"Father-in-law Xu, why do you have time to come here today?"

The person who came was Xu Sheng, who had not been seen for many days. Counting the days, from the day Li Xiao woke up to today's meeting, it was exactly three days, no more, no less.

"It is His Majesty's order, otherwise how can our family find the son." Xu Sheng squinted slightly, and walked slowly down the long street with Li Xiao smiling uncontrollably. I haven't seen him for three days, Li Xiao has recovered well, his body has lost the kind of dead air he had three days ago, and his good-looking face has regained its brilliance, just like the heroic spirit when he first saw him, which really makes people like it.

Li Xiao smiled politely, walked around the falling branches, and did not speak immediately. Xu Sheng's exit from the palace was naturally because of the emperor, but I don't know what it was for, so that Xu Sheng, who was over half a hundred years old, could run half of the capital city to find him.

I remember the last time I chatted with Xu Sheng, it was when he first came to Beijing. Now, more than ten days later, they have passed together again. To be honest, for Xu Sheng, he doesn't have much prejudice now, if Xu Sheng is as good as Longyang, Li Xiao has some feelings, but it is not obvious, in his bones, Xu Sheng does not have those radical reactions, on the contrary, Xu Sheng's behavior is a bit of a pity. His Royal Highness the Prince, who is not like Haoguo, has brought men to live in the dormitory. He smiled and asked, "I don't know what happened to Your Majesty?" ”

Xu Sheng subconsciously glanced at the group behind him, turned his head, and said, "Your Majesty asked our family to come today for two things. ”

"I want to hear about it." Li Xiao said.

When he left the Jade Immortal Residence and saw Xu Sheng, he knew that Xu Sheng had something to do, so he didn't let Zhou Shu move to find the carriage, but walked with Xu Gonggong on this deserted street, empty and empty, which was convenient for discussion. Zhou Senjun and Chu Chu followed not far away, and the two walked carefully, and next to them was Xu Sheng's car.

Zhou Shuyi didn't like the people in the palace, especially these eunuchs who spoke yin and yang. This should be because of the eunuch Wang Zhen who buried the 200,000 troops of Haoguo more than 20 years ago.

For Wang Zhen, Xu Sheng also dislikes this person. Because of this idiot, the status of the eunuchs in Haoguo has plummeted, except for Dongchang, the rest of the eunuchs have been more or less neglected, especially him, although he is following the emperor in the imperial study, but in fact, he has no rights, and he has to keep his voice down in the face of the five or six officials outside.

Getting back to business, Xu Sheng stretched out his hand to flick away the leaf that fell on his shoulder, then took out a pink handkerchief from his arms, wiped it, and then glanced at his shoulder, and saw that there was no foreign object on it, so he said: "The first thing is the case of Wencheng Street that Gongzi is investigating now." ”

"But there's a new development on Your Majesty's side?" Li Xiao asked quickly. He really hasn't found much about the Wencheng Street case in the past few days.

Xu Sheng shook his head, looked at Li Xiao with regret on his face, and said, "Fei Ye, Fei Ye." ”

He casually threw the pink handkerchief in his hand and continued: "Childe has also seen the difference in the city in the past few days, and there are many more people from other countries. ”

Indeed, in the past few days, Li Xiao has also discovered that there are many more Gentiles in the city, whether they are merchants or others. However, the most obvious thing is the convoy that enters the city every day, one after another, according to Zhou Shuyi, they are all here for the birthday of the Queen Mother.

Xu Sheng continued: "The Queen Mother's birthday is coming, and these people are here to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday. ”

"The Queen Mother's birthday, what does it have to do with Li?" Li Xiao shrugged helplessly. He naturally knew about the Queen Mother's birthday, but what does this have to do with him, with his identity, he can't go.

"Hey......" Xu Sheng waved his hand and said, "It's related, it's related." What Your Majesty means, is that these days, don't check the case of Wencheng Street first, after all, the people who come to celebrate the birthday are all outside countries, if you investigate the case in these days, I am afraid it will cause unnecessary trouble, besides, on the day of the Queen Mother's birthday, Gongzi, you investigate the case, it is not good after all, and Gongzi, you just woke up not long, it is better to take advantage of this period of time to rest and rest. ”

What Xu Sheng said makes sense, after all, it is the birthday of the Queen Mother, and he can't continue to investigate the case of Wencheng Street on this day. The royal family wants to save face, if the case of Chawencheng Street is still in Cha Wencheng Street on this day, I am afraid that people from all over the world will laugh at it. At that time, the case was not investigated, and Haoguo's face was lost, so the gains outweighed the losses.

Hearing Xu Sheng say this, Li Xiao also thought of this problem. The emperor believed in himself and gave himself the power to investigate the case, if he didn't care about the emperor's face at this time, let alone whether he could continue to investigate the case, his life might not be saved.

"Since Your Majesty has said so, then Li will take advantage of this time to rest and rest." Li Xiao arched his hand and said.

It just so happens that he also has to be busy with the "tofu" thing, and it is best to get the business up during this time. Speaking of business, he still has to go to the palace and pull Wan Guifei into the gang, so that he can not only get the support of the palace, but also have a brand effect, and also make Gao Changyu safer.

