The next day was the first day of the Lunar New Year. Early in the morning, Guhou Mansion handed out the greeting note, and Xiang Mansion quickly responded.
Gu Shubai and Yufu went to the Xiangfu together, while Gu Huaijiang had to enter the palace, and the two sedan chairs parted ways in front of the palace.
Gu Huaijiang waited outside the imperial study room, and it took a long time for Grandpa Chi to come out slowly.
"Oh, Gu Houye, it's really unfortunate. Today is the day when the clan family meets your majesty. Your majesty is talking to the emperor and even the emperor, and he also asks Gu Houye to wait outside."
Gu Huaijiang nodded, "Okay, I am waiting here."
Grandpa Chi guessed his face, and then said, "The slave dare to ask Lord Hou, what did he come to do today? Maybe the slave can do his best in it. It's not known if he can do his best."
Gu Huaijiang glanced at him and smiled a little, "If Grandpa Chi is willing to help Benhou, Benhou will naturally be happy. It is true that it is for the palace banquet last night."
When Grandpa Chi heard about yesterday’s palace banquet, he immediately smiled flatteringly, "Hou Ye finally figured it out? Hurry, you dumb bunnies, Lord Hou is waiting here, don’t you know how to bring a stool? ?"
The second half of the sentence was addressed to the people in the small palace below. Someone immediately moved in a grand teacher's chair. Gu Huaijiang only looked at it, but did not sit down.
Grandpa Chi became more respectful, "Hou Ye finally figured it out, and the minion can breathe a sigh of relief! You don't know how much your Majesty likes the Princess Zhenjiang, and she refused to treat the Princess as a queen. Your Majesty sent a big shot last night. Fire! If he knows that you are talking about this today, how can he still be in the mood to meet some royal family kinsmen!"
"Master Hou, sit down first, and the servant will go in and report to your Majesty!"
Gu Huaijiang said, "Daddy Chi, wait a minute."
"what?"
Grandpa Chi was overjoyed and was about to go in to report to Ning Chengzhi, but he was stopped by him with a dazed expression.
Gu Huaijiang looked at him without speaking, but the indifferent expression in his eyes was telling him that he had guessed wrong.
Grandpa Chi, who was the head of the inner prison in the palace, looked at him incredulously. Does this grandfather Gu, who is extremely ill and has a serious illness in his hands, really dare not succeed in rebellion
As long as he relaxes, he will be the head of the country under one person and over ten thousand people in the future, much closer to the marriage relationship than the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Yin. From then on, Qingyun will no longer have to worry about being suppressed.
Why can't he think about it
Grandpa Chi glanced at him helplessly, and said in anger: "Since Lord Hou refuses to sit, then take the chair away, so that the clan members don't talk about it."
After talking, he went into the imperial study room by himself.
The little eunuchs below, look at me and I will look at you. One of them approached Gu Huaijiang and said in a low voice, "Master Hou, I'm really sorry, we can only do things as we are slaves."
Gu Huaijiang whispered: "It's okay."
He knew that he was here to offend Longyan, not to please him, he didn't plan to get preferential treatment here at the beginning.
Sure enough, after the little eunuchs took down their chairs, the royal family members inside saw it for a long time.
The usual practice in previous years was less than half an hour. Gu Huaijiang stood outside the door for an hour, but there was no scattered movement inside.
He didn't move at all, watching his nose and nose, his complexion not shocked.
Several little eunuchs stood under the corridor, giving him a thumbs-up in their hearts, saying that the people in their current status are different with their solid military merits.
I have a courage to calm the mountains and rivers.
Until another quarter of an hour passed, footsteps faintly heard inside, and a group of royal family members walked out with their own hearts.
Seeing Gu Huaijiang standing outside the door waiting, they suddenly realized.
No wonder your Majesty talks so much today, obviously there is nothing to say, so I want to drag them around and keep them from leaving. It turns out that I was deliberately embarrassing Master Gu Hou...
Several clan relatives looked embarrassed, and wanted to come up to say a few words of comfort to Gu Huaijiang, but they were afraid that people outside the Imperial Study Room would be passed on to Ning Chengzhi's ears, so they had to say hello and leave.
Only the old emperor uncle and Ning Xuan father and son came towards him.
"Master Gu Hou."
"Old Uncle Emperor."
The two sides bowed their hands to each other, and the old uncle said: "Gu Houye came very early, but your majesty is getting angry. Why don't you wait for something to be said in the future?"
Gu Huaijiang was a little surprised, and then smiled: "The old emperor understands my mind and knows what I am here for. Then you naturally know that this matter will be told sooner or later. Sooner or later, your majesty's anger will be angered."
