Zhong Zhuyu has been waiting in the palace of Zhenbei for a long time, and when he received the emperor's summons, he only had the relaxation of "finally here" in his heart, and he did not delay at all, and immediately entered the palace with Xiao Li's father-in-law.

The previous Chinese New Year's Eve banquet was placed in the front hall of the palace, not far from the palace gate, and the Taiyi Hall is the place where the emperor handles government affairs, located in the main hall of the palace, and you have to walk a long way to get off the carriage from the palace gate.

The first time Zhong Zhuyu walked into the depths of the palace, he didn't care about the surrounding environment, he only followed behind Xiao Li's father-in-law with his head down, honest as a quail.

"The county lord doesn't have to be nervous."

Xiao Li's father-in-law and Zhong Zhuyu have dealt with each other several times, and he also helped Zhong Zhuyu speak in the morning, and the two are also familiar with each other, so he comforted him when he saw Zhong Zhuyu's usual appearance: "Although the emperor is the son of heaven, he is easy-going, and he will joke with the minions when he is in a good mood, so the county lord does not have to worry." ”

Zhong Xiyu raised his head and smiled gratefully at him: "Thank you, Father-in-law Xiao Li, but after all, this is the first time I have seen the emperor in private, and I can't help but feel a little apprehensive in my heart." ”

Xiao Li's father-in-law said clearly: "When the county lord sees the emperor, he must not be so nervous." ”

"That's the best, I don't want to lose my honor."

While the two were talking, they arrived at the Taiyi Palace, Wang Jinde was already waiting outside the hall, and when he saw the two of them, he hurriedly welcomed Zhong Zhiyu in: "County Lord An, you can come, the emperor has been waiting for you for a while!" ”

"There is Father-in-law Lao." Zhong Zhiyu pursed her lips and smiled, straightened her waist and back, and looked like a lady in the imperial city.

"Don't bother, don't bother, county lord, please."

Wang Jinde bent down and stretched out his hand to open the door for Zhong Zhuyu, and after seeing her walk in slowly, he touched his head and asked a little puzzled: "Why does this county lord look weird?" ”

"Strange and pretty?"

Xiao Li's father-in-law laughed, and after begging Wang Jinde's beating, he got serious and said: "The first time the county lord met the emperor alone, it is normal to be a little nervous. ”

"Nervous? So it's all too nervous, isn't it? Wang Jinde frowned and looked at the hall with some concern: "Compared with the last Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, I look at the core has changed." ”

"You said that you only saw her once at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, maybe people are like this." Xiao Li's father-in-law looked disapproving, changed the topic and said: "After Lord Liu left the palace, he didn't go back to his own mansion, so he went straight to the prime minister's mansion. ”

Wang Jinde's attention was really pulled over: "What are you going to do in the Prime Minister's Mansion?" ”

"This son doesn't know, I'm afraid I have to ask the secret agent."

"Okay, I'll report to the emperor later." Wang Jinde's eyebrows furrowed terribly, and after thinking for a while, he explained: "Don't let others know about this matter, press it down first." ”

"Whoa."

At the same time, inside the Taiyi Palace.

Emperor Zhao gave Zhong Zhuyu a seat, looked at the little girl below who didn't say a word except to ask for peace, and said strangely: "Don't you ask why I announced you to come?" ”

"Back to the emperor, I don't know what happened to the emperor's ministers?" Zhong Zhiyu hurriedly got up and replied one by one.

“……”

Emperor Zhao was silent for a while, and then chuckled: "You are angry with me!" ”

"The courtiers don't dare."

Zhong Zhiyu said that he didn't dare, but there was no fear on his face, but he was even more "angry".

"Let me guess, ......what are you doing with me" Emperor Zhao stood up, touched the mustache on his chin, and pretended to think for a while before he said: "Qi I ordered to arrest the military advisor He Yu?" ”

Zhong Zhiyu raised his head and looked stubborn: "He Yu is not at fault. ”

"Then the 50,000 elite soldiers in Dayu are wrong?" Emperor Zhao asked rhetorically, seeing that Zhong Zhuyu's face was pale, he softened his tone and said: "Fifty thousand elite soldiers, fifty thousand families, I have to give them an explanation." ”

Zhong Shuyu didn't eat him, and asked rhetorically: "Is this explanation going to use He Yu's life to explain?" He Yu is obviously the only survivor of this man-made disaster, but you are in a hurry to let him take the blame, does the emperor have something to kill him? ”

"Zhong Zhuyu!"

Emperor Zhao's face changed, and his words contained a warning: "The county lord is cautious." With what you have just said, I can cure you of a sin of disrespect. ”

Zhong Zhuoyu knelt down with a "poof", but his upper body was straight: "The emperor forgives the sin, and the courtiers were excited for a while, so they couldn't hold back." ”

"Are you open-mouthed, or are you confiding?"

Emperor Zhao asked, and saw Zhong Zhuyu pursing his lips and tilting his head, but there was no remorse on his face, like the king of Zhenbei, he finally waved his hand and said: "That's it, I miss you for losing your father, don't worry about you, don't resist the will in the future, and don't figure out the king's heart anymore." ”

"The courtier's daughter will ask for clarity today, and then I won't figure it out."

Zhong Shuyu kowtowed to the emperor and asked to himself: "Now that the emperor has withdrawn his life and not arrested He Yu, is he still thinking about how to kill him?" ”

"Zhong Zhuyu, did you make up your mind to go to Dali Temple today?"

Emperor Zhao's right hand clenched into a fist, and he recited the scriptures several times in his heart before he restrained his urge to imprison her in Dali Temple.

