On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it was a big day for the ministers to congratulate, and before dawn, the officials in Beijing stood outside the Taiji Hall according to the rank of the title, and the first place was naturally the auxiliary prince Sima. He seemed to be in a terrible mood today, with a gloomy face and not a word. Behind him, there were Sima Wang, the king of Hejian and Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, who exchanged their heads and ears from time to time, or turned their eyes to Sima, and laughed a few times from time to time, and their mood seemed to be much better than Sima.

After a while, Sima Zhen appeared yawning, he was extremely impatient to accept the congratulations of the hundred officials, in fact, what else is there to congratulate? The ancestor's temple was burned, and he was not very peaceful in his dream last night, and he was dragged here again before he woke up, which was really irritable.

Called, Sima Zhen couldn't wait to leave, who knew that Sima took a few steps forward, and said: "Your Majesty stays, the minister must have this Qilu, and Sima Wang, the king of the river, is guilty of dereliction of duty one, and the following is guilty of two crimes, and three crimes of burning down the temple." The rest of the charges are listed in the recital in public, and His Majesty is invited to look at them. As he spoke, he took out a notebook from his body and handed it to the prison next to Sima Zhen

The courtiers were in an uproar and turned their eyes to Sima who was involved. Sima Zhen frowned and opened the notebook, he had never seen him hand him the notebook so carelessly, and now he had to throw this mess to him. The dense words on the playbook made him impatient, so he closed the playbook and looked at Sima: "What does King Qi mean?" ”

Before Sima could speak, Sima sneered and walked out, also took out a notebook from his arms, and said, "Even so, I'm not welcome," he handed the notebook to the hand of the eunuch next to Sima Zhen, and said: "The minister and the king of Qi, Sima Mu, has no father, and he is perverse, and he is guilty of causing chaos to the court." ”

Sima Zhen took a notebook in one hand, looked at this and that, there was no order, and then looked at the two people standing below, no one paid attention to anyone, and glared at him with eyes. Sima Zhen sighed, got up, walked over to the two of them, and returned the notebook to the two of them with a smile.

"You're all my heroes." Sima Zhen said: "Yesterday's incident was regarded as an accident, and the temple was destroyed and repaired, so don't hurt your family." ”

"Your Majesty is wrong." Sima stared, obviously unwilling to be like this, he pointed at Sima and said: "Since he presided over the ceremony, the responsibility for the burning of the Taimiao will be taken by him, and the burning of the Taimiao is a big thing, how can it be said that it was an accident?" ”

Not to be outdone, Sima opened Sima's hand and said, "Now admit that I am the chief priest?" Yesterday, the king of Qi didn't think like this, he swaggered to question me, and even damaged the holy decree, completely ignoring His Majesty. To say that the burning of the Taimiao Temple was an accident, and it was also a warning from God, Prince Qi took herself seriously and forgot that there was a majesty above her head. ”

"You bastard." Sima's anger was immediately aroused, and he pointed at Sima and scolded: "I am an auxiliary minister, you are too arrogant." ”

Sima was not polite at all, and also pointed to Sima's nose, and scolded back: "How about the auxiliary government, your auxiliary government is also given to you by everyone in your father's face, in terms of seniority, you have to call me Uncle Sheng, you have no majesty, no respect and no strength, you should be guilty." ”

Seeing that the two were about to fight again, Sima Zhen was angry and anxious, jumped to his feet and said, "Aren't you going to burn this Taiji Hall too?" Ignoring the two of them, out of sight and out of mind, he turned his head and went back to the dormitory.

Sima and Sima were in a stalemate in the main hall for a long time, and no one refused to give in first. They didn't leave, and the courtiers behind didn't dare to leave, and everyone was in the cold wind on the first day of the new year

Se stood tremblingly, only Chengdu Wang Sima Ying looked at the two with a smile, until someone begged him to say a word, he walked up to the two people, made a gesture at the two, and said: "The New Year, the two of you really want to stand here, forgive the little prince There is something in the palace, and I will leave first." ”

After Sima Ying finished speaking, she swaggered away, and everyone saw that Sima Ying was gone, hesitated, and left with Sima Ying. The people in the hall between the two of them left, and they didn't bother to entangle any longer, so they all left the Taiji Palace.

Hearing that the King of Qi and the King of Hejian were gone, Sima Zhen stroked his chest and said, "These people won't even let me live a New Year." ”

Yang Xianrong said with a smile: "One mountain is difficult to accommodate two tigers, the king of the river is more and more dissatisfied with the king of Qi, his own strength is not weak, continue to make trouble, sooner or later there will be a big trouble, when the time comes, who does Your Majesty support?" ”

"I don't support anyone." Sima said irritably: "I just want to live a peaceful life, and they annoy me every day." ”

"Your Majesty doesn't like to take care of the government, you have to have someone to help you." Yang Xianrong said: "This person has the best heart with His Majesty, isn't he?" ”

Sima Zhen frowned and thought about it, this is indeed the case, so he smiled and said: "Then it's still King Qi, how troublesome it is to exchange it, at least King Qi also asked me to change someone in front of Emperor Shutan, maybe what will I do, and then send me to Kim Yong City?" I don't want to go. ”

"Your Majesty doesn't think that the King of Hejian is a more suitable candidate than the King of Qi?" Yang Xianrong said again: "Don't you say it yourself, the King of Hejian is much better to you than the King of Qi." ”

Sima Zhen nodded, he himself felt that the King of Hejian was better, at least he was generous to him, and he never shouted when he spoke, and he knew much more etiquette than the King of Qi. "It's good, it's just what about King Qi?" Sima Cheng asked, "Besides, what should he do if he doesn't want to give the position of auxiliary government to the king of Hejian?" ”

