The autumn wind gradually rose, and the lotus flowers of the Jiafu Hall were only left with withered yellow leaves in the jar and swirled by the wind. Sai Wan bent down to pluck the dead leaves, but was stopped by Qi Xuan, "This flower was given to the queen by the emperor, even if the roots are rotten, don't throw them away, just change the water, just don't stink." ”

"It's all remnant leaves, and it's all bad to look at." Sai Wei was puzzled.

Qi Wan paddled the water in the tank with his hand and smiled, "You see it is a dead branch and a fallen leaf, but it is the affection in the eyes of others, you know what, just do it." ”

Sai Wan changed the water according to the instructions, "My sister still understands the queen, and I will listen to my sister's orders in the future." ”

Qi Wan covered her mouth and smiled, although she enjoyed it in her heart, she said, "Everyone in this palace listens to the queen's instructions, you must not say this a second time, don't you have a long memory of the losses you have suffered over the years." ”

Sai Wan nodded again and again, "Yes, you see that I always can't speak, but fortunately, my sister reminded me, if it wasn't for my sister, how could I go back to this Jiafu Palace." As he spoke, he looked at the palace, "The queen is embroidering again?" ”

Qi Wan nodded, "It's not going to be cold soon, and I'm bent on making a cloak for the emperor, and I don't want us to help, so wouldn't the dragon pattern require kung fu?" Qi Wan helped to pick up the dead leaves in the water tank, "This lotus is gone, there is no color in the palace, you go to the flower room to choose a few pots of drunken hibiscus, add color to this yard." ”

Sai Wan took the order to go out, and Qihua gave Sancai, who was cleaning the courtyard on the side, a look, and Sancai put down the broom and followed away. Qihua patted the fallen leaves on her body with satisfaction, and ordered everyone to hurry up and clean up, and when she heard Ying'e calling her, she hurriedly went in to serve.

"Qihua, you see that my needle is not neat, this dragon pattern looks almost like a cloud." Ying'e twisted the needle, looking helpless.

Qi Wan lowered his head and carefully looked at the texture of Ying'e embroidery, and saw that Ying'e was a beginner in Shu embroidery, all embroidered with fine threads, but he didn't know that the combination of the thickness of this Shu embroidery could be carried out in one go. She smiled and said, "Niangniang, you are already very good at the beginning, but it also has techniques such as halo, yarn, rolling, hiding, and cutting, so that it can be done with a needle as a pen, a thread as an ink, and a combination of virtual and real, so that it is as beautiful as a painting." All you need to do is add a strand of silk thread to the junction and outline it with a lighter thread. ”

Ying'e said, it was really much better than before, her eyes were full of joy, "It's still good that Yangxiong said, beautiful candles, if you wave brocade cloth embroidery, you can look at the mang." This palace wants to do it overnight, so let's do it slowly with patience, this needle is really much more difficult than holding a pen and a knife. After speaking, he suddenly remembered something, "How many days will the Sai Jie still behave?" ”

Qi Wan thought for a while and replied, "The queen took her in regardless of her previous suspicions and didn't let her suffer in the Huanyi Bureau, how dare she be unruly?" It's just..."

"Just what?" Seeing Qiwan's pause, Ying'e said curiously.

"It's just that she is different from us after all, we are all the families of the convicted, and we will serve in this palace until we are old in this life. She is the bride of the mother, and now she is 25 years old, and she can leave the palace according to her age. ”

Ying'e counted the days and sighed, "Yes, it's been so many years, and she has suffered a lot, so let her go out when the emperor gives her amnesty another day." The emperor hasn't come over for the past few days, is the war tight again? You go and ask Zhang Gaosong, if the emperor is too busy, the palace wants to go and see him. ”

Qi Ju replied, "Niangniang, the day before yesterday, Gonggong Zhang came, saying that Yecheng was besieged, and the prince of Taiyuan led seven thousand elite cavalry with auxiliary horses to attack from Jinyang, with Hou Jing as the vanguard, doubling the road and traveling, from the east out of Fukou, crossing the Taihang Mountains has reached Fukou. The war was about to break out, so the emperor waited day and night in the Taiji Hall for the front-line battle report and dealt with government affairs. Father-in-law Zhang also said that the emperor knew that he had snubbed Niangniang in the past few days, and he would come to invite Niangniang to congratulate him on the day of the victory. ”

