The Bamboo Horse Dressed as the Emperor

The night before Xie Chen and Song Jiao's big wedding, Mr. Xie checked the dress that he would wear to attend the ceremony tomorrow, and sat down on the steps after checking.

He doesn't live in the emperor's palace now, the palace has been tidied up and given to Xie Chen and Song Jiao to live in.

He lived alone in the palace next to the bedchamber.

There are still old dresses of Prime Minister Song hanging in the hall. After many years, the dress has been slightly worn, but it is still [-]% new, and it can be seen that it has been well preserved.

Mr. Xie sat on the steps alone, not knowing what he was thinking.

Not long after, Fan Kai came in with medicine.

Over the years, he has also aged a lot. The tall figure and fierce appearance that Song Jiao originally regarded as a human trafficker have been worn down by the years.

He called out "Your Majesty" and stepped forward with the medicine.

Master Xie turned his head to look at the pitch-black soup, pursed his mouth and said, "I won't drink it anymore. I've been drinking it for several years. I won't drink it today."

Fan Kaidao: "Your Majesty, the good medicine is bitter. I have been drinking it for several years. I just have to persist to keep my body healthy."

Mr. Xie smiled and said, "I don't need to take good care of my body now. My two grandchildren have grown up and will be married tomorrow. Brother Shen will be enthroned tomorrow, and Mao Mao will be a marquis. The road has been paved for them. I have endured drinking the medicine for so many years, can I not stop drinking it today?"

Fan Kai said seriously: "Your Majesty, there is an important news from the northwest."

Master Xie immediately straightened his expression and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, drink the medicine first, and then talk after drinking the medicine."

Master Xie smiled, then picked up the medicine bowl with one hand, raised his head, drank it all in one gulp, and wiped his mouth proudly: "Say."

"At Xiaosiyuan Temple, someone is dead."

Master Xie was surprised: "What's wrong?"

Fan Kai lowered his voice: "A few days ago, Chen Su got up at night, took the belt, and strangled the second master to death. The second master did not resist."

"Didn't Chen Su be abolished by jumping from the tower a few years ago? Why did he..."

"He jumped from the city tower, and everyone is useless. He has to be fed when he eats. It was the second master who asked the doctor to cure him. The second master should know, but he didn't resist. It's like this..."

Mr. Xie sneered: "He is a coward, Huijing refused to forgive him, so he went to pester Chen Su, trying to make Chen Su forgive him, but Chen Su didn't forgive him, so he asked Chen Su to kill him, kill him. Him, so that he can go to the underworld and pester his mother Chen Su."

"Chen Su is also a person with a temper, but his temper is not used in the right place. When he jumped from the tower, he wanted the second child to die, and I knew it. Either he died and pestered the second child all day long." , tortured the second child to death; or he didn’t die, and killed the second child with his own hands.”

But in the final analysis, these are still his son and grandson, Mr. Xie's sneering mouth gradually lowered, revealing a strange expression of crying and laughing at the same time.

Fan Kai continued: "After Chen Su killed the second master, he also hanged himself with his belt."

Master Xie asked, "Dead?"

Fan Kai nodded: "He's dead too."

"He..." Master Xie paused, "He hates me and the second child. I have to thank him for not being able to climb over. In this world, he is grateful to two people, one Gongyixiu and the other Maomao. Now Gongyi Once Xiuyou has settled down and Maomao is healed, he will go crazy."

Master Xie sighed, and looked up at the roof: "Fan Kai, tell me, did I do something wrong back then? Was it too bad?"

Fan Kai didn't answer, just asked: "Do you want to let the two Highnesses know about this?"

"No need." Mr. Xie thought for a while, "Anyway, I have done everything. If Chen Su hates me, then come to me. Don't tell Brother Shen and Maomao, happy days, bad luck. Let a few people Go, help Gong Yixiu to bury the two of them, the second one erects an unnamed monument, Chen Su...Chen Su will use his mother's name. Then ask Gong Yixiu if he wants to come back, if he doesn't come back, send A few young monks went to take care of him."

"Yes."

Mr. Xie said again: "Is the cloth I want ready?"

"It's all ready and on the carriage."

