Chapter 194 Acting
"Where are Miss Panpan going?" Wei Bo stood still next to the scallion cart, and after saying something to Liang Panpan, he "sees" Tang Cheng, "Tang Cheng? Are you..."
"Reply to the general's words, I went to Princess Taiping's Mansion in Zhenguo to enjoy the banquet and dance for the Wenhui. I just came back from the Princess's Mansion." At this point, Liang Panpan smiled and glanced at Tang Cheng and said, "Mr. Tang is an invited guest. Because the car is inconvenient, I invited me to accompany me."
After Tang Cheng bowed to Wei Bo, he quietly watched the two of them acting in front of him. It was obvious that the little maid had already notified him, and he had to act like a chance encounter. Isn't it too tiring? He is just an ordinary scholar, and it is worth the third-rank general Fuyuan to play with this fancy whistle?
"This is just right," Wei Bo laughed and said, "I am worried that it is boring to go back just now. Tang Cheng has seen it. It is better to meet him by chance than to invite him. It's too late at noon. Panpan has to worry about it for us. Tang Cheng, what do you think?"
"I am just like the general, and I am just idle when I go back."
"Okay, refreshing", Wei Bo laughed and turned his horse's head to the Furong Tower in Pingkangfang.
Furong Tower is the largest brothel in Chang'an City. Everything is really cheap. Not long after the three of them arrived in Liangpanpan's house, the wine, food and other items were ready.
"Come on, drink!" Wei Bo, who was sitting against Tang Cheng, invited him to drink a cup, put down the wine cup in his hand and asked casually: "Tang Cheng, your talent is a general, and you will definitely shine at today's princess banquet and literary party. From now on, Jinbang High School is just a treasure, ah, it's a joyful congratulation."
"Speed out loud!" Tang Cheng heard this and flirted with the wine cup in his hand, "What the general said is not bad, the student is really shining today. Now the princess can't remember the student, it's not even possible."
After Tang Cheng finished saying this sarcastic words, he suddenly burst into laughter. With a loud laugh, he took the wine cup and poured a cup of wine. Then he held his hand and put the wine on his neck. Because he was drinking too quickly, the dripping wine flowed out from the corner of his mouth and wet his chest. At this point, even a stranger could see that he was drinking in anger and had a different embrace.
"Tang Cheng, you are..." Tang Cheng did not answer Wei Bo's question, and Liang Panpan, who was serving the wine, said that Tang Cheng beat Xue Dong violently. After saying that, his eyes turned around and said, "The Tang Master left the mansion at the end of Wenhui San. I saw that he looked angry when he left the mansion, but I didn't know what happened?"
"What's the matter? Hahahaha," Tang Cheng's laughter really shocked the house. The anger in the laughter could be felt clearly three miles away, "I left the house late because I was summoned by the princess of Zhenguo."
"Oh! The princess of Zhenguo has never given anyone easily, this is a good thing." Wei Bo's body suddenly looked forward.
"A good thing is a good thing. How can the princess see me in a private place like a bathing place? " Tang Cheng's laughter became louder and louder, and there was more ridicule in addition to the local anger. "I originally put my heart on the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditches! A decade of hard work and years of experience, I have always believed that I had to use the world to promise myself. Unexpectedly, in the princess' eyes, she was just a person like Zhang Changzong who should serve as a person. She wore a gauze coat and competed with everyone in the Tangchi room. She was very valued. She was very valued!"
What happened to this? Liang Panpan and Wei Bo had been guessing what Tang Cheng had done in the end in the Princess's Mansion. After hearing this, he didn't know what to say... But if you look at Tang Cheng's appearance carefully, and think about Princess Taiping's wantonness in matters between men and women, it is not surprising that such a thing happened.
Tang Cheng ignored their silence. After drinking a cup of wine, he grabbed the jade on the table in front of him and hit the table. He knocked on his hands and sang together in his long song:
In the morning, he became a farmer and ascended to the emperor's hall in the evening. Generals and ministers were originally without a seed. Men should be self-reliant.
Tang Cheng sang these four sentences three times in anger and sarcastic voice. He suddenly paused in his hand and sighed loudly: "Although I have the desire to strive for the world, I will not give it to you in the world, but I will not give it to you in the world. Alas, what can I do?"
