On the second day of the Lunar New Year, it snowed heavily in the capital. Xue Wuyi was quietly summoned into the palace.

Inside the Hall of Diligence.

"Xue Wuyi knocked to see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live, long live the queen's mother, long live, thousand years old." Xue Wuyi lifted his robe and knelt on the ground.

"Get up." Emperor Changping raised his eyelids and glanced at Xue Wuyi.

"What, you're still messing with your old man?" Emperor Changping got up from his seat and came to Xue Wuyi's side and asked lightly.

"Shame on your subordinates!" Xue Wuyi bowed his head.

"Stinky boy!" Emperor Changping raised his head and hit Xue Wuyi's head.

Xue Wuyi looked up and found that Emperor Changping seemed to be much older. Both temples have gray hair, and his face is much older, he has not entered the palace for nearly a year, and he has been running outside all day, and he has not seen Emperor Changping.

And the queen mother stood by the emperor's side and smiled at Xue Wuyi.

The queen is also a famous family, generous and decent, and she still has some blood relationship with Xue Zhongjing. Not close, though.

The queen has no likes or dislikes for Xue Wuyi, but she dislikes Xue Wuyi's eldest brother Xue Ziqian very much.

Because Xue Wuyi's mother-in-law, the Liang family, intended to let Xue Ziqian marry the granddaughter of the Taifu, and the granddaughter of the Taifu Li Wanwan wanted to call the queen an aunt.

But the queen preferred to let Li Wanwan marry the eldest prince as a concubine.

There are two mothers in the Liang family, Liang is the second daughter, named Liang Min, and her eldest sister Liang Rong also entered the palace in her early years, and is now one of the four concubines in the palace, Concubine Liang.

Concubine Liang and Queen Li have always been at odds with each other, the two had a lot of feuds in their early years, and Concubine Liang once relied on the favor of Emperor Changping, and was once a little arrogant in the palace. If nothing else, people who have seen the concubine say that Concubine Liang's eyes are very similar to the once dead concubine.

But no one dares to say it openly, because it has become a taboo in the palace to favor the concubine.

Liang Min intends to let Xue Ziqian and Li Wanwan get married, this is robbing people with the queen, how can the queen have a good face for Xue Ziqian.

It just so happened that Xue Wuyi had drawn a clear line with his family, and the queen also knew Liang Min's methods, and in addition to sympathy for Xue Wuyi's experience, there were also some feelings of hatred and hatred.

So in comparison, the queen still likes Xue Wuyi. Besides, the eldest prince, Daqi is also the eldest son, it just so happens that the eldest prince is the eldest son, although Emperor Changping has not yet established the prince, the identity of the eldest prince, and the good talent, the prince is certain, although Xue Wuyi has no merit status, but Xue Wuyi is rich, from ancient times to the present, no matter what he does, can he leave the support of silver?

So the queen's attitude towards Xue Wuyi will of course be better, after all, who will have trouble with money?

Now that the princes are still young, the battle for the throne has not yet been put on the agenda, and in another three or five years, I am afraid that the court will be turbulent.

At that time, Xue Wuyi will definitely become the target of all parties.

Looking at Emperor Changping's attitude towards Xue Wuyi, he also knew that Xue Wuyi was deeply loved by Emperor Changping.

"Thin." Emperor Changping looked at Xue Wuyi for a while, nodded and said, Xue Wuyi's eyes were a little moist.

Back at the Xue family, Xue Zhongjing didn't take a serious look at him, but Emperor Changping was here, but he could say that he had lost weight.

"Everything is fine with his subordinates, and the emperor doesn't need to worry about it." Xue Wuyi was stunned for a moment, and soon recovered a little bit of his appearance.

"Okay, okay, I don't care about you." Emperor Changping waved his hand, looking impatient.

"My subordinates brought some gadgets to the emperor, does the emperor want to be quiet?" Xue Wuyi raised his eyebrows and said.

"Bring it up." Emperor Changping pursed his lips.

Although this is a bit of a loss of face for the emperor, who makes Xue Wuyi bring back the gadgets every year is very novel. Two years ago, Xue Wuyi brought back some things from the Western Regions that Daqi had never seen before, what kind of glass, and kaleidoscope, which had risen in the capital for a while.

and Xue Wuyi went to the East China Sea and brought back jade coral to Emperor Changping, which is still in the Qinzheng Palace.

Eating people with a short mouth and soft hands, no matter what Emperor Changping says, he has to take care of Xue Wuyi.

"Your Majesty, most of these things are nothing new, only this piece of ink jade has just opened in Qishan this year." Xue Wuyi took a box from Gonggong Li and opened it, and there was a piece of black jade lying quietly inside, which was the size of a palm, which was really rare.

"There's a dragon in this black jade." Xue Wuyi dropped a bombshell.

"Huh?" Emperor Changping was obviously interested, picked up the ink jade and began to look at it, sure enough, there was a hovering dragon in the ink jade, and when Emperor Changping took it in his hand, the dragon in the ink jade actually swayed.

"This dragon...... Fang Cai seems to have moved. The queen also came to the emperor's side to watch, and also saw the dragon move, and said in surprise.

"Your Majesty is the true dragon son of heaven, so there will be such a different phase, the ink jade is in the hands of the subordinates, and then sent back to the capital, I have never heard of the dragon in the black jade will move, it is really amazing." Xue Wuyi lowered his eyelids and said loudly.

"Hahaha, this ink jade is very close to my heart, queen, you can take it to help me make a good appearance in a while, and I will hang it in the future." Emperor Changping took the ink jade back into the box and explained.

"Yes, the concubine obeys." The queen responded cheerfully, and a palace maid beside her hurriedly put the box away.

