ordinary people's house

On the sixth day of the lunar new year, Zhu Xian called Yuan Ruheng into the palace, and Xiao Yunlang's place reopened. From the New Year's Eve, Qingyun Road was so bustling, Xiao Yunlang's house could also hear the constant noise here.It happened to snow on the sixth day of the lunar new year, Xiao Yunlang opened the window on the second floor of the tea house, saw a few children downstairs chasing and laughing, narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "After the Chinese New Year, it will probably be cold for a while, when do you think we will go Big sister's house?"

Because Zhao Zong was still in the army, the Marquis of Yongcheng happened to be ill on the third day of junior high school, and the Marquis's residence did not entertain any guests. Xiao Yunlang heard that the second child of the Zhao family was going to go abroad for filial piety in a few months. I am afraid that the old Marquis will hand over the paperwork to please seal it soon. The son, jumping up and down in a hurry, Zhao Si's mother, Wang, has always wanted to choose a daughter from Quan Chen's family for her son. Last year, she took a fancy to Li Xiangmin's younger sister. This year, she doesn't know if she will propose marriage.

Zhao Zong stayed in the camp safely and seldom came out to socialize. In contrast, he received a lot of praise. Although his father died young, everyone was well-known for his generosity. Moreover, the turmoil in the Lin family has long since calmed down. At the beginning, everyone thought that Zhao Zong had such a foreign family, and it was impossible for him to have the opportunity to inherit the Houfu, but now people feel that the younger generation is scary, Zhao Zong will follow the path of a military officer in the future, it is impossible to say that the Zhao family will rise to a higher level.

Civilian officials rarely confer titles. Most of these aristocrats today are rewarded for their military exploits in the past [-] years.In fact, military generals are seldom regarded as "powerful ministers". Now there are many in Beijing, except for the chief of the third battalion, Xiao Su Jinjiang Bofu, Wudinghoufu of the Fifth Army Battalion and Dongpinghou Mansion of the Three Thousand Battalion. The Wang family brothers, the rest are iron-clad barracks and flowing generals, few of them can be called high-ranking and powerful.The present emperor's grandfather was still suppressing military generals and getting close to civil servants at that time. As a result, when the late emperor ascended the throne, there was a lot of gunpowder, and the late emperor had personally put on armor and went into battle, so he was deeply affectionate to the soldiers, especially those who were mixed in Zhu Xian's army camp.Years ago Li Xiangmin vowed to sue the Xiao family. In the end, although the emperor didn't reprimand him much, he also showed some indifference, thinking that he was not good at handling the case, and that a little girl couldn't even ask the truth.

Li Xiangmin was in a dilemma. He was indeed negligent at the beginning. He didn't expect such a woman to dare to lie to him. He thought that Xiao Dulang was not married, and it was normal for him to meet a good-looking girl in the countryside and become ill-willed. , but he was slapped severely in the face. Now, no matter what score is found in this case, it will not do him any good.

Over there Yuan Ruheng entered the palace and waited in the Hall of Martial Arts. Before Zhu Xian finished approving the papers, he said to the eunuch beside him: "Ask someone to prepare some pastries for Ruheng, tell him to sit in the warm room, don't suffer outside." freeze."

"Yes."

After listening to the eunuch's words, Yuan Ruheng nodded and said with a smile, "I'm in trouble, father-in-law."

Lai Bao'er served Zhu Xian in the early years, she had a clear mind, and hurriedly said: "How dare you be a slave, the second son of Yuan came here with the slave."

Yuan Ruheng smiled and said, "Dare to ask Eunuch, when will the Emperor see me?"

Lai Bao'er said: "It's all right, Your Majesty, there are books in the warm room, you can read them as you like."

"Thank you, father-in-law, for your suggestion." Yuan Ruheng found a place to sit down at random, but he didn't ask the famous person next to the emperor to take off his boots for him. Instead, he declined and said, "You don't have to worry about me, I'll wait for the emperor here."

Lai Bao'er was not very polite, she took a step back and said, "Yes, that slave went out first, you can do whatever you want."

Yuan Ruheng smiled and nodded, just as Lai Baoer turned around and closed the door, Yuan Ruheng frowned and threw the book he had just picked up aside.

In this palace, every step of the way is mysterious, if he can, he really doesn't want to come.

After Zhu Xian finished his work, he washed his hands and came to the warm room. Yuan Ruheng leaned on his legs to think about something, but he didn't react for a while. Zhu Xian coughed lightly, and Yuan Ruheng got up to greet him. Zhu Xian smiled and said: "Aiqing, please get up." , I have just approved Mr. Su'an's note, and asked Mr. Su'an to leave in early February, and your family will be reunited in the capital soon."

Yuan Ruheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Zhu Xian also sat cross-legged on the couch, looking as if he was going to have a long talk with Yuan Ruheng. Yuan Ruheng didn't know why, but he was still a little apprehensive, so he said first: "The emperor is busy with state affairs, and I don't dare to disturb you. Why not..."

Zhu Xian said with a smile, "I'm not busy today."

Yuan Ruheng had no choice but to say: "If the emperor has anything to ask, I must know everything and say everything."

Zhu Xian felt a little dazed, he didn't seem to have anything to ask, he just wanted to ask someone to talk, talk, don't you say it and I will say it, if you ask yourself, the other party will respectfully tell you, what's the point of that? ?But Yuan Ruheng looked at him seriously, but Zhu Xian didn't know how to explain. After a while, Zhu Xian said: "Then... well, you can play chess with me."

"...Yes." Yuan Ruheng has a lot of eyes. He is also one of the best chess players in the Yuan family. He has few opponents. If he plays chess with the emperor, will he win or lose?

