In fact, at this time, it was close to the end of the year, and they were about to take annual leave, and every time the ministers of the court were a little absent-minded, at this time, as soon as the matter of the Zhang family came out, this civil official was like a cockfight, and he could quarrel for several hours with his sleeves in the court.

Jiang You has been in power for almost a year. The bureau understands a few points, at the beginning, the civil officials were powerful, and the royal family and the noble military generals could not be suppressed, and finally had to promote the eunuchs, which suppressed the arrogance of the civil officials.

It is said that the matter of the Zhang family was originally just a simple murder case, just because the Chen family is quite prestigious in the clear stream, and the Zhang family is also the pillar of the nobles.

Jiang You looked at the ministers below with widowhood in his eyes, and the civil official said that the tragedy of the Chen family girl was because of the Zhang family's tutoring problem, so not only did he severely punish the murderer Zhang Dongnian, but also cut the title of the Zhang family.

This murder case was turned upside down and said that it was really annoying, her scalp was numb when she listened, and she relied on Xue Yuan standing on the side to refresh herself, he was wearing a blue brocade dress today, and he looked at it like a jade, how could such a good person fall into her arms, the more she thought about it, the more happy she felt, staring at him and smiling slightly.

Xue Yuan was aware, tilted his head and glanced at her, he was still delicate in front of people, never too close to her, seeing her look over, the corners of his mouth curled, robbed her of the work of her personal attendant and added some tea to the teacup in front of her case.

The officials and nobles at the bottom were arguing fiercely, and when they saw the emperor sitting on the dragon chair with a foolish smile, they immediately raised their voices to let her decide, Jiang You opened his mouth and was about to speak, but he saw that the second master Zhang couldn't hold it back, and stood up and said: "The minister has a play!" ”

He knew that it was not appropriate for him to open his mouth about this matter, so he dragged a few familiar nobles with the affection of the Zhang family, and asked them to argue with the civil officials, and he thought of dragging this matter into a small one, but he didn't expect that the two sides had quarreled for a long time without a result, and he thought of his son's life, and he couldn't help but stand up.

Jiang You thought that this court turmoil was caused by his son, and he really didn't have a good impression of him, but he didn't want to show his thoughts in front of the civil officials, so he said lightly: "What's the matter with Zhang Aiqing?" ”

Second Master Zhang hurriedly bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, there are many doubts about Zhang Dongnian's murder case, and the minister thinks that it is not appropriate to close the case prematurely, and Zhang Dongnian killed by mistake, not intentionally, even if he wants to be sentenced, he should be sentenced to exile, and it is too heavy to pay for his life." He now just wants to do his best to save his son's life, which is reasonable and unreasonable.

Jiang You lightly tapped on the case with one hand and didn't make a sound, but his eyes swept down, those civil officials really lived up to expectations, and jumped out of the laws and regulations, Second Master Zhang was so excited that his face was flushed, but in terms of tongue, he couldn't compare to others anyway.

At this time, a clear voice suddenly interjected: "The minister thinks that Zhang Ergongzi is a student, and the Zhang family is a noble family, and he has repeatedly made military exploits on the battlefield, if it is a pity to let Zhang Ergongzi pay for his life because of this case, it is better to sentence Zhang Ergongzi to go to the border to serve in the army, so that he can overcome it with merit." ”

This method is fresh, Jiang You raised his eyes and took a look, and at a glance he found that Han Dayjin, who was standing in the crowd and wearing the prince's usual clothes, was now approaching the end of the year, and as usual, the prince and the prince of the county had to go to Beijing for a banquet, and he was even more looking for an opportunity to rely on it.

