"Mr. Wang," the auntie in charge of the Shangyi Bureau stopped Wang De, who was in a hurry, "the summer clothes that the empress asked the servants to make are ready. I don't know when the servants will bring the clothes to the mother to see."
"Clothes?" Wang De paused in his footsteps, and suddenly became energetic, "You are right, you should let the empress take a look at it, and if there is anything you don't like, you can modify it." If there is anything at this moment, let the queen Niangniang is distracted, which is also very good.
"You ask the people below to pack up the things, and after half an hour, go with the miscellaneous family to greet the Empress."
"Yes."
The steward's aunt was overjoyed, not expecting that Mr. Wang could speak so well.
Above the court, several confidant ministers knew that His Majesty was in a somewhat unhappy mood recently, so they would not bother His Majesty over trivial matters. Fortunately, His Majesty did not anger the emperor who was angry with the courtiers for no reason. Therefore, some courtiers who lacked vision were not punished. At most, they felt that His Majesty's expression was a little unsightly.
After going down to court, several officials approached Ban Heng and wanted to inquire about some news from Ban Heng. Although the Ban family doesn't care much about the affairs of the court, they are still highly valued by His Majesty. The Ban family may know what they don't know.
But who is Ban Heng, who has been the emperor's wife and brother for so many years, what things do not know, what things do not know? So no matter what these people ask, he is always pretending to be crazy and being stupid, and he doesn't say anything.
Others only felt that the Ban family was getting more and more cunning. In fact, even Ban Heng didn't know what happened to His Majesty in the past few days.
"Master Ban," an eunuch walked up to him with a smile, "Your Majesty invites you to the imperial study for a chat."
Ban Heng raised his eyebrows. His Majesty was in a bad mood. He even called him today. Could it have something to do with his sister? He was a little strange in his heart, but nothing showed on his face, he just nodded and said, "I'll go over here."
"Master Hou, please."
In the imperial study, after Rong Xia approved a few memorials, he put down the imperial pen and sighed with a sad face.
"Your Majesty, Ming and Hou are here."
When Ban Heng held the crown ceremony, Rong Xia personally gave him a word, the word was Yongshi. Later, he married Yao Ling, and Rong Xia gave the Ban family another grace, that is, Ban Heng was promoted to first-class marquis, and the title Minghe, which also means that even if Ban Heng inherits Ban Huai's title in the future, he will still be A prince, if he has two sons, when the two sons become adults, they will inherit a title.
His Majesty sees the favor of the Ban family in everyone's eyes, and just thinks that the Ban family can finally become prominent, just like the Shi family back then, the Ban family still lives a life of scumbags who don't care about everything, do nothing and do nothing. In the days, people had to sigh for Marshal Ban again, but it is a pity that Marshal Ban's reputation all his life has such a junior, he is simply a mud that can't support the wall.
The Sludge of Ban's family said that they were lying well in the corner, so why did they have to let them go up to the wall
"Your Majesty," Ban Heng walked into the imperial study and greeted Rong Xia, "you can't ask the minister to discuss political affairs with the minister, right?"
"Sit down first," Rong Xia smiled bitterly, "I did something I'm sorry to do a few days ago, which made her unhappy..."
"Your Majesty," Ban Heng's expression changed somewhat, "Have you favored other women?"
Rong Xia's expression was stunned for a moment, then she laughed: "How can these women in the palace compare with Hua Hua, how could I do such a thing. It's just... It made her unhappy, and she doesn't like to talk to me recently."
"Oh," Ban Heng breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand, "You and my sister have been married for ten years. You don't know her soft or hard temper?"
"This matter... It's not my fault, but I teased her once on a whim. How could she have found out after so many years," Rong Xia smiled bitterly, "I even forgot about myself."
Ban Heng glanced at Rong Xia sympathetically: "That minister can't do anything, he can only wait for her to calm down. Anyway, I made my sister angry before, so she usually just beat me up, you are the emperor, she can I can't do anything to you..." He said more and more, and finally looked at Rong Xia erratically, "Your Majesty, my sister she..."
Did you really do something to His Majesty
"That's not true, Hua Hua has always been very measured." Rong Xia hurriedly said, "Tell me, does Hua Hua like anything?"
"Your Majesty, my sister has liked a lot of things since she was a child, but generally what she likes, she finds what she likes at home," Ban Heng said seriously, "I really don't know what she wants."
"That's good." Rong Xia put her hands behind her back, and the smile on her face was like the warm sun in winter.
The two negotiated for half an hour in the imperial study, and finally came to the conclusion that they could only be small until they made Ban Hua happy.
The less a woman has, the easier it is to be moved and coaxed. But if a woman has everything she needs from a young age, her parents love her, and her brothers love her, then she won't be easily moved by small favors. Rong Xia understood this truth, but he was glad that Hua Hua was such a woman.
When you love someone, you wish that she would be fine from childhood to adulthood, and not suffer at all.
When Rong Xia returned to the harem, she found that the inner hall was very lively, with clothes and jewelry all over the house, and the only thing she didn't see was Hua Hua.
"Where's your maiden?"
"Your Majesty, Niangniang left the palace an hour ago."
"Change clothes for me." Some time ago, Hua Hua said that he would take him out of the palace to play, but unfortunately he didn't even have a chance to enter the inner palace these few days, let alone let Hua Hua take him out of the palace to play.
