Walking into the alley, not far from the gate of his yard, Hai Rui saw a person sitting on the threshold of the closed courtyard gate in the heavy snow, with snow floating on his body, and a large bamboo basket covered with cloth beside him.

Closer, Hai Rui recognized it as Qi Dazhu's wife.

Qi Dazhu's wife also saw him clearly, and quickly stood up: "Engong has returned home?" ”

Hai Rui looked at her and then at the bamboo basket placed by the door: "What are you doing sitting here in such heavy snow?" ”

Qi Dazhu's wife: "Engong, Dazhu can't come if he has an errand, and it's inconvenient to come, so ask me to send some New Year's goods to Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Sister-in-law." ”

Hai Rui was still grateful in his heart, but his face was very serious: "I said earlier, don't come, let alone send things to my house." Why not listen? ”

Qi Dazhu's wife: "Usually we don't come when we want to, but it's the New Year, Engong, you can let us do some filial piety to Mrs. Tai." ”

Hai Rui: "You have accepted Mrs. Tai's filial piety, take the things back, I will never ask for it." ”

Qi Dazhu's wife still didn't give up: "Then let me meet Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Sister-in-law!" ”

Hai Rui: "It's gone. Your family is also going to celebrate the New Year, so go back. ”

Qi Dazhu's wife slowly bent down and lifted the bamboo basket, lifted the cloth on one side, revealing a hen with her feet and wings tied and a number of eggs and some paper bags, and looked at Hai Rui: "Don't want Dazhu's things, this chicken is raised by me, and the eggs are all from this chicken, so it's always okay to mend the fetal body for my sister-in-law, right?" As he spoke, his eyes were full of pleading.

Hai Rui was silent, and after a while, he reached out and took out four eggs from it: "Thank you." It's cold, let's go home. ”

Qi Dazhu's wife knew that it was useless to say more, tears flashed in her eyes when she covered the cloth, and she walked into the heavy snow with her head down with her head down with her basket down.

Hai Rui watched her disappear into the snow, looked down at the four eggs in her left hand, and was also gloomy for a while, and raised her head before knocking on the door.

After a while, Haimu's voice came from inside the door: "Why don't you go back?" I'm so angry if I don't leave. ”

"Mother, it's me." Hai Jui hid the egg in his sleeve and replied loudly outside the door.

The courtyard door just opened, and Hai Mu stood inside the door: "Is the business done?" ”

"Back to my mother, my business is over." Answered, Hai Rui entered the door.

Hai Mu closed the courtyard door: "Dazhu's daughter-in-law came just now, and she insisted on sending something, so I thought it was her." ”

"It's time to go." Hai Rui replied again, and walked into the north room with his mother in his arms.

"Sit, don't get up." Seeing that the sea wife in front of the spinning wheel was about to stand up, the sea mother hurriedly drank her.

The Umi sat back on the stool.

Outside the door, she took off a broom hanging from the door frame, dusted off the snow from her head and body, and dusted herself, taking off her shoes and entering the house barefoot.

Hai Rui also took off his shoes and socks, and went into the house barefoot like his mother.

On the east wall, there was a wooden machine weaving cotton cloth, and about three inches of cloth had just been woven on the nose.

Hai Rui looked at the table, and his mother had finished weaving the cotton cloth from last night in half a morning, and now it was on the table, he felt uncomfortable in his heart, and looked at his mother with a smile: "This day is my grandmother is the most capable, when my son left in the morning, I thought that this cloth would not be finished until the afternoon, but I didn't think it would be woven so soon." ”

Hai Mu sat down in front of the loom again: "Don't say anything else, weaving is still our Hainan people." Huang Daopo also learned from us, and it spread in the inland provinces. Ruxian, the kitchen has warmed the porridge for you, and there are a few nests. After eating, I changed into this official uniform, took the cloth to the front door and sold it, and our New Year's goods were available. ”

Hai Jui: "Yes. ”

The sea wife had already stood up at this time: "I'll go." ”

"I can't get up, but I get up again." The jellyfish turned her head and sank her face.

Hai's wife lowered her head slightly: "It's not more than three months, and Imperial Doctor Li also said that he wants to walk more." Don't worry too much, besides, the kitchen is not a place where officials should go. ”

Hai Rui continued, "Mother, let her walk around." ”

"Go ahead." The sea mother stopped looking at them, and the loom began to rattle continuously.

Hai Rui waited for his wife to walk in front of him, motioned for her to stop, took out the four eggs from his arms, and said in a low voice: "It's all cooked, you eat two, and Grandma eats two." ”

The sea wife looked at him.

Hai Rui subconsciously looked at his wife's stomach and looked into her eyes again: "There is snow in the yard, go slowly, go." As he spoke, he took off his hat and walked to the west study to change his clothes.

No matter how heavy the snow is, it can't stop the New Year, the rich and the don't have the money to buy and sell the New Year's goods, at this time they are crowded with a street, needless to say in the shop, there are sheds on both sides of the street to hold umbrellas, chickens, ducks, fish, noodles, dried fruits, New Year's paintings, couplets, firecrackers, sugar, people want to buy everything.

Hai Rui wore a cloth hat with a back brim, changed into a coarse cloth cotton robe, held an umbrella in his left hand, and held the cloth in his right hand.

In front of the counter, all the cloth were bought, only Hai Rui was a cloth seller, and he took the umbrella and stood behind the cloth buyers in a daze, but he didn't know how to sell the cloth to them.

The sharp eyes of an elderly steward at the counter saw Hai Rui and the cloth in Hai Rui's arms through the crowd at a glance, and beckoned to him.

Hai Rui hurriedly walked over.

The old steward: "You want to sell this cloth?" ”

Hai Jui: "Exactly. Ask the shopkeeper to see how much it is worth. ”

The old steward dragged the cloth, rolled his eyes up, touched the surface of the cloth with his fingers, dragged out another piece of the cloth, stroked it all the way with his palm, and then looked at Hai Rui: "This cloth is still smoothly woven." If the guest officer came half a month earlier, the price would be easier to negotiate. At this time, you can't afford to sell for a price. ”

Hai Jui: "So why? ”

The old housekeeper: "We can send it to the dyeing workshop half a month earlier to dye, who will wear white cloth now for the New Year?" ”

Hai Rui: "I see. Then the shopkeeper will make a price. ”

The old steward: "I don't think you, a guest officer, are in business, and I won't cheat you." Half a month ago, I could give you fifteen hangings, and now I can give you up to twelve hangings. ”

Hai Rui: "Shopkeeper, we have to pay ten dollars to buy cotton to weave this cloth." Twelve hangings are also too little. ”

The old steward: "Thirteen hangs, no more." ”

From spinning to weaving, it took half a moon for his mother and daughter-in-law to weave this cloth, and although Hai Rui did not know the price, he also knew that the price was too sorry for the work of his family, so he stopped talking, rolled up the cloth and wanted to leave.

"Fourteen hangings." The old steward stopped him again, "It depends on how well you weave this cloth." How is it? ”

Hai Rui: "Fifteen hangs, if you don't buy it, I'll find another buyer." ”

"Take fifteen copper coins!" The old steward immediately shouted to a young man beside him.

Carrying a sack of rice, a chicken and a fish, Hai Rui found that the courtyard gate was open when he walked outside the courtyard gate, and he was suspicious for a moment and immediately walked in. Only then did he see that a household clerk's office was waiting for him at the door of the main entrance of the north house. Knowing that there was another important messenger, he hurried over. The clerk also saw him, and hurriedly greeted him and took the rice on his shoulder: "It's good to wait for the little one." There is an urgent business in the ministry, please go immediately. ”

"What's the rush? Is it that hundreds of officials are still making trouble in the household department? Hai Rui walked to the kitchen with the chicken and the fish.