When he sighed, Tang Cheng grabbed the wine cup in his hand when he reached out. He sighed and sniffed, and even Liang Panpan and Wei Bo couldn't persuade him. After three or four wines, he was drinking in a hurry. He saw that his body was pouring wine again and suddenly tilted his body, bringing a "rattle" sound of cups and plates, Tang Cheng was already drunk and lying on the tables in front of him.
Seeing this, Wei Bo and Liang Panpan looked at each other and smiled, dusted the wine splashed on their bodies, and reached out to push, "Tang Cheng, Tang Cheng..."
Tang Cheng stretched out his hand and pulled Wei Bo's hand away like a fly, without raising his head, and said vaguely: "I'm drunk and want to sleep, please go, go..."
Wei Bo couldn't help laughing at Tang Cheng's drunken look, "Hey, Tang Cheng looks very capable, but he didn't expect that the alcohol content was so shallow and narrow, and he fell down after drinking a few cups."
"He had already drunk a lot when he was in the princess's house. Now he has been drinking twice now. It is easy to get drunk when he stays. What's more, he still has the idea of drowning his sorrows and seeking to get drunk." Liang Panpan looked at Tang Cheng who was lying on the desk to describe the embarrassment and sighed: "'I am drunk and want to sleep with you, and you want to go away' It was originally from Tao Gong of Yuanming of the Six Dynasties. Gong Tao was always in the difficult choice between officialdom and indulgence. If you want to be an officialdom, the world will be dirty, and if you want to be an unknown person, you will be poor and sick, and you will not be able to support yourself. His poems have always been the easiest to be called by frustrated scholars."
"Oh, you know a lot."
"Wei Lang didn't know anything, so he saw a lot of bad concubines. After the scientific examination every year, there were always a few such bad concubines," Liang Panpan sighed and chuckled, "The scholars studied hard for many years, and then traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to take the exam. The hardships were endless. Once the time came, he was completely disappointed. Tang Cheng was quite good. In recent years, there were many people who saw the poor concubines crying and vomiting blood. Not to mention four or five cups of wine, just like those who were extremely eager to despair, they would be drunk more."
"Yes," Wei Bo looked at Tang Cheng and shook his head, "It seems that he also knew that if he offended Princess Taiping, there would be no hope of Jinke."
Upon hearing this, Liang Panpan nodded, and there was a bit of sincere regret in his eyes when he looked at Tang Cheng. "It was only today that the little concubine learned that the "Shu Road" that has been rumored to be a rumor in the capital recently, and Dr. He and Zhang Chunjiang praised it as "the talent is as good as the sea" was actually done by him. After that, for Qizhi, he did not hesitate to be a hall to fight against the princess' cousin. Tang Chengzhen is considered to be talented and righteous. Such a person has no hope of imperial examinations. Oh, it's a pity."
"This is the first time in more than a year that I have heard you praise someone so much." Wei Bo's words were slightly sour when he stroked Liang Panpan's shoulder.
"It's okay if you have any talent in poetry. I have seen many talented people in the past few years." I snuggled into Wei Bo's arms, and Liang Panpan said in a faint voice: "What I suck is his friendship with Qizhi, and I only hope..."
"I'm a daughter of Jin Yinuo. Can you still bear it?" Wei Bosheng was not used to such tenderness of his children. After comforting him hard, he pointed at Tang Chenghao and said, "Even he is not a pity. Without Zhang, butcher Zhang can't eat a mixed-haired pig. Hehe, can the princess of Zhenguo really cover the sky with one hand?"
As soon as Wei Bo finished speaking, he didn't wait for Liang Panpan to say anything. He heard the sound of the doorway leading to the room in the room. Wei Rui, who had a horse whip hanging on his wrist, walked out with a smile on his face, "Fifth brother is so proud, this is really loud."
"Seventh brother, why are you here?"
"Why can't I be here? Why, it's because of the intimacy between my fifth brother and my sister-in-law?" Wei Rui's mood seemed to be very good. "I heard the news that the soldiers and generals in your camp were causing trouble and rushed over immediately. After I went there, I realized that my fifth brother had left. Your close friend said that my sister-in-law had come to find her, so I arrived here directly. Who knows that you haven't arrived yet. My sister-in-law's boudoir is inconvenient, so I rested in the next room, and later..."
