Seeing that it was dinner time, no one dared to let the emperor wait for a long time, Xu Xun casually dismantled the big braids that had been played, coiled a nest of silk heads, and didn't even wear a bun, just casually inserted two golden hairpins, and wore a pair of millet bead earrings that he usually wore at home, put on a red silk jacket, a lotus lotus embroidered plum blossom skirt, and a gray squirrel cloak, and didn't even have time to even the rouge, so he hurriedly followed Ma Shi out to sit on his shoulder.

When I arrived at the Qianqing Palace, it was just right that the emperor had just come back from going out to fight a set of punches, and he had just finished freshening up. He dressed very well, because the kang burned very warm, and the warm pavilion was like spring, so the emperor wore a light yellow middle coat, not even a jacket. Her hair was scattered haphazardly behind her back, still wet, with droplets of water hanging from it.

It is undeniable that after a young man's strenuous exercise, his whole body will naturally exude a kind of male spirit, and it is difficult for Xu Xun to specifically describe what this spirit contains. Maybe it's the combination of visual and olfactory stimuli, and reverie in the brain. Anyway, when she looked at the emperor, she couldn't take her eyes off her eyes, and swallowed her saliva lightly before pulling her eyes out of the emperor's sturdy figure and bowing to the emperor. "Big brother."

The emperor couldn't help but be a little funny when he saw the unsmeared rouge on Xu Xun's face, as well as the bun that was obviously combed up in a hurry, and the random set of colors that he didn't pay attention to, he couldn't help but be a little funny, and he affectionately pulled Xu Xun to his side, "Let's have a meal in the pavilion - you too, how can anyone be as lazy as you, and before the sun sets, take off your makeup and change your clothes?" ”

Xu Xun knew that he was at a loss, so he could only laugh, and he also untied his jacket while standing on the kang - it was indeed a little hot in the pavilion.

From the moment she came in, the officials withdrew silently, Xu Xun had nothing to avoid, took off his skirt and followed the emperor's example, he wore the armor and trousers, and the two sat opposite each other on the kang, and the emperor also said, "You don't have to dress up, isn't it good to come over like that?" Look at you in a hurry, the rouge on your face is a red lump. If you weren't born well, you would have died of village anger. ”

Seeing Xu Xun pouting, he was a little stunned, and he hurriedly changed his tone again, "Isn't this our Xiao Xun born well, it looks a little playful." ”

Xu Xun smiled happily at this time, and chatted with the emperor, "I also want to come over like that, it is the grandmothers who say, I wear braids, wear home-style clothes, and look like a girl." Even when I arrived at the gate of the Qianqing Palace, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to enter. ”

This little girl, although she is also in her twenties, has not faded at all with this blank paper-like purity, and if she hadn't mentioned it herself, she wouldn't have asked about military affairs at all - she was not interested at all. Her interests are focused on everyday life, trivial, not who she played a game of chess with today, who made a wrong move, or who she went to say hello to, who she chatted with. The palace life in her mouth is simply incomparably calm, peaceful and peaceful.

The emperor closed his eyes as if he was not listening, and after a while, he only felt that Xu Xun's voice was gradually getting quieter, so he opened his eyes again and said, "Say, why don't you say it?" ”

Xu Xun looked at him with white eyes, "You are asleep, what else do I say." ”

At this time, the lieutenants also hung their heads and brought in the dining table. A table of steaming dishes was placed under the kang, Xu Xun diverted his attention when he saw it, and said with a smile, "Oh, it's my favorite dish today!" ”

Xu Xun's favorite dishes are more inclined to Huaiyang taste, such as crab roe lion head, crystal meat and even three-wire knock fish, which are her favorite dishes, and the hibiscus crucian carp in Nanjing's hometown She also praised the emperor several times. The emperor looked at her innocent smile, his eyes softened, and he smiled and said, "That's it, how can it be so coincidental, it's all your favorite food." ”

Xu Xun pursed his lips, wanting to laugh and pretend to be annoyed, while turning his back to wipe the rouge on his face, he said, "Big brother is very bad today!" ”

The Emperor smiled and picked up the topic again. "Who said I fell asleep just listening? Didn't you say that you shared the winter charcoal fire in the palace today...... Well, I see that you have a good share, a good share! ”

Xu Xun was really annoyed by the smile in the emperor's words, and she knocked the emperor's hand with the head of her chopsticks, and she didn't distinguish between dignity and inferiority. "You hate-"

The two of them were talking about homely things while eating and drinking, Xu Xun squinted and smiled happily, and tasted the good and bad dishes with the emperor. "This crab roe lion's head must be made by a new chef, and the original chef doesn't have this fragrant taste, like adding ginger juice."

