Qianqing Palace, Xinuan Pavilion. Zhu Yijun, the seventeen-year-old Son of Ten Thousand Days, was walking around impatiently, looking like a trapped beast.

After a few turns, Zhu Yijun couldn't help but ask loudly, "Why hasn't Chen Ju done anything bad yet?"

The little eunuchs were so frightened that they hurriedly lowered their heads a little more, and they all knocked to the ground and didn't dare to move, they were already kneeling, and they didn't dare to get up at all, and their legs were all wooden.

Fortunately, at this time, news came from outside, and a little eunuch hurriedly came in and reported, "Emperor, Chen Yuma has led Mr. Xiao Gao to meet him." ”

Zhu Yijun immediately stood still and said loudly, "Quick Xuan"

But as soon as he said this, he said it habitually, and as he spoke, he walked towards the door himself.

Zhu Yijun walked to the door, and happened to meet Chen Ju slightly bending down to make a "please" gesture to Gao Pragmatic.

Zhu Yijun said loudly, "Don't be pragmatic, are you injured" He said, and there was nothing emperorly style, he walked over directly, pulled Gao pragmatic and looked up and down, and saw that he looked as usual, and breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay, it's okay, there is no missing arm or leg, otherwise it will be very troublesome in the future." ”

Gao Pragmatic knew that what Zhu Yijun meant was that if he was disabled, it would be very troublesome to be an official in the future The ancients elected officials, especially civil officials, and the requirements for appearance were very high.

For example, when the officials are electing officials, the top grade pushes the national character face, this kind of appearance is majestic and upright, the most official authority followed by the word face, this kind of face shape people, the facial features are the most elegant and handsome, and the worst affinity is the gold shape, the top is small and the bottom is large, the proportion is not good, but because the official can wear a black gauze hat, it can barely cover the ugliness, as for other crooked melons and cracked dates, then don't mention it, ten can not pass the "interview". In the Tang Dynasty, Han Yue was more famous and powerful, but unfortunately he didn't become an official after passing the exam, the reason was that he was ugly, which caused the officials to brush down every time they looked at his appearance during the selection, and felt that he was not an official at first glance.

And the disability is not to mention, unless it is disabled in the line of duty after becoming an official, sometimes it may be allowed by the emperor to stay in office, if it is disabled before becoming an official, then it is generally considered to say goodbye to officialdom.

Gao Shishi was a little moved in his heart, and he took two steps back to salute, Zhu Yijun went up directly and grabbed his hand and said, "Okay, okay, don't be polite, Yao'e, Yaoyuan are fine."

Gao Shishi already knew at this time that the previous two "Miss Yao" were not surnamed Yao at all, but Zhu Yijun's two sisters, both born to Empress Dowager Li. The two of them played a word game, because one of them was called Zhu Yao'e and the other was Zhu Yaoyuan, and they refused to reveal their identities at that time, so they called themselves surnamed "Yao", which was a sound.

So Gao Pragmatic has now finally figured out the reason why these two have been strange before. The two of them always had a feeling of being very familiar with Gao Pragmatic before they talked about it, but Gao Pragmatic didn't even hear their voices, and in turn, these two didn't hear Gao Pragmatic's voice, in fact, they were "familiar" with Gao Pragmatic, nothing more than listening to Zhu Yijun mention a lot, and the queen mother would occasionally mention it, coupled with Gao Pragmatic's consistent red envelope connections, the little eunuchs in the palace had a good impression of him, and when they mentioned him, they were basically all good words, so in the minds of the two princesses, Gao Pragmatic was still a good guy overall.

As for the fact that they have always called Gao Pragmatic by name, it is more normal to theoretically call the courtiers by their first names, whether it is the emperor or the princess. It's just that the emperor occasionally gives some particularly respectable or close courtiers a better title.

The rules of the harem of the Ming Dynasty are extremely strict, and Gao Pragmatic still saw the two princesses once when he was less than ten years old, and the two princesses were even older at that time, so neither side had any impression. In addition, Gao Pragmatic is not like some fellow travelers, and always has a special thought for the princess, so he can't remember the two of them.

But this time, he met with the two princesses by accident, the third princess Zhu Yao'e is two years younger than Gao Shishi, and she is only fourteen this year, and the fifteenth and fourteenth princess Zhu Yaoyuan will be even younger, only twelve or thirteen years old, and she is still a little Lori who has not grown. However, both of them inherited the beauty of Empress Dowager Li, and they are quite good-looking.

But he doesn't care if it's good-looking or not, anyway, he won't consider Princess Shang, the princess of the Ming Dynasty, except for the founding period, the convention is not to marry a heavy minister or marry into a heavy minister's family, they are all married to some ordinary people, or the children of low-level officials.

And the horse is even more boring to do, he can't hold any real power at all, and he can give a virtual position as a brocade guard, or go to the Zongren Mansion to hang a job, and eat idle food until death for the rest of his life, how can this be highly pragmatic and interested

Moreover, there is such a clause in the family rules of the Ming royal family that after the princess gets married, she must send an old female official of this kind to her to manage the affairs of the princess. And the princess who has nominally been married, in fact, only spent the wedding night in the princess's mansion, and then moved back to the palace specially set up in the harem to live, and the empty princess's mansion only lived in the concubine, if the princess and the concubine want to meet and talk, the concubine must rush into the palace to meet her.

However, such old female officials generally have problems with their mentality, and what they are most unaccustomed to is the scene between the princess and the concubine. Therefore, if the concubine wants to enter the palace to meet the princess and enjoy the love of husband and wife, most of them will be troubled by this "housekeeper" old female official. If the princess and the concubine did not come out with a lot of real money and bribes, they would not have been able to pass their pass at all, and they would not have seen their husbands or wives.

Gao Pragmatic is not short of money, but he lacks power, and he has no right to save the last Han dynasty, so he is respectful of the princess. After politely saying a few words, he said goodbye to the two princesses, and watched Chen Ju send someone to send the two Tianhuang nobles back to the palace.

Gao pragmatic explained the situation to Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yijun heard that his sisters were fine, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Fortunately, they are fine, otherwise I don't know how to explain to the queen mother." ”

This was a little strange, and Gao Pragmatic couldn't help asking, "When the emperor talked about this, the minister didn't understand, why did Her Royal Highness the princess leave the palace and go to the Buddha Temple, and the two princesses also mentioned it, saying that the Buddha Temple is"

"The temple was built with money donated by the queen mother." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and explained, "The Queen Mother's Birthday Festival is coming, and her old man wants to finish it before the festival, but the place is repaired and repaired, and some things that are not very clean have been dug up. Originally, I was supposed to go, but there were many things in the past few days, and the cabinet didn't agree with this matter, so the queen mother called Yao'e and Yao'e to go. ”

Zhu Yijun sighed, "But you also know that the royal rules are strict, how can the two of them leave the palace at this age, so they can only go quietly, who knows if they can encounter such a thing"

Speaking of this, Zhu Yijun's face was gloomy, "Although this matter can't be made a big splash, but Ling Yunyi's guy must be severely punished, he can make such a thing when he first comes to Beijing to take up his new position, and he doesn't know how domineering and pragmatic he is on weekdays, this matter involves the queen mother and Yao'e and Yaoyao, I can't come forward directly, you can think of a way for me, I have to do him"