Chapter 36 Someone from the Prime Minister's Mansion has arrived (two chapters in one!!)

Today is a small court meeting, so officials below the fourth rank do not need to attend, even those with fourth rank idle positions do not need to come.

From the crowing of the cock in the morning until noon.

Sometimes, it ends as late as it is now.

As for what to say.

For example, the military supply problem of the princes in Shu, the need to recruit soldiers for the territory of the Eighth Prince of Jiaodong to prevent foreign invasions like a few months ago, and the reports of officials in some regions, as well as reports of some of the imperial censors who behaved improperly or did something wrong, etc.

The empress sat in the position that everyone in the world dreamed of, listening to the quarrels below.

There was no need for her to say much, as many things had already been discussed among the powerful people below, and all she had to do in the end was nod her head.

Of course, for some things, people with different positions will oppose them, and the empress is of course happy to sit back and watch the dogs fight each other.

But no matter whether she nodded or not, every matter and every sentence had to be carefully considered, even a seemingly irrelevant cough had to be thought about.

Historically, all matters concerning government affairs have to be linked closely together.

And everyone who can stand at the small court meeting has two magic weapons, a knife and a sword, the knife that hides a dagger behind a smile, and the sword that speaks sweet words and has a sharp tongue.

Therefore, every time there was a court meeting, no matter how big or small, the empress had a headache. She was really exhausted, but she also knew that compared to dying, this little bit of exhaustion was nothing.

Over the years, the empress had become more and more accustomed to it, especially after each court meeting, when she would lie down on the huge dragon couch in the imperial study.

I repeatedly thought about who spoke at the meeting and what they said. After thinking it over, I began to curse those people one by one in my mind.

It’s also a way to relieve stress.

The empress lay on the dragon bed, tilting her head to look through the gauze curtain at the purple-robed female official standing outside: "Today, the prime minister wanted Zhang Xun to take over the position of Chief Censor. He is so old now, how much money did he spend to buy this position from the prime minister?"

The purple-robed female official stood respectfully and said, "Previous news said that the positions of the fifth rank and above, including the Imperial Counselor, the Chief Censor, and the Attendant, are all worth about 90,000 taels. Other positions such as the Dushui Envoy and positions around Luo'an City such as the Magistrate of Wannian County are all worth 40,000 taels."

The empress laughed out loud, "He is really rich. Let's check. He was just a Dali Sizhi before, and now he has so much money. He must have embezzled dozens of them in the seventeen years he has been in office. It just so happens that I need money for my wedding, so he happened to be sent here. After checking, he was 'sent' to the Grand Tutor. Today, for the Chief Censor, the Prime Minister's people and the Grand Tutor's people almost fought. But let him be the Chief Censor for a while first."

The purple-robed female official immediately saluted: "Yes."

After that, the purple-robed female official said, "Your Majesty, Deputy Commander Yan has been waiting for a long time. He said that Miss Chang'an prepared some food. Seeing that Your Majesty is still in the court,..."

Swish!

Before the purple-robed female official finished speaking, the empress suddenly sat up and opened the curtain: "Then why don't you let her in quickly? How can the aunt not distinguish between the big and the small?"

The purple-robed female official was stunned for a moment, but she still bowed respectfully and immediately went back to call for help.

immediately

Eunuchs and palace maids carried tables and cases into the imperial study and arranged them neatly, and then they came in carrying plates of dishes.

There was a rule before the Great Xia Dynasty that eating those things in the imperial study was not allowed, so as not to disgrace the books of sages.

But ever since the previous emperor broke this rule, the empress followed suit and did whatever she wanted.

So in a moment

In the huge imperial study, there was a huge table of dishes. At a glance, there were more than ten dishes and two soups.

After everything was arranged, everyone left, leaving only the empress and Yan Ruyu.

Even the female official in purple just stood at the door.

The empress didn't follow any of those rules. She just picked up the chopsticks and started eating.

Um!

tasty!

But just as he picked up a piece of eggplant box and was about to eat it, he looked at Yan Ruyu on the side: "She can cook. No wonder our Commander Yan has become fat!"

Yan Ruyu blushed, pursed her lips and said immediately: "Your Majesty, according to what Miss Chang'an said, this is the middle of Kunlun Purple Melon..."

