Chapter 77 Old Cat

Author: I have a pot

Chapter 77 Old Cat

I got off the bus at the side gate of the imperial city, and my father-in-law often led Xiang Suining and Xiang Daying to Yangxin Palace.

The Xuan Kingdom has been around for a long time. When the imperial city was the last emperor, it only built a few floors inside. When Emperor Guo Zhengchan came to Guo, four floors were built outwards. Now, there are hundreds of palaces of all sizes from the front to the back. All of them are red walls and yellow tiles, all of which are square and spacious courtyards. Entering from the side door is an open platform with bluestone slabs, which is the front gate square of Xuan Kingdom Palace.

Stepping into the square, looking around, eunuchs and palace maids shuttled through it, all of them hang down their hands and walked quickly, without a single one talking.

On the roof of the palace, there are small beasts of various colors, including dragons, phoenixes, seahorses, sky horses, lions, etc. The dragons symbolize the emperor, phoenixes, auspiciousness and people with holy virtues. The sky horse symbolizes the accessibility of all directions and unobstructedness. The lion symbolizes courage and majesty. Looking from the high ridge, a tall wooden pole stands not far away, with a disk mounted on the wooden pole. A small eunuch tied a rope and a bamboo basket tied to the waist. He climbed onto the wooden pole and put things into the disk.

Xiang Suining knew that the little eunuch put chopped meat and grains and there were special people in the palace putting meat and grains into the disc twice a day to support crows, so it is common for crows to circle over Xuanguo Imperial City. When there were too many crows, the sky above the entire imperial city was pitch black, like dark clouds, and the bright yellow glazed tiles of the imperial city darkened.

In the eyes of Xuan people, crows are no more than magpies, and they are not auspicious birds. The people are very taboo about it. If they encounter crows early in the morning, they will scold them and say bad luck. The emperor's family may also think so. It was not until Guo Zhengchan ascended the throne that he changed the limelight and erected this wooden pole in the palace wall to raise crows.

It is said that when Guo Zhengchan came to the age of the empress dowager, dozens of crows flew in the yard of the empress dowager today. The empress dowager was in a breeze position, and several midwives had no choice. Seeing that the empress dowager's blood was flowing all over the bed, I thought that he would die, the old emperor felt sorry for the empress dowager and hated the prince in his heart. Why did he want his mother's life before he was born?

Later, after several times of ginseng soup, the old lady tried her best and shed half of her blood on her body before she gave birth to a child with a purple body. The child had no breathing and would not move. The old emperor only glanced at it, and it was slippery and dirty like a black eggplant. He just thought he was dead and was about to throw it to the eunuch. At this moment, a crow flew up and pecked the child's face, or it was painful. The child cried out with a "wow". The midwife snatched the amniotic fluid from the child's mouth and scrubbed it again. The child actually came back to live. But the old emperor never hugged him again.

When the crow flew over, it also pecked the old emperor's hand. The black hair on the crow was shiny and the small attacking eyes left an immortal mark in the old emperor's heart.

Perhaps he has a grudge against this child, perhaps he has a grudge against this crow, perhaps he has a grudge against the child and the crow, and the old emperor is very unfamiliar with Guo Zhengchan.

Feng Shui takes turns, and when Guo Zhengchan becomes emperor, he wants to avenge his previous shame.

When other emperors are born, aren’t there any auspiciousness in the palace? For example, five stars gather, unicorn appears, nectar descends, and Buddha’s light shines everywhere.

When he was born, crows gathered together, so he would worship crows. Anyway, he said that crows are divine birds, and crows are divine birds.

A group of crows flew over the top of their heads, flew across the roof, and circled around the wooden poles to the west.

"Oh, Baxi, this little bastard, has told him how many times he fed the crow and asked others to feed it. He went up by himself and could not kill the monkey." Eunuch Chang looked at the shaking wooden pole in the west and shook his head.

Xiang Suining followed Xiang Daying gently. Xiang Daying suppressed Eunuch Chang's steps and asked carefully: "Eunuch Chang has always been well-informed. Why did the Emperor summon me, this incompetent daughter? Can Eunuch Chang give me some advice?"

Eunuch Chang was not very clear, but just took Xiang Suining outside the Yangxin Palace. He went in to report. After reporting, he bowed to Xiang Suining and told Xiang Suining: "Go in, where is the emperor waiting, say something, and just answer honestly."

Xiang Suining had never entered the palace in his previous life, so she had no impression of what the Yangxin Palace looked like with the emperor.

The entrance to the Yangxin Hall is paved with gray marble. After passing the high red paint threshold, you enter the Yangxin Hall.

The Hall of Yangxin is very tall, at least twice as tall as an ordinary house. The entire wooden frame structure is carved with beams and painted buildings on it, carved with various patterns such as dragons, phoenixes, unicorns, bats, etc., and painted with various flowers and trees, which are lifelike and breathtaking.

There are three side halls on both sides, and eight pillars are placed in the main hall. The pillars are like the beams of the house, and the patterns of dragons flying into the sea of ​​clouds and dragons embracing the nine heavens are painted.

