Whether you believe it or not, some people still have to meet when their fate is not finished. Qi Caicai felt that this was fate, even if he tried his best to resist, there was a lot of involvement in the dark.

That is, less than two days after Jiang Yanshu said that Shuo Fang pacified the envoy, the saint decided on a new candidate, and it really fell on Shi Xizai as Jiang Yanshu said.

Shuofang County is a big county, and it is a fortress, the pacification envoy has a huge responsibility, and the successive appointments are all from the Qi family of Jiangmen who have made meritorious contributions to the founding of the country, and they are all people trusted by the emperor.

That is, today's saints can make a good general's behavior, so far Shuofang County has no Qi family that may occupy an area as the king, but also can not find a suitable family support to replace, after the Jiang family arranged the previous appeasement envoy secretly started, the emperor thought about it, and chose Shi Xizai, who is inextricably linked with the Qi family, not only to conform to the hearts of the people of Shuofang, but also to consider that Shi Xizai is helpless and can easily win over himself.

But since he was a suspicious person by nature, the emperor was uneasy about Shi Xizai, who had never been masked, for fear of raising a tiger again, and finally made himself suffer from the enemy on his back.

Raiding Yunshang Palace, the head of the Qianshou stood in front of the case, and the emperor's figure was unclear after the piles of twists and turns, and he said slowly in a deep voice: "You have been to the Qi family, you might as well talk about what you have seen." ”

"Your Majesty, the people in the northwest are fierce, and the Qi family is a martial heirloom, and it is a slave and maid who only feels that the family style of the upper and lower houses is not as strict as that of the big families in Beijing, but they are also happy. ”

The emperor wanted to hear the news about the new Shuo Fang to appease Shi Xizai, the adopted son of the Qi family, but she pretended to be confused and never said anything, the emperor did his own evil to give birth to this endgame, loyal and treacherous and stubborn, he deserved to be troubled, mentioning this Qi family's attack on the clouds seemed to see the prospects of the Xiao family, and it was inevitable that some injuries would be born.

The emperor had to ask again: "Then according to what you see, how about Xiao Langjun named Shi Xizai in Qi Mansion?"

"When the slave maid went, she was only ordered by the emperor to correct Miss Qi's court etiquette, but she didn't pay attention to anything else. ”

Raid Yun answered in a proper manner, and kept his face on the floor as always.

There was nothing abnormal in Guanzhi, the trace of doubt in his heart was slightly dispersed, but he didn't believe that Yun Yun would betray him, the emperor looked away, picked up the tea cup and covered his face with the mist of the mist, and then said: "Recently, I have been studying the art of alchemy with Yun Fu Dao Chang, and it is rare that the harem has not heard that someone has come to disturb my practice, but you are helping Concubine Yao?"

"Back to Your Majesty, Concubine Yao is well managed, and the slaves and maids will also fight, how to help. ”

"It's rare to hear you praise people, is there still a safe place in Xiyue Palace?" The emperor still had a headache Jiang Qianlan's commotion, but he stopped suddenly and was a little uncomfortable.

"Your Majesty, Concubine Niangniang and Jiang Zhaoyi of Xiyue Palace have been in harmony recently, and the two of them went to the garden together yesterday to listen to the song. Xi Yun replied respectfully, although he couldn't see the emperor's face clearly, but from the weak words, he could guess that the emperor's health was not as good as before.

It's just that the emperor doesn't know about it.

On the one hand, the emperor was disturbed by the 'ghost of the Empress Xiao' from time to time and was haggard, and the ethereal singing in the night became clearer and clearer, and the emperor wrote down one of the sentences: "I knew that I was ruthless after death, and I asked for the love before death." It has become a conjuring voice that haunts my heart every day, and I have no time to pay attention to the small changes in myself.

On the other hand, the emperor was convinced that Yun Fu Lao Dao, and taking those longevity prolonging pills on time every day did have a radiant effect, so he naturally did not doubt its effect, but moved directly into a new building for Yun Fu Lao Dao for fear of being asked for his life by Empress Xiao.

He also said that recently, Yun Fu was studying how to refine the essence of Ran Yiyu with the rain and dew at four o'clock, and the emperor was afraid that Yun Fu would destroy this rare material, except for the moment in the early dynasty, the time was basically consumed with Yun Fu in Yiqi Tower, and no outsiders were seen. Therefore, there are many fewer eyes and a lot less mouths to say, the few people who can really see the emperor every day have different thoughts, and they really don't mention what happened to the emperor's body and bones.

The emperor Xu was really dying, and he talked for a while and went around and back to the beginning, but he didn't remember it. Thinking about it, the emperor was still not worried that Shi Xizai was such a half-old boy taking on this big responsibility, and Xi Yun also knew that he was suspicious, so he only listened but did not show his attitude, and Shuo Fang appeased anyone as long as it had nothing to do with the Jiang family.

