The next day was the first day of the lunar new year. Early in the morning, Gu Hou's house handed out the invitation, and soon there was a response from the prime minister's house.
Gu Shubai and Yu Fu went to the prime minister's residence together, while Gu huaijiang wanted to enter the palace. Two sedan chairs parted ways in front of the residence.
Gu huaijiang was waiting outside the imperial study. For a long time, Duke Chi came out slowly.
"Oh, marquis Gu, unfortunately, today is the day for the imperial clan to meet your majesty. Your majesty is talking to Uncle Huang and even uncle Huang. Please wait outside
Gu huaijiang nodded, "OK, I'll wait here."
Duke Chi guessed his face and said, "I dare to ask the Marquis, what are you doing here today? Maybe only slaves can do their best in it
Gu huaijiang looked at him and said with a smile, "if Duke Chi is willing to help us, we will be happy. To be honest, it was for the palace banquet last night. "
As soon as Duke Chi heard about the palace banquet yesterday, he immediately began to smile flatteringly, "has the Lord finally figured it out? Come on, you little bastards, the Marquis is waiting here. Don't you know how to bring a stool? "
The second half of the sentence was said by the people in the small palace at the bottom. Immediately someone moved a chair. Gu huaijiang only looked and did not sit down.
"Duke Chi is more respectful," Lord Hou has finally figured it out. I can breathe a sigh of relief! You don't know how much your majesty likes Princess Zhenjiang. She is the queen of Zhenjiang and refuses to be the princess. Your majesty made a big fire last night! If he knows that you are here today, how can he be in the mood to see any royal family? "
"Marquis, sit down first, and I'll go in and report to your majesty!"
Gu huaijiang said, "Mr. Chi, wait a minute."
"Ah?"
Chi Gonggong is so happy that he is about to go in and report to Ning Chengzhi. He stops him with a confused face.
Gu huaijiang looked at him and didn't speak, but he was told that he was wrong.
Duke Chi, who is the head of the palace's internal prison, looks at him inconceivably. Does Marquis Gu, who is very popular and seriously ill, really dare to disobey His Majesty?
As long as he let go, he would be the father-in-law of the country in the future, much closer than the in laws of the brother-in-law of the Prime Minister Yin. From then on, he would never have to worry about being suppressed.
Why can't he think of it?
Duke Chi looked at him helplessly and said, "since the Marquis is is not willing to sit down, take the chair away, so that the clan members will not talk about it."
After that, he brushed his sleeve and went into the imperial study.
The eunuchs at the bottom look at me and I'll look at you. One of them approached Gu huaijiang and said in a low voice, "Marquis, I'm really sorry. We slaves can only do what we're told."
Gu huaijiang said in a low voice: "no harm."
He knew that he came to offend Longyan, not to please him. He didn't plan to get preferential treatment here from the beginning.
Sure enough, after the little eunuchs took down their chairs, the Royal clans were present for a long time.
In previous years, the Convention of the audience was less than half an hour. Gu huaijiang stood outside the door for an hour, but there was no movement inside.
He didn't move, his eyes were watching his nose, his heart was watching his nose, and his face was calm.
Several young eunuchs stood in the corridor and gave him a thumbs up in their hearts. They thought that the people with their solid military achievements are not the same today.
It has its own spirit.
Until a quarter of an hour later, there was a faint sound of footsteps inside, and a group of royal families came out with their hearts in mind.
Seeing Gu huaijiang waiting outside the door, they suddenly realized.
No wonder your majesty has so much to say today. Obviously, he has nothing to say. He wants to keep them from going. It's a deliberate embarrassment to Marquis Gu
Several clansmen look embarrassed, want to come up and Gu huaijiang say a few words of comfort, but also afraid of the Royal study outsider many eyes, spread to Ning Chengzhi ears, had to say hello and leave.
Only old uncle Huang and father and son Ning Xuan came towards him.
"Lord Gu."
"Uncle Huang."
Both sides saluted, the old uncle said: "Marquis Gu came very early, but your majesty is angry, why don't you wait to talk about it in the future?"
Gu huaijiang was a little surprised. Then he said with a smile, "Uncle Huang knows what I'm thinking and what I'm here to do. Naturally, you also know that sooner or later you have to tell me about it. Your Majesty's anger will come out sooner or later."
