In front of the five storey building at the end of Wuju Street, Su Wei, dressed in red official clothes, paused in the clear sky.
Su Weixiu's eyebrows were frowned by the endless music of silk and bamboo and the fragrance of rouge.
In February, the winter has just passed away, and the weather is still a little cold. However, the dancing girls and musicians who come and go in the hall of Qingle Square have changed into light and beautiful spring clothes.
Su Wei looks at the heavily made up Yingying, Yanyan and Yan in front of her, hesitating to speak.
"This must be Lord Su, isn't it? Lord Qin and several distinguished guests are in the private room on the third floor, so I'm going to take Lord Su with me." A woman in a water red dress hurried down the stairs and greeted with a smile.
Although she is not as young as those girls around, she is still charming.
"Thank you. The lower official is Su Wei, who has come to deliver the document to Lord Qin." Su Wei bowed to the woman who came to greet her, and her voice was modest.
After all, it's the first time for Su Wei to come to such a place, and she can't figure out what kind of etiquette to follow.
"I am the steward of Qingle Square. If you don't mind, please call me Aunt Chun." Chun Ruyi has been doing business in Qingle Square for more than ten years. Every day, she is greeted and sent by dignitaries and dignitaries. It is the first time that an official of the imperial court salutes her.
Chun Ruyi's smile at the corners of her eyes softened a little, and she stopped calling the boy. She led Su Wei to the third floor.
"Why, is there anything strange on my face?" Su Wei followed Chun Ruyi. She was looking around. She turned around and found that Chun Yiru, who was walking beside her, turned her head to look at her from time to time. She raised her hand and touched her face strangely.
"It's my faux pas," said Chun Ruyi, smiling and apologizing. "But I've been in Qingle Square for so many years, and I didn't expect to have the honor to see our first female champion in a row in the Qi Dynasty today. The presence of Lord Su is really a great honor for me, a small music shop."
After all, he is a businessman in the music shop. He always talks with honey on his lips. Su Wei doesn't take it seriously. She just smiles politely and says, "The songs and dances of the Qingle Shop are famous in the Qi Dynasty. Usually, people come and go with dignitaries and dignitaries. If he doesn't get a job, he may not reach the threshold of the Qingle Shop. Today, he is lucky to be here."
Although they are all places for people to drink and have fun, Qingle Square is different from ordinary Hualou Music Square because it has produced several famous singers and dancers in the Qi Dynasty, and the prince is behind them.
"It's just a place for people to have fun and relax, and thanks to your respect," Chun Ruyi smiled genially and led Su Wei outside the elegant room on the third floor. He didn't leave either. He took out a small wooden sign with carved red rope from his sleeve and handed it to Su Wei
Although there are many scenes in the words of spring, Su Wei knows that as early as six months ago, her name has spread all over the imperial capital since she won three yuan, and her experience after high school and now the bumpy and hopeless career have become the talk of ordinary people after tea.
If the girls of Qingle Square really want to see her, I'm afraid it's not because of admiration, but because of curiosity.
The precedent of women entering the imperial court as officials dates back to the reign of Emperor Shengzu. In the past hundred years, there have been several powerful officials and generals in the army of the Qi Dynasty.
However, since the case of Prime Minister Fu ten years ago, many women in the court rarely reuse.
In recent years, few women have taken part in the imperial examination again, so when she was recommended by Yunshan Academy to take the spring examination last year, she was already in the limelight. When she won Sanyuanhe, people in Yeshui City were saying that after ten years, maybe another female prime minister will emerge in the Qi Dynasty.
However, on the third day after the announcement, the news that the top female champion failed to join the Imperial Academy and was sent to the Ritual Department to be a top five doctor shocked the whole Yeshui City again.
Even ordinary people know that the Imperial Academy is a place for cultivating ministers. After three years of trial, the top three leaders should first join the Imperial Academy as officials, and she became the first new scholar who could not join the Imperial Academy since the founding of the Qi Dynasty.
His majesty's arrangement is clearly intended to tell the world that if female top scholars do not enter the Imperial Academy, there will not be a second Prime Minister Fu in the Qi Dynasty.
"Aunt Chun's kindness, Su Wei thanked her here." After receiving this order, which can be free for three times, Su Wei deliberately ignored Chun Ruyi's regret in her eyes, said goodbye to her at the stairs and went straight to the third floor.
"Ouch, Su Langzhong is here. You don't know that they have urged her several times." Zhang Yan, the principal who was guarding the door of the Yamen, did not greet her when she came, but hurried up to take the document in her hand. He bent over to deliver it to the Yamen.
This peace talk has been going on for three days, and both the other party and the officials they received in the ceremony department have lost their due patience.