A ray of sunlight coming out of the Yiqi Building was hitting Xi Yun's face, dazzling tightly, and he hurriedly raised his sleeves to block it, and the imperial eunuch Lu Gonggong happened to step forward and stuffed a sachet into Xi Yun's hand, and said with a smile:

"Shang Gong can see Your Majesty, do you think?" The words were not finished, but they meant something, and then pointed to the sachet, and the same attack on the clouds was close, "There will be rain tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and the little one is afraid that the old disease of the Shang Palace will recur and he will be unable to sleep at night, so he specially took this soothing incense to honor you." ”

Xi Yun raised his eyes slightly, looked at Father-in-law Lu carefully, and then looked at the warm sun that was hanging high, and the corners of his lips tugged and said:

"When you see what Your Majesty looks like, I will see what it is, it's hot in the building, and I should think about finding a way to relieve the heat for Your Majesty before the summer solstice. But when will you also watch the sky, Gonggong Lu? This day will only get hotter and hotter. ”

Saying that, he looked at the purse in his hand, the palm-sized purse was not embroidered, and the fabric was not valuable, it was just an ordinary appearance.

"If you want to say that you can remember my pain in my legs on a rainy day, I still believe it, but I don't believe that you can think of grabbing these medicinal herbs with sachets, Mo prevaricated me with those beautiful words, say, which noble person gave the purse?"

"Ouch, ouch," Gonggong Lu scratched his ears and cheeks for a while, and hurriedly squeezed his eyebrows and smiled: "Shang Gong is hot-eyed, it is Xiao Luzi who is ugly, the purse is indeed what the nobleman asked me to bring to you, but Xiao Luzi's heart can be seen by the sun and the moon, if Xiao Luzi can also mix spices, how can he still make Shang Gong suffer the sins of so many years." ”

Seeing that Xi Yun smiled, Gonggong Lu continued with his words: "It's not because Your Majesty locks himself in this building every day, and even the music folds are moved from the Qinzheng Palace to read this batch, and all the palace ladies are watching it, even the new favorite Concubine Li Niangniang is in a hurry, and it took me a while before I agreed to pass on her mind." ”

How did you get involved with Concubine Li?

Regardless of how Gonggong Lu turned Concubine Li's mind into his own, Xi Yun suppressed his doubts and smiled slightly: "Your Majesty still has you to wait for you closely, I should go to Concubine Li's palace to thank you after receiving the gift, you can go in quickly." ”

After that, he followed his steps to the Ganquan Palace where Concubine Li lived, and faintly guessed.

Under the bright sun, Qi Caicai was gritting his teeth angrily in Wang Debao's rented house in the west of the city, the closed doors and windows blocked the light, and in the dim environment, Wang Debao was already drunk, leaning crookedly and falling to the ground.

"Get up!" Qi Caicai raised his foot and kicked Wang Debao's leg and scolded: "Make it look like you're half dead, get up!"

Wang Debao on the ground was like a puddle of mud, humming twice and turning over to sleep.

Qi Caicai couldn't bear his temper anymore, and lifted Wang Debao's collar from the ground and shouted: "You are so drunk that you know how many things have been delayed?

Seeing that Wang Debao was silent, Qi Caicai suddenly became angry, and wanted to open his mouth to reprimand a few more words, but he remembered what he heard from Huawu a few days ago.

Wang Debao actually has a woman in Beijing that he admires a lot, the two were neighbors when they were children, and they are also two little guesses, childhood sweethearts. Only this woman came to the county capital with her father's official position, Wang Debao was never seen again, but the two exchanged letters in private, for many years, the woman was also an infatuation, so Wang Debao was identified, and his father begged for a period of three years, in order to wait for Wang Debao to participate in Qiuwei to get a rank so that he could marry himself.

Wang Debao, who participated in the imperial examination this time, was full of ambition to embrace the beauty, and did not want to lose his name to Sun Shan, and waited for these days without even sending a send, and it was impossible for the woman to wait for another three years, so the marriage between the two was also considered to be at the end of the road.

To say that although the woman's family is not a famous family, but her father is also a Beijing official, Wanling Prefecture, Jingyang County, the only son of Wang Debao's family background has long been out of his own eyes, and he was also conniving at his daughter on the friendship of good neighbors, since the three-year period has passed, his father is looking for relatives.

When he first heard about this, Qi Caicai naturally laughed, he didn't take it seriously at all, as soon as the news came out of Huawu's mouth, it was not very credible, eighty percent of it was Huawu's morning market when he broke the rights and wrongs with the three aunts and six mothers-in-law;

But in just three or four days, Wang Debao, who had been heartless and continued to play after falling off the list, was depressed, and Qi Caicai couldn't help but guess that he had a connection with the woman.

"Hey, get up for the master, you sent it down, don't you want to hear it?" Wang Debao still stared at a pair of dead fish eyes and did not react, but the fingers holding the wine jug moved, Qi Caicai saw this and snatched the wine jug, and sneered: "In the past, everyone else was good at having fun, when you didn't care about children's love, who would you show if you did this today?"

Two lines of tears slipped from Wang Debao's eyes, and he muttered to himself: "The dream of wealth and nobility is a spring dream, and the fame is a floating cloud." The flesh and blood in front of him are not right, and love turns into hatred. ”