Cao Wenzhao was stunned in place, he only had a one-sided relationship with King Xiaofu, but he didn't expect him to be willing to help. Cao Wenzhao smiled bitterly and asked, "I don't know why King Fu saved me?" ”

Zhou Shuye hid a smile on his face, and said leisurely: "What the prince means, how dare you speculate in the future, but he is just acting on orders, if the general really wants to know, you might as well go and ask in person, I believe that the prince will be happy to tell the general in person." ”

Cao Wenzhao was bitter in his heart, and the person in front of him who was blessed with the king had no intention of soliciting. But King Fu is a vassal king after all, if he really recruits himself, he is afraid that the plot is not small, and if he goes to the palace, he is afraid that he will be a chaotic minister and thief in the future. If what he expected was wrong, King Fu really saved himself out of morality, then he is just a commoner now, and it is useless to go to the palace, but King Fu's mansion has raised an extra idler.

Thinking of this, Cao Wenzhao had already decided that he couldn't go to Luoyang now. He is a down-and-out person, and after figuring it out, he no longer hesitated, and said to Zhou Shuye: "Cao is just a commoner now, rescued by King Fu, grateful to Dade, how embarrassed to go to the palace with a thick face." The kindness of King Fu is remembered by our uncle and nephew, and if there is a chance to repay it in the future, we will definitely go to the soup and fire. After speaking, he turned around and said to his nephew Cao Bianjiao: "Let's go, let's go back to our hometown in Liaodong, you have a little official position in the army, don't do it." ”

Cao Bianjiao snorted coldly, and said viciously: "Let's fight in front of the blood, and in the end we were squeezed out and framed by this group of pickled villains, these days in order to save my uncle, I can't help but bow my head and laugh, I have long had the anger of the sky, even if I am promoted to ten levels, I will not do this tattered court official!" Our uncles and nephews are such heroes, why should they be angry with this group of dogs here, it is better to go back to their hometown and live happily. ”

Zhou Shuye saw that they had made up their minds to go, and they had already resented the court between their words, so he could only take out a stack of silver tickets and said: "Since Uncle Ling has made up his mind to go back to the township, it is inconvenient to stay with each other in the next place. ”

"I can get out of the prison of the Criminal Department alive, I already owe the prince a great favor, how can I accept the money of the palace again." Cao Wenzhao couldn't help it, and refused to accept it.

Cao Bianjiao disagreed, raised his eyebrows and said, "Uncle, Mr. Zhou didn't know that he had spent hundreds of times more money to save you, and it wasn't bad at all, so why bother." ”

Cao Wenzhao smiled heartily and laughed at himself: "That's right, it's me who is coy, then I will accept it, thank you for your kindness, tell Wang Ye for me, if there is a dispatch in the future, our uncle and nephew will be on call." Farewell, sir! ”

Zhou Shuye watched them leave, and only then turned around and walked back to the carriage until he couldn't see their backs. Although the situation of the Cao family's uncle and nephew is different from his own, he is also a fallen person, and he can more or less feel their resentment. At the beginning, I didn't think I was full of talent, but I tried and failed, and my dignity was crushed by this dark society.

Looking at the hustle and bustle of the streets of Beijing, bustling with six official offices, connected together like a devouring giant beast, Zhou Shuye sighed and said to himself: "If it weren't for the little prince, I Zhou Shuye wouldn't know what it would be like now." ”

The horseman who drove the car was an old man brought by the palace, and he knew that this Mr. Zhou's daughter was the favorite concubine of the little prince. When I first entered the palace, I secretly glanced at it, and the size and appearance were better than the fairy in the painting. The old horse came to Fu to think that Zhou Shuye must be a rising tide, and followed him with a great future, and said flatteringly: "Master Zhou, shall we go home?" ”

Zhou Shu got into the carriage at night and shouted through the curtain: "Go back." ”

