Seeing that it was already spring, Ning Xi found the proprietress of Jingzhong Ling Embroidery Village and planned to choose a few good-looking tricks to add a few new clothes to the ladies in the house.

The proprietress of this rhombic embroidery village is called Yun Niang, she did not remarry after losing her husband in her early years, but set up a female household, opened a family embroidery village, although her embroidery is not the best, but Yun Niang's pattern is both novel and good-looking, so although the rich and noble people in Beijing raise embroidery girls at home, they still love to go to her shop to make clothes.

Yun Niang is a talkative woman, Xu has seen a lot of nobles, and she is not restrained when she sees Ning Xi, and while measuring Ning Xi, she talked about interesting anecdotes in Beijing.

Ning Xi was also happy to hear it, and after she finished measuring it, she said with a smile: "After a while, I will ask Erui to send it to you." ”

When Yun Niang heard this, she shook her head: "I'll let the shopkeeper in the store come to the house to pick it up, the capital has not been peaceful recently, and it's better for Miss Erui to go out less." ”

Hearing this, Ning Xi smiled, she had been staying in the mansion recently, but she didn't know that something had happened in the capital again: "What's going on again?" ”

Yun Niang saw that Ning Xi didn't know, so she became interested, and said energetically: "In the past two days, there have been a lot of refugees in Beijing, all of them in rags, with yellow faces and thin muscles. ”

Ning Xi frowned, I haven't heard of any disasters recently, where are the refugees?

Seeing Ning Xi's puzzled face, Yun Niang leaned closer to her ear and said in a low voice: "I heard that these refugees came from the north, and there was chaos over there, but they were concealed by local officials. ”

Ning Xi's heart sank, and the court was afraid that he would have to set off a storm again.

As Ning Xi expected, the atmosphere in the imperial study at this moment was quiet and terrifying, and the emperor looked at the kneeling officials with a cold face, but there was a monstrous anger in his eyes.

"Smack." It was the sound of the pen breaking, and the kneeling official's body couldn't help but shrink, still not daring to speak, for fear that he would become a victim of the emperor's wrath.

"Okay, very good, all of you are very good." The emperor, who had been silent for a long time, finally made a sound, but the officials did not relax for half a minute, but their hearts were raised to their throats.

The emperor sneered and looked at this group of courtiers who can usually fight for a little thing in the court, but now they don't even dare to come out: "One by one, they collude with each other and form parties for personal gain, in your eyes, am I just blind and deaf." Speaking of this, the emperor laughed self-deprecatingly, "I am indeed a blind and deaf person, as long as you don't play, I really can't know anything, whether this world is my world or your world!" ”

"The ministers don't dare."

"Don't dare, I think you dare!"

The emperor took a deep breath: "General envoy, what do you say." ”

The named general political envoy trembled and said: "Emperor Qiqi, the minister really didn't know about this before, and Jiangbei has never received such a setback. ”

"Did you not receive it, or did you press it down without permission." The emperor's tone instantly became stern.

Hearing this, the envoy slammed his head to the ground: "How dare the minister suppress such a serious matter, even if the minister is confused, he will never dare to hide such a strict matter from His Majesty!" ”

The emperor squinted his eyes and swept everyone on the ground, and turned the wrench in his hand: "Even if this matter really has nothing to do with you, you can hide how many bribes you have received and how many things you have hidden from me, don't think that I don't know, none of you people are clean." ”

"The minister is guilty." Everyone shouted in unison.

The corners of the emperor's mouth raised: "You are naturally guilty, don't even think about running away from any of the people here, but before talking about your sins, let's talk about how to deal with Jiangbei's affairs." ”

As soon as the emperor's words came out, the officials finally became active, and the governor of the political council took the brunt and said: "The minister thinks that troops should be sent to suppress the bandits immediately to shake the emperor's prestige." ”

The movement in the emperor's hand stopped: "Then any of you are willing to go?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the officials below began to vomit again, the affairs in Jiangbei were not formed overnight, and they could hide it from Beijing for so long, no one knew what the situation was, maybe the officials there had already colluded with the mountain bandits, and the wolf bèi was a traitor, this is not a good errand, naturally no one wants to go.

Seeing this, the corners of the emperor's mouth became even colder, and he lifted the folds on the table together, and shouted: "A bunch of waste, get out of here!" ”

When this group of officials retreated tremblingly, the emperor couldn't help but rub his forehead, this group of civil officials, who usually talk more energetically than anyone else, shrank back at the critical moment, and none of them did anything.

