Force a good concubine

Cui Chengxiu was in a hurry, it was already past Chenzheng when he returned to the palace, according to the usual practice, the emperor’s daily lectures would not end until noon, he rested his energy in the duty room, and after the emperor had lunch, he went into the palace to give an errand: " Back to my lord, the errand I ordered yesterday has been done."

The emperor sat by the desk and read the memorial without raising his head: "She took it? Can you bring something back?"

The tone was very light, as if there was no expectation, Cui Chengxiu hesitated slightly, and then replied in a well-regulated way: "Accepted. There is nothing to say, but—"

"That's the end of this matter." The emperor gave him an indifferent look, "There is no need to mention it any more."

Cui Chengxiu was stunned, Wei Fengchun, the deputy manager who was standing beside him, lowered his head and curled his lips gloatingly - he was also on the imperial errand, didn't he understand what Cui Chengxiu was thinking?This kid doesn't want to be motivated, and he only wants to seduce the young master outside the palace. This time he will be deflated!

It is an open secret in the palace that the chief steward and the two chief stewards of the imperial court grab each other's top jobs. Seeing that Cui Chengxiu retreated in dismay, Wei Fengchun secretly laughed for a long time, and in front of the emperor rejuvenatedly passed a small message: "What can you do overnight?" , Didn’t you use the excuse to go to the outer city? The young master waited in the middle of the night yesterday, and the servants looked at it, it was really—”

The emperor put down the memorial and glanced at him coldly: "Noisy."

The emperor is always happy and angry, such eyes are very rare, Wei Fengchun shuddered, did not dare to say anything, and waited on the emperor to read the memorial for a while, guessing that it was almost time, and said cautiously: "Mr. You haven't had a good rest, do you want to take a rest now?"

The emperor thought for a while and nodded.Wei Fengchun took a few steps to the entrance of the hall, clapped his hands lightly, and several female officials waiting in the corridor entered the hall, and all of them retreated in a short while, and whispered to Wei Fengchun: "There is a purpose, the young master wants to rest in peace. There is no need to keep anyone in the temple."

Wei Fengchun didn't dare to be negligent, kowtowed at the entrance of the hall towards the inside, and said softly: "Your maidservants wait to leave." He got up and led a group of people out of the hall.

There was silence outside, the emperor was lying in the sky tent, his mind was in a mess, he didn't want to think about it, but couldn't help thinking about it over and over again.The most difficult thing in the world to find is regret medicine. From then to now, the emperor has regretted countless times: How could he be so reckless?

Even though that person was polite before, he was always courteous and had a pleasant conversation, but now Cui Chengxiu spent all night trying to get her to accept a bag of tea leaves from him - when he thought of this, the emperor felt as if someone had scratched his heart... One knife: She wants to completely avoid suspicion and alienation from herself. This idea is also right. She is a person with a husband and son-in-law. Seeing that she can marry and have children in a fair manner, she is not a person who is greedy for wealth and honor. , how can you care about a woman who can give her nothing but wealth?

If she can learn from Taizu's behavior, maybe there is still room for redemption, but if she avoids herself like a snake and scorpion, wouldn't there be no hope of redemption at that time?The emperor raised his hand and traced slowly in the void, every stroke seemed to be engraved into his heart, obviously full of these two words in his heart, but now she doesn't want to hear people mention it - "Gu Yan" She was afraid of these two words.

Cui Chengxiu never showed up at Cishou Nunnery again, and Gu Yan and others stayed in the nunnery quietly for seven months.July [-]th is the Ghost Festival, and temples all over the city are doing Yulan basin dojos, which naturally disturbed a few people who couldn't read books. Xu Xi went to Baoguo Temple for a day and came back, counting with Gu Yuan with his fingers The dignitaries who took the wheel to listen to the scriptures suddenly remembered something and said: "I heard that the elders of the young lady of the Lin family have a lot of connections with this temple, but this time they have not come in person."

"There are so many temples in Beijing, and there is more than one family with strong incense? Are people not allowed to go to other places to offer incense?" Li Qing saw that although Gu Yuan was copying the book without raising his head, a drop of ink had already been splashed on the corner of the page, and he glared at Xu Xi , found an excuse, dragged her out of the courtyard and said, "It's fine, why bring this up?"

"Isn't it because of A Yuan?" Xu Xi pursed his lips, "She didn't mention it, but I still can't see it? She copied the collection of contemporary essays, from the Luanyi Department, or from the Chengjue Examination? If you want to comment on the painting circle yourself, the time spent on one book is as good as the previous three or five books. She is so troublesome, who knows if the little lady said something to repay her kindness? Now that the big exam is coming, it is necessary to To repay her kindness, I can't lose my own future, I am determined to seek justice for her, but those monks in Baoguo Temple are slipping like loaches, so they don't open their mouths!"

"A Yuan is not a person who doesn't know the importance." Li Qingdao, "I also asked her, and the tone of her voice didn't seem to be coerced, but as if she had a wish. She has a solid foundation, so she doesn't have to grind her guns like us. It's okay, let her go."

