There are two kinds of princes.

The prince and the prince of the county.

The princes are all blood relatives of the emperor, and at present, there are princes with names and surnames in the Daqian Dynasty, all of whom are hung in the imperial ancestral hall, and are admired by 10,000 people. As for the county king, he has not been sealed since the founding of the country.

From the way of sealing the king, there are two kinds, merit and grace. To put it simply, one is that the merit is high and almost shocks the master, and the other is after the emperor.

Prince Zheng seems to belong to the third type.

The emperor had a request for him.

But Zheng Xiu is not short of money, and second, he is not interested in power. For the emperor, this kind of person is undoubtedly the best person to confer the title of prince of the county - it is better to be safe.

On the main basilica.

When Zheng Xiu put on the hat of the little tiger king, the civil and military officials and the three princes all cast all kinds of complicated eyes such as envy, doubt, jealousy, and admiration at Zheng Xiu.

"Meet the Red King!"

At the moment when the ceremony of sealing the king ended, hundreds of civil and military officials knelt down one after another to pay homage to the newly promoted Red King!

Zheng Xiu looked back and looked at the civil and military officials, including the prime ministers on the left and right, who were all kneeling on the ground, even Zheng Xiu, who had always had no desire for power, couldn't help but feel an alternative emotion.

The name of the Red King, although he has no real power and cannot interfere in politics, but the dignity of his identity can now be said to be equivalent to the royal family of Daqian, under one person, above ten thousand people!

The Red King is now the only prince in the Great Qian Dynasty - the Red King!

"The Red King......

Pure heart?

Zheng Xiu pondered this strange title, looked at the emperor's majestic and loving gaze, and asked in a low voice: "If my father could return to his hometown in fine clothes and not die on the battlefield, the name of the Red King should belong to him." ”

The emperor heard Zheng Xiu's muttering, glared at Zheng Xiu with a smile, sat back on the dragon chair, and sighed lightly: "Daqian's foundation for hundreds of years, every foundation has the credit of your Zheng family's ancestors for generations. ”

"Thank you."

The form that should be taken still has to be taken.

Now, in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, civil officials have submitted a stack of land deeds.

This is the biggest benefit of the king, the place where Shuzhou belongs to him to collect taxes is listed on the title deed.

Once they become princes, as long as they don't fail, their descendants of the Zheng family will have no worries about food and clothing, and their status will be noble.

Zheng Xiu quickly picked up the prince's shelf, and smiled faintly: "Send it to my house." ”

"Throne!"

The Emperor ordered someone to bring a luxurious small stool, similar to the one under the buttocks of the three princes, and sat in the second seat, which seemed to be a step higher than the three princes in terms of order.

Zheng Xiu just thought about the name of the prince on his front foot, but he didn't expect the emperor to leave him to listen to political affairs.

Just listen to it.

Zheng Xiu sat down very face-savingly, and the eyes of the three princes intertwined with Zheng Xiu from time to time. The eldest prince and the third prince both showed "congratulations" on their faces, but the second prince had a complicated face. This reminded Zheng Xiu again of the time when the flower was in front of the moon, and the child sneered and asked him if he knew how to write the dead word, which made people sigh that things are human beings, this time and that time.

After Zheng Xiu was crowned the Red King, his mood in the early court was like an office worker looking forward to ringing the bell on time.

The recitals from all over the Great Cadre were presented and read out one by one, and occasionally the Emperor would consult the opinions of hundreds of officials.

In the early court, Zheng Xiu heard several things that he was interested in.

Among them, it seems to be related to a trick.

He silently remembered it in his heart.

Someone once again mentioned the drought and flood in the south, and when the emperor lightly proposed how to relieve the disaster, he looked at the newly promoted Red King.

Zheng Xiu said indifferently that he would donate a year's tax collection from Shuzhou, and all the officials applauded and called the emperor Shengming. Looking at the faces that wanted to praise themselves but were not embarrassed to praise, Zheng Xiu had to sigh that this was the way to be an official.

Finally got up to work.

Hundreds of civil and military officials retreated from the dynasty in an orderly manner.

The Emperor did not mention the matter of letting Zheng Xiu take over as the Lord of the Night in the early dynasty, after all, Ye Weiyang's work has always been hidden behind the scenes. But the emperor looked at Zheng Xiu's gaze before parting, as if to say: You know.

Zheng Xiu nodded towards the Emperor and walked out of the hall tacitly.

Many officials greeted one after another, sent their congratulations, and cordially shouted out to Prince Zheng. There are even enthusiastic officials who kindly asked Zheng Xiu if there was a lack of concubines and partial rooms in his family, and his family had a girl who had just grown up, with a flower appearance and moon appearance, and was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, playing, singing, and everyone who understood the meaning of the words understood.

