Yulan is looking forward to it day and night, looking forward to Ye Yichen's early return. After February, the civil unrest in the northwest had basically been quelled, and the emperor ordered the meritorious ministers to be rewarded, and Ye Yichen was ordered to return to Beijing to report on his work. Yulan was overjoyed when she heard the news, thinking that the prince was going to find someone to propose when he came back, although he was also full of expectations, and felt that he was not ready to fill the house for others and be a stepmother, and felt that he was quite hypocritical for a while, Ye Yichen's character and appearance were unparalleled in the world, and he was already a blessing that he could find such a Lang Jun in several lifetimes, and he was afraid that Ye Yichen was like his boyfriend in his previous life, and he dedicated his love to him, but he only had a betrayal of himself in the end.

Yulan's mind turned back and forth, but he didn't know what was right. Yulan was a little skeptical that she was suffering from premarital phobia.

At this time, there was an earthquake in Huzhou, and an urgent 800-mile twist was delivered to the imperial front. The emperor thought about it, but decided to test the prince again, and handed over the matter to the prince with full authority. The crown prince finally had an errand again, and he also understood that this was a test given to him by his father, and this time he was very active, running between the household and Yuqing Palace every day.

Not only did he increase the amount of money for disaster relief by 20% on the basis of the practice of previous years, but he also wrote a letter to impeach officials at all levels who were slow to report the disaster, and asked the emperor to severely punish them. The old lady watched coldly, and couldn't help but shake his head secretly, Prince, you are too urgent!

Around the emperor, there are many people waiting to catch the prince's pigtails, and the emperor is unhappy when he acts like this. Someone secretly reported to the emperor, and now the court and the central government are using troops one after another, and the treasury is empty, but the crown prince has won his prestige among the people by increasing the amount of disaster relief money, and established the impression of "benevolence" in the hearts of the people, putting the emperor in a dilemma, which is really sinister. The emperor was really even more disgusted with the crown prince.

Immediately after that, Zheng Zeng of the Ministry of Langzhong wrote a letter to impeach the prince Li Xin for taking advantage of the opportunity of disaster relief to fill his own pockets and embezzle disaster relief money, the emperor ordered a division to verify, and the criminal department only took five days to verify that Li Xin intercepted 50,000 taels of silver for disaster relief, and the emperor was furious and ordered Li Xin to be sentenced to death. For the crown prince, it is even more cold. even moved the mind of the abolished prince.

On this day, the emperor summoned the cabinet scholars in the Wenhua Hall to discuss how to deal with the prince's affairs. The crown prince was solely responsible for disaster relief matters, and his retained retainers embezzled huge amounts of disaster relief funds, and they could not escape the charge of misemploying people. In fact, this matter really has nothing to do with the prince, he also wants to do his errand well and earn a little more impression points in front of the emperor, but his subordinates refuse to fight for him, what can he do?

On the other hand, the prince, as the prince, has no knowledge of people, and his ability to use people is really incompetent.

The old lady knew what the emperor meant by looking for him. For the abolition of the crown prince, all dynasties and dynasties are extremely unpopular, and the prince cannot be abolished without a big deal, which is almost the consensus of all dynasties. It has been ten years since Ye Minshu was made the crown prince, although the emperor is not satisfied in all aspects, but there is nothing wrong with it after all, so whether it is considering the future of his granddaughter or the stability of the situation between the DPRK and China, Yang Peishi is very opposed to the abolition of the prince. What's more, in his opinion, although Ye Minyu is good at military affairs, he is only a suitable general, not a good candidate for the king of a country.

When I arrived at the Wenhua Palace, the emperor gave a seat to all the scholars, and I couldn't say a few words, and sure enough, I went around to the case of the prince's long history, the old lady had the heart to help the prince intercede, and saw that the emperor was angry, not to mention that his granddaughter was the prince's concubine, and the emperor was now under the provocation of Chen Jia, and the suspicion was as serious as a day, if he said this, the emperor might not think what he wanted.

The old lady is the first assistant, and he has a respected status and a grand prestige, but if he doesn't speak, no one will speak first. The old lady was thinking about how to speak tactfully, when he happened to see a painting hanging on the wall of the Wenhua Palace, which depicted a big tiger and a young tiger together.

The old lady is the Taishan Beidou in the literary world, and naturally recognized this painting at a glance as the true handiwork of Wu Guojie, the holy hand in the painting, this Wu Guojie is the best at painting tigers, and the old lady stared at the painting.

The emperor is not a grim person, and seeing this scene, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Why, the old man is also interested in this double tiger picture?" ”

The old lady asked respectfully: "Dare to ask the emperor, this painting is Wu Guojie's handwriting?" ”

The emperor said: "That's right! ”

The old lady had an idea and said, "Can you allow Weichen to draw a poem here?" ”

The emperor stroked his palm and said: "Famous paintings and names complement each other, very good, very good!" "You must know that several scholars in the cabinet of Lu Dao are full of Confucianism, and Yang Peishi is famous for his calligraphy, and a pair of fonts is hard to find.

