While asking, Lan Qi's fingertips poked at Xuan Ye's sore spot again, and he was anxious to withdraw his hand, but she held on tightly and said, "The imperial doctor said that it is useful to be sore." He smiled and said, "I scolded my son, but I was so angry that I couldn't stand steadily, how can I tell him to be afraid of you?" The next time, the emperor felt that he was going to be unstable, so he hurriedly drove the children away first, how to let them see this scene. ”

Xuan Ye said hatefully: "You are all called the imperial doctor, are you afraid that they will see this?" He pulled his hand back, turned his face and said angrily, "Your son is amazing, I can't scold him, I don't see you running to Qianqing Palace on weekdays, I only taught a few words here, and you came." ”

Lan Qi leaned on him, took his hand back again, kneaded it gently, and coaxed: "It was Gonggong Liang who said that you refused to declare the imperial doctor, so you moved me out, as for my son, I was beaten down by you, and I didn't dare to enter the Qianqing Palace to stop it, is it that after so many years, I still don't have this weight?" ”

"It's good to know."

"Then tell me what to do with him." Lan Qi smiled and leaned up, stroking his chest to ask him to be calm, "Although I lost my temper, I still have something to hold in my heart." ”

Xuan Ye let out a long sigh, but held Lan Qi's hand in the palm of his hand, rubbed her soft skin between his fingers, and said slowly: "Yesterday's birthday banquet, how many silver taels were spent, but do you know, not far from Beijing, there are thousands of hungry people, if they weren't so hungry that they couldn't walk, they would probably have to enter the city." Chunxi's family met them in Beijing, and they divided all the dry food they brought with them, but they didn't dare to tell me. ”

Lan Qi didn't dare to joke anymore, looked at Xuan Ye seriously, and comforted him: "The money for the Queen Mother's birthday banquet has been spent a lot, but the concubines and Sister Rong have also saved a lot over the years. ”

Xuan Ye bowed: "I know that you run a family and you work hard, but no matter how much you save, it can't be much more hollowed out than them, they are trying to spend the country's money, you see that even the money of the Internal Affairs Office can be fished out and spent." ”

As he spoke, Xuan Ye called Manager Liang and asked about the affairs of the Internal Affairs Office, but Liang's father-in-law stubbornly said that there was no news yet, seeing that the emperor was impatient, Lan Qi signaled him not to worry, just teach the emperor to her.

Xuan Ye blamed her: "You don't tell me, what else can't I stand with, and I'm afraid of hurting me?" Do you want to hide everything from me? You also said that you should see a doctor when you are sick, it is useless to hide it, something happened that day, and it is useful to hide it from me? ”

Lan Qi hurriedly said: "In those days, I was afraid that the Queen Mother would be unhappy. ”

"Don't be decent in the future, the Queen Mother was happy yesterday, but she will still be unhappy in the future, not to mention that everything is shelved for her, can she be happy, even if she praises you on the face, she may not blame you for causing her sin." Xuan Ye said in a hurry, "In the end, the mistakes made by those beasts have become your sins, are you stupid?" ”

Lan Qi gently pushed him: "If you train your son, you are still angry, do you want to scold me?" ”

Xuan Ye was annoyed: "I can't scold you anymore? ”

"Don't be angry." Lan Qi leaned on him and said softly, "What's the use of being angry, it's important to solve the matter." ”

At this moment, Liang Gonggong ran in in a hurry, and there was news about the deficit of the front and back feet, but Manager Liang broke in and saw Concubine De lying on the emperor's chest, so frightened that he almost flashed his waist. Lan Qi hurriedly sat down, helped his sideburns, and listened to Liang's father-in-law relieved himself: "Emperor Qiqi, I caught a little eunuch in the treasury, I was hungry for two days and two nights, saying that I was afraid of being killed and hiding there, talking nonsense, I poured him a bowl of porridge to wake up, and asked him what he was doing hiding there, saying that he was afraid of being killed." ”

Lan Qi was shocked when she heard this, and asked in a deep voice, "Where was he before, and who wants to kill him?" ”

Liang Gonggong continued, the child was in the internal affairs office as an errand, that day to hide and be lazy, saw someone come to his master, I don't know what to say, the man actually broke his master's neck on the spot, it happened that someone came in, the man actually killed two people in a row, and then searched all over the house, because they were busy with the birthday banquet were outside, did not see others, the child hid in the rockery was not found, eyes watched the two corpses were dragged away.

Xuan Ye saw Lan Qi's body trembling, sat up and touched her shoulder, while Liang Gonggong continued: "The little eunuch was so frightened that he didn't dare to stay where he was anymore, so he hid in the treasury and didn't find him until he was packing up today. ”

Xuan Ye asked, "Who knows about this now?" ”

Liang Gonggong was a little embarrassed, and responded: "Today, Concubine Hui is the presiding officer of the utensils and utensils, and she has reported to Changchun Palace, but these things should not be known to Niangniang." ”

Lan Qi coughed lightly, Xuan Ye looked at her, and then asked Liang's father-in-law, "Does he know who took the silver from his masters?" ”

Liang Gonggong replied: "He doesn't know this, and now he has transferred all the guards on duty in the palace that day, and is arranging for him to recognize people, saying that he is a burly tall man, so the guards should be the most suspicious." ”

