[Red Mansion] Let's listen to a general's order

Relying on the speed of Ben Xiao, within a quarter of an hour Li Lian had already retrieved the palace entry token bestowed by the Supreme Emperor.

"The token to enter the palace is here, this time you boy will not prevent me from entering the palace again!" Li Lian threw the token to Wei Ruolan, jokingly said.

"You little ones don't dare!" Wei Ruolan took a look at the token, then respectfully took the token back to Li Lian with both hands, and smiled wryly.

"If there is something to offend, I hope General Haihan!" In terms of status, seniority, and age, Wei Ruolan is only a junior, but this junior is embarrassing the elders.

"You are just acting according to the rules, why do you need to make such a gesture!" Li Lian said without taking it seriously.

As soon as the conversation changed, he deliberately asked: "By the way! I heard that your family has started looking for a wife for you. Is there anyone who is interested?" There must be too many marriage news in the capital recently!

When mentioning her own marriage, Wei Ruolan's pale face couldn't help being stained with a thin blush, and her face turned red.Although shy, due to Li Lian's status, Wei Ruolan still hesitated and said: "My father intends to ask Lan to marry the daughter of First Bowling Marquis."

Speaking of which, Shi Xiangyun, the only daughter of Marquis Baoling Shi Tai, is Li Lian's cousin and niece, and she has to call Li Lian her cousin whenever they meet, that's why Wei Ruolan dared to reveal a thing or two to Li Lian.

However, Li Lian was not familiar with Shi Nai and Shi Ding, and he was even less familiar with Shi Nai who had passed away for many years.

He frowned and said bluntly: "Tsk! Could it be that stepmother of yours did this again!? If Shi Mei was still there, this marriage would be considered a good match, but now that Shi Jia is gone, my cousin's niece can't help it!" I can't compare you to Wei Ruolan."

The reputation of Shi Xiangyun's family is quite good, but his parents have died long ago, he was brought up by his uncle and aunt, and his family is not rich, and the Shi family is currently being suppressed by the King of Jingjiang County, the Empress, Duke Shu, Li Tianjin, and Li Tianying. Among them, those two titles that sound good but are not useful will be lost in two months.

I'm afraid it wasn't that the stepwife wanted to marry a well-known daughter-in-law for Wei Ruolan, but she didn't have the support of her parents, so she could go back! ?

Wei Ruolan naturally knew the wishful thinking of his stepmother, but he had no intention of refusing or obstructing the marriage. To a certain extent, he was quite satisfied with his stepmother's "faint trick" this time.

Although the Shijia girl's parents died young and her uncle lost power, all of these are false. As long as the old lady of the Jia family is willing to take care of her as a grandniece, as long as Li Lian is willing to recognize her as a cousin, the Shijia girl's backer will never have any rights. The powerful historians changed, and became the Jia family and the Champion Hou's mansion with deep grace from the emperor.

Furthermore, by chance, Wei Ruolan had secretly met Miss Shijia, and she was a pretty girl with a bright personality, no scheming, and a perfect fit for him.Forget about fighting wits with outsiders and stepmother outside and in the mansion, he doesn't want to play tricks with his wife at home.

"General, please don't say that, Miss Shijia is...excellent." Thinking of Miss Shijia's bright and optimistic smile, Wei Ruolan couldn't help showing a sincere smile.

"It's fine if you like it!" Li Lian didn't intend to discuss this topic further, "You are now a forbidden soldier, or someone who is about to marry a wife, how can you be so poor?" Even the twenty army sticks can't stand it.

He patted Wei Ruolan on the back, and said affectionately: "Xiu Mu, when you're not on duty, you can go to your uncle Tianlinbiao's house more often, and let him take you to Tiance Mansion to learn martial arts. It's hard to say anything else. , at any rate, it can also strengthen the body and exercise the bones of the body.”

Wei Ruolan's biological mother is a noble daughter of the Li family, so he can marry all the royal families of the Li family. If he insists on dating, the current emperor can be regarded as his cousin beyond the five clothes.

"Thank you, General!" Wei Ruolan thanked him overjoyed.

"Study hard, don't lose face for me and your uncle." Li Lian said a few words of encouragement, and hurried into the palace.

Naturally, Li Lian didn't have nothing to do and wanted to support his juniors. Although this was one of the reasons why he said this, it was not the main reason for him to stop.

Not only Wei Ruolan knew the consequences of Wei Ruolan blocking him from entering the palace in public, even Li Lian knew it well.

