Minister

29【Six Years of Jiankang】

After the banquet that day, Monan fell into an embarrassing debate, and the opponents in the debate were Monan and Monan.As for Da Qi's uninvited guests, it seemed that this in itself was not their business.The nobles were divided into countless factions, and there were thousands of topics for debate and quarrel, but they all avoided one-this war.

What did Daqi and his group come for?No one dares to ask this question.Smart people saw the attitude of the royal family and knew that this was something to discredit the royal family. When they stayed in the capital, they were on the same boat with the clan. It must be wrong to expose their own inferiority.The not-so-smart ones didn't see the reason but felt fear. Whether it was the pressure from the royal family or the Daqi, they dared not say what they wanted to say.As for those who are particularly unintelligent, they began to think a little bit, and prepared to pack up their packages to show their favor to Wo Tuolei... The eldest princess wrote a list and handed it to Wang Yunyi. Wang Yunyi was not ambiguous. According to the plan, he copied several houses, and made a financial list before dawn, and handed it to the eldest princess's desk.

The cooperation is so pleasant, as if this group of Qi people are all the highnesses who came to help Monan honestly.After a few more days, the nobles were completely honest, and never dared to have other thoughts, and devoted their enthusiasm to the debates of self-ridicule, self-reflection, and self-criticism.As long as people who haven't filled their brains with horse dung will understand that His Majesty the King will not make any movement for the time being, if he wants to get along well, he must learn to read the faces of the eldest princess and Wang Yunyi.

Wei Chi was worried about the current situation on King Qin's side. Although Wulanchabu was considered to have settled the overall situation, Bayan Tala finally passed through the difficult May. As long as there is no sand blowing on the land, the food will not be cut off. .Voltore's cavalry became angry again, and the two sides fell into another standoff.Qin Wang Chen Su is the emperor's younger brother from the same mother. Qin Wang is only 21 years old this year, but he has been leading the army at the border for more than three years.The emperor now has only two brothers left. Yan Wang Chen Ang is not the same as him, so naturally he will not hand over the military power to him. Although Qin Wang is young, he can only bite the bullet.Wei Chi calculated that the King of Qin was only his age when he arrived at the border. Thinking of his hard work when he got out of the border, he felt that even the relatives of the emperor may not all be able to live a good life.Wo Tuolei is already in his early thirties, and he is an expert at fighting. King Qin may have suffered a lot after guarding the pass for so many years.

Saul Hahan was looking at the documents sent by Wei Chi, seeing him in a daze, he knocked on the table: "What are you thinking?"

"No..." Wei Chi withdrew his eyes. Ever since he took the policy as a lesson, he had to run here every day. It's been better recently. A few days ago, General Wang had to toss Wei Chi every time he tossed his family. He also had to look at his signboard, and even they got tired of them later, so he nodded at Wei Chi and let him in after saying hello.

Saul Hahan threw away the document in his hand: "I'm tired of reading it. You Qi people have too many polite words, and the [-] sentences didn't hit the point. Here...you read it to me."

Wei Chi picked it up, straightened his face and began to read.

Saul Hahan looked displeased: "Read it carefully, what are you doing so sad?"

Wei Chi simply threw the document away: "What do you mean three hundred sentences didn't get to the point? How could I write so much nonsense??"

Saul Hahan couldn't hold back, and burst out laughing: "Bookworm, so you wrote it! Why didn't you say it earlier? I would have praised your writing skills."

Wei Chi curled his lips: "Look at your complacent look... Are you comfortable with raiding your house recently?"

Saul Hahan was not angry, straightened his sleeves and stood up: "You didn't raid your house, what kind of breath is blowing out of your nose?"

Wei Chi picked up the documents on the ground and pointed to a line: "Last night, a copyist family rioted. I'm afraid that if you keep copying like this, you will be burned by wildfire."

Saul Hahan waved his hand: "I know it in my heart." Looking back, seeing Wei Chi still looking angry, he couldn't help but want to tease her: "Do all of you courtiers like to be so self-righteous? Showing an expression of life or death."

