Qiwen listened with her ears sideways, and didn't know what she remembered, so she got up and went out.

As soon as the emperor saw her disappear at the door, he immediately dodged out, and rushed to the door in three steps and two steps. A cool thing wiped the back of his hand and slipped to the ground, and it turned out to be the other embroidered sock.

I thought that I could justify myself by just a few steps away from this door, but unfortunately, as soon as I stepped out of the door, I almost collided with her. The thief girl didn't go far at all, it turned out to lure the snake out of the hole, and she deliberately went out to wait to see who slipped out.

The two of them blinked and looked at each other with four eyes, and now it seemed too late to knock her out again.

"You ......" The emperor had the intention to take precautions before she laughed, and just said a word with a straight eyebrow, but saw that she did not smile, but made a bitter face.

Qiwen saluted with a sad face: "The slave knows that she is wrong, and she is willing to be punished by her master." ”

Knowing what to do? The emperor suddenly understood that he was weak-hearted, and she was more weak than himself, so a pig's nest was discovered by him, could she not feel ashamed of her weak heart?

The emperor finally calmed down, and coldly threw two words at her: "That's it." ”

In fact, Qiwen was saying in her heart: Look at how witty I am!

She has always felt that her private cabin is messy, and even chaotic and warm and comfortable, how happy is she to be able to throw herself into the arms of the bed as soon as she returns to the house? But this is the harem, and it's too lawless to come here, I thought that even the master and brother wouldn't see it, and it would be fine, but I thought that he would see it today!

It seems that he threw a belly pocket on the side of the bed last time he spent the night, and I don't know if he saw it......

was checked by him, she was a little embarrassed, but she was far from really feeling so ashamed, and such a reaction was just to take care of his face.

The emperor's mood when he came to talk to her was in a big mess, and he didn't care whether her words were true or false, and he was going to leave if he bypassed her.

"Master," Qiwen called him, showing a little flattering smile, and her eyes curved into a beautiful arc, "Can you...... Reward the dignity of the slave and maid? ”

Originally, I heard that the Qing palace maids were popular to eat pots, but unfortunately they have not yet been contaminated with the atmosphere of ethnic minorities here, and they are not treated so well. Qiwen felt that as a palace maid who was "favored" today, and she was covered by the head of the king, there was nothing wrong with exercising a little privilege properly. It didn't take much effort for her to get the opportunity to add a small stove to the room and order the leftovers of dishes every night to cook a hot pot to eat.

It's just that I didn't expect that this privilege was enjoyed the next day, and I met the emperor's master to eat.

A beech stool served as a small table, and Qiwen put the prepared sesame oil and sesame sauce dish in front of him, and fished some cooked vegetables from the small casserole into a small white porcelain bowl, and handed it to him with chopsticks.

It turns out that it is just some cabbage, mushrooms, pig's blood, hairy tripe and other chowder vegetables boiled together, and it can be so fragrant. The emperor sat on a small pestle on a square stool, took the dishes and chopsticks, dipped some dipping sauce and tasted it.

"You made the dipping sauce yourself?"

"Well, I just left some leftover meat sauce from your lunch sauce. How are you eating? ”

“…… OK. ”

I just despised her clumsiness, it seems that I have wronged her, this taste is really good, much better than when I ate it fresh at noon.

"Have you ever eaten like this before?" Qiwen took a small porcelain jar and added some broth to the casserole, took another pair of chopsticks and stirred it slowly, and asked him with a smile.

"I've eaten, I often eat warm food in the harem when it's cold, and I used to eat pots when I was in Guanzhong, but I didn't eat it on the stove." The emperor's face was soft, and there was a smile in his eyes, but he actually wanted to add a nonsense sentence, "I haven't eaten with you."

Seeing that she was just standing and busy, he pointed to the opposite side of the square stool with chopsticks, "Just sit down and eat together, you don't have to be restrained." ”

Even if the concubine serves the meal, she needs to serve him to eat first, and as Qiwen, she shouldn't eat on an equal footing with him. But since he had spoken, he must have been impatient to listen to her excuses. Qiwen paused, took a compromise, spread a list on the ground opposite the square stool, placed a cushion, knelt on it, and took the dishes and chopsticks to eat some.

