The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

In other words, after wandering around Yaran Pavilion for a while, after an episode in the attic, Guo Nuan left Prince Li Shi and headed home alone.

Guo Nuan didn’t take Ah Fu with her when she went to the city earlier, and now Ah Fu can be regarded as the half-nanny of her daughter Guo Xiang. But when it comes to Ah Fu's gentle and patient temperament, being a nanny is not boring.

Being able to return to Chang'an from the remote and desolate Western Regions is the happiest thing for Ah Fu.

Guo Nuan drove a carriage alone in the somewhat unfamiliar Chang'an. It has been almost half a year since he left. The streets of Chang'an are still the same as they were half a year ago, and the people are still the same as they were half a year ago. However, great changes have taken place. He was a little dazed and had no time to adapt to these huge changes. The political world is really unpredictable.

Guo Nuan made a random visit to Yan’s mansion. He visited the old man Yan Zhenqing. Although the calligrapher had reached his twilight years, he was still in good spirits, with a fairy air of a childlike face. young daughter.

An old man and a young one were chatting about the current political situation in the living room, and all of Yan Lao expressed worry in his words. It seemed that Guo Nuan would not have a good time when he came back. Of course, the two exchanged calligraphy, and Yan Lao presented Guo Nuan was given a pair of landscape paintings, and Guo Nuan also wrote a music score.

At that time, Guo Nuan couldn't think of what content to write. In short, what Yan Lao asked for was his calligraphy with thin gold characters, and he didn't ask for the content. The Guqin score of the song "Pingsha Luoyan" played by the pavilion was splashed a few times with a lyric from the Zhucheng School.

"Platform sand and water clouds, like light smoke, bleak and slanting, autumn and winter are approaching, reeds and flowers are in disorder, and lonely geese are out of the flock,"

Well, when Yan Lao saw the vigorous, skinny and upright font, plus the few words and music, he couldn't help but praise him again and again, and hurriedly asked his servants to frame it with gold foil and sandalwood for collection.

It is said that the lyrics of this song "Pingsha Luoyan" was not born in the Tang Dynasty, but it was a work of the Ming Dynasty. Guo Nuan was ashamed to deny that this song was not his own work, but Yan Zhenqing, who was obviously immersed in the excitement of the sudden calligraphy, ignored it. Then, the foreshadowing of the misunderstanding arises.

And Yan Ruoshui, the daughter of the Yan family, happened to be at home, and Yan Ruoshui hadn't seen her for half a year, and now she looked like a lady without the yamen servant's uniform, so she was the same hot-tempered man pretending to be a strong woman who worked with the Jingzhao government office back then.

Yan Ruoshui was very happy to see Guo Nuan. The two of them sighed a lot. Now that Yan Ruoshui is idle at home, she also developed a habit of gossip. She curiously asked Guo Nuan to talk about her experience in the past six months.

When Guo Nuan talked with a smile about how she was in the Shuofang military camp, that she had gone to the Tubo border to carry out missions, that she had encountered Torma, and that there were many legendary things that happened in the Western Regions, Yan Ruoshui, who was listening, was mesmerized.

Such a wealth of human and geographical experience, as well as thrilling personal stories, such as the tribes in the Devil’s Domain in the Western Regions, Niya City, and Zhishan City, especially when Guo Nuan said that he was fighting desperately in the arena, Yan Ruoshui’s eyes revealed A look of admiration.

Of course, the most important thing is that Yan Ruoshui heard Guo Nuan talk about the experience of meeting and missing with Doma several times. She was also moved by this somewhat sad story. During the itinerary, Guo Nuan mentioned Kang Wan.

"Um, Kang Wan, isn't she the daughter of the rebels in An Lushan? I said that I wanted her two years ago when I was the head of the Jingzhao government office," recalling the night two years ago, when Kang Wan assassinated her in a brothel. She still vividly remembered the serious case of Sinongqing.

"Hehe, it's her, we know each other," Guo Nuan explained with a haha.

When Kang Wan was mentioned at that time, Yan Ruoshui, who was thoughtful, immediately connected with one thing.

"You couldn't be the one who shielded her from fleeing out of the city that night, right?" said abruptly, almost causing Guo Nuan to fall backwards from her chair.

"Ahem, how did you know that?" Guo Nuan was startled and couldn't help asking.

"Hehe, I guessed it, sure enough," Yan Ruoshui, who always liked to put on a cold face, smiled and replied lightly.

It turned out that when Yan Ruoshui was talking about Kang Wan in Guo Nuan, she had no intention of recalling that night in the brothel, when she rushed into the assassination scene with a group of yamen servants, Guo Nuan and Si Nongqing happened to be together, and Kang Wan had already fled up.

But later that night, Guo Nuan went uncharacteristically and did not go back to the gate of the Princess Mansion outside the city, but went in the opposite direction.

It was dark at night and she didn't go home. What was Guo Nuan doing? Afterwards, Yan Ruoshui looked through the case materials collected by her subordinates. A woman, Yan Ruoshui later asked Shengping face to face, but Shengping said that it was her, and the purpose was for the couple to climb the mountain and wait for the sunrise.

However, the conversation between Guo Nuan and the captain of the city gate guard was full of loopholes, so Yan Ruoshui, a woman with extremely high ability to handle cases, was connected into a logical inference from a few clues.

