Chapter 44: Scheming and Difficult to Guess the Emperor's Face (2)
Li Ruiqing sighed and walked over. Zhao Xiangling pulled him to sit down, waved his hand, and motioned for everyone to withdraw.
Qingge put the fold to Zhao Xiangling's hand, and the two of them withdrew from the double curtain with the celadon and did not go far, while the other palace maids withdrew outside and closed the door.
"Ruiqing, do you have a clue about the person who assassinated me?" Zhao Xiangling lowered his voice.
Her thoughts were jumping too fast, Li Ruiqing made up her mind, and then said, "Your Majesty, have you found anything?" ”
If it wasn't for Zhao Xiangling remembering something, why would she ask herself like this.
Sure enough, Zhao Xiangling said: "I think about it carefully, it should be the poison shortly after you entered the palace." ”
These words have a lot of meaning.
was poisoned after entering the palace, could it be that he was saying that this matter was inseparable from himself? Li Ruiqing's expression remained unchanged: "Your Majesty is suspicious of the minister? ”
Zhao Xiangling observed his expression and straightened up: "Yes, I doubt you." ”
She didn't miss the gloom in Li Ruiqing's eyes when she said this. It's not nervousness, it's not fear, it's like disappointment, it's uncomfortable.
Zhao Xiangling remembered what her father once told her when she was a child: In this world, as long as you are a person, the change in your expression in a moment will never deceive people, no matter how steady he is, and no matter how long he has been training. The reason why you can't see it all is that everyone's ability to capture expressions is different, and the length of time each person maintains their expressions is also different.
"If Your Majesty really suspects the minister, start with the minister." Li Ruiqing's face was expressionless, if it weren't for Zhao Xiangling's special attention, he really couldn't see anything on this face.
He always covered it up well.
"No, Ruiqing, I believe you." Zhao Xiangling said suddenly.
At that moment, Li Ruiqing raised his head slightly, and the trace of joy in his eyes did not escape Zhao Xiangling's eyes.
She thought she could be sure that she could trust him again.
These days, her temptations all the time have been useless, either Li Ruiqing is hiding it too well, or there is another truth in the matter. And Zhao Xiangling felt that he should believe in his own feelings.
"Your Majesty?" Li Ruiqing also seemed to be aware, and still asked uncertainly.
The stone in Zhao Xiangling's heart fell to the ground: "I believe you, I thought a lot this time, I ...... I still believe in you after all. ”
As for the letter. Zhao Xiangling tightened his hand. She'll always find out.
For a long time, Li Ruiqing did not speak. Although it has only been a few days, he has already gone through several rounds of confrontation with Zhao Xiangling.
first designed him to enter the palace, then poisoned the wine to tempt, and then it was the matter of Xuanyin, and then to fight for his life in the casino.
Li Ruiqing knew that neither of them would really hurt anyone's life, but it was not out of love, but the stakes here could not be cleared up by death.
Even if he tried his best to save Zhao Xiangling, it didn't mean that he didn't have the intention of harming her. She has been on the throne for five years, and the regime that should have been stabilized has never been loosened.
If you have the intention to usurp the throne, this matter is far from enough to clear your suspicions.
If it's not this, then it can only be ......
"Did she tell you something?" Li Ruiqing's first suspicion was Xia Rongyue.
His open-mouthed mother has always been a wall in his life that is permeable in all directions!
Zhao Xiangling looked at him, and for some reason, he wanted to laugh. Thinking like this, she laughed: "What can she say to me?" ”
In the blink of an eye, Zhao Xiangling looked sideways at Li Ruiqing: "Could it be that there is something I shouldn't know?" ”
"This ......," Li Ruiqing said with difficulty, "no matter what she says, don't believe her." ”
Zhao Xiangzero nodded, and realized: "Aunt Xia said, don't send you to be a eunuch." ”
Li Ruiqing was stunned, and it became more and more difficult to pronounce words: "This can be believed." ”
"Look at you." Zhao Xiangling teased Li Ruiqing, and when he saw that he was deflated, he was in a very good mood, "Always repeatedly, talking doesn't count, how can you be an upright left minister?" It's better to resign and mix with me, and give you a bite to eat. ”
In the battle of words, Li Ruiqing has never been good at it in front of Zhao Xiangling. He had no choice but to divert the topic and handed the fold to Zhao Xiangling: "There hasn't been any major incident recently, except that the ceremonial secretary said that there are batches of test papers that don't seem to be printed clearly." ”
Zhao Xiangling stopped teasing him. took the fold, twisted his eyebrows and said, "Didn't print it clearly?" Have you ever checked what it is? ”
Li Ruiqing said: "It seems that the book has caused some problems with the historian. ”
Zhao Xiangling snorted coldly: "If there is a problem in his family, he will use inferior ink to fool me?" He was punished for two months, as an example. ”
As she spoke, she flipped through the fold and saw that the votes given by the ministers of the cabinet were written on them, which was a fine of two months.
Before the fold is sent to the emperor, it will first go through the cabinet, and the cabinet ministers will write down the ticket and send it to the palace by a special person, and the emperor will refer to the opinion of the vote before approving the red.
In this way, the emperor can save a lot of effort.
If something happened to the printing volume, it was not big or small, and two months was enough.
After reading the rest of the excerpts, Zhao Xiangling was a little tired, she looked at Li Ruiqing, who was becoming more and more energetic, and couldn't help but want to tease him again.
"Ruiqing, I want to go outside and bask in the sun." Zhao Xiang looked at him and tugged at his sleeve.
Looking at the sunshine outside, Li Ruiqing summoned celadon: "Go and lay out the soft chairs outside, and ask a few stable palace maids to lift ......."
"Nope." Zhao Xiangling interrupted him, "I want you to carry me out." ”
Celadon did not change his face, but silently withdrew from the triple curtain, and asked people to set up the rattan chairs and disperse everyone by the way.
If Your Majesty has a word, you will put Your Majesty first.
Li Ruiqing got up, turned his head and refused: "It's not appropriate." ”
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The sun was a little stronger, but it wasn't too hot because of the rainstorm of the previous days. The Ming Shu of Wutong Palace has long been removed by the palace people, so it is quieter than other places.
Li Ruiqing hugged Zhao Xiangling's legs and bent his legs, and held her behind her with one fist.
Zhao Xiangling didn't forget to tease him: "Yes, I'll just say, you didn't hold it well a few days ago?" ”
"That's for a reason."
"Didn't you shy away from it when you were a child?"
"That's youth and ignorance."
Zhao Xiangling raised his head and saw Li Ruiqing's face turned blue, and his heart became more and more happy: "What about now?" ”
"It's forced helplessness." Li Ruiqing sighed, rested her on the rattan chair, and found that there was no one around to serve.
Thinking that Zhao Xiangling had just gotten up, although the weather was still hot, he still couldn't withstand the cold, so he picked up the thin blanket and covered her body.
"I didn't force you." Zhao Xiangling lay on his back to make himself sleep more comfortably, "This is your own volition." My lord, who can force you to do anything? ”
Li Ruiqing was about to refute it, but suddenly turned his head to look to the side, and his expression became solemn. Zhao Xiangling also rarely sat up and looked in the direction of the palace gate, his face full of seriousness.