Imperial City

Because of the case of Yu Qing in Dian, everyone in Qianqing Palace feared the emperor very much, and they were very cautious in their words and deeds, even Anxi was no exception.

Since the New Year's Eve, the Holy Majesty has been too kind, causing the servants to be a little slack, giving birth to the illusion that the Son of Heaven is amiable.

As soon as this incident happened, it sounded like a Buddhist bell ringing in my ears, waking up the people below.

For a moment, the palace of Qianqing was shrouded in dark clouds, accompanied by a violent storm and snow, so gloomy and oppressive that people dared not breathe.

Wei Qi's things were already ready, but he didn't dare to send them out now.

The Lantern Festival was supposed to be lively and festive, but it fell silent due to a massacre.

Although the Empress Dowager stayed in the Shoukang Palace all day long and recuperated, she seldom intervened in court affairs, but she still felt a little unhappy when she got the news.

On a good day, the precept of killing was actually issued, and I was not afraid of the Buddha's blame, so I couldn't delay it for a few days.

It's just that the imperial decree has been issued, the head has been lost, and the ancestors finally did not open their mouths to blame the emperor.

In the Xinuang Pavilion in the early morning, the atmosphere today is more depressing than in the past.

Anxi led a group of people to stand outside the door and took a deep breath before daring to open the door and enter.

With a few imperial decrees the day before yesterday, hundreds of people were killed yesterday, and the Meridian Gate was bloodbathed.

The Son of Heaven sat on the couch with his eyes closed and rested, his expression was no different from usual.

Fear was revealed in the voices of the slaves paying their respects, and the blessings bestowed on New Year's Eve and the gentle and amiable words of the emperor all disappeared like smoke.

There was no sound, and the needles could be heard falling.

Wei Qi felt in a trance that he smelled a strong smell of blood, and the things hidden in his cuffs made people panic. The little resentment he had born last night was flimsy and insignificant under the king's monstrous power and majesty.

Why would you want to carve this?Kneeling on the floor tiles, he suddenly felt confused.

It was just a casual joke on the emperor's bed, but he took it seriously, and now it's better to delay it for a few more days.

A deep voice came from a few feet away, clearly careless, just one word, but it sounded like a thunderbolt.

Everyone trembled slightly and stood up holding their breath.

In addition to the emperor shouting "um" this morning,

"Besides the word, without any instructions, An Xi obediently acted like a mute, not daring to touch the mold.

For breakfast in Dongnuan Pavilion, the eunuch in charge of the imperial dining room was worried. In order not to offend Long Yan, he woke up an hour early to check the morning's meal repeatedly, and heard the new dish that was presented in the small kitchen of Kunning Palace the day before yesterday. Venison is very sacred, which promotes harmony between the emperor and empress.

I intentionally asked the eunuch serving food in Kunning Palace for advice on how to make this meal, and now I added this venison to it, trying to eliminate some of the dragon's anger.

It's a pity that things went wrong instead.

The venison served in the silver chiseled flower bowl looked very appetizing, but An Xi's eyelids twitched, and an ominous feeling arose in his heart.

He secretly sighed that the imperial dining room was going to be replaced, and the stupid thing thought it was smart to add this stuff, alas, it all depends on the holy will.

Although the emperor was the one who cut off the head, he didn't just cut off the head to open his face.

Yu Qing was bold, relying on the Zhao family's vision to run amok in Yunnan, all the imperial officials sent down were afraid of the Grand Tutor, and all of them were bribed.

Even beheading more than a hundred members of his lord's family for such disrespect that despised imperial power could not appease the anger.

However, Yu Qing couldn't catch the old fox. Although the emperor had expected it, but the night before yesterday, he had to pretend to appease the queen, how could he not be aggrieved, how could he not be angry.

At this moment, a piece of roasted venison with a pestle under his nose is naturally even more unpleasant.

Sure enough, the gold-encrusted ivory chopsticks were thrown and hit the teacup with a jingle.

The servants and maids around were already terrified, kneeling more numbly than ever.

Anxi was careful, and asked softly: "My lord, but what doesn't suit your taste?"

The emperor seldom gets angry because of eating, and everyone knows that this is just to vent his anger, only the Chief Imperial Officer knows the deeper reason.

It’s not okay to say that you don’t like venison, so the rose almond glutinous rice cake next to it became a scapegoat.

"Telling me to eat this sweet and greasy thing in the early morning is to kill me."

Several eunuchs who were transferred from the imperial dining room to serve as the secretary were so frightened that they kept pleading guilty.

