The mediocre minister of all living beings

For the emperor's birthday, the ministers in the court have different opinions. Some say that the emperor has worked hard for a long time since he took the throne and has never held a grand banquet. Now that the people's livelihood is prosperous and the frontier is stable, the world should be amnesty and a grand banquet should be held.Some people say that although the country is stable at present, the flood in the south of the Yangtze River has only been settled not long after the emperor ascended the throne.People on both sides expressed their opinions, and the court was very lively for a while.Wei Mingqi sat on the tall Kowloon chair and watched them argue for a long time before he waved his hand: "Now the world has just settled down, and it is time to recharge your batteries. I should set an example and be frugal. I only hold a small banquet at Fengxingtai. Just treat it as a family dinner.

A line of ministers in the court hall fell to their knees in unison.The emperor is sympathetic to the common people, and he is industrious and frugal, which is really a great fortune.Your Majesty's scenic travels to the mountains and his virtues are the blessings of my people.He Youqi, who was kneeling at the forefront, was dressed in a red court dress, with a high crown, and followed the ministers to sing praises, and then looked up again. The eyes of the man on the dragon chair had never been half celebratory. The man who was so cold to him.

On the day of the birthday, as expected, only a family banquet was set up at Fengxingtai. Apart from the queen and a few concubines, the emperor also only invited a few ministers and friends.

Lu Ling and Dian Ziqi were sitting on the seats on the far left. Before the banquet started, Lu Ling kept adding vegetables to Dian Ziqi's bowl. This meat is delicious, this dish is good, and this soup is the best. It can nourish the stomach, and Dian Ziqi can feel it from a distance, sitting on the high platform, the emperor's eyes are staring at them all the time, it can't be said that it is envy or what, just watching Dian Ziqi burst into cold sweat, Finally couldn't help it anymore, a ghostly stare stared at it, and the roast goose that was being delivered halfway fell from the chopsticks and fell on the lap with a "click". "Eat" whispered harshly, the majestic and majestic front-hand immediately picked it up from his lap and put it in his mouth, still muttering in his heart, did I make another mistake?

Putting down the wine glass in his hand, the emperor on the high platform said slowly, "Is Dianqing feeling better?"

Immediately got up, and saluted respectfully: "The emperor is concerned, he is already much better."

"Do you still feel hot when it rains?"

"It's been a long time since I did it again"

"That's good. The imperial physician is taking the prescription prescribed by the imperial physician. If it works, ask someone to copy the prescription. I used to know an old man who, like Dianqing, always had a fever when it rained." "After speaking, he unconsciously glanced at the person on the right seat, but the person turned a deaf ear and just took care of the few light dishes in front of him.

Sighing softly, and wanting to say something more, the chime bells started to rise, and the maids with sleeves came slowly from both sides, waving for the palace to sit down, watching the dancing and dancing in front of them, and then glanced at the queen beside her. , that person is still gentle and virtuous, smiling slightly at the emperor, raising a glass to toast, his concern can be seen in all directions, so he can only give up.

At the end of the banquet, the queen's sedan chair happened to bump into Xiao Xin who was returning to Tianhe Pavilion, and the servants gently lifted the sedan curtain. Stepping forward, the eyebrows of the two curved willow leaves are like Dai, the face is like the spring breeze, the skin is like fat, and the vermilion lips heard it before smiling, and said in a low voice: "My son".

Xiao Xin stopped immediately, saluted and greeted respectfully.

"How is your son?" He walked slowly to the front with the help of a maid who was close to him, with a ladylike gait. No wonder the civil and military officials of the whole dynasty praised the empress for her dignity and decency. Didn’t you just say it at the banquet? If it’s still not good, I’ll turn around and ask Imperial Physician Yan to show the prince.”

Imperial Physician Yan has been an imperial physician for generations. Apart from his excellent medical skills, he is the imperial physician employed by the Queen. He has never seen anyone except the Emperor. Xiao Xin heard the Queen's words and quickly gave way: "I dare not, Queen Lao Don't worry, the minister has been healed for a long time."

"Really?" Zhu Lip smiled slightly: "That's good."

"Empress Xie, empress benevolence, kindness to the common people, is the blessing of all ages" Ever since entering the palace, Xiao Xin's compliments have become more and more fluent. Also, how could things that I have to say every day not be fluent?

"Really?" The corner of the mouth of the smiling man was a little stiff, and his eyes were looking at the misty pavilions in the distance.

