A series of footsteps outside attracted the attention of all the people in the outer hall of the Wanshou Palace, and soon Little Eunuch Zhang pulled Zhu Pingan’s sleeve and appeared in the outer hall at a trot.
When Zhu Pingan entered the Wanshou Palace, he only had the time to bow to the lords in the outer hall, and did not even have the time to say hello before being pulled by Eunuch Xiao Zhang’s sleeve into the inner hall.
When the people in the outer palace saw Zhu Pingan being summoned in, their eyes were all over the place.
Yan Maoqing looked at the figure of Zhu Pingan walking into the inner hall, pulled the corner of his mouth downwards, huh, self-inflicted sins can not live, the saint believes in Taoism, you praise Buddha, today you are finished,…….
After entering the inner hall, Zhu Pingan saw at a glance the Jiajing Emperor sitting on a futon and meditating with his eyes closed, as well as Huang Jin standing on the side.
Huang Jin saw Zhu Pingan come in and gave Zhu Pingan a kind smile.
“Your Majesty, Zhu Pingan has arrived.”Little Eunuch Zhang entered the inner hall and whispered to the meditating Jiajing Emperor.
Zhu Pingan, as soon as the little eunuch’s words fell, knelt down and performed the three-kneeling and nine-kowtowing salute to see Jiajing in a disciplined manner.
“I Cabinet Secretary Zhi Zhilang, Hanlin Academy service reading, Taicang inspector Zhu Pingan, kowtow to see my emperor, my emperor long live ten thousand years old.”
Zhu Pingan bowed down and crouched on the ground with his head lowered, pausing for about two seconds or so before he heard Emperor Jiajing’s voice resonating above his head.
“Ai-Qing Zhu, level off.”Emperor Jiajing got up, helped by Huang Jin to get up and sit on the dragon chair, and said leisurely.
“I, thank you Lord for your great kindness.”Zhu Pingan performed a big salute to say thank you, and only then got up, acting very respectful and deferential.
“Aiqing you can know the offence?”
Only after Zhu Pingan got up, Jiajing Emperor resumed looking at Zhu Pingan with slightly narrowed eyes, faintly asking.
At the words of Zhu Pingan and thud a kneeling on the ground, back suddenly a cold, goosebumps are up, but soon will be calm down, a face of innocence shook his head and said: “I don’t know.”
As the saying goes, don’t do anything wrong is not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, and he did not do anything against the law, the heart is not guilty.
“Don’t know?”Jiajing emperor seemed to laugh, not laugh, asked a rhetorical question, and then asked in a deep voice, “I order you to audit the Taicang silver warehouse, why you instead of running to me into the article, could it be that you think that I am not divided into the priorities of the dim king not?”
Oh, the original because of this ah, Zhu Pingan heart completely relaxed down, raised his head with a face of aggrieved explanation: “I dare not, your majesty is wise and godly, diligent and loving the people, is the ancient emperor, is not a fainting monarch, I am not AWOL. I have been in the Taicang since the morning dawn until the afternoon at 5 o’clock, has been in the warehouse audit books. At 5 o’clock to the west garden, is an important matter to see the emperor, submit the request to see the folders only to know the matter of offering articles.”
“Come to Xiyuan at 5 o’clock …… Doesn’t that mean that the Aiqing was just arrived?”Emperor Jiajing squinted his eyes and swept the scale engraved by the copper pot leak in the palace, slightly raising his eyebrows, suspicious of Zhu Pingan’s answer.
“Your Majesty is wise, I have indeed just arrived.”Zhu Pingan nodded his head in a serious manner.
“What kind of brilliance is this.”Seeing this, Emperor Jiajing could not help but laugh and scold Zhu Pingan.
Although Zhu Pingan’s horse’s arse patting is raw, but raw has the benefit of raw, you pat raw, you are embarrassed, but the other party looks at the funny ah, this is also considered another form of active atmosphere.
“Oh, Scholar Lang this has just arrived, wrote such a “Buddha before a kneeling three thousand years”? Just listened to the small Li Zi of the Wuji Palace Secretary straight said you only used less than a tea kung fu, the Cao Zhi of the Three Kingdoms seven steps into poetry is also just so, with listening to the legend of the Chi Chi, really let the miscellaneous family can not believe it.”Huang Jin perceived the words and colours laughed and opened his mouth, some words Jiajing Emperor is not convenient to say, but they are not the same.
