At night, there were a group of guards guarding the emperor's bedroom, the doors and windows were closed tightly, and the candles and lamps in the house were placed in a leeward position, and the lights were bright and there was no haze. And Xiao Dazi stood vigilantly outside the tent, listening to the emperor's breathing.

The emperor has been asleep for a while, and they listened to what Su Xueyun said and lit the incense that cleared their hearts and calmed their minds, and at this time the emperor seemed to be sleeping peacefully, and Xiao Dazi also breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed a little. Who knew that just when Xiao Dazi was just relieved, the emperor suddenly screamed, as if something terrible had happened. Xiao Dazi was shocked, and hurriedly lifted the curtain to wake up the emperor, but the emperor's face turned blue, his face was full of fear, and he couldn't wake up no matter how he screamed, and his forehead was covered with sweat in a few breaths.

Xiao Dazi was anxious, thinking that Su Xueyun said that if he fell into a nightmare and didn't wake up, he could only slap the patient and wake him up, otherwise I was afraid that the patient would never wake up, he raised his hand and hesitated, how could he not attack the emperor. But seeing that the emperor was immersed in pain and couldn't wake up, he really couldn't think of any other way, and finally closed his eyes and slapped the emperor in the face!

"Ahh The emperor woke up suddenly, sat up and gasped for breath, with unconscious fear in his eyes, "There are ghosts!" There are ghosts who keep catching me, and I want to run but I can't run away, and I have my teeth knocked out......"

The emperor raised his hand to cover his face, and when he touched it, he "hissed", hurriedly let go, and completely sobered up, "It hurts!" What is wrong with me? ”

Xiao Dazi immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty, "The emperor forgives the sin, just now the emperor fell into a nightmare, and no matter how the slave screams, he can't wake you up, so he has to wake up the emperor according to Mrs. Zhu's method." The slave deserves death for offending the emperor, please punish the emperor! ”

The emperor was stunned, and then remembered that the method Su Xueyun said was to slap him, no wonder he was knocked out of his teeth in his dream, Xiao Dazi is a martial arts master, and his teeth are really merciful to Xiao Dazi's subordinates. He waved his hand in distraught, "Get up, you are not to blame for this." Little Dazi, do you think I'm getting worse today? Not only do I have a headache now, but I also have sore eyes, ears, and sore throat, and I feel like I'm going to bleed! Is it really because I have distracting thoughts? Today, I just glanced at Qiu Yue a few more times, and the nightmare is so terrifying, is it really a mental illness as Qiu Yue said? ”

Xiao Dazi hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, I'd rather believe it or not, the prescriptions prescribed by many doctors in the hospital before are useless, it's better to try it according to what Mrs. Zhu said, since she is called a miracle doctor, she must have something extraordinary." ”

The emperor nodded, and he didn't have any beautiful thoughts at this time, so he only said: "I feel like this, and I don't want to be pure-hearted and have few desires." You go to find out what suitable scriptures there are, find a few eminent monks to come and recite the scriptures to me, and tell the imperial dining room that until I recover from my illness, you are only allowed to cook fasting food, and everyone in the palace is ordered to eat fast and pray for me. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the slave will do it."

"Go, go." The emperor gently rubbed his hot face and lay down again, completely unthinking about any more women.

Early the next morning, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military all heard about the palace to eat fast and recite the Buddha, not only that, the emperor also invited several temples to preside over the abbot into the palace to recite the scriptures, the ministers discussed a lot, I don't know what new tricks the emperor played. The emperor still doesn't go to court, King Ning can be said to be proud, and he didn't even get angry when he found out that the treasure map was fake, he just wanted to take advantage of the emperor's illness to get the emperor's life, and seize this opportunity to desperately install his own people everywhere.

Hua Taishi was anxious and wanted to enter the palace to have a look, but he was no longer an official now, and the emperor didn't want to see him, so he couldn't enter at all. I wanted to consult with some ministers, but those ministers were afraid of getting into trouble and avoided him. Hua Taishi was angry, and his whole person was emaciated, but after listening to Su Xueyun's advice several times, he also figured it out in his heart, and he was no longer as stubborn as before, although he was angry, he had not hurt his body yet.

