On the sixth day of the fifth month, Yu Shu mixed into the army of ancestors and set off from the capital to Huazhen Garden. In order to hide people's eyes, Da Ti gave her the position of a celebrant officer, that is, she didn't have to do anything serious, and she was the kind that specifically picked thorns.

Arrived in the evening, there was some trouble when arranging accommodation, according to Yu Shu is an official of Si Tianjian, and he should stay with a few colleagues, but Si Tianjian came back with all the old men, and she was only a female official, and they lived together in pairs, so she was left dry. When the big ones have packed their bags and are ready for dinner, and no one has found her a place to stay, there are so many nobles in the garden who need to be served, who will care about her.

Yu Shu knew that it was not a way to wait like this, so he could only go to find a big mention, he brought her over, and he couldn't let her lay on the floor. As a result, she didn't go far in the garden, and she actually met Liu Tan, oh yes, she should be called His Royal Highness the Crown Prince now.

At the corner of the corridor, the prince was surrounded by people and walked over, the row of lanterns under the eaves illuminated people white, Yu Shu saw that the opposite side was dressed in a yellow robe, and hurriedly retreated to the side of the aisle, hesitated, and bent down to salute.

The prince did not notice her at first, but glanced casually, and saw that she was wearing a gray leather hat, and when he walked past, he suddenly stopped, and when he looked back, a group of people behind him stopped.

"Yu Shu?"

Yu Shu pursed his mouth, raised his head and said, "Your Highness, it's Weichen." "In the past, when Liu Tan didn't become the prince, he called her one by one, and she was very approachable, and it was only three months later. It's just called by their first name. It's because he's not what he used to be, and because Xue Rui is missing, so there's no need to woo her anymore.

The prince's gaze fell on her plain face, and he smiled slightly: "Lone almost didn't recognize you, how could you be here." ”

Yu Shu figured out his current state of mind, and replied respectfully: "Weichen is the celebrant of this year's ancestor worship ceremony. ”

The prince nodded, swept his eyes down, and saw the burden hanging on her arm, and the smile on the corner of his mouth rose again: "Is there not enough place to live?" ”

Yu Shu had no choice but to admit it embarrassedly, and saw him turn his head and instruct a eunuch in charge behind him: "Take Lord Yu to find a more spacious place to settle down." The eunuch nodded. Come out and show her the way.

"Thank you, Your Highness."

The prince waved his hand. Turned around and hurried away with people. Emperor Zhaoqing couldn't come forward at this year's ancestor worship ceremony, so he presided over it on his behalf, how could he not grasp such a rare opportunity and be entangled in everything. The fact that he could stop and say a few words to Yu Shu was already extra face-saving for her.

Yu Shu watched him be surrounded and left. There was no change in his expression. Turning his head to the unknown eunuch, he arched his hand: "There is Lao, this father-in-law." ”

"It's easy to say, Master Yu, I'll bring you something."

As a result, the father-in-law led her around the garden for half an hour, but could not find a suitable place to stuff her. In the end, Yu Shu remembered the small courtyard where she lived last year when she was a tool bearer, and searched all the way.

This is a hugging courtyard, there are only six rooms in the front yard and the backyard, when Yu Shu came over, several people who held the instrument had picked a room to stay, Xin Liu was very surprised to see her here, and was about to pounce in surprise, and was nailed in place by Yu Shu with a look, and said to this group of young boys and girls with a tiger face-

"This official is this year's celebrant of ceremonies, and I will live with you these days to supervise your etiquette. You'd better not cause trouble right under my nose, and I'll kick you out, I don't care which family you belong to. ”

Yu Shu is famous, and the people in Taishi Shuyuan all know which number one person she is, and there is a big eunuch behind her who carries a bag, and she calms them all down in a few words, and then she naturally lets the two girls live in one room, and makes room for her alone, don't ask her why she doesn't just live with Xin Liu, so what majesty is there?

Zhu Muzhao walked out of Emperor Zhaoqing's bedroom with his hands behind his back, walked down the steps alone, and the palace maids who guarded the way bowed to him to see him off, he walked away without squinting, and when he arrived outside the long gate, Ren Qiming was already waiting here.

"Taishu," Ren Qiming lowered his head and followed him, and asked softly, "Has the Holy Lord woken up?" ”

Zhu Muzhao shook his head and sighed, the emperor's health is getting worse, and he has reached the point of being terminally ill. He can only surround the palace tightly, and not let the news leak out for the time being, at least to survive this ancestor worship ceremony.