The emperor is not very particular about eating, which is manifested in the fact that he knows what is delicious and what is not, but he does not know what this delicious thing is made of. But this did not prevent him from looking at Xu Xun indulgently, "If you like it, let them give it to you every day." ”

"It's too easy to get tired of eating every day." Xu Xun smiled, his eyes slipped, and he saw the long painting outside the warm pavilion, "Ah, I have drawn a new painting again, is it still a little mouse?" ”

"If you have a pen in your hand, I'll give you a penny to eat." The emperor feigned anger, "In your heart, I will only draw little mice?" ”

However, the emperor does like to paint mice, and Xu Xun has painted a lot of them when he is together, and the mice he painted are vivid, vivid and cute, Xu Xun also asked for two in his own room, and now they are hung on the wall of Xili. Xu Xunchong wrinkled his nose and said with a smile, "I haven't seen my eldest brother fighting crickets this year, and I used it to draw mice most of the time, right?" ”

The emperor sighed, "Emperor Zhao's anniversary hasn't passed yet, at this time it's time to draw some pictures, the crickets are too lively, and the impact is not good." ”

In the autumn of this year, the emperor did not go out on a safari either. When I was free, I rode horses and practiced boxing in the East Garden and West Garden, and I didn't even play polo. Xu Xun has never ridden a horse since the death of Emperor Wen.

The two of them glanced at each other, and they both sighed, and there was a tacit sense of patience - when the anniversary of Emperor Zhao passed next summer, it seemed that the turbulent gray and gloomy life that had lasted for more than two years could finally be seen.

After a lively meal, the emperor no longer wanted to see the concerto. talked to Xu Xun about the new novel in the market, and both of them said, "The story is too far-fetched." ”

Xu Xun even said, "Thanks to Emperor Wen's Wenzhi, many classical books are now copied. I couldn't go out to play for a while, so I was idle in the palace, so I told them to borrow some scripts and operas, and it was indeed still a considerable part of the ancient songs of the previous dynasties. The dramas we sing in the palace now are not very interesting, and those new words are even more funny, written as talented and beautiful, and they are all male thieves and female prostitutes. There are no rules in the book, and it is all a dream of a poor scholar. Just because they can read, women come to Hata, and they don't care about etiquette and future. Although there is a reasonable family obstruction, once he wins the champion, the emperor will naturally send a message to give marriage. ――Big brother, you have been in the palace for so many years, can you see that there is a champion who dares to mention family affairs with the emperor? ”

The emperor was teased by her, "Who dares to have that temper of Ah Weng?" ”

"Emperor Zhao has a good temper, maybe the courtiers will dare." Xu Xun's tone was slightly naïve, but his eyes were flashing, obviously teasing the emperor. The emperor smiled, "Although my father has a good temper, he is not good here, don't you dare to kill people when he is him?" Although he was called Renzong, when he was guarding Beijing, his father set a plan, and I don't know how much the rebel military horse broke under the wall. ”

He changed his posture, leaned comfortably on Xu Xun's side, and said with a smile, "It's not a poor scholar, who will arrange these scripts, opera?" There is only one King Zhou in the whole world, he is interested in these, in a few years, let's ask him to ask for some miscellaneous dramas to see, if it is well written, if it is not well written, Xiao Xun you write two books for me to see. ”

Xu Xun hurriedly said, "I don't want to write, it's all written by dishonest people in their hearts." ”

"Books say their will, and honest people are also ambitious." The emperor's fingers rubbed Xu Xun's cheek carefully, "What is Xiao Xun's ambition?" ”

Xu Xun's eyelashes flickered, like butterfly wings, she looked at the emperor and muttered intently, "I...... I hope that this moment will continue forever, and I can continue to serve my eldest brother until I am old. ”

There was a faint smile on the corners of her eyebrows, which made the emperor's heart warm, he hugged Xu Xun into his arms, and said in a low voice, "Good Xiaoxun, there will be this day." The two of us will never be separated from heaven and earth. ”

Xu Xun's body stiffened slightly, this change was not hidden from the emperor, he looked at Xu Xun in surprise, he didn't have any doubts in his heart, just jokingly said, "Why don't you want to accompany your eldest brother to grow old?" ”

"Big brother." Xu Xun's face was bitter, and she gently pushed the emperor's arm, "Don't ...... Don't hug me and move my position, it's inconvenient for others......"

