Chapter 768: The Dynasty (Part 1)
.When the old emperor returned from the funeral, the funeral was over, and the court and the people were relieved. For the past month, they could not take a bath, shaved face, or change clothes, and drove people crazy. It was better for officials who were mourning in the yamen. After all, everyone was tacit and took a bath secretly. When they came home, they came over. But the nine ministers of the cabinet who accompanied the emperor in the palace could not be vague. They all came strictly according to the etiquette system, and they had already been scattered, like a group of prisoners.
When they looked at each other's appearance, the lords couldn't help but smile bitterly. This was really a ghost, so they hurriedly left each other and went home to take a shower and clean up.
Chen Si did not go home immediately, but accompanied by Shen Mingchen and others, he took a bus to the Dongchang Yamen.
Waiting at the door for a while, he saw a thin man with a long charcoal shawl on his face slowly emerged from the side door. It was Hai Rui Hai Gangzheng who had received a special order. Since learning that the emperor was still alive, Hai Rui stopped combing his hair and beards. He only had a cloth strap on his head, and no longer had a handful of long hair draped behind his back. In addition to his eyes and nose, his face was also covered by beards, and he appeared in front of Shen Mo like a savage.
Chen Si felt that he was disheveled and embarrassed to meet others. After seeing Hai Rui's face, he suddenly felt that he was pretty good, so he bowed to Hai Rui and said, "Brother Gangfeng, congratulations on seeing the light of the sky again.
Hearing the silent voice, Hai Rui, who had been walking silently, slowly raised his head and looked at him. He was shocked to find that these eyes, which had always been divinely swaying, were dark and lifeless at this moment.
Chen Si's heart tightened and he called out again: "Brother Gangfeng."
Hai Rui did not respond, and walked forward aimlessly with the wall. Chen Si had to follow him. They walked one after another in the alley where the dead leaves were floating yellow for an hour, and didn't know where to go. Chen Si really couldn't walk. Looking at a sign not far away, he shouted: "I'll invite you to take a bath!" It turned out that before they knew it, the two of them came to the door of a bathhouse.
Before Hai Rui could react, he was forced into it by Chen Si.
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This is an ordinary bathhouse. The store is not big and it is still clean. There is a golden rooster hanging at the door, and the soup is hot before it is called. The red sun is rising and the guests are full of guests. A guy greeted the door, and his mouth was a strong Baoding accent: "Oh, this man, come for the first time. It's really time to come. I just clean the pond and put water in it. Please come in quickly." After we welcome the guests in, he asked, "How many men are you?"
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"Are you two men going to the pool or the basin hall?" the guy asked again.
"Put the soup, it's quiet." Chen Mo and Xu Wei and the others ran through the bathhouse several times, and knew that the bathhouse was a big bathhouse, while the bathhouse was a small pool in a single room, and there were also a friend serving him by the side, which was the enjoyment of the rich.
Hai Rui was obviously absent-minded and obeyed the command like a walking corpse. He entered the single room, untied his clothes, and then stood naked by the pool.
Chen Si reached out to test the water temperature, quickly retracted his hand, and cursed with a smile: "The feet are just as hot as..." Before he finished speaking, he saw Hai Rui had already entered the pool, even his head was sinking in. He only saw a long, messy hair floating on the steaming pool like a water plant.
At first, I thought he was thrusting hard, and thought that it would float up later, but I didn't see Hai Rui showing up for a long time. I didn't care whether it was hot or not, so I jumped down quickly, took him up, and pulled him to the edge of the pool wall to sit down.
I saw Hai Rui's hair and beard, all of which were close to his face, and he could not see his expression at all. He could only breathe heavily with his mouth and nose, and he probably almost died of suffocation.
Shaking his head, sitting next to him in silence, wet his shoulders with water and said, "Is it sad that I haven't died?"
Hai Rui's breathing stopped, and he pushed away his hair covering his face with his hands, revealing a pair of red eyes, and tears dripped on the soup noodles. In fact, he had a long ambition to die in his heart, but he didn't want to settle himself in the imperial prison to avoid the late emperor being wronged.
