Today, God is very good for the queen, it is a sunny and windless weather. Under the warm early winter light, Li You lazily entered the Dongcheng Yanle Hutong and met with several officials of the Ministry of Rites. There are also two Jiupin officials of the Teaching Workshop Division who also came out to agree, what is their official name? Li You is not clear and does not care.

Don't think crookedly, these adults really went to the Teaching Department to guide the work, at least in the morning, they were seriously appreciating the show. This is a must, there is no reason for this, and they don't dare to openly come to look for flowers and willows, but they are still a little weak-hearted, and they all don't wear official uniforms.

According to the plan, I will watch the new show in the morning first, and at noon will be a feast, and there will be few people who will be called to accompany him. Of course, after eating and drinking, drinking and eating, it is personal time. The early winter nights in the capital are cold, and a lot of nightlife is carried out in advance, you know.

The Ministry of Rites is a clear water yamen, and the source of income from the small treasury is not much, so it only relies on the two major items of the monk and Taoist department to sell the degree and the teaching department to sell the arts. In addition to undertaking the music and dance errands in the official ceremony, the teaching department can still take on private work. The powerful families in the capital have to ask the workshop department to perform for fun, of course, the performance fee cannot be less, and it is directly collected by the Ministry of Rites.

Therefore, the music and dance of the teaching workshop is the largest source of the small treasury of the Ministry of Rites, and the quality must be concerned. Besides, in addition to undertaking the ritual music, the teaching department also theoretically has an errand of performing arts and entertainment in the palace, and it is normal for adults to check the level.

About these officials of the Ministry of Rites heard that Master Li had vision and experience in this area, and was born in Suzhou Mansion, a famous fashion city in this dynasty with bustling gold powder, and it was also worth befriending, so they invited Zhu Bulang to come and inspect together. Zhu Bulang himself did not come, he entered the palace as an imperial prince to congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday.

Today, the Queen Mother celebrates her birthday, and the top Yale team went to the palace to respond, and the rest are the so-called folk music team, which is more suitable for everyone's appetite.

The Workshop Division arranged a warm room for several adults, and everyone sat around in a group, leaving an open space. Since then, there have been female families with the surname who take turns to perform in the house, and the male actors are not within the scope of today's review.

After watching a few songs and dances that symbolize the surname, everyone became dishonest, drinking a little wine, and at the same time teasing the keeper who entered the house to perform, which was called a prodigal wreckage. Whoever has an eye can of course stay by her side and continue to discuss art with her.

Li You had been nervous for several days before, and he needed to relax, and he vented more happily than others at this time.

A beautiful and fair-skinned female musician didn't go out after playing, but took the initiative to come to Li You, and Ying Ying bowed and said, "The slave family is willing to drive for Master Li today." ”

These women in the Teaching Workshop Division, some of them sell their bodies and some are unwilling. This female musician wears makeup, which is similar to a good family, and does not look like she is willing to sell herself. If she was self-respecting, Li You would not be forced without interest and quality, and said strangely at the moment: "Do you know me?" ”

"Master Li's name is like thunder, how can you not know it when you meet?"

Li You sighed to everyone with some feelings: "Recently, I realized a truth, where there is a woman who recommends a pillow for nothing, no matter what the reason, there must be another man among them." ”

Everyone laughed together, and someone asked, "What happened to Master Li and realized the truth?" Dare to elaborate and let me solve my doubts? ”

Someone else laughed and said: "Dare to ask the little lady, is Master Li's words accurate?" Who is your best friend? ”

The female musician pursed her lips, her face flushed, she clenched the corners of her clothes, and bowed her head in embarrassment, not knowing what to do.

At this time, someone outside the door probed his brain inside, and when he saw Li You inside, he came in and called, "Li Zhongshu is here, tell me to look for it for a while, and the Queen Mother summons you to enter the palace quickly to meet you!" ”

Everyone looked at it, it turned out to be a palace eunuch, and they couldn't help but be moved when they heard his edict. The queen mother said first, and the ministers said that they didn't have to join the congratulations today, but they specially came to summon Li You, and this favor was simply too enviable.

Li You, who was enjoying himself happily, suddenly heard this, and it was like being splashed with a basin of water on his head.

It's ruined! His heart was scratching, and it was difficult to come out to relax and have fun once, but there was such an accident. But when the Queen Mother summoned her, she still had to go, and she didn't even dare to show her dissatisfaction.

Everyone at the table smiled and said, "Congratulations to Master Li, there is no need to rush here." Today is still a long time, I will wait here for a banquet and drink, and wait for Lord Li to see the Queen Mother turn around, and come back in the afternoon to have fun together. ”

Li You arched his hand and took his leave, and when he went outside, he asked the inner supervisor of the decree: "This official will go back to the apartment first and change into official clothes?" ”

The inner eunuch looked up at the sky and urged: "It's not a short time to go out of the palace to look for you, so let's go like this, don't let the Holy Mother stay for a long time." Rest assured, my lord, I will tell you. ”

"Why did the Queen Mother summon this official?" Li You asked again.

