With something in his heart, time passed faster, as if he had just drunk a few glasses of wine, guessed the thoughts of few people, and the banquet was over, Sima Yao waved his hand slightly drunk and dispersed the hundred officials, everyone got up to send off the emperor, and then dispersed.

Xie An led the children of the Xie family as if they had something to discuss, and Xie Yan allowed Wanzhang to leave after free activities. It was nearly the end of the year, the cold wind of winter, walking in the unsheltered place is always windy, Wanzhang saw that the Xie family was gone, he wanted to stay in the palace for a while, and finally came to a trip, how to be willing to leave this vast palace easily, it happened that Sima Daofu invited her to visit the inner garden, just because she was not familiar with life and met a princess who grew up in the palace, and there are many strange grasses in the royal inner garden, the vegetation is dense, and the north wind blows directly in the place next to it, although Ping Su and Sima Daofu have nothing to say, and happily agreed.

There are a lot of towering trees in Hualin Garden, most of them are evergreen, and they just block the cold wind in winter.

Wanzhang and Sima Daofu walked on the gravel path, followed by a few palace maids, the two said that they were traveling together, but they never said a few words from beginning to end, and the road was very quiet.

But once it is quiet, Wanzhang sometimes can't help but think about it, she walked behind Sima Daofu, looked at her slender and upright back, and was very beautiful and quiet under a few lights and shadows, so she started to stay, a good woman, a good princess, how could she not think about it, and fell into the hands of a man?

And just as she was following Sima Daofu all the way, sighing and shaking her head all the way, she accidentally looked up and saw Xie Yan coming from afar.

Could it be that Xie An's conversation with them ended so soon?

Thinking that it was time for him to return to the Prime Minister's Mansion, he was a little reluctant, but he saw that Xie Yan had come to Sima Daofu, bowed slightly, and then turned his head and suddenly asked her:

"Are you going back to the Prime Minister's Mansion now, or do you want to stay in the palace for a while?"

Wanzhang didn't know how to choose, but Sima Daofu had already made a choice for her, and said to Xie Yan one step ahead of her: "This palace still wants to keep Miss Wanzhang for a while, I hope the Lord will forgive me." ”

"Where's the princess?" Xie Yan bowed his head slightly to Sima Daofu, and then turned to Wanzhang, "That's right, I still have political affairs to discuss with my father and courtiers, and we will return to the house together later." ”

Wan Zhang's heart immediately chuckled, it turned out that it was not the end of the conversation, but that there was something important to discuss with the ministers. And it still has to be discussed for a long time, which seems to be a tricky matter.

If she didn't guess wrong, nine times out of ten it was related to the banquet of Fang Cai, and Wan Zhang also thought of this in her heart, and she couldn't wait to participate with Xie Yan, but unfortunately it was impossible, so she could only bite her lip and said slowly:

"Okay."

Not long after Xie Yan left, he and Sima Daofu walked a few more roads, and said a few unnecessary words, but Wanzhang's heart was already full of Xie Yan's relationship with the royal family because of Xie Yan's words just now, where was there still leisure to walk and chat. If the person around him at this moment is Xie Daoyun, he may be able to say a few long words to express his inner worries.

But it's Sima Daofu, how can she understand that she has never heard about the world in her life, and only asks for Wang Xianzhi, Wanzhang and her have nothing to say, and she is really panicked.

Fortunately, just before she was about to suffocate, two well-dressed palace maids suddenly came to Hualin Garden to invite them, saying that the emperor had not seen the eldest princess for a long time, and that she had invited her to go to the Shiqian Palace to talk about her family life.

Although he couldn't personally participate in the discussion between the Xie clan and the ministers, if he could follow Sima Daofu to get close to Sima Yao, find out what the young emperor really thought in his heart, and learn more about his views on the Xie clan, it might be much more useful than guessing behind closed doors.

Follow the two palace maids, walk out of Hualin Garden and then pass through the Xianyang Palace, the Xianyang Palace is the Jin Palace's back bed, the concubine lives, carved beams and painted buildings, Jiaolan burns incense, needless to say, there is a wing hall on both sides, three halls into a group of palaces, and they came to the emperor's bed style dry hall and the east and west three halls side by side.

