Chapter 12: Upside Down
In December of the first year of Yongle, Zhang Zhaohua and Gao Chi of Beiping received a reward from the emperor.
After Gao Chi thanked him, he respectfully opened the box and found that it was a set of clothes inside, and couldn't help but pause and said, "My father and emperor are busy and also sent new clothes to his sons, Gao Chi is very grateful." Wei Yao wishes the Father, the Queen and the Queen Mother the Eucharist good health. β
The envoy nodded and said, "Your Highness's words, the minister will definitely bring them to the emperor." β
Zhang Zhaohua invited the envoy to sit down, and asked with a pleasant face, "When my father sent you here, did you have anything else to explain?"
"The emperor has nothing to explain. The messenger said, "It is to order the ministers to give clothes to His Highness." β
Thousands of miles away, inexplicably sending a set of clothes, is it possible-
Zhang Zhaohua remained silent and said, "If you want to come to Kaiping Gaoyang King, there will be a reward." β
The envoy bowed and said: "The pedestrian division sent the minister and Zhao Ying to the north together, Zhao Ying went to Kaiping, and the emperor is the same reward." β
"The messenger has worked hard. Zhang Zhaohua saw that he couldn't ask anything from the messenger's mouth, so he asked him to rest first, and then look at the set of clothes and crowns given to him.
She touched the material with her hand, and was surprised to find that this was a set of Qiluo clothes, and it was a single clothes, which was not suitable for wearing in such a cold weather.
Why do you want to give a single set of clothes? She picked up the clothes, carefully studied them a few times, and then touched them inch by inch, and there was nothing mysterious, just an ordinary set of clothes. She picked up the hat underneath and found it to be a square scarf made of black leno.
"What does it mean?" Zhang Zhaohua was so anxious that he actually sweated: "Do you want to ask Gao Chi, is the Quartet pacified today? Or is it saying that Gao Chi only focuses on literary affairs, but he doesn't know anything about military strategy and military affairs?"
Because the Sifang Pingding Scarf is a square soft hat worn by Confucian scholars and priests in this dynasty, it is obviously a literati thing, but Gao Chi usually doesn't wear this thing much, because he loves to sweat, and the Sifang Pingding Scarf is wrapped a little hot. Zhang Zhaohua was thinking in his heart, could it be that the clothes and hats given to Gao Xu were not the same as Gao Chi's?
Gao Chi watched her rummage through it with cold eyes, and said, "This is a piece of clothing that my father gave me, but you have to find out the deep meaning from itβis it not okay for a father to give his son a piece of clothing now?"
"Are you ordinary father and son?" Zhang Zhaohua asked rhetorically: "Is this dress and hat that you usually wear? Is it something you can wear now?"
Zhang Zhaohua thought about it for about two hours, but she didn't have a clue, she didn't eat a bite of dinner, and only said in her heart that if Wang Du hadn't been taken away by her, she should know what the emperor meant. At the same time, she thought that now that Gao Chi has no advisors by his side, who can give him advice!
What did the emperor want to say, the envoy didn't say a word, so it must have been hidden in his clothes. Could Gao Xu have already guessed it, is it possible to lose the opportunity this time?
She was restless here, but when she saw that on the other side, Gao Chi had already fallen asleep. Gao Chi has not been very fond of taking care of her since she was imprisoned in the world for a period of time, but Zhang Zhaohua has a way to take him, and he knows that Gao Chi has no way to take her.
She paced over, and before she could get to the head of the bed, Gao Chi rolled over and faced inward.
Zhang Zhaohua thought it was very funny. She reached out and poked at his fat flesh.
Gao Chi wrapped the quilt tightly, and Zhang Zhaohua put his two hands into the quilt and tickled his flesh. Gao Chi twisted left and right on the bed, and finally jumped up: "What are you going to do!"
Zhang Zhaohua said: "What's the murder, you occupy my bed, I want to put the soup woman." β
Gao Chi showed an aggrieved look, because he was obviously sleeping in his place just now, and it was Zhang Zhaohua who scratched him and told him to roll to the other side. He saw that Zhang Zhaohua also stuffed one under his feet, so he said, "I don't want Tang Pozi." β
"Why don't you want to," Zhang Zhaohua said: "My legs and feet are not good, and I forgot to soak herbs when I was busy, in this stove, I added medicine into it, and you smoke and roast like this for a while, and you can always use it." β
Gao Chi didn't speak, lay down and fell asleep silently. Zhang Zhaohua leaned in, moved his arm away, forcibly pillowed his head, and said with satisfaction: "I'd rather not have a pillow than your arm, it's really comfortable." β
"You're really, really," Gao Chi couldn't help it: "Cheeky." β
"Cheeky and cheeky," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Whoever serves you with soup in one hand and washing your feet with the other hand will be a cheeky person." We are all people who live our lives, and grasping our hands is the same as holding our left hands and holding our right hands, what else do we care. β
"People who live their lives," Gao Chi said, "can you still live this life?"
"If you can't get by, you have to get by," Zhang Zhaohua said: "You don't have to live with me, who else do you want to live with! Brother Chun'er is so old, how can we leave?"
Zhang Zhaohua said the northeast dialect of the later generations without paying attention, and he couldn't laugh anymore, and kicked over the small charcoal stove there with a kick, and a few charcoal fires with large fingernails splashed out, fortunately not on the skin and flesh of Gao Chi, but on the brocade quilt, and it burned in an instant.
"Hurry up and put out the fire, hurry up and put out the fire!" Zhang Zhaohua jumped out of bed with his clothes on, the palace people hurriedly rushed in, a bucket of water was splashed on it, and finally the fire was extinguished, Gao Chi stood on the ground with one foot, and when he saw the mess in the house, he shook his head angrily: "When can you worry about it!"
"I forgot that you still have charcoal in this stove," Zhang Zhaohua consciously recklessly said: "Good thing, good thing! Who told you to bring a fire in your name, and when you encounter fire, it will be fired!"
As she said this, she suddenly saw that on the bedside chair, Gao Chi's clothes were still neatly folded there, so she said, "You put on your clothes quickly, beware of catching a cold." β
Gao Chi got up and wore it, but was suddenly grabbed by Zhang Zhaohua's wrist, and when she looked back, a surprised light appeared on her face: "What's wrong?"
"This dress, that's right," Zhang Zhaohua muttered to himself, "It should be like this...... Why did that dress turn upside down?"
Zhang Zhaohua remembered that when the clothes were taken out of the box, the clothes were placed on top of them upright, but a square flat scarf was pressed and placed under the clothes, and the blazing clothes in front of her were taken off by Ju Sheng, she just folded the clothes, and then put the crown and hat on the clothes.
Ju Sheng's practice is the practice of ordinary people, if Zhang Zhaohua tidied up his clothes, he must have tidied them up like this - it's just that the clothes given by the emperor, clothes and hats are upside down.
Zhang Zhaohua thought about it, this order should have been set at the beginning, because the box was sealed, and no matter how bumpy the road was, it was impossible for the messenger to turn the crown and hat upside down.
"I know," Zhang Zhaohua suddenly realized in an instant, and a wave of ecstasy naturally gushed out: "Pack up your things, let's go to Nanjing!"