As soon as he was released from the imperial prison, he was about to find a quiet place to end his life and to forgive the emperor for his crime of being humiliated. Unexpectedly, he was silent for a long time and was confused and brought him to the bathhouse. After a soak in hot water, the heavy shackles on Hai Rui's body and the blocks accumulated in his heart seemed to be loosened. Finally, he could speak: "I tried my best to write a letter to death. My original intention was to be the duty of a minister, but it was useless to the king, and I only fulfilled my direct name alone. Now that the king has ascended to heaven, Hai Rui's crime is released, which is nothing like a hypocrite who is stolen by swearing to you. What is the face of living in the world?"
Listening to Hai Rui's words, he sneered silently and repeatedly: "It turns out that deep down in his heart, Hai Gangfeng still cares about his reputation the most!"
"No!" Hai Rui looked up at the silence and said with a voice: "I..." He wanted to defend himself, but found that he was speechless. In fact, what Hai Rui despised was his body and his spirit, so his body was free. Hai Rui had no joy, but because of spiritual pressure, he did not want to live in the world. Spiritual nobility is actually not a matter of false reputation outside the body. Many times the two are even completely opposite. But in Hai Rui, unification is rarely achieved. . . . . . He gained a high reputation for his thoughts and morality. Even Hai Rui himself could not distinguish between the two.
Silence was grasping this point and persuaded Hai Rui: "The late emperor said: 'Hai Ruizhong Bibigan, but Lian is not King Zhou!' If you give up your life, it means that your past actions are wrong! It means that the two generations of emperors have evaluated you wrong!"
Hai Rui's eyes were entangled and he shook his head and said, "No, no, I don't mean that, it's just that Hai Rui was born without any use. It's better to win back the dignity of the late emperor by death."
"Before the Ming Dynasty was about to fall off!" Silently shouted, "There is no need for loyal ministers to die for the country!" He said, holding Hai Rui's shoulder and said, "Before the late emperor left, I have forgiven you, saying, 'What Hai Rui said is right, but the Lian was seriously ill and there is no chance to correct it.' That is why he instructed the new king to forgive your sins! If you really want to fulfill your duties as a minister, you should use the second half of your life to make up for the faults of the late emperor! Save the people of the Ming Dynasty from the fire and water! Instead of being like a coward, you only know how to escape with death!!"
A wake-up call made Hai Rui wake up as if in a dream. Although Hai Rui didn't say anything, he saw that he began to rub the ashes hard, and knew that he would not seek death again, so he felt relieved and called the master of the bathhouse to come over and scrub himself.
The master asked Hai Rui if he wanted it, but if nothing unexpected happened, he didn't. Lord Hai was used to doing it himself.
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In the hot room, I lay silently on the smooth wooden bed beside the bathing pool, enjoying the luffa pulp on my body, the old ash that had accumulated for a month rolled down, and the pores in my body seemed to be open, and my comfortable eyelids were fighting.
Just when he was in a daze, he heard the sound of pushing and quarrels outside silently, and then Hu Yong's loud scolding, which suddenly became a mess.
I was too lazy to pay attention to the silence. Although the guard was not as good as their level, if there were no friction and fights, it would be time to find a piece of pancreas to kill him.
I felt that the bath scrubber was a little nervous, and said in silence: "Don't be afraid, no one can come in." Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, the wooden screen in the single room collapsed and several figures rushed in.
Chen Jian widened his eyes and shouted in his heart: 'Is it an assassin?' Fortunately, the next moment, he saw Hu Yong and a few people pressing down a man tightly underneath, eliminating the threat. He calmed down his spirit and still lay there: "What's the situation?"
Shen Mingchen hurried over and said, "I don't know where the crazy man came from. He is so big, Hu Yong and others didn't hold him."
The shopkeeper of the bathhouse also hurried over to apologize with a look of panic.
