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Yao Yi hurriedly said: "Nephew just wants to amuse Auntie. Auntie doesn't have to worry about it. Those who have been castrated will never dare to be sloppy in this matter and cause Auntie to talk about it. However, this Ma Chuohu is very talented. It won't be too late... If you don't delay his singing, you can definitely serve my aunt comfortably, so it's interesting to be a queen mother, isn't it?"

The Empress Dowager scolded fiercely: "Presumptuous!"

The younger brother hurriedly knelt down on the ground: "Yao Yi, you are presumptuous!"

Yao Yi was shocked, but he still knew what he was talking about, he still smiled and said, "My aunt's words, my nephew can't understand, my nephew is full of filial piety, how can I be presumptuous?"

The younger brother was about to die of anxiety: "Yao Yi! You—"

Yao Yi raised his hand to stop him: "Listen to my aunt."

The queen mother said coldly: "The famine in the south of the Yangtze River has just passed, and the Ai family and the emperor have been eating for those victims for several months. Although the famine is over now, the Ai family cannot indulge in pleasure and luxury. How does the emperor think of the Ai family?"

Yao Yi smiled and said: "The emperor has always been filial, but he is busy with state affairs, so he can't often be at the Empress Dowager's knee. The same is true for his nephew. He might go back to the south of the Yangtze River one day, and he can't always accompany his aunt. We are filial, I believe the emperor will not say anything."

The queen mother looked at Ma Chuohu again, but saw that he was also looking at her upright.

This expression is more like that of the late emperor.

The queen mother once said to the emperor that she loved the first emperor, and this was not all a lie.The first emperor was a dragon among men, very handsome and unrestrained, and she was indeed deeply in love with him once.It's just that there were too many things to worry about later, and this love gradually faded away, so it could only be ranked behind.

The Empress Dowager knew that Yao Yi was trying to please her, but it was kind of nice, not so flattering.What's more, Ma Chuohu is just a little bit like the first emperor between his eyebrows, but his bearing is far worse.

She thought and thought, and said: "There is no shortage of servants in the Ai Family Palace."

Yao Yi said aggrievedly: "He has already been eunuched, if you don't accept him, he won't be able to be a man in the future."

"Who told you to make up your own mind?" It's okay if you don't say anything, but once you say it, the queen mother became angry again, "You have to make up your own mind about everything, and you have to take care of the mess for you!"

Yao Yi didn't argue, but just looked at her even more aggrieved.

After a while, the Queen Mother sighed, shook her head, and waved her hands: "Forget it, it's a crime. You can send him to the Department of Rites and Music, and fill in as an ordinary actor, and don't do this again in the future."

Yao Yi nodded with a smile, and was still talking when he heard the eunuch say: "Queen Mother, I have something to report."

Yao Yi helped the younger brother of the Empress Dowager to stand up and sit back, and let the Ma Chuohu step aside and stand with his head bowed.

The eunuch came in and whispered a few words in the Queen Mother's ear.

The queen mother's face turned pale again: "Understood, you go down first."

Yao Yi watched the eunuch go out, and hurriedly asked: "Auntie, what's the matter?"

The queen mother sighed, and said: "An Guohou and his son are fighting at home, and the house is about to be demolished."

The younger brother and Yao Yi looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

"Laugh! Still laughing!" the queen mother scolded, "One day Aijia is mad at you, you can laugh as much as you want!"

The younger brother stopped laughing, and said aggrievedly: "Why does the Queen Mother say such things again? If you say that again, I will have no choice but to kill myself."

Yao Yi stopped him: "Auntie, we naturally don't see it as thoroughly as Auntie, but these two fathers and sons have been angry a lot these days, so we couldn't help laughing."

The queen mother was so angry that she couldn't breathe, she just said: "You think they are such big people, why are you fighting? It's nothing more than for the outer chambers of An Guohou. Those things are revealed by you, you are An Guo Hou doesn't hold grudges? It's fine if nothing happens, if it really turns his father and son into enemies, will he hate his own son for being ignorant? Of course he will only hate you for provoking trouble."

