Because he and Su Xingran were crazy until midnight last night and overworked, Chen Xiaomu was still sleeping deeply with Su Xingran in his arms the next morning, but was suddenly awakened by a knock on the door from outside the hospital, followed by the sound of the door opening. , followed by the chatter of several people.
Before Chen Xiaomu could fully wake up, the reporting voice of the female official from last night could be heard outside the door, "Your Royal Highness, the Prince Consort, your Majesty has sent the palace's chief steward, the Prince Consort, to pick up the Prince Consort to attend today's morning meeting."
Chen Xiaomu opened his eyes in a daze, lifted up the red curtain, and looked out of the carved window. The sky outside the window was just a little bright, and only the outlines of the objects in the room could be seen clearly.
Putting down the curtains, he couldn't help but mutter to himself, "No, it's not dawn yet! Are you going to catch the emperor's breakfast early?"
Just as he was about to turn around and fall asleep again, he saw that Su Xingran had already half-stretched up in bed and was looking at him blankly. Chen Xiaomu said with a smile, "It's not yet dawn! I'll go to sleep for a while." After he finished, he lay down, but before he could close his eyes, Su Xingran reached out and twisted his ears and lifted him out of the bed. Chen Xiaomu screamed when he was twisted, and he yelled: "Su Xingran, you are trying to kill your husband." ?"
Su Xingran said angrily: "Idiot, my father is the emperor, and everything he says is gold-plated. If this prince goes back and reports to his father, the crime of disobedience will fall on you, do you understand?"
Chen Xiaomu couldn't help but be startled when he heard this. He had really forgotten this problem. He quickly got out of bed and got dressed. In a panic, he picked up the dirty clothes he took off last night and put them on his body, but was pulled from behind. Su Xingran who rushed over pulled it off and said angrily: "If you wear a disheveled coat in the court, you are also guilty of disrespecting the emperor, and you will be punished with a cane in court."
Chen Xiaomu smiled bitterly and said: "My dear wife, my husband only has this outfit now. If it is against the law to wear this, then I will have to go to court with my buttocks bare?"
When Su Xingran heard this, he was so angry that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She glanced at him and shouted to the door: "Fu Rong, go get the prince consort's official uniform."
"Here," the female official outside the door responded. After a short time, she brought two maids, each holding a set of futou official hats from top to bottom, a purple python robe embroidered with golden dragons, and high-top court boots with white rims. Open the door and walk into the house.
Under the command of Su Xingran, several people put on the official uniform quickly and methodically on Chen Xiaomu. Finally, Su Xingran picked up the futou official hat and gently put it on Chen Xiaomu. He took a few steps back and looked up and down. , nodded with satisfaction.
This was the first time that Chen Xiaomu put on the official official uniform of the imperial court since he traveled through time. For a moment, he looked around and saw how beautiful it was. However, when he saw the golden dragon pattern embroidered on the official uniform, he was still stunned. In his limited time, From his historical knowledge, he still knew that the dragon was a special symbol of the ancient royal family. Damn it, if you wear this thing to go to court, the emperor will not be punished for treason and beheaded, right?
Chen Xiaomu hesitated for a moment, but finally Ai Ai expressed his doubts. Su Xingran laughed and said, "Husband, what are you thinking about? This is a python robe, and the pattern on it is not a dragon but a python. Do you understand? Father, that's what you thought." If you are wearing a golden dragon embroidered with five claws, that is a dragon robe, but you only have four claws, so you cannot be called a dragon!"
Chen Xiaomu immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and he joked: "The emperor is wearing a five-clawed dragon robe, and I am wearing a four-clawed python robe. I am only one less clawed than the emperor. I should be considered as one person under ten thousand people." Are you on board? "
"No," Su Xingran shook his head and said seriously: "You are only a second-rank official, Prince Consort, and the Prime Minister of Wei, Wen, and Wei. "
''Okay, then it's better than two people and above ten thousand people. "Chen Xiaomu then changed his words and said.
"That's not true." Su Xingran seemed to deliberately attack Chen Xiaomu's self-confidence and show his carelessness. She said: "The six ministers in the court, including the commander of the Imperial Forest Army of my uncle, are all the same as you, and they are all in the second grade. Taste."
"Forget it, forget it, Captain I have gone to work." Chen Xiaomu waved his hand, not wanting to quarrel with Su Xingran anymore, and walked out the door.
Su Xingran couldn't help but let out a "pop" as she followed him, and said with a smile: "It's to go to court, not to work. Don't talk nonsense in the court hall, otherwise you will make people laugh!"
''Know it! "Chen Xiaomu waved his hand impatiently and walked away. He was most afraid of women like mother-in-law and mother-in-law, and he would never stop exhorting her.
