cold moon is king

During the Kangning period of Daxia, the prince was 22 years old and had not married for a long time. The other princes had already had children. The emperor was deeply worried, so he went to the whole country to choose concubines.

As soon as the imperial list came out, the whole country was in an uproar, and one after another betrothed the married woman in the family to others, just to avoid entering the palace. After all, everyone in the whole country knew that the prince was an idiot.

In the noisy teahouse, only a thin, tall, thin-eyed man with two beards was sitting on the stand, holding a folding fan, slapped the gavel, and said: "Today, I will tell everyone that the Zhenyuan General, General Chu, Lead an army of [-] to fight Chinu, capture the Chinu prince and return with great victory."

"Good!" The audience sitting under the stage applauded.

As for the Zhenyuan general Chu Jiangli, he is also a well-known figure. He followed his father to the battlefield at the age of 15 and made great military achievements. The cavalry raided the enemy army, burned the opponent's grain storehouse, took advantage of the chaos to capture the opponent's prince and returned to Beijing, and negotiated a stable contract.

This year, General Zhenyuan was only 20 years old.

"If you want to talk about General Chu, he is very mysterious. He just wears a mask on the battlefield, and he wears a mask to face the saint when he enters the palace. I heard that his appearance is terrifying. I'm afraid he will startle the saint. He is not married now. Let me tell you. If I am a woman, no matter what General Chu looks like, I will definitely marry him, who would not fall in love with a hero like General Chu!" The storyteller became more and more excited as he spoke.

The rest of the people knocked on the melon seeds and asked a few questions from time to time. The storyteller stroked his mustache and answered them one by one.

"General Chu is ugly, no one will marry, the crown prince is stupid, no one will marry, I think it would be a good match for them!" a good-hearted person muttered in a low voice.

Others glared at him and scolded: "Damn it, what nonsense are you talking about, no matter how ugly General Chu looks, it won't be the turn of that stupid prince!"

In a prosperous age, the folk customs of Daxia are open. Not only is it common for men and women to marry each other, but ordinary people can also talk about political affairs at will.

This is all thanks to the good policy of the ancestor emperor, who established a cabinet system. The twelve cabinet members are directly managed by the emperor. A cabinet meeting is held every year. Each county can submit one or two proposals. If it is [-]% If the cabinet members agree, the proposal is passed.

This is the way the ancestor emperor used to express his understanding.

This is how the marriage law between men and women was passed.

In an open and free environment, although the common people have a slight dislike for the idiot prince, they are full of praise for the sageness of the emperors of the past dynasties. Compared with this, more and more people question the idiot prince.

A thin young man was sitting at a table close to the stands, he squeezed his teacup tightly, the cup clicked, and a broken fine line appeared.

The servant next to him looked at his master nervously, and comforted him in a low voice, "Master, they are talking nonsense, don't be angry, don't be angry, if you are so angry, whoever wants you to come here."

"Well, it's okay, I'm not angry." The young man's thin white fingertips rubbed against the wall of the cup, and with a slight movement of his wrist, the cup flew out and hit the broken-mouthed man's stool. break apart.

The stool tilted, and the man fell to the ground. Everyone watched and laughed, and the man who was arguing with him clapped his hands and laughed too. The cold light in the young man's eyes swept over the other man, his lips were slightly pursed, and he reached out to pick up the other man. only cups.

The servant hurriedly pressed his hand, and whispered: "Master, don't fall, the old lady has confiscated this month's salary, the money we brought is not enough to pay for it."

The young man hesitated for a moment, but put down the cup in his hand, "You are so annoying."

The boy was wronged, he took the money bag and summoned the waiter, the waiter ran over with a small trot, his eyes glued to the young man's face, the waiter stood in front of the waiter uncomfortably, and said, "Check out!" , a cup is broken."

The waiter in the shop sneaked a few glances at the young man again, thinking, such a beautiful girl, even in men's clothing, is very graceful, probably there is no one in the whole city who is more beautiful than this girl.

The young man frowned and looked at the waiter in the shop, his eyes flickered, and there was a touch of displeasure in his eyes. He opened the folding fan with a snap, covering half of his face.

The waiter in the shop was stunned by that look, his seven souls lost three souls, and he nodded blankly, "Okay, okay."

The waiter in the shop took a bunch of copper coins. After returning to the front desk of the inn, he still hadn't recovered. The innkeeper slapped him on the head and said angrily, "Have you lost your soul?"

The waiter suddenly came back to his senses, the young man and the servant had long since disappeared.

Everything just now seemed like a dream, the waiter murmured, "I won't see Sister Immortal, right?"

The boss patted his head again, "Why are you in a daze, why don't you clear the table!"

The young man was walking on the bustling street, half of his face was covered by a folding fan in his hand, and the emotion on his face could not be seen clearly. He stopped suddenly and stopped in front of a stall selling cloth tigers.

The boy started again, "Master, we are out of money, really out of money."

The young man frowned impatiently, and retorted: "What about my reward from last time, isn't there still a few ingots of gold left?"

The boy shook his head, "Master, you forgot, you melted gold and made a nine-link chain for that one."

The young man was stunned, and after a few seconds, he remembered, and said awkwardly, "Okay, okay, I got it, let's go home." He paused, and added in a low voice, "Chu Yu, you are so annoying."

