Time passed little by little, the questions of the catchers were still going on slowly, Xu Chen didn't bother to think about it anymore, what should come will always come, just wait and see!

Returning to his original position, Wang Lin was still unconscious, his head resting on Xu Chen's shoulder.

Xu Chen turned his head slightly stiff and said to the painting screen: "Can't you help me down, I want to eat!"

"Who told you to put Miss's head on your shoulder?

“……”

"The public, it will damage the reputation of your young lady!"

"Then dare to be kind! What about the Taiyuan royal family! Do you dare not be responsible?"

“……”

"Your young lady has been in a coma for so long, should I take her to see a doctor?"

"It's okay! My young lady is just tired, just sleep well! Yes, sleep well! Leaning on her shoulder...... I can't sleep well!"

“……”

"Are all the maids of the Wang family like you?"

"Even if the lotus pond is sunk by the master's family, it's none of your business!"

“……”

On the other side of Xu Chen, the heads of the two teenagers were already so low that they were almost attached to the table, and their bodies trembled, so that in order not to laugh, they kept stuffing food into their mouths, so that their throats made strange sounds.

In order not to let the head on his shoulder fall, Xu Chen's movement of turning his head became slow and difficult.

And as soon as the head on her shoulder slips down, the bold maid beside her will immediately put away her smiling face and cry loudly, and then the eyes of the whole hall will converge again.

Although the eyes that converge at this moment are not small......

Wang Lin was able to move from the gate to this corner in a coma, which is naturally the credit of Xu Chen, if he changes someone else, he will cry on the screen.

If it weren't for Xu Chen's inconsistencies, Wang Lin's head would still be on Xu Chen's lap right now......

Looking at the two brothers who were burying their heads and only caring about eating, Xu Chen's face was full of hatred for iron and steel.

"Look at the people! Look at the two of you! Just know how to eat! I've taught for so long, I'm not even as good as a maid!"

Seeing that the eldest brother was angry, the two teenagers hurriedly raised their heads, their mouths were still chewing, they raised their heads suddenly, and the rapid swallowing made the teenagers' faces turn red quickly, and their eyes were bulging.

A cough sounded, followed by a flurry of cups and plates, and the expressions on their faces subsided when the wine was in their throats.

"......" Xu Chen looked at the two, suddenly felt sad in his heart, and sighed: "Quality education has to keep up! EQ is so low, how can I mix it up in the future!"

The painting screen on the other side covered his mouth and snickered, secretly happy in his heart: "Miss's vision is really good!

The long-awaited work finally walked in after a long call, and after a period of busyness that didn't know whether it was true or not, he gave the head catcher surnamed Wu a blank piece of paper full of words.

After eating, Xu Chen looked at it so calmly, the time was delayed for almost two hours, what happened in this restaurant is not big, it is not small, if it is said before, it is just before, in this day when the riot has just subsided, the teacher Xu Fan's hands hold the huge power that the emperor has just granted, and it is impossible for him not to know about the things here!

However, until now, there has not been even a little movement, which can only mean that the forces behind it have not yet surfaced, or there are some things that even Xu Fan is afraid of at this moment.

What could it be?

Even with the previous doubts, what happened today was too sudden, there was no sign at all, and Xu Chen, who was not well informed, couldn't feel the slightest clue.

"Sure enough, it's really Longtan Tiger's Den!" Xu Chen shook his head and sighed lightly.

On Chinese New Year's Eve today, the prime minister on duty in the government hall was Li Linfu, the right minister who had taken a leave of absence for many days, and since the riots that day, the left minister Chen Xilie has never left the house, and from the moment Li Heng received the holy decree, Chen Xilie's fate was already sealed.

Now that Xu Fan is in power, he will undoubtedly become the biggest winner in the round of purges after the year, and out of the consideration of checks and balances, Li Linfu on sick leave was invited back by the emperor.

With Xu Fan's current strength, he has been able to resist Li Linfu without falling behind, and Chen Xilie, the left minister who had been pinned on by the emperor before, has also come to an end.

Qian Yi walked into Li Linfu's wing room with a stack of papers, put the documents on the table, and walked to the charcoal basin to add a few pieces of silver carbon.

"Xiangye, these are the evaluations of officials from all over the world this year, do you want to take a look?"

Li Linfu stopped writing and looked up at him: "Why do you want to look?"