In order to avoid her restraint, the emperor did not wait for her to come to cloth vegetables, and went to eat the vegetables in the small casserole by himself, and he really had a great appetite. Except for the time when picking up vegetables, all eyes were cast on her.

Only then did it finally become clear that the pattern on her jacket was a twig lotus. She was still unavoidably restrained, but ate a little very slowly, but with a tired smile on her face, she was obviously very happy. The steam was so thick that her face was a little red...... I guess it's steam-baked.

The eyebrows are not painted from the eyebrows, the lips are not from the Zhu, it is really a very good posture, he has seen a lot of harem beauties since he was a child, and he can't help but secretly admire. It's just a little strange that she wears a black meniscus bun, and the hair hanging down her cheeks is tied by two pink and blue velvet threads of the same color as her jacket, and there is no other decoration, not even a pair of earrings.

"Why don't you have any jewelry?" The emperor asked, "The palace rules don't restrict palace ladies from wearing jewelry, do they?" ”

She seemed to be dreaming about herself and was suddenly awakened by him, and said in a daze: "There are no restrictions on the palace rules, but I am not allowed to bring in any items when I enter the palace, so I don't have any jewelry to wear except for the hairpin that comes with the clothes." ”

So it turned out, and the emperor was not without amazement: "I have wronged you." ”

She hurriedly laughed, "What did you say?" Now from the queen mother to all the palace women, which one can compare with my decent? Let's just talk about this meal, I've heard that it is a great face for the minister to keep you for a meal. My dignity is first-class, so what's the grievance of wearing a few pieces of jewelry? ”

In fact, according to the consensus in the palace, the food is more decent than the bed, she was worried about the stubble last time, and she didn't mention this half sentence.

"You're also someone who wants to please decency?" The emperor sneered slightly, "Apart from this bit of decency, you don't have anything else that you want me to reward you?" ”

He didn't like her flattery, although she was probably sincere, but it inevitably made him feel too detached. Why do you want to compare yourself to those women? She should have been more decent than those people, if it weren't for the bad situation now, he would have been eager to lift her up to the sky in one fell swoop, so that she could enjoy the same treatment as Yang Guifei.

Qiwen thought for a while, and smiled at him with eight teeth: "You always skip dinner on weekdays, so I will beg to be decent, and every day in the future dinner will be like this today, please come here to eat?" ”

The emperor was stunned when he heard this, this dignity is really not so easy to reward her, and she can still bring it once in a while, if it is like this every day, what do the palace people think? Queen Taishang is afraid that she will come to "persuade" him.

Qiwen covered her mouth and smiled: "You see, I'm not a low-spirited person, and I can't afford your connivance." ”

The emperor said: "It's not necessarily impossible, when there is no special arrangement in the future, I will set up a meal in the front hall, and I will call you to come over to give you a gift, and then you will retreat from outsiders and eat together." ”

She smiled and thanked her, like a child with candy, and rejoiced.

The emperor looked funny, and couldn't help but splash her with a scoop of cold water, and pointed chopsticks at her nose: "Look at you, how do you look like a filial girl?" ”

He had already wanted to inquire about it. raided her home, so that she couldn't even finish her father's funeral, he Yu Gong has a clear conscience, but Yu Cheng has always had a pimple in his heart, I want to hear what she thinks, whether there will be any resentment.

Qiwen's smile really stiffened immediately, and then unnaturally retracted, and said: "I know, my father was bereaved for the first time, and my brother and sister-in-law were convicted, and my virtue is too heartless. But...... Indeed, I did not grieve for my dead father, nor did I worry about my brother, and I should be ...... How is it good? ”

"Brother treats you badly, if you don't care about him, it's just fine. You don't even care about your father because he treats you badly too? The emperor looked at her and asked, without the slightest accusation or pressure, but calmly and naturally like a family and friend talking.

