A rustling autumn rain, accompanied by thin golden phoenixes, arrived as scheduled at dawn in the morning and sprinkled on Xiaoyushan City. Every corner of the city was filled with smoke-like mist and crystal-like mist.
Refreshing, every inch of soil exudes fresh fragrance.
Today's Tengu Garden was extremely lively; King Kong kept urging: "Hurry up, hurry up." Li Hao sat beside Xiao Shizhu's bed and pulled the sleepy Xiao Shizhu out of the warm quilt.
, helped him sit up, shook him and said urgently: "Sir, wake up, this is your first day in court, you must not be late."
After saying that, he took the hot towel brought by Li Chai, wiped it on Xiao Shizhu's face randomly, and then said: "Do you want to sleep after coming back from the morning? Let's put this up first, otherwise my lord will do it again
I’m going to put on little shoes for you.”
"Hmm." Xiao Shizhu drawled a long voice and responded impatiently, still closing his eyes tightly. Then he tilted his head and started snoring loudly again.
"Sir, I'm sorry!" King Kong, who couldn't stand it anymore, stepped forward and pulled Li Hao away, and slapped Xiao Shizhu twice in the face without hesitation!
After two crisp sounds of "pop", Xiao Shizhu suddenly lost all his sleepiness and woke up completely. After calming down, the first thing he did after taking a few breaths of air-conditioning was to open his eyes and stare at King Kong and yelled: "You
Are you going to beat dad to death?".
King Kong lowered his head slightly and expressed his apology.
"It's okay to wake me up, but can't you find another way?" After complaining angrily, Xiao Shizhu rubbed his cheeks, yawned, and scolded King Kong angrily: "You have to do this every time
It’s a simple and crude method, and you won’t be able to eat roast chicken tonight.”
"As long as you are not late when you go to court, don't give people excuses, and are not impeached by the officials, I would rather not eat roast chicken for the rest of my life." King Kong handed him over without changing his expression, not feeling at all that he had done anything wrong.
Xiao Shizhu was blocked by the words. He didn't know what to say, so he could only shout: "Clothes, shoes."
"I studied the situation around my country until midnight last night, don't you know?" Xiao Shizhu muttered while putting on his shoes: "If you wake me up at dawn, I will not get enough rest; I won't get enough rest.
My body will collapse, and if I collapse, the ghost motherland will collapse."
"Sir, please stop lying." King Kong heard this and said sternly: "When I got up last night, I clearly saw that you were reading "Erotic Palace". That stuff is not good, it will hurt your mind and body, and it will also hurt your soul.
You should watch it less and better not at all." As soon as these words came out, Li Hao, Li Cai and Yang Dingfeng lowered their heads and snickered.
"You, you, you." The embarrassment flashed across Xiao Shizhu's face. He pointed at King Kong with his hand, suppressed his blush and couldn't think of the words after saying three words "you", so he had to say harshly.
: "You are the tease sent by my wife." Then he took the court clothes, put them on and went outside the house.
As soon as he left, loud laughter could be heard in the room. After a while, Yang Dingfeng realized that Xiao Shizhu's black gauze hat was still in his hand, and he shouted: "Sir, your hat." and chased him out.
Xiao Shizhu braved the rain and came to the small river that ran through the square from east to west. He saw that Chun Yun had already led the neatly dressed civil and military ministers, standing in the autumn wind and drizzle, at the end of the square at the north end.
In front of the stone steps of the main hall called "Tiande Hall".
"Button it up." Seeing that he was late and had not even buttoned up his clothes, Chun Yun stared at him and angrily yelled: "Go and stand behind him!".
"Oh." Xiao Shizhu noticed it after she reminded him. He hurriedly buttoned up his shirt with a smile, then ran to stand behind the line of officials. His appearance also attracted side glances and whispered comments from other officials.
It’s not that he was disheveled and unseemly, but that since six hundred years ago, all officials of the fifth rank and above in the Ghost Mother Kingdom have been women. When Xiao Shizhu stood in the ranks of hundreds of officials, he saw a little green amid the vast red, which was extremely conspicuous.