Qian Yi said with a smile: "After all, the ministry is still in charge of the minister, and it is justified to look at it!"

Li Linfu smiled and shook his head slightly: "It's different! The saint is going to do something against the princelings after the first year, so big cause and effect, if you can't get it, you won't get it!"

"But ......" Qian Yi hesitated for a moment and said: "But everyone thinks that Xiangye can take this opportunity to do something, and there are still a few princelings who can fight for it." ”

"Can these people also want it?" Li Linfu looked at Qian Yi with a smile.

"Xiangye, this is testing me!" Qian Yi smiled, and after a moment of silence, he said: "The prince lost this time, but he didn't lose! The saint is now powerless, so instead of condemning the crime, he gave the prince a lot of vanity. At present, it seems that the crown prince's position is difficult to shake, although the saint does not like it in his heart, but after a hundred years, the throne should still be the prince!"

"Is that all?" Li Linfu lowered his head again and began to review the recital.

"Of course it's not more!" Qian Yi said with a smile: "In this riot, Xu Fan got the most benefits! The purge after the year is secondary, the key is that Xu Fan's actions in the past few days have preserved a large number of middle- and lower-level officials who have no door and no faction, and also made the court recognize his ability as a prime minister." In this way, Xu Fan's shortcomings can be easily filled, and with the consistent sainthood, Xu Fan's rising momentum is unstoppable!"

"So what?" asked Li Linfu again.

"So the checks and balances are about to begin!" Qian Yi replied: "This time the Holy Lord invited Xiangye back already has this meaning!"

"After all, the saint is the saint, everything he does is for the stability of the court, and only a stable court can allow him to enjoy the prosperity of the world without distractions. ”

Li Linfu raised his head to look at him and asked with a smile, "So, do you think the Holy Lord is just a monarch who is greedy for pleasure?"

These words are a bit heart-wrenching, but fortunately, Qian Yi is also frank enough, and there is no need to hide it in front of Li Linfu, so he replied directly: "If you say before, the saint is naturally a holy and wise sage, but all the male lords and bosses can't escape the desire for life, they are not willing to die of old age, and they always have to do something to keep their magnificent life." ”

"This is the case with Emperor Qin and Emperor Wuju, and so is our Emperor Taizong! Unlike these few, perhaps our saints have not yet felt the arrival of old age, and now they are only wanton and have no desire for immortality. ”

At this point, Li Linfu suddenly became interested, and asked Qian Yi again: "Then why do you think this is?"

Qian Yi had already made a plan, and replied directly: "Because these heroes are all from good backgrounds! Needless to say, even if our Emperor Taizong can say the strong words of 'water can carry a boat and overturn a boat', in the end, his suffering of the people's livelihood only comes from the words on the books and chapters, or the advice of the virtuous ministers. ”

"They may be able to persist in this kind of compassion for the people for a long time, but because they have no specific experience, when the country is strong, it is easy to take it for granted that the life of the people has become rich under their own hard work, their tasks have been completed, and after so many years of struggle, it is time to think about themselves, right?"

"Haha!" Li Linfu laughed, stretched out his hand and counted some money, and scolded with a smile: "You kid is really bold!"

Qian Yi smiled stupidly: "These words can come out of my mouth, into the ears of Xiangye, I won't recognize it when I go out!"

Li Linfu smiled and said: "You have a point, like me, I have been in the market, so I know what people in the market think, and some officials under the situation can't hide it!"

"That's the reason! The emperor was born in the palace since he was a child, and he can only listen to others about the affairs of the outside world, and they will never be able to see whether the people are poor or rich!" Qian Yi's eyes were a little stunned when he said this.

Li Linfu nodded slightly, but instead said: "The emperor is in the palace, so he takes things outside for granted, and you are outside the palace, will you also take things on the holy side for granted?"

Qian Yi frowned and looked at Li Linfu.

Li Linfu said leisurely: "It's not just you, it's Xu Fan, it's wrong!"

"What did you see wrong?" asked Qian Yixian.

"I saw the wrong idea of the saint!" Li Linfu's eyes regained sharpness.

"What?" Qian Yi was a little surprised.

"Do you think that the saint is old, and he has no interest in state affairs, he just wants to enjoy it! Xu Fan feels that the saint still has the ambition and wisdom of the past, so he is unwilling to change to a mediocre prince for the sake of Datang!"