The two palace maids led Wanzhang and Sima Daofu to the door of the Shiqian Palace, stood outside the door and reported, although the door was open, but they didn't dare to look inside, and after the report, they lowered their heads and stood on both sides of the door, and didn't say a word.

After a while, a eunuch's sharp voice came from inside: "Eldest princess, please come in!" ”

Sima Daofu was able to step into his brother's dormitory in this way, and when Wanzhang saw that Sima Daofu had entered, he learned from the two palace maids just now, bowed his head and said nothing, and slowly followed in.

In the hall, there was a half-human-high four-legged square tripod, burning a stick of incense as thick as a child's arm, and a eunuch holding a dusty hand stood by the tripod, bowed to Sima Daofu, and glanced at Wanzhang casually, and then led the two to the inner room.

After entering the inner room, the eunuch quietly stepped aside, and the two sisters and brothers spoke on their own.

Wanzhang followed Sima Daofu all the way, but he had been secretly observing the appearance of this style of dry hall, and after seeing Sima Yao, he secretly raised his eyes to look at him, although he had seen it at the banquet, but after all, it was a long distance away, and he couldn't see it really, and this time he was finally able to take a good look.

I saw the young emperor sitting on an ivory tusk covered with a bear hair mat, obviously his eyes were full of old-fashionedness, and he had just drunk a few more glasses of wine at the banquet, and at the moment he was lazily leaning on the silk brocade jade table, there was no light in his eyes, as if he was tired of seven or eight points, and beside him were two palace beauties, one plump and boneless, and the other was slender and light, and he was helping him pound very gently.

What a quiet and beautiful picture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Palace.

When the two beauties saw Sima Daofu coming, they hurriedly got up to meet them, and Sima Daofu also faintly met each other, and Wanzhang knew from Sima Daofu that these two were Chen Shuyuan and Zhang Guiren, but when she wanted to appreciate the beauty of the beauty again, Chen Shuyuan and Zhang Guiren got up and exited the inner room, leaving two wisps of beauty incense, which really made her reluctant.

Then he heard Sima Daofu's voice asking his brother for peace, and immediately came back to his senses and followed the salute, but her salute was not finished, and was interrupted by Sima Yao's word "free of courtesy", naturally, he said it to the eldest princess Sima Daofu, so as for himself, he still had to finish the salute before speaking.

After the ceremony, Sima Daofu had been invited by Sima Yao to sit opposite him at the table, and Wanzhang had to stand alone on the side.

However, the young emperor still noticed her, maybe it was just because she was not dressed as a palace maid in this palace, but a family member of a family, and it was too much of an eyesore to stand here inexplicably.

"This is ......"

Sima Yao raised his head and glanced at her, frowning slightly, as if he was thinking about something, for a long time, Fang suddenly remembered, and said with a smile: "Oh, it turned out to be Prime Minister Xie's quasi-daughter-in-law, the quasi-wife of Lord Shizhong...... Miss Wanzhang. ”

When Wanzhang heard Sima Yao say this, he only felt surprised and helpless for a while.

I was surprised because Sima Yao was drunk at the table at that time, and he was far away, not to mention that he had only said a few words, but he didn't expect him to remember himself so secretly, and he could only say that Prime Minister Xie's influence was really huge.

Helplessly, because he and Xie Yan were unexpectedly misunderstood, he hurriedly wanted to explain, but just about to speak, he suddenly thought that if he was wrong like this, maybe he would see himself as the Xie family, so he showed his heart, so it didn't hurt to contribute his reputation once. It's not the first time anyway.

So he lowered his head, and it was an ambiguous acquiescence.

"Girl, please take a seat."

