In the past few days, Huo Yanzhi has been in a mess and sober, and Zhiwei is like a frightened bird every day.

The confession of "the crime of bullying the king", which was interrupted by the empress dowager's coma that day, has no follow-up, as if it has been forgotten by His Majesty himself, who took the initiative, but she does not dare to make such an optimistic estimate.

She felt that maybe His Majesty was just too busy to take care of her, and she would probably be unlucky when she was done with this while.

In her anxious waiting, the day finally came.

First, the wilted golden pine was suddenly replaced by a pot of energetic podocarpus, and then, after the emperor went down to court, he began to pluck the latter's needles to play, and the expression on his face seemed to be in a fugue for nine days.

When Zhiwei went in to change the tea, she didn't hear a sigh or a scream of pain, only an old female voice was talking to herself quietly.

“…… It's useless! Emperor, I have no grievances with you, why are you so stingy? It's not that I don't want to say it, it's that I don't know. I'm not a fairy, I'm an old woman, and it's good that I can remember what she says to others......"

Zhi Wei glanced at the "stingy" emperor, and suddenly realized that this pot of podocarpus was not just here to replace the golden pine, maybe she also knew some secrets, and on the premise of having a choice, the last thing she wanted to hear was the secrets in the palace.

But is it too late to leave? She met the emperor's blank gaze a little desperately.

"Ah, it's you."

Huo Yanzhi's eyes were big and round, and he was very cute when he was a teenager, but he looked a little childish when he grew up. Fortunately, he was born tall and mighty, and his silhouette was cold and hard, so he didn't look so boyish.

After serving him for a while, although he didn't take too many faces, Zhi Wei could also tell that His Majesty the Emperor likes to squint at people when he is unhappy, and his eyebrows are twisted up one high and one low, although it is a little funny on the faces of ordinary people, but if he is replaced, no one has the courage to think so.

At this moment, his eyes were foggy, as if covered with a layer of haze, and his usually bright eyes were a little like the wet eyes of a newborn pony, which was particularly cute.

Zhi Wei was taken aback by the metaphor in her heart, and quickly lowered her head, not daring to look at it again.

"You're asking about your brother, aren't you? You have a good relationship? ”

As soon as Zhi Wei heard it, she knew that the other party knew everything, so she could only kneel down quietly and reply.

"Yes, the slave is guilty."

Huo Yanzhi said strangely: "You have a good relationship, this is also a crime?" ”

Zhi Wei was even more inexplicable than him, and only after a moment of stuckness did he explain: "Slaves and maids should not snoop on His Majesty's official documents and use their power for personal ......gain."

"Let's not talk about that, let's talk about you and your brother."

The eccentricity in Zhiwei's heart has reached its peak, and at the same time, she is slightly relieved.

It seems that His Majesty does not intend to pierce that layer of strange window paper and make her a dead person who will not reveal his secrets!

With this thought, Zhi Wei's tone was also lighter, and she picked up some things that could be said from the details of the relationship between the brother and sister when they were young, and then couldn't help but look up at today's emperor who was particularly good at talking.

She wasn't sure if she should ask or not, and if she did, it would anger the emperor, but she was sure that the emperor would know why her brother didn't take the exam!

"Your Majesty—"

"You want to ask about the temple test?"

The two spoke almost at the same time, the former shocked and then turned into surprise, and the latter looked sad.

Zhi Wei immediately said with interest: "The slave maid just wants to know if there is something big in the family, but the former princess couldn't find out too many details." As for the palace test, it was a court affair, and the slaves and maids did not dare to say anything else. ”

Huo Yanzhi was silent for a while before he said, "It's okay to tell you, it has nothing to do with the previous dynasty." ”

Zhi Wei was overjoyed, her ears moved slightly, and she almost stood up to listen to the next words.

The lantern suddenly jumped twice, flashing in front of Huo Yanzhi's eyes, and he almost regarded the little palace man who was kneeling on the ground and looking at him with his eyes as a fluffy little white rabbit.

Well, this metaphor is quite vivid, isn't Song Zhige's news the biggest carrot for her?

