Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

Chapter 572 Eloping

"Okay, okay, Ada, you go ahead." Zhao Wei, who had lost his patience, randomly pointed to one.

The unlucky Ada wished he could just die right there, but he had to stand up.

He closed his eyes, opened his mouth, and uttered a shocking statement: "My dear, it seems that the young man from the Cui family married a new woman and she eloped with our young man!"

"What did you say?" This time Zhao Wei couldn't pretend to be polite at all. He stretched out his right little finger to pick his ear, suspecting that it might be because of his age that his ears were not working well.

If there is, it’s hard to say it the first time, but the second time it’s like eating and drinking water.

Ada thought he hadn't heard clearly, so he shouted in a shaky voice, "My dear, the Cui family's thorny new wife has eloped with our Seventeenth Son!"

Just as he finished speaking, a porcelain bowl hit him hard on the chest. It shattered into pieces in mid-air without even having to wait for the ground to hit the ground. Then Zhao Wei's curses echoed throughout the courtyard: "You idiot, are you farting in front of me here?! Come on, come on! Sew his mouth shut!"

It's crazy, totally crazy!

This grandson is so bold, how bold is he?

He dares to say anything?

Most men can’t stand being cuckolded and being a pimp, let alone Cui Yi!

If Cui Yi gets the ears of this, won't he destroy the Zhao Mansion and then their ancestral home?

Maybe he will burn all the ancestral tablets to ashes!

Ada was hit but didn't dare to dodge or touch his aching chest. He lowered his head and his face was full of panic after making a mistake.

Zhao Wei was so mad at this idiot that he grabbed the remaining fruit and threw it at his face, cursing, "Elope! I told you to elope! Elope! Elope! Why don't you just elope, you idiot!"

Someone with a bit of insight immediately stood up and said, "You know Ada's brain, my subordinates said at the time that this is impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Before Zhao Wei could even soften his expression, he heard this guy patting his chest and saying, "That troublemaker from the Cui family may have a bad temper, but his physique is infinitely better than our Shiqilang's, and his bride is no fool! If I had a daughter, I'd definitely ask Cui Yi for her too! Maybe she's afraid we'd capture Shiqilang, so she's just staying away."

Zhao Wei admitted that this was the truth, but as a close father, why did he feel so uncomfortable listening to it?

He has good eyesight, but not much.

"What nonsense! Shan'er, Shan'er is polite and knowledgeable. How can he be inferior to that warrior Cui Yi?"

Zhao Wei barely managed to save his son's face. His blood pressure, which had been raised by anger, finally dropped a little. He then relaxed his grip on the table and sat down again. "Someone who's not crazy, please explain this to me."

One guard looked left and right, realizing he was probably the most reasonable person here, so he silently stepped forward and said, "My lord, the Cui family's lady went to the Fajing Temple outside the city. It's a nunnery and doesn't accept male guests. I sneaked in and looked around, but didn't see any members of the Cui family. Later, after asking around, I found out that the Cui family's aunt was at the farm outside the city, but Shiqilang wasn't there either, and even the Cui family's new wife wasn't there. I waited and asked around for a while, and finally heard that a lady and a man, accompanied by some guards, rode fast horses towards Luoyang."

Many of these rough guys liked to tell dirty jokes when they were in the military camp.

When I heard this, my mind immediately went to the love affairs between men and women.

Zhao Wei had calmed down by now, and Zhao Shan did not leave with any guards. If there were any guards following him, they could only be Cui Yi's guards.

They went to Luoyang? What did they do in Luoyang?

"Have you found out where Cui Yi went?" Zhao Wei suspected that they went to find Cui Bianxu.

His son has been weak since childhood, and whenever he is bullied, he always asks Cui Yi to stand up for him.

Even though the two families were so far apart, Zhao Shan still sent a carrier pigeon to summon Cui Yi to avenge him!

"this..."

The guards looked at each other helplessly: "We are useless and have never found out."

It’s not that they don’t try hard, it’s that they really can’t find out!

Cui Yi never returned to Chang'an at all. Who knows where he went?

None of the Cui family’s servants knew where he had gone!

Although Zhao Wei was somewhat dissatisfied, he was still happy to see his son go find Cui Yi. A few days ago, he was still regretting that he could not involve the Cui family of Qinghe. Now, if the mountain doesn't come to me, then I will come to the mountain!

Who knows, the Cui family might be dragged into this.

Zhao Wei, whose mood suddenly brightened, was about to wave them off when he heard someone hesitantly say, "Sir, the soldiers guarding the city say that many people in Chang'an have gone to Luoyang recently. I heard that a prince has also gone there."

My own Seventeenth Son first took sick leave, and was later kidnapped and reported to the authorities. If he were seen by acquaintances in Luoyang, would he be in trouble?

Zhao Wei was stunned. "Prince? Do you know which one?"

"I heard that Princess Jinyang's old illness has relapsed recently. His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin and the princess share the same mother. So, I asked for Your Majesty's permission to personally go to the Qingniu Temple on the southern slope of Mount Mang in Luoyang to pray for the princess."

There are countless Buddhist temples and Taoist temples of various types in Luoyang City, and the Qingniu Temple is one of them.

Although it was built not long ago, the Taoist priests there are very capable.

They insisted that it was the place where Laozi tied his cows, and claimed that it was the source of Taoism and the ancestral temple.

The Taoist priests in the temple were very good at refining elixirs. Even Zhao Wei had heard of the name of Qingniu Temple in his hometown.

It was common knowledge that Princess Jinyang was favored, and he had also vaguely heard that the princess had suffered from rheumatism since her mother's womb.

Therefore, it was quite normal for Prince Jin to go to Qingniu Temple to pray for the princess and ask for some elixirs.

"I've been keeping an eye on the news in the city lately. If there's anything unusual..."

Thinking of the morals of his guards, Zhao Wei quickly changed his tone: "You must come to me for everything! Alright! Everyone, get out."

Bad luck, really bad luck!

But he refused to change his guards.

First of all, these people are loyal, very loyal.

Secondly, these people were the ones who followed him in the army back then. They had grown from young, ignorant soldiers who didn't know the cruelty of war to their current age, and the wounds on their bodies were no less than his. If he couldn't even take care of them, what else could they do?

Hangzhou Prefecture.

Jiang Shangxian's legs felt weak as he stepped on solid ground. He gritted his teeth, climbed onto his horse and rushed to Lingnan Road.

Liuzhou.

Cui Bianxu, a fashionable boy from the Tang Dynasty, was sitting by the window, wearing a gauze top and trousers, a pair of coral-soled, aqua-green-edged sandals, and each strap inlaid with a fingernail-sized agate. He was stroking his hands and staring blankly at the drizzling rain outside the window with an expressionless face.