Looking at Tai'an from the full moon

The day of the draft soon arrived.

Because it was the end of the year and New Year's Eve was just three days away, the streets, which were already decorated with lights and colorful decorations, became even more lively because of the wedding processions of several officials.

Both sides of the street were crowded with people who came to watch the fun, and in the middle was the wedding procession. Between the procession and the people, there was a human wall of guards to stop the "enthusiastic" people and prevent them from using too much force and affecting the wedding procession.

According to the previous selection standards, each mansion would send its daughters to the palace in their daily carriages. After entering the palace, they would have to learn various etiquette and skills, and then be eliminated layer by layer before the emperor could select them. The whole process would take one or two months, and they would either become the emperor's woman or a palace maid, so each mansion would not dress their daughters in wedding clothes on the day they were sent to the palace.

But today is the day to select the general's wife. If she is selected, she will be married in the palace on the same day, so the emperor ordered that she should wear wedding clothes directly. However, this is a bit unfair to the women who are not selected. After all, who wears wedding clothes but to get married?

The wedding processions from different directions merged into one team outside the palace gate. In the end, all the outsiders were stopped outside the gate. The brides-to-be in wedding dresses also got off the sedan chair at the palace gate. The eunuchs who had been waiting at the palace gate handed the two long red ribbons prepared on the side to the brides in sections. The eunuchs walked in front, and the brides followed behind, relying on the ribbons.

"Hurry up, hurry up! Don't delay the auspicious time!"

Mu Dai urged from the side. After all, only one person could become the master in the end, and the rest would be driven out of the palace, so he didn't need to be too polite to them.

On the other side, General Bai was standing on a high platform with the Emperor, looking at the empty space below, where the brides would stand in a while.

Xiao Zuoming stood with his hands behind his back, while General Bai leaned his hands on the fence and said with some emotion.

"The last time you and I stood side by side was ten years ago. At that time, the Cangyan Kingdom launched a massive attack. The soldiers at the border fought hard for three months before repelling the enemy. I was seriously injured in the last battle. In order to appease the soldiers at the border, Emperor Mingren allowed us to return to Beijing for a visit. It was because I was able to return to Tai'an City that I was able to see my little nephew."

After hearing this, Xiao Zuoming was stunned and slowly turned towards General Bai.

"uncle..."

General Bai saw that Xiao Zuoming's eyes were a little moist, so he reached out and patted his shoulder.

"Don't cry on my big day~"

Xiao Zuoming denied it.

"I didn't want to cry, but I was thinking about my childhood and felt that I really disappointed my uncle."

When General Bai heard Xiao Zuoming mention his childhood, an expression of surprise appeared on his face.

"What are you referring to?"

"I still remember the first time my uncle saw me, I was chasing a palace maid with a wooden sword. My uncle reprimanded me, saying that a man should never point a sword at a woman or a child, and asked me to use the wooden sword to compete with you, who was unarmed. As you can imagine, I lost. I felt so embarrassed at the time that I threw down the wooden sword and ran away~"

General Bai nodded. This was indeed the case. Besides, there were other palace maids and eunuchs around at the time. It would not be difficult for Emperor Mingren to know the truth.

"And later, you and my mother said you wanted to train me to be a real man, and you took me to the martial arts training ground every day to practice horse stance. At first, I pretended to be obedient and went with you, but later I simply claimed to be sick and didn't go. But the illness didn't last for more than a few days, so I found a young eunuch who looked and had the same body shape as me, put on the same clothes as me, and secretly took my place when you were not paying attention. But in the end, he was caught~ and I got a beating!"

General Bai couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

"You were full of tricks when you were little, but none of them could deceive people."

"Later, I heard from my mother that you would stay in Tai'an City for another half a month. I couldn't stand it at all, so I asked my servant to sneak me out of the palace. But I never thought that one day you didn't enter the palace, but were strolling in the market with grandpa and grandma, and I saw me again. I even felt that my uncle was sent by God to punish me~"

When Xiao Zuoming said this, he couldn't help but reveal a heartfelt smile on his face, but General Bai's expression was not very good at this time.

Of course, he also remembered this incident, but at that time he was afraid that Emperor Mingren would punish Xiao Zuoming, and even worried that Emperor Mingren would punish his sister in the name of lax discipline, and that the servant would not survive if he secretly took the prince out of the palace. Under various concerns, General Bai secretly took Xiao Zuoming back to the palace over the wall, so no one else knew about this incident, not even Emperor Mingren.

"What on earth are you..."

General Bai wanted to ask who he was. Although General Bai had never seen Xiao Zuoming as an adult, it was obvious that he was not Emperor Mingren in his current state! But Prince Yun and Yu both said that he was not Xiao Zuoming. What was going on?

"what?"

Xiao Zuoming didn't hear his uncle's question clearly, so he asked him instead. General Bai smiled awkwardly and shook his head.

"Nothing~"

"Enter the bride~"

The voice of the little eunuch spy sounded at this moment.

"Your Majesty, let's begin. General Bai, please move."

Mu Dai was already standing on the platform, inviting General Bai to go down and choose. General Bai nodded, turned around and walked down the stairs.

Mu Dai was about to follow him, but was stopped by the emperor. Xiao Zuoming covered his head with his hands, patted his head hard, and a painful expression appeared on his face.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, what are you doing..."

This frightened Mu Dai. He quickly supported the emperor with both hands and looked worriedly under the stage, fearing that there was chaos down there as well.

"Your Majesty, may I help you sit down?"

Mu Dai was about to help the emperor sit down, but the emperor stopped him with his hand. Xiao Zuoming patted his head again, and suddenly raised his head to look at Mu Dai with a fierce expression on his face.

"What did I say to General Bai just now?"

Mu Dai was stunned. He had just come up. Although he did eavesdrop on the conversation between the emperor and General Bai, he couldn't admit it! And judging from the emperor's expression, he didn't remember what he had just said. It seemed that the negative symptoms brought by the reincarnation technique were becoming more and more obvious in the emperor's body.

"emperor..."

Xiao Zuoming waved his hand again, exhaled a breath of anger, then straightened himself, walked to the fence and looked down, just as General Bai turned his head and looked up. The two looked at each other, but neither of them smiled. Xiao Zuoming looked down at him and waved to Mu Dai, who instantly understood what the emperor meant, walked down from the high platform, and shouted at the top of his voice.

"The audition begins~!"