Just when everyone was at a loss what to do, by chance, Chen Xiaomu's mother, a simple girl from a mountain village, appeared. It turned out that two days before the emperor came to hunt in the mountains, this girl came out to herd sheep for the wealthy rich family in the village. The girl was illiterate, and as a result When the sheep were driven back to Tu Lao Cai's house at night, the clerk of Tu Lao Cai's house insisted that one sheep was missing and asked her to pay five taels of silver. Not to mention five taels of silver, the poor girl's parents had never seen her before. What does silver look like? The helpless girl, her parents, her brother and her family of four went to the gate of Tu Lao Cai's house and knelt for half the night. Finally, the rich man's family said, "You can do without money. You must choose one of two roads. The first is to find the lost sheep." , Second, let the girl be sold to his family as a maid for five taels of silver! He also gave a three-day period. If the sheep is still not found within the three-day period, the rich man’s family will send someone to the girl’s house to pick it up!
Although the fate of the mountain people is low, they are still her own flesh and blood. No matter what, they are not willing to let her become a servant of the rich man's family who cannot decide his own life. So before the imperial guards cleared the mountain, the girl's family went up the mountain with dry food to find it. Sheep, originally the matter of losing sheep was a trap set by rich people, but these simple mountain people really thought that their daughter had lost other people's sheep, so they searched for them on the mountain for days and nights. After the imperial guards cleared the mountain, this family turned out to be... A fish that slipped through the net.
That evening, the exhausted family was sitting in a small cave on the mountainside worrying. Suddenly they heard the roar of deer outside the cave. They quickly got out of the cave to see what was going on. They were so anxious that they were running around like headless flies. Lin Zhenren, who was wandering around, found out that Lin Zhenren was overjoyed because he gave this medicine to the emperor. Although it cured the emperor's asthma, the side effects of the elixir made the emperor so uncomfortable that he was now afraid that the emperor would kill him in anger. Despite his shame, if he hadn't followed the emperor all year round to make elixirs and knew that the emperor was deeply saddened by Long Yang's incident, Lin Zhenren would have really wanted to offer his own chrysanthemum to relieve the emperor's urgent need.
This was good, I suddenly found two women, and one of them looked like a young girl.
Immediately, Master Lin hurriedly ordered the guards in front of the palace to bring the family of four to the emperor Chen Ruchang. At this time, Chen Ruchang's whole body began to stiffen, but no matter how anxious he was, he couldn't do it in broad daylight! After all, he was still the king of a country. Lin Zhenren immediately asked several guards from the Dianqian Division to carry the emperor Chen Ruchang and lead the girl from the mountain village to the cave where the family of four had rested before. The guards from the Dianqian Division pulled him outside the cave. Set up a warning circle and let the girl help Emperor Chen Ruchang relieve the fire in the cave!
The lifespan of ancient people was relatively short. Even if there were no troubled times, an average person would be considered long-lived if he lived over fifty years old. It would be normal to die in his forties, and he could call himself an old man in his thirties. How about this? Chen Ruchang was twenty-four years old. It has been eighteen years since he ascended the throne, and he is now forty-two years old. According to the life span of the ancients, and with the three thousand beauties in the harem serving him every day, it can be said that his body has reached the point where it is beyond its capabilities!
Maybe it was because Lin Zhenren's elixir contained too much ingredients, or maybe Chen Ruchang had held it in for too long. Chen Ruchang performed extremely well today. He and the girl spent more than an hour in the small cave before they got out of the cave. When they came out, their expressions were expressionless. Ruddy, he seemed much younger all of a sudden, completely different from the half-dead Chen Ruchang more than an hour ago!
Chen Ruchang returned to normal, but he caused terrible harm to the girl in the mountain village. The girl almost walked out of the cave step by step, and even blood stains could be seen behind her skirt.
Although the emperor did something shameful, a group of civil and military ministers waiting outside the cave saw Chen Ruchang coming out of the cave, and they still joined in and started to flatter each other. One wanted to name the cave Panlong Cave, and the other praised the emperor for his walking like a dragon and a tiger. At this time, Zuo Prime Minister Zhao Gang was unusually calm. He stepped forward to ward off the sycophants, and bowed to Chen Ruchang, "Your Majesty, your health is a blessing to the people of my country. I just don't know." How is Your Majesty planning to settle matters with this woman next?"
Chen Ruchang waved his hand, "How about giving her a hundred taels of silver?"
Zhao Gang quickly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, you must not do this!"
Chen Ruchang asked strangely, "Why not? Do you think it's too little?"
"I wonder if Your Majesty has thought about the consequences of this matter?"
Chen Ruchang was even more surprised, "Prime Minister, the people of the Chen Dynasty are all my subjects. They help me do things. Isn't it normal for me to reward them? What consequences can there be?"
"I wonder if Your Majesty has ever thought about it. This woman is not His Majesty's harem, but she is actually a lucky one! His Majesty's reward is not wrong, but if this is spread, it will be hard to say!" In fact, Zhao Gang did not say it clearly! What it means is that you are the emperor, but this girl from the mountain village is not your harem, concubine, maid, or the like. You are lucky enough to be married to someone else without their consent, so you are basically forcing yourself on her. This matter is not justified in the first place, and now it is Giving someone money is no different from visiting a prostitute. What's more, this woman is not a brothel girl. To put it bluntly, you are robbing a common woman!