Xuan Ye snorted lightly and said, "Recognize them one by one, and when you see that your eyes are spent, you can recognize something." The guards patrolling the palace are all recorded in the register, and they use the guards to kill people, are they deliberately waiting for me to investigate? ”

Gonggong Liang was puzzled, and Xuan Ye said: "In those days, Prince Baylor often came to the palace to ask for peace, maybe it was their entourage?" It's hard to look them up. ”

Lan Qi saw that Manager Liang looked helpless, she did have an idea in her heart, but the idea was too ruthless to speak. didn't want Xuan Ye to coincide with her, and quickly ordered: "Beat that little eunuch with a board, throw it back and continue to be on an errand, protect him secretly, and someone will definitely kill him." He sneered sadly, "Okay, for the sake of that little money, they all played with me." ”

Lan Qi had already gotten up and stood aside, and the emperor was angry, so there was no reason for her to continue to sit.

Gonggong Liang took the order to leave, Xuan Ye lay down hard, beckoned to her gently, and smiled bitterly: "Everyone in the world thinks that the emperor is omnipotent, you see, I have so many helpless things, I killed people in the palace, and no one knew about it." ”

Lan Qi could see it openly, and said: "In order to arrange the utensils on the banquet in those days, things were being moved everywhere, and it was not difficult to hide two corpses and move, and those who could do it in the palace would naturally have already thoroughly touched the Forbidden City." ”

Xuan Ye sneered: "That means that they can rush in anytime and anywhere and take my life?" ”

Lan Qi shook his head: "This is different, and the concubines feel that just those two or three months are really not enough to kill people, and these eunuchs have all their bodies and sweep their heads, so why kill people." It should be involved in a bigger business, it is the fault of the concubines, just this birthday banquet to buy utensils, the emperor asked the concubines why they had to bow down to each other, it was because most of the things sent in front were adulterated, the emperor may not have imagined it, there is a difference of thousands of taels of silver. ”

Xuan Ye was stunned: "To spend so much money? ”

Lan Qi said: "In the thirty-second year of Kangxi, because you saw that the eunuch's monthly money was received and immediately spent, so that your demeanor was not neat and your clothes were shabby, so you ordered to lend the eunuch official silver according to the example of the Eight Banners. Your Majesty, do you know how many people in the palace have supported it since then, if it weren't for me and Sister Rong's tight hands, it would really be a mess. The expenses in the palace have always been able to be saved, but if the hand is slightly loosened, it is thousands of people who go out, although these eunuchs and palace maids are slaves, but they have to count on hundreds of slaves to do things, even if we can't whip them with two hands, we can only give them sweetness. To put it bluntly, the master is not easy to be. ”

Xuan Ye's face was heavy, he didn't remember that he had given such an order, whether he was happy or angry at the time, he couldn't remember, he didn't even know what to regret at this time, he thought that he would abolish this rule in the future, but he was afraid that Lan Qi and the others would be more difficult to do in the future, but he heard her say: "The concubine and Sister Rong are thinking of exempting this item, it is better to take advantage of this matter, the emperor will investigate it thoroughly, and when the time comes, list many drawbacks, clean up the portal and re-do the rules." ”

Xuan Ye said: "Will it embarrass you?" ”

Lan Qi shook her head, but suddenly thought of something, and said seriously: "The concubine feels that the article in this killing is deep and complicated, if the sisters' monthly case is really taken away by someone and not made up, the person who paid the money must have no courage, otherwise how could he worry about this little money?" If you give him the guts, you may not be able to kill people, when the emperor checks, let them distinguish clearly, don't mix together, who is let go and who is wronged. ”

Xuan Ye sighed: "I didn't expect that my civil and military ministers are unreliable, and I have to consult with you to think it's appropriate." ”

Lan Qi covered his mouth with a smile and said, "The emperor doesn't add sin to his concubines, what is this matter?" ”

Xuan Ye sighed again, saying that listening to the meaning of Manager Liang, it seemed that someone in the prince took the money, asked Lan Qi who he thought it would be, and smiled and said What if Yinzhen was really found, Lan Qi said with a straight face: "The emperor will first send someone to fill in the stream in his house, and then give the concubine a torture rod, and he has to break his leg." ”

Seeing that she was really angry, Xuan Ye couldn't help laughing: "I just scolded him a few words, but you can still be ruthless." He asked with a smile, "You paid for the money that chiseled the stream, right, otherwise why would you be so obsessed?" ”

accompanied the emperor, and said that he laughed a few times later to coax him to dissipate the depression in his heart, but Lan Qi left the Qianqing Palace, and her mood and footsteps were heavy, she was sure that her son would not be greedy for that little money, but would he be involved? Talking ruthlessly in front of Xuan Ye, she didn't say it casually, her son was scolded today because of the perfunctory talk of the prince of the Yellow Gang, and the anger in her stomach has not dissipated.

Outside the deep palace, because all kinds of guests who came to the banquet have not yet left the capital, there is still a lot of traffic every day, and rich and noble people can be seen everywhere, so a carriage stopped in front of the Babeile Mansion is not conspicuous, but without waiting for the people above to come down, the little guy in front of the door said: "Which distinguished guest has arrived?" I'm so sorry, but my master is not at home. ”

Sanfujin was sitting in the carriage, and his face immediately changed, and he scolded: "Where is your Fujin?" ”

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