Dress to be a celebrity

On August [-]th, a decree from the palace was passed directly to the border, ordering that the guerrilla general Ma Cheng, the commander Jin Wen, and Shi Yeliang, the deputy envoy of military preparations stationed in Datong's right guard, be dismissed on the spot, and Shi Huanling, the censor of the right capital, immediately escorted them When they arrived in Beijing, they were tried by the three courts for cowardice, delaying military planes, privately selling military equipment, food and grass, encroaching on military land, and keeping soldiers as slaves.

This decree was sent directly to Datong without the cabinet. At the end of August, Huan Ling returned to the capital with a cart of account books and several generals who had been stripped of their clothes, and was thrown into the prison of Dali Temple.

He has the right to play a secret book, and he went to the express delivery shop with Jingzhong Chuanxin, and he acted quickly when he came back. Ma Shangshu has not been reinstated yet, and the news is slower than usual. He only received the news in Jingzhong for two days. It was too late to move up and down to save people, so Ma Cheng and others were put in jail awaiting trial.

Others are good, but Ma Cheng is a child of his clan. Later, he passed the martial arts exam, and he is proficient in strategy and battle. He is considered a rare talent among the younger generations of the Ma family.If this person is crippled, firstly, it is rare for his family to have such a good son, which can be regarded as hurting his arm, and secondly, Ma Cheng's promotion was arranged by him all the way, and it may even implicate him after careful investigation. This person must be protected. ...

Although he was suppressed at home, the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War has not been withdrawn, and all the disciples and children in his hands are still used by him. He immediately bribed the imperial history to call for grievances for Ma Cheng and others, and also instructed his confidants to make friends with local officials privately. , In order to exchange the grandson's marriage, he cited the fact that the Zhejiang inspector's government entered the court to be a minister, and stabbed several censors who were known for their uprightness.

This matter is really difficult to investigate, if not for the fact that the concubine Xian knew from Princess Huan that his family even traded their grandson's marriage for power, he would hardly have noticed the traces of the marriage between the two families.

When the son of the Huan family sees his grandfather and is impeached, and the impeachment is related to his marriage, if he knows how ugly he is, he should honestly resign from office.Even if he can hold on, his reputation will be discredited, so the ills he found at the border and the charges against Ma Cheng and others are naturally not safe, and he can reverse the case by looking for a few more imperial history books.

He even sent his family to Fujian two months ago to collect charges against Huan Ling, but the capital is too far away from Fujian, and it would take at least four or five months to go back and forth... Otherwise, it would be easier to overthrow their grandparents and grandchildren together. He checked the matter and pressed the border matter.

Pity.

Speaking of which, the two of them had also been sincerely married, and the daughter of the Huan family married his grandson King Zhou. He shouldn't have revealed this important matter.However, Huan Ling didn't care about his relatives, wrote a letter and overturned the desk of the Ministry of War, and then went to the border to arrest his family's disciples, so don't blame him for being cruel.

Ma Shangshu took a deep breath, called his family to add water and grind ink, and wrote a letter to the concubine Xian.

The two families had already gotten into such a fight, so he always had to inform his daughter in advance, so as not to spread the Huan family's affairs into the palace, and the Huan family's quarrel would hurt King Zhou's face.It really doesn't work, it doesn't matter if the princess doesn't want it, anyway, she hasn't been married to the palace for long, and she doesn't have any royal family in her belly, so it's not troublesome to get a divorce.

He watched the handwriting on the letter dry little by little, folded it up and put it in the envelope, and looked back in the direction of Huan Shilang's mansion - that Huan Ling didn't know if he was in the palace or at home now, whether he was showing off to his grandfather What can you do to clean up the border by yourself?

He can only be proud of it for a day or two, and he only hopes that the censors will write a letter to impeach Huan's grandparents as soon as possible, so that they can also experience the difficulty of being trapped in the mansion.

But at this time Huan Ling was neither in the palace nor at home, but at Song's house.

