After the decree has been read, Li Shu will receive the decree and thank you for the favour.”After Eunuch Jia finished reading the imperial decree, he smiled slightly and kindly reminded Li Shu, saying.
“My daughter Li accepts the imperial decree, long live the emperor.”
Li Shu smiled like a flower as she received the imperial decree, a pair of watery eyes narrowed into the shape of a crescent moon, a strand of green silk hanging down her cheeks fluttered beautifully and happily with the movement of her bending down to kowtow.
The Sixth Miss beside her looked at Li Shu with envy and jealousy, her big eyes as red as a white rabbit.
After Li Shu received the decree, Zhu Pingan thought to himself that there should be no more holy decree now, but he was still unsure and looked up to Eunuch Jia.
Eunuch Jia seemed to know that Zhu Pingan would look over, looked at Zhu Pingan with a slight smile and took the initiative to open his mouth and said, “The imperial decree has been declared.”
When Zhu Pingan heard this, he did not get up because he straight away felt that the smile on Eunuch Jia’s face had a deeper meaning and that there was something in his words.
Sure enough, the next second Eunuch Jia spoke again, “However, His Holiness has also specially asked the miscellaneous family to pass on an oracle to young Lord Zhu.”
“I, Zhu Pingan, will listen to the teachings of His Holiness.”Zhu Pingan once again bowed and saluted.
Next, Eunuch Jia conveyed Emperor Jia Jing’s oracles to Zhu Pingan, and it could be said that Emperor Jia Jing’s oracles were reasonable, appeasing to his ministers yet compassionate and heartfelt, and they were all verbal words as well.
“Zhu Pingan, your kid Taicang silver bank check is good, also paid a lot, I see in the eyes. Not only me, is full of civil and military also know you check library credit. You are my hand-picked scholar, well read, loyal, honest and virtuous, you have done a good job. I know Zhu Ping’an you kid, hear me the first decree, the heart will more or less complain that I reward and punishment is not clear. You when the subjects have when the subjects of the difficult, I also have my difficult, Taicang silver warehouse accumulation of heavy hard to return, very thing when the very thing, the matter is about the big picture, you have to understand. Not to say that you, that is for me to speak for three years of Confucianism, assisted by the three dynasties of the patriarch, the university sergeant Gu Zhendong, although has been dismissed from his post at home, but also because of the Taicang case involved in the fine of silver more than 20,000 two.”
“Taicang case occurred, I am very angry, after this case is solved, I am even more angry, every session of every silver library officials as well as checking the library royal historian, are all trusted officials, but even none of them can top things, there is no no greed, there is no help me to find out the dark side of the, all failed to live up to my appointment, I’m really blind.”
“I am very disappointed, successive officials and royal historians, all failed me. Could it be that all of my Daming officials are so bad, could it be that my Daming officialdom has darkened to such a degree, could it be that there is not a single clean official in my Daming? Forcing me to learn from my imperial ancestors, stripping the skin and filling it with grass before I am willing to do so?”
“After thinking about it, I am very unwilling. Disappointed, I asked the factory guards, can there be officials have not accepted a bribe? I got a reply, so far, there is solid evidence, only you kid has not accepted Taicang a text, not only you, that is, your servants, also have not accepted Taicang a text of benefits. Not only can you clean yourself up, but you can also be strict with your subordinates, you’ve done a good job.”
“Today, because of the audit of Taicang’s silver storehouse, your reputation has become even greater, and it has also allowed me to see your loyalty, honesty, and ability. I now reward you with the position of scholar-in-waiting in the Hanlin Academy, you should cherish it, don’t underestimate this position, although it is only from the fifth grade, but this is a necessary way for the readers to be promoted, I remember you. You are still young, to do well in learning, and even better to do well as an official, in the future so that I can do more practical things for my Daming ……”
Blah blah blah.
Zhu Pingan after listening, feel a brain black line, Jiajing emperor is not chatterbox it, how to say so many words? The entire word count of the oracle is enough for a high school student to write an essay, right?
