Lan Hongzhen stared at Lan Xing's eyes and asked very seriously.

Lan Xing's heart sank, in his memory, his father rarely talked to him so seriously, he was usually very kind and casual, but now he ......

Could it be that something important is happening?

"Yes, Erchen just went to see the emperor's grandmother and queen mother, father, what happened?"

He asked respectfully.

"Look at this."

Lan Hongzhen threw him a notebook, Lan Xinghu opened it suspiciously, and on it was a recital on the prefect of Jizhou, saying that there was a locust plague in Jizhou this year, and there was no harvest of grains, and I was afraid that I would not be able to survive the winter, so it was inevitable that the victims would riot, and asked the treasury to allocate 200,000 stone of grain for disaster relief.

The prefect of Jizhou, Lan Xing knows, is a distant uncle of his own, who has served as the prefect of Jizhou for many years, and he was a diligent person in the past, although there is no great achievement, there is no big mistake.

"Since there is no harvest of grains, why didn't you report the locust plague earlier? It's good to ask the relevant departments to take preventive measures as soon as possible! ”

Lanxing couldn't help but groan.

Now that winter has arrived, it has been two months since the autumn was received, and the Spring Festival is about to be celebrated, how will the victims survive the winter?

Besides, Jizhou is hundreds of miles away from the imperial capital, and the disaster relief food will not arrive for a while.

"Who says it's not, Xing'er, tell me, what should I do?"

"Father, the sons and daughters think that they can first transfer surplus grain from Qianzhou, Ganzhou and other places near Jizhou to go over for emergency, and the treasury has also stepped up to send people to transport the disaster relief grain, and strive to deliver it to the victims before the year, I hope they can have a stable year."

"This is a good idea," Lan Hongzhen nodded with satisfaction, beckoned Lan Xing to get closer to him, and then looked around vigilantly, and asked in a low voice, "You honestly tell your father, have you had nightmares recently?" ”

Lan Xing nodded and didn't speak, he was so tormented by that dream that he could only take a nap after a short break now almost at dawn.

Seeing Lan Xing's appearance, Lan Hongzhen nodded clearly, and then continued to ask, "Can you open the sword I gave you?" ”

Bluestar shook his head.

"This is strange, the national teacher clearly said that you can open that box just recently, is there something missing?"

The national teacher of the Southern Dynasty was a mysterious but unpredictable person, and he was also the only person in the Southern Dynasty whose status was higher than that of the emperor. Every time Wuji appears, he wears a golden mask, no one has ever seen his true face, I don't know how old he is, and I don't even know his gender.

He calls himself Wuji, can know the Southern Dynasty up and down for 5,000 years, can predict the life and death of good fortune and evil, understands astronomy and geography, and he was already a national teacher when Emperor Lan Hongzhen's grandfather was in power, so it can be said that the entire Southern Dynasty can survive so many years under his protection.

It's just that this high-status national teacher has a mysterious whereabouts, and often comes and goes without a trace, even if the emperor has something to look for him, he can't find anyone, don't look for him, he will occasionally appear in front of you.

Such a national teacher made Lan Hongzhen, the emperor, very helpless, but because of the emperor's grandfather's entrustment and the fact that he really needed to rely on this Wuji national teacher, he could only let him.

"Father, the national teacher said that I can't open it until I don't have nightmares."

Lan Xing reminded that in fact, Wuji National Master did say this in front of Lan Hongzhen, but what Lan Hongzhen said alone with Lan Xing behind his back was different.

Wuji once said to him, "If you want to open the sword in the box, you can only wait for the woman in your dream to be clear, and then ask her to help and ask her to help you willingly, otherwise no one can help you." ”

Lan Xing had never said this to anyone, and he had never said it to anyone else, even the vague figure of a woman in his dream.

"Is that so?"

Lan Hongzhen looked at his son, with handsome facial features, with the same royal momentum as himself, and there was no shadow of Queen Murong Qiuyue at all, but he was very much like the woman who had disappeared for many years and had no news.

He couldn't help but feel a sour feeling in his heart, and he closed his eyes fiercely, trying to take his thoughts back.

That's it, everything you owe her to the child in front of you.

"Father, what's wrong with you? Do you want to call the imperial doctor to take a look? ”

Lan Xing saw that Lan Hongzhen's expression was different, and he couldn't help but ask with some concern.

"No, it's just a reminder of the past."

Lan Hongzhen smiled a little sadly, and then waved his hand.

"By the way, you're not too young, it's time to make a crown princess, do you have a favorite candidate?"

"Father, just now the queen mother and the imperial grandmother also proposed to the sons, and the sons think that it is better to set up a side concubine first, and the crown princess will choose the sons and daughters to consider it later."

If the woman in the dream really has someone who can help her, then she is. At the very least, leaving her a place as the crown princess can be regarded as a favor for her.

"That's okay, let your queen mother choose it and give me a look."

Lan Hongzhen nodded and said. In fact, he also roughly guessed who the queen would choose, forget it, it will be a test star, see how he copes.

"Thank you, Father."

"You stand down and let your aunt in."

"Yes, my son obeys."

After the blue star saluted, he turned and walked out of the main hall.

"Eh, Ah Xing, what did the imperial brother tell you? Why is it delayed for so long? ”

Lan Zilin grabbed Lan Xing, who was about to leave, and asked curiously, she had been waiting outside for a while, and she was almost impatient to see Lan Xing come out of it.

"Nothing. It's just some political matters, so it's better not to ask my aunt. ”

Lan Xing looked at his aunt with a serious face and warned. His father hated women to interfere in politics the most, even his mother was no exception, unless his father took the initiative to ask.

