Dingjiangshan

The two monarchs and ministers under the golden seat on the high platform walked back and forth as if there was no one else around, and they didn't pay attention to the officials in the hall.

Shu Qinghui clenched his hands tightly in his cuffs, and went through thousands of thoughts in his mind, and couldn't figure out why the young emperor dragged the national teacher here today.

Shu Qinghui couldn't believe it on his knees if it was a "bet".As a courtier, if you can't see clearly whether His Majesty is happy or unhappy, you won't be able to stand in this palace.

He pondered hard in his heart for a while, and found that the borders are peaceful recently, the court is stable, officials and military generals have nothing to dislike each other, and there are no major disturbances in the capital, and Ning Yan's Longevity Day will be in a month's time. No matter how you think about it, you always look like the sea is clear and the world is peaceful.After much deliberation, Shu Qinghui couldn't figure out what went wrong that made His Majesty unhappy.

While Shu Qinghui was thinking in his heart, he turned his head subconsciously and looked at Xing Shuo, the Minister of Dali Temple beside him, trying to find some comfort from his colleagues.

It's a pity that his colleague was an honest man, he looked at his nose, nose and heart without squinting, he stood like an old monk in meditation, and he didn't even look at the national teacher for a while.

It's just that Shu Qinghui didn't know that his seemingly calm colleague was also beating drums in his heart.

Unlike new ministers like Shu Qinghui, Xing Shuo has been an official for a long time. He also came from the former emperor's business back then, and he can be an old minister no matter how bad he is in front of Ning Yan.But as Ning Yan got older, even Xing Shuo couldn't say whether he could pinpoint the pulse of the other party just like that.

Although their majesty is young, he is not easy to fool.

Xing Shuo has always kept a low profile in Beijing, he only pretended to be a three-acre land of Dali Temple in his eyes, and he rarely pointed fingers at Ning Yan like other veterans because of his seniority, so he didn't talk to Ning Yan this time, just stood with his head down In the queue, try to minimize your presence.

Ning Yan's eyes swept across the officials without any trace, and fell on Shu Qinghui's face, and then spread the paper in his hand on the case in front of him.

"The night before yesterday, the Hui Liang Piao shop in the capital received goods from two carriages, one of which was loaded with gold and silver, and the other was hung with silk curtains and silk cloth. It didn't look like ordinary goods." Ning Yan said: "There is a bodyguard seal engraved on the upper right corner of the carriage, as if it belongs to... a well-known bodyguard agency at the end of Pingyang Mansion."

In the third row of the queue, the person standing on the right thought that the middle-aged man froze suddenly, and subconsciously wanted to look up at Ning Yan's expression, but lowered his head even more deeply.

Some of the officials were confused, but Zhao Hongsheng understood it all at once.The carriage that Ning Yan said went to Hui Liangpiao was from his hometown in Pingyang, and his little niece from his hometown was sitting in the second carriage. He had just arrived in the capital the night before yesterday, and was connected to the first carriage yesterday morning. "filial piety" entered the gate of his house together.

Logically speaking, every family has such trivial things as sending filial piety from one's own family, and it is really unlikely that Ning Yan will fall in love with them.Zhao Hongsheng was dripping with cold sweat, wondering what Ning Yan meant by bringing this matter up alone.

"Isn't this a coincidence?" Jing Zhan folded and folded the memorial in his hand, glanced at it, and said firmly: "Yesterday, I just happened to go shopping in the street and accidentally bumped into the official. The official wife of Minister Li's family was crying and complaining to the maid at the gate of Dexiang Tower to complain about Master Li."

What nonsense, Li Qingyun cursed in his heart.

Who doesn't know that the master of the national teacher does not leave the gate all day long, as long as the left prime minister is not in the capital, he doesn't even go out of the palace, and stays in the palace of the national teacher all day long, where did he come from? "Accidentally ran into".

What's more, his wife has been having a fight with him these days, and the door has been closed for several days, how could she go to Dexiang Building to buy jewelry.

Li Qingyun was about to step forward to refute him, when he heard Jing Zhan continue: "It is said that Mrs. Li's concubine has been ignoring her as the mistress more and more in the past few days. I brought in a few bolts of new satin, but I didn't take them to the mistress's room to pick them out first."

Li Qingyun's leaning movement stopped suddenly, and he didn't dare to take half a step outside.

He didn't understand how Jing Zhan knew about this.

The noble concubine of his family has become a little bit arrogant these few days because of her daughter, and she has given the main house some anger overtly and secretly.Although spoiling concubines and destroying wives is not a glorious thing, but...how did Jing Zhan know about these things in his backyard.

What's more, what's more, those satins were not for his concubine, but——

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Li Qingyun's back, he raised his head cautiously, and looked at Jing Zhan through the cover of the person in front of him.

Jing Zhan held the tea bowl and lowered his head to take a sip of hot tea.The unfolded memorial was spread out on Jing Zhan's lap, and it was densely written with words. It seemed that it was not just about Li Qingyun's family.

Li Qingyun was full of doubts, and the faces of the other adults who were not named were not very good, especially Shu Qinghui who stood at the top.

Ning Yan and Jing Zhan sang together, picked out Zhao Hongsheng first, and then brought Li Qingyun with him. In just one round, the important officials standing in the front row of the hall felt like a mirror.

Zhao Hongsheng's little niece found out why Baba came from his hometown, and why did the noble concubine dare to show embarrassment to the royal family with the presence of her daughter.

——It is simply because the emperor will be sixteen in a month, and those who can pull out their daughters in the family are always active, thinking that this harem has been idle for many years, and no matter what, it is time to enter.