"At that time, I'm afraid you were hijacked by Kang Wan out of the city gate. Hehe, speaking, I understand Sister Shengping's temperament very well. As long as she is lying, her face is usually very calm. Ordinary people can't tell that she is lying, but I am her good friend who has known her for more than ten years, and when she tells a few words, she usually blinks a lot less than usual, or doesn't blink at all,"

Guo Nuan suddenly realized that after the incident, Guo Nuan had covered up Kang Wan without being discovered by the government. It turned out that Shengping's wife had settled the situation in private. Guo Nuan was really lucky to have such a good wife.

However, after such a long time, Guo Nuan is no longer the former cover-up criminal Guo Nuan, and Yan Ruoshui is no longer the original policeman of Jing Zhaoyin. Both of them have become civilians. Leaving aside that Guo Nuan and Yan Ruoshui are friends, and Guo Nuan, a scholar who sheltered a criminal, later won the first prize in the examination and became the immediate boss of Kang Wan, the pursuer. People, Guo Nuan couldn't help laughing, and Yan Ruoshui also lowered her head and giggled.

But about Guo Nuan's small talk, Yan Ruoshui accidentally found out about his two beauties, but she didn't know if it was love, because her best friend Shengping was the wife of the man in front of her. In order to live up to the trust, she can't tell Shengping like this, although Shengping is not a jealous woman.

Of course, Guo Nuan knew that Shengping had no idea that his son-in-law had wandered around the death line countless times in the Western Regions. Yue asked the courier of the post station to send two letters to Chang'an.

One of the letters was sent to Guo Nuan's mother Wang, while the other was sent to Princess Shengping. Of course, the two letters sent every half month were signed by Guo Nuan.

However, Guo Nuan was in the Western Regions and lost contact with Guo Ziyi at that time. Of course, it was impossible to write to Wang and Shengping every half a month. After writing the manuscript, it took more than ten days of hard work to imitate and copy Guo Nuan's thin gold handwriting.

In order to avoid revealing flaws and let Wang and Shengping know that Guo Nuan was missing, it is inevitable to worry, which is useless. Every time Guo Ziyi asked the clerk who imitated his handwriting to write a letter, he only wrote one line.

The content of the letter was nothing more than: "Well, the military is busy, don't be too concerned about it" and so on. The words lasted for half a year, and Wang and Shengping didn't doubt it.

But at least half a year later, Guo Ziyi sent his second son to carry the troubled sixth son back from the Western Regions with injuries all over his body, otherwise Guo Ziyi really couldn't hide it from the sky.

The Emperor Daizong of Chang'an was related to the important matter of Guo Nuan's kidnapping of the Tubo princess, which involved the diplomatic and political issues of the two countries, so the news of Guo Nuan's disappearance was quickly reported truthfully by Guo Ziyi.

Of course, Daizong, a cheap father-in-law, would not foolishly tell Shengping's daughter about his son-in-law's disappearance, so only a few high-level ministers knew about Guo Nuan's disappearance.

After bidding farewell to Yan Ruoshui, Guo Nuan drove to Zhang Hu's house at dusk. This childhood buddy was so happy to see Guo Nuan come back. The two of them set up a table in the courtyard and drank Several jars of wine.

However, Guo Nuan choked and coughed after only drinking a jar of sake. Zhang Hu was very surprised. When did this kid lose his drinking power so badly? The alcohol content is not very high, and for men with a certain capacity for alcohol, a couple of jars of wine can still handle it.

Guo Nuan's face was flushed, he lifted his clothes to expose his chest, covered in scars from knife wounds, Zhang Hu exclaimed in surprise, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Brother Guo, it seems that you Shuofang and his party have suffered too much, brother, I really feel uncomfortable ah,"

Guo Nuan didn't tell Zhang Hu about kidnapping the Tubo princess and disappearing to the Western Regions. This was not because Zhang Hu's trust in him was not as high as that of Yan Ruoshui, but because it involved political secrets between the two countries. The Tang Dynasty reconciled, and Guo Nuan's kidnapping of the Tubo princess was revealed to the public. Yan Ruoshui is a commoner, and Zhang Hu is a member of the court. It is no good for Zhang Hu to know, because he is a friend. For the sake of thinking about it, Guo Nuan didn't mention it.

Speaking of whether the Tubo Princess Toma thought that Guo Nuan died unexpectedly in the Western Region after being kidnapped, it is still uncertain. Guo Nuan was full of infinite sorrow, and he didn't want to bring up the sad past again.

Lifting the scar, Guo Nuan vaguely said that it was done in the Shuofang Military Region and fought against the border enemies. He said that he had just returned to Chang'an, climbed back from the ghost gate, and had just healed from serious injuries. His body was weak and his ability to drink was greatly reduced. Guo Nuan I sigh a lot, it seems that if I have tossed my body a few more times in the past one or two years, it will be completely scrapped and buried in the ground, and the poor Shengping wife can only become a widow at a young age, so I still take care of my body in the near future Some will do.

Zhang Hu knew that Guo Nuan was injured, so he didn't dare to drink with Guo Nuan anymore, but the two of them ate and drank a lot of dishes.