Sima Yao stretched out his hand to her, and after thanking her, he sat down on the edge of the jade table, and saw him smiling and looking at Sima Daofu who was sitting opposite him, Sima Daofu also smiled at him gently, and said, "I have never seen the imperial sister so close to the female relatives of which family before. Then he looked at Wanzhang again, "The girl is not only favored by the lord in the waiting, but also favored by the imperial sister, it seems that she is really an extraordinary person." ”

Wan Zhang immediately showed some shyness, lowered his head no longer, and hurriedly replied: "Thanks to the wrong love between the lord and the eldest princess, Wan Zhang is really ashamed, how can he still be worthy of the emperor's words?" ”

Sima Yao only smiled at Sima Daofu, laughed a few more times by himself, didn't know what he meant, and asked her again after a while: "I don't know which girl Wanzhang is...... At the banquet, she claimed to be a people's daughter, but she didn't think she was the daughter of a minister in the court, but it was a family that didn't want to enter the court as an official? ”

"Not really." Wanzhang replied, "The life experience of the people's daughter is really humble, and saying it will only make the emperor boring." ”

"It's okay, I'd love to hear about it."

After thinking for a moment, Wan Zhang couldn't refuse, so he had to tell the story:

"The folk girl was originally an orphan girl, where she lived, who her parents were no longer remembering, since she can remember, she only knew that she was adopted by an old man in the mountains, let me recognize him as a master, and Pingsu also taught me some I Ching metaphysics. After 14 years in the mountains, Master told me to go down the mountain, and I traveled to many places and countries, and met many people and many things. ”

After speaking, even Sima Daofu couldn't help but speak: "Zhang'er, I've never heard you talk about this. ”

Wanzhang smiled apologetically: "It's just a mundane thing, how dare Princess Lao bother to hear it." ”

"A master in the mountains, living in seclusion ......"

Sima Yao muttered to himself, and after a while, a smile suddenly appeared.

"Jade out of Kungang, choose the master and do things, the Lord is so blessed." Wan Zhang just wanted to say something modest, but he heard him smile in his eyebrows, and said something like this in a while:

"It's just Miss Wanzhang, are you sure that Lord Shizhong...... Is that your master? ”

I felt that my heart was beating heavily, Sima Yao really couldn't hide it, and began to show his jealousy of the Xie family, he must pay attention to it and treat it with great care, otherwise not only will he not be able to help the Xie family, but also cause trouble for them, wouldn't it be his own sin.

Wan Er smiled, his eyes were as clear as a child who did not understand the world: "Wanzhang is just a woman, she only knows how to find a good person, and the adult in the service can be a good home, and she is the master of the people's daughter." But the man is ambitious in all directions, and he should focus on the monarch and the country, and the emperor is the lord of a country, and he is the master of all the courtiers. ”

"Then wouldn't it be better if the girl's lord and the lord of the courtiers were the same person?"

Sima Yao's tone was still half drunk, gentle and slow, but it was full of silent temptation.

The young monarch is not young and immature on the surface, but hidden and unfathomable.

"Your Majesty, what are you talking about?"

Wanzhang was anxious to think about countermeasures, and Sima Daofu on the side suddenly said, but probably misunderstood what his brother meant: "Lord Xie has a deep affection for Miss Wanzhang, don't joke anymore." ”

The eyeballs in the sockets quickly turned a few times, and Wanzhang immediately made a decision, and decided to seize the opportunity to go down, he didn't know what to say, Sima Daofu stirred it up, but it helped him a lot. Hurriedly knelt down and took a few steps back, bowed heavily, and said in a panic:

"The emperor laughs and tortures the people's daughters!"

For a long time, there was silence in the room, as if she could still hear the sound of the wind whistling outside the hall, and Wanzhang also slowly felt the coldness of her whole body, just when she almost broke out in a cold sweat, Fang heard a faint voice above her head, and sighed: "Alas, it's just a joke, it scared people like this, it's really boring, get up, when do you want to kneel?" ”

Sima Daofu immediately pulled her, and Wan Zhang dared to get up, but he didn't dare to look up at anyone again, but Sima Daofu really treated her well, and he didn't care about the two sisters and brothers, and wanted to take care of her emotions and retire first.

"There are still some things in this palace, and I am afraid that I can't stay for a long time."

"Well, go ahead." Sima Yao agreed, and waved his sleeves, "Come on, send the eldest princess." ”