Lu Tianming hurriedly expressed his loyalty: "Your Majesty, of course the old minister doesn't want to! The old minister's family has been deeply favored by the empire and His Majesty for generations, and now the empire is seeing another eventful season, it should be the time for the old minister and others to share their worries and solve difficulties and repay their kindness, how dare the old minister stay out of the matter at this time?"

Emperor Shenwu said lightly: "Lu Aiqing, I already know your loyalty, but now that you have been injured like this, if I force you to continue to serve in the office, it will be too harsh and unkind." In this way, Lu Aiqing, after you get off the morning in a while, go to the cabinet to handle the affairs, and then go home to recuperate for a month!"

This is a nice thing to say, but it actually means to temporarily remove Lu Tianming from his position. Lu Tianming was shocked in his heart, but he couldn't disobey the emperor's order, so he could only bow down and say: "Yes, Your Majesty is considerate and considerate, and the old minister thanks Your Majesty for your grace!"

Emperor Shenwu waved his hand to flatten him, stared at him and asked, "Seeing that I escaped from the edict tonight, what do you think?"

Lu Tianming listened to the emperor's tone, obviously not wanting to embarrass Ling Ye. Although he was helpless in his heart, he could only follow the tone of Emperor Shenwu and said: "The old minister thinks that the incident in prison is just a temporary misunderstanding, and it is understandable that Ling Ye is in love. Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that it is not appropriate to pursue it, and should try to inform Ling Ye to come back to take office. ”

Many of the courtiers were in a state of agitation.

It's outrageous! With Lu Tianming's status and status, he was humiliated like Ling Ye by others, and now he has to say in public that it is not appropriate to pursue it, and he has to try to beg Ling Ye to come back to work...... Is this Lu Tianming currying favor with the emperor, or is he deliberately saying the opposite?

Emperor Shenwu snorted: "What Lu Aiqing said is not unreasonable, but well, it can't be completely like this." The edict is the edict, and he forcibly escaped from prison in the middle of the night, and if there is no punishment at all, he is also required to come back to serve, and I don't know how many people will follow suit in the future. This kind of atmosphere must not be opened first!"

"That ......"

Emperor Shenwu said lightly: "The person ran away from you, and you have to be responsible for finding it back." Remember, I want to be alive and kicking in the night, not dead in the night. As for how to punish it, we will discuss it later!"

The smile on Lu Tianming's face froze again: "Your Majesty ......"

The courtiers were in a hurry again, and many people looked at Lu Tianming with a look of schadenfreude in their eyes.

was humiliated by others, and he had to invite them back with a smiling face, and he couldn't hurt it, which is called lifting a stone and hitting his own feet!

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Bang!

Lu Tianming slapped his palm on the table, and a white beard blew high in anger: "It's really unreasonable!"

After dispersing the early dynasty, Lu Tianming was ridiculed by many people. All the courtiers are human spirits, and they all smell the smell, the smell that Lu Tianming is about to fall out of favor. In their opinion, it was almost time to change directions.

Therefore, many ministers pretended to chat with Lu Tianming to express condolences, but in fact, they mocked him to his face. Lu Tianming knew it, but he could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach. A person who was ridiculed by the emperor in public, would he dare to go mad in the palace? In that case, the old birthday star would hang himself—he would have a long life. delicacies

He couldn't hold back his breath, and he had to hand over the affairs at hand to the other cabinet members before he could go home. When he got home, he was so angry that he was naturally heading towards his desk.

That's right, but after all, his old man has never practiced kung fu such as iron sand palms, and the hands that are used to holding the pen and women are old and weak, and this palm slammed on the hard table, only to make his old man retract his hand in pain and jump high, his eyes were full of tears, and he almost didn't cry.

He was shaking his hands and blowing hard, and there was a house slave outside to report: "Master, there is a visitor!"

Lu Tianming said angrily: "No, just say I'm not at home!"

"Master, the man said that he came from your hometown and brought you the souvenirs of your hometown. ”

As soon as Lu Tianming heard this, he immediately said, "Please come in!"

There were two people who came, one after the other walked into Lu Tianming's hall, these two people looked very ordinary, without a smile on their faces, and they belonged to the kind of people who would not be found if they were thrown into the crowd. They were followed by a few people carrying heavy sacks on their shoulders, which seemed to contain the souvenirs they had brought?

Lu Tianming seemed to be very familiar with them, so he came up from afar and warmly invited them to sit down for tea. The man at the head turned his head and instructed the man to follow the family to hand over the contents of the sack, and he and the man behind him followed Lu Tianming into the hall to drink a few cups of tea, and after chatting about some topics such as how the weather is in his hometown, how the harvest is and so on, Lu Fuli will have a meal and take care of them to catch the wind and wash the dust.

Of course, drinking was not in the hall, Lu Tianming invited the two of them to move to a high attic in the back garden. The attic rises more than two feet from the ground, surrounded by water on three sides, and only the stairs zigzag up on the fourth side, so you don't have to worry about being overheard.

After three rounds of drinking, the leader arched his hand to Lu Tianming: "Lord Shoufu, how are things going now?"

Lu Tianming sighed: "The progress was originally good, but there have been some twists and turns recently. ”

The man at the head said, "I also heard about it, so I specially sent us to investigate, and obeyed the instructions of the adults. It's just a nobody who has just been summoned to the imperial capital, causing some things in the imperial capital?"

Lu Tianming smiled bitterly: "It's true that he is a nobody, but because his position is very delicate, and he does have some ability, he suddenly stirred up the balance that was originally maintained." The old man wanted to start from him to provoke the other party and suppress the other party until he brought down the other party, but he never thought that the other party would see through the old man's game and in turn stir up our game!"

The head said, "Shousuke-sama doesn't need to worry. How capable can such a nobody be? Ligongzi sent us here to help Shousuke-sama clean up this nobody. After cleaning up this kid who doesn't know how thick the sky is and what is going on everywhere, the other party will be quiet for at least a while. ”

Lu Tianming's eyes flashed: "It's not that the old man is so ambitious to destroy his own prestige, this nobody is not such a person to deal with, if you want to destroy him, I'm afraid you have to be a real martial arts master! ”

The man at the head knew that Lu Tianming was agitating the general. He smiled faintly and said proudly: "Shoufu-sama, don't worry! With the two of us taking action, we want to clean up this nobody, but it's as easy as a snap, and it's nine out of ten!"

Lu Tianming squinted his eyes, and his old face bloomed like a chrysanthemum: "Okay! With such ability, it's not a problem to deal with that kid!"