Chapter 246: Backer

In the night of the summer solstice, there are gradually frogs, mosquitoes have begun to increase, more and more people like to go out of the house at night, in previous years, the night patrol of the five cities in the summer is much more difficult, but this year there is the help of Jinyiwei. Compared with previous years, this year's night watch is much simpler.

But no one will be happy with the simplicity.

Although the Jinyi Guard relieved the work of the Five Cities Terracotta Division, the officers and soldiers of the Five Cities Terracotta Division did not have the slightest affection for these rampant and ruthless Jinyi Guards, and they would not even say hello to each other when the night patrol teams of the two sides met.

The strength of Jinyiwei has overwhelmed the five military governors' mansions, the soldiers and horses of the five cities, and the hundreds of officials, magnates and people in the capital.

Du Yiyi never told Ning Zhiyuan about that night.

After recovering from her illness, Du Yiyi proposed to move back to Jinseju, but was persuaded by a group of maids to stay, although Qinglan was still as quiet as ever, Chang's mother had already begun to play a majestic role in Rui Wangfu, especially today.

There was no news from Rao Su, and the mood of the soldiers in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies had now calmed down, and everyone was waiting for the news from Suzhou to come back.

The emperor was stimulated by this tragic change that almost caused the Fuhu Army to fall ill, and as soon as he got better, he remembered his son, who had been sick for nearly 20 years, so he left the palace with the queen and went to the Rui Wang's mansion.

Qinglan, who had been ignored before, was mentioned by the emperor intentionally or unintentionally and was called to the lobby.

Whether it is in a large family or a small family, the status of the concubine is low, and the concubine must not appear in front of the guests when the head of the household meets the guests, Qinglan has been in the house for more than half a year, but this is really the first time to see Weng Po.

When the emperor and Ning Zhiyuan went to the study, the queen in the hall took Du Yiyi's hand on the right side and said affectionately and gently: "Yiyi! What do you think about General Shen's affairs now? ”

What does Du Yiyi dare to think about the matter decided by the emperor, judging from the emperor's attitude towards Qinglan, the queen must not have just come to ask her about the feelings of her sinner sister.

"Whether General Shen really did something sorry for Dahe still has to wait for Lord Rao's results, General Shen is a rare general, and neither the emperor nor the palace wants to see him have anything! You are General Shen's sister, there are some things you should persuade General Shen! ”

"Yiyi understands!"

Du Yiyi lowered her eyes and bowed her head.

The queen smiled on her cheeks, touched the corner of her eyebrows with her right hand on her orchid finger and continued: "There is one thing, this palace has to tell you, the two of you have been married to Zhiyuan for more than half a year, and you must pay more attention to the child's affairs." ”

Only with children can a woman maintain her status forever, the emperor has always been very concerned about the weak Ning Zhiyuan's child, Du Yiyi and Qinglan have been in the house for more than half a year, and there has been no movement so far, the truth in Ziyue's belly is not clear, when the emperor looked at the backyard of Rui Wangfu, the queen was also happy to take the opportunity to add another fire to Ning Zhiyuan, who was already in a hurry.

"This palace told you about this last time, can you take this palace to heart?" The queen raised her eyebrows, gentle and restrained.

The queen asked her to find some prescription drugs last time, but Du Yiyi didn't take it to heart, the secret between her and Ning Zhiyuan is now The queen's heart is like a mirror, and now the queen picks out this topic again............ Du Yiyi squinted at Qinglan, who was sitting on the other side of the queen with a smile in her eyes, and knew that the queen was digging a pit for herself to jump into, but she couldn't help jumping.

"Yiyi was careless and forgot!"

"This palace has thousands of instructions, how can you forget!" The queen knocked on the table with a displeased face.

"Mother Lao is bothered! Rely on your mistakes! Du Yiyi apologized.

Qinglan bowed her sleeves and said love for Du Yiyi: "Queen Mother, Yi Yixu forgot about it for a while, and asked the Queen Mother to forgive!" ”

That day, Qinglan was still living in a low-key manner as usual after Huai Yuju left, but she was very eager for Ning Zhiyuan, what she saw with her own eyes that night had become a thorn, Du Yiyi couldn't forget even if she wanted to, listening to Qinglan's soft voice, she couldn't help but think that this mouth could actually make her voice look vivid, and her heart was suddenly annoyed.