"Well, that's fine. Government affairs are important, and the palace will not disturb the emperor. Do you remember to send the best wolfberries sent by your mother yesterday to the emperor, that is the most shrewd purpose, let Zhang Gaosong put some in the emperor's tea. Qi Ying promised, and was about to go out when Ying'e called back, "By the way, there are also the best mountain ginseng and snow lotus, you personally give them to the concubine." I went to ask for peace today, and saw that the concubine seemed to be in poor spirits, so I told Imperial Doctor Zhao to diagnose and treat it well and give the concubine a good life. ”

"Yes, yes. The queen's filial piety to the concubine is not as good as your own daughter. Qi Wan instructed the palace maid Fanzhi to serve Ying'e, and then went to send things to the emperor and the concubine as instructed.

For several days, Yuan Ziyou led Yuan Yu and Yuan Hui to study the military situation, and the food and lodging were all in the Taiji Palace. Er Zhu Shilong, as Er Zhurong's eyeliner in the palace, naturally used the excuse of entering the palace from time to time to meet Yuan Ziyou and listen to Yuan Ziyou's movements. When Yuan Ziyou heard that Er Zhurong only led 7,000 men and horses to fight against Ge Rong's million-strong army, his worry caused Er Zhu Shilong to be dissatisfied, "Your Majesty, my eldest brother is a genius, how can his marching strategy be understood by people who have never fought a war?" ”

Yuan Hui said dissatisfiedly, "General Erzhu, I'm afraid that if you speak to the emperor like this, you are guilty of great disrespect." ”

Er Zhu Shilong squinted at Yuan Ziyou, and saw that Yuan Ziyou was not stunned, so he cleared his throat and pointed his fingers and said, "The minister doesn't dare to be disrespectful, I am a rough person, and I don't know how to write about you. But when it comes to fighting, my eldest brother used a knife at the age of three and hunted at the age of five. This will fight is also brought by the womb, he has fought at least hundreds of battles large and small now, which one of them came back with a feather? Your Majesty, you don't have to worry, my eldest brother has the ability to beat him with these 7,000 people Ge Rong million, if you don't believe it, the minister can bet with you. ”

Yuan Yu smiled slightly, "The strategy of the general of the Zhu State is rare today, and the emperor is not unbelieving, the general of the Zhu State is not only the pillar of the country, but also the emperor's father-in-law, the emperor is worried about his safety, this is a concern." General Erzhu, you have misunderstood, besides, this bet between courtiers and the emperor throughout the ages is not in line with the rules and is not in a proper manner, but it has lost its duty as a courtier. ”

"Decent, I don't know. I know one thing, with my eldest brother here, the emperor will sit in your Jinluan Palace and wait quietly for the battle report. After speaking, Er Zhu Shilong got up, "Your Majesty, if there is nothing else, the minister is unwell, and the minister will retire." ”

Yuan Hui looked at Er Zhu Shilong's arrogant face, his angry fist was itchy, he was about to have a seizure, and Yuan Yu held his hand. I saw that Yuan Ziyou always kept smiling, "General Erzhu has been working hard to go back and forth recently, you can go back to the house first to rest, or you don't have to go to the court on time." ”

Hearing Yuan Ziyou's words, Er Zhu Shilong deliberately beat his shoulders, "Your Majesty, the minister retires, hey, I have a sore back every day, I heard that there is a Zhao Imperial Doctor in the Tai Hospital, and the massage technique is very good, if the emperor loves Wei Chen, he can let Zhao Imperial Doctor go to give the minister a massage, and the minister will thank the lord Longen." ”

Yuanzi said, "This is simple, I will let Xiao Songzi arrange it in a while, and you can go back to the house and wait." ”

"Then the minister withdrew."

Seeing Er Zhu Shilong staggering and leaving the palace gate without any dignity, Yuan Ziyou's soft gaze instantly became fierce, and the flames in his eyes seemed to have reached the potential of a prairie fire. He grabbed the cup on the desk and threw it in the direction of the door, and said angrily, "Presumptuous, presumptuous, presumptuous!" He Zhu Shilong was extremely presumptuous. ”

Yuan Yu and Yuan Hui hurriedly knelt down, "The emperor is angry." ”

Xi Yi, who was guarding the door, heard the movement inside, and when he saw that the time was ripe, he stood outside the door and asked for instructions, "Your Majesty, Minister Xi Yi has something to report." ”

