Song Gexing

Chapter 252 Liang Luoyao’s idea
Zhao Zhen watched the conversation between his son and Yan Jidao, and wanted to remind them to be careful several times, but then he thought about it and let it go.

Gradually, he began to envy his son. No one could learn to get along with a king and his ministers like this, and it was impossible for anyone to do it again.

Although he is famous for his kindness, he has no close friends. An emperor has no friends. This is a boundary that no one dares to cross.

But the son obviously did it, the way the king, ministers and friends switched harmoniously, and the loyalty of these people to the son will only become stronger because of this.

If you look at Zhejizu, you will know that in a vassal town like Zhejia, it would not work for me to give up military power just because of a word from my own son.

There was also a party in the harem at this time, and the female relatives gathered together. As Yan Jidao's Linjiang Immortal Passage came in, Han Xue smiled and said: "Shu Yuan is so talented! This poem is different from Su Zizhan's. It's worthy of the praise. He is the son of Prime Minister Yan."

Everyone nodded in agreement. Indeed, this poem was so well written that even in later generations, it was also rated as the pinnacle of graceful poems.

Queen Meng Xin covered her mouth and said happily: "No wonder the officials are looking for those singers like Xiao Ping. That's why they are here."

Song Yinzhang chuckled and said, "I know about this. Xiao Yan liked her at first, but he was worried that his wife would not agree. He gave up after struggling a few times. He just happened to be released from Beijing, and there was no contact with him again."

Li Yuhu nodded and agreed: "That's right. Xiao Yan was having fun back then and was looking sad every day. I didn't know that our official family had long been silently thinking about him. No, when the businessman named Shen died last month, I sent someone to buy the four singing girls. When he came back, he couldn't find anyone, and I heard he was in despair, but the officials didn't tell him, it was too bad."

The girls laughed one after another, and then complained wildly that Zhao Fang was unkind, especially his two precious sisters, who spoke ill of their brother without any worry.

Han Xue said with a smile: "Wan'er and Rou'er dare to speak ill of your brother. You have forgotten about being spanked when you were a child. Are you going to get spanked again? My sister-in-law won't help you this time."

Zhao Huirou immediately said coquettishly: "What a good sister-in-law! I hate my eldest brother the most, but my sister-in-law is better."

Eldest sister Zhao Huisi spat: "You're still acting like a mother, if the second brother sees his sister like this, will he be afraid of you from now on?"

"He dares!"

Zhao Huirou suddenly showed her domineering attitude, and snorted with her little nose pointed in the sky: "He has rebelled against God. He dares to show off in front of me. See if I can't beat his ass. The eldest brother said, beat the younger brother as early as possible."

Fortunately, Zhao Xin was not here, otherwise he would have had his ears pulled by this domineering sister. Since he was a child, he felt that this was not his biological sister, but Zhao Huiwan.

Although the two sisters are equally domineering, Zhao Huiwan rarely takes action and occasionally pinches her as punishment.

Let's say that after the banquet was over, these two excellent poems were spread all over the city. Yan Jidao, who returned home, met his wife's eyes, and couldn't help lowering his head pardoningly.

My wife's soft voice came to my ears: "Is it hard for the official these years? The Nu family didn't know that the official has this confidante. It's all because the Nu family doesn't care about the official."

Yan Jidao was stunned and even more embarrassed. He thought his wife would be angry, but what he didn't expect was such heart-warming words, which made him at a loss.

The desire to take concubines that was originally aroused by Zhao Fang was extinguished again at this moment. Bai Liangang has never been able to transform Zhirou. This is a man's sorrow and a woman's ability.

The couple was in love that night, with endless love. Zhao Fang waited for two days, but there was no news that he came to ask for someone.

Then he became anxious and summoned Yan Jidao to ask, but he was immediately dumbfounded.

"You... you are so angry with me!" "You're a grown man, what's wrong with concubinage? Do you have a son? How many years have you been married? Your father was 70 years old back then!"

"I'm confused by you."

The resentful Zhao Fang almost said something bad about his father in front of his son, but he stopped suddenly and glared at him fiercely, hating that iron could never become steel.

Yan Jidao blushed and murmured without knowing what to say. After being driven away by him, Zhao Fang went back to the harem angrily to find his beautiful lady to comfort him.

Zhao Pan'er was in confinement, so he didn't dare to go to her place when he was unhappy and make her worry. After shopping around, he decided to go to Liang Luoyao's place.

Liang Luoyao, who had long legs, didn't mind being held in her arms in broad daylight. After a while, she understood the reason for his unhappiness.

Rolling his big eyes, Liang Luoyao chuckled and said: "Why are the officials worried about this? Men always say they don't want it, but they don't want it in their hearts. Just send him to his house and say it's not a reward for him." "

Zhao Fang was a little confused when he heard it. He raised his head from her chest and asked puzzledly: "It's not that a woman said she didn't want it, but she actually wanted it. How did she become a man?"

Liang Luoyao rolled her eyes delicately and said: "Women talk against everything, and men only talk against women. The officials themselves don't understand how many women they have."

"Hey! That makes sense."

Zhao Fang laughed in surprise, but immediately hesitated: "That's not right. How can an emperor force a minister to take a concubine? I won't be embarrassed if I tell you."

Liang Luyao said with a smile: "Why do the officials want Yan Qing to take a concubine? In the name of giving away a singer, those four girls are originally singers, and Yan Qing loves banquets and is a talented and beautiful woman, isn't he?"

Zhao Fang's eyes lit up and he cheered continuously, cursing himself for having fallen into a misunderstanding. This was the Song Dynasty. Not to mention the scholar-bureaucrats raising kabuki performers, even the common people with money were like this.

Originally, wasn't the owner of these four girls a businessman? As the emperor, he couldn't raise them, and he would be accused of lewdness by the ministers.

The emperors of the Song Dynasty were really suffering. Obviously, all the ministers were like this, just to restrict the emperor from doing the same thing.

The emperor can watch singing and dancing, but he cannot raise kabuki by himself. Every year the emperor can go to Jinming Pond to play, and then summon the famous kabuki performance in Bianjing, but such people are not allowed in the palace.

This was a typical double standard, but the emperor had no choice. Of course there were singing and dancing performances in the palace, but they always called people from the Jiaofangsi and sent them back after the performance.

Among the female officials, there are four musicians each, namely Si Yue, Dian Yue and Zhang Yue, but they are all orthodox elegant music. Even dancing has many rules and no provocative or seductive movements are allowed.

In this regard, Zhao Fang said that he envied the Arab Empire, which could have belly dancing professionals.

"Come here! I have made a decree to reward Yan Jidao with four singing girls. Let him watch more singing and dancing at home in his free time, so that he can write good poems!"

Imperial decrees for rewards for such trivial matters do not need to be reviewed by the court or the cabinet. The emperor can directly issue a decree and send people to Yan Jidao's house.

After receiving the imperial edict, Yan Jidao was dumbfounded and looked at Xiaolian, Xiaoping and others at a loss. He had to secretly scold Zhao Fang for looking for trouble for him, but this was an imperial edict and he had to accept it.

(End of this chapter)