Chapter 28: Revlon (6)
Weiyang Palace.
"Thief, thief dares!"
In a shout, the door of the temple was pushed open by the old chamberlain, and a little star-like lamp was held in the palm of his hand and came to the bed. The chamberlain was in his sixties, his hair was gray, and he couldn't help but breathe as he walked away.
He knelt respectfully in front of the bed and whispered, "Why does Your Majesty shout, but you want the slave to serve?" ”
The emperor woke up in a cold sweat, delirious, and did not slowly calm down until he saw the chamberlain outside the curtain.
"Wang Xianfu," the Emperor calmed his breath and asked, "why are you here?" ”
Wang Xianfu is no longer the eunuch who grew up with him in a soft-spoken manner. After the emperor ascended the throne, he promoted this person to the position of the eunuch who held the seal of the celebrant and was prosperous from then on, and there was no need to do such work as vigil.
"Back to Your Majesty, the slave maid is flustered tonight and misses Your Majesty, so she took the liberty to come." Wang Xianfu does not leak.
Of course, Wang Xianfu was flustered, and just yesterday, he heard that his Zhuangzi had been set on fire. Not only did he run away with a few beauties, he folded in a godgrandson, and even lost the title deed of the real estate in the dark grid of the bed board - that was what he and the courtiers had privately received.
Money can be greedy, it doesn't matter if the grandson is not biological, but it is best if the real estate title deed is burned, in case it falls into the hands of others, the consequences are unimaginable!
He never believed that it was an accident, and he was determined that someone was going to take the opportunity to harm him. But he offended so many people in the past, Wang Xianfu was a little unsure who it was for a while.
Wang Xianfu tossed and turned, almost vomited himself to death, and finally decided to rush to the emperor overnight to pat the emperor's ass and deepen his feelings, so that the emperor could let himself go on the day of the incident.
The emperor was silent for a while, and just when Wang Xianfu's heart was pounding, he spoke: "I am caught in a nightmare, and it is okay. Go back and rest. ”
"Your Majesty, do you want to call Concubine Rong to serve?" Wang Xianfu pondered.
"Not necessarily." The emperor rubbed his eyebrows and said tiredly.
Wang Xianfu retreated, and after a while, he held a scroll of paintings in a brocade box and poured them back. The Emperor was not angry at his pretensions, but unfolded the scroll and stared at the silhouette of the window on the paper.
The person on the painting is only half a face, and the painter has exhausted his pen and ink, but he cannot describe one percent of her beauty, but only captures the beauty of her drooping eyes.
"This is a new submission from the painting academy, and the slave maid saw that there was a little charm of that one, so she stayed to comfort His Majesty's lovesickness." Wang Xianfu said flatteringly.
"It's so good that I almost thought I was a teenager." The Emperor heard the hollow echo in his chest and sighed, "Reward." ”
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Out of Weiyang Palace, Wang Xianfu flicked his sleeves under the eaves, and immediately a little eunuch came up with tea.
Wang Xianfu is not a treacherous and cunning appearance, on the contrary, he is very kind and kind-hearted, and he is more kind when he does not smile than when he laughs.
"Your Majesty has been doing well lately?" Wang Xianfu took a sip of the tea foam and asked with slanted eyes.
"Back to the ancestors, Your Majesty is all right." The little eunuch said diligently, "Since Miss Chu took over the three guards of Yulin Wei, Your Majesty has slept much more peacefully than before, and the food has also been fragrant. ”
"Really?"
Wang Xianfu was noncommittal, raised his hand to call another person, and opened a thick booklet. The booklet is densely packed with records of the years, months and days, the emperor's meal in the morning and dusk, and what kind of dishes he prefers.
After flipping through the booklet, Wang Xianfu was furious and slapped the little eunuch to the ground.
"I only use two pieces of hibiscus cake for a meal, which is also called fragrant?" Wang Xianfu said angrily, "Your Majesty was frightened by a dream, and you don't know if you can go in and take a look, are you deaf?" ”
"The old ancestor is angry, the old ancestor is angry!" The little eunuch was so frightened that he kowtowed again and again, and kept begging.
Wang Xianfu calmed down and spared the little eunuch lightly, "Get up." It's not that the ancestors deliberately embarrassed you, people like us are cheap, and the glory and wealth are tied to Your Majesty, so you can't help but careless. There's no next time, you know? ”
"Yes! Grandson knows! ”
"How's the matter of Zhuangzi going?"
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In the daytime, the Cheng family.
As soon as Cheng Yuan stepped into the house, he was held down by seven or eight strong domestic servants and forcibly removed the knife. He barely raised his head from between his thick arms, and he was slapped the cheek by Cheng's father.
Cheng's father is a literati, but this slap was not light, and half of Cheng Yuan's face was swollen.
"A letter from home urging me to come back and see him, claiming that Cheng Gong was sick and dying. Now it seems to be very good. Cheng Yuan spat out a mouthful of bloody spit and mocked, "I have a military position, so it's better to advise Cheng Gong not to be presumptuous." ”
"You little brute of a fox and a tiger!" Cheng's father was so angry that he trembled, "Did you burn that Zhuangzi, and is your sister in your hands?!" ”
Cheng Yuan's face changed, "What Zhuangzi, what's wrong with my sister?" ”
"You're still pretending!" Father Cheng was furious, angry and afraid, "That's the eunuch who holds the seal of the celebrant and the big celebrity in front of His Majesty, don't you want to die!" Who else is there but your good master? ”
Cheng Yuan was furious, almost breaking free of the shackles of iron shackles and jumping up, "You sold my sister to that old eunuch?!" She's your daughter, and you're going to kill her! You villain who sells women for glory! ”
Cheng's father chattered endlessly, "You quickly hand over the people and calm the anger of the prince, there may be room for a turn in this matter......"
