Changle Palace, outside the Changxin Palace.

The Queen Mother Lu Pheasant stood on the high platform outside the palace gate, her face was full of coldness;

Under the long steps, Hou Lu Shizhi was lying on the bench, biting a wooden stick, and his whole body was soaked with sweat;

Beside Lu Shizhi, four burly middle-aged palace maids were each wielding long sticks, and their faces did not change and slapped on Lu Shizhi's buttocks.

The atmosphere in Changle Palace was already a little silent because Lu Pheasant didn't like to laugh and laugh, and when Lu Pheasant did not hesitate to be the queen mother and scolded his brother in front of the public, it made the atmosphere of the entire Changle Palace more and more gloomy.

When Chao Jiuqing, the maternal uncle of the Son of Heaven, and the queen mother's brother were beaten by the palace staff, the palace maids and eunuchs in the Changle Palace had the intention to avoid it, but Lu Pheasant gave an order, and all the living creatures in the Changle Palace were called to the square outside the Changxin Palace.

But even so, everyone bowed their heads deeply, and they didn't dare to look at Lu Shizhi, who was lying on the bench and endured the pain of the cane······

"How?"

On the high street, Lu Pheasant asked coldly, which made Mrs. Qi, who was stunned on the side, startled!

Subconsciously hid in the distance, and forced herself to calm down, Mrs. Qi finally lowered her head with palpitations, and blessed Lu Pheasant a little.

"Concubine ······"

"The concubine is stupid, I don't know what the queen mother means······"

Seeing Lu Pheasant's expression cold, he let out a short sigh, so he slowly turned his head sideways and looked at Mrs. Qi's frightened face.

"Sheji and Zongmiao are not child's play, and they are not more than women who are jealous and spoiled in the harem and deep house."

"If you want to know the way of being a mother and a minister, Mrs. Qi should think about today's events."

"When the sun is twilight, I will ask this question; If Mrs. Qi still didn't know what to do at that time, she was only afraid that the king of Huainan would come to Japan, or she might cause trouble to Mrs. Qi······"

Saying these words in a calm tone, Lu Pheasant ignored Mrs. Qi's increasingly frightened face, walked down the long steps by himself, and came to Lu Shizhi.

"That's enough?"

Yin Compassion asked, causing the faces of the four middle-aged palace maids to tighten suddenly, and they quickly glanced at Lu Pheasant, and hurriedly lowered their heads.

"—I command eighty rods, and four !! those who are missing."

The sudden angry shout suddenly caused hundreds of people present to kneel down in unison, and put their foreheads on the stone bricks at their feet in panic, they shouldn't have raised their heads at all!

saw Lu Pheasant's eyes turned sideways and looked at the old palace maid who was closest to him.

"Do you want to make me do it?!"

"——Or the body of the Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty, the contemporary brother is !!!!! by these four rods"

With another loud shout, the four palace maids were so frightened that their eyes turned red, and they hurriedly waved the palace staff in their hands, and slapped it on Lu Shizhi's body in order!

Not surprisingly, Lu Shizhi spit out four more muffled snorts from his mouth, and then he collapsed on the bench weakly.

The mission was completed, and the four middle-aged palace maids hurriedly retreated, while Lu Pheasant stepped forward slightly and looked at his brother condescendingly.

Feeling Lu Pheasant's gaze, Lu Shizhi also struggled to prop up his upper body and raised his head with resentment.

But under Lu Pheasant's cold gaze, even if there were thousands of truths, Lu Shizhi could only bow his head with a weak heart.

"As the folk saying goes: the eldest brother is like a father."

"The adult immortal has passed away for many years, and the eldest brother has died in the king's affairs, so brother, I shouldn't be like this."

"However, my brother's actions here, I really can't sit idly by······"

The cold and flat voice made Lu Shizhi lower his head a little more, but a sense of grief and indignation was inexplicably ignited in his heart!

"Your Excellency! All are temples and shrines······"

"Er Nai is the only clan plan! Wei Lu's plan!! ”

Without waiting for Lu Shizhi's sophistry to speak, Lu Pheasant shouted angrily again, and the only remaining softness on his face disappeared!

"Brother, do you know what the court officials say and talk about at this moment?"

"It can be known that in the three thousand miles of passes, who is the slanderer of the common people?!"

"-It can be seen that at this moment, the emperor is in Weiyang's heartache, and he is puzzled that his uncle has done such a thing!!"

After a few cold screams, Lu Pheasant suddenly flicked his sleeves and looked at the forbidden Lang official not far away.

"Spread the edict!"

"——Zhongshui Hou Lu Ma Tong, Du Yan Hou Wang Peng, Nieyang Hou Lu Sheng, as well as Chiquan Hou Yang Xi, Wu Fang Hou Yang Wu, slander the king, sit disrespectful!"

"Remembering that he has made meritorious contributions to the community, he will not be re-governed for the time being, and he will take 500 households from each !!"

"Taohou Liu Xiang, Jufang Hou Yongya, etc., discuss national politics in vain, and they are covered by gossip, and they will each be fined one year old!"

