Yizhi arrives

Chapter 4 The story always has a main line

Ji Yue likes to wander around, the most important thing is that he is rich.

So he took me with him, wherever he wanted to go, and whatever he wanted to do.Every time he encounters a place he likes, Ji Yue will buy an exquisite and small courtyard, live in it for a few months, and then leave.He is actually not stingy with me. Except for asking me to work and forcing me to practice martial arts, his food and clothing costs are no different from that of a rich lady. I keep it.

Slowly, I was also raised tricky by him.

It's not very delicious food, I would rather eat the simple food that I cook; I don't have to buy clothes and jewelry, but I can always tell which is the best of this season; You can smell how much money he is worth.

So I objectively thought that even though I didn't pay much attention to Master, I still learned some skills.

Occasionally he would look at me with surprised eyes, probably because it was unbelievable that I learned so thoroughly from him.

"You are so difficult to raise, how can I find you a husband's family as a teacher in the future?" Ji Yue said seriously.

I was still afraid that he would leave me alone, so I replied very excitedly, "Master, I don't want to marry! I want to follow Master for the rest of my life!"

After listening, his eyes became meaningful.At that time, I naturally didn't know that I was running non-stop in the direction he expected, and I couldn't stop it.

I don't know where Ji Yue got so much money from. Sometimes he will receive the government's arrest warrant, sometimes he will do some small business, sometimes he will go to the flower house and stay out all night, sometimes he will do nothing and stay in the small courtyard Read books, drink tea and practice swords.Although Ji Yue always laughs at me for being dumb and stupid, I know that his daily income is not enough to spend.

I used to think that Ji Yue was a knight who roamed the rivers and lakes, but when I was ten years old, I suddenly realized that my master was definitely not such a simple character in the rivers and lakes, even though he was called the first son of the rivers and lakes.How should I put it, I always feel that he has a dignified aura of a prince and aristocrat, and a noble and righteous spirit with his head hanging on the beam and piercing his thigh.If you ask me what basis, the only basis is my keen intuition.

It's a pity that doctors don't heal themselves. My intuition forgets to count myself in, and I always think that I am the one who stays out of it.

This year, I am 13 years old.

From the south of the colorful clouds, we went all the way west to the rainy Shuchuan, and then went to Manjiang, where snakes, rats and ants are crawling everywhere. After crossing two mountains, we found a boundless desert with flying loess. I have seen it for many years. The great river in Dazhou, Ji Yue once asked me: "How is the world?" I had no other intentions, and nodded.He smiled at the time, with a slightly tired smile, and I heard him murmur: "I hope it will always be this good." Like a sentimental literati, but fleeting.

Six months ago, the master had a sudden whim and opened a jade store in Yongzhou, which is famous for its jade in Luyi City, and started a stone gambling business.

On the first and fifteenth day of each month, a female storyteller will come to the Taozui Building in the city. Everyone loves to listen to her storytelling. There are countless stories in her belly, and they are often the most popular nowadays, but they are only known to everyone. Unknown anecdotes.

It happened to be the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and it was freezing cold. The female storyteller came again. She opened the peach blossom fan and shook it twice. She didn't think it was too cold, and asked the audience around: "I don't know if everyone here has heard Something big happened in the capital?"

Since it is a major event, the common people have heard of it, and a fat man responded immediately: "Does the lady refer to the matter of Empress Dowager Jingwen's edict?"

As we all know, three months ago, the Empress Dowager Jing Wen stepped into the sky and left. The women who are closely related to the emperor in this world can be regarded as dead.However, the Great Zhou stipulated that the common people were not allowed to marry within three months of mourning for the royal family. Recently, when the mourning period expired, there were a lot of married couples in Luyi City.

Speaking of the empress dowager's decree, everyone with long ears in the whole Zhou Dynasty has heard a little bit.Probably not long after the empress dowager was dying, an edict was issued in the palace of July City, but this edict was not issued by the emperor, but a decree from the empress dowager.

Yizhi said: "It is a pity that my country has been vacant for many years. Ai's family has failed the entrustment of the late emperor. Last night, Master Fangyuan, the abbot of Xiangguo Temple, watched the sky at night, and told Ai's family that Saturn came out from the Qiyuan Xiexing Lord. , there is a sign of return, it is really lucky. The country cannot be without a master, and the Red Palace cannot be without a queen. I also ask all the virtuous ministers to help your majesty find a new queen as soon as possible."