Qiwen put down her rice bowl and said with a little sadness: "I understand that there is no reason in the world that the six relatives do not recognize because they are treated slowly by their father. Now that you've asked, I'll tell you what's in my heart. My father really didn't treat me well, but I didn't care very much, and I don't blame him for his family being in danger, but what I can't tolerate is that he is unfaithful. ”

Her face straightened, and her tone was a little choked, "I don't dare to claim to be a righteous person, but for an unfaithful person, I think I have no filial piety to talk about." When you ordered the raid of his home, you also defined his guilt as 'dereliction of duty', but in fact I know that the loss of an important town in Liaodong, the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, and even the urgent threat of the military situation to the capital, these are all his responsibilities, and they are deliberate. As an important minister of the frontier, he committed this crime that will never be recovered, and I am ashamed of him. The country of the country, when the country comes first, the country is overturned, and the family is there? ”

She sighed, "The so-called righteous annihilation of relatives is limited to the father destroying the son, and there is no reason for the daughter to destroy the father." I don't have the ability or the opportunity to kill my relatives in righteousness, but I feel that it's okay to be a six-parent and don't recognize it. He put the country in danger and displaced so many people, and I really ...... I can't pretend to be sad. ”

Zhao Shunde is not her real father, and Qiwen has no feelings for him, but these words are not made up, and they can be regarded as heartfelt words.

As a modern person, she thinks it is understandable that Wu Sangui defected to the enemy for the sake of her family and lover, but if Wu Sangui was replaced by her father, she would still be deeply ashamed and would no longer maintain any foolishness and filial piety to such a father. In fact, his father lost the battle because he was greedy for money, and he was more shameful than Wu Sangui.

This does not have to rise to the level of loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, but is purely a matter of right and wrong. If Zhao Shunde was her father, she might be more entangled and painful than she is now, but she would not change this point of view, nor would she lie to the emperor.

But in this era, what kind of course has it been to advocate filial piety? It is lawful for a parent to commit a crime and for a child to conceal it for him. Not to mention parents and relatives, even clan relatives, it is not easy to be cold and slow.

Qiwen's theory of not recognizing six relatives can be described as deviant, even rebellious.

However, the emperor is not a pedantic person at all, and he never takes theoretical stereotypes seriously, so he naturally hopes that the families of those convicts will all have six relatives who do not recognize the righteousness and destroy their relatives.

He even heard that he had relatives: the six relatives didn't recognize it, why didn't he think that the six relatives didn't recognize it? Really speaking, the responsibility for the danger of the country, I'm afraid that his father is much greater than her father Zhao Shunde, right? And seeing that the family and the country have been ruined into this virtue, his father is still restraining him, and his brother is still waiting for the opportunity to dismantle the stage, if the internal and external troubles in front of him reach the point of being out of control, the family will be gone, the country will be gone, who can they get good?

At this time, he should not recognize his six relatives in public or private, and he should no longer set an example in the world of filial piety.

Suddenly, the emperor's heart moved, and the emperor raised his eyes - could it be that she wanted to hint to him that she shouldn't indulge Yuan Ying? The day before yesterday, Yuan Ying made up such a show, although the final result was that it was a good thing for the two of them to solve their suspicions and understand each other's hearts, but after all, the motive was not good, and it should be regarded as a deliberate rectification of him.

She didn't see him fight back, so she suspected that he was conniving at Yuan Ying and deliberately encouraging him to fight back, right? What's more, she is still thinking about intervening to "help". This good girl......

Qiwen lowered her head and bit down on a piece of cabbage.

