A big mansion in the southwest of Liangmen in the capital, people who are familiar with this place know that this is the mansion of the famous king next to the palace in the capital, since the king resigned and left the capital, although there are usually people in and out of Jinxiang Mansion or Jinxiulou, but it is much more deserted than the Mayer Mansion of the year, however, careful people found that the door of this mansion suddenly became lively again in the past two days; From time to time, there are cars and horses stopping at the door of the house, and people come and go in an endless stream.

On this day, a group of people came to the door of the mansion, a tall man, jumped off his horse; The carriage behind him immediately stopped, the curtain of the carriage was lifted and a woman was carrying a two-year-old child, this man was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, he looked sturdy, bronzed skin, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and heroic spirit, he was wearing a round-necked narrow-sleeved robe, the round neck of the robe, revealing a semicircular white neckline, wearing trousers, high-waisted leather boots, a belt around the waist, and a quiver and a knife, the woman behind him was tall, with fair skin and delicate features, wearing a robe with a round neck and narrow sleeves, and a waist-length short jacket, two hands in the cuffs, foot on the round toe shoes,

They walked up to the pedestal of this mansion, and on either side of the gate stood two guards, and they stood at the front with an outstretched arm to stop them: "This is the prince's mansion, may I ask you two what is the matter." ”

The man and the woman looked at each other, thinking together: This kid next to the king is still really good, didn't he say that he resigned from the official, why did he suddenly become the prince Taibao, the man took the lead and said: "Then we are here to see the prince Taibao and trouble this official to give you a look." ”

The guards looked at it, these two people were Khitan clothes, although they knew that the king had contacts with envoys from various countries, but they had never seen anyone with their families holding their children: "The two are from the Khitan, I don't know if they have a document or a name on their body, my Wang Taibao is not in the house now......"

Before he finished speaking, the woman smiled and said, "Then may I ask if there is a manager surnamed Lu in the house?" ”

Lu Shenyan has been happy these days: the prince has come back and the protector has merit in adding the crown prince Taibao, although it is only an honorary title, and there is no actual authority, but a large amount of money and bounty to support such a large mansion and so many people is no problem, he is still happy, that is, the rouge tiger gave birth to a big fat boy for him, people are in good spirits at happy events, Lu Shenyan is like a full string, as soon as he heard that there were two Khitan people outside the door, and he wanted to find himself by name, he immediately jumped up and put down the work in his hand and ran out, Even the guards guarding the door didn't see Lu Shenyan so active, so they had to follow him and trot all the way to the door.

"Brother He, Miss Li, I guessed it was you, great." Lu Shenyan almost threw himself to the side of the impeachment bowl, grabbed the impeachment bowl's arm and said happily,

The impeachment bowl also smiled impressively: "Even if you kid remembers us, the gate of the son is getting more and more difficult to enter?!"

Lu Shenyan hurriedly said to the guards with a little blame: "I don't blame you this time, this is Mr. He in our house, he is the righteous brother of our Wang Taibao, you should pay attention next time." The guards claimed that it was, and after that, he ordered someone to bring the chariot and horse of the impeachment of Libo from the side alley into the side door of the mansion, and he accompanied the impeachment of Libo and his wife to the courtyard.

"Huo, this mansion is big enough." Impeachment Libo praised as he walked: "The son is really on the rise, the more he doesn't want to be an official, the faster he is promoted." ”

Lu Shenyan and He Libo walked side by side, he lowered his voice and said: "Ah, this is just a false name, put Gongzi here, and then you see the guards in this mansion, most of them are transferred from the forbidden army, and Gongzi will pass on to the emperor when he sees anyone, which is as comfortable as coming and going when he was in Mayer's Mansion." ”

Li Enxi followed behind them with the child in her arms, and when she heard Lu Shenyan say this, she couldn't help frowning slightly: "I said that we would stop and ask when we entered the door, it seems that our clothes are causing trouble." ”

Lu Shenyan waved his hand, "Don't get in the way, Gongzi is not afraid of this, the top and bottom of this mansion are our own people, besides, just rely on Gongzi to deal with people, and a few guards can't settle it." ”

They said that they had come to the front hall, Lu Shenyan instructed his family to arrange the residence of the impeached Libo and his wife, and ordered someone to beckon Cai Jing and others to come to see him, and the impeachment of Libo asked: "Where is the son, isn't he in the capital?" Lu Shenyan poured tea for them in person, and said: "Yes, Zhongzhen has changed his name to Zhao Xu, canonized the prince, our son has to go to the imperial city every day, saying that he is accompanying the prince, I see, the emperor always wants to see him......"

Lu Shenyan is right, the current Yingzong neither dares to let go of the king, nor is he willing to let go of the king, even the king himself sighed, even if it is the Ninety-Five Supreme, the king of the world, he does not have a good body, and he can't sit still no matter how big the country is, Song Yingzong can't even sit still now, he is lying on the sickbed most of the time, he can't speak, he has to write down everything, but how to write it if he can't sit still, Zhao Ji sighs anxiously every day, and the king really can't stand it,

On the day they came, there was an important thing for the king to enter the palace, and there were several royal carpenters in the east palace in the past few days, and they were building a bed according to the design of the king, and this bed was divided into two parts, and it was a bed when it was flat, but there was a horizontal plate under the upper part, a bracket, and a horizontal plate under it, and a few slots were dug at the bottom of the horizontal board, and the two planks of the bed surface of the bracket were supported in different slots to form different angles.