She didn't expect Han Tianjin to suddenly open her mouth to help the second room of the Zhang family, but the result of this matter has been decided, no matter how much she argues, it is unintentional, she tapped the case table with Zhenshanhe, and said lightly: "This matter has been handed over to the Criminal Department to deal with, you don't have to discuss it anymore, just wait for the results of the Criminal Department to come out." ”

Second Master Zhang's eyes were red in a hurry, and he knelt down as soon as his knees were weak, Jiang You sighed in his heart, he knew that he regretted it today, why didn't he teach his son to learn well in the first place? She pretended not to see it, and turned to the crowd: "Do you still have this music?" ”

Li Xiangzhong took a step forward: "The minister has his own music. Seeing Jiang You nodding, he spoke: "Your Majesty, the minister only received an urgent report from the south this morning, the south has encountered a rare heavy snow this year, and now there are signs of heavy snowfall, many people in the south have suffered, and I hope that the emperor can reduce taxes, and no matter how credible people go to the disaster relief, and curb it in time, so as to avoid a greater disaster." ”

This matter is not trivial, Jiang You first glanced at Xue Yuan, saw him bow his head slightly, and knew that the snow disaster should have been verified and corrected by him, so he said to Li Xiangzhong: "Yes." She thought for a moment and asked; Taifu thinks that it is appropriate to send someone to provide disaster relief? ”

Li Xiangzhong glanced at Zhenguo Gong, stepped forward and said: "The minister thinks that Zhen Guogong is sophisticated, and he also went to the south to serve at the beginning, and he knows the shape of the south best, and he is worthy of this important task. ”

It turned out that Xue Yuan was up and down these things, and then presented them to her after preparing a candidate, and now this situation is clearly for her to make her own decision, she frowned and weighed it in her heart, first, the Zhenguo Gong is loyal and reliable, and will never do anything to embezzle disaster relief money and food, and secondly, now that the Zhang family is on the cusp, it is better for their father and son to go out to avoid it.

Although she had an idea, she still subconsciously looked at Xue Yuan, and saw him nodding at her softly, so she said, "Just follow what Aiqing said." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she noticed that something was wrong under her, twisted her body uncomfortably, and coughed: "If you have nothing to do, you can go first." ”

This time the frame was also pinched, and the disaster was reported, there was really nothing to say, and the ministers bowed mercilessly and retreated, but the second master Zhang lost his soul, and staggered on the Jinshui Bridge alone, if it wasn't for a hand next to him, he almost fell headlong.

He looked in the direction where he stretched out his hand, and saw Han Dayjin smiling at him and said, "Even if you are sad in your heart, you shouldn't have the idea of committing suicide." ”

Second Master Zhang's lips trembled, his eyes stared blankly at the front, Han Rijin let go of his hand as soon as he helped him, and pretended to sigh casually: "The emperor really believes that the prince of the town is very tight, and even such a major matter as disaster relief is handed over to him to do, but I am afraid that the prince will make a great contribution this time." When he had finished speaking, he dusted off his robe and turned away.

These words sounded like an exclamation to others, and when they fell into the ears of Second Master Zhang, it was like a thunderbolt, his body trembled, and his hands were subconsciously clenched into fists

In the main hall, Jiang You's mood was not much better, she sat there uncomfortably stiff, and when everyone was gone, she said with a bitter face: "Palm print"

Xue Yuan stretched out his hand and pulled her up: "What's wrong with the emperor?" ”

Jiang You twisted his body to show him, and found that there was a small red mark on the back of the dragon robe, fortunately she didn't get it on the dragon chair this time, she drooped the corners of her mouth and said in annoyance: "I used the post early, I didn't expect this thing to be so indiscriminate, just move it a little, just " Her face was full of embarrassment: "It came out"

Her original small days were often unstable, but now she gradually has a regular schedule, and every time she arrives at that time, she brings the stickers in advance, but I didn't expect this time to be particularly much, so it overflowed with a slight movement. She looked at Xue Yuan's slightly speechless eyes, and couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to drill into, covered her face and explained, "I really didn't expect it to be like this. ”

Xue Yuan couldn't help but rub his forehead helplessly when he encountered this kind of embarrassing thing that would only be encountered in a woman's family, many things he thought he would never encounter in his life After meeting Jiang You, he was really a father and a mother, he stretched out his hand and hugged Jiang You horizontally: "The emperor will go back to the palace with his ministers first, anyway, it is not the first time." ”