"In the end, it's the age difference, you also know that Chang Liu's current illness can't be delayed for long, although the emperor is trying to find a doctor who can take over Chang Liu's position across the country, but it took several years to find Chang Liu's emperor, and the child's matter has always been the emperor's expectation, you don't want to disappoint the emperor and the palace! Qinglan, what did you think about what this palace told you yesterday? ”

The queen patted the back of Qinglan's hand affectionately, Qinglan pursed her lips and lowered her head in shyness, and replied softly: "Qinglan obeys the queen's arrangement in everything!" ”

Du Yiyi glanced at the queen and Qinglan, and didn't understand what the queen and Qinglan were talking about.

She can know the things in King Rui's mansion as quickly as possible, but Qinglan is a professional intelligence collector, and if the queen wants to skip her conversation with Qinglan, it is very simple.

"Since you agreed, then in two days, the palace will take you for a trip, the lord of Dening has been a person for so many years, and it is also your creation to accept you as a righteous daughter!"

The queen glanced at Du Yiyi with a deep smile, and saw Du Yiyi stunned, and stretched out her hand to cover her lips and chuckled: "Yiyi, you don't know, the county lord of Dening met a villain on the street the day before yesterday, fortunately Qinglan passed by and rescued her, the lord of Dening saw that Qinglan's temperament was in line with her taste, and she had no children and no daughters, so she wanted to recognize Qinglan as a righteous daughter, Qinglan did not agree, and the county lord of Dening found the palace, and the emperor also said that the county lord of Dening has been lonely and helpless all these years, and it is a great thing to accept Qinglan as a righteous daughter and take care of it by many people in the future." , this palace also thinks so, this is a rare fate! ”

Du Yiyi secretly scolded in her heart, fuck, how could she not receive any news about this matter! Qinglan rarely goes out on the street, why did he finally go out once and meet the county lord of Dening? It seems that the emperor no longer plans to take a roundabout route to let Qinglan and himself go down, he wants to raise Qinglan's status and let her fight with himself! It's okay if he has been hiding such a big thing in the dark, why didn't Ning Zhiyuan say a word?

Du Yiyi wrinkled her brows and looked at the queen who was warm and caring for Qinglan, and gritted her teeth and replied: "Such a good thing is a rare fate!" ”

"This palace also thinks so, Qinglan is also an orphan, she recognized the lord of Dening as her stepmother, which can be regarded as making up for the regrets of the two of them for so many years! Zhiyuan also agreed, and when the palace had time, he helped them settle this matter. The queen smiled and glanced back at the study behind her.

Why didn't Ning Zhiyuan talk to himself about this? Du Yiyi frowned even tighter. If Qinglan recognized the county lord of Dening as her stepmother, it was certain that the emperor and queen would be crowned a county lord, if Qinglan became the county lord, then her status in the Rui Wangfu would be very different, and the concubine with the title would not be an ordinary concubine.

"Qinglan, why don't you tell me about such a good thing? When I first heard it, it scared me! ”

Wiped out the plan in the heart of the emperor and queen in surprise, Du Yiyi let go of her teeth and smiled, with the emperor and queen in charge, with the title of county lord, then the next step should be the side princess that the emperor has been staring at.

"The princess was sick a few days ago, Qinglan didn't dare to disturb such a trivial matter!" Qinglan raised her eyes, her shy and red cheeks were delicate and moving.

Compared with Du Yiyi, who was slightly pale because of the high fever, Qinglan's touching red color made her even more moving.

"Such a rare good thing, how can it be said that it is a small thing! Then I'm here to congratulate you. Du Yiyi picked up the teacup and took a sip forward.

Qinglan smiled and bowed her head, her attitude of not being humble or arrogant made the queen on the side even more happy, with such a Qinglan and Du Yiyi as opponents, the effort she put into Ning Yi at the beginning was not in vain.

"Indeed, it is worth celebrating, it is worth celebrating!" The queen laughed and said: "Qinglan has a poor background, since she is a person from Zhiyuan, the heavenly family can't treat her lightly, and the emperor and the palace plan to grant her the title of Xiu'an County Lord." ”

"Then it's even more worthy of me to say this congratulations!"