The old emperor sighed, "Although the old man is a royal family member, although he has a high seniority, he has no real power. Your Majesty respects me as the emperor uncle. If you disrespect the old man, you are just a bad old man. What happened last night... More than enough, but not enough."
Ning Xuan frowned and stepped forward to support him.
Grandpa Chi suddenly came out of the hall, "Gu Houye, your majesty tells you to go in, please."
Gu Huaijiang bowed his hands to the old emperor and uncle, and followed Grandpa Chi into the imperial study room. The old emperor sighed again when he looked at his back.
"Father… "
Ning Xuan tried to comfort him, but his words were dry and empty, and he simply stopped talking.
Like his father, he was disgusted with Ning Chengzhi's act of robbing Yufu, and resented that Gu Huaijiang was loyal but suppressed.
But they are just ordinary royal family members, they don't have power in their hands, and they can't do anything.
"Father, let's go back first..."
The sedan chair of the Guhou Mansion stopped outside the Xiang Mansion, and Yin Shuo, dressed in a dark red brocade robe, personally greeted Yufu and Gu Shubai outside the door.
He looked high-spirited and in a good mood, "The two are rare guests. This is the first time I have come to Xiangfu. My Xiangfu is full of brilliance."
Gu Shubai smiled faintly, "How dare the Prime Minister to greet you personally? Prime Minister Yin is too polite."
Yin Shuo squeezed his words and replied: "Where, I'm busy saying that the son is a knight, and he is also the major general of the dignified Gu Jiajun. I only said that the eldest princess is the king and I am the minister, so naturally I should come out to meet him personally."
Yufu listened to their polite remarks, and waved his hand impatiently, "I didn't come to Xiangfu today to talk about the courtesy of emperors and ministers. Besides, I know that Prime Minister Yin never regarded the district chief princess as a king, did I?"
Yin Shuo heard that she was mocking herself for treating princess Danyang harshly, and smiled unchanged, "The eldest princess laughed, and the eldest princess must be separated. How can the one in my house compare with you?"
As soon as the voice fell, a tall figure quietly separated the two of them, and Gu Shubai stood in between them.
To molest his fiancee in front of him, Yin Shuo is really promising.
The two men exchanged their gazes, and one sent sparks and flints.
Yufu pulled his sleeves behind him.
This is a habit she left when she was a child, when she was too short to reach Gu Shubai when she was young, and now she is fourteen years old, and she has reached his shoulder height, but this habit has not been changed.
Yin Shuo suddenly narrowed her eyes when she saw her intimate little movements.
A mere action has made him crazy with jealousy, and he can no longer maintain the appearance of politeness.
"Brother, talk to Prime Minister Yin."
As Yufu said, he stuck his head out behind him and looked at Yin Shuo, "There should always be a mistress in the Xiangfu who can receive female guests?"
hostess…
Does she want to see Princess Danyang, or Yin Ji, or both
Yin Shuo smiled, not afraid of what storms the two might cause, "Naturally, I will order the eldest princess to the east courtyard. Son, come with me."
The two of them headed east and west, and when they walked away, they looked back at each other tacitly, and felt at ease with each other.
Yin Shuo led Gu Shubai the way, his hands in his wide sleeves were already clenched into fists.
…
It was the first time that Yufu came to Xiangfu. In her impression, both Yin Shuo and Yin Yan, father and son, were both contemplative and unpredictable. The Xiangfu she imagined was terrifying.
Unexpectedly, when I got here, I saw an elegant landscape with exquisite pavilions and pavilions.
She once heard that the Yin family is the scholarly family of generations of Zaifu. Compared with the military and military family like Guhou Mansion, the scenery of the Xiang Mansion is less magnificent and more compact.
Before arriving at the east courtyard, a familiar figure greeted him.
"Yufu!"
Yin Jizheng stood on the road and didn't know how long she waited, but only a Peier followed her, and she greeted Yu Fumang happily.
"Ji Yan."
Yufu had many things to ask her. It was not easy to speak in front of the servants of Xiang's Mansion. Yin Jiyi understood, and said humanely: "You go down first and let me entertain the princess."
The servant hesitated and said, "This... But the eldest son asked the minion to take Princess Zhenjiang to see Princess Danyang."
Yin Jizheng said sternly: "Sister-in-law is not fit to meet guests. As the only lady in the house, can't I entertain guests for her?"
The servant was so frightened that he retreated quickly.
After he left, Yin Jizheng was like a cat out of danger, slowly taking away the spikes on his back.
Yufu couldn't help laughing, "You startled me, when did you become so majestic?"
