Lu Xianchen stood diagonally on the side of the Queen Mother, dressed in white clothes belonging to the Holy Doctor Girl, wearing a hat, she was very silent, and she was not conspicuous in the entire court.

But anyone who cares can notice.

Lu Xianchen silently calculated the current situation in the court.

It is necessary to pay attention to the three hereditary kings with different surnames, the King of Zhongxin, the Marquis of Dingbang, and the Duke of Lu, on the side is Liang Binzhu, who holds military power, and on the side is Wang Weice, the head of the civil ministers.

The first three are all fiefdoms within the Hong Dynasty, within their fiefdoms, it is difficult for the emperor to reach out to manage, Liang Binzhu has a great relationship with the Liang family army in northern Xinjiang, it is difficult to move easily, Wang Weice is a scholar of the Han family, long in Taixue, there are very many contacts, almost can speak, and most of the Wenchen present regard him as the commander.

"The mourning family thinks that there is no need to work hard to move the people to worship their ancestors," the Empress Dowager Mingxi said behind the curtain, "Last year, the grain harvest in Bailan Town failed, and there was a plague. ”

"The minister thinks that this year's Qingming Festival should be a 'big sacrifice'," it was Lu Guogong who spoke, "the country is not prosperous, and it should be more to knock on the clan, ask the ancestors for sin, and pray for the coming year." ”

"It is not a wise move to sacrifice the people and money." Empress Dowager Mingxi said.

"But in order to have a good season in the coming year, presumably the gentry are willing to donate one or two." Lu Guogong said.

The Empress Dowager Mingxi showed obvious displeasure, she always believed that things are man-made, people will win the sky, if the ancestors have spirits, they will not be happy with their female dictatorship, she and the ancestors do not want to see each other.

In particular, today's ancestor worshippers, there is also her son among the worshippers, in the rules of the Dahong Dynasty, the queen mother sacrifices to keep the ceremony, go to the ancestral hall, and do not kneel, and the queen mother does not need to participate in the sacrifice.

In the past few years, the Queen Mother was sick in bed and did not participate in the Qingming Festival, which belonged to the "Queen Mother is not worshipped", but this year, she came out again and claimed that the Queen Mother was in the court, and there were more etiquette regulations in it.

I think that the Qingming ancestor worship shows that the Queen Mother Xi is a person who is "not rightly named", and there are many people.

The Empress Dowager Mingxi wants to reduce the system in the Qingming Dynasty, but she sincerely considers the disaster of last year, the treasury is empty, and those who want to open a "big sacrifice" are thinking about how to treat the Queen Mother for a sin of "not conforming to the law".

"The minister seconded the proposal," Dingbanghou stood on the side of Lu Guogong, "The minister also thought that everything went wrong last year, and it must be related to the insincerity of the ancestors. ”

As soon as the words "Yuanlu faction" came out, there was an inconspicuous gasp among the courtiers.

Lu Xianchen also tried his best to calm down, so as not to be surprised.

What? The Yuanlu faction is coming? So early?

The current plot, compared with the original work, has changed too much, and Lu Xianchen does not dare to measure the current situation by the dimension of the original work.

Anyway, in the original work, after Yuanlu was sent, the holy doctor girl who was a vicious female partner dared to attack the heroine, and the heroine's next few distresses were all done by the Yuanlu faction by defaulting to the original female partner, and finally let the female partner kill herself.

Now, Lu Xianchen will definitely not harm Su Fengyao, but the arrival of the Yuanlu faction is still not a good sign.

Well, anyway, the Holy Doctor Peak is isolated from the world, and in the original book, almost only the Holy Doctor Girl has the final say, what she wants to do, and she is "orthodox" and "the family teacher's advice", she protects the royal family surnamed Su, it should be no problem.

