May you live long and rejoice with you.
Chapter 340
"Is this the palace? It's so big."
Xiao Qingxue looked left and right, and she finally understood what it meant in ancient Chinese literature to say that there is no majesty without magnificence. To put it bluntly, it was a huge, huge, extremely huge palace complex that could not be seen to the end. , step after step, it seems that it will never come to the end, at least Xiao Qingxue missed walking on a chariot or riding a horse after walking for a while.
Xia He next to her was full of wonder and awe, and his steps were smaller than usual. When she came to her senses, the young lady had already walked out a long way, and Jiang Da and the others with the young master's tribe also hurriedly caught up. The palace is full of their people, but they dare not let down their guard.
Xiao Qingxue walked to the Taiye Hall of Guangming Palace and was surrounded by Jiang Da's subordinates. She smiled and said: "Jiang Da, Amu and General Jin have already taken control of the palace, so you don't need to be overly nervous. "
Jiang Daodao: "It's better to be careful. Although the imperial guards in the palace have been killed, there are many eunuchs and maids in the palace. If they are not protected, some people will have bad intentions."
After hearing this, the eunuchs and maidens who were hiding and kneeling at the palace wall did not even dare to raise their heads, and their bodies were all trembling. Xiao Qingxue thought that they were all dressed as low-level servants. It was winter, and their clothes were very thin. Thin people were crowded together, and their exposed hands were covered with frostbite.
Xiao Qingxue felt compassion. The palace should be the richest place in the world, but the superiors inside still treated people so harshly. She sighed secretly in her heart and asked Xia He to find the person in charge of Taiye Palace after walking further away. Come, let her get some food and clothing for the poor palace maids and eunuchs, so that they don't starve to death in the winter.
She couldn't care about the rest. Xiao Qingxue came to Taiye Palace originally because she wanted to see Penglai Mountain and Penglai Palace in Taiye Palace. She had been yearning for it after reading it in a book. After she came, it turned out that Well-deserved reputation.
I heard that the Penglai Palace in Penglai Mountain has always been the residence of Imperial Concubine Xi. The Penglai Palace is still there, but where has Imperial Concubine Xi gone?
Penglai Mountain occupies the entire middle of Taiye. It looks like a fairy mountain in the misty clouds in winter. The more than 600 cloisters and houses built around the pool are majestic and gorgeous. Xiao Qingxue was amazed by it. After admiring it, she went to find her father. Damn them, it's getting late after all.
As soon as she arrived at Taiji Hall, she met Amu who was hurriedly coming in armor and holding a long sword. Amu was also followed by a group of Youzhou soldiers.
"Amu." Xiao Qingxue said, "Why are you leaving in such a hurry?"
Tuoba Mu's eyes lit up, he walked to Qingxue and whispered: "The Queen of the Middle Palace hanged herself, and I have asked someone to put her down. There are many concubines in the harem, thousands of them, and I dare not do it without permission." I advocated placing them all in the Greenhouse Hall in the inner courtyard."
When Xiao Qingxue heard this, her head was full of black lines. This Emperor of Chu was really lustful, he only had so many concubines.
"Let me go in with you." Xiao Qingxue said. As soon as she entered the Tai Chi Hall, Xiao Qingxue was caught by the glittering golden dragon chair in the hall. The whole court was very solemn and solemn even if there was no one there. The momentum below made Xiao Qingxue's footsteps light.
"The general and the lady went to the history museum." Xiao Qingxue was startled by Dongxue's sudden appearance.
History Museum.
Zhou Xu looked at the vast sea of books and randomly found a book to look through. The humble official in the library was trembling as he searched for something from hundreds of years ago. He never expected that the ministers outside the palace that Zhou Youzhou left outside the palace were missing. Come to him.
Xiao Luolan saw that the hands of the officials in the museum were trembling, and she wondered if he would faint from fear. The clerk in the history museum stood on a wooden ladder and kept looking for Renzong's edict. Renzong's edict was hundreds of years ago. According to historical records, many people at that time believed that it was a ghostly talisman scrawled down by Renzong when he was seriously ill, so it should not be taken seriously. The royal family did not take it seriously, and the prime ministers did not take it seriously. After being circulated for a few times, it was shelved in the history museum.
Once released, it lasts for hundreds of years.
Xiao Luolan estimated that the search would take some time, so he and Zhou Lang went to the inner room. Probably without the pressure on them, the clerk of the history museum quickly found it, and after finding it, he quickly retreated. Zhou Xu looked at the dusty brocade box, wiped it casually with his sleeve, and handed it to his wife.
"Open it and take a look. Madam and I will read it together."
Xiao Luolan opened it and found that it was quite intact. She held it in her hand, and it was heavy. The golden edict was embroidered with dragon patterns, but when she smelled it carefully, she could still smell the decay of the silk as time passed. smell.
Xiao Luolan opened it carefully. When she looked through the historical materials, she also found that Renzong was the first person to impose a sea ban, and the series of regulations he set were the basis of the Great Chu Hailu.