"Okay." Mr. Xie nodded, "When Brother Shen and Mao Mao get married, we will go back to the old bandit village. I have been dreaming recently, and I always dream that when we used to be in the village, even Wang Er was no exception. You see how much I want to go back, even that traitor Wang Er is dreaming of me."

Fan Kai smiled and said: "Your Majesty, go to bed earlier, you have to get up early tomorrow."

"Okay, go to bed early." Mr. Xie stood up and thumped his waist, "I often think, if Brother Shen and Mao Mao can get married in the bandit village, that would be great. The farther you go. In the past, in the bandit village, you could see these two children playing in the yard when you turned around, and you could hear them arguing from a distance, but now it's across the palace, across the prime minister's mansion..."

Master Xie sighed, turned around and looked back, his back staggering.

That night, Old Master Xie didn't sleep much, neither did Xie Chen and Song Jiao.

Song Jiao had already washed up, and was holding the system, sitting on the couch, brushing his hair while brushing his own hair.

The system kicked its feet and kicked out a series of splashes: "Don't worry, Maomao, we have enough points, and the control center will definitely not take you back when you get married."

"I know, but I still don't know where those soaring points come from."

"You came here as a queen, but you are the queen who dominates one side and is the only queen... ah..."

Song Jiao picked up the kitten and shook him: "Tan Tong, you should be sober."

"What are you doing? What are you doing?" The system was shaken dizzily, "You want to murder the system."

While shaking, the system suddenly heard a "ding dong".

"Mamao, there is news, there is new news..."

Song Jiao put him down, and the system struggled to open the control page.

It's about Song Jiaohe and the system's decision to retire.

With trembling paws, the system clicked on the file and pulled it to the bottom. It was a big "agree".

Both of them breathed a sigh of relief, the system fell back and fell into Song Jiao's arms: "I was scared to death."

Song Jiao rubbed his cat face: "Then I can eat Wangwang snow cakes all the time?"

"Yes." The system replied gruntingly, "I don't need to accumulate points in the future, a few million points, I will buy you a mountain of Wangwang Snow Cakes."

"Great."

While accepting Song Jiao's stormy cat sucking, the system carefully looked at the file: "Well...the control center has sent you retirement reward points, and also rewarded me. It's not bad, I'll go..."

The system sat up abruptly.

Song Jiao asked: "What's wrong?"

The system said in surprise: "They also gave me control over my body."

"How is it?"

"That's it..." The system struggled to escape from his grasp, jumped to the ground, and turned into a young man in a suit. He straightened his tie, but touched the cat bell hanging around his neck, and the system pulled the bell away. "so."

"It's the first time I met you..."

Before Song Jiao finished speaking, someone knocked on his window suddenly, and the next moment, someone pushed the window sash open.

Xie Chen: "Mamao."

Song Jiao and the system:? ! !

Song Jiao pressed down on the system: "Change back quickly!"

The man in black disappeared suddenly, and the white Persian cat sat in front of the bell that had been torn off, licking its paw innocently.

Xie Chen almost suspected that he was wrong: "Mamao?"

Song Jiao stood up, kicked the kitten with her toes, telling him to go out quickly: "What's wrong?"

Xie Chen turned into the room through the window, reached out and pinched the back of the system's neck, and lifted him up.

System: "Mao Mao!"

Song Jiao reached out to take him over, but Xie Chen said seriously: "Your cat has become a spirit, he just seduced you, you have to take it to the Taoist temple to deal with it."

"..." Song Jiao choked, "I can explain, I just... put a small dress on him, so he looks like a person..."

Song Jiao took the cat back from his hand and squeezed it hard: "Look, he didn't respond at all, he's just an ordinary cat."

The system worked hard to cooperate: "Abaaaba... Meow Meow Meow."

Xie Chen still frowned, Song Jiao put the cat down, then pinched Xie Chen's face: "You are too nervous, is it because you are getting married tomorrow?"

The system took the opportunity to slip out of the room, avoiding the fate of being sent to the Taoist temple.

And Xie Chen was bewitched by Song Jiao, so he no longer planned to delve into this matter.

"Wait a minute..." Song Jiao suddenly realized, "You can't meet before we get married, Grandpa said."

Xie Shen paused: "I miss you very much."

Song Jiao opened his arms and hugged him: "Then don't let others find out, let's meet secretly."

