The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 123 The Incident
The emperor hugged Xueli until she fell asleep, hesitated for a moment, and had to stand up.

——This bed is narrow!

Sleeping together with Ayao is not enough for Xueli, but it is not enough for him to be in the middle.Xie Zhao thought for a while, and hugged A Yao too.

A Yao leaned on his shoulder, and opened his eyes in a daze: "Father..."

"You sleep." Xie Zhao patted her on the back, and she fell asleep again.He hugged Ah Yao and went out. Chen Jijiang and Xu Shishui saw it and quickly got up to follow.

The two nannies were stunned when they saw the emperor hugging A Yao in the yard. It took a while for them to realize that they rushed forward to take A Yao over. Walk.

Chen Jijiang and Xu Shishui didn't dare to show their air, and the group walked back in the dark.After entering the courtyard where the emperor lived, he entered the wing room on the side used as a study, sat down in front of the desk, and said to Chen Jijiang, "Everything related to it will be punished. Those who make this arrangement will be severely punished."

Chen Jijiang was quite calm, and he said "No", Xu Shishui beside him knelt down with a pale face.

How can I let him ask for forgiveness now?Chen Jijiang immediately turned his head and gave him a wink. Two eunuchs came in and dragged Xu Shishui out.Chen Jijiang ground the ink and poured tea at a steady pace. Seeing that His Majesty had no other orders, he quietly retreated out.

When I went out to see, Xu Shishui's face was still pale.Chen Jijiang was also on fire in his heart, he didn't even bother to look at him, looked around, and called the new apprentice: "Xiaocheng, go, pass the message. The one who is going to move the yard for Mrs. Ruan today has a staff of twenty; go The ones who sent messages to Mrs. Ruan have fifty sticks."

The eunuch named Xiaocheng didn't dare to talk too much, he looked at the master's expression with chills on his back and said "No", turned around and ran to spread the word.

Chen Jijiang let out a long sigh of relief, turned around, and finally looked at Xu Shishui.Feeling very angry, he gave the other two eunuchs a wink to push Xu Shishui away, and then slapped him: "What do you think you did!"

Xu Shishui didn't even dare to cover his face, and knelt down tremblingly, regretting in his heart: "Master, master, please forgive me! I didn't think too much about it at the time, and I didn't expect Your Majesty, he..."

Chen Jijiang wanted to scold the street in his heart!

Didn't expect His Majesty what?I didn't expect that His Majesty would go to Miss Ruan tonight?

Don't look at how Mrs. Ruan has come here these days!If the little beauties presented by the country gentry in any place could compare to her, she would not be so at ease!
"You can have a snack!" Chen Jijiang gritted his teeth, he didn't even know how to train him, he looked up at the two guarding him, pointed at Xu Shishui and said, "This one, eighty sticks, drag it farther away, Don't embarrass Your Majesty."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left. Xu Shishui was gagged before he even called out "Master".

Chen Jijiang was so angry that he still had to clear his mind and continue with his errands.He stopped and thought for a while, and went to find the female officer Sizheng.

Lady Sizheng is the second person in Gongzhengsi's rank. His Majesty is on a tour to the south, and Lady Sizheng has to be in charge of affairs in the palace. This Sizheng came out afterward.

Chen Jijiang found someone, and first gave an overview of the ins and outs just now—mainly to let Si Zheng understand that His Majesty should be angry about this matter, and then he said: "Your Majesty said it himself, and everything related will be punished. The one under my hand If I can’t help you, I’ve already taken care of it. But if there’s such a person, I can do it, but it’s more appropriate to follow the path of your Gong Zhengsi.”

Si Zheng was puzzled, and thought for a while: "Who is it?"

Chen Jijiang smiled, but didn't say anything, and directly asked Si Zheng to take the people there.

He did not forget the one who served His Majesty at the banquet just now.The most famous daughter in Qinzhou City, Mrs. Lin.

Chen Jijiang weighed it back and forth. In the final analysis, Miss Ruan was crying because of these official ladies. The one who sat next to His Majesty couldn't ignore it anyway.

This Mrs. Lin is still in this house right now.When the banquet was over, His Majesty didn't give orders to stay or not, so the maid beside her stuffed money to the palace man here, begging to arrange a place for the young lady to rest first.It can be seen that this is also a thoughtful person, why rest first?This is waiting for the servant.

