This is probably the most restrained and vivid meal Tang Haoqi has eaten since he entered the palace.

He secretly glanced at Shi Yuezhen beside him, and unsurprisingly received a roll of her eyes.

Tang Haoqi pursed his lips, and then turned his gaze to Luo Liyao, who was sitting on the opposite side, and Luo Xizheng, who was light and even kept putting meat into Luo Liyao's bowl.

Life is not easy, Xiao Tang sighed.

The princess doesn't like meat very much, so why keep giving her meat, why don't you give it to me...... Tang Haoqi looked at the various kinds of meat in front of Luo Liyao that were about to pile up like a hill in front of him, and felt that he was simply miserable, and he didn't know if he could sneak out of the palace and go to Wangyue Tower to have another good meal.

Anyway, you don't need money, and you can eat all-you-can-eat meat.

"Why do you look like you have kidney deficiency?" Shi Yue really couldn't see his appearance, and pushed the plate of pork belly chicken in front of him in front of him, "While you haven't married a wife yet, you can make up for it." ”

Tang Haoqi's chopsticks that he was about to stretch out stopped in mid-air, a little unexpected, and more surprised by Shi Yuezhen's words, and more surprised by her current openness.

You've become more and more real, you're no longer the blushing girl I knew, you're now more like an open society than I am.

"I ...... I don't need this to make up for anything! He blushed in an instant and explained, "And I'm only a good seventeen-year-old young man!" ”

"The third young master of the Wang family already had seven or eight concubines when he was sixteen years old, what about you?" Shi Yue was really unhurried, and even took a bowl of pork rib soup in his hand, and replied to him, "Look at you, what a failure." ”

I'm sorry, I forgot that now is not my time.

You're right.

Tang Haoqi was aggrieved, so he simply turned his grievances into appetite, and feasted on the pork belly chicken that Shi Yuezhen had just pushed over, revealing his true face in an instant.

"Slow down, slow down, what to eat!" Shi Yuezhen looked disgusted, but he still carefully helped him fill a bowl of soup, "Eat slowly, don't choke!" ”

"And no one is robbing you." Luo Liyao finally picked out some green vegetables from the pile of meat in front of her, and glanced at Tang Haoqi with some resentment, and there was some envy in her tone.

Tang Haoqi: "......"

You guys be normal, don't do this, I'm scared.

"Eat more." Luo Xizheng persevered, and continued to put meat on the plate in front of Luo Liyao, "You are too thin." ”

"I can't eat anymore." Luo Liyao sighed softly, put the jade chopstick on the edge of the bowl, and gently knocked a water-blue bracelet on the edge of the bowl in her hand, making a pleasant "jingling" sound.

After that, without waiting for everyone's reaction, she hurriedly got up and walked towards the inner sanctum, moving as fast as if someone was chasing her from behind.

Shi Yue

Zhenye got up, glanced at Luo Xizheng, and gently pushed Tang Haoqi, who was still immersed in hard work: "The courtiers will retreat first and boil the medicine." ”

Tang Haoqi was picking up rice in his mouth, and was pushed inexplicably, and his breathing was a little unsteady in an instant.

"Ahem......" Tang Haoqi hammered his chest a few times, and finally didn't choke himself, "Yue Zhen, good sister, you spend at least five or six hours of your twelve hours a day boiling medicine, you're too busy, right-ahhh In front of Your Majesty, you should give some face! ”

"No, do you think Your Majesty will pay attention to you?" Shi Yuezhen's hand holding his ear silently used a little more force, causing him to scream again, "You might as well scream quietly, Princess Yao has always had a habit of taking a lunch break." ”

Tang Haoqi was immediately silenced, because he felt Luo Xizheng's slightly threatening gaze on the other side.

A medical idiot, a sister control, sure enough, I am the most statusless tool person.

Tang Haoqi pursed his lips, put down his chopsticks very reluctantly and gloomily, and left with Shi Yuezhen.

Luo Xizheng saw all this in his eyes, and inexplicably felt a little funny, and even the gloomy mood that was a little relieved because Ning Zhong took away the fold was a little. He shook his head helplessly, and also got up and followed Luo Liyao into the inner hall.

"Finally get down to business with me?" Luo Liyao had already covered the quilt and sat on the bed, holding the previous book in her hand, playing with the pages one by one.

"I've just told you the most important thing." Luo Xizheng smiled slightly, opened the curtain and sat on the edge of her bed as if he came in through the window at night as usual.

I didn't reverse the book this time. Luo Xizheng glanced at the book in her hand and said silently in her heart.

"Hmph." Luo Liyao keenly caught his eyes, looked at his smiling expression and instantly understood what he was thinking, and immediately snorted lightly, put down the book, and said, "It's not serious, let's get down to business." ”

"What's wrong?" Luo Xizheng took the book she put down in her hand and looked at it, it was a miscellaneous book of wild history, "I like to read this genre recently?" It's all made up by literati who have nothing to do, right? ”

"It's not that I want to see something famous, it's just interesting to watch." Luo Liyao nudged him gently, "Those stories in it are really interesting." ”

"Oh? What's the point? Wouldn't it be the story of a talented and intelligent commoner woman who once became a virtuous queen after the emperor's heart? Luo Xizheng casually flipped the pages of the book, and a faint scent of ink suddenly came to his face, and the rich fragrance of the rose dew in the hall was particularly sultry.

"How can it be ......" Luo Liyao patted him with some shame, half-forced him to close the book in his hand, and said, "Let's get down to business, but something didn't go well in the court?" ”

"Ning Zhong didn't want to give up power, and he returned it today

They sent for all the recitals to be taken away. Luo Xizheng closed the page, scratched the bridge of her nose, and said, "I have to find a way to clean up his power in the court." ”

When Luo Zhuang Xi was seriously ill, because he had not established a prince, all important government affairs were handled by Prime Minister Ning Zhong, including the review of the folds. But now, Luo Xizheng has successfully succeeded to the throne, and he is not a three-year-old child who doesn't know anything, so Ning Zhong should naturally return to him.

