Imperial Uncle

The rain was pouring down. I opened my umbrella under the corridor, and the wind blew obliquely, almost blowing me.

The inn guy said, "Guests, it's impossible to go out in this weather. Let's rest in the room. It said that the boat that came over the river over there has been a few overturned last night to this day."

I looked up and took a moment to stay in the wind, still rushing into the rain.

I got the news. Ruihe's people arrived in the city the day before yesterday. Unfortunately, when I arrived yesterday, they lived in the hotel. The people were full. If they don't pass today, maybe they will leave tomorrow. Besides, it rained heavily, and at noon, they would definitely eat in the lobby and pretend to avoid the rain, which is more natural.

I did not take two steps, and the wind blew the umbrella away. I turned back to the shop, borrowed the clothes from the guy, walked forward, and in the street leading to the pier, I suddenly saw someone. Standing still in the wind and rain, as if about to be blown by the wind at any time, two people next to him were desperately trying to pull him away.

The more I saw the figure, the more familiar I was, and when I approached, I could not help shouting, "Ran ..."

The man turned back violently, and I lifted the bucket bucket up, "Boss Mei."

I've never seen Liu Tongyi so embarrassed, with his hair and clothes all stuck to his body, just like a water ghost.

I pulled the corner of my mouth and wanted to smile, but somehow I could n’t laugh, but I said stiffly, "Boss Mei ... Coincidentally ... I met again."

Liu Tong looked straight at me, but smiled, "Yeah, it happened that I met again."

I put Douyi on Liu Tongyi's head, pulled him back to the inn, and immediately warmed the soup to bathe, and then prepared **** tea. Who expected that Liu Tongyi suddenly started to burn, and for two days, what to spit and what he ate Those steward servants just cry, the old steward dragged me and said, "The first master is gone because of the lung disease. If the young master is ... how to be good, how to be good ..."

The servants sobbed in unison, and I was blasted out together.

In the middle of the night, I twisted a cold handkerchief and put it on Liu Tongyi's head. I told him that in fact, I didn't meet him occasionally.

I've been to Java. I stayed there for a month and looked at coconuts and monkeys on the tree. There was always a panic in my heart.

I don't think it's in place.

Before my age, those entanglements were true and false, all like cloud smoke, but there was one person who could make me credible, trustworthy, reassuring, and companionable when there was nothing in it.

This person can only be Liu Tongyi.

It doesn't matter whether he is Liu Xiang above Chaotang, Mei Yong in charge of Ruihe, or the owner of the small house in Celery Lane.

I put Liu Tong leaning my hand into the quilt, "So you must not have anything, otherwise who will I expect when I really come to the end?"

I was about to get up to see the medicine pot, and suddenly I heard a low voice.

"Don't look for me again ... you scared me three times ... I'm enough ..."

I wiped my nose, drank the cold medicine, and the door rang twice. Liu Tongyi's manager rushed in and said, "Boss Zhao, our shopkeeper is able to move around and said, please invite Boss to lunch together."

Lunch was very plain, because I was still suffering from a cold and Liu Tongyi was recovering from a serious illness. In addition to a pot of milky fish soup, the table was full of greens and radishes.

Not even rice wine.

After eating with little interest, I really didn't want to eat any more tea.

No fragrant, bitter mouthful.

I clasped the tea bowl with my hand and leaned to Liu Tong. "Yes, Mr. Mei, I have something, and I want to ask you for help."

Liu Tong rested on his hand pouring tea, "Boss Zhao, please."

I said, "That's it. A few days ago, I lost money in doing business, so ..."

Liu Tong leaned down on the teapot and looked at me. Then I said, "I'm not borrowing money from you. I want to ask you ... Is there a vacancy in Ruiheli? The business is getting bigger and bigger, and there are many things. Thank you for your help, and then ... "

Liu Tongyi continued to look at me. I met his gaze, but smiled: "Ransi, how long do you say you and I should go around like this?"

Liu Tongyi also laughed: "I don't want to go around anymore, but it's you who keep going around."

Ten years later, in May, I thought about going overseas to make a trip. I returned home in the autumn, and when I arrived home, Lee was on the sidewalk, and there was an urgent shipment from Beijing. I was in this house for half a month. Give me the surname by name.

From the way I went ashore, I noticed that the situation along the way was a little different, and I heard some discussion along the way. When I saw the cover of the letter, my heart suddenly became cold.

It is Qi Tan's handwriting.

I hurriedly opened the letter, only a few words were written in it, but it made me cold—

Uncle, the emperor is seriously ill and wants to see you.

I rushed all the way and rushed out of the capital to see the city army covered with indigo and raising the funeral.

As soon as my eyes became dark, I knew nothing.

The autumn rain is dense, soaked in soil, red leaves in the mountains, and a bright red.

I dug out the earth and buried the blue and white porcelain cymbal next to the monument, which was engraved with the monument of the top bone of Emperor Dezong.

All I remember is that my nephew, Qiye, is not a holy god, nor is it called Dezong. He is an awkward kid who admits to being born.