Chen Jijiang sneered in his heart, if she went home obediently, he might let her go.But since she is so eager to send it up... Tsk.

When the group arrived, Lin was still in full makeup.It's already midnight, if you don't sleep, you can imagine what you are waiting for.

As soon as they entered the courtyard, the servant girl next to Lin came over to welcome them. Before they could speak while smiling, the two eunuchs next to Miss Sizheng rushed into the room, escorted Lin and came out.

Then the bench was swung and the person was pushed up. As soon as the eunuch holding the bamboo stick came in, the color on Lin's face turned pale, and he looked at Chen Jijiang in astonishment: "My lord... my lord! What did the servant girl do wrong?"

"What did you do wrong?" Chen Jijiang chuckled, and then sighed quietly, "Yes, you don't know anything, but you don't feel wronged. Tell you, if you want to be in the palace, you must take every step you have the ability. I have inquired about the seriousness before, or you deserve to be beaten back with a stick."

Mrs. Lin was startled, as if she had heard something, and asked urgently: "Please explain clearly...Which empress did this minister offend?"

"Heh." Chen Jijiang laughed out loud.He glanced left and right to let the others back away for a while, then squatted down, lowered his voice a little, "You, you don't need to know who it is. The Sa family knows that all the rich and noble families in your Tanzhou city are familiar with each other. After you finish this meal, Go back and let them know that there are too many people in the palace that you can't afford to offend, don't push people in like chickens without a head. Is Gao Zhi so easy to climb? Don't be afraid of dying without a whole body!"

He did not say this warning on his own initiative.

Ever since these official ladies arrived at the banquet, His Majesty's expression was obviously ugly.It's not so much that they dislike these girls, but rather that they are angry at the squires' stupid loyalty to the aristocratic family.

No matter what the big aristocratic family exchanged for their loyalty, it would be ridiculous if they dared to push their own daughter onto the dragon couch after they were determined to be loyal.

Does this mean that the idea of ​​the noble relatives of the aristocratic family will definitely make their daughter flourish?Is it true that the aristocratic family says that one is the same?Don't even look at who owns the world!
So this matter can be big or small, and it is not impossible to say "contempt for the majesty" if you want to.

But it's not necessary to really beat people to death. After Chen Jijiang finished speaking, he took a cork and stuffed it into Mrs. Lin's mouth: "Hold it, you have long eyes. If you don't have deep thoughts, you can be like a fish in water in the palace. Yes, but it's not you. "

A person with such a good fortune, he has seen that one after so many things, right?Others, let's first count whether our Yangshou is enough to destroy it!
When Sydney woke up, he opened his eyes to see that Xie Zhao was not there, he was not surprised, he always got up early, after all, he had so many political affairs to attend to.

But... what about Ah Yao? !
Xueli called someone to come in and ask, Xingren smiled and bowed: "Mistress, don't worry. Your Majesty carried Diji to his side last night, probably because the bed was narrow and Diji might hurt the lady."

Sydney listened to her forehead.It seems that he didn't "get up early" but left at night-then she slept too hard!She didn't even know that such a big living person left the bed, and she didn't even know that such a big living person took her daughter away when he left the bed!

She was teasing herself in her heart, Dou Sha said at the door, "Ma'am, someone is asking to see you", when she looked up, she saw two eunuchs had already entered the room, knelt down in front of her without saying a word, and asked her to move back .

Sydney then said yes, then please help me.

Then I looked at these two kowtows again and again, saying that yesterday they had no eyesight to see and couldn't do things, it's a sin to work hard, lady, you must be merciful, merciless...

Sydney was shocked, she had never received such a big gift early in the morning!What are you doing?It's sunny and sunny, come to her place to pound garlic?
She hurriedly pulled them up, and saw that one had a blue forehead and the other was purple. She couldn't hold back her laughter after holding back for a while, and hurriedly asked Xingren to fetch medicine for them, and let them sit down casually.Later, during the conversation, she realized that after she fell asleep yesterday... the Chi family's mansion was filled with blood and rain!
Many people were punished before the imperial court...

Master Xu lost half of his life...

