When I arrived at the main hall of the palace, I realized that I was a step late, and Wu Minzhi's servants were already waiting outside the hall. This time, they no longer had any humble words, and they all stood quietly to one side, their bows and swords long gone, and the one at the head was still chatting with a few attendants waiting outside the temple gate.

Li Rui and I glanced at each other, we both knew that this matter was a little tricky so far, I involuntarily turned my head to look at Wei Huan, and Li Rui also glanced at Wei Huan, Wei Huan opened his mouth to me, and said softly the words "Tell the truth", Li Rui heard it, and said strangely: "If it is true, what if he quibbles that it is the etiquette of the Xianbei people?"

I said, "Brother listen to Ah Huan first." ”

Li Rui was a little dissatisfied, so I pulled his sleeve and said, "If my mother doesn't punish him, we will find someone to beat him again." Could it be that you and I can't fight a little Wu Minzhi?"

Li Rui said: "This is what you said, my mother will let this matter go lightly for a while, don't be angry with me." ”

I said, "Don't worry, I don't blame you." While speaking, he pulled Li Rui to the door and asked the doorkeeper to pass a word, and before a moment, he heard the mother inside raise her voice and say, "Come in." ”

The two of us are busy dressing up, slowly entering, although the name of the main hall is the palace, but it is completely different from the palace of the Jingshi, on one side of the inner side is a number of large houses combined into an inner hall, there is a circle of courtyards outside, outside the courtyard, and then we are waiting outside the main hall door.

Li Rui and I walked through the courtyard, but saw that there were twenty or thirty small ice sculpture lamps on both sides of the courtyard, one of these lamps was hollowed, and the hollow places were pasted with colored silk cut into various shapes, and many candles were placed in the colored silk, and the candles had not been lit at the moment, but when I saw the appearance of these lights, I knew that once the candles were lit, they would be colorful and brilliant.

Li Rui and I were both attracted by these lamps, and unconsciously stopped, and looked sideways, Gao Yanfu stood on the steps of the inner hall to greet us, and saw that we were interested, so he smiled and said: "This is the lantern presented by Zhou Guogong to His Majesty." ”

Li Rui's face turned cloudy, he turned his head away, just looked straight ahead, and stepped inside.

I saw his face, and then looked at Wu Minzhi, who came out of the inner hall and stood on the steps and smiled at us, I also knew who this Zhou Guogong was, and my heart sank, and I followed Li Rui into the inner hall, and found my mother sitting on the edge of the pool, wrapped in a coat, and with her hair scattered.

Mother seems to have just come out of the pool, wearing only a purple shirt, wrapped in a light yellow silk, when she saw us come in, she slowly got up from the edge of the pool, Wan'er had already held a pair of gold Xuanjiao, kneeling on the ground to serve her mother to wear - her mother called her to write a secretary, these trivial things did not need her, but since that day her mother asked her "Hanzi", she served her mother more rigorously and humblely, such as clothes, shoes, Soup and tea, unless there is something to do, otherwise do it yourself, and my mother is quite satisfied with her respect, and she has always used her to serve closely.

Wan'er waited for her mother to get dressed and walked towards us, Fang slowly got up and stepped aside, her waist was also bent when she stood, and her head was very low. At first I thought it was because she had hidden herself so well that we could hardly notice her, but then I found that she had a completely different aura from that of ordinary palace people, and that this made her closer to the queen, the prince, and the princess, than to the officials, slaves, and servants.

Li Rui and I both held back their stomachs when they came, and when they saw Wu Minzhi outside the door, they hesitated, and entered the hall for a long time, except for calling each of them "A-Niang", there was no other word.

When my mother saw us, she laughed, stretched out her hand, touched my head with one hand, pinched Li Rui's face with the other, and said, "Are you here for Minzhi's business?" He has already reported to me, saying that he saw his son in the hunting garden, but he didn't recognize it at first, and he didn't care about saluting, which made his son unhappy?"

Li Rui said: "Why don't you salute? His entourage flashed their knives in front of his son, and his son was alone, surrounded by so many of them with knives, how could this be a mere sentence of 'no salute' to be perfunctory?"