"Isn't it?" Qian Yi looked at Li Linfu with surprise.

"Not all!" Li Linfu shook his head slightly, and replied: "You haven't touched the saint, and Xu Fan is still looking at the saint with the old eyes of decades ago, it will be wrong, it's normal!"

"The Holy Lord really doesn't have the idea of changing a prince now, but there is a premise!"

"What premise?"

"Who dies first! This is the most intuitive judgment!" Li Linfu said with a smile: "Just as the crown prince does not dare to bear the infamy of killing his father and killing the king, the saint also has such scruples. If you can't do it, you can only wait for time and an accident to eliminate the other party!"

"This ......"

"The saint agreed to Xu Fan's suggestion and gave the prince a lot of vanity, but the height is unbearable, and there is more than one son of the saint!"

"But where are those wastes the prince's opponents?"

"If there are more dogs, they can bite a lion to death!"

"Yes...... Why?"

"Because he is the emperor! He is the true dragon emperor! The dragon is the most unpredictable! The saint has been an emperor for decades, and he has long learned the majesty of the dragon. No matter who you are, you must bear the price!" Li Linfu said eloquently: "On the one hand, the Holy Lord wants to punish the prince in order to recover the majesty of the offended, and on the other hand, it is also the last and most cruel test for the prince!"

"If he survives, he will still be the prince, and he will also be the future Ninety-Five, and if he dies, he will be nothing!"

"This ......" Qian Yi's face was full of puzzlement, and he shook his head with a wry smile: "I still can't understand!"

"Hehe, this is normal! After all, you are not the emperor!" Li Linfu quipped, and said: "When the young eagles leave the nest for the first time, the eagles will use their wings to push them off the cliff one by one, and only the living ones can be regarded as its children!"

"The saint has always been like this! Since the establishment of the crown prince back then, the open and secret battles between the princes have not stopped, but what the saint did not expect is that the prince's skills are too profound! Not only did he defeat the rest of the princes, but even he himself was confused!"

"That Xiangye supported King Shou at the beginning......" Qian Yi looked at Li Linfu and was dumbfounded.

Li Linfu laughed and said: "I also looked away! First, I had to obey the will of the saint at that time, otherwise I could only die at the hands of Niu Xianke, and secondly, I also wanted to find a tough backer." ”

"No wonder...... No wonder Xiangye doesn't pay attention to King Shou anymore!" Qian Yi suddenly realized.

"The whetstone must have the consciousness of the whetstone!" Li Linfu said solemnly: "If even the knife is given up by the master, what good will happen if you put together a whetstone?"

"This is also the whetstone of Xiangye now!" Qian Yi smiled and slapped a sycophant: "If you use Xiangye as a whetstone, even the prince can't bear it!"

Li Linfu smiled slightly, and then said: "Sharpening the crown prince is to choose a suitable heir is one thing, and the stability of the court is another thing! Our saint is the one who stepped onto the throne in the sea of corpses and blood, although he is a little less heroic than those founding kings who crisscross the battlefield, but he is more proficient in these treacherous schemes. ”

"The current crown prince has reached the last moment! Whether he is dead or alive, the saint wants a result!"

"Then if the crown prince can't bear to die, won't all these years of hard work be in vain!" Qian Yi still couldn't understand the emperor's thinking.

"In the eyes of the saint, there is only success or failure, and the process is not important!" Li Linfu said: "If the crown prince can survive until the saint dies, then the throne will naturally be his, if he is killed by his brothers before this, then the victorious prince will accept the test of the rest of the princes until the saint dies." ”

"This ......"

"You don't need to be surprised! As you just said, what kind of experience will have what kind of performance, this is how the saint came back then, so the saint firmly believes that even if the emperor who comes out of such an environment can't become a maven, at least he can hold the Li family's country and make the disaster of Wu Zhou not repeat!"

“……”

Qian Yi was speechless for a long time, and everyone in the world said that Xiangye was the best at figuring out the thoughts of the saints, but they didn't want Xiangye's understanding of the saints to be so far.

"That's why Xu Fan's precious apprentice will be trapped in a restaurant on Suzaku Street now and can't get out!" Xu Fan remembered the letter that Wan Jia sent him, and suddenly laughed.