"Ciyuan Palace, Xunfeng Baoding, incense clouds falling. Ring green feathers, double songs, new waist dances, new dance tassels. Jin Lian step, gently swaying the colorful phoenix, flipping into play. It's like a fairy in the moon, a game in the heavens on earth. The saints are willing. Ren Lebu and Ji Shao are boiling. The concubines were also happy, and gradually laughed and slightly drunk. Competing for Xia Zhen, I deeply wish, Our Lady is as long as Songgui. Delivery. More thousands of years. ”

This "Phoenix Luan Double Dance" is made by Wang Yuanliang of the Song Dynasty, describing the grand occasion of the birthday of the Empress Dowager Xie, which happened in the hall where Liu Yu was slowly entering. The palace is slightly smaller than the purple palace hall where the emperor lives, but the inside is also very grand, and the hall is filled with a slight scent of fragrance, which is like sandalwood and musk deer.

The chubby Huang Nei squire bent down to lead the way in front, Liu Yu followed behind with his head held high and did not squint, his eyesight was very good, and he saw the woman Zhai Guan on the high seat from a distance in the bright light in the hall, and the female official behind him stood aside, playing a phoenix screen, he knew that this was the actual ruler of the Great Song Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Xie.

I have to say that Liu Yu's appearance is still good, Xie is old and his eyesight is not too good, so he can only roughly see the appearance of the young man. He didn't seem to see the cautiousness of an ordinary scholar, his steps were very calm, his expression was also very calm, Xie Shi smiled slightly, her first impression was excellent.

"Liu Yu, the minister of the Baozhang Pavilion, pay homage to the Empress Dowager, may the saint be blessed and safe." Etiquette has been taught repeatedly by the chamberlain, not the kind of dog ~ crawling kneeling seen in later film and television dramas, but sitting on the mat first, which is the kind of kneeling of the ancients, and then adding his forehead with his hands and bowing to the ground, Liu Yu did it very standardly, and there was no psychological burden, after all, the person above was an elder.

"Alright, well, get up and speak, and give me a seat." Xie's voice was not old, with a hint of kindness, Liu Yu rose in response, and after thanking him, he sat up straight on the cushion, and looked at each other calmly, in his opinion, this empress dowager is not much different from the old ladies seen in later generations, but she is just dressed gorgeously.

In fact, as far as he knows, Xie's life is a real legend, born in a family of rulers, but he has not enjoyed the blessings of a noble daughter, his family is in the middle of the road, he lost his father at a young age, and even his appearance is not outstanding, and he has eye diseases. As a result, because his grandfather Yu Yin was elected to the palace, he was a lady at first, and then he was favored by the then Empress Dowager Yang, and was made the queen despite the wishes of Emperor Lizong, and then he was about to face the favor of Jia Guifei and Yan Guifei.

How similar to the plot of the palace fight drama of later generations, I don't know if it's the reason for being the heroine, she survived two emperors and had the last laugh, and now she has mastered the state politics with the respect of the queen mother, compared to what "Harem XX Biography" is like a child playing at home. may be the most regrettable thing for her is that she doesn't have her own children, but what does it matter, the society is already under her feet.

Of course, her ending in real history is not perfect, after the Yuan people invaded Lin'an Mansion, she and the young emperor surrendered, were taken captive by the Yuan people to Dadu, and lived for seven years before dying, no one knows what her state of mind was at this time. At this moment, she is at the peak of her life, how could she have expected that she would have such an encounter.

"Liu Yu, where are you from, you listen to the accent like in western Zhejiang, who else is there at home?" Liu Yu, who was slightly distracted, was pulled back by Xie's questioning, and quickly reined in his thoughts, he didn't expect that Xie Shi would ask about his origin, and he didn't know what his intentions were.

"Back to the Empress Dowager, the minister is the Changzhou family, the family is no longer in the world, the minister has been brought up by the nurse since he was a child, and now he is just alone." Liu Yu respectfully bowed and replied, these were all built for him by Wang Lixin at the beginning, and they were already familiar with it. His words are actually half-true, although his parents are still alive, but they are not in this world, which is not a lie.

"There's no need to be polite, this is not a court match, just like ordinary people talk about it. I can't imagine that you also have a rough life, it is not easy, if your parents see your achievements now, they will be very happy. I don't know if I remembered my past, Xie Shi's words carried some pity, and Liu Yu's expression turned into gratitude just right, and he thanked him again.

"In that case, then you must know that a man should 'start a family and continue to smoke', and you are not too young, why don't you marry a wife?" Xie's next question was once again unexpected by Liu Yu, is it possible that all old women throughout the ages are a problem, and they like to care about other people's marriages?

"Alas, the saint did not know that the minister had to study diligently earlier, and where did he have time to think about it. Besides, who would marry the daughter of a good family into a family like a minister. There was no way, he couldn't help but answer, Liu Yu could only show a wry smile and say.