The emperor handed over this matter to the queen, but he couldn't make a mistake and let those people in the harem take advantage of it.

"Queen Mother, this is the Zhuyan Pearl of the East China Sea, as well as the mermaid tears, it is rumored that the Zhuyan bead will keep the youth of the woman wearing it, this mermaid tears, if polished into jewelry, must also be very good-looking, as for this, it is called lipstick, which is specially used for makeup." Xue Wuyi opened the two boxes again, and the Zhuyan beads and mermaid tears inside faintly emitted a soft light, looking like a dream.

"Zimo has a heart." The queen said quickly, the two gifts given by Xue Wuyi were sent to the queen's heart, women who don't want to stay young forever, and have good-looking jewelry.

As for the last of them, which was contained in small wood, the queen also showed great interest.

It was a lipstick researched by Liu Meiniang, and it was no different from the appearance of modern lipstick, except that the outer box was made of wood instead of plastic.

However, it is indeed a novelty in this era, when Xue Wuyi left, Liu Meiniang was also thoughtful, and stuffed Xue Wuyi with several lipsticks, and asked Xue Wuyi to return to Beijing to give gifts, lipstick is not expensive, but no one here has seen it, and it is rare to be expensive, and it is not rude for Xue Wuyi to take this to the queen.

Xue Wuyi personally demonstrated to the queen how to use lipstick, and the queen's eyes began to glow.

"It's a fun gadget." The queen pinched the lipstick in her hand and looked left and right, obviously liking it.

"It's good if you like it." Xue Wuyi said.

"I like it." The queen had a smile on her face.

"The last one is a dish called braised chicken feet." It was also before Xue Wuyi left, Liu Meiniang stuffed it to Xue Wuyi, because in winter, the shelf life of things was extended, and Liu Meiniang specially put ice packs in the box, so when Xue Wuyi brought the chicken feet back, they were still fresh.

"Well, it smells good." Emperor Changping took a deep breath.

With a wave of his hand, he took the thing down.

"Your Majesty, the concubine will first go and choose a good-looking appearance for this Moyu, and the concubine will retire." The queen handed over the Zhuyan Zhu and the merman's tears to the next person. Only the lipstick was in his hand, and he knew that the emperor was going to talk to Xue Wuyi about business next, so he hurriedly retired.

The main thing is that the queen wants to go back and try lipstick.

Emperor Changping waved his hand, and the queen left the Qinzheng Hall with a group of people.

"Come, play a game of chess with me." Emperor Changping walked to the window.

"Your Majesty, the minister's chess skills are ......" Xue Wuyi hesitated.

"Okay, okay, you're still not happy, how many princes want to play chess with me, I'm still not happy, I still have something to tell you." Emperor Changping looked disgusted. Xue Wuyi shrugged his shoulders and had no choice but to give in.

Xue Wuyi's chess skills are really bad, and before the game is finished, Emperor Changping's face will be black.

"No, no, your chess skills are simply ......," Emperor Changping said impatiently as he threw the sunspot into the box.

"Your Majesty, the minister has said it, the minister's chess skills are not good......" Xue Wuyi said calmly, although Emperor Changping's face was full of anger, but Xue Wuyi knew that Emperor Changping was not angry.

"It's all your mother-in-law who raised you to waste." Emperor Changping sighed.

Xue Wuyi was originally smart, if he could teach carefully, he would definitely be a pillar of Daqi in the future, but because of his identity and the scheming Liang Min, Xue Wuyi was abolished.

Although Xue Wuyi now has money in his hands and almost monopolizes half of the economy of Daqi, Emperor Changping hopes that Xue Wuyi can enter the court as an official, which is the safest for Daqi.

Now Xue Wuyi is loyal to him, because he has the ability to make Xue Wuyi loyal, and when the next person inherits the throne and Daqi changes his master, it is really hard to say whether Xue Wuyi can continue to be loyal at that time.

Once Xue Wuyi is co-opted by Beirong and Southern Xinjiang or any party, it will not be a good thing for Daqi, the most difficult thing is that people like Xue Wuyi cannot be beaten or killed, if something happens to Xue Wuyi now, Daqi's economy will also be turbulent.

Emperor Changping could only do his best to win over and appease.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your pity." Xue Wuyi replied respectfully.

"Don't follow me to make these things false, if you want to, I will give you the position of prime minister." Emperor Changping gave Xue Wuyi a blank look.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty's heart Zimo has received it, Zimo is a layman, I'm afraid he can't hold it." Xue Wuyi politely refused.

Thinking of this, Xue Wuyi couldn't help but be a little funny, her mother Liang had done so many things in order to let Xue Ziqian inherit Xue Zhongjing's position and let Xue Wuyi not become Xue Ziqian's competitor, but where would she know that as long as Xue Wuyi wanted to, Xue Wuyi could easily get the position of prime minister.

If he knew about this, Liang Min would vomit blood angrily.

"Zimo, you're not too young." Emperor Changping paced to the center of the house and said suddenly.

Xue Wuyi was shocked, and heard Emperor Changping continue.

"My third princess has also reached marriageable age, what do you think?"

"Your Majesty, the third princess has golden branches and jade leaves, and her subordinates really don't dare to think about it." Xue Wuyi knelt directly on the ground, his head buried low.

"What? You don't want to? Emperor Changping suppressed his voice.

"Your Majesty, the minister is a concubine, and the third princess is married to a subordinate, isn't it wronged the third princess." Xue Wuyi hurriedly explained.

"What if I don't feel wronged?" Emperor Changping was determined to let Xue Wuyi marry the third princess.

"Your Majesty, subordinates...... The heart belongs! Xue Wuyi gritted his teeth and said.