Xiao Rui went to the palace to ask for peace in order to investigate the murdered girl. It's a pity that Xiao Rui has no one in the harem, and there is no one to trust, so the investigation is controlled, and in desperation, Xiao Rui thought of Yan Xiaoxiao.

She is a female official, and she is familiar with her, and if she asks for help from her, she should be able to find some clues.

Passing by the library pavilion, he stopped in front of the vermilion gate. I tried to push the door, and the two doors were pushed open, and when I looked inside, I saw Yan Xiaoxiao writing in front of the copy, quietly, elegantly.

She heard the door being pushed open, subconsciously raised her head, and when she saw that it was Xiao Rui, she was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly put down the brush and trotted over, saluted, and asked, "Next, Xiu Mu today, are you here to ask for peace?" ”

Xiao Rui nodded and said with a smile: "I want to ask you for help with something!" ”

"You're looking for me?" Yan Xiaoxiao was very happy, her eyes narrowed, like a crescent moon.

Xiao Rui looked at his concentrated writing and asked, "Look at your focused writing, what are you writing?" ”

Yan Xiaoxiao panicked, hurriedly ran back, folded up the written thing, blushed a little, and said, "Nothing, nothing!" ”

Xiao Rui thought she was a girl, so he didn't expose her, but took out the rubbing of the female official's waist card from the embroidery mouth and handed it to her.

"You can help me take a look, what is the origin of this female official's waist card, and can you find out who her owner is!" Xiao Rui asked.

Yan Xiaoxiao opened the paper, carefully looked at the rubbing pictures, always felt very familiar, quickly took out his waist card, after comparison, said: "Next, this should be the waist card of the new palace maid officer, look, it is basically the same as me, the waist card of each time to enter the palace is different, and the waist card code of each maid is also different, mine is one one three, this is two two three, this waist card feels so familiar, I seem to have seen it somewhere?" ”

Xiao Rui followed Yan Xiaoxiao's guidance, and sure enough, he saw a number printed on the corner of the waist card, which is a kind of retrospective information, representing the share of each female official, and it is made by the seal and ribbon supervisor, which is extremely difficult to imitate.

"Can you help me check? Let's see whose waist card it is, and whether any of the recent maid officials who have suddenly left the palace or disappeared suddenly. Xiao Rui asked.

Yan Xiaoxiao was stunned, and suddenly thought of Ye Mei.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Rui noticed her strangeness and asked.

Yan Xiaoxiao looked at the waist card pattern in his hand, and said: "I'll check it for me now, before I go, can you tell me the origin of this waist card?" ”

Xiao Rui smiled: "I'll tell you when you finish checking." ”

Yan Xiaoxiao nodded, and then the two separated, Xiao Rui went to raise his heart and ask for peace, and Yan Xiaoxiao went to choose the place where the palace maid lived to investigate.

When I came to Yangxin, the eunuch in the inner chamberlain was informed.

Emperor Xia was practicing calligraphy, and Hai Dafu was serving aside.

"I heard that the king of Chu entered the palace early in the morning and went to the long palace?" Emperor Xia asked.

Hai Dafu said: "Back to Your Majesty's words, yes, after the door of Chu was opened at noon, the king of Chu hurriedly entered the palace and went to the long palace to ask for peace. ”

"Didn't come here?" Emperor Xia asked as he wrote.

"I guess I was afraid that His Majesty wouldn't wake up, so I went to the Changgong first." Hai Dafu hesitated.

Emperor Xia smiled, and just when he wanted to speak, suddenly the eunuch came to report, and King Xian asked to see him.

Emperor Xia put away his pen, admired his masterpiece, nodded approvingly, and then said, "Xuan!" ”

Xiao Rui entered and said, "The son is here to greet his father!" ”

Emperor Xia smiled: "You can teach, I criticized you last time, and you have come to ask for peace for four days in a row." You had to come because I asked you to, but willingly? ”

Xiao Rui said righteously: "Of course, I am willing, and I can learn something every time I come, so my son came to ask for peace and happiness." ”

"Oh? What have you learned, tell me about it? Emperor Xia sat down and asked, pointing to the next seat.