"The empress is still young and in good health, and she will definitely give birth to a dragon heir in the future"

Empress Yao's eyes were retracted from a distance like a pool of water, and she looked at the person in front of her: "Do you think the Ai family will have children?"

The person being asked froze slightly, his brows frowned for a moment, and then immediately opened up, and replied respectfully: "I think the queen will definitely give birth to a dragon son for the emperor."

"Really?" The man smiled lightly: "A few days ago, Imperial Physician Yan also said the same when he came, but the Ai family didn't believe it."

The person in front of him raised his head in surprise, facing those watery and frosty eyes, Xiao's confidence trembled, for some reason, he always felt that there was a trace of murderous chill hiding under this gentle and graceful cheek.

"I heard what the son said today, and Aijia really believed it." The corners of his mouth raised into a very beautiful arc, and he stared at Xiao Xin's eyes without retreating, and the man said softly: "The Aijia will delay the blessing of the son In the future, I will give birth to a dragon son for the emperor, and I will keep our Daliang country safe and stable."

After a few greetings, Xiao Xin sent Empress Yao away, watching the magnificent sedan chair leave slowly, always felt that there was something stuck in his heart, thinking about it carefully, but couldn't end, but occasionally remembered the bottomless pair of His eyes stared at him unflinchingly.

Wei Mingqi received a lot of congratulatory gifts on his birthday, red coral as bright as blood, lacquered pearls as big as walnuts, a warm jade chessboard that warms the tentacles, and sweaty horses from the Western Regions. Wei Mingqi looked at the list of gifts absent-mindedly Eunuch Xi whispered next to him, "Does the emperor have anything he likes, and the slave will present it to you?"

"Receive it all to Curry." This time the congratulatory gifts were not satisfactory, and the emperor didn't even want to take a look.As soon as Wei Mingqi put all his people into the treasury, the news spread into the palaces of all the ministers. He felt the sweat on his brow, wondering if he would show embarrassment to the emperor tomorrow.

Eunuch Xi is also in trouble. He can put everything in the treasury, but there is only one thing that he doesn't know what to do with.

"Look at the congratulatory gift that was sent a while ago..."

"What is it?" Wei Mingqi looked at the bag in his hand and didn't raise his head to ask, but just as he finished speaking, he heard a person in front of him shouting hoarsely, as if he had phlegm stuck in his throat: "Your Majesty, drink less wine!" "Your Majesty It's time to go to sleep." "Your Majesty, don't read the notebooks."

Hearing the sound, he looked up and saw a snow-white parrot standing in the gold-plated bird cage in front of him. It was a few circles larger than the ones he had seen before, with a cluster of yellow feathers on top of his head, and a goose yellow beak that opened and closed. It was it that was chattering endlessly: "The emperor should go to sleep" "The emperor should drink less wine".I couldn't help laughing: "I'm afraid that this thing is only sent by Lu Ling, and I don't know how to teach auspicious words, so I just blindly persuade me. It's not enough to have people like you around me yelling and persuading me all day long. Added it" Although he said a lot of disgust, he got up unconsciously and stretched out his hand to tease. The parrot was not afraid of strangers at all. Wei Mingqi stretched out his hand to tease it, and it pretended to peck, but it didn't open its mouth. It was very interesting to retreat and advance: "You little thing, can you say anything else?"

"Your Majesty should drink less wine", "Your Majesty should go to sleep", "Your Majesty, don't read booklets"

It seems that Lu Ling only taught a few words, "Leave this for me, and put the rest in storage."

"Yes" Eunuch Xi bent down with a smile, he still knew the emperor's sacred heart well before the battle, otherwise the face drooping to his feet would have been a sight for several days.

Carrying the gift list, she turned around and was about to leave, when she suddenly heard the parrot shout hoarsely behind her: "Beauty Ziqi, come and let my husband love you!"

"..."

"..."

He didn't even dare to turn his head, pretending that he didn't hear, Eunuch Xi bent even deeper, and couldn't help speeding up his pace and ran away with the gift slip in his arms.

Before the battle, Lu Ling won the emperor's heart. For a while, everyone in the court admired this man with the habit of a hooligan. He was able to kill the enemy in the battle, and amuse the parrot later. He is a talent.

"In the future, if this kind of thing happens again, Mr. Lu will also remember to give us some pointers."

