Chapter 1: The Death of the Prime Minister (I)
Trembling slightly, Zuo Shangshu looked at his unruly son who had returned home two years ago, and stretched out his finger with tears in his eyes, and he was dumbfounded for a long time, and it took a long time to find his voice and say, "What does Your Majesty like about you?" Yes? If you don't have to look good, everyone in our family looks better than you, hey, you are not a good thing, what else will you do besides eating, drinking and having fun? Yes! The face of the old ancestor has been lost to me. ”
"Son, it's not that my mother looks down on you and doesn't love you, which child is not a piece of meat that fell from my mother's body, and my mother also hopes that you will have a good life. But...... But now, you really can't deserve this official, if you are not careful, it will be the life of our whole family, son, listen to my mother's words, and resign from the court tomorrow. Mrs. Shangshu helped Shangshu to stand trembling slightly, which made people feel sad for a while.
Zuo Chen looked at the family crying with black lines on his head, and couldn't understand how bad he was in their eyes to scare them like this.
He thought about what he had done since his master's return from his studies was so ridiculous, wasn't it just that he had nothing to drink and drink and be nosy, and when his hands were itchy, he gambled two handfuls and played cockfighting with Xiao Anzi and them by the way. Isn't it just that there are two more confidantes, it seems that they have really pretended to be too much, and even their closest people have been deceived.
That night, when the night was thick, Zuo Chen, who was asleep, couldn't help but shiver and woke up, looked around at the quilt, and fell back to the bed in a daze, muttering in his mouth: "Tomorrow...... Be sure to put the official ...... Resigned. ”
The light on the imperial study over there clanged, and the national seal had already put a jade seal on the bright yellow edict, and Zuo Chen's second half of his life was sold like this.
In the middle of the night, the old emperor tossed and handed over the bright yellow holy decree in his hand to Gonggong Xu, and said with a smile: "Old Xu, you have wronged you with me for most of your life, one of these two holy decrees is blank for you, fill in it yourself if you need it at that time, the emperor understands it, as for the other early dynasty, you can announce it on my behalf." ”
"Your Majesty, you ......." Gonggong Xu's wrinkled eyes were red for half a circle, with tears, but they still didn't fall after all, and the corners of Fang Zheng's pale mouth were a little pale for a long time, and some words still didn't come out after all.
"My deadline has come." The old emperor patted Gonggong Xu lightly and said nothing, looked at the night sky with a smile without any regrets, calmly and majesticly as he was when he first became the prince, he was also following Lao Xu, but Xu Zheng, who was with him at that time, was still a famous white-clothed general.
The next day, the whole country served the national funeral, the historical records, Emperor Jing died in the ninth year of Tianbao, Emperor Wen ascended the throne, changed the country name to Yongzhen, and the history is called the rule of Yongzhen.
For the first time since he was a child, Zuo Chen felt that things could be so tricky, although such anxiety was very inconsistent with his natural philosophy, he had to burn his ass.
Why?
"Where is Zuo Aiqing?" Rui Yan sat on the dragon chair upright, his black sharp eyes couldn't see joy and anger, I don't know if he deliberately ignored Zuo Chen, who was standing at the head of the hundred officials.
"The minister is here." Zuo Chen took a step with his sleeves and fists, and responded.
"Well, that's good, let's get back to the team." Rui Yan lazily didn't even look at him, and said with some interest.
Zuo Chen turned his head in confusion and looked up and retreated to the place where he was standing, thinking about when it would be better to say that it was better to resign, this was already the third day, and he didn't even have a chance to say it when the old emperor died the day before yesterday.
"Uncle Xu, read out the edict left by your father, after all, it's been three days." Rui Yan swept over the ministers below, took their different expressions into his eyes, and said to Gonggong Xu quietly.
Xu Zheng looked at Rui Yan in surprise, took out the edict and frowned imperceptibly, now this child is becoming more and more incomprehensible to him.
The edict said: The Zuo family has a son, and Zuochen has a ...... (100 words omitted here), now the autumn of critical survival is also internal and external troubles, I remember and the past Zuo Qing's family said "the Huns are undecided, what is home" is very happy, in order to allow Zuo Qing's family to be at ease to assist the new emperor Kuang Fu Chaogang, the prime minister is allowed not to have a family and children before the new emperor is established.
"Thank you, Lord Long." Zuo Chen's narrow eyebrows and eyes are docile and low, so people can't see that he is dissatisfied with this edict, and even the slightly trembling shoulders make people feel that he is very happy, but in fact, he even has the heart to cry without such a whole person, Zuo Chen's smart head has been running thousands of calculations in this moment, but in the end, he still does not kneel down.
"Zuo Aiqing is really a dragon and phoenix among people, I often heard my father mention you when I was young, and now I see that this is really the case, but why is it so eyebrow now, is Aiqing dissatisfied with this? It's human nature to start a family and not be dissatisfied, if Aiqing doesn't like this, why don't you get rid of this article? "I can't hear the voice of joy and anger coming from the dragon chair in the main hall, it seems that he cares carefully for the courtiers, but I am afraid that those who have a heart have already seen that our trembling Prime Minister Zuo is already covered in cold sweat.
"Weichen is frightened, what the first emperor said is exactly what the minister thinks, how can the Huns be home, and the ministers should do their best to assist the saint to return a clear picture of our dynasty." Zuo Chen pounced and knelt on the ground, tears streaming down his cheeks.
What is this matter, if you want to marry a wife, you have to wait for the emperor to stand up, this is not even a cry, you have to sing praises.
He also understands what the old emperor meant, it is nothing more than to let you do your best to assist the emperor to calm down the four seas and eliminate the hidden dangers in the court.
Now where does Zuo Chen dare to resign and retire to these clouds, after listening to the emperor's words, it is like being in cold water all night, and the seemingly random questions and answers are full of mysteries.
The emperor meant that the first emperor repeatedly reminded me that you let me reuse you, I just didn't see that your piece is good, but I heard that you have great ambitions, but you can be reused, the first emperor said that you can't get married and have children before I set up, I don't know what you think?
Zuo Chen knew that if he didn't show his loyalty, then there was probably only one end, that is, the new emperor found a reason to pull him to the door of the vegetable market in Xuanwu Gate, a big knife clicked away, and the new official took office with three fires, especially the new emperor was only fourteen years old, and many people were thinking about his throne below.
In fact, just as Zuo Chen thought, although Rui Yan was only fourteen years old, the qualities that Emperor Xian should have were not missing, and the pair of obsidian eyes that made people couldn't see their joy and anger looked at the new prime minister who was kneeling on the ground for a long time, and then said coldly: "Aiqing can have such an idea, it is really my great Song blessing, seeing that Aiqing's face is pale at the moment, Yintang is blue, I think I didn't sleep last night." Gonggong Xu passed the decree to reward Zuo Aiqing with a thousand-year-old ginseng, and take the one that is treasured in the study. ”
"Slag." Gonggong Xu dusted off the dust on his hands and looked at the two of them thoughtfully.
When the little emperor retreated from the court, he took the lead in standing up, flicking his cloud sleeves, turning around and taking away the solemnity of the room, Zuo Chen gently raised his sleeves and touched the cold sweat on his head, and the inky black court clothes had been printed with a layer of watermarks.
As soon as the emperor left, the orderly courtiers who had just stood surrounded Zuo Chen, and surrounded Zuo Chen in the middle layer by layer, all of them were congratulatory, and although Zuo Chen didn't like it in his heart, he had to thank him one by one.
As soon as he walked out of the door of the main hall, Father Zuo, who was still crying to death yesterday, patted his son's shoulder with a smile and said, "Good boy, you have been favored as soon as you take office." ”
"Daddy, you tap." The shot just now almost didn't slap our Prime Minister Zuo to the ground, it's not that his dad has a big hand, it's really Zuo Chen, he is a little bit of a pout, just now in the main hall, basically came back in a circle around the ghost gate.
"Uh...... Look at your little physique, it's that your mother usually indulges you too much, eats and drinks well, and goes back to exercise well. Daddy Zuo touched his nose and flashed.
Zuo Chen shook his head weakly and looked at Zuo Dad, who was already a lot old and naughty, and sighed helplessly.
When he returned to Shangshu Mansion, Zuo Chen locked himself in his room, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and looked at the north with a melancholy face through the window.
The north is the direction where the Yumen Pass is located where the war has been fought for many years, because the perennial warring people are not able to live and starve to death from hunger and cold, and the soldiers who are guarding the border pass have a miserable life, in winter, the three-foot-thick white snow has overflowed the Yunwu Mountain, but there is not enough cotton clothes to keep out the cold, the summer heat is pressing, but there is not enough food to satisfy hunger, and even the water source that can drink water is limited.
There is an unfathomable Grand Canyon after the Yunwu Mountain, and the world says that it is a ghost and god resentment - the Ghost God Abyss, in fact, it is not as terrifying as the world thinks, Zuo Chen is still a half-old child, he often plays and practices in a canyon below the Ghost God Abyss, which is with him and his little sister Yun Yun.
These two poems are the origin of his little sister's name, if the name of the person is named, the eyes are like stars, the skin is white and the lips are white, and there is more ink hair than silk, Zuo Chen's favorite thing is to sit on the grass and watch the little sister blushing and blushing and coquettish with him, but unfortunately now he can't see it.
Zuo Chen lowered his eyelids slightly and thought, it doesn't matter if you don't marry a wife and have children, the person you love is no longer there, so what's the matter, but it's a pity that you can't fulfill the promise you promised to the little junior sister before she died, and after a sigh, it seems to have changed but it hasn't changed.