MTL - She Doesn’t Want the Face-Blind Husband-v2 Chapter 120
Even though she didn't know it at the beginning, after five or six days of frequent summons and night reading of the secret letter from the emperor, Gu Ningxi quickly understood that the emperor wanted to train him to be her confidant.
In the former dynasty and this life, one of the issues that has always been debated among civil servants is whether to be an official of the court or an official of the emperor.
To be an official of the imperial court is a brighter and wider voice, which means to establish a life for the people and be responsible for the world. In an official position, every move and every thought comes from the public heart, not limited to one surname and one family. It is the interests of the clan and royal family.
They say that the emperor is the symbol of the son of heaven, and he is extremely honorable. However, he is not detached from the human body after all, and he will definitely make mistakes. postnatal name.
These are the concepts promoted by the Confucian classics and recited by many students day and night.
However, in fact, foxes who can achieve the positions of second-rank and third-rank high-ranking officials, such as the prime ministers of the cabinet, ministers of various ministries, Yuanwailang, etc., often say that "eating the king's salary is for the king's worries."
They entrust their wealth, life, prosperity, honor and disgrace to the king, take the will of the emperor as their will, do not argue about right or wrong, but try to make suggestions for the monarch, implement decisions, and satisfy the emperor. Under this premise, the peace of the world and the well-being of civilians should be taken into account.
Therefore, this kind of courtiers will be most affected by "one emperor and one courtier".
It is now March of the third year of Yongsheng. Today, he is young and strong. He has been on the throne for more than three years. He has a lot of ideas about government affairs, and he really wants to flex his muscles according to his own ideas.
However, he is a young boy who has transitioned from prince to emperor in a mediocre way. He has learned a lot about the way of imperial power but only stays in theory. civil servant?
The emperor was naturally dissatisfied, so he germinated and cultivated a group of his own people who firmly obeyed his orders.
Last year's imperial examination, it was Gu Ningxi's inspection tour, and a group of young people with seventh and eighth ranks were selected. The emperor carefully inspected it, but found no good seedlings.
This year, he changed his thinking, aiming at the middle-level civil servants of the fourth and fifth ranks, and was pleasantly surprised to find Gu Ningxi, the youngest, only 26-year-old official of the Ministry of Rites and a descendant of the prime minister. Of course, he also found a few others. bit.
Among the twenty-six to forty-year-old courtiers who were included in his small circle, the emperor had the most high hopes for Gu Ningxi and devoted himself to cultivating him. He summoned him the most times and for the longest time alone. Gu Ningxi was often made to listen, and asked him how he felt afterwards.
Gu Ningxi was taught by Prime Minister Gu since she was a child, and she originally expected herself to be a first-class courtier, the kind who would leave a name in history and plead for the people.
However, thunder, rain and dew are all the grace of the king, the emperor has taken a fancy to him, how can he let him refuse?
His strange face blindness, on the contrary, made the emperor think of him when he saw his name, and it was an important factor for the emperor to choose him later.
I don't know if this matter is known to outsiders, will there be a group of up-and-coming stars who imitate him and claim to be face-blind?
Growing up in a family of officials, Gu Ningxi didn't have the petty air of trembling with the imperial power and having never seen the world. At that time, it was common for grandfather and father to mention the emperor and comment on private occasions at home. Therefore, Gu Ningxi was able to break through ordinary people. Looking up and revering, carefully observe the vigorous twenty-year-old young man on the Dragon Throne.
Gu Ningxi was able to calmly analyze the reason why the emperor chose him.
One is a family of officials, more or less under the shadow of some grandfathers, otherwise no matter how talented he is, he will not be able to become the youngest civil servant above the fifth rank, and he will be honestly suppressed for seniority.
The second is that he is face-blind. In general, for him, he has no old and new friends around him, and it is not easy to form a party for personal gain. For others, it is also difficult to find him, let alone they use this to make him arrogant and indifferent Too much.
To a certain extent, face blindness made Gu Ningxi an invulnerable existence, unique and maverick among civil servants.
The third is the recent changes that happened to him.
The first is the abruptness and separation of dividing up more than half of the family property and taking all the faults on oneself.
