Three, bet with the queen

At three o'clock in the morning, Zhou Xuan brought Qin Que and Su Renzhen to the outside of Zichen Hall of Daxing Palace. The eunuch shouted: "The Marquis of Xuanxinzhou and the two wives met."

Li Yu sat on a large yellow rosewood chair with gold inlaid with shells, wearing a bright yellow turban, a light robe and a slow belt, and looked at Zhou Xuan and his wife walking into the hall with a smile, saying, "Su Renxin is pregnant, so there is no need to give a big gift."

Zhou Xuan and Qin Que both bowed down, why didn't Su Renzhen bow to Li Yu? They knelt down to pay tribute to him together.

Li Yu urgently ordered the palace maid to help him up and asked the eunuch to bring three embroidery docks for Zhou Xuan and the other two to sit down. He first asked Su Renjian: "Su Renjian, have you ever served in Jingxu Palace? Why do I have no impression of it at all?"

A clear and crisp laughter came from the back hall: "Your Majesty can never forget everything, but you can even lose your memory? When I come and see, can you recognize Su Renzhen?"

With fragrant hair and beautiful dresses, a group of palace maids came to the hall surrounded by a tall and noble beauty. The beauty was wearing tight sky blue denim trousers, a white silk shirt on her upper body, a trembling high bun, a red jade hairpin, a lightly decorated eyebrows and eyes, and a cherry lips that are not stained with redness. It perfectly combines simplicity and charm, classical and modern, and this incompatible aesthetic category.

Qin Que and Renzi were both stunned. Zhou Xuan had seen this costume of Xiao Zhou. When he saw him again, he was still amazed. He quickly knelt down and greeted him: "My nephew bowed to his aunt."

Qin Que and Sewing Needle quickly knelt down.

Queen Xiao Zhou sat next to Li Yu and smiled and said, "Please come in quickly and sit down." Looking at the two niece-in-law, Su Renzhen was naturally Su Renzhen, and the other one was Qin Que, a famous female doctor in Jiangzhou. Sure enough, she was beautiful and dignified. She said with a gentle voice: "Su Renzhen, raise her head and let me recognize it."

Su Renzi raised his face slightly and shouted shyly: "Empress——"

Xiao Zhouhou looked carefully and shook his head and said, "I don't have any impression of it anymore. It seems that I want to call Huzhu to recognize it."

Feng Ajian on the side said, "Empress, the sewing needle has become much plump after pregnancy. No wonder Your Majesty and Empress can't recognize it."

Xiao Zhouhou nodded and asked about the period when the needle was about to be delivered. He heard that Dr. Qin’s father and daughter took the pulse and found that there was a girl in the stomach of the needle. He was very interested and asked Qin Que: "How sure are you?"

Qin Que was very confident about this and said, "Thank you, there are tens of them."

Queen Zhou and Li Yu looked at each other and laughed. Queen Zhou smiled and said, "Nephew Xuan has always liked to compete with others to make bets. This time my aunt also made a bet with you. If she is really a girl, she will be named the Lord of Yongfeng County. If she is a boy, she will not be under the guise of her. What about it?"

Zhou Xuan knelt down again and said, "That nephew will thank His Majesty and the Empress for his grace on behalf of Zhou Zhiruo, who was not yet born."

Xiao Zhouhou smiled and said, "I will definitely lose this bet. I even have a good name, Zhou Zhiruo, well, a pretty name."

Li Yu said: "Zhou Xuan, I heard that you have done a lot of great things to worship ancestors in Xinzhou this time, and I will tell you about your experiences to me and the Queen, and I will talk about the interesting things in Xuanzhou and Shezhou."

