The sun shines across the clouds, shining on the moss-climbing courtyard wall. As the shade sways, the carriage stops in front of the gate of the "Gengfu".

The soldiers around him held a spear and knives, with fierce eyes. After looking at the young man who was in the car, he turned back. Geng Qing calmly stepped into the threshold and smiled. He followed the soldiers leading the way to the front yard. Along the way, there were mostly palace guards guarding him, standing under the eaves, standing in a row with the hilts.

"The Minister of Justice Geng is here."

The eunuch standing by the door said Gao Xuan, and Geng Qing walked into the eaves. The palace man blinked at him without any trace, and then retreated aside.

There was a voice in the middle hall of the front yard. Huang Chao, dressed in black clothes, sat in the first place, with hot tea surrounds at hand. When he saw Geng Qing coming in, he didn't move, but just talked to the woman in the seat on the side of the middle hall.

"I am not strict in the death of the son-in-law, so the village people have the opportunity to take advantage of it. I think I am a murderer. Now, this person is dead, so I have atonement for the son-in-law. The princess is also famous. I will not make things difficult for me. But why do I live in this house? I have asked someone to clean up the house and re-built the servants and maids to make up for the previous mistakes? What does Your Highness think?"

When Geng Qing walked to the central hall and bowed and said, "Watch Your Majesty," Princess Guangde Li Huan, who was sitting on the side, smiled and said, "Thank you for your good wishes. That is the palace of the prince-consort, and you should give it to your majesty and give it to the civil and military. The prince-consort died there and felt sad when he was moved by the scene."

She smiled and looked at Geng Qing who bowed her hands, "I can live better here. There are not many magnanimity and can talk to many people. The sisters get along well and joke and do things. They are mostly free, which can make the pain of the deceased husband less."

When Huang Chao entered the front yard, he had already looked at the woman in front of him. She was over forty years and showed a little old-fashioned, but her expression and behavior were rare that the concubines in the palace could not have, and it was difficult for people to look down on her. She wanted to oppress the other party in aura, but unfortunately the other party's aura was not weak.

What's more, he is the rebel general, Huang Wang. Now he is the emperor, how can he be a slander with the woman? If he falls in the eyes of the civil and military soldiers around him, it would be too "humble" to see the guards outside.

“That’s good.”

He said softly, and ignored the woman. Then he looked at Geng Qing, who was still bowing to the other side, and the old man raised his hand.

"Geng Qing doesn't have to be too polite."

He smiled and pointed to the right side of the hall and asked him to sit down. Geng Qing thanked him and walked to the seat. More than 20 women gathered there, with nervous and frightened expressions. He was the first to call Geng Qing's husband's concubine, and called out at the opportunity: "Husband." Yingying bowed down to pay a blessing. These concubines may have less knowledge outside, but they are not stupid. They followed the short-body blessing.

The word "husband" suddenly sounded delicately. The short women had different figures and looked good, which made the guards on duty outside the door secretly glance in the hall, full of envy.

"Haha, what are your expressions? Your descendant is a blessing for being a minister."

Geng Qing smiled at them and said, blinked his eyelids lightly, then turned around and sat to the seat, waiting for a concubine to come and put down the tea for him.

The first Huang Chao grinned and smiled: "Geng Qing is so lucky. How about having so many beautiful wives and concubines? How about introducing them one by one?"

"The name of the cheap man can be heard by the holy ones, because their ancestors have accumulated virtue."

It was a tentative word, but Geng Qing looked serious and called the concubine's name: "Wanyi, Your Majesty has less tea, why don't you have the strength to be able to do it?"

Wanyi was the concubine who served tea. When she heard it, she was omitted. She called her out and looked friendly. The woman named Xu Wanyi pursed her lips and kicked her skirt and quickly passed by, adding tea to Huang Chao.

"Hongrou, serve some preserved pastries. You will know that you have saved hard for your husband. I didn't expect that your grandfather would be the same. Be careful of serving the family law at night!"

"My sister Yun, why are you still standing there? Let's help!"

......

The concubines called Ming'er quickly came out and were busy in the hall. Cui Yu frowned. More than 20 people were trying to distinguish them from the corresponding names. How could it be so easy? Are they really a couple?

Even Huang Chao was confused and looked at Cui Yan next to him.

In the seat on the right, Geng Qing was still calling the women's names. If he had nothing to do, he would come out to show his face to the first old man Fuli. In fact, Geng Qing used a clever method here. He was just these names and could not recognize who was who. Now he could fool him, and he learned the method of students responding randomly when the university teacher named him.

The names behind the chanted ones, the concubines behind them skillfully stood up, just like Geng Qing was really a couple.

Princess Guangde was a little stunned when she saw this scene. She had been moving in for a while. She had been with each other on weekdays. Even if she remembered all the names, she would call people wrong from time to time. Geng Qing, who was opposite, only half a month later, walked around and took a look, sat down and had a cup of tea and left, and could she know everything?

