General, your bun is here!

Yin Zheng was dismissed from the post of Situ, and those who were granted marquis titles by the Yin family were also demoted to common people, which caused a lot of shock in the court.In particular, the eldest princess is the late emperor's sister, the emperor's aunt, and her status is aloof, but she was so disregarded by the emperor and pushed down all of a sudden. Be careful.

And among them, those old fritters who are thieves and thieves are more or less clear in their hearts.Relying on her honorable status, the Eldest Princess, the eldest lady of the Yin family is not so secretive about her liking for the emperor. In addition, she has a father who ranks among the three princes and an elder brother who is secretly entrusted with the position of marquis. It's not his mind.

There are also many civil and military ministers in the court who send their daughters to the palace under the pretense of sending their own daughters into the palace. Once they give birth to a dragon son and a dragon daughter, not to mention inheriting the throne, someone who can climb the dragon and attach to the phoenix is ​​also a rich man.It's just that everyone is not as stubborn as the Situ family, and they are all watching in secret, thinking that as long as the daughter of the Situ family can live in the harem, the emperor will accept the Sangong and Sixth Courtyard, and let nature take its course and enjoy it.

Unexpectedly, the Son of Heaven is actually quite infatuated with the current empress, the eldest lady of the Yin family spread rumors among the refugees, and brought such an unreasonable disaster to the Yin family.However, in their view, Miss Yin's ignorance still lies in the arrangement of today's day. If it was only aimed at this male empress, the emperor would not have made such a heavy move from the beginning.

Xuanming directly asked Chen Yu to be transferred from Shang Shuling to the post of Situ, which surprised all the veteran officials in the court.After all, there is still a long distance between Shang Shu Ling Qian Shi and San Gong.

But in terms of Chen Yu's qualifications, it still makes sense.At the beginning, Xuanming fought abroad for three years, and Chen Yu was able to make outstanding military exploits. However, the late Emperor did not give the civil servants and generals around Xuanming the rewards they deserved, and stayed in the border county for another year or two.Now that he is nearly forty, in the position of the third prince, even if some courtiers have some criticisms, it is not unacceptable to be a little clearer.

After Xuanming ascended the throne, Chen Yu and Zhao Neng, who were originally transferred to Bianjun, were transferred back to the capital and placed in important positions.After Chen Yu was appointed as Situ, he appointed Wang Neng as Shang Shuling, and appointed a younger Ren Shangshu Zuo Cheng who came from the Taixue to assist Wang Neng.

On this day, Zhang Xiaoqiu went home with Qiuqiu to visit his father. It is already early summer, and the summer heat is beginning to show. When it gets hotter, he probably won't want to go out anymore. He should stay in the Yingchun Palace all day long. , taking advantage of the good weather, try to go out of the palace to see his father as many times as possible.

Go out from the Ximing Gate in the southwest corner of the palace, and walk along the alleys in Xiangmoli to the Liu family's courtyard within two or three miles.In fact, this courtyard was also the place where Zhang Xiaoqiu's father and Liu Ya first settled in the capital. Afterwards, Zhang Xiaoqiu changed its appearance, and now it has been more than 20 years.

The entrance and exit of the alley, or the branches and leaves of the old locust tree protruding from the yard on both sides, support a piece of old green coolness under the strong sunlight in early summer.

When Zhang Xiaoqiu led the little guy into the yard, his father was sitting and drinking tea in the yard. When he saw another person drinking tea with his father, he couldn't help being dumbfounded—that person was from the small medical clinic in Dahuoli Blame the old man!

Zhang Xiaoqiu pointed at the strange old man, and asked a little awkwardly, "Father, why did this old man drink tea with you?!"

The strange old man was still wearing a black robe at this time, but he didn't wear a bamboo hat, showing a thin face. His cheeks were sunken, his chin was pointed, and his eyes were glinting, giving him a strange and uncomfortable feeling.Among the spots of light under the shade of the old locust tree in the yard, it flickered on his head and face, which was even more strange.

The strange old man laughed hootingly, his voice sounded like it was scratched on sandpaper, and said, "Empress Empress, don't come here without any harm!" There was a strange sense of sarcasm in those words no matter what they said.

Zhang Xiaoqiu's father smiled with a hint of unexpected joy, "Uncle, you actually know Xiaoqiu?"

As if choking on an egg, Zhang Xiaoqiu stretched his eyes and pointed at the strange old man and said, "Master?!" This strange old man turned out to be his father and uncle, and he felt that he couldn't bear to look at his father directly, it was so swollen!

Zhang Xiaoqiu's father gave him a reproachful look, "Xiaoqiu, you can't be so rude, you have to call Master Uncle!"

The strange old man was not surprised at all, feeling that everything was under control, he accepted Zhang Xiaoqiu's "Uncle Master!"

When he saw the little guy Qiuqiu in a blink of an eye, his eyes lit up again in an instant, and he patted his skinny palms to imitate other people he had seen, pretending to coax children, but he was greeted with kind eyebrows and kind eyes. The appearance is really scary for adults, let alone children.Sure enough, Qiuqiu shrank behind his father in a blink of an eye.

Zhang Xiaoqiu's father was also very happy to see his little grandson, and hurriedly called Qiuqiu over. At this time, Qiuqiu jumped into his grandfather's arms like an obedient puppy, and bypassed the strange old man by the way. Xiao Qiu also sat down beside him.

Ruyun who followed Zhang Xiaoqiu hurriedly found Zhang Ruanzi and let him sit on a cushion.

