Chapter Ninety-Nine: Unintentionally Picking Flowers, Intentionally Planting Willows
“… However, I think the name of this Wuzhu Pavilion is good, the green Wu is strange, and the fence is repaired to make the shadow, which is an elegant place. ”
"From the minister's point of view, here is a light yarn ring green tree, and a weak willow peeps into the good sè."
"A good one" light yarn ring green tree, weak willow peep good sè "very wonderful! The two of you are also the eldest of the two, this time there is a "good sè, into the eye?" If there is a ...... that you like"
The three of them were chatting, and Li Duan and Li Yu went up to the second floor and interrupted the conversation.
"Cheng'an and Minde are back." Yuzi said to the person above with a smile, with a bit of ease in his tone.
Sitting on top of him was a twenty-year-old young man, with a long face, wide eyebrows and broad eyes, and a restrained divine light, wearing a purple embroidered sea dragon play bō pattern robe, with a purple gold and white jade buckle belt, and a half-palm-sized mutton fat dragon and phoenix pendant on it.
Li Yu and Li Tuan stepped forward and saluted, "Brother (Weichen) greets the emperor!" ”
It turned out that the one sitting at the top was Li Mian, the son of heaven in Dahua today.
"Excuse me! This is outside the palace, so these customs rites do not have to be done! "The emperor raised his hand" "Cheng'an, how's that?" But Yipin Zhuyi was chosen? ,…
Li Yu didn't say a word, his face was a little dark, and Li Tuan on the side hurriedly replied: "Back to the emperor, it's the fifth girl of Zhou Kang's family." ”
"Yo, the two daughters of the Zhou Kang family are really related to the royal family." The emperor looked at Li Yu and asked, "What do you mean?" "Brother Huang, it's not that you don't know, that's what the queen mother meant, I'm afraid that her old man will worry about it, so I casually agreed to say that I want to choose people, which is a joke that can't be done for a while."
"You don't have a girl from the Zhou family?" Li Yu hesitated to tell the emperor what he saw in the warm room, but he didn't want Li Tuanqing to cough twice, but he finally didn't say anything about the warm house downstairs, and said: "There is a matter of asking the imperial brother to forgive the sin, and when the younger brother came to send the queen mother's pot of red clothes, he casually mentioned it, implying that this huā was specially prepared by the queen mother in order to choose a daughter.
Li Yu bit the word "girl" very hard.
The emperor glanced at Li Yu, "When will you learn to be the master of me?" ”
"Brother is reckless, please ask the royal brother to forgive his sins!" Li Yu said, then got up and knelt on the ground to plead guilty to the emperor.
The emperor looked at Li Yu, who was kneeling at the bottom, and reprimanded in a deep voice: "On top of Gu Xierong in person, because he represents my national body abroad, he must choose someone with both talent and virtue, how can you be allowed to play like this?" Li Yu bowed to the ground with both hands, "The younger brother knows that he is wrong, please punish the imperial brother!" ”
Li Tuan was anxious, and hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness King Zhong is young and rated, I don't think it was intentional, and I ask the emperor to forgive me!" "His Royal Highness King Chung is really not doing the right thing in this matter!" Yu Zidu stopped Li Tuan's plea, and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, although His Royal Highness King Zhong's move is a bit absurd, this candidate may not be inappropriate.
In the opinion of Weichen, the Zhou family is a scholarly family, the family style is rigorous, the children are full of poetry and books, and their virtue is also excellent, which can be seen from Mrs. Shizi. ”
Hua Shaoyan, who was sitting by the window, said: "Your Majesty, you just mentioned that you intend to choose a daughter and relatives from the scholarly clan, and now the four families that are suitable are Qi, Zhou, Zhao, and Wang. Among these four families, one of the Qi and Zhao families is from the south of the Yangtze River and the other is from the southeast coast, while Zhou and Wang are big clans in the north adjacent to Shangjing, and the Zhou family is even more from Chongzhou, and its people and customs are close to Beihu. Chen has been in the northwest for five years and is more familiar with the climate and environment there. In the humble opinion of the ministers, the daughter of the north and his relatives can adapt to the life there more quickly, so as not to lose the prestige of our great country because of the unsuitability of the water and soil and some small customs. ”
After listening to Yu Zidu and Hua Shaoyan's words, the emperor lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, and then asked Li Yu to get up, "This matter is over, you should remember that you are a member of the royal family, and because you lead by example, you can't let xìng act rashly." ”
"The younger brother respectfully obeys the teachings of the imperial brother." The emperor took off the dragon and phoenix jade pendant he was wearing, called the middle-aged man downstairs to greet Li Yu and the others to come closer, and commanded a few words in his ear, "...
Go to the East Huā Pavilion to hand over this jade pendant to the Queen Mother, and say that a little red from the green is to seize the green. I added the color head to the leader, and I don't need to say the origin of this jade. The man took the order and left, and the emperor looked at the four people present with a smile, "Li Duan, I won't say anything." Li Yu, if you can't choose a concubine this time, the queen mother will also give you a position like a lady. You're not even going to say no to Mrs. Ru, are you? ”
"Brother don't dare!" Li Yu looked up and saw the emperor's smiling eyes, swallowed all the words he wanted to say into his stomach, and only whispered four words.
