The comfortable time of King Shin enjoying the soup pool alone was interrupted by these uninvited guests.

Knowing that the emperor had accidentally fallen into the water, King Xin was frightened and hurriedly wrapped himself in a robe and came out to see him.

Zhao Jiufu instructed everyone to get busy, divide labor and cooperate, and serve His Majesty to bathe, who will take His Majesty's big soup, who will cook ginger soup, and who will let the doctor come and wait.

His Majesty the Emperor, who was surrounded by everyone, still had a dark and dark face, and it wasn't until he changed out of his wet and watery robe that his face was a little better.

The white mist in the soup pool was thick, and Huo Yanzhi wanted to speak again.

Zhao Jiufu looked at him twice, and said tentatively: "The slave maid has already asked someone to send hot water to Miss Zhiwei, Your Majesty doesn't need to worry about it." ”

Huo Yanzhi's brows relaxed, but he didn't say anything.

Zhao Jiufu returned to the care mode of serving His Majesty on a daily basis: "Why did Your Majesty fall into the water?" But those two guards are not effective? They too, seeing His Majesty walking to the water's edge, they didn't stop one or two. If the slaves and maids are present, they will have to pull His Majesty back at the risk of angering him. ”

Huo Yanzhi turned his head, clenched his fist to his mouth, and faked coughing twice: "It's just that I was careless for a while, and my feet slipped." ”

He thought silently, fortunately, the three of them had been warned on the way to not publicize today's events, otherwise, his external image would be completely ruined.

Zhao Jiufu scolded the steward of the Huangzhuang and the two guards again, first scolding the former for not repairing the fortifications on the Zhuangzi well, and then scolding the latter for not being eye-catching enough, and then asked seemingly unintentionally.

"Speaking of which, how could Miss Zhiwei also fall into the water? The slave seems to remember that when His Majesty turned out from here, the girl did not follow. ”

Huo Yanzhi's eyebrows were twisted, and he immediately recalled the situation when the girl's brittle voice and the farmer asked for white lotus roots.

He snorted coldly, and asked instead of answering: "Fang Cai, did King Xin send someone to the kitchen to ask for a pastry made of lotus root?" ”

Zhao Jiufu was stunned: "This ...... The slave didn't hear the prince mention it. ”

Huo Yanzhi's face darkened by two points.

Shinoh, kitchen, sweets, lotus root, zhiwei......

These seemingly unrelated words are connected together, and the logic behind them seems to be coming out.

Zhao Jiufu was blessed to the heart, and suddenly guessed the truth.

"Ahem, maybe I told you before I came. The slave and maid listened to what the steward said, and believed that the prince was a graceful person. Since he lived in Zhuangzi, if nothing else, the dishes are always ingenious and varied. The steward said that if it weren't for the fact that the prince had moved the cook from his own house, he was afraid that the original cook in Zhuangzi would be able to turn her hair gray, or her wages would be gone, and she would leave directly......"

After listening to this explanation, Huo Yanzhi's face was slightly better.

After all, he knew his half-brother very well. If you can't get married for the sake of a story in a travelogue, then it's nothing to be more expensive and thoughtful in terms of food.

The most important thing is that this shows that the little palace maid is not an ungrateful, changeable, and flattering villain.

Huo Yanzhi was in a better mood, recalling the appearance of the girl who was so cold in the autumn wind that her shoulders trembled and her lips were slightly purple, and a sense of pity swelled up.

The next second, that loud sneeze appeared in his mind again.

"It's weird, it's ugly, but it's funny." The Emperor thought.

Strictly speaking, sneezing in front of the emperor is also considered a loss of honor in front of the emperor, and she can be punished.

However, for the sake of this girl relieving herself from the siege of water and grass, let's go around her.

The young emperor didn't realize it, and at this time, there was a doting smile on the corner of his mouth.

After getting up and drinking the ginger soup, the doctor who came in a hurry had not yet breathed evenly, and he wanted to check Huo Yanzhi's pulse.

