Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

This is the emperor, thinking one thing in his heart, but saying another thing in his mouth, and then letting his courtiers guess, this is the so-called emperor technique.For example, the later Emperor Jiajing was a master among them, and when his courtiers handed over his memorials, not many people could understand his approval.But as long as you can understand it, even if you have figured out what you want, it is no problem to make a fortune, and one of them is a master of it-Yan Shifan, Yan Song's son.

On the surface, Emperor Hongzhi wanted to compete with Su Mu in couplets, but Su Mu suddenly understood that the emperor was eager to see what happened next, so he took this roundabout way.

As long as his wish is fulfilled, it doesn't matter who wins or loses.

But I, Su Mu, thought too much.

"Yes, my minister Su Mu, I would like to obey the holy order." Su Mu nodded.

Emperor Hongzhi also became a little joyful, his heart was jumping with joy, and he pointed to the long case: "You go there and write, write a paragraph and then come back to me."

"Yes." Su Mu walked to the case, rolled up his sleeves, picked up the emperor's imperial pen, stuck some ink on it, and quickly wrote on a manuscript.

Seeing Su Mu writing like a wind, Emperor Hongzhi showed a smug smile again. Although he was very anxious, he still sat upright on the Xumizuo and picked up a booklet to read.

It's strange to say that this memorial with more than a thousand words only took him time to read a pot of tea, but he couldn't figure out what was actually said in it.

I smiled wryly in my heart: This Su Mu is indeed the first-class talent in my Ming Dynasty, not to mention poetry, but writing novels has such a captivating charm that even I can't resist.

At this time, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside, and then the screams of the eunuchs: "Prince, Prince, Long Live is dealing with government affairs, you can't go in!"

"Let go, I see my father, who dares to stop me? Also, what happened to Su Mu, is it necessary to report the crime before the driver?"

It turned out that when Su Mu was taken away by the eunuch, the prince didn't feel anything.He is a very nervous person, in his opinion, the father is the son of heaven, and no one else can control who he wants to see.

Just as he was about to find another place to play, an old eunuch sneaked into him, saying that Eunuch Xu had caught Mr. Su Musu and sued him in front of the emperor.Long Yan was furious, fearing that he wanted to punish Mr. Su.

Emperor Hongzhi has Zhu Houzhao as his son, and he will definitely inherit the throne in the future.There are many quick-witted people in the palace who want to get on the express train of the prince.Anyone who is not blind can see Su Mu's position in the prince's mind.This time Su Mu had a situation, so he ran to the prince to report the news, isn't it a good opportunity to get close to the prince?

Sure enough, there was such a person who sneaked over to please him.

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao couldn't wait any longer when he heard that the emperor wanted to punish Su Mu for some reason.

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While speaking, Zhu Houzhao rushed in angrily.

But seeing Su Mu standing upright in front of the imperial case and writing something quickly, while the emperor quietly looked at the notebook in his hand, he was stunned: "Why is it so quiet here?"

Xu Can walked forward with a smile: "Prince!"

Zhu Houzhao glanced at him in disgust, and scolded: "Xu Can, what's the matter with you. Su Mu and you have no grievances in the past, and you have no grievances in the present. You came here to tell father what is going on, and say, what's going on?"

When Su Mu heard the prince's question, his heart warmed up: "Although this kid is a dude, he still has a sense of loyalty. He knew that I, Su Mu, was in big trouble, so he ran over to save people immediately. Although I can't talk to you bastard What kind of loyalty is there, but from this moment on, I regard you as a good buddy."

Seeing that the prince's visitor was not kind, Xu Can's heart turned cold: Sure enough, this Su Mu's favor from the prince is really deep.Pity me, Xu Can, who survived this time and will inevitably be devoured by tigers in the future.This round was really a mess.

He forced a smile and said, "How could I have any grudge against Su Mu, the prince... ah!"

Frightened, he knelt down on the ground.

It turned out that Zhu Houzhao pushed him impatiently and ran to Su Mu's side quickly.

The emperor put down the notebook and snorted: "Prince, presumptuous! Xu Can came to see me today because he has a fair heart."

"What kind of public heart, you are a villain at all." Zhu Houzhao looked down while talking: "Su Mu, what's wrong with you, what are you writing... ah, you are writing that "Dream of Red Mansions" again, and you have written so many words gone."

The prince's attitude was so arrogant and disrespectful, Emperor Hongzhi wanted to get angry, but when he heard the prince said many words of Su Mu, he couldn't hold back: "Su Mu, where did you write, let me see."

Su Mu: "When I went back to the Long Live Lord, I just wrote a paragraph."

