[Yinyu] Spring water surrounds Biancheng.

Chapter 18

"Brother Zhong Yu!" Zhao Defang pulled a paper kite and shouted with a smile while running, "Come here quickly!"

"Defang!" Li Zhongyu said angrily, "How old are you, and you are still so playful, when your father comes, let's see if he doesn't teach you a lesson!"

"Father is so busy every day that he doesn't have time to take care of me!" Zhao Defang made a grimace, and retorted terrifiedly.

"Okay, Zhong Yu." Zhao Dezhao persuaded with a smile, "Defang is young, so it's okay to play around a bit. But you, why are you acting like a young man all day long?"

Li Zhongyu choked, thinking that how could you, a dignified prince, understand the pain of my youth's ups and downs, so he said: "I don't want to run around like him all day long."

As soon as he finished saying this, Li Zhongyu felt someone hit his back. He turned around and saw a stone on the ground, and said angrily, "Zhao Defang!"

"Who told you to call me crazy?" Zhao Defang yelled, "Oh? Don't come here! Didn't you stop playing? Are you repenting? Don't, good brother, can't I give you the paper kite? ?”

Seeing Li Zhongyu getting closer and closer with an angry expression on his face, Zhao Defang swallowed, feeling that something was wrong, so she ran away.

In the end, Li Zhongyu and Zhao Defang released the kite, and the kite flew higher and higher, and flew straight out of the palace wall.

When the two of them were finally tired from playing, they were already dripping with sweat.

Li Zhongyu was lying on the ground, panting heavily, and asked: "Have you finished the homework assigned to you by the master?"

Zhao Defang froze, Li Zhongyu saw his reaction, and asked suspiciously: "You haven't written yet, have you?"

Zhao Defang rolled her eyes, turned her head to look at Zhao Dezhao, who had been standing aside watching them play, and said pitifully, "Brother..."

Zhao Dezhao twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "What did you ask me to do? I won't write for you!"

"Big brother..."

"Zhong Yu's homework is much better than the two of us, why don't you let him do it for you?"

"Him? Come on, he'd rather be hand-banged than write for me."

Li Zhongyu was so angry that he slapped Zhao Defang, "You have the nerve to say that! How many times have you hurt me?"

Zhao Defang chuckled, Zhao Dezhao had no choice but to take a few steps forward, stretched out his hand and said, "Get up, it's cold on the ground!"

"That won't work, you have to promise me before I get up!" Zhao Defang lay on the ground, playing a rascal.

Li Zhongyu was really shocked by this person's thick skin, and immediately replied: "I'll fuck you!"

Zhao Dezhao smiled with a good temper, and said, "I'll help you write what you can't finish. Is this okay?"

Zhao Defang rolled a carp and jumped up from the ground, "Deal!"

He patted the soil behind him, pulled Li Zhongyu up from the ground again, and urged: "Then let's go back and write."

"You know you're in a hurry now? I didn't know who was playing like crazy just now." Li Zhongyu sarcastically said.

"Didn't you play just now?" Zhao Defang replied sharply.

"I..." Li Zhongyu was so choked that he couldn't speak, his eyes fluttered, and happened to see someone hiding under the big locust tree not far away, and he was stunned for a while.

"Okay, stop arguing." Zhao Dezhao said, "Go back quickly."

Zhao Defang nodded, followed a few steps forward, and suddenly found that Li Zhongyu hadn't followed, and looked back suspiciously, "Brother Zhong Yu?"

"You guys go back first." Li Zhongyu didn't even move his eyes, staring at the place closely, and said quickly, "I'll come as soon as I go."

After speaking, he ran straight to Huaiyin.

At the same time, in the palace, outside the Chui Gong hall, Cao Bin and Pan Mei, who had just reported the Northern Expedition, were walking side by side.

"You are willing to bring him into the palace today." Cao Bin said.

Pan Mei waved her hand, and said, "He's already this old, it's not good for him to be detained in the mansion all day long."

Cao Bin nodded, "Zhongxun, in my opinion, you don't have to be so careful. Since the Holy Majesty kept him back then, you won't harm him now."

Pan Mei smiled wryly, "Why don't I know, it's just that this child has a special status, so it's always better to be careful."

Cao Bin pondered for a while, and said, "Weiji is still my half-nephew. If there is anything in the future that I can help, I will try my best to help."

