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Naturally, Xu Jinwen didn't know what Zhou Xiuyao was thinking, he was all focused on looking more at Yu Chang.

Thinking of Yu Chang in the past two days, he naturally remembered the face of the other party in his previous life, which scared him so much that he had nightmares at night, so look more, hurry up and look more.

But the next moment, before Xu Jinwen took a third look, he felt a sharp gaze sweeping over.

Xu Jinwen froze, and glanced over, just in time to meet Zhou Xiuyao's dark phoenix eyes, staring at him for a moment.

Xu Jinwen swallowed silently:? ? ?

Your Highness, if you don't look at your future great counselor, what are you doing with your subordinates?Your subordinates are frightened by the look in your eyes.

At this moment, Zhou Xiuyao spoke slowly: "Ban Xu, can you see clearly?"

Xu Jinwen: See clearly?See what?

His brain turned slowly, and it took him a while to realize the deep meaning in Zhou Xiuyao's words.

Before coming, he insisted on following him to see it, His Highness wouldn't be so stingy... It's really just one side, right?

"Your Highness?" Xu Jinwen still wanted to take a second look, he didn't want to continue to have nightmares in the future.

Xu Jinwen coddled his small body, sneaked closer, fingered, and lowered his voice: "One more look? Your Highness, just one more look. Xu Tongzi said that the first person he predicted by himself deserves one more look."

How could Zhou Xiuyao agree to this little thing, if it's someone else, it's fine, he looks good?Unless he wants to get himself a rival in love.

Zhou Xiuyao raised the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were gloomy, and he looked over lightly: "Huh?"

Xu Jinwen was overwhelmed by this look, and immediately bowed: "This subordinate will step back!"

With small steps, he ran away with the wind blowing under his feet.

Your Highness's look just now scared meow to death.

It's just that Xu Jinwen was not reconciled, he couldn't help but ran away from the apse, and then came back on another crutch, hiding behind the pillars in the apse, trying to sneak a few more glances under the cover.

As a result, it was accurately captured by Zhou Xiuyao.

Xu Jinwen: "..." QAQ, he's leaving, isn't it okay for him to leave...Your Highness, you don't test your counselors, it's wrong to use half-hearted things like this!

After Zhou Xiuyao made sure that Xu Jinwen was gone, he looked down at the young man who had been kneeling in an orderly manner.

Although Yu Chang raised his head according to Zhou Xiuyao's order, he didn't have the courage to raise his eyes, so he had a panoramic view of his appearance, but Yu Chang didn't see Zhou Xiuyao's appearance clearly.

Zhou Xiuyao didn't care much about Yu Chang at first, but because this little thing recommended him, he just met him. After asking a few questions, Zhou Xiuyao slowly narrowed his eyes and sat up straight.

Some of Yu Chang's insights are indeed unique, and can lead to a lot of ideas, and they are smart enough, but... there is also a problem.

The overall situation is not good, at least, the current situation of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty Hall is not well understood, and it is only on the surface. This should be the reason for the environment the other party stayed in before.

"These things you know, but your father taught you?" Since Zhou Xiuyao knew that Xu Jinwen was reborn, he specially asked someone to inquire about Yu Chang, and he also knew that the other party's father had once served as the late emperor. An official, but his temper was too extreme and he was frustrated, so he returned to his hometown depressed.

Hearing this, Yu Chang's eyes flashed with loneliness, and he shook his head: "Returning to Your Highness, it's not that my father... forbids us to read and write. These are what the grassroots overheard in the school. After learning to read and write, Secretly flipping through the letters left by my father, plus going to teahouses to listen to people's storytelling for many years..."

Zhou Xiuyao hummed: "Gu will give you two choices now."

Yu Chang was stunned, his forehead pressed against the ground, and he couldn't help trembling all over: "Your Highness... Cao Min is here."

Zhou Xiuyao didn't talk nonsense, since the little thing mentioned Yu Chang, it seems that he must have done something later, and he did have something to do: "First, you returned to your hometown after leaving the palace, and saved the Yu family. The first thing is not done by Gu, you ask for it on your own, and you have nothing to do with Gu; the second thing is to stay and follow Gu."

Yu Chang said without any hesitation: "Caomin is willing to follow His Highness forever!"

Zhou Xiuyao: "But if you follow Gu, with your current ability, you can't reach it. If you want to follow Gu, you need to meet the two conditions proposed by Gu.

If you want to follow Gu, first, you need to change your name and surname. Your father was once an officer who offended the late emperor, so Gu doesn't want to have trouble in the future;

Second, Gu will give you half a year, if you can show the talent that satisfies Gu, and pass the test that Gu gives you, then you can stay, Gu will naturally reuse you, and promise you a high position and rich salary;

But if you can't reach it, you know what is waiting for you. "

Now that he knows his details but cannot stay, the only thing waiting for him is to disappear from this world.