After Zheng Xiuwan refused many maidens and dinners sent to the door, she caught up with Jiang Gaoyi, who carefully walked down the ladder on the stairs.

"Master Jiang."

Zheng Xiu said with a smile.

"Shhh Jiang Gaoyi was flattered and bowed his hand to Zheng Xiu: "I've seen the Red King." ”

Zheng Xiu walked two steps faster, standing side by side with Jiang Gaoyi, and after Jiang Gaoyi said, he quietly walked half a step slower, landing half of Zheng Xiu's shoulder. Zheng Xiu noticed this small detail of Jiang Gaoyi, and secretly said that he deserved to be the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, but he didn't say anything, and chatted with Jiang Gaoyi with or without a match.

The rest of the hundred officials were anxious to deal with the newly promoted prince, but when they saw that Zheng Wangye took the initiative to walk to Jiang Gaoyi's side, they all gasped and secretly pondered the meaning.

In the imperial court, gangs form small groups, which is an unspoken rule in officialdom. The three princes all have their own good officials, and they have done a lot of work on weekdays, otherwise, before the ancestor worship ceremony on March 3, there would not be many officials praising the three princes in the early dynasty, and it can be seen that the three princes have done a very good job.

Now, the newly promoted Red King obviously has a different view of Jiang Gaoyi, which makes many officials associate with Jiang Gaoyi's Viscount not long ago, and they think about it for a while.

Zheng Xiu and Jiang Gaoyi walked in front, and the rest of the officials followed far behind, not daring to overtake.

"It's really tiring to be an official."

Zheng Xiuyi pointed and said to Jiang Gaoyi with a smile.

"Everyone has his own ambitions." Jiang Gaoyi first replied ambiguously, and then sighed a little: "King Red is a master of the world, and he doesn't like this mundane thing. ”

"Master Jiang, after all, you have become the person you hated back then."

Zheng Xiu winked at Jiang Gaoyi.

Jiang Gaoyi didn't have the slightest embarrassment on his face, he stared at Zheng Xiu's face carefully, and shook his head: "The minister can't realize it later, the world is a pool of five-color dyeing vats, who can be alone?" ”

"What do you see in my face?" Zheng Xiu saw Jiang Gaoyi staring at his face, and remembered the thaumaturgy of "observing words and colors" that Jiang Gaoyi had comprehended after glimpsing the [official] door, and asked curiously.

"The ministers can't read the prince's mind, but they can see their mind." Jiang Gaoyi said with a smile, after walking for a while, although he was still deliberately one position behind, his words were less restrained at the beginning, and he seemed to gradually get used to Zheng Xiuxin's identity - after all, Zheng Xiu did not use the identity of the prince to deliberately put up a fight for Jiang Gaoyi. Of course, Jiang Gaoyi understands that this is also Zheng Xiu's deliberate, deliberately doing it for the civil and military officials, which is a great opportunity for him. Thinking of this, Jiang Gaoyi's face turned red, suppressing the joy in his heart.

"Oh? What are they thinking right now? ”

"Their faces are full of 'fear'."

"Afraid of me?"

"Of course." After Jiang Gaoyi pondered for a moment or two, he lowered his voice and said: "The prince was already rich in the world, and now he has become the first county king with a different surname since the founding of the country. What does the prince want to do now, except for the saint, no one can stop them, they are ...... I'm scared. ”

That's why I invited me to dinner and sent my daughter, but I didn't send my wife.

"Master Jiang, I'...... Ahem, this king is very curious, what kind of extent can you see in your 'observation of words and colors'? ”

When the two were about to walk out of the palace, Zheng Xiu asked in a whisper to Jiang Gaoyi.

Jiang Gaoyi secretly made an "eight" gesture towards Zheng Xiubi: "The minister can now distinguish joy, anger, sorrow and happiness from people's faces. After a moment's hesitation, Jiang Gaoyi said again: "I can vaguely see good and evil, loyal and treacherous. ”

"That," Zheng Xiu nodded: "After some time, this king has some personal matters, and he has to bother Lord Jiang for a while." ”

Jiang Gaoyi was stunned when he heard this, and he was curious, but he didn't ask more, and nodded: "Let the Red King command." ”

"Okay."

Don't pass the officialdom upstart Jiang Gaoyi, Zheng Xiu just stepped out of the palace, and a luxurious carriage was parked not far in front of the door

Two sturdy and mighty horses sneered at the heat, the curtain of the carriage hung down with beaded curtains, the body was painted with gold paint, and the axles and wheels were carved with delicate veins of flowers and leaves. Around the carriage were small colorful flags with the word "Zheng" written on them. Yin Qingqing was waiting next to the car, and when Zheng Xiu stepped forward, she bowed her head and bowed: "Slave Qingqing has seen the Red King." ”

It is worthy of being a secret department, and it is very well-informed.

