Chapter 67, Between the Powerful (II)
"Oops, two adults, two adults! Eliminate gas, eliminate gas! It's nothing more than a trivial matter, don't block yourself for this big New Year, your majesty will come in a while! A man in a purple python robe hurriedly stepped forward and stood between Xiao Zhengshi and Gongsun Quan, persuading both sides.
Rong Zhao quietly looked back at Huo Yun, Huo Yun leaned over and whispered, "This is the King of Xiangnan." ”
It turned out that this was the king of Xiangnan. Rong Zhao couldn't help but glance at the man more, he looked kind, white and chubby, with a few strands of beard on his chin. It's just that there is a shrewd gaze in those smiling eyes, and those who have a little heart will know that this person is a character who hides a knife in his smile.
This is the father of the county lord of Linyang! Rong Zhao sneered silently.
"You're Rong Zhao?" As he spoke, King Xiangnan had already turned around and looked at Rong Zhao with a smile, "A few days ago, Rong Hui came to the mansion and the king reprimanded him, you are your own child like him, why don't you come to your home?" You see that you didn't come to the house with your eldest brother last time, so it's inconvenient to enter Beijing this time, right? Was it okay to stay at the inn last night? ”
Rong Zhao looked at this person who was amiable to himself but full of nonsense, he felt very funny, and he was even more disdainful of this kind of duplicitous person, so he smiled and said: "King Xiangyang is polite, I am not the child of the county lord of Linyang, and the lord of Linyang has been eager for me to die early and live early since I was a child, so I am not your closest relative." On the first day of the new year, the prince didn't have to act so hard, wasn't he afraid that he would be duplicitous and hard work for the next year? ”
"You! You just don't know what to do! You ......" Xiangyang Wang Dengshi Zi raised his face and pointed at Rong Zhao, wanting to scold some more vicious words, but he was afraid that the people next to him would gossip and talk about him An elder quarreling with a hairy boy, but if he didn't say anything, this fire nest would be too uncomfortable in his heart!
At this moment, the sound of whips sounded outside, and everyone was busy dressing up before they could go out of the hall. Immediately afterwards, a shrill male duck voice came from afar: "The emperor has arrived!" Rong Zhao and Huo Yun lined up at the end of the queue and knelt down with those waiting magnates.
In the gorgeous hall, dozens of people knelt and knocked together, long live the mountain, and the qiē was so neat and majestic, even people like Rong Zhao couldn't help but put away the cynicism in their hearts, and honestly followed the kowtow mountain call.
"All Aiqing should be flat." The emperor and Empress Zhou sat down, bowed their heads and looked at the people in the hall gently. In addition to the princes and princes of the royal family, these people are the ministers of the prime minister, Shangshu, and the court, and everyone is indispensable and important. The emperor's gaze swept over one by one, and finally landed on Rong Zhao, who was dressed in moon-white brocade, and couldn't help but smile slightly: "Isn't that the prince of Jingxi Houshi?" It's hard for you, who looks thin and weak, to rush over from Jizhou. How is your sister Concubine Yue these days? ”
Rong Zhao, who originally wanted to pretend to be transparent, was named, so he had to dodge out and kneel down again, kowtowed and replied: "Thank you for your care, my sister's body is still weak, and it is cold for a while, and the imperial doctor said that it is not appropriate to move around at will, and it is necessary to recuperate." ”
When the emperor heard this, he was naturally distressed, sighed lightly and said: "Well, she was already injured, and she met robbers on the road, and now she is sick again, which is really worse." But it's nothing, and when the weather warms up after the New Year, it will definitely get better. ”
"Thanks to Your Majesty's love, my sister will be fine after a while." Rong Zhao hurriedly kowtowed again, and continued: "When I came, my sister repeatedly told Rong Zhao to kowtow to the emperor three times for her, first, to thank the emperor for his love, and secondly, to wish the emperor and the queen a good New Year, and all the best. After speaking, he really kowtowed respectfully three times.
The emperor nodded and smiled with satisfaction, raised his hand and said, "Very good!" Arise now. When you were young, you came to the palace alone to congratulate me and the queen on behalf of your father, and to greet me and the queen on behalf of your sister. ”
Zhang Wanshou didn't expect the emperor to shout a reward at this time, this New Year's reward is generally at the banquet, this banquet has not started yet, what should be rewarded?
"Huh?" The emperor saw Zhang Wanshou standing there stunned, frowning.
Zhang Wanshou was frightened, hurriedly bowed in response, turned to look at the several palace maids and eunuchs behind him, and thought to himself that the reward had not been taken at this time, what did he want to reward?
Xiao Zheng still had eyes from time to time, and when Zhang Wanshou didn't know what to give to Rong Zhao, he glanced back at Rong Zhao and signaled him to hurry up and thank him. Rong Zhao is also excited, and when he received Xiao Zhengshi's eyes, he hurriedly shouted loudly: "Thank you for the emperor's reward!" Then he leaned over and kowtowed.
"Well, get up." The emperor nodded with satisfaction, looked at the group of ministers on the left and right, and said with a smile: "Don't keep your faces tight, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and our monarchs and ministers will have fun together." The queen can ask someone to prepare a new trick this year, let's go, enter the feast! ”
Rong Zhao followed all the dignitaries from the Taiji Hall to the Chonghua Hall at the back, and when he went out, he was blown by the cold wind before he realized that he had just kowtowed in vain to thank him, and he shouted the word "reward" with the emperor, but he didn't catch a big son! This is too special! It's such a trick on the first day of the new year, do you want to be good this year?!
"Young Master Rong? What do you think? ”
Rong Zhao, who was silently slandering, was startled, and when he hurriedly looked up, he happened to meet Xiao Zhengshi's calm gaze, so he hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Hello Lord Xiao." ”
"Hmm." Xiao Zhengshi glanced at Rong Zhao critically, nodded gently, and then approached Rong Zhao and asked in a low voice: "Do you feel uncomfortable when you don't get the reward?" ”
"Well, no." Rong Zhao flatly denied it.
"Young man, everything you think in your heart is clearly written on your face." Xiao Zhengshi sneered.
"I didn't ...... So obvious, right? Rong Zhao raised his hand and rubbed his face, thinking that he had seen the world before, how could he not hide such a little caution?
"I don't know what Zilin likes about you." Xiao Zhengshi muttered in a low voice.
"Zilin?" Rong Zhao thought to himself, Old Man Xiao, are you sick? Forgot to take your medicine on the first day of the Lunar New Year, right?
"Rui Wang's cousin Zilin. You live in the palace, but you don't even know this? Xiao Zhengshi frowned slightly and glanced at Rong Zhao, with a faint dissatisfaction in his eyes.
"Oh, so you're talking about King Rui." Rong Zhao smiled nonchalantly.
"What's that look on your face?" Xiao Zhengshi's face suddenly turned cold, and his originally gentle and elegant expression was gone.