Outside the door, Lu Yi was talking with Eunuch Wang. When he saw Chen Xiaomu walking out of the yard tiredly, he came over to greet him. Eunuch Wang from afar smiled and said, Prince Consort, our family is meeting you again! "
Chen Xiaomu chuckled and said: "Old man, look at your rosy face, have you encountered any big happy events recently?"
"Oh, Prince Consort, this happy event for our family is all thanks to you!" Wang Gonggong hurriedly bent down and made a greeting to Chen Xiaomu, and said with a smile: "If you hadn't led the army into the new capital at night and rescued the Queen, we would have Where does my ability to protect you come from?"
Lu Yi interrupted from the side and said, "Your Highness, the prince is now the chamberlain of the palace."
Chen Xiaomu cupped his hands in front of the prince and complimented him: "Congratulations to the old man for making further progress." "
"There, there, I have to rely on the Prince Consort to take care of me from now on." The prince said as he opened the curtain of a luxuriously decorated carriage behind him and said: "Prince Prince Consort, it's getting late today. Our family is under the decree of the Holy Emperor. , come and take the Prince Consort into the palace to meet the Holy One."
Chen Xiaomu smiled and said, "Thank you," and stepped sideways into the carriage. As soon as he sat down on the couch in the carriage, the carriage began to move. First, he heard the scattered clatter of horse hoofs, and then the loud sound of horse hoofs. It quickly became denser, and it felt like the car was obviously getting faster and faster.
Chen Xiaomu quietly opened the window and looked out to see the scenery on the streets of Xinjing City. Unexpectedly, he could not see anything outside the carriage. The reason was that Lu Yi was riding a tall horse to guard the carriage beside the carriage and blocked the window tightly. , Chen Xiaomu sighed slightly, and simply lay down on the soft bed and closed his eyes, preparing to close his eyes and rest his mind. Unknowingly, he fell asleep and made a snoring sound.
I don't know how much time passed, but Chen Xiaomu heard something like someone speaking in his ear. He opened his eyelids with great effort. The first thing that caught his eye was Lu Yi's face full of anxiety, "Your Highness, here we are. At the entrance of the palace!"
''oh oh! "Chen Xiaomu was startled and quickly got up from the couch in the car. He raised his hand to wipe the saliva from the corner of his mouth and was about to get out of the car and go to the court.
Lu Yi hurriedly stopped him and reminded: "Your Highness, official hat, official hat!"
Chen Xiaomu subconsciously touched his head, but it was empty. He quickly turned back to look for his official hat in the car. When he picked up his official hat in the corner of the car and was about to put it on his head, he was stunned. One of the long wings was broken. What should he do? He didn't know whether the weight of the two long wings on the hat was important, but if he went to court wearing an official hat with only one long wing left, it would be nondescript. It's better to remove the remaining long wings, which at least looks better.
''Your Highness, I see many courtiers riding horses and sedans entering the court. " Seeing that Chen Xiaomu was still dawdling in the carriage, Lu Yi reminded him again outside the carriage.
Chen Xiaomu turned around and silently handed the Futou hat in his hand to Lu Yi, who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
Lu Yi didn't know what was going on. He took the Futou hat and looked at it. He was dumbfounded and thought to himself, what is this? However, he felt resentful and could not think of any good way to remedy the situation.
When the two of them were at a loss what to do, a question suddenly came from behind Lu Yi, "Brother, may I ask if this car is the vehicle of His Highness the Sixth Prince?"
Lu Yi turned his head and looked, and was immediately frightened into panic. He quickly turned around, made a compilation, and stammered: "Ah, ah, Mr. Chief Assistant, this is His Highness's car!"
The visitor then asked: "What about His Highness the Sixth Prince?"
"Who's looking for me?" Chen Xiaomu stuck his head out of the carriage and looked out.
"Oh, Sixth Prince, I have found you!" Wei Wen came over after hearing this, with an anxious look on his face.
"Master Chief Assistant, what advice do you have?" Chen Xiaomu probably said it because last night, Wei Yushang thanked him for bringing him and Wei Yuxin to recognize each other, but he still raised his hand to him.
Wei Wen looked around and said: "I heard that the emperor invited the sixth prince to attend the court meeting this morning. I was waiting for the sixth prince at the entrance of the court early in the morning. I wanted to have a few private words with you, but I didn't expect that waiting around would be useless. I didn't see the Sixth Prince, but I saw that the court meeting was about to begin, so I came down to look for you in a hurry."
Chen Xiaomu smiled bitterly and took the long-winged futou hat from Lu Yi's hand and handed it to Wei Wen.
Wei Wen was stunned at first, but when he took the futou hat and took a look, he realized that one of the two long wings on the hat had actually been removed. Wei Wen suddenly felt that he couldn't laugh or cry. Whether this matter is a big deal or not is a trivial matter. At this time, an official in crimson court uniform ran over from a distance, panting and saying hello: "Master Chief Minister, haven't you entered the court hall yet?"
