The sun shone down from the bare branches and shone warmly.

Lin Suniang squatted next to a small briquette stove with Panpan and watched the fire patiently. Panpan leaned on her mother, looking curiously at the stove and the small pot on top of it.

Not far away, Li Zhang stood in the courtyard, looking at Xu Ping in front of him with his hands and feet.

After a while, Xu Ping stopped and shouted to Lin Suniang on the side: "Su Niang, is the pot ready, it's not too early, I'll have a drink with Brother Li, it's too late!" ”

"It's okay right away, what's in a hurry!"

Lin Suniang picked up the lid of the pot and glanced at it, and said to Xu Ping. Panpan hid in her mother's arms and grimaced at Xu Ping.

Xu Ping shook his head helplessly, and said to Li Zhang: "Let's stop, I'm a good person, I smoke my hands and feet, so that I don't know people can see it, and I think it's epilepsy." ”

Li Zhang looked at Xu Ping's appearance and smiled: "Since my brother is impatient, let's stop today." But when you have nothing to do in your daily life, you also practice more, and there are always others on duty at the gate, and you may have to play and correct when you see it. ”

"I'm a little judge, how can the emperor have so much time to summon me."

Xu Ping said, stopped, went to the stove, and touched Panpan's head. After these days, Panpan is finally ripe and willing to recognize his father. Especially when he knew that his father had not been by his side for a long time, he felt guilty, as long as he wanted something, he almost didn't refuse, and often secretly asked Xu Ping for snacks behind his mother's back.

The last time I returned to Beijing, the emperor summoned the right person, Xu Ping was not familiar with etiquette because he had been away for many years, and it was all thanks to Li Zhang, who pretended not to see it, so he was confused. This is not to blame Xu Ping, when he left, His Majesty resigned, or the Queen Mother was in power, and a group of people went together, and there were not so many rules.

But now it's different, in the end, there is a relationship between Li Yong and this layer, and the status in the emperor's heart is different, maybe when he will be summoned to speak, and he can't always rely on Li Zhang to cover up. Today, Li Zhang was on vacation, so he came to teach Xu Ping the etiquette of entering the palace.

The rest is okay, that is, even the praise of the hymn Xu Ping endured, but Xu Ping really couldn't practice the dance before entering the hall. Dancing with hands, who remembered to put this action on before entering the temple? How do you think about it, how do you think this action is stupid, Xu Ping feels extremely embarrassed as soon as he moves, and he feels awkward.

You can't blame Xu Ping for being hypocritical, in fact, as long as the Manchu Dynasty civil and military have experienced it, they feel that this action is too stupid, but they don't dare to say it casually. Not only did the courtiers feel awkward, but the emperor also felt bored, you felt embarrassed dancing outside, and the emperor was still waiting in the palace. However, this is a etiquette handed down from the previous dynasty, and if I think it is inappropriate, the monarch and the ministers also endured it together. It wasn't until Song Huizong, who felt good about himself, came to power that this etiquette was canceled, and he put on a hat with Yidi style, which was considered to be a complete cut off the possibility of a comeback.

But now Xu Ping still has to endure this embarrassment, every time he thinks of seeing the emperor to come to this set of actions, Xu Ping is so disgusted that he doesn't want to see Zhao Zhen again.

Lin Suniang opened the lid of the pot, and the rich aroma of meat wafted out of the pot.

"It smells so good!" Pan Pan shrunk his little nose and sniffed, and said to Xu Ping beside him.

Lin Suniang straightened up: "Wait a minute, I'll go in and get the wine." ”

Seeing Lin Suniang enter the room, Pan Pan took Xu Ping's hand and said, "Daddy, you give me a piece first!" ”

Xu Ping shook his head with a smile, pinched the corner of a piece of meat in the pot, lifted it up, and said to Panpan: "Open your mouth, be careful of scalding!" ”

Panpan opened his mouth, took the meat in Xu Ping's hand, and kept inhaling. Hearing the knock on the door, Pan Pan hurriedly grabbed Li Zhang's hand until it was a little farther away from the pot, pretending to play with herself, while chewing the meat in her mouth.

Lin Suniang took the wine, looked at the pot, turned around and said, "Panpan, you ate it again?" ”

Panpan swallowed the meat in his mouth, turned around and said, "I didn't!" As he spoke, his eyes rolled slightly, wondering who he was looking for to make an excuse for himself.

Lin Suniang shook her head and ignored her.

The child just likes to make trouble, you really want to cook a pot of meat for her, and she won't eat it, so it's fun to eat it secretly like this. The Xu family is not a small family, and they look forward to where there is less meat to eat, but they still like to eat it like this.

Sitting down next to them, Xu Ping and Li Zhang had a glass of wine over the freshly cooked mutton.

Li Zhang put down his wine glass and said: "Yongzhou will sacrifice prisoners, set on the 21st day of next month, the day before Xiaoxue." At the beginning of the month, my father came back from the party, just in time. My brother is the one who led the troops into the Shenglong Mansion, and there must be a reward, I hope that my father and I will also touch my brother's light and be promoted to an official and a half-position. ”

Xu Ping smiled: "Are you still afraid that the official will be promoted slowly?" Or don't ask to be too anxious, fall into the handle. ”

Concubine Li Chen has suffered all her life, and all the blessings have fallen on Li Yonghe, the only younger brother, and the emperor will recognize his relatives at this age, which is eager to promote him to the festival at once. It's a pity that the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty looked at it, and it was not good to rise too quickly, so they had to rise a little at a time, and once in a while, the so-called small steps and fast running.

As for the sacrifice of prisoners, Xu Ping didn't expect it to be so big at first. As people were on the road, the battle report of Yongzhou reached the capital, and suddenly many ministers began to care. In particular, the side newspaper reported that the party was unstable, and Yuan Hao was anti-willful, so Zai Zhi wanted to use this prisoner sacrifice to show the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty, and deliberately waited for neighboring countries such as Khitan, Dangxiang, and Dali to participate.

Think about it, up and down the Jiaozhi monarchs, there are hundreds of concubines and concubines of Li Foma alone, and the group of people all adds up to thousands, and it costs a lot of money to manage the food in the local area along the way, so I have to find a way to get something back.

Such a big ceremony, of course, has to be presided over by a minister, Xu Ping got a representative of Yongzhou Shangjiaozhi to surrender the table, and other things have nothing to do with him, and I don't know if it will affect the distribution of his credit.

Gradually the sun was setting, and the light began to dim, Li Zhang stood up and stretched: "It's just a few glasses of wine, and I can't hold it in my stomach." It's not early, I should go back, my brother will pack up and go to the secret pavilion on duty. ”

Xu Ping no longer persuaded and sent Li Zhang out of the door.

Xu Ping took the Zhishi Museum with him, and although he did not serve in the History Museum in the first few days, he still had to take a turn. Recently, the pavilion has edited the history of the two libraries, which is a huge project, and many pavilion officials have participated in it, and they are tired and tired, and the task of night duty has fallen to Xu Ping, who is idle.

Tonight is the day when Xu Ping is on duty, the night is long, and he is bored, so Lin Suniang cooked a pot of mutton and asked Xu Ping to take it to the secret pavilion to drink some wine to relieve boredom. In another pavilion, most of the ministers at the level of the pavilion have not been in the office for a long time, and their positions are also low, and it is not easy to live in the capital, and Xu Ping brings some meat to them as a benefit. (To be continued.) )