Eunuch Jia’s oracles with so many words, are you sure they are all said by Emperor Jiajing?
Although the tone of voice sounds like the Jiajing Emperor’s tone of superiority, what reward you Hanlin Academy reading scholar’s position, and so on. However, Emperor Jiajing clearly looks like a cold model, how can he be so wordy to say so many words?
Zhu Pingan suspected that the oracle conveyed by Eunuch Jia was not the original oracle of Emperor Jiajing, but only remembered the general meaning of Emperor Jiajing’s oracle, and these words were all freely played by Eunuch Jia on the spot.
If Emperor Jia Jing really said so many words, how could Eunuch Jia listen to it once and remember it? Even with his own unforgettable ability and memory, listening to these words once, can only repeat about ninety per cent of the original, like Jia Gonggong such a voice, fluent and clear, not at all funny.
Even if Eunuch Jia and their eunuchs who conveyed the oracles were trained, it is impossible to do this.
Estimated oracles are roughly like this, remember the general meaning, more than 60 per cent of the original language, the remaining 40 per cent, can not remember, according to the meaning of the emperor, their own free play it. You can’t go back to the emperor and say, I’m sorry emperor, I forgot what you just said, can you say it again?
Remember the core meaning, free play is it.
Anyway, there is no courtier who has received the oracle and will go to confront the Emperor.
After Eunuch Jia’s side conveyed Emperor Jiajing’s oracle, there were finally no more imperial edicts or oracles.
Zhu Pingan and the others got up after receiving the decree and thanking the emperor, had the decree placed on the incense burner for enshrinement, and arched his hand to Eunuch Jia and thanked him, “The scorching sun is hot, and the heat is heavy, so to trouble Eunuch Jia to work so hard to come and deliver the decree, Pingan is grateful for it.”
“Lord Xiao Zhu you are too kind, miscellaneous family running errands for His Holiness, what do you mean by hard work.”Eunuch Jia smiled faintly.
“The mansion has already prepared a crude tea and meal, Eunuch rest for a moment, use the tea and meal before returning.”Zhu Pingan reached out and invited Eunuch Jia to take a seat.
“The miscellaneous family still has the imperial name on the line, and does not dare to stop for a long time, so this will be my farewell first.”Eunuch Jia smiled and shook his head before leading the little eunuchs and the others to bow out.
Zhu Pingan sent their party to the door of the rear residence and watched Eunuch Jia get into the sedan chair and leave before returning to the residence.
“Good day Auntie, the servant girl greets Auntie.”
“Good day, Master Auntie, I’ve seen you.”
At this time, Marquis Linhuai’s residence up and down, including in the backyard deep sweeping laundry maids and old mums, all know Zhu Pingan received the imperial decree, promoted to the fifth grade, one by one, when Zhu Pingan passed by, all stood on both sides of the road, from the bottom of their hearts to Zhu Pingan salute and greetings.
After Zhu Ping An passed by, each of them looked at Zhu Ping An’s back, like a chirping magpie, saying something like “Auntie looked at me, Auntie nodded to me”, as if they had won a great honour.
“Good sister, sister received the imperial decree, but worried that there is no box to contain the imperial decree. If we neglect the imperial decree, we are afraid that the whole marquis house can’t afford it. However, my sister heard that you have a good rosewood trousseau there, rosewood is honourable, it is most suitable to be used as an imperial decree box, I wonder if my sister would be willing to help my sister share her worries.”
When Zhu Pingan returned to the hall, he happened to see Li Shu smiling like a flower talking to the Sixth Miss, a thousand dainty smiles blooming on her delicate face, her voice was also dainty and pleasant, only a pair of big watery eyes were full of a prompting lustre.
As for the Sixth Miss opposite Li Shu, she had the look of a baby who is so angry but a baby who can’t say anything yet, the muscles on her face worked several times before she squeezed out a stiff smile, and returned a sentence as if she was being held by a knife on her neck, “It’s good that sister likes it.”