Anxi followed the emperor's gaze, and understood in his heart that he couldn't understand anymore, but he had no choice but to follow the words: "Please calm down, please calm down, please calm down, the slaves are careless, and the subordinates are really stupid, so the slaves tell them to take things away." Ro..."

Wang Fugui hurriedly got up to remove the glutinous rice cake, but he didn't see Anxi's wink.

The latter had no choice but to gesture to Wei Qi, his eyelids almost blinking.

When Wei Qi saw it, his heart turned suddenly. After a series of things in the past few days, he finally figured it out.

A few servants got up and removed all the sweetened pastries on the dining table, Wei Qi mixed in and took the venison away.

Anxi breathed a sigh of relief.

The emperor glanced at Wei Qi, he felt disgusted looking at the dish, and he still couldn't calm down.

He lowered his eyes again, "It's useless, why do you keep it? Today, all the servants in the imperial dining room were cut off."

"Your Majesty, calm down! Your Majesty, calm down!" Everyone kowtowed and begged for mercy. It is a sin to kill people during the festive season.

Although the country was called, the emperor was never a tyrant, and if the cakes were not cooked well, he would not be punished with death. This is why Long Yan was furious!

"Pull these few down too, it's not proper to cry and cry, Anxi, you are doing a poor job."

The emperor kicked down a culinary eunuch who was crying and pleading guilty, and the more he spoke, the more angry he became.

Wei Qizheng put the hot potato on the tray sideways, and asked someone to remove it.

At this time, when the eunuch heard that the Holy Majesty was going to attack, the eunuch in the imperial dining room was shaking with fright, and the cold sweat broke out layer by layer, and he couldn't stop it.

Brother Jiacai!Just in case, just in case it gets involved!

Before he had time to think about it, he knelt down with a plop and begged for mercy.

The emperor frowned, he was already worried, but seeing the chaos in the room was even more impatient.

"Your Majesty, please think twice! Today's Lantern Festival is a family reunion, it is really inappropriate to see blood, and it is hard to explain to the servants of the ancestors!"

Anxi hugged the emperor's leg, sweating profusely

If the old ancestor knew that he had not been able to stop him, and asked the Holy Majesty to behead another person today, then he would no longer need to be the head of the imperial court.

The emperor didn't kick Anxi away in his rage, but his face darkened.

He looked down at Anxi, "The imperial decree is useless now."

With just one sentence, people let go of their hands in fright, knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

The emperor played with the dragon-pattern jade pendant around his waist, and let everyone plead without being moved.

"Go and declare."

If you don't kill a few people today, how can the Tai Tu know how desperate he is.

Anxi's complexion was pale, the wrinkles at the end of her eyes became deeper and deeper, her lips trembled, and she seemed to have aged several years in just a moment.

He knew that today would be unstoppable.

"Whoo."

Hearing the groan, Wei Qi fell to the ground in a daze for a moment, and his original hope was also shattered.

No, no, no, brother Jiacai can't die, even if it's just in case, don't take chances.

Ann likes to call people.

Wei Qi woke up suddenly, stepped forward on his knees, and shouted: "Please, please calm down!" The volume of the voice was so loud that it almost broke the sound.

Everyone quietly looked sideways.

Even if An Xiqiu didn't work, all the slaves in the room stopped making a sound. Who would have thought that there would be a fool who wanted to hit the point of the knife.

At first glance, oh, it turned out to be the favored fool.

Alas, with such sharp eyesight, a few people stood by and watched the show, but those who worked under Wei Qi's subordinates a few days ago were sweating for him.

Anxi was surprised, but he didn't stop him. He felt that there might be room for turning around.

The emperor was very annoyed, even if it was Wei Qi who came to ask for it, it was useless.

He slammed the teacup against Wei Qi's feet, and said in a dark voice, "Go away."

The tea splashed on the trouser legs, Wei Qi was also afraid, and couldn't help trembling with fright, but still trembling, he said: "Holy One, Your Majesty, please calm down your anger."

The emperor was impatient to listen to people's nagging, although he had already calmed down and was originally a bit of an actor.

However, Wei Qi doesn't know what's interesting, so he dares to stand out if he likes it, who gave him the courage.

"Gag him and drag him away." Very annoying.

"Hey." Wang Fugui responded, he felt that he couldn't let Wei Qi continue talking, and if he continued talking, he would lose his life again.

How could Wei Qi give in? Right now his mind is full of confusion, he only knows that he must ask the Holy Majesty to take back his will.

So he imitated An Xi, climbed to the front of the emperor in two or three steps and hugged the emperor's leg, refusing to let go.

