In the courtyard of the Liu family, Master Liu hurriedly walked in and asked the little guy to borrow the carriage.

"Borrow a more spacious one, and Madame will go with me."

The Liu family has been favored recently, and Master Liu has risen too fast, so the family has not prepared the carriage now, and it is still rented.

"What?" Old Madam Liu saw the old man for the first time.

The last time it was like this, it was the little granddaughter who called him stupid.

"I have nothing to eat bamboo shoots, I want to eat them, I won't go to the market to buy them? Do you want to go to other people's homes to dig, is there a lack of virtue? "Although Mrs. Liu followed the old man, she came out of the village.

But she is also the daughter of a teacher in the village, who has read books and is knowledgeable.

She can't do this kind of embarrassing thing in order to eat.

"I also went to Xu Sai's restaurant to dig, why don't you go to the emperor's garden to dig! You can figure it out! Old Madam Liu refused.

Old Man Liu snorted and immediately squeezed his eyes.

Mrs. Liu hissed and thought instantly, "It's our little granddaughter......"

Master Liu looked left and right and nodded.

Mrs. Liu immediately went to the inner room and gave the money for renting a carriage to the little maid.

was about to catch Master Liu and ask clearly, but he heard a laughing visit outside.

"Liu Lao is at home? What are you doing today, the old man has come to see you. ”

Old Man Liu quickly frowned, glanced at Old Lady Liu, and lowered his voice, "I'll go to the front to take a look, and you go and prepare a congratulatory gift for Xu Saijiu's great-grandson Full Moon." ”

So saying, he went to the front.

The person who was welcomed in by the janitor at the door was none other than the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Inspectorate that Master Liu is working with now, Hong Xing.

Master Liu is now temporarily serving as the imperial history of the right capital, although he is the same as Hong Xing, he is a four-grade official.

But the grade of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is respected by the left, and Hong Xing's power is greater than that of Master Liu.

"Lord Hong, what kind of wind is blowing you here?" Master Liu was a little anxious.

What medicine is sold in this gourd?

His granddaughter's intellectual blessing to him was only one day's work.

He has to arrest Xu Xianjiu, the bribe-taker!

Hong Xing smiled, "Naturally, I came to see you, you just came back from King Liao's fiefdom, okay?" ”

Master Liu is smart now, "Well, the emperor is sympathetic, let me enter the palace to see my daughter, and then let me come back and let me rest for three days." ”

The implication is that if you hurry up, he will rest.

Hong Xing raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand to pick up the tea bowl, pretended not to understand, but sighed, "Hey, His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince is too young after all." ”

Old Man Liu glared.

With the doubling of his intelligence, his memory also skyrocketed.

Suddenly, he remembered that he had heard someone say that Shi Hongxing, the left of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, was a student of the queen's father.

Hong Xing is a member of the queen's party.

What do you mean?

The fifth prince is small, and the eldest prince is just the right age!?

The queen wants their Liu family to see the situation clearly, the fifth prince is unlikely to succeed to the throne, so it is better to assist the eldest prince to ascend the throne?

Master Liu suddenly blew his beard and glared.

Hong Xing said with a smile, "Lord Liu, the current emperor seems to be gentle, but he is actually very smart. Since ancient times, the prince's mother's house, especially the prince's mother's house, has been difficult to be reused. ”

"Lord Liu is in the limelight now, but do you know that twenty years ago, the old assistant Tong Pavilion was a high-ranking and powerful minister, presided over three imperial examinations, and was the most trusted minister of the emperor."

Old Man Liu squinted.

The previous first assistant, Lord Tong, was the queen's father and the grandfather of the current prince!

"But after the eldest prince was born," Hong Xing put down the teacup, "Elder Tong Ge resigned and went home to recuperate." ”

"Now the Tong family, except for the boss, is also serving as the prefect in Jinzhou, thousands of miles away, and the rest are Confucians, and there is no official in the court."

The eldest prince's mother's house is far away from the imperial court.

It was to gain the emperor's trust and put on a posture.

Even if the eldest prince succeeds to the throne in the future, the Tong family will only assist with all their hearts, and will never cover the sky in the court, and their relatives will be in charge, so that the Xiao family's royal power will exist in name only.

"Lord Liu, do you understand?" Hong Xing looked at Liu Wenchang, "You can't have both fish and bear's paws." ”

"If you want the Liu family to go down in history and make a career, then the five princes are too small and too small."

