Chapter 67 Fishing
After that day, the emperor seemed to be angry and never went to Cui Xiu's Chuxiu Palace again. In the court, he also tried to find fault with the Cui family.
When Cui Xiu was at home, Cui Zhenghai was left in the palace by the emperor to discuss how to reward the Cui family. The emperor wanted Cui Zhenghai to mention it himself, and would not let him leave unless he mentioned it.
So I waited in the palace for a long time that day. However, Cui Zhenghai didn't say what kind of reward he wanted for a long time, because it was the first time that he was asked to say the reward himself.
Cui Zhenghai knew that the emperor intended to test him, but he was the emperor’s father-in-law after all. Although Cui Xiu was not the queen, she was now a noble concubine. It was somewhat embarrassing for the emperor to do this. Done.
If the reward is too much, the emperor will feel that the Cui family is too greedy; if it is too little, the emperor will feel that they look down on the royal family.
They can't decide the scale well. Only the emperor has the scale in his own heart. What he thinks is appropriate is appropriate.
Cui Zhenghai was kept until dark that day. Seeing that he couldn't speak out, the emperor asked someone to send him back.
When Cui Xiu learned about this later, her original intention of going to the emperor to apologize was completely gone because she felt that Li Xiuhuai was an unreasonable person.
Cui Xiu knows that people sitting in that position often have no heart. What they have in their hearts is ruthlessness and the supremacy of power.
She didn't do anything wrong in the first place. Everything she did was for the sake of her children. Why should she give in? It was just the right time for her to show off her palace if the emperor didn't come, and she didn't bother to see the emperor's face.
The emperor's expression seemed as if someone owed him a lot of money. He didn't look like an emperor, he looked like a landlord, a big landowner who exploited farmers.
Cui Xiu was thinking, putting aside the matters between her and the emperor for the time being. The most important thing now was what the emperor wanted to do to their family.
Obviously they have handed over the tiger talisman, and the emperor should not attack their family again. Why do they do this, such a difficult thing?
Isn’t this embarrassing? Is it possible that the emperor is so narrow-minded that he is not willing to let go of even an ordinary general?
In Cui Xiu's mind, he recalled the things Li Xiuhuai did in his previous life. In his previous life, the Cui family hadn't handed over the military talisman yet, and the emperor didn't say anything at first.
She only asked her second brother Cui Chu to resign from the position of military general and appoint a civil servant, in order to let him take the path of becoming a general.
But Cui Xiu knows her second brother. In Cui Xiu's opinion, Cui Chu is suitable to be a military general on the battlefield, because he is bold and careful, and has good strategies and skills in leading troops to fight. Fighting and bravery are enough.
But his little cleverness on the battlefield is not enough in the field of civil servants. The convoluted thoughts of those civil servants are enough to scare people away.
Wearing small shoes, framing people, supporting others, taking the blame, being isolated, etc. are only things that people can’t think of, and there is nothing that their group of civil servants can’t do.
Not to mention becoming a prime minister, just to be an ordinary civil servant, Cui Chu's little thought is not enough.
Presumably the emperor did not really want Cui Chu to be a good civil servant, he just wanted to weaken the power of the Cui family.
If there is no battle to be fought, the emperor will never allow two generals in one family. Now that Cui Zhenghai and Cui Chu have led the troops to victory, at least they can keep the borders of Ming and Qi within thirty years. There is a war.
The emperor also saw this, so he wanted to kill a general from the Cui family.
Looking back, if the emperor really wants the good of the Cui family, then he can give up Cui Zhenghai’s position as a military commander and let him enter the civil service path. After all, Cui Zhenghai is older and has spent more time in officialdom. He is almost older than Cui Chu.
As a civil servant, Cui Zhenghai would not be able to achieve great status, but he would not make any mistakes that should not occur.
Thinking of this, Cui Xiu felt more and more that the emperor was really too deep-minded.
But in this life, because she wanted her father and brother to hand over the military talisman, the emperor did not directly dismiss Cui Chu as a general and grant him a civil official position. Instead, she summoned her father into the palace and asked her father to tell him what reward he wanted.
Although the reward this time is active, it is slightly better than the passive one in the previous life.
But Cui Xiu still felt that Li Xiuhuai was too calculating and calculated every step carefully without giving in even half a step.
Cui Xiu was sitting by the pond, holding a fishing rod in her hand. Chunfeng stood beside her and saw that the fishing rod in her hand was shaking, so he whispered: "Mother, there is a fish on the hook. . ”
When Cui Xiu heard the sound, he subconsciously pulled up the fishing rod, focused his divergent eyes, and saw a good fish hanging on the hook.
Cui Xiu always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. He always felt that the emperor was digging a hole for the Cui family to jump into.
But this pit is still different from the previous life, so she needs to figure it out carefully.
Chunfeng got up, walked to the fishing rod, and helped Cui Xiu take the fish off the hook. While taking the fish, he said, "My dear, you haven't fished for a long time."
"These fish have been fattened. "
"The fatter fish is easier to take the bait."
Cui Xiu's eyes suddenly paused as Chunfeng said, thinking, this fish has become fatter. Fishing is fun, but the emperor is not taking action now because he wants them to relax their vigilance.
Then wait until they have put their minds down and are fattened up in peace and contentment, and then catch them all in one fell swoop.
Thinking of this, Cui Xiu felt a surge of excitement on her back. Her scalp was numb. The hand holding the fishing rod subconsciously curled up and breathed out gently.
"This fish is not fat enough."
Cui Xiu said that currently their family has not reached the "fatness" in the eyes of the emperor, so the emperor should raise it slowly. As long as the fish is not fat, the emperor will not lift the hook.
After thinking about it like this, she had some ideas in her mind.
“Mother, this fish is not fat enough? If this fish is not fat, is that fish fat?”
Chunfeng said, raising his finger to point to another fish in the pond. Cui Xiu stood up and glanced forward, only to see a relatively plump fish swimming slowly a little lower on the surface of the water.
It seems that he is not worried about his situation at all, which seems a bit blatant.
Cui Xiu looked at the fish, the expression on his face softened a little, showed a slight smile, and said: "That fish has a good mentality."
"I like it."
Hearing what his mother-in-law said, Chunfeng shook the hand that had released the fish into the water, looked at the fish, and nodded hesitantly.
Although she didn't know what her mother-in-law meant, she still nodded cooperatively, because she knew that as long as her mother-in-law said it, it made sense.
(End of this chapter)