Chapter 10: Return to the Palace
Along the way, day and night, non-stop for more than half a month, finally arrived in Beijing.
Weiwei found that on the way back, the children everywhere they went were singing a ballad: "A hundred flowers bloom, a hundred flowers fall, monsters appear, wild wipes are everywhere, wild wipes are everywhere, Taihang Mountain, there is no water in the west, Taihang Mountain, there are locusts in the east, monsters are present, wild wipes are everywhere, wild wipes are everywhere······"
Wei Wei knew that this was being targeted, and the person referred to in this nursery rhyme was herself, and now someone wanted to take advantage of the drought and locust plague in the Taihang Mountains of Shanxi Province to put on a charge of calamity to the country and the people. The ancients were ignorant and devout in their devotion to the prophecies of the gods, and when the time came, they themselves would be the ones who were really evil.
In the previous life, the emperor ordered that the people should be forbidden to spread this nursery rhyme, but at that time, he had no intention of discovering the stakes. It seems that this trip back to the palace must be sinister, and this time it must not be slaughtered and waited for death.
This time I returned to the palace, and there were many things to solve.
Wei Wei specially explained to Gonggong Li beside Emperor Hui, took good care of the emperor, and sent a few more palace people to stay by the emperor's side day and night, and report any situation at any time.
When Emperor Hui got out of the carriage, he didn't have time to change his court clothes, and went straight to the court.
Wei Wei returned to Shaowu Palace, carefully recalling what happened in the palace after returning to the palace after the southern tour in her previous life. In the previous life, it was the Ganlu Hall that walked the water, and after the fire, Emperor Hui was dropped, and he never had the opportunity to see Emperor Hui again. Now it's best to let Emperor Hui no longer go to the Ganlu Palace, but the murderer in this life can change to another arson location. Open guns are easy to block, but hidden arrows are difficult to prevent.
In addition, it is necessary to find out the puppet who plays the reign of Emperor Hui as soon as possible. This person likes to play and sing songs, and he can break through from this direction.
Wei Wei decided to go and greet Empress Liu.
"The concubine asks the queen to say goodbye!" Wei Wei came to Yanxi Palace, this Queen Liu is the daughter of Prime Minister Liu Cheng, elegant and calm, solemn and generous, and her joy is not revealed.
"Concubine Guo Guifei is exempt, this way to accompany the emperor on his southern tour to observe the people's situation, thanks to you for bothering to take care of the emperor, it's hard!" Empress Liu's words were flat.
"Thank you for the queen's compassion, this is what a concubine should do." Wei Wei motioned to the palace maid behind her and handed over a Nanmu box, "Queen Mother, this is the famous deep-water mussel beads in Nanhu, ground into powder, take a little every day, can make people's skin young and flawless." ”
Empress Liu asked the palace maid beside her to pick it up, "Concubine Guo has a heart." ”
"The concubine still has something she wants to ask the queen mother to help." Wei Wei said, "This southern tour, the concubine found a lot of good opera scripts among the people, I heard that Uncle Guo has always liked opera and music, and he should know a lot of Liyuan opera troupes in Beijing, can you ask someone to rehearse this drama for the concubine, so that everyone can listen to this southern drama and add some fun!" ”
Before Wei Wei came, she had already asked someone to secretly inquire about the situation in the palace of Queen Liu during this time, Liu Qing, the younger brother of Queen Liu, is the uncle of the country, has been to the palace two or three times, this Liu Qing relies on his own sister is the current queen, and he only cares about having fun on weekdays, running dogs and fighting cocks, drinking and prostitutes, and raising actors, he is a gentleman, which has long been spread in the palace It is not a secret.
Empress Liu was a little strange, "Isn't there a music house in the palace?" ”
Wei Wei pretended to be embarrassed and said: "Queen Mother, don't you know that these sons and beauties from the folk have privately decided such a drama for life, and the musicians in the palace will not sing it." ”
Empress Liu sneered in her heart, this Guo Guifei is really not afraid of many things by relying on the emperor's favor, and now that the disaster in Shanxi is serious, the matter of nursery rhymes has already burned her eyebrows, and she still has the heart to listen to these filthy dramas, and she is not afraid of falling into the hands of others, which is really stupid.
"Okay, tomorrow I will let Uncle Guo enter the palace, and the concubine herself told him that the palace will not interfere in this matter." The meaning is obvious, if there is anything that has nothing to do with this palace.