Then there was discord with the immediate superior of the Ministry of Rites, secret poking, being teased by colleagues, and isolation.
In the end, it was the expelled clan that caused a sensation in the capital, and the follow-up snatching back the dying grandmother and denouncing the first cousin.
All of the above made Gu Ningxi a lonely and widowed person with no clan, no relatives, no relatives to rely on, and five obediences.
In the eyes of the world, he lived a miserable life, exposed on all sides, his reputation has fallen to the bottom, and he will never recover from it.
From the emperor's point of view, it was God's will to help him. Gu Ningxi was stripped clean and refreshed. He could only rely on the emperor's grace and wholeheartedly work for the emperor.
Therefore, the emperor's address for him, from "Gu Sicheng", "Gu Ningxi", "Gu Qing", "Gu Aiqing", until it was simplified to a "Qing" character that belongs to him alone, the kindness is not insignificant.
Yesterday, after talking about the future policy plans, the emperor seemed to have no intention of mentioning: "It's been more than two months since Qing and Li?"
Gu Ningxi bowed her head in response, and said politely and gratefully: "The small details of the humble minister, the emperor cares about the hard work, and is extremely terrified."
The emperor is naturally the Sixth Court of the Three Palaces, so he didn't understand the situation where there was no one around Gu Ningxi, so he didn't think too much about it, and said what he wanted to say: "My cousin's family has a girl who just passed the age of Ji last month. The empress asked for the title of a county head, does Qing know?"
A while ago, the scene where Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites was going to introduce his grandniece was still in his mind, but Gu Ningxi's mind was ringing with alarm bells.
Dressed in a light crimson official robe, he was sitting on a square stool to answer the conversation, presenting a harmonious appearance of the monarch and his ministers. The emperor specifically said to the left and right that seeing Gu Ningxi's complexion was not good, he felt sorry for this pillar of talent, so he gave him a seat and waited for him. He took good care of his health and canceled this privilege, so that everyone should not be suspicious.
Hearing the emperor talk about a little girl, Gu Ningxi's already pale face turned even paler. She got up and knelt down, kowtowed, cheered up and said loudly:
"My minister has heard about it, and I would like to praise my emperor and empress for their kindness and kindness. It is a pity that I have a special liking, and my family has no female dependents, so it is inconvenient to congratulate the county magistrate. I beg my emperor to forgive me."
They are all intelligent and top-notch people, and Gu Ningxi's "special liking" wrapped in a string of words was caught by the emperor, so he naturally understood that this courtier understood his unfinished intention of being a matchmaker, and rejected it first.
I thought it would be a matter of course, and I would get a proposal of gratitude if I mentioned it, but was pushed back, and the emperor was quite unhappy.
Although the county lord is not a member of the royal family, he still calls the emperor Uncle Biao. Marrying him, Gu Ningxi, is because the emperor wants to further bind him and let him be devoted to himself as the emperor, so that he can use him with confidence in the future. To put it bluntly, yes Part of the ladder.
The emperor turned cold, and hastily sent Gu Ningxi away from the palace, and then sent someone to inquire about the woman next to Gu Ningxi who might be his "soft spot".
On the seventeenth day of the next day, March 17, Gu Ningxi went to the palace to ask for leave, saying that her grandmother might not live long, and wanted to stay by her side and close her eyes for her. After receiving the emperor's condolences and a lot of precious rewards such as ganoderma lucidum and ginseng, she left the palace in a short while.
Afterwards, according to the route that the young man knew about books and paintings, he urged the carriage to drive fast, and arrived at the place where Uncle Gu, Aunt Gu, their grandson, two concubine sons, and all concubine daughters lived temporarily.
Gu Sanshu and his wife regarded him as their enemy, and since they counted the properties of the old Gu's mansion and handed them over to the court, they often exchanged swear words and rolled their eyes at each other. Auntie completely lost her usual tact and spit on Gu Ningxi.
"If you can return my brother Ran, let me go east and I will never go west. Now you are here to show off your power. Gu Ningxi, you are such a vicious dog! The clan doesn't want you, and you will have no place to die in the future!" Gu Ningxi The third aunt scolded him uncleanly.
