Chapter 2: The willow tree in Ying's mansion is as graceful as a cover
"Brother Thirteen has experienced a catastrophe, and he has become more sensible." A look of relief appeared on the official's face, and he took Zhao Si's hand and led him to the side hall.
Two desks have already been set up there, one horizontally and one vertically, very close to each other.
"Brother Thirteen, sit down."
"Thank you Sixth Brother."
After Zhao Si sat down, he had the opportunity to look at the Yanhe Hall and the official himself.
The Yanhe Hall is very simple.
In addition to being grand and spacious, the decoration is not as good as the main hall in his own palace.
After all, the Prince Jian's Mansion where he lives is the palace where his father, Prince Ying, was before he was appointed as the crown prince. It is also called Ying's Mansion.
However, the official family wanted to inherit and carry forward the legacy of his father and did not care much about luxury and enjoyment. The palace where he lived was decorated very frugally.
Zhao Si looked at the official and found that his appearance was indeed similar to his own, but his body shape was very different.
The official is tall and slender, but he himself is majestic and tall.
After taking office, the official, who had been in poor health since childhood, worked hard on state affairs and became thinner and thinner. But after he left the cabinet and opened a government last year, he had no one to restrain him, and his life became wild.
In less than a year, my figure has grown thicker.
Sitting together and comparing, the official's family is as thin as a monkey, but he is as strong as a bear.
Zhao seemed to be answering the official's words calmly, rehearsing the words he had been pondering over and over again in his mind.
Hao Sui's abnormal behavior just now made Zhao Si feel even more urgent.
The mastermind behind the plot to assassinate him has already joined the palace. If he doesn't fight back, he won't even be able to enter the palace in the future.
You must use your own advantages, play the family card well, and regain the trust of the officials. Only in this way can you have the opportunity to gather enough strength to break through the danger and make a difference.
Liang Congzheng, who was standing silently by the side, saw the two people sitting down and waved to the outside. The waiter Liu Shui helped bring the food to them.
Pigeon soup, fake fish, rabbit with green onions, bamboo shoots, spinach lettuce, four vegetables and one soup, plus three pancakes. It is indeed incomparable to the Manchu-Han banquet.
"I know you like to eat rabbits, so I asked them to get one." The official said with a smile.
Zhao Si's face turned red for a rare moment, as he heard the emperor's brother's hidden instructions.
"It's embarrassing for Sixth Brother."
The predecessor, Zhao Si, used to love hunting foxes and rabbits, and liked to invite the officers of the imperial army to ride and shoot wantonly in the mountains and forests. He was accused of trampling farmland, destroying wheat and hurting the people, etc. by some admonishers, and was impeached many times.
Each time, it aroused the "same hatred" among the civil servants, and each time it was the emperor's brother and Xini who dealt with it perfunctorily.
The officials felt even more relieved when they saw that Zhao Si did not retort angrily as usual, but just bowed his head and admitted his mistake.
I also saw him looking like a bear with an embarrassed look on his face. I found it funny and couldn't help laughing.
Seeing that the atmosphere was almost over, Zhao Si spoke.
"Sixth brother, I asked Liang Congzheng on the way and I know that your food intake has been much better in the past few days, but your spleen and stomach are still not good."
"Yes, after taking a few doses of the doctor's medicine, the accumulated food has disappeared. This spleen and stomach... minor problem will not be cured in a while."
The official glanced at the dishes on the table and said calmly.
"Brother Six, Thirteen knows that you have a bad spleen and stomach, so he bought a box of Zhangshui's yam cake. Everyone said that it is very good for the spleen and stomach."
Zhao Si asked someone to bring the box of yam cake, and after opening it, he took a few bites.
"It's really delicious. Brother Six, you can try it. If you like it, eat more."
"Bring it over." The official waved his hand happily.
Liang Congzheng brought the yam cake over.
A small wooden box, specially wrapped with a quilt, and you can still see the steam rising from the cakes in the wooden box.
The official tasted it and felt that it was sweet. After swallowing it, a warmth went down from his throat, warming his stomach and even his heart.
Nourishing the spleen and stomach will not have any effect for a while. But the official family sees Brother Thirteen’s thoughts.
The other four brothers have all left the government and started their own houses, and they all know that they have a bad spleen and stomach, but no one has ever thought of bringing themselves a box of food that can nourish their spleen and stomach.
Sure enough, they are still brothers connected by blood, so they care about themselves so much.
Brother Thirteen has experienced life and death and has become sensible.
"Brother Thirteen, you have really changed a lot. I heard that you asked people to go to Zouyuan and copy a lot of residence papers back?"
"Yes." Zhao Si admitted frankly.
After he woke up, he thought of a source of information - asking people to go to the memorial hall to copy old newspapers and collect "tabloids" from the streets.