Xie Shi nodded understandingly, she had also experienced a trough, and she knew how difficult the life of a poor family was, especially a scholar like him, who was under tremendous pressure, but fortunately, he finally came out. The more Xie looked at him, the more pleasing he became, but it was a pity that there was no princess of the right age in the palace, otherwise he should be an excellent candidate for a concubine.

"Do you know that with your merits this time, it is possible to go out as a minister all the way, but in the more than 300 years since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there has never been a handsome minister who has not had a family. Therefore, this is not only the consideration of the ministers, but also the worry of the old body. There was some pity in Xie's words.

At this time, Liu Yu understood what Wang Lixin said to him before he died, he was in charge of all the way, the army was in charge of the people, and the emperor was far away, even if he was a civil servant, the court could not let it go, without the burden of the family, there would be no constraints, he not only had to marry a wife, but also had to leave the family in Lin'an, in order to calm the heart of the court.

But what now? Do you want to find someone to marry right away, Liu Yu felt a little funny, he really didn't expect that his tenure had not come down for a long time, and in the final analysis, it would be such a reason. Suddenly, he remembered the incident they had mentioned when they were with Hu Sanxing and Ye Yingji when they were in Jiankang.

"Don't hide it from the saint, the minister also thinks about it, and now he is already working on this matter, but it will take some time." Hu Sanxing and Ye Yinghe were both in Lin'an City, he remembered that he didn't refuse at the beginning, and in this time and space, not refusing is equivalent to agreeing, I hope it's still too late, as for who the young lady is, Liu Yu doesn't think it matters, it's just "the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker", it's been here for so long, it can be regarded as following the local customs.

"Oh, but I don't know which little lady it is?" Xie Shi really became interested, and he looked like an old man who cared about his younger generation.

"It's the Ye family in Ninghai, the daughter of Ye Xianggong, the sister of the Ye eunuch, and the matchmaker is the secret pavilion to revise Hu Sanxing. They are all in the capital, and if the saint does not believe, he can call them and ask them immediately. Liu Yu didn't know if this matter counted, and now he can only be stubborn, anyway, the matter is true, he is not afraid of being questioned.

"Haha, it turned out to be the Xinguo family, Ye Ying and that kid, the day before yesterday, they came to ask the old man for peace and didn't show their mouths, but they kept it a secret. Do you know that the old man and the letter are fellow villagers, which is really a coincidence. Unexpectedly, Xie Shi laughed very happily after hearing this, not only Liu Yu was a little strange, but even the female official behind her had never seen Xie so happy.

Liu Yu recalled the record about the Xie family in her heart, it seems that her family's ancestral home is Tiantai, and Ninghai, where the Ye family is located, belongs to Taizhou under the jurisdiction of Liangzhejiang East Road, and the two are fellow villagers. Liu Yu laughed curtly, as if it was self-defeating, and now that the matter has been poked out, he has to worry about whether the Ye family still has this meaning.

"It's not easy for the Ye family girl to ask, boy, do you know? However, since you sued the old body, you still have to help with this favor, and as for whether it will succeed or not, it depends on your creation. Xie Shi looked at Liu Yu's embarrassed appearance playfully and said with a smile.

"So that the saint will know, the minister knows that he is reckless, and he does not dare to ask the saint for marriage, whether it is successful or not, but I hope that I will try my best."

"Good boy, ambitious, but you guessed wrong, only parents can decide the major matters of marriage, if the prince does not allow it, the royal family cannot intervene, let alone add it by will." Xie shook his head and said.

Liu Yu has a black line, and he was misled by the garbage historical dramas of later generations, this is not a pigtail dynasty, where did the marriage come from, even if the official family is willing to make an order, it can be returned as the Ye family, and the court will never add guilt, naturally the official family or the saint will not do such a thing.

"The daughter of the Ye family must at least be matched with a jinshi, looking at the current situation, it is impossible for the imperial court to open a department in the past two years. Okay, just give you a fellow jinshi background, the old body can only help this one, and the rest has to rely on yourself. ”

Hearing this, Liu Yu understood what Xie meant by help, but he didn't immediately realize how much grace this was, and he was stunned for a while, and the Huang Nei attendant next to him saw that he didn't move for a long time, and he was so anxious that he secretly gave him a look.

"The saint is grateful." At this point, Liu Yu was considered to have entered the threshold of the scholar, and he had the qualification to govern with the Son of Heaven, the so-called "Chao Wei Tian Shelang, Dusk Tianzi Hall" refers to Zhongjinshi, and it is also the "gold list title" that later generations said, of course, he does not have that qualification, but he has just obtained a background, even so, it is a great thing.

The last subject was last year's Xianchun 10th Section, and the Jinshi on that list were not given until the beginning of the year, and most of them are still waiting for their jobs. As usual, the next course will be opened in three years, that is, the year after tomorrow, and in its current form, it is important to say whether it will be opened, let alone Enke.

This time I saw it, even if it was over, although Liu Yu didn't get what he imagined, it wasn't nothing. After leaving the palace, he has been thinking about a question, it seems that he must really get married in this time and space, and this is the first time he has grown up so much. R1058