An autumn rain, accompanied by a thin golden phoenix, arrived as scheduled at dawn in the early morning and sprinkled towards Xiaoyu Mountain City. Every corner of the city is filled with smoke, with a crystal refreshment, and every inch of the earth exudes a fresh fragrance.

Today's Tengu Garden was unusually lively, and King Kong's mouth kept urging: "Hurry up, hurry up." ”。 Li Hao sat on the edge of Xiao Shizhu's bed, pulled Xiao Shizhu, who was still sleepy, out of the warm quilt, helped him sit up, shook the other party and said urgently: "Wake up, adults, this is your first day in court, don't be late." ”。

As he spoke, he took the hot towel brought by Li Chai and wiped it on Xiao Shizhu's face, and then said, "Do you want to sleep after sleeping and then come back to sleep? Let's put this up first, otherwise my lord will give you 'little shoes' again." ”。

"Hmm. Xiao Shizhu dragged a long voice, and after answering impatiently, he still closed his eyes tightly. Then he turned his head and snorted again.

"My lord, I'm offended!" King Kong, who couldn't stand it anymore, stepped forward to pull Li Hao away, and gave Xiao Shizhu two slaps without hesitation!

After two crisp sounds, Xiao Shizhu suddenly lost his sleepiness and woke up completely. He settled down, and the first thing he did after gasping a few breaths of cold air was to open his eyes and stare at King Kong and scold, "You're going to smoke your father to death?"

King Kong bowed his head slightly, apologizing.

"It's okay to tell me to get up, can't I change it in another way?" After complaining angrily, Xiao Shizhu rubbed his cheeks, yawned, and scolded King Kong angrily: "You have to do this simple and crude method every time, and you won't have your share of eating roast chicken tonight." ”。

"As long as the adults are not late for the court, and they are not impeached by the officials, the little ones would rather not eat roast chicken for the rest of their lives. King Kong gave him up without changing his face, and he didn't feel that he had done anything wrong at all. And in a word, Xiao Shizhu was blocked, and he didn't know what to say, so he had to shout: "Clothes, shoes." ”。

"Lord Ben studied the situation around his country until midnight last night, don't you know?" While putting on his shoes, Xiao Shizhu also said in a broken voice: "Genius Liang will wake me up, I will not rest enough; ”。

"Don't lie, sir. After King Kong heard this, Zhengse said: "When I got up last night, I obviously saw that you were watching "Spring Palace Map". That thing is not good, it hurts the mind and the body, and the soul will also be exhausted and people will die, so you should see less in the future, and it is better not to see it. ”。 As soon as these words came out, Li Hao, Li Chai and Yang Fengfeng lowered their heads and snickered.

"You, you, you. The embarrassment flashed on Xiao Shizhu's face, he pointed at King Kong with his hand, blushed and couldn't even think of anything after saying the word "you", so he had to say fiercely: "You are the tease sent by my daughter-in-law." ”。 Then he took the court clothes, put them on, and went out of the house.

He had just left, and there was a loud laugh in the room. After a while, Yang Fengfeng found that Xiao Shizhu's black gauze hat was still in his hand, and shouted, "My lord, your hat." "Chased out.

Xiao Shizhu braved the rain to come to the small river on the square that runs through the entire square from east to west, and saw that Chunyun had already taken the neatly dressed civil and military ministers, standing in front of the stone steps of the big hall called "Tiande Palace" at the north end of the square, despite the autumn wind and drizzle.

"Buckle it up. Seeing that he was late, and he hadn't even buttoned his placket yet, Chunyun glared at him and scolded angrily: "Go and stand in the back!"

"Oh. After she reminded Xiao Shizhu, she noticed, hurriedly smiled and buttoned the button, and ran to the back of the team of hundred officials to stand still. And his appearance also attracted sideways glances and whispers from other officials.

It's not that he is untidy and undignified, but since 600 years ago, all officials above the fifth rank in the ghost mother country are women. Xiao Shizhu stood in the ranks of hundreds of officials, and it was a little green in the red, which was extremely conspicuous. The attention of the officials was focused on him.

And those who can enter the Ghost Mother Palace are all officials above the fifth grade. Looking at Lord Xiao Shizhu again, the patch on his chest is embroidered with a seahorse pattern swimming in the sea, and at a glance, he knows that he is just a minor official.

The sesame-sized official rank can also go to court, which immediately aroused the curiosity and suspicion of hundreds of officials.

Just when the officials were talking about him endlessly, a maid walked out of the Tiande Palace, and after standing by the palace gate, she shouted to the hundred officials: "My lord has arrived, and the ministers are in court." ”。

After finishing speaking, Chunyun led the officials and walked towards the Tiande Hall with their heads held high. Xiao Shizhu also hurriedly followed.

What does it look like outside this hall, Xiao Shizhu has long been tired of seeing it, and today is the first time he has come to the Tiande Palace, and he will inevitably feel a little curious in his heart.

When he entered the temple, he saw that it was very richly decorated. Under the eaves, there are dense buckets, and the indoor and outdoor beams are decorated with Hexi paintings. The gold bricks are paved on the ground, so that the surface of the ground is light black, oily and shiny, not astringent and non-slippery.

Seventy-two large pillars that can only be surrounded by two people support the full weight of its roof, and the pillars of each pillar are carved with three runes composed of tadpole scripts, in addition to the lifelike nine golden phoenixes soaring in the clouds, emitting a faint blue soft light.

In the middle of the depths of the main hall, a gilded throne is placed on a high platform with nine steps. There are a total of 13 golden phoenixes entwined on the chair circle, the largest of which stands in the center of the back of the chair to spread its wings and fly high; there are no chair legs under the chair surface, but it is replaced by a Sumeru base, and the place where the Sumeru seat is girded is open-carved with double phoenix play beads, full of gold lacquer. The surrounding area is furnished with an elephant vase that symbolizes peace and elephants, a symbol of the monarch's wisdom and the sage's end, a crane that symbolizes longevity, and an incense burner and incense tube for burning incense.

