Bachelor

Chapter 379

Mao Shangshu's laughter was sonorous and powerful, and the lingering sound echoed endlessly in the hall.

Mao Cheng: "You are wrong, Queen Mother Xing. The current emperor's throne is inherited from Emperor Wuzong, who is the brother and brother. Emperor Wuzong's throne is passed on from his biological father, Emperor Xiaozong. Therefore, the current emperor's throne is inherited from Emperor Xiaozong. And Emperor Wuzong His mother is the Empress Xiaokangjing Zhang, and it can be deduced that the present mother should be the Empress Xiaokangjing Zhang. This is an important matter of human relations, and there must be no confusion. Please respect yourself, Queen Mother Xing!"

As soon as Mao Shangshu said these words, not only the eunuchs and maids in the palace turned pale with shock, but even Sun Dan got goose bumps all over his body: This Mao Cheng is really tough, even the emperor's mother dared to offend like this , aren't you afraid of death?

According to Mao Cheng, the emperor should call Emperor Hongzhi's empress Zhang as his mother, but his biological mother could only be treated by his subordinates.That being said, it's a bit messy.According to what Mao Cheng said, then, in the future, wouldn't the empress dowager bow down when she met the emperor?It's kind of funny for a mother to kneel down to her son.But feudal ethics are like this, which makes him a modern person feel a little unbelievable.

Sun Dan was also surprised, he didn't expect the civil servants group to make such a decision on the issue of the emperor's examination, and even do such a thing, completely ignoring the face of the emperor and queen mother.

The queen mother is not a kind person, and I don't know what radical actions she will take.

Sun Dan suddenly felt uneasy.

Sure enough, as he expected, when the Queen Mother heard Mao Cheng's ruthless words, she felt a chill in her heart, and a rush of hot blood rushed to her cheeks, not only her face was as red as cinnabar, but her eyes were also full of blood.

She gritted her silver teeth tightly, and spat out a sentence from between her teeth: "Mao Cheng, what do you mean, Your Majesty can't even recognize me as a mother?"

Mao Cheng didn't realize that he was in danger, so he looked calm: "Exactly, His Majesty's mother is Empress Xiao Kangjing Zhang, Queen Mother Xing, please respect yourself!"

"Mao Cheng!" There was a "creak!" sound of rubbing teeth.

Sun Dan's heart shuddered, and he looked over, and saw that the Empress Dowager was holding the armrests of the chair tightly with both hands, and her knuckles began to turn white due to the force.Sun Dan knew something was wrong, and was about to quietly dodge to the side, so as not to suffer from the disaster of Chi Yu.

But there was a flash of lightning in his heart, and he still took a step forward resolutely and stopped in front of Mao Shangshu.

It was too late to say it, but it was so fast at that time, there was only a "crash!", and a teacup was thrown towards Mao Cheng's head with the sound of wind.

It turned out that the queen mother threw a teacup at Mao Cheng in a rage.

What a good Sun Dan, after all these years of martial arts practice, the body has already formed a subconscious reaction, and when he stretched out his hand, he just caught the teacup.

This hand is quite beautiful, the tea cup is firmly in the hand, not even a little soup splashed out.The moment Sun Dan caught the cup, he was stunned: "This is amazing, my hands and feet are so flexible!"

He also secretly screamed in his heart.

The Empress Dowager threw the teacup quickly and hastily, at Mao Shangshu's age, she definitely couldn't escape it.If it is really hit, the ugliness will be big.Although Sun Dan didn't have the slightest affection for old man Mao, but he was his deputy after all, Lao Mao was ashamed, and in disguise, he was also embarrassing Sun Dan.With the temper of Mao Shangshu and the integrity of scholars in the Ming Dynasty, he was so humiliated and humiliated, he was afraid that he would be smashed to death on the stigma.It doesn't matter if he dies, the empress dowager's forced death of a six-book minister is definitely a big smell in the political arena of the Ming Dynasty, and he, Sun Dan, the deputy envoy, cannot get rid of the responsibility if he is held accountable.

Sun Dan's beautiful hand made the queen mother obviously stunned, and immediately shouted angrily: "Who are you, who wants you to be troublesome?"

Sun Dan held the teacup in his hand and gave a slight salute: "If you go back to the Queen Mother, Sun Dan is the magistrate of Fangshan. This time, I will come with Lord Mao to pick the Queen Mother to Beijing." He played a trick and only called her the Queen Mother. Don't say she is the Queen Mother Xing, don't count her as the Empress Dowager, if you come here, you will not be offended.

