As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

It took a while for Huamanlou to realize what the problem was: If the Ming media is marrying, Jiner must be the crown princess and the queen in the future, so there must be no ambiguity in the process. Huamanlou doesn't know how to handle it, but at least Shang Shu and Xu Dacheng have to come to the door in person, right?

So Hua Manlou rubbed his aching head and said, "Isn't that the way you talk about it? After all, you are the Prince of Zhao. There are too many things to pay attention to when marrying a wife. It's the folks... no, if it's the folks, you Your parents are here, so where is it my turn to make decisions for you? You have also reached the age of marriage, even if you want to marry Jin Er, you have to tell your father, right?"

Zhao Ren suddenly looked away: "This...isn't it?"

Hua Manlou instantly realized the problem: "Tell me, what's going on?"

Zhao Ren hesitated for a while, and finally said: "Actually, after I came back this time, the queen mother and the queen mother said they would arrange the marriage for me, but I was thrown into the imperial temple and punished to kneel down. After I came out, I forgot about it. At that time, she said a lot of things..."

In fact, as early as the queen found out that she was pregnant with Xiao Xiao, she began to think about breeding Zhao Ren, but at that time she suffered from severe morning sickness and felt unwell, so she let it go temporarily, and it was almost over when Zhao Ren came back. The most uncomfortable stage, so the mind began to become active again.

Hua Manlou suddenly felt a heartache from the bottom of his heart: "You mean the queen mother has already confirmed the candidate? The Ministry of Rites and the Supervisor of Rituals have already sent people to the door?"

"Uh...really?" Zhao Ren stammered, "They asked me to marry a woman I've never seen before. In the past, I didn't care about who I married? But now Jin'er... I didn't expect to propose marriage so early, to tell Jin'er my identity slowly, after all, you see she is stupid, if she knows that I am the prince, she will be scared..."

The sore Hua Manlou almost wanted to curse, but after a moment of hesitation, she choked on this mouthful of dog food and rolled her eyes.

"Let's not talk about the other side, are you sure the Ministry of Rites has come to the door? Where is the matter now?" Hua Manlou had a severe headache, and he grasped the most important point in an instant.

If the Ministry of Rituals really came to the door, and had already passed the acceptance...that is, the step of giving the bride price, the marriage is almost settled, and no one can stop it.

The bride price has already been received, which proves that the girl is already half of the Zhao family. If she divorces, how will she live the rest of her life?

But if you just ask about the horoscope, then the matter still needs to be remedied. At that time, you only need to do some metaphysics about the incompatibility of the horoscope, and it will not have a big impact on the whole. What will happen to other girls in the future.

Zhao Ren scratched his head: "I didn't ask in detail, the queen mother only said that you should be more prudent when you get married, and I came to you in a hurry."

Hua Manlou was even more distressed: "You... let me tell you what's good about you? Obviously this matter is more important, right? In the end, you are fine. After you come here, you still talk about the sun and the moon with me. Are you stupid? "

Zhao Ren said miserably: "Didn't I think about how to tell you?"

Hua Manlou was speechless, Zhao Ren said again: "In any case, I will marry Jin'er."

Hua Manlou looked up to the sky and laughed: "Then marry me, I wish you happiness, goodbye."

"Come back!" Zhao Ren grabbed Hua Manlou and said, "If you don't help me, how can I marry her?"

Hua Manlou laughed angrily: "Are you going to marry a wife or should I marry a wife? And I can't get involved in this matter at all. If you really want to marry Jin'er, go home and talk to your mother!"

In order to prevent foreign relatives from intervening in politics, Da Zhao usually cannot come from a famous family, such as a queen or a noble concubine, nor can it come from an important official or an old honored family. As long as the family background is clean, it doesn’t matter if the family is small or small. Compliant.

In other words, Zhao Ren made things complicated—if he really wanted to marry Jin'er, he would have said something casually when the empress mentioned this before, so now that the marriage has already been booked, he still needs him Begging for flowers here?

But Zhao Ren said, "Why don't you understand? I just don't want to scare Jin'er, and I don't want her to marry me because of her will. It's just... how should I put it..."

Zhao Ren was sweating anxiously but couldn't express it, but Hua Manlou realized that this baby was influenced by someone, he wanted true love, and he didn't want Jin'er to marry him because of his status.

This broken plot with a little bit of dog blood added is an eight o'clock romance drama. That's how Grandma Qiongyao lied to the children back then!What is the combination of mountains and no tombs, heaven and earth, why accompany you to watch the stars and the moon, from poetry to poetry, to philosophy of life, and finally a villain...