Perhaps because of the affairs of the Queen Mother and King An, Huo Yanzhi recalled a lot and thought a lot about it for a while, and then when he thought of the people of this small palace who wanted to inquire about his brother's news, he was originally deceived and unhappy, and his thoughts of wanting to trick him back were also a lot lighter.

In other words, he is now down-looking at everything, and even a little disheartened, wanting to obey the Queen Mother's wishes.

He sighed: "Your brother is a rare talent, if he can successfully participate in the palace examination, he will definitely have a place in the top ten." It's a pity that there were some accidents a few days before the palace exam......"

When she withdrew from the inner sanctum, Zhiwei's whole person was in a trance.

Yuxue greeted her with a frown, and she wiped her face, only to realize that she was actually covered with tears.

"What's wrong with you? Just copied such a thick palace rule, and now look at the rules in the back of your mind? Who are you crying and sad to show your face? The master is waiting for you, how can you be so presumptuous! Punish you for half a month! ”

Zhi Wei wiped her face indiscriminately, admitted her mistake to Yuxue, and hurriedly walked away.

Yuxue was so angry with her that she turned her head and trained a few new Xiaogong people from head to toe, before she barely let out a sigh.

Zhi Wei didn't feel sorry for the monthly salary of the half month, turned her head back to the house and took out all the family funds, and went to find Wang Dexi.

Unexpectedly, Wang Dexi saw her from afar and turned around and left.

Zhi Wei was anxious, and rushed over with her skirt: "Princess, please stay!" ”

Wang Dexi turned his head sadly: "Is there something wrong with Miss Zhiwei looking for me?" ”

He glanced at the small cloth bag in Zhi Wei's hand, his heart trembled, and he began to pray that the other party would not let him run errands out of the palace.

However, the thief did not hear his call.

Zhi Wei had red eyes, solemnly greeted him, and presented a small cloth bag in both hands: "Princess, I want you to help inquire about my brother's news next time you leave the palace." He was robbed a while ago and was seriously injured, and I was very worried...... That's all I have for the time being, and if you're not enough, I'll ...... when this month is over."

"Stop, stop! I didn't promise you to run this errand, and I don't want your monthly salary......"

Zhiwei's eyes turned even redder, and she gritted her teeth and planned to kneel.

Fortunately, Wang Dexi's eyes were quick, and he hurriedly helped him: "Ouch, Sister Zhiwei, what are you doing?" Torture me! Hey, it's not that I don't want to help you, but ......"

"And what?"

Zhi Wei blinked, staring at him with red eyes like rabbits in bewilderment.

Wang Dexi felt bitter.

He can't tell Zhiwei about the "bribe" he took to go out of the palace to run errands, and then this matter was discovered by his master, and then Zhao Jiufu took the dust and smoked more than a dozen times, right?

"This, this, actually...... I've done something wrong recently and annoyed my master, and I won't have a chance to leave the palace during this time. Well, I really can't help you~"

Zhi Wei didn't give up: "Then, who else can leave the palace now?" ”

Wang Dexi kept his mouth shut tightly, and only said that he didn't know. He really couldn't figure out what the master meant, so he could only retreat from her.

Zhi Wei left disappointed, but she didn't know that someone across the wall listened to all her words.

Under the dark vermilion palace wall, Yuan Chengtai's ears moved a few times, until he could no longer hear Zhi Wei's voice, and then sighed melancholy.

"What do you sigh at a young age? Did your sweetheart run away with someone? ”

Wang Jing's voice suddenly sounded from behind him, almost not startling him to jump away.

Yuan Chengtai ignored him and continued to patrol, but he began to think about his next vacation in his heart.

"If I knew her brother's name and whereabouts, I could have asked her a little bit about it. Her brother had been wounded by the robbers, and it sounded so sinister, she must have feared that it would be bad. It's a pity that now that Miss Yuxue is more strict, it's really not easy to speak......"

He hesitated, but still didn't open his mouth to ask Wang Jing for help.

Just because he asked him to help inquire about Miss Zhiwei a while ago, this guy laughed at him for almost a month, and he always said that he had a sweetheart when he had nothing to do, and he only stopped recently, and he didn't want to go back to the previous state of making a big red face in front of his colleagues.

Intentionally planting flowers does not bloom, and unintentionally planting willows and willows into the shade.