But Cheng Yuan couldn't listen to it at all, like a brain burned by anger, he broke through the prison of the servant like a beast, and smashed Cheng's father in the face with a punch. The servants were stunned, frightened by his steaming murderous aura.
Cheng Yuan's eyes were red, he grabbed Cheng's father's collar and smashed it down with punches and punches, until Cheng's father's white skin was open and colorful, and blood burst out from his mouth and nose.
Hearing the movement, Xu Xian came out of the house and exclaimed in fright, "I'm going to die!" Don't report to the official yet! ”
A farce.
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"The son of the Cheng family beat his father half to death, and his face was swollen like a pig's head. The servant couldn't hold it down, and finally went to Dali Temple to report the case, and then pulled the person away. The young eunuch said, "As for entering the Dali Temple, it's not something that our people can see." ”
"The kid surnamed Cheng is under Miss Chu, and he has Miss Chu to worry about." Wang Xianfu snorted, "In your opinion, it will be the Chu family who did it?" ”
The young eunuch pondered, "The Chu family's personal guards were registered and recorded, and no one left the city that day. The eldest lady of the Chu family is quite good at arching horses, but if she is in person, it is really ...... Sensational. ”
Cheng Yuan has no family background and no support, compared with Deng Mian and others in Yulin Weili, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is poor and white. What is Chu Zhixia Tu? Even if he sells his life, he only has one life to sell, and it is not a few taels in front of Chu Zhixia.
For him to offend Wang Xianfu, people with a discerning eye know that the gains outweigh the losses.
Wang Xianfu stood under the eaves with his hands crossed, looking at the sky gradually lit up on the palace wall, and narrowed his eyes, "Your Majesty believes in Miss Chu, this does not mean that she can run rampant in the imperial capital." A hostage, after all, is still a hostage. She's a smart person, and she can't afford to fight me for a Yu Lin Wei. ”
"That'...... Revisited? ”
"No need to probe any further." Wang Xianfu's eyes were gloomy, "The relationship between Cheng Yuan and the eldest lady of the Chu family was revealed by someone from the regent's side, right?" ”
The regent's Zhuangzi and Wang Xianfu's Zhuangzi were also a few miles apart, and the first person to learn that Zhuangzi was on fire was also the regent's person.
Wang Xianfu threw the facsimile of the scroll in his sleeve to the young eunuch, "The Chen family has lived a stable life for too long. Go and look for the person in the portrait. It's time for our Majesty to add another prince. ”
When the young eunuch opened the scroll, he saw that it was just a side face, which was enough to imagine the elegance of the person in the painting. Eunuchs have been serving nobles in the palace since they were children, and beauties from all over the world compete for beauty, but for so many years, the most beautiful is Concubine Rong.
But Concubine Rong is also overshadowed by the comparison with the person in the painting.
"Can you find such a character?"
"How many such characters can there be in the world?" Wang Xianfu sighed, "There is a four-five point resemblance, which is enough." Our Majesty is no longer the Majesty of seventeen years ago, and if we come again, we will definitely fight with the Chen family. ”
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Dali Temple.
The sun was shining, but Deng Mian was wearing a black coat and swaggered through the city into the prison of Dali Temple. The jailers knew that this was the treasure of Dali Siqing, so they had to turn a blind eye and pretend not to see the big black mouse slip past.
Deng Mian was wrapped in a large aroma of food and stopped in front of the prison.
"Hey, Brother Cheng!" Deng Mian patted the iron fence and shouted in a low voice, "I'm coming to see you!" ”
Cheng Yuan opened his eyes helplessly, and watched Deng Mian's hen spread her arms like wings, carrying a jar of rice wine in her left hand, and hanging strings of oiled paper bags in her right hand, which was fragrant.
"The dim sum of Mihezhai, the flower chicken of the drunken smoke building, and the fried pig ears of the Fushou Building!" Deng Mian stuffed a bunch of food from the iron railing, leaving only a jar of rice wine that couldn't get stuck in the gap anyway, so he had to give up.
"Why don't you just bring it in?" Cheng Yuan tore off a chicken leg and asked suspiciously.
"How's that going to work? Dali Temple prison visits are not allowed to bring food. Deng Mian had a "why are you so ignorant" expression on his face, "I brought it in secretly." ”
Cheng Yuan was silent for a moment, and asked sincerely: "Do you know that there is a word called covering your ears and stealing the bell?" ”
Deng Mian: "? ”
"Forget it." Cheng Yuan waved his hand helplessly.
Deng Mian: "The eldest lady has already paid the ransom for you, and you can come out tomorrow." I said, "Why did you beat your father?" ”
Wang Xianfu and Cheng's father were both in the way of saving face, and they didn't reveal half a point about the news that their sister was sent out and disappeared, and even Dali Temple didn't know why he beat people, but only said that beating his father with his son was a big rebellion.
"He's not my dad anymore." Cheng Yuan said with a cold face, "In the future, I will see him beat him once, which is at most a beating of court officials." ”
After rescuing his sister, Chu Zhixia ordered him to return to the city quickly and be on duty as usual. Sure enough, Cheng's father roared and asked someone to trick him home-as Chu Shixia said, to test him for Wang Xianfu's old eunuch.
Cheng Yuan's beating vented out the resentment for several days, and after the beating, he felt comfortable physically and mentally, and sat directly on the ground and waited for Dali Temple to pick up people.
Deng Mian was so startled by the murderous aura on his body that he shrank back, and said, "Okay." ”
"How's the eldest lady?" Cheng Yuan then remembered and asked.