Chen Si asked the bath scrubber to wash himself, then pulled a bath towel to wrap his lower body, sat cross-legged on the bed, and looked at the man who had been controlled by Hu Yong and others. He was immediately attracted by his appearance. He saw his ape-backed beehive waist, leopard head and eyes. Although his thin bones and python were gorgeous, he still felt very dangerous. Especially the angry eyes and rebellious expressions made Chen Si feel that this person was probably a shallow bottom and the hero was in trouble. He became curious and said, "What is the festival with this man in your store?"
"Oh, don't be fooled by his appearance," the shopkeeper said, "Don't think he has a good skin, but he is actually a gangster who cheats on food and drink!"
"Don't be swearing!" The man blushed and said, "Who doesn't owe you two money to take a bath when he is at the end of his life? When we get lucky in the future, we will pay you ten times a hundred times!"
"You are so poor that you can't be as good as a martial arts?" The shopkeeper sneered: "I don't want you to pay back ten or a hundred times in the future. As long as you pay off the money you owe! Do you have to pay it back? You can't even pay it back, and you still want to run it in time. Do you think there is a porridge shop in front of the yamen, which is dedicated to helping the poor?"
"You..." This really made a penny stump of the hero. The man was penniless and was ashamed of being run by the shopkeeper.
After silent discovering that the shopkeeper really deserves a beating. His mouth was so smelly that he couldn't help but sympathize with the man in his heart, and interrupted the shopkeeper and said, "How much does he owe you?"
The shopkeeper heard this, and the noble man seemed to pay back the money for the poor man. He changed his face and said with a flattering smile: "He has been here for three months, and he has only given one month's money and still owed sixty days. The open-air shop is always a child. He can take a bath and drink for a day, which is three cents of silver, a total of eighteen taels.
"There are accommodations in the bathhouse at night, and there are three meals available, which are much cheaper than ordinary hotels. It is a choice for many people who are short of money.
I heard that I had so much money, and I couldn't help but feel silent, and I thought to myself: i, this guy, I regard the bathhouse as my home.
The shopkeeper thought he thought it was too much, so he muttered, "Who made me look unconscious? The shop voluntarily paid 8 taels, and the master could pay 10 taels, so he wrote it off."
"Give him the money." I looked at Shen Mingchen silently and said lightly: "It's as much as you should, and heroes will not be favored by villains."
The man kept his eyes closed. When he heard this, his whole body shook, his tense body relaxed, and he looked at the silence with gratitude.
Shen Mingchen handed all the 18 taels of silver to the shopkeeper and smiled and said, "Your store owner is so strange. Since he couldn't afford to pay two months ago, why didn't he drive people away and insist on delaying it until now?"
"Oh, wasn't he deceived?" When he saw the silver, the shopkeeper was overjoyed and naturally asked whatever he asked: "It's true that he said he had a military position and showed me the documents. I thought he was a general who was still missing these two money, so... Who knew that after waiting for three months, he didn't see him prosper and became so sick that he was dying. If this continues, the shop will be destroyed."
"Don't let Luo Yang take the money and leave quickly." The man saw him shaking his old thoughts and said embarrassedly: "I will take off your platinum in the future!"
The shopkeeper remembered his fierce appearance at first, and was really worried. He shrank his neck and said, "You are lucky and have a noble person to help you..." Then he went out in shame.
"Let him go." Chen Si put on his clothes and ordered Hu Yong to say.
Hu Yong hesitated for a moment, followed the instructions and let the man go, but saw him still lying on the ground.
"Get up." Hu Yong kicked him.
"Mother Ball", the man cursed and forced himself up, his face covered in sweat beads, bowed to the silent and said, "Thank you for your help, please leave your residence in Taifu. I, Li Chengliang, will definitely repay you ten times the time in the future."
"Uh..." Chen Mo felt that this name sounded familiar. He seemed to have heard it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it, so he smiled and said with a smile: "Meeting by chance is fate. I think you are also a hero. Why should you worry about this little thing?"