The emperor nodded, turned his head and looked at Yu Zidu and Hua Shaoyan again, "You two are my cousins, and this is not the first time that Grandpa Guo and Aunt Guo have talked to me about your life's events. I know that although the two of you are both literate and martial, you are both rectum inside, and you are very difficult in some things, so this time I borrowed the place of King Qi for you to see for yourself. ”
"Your Majesty, when Princess Duanyang entered the palace last time, she mentioned in front of the Queen Mother and you that she wanted to ............... with the Marquis of Fuping," Nei shì, who was standing behind the emperor and waiting, reminded him.
"Hey, Fukuyama didn't say that I forgot about it, it was a New Year's event"
Hua Shaoyan hugged his fists, "Your Majesty, there is indeed one thing to come to the minister this time, the minister killed Zong Tuo at the beginning, you said that you wanted to give me a reward, but the minister has not fulfilled it, this time I will ask you for a will, let me choose my own relatives." ”
"This" The emperor looked at Hua Shaoyan with some embarrassment.
"Please forgive Weichen xìngzi Luzhi, let the emperor be embarrassed." Hua Shaoyan first reflected on his guilt, and then took advantage of the emperor's preoccupation to continue to say, "Mother has always been close to the Queen Mother, and the matter of Fuping Hou may have been mentioned casually by the mother to ask the Queen Mother's intentions. The minister didn't know before, and besides, the matter had not yet been decided. This time it is the will of the minister to ask for military merits, and there will be no more objections from my mother. ”
Looking at Hua Shaoyan, who had a calm face and a persistent gaze, the emperor remembered his earth-shattering escape five years ago, which was well known to everyone in Beijing, and shook his head helplessly.
Seeing that the emperor was moved, Hua Shaoyan said again: "This time the task of sending relatives to relatives, if the emperor is not suitable, the ministers will invite them to send relatives." ”
"You're a man!" The emperor smiled and said, "That's it, I will allow you to choose your own relatives, and if there is a favorite candidate, I will help you get married." I will hand over to you today with the pro-embassy pro-guards, and I hope you will live up to my hopes. ”
"Thanksgiving!" Hua Shaoyan knelt down to receive the order, and the tense expression on his face relaxed.
The two young talents around the emperor, Wen Yiwu, are both from the clan, one has military merits but has not received a real position in the army and the court, and the other is talented but introverted and avoids the edge and resigns, but everyone knows that these two people are deeply loved by the emperor, so the emperor will personally inquire about the family affairs of the two.
Now, after solving Hua Shaoyan, Yu Zidu is naturally left.
Without waiting for the emperor to ask, Yu Zidu saw the emperor looking at him, so he spoke first: "Thank you for the emperor's compassion." Grandfather promised the minister to allow the minister to choose his own relatives, and the person who the minister likes also wants him to nod his old man, so today the minister is here to only accompany the emperor to talk about Fengyue and not care about the matter, and please ask the emperor to forgive! ”
"Come on, it's not easy for me to be a matchmaker."
"The emperor cherishes the world, is in charge of the world, and protects the people without worrying about these little things."
Yu Zidu said this beautifully, and the emperor was in a good mood, "Since you are protecting the people, then this time you will also be protected and protected, and with Shu Lan, if you become married, I will give you a decree." ”
Yuzi kowtowed and thanked him.
"There's nothing to do here, I'll go back to the palace first, and a few of you will go back to the house to get busy!"
The emperor wanted to be a matchmaker, but he didn't make a fuss for most of the day, so he went back to the palace.
After sending off the emperor, the atmosphere between the four of them was suddenly much more relaxed.
Li Yu looked at Yu Zidu and Hua Shaoyan with annoyance, "Imperial brother Chrysostom Yuyan, you guys are fine, no one will force marriage anymore." ”
Li Duan patted Li Yu, who looked a little depressed, and disagreed: "Those two can't be handled by common sense. Those ignorant fù孺 don't know the origin of that huā, and quarrel over trivial things, don't go to your heart, you can hold the beauty today, much better than those two bachelors. ”
Yu Zidu smiled silently. Hua Shaoyan glanced at Li Yuan, turned his head and asked Li Yu, "What happened in the greenhouse today?" Originally, the Queen Mother wanted to choose a concubine for you, but why did it change to choose a princess? ”
"He decided it himself." Li Duan pointed at Li Yu, "It must be this guy who is afraid that it is the concubine who has provoked a group of girls to rob it, and it has been changed by buying it and sending it to huānei." Wind. My mother will naturally be wrong when she hears it, no wonder Zhou Danniang..."
Li Tuan almost slipped his mouth, hurriedly intercepted the conversation and didn't dare to say anything more, hehe laughed twice to hide his embarrassment.
Hua Shaoyan also slanted the two of them: "When you are the emperor, you don't know anything about these things in advance?" ”
"You mean" Li Yu and Li Duan were surprised, "the emperor already knew"
"Otherwise, why would the Zhao sisters appear there?" Hua Shaoyan remembered that when he and Yu Zidu went to Wuzhuqi Youge Pavilion together, they heard two maids in Shangguan's Mansion talking loudly about the warm house and hairpins in the forest.
Yu Zidu glanced at Hua Shaoyan thoughtfully, and a faint smile flashed over the corner of the chún "The emperor has already chosen someone in his heart, but he has not made a decision, I will try it with your hand, and look at the will of heaven"
"What if there is no suitable candidate?" Whoever it should be is who it is! ”
Yu Zidu and Hua Shaoyan spoke in unison, and after the two finished speaking, they glanced at each other, and the chún horns rose upwards together.
At the same time, the girls from all the families on the other side of the East Huā Pavilion have gathered in Ruixiangyuan, waiting for the arrival of the princess and the ladies.