Oh......

The emperor was also a little embarrassed for a while, and he didn't know anything about Tianqi. "This ...... Is it dirty? ”

Xu Xun blushed and drove him to the outside of the warm pavilion, leaving the two palace maids to toss for a while before coming out and saying, "It's not dirty...... Big brother, I'm going back......"

If the body is not clean, it is not good to stay in the Qianqing Palace, if it is a blood-stained bedding, it is that the emperor himself does not care and does not feel unlucky, Xu Xun is afraid that he will not have the face to see people. Although the emperor was very reluctant, he had no choice, he reluctantly said, "If you stay any longer, let's play two games of chess and you will go back - I will let you have three sons." ”

Xu Xun snorted, amused by him, she lowered her head and slowly approached the emperor's chest, half-leaning on his chest and bowed her head for a while, but it seemed that she was a little worried.

"What's wrong?" The Emperor asked softly. "If you have anything to say, you can just say it."

"I ...... I ......" Xu Xun hesitated for a while, sighed sullenly, and said, "Mama persuaded me to let me promote more Zhaorong and beauties below." Big brother, if you want to ...... tonight Qing'er, Zi'er, and Zhao Zhaorong are all convenient. ”

Although it is said very generously, judging from her pursed lips and the fluttering eyes around, it is conceivable what Xu Xun's mind is.

The emperor was so soft by her that he couldn't wait to swallow Xu Xun into his stomach and take it with him, he hugged Xu Xun and said in a good voice, "Mama persuade you, although it is their duty, you are also a master now." Love to listen or not to listen to it is not up to you? If you don't want to be promoted, don't be promoted, do your sisters dare to show you their faces? Whoever wants to give you anger, you tell me, and I will send her to the cold palace in the blink of an eye......"

Xu Xun shook his head and sighed, "Big brother, you also understand, the grandmothers have a point, I can't be a stingy name." ”

The biggest advantage of Xu Xun is that although she is innocent and coquettish, she is also very sensible and very worry-free. She drew circles against the emperor's chest, and said as she painted, "Besides, you are so tired as usual, and you need someone to serve you well." Isn't it wrong for me to stop you from finding someone else to serve me tonight, because it's my sin? Big brother, you don't have to worry about my little jealousy, if you want someone to serve, just send someone to pass it on, if you don't want to, then you can rest early......"

It's good that Xu Xun doesn't draw circles, she draws circles so casually, but it stirs up the emperor's anger. Let's be honest, after a day's hard work, the emperor really needs to be relieved. Xu Xun brought out the two old people and a new person, the old man is Wen Cun, and the new person can always bring freshness and desire to conquer, which is a very strong stimulation for him. He forcibly suppressed the uncontrollable thoughts in his mind, and comforted Xu Xun in a good voice, "Don't think too much, let you come over today, I just miss you, talk to you...... You can rest early in the middle of the night, and if you miss me in the future, you can ask someone to bring a message, and I will go up to your place to see you......"

After sending Xu Xun away, the emperor read a few more books. But the more he looked at it, the more bored and irritable he felt: Emperor Zhao left him a powerful cabinet, full of capable people and virtuous ministers. -- But because the courtiers were so capable, the emperor felt constrained when he started to do things. In many cases, even a letter and a note on the cover can make him aware of a very ominous sign.

In the past, when the prime minister was set up, the emperor was fighting with the prime minister alone, but now that there is no prime minister, the cabinet has been opened, and the emperor has to fight with a group of top people. The intellectual traps in the folds are one ring after another, the emperor is a dozen five or even a dozen six, such intricate interpersonal relationships, interests, and political relationships are enough to consume all the energy of an ordinary person. Even if the emperor himself was in the prime of life, he now faintly felt a sense of being hollowed out......