Hua Taishi wanted to find out the news through Hua Wenwu, but Hua Wenwu was just a genius of invention, not the material of being an official, everything he knew was told to him by Zhou Wenbin, so Hua Taishi can't actually do anything now. And through the results of Hua Taishi's search for those officials, Zhou Wenbin also observed which people were treacherous and which people were greedy for life and afraid of death, and he had a deeper understanding of the forces in the DPRK and China.

The DPRK and China are in chaos, but no one is in charge of the overall situation, and everyone is self-protecting and unwilling to come out easily. Zhou Wenbin secretly hindered the development of King Ning, while trying his best to expand his network, knowing that Su Xueyun told the emperor to be pure-hearted, he immediately came up with a way to fight King Ning, and entered the palace to show the emperor the account books and planning drawings of the construction of the leopard room, and said happily: "Your Majesty, please see, the construction of the leopard room will be completed in two months, and then there will be Yaochi wine, musicians and dancers, and different styles of beauties for the emperor to enjoy......

After listening to the scriptures for two days, the emperor had a splitting headache, and when he saw the drawings, he was not the slightest excited, but hurriedly threw them away and reprimanded: "Who told you to show me these things?" I have to be pure and have few desires, and I must not have any distracting thoughts, what do you mean by showing me this? ”

Zhou Wenbin said innocently: "Your Majesty, but now the silver in the treasury is used to build a leopard house, and there are no other major events, these must be reported to the emperor." Saying that, he said worriedly, "Yes, the emperor can't move any distractions now, so wouldn't the leopard room proposed by the prince hurt the emperor?" ”

As if he had found the culprit, the emperor slapped the table and said angrily: "King Ning! It's all he who makes these smoky miasma, and he hurts me! Xiao Dazi, the intention is to ask King Ning to go home like the Taishi! ”

Xiao Dazi hesitated: "This ...... Your Majesty, during the time you are not in court, the prince has been presiding over the overall situation. ”

The emperor rubbed his forehead irritably, and Zhou Wenbin said: "It's all Weichen's gaffe, which disturbs the emperor's rest, if the emperor has anything, Weichen is willing to serve the emperor." ”

The emperor's eyes lit up, and he said: "You can also help me, Zhou Wenbin, you and Zhu Zhishan are both talented people in Jiangnan, or Bangyan and Tanhua, I have read your test papers, and you have a lot of ideas about the government, so you can help me classify the folds, discuss the important ones with other ministers, and make your own decisions if the important ones are not important." ”

Zhou Wenbin was stunned, a little unable to believe that power was so easy to get, he said: "Your Majesty, the experience of the micro-ministers is still shallow, I am afraid it will be difficult to convince the public, and the important matters of the court and the central government should be decided by the emperor, and the micro-ministers ......"

The emperor waved his hand impatiently, "What are you talking about?" I have to do everything, what do you courtiers do? Remember, don't bother me if there is nothing important in the future, delay my illness, I want your head! ”

"Wechen obeyed. Then this leopard room ......" Zhou Wenbin deliberately picked up the drawings so that the emperor could see the arrogant and lascivious pictures on them.

The emperor hurriedly turned his head and said in disgust: "Stop work and stop work, everything will be talked about after I have recovered from my illness." ”

Zhou Wenbin felt that the time was almost up, so he said: "Your Majesty, there is one more thing, before Hua Wenwu invented cement and other things, which can be used for people's livelihood, but the silver from the treasury has been allocated to the leopard house, and now that the leopard house is suspended, can cement and other things be promoted?" This is also a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, and it can accumulate blessings for the emperor. ”

The emperor now attaches the most importance to the word "accumulated blessing", and immediately said: "According to what you said, anyway, the silver in the treasury is also placed, so take it to build roads, and you will be responsible for this matter." ”

"Wechen obeyed. That Weichen did not disturb the emperor's rest, and Weichen retired. Zhou Wenbin lowered his head, hooked the corners of his mouth slightly, and withdrew from the emperor's bedroom.

The emperor said that he would hand over the power to Zhou Wenbin and Chen Xiaosheng, but Zhou Wenbin was self-aware, and there were still several first-class and second-class officials in the court, and what he wanted to do must be discussed with these ministers, and it was impossible to do whatever he wanted. But with power, there are too many things that can be done, and it is several times more convenient to secretly install his own people than before, especially without King Ning in the court, and without the leopard room to cover King Ning's rebellion, he can accumulate strength for them to buy a lot of time.