Uncle Huang sighed, "although I'm a royal family member, I have no real power. Your majesty respectfully calls me uncle Huang. If you don't respect me, I'm just a bad old man. Last night I really have more than my heart, but less than my strength. "
Ning Xuan frowned and stepped forward to hold him.
Duke Chi suddenly came out of the hall, "Marquis Gu, your majesty sent you in, please."
Gu huaijiang bows his hands to old uncle Huang and goes into the imperial study behind him. Old uncle Huang looks at his back and sighs again.
"Father..."
Ning Xuan tries to comfort him, words to the mouth are dry empty words, simply don't say.Like his father, he despised Ning Chengzhi's practice of robbing Yu Fu for the post, and resented Gu huaijiang's loyalty but being suppressed.
But they are just ordinary Royal clansmen. They have no power and can do nothing.
"Father, let's go back first..."
The sedan chair of marquis Gu stopped outside the prime minister's residence, and Yin Shuo, wearing a dark red robe, personally welcomed Yu Fu and Gu Shubai outside the door.
He looked high spirited and in a good mood. "You two are rare guests. This is the first time I have come to the prime minister's residence. My prime minister's residence is full of splendor."
Gu Shubai said with a faint smile, "how dare you welcome the prime minister in person? Prime Minister Yin is so polite."
Yan Shuo said back with his words: "where, I'm busy saying that Shizi is a young general who cares about his family. Just say that the royal highness of the princess is a ruler for me.
Yu Fu listened to their polite words, and waved his hand impatiently, "I'm not here to talk about the etiquette of kings and ministers, and I know that Prime Minister Yin didn't regard the princess as the king, did I?"
Yin Shuo heard that she was mocking her treatment of Princess Danyang, and her smile did not change. "The eldest princess joked, and she had to be separated as the eldest princess. How can the one in my house compare with you? "
Voice just fell, a tall figure quietly separated him two people, Gu Shubai block between them.
To tease his fiancee in front of him, Yan Shuo is really promising.
The two men's eyes are on each other.
Yu Fu pulled his sleeve behind him.
This is the habit she left when she was a child. At that time, she was too young and short to reach Gu Shubai. Now she is 14 years old, and she is as tall as his shoulder, but she can't get rid of this habit.
When Yin Shuo saw her intimate little action, her eyes suddenly narrowed.
Just one action has made him crazy with jealousy, and he can no longer maintain his superficial politeness.
"Big brother, talk to Prime Minister Yin."
Yu Fu said, looking out at Yin Shuo from behind him, "should there be a hostess in the prime minister's residence who can receive female guests?"
Hostess
Does she want to see Princess Danyang, or Yin Jihe, or both?
Yan Shuo laughed, but he was not afraid that the two men could make waves. "Naturally, I'll order someone to take the princess to the east courtyard. Son, follow me. "
Two people's directions one toward the East and the other toward the West. When they walked away, they tacitly looked back at each other and felt at ease with each other.
In front of him, Yin Shuo showed Gu Shubai the way. His hands in his wide sleeves had already clenched into fists.
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Yufu is the first time to visit the prime minister's residence. She has a deep impression of Yin Shuo and Yin Yan's father and son. They have ulterior motives. Her imagination of the prime minister's residence is gloomy and terrible.
Did not expect to really come here, to see really elegant landscape, the layout of exquisite pavilions.
She once heard that the Yin family was a scholarly family. Compared with the military family like guhou's house, the scenery of the prime minister's house was less grand and more small.
Not yet to the east courtyard, a familiar figure came up.
"Yufu!"
Standing on the road, she didn't know how long she had been waiting. She only followed a pei'er, and met Yu Fu happily.
"Ji Ji."
Yufu had many questions to ask her. It was hard to speak in front of the prime minister's servants. Yin Jixiao understood and said, "you go down first, let me entertain the princess."
The servant hesitated and said, "this But the eldest son asked the slave to take Princess Zhenjiang to see Princess Danyang. "
Yin Ji said harshly, "my sister-in-law is not fit to meet guests. As the only lady in the house, can't I entertain guests for her?"
The servant was so frightened that he resigned.
After he left, Yin Jihe was like a cat out of danger, slowly put away the spines on his back.
Yu Fu couldn't help laughing, "you scared me. When did you become so dignified?"
Yin Jichu said helplessly: "it's all pretended. I'm trying to make myself dignified. If only I had half of you, I don't have to worry about being bullied."