"In that case, I will thank General Cao on behalf of Quanzi first." Pan Mei said with a smile.

Li Zhongyu played wildly for a long time, but now he only walked a few steps, and when he ran in front of that person, he was out of breath.

Looking at the thin young man in front of him, he didn't know what to say for a moment, he wiped his sweat indiscriminately, and when he lowered his head, he found that his sleeves had been stained.

Just now he played like crazy, made his face covered with dust, and now he is sweating again, at this moment he is afraid that he has become a disfigured face.Li Zhongyu wiped it a couple of times anxiously, feeling that he had never been so embarrassed in his life.

The young man watched his movements steadily, his face was expressionless from beginning to end, with an indifference and gloom that did not belong to his age.But even so, it did not damage his handsome face at all, but added a bit of cold beauty to him.

"You... who are you?" Li Zhongyu asked, "What's your name?"

The boy didn't answer his question, but just stared straight at him, his eyes were so dark and deep that people couldn't see clearly what was going on in his mind.

Li Zhongyu swallowed his saliva, suddenly thought of something, fumbled in his bosom, and held it in front of the young man like offering a treasure, "Here you are, sweet-scented osmanthus."

The young man looked down, the palms of his hands were black, and the candy was white. Being held by him, he felt a little pious for no reason.

The boy raised his hand expressionlessly, knocked down his candy with a snap.

"Weiji!" Pan Mei shouted from afar.

Pan Weiji took a deep look at Li Zhongyu, turned around and ran away.

"Why did you run so far?" Pan Mei asked, looking at Pan Weiji who was running over.

Pan Weiji shook his head, but still didn't speak. Pan Mei didn't force her, she took his hand and walked away step by step.

Li Zhongyu was in a daze. He looked at Pan Weiji's back that was drifting away, and then at the sweet-scented osmanthus sweets on the ground. His mind was blank, but his heart was beating fast.

It wasn't until Zhao Defang called him several times behind him that Li Zhongyu came back to his senses, walked back a few steps, and asked Zhao Defang, "Who was that person just now?"

Zhao Defang looked at her hands over and over, and said casually: "The youngest of the Pan family, he is usually in the mansion every day, and I have never seen how he came out. This is the first time I saw him in the palace."

Li Zhongyu frowned, "Looking at his appearance, he is only a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old, why is he nestled in the mansion every day?"

"Brother Zhong Yu." Zhao Defang said suddenly, "There are some things that we should not ask about. Brother listen to my advice, don't provoke him, let alone get too close to him."

"Why?" Li Zhongyu asked hurriedly.

Zhao Dezhao shook his head at him, "Zhong Yu, listen to Defang for a while. We don't know anything about the past."

Li Zhongyu was dumbfounded, knowing that he couldn't continue to ask, he kept his mouth shut tactfully.

After a long time, Li Zhongyu finally understood why the two princes would be so secretive about the son of a courtier.

Pan Weiji was originally... the son of Chai Rong, Emperor Shizong of the former Zhou dynasty.

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Regarding Pan Weiji's life experience, there are different records in different versions. The following is excerpted from Baidu Encyclopedia:

Zhao Kuangyin entered the palace for the first time after seizing the throne, saw a concubine holding a child in the palace, asked who it was, and replied, "This is the son of Zhou Shizong."

At that time, Fan Zhi, Zhao Pu, Pan Mei and others were accompanying Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin turned around and asked Zhao Pu. Zhao Pu and others said, "get rid of him."

Pan Mei and another marshal did not speak behind Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin called Pan Mei to ask, but Pan Mei dared not answer. Zhao Kuangyin said: "I am in Zhou Shizong. If I kill his son, I can't bear to do it."

Pan Mei said: "I and Your Majesty were both Zhou Shizong's courtiers. If you persuade Your Majesty to kill this child, you will fail Zhou Shizong. If you persuade Your Majesty not to kill him, Your Majesty must be suspicious of me."

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Give it to you as a nephew. Zhou Shizong's son cannot be your son."

Pan Mei then took the child home.After that, Zhao Kuangyin didn't ask about the child's situation, and Pan Mei didn't say anything about it.

This child is Pan Weiji, who later became the governor.Pan Mei originally had no brothers, but Pan Weiji only called Pan Mei her father but not her grandfather.

This version comes from the records of Wang Gong, who claimed to have heard it from a descendant of Pan Weiji.