Born in the emperor's house, there are many rules and restraints. You ca n’t play more if you want to. You ca n’t eat more if you want to.

At that time, it was during the lunar month, and I didn't know what the queen thought, but she even sent the prince to the palace of Huai Wang. Naturally, Qi Tan Qi Fei was also a disaster, and it was an uneasy whole day.

I was in a hurry to sit in the small hall. It happened that my mother said that the kitchen had been newly prepared, and I had some of them brought in. I was trying to taste it. The prince who happened to be in the hall sang, "Stop!" The sleeves were swept across the table, and the small saucer filled with garlic was smashed to the ground and shattered.

The servant in the hall knelt down in shock, Qi Qi looked up at me, and said, "This garlic is green, obviously poisonous, why do you want to eat it?"

I choked for a moment, and I was happy. The servant in the hall and my mother who came here also heard that my mother was happy: "The prince has not eaten Laba garlic. It is only in Laba that this season can pickle this garlic."

I made people take it a little bit more, and I ate it for him.

The girl-in-law laughed, "Prince Prince, you have never seen this kind of folk food."

Qi Rong blushed and said with a stern face: "Leeks and the like must not be eaten often in this palace."

I want to come because I'm afraid of having breath or ventilating below.

I ate one, and I saw Qi Zheng constantly looking at the dish of baba garlic. Since there is a rule that he ca n’t eat it, I dare not let the prince eat this, so I will let it go.

Unexpectedly, the girl-in-law just bent down and said, "Slow."

The girl took her hand, and opened it to the table. She looked calm and said, "This palace also needs to know more about folk things, so that you can observe the people's sentiment." Grabbed a Laba garlic, and stuffed it into her mouth.

As a result, when eating at night, several princes took the porridge and ate the Laba Garlic on a small plate. Qi Yi ate particularly much, and worried me and my mother not too lightly, for fear he would marinate his heart.

In the end, I had a can of Laba Garlic, and it was served in a small blue and white porcelain jar, which was sent to the Royal Palace with Qi Ye so that the Prince could take a closer look at the people's sentiments.

I pressed the soil down, stood up, Qi Tan whispered: "Uncle, you can't stay here too long, only in your heart, the first emperor in heaven ... will know."

I turned around, faintly, and heard someone shouting, "Cheng Jun."

I looked back, where the emperor was buried, where was the first person to call me for words?

When I got out of the emperor's mausoleum, when I got into the carriage, I saw it side by side. There was a figure standing on the side of the road and the mountains and stones. He smiled at me, his expressions were extremely free and easy, and then he disappeared into the stones.

Qiuyu was extravagant, and Hongye was gorgeous, almost as if he had never appeared.

I lowered the curtains and the carriage moved forward. Back to the King's Mansion and waiting for the rain the next day, I was ready to go home.

Ran Si is still waiting for me at home.

Qi Tan will stay with me for a few more days, and I said, "Business is busy now, but I can't keep myself busy, so I need to hurry back."

Qi Tan said: "Uncle did not want to stay, so he said such things. Now my nephew can stop uncle's autumn wind and run so fast."

I said, "Anyway, you are also a grandfather of the assisting country. What you say is still frizzy."

Qi Tan laughed: "In front of my uncle, my nephew is always immature."

A bunch of children were playing in the garden outside the house. Only then did Qi Tan tell me that there were some of his family and some of his family. Because of the many antiques in the King's Mansion and the new decoration, they all loved to play here.

Under the garden gallery, I saw two or three eunuchs standing with a teenager. The child's immature face seemed to have known him. I couldn't help but look at him. Qi Tan gave a haha: "This is also a baby from whom, like them ,the same."

I followed and smiled.

Qi Tan sighed: "When I saw them, I remembered that when I was a kid, I played in the King's Mansion ... I was still a kid, I was heartless and heartless."

Yes, it was still good when I was a kid. I was so naive, even if I was taught by an adult and learned something, I still have the simple nature of children.

For example, a few years ago, when I was holding them to pick plums.

I also realized that my mother was awake later. In fact, that day, many princes gathered in the palace of Huaiwang, because my father had not been there for a while, and I wanted to test my attitude.

I have hugged each prince that day, and nothing can be done this time. However, because the tea bowl was knocked over, I held Qiqi for the longest time, so the palace of King Huai became the princeling.

None of these things can be thought deeply about. In the past few decades, how many people and things have become empty, and I look back, but it is just some children who play at my uncle's house.

An insider flashed into the door and said something in Qi Tan's ear.

Qi Tan said to me, there are some things that come and go. Get up and go out.

I walked slowly down the corridor to see the children playing, and suddenly I heard a sound in the small hall around me.

When I swept the hall, Qi Tan bowed down and said, "... The courtier will go with the guests first, and he will come later."

Sitting on the top, it was the young man who had just stood under the porch. His childlike eyes looked at Qi Tan, and he bowed his head pretendingly.

"That's waiting for you here, uncle Huang."