Naturally, the most feared thing for an emperor is to lose power, and the emperor threw the fold on the bookcase with a little irritation, and has lost interest in reading it.

"Kim Young." He shouted casually.

After a while, Jin Ying respectfully came to the emperor's side. "Emperor?"

"Read me both the abridgement and the draft." The emperor said tiredly, "The pen is ready, and you will approve whatever I say." ”

"This-" Jin Ying was so frightened that he almost lost his mind: It's one thing to read the song to the emperor, but it's another thing to wear red. The eunuch of the celebrant was only for the emperor, but he didn't say that he could approve the fold for the emperor.

"Panic what." The Emperor glared. "If you don't dare to write, then someone else will write it."

Jin Ying didn't want to change people at this time, even if he killed his head, he swallowed heavily, "Slave maid - slave maid obey the order!" ”

As he spoke, he picked up a letter and read it in his throat, "Wang Sande, the Yunnan Qing Officials of the Ministry of Households, respectfully plays Yunnan's money and grain affairs this year, which is abridged as follows. ”

Yunnan has suffered a disaster this year, of course, it is not as serious as it is said in the fold, but it is also common for disasters to be relieved. The emperor nodded, "Is there already an excerpt over there in Yunnan?" ”

"Back to the emperor's words, all ministries have been excerpted. The secret report of Jinyi Wei was also delivered. Kim Young said respectfully.

"Where's the ticket?" The Emperor pondered for a moment, then asked.

"The vote is as follows: There is indeed a drought in Yunnan this year, but the disaster is not widely implicated, and three percent is too wide, so please reduce it by two percent." Jin Ying said.

The emperor frowned and thought for a moment, "Stay in the middle first, you send a document to Jinyiwei, and command the envoy to summarize and read the information of Yunnan tomorrow, and then write an abridgement of the secret folds of the eunuchs guarding the town in Yunnan, and I will read it and then talk about it." ”

"Yes." Jin Ying sorted it out here in a hurry, knowing that the emperor valued the disaster, he specially put this letter in a conspicuous pile. Here it was read to the emperor again, "Lu Yun, the right political envoy of the Jiangxi Political Division, played the bones of the old and sick beggars." ”

The emperor began to rub his forehead, "This fight is not over yet?" ”

Jiangxi had a big corruption case a month ago, and at least five high-ranking officials above the fifth grade were dismissed, and the earthquake has not ended yet, and the court is still blaming each other, and the right political envoy is obviously being involved in the turmoil, and the resignation of the above table is also to express his attitude and urge the emperor's attitude.

Jin Ying glanced at Ma Shi, Ma Shi hurriedly stepped forward, opened the small jade box he was carrying, and picked out some mint paste for the emperor to rub on his temples. The Emperor enjoyed his service pleasantly, "What about the ticket? ”

"The vote is as follows—"

The emperor's faint voice sounded in the inner hall of the Qianqing Palace from time to time, "If you want to copy it." ”

"I'll see for myself."

"Stay in the middle and don't send ......"

It's almost past the third watch, and the emperor has finished dealing with today's accumulated folds, he only feels that his head is swollen and painful, and his heart is too tired to work, but his body is still a little bored. -- The thoughts that had faded away gradually became rich again. The emperor thought for a moment, then ordered Ma Shi, "Go, let Qing'er and Zi'er enter the Qianqing Palace to serve." ”

"Hey!" Ma Eleven had, turned around and ran errands.

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The Qianqing Palace and the Kunning Palace are separated by two red walls and a narrow corridor, in fact, they are not two palaces at all - in fact, there is a circle of palace walls around the Qianqing Palace and the Kunning Palace, which enclose the residence of the emperor and the queen, making the palace where the two of them live a real palace within the palace and the center of the Forbidden City. The front door of the Qianqing Palace is the Rijing Gate and the Yuehua Gate, these two doors are to go to the residence of the Queen Mother, and the place where the residence of the prince is still vacant is gone.

――Jinghe Gate is the door to go out from the back door of Qianqing Palace, and Kunning Palace usually has to go through this gate when going out. According to the third watch, Jinghe Gate has already gone down a thousand taels, but the emperor said a word, is there still someone who doesn't open the door? After Xu Xun returned to the palace, for the second time that night, the Jinghe door was opened again. The sound of door locks, footsteps, human voices, the hooves of mules...... In the silent night, it spread far and wide, and it was difficult for Kunning Palace to pretend that it didn't know.