Laifu got the letter, sat on the wheel, raised the whip beautifully, and the carriage was on the bluestone slab, slowly moving forward. As soon as they arrived at the door, a small guy hurriedly ran over, pulled the curtain, and shouted on tiptoe: "Master Zhou, there is a little father-in-law in the palace, saying that there are 100,000 urgent things to see you, and I have been waiting for a while." ”

Zhou Shu was shocked at night, the palace did not have its own cronies in the palace, and who could find him here at this time. And there is a letter in the palace, it must be extraordinary, Zhou Shuye hurriedly jumped out of the carriage and said urgently: "Where is the little father-in-law?" Hurry up and lead the way. ”

The little servant led him to a hall, and sure enough, there was a little eunuch in palace clothes with a white face and a thin body waiting. He was ordered to come to deliver the message, but unexpectedly Zhou Shuye happened to be absent, the little eunuch was so anxious that he kept walking around the hall, and when he saw that someone finally came, he stepped forward and asked, "Are you Zhou Shuye, Lord Zhou?" ”

"Don't dare to be, it's Zhou Shuye below, I don't know what the little father-in-law has to tell me?"

The little eunuch breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's time to wait for you, I am the godson of the Imperial Horse Supervisor Lu Jiude Lu's father-in-law, my godfather asked me to come out and tell Lord Zhou something big, you come over quickly." "This is a private house, but the little eunuch knows that what he said is too serious, so he has to be cautious.

The Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Master of Ceremonies are the two most important of the 24 eunuchs in the Imperial Palace. Lu Jiude, as the supervising eunuch of the Imperial Horse Eunuch, in addition to the palm seal eunuch, belongs to his largest position and is the second-in-command of the Imperial Horse Eunuch. In fact, with his qualifications, he could have already palmed the imperial horse eunuch, but he was born in the line of King Fu, and he was serving the family of King Fu Zhu Changxun in the palace at that time. Later, the crown prince Zhu Changluo became the emperor, and he would naturally be excluded, so he became a mere supervising eunuch.

Zhou Shuye knew the relationship between Lu Jiude and the Fu Palace, and he had a banquet with him in the palace at that time, how could it be a trivial matter for him to send his righteous son and little eunuch to pass the word so anxiously. Hurriedly bent over and leaned over, the little eunuch looked left and right, attached it and said, "Godfather, let me tell you that Your Majesty is critically ill, and Wei Zhongxian summoned the East and West Factories with the intention of being unfavorable to the prince." ”

After the little eunuch finished speaking, he raised his head and asked, "Can you hear clearly?" ”

Zhou Shuye nodded and said, "Little father-in-law, go slowly, I won't send it." Rifle, drive the carriage and take the little father-in-law out the back door, remember, go around a few times and come back. ”

After the little eunuch left, Zhou Shuye unfolded his clenched fists, his palms were full of sweat. Wei Zhongxian had a thief's heart for the Fuwang Mansion, and he had long been aware of it, but he never expected that the young emperor Zhu Youxiao would have such a short life.

Originally, Zhu Youxiao was frightened when he fell into the water, and it was not so serious, but he ate the "immortal medicine" offered by Huo Weihua, the right attendant of the military department, every day, and then he suddenly became critically ill. Throughout the ages, the greatest hobby of the emperor of Huaxia was to ask for medicine from immortals. But what they asked for was nothing more than the elixir refined by the monks. Most of these "elixirs" are stimulant drugs, and like drugs, the supreme pleasure of a moment in the mind is exchanged for serious wear and tear on the body.

As soon as Zhu Youxiao was critically ill, Wei Zhongxian immediately messed up, only when he became depressed because of the situation in Kaifeng, he was bent on sending good news to Zhu Youxiao, maybe he could get better.

In this way, he was angry with Zhu Yousong, who was besieging but not attacking, and had already gathered his subordinates to prepare to collect evidence of Zhu Yousong's crime. But the two major spy agencies under him, the East and West Factory, had Lu Jiude's cronies and secretly told Lu Jiude. Lu Jiude was shocked, for fear that King Xiaofu would be overshadowed by him, so he sent his own righteous son to send a message to the people in the capital, hoping that the little prince could take precautions and get out safely.