Coming out of the East Corner Gate of the Imperial City, just a hundred steps away, is the rich Dengshikou Chinese New Year's Eve Street: not far from the entrance of Chinese New Year's Eve Street, is the Shahao Hutong. Under the roots of the Chinese Internet Imperial City, it is either rich or expensive, and this Shahao Hutong is no exception, and one of the most Chinese New Year's Eve on the façade is the Zhang Mansion "When the dynasty is the Chinese New Year's Eve bachelor's mansion of Zhang Juzheng."

In the first year of Longqing, Zhang Juzheng entered the cabinet as the prime minister, and the original courtyard in Nancheng naturally had a share. So the trustee looked for this magnificent house, looked at it, and finally selected this Jiangnan garden-style building covering an area of more than ten acres and a rare Jiangnan garden-style building in Beijing. The price is naturally expensive, but Zhang Ge is in charge of the country's money bag, and he can still get tens of thousands of taels of silver. After buying the yard, he repaired and tidied it up on Chinese New Year's Eve according to his happy love, and Longqing moved in two years, but he didn't realize that five years had passed.

This is the first time Zhang Juzheng has come back after being banned for more than ten days. On Chinese New Year's Eve, a Zhang family mansion became silent from the moment he entered the door. Because Zhang Juzheng has extremely strict rules at home, deep and introverted, especially in the recent period, his career has not been smooth, and he has been suppressed everywhere, and the people in the house have not seen a trace of his smile for several months. Therefore, whether it is his stepfamily, son, butler, or subordinate, they all become fearful, lest they touch the moldy head of the old man on Chinese New Year's Eve.

On this day, Zhang Juzhengcuo arrived home after finishing his official business, and he had already passed the afternoon, took off his official uniform and hat, changed into a Yanju ink-colored lake silk robe, sat down in the living room in the backyard, and accepted the sons' invitations in turn with his wife...... Zhang Juzheng has a total of six sons, Jing Xiu and Hei Xiu on Chinese New Year's Eve, who have already been admitted to Xiucai, some Mao Xiu and Jian Xiu have also entered the Guozi Supervision Book, as well as Yun Xiu of the East Palace Companion, and two retreats from the step-room, and the family can be prosperous.

Although Zhang Juzheng is busy with state affairs, once he is free, he will interrogate his sons' homework, and if he is not motivated, he will definitely serve the family law. Fortunately, recently, his sons knew that he was not in a good mood and "did not dare to commit crimes against the wind", and Zhang Juzheng himself was also a little absent-minded, so this time they all escaped.

After a quiet dinner, Zhang Juzheng said to his son on Chinese New Year's Eve: "After eating, take my younger brothers to the good life and warm book, and forbid slackness for a moment." ”

Jing Xiu hurriedly swallowed the food in his mouth, stood up and said respectfully: "Obey, father...... y

"Well............ "Zhang Juzheng nodded his head, then got up and left the table, and his sons all stood up to see each other, and only when he went out a long way did he dare to sit down and continue eating" and gradually began to frolic.

When Zhang Juzheng returned to the study, You Qi had already lit a stove of sandalwood and made a pot of fragrant tea for him, knowing that this was the master's meditation time, so he came in, You Qi gave a salute and retreated silently.

Zhang Juzheng sat cross-legged on the futon, adjusted a comfortable posture, closed his eyes and meditated for a while, and only after his mind was free of distractions and his mind was clear, he turned his mind back to the changes of the past few days.

The court situation during this period of time, just like the day in June and July, changes and changes, and it is the most unfortunate target for him, which makes Zhang Juzheng breathless............ The first is that the emperor turned out to be better", which is diametrically opposed to Feng Bao's prediction; Then Gao Gong and Shen Mo didn't fight together, but ...... in unison...... This is from the time when the two of them visited the Qianqing Palace together, and they admonished the emperor together, which sent a clear signal to the outside world, we will advance and retreat together!

Together, these two pieces of news "In Zhang Juzheng's view, it is an unsolvable dead end." Now don't laugh to the end, even trying to survive in the cracks, there is no hope"... Because since Gao Gong has taken care of the silence, he will definitely resume his offensive against himself. If there is no miracle, failure is "almost a certainty"

Thinking of this, Zhang Juzheng couldn't help frowning tightly and sighed deeply, "... is really too passive, he is congenitally deficient, and he is implicated in Xu Jie's case" It seems even more stormy. For today's plan, it can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and it is impossible to make it possible.

While I was thinking, there was a knock on the door outside.

Zhang Juzheng frowned, and said angrily: "What's the matter?!" ”

"Master, Xu Jue is here." It's the voice of You Qi.