Lin Shi, who served His Majesty at the banquet, was rode [-] times in the middle of the night, and was driven out overnight to be sent home...

Hey, is it because she cried a lot yesterday?Is the consequence of her crying so serious?
Xueli was flustered when she heard that, and finally took a lot of scraps of silver and gave them to the two, and after they left, she asked Fugui to take medicine and silver to see Master Xu.She didn't care about the others. After all, His Majesty ordered her to be punished. It was inappropriate for him to go around pretending to be a good person after punishing her.

That afternoon, Sydney returned to the emperor's residence. As soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw that the courtyard was full of people, including civil servants and military officials, so she had to carefully slip in against the wall.

The emperor was obviously very busy in the next few days, people kept seeing him from morning to night, people in the study came out and in again, it seemed busier than when he was in Luo'an.There are especially many generals, Xueli heard from Zhima that he is a general of the garrison outside the city.

She doesn't understand these political affairs, knowing that he is busy at most is to keep the idea of ​​"not causing extra trouble".But at the beginning of August, Sydney suddenly heard that His Majesty the Seventh Prince had been imprisoned by His Majesty.

"What's going on?!" She asked Zhima with eyes full of astonishment, Zhima frowned and shook her head: "I don't know. I heard that it was a sudden decree at noon, and there was no sign at all. Last night, His Majesty just rewarded His Highness Seven As for the lack of crabs, they said they had just been brought in, so they sent someone to send them to His Royal Highness Seven."

It was too sudden.Imprisoning a vassal king is not a trivial matter. Although the vassal kings of this dynasty do not have much real power to speak of, they are the emperor's brothers after all. His Royal Highness Seventh is also His Majesty's only younger brother with the same father and mother!
How big of an affair does it have to be between brothers to be directly imprisoned? !

After thinking about it, Sydney still felt that she couldn't stay out of it.

His Royal Highness the Seventh has a good relationship with her, and the Yi family has also had a good relationship with her recently, so while she knew that political affairs should not be involved, she was still in a mess.

After hesitating again and again, after the sunset and the courtiers retreated, Xueli resolutely left the room and went to the study to find him.

Peeping by the door, the scene inside made her dare not go in!
In the study, the emperor sat by the case with a cold face, and a man was kneeling three or five steps away from the case, covered in blood and horrific, as if he had just been tortured.

This man was called Nie Fang, and the generals outside arrested him from near the barracks, saying that he acted suspiciously, and after they were caught, they brought him directly to face him.

The emperor directly handed him over to the imperial guards, who were strictly interrogated for most of the day, and the thousands of households who were in charge of interrogating him were stunned by what happened, so they reported it to Wei Chen, who finally took over.

Right now, there is a sense of indifference in the study room. After reading the confession, the emperor threw it on the case and looked at the man: "How long have you been with the Seven Kings? What do you do on weekdays?"

"Yes, it's been three years..." Nie Fang kowtowed tremblingly, not daring to hide anything, "It's mostly trivial matters on weekdays, and this is the first time such an errand is happening today. His Highness the Seventh Highness likes to make friends, and the younger ones are much better." It's helping His Highness the Seventh Highness pass on a message, giving a gift or something, and helping invite people to sit in the palace."

He is "easy to make friends", even his elder brother doesn't know.

The emperor smiled coldly, and said, "He likes to make friends. Didn't meet anyone in Qinzhou this trip? There are quite a few literati, sages, wealthy businessmen here."

"See you, see you." Nie Fang hurriedly responded, "His Royal Highness has banquets almost every day, and he has met the adults here. Yesterday, he chatted with the two young masters of the Lin family in the middle of the night, as if chatting. We hit it off quite well, and when we arrived, we even said that we would invite the two young masters to Luo'an for a sit down."

The emperor's complexion obviously darkened, and the man wanted to say more, Wei Chen stepped forward to signal his subordinates to take him out, and clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, forgive me."

The emperor sighed: "Say it."

Wei Chen was silent for a while, and only said: "I think... His Highness the Seventh Prince is not such a careless person."

The emperor chuckled.After a long silence, he waved Wei Chen to step back first.

In fact, Wei Chen had been thinking about these words just now.