That's right, queen mother, your son wants you to be the villain who beats the mandarin ducks, come and deal with this brat!

669. Professional

At this moment, Hua Manlou felt that he had to help Zhao Ren, not for anything else, but to prevent the bloody romance from happening.

You know, this year is a feudal dynasty, do you expect the empress to suddenly appear in front of Jin Er and slap a check and say 'take this and leave my son', or do you expect Zhao Ren to be hit by a car suddenly? ——The carriage can also be hit—and then fall off the cliff that suddenly appeared, lose memory, and finally be rescued by Jin Er and fall in love with her again?

Or was he hoping that Zhao Ren would leave everything behind and elope with Jin'er?

Don't make trouble, dog blood is unacceptable, and Huamanlou is going to fiddle with 'the sun and the moon are all Han soil', so in theory, the bear boy will be dragged back even if he goes to the New World at this time, and he If he really dared to do this, Emperor Guangxing would really dare to break his leg.

In short, the current situation is quite good for Huamanlou. On the way back to Beijing, Zhao Ren and Jin'er were fighting and talking and laughing. It's sweet and sour and not too greasy. Anyone who sees it can't help but make a 'huh' to show their disgust, or smile like an aunt...

How about saying that everyone likes to watch romance and not dog blood?

So Hua Manlou was depressed for a while before saying: "Okay, today you go to apologize to Mr. Li first, don't talk about other things, and then go back to Beijing and confess to your mother."

Seeing Zhao Ren's troubled face, Hua Manlou immediately added seriously: "If you really want to get along with Jin'er, then listen to me and don't be a moth!"

This is the truth. After all, the queen doesn't know what kind of person Jin'er is. If she thinks that some kind of seductive person outside the palace dares to seduce her son, what will be the consequences...

As a one-time palace fighting champion, how could he not have a killing temperament?

Zhao Rendao: "But... what if the queen mother has really hired her?"

Hua Manlou gritted his teeth and said, "What can we do? Marry, you can only marry one!"

Of course, in theory, neither the courtiers nor the royal family allowed him to marry only one, and if he couldn't have children, the courtiers would have to ask him to accept more breeding... Cough, to spread branches and leaves for the Tian family.

Unexpectedly, when Zhao Ren heard this, he looked disgusted: "What do you want to marry a woman I don't know?"

Hua Manlou rubbed his forehead: It's over, is this guy really awakened?Who did you learn this from?

But before Hua Manlou could say anything, Zhao Ren suddenly began to complain: "Those women selected from the palace... Tsk, have you met all the empresses and concubines of the father? Look at each one of them. I don't have any serious business today, I just want to compete for beauty and embarrass my father. A few days ago, there was a man who chewed his tongue in the palace, but he was kicked out of the palace by his father. ? And it’s not good-looking... Tch, no wonder people say that ugly people do more tricks!"

Hua ManLou was a little speechless.

In fact, the selection of concubines for the emperor basically does not consider the emperor's aesthetics. The palace has its own selection process-in the beginning, the girls are selected from the local area. Harsh elimination: don’t walk properly, don’t have crooked teeth, don’t have moles on your body, don’t have big breasts, don’t even have a face that isn’t a standard oval face, don’t even want to be too coquettish...

After layer upon layer, isn't everything left as if it came out of the same mold?

If you want to call it ugly... In fact, it's not that bad, but it's still a long way from someone like Miss Baimao or Miss Wen. After all, the standard is there...

What's more, the living environment in the palace is really not good. A large group of women really have nothing to do as Zhao Ren said, and they all revolve around Emperor Guangxing alone. Can they not compete for beauty in the end?

Staying in that small world, I would be ashamed to say that I have stayed in the palace if I didn't hold back something wrong...

But these words are not for Hua Manlou to discuss, so he forcibly brought the subject back: "Anyway, you should go back first, if the mother's empress has really been hired, then...then think of a way at that time! "

Can there be any way, Huamanlou can't torment other women's women for the likes and dislikes of the brat, right?

Zhao Ren didn't know whether he had confidence in Huamanlou or what, he nodded in agreement, and then asked, "Why don't you go back with me?"

Hua Manlou sighed, "Do you think I still have extra time? Have you forgotten what you just said to me?"

"Uh... make some noise?" Zhao Ren then remembered his original purpose.

"Really?" Hua Manlou said melancholy: "When you go back, tell your father that there is something for him to see for himself, so let's say... um, let's talk about the demonstration of new firearms."

Huamanlou is really convinced by the old Zhao's family now, and the others will find things for him if they don't know how to do it. The old ones always want to be surprised, and the young ones make moths every now and then. Salted fish?