The little eunuch took the four treasures of the study, and the old lady splashed ink, and immediately inscribed a poem on the painting: "The tiger is the respect of a hundred beasts, who dares to provoke its anger?" Only father-son love, step by step. ”

"Good, good!" The emperor applauded again and again, and several important cabinet ministers also made fun of it, and they all said that it was good. They are all exquisitely thoughtful people who "have more hearts than they do", and naturally understand the meaning of Yang Peishi's poems at a glance.

After all, the emperor is not stupid, and he soon came back to his senses, as the so-called tiger poison does not eat children, he is not good in a thousand ways, Ye Minshu is his eldest son after all, once he is abolished, from the perspective of all dynasties, none of the abolished princes can die properly, and he becomes very unbearable in his heart.

The emperor relented, and then only discussed a few small things with the important ministers, and then asked them to kneel down.

Out of the palace gate, the old lady was in a heavy mood and got into the carriage to return home first. But he didn't notice that Ding Qian, a scholar of the East Pavilion University who was following him, was looking at him with blazing eyes. Just one poem changed the emperor's mind, and there was a world of difference between the cabinet, the first assistant and the ministers, and the status in the emperor's heart.

In Ding Qian's mind, a sentence was echoing repeatedly; "Thou shalt take thy place!"

The person who said this was none other than Chen Jia, the eunuch with the palm print of the Imperial Horse Eunuch, the big eunuch who was red and purple next to the emperor.

The residence of Shi Ding Qian of Dongge University is located in Baodafang Gongxian Hutong. The Ding family is also a big family that lasts for a hundred years, Ding Gan is the protégé of the old lady, and is known as an official reputation, after being recommended by the old lady, he finally entered the cabinet and became the central minister of the Great Chu, Ding Gan got Yang Shoufu's weight and cultivation, in charge of the military department, the front of the Ding Mansion is full of traffic every day, waiting to see the old officials and ministers of the Ding Pavilion like a carp crossing the river.

Ding Qian returned to the study, thought about it again and again, and asked someone to bring a pen and paper, this letter had already taken shape in his mind for many days, and now the text was written in an instant, quite hearty.

Suddenly, someone behind me said, "Father, have you decided?" ”

This letter is very important, and a single word can ruin him. This surprise was really extraordinary, and when he raised his head, he saw a young man with sword eyebrows standing behind him, who was his eldest son, Ding Zhao. Ding Ge's knees are thin, there is only such a sister-in-law and another much smaller concubine, so he naturally has high hopes for Ding Zhao, and he has moved him to the outer study since he was ten years old, and he will teach him personally.

Ding Zhao also lived up to the trust, he was admitted to the Jinshi at a young age, and now he is watching the government in the household department, and he married a girl from the Shoufu Mansion, and his future prospects are naturally limitless.

Ding Ge Lao didn't hide anything important from him, and even Ding Zhao knew a lot about his collusion with the great eunuch Chen Jia. Seeing that it was him, Ding Ge's old heart, which was hanging high, finally fell back into his stomach. He sighed, "You saw it all?" ”

Ding Zhao nodded: "The emperor has a lot of favor and trust in Gonggong Chen, ten times better than the eunuch Meng Chong, and because the sons are becoming more and more insecure, the father is sparse, and the emperor is in the arms, and the West Factory can be restored in a few days." Although Ding Zhao is young, he is extremely insightful, and these words are exactly the same as what Ding Ge Lao thought.

It was precisely because he had found out the emperor's mind that he dared to play this trick.

Ding Zhao changed his words and suddenly said, "Father, have you ever thought about the consequences?" Once my father is on this letter, it will announce the break between my father and Lord Yang, the first assistant, and my father's reputation in Shilin will be completely ruined? My father has always been a person who cherishes feathers, and the reputation of this eunuch is very unpleasant! ”

Ding Ge's old body trembled, and he replied for a long time: "You can't have both fish and bear's paws!" If I can sit in the position of first assistant, and I can show the recovery of a rich country and a strong army in my life, it is worth losing a little reputation. Mr. Yang is over 70 years old this year, he is old, and he has been in charge of the government for so many years, and it is time for him to abdicate and make way for the younger generations. ”

"Child, I know that you are a husband and wife. Don't blame me! The prince's position is in jeopardy, and we can't accompany the Yang family to capsize on the prince's big ship. This letter of mine is also a letter of nomination to King Zhao! ”

Ding Zhao was silent for a while: "Son, it's all up to the father!" ”

The father and son were talking lively, completely ignorant of the outside of the study, the second girl, Yujia, covered her mouth with one hand, and her face was full of horror. An aunt in Ding Zhao's room was diagnosed with a happy pulse a few days ago, this aunt was very bad, there was a problem at both ends in three days, and she was just shouting about stomach pain, Yujia is now presiding over the feed, and invited a doctor to come over for her, but the aunt picked up the big one by being pregnant, and she had to call the uncle to come and accompany her.