After Yu Chang listened, he couldn't help but tremble all over. He didn't raise his head, but said almost without hesitation: "Caomin is willing to give it a try."

Yu Chang experienced what happened before, and saw that his little sister was almost taken over by him and felt helpless.

This made him clearly realize that if he still lives there, there may be a second time for such a thing, and the best way to stop being mermaid in the future is to stand out.

What's more, changing the name and surname is also in line with his wishes. Following the prince and participating in the battle for the crown prince, accidents may happen if he is not careful, and he does not want to involve his family. This is the best way.

If it really succeeds, then he is willing to use his own sacrifice in exchange for the safety of the whole family.

Zhou Xiuyao didn't expect that Yu Chang was quite courageous, so he took a look at Xiao Shunzi and asked Xiao Shunzi to take him down. What should he do? After leaving the palace, someone would naturally meet him.

Yu Chang stood up with weak hands and feet, but when he really stood still, his heart suddenly calmed down, and he bowed deeply to Zhou Xiuyao. This bow was not only a gesture of gratitude to Zhou Xiuyao for saving his family, but also a real He bowed his head to Zhou Xiuyao to show his loyalty.

Zhou Xiuyao narrowed his eyes, and when Yu Chang walked out of the hall, he finally said, "Half a year, I hope you don't let Gu down."

Yu Chang didn't look back: "...Cao Min will not disappoint His Highness." He promised!

Zhou Xiuyao made arrangements before calling Yu Chang into the palace. If the other party chooses the first option, he will be sent away; if he chooses the second option, someone will naturally create the illusion that he died on the way home, and Yu Chang will disappear completely.

Originally it was just an unintentional decision, but it made Zhou Xiuyao very satisfied, looks better than him?Little thing, with such poor eyesight, I'll just wait for you.

Xu Jinwen didn't know that his unintentional words had completely aroused Zhou Xiuyao's jealousy. After he returned to the bedroom, he was always afraid of what would happen if Yu Chang said something wrong and His Highness kicked him out.

The more important thing is that this life is different from the previous life. When Yu Chang met Zhou Yuwei in the previous life, his family was ruined and there was only one crazy woman. The blackened ones cannot be blackened anymore.

The family is still in this family, and the other party's mind is probably not at that level. Will His Highness still take a fancy to him?

So when Zhou Xiuyao appeared, Xu Jinwen couldn't help but trot over, and when the hidden guard sent Zhou Xiuyao into the bedroom, Zhou Xiuyao waved his hand, and the hidden guard retreated.

Zhou Xiuyao stood up calmly and walked to the soft couch by himself.

Xu Jinwen hurriedly walked behind him, and put the slips of books he hadn't finished reading into his hands, and said with special eyesight, "Your Highness, your book."

Zhou Xiuyao raised his eyebrows and looked at him, but didn't speak.

Seeing that Zhou Xiuyao didn't mean to mention Yu Chang at all, Xu Jinwen couldn't help being impatient, scratching his heart and lungs, and finally couldn't hold back, squatting next to Zhou Xiuyao's low table, and began to grind ink for him, and said while grinding: "Hey, what does Your Highness think of Yu Chang?"

Zhou Xiuyao squinted at his big rolling eyes, just took a deep look at him, and asked without answering, "Do you care about him?"

Xu Jinwen: "???" Concerned?

Why did he feel that the atmosphere in the dormitory was suddenly weird?

As a leg, how can you let the master have such an illusion?Could it be that His Highness thinks that the legs strongly recommended Yu Chang for something?

Xu Jinwen immediately became vigilant, no, His Highness must not be allowed to have such an illusion!Therefore, Xu Jinwen quickly shook his head: "Concern? How come? This subordinate has only cared about one person all this time, and that is Your Highness! Except for Your Highness, no one under this subordinate cares about you! This subordinate suddenly remembered that today's meal has not been prepared yet, Xiao Shunzi took people away, so let's go down to the imperial dining room."

Zhou Xiuyao: "Oh? How did Xu Bandu know that Xiao Shunzi brought Yu Chang out of the palace? Could it be... Xu Bandu eavesdropped again? Huh?"

Xu Jinwen: "..."

Zhou Xiuyao's pupils deepened: "It seems that Xu Bandu was indeed eavesdropping."

Xu Jinwen: The longest road he has traveled is His Highness’s routine QAQ

And then a few days later, it finally revealed that King Lin planned the assassination in the royal hunting ground to frame the prince.

In the imperial study room, Emperor Zhou was sitting in front of the imperial case, with a face as dark as water, staring at the secret letter in his hand, the rolling blackness in his eyes made Rong Dehai, who was waiting on the side, put his hands in his hands, and the atmosphere was full. Don't dare to go out, for fear of being hurt by the fish in the pond.

Emperor Zhou suddenly slapped the secret letter on the imperial case, and yelled for the commander of the forbidden army outside to lead King Lin into the palace.

Ever since the failure of the hunting ground, King Lin has been in a state of anxiety. He never thought that the matter that had been settled for a long time, because Zhou Xiuyao was seriously injured suddenly in order to repel the assassins and protect Emperor Zhou and others from retreating. The imperial doctor said that he almost He couldn't wake up, he didn't see it with his own eyes, and he thought it would be worthwhile even if he could kill Zhou Xiuyao.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Xiuyao woke up, and his father started a thorough investigation, so King Lin began to panic.

When King Lin heard the news that Emperor Zhou had let him enter the palace, his heart skipped a beat, but no matter how he bribed the eunuch who came to deliver the decree, the other party remained silent.

In the end, King Lin had no choice, but he was afraid that something might happen. Before he left, he said that he wanted to change his clothes, avoiding the people from the palace, and immediately wrote two letters, and hurriedly sent them away.

After King Lin entered the palace, as soon as he stepped into the imperial study, Emperor Zhou roared angrily: "Nizi, don't kneel down for me yet!"

King Lin immediately knelt down, screaming badly in his heart, but after knelt down, he raised his eyes with a dazed expression, intending to deny himself to death: "Father, father... my son did something wrong. What's up?"

"How dare you say that you did a good job! All right, let's move it on my head, on the prince's head!" Emperor Zhou directly threw all the evidence and smashed it all on King Lin's face. superior.

Lin Wang lowered his eyes and quickly picked it up, flipping through it "anxiously". After reading it, his face turned pale, and when he raised his head, his eye circles turned red: "Father...it is obvious that someone is framing the emperor! To provoke the emperor!" The brotherhood between you and the crown prince, father! I really don't have any!"

Now I'm afraid I can only push this matter to the outside world, the prince is seriously injured, no one will believe that the prince is the mastermind.

If he insisted on biting the crown prince at this time, it would only make Emperor Zhou even more furious.

Sure enough, King Lin made the right move, Emperor Zhou frowned, and the anger on his face lessened a bit: "You said someone provoked the relationship between you and the crown prince?"

Lin Wang wiped his face, his eyes were red, and he knelt and walked forward a few steps: "Father, if my son had this thought, when the father wanted to make the ninth brother the crown prince a year ago, what would my son do?" It's time to not sit idly by at that time, but my son didn't do anything at that time, how could he suddenly want to use this kind of thing to harm the crown prince a year later?"

King Lin learned about Emperor Zhou a year ago because of his guilt and the old matriarch Yu strongly praised the ninth prince for having the intelligence and ability to govern the world that Emperor Zhou had in those days. With few matters, Emperor Zhou unexpectedly appointed the Ninth Prince as the crown prince in a fit of anger.

At that time, Lin Wang didn't care about such a small thing at all. The An family had been defeated all these years, and it didn't matter at all. Just relying on guilt, how long can it last?

As long as the second prince is not allowed to gain advantage for the time being, and he doesn't want Emperor Zhou to feel that he covets that position too much, there is no contest.

Sure enough, Emperor Zhou praised him greatly, but no one expected that just such a poor Ninth Prince who none of them liked, could grow up rapidly in a year, even in only half a year It was affirmed by Emperor Zhou.

Changing from just grabbing a random background enough for Emperor Zhou to block it, he actually started to train Zhou Xiuyao.

But no matter how much he tried to murder Zhou Xiuyao later, as long as he didn't do it to kill Zhou Xiuyao, even if the evidence is convincing, it is enough to confuse his father.

Sure enough, Emperor Zhou hesitated. After all, the assassination of the royal hunting ground that was put before him was done by the crown prince, and now it is the eldest prince's. It is indeed very possible.

Emperor Zhou's expression finally eased, he sat back and stared at King Lin deeply.Lin Wang knelt there, his body still had marks from being smashed, his face was in a mess, and his eyes were red, it was quite pitiful.

Emperor Zhou was about to say something, when a young eunuch's voice came from outside the hall: "Your Majesty, the imperial concubine and empress have come to bring you ginseng soup, do you want me to let you in?"

Concubine Lian would come to deliver ginseng soup every day. When Emperor Zhou heard the name of Concubine Lian, his eyes finally fluctuated, and he glanced at Prince Lin: "Aren't you up yet?"

Prince Lin hurriedly got up, tidied up the prince's clothes, and stood aside.

When Concubine Lian came in, she was followed by a nanny, she took the lunch box and let the nanny back away.

Approaching, the beautiful face is indifferent, but there is a bit of shy affection in the eyebrows and eyes, lingering and cold, more shy than the charm of the concubine Yu, but it is not obvious, This actually made Emperor Zhou even more obsessed with it.