"Since the golden Buddha was invited back by Master Huineng from thousands of miles away, on such an important day as the Thousand Buddha Feast, we should invite the hard won golden Buddha out for other eminent monks and masters to visit. We just borrow it, but we don't want to return it. Why is Lord Qin so stingy?"
The people in the Yajian suddenly raised their voices to make Zhang Yan and Su Wei, who turned around to leave, act. They only heard the words with an exotic accent mixed with anger: "We sincerely asked for help this time. You are so pushy, you obviously look down on us! When our Highness returns to China, we must tell the other countries in the West Desert the truth about this matter, so that they all know what the attitude of Qi towards the Thousand Buddha Feast is. "
Su Wei has heard about the request for the Golden Buddha from Chuandu State. The Golden Buddha was invited back from the Holy Land west of the Western Desert by Master Huineng at the imperial order. Although the Thousand Buddha Feast is of great significance to the Western Desert countries, if it is the first time to borrow it, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the Golden Buddha to return from the Western Desert in the future.
Qin Huai, the minister of the Ministry of Rites who was sent to receive him, was ordered by the emperor to refuse this request without compromising the diplomatic relations between the two countries. It has been three days since the peace talks, and the envoys who want to come to Sichuan have lost their patience.
"Chief Zhang, is there a pen and paper here?" After hesitating for a few seconds, Su Wei still gives up the idea of leaving immediately and turns to ask Zhang Yan at the door in a low voice.
"Whatever Su Lang wants to use, just go downstairs to ask for it. He is so busy inside that he may not have the energy to wait on Su Langzhong." Although Zhang Yan is only the chief of the seventh grade, his father is the minister of punishment. He also has a good personal relationship with Qin Shilang inside. He has no respect for the evil Su Lang around him.
"The lower official has a plan to solve the urgent need of Qin Shilang. But the lower official is not among the envoys to receive this time. Please ask Chief Zhang to send this to the lower official instead."
After removing the silk handkerchief tied to her wrist, she took out the rouge that Ying Huaiyue had put into her when she came out of the Rite Department Yamen. Su Wei also stopped looking for paper and pen. She pulled out the hairpin and quickly wrote a few lines on the silk handkerchief with rouge and handed it to Zhang Yan.
"This..." Zhang Yan looked at her unbroken action and was a bit stunned. When she recovered from the conversation inside, Su Wei went downstairs with her hair tied.
Looking down at the lines of pink hairpin script on the snow colored silk handkerchief embroidered with orchids, Zhang Yan saw a bright light, and could not care about Su Wei's whereabouts. He carefully put the handkerchief away and knocked on the door to enter the elegant room.
"Oh, they are right. There are all kinds of girls in Qingle Square."
Su Wei, who came downstairs here, had just pulled up her long hair, and was blocked by a drunken dude at the entrance of the stairs: "The little lady has a special charm in her official dress. I wonder if she would like to have a drink together?"
With a little curly hair tied behind her head, beautiful clothes and honey skin, Su Wei recognized the identity of the drunken man just by looking at her.
"Your highness misunderstood. The lower official is the official of the Ritual Department of the Qi Dynasty, not the girl of Qingle Square." Su Wei said coldly, stepping back, and distancing herself from Dantu, the son of the King of Sichuan.
"Official? Ha ha ha ha..." Su Wei's words did not make the drunk prince stop, and Dantu raised his eyebrows and laughed scornfully. "Women are officials. Are you Qi, like Beiyuan, without men?"
"Your highness is drunk, and the lower official will send someone down to the hall to sober up and rest." Su Weixiu frowned, but she didn't want to argue with the drunk. Instead, she wanted to call the boy in Qingle Square to help.
"Official of the Ritual Department?" Unexpectedly, Prince Dantu listened to her. Instead, he raised his lip and reached out to pull Suwei's hand. "Didn't your Ritual Department receive my prince? Since you are an official of the Ritual Department, you should have a drink with my prince."
"Otherwise, I will complain to your emperor about your bad hospitality." The first time I reached out my hand, he was dodged, and Prince Chuandu moved to her and frowned.
"Your highness, please respect yourself!" Su Wei sidled away from his hand, frowning more deeply. If she were an ordinary drunkard, she would have taken off his arms long ago.
"What are you hiding from? You have an attractive face, but you pretend to be serious here. Don't you know what the Ministry of Etiquette wants you to do?" Dan Tu's face became angry when he didn't get involved
His voice was very loud. As soon as he said this, everyone in the hall looked at him. Although the girls didn't speak, their anger was very obvious.
I heard earlier that Chuandu is a country where small soldiers are good, where martial arts are valued, and women have a very low status in the country. It's understandable that Dantu looks down on women as officials. But now, it's too hard to hear. Su Wei can't bear it. When Dantu's words fall, she clenches her fist and raises her hand.