"——Hou Lu Chan, loyal to the country, outspoken and daring, giving 100 gold, overflowing thousands of households!!!!!"

With a stern expression, Lu Pheasant finally lowered his head and looked at his brother Lu Shizhi who was lying on the bench with grinning teeth.

"-Built Hou Lu Shizhi!"

"-The gentleman is disrespectful!"

"—Dismissal of the lieutenant commander! 3,000 households!! ”

"——Ling immediately went to the Taimiao to introspect, less than half a year old, no one is allowed to go out of the Taimiao for half a step!!!!!"

Almost in a gritted tooth and resentful tone, he made a decision to deal with his brother Lu Shizhi, Lu Pheasant did not forget to raise his head, and his eyes slowly swept over everyone present.

After everyone bowed their heads under the pressure of this cold gaze, Lu Pheasant turned around and walked up the stairs.

Passing by Mrs. Qi's side, Lu Pheasant stopped again.

Meaningfully skimming Mrs. Qi, and then looked at her brother Lu Shizhi, who was still lying on the bench behind her, and Lu Pheasant turned around again and walked into the Changxin Hall step by step.

The departure of the Queen Mother did not break through the freezing point of the atmosphere outside the palace.

After dozens of breaths, the palace maids and eunuchs gathered outside the hall quietly dispersed in a hurry.

After a long while, Lu Ze and Lu Lu, who had been kneeling outside the palace gate to plead, ran into the arch and worked together to help their father Lu Shizhi up from the bench.

At the top of the long staircase, outside the gate of the Changxin Palace, looking at the direction of Lu Pheasant's departure, Mrs. Qi's heart palpitated, but she still trembled uncontrollably······

"It's the same brother ······ mother"

"You can't open the net ·········"

At this moment, Mrs. Qi suddenly seemed to have finally realized something that she should have realized a long time ago.

What exactly she realized, Mrs. Qi couldn't say.

But Mrs. Qi can faintly feel that if she had realized everything she realized today, everything that happened in the past might be very different······

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In just a few hours, the news spread throughout most of Chang'an.

It's not that there are really many long-tongued women in Changle Palace, but Lu Pheasant's several edicts of punishment and reward are really difficult not to pay attention to.

——At the beginning, it was Hou Lu Shizhi, who is now in the limelight in the court, who was supported by his two sons and returned to Shangguanli, and after a while, he took some daily necessities and was 'invited' to Taimiao by the forbidden soldiers!

Immediately afterwards, the news of 'seizing 3,000 households of the Hou Shiyi and dismissing the post of lieutenant commander' came out of the palace!

Before the Gonghou Baiguan could recover from the shock, another series of 'punishment lists' for cutting and seizing food came out of the palace, which made the entire Chang'an court fall into an inexplicable atmosphere of panic.

At dusk, the situation became more and more confusing, which made Prime Minister Xiao He a little unable to sit still, so he could only stand up and came to the outside of Changle Palace.

And after Xiao He, the prime minister who was about to die of old age, was also blocked outside the Changle Palace with the sentence 'The Queen Mother is sick', the courtiers and officials who were in panic all day long finally came to the outside of the Weiyang Palace with hindsight.

Upon learning of this, Liu Ying came to the palace gate in a 'confused' way, and then the courtiers pleaded with Liu Ying with tears in their eyes: persuade the Queen Mother to calm her thunderous anger and receive this great magical power.

In this regard, Liu Ying's reply was: I just happened to be going to Changle, so you ministers, why don't you just go together?

·

As everyone expected, when the courtiers and officials and the meritorious marquis of the Yuan followed Liu Ying with torches, they were still stopped outside the palace gate of Changle Palace.

Fortunately, Liu Ying was able to enter the palace, and even if everyone was apprehensive, they could be regarded as temporarily stabilizing their minds.

Under the guidance of Changqiu of Changle Palace, he walked into the palace and stepped on the high threshold of Changxin Palace, Liu Ying unexpectedly saw his mother Lu Pheasant, who was sitting on the royal couch in anger.

The eyes that seem to be sprinkled with frost are slightly narrowed, the brows are even tighter, the right hand is propped up on the forehead, and the temperament highlights the coldness of 'no one else' one by one!

Fortunately, Liu Ying was not a 'living person', so she walked into the hall lightly and bowed her hand slightly to Lu Pheasant.

"The Queen Mother."

The well-behaved and slight call finally made Lu Pheasant recover a little from his depressed mood, slowly raised his head, and when he saw Liu Ying's cautious face, even if the remaining anger did not subside, a shallow smile could not help but appear on the corner of Lu Pheasant's mouth.

"The emperor is here······"

With a relaxed greeting, Liu Ying stepped forward obediently and sat beside Lu Pheasant in a proper manner.

But without waiting for Liu Ying to speak, Lu Pheasant let out a lament first, and then naturally took Liu Ying's hand and slapped it lightly again and again.

