Chronicle of Emperor Jing

On this day, after having dinner with the family, the father and son returned to Yongning Hou Mansion.

Wei Yan took his son's hand and sent him all the way into the inner courtyard. He looked around for a while, as if he had something to say, but he didn't seem to know how to say it.

"Father!" Wei Minwen saw him walking up and down in the inner room, looking at this side and touching there, but he never spoke, and said helplessly, "Father, please speak up if you have something to say, my son, listen up." .”

Wei Yan motioned for all the people serving his son to retreat, then sat down, let his son sit down beside him, pondered for a while, and then said: "Minwen, there are some things that are not what you think, Your Majesty he Treat me...excellent."

Wei Yan finally realized belatedly that his son might have seen something he shouldn't have seen that day, so he thought of explaining it to his son.

Of course, these things made him open up, and he couldn't explain clearly, so he could only say so vaguely.

Hehe, treat your father very well?

Wei Minwen sneered several times in his heart.

Maybe, he recalled that day in the carriage, the emperor looked at his father's indulgent eyes, and the emperor's willingness to be with his father who was often absent was probably considered sincere.

After all, if the emperor just wanted to play around and have fun, he might not be able to stand his father's personality that could disappoint people anytime and anywhere.Since the emperor was able to get along happily with a person like his father who was uninterested, spoiled, and more serious, there was really no other explanation except sincerity.

However, even if the emperor treats his father well, it doesn't mean that the emperor treats him well!

He would come up with such an idea to entertain his emperor, Wei Minwen didn't think the emperor would have much kindness towards him.

Of course, he couldn't tell his father directly about these things.

His father, unless the evidence is solid and irrefutable, he doesn't like to speculate on other people's intentions with malice in advance, and he will not allow him to slander the emperor with evil words, so Wei Minwen doesn't bother. In order not to let himself become a villain who loves to speak ill of others in front of his father, he started attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son.

He could guess what the emperor said to persuade his father. He must have come up with all kinds of great principles to make his father's heart move. Now, he doesn't bother to say other things, so he uses the same great principles to talk about his father's betrayal. Bar.

"Father, my child knows that His Majesty treats father very well, and His Majesty treats the child very well." Wei Minwen still has to admit this, without the emperor's noble hand, he could not have escaped that disaster, "But, it is because of His Majesty's treatment." I waited so well, we should stand on His Majesty's standpoint and think carefully about His Majesty."

"Father, what kind of person is Tang Xueshi? My father must know a little bit about him in the officialdom. How can a person like him easily accept apprentices, let alone accept a dude like a child. If His Majesty wants to achieve his goal, it is inevitable." You have to lower your face and beg Xueshi Tang to accept the child."

"Father, if Xueshi Tang is a knowledgeable and interesting person, His Majesty only needs to save face once, and it will probably be a success, but is he such a person? A person like him is proud of not being afraid of the powerful, even if he is His majesty's request, I'm afraid he will have to refuse again and again, so that he can show his character as a literati."

"Father, His Majesty has such an honorable status, do you have the heart to let him put down his figure many times and suffer this kind of humiliation repeatedly for such a trivial matter?"

Wei Minwen advanced layer by layer, his tone became more and more painful, and finally his father's complexion changed drastically.

"Forget it, I was wrong about this matter, and I really shouldn't embarrass Your Majesty so much."

At this point, Wei Yan finally let the matter go.

However, the son is so sensible, so smart, and considers the elders and the emperor so much. While Wei Yan is proud of him, he can't help but feel a little more pity for him, thinking that he will spend more time in the future. To accompany him, and tomorrow is the last day of the winter holiday, so this night, he stayed in the mansion and did not enter the palace.

After he left the palace, Jing Li waited for him to return to the palace, but he didn't wait that night, and he still didn't wait the next day, so his expression turned ugly.

"Your Majesty, why don't I send someone to the Yongning Hou's Mansion?" Gao Yong looked at his face and suggested in a low voice.

"Bring a box of Hubi and give it to Marquis Yongning as a reward." Jing Li hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

"Yes."

Gao Yong naturally understood what the emperor meant, but it was just to ask the servants to find out when the Marquis of Yongning would return to the palace in the name of a reward.

He sent someone to go to the storeroom to fetch a box of high-quality Hu pens, and picked out a smart servant, and after a few careful instructions, he sent him to the Yongning Hou Mansion to present the reward.

Probably when the sun was about to move to mid-heaven, the servant returned to the palace, but what he brought was news that displeased the emperor.

"Director Gao, Master Hou is not in the mansion. He took his son to go fishing in Tianshui Lake." The servant ran so fast that he was sweating profusely.

"Idiot, why didn't you chase after Tianshui Lake?" Gao Yong hated iron for being weak, and couldn't help scolding him.

Could it be that this kid's usual cleverness is all pretending that he can't do such a small thing well?

