Like Pearl and Jade - Chapter 50

“Senior Shen.” Gu Zhiyu walked into the courtyard where Duobao’s envoys lived. Instead of taking care of the indecent Duobao’s envoys next to him, he paid a salute to Shen Qinghe.

“Master Gu.” Seeing Gu Zhiyuan, Shen Qinghe was relieved in his heart. He and Gu Zhiyuan were officials in the same department, and they all started from the Sanpin Hongyou Temple Shaoqing, so they often worked together. He relied on his grandmother’s caress, and when he first entered the dynasty, he was the Hongqingsi Shaoqing. Compared with Gu Zhiyu, who actually relied on seniority and ability to be promoted to Shaoqing, his talents were quite similar, but his experience in handling things was still a little lacking.

“What do your country’s envoys do?” After seeing each other with Shen Qinghe, Gu Zhiyu looked at the envoys of Duobao’s country sharply. The headed envoy is tall and tall, with dark skin and powerful Kong Wu, and looks like he has a bad temper.

Gu Zhiyu had never seen this person before, guessing that the other party was the first time to represent his country, and said, “I don’t know how dissatisfied you are with Dafeng?”

The Minister of Duobao Kingdom saw that the new official was wearing the same official robe as the first one, and he had a heart in his heart. The person headed should say: “It is not dissatisfaction with Dafeng, but I am representing Duobao Kingdom. All the subjects, with good wishes, came to meet the great emperor and his empress, but why did you not wait for us to meet with your majesty? Is this your country that despise our treasures? ”

This was full of gunpowder, and several officials at Hongya Temple frowned.

“Since the lord is an official in the dynasty, he should naturally understand the truth,” Gu Zhiyuan lowered her eyelids and said lightly, “The courtier must meet the rules and etiquette when he sees His Majesty.”

The Minister of Duobao Kingdom frowned: “But I waited from afar, is this Dafeng’s hospitality?”

“If your majesty the king of your country asks for advice, the emperor will naturally summon it immediately,” Gu Zhiyu said of this, and stopped, staring at the embassy, ​​”does your identity compare with that of your majesty’s king?” And that our emperor, His Majesty, should be noble? ”

The envoy of Duobao Kingdom was almost choked by Gu Zhiyuan’s words, but he did not dare to say that he was more honorable than these two.

He clearly felt that the other party’s words were wrong, but he just didn’t know how to refute.

“Please also don’t be annoyed for your distinguished guests. In order to welcome the arrival of our envoys, Dafeng specially prepared a sumptuous state banquet. Then you must show your faces.” The unpleasant words said, and Gu Zhiyu put on a smile again. At that time, the emperor and the empress will also officially appear. ”

Originally, Gu Zhiyun was a little unhappy with the words. After seeing Gu Zhiyu, he said a few good words, and the Duobao State Minister finally found the steps and agreed with a smile. Although Gu Zhiyu did not say when and where the state banquet will be held, he quickly borrowed the donkey and not only no longer noisy, but also politely sent Shen Qinghe and Gu Zhiyu out.

“Sir Gu,” Shen Qinghe asked in a puzzled way out of the Beyond Palace. “Why do I treat them with courtesy, they become more unreasonable …”

“Duobao’s national style is fierce and the nobles have never been divided. They came here this time not to congratulate His Majesty’s wedding, but rather to inquire about our Dafeng’s attitude towards them.” Gu Zhiyu put his hands behind his back. “So don’t be too reasonable with this kind of people. For them, being too reasonable is bullying.”

It’s a bit ugly, isn’t it because they see Dafeng now as a young emperor in power, want to use this to understand the temperament of His Majesty?

Shen Qinghe was dumbfounded: “He, they …” What kind of strange personality is this?

“When your majesty just ascended the throne, the envoys of Duobao Kingdom also made a mess,” Gu Zhiyuan narrowed his eyes. “At the time, they were received by Master Sun of the Ministry of Rites. They were too loud and angry. Straightforwardly, if you continue to make trouble, you will cut off the border market with Duobaoguo, and you will stop contacting in the future. ”

“What happened afterwards?” Shen Qinghe swallowed, feeling a little puzzled in his heart. Wouldn’t such trouble cause disputes between countries?

“Later, they will follow the rules and stop making trouble,” Gu Zhiyun said lightly. “This country has always been like this, you just get used to it.”

Accustomed to the gentle and polite way of getting along with the nobles of the family, Shen Qinghe felt that he was a little bad.

Seeing him like this, Gu Zhiyu couldn’t help but remember that he had been stunned by the various miraculous acts of these envoys when he first entered the Hongyun Temple. But no matter how weird things are, it will calm down when we see more.

Just after leaving the palace, they had not reached the corner. The two saw a funeral team passing by on the main road, so they stopped and let the funeral team pass first.