Yin Jizheng said helplessly: "It's all pretends. I'm trying to make myself majestic. If half of you are there, it will be fine, so I don't have to worry about being bullied."
Yufu glanced at her and felt that the current Yin Ji woman was very different.
She no longer dresses pure and thin, but wears a Chinese dress that can show her identity as Miss Xiangfu, her face is a little rounder, and she no longer flinches for fear that others will look at the scar on her forehead.
The white gauze that she used to hide the scars is still there, but the whole face is radiant, unlike the sick and sad before.
Yufu praised her from the bottom of his heart, "Really has the style of a female general."
"Really?"
Yin Jizheng was overjoyed and hurriedly covered her mouth, and looked around, "It's not convenient to speak here. Go to my courtyard and say. I'll show you to Danyang later. Maybe you can think of a solution for her illness. ."
Yu Fu did not refuse, and followed her towards the yard on the other end.
Going to the room and closing the door, Yin Jizheng took her hand in a hurry, "I didn't get into the palace last night. I heard that your Majesty wanted to stand up for you in front of the Manchurian Civil and Martial Arts, but you refused?"
"Well, for this matter, the people in Guhou Mansion didn't sleep well last night. The general entered the palace early this morning. I will accompany my eldest brother to see your eldest brother."
"My big brother?"
Yin Jizheng felt uncomfortable subconsciously when he heard these three words, "He hates Guhou Mansion more than your majesty, and will not help you. But...if it's your business, maybe he will help."
Yufu looked around in the room, "After the old prime minister came back, your eldest brother wouldn't dare to embarrass you, and Princess Danyang's life would be better. This is a good thing."
Yin Jizheng said hurriedly: "When is this, do you still have the mind to control us? The most important thing at the moment is your business. If you don't want to enter the palace, I have one idea."
Yufu said, "What is it?"
Yin Jiyin said: "When things from the palace spread to the mansion last night, my father and I were worshiping our ancestors in the ancestral hall. My father sighed and said... said..."
Yufu said, "You just say it, no matter what the old prime minister said, I'm not angry."
Yin Jizheng made up his mind, "Father is an extremely old-fashioned person. At first, he let me approach the second son to find out who you are. He was very angry when he heard what happened in the palace last night and said that his majesty wanted to establish one. … After a foreign woman of unknown origin, this matter will never work."
Yufu's eyes lit up, but instead he smiled.
"He really said that?"
Yin Jiyan nodded and looked at Yufu blankly. Is she smiling
When others heard this, I was afraid that they would be so angry. How could Yufu laugh
Yu Fuxi said: "Your father is right. I am a foreign woman of unknown origin. Even if the queen of Dongling is not from a noble family, she should be innocent and prominent. And I am just the adopted daughter of the Guhou Mansion. The princess is not of royal blood. The old prime minister has said how to stop your majesty?"
It turned out she was happy for this.
Yin Jizheng said hurriedly: "Although my father doesn't want you to be a queen, he has already resigned from his court after all. It is thanks to your majesty's grace to return to the imperial capital. How dare you say this? My father was old and thin after returning from the middle of Fujian. I’m afraid that if I have this heart, I won’t have this power anymore."
"Although the old prime minister has resigned, his majesty is still there. Your Majesty is now in favor of Prime Minister Yin, and he will definitely give the old Prime Minister a little bit of face. Then, Ji Yan, how about you take me to see him?"
Yin Jizheng said in surprise: "You want to see my father? This..."
She thought in her heart that, apart from the people in the Guhou Mansion, I am afraid that only Yin Yan would not want Yufu to become a queen.
Guhou's Mansion is now in a difficult situation. If it weren't for this, Gu Shubai would not have come to Yin Shuo. If Yin Yan could be moved by Yufu, it would be a great help.
She gritted her teeth, "When I was in the most distress, the Guhou Mansion took in me, and you healed the scar on my forehead. I have always kept this kindness in my heart and I will never repay it. Okay, I will take you to see my father. ."
Yufu smiled and said: "It's great, but don't say anything to repay your kindness in the future. When the third brother broke into Xiangfu and was almost captured, you helped him. The kindness between you and my Guhoufu is long unclear. No, you don’t owe us anything."
Yin Jizheng looked at her and knew that the Guhou Mansion could never repay her kindness, but Yufu said this to make her feel better.
The greatest kindness they treated her was to tell her the truth about her life experience and let her know that she was not from a brothel woman, but a woman with half the blood of the Xikun General.
Her mother was once a brilliant female player. Why should she accept it? Why can't she be as brave as her mother
She is slowly changing, making herself a brave and just person.