Your Majesty, I am not worthy

The second day was full of wind and snow.

Rong Mu asked for leave as usual and did not go to court, and rested on the couch.

Maybe he was born to work hard, even though Xiu Mu and the current sick leave, he woke up just after Yin Shi.

Fortunately, when he opened his eyes, the fog in front of him dissipated, and his eyes were clear.

According to Song Du, the snow fell very heavily last night, and the waiter at the general's mansion did not open the door.

Song Du spoke in frustration, but Rong Mu smiled faintly.

That's just expected.

Song Du was very worried and blamed himself at first, but when he saw his master put on his shoes and boots and went to bed, he realized that his eyes were healed, and his worry slowly returned.

After Rong Mu washed and washed, he hastily took a few mouthfuls of medicinal porridge and couldn't eat any more. His chest still hurt, and the study was too far away from the couch. He walked up a few steps and returned to the couch in pain.

But Rong Mu was still thinking about those memorials in his heart: "Go and get those memorials of mine."

Seeing this, Song Du couldn't help persuading him: "Your Excellency has asked for leave, so you can take a good rest!"

"It's okay, no bones and muscles are injured, it's just pure congestion."

Song Du couldn't handle his lord, so he had to go to the study to get it.

Rong Mu is the prime minister of a country, and all major and minor matters have to be handled by him, and the leave request last night was quite urgent, and before the court realized it, a new note was delivered to Rong Mu's residence.

Rong Mu spent the whole morning in a trance just reviewing these notebooks. Even on the couch, his handwriting was handsome and elegant.

During this period, Doctor Qi came over and repeatedly confirmed that Rong Mu's eyes had recovered. Doctor Qi also breathed a sigh of relief, and only told him not to overwork.

Near noon, the snow fell even more.

After Rong Mu finished grading the papers, watching the heavy snow blowing outside, he felt relaxed in a trance, but it couldn't overcome the sadness that was filled with emptiness in his heart.

His chest was congested, although he didn't hurt his muscles and bones, but his chest still hurt when he lay flat, so he dragged himself to sit up again, and played chess for a while while facing the chess record.

In the middle of the corner, before noon, the housekeeper came in.

"My lord, the major general from Zhenbei's mansion is here."

"Major General?"

Haojing has only one major general, and that is Hua Huaiyin, the son of Zhenbei General Hua Zheng.

"Please come in quickly, please go to the study..." In the middle of speaking, Rong Mu's movement of getting up from the bed stopped halfway, the pain in his chest forced Rong Mu to change his words: "Forget it, please come to my room."

After saying that, Rong Mu wiped off the fine mist of sweat on his forehead, looked at the pale lips in the teacup and kneaded them vigorously, until the pale lips were flushed with blood again, he barely moved his hands away. cups.

Hua Huaiyin was five years older than Rong Mu, Xu was born as a general, with a powerful figure and extremely strong body, Rong Mu vaguely looked at him, that guy was not inferior to Chu Yuheng.

But the expression on his face was condensed, and there was a scar on his forehead, which made him look a bit fierce.

Rong Mu thought of the rumor that the major general Hua Huaiyin rode his horse to Haojing, and cried out in fright, probably it was true.

"Participate in the Prime Minister." Hua Huaiyin saluted quite neatly.

Rong Mu looked at him calmly, and immediately asked him to get up.

With a smile on his face, Rong Mu asked Song Du to watch tea, but Hua Huaiyin waved his hand to stop him.

"No need, the general came here today just to explain something. The people from Sir's house came to look for the doctor last night, but the doctor went home before the New Year's Eve. It's not that the house doesn't borrow people from Sir."

Hua Huaiyin explained why the doctor didn't come, but he came; but he didn't explain why he avoided the door last night.

Rong Mu understood, but didn't make it clear.

Seeing that the person was leaving in a hurry, Rong Mu persuaded him: "The major general doesn't drink tea...how about drinking? I will let the major general drink at noon, and there is a good osmanthus wine hidden in the house. It has been five years. It hasn't been opened yet, why don't you taste it when the Major General is here today."

Hua Huaiyin's love of drinking is a secret, and it took a long time for his subordinates to find out.

Sure enough, Hua Huaiyin's eyes were burning when he heard the words.

He wanted to refuse at first, but Hua Huaiyin's heart softened a little inexplicably when he met Rong Mu's magnanimous Liuli eyes.

Before he realized it, Hua Huaiyin had already agreed.

"Song Du, go to the back kitchen and urge the dishes to be served." Rong Mu warmly instructed.

When she realized what she had promised, Hua Huaiyin turned her face away, complaining that her ears were soft.

