The sound downstairs was still noisy, and I don't know how many words were mixed together. Maybe it was too boring in the past, so the festival seemed precious. The atmosphere of the New Year has not completely subsided until now. On the contrary, there is a lot more excitement because the whole world is celebrating the new king.
As mentioned above, universal celebration is not just about shouting slogans. The imperial court will have real policies to benefit the people, such as giving out porridge and rice, and reducing or exempting rent, which are all regular policies.
At that time, the whole city was discussing it.
The discussion has been going on for several days, and even though the new emperor's coronation ceremony has ended, people's enthusiasm has not dissipated.
However, Song You was still bleary-eyed, so he just sat up on the bed and listened to the conversations and discussions of the passers-by downstairs, when he heard a soft and thin shout coming from the stairs.
A girl wearing three-color clothes walked up, exposed her upper body at the stairs, and already said to him:
"Someone is coming to visit you down below!
"It's three people!
"I've seen them all before!"
The girl did not come up, but stopped when she was about to leave the stairs. She only leaned half of her body out of the second floor, stretched her neck and stared at the Taoist with a serious look on her face.
"Three?"
"There is a man named Yu. I seem to have seen him in Yizhou, and I saw him once when I returned to Changjing last time. Empress Sanhua can't remember clearly. There is a magistrate of Liu County, also called County Sheriff Liu, who I saw in both Yizhou and Hezhou. Last time.
We met once when we returned to Changjing." The little girl paused and stared at him with a stern face. "There is also a neighbor from Yizhou who brought fish to Empress Sanhua. I forgot her name.
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"I see."
Song You shook his head. He really didn't want to get up, but he couldn't stay in bed any longer. He turned to his children and said: "Since we are old friends, please first ask Empress Sanhua to entertain them well for us, so I can get dressed."
Come down after washing up and ask them to wait a little longer. Remember not to lose etiquette."
"knew!"
The little girl answered simply.
She had not completely climbed up to the second floor. At this time, she only turned around and heard the old wooden ladder clanking and creaking as she walked down quickly.
Song You began to dress and wash up.
A girl's voice came faintly from downstairs:
"My Taoist priest is a lazy guy. He just got up now. Please sit down and wait for a while. He will come down after getting dressed and washing up.
"Ms. Sanhua will make you a pot of tea.
"That's right! Have you guys had breakfast? Empress Sanhua has cooked dumplings. They have just been cooked!
"..."
The girl's voice was very organized and polite, but cats have the social habits of cats. No matter what they said, she wouldn't listen and had to serve the dumplings to them.
Song You remained silent and splashed water on his face.
After washing up, he walked to the window, opened it and looked up and down.
The sky is blue, the sun is shining brightly, and the cool air suddenly rushes in, along with the smell of food stalls selling vegetables on the street outside. Below are a few scholars, not too young, gathered together and not knowing they are waiting.
Which classmate or friend? Most of the discussion just heard came from them.
Song You didn't close the window, just in time to change the air in the room. He just tidied his clothes and went downstairs.
Only one wooden door below was opened. Although the little girl was not tall, she was very diligent and was opening all the doors to make the room bright.
There were three figures sitting in front of the table. There were only three of them. They did not bring any other servants or wear official robes. Instead, they were dressed very simply. One was calm and composed, one was a little restrained, and the other was sitting upright. There was a table on the table.
A pot of tea, three teacups, a plate of freshly cooked dumplings, and three pairs of chopsticks.
The three of them couldn't resist the girl's enthusiasm, so they all picked one with chopsticks and tasted it as if they were snacks, but they were too embarrassed to do anything else after that.
When they saw Song You coming down, they immediately stood up.
"Meet sir."
"Sir, you are fine."
"Meet sir."
"Since we are old friends from Yizhou, don't be polite." Song You said quickly, "Please sit down, please."
"I was busy before. I know that when my husband returned to Beijing, it was almost the New Year. I was busy with affairs at the beginning and end of the year, and at the beginning of the new year, I was busy with His Majesty's enthronement. But it was only then that I came to visit my husband." Yu Zhizhou back then is now Yu.
Relative to Song You, who handed over his hand, he still maintained the same respect as before, "Sir, don't be offended."
"Sir, don't be offended."
"Luo has been in Beijing for two months, but he only found out yesterday that his husband is also in the capital. I feel so ashamed."
"Where. When I returned to Beijing this time, I never saw the three of them, but I often heard about how busy they were. Last year was eventful, but it should indeed be much busier than in previous years." Song You also said gently, "Those who are officials should be
The country is for the people, and I can only admire you."
After Song finished talking, he turned around and looked specifically at Luo Baotou, who had been away for the longest time, and said with a smile: "How has the class leader been doing in the past ten years since we said goodbye to each other?"
"Thanks to Mr., everything is fine."
"I said goodbye to Yidu, and I never thought we could see each other again here and now. I thought we would not see each other until we returned to Yidu twenty years later." Song You held up his hands and said, "The fate is truly wonderful.
"
"Luo didn't think of it either."
"The class leader has also gone through a lot of changes."
Song You said and looked at the other two people. He saw that those who didn't have white hair had white hair, and more and more of them had gray hair. He couldn't help but sigh and said: "Old friends have changed a bit."
"Getting older."
"It has been a storm for nearly ten years."
"Sir, he's still the same as before."
The three of them all had their own feelings about this.
But at this time, the little girl who had opened the door came over, silently placed a pair of chopsticks and a teacup in front of the Taoist, filled him with tea, and then stood silently aside, using a pair of smart and black and white
Clear eyes kept looking back and forth at them. Although they didn't say a word, they were really cute and cute, which diluted a bit of the sadness of meeting old friends again.
