Sister Xin'er's body is recovering in an orderly manner, Wei Mingxu's birthday is approaching, Lin Zhixuan said goodbye to Wei Yanxian, and wants to lead the ninth sister back to Jingwang's mansion to live for a while.

Wei Yanxian hesitated slightly, but still agreed.

The ninth sister followed Lin Zhixuan out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and passed by Shen Zi'an, who was standing on the side with a knife, and the ninth sister's steps couldn't help but stop.

Since the Yikun Palace was burned, the ninth sister accompanied Sister Xin to recuperate in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and Shen Zi'an was also transferred to the Heart Cultivation Palace, although the two of them were in the same hall, but now Shen Zi'an is a celebrity in Wei Yanxian's eyes, and the ninth sister has Lin Zhixuan to accompany her every step of the way, and she has no chance to practice speaking all the time.

Now that the ninth sister is going to leave the palace again, I don't know how long it will take for the two of them to part.

It's just that the moment he was leaving, the eyes of the two people met, Shen Zi was relieved to have mixed tastes, and a thousand words were in his throat, but he could only nod his head lightly to the ninth sister. The ninth sister immediately burst into tears, so she also nodded in response to him, and was afraid that Lin Zhixuan would be suspicious, so she could only follow Lin Zhixuan quickly. Shen Zi stood alone and clenched the hand holding the knife.

Over the years, Wei Mingxu has been very low-key, and when all countries came to the court in the past, most of the people who came and went were royal relatives and family relatives, and the ministers in the court rarely came to the door. Especially in these years, Xie Wenliang has become big in Beijing, in order to avoid suspicion, it seems that the upstarts of the court only know Marquis Wu Ying, but not Prince Jing.

For Wei Mingxu, although he was not used to it in the first few years, after these years of quieting, he knew the comfort of Prince Zhuang Wei Yingxiang. Those cumbersome banquets, after a day of tossing, except for fatigue and emptiness, there is nothing left, it is better to reunite with his wife and children, watch the play, listen to music, and enjoy the family.

Three days before Wei Mingxu's birthday, Shen Zi'an was not on duty, and left the palace at night, he hesitated, but did not return to the house that Wei Yanxian gave him, but instead turned around and went to the house of the emperor Gu Moukeng.

The long night was silent, and the night in the Gu Mansion was particularly long.

Gu Moukeng stood in front of the window, listening to Shen Zi'an's long talk about him, and seemed a little indifferent.

Shen Zi'an clenched his fists, got up, and knelt behind Gu Moukeng: "Master, you should know that if you want to get rid of Xie Wenliang now, the only way to do this is to ask Prince Jing to come out of the mountain." For so many years, you have supported the Leng family, promoted the Wang family, treated the Lin family well, and assisted the Zuo family, but it is difficult to become a climate after all. Xie Wenliang single-handedly held the power of the military state, controlled the household department, left and right the imperial examination, and interfered in the use of people in the imperial court.

Even though Master and I have hearts, we are powerless at all. Over the years, Master has been wholeheartedly helping the emperor cultivate power, and although he has made remarkable achievements, he still can't match the Xie family, which is deeply rooted in the court. Now that Xie Wenliang is empty-eyed, he doesn't even care about the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, and the emperor has no other way but to retreat.

Is this the situation that Master wants to see?"

Shen Zi'an's words were already extremely serious, but Gu Moukeng was still silent.

He knew that someone had to do such a thing, and there was no one better than him, the Master.

Because, he is not only Shen Zi'an's teacher, but also the emperor's teacher, and Wei Yanxian's teacher.

However, everyone knows that Wei Yanxian has such a deep knot in Wei Mingxu's heart, at the beginning, Wei Yanxian's throne was almost taken over in Wei Mingxu's hands, Gu Moukeng was conceited that he was rich and five cars, and he chose Wei Yanxian instead of Wei Mingxu, which also meant showing off his talent.

He plans to assist Wei Yanxian and become a generation of Ming monarchs, so that he will also be famous for the ages. But now, after all, it has reached the point where the throne is almost unsecured, and in the end, I still have to go back to Wei Mingxu for help.

This is what Gu Moukeng is unwilling to do, even a few years ago, he saw such a sign.

"Wang Jingsheng, Zuo Leizong, Cai Yongyan, Lin Jiahong, they are all honest and loyal to the emperor now, everything owned by Prince Jing is now owned by the emperor, if they can't work together, what is the use of inviting Prince Jing out of the mountain. ”

Shen Zi'an said: "Master, you should know that the emperor has never really trusted them in his heart, and in the eyes of the emperor, they are all old people from Jingwangfu.

Wang Jingsheng and the others, who can be called loyal to the emperor and have absolutely no second thoughts? They are just trembling and trying to find a way out, for fear that the emperor will one day settle accounts after the autumn and his life will be confessed. In this way, it is better to keep Xie Wenliang, because with Xie Wenliang, there is a place for them, if there is no Xie Wenliang, how will the emperor treat them, they have never been at ease with the emperor.

It was the master who taught me that the Ming monarch punishes the heart and does not kill people, why doesn't the master teach the emperor who should know this way?"

Shen Zi'an's lobbying lasted until late at night, when Gu Moukeng's wife came to deliver supper in person, and Shen Zi'an got up to say goodbye.

Mrs. Gu looked at the worried Gu Moukeng, and asked worriedly, "Master, is something wrong?"

Gu Moukeng is a reckless and free person, he was also born in cloth clothes in the past, and he was close to his wife, he was from a poor couple all the way here, what did he say, he never hid it from his wife, just sat side by side with her, gently twisted the pastries on the plate, and took a bite: "Zi'an asked me to persuade the emperor to abandon the previous suspicions with Prince Jing and share the same hatred." ”

Mrs. Gu was surprised, she was not an ignorant woman, and by the side of such a virtuous husband as Gu Moukeng, she knew even more about the situation in the court than some ignorant ministers in the court: "This is a very risky matter, you must consider it carefully." The emperor was originally wary of you since he was a child because you were the emperor recommended by Prince Jing. Or wait until the queen mother dies, and there is no one around the emperor, so he began to reuse the master. But he was still on guard, but he was given a false name as an emperor, but he didn't have half of the real power, and now if he talks about official positions, he is not as good as Zi'an, a first-class guard in the third grade.

Now, if you want to persuade the emperor to get close to Prince Jing, this is a matter of fire. Isn't Zi'an a big celebrity around the emperor, whatever he says, the emperor listens, why doesn't he say it himself. ”

Gu Moukeng listened to his wife's words, but finished eating the snacks in his hand, and patted the crumbs on his hands with a smile: "Zi'an is a smart child." He knew that he was now newly favored, and his words were naturally not as effective as me, a master who had been with the emperor for more than ten years. The emperor's trust in him will not be greater than that of me, the emperor who assists him in pro-government. ”

"That's a good thing to say, but you are the best at understanding the emperor's mind, what can be said and what can't be said, no one knows better than you. This matter, even if it is done, the emperor bowed his head to Prince Jing, but he will hate you in his heart after all. Why are you ......?"