When the sun was rising, Xie Jingxiu, who was in an official robe, took a sedan chair to the Danji Gate in the east of the Liang Palace.

After hundreds of years since the founding of the Liang Kingdom, the palace where the emperor lived has been expanded again and again, and now it covers an area of more than 300 acres. Pavilions, mountains, rocks, forests, and waters, and a wide street that can accommodate five horse-drawn carriages in parallel isolate this imposing palace from the dwellings.

At the outermost part of the palace, the towering palace wall is impregnable, and there are 8,000 imperial forest troops guarding the imperial city all year round. If Xuanjing City is broken one day, only this palace wall can protect the lives of the nobles in this wall for a while.

Xie Jingxiu got off the sedan chair, Erjiu straightened the already smooth official robe for him, and handed a brocade box into his hands.

The tall palace door slowly opened in front of him, and an inner eunuch with a team of little eunuchs was by the door, and when he saw Xie Jingxiu, he gave a salute and said with a smile: "The emperor received the fold handed over by Lord Xie, Longyan Dayue, and the special slave maid is here to welcome your lord." Thank you, please. ”

"There is Father-in-law." Xie Jingxiu nodded to him slightly, stepped into the high vermilion threshold, followed behind the inner prison, and walked towards the Wuji Hall, the dormitory of the current emperor, Emperor Yongrong.

Emperor Yongrong was supposed to handle political affairs in Mingde Palace, but at this time, I am afraid that only Fang Xiang and a few palace scholars are still working for the country.

Xie Jingxiu glanced in the direction of Mingde Palace, then withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyelashes, and followed the inner eunuch to the Wuji Palace.

Stepping into the palace gate, under his feet were the jade floor tiles that were light and visible, Xie Jingxiu walked to the front of the hall, bent down and bowed his head to give a salute.

"Weichen see His Majesty."

There is no need to kneel to meet the royal family, this is the privilege of the first Liang emperor to grant a single king.

Xie Jingxiu didn't raise his eyebrows, and a skirt like flowing water slid in his field of vision, and a trace of sweet fragrance hit his face.

"Aiqing is flat." Emperor Yongrong's voice came from above his head, and he listened to it very energetically.

Xie Jingxiu raised his head and saw the man in the dark dragon robe sitting behind the wide table. Emperor Yongrong is already in his forties, about the same age as Xie Yun, the prince of Yuan, but he looks more than ten years older than Xie Yun. He was tall, but a little thin, and he looked a little dry, but he was in good spirits and still looked energetic.

Emperor Yongrong looked at Xie Jingxiu with a pair of somewhat cloudy eyes, and said lazily: "Aiqing asked to see him today, what is the matter?" ”

Xie Jingxiu lowered his head and said: "Weichen travels abroad and has occasional adventures. In a deep mountain, I met a village, called Immortal Village, and the people in the village were very different from ordinary people. ”

Emperor Yongrong has been lazy in political affairs in recent years, but he is very enthusiastic about these Shinto things, and when he heard Xie Jingxiu say this, he was obviously interested: "Oh? Self-proclaimed fairy village? This group of villagers is not small. Aiqing said, how are they different from ordinary people? ”

"The people in the village, no matter how rare they are, all retain their appearance, their hair is not white, and their teeth are not falling, which is a rare miracle in the world."

"Really?" Emperor Yongrong's eyes lit up, and he leaned forward, "Didn't Aiqing investigate?" Is there a god in the village? ”

Xie Jingxiu said: "There are no immortals. But there is a kind of fruit in the local area that is not available in the outside world, and the villagers eat it. The minister didn't know if this fruit had anything to do with the immortality of the villagers. But there are many talented people in the palace, and I want to be able to get a glimpse of the mystery. ”

"Aiqing brought the fruit back?" Emperor Yongrong summoned the inner supervisor, "Hurry up and show me." ”

Xie Jingxiu handed the brocade box to the inner supervisor who walked in front of him, and when Emperor Yongrong got the brocade box, he couldn't wait to open it, and a few small red fruits revealed their shape.