The emperor sat far away on his red gold throne. After eight steps down, there was a long red carpet. Xiang Suining stood at the end of the red carpet, not daring to look around, but just walked forward step by step.

The emperor was far away and could not see his appearance. His throne was very high. He sat upright and felt very majestic.

"Come to me." The emperor said.

Perhaps the Palace of Yangxin was too empty and the emperor's voice was amplified, as if it was pressed from the top of his head.

Two teams of people stand in the huge palace of Shangxin.

Guo Jingdeng stood on the left with a woman in a high bun in a palace outfit. It was Guo Jingdeng and his mother.

There are also Lan Pao and his mother, Princess Langding, standing on the right.

Xiang Suining didn't know where to stand, so he could only stand in the middle.

The emperor looked at her condescendingly, with a water-green shirt, a pomegranate skirt with white teeth, a dark green velvet flower between her hair, and a hollow carved silver hairpin, which was simple and low-key, not like a girl who caused trouble.

Xiang Suining respectfully saluted the emperor.

The emperor asked her what her name was and how old she was, and then smiled and said, "You don't have to be afraid, you just ask a few words."

The emperor asked Guo Ding again, "Didn't you say that the fight has something to do with the second girl in Xiang's name? Now she is here. What kind of thing is that you are touching the knife and saying."

Xiang Daying listened to the emperor's words from a distance, ran to the front with a small step, pushed Xiang Suining and knelt down, and said to the emperor with a bitter taste: "Your Majesty, the little girl is ignorant and lacks discipline. Although she doesn't know how she messed with the two noble sons, since the emperor summoned her, she was naturally wrong and wanted to kill and cut her. But with the emperor's sage, I dare not say anything. However, for her young and ignorant, and for her mother being a madman, Rong Xiaonu talks carefully to avoid any misunderstandings."

"I didn't say I wanted to kill your daughter, you were like a woman." The emperor waved his hand at Xiang Daying: "Stand far away and listen. Things are not settled yet, don't get messed up."

Xiang Dae-ying had to stop from afar.

Guo Zhideng clenched his fists, his fat face turned red.

The blue fades, the wind is light and the clouds are light.

"Dang'er, I'm your uncle, you're a guest. What's going on? Let's talk about it first." The emperor leaned leaning against the throne.

Before Lan Huan could speak, Guo Jingwan jumped out, jumping too quickly, and the flesh on his face trembled: "Father, I..." He didn't dare to say that he was plotting to murder Xiang Suining: "I...I think this little girl..." He slapped himself: "I think this little girl looks pretty..."

This heartless son.

Concubine He sighed secretly.

He is the second prince of Xuan Kingdom. How could he praise Xiang Daying's daughter in public? What kind of character is Xiang Daying? Although he is a second-rank official in the court, he is a civil servant and a idle position. He receives his salary and plays with the emperor. After all, he is like a monkey raised by the emperor. What kind of future can his daughter have? How could a person like her, who is working hard and motivated like her, give birth to such a visionless son?

Concubine He immediately kicked Guo Yideng's leg bend, and Guo Yideng knelt down.

The emperor narrowed his eyes and Concubine He quickly retreated.

The emperor's eyes were slender and when he squinted, his eyes were gloomy, just like an old cat who didn't sleep at night, alert and focused.

Guo Zhideng was very scared. He thought about it and knelt there and began to think: "It is said that the incense of Jiguang Temple is effective. Recently, the father often had nightmares. He dreamed that his old subordinates in the previous dynasty had entered the palace again and often couldn't sleep well. The child was anxious for his father and wanted to go to Jiguang Temple to burn incense to ensure his father's safety. Unexpectedly, he met this second girl, and she...she saw her son look a bit beautiful..."

"Huh?" the emperor frowned. Guo Qing was pretty? Why didn't he find out that he raised this son until he was a teenager?

Guo Zhideng sniffed: "When the second girl saw that the child was rich and dressed, she... made a fuss about the child, deliberately blocked the road, and tried to... seduce the child."

When Xiang Daying heard this, her face turned red to her ears. If Xiang Guoxin stared at a girl and blocked the way to tease her, he believed that Xiang Suining blocked the way to seduce Guo Ding, right?

The family of scholars and scholars still knows some etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame. It has never been heard of such things since generations of ancestors.

Guo Jing said again: "Seeing that the child refused to obey, the second girl called a helper again, Lan Dao, the imperial guards. They robbed the child, robbed my jade pendant, and robbed my wallet. In desperation, the child injured Lan Dao with a short knife he carried with him. It was not intentional. The child was afraid that they would steal the things and wanted the child's life."

After Guo Jingdian followed Xiang Yan, he made great progress.

At least he is good at lying.

It turns black and white into words and says it as real.

The emperor did not say he believed or did not believe, but just looked at Lan Dao.

Lan Pao knelt down: "When I went, I happened to see the second prince... trying to bully the second girl. The emperor asked me to be the imperial guard for one day, and I wanted to protect the peace of Qingcheng. This happened under my nose, so I couldn't ignore it."