Wearing a hat and stepping on straw sandals, Qing Shisan, who was dressed as always in a dick silk costume, raised the brim of his hat and smoked a dry cigarette, as soon as he saw Zheng Xiu, he hurriedly got out of the car to catch up, winked at Zheng Xiu, and then said loudly: "Welcome King Chi back to his house!" ”

The people around were in an uproar.

For a while, the richest man Zheng and the former loyal martyr Marquis, now becoming Prince Zheng, is like an angel's little wings, and it didn't take long for it to spread all over the streets and alleys.

When Qing 13 drove the carriage slowly and leisurely through the city and returned to Zheng's house, the fact that the Red King was crowned was already a sensation in the city.

The front of Zheng's house was full of people watching the excitement, and more of them were people under the Zheng family. There were many Zheng thaumaturgists hidden among them, and when Zheng Xiu appeared, they all showed relieved smiles.

"Sir!"

"Sir!"

"Yikes! Old Zheng Quanxia knows that he will be able to laugh out of his eyes! The little prince has a future! ”

"Phew! Xiao Zheng has already had a chance! Now it's more promising! ”

"In the future, you can't call the master, you have to call the prince!"

"Hey, yes, yes, we have to call the prince!"

"Lord Wang!"

"Lord Wang!"

A group of elderly uncles and aunts happily surrounded Zheng Xiu, shouting about the prince, but they didn't seem to take the prince seriously at all, as if they were not seeing the prince, just like their own son marrying a daughter-in-law.

In the crowd, the tailor Xi'er blushed and pointed to the royal robe worn by Zheng Xiu: "See, the one worn by Prince Zheng is made by myself!" ”

She didn't say a word, sat and sat up, and pushed open a new door.

Zheng Xiu didn't know that he was inadvertently picked up by Xi'er, and after responding to the kindness of the Zheng villagers one by one, he walked to the door of Zheng's house surrounded by everyone, looked up, and couldn't help but be stunned.

When Zheng Xiu looked up at the plaque, Ji Hongrong and Pei Gaoya, who had been waiting for a long time, laughed at the same time, flew up, and took off the red cloth to reveal a new plaque - "Red King Mansion"!

Babble –

The door was pushed open, the fragrant wind was blowing, and Zheng Erniang stood behind the door with tears streaming down her face, smiling, and looking at Zheng Xiu quietly.

Fengbei stood beside Erniang.

The maids stood behind Erniang.

"Isn't it just a prince."

Zheng Xiu smiled lightly, took a big stride, and stepped into the Red King's Mansion.

……

A month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Late spring and early summer.

On the edge of the canal in the distance, the painting boat is laughing and singing, and from time to time there are cicadas singing to call summer, which is passed over.

"Isn't it just a prince."

"Just a prince."

Inside the study.

Zheng Xiu looked at the dazzling brocade boxes piled up on the floor of the study and rubbed his eyebrows.

Yin Qingqing was making tea on the side, Qing Shisan was holding a pile of paper, the cigarette stick was hanging on his waist, and he looked at Zheng Xiu who was rubbing his eyebrows with a smile.

"Where is my Fengbei?"

"Miss Fengbei is catching a cat outside." When Zheng Xiu asked, Qing Shisan replied truthfully: "Miss Fengbei has been quite interested in that orange cat in recent days. ”

Not long after he became the prince, the orange cat accidentally jumped into Fengbei's arms and touched Fengbei's hand - the tragic scene of a kitten being wiped into slag by Fengbei was not staged, this cat is really weird, and it can resist Fengbei's ominousness. Since that day, Fengbei seems to be addicted, rubbing the cat all day long, the cat was interesting at first, and then he was rubbed so that he couldn't take care of himself, so he began to avoid Fengbei, Fengbei gave full play to the talent of the strange ear and eye, and played hide and seek with the cat in the Red King's Mansion, this catch was a month, and even Zheng Xiu was left out in the cold.

In fact, she is using cats to study her own ominousness.

Feng Bei realized that after returning from the cannibal painting, he could touch the cat, so he naturally wanted to study it.

Whether it's the cat's problem or her problem, that's the question.

"Lord Wang," Qing 13 changed his words smoothly, and said with a smile: "The things sent from outside these days have been counted, do you want to listen to it." ”

"Duan's, tattooed silver thousand taels ......"