"This is the fruit of immortality?" The Emperor picked one up with great interest, "My concubine also found a strange fruit for me, and after a few days of eating, I already feel far more energetic than before. I just don't know which fruit of Aiqing is better or worse than it? ”

Xie Jingxiu lowered his eyebrows slightly and said: "The minister just got it by chance, and naturally it is not as good as the concubine Niangniang's dedication to praying for His Majesty." ”

Although Emperor Yongrong was bent on asking for immortality, he was not eager enough to eat some food of unknown origin, so he smiled at the moment and put the brocade box aside.

Behind him was a half-man-high screen, from behind which a pale green skirt flowed out and spread out on the jade floor.

The sweet fragrance that lingered around the nose came from behind the screen.

If Xie Jingxiu didn't see it, he only bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers still have something to ask for, and I hope that the emperor will approve it." ”

"What is Aiqing asking for?" Emperor Yongrong half-closed his eyes, not caring much about the authentic way.

"What the minister asks for is the minister's family business."

Emperor Yongrong rubbed the corners of his forehead for a moment, his eyes opened, and an unknown glimmer flashed in his cloudy pupils.

"Aiqing's family affairs?" Emperor Yongrong smiled, "I remember, Aiqing is also twenty-two or three, and it is long overdue to talk about marriage." The patriarch is still complaining in front of me that you are always unwilling to get married, but he still has to worry about his children and grandchildren at a great age. Which lady of the family can get into the eyes of the prince of Yuanwang? ”

……

When Xie Jingxiu exited the Wuji Palace, a slender figure floated out from behind the screen and snuggled up to the emperor.

It was a very beautiful woman. Beautiful eyebrows and eyes, white and greasy skin, thin lips and cherry mouth, each of them is no more colorful than the three thousand beauties in the palace, but looking at her, it is like seeing the light rain of the spring breeze in March in the south of the Yangtze River, which makes people sink unconsciously.

The beautiful appearance of the woman makes it difficult to distinguish the age, not only the delicate of a twenty-eight girl, but also the graceful style that a girl cannot match.

Today's Li Guifei, Li Yan, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Li Cheng, if she didn't have such qualifications and appearance, it would be impossible to put the heart of Emperor Yongrong, who was still wise at that time, to her when the queen favored the middle palace alone.

"Your Majesty." Li Yan leaned on the emperor's shoulder and whispered, "The emperor really wants to agree to that Xie Shizi's request?" ”

Xie Jingxiu, Xie Shizi, that indifferent man who never disdained any woman, that man who shouldn't belong to any woman at all, would one day personally come to the emperor and ask for marriage?!

Emperor Yongrong hugged Li Yan and said with a smile: "I thought Yan'er was indifferent to anything, but I didn't expect Yan'er to care about this kind of lock." ”

Li Yan leaned on Emperor Yongrong's arms and smiled, and said softly: "Hasn't the emperor always been suspicious of the Yuan Palace? The concubine was just worried that Xie Shizi would use the matter of marriage to benefit the Yuan Palace. ”

Emperor Yongrong said: "It is not unreasonable for Concubine Ai to worry, but if it is this family matter that Xie Jingxiu personally asked, then it would be the best." It just solved a troublesome matter for me. ”

Li Yan said: "How can you see it? ”

Emperor Yongrong snorted lightly: "Concubine Ai has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and there are some things that I don't know. The daughter Xie Jingxiu asked for was the eldest daughter of Feng Yunfei sentenced by the Tai Hospital. ”

"The daughter of the Feng family, isn't it related to the Duchess of Anguo? If it is the Yuan Wangfu and the Anguo Mansion......"

Emperor Yongrong laughed twice: "Yan'er doesn't need to worry, I have my own opinions on this matter." ”

The conflict between Feng Zhaoyu and Feng Yunfei and Feng Yunning, Emperor Yongrong is clear. No matter how much Emperor Yongrong ignored the government and politics, he only had a very strict review of the imperial doctors around him, not to mention the judgment of the imperial hospital, which was the head of the imperial hospital, and he had to know it well. What kind of qualifications Feng Yunfei is is clear, that Feng Zhaoyu can not take advantage of the momentum of Fengfu, and he is also very close to the Duchess of Anguo. Marrying such a woman, not only did the Yuan Wangfu not help at all, but it was at odds with the Anguo Mansion.