……

Even if there are all kinds of mistakes, the character of Prince Da Zhao is still commendable, and he really didn't forget to go back to Xishan to apologize to Jin'er's grandfather this time - the carriage was filled with half a load of messy gifts, including expensive medicinal materials, There are the four treasures of the study that don't seem ordinary, a pair of glazed go chess that seems to be popular in the past, several calligraphy treasures of someone who doesn't know, and some blue and white porcelain as a tribute.

Seeing Hua Manlou's face full of resentment, Zhao Ren explained awkwardly: "I'm thinking of hiring directly, so..."

"You are not hired, you are trying to scare Jin'er's grandfather to death!" Hua Manlou rubbed his aching head and said, "Also, who the hell hired these? Haven't you studied the Book of Songs? Just There are dead prows in the wild, and the part of the white grass bag, the next hire is to use deer and wild geese, you... wait a moment, I remember that your Yin'an Temple doesn't have these things, right? Where did you find them?"

Zhao Ren's eyes wandered: "Father's collection..."

Hua Manlou: "..."

Defense by day and night, house thieves are hard to guard against, my friends!No wonder that set of Go is so familiar!

Hua Manlou was too lazy to complain: "It's fine to give some of the medicinal materials to the old man, and send the rest back to the emperor quickly, and send back those tributes too! I'm afraid people don't know your identity or what?"

Zhao Ren complied awkwardly. After packing up some medicinal materials, he took out a large box from the car.

Hua Manlou looked puzzled: "What is this?"

Zhao Ren blushed, "Just... Jin'er's favorite snacks, and some small things..."

"……small item?"

"The hairpin that Jin'er has always wanted."

Hua Manlou silently swallowed the dog food.

To be honest, compared to this guy, Hua Manlou suddenly felt like a scumbag, he just knew how to lie to his wife to go out to work all day long...

But then again, who taught this little trick to make girls happy, or did they learn it by themselves?Why do you always feel that this guy is professional in everything except being a prince?

(Having a splitting headache, and another cold... I have written a chapter with discomfort, let's read it first, and continue with the third update in a few days)

670. Watch

Huamanlou didn't care about Zhao Ren's apology. Anyway, this guy is thick-skinned and not afraid of scolding, and Mr. Li has a face, no matter what he does, he won't do anything to this brat, so Huamanlou began to give in silently. Dacheng dug a hole for him.

Saying that the sun and the moon shine on all Han soil sounds crazy and arrogant, but in reality it is nothing more than two words: national strength.

Comprehensive national strength is very troublesome to talk about, including a series of comprehensive indicators such as economy, politics, military, culture, technology, education, etc., so Huamanlou planned to fool Emperor Guangxing with military alone.

That's right, just use the things that the previous Maritime Academy and the New Military Academy have fiddled with, and then say: Look, father, our weapons are so advanced, and they will be even more advanced in the future, equip the entire army with them In the future, our Great Zhao will be invincible in the world. How can those who are not good-looking dare not to pay tribute?

After the plan was made, Huamanlou called Song Jie and said, "I'll arrange a task for you. You go and collect some of the experimental firearms you have been tossing about before... Oh, let's forget about water mines and floating mines." , do other things, and then take Fang Erniu to the cannon test field to build a solid concrete hut..."

Song Jie listened for a while, then said blankly, "Master Hou, what are you doing all this for?"

Hua Manlou said casually: "Oh, His Majesty may come to have a look at these things."

Song Jie was stunned: "Your Majesty is coming? Lord Hou, this...is something wrong?"

Hua Manlou nodded: "Well, yes, I still feel a little unsafe, why don't you ask them to replace the gunpowder in those firearms with gunpowder for fireworks?"

Song Jie said frantically, "Master Hou, you're a no-nonsense... Cough, what I mean is, you have to be cautious about what you do when you come to Xishan, right? If you want your majesty to watch us set off two firecrackers, then go back? Two firecrackers?"

Hua Manlou blinked: "So what? Anyway, I guess His Majesty can't understand it, so I should just listen to it."

Song Jie opened his mouth, not knowing how to dissuade Huamanlou.

He is very courageous, and since he met the emperor, hooked up with the princess, and a few days ago, he found out that the brat he called Xiao Zhao every day was the prince of Da Zhao, Song Jie felt that he suddenly had less respect for the royal family. There are many—one nose and one mouth, what’s so scary?

But compared to Hua Manlou's perfunctory attitude now...

It's better not to compare, so as not to scare yourself out of trouble.