He held the manuscript over with both hands: "I just want to mention a couplet."

"Let me try it." Emperor Hongzhi was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly took it. When he saw it, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he couldn't help but shouted: "Good words, to be honest, when I got your manuscript at first, I just thought it was a good idea. The handwriting is really good, and I thought I hired another calligrapher to transcribe it. But I don’t think it’s your own handwriting. Although there are some places where the voice and color are not mellow, it vaguely opens up a new style, and it may not be a big tool in the future. "

Su Mu secretly laughed in his heart: Just kidding, Dong Qichang's style is not built, just now I showed my talent and talent, how can it be bad?

Zhu Houzhao said: "Su Mu's handwriting is very beautiful, first class."

The emperor smiled and said, "Chujun, what kind of calligraphy do you know?"

He concentrated his attention and looked intently.

Let's say Su Mu just wrote: Jia Zhengdao is "very vulgar." Jia Zhen said with a smile, "it's better for Brother Bao to come up with one." The extreme is, but nothing else"

Jia Zheng hurriedly said, "Don't indulge him like this," because he ordered him to say, "Today, let you be crazy and chaotic. First, let's talk about it, and then let you do it. It's just what everyone said, but there is something to do."

When Baoyu saw the question, he replied, "It seems inappropriate." Jia Zheng sneered, "Why is it inappropriate?" Baoyu said, "This is the first place where you can get lucky. You must praise the saints. If you use a four-character plaque, there are ancients ready-made." Yes, why do it again"

Jia Zheng said, "Could it be that the Qishui Sui Garden didn't belong to the ancients?"

Everyone screamed wonderfully.

Jia Zheng nodded and said, "Beast, animal, it can be said that you can understand it well."

Baoyu was ordered to "write another couplet" and read...

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The emperor: "Well, this couplet is not easy to write, let me think about it, and then go back and look at the description of the scenery in front, and see how appropriate it is?"

While talking, he put the manuscript on the long case, and greeted Zhu Houzhao: "Prince, you can take a look too, you might as well try to make a couplet for me to see."

Zhu Houzhao had no interest in this kind of thing, and shook his head: "What are you reading? Su Mu's book is really boring. It's just a group of men and women who do inexplicable things all day long. It's a problem when they are free. Also, a few people have to eat to eat. It took only one chapter to write down what to eat and what to drink in detail, and it was so boring. I only watched it once or twice when I was idle and bored, and it really made me read it, it would be better to die.”

"Hey, you don't like this book?"

"Ghosts like it."

"Then... what do you think of that chapter... the chapter of Baoyu Dreaming in the Police Fantasy Wonderland?" The emperor still couldn't help asking, and the question was a little cryptic.

Su Mu's heart came to his throat, the description of Fengyue in "A Dream of Red Mansions" is indeed...somewhat unrefined.

"That festival?" The future Emperor Zhengde snorted, "Boring."

"Boring, prince, do you really think so?" Hong Zhi asked calmly.

Zhu Houzhao said carelessly: "A man should practice martial arts diligently, exercise his muscles and bones, and don't pay too much attention to women's sex, otherwise he will not be a good man."

"You...you, you are the prince, what are you saying about a good man and a bad man? Is it possible that you still want to travel the rivers and lakes and be a knight like Guo Xie? Don't worry: it seems that my son has not changed, he only likes to dance with guns and sticks, and has no interest in the affairs of men and women.That's good, that's good... It's a pity, what did Xu Can say just now that Su Mu let the prince read Fengyue Book?Good Xu Can!

Hongzhi took a sharp look at Xu Can who was kneeling on the ground.

Xu Can also knew it was not good, his body trembled, and the sweat on his forehead fell to the ground drop by drop.

Seeing that Xu Can was terribly frightened, he remembered that he had served him for many years after all.Hongzhi suddenly softened, and waved his sleeves: "You back down!"

"Yes, yes, the servant will leave."

Xu Can scrambled out of the palace, stood outside for a long time, only heard Emperor Hongzhi and the prince talking and laughing inside, obviously in a good mood.

There was a coldness in his heart, today he was self-defeating, not only failed to bring down Su Mu, but also caused the Holy Majesty and the Prince to have a prejudice against me.And Su Mu has completely torn skins with our family, and I'm afraid it will be very sad in the future.

The snow was still falling, stuck to his face, and then turned into water and flowed into his neck.

After chatting and laughing with the prince for a long time, Emperor Hongzhi felt that he was in an unprecedentedly good mood.He naturally knows what kind of temper his son has. He usually only cares about making troubles, so why did he talk to him so much like today.