Through this information and the memory of his predecessor, Zhao Si realized that he was in a very dangerous situation.
Falling into the water in Jinmingchi is just one step.
The predecessor, Zhao Si, was rumored to be a sensual and mischievous man. His bad reputation was mostly created by the four brothers headed by Duan Wang Zhao Ji, who joined forces to fuel the flames.
Because he is the half-brother of the official family.
When the official family is weak and sick, and has no heirs for a long time, his identity is the biggest original sin, and he is a thorn in the eyes and a thorn in the flesh of his brothers!
But this fool doesn’t know it yet!
Fortunately, he has strong blood and has been able to carry it until now.
Now that I'm here, I won't let you bully honest people like this!
Zhao Si glanced at Guan Jia and saw that he was listening carefully.
"There is great terror between life and death. In the coma, I seemed to be dreaming, dreaming about many things in the past. Huang Kaoxian passed away when I was only two years old, and I can't remember his appearance. But my sixth brother took me to Baowen Pavilion and
I still remember the scene of reading the Imperial Examination and Imperial Inscriptions in Xianmo Pavilion 1."
"I also remember what Sixth Brother pointed at Huang Kao's portrait and told me. You said that when Huang Kao was young, he knew that his ancestors aspired to swallow thistles and spirit weapons, and then defeated countless defeated soldiers, determined to avenge the shame of countless generations. Huang Kao
When I was fourteen years old, I was very ambitious and wanted to investigate the crimes in the northwest. Unfortunately, things became difficult and the war in Hexi was unfavorable, so the imperial examination ended in depression."
At this point, Zhao Si cried again.
He looked sadly at the void, as if he saw the portrait of the temple emperor hanging in the Xianmo Pavilion.
The official's eyes also turned red.
"Thinking about this, Thirteen burst into tears with shame. Sixth Brother inherited Huang Kao's legacy and worked hard and devoted himself. But I acted recklessly, failed to help, and only caused trouble for Sixth Brother."
"After I recovered, I went to Huang Kao's former residence, knelt down and reflected. Suddenly I came to my senses and made a great wish. I must do my best to help my sixth brother fulfill Huang Kao's legacy!"
Speaking of this, Zhao Si burst into tears and became impassioned.
The official's eyes were red, and he said with a mixture of joy and sadness, "Brother Thirteen, in fact, judging from your body shape and appearance, you are the most like Huang Kao among our brothers."
Zhao Si's heart felt hot, knowing that the emperor's heart was completely open to him.
Secretly gathering momentum, preparing for the last and most powerful blow.
The official continued: "My Thirteenth Brother can wake up and understand the difficulties of being a brother. I am extremely happy. From now on, the two of us are of the same mind, and we will be as powerful as gold."
Zhao Si wiped away his tears and replied proudly: "Thirteen is willing to go through fire and water for my sixth brother, and work hard to test the legacy of Emperor Guang."
The official nodded repeatedly, his cheeks turning bright red.
"I haven't been to Thirteenth Brother's house for a long time. Now that spring is getting warmer, I'll look for an opportunity to be a guest."
"Thank you, Brother Six." Zhao Si thanked him first, and then asked sadly, "Brother Six, do you still remember the willow tree in the garden behind my house?"
The official nodded.
"My father planted it with his own hands two months before entering the East Palace in the third year of Zhiping. Now it is like a canopy." Zhao Si covered his face with his hands and said with a sigh.
Hearing this sentence, Guan Jia felt sad and burst into tears.
1. Baowen Pavilion is dedicated to the collection of Renzong's imperial books, imperial collections and Yingzong's imperial books. Xianmo Pavilion is dedicated to the collection of Shenzong's imperial books and imperial books. Wushen in October of the fourth year of Yuanyou (1089), five years after Shenzong's death in the Song Dynasty Years later, Su Zhe, a Hanlin scholar who was assigned to edit the Imperial Collection of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, reported that the collected works of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty contained 935 articles, consisting of ninety volumes, with five volumes of catalogues. He requested that a pavilion be built to collect them accordingly.
At that time, the Empress Dowager Gao, who supported the old party, was in charge of the government, so she did not accept Su Che's memorial, and only issued an edict to Song Shenzong to "collect it in the Baowen Pavilion for collection", "not to mention building a pavilion."
During the Shaosheng period, minister Deng Xunren once again petitioned to build a cabinet for Song Shenzong. Song Zhezong, who was already in power at that time, immediately adopted Deng Xunren's opinion and "ordered Hanlin bachelors, and each member of Zhongshushe to write five names of the cabinet to hear about it." Soon it was officially "Edicted to build a pavilion to house Emperor Shenzong's collection, named Xianmo". This chapter has been completed!