He didn't say that it was okay, but as soon as he said that Jiang You thought of taking his first menstrual period as poisoning, he couldn't help but blushed and buried his head in his arms, Xue Yuan patted her back soothingly: "There is something else about the emperor that I don't know, what is there to be embarrassed." He chuckled: "I also know that the emperor has a cinnabar mole on his waist." ”

Jiang You raised his head suddenly, turned his face and kissed him a lot: "You are my person, you know what's so strange about this, do you dare to say it?" ”

Xue Yuan carried her back to the Qianqing Palace, changed her clothes first, ordered someone to cook ginger soup and black tea, raised his hand to stroke the saliva on his face, and glanced at her with a smile: "The emperor is always so popular in front of the ministers, and the ministers are really embarrassed, I just hope that the next time I can change the way to see red, so that the ministers can also have a hope." ”

Jiang You was changing clothes behind the screen, and when he heard this, he glanced at it and said curiously: "Can this thing be changed?" ”

Xue Yuan waited for her to come out, and whispered the word 'falling red' in her ear, Jiang You's face turned red in an instant, turned his head to glare at him, and said, "I won't tell you, you are shameless." ”

Although the relationship between the two has been decided, it is also a pleasure to occasionally tease a few words, and it is also a pleasure to see the little emperor blushing. Xue Yuan smiled and pinched her fingertips: "I just don't know when the emperor will be able to show mercy and let the ministers take a look at the emperor?" He didn't know what to think, and coughed lightly: "I have heard that married women have little sadness when they are young, maybe because they are broken, doesn't the emperor often say that he has a stomachache when he comes?" I might be able to help you. ”

What kind of help method Jiang You can figure out with his fingernails, and he can't help but tilt his head and say: "The palm print is thinking about how to coax me all day long." ”

At this time, the brown sugar ginger tea was boiled and served, Xue Yuan stirred it with a white jade soup spoon, and said casually: "The emperor's words are a little biased, the ministers are dedicated to the Lord, how can they coax you?" ”

Jiang You didn't like the taste of ginger, so he avoided it with a bitter face and said, "Can you not drink this?" Ginger is already spicy, sweet and greasy with brown sugar, and it has a strange taste, and I really can't drink it. ”

Xue Yuan said with a half-smile: "Naturally not, the emperor should shout that his stomach hurts again." He tilted his head: "Or does the emperor like me to feed you with my mouth?" ”

Jiang You snatched the bowl and took a sip, opened his mouth after drinking, and sighed: "It's hard to drink." ”

Xue Yuan touched her head with a smile: "The emperor is so good." ”

When she was a child, she always felt that her body was not clean, but it was not good to take a bath at this time, so she simply asked Xiangyin to wipe her whole body with a fine cotton silk, Xue Yuan personally threw a handkerchief with warm water to help her wipe her face and body, Jiang You was still a little awkward, so he only buried his head in the pillow, and said without words: "Do you know the palm print?" Recently, Sun Henian and Xiangyin seem to have gotten a lot better, and I see that the relationship between the two has shown signs of success. ”

Xue Yuan had never cared about the bad debts of eunuchs and palace maids, but now he could empathize, nodded and said, "Sun Henian told me about this, as long as they get married, I will approve it." He raised his lips: "Although Sun Henian is a real eunuch, he is also a position of Bingbi, and he is also quite powerful in Dongchang, Aunt Yin is really a discerning person who can pick people." ”

Jiang You didn't like the yin and yang weird tone when he said other people's affairs, and couldn't help poking him hard with his fingertips: "People are in love, it's not interesting for you to say this." ”

Xue Yuan cleaned the veil again, and through the warm fine cotton handkerchief, he could feel her smooth and soft skin, and he said absentmindedly while wiping it: "I only know that I have to be in love with the emperor, what does it have to do with me whether others are in love with me?" ”

Jiang You likes to listen to this, lying on the pillow and rejoicing, and after a while, he said: "The New Year is coming soon, the last New Year's banquet, one is the new funeral of the father, and the other is the queen mother came to stir up, so the operation is smaller than in previous years, this time I am afraid that the princes from all over the country will rush back to Beijing for the New Year's banquet, can you be busy?" ”

