As the emperor spoke, he simply put the drawings aside, picked up his cup and took a sip of green tea, and his words solved a particularly big question in Xiao Huai'an's heart.

"Yes, Wechen wrote it down."

And outside the door, the old eunuch Dequan, who came back with the awakening soup, was also really curious, the doors and windows were locked, and the emperor and Xiao Huai'an were talking about something, and successfully listened to the conversation between the two.

"The fifth prince, I am used to knowing how to please His Majesty." Dequan had gloomy eyes, gritted his teeth angrily, he handed the awakening soup to the godson next to him, and he hurried to the harem with the whisk.

You have to tell the queen mother quickly, so that the third prince can prepare earlier.

In the study, it's a pity that Xu Ruzhu took the first step and dealt with the back road so quickly, which made Xiao Huai'an's trip today for no reason.

The emperor put the cup down, saw that Xiao Huai'an had finished the drawings, and asked him to put them away on the bookshelf, when he suddenly remembered to ask.

"By the way, Huai'an, did you enter the palace today, I saw that you were in a hurry when you came, why didn't you speak for a long time."

After hearing this, Xiao Huai'an showed a calm and relaxed attitude, calmly put the drawings back, and stepped forward and bowed his hand respectfully to the emperor.

"Back to Your Majesty, don't worry about it, the envoy will be able to enter Beijing in a few days, Weichen will come back and forth to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites has arranged everything properly, please rest assured."

"With your supervision, I can naturally rest assured," the emperor smiled lightly and waved his hand, and by the way, he picked up the unfinished fold on the table, his eyes resting on the contents of the paper, but his mouth was talking to him.

"But you don't have to, it's all the credit of the Ministry of Rites, what kind of person Li Shangshu is, I know very well in my heart, if you want him to cooperate obediently, it must have wasted a lot of your effort."

"As a courtier, since he should serve His Majesty, Li Shangshu is really a bit arrogant." Xiao Huai'an agreed.

"Hehe, you are reminding me not to be too fond of my subordinates, and when the envoys come to Beijing in a few days, Li Shangshu can take this opportunity to show off his might, and he should indeed let him know how to converge."

The emperor chuckled and said, Xiao Huai'an hurriedly bowed his head and bowed his hand, "Weichen doesn't dare, Your Majesty is wise and arbitrary, so he naturally has a plan." ”

As soon as he heard this, the emperor raised his head and looked at Xiao Huai'an with a meaningful expression, "When do you and I need to care about so many false courtesies between the monarch and the minister, if there is nothing to do, you can go, I am afraid that there may not be peace in Beijing these days." ”

"Yes." Xiao Huai'an lowered his eyes, and couldn't help admiring the emperor's foresight, he really had a furrow in his chest.

On the other side, the queen learned from Dequan that the five princes intended to compete with Xu Rulie for the throne, and immediately couldn't eat, so she hurriedly asked the magpie to find Xu Rulie.

Xu Rulie was reluctantly pulled by the magpie to the queen's palace, and the queen immediately preached him, "Let you pay attention to everything first, and now the son of the virtuous concubine dares to shout with the palace, and is worried about your position as the prince. ”

Xu Rulie told her that her ears were calloused, and she stood away impatiently. "Mother, who did you listen to when you said this? I can't help but think too much, what kind of qualifications does Xu Ruzhu have, when he went to the study to study, he was never praised by his husband, can he change people after going to the border? ”

"This is what His Majesty's side Dequan specially came to tell the palace, can it still be fake? It is said that Shibei should be impressed in three days, and now that you have been affected by Su Lian, he will naturally step on you and climb up. ”

The queen pressed her forehead with one hand, and she hated that iron was not steel, but as soon as she mentioned Su Lian, it was completely a thorn in Xu Rulie's heart, and Xu Rulie's face suddenly fell and pouted.

"What does my matter have to do with Li'er, Li'er has been locked up in the Lotus Temple, what does the Queen Mother want? The queen mother does not have to be angry with others, if the queen thinks that I am not good enough, then what the queen mother wants me to do, I will do it. ”

"What is going on in this palace is not for your good, you have repeatedly been angry with your mother for others, this palace is ......" This tone obviously sounded reluctant, the queen's chest continued to rise and fall, but fortunately, there was a magpie next to him in time to support it, so as not to faint.

"Niangniang, please calm your anger, the third prince is young after all, and he doesn't know the world."

The magpie hurriedly patted her on the back to appease, the queen blocked it, and then stood on her feet with her hand, and her attitude became tougher, "If you are really willing to listen to the palace, then live a good life with your concubine, and when the envoys of the Japanese kingdom come, behave well in front of your father." If you can successfully compare Xu Ruzhu to this palace, maybe this palace can still promise you to release Su Lian. ”

"Is what the queen mother said true?" As soon as he heard that the queen promised to release Su Lian, Xu Rulie's eyes suddenly lit up.

