"It's very strange." Clavioy said: "The emperor was never late in the past. What happened this time that made him late?"
When Claviyo asked this question, he did not realize how serious the consequences of Yunxi's lateness were. It not only shocked the DPRK, but even affected the preparations for the war with India.
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"Lu Yi, please remember to remind me that if there is another request for money from the local government, we will not give it if we can. If we can give less, we will give less. We have to prepare for the war with Bangladesh this year, and the Ministry of Revenue will not have any balance. It is really impossible. , let the local large households and temples and Taoist temples donate money, especially the temples and Taoist temples. Without my attention, how could these temples and Taoist temples make so much money? It is only natural that they should contribute." After leaving Zhongcui Palace, he went On the way to Qianqing Palace, Yunxi told Lu Yi.
"My slave, I know." Lu Yi hurriedly saluted and agreed. Now that the Secretary of General Affairs received the memorial and sent it to the inner palace, Wang Xi, Lu Yi and other eunuchs first divided it into two parts: His Majesty's direct approval and the fourth assistant official's approval after drafting. Therefore, Yunxi distributed the memorial of "The Fourth Auxiliary Official's vote will be drafted and approved later" to the Fourth Auxiliary Officer. While reading the memorials that needed his direct approval, he waited for the Fourth Auxiliary's official vote to be drafted. So Yunxi gave the order. To Lu Yi.
"There is one more thing, you should pay more attention to it. The letter sent back to the capital by King An must be delivered to me as quickly as possible without delay." Yunxi also asked. Yesterday, on the first day of February, Zhu Ying left the capital for Nanyang. It is estimated that we will arrive in Suzhou tomorrow, but we must keep an eye on it.
Lu Yi hurriedly agreed again. After giving the instructions, Yunxi had nothing to say to him, so he turned around and continued walking towards Qianqing Palace.
Not long after he arrived at the Qianqing Palace, the four assistant officers and the ministers stood up and saluted. Yunxi waved his hand and asked them to sit down. He walked to the throne, glanced at the memorial on the table, and thought to himself: 'It doesn't count. Duo. After you finish marking all these, you can still catch up when you go to Wucheng Academy." So he sat down to mark the memorial. Not long after he sat down, he remembered something again and told Lu Yi: "Go to Kunning Palace and call Siqi. ."
"Guan Jia, it's not the beginning of the year, why did you call Princess Guangling here so early?" Lu Yi asked. After Siqi grew up, all the more important festivals, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival, would be celebrated. I spent the morning in the palace, spent the afternoon in Lan Mansion, and returned to the palace the next day. Today was the day when the dragon raised its head, so it was normal to leave the palace, but it was abnormal to call her over in the morning.
"It's not about sending her out of the palace." Yunxi explained: "There is another matter that I want to ask her about."
"I'll call the princess over right away." After hearing the explanation, Lu Yi agreed and walked out of Qianqing Palace without asking what the matter was. After thinking about it again, he decided to go and pass the news in person.
Yunxi quickly put the more than ten memorials on the table aside after reviewing them, and then he was deeply lazy. Just as he was about to ask the eunuch to take a few memorials that had been drafted from the table of the fourth auxiliary officer, he Seeing Lu Yi coming over, he whispered: "Guan Jia, Princess Guangling is already here and is waiting for Guan Jia at the door."
"Ask her to go to the back hall." Yunxi put down his pen, stood up and ordered, and walked to the back hall. He quickly walked to the back hall, and met Siqi in the corridor who had just walked in. Siqi hurriedly saluted: "I've met the officials."
"No need to be polite." Yunxi agreed, then asked with a smile: "Why don't you call me uncle recently?"
"Siqi is old, and he is not a nephew of the official family. It is inappropriate to always call him uncle. Everyone in the palace calls him official family, so Siqi also calls him official family." Siqi replied with a smile, and said to himself again in his heart.
He said to himself: 'And I am not a junior member of the official family.'
"It sounds better to call you uncle," Yunxi said with a smile. Siqi smiled and did not say anything, but asked: "Guan, why did you call Siqi here?"