He took down several generals and commanders in one fell swoop at the border, and when he returned to Beijing, he stirred up a storm, engulfing the entire Criminal Ministry and Dali Temple, and everyone began to work overtime, and the Imperial Academy was also preparing to work overtime.However, he himself was summoned to the imperial prelude, and after handing over the documents that recorded the errors and omissions found in the weapons, food accounts, and real objects in the past few months, he received an edict to seal his father as Doctor Fengzhi and went home. , Ask your brother to open the ancestral hall and put in the edict.

By the way, I would like to wish my parents that he and his younger brother are in love with each other, and hope that their parents will bless the two of them to achieve good things soon.

Although their men can only form a bond with brothers, unlike women's three-match six-hire and bridal sedan chairs to welcome the door, they still have to prepare well.I don't know if the Song family's aunt and sisters-in-law have come to Beijing, but they have come in with the ancestor's spirit tablet, so that he can worship side by side with Shi Guan'er in front of the spirit...

He wished silently for a long time, and went back to pack up the hides, sesame oil, wind mutton, dried day lily, sweet almonds, dried Beijing apricots, new millet, medicinal materials, shochu... He left what should be left at home, and picked again. The good ones were packed neatly in a small basket, and they were brought to Song's house in a carriage.

He returned to Beijing early in the morning, the imperial court answered correctly half a day ago, it was not too late when he got home, his grandfather and uncle were not at home, the cousins ​​naturally couldn't control him as a fourth-rank important official of the court, so they had to watch him leave in a car.

When he arrived at the small courtyard in Song Dynasty, it was the afternoon when it was time to go to work, but the courtyard door was closed tightly, and there was no sound of people inside. It was not like the usual friendly appearance of someone always watching at the porter, ready to receive guests at any time.He couldn't receive Song Shi's letter at the border, and he only had a mandarin duck ruler as a magpie bridge, but before he left, he knew that they were going to move. Seeing that the gate was closed now, his first reaction was that they had already moved out.

Sure enough, after knocking for a while, some left-behind family members hurried over to open the door, telling him that his wife, grandma, young master, and girls had entered Beijing, and that the whole family lived in Xiya. I don't live here.

It is naturally a big event for the mother and sisters-in-law to go to Beijing.

Huan Ling was overjoyed, and took out a piece of silver as a reward to the family, and asked them to get in the car and go west.Not long after, he went to the courtyard at De Xiya that he had personally seen. Sure enough, he saw that the outer wall had been completely repainted, and a new wishful hanging flower door was replaced with a door carved with five blessings holding longevity. The shiny cooked copper ring hangs in front of the door, which looks like a prosperous official family.

The family he brought came to call the door, and someone answered immediately. When he opened the door, he saw that he was on the horse, and they shouted: "Master Huan is finally back. Our master, wife, and three gentlemen have been thinking about you Woolen cloth!"

Immediately, there was a young servant at the door to inform the inner courtyard, and knocked on the cloud board, startling Brother Song Xiao and Mrs. Huan who were arranging housework.

Why don't people say something about such a big event as his return to Beijing, so they can pick him up!

The brothers of the Song family hurriedly changed their clothes, and ordered people to arrange refreshments, cook fish and meat, go to the restaurant to buy ready-made cooked vegetables, and arrange dinner for him.The gatekeeper's family stepped forward to take the reins from the host without waiting for the master's order. Those who led the horses led the horses, and those who drove the carts drove the carts, leading the coachman to deliver the cart of gifts to the backyard.

Huan Ling touched the gift list and the golden ruler in his sleeve, and was about to enter the courtyard, but he heard the sound of horseshoes behind him, rushing like drums hitting the ground, on the other side of the long street.

He looked back and saw a horse galloping like lightning, and an official in green clothes frowned and stared at him immediately, leaning forward, almost lying on the horse, as if trying to distinguish his appearance.

