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Mingran nodded, expressing deep agreement.

But Zhong Xu said again: "Hey, Xiaoran, don't keep asking this. Let's talk about singing first. How do you think the first show will be held in your mansion? It just happens to be your coronation ceremony. You The back garden is large, and the pavilions and pavilions were built bright and spacious at that time. The ready-made Liushui Sanfen Hall and Mingyue Qifen Pavilion are cleaned up to form a stage and stands. You...you still have a lot of money..."

Mingran heard the words and got up and was about to leave: "My temple is too small to hold so many gods. You find a place for yourself."

Zhong Xu followed all the way out and hung on Mingran's arm. His voice was sticky and out of tune, and Mingran's teeth ached: "Xiaoran, Xiaoran, please don't go. Uncle is begging you. Speaking of which, the two of us are confused. This play, after singing, your face will still have light, right? Xiaoran, listen to your uncle, if you ignore me again, I... I will hug your thigh. You are an unfilial son who is struck by lightning today. Stop listening!"

Mingran said: "Then let me strike with lightning, strike."

Zhong Xu gave a smile on his face: "Oh, how can you give up that uncle, I'm your real uncle." As soon as he turned his head, he suddenly saw Yu Jinfeng inadvertently, and hurriedly shrank behind Mingran: "Xiaoran, you green bearded man What's the matter with the servant of the eyes? Why do you keep staring at me? You...how did you teach the servants, why didn't you bring your well-behaved and cute A Yan out?"

Mingran said: "Ah Yan made a mistake and got spanked and hurt, so she rested at home."

It took him some effort to get rid of Zhong Xu's entanglement. While walking, he was thinking, and suddenly he heard Yu Jinfeng say from behind: "That Boss Dong is so pitiful, his good days are gone like this. You officials in Yunjing often treat people's lives like this?"

Mingran said: "Why do you call people's lives reckless? Didn't you pay her money? And it was her husband who refused to leave the ancestral house and burned himself to death. What's the matter with the government?"

Yu Jinfeng sneered and said: "You are always justified, but the life of the common people is life, forcing them to commit suicide, causing them to lose their husbands, and just get some money and just send it away?"

Mingran said: "Otherwise, what else can I do? Since you sympathize with her so much, you might as well look down on my Zhuohua, why don't I find a way to marry Boss Dong back to be your wife, and you two can comfort each other for the rest of your life." Wounded heart, okay?"

Yu Jinfeng was blocked by him and couldn't speak, so he could only stare angrily: "You..."

Ming Ran glanced at him: "I planned to ask you to help clean up my back garden. Seeing your righteous indignation, I dare not order you. In case my aunt and cousin come to watch a play in the future, you will rush at me with a knife. If I go up, I will immediately become an eternal sinner for regicide."

Yu Jinfeng held his breath and said, "I don't know how to do it, you treat me like I don't know what's important."

Mingran said: "Well, my birthday is April [-]th, less than a month away from today. It is estimated that I can't do anything in the past ten days, so you can work harder, and the housekeeper In total, I have repaired and decorated several pavilions and pavilions in the back garden. I am very busy, so I have to send invitations everywhere, and I have to go to the palace to invite people in person. My harp... I have been using it to make up for it, but I don’t know my brother-in-law. Is there any?"

He was determined not to make a fool of himself, so he practiced hard with Zhong Xu for half a month, took time to go to the palace to meet the queen mother and the king, and posted posts to various relatives and friends, and asked his cousin Zuo Wenhui for help, asking him to come You must bring the guards to calm down the situation for yourself.Zuo Wenhui attached great importance to this matter and readily agreed.

When the invitation came to his father-in-law Xiao Xiang's country, it was his elder brother Xiao Xuanni who came out to receive him.Xiao Xuanni didn't want to see him. I heard that he often hangs out with Zhong Xu, and I don't want to see him anymore, but she still accepted the invitation with a dark face, and said coldly: "My sister is going too. You have to let her take a peek at you before you can rest assured. , you don't care if she doesn't obey women's morals, do you?"

Mingran said: "How could it be? The girl accompanied the old lady to the theater, which is a manifestation of filial piety, the most gentle, virtuous and considerate, how can it be said that she is not a woman? At that time, I will let my cousin come to accompany her .”

