Chapter 101: To the Royal Wedding
At this moment, what made him most uncomfortable for Xu Yuan was not that he couldn't catch all those criminals now, but that the emperor treated him coldly. As the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, since he promised Xu Yuan that he would catch the real culprit, he was really annoyed by his deliberations. The big wedding is approaching, and what he needs now is stability, but it is obvious that Xu Yuan does not understand this truth.
After three days and two heads, Zhao Qian really had a headache when he saw it, and he couldn't say some things clearly, and he didn't understand it. Hube Shangshu walked slowly into Dali Temple on crutches. When the directors of the Hanlin Academy saw their old dean coming, they all went over to ask for warmth, and surrounded him in the middle.
Xu Yuan sat and drank sullen wine in the yamen, and since he came back from his trip to Baoding, his excerpts have never responded, and no one paid attention to him when he entered the palace to face the saint. Now he is no longer the favorite minister that everyone envies, and when he was half drunk, he looked up and saw that it was the head of the household. He smiled with a wrinkle on his face: "Lord Xu is so born Yaxing, and the wine is accompanied by the beautiful scenery of a good day." ”
"My lord said and laughed, Dali Temple is so desolate now, what is the beautiful scenery to say?" "Lord Xu is in his youth now, isn't it a good day, and now Dali Temple is full of talents, isn't it a beautiful scenery?" Xu Yuan chuckled and shook his head: "Yes, there are many talents, but if you can't show your talents here, isn't it a waste of talents?" ”
"My lord, it's not that you are not the master, but that the current situation is limited, and you must forbear." Xu Yuan was noncommittal, and then took a drink. "Your Majesty has ignored me now, and those folds have sunk into the sea." "Now that His Majesty's wedding is approaching, there can be no trouble at this time."
"Do you know how miserable that Yang died? If the real culprit is not punished, how can the law be corrected? "Xu Yuan drank a little too much, had a headache, and muttered to himself on the desk." No matter how tragic the Yang family died, the law of the country will always find the real culprit, you are not a trivial matter of catching a quick and simple to find out the neighbors fighting, you are the Dali Siqing, the official of the Great Zhou Zheng Sanpin. You're not facing any ordinary street hooligan. ”
"You don't have to say it, I understand what you mean, don't worry, I won't be in trouble when His Majesty gets married." The old man smiled, thinking he had got the answer he wanted. "It's cold, don't drink here alone, and put a stove." Xu Yuanmu sent him away.
Liqiu is simply determined to make meritorious service this time, but now the holy decree of commendation has not come down for a long time, and the criminal does not know what to say, if His Majesty gets married and has an amnesty for the world, wouldn't it be a waste of work? His mood was not much lighter than Xu Yuan's. "My lord, what should we do now?"
The two looked at each other without saying a word, sighing silently. Xu Yuan felt that Dali Temple was too boring, so he took Liqiu out to eat and drink. In the cold winter, two people walked on the street, and they didn't know where to go for a while. Walking all the way, to a chaos stall, Xu Yuan asked, "Is it cold?" Liqiu drooped his head: "Spring will start soon, and it will be warm at the beginning of spring." ”
"Your Majesty is getting married tomorrow, and all the civil and military officials are rehearsing, why did the two of us run out?" Xu Yuan felt extremely relaxed when he thought about this, he just felt that it was enough to do his own thing before, but now he felt that being lazy was also a comfortable thing. "I miss my dad, my lord, is my dad coming back?"
"Lord Ren shouldn't be able to come back, and it's not very easy on the northern side." Liqiu still drooped his head, and Xu Yuan asked, "What's wrong?" Why do you ask? "From childhood to adulthood, where my father was, my mother was there, and they were home wherever they went, but if I stayed in Gyeonggi by myself, I didn't have a home."
But no, Xu Yuan nodded: "Your parents are extremely affectionate and enviable, but don't be too sad, adults are valued by His Majesty, and they can only display their ambitions for many years, and you can't blindly feel that they don't care about you." Liqiu saw the chaos shop, "My lord, it's cold in winter, let's eat hot chaos." ”
The two sat down, and Xu Yuan asked, "Do you have a favorite girl?" Liqiu smiled: "What do you say, I take you as an example in everything, you haven't married a wife, how can I be in a hurry?" It's really a doll that can't be opened, Xu Yuan sighed in his heart: "I shouldn't marry another wife, it's good to be alone and have no worries." ”
"The former queen has a lot of manners, and I am fortunate to have seen it." Xu Yuan looked at the desktop in a daze, and the appearance of looking at herself when she died appeared in her mind. "If you don't say it, I'll almost forget what she looks like." "Will you forget?" "Yes, I used to think that everything would be fine as long as she was around, but I was fine when she wasn't there."
"Then why should I marry according to you? Being bullied by my mother like my dad for a lifetime? Yin and yang like yours at the ends of the world? It's not a good deal to think about it. Liqiu said very seriously. You can't think about everything to be cost-effective, then if that's the case, it's not cost-effective to do anything, it's better to be an official than to do business, but you see that businessmen can't even participate in the imperial examination. ”
"Speaking of being officials, Lord Xu, are the two of us still in a high position?" Liqiu buried his head, snorted and ate a pot of chaos cleanly, touched his stomach and burped and said, "My lord, it's time to go to the rehearsal, look at you, isn't this an afterthought?" He dragged it up and was still snoring chaotic Xu Yuan: "Eat the king, worry about the king." Let's go, Master Xu. ”
The shopkeeper chased out: "Two officials, you didn't give money!" Liqiu turned around and threw him some silver: "Keep the account first, and I'll be back in two days!" The two got into the carriage and headed all the way to the palace. The emperor's wedding, the whole country celebrated, Zhao Qian gave a lot of gifts, but there was no amnesty for the world. The officials were puzzled, and the six departments wrote to him to ask for a few more gifts.
Zhao Qian was noncommittal and never replied. The wedding scene was huge, the emperor took her home with red makeup, and Lan Yi also sat on the queen's sedan chair, and walked into the palace in the envious eyes of many girls. The royal wedding etiquette is cumbersome, although it has been practiced dozens of times by Roy, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, there are still people who drop the chain halfway, for example, when the emperor rewards the lord, there is a lord who dares to be absent.
After several confirmations, Roy found the duke who was absent from the emperor's wedding - Li Xuekai. The news was not handed to the emperor at that time, and after the ancestor worship, the wedding officially began, and Zhao Qian did not have time to pay attention to who came and who did not. But Xu Yuan is different.