When Wei Bo heard Wei Rui talk about the trouble of the soldiers in the morning, the smile on his face disappeared. "Don't mention those bastards, they just regarded my Huairou as a fear of trouble. A group of ungrateful wolves who were not familiar with them, and they were uncomfortable."
"Fifth brother, don't be angry. Who are they? What are our identities? We deserve to be angry with these rough people? Fifth brother, you're just taking care of yourself in the morning, and you have the style of a general." Wei Rui said as he filled Wei Bo's wine cup and handed over. "Uncle San said it well, the situation is special now. Let's settle them first. When the big thing comes, Fifth brother, how do you want to deal with these bastards? I will never stop my brother."
"Forget it, I won't say it anymore." Wei Bo raised his neck and drank a cup of wine, and said depressedly: "I'll just bear with it."
Seeing that Wei Bo was in a state of depression, Wei Rui smiled and changed the topic, "Don't be upset, brother, there is good news here." As he said that, Wei Rui turned his head and looked at Tang Cheng who was sleeping soundly on the table, "It's about him."
"Oh, what news, Lao Qi, please tell me."
Wei Bo was really happy to hear this news. Speaking of which, a senior general Fuyuan, who was a third-rank, would not care so much about a mere test-taking scholar, but his situation was different!
Although Wei Bo was born in the famous Jingzhao clan Wei family, and was also from a direct bloodline, his parents died too early. The days when his parents went to Wei Bo were sad. The big family looked glamorous from the outside, but the internal struggles were endless. He, a half-aged child without a father or a mother, would inevitably suffer from the tyranny of various realms.
Wei Bo was also favored since childhood, but suddenly how could he bear this? But since he was unable to resist, he could only endure it. When he couldn't hold it in, he could not help crying. As he cried more, he became less welcome in the mansion. In the end, even his servants dared to disobey him. The more this happened, the more bullied Wei Bo was, the weaker his appearance, and the more violent he was hidden in his heart. Over time, he formed a character that was almost pathological and schizophrenia. From then on, not to mention clan school, even the door was less.
In short, Wei Bo himself was a living problematic boy in the Tang Dynasty. The Wei family was so big that he treated him well during that period, there were only two people, one was the third uncle, and the other was his aunt, which is the current Queen Wei.
The third uncle treats him equally because he treats his sons and nephews equally. After all, he is a general who commands troops abroad. Every year when he returns home, he sees his sons and nephews. When he sees his sons and nephews, he sees everyone. Compared to the third uncle, the fashion of the Crown Princess, the aunt of Wei Bo is really good to Wei Bo. Although there are many brothers and sisters in the previous generation of the Wei family, in terms of the relationship between brothers and sisters, Wei Bo's father and Queen Wei are the most accompanied. The brother and sister are like this when they are young. As they grow older, it becomes more and more profound. Empress Wei's love for Wei Bo is really the result of loving the house and the mist.
Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. Just when Wei Bo watched happily as his aunt finally promoted from the crown princess to the queen. With the order of the queen, his aunt followed her and was exiled to the secluded residence in Fangzhou, Shannan for a few days. She went there for fourteen years. Only he knew what Wei Bo lived, who had no support for the fourteen years and was so arrogant.
She rolled her eyes and looked down on her. Wei Bo had experienced too many experiences. She watched her brothers who were much younger than her have been released to be officials, but she still had no career after she was over thirty years old. Wei Bo's pain is really incomprehensible to outsiders.
Year after year, fourteen years later, for Wei Bo, except for his surname and bloodline that he could not change, he had no feelings for his family.
The clear sky thundered, and Zhang Jianzhi and others took advantage of the opportunity of Empress Wu's old age and illness to launch a palace transformation, and welcomed his uncle to regain the throne after living in Fangzhou for fourteen years. Wei Bo was able to guard the clouds and see the moon bright. In just three or two years, he rose from Enmeng's seventh-rank martial arts position until this time he officially took over the left guard of the Imperial Guard. His promotion speed was really shocking.
With the favor of his aunt and the experience of the past two or three years, Wei Bo finally became a little normal, at least not so weak on the surface. With the changes in the environment, he even showed abnormal strength in many cases. In addition, the violence in his heart was also comforted and hidden deeper. In short, it was in the past two or three years since Empress Wei returned. Wei Bo was generally much normal.