But that's how it happened.He made a big move to tour the south, just to shake the mountains and shake the tiger, but the seventh brother is still making friends with the local dignitaries; the generals outside are to remind the aristocratic family that the emperor is still there, but the seventh brother dares to send someone To inquire about the situation of the army.

And the Lin family.The Lin family was used by the Nangong family, and he repeatedly tried to reach into Luo'an, so he ordered to fine the daughter of the Lin family - the other vassals and officials understood that no one dared to associate with the Lin family, but the seventh brother was still the same. Had a great conversation with Mr. Lin's family.

He used to protect this seventh brother so much.In fact, the queen mother's various deeds were already enough to turn their brothers against each other, but he felt that it was his own brother after all, and it would be unfair to put his mother's fault on him.

But now, the seventh brother still has his own thoughts?

Xie Zhao heaved a long sigh, suddenly feeling very tired.

He just sat there, from the setting sun to the moon, not knowing what to do or what to do.It was long past dinner time, but he still had no appetite at all.

After a long time, Xie Zhao sighed again, pushed the door out of the study and went to the bedroom.He had to rest before he could continue thinking about such troublesome things.

In the bedroom, Xueli sat at the table in a daze, staring at the dishes on the table and waiting for him, until she was a little sleepy, so she leaned over the table and closed her eyes for a rest.

She didn't cook for a few days, and just now she was so annoyed that she went into the kitchen again.Cooking is both fun and quiet for her. After cooking a few dishes, she really calms down a lot.

She more or less understood what was said in the study just now.

——First of all, if you grab someone from His Highness the Seventh Prince's side and beat him like that, there must be something wrong with that person; secondly, His Majesty beat up the young lady of the Lin family a while ago, and the Seventh Highness went to have a good talk with the young master of the Lin family... This is not wrong , but it's also weird; again, the words "make friends" here seem more like "forming a party for personal gain"?I don't want to know that His Royal Highness must not be friends with ordinary people!

Then Sydney was really confused for a while... In fact, until now, there is still a little bit.

As soon as the door rang, she opened her eyes and looked over. The emperor was walking in, glanced at the dishes on the table, and frowned slightly: "Why are you waiting for me to eat?"

Recently, she eats whenever she wants, and eats whatever she wants, seeing her lying on the table waiting for him suddenly makes him feel that something is wrong.

If you look closely, it doesn't look too good.

"I've eaten." Xue Li pushed the chair next to her and smiled, "It's been a long time since I've cooked, and I made some dishes for Your Majesty."

He sat down with three points of doubt, and was a little worried. She had neatly served him a bowl of three-bean soup, and threw a few pieces of rock sugar into it: "It's autumn, it seems a bit late to drink. I think the color If it looks good, let’s do it, Your Majesty, try it.”

He stirred the bowl with a spoon, turned the boiled red beans, mung beans, and black beans back and forth in the bowl, and she picked up another chopstick and put them on the plate in front of him: "This dish goes with rice."

He looked down, it was dinner.The main ingredients are sea cucumbers, bamboo shoots and tenderloin. They are cooked in broth and colored with soy sauce. It looks like a dish to be eaten with rice.

Taking another look at the expectation in her eyes, Xie Zhao first endured the question, and ate the dish as he said, and saw that she was about to bring over the sauced beef next to her, which blocked her Good intentions: "What's the matter, let's talk about it first, and I'll eat later."

Sydney knew that when she had something on her mind, she would definitely not be able to hide it from him.

So she put down her chopsticks, remained silent for a while, got up from her seat, and knelt down straight without raising her eyes.

Xie Zhao was taken aback and immediately wanted to help her. Just as his hand was stretched out in front of her, she suddenly slammed it over and said, "I heard a few words by the side of the study just now."

The emperor's eyes froze slightly, and his hands froze.

Xueli said again: "I was not careful. I wanted to go to look for His Majesty, but I bumped into it when I got there. But this matter..." She lowered her head, as if admitting her mistake, "I was wrong about this matter, I shouldn't listen to politics."

She hadn't knelt in front of him for a long time, and she did this all of a sudden, just to apologize for an unintentional mistake?

Xie Zhao examined her expression, helped her up first, and then said, "It's not just about that. Do you... want to intercede for Seventh Brother?"

(End of this chapter)