Huo Yanzhi waved his hand: "I'm fine, it's not cold at all, I haven't even sneezed, I don't need to look at it." Go and show the maid. ”

"This ...... I'm afraid that the etiquette is not compatible. ”

The royal doctor looked at King Xin for help, and the latter smiled and said, "Brother Huang, your body is related to the luck of the country, and you can't ignore it." Let the doctor take a look, it's safe. If it's not a big deal, at most it's only a small half-pillar of incense, and it can't delay Miss Zhiwei's little wind and cold. ”

For some reason, Huo Yanzhi always felt that there was something in King Xin's words, and his smile was particularly meaningful.

He reluctantly reached out to check the doctor's pulse, but in the end, it turned out to make him a little crying and laughing.

The doctor said that His Majesty did not have the symptoms of wind chill and cold, but some yang fire has risen recently, and yang is full of yin deficiency, and he needs to take a health prescription for conditioning.

Huo Yanzhi said with a straight face: "Since there is no serious illness, I can go back to the palace and let the imperial doctor prescribe it." Go ahead. ”

As a result, the doctor went for a long time before returning to report it.

Because the "patient" hand-picked by His Majesty the Emperor was unfortunately infected with a cold, his body was hot, he was lightheaded, and his consciousness had begun to blur.

I don't know if I noticed the emperor's special treatment of the palace maid, and the doctor's face became more serious than Fang Cai.

"Your Majesty, Lord Qi, this woman's wind and cold are menacing, a little different from ordinary people, it seems that she has had some serious illness before, and her body has been hollowed out, so she will be sick like a mountain......"

This is not the second time Huo Yanzhi has heard such a statement, and last time when Zhiwei lay for half a month because of a little wind and cold, the imperial doctor said so.

Thinking of the poisoning of Zhiwei that time, his heart was even more ashamed.

If he hadn't thrown people to the Hanyu Hall to report to God, he would not have fallen for the poisonous tricks of those femme fatales and was dying, and then he repeatedly suffered from minor illnesses and became serious illnesses, and almost died.

Now, although the number of his shadow guards is small, they have also taken shape, plus the inconspicuous palace maids trained by Sima Gongming for him, these people can already collect some important information in the harem for him. He no longer needed to spy on those palace secrets in such a flamboyant way, even if it was still dangerous, but the risk level was minimized.

Huo Yanzhi was not a cold-blooded emperor, he had not killed anyone with his own hands, and at this moment, he even felt a little embarrassed and ashamed when he thought of Zhi Wei.

If the little palace maid dies because of his previous recklessness......

What would he do if she died?

Do you bury and reward her family like every faithful palace eunuch?

The voice in his heart was shouting "I can't do it", and there was even a faint fear mixed in with it, just like the days when I first learned about the strange thoughts of the queen mother, every night at midnight when he dreamed back, he would dream that he had changed from the emperor to the cloth clothes, just like this fear brought by loss.

The doctor was still talking about healing and recuperation, and said that the patient should not move.

King Xin sighed beside him: "Fortunately, this king had the foresight and brought a doctor over." There is a hot spring in Zhuangzi, which is just right for Miss Zhiwei to recuperate. Brother Huang, just rest assured......"

Huo Yanzhi's face sank, and then he decided that there have been many affairs in the court recently, and he needs King Xin to share his worries and relieve himself.

In other words, Shin King's life as a hermit came to an end completely.

Just when Zhiwei was recuperating in a groggy state, King Xin was thrown to work in the Ministry of Rites by an order from the emperor.

A while ago, the two factions of the first assistant and the second assistant were fighting fiercely, impeaching each other's people, and the emperor saw that these ministers were really a little unclean, so he dismissed those corrupt officials and corrupt officials from their posts in a good manner, and a number of official positions were vacated in the court for a while, although they were all inconspicuous small positions, but they were enough to make those young people who had newly entered the court in the spring of this year excited.