However, she had not thought much, and the first emperor did not think about it carefully. He felt even more uncomfortable by listening to the call-like calls, especially those women were young and beautiful, and quite diligent. In her harem, except for her old wife, there were only a few women who were accused from the people, and her appearance was just average.

Being an emperor is not as good as a minister.

"Geng Qing has so many beautiful concubines, I really envious." Huang Chao pressed the handrail and suddenly smiled on his face. He looked at the women walking in the hall, "Think about the quiet courtyard of my harem, I want to stuff a few more women in, but unfortunately I can't find a suitable one."

This is obvious. In their eyes, I am just a random exchange of goods. If Geng Qing is willing to send them, then the concubines of Emperor Tang in this courtyard were not those of Emperor Tang. The young man still looked at Huang Chao. If he did not send them, he would not say anything against the will of the holy people, and the women here would confirm their conjecture.

As soon as these words came out, the concubines who were walking around suddenly froze in place. Subconsciously, they looked at Geng Qing on the chair. The other concubines in the back were all raised. They were all concubines of Emperor Tang, so they were not willing to serve an old man, let alone a thief.

moment.

Countless eyes intertwined and fell on Geng Qing, who was on the seat there. At this time, he felt complicated. He obviously lost no matter which one he chose. But in the thinking of ancient men, most of them would choose to give away their daughters, concubines, and the goods they bought.

But he is a modern man. Not to mention that these women were entrusted by the late consultant Fu, even if they were really concubines, he could not do anything to give them away.

That's still a man?

"Your Majesty." He still kept a smile on his face, and got up and walked to the hall to start. "The relationship between men and women is not a measure of wealth and reputation. Although there is only one wife, they have no distinction between wives and concubines in me. They are both my wives and wife, and they accompany each other for the rest of their lives. If one is given, two will be afraid of losing their old age, and I will always think that I will feel regretful."

Geng Qing had a solemn face and a sincere voice. When he spoke of the emotional part, he looked at his wives and concubines and his voice was a little hoarse.

"......... I am forgetful when I am old, but I don't forget my lovesickness."

This is a passage of Bai Juyi's poem, which everyone has heard more or less. When it comes to the scene, it feels particularly desolate, just like a couple saying goodbye, when the husband is old and about to die, he expresses the regrets hidden in his heart for many years.

The eyes of the concubines present gradually became wet and red.

"Geng Qing is rejecting me?"

Huang Chao stood up with the handrail pressed down, his words aroused anger, which made the guards outside the door sweat for the young man. Originally, there was nothing, but that poem surprisingly outlined the picture. The love of separation from life and death always touched people's compassion in their hearts.

Just as the guards outside and the eunuch were nervous, Geng Qing bowed again, his voice was sonorous and powerful.

"Your Majesty, I can't."

After he finished speaking, the girls behind him had never felt like they were blocked by men before, especially when facing life and death, many women covered their mouths and noses sobbed and knelt down one after another.

"I beg your Majesty to take back the holy will, and I don't want to part with my husband!"

Huang Chao looked at the women kneeling together. When the rebels were in power, they always used their strength, but now the emperor was a little careful about his identity, frowned and his voice was cold.

"Are you not afraid of death?"

The girls hesitated for a moment, then shook their heads together: "Not afraid!"

Hahaha!

The old man standing there suddenly burst into laughter, laughter shaking the hall, his face disintegrated, and he nodded with a smile.

"I can see that you are in love with each other. I just joked, so let's get up."

He raised his hand, asked Geng Qing and the women to get up, and then sat back on the chair: "I was bored in the palace and came out to relax. Seeing Geng Qing enjoying the blessings of the people of Qi, I teased him and didn't take it seriously. Geng Qing was the same."

"Yes, I am your Majesty's son."

Geng Qing, who was standing there, kept a smile and looked relieved. He immediately asked the women behind him to go to the kitchen to make some food, and set up a banquet in the atrium to keep the emperor, Cui Yan and Meng Juehai for rice.

During the meal, I talked about some political affairs casually. After the war in the northwest, I sent the old man to the gate of the yard and left in a carriage.

The carriage and the riding team gradually faded away from the night.

Under the lantern at the door, Geng Qing's smile gradually became colder in the swaying light, and in the far away carriage, the burly old man slapped the shorter table with a palm.

"This Geng Qing is really seeking death." Huang Chao's face was not happy.

However, shortly after returning to the palace, a message came from the outside of the city and broke into the imperial city. The old man held his wife without any sleepiness and was woken up by the eunuch. He took the Baili Jiaxue, and his hands were trembling.

The above is that the army that went out of the west was Shangrang and Wang Bo was eager to seek credit, but was defeated by Zheng Ting!

Just as the old man looked at the notes in his hand, a 20,000 Shatuo soldiers entered Jin territory in the north of Chang'an with thousands of lights, preparing to go south.

A general holding a long spear, wearing armor, ran up the steep slope and cliff, looking at the night south, with indescribable pleasure.

“Ahhhh——”

He rode on the back of a horse, whistling with his spear, and his voice was loud and loud at night, blown by the wind, wandering among the mountains and the forest.
Chapter completed!