But at this point, Yan Ruyu looked at the empress who had been looking at him with strange eyes, and immediately clasped his fists and bowed: "I am guilty."

The empress smiled and said, "I don't blame you for anything. I just felt a little angry when I thought that in half a month, that bastard's cooking was so delicious, but you only gave me chocolate."

Hearing this, Yan Ruyu felt even more ashamed. She bent down and clasped her fists, not daring to stand up.

The empress smiled and said, "Okay, get up. I'm just teasing you. If Aunt Yan sees you being so serious, I don't know how angry she will be."

Yan Ruyu then slowly stood up.

After looking at her, the empress took a sip of something that looked like soup and drink. It tasted sour and sweet and very delicious. She immediately turned her head to look at Yan Ruyu.

Yan Ruyu said, "Miss Chang'an said this is called honey grapefruit tea. If Your Majesty likes it, she will make some and send it to you often."

The empress immediately asked, "Didn't you say to send the solution to the palace?"

Yan Ruyu thought carefully and said, "No, she just said she would make it for you herself."

Hearing this, the empress smiled knowingly: "You know I want to drink what I made myself."

After saying that, he looked at the large table of dishes in front of him and said, "That bastard made all of them himself, right?"

Yan Ruyu nodded: "I started to do these after I got up. Miss Changan did it all by herself."

The empress drank the honey grapefruit tea happily. A smile appeared on her face. As she tasted the tea in her hand, she felt it was even sweeter. "That bastard has a conscience."

Then, he picked up another piece of eggplant box and took a bite: "Tell me, what was that bastard's reaction after you gave the booklet and the letter out last night?"

Yan Ruyu was stunned, and immediately told Su Changan everything she had told him last night, even telling him about Su Changan's expression at the time, not daring to leave out anything.

After hearing this, the empress frowned, looked at Yan Ruyu and asked, "How dare you ask for the reason! You touched other people's hands, and you think you are right, right? You even dared to ask you to write down the reasons!!!"

Yan Ruyu didn't dare to say much.

The empress picked up the shredded pork with green peppers and ate them angrily, then bit her lower lip lightly. "The more I think about it, the angrier I get. I'm getting bolder and bolder. I actually said something about the reason. Is it nothing after touching you and saying it's because of a reason? Did I touch you in vain?"

Finally, the empress looked at Yan Ruyu.

Yan Ruyu didn't dare to answer and just stood there without saying a word.

The empress looked at Yan Ruyu angrily: "Go back and tell Su Changan that if he is wrong, then he is wrong. If he dares to say something like why, I will personally give the reason! ”

Yan Ruyu immediately said, "Yes."

But looking at the angry empress, Yan Ruyu sighed. How could His Majesty, who was so calm in the past, always be so unreasonable around Miss Chang'an?

don't know!

But think about it, as long as I don't say that I'm fat, or that I eat less, etc., and implicate myself in it, then it will be fine.

However, the purple-robed female official standing at the door heard the empress's words clearly. She smiled knowingly and stood quietly.

For her, it was great that when His Majesty just came back from the court meeting, there was a bit of gloom on his face, but it was swept away immediately.

The empress was still angry. She looked at Yan Ruyu and asked, "Where are the others? Or is there only this table of dishes?"

Hearing this, Yan Ruyu hesitated for a moment, but she finally took out the painting and said, "Miss Chang'an. Miss Chang'an also drew a painting with carbon black and asked me to give it to you, but..."

Thinking of this, Yan Ruyu hesitated for a moment, but decided to speak up for Su Changan, so she said, "It's just because we were in such a hurry, so maybe Miss Changan didn't draw it well."

The empress took the painting presented by Yan Ruyu with both hands, and after a moment of confusion, she opened it directly.

But as soon as he opened it and looked at the painting, his original angry expression suddenly disappeared, and he laughed subconsciously, especially when he saw the words written at the bottom: 'You are beautiful, right? You are the most beautiful and handsome in the whole area. Look at this teardrop mole, it has grown into my heart.'

After looking at the painting for a while, the empress cursed without any anger in her eyes: "It's so ugly! The painting is so ugly, and the words are so ugly too!"

