Step by step lotus flower

Chapter 735 Afterword Precious (2)
"If I knew today, why bother? If she hadn't insisted on marrying Lu Mingfeng to the common man Murong Ke back then, wouldn't there be such a disaster today!" Lu Mingxuan shook her head and sighed, if her mother and daughter had obeyed Mrs. Lu Arranged to go back to his hometown and marry another incognito, now that Lu Mingfeng's life is uncertain, how can he be rich and comfortable, and why would he give his life away at a young age?

After sighing, he said: "This is the answer to the saying, 'Heaven committed evil, you can still live, but you can do evil yourself, you can't live', who can blame it? I only have pity on that child..."

I also want to know that there is a rebel father who has the reputation of "killing the father and the king", and Lu Mingfeng's daughter will have a very difficult life in the future. In such a place where people can eat people without spitting out their bones, living is often more uncomfortable than dying!
Lu Mingfu is also a mother. Hearing this, the gloating on her face disappeared, and she also sighed: "No, the child is innocent, that child has been completely ruined in this life! I heard that she is now raised in Taiyuan. In the empress dowager's palace, it has been several generations, but her father and grandmother treated the empress dowager like that... I only hope that the empress dowager can ignore the past and show pity for her, otherwise... "

For a while, the two sisters felt a little depressed.

But as Brother Yi's cry suddenly sounded, the two of them didn't care about being depressed, and put aside their emotions, they turned around the child.

Besides, when Ling Mengqi rode his horse into the palace, the whole palace was shrouded in pale white as expected, which was more shocking than the white lanterns and white curtains hanging in every household along the way.

He had an audience with the new emperor Murong Heng in the side hall of the Jiaotai Hall behind the Qianyuan Hall. Although the latter had not officially ascended the throne, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty had spontaneously changed their mouths and called him "the emperor".

As for the Zi Palace of the first emperor and the first empress, they all stopped in the main hall of Jiaotai Hall, which was spacious and convenient for civil and military officials and all the wives to cry three times a day.

It is also convenient for the new emperor to meet the civil and military officials who have something to do in the side hall. The new emperor is filial, regardless of the opposition of the civil and military officials, and must keep the spirit for 27 days for the first emperor, instead of the 27 months that ordinary sons should keep for their fathers. Cut down the filial piety, but family and country affairs can't be kept under pressure, so the new emperor adopted such a compromise method.

"My minister Ling Mengqi kowtowed to the emperor, long live my emperor!" Ling Mengqi knelt down and saluted when he saw Murong Heng.

Murong Heng immediately raised his hand: "Ling Aiqing is free of courtesy." After a pause, he continued: "Now that I have not formally enthroned, why do you have to do such a grand ceremony, with our usual friendship, isn't it too much? "

He wore a full set of linen filial piety clothes and a white jade crown. Although there were obvious blue shadows under his eyelids and he had lost some weight, the complacency that came naturally through his words and actions couldn't be concealed. .

Ling Mengqi clasped his fists and said in a respectful voice: "The emperor has not ascended the throne yet, but in the heart of the minister, the status of the emperor and the minister has been determined as early as when the minister was choosing a tree to live in, and the minister dare not presume!"

When Murong Heng said such words, he was a corporal, but he couldn't really run up the pole. Nowadays, when the monarch and his subjects get along, it is of course nothing. If there is a rift between the monarch and his subjects, maybe this is his death talisman!
After Ling Mengqi finished speaking, he cut to the chase and said, "I don't know if the emperor is in a hurry to call his ministers into the palace, what orders do you have?"

He was still waiting for the matter to be finished and to go back to accompany Lu Mingxuan and brother Yi earlier, but he had only been away from his mother and son for less than an hour, but he felt as if they had been separated for an unknown amount of time, and he was scratching his heart and lungs. miss them.

Murong Heng knew that he was used to being straightforward and capable, so he didn't say much, he just said: "Nowadays the situation in Beijing is not stable, there must be many people who want to take advantage of the troubled waters, I want you to be appointed as the commander of Jinyiwei immediately, and replace me What do you think about supervising civil and military officials and setting the court order?"

Let yourself be the commander of Jin Yiwei?
Right now, I am just a fourth-rank official in Jinyiwei, and it is not easy to get out. Once I become a commander, won't I be trapped in Jinyiwei for the rest of my life, trapped in this small world of the capital, breaking my promise to Lu Mingxuan?
Ling Mengqi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty loves me so much, I shouldn't have resigned, but there are many guards in Jinyi who are older and more capable than my ministers. Not to mention, Commander Cao and the other two deputy commanders are more important than ministers." It is much more suitable, please think twice, Your Majesty!"

Murong Heng was taken aback when he heard the words, he never expected that Ling Mengqi would push out the monstrous power he had acquired. One must know that at his age, he has already become a senior official of the third rank, and he is still in a yamen like Jinyiwei. There is no one before or after, who would have thought that he would not be tempted at all, and he didn't know if he was playing hard to get, or he really didn't know how to flatter him?

Suppressing the slight displeasure in his heart, Murong Heng smiled and said, "Commander Cao is a good envoy, but he's getting old, and if he's going to be in trouble like before, it's hard to avoid. Besides, I couldn't bear to make him feel restless when he was old, so I ordered him to be raised. As for the other two deputy commanders, they are far worse than you in my heart, so don't refuse any more. We have agreed that we want to share the world, does Meng Qi want me to renege on my promise?"

"I don't dare." Ling Mengqi thought for a while and decided to tell the truth: "To tell you the truth, the emperor, the reason why I don't want to be this commander is because I have promised Zhuo Jing that I will take all the burden off my shoulders as soon as possible." Unload it, accompany her to find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and live a life of men farming and women weaving. The emperor knew about the fact that Zhuo Jing almost killed two people that day. I am still terrified. If there was something wrong with their mother and son that day, what is the point of owning the whole world? I am a person with no big ambitions. What I want in my life is nothing more than a wife and son. Please complete it, Your Majesty!"

With just a few words, the displeasure in Murong Heng's heart dissipated in an instant. Although the result was still the same, how could ignorance of flattery be the same as not being in love with authority?
He couldn't help laughing: "Unexpectedly, Meng Qi is still a person who loves beauties and doesn't love the country. He really answered the saying 'Heroes are sad about beauties'!"

Ling Mengqi said solemnly: "At the end of my life, if I hadn't been lucky enough to meet the humble Jing, I would have passed away, let alone the smooth official career and harmonious family like now, so the emperor's favor, I can only live up to it. Yes, please forgive me, Your Majesty."

Murong Heng has many confidantes and capable people. To be honest, he has never introduced Ling Mengqi as a true confidant. The reason why he insisted on making him the commander of the Jinyiwei this time is also thinking that the Jinyiwei was originally him. It's not easy for him to bypass him and arrange for his real confidant to be the commander, and the person who arranges to go may not be able to gain a firm foothold. How could he not know the truth that a strong dragon does not overwhelm a snake?
(End of this chapter)