.All the officials’ attention was focused on him.
And those who can enter the Ghost Mother Palace to pay homage to the Holy Spirit are all officials of fifth rank or above. Looking at Mr. Xiao Shizhu, Mr. Xiao, the patch on his chest is embroidered with a pattern of a seahorse swimming in the sea. You can tell at a glance that he is
He's just a ninth-grade official.
A person with a high rank could go to court, which immediately aroused the curiosity and suspicion of all the officials.
Just as the officials were talking endlessly about him, a maid walked out of the Tiande Palace, stood by the door of the palace, and shouted to the officials: "My lord has arrived, and all the ministers will come to court early."
After finishing speaking, Chun Yun led the officials and headed towards the Tiande Hall with heads held high. Xiao Shizhu also hurriedly followed.
Xiao Shizhu was tired of seeing what the outside of the hall looked like. Today was the first time he came to the Tiande Hall, and he was inevitably a little curious.
Entering the hall, you can see that the decoration is very gorgeous. There are dense dougongs under the eaves, and the beams and seals inside and outside are decorated with colorful paintings. The floor is paved with gold bricks, making the surface of the ground light black, oily and shiny, and not astringent.
slip.
Seventy-two large pillars that can be embraced by two people support the entire weight of the roof. In addition to nine lifelike golden phoenixes soaring in the clouds, the body of each pillar is also engraved with thirty-six tadpole inscriptions.
The runes emit a faint blue soft light.
In the middle of the deep hall, on a high platform with nine steps, there is a gilt throne. There are thirteen golden phoenixes wrapped around the chair ring. The largest one stands with its head held high in the center of the back of the chair, as if it is flying high;
There are no chair legs under the chair surface, but are replaced by a Xumi base. The place where the Xumi base is tied around the waist is open-carved with two phoenixes playing with pearls, and is covered with gold paint. There are elephants carrying treasure vases symbolizing peace and elephants around it, symbolizing the wise monarch.
The luduan is where all the virtuous people have gathered, and the crane symbolizes longevity, as well as the incense burner and incense tube for burning incense.
At this time, the ghost mother is sitting on it. Today she is wearing a emerald crown with dragons, phoenixes and pearls on her head, a crimson coat with large sleeves embroidered with nine phoenix patterns, and a long red skirt. She has a shawl on her clothes, and on her shoulders are woven sun and moon.
Phoenix and peony patterns. The majesty and style of the leader of a country are fully demonstrated against the backdrop of this outfit.
The ministers stood facing her below, divided into two rows according to left, civil, and right. They all dressed up in robes, knelt down to her, kowtowed and shouted: "Long live my lord, long live, long live my lord."
age!".
It was the first time for Xiao Shizhu to go to court. He had no experience in worshiping, so he had to follow the instructions. But he said secretly in his heart: "She is indeed my future wife. She is so awesome. She is just a prince and king."
The ambition to have all the ministers shout long live is so obvious!"
"Everyone is safe," the ghost mother said, and the ministers shouted, "Thank you, my lord, for your kindness." Then they stood up.
"Today's morning meeting is just for one thing. Should we use troops against the Ghost King? Or should we destroy Wu Zhiqi's pirates first?" After saying this, the Ghost Mother glanced at everyone's faces with a slightly questioning gaze.
"Of course he is the Ghost King." Standing opposite Chun Yun, a female official at the front of the civil service queue immediately stepped out with a jade wat in hand, bowed to the Ghost Mother, and said excitedly: "We all know that the man who was captured a few days ago
The spies of the Ghost Kingdom actually sent spies to our country, and even sneaked into the palace to steal treasures. This kind of behavior that does not take my Lord seriously is intolerable, but what is intolerable!" The voice got louder and louder.
She finished her words and successfully aroused the emotions of many ministers. Immediately, someone echoed loudly: "Yes, yes." or: "How can others be allowed to snore on the side of the bed, not to mention that the Ghost King is not someone
Good ghosts, only by getting rid of them can we avoid future troubles!" So.