“My humble servant also had a feeling, coincided with the occasion, this is why I wrote faster, never dare to compare with Cao Zhi’s talent.”Zhu Pingan shook his head and explained very modestly. Huang Jin is the supervisor of the East Chamber, and also in charge of the Palace of Ceremonies, the official position is much higher than Zhu Pingan, Zhu Pingan here to call himself a subordinate official and nothing wrong with it.
“Cao Zhi is also sentimental, Scholar Lang does not need to be modest ……”Huang Jin said with a smile.
Er, Zhu Pingan shook his head with a bitter smile.
“Warm tea composition? Oh, interesting, then pour a cup of tea for Zhu Aiqing, and let me see how Aiqing warms the tea for composition.”Jiajing Emperor leisurely looked at Zhu Pingan said “Tao Shi went to Taihe Mountain to build Yuan Yue, back to the mountain door is still missing a couplet, Aiqing if warm tea made good, I will pardon you not guilty, if it is not good, I think Aiqing also know the consequences of the crime of deceiving the king.”
Soon there was a small eunuch who poured a cup of tea for Zhu Pingan and placed it on the ground in front of him.
“I thank my lord for his great kindness, I will do my best.”Zhu Pingan kowtowed his thanks, but in his heart, he was speechless for a while, warming tea for compositions and whatnot, it’s all you guys who said it, I didn’t set up this FLAG.
However, write couplets and so on, Zhu Pingan is not worried at all, in ancient times reading for so long, write couplets and so on for him is not a difficult thing, and in the past in the modern era, poor travelling, by the influence of immortal novels, but also went to some of the Taoist temples do not charge a fee to play, remembered a lot of Taoist temples couplets, enough to cope with the past this robbery.
It is better to use the ready-made ones, the couplets on the modern Taoist temple must be carefully selected, especially colourful to be chosen.
In such a short period of time, the couplets written by myself would definitely not be as good as the carefully selected couplets on the Taoist temple.
Just which one would be good to use?
Zhu Pingan closed his eyes and pondered, a Taoist temple surfaced in his mind, and a couplet surfaced as if he was walking on a horse.
Emperor Jiajing didn’t rush, his mouth was smiling, watching Zhu Pingan with interest.
Huang Jin seemed to have a lot of confidence in Zhu Pingan, looking at him with confidence in his eyes.
Hmm.
There, after thinking for more than ten seconds, Zhu Pingan thought of a couplet that he saw in a Taoist temple of Sanqing Palace in Hebei.
After thinking of it, Zhu Pingan did not rush to show it, but continued to close his eyes and make an appearance of trying to contemplate.
It was necessary to hide one’s clumsiness appropriately, especially now. If one wrote so quickly, then where would one let the ministers in the outer hall hide their faces? In addition, Emperor Jiajing was conceited and sensitive, so it was not appropriate for him to show that he was better than His Holiness. He should not show himself to be better than His Majesty.
Just like this, in Zhu Pingan’s contemplation, minute by minute time passed.
“Hehe, Scholar Lang, if you don’t write the tea will get cold.”A few moments later, Huang Jin urged with a slight smile.
“Wait a moment or two ……Oh, there.”Zhu Pingan made an anxious look, and after about three to five seconds, he again made a look of joyful inspiration, lifted the brush on the side, dipped it in ink and wrote on the rice paper:
Taiji judge to become Qiankun, Qian is the father, Kun is the mother, with great magical powers, a gas three clear, save all the four continents of the populace;
The two instruments are divided into yin and yang, yang belongs to the sky, yin belongs to the ground, showing boundless power, away from the dragon and tiger, cultivated into the Golden Immortal of ten thousand robberies.
Zhu Pingan wrote one sentence and Huang Jin repeated it.
“Although it’s a bit over time, but herbal tea is also considered tea, sloppy, so I’ll count you as passing this time.”After listening to this, Emperor Jiajing commented so on his lips, but in his heart, he was very satisfied.
These two couplets behind the “save all the populace of the four continents” and “cultivate into the ten thousand jinxian”, is simply said to the heart of Emperor Jiajing, so that Emperor Jiajing is very satisfied, their own Jianyuan Yue purpose is to save all the populace of the four continents, as for the cultivation of the ten thousand jinxian, is more the pursuit of Emperor Jiajing.
