Chapter 241: Strength is King

The Wang family was punished by the nine clans, and Wang Meiren was given to death. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe mother of the Xue family brothers and Xue Xianfei is Wang Meiren's aunt, and in order not to affect the Xue family, she hanged herself. Concubine Xue Xian, who was seriously ill, finally ushered in a fatal blow and died of illness in this year. Li Chaozong's harem has restored a queen and a concubine. Those three beauties are like a passing cloud, as if they are just to prove that Li Chaozong is perfect in the eyes of the world, and they have only gone through this world.

In the same year, Li Chaozong appointed Li Junmao and Li Shengxian to summon envoys and deputy envoys to the north respectively, and attacked Xinzhou. At this point, all the pro-Khitan forces in the country were purged. Those envoys of the Fan Town Festival who were grassy on the wall showed their submission and loyalty to the central government in various ways. The heads of a large number of Khitan messengers were sent to Li Chaozong's case, and all the guns of Fan Town were all headed north.

Lee Jun-mao and Lee Seung-hyun made great achievements again. was named the king of the town and the king of the new county respectively, and the Zhen'an army rewarded the meritorious personnel, among which Jin Suyi was indispensable. Posthumously named Yanbao and Yang Jiancheng as the Duke of Yiyang and Ping'anhou, and his son succeeded to the knighthood.

The pure days of Li Chaozong's first queen and one concubine are destined to not last long, and the voice of the court asking the emperor to choose a concubine is getting louder and louder. There was another vaudeville drama about Li Chaozong's love in the streets and alleys, this time, it was not the prostitution, but the minister. And the spearhead is directed at Zhou Sinian.

Zhou Sinian went to the table again and asked to resign as prime minister and return to Jiangnan City.

Li Chaozong suppressed Zhou Sinian's resignation form, and approved all the excerpts for him to choose concubines, lest the world be chaotic, and issued an edict to select beauties throughout the country. Female officials from the palace were sent to various primary elections. Officials with a grade 4 or above are required, and all young girls between the ages of 14 and 18 in their families are all candidates.

According to the legend, the conditions for choosing a concubine are particularly harsh, not to mention the appearance, but also to go to the clothes to see, those with scars on the body, those with thick body hair, and those with smells on the body do not want to ......

This lively event was talked about by the community, and the jugglers catered to the needs of the spectators and made up all kinds of stories about the selection of concubines to stage. gradually suppressed Li Chaozong and Zhou Sinian's strange and various love stories.

The exit of the dungeon in the apricot forest was closed again, and the closed mouth was pressed with the evil stone. I'm afraid that this dungeon can't be opened again, and there are many bones inside, thousands of resentful souls, and a strange death.

The apricot grove in Bancheng Villa is ripe, and under the hot sun, the apricots full of juice glow with golden light. It's soft, sweet, and slightly sour. A bite will directly refresh people's internal organs, make people intoxicated, and make people not eat enough.

Early in the morning, the weather was quite cool, Abin, the child king, was pestered by a few little guys to go to the apricot forest to pick apricots to eat, Zhou Sinian was made by all kinds of rumors outside, and he didn't want to mention it to people, and he didn't want to go out, I pulled him to go to the apricot forest with us to watch Abin collect apricots to relieve boredom.

I deliberately dressed up, wearing a white tulle shirt and gauze skirt, and my delicate skin was hidden from time to time. He pulled up his long hair again and pinned it to the top of his head with a white hosta, revealing his slender and white neck. Zhou Sinian, who was listless, couldn't help but light up in his eyes, showing a smile that he hadn't seen for a long time, and teased: "Dressed so beautifully? Are you sure you're going to see Abin? Don't provoke him, okay? It is not so easy to extinguish the fire of young people. ”

I smiled and gave him a blank look: "Am I not so beautiful every day?" Besides, you think Abin is as as you? ”

Zhou Sinian heard me say that he was "lustful", but he laughed, "Okay, I'm." I'm used to you talking about me anyway...... Except for me, everyone else is a good person! ”

In the apricot forest, Abin has led people to cut out a piece of green grass, and spread an embroidered thin blanket on it, on which are placed all kinds of bedding, sitting, long tables, low stools, and all kinds of utensils. The thin carpet is surrounded by poles with iron heads, on which a canopy is erected, and a hollow curtain wall is surrounded by satin and decorated with various flowers.

Look at the hollow carved freezer in the center of the blanket, and the various fruits in the freezer. I couldn't help but quietly praise Zhou Sinian, Abin is really careful. Zhou Sinian lay down noncommittally on the soft wool cushion on the thin blanket, leaning comfortably on the big backrest, he didn't sleep on the cold cushion, he didn't eat the ice drawn fruits, these Abin thought of it, there were room temperature fruits specially placed for him on the low table, he twisted one, put it in his mouth and tasted it slowly.

Yan'er's father is a storyteller, Yan'er is articulate and has a belly of words, and Zhou Sinian usually likes to listen to her tell stories. I motioned for her to tell some of the stories that are now the most circulating.

The sound of the pipa of the little kabuki is like nothing, and the ice plucked fruit wine is mellow, Yan'er glanced at Zhou Sinian, and began to tell all kinds of new stories in the market now, and the most are the various anecdotes of Li Chaozong's selection of concubines.

Zhou Sinian listened with a wilt, although the people around him were laughing, he didn't even smile at all. I laughed and said to Zhou Sinian: "The imagination of these jugglers is really impressive, it turns out that the emperor doesn't like hair and body odor...... Has the person who made up this story seen you? If that's the case, you don't have to worry, you have such a big smell on your body and so long leg hair...... I can't choose a concubine. ”

Zhou Sinian was eating an apricot and spitting out the pit, and when he heard me say this, he threw it directly at my head with the apricot pit, stared at me depressedly and scolded with a smile: "Such a big humiliation, how can you have the heart to take it out and laugh!" You think it's not you, you can just stand by and watch the joke? ”

I dodged his apricot kernel sideways, grinned and said, "Why are you in a hurry, if you are so depressed all day, why don't you invite those who sing big operas to the house, sing two plays well, reward them with a few pieces of silver, and see what kind of tongue roots those rotten people have to chew." ”

Zhou Sinian waved his hand helplessly to let Yan'er and the little kabuki withdraw, and then whispered: "Someone in Beijing thinks I'm in the way and wants to force me to go, how can I not know?" In these troubled times, strength is king, and there is still a rare position of the empty prime minister, but he doesn't know what the empty prime minister means is the emperor...... I'll give it to their brothers. Let them also fight with the emperor, and know a little powerful. I can't afford to tear my face with their brother for a false title...... I wanted to take this opportunity to go back, run Jiangnan well, and do something serious, but I didn't want the emperor to toss and choose a concubine again......"

I sighed quietly and said, "The emperor has a hard time for you, draw the fire away from you, and burn himself." But I didn't expect him to do it this time. Running Gangnam ...... What do you want to do? ”

Zhou Sinian whispered: "Where do you want to go?" I said that as long as the emperor is here, I must be a loyal minister. Tens of thousands of people followed me, and I couldn't do anything I wasn't sure about. It's just that in the current situation, once the emperor is gone, it is impossible for Shenghong to suppress these wolf ambitions. We must prepare early, otherwise, we will not know how to die. (To be continued.) )