Unlike ordinary ministers, Li Zhongyi not only did not have the idea of confines King Cao's mother and son in the compound, but gave them a high degree of freedom of action.

As long as Cao Wang's mother and son don't want to leave Pinglu, they can go wherever they fall in love with playing, and no one will stop them.

King Cao is young and playful, and he doesn't know the severity, but Concubine Du is like a mirror, Li Zhongyi has indeed taken good care of their mother and son, and deliberately created a free environment for their mother and son that is completely different from the Kaifeng Inner Palace.

At the time of Kaifeng, although King Cao was a prince and the younger brother of the little emperor, he seemed to be in full swing, but he could only move in his palace with a big palm.

The days when she was trapped in Kaifeng, although she was not nominally in prison, it was far better than being in prison, which was the true feeling of Concubine Du before.

Hearing that Li Zhongyi was invited to see him outside the door, Mrs. Du stood up in a panic, and in a panic, she actually knocked over the tea cup on the table, and the hot tea soup splashed on the spring onion-like jade fingers, and screamed out on the spot, "Ah! ”

"Niangniang, Niangniang, what's wrong with you?" The maids next to them were bluffed, and hurriedly rushed up, wanting to atone for their crimes.

Unexpectedly, Concubine Du suddenly shouted: "I'm fine, quickly lead Brother Jean into the dormitory, cover the quilt, and say that she is sick and can't see guests." ”

The attendants and maids around were all stunned, and they looked at Concubine Du at a loss, and they didn't know where to put their hands and feet.

"What are you doing? Hurry up and let my brother go......" Concubine Du shouted angrily, frightening all the subordinates, and all the maids trembled and hugged Cao Wang Chai Xirang, spread their legs and ran to the inner courtyard.

Li Zhongyi respected Concubine Du and King Cao very much, although he held a strong army and had the power to level Lu, he was no different from an ordinary minister, and he had been standing in front of the gate of the temporary palace, waiting for the master of the palace to summon him.

It's just that after the waist card was handed to the palace, no one in the palace came to see Li Zhongyi.

Li Zhongyi was not in a hurry at all, standing in front of the palace gate with his hands in his hands, and kept staring at the green bricks on the ground, as if he was in the pattern on the green bricks.

The guards in charge of the palace guards, born in the blue and blue guards, and the commander Li Zhongyi stood in front of the palace gate, and everyone didn't even dare to speak out of the atmosphere, and kept their heads held high.

Li Zhongyi was left to dry for more than an hour, and the envoy in the palace was late, and across the palace gate, he bowed his head and said in a trembling voice: "The concubine Niangniang invited Li Xianggong to the small hall of the outer east gate to talk. ”

Since there is no such creature as a eunuch in Pinglu, there are only maids and maidservants who serve as female officials around Concubine Du and King Cao. Therefore, the envoys in the palace are all high-ranking female officials with heads and faces in front of Concubine Du.

Li Zhongyi nodded, waiting for the female official to lead the way, the etiquette of the audience must still be strictly observed. Unexpectedly, the female officer may not have paid attention, her feet slipped violently, and she fell in front of Li Zhongyi's feet.

People have instincts!

Li Zhongyi subconsciously leaned over to help the female officer, but unexpectedly, after Li Zhongyi picked up the female officer hard, the female officer screamed and softened into his arms.

"Rao...... Spare ...... Foot...... Foot...... ......The female officer was so frightened that she trembled, Li Zhongyi couldn't help but wonder a little, he was not a man-eating tiger, was she scared like this?

"Broken foot? Does it hurt? Li Zhongyi became suspicious, and immediately carried the female official to the guard's rest room on the inside of the palace gate, and put her firmly on the bench.

Li Zhongyi hadn't practiced medicine for a long time, his hands were a little itchy, and when he saw that there was no one left and right, he squatted down and took off his shoes and socks for the female officer.

I saw that on the snow-white and crystal instep, there was a large bruise, with purple in the blue, red silk faintly, and the ankle was also swollen and high.

Sure enough, it was a broken foot, Li Zhongyi suddenly became suspicious, and said amiably: "Don't be afraid, it's okay, I'll order someone to get the medicinal oil when I go back, and you will rub it five times regularly in the morning and evening, and you can walk on the ground as usual in less than three days." ”

"Multi-...... Thank you Li Xianggong for your care, the slave family was careless and lost his manners, it's really damn good......" The female official asked Li Zhongyi to forcibly take off his shoes and socks, he was ashamed and afraid, where did he dare to raise his head?

Li Zhongyi stood up, smiled and said, "Since I have broken my foot, then I can only go to see the concubine by myself." ”

According to the court etiquette of the Great Zhou Dynasty, most of the eunuchs in charge of passing the edict were eunuchs with heads and faces in front of the emperor or the queen mother, and naturally they also had small followers waiting with them.

However, how can a poor and remote place like Qizhou be compared with Kaifeng Da Nei?

Because of the haste of the incident, in addition to a few henchmen female officials around Concubine Du, the rest of the so-called female officials are also maids who have not received an education in authentic court etiquette.

At the beginning, in order to dispel Concubine Du's doubts that she was afraid of being monitored, the inferior palace maids around her were all paid by Li Zhongyi, and she found someone to buy them.

Li Zhongyi has no etiquette officials around him who are proficient in classics, and Concubine Du has always been frightened, and no one can take care of the incompleteness of the code system.

When Li Zhongyi was about to leave, he suddenly realized that the female official who had broken his foot actually came out alone to pass on the edict.

"Someone, go to my carriage and get the medicine for bruises. After taking the medicinal oil, I will send the lady back to rest. After Li Zhong's order, he wanted to leave this place, after all, he had something important to report to Concubine Du.

Li ...... Lee Sang-gong...... Slave...... Slaves can walk on their own......"

Li Zhongyi didn't hear the female official's voice, took four square steps, and went out to the side of the small hall of the inner west gate.

The female official in front of the palace couldn't help but be taken aback when she saw Li Zhongyi walking alone from outside the palace gate, and hurriedly turned around and stepped into the hall, reporting the abnormal situation to Concubine Du.

"Could it be Lin Miaoni, she ......" Concubine Du has been uneasy recently, and subconsciously told Li Zhongyi the suspicious female official.

"Mother, not really, right?" The personal female officer Zhao Chun and Lin Miaoni have a deep relationship, and they subconsciously want to cover up for her and slowly slow their cheeks.

"Alas, in extraordinary times, I have been in the dormitory." Concubine Du fell into a typical siege dilemma and couldn't extricate herself.

When she was in Kaifeng, Concubine Du suffered from the empress dowager Fu's nest. Now, after Concubine Du led King Cao to escape from Kaifeng City, she was always worried that Li Zhongyi would push King Cao to the throne, but he would mistake King Cao's life.

Although Concubine Du is a woman, before Chai Rong died, she had always been very fond of her, and many private things were not deliberately hidden from her.

It's just anything else, what Concubine Du is most worried about at the moment is that King Cao was used as a gunman by Li Zhongyi.

It is recorded very clearly in the history books that the former and late emperors who had no strength were all miserable?

"Yu Niangniang, Li Xianggong is asking to see you outside the palace." Just when Concubine Du was undecided, Li Zhongyi arrived.