This scene fell into his eyes, but Cen Chi immediately understood. He hesitated slightly, then crouched down in front of Xiao Qiang.

Xiao Qiang was stunned, and then she also understood, no longer hesitated, pinched the handkerchief and carefully wiped the sweat from his forehead. Although she was serving him, her heart was overflowing with a gentle taste of happiness at the moment.

Retracting the veil and watching Cen Chi stand up, Xiao Qiang asked casually, "What was Mr. pondering just now?" For her act of serving, Cen Chi's active acceptance made her habitual state of mind in the Prime Minister's Mansion pay attention to the difference of status, and there were many things she wanted to say and ask, so it was easy to open up.

Cen Chi smiled and said, "When I see this grass, I think of my donkey, it must like the grass here." Maybe I shouldn't have taken it away from here in the first place, but if I sent it back now, I wonder if Master Xixin would be sad about this meadow again. ”

Xiao Qiang could quickly understand what he had just said, and when she saw her cover her mouth and smile, "Sir's little donkey is indeed getting bigger and bigger, and it has grown a lot, if it comes back here, all the grass here will be destroyed." ”

Cen Chi smiled when he heard this, and didn't say anything more.

Xiao Qiang gradually smiled, and noticed that Cen Chi's head began to sweat again, and she said again: "This season is about to enter summer, the climate is getting warmer day by day, except for a little cold in the morning and evening, I can already feel some heat at noon." It's getting hot outside, so let's go inside and rest for a while! ”

Cen Chi wiped the wetness on his forehead casually, walked with Xiao Qiang to the living room in the courtyard of the small temple, and suddenly said, "You shouldn't let me wear this set of clothes outside when I go out in the morning." ”

"It doesn't hurt if you wear more!" Xiao Qiang smiled slightly, "It's better than if it freezes." ”

"Are you overdoing it? I'm not as weak as you think. Cen Chi said, lifting one of his sleeves to make a fan, and swaying in front of his face.

Cen Chi's behavior at this time was in obvious contrast with the strict and gentle image he usually left for Xiao Qiang, and Xiao Qiang wanted to laugh. I wanted to reply to what he just said, "I like to take care of your life. ”

However, when the words came to her mouth, she didn't say this sentence in the end, but said mischievously like a child: "Obedient." ”

……

Ye Zhengming waited for his daughter for a morning.

From the dawn onwards, he stood opposite the main entrance of the house, and did not sit down for a moment, nor did he take the breakfast that the servant had handed him half an hour earlier. The reason why he was like this, as a healer, knew that skipping breakfast would hurt his body, but he did it anyway, because he was angry in his heart for his only daughter who had stolen away from school and wandered away and did not return home.

Recently, because of the corruption case of the senior member of the ministry, he was sent to prison. During the extraordinary period when the entire ministry was shaken and uneasy, there were other evil events in Kyoto, such as the assassination of important ministers of the DPRK and the central government, and the burning down of their residences, and there seemed to be an unkind connection between the two major cases. As the brain of the minister, the entire imperial court is conducting a thorough investigation, and the self-trial activities of hanging seals and suspending power are blowing through the officialdom like a tidal wave.

These two matters were so close that although the imperial court adopted multiple secrecy methods before perfecting the evidence, the matter was not revealed to the outside world at all. Only a few core officials in charge of the affairs knew the details of some things, but there were still rumors circulating among the people of Kyoto, and the more they spread, the more chaotic they became, and no matter how much this kind of drama was not supported by official announcements, it did not diminish the enthusiasm of the theorists to gather to discuss the matter.

Plotting to kill important ministers in the court. It is related to another important minister, the former official secretary Shangshu Wan Defu. This was the beginning of the spread of rumors.

As early as a few days before the assassination began, Wan Defu had already been in the prison of the Criminal Department, where he was strictly imprisoned. But his experience did not make some officials and ordinary people in Beijing look away from him.

The source of the people's attention comes from rumors, and the officials do so mostly because of evidence.

In the victim's home, which had been reduced to ruins, the official in charge of cleaning up found many remnants of materials that had been leaked under the strict control of the imperial court. These military supplies, which would only be used in the national war of more than 10,000 people, burned and exploded in the courtyard of a small household at an extremely high density. In the end, it was turned into scorched dust without any suspense. Maybe it's because the soul of the dead is angry and guarding, or it's more likely that the space is not enough to guide the explosives to burn completely. Under such poor conditions, several technical ministers of the Ministry of Industry still found some suspicious points in these waste residues and restored a very small amount of evidence.

