Startled Meng

The Chinese New Year is almost here, and the atmosphere of the new year in the palace is not great, and the only bit of festive joy is in the Second Prince.

The second prince was looking forward to New Year's Eve, looking forward to the New Year, and most hoped that he would not have to study.

Whatever the instructor said, he could refer to the Chinese New Year. The book was boring, and the second prince was so lively that he couldn't listen to it, but he could understand it, but even Yan Cijing's old folk customs were not interesting to him. It would be better to tear the paper-cut on the window interesting.

Yan Cijing had already drank all the tea in the teapot, before Concubine Hui came to pick up the second prince.

It is said that Concubine Hui stumbled on the way here, she was not bad, her skirt was soiled, and she wanted to take a bath and change clothes, so Yan Cijing was asked to look at the second prince first.

However, the second prince is a restless master, so it's okay to tear the window grilles quietly, but suddenly pushed the door and ran out, the accompanying internal officer was terrified, followed the door in a panic, rolled on the stairs, ouch, screamed in pain, begged Yan Cijing went after the second prince.

The second prince was dressed in round clothes and ran fast like a ball. Fortunately, there were footprints on the snow, Yan Cijing followed him all the way, passing through two inner palace gates before catching the second prince.

"Second Prince, go back with me, Concubine Hui is still waiting for His Highness."

The second prince grabbed Yan Cijing's robe and shouted: "My lord, I saw a cat just now!"

"The second prince wants to see the cat, so go back and talk to Concubine Hui." Yan Cijing didn't dare to pull him, so he could only stand in front of him.

The second prince was wronged: "But my mother and concubine don't like cats..."

Yan Cijing recalled the map of the palace that he had seen before, and knew that this was already the backyard of the palace, but it was strange that there were no guards guarding the gate along the way, and there were not even maids and eunuchs.

With such a flustered effort, the second prince pretended to be obedient and tricked Yan Cijing, walked around under Yan Cijing's wide sleeves, and ran away.

Yan Cijing followed without even thinking about it.

I didn't see any maids along the way, but ran into two eunuchs in a hurry, one of them was limping, and just bumped into the Yan Ci mirror at the corner.

If the tray in his hand hadn't been supported by Yan Cijing, it would have flown out.

"Thank you."

"Father-in-law, walk slowly."

Yan Cijing folded his sleeves, watched the crippled father-in-law go away, and then embarked on the journey to find the second prince again.

Gradually, there were fewer palaces with red bricks and green tiles, and the broken snow cleared a corridor.

Yan Cijing saw a large mirror-like lake separated by the white stone fence, and heard faint voices, and someone calling the second prince.

Hearing the voice of a female family member in the palace, Yan Cijing turned and left, and when he avoided it, a black shadow flashed past.

Strange, Yan Cijing clearly saw a person standing behind the tree, but disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Master Yan!"

The second prince, who was holding the cat, ran over and stopped Yan Cijing in front of everyone.

"Bold! Can you, a foreign court official, come in here?!"

Yan Cijing knelt down and saluted, "Your Majesty—"

"Presumptuous! Do you know who you ran into?"

One reprimand after another from the left, Yan Cijing couldn't even speak, and the second prince was having fun in the corner with the cat in his arms, not knowing that he had made Yan Cijing miserable.

"Empress Dowager, this lord is too ignorant of etiquette. He dared to break through the outer court ladies and come in. The Empress Dowager's health has just improved. If there is another collision..."

"Ping'er." Empress Wei Wanyan was supported by a maid, she stood in front of the maid, and said to the queen mother, "Mother, I'm tired, let's go."

The queen mother raised her eyes and stared at her own niece for a long time before turning around slowly, "Let's go."

Before leaving, he asked again, "Who is that?"

Ping'er replied: "Going back to the Empress Dowager, it is the No. [-] Scholar Yan Cijing who was specially invited by the imperial concubine Hui to think that the instructors in the palace were not good."

"No. [-] scholar?" The Queen Mother narrowed her eyes and sarcastically said, "How could the No. [-] scholar of my Great Yin be so ignorant of etiquette?"

Yan Cijing knelt until his knees were cold, and said in a deep voice, "Please punish the empress dowager."

The queen mother snorted coldly, looked at the person lying on the ground with disgust, and said, "Are you the servant Yan who worked in the household department half a year ago?"

"Yes."

The queen mother sneered: "I heard that you were involved in the imperial examination fraud case, why did the emperor let a criminal like you teach the second prince?"

Yan Cijing said: "The real criminal has been exiled."

The Empress Dowager trembled twice with rage, and lost any of the calm temperament of worshiping the Buddha with a green lantern, and said sternly: "If you offend me, slap your mouth."