A smile finally appeared on Xiao Xuanni's pitch-black face: "You are smart. I heard that you are good at martial arts. Let's find an opportunity to learn from each other later."

On April [-]th, hundreds of forbidden troops arrived at Yongjianghou's mansion early and guarded it inside and out.Zuo Wenhui brought a group of guards over again, patrolled back and forth for a while, and set up a lot of bright and dark sentries.Mingran also quietly told Yu Jinfeng that among the people my brother-in-law brought were people from Yanhua Academy, there must be a special person to control the movement.He can trust Zhong Xu. Although Zhong Xu likes to play, he will never mess around with this kind of thing, but he has to be on guard.

The Queen Mother happened to be suffering from the cold, and she was not feeling well, so she never came, so the King brought Queen Xie, holding the ten-year-old little prince by the hand.Brightly dyed in dark purple cloud brocade robes, they greeted each other at the main entrance of the mansion, and went all the way to the main hall. After the lord of the country personally gave him the crown ceremony and bestowed his inscription, he went to the back garden to take his seats.

After the arrangement of ups and downs, back and forth, A Jiao quietly called him to the side, and said in a low voice: "Master, other things are fine, but one of the maids brought by the empress seems very inappropriate. Looking around with arrogance, she is not like ordinary court ladies."

The king and the emperor sat on the upper floor of the Liushui Sanfen hall, so Mingran moved over to pour wine for the king.I took the opportunity to look at Queen Xie again.Seeing that this little queen's wife is only sixteen or seventeen years old, she is as beautiful as the smoke cage, the cold water, the moon cage sand, the skin is like snow, the eyes are bright and the teeth are bright, the eyes are moving, and she is born with some natural charm, no wonder she is fascinated by the king. Upside down.

When he came across the inappropriate court lady that Ah Ji was talking about, he peeked a few more times carefully, but his heart skipped a beat, secretly worried, so he toasted the two of them, dealt with it a few more words, and hurried downstairs to find Zuo Wen Hui Hui: "Big cousin, Princess Anxiu disguised herself as the queen's court lady and sneaked in. What should I do?"

Zuo Wenhui said: "Since she has already sneaked in, she can't be kicked out. The old accounts from a few years ago will not be overturned, so don't worry." Looking at Mingran's frowning, he could only comfort her: "That's great. Don't be like this every day. I'll ask Susu to come over and stare at her, and I'll go up to have a look from time to time, so as not to be surprised."

Mingran said: "Then please cousin."

The play over there was about to start, and Zhong Xu asked someone to invite him twice, so Mingran hurried to the Jiaofang Band next to the Mingyue Qifen Pavilion, hugged her konghou, and managed to stabilize her mind.Yu Jinfeng turned into a servant, and squatted beside him with a pedal, pouring tea and monitoring the surrounding movements.The positions of the two of them were chosen by Mingran, but they were not easy to be noticed by others when looking at the overall situation.

Seeing that there were so many visitors, Yu Jinfeng asked, "My lord, who are these people here?"

Mingran said: "Most of them are my relatives, my uncle, my cousins, my second uncle. There are also some other people from the six surnames in Yunjing." He explained all the visitors to him.The six surnames in Yunjing are the Zhong family in Querong Street, the Ming family in Luyao Lane, the Xie family in Zhonggu Lane, the Zhou family in Wangjingshan, the Zuo family in Yinliu Street, and the He family in Yanzilou.Yu Jinfeng looked back and forth, remembered it in his heart, and looked at the various musical instruments of the actors around him. Seeing that Mingran was auditioning the sound with eyelashes hanging down, he couldn't help reaching out and touching the harp, and asked, "How did you learn this thing? It looks weird."

Mingran said: "The children of our six surnames have to learn several musical instruments since they were young, and they are arty. At that time, I didn't like anything else, only this thing..." He pressed his cheek to the purple red bow of the harp After posting it, he said in a warm voice, "Don't you think this looks like a big bow? As soon as I hugged it in my arms, I immediately found its home. I imagined putting the arrow on the string, swish, and it shot out. .”