The clerk followed him behind him with rice on his back: "All the officials are making trouble." It was the two counties of Daxing and Wanping in Shuntianfu that did not allocate enough porridge and rice, and many people were lying down, and I heard that there were already people from the White Lotus Sect who were taking the opportunity to incite it, and it was not good to provoke a rebellion among the people. ”

Hai Rui slammed to a halt at the kitchen door.

The clerk then said: "On the day of great joy, this matter cannot be let the emperor know. The adults in the cabinet and the ministry were so anxious that they were smoking, and they discussed that they would urgently transfer some grain and rice from the military grain depot in Tongzhou, and the household department would send people to escort them, and quickly set up porridge sheds, so that no one could starve to death again. Si Li said, Daxing let Master Hai take care of it. ”

Hai Rui: "I'll go!" ”

Winter is shorter in Japan, and it gets darker when it snows heavily. The two eunuchs on duty lit candles in several places leading to the Jingshe in the main hall of Yuxi Palace, and Huang Jin came in wearing a cloak.

The two eunuchs on duty hurriedly knelt down: "The slave knocked on Gonggong Huang." ”

Huang Jin: "Get up, Gonggong Chen is still inside?" ”

The two eunuchs on duty got up: "Yes, I am waiting for Huang Gonggong to take turns to serve Long Live Lord." ”

Huang Jin: "I don't need you here, just wait outside the palace gate." ”

Two eunuchs on duty: "Yes." He replied and withdrew from the temple gate.

Huang Jin walked to the first door of the main hall leading to the fine house and knelt down: "Slave Huang Jin is waiting for the master, long live the master!" ”

Soon, Chen Hong came out of it, and Huang Jin stood up, the cloak was still on his body, and his hands were bulging in the cloak.

Huang Jin: "Long live the master, is the Holy Body safe?" ”

Chen Hong looked at him strangely: "Holy Communion." What are you doing with a cloak when you enter the temple? ”

Huang Jin: "It's been very cold this year, I forgot. ”

Chen Hong: "Don't take it off yet." ”

Huang Jinwu didn't take off his cloak: "Got it." Don't forget to put on a cloak before Gonggong Chen leaves the palace, beware of catching a cold. ”

"I'll wear it now, you can take it off now." Chen Hong took off the cloak hanging on the hanger in the passage of the main hall into the fine house, and put it on his body, still staring at Huang Jin tightly.

"What, for so long?" Jiajing's voice came from the house.

Huang Jin immediately answered: "Long live the master, Gonggong Chen has a few words to ask the slave." ”

Jiajing's voice: "Have you finished asking?" ”

Chen Hong panicked: "Come in!" ”

Huang Jin actually wore a cloak and walked into the second door of the Jingshe.

Chen Hong looked at the Jingshe again suspiciously, and then walked out of the main hall.

Outside the door of the main hall, the two eunuchs on duty followed him and closed the door of the main hall from the outside.

This year, all the windows on the south side of the house were not opened, so that the room was filled with cigarettes, so that the lanterns and candles were yellow.

Jiajing was still wearing the silk coat and sitting cross-legged on the futon.

"The master has been waiting for a long time, and the slave is here." Huang Jin was still wearing a cloak, knelt quickly, kowtowed, and quickly stood up. With both hands, he took out a purple sand medicine jar hidden in the cloak, as well as a string of wrapped Chinese medicine, and carefully placed it at the foot of the copper incense burner.

Jiajing looked at him: "Is the door of the palace closed?" ”

Huang Jin: "The slave will go to the gate." Still wearing a cloak and folding out the door of the ashram.

Jiajing's eyes were listening to Huang Jin's footsteps and hearing the sound of the latch on the gate of the outer hall, so he subconsciously wrapped the silk coat on his body tightly and closed his eyes.

Huang Jin came in again, saw the emperor wrapped his clothes tightly, knew that he was cold, walked to the side of the royal bed first, opened the wardrobe, and carefully took out the Songjiang thick cotton coat that Jiajing only wore in the summer, and walked to his back lightly: "Master, stretch out your hand." ”

Jiajing stretched out his hand back.

Huang Jin lifted the shoulders of the thick cotton coat, asked Jiajing to put his hand into the sleeve, pulled it for him behind him, knelt down around the front, and tied the belt for him. After tying the belt, Huang Jin touched Jiajing's hand again: "It's so cool!" No, the slave still has to add a jacket to the master. So saying, he ran to the closet again, took out a sleeveless thick cotton robe, walked behind him and added it to him, and when he went around to the front to button him, he couldn't help it, and his eyes were wet.

Jiajing: "I'm not sick, this is a sign of passing the test, what kind of tears are you shedding?" After these seven seven and forty-nine days, I will be free from all diseases, understand? ”

Huang Jin: "The slave understands. I only hope that the master of these forty-nine days must be supplemented with medicine, and he must not eat for a day and not eat for a day. ”

Jiajing: "You, like Lu Fang, are verbose. ”

"Yes." Huang Jin stood up, first opened the lid on the copper incense burner, blew a trace of gas into it, and the agarwood in the copper incense burner lit an open flame, and then he picked up the purple sand medicine jar under the copper incense burner, put it on the open flame, and nagged: "This medicine slave has been boiled in his own room, and he can drink it after warming the master." I went to get a porcelain bowl from the Jun kiln, wiped it in the water of the golden basin, carefully wiped it with an edelweiss cloth towel, put it on the imperial table, folded it back, reached out and touched the medicine jar in the copper incense burner, and said to myself: "It should be able to drink." He picked up the copper tongs and played with the incense ash in the copper stove, covered the open flame, put down the tongs, and took out the medicine jar.

"Be careful, don't burn your hands." Jiajing admonished.

Huang Jin: "Don't worry, master, the slave's skin is thick and the meat is not hot." He put down the medicine jar, uncovered the lid on the jar, picked up the medicine jar again, and carefully decanted the decoction into the Jun kiln porcelain bowl on the imperial case.

Walking in front of Jiajing with the bowl of medicine, Huang Jin took a sip of it himself, and said to himself: "It's just right, it's not cold or hot." The master hurriedly drank it. ”

Jiajing took the bowl with both hands and drank the bowl of medicine in one gulp.

Huang Jin smiled a little at this time, and said again when he took the bowl with both hands: "That's good, so the master's illness must get better quickly." ”

Jiajing was very strange, he couldn't get angry at all in front of this Huang Jin, but he was a little like an old child, and when he heard him say the word "sick" again, he was unhappy but said: "I just said, I am not sick." Are you deaf? ”

Huang Jin took the empty bowl and walked to the edge of the golden basin, picked up the edelweiss cotton towel and wiped it, took out a warm copper kettle from a fire barrel on the ground, poured half a bowl of warm water, and walked back to Jiajing: "The slave doesn't have to say that the master is sick, at least he has to say that he is sick when he passes the customs in the past forty-nine days." After holding the warm water, Jiajing took a mouthful and spit it back into the bowl.

Jiajing was a little helpless about him: "You said that I am sick, I am sick." ”

Huang Jin took the bowl away, poured hot water and walked back to Jiajing's side to slowly warm his face for him, and nagged to himself: "Today is the eighth day, and the master has made great progress after taking the first seven doses of medicine." After taking six more seven doses of medicine, the river opened, the geese came, and the master's dragon body was all healed. ”

"Does Lu Fang have a letter?" Jiajing's eyes suddenly looked out of the door and asked.

