Chapter 219 starts with the "big fish".

"National Teacher, as far as you can see, if I want to take power back into my hands, what do I need to do, and how long will it take?" Qingyuan pressed the notebook in his hand on the imperial case with a "snap".

Do these people really think he's so easy to fool? At this time, it was already winter, and all the taxes and fees due for the year had been collected into the treasury, but the official books were still shouting that the treasury was empty.

"What did the emperor see?"

Liu Rumo did not answer Qingyuan's question directly, but Shi Shiran stood up and walked to the imperial case, stretched out his hand, Qingyuan understood, and picked up the notebook and put it in her hand.

After reading it again, Liu Rumo closed the notebook and put it back on the imperial case, "Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat dried shrimp, layer by layer, but all the qiē is wiped out!" The sarcasm in the words was full of sarcasm.

"What do you mean?" Qingyuan looked at Liu Rumo, it is not uncommon for officials to be corrupt and pervert the law, there will be such people and things in all dynasties, but these people dare to touch the silver of the treasury, it must be a powerful "big fish", the big fish wants to eat, and the small fish will naturally try their best to please them, so the big fish ate the bait of the small fish, and the small fish turned his head to scavenge the bait of the shrimp, and in the end, the layers were deducted, and the shrimp in Liu Rumo's mouth was talking about the hardworking people who were bullied and exploited.

"Your Majesty, it seems that your concubine selection is going to speed up!" Liu Rumo smiled meaningfully, turned around and sat down in front of his desk.

"National teacher, I am discussing the matter with you, and I will discuss the matter of choosing a concubine later!" Qingyuan said with a stern expression.

"Your Majesty, isn't what the minister said serious? If the emperor wants to cut on the big fish, then the selection of the concubine must be accelerated, so that the big fish can digest the bait before it is clean. Pick everything out."

Qingyuan's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood, "Okay, I'll start with the big fish and taste the taste of the big fish!" ”

"The emperor is wise!" Liu Rumo responded, "The minister will do his best to arrange a qiē!" ”――

Liu Rumo pinched the time very accurately, on the day Liu Ruxue returned to the National Teacher's Mansion. She sent an invitation to the courtiers who had women of appropriate age in the court. The banquet was set for the second day.

Except for Liu Ruxue, all the other families began to prepare for the etiquette and performance of meeting the emperor as early as when the portrait was selected by Liu Rumo, and it stands to reason that Liu Ruxue was named by Qingyuan. As a sister, she should have planned for Liu Ruxue's sister early, but unfortunately, she didn't want Liu Ruxue to have a chance to enter the harem, so how could she plan for her early?

Someone sent a letter to Liu Lin. roughly said that the emperor wanted to choose a concubine, and Liu Ruxue was among the invitees. Tomorrow is naturally going to attend the banquet, Liu Rumo didn't do anything at this point, but just mentioned it seemingly inadvertently, the emperor didn't want the Liu family to be involved in the division of power in the court. And the power of the Liu clan cannot continue to expand.

Liu Lin's mind was clear, how could he not understand the meaning, and immediately took the Qi family to see Liu Ruxue.

"Second Miss. The Lord and the Lady have come to see you! A maidservant girl entered Yao Su's room and said.

Yao Su looked at the servant girl in front of her, and her face was very raw. And the Cuizhu who originally served Liu Ruxue was gone, and now she has not regained the trust of Liu Lin and Qi, even if Cuizhu and they are transferred, she is not suitable to ask about their whereabouts at this time, so she nodded symbolically, put down the mattress she was fiddling with, and went out to greet Liu Lin and Qi.

"Dad, mother!" Curtsied towards Liu Lin and Qi, and Yao Su greeted obediently.

Liu Lin couldn't help but tremble, first glanced at Liu Ruxue, who was bowing down in front of her, and then moved her gaze to Qi, as if she was thinking, is there any plan behind her sudden seemingly well-behaved appearance, Qi also understood after receiving Liu Lin's eye signal, when she saw Liu Ruxue just now, she was so happy that she almost forgot why she was sent to Qingyue Bay at that time, and under Liu Lin's signal, she turned back, and now Liu Ruxue is no longer the little daughter she was used to holding at that time.

"How are you doing in Qingyue Bay for half a month?" Liu Lin took Qi's shoulders and approached Liu Ruxue's room.

Yao Su saw the action of Qi Shi reaching out to help her just now, and then paused in mid-air to retract her hand, and her heart was like a mirror, but she was not annoyed, but closed the door with a smile, turned around and followed in.

