Chapter 48: Preserves
The next day, Lu Wenyuan entered the palace as usual, Zhu Shiyang had just gotten up from a nap, and was sitting on the couch by the window eating candied fruit. Zhu Shiji sat on the side and flipped through the book.
After Lu Wenyuan ate the candied fruit, he put the music on the kang table, and turned around to get the pen and inkstone on the underground imperial case. The imperial case is on the other side of the hall, and there are a lot of concerts that Zhu Shiyang has not completed before. Lu Wenyuan was afraid that there would be more important political affairs such as the spring flood of the Yellow River, so he asked himself to stay and sort it out. Zhu Shiyang also wanted to keep him lively in the hall, so he agreed.
Lu Wenyuan moved lightly beside the imperial case. He re-read the backlog of pieces and put them together one by one. Zhu Shiyang sat on the couch and ate a few more candied fruits, feeling very boring, so he also picked up the pen and watched the music. Zhu Shiji was still reading intently across from him.
After being quiet for a while, Lu Wenyuan suddenly heard a soft sound of "pop", followed by a rustling sound from the direction of Zhu Shiyang.
Lu Wenyuan was curious for a while, and turned his head slightly quietly, and saw Zhu Shiyang hurriedly wiping the music in his hand. It turned out that he was eating and drinking while reading the concerto, and accidentally knocked off a candied fruit, and the soft sound was made by the candied fruit falling onto the concerto. The juice of the candied fruit rolled all onto the page, and it was impossible to wipe it clean. Zhu Shiyang was so angry that he closed the unfinished piece and threw it aside. During this time, Zhu Shiji also glanced up at him, but he had a strange expression.
Lu Wenyuan was dumbfounded, but he didn't expect that the current emperor had reached such an irresponsible point, and he was even more secretly staring at him. I saw Zhu Shiyang pick up a piece of music casually, frowning and flipping through it, as if he thought it was too long, but he still opened it and put it in front of him, and looked at it with his chin propped up.
Lu Wenyuan breathed a sigh of relief, and just wanted to take his gaze back, but saw that Zhu Shiyang seemed to be a little absent-minded, his eyes were on the music for a while, and then flew to the side, and a red pen in his hand was turned around, fortunately it was not dipped in ink, otherwise it would not have been thrown everywhere.
After a while, Zhu Shiyang became more and more restless, and simply stopped looking at the recital, and blatantly raised his head to look left and right. Seeing Zhu Shiji looking down at the book and ignoring him, he entertained himself and himself, moved the teacup to drink a sip of tea for a while, stretched out his arm and dipped the tip of the pen in the inkstone for a while, looked down at the two chapters for a while, and reached out to touch the pillow next to him for a while, during which he was stunned for a while in the direction of Lu Wenyuan, so frightened that Lu Wenyuan did not dare to take a sip.
After about half an hour, the bell on the bell and drum tower rang, and it turned out to be the hour of Shen. Zhu Shiyang raised his head and listened to it for a long time, but finally couldn't bear the loneliness, raised his pen and clicked on Zhu Shiji's book and said, "What are you looking at?"
Zhu Shiji turned over the book cover to show him, and Zhu Shiyang pouted contemptuously and said: "What is there to see in this kind of broken book, it is a waste of time." I see that the weather is very good today, why don't you and I go to the imperial garden to ride horses and refresh our muscles and bones?"
Zhu Shiji was also interested when he heard it: "That's good." The green horse that the younger brother picked up last time was very powerful, and he walked up the mountain road like walking on the ground, and the minister had not yet enjoyed riding. β
Zhu Shiyang smiled: "Since you like it so much, then I will reward you." When you return to Jiangnan, you will be riding away. β
Zhu Shiji hurriedly went down to the ground to thank him, he still had a trace of reason, and after thanking him, he hesitated and said: "But the emperor's brother is ......."
Zhu Shiyang was sitting on the edge of the couch and putting on his boots, when he heard this, he turned his head and turned over the remaining pieces on the kang table, and waved his hand indifferently: "It's okay, there is not much left, it's not too late to come back and read it later." As he spoke, he didn't even look at Lu Wenyuan, and took the lead to walk outside the hall.
Zhu Shiji was also so happy that he didn't urge him anymore, and hurriedly got up and followed, and the two of them ran out of the hall happily, and disappeared after a while.
