CHAPTER 40
Bai Mansion seemed to be busy again, with the grace of the Holy Lord, the general Bai Zhanqi volunteered to say above the court that he would personally approve a house for me to come out of the mansion. If you have received the grace of God, you must do your best, not to mention that the idea is still proposed by himself.
During this period of time, the general Bai Zhanqi can be said to have done everything himself, lest there be any mistakes, so he ordered someone to vacate an empty courtyard for me behind the eleventh young man's house.
It is said that this mansion was originally the eldest lady of the Bai Mansion, and the eldest daughter of the old general Bai Xiaoqiu lived before the elder sister of these major generals such as Bai Xiaoqiu lived before she got married.
The soldiers in the palace, including the eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth young Bai Yanleng, also came to help, whitewashed the walls, cleaned up the dust, shoveled away all the snow in the yard, and filled in the big and small holes with potholes one by one.
I was very reluctant to give up those few pomegranate trees, looked at the trees and sighed, and Seventeen Shao smiled and said, "How big it is, isn't it just a few pomegranate trees, the foolish man of the year can move the mountain, this is nothing."
After a while, my pomegranate trees were moved to their new home very quickly.
I was happy in my heart, poured a cup of tea for the seventeen young man who was busy, handed it to him, seventeen young looked at me, suddenly embarrassed, I don't know if I was tired or shy, anyway, my face was slightly flushed, I said, "Hurry up and drink, drink and work."
Seventeen Shao looked at me with a smile, and with a lift of his neck, he drank the tea in the cup.
I poured tea for each of the major generals, and told Ai'er to borrow a large teapot from the stove, make tea, and call the soldiers to come and drink it. In the end, I gave the teacup to the general, originally I asked Ai'er to go, Ai'er cowered and refused to go, I had to go forward, thinking that he had made a lot of efforts to tidy up the new house for me, handed the teacup to him, and said "General, drink a cup of tea to warm up".
Bai Zhanqi glanced at me, in my impression, he never looked at me squarely, he always squinted at me when he didn't reply, or he didn't look at me at all, today made me feel like I was being looked upon, and I was in a good mood.
Besides, although I am not a senior official of the imperial court, it is said that the title of Huide Bachelor of Cultivation conferred on me by the Holy Lord is still a sixth-grade official, two grades higher than that of a local county official, and I am quite proud.
Thanks to Xuanxuan's blessing, I am now a petty official, and Rourou and Bai Qingrui, as well as Azu, have to salute when they see me.
I sat in the yard and looked at the footprints all over the yard, scraps of paper, strips of paper, paper flowers, old exhibition cloths and so on thrown everywhere, dirty and messy.
Ai'er was packing up in the room, and from time to time she stuck her head out of the window and asked me, "Sir, do you want to bring this one over, and do you want to go over that one?" I was upset and yelled, "Take them all away, and not one of them will be left behind."
Ai'er shrunk her neck in fright, and didn't dare to ask any more, so she hurried to pick up something.
After all, I still miss the old very much, I walked around the yard and the house, looked around, looked at the eyes hot, I wanted to cry, Ai'er said, "If Mr. is reluctant, you can come back often to see, they are all in the White Mansion, and they are far from going."
I sighed, and that's all I had to say.
The new mansion is really much more spacious and transparent, and Mrs. Mu was about to give me two more maids, but I stopped them. After all, I don't have so many people here, and I don't have so many things here. Ai'er is clever, quick with hands and feet, and a top two. Mrs. Mu smiled and said, "Listen to Mr." Immediately afterwards, he changed his voice and called me Huide to teach bachelor, which sounded very awkward, and the shouting was particularly tongue-twisting, so he said to Mrs. Mu, "Call me Mr. Su, I'm used to it."
Mrs. Mu looked at me and said righteously, "Now that you have been crowned a saint and have an official title, you can no longer call you casually as before, and even we can no longer call you at will, this is the rule, you must follow the rules, especially in the palace, you can't shout wrong, the slightest carelessness will cause trouble."
I cast an admiring look at Mrs. Mu and nodded, "Yes, ma'am."
In private, I still asked Ai'er to call me sir, and the rest of the major generals also called me sir, which sounded pleasing to the ear.
In a blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed, and it is time to enter the palace to officially accept the reward of the saint, and the generals and major generals will also go to the palace to resume their lives. Although the major generals are temporarily recuperating in the palace, they have to go to the palace every half month to meet the saint to discuss front-line matters.
Because the nineteenth young Bai Yan Leng was not a general, nor was he an official of the imperial court, he stayed in the palace and did not enter the palace with us this time.
At this time, there were only three carriages, and I had already told Xuan Xuan that I would take one with Seventeen Shao, and Xuan Xue was very well-behaved, and as soon as I went out, I chose the second one, and it happened that Seventeen and Fourteen Shao were already sitting in it.
The general, Bai Xiaoqiu, and Eleven Shao took one car.
The carriage traveled slowly, came out of Baifu, bypassed a small road, passed a bell and drum tower, and drove on the avenue.
Even if I didn't look at it, I knew that the fourteenth young man was closing his eyes and recuperating, in order not to disturb him, I opened the curtain, and Xuan Xuan also poked out half of his head from the inside to look outside, and the seventeenth young man saw that no one was talking to him, and he also stuck his head out of the window.