He hugged him even tighter than Anxi, until he hugged the emperor's thigh, and his whole body seemed to be attached to it.

Anxi didn't dare to hug like him.

No matter how annoying the emperor was, others kicked at will. If they couldn't kick Anxi cruelly, they naturally wouldn't kick Wei Qi.

He looked at the bullshit plaster and said, "Go away or not." The words were very majestic and gloomy, and everyone was too scared to breathe.

It's just that he couldn't kick it away.

Wei Qi was shaking all over, but he didn't let go when he hugged him.

He looked up at the emperor, "Slave, talent, slave one, one, everything is for you." He muttered incoherently, his courage was about to be exhausted.

For me, this is a strange thing to say.

The emperor looked at him.

Wei Qi didn't dare to look at him, lowered his eyes and said: "Slave, talent, when I was young, I heard that the elders in the family said that during the Lantern Festival, the reincarnation of the spiritual fetus...open...killing is harmful to future generations."

Talking gibberish, talking upside down, and forgetting all the rules of answering, it's all made up.

His complexion was even uglier than An Xi's, and he jumped out word by word, obviously trembling with fear, but he stuck tightly.

The emperor didn't believe in these ghosts and ghosts, and he wasn't afraid of any heirs getting in the way, and it wasn't like he didn't have a prince.

However, Wei Qi was sweating all over his body, and he looked so pitiful, the emperor really couldn't pretend anymore.

He didn't say anything, just looked at Wei Qi while serving tea.

Wei Qi took a look, there was a door!

He wrapped his arms around the emperor's legs, gropingly took out the wooden box in his cuff, and placed it on the latter's lap.

"Slave, yes, Li."

This is even more strange.

The emperor took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, and opened the wooden box.

A round pink pomegranate lay inside, the middle of the pomegranate cracked a little, exposing small plump fruits, packed so densely that they could be faked.

He took out the thing, held it closer to look at it, and there was a smell of sandalwood.

I actually used this good wood to carve pomegranates.

But well carved.

The emperor played with it for a while.

Obviously it was intentional, and he didn't reach out to hit the smiling person, not to mention that the person gave a gift and carried it with him.

Wei Qi said in a low voice: "This slave wishes the Holy One many sons and blessings."

It was also the first time for Anxi to see something carved by him, although the subordinates came to report it, but Wei Qi kept it tightly hidden, so he never saw what was carved.

Anxi always feels that it is good to have a heart, but... pomegranate, although the meaning is good, it is a bit troublesome.

Sure enough, it caught his fancy.

The emperor said in his heart: more sons, more blessings, eunuchs can't bear children, so it's just that I want to have more lucky concubines.Could it be that he won the favor of the emperor, but still refused to repent.

"Many sons are blessed." The emperor pondered.

Wei Qi worried.

"Hey." A low laugh came from above.

Wei Qi was most afraid of the emperor laughing like this, as soon as he smiled, he knew that something was wrong.

"Why do you want me to have more children?"

The former's heart skipped a beat, and after thinking about it, he knew what was wrong.

"Returning to your majesty, slave, I wanted to carve you an auspicious orange, but the wood I found was a bit bigger. It's a pity, so I gave you a pomegranate."

These words were answered calmly and well, An Xi said in her heart: "It's done."

Because it was so childish, the emperor felt that the person with his legs stuck was really stupid.

Wei Qi said again: "This slave also wishes the Holy One to be safe."

The former moved his heart slightly, turned the thing over, and the word "An" was exposed on the bottom, which turned out to be a seal.

The emperor heard his heart beat twice fast.

There is something likable about it, people and things.

"Everyone gets up."

Everyone was rescued, Wei Qi let go of his hands in a embarrassed manner, stood up and bowed his head and retreated.

"The festive season is very good. In order to avoid bloodshed and harm the emperor's heirs, I will cut the net and deduct the three-month salary of everyone in the imperial dining room as a punishment." It is not good to kill people here and there.

Everyone said in their hearts: The dead can be saved, it is really a Bodhisattva descending from the world.

The servants kowtowed in unison and shouted long live, wise and benevolent three times.

Having caused so many troubles in the past six months, Anxi has never felt so deeply that Wei Qi is a very good person.

Wei Qi, who was well-off, suddenly felt untimely happiness at this moment.

He was thankful for the emperor's casual teasing, he was glad that he carved the pomegranate, he was glad that he carried it on his body, he was glad that the holy will had returned, and he was also thankful...for the emperor's favor.

His gratitude was more sincere than ever before, because he was really grateful, grateful for the grace of the Holy One not to kill.

Maybe he really became a slave, he laughed secretly at himself for being ridiculous.