CHAPTER XXXII
Gu Nanye walked in and looked at the few lines on the table, and asked, "Haven't written it out yet?" ”
Qu Muge was troubled: "I haven't figured out how to end it yet." Master Hou, have you read my previous draft? Can I send out the story I wrote this time? ”
Gu Nanye said: "If you want to tell the world about the crime of the concubine, you can naturally send it, but just send it out like this, I'm afraid it won't have much effect, if you agree, I will borrow your words for a while." ”
"What is it for?" Qu Muge was extremely surprised, and looked at Gu Nanye with big grape-like eyes.
Since the court meeting on June 25 proposed the matter of the imperial driver's personal expropriation and restoration of Guangming Pass, Emperor Yong's imperial driver has set off on the 10th day of July and arrived at Tianjian City near Guangming Pass at the end of July.
As long as an order is given, the Xiling Army will be able to recover Guangming Pass within a few days.
In order to win over the border guards, the imperial court planned to open a reward meeting in Tianjian City after recovering Guangming Pass, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, and there would be a lively banquet for the military and the people.
"A good banquet must be accompanied by a good show, but "The Legend of the Second Concubine" is about the personal hatred between the palace concubines, which is not enough to perform in front of the emperor. If you write in the final chapter that the emperor personally drove the expedition to repel the enemy army of the Firmament, and killed the concubine in front of the battle, and avenged the concubine with his own hands, so as to sing the emperor's praises and virtues, it would be very suitable for performing at the reward conference. ”
Masters!
Qu Muge's eyes lit up, nodded again and again, and said, "Master Hou has a good plan!" ”
Gu Nanye patted her head and said, "I'll send it over after it's written, and I'll arrange for someone to send it to Tianjian City in the next few days." ”
Qu Muge touched the top of his head and muttered, "Master Hou, don't pat me on the head, I can't grow tall." ”
Qu Muge herself is a tall girl who is almost 1.7 meters, but Ye Taixuan, who is now thirteen years old, is only 1.5 meters old, and every time she looks up at the tall Gu Nanye, she is worried that she will not grow tall.
"If you want to grow up, you have to move more, you nest in the room every day, you must be a small dwarf." Gu Nanye has been at home for many days, and he actually has the leisure to tease the children.
Qu Muge's self-esteem was frustrated, and he secretly decided to strengthen his exercise after writing "The Biography of the Second Concubine".
The final episode of "The Legend of the Second Concubine" not only added the scene of the emperor's royal drive to avenge the concubine, but Qu Muge also imitated individual fragments of "Song of Long Hatred", adding the emotional scene of the concubine's soul returning to the palace and saying goodbye to the emperor in her dream.
The last scene in the play is the emperor holding the child left by Concubine Liang, and writing in his own handwriting, "I wish to be a winged bird in heaven, and I am willing to be a branch in the earth." The days are long and sometimes endless, and this hatred is endless".
When Gu Nanye received the finished script, he was a little amazed after reading it, and read the last few lines of the poem several times, and rarely praised the little girl: "The writing is outstanding, and it is indeed as my mother said, it is a material that can be made." ”
He couldn't help but be a little puzzled, did Princess Taixuan in her previous life have such qualifications? He didn't even notice it.
Qu Muge accepted Gu Nanye's praise with a cheeky face.
Qu Muge brought some private goods at the end of the story, she borrowed the poems of the poet Bai Juyi to play the emotional card, in order to move the emperor and think of the relationship between him and Concubine Wen back then, so that when Qu Muge returns to the palace in the future, he may be treated differently by the emperor.
Gu Nanye put the script into a sealed wooden box, attached a letter, and arranged for Feng Hu to send it to He Zhenyong, the Taishou of Tianjian City.
After arranging the outside affairs, Qu Muge asked: "Madame asked me to ask the Hou Ye what he meant, about the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, have you thought about what to do?" ”
As soon as he heard this, Gu Nanye's face sank.
In the past few days, he has been a little angry with Mrs. Gu about this matter.