"Let him in." Zhang Juzheng was unhappy in his heart, this Xu Jue has always been in contact with You Qi, what did he do when he ran to his house?

After a while, You Qi led the two people back and forth, and said with excitement on his face: "Master, look who is coming!" ”

"Grandpa Feng!" Zhang Juzheng saw the person beside Xu Jue clearly, and was immediately taken aback on Chinese New Year's Eve, and quickly got up to greet him: "Why is it here?" I saw that under the orange light, Feng Bao was dressed in a green hat and a beard on his face. He pulled his beard, waved it at Zhang Juzheng, and said with a smile: "I can't think of it." ”

"I can't think of it, I can't think of it." Zhang Juzheng quickly changed his mood, and while politely giving up his seat, he said with a smile: "You must know that if you are here in person, I will naturally go out to greet you, which is really rude!" ”

Feng Bao was not polite, leaned over and sat down and said, "I told you like this, so as not to have too many people and spread the word." He smiled and said, "Get up, I've known each other for so long, this is the first time I've come to my uncle's mansion on Chinese New Year's Eve, and I still don't know how to come, and I'm empty-handed, it's me who should be rude." ”

At this time, You Qi served fruit tea, and then pulled Xu Jue to the outside world. Only Zhang Feng and the others were left in the study, and Zhang Juzheng poured tea for Feng Bao and said: "Brother Yongting came to visit late at night, can't he just recognize the door?" ”

"Hehe......" Feng Bao smiled, his face could not hide his anxiety and said: "Uncle Chinese New Year's Eve brother is really calm, and he can still burn incense and drink tea here, our family is so anxious that they become ants on a hot pot!" He put the teacup aside and said: "I'm here to ask for advice, it's been half a month, and I can't wait for a reply, so our family has to take the risk of coming to the door in person." "After that secret meeting of the Wenhua Palace, Gao Gong took away his right to teach the prince on the grounds that Zhang Juzheng was busy with affairs, and replaced it with silence, so Feng Bao hasn't seen Zhang Juzheng these days.

"Brother Yongting Shao'an is not impatient" Zhang Juzheng said slowly: "I naturally take the matter of the reminder to heart, but what I designed before is the situation that the Holy Body has been uncertain, and now that the Holy Body has improved, I naturally have to think about it again." ”

"Uncle Chinese New Year's Eve, I told you that the emperor is terminally ill." Feng Bao said impatiently: "Since it is a terminal illness, how can it be so easy?!" ”

"But the Eucharist has clearly improved." Zhang Juzheng was "secretly surprised" that Feng Bao had always insisted that the emperor was terminally ill, and he didn't even dare to think about it.

"The Holy Communion is getting better" Feng Bao laughed, and his eyes became more and more suspicious: "But the country is easy to change, and the temperament is difficult to change, the emperor knows his illness, and the first thing to ban is intercourse, but he has only insisted on it for more than ten days, and he can't help it, last night, the emperor slept with two prostitutes again!" One by one, Zhang Juzheng's pupils constricted, and he pursed his mouth and couldn't speak. Emperor, what's wrong? Do you have to die?

"Uncle Chinese New Year's Eve, don't hide it." Feng Bao finally said what he was most afraid of, and said: "In the past few months, the emperor has been asking Meng Hebei to inquire about visiting Nu'er Huahua...... Meng He refused to be restrained by me, so he was naturally willing, but he couldn't find any evidence. After a pause, he said hatefully: "But the tall beard gave him a trick and asked him to start with the Qianqing Palace's steward brand Li Quan. When the emperor woke up this time, he didn't know what kind of fun soup he had poured into him, and he really handed Li Quan over to him for interrogation......" "" looked forward to Zhang Juzheng and said: "Brother Taiyue, that matter is not hidden from Li Quan, if he can't hold on, bite me out...... But I fell for the high-bearded jiān scheme! ”

, not self-defeating? , Zhang Juzheng said depressedly in his heart: , In order to please Concubine Li, as for sinking the slave into the well? , but he still said with a serious face: "Brother Yongting, don't worry, I echo in my heart, and I am connected to the same fate" If it falls, I can't stand, so the matter is my business, don't think about it. ”

"It's good to understand......" Feng Baoxin's clever words are this benefit, and they don't have to say ugly words. Gritted his teeth and said: "I will not sit idly by, waiting for others to clean up, Brother Taiyue had better help me think of a rut, if there is no rut, I will also fight him to die!" "When he said this" Feng Bao's feminine face turned out to be murderous, who eunuch has no masculinity?

