Today's court affairs are complicated, Prime Minister Xu Minglang finished handling official business, from the middle book to save the errand, the streets and alleys of Yanping City have been lit up in a sea of lights, he got into his own carriage in front of the gate of the imperial city, and rarely urged the coachman to drive the car faster.

Recently, things have not been going well in the court, especially the slow progress of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, with the end of the autumn hunt, many families have returned from the capital, which makes it impossible for the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to get out of the state of shelf.

The establishment of the military supervision system single-handedly allowed civilian officials to realize the blueprint of moderation in the forbidden army for the first time, and Xu Minglang, who was accustomed to calling for wind and rain in the court, is now deeply trapped in this powerless situation, and his mood is naturally not good on weekdays.

The prime minister is not in a good mood, and there are many people who are having a hard time, from the middle book province to the prime minister's mansion, to the six books, to the small family Ding nursing home, this time is trembling, and if there is a small mistake, it will usher in unbearable misery.

In just over a month, the number of officials who have been demoted in the center has reached the number of the previous six months.

A stubborn donkey of a tooth shop crashed into the frame of the prime minister's car, which had been opened in Yanping City for more than 50 years and had a good reputation, and was seized by the government on the second day and closed down.

After such a long time, don't say that people can't stand it, and the treasures of the Prime Minister's Mansion can't stand the beatings, and they suffer heavy losses, which makes the Prime Minister's old wife feel distressed and cry.

The people below got together for a total of many days, trying all kinds of ways, hoping to make the prime minister's mood better, and for a while, the treasury of the prime minister's mansion was full of all kinds of treasures, calligraphy, paintings and antiques.

The "Shark Tears" from the South China Sea, the Eight Treasure Glazed Ware from the Western Regions, the Night Pearl Coral Jade from the East China Sea, the Haidongqing from Liaodong, etc., are too many to count, and the wife of the prime minister who smiled so hard to close her mouth had to build another treasure house to place the extra treasures.

But even so, the Prime Minister did not show even a smile.

Just when the big and small officials, countless Junyan were almost desperate, the situation suddenly changed dramatically overnight, when Liu Muzhi, the governor of the political affairs, at a certain day at the court meeting, suddenly saw Xu Minglang, who was full of red light and smiling, and talked happily with the "petty officials" of the five grades in a friendly and casual manner, and almost dropped his jaw in shock.

When the prime minister was handling official documents in the Zhongshu Province, a small official accidentally knocked over the prime minister's cherished inkstone when he was sending an excerpt, and when the small official knelt on the ground to plead guilty, the other officials closed their eyes, thinking that the prime minister was going to cripple the scribe alive as he had done recently, they found that the prime minister did not mind and laughed.

Now the officials finally confirmed that the prime minister's mood not only got rid of the haze, but also suddenly arrived in the sunny weather!

The overjoyed ministers of the family hurriedly inquired about each other's news, and couldn't wait to know what kind of sacredness was that the prime minister had changed so much and saved everyone from the dire situation.

Under the tireless excavation of many well-informed people, the truth soon came out.

The answer came as a surprise.

But when you think about it, it makes sense.

White hair and red face have always been a popular story among literati and doctors.

Yes, it all started with a woman, a very young woman, but it is said that the beauty of the country is not enough to describe the beauty of the amazing woman.

It is rumored that this woman is not only incomparable in appearance, gentle and understanding, but also smart and clever, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, especially good tea, can make the mouth linger for three days, can be called a master of the tea ceremony.

Rumors always spread more and more bizarre, the more they say, the more evil they become, and later some people even say that this woman is the fox demon who has practiced in the mountains for thousands of years, and she can charm people with a smile and smile, and she is also proficient in all kinds of tricks that make people flutter like immortals.

In short, this woman should be in heaven alone.

And about how this woman appeared in the Prime Minister's Mansion, there are different opinions, some say that the Jiangnan giant offered her to befriend the prime minister, there are also those who said that the wizard outside the Saisai brought the capital to be bought by someone at a sky-high price and sent to the prime minister, and there are also said that the prime minister met him on the street in the middle of the night.

In a word, this woman is very mysterious.

Many days have passed, and all kinds of news about this woman have spread on the streets of the market, and even the storyteller in the teahouse has begun to tell her different versions of various stories.