Lu Wenyuan was stunned on the spot, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
Back in the cabinet, the other four were there, and Lu Wenyuan recounted in detail what Fang had just seen and heard in the palace. The piece that had been stained by the emperor with candied fruit had also been secretly taken back by him, and was now circulating in the hands of the four of them. Yan Yong flipped back and forth, and sure enough, there were two pages glued together that couldn't be opened, and then looked at the signature at the end, it was a speech official who worked in the six branches. Yan Yong really wanted to cry without tears, and looked up to the sky and sighed: "Whoever slandered the official is not good, but he who slandered the official, he will return it to him in the future, and he will have to blame the head of the cabinet." Your Majesty, Your Majesty, let the ministers say what you are good ......"
Everyone else couldn't laugh or cry, Fu Qian said: "I can see that the emperor can't finish the recital all day, not because he is lazy, but because he has too many thoughts, and he will do the things next to him when he looks at it, when will this be approved?"
Zhao Yongning said: "Master Fu is very right, you have to find a way to let the emperor focus on government affairs." β
Lu Wenyuan smiled slightly and said: "I have a ready-made method, but I need your help, I just don't know if you have the guts......" The five members of the cabinet got closer and closer, and finally got together and discussed secretly.
The next day was cloudy, and the sky outside the temple was gray, and the cold wind was howling, as if it was going to snow. Zhu Shiyang was affected by the weather, he was a little lazy when he got up in the morning, he couldn't lift his spirits in a daze, and he couldn't sleep well when he slept again, so he told Guixi not to wait for him to wash, and only hugged the brocade quilt and leaned on the couch in front of the window to nap.
I don't know how long it took, Zhu Shiyang felt warm on his body dimly, and opened his eyes slightly, it turned out that the sky outside had cleared up for some time, and the sun shone on his body through the window paper, making people more lazy. Zhu Shiyang stretched comfortably, simply kicked off the quilt on his body, and basked in the sunlight in the room.
Gui Xi had been waiting on the edge of the ground for a long time, and when he saw that his master had woken up, he cautiously approached and said softly: "Your Majesty, Lord Lu of the cabinet is here." β
Zhu Shiyang was stunned, and he didn't hear what he said, but he only heard a "Lord Lu", so he thought that Lu Wenyuan had come to send the chapter again, and said "oh" with his eyes half-closed, and said, "Let him come in." β
Gui Xi went out. Suddenly, the cotton curtain at the door was lifted, and a cold wind poured in, and the sound of clothes rubbing against each other sounded in the hall. Zhu Shiyang opened his eyes and was startled, it turned out that Lu Wenyuan was not the only one who came, Yan Yong, Shen Lun, Fu Qian, and Zhao Yongning also followed, kneeling under the hall in turn, and they were shocked by the color of their official uniforms.
Zhu Shiyang was far more shocked, and the five members of the cabinet were also frightened by different Cheng dΓΉ, it turned out that when they rushed in, they accidentally caught a glimpse of the emperor on the couch, and saw that he was untidy in the blue sky and daylight, only wearing a bright yellow obscene clothes, his face was haggard, his sideburns were scattered, and he still wore a windproof forehead on his head when he slew, and he was lying on the couch in an unbelievable posture, and the emperor's majesty was lost. Everyone thought that he was unwell, so he was so frightened that he didn't dare to take a breath, so he lay on the ground and only shouted "Long live".
Zhu Shiyang sent them to get up and speak. Lu Wenyuan was worried, and finally asked: "Is it because the emperor is bedridden during the day, is it because of the lack of safety of the dragon's body?"
Zhu Shiyang also said that he was clueless about how to ask, but when he raised his eyes, he saw a pair of apricot eyes secretly looking at him, his eyes were hesitant, and he also realized that his current appearance was not appropriate, and he was a little embarrassed to cover up the brocade quilt on his body, and said: "I'm fine, but I'm a little lazy today, basking in the sun here." β
When everyone in the hall heard this, they secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Lu Wenyuan was still not at ease, so he took advantage of the fact that others were gossiping with the emperor and asked Gui Xi to send the imperial doctor. The imperial physician stepped forward to take the dragon vein, and was so happy that he kowtowed again and again: "The emperor's pulse is vigorous and calm, strong and powerful, which means that the dragon is healthy and will be able to live a long life." β
Zhu Shiyang was also happy, turned his head to Lu Wenyuan and smiled: "I just said that Lu Qing is doing this too much, my health is very good, why is it necessary to send the imperial doctor to see." β
Lu Wenyuan also smiled: "The emperor's health is the greatest wish of the courtiers, and now that the emperor is safe, the ministers can rest assured that they are here today." β
Zhu Shiyang was stunned when he heard this, and then became alert, just because it was abnormal for the five members of the cabinet to come to the audience today, and he noticed that Lu Wenyuan did not carry the concerto, so it was obvious that this trip was not to send the concerto. Zhu Shiyang really couldn't guess what these ministers wanted, and hurriedly asked, "What do you want to do?"