Zhou Xuan then told him to fight poems and win the courtesans in Xuanzhou. Xiahou Liusu ran at night. Shezhou tea fights red Huangshan Rongcheng Tea and Fuqiu Tea. Xinzhou broke into Xie's casino and captured the bandit leader Brown Candy. He cleaned up Shangrao's administration in one fell swoop, opened a college and a charity village. Zhou Xuan was very eloquent, and he spoke vividly. Li Yu and the young Zhou Hou listened with relish. Li Yu ordered the eunuch to record several lyrics of Zhou Xuan, and he wanted to appreciate them.

Zhou Xuan sent a scroll of silk book in his hand to the palace maid to present to Xiao Zhouhou. Xiao Zhouhou opened the silk book and nodded and said, "It's great to rebuild the Zhou clan ancestral hall. It's really a virtue for me, a son like Xuan."

Li Yu sighed: "Opening academies and building a village, and nephew Xuan is very kind and righteous. I want to tell the world about my nephew Xuan's move. If the inner government is rich, I will also open academies and a Yangjianyuan across the country so that all the people of our Tang Dynasty can be well-educated and polite, and even if they are lonely and widowed, they will have some support."

Zhou Xuan quickly shouted that His Majesty was wise and kind.

The little Zhou Hou asked for the title of Zhou Xuan again: "Your Majesty, the Marquis of Xinzhou will do this kind of benevolence, righteousness and benefit the people on behalf of Your Majesty. Will Your Majesty have some reward?"

Li Yu nodded and said, "Of course there is a reward-" he thought for a while and said, "The title has been promoted to two levels, and he is the Duke of Xinzhou County, the second rank, and the fief of two thousand households. His daughter Zhou Zhiruo was named the lord of Yongfeng County as soon as she was born."

Zhou Xuan thanked him for his kindness. In this way, he would be promoted from a marquis of the country to a lord of the country. If he wanted to be promoted, he would be a prince and a king. Let's be promoted slowly.

Zhou Xuan said: "Your Majesty, my nephew in Xinzhou has once reported to the ministers of the Ministry of Education, but did Wei Xiang report to His Majesty?"

Li Yu said: "Wei Xuan has reported to me that the governor of Xinzhou, Huang Yuan, is going to retire and return home. I have also decided to take office today."

Zhou Xuan said: "Your Majesty, Xie Yuanhao, the leader of the ten tigers of Xie family, is still at large. Please give up your orders to strictly handle it."

Li Yu said: "Nephew Xuan will go to Jinghai to welcome the Prince of Southern Han soon. Let's handle the arrest of Xie Yuanhao by Dali Temple."

Zhou Xuan said: "Your Majesty, Xie Yuanhao is not a small person, I am afraid that Dali Temple will not dare to take him."

Li Yu frowned and said, "Who is Xie Yuanhao?"

Zhou Xuan said: "This person is the chief clerk of the Menxia Province."

Li Yu said: "Is there any reason why Dali Temple dare not do it if it is just a chief clerk?"

Zhou Xuan said: "Your Majesty, I saw a plaque at Xie's Casino, which was titled Xie's Arts Field. Can you tell me who wrote that plaque?"

Li Yu smiled slightly: "Which senior official is he in the court?"

Zhou Xuan said: "Your Majesty is a wise and wise man named Wei Xiang. Moreover, Wei Xiang has a close relationship with Xie Yuanhao, the leader of the ten tigers of the Xie family. Xie Yuanhao has a daughter who is Wei Xiang's concubine."

Li Yu narrowed his eyes and said slowly for a while: "Xie Yuanhao was dismissed from his post and was strictly responsible. Wei Xuan was not careful and was fined for half a year."

Zhou Xuan shook his head secretly. Li Yu is really the master who turned big and small things into small things. Historical legend said that he was "sexual forgiveness, not always strong, and he was good at abstaining from killing." To put it nicely, he was kind, but as a monarch in troubled times, he was actually weak, and it was impossible to expect him to punish Wei Xuan severely.

Zhou Xuan said: "Your Majesty, Empress, my nephew brought Sheyan, Xi Mo and Chengxintang paper to Your Majesty, and brought Xinzhou Luyu spring water and silver tea to my aunt. I changed my nephew to make tea and ask my aunt to taste it."