Seeing his appearance, Zhu Xian's heart sank again, and he waved his hand and said, "Forget it, it's not interesting, let's go for a walk."

Yuan Ruheng also realized that the emperor was a little angry, this time he didn't dare to resist any more, and immediately said: "Yes." Seeing the little eunuch go to bring the clothes, he even took them himself.

Zhu Xian's mood just improved a bit, and just as he was about to open his hands, he saw Yuan Ruheng hand over the coat to Bao'er, and stood aside respectfully.

Zhu Xian: "..."

Zhu Xian put on his clothes and walked ahead, Lai Baoer hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, where do you want to go today?"

Zhu Xian said impatiently: "Just walk around casually, you can go wherever you go."

Lai Bao'er wondered: "Your Majesty probably doesn't know that a few concubines are enjoying the snow in the Imperial Garden today... Ladies and gentlemen... there are a lot of them."

Zhu Xian frowned fiercely, and snorted coldly: "Those are elders, and I naturally want to give in. If they want to enjoy the snow, they occupy the Royal Garden, and if they want to see fish, they occupy the Sparrow Pond. It takes half an hour for me to go back to the palace and return to the Zichen Palace. In the second half of the year, these ladies don't have to keep filial piety for their father, so it will be even more lively. If I want to listen to a play or a song, I just avoid the palace! "

Lai Bao'er lowered her head, not daring to say a word, Yuan Ruheng stepped forward and said: "Your majesty is careful, in the past two and a half years, you have been respectful and filial to the concubines, and the world has noticed, especially the former emperors. The noble concubines who were much loved when they were alive, if they made a mistake, people in the world would talk about you, saying that once the late emperor left, you would have revenge... Everyone in the world is looking at you. "

Zhu Xian was silent for a while, then said calmly: "They are just forcing me, and I am not as good as they want. The more people in the world know that the late emperor didn't like me, the more I have to be filial to them, so that they can't tell me." Don't come."

Yuan Ruheng sighed: "When I was in the northwest, my grandmother often told me and my eldest brother that the emperor was not easy. In the past, my grandmother looked down on Concubine Wan. Concubine Wan is the biological mother of the second prince. She has done many things to hinder you. Before the emperor died, he ordered you to let Concubine Wan spend her old age peacefully... There is such a saying, no matter what she does, you can't use any means, except for Concubine Wan, Concubine Qiu, Concubine Mu, Concubine Yu ... Their scheming is not inferior to that of men, and they all have sons."

Zhu Xian ordered people to open the door, Yuan Ruheng followed behind, the two walked out of the Hall of Martial Arts in peace, Zhu Xian waved his followers to retreat, and then said: "So I go out of the palace sometimes, and I don't want to come back to the palace again."

"You..." Yuan Ruheng didn't know what to say for a while.

"You don't have to feel sorry for me. Although sometimes I think about myself, my loving mother died young, my biological father hated me, and I stumbled into the throne as emperor, but I continue to live in the same palace with my enemies, and I can't sleep well every day... I will indeed Thinking, if I were replaced by another person, and I went out to be an ordinary person, it would be much easier in this life."

Yuan Ruheng sighed softly and said: "But if someone else becomes the crown prince, it might be that when the first empress passed away, he would have made a plot against him, or he was reprimanded by the first emperor a few years ago, and now I don't know if his fate is still alive. Frustrating, now following the ancestral system, you can't let go of your hands and feet, waiting for the dragon to soar for nine days, you will show your grand plans, and the world will be in your hands, then, you will no longer have any shackles."

Zhu Xian stopped in his tracks, looked up at the sky, and said calmly: "Long soars in the sky...Look at this sky, it's lonely and cold, there's no place for people to stay."

Yuan Ruheng was taken aback for a moment, and his footsteps also stopped. Zhu Xian kept walking forward, and Yuan Ruheng followed slowly.

Yuan Ruheng entered the palace early in the morning, and it was noon before he knew it. He wanted to leave, but Zhu Xian kept him. Yuan Ruheng did not refuse, and stayed with Zhu Xian for lunch. Zhu Xian said with a smile: "After I ascended the throne, , Many people are afraid of the Xiao family, every time I stay with Mu Lang and Du Lang to accompany me to dinner, there will be red eyes, every time I go out of the palace, I have to avoid people's eyes and ears, it is really not easy, since you are here today, don't worry Let's go, they watched the snow, let's go to the imperial garden later."

Yuan Ruheng's heart was touched again. Although Zhu Xian is the Son of Heaven, now he is a little pitifully lonely, so he said: "I know."

Zhu Xian nodded in satisfaction and told him to eat more.

This stay lasted until evening, when the north wind picked up again, Zhu Xian dawdled, but did not speak, Yuan Ruheng said: "I am still staying at my uncle's house, and I am not going back so late, uncle, aunt and cousins Time to worry."

Originally, Zhu Xian didn't know how to keep him, so when he heard this, he smiled and said: "This is the easiest, come to Bao'er, send a letter to the Jinjiang uncle's mansion, saying that I will stay with Ruheng tonight In the palace."

Yuan Ruheng: "..."

He was about to say something when Lai Bao'er had already received the order and went out, Zhu Xian said with satisfaction: "Tonight I will sleep with you."

Yuan Ruheng: "..."

Yuan Ruheng ate dinner without taste, and after taking a bath in the side hall of the Zichen Palace, he followed the little maid to the emperor's bedroom. His heart was blank all the way. After experiencing a grandfather, the grandmother was extremely strict with her son and grandson. To put it simply, concubines are not allowed, and the eldest aunt asked her cousins ​​in the same way.

Yuan Ruheng sensed that the emperor treated him a little wrong... This is not a good thing, he frowned and thought, isn't grandmother and mother still thinking about marrying him...

It's just that the emperor is really pitiful, alas!