Zhou Xu also became interested. After all, Renzong's madness when he was seriously ill has always been an unsolved mystery among the emperors of Dachu. He looked sideways and saw that it was as rumored that it was like a ghost drawing with no words. It cannot be deciphered, and naturally no one can understand it. It is no wonder that everyone refuses to recognize such an imperial edict.
Zhou Xu stroked his beard and looked at it for a long time, but couldn't figure out the reason. Suddenly he felt the edict slipping from the madam's hand. Zhou Xu took it and looked at the madam in confusion.
"What's wrong"
Zhou Xu looked at Madam and was stunned for a moment.
Because the lady's face was pale, as if she had been greatly shocked, her eyes were wide open, her face was mixed with extreme surprise and disbelief, and there was even a trace of fear deep in her spring-like eyes, which made Zhou Xu feel violated What's more, the expression on Madam's face when she dropped the edict was more like she was very familiar with it, or knew it, and understood the content of the edict. She was so shocked that she was so shocked and panicked.
She was frightened because of the content of the edict.
But that was the Tianzi Edict written more than two hundred years ago!
Zhou Xu slowly reopened Renzong's edict, but it was still incomprehensible as if it were a ghostly drawing, because it was not text at all, but various lines of different shapes connected together.
Madam stared at the twisted and connected lines, which seemed to be endless whirlpools, trying to swallow people up.
Zhou Xu's hand holding the edict tightened. Under the candlelight, his face no longer showed any trace of relaxation and joy. His cheek muscles twitched for a moment. He put away the edict, his eyes dark.
He placed the edict on the candle.
"Hey, don't burn it." Xiao Luolan just recovered from the shock and confusion when she saw this scene and quickly stepped forward to stop it. She grabbed the edict anxiously and wanted to take it from Zhou Lang's hand, but Zhou Lang Lang was so strong that the edict did not move at all. In desperation, Xiao Luolan put her hand over the flames to prevent it from burning the edict further.
As soon as the flames licked the back of his hand, Xiao Luolan hissed in pain. The next moment, someone grabbed his wrist and moved the candle away.
"Why don't you burn it? They are all useless things from hundreds of years ago." Zhou Xu held his wife's wrist, his voice was calm, but only he knew that the anxiety and irritability that no one knew was roaring in his chest. He always did everything. Putting his wife first, he learned that she was interested in the edict of the Heaven's Book. The first thing he did when occupying the palace was to make her happy. As long as it was what she wanted, in the whole world, could it be the royal land, he could give it to her! No worse than anyone else!
But now Zhou Xu hates this edict that is absurd and useless in the eyes of the world!
Why should Madam discover it?
He wished he could tear it to pieces so that his wife would not be so far away from him in an instant!
"It's useless, but I still want to see the edict." Xiao Luolan said anxiously: "Mr. Zhou, don't burn it."
Xiao Luolan was really anxious.
Zhou Xu looked at the burned edict coldly. What would be written in the edict? Or was Renzong a few hundred years ago also an immortal like Madam? Otherwise, there is no way to explain why the lady knew the heavenly script written by Renzong when he left his legacy. However, Renzong died early and died early, but maybe this kind of people did not die at all. Immortals always have ways that mortals can't think of, such as Traveling thousands of miles is like flying in the sky. Zhou Xu couldn't imagine it, even if his wife told him.
But he just couldn't imagine it.
Zhou Xu clenched his cheeks, and there were specks of blood in his eyes.
So will the edict contain instructions for leaving?
Zhou Xu stared at Madam closely: "Madam knows the meaning of the words in the edict."
Xiao Luolan hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Zhou Xu's heart sank, and his eyes turned colder when he read the edict: "Then what does it say?"
Xiao Luolan thought of what was written in the edict and hesitated again.
Seeing this, Zhou Xu put the edict on the candle and continued to burn it. The world is now his, and things from hundreds of years ago should be buried underground forever. Xiao Luolan said anxiously: "Mr. Zhou!"
She used her other hand to get the edict. As soon as Xiao Qingxue came in, she saw her father and mother-in-law grabbing something. When she came closer, she found that her father's face was really scary. Her mother-in-law was eager to grab the thing in her father's hand. .
"Father, grandma, what are you doing?" Xiao Qingxue asked, not knowing who to help.
When Xiao Luolan saw her daughter coming, she stopped.
Zhou Xu asked his daughter to come forward, but his wife refused to speak. Her daughter couldn't hide her words, but he wanted to see what was written in the edict.
"This is the imperial edict from the Renzong period. Take a look at what is written on it and tell your father." Zhou Xudao.
Xiao Qingxue was surprised. She still needed to read an ancient edict? She took it over and was startled as soon as she opened it. She was really startled. She yelled and threw it away as if she had seen a ghost.
Zhou Xu picked it up and Xiao Luolan rubbed his forehead.
Xiao Qingxue read it again and found that it was really an ancient edict. She rubbed her eyes and was shocked speechless. She pointed at the edict and said: "Aniang, Aniang, it, it is..."
"What's written on it?" Zhou Xu asked.
Xiao Qingxue patted her heart to calm herself down from the shock. Then she looked at the edict and was still shocked. She chose a more expressive expression in her limited vocabulary: "What the edict says is, this world Not pretty.”
Zhou Xu frowned, dubious.