Huang Jin lowered his eyes: "Back to the master, no." ”

Jiajing: "He forgot about us. ”

Huang Jin: "It's not a slave who speaks for his godfather, not to mention that he is in Nanjing in this life, even if he is reincarnated in the next life, he can't forget his master." Unlike some people, who are by the side of the master all day long, and do not have the master in their hearts. ”

"That's right." Jiajing still looked out the door, "I beat a little emperor and take the imperial concubine to be a guest, there are no parents, no brothers, no caring people." If you want to say that there is, it is only one Lu Fang, and after he left, he left you behind me. He's still worthy of me. ”

Huang Jin's heart was sour, he turned around and left Jiajing by himself, sat on the threshold of the door of the house, and cried with a whimper.

Jiajing looked at him a little anxiously: "What are you crying there?" Are you afraid that others won't be able to hear? ”

Huang Jin slowly retracted his voice, choked up and sat there and replied: "The slave has something to hide from the master, today the master is to kill the slave, and the slave has to say it......"

Jiajing: "If you want to talk about it, come and say, sit in front of me and rub my feet for me." ”

"Yes." Huang Jin stood up, wiped his tears and walked to Jiajing and dragged a small tiger stool, sat down at his feet, held one of his legs and rested on his lap, and rubbed his feet for him: "Speaking of the slave's godfather, the slave is not afraid of the master's anger, he is loyal to the master." The medicines that the slave asked for for the master were actually discussed between the slave's godfather and Prince Yu, and asked Li Shizhen and Imperial Doctor Li to prescribe them. When he left Beijing, he instructed the slave to tell a lie, saying that it was someone else's medicine. The slave has now told the truth to the master, and the master can blame the slave, but don't blame the godfather of Prince Yu and the slave. ”

Jiajing looked at him, with both loneliness and comfort in his eyes: "You are not guilty if you say it." With your little caution, it's not like a lie. When I took the first dose of medicine, I knew that it was prescribed by Li Shizhen. Look at your foolish self-inflicted cleverness, I just won't break you. ”

Huang Jin was a little unconvinced, and looked at Jiajing innocently: "How did the master know?" ”

Jiajing: "Asking Li Shizhen to prescribe medicine to me was what Lu Fang asked me before leaving, and I approved his performance and asked him to ask you to do it." I was in the dark, I didn't know anything, and I thought I knew how much I knew in my heart. ”

Only then did Huang Jin know that Lu Fang was still in Jiajing's heart, and he was happy for a while, but he looked stupid when he laughed: "Yes." A slave is a stupid man. ”

Jiajing: "Stupid people are good, stupid people are reliable, and they can be intimate with me." ”

Huang Jin: "The master doesn't dare to agree with all the slaves. Prince Yu and the slave's godfather Lu Fang are not stupid, but they are both intimate with their masters. There are also many loyal ministers, who are not stupid people, and they may not be intimate with their masters. Let's talk about that Li Shizhen, who was on an errand in the Tai Hospital, bumped into the master and left the palace. After so many years, I still worry about my master, and I traveled thousands of miles to rush to Beijing to prescribe medicine for my master. If they weren't close to their master, they wouldn't do it. ”

Jiajing thought for a while: "You can't say that you are unreasonable. But in the final analysis, there are only two kinds of people in this world who can really be relied on: one is stupid and the other is straight. Stupid people don't have eyes, and straight people don't have eyes. I don't care about these two kinds of people, and I don't have a heart and mind with these two kinds of people. For example, if you are straight and stupid, I can rest assured. There are also some people who are just straight and not stupid, and although I sometimes annoy them, I will not get along with them. Do you know who this kind of person I am talking about? ”

Huang Jin thought for a while: "Is Li Shizhen counted as one?" ”

Jiajing: "Count it as one." And also. ”

Huang Jin thought about it again and suddenly said, "That Hai Rui in the household? ”

Jiajing smiled: "It doesn't look like you're a stupid person." ”

Huang Jin also smiled: "No matter how stupid the slave is, he can't get that point." collided with the master, but the master didn't care about him, and the slave remembered these two people. ”

"Li Shizhen, this medicine is good!" Jiajing stopped talking to him about the topic and stood up.

Huang Jin hurriedly stood up and grabbed one of his arms.

Jiajing waved his hand, stretched his long arms up, and took a deep breath; He hugged his arms back to his chest, and spat out the long breath, feeling refreshed at this time: "I want to go out for a walk, but you are not allowed to stop me." ”

Huang Jin was taken aback: "Where does the master want to go?" ”

Jiajing: "The two palaces and the two temples will be completed the day after tomorrow." Don't alarm others, you accompany me to have a look. ”

"That's not going to work!" Huang Jin was anxious when he heard this, "It's a big wind and snow outside, and it's hard to get cold again." ”

"Wear thicker." Jiajing waved his hand, "Then find out the leather robe I used from the bottom of the box." ”

He didn't sit in a sedan chair, nor did he bring an entourage, so Huang Jin led in front with a lantern, Jiajing wore a dark leather robe, covered his head with a hat, and the master and servant walked along the road by the Taiye Pool against the forbidden wall of Xiyuan to the distant light.

Fortunately, the snow stopped at this time, and the master and servant stepped on the snow on the road, making a clicking sound, which was very emotional in the silence of the night.

"These minions are getting lazier and lazier, and the snow on the road is not cleared." Huang Jin was afraid that Jiajing would fall, so he stopped and came to pick up Jiajing.

"It's a shame they didn't sweep it." Jiajing was full of rare excitement at this time, "You can go to the heart fire by stepping on the snow, you don't understand." Walk yours is. ”

"This minion really doesn't understand. The master is leaving. Huang Jin lit the lantern in front again, paying attention to Jiajing and walking forward.

"Who! Do! Not far away was the forbidden gate of the West Garden, and there was a loud shout from there.

"It's me, come and see the project, what are you yelling about!" Huang Jin replied loudly, "Just look at other places!" ”

"Yes! The slave understands that Huang Gonggong is gone! He replied loudly, in a very respectful tone.

Jiajing smiled: "I can't see that someone like you is stupid and someone is afraid of you." ”

Huang Jin: "The master's words are wrong, this is not called fear, this is called rules." ”

"What a rule." Jiajing teased him again.

Bypassing a curved wall while speaking, across the ice surface of the Taiye Pool, under the light of a light in the east is the Wanshou Palace and Yongshou Palace project, and under the light in the north is the Chaotianguan and Xuandu View projects, the two lights are about a mile apart, and they are being modified overnight, and they are faintly visible.

"Master, if you go any further, you will pass through the forbidden gate, so let's take a look here." Huang Jin stopped.

Jiajing didn't say it, but he didn't say it, but he stopped, first looking at the Wanshou Palace and Yongshou Palace under the east light, and then at the Chaotian Temple and Xuandu Temple under the west light, and his eyes looked so deep in the night.

"Huang Jin." Jiajing called softly.

"Master." Huang Jin also replied softly beside him.

Jiajing: "I read you a Tang poem, guess who I am talking about." ”

Huang Jin saw that Jiajing was sick at this time, and he was in a good mood and happy: "The slave may not be able to guess, if you can't guess the master, you have to tell the slave." ”

Jiajing looked at the night sky and already whispered: "Qin Shi, Mingyue and Han Shiguan, the Long March has not yet returned." But to make the dragon city fly will not be called Humadu Yin Mountain. ”

Huang Jin: "The master also underestimates the slave too much, this person is talking about Li Guang." ”

Jiajing still looked into the distance: "Stupid minion, Li Guang still wants you to guess." ”

Huang Jin heard Jiajing's melancholy from his tone: "Did the master think of Hu Zongxian?" ”

Jiajing: "Yan Song's father and son are not angry!" It makes it impossible for me to even use talents like Hu Zongxian. If he was still here, Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang would have exterminated the Japanese in Fujian and Guangdong. This year, the millions of taels of military salaries have been saved, and silk, porcelain, and tea can already be sold to the West......"