"Alas~"

"The government affairs of the DPRK and China are complicated, and the autumn harvest is over, and the first court of the year is about to be discussed;"

"At this time when the court is hard, my brother has another incident, which only causes turmoil in the government and the opposition······"

Hearing Lu Pheasant's words, Liu Ying couldn't help but bow her head and smile, and didn't forget to gently comfort her irritable mother.

"The queen mother is angry."

"Children often hear: if people are not for themselves, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed;"

"Although this seems to Yang Zhu's solipsistic theory, it is not advisable, but it should also be the original desire of human beings."

"Uncle is the trend of his own desires, although he is slightly lacking in virtue, it is just human nature······"

Hearing the first half of Liu Ying's words, Lu Pheasant only smiled strangely, and when he heard the second half of the sentence, a little embarrassment appeared on his face.

- Inside, Lu Pheasant can righteously reprimand, punish his clansmen, and even his own brothers, and there is no psychological pressure!

But outside, Lu Pheasant is still the heaven of the Lu family after all······

Although Lu Pheasant and his own clan cannot be regarded as completely 'one and one is prosperous', it is also 'one loss and one loss' in the absolute sense.

If Lu Pheasant falls, then the Lu family, who is sheltered by Lu Pheasant, naturally has no reason to be alone;

On the other hand, if the Lu family does something bad, then as the 'patriarch' of the Lu family, Lu Pheasant will also be disgraced.

Especially at this moment, when his own son, who had been cheated by his brother for a long time, actually explained to his brother that 'this is just human nature', Lu Pheasant also felt more and more ashamed.

After groaning stiffly for a while, Lu Pheasant barely recovered from the embarrassment and shame, and changed the topic rather stiffly.

"After this incident, if the Hou is Jiuqing again, I am afraid that something will be wrong."

"I have also dismissed him from his post as the lieutenant commander of the Lang and made him introspect himself in the Taimiao ······"

Saying this softly, feeling that the shame in his heart was slightly relieved, Lu Pheasant breathed a long sigh of relief, and asked casually: "According to Wu'er's wishes, who should be the successor to Lang Zhongling?" ”

But when Liu Ying heard this, she seemed to be embarrassed and thought for a while before finally smiling helplessly.

"When the uncle was the commander of the Lang, the son had already said to the queen mother: if it was not for the Lu family, the son would not be allowed to sleep in the palace."

"But now, my uncle is wrong if he doesn't do much······"

Halfway through her words, Liu Ying seemed to remember something, and her expression was full of hesitation for a moment.

After a long while, after getting the old lady's 'bold talk' look, Liu Ying shrank her neck with a weak heart.

"The queen mother thinks that if the marquis is the ······ of Jiuqing"

"Hmmm······"

"The Marquis is a little weaker, and he is Jiuqing, and I am afraid that he may make the court ······ a living situation"

Saying that, Liu Ying shook her head again, and finally raised her head with a smile: "Son, stupid ······"

"The uncle is the queen mother, the marquis is weak, and the rest of the sons and nephews of Zhu Lu are also like the marquis;"

"However, in addition to the Lu family, I really don't know who else is worthy of the position of lieutenant commander."

"In this matter, I am afraid that I will still be the queen of hard work, and I will choose a good choice to let it ······"

After saying that, Liu Ying still had a well-behaved smile, slid down from the imperial couch, knelt down beside Lu Pheasant's lap, and gently leaned her cheek on her mother's knee.

I don't know if he was moved by Liu Ying's long-lost behavior, or stimulated by Liu Ying's words, Lu Pheasant put aside a moment of guilt, and only came to his heart again for a while.

lowered his head with a complicated expression, gently stroked the side of his knee, the little head with Liu's crown, and Lu Pheasant's face, buzzed with a touch of guilt, embarrassment, and moved complex emotions occupied.

"When Emperor Gao was still alive, he didn't leave the ministers and my son?"

Liu Ying shook her head without thinking.

"Last year, my son personally conquered and leveled the rebellion of Yingbu, and did not find a handsome talent in the army?"

Liu Ying shook her head again and again.

I saw Lu Pheasant sighing leisurely again, and his hand couldn't stop caressing Liu Ying's head, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long time, Lu Pheasant finally withdrew his hand and gently pinched Liu Ying's neck.

When Liu Ying turned around unsatisfied, she saw Lu Pheasant smiling gently.

"I know it."

"The emperor will leave the palace and order the ministers to go back to their homes."

"In a few days, it will be the first court of the year."

"All affairs are decided by the court officials at the time of the court's deliberations."

Hearing this, Liu Ying still nodded obediently, stood up from the ground, and said goodbye to Lu Pheasant in a proper manner.

But after the salute, Liu Ying did not leave immediately, but stopped talking for a while.

"To put it bluntly."

The old lady's gentle tone seemed to make Liu Ying a little emboldened, so she raised her head with a smirk.

"It's not a big deal."

"I only heard that my mother was annoyed by my uncle, and I was afraid that my mother would be angry and hurt ······"

As she spoke, Liu Ying scratched her head stupidly.

"That is, the queen mother is fine, son, this is the ······"

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