When King Ning learned that he had been dismissed from his post and had become an idle prince, he was furious and immediately rushed into the palace to ask the emperor for an explanation, but the emperor was sitting among several monks listening to them chanting scriptures, how could he ignore him? Especially when he mentioned the leopard house, he was even more annoyed, pointing to his nose and scolding: "If you hadn't proposed to build a leopard house in heaven and earth, how could I have this strange disease?" You don't think about it, and you still insist on building a leopard house? You are really my good imperial uncle, do you want me to die? ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately knelt on the ground, not daring to say a word, and even King Ning closed his mouth. The emperor snorted coldly, ordered Xiao Dazi to drive King Ning out, and then continued to listen to a few monks chanting scriptures, as if listening to more scriptures could expel the distracting thoughts in his heart.

King Ning had a gloomy face, and was sent out of the palace in silence all the way, and he was unwilling to say another word. He was already in turmoil in his heart, and he didn't know whether the emperor's words came out casually or really suspected him, he built the leopard room just to make the emperor indulge in pleasure, ignore state affairs, and then take the opportunity to embezzle a huge amount of money, and use the leopard room to hide weapons, but now all this is suddenly out of control, so that he has a bad premonition inexplicably.

The betrayal of Zhu Zijian and Princess Ning made King Ning no longer trust anyone, and after returning to the palace, the first thing he did was to test the ministers who followed him, suspecting that someone had betrayed him, otherwise how could he find out his conspiracy with the emperor's brain? Several ministers were sensitive to King Ning's distrust, but they couldn't say anything, at this time King Ning had to obey the holy decree and think about it behind closed doors, and the officials of their Ning Wang family were also in danger, and finally realized how aggrieved those ministers were when the Taishi fell.

Su Xueyun and they also won the first battle and occupied a place in the imperial court, and the two of them got together in the evening to celebrate the "promotion" of Zhou Wenbin and Chen Xiaosheng. Because of Xiaolian's presence, they did not mention the rebellion, but only discussed the changes in the DPRK and China. Zhou Wenbin sighed with a wine glass: "I didn't expect the emperor to be even more ridiculous after he fell ill, and he actually gave power to the two of us newcomers who entered the court, I really don't know what he thinks." ”

Zhu Xiaolian smiled: "Don't get cheap and sell well, what does he think?" In short, you and your eldest brother have been promoted, and now you are the third grade, I really can't even think about it, speaking of which, is it possible for you to become a first-class member in the future? ”

Zhou Wenbin and Chen Xiaosheng glanced at each other, and said at the same time: "Ask you, you have to work hard." ”

After the two finished speaking, they shook their heads and smiled, and toasted with their wine glasses. Zhu Xiaolian muttered: "What, I'm serious with you, you guys are actually joking and ignore you." She turned to Su Xueyun and said, "Sister-in-law, when will Qiu Xiang come back?" Today, Pomegranate also went to the Treasure Pavilion to ask me, I heard that Hua Taishi dismissed many family members after he became an official, and returned Pomegranate's deed of sale to her, and now she plans to open a restaurant by herself. ”

Su Xueyun was a little surprised, "Pomegranate is going to open a restaurant?" When? Everyone is our own person, we should give a big gift and go to cheer her up together. ”

Zhu Xiaolian said: "She said that in three days, everything was ready, and we had nothing to help." When I told her, she said that she was too embarrassed to disturb us because she was busy, but it was a pity that Qiu Xiang was not there. ”

Su Xueyun then remembered that pomegranates have no sense of taste now, and many times she made things and asked Qiu Xiang to help her taste them. Su Xueyun originally planned to find a suitable opportunity to cure the pomegranate, but when these messy things happened, she forgot about it all of a sudden. The pomegranate's sense of taste is lost after being negatively distracted by a scumbag, which is actually a psychological factor, and can be restored as long as it is properly stimulated. But it's easier said than done, and if you are stimulated, you will have to be sad again, and the best way is to hypnosis to recall the past and repair the scar in your heart. But how could the pomegranate be willing to remember when it was so deeply injured?

Su Xueyun thought for a while and said, "I'll go see her tomorrow when I find time, Qiu Xiang is not here, I hope we can help a little." ”

At this time, a few bird calls sounded outside the window, Su Xueyun's expression moved, and she got up and said, "I'll go to the kitchen to serve soup, Xiaolian, you eat first." ”