While they were talking, they had already walked into a room. Yunxi asked the eunuch to take off his regular clothes and put on a more formal dress, and said: "That's it. Yesterday afternoon Lan Zhen came into the palace to discuss with me the affairs of the Governor's Palace.
, after the discussion, he specifically mentioned your marriage. He said that men should get married and women should get married, and he said it was time for you to get married too. "
"I don't want you to get married so early, but what he said makes sense. You are already eighteen years old, which is not too young. Even if I always treat you as the same age as Min'er, you are still seventeen years old.
In this day and age, it is not too early to get engaged at the age of seventeen and get married at the age of eighteen. It is indeed difficult to delay. And if it is delayed any longer, it will be difficult to find talented people of the same age."
"So my uncle called you here just to ask you what kind of husband you like. Is it the same as Min'er's second uncle, the same as the third uncle, or the same as the fourth uncle? If you don't like any of these three categories.
, and let you choose someone else. You also know your uncle’s attitude towards marriage, and will never force you to marry anyone. You can rest assured that you can tell your uncle about the husband you like, and he will choose it for you."
"Even if you don't want to get married so early, I often hear you and Min'er chatting and say you don't want to leave the palace, and that's okay. Of course, you can't live in the palace after marriage. It's impossible not to leave the palace, but after marriage
If you want to go to the palace to see us, you can go to the palace and be treated the same as Min'er's four aunts. If you don't want to get married so early, you can postpone it for another two years."
"If you are shy in front of your uncle, tell your aunt the conditions, it's the same thing."
After he and Lan Zhen and others discussed the affairs of the Governor's Mansion yesterday afternoon, Lan Zhen waited for everyone else to leave and asked Yunxi to arrange Si Qi's marriage as soon as possible with very sincere words. There was also a hint of anxiety in her words. In this era
Siqi is really not young. The daughters of top noble families such as the Chang family, Xu family and Li family are already engaged even if they are not married at this age. Even Lan Zhen's own daughter is already engaged when she is eighteen years old.
When it comes to getting married, only Si Qi not only hasn’t gotten married yet, he hasn’t even decided yet.
There have been rumors that His Majesty planned to marry Siqi to the Crown Prince, and Lan Zhen certainly had no objection to this; but even so, he felt that it should be settled. After pondering over his words dozens of times at home, he finally proposed to Yun yesterday.
Xi proposed.
Yunxi was not keen on promising Siqi to Wenyuan. After many years of observation between him, Xiyao and Xiyi, he found that Siqi and Wenyuan did not have any feelings beyond the relationship between brother and sister. Since there was no emotion, Yunxi would not give it to him.
They forced themselves together. Today they didn't mention the matter, they just asked her what kind of person she likes.
As soon as Yunxi opened his mouth, Siqi's expression changed. Emotions such as confusion, joy and shyness were mixed together. He seemed to be happy for something, but also confused about it. He did not answer for a while.
"Siqi, what do you think? Should you tell your uncle or your aunt?" Yunxi had been cooperating with the eunuchs to change clothes and didn't notice the change in her expression. He didn't hear the sound for a long time and asked again.
"Officials, can you ask all the eunuchs to go out?" Hearing this, he hesitated for a while. Although Siqi's face gradually turned red, his expression became firm and he spoke.
"Why, are you still shy?" Yunxi turned his head to look at her this time. When he saw her face turned red, he thought she was shy. After thinking about it, he ordered the young eunuch: "You all get out."
The young eunuchs hurriedly agreed and walked out of the house one by one. Lu Yi walked to the table next to Yunxi and poured him a cup of tea. He was about to go out with the teapot. But at this moment, he heard Siqi say:
"Guan Jia, do you really want to know what kind of man Siqi likes?"
"What?" Although Yunxi was a little slow, he also felt that this sentence was not quite right; when he asked Yunlan, Yunyun, and Yunzhi, they did not answer like this.
"What Siqi likes is a man like you, an official!" Siqi just paused to take a breath, and then said again.
"Crack!" There was a sudden sound in the room, and the teapot in Lu Yi's hand fell to the ground. But none of the three people in the room cared what happened to the teapot.
