Wu Zetian's brows furrowed inadvertently, and he asked, "What is he here for?"
Xiao Haidao: "Master Huaiyi has arranged the Shangyuan Festival meeting, and I hereby invite His Majesty to attend the meeting on the Shangyuan Day." ” Wu Zetian has gradually become estranged from Xue Huaiyi since he had Imperial Doctor Shen, perhaps because of her advanced age, she has gradually lost interest in Xue Huaiyi's sturdy and strong, and instead likes gentle and elegant men, and when she has the Zhang brothers, the youthful atmosphere of that young man fascinates her even more.
For an old woman in her twilight, stroking the smooth and elastic skin of young men, looking at their young and immature expressions, it seems that she can also get a little bit of youthful vitality, and for Xue Huaiyi, she only feels vulgar and unbearable after that, and she avoids it.
However, after all, Xue Huaiyi is a man who has shared the bed with her for more than ten years, and she has always felt a little weak about her "change of heart", so she is a little afraid to see Xue Huaiyi, but Xue Huaiyi's unwilling entanglement gradually disgusted her, and now when she heard Xue Huaiyi's name, her brows wrinkled unconsciously.
"Got it" Wu Zetian agreed, but he also knew that such a sentence could not dispel Xue Huaiyi, he was silent for a moment, and then said: "I am busy with state affairs, and I have to meet with Chinese and foreign envoys, relatives of the emperor, and ministers of civil and military affairs when I am in the Yuan Dynasty, so I am afraid that I will not have time to attend the meeting."
You tell him, if I have time, I will go and see."
"Whoa" Xiao Hai agreed and retreated, and after a while, he turned back again, and said abruptly: "Your Majesty, Master Huaiyi said that this meeting is specially held for Your Majesty's blessings, please Your Majesty must attend the meeting." ” "I know" Wu Zetian's tone was full of impatience, and she stood up suddenly, and then she realized that she was a little out of shape, pulled the corner of her clothes again, sat down slowly, took a long breath and said, "Okay, you tell Master Xue that I will go to the White Horse Temple when I am introduced." ” Princess Taiping sat on the side, keenly aware of the change in the mother queen's mentality towards Xue Huaiyi, and secretly said in her heart: "Xue Huaiyi's fall from grace has become inevitable. ” She has always been disgusted with Xue Huaiyi, not only because Xue Huaiyi is arrogant and rude to her.
In fact, before this, Xue Huaiyi had already made her very disgusted, because the death of her husband Xue Shao, if you investigate the reason, it has something to do with this Xue Huaiyi.
At the beginning, in order to give Feng Xiaobao, who was selling medicine on the street, a noble background, Wu Zetian forced his concubine Xue Shao to recognize Feng Xiaobao as his uncle, and renamed him Xue Huaiyi, and entered the Xue family tree, which was regarded as a great shame by the Xue family.
The reason why Xue Shao's two elder brothers participated in the anti-military actions of the Li Tang clan was also an important reason.
As a result, the anti-military campaign failed, Xue Lu's two brothers were killed, and Xue Shao was also implicated and starved to death in prison.
Although all this was arranged by Wu Zetian and not Xue Huaiyi's idea, she still hated Xue Huaiyi extremely much because of it.
But looking at it now, she thinks Xue Huaiyi is very cute.
Xue Huaiyi was reckless, arrogant and rude, but he had no political ambitions.
Although he was disgusting, he did no great harm.
Today's Zhang brothers are different, they are rapidly growing their political power, this time because of Liu Sili's rebellion, some vacancies in the DPRK and the central government, also belong to the Zhang faction to fill the most.
Although Princess Taiping looked down on them from the bottom of her bones because of the Zhang brothers' face status, she also knew that if the Zhang brothers were allowed to develop like this, the Zhang brothers would become a great harm.
However, the Zhang brothers are now the hearts and souls of the mother emperor, the forbidden belly of the mother emperor and the reverse scale of the mother emperor, and they cannot be offended.