The night before they got married, the two stayed together in secret, lying on the couch together, talking until midnight.

They don't know where they can say so much.

It's been said for ten years.

Later Song Jiao felt sleepy, covered his mouth and yawned, Xie Chen also wanted to go back.

He stayed a little longer, and it was already dawn, so he couldn't go back.

"I'm leaving." Xie Chen tilted his head, and kissed Song Jiao through Song Jiao's hand, "I'm leaving, and I can kiss you brightly tomorrow night."

——from Xie Chen, King of Idioms.

Song Jiao corrected him: "You kissed me in broad daylight."

Song Jiao sat up, watched him turn over the window, lay down on the window sill, watched Xie Chen disappear into the night, and then closed the window.

Song Jiao turned and went back to the room to sleep, covered with a quilt.When he was in a daze, the system also jumped up and found a place to lie down beside him.

After an unknown amount of time, Song Jiao was woken up by someone, and it was already dawn.

Song Jiao rubbed his eyes and sat up. Before he could recover, he was pulled up by the attendants and sat down in front of the bronze mirror.

Song Jiao cheered up and washed with water. The attendants combed his hair and put on a crown, and stuffed him with something to eat.

When everything was ready, Song Jiao took the system first and went to Grandpa's memorial tablet.

He first burned incense for his grandfather, then hugged the system, sat on the futon, and talked to his grandfather.

"Grandpa, don't worry, I'm still used to life in Yong'an City. I married Brother Shen after careful consideration. Grandpa Xie said that in the future, I will pick two children from the side branch to raise, thanks to him being the founding emperor. Can't do something like this."

"Brother Shen ascended the throne today. I seem to understand why Grandpa Xie and his godfather did this. They are afraid that if Brother Shen ascends the throne after they leave, something will happen. Why not let Brother Shen ascend the throne now? problem, they can fix it now."

Not long after, Song Jiao heard movement from outside, and then someone knocked on the door: "Your Highness, Your Highness Taisun has arrived."

Song Jiao put down the system, and finally said in front of Grandpa's tablet: "Grandpa, I miss you very much."

After adjusting his mood, he stood up and turned to go out.The system ran ahead of him and ran out on short legs.

When Song Jiao was surrounded by attendants and was about to walk through the corridor, the system in a formal suit leaned against the front wall, put one hand in his pocket, and put the other hand to his mouth, coughing a few times.

"Cough cough..."

"Oh." Song Jiao stepped forward and said to the attendants, "This is my brother-in-law, who just came back from overseas yesterday. It was too late, and you probably haven't seen him yet."

The system is dissatisfied: "Why not the adoptive father?"

Song Jiao whispered, "It doesn't look like it."

"I think it's very similar. You called me 'Daddy' when you were a kid."

"I don't." Song Jiao gritted his teeth, "If you do this again, I'll call you my younger brother."

"..." The system can only silently accept the identity of the righteous brother.

Song Jiao said: "I'll treat you to barbecue later, I'll go out first."

The system still looked unhappy, but when Song Jiao was about to leave, he gave him a hand: "Hey."

Song Jiao turned around: "What's wrong?"

"No one carried you out?"

"It's not that you don't know how many people there are in the family? Where can someone carry me..."

Song Jiao paused.

What other people's cubs have, System's cubs must have too!

Just like the system bought him snacks and toys countless times, the system walked up to him: "Quick."

Song Jiao was flattered and jumped on his back: "Thank you all."

The system recited it steadily, but said: "You should eat less Wangwang ice cream."

Song Jiao shook his feet, smiled and said nothing.

Originally, two friends of Song Jiao, Wen Zhi and Chu Heng, were still arguing over who should recite Song Jiao, but Song Jiao was recited by a strange man.

Song Jiao still said the same thing: "It's my brother-in-law. I swore to him when I was young, and I just came back last night."

The system carried him on his back all the way to the courtyard and outside the hall.

Xie Chen was waiting outside the door. When he saw Song Jiao coming, his eyes lit up, and he was about to go in unconsciously, but was stopped by his friends.

The friends said in surprise: "Brother Shen, you can't do it, you can't do it."

The system's footsteps paused, and suddenly it didn't really want to recite Mao Mao, the one on the opposite side looked unreliable at all.

I'm so angry, I really want to take Mao Mao back to the control center.

