The official road from Fanglin Gate to Yanshan is planted with weeping willows on both sides, the spring breeze is dozens of miles, the willows are all around, and the avenue is full of carriages and horses that go out to the spring and enjoy the spring. The sun was shining and the spring breeze was warm, but a rain was brewing in Feng Zhong's heart.

The carriage drove on the official road, and the two high-headed horses, one as white as snow and the other as black as charcoal, were the tributes of those surrendered tribes in the desert of the Northern Expedition of the Son of Heaven. This black and white horse has become the symbol of Feng Zhong in Beijing, and even ordinary people know that in the carriage is the eunuch Feng of the secret guard.

This carriage was specially made for Feng Zhong by the Ministry of Industry, with two layers of iron birch, and a hundred steel plates in the middle, even if the winch crossbow was shot on it, it could not tear the carriage. There is a built-in mechanism that can be raised to seal the windows, so that even if it falls into the river, water cannot seep in. The axle and wheel are made of copper, and the axle and wheel are connected with the rabbit country and the rabbit, tied with leather, and the wheel is covered with leather, which makes it quite smooth to move.

There's plenty of space in the car, enough space for four people to sit cross-legged, and there's a small table in the middle. The bottom is cushioned with thick felt produced in Shasu Country, and when you step on it, half of your foot falls into it, and the tea on the table ripples slightly, and you don't feel any vibration. Feng Zhong propped his elbows on the table and held his forehead with his hands, and the Son of Heaven ordered him to go and investigate the prince's manor in Yanshan, which made him feel very embarrassed. As the governor of the secret guard, the prince couldn't hide his amusement in Yanshan, he heard that there were many beauties from the north and south in the manor, and the prince often drank and had fun with his close ministers in it. However, how to inform the Son of Heaven of such a thing, and offend the prince according to the truth, and in the future, the prince will ascend the throne, and he will not end well; Conceal it for the prince, once the Son of Heaven learns the truth, then his own secret guard supervisor and even the chief eunuch of the palm seal will be done.

Picking up the lukewarm tea, Feng Zhong took a sip. The tea is a newly picked nectar tea this year, which is fragrant, but Feng Zhong drank a little bitterness unique to Anlong tea, and the current difficulty is still to find someone to discuss. Sighing softly, Feng Zhong thought of Huang Xilai, if this kid was here, he would definitely be able to come up with a good idea, but it was a pity that he sent him to Lingzhou half a month ago, where Long Wei found traces of the Yuan Tianjiao people.

Gently knocked on the side panel, Feng An next to the car heard it, and ordered in a loud voice: "The governor has an order, and the carriage and horses are suspended." ”

The carriage stopped at the side of the road, and the guards dispersed to prevent pedestrians from approaching, Feng An came to the carriage and asked, "Godfather, what do you have to tell the child?" ”

"Go and ask Mr. Yan to get in the car and talk." Feng Zhong's voice came from inside the car.

Mr. Yan Yan Qingze, a native of Fangzhou, is the son of the current exam. Feng Zhong felt that Huang Xi was gradually becoming more and more difficult, and there were not enough strategists around him, so he took the opportunity to find a strategist in Beijing, and this Mr. Yan was the wise man he had found in every possible way.

Whether it was Long Wei or Secret Guard, it didn't feel good to the world, and Yan Qingze didn't accept Feng Zhong's recruitment at first. Feng Zhong knew that talents were rare, so he invited Yan Qingze to a banquet five times, treated him as a teacher, and bought a set of three-entry mansions in Buzheng Fang and gave it to him. Yan Qingze was moved by Feng Zhong and agreed to join the secret guard, Feng Zhong was overjoyed, and immediately appointed Yan Qingze as the seventh-grade secretary, and promised to promote him to the sixth-grade canon in three years.

Yan Qingze was deeply moved, and tried his best to drive Feng Zhong away, and in the twenty days since he took office, he made plans to rectify the secret guard system, dispersed the forces of Deputy Governor Huang Xi, and secretly suggested to Feng Zhong that Deputy Governor Huang should go out more to compete with Long Wei and rarely appear in front of the Son of Heaven.

Yan Qingze boarded the carriage, saluted Feng Zhong, and sat down cross-legged opposite him. The carriage was very large, and the two of them didn't feel cramped at all, Feng Zhong poured a cup of tea for Yan Qingze, knocked on the carriage, Feng An understood, and the convoy moved forward again.