Yujia has Yang Mansion behind her, and gave birth to her eldest son, although this aunt entered the door before her, and she is very favored, Yujia does not put her in her eyes, even if she is favored again, Yujia's position in Dingfu is unbreakable and unshakable.

But she didn't want her aunt to hold her handle, so she personally asked Ding Zhao to come and see this aunt. When he arrived at Ding Zhao's study, the little maid said that Ding Zhao had gone to the old lady's study. Because the matter was urgent, Yujia came here directly.

The Ding family is very fond of Yu Jia, Ding Ge Lao and Mrs. Ge are so good to Yu Jia as their own daughter, Yu Jia is very face-saving in the Ding family, and the doorkeeper was sent away by Ding Ge Lao far away, and he didn't know that the dialogue between the father and son could not make the young lady know Lu Dao. Seeing Yujia, he didn't stop her, so he asked her to get so close.

Yu Jia originally wanted to wait for the father and son to finish talking and then go in and call the uncle out, but who knew that she heard such a shocking conversation.

Yu Jia has a cold temperament since she was a child, but she is extremely smart, although what she said just now was just a few words, she also understood that the Ding family was going to be unfavorable to the Yang family and the old lady Yang.

She held the handkerchief tightly with one hand, one side was her husband's family, and the other side was her mother's family, she didn't know if it was okay, once she knew the way, she only felt caught in the middle, and she was in a dilemma. She didn't dare to alarm others, and quietly retreated.

Returning to his yard, after thinking about it, he finally called his henchman Deng, who came over to marry, and instructed: "You go and prepare the carriage immediately, I want to go back to Yang's mansion!" ”

Mother Deng looked at the time and said strangely: "Young lady, go back at this time?" If there is anything urgent, the slave will go for an errand run first, report a message to the house, and the young lady will go again tomorrow? "It's getting dark, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to go back to my parents' house at this time! Yujia has always acted in a very measured manner, but Deng's mother told her to be confused.

Yujia sighed: "It's too late tomorrow!" I have my own reasons, so you don't have to worry about it, just go and prepare the carriage. He also added another instruction: "Be quiet, no one should be called Zhilu Dao!" ”

Mother Deng didn't dare to disobey, so she came over soon to report that the carriage had been arranged for the second door. Yujia couldn't clean up, and he didn't even prepare a gift, so he asked Deng's mother to help him go to the second gate, and was just about to get in the car, when he suddenly heard a cold voice sounding leisurely: "Mrs. prepares the car late at night, where is this going?" ”

I saw Ding Zhao walking over briskly surrounded by several small servants. Yujia's heart was cold, and he knew that he couldn't leave anymore. When Mother Deng saw Ding Zhao coming, she hurriedly saluted and called "uncle"!

Ding Zhao waved his hand: "You all go down!" A few of the boys stepped aside. Mother Deng obviously felt that the atmosphere of the husband and wife tonight was very wrong, so she hesitated for a moment and did not move.

Ding Zhao glanced at her: "You go down too!" ”

Mother Deng saw that Yujia also glared at her, so she responded.

There were only two people left nearby, and both of them were extremely intelligent people. Ding Zhao sighed and said, "You heard everything, right?" ”

Yu Jia asked, "How did you know that I heard it?" ”

Ding Zhaodao: "When I came out of my father's study, I asked someone, and I realized that you had been here. "He's such a cautious man.

Yu Jia said: "No matter what the uncle and father-in-law do, I can be a daughter-in-law or pretend not to know the way, but this time you are going to deal with the Yang family, as the daughter of the Yang family, my father and grandfather have doted on me since I was a child, I can't watch it like this." ”

Ding Zhao sighed: "You are the daughter of the Yang family, you are the daughter-in-law of the Ding family, you follow your father at home, marry your husband, you don't want to betray the Yang family, but you can't betray the Ding family." Don't forget, your own flesh and blood are surnamed Ding! ”

Yu Jia said: "Because of this, you shouldn't deal with the Yang family, let me, let our son be caught in the middle and be an adult!" ”

Ding Zhaodao: "My father has made up his mind, even if he persuades him, it is useless." You don't care about the affairs of the previous dynasty! Since you have called me Zhidao, I will not ask you to go home to deliver the letter under any circumstances! His voice turned soft: "Go back with me, no matter what happens in the future, I will be the same to you as always!" ”

Yu Jia lowered her head in pain: "What are you doing, you have to make a move on the Yang family?" ”