My mother touched my hand and stiffened, turned her head to look at me, I got out from under her hand, arched my hand, and said in a proper manner: "The first time I rode the flying dragon, I didn't know how fast it was, but it took me to the hunting garden alone, and when I was waiting for the king to ask them, I saw a group of people beating horses and passing by, and I didn't recognize it at first. Toshiyuki's cousin turned his head to recognize him. He's his own cousin, so of course he doesn't have to see outside, and he doesn't have to worry about this. His entourage was so hateful that they didn't salute me or say anything, and as soon as Toshiyuki's cousin spoke, they all drew their knives and surrounded me and Toshiyuki's cousin. Later, it was Rokuro who brought people here, so they put away their swords and got on their horses, and they didn't see Rokuro, so they rode away by themselves. Rokuro and I thought that this was where the Holy Driver was, these Hu people came and went at will, armed with knives and arrows, worried about Aya and A-Niang, and my cousin was so careless, it would not be good in case the imperial history was impeached, so I came to report it, and I didn't come to tell Minzhi's cousin about it. ”

I'm so stupid, isn't it much better to ask Yushi to come forward for such a thing than for the two of us to come to complain? It's just that if Yushi comes forward, this will become a state affair again, Wu Minzhi is his mother's nephew after all, and he inherited the door of Zhou Guogong, he was impeached, and his mother's face must not look good- Thinking of this, I suddenly understood why Wei Huan asked me not to come to the complaint, and asked me not to add fuel to the fire, my mother's mother's family only relied on Wu Min to support the door, Wu Minzhi was equal to my mother's mother's family, how could my mother dispose of him lightly?

Thinking about the joint, I hurriedly glanced at Li Rui, who was still there chattering along with my words and adding to my mother how rude Wu Minzhi was, Li Rui saw my eyes, but he didn't have that kind of change, he couldn't turn around, and he simply stopped talking halfway through the words. The mother listened to him expressionlessly, and suddenly saw him stop, raised her eyebrows and waited for a while, only to see Li Ruine say: "I also saw it from a distance, and my mother still asked my son." ”

The mother was displeased and said: "If you don't think about it, don't open your mouth, and in the middle of your mouth, you suddenly stop, and you don't have any success in your heart! You are also my son, and you have opened a mansion, is this what a prince should be!"

Li Rui didn't want his mother to be so stern all of a sudden, so he lowered his head in fright and said, "I... Minister... It's recklessness. ”

I hurriedly said: "Ah Niang, Liulang is indeed far away, he can't see it really, and when he heard me, he was anxious, so he lost his temper in front of his mother." Actually, my cousin didn't do anything, but I... Somehow, when I saw my cousin, I was a little scared, as if he was going to hurt me. "I just thought of one layer, and then think about it carefully, in fact, Wu Minzhi has not been dealt with by his mother, it can be seen that his mother's tolerance for him is also limited, and now that we have sued, we can only grasp his weakness and say, and this matter is very suitable for me.

My mother really didn't expect me to say such a thing, her face changed slightly, she stared at me and said slowly: "Minzhi is your cousin, you used to play with him when you were a child, what is there to be afraid of?"

I said: "I don't know why, when I saw him, I felt afraid, today he brought so many people, all with weapons, but I am alone, only an unedged short knife, about... I overreacted. ”

The mother was silent.

Li Rui seemed to guess something, suddenly turned his head to look at me, his right hand suddenly clenched, I quickly grabbed his hand and shook it, Li Rui lowered his head again, staring straight at the ground in front of him. None of us said anything.

After a long time, his mother said: "It's okay for Minzhi, his entourage is all Hu people, and he usually doesn't understand the rules, and he is not allowed to enter and leave the palace in the future." ”

My heart sank straight down, I always thought that my mother was the best person in this palace to treat me, but now it seems that there may not be a big difference between my mother and my father and Li Sheng. Although I have always told myself that she is only the mother of my body, not my real mother, I still feel a faint pain in my heart when it comes to the end.

Seeing my disappointment, my mother sighed and said, "Take the knife." ”

Wan'er soon came over, holding a short knife in both hands. The scabbard of this knife was dark and dull, and it looked extremely inconspicuous, but when the mother pulled it out, she saw a cold light flashing, the knife surface was bright, and the blade was as thin as a cicada's wings, it was really a good knife.

My mother handed the knife in my hand and said lightly: "In the future, I will allow you to bring a knife in front of the emperor." ”

I held the short knife in my hand, and I had mixed feelings in my heart.