"Listen to the direction, it should be going to Yong'an Palace." Mama Ouyang stretched out her hand to smooth the waves on the embroidery pattern for the queen. "are really spoiled."

The queen has light eyebrows, and her subordinates are not chaotic at all. "She doesn't have a sign tonight, isn't that why she went back? I'm afraid I didn't go to Yong'an Palace. ”

Isn't it, we'll find out in a moment. Ma Shi is going to get someone, that person will definitely have to be brought back in a while, right?

Although it has been three watches, whether it is Ouyang Mama or the queen, there is no intention of going to bed, the queen still traces the embroidery pattern on the paper, Ouyang Mama is doing needlework under the lamp, and after a moment, I heard a faint voice from the Yongdao to pass.

Although it has fallen a thousand taels, it does not mean that Kunning Palace has no channels to peek outside. After a while, someone from outside whispered a few words to Ouyang Mama, and Ouyang Mama sighed, as if talking to herself. "It's Wang Meiren and Li Meiren."

The queen continued her strokes as if she hadn't heard it.

Mama Ouyang said to herself again, "Hooligans, hug the cloth trade silk." The woman is not happy, and the gentleman is not happy...... Alas, I didn't expect to be such people. (See Note)

Even the casual comparison is the poetry of the Book of Poetry and the verses of Wei Feng, and Mama Ouyang can be regarded as an old woman who has read poetry and books.

The queen glanced at her, and her pen paused slightly. "Are you comparing me to a wife who has been privately determined for life?"

Mama Ouyang was so frightened that she immediately knelt down, "The old slave doesn't dare!" Mother-"

"Alright." The queen waved her hand a little irritably. "I haven't read for a few years, but I still know what it means to be satire! You don't have to treat me as a businessman in Xia Wei, and kneel down and ask for guilt at every turn. ”

When Mama Ouyang stood up, she started to draw the delicate and complicated patterns again. "However, for a while, you have some opinions about Yong'an Palace. Even the 'two or three virtues' are compared. Why, in your heart, is Concubine Zhuang the villain who abandons like that? ”

"The old slave doesn't dare." Mama Ouyang was shocked, although the queen did not move, she did not dare to sit down. Rao is like this, but he still wants to snort, "Niangniang is benevolent, always thinks about people for good, and the old slave is not a mean person, so he doesn't dare to criticize him." It's just that...... Concubine Zhuang is now more and more like a noble concubine. ”

Let's not say that she didn't resign from the field beyond the queen's specifications, just say that today, the queen's good days have not passed, and everyone in the harem knows that these days are the days when the emperor comes to find the queen. It was nothing for her to be invited for a meal, and she left quite early, which was not considered disrespectful to the queen......

But soon after she left, the emperor recruited two beauties from Yong'an Palace to sleep, and it was hard to ensure that it was not the who said anything in front of the emperor in order to pull her own people.

This kind of approach, even if it is not punishable, only about action, it is a little bit not to take the queen in his eyes...... When she first entered the court, how much did she rely on the queen? The queen also took care of her, and now the queen is a little lonely, Concubine Zhuang is up, and she is not grateful, just like that. said that Concubine Zhuang was two or three of her virtues, Mama Ouyang was confident, she must be the queen's mother, and she might not be able to reply to her words.

And the queen did not answer her, she just silently traced the pattern, and stared intently at the red pen in her hand with almond eyes, as if she had put all her spirit into it.

The red brush strokes wandered freely on the white paper, and the blood-red traces seemed to be presented on it, and a complicated picture of a hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren gradually took shape.

The author has something to say: Note: Ouyang Mama said that Xu Xun's canon is from "Wei Feng. Hooligans". It is a story about a girl who was confused by the rhetoric of a gangster, and was abandoned and oppressed by labor after marrying him by mistake. Second, three, his virtues, and his deeds are all using this allusion to scold Xiaoxun. If you are interested, you can explain it yourself.

But because the gangster's wife herself is also a lifelong agreement with the gangster, there are also those who have been scolded and blamed for themselves. In short, her choice is not reputable and unwise in the eyes of later generations, so it is inappropriate for the queen to choose the analogy of Ouyang Mama.