Chapter 75 Section 75

While Xiao Li secretly dispatched vehicles and notified the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pick them up, he secretly made up his mind. It seemed that the emperor was not satisfied with the behavior of the Old Summer Palace. If he wanted to "go shopping in the streets", how should he deal with it?Are there places that can be visited; those places that the emperor would find interesting after visiting? These are two different things.Xiao Li thinks it's okay to take a car for a walk on the street, or visit a wild temple or ancient temple, but the emperor may not be interested in this.So where does the emperor want to visit?Xiao Li couldn't figure out what happened for the first time to solve the problem. After much deliberation, he came up with four words: adapt to the situation.

When I returned to the palace, I saw that the emperor had changed into plain clothes. He was wearing a lynx leather robe of rose purple and yellow satin, a Baturu vest with black satin and coral buttons, and a lake-colored silk belt around his waist. Wearing two bright yellow satin embroidered purses, a satin hat on the head and satin boots on the feet, the knot of the hat is a ruby.This attire was learned by the emperor from Zai Cheng. It is elegant and graceful, not as handsome as Zai Cheng, but more elegant than Zai Cheng. Xiao Li looked at the emperor with a smile, and immediately found that there was a place where his feet were exposed, so he knelt down and hugged the emperor's leg and said: "This slave is bold enough to ask the Lord Long Live for a reward. The purse, I gave it to the servant." The emperor immediately understood, and while picking up the underlayment, he asked, "Do you dare to use it?"

"No one dares to use this bag! The Lord Long Live rewarded this pair of purses. The servant invited him to go home and made a high offering in the main hall. He taught the family members of the servant to burn incense in the morning and evening to wish the Lord Long Live a long life." Not old, to be the emperor of Taiping for ten thousand years." The emperor smiled and scolded: "Monkey bastard! Pick it up if you have a bargain." He still picked up the underlayment. This means that Xiao Li's request was approved and he was asked to untie the purse. Xiao Li happily replaced the emperor with a pair of blue satin and flat gold purses, and kowtowed to thank him.

"You have to change your clothes too!" "Yes!" Xiao Li asked, "Shouldn't we go to the Old Summer Palace?" Xiao Li didn't need to change his clothes when he went to the Old Summer Palace. He asked this question as a temptation, and the emperor replied honestly: "Go for a walk in the street first, and then we can talk later when we have time." "This..." Xiao Li didn't dare to show embarrassment, he just said: "I'm afraid that if the censor who patrols the city or the yamen of the infantry commander finds out, it will be a lot of inconvenience."

"What are you afraid of? I'm here!" The emperor said again: "The capital is so big, 'ten thousand people are hidden like a sea', as long as you are careful, no one will know." The emperor then asked: "What is the 'Temple Market'? '? I want to go and see." How about the temple market?Xiao Li thought to himself, there are so many tourists, it is inevitable that some people who work in the inner court and have seen Tianyan leak the truth, which is really "a lot of inconvenience". landed. However, this must not tell the truth to the emperor. If he told the truth, he would definitely not listen, so he had to lie. "Unfortunately today," he said deliberately counting his fingers, "the temple market is Earth Temple on the second day of junior high school, Hua'er Market on the third day of junior high school, Baita Temple on the fourth and fifth day of junior high school, Huguo Temple on the sixth and seventh day of junior high school, and Long Temple on the eighth and ninth day of junior high school. Fu Temple; it happens to be the tenth day of the lunar new year."

"Then go out the front door and look around. I've got to see what Chalou is like." "The servant doesn't know that 'Chalou' is there." "Go there and ask again, it doesn't matter if you can't find out." With these words, Xiao Li was relieved, changed his clothes, and accompanied the emperor, quietly left the palace from the northwest corner gate, walked back from the east, and went out of Chongwenmen, which was called "Hadamen" by the banner people. When driving out of the city, he always walked through the Zhengyang Gate, which was set up but always closed. He went out of the police station and entered the street. It's as messy as the outside of the car. I can't tell whether it's curious, confused or interesting?But there is a thought that often arises, seeing is better than hearing a hundred times, and the various conditions of the market described in books are often unimaginable, but now I see it with my own eyes, and I almost understand it.

Just as he was fascinated by the peek, the blue rear car stopped suddenly, and the emperor called softly: "Xiao Li!" Xiao Li jumped out of the car and was about to talk to the emperor. He lifted the veil and said softly, "My servant is going to inquire about 'Chalou'." "En!" The emperor nodded, and said: "Where there are people, don't call yourself a 'slave', and don't call me 'Long Live Lord'. Isn't that showing off?" "That, that," Xiao Li stammered, "then dare to change the word and call it 'Uncle Wan'?"