Since ancient times, most of the first wave of drafts after the new emperor's ascension to the throne were proposed by courtiers first, and then dismissed by His Majesty with half-true reasons. The courtiers repeatedly asked for land, and the emperor followed suit.

Logically speaking, this has always been done in the past, but the courtiers unexpectedly encountered such a real nail who did not eat fireworks.In the past two years, the courtiers mentioned this matter several times, but Ning Yan shirked it by saying that "the funeral period of the first emperor has not passed", "he is still young" and "should focus on political affairs".

Fortunately, Ning Yan was still young, and no one cared too much about it in the first few years. Little Titi found out that he didn't want to, so it was fine, and he couldn't accept the imperial concubine according to his teenage majesty.

But seeing that Ning Yan was about to turn sixteen, others could take it easy, but Shu Qinghui couldn't.

His family still has a "Queen" who was personally ordered by the late emperor!

Before the late emperor died, he once said that he would point out the little granddaughter of Shu Chuan, the right minister at that time, to Ning Yan to be the queen. Who knows that this majesty is not interested in matters between men and women. He has been in power for several years. There is no shadow.

After Shu Chuan died of illness a few years ago, only Shu Qinghui from the Shu family relied on his father's shadow to get into Yushi Zhongcheng, other than that, there were no important ministers.The emperor's heart is unpredictable, Shu Qinghui is in charge of such a large family, and he has to think about the future of the family, so it is inevitable that he is a little anxious.

In addition, Ning Yan looked to be sixteen, and there were not a few civil and military families in the Manchu Dynasty who had daughters, and there were not a few who were eager to stare at the three-acre land behind Ning Yan.So last month, Shu Qinghui tacitly mentioned this matter with several other colleagues. At that time, Ning Yan didn't say yes or no, and didn't expect to wait for them here.

Ning Yan remained calm, but suddenly caught them off guard.

Now Shu Qinghui can also see that the two early birds that Ning Yan picked out seem to be harmless, but they are actually beating him to save face.

What Shu Qinghui can figure out, other people may not be able to figure it out. At this point, no matter how dull he is, he will realize that Ning Yan is not in a good mood today, and he is trying to make a difference.

At this time, the faces of the several adults who had mentioned this matter before were not very good-looking, for fear that Ning Yan would shake off something after the next sentence.Although these trivial matters are not considered sins, it is embarrassing to talk about them in public.

Everyone is in the officialdom, an old face is still needed.

After listening to Jing Zhan's words, Ning Yan on the dragon chair flicked the paper in his hand and said, "Then let me take a look..."

"Your Majesty." Shu Qinghui knew very well the way to be an official, so of course he had to take the initiative to eat this beating, so he stepped out of the line, reluctantly smiled and bowed, and said: "Although it is common to compete for favor in the backyard, since it disturbs Your Majesty's An Ning, it is inevitable that Master Li will be guilty of ignorance, if His Majesty punishes him with a month's salary, it will also make Master Li a long memory."

Hearing this, Ning Yan raised his eyes, looked at him with a half-smile, and then withdrew his gaze. He scanned all the names on the paper with little interest, and then turned the paper over and put it on the table, as if he was not interested in continuing to read. up.

"Alright." Ning Yan said.

When he did this, Jing Zhan also accepted it tacitly. He put together the memorial in his hand and threw it on the coffee table, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip: "Then this time it will be considered a tie with Your Majesty, I know Yes, it’s all in this booklet, Your Majesty will take it back and make it a bedtime reading, read it for fun.”

As soon as Jing Zhan finished speaking, a long-eyed waiter hurriedly brought over an empty tray, and presented the two memorials to Ning Yan.

Ning Yan took the two memorials and caressed them. He stared at the courtiers below with no expression on his face. After a while, he burst out laughing suddenly: "My lords, why are you so quiet today? I was joking with Ah Zhan, and I was so frightened." You are mine, aren't you?"

"This morning, I haven't done the business yet." Ning Yan's tone sounded very friendly, no different from every day in the past, with a little smile in his words: "The national teacher is still young, so it is inevitable that he loves to play. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a joke."

The eunuch behind Ning Yan saw that he had let go of this, and shouted with a wink, "There is a book to play, and I will leave the court without incident."

"I have my own play." Jing Zhan said as he put down his teacup, and the bowl and saucer collided with the mahogany tabletop, making a clicking sound.The few ministers who were already worried didn't dare to breathe, for fear that he would do something demonic again.

"Oh?" Ning Yan raised his eyebrows: "What's the matter?"

"I also want to go to Kunlun to celebrate the New Year." Jing Zhan said very sincerely: "It's still too late to go now."

"A Zhan." Ning Yan bent his eyes: "The New Year's Eve ceremony has to be presided over by the national teacher, so you should give up."

As Ning Yan said, he looked up and glanced at the group of officials in the palace. Those men in official uniforms either lowered their eyebrows or lowered their eyes, or were panicked. It's not the same group that is fighting for the draft.

"Then I have something to say." Ning Yan leaned to the side, lazily leaning on the armrest: "A while ago, the lovers mentioned the wedding and the draft, and I thought about it when I went back. But again It will be the end of the new year in two months, there is no good day, and I am also young, so I don’t care about the period of one month and two months, so it’s okay to discuss it later... Before that, if the Ministry of Rites thinks it’s too much to just prepare for the Longevity Festival If you are free, why don't you go back and think about the etiquette of next year's spring plowing, and discuss it when you have time."

Shang Shu of the Ministry of Rites dared to say no, so he quickly agreed.