After the funeral team approached, Shen Qinghe looked at who was in the funeral procession, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and even embarrassed to look up and take a closer look at Yu Zhiyu.

However, Gu Zhiyu just coldly watched the funeral procession of this funeral procession, as if lying in the coffin was not the wife of Sima’s three bedrooms, but a passer-by who had no hatred and no grudge against him.

“Master Gu, the servant under is here, and is out of company.” Shen Qinghe felt embarrassed to stay any longer, and waited for the funeral team to pass by, regardless of the paper money still flying in the sky, he hurriedly made an excuse to leave.

“Slow walking.” Gu Zhiyu arched his hand towards him, and then continued to stand on the spot, watching the funeral procession farther and farther, until he could no longer see it.

“This three-room wife is so pitiful, I heard that the Sima family did not plan to bury her in the ancestral grave.”

“What do you know, I heard that the wife died badly, and Ba Zi broke the Sima Jiazu grave, so she was not allowed to enter the ancestral grave.”

“What’s wrong? I think the Sima family is not kind enough to do things. The other three wives also have children for their families. They don’t have any credit or hard work. Just bury them alone, what is it like? ”

“The things of these rich and wealthy families are not clear to us humble people. If you control how others are buried, if the three ladies have a powerful family, the Sima family will probably not do the same.”

“So what aristocratic family is, but they are just hypocritical gentlemen, and it is the same with their wives, let alone others.”

“You didn’t say this right. At that time, the old lady of Gu’s family, who died when she died, and had not given birth to a son and a half for Gu’s family. Didn’t Gu also let her be buried in the ancestral grave?

“How many Gu families are there in the world, or else how can his daughter be a queen, isn’t it because of good family style, good character?”

Some things of the aristocracy of the family are often the talks of the people after tea and dinner. Many times they only know a little about some things and even just hear some winds, but this does not affect their bold guessing and their determination to explore the truth.

After all, compared with the village head Zhang San, Li Si’s Chen Guzi’s rotten sesame matter on the corner is still more attractive to the big guys.

After listening to the people talking about these things with interest, Gu Zhiyu walked blankly to the streets.

In this world, there is too much pain and helplessness, but for irrelevant people, it will have no effect except as a negotiation tool.

Sima Xiang walked in the funeral procession with Ma Daixiao. The suona sounded like an old woman’s desperately weeping cry, which spread to her ears and made her breathless.

After the death of Mrs. Sima’s family, few families set up road offerings. These people seemed to regard their three houses as flood beasts and could not avoid them.

Pulling away the filial pie covering his sight, Sima Xiang held his mother’s card in his hands and walked out of the city step by step among the paper money.

Sima’s big house, at this time is negotiating whether to take Sima Xiang to educate. From the heart, Zheng is unwilling. In fact, even Sima Hong, the elder, does not particularly like Sima Xiang, the younger generation.

But now it is not a question of whether they are willing or not, but Sima Xiang has no mother and no female elders in the family teach. If their big house does not stand up at this time, no matter how reasonable they are, other people will say in the back They sneered.

However, are the daughters of other families so disciplined, and they are girls who have grown up, and even if their big house is now educated, how much change can they teach?

Zheng did not like this niece much, not only because of Sima Xiang’s problems. I don’t know why, she looks at Sima Xiang, the niece, always feels that she lacks vitality, is somber, and her mind is not pure.

A little girl in her tens can’t always let her mind go. That’s not a good thing.

But no matter how unwilling, as the family lady who valued her face, Zheng still took the initiative to go to Sanfang and took Sima Xiang over.

In the imperial palace, Gu Rujiu was playing chess with Empress Zhou in Kangquan Palace. Her recent chess skills haven’t made much progress. After playing with the empress, she lost a few games and ended up losing even the empress.

“It seems that this kind of thing can’t be forced,” the queen mother asked the maid to take the chessboard down, and then said, “I heard that the envoys of various countries have arrived in Beijing one after another. You may have to receive these envoys with the emperor soon. ”

Gu Rujiu has long heard that Dafeng has several affiliated countries, and there are some countries around the border that have contacts with Dafeng, so it is not surprising to hear the Empress Dowager say this, but I am a little curious about which countries I came to this time.

“In addition to the countries that sent the congratulatory letters, there were a total of eleven countries that sent envoys this time, and three of them were the princes of their own country.” He was an envoy of a few countries, so he brought it up with Gu Rujiu and spoke very carefully.

“It doesn’t matter what the thoughts or plans of the envoys of these countries are,” Empress Zhou worried about Gu Rujiu’s nervousness, and smiled. “As long as they dare to think, then our Dafeng iron hoofs will make them learn to regret.”

Gu Rujiu also agreed with the words of the Empress Dowager Zhou. Only with the support of absolute strength can there be enough confidence. Now that the small affiliated countries around Dafeng are so petty to please them, isn’t it just because Dafeng is prosperous?