"Who is this sister? You can talk so tough on paper, I admire you." Xiao Shizhu said in his heart, and curiously looked around, and saw that this woman was about half a foot shorter than Chun Yun, and she was also wearing a crimson gauze.
He wears a robe and a seven-beam crown; judging by his appearance, he is of high rank.
It's just that her figure is much better than Chunyun's, she is petite and well-proportioned, and even though she has no makeup on her face today, she still has a delicate and charming face; especially her pair of phoenix eyes, which are extremely beautiful.
"Another one with big breasts and no brains." Xiao Shizhu sighed secretly in his heart, and at the same time walked out of the queue slowly without thinking, and asked the woman bluntly: "What do you call this sister?".
Hearing this, everyone turned to look at Xiao Shizhu.
"Qiu Shuang, then the Minister of Household Affairs of the Ghost Mother Country." After the woman answered, a touch of arrogance appeared on her face. She looked at Xiao Shizhu from head to toe with a slightly contemptuous look, and said, "What about you?"
"Oh, it turns out he is the Master in charge of household registration and finance. My younger brother is the No. 1 shit shovel official in the Ghost Mother Kingdom, as granted by the Ghost Mother." After Xiao Shizhu saluted her respectfully, he raised his head and looked directly into her phoenix eyes,
He slowly asked: "Sister, have you never received nine years of compulsory education? Or have you never played a real-time strategy game?".
None of the old ghosts present had heard these words he said, and they were all stunned.
"We all know that when fighting a war, it is necessary to be close first and then far away, first weak and then strong; especially in the development stage, you have to pick the weak ones!" Xiao Shizhu said with a faint smile on his face.
He slowly said: "Obviously, Wu Zhiqi's pirates are weak. Moreover, Wu Zhiqi's stronghold is only seventy miles away from the ghost motherland by sea, but the ghost kingdom is more than three hundred miles away. Why should one be close and the other far away?
Should we attack the far ones first and then the close ones?"
"Because the Ghost King is unkind and unjust." Qiu Shuang glanced at him sideways and said, "Such a shameless person who ignores our Lord should be given some color." After speaking, another group of ministers echoed: "Yes.
Ah, yes! Let's make a surprise attack and catch them off guard." Xiao Shizhu was so noisy that he couldn't get a word in.
"Shut up, you are hundreds of years older than me. I don't know that you can't interrupt when others are talking. Is this basic politeness?" After Xiao Shizhu scolded, the entire hall fell silent. He nodded with satisfaction and was about to continue.
As he spoke, a minister sternly scolded him: "How dare you, a ninth-rank official, speak nonsense in the main hall!".
"It's reasonable but don't speak loudly. I want to put the sun and moon flag of the Ghost Mother Country into the Ghost King's Palace more than any of you ghosts." Xiao Shizhu walked quickly to the minister who scolded him, walked in and looked down at him and spoke quickly.
He ridiculed: "But the Ghost Kingdom is far away from us, and it has many soldiers and horses. Not to mention its strong national strength, the terrain in the country is mostly ravines, canyons, cliffs, and mountains, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Once our two countries go to war, other countries can rely on
The terrain is favorable and it won't be a problem for us to spend three to five years. In addition, the current ghost mother country is in the development stage. Not to mention whether we can spend three to five years with the opponent, let's talk about how to destroy the ghost kingdom.
Only the soldiers of the whole country can fight against it. It cannot be defeated in ten days and a half months. By then, the sudden blitzkrieg will turn into a protracted war. If the witch Qiruo attacks from the east, the country's troops will be empty. You have to use them.
Why protect the people and our beloved Lord and Ghost Mother?" He said everything that made sense, but the minister was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer.
After he finished, he glanced at the chest of the other party. After seeing that the other party was a civil servant, he snorted and added: "You are just a talkative scholar who can only harm the country and the people!".