Sun Shining thought that the other party would speak, just like those dreams she had on weekdays, her mother was as gentle and gentle as when she was alive, and she was kind and kind, but she didn't expect that the old man just glanced at her and turned around.

"Wait a minute, wait for me!" Sun Shining shouted in panic and woke up completely, and above her head was the tent of the magpie herald that she was familiar with.

"Dreaming?" Shen Nianyi was also in the house, "Drink saliva first?" ”

Sun Shining took a few sips of his hand slowly, smelling the refreshing moisture on his body: "Are you back for a while?" ”

"Yes, I saw you sleeping soundly, freshening up and changing in the guest room, and when I came back again, I listened to you talking in your sleep." Shen Nianyi gently held her chin and leaned over to take a closer look, "It shouldn't be a nightmare, what did you dream about?" ”

"I dreamed of an old gentleman, standing on top of a high mountain." Sun Shining tried hard to restore the dream, but felt that he remembered the details very clearly, and when he opened his eyes, he gradually left her, and he couldn't catch it.

"Mr. Zhu, your grandfather?" Shen Nian said it one by one.

"It should be him."

"You've never seen him, but you've heard some rumors from the past, thinking about it day and dreaming about it at night." Shen Nianyi gently stroked the corner of her forehead with the back of her hand, "Sweaty on the head, could it be that you still ran a long way in your dream?" ”

"I've been climbing the mountain and I'm tired." Sun Shining had to admit that what he said was the truth, she had never seen her grandfather, so what she dreamed of was a shadow she made up, and it couldn't be true.

Shen Nianyi personally went out and brought warm water in, and washed her face: "You said it was at the top of the mountain, can you remember that it is the mountain?" ”

"It's not Liangzhao Mountain anyway." She was a little angry with herself.

"Why? I can see it so clearly in my dreams. ”

"The two mountains are covered with snow, but the mountain is lush and green, and the trees and turf are very luxuriant and prosperous." Sun Shining is not the kind of person who is easy to drill the horns, "You're right, people who haven't seen it will appear because I think too much, and I thought he could say something to me, but in fact, what he said was all speculation by me." ”

Unlike dreaming of her mother, the memories of her and her mother have really happened, but they can't remember it for the time being.

"Things in the palace, are they all going well?" Sun Shining sat up with his hair in his hands and asked.

"It went well, it couldn't have been smoother." Shen Nianyi's answer was extremely bland.

Sun Shining felt strange in his heart, raised his head to look at him and asked, "Someone is not happy for you?" ”

Obviously, everyone is saying that Lord Shen has made such a miraculous feat, and he must be added to the rank of knight, she has never been greedy, and she doesn't like him to be too big, but now this is very good, Dali Temple is a place where he likes to stay for a long time, and he was promoted from Shaoqing to Zhengqing.

However, looking at Shen Nianyi's face at this time, it really didn't look like he was praised by the emperor, but it seemed like he had been punished, and he was going to come back and think about it behind closed doors.

"What did the emperor say?"

"The emperor didn't say anything."

"So it's the Queen Mother?"

"It's not her old man, Que Yingjie is one step ahead of me, and he has already gone to the Empress Dowager to say a lot of good things about me, but I am not as perfect as he said."

Sun Shining was a little puzzled, the two people at the top didn't say anything, and who was he talking to.

Fortunately, Shen Nianyi is not the kind of person who cares, and in turn reassured: "It's okay, it's like this in the court, whether you do well or not, there will always be a lot of people who will come to talk about things, I should have gotten used to it a long time ago." ”

I don't know if he has been in contact with Ning Ningsheng and the straightforward men under his command for a long time, and he used to be the most able to bear it, but he couldn't hold it back, and even pointed out the other party's intentions in public in front of the emperor.

"If you could tell me, I'd like to hear it." Sun Shining turned sideways, his arms wrapped around his waist, he looked handsome and straight, his waist strength was excellent, and he was full of toughness when he hugged him, "Listen to what grievances my Lord Shen has suffered?" ”

Shen Nianyi let her be coquettish like this, where is there still leisure, snuggling up to the soft wife in her arms, there is really that nameless fire, which has also been extinguished, he turned her face, and looked directly at her: "There are some dirty and dirty things in the court, I am afraid that if I say it, it will dirty your ears." ”

"I want to hear it, listen to how Lord Shen dismissed all these people and made them speechless." Sun Shining's head arched into his arms, like a playful little rabbit.

"You know, I must have the upper hand?"

"That's nature, in my heart, you're the best." Sun Shining coaxed him with three points, but seven points was sincere.