Master Liu closed his eyes.

Is this to let him choose one or the other?

Do you want to be a big official yourself, or let your grandson be the emperor?

"You are doing so many things for the emperor now, do you understand what the emperor means?" Hong Xing lowered his voice.

"The name of the crown prince after the plaque, the possibility of the fifth prince is too low."

Old Man Liu couldn't hold back, so he didn't look at him like a fool.

"Those who know the times are Junjie, and Liu Lao might as well plan for the five princes as early as possible and find him a future to rely on."

Hong Xing smiled inscrutablely.

Who is relied on, naturally it is the prince and the queen!

Master Liu couldn't listen to it anymore.

He didn't want to argue with fools.

Please, let's get to the bottom of the situation!

His granddaughter said that the eldest prince is not on the emperor's will at all!

"Master, the rented carriage has arrived, do you want to leave now?" The little guy came in just in time to interrupt.

Master Liu hurriedly took the opportunity to stand up, "Lord Hong, the old man is in a hurry to congratulate Xu on his grandson, so he won't accompany you." ”

Hong Xing's face was ugly, "Elder Liu, is this rejecting my kindness?" ”

Old Man Liu smiled, "Huh? What do you mean, what did you just suggest to me? ”

"Ah, the car rental company, collect the old man's money according to the time, and the old man can only talk to Lord Hong in detail another day."

Hong Xing was so angry that he threw up his sleeves and left.

Mrs. Liu came out of the hall at this time, worriedly asked the little maid to carry the congratulatory gift, and got into the carriage with Master Liu.

"Are you alright, sir? If we offend them, will we make enemies for our grandchildren? Mrs. Liu was worried, "What this person said also makes sense, in case the eldest prince ...... in the future Enthronement ......"

Master Liu stretched out his hand to stop her words.

He lowered the curtain of the car and heard his wife by the noise of the wheels running over the gravel road outside.

"My granddaughter said that our little five is the prince."

“！”

Old Madam Liu almost threw the teacup out of the carriage!

What?

She was the daughter of a teacher in a village, and she became the grandmother of the prince.

In the future, it will be the emperor's grandmother!?

Ouch hey!

Her daughter Lan Niang will be the queen mother in the future!

Master Liu shook his head when he saw his wife's uncalm staring eyes, "Look at your unpromising appearance." ”

"I ...... Aren't you excited when you hear such a big happy event? Mrs. Liu pinched Mr. Liu fiercely.

But Master Liu told her in a blink of an eye, "Don't be happy too early, hey." ”

He looked in the direction of the front of the car, "Our little five, we are taking over the government of a country that is about to die." ”

“……！”

Mrs. Liu also remembered that when her granddaughter was full moon, she heard her granddaughter say it when she entered the palace.

Damn!

"Now there is no money in the treasury, natural disasters are continuous, the harvest in the fields is not good, several foreigners are eyeing us on all sides, and our army is also in a mess, and there is no money to raise soldiers."

Old Madam Liu's eyebrows were raised high.

It's like she finally turned over and took over the power of the family from her mother-in-law, only to find that the family not only has no rice, but also owes a lot of debts.

"What then, old man?"

"Don't worry, aren't you just trying to figure it out step by step now? The first step is that you go digging bamboo shoots. ”

“！”

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Guozi Jian Xu sacrifices the wine's home, which looks more righteous than Master Liu, and is a three-entry house.

This house is full of incorruptibility, ordinary blue bricks, wooden gates, and even the plaque with the word Xu Fu written on it is a little faded.

The gatekeeper is still a gray-haired old man, and at first glance he is the cheapest kind of subordinate.

"Wenchang, Mrs. Liu, please please."

Xu Xijiu got the news and came out to greet him with joy, wearing a patched ordinary cloth shirt, and the black shoes on his feet had already exposed cotton wool.

The corners of Old Man Liu's mouth twitched.

This man is really good at pretending! If he hadn't heard his granddaughter's heart, he would never have guessed that this kind of person had a million taels!

"I've long wanted to come to Lord Xu's bamboo garden to have a look, I think it must have the indomitable tenacity of a literati."

Liu Lao greeted for a while, and his wife followed Xu Xijiu into the bamboo garden where he usually entertained guests.

But as soon as Master Liu entered, as soon as he stepped on the mud, he felt that something was wrong!

Good guy, is the land of this bamboo garden being dug and turned over every day? Why is it so loose!

There's something down there!