Xiao Huang is a typical example of this group of young people, and he was coincidentally assigned to the Ministry of Rites to do a small job, and he did chores under the hands of the new Xin Wangye.

At this time, the Ministry of Rites happened to usher in a major task, the mountain barbarian tribes that had just returned to South Vietnam followed the imperial army that went north to Beijing to pay tribute, and they were responsible for receiving these guests from the barbarian land.

If King Shin had come a few days earlier, he would have had a headache, because there were so many details involved.

For example, when the barbarians came, what kind of officials they sent to greet them, how many people they sent to greet them, where they were allowed to stay, how many people were in a room, what were the specifications of the meals, what kind of etiquette they had to maintain when they entered the palace, and so on.

They can only refer to the old precedents, and the best example is South Vietnam.

Nanyue used to be the country of Nanyue, and after being defeated by the first emperor, it became Nanyue County, but the first emperor still retained the name of the king of Nanyue and turned it into a prince-level title like King Xin and King An, and Nanyue County was a fief assigned to this prince.

Over the years, the imperial court did not interfere much in the daily affairs of South Vietnam, but it grasped the presence of local officials in the palm of its hand. And the benchmark of this Nanyue rebellion is that the governor of Nanyue sent by the imperial court was cut down by the king of Nanyue.

In short, in this semi-autonomous atmosphere, the Nanyue ministers who sent annual tributes to the capital every year also had local characteristics, behaving more like an envoy than a humble subordinate. The imperial court did not attach much importance to Nanyue, and the return gift was not very rich, and it is rumored that the king of Nanyue had a rebellious heart related to this.

The meaning of the servants of the Ministry of Rites is that it is good to treat the mountain barbarians according to the specifications of South Vietnam, and there is no need to hurt the spirit too much.

Xiao Tanhua disagreed, feeling that the mountain barbarians helped the imperial court to break the South Vietnamese rebels with surprise soldiers, and made great contributions, which could not be compared with the former rebels and the defeated side.

It's a pity that Xiao Tanhua is just a small principal at this time, and she is not qualified to go to the emperor to complain, so she has to succumb to the advice of her boss.

As a result, as soon as the mountain barbarians came, Xiao Tanhua was really given a dismount at the gate of the city that greeted him.

Because the mountain barbarians felt that they had been treated slowly, they were very unhappy, and they also muttered and complained to General Song, who was present at the time.

At that time, Song Zhige's two miraculous feats had been sent to the emperor's desk by his boss in their original form, and he was also promoted remotely, and he was no longer the identity of the little lieutenant when he left Beijing.

The two were originally friends, and they were happy to see each other again after a few months.

Xiao Huang was cautious, knowing that his friend would be summoned after returning to Beijing, and intended to ask him to help inform His Majesty about the matter.

Song Zhige was also present to see the conflict that had just almost been caused, and even acted as a peacemaker, and immediately agreed.

After listening to the report, the emperor was really dissatisfied with the petty family style of the Ministry of Rites, and on the same day, he called the Shangshu and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites to beat him. At this time, he threw King Xin over, in addition to not wanting him to accompany Zhiwei on the Zhuangzi every day, but also with the intention of muddying the water in the court.

King Xin vaguely guessed the inside story, and while laughing secretly, he simply waved the emperor's banner more presumptuously, directly crossed the head of the Ministry of Rites, and ordered Xiao Huang to take full responsibility for the reception of the mountain barbarian envoys.

He even wanted to get the scar-faced god of war general over to be a special bodyguard for him for a few days, after all, this young man had a good relationship with the mountain barbarians, and he was talented, and he actually learned some mountain barbarian dialects in a short period of time, and he was born in the imperial examination, which can be described as a model of chivalry who can be good at writing and martial arts in his mind.

Unexpectedly, the emperor rejected his request on the grounds that "General Song Xiao is going to visit his relatives and is not available." ”