Yang Xianrong smiled again: "King Qi goes home to farm, as for whether he can get the position of auxiliary government, it all depends on the ability of the king of Hejian, he wants to be an auxiliary government, he must have some ability, what do you say?" ”

"Hehe," Sima Zhen was also happy: "The queen is right, let him farm." ”

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the queen set up a banquet in the Xianyang Palace, as usual, she invited the ladies in the capital to gather, when Jia Nanfeng was still the queen, she was busy with the affairs of the court, and she had to fight with the Sima family, and she never had the intention of setting up a banquet to entertain guests, and because she didn't see a smiling face all day long, so everyone was afraid of her, and they didn't dare to go to the palace more. Today's Yang Xianrong is young, sexual, and kind, and seems to be a lively master, not to mention these princesses who have just entered Beijing, these noblewomen who live in the capital are also happy to come to the palace often, after all, women also love to talk about the affairs of the previous dynasty, they can know some of the movements of the court, and even can detect the direction of the wind that the men are not aware of.

Since it is the New Year, Yang Xianrong prepared a gift for everyone, all of which were purses made by the palace embroidery workshop, each of which put a winning money, which was taken by the noblewomen according to the number of children in the family, although it was not valuable, but in the end it was a mind, who did not want their children to be safe and auspicious.

Halfway through the meal, the topic somehow turned to the burning Taimiao, and a noble lady kept chanting: "Unlucky, unlucky." ”

The princess of Hejian glanced at the troubled person and said, "Why is it not auspicious?" It is said that it is a place to ask for the blessing of the ancestors, but now it is burned, that is, the ancestors are unwilling to bless it, and some people provoke the anger of God, so they can only ask for more blessings. ”

Everyone can hear it, He's words are talking about King Qi, but Princess Qi didn't come to the banquet today because she was sick, and she didn't say anything

People dared to take it, so Yang Xianrong said: "After all, Taimiao is the ancestral hall of the Sima family, and it is also appropriate for the princes to make a big move, even the emperor is also afraid and blames himself." ”

"See." He immediately said: "The emperor blames himself, but some people feel innocent, and they are so anxious that they skip the religion first, it is nothing more than that we said that he was sick that day, and this word spread out, and he couldn't hang on his face, so he looked for our fault." But we are talking about private matters, and he takes revenge on official affairs, which can be said to be indistinguishable between public and private. ”

"This ......" Yang Xianrong paused and said, "This is also a bit unfounded. ”

"Niangniang doesn't know," He immediately said: "You say why Princess Qi didn't come to the banquet, it's not because last time we leaked the bottom of King Qi at the banquet, King Qi was angry with the princess, imprisoned her in the mansion, and later went to find trouble with my prince and the king of Chengdu, but no one paid attention to him, so he was angry and angry and quarreled with my prince in the court." ”

It turns out that there is such a thing, this King Qi wants to save face, no wonder this time he made such a big move, and he did not hesitate to fall out with the King of Hejian in front of everyone, which is nothing more than to tell the world that it is still him King Qi who is sitting in this court now.

"I'm calling you all over today to have a lively and fun time." Yang Xianrong said with a smile: "The things ahead are not for us to take care of. Yang Xianrong raised his wine glass and said, "Let's drink our wine." ”

"Yes, yes." Le's has not spoken today, thinking that he has been explained by the king of Chengdu, and now the king of Chengdu is sandwiched between the king of Hejian and the king of Qi, and he looks more inclined to the king of Hejian on his face, but no one can say what he is doing in private with the king of Qi. So Le's quickly changed the topic and said: "Now there is a famous strange person in the capital, I don't know if everyone knows?" ”

As soon as this topic was mentioned, the ladies immediately became excited, Yang Xianrong didn't know, looked at Sima Xuanhua, she was also at a loss, listening to them, only to know that there was a fortune teller in Luoyang City recently, not only the words were measured accurately, but also knew astronomy, geography, and was known as the Oriental Shuo of the Dynasty.

"That Mr. Feng," Le said: "Before the tooth keeper Zhang Han fortune telling, Zhang Han gave birth to three sons, all of them were only ten years old, to the youngest son, almost ten years old, and suddenly seriously ill, Mr. Feng went to see a circle, said that his family's old birthday star took the lives of his children and grandchildren, but Zhang Han couldn't kill the old lady, so that Mr. Feng killed a dog raised by the old birthday star, and used a few drops of dog blood to mix a large bowl of water for the child to take, and the child began to get better the next day, and now he has recovered. ”

Everyone was amazed, and another noble lady said: "My nephew went to test the word, and wanted to ask about marriage, and they said that they would see it within three days, and sure enough, on the third day, the matchmaker came to the door, and said that my nephew had a girl who belonged to him, and the two families hit it off, and the date was set." ”

This strange thing is one after another, Yang Xianrong smiled, but he kept doubting in his heart, the surname of the gentleman who measured the word was Feng, isn't the master back again? After he was kicked away by his father that time, he left Luoyang, and no one knows where he went, could it be that he returned to the capital because of her?

"Do you know the name of that gentleman?" Yang Xianrong asked.

"I don't know." Le Shi said: "Everyone calls him Mr. Feng, saying that he came from Chang'an and wanted to enter the court as an official, but he had no way, so he set up a stall on the street." After gradually becoming famous, many people wanted to find him as a staff member, but he refused all of them, just one sentence, to enter the court as an official and benefit the people. I heard that the King of Qi also went to him later and promised him an official position, but he also refused, saying that he was waiting for a destined person. ”

Yang Xianrong was so excited that he blurted out: "Where is he?" ”