The two were discussing, but they heard a commotion in the direction of the mountain gate far away. After a while, Hui Jing and the presiding officer brought a few big-waisted government servants in soap clothes over with a panicked face, pointed at the two with trembling hands, and said: "These two benefactors It is the person who lives with the benefactor."

Hearing that her trembling voice was different from the past, the two were puzzled. The team leader over there had already taken out the card ticket and signed it out, and smiled at the two of them: "Xiao Ke Li Chen, the Ministry of Punishment is on duty, and we were ordered to take Gu Yuan alone." , if the two young ladies have nothing to do, will they follow along?"

He spoke politely, but the waist saber of the person behind him was half out of his body. Li Qing and Xu Xi looked at each other and agreed.Those yamen servants are all old cases, and the words on this side stabilized the two of them, while the other side has already entered the court.But within a short time, I only heard a few sounds of household items inside, a yamen servant led Gu Yan, and the other two came out with bookcases and other things, handed a piece of paper to Li Chen and said: "This little lady is very honest. I don’t have much luggage, just these few things, I’ll write a list and hand it in when the time comes.”

Xu Xi was not annoyed, and was about to speak, but seeing Gu Yuan winking at her, he shut his mouth too, and waited until the yamen to discuss justice with Gu Xi, but unexpectedly, the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment was very trouble-free, and only sent a clerk to write down two After the confession, the two were politely invited out.The two only thought that it would be as easy for Gu Yuan to get away. They lingered for a long time at the corner gate, and seeing that it was midnight, and Gu Yuan was nowhere to be seen. Dai, went out for a few steps, then looked back at Li Qing and the two of them holding up the lantern, and suddenly raised his voice: "You two, why are you here?"

Li Qing heard the voice sound familiar, and looked at the woman carefully for a while, and suddenly his brows became happy, and he rushed forward to salute: "Mr. Cheng is here, Ah Yuan is saved!"

"Jinke Gu Yuan is here too?" Cheng Su asked in surprise, "What happened?"

Hearing Li and Xu's narration of the story, Cheng Su's eyebrows were also twitched together: "I heard that the gang of water bandits identified a female scholar as hiding the stolen goods, and it has been reported here, but I didn't expect it to be Gu Yuan. Presumably she would never do such a thing, but the behavior of the two young ladies you mentioned is very strange. Nowadays, the world is not good, and many people pretend to be nobles and set up immortal dances. If so, I'm afraid she can't get rid of it I will inquire carefully inside, you two go back to study, don't miss your future." Seeing that the two should not answer, she said with a straight face, "Gu Yan is here to take care of me, and I don't need you for food and clothing. Worry. If she is innocent, she will get out soon and still take the test. You two are not as good as her, and you are so distracted. If you fail, won't you make Gu Yuan feel guilty for the rest of your life?"

She put on airs as a teacher, but the two had no choice but to leave.Cheng Su waited for the two to walk away, pondered for a while, turned around and entered the corner gate, walked along the corridor to the signing room, took the copy of the checklist and read it carefully, carried it in his arms and went to the flower hall to see Xu Zhixuan, the servant of the Ministry of punishment.

"I just met that little lady, she doesn't seem to be a criminal." Xu Zhixuan didn't take it seriously when he heard Cheng Su's intention of coming, and twisted a few beards and said, "At most, it's just that he was young and ignorant and mistakenly handed over to a gangster." Let her stay in prison for a day to teach her a lesson, and let her go back with a few words of admonition tomorrow. How can she get rid of her reputation? Isn't this too harsh?"

"My lord mentioned to me yesterday that His Majesty issued a decree the day before yesterday to ask the cabinet to discuss the Taizu's book of rites, and the cabinet to return the decree. Now there is a lot of trouble, but is it true?"

"Who dares to talk nonsense about such things?" Xu Zhixuan said, "Your Majesty has always been eloquent and courteous. I don't know what kind of villain has been deceived and bewitched, so he suddenly had such an idea. I only hate those people who are in front of the imperial court. , I and a few adults can't find out, otherwise we will join hands and ask the empress dowager to make the decision to eradicate this traitor."

Cheng Su smiled slightly, took out the inspection list and the package of Yangxian tea from his sleeve, and handed them to Xu Zhixuan: "A few days ago, when I was an official, I went to Cishou Temple to offer incense, but I saw a person who looked like an envoy walking in and out. It's strange, so I've been careful. Thinking about it today, I went to check it out. Gu Yan was beautiful, with thin clothes and quilts, but there was tribute tea that just entered Beijing this year in his luggage, and someone gave her alms under the name of Lin Shishi. Incense and silver, let her live in Cishou nunnery—isn’t this right?” She paused, and then said, “To tell you the truth, when I was teaching Wuzhou in the past, I also taught this girl She is a clever talent, but it is a pity that she is young and has bad intentions. In order to enter the child prodigy department, she tried to seduce me and repel me. I heard that she was so ashamed that she dared not go out for several years, but now she has entered Beijing again. I I only thought that this girl changed her mind, but she didn't want to cause such a thing again——if such a person came to the imperial court, what would happen?"