Wei Chi sighed and was about to speak, but Saul Hahan quickly raised his hand to cover his mouth: "No, I know, your next sentence is 'you can do it for yourself', let me help you say, 'His Royal Highness, please do it for yourself Go'." Saul Hahan puffed up his cheeks, pretending to be an old minister.

"I have seen such people coming and going in front of my father since I was a child. They are so funny, and I will never forget them for the rest of my life."

"It is because your father is willing to be close to his courtiers that Monan can become strong!" Wei Chi broke away Saul Hahan's hand.

"No..." Saul Hahan blinked his eyes: "Although the father is always respectful to them and looks like he is listening attentively, after they left, my father whispered to me, 'If there is something in the family, ask me. The county head, the county head asks the head of the village, the head of the village asks the head of the tribe, the head of the tribe asks the minister, who should the minister ask? Of course, you should ask the monarch, the monarch is the biggest official in the world, everything depends on him Thoughts, if the ministers are capable of doing this, then what do we need the monarch to do? Don't look at the plausible appearance of these people, we still have to make up our own minds! Right or wrong is only a matter of thought before things are done. Now that we have decided Be firm in your convictions and let it go. If you look back, you're not made to be a king!'”

"Don't worry, I have my own opinion." Saul Hahan took out the notebook in Wei Chi's hand: "I've been very tired these days, and today I finally have less things to do, so don't be too busy, go out with me tonight Go to the market."

Wei Chi thought that he was a member of Daqi after all, so it would be bad to talk too much, so he let go of the booklet in his hand and stood up: "You are a dignified princess, how can you go out and go shopping in the market?"

"Why do you have the same accent as those old men!!" Saul Hahan stomped his feet: "Don't use the title of princess to pressure me! I can go wherever I want!"

Wei Chi smiled: "Okay, okay, in order not to annoy you, I will keep pace with you..."

Saul Hahan rolled his eyes, wondering what you are pretending, I think you want to go too...

Wei Chi packed up the documents and prepared to leave.

"Are you going back?"

"Yeah, isn't it still early? I'll come to you at night."

"What are you going to wear to find me?" Saul Hahan showed a contemptuous expression.

"This," Wei Chi pointed to the official uniform on his body: "General Wang ordered me to wear official uniforms when going out."

"No! If you want to wear Han Chinese clothes, what a risk I have to take! If you meet someone you know well, you can guess it." Saul Hahan was dissatisfied.

"I don't wear your Monan's clothes!" Wei Chi objected: "Like a wine barrel, uglier than my official uniform!"

"Hmm..." Saul Hahan smiled, "Are my clothes also like wine barrels?"

"It's not like..." The Monan woman's clothes are elegant and luxurious, and the skirt is swaying, making her figure extraordinarily slender.

"You can wear mine!" Saul Hahan grabbed Wei Chi's hand.

"No!!" Wei Chi withdrew his hand.

"Your face is blue... Virtue!" Saul Hahan smiled: "Is that scared? But you might look good in a skirt."

Wei Chi calmed down and waved his hands: "Your Highness, don't make trouble for the officials!"

"Hello!" Saul Hahan leaned forward curiously: "What will happen if your identity is exposed one day? Will your emperor drag you out and behead your head?"

Wei Chi smiled: "Who told you that your head would be beheaded? If I really revealed the truth...hehe, it would be a good story at best, wouldn't it?"

"Then you're so frightened, I think you might as well find some time to confess to your emperor. I'm disgusted to save such a man and woman."

Wei Chi thought to himself that I am half male but not female, I am willing, why do I disgust you?She curled her lips: "Based on my current situation, if I was found out, no one would really have trouble with me. It's just that the official I have worked so hard to pass the exam has nothing to do with me. Everyone can tolerate it and even be happy. Seeing a woman pretending to be a boy to try her best to gain fame and fame, but to be an official in the same dynasty... Hehe, maybe it's not like that?"

"How do you say it?" Saul Hahan became even more curious: "Is it your 'male and female defense'?"