Since Master Gu was imprisoned on the farm by Gu Nanye for recuperation, there are always relatives of the Gu family who come to the Gu Mansion or the Gu family's business to make trouble.
Although these people were stopped by Fan's wading people, there were also a lot of gossips that reached Mrs. Gu's ears.
Mrs. Gu was worried about her son's reputation and didn't want him to be infamous as "killing his father", so she planned to use the Mid-Autumn Festival to hold a banquet to ease the relationship with the Gu family.
In this matter, Gu Nanye's position was very extreme, not only did he refuse to associate with any Gu family relatives, but he also did not allow Mrs. Gu to take Master Gu back to the house for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Such a grace and righteousness, like an enemy.
Qu Muge couldn't help but wonder if the Gu family had done something very sorry for Gu Nanye in the previous life......
"Madame may not understand Hou Ye's decision, but it is all for the sake of Hou Ye's reputation that she wants to deal with the Gu family. Madame has not slept well and eaten well these days, so Master Hou should not be angry with Madame. ”
Gu Nanye frowned.
In the previous life, his family was ruined, and he was the only one left, so he didn't care about his reputation at all, but now he couldn't let his mother be burdened by his reputation, and he still had to compromise.
Qu Muge came up with an idea: "It's better to take a step back alone, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet will not invite the Gu family, but still take Master Gu back to the house for the festival, so that it can also block the tongue of outsiders." ”
Gu Nanye's fingers knocked on the table irritably, but he nodded reluctantly.
Qu Muge brought the news back to Mrs. Gu, and Mrs. Gu's face that had been worried for a few days finally relaxed.
"I can't help it, Ono can't even listen to my words now, but he can listen to your advice." Mrs. Gu said with some taste.
Qu Muge hugged one of Mrs. Gu's hands and said coquettishly: "That's because I said that Madam, you can't eat in a hurry, and Master Hou felt sorry for Mrs. Hou before he agreed." ”
"Little Clever Ghost." Mrs. Gu nodded her nose.
Then he thought of something and said: "In a few days, the wife of the new Taishou family will come to the house as a guest, and I invited a few local nobles to accompany me, and there will be many guests at home, and the children brought by the guests will be handed over to you to help me receive them." ”
"Huh? I don't know much about human feelings, so I'm afraid I can't do it well. ”
Mrs. Gu said: "What's not to do, Hengzhu is at home, Mother Xin and I are here, if you don't understand, feel free to ask." ”
Qu Muge had no choice but to respond to the matter, and then went to Xin's mother and asked who the guests were coming this time.
As soon as the new Taishou Xie Zhaolin arrived in Jinling in early August, he asked his wife to come to visit Mrs. Gu, which was enough to show his respect for the Marquis of Xiling.
Xie Taishou has three sons and one daughter in his family, the three sons are adults, all of them are officials in other places, and only one young daughter, Xie Zhiyin, is still by his side Chen Huan.
The Xie family is a family of eunuchs, and his wife is from a scholarly family, Xie Zhiyin has been famous since he was a child, and he is a model of everyone's beauty.
Qu Muge read the name of "Xie Zhiyin" several times repeatedly, and only looked at the next page after a while.
Mrs. Gu was invited to accompany the wives of the three families of Wei, Liang and Lin.
Mrs. Wei is the daughter-in-law of Wei Qian, a former university scholar, and Wei Qian and Mrs. Gu's father, Mrs. Song Taifu, are classmates, and the two families have old friends.
Mrs. Liang is the wife of Liang Daoding, who is a subordinate of Gu Nanye, and is naturally close to the Gu family.
Mrs. Lin is the daughter of Lu Ning, a national Go player, the wife of the president of Jinling Academy, and a close friend of Mrs. Gu.
They are all figures with heads and faces in Jinling, and these three families have actually come to the Gu family as early as when Mrs. Gu held a reception banquet for Gu Nanye, but Qu Muge was in a temper at that time and had never seen these distinguished guests.