The inner prison said as he walked: "Guide Chitose and choose thirty people to enter the congratulatory poem with Wu Yin. The Queen Mother Dayue, I heard that it was a fellow countryman who did it, so I want to summon you. ”

It turned out that Li You received the 1,608 cross poems "made" by the silver, which can be subdivided into 30 poems (paragraphs), which are the birthday poems that the Qing puppet emperor Fulin gave to "my filial piety" in the time and space of the previous life.

It is said that the historian said that Fulin had filial piety and wrote it himself, but Li You thought that it was a group of Han Chinese ministers who ghostwrote the knife. The reason is that there have been puppet emperors in this time and space, but there are no such poems, and eighty percent of them are due to the lack of national fortune and did not attract those literati.

It doesn't matter what the level of this 1,68 crosses is, but it's long, many, and touted, and that's enough. What's more, the position of the Empress Dowager Cisheng is similar to that of "I Xiaozhuang", and the meaning of the word is appropriate.

The eldest princess of Guide was exquisite, and after getting the poems copied and revised by Li You, she selected thirty palace maids in the palace with clear articulation, eight sentences each, and learned to recite them in Suzhou dialect. It is also thanks to the fact that the Wu language is close to the rhyme of the Tang people, and it is quite beautiful to read poetry.

This morning, the Cisheng Palace celebrates his birthday, and the 30 palace maids are dressed in Suzhou-style dresses, neatly ascending to the hall in the golden stone music, and take turns to recite the birthday poems in the Suzhou dialect.

The mother tongue is pleasant, and there is also a poem "The female Yao Shun is seeing again today, and Hua Zhu should only sing to Youzhai." "Kun Hou is the mother of the world, the palace is open and Jiale is the same in all directions", "The Kun Yi of the German Association has passed the calendar, and the thousands of years have come to many countries. "Cisheng Jiezhi and Tianqi, Yaoshui flies from Haixi. "Nine translations of the song of the Holy Mother, a thousand years of joy and joy in the Xi Dynasty" and other praise words, written the merits and majesty of the Empress Dowager.

It really won the pleasure of the Sacred Heart, and when I heard that it was made by Li You, a talented fellow villager, I wanted to summon the reward.

This can be tired of the eunuch, first went to Li You's house to find no one, only to hear the Li family said that they went to the Jiaofang Division. So the eunuch went to Dongcheng again, and it took a lot of effort to find Li You in the three alleys of Bensi, Yanle, and Goolan.

Knowing the cause and effect, Li You couldn't help but sigh with emotion, sure enough, the capable can do anything. His Royal Highness Chitose has always given him the impression that Feng Wei is dignified and decisive, but he is actually a good hand when he pats his ass, which is not much better than him.

I didn't mention it all the way, and finally arrived at the Cisheng Palace before noon, and sent the eunuch into the palace to reply to the decree, and Li You waited outside the palace. He looked around and found that there were some women with phoenix crowns and court clothes left outside the hall at this time, as well as their handmaids, who were also waiting to meet him.

It is said that today's women who are above the fourth grade in Beijing have to rush to the Cisheng Palace, and then enter the palace in batches to celebrate their birthdays. At this time, what Li You saw was probably the last batch.

Li You's foundation is shallow, and his range of communication is limited, so he has never seen any noble women. But he glanced curiously at the crowd a few times, and was no longer interested in looking. Most of these ladies are forty or fifty years old or above, and most of them are mediocre in appearance, and they are old, and Long Zhong really has nothing to look at.

He thinks about it, too, a wife is expensive with her husband, and her grade is also with her husband. Under normal circumstances, if the husband wins the emperor list and achieves more than four grades, how can he be forty or fifty years old, and a young man like himself is a minority after all. And the age of being a wife will not be too different, and she can survive until her husband is old before she can be a wife.

When the last group of women went in and came out after the second salute, Li You was finally summoned to enter the hall.

The queen mother in the palace is on the throne, but the nearest place is the son of heaven and the eldest princess of Guide waiting for a son and a daughter, and then the inner supervisor Gong'e. There are dozens of people on both sides of the hall, and it is estimated that they are all close relatives of Xungui, and all of them are in this pile of people.

Everyone looked relaxed, not a serious and solemn appearance, and there were even chatters with each other. At this moment, most of the formal ceremonies have been completed, and only waiting for the noon banquet is considered a time of relaxation.

Li You didn't dare to look at it more, he stepped forward and bowed four times, and at the same time did not forget to learn advanced experience, supplemented by Suzhou dialect to praise the saints.