He casually handed the teacup to a small eunuch beside him, and said gently: "The Queen Mother's tea is already cold, you can change it for her old lady."

The little eunuch took the cup and was trembling all over. When Sun Dan gave him a glance, he woke up like a dream and ran out in a panic.

Mao Cheng also glanced at Sun Dan gratefully, screaming in his heart that he was very dangerous, but at the same time he was extremely annoyed: The Queen Mother Xing is simply a shrew, Mao Cheng is going to risk his life today, and he has to fight her .

The queen mother sneered: "How dare a small county magistrate have such boldness to stand up for Mao Cheng? What is your background?"

Sun Dan replied: "If you go back to the Queen Mother, Sun Dan is from a family background."

The Empress Dowager laughed even louder, full of sarcasm: "Ju Ren, Ju Ren...Ju Ren is a magistrate. You must be an official bought with money. Tell me, what is your background and whose power are you relying on?"

Sun Dan also felt helpless, and said: "Queen Dowager, Sun Dan's position as county magistrate was appointed by His Majesty. If we talk about power, Sun Dan is fighting for the current emperor's power."

The queen mother was a little speechless, paused for a while, and then shouted: "Sun Dan, you are the deputy envoy, let me ask you, do you also want me to enter the city?"

Sun Dan said lightly: "Queen Mother, Sun Dan and Master Mao came to Tongzhou to pick up your old man. How could you not be allowed to enter the city?"

When the Queen Mother heard what Sun Dan said, and because Sun Dan had argued against her just now, she suddenly felt a little apprehensive about Sun Dan, and she was about to say something more.Then Mao Cheng interrupted suddenly: "Yes, Sun Dan and I came here today to receive the holy order to take the Queen Mother Xing into the capital to meet His Majesty."

Sun Danxin said it was terrible, this Mao Shangshu, why is he so decisive in doing things, he doesn't show any kindness to others.After all, she is the emperor's mother and a woman.Can't you be sloppy and invite people into the city to reunite with mother and child first?

"You!" The Empress Dowager glared at Shangshu Mao, gritted her teeth and scolded: "What are you, a white-haired old dog, a toothless man, seeing you, this palace is so disgusting that I want to vomit!"

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar in the hall.

No one expected that the biological mother of the majestic emperor could utter such obscenities. She was no different from a shrew in the market, and she didn't even want the minimum decency.

Mao Shangshu was scolded by the queen mother, his face turned pale, he couldn't believe his ears, and tremblingly said: "What did you just say, Queen Xing?"

"White-haired old dog, unscrupulous old thief, look at your lecherous appearance, you are not a good person on weekdays. Hehe, you still pretend to be a gentleman, and you don't know how many nasty things you have done behind your back, either stealing people or crawling ashes , I think the left and right are the masters who don't care about people."

"Kill me with anger!" Mao Shangshu was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and said in a trembling voice: "Please respect yourself, please respect yourself!"

"Self-respecting fart!" The Queen Mother's voice became even louder. She started to scold, like a rolling river that never stops.

Mao Cheng let out another cry of grief and indignation, and swooped down towards the big pillar in the hall.

Sun Dan had been on guard for a long time, and hurriedly hugged Mao Cheng, and shouted: "Come here, come here, Mr. Mao is tired, send him back to his room to rest."

Only then did the two eunuchs rush up in a hurry, hugging Mao Cheng and dragging him away, Sun Dan followed suit.

Behind the back is the queen mother laughing unscrupulously: "The killer who doesn't even eat dogs, what the hell?"

Coming out from the queen mother, Sun Danmao still had tears in his writing.This high-ranking official of the current dynasty had been in contact with high-ranking officials and dignitaries all day long, and what he heard in his ears were all polite words.Even if there is a fierce conflict, even if there is a quarrel, use more polite language. Anyway, it is the kind of swearing without swearing. When did you experience such dirty words?
He couldn't believe that being the birth mother of the empress dowager Xing and the current emperor was worse than a street shrew.

Sun Dan also sighed in his heart, Lao Mao was really ashamed this time.Then again, if this matter got out, Mao Cheng would certainly have no face, but how could the Emperor's face have not been discredited?
The palace is very large, and Mao Cheng and Sun Dan have their own residences.

Seeing that Master Mao was really sad, Sun Dan couldn't persuade him, so he just ordered his servants: "Go, bring a basin of hot water to wipe your face. When you are tired, prepare some wine and food for him."

After all the tossing just now, the sky is completely dark, and he can only stay in the palace tonight.

