green bamboo dream

After Ruan's mother cleaned up the dishes, she led the maids and retreated. 【26nbsp;】

The sheep's horn palace lantern on the small table emitted a gentle yellow warm light, dissipating a lot of the cold night, the rain outside the house had almost stopped, and the sparse chirping of insects gradually began to sound.

Everything calmed down too quickly, as if the torrential rain came with a mighty wind and cloud, but he had no choice but to leave, leaving nothing but puddles all over the ground and a short impression of people.

"Cough, the fourth prince is about to ascend the throne, don't worry." In the silence of the room, Cheng Xunxun coughed and broke the silence first.

Yu Zhu smiled, and didn't intend to hear anything else from him, and patted his chest: "Amitabha, finally the dust has settled." Considering that the former emperor had just passed away, it was really inappropriate to say this, He stuck out his tongue involuntarily.

"Stupid." Cheng Xunxun sat cross-legged on the bed, propping his chin with his slender fingers, looking at Yuzhu as if hesitant to speak.

After making the bed, Yu Zhu waited quietly for him to speak, probably already guessing what he wanted to say.

"Would you like to know about the Gong family..." Cheng Xunxun sighed, and under Yu Zhu's gaze, he said slowly, "It's also about the Gong family."

"I'll listen to what Xianggong says." Yu Zhu suppressed her curiosity, and continued to implement the phrase "Take the husband as the sky" to the end.But the man got off the bed swiftly, opened the two layers of azure gold silk thin silk brocade curtains outside and walked out.Yu Zhu was taken aback, probably because she didn't want to say that she was going to run away.

Not long after, the eyes suddenly became much darker. Yu Zhu looked up in surprise, and saw that Cheng Xunxun had returned to the bedside, and stood on the footboard to blow out the small colored glass lamp that was placed by the bedside for the night. Turn it off, but now there is no light at all.

Yu Zhu shrinks back anxiously, hearing the sound of Suo Suo, and then she tightens her waist, and falls into a generous and warm embrace.But this position is really uncomfortable, and lying down like this even touched her hair, so she subconsciously struggled...

"Don't move." The man's voice was deep and deep in the darkness, and it was close to her ear, and his warm breath swept over the thin hairs around the ear, itching all the way to the bottom of her heart.Saying so, the hands are still loose, leaving room for Yu Zhu to find a comfortable position.

"The Gong family... can be regarded as a famous family. You grew up in Beijing, and then you were released with your father. You may not have heard much about it." Such whispers in the dark are really irresistible. Yu Zhu couldn't help slowing down her breathing, listening to his sermon.

"The Patriarch of the Gong family is the father of the Gong family. He is a man full of poetry and books. He used the shadow of his ancestors and practical officials to become the governor of one side. But on the eve of leaving Beijing, a pair of children born to Mrs. Gong fell ill and fell into a coma. Mr. Gong and Mrs. Gong are very anxious, and they must not delay the day of taking office, but these two children have always been their treasures, how can they bear to leave here." Cheng Xunxun was still a little stiff at the beginning, but he became calmer as he spoke.

"Seeing that the day of taking office is approaching, I have no choice but to find a way to ask someone to take care of it. Master Gong and his father have been close friends since childhood, and they have been on good terms for many years, so they naturally entrusted him to the mansion... Father is a man. Zhengyi agreed very happily, and even asked his mother to tidy up two adjacent exquisite small courtyards. But things have changed again this time, probably because the boy is stronger, and although Gong's brother is young Very, but he recovered very quickly, Master Gong and Mrs. Gong were overjoyed, and the schedule really couldn't be delayed, so they only entrusted the eldest daughter and brought the youngest son with them..."

Yu Zhu couldn't help interjecting: "Is that younger brother called Xiaofan? The old lady seems to have mentioned it. He is now in the north."

Cheng Xunxun twisted a strand of fragrant and smooth blue silk around his fingertips, and wondered: "What did the old lady say?"

Yu Zhu thought for a while, and then taught him the words that the old lady scolded Mrs. Gong.

"It's not bad to scold. Mrs. Gong has been in the Duke's mansion for three years. She has a lively temperament and is not shy or timid at all. She only stayed quiet for two days when she was sick. After she got to know her better, she often called our brother with a smile. At that time, the elder sister-in-law had passed away for five years, and the elder brother and sister-in-law had a deep relationship. The eldest brother felt unhappy when he saw the righteous brother left behind by his sister-in-law. Shi is very kind to him, so I stick to her... Neither my elder brother nor I have a younger sister, because she is not too old, so I tacitly let her bring Yi brother to sit on the bench and watch while practicing martial arts, and serve us tea. Dim Sum... The Gong family is loyal and filial to the family with poems and books, so who would have thought that she would commit such a serious crime."

Yu Zhu comforted: "I don't blame others for this matter, but the most important thing is to find out why she got involved." After a pause, he asked again: "And then?"

"The Gong family was unjustly defeated. It was almost time to return to Beijing in the past three years. But when the term of office was about to expire, it encountered a plague of locusts. It would have only affected the performance appraisal, but the disaster relief allocated by the court The money and food were corrupted, and they were involved in it all at once... Most of the money that was paid was the fault of others."

"How can you be wronged so easily after being such a high-ranking official? Can't the person who investigates the case find out more clearly?" Yu Zhu was filled with righteous indignation. A corrupt official who got away with getting away with it and took a concubine to buy land is really too damned.