The man smiled and said, "If it weren't for your help, I'm now, cough cough... I should be in the Shuntian Prefecture Prison."
Chen Jing had already seen his face look ugly and asked with concern: "Are you sick?"
"It's strong." The man shook his head and wanted to show his strength to Chen Silence, but his legs became weak and he fell straight to the ground. Fortunately, Hu Yong's eyes and hands were quick, and he hugged him. "Sir, this guy's body is hot, he is indeed sick..." Hu Yong said as he felt ashamed: "If you are not sick, brothers can't cure him."
"Pack up his things and take them home first." Chen Mo always felt that the name sounded familiar, so he simply took the person back first.
If this fuss is a mess, I can’t take a bath. Silence makes me comb my hair and shave my face and put on clean clothes. Hai Rui also cleaned up his beard and restored his true colors.
After leaving the bathhouse, he came to the street and said to Hai Rui silently: "You have already empty house, so you'd better go to my place."
Hai Rui shook his head and said, "I can't enjoy the wealth of your family." As he said that, he squeezed out a smile and said, "Don't worry, I won't seek death."
"That's good." The leader of the silent leader smiled, and then he felt relieved to let him go.
After parting with Hai Rui, Chen Si hurried home. The reason why he wanted to clean it first was that he was afraid of leaving a bad impression on the children, and even more afraid of scaring his little daughter.
When we got home, it was almost noon, and our wives and children were waiting for him to come back. The family was finally able to reunite, so they were naturally very happy. Kaifus had a reunion dinner. At the table, the silence praised the children very much, and praised Aji and Shishi, praising them for their sensibility and growing up.
However, the two children were extremely humble and lowered their heads to eat and didn't speak. Ruohan also had a weird expression and seemed to dare not talk to each other.
"What's wrong?" Silent asked his wife.
"It's finally easy to come back, let's talk about it another day." Ruohan glared at the two little ghosts and sighed, "My daughter doesn't know you anymore. Is there anyone who is like you as a father?"
Siren followed his wife's wishes and hugged his daughter who had recognized her child, teased her and said, "Little girl, you have forgotten so much, call me daddy..." As a result, Baoer cried without hesitation, which made him, the father, at a loss.
After finally coaxing my daughter, it was already noon. Chen Si gave Baoer to Ruohan and said, "I'll go to the front to see a few gentlemen, come back after dinner." After passing through the drooping flower gate, he arrived at the study room in the front yard. The three gentlemen were there, but the atmosphere was also a bit weird.
But why is silent? Then I walked in as if nothing had happened.
Seeing Chen Si come in, the three of them stood up to salute, and returned with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, three gentlemen, it's all your dependence on you for the past eight months."
After a little greeting, the topic could not be avoided. Shen Mingchen smiled awkwardly and said, "I also want to apologize to the Lord. Do you know about San Gonggui?"
"I know." Chen Si nodded. Without discussing with him, these three men deleted and modified the script of the Three Mats debate, and deleted the deafening remarks, but reinterpreted them without any pain. "It is said that the subjects should not be unilaterally required to be loyal and filial to the king, and the emperor should also fulfill his obligations to the subjects. Although the remarks were already amazing, they were still far from the demands of silence and did not shake the supremacy of the monarchy. At that time, the silence was indeed very annoyed.
"Why?" Chen Silent smiled and said, "You don't want to give me an explanation."
"Because lord is too aggressive," Wang Yin said frankly: "It violates our established policy. In order not to ruin your hard work, I deleted all the excessive content. I think this is correct, and it is not convenient to explain it in the letter, so I had to make a decision."
"You don't realize that your steps are too small." Chen Si frowned slightly, "How many troubles can this cause?"
"But I feel it's just right." Wang Yin smiled calmly and said in a deep voice: "Sir, your dream is also our dream. Please believe us, our purpose is the same."
"We have discussed this matter for several days," Yu Yin said over there: "And I have drawn up a complete plan for the future. Please ask Master Jun Ji." Of course, such things cannot be seen on paper, and they have to rely on him to tell them orally.
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