People come and go on the street, and you can see the crowd of people everywhere, and both sides of the road are full of all kinds of goods, food and clothing, and they are dazzling. I said, "Why is the street so lively today?"
Seventeen Shaodao said, "It's almost the New Year, there are more traders from all over the country who come to Luoyang City to sell, and there are also many people who come in from outside the city to buy New Year's goods.
I said, "When will we also come to Luoyang City to shop and buy some New Year's goods."
Xuanzhi hurriedly said, "I want to buy sugar gourds, I like to eat sugar gourds the most, but unfortunately I only eat them at this time of year."
Seventeen Shao flicked it on the door of Xuanxuan's head, and said, "You know how to eat, now you are a Huangkou Tongsheng Elementary School, or a saint, you can't be proud, you have to work harder, and we will shoot in the field together when we have time another day."
Seventeen Shao was full of interest when he spoke, and Xuan Xuan didn't seem to be very interested, and said, "I will never shoot in the field again."
Seventeen Shao turned his head and asked him, "Why, am I not teaching well?" ”
Xuan Xuan pouted and said, "You just care about seeing that Mr. goes, where do you have the heart to teach me."
I blinked, glanced at Seventeen, and saw that his face was slightly red, and he was also looking at me. I squeezed a dry smile at him and hurriedly looked away.
The carriage drove all the way, and the number of people in the street gradually increased, squeezing our carriage in the middle, and we could only move slowly.
Seventeen called to me, I shook my head, looked at him, and suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves not far away, and the people in the street began to agitate, crowding people, pushing people, and enclosing our carriage in the middle and unable to move.
From the scattered crowd, I saw a group of men and horses, with turbans on their heads, full beards, narrow foreheads and high noses, fierce looks, and very different clothes from those we have here. Riding a horse in the front was a strong man, who looked about the same age as Bai Zhanqi, there was a child about the same age as Xuan Xuan who was on the same horse as him, followed by a young and strong young man, with clear eyebrows, and he walked side by side with a man who thought it was a man, but after a closer look, it was a girl, with well-defined facial features, and only a pair of big eyes were seen on the whole face, especially the eyeballs, which were pitch black.
I've never seen eyes that look so good.
I hurriedly called out to Seventeen Shao and pointed it out to him.
Seventeen Shao glanced at the gang, and the expression that was still smiling just now immediately became very serious, he turned his head and shouted, "Fourteen, hurry up and see, the Turks have come to Luoyang City."
Probably feeling that something was wrong, I hurriedly looked at Fourteen Shao, and saw that he also quickly poked his head out and came to us together, at this time, Fourteen Shao was beside me, we were almost head to head, and I could clearly hear his gasp. I tilted my head slightly to look at him, and saw that he was only looking at the Turks in front of me. His eyebrows flickered, and his eyes were cloudy.
After a while, Bai Xiaoqiu and Eleven Young Man also poked their heads out of the carriage, and when Bai Xiaoqiu turned around and saw me, I smiled faintly at him. Seeing that the expression on his face was unnatural, he turned his head and talked to Eleven Shao.
Seventeen Shao looked at it for a while, turned around and returned to the carriage, and said, "Fourteen, it's coming to the end of the year soon, what are the Turks doing in Luoyang now."
The fourteenth young man also turned around, sat down in the carriage, and said to the seventeenth young man, "These people are not ordinary people, judging from their clothing and temperament, they are either rich or expensive, and they are most likely royal and noble people."
Seventeen Shao was a little nervous, and said, "What are they doing in Luoyang, they were cleaned up by us last time, and they dare to come again."
Fourteen Shao said, "Don't underestimate these Turkic barbarians, although they have not made any major moves in the past two years, they have recruited troops in private, trained in an orderly manner, and just waited for the accumulation to catch us off guard."
Seventeen Shao cut and said, "Fourteen, don't be angry with others to destroy your own prestige."
Fourteen glanced at Seventeen and said, "Let's wait and see."
As I spoke, I shouted to Seventeen, "Look, the barbarians have entered the inn."
Seventeen Shao said disdainfully, "The feet of the Son of Heaven are measured, and they can't make any trouble."
Walking all the way, talking and laughing, I finally arrived at the gate of the palace, and the three words "Jian'an Palace" were hung in front of the beam.
Our group got out of the carriage, and the fourteenth young man, who had never talked much, told me, "The place I went to today is the main hall, although it is to enter the palace to reward you, remember to be cautious in your words and deeds."
Fourteen didn't say that it was okay, but when I said it, I became nervous, and I was holding Xuanxuan's hand wet. Xuan Xuan glanced at me, and when he saw that I looked nervous, he didn't ask me anything, and let me pull forward.
As soon as I walked into the "Jian'an Palace", the solemn and majestic atmosphere came to my face, and the rows of people standing inside were all the civil and military officials of the dynasty, and the Jin Emperor was not as kind and kind as before, and he was completely upright, and the world was the only one who respected the domineering posture.
Our group knelt in the center of the hall and said in unison, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live."
Emperor Jin said, "Get up."
When I returned to the stage after the reward, I heard the eunuch at the door say loudly, "The Turkic Khan and the second prince Hacha Ucha and the third princess Miluo. Rahe and the little prince Haoer Mozha to meet him".