Gonggong Huang leaned down and whispered in the emperor's ear: "Your Majesty, it's time to apply." ”

The emperor opened his eyes, got up lazily, stretched out his hands, and Gonggong Huang helped the emperor smooth the creases on the dragon robe and bring the gold and jade to the emperor to buckle up.

I slept for half an hour today, and I didn't feel like the drowsiness and fatigue after the afternoon nap in the past, but I was refreshed and full of energy.

The emperor's gaze swept over Xue Pingping, and gently spit out a word: "Reward." ”

Huang Gonggong smiled and helped the emperor to sit in front of the imperial case, and the emperor was about to read the excerpts.

Xue Pingping thought in his heart, what would the emperor reward him? In this way, the emperor is still very satisfied with his performance?

was about to retreat, but the emperor pointed at him and said, "You come to serve pen and ink." Huang Gonggong, who was about to grind the ink, paused for a moment, then moved to the side with a smile, and waited for Xue Pingping to step forward and give him the ink ingot.

The royal case was piled up into a hill, but the emperor was in a good mood and the review was very fast. I can't say why, the emperor just thinks that this Xue Pingping can be trusted. Probably people are like this, whoever makes himself comfortable, will have trust in that person, or rely on that person.

Xue Pingping quietly stared at his ink-grinding hand, not daring to glance around, in case he accidentally saw any secrets, he would get into trouble.

Gonggong Li came in from outside, bowed his waist and said, "Tell the emperor, Princess Yaohua asks to see you." ”

"Announce her in." The emperor put down the fold in his hand, looked at the door with a smile on his face. Xue Pingping also retreated behind Huang Gonggong.

Princess Yaohua flew in lightly like a cheerful bird, and her voice was like a yellow warbler out of the valley: "Father, look at what treasure your son has brought you?" As he spoke, he threw himself at the emperor's feet, holding a white jade statue with both hands, like a bird returning to the nest, putting away his edge, smiling innocently, and waiting for the emperor's boast with anticipation.

The emperor took the things in her hand, hurriedly helped her up, and said, "It's cold on the ground, sit down next to my father." "There was a thick blanket on the floor, and it wasn't cold at all. Princess Yaohua took the emperor's hand and sat on the dragon chair, which was wide and padded with several layers of mink, soft and comfortable.

"Father, look at it, do you like it or not?"

The emperor took a good look at the white jade statue in his hand, the jade is of high quality, warm and transparent, the tentacles are cold, and the carved people have six or seven points of imagination with Princess Yaohua, this is exactly the appearance of Princess Yaohua's biological mother, a beautiful woman with a clear and jade smile, smiling and smiling, with affection, extremely realistic.

"How do you send this to my father?" The emperor asked softly.

"Father, three days will be my birthday, and then I will go out of the palace to live, I can't be with my father every day, this statue is given to my father, let her accompany you for me." Princess Yaohua's tone was slow and low, revealing a thick and reluctant tone.

"You can also come to the palace every day to greet your father." The emperor is also reluctant in his heart, this is the only bloodline between him and his beloved woman, but unfortunately, the beauty did not escape the trapping and calculation in the palace and lost her life. So, he took this daughter with him since she was a child, doubled down on her pampering and protection, and watched her grow into a slim girl. But when her daughter is older, she will leave her after all.

"Even so, it's not like you can come if you want to, if you want to hand over the sign, how can it be convenient to live in the palace?" Princess Yaohua said coquettishly: "Father, can you not drive me out of the palace?" ”

"Which of your brothers didn't leave the palace at sixteen and opened their own mansion? Your sisters, sixteen or seventeen, have attached horses, there are many people who are dissatisfied with your father's favor of you, you are eighteen, and if you don't go out of the palace, you will have to recruit people. Otherwise, you will marry. ”

"I don't want to get married, then I'd better go out of the palace and live by myself!" Princess Yaohua pursed her lips.

"How's the birthday party going?" The emperor turned his head and asked Huang Gonggong.

Huang Gonggong replied: "All the divisions are doing their best, don't dare to slack off, and the Queen Mother is also staring at it, everything is ready." ”

Princess Yaohua also turned her head to look at Huang Gonggong, but found that there was another person beside him, a handsome boy with a jade tree in the wind, and a flash of lightning flashed in her mind, and she immediately remembered that this person was the last time she saw it in the restaurant, but, how could he appear in his father's imperial study?

"Father, why are you still hiding people here?" Princess Yaohua's big eyes were shining, staring at Xue Pingping in a flash.

"This is General Wang's person, and my father has something to do with him." Looking at his daughter's curious eyes, the emperor didn't want to say more, how many people in the court wanted to climb her high branch, and they couldn't just look at a pair of skins.

"The prime minister's son Xiao Rufeng is close to you, what do you think of him?" The emperor asked tentatively.

"He's boring. There are two faces in front of me and in front of others, and I hate them the most. Princess Yaohua didn't want to say much about Xiao Rufeng, so she changed her words: "Father, I want to go and see my mansion tomorrow." ”

"I said that I was reluctant to leave the palace, so I can't wait? Okay, let General Wang personally escort you tomorrow. ”

"It's not that you don't agree with me staying in the palace?" Princess Yaohua squeezed her eyes at the emperor embarrassedly, and said seriously: "General Wang should stay by your side, your safety is the most important thing." Just bring a few guards with me tomorrow. ”

After gossiping for a while, Princess Yaohua retired, walked to the door, and glanced back at Xue Pingping.

The emperor drank a cup of tea and continued to approve the folds, but he didn't mean to let Xue Pingping retreat, so he had to continue to grind the ink quietly.

"Your name is Xue Pingping, right?" The emperor asked seemingly casually while looking at the excerpt.

Xue Pingping immediately put down the ink ingot in his hand and replied respectfully: "Back to the emperor, exactly." ”

"What do you do at home?"

"My father is Xue Fugui, a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and my grandfather was a feudal man."

The emperor nodded and did not speak again. Jian'an Hou Xue Fugui, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, this person can be seen every day, every day in the court, following others and others, there is no sense of existence, I can't imagine that it is his son, I don't know if this Xue Pingping has any other skills besides serving people?

Half an hour passed, and half of the twists and turns on the imperial case had been reduced, and the emperor felt that his eyes were a little sore, he put down the pen in his hand, and pinched his eyebrows with one hand.

Xue Pingping immediately saw the opportunity to act, "Your Majesty, let me help you press it." ”

The emperor put down his hand, glanced at him, and nodded. Xue Pingping cleaned his hands again, rubbed his hands hot, stood behind the emperor, pushed and pressed from his Yintang acupoint to the direction of the temple, repeated several times, and then from the Yintang to the Baihui acupoint on the top of the head, and then pushed to the wind pool, along the high bone behind the ear, to the entire head, sometimes gently, sometimes pressurized, under his hands, the emperor felt that his head gradually lost the dull and tired feeling, only felt comfortable.

It's really strange, the doctor also gave him massage on weekdays, but he only felt pain in his skin and flesh, and refused to press it again. The concubines in the harem also massaged him, but the force was too light, and he couldn't press the point, he always felt that he was tickling, and the fatigue became flirting, and the last love did not relax, but was more tired. The father-in-law who served beside him often took care of it, but he was always itching through his boots, and he didn't feel so comfortable.

The emperor closed his eyes, and his head shook gently with Xue Pingping's movements.

Gonggong Liu came in again and said: "Your Majesty, Sun Siyi, the secretary of the household department, and Zhao Chang'an, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, asked to see him, saying that there is something important to report." ”

"Xuan!"