"Let's drink some ginseng tea."

"Smack."

The palace maid who was slapped by Queen Xia held the ginseng tea steadily, for fear of knocking the tea cup to the ground, and she didn't care about the pain on her face at all, because she knew that if the tea cup was overturned, then what was waiting for her would not be as simple as a slap.

Empress Xia asked angrily, "Are you even laughing at this palace?" ”

The palace maid hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "The slave maid doesn't dare." ”

Empress Xia sneered: "Heh, don't dare? Do you think Hongu is still in the mood to drink ginseng tea right now? ”

Queen Xia may never have dreamed that she could have today's cause and effect, all of which is the credit of her second brother Qingyang Bo Xiachen.

On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the fifteenth year of Zhengde, the Daming Baiguan and his family members entered the palace to worship, and the two brothers of the Shi family, under the guidance of Zhang Yong, entered the Forbidden City in advance and came to the Wenhua Hall.

Zhu Houxi, who had just changed into auspicious clothes, saw the Shi family brothers, and the smile on his face was not concealed at all, and said, "I didn't expect the two adults to come so early. ”

The two of them bowed down and shouted, "Shizi." ”

After Zhu Houxi motioned for the two to take a seat, he said: "Let the two of you enter the palace in advance today, it is the intention of the eldest brother, and this prince proposed to the eldest brother that next year, let the two of you brothers, one go to the ministry and the other go back to the household department." ”

When Shi Jue heard that he could still go back to the household department, he immediately rejoiced in his heart and said: "Minister, Shi Jue is determined to share the worries of His Majesty." ”

Zhu Houxi knew that Shi Jue's words were meant to him, and when he was with a smart person, his language expression should be much more subtle, after all, some things would be disliked if he said them directly.

Compared with Shi Jue, who has suffered a lot of losses, Shi Jue is sitting there like an elm pimple, who made his character upright, Zhu Houxi did not blame him for this.

Zhu Houxi chatted with the two for a while, and seeing that the time was not early, he took the two to the Fengtian Temple.

In the Fengtian Palace, Zhengde sat on the dragon chair to accept the congratulations of the officials, Empress Dowager Zhang sat on his left hand, and Empress Xia was on his right.

Zhu Houxi and the three of them obviously came late, and by the time the three of them arrived at the Fengtian Palace, the civil and military ministers had already completed their court.

As soon as Zhu Houxi entered the Fengtian Palace, he was discovered by Zhengde, who had been paying attention to the outside of the gate, Zhengde sat on the dragon chair and said with a smile: "Brother Huang, come quickly." ”

Zhu Houxi, who was late, really didn't expect that he would miss the time on such a grand day.

didn't care about the two Shi brothers behind him, Zhu Houxi walked to the front of the ministers under the strange gaze of the ministers, and shouted loudly: "Big brother." ”

Zhengde left the dragon chair, walked down the stairs quickly, came to Zhu Houxi and said, "I'm still worried that you don't want to come, you can come to me very happy, come and be happy." ”

As he spoke, Zhengde took out a big red envelope from his arms, and it seemed that there was only one one, which was obviously deliberately prepared for Zhu Houxi.

"Tell the monk of Guanglu Temple to pass on the meal."

The eunuch Wei Bin shouted in a loud voice: "Your Majesty has a decree to pass on the meal." ”

This year, because Zhengde first quelled the rebellion of King Ning, and then Qingjiangpu fell into the water and did not die, Emperor Zhengde decided to invite the courtiers to a banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve and also to celebrate the whole world.

Zhengde loves to drink, and Zhu Houxi, as the emperor's younger brother, naturally cannot be spared such a grand festival, so Zhu Houyu only remembers how the banquet was opened, and as for how to end Zhu Houxi, who had already drunk fragments, he completely forgot about it, and even missed the important New Year's observance.

On the first day of January in the sixteenth year of Zhengde, Zhengdan.

Zhu Houxi, who had not yet opened his eyes on the couch, sat up, rubbed his aching temples, and then began to wash and change his clothes under the service of the eunuchs.

After Zhu Houyu opened his eyes, he opened the big red envelope given to him by Zhu Houyu for the first time, and looked at the large number of Daming treasure banknotes in it, Zhu Houyu remembered that he seemed to have forgotten to ask for a red envelope from the Empress Dowager Zhang yesterday.

As for Queen Xia, she was automatically blocked by his mind, a queen who couldn't even handle her mother's family well, in Zhu Houxi's eyes, no longer needed to be wooed, and Queen Xia should be worried now, and she had no time to take care of his red envelopes.

Zhang Yong, who had just come in, saw Zhu Houxi's distressed face, and said cautiously: "Shizi, Your Majesty has just sent someone to send a decree to let you accompany Your Majesty to hunt after breakfast." ”

Zhu Houxi agreed, and quickly put the Daming treasure money in his hand under the pillow, and the appearance on his face gave people a very wealthy feeling.

Zhu Houxi, who had breakfast, didn't let Zhengde wait too long, and soon appeared next to Zhengde's voice and said: "Big brother, it's Zhengdan right now, you are not waiting for the hundred officials to congratulate you in the Fengtian Palace, how do you think of taking your brother to hunt?" ”

Zhengde on the horse said casually: "I have long wanted to take you to hunt, so I changed the Asaga to yesterday. ”

Only then did Zhu Houxi understand that the original Baiguan Dynasty was held today, and Zhengde changed the date to yesterday in order to take him to hunt.

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Jiang Bin asked with a serious face, "Are you sure Your Majesty and Xing Shizi are going to hunt today?" ”

A younger eunuch replied, "Don't worry, the news can't be wrong, and it's already on the way." ”

Jiang Bin said with a grim smile on his face: "Thank you for informing me, let me give my companion a ride." ”

The eunuch was really frightened by Jiang Bin's face, and stammered, "No...... No need, our family still has important matters, so let's go back first, please stay here. ”

As soon as the young eunuch turned around, he felt a sharp object in his back of the heart, and he felt a sharp pain.

Jiang Bin's cold voice came again, and said: "There are too many things that the companion knows, and I am also forced to be helpless. ”

The eunuch wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say a word, but left this splendid world with endless remorse.

Jiang Bin dropped the dagger in his hand, wiped the blood on his hands with the eunuch's clothes, left the room in the restaurant, and said to the guards at the door: "Clean up inside, don't leave traces, let the mighty regiment assemble, let's go to the side of Qingjun." ”

When the guard heard the three words on Qing Jun's side, he was instantly shocked, because he knew what Jiang Bin's next time was.

Jiang Bin left the restaurant as if he had nothing to do, and handed over the aftermath to his subordinates, because he had more important things to do.

Jiang Bin will never allow a hairy boy to destroy his opportunity to achieve hegemony, and the purpose of the Qing monarch this time is to kill Zhu Houxi, the son of Xingshi, and blame the Emperor Zhengde.

As long as the plan is successful, he, Jiang Bin, as the imperial concubine of Zhengde, even if he does not have the blood of the Zhu family, he may not be able to compete for the Ming dynasty.