Xue Yuan pinched her ears gently: "What did You'er ask?" The return banquet is not organized by your husband, the left and right are those regulations, what is too busy. ”

Jiang You was caught and teased by him again, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows on the pillow, and hummed: "I am the emperor, you are the one who wants to pass through the door, why did you become a husband?" She said and changed the topic again: "I don't know if it's because I've grown up, I always feel that the New Year is not as fun as when I was a child, and I also have a state banquet for the abbot, and I am busy asking for people's lives." ”

Xue Yuan wiped it with a thin cotton towel for a while, then put it away with his hand, rubbed it carefully on his smooth back, and muttered thoughtfully: "The emperor's water is about to settle, and it must be almost the same after the New Year."

Jiang You didn't hear what he was talking about, and sighed and said, "In the past few days, the princes from all over the world have almost rushed back to Beijing, and I have to prepare for the reception." ”

She counted the days quite accurately, sure enough, these days have come back a lot of princes and royal relatives, except for those who are sick or have funerals at home are not suitable to come, the next few days have arrived one after another, the earliest to come is Jiang You's aunt Princess Cheng'an, she has rarely returned to the capital since she went to the south with the horse, the last time Xiaozong passed away, she came to the funeral to Jiang You is also lukewarm, this time it is a change of attitude last year, ordered someone to send several words to the palace to ask to see.

According to the usual practice, the affairs of the court can be solved as much as possible before the year, and it is okay not to delay until the year after tomorrow, so Jiang You has been busy recently, so he refused every time, but he didn't expect that she would bring someone over early on the morning of the state banquet, just to see Jiang You.

Jiang You sat on the top, glanced at the young man with a beautiful face behind her, held the tea cup and asked, "What's the matter with my aunt?" I sent a message to see me. ”

Princess Cheng'an hurriedly pulled her son up behind her, and ordered someone to present the local gifts from the south, and smiled at Jiang You and said: "What did the emperor say, I haven't seen the emperor for a long time, and I miss it very much. ”

Princess Cheng'an's biological mother is not high, but she is a left-right figure, so she is quite good to marry, she was really good to Jiang You when she was a child, but as soon as Xiaozong died, this favor disappeared, and now she probably has the intention of picking it up again.

Jiang You sighed when he heard this, but his expression was still faint: "What my aunt said is that I may not have seen my aunt for a long time." Where did my father and aunt go? Why didn't you come to catch up with me at that time? ”

Princess Cheng'an was determined, there was no embarrassment on her face, and she wiped the corners of her eyes with a silk and said: "At that time, the imperial brother Yan Jia, I was sad to patronize, and I didn't take care of the emperor, it's really damn." ”

As she spoke, she presented boxes of generous gifts, and there was a way to reach out and not hit the smiling person, Jiang You couldn't continue to sneer at her, and eased her expression and said: "My aunt has always been straightforward, why bother to do this, just say it if you have anything to say." ”

Princess Cheng'an took the hand of the silk and smiled at Jiang You: "Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just that my family Dalang is busy with the snow disaster in the south these days, and he can't go back to the capital to ask the emperor for a while, so I specially entered the palace on his behalf to accuse the emperor." She said as she carefully looked at Jiang You's expression.

Jiang You was stunned, this matter is really small enough, does she need to deliver words for several days in a row? She thought about it before she thought about it, Princess Cheng'an's eldest son served as the prefect in Jiangnan Province, and a few days ago someone impeached him for his ineffective work, Princess Cheng'an probably entered the palace to test Jiang You's attitude.