During non-war periods, the military's supplies will be subject to stricter restrictions, all of which are numbered. And because in peacetime such materials are put into the arsenal in reserve mode, the activities measured in the accounts are in a state of stagnation for a long time, and once there is a change, even if it is just a word of modification, it is easy to find out.

And such a state and dynasty strictly control materials, and when it appears in an assassination of court officials, what is the identity of their dispatchers, or should it be said, who has the real power closest to this area of authority, and is the most likely to overstep their authority...... was photographed by the incriminating evidence in the hands of this murdered minister, and became a prisoner waiting to be beheaded; It is inextricably linked with hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China, and Wan Defu, who was once authoritative and glorious, and has many protégés, has become the biggest murder plot suspect without any suspense.

But some people don't understand, questioning, why does Wan Defu dare to make such a move since he has been imprisoned? Is it too anxious and too easy to get into trouble when such a high-profile plan to assassinate the enemy is the courtier who is only close to the next day?

If there are doubts, there will naturally be explanations, and some people analyze that this is the final blow of Wandefu's dead net, and if he dies, he will drag the enemy down together and sacrifice his own grave; Some people also think that perhaps Wan Defu smelled a hint of the smell and began to plan the murder before the official returned to Beijing to expose him, but unfortunately he was one step later than the whistleblower.

But although Wan Defu failed to take the lead, the group of people he planned to command did not give up the murder plan. These unidentified accomplices not only carried out the assassination operation normally, but also threw all the accusations and doubts on Wan Defu as if they had planned to, and turned against him with a hidden and purposeful approach, and came to Wan Defu who was in prison with the most ruthless and fierce kick, which was somewhat shameful but even more painful to compress the one-month probation life he still had before being beheaded.

Some officials who are usually unwilling and dare not offend this mountain-like person on the official road, at this time, they tacitly united to offend him completely, so offended that he would never have a chance to turn over.

Of course, these arguments are the result of some explicit or implicit discussions between those with and without status in Beijing, and it is not yet possible to obtain empirical evidence, but the emperor in the palace seems to be very serious about turning these statements into facts, which are complex in appearance and may have complex motives. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe he also heard something, in short, the entire imperial court began the largest and most extensive review and cleanup of officials in the Zhao State in ten years.

In this activity of hanging the seal and suspending the power for self-trial, even if they are not allowed to participate in court affairs, the scope of travel is mainly concentrated among the royal relatives and nobles, and all the doctors and students of the Taiyi Bureau who are not allowed to enter the residences of the royal family without being summoned must be involved.

In fact, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, such a self-examination incident has been carried out for the second time in late spring this year. This kind of activity has drawbacks, and the emperor understands it in his heart, but he is really angry this time, if this matter is not strictly investigated, who will dare to act justly in the future? The life safety of the whistleblower is destined to be threatened and trampled on by the whistleblower?

The officials of the various ministries of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, whether they were convinced or unconvinced, understood the anger of His Majesty the Emperor, and they all handed down the details of all their activities in the past year. For example, one day I went to a certain casino and finished finishing the dice, which days I didn't return all night to indulge in the beauty of a certain flower shop in the Zhu Building, a certain person who was extremely afraid of the inside but fell in love with a certain beautiful little widow, bought a house outside the house, and lied to his wife and concubine family when he went to the private meeting to go to the court to do business, in fact, there was no evidence of named attendance in the Yasi......

In short, whether it will damage face or not, these are all things they must do, and they must prove that they have nothing to do with the murder of the minister.

Doing so may still be questioned by His Majesty the Emperor for some minor crimes. Fines, demotion, and at worst, they may have to go to Kyoto Prefecture to live in a small prison for a while. But this is better than being involved in that incident, at least being dismissed, never being hired in a black file, or being imprisoned for more than ten or twenty years, I don't know if there is a chance to see the light of day again, and drag the whole family to suffer together, right? As for the issue of face, the battles that may break out in the family because of these face-breaking things are much less harmful than the former.

In such a major event and background, all the members of the Taiyi Bureau were innocently involved in this incident, but they became the group with the least responsibility in this incident.

Originally, he could have been personally reviewed by His Majesty the Emperor, and had the authority and responsibility to the imperial physician class, who were specifically responsible for taking care of the health of the emperor's family, and were exclusively called by the nine imperial doctors who were called by officials of the third rank or above in the imperial court.

And these disciples of the imperial physician and the students who dispatched them to work are of course also people they have carefully selected. Failure to learn medical skills can be a matter of qualifications, which is different for everyone, but if there is a problem in conduct, the imperial physician himself, who attaches great importance to his conduct, will also be affected by Yanzhòng.

Looking at this qiē factor, no matter from the perspective of power or motive, the people of the Taiyi Bureau should not be involved in such a vicious and vicious matter.