Speaking of this, the master and servant were gloomy for a while.

Jiajing: "I have an idea, when these two palaces and two views are repaired, I will let King Yu take over the throne, and I will concentrate on mysticism." You say, which of these ministers in the court and those feudal officials outside can assist King Yu? ”

"Back to the master, the slave doesn't dare to answer this." Huang Jin replied.

"I don't blame you, I really answer." Jiajing is very gentle.

Huang Jin was a little anxious: "The slave really can't figure it out, it's not that he's afraid that the master will blame him." ”

"Yes!" Jiajing sighed, "Even I can't make up this decision, how can you figure it out." I have so many civil and military generals in the Ming Dynasty, but there are a few that can really be left to future generations. Especially some people, now they are making up their minds on King Yu, and even hitting my grandson with their ideas, and I have to guard against such people. Speaking of this, his eyes looked at the lights on the west side, "Find a way to bypass it, go to the sky and see what that Feng Bao is doing." Without waiting for Huang Jin to reply, he had already stepped on the snow and walked towards a small dirt hill on the left side of the front. Huang Jin hurriedly followed with a lamp.

This location is well found, the small earth hill is full of pines and cypresses, you can see the gate and the courtyard on the left side of Chaotianguan in the front, and you can see the road leading to the forbidden gate outside the palace wall not far away, and it is not easy for others to find people standing under the tree.

"Blow out the lights first." Jiajing said.

Huang Jin blew out the lantern, hung it on a branch beside him, broke a few pine branches by the way, swept the snow on the stone bench behind Jiajing, untied his cloak and folded it into several layers and cushioned it on the stool: "Master, please sit down." ”

Jiajing sat down on the cloak, and everywhere he looked, the courtyard inside the Guanguan Gate and the light of the archway outside the Guanmen could see clearly the people who were rushing to repair and the people who were directing the repairs.

Huang Jin also stood still behind him.

Although he is sick, it may be related to taking pills all year round, Jiajing's hair is black at this time, and his eyesight is also excellent, in fact, this is the most confusing part of the pills. His eyes were blazing, and he first looked for it among the people who were painting and grinding the stepping stones in the gate, but he didn't see Feng Bao. His eyes moved to the outside of the archway, and he soon found Feng Bao.

The archway is the last project, after repairing the scaffolding are dismantled, at this time they have to be transported out of the palace by car one by one, the two workers are lifting a long wooden frame to Feng Bao's shoulder, Feng Bao held the wood on his shoulder with one hand and stretched his waist with the other hand supporting his thighs, carrying the big long wood and stepping on the snow to walk to a car with difficulty, but no one helped him here, I saw him slowly squatting down, unloading the long wood on his shoulder to the car, fortunately, the long wood was firmly erected on the wood that had been piled up on the car.

There were still three long logs left under the archway, Feng Bao sighed, and walked over again, but the overseer eunuch wearing a cloak suddenly shouted to the two wood-carrying servants: "Don't do your business, go and rest, let Feng Bao move these alone!" ”

The two servants immediately clapped their hands and walked towards the hut and shed opposite the archway.

Jiajing looked at it steadily, and Huang Jin also looked at it with wide eyes.

There are also a number of painters working on the final coat of paint in a few places. Feng Bao was left alone in front of the archway to move wood.

Feng Bao wiped a handful of sweat, and had to walk alone to the long logs under the archway, but when he walked to the long logs, he looked at the thick and long long logs that were sticky and slippery by the snow and water, how to carry them on his shoulders, he was really difficult alone.

The cloak eunuch: "Don't move yet, stand here and wait for the New Year!" ”

Feng Bao didn't say a word, walked to the thinner end of a long wood and lifted it up with both hands, laboriously resting it on his shoulders, thinking that only by moving his shoulders to the force point in the middle of the long wood could he carry the wood, so his body slowly moved forward little by little, the long wood slowly erected on his shoulders, Feng Bao's body slowly straightened, it was time for the force, Feng Bao went to support the thick wooden end in front of him with both hands, but he couldn't hold it up after a few times. Suddenly, the whip came, Feng Bao twitched in pain, and he stood up to prevent the wood from falling.

The overseer eunuch: "Aren't you capable?" I can't move a single piece of wood, and I still think about entering the celebrant to be a palm print eunuch in the future? I'll count three more times, and if you can't move it, you'll gnaw this log. One, two......"

Before the word "three" could be spoken, Feng Bao slammed his hands on, and the log was across his shoulders, and then he swung his body, and the head behind the long wood hit the eunuch's head hard, and the eunuch immediately fell to the ground!

Feng Bao walked to the front of the car carrying the wood, and unloaded it on the car without bending his waist.

"Good!" Huang Jin couldn't help but whisper and cheered.

Jiajing slowly looked back at him.

Huang Jin lowered his head.

Jiajing turned his head to look over there again.

I saw Feng Bao walk to one of the two long logs left, and just like moving the long log in front, he lifted the thin end, rested it on his shoulders and moved forward.

The overseer eunuch had already stood up, gritted his teeth and walked behind him and whipped him violently, and after the whip, he dodged and jumped away, seeing that Feng Bao was whipped by the whip and then moved forward, the eunuch ran over and whipped again, and then dodged and jumped away. Feng Bao endured the pain and moved forward.

"Master, the slave has to take care of it." Huang Jin was obviously angry and begged Jiajing.

Jiajing: "What's the matter?" ”

Huang Jin: "Feng retains a great sin, after all, he has served the prince for several years. If you want to be punished, it will not be their turn to fight with people. ”

Jiajing: "That slave is Chen Hong's minion, right?" ”

Huang Jin: "Back to the master, exactly." ”

Jiajing: "Then don't care." You can't fight Chen Hong. ”

Huang Jinwu was not convinced, so he had to swallow that breath with saliva.

Jiajing looked at Feng Bao, who was carrying Changmu and walking towards the car, and suddenly burst out with a sentence: "This person is probably the one who can kill Chen Hong in the future!" ”

Huang Jin was taken aback.

Jiajing continued: "In the future, don't be too straight, don't talk back to Chen Hong in person, I'm doing this for your good." ”

Huang Jin was completely stunned, and his mind was in chaos.

"Those people should be here." Jiajing faced Chaotianguan but listened to the forbidden door behind him, and suddenly said such a sentence.

Where can Huang Jin's mind keep up with this master, he hasn't figured out the sentence just now, and then he suddenly said this sentence again, so he had to ask, "Who is here?" Who did the master say? ”

Jiajing: "You look back." ”

Huang Jin still didn't hear anything at this time, so he turned his head and looked at the forbidden door of the palace wall, and was immediately startled.

- Half a mile away from the forbidden gate, and sure enough, there were many lanterns shining on it, and many people were rushing towards the forbidden gate!

"Someone's coming!" Huang Jin was shocked and suspicious, looked at it carefully, and saw it a little clearly this time, "Master, it seems that they are all officials, and there are 100 people running to the forbidden door!" ”

Jiajing still sat there and didn't move: "I brought you here to let you see what kind of officials I am in the Ming Dynasty." Let you see how powerful Chen Hong is! ”

In front of the forbidden door were Li Qingyuan's people, a hundred and ten, and at this time, everyone was holding a book in their hands, and all the black pressure knelt down outside the forbidden door.