In fact, as a father, he didn't have too many demands, he just hoped that his children would spend more time with him, but even such a wish was not so easy for the Tian family, which is why he moved to Xiyuan reason for staying.

But when Emperor Hongzhi thought that such a day would be lost every day, his heart felt sour for no reason, and his train of thought suddenly stopped.

After hesitating for a long time, he struggled to pick up the pen and scribbled a pair of couplets on the paper, sighing: "No way, Su Mu, tell me about your couplet."

When Su Mu saw the couplets made by the emperor, he shook his head secretly. To be honest, Hongzhi’s literary talent is good, but this couplet is really badly written. , will immediately pull the standard of this book down to the next level.

Not only was Cao Xueqin so angry that he was born early, but he, Su Mu, couldn't bear it either.

Su Mu naturally knew that the emperor was just looking for an excuse to update himself by comparing the couplet with him this time, and he didn't care about the outcome.

Therefore, there is no reason to give up.

Su Mu smiled and said: "I just thought about it for a while, and I just got a sentence, and I invite your majesty to taste it."

Just put it down on paper.

When Hongzhi saw it, his eyes lit up, "Okay, okay, okay, what a treasure tripod tea, the smoke is still green, and the Youchuang chess is still cold after playing the game."

Of course it was good. To put it bluntly, Hongzhi was competing with Cao Xueqin, and it would be a ghost to win.

"It's just right to use in this book. It's really not easy to change a single word." Hongzhi became excited, picked up the pen and directly filled in this couplet on the manuscript: "Su Mu, you continue to write."

"Yes." Su Mu continued to copy.

Just like that, every time Su Mu wrote a paragraph, Hongzhi would make a couplet, and then asked Su Mu to make a couplet for a competition.

The result is self-evident, Hong Zhi naturally lost a mess.

He couldn't help laughing and said: "It's a good sentence to add green and add Huange, and it's good to protect the celery pickers with fragrant clouds."

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"This couplet 'Miao Yin Cheng cardamom is still beautiful, sleep enough to make dreams fragrant.' In contrast, my couplets are unbearably tight, so use yours!"

"I am frightened."

"Don't panic, good is good, bad is bad."

Su Mu was finally relieved, this Emperor Hongzhi was really open-minded, if it was changed to the Manchu Dynasty, if any courtier dared to steal the emperor's limelight, he would die without knowing how to die.

The Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty liked to play chess, so she issued an edict to let a famous national player enter the palace to play chess.Just because the national player said: "Lafayette, the villain wants to eat your horse." As a result, he was immediately pulled out and his hands were cut off.

The so-called companionship is like companionship to the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, at least for now, it does not exist, especially for civil servants.

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Gradually, the more Emperor Hongzhi read Su Mu's manuscript, the more interesting he became.I was also amazed in my heart: Su Mu is indeed the most talented person in the world. He wrote a story and a poem couplet at the same time, and he wrote it in a moment, without thinking.

When Su Mu finished writing this chapter, the emperor also copied all of Su Mu's couplets on the manuscript.

Looking at it again, I suddenly sighed in my heart: Although Jia Zheng in the book is harsh, he is also very strict with his son.But at the critical moment, he still wanted to make his son famous in front of the guests and show off the limelight.It can be seen that there are no parents in the world who do not love their children, and there is no such thing as a fistful heart.Although I am the Son of Heaven, I am not exempt from customs.

Thinking of this, he glanced at the prince.

Probably because the room was too warm, the prince had already fallen asleep lying on the table.

Seeing his son snoring like thunder, there was still a thread of saliva hanging from the corner of his mouth.Hong Zhi made a silence gesture towards Su Mu, took out a cotton towel, and lovingly wiped the saliva off his face.

Su Mu nodded knowingly, feeling complacent in his heart.

It is the greatest honor in the world that a novel can be transcribed by the emperor. Who dares to treat my "Dream of Red Mansions" as a fake in the future?

When the time comes, just say: Everyone, come and read, read the favorite book of the Holy Majesty!

Some booksellers in the capital sent a lot of money to my home.

Hehe, it looks like it's time to sell this manuscript.

I am also very poor these days!

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"Su Mu, I didn't expect that your poems are good, and even the stories are wonderful. By the way, why do you want to write a romance novel? If you say it is a pastime, the layout of your book is very grand. Do you need hundreds of thousands of words?"

Su Mu was immersed in the dream of getting rich, he didn't think of anything else, and said casually: "Return to Your Majesty, my family is poor, and I write some novels in exchange for money to live."

"Oh, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, so, what else have you written before?"