But her eldest son has always been diligent. Disaster victims. I can't blame her completely, Jiang You eased his expression and said: "It's just a trivial matter, He Aiqing has always been diligent in doing things, and this time it's another serious thing to do, I won't blame him for this, aunt relax." ”

Princess Cheng'an is also a smart person, and when she heard this, she also knew that this was still going to use her own son's meaning, so she quietly sighed in her heart, and suddenly her mind moved, and she pulled her youngest son forward and smiled at Jiang You: "I just patronized to talk to the emperor, and I forgot to introduce it, this is my child, who is now fifteen years old, and is about the same age as the emperor." ”

She covered her mouth with a silk and sighed with a smile: "I'm cheeky, my child and the emperor are still cousins, I have stayed in Jiangnan all these years, and I have never seen much of the world, and I have never seen the emperor once when I am so big." ”

Jiang You raised his eyes to look, and saw that the little boy's face was like a hibiscus and willow like an eyebrow, and his body was merry, and he looked more beautiful than a woman.

Princess Cheng'an couldn't get used to her son's appearance, so she pulled him and scolded: "What are you doing in a daze? Don't hurry up and say hello to the emperor! She smiled embarrassedly at Jiang You: "He is afraid of life, don't be surprised by the emperor." ”

Jiang You looked at him, as if he was more weak than Roufu, and couldn't help but rub the goosebumps on his arm under the table: "It's okay, what's the matter with my aunt?" ”

Princess Cheng'an has always been clever, but this time she didn't seem to hear her send-off, but implicitly praised her youngest son for being so good, and the poems and essays are good, and the little boy who praised him was flushed, "Although this kid is not as good as his eldest brother, he also knows some poetry, so it is better to let him write a poem for the emperor, and use it as a congratulatory gift for the New Year." ”

Jiang You couldn't see what she meant at this time, and hurriedly said: "That's not necessary, I still have something to do, aunt" She was about to let Princess Cheng'an step down, when she heard a report outside, 'The palm print is coming'.

Xue Yuan walked into the hall with his eyes silently circulating, and bowed to Jiang You: "The emperor should almost prepare." Then he nodded lightly at Princess Cheng'an: "Princess." ”

Princess Cheng'an just listened to it, but sighed that this Xue Changgong was really domineering, but it was the sick chicken-like little boy, his eyes suddenly showed a stunning look, his listless face seemed to glow, and his eyes were stuck to Xue Yuanfeng's bright face, looking lustful.

Xue Yuan, of course, saw this person's gaze, couldn't help frowning, and swept it over indifferently, but he didn't expect that the person shrank in shock, the light in his eyes became even hotter, and he raised his eyes to stare at him. coughed slowly, stepped forward and saluted Xue Yuan: "This is Xue Changgong, I've heard of it for a long time." ”

Xue Yuan glanced at him lightly, didn't answer, just said to Jiang You: "Has the emperor finished approving the excerpt?" If it's over, it's almost time to prepare for the state dinner in the evening. ”

The style of men and men in the south is prevalent, Princess Cheng'an of course knows her son's habits, but she doesn't feel anything, she just thinks that when he is happy to see the benefits of women in the future, she naturally won't put her mind on men, but she didn't expect him to be so bold, even this living king of Hades dares to worry about it, and she can't care about anything at the moment, so she pulled her son up and said: "Since the emperor has something, then the courtiers will retire first." ”

She reached out to pull her son away quickly, but she didn't expect the boy to glance at Xue Yuan obliquely, and smiled at him: "Then the minister will leave." Although the words were said to Jiang You, the people looked at Xue Yuan.

Jiang You realized that something was wrong, raised his hand and rubbed his arm, and bared his teeth: "Why are this person's eyes so crooked." After thinking about it, he was dissatisfied and said: "You are not a woman, he is a big man, why do you keep looking at you?" ”

Xue Yuan has been looked down upon by a woman for a long time, and it is the first time he has been looked at by a man like this, and he felt sick for a while, and after listening to Jiang You's question, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "The minister has always only known what the emperor thinks in his heart, and what does it have to do with what the people next to him think?" ”

Jiang You blushed a little, looked at the sky outside and changed the topic: "Now that there is snow outside, I am afraid that Zhen Guogong and Cousin Dongzheng are still on the way to transport grain and grass, and now they are only looking forward to the climate warming up." She took the initiative to take Xue Yuan's hand: "Let's go, I still have to preside over the state banquet." ”