Su Fengyao had just come back from the Yuanlu faction, and she didn't know that the Yuanlu faction intended to interfere in the Qingming sacrifice of the royal family surnamed Su, but it was said by a courtier in the court, which is not a good thing to look at horizontally and vertically.

But the Yuanlu faction was coming, and the Empress Dowager Mingxi couldn't refuse the request of this "big sacrifice".

King Zhongxin also took a step forward at this time: "The matter of the Yuanlu faction coming has been informed in advance of the Holy Doctor Lady, and the Holy Doctor Lady can prepare for the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, and I believe that she can also prepare for the Qingming Festival." ”

Lu Xianchen, who was suddenly named, was stunned on the spot, who told me in advance, why didn't I know?

"I don't know," Lu Xianchen's brain twitched, and he told the truth, "The family teacher is in retreat all year round, and I didn't see each other often when I was in the Holy Medicine Peak, and when I came to the palace, I didn't receive a letter from me." ”

Lu Xianchen maintained an unfathomable expression on his face, showing sincere doubts: "I didn't know that the Yuanlu Sect was intending to come, how did the Faithful King know that I knew?" ”

The faithful king must not have expected that the holy medicine woman would deny it in public, and immediately turned red.

"I know, it must be Lu Yi's kid who didn't bring the words," Lu Xianchen found a step down, "I haven't seen Yuanlu send a carrier pigeon over recently, so let Lu Yi bring me a message, but that bear kid seems to have some opinions about me, and he is sneering when he speaks, and he doesn't have a few good words." ”

Lu Xianchen has a deep resentment towards the bear child, and wearing a hat, he can also hear the sincerity of these words.

I don't know if others believe it, anyway, this is a suitable step, and the faithful king "rolled" down: "Yes, maybe it is true, let's not leave such an important task of communication to a child......

Lu Guogong arched his hand and said: "So, Queen Mother, this 'big sacrifice' should be indisputable, General Liang returned to the palace, Yuanlu sent to come, Qingming to worship the ancestors, of course, there must be enough preparations." ”

Lu Xianchen's eyes under the hat slanted Liang Binzhu, he actually knew about the coming of the Yuanlu faction when he returned to the palace.

The courtiers all knew that they had concealed it from the emperor and the empress dowager until now, and the Empress Dowager Mingxi had just learned the news, but she didn't react for a while, and she couldn't even organize a verbal refutation of the "big sacrifice" trip.

The courtiers said a few words, and did not give the Empress Dowager Mingxi a chance to shirk, and directly set the specifications of the "big sacrifice".

Su Fengmo didn't say a word from beginning to end.

After retreating, Lu Xianchen instructed Liu Er to call Lu Yi over.

Lu Yi was called over, and the little boy's face was full of unconvinced.

Lu Xianchen took off his hat and knelt down in front of Su Fengmo and the Empress Dowager Mingxi.

"Xianchen is guilty, but he shouldn't know about the Yuanlu faction, and he can't tell His Majesty and the Queen Mother, please punish Your Majesty." Lu Xianchen said.

She pulled Lu Yi, who was still standing next to her, and gave him a lip sync: "Kneel." ”

Of course Lu Yi was unwilling, seeing that he was about to jump away, Lu Xianchen's fingers moved slightly, and an invisible marble hit the numb tendon on Lu Yi's leg, making him feel weak and kneeling on the ground.

"You ......" Lu Yi stared at Lu Xianchen.

The next moment, the marbles went up to Lu Yi's dumb hole, and he couldn't say a word.

"Lu Xianchen took his younger brother to make amends to the Queen Mother and His Majesty." Lu Xianchen kowtowed.

"Because the younger brother was young and reckless, he forgot such an important thing, and almost caused a big disaster, please don't blame Your Majesty and the Queen Mother."

Today's matter, "forgot" to hand over the entrustment of the Yuanlu faction to His Majesty and the Queen Mother, this matter is definitely dereliction of duty, the specific ruling, can be big or small, Lu Xianchen did this, just to give a clear explanation of this matter.