"Let me think about it," let me think about ............," Zhang Juzheng said slowly.

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"Of course, Meng He's kind of idiot who doesn't wipe his shit is not only a little sore in my hands" Feng Bao said: "What's more, the noble concubine is also on my side, and at the critical moment, she will not abandon me to the lost arm." ”

"To the concubine." Zhang Juzheng said softly: "We have been ignoring one person. ”

"Who?"

"Queen." Zhang Juzheng said in a deep voice: "The emperor doesn't see the concubine, but there is no reason not to see the queen, let the concubine find the queen to assist and make peace." With a light sigh, he said: "Now our passivity comes from three points, one is the emperor's distrust, the second is Gao Gong's hostility, and the third is Gao Shen's alliance, we can't match." ”

"Yes." Feng Bao said.

"Knowing the problem, you have to solve it one by one, for Brother Yongting, the most important thing is to restore the relationship with the emperor, and at worst, let the emperor and the concubine restore the relationship." Zhang Juzheng said leisurely: "Only in this way can we be invincible, even if we lose in front of us, after the crown prince ascends the throne in the future, we can come back to the ashes." After a pause, he said: "And the pass is on the queen." ”

"How?" Feng Bao felt as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.

"It depends on how hard the concubine Niangniang usually works?" Zhang Juzheng said slowly: "If you can move the concubine Niangniang, go and ask the queen to assist you, at least let the two of you meet." The emperor has always had soft ears, and the concubine Niangniang seized the opportunity to reconcile with the emperor, so that we can be invincible. ”

"Yes......" Feng Bao nodded and said, "This is the right thing to do." "As for how difficult it is, that's the matter of the concubine.

"Hostility to Gao Gong" Zhang Juzheng said: "I have been doing it slowly, as for the father-in-law's side, it is okay to obey the soft, he is a person who eats soft and does not eat hard, even if he can't eliminate his hostility, let him not rush to start "............"

"This ......" Feng Bao smiled bitterly and said, "Yes." ”

"This has to be. Endure the calm for a while, take a step back, the sea is wide and the sky is high, Brother Yongting! Zhang Juzheng said in a deep voice: "In addition, the alliance between Shen Gao and Shen Gao must be broken, and they must be allowed to fight, so that we can survive in the cracks." ”

"They've just reconciled, and they're still getting hot." Feng Bao frowned and said, "Whatever can be demolished." ”

"They came together under the threat of the Holy Bow." Zhang Juzheng firmly believes in the old saying "one mountain does not tolerate two tigers", he believes that Gao Gong and Shen Mo, these two equally ambitious men, cannot really coexist: "Now the emperor is good again, at least in general, the minds of the two will naturally change, and only one introduction is needed to make their good relationship disappear." Looking at Feng Baodao: "Shen Mo is thoughtful, he doesn't eat oil and salt, and he doesn't have a good start, so we still focus on Gao Gong's body." ”

"Yes, the high-bearded man has a quick temper, and it's good to be gullible." Feng Bao smiled and said, "Who is he not pitted?" Thinking that he was going to curry favor with Gao Gong, he felt excited and said: "Uncle Chinese New Year's Eve, let's stay up, compared to the day they get out, they always want to return the original with interest!" ”

"Yes, stay in the green mountains without worrying about running out of firewood." Zhang Juzheng said: "As long as my father-in-law has this heart, we can get through it, and there will be a day when it will be spread." ”

The two talked for a while, Feng Bao got up to say goodbye, and Zhang Juzheng was sent to the Yuemen Cave, so as not to attract people's attention, he turned back.

"1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 The Chinese New Year's Eve in the palace has an outer house, and it seems that they marry a wife and come back with a child to raise. Feng Bao also has a foreign house, and he also has a righteous son, but there is no woman, his house is a place where he strokes the piano and paints, and cultivates his self-cultivation, how can he let those mundane things be disgraced?

His righteous son is Xu Jue, on weekdays, Feng Bao lives in the palace, and Xu Jue takes care of it in the house, always ready for him to come back to live. But it was so late today, Feng Bao really didn't have the mood to tune the piano and read the Golden Sutra, so he changed into a robe at home, and sat on the soft couch covered with brocade silk cotton cushions.

Xu Jue brought warm water from a copper basin, gently took off Feng Bao's shoes and socks, and carefully washed his feet.

Feng Bao squinted his eyes and made a slight noise, Xu Jue thought he was asleep, and was about to wipe his feet with a cotton towel, but he heard him say quietly: "Of the two we visited today, which one is reliable?" Feng Bao didn't tell Zhang Juzheng that his house was actually his second stop