Xiao Luolan listened to her daughter's words, looked at the bright English letters on the edict, and twitched her lips.
Fuck the world!
My daughter translated it really tactfully.
Chapter 341
Lanxiu Palace.
Xiao Qingxue had been laughing for a long time. After she got over her fright, the more she read, the more she wanted to laugh. Especially because the ink on the edict was written in unknown ink. It was still clearly visible after hundreds of years, and the English letters were a bit messy. , but each one was written in thick ink, stroke by stroke, especially the capital exclamation point at the end, which almost seemed to break the imperial edict, and the anger in it burst out in the edict.
"Is it so funny?" Xiao Luolan saw that her daughter was laughing so hard that she could hardly stand upright. She didn't quite understand what her daughter was laughing about, although when she thought about it, it was a bit funny.
"Aniang, it's so funny." Xiao Qingxue wiped her tears, rubbed her cheeks that were red with laughter, and gave the imperial edict to Aniang: "That fellow of ours is so funny. He has only been on the throne for a year. Well, we haven’t done much yet. We were just about to hold the imperial examination when we were united by those aristocratic families.”
Xiao Qingxue laughed again as she spoke: "I can understand that he must have been very angry and aggrieved before he died, but, I never expected that he would actually leave such a testament. Phew, it made me laugh to death. .”
Xiao Luolan also laughed when her daughter said it, but considering that Renzong in history was only nineteen years old when he died, he looked like a young man who was not deeply involved in the world in his words and deeds. Before he became emperor, there were historians who recorded what Prince Ning did. Frivolous, which means unstable,
"Why didn't I think of reading the Historical Records of Dachu before? The fellows here are so interesting." Xiao Qingxue opened the Historical Records of Dachu and flipped to the Renzong chapter. She continued reading and discovered a new continent.
"Huh?" Xiao Qingxue touched her chin: "Isn't this a bit fishy?"
Xiao Luolan looked over and found that the historical records were a bit difficult to understand. It was roughly said that King Ning was not favored when he was a child. His biological mother was just a palace maid and had no influence from her mother's family. She rarely spoke and was like a little transparent. The historical records only use one stroke to describe the emperor's lack of words when he was young. Stop leaking, take it with you.
When he grew up a little, he was kicked to a remote and impoverished fiefdom, and his health became even worse. He lingered on the sickbed for several years, and he was about to die. Suddenly one day, he was no longer depressed, and his health improved. When he learned Several of his brothers were vying for the throne and killing each other. Some of his younger brothers were still in their infancy. When the throne fell to him, he was eating everything he could and was in great health!
Xiao Luolan's eyes suddenly froze. After Renzong came to power, the first problem that arose was how to communicate with the ministers. This was probably too bizarre. Historical records used some pen and ink to speculate that Renzong might have stayed in a remote place for a long time. No, I am familiar with the Central Plains accent.
After Renzong came to power, he said that he couldn't understand what those ministers said, and he thought the accents of those ministers were weird, so he asked them to correct them. He also said that his language was high-class and elegant.
As soon as this statement came out, the nobles at that time laughed. The ministers immediately felt that this was an emperor who came from a ravine and had never seen the world. They were very contemptuous and looked down on him. The emperor's wife was even less likely to come from a big family. When I did, I just picked an ordinary one.
As for how the monarch and his ministers get along, they just get along half-heartedly and look down on each other. Renzong can be called a strange emperor among the Chu emperors. Not long after he came to power, he ordered the young sons and grandsons of the important ministers to be summoned to him from time to time. Let them play with him, and for a while he looked like a coward.
Within two or three months, the ministers discovered that the accents of their children and grandchildren had changed. After careful inquiry, Renzong asked those around him and those who played with him to speak elegant dialects.
The ministers held their noses and recognized Renzong's rural elegance.
After all, he was an emperor, and they had to talk to the emperor.
Later, they summoned craftsmen and asked them to improve printing as much as possible and pay attention to the imperial examination. They also ordered light corvee service. Naturally, they suddenly became seriously ill. The subsequent emperor was also promoted by the family at one stroke. He was younger, but had an extremely temperament. Cruel and unkind, in comparison, Renzong suddenly became a good emperor.
In addition, Renzong actually granted a lot of benefits that benefited the world. He died young and gradually became a moonlight-like existence. Many people miss him.
His country accent suddenly turned into an elegant accent that everyone flocked to. There were many imitators in Beijing, and several famous old men who were taught by Renzong promoted this development.
Jingzhong Yayan has been popular to this day.
Xiao Luolan and her daughter looked at each other, and finally understood why there was Mandarin in this world. His life was short and wonderful in the history books.
"We, a fellow villager, are so unlucky." Xiao Qingxue felt very sad. It was not easy to be an emperor in ancient times. He died accidentally and the fellow villagers were so angry that they started swearing.
After Xiao Luolan read them all, he wondered: "Isn't Renzong from our side? Why is there such a big difference between his performance in the front and the back?"
Xiao Qingxue patted her forehead and said with a smile: "He is probably different from us. We all arrived here, but he did not."
Xiao Luolan became even more confused: "Then how did he get here?"