Song Jiao asked him softly: "No way, Tongtong, you won't be able to recite it, right? Don't scare me."

The system pursed its lips, trying to hold back the feeling of anger, then strode to the main entrance and crossed the threshold.

pissed him off!

And at this moment, Xie Chen saw the person carrying Song Jiao on his back, and it seemed familiar.

It looks strangely like the little yellow dog from before, and it also looks like the little white cat.As for why a person looks like a cat and a dog, Xie Chen can't tell, he just thinks they look alike, especially the angry eyes looking at him.

Xie Chen wanted to talk to Song Jiao, but was held back by his friends: "Hey, brother Shen, no."

Friends handed him bows and arrows hung with red flowers, and the target had already been erected beside it.

Xie Chen raised his hand to take the bow, and with a whoosh sound, he hit the bull's-eye, and the silk flower hanging on the arrow shook twice.

The friends booed, like many times before: "Hey, brother Shen is powerful."

A "roll" stalk stuck in Xie Chen's throat, no, today is different, you can't fight with them.

Then Song Jiao was carried by the system to the side of the horse and put it down. He grabbed the rein, got on the horse, and said to the system: "You and Zhi Duoxing and the others will arrange a place for you."

The system nodded: "Understood."

Then Xie Chen also got on the horse, drove the horse, and walked together with Song Jiao.

The friends of the two of them also followed behind on horseback, majestic and majestic, as if they were going to snatch their relatives.

Xie Chen and Song Jiao talked quietly under the supervision of their friends.

"Who is that man?"

"My foster brother, I just came back last night."

"Is he the cat last night?"

"No, that cat is a cat."

Xie Chen frowned, Song Jiao reached out to touch his forehead: "Are you jealous?"

The friends who followed hurriedly said, "Hey, Maomao, you can't do anything, and you can't talk."

The two looked back, and Xie Chen turned around: "Isn't it obvious enough?"

"I'm married to you, and you're still jealous?" Song Jiao couldn't understand.

"I'll just eat, tons, tons."

Song Jiao smiled and held his hand, and the two of them also held hands while riding on horseback.

The friends couldn't stand it anymore: "Hey, can you follow the rules? Go back tonight and hold it."

Xie Chen held Song Jiao's hand instead, and shook his hand high.

The unmarried friends complained deeply: "I'm so angry. I haven't stopped since I was a child. What did we do wrong? God wants to show us this kind of thing?"

Just at this time, General Liu, the general of the Pipazhou garrison who was called into Yong'an to participate in the Taisun's wedding hall, happened to lead the horse and arrived in Yong'an.

Standing in the crowd, he looked at Xie Chen who was riding on the horse: "My God, is it true?"

Xie Chen led Song Jiao into the palace, and the two got off their horses, climbed up hundreds of steps, and worshiped the sky on the high platform.

Grandpa Xie, the prince, and the concubine have been waiting on the altar for a long time.

When the two of them arrive, we will hold a wedding ceremony for them first, and then Xie Chen's enthronement ceremony.

This is of course what Mr. Xie meant.

He invited Prime Minister Song's tablet over, holding it in both hands, and when Song Jiao and Xie Chen wanted to kowtow, he asked them to kowtow to Prime Minister Song.

Not long after the ceremony, there was a palace banquet in the evening, Song Jiao and Xie Chen went back and changed into their dresses, and accompanied Mr. Xie to attend the palace banquet.

Now it is Xie Chen who sits at the head seat, Song Jiao sits beside him, and Mr. Xie sits beside him like a sleeping tiger, his eyes sweeping over the courtiers below.

With him sitting in charge and hand-picking, no one dared to raise objections to such a thing.

But after drinking for three rounds, the somewhat dull banquet, which was originally suppressed by Mr. Xie, began to become agitated.

The brothers toasted Xie Chen: "Brother Chen, congratulations, happy wedding."

Xie Chen couldn't hide his joyful eyebrows: "We are happy together."

"Brother Shen, give birth to your precious son early."

"It will be born tonight."

"Shh - brother Shen is still bragging."

"It's going to be born tonight." Xie Chen clinked glasses with them, and was fed by the wine glass that Song Jiao handed to his mouth.

Song Jiao protested with silent eyes.

