Zuo Qiyang was hung in the imperial study, and one stop was a day.

I didn't see the emperor, and no little eunuch delivered the news.

So he didn't dare to move, so he could only stand upright by the bookcase near the window.

Outsiders only think that he has a strange temperament, and he has good work under his feet, and he has stood there for nearly ten hours, his back is straight, and he has never moved.

But the pain during this period is only known to Zuo Qiyang himself.

Not to mention the pain in his lower back, and his legs had already lost sensation, he reluctantly switched the center of gravity of his body on his left and right feet, taking turns to rest his legs, so that he did not fall down because of the stiffness of his lower body.

It may be shocking to say that the little eunuch on duty at night, but the more painful Zuo Qiyang's body is at this time, the more relaxed his heart is, and the longer he waits, the more he feels that things are not completely irreparable.

Emperor Yan now left him alone here and ignored him, just to punish him.

Thinking of this, Zuo Qiyang couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart: This way of punishment is really quite naïve, like a gambling child.

But he has been following Xiyou, the emperor, for five years, and he thinks his temper is quite clear.

He was willing to punish him physically, which showed that he still had hope in this imperial guard.

Maybe the emperor is just angry that he can't hide something from him? Waiting for him to take the initiative to give in to him? Just like the emperor has always been unaccustomed to seeing himself and the Empress Dowager being too close, knowing everything about the Empress Dowager, but having reservations about himself? No matter what the reason is, the emperor noticed some clues, but this time obviously he decided not to turn a blind eye anymore, he wanted to give Zuo Qiyang some powerful looks, so that he could know who was his master?

After figuring this out, Zuo Qiyang's heart knot, which had been accumulated in his chest for many days, was untied, and the feeling of being overwhelmed by the unknown and uncertainty all along, finally dissipated.

As long as the emperor does not completely turn his face with himself and sweep him out of the house, then there is still room for redemption.

He just had to figure out how to deal with it.

Zuo Qiyang summed up in his heart, and before he knew it, the sky had brightened up again.

A little eunuch announced outside the door, "The emperor has arrived."

Zuo Qiyang's body was shocked, and he was about to kneel down with his knees bent, but unexpectedly, after standing upright for a day and a night, his knees were stiff like two heavy stones tied to his legs, and he didn't obey the call at all. Rao is a person like Zuo Qiyang, who has excellent kung fu on his face, is also a little unbearable, and the legs that originally wanted to bend forward ended up just shaking a little weirdly twice and then fell forward, and he fell down with his whole person.

When Emperor Yan led people into him slowly, he saw Zuo Qiyang lying on the ground, looking extremely embarrassed.

Emperor Yan glanced at Zuo Qiyang, raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes were full of disdain, he snorted coldly, and shook his head with his hands behind his back and walked forward.

Seeing the emperor walking away, Zuo Qiyang stood up again in a panic, and he didn't care that his legs were still numb and sore, so he limped to the emperor's collapse and knelt down again.

This trick "bitter meat trick" is obviously extremely useful here for the emperor, although he still looks lukewarm to Zuo Qiyang, but there is no cold light in his eyes, at this moment he lowered his eyes slightly, pointed to Zuo Qiyang's legs and said slowly: "Does it hurt?" ”

"It doesn't hurt!"

Zuo Qiyang almost subconsciously replied to this sentence, bowed respectfully to Emperor Yan, buried his head deep in his chest, his back straight, and didn't dare to say a word more.

Seeing that he was neither humble nor arrogant, and that he could not use his punishment to gain sympathy, the anger that had been suppressed for a long time in his heart dissipated a lot, his face eased a lot, and he waved his hand at Zuo Qiyang and said, "You get up and speak." ”

Zuo Qiyang did not move like a mountain and said: "The minister does not dare." ”

The emperor didn't insist, he knelt down, paused, and asked, "Do you know why I came to you?" ”

Zuo Qiyang pondered for a while, and finally replied: "The minister is stupid, and he will make it clear to His Majesty." ”

He pondered hard the night before, but never came up with a suitable opportunity to speak, and he just felt that the emperor had deliberately distanced himself from him in recent days, and his attitude was not as good as before, so he quietly asked people to find out what happened to the emperor recently.

Dongyuan has been eyeing Xiyou all these years, although the border issue has eased a lot because of Zhu Yubao's incident, the threat has always been there, but it has been forcibly suppressed. Therefore, in fact, the southeast border is almost the entire western part of the country, and the importance of the western border at the junction of the east and west to keep its own territory can be seen.

But Emperor Yan didn't care about defending the integrity of the country's territory, and he didn't hesitate to take time out of the border defense to transfer people to Xijing, which was obviously afraid of something. And he even had to hide it from his imperial grandmother, which shows that this matter must not be such a simple crisis as a foreign enemy to commit such a simple sentence or two.

Thinking of the sudden and almost subversive change in the emperor's attitude towards himself, Zuo Qiyang had to think that the clue that he had hidden from everyone before might have been exposed.

But this is just his unilateral speculation, is Emperor Yan angry with him because of that incident, or is all this just his cup of the bow and snake shadow? If this was not his concern, then how much did Emperor Yan know? What is his attitude towards this, and what is the bottom line?

There are too many unknowns and too many uncertainties, so Zuo Qiyang can't take this move first, so he can only pretend to be confused and throw the first move to the emperor.

Sure enough, when Emperor Yan heard this, he looked at Zuo Qiyang again, his eyes were filled with anger again, his chest rose and fell violently, he couldn't speak for a long time, and finally pointed at Zuo Qiyang with a trembling hand, cursed, and then grabbed the green jade inkstone next to him and smashed it on Zuo Qiyang.

This is not the first time Zuo Qiyang has been used as a punching bag by Emperor Yan like this, but it is the most reassuring time for him.

The inkstone hit him the shoulder, and a dull pain spread throughout his body, but he did not frown, and knelt straight again, bowing his head to maintain the posture of confession before.

Emperor Yan was shocked when he saw that he could still deal with it calmly when the matter came to an end, knowing that it was impossible for him to admit his mistakes by scolding or even punishing, let alone making him confess easily, so angry that his lips turned white, and he squinted at him and said, "Good, good, good!" Good for you, Zuo Qiyang! You won't say it, will you? If you don't say it, I'll say it for you! (To be continued.) )