Xiao Rui sat down and said, "I learned responsibility from my hard-working father, learned responsibility from the busy army, eunuchs, and palace maids, and learned from the mountains of twists and turns to make good use of talents......

Xiao Rui's mouth, there is no edge when it blows, there is no way, who called the previous life to engage in official career.

Emperor Xia stopped his praise and asked, "There is nothing wrong with responsibilities and duties, but I have learned to make good use of talents from the mountains of twists and turns, where does this start?" ”

Xiao Rui said: "Father, look at how many twists and turns you have on the dragon case, how long does it take to review this, what do you want the cabinet to do, and what do you want the celebrant to do with the palm seal." ”

"Grandpa Hai, I didn't mean to accuse you, don't stare at me."

"Father, Father-in-law Hai glared at me!"

Hai Dafu looked confused, didn't I just pretend that the fugue didn't follow your words when you chatted with Emperor Xia last time, so I don't need to retaliate in person like this.

Emperor Xia knew that Xiao Rui was messing around, but he still explained: "It's about to be the end of the year, and the annual reports of the states have been sent, and most of these recitals are to introduce the situation of the states in the past year, and the cabinet can't vote for it, so I can only read it one by one." From these movements, I can see the state of operation of the entire Great Xia. ”

Xiao Rui nodded, this is like a summary of work at the end of the year.

"Father, aren't you afraid of the states cheating and only reporting good news and not bad news?" Xiao Rui said curiously.

Xia Huang was happy and said: "Rui'er, if these words are heard by the assassins of various states, they will definitely regard you as an enemy, you are slandering." ”

Xiao Rui smiled: "It's okay, it's Gonggong Hai's fault when it gets out, and when the time comes, my father will kill him." ”

Hai Dafu: ......

Emperor Xia said: "There must be fakes, but the history of the assassin does not dare to fake all of them, but in some places to polish and polish, after all, there are also newspapers from various states in Dongchang, once the falsehood is found to be too big, the history of the assassin can't eat and walk around, so it's not worth it." Of course, when I look at these movements, I only believe in seventy percent. ”

Xiao Rui nodded, sure enough, there are too many things to learn in governing the country, and the emperor is really a tiring job.

Official business during the day, palace affairs at night, I can't be idle, I need to move all the time.

Get moving to the beat.

During the conversation, the eunuch outside came to report again, saying that the king of Chu asked to see him.

Emperor Xia said: "Xuan! ”

Seeing Xiao Yiheng walk in, he saw that Xiao Rui was also included, nodded slightly, and then bowed: "Erchen greets his father." ”

Emperor Xia smiled: "I have received the wishes of both of your brothers, sit down, I heard that you went to the Long Palace early in the morning?" ”

Xiao Yiheng walked to the other side and sat down, and replied: "I heard that the queen mother has not slept well recently, and she happened to rest today, so I entered the palace early to say goodbye." ”

"Oh? Is the queen alright? Emperor Xia asked.

Xiao Yiheng said with a smile: "The queen mother is fine, it should be that the weather is getting cold, she has suffered some wind and cold, and she has drunk some ginger soup, and she is fine." ”

Xiao Rui kept looking at him after he entered.

Seeing that he was silent and behaved as calm as Mount Tai and as steady as an old dog, he couldn't help but admire this son's concentration, which was really not comparable to a character like Xiao Yuan.

The deceased's waist card was missing, and the girl's body was found by the moat, I believe Xiao Yiheng must have known it, and he hurriedly entered the palace to find the queen, presumably to cover up the relationship between the girl and himself.

It seems that it is not too difficult to implicate the deceased's death crime on Xiao Yiheng.