"In the past half a month, I have tortured my daughter to death, the great elder is strict and cautious, not smiling, my daughter first arrived in Qingyue Bay, and the great elder had a bad temper, and he was punished many times, and suffered a lot!" At this point, the conversation changed, and he continued: "But my daughter still has to thank the Great Elder, if he hadn't let his daughter follow others to do this and that every day, my daughter might still be sick and unable to lift her energy, and in the past half a month, the biggest gain is that her physique has improved a lot!" ”

When Qi Shi heard this, a little joy appeared on his face, "Are you much better?" "You must know that Liu Ruxue was born late for a while, but her physique was much worse, she had been sick and sick since she was a child, she and Liu Lin were tormented by illness at a young age, so they were more pampered by her, so Liu Ruxue was used to her arrogant and willful temper, Liu Rumo's poor physique has always been her heart disease, in the days when Liu Rumo made a mistake and was sent to Qingyue Bay, she often thinks back, and feels that the cause is Liu Rumo's not very strong physique, if it is not for this reason, She will not be used to Liu Ruxue completely out of proportion because of distress and guilt for Liu Rumo.

"Yes! Mother, although my daughter's physique is not very strong now, at least she will not be weak and weak! ”

"That's good, that's good!" Qi Shi praised again and again and nodded.

Liu Lin held Qi's back, patted it gently as if relieved, and then opened his mouth: "Ruxue, tomorrow the emperor will hold a banquet in the palace and invite women of current age to enter the palace, with the intention of choosing a concubine, you are ready to prepare, and tomorrow you will enter the palace with your father to run for election!" ”

Yao Su was worried that she didn't have a chance to see the emperor, Liu Lin sent her such good news, she obediently agreed: "My daughter knows, please rest assured, my daughter has been cultivating herself in Qingyue Bay for half a month, and she is determined to change her temperament and bad habits in the past, and she will ask her father to mention her daughter tomorrow, and she will never let her father down!" ”

The surprise in Liu Lin's eyes was even better, looking at Liu Ruxue's appearance, I really couldn't tell whether she was truly repentant, but looking at it like this, it was still presentable, but he didn't completely let go of his vigilance against her, because Liu Ruxue had already made him fool him if he pretended to reform before, and this time he wouldn't believe her lightly.

"Well, you've been tired all the way, so you packed up and rested early today to prepare for tomorrow's banquet!"

After saying that, he hugged Qi and signaled that she should go, Qi stood up with Liu Lin and said to Liu Ruxue: "Rest early, my mother will go back first, and when you come back from the palace tomorrow, my mother will come to see you again!" ”

"Congratulations to my father!" Yao Su followed behind them, and watched Liu Lin and Qi go out of the courtyard door, the smile on her face gradually faded, and she turned around and closed the door.

"God help me, tomorrow? It seems that I have to be well prepared tonight, the concubine banquet is an excellent opportunity, if I can enter the harem, it will be closer to my goal! Yao Su hooked her lips and smiled, muttering to herself.

The time arranged by Liu Rumo was really tight enough, and the officials were all prepared in a hurry overnight from receiving the holy decree to prepare for the banquet to preparing for the banquet.

When the sky was bright, the layout of the Fang Palace was finished, Liu Rumo informed Qingyuan in advance, today's morning dynasty is a day, so at this time, Qingyuan is holding the quilt and sleeping sweetly on the dragon couch, and our national teacher has already sat on the top floor of Mingshao Pavilion and started to handle business.

"Your Excellency!" A figure flashed in, and Liu Rumo held the hand of the pen for a moment, "Say." "The hand movement has not stopped.

"According to your orders, my subordinates have been closely guarding the officials this night, observing their situation, and found that since the emperor's holy decree for the banquet in advance came down to the officials, except for Lord Lin and Lord Wang, the rest of the adults have a moment to leave, and when they come back after leaving, they will start to prepare for the banquet in an orderly manner, until it is finished at two o'clock today!"

Liu Rumo casually picked up a page of paper and wrote on it the names of the two adults that the secret guard said, "This official knows, you continue to go back and stare at it, waiting for the next instruction of this official!" ”

After sending the secret guard, Liu Rumo got up and found the book that recorded the information of the officials from the bookshelf, sat back at the table, and opened it to check the situation of the current officials.

It is inevitable that the thief will be weak-hearted, she will advance Qingyuan's concubine selection without warning, and kill them by surprise, as expected, the big fish of the officials is among the few people who have been looking for a reason to leave for a while, they must have discussed, and roughly guessed the intention of her and Qingyuan's approach, so that they can come back to prepare for this matter with a relaxed mind.

There is another thing she did not announce to the public, that is, at Qingyuan's concubine selection banquet, she also invited other princes of appropriate age and sons of the family to attend in the name of Qingyuan, doesn't Liu Ruxue like Shenghua?

She invited Shenghua to the banquet, and when Shenghua restrained Liu Ruxue, she presumably would not compete for the limelight, as for Qingli, she just wanted to see him, and tomorrow would be a suitable opportunity.

When receiving the invitation, Shenghua and Qingli sat in the wine cellar of Lanyuezhai, looking at each other, looking at the invitation letter in their respective hands, Qingli was smiling faintly, but Shenghua's forehead was blue, and even his eyelids couldn't help jumping as if he was uneasy, "Lili, why do I feel so uneasy?" ”

Qingli smiled silently, and put the invitation in his arms, "If I remember correctly, Liu Ruxue will also be present at this concubine banquet, Xiao Shengsheng, good luck!" (To be continued)