Imperial Palace, Taiyi Palace.

"Your Majesty, Lord Sun asks to see you."

Wang Jinde's voice sounded from outside the door, but there was no sound in the hall as usual, Wang Jinde wondered in his heart, so he asked the little eunuch to wait, and he gently pushed the door in to take a look.

I saw a thick stack of folds stacked on the table, and a few volumes spread out on the ground at random, Emperor Zhao half-leaned on the soft collapse, his eyes were closed, and he was pretending to sleep, and the incense burner next to him was still burning with incense that repelled insects and calmed the nerves, and a few wisps of smoke rose and dissipated in the air.

Wang Jinde has served in front of the emperor for decades and has long developed the habit of being light-footed. Seeing this at this time, he extinguished the incense in the incense burner without making a sound, and deliberately increased his steps, and said in a soft voice: "Your Majesty, Lord Sun is asking to see you outside the palace." ”

Emperor Zhao muttered a few times, reluctantly opened his eyes, looked at the incense burner on the side with sleepy eyes, and saw that there was no longer smoke, so he asked, "I have been asleep for a long time?" ”

"Back to the emperor, you didn't sleep long ago, it was the slave who was in charge, and went to this soothing incense."

"You're getting bolder." Emperor Zhao tugged at the corners of his mouth, without any sense of blame, he helped his waist up, walked to the bookcase, and spit out a breath of turbidity: "It's not okay to be old, I've been getting more and more sleepy recently." ”

"Your Majesty, you're getting old." Wang Jinde stepped forward and beat Emperor Zhao's waist, and said with a smile: "Slave look, it's early summer, and the body is already lazy, and it is natural for the emperor to sleep more." ”

"Okay, Xuansun Leping come up, it is estimated that Fu Zhengwei has the result."

"Whoa."

Wang Jinde gave Emperor Zhao two more blows, and then slowly withdrew from the Taiyi Hall and led Sun Leping into the palace.

After Sun Leping came out of Dali Temple, he went to the Taiyi Hall with a confession, for fear that something would go wrong, at this time he waited outside the hall for a long time, and he couldn't help but feel worried, so he got the command to enter the hall, and walked two steps and one step by step, and crossed the high threshold in a few clicks, and Wang Jinde was afraid that he would wrestle - because Sun Leping's height was not high.

Emperor Zhao is in a good mood today, and he is joking when he looks like this: "Sun Aiqing can walk steadily, in case he falls, and if it spreads, I will say that my fierceness and cruelty as the emperor will scare you." ”

"The emperor lost his honor in front of the emperor, please forgive the emperor."

Sun Le made a big salute in parallel, and his face was not as smiling as when he faced Zhong Zhiyu, and without the decoration of his smile, it made him look serious and mean.

"It's okay, let's get even."

When Emperor Zhao saw his appearance, he also lost his mind of joking, only waved his sleeves to get him up, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Sun Leping took out Fu Zhengwei's confession from his arms, made a plate with both hands, and handed it over to the top of his head: "Fu Zhengwei has confessed, this is a confession, please take a look at it." ”

Before he finished speaking, Emperor Zhao came over and picked up the confession, looked at it at a glance, the room was quiet for a while, and only Sun Leping's breathing became more and more rapid with the emperor's darkening face.

"Wow!" Emperor Zhao smashed the paper in his hand towards the ground in front of Sun Leping: "This is the confession you have made after so many days?" ”

"The emperor is angry!" Sun Leping knelt down as early as Emperor Zhao raised his hand, and at this time he was lying on the ground, his broad body trembling.

"Is this called a confession?" Emperor Zhao's chest rose and fell violently, his neck was flushed, and he was obviously angry: "Do you think this is a confession?" Just show me this thing? Yes? He, Fu Zhengwei, rebelled alone? Do you believe it? ”

Sun Leping didn't dare to refute, he just kept kowtowing, and repeatedly chanted: "The emperor is angry, the emperor is angry." ”

"If you think you don't want the official hat of the Imperial Doctor, bring it up as soon as possible!"