The forbidden soldiers on duty outside the forbidden gate of Xiyuan are all young people, and they have never seen such a scene in their experience, only heard that more than 40 years ago, in order to compete with the ministers for the "great ceremony", there were more than 200 officials outside the Zuoshun Gate to collectively go up and down, and the emperor was furious and killed more than a dozen people on the spot, and dozens of people were injured by the cane, and dozens of people were arrested. Since then, although there have been officials who have been negligent, there are only a few people at most, and there has never been a matter of so many people being collectively negligent. Now that the Yan Party has fallen, it is Xu Jie who is in charge, and Xu Ge has always been good to officials, why did he suddenly make such a big incident, and it was during the Chinese New Year? They were all nervous, lined up, and guarded the forbidden door with knives and guns.

Leading the forbidden army on duty today was a big eunuch from the Punishment Division, who was standing on the steps in the middle of the forbidden gate: "What are you doing here?" Do you want to rebel? ”

Li Qingyuan knelt in the middle of the first row and held up the song: "My Ming Dynasty has a minister who admonishes death, and there is no minister who conspires against him!" We have a recital to present directly to the emperor! ”

The big eunuch: "There is a road to Shangshu, first to the political envoy, and then from the political envoy to the ceremonial supervisor, don't you know this rule?" ”

Another official kneeling beside Li Qingyuan replied loudly: "We are participating in the General Political Envoy Department, as well as the officials of the yamen of various ministries, and the cabinet!" We can't give it to them! ”

Li Qingyuan then said: "Please father-in-law immediately present our recital to the emperor!" ”

All the officials were discussed, and at this time, everyone said in unison: "Please ask the emperor to advise!" ”

Xiyuan is the forbidden palace for more than 20 years, it is very quiet after nightfall, and then suddenly more than 100 people roared in unison, the sound shook the night sky, and many of the birds on the trees were startled, fluttering and flying. Even this little dirt hill has a lot of birds flying!

Huang Jin was worried, and hurriedly straightened out the back of his hand and bent over to cover Jiajing who was still sitting on the cloak from the side: "Master, master, let's go back to the palace first." ”

Jiajing sat there motionless: "How old are you this year?" ”

Huang Jin was anxious, and had to answer: "The master knows that the slave is forty years old. The master is shocked here! The slave has to wait for the master to return to the palace immediately. ”

Jiajing's eyes flashed with light, and his tone also revealed a murderous aura: "Surprised? You haven't seen anything about driving yet. It's been more than forty years, and there are many more people who messed with me that time than this time, and many of them are still university scholars. I will deal with two or three hundred people by myself and kill them all! Lu Fang was by my side at the time, but unfortunately you were too young to meet me. ”

Huang Jin completely understood that this master was waiting for this moment when he brought himself out alone tonight, and his heart suddenly tightened, and he couldn't tell whether he was afraid, nervous or sad, as a monarch, why did he fight with his courtiers like this? He was stunned. After a while, he still said: "Master, ......"

"Shut up!" Jiajing immediately became stern, "Say one more thing, you will go down and carry the wood with Feng Bao!" ”

Huang Jin was stunned.

Jiajing softened his tone again: "It's time for Xu Jie and Chen Hong to appear, watch carefully, and write everything you see today when you write the "Record" for me in the future." I didn't mess with them, they did. ”

"Yes......" Huang Jin slowly turned around and looked out of the forbidden door not far away.

Xu Jie was carried by Zhao Zhenji and walked in the front, followed by Li Chunfang and Gao Gong, followed by two teams of forbidden soldiers with torches, and surrounded by four cabinet members to stand on the stone steps under the eaves of the outer corridor of the forbidden gate of Xiyuan.

When the more than 100 people kneeling there saw them, they did not say a word, but still held the music in their hands high.

Xu Jie slowly looked at everyone and spoke slowly: "The state affairs are difficult, and we have not done a good job. I'm sorry for my ancestors, I'm sorry for the emperor, I'm sorry for you, and I'm sorry for the people of the world. But things have to be done step by step. At this time, you shouldn't come here, it alarmed the holy driver, how can you and I bear it? ”

"Elder Xu Ge!" Li Qingyuan replied on behalf of the hundred officials, "Your cabinet has said this thing many times. I don't know what Elder Ge said to do step by step, when will it be done? The Holy Lord handed over the Ming Dynasty to you, and there was no military pay to resist the Tatars in the north and the Japanese in the south, so many displaced people and disaster victims were starving all over the place, and one or two thousand starved people in Shuntianfu in the past two days! We're not here yet, we're going to be here until when! ”

Zhao Zhenji answered: "You are exaggerating and alarmist!" Who said that the north and the south did not allocate military salaries? Where is the starvation? Early in the morning, the household department received that there were people starving to death in Daxing and Wanping, so we immediately used the military rations in Tongzhou and sent people to help, don't you know this? The household department owes you a lot of money, isn't it also being repaid little by little? Several members of our cabinet have not received any money this year, so what else is there to be sorry for? I told you during the day, and Master Gao also told you, I will definitely find a way to make up for you in the spring of next year, why do you still want to make trouble at this time? Knowing that the palace for the emperor will be completed immediately, and on the auspicious day of the New Year, do you have to make the emperor have a bad New Year before he is willing to rest? ”

"We're not here to make a fuss!" The official next to Li Qingyuan said loudly, "If you don't have money for the New Year, we can also go over with a bowl of porridge and cabbage." We are here to tell the emperor the truth, and let the emperor ask you, the cabinet ministers and the officials of various ministries, what have you been doing in the past two years? After the New Year, it will be the forty-fifth year of Jiajing, what strategies do you have to save my Ming Dynasty and the subjects of the world! ”

"Talk back!"

"Back to our words!"

The officials roared in unison.

"Where's Chen Hong!" Jiajing on the earth mountain suddenly asked, "Didn't Chen Hong come?" ”

Huang Jin looked into the forbidden door, and at a glance, he saw that there were already a number of people from the Punishment Division and the Suppression Division standing inside the forbidden door, all holding torches, some holding court staff in their hands, and some holding long whips in their hands, all lined up and quietly waiting for instructions there.

"Back to the master." Huang Jin said to Jiajing, who was still sitting facing Chaotianguan, "Many people from the Criminal Department and the Suppression Department are here, but Chen Hong is not seen. ”

"Do you know where he went?" Jiajing looked sideways at Huang Jin.

Huang Jin: "Where do the minions know." ”

Jiajing: "He's looking for me." If you want me to make an order, he will kill him on a large scale. ”

Huang Jin: "The slave understands. ”

"We want to see the emperor!"

"We want to present the song to the emperor!"

Not far away, there was the roar of hundreds of officials outside the forbidden door.

"Your Majesty!" Huang Jin shouted in shock, "Elder Xu Ge, they have knelt down to the hundred officials!" ”

Jiajing's body also moved.

Huang Jin then shouted: "Chen Hong is here!" ”

Jiajing sat there motionless again.

The eunuchs and Jinyi guards who were waiting in line in the forbidden door saw Chen Hong striding over, and they all knelt down one leg in unison.

Chen Hong looked out from the gate and saw Xu Jie, Li Chunfang, Gao Gong and Zhao Zhenji all kneeling on the steps facing the hundred officials, who were still roaring.

Chen Hong's eyes showed a fierce light, his face was full of anxiety, pacing back and forth in the two lines of kneeling queues, and suddenly stopped: "Long live the master, Lord is cultivating in Qing, and it is too late to ask for an order." Get up! ”

Left to the left, right to suppress, those people brushed the ground and stood up.

Chen Hong raised a hand in the air and suddenly slashed down: "Rush out, fight!" ”

"Yes!" With a roar, the two teams rushed out like arrows.