"The queen mother is not allowed!" The queen supported the queen mother, "Master Yan is an official of the court. If you make a mistake, you can point it out from the Yushitai. You should never be disciplined by the harem!"

The queen mother stared at the queen, since Yan Cijing appeared, she has repeatedly disobeyed herself, and now she can't bear it anymore, pointing at Yan Cijing:

"The emperor has his own mourners to say, hit!"

Who dare not listen to the Queen Mother?The two eunuchs came up and clasped Yan Cijing's shoulders, forcing him to raise his face.

Seeing that face, the Empress Dowager almost threw out the Buddhist beads in her hand, holding back her anger, "Wait!"

"Use a pegboard."

Everyone present buried their heads to hide their astonished eyes.

Slap your mouth with a nail board... If your mouth is rotten, your face will also be rotten. Master Yan is really unlucky. It's a pity that his good looks will be damaged in the future, and his official career may also be ruined.

"Queen!" The queen mother didn't even want to show her manners, and stared at the queen who was trying to dissuade her severely, "Remember your duty clearly."

"Call Aijia!"

"Wait!"

Everyone followed the sound of the wheels and looked behind Yan Cijing.

King Rui smiled lightly: "I'm inconvenient, so I won't salute to the queen mother."

The queen mother suppressed her anger, and gave King Rui an angry look, "What are you doing here?"

King Rui coughed twice, "I don't know why Mr. Yan, who is always polite and humble, has offended the empress mother, but now is not the time to punish him. Brother Huang urgently ordered Mr. Yan to enter the palace to have an audience."

The queen mother still didn't seem to let go, King Rui said again: "The queen mother can continue to detain him. If I miss the emperor's brother's business, Mr. Yan will be charged with the crime of resisting the decree and punishing him for several crimes. Just in time Take your head off years ago." With a move of his finger, someone took Yan Cijing away.

As soon as Yan Cijing left, King Rui pretended to cough twice, and said: "The backyard of the palace is very cold. I am weak, so I won't accompany you."

The Empress Dowager couldn't bear it anymore and was helped away by the mother.

Empress Wei Wanyan ordered the second prince to be brought back to Concubine Hui's palace, then she looked coldly at Ping'er who was kneeling on the ground pleading guilty, and said: "You are the one guarding the outside, why don't you stop Master Yan and let him break in? Come to hit the queen mother?"

Ping'er trembled all over: "Master Yan followed the second prince, and this servant just... just wanted to vent her anger on behalf of the empress, I never thought that the empress dowager would be so angry..."

Wei Wanyan's face turned pale: "Vent up for me? Has Concubine Hui ever offended me?"

Ping'er gritted her teeth and said: "Concubine Hui is charming. After entering the palace, she followed the empress to win the favor of the empress and gave birth to a prince. Now that the empress has lost her son, she never came to visit. She even took the second prince to the imperial study to intercept the emperor. Now If he still wants to find a number one scholar to teach his child, this servant will be very angry!"

Wei Wanyan looked at Yan Cijing's leaving back and sighed: "So you want to take advantage of Concubine Hui by humiliating Lord Yan? How innocent is Lord Yan..."

No one expected the direction of the matter. Ping'er had already foreseen her own ending. She hugged Wei Wanyan's leg and cried, "Mother! The servants thought that the most punishment would be to kneel, but I didn't expect the queen mother to use a nail board to slap your lord's mouth tightly." ! The servant really didn’t expect that!”

Wei Wanyan left her mother's house to enter the prime minister's mansion since she was a child, and later entered the palace to follow the concubine at that time, who is now the empress dowager, and she has seen everything.

If someone else broke into the Palace Garden today, the Queen Mother would not be so angry, but it happened to be Master Yan...

There is no need to mention the past, Wei Wanyan said coldly: "Whoever dares to spread a word about today's matter, this Palace will never let it go lightly."

Yan Cijing knelt on the snow for a long time, his robe was wet, and he was carried by the people around King Rui for a while. After his legs and feet became flexible, he refused to help and left by himself.

He wondered why the emperor asked King Rui to pass on the message, but he still went down the steps and said: "The official robe is dirty, don't be disrespectful in front of the palace, wait until the next official to change clothes, and then go face the saint."

King Rui laughed and said, "Being disrespectful in front of the hall is not as serious a crime as falsely preaching an imperial decree."

Yan Cijing bowed in fear, King Rui supported him, and pointed to the palace gate ahead, where stood a man with his hands in his hands.

"This king is also entrusted by others, if you want to thank him, thank him."

The author says:

Yan Cijing: unlucky, unlucky, unlucky