If Ning Yi wasn't there, how could the queen look down on Qinglan? If it weren't for Shen Ke's power being irrepressible, how could the emperor secretly help Qinglan? This set of tricks is really boring!

In the study, the emperor picked up the pen and wrote slowly, and Ning Zhiyuan stood aside and watched quietly.

The emperor wrote two words, heaven and man, and the edge suddenly appeared.

The king is the sky, and the people are the people.

Between heaven and man, there are just two more strokes.

"These two horizontals are the jade seal in my hands and the three armies that are unreachable, as long as I master these two things, I am the sky, if I don't have these two things, I am just a mortal." The emperor stretched out his hand and wiped the two horizontals of the ink ink before drying with his index finger, and the fingertips stayed outside the second horizontal, dotting an ellipse.

Ning Zhiyuan picked up the handkerchief on the side and respectfully presented it to the emperor, so that he could wipe the ink from his hand.

"My father is the monarch of Oga, who is loved by all the people, how can he be a mortal!" Ning Zhiyuan naturally slapped a sycophant, the deep meaning of what the emperor said must be referring to the current situation in the capital, Ning Zhiyuan is also a person in the bureau, he doesn't know what to say except for patting a sycophant.

"Before the Holy Ancestor started, he was just a pawn of a peddler, and it was not the heavens that changed people's fate, but the people themselves." The emperor wiped the ink from the newly grown nails and threw aside the handkerchief that had been dyed. "There are many people who change their fate with their hands, they are all people with ideas, just like cattle and sheep, there are no ideal cattle and sheep will only eat grass day by day to enjoy what they think is a comfortable life, and finally become fat and strong to be slaughtered by the butcher, but the cattle and sheep who are unwilling to work so hard will rush out of the railing to find the broader grassland The real free world, this railing, is it!"

Ning Zhiyuan followed the emperor's gaze and saw the black spot between heaven and man.

The emperor's metaphor, he understands it.

"So I have always had to make sure that the military power is firmly in my hands, and the Holy Ancestors can trust them, but I can't, because they also have descendants, who can guarantee that their descendants who hold the military power will not have the intention of breaking out of the railing, the rules and regulations are all set by people, who doesn't want to stand at the top and make the rules of the world? I never felt that the fire eleven years ago burned wrong, it at least burned my heart and burned the threat of the Ning family. ”

The emperor pinched the rice paper with one hand and covered the other, and walked to the window with his hands.

What happened eleven years ago, everyone knew it, but everyone also kept it tacit, the first time he heard the emperor admit the bloody case eleven years ago, Ning Zhiyuan didn't know how to answer for a while to satisfy the emperor.

After all, he is now Shen Ke's brother-in-law.

It is impossible to achieve both affection and righteousness, filial piety and righteousness.

"I didn't expect this to happen like this, I thought it was clean enough."

Although Mr. Yan Liudu did not confirm that Shen Ke was the person who escaped death back then, in the heart of the suspicious emperor, he had turned this uncertainty into certainty.

Ning Zhiyuan looked at the clenched fists behind the emperor in surprise, and was very shocked by the truth that the emperor secretly pointed out.

Since the emperor was the one who created the bloody case eleven years ago, it was normal to treat Shen Ke like this.

"But those who dare to break through the railing are capable people, Shen Ke is my hero of Dahe, his prestige among the three armies is unmatched, even if he is holding the jade seal, it is difficult to match, when the Holy Ancestor was able to overthrow the Chen Dynasty with an army of 100,000, Shen Ke was also possible."

Although he knew that Ning Zhiyuan was Shen Ke's brother-in-law, the emperor didn't have any scruples, among his sons, he would generally only talk to Ning Zhiyuan about his troubles, it was because Ning Zhiyuan was the only one who was not involved, and now it was because Ning Zhiyuan was still the most like his son.

Outside the window, the grass is faint and the flowers are blooming, the little yellow flowers swaying in the wind are like the jewels that someone left on this emerald green carpet, the birds fall on the ginkgo trees, and the green mountains in the frame are as beautiful as a painting.

"General Shen has made great achievements for Dahe, and he is loyal to Dahe, and the matter of Suzhou, Erchen believes that it is just a malicious attack by someone!"