Under the shadow of the lamp, I immediately saw the whip and cane swinging together, and people fell like mud!

Pity the civil officials, one by one kneeling there without composing themselves, many of them were knocked to the ground, and some of them had blood flowing from their heads and faces.

Gao Gong was the first to wake up, and immediately stood up from the stone steps: "Who told you to beat people?" Stop it! Stop! ”

Xu Jie had also been helped up by Zhao Zhenji, and his face turned white when he saw this: "Gonggong Chen!" Grandpa Chen! It can't be like this! Tell them to stop......"

Li Chunfang has also climbed up: "Something big has happened, something has happened......

Chen Hong was standing in the middle of the steps beside them, ignoring them at all, watching his men beat people there.

"Meng Jing! Help me through! Xu Jie was already in a hurry, and walked towards the beating place with the support of Zhao Zhenji.

Gao Gong was next to his other side and walked over together.

"Stop!" Xu Jie shouted.

"Stop!" Gao Gong also shouted.

After all, they were cabinet members, and wherever they went, the people in the Criminal Department and the Suppression Department stopped beating people, but the whips around the hundred officials were still waving.

"Chen Hong!" Xu Jie turned his head suddenly, "If you don't stop, just hit me together!" ”

"That's it!" Chen Hong gave an order.

The whips, the rods stopped at once.

Except for some officials kneeling in the middle who were lucky not to be beaten, the officials kneeling around had been beaten to the ground, some were in **, and some had fainted.

On the dirt mountain, Jiajing was still sitting there quietly, and he didn't even turn around to look at the tragedy that happened in front of the forbidden gate at this time.

Huang Jin knelt down in the face of him: "The slave wants to join Chen Hong!" Master Rongsheng! ”

Jiajing looked at him slowly: "What are you doing with him?" ”

Huang Jin: "I didn't ask for an order to beat hundreds of officials, this is arrogance!" ”

Jiajing: "Why did he beat up hundreds of officials?" ”

Huang Jin: "If the officials are at fault, it is nothing more than dissatisfaction with Xu Ge Lao, and the last negligence will not be poisoned by this." ”

"You're too honest." Jiajing finally stood up slowly, "They are not dissatisfied with Xu Jie, nor are they dissatisfied with the cabinet, they are all here for me, it is nothing more than because I have built a few houses to support the elderly." Yan Song and Yan Shifan dare to do this? I use Chen Hong, and I use the word 'ruthless' in him. If there is not even a Chen Hong, my Ming Dynasty will be turned upside down immediately. ”

Huang Jin is also the old man of the celebrant supervisor, but he usually just works on errands and never thinks about these things, today let Jiajing bring it here, look at this scene in person, hear the emperor's words with his own ears, and never feel that this master is a terrible honest man, at this time, he only feels that a wisp of cold air rises from the soles of his feet to his head!

Jiajing: "I don't want to do this, but I have to. You should understand why I let Lu Fang go to Nanjing by now, right? ”

Huang Jin looked at Jiajing blankly: "Slaves, slaves don't understand......"

Jiajing: "Lu Fang won't do such a thing, and I don't want him to do it." So saying, he walked straight down the mountain.

Where can Huang Jin's mind keep up, at this time he didn't have time to take the lantern, he didn't even take his own cloak, he chased after Jiajing, just through the afterglow from far and near, recognized the road under his feet, and helped him to walk in the other direction.

I couldn't see the forbidden door anymore, but I heard a cry from there.

"That Hai Jui doesn't seem to be among these sparse people today?" Jiajing suddenly said such a sentence again.

Huang Jin was stunned again, so he had to continue: "It's the fault of the slave, there is a report from the Zhenfu Division in the evening, and that Hai Rui seems to have been sent by Zhao Zhenji to Daxing to help the victims......"

"If Zhao Zhenji doesn't send him, he won't come." Jiajing quickened his pace, "Dry up and down, keep an eye on this person." ”

What is "dry on top"? How did Huang Jin know that this was a hexagram that Jiajing had when the Zhejiang case was tricky, and he told Lu Fang alone at that time. Since then, the name "Hai Jui" has often surfaced in his heart. The inscription of Liubiju made him feel that Hai Rui, the "Qianxia", and himself, the "Qianshang", would one day be a prince and a minister. As for what variables will be born in the hexagram, he is waiting. He has always believed that the sluggishness of the dynasty and the unity of all horses are all because in the forty-four years that he has been in power, among so many courtiers in the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, God has never given birth to a "Qianxia" hexagram that can intersect with his own "Qianshang", so that the Manchu Dynasty is supple and the Qianxagram is not born. He has repeatedly warned from heaven, and it is precisely because he is independent that he can only talk to heaven. Today, I finally waited for a group of Qingliu officials to make trouble, and they are still so vulnerable. The sword is everywhere, and they are all rotten soldiers. How can others pay attention to the long-term exhaustion caused by this kind of "only yang does not grow", and the extreme loss of "lonely yin does not grow" due to perennial exhaustion?

Including Huang Jin, of course, he couldn't understand it, but at this time he had to answer: "The slave understands." ”

In fact, Jiajing himself did not understand that as the 11th Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty, his title was naturally the "Qian" of Zhiyang; But as Zhu Houxi, who has been cultivating all the year round and has an extremely gloomy nature, he is not the sun of the Taiji diagram yin and yang fish, but the Taiyin.

Hai Rui is the most masculine and rigid sun!

Just when hundreds of officials gathered at the forbidden gate of Xiyuan, and the "Zuoshunmen Incident" repeated itself again after 40 years, Hai Rui rushed to Daxing County on the same day.

Daxing County belongs to Shuntianfu, only fifty or sixty miles away from the capital, there is such a tragic scene at the foot of the Son of Heaven, although Hai Rui has the experience of two county commanders, and has also experienced several disasters, but the current things still make him unbearable to witness, dare not believe.

More than a dozen porridge sheds have been erected under his fierce supervision, and more than a dozen cauldrons are also boiling porridge on the fire, but the living people did not rush to line up, but sat around or lay on the snow, these people no longer even have the strength to stand up.

What's even more miserable, not far from the living, there are many dead people lying on the snow, and at this time, the people recruited by the Daxing County Ya are pulling down bamboo mats from the car and wrapping them one by one.

Hai Rui's eyes were full of sadness, and he looked back at a porridge shack, and his gaze immediately became stern.

The Daxing County Decree also came, and at this time, wearing a thick fur, there was actually an errand who carried a chair for him and placed it in front of a large cauldron stove to roast there.

Hai Rui instructed the secretary of the household department next to him: "Call the Daxing County Order." ”

"Yes." The clerk walked to the stove, "County master, our sea chief invites you to come over." ”

The county magistrate stood up and walked to Hai Rui's side: "Lord Hai." ”

Hai Jui: "How can you bury so many dead people?" ”

County order: "I am looking for someone right now, and I am going to dig a big pit for a righteous grave, and I will bury it in one place." ”

Hai Rui: "There are so many people alive, even if there is a bowl of porridge to drink, where can they sleep at night?" ”

The county magistrate sighed: "I'm also worried." With so many people, there is no place for them to sleep. ”

Hai Rui: "Then let them freeze to death?" ”

Daxing's county order is also six products, and when he saw Hai Rui's stern voice, he was not happy: "Who wants them to freeze to death?" ”

"The porridge shack is not located in the city, so so many people stay in the wilderness on snowy days, don't you just want them to freeze to death!" Hai Rui's gaze stabbed at the county order.

"So many people have entered the city, how can they be settled?" The county order showed no weakness.