"Yeah yeah"

After coming down to court, all the ministers gathered around to compliment Lu Ling first, and then asked Lu Ling for advice. Lu Ling wore court clothes but still had a quack air, with a canine tooth exposed, both good and evil, with a smirk on the corner of his mouth and said: "Good talk and good talk"

After the crowd dispersed, He Youqi came from behind, patted Lu Ling on the shoulder and asked suspiciously: "You are such a fun-loving person, would you give such a good parrot to the emperor? I don't believe it."

"Then what's the matter, give it to the emperor" said the emperor bowed his hands to the main hall, "willing to give up anything"

"Oh..." He Youqi saw his hypocrisy, and said as he pretended to leave, "Then next time I see Ziqi, I'll ask him myself."

"Ai ai ai" Lu Ling hurried forward and grabbed He Youqi's sleeve: "Don't say I gave it away, I said I ate this bird"

"...How can I hide this?"

"Don't worry about it, anyway, if you see him, don't mention it, don't mention it!" Lord Lu who had been enjoining thousands of times mentioned the palace child period, and his determination to kill and kill could be suppressed like a boudoir embroidery, step by step. Turning back to the instructions, you must not leave without mentioning them.

Anyway, until the end, no one understood why Lu Ling gave the bird to Wei Mingqi.

It's just that Huixin, the little girl in the Hou's mansion, knew that when the bird saw Lu Ling, it shouted: You are courting death!Get off!Who made you sleep with me!

There is a new favorite in the palace, the birdcage, the grapple, the food bowl, the jug, and the cover are the best ones, people can’t starve to it when they are hungry, and they serve it like a new ancestor. It's not a plaything, but he is still diligent in the affairs of the court every day. It's just that at night, he will teach the parrot to speak alone in the room. The emperor is a patient person. Eunuch Xi has been with Wei Mingqi, and he has long discovered this advantage. Every night, like coaxing a child, I keep talking to the parrot: "Yaoer looks good" and "Yaoer is sorry". "Your son, don't be angry." "It doesn't look good when you're angry."

After half a month of teaching like this, I finally learned it, but sometimes I confuse "Yao'er looks good" with "I don't look good when I'm angry", and it becomes "Yaoer doesn't look good".Fearing that he would make a mistake, he insisted on procrastinating for another week. After confirming that there would be no mistake, he sent the parrot to the Tianhe Pavilion under the guise of He Youqi.

This parrot seems to recognize people, and it likes Xiao Xin very much. After seeing him, there are no such messy things anymore, and it just keeps shouting: "Yaoer looks good" "Yaoer looks good"

Seeing him stretching his neck and screaming with all his might, a smile finally appeared on his pale face that hadn't smiled for a long time, and the crescent-like eyes from before came back again.

"Thank you Youqi for still thinking about me," Xiao Xin said with a smile teasing the parrot.

"Don't be fooled, as long as you like it" He Youqi replied, his eyes unconsciously glanced behind him.

Behind the rockery outside the gate of the Tianhe Pavilion, the emperor with a five-clawed golden dragon on his chest is like a thief who let the thieves out. smiling face.

"Why don't you give it to him yourself?" When He Youqi came out, he saw that the man's whole body was stiff and tense, his hands were clenched by his sides, and his palms were sweating.

"He is so happy when you give it to him. If I give it to him, he won't be so happy." Can't help but feel lost.

There is a busy person in the Tianhe Pavilion.At least the old servant thinks so, no matter what anyone says, no matter what happens, even when He Youqi and Xiao Xin didn't speak a word when He Youqi came, the parrot shouted loudly: "Yao'er looks good, Yao'er looks good."A few times, He Youqi got angry at him, "Can't I have a word with Yao'er? Can you shut up for a while?"

The parrot turned its head, with a casual attitude of wanting to kill or cut, and shouted at the top of its voice: "You are courting death!" "You are courting death!"

After shouting these few sentences, the funny Yao'er laughed even harder, his eyebrows and eyes were curved into a line, and he couldn't help but clutch his stomach and say, "I didn't teach this sentence."

The person hiding behind the rockery could see it clearly, since Xiao Xin entered the palace, he had never seen him so happy, his pale face seemed to be a little ruddy, his eyebrows were curved like black, his eyes were like smoke, the parrot was right, His youngest son is beautiful.

The weather was fine that day, and it was just the beginning of spring. The weather was neither too hot nor too cold. The breeze was blowing on the face, full of spring, and the scent of flowers wafted from everywhere, neither strong nor weak, everything was just right.Wei Mingqi involuntarily walked to the gate of Tianhe Pavilion, and heard the people inside teasing the parrot, and occasionally a shallow smile, thinking that it was almost time, as if everything was just right, just the right day, just the right smile , Just the parrot's sentence: Yao'er looks good.Maybe try to meet him again.

