Chapter 214: Sunset and Moonrise

The screen with a half-moon in the corner of the wall was lying across the fire pit covered with futon, and the house that had not had any incense for a long time rose again with cigarettes, and two pairs of shoes on the ground, one in the south and one in the north.

The moon that had not been seen overnight appeared at dawn, the crescent moon that sank in the west, and the rising sun in the east.

The beginning of a new day was not good, Du Yiyi, who got up early in the morning, slipped her hand when she took the bowl handed over by Bai Wei, and the hot eight-treasure porridge splashed her, and when she changed her clothes, Ning Zhiyuan, who had rested in the house for half a month, had already rushed to the court.

Last night, the east wind withered countless green leaves that had just grown out of the branches, blew countless grass that had just poked out of the soil, and even the daffodils that were moved to the windowsill last night were blown to the death.

The sun is shining and warm, it is a good time to bask in the sun, in such weather, Du Yiyi only feels that the bones of her body are eager to get rid of her master and want to lie down in the sun to bask in the sun, spring is coming, many things in winter are not needed, the window paper that pasted the window last night was blown by the knife-like wind, and the housekeeper had already brought someone to paste a new layer early in the morning.

Princess Rui's mistress returned to the house, and the housekeeper immediately brought the account book of the expenditure income of the house during this period of time to Du Yiyi, and this time it was already noon.

She went to Chang Liu's residence, thanked him for saying goodbye to herself, and talked about his and Ning Zhiyuan's illness.

From time to time, he coughs violently and painfully, as if he wants to cough out all his internal organs.

"I gave him medicine the day before yesterday, but it didn't work, so I have to try again! There is no cure for my disease, so I can only delay it for a while! ”

"Take care of it, there will always be a way!"

"I hope so!"

Qinglan, who hadn't seen her for a long time, carried the food box into the yard, compared to Du Yiyi, she and Chang Liu had a close relationship three years ago.

"I've seen the princess!" Qinglan bowed.

"No need to be polite!"

Putting down the food box, Qinglan took out the Chuanbei Sydney pear soup in the food box and brought it to Chang Liu, who took it, frowned and drank the hot and cold decoction.

"I'm going to trouble you every day!" Putting down the medicine bowl, Chang Liu smiled embarrassedly.

"Anyway, I'm idle every day, it's just to pass the time." Closing the food box, Qinglan found a place to sit down.

Du Yiyi, who had been watching the two, finally realized that it was time for him to leave, and got up to say goodbye to the two.

At the beginning of Shen, Ning Zhiyuan has not yet returned, and the case of the early dynasty and Dali Temple has begun to spread everywhere recently, and Concubine Chang's personal cronies committed suicide in Dali Temple, directly targeting the Shen Mansion case at Concubine Chang, although the results of Dali Temple have not yet come down, speculation about the case and rumors that are unfavorable to Prince Chang have been heard everywhere.

The Chunfu fraud case investigated by Yan Liu was tried in the Criminal Department today, and the scholars related to Sun Pei's list were summoned to the lobby of the Criminal Department one by one, and Yan Liu interrogated them one by one within one day, and it has been preliminarily confirmed that among them, there are the answers to the examination papers of the Chunqiu Examination circulating, and as for the source of the answers, it needs to be further investigated.

It is worthy of the experienced former Dali Temple, Yan Liu's experience and his integrity as the Dali Temple's secretary for decades are not apathetic, and the people are convinced of the clues he has found, and even many unsuccessful scholars began to write jointly on the same day, asking the court to give justice to the world's scholars.

Except for some civil servants who were loyal to the crown prince, everyone stood on Yan Liu's side, and Yan Liu, who had been an official for more than 20 years, was convinced that even the neutral faction in the court was convinced.

The person Ning Zhiyuan chose was absolutely correct.

Dali Temple confirmed that the concubine committed suicide in fear of sin, and now the relationship between the emperor and the military is delicate, this conclusion made the officers of the Governor's Mansion who were not close to the prince begin to complain, and the bitter master Shen Ke remained silent in the face of the emperor, but there were already people who were upset about him.

The emperor had a headache, the queen secretly rejoiced, Concubine Chang called the heavens unwilling, the prince moved around in many ways, but he couldn't reverse the situation at all, and the military's attitude was so tough that even the emperor couldn't soften and persuade from it.

The two mountains of the Chunfu fraud case and the poisoning case overwhelmed the mother and son, and they wanted to run but they were cornered, and the defection of Sun Pei, the left governor of the imperial history, made the prince lose his arm, and because the Metropolitan Procuratorate was also involved in the Chunfu fraud case, the prince just wanted to fight back with his greatest support.

Although the two cases are still under investigation, almost everyone has already determined that the crown prince will be abolished.

Ning Zhiyuan did not go home today because he was interrogated in the Criminal Department in the morning for a morning, and was interrogated by the emperor for an afternoon in the afternoon.

The spearhead of the Chunfu fraud case is directly aimed at the crown prince ordained by the emperor, and the emperor who once let the emperor of Zhu Pavilion take a group of ministers to prison for the imperial examination of course knows that the water here is not as clean as he sees, and the prince may have acted favoritistically, but this case is poked out, and it is more just that someone wants to watch the crown prince he canonized be ruined.

There are only two people who can do this.

In the morning, he found Ning Chaoge and interrogated him all morning, and in the afternoon, it was Ning Zhiyuan.

At dusk and sunset, the sky and the earth are hazy, and the last rays of the sun in the west have not yet submerged into darkness, and the faint outline of the bright moon can already be seen in the east.