Liu Tan picked up a big bargain this time, if he hadn't been put on the spot by Yunhua, where would it be his turn to be the prince.

"The prince has been here, but I have broken it up," Zhu Muzhao told him uneasily: "You should be more careful in the past two days, find him more things to do, and don't let him come here." ”

Ren Qiming nodded, and said: "There is no news from the Qin messenger sent to Ningdong City to ask for guilt, and I made a divination last night, all of which are bad omens." ”

"What I want is a bad omen," Zhu Muzhao said to himself: "Xue Lingnan would never have thought that Zeng Minzhi was our person." "Zeng Minzhi, the squire of the military department, is the minister of the imperial mission personally appointed by the prince.

While talking, the two returned to the Mingyu Building by the lake, which is the place where Da Tidian stays, and it is also the best place to view the entire Huazhen Garden.

After dinner, Zhu Muzhao remembered Yu Shu, so he asked Dai Qiang, the black-clothed guard in charge of monitoring: "What about her?" ”

Dai Qiang reported Yu Shu's every move after entering the garden, and when Zhu Muzhao heard that she was cheeky enough to run to grab a house with the person holding the weapon, he couldn't help laughing: "She is very happy with what she encounters." Although he sent someone to watch her, he did not let people make it convenient for her, and deliberately let her suffer a lot, and he did not think that she would not be embarrassed at all.

That doesn't work, he has to find another opportunity to sharpen her temper, and always make her beg for him.

***

During the day, someone from the Ministry of Rites came to teach the six people who held the machine the basic etiquette, and Yu Shu asked someone to move a chaise longue from the flower hall and put it in the shaded place under the corridor. I made a pot of tea, and compared to the few who were basking in the sun not far away, I don't know how pleasant it was.

Xin Liu's resentful eyes floated over from time to time, but Yu Shu didn't see it. The air in Huazhen Garden is very good, especially in the morning, the sun is bright and the air is fresh, I feel cool in my heart and lungs after a few breaths, and my spirit is very refreshing, no wonder the emperor wants to move here to recuperate.

"Lord Yu," Lord Wang from the Ministry of Rites shook to Yu Shu's side. Greeted her with a smile. At this time last year, he was also in charge of teaching the Robot Bearer. Yu Shu had a little affection for him, so he got up and gave up his seat, and Lord Wang waved his hand. He sat down on a stone slab beside him. Look at the children of the family with her.

"Life flies. It's another year in the blink of an eye. ”

Yu Shu nodded, and also sighed with some emotion: "At that time, like them, I suffered a lot." ”

Lord Wang looked at the young people who had been standing for a while and began to sway. Shaking his head and said: "How can they have the steadiness you had at the beginning, alas, the descendants of the Yi Xue family are not as good as the generation from generation to generation." ”

Yu Shu agreed, and the two chatted, and a morning passed unconsciously, leaving those children of the family sweating profusely and unable to lift their hands. At lunchtime, everyone was at the same table, and a bold young man complained to Yu Shu: "I really don't understand, isn't it just to hold something and use it to practice so hard?" Lord Wang is obviously deliberately making things difficult for us, you can help us intercede, don't let us stand stupidly in the afternoon. ”

"Yes, yes, you can intercede for us." The others echoed together, and only Xin Liu buried his head in eating and did not mix blindly. 、

Yu Shu glanced at them, put down the dishes and chopsticks and said to them: "Okay, I'll help you intercede, who is guilty and doesn't want to practice?" ”

"Me!" "Me, me." "And me."

At once, four people stood up, two men and two women, Xin Liu was left, and there was a boy who hesitated and didn't move. I saw Yu Shu smiling at them, suddenly pulled down his face, pointed to the door of the dining room and said in a deep voice: "The four of you go out, you don't have to eat, you all go to the courtyard and stand for me, and when Lord Wang comes, I will help you intercede, let you all go home, and you don't have to suffer." ”

The four of them were dumbfounded, Xin Liu lowered his head and smiled, and said in his heart This group of fools, do you think Lianfang is a good talker.

"What are you doing, get out." Yu Shu frowned and scolded, scared several of them, pushed and shoved out of the door, and honestly went to the sun to punish the station. Don't blame them for being timid, it's really Yu Shu who said nothing in the Kunling Bureau, who is not afraid of the prestige accumulated over the past year?