After that, he carefully put the painting away and looked at Yan Ruyu and said, "You don't need to tell her what I asked you to tell her just now. Just say, I saw the painting this time. Don't paint it next time! It's too ugly! And the calligraphy is uglier than the painting!"

Yan Ruyu saw that although the empress looked angry, she had a sweet smile on her face and her tone was very gentle.

Very surprised!

Very surprised!!

Because all along, Yan Ruyu has been entangled in this painting.

Because it’s too ugly!

This will definitely make anyone angry!

So just now she was thinking about how to persuade the empress.

But now

The empress was not angry, she was even a little

Sweet feeling?

Yan Ruyu doesn't understand

I don’t understand either.

He just looked at the empress and clasped his fist respectfully: "Yes."

but.

Seeing the empress eating with a silly smile on her face, she was even more confused! !

The empress suddenly seemed to remember something and looked at Yan Ruyu: "By the way, Yuan Ruxi went to see Su Changan today, right?"

Yan Ruyu said immediately, "Yes, I came with Xun Kuang and Xun Siye to deliver the calligraphy that Master Yao and Mr. Shuiyun promised to give to Miss Chang'an last night."

The empress shook her head: "It was Mu Xu who asked Yuan Ruxi to go. Mu Xu told me about this and said that he wanted Yuan Ruxi to teach Su Changan calligraphy and swordsmanship, but the final decision was still up to Yuan Ruxi."

Yan Ruyu was stunned: "Master Jijiu, what is this?"

The empress said, "I guess it's to let that bastard Su Changan have some self-protection ability, but can Mu Xu be so kind? Father once said that everyone in the capital has eight hundred minds, but only Mu Xu has four hundred more than others, a total of twelve hundred. You should go to the Imperial College first. Well~~~ Forget it, you'd better not deal with that old fox. You are stubborn and stupid. Even if you are sold, you will have to pay for it. Don't worry about it. If Yuan Ruxi really wants to teach, Su Changan is also willing to learn. You can just stand by and see if what he teaches is right."

Yan Ruyu clasped her fists and said, "Yes."

Then, Yan Ruyu said, "Today, Miss Chang'an asked me again that she wanted to learn sword and knife skills. I told her that I couldn't teach her."

The empress said, "Before, I was afraid that you would learn it. You are so stupid, and that bastard is so smooth-talking, and he was thinking about running away. What if you didn't keep an eye on him? Now it seems that he won't run away. Anyway, if you want to learn, I will teach you. But don't teach him too much. What if I can't beat him? But you just need to be more careful. I will also give orders to the Shen Ce Mansion. Just don't run away after you learn martial arts."

But after saying that, he smiled and said, "Maybe I'm overthinking it. Even if I learn, what can I learn in such a short time? Just teach me."

Yan Ruyu immediately clasped her fists and said, "Yes."

But just as he was about to say something else, he saw the empress looking at the collected paintings again. It was unknown what she was thinking, but she smiled sweetly again.

Yan Ruyu said.

I don’t understand!!

but

The Empress understands!

after all

This is what happened between her and Su Changan.

…

It was about three months ago, which was the third month after she rescued Su Changan.

After a few months, the two of them have become much more familiar with each other.

However, Su Changan didn't know that the empress was a woman.

That day, the empress was still very angry at the court meeting, so she came to Su Changan to vent her anger again.

Unexpectedly, Su Changan was just squatting somewhere and drawing out of boredom.

After seeing the painting, the empress said, "It's really ugly."

Su Changan said: "I am very good at painting people, but I am not very good at painting landscapes."

The empress smiled and said, "You can't even paint a landscape this ugly, how can you paint a person?"

Su Changan was not convinced: "Wait, I'll draw you!"

then

With a wave of his hand, the masterpiece appeared.

The empress looked at the ugly "herself" and was naturally annoyed and scolded: "What a weird thing you drew!"

Su Changan naturally said: "What does it mean to be neither human nor ghost? You look like this, don't you know?"

The empress became even angrier.

But before he could say anything, Su Changan said, "Okay, okay, you are beautiful. You are the most beautiful and handsome person in the whole area! The queue of people who want to marry you can circle the palace. Especially your teardrop mole, it has grown into people's hearts."