Xiao Zhouhou smiled and said, "Xuan Nee's Tea Art can rank among the top ten tea tasting masters, Go can win Huang Xingjian, who ranks fourth in the 18th chess players. The newly formed Cuju team can enter the top four of the Qingming Yuanshe's championship battle. Painting can make Gu Hongzhong admire him, and poetry—" Looking at Li Yu, he smiled sweetly.

Li Yu smiled and said, "Poetry can make the Lord of Wancheng sigh that the young man is terrifying."

Zhou Xuanlian said: "I dare not, I dare not, my nephew can't stand the talent of Your Majesty."

Xiao Zhouhou said: "As long as Nephew Xuan is interested in, he can do a good job. Nephew Xuan can be called the second most talented man in the Tang Dynasty."

Zhou Xuan understood and said respectfully: "My aunt is too rewarded, and my nephew is so honorable to be able to attach His Majesty to the tail of the horse!"

Li Yu laughed and was in a happy mood.

Xiao Zhou Hou suddenly asked: "Nephew Xuan, did the Xuanzhou courtesan come to Beijing with you? She has the eyesight, and I want to see her."

Zhou Xuan did not say that Xiahou Liusu was a spy from Qingyuan. There were many people in the palace, so it was difficult to protect him from leaking it. Once the leak was revealed, the counter-espionage strategy would be invalid. Moreover, Xiahou Liusu would definitely be severely punished by Chen Si'an for this, and it was possible to be beheaded. This is something Zhou Xuan would never want to see, and said, "Xiahou Liusu will be in the future. This is a long story. Let's report it to my aunt in detail another day. Let's talk about the princess's wedding first."

Xiao Zhou Hou said: "There are many capable nephews who can do it. This time Huzhu went to the Southern Han to get married. He asked her to be the envoy of the marriage, and the nephew Xuan was working hard."

Zhou Xuan thought to himself: "It turned out that Princess Qingle asked me to go!" He said: "My nephew should serve me, but I don't know when the princess of the Southern Han will arrive? When will the princess set off?"

Li Yu said: "The Prince of Southern Han came from the sea and reported to him that he would land in the Rugao area of ​​Hailing County in about mid-next month. Nephew Xuan will go to Jinghai early next month, and will work with the inspector of the Jinghai General Administration to welcome the Prince of Southern Han into Beijing. As for when he set off, he will discuss it when he meets the Prince of Southern Han."

Zhou Xuan thought to himself: "I want me to go to the beach to pick up the Prince of Snow Pig? This is so boring. I can't help but accompany the princess." He was so arrogant on the surface, but he was quite unhappy in his heart.

Seeing that Zhou Xuan was not very happy, Xiao Zhou Hou smiled slightly and said to Li Yu: "Your Majesty, Zhou Xuan had just returned to Beijing from afar. His two wives were not familiar with the situation in the mansion, so he asked him to go to Jinghai to welcome the Prince of the Southern Han. He sent someone else to welcome the Prince of the Southern Han. Nephew Xuan just waited for Huzhu to set off for the Southern Han to accompany him. What does Your Majesty think?"

Of course, Li Yu didn't refuse to agree.

Xiao Zhouhou said: "Nephew Xuan, Huzhu is very happy when he heard that you have returned to Beijing. He said that you still owe her two paintings. Nephew Xuan will not pay attention to anything else in the past half month. Painting Huzhu well. Alas, once you marry far away, it will be difficult to return to the peace after thousands of miles. In the future, you can only express your thoughts in the portrait of Huzhu."

Zhou Xuanwei said solemnly, thinking: "I'm afraid I'm afraid I'm going to draw more than two, at least four, and I have to draw two human body photos."

Xiao Zhouhou said: "Nephew Xuan will go to Jingxu Palace to see Huzhu. The sewing needle can be considered as returning to her parents' home, right?"
Chapter completed!