And to this day, except for the prime minister himself, no one has witnessed her true face, but there are many portraits that have been circulated, all of them are beautiful, or they don't match each other, and the credibility is not high.

As for a down-and-out scholar who painted people with fox faces, he naturally inevitably had to be attacked by a group, not to mention that the stall was lifted, and his legs were broken, but even so, this scholar was also determined that what he painted was what he saw with his own eyes, which was absolutely true.

When people asked him how he got into the Prime Minister's Mansion, the scholar blushed, and it took a long time to hold back a sentence that he had climbed the wall to see secretly, such nonsense, naturally no one believed it, and it only attracted more ridicule.

Xu Minglang lifted the curtain, glanced at the lame scholar who was holding the scroll and constantly showing the fox face to others, his eyes were full of disdain and disdain, and when he lowered the curtain, he showed a smug and satisfied smile.

The reason why he urged the coachman to hurry up was naturally to see the lovely man he missed earlier.

: The old tree has new branches, this is a happy event in the world, but before meeting each other, Xu Minglang never thought that at his age, there would be a day to relive the romance of youth.

After returning to the mansion and hurriedly changing out of his official uniform, Xu Minglang came to a plainly arranged courtyard, followed the winding path paved with cobblestones to the Xuan Room near the lake, and saw the graceful posture in the lamplight through the half-rolled bamboo curtain, and the beautiful woman who was kneeling and writing, Xu Minglang paused, straightened his back, eased his mood, and slowly approached with steady steps.

"Your Excellency is back?"

The woman with a peach blossom face put down the jade pen, showed a just right smile of joy, got up to salute, and the simple action of squatting can make people feel a weak and unworldly temperament.

Like flowers, like water.

This woman is Zhao Yujie.

Pretending to be indifferent, Xu Minglang walked towards the bookcase, "What poem did you write today?" picked up the rice paper and looked at it, and couldn't help but groan, "The fireworks in the rainy sky forest are late, and the steamed quinoa is ringing." Flying egrets in desert paddy fields......"

Nodding again and again, saying a few hellos, turning his head to look at Zhao Yujie, who was a little embarrassed, Xu Minglang said strangely: "Why are there only these three sentences?"

Zhao Yujie blushed and said: "The concubine remembered the time when she was a child in the countryside, and she wrote these nonsense, and she should not be praised by adults, and the ...... The concubine couldn't think of anything. ”

After saying that, he was very embarrassed and eager to dig a hole in the ground.

In Xu Minglang's eyes like this, she is very simple and coquettish, no matter how cute she looks, it makes people want to pity and ravage her.

"Such a good sentence is really rare, you can't do without the following, you come here, talk to the old man about your life at that time, and the old man will make it up for you. ”

Xu Minglang is the head of the family, and he regards himself as erudite and talented, of course, he wants to complete this elegant thing, and by the way, he also let Zhao Yujie see his talent, so that he can admire himself even more.

The rural and rural scenes described in the poem are different from Xu Minglang's life in Yanping City, which can change his mood and relax. To get out of the complicated official affairs of family and country affairs, to have a pink beauty to sing and such poems is really wonderful for Xu Minglang, a literati prime minister.

Zhao Yujie whispered, sat next to Xu Minglang, and began to tell the other party about the days when he went to the countryside to save relatives when he was young.

Xu Minglang's psychology was all expected by her, and it can even be said that she arranged and guided her single-handedly, and while doing what she liked, it was also very beneficial to herself.

With the help of Xiao Yan's arrangement, through the hands of wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan, he successfully arrived at the prime minister's mansion, and with his appearance and tenderness, he also won Xu Minglang's love as he wished, but Zhao Yujie knew that if the communication between the two was limited to the body, it would not last long, and she would not be able to achieve her goal.

She wants to have a spiritual and emotional communication with Xu Minglang.

Poetry is a means to attract Xu Minglang's attention, Zhao Yujie deliberately wrote only three lines of poetry, just to make Xu Minglang, a leader among scholars, itchy hands to make up for the back.

And the reason why she wrote about the pastoral aspect was also to give Xu Minglang the impression that she was very innocent and clean, weak and hard-working, and let the other party love herself even more by telling Xu Minglang about her own pastoral life.

Zhao Yujie achieved her goal, when looking back on the past, she shed a few tears when she talked about her frail and sick grandmother, and cried again when she talked about her strong and ill-fated mother, and Xu Minglang hugged her in his arms and comforted her in every way.

