Xiahou Fang, Lingyun Hall.

As soon as Xiahou Ba came back, he immediately ordered the core figures in the valve to be gathered.

After a while, Zhu Xiuyi, Mo Luo, Xiahou Li, Xiahou Lei and Xiahou Bushu and others came one after another. Xiahou Ba looked at the people sitting in the left and right columns, frowned and asked, "It's not broken?" Still sick yet? ”

Xiahou did not break this smartest son of Xiahou Valve, but he was sick with tuberculosis, and he was in pain in winter. A while ago, I helped Xiahouba in Zhongshu Province for a few days, but when I came back, I couldn't afford to get sick, and my cough kept all night.

"Yes, father." Xia Hou replied softly without being hurt: "I just went to see it, and the third brother couldn't say anything about coughing, so I didn't let him come." ”

"Alas, okay......" Xiahou Ba sighed, and didn't force it. He looked at the crowd and expressed the doubts in his heart.

"At today's banquet, some of you heard the emperor's nonsense, some of you didn't hear it, the old man will say it again, everyone will take a closer look at it, and see what kind of medicine he sells in this gourd?" Xiahou Ba stroked his beard like a steel needle, his tiger eyes flashed, and he carefully explained what happened earlier.

"Oh, big brother, this is a good thing!" When Xiahou Lei heard this, he shouted with joy on his face: "Haven't we been worried all the time, and we don't have a righteous name?" Now Huangfu Yu wants to give you the title of king and nine tin, and he also wants to crown you as the big mound Zai, isn't this someone sending a pillow if you are sleepy? ”

"Then why did he send this pillow?" Xiahou Ba was actually very excited, but the more he was like this, the more bottomless he was in his heart, lest the Initial Emperor had some traps waiting for him.

"Yes, since the attack in the crypt, we have taken the initiative to stop fighting, and the recent actions have only focused on the Lu family's father and son, and there has been no direct pressure on Huangfu Yu, how could he be so without warning, tantamount to raising the white flag and surrendering?" Xiahou Li also felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what the original emperor's plan was.

Everyone turned their attention to Zhu Xiuyi, hoping that this mastermind could give everyone guidance.

Zhu Xiuyi shook the folding fan lightly, and said with a slight smile: "According to the student's humble opinion, the lord doesn't have to be too sad, Huangfu Yu's move is just delaying time." ”

"Procrastinating for time? Why did you say that, sir? Xiahou Ba looked at Zhu Xiuyi puzzled.

"When is the lord's birthday?" Zhu Xiuyi asked softly.

"June 18." Xiahou Ba replied casually with a strange face.

"It's seven months until June 18." Zhu Xiuyi said with a smile: "If Huangfu Yu really has the heart to add an official to the lord, he should do it immediately, why should he put it in more than half a year?" He pulled this long line of words, not a delaying tactic, what is it? ”

"What does the gentleman mean is that he drew a big cake for the old man, so that I can see that I can't eat it, so I can only be anxious?" Xiahou Ba said with some retrospectiveness: "Since the old man is anxious and wants to eat this cake, then he has to keep the cook who makes the cake until then?" ”

"Hmm." Zhu Xiuyi nodded and said, "Huangfu Yu is not just trying to stabilize us temporarily, he is likely to have a big deal to plan during this time." If the lord wants to get the benefits he promised, there is no way to object to him doing this, otherwise he can turn his face and deny it. ”

"Hey, this kid is really a thief......" Xiahou Ba nodded again and again, and laughed at Zhu Xiuyi: "It's a pity, the road is one foot high, the magic is one foot high, and Mr. has already seen through his little Jiujiu." ”

"So, what exactly is he up to?" Xiahou Li saw that the eldest brother seemed to understand, but he was still covered with clouds and mountains, so he had to ask.

"What else could be the matter?" Xiahou Ba sneered and said: "Recently, he has frequently promoted Huangfu Xuan and suppressed my three grandsons, and he has already exposed the fox's tail. ”

"Ah, that's the case...... "Now not only Xiahou Li, but even Xiahou Lei understands." It turned out that the emperor wanted to use these rewards to exchange for the position of the prince of Huangfu Xuan! ”

"It's not a loss for this deal......," Xiahou Li touched his chin and said with some emotion: "He, the emperor, is not useful, so the crown prince is even more useless." If the eldest brother becomes Otsuka Zai, it will be a real emperor with great power, and we will make a lot of money from this one in and one out. ”

"!" Xiahou Ba took a sip and said proudly: "Second brother, you are too real." With my Xiahou Valve's current status, how can I let Huangfu Yu lead me by the nose? He said to do business and do business? I don't promise! ”

"What does the eldest brother mean ......" Xiahou Li looked at Xiahou Ba, and the eyes of everyone in the ancestral hall also looked at Xiahou Ba.

"Hey, hey." I only heard Xiahou Ba laugh and said: "I want to add Jiuxi, and I will also be the big mound Zai, but I will not give up the position of the crown prince to Huangfu Yu!" ”

"Big brother is saying that we want everything he gives, but we don't give what he wants?" Xiahou Li's mouth opened slightly, and he looked surprised.

"Yes, the old man just wants to eat and wipe clean, look at his Huangfu Yu's little arms and legs, what can he do with the old man?" Xiahou Ba laughed loudly, and everyone laughed together, and the laughter could overturn the ancestral hall.

"This time, the emperor is going to lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot." Infected by the atmosphere of the Xiahou Lord, Master Moro also rarely made a joke.

"Well said the master!" Xiahou Ba bowed his head and said: "Huangfu Yu Xiao'er still wants to play with the old man? This time, he had to pay the bottom of the money. ”

"But father," Xiahou frowned slightly, and raised his doubts: "In the next year, the emperor Bacheng is going to mention this Laoshzi matter, what if we have too much trouble with him, and he turns his face and doesn't admit it?" ”

"It's okay, just use the procrastination trick." Zhu Xiuyi is holding the wisdom bead, as if there is nothing in the world that can stump him. "Huangfu Xuan is...... February 2 born people. As soon as his birthday passes, he will be twenty-two, and the nerds in the Ministry of Rites will definitely bring up the old matter again and ask for his coronation. ”

The crown ceremony is a men's coming-of-age ceremony, according to the etiquette system, the man is 'twenty and crowned', that is to say, when the man is twenty years old, the coming-of-age ceremony is held, and he officially becomes an adult. What's more, generally speaking, most of the sons of heaven and princes held a crown ceremony at the age of nineteen to officially start their political activities.

But Huangfu Xuan will soon be twenty-two years old, but because Xiahou Ba is in the way, he has not been crowned. If you don't crown it, you can't be crowned, if you don't crown it, you can't open a palace, and if you don't open a palace, you can't get real power. It was Huangfu Xuan who came here for a while, and he had been studying in the inner study hall in embarrassment, and he couldn't get a formal errand.

To tell the truth, Xiahou has done too much in this matter, so that the ministers of the DPRK and China have a lot of complaints. In particular, the officials of the Ministry of Rites, under the instruction of Wei Kang, will try their best to make a mess for a while, wanting to hold a crown ceremony for Huangfu Xuan. It's a pity that he is pressed down by Xiahou Ba with various excuses every time.