Yuan Chengtai didn't expect that he had only counted the days with his fingers crossed his fingers in less than twenty-four hours, and he got a rare opportunity to leave the palace.

However, it was not a vacation, but as the emperor's bodyguard out of the palace.

Wang Jing, like Yuan Chengtai, was temporarily ordered to work as an errand in a daze. Of course, it's not just the two of them, there are a few others who are usually responsible for guarding the Qinzheng Palace. These people all changed into civilian clothes, and followed the "Huo Gongzi" dressed as a rich son and the short and fat "Zhao Changsui" out of the palace from the small door.

Yuan Chengtai thought that the emperor might be tired of staying in the palace, so he deliberately came out to pay a private visit, just like what was written in the book, and he didn't know if he would bring any beautiful women who had strayed into the dust as concubines when he went back.

Unexpectedly, the emperor himself walked aimlessly through the market, went to the teahouse to sit down, listened to the high-minded talk, and then slowly let the carriage go to Guo's mansion.

Today, the street where Guo's mansion is located is crowded with cars and horses, and all of them are full of people, and everyone's faces are beaming.

Because Huo Yanzhi's carriage was not luxurious enough and failed to obtain the privilege of giving way to most people, Huo Yanzhi was embarrassed to jump out and say nonsense like "I am the emperor and let me go in first", so he could only sit on the car and wait aggrievedly.

Yuan Chengtai stayed outside the car, listened to a few words of dialogue from others, and suddenly understood in his heart, it seems that the emperor is here to congratulate Guo Shoufu on his birthday, this old Shoufu has a really big face.

He couldn't think of questions like "why didn't the emperor come to celebrate his birthday last year or the year before last", but the emperor himself had a lot of thoughts.

It didn't take long for the boredom of waiting to be quickly dispelled by the voices in his ears, and he suddenly felt that it felt good to hide in the crowd with a different identity, at least he could hear a lot of things that he couldn't hear when he was wearing a dragon robe.

For example, Liu Cifu and Guo Shoufu have been at odds for a long time, and the situation seems to be getting more and more serious recently. A while ago, Liu Cifu's wife took a fancy to Zhang Gelao's granddaughter and wanted to say that she would give it to her young son, but she was unexpectedly taken by Guo Shoufu's eldest daughter-in-law;

For another example, Chen Ge, who presided over this spring festival, has been sick for half a month, but today he still came to celebrate his birthday with his sick body, and his face was a little frightening;

For another example, a few days ago, the wife and daughter of a certain foreigner went out of the city, but when they returned, they were robbed by several homeless people, and the girl's reputation was ruined, and they were discussing which temple to send to practice......

After listening for a while, Huo Yanzhi gradually lost his patience and gave Zhao Jiufu a look, and the latter went to the steward in front of him with his waist card, and after saying so, the steward was shocked and sweating profusely and sneaked people in through the other side door.

Not long after, Guo Shoufu, who was dressed in regular clothes, hurried over, with a hint of weirdness in his solemn expression.

"Weichen saw His Majesty, and he couldn't meet him from afar, which is really the minister's fault......"

Huo Yanzhi waved his hand indifferently: "Those who don't know are not guilty, what kind of crime is Guo Aiqing!" In the past few years, Guo Aiqing has been loyal to the country, worked hard, and was very comforted. This time Guo Aiqing's 70th birthday, I naturally want to come over to congratulate him. ”

Zhao Jiufu sent the gift list in a timely manner, Guo Shoufu bowed slightly, held it with both hands, and said "Thank you Lord Longen", and then invited Huo Yanzhi to move to the study for tea.

Yuan Chengtai has been following the emperor closely, but he couldn't enter the study, and he didn't know what national affairs the two bigwigs were discussing inside, and after about a tea time, the emperor came out with a smile on his face, but Guo Shoufu, who was following him, had a somewhat dignified face.

Walking through the side door again to avoid the crowd and go out of Guo's mansion, Zhao Jiufu asked: "Master, it's not too early, let's go back first?" ”

Huo Yanzhi took out a folding fan, knocked on the palm of his left hand, and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, now that the spring is just right, let's also step back to the green." ”