"Your Majesty, are you leaving the palace?" Wang De asked in a low voice.
"Well," Rong Xia straightened the placket, "I'll go out and have a look."
In the teahouse, Ban Hua sat at the table leisurely and contentedly, listening to the storyteller below. The storyteller admired the emperor very much. He lectured five times, and three times he boasted about how powerful His Majesty is today.
"The sweet potatoes and noodles that you are using now were retrieved from overseas by His Majesty's dispatch. It is said that one day His Majesty was in a dream, and suddenly a dragon descended to earth..."
"Through the ages, who can be like His Majesty today, who can make our people rich in food and clothing, even in a year of catastrophe, they can still have food to fill their stomachs? Such an emperor can't be found in a thousand years, so what if it wasn't for Xingjun Ziwei? "
Ban Hua heard that Mr. Shu became more and more miraculous. What came from all directions, what Ziwei Xingjun came down to earth, and what was the emperor of the ages, making her, the emperor's pillow, feel a little blush.
"Reward him with ten taels of silver."
Ban Hua also wants to reward him for his shameless spirit of flattering the emperor.
"Yes.".
"Guest officer, please go this way." The waiter led a man in a green shirt up, and the man stopped when he saw Ban Hua.
Sensing that eyes were falling on him, Ban Hua still looked back and noticed that the man not far away was familiar, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Yan Zhen?"
Ten years ago, Yan Zhen was still a white-faced and beardless stunned young man. Now he has a beard and has fine lines at the corners of his eyes. She almost didn't recognize who he was. Back then, she seemed to have heard someone around her mention that Yan Zhen had gone to work in another place. Since then, she has never heard of this person.
"I have seen you... Mrs. Huang." Yan Zhen was stunned for a moment, then stepped forward and bowed respectfully to Ban Hu.
I haven't seen her for ten years, and the woman in front of her seems to be particularly favored by time, and she is still as bright as before. At the moment when she saw her, Yan Zhen thought of the woman in red on the horse back then, who was flamboyant and beautiful. It had to make him feel like he was blaspheming her even breathing a little harder.
Inexplicably, the title of "Mrs. Huang" was added. Ban Hua couldn't help but chuckle and pointed to the table next to her, "Sit down."
"Mrs. Xie." Laughter and applause came from downstairs. It was obviously a very lively atmosphere, but Yan Zhen felt that the silence was ridiculous at the moment. He carefully sat on half of his buttocks next to the chair, and lowered his head honestly, not daring to look at Ban Hua's face.
"Speaking of your majesty who is wise and martial, we have to mention our empress. Your majesty is Xingjun Ziwei, and empress is the reincarnation of the nine-day phoenix. Some experts once said that empress and majesty are a pair in the sky..."
"Pfft," Ban Hua couldn't help laughing anymore, and said to the subordinates beside him, "Mr. storyteller is a talent, and the wife of Xingjun Ziwei is actually a nine-day phoenix, such a good brain, stay here to bury him. Check it out. Clear his identity, if there is no problem, take the person back and let him and His Majesty...".
She sighed, pouted, and didn't say any more.
"You don't need to take it back, I've heard it," Rong Xia strode over and sat down beside Ban Hua, "Have you missed me?"
Ban Hua rolled his eyes, unwilling to pay attention to him.
"Wei Chen has seen Young Master Huang." Yan Zhen didn't dare to say the identity of Leo Rongxia outside, so when Rongxia appeared, he hurriedly stood up and saluted.
"Yan Zhongzhen?" Rong Xia glanced at Yan Zhen, then turned to look at Ban Hua, "What a coincidence."
Ban Hua lowered his head and drank tea, ignoring him.
Yan Zhen cupped his hands and stood bent over, no different from those dull and honest officials in the court. Ten years ago, Yan Zhen had the courage to confess to the woman he liked, and would impulsively go on a hunger strike to protest his parents, and even ran to the woman's house without any scruples and stood dumbfounded; but ten years later, he will never be like this again. Courage and absurdity, at his 30s, he knows what to do and what not to do, just like everyone else in the officialdom.
When I was young, I didn't discriminate, and my courage was unlimited. When I came to stand, I don't know whether to laugh at myself or feel emotional when I look back on it.
He stood aside and watched His Majesty coax the Empress softly. In the end, the Empress finally gave His Majesty a look, and His Majesty was overjoyed. After grabbing the Empress, he made a bunch of promises, and his attitude was as low as chasing a beloved Young guy with woman.
His Majesty and Niangniang have been married for more than ten years, how can he still coax Niangniang like this
He stood silently to one side, as if he was a table and a chair in the teahouse, and only bowed and saluted when the Empress got up and was about to return to the palace: "Respectfully send the young master and madam."
Ban Hua wanted to look back at him, but Rong Xia turned around, just covering her sight.
"We're going back, okay?"
She poked Rong Xia's waist and snorted, but when Rong Xia held her hand, she did not refuse.
Yan Zhen bowed and escorted the two downstairs, and he didn't dare to raise his head to take a closer look until the emperor and the empress entered the carriage.
Then he bowed his head and stood again, bowing to the carriage.
"Mrs. Young Master, please walk slowly."
The past, the past.