After raising the emperor, he always wanted to marry me

When Gu Xiu returned to the court, all the flowers in Bianjing were in bloom.The warm and humid climate nourishes the young man who has been traveling outside for a year.

Two days before entering the palace, Gu Xiu first asked for an order to visit the Queen Meng at Jinghua Temple in the suburbs of Beijing, and the king readily agreed.

It turned out that King Khan died of illness at the New Year of last year, and his son succeeded King Khan. Princess Qingzhao followed her husband to preside over the overall situation in Monan and did not return from family visits. Queen Meng missed her beloved daughter and suffered from an old illness for a while. Then he started coughing.

Gu Xiu's triumphant return is also a comfort to her.

Gu Xiu took his entourage to visit Queen Meng in Jinghua Temple, and Han Mochu changed into the common clothes of an ordinary family's prince, and rode horses to the small medical clinic named Suhe in the middle of Beijing.

The door face is still as small as ever, but the plaque has been inlaid with gold.In the more than a year since Han Mochu left Beijing, Su Che has become well-known among the rich and noble relatives in Beijing with his medical skills.

Seven or eight days before Han Mochu's return to Beijing, the two exchanged a letter using a carrier pigeon, and it was agreed that Han Mochu would visit the house today.

Han Mochu knocked open the door, and it was not Su Che who greeted the door, but a lame boy of thirteen or fourteen years old. The boy had a blessed face, which looked a bit like a New Year picture.

Su Che in the room was wearing a mysterious Tsing Yi Taoist robe, with a handsome face collapsed like an old fairy, when he saw Han Mochu, he yawned and said indifferently: "Congratulations, Mr. Yi'an, who came back alive."

Han Mochu didn't pay attention to Su Che's expression, and sat down directly opposite him, pointed at the boy with a happy face, and said straight to the point: "Can you talk with outsiders?"

"It's okay, this child is born deaf and dumb." Su Che shook his sleeves and looked like a gentleman, "Besides, my place is a big business now, how can it be done without some errands."

"Okay, then please, Boss Su, give me what I want."

"Han Ziran, are you still human? For more than a year, I have devoted myself to you every day. I eat fast and chant Buddha. If you come back and talk to me a few more words, can you die?"

"Thank you Brother Chang Ru for taking care of me so much, I am very grateful." Han Mochu didn't say too much and said a few more words before reaching out to the person: "Give me what I want."

"Han Ziran, are you so cold?" Su Che's originally handsome and sunny face collapsed in an instant, and he began to chatter like a bitter woman: "I'm so worried about you all the time. If something really happened, and I was not by your side, as a good brother who is seven months and eight days older than you, how can I explain to my husband? If my husband knows that I let you go to the border alone, you must smoke me, and you It's not that I don't know that my husband has been biased since I was a child, your clothes are always new, how about me? It would be nice to pick up your leftovers..."

"That's because you're short." Han Mochu stroked his forehead, and raised an extremely gentle smile: "Chang Ru, do you know that I am now a military officer, and I will be punished if I return late, please feel sorry for me Me, give me what I want."

"If you said that earlier, wouldn't it be over?" Su Che's face has changed four times in less than a quarter of an hour.He lowered his head and found a small package of ready-made medicine from the small cabinet behind him, and handed it to Han Mochu: "You are right, those honorable families do not shy away from doctors, and they will tell the truth no matter what I ask you when I go to see a doctor. I have almost got a handle on the family background of those people who let me watch."

"Thank you Brother Chang Ru." Han Mochu took the small bag and thanked him sincerely.

"Just a dry thank you and that's it? Didn't you say anything?"

"What do you want? Make you new clothes." Han Mochu leaned on the table and looked at the man with his lips curled up.

"Don't move, your complexion is bad, let me give you a pulse."

"Come on, don't think I don't know what you want to do." Han Mochu put the small medicine bag in his sleeve: "Don't you just want to trick me into testing the medicine for you? Do you think I am three years old?"

Han Mochu turned and left, while Su Che was sure that the man would not turn his head back, then jumped up and roared: "Han Ziran, you don't know what's good or bad! Kindness is like a donkey's liver and lungs! I won't care about you when you turn around and die of illness! I absolutely don't care!"

Two days later, Gu Xiu and Han Mochu took off their armor, put on new court clothes, and stepped into the palace wall of the imperial city again under the morning sun.

Just as the two of them passed through the Yimen Gate, a young man in a vermilion costume threw off the servant behind him and rushed towards the two of them.

"Seventh brother!!!! I miss you so much!!!" Gu You flew towards Gu Xiu all the way, hanging on Gu Xiu's body like a big meat ball: "Seventh brother, do you know Knowing that you have been away for more than a year, I was locked up by my father in the sixth department. When I returned to the military department and saw your military newspaper, I was so scared that my palms were sweating. It’s okay, your arms and legs are still there, and your head is attached to your neck. .”