"It's better that way." Vivi said to herself.
The next day, before the hour.
Liu Qing was really waiting in Yanxi Palace. Wei Wei ordered someone to wrap a stack of scripts for him to take back, and told him to find someone to rehearse.
Wei Wei bet that if this fake Emperor Hui was really Liu Qing's person, he would definitely not miss these scripts. These are written by Wei Wei according to famous works, and they have not been written in this era, such as "The Peony Pavilion", "The Legend of Nanke", "Occupy the Oiran", and even Shakespeare's "Juliet and Romeo" have been moved out, and he is not afraid that the drama idiot will not be greedy.
As soon as Liu Qing left the palace in front, Weiwei sent someone to keep an eye on him, which was the time when the fox always showed his stuffing.
Emperor Hui was so busy with the disaster in the past two days that he didn't think about it.
However, someone folded up and said, "Born with visions, there are demons in the harem, and the drought and locust plagues are all monsters that harm the people in the world." I implore the emperor to get rid of the demon in order to quell the trouble. ”
"Which one is a demon? Guo Guifei is the daughter of a hero, you are simply ignorant, listen to a few nursery rhymes of Huangkou children, do you want me to be the unfaithful and unrighteous faint king? ”
Weiwei heard the eunuch report that the emperor was angry with those old men in order to protect himself in the court.
So she came to the court hall to ask for a meeting, and she had to think of ways to suppress these pedantic old men.
The emperor summoned Weiwei into the palace.
She remembered that the drought in her previous life seemed to be solved not long after, and the sudden rainstorm in the local area lasted for more than half a month, "Qi Yu Emperor, the concubines saw that the emperor was worried about the disaster in Shanxi all day long, and she couldn't bear it, and the concubines knelt down every day to beg the gods, and sincerely prayed that God would protect my emperor and the people. ”
After hearing this, Emperor Hui couldn't help but be overjoyed, and then he was worried, thinking to himself when Cai Wei learned to watch the stars recklessly, what if there was a mistake in stargazing and the drought was unsolved? "Ai Concubine, I have worked hard for you, I present you with good words, I thank you for caring for the people of the world, it is good to have this heart, I will work with the courtiers to overcome the difficulties and let Shanxi get through this difficulty!"
Wei Wei knew that Emperor Hui had exonerated her, and she was afraid that she would not be able to complete the round when she said something big, but she came prepared, fearless, and she was also a human being from the era of technological development. As for the locust plague, we have to use our brains to see how to cure it. She remembered that the ancients used fire to burn and dig pits to bury them. Wei Wei continued to propose to Emperor Hui: "Your Majesty, in addition to using fire and digging pits, can you consider using poultry or beneficial birds to solve the locust infestation, you can collect a large number of live poultry from all over the country to the disaster area, and on the other hand, a large number of breeding and artificial breeding are also carried out, and then planting crops that locusts do not like to eat, such as cotton, red beans and soybeans, well-known, buckwheat, etc., while eliminating locusts, local animal husbandry and agriculture have been developed." Only by planting forests and building embankments can we fundamentally solve the disaster. ”
Emperor Hui praised him when he heard it, "I can't imagine that although Cai Wei is a woman, her ideas are not inferior to men." The ministers standing on the side also nodded and praised each other, and they all had different views on this Guo Guifei.
Wei Wei breathed a big sigh of relief, thinking to herself that this was not like an exam, just pass.
And Emperor Hui looked at Weiwei's expression again, and it had a different meaning, as if he was reacquainting himself with Caiwei in front of him.
Sure enough, everyone was actually waiting. Four days later, torrential rain continued to fall in Shanxi. On the fifth day, the palace received an urgent message. There was a congratulatory voice above the court, "Congratulations to the emperor, the gods protect you!" ”
Hui Di couldn't help but be overjoyed, these days of worries were finally solved, he immediately listened to Wei Wei's suggestion, "Build a high embankment to prevent flooding." ”
After adopting some of Weiwei's methods, the locust plague gradually eased, and the local displaced people were also suppressed by the government and returned to the life of planting trees, planting forests, raising chickens and ducks.
As for the folk, there is a new nursery rhyme passed on by children's word of mouth: "Qi Shenming, stargazing, Bodhisattva from the sky, Cai Wei Niangniang, Shi En Lu, driving locusts, Puze the world ······"