Chapter 36: Attendance
The first rays of sunlight in the early morning shone in through the hollow on the window, and the sunlight just covered Ning Shaoqiu's bed, which seemed a little warm.
Ning Shaoqiu opened his eyes, sat up full of regret, and muttered indistinctly: "This sunshine doesn't belong to me after all!" β
Before crossing, Ning Shaoqiu's favorite is this kind of sunlight, find an air cushion chair to sit on the playground, the lazy sun shines on his body, he can lie down for a day, as comfortable as he wants.
But at this moment, he even seems a little luxurious to sleep lazily, and he really responds to such a sentence: the higher the position, the greatest responsibility.
After dressing, Ning Shaoqiu opened the door, at this time the maid had already prepared toiletries and water, which was requested by Ning Shaoqiu himself, there was always a maid who came in to serve him to change clothes when he was sleeping, which made him very embarrassed, and then he asked the maid to prepare the necessary toiletries and put them on the small table at the door to do other things.
The ancients naturally could not have toothpaste for washing, but they also had other substitutes, such as soaking willow branches in water, putting them in the mouth and chewing, after the willow branches were bitten open, the willow fibers inside would be like small wooden combs for mouth cleaning, there is a word called "morning chewing tooth wood", which is derived from this way of brushing. Of course, Ning Shaoqiu, as the king of Ming, can now use a toothbrush, although it can't be compared with modern toothbrushes, but it has finally come out with a prototype, plus the "ancient toothpaste" made with Poria cocos and other medicinal materials, it can be regarded as a reluctantly modern oral cleaning.
After brushing his teeth and washing, Ning Shaoqiu deliberately put on a formal suit today, that is, the court dress he would only wear when he went to the court - the sable was on the collar and sleeves, and a python-shaped pattern was shown on the front and back of both shoulders, and then there were six python patterns with five-colored clouds between them.
It is said that the Buddha relies on gold clothes, and people rely on clothes, Ning Shaoqiu, who is already extraordinary, suddenly looks a little majestic after wearing it, and there is even more royal majesty in his conversation.
"Whew!" Ning Shaoqiu exhaled lightly and tried to calm down his mood, although he had seen a lot of ordinary people before, but this time almost all the people in the city would come to watch, and being stared at by so many people, it was inevitable that there would be some emotional ups and downs in his heart.
"Ming, His Royal Highness King Mingγγγγγγ" During this period, Li Yin'er suddenly came in, and looked at Ning Shaoqiu in front of him and was stunned for a moment, isn't this the prince who will come out of the painting?
"Phew! What was I thinking! Li Yin'er hurriedly shook her head, but two blushes still appeared on both sides of her cheeks unconsciously, and she praised: "His Royal Highness King Ming, you are so handsome today!" β
The word handsome was also taught to Li Yin'er by Ning Shaoqiu after he said it once, but he didn't expect this girl to really be able to learn and use it.
Ning Shaoqiu said without modesty: "That is, I am also a dignified eighth prince, how can I be handsome!" β
Seeing that Ning Shaoqiu was so immodest, Li Yin'er immediately gave him a roll of his eyes, and said, "Look at your unorthodox appearance, the Feng Mansion Lord and Yu Sibao are already waiting for you in the main hall, hurry up!" β
Ning Shaoqiu nodded, walked towards the main hall, as soon as he entered the main hall, Feng Yanming and the others, who were sitting and chatting, immediately got up and saluted, looking at Ning Shaoqiu's appearance was extremely shocked, he had not seen Ning Shaoqiu wearing court clothes before, there was no one in the local area, at that time he still felt pity for this court clothes, but now seeing Ning Shaoqiu wearing court clothes again, he really felt that he was lofty and talked extraordinary.
Originally, if he just thought that Ning Shaoqiu had a good skin, then this time he knew what kind of person the so-called humble gentleman belonged to.
"What's wrong? Why are you all stunned? Ning Shaoqiu felt a little strange being stared at by these big men, and hurriedly coughed heavily.
Several people came back to their senses, and they all hugged their fists again to accuse: "His Royal Highness King Ming, the ministers are offended!" β
Ning Shaoqiu waved his hand: "Where is the offense again, this king is not a stingy person, it's just a little embarrassed, okay, are the things that should be prepared ready?" β
Ning Shaoqiu looked at Feng Yanming, and Feng Yanming nodded: "Everything has been arranged!" β
"Okay!" Ning Shaoqiu looked at the other people and said, "Since it's okay, then let's go!" β
Immediately, the group gathered around Ning Shaoqiu and walked to the east of the market.
They obviously came a little early, at this moment there were only a few people on the edge of the platform, all of them were flat-headed people, and when they saw King Ming's troops coming, they all took a few steps back respectfully, with fear on their faces.
Seeing this, Ning Shaoqiu didn't rush to walk directly to the platform, but walked in front of those people and greeted them cordially: "How many of you came early enough today?" β
Several people laughed and didn't dare to respond.
Ning Shaoqiu didn't say anything, and said directly to Wei Chigong: "Go buy some breakfast for these villagers, let them wait while eating!" β
Wei Chigong agreed, and hurriedly went, and the people were also warm in their hearts when they heard this, they were originally anxious to take a look at Ning Shaoqiu's appearance, but now they suddenly felt that they were really right to come earlier, and at the same time, they also believed more in the rumors about King Ming's righteousness and trustworthiness in Lizhou City.
At the same time, people from the three major families began to rush to the east of the market, and each family's clothing was engraved with their own family names, which was quite recognizable.
There is also an interesting story about the origin of this costume, there are many bandits outside the city of Lizhou, which has brought a lot of trouble to the major families doing business in the city, because this group of guys especially likes to rob the caravan of the squire and tyrants, especially sometimes they know that it is the caravan of the big family, they still eat it correctly, and the major families have no way to take them, because people just bite to death and don't know so they rob it.
Fortunately, there are talented people in the big family who have come up with a way: engrave their family's surname in a conspicuous place on their clothes, and inform the people in the cottage that the people who wear this costume are the people of our family, if it is robbed again, then don't blame us for turning our faces!
As soon as this method came out, sure enough, the family's caravan never encountered bandits again. Other big families saw that this method was useful, and they followed suit, and gradually, this kind of clothing engraved with their own surnames became the common clothes in the big family.
The people of several major families rushed to the open space on the east side of the market with their respective silver taels, of course, the platform has been set up at this moment, and there are four big characters on it - fund-raising meeting.
Looking at the stage, in the middle, a young man with a lofty spirit was sitting on the Taishi chair with his eyes closed, and two people beside him, one with a hooked nose and a beard, were standing left and right with iron armor and silver helmets, motionless like a gatekeeper.