Yao Yi hurriedly said: "It's really not us who uncovered this matter. He hid it so well that we only found out. This is obviously a good thing done by King Ning."

The queen mother raised her eyebrows and said: "Then you go and tell An Guohou that. Does he know that King Ning did it? This is what he knows, but King Ning is hiding far away now, and An Guohou will inevitably have to keep accounts. Anyway, King Ning can't give him anything, so he just sees the emperor's filial piety and holds Ai's family hostage to make the emperor."

Both she and An Guohou didn't want to break their faces, so they thought it was a small matter, and they both said it well, but suddenly this matter became a big deal, who knows if it was intentional, or if An Guohou had something else to do. idea.

The next day, An Guohou came to court with all his injuries, and the first sentence he said was: "Your Majesty, I am old and weak, and my house is restless. I implore the emperor to return to his hometown."

All the ministers watched the play silently, seeing the bruises on An Guohou's face, they felt inexplicably "gratified".

An Guohou actually has today!Little Hou Ye really lived up to expectations!It seems that the ability is not small, and it really is that the wings are hard!

At this moment, the capable young master was hanging his arms, silently eating the porridge fed by Fu Nansheng, when his nose suddenly itched, he couldn't help turning his head to the side, and sneezed.

After he sneezed, he turned around and said, "Laugh if you want, don't hold back."

Fu Nansheng held back a smile: "Sorry."

Chen Feiqing was a little embarrassed. After all, it was not honorable to fight with her own father, and the reason for the fight was not honorable, and she lost in the end.Of course, it's not good to win the fight, in short, you shouldn't fight.

After the court was over, the queen mother quickly asked the emperor to summon An Guohou in private, and thoughtfully inquired about the private affairs of An Guohou's mansion yesterday.

An Guohou left and right said that he wanted to tell his old man to return to his hometown and accompany his wife to make amends.

The emperor looked very disdainful, and said: "Nowadays is a troubled time, it is really inappropriate for Hou Ye to sue his old man and return home because of this kind of thing."

An Guohou's face darkened when he received such accusations, and he said: "The subject is not a pillar, and thanks to the kindness of the late emperor, he is today, and he should let the virtuous, so as to save some family affairs from being brought up and talked about, it is not worth it."

This is because he is still angry about being exposed.

In the past, it was only heard from people, but at this moment, the Queen Mother realized how much trouble King Ning can cause, and he beat people in the face.

Yao Yi and the Empress Dowager's younger brother returned to the mansion in the capital, having nothing to do, sitting in the yard drinking tea.

Yao Yi smiled and poured tea: "Why do you have to look depressed?"

The younger brother said: "You were more depressed than me before, why are you so happy now?"

"Because my nephew knows that some things are useless." Yao Yi smiled. "This time when I came to Beijing, my nephew has seen through it. The ancients are absolutely right about the water thrown by a married woman. There is no hope. There is no disappointment, it is better to smile."

The younger brother was taken aback, then looked around and scolded in a low voice: "What are you talking about!"

Yao Yi also lowered his voice: "Can't uncle see it?"

"What do I see? It's you looking around."

"Ugh."

"If you have something to say, why sigh, I still want to sigh."

But Yao Yi sighed again and said: "Uncle, you haven't realized that in the Queen Mother's heart, we are always separated by a layer! The Emperor is her own son, you are my younger brother and I am my nephew, but It was to pave the way for her son."

The younger brother frowned and said: "I still can't hear what you said clearly, the emperor is the emperor, what are you doing with the emperor?"

"Isn't the emperor bleeding from the Yao family? But does he consider himself a member of the Yao family? Of course he doesn't care about it."