At this time, Emperor Xia said: "This year's winter is colder than in previous years, and now it has only been a few days since the beginning of winter, and the water in the early morning has begun to freeze. ”

"Father is worried that the weather is too cold and will affect the livelihood of the people?" Xiao Yiheng asked.

Emperor Xia nodded and said: "In the palace, you can burn the earth dragon, as well as the charcoal given by the Great Qi Kingdom, when burning, there is no flame and there is light, each can burn ten, and it is angry and unapproachable." Dignitaries and wealthy merchants with family property can also burn charcoal and firewood, but what about ordinary people? ”

Xiao Yiheng was in awe: "My father thinks about the people all the time, and his sons and daughters are both admired and deeply ashamed. ”

Emperor Xia saw Xiao Rui thinking about things again, and asked, "Xiao Qi, what do you think?" ”

Xiao Rui was still thinking about how to expose Xiao Yiheng, but fortunately, he listened to all directions, heard Emperor Xia's inquiry, and hurriedly said: "Father, my son heard a poem: On a snowy day in the capital, birds and birds are difficult to find. Among them, the noble family, pounding pepper paste on the four walls. Red furnaces everywhere, Zhou Hui Xia Luo. Warm your hands and adjust the gold wire, dip the nail and pour the liquid. Drunk singing jade dust flying, sleepy melt incense sweat drops. How do you know that those who are hungry and cold have their hands and feet splitting? ”

After hearing this, Emperor Xia muttered: "How do you know that hungry and cold people have broken hands and feet..."

Xiao Rui continued: "The way to heat in winter in the Great Xia Kingdom is mostly charcoal, coal and firewood, charcoal is the best, but the price is expensive, the red basket charcoal prepared by the Salary Division every year has to be tens of thousands of catties, and black charcoal, coal, and firewood have to be added, how can the people afford it?" Firewood is a reward from the imperial court, and the people naturally can't use it if they are issued to the Beijing officials, so there is only one last option left: coal. Our Daxia craftsmen are highly skilled, including forging, because of the use of coal forging, although coal combustion will produce toxic gases, but the people can make special stoves to reduce the intake of toxic gases. However, the price of coal is not cheap, and the people cannot afford it, but compared with charcoal and firewood, Erchen feels that he can vigorously carry out coal mining. ”

Xiao Yiheng categorically retorted: "Father, the son thinks it's impossible!" There have been attempts to develop the coal industry, but they have all caused a big crime, and there are two crimes, once it is excavated, it is suspected of breaking the leyline, and it will gather people to make a case, and the second is to recruit miners, most of whom are outlaw slaves. ”

Xiao Rui said speechlessly: "Since ancient times, how can excavating coal destroy the leylines?" As for gathering people and even rebellions, it was because the officials were harsh, and why did they use slaves to open mines? You can pay to hire people to open mines, and after the people are busy farming, they can not only earn some money to make a living, but also buy coal to survive the cold and harsh winter. Even if the mines were opened by exiles and slaves, a benevolent policy could be issued. The reason why they are against is not because they are born with antipathy, but because they are opposed! ”

Xiao Yiheng snorted: "A few years ago, the Chong'an Mansion area destroyed the leylines because of digging coal, causing the earth dragon to roll and bury how many slaves!" This is a vivid case! ”

Xiao Rui sneered: "That's a collapse, it's caused by an unstable foundation and an unstable framework, what does it have to do with the theory of the Earth Dragon?" What's more..."

"That's it!" Emperor Xia suddenly stopped and stopped the argument between the two.

Emperor Xia said: "This matter is suspended, today is not an early court debate, you two rest." ”

Xiao Rui and Xiao Yiheng arched their hands and said, "Yes!" ”

Xiao Rui still has important matters, and he doesn't want to stay here for a long time, so he will retire first.

Leaving Yangxin, Xiao Rui came to the library pavilion and saw Yan Xiaoxiao sitting there, looking at the female official's waist card in his hand, stunned.

Xiao Rui realized what she had found out and hurriedly knocked on the door.