Wei Chi sighed: "Women are officials, there is no such reason in our ancestors! Do you think there are too few people in this officialdom? There are already too many people! If you have no fault, you will be investigated! What's more, if you want to stay so The big one is in the hands of others? Even if I have the ability to stay in the court, such a big mistake is exposed to the outside, well, I will stop doing other things, and quarrel with the censors of the provinces every day! You can fight for a year or a half for anything that is true, but I, who is so shocking and weeping ghosts and gods, don’t know how many years I will be arguing! It’s not just men and women who want to quarrel? You are too underestimating the civil servants of our country! "

Wei Chiyu turned his head earnestly: "There are only two consequences for my identity to be exposed. First, the emperor finds an excuse to add some kind of 'madame' to me, and I will return to my hometown. Second, I refuse to leave. The minister scolded me and left, and the emperor found an excuse to add some 'Madam' to me, or return to my hometown with honor. There are two consequences, one result, either I will be invited to leave, or I will be driven away, do you understand?"

Saul Hahan dragged the chattering Wei Chi to the inner room: "Yo, today I have opened up the chatterbox. I have talked so much. Is it so bad to return home?"

"It's nothing bad..." Wei Chi felt that he had lost his composure, and softened his tone: "It's just that I have studied hard for so many years, and I have paid no less than anyone else. Why am I destined to be isolated from the temple? Outraged It's just the word 'injustice'."

Saul Hahan's palace is rich and elegant, except for Monan King's palace, she is the most beautiful. The buildings in Monan love "ring houses" - circles of walls divide the palace into concentric circles, and the windows and doors of the palace The palaces are scattered and arranged, coupled with large and small roofs, it is like a carved maze, which makes people feel magnificent.Wei Chi would go through these layers of doors every day to approach the center of the palace. Every time he opened a door, the decoration inside the door would become more exquisite. He was dazzled, today Saul Hahan took him closer to the real center of this palace - her boudoir.

"Very good," Wei Chi said with a grin, "I thought the innermost room would be very dark, but it turned out to be so bright."

Saul Hahan pushed Wei Chi to sit down in front of a small table: "Don't brag! Your palace in the Central Plains is much more beautiful than mine."

"No matter how beautiful it is, I don't do my business." Wei Chi sat down obediently, watching Saul Hahan's box after box on the small table: "Back then when we entered Beijing for the exam, our group of students were imprisoned." More than three days in the small dilapidated house of the Guozijian! It’s unbearable to look back! Later, I only entered the Golden Luan Hall once for the palace examination, and I had to kneel down tremblingly, unable to lift my head, and I didn’t see any dioramas. Entered Hanlin Academy, let’s not talk about it, our Hanlin Academy’s house is probably the oldest in the entire imperial court, and I have no house to live in, so I finally found an old house in an old house to live in. The wall and the yard are the same as I used to be. The situation in the rural academy is similar... I feel that I have worked so hard all these years to study at night just to come to the capital to live in another academy, so aggrieved..."

"Why didn't I notice you nagging like this before!?" Saul Hahan covered his ears.

Wei Chi picked the corner of his eye with his finger and put it under Saul Hahan's eyelid: "Look! Look! The tears of poor students!"

Saul Hahan burst out laughing: "Okay, okay, put away your tears of poor students, let me see what you want here, okay? I'll take you out to see the world again tonight, come on, Poor student, let this girl dress you up well!"

Saul Hahan picked up a robe trimmed with snow fox fur, and Wei Chi shook his head quickly: "It looks vulgar at first glance, if I change it, I will definitely look like a barefoot fairy!"

Saul Hahan picked up another short one: "This one is short."

Wei Chi continued to shake his head: "No, no, you can tell it's big just by looking at it."

Saul Hahan didn't choose: "Why are you so troublesome?"

Wei Chi stood up, walked to the pair of clothes, picked up this one and put down the other: "Why do you have so many men's clothes here?"

Saul Hahan simply didn't help, and sat on the cushion with his hands, watching this anti-client guy busy himself: "Do you think that there are fewer relatives in this royal family? If you don't do this every year, what should I give to my cousins?" Cousin? Do you think I want to give it to you? Return it to me after wearing it."

Wei Chi rolled his eyes, thinking that this man is really stingy!

"This!" Finally, Wei Chi picked up a robe and put it on his body. It was a very ordinary robe, just a robe: "I don't look like one in a full suit, so I just put this on outside." Let's go! How about it, do you look like the men from Monan?"