The emperor didn't really ask him to present the rewards. The Marquis of Yongning is not in the mansion, so just chase him out. After seeing the Marquis of Yongning, he can go back to the palace and report to the emperor when he has confirmed news. Now that the rightful lord hasn't seen him, what's the use of coming back? ?

"Director Gao, the little one went to Tianshui Lake, but Master Hou is not in Tianshui Lake either. He has gone out of the city. The little one can't go out of the city, so he has to come back first." Said with an aggrieved face.

Without the emperor's order, a servant of his status cannot leave the city. If he goes out of the city at will and meets a stunned magistrate, seriously, he might be killed on the spot.

"Idiot, why can't you go out of the city? Don't you have the emperor's life?" Gao Yong was even more disgusted when he heard this.

The emperor wants to know the news about Marquis Yongning. This is the emperor's order. How stupid is this kid to think that he has no emperor's order?

"Director Gao, the younger one doesn't dare. However, the younger one went back to Yongning Hou Mansion and got a piece of news from the big housekeeper Wei Lai." The servant smiled and pretended to be closed.

"Is it itchy, don't tell me!"

"Yes yes yes, Director Gao, please don't worry. Butler Wei said that the Marquis of Yongning had received the news that Qi Yuan Heng Qi Da Layman had entered Beijing, and took his son out of the city to meet Qi Da Layman."

"Qi Yuanheng, why did he enter Beijing?" Jing Li was a little puzzled when he received the news.

Qi Yuanheng has been living in the south for these years, and has not returned to the capital for several years.

He suddenly entered Beijing before the New Year's Eve, probably because he had something to do, otherwise there is no need to be in a hurry, after all, it is inconvenient to travel in winter, if there is no urgent matter, it will be more convenient and comfortable to travel until next spring.

Jing Li did some calculations with his fingers, and felt that Qi Yuanheng didn't come to Beijing at this time to help Wei Yan with his ideas, but this person is always a trouble, if Wei Yan has any troubles, Qi Yuanheng will definitely not sit idly by.

This person is probably troublesome to him and outsiders.

In this way, whether this matter is good or bad, he was not sure for a while.

When Jing Li was worrying about this matter in the palace, Wei Yan had already rushed to the pier outside the city with Wei Minwen and his family.

There are several docks where passenger ships berth in Beijing. Official ships usually dock closer to the capital, while ordinary passenger ships and merchant ships are a little farther away.

This wharf is about ten miles away from the capital city, and it is considered a relatively busy wharf because there are merchants passing by from south to north.

When they arrived at the pier, Wei Yan sent his capable family members to guard the pier, while he took Minwen and others to find a nearby teahouse and went in to drink tea and avoid the wind.

"Father, Uncle Qi came to Beijing suddenly this time. I'm afraid the house in the capital is not ready, is it?" Wei Minwen has heard of Qi Yuanheng's great reputation even if he is far away in Jingzhou.

For such a celebrity, and a celebrity like a wild crane, he has fewer scruples and is quite close to him.

"It's natural. Your Uncle Qi's house hasn't been refurbished for several years. How can you live there? This time, you will live in our house. You can also get closer to Uncle Qi's father in the future." Wei Yan brought so many people to greet him. With this purpose in mind.

Even if brother Qi has other friends to pick him up, they can grab it by robbing him.

"Father, you don't want your child to be a teacher again, do you?" Wei Minwen looked at him suspiciously.

"My father has already figured this out. Your words are very reasonable, so let's do what you want." Wei Yan quickly shook his head and denied it.

He really figured this out, he had actually made the emperor very difficult in many matters.

The emperor didn't think it was difficult because he trusted him and loved him, but he should think about it for the emperor. There is nothing wrong with Minwen being a dandy.

Once Wei Yan has figured out the reason behind it, he will not worry about it anymore. This matter with him is over.

He was so clean and neat, he put this matter aside, Wei Minwen was not used to it.

"Then, where is the capital?" Wei Minwen's capital, of course, refers to the emperor.

If the emperor's trick failed this time, he might not be willing to let it go so easily. I'm afraid there will be other tricks.

"Over there in Jingli, don't worry, I can handle it for my father." Wei Yan felt that whether it was Minwen or himself, they were all thinking about the emperor. He accepted the matter in a big way, and didn't feel any embarrassment at all.

Seeing that his father was so confident and had some things to say, Wei Minwen didn't say much.

If the emperor made an order directly, he would definitely not be able to refuse it. Since the emperor did not do so at the beginning, now that his father wanted to understand these principles, even if the emperor wanted to make an order, it would be too late.

After all, even if you are an emperor, you have to be reasonable. Besides, even if the emperor doesn't want to lose face, his father now upholds this principle, and he can't fault it no matter where he goes. If he believes in the emperor, even if he vomits blood in his heart, he will not be ashamed. I also have to praise it.Thinking of this, Wei Minwen felt very happy.

They drank tea for a while in the teahouse, and discussed some things about where to live and how to arrange for the waiters after picking up Layman Qi Da, and then they heard the family members come to report in a hurry:

"Lord Hou, Layman Qi's boat has docked."