"I know, but there are people coming and going here." Gu Xiu's indifferent face showed helplessness, he stood there and let someone hang on his body: "Can you... come down first."

Gu You raised his head and looked around, then looked at Han Mochu who was behind Gu Xiu with a smile on his face, and immediately got down from Gu Xiu's body, bowing his eyebrows at Han Mochu and nodding: "I've seen Master Han, don't you... Joining the army...Thank you this time for protecting my seventh brother."

"Your Highness Sixth, you are too serious."

Han Mochu smiled and looked at Gu You, who was also getting older. Gu You, who was over 16 years old, finally lost the baby fat on his face, and he looked a little more adult.

Gu You didn't care whether it was the day when foreign officials went to court, and hooked Gu Xiu's shoulders very affectionately: "After a while, go to your palace to have a look, the place I chose for you, the furniture and furnishings They were all set up by my concubine, the eldest sister knew you were crowned king, and sent people back to Beijing to help you add a lot of things."

"So, thank you Sixth Brother, and thank you, Empress Li."

"Little wolf, you know I'm your sixth brother and still meet with me? Didn't the concubine mother tell you that? We are brothers." Gu You patted Gu Xiu's shoulder heavily and said earnestly: "You Sixth brother, I have no future, and I have to wait for two years to get married before I can seal the royal palace. You need to help me keep an eye on the house next door to yours. I will buy it later, and we two brothers will live in the next wall, how about it? "

Gu Xiu glanced at Han Mochu intentionally or unintentionally, and replied softly, "Okay."

A good word made Gu You so happy that there was no need for it, and he hooked Gu Xiu's neck happily: "Then it's a deal, you can't go back on your word!"

After a routine court meeting for awarding rewards, Han Mochu took a rough look at the current situation in the court.

Right now, the third prince, Gu Shen, and the fourth prince, Gu Yan, have both married and become kings.Gu Shen married King Duan and the youngest daughter of the Duke of Liang, Gao, and Gu Yan married the eldest daughter of the Duke of Lu, Zhang.

In order to test the power of the cronies around the two, King Gu Hong specially chose the two weddings on the same day.The result is obvious, Gu Yan's wedding was full of guests, while Gu Shen's wedding was attended by only a few aides from the province and the province, except for his mother's family and the relatives of Liang Guogong's family.

The officials of the DPRK and China have changed since the imperial examination, especially the ranks of civil officials, which are roughly divided into two camps.

One is a poor family of nobles headed by Zhuo Yi, the top scholar in the previous department, and the aristocratic family headed by Meng Changjin, the top scholar in the new department.

Zhuo Ying, the number one scholar in the criminal record, was a well-known and outstanding talent.Although he was born in a Nongsang family, he was the top student in high school at the age of 17.At that time, he was edited by the Imperial Academy from the fifth grade.

Meng Changjin, the number one scholar in the new division, is a relative of Queen Meng's family, and has a good background.Twenty-eight this year, he was awarded a fourth-rank official title at the Qionglin Banquet that year, and went to the Ministry of Officials.

In contrast to the two compartments, the air outlet in the direction of the center is immediately wrong.Some people even said that the fame of this new champion was mixed with water, and he became the champion by relying on his family.

Gradually, the two groups of people began to fight and formed factions.

The date of Gu Xiu's housewarming was set on the sixth day of May, a day of auspicious zodiac.

Before that, Gu Xiu and Han Mochu had been living in the barracks in the suburbs of Beijing. The 16-year-old Gu Xiu was still not used to taking care of these things. The heavy responsibility of communication and entertainment.

The first is the wedding gift for the two imperial brothers, Gu Shen and Gu Yan. Han Mo chose two pairs of identical gold-plated mandarin duck vases.

Immediately afterwards were those courtiers who came to curry favor after seeing Gu Xiu's upstart. Han Mochu set up a row of small stoves in the uninhabited palace courtyard every day, boiled water and cooked tea every day, and those who came to give gifts drank a cup of tea. , The gift is returned to the other party intact.

After being so busy, on the sixth day of May, the housewarming ceremony was also very simple.Only Gu Xiu and Han Mochu, with their entourage in the army, pulled over Gu Xiu's collection of books in Guiyun Palace, together with the young eunuch Baode, and beat a three-way drum in front of the door to indicate that someone had already moved into the house.

The Zhanwang Mansion located in Zhuquefang in the middle of Beijing is as empty as Gu Xiu's Guiyun Palace, because Gu Xiu distributed all the military rewards to the families of the soldiers who died in battle.All those ornate furnishings were put away for a rainy day.On the grounds that his family was poor and difficult to support the servants in the palace, he declined the commissioner of the inner government and all his servants, and only took Baode with him.