Cheng Xunxun sneered, "Hmph, after the incident happened, the first emperor was furious, guarding civil servants, middle officials, the three subordinates, and even the censors were all clean, so who else could prove his innocence? There was no need to give charcoal in the snow, but a lot of insinuating sewage was poured on it. Even the court push that was presided over by the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households before the appointment was exposed. , and then the clan was also implicated, almost as if the house had been ransacked, a lot of ancestral property had been seized openly and secretly, and many close clan members were sentenced to exile... Father also intervened, and it was difficult to save the Gong family. "

Yu Zhu figured it out. It turned out that Mr. Gong's officialdom was not clear enough, and he didn't have a good relationship with his colleagues and subordinates. That's why he was pushed out as a scapegoat after "dividing the spoils".Otherwise, with such a high rank as the governor, it is impossible to be regarded as an abandoned child anyway. There are countless middle-level officials to choose from. Persimmons have always been soft-picked. Unclean and upright official, but he can't belong to any camp, so neither side will help him, and he can only end up like this if something happens.

If you don't know how to be an official, then don't engage in this high-risk occupation. Tooth cards and government officials are not so easy to get.Yuzhu has a heart for Qiran. In fact, the experience of this master Gong and his father is very similar. It is really a wrong step. How many people's fate has been changed by a locust disaster?

But if you think about it carefully, the old man didn't try his best. If he was active, it would not be a big problem to keep the five-year-old Gong's younger brother at the time of the accident. I'm afraid it was to avoid suspicion. After all, the female family members can turn a blind eye. In the eyes, males are not enough.Keeping Mrs. Gong is enough to prove that he did his best, and he won't involve too much influence. If this old man goes to be an official, he will definitely have two brushes...

Just as she was thinking about it, she heard "Ms. Gong was only 13 years old at the time. When she heard the news, she immediately locked herself in the room and didn't come out for a whole day. When her mother was worried, someone knocked open the door." , only to find out that she had left a book and left, saying that she was going to the north to find her tribe... two years later, she was brought back by the elder brother in a dirty body."

"Why is it dirty?" Yu Zhu feels that this Gong family looks like the heroine in the novel, how many people can have such a magnificent and ups and downs life.

Cheng Xunxun's tone was indifferent: "What she said was that she dressed up as a man and went to the north with the caravan, but she couldn't see her brother's face, and the money was not enough, so she went back to the capital after going through a lot of hardships. He was murdered, but he was able to escape thanks to meeting his elder brother. In the end, he knelt at the door of Siqian Hall and begged his mother to take him in."

"Of course we have to take him in, but it's too coincidental, why did we just meet... I don't know if he is disheveled or not." Yu Zhu didn't want to say anything.

In the dark, Cheng Xunxun glanced at Yu Zhu approvingly, and patted her slippery back, "After half a month, my eldest brother will marry her to fill the house."

Yuzhu suddenly wanted to ask, did you like Gong Shi at the time, after all, you participated in her beautiful years from ten to 13 years old... After all, she moved her lips, but she still didn't say it out loud, in fact, probably, maybe, should Yes, forget it, if you are so clear about what to do, it is better for people to be a little confused in life. There is a saying that says that if love is deep, life will not last, and wisdom will hurt.

Meditating on the doctrine of the mean, he fell asleep next to Cheng Xunxun's warm arms. Tomorrow will be another beautiful day.

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In the early morning of the next day, the news spread throughout the streets and alleys of the capital. The new emperor was finally announced, and every household breathed a sigh of relief. Gods fought and mortals suffered. Amitabha finally stopped.Now that the border is stable, there are no major disasters except for the flood in Yuzhou. Now that the new emperor is young and strong, it is not surprising that the next few decades will be smooth and smooth.

The wishes of the people are very simple, as long as they can avoid the disaster of weapons, the rest can be tolerated.The rich and powerful families, including nobles and nobles, were also busy paying homage to their ancestors and Bodhisattvas, and by the way, praised the four princes for their destiny, and eliminated a catastrophe invisible.As for those rebellious officials and thieves, they dared to support the dead, and even dared to roam around my house to frighten people. It is an unforgivable crime, and they all asked for a heavy sentence for the fifth prince to strengthen Tianwei.

The fourth prince, who is just one away from the enthronement ceremony, sits in front of the royal case, turning a blind eye to the piles of papers, and there are a lot of things waiting for him to be busy. Who has the time to listen to these overt and secret flattery? The charge of murdering the first emperor is enough, and any more is a waste.

The most important thing is the funeral ceremony of the first emperor, which is extremely trivial and troublesome, but if it is not done well, it would be unfilial if it is not done well, so it should not be careless at all.

In order to show filial piety, the empress dowager has to observe filial piety for one year, and if the emperor dies, the new emperor has to observe filial piety for three years, and the common people have to accompany him within three years. marry.However, this is obviously impossible to implement, and it doesn't matter if it delays the people. If the court is in such a state of collapse for three years, the world will not know what kind of chaos it will be.Therefore, some emperors began to be flexible early on. After succeeding to the throne, several emperors of the previous generation, out of the heart of not wanting to disturb the people, ordered the world to order all families with nobles and officials above the fourth rank to observe the funeral for three months, prohibiting rituals, music, and marriage. Marriage, banquets, but officials and imperial orders to cry for spirits on a regular basis... As long as the folks don't go too far, just make sense.

After half a month, the new emperor's enthronement ceremony will be held, the year name will be changed to Yuanxi, and the concubine Zun'an will be the Empress Dowager. . (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe and reward. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

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