"The uncle is the uncle! Why do you add a surname?" "Yes! Sir." Xiao Li agreed, and asked about "chalou" by himself.The emperor was calmer at this time, and silently recited a poem: "The market outside the Chunming Gate is full of voices, and the light dust of ten feet keeps disturbing. The chrysanthemum department is a sign of elegant leisure, and it is good to go to the building with a winning couple; the red dress is emerald green. Sleeves Jiangnan is beautiful, anxious to mourn the strings of Beibei! Recreational youth is like a short dream, and the shadow of the sunset is left to linger."

While reciting silently, imagining the scene of red dress with green sleeves and anxious management, wishing to be the guest of Chalou immediately. "I got it." Xiao Li lifted the curtain and said in a very cold voice. "Where?" "Ganqing is the Guanghe Building in the meat market," Xiao Li said, "There is really nothing to visit." "Never mind! Go and have a look before we talk." So the car turned west to south, and as soon as it entered the grinding factory, it could only hear the noise of people, yelling and cursing, as if something had happened.

The emperor had never heard such a voice before, and his heart immediately hung up.Lifting the curtain and looking out, I saw two extremely gorgeous cars facing each other in the middle of the road, two strong men pointed at each other, almost about to use force, and people who watched the excitement surrounded them one after another. "Go, go! Go back!" He heard Xiao Li shouting hastily. However, it was too late, the car behind rushed over and blocked the way, so he had to "park the car".After a while, Xiao Li played back and forth again, saying that the cars of Prince Li's Mansion and Belle Yikuang's family were competing for the road, and the owners of both families refused to drink. Say.

