A sentence without a beginning or an end made Emperor Hao, who was originally gloomy, feel a lot more soothed, laughed, slowly put down the teacup in his hand, stood up, and said, "Eat, eat a large portion, is one serving enough?" ”

"That's enough, thank you, Your Majesty." Li Xiao replied.

This conversation seems to have no meaning and has nothing to do with the things we talked about before, but it cleverly solves Li Xiao's dilemma. It can be felt that when he asked the question about the system, His Majesty the Emperor on the other side did not like it, and even was a little displeased.

In retrospect, he understood why, the emperor was reluctant to listen, largely because of the latter's identity.

Anyway, I don't have any big ambitions, and it's not like I'm a salted fish like myself who is willing to make trouble, especially to do things that the emperor doesn't like, and I finally have a relationship with the emperor, and I have nothing to do, this is not my style.

Emperor Hao smiled and waved his hand, signaling the young man opposite to continue eating, while he slowly walked back to the dragon case, sat down, and looked down at the mountain-like twists and turns. When Li Xiao asked the question just now, for a moment, he suddenly felt a little funny, but more disgusted. Of course, he was not surprised, when he was still the king of Yi, he also looked at the grape trellis in the courtyard and asked Wan Zhen'er, why is this world not everyone equal, why there is a distinction between dignity and inferiority. At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he also thought about changing the system of this world, and the republic used to be his greatest faith.

But gradually, everything changed. I have to say that imperial power will always be the most tempting existence in this world. Maybe there will be a person like Mr. Sun in this world, overthrow the imperial system, and there will be countless sages to change the system of the world, but this should not be now, at least, when he is still alive, it should not appear. Li Xiao has the shadow of his past, that fearless, that innocent. He likes it and he doesn't like it.

Li Xiao lowered his head and continued to eat, without saying a word. Emperor Hao looked at the fold in his hand and said nothing. Slowly, there is only the sound of constantly turning pages and chewing in the imperial study, and the quietness makes people get used to it, and it seems to fit in with the surrounding environment.

After drinking the last cup of tea and chewing the last piece of pork belly, Li Xiao took the silk handkerchief on the side and wiped his mouth, then stood up, walked slowly to the front of the hall, and stood quietly. On the dragon chair, Emperor Hao was lying boredly looking at the folds in his hand.

In the past few days, the reports from the ministers have basically been about the changes in the Northland Grassland and the future of Haoguo's scientific expedition. There are also some praises about the disaster relief of the three princes, and it is estimated that there should be something about the little poet fairy next. The twists and turns of the scientific examination are basically trivial, such as what famous work was written by a certain person in a certain place, or what something was done, etc., basically a few talents from the top of the state road, inherited the face of a minister in the capital city, wrote a few strokes on the fold, and made a familiar face in front of the emperor or the Privy Council officials.

Maybe the emperor will suddenly remember this when he was in the palace test, even if he didn't pass, he would give him a heavy responsibility. This kind of thing did not happen in the previous dynasty.

"Full?" Emperor Hao threw the fold in his hand aside, yawned, and said lazily.

The twists and turns of the past few days have been tired, there is nothing new, basically all trivial, extremely boring.

At the beginning, Emperor Hao was reviewing the folds, but Li Xiao didn't bother, he had already made His Majesty the Emperor unhappy just now, but he didn't dare to disturb, especially when he saw Emperor Hao looking at the folds just now, his face frowned slightly, thinking that something was wrong. At this moment, Emperor Hao spoke up, so he arched his hand and replied, "The minister is full." ”

"Hmm." With a slight hum, Emperor Hao closed his eyes and recuperated.

Looking at Emperor Hao's appearance, Li Xiao's throat moved slightly, quickly glanced around, stepped forward, and said, "If Your Majesty is fine, the minister will retire first." ”

Emperor Hao waved his hand and did not open his eyes. Li Xiao, who had received permission, breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and was about to leave, but before he could take a step, he heard the emperor on the high seat speak: "By the way, there is still something to be handed over to you to do." ”

Li Xiao turned around suspiciously, moving slowly.

I saw Emperor Hao stand up from the dragon chair and slowly take a box from the bookshelf on the side. If you look closely, it is not so much a box as a thing made of several wooden strips according to a certain pattern. Looking at the box, Li Xiao always felt a little familiar, after all, such a strange object is rare in Haoguo.

Emperor Hao threw the box in his hand towards Li Xiao casually, and said: "It contains good things, which I got by accident when I was young, anyway, you are fine now, I will hand over this object to you." ”

Li Xiao, who took the box, looked up and down, wasn't this the one when he and Lu Yunlu passed through Yizhou, and the latter waited for the Jingshi from the Yuwang Mansion, I didn't know what was in it at that time, but I just thought the box was very special. It turns out that this box belongs to Emperor Hao, and he got it when he was young, what kind of rare thing is it? He asked, "Your Majesty, what is in here?" ”

"Chili." Emperor Hao said lightly. More than ten years ago, when he was still in Yizhou, he found two peppers in the vast mountains by chance. Chili pepper is not produced in Haoguo, in the whole Haoguo bean may not be able to find the existence of the third plant, at that time he was also a whim, picked it, in the future to find a chance to plant it, in the hot pot to get out, think about the snow in the snow, eat a pot of spicy hot pot, what a beautiful thing. It's a pity that he was hurriedly taken to Jingshi soon after, and he couldn't take the box with him.