When everyone went out, Xin Liucai snorted: "The opportunity that others can't ask for, they grabbed it without much effort, and they have to sell it like this if they get cheap, should." ”

The remaining man escaped by luck, didn't dare to argue a word, and learned from Xin Liufangcai to bury his head in eating, trying to pretend that he didn't have zài. The four of them stood outside for a long time, and finally waited for Lord Wang to come, and in turn asked Lord Wang to help them intercede with Yu Shu.

Lord Wang couldn't help but find Yu Shu, who was taking a nap in the room, asked about the situation, and reprimanded them with a straight face, first let them go back to the room to drink water and rest for half an hour, and then let them come out to practice the formation when it was cooler in the afternoon.

In this way, two days passed, and on the afternoon of the third day, Da Tidian suddenly remembered that there was such a person as Yu Shu, and sent someone to find her. Yu Shu straightened his clothes and was taken to Mingyu Building.

Zhu Muzhao saw that she was wearing civilian clothes, and frowned slightly: "Why don't you say change clothes, forget it, it's too late, let's go." ”

Yu Shu followed him in a daze, and only halfway did he realize that he was going to take her to see the emperor. She hurriedly put up the draft, thinking about what to say when she waited for the next saint, how to explain that the "Xuannu Liuren Book" was fake, and she didn't specifically tell her to mention it, that is, she wanted her to tell the truth, but she said it truthfully, wouldn't the emperor be angry with her, or would she give her a head again?

Zhu Muzhao glanced back at her, sensing her nervousness, and said, "Don't be afraid, when you see the Holy One, you can just say whatever you ask." ”

Yu Shu nodded, and the uneasiness in his heart disappeared a little. From the South Garden to the North Garden, and came to the outside of the palace, there were forbidden troops on both sides of the road, and the palace maids and eunuchs standing side by side in the corridor were like sculptures.

She followed Zhu Muzhao into the dormitory unimpeded, and smelled a pungent fragrance, she frowned secretly, and quietly looked up at the layers of curtains not far away, knowing that Emperor Zhaoqing was behind it.

"Wait." Zhu Muzhao turned his head sideways and said to her, stepped forward alone, the expressionless palace maid picked up the gauze curtain and let him in, and without waiting for Yu Shu's gaze to penetrate it, she put it down layer by layer.

"Holy Lord, it's a minister." She heard Zhu Muzhao speak in a low voice, and then there was a stumbling movement, she straightened her ears, and only then could she tell that it was the voice of Emperor Zhaoqing, but she couldn't hear what he said.

"Yes, the minister knows, you don't have to worry, it's all arranged, right, the minister brought her over." Zhu Muzhao replied softly, followed by a burst of stumbling, this time he was silent for a while, and then he spoke outside the curtain: "Yu Nuyu, the Holy Lord asks you, can the thaumaturgy of breaking the death calculate his limit." ”

Yu Shu chuckled in his heart, and knelt down without thinking about it, but he didn't mention it to her on the way here, how could she answer? Through a few curtains, she couldn't see the faces of the people behind the scenes, whether she could say yes or no.

"Yu Nuyu, the Holy One asked you." Zhu Muzhao urged.

Yu Shu gritted his teeth and leaned over to answer: "Weichen is incompetent, ask the Holy God for forgiveness." ”

There was a dead silence behind the scenes, and just when Yu Shu thought that she had answered the wrong thing and that Emperor Zhaoqing would let someone drag her out, Zhu Muzhao spoke: "Holy Lord, you are the Son of Heaven and carry the mandate of Heaven, she is just a mortal, how dare you judge your lifespan, don't be embarrassed for her." ”

After finishing speaking, Yu Shu seemed to hear a faint sigh, Emperor Zhaoqing didn't say anything, Zhu Muzhao stayed in it for a while, quietly retreated, and turned around to see her kneeling on the ground, staring at him. He raised his hand and motioned for her to follow him out.

Yu Shu secretly patted her chest and secretly wondered, she didn't have any room to play the words she had originally thought of, and she didn't know if Emperor Zhaoqing was sick and confused, or if she had interceded for her in advance, but she didn't ask her about the whereabouts of Yunhua and the "Xuannu Liuren Book".

"You're quite clever," Zhu Muzhao walked out of the palace and praised her coldly, and without waiting for Yu Shu to be modest, he suddenly stopped, looked back at her, and said faintly: "Holy limit, it's been a few days, do you understand what it means?" ”

She froze, opened her mouth, and heard his voice—

"The first monarch dies, and the new monarch succeeds."

Then a son of heaven and a courtier. (To be continued......)