My mother really wanted to use me. When I went to the Zhenguan Hall in the morning, although she did not see me, she asked someone to lead me to the ear room separated from the main hall to wait. When the prime ministers came in to discuss with her, I sat aside, and although I couldn't listen completely, I also listened intermittently. Usually I know either to proclaim the great affairs of the whole country, or to be unusually anecdotes, and the real secrets of the cardinals can enter my ears not one out of ten, so that although I am in the palace, I do not know at all how this great country works—I can't complain that the old men who have always been in charge of the government, and the youngest ones are also in their forties, unless they are extremely intelligent and have been carefully cultivated from an early age, otherwise it is indispensable to deal with these things that the prime ministers say.

I can't complain that Li Sheng and Li Rui can't fight their mothers, no matter how capable those two people are, after all, they have never been in the world, how can they be as good as their mothers and politicians for more than 20 years, and they have experienced more than a hundred battles!

However, even among these old foxes, the mother can definitely be regarded as the number one old fox spirit in the sky - not derogatory, just purely out of admiration - everything that is discussed, in fact, the prime ministers have discussed and reached an agreement, and the party has drawn up a letter and sent it over, and the undecided, Or very important, often will also synthesize several suggestions, for the mother's reference, so although it is a small matter, it is often thoughtful, at least let me think again, is never able to think of a better way, but the mother can always think about a step more carefully, for example, the suburbs of Beijing to build a canal, the diversion of water to irrigate the field, the Prefecture order has written all the people resettlement, labor requisition, the required money and materials, the construction period, who is involved, etc., are clearly written, and the Shangshu and the prime minister will use whom, What is this person's resume, where does the money come from, how to punish and reward the merits, and the pros and cons of this matter from money and food to etiquette are all made up, just waiting for the mother to nod and say "can", but the mother said, "In order to avoid leaving the palace, this canal detours from the north, passing through two villages, if the nearby people are greedy for convenience, steal the water channel, intercept the upper stream, and then not only spend people guarding and wasting state funds, but also trap the people for profit, and disregard the people for punishment, no" , and was beaten back to the discussion, and so on, although it was a trivial matter, but the more I admired my mother's old spiciness, although in the place where my mother couldn't see, but I couldn't help but straighten up, sit upright, and didn't dare to slack off.

Recently, there have been a lot of government affairs, and my mother discussed it until noon, and then let the prime ministers out, and ordered someone to call me to the front, not asking the reason for the meeting, but asking me first: "Did you hear it all?"

I said respectfully, "I heard it all." ”

The mother smiled and asked again, "What did you hear?"

I was stunned for a moment before I understood what she meant, and then I thought about it: "What I just discussed is roughly four categories. The first type of agricultural water conservancy, there are Jinggi, Xijing, Tongpu and other prefectures each ask to repair canals, there are more than ten large and small canals, there are canals, there are grain payment, tax exemption, a class of ceremonial sacrifices, mainly Xijing Taimiao and Wenshui ancestral hall affairs, a class of official transfers, Yang, Yi, Jing Prefecture Thorn History and Guangzhou Governor vacancies, and Beijing Central Six-grade or above officials to make up for the transfer, Yin officials to fill the staff, the official to fix the salary, the punishment and reward, the first type is the frontier affairs, the discussion seems to be Tuntian?

My mother stretched out her hand and motioned for me to help her: "You have a good memory." ”

I said, "I wrote it down." The notes I made with paper and pen in my sleeve and handed them to her to show - I had been in college for two years in my previous life, and everything else was so-so, but this note, the key points were very profound, my mother took the paper from my hand, looked at it while walking, stopped after a few steps, looked at me and smiled: "It's a pity that you don't work hard to be a living officer." ”

I smiled and said: "If A-Niang is willing, my son will accompany A-Niang every day, put all A-Niang's great achievements into paper and pen, and compile the "Records of the Empress Dowager Wu", so as to set an example for future generations." ”

This was said a little explicitly, and the mother smiled slightly self-consciously, but said: "Hu Bai, punish you to copy a copy of "All the Tao Sutras" and provide you with Aya - in the future, you are not allowed to write down the things we discussed, and you are not allowed to say it to outsiders. I tore up the notes I took and handed them to Wan'er: "Burn it." ”

I naturally knew this truth, but when I looked around, my mother understood, and pointed to the four or five people who served around me: "These people are your mother's predecessors, and they won't be leaked at will, you just pay attention to yourself and don't let others know." Later, his voice was slight: "It's leaked, and it's you who suffers." ”

I was busy with the teaching, followed my mother to the hall, waiting for the palace attendants to set the meal, in front of my mother are all vegetarian dishes, but there are meat and vegetarian dishes on my case, I hesitated to get off the chopstick, my mother glimpsed, said to me: "I want you to accompany me to eat vegetarian fasting for a few days, I think you have been weak recently, and indulge you for a few days, wait for it, come and fast with me." ”

I was quite unimpressed with this religious strange thing, hindering my mother, I could only bow my head and say yes, just about to pick up the roasted brown and oily beef, raised my eyes to see my mother, so I only poured a bowl of sour bamboo shoot ham soup soaked in the rice, sprinkled more pepper, hot to fill the stomach, my mother obviously did not like my rough way of eating, glanced at me, and said: "What is this new way of eating, they usually send you to eat like this?"