Regardless of whether Wei Ruolan enforced the law impartially, acted according to the rules, or was forced by the situation, other people would only know that Wei Ruolan dared to use chicken feathers as an arrow to embarrass the general in public.Even if Li Lian didn't take this matter to heart or blame him at all, there will definitely be a lot of Li Lian's fans and people who want to curry favor with him who will take action to suppress Wei Ruolan and give a sigh of relief for Li Lian.Anyway, Wei Ruolan was just the son of a third-rank general from a young age, the mother of his noble daughter of the Li family had died long ago, and he was just an ordinary imperial guard standing at the gate, the cost to suppress him was extremely low.That being the case, why not do it?

But with Li Lian's "gossiping about family affairs" and "cultivating younger generations" that Li Lian stopped, others will understand Li Lian's meaning, and naturally they won't find Wei Ruolan unlucky.

Being able to think of this level, and by the way, support the younger generation, Li Lian has experienced so many things, and is much more mature than before.

Even though he was very anxious and wanted to meet the emperor right away so that he could understand, Li Lian still went to Ningshou Palace to meet the Supreme Emperor after entering the palace.

"Hey! You child has been skinny since he was a child, and he went to the house to expose the tiles! There is no flower, plant, rockery, or rock in this palace that has not been harmed by you."

Li Lian chuckled, "Isn't it because the emperor is at the mercy of me that I dare!"

The Supreme Emperor petted his hand, "Remember that time, your master got out of his mind and told you the story of Journey to the West. You will be overwhelmed when you hear it! Take your Fire Dragon Lek Spring Charger." Make a golden cudgel, run up the rockery when you see it, smash it when you see the rock, even if you walk on the flat ground, you have to do two somersaults, and that’s not counting! Xiaojiu wants to get close to me, you narrow-minded ghost see Xiaojiu here While eating the lotus cake, I wanted to say that he is the lotus demon, and he came to eat the flesh of my son of heaven. I didn’t stop after spanking Xiaojiu’s ass, and said that the lotus demon came from female fairies. I don’t believe Xiaojiu is Boy, I have to take off his pants to check his body."

Li Lian blushed, had he been so bearish before?

Recalling the past, the Taishang Emperor's eyes were full of smiles.

"Xiao Jiu was bullied by you very much, and she burst into tears. You were so frightened that you were at a loss. You couldn't coax Xiao Jiu. In the end, you are a good monkey. You said it was getting late, and you were afraid that Master would miss you, so you slipped away. I’m out of the palace! Poor me, I’ve said a lot of good things, and I’ve rewarded me with countless precious things, and I’ve got to coax the eighth and tenth sons together in the end, to make Xiao Jiu laugh out of tears.”

Although the Ninth Prince Li Tianlang had a role in forcing the palace, but he died when he was young, and he died to save his two brothers. The Supreme Emperor forgot all his bad things, and only thought about his cleverness and brotherhood.

Under Ai Wu Ji Wu Xia, he was a little more tolerant towards the eighth and tenth sons who were still worried about the ninth son before his death.

Li Lian rubbed his nose, he didn't remember this incident, but it sounded like something he would do when he was "young and ignorant".

Suddenly, "Do you really have to go?" Taishang Huang asked while holding Li Lian's hand tightly.

Feeling the warmth of his hands, and seeing the vicissitudes of life on the temples of the Supreme Emperor, Li Lian felt sore in his heart, and almost blurted out a word.

However, he collected himself and immediately realized that this was the emperor's trick.

Li Lian said flatteringly: "I am the monkey grandson, and the emperor is Tang Sanzang and the Tathagata Buddha. As long as the emperor recites a mantra, I will fly back to the capital even if I am on the cliff or the corner of the sea!" But as long as the Supreme Emperor misses him, no matter where he is, even thousands of miles away, he will definitely return to Beijing.

"Forget it! Forget it! You are the most used to coaxing me!" Hearing these words, the Supreme Emperor knew that Li Lian was determined to leave the capital, so he waved his hand and let Li Lian go.

How could Li Lian leave like this?Naturally, some good words coaxed the Taishang Emperor to turn his anger into joy, and after Longyan was happy, he slowly left Ningshou Palace.

Before stepping into the gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, I happened to see two figures slowly approaching from the side.

Li Lian took a closer look and saw that it was his old acquaintance Bi Yun and his adopted son Bi Dayong.

"Eunuch Bi!" He raised his hand in greeting.

When Bi Yun and his son stopped, seeing Li Lian, they laughed like chrysanthemums.