The emperor didn't plan to pick up her stubble, so he took care of himself and fished out a thin piece of pork belly, and said indifferently: "You are right, but the dynasty has always ruled the world with filial piety. ”

After speaking for half a sentence, Qiwen couldn't tell what he meant, so she asked with a shy face: "So...... This? ”

"So," said the Emperor, taking another slice of pork belly and putting it in her bowl, "you should pretend to be in front of the king." ”

Qiwen was slightly disappointed, but she quickly smiled ten more teeth. The emperor pointed at her with chopsticks again and said, "Look at your virtue, you can't afford to be a virtuous concubine!" ”

Qiwen's face was hot, and she hurriedly lowered her head fiercely, concentrating on eating the royal pork belly, but said in her heart, then it would be good to be a concubine, the concubine's virtue is always good, or the concubine is good, the concubine is very gentle and graceful......

"I have some gossip to say to you, I don't know if I should tell it?" She asked suddenly.

The emperor lightly fished vegetables and ate vegetables: "In the future, when I speak, I will directly omit these nonsense." But if it's about Yuanying, there's no need to talk about it. ”

"That'...... By no means. She smiled awkwardly and said, "My sister-in-law and I have always been at odds, but because of the scarcity of people in the family, we often need to receive female guests together. At the beginning of this year, when I went back to the house for a banquet, I happened to hear several noble ladies chatting about jewelry around my sister-in-law, first everyone gathered around Mrs. Jing Wubo to praise her phoenix hairpin on the Nanzhu in good condition, and then a lady was not convinced, so she interjected and said that the Nanzhu was nothing at all, and she had a whole box of much better Nanzhu in her home, but it was inconvenient to take it out to show off.

Mrs. Jing Wubo was cut face, and immediately ridiculed each other, saying that no matter how good the beads were better than hers, it could only be the imperial offering, and there was no market, and the man of the lady's family belonged to the military department, and he couldn't touch the edge of the imperial offering, how could he get it? The lady didn't say a word, but I could clearly see that she had heard the words 'imperial offering' and her face began to change dramatically. Looking at what she meant, it is obvious that there are other hidden reasons that are inconvenient to say, and it is by no means a simple lack of words. ”

When the emperor first heard her talk about a woman's chat, he still wondered, if he hadn't listened to her, he would have been unable to listen to it, and when he heard the word "military department", he suddenly woke up, and the light in his eyes suddenly sharpened.

Qiwen picked the fire with fire chopsticks in her hand, lowered her eyes and continued: "I didn't care about making friends with a noble lady, and I didn't pay attention to what others called that lady, but now that I think back to her service dress, and then contact the attitude of the rest of the people to talk to her, I think that her status is not low, and she should be a lady of Shangshu." It is not uncommon for the Holy Lady to love his courtiers and take royal offerings, but the Nanzhu of Mrs. Jing Wubo can amaze those noble ladies who have seen the world, but it seems that the lady's family can get a whole box of better ones, which seems to be not so natural. Misappropriation of royal offerings, or sharing the spoils with the person who embezzled them, must be extremely serious crimes, right? I remember in April and May, it seemed that some adult had just been raided for this matter. ”

The emperor was speechless in surprise, he discussed with Qiu Yu and Fang Kui during the day to find evidence of the crime of Cui Zhen, the secretary of the military department, at most, she heard only a few words when she came to serve tea, but she was able to point out a strange path for him so quickly? This shrewdness of his mind made him a little frightened.

How could she have figured out these things? At most, the women of this year have learned some of the four books of women, and the queen's background is much higher than that of the daughter of the declining marquis, and she still knows almost nothing about state affairs.

On the north wall of the imperial study, there is a picture of the world's public opinion, Wang Zhi once told him, one day Qiwen once pointed to it and chatted about how many days it would take to march from the capital to Liaodong, and Wang Zhi was bluffed...... The emperor knew very well that when he showed the picture to the empress, the empress could not understand it at all.

However, she understands that pointing out a solution does not mean that she should put her beak in this matter.

Qiwen raised her eyes and saw him staring at her solemnly, she couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable, reluctantly pretending to be nothing, closing the door with chopsticks, and gently scraping the bottom of the pot with a soup spoon to prevent it from sticking.

"Did you know?" The emperor was silent for a long time before he said slowly, "You are called delusion, speech, court, and government. ”