Ning Zhiyuan still checked the emperor's pulse at the last moment.

The emperor's half-open lips curled the corners of his mouth, and he said bitterly and sarcastically: "The important thing is not whether it is true or false, but that I can no longer trust him!" ”

"Father, although the second brother is in the Governor's Mansion, his Confucian background cannot convince the three armies, if the father disposes of Shen Ke, who has no precedence in the army at this time, it will only shake the hearts of the army!" Ning Zhiyuan bowed deeply rigorously and righteously.

"And what do you say you should do?" The emperor turned his head and saw Ning Zhiyuan's solemn face and sincere eyes, and felt a little comforted in his heart.

"Father has always said that the law is the first, meritorious service must be rewarded, and if there is a fault, it must be punished, General Shen should be rewarded for his meritorious service to Dahe, if he really has a fault, he should be punished, but it will also wait until the second brother has the ability to lead the three armies, and now even if Lord Rao can show evidence, he can't severely punish General Shen, the three armies are important, father!"

The emperor turned and walked to the chair behind the bookcase and sat down.

"I'm old! I don't know what year or month it will be until I wait! ”

"Father's ............"

Although the emperor's illness came and went quickly, it was not a big deal, but when he said the three words "I am old" in a vicissitudes of life, Ning Zhiyuan realized that the white hair on both sides of the two yellow silk belts that fixed the dragon crown was no longer a root but a handful.

The worrying days after the Fuhu Army Mutiny had already destroyed the emperor, who was only in his forties.

"The older you get, the more timid you become, you are the son who is most like me, I have always wanted you to take a different path from me, but it backfired." The emperor rubbed his swollen eyelids, opened his mouth and yawned, drowsiness, a characteristic of old age.

"Father, son............" Ning Zhiyuan bowed deeply, not daring to look at those eyes that were a little red.

"If you can't find a replacement for you, you...... Don't fight with Chaoge, I plan to make him the crown prince after this matter is settled, and then you will go out with me for a walk, and some things are better not to think about. ”

Ning Zhiyuan was speechless.

"Your little concubine, I look pretty good, she is a reasonable person, the sooner I gave birth to an imperial grandson, I will be able to give way to my emperor with peace of mind!" The emperor laughed.

Ning Zhiyuan looked down at the blanket with a lot of ink on the ground.

"Being young is different, when I was your age, I also believed in these, they were all the same, I looked at Qinglan quite well, my daughter-in-law should be like this."

"Father, Yiyi is your daughter-in-law!" Ning Zhiyuan couldn't help it anymore, it stands to reason that the princess can really be regarded as the emperor's daughter-in-law, and it is not a good sign for the emperor to blindly raise Qinglan.

"Aren't you having a round house with her yet?" The emperor glanced at Ning Zhiyuan coldly, and was very displeased with his maintenance of Du Yiyi.

Ning Zhiyuan was speechless, and said anxiously and panickedly: "Erchen has already performed the courtesy of Duke Zhou with Yiyi!" ”

The emperor raised his eyebrows and squinted: "You are my son, can you still deceive me?" After more than half a year of marriage, I am still like this, and I have not spoken to give Shen Ke face. ”

Ning Zhiyuan was sweating and anxious: "Father, the son has his own opinions!" Please don't worry about it! ”

"I will be in charge of this matter, and you have also approved the matter of the Lord of Dening, and it is not difficult for me to let Qinglan give me an imperial grandson."

"Father, where is this emperor's eldest grandson so good............" Ning Zhiyuan was really helpless against the emperor who had already been released.

"It's not that you want to be born! What are you anxious about! The emperor kicked his feet dissatisfied.

"I've been waiting for you for a month, and if you haven't heard good news for a month, don't blame me for meddling!"

You're already meddling in this! Ning Zhiyuan thought helplessly.

"Look at you like this, very dissatisfied with me?" The emperor got up and stood in front of Ning Zhiyuan.

"Erchen doesn't dare!"

"It's good if you don't dare! Remember for a month, don't wait for the time to let the book of the Wing School read like a sea. The emperor turned around sternly and coldly, and waited for Ning Zhiyuan to grit his teeth and nod his head before leaving the study.