When the hot water came, Sun Dan wrung out the towel and handed it over.Mao Cheng covered his face with a towel, sat with his head up for a long time, then took it off, and shouted: "It is tolerable, what can't be tolerated, I will be the emperor."

"Qizuo, what is Qizuo?" Sun Dan asked lightly, "To sue His Majesty, to sue the emperor's biological mother for misbehavior and lack of manners? Or, contact some officials to impeach the Queen Mother?"

When Sun Dan asked such a question, Mao Shang Shudao was also stunned.His face was still stained with water, and the beads of water on his beard glistened in the light.

After a long time, he sighed: "The queen mother of Xing insulted foreign ministers, this old man can't bear it."

"So what if you can't bear it?" Sun Dan glanced outside, and asked with a chuckle, "Master Mao, don't you think it's strange that your food and drinks haven't been delivered yet?"

He had just discovered that there were many strange guards standing outside, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites who came with Mao Shangshu were intentionally or unintentionally put under house arrest by those guards on duty in two large courtyards.

"What, how dare she do this?" Mao Shangshu realized that something was wrong, and immediately shouted: "Someone is here, take me to see the Queen Mother Xing, I want to argue with her."

"Yes." Several officials from the Ministry of Rituals ran over angrily, shouting one after another: "My lord, the people in the palace insulted me too much, this matter must not be left alone."

"It's better not to." Sun Dan smiled wryly: "He is fully armed, and we have no strength to restrain the chicken, so we can't rush out at all."

"How bold, the harem is actually commanding the army, do you want to rebel?" Mao Cheng was furious: "Let's go, I'm afraid they will do something wrong, I don't believe they dare to kill them?"

"It's impossible to kill and use violence." Sun Dan greeted Mao Cheng: "I said, Mrs. Mao, the Queen Mother is just fighting with you. It will be fine when the weather clears up tomorrow. There is no need to take it seriously. Besides, We came here to Tongzhou to welcome the Empress Dowager into the palace, it is impossible for the Empress Dowager to do anything to us."

When Sun Dan said this, Mao Cheng suddenly came to his senses.If I really rush out to argue with the Queen Mother now, I am afraid that the matter will become a big mess immediately, so it seems that I am unreasonable.Now, the queen mother is courteous, no matter where she argues in the future, she will always have the upper hand.But if he rushes out now, if he is offended by the warriors, the empress will later say that he doesn't know about it, and he can't do anything to her.

He said that the main task of coming to Tongzhou this time is to take the Queen Mother into the city.In other words, as long as the queen mother wants to enter the city, she has to pass Mao Cheng's test no matter what.In the final analysis, the Queen Mother will always ask for her own head, so why am I arguing with her?
Thinking of this, Mao Cheng settled down, sat down on the chair again, and snorted: "I'm not going anywhere, I want to see what other tricks they can play?"

Sun Dan: "Master Mao is right to think so. I heard that your lord is a good player in Wenping. Why don't we play against each other."

"That's fine." Mao Cheng nodded, and asked someone to spread out the chessboard to play chess with Sun Dan.

Neither of them was thinking about chess, they played two games, one won and the other lost.When it was the third game, Mao Cheng's stomach groaned and he became hungry. Then he felt something was wrong, and then he yelled: "What's wrong, isn't the meal ready yet?"

Sun Dan put a chess piece on the chessboard, and said leisurely: "My lord, I'm afraid we won't be able to wait for the food and drink. There is no preparation for us in the palace."

"That's unreasonable!" Mao Cheng sneered, "Don't tell me they still want to starve us to death? After all, you and I are also angels sent by the imperial court."

Just as we were talking, an official from the Ministry of Rituals ran over angrily and said to Mao Shangshu: "I will report to Mr. Shangshu that the courtyard where we live is under the control of sergeants, and no one is allowed to go out. I am going to report to Mr. Mao." Prepare dinner, but they just won’t allow it. The officer has been arguing with the soldiers for a long time, but it’s still useless.” While speaking, the official’s face was full of resentment, obviously he suffered a big loss in front of the soldiers guarding the yard just now.

This is when a scholar meets a soldier, and the reason is hard to explain.What's more, which of the officials in the Ministry of Rites is not a Gongsheng or even a Jinshi. When they meet those Qiu Baye, they are even more troublesome.

Strange to say, upon hearing what his subordinates said, Mao Shangshu sat down calmly, and said to him lightly: "Understood, step back, I don't believe they will starve me to death, what a joke!" Yes. Pass on my words to everyone, let everyone bear with me, don't lose the face of my generation of scholars, don't lose the face of my officials of the Ministry of Rites."