Uncle Gu snorted coldly to express his agreement with his wife's words, and immediately closed the door and entered, and stopped talking to Gu Ningxi.
The woman's foul-smelling saliva just happened to spit on Gu Ningxi's collar, and it slid a little along his shoulder line. Under the scorching sun, the water stains quickly disappeared, leaving only an unpleasant smell lingering at his nose.
It can be regarded as not very harmful, but extremely insulting.
Just now, he was kind to each other, eloquent, and vividly expressed his grandmother's dying condition and his earnest wish to see the third room, but the other party refused to accept it. Gu Ningxi was concerned about her grandmother who had run out of fuel, so she turned cold and decided to Do something extraordinary.
Since the other party said that he is not a descendant of the Gu family and does not recognize him as a nephew, then Gu Ningxi stopped being polite and called Gu Sanshu by his name:
"You only think about your own son, don't you think that you are also a son of man? Grandma misses you so much, and you ignore it. You are extremely unfilial. How can you be a man?"
While talking, he put one hand against the door of the other party, not allowing Uncle Gu to close the door, and stretched out his other finger to point at his clothes:
"Just now, if I order my wife to insult the court officials first, and dirty official uniforms later, if I go to the Yamen and charge him with disrespect to the court, it shouldn't be difficult, right?"
Uncle Gu San was originally suffocating purple skin, wrestling with this annoying tall and thin nephew, when he heard this, he suddenly remembered that Gu Ningxi came here wearing a light crimson official gown, under the sunlight And blinked their eyes.
At that time, Gu Sanshu only thought that his son dreamed of wearing this official uniform as soon as possible, which represented a promotion, but he lost his official position and left his hometown. He was afraid that he would never see him again in this life. Forget, he was an official first, and then a person who expelled the Gu family.
Uncle Gu quickly let go, the husband and wife looked at each other, and came out from behind the door. One brushed Gu Ningxi's clothes and wiped them with a handkerchief, and the other smiled and said, "We are all a family, so don't make trouble in the Yasi, Brother Xi." It's also a good intention, we'll go right away, we haven't seen my mother for several days, and we miss her too."
In this way, Gu Ningxi took the Sanfang people back to the mansion, read books and paintings to find the other concubine children of the Sanfang who don't live here, and invited them to the Xingu Mansion one by one.
Gu Ningxi led the way, and when she reached the door of her grandmother's room, she pushed the door open just as she was about to knock twice, and then she heard the voice of a beautiful woman who was lingering in her dreams.
Tao Xinhe's voice was still as crisp as ever, blocked by the thick door, the words were still clear:
"Old Madam Gu, you are worrying too much. On the day we reconciled, I ordered someone to send a message to Gu Sicheng. My state of mind has cleared up, and I have never resented him. Seriously speaking, Gu Ningran's matter, he He always warned me, and it was too late for me to thank him."
"Therefore, there is no such thing as forgiveness or forgiveness. We are just not suitable to be together again. I will wish him a beautiful wife and concubine, full of children and grandchildren, long life and health, and wearing red and purple. I will walk my own way, truly The land is separated by two widths. You don't have to worry about it."
Gu Ningxi wanted to hear more clearly, and get closer to He Niang's voice, so she unconsciously put her head on the door, and when she heard her voice, she couldn't control her emotions and pushed the door open.
At the same time, his heartfelt words rushed out:
"He Niang, what I've been looking for has never been a beautiful wife or concubine. It's always only you, only you! I don't want to be separated from you, I just want to be with you forever!"
Shocked, everyone in the room looked back, Tao Xinhe was no exception, and saw the former lover who was blocking the sun, Gu Ningxi whose face was not clear in the backlight but still made her very sure that it was this person.
"That gentleman, you are as sharp as you are, and you are as good as a jade." Gu Ningxi is probably the only one who can remind people of this ode just by a silhouette.
The author has something to say:
"Hey gentleman, you are as sharp as you are, as jade as bamboo." Based on the original sentence of "The Book of Songs", the second half of the sentence is added.