Yu Fu looked at her and thought that the present Yin Ji was very different.
She no longer dressed plain and thin, but dressed in Chinese clothes that could show the identity of her prime minister. Her face was mellow, and she no longer cowered, for fear that others would look at the scar on her forehead.
The white gauze that she used to cover the scar was still there, but the whole face had a luster, unlike the old sick and sad.
Yu Fu praised her from the bottom of her heart, "she really has the style of a female general."
"Really?"
Yan Ji Yi Xi, quickly covered his mouth, looked around, "it's not convenient to talk here, come to my courtyard to say. I'll show you to Danyang later. Maybe you can think of something for her
Yu Fu didn't refuse, and followed her to the other end of the yard.
As soon as he closed the door in the room, Yin Jichu took her hand anxiously, "I didn't get into the Palace last night. I heard that your majesty wanted to make you in front of man Chao's civil and military presence, and you refused?""Well, for the sake of this, all the people in guhou mansion didn't sleep well last night. The general went to the palace early this morning. I'll accompany my elder brother to see your elder brother. "
"My big brother?"
When Yin Jiyi heard these three words, he felt uncomfortable subconsciously, "he hates Gu Houfu more than his majesty. He won't help you. But If it's your business, maybe he'll help. "
Yu Fu looked around in the room. "After the old prime minister comes back, I think your elder brother doesn't dare to embarrass you. The life of Princess Danyang is better, which is a good thing."
Yin Ji Yi said quickly: "what time is it? Do you still care about us? The most important thing at the moment is your business. If you don't want to enter the palace, I have an idea. "
Yu Fu said, "what is it?"
Yin Jichu said: "last night when the story of the palace came into the house, I was worshiping my ancestors in the ancestral hall with my father. My father sighed and said Say... "
Yu Fu said, "just say it. No matter what the old prime minister says, I'm not angry."
Yin Ji Chu then made up his mind, "my father is a very old-fashioned man. At first, he asked me to approach the second son just to find out your identity. My father was very angry when he heard what happened in the Palace last night. He said that his majesty wanted to set up a After a strange woman of unknown origin, it's absolutely impossible. "
Yu Fu's eyes brightened, not angry but smiling.
"Did he really say that?"
Yin Ji nodded and looked at Yu Fu. Was she laughing?
Others are afraid to be angry when they hear this. How can Yufu still laugh?
Yu Fuxi said: "your father is right. I'm a strange woman of unknown origin. Even if the queen of Dongling is not from a noble family, her family is clear and distinguished. I'm just the adopted daughter of Gu Hou's house. Although I'm respected as the eldest princess, I'm not royal. The old prime minister said, "how can we stop your majesty?"
It turned out that she was happy for this.
Yin Jichu said hastily, "my father doesn't want you to be the queen, but after all, he has discharged his official post. It's thanks to your grace that he can return to the imperial capital. How dare he say anything about it? After my father came back from Minzhong, he became old and thin. I'm afraid he has no strength to have this heart. "
"Although the old prime minister was relieved of his official post, his majesty is still dignified. Now his majesty dotes on Prime Minister Yin, and he will certainly give the old Prime Minister some face. So, Ji, will you take me to see him? "
"You want to see my father? This... "
She thought in her heart, in addition to all the people in guhou house, I'm afraid only Yin Yan didn't want Yufu to be the queen.
Gu Shubai would not have come to Yin Shuo if he had not been in such a difficult situation. If Yin Yan could be moved by Yu Fu, it would be a great help.
She gritted her teeth, "when I was in the most critical situation, I was taken in by Gu Hou's house. It was you who healed the scar on my forehead. I have always kept this kindness in my heart, and I can't repay it. Well, I'll take you to my father
Yu Fu said with a smile: "that's great, but don't say anything more about repaying kindness in the future. When the third brother broke into the prime minister's house, he was almost captured. You helped him. The kindness between you and me is long gone. You don't owe us anything. "
Yin Jikua looked at her and knew that Gu Houfu's kindness to him was endless. Yu Fu said this just to make her feel better.
Their greatest kindness to her is to tell her the truth of her life experience and let her know that she is not a brothel girl, but a woman with half Xikun's blood.
Her mother used to be a powerful female general. Why can't she be as brave as her mother?
She is slowly changing to become a brave and just person.
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