The palace banquet quickly became a mess, and the friends saw that Song Jiao had a little temper, so they surrounded Song Jiao, escorted him back to the bedroom before Xie Chen caught up, and helped him close the doors and windows to prevent Xie Chen Come in.

The friends sat all over the place and gave him advice one after another.

"Maomao, I think Brother Chen should shoot arrows, and the arrows shot should spell four words on the target—" Mu Ying stood up, and wrung her fingers, "Four words—'Maomao, I love you! you'."

Friends dragged him down: "Are you four words? Can you count?"

"Brother Parrot, your idea is too stupid, it makes me want to throw up."

"I think I have to let Brother Shen dance a sword first. He drank a lot of wine today, so let him get dizzy first."

At this moment, the palace guards outside came to report: "Your Highness, gentlemen, Your Majesty has arrived."

The friends looked at each other, then took a sword and passed it around.

"His Highness said he wanted to watch His Majesty dance sword, let His Majesty dance sword outside now."

The palace man took the long sword and went out.

Not long after, there was the sound of long swords piercing through the air outside the door, and the friends pushed the window open to see.

Song Jiao sat on the couch before leaning over, Xie Chen seemed to have sensed something, turned to look at him, raised his eyebrows at him, and even held a sword flower.

"I'll go, Brother Shen is still playing handsome."

"Brother Shen is still like a fish in water, so it won't work."

A group of cronies and friends began to make plans again.

Muying never forgets her wonderful idea: "Archery, use..."

Friends held him down: "Don't make noise."

"Why don't you let Brother Shen..."

Suddenly, a voice said indifferently: "Let Brother Shen write poetry."

Everyone turned their heads to look and exclaimed: "Zhi Duoxing, you deserve to be the one, you really belong to me."

It is better to let Brother Shen write poetry than to let him die.

Song Jiao held Wen Zhi down and pinched his face: "Zhi Duoxing!"

Wen Zhi's expression didn't change: "Maomao is feeling sorry for Brother Shen, why don't you stop playing."

The friends immediately pulled Song Jiao away: "Maomao, brother Shen, you have to bully him bitterly, otherwise he will bully you."

Song Jiao was held down, and there was no room for rebuttal at all.

They called the palace people in: "His Royal Highness said that she wanted to hear His Majesty's poems, and only after writing poems can she come in. It must be in line with today's scene."

The palace man remained calm, suppressed a smile and went down again.

On the other side, Xie Chen had finished dancing the sword. He carried the sword and led a group of palace people to the gate of the palace again.

He knocked on the door: "Mamao, I'm done dancing, are you still angry?"

The palace man who delivered the message pushed the door out with a serious expression: "Young Master thinks about the love he had for studying with His Majesty when he was young. Please ask His Majesty to compose poems. Only when Your Majesty is satisfied can he open the door."

Xie Shen paused.

Everyone knows that he doesn't like studying at all. He used to study with Song Jiao in Lantai, and he slept half the day and played half the day. Only when the exam was approaching, Song Jiao would make up lessons for him.

Where can he write poetry?

The palace man added: "Your Majesty, the son said that the poems you compose should echo today's scene."

Xie Chen put down the sword on his shoulder, threw it aside, and immediately composed a poem.

"I'm Jiaojiao's husband, and it's been agreed since I was a child. Jiaojiao is my wife, so why not let me in!"

Xie Chenli knocked on the door confidently: "Maomao, wife! Wife, open the door for me! Wife!"

He is like a repeater.

Then the door opened, and Xie Chen's brothers came out of the room, pushed Xie Chen into the corridor, and closed the door.

"Brother Shen, Mao Mao is very disappointed with your education level. He said, in order for the child not to be illiterate like you in the future, you should stay outside tonight."

How can there be any children?They didn't have any children at all, it was because Xie Chen had a brain twitch and agreed to their nonsense about having a baby early, and now Song Jiao was angry, Song Jiao returned the "child" to him.

All the friends left, Xie Chen squatted alone on the steps of Changle Palace.

Friends looked back at him before leaving.

"Brother Shen is so pitiful, he was locked outside on the wedding night."

"It deserves it. Who told him to slander in front of us when he has nothing to do? He will definitely swear every day in the future. Can't we get it back today?"