"Go and call the Marquis of Zhongyi and the King of Xian." The emperor said weakly, and before the palace people could withdraw, he turned his mouth and said, "Don't call King Xian, go and call King Zhou over." ”

Shu Heng went to the imperial study room in one step ahead of King Zhou, and when the emperor saw him, he sighed and asked, "Aiqing, what do you think of the affairs in Jiangbei." ”

Because of the experience in his previous life, Shu Heng naturally had a long history of the Jiangbei banditry, but the incident in the previous life happened more than a year later than now, and I don't know why it broke out in advance in this life.

"The minister thinks that this matter is very related, since Jiangbei dares to hide the banditry, I think most of the officials over there have already been in the same stream with the mountain bandits, it is difficult to gnaw this hard bone in Jiangbei, but no matter how difficult Jiangbei is, it must be thoroughly investigated."

The emperor raised his eyebrows, worthy of the person he valued, and he did not cower like others.

"Then when does Aiqing think it is better to send troops to Jiangbei?"

Shu Heng said with a firm expression: "The sooner the better." ”

"Good. is worthy of being a man of the Shu family. The emperor laughed for the first time today, "I ordered you to lead 500 soldiers to Jiangbei to suppress bandits, and set off tomorrow, with King Zhou as the supervisor." ”

Shu Heng's eyes flashed when he heard the candidate for the prison army, I don't know what the emperor meant, the emperor has always valued the virtuous king, and such important matters are generally handed over to the virtuous king, but now he handed over the position of the supervising army to the king of Zhou, is he afraid that the virtuous king will fold in Jiangbei? How is it possible, this is not the style of this emperor.

As soon as King Zhou came in, he heard that the emperor wanted him to be a prisoner, and he made a bitter face at the moment, and said dissatisfiedly: "The picture of the ladies of the sons and daughters has not been painted yet." ”

The emperor glanced at him: "Evil obstacles, until now, you are still playful all day long, this time you go to Jiangbei, if you drag the Marquis of Zhongyi back, I will burn all those precious paintings in your study." ”

As soon as he heard that the emperor was going to burn his paintings, King Zhou immediately became stern and said again and again that he would be a conscientious supervisor.

After Shu Heng and the two left, the emperor leaned lightly on the chair, for the son of King Zhou, his feelings were contradictory, King Zhou was his first son, or the life he admired when he was young, he naturally had expectations for King Zhou, but King Zhou's uncle stood on the opposite side of him in the battle for succession, so he didn't want to see King Zhou, and he deliberately indulged in King Zhou's growth, but seeing that King Zhou's heart deviated from the right track, he felt a little guilty and wanted to move King Zhou's heart back to the right path.

"Don't say I didn't give you a chance, don't let me down." Finally, the emperor muttered softly.

When Shu Heng returned to the Zhongyi Marquis's Mansion, Ning Xi knew that Shu Heng was going to Jiangbei the next day, and immediately asked Shu Qing to pack Shu Heng's clothes, but Ning Xi's simple approach made Shu Heng feel a little frustrated, and sure enough, Ning Xi still didn't pay enough attention to him in his heart, and other wives should not cry about their reluctance in this situation, how could they command the maid to pack his luggage as calmly as Ning Xi.

In fact, Ning Xi's mood is not as calm as she seems to be now, she doesn't know about the affairs of the court, but she also understands that the affairs of Jiangbei are definitely not simple, but the emperor has issued an order, Chrysostom Yuyan, how can there be room for repentance, she can only remind herself at the moment to calm down, and prepare more necessities such as medicine and clothes for Shu Heng in case of emergency.

Ning Xi turned her head and saw that Shu Heng was still standing in place looking at her, she was even more panicked, and changed the subject: "You're leaving tomorrow, aren't you going to talk to your mother?" ”

Shu Heng sighed, and walked to Shu's mother's courtyard depressed, and the guess in his heart was even more firm, Ning Xi really didn't give up on him at all.

After Shu Heng and Shu Mu talked about this, Shu Mu just glanced at him lightly, and did not tell him to pay attention to safety and be careful all the way, but just said sternly: "Remember, you are already a person who has married a wife, think about how you still have a wife at home waiting for you to return before doing things." ”

Shu Heng nodded and returned to the Evergreen Hall.

When he came back, there were no maids in the house, Shu Heng glanced at the package on the table, his eyes darkened, this was also cleaned up quickly enough, and those who didn't know thought that Ning Xi wanted him to leave.

"Cleaned up so quickly." Shu Heng said lightly.

"Yes." Ning Xi nodded.

Then, neither of them spoke, the room was very quiet, and I don't know how long it took, Ning Xi suddenly said, "Shu Heng, I'll wait for you to come back." ”

Hearing this, Shu Heng looked at Ning Xi suddenly, only to see Ning Xi looking at him with a soft face, and in an instant, Shu Heng also laughed.