Xiao Hai went out for a spin and came back, and said in a sneering voice: "Master Huaiyi said that he still has many details that he wants to discuss with His Majesty, please allow Your Majesty to meet."
Hearing this, Princess Taiping also raised her eyebrows slightly: "This Xue Huaiyi is too eyeless, such entanglement will only make the mother emperor annoying, why bother?"
Sure enough, Wu Zetian's face sank, flicked the sleeves of his robe, and said in a deep voice: "Let's just say that I am gossiping with my daughter, and I will do one thing, so I will ask him to arrange it by himself and be fully responsible."
Xiao Hai also saw that the empress's forbearance was coming to an end, so he didn't dare to say more, and hurriedly withdrew again.
Behind the curtain, Zhang Changzong said worriedly: "Fifth brother, Xue Huaiyi is not giving up, and he still wants to invite the holy favor again."
Zhang Yizhi sneered again and again, and whispered to him: "When the time comes, let's go too, and we must not let the emperor have a chance to be alone with him."
As soon as Zhang Changzong said it, he nodded happily: "Not only that, but also show off in front of him."
He wants to invite the Holy Grace by repetition, so let's give him a big ugly."
The two brothers looked at each other and smiled.
The holiday before and after the Spring Festival in the Tang Dynasty was seven days on the winter solstice, seven days for the Spring Festival, and three days for the Shangyuan Dynasty.
Now that the Shangyuan Festival is coming, the yamen is busy starting the holiday, preparing seals and paste, and preparing to seal the big seal.
When Yang Fan entered the city, there were still some places in the city that were sporadically putting firecrackers, and sometimes there were a few crackling sounds, the market was clean, and the peach charms posted in front of every household were still as new, and the grand and festive atmosphere was still gathered but not dispersed.
Although the Shangyuan Festival is only a three-day holiday, for the Tang people, it is a more important festival than the winter solstice and the Spring Festival.
Some people have hung up all kinds of lanterns, the color sheds and lantern festivals everywhere are being built intensively, Yang Fan walked all the way along Dingding Long Street, but he did not see the huge lamp tree that is as high as 100 feet and raised his hand to pick up the stars, with Xue Huaiyi's good limelight, his lamp tree should be bigger and bigger year by year.
This year, the White Horse Temple did not build a lantern tree on the long street, because Xue Huaiyi was busy with the White Horse Temple as the main battlefield, organizing a grand festival, and he couldn't take care of it here, but there is now a huge iron pillar standing at the end of the long street.
Yang Fan went to Sinong Temple first, and Lai Junchen was not here, he was busy in Luoyang Mansion.
It was the Spring Festival, fire prevention, security prevention, maintenance of law and order, all kinds of things were busy, Lai Junchen is now Jing Zhaoyin, these things can not be worried, and there is no time to sit in Sinong Temple.
Tang Xiaoxiao was in the yali, the various daily offerings of the royal family and the various materials needed for the three days of the Shangyuan Festival had been prepared and delivered to Yousi, he had just put the big seal in the box and pasted the seal with his own hands, and Yang Fan arrived.
For this little soup supervisor, this big farmer has always dared not slack off, especially when he heard that Lai Junchen was deflated in Longmen, and when he saw Yang Fan, he smiled even more, and he was very affectionate.
The two of them first said a bunch of auspicious words to each other for the New Year, and then sat down, retreated left and right, and expressed deep concern and condolences about Yang Fan's temporary suspension, but when he could be reinstated, and whether the so-called deduction of the service food was clarified, the big Si Nong replied very tactfully and without leakage.
Yang Fan didn't want to offend, he didn't dare to offend Junchen, how could he take a stand on this matter.
Yang Fan didn't care, he came, just an official's attitude, Tang Sinong played Tai Chi with him, Yang Fan was too lazy to dismantle the move, since he couldn't ask a result, he just went home and waited for news.