In order to show his sincerity and ability to take care of Zhao Yujie, without Zhao Yujie opening his mouth, Xu Minglang rewarded her with a huge amount of wealth on the spot, so much that it was unimaginable for ordinary people in the market, after Zhao Yujie finally broke into tears and laughed, Xu Minglang hugged her to the bed.

Lying on the brocade collapse, when Zhao Yujie whispered softly, she turned her head, and when she just looked at Xu Minglang, her hazy eyes suddenly became indifferent, and her eyes saw the crescent moon in the sky through the window.

The crescent moon is like a hook, weak as herself.

When did you lose the idea of chastity in your head and think that your body could be exchanged for survival resources?

These are two questions.

Of course, I will not forget the scene where things began.

It was an autumn, the yellow leaves of the old locust tree fell all over the yard, my mother let me go to buy vegetables, the vegetable market was far away from home, I should have been going for a long time to come back, maybe the afternoon sun just shone directly on my eyes, so that I couldn't see the road clearly, or maybe it was the hateful fat man on the next street, chasing and bullying himself, he ran too fast, in short, he fell into the stinky ditch, half of his body was soaked, the hateful fat man covered his nose and laughed and ran away, he held back his tears halfway, and wanted to change his clothes and go to the vegetable market.

But when he approached the door, he heard a strange sound coming from the house, and he leaned on the window in a daze and looked in, that picture should never be forgotten for the rest of his life, it turned out that his naked body was so ugly......

I can't remember how I left the house and went to the vegetable market in my wet and smelly clothes, but I remember walking on the road and thinking over and over again that my father had died in battle, so that man would not be my father.

As for the second question......

On that Chinese New Year's Eve, my mother was injured when I went out to the stall, my mother lingered on the bed for a long time, the family's savings were used to buy medicine, the rice tank was soon empty, and the flour was eaten early, in order to let my mother survive, I fed my mother the last rice porridge, and I had not eaten anything for two or three days, and I was so hungry that I didn't even have the strength to stand firm.

At that time, the fat man who often bullied himself on the next street, who couldn't wipe his nose clean and looked dirty, but he could wear satin, held a bulging money bag and said to himself, if he could let him touch his chest, the money bag would be his own.

Later, I took the money in that bag, bought medicine and rice, and my mother finally recovered a lot.

It's a pity that since then, she can only sit there with a pale face, looking at herself with guilt, self-blame and helplessness, and she can't do any work.

"I want to cultivate, give me the pill to assist in cultivation, is it okay?"

Zhao Yujie noticed that Xu Minglang's wheezing began to become heavy, and his movements began to be unprecedentedly violent, and at the critical moment when the other party was holding her breath, she lost no time in asking.

"Yes, you can ask for anything...... Here you go!"

......

Pingkangfang, a richly decorated green building, but there is a very simple private room, there are almost no handy ornaments in the room, hanging on the wall of the horns, sheepskin seats, domed cloth ceiling, all showing a grassland style.

Xiao Yan, the princess of Beihu, who had left Daqi on the surface, was grilling a lamb on the fire, looking focused and serious, as if she was carrying out some kind of ritual that could not be desecrated, revealing more and more a sense of piety.

"Naadam is being held in the grassland now, although I can't go back to participate in this grand event, and I can't get a place in the Southern Dynasty to do similar things with great fanfare, so I can think of barbecuing a sheep in person, and I can be regarded as feeling the majesty of the grassland." ”

After roasting the sheep, Xiao Yan took off the two legs of mutton and handed them to the attendants, the white-eyed and black-haired old man and the black-eyed and white-haired old man, seeing that they had puzzled expressions on their faces, so they said.

The two powerhouses of the Wang Extreme Realm understood this, sat down together, and did not use a knife, they directly tore the mutton with their mouths, and ate very rudely, "The princess is in the Southern Dynasty, and she can always remember the grassland scenery, she is really resolute!"

"The Tianyuan tribe is the best group of people in this world, and we are bound to establish a great cause that has never been achieved in the past under the leadership of our father, so naturally we should always remember our identity. ”

Xiao Yan took the meat, put it on a plate, and ate it very carefully.