Chu Yu followed her master's footsteps aggrievedly, while muttering, "Master, is it useful for you to give those toys to that one? That look, what are you trying to do? I think the eldest prince is also very good, a good-looking talent, Wen Tao Wu Lue, how can it be better than that one?"

The young man stopped suddenly, Chu Yu almost bumped into his back, he turned his head, his cold eyes made Chu Yu shiver.

Chu Yu consciously made a slip of the tongue, covered his mouth, and looked at the young man carefully. The young man's voice was cold, like cold spring water, "There are some things that you can't say. If you say this again, you can serve the old lady."

Chu Yu regretted so much, knowing that he shouldn't mention that person, he slapped his mouth and cursed himself secretly, Chu Yu, why can't you control this broken mouth!

The young man withdrew his gaze, stroked the jade pendant on his waist with his fingers, and walked straight to the General's Mansion on Ping'an Street.

Chu Yu sighed and said to himself, beauty deceives people, look at that one, what kind of fascination they have become, thanks to being a fool, if you have more eyes, it will be fine.

Chu Yu sighed, shook his head and followed the young man into the side door of the general's residence. The servant at the door lowered his head and dared not look at the young man, and said in a low voice, "Master, you're back."

The young man responded lightly, "Yes." Looking around the back garden, he suddenly asked, "Did the old lady come out for a stroll today?"

The servant said respectfully: "The old lady hasn't come out today."

The young man nodded and said: "Ask the gardener to repair the flowers, and the old lady will be unhappy after seeing it."

"Yes, sir."

The young man gently put the fan in Chu Yu's palm, and said: "Put it back in the room, don't make it dirty for me."

Holding the fan in his hand, Chu Yu thought to himself, such an ugly fan would be regarded as a treasure by their father.

The fan bones were made of suet jade, and the clear jade shone brightly in the sunlight. He slowly unfolded the fan, looked at the poorly painted picture of a chicken pecking rice, and heaved a long sigh.

The chicken in the picture is made up of two circles, and there is a little distance between the circles. It cannot be called a chicken. After all, whose chicken will have its head and body separated, and the rice on the ground is also a pile of ugly and dirty ink. point.

The above painting really ruined this pair of jade bone fans completely, what a pity, after all, it was bestowed by the emperor.

The young man didn't know that Chu Yu was quite prejudiced against this pair of fans. He walked into the backyard, the door was tightly closed, and an older woman stood at the door holding a tray with a sad face.

When the woman saw him coming, she frowned, and said happily: "My master is here, my master is here, and the old lady refuses to eat again. Just now she lost her temper and wanted to drive us away!"

The young man showed a warm smile, "Okay, Aunt Wang, give me the tray, and I will send it to the old lady."

Aunt Wang carefully put the tray in the young man's hand, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Master, the master came back from the palace today, and made a big fuss, and the old lady was also mad, go and coax her." Coax the old lady, don't let the old lady get angry."

The young man nodded, pushed open the door, and put the tray on the table.

The old lady sat on the couch in the outer room and closed her eyes to rest her mind. When she heard the sound, she didn't lift her eyes, and said sharply, "Didn't you say that, I don't want to eat!"

The young man laughed, his eyes curved into crescent moons, his brows were picturesque, "Grandma, you are disobedient again."

Hearing the young man's voice, the old lady opened her eyes, her expression changed immediately, her face was full of smiles, the wrinkles on her face were piled up, and the beauty of her youth could be vaguely seen in her brows and eyes, "Oh, Yueming is back. "

Chu Jiangli took two steps forward, threw himself on the old lady's lap, and rubbed her tender face against it, "Grandma, I'm so hungry, I haven't eaten yet."

The old lady quickly said: "Come, come, grandma will eat with you."

Chu Jiangli helped the old lady up and walked to the table. While serving the old lady some food, he said seemingly unintentionally: "Grandma, why did Dad get so angry when he went to the palace today?"

The old lady's smile froze, and she missed Chu Jiangli's gaze, "Well, I don't know, what else could be the matter, isn't it just another quarrel with the emperor!"

Chu Jiangli felt that the matter would not be so simple. Seeing the dodging eyes of the old lady, it probably had something to do with him. He guessed casually, "The emperor wants me to return to the frontier?"

The old lady frowned and said, "It would be fine if that's the case."

"The emperor actually wants the prince to marry a man, you say, isn't this absurd! Those old people in the cabinet agreed! They even hit you with their ideas. Isn't it enough for you to wear a mask in court? The emperor actually said It doesn’t matter if you don’t have looks, and it’s okay to have both talent and virtue.”

The old lady patted the table when she got excited, "Tell me, does the emperor think that our family is not pleasing to the eye, and wants our family to be extinct. We have nine generations of single heirs, and you are an only child who married someone else to be a man?" Wife! Even if it is a princess, it won't work! Do you think your father can't be angry!"

"I am willing."

The old lady turned her face away, looked at Chu Jiangli in surprise, doubled her voice, and said in surprise, "What? What did you say?"

Chu Jiangli's face was flushed, his eyes were lowered, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and he concealed the ecstasy in his eyes. After calming down, he repeated, "Grandma, I said I would."