However, since I came to Sinong Temple, there are other major yamen not far away, and I can not go to the side, but the Criminal Department must pay a visit to Chen Dong, Sun Yuxuan and other colleagues.
Yang Fan walked out of Sinong Temple, walked towards the Criminal Department, and halfway through, suddenly a man in a green robe came out of the Yushi Terrace.
Yang Fan didn't care, but the man saw him clearly, his expression was stunned for a moment, and then he took two steps to the side, bowed to him, and said, "I've seen Yang Tangjian" People salute, but they can't ignore it.
According to the rules, when the officials with low rank saw Shangguan, they wanted to bow first in the west, and the superior bowed in the east, so Yang Fan stood in the east direction, arched his hands, and before he could bow down, he shouted in a lost voice: "Li Xiang" The person in front of him was gray-haired, wearing a dark cyan official robe, with no embroidery on the robe and no small flowers one inch long, but he was an eight-rank petty official, so Yang Fan didn't pay attention to it at all when he saw him coming out of the Yushitai, in his impression, he didn't have such a friend in the Yushitai.
But he didn't expect to meet Li Zhaode here.
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Li Zhaode's gray hair was pale, and after this blow, the wrinkles on his face became thicker and thicker.
Hearing Yang Fan's title, the corners of Li Zhaode's mouth slightly rippled with a bitter smile: "Xiaguan is only a supervising imperial history now, but he can't be called Yang Tangjian like this."
When Yang Fan heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
The two were relatively speechless, silent for a long time, and Li Zhaode said earnestly: "Erlang is so young, a little setback, don't take it to heart."
The comeback may not be indefinite, and the future will be long."
Li Zhaode, as the supervisor of the imperial history, is only an eight-grade official, but the imperial history is divided into hundreds of bureaucrats, patrolling states and counties, prison lawsuits, military battles, sacrifices, camps, and cashiers of the Taifu, and can manage everything, and the internal and external official histories, including their top bosses, except for the emperor himself, there is no one he can't sue, so the officials are low and the power is high.
But although Yang Fan is a six-rank official, the messengers he is responsible for don't mention it.
It was Li Zhaode who saw that he was silent, and said that he was even more disheartened than himself, and couldn't help but cheer him up.
Yang Fan secretly smiled bitterly, and arched his hand: "The elders give teaching, and the younger generations remember it."
This official can't be discussed, in terms of official position, this former Dazai is several levels lower than him, so he has to speak from the age of the person.
Yang Fan said: "Seeing that Shangyuan is coming, all the officials are sealing, preparing to rest.
Li Gong is in such a hurry, where are he going?"
Li Zhaode smiled faintly and said, "I was ordered by the imperial history of the capital to deliver an official letter to the criminal department." ” Yang Fan said in his heart: "Li Zhaode is very old, and he used to be the prime minister, and now he has been demoted to the Imperial History Terrace, it stands to reason that his colleagues should take more care of this old prime minister's old boss."
Seeing that they were about to take a break, some officials were afraid that they had slipped away and went home for the holidays, but they had to work for the old prime minister to run errands.
Alas, there were many people who had been humiliated by him at the beginning, and now finally" Yang Fan thought about it and said, "The junior is about to visit a few friends in the Criminal Department, Li Gong might as well go along."
The two walked side by side to the criminal department, Yang Fan's two guards pretending to be servants retreated far away, and the two chatted all the way, and gradually arrived at the gate of the Qiuguan Yamen.
Before they reached the door, the two saw a person kneeling at the door, wearing heavy filial piety, kneeling straight on the ground, and there were many people coming in and out of the yamen, all of them regarded him as a transparent person, and ignored it at all.
The snow in this place was swept clean, but the weather was cold, and the ground was especially cold, and the man was wearing filial piety clothes, and his body seemed to be stiff when he knelt there.
Yang Fan and Li Zhaode glanced at each other in surprise, and unconsciously quickened their pace.
To be continued: