The study was silent, only empty chairs, and the messy ink on the bookcase and the floor showed bad signals.

Zhi Wei glanced at the figure behind the screen, and began to wipe the floor with her eyes and nose.

She moved quickly, wiping the ink clean in a few moments, but, looking at the few folds that had been damaged, she bit her lip in embarrassment.

Wang Dexi shook his head at her, and she quietly retreated.

After a long time, Manager Zhao came back from outside, and Wang Dexi came out of it with a sigh of relief.

Zhi Wei beckoned to him: "Princess, what's going on?" Wasn't it General Qin who His Majesty had just received, why did he suddenly start a fire? Weird and scary ......"

Wang Dexi glanced at her: "How do you know that Your Majesty is angry?" ”

Zhi Wei stuck out her tongue: "When I went in, I vaguely saw that there were ink spots on the front placket of the general who came out. If it was just accidentally soiled, His Majesty would probably ask us to take the general to change his clothes, instead of just leaving in a hurry. Isn't that so? ”

"Hmph, you're a little clever. However, we don't dare to talk about the matter in front of the emperor, you just need to know it in your heart, but don't go around talking about it! ”

Wang Dexi's words were vague, but the warning in his words also revealed a certain meaning.

It seems that it is more likely that the queen who has been rumored in the harem has fallen out of favor recently, otherwise how could this pair of sons-in-law tear their faces as soon as they meet?

Zhiwei was also satisfied when she got the letter, so she naturally nodded obediently and agreed.

Anyway, she is the emperor's slave, and whether the queen really wants to lose power has nothing to do with her, not to mention, she doesn't think that the emperor will make trouble at such a time, at most she just uses the topic to play and warn one or two.

If the emperor is really like what the little concubines said, he is clearing the way for the concubine who may give birth to the emperor's eldest son, and completely ignoring the power of General Qin's family in the army, unless the emperor is stupid.

An hour later, His Majesty, who was sober-minded, finally received new news from the Ear Messenger.

"The history of the head of King An's Mansion? What did he do? ”

Zhi Wei said vaguely: "I didn't mention this, this happened more than a month ago." In addition, too ...... When the two of them talked, they mentioned the official titles of several adults, but they couldn't remember the names of specific people......"

"Can't remember a name?"

Huo Yanzhi was like an old cat with a fried hair, and asked again and again, and after confirming that the "informant" was not very bright, he was quite disappointed, and asked: "What did you say, it should always remember a thing or two, right?" ”

The eyes of the young emperor were originally the purest black, but under the illumination of the candle flame, there was a little more brilliant starlight, mysterious and distant.

Zhi Wei knew that the other party was suspicious, so she could only say it bluntly.

"Your Majesty, the informant said that at that time, those two were talking about the candidates for the chief examiner of Chunqiu, because they mixed up several names, and they couldn't remember it clearly, but they only knew that a person named Shoufu was vetoed by the Queen Mother, and what kind of pavilion old ......man was later decided."

There was a crunch sound.

Zhi Wei held back her curiosity and didn't look up, but out of the corner of her eye, she quickly saw that His Majesty sneered and threw two pieces of things on the ground.

A broken barrel.

It is decorated with a precious pen barrel decorated with harmony, jade and ivory......

It was just broken by His Majesty the Emperor and thrown away as garbage.

Huo Yanzhi didn't speak, she didn't move, one of the two of them sat behind the bookcase, and the other stood in front of the bookcase, which seemed to be the most common private report scene in recent days.

But this time the silence was inevitably too long, so long that there was a sticky sense of solemnity in the air.

Huo Yanzhi pressed down and churned his heart, quietly looking at the palace man in front of him who looked like the protagonist in a ladies' painting.

In early summer, everyone in the palace had changed into light summer clothes, and the woman in front of him was no exception. She has a slender figure, and the unified palace dress does not fit her, but it does not look bloated and fat on her, which makes this figure more graceful.

But she stood very straight, except for the head that was slightly lowered for the observance, from the neck to the waist and back to the legs, all of them were straight. Unlike the weeping willow often used by poets to describe women, it is more like a thin and straight aspen, even if the wind and sand are big, they will not bend their waist easily.

Such a dignified demeanor is enough to make up for the illusion that she is easy to give people in terms of appearance and figure, and it is also enough for him to start thinking about and trusting the word.

The clear palm of the bone joint buckles the book case, making a crisp sound of knocking.

"Do you know what you just said, what they mean?"

"The slave knows."

The man asked again, "Aren't you afraid of death?" ”

This time, he no longer thought about it, but hesitated for a while before he said softly: "I'm afraid." ”

Zhi Wei finally raised her head a little, so that she could see the position of His Majesty's placket without raising her eyes, and said calmly: "The slave and maid are Your Majesty's people, Your Majesty wants the slave and maid to live and die, and the slave and maid dare not complain." However, please forgive the slave and maid for speculating on the holy will, and the slave and maid feel that His Majesty still has a place to use the slave and maid at this time, so I am afraid it is a pity to let the slave and maid die. ”

There was silence again.

This time, it is no longer an indescribable embarrassment and a sense of condensation, but a touch of strange judgment.

"What do you want? If I remember well, you seem to have said last time that you are very envious of the pampered life of the harem mother......"

Zhi Wei finally raised her head completely, and cast a shocked glance at the young emperor with her eyes open.

The courage to answer the question before ran out at some point, she blushed and stammered: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the slave is not, it doesn't mean that, it was just ...... last time"

Seeing her stuck, Huo Yanzhi suddenly became interested.