"Stop." When Zheng Xiu heard this, he waved his hand: "Don't read the silver, go back the same way." ”

"Done." Qing 13 nodded unexpectedly, threw away the stack of lists in his hand, and read something else.

"A pair of 100-year-old snow ginseng in Tianyin Mountain."

"A night pearl in the South China Sea."

"One hundred taels of dried blood mussels in the East China Sea."

"Qiannan Zilu makes up for a whip."

Qing 13 read all the way down, there were no pages left except for the silver, and at the end of the reading, Qing 13 was stunned, and said with a strange face: "The blonde bed warmer in the Western Regions is a pair of young and white-skinned maids." ”

Zheng Xiu first made people go back, and then remembered the word "Western Regions", and couldn't help asking: "Wait, who sent it?" ”

When Qing 13 saw the gift giver's line clearly, the banter on his face disappeared without a trace, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly grinned and said four words: "Blind Chen Wei." ”

……

When Zheng Xiu found Fengbei in the courtyard, she was standing on the roof, listening with her eyes closed.

"Can you hear the sound of all things again?"

Zheng Xiu asked below.

Feng Bei opened his eyes, a little discouraged, and shook his head: "This cat is getting better and better at hiding." ”

Zheng Xiu was quite surprised, he knew that Fengbei and the kitten were scratching and seeking, but what he didn't expect was that Fengbei actually lost to a kitten in catching and seeking.

During this time, they have been teasing the cat, and they have always wanted this little female meow to take the initiative to show the cat's feet. It's just that this cat doesn't show anything unusual except for being cold, scolding, and being able to hide and seek, as if it is an ordinary orange cat that can scold.

"Look at me!"

Zheng Xiu ran back to the study and took out a treasured puppet from the dark compartment. The puppet is hand-sewn by the skillful bride, and it looks like a small fish, fat and white.

Zheng Xiu took out the fish puppet, ran back to the yard, and whistled: "Look at the fish!" ”

Then he threw the fish puppet into the sky.

Feng Bei and Zheng Xiu looked up at the puppet.

Shout!

A small figure flashed out of thin air, opened its mouth to grab the fish puppet, and landed in the middle of the courtyard, tearing it with its teeth and claws, rolling on the ground as it went, and playing with the new toy.

Feng Bei fell from the roof, looked at the cat, and learned the way of the heart.

"I'm in the world in the painting, whenever I almost can't tell who I am, when I see Xiao Fengmeow, I suddenly remember who I am." Feng Bei looked at it, her expression was a little softer, and she whispered, she inadvertently remembered those ten years, showing a nostalgic look.

Zheng Xiu was slightly stunned: "Why?" ”

Fengbei: "It's not because the real Xie couple have never had a cat in the valley. All they had were the two camels. So every time I see Xiao Fengmeow, I think of my true self, and I also remember that I have been pretending to be her all along. ”

Zheng Xiu was surprised, but his attention fell on another detail: "How can you be sure that they have never had a cat?" ”

Fengbei was silent and turned his head to look at Zheng Xiu: "At the end of the shattered world in the painting, didn't you see Gongsun Mo's experience?" Xie Luohe's experience, at that moment, did not enter my heart at all, bit by bit, made me immersive. ”

Zheng Xiu glared and shook his head: "I only saw some fragments...... Wait, I just remembered that Gongsun Mo and Xie Luohe had never touched a cat or raised a cat in their lives. Moreover, two hundred years ago, there was no trend of captive domestic cats in Daqian, cats originated from countries in the Western Regions, the Green River Road was broken, the Western Regions and Daqian exchanges were blocked, and Gongsun Mo had never even seen cats......"

"It's impossible to draw something you've never seen before......," Zheng Xiu lowered his head and muttered to himself, "I've always mistakenly thought that this cat was brought out of the painting by some means, and after we left, something attached to the original little orange cat." ”

"No, this thing didn't come from a painting at all, and Gongsun Mo may have never painted a cat."

"The 'thing' that was attached to the original little orange cat came from somewhere else!"

"From where?"

A drop of cold sweat appeared on Prince Zheng's forehead.

He hurriedly ran to the orange cat rolling on the ground and squatted down.

"Little phoenix meow, ......" Zheng Xiu said to the cat in a deep voice: "You said that we have raised you for many years, you eat well and live well, this king asked himself that he has treated you well in and out of the painting over the years." ”

"You tell me honestly, if it's true, you blink."

The cat stopped scratching, raised its head in confusion, and looked at Zheng Xiu.

Zheng Xiu looked at the pair of emotionless vertical pupils.

"You...... From Changyan? ”

Zheng Xiu gritted his teeth and asked.

"Meow!"

Soon.

Meow blinked and exclaimed.

Ask for a commuter pass!