Of course, even if he took it away, he didn't have time to plant. Nor would the Privy Council allow the king of a country to do such a "ridiculous thing". Even if he liked to mess around, he didn't like the old ladies of the Privy Council buzzing in his ears.

"Chili!" Li Xiao was obviously surprised. I didn't expect the contents of the box in this hand to be chili seeds. In the sixteen years since he came to this world, he has not seen chili peppers, and it is estimated that the chili peppers are still growing on the other side of the sea at this time. The geographical location of Haoguo should be the same as in his previous life, there is no chili pepper here, only the existence of dogwood, but dogwood does not have the same taste as pepper, it is not a plant after all, there is always a difference.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

"At this time, there is no one else, Your Majesty's call, I always feel that I have a point, so let's do it, when there is no one, I will call it uncle, I am how old you are, this is not too much." Emperor Hao smiled, and then said: "Anyway, if you are idle, you are idle, why don't you plant the chili peppers for me, the people of Jingzhao Yin Mansion will give it to you, and the field in the east of the city will also be given to you, how about it?" ”

At this time, Emperor Hao did not use me to call himself, and let Li Xiao call him uncle. Also, the two of them come from the same place, where there is no imperial system for a long time, and the title of "I" has long disappeared with the long river of history. Li Xiao screamed uncomfortably, and Emperor Hao didn't like to hear the latter call him like that.

Li Xiao was slightly stunned, and handed over this thing to himself, it turned out that he really wanted him to be a farmer and farm. Li Xiao is not disgusted with the cultivation of chili peppers, he was also a farmer for a period of time in his last life, although the life in the field is hard, but there is a lot of fun, looking at the vegetable seedlings he has worked so hard to grow, no one will not feel proud. It's just that he is not idle these days, especially the assassination case on Wencheng Street, which has not yet been found out, and the main purpose of his stay in Jingshi is to find out the case of Wencheng Street and find out the real murderer who planned everything.

But at this time, Emperor Hao asked him to plant chili peppers, what does it mean, there is no need to continue the case on Wencheng Street? He frowned and asked, "Your Majesty...... Uncle, what about the case on Wencheng Street? ”

"Wencheng Street?" Emperor Hao laughed and said, "I forgot to tell you that the case on Wencheng Street has been closed." ”

"It's over? When was this? Li Xiao wondered, why didn't he know that the case on Wencheng Street had been closed.

"Last night."

"Last night?" Li Xiao looked puzzled, last night, wasn't it a birthday banquet.

Emperor Hao nodded, he knew the doubts in Li Xiao's heart, and he also knew that this result was not true, and it was not good for Li Xiao, but he still insisted on going his own way, and asked Dongchang and the procuratorate to arrest the family of the servant of the Ministry of Officials, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, and then convicted. Why? The prince of the Cai family has a conflict with Li Xiao, the case of Jingzhao Yin's Mansion is known throughout the city, and Cai Xu, the servant of the ministry, is not a good person, as the governor of Cangzhou, but he is corrupt and perverts the law, embezzles millions of silver during his reign, and bribes the officials, and uses his power for personal gain in Cangzhou, which makes the people of Cangzhou dare not speak...... With all kinds of criminal evidence, it is not unjust to give him this pot on Wencheng Street.

Of course, the matter of bribing Shangguan is his Shangguan, and the right minister Shi Song was exposed. Emperor Hao knew why the right minister wanted to do this, and he didn't break it, and there was no need to break it, rather than continuing to investigate the case, it was more important for him to let the case on Wencheng Street end earlier.

"Last night, after the investigation of the procuratorate and Dongchang, the assassination of Wencheng Street was instigated by Cai Xu, the new servant of the Ministry of Officials, and his son Cai Kun, and the Cai family father and son were also put into prison yesterday, so the case of Wencheng Street was closed."

Cai family father and son? Li Xiao couldn't believe that he had a conflict with Cai Kun, but the latter didn't look like someone who could plan the Wencheng Street case. And he has never met Cai Kun's father, Cai Xu, how could a person who can be a servant of the Ministry of Officials be stupid enough to do an assassination like Wencheng Street for a trivial matter, it is obvious that there is something behind this case.

He raised his head and wanted to speak, but was stopped by Emperor Hao.

"Okay, even if this case is over, you don't need to continue to investigate, and then you will wait for Jing Zhao Yin Mansion to plant my peppers, this matter is done, and there will be a reward." Let's go down. ”

As soon as the words fell, the door of the palace behind Li Xiao was slowly pushed open, and the palace maids and eunuchs who had been waiting outside the door for a long time walked in again at this time.

Outside the imperial study, the sun is in full bloom. In the study, light and darkness alternate.