If Dafeng is weak and can be bullied, I am afraid that these countries will jump up and bite a piece of meat on Dafeng to feed his stomach.

“You are right, mother. Before the absolute strength, some conspiracy means are insignificant,” Gu Rujiu smiled. “If you learn to act like a villain, you will lose your identity.”

“It’s good if you think this way,” said Empress Zhou suddenly. “At the Zichen Hall two days ago, you used the methods of dealing with those two court ladies very well.”

The majestic queen, if she directly said how to punish the little maid, it would be too bad. The eunuchs were handed over to the governor in the palace, and it was just right for them to handle them.

Hearing what the Queen Mother said, Gu Rujiu smiled: “What are the identities of these two maidens? I’m too lazy to delve into it, as long as other people remember not to make the same mistake in the future.”

“This is someone who wants to test your behavior,” Empress Zhou said with a smile. “In this harem, it’s not just you and my two masters.”

Gu Rujiu was stunned. Does the meaning in the mother’s words refer to the old ladies in the palace?

“How can a woman who can stand firm in the harem not have her own manpower,” Empress Zhou said when she saw Gu Rujiu and did not show an unacceptable expression, she smiled with satisfaction, “The palace is a land of right and wrong, some people want to escape Going out, some people want to come in, and some people want to climb up. These people use all their means for their ambitions, help gangs, and even kill lives, and the final picture is just a victory. ”

This is the first time Gu Rujiu listened to the Empress Dowager seriously mentioning the dark place of the harem, so she didn’t intervene, but just listened quietly.

“In the eyes of others, I may be the ultimate winner among these women,” the Queen Mother sneered. “But in such a place, there is no real winner. Those of us who are regarded as playthings by the emperor, from the moment they stepped into the palace gate , Destined to become a loser. ”

Gu Rujiu opened his mouth and saw the empress dowager bitterly, then swallowed back the words that had not been exported.

“The only real winners are the emperors of the Jin clan.” Empress Zhou sighed with a bitter smile. “So at first, I hesitated when the emperor wanted to ask you to marry you.”

“Queen Mother.” Gu Rujiu didn’t expect that Queen Mother Zhou had never planned to let her into the palace. She was both moved and saddened by the thought that Queen Mother Zhou protected herself.

How much suffering must be experienced in this palace before this place feels so distressed.

“Fortunately, the emperor is not like the emperor, and you are not like me at the beginning,” the queen mother smiled, a little more relaxed in her tone, “the mother hopes that you will be the lucky one in this court.”

Will not embark on the old road of other court women.

Gu Rujiu held Empress Zhou’s hand, biting her lower lip and did not speak.

After coming out of the Kangquan Palace, Gu Rujiu thought of walking around the Yu Garden, how could he know that he had encountered Mrs. Qian and Mrs. Wu?

The two concubines are about the same age as the empress dowager, but now they look older than the empress dowager. Seeing Gu Rujiu, the two concubines immediately stood up.

Gu Rujiu and the two were not familiar with them. Except for seeing a few toffees on the third day of their wedding, they had no chance to meet them at other times.

There was nothing to say between the three, but it was not appropriate to walk away directly. Finally, Mrs. Qian invited Gu Rujiu to sit down and use the tea.

Without ruling, Gu Rujiu sat down at the stone table with the two concubines.

The tea is not bad, but it tastes like Chen tea from last year. However, Gu Rujiu didn’t show it on the face, and he didn’t show his disgust when holding the tea cup.

Perhaps there was really no friendship, and after the three-person question-and-answer session, they could not find anything to say, and quieted down for a while.

Fortunately, the high-fiving applause that followed broke the almost awkward silence.

The two concubines knew that this was a reminder of the emperor’s ceremonies. The two concubines, who had no children and no daughters, were naturally in awe of the emperor.

Gu Rujiu got up half a shot later than the two concubines. She put down her tea cup and looked at the Xuanpao youth who was walking towards her, without a smile.

“Your Majesty.” The two concubines saluted.

Jin Yang gave them a junior gift, and then turned to look at Gu Rujiu, “Just before I went to my mother to find you, the mother said that you had already gone, how could you even drink tea with the two concubines here.”

“Spring is just right. If I don’t walk around, wouldn’t I live up to this piece of spring light.” Gu Rujiu smiled at Jin Mart with two small dimples, causing Jin Mart to stretch his hand and poke. , I will accompany you to walk around. ”

“Okay.” Gu Rujiu was quite happy not to talk to the two concubines. The most important thing is that these two concubines seem to be honest and honest, but … How can there be such a honest and honest person who has been in the harem for so many years?

After Gu Rujiu and Jin Mart left, Mrs. Qian took a sip of Chen tea brewed tea on the table and slowly spoke: “The Queen Mother is very self-contained.”