With a crisp sound, Prince Dantu, who was more than eight feet tall, was knocked to the ground.
For a moment, the room was silent.
"Nanting, I told you early in the morning that the new shoes didn't fit. Look, what happened now?" A leisurely voice sounded at the corner of the stairs. The man leaning in the corridor waved a gold painted jade bone fan in his hand happily, and instructed his attendants to "go and pick up the shoes for me."
Looking down at the black satin brocade shoes that flew down from the stairs and knocked Dantu to the ground, as well as the clear shoe prints on the face of Prince Dantu who had fainted, Su Wei failed to recover for a moment.
The young man who was waiting for the sword in green clothes hurried down the stairs and picked up the brocade shoes. Su Wei then turned around with his movements. When she saw the people in the corridor, she was stunned again.
Chuanxia brocade, white jade belt, purple jade flying dragon pendant hanging from the waist, even if it is a regular dress, it has five points of the same handsome eyebrows and eyes as your majesty, and that "my king" has made Su Wei know his identity.
Among the five princes of your majesty, only Xiao Yunxi, the King of Ning who has not received half of his duties and drinks and plays in the imperial capital every day, will appear in Qingle Square at this time.
"Your highness, it seems that the person you beat is..." Nanting, who picked up the shoes and went back, spoke in some difficulty. In the middle of his words, the owner of his family glared at him, closed his mouth and bent over to put on Xiao Yunxi's shoes.
"Aunt Chun, this man is very drunk. Find a room to sober him up. The room money is on the king's account." The jade fan shakes gently. Xiao Yunxi slowly steps down the stairs, goes around the Dantu who falls to the ground in front of the stairs and does not wake up. He gives a faint command to raise his feet and go outside.
"Your highness King Ning, please stay." Seeing that Chun Ruyi hurriedly called the waiter to put up the red map on the ground, Su Wei came back to herself and shouted before Xiao Yunxi went out.
"I have always done good deeds without leaving my name behind, so I don't need to thank you." Xiao Yunxi, who could not escape in disorder, sighed, nodded and turned his head, said quietly, and was slightly stunned when Feng Yan swept Su Wei who came up.
The woman in front of me has light makeup, but her eyebrows are dark without sweeping, her jade face is pink without dyeing, and her cherry lips are red without painting. With a simple dress, she is very beautiful.
Xiao Yunxi was used to seeing women of all colors, but it was the first time she looked at her like this. She clearly had a charming face and a pair of peach blossom eyes were as clear as clouds, shadows and sky light. The scarlet official dress was a little empty on her, and the black hair was tied high on her head like a man's hair crown. He couldn't help thinking that if she changed her dress, What kind of national beauty and heavenly fragrance should it be?
"Your highness's kindness to help, I thank you here, but this man is the prince of Sichuan. With his bad temper, I'm afraid he won't give up on this matter." Bowing down to Xiao Yunxi and making a big gift, Su Wei said quietly.
"So?" Seeing her frown, Xiao Yunxi was half worried.
"
Even if it was not Xiao Yunxi who shot her just now, she was afraid that Dantu's situation would not be much better than it is now. It was because of her that this matter started. Xiao Yunxi was kind enough to help, but it was too late for her to thank him, and she really shouldn't involve him.
"How are you going to deal with it?" With such determination, Xiao Yunxi stopped the folding fan and Junmei looked at her gently.
"I..." The red lips opened slightly, thinking that she was going to apologize to Dantu, and maybe she would go to His Majesty to ask for punishment for this, Su Wei felt bored, and stopped talking. She looked down at the smooth ground and bit her lips to endure her reluctance.
If Dantu refuses to give up, it is related to the diplomatic relations between the two countries. Maybe she can't even keep the position of etiquette doctor in such a trouble.
"I'm not used to seeing him speak rudely. I did this alone, and there's nothing for you. Go back quickly." Xiao Yunxi coughed, turned to call Chun Ruyi, "You look at that prince very carefully, and when he wakes up, ask someone to report a letter to Lord Ning's Residence. I will come to deal with this matter."
When Spring Ruyi answered, Xiao Yunxi turned and walked out with Nanting.
"Your highness King Ning!"
"I'm going to pick up Princess Huai'an in the Lotus Garden. I told you so. Are you afraid that I will run away?" Looking back, Xiao Yunxi smiled bitterly when he saw the man who was chasing him quickly.
"Your highness misunderstood. I want to thank your highness." Su Wei once again made a big gift to Xiao Yunxi, and said sincerely, "Your highness's kindness to help me is deeply felt by my highness. If I have the opportunity in the future, I will repay your highness."
"Gratitude?" The Feng's eyes flashed, Xiao Yunxi's lips lifted slightly. "What position do you hold in the Ritual Department? Do you know a person named Su Wei?"