I smiled and said, "Recently, I feel that my spleen and stomach are weak, and I don't like those dishes with a lot of meat and oil. ”

Mother didn't say much, I had a meal with her, and asked her about the incomprehension she saw last night, and my mother was patient in front of me, and she answered a few words before she wanted to send me away, but Li Dan, Princess Luling, etc., came to ask about life.

When I heard Ah Huan coming, I refused to leave, and I was afraid that my mother might not be willing to see Ah Huan, so I pestered her and said: "The weather is very good, do you want to go boating on the lake? ”

My mother happened to have nothing to do in the afternoon, so she had no choice but to respond, and immediately called Ah Huan, and ordered someone to call a few female officials who flattered in front of the palace every day, and Li Bin's several older sons to answer - I only remembered Li Bin's eldest son Li De at this moment, The second son Li You has reached the age of ten and can go out of the cabinet, and when they come, they specially looked at a few times, but saw that both of them were still dressed as children, and they were quite a little cringe between words and deeds. ”

Gao Yanfu said with a smile: "The teaching workshop has a new water play, does the Queen Mother want to see it?"

Mother looked at me, I don't often play in the water, so I nodded, someone spread the word, and then rowed a big boat, the people in the workshop played silk and bamboo in the cabin, and the people who played a hundred operas played a few funny on the deck, and when they got closer, they listened to the drums and music, and the sound was very noisy, and a man and a woman came out, and first saluted us and called the name, and after the queen mother lived a thousand years, and listened to the music again, it turned out that the main play began: there was a pole on this ship, but there were no sails on the pole, Flag, only a long rope, the man and the woman walked to the pole, the man held the woman up, climbed along the rope for a while, sometimes stopped to do a jump, sometimes moved gracefully, and so on, the rope in the hand, threw a few beautiful rope flowers, the man pretended to be anxious, left and right dance below, several times after grabbing the tail of the rope, and climbed along the rope, the woman made a reluctant appearance, obstructed in every way, and shook the rope for a while, even the man hung on the rope without roots duckweed, so that people were very suspenseful, and threw many flying knives from top to bottom, wooden thorns and other things, the man hurriedly avoided it, although it was fake, it still made our hearts beat, if it was several times, the man finally eliminated all difficulties, and approached the top, and the woman abandoned the rope and fought with him with her bare hands— The pole was very high, and it moved with the waves on the boat, swaying and swaying, and it looked scary, and there was only a little place on it, and there were two people squeezing together, and they were still fighting with each other, and suddenly one of them was pushed down, and slid backwards down the rope, and the last leg was caught at the end of the rope, and his head hung almost down to the deck, and the other person was swaying with a rope on it, and a person with a rope flew up and down the water like a swing, but the person on the rope did not fall down, and shook it a few times, and suddenly grabbed the flagpole with one hand, climbed up dexterously like an ape, and pushed the person above with his backhand, and the man smiled, and jumped into the water from the top, and I saw it worryingly, and my hand unconsciously clenched, but was immediately held by a warm hand, and when I looked back, I saw Ah Huan smiling at me, and said softly: "You have always been timid and weak, if you are scared when you see it, don't look at it." ”

I was very dissatisfied with her words, and was about to refute it, but my mother heard her words, turned her head to look at her, took my hand in her arms, and said with a smile: "Listen to your sister-in-law, if you are really afraid, don't look at it." He said to Gao Yanfu again: "This kind of play, if you are not careful, you will kill and injure people, don't arrange it again in the future." ”

When Gao Yanfu heard this, he passed the word to the side, and the people in the water over there could only get up, and the two thanked their mother together. Although the people on this boat praised the mother's kindness and love for the people, in fact, they still wanted to watch it, and they were all interested in seeing the change of ordinary operas, horns, etc., but fortunately, my mother was too lazy to stay outside, and led us into the cabin, and each opened a few rounds of Shuanglu and Pupu, watching us juniors play.

Ah Huan and I occupied a game, and when the two of us changed hands, he said angrily: "Why are you so close in front of people? Let people see it, not to say that the two of us are good, but think that I have something to do with Brother Rui - it's not that I don't want to have anything to do with him, but I'm afraid that this will bring him and you back." ”

Ah Huan said: "He is your brother-in-law from the same mother, and I have lived with you for two years, you are closer to me, who can say anything? ”

I thought about it carefully, and I felt that it was very reasonable, and the little worry in my heart a few days ago went away, smiled at her, and said, "It's still my sister-in-law." ”

She threw a "lu" casually, looked down at the game and looked up at me and smiled: "That's natural - you lose, take the money." 166 Reading Network