As usual, it's just a waterfront, just stride across it and go back to the house to change into clean clothes. But today is different. Guan Suyi spent nearly an hour revising the manuscript. Seeing that the sacrificial ceremony was about to begin, if she waded across the water and reached the side hall, she would not even have time to change a set of sacrificial clothes.
Wearing a sacrificial dress with a drenched skirt and splattered mud dots to participate in the ceremony, the top can immediately punish her for a crime of "disrespect".
At the moment, this gorgeous and extraordinary dragon robe has absorbed water and has become thicker and swollen. If you step on it, you will at most wet the edge of your shoes, and there will never be any mud splashes. But it is a symbol of imperial power! Who dares to step on a few shoe prints on it? Are you dying
Only a barbarian like Kunal would take it off without hesitation and cover it on the water border. Perhaps his understanding of imperial power is not deep enough. When he thinks of this in the future, what will he think? If he wants to settle accounts in the autumn, let alone himself, I am afraid that ten Guan Family will not be enough for him to kill! Guan Suyi gritted her teeth angrily, not daring to step on it, but also unwilling to turn around. Kunal was waiting for her with open arms. If he walked back and asked him to send some palace servants to cover the water border with wooden boards, he would still compromise with him. What was the difference between surrendering to imperial power
Really unwilling! Thinking like this, Guan Suyi was about to cross the roadside fence and walk into the flowerbed.
"Mrs. I'm afraid I don't know. The shallow grass is withered and soaked in rain. If you walk over it, the water stains and mud spots will only be more than the water." Emperor Shengyuan reminded worriedly.
Guan Suyi often traveled mountains and rivers when she was young, how could she not know it? She hesitated as soon as her hand reached the fence, so she didn't move for a long time. What's more, in addition to Asakusa, there are all kinds of flowers and trees in it, and there are not a few with thorns. If the clothes are torn or the bun is messed up, it will only make her more embarrassed. It seemed that she had nowhere to go except stepping on the dragon robe.
"What do you think of imperial power?" she asked back.
Emperor Shengyuan took two steps forward and said in a gentle tone, "Before, I only regarded it as a tool to save my life. Because if I am not the emperor, there is only one way to die. Later, through the advice of my wife, I slowly came to understand that imperial power is not only It is my personal right, and it is also the right of the common people in the world, and the common people in the world are even more important. I can do the journey of the Great Dao, the world is the public, and I am slowly realizing it, so I take imperial power very seriously. But it is also very light. It is heavy enough to help the world, light enough to give up a dragon robe, just to make my woman go more smoothly. After all, I am a human being, and I also have feelings and selfish desires. Madam, you just go forward, I am supporting you under my feet, supporting you by my side, following you at the back, and waiting for you at the front. No matter where you want to go, I will accompany you."
He bowed deeply and cautiously.
Guan Suyi was indeed a little moved, but only a little. Power seems tempting, but it will destroy her peaceful life. This person is so pious now, how can he know how he will turn his face in the future? Tianjia is ruthless, he still can't understand it now, the power and majesty will grow stronger in the future, and it will gradually be eroded. As Han Feizi said in "Bei Nei" - the trouble of the master lies in believing in people, and believing in people, then controlling them.
Therefore, no emperor can never forget his original intention, and no emperor can be too suspicious. The more he indulges himself now, the more terrifying he will be when he is suspicious in the future.
Guan Suyi wouldn't gamble with his family's life, so he should persuade him to die earlier while he still has some friendship with him. Thinking like this, she looked up, then slowly backed away.
Emperor Shengyuan stopped and said, "Madam, don't you want to jump over it? This water gap is ten feet long, and it is difficult for even a healthy man to cross, let alone a woman? And the road ahead is muddy and slippery, if you If one does not step on it firmly, it may fall into the water, and the end will only be more embarrassing. Madam, please don't be willful."
Guan Suyi ignored it, backed away a certain distance, and then accelerated.
Emperor Sheng Yuan hurriedly followed, raising his arms high, ready to catch her, but seeing that she was not jumping far, but jumping high, he grabbed a tree trunk that was sloping above his head and swayed easily. , when it landed like a butterfly, silently, the plain skirt suddenly bloomed and suddenly converged. The water droplets shaken by her smashed down, splashing small water splashes, the scene was very beautiful.
She slapped the dust-free hem and chuckled, "Your Majesty, the court lady also wants to understand. When you think there is only one road ahead, or even no road, it only shows that your vision is not broad enough. You can I tried to look left, right, up, and down, but I couldn't look back. Your Majesty, the marriage has been granted, and the courtiers have stepped on the thorns and crossed the water, so you should go all the way forward." He strode away, passed a waiter, snatched his oil-paper umbrella, and disappeared into the pattering rain.
Emperor Shengyuan looked at the hazy and unrestrained back of his wife, and then looked at the wet dragon robe on the ground, and suddenly laughed, "Madam, you walk ahead, I will catch up soon. You are right, people You have to move forward and never give up.”
Guan Suyi didn't even stop in her footsteps, and went far away. Emperor Sheng Yuan stared at her, and when the plain light and shadow completely disappeared, he looked at Bai Fu, who was busy picking up the dragon robe, "Madam neither admires power, nor loves brocade clothes, jade food, wealth and honor, her only hobby is It's a collection of books. How do you think I can win her heart?"