The father and son in the Ningyuan Palace had dinner together, and sat side by side outside the Ningyuan Palace waiting to admire the moon.

The dim moon has just risen, and it will take a long time to see the bright pearl-like crescent moon.

"I know you have an opinion!"

The previous afternoon, the emperor just talked to him about some things he was growing up with, such as he wet the bed every day when he was seven years old, he likes to eat sugar oranges, he doesn't fit in since he was a child, he doesn't like to play or cry, the emperor uses his father's identity to talk to him about the past, and then now, the emperor wants to use his identity as a king to talk to him about national affairs.

"To govern the country, not only must have the scheming of the city government, benevolence, so that the people can return to their hearts, the emperor has not much to do, most of the things have been done by hundreds of officials, as long as he has a pair of bright eyes, see the suffering of the world, have a benevolent heart, empathize with the suffering of the people, the Holy Ancestor opened up the country of Dahe, it has been a hundred years, so that Dahe continues, not the strength of a king, but the heart of the people."

"You're not enough, you're disappointing me."

Ning Zhiyuan seemed to enjoy lying on the rocking chair and slowly pushing the rocking chair to shake, but it was tight from his toes to his hair, the emperor said this, it was simple and clear, and he didn't even give him the opportunity to make a mistake.

"Father, you sit in the palace, can you really see the world?"

"The emperor holds the highest communication channel of Dahe, and he holds every soldier of Dahe, and the officials and guards of various states and counties are all serving the emperor, and the Jinyi guards are supervising these officials' guard posts for me, and I will not be blinded."

The emperor holds the highest power in his hands, and he is the one who wins thousands of miles in the curtain.

"Then Chunqiu, why don't you dispose of it?"

"Because Oga is strong! This is no longer the period of the Holy Ancestors, you look at the prosperity of the capital, look at the drunken gold fans in the south of the Yangtze River, this is no longer the era of war, it is not the purpose of people to live, it is the pursuit of people to live well, I give them a basket of lychees, they will want a basket of gold, from the government offices of various states and counties to the court and this palace, everyone wants to get more, can I finish killing? ”

"Then let Erchen kill!"

The emperor, who squinted at the starry sky, smiled: "How many can you kill?" ”

Ning Zhiyuan clenched the handrail: "Kill a hundred people!" ”

"So you and Chao Ge stabbed out about Chunyu's fraud and wanted to kill the prince?" The emperor looked sideways, looked at his son beside him, and saw something brighter than the stars in his eyes.

"Black and white, good and evil cannot be confused, this is the rule of this world!"

Black and white good and evil cannot be confused, the emperor suddenly felt a little proud of this bright gaze and this righteous remark, black is black, white is white, there are already too many people confusing black and white. He couldn't help but remember many things, the sword twenty-four years ago, the fire eleven years ago, the killing last year.

"Then you can't be an emperor even more, what is indispensable for the emperor is to make peace with the mud and use small evil to achieve great good, which is a measurement choice that an emperor must make."

"I don't want to be an emperor!" Ning Zhiyuan looked at the starry sky, in the empty and vast square, these stars seemed to be close at hand.

As soon as the emperor arrived, his cold expression gradually warmed up: "Then what are you going to do?" ”

The bright gaze was aimed at those deep eyes, Ning Zhiyuan looked at this face and said word by word: "I want to see black and white, a fair." ”

Hearing this, the emperor was a little relieved, but also felt ridiculous.

"Let's go back! It's late at night! ”

Ning Zhiyuan got up and retired.

The bright moon was bright, the stars were twinkling, the breeze was blowing the squeaky and swaying of the unmanned rocking chair, and the emperor shook his back and looked at the distant back, his eyes gradually moistened.

"Zhu Ge, you say, can he be a good emperor?"

Zhu Ge, who was as quiet as a pillar, hugged his fists and said: "You can see the big right and wrong clearly, obsessed with the small right and wrong, and be upright, King Rui is suitable to be the secretary of Dali Temple." ”

The emperor rubbed his sour eyes, looked up at the sky and said, "Back then, he was like this!" ”

Zhu Ge was like a stalk in his throat, glanced at the figure who had already walked down the steps and could only see the upper half of his body, and continued to be his pillar.

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It was already time to return to the Rui Wang's Mansion, although he met the patrol of the Five Cities Terracotta Division all the way, but no one interrogated under Qin Huai's opening of the road, because the master did not return, most of the people in the Rui Wang's Mansion did not sleep, and the lantern lampstand of Huai Yu's residence from the door of the mansion was lit up one by one, and Huai Yu's house was even brighter.

Du Yiyi lay in the quilt and read a book of poems found on the bookshelf by the light, and finally couldn't help but fall asleep.

Hearing the footsteps outside, Mother Xu, who was the first to wake up, hurriedly woke up a few maidservants, and then entered the house to wake up Du Yiyi.

The three maidservants went to the kitchen, the two maids changed clothes for Du Yiyi, the two maids guarded outside the door, and Xu's mother carried a silk lantern to the front.

Ning Zhiyuan stayed in the palace for a day, and the people in the palace were frightened for a day, and the examination papers of the Spring Festival Examination were written by the people of the Hanlin Academy of the Cabinet Metropolitan Procuratorate, Ning Zhiyuan is now on an errand in the cabinet, although the rumors outside are not unfavorable to Ning Zhiyuan, but the people of the Rui Wangfu are afraid of variables.