Hai Jui: "Where do you sleep?" Where does your family sleep? Don't they all live in the city? If you have a place to sleep, there is no way to accommodate these refugees! ”

The county commander was stunned: "Lord Hai, Lord Hai, how can you talk like this......"

Hai Rui: "How do you want me to speak?" The court handed over Daxing County to you, and the people of Daxing are your people, do you do the same to your own sons and daughters? Let me tell you, I have already brought you food, and if it is not enough, I will ask for it. From today onwards, one more person will starve to death and freeze to death, and I will join you to the court! ”

The county magistrate was a little discouraged at this time: "Then Lord Hai gave me an idea, what should I do if you come to be my county magistrate?" ”

Hai Rui: "Vacate the county government, vacate the county school, as well as temples, Taoist temples, and some big families, all the places in the county that can be vacated are vacated and let the refugees live in!" ”

Prefectural order: "Yes, is there such a rule?" ”

Hai Rui: "Let me tell you, I have this rule in Chun'an and Xingguo Dangzhi County!" Serve this porridge and set up a porridge shed in the city! ”

After saying this, Hai Rui ignored him, strode towards the people on the snow, and said loudly: "The porridge will be boiled soon!" Fathers and fellow villagers can sit up, please sit up if you can stand, please stand up if you can stand, and you won't be able to get up if you lie down again! After drinking the porridge, we all moved to the city, and your county lord arranged a house for you! Listen to me, get up, if you can't get up, ask someone else to help! So saying, he walked up to an old man and squatted down, took the dying old man's arm to his shoulder, and half-hugged and half-supported him.

Picking up the old man, Hai Rui's eyes looked at the county commander and those errand officers: "You are still standing, do you want me to invite them one by one?" ”

The servants and others rushed over.

In this way, Hai Rui spent the 45th year of Jiajing in Daxing County, and it was already the dusk of the fifth day of the first lunar month when he returned home. Only the mother and wife spent the year at home.

Hai Rui's eyes were bloodshot, his face was so thin that his cheekbones were exposed, the official uniform on his body was dirty, and he pretended to smile in front of his mother and wife: "Mother, my son is not filial, and I can't accompany my mother at home for the New Year." As he spoke, he turned to look at his wife, "Quickly help Grandma sit down, and we will pay New Year's greetings to Grandma." ”

Hai's wife hurriedly went over and helped Hai Mu to sit down on the chair in the middle, and Hai Mu looked at her son with love in her eyes: "No need, you look like this, hurry up and eat hot, wash and rest first." ”

Hai Rui has already knelt down, and although his wife is pregnant, she also knelt down side by side with him: "My son and daughter-in-law have given my mother a New Year's greeting, and I wish my mother a long and 100-year-old life!" With that, Hai Rui kowtowed. The Umi wife put her hand in front of her abdomen and bent down.

Haimu: "Okay, help your daughter-in-law up." ”

Hai Rui raised his head and went to help his wife, and when one leg was just raised and was about to stand up, his eyes suddenly went dark, and he fell down with a thud.

"Ruxian!"

"Official!"

The call of the sea mother and the sea wife was no longer audible to Hai Rui.

It was also on this day, this night, in Xiyuan Qintianjian chose the auspicious time for the imperial driver to move to the new palace - the end of the fifth day of the first month of the forty-fifth year of Jiajing, and the auspicious time was chosen to be biased and not in line with the heavenly phenomena - the heavy snow fell so that the heavens and the earth were chaotic, and the one hundred and eight lanterns in the outer hall of Yuxi Palace were dim and yellow in the heavy snow, and it was necessary to look carefully to see: thirty-six lamps are in front, the number of thirty-six Tiangang is in the upper symbol, and the seventy-two lamps are in the back, and the number of seventy-two earthly evils is in the upper symbol. The inside and outside of Yuxi Palace are brilliant.

Under the dim light of one hundred and eight lanterns, it was faintly visible in the heavy snow that the emperor was carrying thirty-two dragons in the middle of the stone steps of the main hall, and thirty-two eunuchs kneeling on one leg under their respective sedan chairs.

On the left side of the dragon, there are Chaotian Guan Guan and a group of Taoists with law enforcement weapons in their hands.

On the right side of the dragon, there is a Xuandu Guan Guan and a group of Taoists who are holding law enforcement weapons.

Xu Jie led the officials of the six departments of Jiuqing Hall to kneel on the stone steps of the main hall, and the officials below the third grade were bitter, although there was a grace to let them stand, but after all, they were all standing on the stone steps and the palace outside the hall, and no one was covered with snow, and all their eyes were looking at the open Yuxi Palace Gate in a daze.

In the middle of the brightly lit Yuxi Palace hall is a large copper kettle dripping.

In the silence, the dripping sound of the large copper kettle can be heard clearly.

In all directions of the main hall, there are eunuchs holding imperial objects and holding their breath and waiting.

There is only one person walking around in the hall at this time, although the pace is extremely light, the momentum is still compelling, this is Chen Hong. But I saw him walk to the gate of the Tongjing House for a while, listen to the sound inside, and walk to the big copper kettle for a while to take a look at the carved wood that was slowly floating, and so on, without stopping for a moment. This made the figures of the cabinet members and the officials of the six ministries and Jiuqing Hall kneeling outside the door short, and Chen Hong was suddenly flying.

At this time, both inside and outside the hall were waiting for the arrival of the end of the unitary hour, waiting for Jiajing in the fine house to ring the copper chime. At that time, the Jingyang bell will ring one hundred and eight times, and the Taoists of Chaotianguan and Xuandu Temple will play fairy music in unison, and then the guns will sound in unison, and the whole city of Beijing will hear that the holy dragon has moved now.

There was also a copper kettle dripping in the house, and Huang Jin stood quietly by the copper kettle and stared at the floating woodcuts, not daring to take his eyes off for a moment.

Jiajing changed into the Taoist robe embroidered with 5,000 words of "Tao Te Ching", his hair was still tied on his head, only a dark ribbon was tied, and he sat cross-legged on the futon, looking at a congratulatory watch in his hand.

A large crown of vanilla sat quietly on the coffee table on the left side of him, and the copper chime was placed on the rosewood frame on the right side of him. More than a dozen congratulatory watches that he had already seen were stacked on the right side of the low table in front of him.

Jiajing finished reading the greeting table in his hand, threw it on the stack of greeting tables that he had seen on the right side of the low table, and his eyes shot to the last remaining greeting watch on the left side of the low table, but he didn't take it anymore, and suddenly asked, "Are all the congratulatory watches here?" ”

Huang Jin's eyes were fixed on the woodcut, and then he quickly turned his head and replied, "Back to the master, it's all here." ”

"No more?" Jiajing's face was already very ugly when he asked this.

Huang Jin had actually been waiting for him to ask this sentence for a long time, and he had long been worried that he would ask this sentence, so he replied according to the tone discussed with Xu Jie in advance: "The slave was confused, and he forgot about this matter when he was thinking about the auspicious time to drive. When Xu Ge Lao sent a congratulatory watch, he asked the servants to turn the emperor, because he was worried that every official would be too tired to put on a congratulatory watch, so he only asked the six ministries and Jiuqing Ministries to each have a congratulatory watch, which not only made the master too tired, but also conveyed the loyalty and love of all my subjects to the master of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Jiajing smiled, and smiled so gloomily: "Every official is not afraid of being tired of a song, and every official is afraid of being tired of a congratulatory watch?" It's just that I built a few houses, and some people were beaten by Chen Hong a few years ago, and scolded me in their hearts, and they didn't want to go to the congratulatory table. Huang Jin, Xu Jie used this to Meng Zhen, and you also followed Meng Zhen? ”

Huang Jin immediately knelt down: "Master! The master is the monarch of the world, and the monarch has a place to live in peace, and the subjects of the world only have the truth of rejoicing, how can they be so unconscionable. On the day of great auspiciousness, the courtiers and slaves are happy, the master is the immortal Buddha who came into the world, and he should be happy. ”

Jiajing had a look of joy in his eyes, and wanted to refute him again, but seeing his begging look, he stopped looking at him, turned his gaze to the door in the house, passed through the window of the south wall facing the door, looked at the twinkling stars in the distant sky, and suddenly muttered to himself: "There are thousands of mansions, and the poor people in the world are happy." Alack! When this house suddenly appears in front of me, it is enough for me to freeze to death alone! ”

Huang Jin was shocked: "Master, on an auspicious day, the master must not be ......"