Strange that the old man's eyes were still glued to Qiuqiu, he complained to Zhang Xiaoqiu's father, "Hey, this kid is just like you back then, why doesn't he want to be my apprentice!" , took out a dried lizard that looked like a lizard, and held it in front of Qiuqiu to tease him.

As expected, Qiuqiu was attracted attention, and his eyeballs followed the lizard in front of him.

Zhang Xiaoqiu's father touched his nose in embarrassment, and said not very sincerely, "There are many people who want to be apprentices to the uncle, but you are too picky, uncle!"

The strange old man snorted angrily, "If you want the old man to accept me as an apprentice, it must be pleasing to my eyes, what kind of blind cats and dogs, or want to be my apprentice for impure purposes, that's of course Impossible." The words clearly meant something.

It was strange that the old head was talking about his anger, and he didn't care much about teasing the little guy anymore, he threw the dried lizard to Qiuqiu, patted the black robe himself, turned around and left Shi Shiran.

Zhang Xiaoqiu's father didn't think it was disobedient, he smiled at Zhang Xiaoqiu, "Your master uncle has such a weird temperament, you don't have to take it to heart."

Zhang Xiaoqiu naturally knows what this strange old man is like, so it makes sense why this strange old man is so familiar with men's children; Zhang Xiaoqiu couldn't help being very curious about what it was like.

"Uncle Master always refused to leave his small clinic in Dahuo, why did he come here to see Dad today? It seems that he really likes Dad."

Zhang Xiaoqiu's father smiled, and felt that his uncle was an old boy, "Uncle has that kind of temper. He wanted me to be his apprentice at first, but I was chosen by the master to inherit his mantle. He also refused to give up, and he still has it in his heart. But why did he say that he wanted Qiuqiu to be his apprentice?"

Zhang Xiaoqiu told his father about the original matter, but unexpectedly his father said, "Actually, you are just a very common weakness in our clan. It's not a big problem to replenish your body, it's just this." The outside world has never seen a man give birth, so it feels strange and mysterious. Seeing you like this, it feels that there is no cure. Of course, those common medicines for women's pregnancy are indeed useless to you."

When it was mentioned again today, Zhang Xiaoqiu couldn't help but asked, "Father, you have said it several times. It is not a mysterious thing for a man to have children in our clan. Where does our clan live? What's so special about it?" ? Why can men have children? I have never heard of it before."

I don't know what day it is today, but his father is willing to say a few words, with a look of nostalgia in his eyes, "If this matter can be traced back, it must have been a long, long time ago. Have you heard of it before? The survivors all moved down from the ancient Kunlun.”

Zhang Xiaoqiu nodded in confusion. He remembered that he had heard about it before, like Huangdi Chiyou or even longer ago, the ancient survivors moved from the ancient Kunlun Mountains to the Central Plains, and then multiplied and became the later Huaxia nation.In China, there is a saying that it is the mother of Nuwa Fuxi, the leader of the original matriarchal primitive society, and some say it is the name of a clan.

"At that time, the climate in the ancient Kunlun Mountains was warm and humid, with vast forests and beautiful blue lakes. At night, there were dots of blue light in the forests and lakes. The moonlight shone on the forests and lakes, as if covered with Like silver gauze, the reindeer with dots of light will shuttle through the forest and come to the lake to drink water."

Zhang Xiaoqiu only felt the clouds and mist covering the mountains, and thought that on the Kunlun he knew, the vegetation was sparse, and the top of the mountain was always snow and ice, what was his father talking about, he couldn't help wondering, "Father, are you telling fairy tales?"

Zhang Xiaoqiu burst out laughing, "You child! Fairy tale?! It's such a strange word, I've never heard of it, but it seems very appropriate. These were all told to us by the great wizard when we were young. The great wizard will pass it down from generation to generation, and tell the children what the ancient Kunlun looked like in the past."

"The way it used to be?!"

Zhang Xiaoqiu's father nodded, "Well—then the climate gradually became colder, the forests gradually disappeared, and the lakes dried up. The top of the mountain was covered with ice and snow all year round, and there was less food and animals. People survived. More and more people left under the leadership of the new leader, leaving only a very small number of stubborn and nostalgic people who did not leave."

"The great wizard didn't leave with the people. However, the people who left re-elected their own great wizard."

"Since then, it has probably been thousands of years. The world has changed, and the sea has changed. Among the survivors of the ancient Kunlun, men have a certain chance of being able to conceive a child. There is no restriction that men and women can live. Together. The outside world doesn’t know what’s going on, basically men can’t have children, it’s become a rare thing.”

Zhang Xiaoqiu and Qiuqiu, one big and one small, listened to this story in a daze, Qiuqiu probably understood half of it, just like listening to a fairy tale, but Zhang Xiaoqiu felt something in his heart for some reason. Not a little excited, he couldn't help asking, "Father, is your master the great wizard in the clan?"

Zhang Xiaoqiu's father smiled very gently, and patted his head, "Xiaoqiu is so smart!"

He couldn't help flashing through the scene in his mind when he was three years old, blood was flowing everywhere, corpses were everywhere, what happened after that? !His voice was a little dry, "Father, what happened later, are you going to send me out?"

His father's calm face darkened all the time, and he changed the subject without any technical content, "I've talked too much today, you must be tired too, it's windy outside, it's not good if it blows too much, let's go in and rest. "

Zhang Xiaoqiu and Qiuqiu stared blankly at the motionless branches of the old locust tree in the yard, the warm sun shone down, and they occasionally heard an early cicada chirping, they couldn't help thinking, his father (grandfather) didn't even tell lies. With a wink!