This navy blue robe was inconspicuous among the gorgeous light-colored robes. When Wei Chi draped it on his body, the energetic horseshoe cuffs appeared. The material of the cuffs was slightly lighter than the one on his body. , looks very handsome.Different from Daqi's collar, the collar of Monan's men's clothing is more like ingots. The left collar goes down the collar and covers the right collar, and the buttons go down and close at the armpits.Except for official uniforms, Daqi's men's clothing does not have leather belts or jade belts. It is just a silk ribbon tied around the waist, which is light and elegant.Monan, from commoners to nobles, admired belts. This robe is also equipped with a belt of the same color as the cuffs. Although it is not as gorgeous as the leather rolled gold, it matches the cuffs just right, adding a bit of charm.Wei Chi was not used to Monan's buttons, so he couldn't fasten them with his hands, sweating all by himself.

Saul Hahan couldn't help but stepped forward to give his hand, and straightened the neckline: "Well, it really looks like that, this dress is so dark, it must be for some underage boy , I didn’t expect you to fit outside just right, stop bouncing around! Sit down! I’ll help you tidy up your hair.”

Men in Monan have very simple hairstyles. Adults wear their braids in a circle, and those who are not adults wear a ponytail. Since Wei Chi chose a boy's clothes, he just wears a ponytail.Saul Hahan pulled Wei Chi's hairpin, and that black hair was like a black snake, winding down with a bit of enchantment, making people want to catch it with their hands, lest it really want to wander away and die go.

While combing, Saul Hahan said, "If it wasn't a little curly, I would be envious of your hair." While combing, he simply let go, letting this black hair fall freely on his shoulders.Looking at Wei Chi in the mirror, Saul Hahan felt a little emotional: "Stinky girl, do you want to be in the officialdom all your life? Have you never thought about finding a good man?"

Wei Chi fiddled with the toys on the small table, perfunctory: "Ah... I have no hope for that..."

"Why is there no hope?" Saul Hahan straightened Wei Chi's head with his hands: "Look yourself in the mirror! Come, tell me what you like exactly?"

Wei Chi smiled: "I really haven't thought about it, if I really want to look for...well, find an honest one?"

"What about you?" Wei Chi asked back.

And me?Saul Hahan was taken aback, yes, what about me?Regardless of background, regardless of high or low, I just want to find someone who is pleasing to the eye...but how difficult is it to be pleasing to the eye?

"Oh! That's right!" Wei Chi clapped his hands: "What kind of living Buddha are you! You can't get married, right?"

Seeing Wei Chi's sympathetic look, Saul Hahan couldn't laugh or cry: "I'm not a monk! Why can't I get married?"

Monk, Saul Hahan pondered for a while, the teacher seems to have said before that monks in the Central Plains do not get married.

Wei Chi covered his stomach and laughed loudly: "What kind of monk are you, a woman? That's a nun, a nun! Hahaha."

Seeing Wei Chi who was laughing so hard that he couldn't straighten his back, Saul Hahan raised his hand and slapped him a few times. Although he wanted to laugh like her on his face, he had a different feeling in his heart. I don't know why.The self in the mirror was so close to Wei Chi, and the little officer who always looked polite outside was wiping his tears, holding his hand and making faces.Wei Chi?Wei Chi!The past few days have been very tiring and panicked, but seeing her every day seems to be a little comforting.Daqi is like a wolf like a tiger, so how come the nobles in Monan are like a wolf like a tiger?Only she was better, at least she didn't have the idea of ​​tearing herself apart.Wei Chi?Wei Chi!I still know you are good to me...

"Stinky girl..." Seeing that she had laughed enough, Saul Hahan took her arm: "When I see an honest person in the future, I must remember to point it out to you!"

"En! En!" Wei Chi pretended to be serious, and replied twice.

"Don't move!" Saul Hahan took Wei Chi's arm and leaned into her arms. Thinking of the messy clothes in the room and the rouge hairpins scattered on the table, Saul Hahan suddenly wanted to keep doing this. Going on, she is a little tired of that graceful and elegant self, how comfortable it is to be able to chat and laugh with someone so happily, and dress poorly with someone!Wei Chi... wait, please wait, I don't want to tie up your hair yet, let me rest on your shoulder like this, just rest...