Bai Fu hesitated for a moment, then said bravely, "Your Majesty, you should wait for her to leave. Although you call her Madam, Madam, she is still the wife of Mr. Zhao. Besides, you know her If you love to collect books, you should also read more books on weekdays.”
Emperor Shengyuan's face turned gloomy. He planned to turn back to the inner hall and change into a sacrificial robe, but he stopped again for some reason. The saber on his waist suddenly came out of its sheath, flashing a cold light, and instantly restrained the evil spirit. And the tree trunk above the head that was once held by the lady had fallen into the water, smashing a cloud of mud.
"Go back." He stood silently for a while before walking away.
A quarter of an hour later, a little Huangmen came running across the water, and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager wants to see you."
"If you want to see me, come here by yourself, but if you don't come, then just stay in the house honestly." Emperor Shengyuan put the sacrificial text into the brazier, half of his resolute and stern face reflected the light, and the other half was hidden in the shadows.
After a while, the Queen Mother hurried over and saw the water gap in the middle of the road. She had to stop and shouted, "Come on, don't you see that this road is blocked? Hurry up and fill it with sand and gravel or plank! "
Bai Fu walked to the corridor to salute and replied respectfully, "Qi to the Empress Dowager, the gravel and wood have been sent to look for it, please wait a moment."
Where can the queen mother wait? After going around twice, I finally waded through the water helplessly, and hurriedly said, "Where did you catch Little Sixteen and the others? Give it back to Ai's family!"
"I told you to be honest, don't make trouble, but you don't listen." Emperor Shengyuan sneered, "I can make my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather emperor, my mother as queen mother, and my dead brother. Prince. With the title of prince, those little cubs you raise can earn a title of county king no matter what, and they will live happily in the future. I have already spared you once about the printmaking, but you don't know how to repent, and you attack Mrs. Guan again. I can't, I have to make you understand that in this palace, whoever I want to live will live; whoever I want to die will die. Whoever, whoever is, is the superior person. You see, this is what the Central Plains people call 'those who obey me prosper and those who oppose me perish'. Whether those little cubs can survive this or not depends on whether the queen mother knows what to do."
The Empress Dowager felt cold all over her body, trembling like a sieve, and said in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, it was the Aijia family who made a mistake. You killed the three sons of the Aijia family. Let's write off the debt? , no more tricks, I beg you to let Xiao Shiliu and the others go. It’s the Aijia begging you!”
As she spoke, she was in tears, her eyes were red, and she was obviously driven to a dead end.
Emperor Sheng Yuan stared at the ashes of the manuscript, and said lightly, "If there are any other mistakes in the ritual, I will sacrifice the deceased mother with the blood of those little cubs. You should understand my grandmother's character, she said that the sacrifice cannot see blood, she is afraid that she likes it. Very."
The queen mother thought of the dead Husuliya, and her heroic dashing on the battlefield, hand-kneading the enemy, and finally bowed her head slowly and humiliated her promise.
Bai Fu secretly sighed for the Empress Dowager: This was discarded after His Majesty used it. When she was planning, His Majesty didn't have a seizure, and when the woman and Madam Guan had a fight, she ran to the hero to save the beauty, but it was a pity that Madam Guan didn't seem to eat this.
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Guan Suyi left the main hall, avoided the ministers and the royal family, and quietly returned to the side hall. Because the Jiuli people have a very good way of marching and fighting, the method of setting up tents is very clever, but in more than half an hour, many tents were set up in the open space, and there was a big brazier inside. Anyone who has a strange look on their face will go forward to treat them, so that the nobles will not suffer from the cold and fall into the root of the disease.
Compared with the resentment and resentment just now, the side hall is now a group of harmony. Seeing Mrs. Guan who was walking, everyone hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, with expressions of gratitude on their faces. Guan Suyi nodded and agreed one by one, came to the inner hall, walked twice, but still could not find a spare futon.
"Mother, where is my position?" She walked over to Mrs. Zhong and asked in a low voice.
"I don't know, wow, a few servants just came and took your futon, but they didn't put it in the hall. Maybe I forgot. If the emperor can invite you to the main hall to teach the article, he will never treat you badly. You wait, mother will help you and ask." Mrs. Zhong was about to get up when she saw Director Bai Fu walked in quickly and saluted respectfully, "Madam, this servant has been ordered by Your Majesty to call you to the main hall to attend the sacrifice. A teacher with one character, you teach His Majesty to write a sacrificial script, and you are worthy of a teacher. Please."
The emperor is kindly invited, who dares to refuse? Guan Suyi couldn't, she went to the main hall with the envious eyes of the ladies, walked along the wall to the crowded interior, and finally found her place beside the eldest princess. The eldest princess sat on her knees with a straight waist and a machete on her knees. Her body was full of suffocation. When she saw her coming, she smiled and nodded, and said with a grin, "Look, even your majesty is here, but the queen mother hasn't arrived yet. It's such a big deal. I'm afraid I'm dissatisfied with Your Majesty's move to pursue the birth mother."
Can this be said openly? Guan Suyi looked at the courtiers with strange faces, and observed a moment of silence for the reputation of the queen mother.