Wei Wen's eyes lit up when he saw this person, and he said with a smile: "Oh, Xiaoxian, you came just in time, please lend me your black gauze hat!"
The official who came over was stunned when he heard the sound. Wei Wen didn't care about this and stamped his feet and said hurriedly: "Xiaoxian, I just want to lend you your official hat. Why are you so hesitant?"
The official responded with a sad face: "Master Chief Minister, is it because I arrived late that you have to take off my black gauze hat? Besides, you haven't entered the court now? Why don't you take off your own black gauze hat?" ?”
Wei Wen laughed angrily, but he also knew that he was in a hurry and did not speak clearly, which led to this huge misunderstanding. He pointed at Chen Xiaomu who was looking out in the carriage and said: "Here, let me introduce you to him. , This lord is His Highness the Sixth Prince of the Chen Kingdom, and is also the Prince Consort of our Zheng Kingdom. Now there is something wrong with his official hat. I would like to borrow your official hat for use. You don’t have to attend the court meeting today. I’ll just ask for leave for you when I see the emperor later.”
Although Chen Xiaomu went to court for the first time today, his name was unknown to everyone inside and outside the court of Zheng Guo. Who didn't know it? As soon as Wei Wen finished speaking, the official bent down to Chen Xiaomu and said, "Zhongzhong Zhu Xiaoxian, the director of the Ministry of Rites, is here to see Chen's consort, Duwei."
Chen Xiaomu quickly jumped out of the carriage, held Zhu Xiaoxian's hand, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhu is so polite!"
Wei Wen said meaningfully from the side: "Xiaoxian, if I remember correctly, you have been a doctor for nearly four years, right? Why not try your best to take another step forward while you are still employed in the imperial court!"
Zhu Xiaoxian was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly said to Wei Wen: "I will do whatever the chief minister orders you to do!" After saying that, he quickly took off the black gauze hat on his head and held it in front of Wei Wen with both hands.
Wei Wen took the black gauze hat and warned: "Hurry up and come back in the sedan chair to rest. If anyone asks, you will say you have diarrhea."
"Here!" Zhu Xiaoxian bowed his hands to the two of them and immediately turned around and went home.
Wei Wen helped Chen Xiaomu put on the black gauze hat. Compared with Zhu Xiaoxian's fat head and big ears, the black gauze hat he left was a full circle bigger on Chen Xiaomu's head and seemed to be dangling on his head. Wei Wen He also helped him tighten the strap at the back of the hat, so that it would no longer be confusing to the eyes. Fortunately, Zheng's black gauze hats were relatively consistent. Officials of the fifth rank and above all wore this kind of straight-legged hat. Officials below the fifth rank all wear the official hat of cross-legged futou. If you want to distinguish the rank of an official, just look at the color of the court uniform. Officials above the third rank all wear purple official uniforms like Chen Xiaomu and Wei Wen. From fourth to fifth rank, The official uniform is red, the fifth to seventh ranks are green, and the seventh rank and below are all cyan.
When Chen Xiaomu and Wei Wen hurried into the court hall, it was already filled with officials at all levels wearing various official uniforms. Fortunately, the Emperor Su Chengxuan had not yet sat down on the dragon chair. Almost everyone along the way was standing there. The officials in the court all turned to Wei Wen and greeted him. Except for Lu Jun, Lu Qian and a few others, no one recognized the young court official in purple court clothes who was following Wei Wen. The two walked past. After that, the officials on duty couldn't help but whisper to each other behind them. Everyone was speculating on the origin of this young official. However, due to the urgent shortage of manpower when they were still in the capital, Su Chengxuan rushed from Xinjing City or the state capital near Xinjing City to make an emergency call. The officials who were appointed to work in the imperial court could all guess that they were all close to each other. After all, when Chen Xiaomu led his army to regain the new capital, they had heard about it nearby! And some other ministers of the DPRK who fled to the mountains and countryside to escape the war after the new capital city was captured by the Chu army. After recently hearing about the restoration of Zheng Guo, they were busy looking for these officials. After meeting Chen Xiaomu again, they were all Showing a look of surprise and confusion.
Among them, the representative figure is the first-rank official who is still ranked ahead of Lu Jun in the military attaché rank, Taiwei Zhugecheng. Because he is good at performing, after returning, he knelt in front of Emperor Su Chengxuan with snot and tears, and told him about his He almost fainted twice because of his longing for Su Chengxuan. His performance moved Su Chengxuan so much that he was not only not held accountable for his failure to defend the new capital, but also had his official reinstatement. position, and changed his rank from the original first rank to the same as Prime Minister Wei Wen, to the first rank!