At this time, the ghost mother was sitting upright on it. Today, she wears a crown of dragons and phoenixes, a large-sleeved shirt embroidered with nine phoenix patterns, and a long red skirt, with a xia veil on her clothes, and a sun, moon, phoenix and peony patterns on her shoulders. The majesty and style of the lord of a country are vividly displayed against the backdrop of this dress.

The ministers stood still in front of her, and after dividing them into two columns according to the left and right sides, they all dressed in their robes, knelt down on her knees, kowtowed, and shouted: "Long live my lord, long live, long live!"

Xiao Shizhu was the first time to go to court, and he had no experience in worship, so he had to follow the gourd painting scoop. But he secretly said in his heart: "It is worthy of my future wife, coaxed by the cow." A mere prince and king also want the ministers to shout long live, this ambition is obvious!".

"Zhongqing is flat. The ghost mother said, and the ministers shouted again: "Thank you, my lord, Longen." After that, he stood up.

"Today's early dynasty is just for one thing, should we use troops against the ghost king, or do you want to exterminate Wu Zhiqi's pirates first?" After finishing speaking, the ghost mother's slightly inquiring gaze swept over everyone's faces one by one.

"Naturally, he is the king of ghosts. Standing opposite Chunyun, a female official at the front of the civil official queue immediately came out of the line with a jade wat in her hand, bowed to the ghost mother, and said excitedly: "We all know that a few days ago, the spy of the ghost kingdom was caught. actually sent spies to our country, and sneaked into the palace to steal treasures, this kind of behavior that does not put our lord in his eyes is tolerable, which is unbearable!". The louder he spoke, the louder he became.

As soon as her words fell, she successfully aroused the emotions of many ministers, and then someone echoed loudly: "Yes, yes." Or: "How can you allow others to snore on the side of the couch, not to mention that the ghost king is not a good ghost, only by removing it can we prevent future troubles!"

"Who is this sister? I can say so paper, I admire and admire. Xiao Shizhu said in his heart, so he looked curiously, and saw that this woman was slightly shorter than Chunyun by about half a foot, and she was also wearing a silk robe and a seven-beam crown.

It's just that her figure is much better than Chunyun, petite and well-proportioned, concave and convex, and although she doesn't have powder on her face today, she also has a delicate and moving face, especially those phoenix eyes, which are extremely good-looking.

"Another big-chested and brainless thing. Xiao Shizhu sighed secretly in his heart, and at the same time walked out of the queue slowly without thinking, and asked the woman bluntly: "This sister, what is your name?"

When everyone heard this, they all turned their heads to look at Xiao Shizhu.

"Qiushuang, who was the head of the household department of the ghost mother country at the time. After the woman answered, a faint arrogance appeared on her face, and after looking at Xiao Shizhu from head to toe with a slightly disdainful gaze, she said, "What about you?"

"Oh, it turned out to be Lord Shangshu who was in charge of household registration and finance. The younger brother is the first shovel official of the ghost mother country sealed by the ghost mother. After Xiao Shizhu saluted her respectfully, he looked up at her phoenix eyes, and asked slowly, "Sister, haven't you received nine years of compulsory education?" or have you never played real-time strategy games?"

None of the old ghosts present had heard of these words he said, and they were all stunned.

"We all know that in a war, it is necessary to be near first and then far, weak first and then strong, especially in the development stage, it is all persimmons to pick up soft pinch!" Xiao Shizhu had a faint smile on his face, and said slowly in his mouth: "Obviously, Wu Zhiqi's pirates are weak. And Wu Zhiqi's stronghold is only seventy miles away from the ghost mother country, but the ghost kingdom is more than three hundred miles away, why should you fight the far one first and then the one closer?"

"Because the king of ghosts is unkind and unjust. Qiushuang glanced at him and said, "Such a shameless person who ignores my lord should give him some color." ”。 After finishing speaking, another group of ministers chimed in: "Yes, yes! Xiao Shizhu couldn't interject at all.

"Shut up, they are all hundreds of years older than me, I don't know if you can't interject when others are talking, is this basic politeness?" After Xiao Shizhu scolded, the entire hall was quiet. He nodded with satisfaction, and was about to continue speaking, when a minister scolded him: "Little Jiupin official, you dare to make a big deal in the main hall!"

"You don't have to be loud, I want to plant the Sun and Moon Flag of the Ghost Mother Country into the Ghost King's Palace more than any of you. Xiao Shizhu walked quickly to the minister who scolded him, and looked down at the other party in a quick whisper: "But the ghost kingdom is far away from us, not to mention, and there are many soldiers and horses, not to mention the strong national strength, the terrain in the country is mostly ravines, canyons and cliffs, high mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack." Once our two countries go to war, it will not be a problem for other countries to rely on favorable terrain and spend three or five years with us. In addition, the current ghost mother country is in the development period, not to mention whether we can spend three or five years with the other party, let's just say that if we want to destroy the ghost kingdom, we have to raise the whole country's troops to fight against it, and it is not ten days and half a month to fight. At that time, the blitzkrieg of the surprise attack will turn into a protracted war, and if Wu Zhiqi attacks from the east, and the army in the country is empty, what will you do to protect the people and our dear lord Ghost Mother?" What he said was reasonable, and the minister was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know how to answer.

After finishing and glancing at the complement on the other party's chest, after seeing that the other party was a civil official, he snorted lightly and added: "You are an empty scholar who can only mislead the country and the people!"