"Your Majesty and General Feng have been able to have friendship other than monarchs and ministers for so many years, which is really a blessing for General Feng."

Emperor Chen smiled: "Since I stepped into this position, it is difficult to have affection. Feng Lan is a very true person, and it is also my blessing to have this true meaning. ”

It is rare that Emperor Chen is in a very good mood at this time, and Pei Zhenwan doesn't want to forcibly intervene, but it is better to accompany him on the side and let the emperor freely express what he thinks.

Emperor Chen is also an emperor for many years, and the joy of the right talent is enough, and with Feng Lan's departure, he has also changed back to the demeanor that the emperor should have.

"Your Majesty worked very hard for this case a few days ago, and today the case is closed, and the government is clear, so I can finally take a rest."

Pei Zhenwan said this lightly, naturally she didn't believe that Emperor Chen would do this.

Sure enough, Emperor Chen shook his head and said, "Naturally, we can't relax so easily, and the affairs of the household department still need to choose a new scholar." The matter of Cao Gang, the envoy of Jingzhou Jiedu before, also had to be investigated seriously. ”

"This matter is really unspeakable." Pei Zhen smiled and said, "Your Majesty, don't let your concubines cross the line again." ”

Emperor Chen turned his back on his hand: "If all the candidates for Shangshu are selected by you, then you will simply hang the curtain and listen to the government in the future." ”

Pei Zhenwan smiled lightly.

The emperor's joys and angers are all extroverted, and he never cares about anything obscure and sensitive. Get along, it's not like what the history books say, as an emperor, how unkind and suspicious people are.

Those who can be so frank today are either very deep in the city, or they are really frank gentlemen.

"Before you came, I had already explained to Feng Lan, and the forbidden army would go after Cao Gang."

Emperor Chen is still talking like this.

Pei Zhenwan cleared her throat: "Your Majesty, Cao Gang is Wei Guifei's uncle, if this matter is said to be heard by the concubine, I am afraid that something is inappropriate." ”

"Oh?" Emperor Chen turned around, "What do you mean, do you owe Mao Guohou something?" ”

If it was really so straightforward and undisguised to ask, Pei Zhenwan smiled: "The concubine was sent to the palace by the Marquis of Mao's mansion, if there is nothing to do with it, Your Majesty will not believe it." ”

"Of course I know." Emperor Chen raised his eyebrows and said, "But your own family is in Jiangling, there is no one in the clan, and you have no relationship with them." The so-called involvement is probably just an exchange of interests to support a handful, and now that you are by my side, is it possible that there is something to owe? Admit it yourself, and I don't believe it. ”

Pei Zhenwan couldn't help but smile bitterly, this Emperor Chen understood her thoughts very well, so he often said what she was thinking directly in such a sentence, and the back road was blocked, so that she had to answer.

"Your Majesty says interests, naturally there is nothing in the world that can compare to Jun's grace, but it is also common sense that kindness will be repaid."

"Kindness will be reciprocated, which is naturally a good thing. However, you have always been a person who understands and knows the importance of the relationship between state affairs and private affairs, and I am sure that because of these entanglements, you will not feel that the corruption in the DPRK and China is not worth talking about. ”

After Emperor Chen finished speaking, his eyes stared at Pei Zhenwan a little slyly, like an eagle waiting to hunt, although it didn't seem to be moving, but there was a pair of hooks in those eyes, which could directly hook out what people thought in their hearts.

Pei Zhenwan was forced to look directly into Emperor Chen's eyes, and finally disarmed and surrendered.

"Your Majesty has seen through the concubines, but the concubines have nothing to say."

Emperor Chen couldn't help but show a victorious smile, as clear as a teenager: "Look, I'll just say that I look at people well." ”

Looking at Emperor Chen's expression, Pei Zhenwan only felt a headache.

She can face all kinds of complicated battles between people's hearts and minds, and can calculate the relationship between various power and interests, but she is really in front of such an emperor, and she is always beaten down.

This emperor who does not play cards according to common sense is actually a neglected or uncontrollable part of all her calculations.

"So, to get back to what I just said, I have asked the forbidden army to investigate Cao Gang."

Emperor Chen is very persistent in continuing this topic.

"The concubine knows."

Pei Zhenwan replied weakly, yes, she knew that this emperor would definitely ask her to answer such a thing.

"Then it's good that you know, don't leak the news to Manzhi. Cao Gang's affairs, and Mao Guohou, can't be entangled in one place. ”

Pei Zhenwan was helpless in her heart, and now she leaked the news to herself, isn't it the emperor in front of her.

Or did he deliberately test himself with this news?

Want to see if you will go to report to Wei Guifei? Therefore, Emperor Chen wants to find out whether he is loyal to others.

But if that's what he meant, he wouldn't use such a political thing to try to play. What's more, with his understanding of himself, being entrusted by the emperor so in person, even if she is a member of Wei Guifei's faction, she will not be stupid enough to report again.

This kind of weird behavior that doesn't make sense really makes Pei Zhenwan a little at a loss.

"Concubines naturally remember the rules and duties."

Emperor Chen smiled, and actually stretched out his hand and patted her head: "This way, it's best." ”

This shot couldn't help but make Pei Zhenwan's body tremble, this gesture, this tone, this doting smile, where is it like the emperor's love for his concubine. It's like a beautiful girl in the folk boudoir, treating young siblings, or a pet posture.

Pet?!

When Pei Zhenwan thought of this, she suddenly felt as if she was a little choked.

Emperor Chen was puzzled: "What? ”

Pei Zhenwan had no choice but to smile: "Without him, it's just His Majesty's actions that reminded the concubine that she had a puppy in the past, and the concubine patted him on the head like this when she was a child." ”

"So you like pets?" Emperor Chen's expression lit up.

"It's just a matter of being a kid."

Pei Zhenwan smiled, she grew up in the General's Mansion since she was a child, so naturally she never had any pets. It's just that when I went to Gao's house to play when I was a child, my cousin once had a pair of rabbits, and the girls at that time were naturally curious and fond of these fluffy little animals.

She also proposed that she wanted to raise a bunch of them, but her brother ridiculed her, saying that people in the military, in addition to raising horses and feeding horses, how could they hold rabbits all day long to play. She refused to admit defeat and never spoke of these pets again.

In retrospect, it was indeed those foals that accompanied me the most when I was young.

"Your Majesty, after all, the Xuanzheng Hall is a matter of political discussion, and it is inconvenient for the concubines to stay for a long time, so it is better to retreat early."

Looking at Emperor Chen's thoughtful appearance, Pei Zhen said respectfully.

Emperor Chen seemed to be still thinking about something, and nodded inadvertently, which was regarded as allowing her to leave. Pei Zhenwan breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly curtsied.

She still has so many things to do, so naturally she can't use it to fight with the emperor all day long.