Hua Huaiyin came in a hurry, and Rong Mu's house didn't prepare any good dishes.

When the table was served, Hua Huaiyin stared at the table of vegetarian food, dumbfounded.

How to make a table of vegetarian dishes, boiled tofu, stir-fried vegetable leaves, a plate of peanuts, the only meat is a custard sprinkled with finely chopped green onions.

"My lord, is this trying to give the last general a blow?"

Rong Mu really blushed now: "I've always been a vegetarian, so I'm really neglecting you today."

The stir-fried peanuts were probably just made by the housekeeper in the small kitchen. They were oily and covered with chili seeds. According to Rong Mu's taste, oily but not spicy, this dish is absolutely unsuitable for the table.

Hua Huaiyin saw that he turned his head, and the jaw line showed an extremely smooth arc, which was a little less masculine, but more gentle and jade-like, especially his red-eared posture looked familiar now, but he couldn't imagine it. Where have I seen it.

Coincidentally, Song Du took a pot of sweet-scented osmanthus wine from the cellar, so Hua Huaiyin put aside this question and concentrated on waiting for the wine.

The aroma of the unsealed wine is overflowing, and Huahuaiyin smells like a very mellow wine.

Rong Mu filled the wine for Hua Huaiyin himself, but only tea was changed in front of him, Hua Huaiyin was suspicious.

"I'm injured and can't drink alcohol, so I use tea instead of water." Rong Mu explained with a smile.

It was only then that Hua Huaiyin remembered that she came to apologize today, so she sat at the dining table somehow, watching the person in front of her hand the wine cup, meeting Rong Mu's translucent eyes, and took the wine cup sullenly.

For a while, the two looked at each other speechlessly, so they had to drink/tea each.

Some people like wine and drink well; but some people like wine but pour half a glass.

Coincidentally, Huahuaiyin belongs to the latter.

After drinking two cups of sweet-scented osmanthus wine, Hua Huaiyin's face flushed immediately, and he was almost at a loss for words, even "I" came out.

"You are the first good civil servant I have come into contact with."

"It's an honor." Rong Mu looked at Hua Huaiyin who was a little drunk and smiled.

"I met a lot of people, they have the salary of the court, but they can only play tricks, so they are not worthy of being an official."

Hua Huaiyin has already started talking loudly.

Rong Mu poured another glass of wine for him: "Then what does the young general think civil servants should do?"

"I don't know why... I am a general, and I am just an ordinary soldier in the barracks. I don't understand these things."

Hua Huaiyin spoke frankly, but Rong Mu was amused.

All of a sudden, Rong Mu felt that generals are also cute.

"But I know you are a good official. If you can go to northern Xinjiang for three months and endure the bitter cold, I will obey you. You have a gully in your chest, so you care about the suffering of refugees at the border. When you go to the border, you don't know me." How envious, how many generals want to go on the battlefield..."

When Xu Shi said that he was sad, Hua Huai's voice was hoarse, and his eyes were still red.

But before he finished speaking, he threw his head on the table, and with a "bang", he even poured down the fine wine from the white porcelain wine cup beside him, and the rich wine juice stained Rong Mu's body.

But Rong Mu didn't move for a long time.

Hua Huaiyin turned [-] this year, and he still has a youthful look in his eyes, but more of it is the depression of not being able to fight and defend the battlefield.

How many generals in Haojing are like him, bloody and cold, because of the suspicion of the emperor, they are forced to stay in the capital for a mediocre life.

How much of his handwriting is here.

Concentrating his eyes indifferently, Rong Mu sighed: "A Du, arrange a guest room for the major general to rest."

Song Du was puzzled: "Aren't you going to send the Major General back?"

At that moment Rong Mu personally closed the wine seal, his eyes were full of treasure: "No need, let him go after he wakes up."

Rong Mu remembered Hua Huaiyin's greedy appearance, and added another sentence: "Take another pot of sweet-scented osmanthus wine and present it to the major general as a gift."

"Your Excellency, don't you keep it for yourself?" Song Du asked curiously.

There is a cellar of sweet-scented osmanthus wine hidden in their mansion, but the adults have never opened it, and it was only when the major general came today that he opened such a jar.

My lord has always been curious about it, are you willing to give it away today?

"no need."

These were all bestowed by Chu Yuheng a few years ago.

Chu Yuheng always thought that he liked sweet-scented osmanthus wine, and every time he was promoted to a noble, Chu Yuheng gave him this wine.

Little did he know that what he loved was not the sweet-scented osmanthus wine, but the golden osmanthus twigs that Chu Yuheng broke off and gave him as a gift when he won the three-yuan gold list.