"This old slave has met the champion. I haven't seen him for a long time, and his breath is getting better and better!"

The smile on Li Lian's face paused, feeling something was wrong, he resigned on the grounds of being ill, Bi Yun said that he was lying!But thinking about the more than 20 years of friendship between him and Bi Yun, he just thought that Bi Yun didn't pay attention and didn't take it to heart.

"Eunuch, what's the matter?" Seeing the conspicuous white cloth on Bi Yun's head, Li Lian couldn't help asking with concern.

"Hehe! Lord Lao is concerned! This old slave is getting old and his eyesight is blurred. When he got up this morning, he accidentally fell on the door frame and broke his head. Fortunately, the emperor was kind enough to allow this old slave to take a day off, and let Dayong come to serve him , but the old slave is just a lowly bone, not a life to enjoy the blessings, I am worried that Daxia and the others are dull, and cannot serve the emperor well, so let Dayong help the old slave to work!"

The acting is so realistic that if the adoptive son Bi Dayong next to him didn't know that the wound on his godfather's head was knocked out by himself, he would probably believe that his godfather broke it.

After a few words of sympathy, Li Lian said, "Then please tell me, eunuch, I have something to meet with the emperor."

Bi Yun said with an apologetic expression: "What a coincidence! The fifth princess was ill a few days ago, and the emperor was worried all the time, and he couldn't even approve much of the memorial. Fortunately, with the emperor's blessing, the fifth princess recovered yesterday. The emperor said Well, he won’t see anyone today, and he has to correct the memorials accumulated in the past few days.”

Li Lian raised his eyebrows, he knew it was not going so smoothly.

"Eunuch, please be accommodating! I have something urgent!"

"The emperor issued an order, I really dare not disobey this old slave!" Normally, Bi Yun might really help to go in and report, but the emperor's outburst today is just because he didn't want to see Jing Ya, Bi Yun But he dared not go against the wind to commit crimes under the emperor's explicit warning.He can still hold the position of the chief eunuch of the Hall of Mental Cultivation for a few more years!

Li Lian closed his mouth and looked at Bi Yun for a long time.

Bi Yun was not afraid, and looked back at him with a smile on his face.

For an old fox like Bi Yun who has been immersed in the court for most of his life, as long as he doesn't deliberately show his flaws, others will not be able to catch him even if they have golden eyes.

After a while, "Okay! Your Majesty puts the country and the country first, which is a good thing! I won't make things difficult for my father-in-law, I'll just wait here! When the emperor finishes correcting the memorial, I will trouble my father-in-law to inform me again!" said Forget it, Li Lian just stood at the gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation in a leisurely manner.

Rao Yibiyun's city mansion also changed his face in fright.

"How can this be done!? Master Hou's body has not yet recovered, so I'm afraid it will cause the root cause of the disease! Besides, Master Hou has a high status, so...you may cause gossip!"

Li Lian said indifferently: "It's okay! A man, he has been exposed to the sun for half a day on the battlefield, but now he just stands there for a few hours. How can someone be so delicate!"

Bi Yun tried hard to persuade him again and again, but Li Lian still insisted on his own opinion and wanted to stand outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation and wait for the emperor's summons.

Seeing that Li Lian was so stubborn, Bi Yun had no choice but to order his adoptive son Bi Dayong to step back three feet, then stepped forward and whispered to Li Lian, "Jing Ya, why are you doing this?" the emperor said. I don't want to see you anymore.

"Listen to the old slave's advice, leave the palace first today! After a few days, when the emperor is in a good mood, if you come to ask again, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort?" He said earnestly.

"Don't talk about it, father-in-law! I won't make things difficult for father-in-law, and I hope father-in-law won't make things difficult for me."

Li Lian closed his eyes and stood straight at the door of the Hall of Mental Cultivation without moving.

Seeing this, Bi Yun had no choice but to order Bi Dayong to find Huang Jin, Xia Ji, Zheng Huai'en, Feng Jing and other eunuchs without alarming others, hoping that Li Lian would listen to the advice for the sake of everyone's face.

And he quickly entered the main hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation and reported the news to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the champion is out to see you."

The emperor didn't care about anything else, he just stopped writing, and asked coldly: "Bi Yun, do you want to go to Anhui to guard the spirit of Emperor Taizu, or go to Henan to build a mausoleum for me?"