There is no substantive content, just to urge the saint to hurry up and continue the string, which is understandable.

I thought to myself, the emperor is already old, and marrying a bride as beautiful as a flower, I am afraid that he will not be able to withstand the toss, even if he is the number one woman in the world, I am afraid that he will not be happy physically and psychologically, and will only have a halo , what is the meaning of living?Thinking about it this way, I couldn't help sympathizing with the new queen in the future.

"Everyone knows about this, so there's nothing to talk about. What I want to talk about is the following of this Yizhi." The female storyteller began to get to the point, "You said that the Empress Dowager was dying, and she needed to drink medicine while lying in bed. How can she still have the strength to think about her new daughter-in-law?"

Everyone interrupted.

One said: "This is not necessarily the case. If the old man's wish is extremely strong, he will miss it with his last breath." How much resentment must there be?

Another one rushed: "Hey, maybe our emperor has seen my mother's intentions, and thanked Empress Dowager Jingwen for her painstaking efforts, and helped her draw up this edict, so that she and the world can see his filial piety!" Are you flattering the emperor?
The third touched his chin and smiled: "No, no, I think the emperor was too embarrassed to say that he wanted to marry a wife, so he borrowed the queen mother's mouth and killed two birds with one stone! Think about it, the emperor sees that the queen mother is about to die. Marry a wife as you wish, and wait for the queen mother to swallow her last breath. As a son of man, he must keep his filial piety for at least a year. After all, the emperor is not young anymore, so I can't afford to wait..." The world belongs to him, so I'm afraid No fresh meat to eat?

"..."

I sat on the side and listened to their chatter, making complaints silently while stuffing a piece of braised pork into my mouth leisurely, waiting for the female storyteller to continue.

She waited for a while before saying, "Well, none of you have heard the mystery in this decree! The mystery is that the abbot of Xiangguo Temple is a monk. The monk believes in Buddhism or not. They come from Taoism, they don’t hang around for nothing!”

Everyone suddenly realized that it was so.

Is that the eminent monk lying, or the Empress Dowager Jingwen talking nonsense?

How can an eminent monk who has achieved the Tao lie, how can he be looked up to by everyone after lying, and Gaoshou has not been beheaded by the emperor until now?So everyone guessed: "Could it be that the empress dowager is anxious about her new daughter-in-law, so she deliberately made it up to deceive the emperor?"

Da Zhou not only has open customs, but also freedom of speech. If you say these outrageous things, you don't have to worry about officials sending you to jail.

The female storyteller shook her head, "Empress Dowager Jingwen and Master Fangyuan are probably just fakes. The capital issued a list, saying that there will be a draft at the beginning of next year. This is the freshest event in the capital. In this small border town, the announcement of a draft girl It's still bouncing on horseback."

According to the tradition of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the show girls are selected every five years, and the girls selected are all dignitaries, daughters of royal relatives and relatives, aged 13 to 17.Because it has nothing to do with ordinary people, the people don't pay much attention to it.Moreover, when the emperor was in his prime, he was not very concerned about female sex, and his temperament was dull, not to mention that now that he is over half a century old, there has been no draft in the Forbidden City for more than ten years.

"I heard that the emperor is going to break the tradition in this draft, and select women who have reached the age of 13 to enter the palace. Then the imperial servant who specializes in drafting girls will go to the state capitals to pick people after the New Year. The Queen Mother Jingwen said Yizhi is just a foreshadowing. Just wait, next year, on the second day of February, we will see whose daughter becomes the new queen."

Everyone was in an uproar. I was picking up the second piece of braised pork. When I heard what the female storyteller said, I lost my grip and fell back into the plate. The braised pork was full of elasticity. It rolled in the plate and finally fell on the table. Received a look of disdain from someone opposite.

The female storyteller also specifically emphasized: "As long as they turn 13 next year, every family has a chance for a daughter who has not left the court! Hey, I said this uncle, you look like you have a daughter who is about to turn 13 in your family. She pointed at a gentleman with a liver-colored face. The man was so excited that he couldn't speak, and his whole body was twitching slightly. I felt that this man would foam at the mouth and go mad in an instant.

Who would have thought that he finally said, "It turned out to be like this! Then I'll hurry up and annul the engagement!" Well, because the mourning period expires this month, there are a lot of married couples.This old man really went all out.