"Guan Jia, no, cousin, Siqi just likes you. Siqi has liked you since he was thirteen years old, although Siqi didn't know that he liked you at the time. Siqi likes everything about you, likes you and pointed out with a sneer.
The selfishness of officials makes them worthless; I like how you treat people gently and make people feel like a spring breeze; I like how you treat children very well, are willing to understand them, and play like a child when you accompany them; I like how you treat women
Tolerance and respect, allowing the three cousins to choose their own husbands, and even being willing to bear the criticism of officials; I like to see your expressions of amazement when you see strange and weird things, and your seriousness when you sit at the imperial table and answer memorials,
I like the warmth when you get along with your family, I like..." Siqi kept talking.
"Cousin," she took a step forward and walked less than a foot in front of Yunxi. She raised her head and looked up at Yunxi's face and said, "Siqi knows, cousin, your relationship with your cousin-in-law. Siqi
He was raised by you and his cousin, and he also has feelings for his cousin. But Siqi just can't control his feelings for his cousin."
"Siqi also knows that if Siqi marries his cousin, the ministers in the court will be in an uproar, and Siqi's uncle will not be willing. Many people will accuse Siqi of being a vixen. But Siqi doesn't care. If they call him a vixen
You can marry your cousin, Siqi would rather be scolded by them now."
"Cousin, do you like Siqi and are you willing to accept Siqi's feelings?"
When Siqi was talking, Yunxi's hand that originally reached for the tea cup stopped in mid-air and never moved. He never thought that Siqi would say such a thing. He raised Siqi from childhood to adulthood.
He treated her as a junior, as a niece, never as a woman. Even if he wanted to arrange a marriage for her, it was from the perspective of an elder. After hearing these words, he suddenly realized that Siqi was not his junior, but his
A peer, his cousin, not his niece.
After Siqi finished speaking, he couldn't help turning his head to look at her. Eighteen-year-old Siqi was already tall and slim. She probably had good genes from the Lan family. She had a face with oval seeds and although her eyes were not very big,
But it just matches the shape of her face; she has thick long hair that hangs down behind her light blue palace dress; the decoration on her head matches the clothes she is wearing; not to mention that she also practices martial arts sometimes and has an excellent figure.
She was even more beautiful. Looking at her, Yunxi suddenly felt that the words "qiaoxiaqianxi, beautiful eyes look forward to" should be used to describe her.
Siqi noticed that Yunxi was observing her appearance and figure, and felt happy. She stretched out her hand to him, just like when she was a child and asked him for a hug. Yunxi subconsciously wanted to reach out and hug her, but suddenly when he was halfway out,
Realizing that this was no longer the past, he had to retract his hands. Siqi immediately grabbed Yunxi's hands with his own, held his hand and said: "Cousin, don't you like Siqi? Why don't you want to
Hug Siqi?"
"No, but my liking for you is not the same as the liking you just said. My liking for you is the same as for Min'er. It is the liking of an elder for a younger generation." Yunxi said hurriedly, almost afraid of saying
It's over, and it's hard to say these few words.
"What does the elder like about the younger generation?" Siqi asked, while slowly approaching him.
"This is..." Yunxi's mind was very confused and he said a few random things. Siqi immediately answered: "But how is this different from my feelings for my cousin?"
"How can there be no difference? This is between elders and juniors, not between men and women."
"But Siqi is not my cousin's junior, but my cousin's sister. How can I have such feelings?"
"Well, I have always regarded you as a junior in the past..."
"But I'm not my cousin's junior, how can I have the feelings of an elder towards a junior?"
"This," Yunxi's mind became even more confused. He understood that Siqi was messing around, but he just couldn't think of how to refute, so he hesitated and said something that even he didn't understand.
"Cousin!" Siqi suddenly let go of Yunxi's hand. Yunxi couldn't tell whether he was happy or disappointed. Suddenly he felt someone pressing up in front of him. Siqi hugged Yunxi tightly and said
: "Cousin, no matter how you feel about Siqi, Siqi has this kind of feeling for you! If you don't like Siqi, Siqi will become a nun!" (To be continued)