Chen Ruchang also heard Zhao Gang's subtext and pondered for a moment, "What the Prime Minister said is that I don't know if the Prime Minister has any good methods, so I will consider it again."
"Your Majesty, take this woman into the palace and reward her family with some silver. This matter will become clear and logical, and it will be heard by all the people in the world!"
"But this woman is a commoner in the mountains after all, and her appearance is even worse than that of my concubines. Bringing her back to the palace will attract even more gossip!"
How could you have just been with Yunyu and not find him rude? Now that you are comfortable, you still find him rude. Zhao Gang was secretly worried.
"Your Majesty, I'm not saying that if you bring this woman back to the palace, you have to make her a noble concubine, Zhaoyi or something like that. How about your majesty let this woman bring her back to the palace in the name of a show girl in the draft?"
This plan was acceptable to Chen Ruchang, so he nodded in agreement.
Zhao Gang immediately ordered to go down, and the Xuanshan Village girl and her family met with His Majesty the Emperor.
Hearing His Majesty the Emperor announcing his family, the girl from the mountain village and her family were almost frightened to death. They usually trembled in their calves when they saw the villagers in the village. Occasionally, they hurriedly found a place to escape when they saw a tiha, let alone the one who was only in their legend. Now that he is the magistrate of the county, he can reach the sky in one step. He actually wants to meet the monarch, the supreme ruler of this country. If he doesn't scare them to death, they think they are lucky.
But the emperor had to meet the old man when he announced his visit. The four members of the family were brought in front of Chen Ruchang by the guards in front of the palace. They didn't even dare to raise their heads. They lay on the ground and trembled like chaff!
After all, Chen Ruchang had just been intimate with this girl, and the temperature in his heart had not cooled down yet, so he ordered in a gentle tone, "You are pardoned. Please raise your heads and tell me your names!"
Don't dare not lift your head when the emperor orders you to do so. Otherwise, you will be punished for the crime of deceiving the emperor and you will have to walk away with nothing.
After several people raised their heads, the one who was most surprised was the girl from the mountain village. It turned out that the guy with thin eyebrows and narrow eyes who had just forced her into the cave and forced herself to do shameful things was actually the current emperor!
"Your Majesty, the humble commoner's name is Mei Youqian. This is Zhang Chougu, the humble wife." Mei Youqian, the father of the girl from the mountain village, pointed at the village woman kneeling beside him and began to introduce his family to the emperor, and then pointed at the kneeling woman. The girl from the mountain village on the other side of me said, "This is the little girl Mei Yunniang, and this is the dog Mei Xiaomin."
Chen Ruchang nodded, "Everyone, get up. The weather in the mountains is very cold."
Mei Youqian looked at Zhao Gang standing next to Chen Ruchang with some confusion. Zhao Gang nodded slightly!
After Mei Youqian got Zhao Gang's hint, he safely stood up from the ground and stepped aside with his family of four.
"Eunuch Feng, please declare my decree!" Chen Ruchang didn't want to linger any longer in the mountains.
Holding a fly whisk in his hand, the white-faced eunuch Feng Baobao standing next to Chen Ruchang heard Chen Ruchang's instructions and immediately walked up to Mei Youqian's family of four and opened his throat.
"The Emperor's Oral Order" Under Zhao Gang's instruction, Mei Youqian had no choice but to kneel down again with his family of four to listen to Feng Baobao's announcement of the Emperor's oral order.
"Mei Youqian's family of four have meritorious service in escorting him. They are given 200 taels of silver and Mei Yunniang is given the status of a show girl, and she returns to the palace with the emperor to participate in the draft. I appreciate this.
After Feng Baobao finished his oral speech, he saw the four members of Mei Youqian's family still kneeling in a daze, looking at a loss. He sighed and hurriedly stepped forward to teach them to kowtow to express gratitude. Only then did he take care of Zhao Ruchang's family. The oral announcement is over!
At this time, Chen Ruchang had six princes, two princesses, and two grandsons. Among them, the eldest prince Chen Ren, the third prince Chen Heng, who was born to Queen Zhou Anan, the second prince Chen Biao, the fourth prince Chen Qi, and the sixth prince Chen Hong , was born to the imperial concubine Li Meiniang, the fifth prince Chen Ying, the eldest princess Chen Ting was born to Zhaoyi Su Yun, the youngest princess Chen Xuan was born to the talented Qian Qianqian, the eldest prince Chen Ren was also born in the 16th year of Xuanhe. He was made the prince two years ago! The two grandsons Chen Chenxi and Chen Yifei are both the sons of the eldest prince Chen Ren. Those who went hunting with him this time were the eldest prince Chen Ren, the fourth prince Chen Qi, the fifth prince Chen Ying, the eldest princess Chen Ting and the grandson Chen Chenxi. .
When Chen Ruchang had an asthma attack, the eldest prince Chen Ren took his son Chen Chenxi, the fifth prince Chen Ying took his sister Chen Ting, and the fourth prince Chen Qizheng each led a team of soldiers and horses to carry out annual hunting in a pre-designated area. Events held, hunting competitions.
When several princes, grandsons and princesses returned with full loads, each team brought piles of pheasants and wild boars. The emperor Chen Ren even carried a tiger hunted from the mountains, happily preparing to come back and present it to his father Chen Ruchang. After learning about the danger that just happened to their father, they all beat their chests and regretted not staying with their father!