After this person embraced the harp, his whole body seemed to become much softer, and he was no longer as angry as before.Yu Jinfeng looked at him meaningfully, then suddenly smiled and said, "Look at you, you might still want to hug it to sleep at night."

Mingran said: "Don't tell me, the first time I fought with General Wang Chong, it was the barbarians in the western border. I was so worried that I couldn't sleep at night. Later, I happened to hold a bow and slept soundly. Turn around and disassemble the yew coffin, about a dozen of them can be made, and they will be held in turns. Others have ten girls in the night, and I will use the ten bows in the night."

Yu Jinfeng said in a low voice: "The illness is not serious."

The sound of silk and bamboo interrupted the whispering between the two, and a big drama slowly kicked off. Tang Minghuang played by Zhong Xu made his debut, and as soon as he opened his mouth, Qingyue walked up the beam, which attracted a lot of applause. Voice.The king couldn't believe it: "This is little uncle? Is this really little uncle? This, this, this... this is really..."

Zuo Wenhui happened to be by the king's side, and said with a sullen face, "It is indeed my uncle."

The libretto of "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" was compiled by Zhong Xu himself based on the long poems of the literati in the previous dynasty, with several talented brothels. It was very pleasing.

When a play was performed on Maweipo, Concubine Yang Guifei died, so there was a break in the middle of the play.The female relatives sighed endlessly, the men were full of emotions, and the king was also very excited when he saw it, and sighed: "Beauty is detrimental to the country, and beauty is detrimental to the country." He ordered a heavy reward.He also asked the pen and ink to serve him, and wrote poems to Zhong Xu on the spot.So the servant threw a plate of pearls and jade directly on the stage, Empress Xie saw it, and immediately became interested, and ordered the maids to throw flowers and fresh fruits on the stage.

The tables and chairs set up under the wide corridors on the left and right sides of the Liushui Sanfen Hall are connected to two semi-open flower halls. The female relatives placed in them will naturally help and boo at the first sight. Bracelets and strings of pearls were also smashed one after another, and it was very lively for a while.Zhong Xu was afraid that they would accidentally hit his face, so he ran away with his sleeves covering his head, so he only told the boys to pick up things quickly, and not to miss anything.

Yu Jinfeng shrank behind Mingran, and was dumbfounded when he saw this: "I can't believe that you Yunjing girls are so enlightened, even better than my wilderness."

Mingran smiled and said: "It's nothing. If you continue singing smoothly, the excitement will still come later. There are many daughters of officials' families in the flower hall over there. You might as well take a chance to take a look secretly later. If you fall in love with someone , Come and tell me, I will find a way for you to marry back and be your wife."

Yu Jinfeng said coldly: "The daughter of a decent official, can you take a fancy to me, a low-level military general of unknown origin?"

Mingran said: "With your seat lord here, what are you afraid of?"

Just at this time, Zuo Ru rustled over from the East Flower Hall in a gust of wind: "Cousin, cousin, someone specially asked me to deliver something to you!" Carefully holding a pair of fragrant handkerchiefs, wrapped in a finely carved The small emerald fish with cut holes has a hole in its mouth, and it is pierced by tender green silk ribbons.Zuo Susu got closer and said softly: "As far as I know, this little emerald fish is a couple, you can't let them down."

Mingran picked up the object with two fingers and looked at it for a moment, then solemnly tied it on his left wrist.A large group of women with heavy makeup and light makeup sat in the East Flower Hall, all of them were extremely beautiful. He didn't know who Xiao Feiyue was, so he raised his wrist at the East Flower Hall. Leaning on the harp, her face is full of beauty, and her smile is as gentle and pleasant as a spring breeze.

Yu Jinfeng was hit hard by this smile, and he couldn't help holding his chest and took a step back, but Mingran reprimanded Zuo Susu: "Didn't you be asked to go up to accompany the queen? Why did you sneak down again? Why are you so disobedient?"

Zuo Susu flattened his mouth and acted coquettishly: "Oh, sitting next to the king and queen, I can't see a single female companion, and I dare not laugh harshly, and I dare not speak loudly, but it will suffocate me to death, I don't want to Let's go. Then An Xiu will come if she comes, maybe she just wants to watch a play. She has been married before, I don't believe she can make trouble!"