Listening to Li You's full mouth, the eldest princess standing on the right hand side of the Queen Mother knew that he was doing the same as herself, and scolded in her heart, "It's really slippery." ”

The Empress Dowager Cisheng is about forty years old, with a graceful posture and a face like a full moon, which is amiable. She took a closer look at Li You, although he was dressed simply, he was long and jade, quite handsome, and very eye-catching. smiled at the left and right: "What an excellent young man, he can be my Suzhou people." ”

Hearing Li You's Wu language, and seeing his youthful romance, the Queen Mother suddenly recalled the old things when she lived in Suzhou when she was a child, and subconsciously asked Li You in Wu language: "If you don't return to your hometown for many years, are there still many lotus?" ”

Others don't know what the Queen Mother is talking about, but Li You understands. The unique lotus festival of Suzhou Mansion customs of the national dynasty is extremely prosperous, every year on June 24, the scholar girl travels to see the lotus, it is very lively, it is generally said that the lotus swing is located outside the gate in the east of the city, the queen mother is obviously asking these.

Li You replied: "In recent years, most people in the world have moved to Hufu or Shihu in the west of the city, but there are few tourists outside the gate. ”

"My family lives in the east of the city, and I still remember renting a boat with my father and brother when I was old, and I went out to visit the lotus flowers. The festive scenery is unforgettable, and it would be a pity if it declined. ”

"There are fewer people, but the scenery is purer. It is also a beautiful thing that the green mountains do not change the green water for a long time. Li You answered skillfully.

Listening to his elegant and interesting words, the Empress Dowager Cisheng continued to talk to Li You about the gossip of her hometown.

Li You has just been a pusher in Suzhou Mansion this year, and he has a lot of friends, knows a lot of miscellaneous new things, and his appearance is pleasing and neat. met a queen mother who suddenly had homesickness, and it was really the right medicine.

Most of the other people in the hall could only stare dryly, looking at the Queen Mother's approachable and homely relationship with Li Youla, and they couldn't say anything. Including the two brothers of the Queen Mother, they have been in Beijing for more than 20 years, how do you know what is the current situation in Suzhou Mansion? If the Qian Emperor Shang is here, he can also have fun, but unfortunately he has an identity and no grade, and he can go to the family banquet but can't enter today's ceremony.

It's going to be too showy... Don't look at the empress dowager's appearance of a kind aunt next door at the moment, but her identity is the empress dowager Bingzheng, who acts as the imperial power, and the Jinghe Dynasty has gone from fact to the nominal supreme ruler, and even Li You knows to compare it with "my filial piety". I don't know how many people in the palace want to curry favor with her, wouldn't Li You's situation make people red?

At that moment, there was a person who was about the same age as Li You, I don't know which family it was, and came out to ask: "Master Li entered the court in rough clothes, which is too rude." This is a disrespectful and disrespectful to the Virgin. ”

How can the crime of great disrespect be disturbed? Li You was dissatisfied but did not dare to be presumptuous, so he had to ask the Queen Mother for his guilt.

Before the queen mother could say anything, the eldest princess of Guide first smiled at the queen mother and said: "Look at Lord Li's green and Confucian crown, he looks like a scholar, and most of them have gone to meet friends with literature." These literati are talented people, and they get carried away as soon as they get together. ”

The Queen Mother nodded and said, "Previously, there was a report from the internal supervisor, saying that Li Youlai was in a hurry, which is not surprising. ”

It's too fake, Li You opened the corners of his eyes and glanced at Guide Chitose, almost couldn't believe that the smiling Chitose in front of him was the same person as she usually saw, and she had never seen this kind of look on her face at this time.

From this, it can be seen that Chitose also watches people cook... Li You said in her heart, but I am afraid that there is only one person in the world who is worthy of her words and smiles.

There are many people in the palace who are familiar with the surname of the eldest princess Yan Yibing, and they are all slightly surprised to hear that she is unusually exonerating Li You. But it's not surprising to think that Li You's poems have given her face today.

The Son of Heaven, who stood opposite the eldest princess of Guide, was still a little angry, why did his sister never discipline him leniently? Who knows if Li You went to eat, drink and have fun or read and study?

This thought lingered, and the Son of Heaven was angry, turned his head and asked the eunuch who had sent the message, "Where did you bring Master Li from?" ”

The eunuch didn't dare to bully the king, and besides, Li You didn't give him any benefits, so he couldn't hide it on his behalf, so he played truthfully: "The teacher is in the alley." ”

In the corner of Li You's eyes, Guide Chitose's amiable and unusual face suddenly cooled down, as if it had returned to normal in an instant.

Bad dish... After the night visit and deep talk of the eldest princess, when Li You could be sure that he had a place in the heart of His Royal Highness Chitose, on the one hand, he was complacent about his charm, but on the other hand, he was worried that the eldest princess's possessive and controlling arrogant surname would bring unexpected trouble to him. When Lin Juma went to drink flower wine, the tragic situation of being beaten on the street is still vivid.

Unexpectedly, less than two days later, this trouble was encountered by him. Li You felt like he was a soldier in Xiucai, and he couldn't explain it. You can say that you were invited by the Ministry of Etiquette to review the song and dance, but is it effective to defend the eldest princess like this?

Forget it, you can do whatever you like, Li You sighed in his heart.

(To be continued)