Zhong Shuyu saw that the emperor did not answer positively, and kowtowed again: "The courtiers are loyal to Dayu and the emperor, if the emperor really wants He Yu's head, the courtiers dare not stop it, and they can't stop it, but I just hope that the emperor will end the courtier's life before taking He Yu's head." ”

"Are you threatening me? Qu Qu a county lord dares to threaten me? ”

Emperor Zhao was so angry that he slapped the table case, shook the inkstone to pieces, and wrote something on the paper while lifting the pen, and said: "Okay, I originally wanted to ignore you for Zhong Yongnian's face, but since you despise the royal power so much, then you don't have to be the lord of this county, and you will move out of the Zhenbei Wangfu on a certain day." ”

"Then the grass people dare to ask the emperor, the grass people can use this county lord status in exchange for his He Yu's life?" Zhong Shuyu still knelt straight, with no fear on his face.

Emperor Zhao was really puzzled: "You have not known that He Yu for a long time, why do you protect him so much?" ”

Zhong Shuyu lowered his eyes, his voice was not loud, but he was unusually firm: "Because the grass people think that being a man must be worthy of their conscience." He He Yu helped my father a lot on weekdays, and his life hung by a thread and he did not abandon my Zhong Jiajun, and even knew that he was dead, he did not hesitate to bring reinforcements, such a friendship, Zhong Jiajun will not be able to bear him. ”

Emperor Zhao looked at Zhong Zhiyu who was kneeling at the bottom of the head and was a little stunned, and in a trance, he seemed to see Zhong Yongnian kneeling in front of him like this a few years ago, using his life as a guarantee, vowing to protect He Yu. He said: "Your Majesty, I know the temperament of this person He Yu, and he will not betray my Dayu." ”

"He Yu is not allowed to step into Lin'an for half a step." Emperor Zhao closed his eyes and finally made concessions.

Zhong Shuyu's face was happy: "Thank you, Your Majesty." "Then you have to say goodbye and leave.

Emperor Zhao looked at Zhong Zhuyu's back, and suddenly remembered that whether it was Zhong Yongnian, whom he had known for decades, or Zhong Zhuyu, who had only seen two sides, their backs were always straight, as if nothing could bend them.

Seeing that Zhong Zhuyu was about to walk out of the palace gate, Emperor Zhao raised his voice and asked, "You don't care so much about being deprived of your status as a county lord?" ”

Zhong Zhuyu stopped, turned around and arched his hand towards Emperor Zhao, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth: "The identity of the county lord was originally borrowed from his father's light, but now that his father is gone, the county lord of the grass people has just an empty name." The grass people don't like to read, but they know that they don't have to care about the gains and losses if they don't get something from their own strength. ”

Emperor Zhao didn't speak again, and when Zhong Zhuoyu disappeared in front of his eyes, he still had her words in his mind.

It's really too much like Yongnian.

·

Qin Bairui sat bored on the carriage, his eyes frequently looked at the palace gate, until he counted all the floor tiles at the palace gate, and then saw Zhong Zhiyu walk out.

"Xiao Zhuyu, why did you come out, I have to wait for stupidity."

Zhong Zhiyu was also stunned when he saw that Qin Bairui was still waiting for her: "I thought you would leave if you sent me." ”

"Then where can we, we are now brothers and sisters who have no father and no mother, and I can worry about your safety.

Zhong Zhiyu was even more stunned when he heard this, although the two are world friends, but the actual time they met was only one day, how could they be so quick to "worry about it"?

Something else?

Zhong Xiyu stared at him suspiciously, but he was defeated when he met his pure and gentle eyes, no matter what, he didn't have anything to do anyway.

"I'm not a county lord now."

"Huh?" Qin Bairui didn't understand what she was talking about for a while.

"The emperor has just stripped me of my title and ordered me to move out of the Zhenbei General's Mansion one day."

Zhong Zhuyu's tone was light, but Qin Bairui didn't dare to really think that she was fine. I saw him cautiously glance at Zhong Zhiyu, scratch his hair, and stumbled comforting: "You... You don't have to be too sad, although you are not the county lord anymore, but my father has also saved a lot of money over the years, and the emperor has not taken back my hussar general, since we are brothers and sisters who depend on each other, I will definitely not ignore your ......"

Seeing that Qin Bairui was getting more and more outrageous, Zhong Shuyu had no choice but to explain: "I'm not sad, my actions today are all thought of, I thought that the emperor would put me in prison in anger, but I didn't want to just deprive me of the title of county lord, this is a punishment for me to laugh at all." ”

"What ......?"

Seeing that Qin Bairui didn't understand what he meant, Zhong Shuyu said patiently: "I won't be the county lord in the future, and you still want to be a brother and sister with me?" ”

"What are you talking about! I'm also white, and I don't have an official position! Qin Bairui slapped his thigh: "Can this still be fake?" My father and mother often explain in the letters to me, asking me to take good care of your little sister in the future, and now that my father and mother are gone, I have to take good care of you! ”

As he spoke, he patted his chest again, and smiled to reveal a row of white teeth: "Don't be afraid, Xiao Zhuyu, I will be your relative in the future!" ”

Zhong Zhiyu blinked her eyes, so that she would not admit that she was a little moved. Thinking that she was not the only one who lost her relatives, she also smiled back at Qin Bairui and said, "Don't be afraid, we will be a family in the future." ”

"Okay!" Qin Bairui's eyes lit up, and he made a final decision: "Then you can move to my Hussar General's Mansion!" ”

Zhong Zhiyu: ???? So fast?