Wang Jinde heard that the movement inside was wrong, so he hurriedly stepped forward, poured a cup of tea and handed it to Emperor Zhao's hand, hoping that he would take a sip of tea to dissipate his anger.

Not to mention that Wang Jinde can serve in front of the emperor for so many years, Emperor Zhao really felt thirsty, and the tea that Wang Jinde handed over happened to his heart, so he gasped for breath twice, held the tea and drank two sips.

Sun Leping is also an old fritter, seeing Emperor Zhao like this, he knew that he had a chance to speak, so he hurriedly rearranged the confessions scattered on the ground, and said tremblingly: "This confession was written when the county lord was present, and it is all the right thing the county lord said." ”

"County Lord?" Emperor Zhao narrowed his eyes: "That daughter of the King of Zhenbei?" ”

"Exactly." Sun Leping nodded fiercely and said: "Although Miss Zhong is a white body now, she has the influence of her father, King Zhenbei, I am afraid that everyone believes her words from the bottom of their hearts......"

I see.

Emperor Zhao put down the teacup in his hand, looked at the imperial doctor he had always valued with an uncertain expression, and said in a calm tone: "I know, you can step down." ”

"Then this confession..."Sun Leping hesitated a little, but when he touched Emperor Zhao's calm eyes like stagnant water, he was shocked, swallowed what he was going to say, and honestly retired.

The hall was quiet.

Wang Jinde looked at the situation, made another pot of tea for Emperor Zhao, carefully blew it cool with a fan, and then handed it to Emperor Zhao's hand.

Emperor Zhao took the teacup and took a sip, it was neither lukewarm nor hot, it was his favorite temperature.

"Wang Jinde." Emperor Zhao called him, but his eyes looked outside the hall: "Do you say that I am a failure to be this emperor?" ”

Wang Jinde was shocked, and quickly knelt down with a puff: "Your Majesty, why would you say that?" You do your best for Dayu, the old slave is all in the eyes, to say a big disrespectful word, in the eyes of the old slave, you are the most wise emperor of Dayu! ”

"Then you say, why do they all betray me?"

Outside the window, the sunlight was slanted down, and it just shone on Emperor Zhao's eyes, stabbing his eyes sore, and he almost burst into tears: "I treat Fu Zhengwei well, and I don't count him as an auxiliary general, even the people of the side tribes with him will take care of him." ”

"And this Sun Leping." The corners of Emperor Zhao's mouth hooked, and a self-deprecating smile was raised: "I remember that he was the champion of the imperial examination when I first ascended the throne, and later promoted all the way, to the current imperial historian, he has always been loyal to his duties, and I see that I am going to pass on the throne to the crown prince and become the elder of the two dynasties, but I don't know what trick I have been caught by my brother." ”

"Wang Jinde, are you saying it's funny?"

Emperor Zhao put the tea cup in his hand on the bookcase, and the celadon and the wooden case collided, which shocked Wang Jinde's heart.

"Fu Zhengwei would rather punish the Nine Clans than confess which of my brothers he is; In order to let me accept this confession, Sun Leping even used Zhong Zhuyu's little girl to use it......" Emperor Zhao closed his eyes, held his forehead, and said in a gloomy tone: "This is the only bloodline of Yongnian that threatens me......"

Wang Jinde didn't understand, and he didn't have a deep relationship with the Zhong family, so he asked, "Your Majesty, why do you take care of her?" For the safety of Dayu, sacrifice a Zhong girl, and the king of Zhenbei will not blame you. If you miss this opportunity, it will be difficult to find a person like Fu Zhengwei. ”

"You don't understand." Emperor Zhao slowly paced to sit down in front of the collapse, and suddenly felt very tired: "I'm already sorry for the eternal year, I can't even keep his daughter." ”

"I've endured it for a long time. In the past, when he took the heir, he endured it, then he endured it when he fought for power with the family, and then he endured it when he fought with Xirong Beiyi. Every time, at the end of the day, I won... So it's not bad to endure this time. ”