When the four of them stopped talking, she opened her mouth, and the first time she opened her mouth was: "Why don't you eat dumplings?"
"Eat, eat."
The three people answered quickly.
"Taoist, why don't you eat it?" The girl looked at the Taoist again, "This is what Sanhua Empress cooked specially for you."
"Miss Sanhua, please go out and buy me a bowl of Yuanxiao, preferably with glutinous rice soup base." Song You didn't even touch the chopsticks, "Today is the Lantern Festival, so I should have a bowl of Yuanxiao."
"Don't you eat dumplings?"
"Sanhua Empress, just eat it and you'll be fine."
"why do not you eat?"
"I want to eat Yuanxiao."
"Then you eat the dumplings first!"
"Go quickly, I'm hungry."
Song You waved his hand and asked her to leave.
The three people at the table did not dare to interrupt. They only turned to look at the tricolor clothes on the little girl without saying anything.
It wasn't until the girl was far away that she looked back.
But I can't help but have some doubts in my heart.
But they saw the Taoist saying to them calmly: "Everything is fine for me as a boy, but I have a hobby, I like to eat rat meat. Of course, this does not mean that today's dumplings must be filled with rat meat, but in the future, if
Please think twice before you taste whatever she gives you."
"..."
The three of them were stunned when they heard this, and then their expressions became complicated, and they couldn't help but look at the plate of dumplings on the table.
The dumplings are still steaming.
The dumpling fillings are all minced and mixed with cabbage and fungus. Who can tell what kind of meat is inside?
They only knew that when the fairy boy brought the dumplings, they were steaming hot. They all felt it was delicious and very happy when they ate it. They just felt that eating too much was a bit indecent, so they only tasted it briefly. Who would have thought that the children next to Mr.
Son, such a beautiful and lovely fairy boy would actually serve them a plate of dumplings stuffed with mouse?
But the amazing thing is that when I think about it again, it makes sense again.
The three of them couldn't help but look at each other.
"Ahem, cough, cough, I have heard that some people in Yuzhou love to eat snakes and rats and regard them as delicacies. It doesn't matter if they eat some rat meat." After all, Prime Minister Yu was Prime Minister Yu and said very calmly.
"Yes, yes, when Luo was young and down-to-earth, he also ate snakes and rats, but he didn't care about it." Luo Baantou was even more heroic. He simply picked up the chopsticks again, picked up another one, and put it into his mouth for a big bite.
Chew it to show that you really don't care at all.
Liu Zhixian, who is now an important member of the court, also nodded quickly. In a hurry, he agreed with Prime Minister Yu's words and imitated Luo Baantou to eat dumplings between his hands.
"You guys don't have to force yourself. I never eat it anyway."
As Song You said this, what he was thinking was that if Empress Sanhua saw this scene and knew that they ate it knowingly that it was rat meat, she would probably be very happy.
But that way, she would have another basis to persuade herself to eat mice.
"Sir, have you heard about the filling of the North and your Majesty's reward for Marquis Wu'an?" Yu Xiang suddenly asked.
"I heard about the North Filling project yesterday, and I just heard from passers-by downstairs this morning in my sleep that General Chen was granted the title of Duke." Song You said while raising a cup to drink tea.
The tea is very bitter, quite bitter.
It seems that the cat thought that tea was a good thing, and he wanted to entertain guests. He was afraid that the guests would not taste the tea, so he put a lot of tea in it.
It's bitter but also has obvious sweetness.
It's high-quality honey, and there's a lot of it.
Therefore, there is a complex taste of bitter and sweet side by side. If you taste bitter first, you will feel bitter and sweet. If you taste sweet first, you will feel sweet and bitter, which is strange.
"I heard that Duke Protector's injury has become more serious." Yu Xiang said calmly, and after a pause, "This is the idea of Miao Huazi who is next to Your Majesty. Oh, this Taoist priest is also a disciple of the national master."
"how to say?"
"The practices of the Dayan Dynasty are different from those of the previous dynasties. Sir, do you know that there has been no living first-class official for more than a hundred years? Except when the dynasty was founded, there was no living and ennobled Duke?"
"I know this..."
Song You nodded calmly.
Dayan had always been stingy about titles and ranks. If nothing else, the prime minister in front of him actually only had a rank of third rank. Of course, his power was not limited by rank.
As for titles, except for those famous founding generals who were granted the title of Duke at the beginning of the dynasty, no matter how great their merits were thereafter, only those who died were granted the title of Duke, and there were no living Dukes.
"If it's just that, it doesn't matter. Marquis Wu'an first made extraordinary achievements throughout the ages, and then retook the capital and supported the crown prince's orthodoxy. His merits are no less than those of the famous generals who founded the country. Even if he is named the Protector of the country, even if he has been in the past two hundred years,
There is no one who is alive to be granted the title of Duke, and no one dares to say anything." Yu Xiang said for a moment, "However, Your Majesty followed Miaohuazi Xian's plan and only granted the title of Duke without any physical reward. Instead, he gave Chen Ziyi a still young man.
The young heir was also sealed and told to rest in peace and recover."
Song You finally understood after hearing this.
"This is a hint..."
"It is also."
Yu Jianbai couldn't help but sigh.
It is a pity that the hero is so jealous of the monarch, but also laments that when the new monarch encountered this matter, he did not discuss it with the ministers and prime ministers, but only trusted a Taoist.
But this method is indeed clever and effective.
It is worthy of being viewed from Fengtian Temple in Luming Mountain.