When the friends left the palace, Xie Chen was still squatting on the steps. The palace people dared not approach him for fear of touching his brow, so they could only stay away.

Not long after, Song Jiao came out wearing clothes.

He had already changed into a uniform and was wearing plain clothes. He squatted down beside Xie Chen and pushed his arm: "Brother Shen."

Xie Chen didn't speak, turned his head, pounced forward, pressed him to the ground and kissed him, like a tiger pounced on its prey.

Fortunately, the palace people had all retreated at this time, Xie Chen kissed him in broad daylight and aboveboard, and let out a "suck".

Just like when he was a child, the closer he got, the more he went back.

Xie Chen pinched his face: "Mamao, have we slept together since childhood?"

Song Jiao nodded: "...Yes."

"Sleeping together since childhood, how can there be any reason not to sleep together on the wedding night?"

"……"it seems to be like this.

"So you were wrong just now?"

Song Jiao looked at him: "You were wrong just now."

Xie Chen choked, in terms of eloquence, probably he would never be able to beat Song Jiao.

So he simply stopped talking, grabbed Song Jiao's legs, picked him up, and brought him back to the room.

I'm so angry, I have to touch it to get better.

Xie Chen did the same. He held Song Jiao's hand and asked him to pet the wolf's belly that was only exposed to him like a puppy, and took the opportunity to squeeze Song Jiao's hand.

Song Jiao snickered while touching him, and asked, "Brother Shen, can you?"

When these words fell into Xie Chen's ears, they became a kind of teasing.

Xie Chen's learning ability cannot be challenged. He said seriously: "Of course I will. I have watched "The Emperor and the Bamboo Horse Reading Together" since I was 15 years old."

Song Jiao still smiled: "You will remember the things in the book? Then let me ask you, what is the first sentence of "University"?"

Xie Chen paused, he...doesn't remember.

Xie Chen didn't want to talk anymore, and didn't want Song Jiao to talk anymore, so he simply blocked Song Jiao's mouth.

As Xie Shen wished, Song Jiao was unable to utter a complete sentence in the second half of the night.

He tugged at the curtain, and his hand, which was originally used for writing, collapsed tightly.Xie Chen's hand, which was used to holding swords, clasped his wrist, but relaxed a lot.

The next morning, Song Jiao, who is used to getting up early, woke up in a daze, and found himself wrapped in a quilt, and Xie Chen was sleeping next to him with his eyes closed.

In such a scene, if Song Jiao didn't feel pain everywhere in his body, it would be even better.

Song Jiao stretched out his hand from under the quilt, and saw that there were pinch marks on his wrists, and there were even teeth marks.

Song Jiao's whole body is not well.

He tried to bite himself, well, the tooth marks didn't match, it wasn't his.

Song Jiao pushed Xie Chen, Xie Chen held his hand accurately without even opening his eyes: "Honey, sleep."

Good guy, the place Xie Chen is holding is exactly the same as the mark on his wrist.

This is the instigator.

Song Jiao pushed him weakly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Get out for me."

Xie Chen woke up, Xie Chen sat up, Xie Chen tried to coax his wife, and then Xie Chen subsided, and his wife found the murder weapon hidden in the quilt and standing up.

I can't even control it well, and my wife is very angry.

Finally, Xie Shen went out.

The palace people got up early, and when they came over, they saw His Majesty squatting on the steps alone.

When they went back at night, His Majesty squatted here, and now it is morning, His Majesty is still squatting here.

Oh my God.The palace people opened their mouths wide, and everyone was dumbfounded. Because of a poem, His Majesty squatted outside the door all night!

Xie Chen tried to explain: "No, don't think about it, I went in before, I went in at night, and I was kicked out just now..."

The palace people obviously didn't believe it, but they all adjusted their expressions, suppressed a smile, and nodded: "Yes."

Records of Daqi Official Historian——

In the first year of Dashun, the emperor and empress got married. After the emperor committed a crime, he ordered to write a poem before he could enter. The emperor said: "I am Jiaojiao's husband, and it has been agreed since I was a child. Jiaojiao is my wife. Why don't you let me in!"

[Comment from later generations: The idiom "Jiaojiao my wife" comes from this]

The palace people saw it in person, and the emperor was not allowed to enter overnight.

[Comment from later generations: Really make a big death. 】