"Shut up!" Jiajing had closed his eyes.

Huang Jin had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.

The dripping sound of the big copper kettle is getting louder and louder!

Chen Hong, who was staring down at the dripping woodcut, raised his head suddenly, walked quickly to the door of the main hall, and made a gesture ready to give orders.

Xu Jie's officials all straightened up.

Outside the hall, in the big ping, the two groups of Taoists all picked up the magic weapon Xianle.

Countless pairs of eyes were looking at Chen Hong's raised hand, just waiting for that hand to press down, and then the mountain shouted long live, ringing the bell and playing music.

Chen Hong raised his hand high, his left ear was almost elongated, and the copper chime in the fine house rang out.

Huang Jin's eyes were straight, and the last woodcut of the word "unitary" on the woodcut of the copper kettle had surfaced, and the word "戌" could already be seen through the water.

Huang Jinqiang put on a smile on his face, took out the chime and pestle from the copper chime, raised his legs high, and knelt down towards Jiajing: "Heaven and earth are auspicious, the time is good, the slave starts playing, long live the master!" ”

Jiajing slowly opened his eyes and looked at the chime pestle that Huang Jin held in front of him, but he didn't move.

The dripping sound of the copper kettle became louder, Jiajing was still motionless, and Huang Jin felt that every drop of water dripping from the copper kettle fell on the heart of his head, and the water droplets turned into beads of sweat and ran down his hairline along his face.

Jiajing finally slowly stretched out his hand, grabbed the chime and pestle, glanced at the copper chime on his side, and suddenly raised the chime and pestle and threw it to the ground! The chime and pestle immediately broke into several knots, and many fragments burst out!

Huang Jin knelt there, his eyes straightened!

I only heard a sound inside, and Chen Hong's hand was just about to press down, but he immediately stopped again - with a look of surprise on his face!

Xu Jie and the others, who were kneeling by the door, also heard it, not the copper chime knocking, but the sound of smashing things, and everyone was stunned!

All eyes were on the direction of the dojo.

From the gate of the main hall, it can be seen that the people who are waiting in the big flat are also stunned.

Everything fell silent again, and the heavy snow in the sky was now light, and the one hundred and eight lanterns that responded to the heavens and the earth were shining brightly.

No one dared to move, everyone was waiting, waiting for the sound from below.

Jiajing took out a copy of the imperial decree that had been written from his sleeve and threw it at Huang Jin, who was kneeling on the ground: "Go out and announce the decree!" ”

Huang Jin came to his senses, hurriedly picked up the imperial decree, kowtowed, got up, and staggered towards the outside of the house.

Chen Hong finally heard the footsteps coming from the Jingshe, and then saw Huang Jin walk out.

Chen Hong immediately greeted him and lowered his voice: "What's the matter?" ”

Huang Jin didn't look at him, walked straight to the palace gate, walked out of the palace gate and stood there.

Countless pairs of eyes turned to Huang Jin who was standing at the entrance of the hall.

When did Huang Jin have such a big aura, standing there at this time was like a big mountain, pressing everyone to hold their breath.

Huang Jin unfolded the holy decree: "Edict! ”

"Hooray!" Everyone reacted immediately, and replied in unison, and the ministers who were originally kneeling all knelt down, and the people who were originally standing on the stone steps and the temple floor knelt down.

Chen Hongben was still angry with Huang Jin at the door of the hall, so he had to kneel down in the hall at this time. Behind him, the eunuchs holding the imperial relics in the hall all knelt down.

Huang Jin didn't know the content of this will in advance, and read in a trembling voice: "I have five years in the forty years of the Imperial Pole! Respect the heavens and cultivate the body, lie down but a couch, do not seek five flavors of food, no more than eight sets of clothes, thousands of mansions in the Forbidden City avoid but do not live, and there are still people in the world who have no cones. Therefore, I moved to Xiyuan, only to seek a place of self-cultivation, to shelter from the wind and rain. However, the construction of a longevity palace and a longevity palace has been criticized by the world, and none of the officials have been congratulated? And because the wild is hungry, and the officials are in arrears, they are resentful of me, and my virtue is so thin that I am so thin! I entrusted the two capitals and 13 provinces to the cabinet and various ministries to have departments, because Yan Song's father and son and their henchmen harmed the people for personal greed, and now Xu Jie's ministers are at a loss and hesitate and mislead the country. All parties are guilty, and the sin is only one person! Reading this, Huang Jin was already sweating all over his face, his tongue was dry, and he couldn't read anymore.

Xu Jie and the other ministers were all prostrate on the ground, all frightened and inexplicable.

Huang Jin finally brewed a mouthful of liquid, moistened his tongue, and then read: "Hundreds of officials criticize me, and I am sick!" The people are starving, and I am worried! Wanshou Palace, Yongshou Palace, I still endure to live? Xu Jie, Xu Jie, and others will work with King Yu to plan a good plan to calm my Ming and save my people. The world is restless every day, the people are restless every day, and I will not move to Wanshou Palace and Yongshou Palace for a day. Chin this. ”

In order to repair these two palaces and two views for him, Xu Jie and others racked their brains at the expense of demolishing the east wall and the west wall, how many scolds they received, and how many major events they missed. Now that it was time to move, he suddenly stopped moving, and scolded all the officials, and the crime affected everyone, the reason was just that after being beaten, all the officials in Beijing did not go to the congratulatory table. There are unpredictable storms and clouds in the capital, after all, the foundation runs to know the rain, the moon halo knows the wind, and there are traces to be found. But this emperor is so unpredictable, not only does it rain without moisture, but it is windy without dizziness, it is simply thunder on a dry day, and hail hits the head! After listening to the order, Xu Jie and the others were physically and mentally cold, and they all froze there.

Everyone was stunned, but as the first assistant Xu Jie, he had to express his position, barely supported his hands on the ground, raised his head, and said loudly: "The ministers Xu Jie's and other corpses are in the cabinet, and they are at a loss to mislead the country, and the ministers are willing to suffer the curse of God!" Fu begged my saint to move to Wanshou Palace and Yongshou Palace, and made up for unforgivable sins such as ministers. Otherwise, the ministers will die in peace! Speaking of this, sorrow came from it, and all the grievances turned into a howl, and the old tears were all over the place!

The other three members of the cabinet, the six ministries and the nine secretaries were also very aggrieved, and at this time, they were moved by Xu Jie's sad voice, and they all cried together!

Huang Jin, who was standing in front of them to announce the decree, also turned around and knelt down at this time, and cried loudly.

Standing in the big ping, the two masters of Chaotianguan and Xuandu had another contingency at this time, and the two glanced at each other and recited the spell loudly. Immediately after that, the Dao people behind them followed and chanted the spell together.

For a while, the sound of crying and chanting spells combined with the increasingly cold wind in the middle of the night, and the main hall of Yuxi Palace swayed in the lights, as if it was about to be floated by the sound of this tidal wave!