Shen Nianyi gently touched her long hair, sighed and said: "The two countries have been at war all year round, which is a huge expense for the imperial court, if you don't see the specific account books, no one can imagine how amazing that number is." ”

Although Sun Shining doesn't know how to fight, but the Sun family is also a royal businessman, there is a purchase and sale, and the father-in-law in the palace who is responsible for the procurement of rouge pollen has changed three groups of people, and his appetite is getting bigger and bigger, but the Sun family's money is also making more and more.

The reason is very simple, the proceeds that were taken from it changed hands and were added back to every item sold to the palace, how much rouge is a piece of rouge, and how much is a box of balsam, I am afraid that no one can answer all the concubines in the harem.

The emperor couldn't answer, she once heard the old man in the workshop tell a joke, there were courtiers chatting with the emperor to relieve boredom, talking about every morning, his wife pitied him for his hard work as an official, and he must make a boiled egg for him with his own hands, peel off the eggshell, and hand it over to him.

The emperor was taken aback when he heard this, and asked how much the minister's monthly salary was, and the courtier replied honestly that the monthly salary was not much, about a hundred, and the emperor was angry, slapped his palm on the table at hand, and shouted: "Bold, how much people's fat and people's ointment have you been greedy for, and you haven't recruited it from the truth." ”

The courtier was really a clean official, and he couldn't understand the emperor's scolding, but fortunately he was also a smart man, and he recalled the dialogue between the monarch and the minister, and then asked cautiously: "The emperor knows the market price of an egg." ”

The emperor was even more annoyed and said: "How can I not know this, an egg costs seven times, you eat one a day, and the monthly expenses are more than two hundred, and your monthly income is only more than 100 yuan, what is it if you are not greedy for ink!" ”

The courtiers didn't dare to say it bluntly, saying that the market price in the emperor's mouth was the number presented by the eunuchs who procured it, if he really said it, then he didn't know how many people would be offended, and in the midst of the danger, he thought of a way to have both worlds, and only said that the eggs he ate were all eggs raised by the old mother in the backyard of the four reed hens in turn, which were specially left for him, and he never went to the market to buy them.

The emperor was skeptical, and thought of the behavior of this courtier, so he didn't think too much.

When Sun Shining heard this story, she was just smiling happily at the time, but now that she is in front of her, she knows the truth very well.

The expenses in the barracks, among which the greasy that can be hidden are probably more than rouge gouache, grain, grass, military horses, soldiers' clothes for the four seasons, the armor of generals, plus the joint defense of border passes, and the salaries of hundreds of thousands of people.

As mentioned earlier, although the Celestial Empire has a vast land and abundant crops, at least more than 30 percent of the country's income is invested in the bottomless pit of border gates every year.

The first emperor knew that if he encountered drought and flood, he was afraid that it would be the people who suffered, but the war between the two countries could not be stopped, otherwise, the Shuntian army would be forced step by step, and the situation would be even more ugly.

"Those people are targeting you because the war has stopped for ten years, and the source of oil and water in all parts of their country has been cut off at the same time."

When Shen Nian heard her say so bluntly, her eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles: "How did I forget, the Sun family is also used to doing big business, I'm afraid you know more about these truths than me." ”

"A little rouge gouache has made a series of eunuchs and palace people earn a lot of money, and they have set up a few decent mansions outside the palace, so hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses have come and gone, oops, oops, I said Lord Shen, you are here to cut off people's lives."

Sun Shining replied with a smile, "It's no wonder that many people not only said that you made this trip, but understood the righteousness and sent charcoal in the snow, but instead made up all kinds of things wrong with you in front of the emperor, no wonder others, really no wonder others, the fat meat that is used to eating in the mouth was taken away by the horizontal hand, and the duck cooked in the basin also flew away." ”

When Shen Nian heard her say one thing after another, her small mouth was like a cannon, funny and angry, so she simply fixed her face with both hands and kissed her directly.

Sun Shining was still there shaking his head and sighing, he didn't expect that he still had this hand, and before he could finish it, he swallowed it all, and his tongue had nowhere to hide, so he found it, wrapped it, and sucked it a few times, and even the root of his tongue was swollen and painful, before he was slowly let go.

Shen Nianyi lowered his head and said with a smile: "What else does Mrs. Shen have to say for them?" ”

Sun Shining's eyes were watery, his lips were red and swollen, where was he willing to talk about the topic, rubbing the corners of his clothes with both hands, and refused to speak.

Shen Nian sighed, hugged her softly and said: "I understand, you are afraid that I will be depressed, and you deliberately want me to laugh at it, I can't afford to let it go, as long as the emperor's heart is clear, why bother with the rights and wrongs of those people." ”

At that time, the emperor sat still, looked at those people coldly, and looked very carefully, Shen Nian looked at them from the corner of his eyes one or three times, and the emperor was observing, without saying anything, which made those people proud, and felt that the emperor was young and useless, and he could take advantage of it.

As everyone knows, the emperor is weighing and making plans for the next step.