"Cut, who rarely knows the same, hum!"

Lan Zilin flattened her mouth, flicked her sleeves and stepped straight into the door of the imperial study, and Xiao Zhuozi and Gonggong Zheng on the side lowered their heads and didn't dare to lift them.

Lan Xing shook his head, his aunt was spoiled after all.

"Brother Prince! You wait! ”

When Lan Xing left the imperial study and walked through the cloister to return home, a young man about sixteen or seventeen years old wearing a brocade robe with gold silk embroidered moire stopped him.

Lan Xing looked back, and it was his younger brother Lan Yue who walked briskly towards him surrounded by a group of palace people.

Lan Yue's long eyebrows are clear and beautiful, her aura is extraordinary, her facial features are five points similar to Murong Qiuyue, and she also has Lan Hongzhen's wisdom and shrewdness in her eyes, mainly because her personality is also relatively easy-going, and she gets along with everyone, unlike Lan Xing, who has a cold face all day long, and is cold when he sees everyone.

For this reason, the queen always said that Lan Yue was an honest person and easy to be bullied, and always advised him to be careful in everything, after all, people like them who are in high positions are easy to be criticized and fall into the tongue if they are not careful.

And Lan Yue always felt that Murong Qiuyue was too cautious, there was only Murong Qiuyue in the harem, and there was no one to fight for the throne with his imperial brother, so what was there to fight in the palace. As for his uncles and uncles, most of them are divided into feudal feuds, and with Lan Xing, the rightful prince, who dares to rebel?

Every time Blue Moon refuted the queen like this, the queen just shook her head and sighed, and didn't say anything more.

"Brother Huang? Is there something wrong? ”

Lan Xing, who has always been cold and affectionate, was no exception to Lan Yue, and asked flatly. It was as if there was nothing in his life that could make him happy and sad.

"Brother Prince, I have a question for you!"

Blue Moon asked a little mysteriously. He turned to look at the palace people behind him, "Stand back, all stand back!" ”

Seeing this, the leading eunuch waved his hand to the people behind him, and then quickly retreated to a place three meters away to stand.

"Oops, retreat and retreat! Retreat to five meters, oh no, ten meters away! ”

Lan Yue waved her hand impatiently, so close, how could he whisper to the prince's brother?

"Second prince..."The leading eunuch spoke with some embarrassment.

"If you want to retreat, you will retreat, what are you rubbing? Do you have to make this prince angry? ”

Lan Yue frowned angrily and glared, these minions are becoming more and more disobedient to him, and one day he will have to replace them all.

"Yes!"

Seeing that Lan Yue was angry, the leading eunuch led the palace people below to bow down and retreat to the side, but they didn't dare to let Lan Yue out of their sight.

"This old guy is really..."

Lan Yue shook her head and muttered, then pulled Lan Xing's sleeve to the corner next to her, and whispered mysteriously,

"Brother Prince, have you been to Wanhualou outside?"

"Huh? What are you going to do there? ”

Lan Xinghu asked suspiciously.

Wanhualou is one of the best green buildings in the imperial capital, and it is also a place where some wealthy nobles usually entertain and have pastimes, it is said that the girls there are not selling their bodies, but who knows? Born in that kind of fireworks land, can there be clean people? He is a dignified prince of the Southern Dynasty, what is he going to do in that kind of place?

"I didn't go!"

Blue Moon said with a blushing face.

"So what do you ask? That's not the place to be! ”

Lan Xing warned in a low voice, to let the civil and military officials and the people of Li know that the prince of the Southern Dynasty often patronized the brothel of the Qinglou, can't it be said that the father's royal education is not strict and there is no way to govern the country?

"I... I just want to know if there's a woman named Jiang Zhu in there..."

Blue Moon whispered, slowly lowering her head, and there was a hint of redness at the base of her ears.

"You ask me, who do I ask?"

Lan Xing looked at his younger brother's appearance, and generally understood, it seems that this kid is probably in love with that girl, but he doesn't want to pay attention to him.

His identity as a dignified son, what kind of woman can't be found? Besides, the woman in the land of fireworks doesn't even have the qualifications to be a palace maid in the palace, what else does he want?

Lan Xing thought helplessly, turned around and wanted to leave, but his sleeve was pulled by Lan Yue, and he looked at him with a pair of watery and misty eyes,

"Brother Prince, can you take me there to have a look?"

"No way!"

Bluestar couldn't help but refuse. Heh, is he the one who goes to that kind of place? I guess I was smoked and vomited before I even reached the door.

"But only you can take me out of the palace..."

Lan Yue's voice was very small, with a hint of grievance and resentment.

Lan Xing was a little unbearable, the queen always felt that Yue'er was small, and never let him go out of the palace without permission, even if there was something to go out of the palace, it was a huge group of people, palace maids, guards and eunuchs, and a person who served would not be left behind.

On the contrary, compared to herself, the queen mother can be said to be in a state of free-range. He asked to live in the prince's mansion outside the palace, and the queen didn't even keep it, but agreed that he took away Mama Han, who had served him for many years, and sent some subordinates who were quite clever to the prince's mansion. Usually, I never asked myself to enter the palace on the fifteenth day of the new year to ask for peace, so I didn't blame much, and I didn't care much about that. In the queen's own words, she always said that Xing'er was mature and steady, and she didn't need to worry too much.

However, Lan Xing always had the illusion that he would rather Murong Qiuyue could restrain himself as he restrained Lan Yue, so that he could see his existence in the eyes of the Queen Mother.

"Take you out of the palace? If the queen mother knows, she still can't worry about death? ”

Blue Star did not agree to Blue Moon's proposal.

"If only you didn't let her know!"