"By the way, Grandpa Xu, I want to ......"

Before he finished speaking, Xu Sheng interrupted Li Xiao's words, and he said quietly: "I have to rest well, and when the time comes, I will go to the palace to participate in the birthday banquet of the Queen Mother." ”

"Huh? Birthday feast? Li Xiao looked puzzled, what did he do with the birthday banquet, with his identity, he was not qualified to participate.

"This is the second thing Your Majesty asked our family to come." Xu Sheng laughed, and a strange smile appeared on his wrinkled face: "Your Majesty just let our family go to the Ministry of Rites today, and added the name of Gongzi to the list of banquets, although Gongzi's seat is at the end, but this is enough to show Your Majesty's importance to Gongzi." ”

Li Xiao has no official and no position, except for his talent and name, there is nothing else, such a person is logically unable to participate in the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, and he can't even see it, but the emperor asked the Ministry of Rites to open the back door and added a seat to Li Xiao. What does this mean, isn't it enough to show the emperor's importance to Li Xiao. I don't know why.

Li Xiao was also puzzled for a while, I don't know why the emperor in the palace did this, thinking back these days, he didn't have too much intersection with the emperor, could it be because he cured the illness of Her Royal Highness the princess? But how is this possible, it is not the emperor himself who governs, only one imperial daughter is not enough for him to participate in such a grand royal banquet. He didn't think it was because of the two poems he had written.

There are examples of a poem entering the official career, but the premise is that he has a meritorious reputation.

Shaking his head, he still gave up guessing the emperor's thoughts, turned to Xu Sheng and asked, "Gonggong Xu, what does Your Majesty mean, you tell me ......?"

Xu Sheng also shook his head, to be honest, he really didn't understand His Majesty's arrangement this time. He smiled, with persuasion in his tone: "Childe doesn't have to think about anything, Your Majesty has your own arrangements, we just need to obey." ”

Li Xiao nodded sneeringly, ostensibly agreeing with Xu Sheng's words, but in fact he had other ideas.

The emperor asked him to stop what he was doing these days, that is, the case of Wencheng Street, and then cultivate himself, and after the fifteenth, he went to the palace to attend the birthday banquet of the Queen Mother. This series of events didn't seem to be unusual, but he always felt that something was wrong, and he always felt that the emperor was deliberately arranging something.

Of course, since ancient times, the emperor's thoughts have always been the most difficult to guess, especially now His Majesty the Emperor of Haoguo, who can't be guessed with common sense.

"By the way, Li Gongzi, what did you have to say just now?" Xu Sheng suddenly remembered that he had interrupted Li Xiao's speech just now, and asked at the exit.

Li Xiao, who was still pondering, came back to his senses, what the emperor was thinking about put aside for the time being, the top priority was to do the "tofu" thing well, anyway, there was nothing else to do next, it was better to make some silver. Turning his head, he said: "That's the case, Li has some things, I want to go to the palace, I wonder if Gonggong Xu can help bring Li in?" ”

"If the son has something to tell our family, our family will report to His Majesty." Xu Sheng said with a smile. Li Gongzi has something, he naturally has to help, whether it is because of the silver taels given to him by the latter or the emperor's weight to the latter.

Li Xiao shook his head and said, "Li needs to personally enter the palace to discuss this matter with the concubine. ”

"Concubine Niangniang?" Xu Sheng was a little surprised, but he didn't expect Li Xiao's matter to be related to Wan Guifei. His face was embarrassed, and he sighed and said, "Childe, you will be embarrassed for our family." Not to mention that people outside are not allowed to enter the harem, and even if they do, they can't get close to the concubine's bedroom. ”

"The concubine doesn't like outsiders to approach, even if you cure Her Royal Highness the princess's illness, it is no exception."

Hearing Xu Sheng say this, the matter of "tofu" became difficult. thought that with Xu Sheng's help, he would be able to enter the palace, as long as he saw Wan Guifei, he would have the confidence to persuade the latter, but the key to the problem now is that he can't see Wan Guifei directly, let alone say that he can't persuade him.

Could it be that the "tofu" business is going to be so stillborn?

"Li Gongzi, if there is nothing else, our family will leave first, the womb is busy these days."

Before they knew it, the two had reached the end of the street.

Li Xiao glanced at the busy people outside the street, arched his hand at Xu Sheng, and said, "Father-in-law walks slowly, Father-in-law Xu has worked hard today." ”

Xu Sheng also returned the salute, then waved his hand, signaled the carriage behind him to come, and then stepped on the step stool and slowly got into the carriage: "Li Gongzi, goodbye at the birthday banquet." ”

With that, he walked away.

"Birthday feast?" Zhou Shuyi stepped forward suspiciously. The birthday banquet in recent days, the only thing related to the palace is the birthday banquet of the queen mother. Xu Sheng spoke in a loud voice when he left just now, and he naturally heard it. He opened his mouth and asked, "Childe, is something going on?" ”

Li Xiao looked at the carriage in the distance, smiled bitterly, and said, "Zhou joins the army, let the brothers rest in the next few days." ”

Zhou Shuyi nodded, glanced at Chu Chu, who was still in a daze, smiled, and did not speak.

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