Hidden golden branches

It turns out that Chen An's shop has a new batch of Chengxintang paper. This paper is extremely valuable and is called the best paper in the world. It is priceless and cannot be bought with gold.

Therefore, literati with money like to buy Cheng Xin paper to show off.

"County Lord."

"Brother Yue."

The two smiled and said hello.

Sun Yi made an appointment with a friend to go to Qionglou for a drink. He happened to pass by on horseback. When he saw the carriage with the Chen Mansion logo, he was moved and he couldn't help but get off his horse and enter the store.

As soon as he entered the shop, he saw Chen Rong looking at Yue Aoting with a smile, and suddenly wondered if she was like this in the past, always looking at him. He didn't seem to remember clearly whether she had ever looked at him like this. Now, it has only been a few months, but he and her seem to have been separated by years.

Chen Rong doesn't want to see him. This is Sun Yi's clearest understanding now.

The little girl who was always by his side and always had countless things to say to him is now no longer entangled as he wished. On the contrary, he felt that everything was not going well.

At this moment, he suddenly felt as if he had lost something that he had not yet seen clearly.

Sun Yi was deeply afraid that Chen Rong would see him, so he could only leave sadly.

He went to the Qiong Tower not far next door and sat alone among the crowd. Although his friends and relatives were hugging each other and pushing glasses, he just kept drinking. His whole body exuded a feeling of not being near strangers. With such aura, no woman would dare to step forward and get into trouble.

He drank a little too much that day, and when he got home, he heard a servant in the mansion come up to him and tell him that someone had come from his cousin's hometown, and he was discussing his cousin's marriage with the eldest lady in the backyard.

Sun Yi frowned when he heard this and went straight back to his study.

Sitting in front of the desk, drunk, Sun Yi leaned back on the chair and tilted his head back.

Closing his eyes, he thought he would fall asleep soon. Unexpectedly, when he closed his eyes, what came to his mind was actually before he left for the battle. He looked up and saw Chen Rong standing on the city wall, waving to him. .

At that time, he had already ridden far away and could not clearly see her expression, but he did not know how long she had been standing on the city wall waving her hand.

Although she was reluctant to let him go to the border, she actively begged for him and was willing to hurt herself to help him.

He was indeed heartless towards her.

Sun Yi raised his hand to pinch his deeply furrowed brows because he could not sleep well. Suddenly he heard Zhang Xiuxi's voice coming from outside the study door: "Husband, I heard that you drank too much wine, so I specially made you a hangover soup. You can sleep more peacefully if you drink it.”

Sun Yi suddenly opened his eyes, sat up straight and said: "Come in."

Zhang Xiuxi opened the door, took the bowl of hangover soup from the maid's hand, and handed it to Sun Yi.

"Husband." Zhang Xiuxi stood next to Sun Yi's hand, keenly smelling the unfamiliar rouge gas on his body, and her face suddenly became stiff.

Sun Yi didn't notice it. He picked up the bowl of hangover soup and just took a sip when he heard Yue Xiuxi ask softly: "Where did you drink today? Why did you drink so much?"

Sun Yi: "..." He didn't know how to explain to Zhang Xiuxi for a while, but due to his personality, he really didn't want to lie. He put down the bowl and said, "I went to Qionglou with my colleagues for a drink today."

Naturally, Zhang Xiuxi had heard of the name Qionglou, and her face suddenly darkened. After trying her best to endure it, she forced a smile and said: "If you go to that kind of place too often, it will affect your husband's official reputation. For the sake of my husband's future, those kind of fireworks in Liuxiang , Husband, it’s better not to go anymore.”

Sun Yi responded without refuting her words.

After receiving the agreement, Zhang Xiuxi also dispelled her gloom, walked behind him, rubbed his shoulders, and said smoothly: "There are people at my cousin's house. Not long after you went to court this morning, they came to the house to talk to your mother. Many embarrassing words. If it really doesn't work, you have really accepted your cousin, and so will I, so I won't complain."

Sun Yi listened absently. He already knew about the embarrassing incident when his cousin went to the Xue family for a banquet.

Then I heard Zhang Xiuxi sighing: "She was obsessed with clinging to her, and was deceived by Xue Zhuo's sweet words into doing stupid things. Later, she even threatened her life and ran into a river. She was saved by a vendor who jumped into the water in broad daylight and regained her skin." Even if she wants to be Xue Zhuo's concubine now, she will probably have to make her mother suffer some shame from the Xue family. Alas, she still has to wrong her mother..."

Sun Yi closed his eyes and couldn't bear to hear these words, and said in a cold tone: "You just need to take care of yourself in the house. You don't need to worry about these things."

Zhang Xiuxi smiled and said, "I understand."

"How are your arrangements with your sister-in-law?" Sun Yi asked.

Zhang Xiuxi squeezed Sun Yi's shoulder, and after a moment she said, "My eldest sister was too anxious about her husband, so she traveled thousands of miles to come to ask for help."

"Your brother-in-law's matter is really difficult to deal with." Sun Yi said a little tiredly: "Being corrupt and accepting bribes has been exposed. The matter has been submitted. It is estimated that the memorial has been put on the emperor's court and is only waiting for Zhu's approval."

Zhang Xiuxi was so silent that even the hand squeezing Chen Yu's shoulders slowed down.

After a long while, she said: "Is there really no room for change? My brother-in-law just collected a few properties. Compared with other people, the money and notes are just sporadic and really not worth mentioning."

Hearing this, Sun Yi frowned and said: "He is guilty of this matter, whether it is minor or serious, how to punish him, that is the emperor's decision, are you allowed to question it? Are you willing to die?"

Zhang Xiuxi was instantly silenced by Sun Yi's suddenly cold tone, biting her lower lip, with tears in her eyes, looking pitiful.

In fact, I wish that the emperor would impose a heavy sentence, preferably by execution!
Sun Yi did not look back. He could only hear the slight sobs suppressed in his ears, and he could imagine her expression at this time.

She is always weak and pitiful and needs someone to protect her from the wind and rain.

What about Chen Rong? Suddenly this question flashed in Sun Yi's mind.

Chen Rong...she seems to be rarely seen crying.

He had seen her being arrogant and arrogant in front of others, he had seen her carefully trying to please him, and she could not hide her joy when she received a simple response from him. But he just never saw her cry.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, there will be August 16th, which is a good day.

The morning dynasty of the Great Wei Kingdom was divided into a large court meeting and a small court meeting. The large court meeting was an early court meeting that all officials of the fourth rank or above in Beijing had to attend; the small court meeting was where several important ministers participated in discussions. The main meeting is held once every ten days (tenth day), and the small meeting is held once every three days. However, whether it is a major court meeting or a small court meeting, the emperor must participate.

During the rest of the time when there was no court meeting, the emperor would handle official business in the imperial study. If any of his ministers had something to do, they could go to the palace to see the emperor and report to the emperor and deal with it. It can be seen that the emperor's position was not easy to sit in. When the ministers went to court, he had to sit on it and listen to the lectures. When the ministers did not go to court, he also had to handle official business in the imperial study.