After tasting the tea first, Yan Qingze said with a smile: "This is this year's new tea, good tea, it's manna tea." ”

"If the gentleman likes it, I will send someone to deliver some to the gentleman's house." Feng Zhongdao. He has a good impression of Yan Qingze, this scholar has no sour taste, he is free and easy, and his eyes reveal integrity, unlike others who show flattery or fear when they look at themselves.

"Thank you, my lord", Yan Qingze arched his hand and said: "Yan sent someone to take his family to Beijing, and he made a good dish in the cheap, when the governor has time to enjoy the light and go to the house for a light meal, Yan expressed his gratitude." ”

Feng Zhong had eaten countless banquets, and unceremoniously said that he was tired of the imperial food in the palace, but the family banquet invited by Yan Qingze made him feel warm, and he agreed with a smile: "Let's talk about it in a few days, your family has just arrived in Beijing, and the family needs to be taken care of, so don't worry." ”

"The Governor is worried about the affairs of the Prince Yanshan Manor?" Yan Qingze asked.

"Do you want Mr. to teach me?" Feng Zhong opened the curtain of the car, and a ray of sunlight entered through the window, shining on the pale yellow tea water, and the misty tea mist was growing upwards invisibly.

Yan Qingze has passed the age of standing, with a three-inch-long black beard, and habitually reaches out to pull his beard when he thinks. Feng Zhong looked at Yan Qingze's black and translucent beard with some envy, he entered the palace at the age of seven, and the beard was cut off from him, the more he didn't have it, the more eager he was, as long as he went out on business, Feng Zhong always liked to stick a fake beard.

"This matter is indeed a bit tricky", Yan Qingze muttered: "Since the Son of Heaven asked the Governor to investigate, he must have heard some rumors, but I don't know where the Son of Heaven got the news?" Duke, but someone reported the prince's affairs to the Son of Heaven? ”

Feng Zhong thought for a while and said, "The Son of Heaven is busy with the exam, no one should mention it to him. Today's Huazhou Assassin Jiang Anyi made a pilgrimage, could it be that he said something? ”

"Master Jiang, it shouldn't be him. Master Jiang is a direct bachelor of Chongwenguan, and I heard that there is a teacher-student friendship between him and the prince, and even if he wants to admonish, he will directly admonish the prince, and will not report to the Son of Heaven in private. Yan Qingze shook his head and said: "It happened suddenly, the governor has paid more attention to the situation in the palace during this time, so that he has a good plan in his heart." In the current situation, the humble position believes that the seven truths and three falsehoods should be reported to the Son of Heaven. Feng Zhong saw that Yan Qingze had an idea in a moment, and asked with a smile: "What are the seven realities and three voids?" ”

"Since the Son of Heaven has decreed, the matter in the prince's manor can no longer be hidden, but the governor needs to downplay the part that implicates the prince, and the matter may as well be pushed to the people around the prince, after all, the prince is only sixteen years old and is easily seduced. For the sake of the crown prince and the venerable, for the sake of the country, even if the Son of Heaven knows the truth in the future, he will not blame the governor. ”

The carriage stopped at the foot of Yanshan Mountain, and Feng Zhong raised his head from his contemplation and said, "Just according to Mr.'s words." ”

When Feng Zhong and Yan Qingze discussed countermeasures, Princess Anshou took her son Wei Yunlin into the palace, thinking that the queen mother missed her grandson, but she unexpectedly found that Shi Fangzhen was also there, and she was stunned.

Wei Yunlin was very happy to see Shi Fangzhen, ran over and hugged his legs, and said loudly: "Grandpa, every time you come, you are busy, Daddy said that you eat 10,000 chickens a day, can you eat so many chickens, Lin'er is full after eating two chicken legs." ”

Shi Fangzhen was stunned by what Wei Yunlin said, what day to eat ten thousand chickens, An Shou smiled on the side: "Lin'er must not be rude." Father, Cheng said that you have a lot of opportunities every day, and this kid is recorded as eating ten thousand chickens a day. ”

Everyone laughed, Shi Fangzhen picked up his grandson and sat on his lap, and asked, "Does Lin'er like to eat chicken, shall we eat boneless chicken tonight?" Liu Weiguo smiled secretly, long live the noon meal in his mind, it seems that he didn't eat well, and he has to explain a few words to the imperial chef when he passes the meal, otherwise the taste is not palatable, and he will have to lose his job.