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the mourning system has stipulated that regardless of the age of the emperor, the mausoleum must be built one year after he ascended the throne.Due to the noble status of the emperor, the mausoleum where he lived after death naturally had to correspond to his noble status. If the mausoleum was built after death, it might be too late. Therefore, the emperors of all dynasties have attached great importance to this matter.

Taking the Ming Dynasty as an example, the Xiaoling Mausoleum of the Ming Tai ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang began to be built in the ninth year of Hongwu, and was finally completed in the 11th year of Yongle. It took 38 military workers and lasted [-] years.

The mausoleum of the Supreme Emperor is located on Mount Mang near Luoyang, the ancient capital of the thirteen dynasties in Henan Province. It is called Dongling.The emperor's mausoleum is also located on Mang Mountain, adjacent to Dongling, and is called Heling.

"I said that no one will be seen today. Are you taking what I say as a deaf ear? I can't use a slave like you!" The emperor picked up the teacup and poured all the tea in it into his stomach in one go. inside.

Bi Yun knelt down on the ground, and said cautiously: "The servant also told the champion Hou that the emperor will not see anyone today, but...just that the champion said that he has something urgent to ask to see the emperor, and he is unwilling to leave no matter what, saying... that he will wait until the emperor finishes making corrections." When the memorial has time to see him. He is standing outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation right now, and the slave really has no choice but to report to the emperor."

The majestic champion Hou, the first-rank Tiance general, and the king of a country have something to meet with the emperor, but the emperor refuses to see him. Under the "hot sun in the sky", the general stood at the entrance of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, waiting for the emperor to receive him, and refused to leave.If this matter gets out of the palace, it will definitely cause an uproar in the court.

"I am incompetent, I implore the emperor to remove the chief eunuch of the Hall of Mental Cultivation and the chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor. I saw the report from the Ministry of Industry some time ago, and the emperor's Heling Palace has been repaired to a critical point. I implore the emperor for permission." This servant is going to oversee the repair of the Emperor’s Heling Underground Palace, and do your best for the Emperor..." As he spoke, he fell on the ground and began to cry bitterly.

"Okay! I know what you mean. You are still crying at such a big man. Be careful that your son laughs at you. Da Xia! Hurry up and help your godfather up, he still has injuries on his head, so don't move too much!" The emperor was still furious, but at this moment, his words showed uncontrollable concern, which moved Bi Yun to tears.

"Your Majesty, my servant...the servant has disrespected the imperial court..." With the support of his adoptive son Bi Daxia, Bi Yun tried his best to stand up.

When the emperor saw this, his heart softened again. He put down the pen in his hand, and suddenly saw the blood oozing from the white cloth on Bi Yun's head, and couldn't help but shouted in concern: "Your wound is ruptured! Someone! Quickly, send the imperial doctor!"

"No! Your Majesty is unnecessary." Bi Yun hurriedly said, "It's just a small wound, why use the imperial physician! The servant can go back and apply the medicine by himself. Besides, the Hall of Mental Cultivation is the emperor's place, and there are imperial physicians coming in and out. It’s not a good thing for the news to spread!”

The emperor ordered: "Da Xia, quickly help your godfather to sit down."

"Your Majesty! In front of the Emperor, there is no room for a servant!" Bi Yun firmly refused.

The emperor sighed, and said: "Oh! I'm in a bad mood, and I've vented all my anger on you. I'm afraid you've kowtowed so vigorously just now, and I'm afraid that ordinary wound medicine will be useless, so hurry up later. The imperial hospital seeks an imperial doctor to treat you, and it will not be good if you have any root cause. You have only served me for a few years? I want you to serve me for decades!" It was an indirect admission to Bi Yun.

"Your Majesty..." Bi Yun choked up and couldn't speak.

"As for Jingya...he likes to wait, let him wait!" The emperor snorted coldly.

He is also feeling wronged in his heart!

This time, Bi Yun was regarded as a fire at the city gate, which brought disaster to the fish in the pond.

Li Lian resigned from office several times, was there a time when the emperor didn't try his best to persuade him to stay, persuaded him with good words, and rewarded him constantly?The unlucky Li Lian "ignored" the emperor's kindness, and wanted to resign from office and leave Beijing. People who didn't know thought what the emperor was going to do to him!The emperor dealt with this matter coldly for half a month, and even sent imperial guards to prevent Li Lian from entering the palace. He even said that he would not see anyone today.But he still wanted to pretend to be confused, and he wanted to resign to the emperor face to face, which made the emperor feel that all his good intentions had been fed to the dogs!

Even with the emperor's benevolence and kindness, he couldn't help being angry.