But the moment he turned his face to the side, the eagerness and anticipation on the man's face forcibly restrained, his lips were pressed tightly together, and he still rushed to the door at the speed of a storm, but after reining in the horse, only Described as a flat salute, he called out "Senior Brother" with a slightly trembling sound, which implied a bit of "near-native feeling and timidity".

Huan Ling clenched the golden ruler tightly through his sleeve pocket, but couldn't hold back the smile on his face, he bowed his hands in salute, and called "junior brother" with a smile.

There is really no need to add a surname when calling it that way - Shi Guan'er is only his senior brother, and he is only Shi Guan'er's junior, who else can this title be used for?

The two bowed to each other, and Song Shi remembered that he hadn't written to Huan Ling about moving. He smiled embarrassedly and said, "Before you were at the border, it was inconvenient to send a letter. I was still thinking about it tonight." Your family wants to celebrate, and I will look for you at the Metropolitan Procuratorate tomorrow."

Huan Ling shook his head slightly: Tonight he broke the sky of the Ma family, and his grandfather would only scold him when he got home, so why celebrate?Only in the Song family do they not care about the background of those people, and only celebrate because he has done something useful for the country and the court.

He handed Song Shi's horse to the family at the door, and said with the domineering air of his imperial envoy: "Go and take out the things in my car. They are all special products of Datong. I asked people to pick them up when I returned." The things collected there are rare in Beijing. Others in it are not good enough, but there are a few medicinal materials that are rare, so you can tidy them up and bring them to the hall later."

He is a person who has seen the battlefield with his own eyes, who can make decisions in front of the battle and change the general to meet the enemy.Although he didn't snipe the Tatar prince as imagined in Song Dynasty, he still stood on the top of the city and watched the captives attack below, and organized the defenders of the city with the generals.He has been in charge of military affairs for a long time, and he has a formidable temperament. Not to mention that those family members obeyed him, even Song Shi felt that his temperament was different from the past, and he was much more majestic. He looked at him several times on the way in.

He looked back at Song Shi generously, took out the vernier caliper from his sleeve, and said in a low voice: "Meng Shidi asked his grandfather to send someone to bring this ruler, and I kept it close to my body day and night, not daring to leave it. I have already figured out the meaning, and pretended to answer it as "Parrot Song", are you satisfied, Junior Brother?"

No no, you understood!I can't compose!Not to mention "Parrot Song", I can't even fill in "Tianjingsha" that I learned in middle school in my previous life!

Song Shi shook his head stubbornly, but Huan Ling said to himself: "I know that my younger brother expresses love with a ruler, which means the meaning of "Poetry of Affirmation of Love" written by Master Wu Fanqin of Wei Wu." Sijun is a secluded room, serving the bed and holding the towel...'"

The people from the outer courtyard were escorted away by him, and no one from inside greeted them, so he blatantly recited love poems in broad daylight.

Song Shi really wanted to cover his ears and not listen, but his voice of reciting poems was low, and the movement of covering his ears made him feel uncomfortable, so he had to resist listening to his sentences "Why is it punching" and "Why is it being courteous".After reading the two sentences of "Why answer Huanxin", it should have been followed by "Why are you sad", but he changed it arbitrarily to "Why are you comforting your heart, holding a ruler and a pair of mandarin ducks".

The hairs all over Song Shi's body were about to be aroused by him, and he said repeatedly: "No, no, I didn't think that way. What I thought at the time was 'how to express love, the vernier is a caliper'..."

Why send affection?

Huan Ling was so surprised that he almost forgot to walk, and suddenly stopped in place, fixed his eyes on Song Shi, and moved his lips slightly, as if begging him to say it again.

No matter how Song Shi explained that righteousness was the "righteousness" of affection and righteousness between brothers, rather than the "meaning" of affection, the poem he blurted out could not be washed away... so it was changed from "Poetry of Destiny".

The author has something to say: Yesterday’s battle was based on the study of the Nine Frontier Military Town System in the Ming Dynasty, the author Zhao Xianhai