This time, Wei Bo took on such an important job. Whether it was for himself or to be worthy of his aunt, Wei Bo would not allow this job to be missed. But he was quite self-aware. He had no experience in leading troops and had not been able to do it since he was a child. If he wanted to do it well, he had to ask for help. But who could he find? The people in the family were not reliable, and the only thing that was still in love with Lao Qi himself was busy with. Besides, he really didn't want to rely on Lao Qi who was better than him in everything. In this way, he could only rely on himself to find someone.
Although he has not read many books, after the past two years of experience in the officialdom, Wei Bo also knows a simple truth: for a superior, being able to select the right talents and using the right talents is the greatest talent. Even if he has never learned such examples as Fu Shuo and Jiang Shang and King Wu, he has never learned about it.
The military affairs have been in a state of great anxiety since he joined the company. He always had to need Lao Qi to save the situation, and the more he did, the more anxious Wei Bo was. The search for talents became more and more urgent. It was under this situation that Tang Cheng appeared in front of Wei Bo with an incredible but sensational cloth curtain in front of him.
Especially after another troublemaker in the morning, General Wei Bo, Fuyuan, was concerned about Tang Cheng, a scholar.
"Tang Cheng is already drunk, so my sister-in-law will arrange for him to go to the wing room to sleep." Seeing Wei Bo's anxious question, Wei Rui smiled and looked at Tang Cheng being helped away by the servants, and then he took out a piece of plain paper from his sleeve, "Fifth brother, Tang Cheng's foundation is clear, look."
Although Wei Bo was speechless, he still read ordinary letters as much as possible. After taking the plain paper from Wei Rui, Wei Bo looked down and started reading.
The confidants of Shannan East Road really tried their best this time to clearly understand Tang Cheng's experience since he entered the Yunxi County Government. From the eradication of Erlongzhai to the construction of roads in Jinzhou, to the Daya Zhizheng Garden in Daocheng, there was no leakage of everything. Wei Bo became more and more happy as he watched it. He searched for it without any effort. Tang Cheng was indeed a real talent.
After carefully reading, Wei Bo, who was smiling, suddenly put on the simple note, "Lao Qi, I want this person, you can't compete with me."
"Why are you and my brothers apart? Your land is mine?" After saying this, Wei Rui paused slightly, "It's just that this son has a lot of connection with the Prime Minister An Guo's Mansion. If the fifth brother wants to use him, he has to be careful in this section."
"What does he, a scholar in Shannan, have to do with the Prime Minister? At best, he is just grateful to Zhang Liang. What is Zhang Liang like to see in the Prime Minister's eyes? Lao Qi, this matter has been said long ago." Wei Bo, who was in the fun, waved his hand and said, "It's still what you said that day, I'll use Tang Cheng."
"Okay, okay, now this situation is the time to use people. Can the talents who have obtained can still let go? My brother just wants my brother to be more careful." Speaking of this, Wei Rui smiled and pointed to the wing room and said, "You must calm down when you use people. Fifth brother will go now! As for Zhang Liang, I will talk to him."
Not to mention the performance of Tang Cheng and Wei Bo in Furong Tower, just talk about Princess Taiping and slamming the door and leaving after hearing the news, she was only slightly stunned, with no unexpected expression on her face.
"Princess, this guy is too presumptuous. Should I let Jiulang go out and pass on a message?"
Chang'an is still a bit too dry in the autumn and winter. Princess Taiping lay lazily and comfortably in the soup pool, half-closing her eyes and said lazily: "No need! This monkey is so smart. Even this princess is taking advantage of the true and false."
This made the beautiful boy confused, but his anger towards Tang Cheng was not so easy to eliminate. "This boy is so ignorant of the world, and it is obviously a disrespect to the princess. If he doesn't let him suffer..."
Before the beautiful boy could finish his words of eye-discarding, he saw the water in the pond slam, and Princess Taiping's white and tender hands slapped his face firmly. The crisp sound was clearly in the closed bathroom.
"It's so troublesome!" When Princess Taiping withdrew her hand, her phoenix eyes had returned to her half-closed state just now. Recently, her nephew Li Longji mentioned Tang Cheng many times. Judging from his actions and after the trial just now, it seems that Sanlang was right. Tang Cheng was very interesting.
Chapter completed!