The empress was still furious.

Su Changan was helpless: "Hey, why are you like a woman? You get angry all the time and you are so hard to coax? Let me tell you, this is called abstraction. The prettier you are, the uglier my painting will be. It's not that my painting is not good-looking, it's just a simple artistic style. So you are so handsome, so my painting will definitely not look good."

"Besides, isn't there a saying? People with teardrop moles are so beautiful that they can't even brag about it. So, what snacks did you bring me today? I've been busy for a long time and I'm hungry."

…

Looking at the painting and thinking of what happened before, the empress snorted softly, what an enemy!

…

Inside the palace, the empress ate those things happily.

Outside the palace, Su Changan sneezed several times in succession. If he hadn't been feeling unwell, he would have felt like he was catching a cold.

At the same time, Su Wan'er expressed her concern, asking if she should let Sister Maomao take her pulse.

Su Changan said directly that it was not necessary.

after all

You can't let others take your pulse!

Although Su Wan'er was worried, she didn't say anything.

After eating

Someone said that Old Master Su had woken up.

Su Changan made some more and gave them to Old Master Su.

This time, they didn't talk about the same topics as before, but just talked about some poetry and academic matters.

Maybe it was because Su Wan'er was there, or maybe he felt there was no need to talk about those things.

After coming out from Old Master Su, Su Wan'er ran away because she had to go to class. Before leaving, she said that she would tell her teacher what Su Chang'an had told her during dinner.

Su Changan originally wanted to go and see what children in ancient times were like in class, but after hearing this, he decided to give up.

So as to avoid being dragged into a debate by that old man.

When I returned to the yard with the cat.

Yan Ruyu has returned, and is in the yard. Yan Ruyu has even driven a few wooden stakes into the spot where Tutu was murdered that day, and informed His Majesty that he has agreed to let Su Changan learn martial arts.

He also took out a red sword and gave it to Su Changan, indicating that from today on, he should carry the sword with him.

Su Changan, who didn't even know why he had to bring a knife, asked, "Why don't we start with a wooden sword or something?"

Yan Ruyu shook her head and said, "Unlike practicing swords, people who practice sabers must start to maintain their sabers from the beginning, otherwise, even if their saber skills are great, their practice is in vain. Wooden sabers are used to practice saber skills, but in your case, you have enough strength, so a wooden saber is not suitable. I'll get some sabers that are about the same weight as yours, and you can practice with those when the time comes. But this saber must be maintained, and you can't pull it out, and you have to carry it with you."

Su Changan seemed a little confused when listening to this, but he also knew that Yan Ruyu was not very good at lecturing, so he just felt that it was right for him to follow her and learn from her.

Yan Ruyu continued, "Walking the piles every day is basic training. It may be a little hard, but you have to endure some hardship when doing anything."

Su Changan was confident: "Don't worry, it's edible!"

Nine years of compulsory education and three years of high school are all completed!

This little bit of suffering is nothing!

Then

On the seventh day of Su Changan's martial arts training

Su Changan is no longer able to do it.

Su Changan, who was pulled up by Yan Ruyu to walk the stakes early in the morning, looked at Yan Ruyu who was unwilling to get up and said, "Yu'er, is there any way to achieve great power without such hard work? For example, do you know an old senior who is about to die and can teach him some skills, or do you know a secret manual of magic skills under a cliff?"

Yan Ruyu was used to Su Changan's nonsense. After all, Su Changan had done this more than once in these seven days.

but.

Since Su Changan asked her to teach her martial arts, Yan Ruyu naturally had to take responsibility to the end, so after forcibly pulling Su Changan up, she asked Su Changan to start walking.

But it was in the wailing.

Suddenly, a servant came to Yimeiyuan.

The servant was a minor steward in the Su Mansion. Seeing Su Changan hanging on the stake, he was not surprised.

After all, the news that the eldest lady was practicing martial arts had spread throughout the mansion in the past few days, and sometimes she would wail while practicing.

So he just said respectfully, "Miss, the steward from the Right Prime Minister's Mansion came and said that the Prime Minister wants you to come over for a moment. He said he has something important to ask you."

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