It is said that the Gu girl is very much spoiled by her elders, but today it seems that the queen girl is not too spoiled.

It was the girl from the Wu family who was arrogant. She always acted arrogantly. If she drank this cup of Chen tea today, although she would not utter dissatisfaction, she would never take a second bite.

But the queen could not change her face, as if she was not holding Chen tea, but carefully selected tribute tea.

“Can the queen be fancy, can’t even do this superficially,” Mrs. Wu lifted her chin up to the Kangquan Palace. “The old lady who entered the palace as a remarried woman was able to sit on the queen. This is not something you and I can match. ”

After listening to Mrs. Wu mentioned that Mrs. Qian was not very good-looking, she said for a long time: “There are many people who are attracted to her. We have to put the nails into the Qiankun Palace not only completely but also the emperor Five fans and three ways. Just a short time later, when no one saw him, he came to find him personally, where is the queen, it is a disaster for the country. ”

“Look at what you said, it is normal for young couples to be reluctant to separate,” said Mrs. Qian, who smiled sharply and sounded like a mockery. “I just don’t know how long this love can last. ”

As the losers of the palace fight, seeing the next generation of emperors and queens have deep feelings, they are not full of taste.

Thinking of how the emperor Xian treated them like these harem women at that time, they felt hatred, and then began to look forward to the day when Gu Rujiu lost the emperor’s favor.

How do they want other women to get what they didn’t get?

They are all women in this harem, and they are all women who serve the emperor. Why should fate be different?

“You just didn’t look right,” Gu Rujiu whispered to Jin Yang after leaving the garden, “Is it because of the two concubines?”

“The two concubines …” Jin Yang thought of the nails that Bai Xian and He Ming had pulled out over the past few days, and frowned slightly. “They are a little bit complicated, you have to be careful.”

“They are just lost concubines. I have His Majesty’s back. Even with more thoughts, I have no fear,” Gu Rujiu smiled with pride. “The most noble men under the world are all on my side. They take What compares with me? ”

She was tickled by her proud look, Jin Yang took her hand and smiled and said, “I am happy to be able to protect for a long time.”

Gu Rujiu smiled and said, “I am also happy to be protected by His Majesty for a lifetime.”

Bai Xian, who was behind the two, thought that it is no wonder that almost every generation of Gu’s family is married and the family is happy. The secret is here.

Being so good at coaxing people’s hearts is probably a unique feature of Gu’s family.

“Remember the Xinghua Forest that we have been to?” Jin Yang looked back at Gu Rujiu and remembered himself at that time. Because he was afraid of finding his mind for a long time, he only dared to secretly look at her. The beauty is a bit unreal.

Gu Rujiu nodded.

“Xinghua has already bloomed. Will you be with me for a long time to enjoy the flowers?” Jin Yang held Gu Rujiu’s hand tightly, his eyes full of tenderness.

“I am naturally very willing,” Gu Rujiu glanced at his hand held by Jin Marting, “Just because Ruyi Langjun is on the side, I’m afraid I have no intention of enjoying the flowers.”

Bai Xian felt that he was going to kneel to the Queen Mother, which was simply to say in advance what Her Majesty had to say.

It is a pity that the couple’s flower viewing plan only started at the beginning, and was cancelled because of the Dali Temple’s opinion.

Unintentionally intervening in the past, Gu Rujiu casually found an excuse and returned to Zichen Hall.

Before returning to the inner room, she glanced at Dali Temple, who was standing in front of the main gate of Zichen Hall. The other party’s face was very ugly, as if something extremely dissatisfied had happened, so she had a bad hunch in her heart.

“A guard from the Duobao State Envoy was teasing a good woman in the restaurant ?!” Jin Yang frowned after hearing the report from Dali Temple, “Since they came to my Dafeng territory, they should keep my Dafeng. Rules. What is the crime of molesting a good woman, it is strictly done according to the law. ”

“Weichen thinks so too, but the envoy of Duobao State said that the guard was a nobleman in their country, and they were willing to let the guard take the ridiculous woman of the good family and marry him back home.” Dali Siqing felt that this statement was a little disgusting , But as a courtier, he still has to make things clear.

“What’s the point of ridiculing an innocent woman and wanting to be treated as a concubine without impunity?” Jin Yang’s face was already ugly. “If every man in the world looks at a woman, he goes forward to seduce him. We still have to serve as concubines, what other rules are there in this world? ”

“You go back and tell Duobaoguo’s envoys that my Dafengguo women will not be married because they are being molested. I don’t care what the status of this guard is, if I dare to make chaos in my Dafengguo, I have to punish them severely!”

“If they don’t want to,” Jin Marting said in a word, “they will be expelled from Dafeng. In the future, Duobao’s envoys will never be able to enter Dafeng’s realm.”