The laughter stopped abruptly at the moment when Wei Mingqi's foot stepped into the Tianhe Pavilion, the boy who was bending over to tease the parrot immediately returned the corner of his mouth to his original position, stood up and saluted lightly: "Good luck, your majesty"

The embarrassing other leg didn't know whether to step in, and after a pause for a while, he finally said: "Excuse me".

Xiao Xin's face returned to the appearance of Wei Mingqi when he entered the Tianhe Pavilion for the first time, his face covered with frost, his cold eyebrows, and the cold corners of his mouth, no longer resembled the smiling eyebrows and eyes he saw behind the rockery juvenile.

"Yaoer, I saw you smiling at Youqi, and I also saw you smiling at this parrot, why don't you want to smile at me?" asked unwillingly.

Xiao Xin raised his eyes, saw Wei Mingqi who was at a loss, and said lightly: "Is the emperor hiding behind the rockery every day just to see his ministers smile?"

The rockery outside this door is more than ten feet high, and it can hide a seven-foot man, but he can't hide a dazzling dragon robe. From the first day he hid behind the rockery, Xiao Xin has seen through the gaps in the middle of the rockery. From a few holes, I saw a man in golden clothes standing behind the rockery.

Before he had time to explain further, the person in front of him immediately stood up, bowed respectfully and respectfully, and then said: "I obey the order"

Lifting his pale and stiff face, an obscure smile emerged from the corner of his mouth.

This smile is not ugly, but it is very forced, so forced that it pierces into Wei Mingqi's heart like a sharp knife. Walking in front of that person, brushing the eyelids that can be bent like crescent eyebrows with fingertips, he said, "You didn't smile like this before."

With eyes closed, the person in front of him didn't dodge or cater to him, but said lightly: "Now, I can only laugh like this. If the emperor is not satisfied, I will punish my crimes."

The once gentle and jade-like person is now a bit tougher than the murderous and decisive emperor.When He Youqi told these things to He Youqi, He Youqi sighed softly, shook his head and said: "How can he be so stubborn now? He has always been like this, and he has never changed. How many times have I persuaded him back then?" Let him redeem himself and leave early, he clearly knows your thoughts and who you are, but he still wants to look at this bloody person waiting for you in the Spring Wind Building, he just became stubborn today ?"

The breeze blows through the corridor, the afterglow shines on Wei Mingqi's face, and the occasional fragrance of pear blossoms seems to return to the small house in the Chunfeng Building. Even if I have exhausted the world, I want to grab it back. Looking at it now, a few cups of dirty wine, a few ditties, and a few sweet whispers at the sideburns seemed simple, but they surpassed everything now. Sure enough, some people couldn’t. minus……

When he stepped into the Tianhe Pavilion brazenly, Wei Mingqi was already used to seeing Xiao Xin's indifferent face. Apart from the deliberate alienation and politeness in his words, and his face always ignoring him coldly, there was nothing wrong with it. After getting used to it, Wei Mingqi began to drill into the Tianhe Pavilion with a cheeky face. Sometimes Xiao Xin copied the scriptures, and sometimes teased the birds, as if he didn't exist. It’s better to just look at him like this every day if you speak respectfully on purpose. Occasionally, Xiao Xin would secretly raise his eyes to glance at him when drinking tea, and when the other party stared at him, he pretended to lower his eyelids and drink the teacup seriously He thought that the tea cover that could cover half of his face could block his eyes, but Wei Mingqi saw it for real.

Finally one day, Wei Mingqi said: "Yao'er, the previous dynasty has settled down recently, and I want to take a rest, why don't we go to Zecheng for a walk?"

The hand that was copying the scriptures trembled, and the ink on the tip of the pen escaped a dot on the rice paper.I don't know who's distracted, and I don't know who's thoughts are far away. Suddenly, it seems to hear a pipa ditty in the distance, accompanied by the sweet pear blossoms and the wind:

The blue dyed long empty pool is like a mirror, leaning on the building to watch and contemplate.The red lotus root is fragrant and clear.It is like a bed with precious bamboo mats, covered by mountains, and jade zithers.

Thinking about the laughter and laughter in the past, convening to win the sorrowful life.The Boshan furnace is warm and light with light smoke.Cicadas sing and people are quiet, the sun is falling, and the small window is bright.

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