Yuan Yu proposed, "Your Majesty, this Xi Yi has confessed his loyalty to the emperor three or four times, if he hadn't cleared his eyeliner last time, I'm afraid Er Zhurong would have already known." The minister thought that let him in, listen to what he had to say, and then make a decision. ”

Yuan Ziyou promised and said to Zhang Gaosong, "Announce him in, I also want to hear what he has to say." ”

Xi Yi heard Xuanda step inside and made a big salute, "Your Majesty, the minister has something important to report, recently Zhu Shilong received a secret report that Ge Rong's old ministry was coming to surrender to the imperial court, so he asked the minister to arrange the deployment to assassinate a general's wife who lived in Anwutang. ”

Yuan Ziyou was shocked, he didn't expect that Er Zhurong's eyeliner in Luoyang had reached the pervasive, he had just decided to give Anwutang to Gao Qian's wife Cui Fengqin to live in, and the people were still on the road, so Er Zhurong had already arranged a killer. He tried his best to hide his horror, and pretended to be calm, "There is no such thing, I think your information is wrong." ”

Xi Yi saw that Yuan Ziyou didn't believe it, and with both hands he gave him the secret order given to him by Er Zhu Shilong, and said hurriedly, "Your Majesty, the minister has nothing to say, the minister knows that the emperor does not believe in the minister, this time the minister is willing to take this as a vote, and ask the emperor to believe in the loyalty of the minister." ”

Yuan Hui stepped forward to take the secret order and presented it to Yuan Ziyou, Yuan Ziyou was furious, "I didn't expect that my arrangements were all in the eyes of his Er Zhurong, and I didn't relax at all, so let's talk about how Er Zhurong arranged you?" ”

When Xi Yi received Er Zhurong's order, he didn't know the identity of this woman, and later inquired in many ways to find out that it was the wife of Gao Gan, the general of Ge Rong's department, and the youngest daughter of Cui Shengnian, a native of Boling. He said in 1510, "Er Zhurong told the minister that he had bought off one of his wife's entourage, and when his wife arrived in Luoyang, he would directly kill all the people, leaving this entourage alone to leave Beijing." It was up to him to tell Gao Qian that it was the emperor who set a trap to kill Ge Rong's rebellious party, and at the same time told the Boling Cui family that the emperor wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. In this way, the emperor not only lost his trust in Gao Qian, but also lost the support of the Boling Cui family. Your Majesty, the minister knew that this woman was very important to the emperor, so he reported to the emperor as soon as possible, and it was too late to plan. ”

How could Yuan Hui easily believe this Xi Yi's words, pointed at him and said suspiciously, "Since Er Zhurong trusts you so much, how many people have traveled thousands of miles to Jinyang to beg him for their official positions, why don't you continue to climb his high branches and come to the emperor to show what merit?" ”

Xi Yi patted his chest and said solemnly, "Your Majesty, the courtiers have been deeply favored by the emperor for generations, and they can't do anything to betray the lord for glory. He Zhu Rong claimed to be Cao Cao, and the ministers saw him as nothing more than Dong Zhuo. Since he was arranged by him to enter the palace as an eyeliner, he has been unable to sleep and eat every day, and the minister has no chance to prove his loyalty and patriotism to the emperor. Now that he knows this confidential matter, the minister thinks that he can gain the trust of the emperor in this way, even if the emperor does not believe in the minister now, the minister also prays that the emperor can have a day when he believes in the minister, and the minister can even die to make his will clear. ”

Yuan Ziyou's face turned gloomy, "You tell me all this, aren't you afraid that Er Zhurong will kill you?" ”

"The minister is not afraid of death, the minister's wife is still in Jinyang, and the minister confesses everything to the emperor, which is to put the life and death of the Weichen family out of the way. The minister's patriotic heart in this life is loyal to the monarch and can be expressed for heaven and earth, and he swears allegiance to the emperor. After Xi Yi finished speaking, he bowed three times again, full of excitement and heart, and wanted to make Yuan Ziyou believe.

Yuan Yu saw that Xi Yi didn't look like a lie, so he spoke for him and said, "Your Majesty, what General Xi said is not false, we still have to hurry up the planning, and we can't let Er Zhurong's treacherous plan succeed." ”

"General Xi's loyalty to me, I have seen it. The general is flat, and now I won't hide it from you, that woman is Gao Qian's wife. People are already outside Luoyang City, and they can enter the city tonight. Er Zhurong explained your things, you continue to complete it, and I have my own plans. Yuan Ziyou already had a plan in his heart, "My move is called a plan." ”