The emperor nodded.

Princess Guo also nodded with satisfaction. No one in the palace knew about Guo Ting's character. I am afraid that the emperor would go through a formality when he asked questions.

Concubine He didn't want to do it anymore, but Lan Lai said it was so high-sounding, as if it was doing business, and with Princess Guo, she didn't dare to use Lan Lai, so she had to point at Xiang Suining and said, "You are so charming at your young age. Can you still want to occupy our second prince? You don't even look at it in a mirror. Are you worthy?"

"I'm not worthy." Xiang Suining looked calm in the face of the accusation: "I hope Concubine He will forgive me."

Concubine He was very thorny, and she felt angry in her heart, but she couldn't vent it. She looked like a lady from a noble family, which made her difficult for her to speak.

The emperor sat on the throne and laughed.

Everyone was puzzled but dared not say much.

Eunuch Chang brought a cup of tea and the emperor drank it before stopping laughing.

The Yangxin Palace was very quiet, and the small sound of the hourglass came along the cracks of the bluestone.

"I know the children's affairs in my heart." The emperor stood up with the dragon head on the side of the throne: "The second prince is old and I am afraid that the palace will not be able to be trapped. After a while, I will open a mansion for you to get married and move out."

Guo Zhi didn't understand why, but when he thought of getting married, he immediately knelt down happily: "Thank you, Father."

Concubine He frowned. The opening of the mansion is usually a king. The emperor does not mention the title of the king, but only says that opening of the mansion is not necessarily a good thing. It is like kicking Guo Zhi far away. Is it because he thinks Guo Zhi is annoyed?

The emperor said again: "The Lan Guard has done his duty and performed his duties conscientiously. It is worthy of praise. The orange jade pendant has been cracked. I will reward you with a new one. In addition, from today, I will allow you to bring a knife in front of you."

It is not important for the emperor to reward anything, and there is no shortage of Changxin Marquis' Mansion. It is a great honor to carry a knife in front of the imperial country. The entire Xuan Kingdom knows a rule that is to enter the imperial city, civil servants get out of sedan chairs, military officers get off the horse, and those with swords and swords will also take off the swords and swords by themselves. Except for the imperial guards, those who can bring a knife to the emperor are unheard of. Lan Pao is the first one.

Princess Guo immediately kowtowed and thanked her. The emperor was so kind to him, so he was sympathetic to Lan Pao's injuries, and also comforted him, and also to be accused of Lan Pao's reputation.

Only Xiang Suining is left.

If the emperor pushed all the charges on her and asked her a weak woman to take the blame, and just put a name on her will be enough to calm the incident, the emperor obviously did not, but smiled and rubbed a string of yellow beads on his wrist: "The daughter of my beloved minister was frightened, what compensation do you want?"

Xiang Daying was frightened.

Xiang Suining knelt down righteously and said, "My daughters and all the family are all the emperor's kindness, the emperor's wiseness, the people's blessings, and the ministers thank you."

"Sexy, charming fox." Concubine He spat in her heart. She saw too many ways of refusing and waiting. She wanted to make up for whatever compensation she wanted. She said that she wanted to flatter such a long time, but she wanted to get some reward.

The emperor asked Xiang Suining: "You really don't ask for anything?"

"I just want my father not to be afraid, thinking that I have caused some trouble again."

The emperor smiled so hard that he leaned back and forth. He was used to listening to the words on the table. Such truths were really rare.

Xiang Taiying is embarrassed.

The emperor personally told him: "You second girl is very sensible. Don't let her down. After returning home, stay alive."

"Yes, yes." Xiang Dae-ying nodded.

It is not easy to step into the palace and be bitten by Guo Zhi. It is already difficult to escape without any other thing. Xiang Suining has never thought about anything else.

The emperor was not stingy and rewarded two brocade pieces from Changzhou, Suining, and a red gold-inlaid pink tourmaline hairpin, a pair of gold bracelets and two small silver ingots.

Eunuch Chang personally sent his elder brother Suining out of the palace.

Xiang Daying kept thanking him: "Eunuch Chang, please ask you for your blessings. We are safe and sound."

"It's the emperor's wise, who is what kind of person? The emperor knows what kind of person is." Eunuch Chang bowed and said, "It's still Master Xiang who is in front of the emperor. The emperor always leans against Master Xiang, so how could he let the second girl be wronged? The reward is the meaning of liking the second girl. Miss Two, you have a bright future in the future."

"Eunuch Xie." Xiang Suining picked a silver ingot and gave it to Eunuch Chang. It is common for eunuchs in the palace to receive gifts.

Unexpectedly, Eunuch Chang blushed and returned the silver ingot: "Miss Second Girl slapped me in the face? What's our relationship? No matter who I take, I can't take the silver from Second Girl."

Xiang Suining had to take back the money.

"Two pieces of brocade are not easy to get. I will ask the eunuch to take you to your mansion later. Come back, it's getting late." Eunuch Chang stood at the gate of the palace and bowed to the person.

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