In the entire mansion, there are only twelve young men like Baode who Han Mochu bought at the Renren Market, who are more or less silly and stupid. They are all dead contracts. Need not.

When everything is settled properly, Gu Xiu and Han Mochu will settle down to do a big thing.

Among the more than 2000 soldiers killed in battle, some were the only sons in their families, and some had widows and young children who were the pillars of the family. Among these people who died in battle, there were more than 230 people living in Beijing.

In order to appease the morale of the army, Gu Xiu will personally visit the door and deliver the ashes or clothes, silver and land deeds of these soldiers to their families within one month.

Han Mochu first went to Jing Zhaoyin Mansion to ask for the household registration records of these people. After the daily court meeting, he and Gu Xiu rode side by side on horses, looking for those Wang Jun who died in battle in the small villages on the outskirts of Beijing. Soldiers.

That day, it was raining lightly, and the sky was cloudy and hot.

Gu Xiu was riding on the horse, looking at the half-collapsed village boundary stone, he couldn't help frowning: "Master, is this Liuye Village?"

"Looking at the location of the terrain, it should be here." Han Mochu confirmed by comparing the map in his hand.

It was an extremely desolate small village with only about forty families.Because of the rainy weather, few pedestrians passed by on the muddy path.

The two had no choice but to get off their horses and open Chai Fei on the side of the road to ask for directions. After asking two or three houses in succession, they found out the house of the little Wang Jun named Wang Yu.Wang Yu was a recruit back then, one year older than Gu Xiu.My father also died in battle five years ago, and there is only a widowed mother at home.

Han Mochu followed Gu Xiu with an umbrella, stood in front of the half-collapsed hut and gently knocked on the door outside the house: "Madam Wang, are you at home?"

After shouting a few words in succession, a middle-aged woman in a thorn hairpin cloth skirt ran out in the rain, rubbing her rough hands: "Yes, is it Yuer? Is there any news? Their king and army are back. Why don't you see him coming home?"

Mrs. Wang greeted her out the door, and when she saw the noble appearance of the two people standing outside the door, she was at a loss for a while: "You...you two are..."

"Madam Wang, this is His Royal Highness Zhan Wang, the chief general of your eldest son Wang Yu's army."

"So...it was His Royal Highness Zhan Wang... Madam, I'm really rude." The woman in the remote area had never seen a person with such a status, and stood at a loss for a while: "Dare to ask?" Your Highness Zhan Wang, but what kind of national law has my Yuer violated?"

"No." Gu Xiu held the urn of ashes wrapped in red cloth and a bag of silver in his arms, and presented them to the woman with both hands: "Madam Wang, please express your condolences. Wang Yu died before joining the army. .”

Wang took the small jar wrapped in red cloth with absent-minded eyes, and the warm tears rolled down uncontrollably. In fact, she had expected it a long time ago, but she just didn't want to believe it and didn't want to believe it until now. Holding the ashes of his son.

"I am the general in this expedition, and Wang Yu's death in battle is due to my dereliction of duty. Madam, please rest assured, this king will take care of you instead of Wang Yu." Gu Xiu said and handed the silver in his hand to the woman.

The woman took the silver with trembling hands, stood in the rain and finally couldn't help crying. Seeing this, Gu Xiu and Han Mochu bowed to the woman again, turned and left.

Before they reached the entrance of the village with their horses, they heard the voice of the woman chasing behind them: "His Royal Highness Zhanwang, please wait, please wait!"

Hearing this, the two stopped and waited for the woman to catch up.

"Ma'am, what can you do?" Gu Xiu asked.

"Your Highness, these are the clothes that the woman made for Yu'er." With a trembling voice, Wang shoved the coarse cloth bag into Gu Xiu's arms: "The woman sees you...you are the same age and stature as Yu'er." So... please don't feel bad..."

Gu Xiu took the cloth bag with both hands, helped the woman who was almost kneeling on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "Thank you Madam for your kindness, the king will definitely take good care of this cloth."

"Poor, poor child." Wang Shi stretched out her rough fingers and touched Gu Xiu's cheek in a daze: "You have to carry such a heavy knife and gun at such a young age..."

"Mrs. Wang? You are..." Gu Xiu didn't know what to do while holding the woman's arm.

Wang Shi suddenly woke up, pushed Gu Xiu away and ran away without a trace.

On the way back that day, Gu Xiu's face was very heavy, and he kept holding the old cloth bag in his hand.

"Your Highness, are you moved by Wang Shi today?"

"Yes and no." Gu Xiu sighed on his horseback: "If it wasn't for the map, I really can't believe that this place is actually under the city of Bianjing."

"Yes, it is said that the Yongxi Dynasty was a rare prosperous age in ancient times. Who knew there was such a place under this prosperous age?"

"Only high-ranking officials and aristocrats live well. What kind of prosperous age is this?"