Before he could finish a sentence, he only heard the sound of "Ba Da, Da Da", which came over very crisply, and Xiao Li immediately said with relief: "Okay, okay! The Street Patrol Censor is here!" Sure enough, the rich and powerful servants were afraid of nothing but the censor who patrolled the streets. When they heard the sound of "cracking the whip", they didn't bother to scold each other, and each got into the car and drove away.In an instant, the car drove away with the sound of thunder, and disappeared without a trace, but Xiao Li was even more scared than those people. He was afraid of revealing the truth, so he urged the driver to go back to the city from Dongheyan.Zha Lou never saw it, but the emperor was considerate of Xiao Li, even though the trip was in vain, he did not blame him. As soon as he returned to the palace, the emperor heard the report from Zhang Dexi, the chief eunuch, saying that the queen had violated the peace, so the emperor went to Chengqian Palace to visit the queen again.The illness is a minor illness, but Yuyan is thin and not bedridden. Looking at the prescriptions, there were already four, and the emperor knew that the empress had been ill for several days. Although she had a slight cold, she was still apologetic for neglecting to give condolences, so she seemed extremely attentive when she asked questions. When the queen served the tea with her own hands, the emperor suddenly said, "I think you should live in another place!" Well, how did you come up with this word?The queen was slightly surprised, and immediately asked: "The emperor sees this, is it not good there?" "I'm afraid of this house..." The emperor kept his mouth shut, because he was afraid that speaking out would make the empress suspicious.Chengqian Palace is a well-known palace among the East Six Palaces. In the Ming Dynasty, it was always the sleeping palace of noble concubines. Tian Guifei, who was the most popular in the Chongzhen Dynasty, lived here.In the Shunzhi period, Concubine Dong E, who is said to be Dong Xiaowan, also lived here. The two favorite concubines of different generations did not last forever.During the Daoguang period, the emperor's pro-grandmother, Empress Xiao Quancheng, collapsed here in the first lunar month. She was only thirty-three years old when she died. According to legend in the palace, she offended the Empress Dowager Gongci and committed suicide by taking poison.All in all, in the emperor's feeling, "this house is not very auspicious"! The empress naturally couldn't guess what he was thinking, but it was inconvenient to ask further questions, she just felt that the Chengqian Palace was close to the Empress Dowager Ci'an's Zhongcui Palace, and there was nothing wrong with it, so she smiled and kept silent, virtually dispelling the emperor's intentions . "Are you on business yet?" the emperor asked. When asked about her stepfather, the queen thanked her again, but is Chongqi on a mission?The queen wouldn't know, and at the same time felt that the emperor's question was strange, "I'm in the palace," she said with a smile, "how do you know?" The emperor thought about it well, "It's ridiculous for me to ask." He said, "It's also your luck, Ama, who happens to have such a shortage. The 'food silver' of the Household Hall official is always one thousand taels a month. " "It's all the grace of the emperor." The queen said again, "I heard that Gui Qing is quite loyal. If there is a chance, the emperor should transfer him back." "Hmph!" The emperor sneered, "It was originally to see his achievements in the Hongde Palace, and he deliberately asked him to fill in the vacancy of the servant of the household department, and adjust him. Who knows that he doesn't know how to flatter, and only likes to make trouble." "Oh, what's the matter?" the queen asked knowingly. "He messed up with Master Li and said some things that people don't like to hear." "The words are not pleasant, but the heart is good." The queen replied calmly, "Don't all the history books say that a loyal minister is a loyal minister?" "Just to fulfill his own reputation as a loyal minister, where does he put the ruler?" The emperor shook his hand and said, "It is better to have no books than to believe in books! There are some things in the books that are deliberately said that way, and there is no such thing thing." "Yes!" The empress agreed first, and seeing that the emperor didn't have much annoyance, she said, "The emperor must believe the good words and deeds of those Zhongxing masters recorded in the history books." The emperor was silent.After pondering for a while, he suddenly asked, "Tell me, which queen do you want to learn from?" "There are many virtuous empresses in the past," the empress thought for a while, "Empress Taizong's eldest grandson, Empress Ma of Emperor Taizong of Ming Dynasty, are all remarkable." "What about this dynasty?" "This dynasty?" The queen replied cautiously, "All ancestors and ancestors should follow the law, especially the filial and pure queen." This is tantamount to imitating the emperor as Gaozong.The emperor has always admired this "perfect old man" who enjoyed his age the most, and he was naturally happy after hearing what the empress said. Talking about the past and the present in this way, with the appearance of talking about love, the emperor felt a rare joy of friendship.Sometimes the emperor is the loneliest person in the world. He has no friends, and there is only one Zaicheng who barely feels like a friend. Although Zaicheng is not a year or two older than him, he knows a lot more than him.Therefore, when the emperor and Zai Cheng were together, they often had the desire to win, but sometimes they had to take care of the distinction between the emperor and his ministers, so it was difficult to stay in harmony and speak freely. Unlike the empress, the emperor believed that the "Miss Number One Scholar" was naturally a talented woman, and it didn't matter if she lost to her in knowledge, and besides, no outsiders heard it, so there was no need to feel ashamed.Of course, the empress was well-bred, she was very cautious in her words, she would never hurt the emperor's self-esteem, she just wanted to enlighten her, and said things casually, if the emperor kept silent, she was very opportunistic, so she would never mention it.And when she encountered a topic that the emperor was interested in, even if she couldn't answer it, she would definitely listen attentively so that the emperor could continue the conversation vigorously. Speaking of the update, the maid brought up a special four-color light and delicate snack for midnight snacks, and the empress took care of it herself. The maid came to play the report, saying that the palace gate was about to be locked. This means indirectly asking the emperor if he lives in Chengqian Palace?The queen understood her intentions, but she refused to express it clearly, and only said: "Wait a little longer!" The emperor naturally knew it too.It should be a matter of course, but he hesitated.Thinking of Empress Dowager Cixi, Concubine Hui, and Empress, if one day lives in Chengqian Palace, tomorrow he may be summoned to Changchun Palace to listen to something he doesn't like to hear, while the Empress will have at least three or five days. His face looks good.Thinking of Empress Dowager Cixi's cold face towards the queen, the emperor felt a chill down his back. "I'd better go back!" The emperor stood up and walked out without turning his head. He was afraid that if he turned around, he would see the queen and he would not be hardened. Once back to Qianqing Palace, the emperor felt like two heavens and one earth.In the long and good night, how many young couples in the world cuddle up to each other, love each other lightly, and you are the emperor, but you have to endure such cold and desolate, how can you be reconciled? "Long Live Lord, please rest!" Xiao Li came quietly and said softly: "The slave has already asked Yang San'er to make the bed." Yang San'er is a young eunuch, only fourteen years old this year, with a pair of small eyes, red lips and white teeth, and outstretched hands, with pointed fingers, like a girl.That night he was locked in the house, waiting for the emperor to wash his feet and go to bed. I got up late the next day. In the study, I felt dizzy and couldn't sit down. I left the study early on the pretext of "stomach discomfort".The meeting with the military aircraft was also hasty, and there were two other "introductions", and the order was "withdrawn".