The queen was displeased when she saw it, but she still held back and did not have a seizure, "This is nature, this palace is your mother, how can I lie to you." ”

"Isn't it just to please my father in front of foreign envoys, and the queen mother is still so nervous about this little thing." Xu Rulie rolled his eyes and thought about it, and he readily agreed, and after a salute, he was about to leave, "Then the son will thank his mother first." ”

The queen felt that something was wrong, squinted her eyes and couldn't help asking, "Having said that, then what are you going to do now?" ”

"My son felt that if I wanted my father to see my determination, I shouldn't stick to the trivial matters of my children's affection, so my son decided to ask himself to be the reception officer to welcome the envoys, and from now on move to a tent on the outskirts of Beijing to personally escort the Japanese kingdom to Beijing."

"It is not the best of both worlds to be able to let my father see the determination of his son, but also to let foreign envoys know the sincerity of our dynasty."

Xu Rulie said, saluted the queen, and didn't even have room for the queen to refuse, so he immediately turned around and walked away. The queen was so startled that she hurriedly stepped forward, but she was still a step too late, "What? The outskirts of Beijing,"

"Magpie, have you heard, this is a good son raised by this palace, in order to go against his mother, he actually wants to move to the suburbs of Beijing to sleep in the open, wouldn't it be more convenient for him to see that Su Lian."

The queen watched Xu Rulie's back drifting away, grabbing the magpie's arm with one hand, and the magpie was almost screaming in pain. The magpie hurriedly took the queen's hand and helped her back to the palace, while persuading.

"Niangniang don't have to worry, the third prince lives alone outside and has no one to take care of, it is inevitably lonely, the slave will arrange a reliable person to take care of His Royal Highness's living, so, can Niangniang rest assured."

"This is natural, pay attention to find the kind that can't be too beautiful, it's best to be able to do something, forgive him for not daring to do anything with the people sent by this palace."

"Yes." The magpie agreed.

The next day, as if he was angry with the queen, Xu Rulie really packed his luggage and moved to the suburbs, and the magpie's movements were also fast, so he immediately sent a good maid and ordered Xu Rulie to follow him every step of the way.

Xu Rulie was full of helplessness, but it was not easy to do anything with the woman, so he had to put on hold his trip to see Su Lian. And Su Lian lives in the Lotus Temple, and she is also thinking about Xu Rulie like Xu Rulie.

It was night, a full moon hung horizontally in the sky, the moon stars were scarce, and it was the day of family reunion in January.

In the Lotus Temple, Su Lian wore a thin shirt, walked to the courtyard paved with water and moonlight, sat down, looked at her face reflected in the water tank, but what appeared in her mind was her voice and appearance, so that she couldn't help but have a sour nose, and tears dripped into the water like falling flowers.

Since he was arranged by the queen to go to the Lotus Temple that day, the abbot here was merciful and ruthless, and Su Lian was asked to copy forty or fifty copies of the Prajnapara Heart Sutra after staying for less than four or five days.

And in addition to copying Buddhist scriptures every day, offering tea and lighting lamps, cleaning and other trivial chores, the host thought that he was alone and lonely, so he specially arranged for Su Lian to go up the mountain to collect medicine and collect firewood.

The bitter Su Lian had to crawl a few miles of small slopes every day, looking for cures from those dead branches and fallen leaves, and avoiding mosquito bites. However, Su Lian grew up from a young gold and jade, and this trip back and forth, blisters had already been ground under her feet, but the host was still not satisfied, and the second day was still arranged like this.

"Your Highness, the concubine misses you so much-" Thinking about it, Su Lian felt more and more aggrieved, holding on to the wall with one hand, and tears gently hit her clothes and the back of her hands like beads that had fallen off the line.

She sat bent over the water tank, her left shoulder against the wall, and cried so long that she couldn't even walk. In recent days, although the weather has become hotter, at night, especially in the middle of the night, the water vapor in the mountains and forests still moves, and people's bones are soft.

Sure enough, on the second day, Su Lian was infected with a wind chill because she sat by the water for too long.

"It's really a broom star, the queen mother specially drove her to our temple to live in these few days, and she was squeamish and sick, what if it was infected to other people in the temple."

"Ahem." In the house, Su Lian had the tip of her nose red, her hands were tightly gripping the quilt, she was wheezing and coughing from time to time, and she had to endure the arrangement of a nun outside the house, so that she couldn't hold back tears for a while, and the pillow made of coarse cloth instantly became wet.

"That's it, anyway, she is also a patient now, find a way to send someone to ask a doctor to treat her, and then contact Master Su in the capital, lest something really happen, we can't afford to be responsible."

Maybe it's because the voices gathered here are so loud that even the host has attracted it. The host frowned, ordered everyone to go down and go to their own business, and then glanced at Su Lian's house, and finally didn't bother any more, sighed lightly and walked away.

A large group of noisy nuns left one after another, and the courtyard where Su Lian lived fell silent again. Because of the dizziness caused by the wind and cold, Su Lian wrapped the quilt more and more tightly, and before she fell asleep, she only felt that she was afraid that she was going to be fragrant and jade.

Then I don't know how long it took, Su Lian felt that someone was feeding medicine to her mouth, and the taste of the potion was so bitter that she almost spit it out.