I counted with my fingers in my heart. After a while, I said "Yeah" and looked up at someone: "Master, I am Thirteen!"

A certain person's sleepy eyes didn't even bother to look at me at this time, only to hear him spit out a few words lightly: "Is it thirteen o'clock?"

rely on it!You are only thirteen o'clock!

Is this still a good meal? !
Ji Yue thought I was annoying, so he threw away his chopsticks, and looked out the window with his chin resting on his own.

But I know that he is such a gossip-loving person, he always has one ear reserved for gossip, otherwise he wouldn't bring me to Taozuilou for dinner on the first and fifteenth day of every month, and the first and fifteenth day of the Taozuilou The price of meals here is twice as expensive as usual, not to mention this kind of elegant seat by the window.

"Since we are talking about the draft today, I still have an old story here, do you want to listen to it?" The female storyteller changed a new paragraph at this moment, saying that there used to be a Grand Prix in the Bai University family. The Story of a Beauty's Daughter.

That's not a love story. Fifteen years ago, Miss Bai was also in her youth, and it was also the reason for entering the palace draft. The one who was favored by the emperor in the draft was a beauty named Hua Pan. Miss Bai made soy sauce beautifully. After the announcement of the results of the court festival, a banquet will be held in the palace, and the few undrafted girls who have not passed the emperor's longan will be shown to the prince and the prince. If they are interested, they can ask them to go back and become a princess.

"At the banquet that night, those princes and grandsons secretly rejoiced that their emperor didn't fall in love with Miss Bai, and they all wanted to take back the most beautiful woman in the world to be their wife. The emperor saw that Miss Bai was very popular, so he gave it to those princes and princes who wanted to marry Miss Bai. The prince asks a question, and whoever answers it will win the beauty. Guess what question the emperor asked?"

This kind of secret matter in the palace, and it was a romantic affair so long ago, how could the people in the audience know, so they urged the female storyteller to tell the story quickly.

I listened with gusto, and there was a throbbing in my heart.I recalled when I reunited with my master when I was eight years old, he was telling the gossip about the Bai University scholar's family to the two aunts.Five years have passed in a flash, and suddenly there is a sense of vicissitudes of life that seems to have been known before.

"Your Majesty... Let them each guess which day Miss Bai's menstrual period is."

The audience exploded, everyone said that the emperor is too naked, although the Red Palace in the past dynasties has never been a clean and pure place, but you are so naked, no matter what you say, Miss Bai is also the jewel in the palm of the scholar, knowledgeable and reasonable, It is unavoidable to bully scholars.

"The results of it?"

"The result?" The storyteller laughed, and the crescent moon's eyes fell on my master, whether it was intentional or not, all the girls in Luyi City knew Ji Yue because he was handsome.But probably because she found that Ji Yue didn't pay attention to her, the female storyteller ended angrily, "In the end, no one guessed it, Miss Bai went home."

Everyone was in an uproar again, "How is this possible? Even if one guesses for a day, someone should be right!" I have already had menarche, and I know a lot. Ji Yue never evades the things about men and women. During a physiology class, he was indeed more professional than the doctors in the pharmacy.I also wonder, although the emperor doesn't have many sons, there are quite a few offspring of princes and sons, generally 30 days a month, so there will only be more people guessing.

The female storyteller shook her fan and laughed, "All the sons of the royal family want to know the answer more than you. How could none of them get it right? There are rumors that someone secretly sent spies to investigate in the University's mansion, so you can't call a mother They played tricks on a large group of elders, and within a few days the spies came back and reported that Miss Bai hadn't grown up yet and had never had menstruation."

I suddenly realized that Master had indeed said that a woman is like a peach on a tree. The flowers bloom beautifully, but the result is ripe enough to be eaten, but it is sooner or later. Miss Bai is probably a late-ripening peach.Based on my experience as a foodie, peaches that ripen late are generally sweeter!
Hearing this, Ji Yue seemed to lose interest, got up and said "go" to me, and left first.I saw that he was mostly cold and lonely, and I must think that listening to people tangling about a woman's menstrual period is an extremely waste of time, even though he is very gossip.

On the way out of the Peach Drunken Tower, the voice of the female storyteller could be faintly heard, "...From then on, Miss Bai stayed behind closed doors, and for some reason, there was no news about her at all. People seem to disappear from this world..." In the final analysis, it seems that the emperor is not good?

(End of this chapter)