"I didn't expect it, Xie Yun is an amorous seed, and his son is not worried." Emperor Yongrong narrowed his eyes. After marrying that Feng Zhaoyu, the Yuan Wangfu also didn't want to be peaceful, only the Yuan princess, she wanted to let her sweetheart's daughter enter the Yuan Palace, how could she let the Yuan Wangfu continue to be peaceful?

It would be great if all the courtiers of the Liang Kingdom let him worry about it like the Xie father and son......

"What the emperor said is extremely true, it is Yan'er's shallow vision." Li Yan lowered his head slightly, and said softly, and picked up the brocade box on the table with his slender hand coated with Dankou, "These fruits, the concubine will distinguish them for His Majesty, right?" ”

Emperor Yongrong hugged her tightly: "Concubine Ai always conceals that I test medicine for me, and makes my body so weak, you are deliberately making me feel distressed......"

Li Yan's pale thin lips were slightly raised, and he said softly: "Sharing worries for the emperor is the blessing of Yan'er......"

There was a knock on the door outside the courtyard, Bai Ling was washing clothes in the courtyard, Xiao Yu put down the clues about the Fang family shop in his hand and ran to open the door himself.

As soon as the door opened, I greeted the people standing outside.

Xiao Yu: "......"

Xie Jingxiu: "......"

Xie Jingxiu said: "Isn't Doctor Feng going to invite me into the courtyard?" ”

Xiao Yu hurriedly got out of the way, and said continuously: "Shizi, please come in." ”

Who would have thought that Xie Shizi would come again, wouldn't this second generation of officials have to work every day? When I saw the sky, I ran to him, and I stayed all day.

Xie Jingxiu entered the room, took off his big coat and hugged it in his arms, the clothes under him were not the same as before, they looked like official robes.

Xiao Yu poured him a cup of tea and looked at him with a fresh face: "Xie Shizi's clothes are very good, where is the position, how many officials are there?" ”

Xie Jingxiu took a sip of tea and replied reservedly: "Dali Temple is in office, and it is the fourth grade." ”

actually has a serious official position.

"Dali Temple? That's where the case is heard, right? Xiao Yu said with a smile.

Xie Jingxiu nodded, but obviously didn't want to talk about it, so Xiao Yu was very understanding and didn't mention it anymore.

Xie Jingxiu put down the teacup and said, "Doctor Feng, regarding your current situation, I want to marry you as soon as possible......

"What...... Ahem-cough-cough-! Xie Jingxiu choked on the tea in his mouth all of a sudden, coughing so much that his eyes were red and tears flowed.

Xie Jingxiu patted him lightly on the back and frowned, "How can you be so reckless?" ”

Xiao Yu waved his hand again and again, pointing at him speechless.

Who is reckless? How did the words "married" come out naturally?!

"You...... Don't joke around. Xiao Yu covered his mouth with the back of his hand and said with tears in his eyes.

Xie Jingxiu frowned: "I'm not kidding. I had already expressed my heart to Dr. Feng, but Dr. Feng didn't believe in my sincerity? ”

"It's not...... I just didn't expect ......" Xiao Yu was speechless for a while, and sighed for a while, "Shizi, I said it, I'm a man." Why did you marry me, don't laugh, we really can't get married. ”

Xie Jingxiu turned his face slightly: "If I don't marry you, how do I know." ”

"Don't admit your crookedness." Xiao Yu's face was black, "If I say no, I can't do it." ”

"You won't marry me?"

Xiao Yu replied categorically: "I don't want to! "He never thought about being with a man in his life, let alone marrying, it was ridiculous.

Xie Jingxiu lowered his eyelashes: "No matter what I do, don't you want to marry me?" ”

Xiao Yu looked at him like this, and a trace of unbearability flashed in his heart, but he could only refuse: "I'm sorry, I'm ...... I have never liked men. ”

Xie Jingxiu frowned and looked at him for a long time before looking away again.

"It's late."

Xiao Yu was confused: "What does it mean to be late?" Why is it late? What did you do? ”