Fortunately, this courtyard is considered luxurious, and the room assigned to Su Youyi is not bad, Rao is like this, she still feels uncomfortable.

"Your Majesty, is the water hot?"

Through a beaded curtain, the emperor sat on the couch, Su Youyi squatted at his feet to wash his feet, the eldest prince and Ji Yushen sat at the wenge wood round table outside, and Shuya served tea.

"Exactly."

The emperor put his feet into the wooden barrel, and there were medicinal materials such as safflower mugwort leaves floating in the barrel, which Su Youyi had specially asked Xiao Jizi to find.

The emperor's feet were different from Su Youyi's imagination, and he thought that with such a noble status as him, his hands and feet must be very carefully maintained, and he didn't want his feet to have dry lines, which were no different from ordinary men's feet.

She looked more closely and suddenly realized that she was afraid that the emperor would get up in the morning to inspect the fields barefoot, and there was still unclean mud and sand between his fingernails.

The emperor closed his eyes and said in a deep voice, "Ji Yushen, you accompanied me all the way, how do you feel?" ”

Su Youyi was rubbing mud for the emperor, and when she heard this, she raised her eyebrows, and subconsciously looked outside the bead curtain, and the eldest prince really looked at Ji Yushen with a curious expression.

He always felt sorry that he couldn't go to the field to see it in person, and he especially wanted to know what Ji Yushen and what they saw at this time.

There was silence in the room, only the sound of water rising and falling from Su Youyi's hand from time to time, and the heat was steaming with the faint fragrance of herbs.

Ji Yushen's voice was light and thin, with an inexplicable firm taste, full of restrained confidence, "The people in the fields are difficult, the drought has been reported for more than two months, and until now there are still many people without water in the fields. There is no water to grow rice, and you have to pretend to be in the field, but I am afraid that it will be more difficult to sing on the stage than in drought. ”

The emperor suddenly opened his eyes, looked at Ji Yushen through a beaded curtain, and had a different understanding of him.

"I heard that before the imperial examination, you were also from a peasant family in a remote part of Lingnan, and you really saw more clearly than those ministers who had lived in the court for a long time. But didn't your father-in-law teach you that your eyes should not only be on the field, but also on people? ”

The emperor's mention of Li Ge Lao in his words is not as affectionate as in front of the virtuous concubine, but it is a little ironic.

Su Youyi couldn't figure out why, the same person from the Li family, why did the emperor show a completely different attitude?

Ji Yushen got up and arched his hand, his face was still calm, "Before the scientific examination, the minister was the emperor's people. After the title of the gold list, the minister is the emperor's courtier. ”

He kept saying that he only talked about the emperor and not about Li Gelao, which was a sign of loyalty.

Su Youyi vaguely guessed that about the matter of the drought relief in Hejian, Li Ge Lao had some crooked thoughts that should not be moved, and the emperor's attitude would suddenly change.

"Give me a push."

The emperor suddenly lowered his voice and lifted his feet out of the barrel, Su Youyi was busy drying him with a cotton handkerchief, and the emperor was half lying on the couch, and then he looked at Ji Yushen leisurely.

"Since you are my courtier, then tell me who the people of the fields are setting up a stage for?"

The emperor's tone didn't have any doubts at all, he obviously knew the answer, but he was just waiting for Ji Yushen to say it himself-

A sentence of the emperor's courtiers is not enough to show loyalty, and the emperor wants more than that.

Su Youyi sat at the end of the couch, and the corner of her eyes quickly glanced out of the bead curtain, wondering how Ji Yushen would answer this question.

Ji Yushen didn't speak, but the eldest prince looked at this and that with a puzzled expression, and found that he couldn't understand what the emperor and Ji Yushen were talking about.

Su Youyi almost laughed out loud, forcibly held back her voice, and concentrated on pressing the emperor's feet.

The emperor still noticed the stagnation of her movements, and looked at her gaze, the little appearance of the eldest prince was very cute.

Su Youyi really likes the eldest prince, why don't you see her smiling at herself like this?

After a while, Ji Yushen arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive the ministers for not being able to say it." ”

This answer is tantamount to first surrendering to the emperor, and finally retracting the white flag and continuing to beat the drums of war to provoke.

It's better not to hang the white flag at the beginning.

Su Youyi had another blow in her hand, and this time the emperor glanced at her.

Just when she thought that the emperor would be very dissatisfied with this answer, the emperor's voice sounded surprisingly calm, "Oh? Why? ”

The emperor seems to have an answer to this why.

Ji Yushen said slowly: "When the water is clear, there are no fish, and if the emperor wants to catch fish, he can't make the water too clear." Instead of washing the ministers clean, it is better to let the ministers make a lump of mud. ”

"Silt?"

"Yes, silt. Let the ministers make a ball of mud that fish think can be pecked, and add some dirt to the emperor's Tan Qingshui, so that the emperor can fish in troubled waters. ”

The emperor suddenly laughed and closed his eyes slightly, "What a sludge, Ji Yushen, you are very smart." ”

Ji Yushen accepted it when he saw it, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty understands the minister's thoughts, but Your Majesty's thoughts and ministers don't necessarily understand, so naturally Your Majesty is smarter." ”

This was originally just a compliment, and I didn't want the emperor to suddenly admit it, "Oh? Tell me, then, what did I do that you didn't understand? ”

Su Youyi intensified the efforts to press the emperor's feet, "The emperor is tired after walking for a day, right?" The slave and maid are going to work hard for a while, and the emperor can bear it. ”

As soon as the emperor nodded, Su Youyi grabbed his big toe and broke it out, and the emperor frowned consciously.

She's really hard.

Ji Yushen noticed the movement in the curtain, and suddenly thought of entering Beijing to take the exam, he and Su Youyi lived in a rented thatched hut in the alley.

At that time, Ji Yushen had to go out to work for others during the day, and he could come back at night to read by the light next door, and Su Youyi often pressed his feet like this after he came back from a tired day.

She was originally a delicate daughter, and she had a lot of strength when she pressed her feet, and she often pressed Ji Yushen out in pain.

That situation was very similar to now, except that he shouldn't have stood outside the beaded curtain.

"Huh?"

The emperor frowned and glanced at Su Youyi, and when he came back to his senses, Fang Jue Ji Yushen had been thinking about it for too long.

Ji Yushen suddenly understood what Su Youyi's actions were for, she deliberately wanted to disturb her mind, so that she didn't have the extra energy to think about how to deal with the emperor's words?

He didn't care about it, and replied, "For example...... The emperor appointed the top three jinshi in the golden palace, and only ordered the ministers to explore the flowers. ”

Poof, the eldest prince didn't hold back and laughed, Shuya stood beside him, and it was too late to cover his mouth.

The emperor talked to the courtiers for the first time in front of the eldest prince, which was an honor that other princes couldn't ask for, and the eldest prince lost his demeanor at this time.

Shuya lowered her head and secretly screamed that it was not good, and the emperor was going to be unhappy.

After waiting for the emperor's reprimand for a while, Shuya raised her eyes and looked into the bead curtain, only to see the emperor glance at the eldest prince lightly, and Su Youyi smiled and gave the eldest prince a look.