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Chapter 411 Fat Dragon Purse (4)
Old Hou Ye squinted his eyes to look at the purse on the emperor's waist while walking, but after looking at it for a long time, he couldn't understand what the golden embroidered pattern on the bright yellow purse was. Anyway, he is a veteran of the three dynasties, and he still has a teacher-student friendship with the emperor, so he always has fewer scruples on weekdays, so he asked: "Your Majesty, your purse looks a bit novel, is it a new trick for the embroiderer this year?" ?”

After hearing this, Yun Shuo smiled happily: "Yes, Mr. Xiao Ge, isn't this purse not bad?"

"It's not bad. But, what kind of new trick is this? Forgive me for being dazed, it doesn't look like Ganoderma lucidum, it doesn't look like a bat, and it doesn't look like auspicious clouds..." Old Hou Xiao counted his fingers and muttered back and forth After repeating it, he finally sighed and asked, "Your Majesty, what kind of new pattern is this? Doesn't it seem to be in accordance with the etiquette system? The purse that comes with this New Year's dress..."

"Old Xiaoge, this is a new pattern created by the palace, it is the flying dragon pattern." The Empress Empress who was walking beside the emperor looked back and smiled, and asked: "What do you think?"

"..." Mr. Xiao was stunned for a moment, and immediately bowed to the empress with a nanmu crutch, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be the trick created by the empress, yes, it is really good! This dragon...is really rich, It is an auspicious sign of peace for the country and the people.”

As soon as these words fell, the elders next to him who could clearly see the embroidered pattern on the emperor's purse were all suffocated to death by laughter.

Just this flying dragon has become fat as a flying pig, and it's still... a good omen for the prosperity of the country and the people's safety...? !Mr. Shoufu, you really deserve to be the patriarch of the Three Dynasties. If you don’t flatter this fart, it’s really shocking and weeping ghosts and gods!
"Xiao Ge's words are right." His Majesty was very happy to be photographed, and turned his head to tell Wu Miao: "Go, get that thousand-year-old sandalwood dragon-headed walking stick, and give it to Xiao Ge as a New Year's gift. I hope Xiao Ge will be healthy and strong, and he will work hard for me, Dayun, for another ten or twenty years."

The goosebumps on Lord Xiao's body were all up, so he thanked the emperor tremblingly: "The old minister is terrified, the old minister thanks your majesty for your kindness! The old minister wishes your majesty and the empress all the best, and wishes my great cloud and mountains forever, Hengchang Yonglong !"

"Okay! Hehe..." Yun Shuo looked at the civil and military ministers behind him with a smile, stretched out his hand to help Xiao Lin up, and patted his hand kindly, "My big cloud will last forever, Hengchang Yonglong Yes! Let's go, let's go to the theater and drink!"

Whether it is civil servants or military generals, they don't like to see the emperor angry on the first day of the new year. The emperor is happy, and everyone is happy, no matter which minister's flattery came to this happiness-so everyone is happy Delighted, he followed the emperor and the empress into the imperial garden, drank fine wine, ate delicacies, and watched a big show.

The chief minister of the cabinet won the jackpot on the first day of the new year, and the ministers were as happy as they were jealous.

Needless to say, the direct descendants of Lord Xiao Hou, the proud disciples naturally drank happily, as if they saw a bright future, even if their benefactor retired with honor, their political views, their strategies, and the efforts they made towards Dayun Dynasty would all be respected. It will not be in vain, the series of political actions of their mentor will continue to be carried out with the support of the Lord Long Live, their high officials and generous salaries will be guaranteed, and their glorious achievements will not disappear in smoke.

Those who disagreed with Xiao Houye's political views were sour and vomited one by one.

"Xiao Ge's singing today is really wonderful, ten times more exciting than on this stage!" A certain official working in the Ministry of Punishment said to his colleagues next to him.

"How old is he? He's almost eighty, right? Do you really think that you can occupy the position of the chief minister of the cabinet for ten or twenty years?" another asked with a frown.

"As the saying goes, a thousand-year-old king is an 8-year-old tortoise, maybe he really thinks you are an old bastard! Haha!" The person opposite laughed mockingly.

"Hey! It's hard for him. Jing Long has been in the cabinet for three years. Now counting, he has been in the cabinet for more than 40 years, right?" A supervisor censor frowned and wrenched his fingers.

"46 years." The colleague next to him reminded.

"It's been 46 years! It's really not easy!" The person who initially expressed dissatisfaction with Lord Xiao's flattery put away his jokes, sighed solemnly, and said: "A person can stay in the cabinet for 46 years without falling However, his son is only a fifth-rank inspector, and he is fighting against Yao Yanen in the six provinces in the southeast, but his grandson is only a servant of the Imperial Academy, really... I don’t know whether it is a success or a failure!"

The other lowered his voice and said with a sneer, "You don't understand, do you? Since he can sit on the chair of the chief minister of the cabinet, his son and grandson cannot hold important positions! Otherwise, he will have to be censored by the emperor." Let the whole pot be stewed."

As soon as the words fell, everyone at the table fell silent.

This is a fact that everyone dare not face up to but has to face.

There are not a few families where father, son, grandson and grandson are in the court together. Which one is not like this?There are not a few military generals full of meritorious service, and there are also many clans of civil servants full of red robes.Compared with being low-key, no one is as good as the chief assistant minister Xiao Houye.

"Then what happened to him today? Did he take the wrong medicine on the first day of the new year?" An official asked with a frown.

"There are two possibilities." The other stretched out two fingers, "First, he has decided to become an official and wants to go home to retire, so he has to give himself a perfect ending so that His Majesty will remember him, And thus treat his son and grandson kindly."

"What about the second one?" Another person asked curiously.

"Secondly, it's because his old eyes were so dazed that he couldn't see His Majesty's purse clearly, and when the Empress Empress said it, he had to flatter the matter to get it over with - he couldn't say that about the Empress Empress in front of so many people... "The embroidered dragon looks like a pig, right?The official blinked at everyone, and the half of the sentence that was automatically hidden was instantly guessed by everyone, so everyone at the table laughed.

"Come on, drink and drink! Let's all drink happily on the first day of the new year, and put those messy things aside."

"That's right! Done."

"Oh, it's done!"

After the first day of the Lunar New Year, all the prefectures and families invited each other for New Year's wine.The emperor and empress were free for a while.

In the first month of the lunar year, Han Qian put aside her thoughts of making bellybands for her children, and stayed in Fengzhang Hall every day to read wild history books and taste the delicacies carefully prepared by Yan Wenzhen. boring.

"Let's go for a walk?" Han Qian threw away the wild history book in his hand and yawned boredly.

Yun Shuo, who was leaning beside her, lowered his head, glanced over her belly, and asked with a frown, "Can it work?"

"You don't need to go out. Isn't there a warm sedan chair and a carriage? After staying in this palace for a long time, my body is moldy. Today's sun is just right, why don't we go out and walk around the street..." Han Qian said, suddenly seeing Yiliang, "By the way, why don't you go and see He's mother and daughter? They don't have any relatives or friends in the capital, so they should be very boring at this time."

(End of this chapter)