After gnawing on the leg of mutton, the white-eyed old man hesitated for a moment, but still asked: "Princess, we have already sent that Zhao traitor girl to the Prime Minister's Mansion through the Qi merchants under our control, why these days, the princess still let the people below go around to promote the various miracles of that woman, bribe the storyteller to tell those stories that do not exist, and even go so far as to say that she is a fox face, but also to make a name for her?"

Xiao Yan took a sip of mare's milk wine and chuckled: "It's easy to enter the Prime Minister's Mansion, but it's hard to be favored for a long time."

"Xu Minglang is the head of the Xu family and the prime minister of the Southern Dynasty, what kind of beauty has not been seen? Men are all the same, for the beauty that is easy to get, they will feel that she is not self-conscious enough, and she is suspected of being too debauched, and she always doubts her character, so she will not cherish it.

"Especially old men, what they care more about is not how amazing the beauty's appearance is, but her identity, status and other additional things. Enjoying a beauty from above will make them even more satisfied.

"And for Zhao Yujie, there is really nothing to say about her background and status, where we can add value to her, is her reputation in the market, the more she is discussed, fantasized, and argued, the more interesting and valuable she is, the greater and more lasting Xu Minglang's interest will be. ”

Hearing these words, the two old men glanced at each other, and then thought about their own psychology, and couldn't help but admire Xiao Yan a lot.

After eating the mutton, Xiao Yan left the private room and walked down the stairs through the mezzanine of the wall to the dark basement.

This green building is Xiao Yan's core foothold in Yanping City.

Who would have thought that a noble princess would live in a green house?

Pushing open the stone door in the basement, winding along the tunnel, walking through many forks, and after opening the last white jade door, Xiao Yan entered another cave.

......

A wide basement was illuminated by the torches on the wall as if it were day, and Zhao Ning, who was standing with his hands in his hands, looked at the masterpiece in front of him, and his deep eyes implied the shadow of swords and swords.

This is the underground world that he used the power of the heir of the head of the family to gather a large number of cultivators to participate, and spent countless treasures and curiosities to build in two months.

The stone chamber with a radius of 100 steps, the ground is vertical and horizontal, there are famous mountains and rivers, and there are also city fortresses, outlining the entire Daqi territory.

At low altitude, there is a figure statue hanging by colorless silk threads, without a face, but there are big characters such as Zhao, Wei, Yang, Xu, Liu, Sun, and Wu on the chest, which are impressive from various families.

In the middle of the air, there is a dragon relief carving, in front of which is the mountain-like seat sculpture of the three provinces and six departments, Dali Temple, Honglu Temple, and the Sixteen Guards Forbidden Army.

From the statues of the family figures, red and gold thin lines have been moved, and the top of the mountain is geographically connected with the city on the ground, which is intricate and has a clear context.

Above the Great Wall on the north side, there is also a huge statue in the shape of an eagle, with "Beihu" written on its chest, and there are countless black lines under it, but it does not fall into place, fluttering.

In addition, there are some statues that have no name, like a cloud of black shadows.

The dome of the stone chamber is inlaid with star-like night pearls, each of which is wrapped in a jade straight tube engraved with a rune array, so that the light becomes a bunch that can only shine somewhere on the ground.

Zhao Ning extinguished the torch on the wall.

The entire stone chamber dimmed.

Only Yanmen Pass, Yanping Town Guogong Mansion, Dadu Governor's Mansion, and some scattered locations representing the Zhao family's industry and power have a beam of light cast by the night pearl, and it appears bright.

"This is Daqi, it is the world, and it is a little bright ...... that my Zhao clan can grasp."

Zhao Ning looked at the vast map and the vast world in front of him, and finally his gaze fell on the sporadic brightness.

Compared to the darkness of the whole world, a few points of light are like fireflies.

This is the world in front of Zhao Ning, the world he needs to face when he walks out the door.

Slowly exhaling a breath, Zhao Ning walked to the "Beihu" eagle statue on the north side, confirmed the memories of his previous life again, and pulled the floating black thin lines up the Great Qi territory map on the ground.

Everywhere it is pulled, there will be a beam of light from the night pearl, which will fall in the corresponding place, but it will be blood-colored, some will attract the silk threads of some houses, and some will extend to some statues without names.

After doing this, Zhao Ning fell into deep thought.

When all the places in this world are illuminated by the Night Pearl and become bright and bloodless, it will be the day when the internal troubles of Daqi will be eliminated.