Seeing that Huamanlou could not be persuaded, Song Jie could only moan and sigh to arrange the production of the incomparably heart-shattering cannonball, but after two days of busy work, when everything was almost arranged, Song Jie was suddenly caught again. Huamanlou summoned.

"Could it be that Master Hou has figured it out?"

With such thoughts in mind, Song Jie came to Xishanhou's Mansion again, but upon meeting Hua Manlou's expression was extremely ugly, so he quickly asked, "Master Hou, what's the matter?"

Hua Manlou sighed, "Did you finish the firecracker?"

Song Jie nodded, and was about to explain in detail when Hua Manlou said dejectedly: "Let's do it again, and prepare fifty of them according to the normal situation. You have to prepare, and you must ensure that things are compliant, and you must not make mistakes..."

Song Jie nodded and wrote it down, then wondered: "Master Hou, why did you suddenly engage in such a large scale?"

Hua Manlou sighed and said: "I don't know why it became like this, and I have to go to the west gate of the capital to demonstrate it in front of civil and military officials and envoys from all over the world, don't you think this is embarrassing? "

Song Jie was startled: "Master Hou, isn't this the same as the last time when he fought against the tiles? Could it be that he is provoking Zhao again?"

Hua Manlou said weakly: "Don't worry about it, anyway, go get busy, time is tight..."

To tell you the truth, Huamanlou really doesn't want to do all this trickery in front of civil and military officials and envoys from all over the world like a public execution—how good it is to let Emperor Guangxing see that firecrackers are safe and easy, and it can make him happy. ?

But I don't know who the hell made this complicated, because Zhao Ren sent back the news that Emperor Guangxing excitedly said that he would come to Xishan when he reported, but things changed after a few hours It's too late, and the scale has increased time and time again. In the end, it changed from a normal inspection to the most solemn military parade in Dazhao. At that time, not only all the Xishan guards left behind will have to participate, but even the three major battalions that have been reorganized will also participate. It is said that It is to let them see how elite Zhao's most elite troops really are...

Regarding this, Huamanlou has nothing to say.

Most of the Xishanwei are looking for Tumed's remnants all over the mountains and plains in the West Sea. If you have the ability to go to the West Sea to see it?What is there to be elite about the remaining three melons and two dates with less than a thousand people in Xishan?It's still elite, didn't you hear that the ones playing by others are elite?

And apart from the matter of the military parade, there was something even more painful for Hua ManLou: the imperial edict came, and the empress wanted to meet Jin Er in person.

Highlights: Yizhi.

I don't know what Zhao Ren told the Queen after he went back, whether he was bragging about Jin'er's cuteness or stalking him to say that Jin'er is not worthy of breeding. The good news is that the Queen's side has just passed the second selection stage , I haven't been tossing around to test the horoscope, so in theory Zhao Ren can directly let Jin'er enter the final trial stage without other worries; but the bad news is: the queen thought that this was a good match introduced by Hua Manlou to Zhao Ren, so she planned to personally Meet - Conceal your true identity and chat with the little girl as a stranger.

As for the circumstances and conditions to meet, what identity to pretend is more reasonable, and whether it will arouse the suspicion of Jin Er or others is not within the scope of the queen's consideration. Yizhi just said: You look at the arrangement. .

"Is this the recognition of a father and mother and a younger brother? Why do I feel that I have recognized a group of living ancestors?" Hua Manlou held Yizhi, with tears in his eyes: "Why are people in the old Zhao family like this! And what? Did you ask me to introduce it to Zhao Ren? This is obviously a collaboration between the two of them, okay?"

The last point is what hurts Hua Manlou the most, because he has never been involved in the matter of Zhao Ren and Jin'er from the beginning to the end, but now I don't know how Zhao Ren explained it. Anyway, the matter is what he told the prince. I don’t know what Huamanlou thinks in the palace, but in the mouths of those dark-minded people who like to play conspiracy theories, this matter has become Xishan Hou’s deep thoughts, and he started to put people around the prince before he knew anything. ...

The latter part was heard by Xu Dacheng's confidantes. He did not know why he passed the news back to Huamanlou. Xu knew that his overseas safety depended on Huamanlou in the future, so Xu Dacheng He even entrusted his confidants to him, saying what kind of mutual help...

"It's better to say that I have great ambitions and really want 'the sun and the moon shine'!" Hua Manlou continued to complain: "Still watching? Watching a buttocks, watching!"

(Today's update, um, I'm sure.)

671. Points deducted!

Tucao is back to Tucao, things still have to be done, so after Hua Manlou settled down the preparations for the military parade, he began to write the script of "Empress Da Zhao meets a confused little girl by chance".

To be honest, it's not easy at all.