The younger brother covered his mouth and looked left and right: "Are you going to die! This capital city is full of Chen Feiqing's eyeliner, I have already told you about it."

Yao Yi rolled his eyes in his heart, but his face was still very submissive: "Uncle, don't be so nervous, no matter how many eyes and ears Chen Feiqing has, he can't be found in our house, you treat me as the masters I paid for Is it rice?"

The younger brother put down his hands in embarrassment, and said: "It is said to be a master, but I have not seen anything else."

Yao Yi shook his head, and continued: "Nephew should explain the current situation to you, and don't count on the Queen Mother in the future."

The younger brother raised his eyebrows and said: "Without the Queen Mother, do you think we would be here today?"

Yao Yi retorted: "If there is no Yao family, I am afraid that the queen mother would not be today. It cannot be said that our Yao family is relying on the queen mother."

The younger brother ignored him, turned his back and sulked.

Yao Yi took a breath and said: "My good uncle, don't be angry with me, I and you are of the same origin, both have the same surname Yao."

The younger brother had no choice but to impatiently: "Then tell me, it's not like I didn't listen."

Yao Yi said: "I see the current situation, maybe the Empress Dowager just wants to abandon the car to protect her son. She really didn't know that we were going to get An Guohou at the beginning?"

The younger brother said weakly, "Maybe she really doesn't know..."

"Listen to her fooling around! In my opinion, she knows everything and pretends not to know." Yao Yi was annoyed, "An official like An Guohou is a threat to the emperor in any dynasty. Which emperor would not want it?" Get rid of it soon? She is watching us fight, and she can take a risk to fight, and it is of great benefit to defeat An Guohou. If she loses, it will be the same as now, and she will push us out to be scapegoats."

The younger brother thought for a while: "I still think you're talking nonsense. If our Yao family loses power, what good will it do her?"

"She is the empress dowager, as long as the emperor sits firmly on the throne, what harm can she do?" Yao Yi pressed his forehead with a heartbroken look.

The younger brother stopped talking.

Yao Yi then lowered his voice even more: "Besides, I suspect one thing, that is really chilling."

"What?" My younger brother couldn't help asking.

Yao Yi said mysteriously, "Hou An was enraged because of the mess in the outer chamber. That matter really has nothing to do with us. It was caused by King Ning. But now King Ning has retreated completely, and it's all our fault." What do you think is the reason for scolding us so many times?"

The younger brother was puzzled: "Why?"

Yao Yi was not in a hurry to talk about things, but instead said: "Uncle, you often go to the capital, why don't you know more than me?"

The younger brother slapped him across the face: "Stop talking nonsense, who has so much trouble with you? Why? Don't be foolish."

Yao Yi leaned into his ear: "Sister-in-law and uncle, what are you talking about..."

The younger brother slapped him on the face: "Yao Yi, are you out of your mind! You can say that too?!"

Yao Yi covered his face, still not angry, aggrieved: "It's not what I said."

"Who said it? Whoever said it will kill him!"

"Then go ahead and do it. Many people say that there are so many people in the market and the streets." Yao Yi pouted, "I didn't believe it at first, but after thinking about it later, there is nothing wrong with it."

The younger brother thought for a long time, his face was flushed, and he said: "King Ning—isn't he the one?"

Yao Yi waved his hand: "I haven't seen him for so many years, how many years ago, why don't people look back and think he's still a woman?"

The younger brother looked at him angrily, and said: "Is this why you sent Ma Chuohu to the palace?"

"Uncle is very smart now." Yao Yi teased, "I heard from my father that Ma Chuohu looks a bit like the late emperor. Nephew thought about it, and I heard that King Ning looks very similar to the late emperor. Like, maybe there is a connection between them. In fact, it is true, the queen mother is now in her prime, and it is lonely to stay in the deep palace alone."

The younger brother scolded: "That's your aunt, don't talk too frivolously!"

Yao Yi shut his mouth, but he was quite disapproving in his heart.