling'er was still dressed in a man. They came to the lobby of the inn when they left the room. When the boss saw that they were getting up, he hurriedly came forward to greet him.
"The two young men are up? I was so embarrassed yesterday that I caused trouble for both of you. The dead man in our family has not yet woken up. If he wakes up, I will definitely ask him to kowtow to both of you to confess his guilt!"
"No, no, the boss lady should not take it seriously. You must educate your man well. Don't let him drink and cause trouble all day!" Liu Yixuan felt that something was a trivial matter and did not care about him.
After a little bit of gossip, Liu Yixuan and Ling'er had already had breakfast, so they hurriedly asked the boss's wife about the location of the Prince's Mansion. When the boss's wife heard that they were going to inquire about the Prince's Mansion, she knew that they were not ordinary guests, so she hurriedly told them the location and route of the Prince's Mansion.
Liu Yixuan and Ling'er followed the route mentioned by the boss's wife and walked south after leaving the store. When they encountered a tea shop, they walked east for hundreds of steps. They were not too anxious or slow to walk along the way.
After turning two more streets, he arrived at the place where the boss’s wife said. From a distance, Liu Yixuan looked at it and there was indeed a luxurious mansion with a tall and elegant gate. Several servants at the door came and went, and they were constantly entering and leaving. Liu Yixuan looked up the door and saw a wide plaque with five big words written on it: "Junzhou County Prince's Mansion".
"Ling'er, look, it should be here, 'Junzhou County Prince's Mansion'!" Liu Yixuan read the door plaque, and it was considered to be a place to find the ground.
Ling'er also looked up at the plaque and felt that she was walking in the wrong place, so she followed Liu Yixuan to the door of the mansion.
"May I ask, is this Junzhou County Prince's Mansion?" Liu Yixuan saw a young man in his early twenties coming out of the door of the mansion. Seeing that he should be a servant in the mansion, he came over to ask for directions.
"Yes, this is the Junzhou County Prince's Mansion!" The servant's voice was loud and he was full of confidence. "Who are you? What's the point of coming here?"
"We came from the capital and wanted to visit the prince Qiansui!" Liu Yixuan wanted to show his identity and said that he was the prince of the prime minister, but he was afraid that others would misunderstand and cause trouble for his father. After all, the capital officials were not allowed to make friends with foreign vassal kings without permission.
"Come from Beijing? Oh, I understand. You must be antique dealers in Beijing, right?" When the servant heard the visitor in Beijing, his first reaction was to treat them as antique dealers selling porcelain.
When Liu Yixuan heard this, he thought to himself: "Is this old prince likes to interact with antique merchants? It is not certain. He has long heard that Xiang Zhonghui likes to seek immortals and seeks Taoism. He has a similar taste with Song Huizong, and is proficient in calligraphy and painting, and loves collection. He may not like to interact with these antique merchants." So he said: "Yes, yes, yes, we are antique merchants from the capital. We want to ask the old prince for advice!"
"Our master just ordered that no antique merchants will see each other when they visit. You should ask them back!"
"What? Damn, this...we are not antique merchants!" Liu Yixuan immediately changed his mind.
"I just said it was an antique merchant, but now I said it was no, and I went back on my word. I saw that it was a profiteer. Please go back!" The servant said as he was about to go home.
Liu Yixuan hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed his clothes and said, "We just want to visit the prince, so let us go in!"
"Just! We masters are not something that others see casually. Even local officials, those under the sixth rank will be rejected! I think you have no official position and no rank, so how can you meet them at any time?" After saying that, the servant snorted again and walked back to the mansion.
Liu Yixuan originally wanted to visit this collection senior, but he didn't expect to be turned away as soon as he came. Not to mention seeing the picture "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", even if he entered the gate of the Prince's Mansion, there was no way to do so.
"Damn it, I'm so arrogant, I don't even see you! This slave even said that I'm a profiteer, how much do I look like a profiteer?" Liu Yixuan couldn't enter the door, so he could only curse at the door to relieve his hatred.
"Brother Xuan, why don't we tell us the identity? Maybe he will meet us in this way. Besides, this old prince is still my uncle by generation, so he should let us in!" Ling'er had no good idea when she saw that Liu Yixuan could not enter the mansion.
"No, no, you forgot how we came out? If we tell them our identity, the old prince will definitely send someone to the capital to deliver letters. By then, my father and my mother will definitely know that we are coming to Junzhou. Maybe even your mother will know. At that time, we will be in trouble. I will be beaten to the throne when I go back, and you will not be able to leave the palace in the future!"
"Ah? It's so serious! Well, then don't tell him our identity!" Ling'er also knew that if she went out of the city privately, she would definitely be angry, and she was full of concerns.
"What should we do then? They won't let us in. We can't get over such a high wall?" Ling'er also became worried.
"Come over the wall? How can you remember to climb over the wall? If you want to enter, let's go in from the main entrance! Let's go to another place to take a look. I don't believe it. I can't see Song Huizong, can't I see you little prince?" He said as he pulled Ling'er to the nearby streets.
After walking a hundred steps, I saw a bustling city with many small vendors setting up stalls and hawking stalls, and taverns and tea shops were arranged on both sides. In a corner, Liu Yixuan suddenly saw a man dressed in a Taoist priest setting up a stall to tell fortunes. There was also a gossip picture hanging on the wall, with eight words: "Birth, old age, sickness, good, bad, and good," written next to it.
Liu Yixuan looked at this Taoist priest again. He didn't look like a fairy-like figure at all, but he was a little fat. Although he had two beards as a disguise, he knew he was a liar in the world at first glance.
Chapter completed!