Empress Dowager Mingxi's eyes flashed a trace of unbearability, but then, it was the ruthlessness of the politician: "In this matter, the Holy Doctor and her brother are indeed at fault, and each of them will be punished with twenty rods, and they are not allowed to commit it again." ”

The Queen Mother signaled, and the guards stepped forward and tied the two to a stool.

"After all, it is an unintentional fault of a young child, and the mourning family is not a bloodthirsty person, so there is no need to punish too severely." Empress Dowager Mingxi added.

Lu Yizhi is one year younger than Su Fengmo, and he can't actually be called a "young child".

Playing the board is knowledgeable, the point, twenty boards can kill people, light, fifty boards are just skin injuries, it all depends on how the superior signs.

The queen mother's meaning is not to hit too hard.

Lu Yi was tied, and he was unconvinced, and he desperately wanted to struggle, but he could barely move because of his weakness in his hands and feet.

He still hasn't figured out what happened: this, what's the matter, why should I be beaten?

- It doesn't hurt very much, but I was tied up and beaten in front of so many people, do I still want to lose face? When I return to the Yuanlu faction in the future, my senior brother should laugh at me!

- What a broken sister, this unreasonable beating has to pull me up, it's unreasonable!

Lu Xianchen closed his eyes in Lu Yi's resentful expression.

Su Fengmo lowered his eyes slightly, as if he couldn't bear to look at it.

Empress Dowager Mingxi coughed beside her, as if reminding her of something, and Su Fengmo had to raise her eyes again.

He saw that Sister Xianchen was beaten, bleeding bright red blood and dyeing her white clothes.

Lu Yi had a scolding expression on his face, staring at Lu Xianchen, his eyes were like knives, as if he was going to cut her with a thousand knives.

Lu Xianchen underestimated the power of twenty boards, and also overestimated his own bearing capacity, no matter how much the Queen Mother asked to start lightly, twenty boards were enough for her to be a girl with no talent for sword cultivation to faint in pain.

Later, the two of them were helped down to rest, and Lu Xianchen could barely move, so he could only lie on his side.

Lu Yi's ban was finally lifted, and the seventh disciple of the head of the sword cultivator was in better health than her, and he was able to jump out of bed at this time: "What kind of sin did I make, I was beaten on the board for no reason, you have a pit in your head, you pull me to the board?" ”

"Because of your negligence, you made a mistake." Lu Xianchen said.

"What did I do wrong? Bring a message to the one you said? Lu Yi was even more furious, "No one assigned me that task at all, I don't even know about it!" ”

"You don't know? You don't know, you have to know. Lu Xianchen said.

Lu Yi was furious: "You are simply unreasonable! ”

"Because of this matter, it is related to the relationship between the royal family and the Yuanlu faction, the Yuanlu faction is coming, and the courtiers are notified but the queen mother is not notified, this is said, it is difficult not to make people think about it, people will speculate and attack the royal family, which is not conducive to His Majesty's rule." Lu Xianchen said.

Lu Yi was still unconvinced: "Then what does this have to do with me?" ”

"I have to find a reasonable reason, at least it is reasonable on the surface, the one who was sent from Yuanlu recently is you, what does the Yuanlu faction want you to bring, reasonable, as a child, if you accidentally forget, you can also say it." Lu Xianchen said.

"In this way, I can barely cover up the things that the Yuanlu faction deliberately did."

Lu Yi spread his hands: "Then why didn't the Yuanlu faction tell the eldest princess directly, I believe she will not be able to forget it." ”

"So this is just a set of rhetoric that can cover up the past on the surface......" Lu Xianchen still had pain in his body, but he had to think about the next plan in his mind.

"That's why I was innocently beaten!" Lu Yi is still full of anger.

"Lu Yi," Lu Xianchen called him by name, "This is the palace, right and wrong sometimes don't matter that much, don't be willful." ”