Palace.

The Imperial Study.

This is Wang Xue's second time here.

When she first came, she was only six or seven years old.

At that time, she was still a child sitting on the sidelines watching her father play chess with the emperor.

Now she is here again, but because of herself.

It's embarrassing to think about.

"Later, you can settle down, and when you are not allowed to speak, you will not speak."

This is what the old prince told her before they came in.

Wang Xue smiled, then nodded and agreed.

The father and daughter came to the imperial study, and at this moment, in addition to the eunuchs, there was a middle-aged man in a golden dragon robe and a young man in a python robe.

The former just goes to that station, and it gives people a feeling of not being angry and arrogant.

The latter is much inferior to the former.

Not to mention being short, a face also gives people a very ordinary feeling, like an ordinary character who will disappear if he is thrown into the crowd.

The former is naturally the emperor Wang Chengmin of the current Great Liang Kingdom.

The latter is Wang Xuanqi, the fifth prince who Wang Xue has always looked down on.

"The old minister has seen the emperor."

"The courtiers have seen the emperor."

"Get up." The emperor only turned around at this time, revealing a face with a majestic national character.

Then the emperor's eyes fell on Wang Xue behind the old prince, and said in a flat tone: "I haven't seen you for seven or eight years, you girl is now slim and more beautiful." ”

"Thank you for the compliment." Wang Xue hurriedly said.

The emperor waved his hand, and then walked around the house, and said as he walked: "I heard before that the daughter of King Cheng Jun is arrogant and reckless, but now it seems that there is something that does not match the truth. ”

As he spoke, he came to the old prince, stretched out his hand and patted the old prince's shoulder, "Wanli, your daughter is not simple, it is not easy to have the world in mind at such a young age." ”

The old prince hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, you have won the award, the little girl is not sensible and has done something that should not be done, you don't have to blame." ”

The emperor smiled, "Blame? Why do I blame your daughter? You must know that the matter of the slum has always been in my heart, and it has long become a heart disease, and now with the help of Xiaoxue, this girl has helped me get rid of this heart disease, and it is too late for me to be happy, so why blame it? ”

The old prince nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, what the emperor said is true, but there is indeed something wrong with what the little girl did in this matter, so..."

"Oh? Have it? Why don't I think? Why don't you tell me what's wrong? ”

The old prince's breath was stagnant, and he was about to speak, Wang Xue immediately bowed his head and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the courtiers did not do something in this matter, but the courtiers' original intentions were good, they just wanted to help those poor people live a good life, but they didn't expect that this was originally an errand for the five princes, if the courtiers knew earlier that this matter was related to the five princes, they would definitely tell the five princes before doing it, but now the courtiers have done good things, but it feels like they have robbed the five princes of their merits, which is really undeserved, but the so-called ignorant are not to blame, Therefore, please also ask the emperor to forgive the mistakes of his courtiers. ”

The emperor didn't expect Wang Xue to be so good at speaking, and he was stunned for a while.

The old prince tilted his head sideways and glanced at Wang Xue vigorously, but Wang Xue didn't seem to see it, and directly finished what he wanted to say in one breath.

"Humph! You still know that you robbed the prince of the prince's work, but how do I think you don't feel that you have done anything wrong in the slightest? Or did you do it on purpose, knowing it was my errand? Wang Xue, what are your intentions? The fifth prince Wang Xuanqi's yin and yang strange voice sounded, and his words were full of ridicule and dissatisfaction.

Wang Xue slowly raised her head, looked at the five princes, and said with surprise: "It turns out that the fifth prince is also here, I didn't notice you before, it must be that you are hiding yourself too well." ”

"What did you say?"

The fifth prince glared, but before he could continue, Wang Xue continued: "Fifth prince, I think you have misunderstood, although the slums are under your control, but it is really because there are people who are poor all year round, starving to death, and freezing to death, it doesn't look like someone is in charge at all!" ”

"And if someone really cares, there won't be a lot of deaths there, you say."

The fifth prince's face turned pale, and he hurriedly shouted: "What nonsense are you talking about!" Why didn't this prince care! It's obvious that you're interfering without permission, otherwise... Otherwise, this prince would have sent someone to renovate it a long time ago! ”

"Oh? Is that really the case? Wang Xue was puzzled and said: "But if I remember correctly, it has been several years since the emperor handed it over to you, dare to ask what kind of preparations the five princes have made for all these years?" ”

After a pause, Wang Xue continued: "Even if you really have a plan, then why have you ignored those people all these years? ”

"You... You're a bunch of nonsense! This prince didn't..."

"Enough!"

Before the fifth prince finished speaking, the emperor interrupted him.

For a while, the room was quiet, and Wang Xue also lowered her head again and stopped talking.

The emperor glanced at the fifth prince coldly, and snorted coldly: "Shameful things, I am so trusting of you, but look at what you have done all these years?" How much of the money I took from the treasury did you spend on the people? I don't ask, are you blind and dumb? ”

The fifth prince's face was pale, his knees were weak, and he simply knelt on the ground, "Father, son... Erchen didn't..."

"Nothing? Didn't do it, did it? The emperor's face was even more ugly.

He walked straight to the Fifth Prince, threw a pile of pieces on the table on the side of him at his head, and said angrily, "Do you really think that I don't know what you have done in the past few years? These excerpts are all for you! It was I who suppressed it and didn't let things go ahead! ”

"Now that Xiaoxue has helped you do what you didn't do, you don't thank people well, and you are still talking about some bastard things here! I'm going to be by you! Speaking of anger, the emperor raised a foot and kicked the five princes to the ground.

The fifth prince was so frightened that his face was as white as paper, but he didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, and hurriedly knelt down again, his head almost hanging to the ground.

"Your Majesty, you should dissipate your anger, although the five princes are at fault in this matter, but you can't blame him entirely, maybe the five princes really have a plan, but the daughter of the old minister suddenly made a move, which really shouldn't be, so the emperor, please don't blame the five princes too much." The old prince hurriedly stood up and played a round.

Wang Xue pursed her lips, but said nothing.

Seeing that the old prince gave the steps, the emperor also took advantage of the situation.

He snorted, "Brainless thing, thinking that I am doing some small actions behind my back, I don't know, I'm not old enough to see anything!" Although this incident has passed, the mistakes you made cannot be easily forgiven, come on! ”