In recent years, several new princes and princesses have been added to the palace, but they are not as close to Shi Fangzhen as An Shou, the prince and King Chu'an, Wei Yunlin, as the first grandchild, is particularly favored by the next generation, and he is named Fu Kangbo without saying that he was born, and the reward for the New Year's holidays is also compared with the prince and even surpassed.

With Wei Yunlin's baby, the family talked and laughed, Liu Weiguo took the time to go to the food department and instructed a few words of imperial kitchen, the imperial chefs who can be in charge of the kitchen in the palace are naturally masters, and after listening to Liu Gonggong's explanation, he naturally knows how to cook, and a table of fragrant dishes is served when the meal is passed.

The dishes fried over the high heat were naturally crispy, Wei Yunlin was holding the chicken leg in his hand, holding shrimp balls in his mouth, staring at the lamb chops and screaming deliciously, even Queen Wang said depressedly: "Today's meal seems to be more delicious than in the past." ”

Shi Fangzhen knew the reason, and said with a smile: "Today, I went to the neighborhood restaurant, the chef of the restaurant is different from the palace, and the fire has a different taste, but it is not appropriate to eat more, and it is okay to change the taste occasionally." ”

Turning his face to look at An Shou, who was drinking soup, Shi Fangzhen said coldly: "In the restaurant, I heard a few rumors about the prince, I don't know if An Shou has ever heard of it. ”

There was an uproar at the words, the soup spoon in An Shou's hand shook, the fish soup spilled on the table, the monkey's mane mushroom on the queen's chopsticks slipped and fell on the yellow stewed meat, and the mother and daughter looked at each other in horror.

Shi Fangzhen saw the expressions of his wife and daughters and knew that they knew the truth, so he couldn't help but be furious, slapped the table heavily, and shouted, "You are so bold, you dare to deceive me." ”

The Son of Heaven was angry, even as a wife and daughter, he was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, Wei Yunlin didn't know why, and when he saw the emperor's grandfather angry, he was so frightened that he cried "Wow Wow". Shi Fangzhen hurriedly said: "Lin'er, don't cry, you don't sit back yet, Lin'er will cry in fear." ”

Queen Wang and An Shou stood up according to their words, the matter involved the prince, the two did not dare to be careless, An Shou considered it and said: "My daughter heard Cheng mention some time ago that the close ministers next to the prince invited his younger brother to go out of the city to hunt on the grounds of practicing riding and archery, and sometimes brought the prey to the manor to cook and drink. The daughter thought that her younger brother was an adult, these were trivial things, and she didn't dare to alarm her father, so she mentioned it to the queen mother when she entered the palace, and asked the queen mother to remind her younger brother. ”

Queen Wang took over and said: "The concubine specifically asked Wei'er, and Wei'er said that she only occasionally went to the manor to rest. The manor was uncleaned, so the vassals of the East Palace offered some women to sweep, and the matter of raising courtesans was purely a rumor. If you don't believe it, you might as well summon Wei'er to come and inquire. ”

Shi Fang has already believed in eight points in his heart, his son is still good at his own family, Wei'er was personally educated, but he has been busy with the Northern Expedition in the past two years, and handed over the responsibility of cultivating the prince to the people of Chongwenguan, and Jiang Anyi and Zhang Zhicheng were appointed by themselves, and Liu Yichen, Wang Zhixing, Cui Yuanhu and others who stayed with the prince are mostly children of the family, and it is inevitable that the prince will like extravagance.

In the evening, Feng Zhongyu reported on the investigation of Yanshan Manor, and learned that the prince rarely went to the manor, and the women in the manor were all sent by the close ministers around the prince, Shi Fangzhen breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the prince is innocent, and the rumors are really hateful.

"Feng Zhong, you send someone to check, where did the rumors that say that the prince likes to travel and raise courtesans come from, it seems that I am too magnanimous, these people even dare to make up the rumors of the prince." Shi Fangzhen remembered the words he heard in the restaurant today, and commanded with an angry face.