But he still took those folds away now, and didn't let them pass through Luo Xizheng's hands at all...... This is the attitude that has been made clear, and he does not want to delegate power.

He has been up and down in the court for many years, and his foundation and power are something they can't compete with now - now he just takes advantage of the fact that Luo Xizheng has just succeeded to the throne and the foundation is not stable, so that he can't ignore the importance of himself as a prime minister. Moreover, this is also a disguised use of the new emperor to establish his authority, if Luo Xizheng ignores this, it is to show weakness to him, the courtiers see that the emperor is soft in front of him, how many people dare to oppose him? But if Luo Xizheng wants to ask for guilt, he will definitely have a perfect exoneration rhetoric, and he may even beat him up, and in turn accuse Luo Xizheng of disrespecting his teachers and make the courtiers feel that he is going to attack the people who helped him as soon as he succeeds to the throne, which will greatly deepen the unnecessary suspicion between the monarch and the ministers.

If that happens, they will lose the initiative completely. Luo Xizheng will either be charged with "unkindness and injustice" and struggle in the subsequent governance, or he will delegate power to Ning Zhong, that is, be an almost puppet emperor.

Whether it is the suspicion of the monarch or the fall of power, it is not what an emperor wants to see.

Luo Liyao groaned slightly, and said tentatively, "What do you want to do?" ”

A generation of emperors and courtiers, it is difficult to say what Ning Zhongji's talent is, after all, he is just the son of a wealthy businessman, and he has not received any education from the children of official families at all. But when Luo Zhuangxi was in power, no one in the court could compete with him, was it because of the acquaintance when he was in Gongzi?

And when it comes to Gongzi, Luo Liyao has never taken the initiative to ask about Luo Xizheng's life before entering the palace - she never asked, and Luo Xizheng never said.

She just remembered one thing out of the blue...... Ning Zhongji also made a name for himself in the Tianqi Dynasty in the same year, and he also personally asked Luo Zhuang Xi to be Luo Xizheng's teacher.

Ning Zhong is Gongzi's person, and Zhao Tianyuan, the Empress Dowager Zhao, is also Gongzi's person, and the two are old friends. At that time, Empress Dowager Zhao brought Luo Xizheng to Tianqi, if she said that she had nothing to do with Ning Zhong, I am afraid that even a fool would not believe it. If this is the case, she will have to reconsider Ning Zhongji's position in Luo Xizheng's heart - Empress Dowager Zhao gave birth to him alone in Gongzi, and she can still know in time that Luo Zhuang Xi succeeded to the throne in Tianqi and brought him to Tianqi, which must have Ning Zhongji's help.

So, in Luo Xizheng's heart, what role did Ning Zhong play and what kind of status did he have?

This is what Luo Liyao first needs to figure out.

"He was appointed by his father, not me." Luo Xizheng easily heard the tentative meaning between her words, and touched her head with a smile, "If he threatens Tianqi, or even threatens ...... I'm not going to show mercy. ”

Luo Liyao blinked, it would be easier to do.

There are hundreds of people in the Shi family, and they died tragically in the prison because of the plague, and the final point of all the clues found by the secret guards and Mochizuki Tower is Ning Zhong, that is, one person. Although there is no direct evidence that he was involved, the available information does not confirm any motive for his motive to kill his master's family...... But no matter what, Luo Liyao has to find out.

"He has been operating in the court for many years, and his power is intertwined and can even be said to be deep-rooted, so take your time." Luo Liyao's index finger habitually rolled up a strand of long hair hanging down from her ear, "If you are in a hurry, it will inevitably make the people of Chaozhong panic, if you don't pay attention, and let them fight to break the net, it will be very cost-effective." ”

"Yao'er, have you come up with any great ideas?" The smile in Luo Xizheng's eyes was even worse, and he leaned closer to her and put on a posture of listening to her.

"You already thought about what you were going to do, but you just asked me a casual question, right?" Luo Liyao looked at him like this, and was a little deflated in an instant, "The original Taifu was so pitiful, he was deceived by you for so many years." ”

"When did I lie to him?" Luo Xizheng raised his eyebrows, "It was he who discovered you with his discernment—you are much better than me." ”

"Phew." Luo Liyao heard what he said, and only felt that her cheeks burned instantly, "Obviously, you show him every time you don't eat oil and salt, and when you ask about your homework, you just answer indiscriminately at the beginning when you say no...... If he finds out that you just deliberately manipulated him at that time, he will probably have another headache. ”

"He has been back to his hometown for so long, and I guess he is still wondering why I succeeded to the throne." Luo Xizheng couldn't help laughing, patted her cheek, only to feel that her hand was as warm as jade, and immediately touched it twice.

"Don't touch it!" Luo Liyao covered her cheeks with her hands and moved away from him, "You talk about your method first." ”

"There's nothing you can do." Luo Xizheng laughed so much that he almost fell on her bed, seeing that she kept shrinking inside and making gestures to pull her out.

"Hmph, say it quickly." Luo Liyao pursed her lips, let him pull herself to his side, wrapped herself in the quilt, and stretched out her hand to pull his arm - oh, hard, as soon as you touch it, you know that it is a man who has practiced martial arts all year round.

And, why did they have to wrap her up with something every time?

The more true it is, so is the royal brother.

Obviously, I'm not very cold.

Luo Xizheng smiled and pinned the broken hair on her cheek behind her ear, and said softly: "If you want to cut his power, naturally you can't come to him openly - we have to come secretly." ”

(End of chapter)