"Just what? Do you want to say that I am mistaken? Do you know that you have no jokes? ”

Zhiwei: ......

She finally mustered up the courage to say that she was forced by the situation last time, and she added a few words in order not to be killed, and she didn't have any thoughts about Concubine Shu or the emperor, so please let Your Majesty put a hundred hearts.

But the emperor didn't seem very happy after hearing this confession, but he didn't say anything, and raised his hand to let her go.

Zhi Wei hesitated, but before "getting out", she still leaned down, and was taken away by the emperor's pitiful pen.

She didn't know that her actions were seen by the emperor, and she secretly made a note in her heart.

Childish.

With one more subordinate who can slander and "flirt" with him, Huo Yanzhi's mood is a little better than Fang Zhizhi. But when the surroundings were quiet again, he still couldn't help but show a hideous expression.

Is Chen Ge old?

The result that had satisfied him for several days - he had been scheming for a long time a while ago, arguing with the ministers in the court for so long, and finally chose a second-best ending that he could accept, that is, Chen Gelao, an old guy with no obvious position, had already been seen through in advance?

Or, in fact, such a result was not under his control at all, but someone behind the scenes made him think that he was manipulating......

If it weren't for that "ability", I'm afraid that he would still be stupidly kept in the dark and be an emperor who has been set aside, right?

Even on the night of mid-April, Huo Yanzhi still felt that his limbs were cold, from his lips and teeth to the bottom of his heart, inch by inch.

What exactly does his queen mother want to do?

interfered in the politics of the harem, colluded with foreign ministers, interfered in the affairs of the palace, and had secret expectations for the heir to the throne......

These words are joined together to give only one answer.

An answer that Huo Yanzhi didn't want to hear.

He couldn't believe it, so much so that he suspected that he was just dreaming, and that he had been dreaming for a long time from the time he was hit by that pot of wisteria. In the dream, his mother hated him, and the apparent mother-son friendship was just a joke, and she even wanted his nephew to take his place......

However, if all this is a dream, then he should wake up in half a month!

Is it the trick of the palace people? She wants to drive a wedge between their mother and son?

No, she's not like that.

If it weren't for her own request, she wouldn't have to run around every day, and her feelings for her sibling brother couldn't be disguised.

With this weakness and weakness, he didn't have to worry about her loyalty.

The fist slammed into the wall, and the flesh and bones were painfully impacted, and Huo Yanzhi instantly woke up from his sad fantasy.

This is reality, not a dream.

Even if the reality is so ugly, he must face it, because he is the emperor.

Not only for his own glory and power, but also for the ministers and people of this country, he must also sit in this position!

Huo Yanzhi's mind returned to the few things that King Xin dictated today, and his heart was full of depression and powerlessness.

When the Beidi invade the frontier, he can let the soldiers fight back. But the attack of the Oriental Sea Bandits, he was completely concealed by the joint efforts of the upper and lower levels!

It seems that it has been calculated that the Qincha will enter Beijing in these days, and the excerpt of the report from the governor of Jiangnan has also arrived today.

It is said that it is an excerpt from the report, but in fact, it contains a long petition for guilt, how many pirates attacked, how many people were killed, how many civilian casualties, and how to prevent it in the future only barely accounted for one-third of the space, and the rest was all allocated to the topic of asking the court for military salaries.

"This Governor Wu is really good, he is worthy of being a disciple taught by Guo Shoufu!"

The young emperor smiled very hard, and even the approved red pen was hooked very hard, and it looked like a sticky drop of blood from a distance.

Guo Shoufu sat firmly on the Taishi chair in his study, checking the secret letter sent by the private post station express horse.

The sparse brows gradually tightened, and he muttered, "Why is this kid Ying Deng so reckless, and he won't ...... me without talking to me", and quickly relaxed, and even smiled.

"No, it's best to report it at this time. This slippery head, even I hid it. Your Majesty is younger and more vigorous, but the old fox of the second assistant is not easy to say......"

Believing in the Wangfu, after listening to the brief report, the male owner who had not returned for a long time asked about a trivial matter that seemed to have nothing to do with him.

"You just said that the long history of King An's Mansion suffered a lawsuit because of gambling money and debts? Was also sent to Dali Temple? ”

The chief historian of the Xinwang Mansion saw that his master was in the dust, but there was curiosity on his face, so he was also happy to tell jokes and interpret dreams for his master.

"Back to the master, this is indeed the case. About half a month ago, it happened that Princess An's mother and son entered the palace to serve the Queen Mother, and there was no tiger and monkey in the palace of King An, so there was no tiger and monkey in the mountains to call the king'? That Li Changshi was brought into the gambling house by some fox friend and dog friend, and he was unlucky and brainless, so he lost a clean night and owed a sum of money. ”

He couldn't pay it back, so he took advantage of the fact that the masters were not in the house, and secretly opened the treasury to transport things out of the house and sell them cheaply, and there were also gold and expensive things given by the emperor back then. Do you think it's funny? ”

"Princess An is very kind, she heard the news in the palace, and specially asked someone to take King Xiaoan's name card to intercede. It's just that Li Changshi was ashamed and ashamed, and because his wife made a fuss and divorced, he returned to his parents' house with his daughter, he couldn't figure it out for a while, and actually hanged himself in Dali Temple, just the day before Princess An interceded for him. This guy is also unlucky......"

The young prince touched his chin with interest: "It sounds like he is indeed an unlucky person." ”