Seeing Mao Cheng's calmness, the official admired him in his heart, and thought to himself: Mr. Mao is still calm, he is worthy of being the pillar of the country, admiration.

Sun Dan felt a wry smile in his heart. What Mao Cheng said just now was just speculation based on common sense. If other people met him, Mr. Mao, and brought the emperor's imperial edict, they would naturally be trembling.It's a pity that Jiajing's mother is not an ordinary person. The scene in the palace earlier fully demonstrated that that woman is a shrew, and she has no such thing as royal dignity in her mind.

Hungry is Mao Shangshu's business, the queen mother will not do it naturally, I am afraid that the queen mother will starve Mao Cheng for a few days first, and give him a life-saving to vent her anger.In this way, I, Sun Danping, suffered the misfortune of this pond fish for nothing, which can be regarded as the worst luck.

No, I still have to think of a way first, at least I have to get something to fill my stomach first.

Thinking of this, Sun Dan didn't have the intention to stay here any longer, and hurriedly bid farewell to Shangshu Mao: "Master Mao, it's already late at night, and I will take my leave first and go back to the house to rest."

Mao Cheng sat on the chair upright and waved his hands: "Go."

"Yes, the subordinate retire."

Just as Sun Dan walked to the door, he suddenly heard Mao Cheng shout: "Wait a minute."

Sun Dan: "What else does Lord Mao have?"

Mao Cheng closed his eyes slightly, and said, "I was in the palace earlier...thank you."

Sun Dan shook his head, stopped talking, and left Mao Cheng's room.The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, Mao Cheng didn't say anything, but Sun Dan already knew that this Mao Cheng had accepted his love.

After leaving Mao Cheng's room, Sun Dan did not go back to his own room first, but pretended to be taking a walk, and walked to the gate of the yard.As soon as he reached the gate, he heard a loud shout: "Who is it, stop!"

Sun Dan looked up, only to see a burly warrior standing at the door with his hand on his waist knife, with a rebellious expression on his face.

Sun Dan took a closer look, and found that this person was an acquaintance of his own, whoever it was if it wasn't the General Manager Guan Shanyue of Tongzhou Daying.

Sun Dan smiled: "It turns out it's Laoguan, where in life do we never meet again!"

Guan Shanyue also recognized Sun Danlai and was shocked.He was terribly afraid of Sun Dan, knowing that this guy was an old friend with Bi Yun from Dongchang, but he was someone he couldn't afford to offend.

He had suffered a great loss from Sun Dan in Jiepingqiuli Silver Boat back then, but now that he saw him, he folded his hands and smiled flatteringly: "I don't know who it is, so it's sir."

Sun Dan: "Old Guan, you are still working in the [-] Battalion, why did you come here?"

Guan Shanyue said: "I'm still hanging around in the [-] battalion. The day before yesterday, Marquis Guo got the imperial decree to send all the soldiers and horses from Tongzhou to guard the palace where the Queen Mother and her old man stay. I just came here."

Sun Dan pretended to be nonchalant and said: "Old Guan, why are you still so bullish? Did you know that I came here a long time ago, and you specially asked someone to seal up my yard, looking for my bad luck?"

Guan Shanyue was so frightened that he waved his hands again and again: "My lord, sir, what kind of person you are now, you are an angel. How dare I come to touch your old tiger's ass as a small general, really, really... Cough, it's not the order of the Queen Mother, let us take care of Mao Shangshu and the others, and don't allow them to run around, it's frightening."

Sun Dan: "Oh, I'm sure you wouldn't dare." He sneered, "Huh, Lao Guan, Mr. Mao is a second-rank Shangshu, and although I, Sun Dan, am not successful, I am also a seventh-rank magistrate. What am I going to tell you?" How dare you come here! By the way, how long are you going to imprison us?"

Guan Shanyue: "How dare I lock you up, the yard is full of elders of the sixth and seventh ranks, and anyone can pinch me to death with a single finger. It is really the Queen Mother's order, so I have to follow it. In fact, the Queen Mother I don't want to lock you up, as long as you go back to the capital by yourself, I will let you go."

"Back to the capital, are we going to go back empty-handed?" Sun Dan smiled and said in his heart: Sure enough, the Empress Dowager is fighting against Mao Cheng, just trying to find his bad luck.

Sun Dan didn't get involved in other thoughts, he still cared about his stomach first: "Old Yue, I've been hungry all day, help me get something to eat."

Guan Shanyue was a little embarrassed: "There are so many people in the yard, how can I get so many things in with just one hand?"

(End of this chapter)