Seeing this weird-looking thing created, Zhao Ji circled around it several times: "Is this okay?" He pointed to it and asked the king, who was standing with his hands behind his back.

The corners of Wang's mouth rose slightly, and he said confidently, "Okay, you can dedicate this folding bed to your father, and I will keep him sitting and lying hard." ”

Han Qi, the prime minister in the emperor's bedroom, Zeng Gongliang, was standing in front of Yingzong's couch, waiting for the emperor to get up and give instructions.

They can't not worry about it, the emperor is sick like this, even if he can't go to the court, but he has to personally give instructions to the folds, these two old prime ministers come to the palace every day, at least stand for an hour, first report the content of the folds, which emperor can listen to the instructions, then stretch out his fingers, pointing to the dragon book case, this means that he can get up and write at that moment, all the reading, but also wait for the emperor to get up, when the emperor feels that it is okay, will let the eunuch help him up, put in front of the dragon book case,

Today's recital has just been read, the emperor has no intention of getting up, the crown prince Zhao Ji walked in, he followed the king, and there were four other guards, carrying the folding bed made of golden silk nanmu to the emperor's bedroom.

The emperor opened his eyes slightly, looking at the smile in front of Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji saw his father and the two prime ministers, bowed down and said, "Please move the throne and fold the dragon bed." ”

"Fold the throne dragon bed." Han Qi and Zeng Gongliang listened unbelievably, and when they looked back at Wang next to him, they guessed that it must be this kid's "masterpiece" again.

The four guards put the emperor on the dragon bed, although Yingzong Zhao Shu couldn't speak, but he was a little nervous in his heart, and said what is this kid next to the king going to do, he won't instigate the prince to murder the official family now, but seeing Zhao Ji's calm expression, looking at himself with a concerned look, knowing that the son is not as good as the father, presumably this child will not do anything big, he just lay down, suddenly felt that the bed moved, the two guards sat down and pushed up the bed board, the emperor hurriedly grabbed the side of the bed with his hand, but he didn't wait for him to understand, I sat up with the erection of the bed,

Zhao Ji said happily: "Father, is it comfortable to sit, do you want to be at a high point, or lower at a lower point." ”

Even Han Qi and Zeng Gongliang on the side were all surprised: "Zeng Xiang, this throne folding dragon bed, it's good, the emperor can sit if he wants, he can go if he wants, he doesn't have to toss hard." ”

The two of them couldn't help but look left and right around the bed, and Zeng Gongliang also smiled: "It's so good, but only the guards of the Imperial Forest Army around the emperor have the strength to support this board." ”

Yingzong sat up like this, but it was much easier than letting the eunuch support him, and his eyes that had been godless for many days were also bright, and he smiled a little more, that is, he was not physically strong now, otherwise he would definitely have to jump down to take a good look at what was going on with this throne folding dragon bed that could lie down and sit.

Seeing that the emperor was happy, the prince, the prime minister and others were even more happy, only the king didn't smile, he always felt that something was missing, and he suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Prince, you quickly order someone to build a low table, wide and narrow, narrower than this bed, just enough to be placed on the bed, and the wood is lighter, which can be used for the saint to write." ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Han Qi said panderingly: "I'll just say, I always feel that there is something less, so that it will be much easier for the Holy Lord to give instructions." ”

Yingzong nodded, the corners of his mouth moved slightly, and Zhong Zhen turned back to a little eunuch serving in the room and said, "Don't do it quickly." ”

The little eunuch went out in response, hurriedly ran towards the Internal Affairs Mansion, and almost bumped into someone as soon as he went out, and looked up to see that it was his master: "Yang Jian, what are you running in a panic." Chen Chengli, the chief eunuch, asked,

"Master, go and see, the prince and the prince have made a divine bed for the emperor, the emperor can lie down and sit, and now the prince has ordered me to quickly arrange for a table, so that the emperor can give instructions without moving it." Yang Jian said in one breath,

"Oh, it seems that the prince has done something that the emperor is happy with again, so you can do it quickly." Chen Chengli said and walked towards the emperor's bedroom,

Yang Jian took two steps, stood and retreated, pulled Chen Chengli and asked, "Master, you can arrange me to go to the East Palace, I found that the prince is just some strange things." ”

Chen Chengli glared at him: "You know that you are playful, when you can learn how to please the emperor, you will be out." ”

Yang Jian grimaced, turned around and went to the Internal Affairs Office again, Chen Chengli scolded: "Little rabbit cub, I almost knocked over the medicine." He dragged the imperial medicine in his hand and walked towards the emperor's bedroom, thinking that when the emperor drank the medicine and had spirits, he would talk to him and let the monk Keifu of Baoxiangyuan do the affairs of the monk.

Note: The decrees of the Northern Song Dynasty system came from the Ministry of Rites and Ancestral Hall, and the specific affairs were under the jurisdiction of Honglu Temple. The main tasks of the monks and nuns are to compile the household registration of monks and nuns, formulate the monastic system, the quota of monks and nuns, distribute degrees, appoint subordinate monks and abbots, preside over important temple building, statues and scripture translation activities, manage the daily life of monks and nuns and deal with illegal incidents.