Concubine Lian walked over, put the meal box away, and blessed her body: "The concubine has seen the emperor."

Emperor Zhou waved his hand and let Concubine Lian approach, then he glanced at King Lin: "You go back first."

King Lin wiped his face, as if he was extremely wronged. When he stepped back, Concubine Lian leaned against Emperor Zhou, and said, "His Royal Highness, what's wrong?"

Emperor Zhou frowned, and before he could speak, King Lin "pretended" that he was pity for the noble concubine and asked him: "Return to the noble concubine, I am fine, but the crown prince was seriously injured, and the father was angry, thinking it was me... But now that the misunderstanding has been cleared up, I will resign first."

Concubine Lian said, and covered her mouth: "Could it be that the emperor thought that Prince Lin was at the hunting ground earlier... But the prince is not in trouble, why is His Highness Prince Lin involved?"

Concubine Lian's seemingly unintentional words stunned King Lin for a moment, Emperor Zhou also frowned, Rong Dehai looked up calmly, then quickly lowered his head, but his eyes changed.

After the noble concubine Lian finished speaking, she covered her mouth and wrung her hands guiltily: "Don't be angry, Your Majesty, my concubine...you said something wrong, you shouldn't criticize me carelessly... this concubine will leave now."

Emperor Zhou was displeased, but in the end it was the one he loved the most in the past two years, and the other party looked like a concubine Yu with lowered eyebrows and lowered eyes, which also gave Emperor Zhou the illusion that the other party would not target the prince.

Concubine Lian's intentional or unintentional sentence just now, especially the sentence "The prince is not harmless", is really quite disrespectful, but the other party is just a little girl who is less than [-] years old. In Emperor Zhou's heart, The other party is as pure and harmless as a jade concubine.

But this sentence made him think for a while, and it was indeed a good thing to say.There were two secret letters before him, one was for the crown prince and the other was for King Lin.

Previously, it was because the prince was seriously injured that he turned to face the king, who was the real mastermind.

But Lin Wang said that it was not him, and it was possible that someone else provoked the relationship between the crown prince and Lin Wang. In this way, there are two possibilities.

But now, after Concubine Lian said, there may be a third possibility, that is, the prince adopted a "bitter trick", after all... the final result is: the prince is fine now, and he didn't hurt his life after all.

Emperor Zhou fell silent, King Lin said ah, and was even more aggrieved: "Father, you have to trust my son, my son really..."

Emperor Zhou glanced at him: "Let's go back first, I will check it out."

Only then did King Lin salute respectfully, and retreated.

After exiting, King Lin looked back at the Imperial Study Room, "reluctantly" and "full of grievances", and left step by step.

King Lin knew that his behavior would be reported to Emperor Zhou after he left, and when he was far away, the king of Lin glanced at Empress Jiang's people protruding from the dark place, and the little eunuch immediately went back to report that there was no need to let Empress Jiang coming.

King Lin heaved a sigh of relief until he sat on the soft sedan chair at the gate of the palace, touched his chin and smiled sinisterly. This time Lao Jiu escaped a catastrophe, but next time it will not be so easy.

After King Lin left, Emperor Zhou was not in the mood anymore, and after letting Concubine Lian go back, he looked at Rong Dehai who had been silent all the time: "Who do you think is the real behind-the-scenes incident about the hunting ground?" Ambassador?"

Rong Dehai was so frightened that he knelt down directly: "The emperor forgives the sin, this old slave is stupid, how could he know this? The twists and turns made this old slave dizzy. The old slave only knows that serving the emperor well is a great blessing for this old slave." separated."

Emperor Zhou was amused by Rong Dehai's appearance: "That's enough, I know you are a good person, that's enough, go let the people below prepare meals, don't think about it. One by one, I won't worry about it."

But after Rong Dehai retreated, Emperor Zhou looked at the secret letter, but his eyes sank.

After Rong Dehai left the imperial study room, he took several young eunuchs to the imperial dining room immediately, but when he passed by a place on the way, he passed by a young eunuch who was saluting calmly, and stuffed something into the small eunuch. The eunuch's cuff, continue to move forward.

The little eunuch bowed his body and continued to move forward. After leaving, he reached a hidden corner, lowered his head to look at the things in his hand, and left quickly.

In Yuxin Palace, Zhou Xiuyao didn't have to go to the court or go to the imperial study for a few days because of his "serious injury", and he ended up in peace.

In addition, there is a funny little thing by his side, and he is in a very good mood, with a bit of warmth in his eyebrows and eyes.

When Rongxuan came, Xu Jinwen was practicing calligraphy and fell asleep. When he heard Rongxuan's voice, he woke up, rubbed his eyes, stood up while yawning, and went to open the door.

After Rongxuan came in, he let Xu Jinwen go down, but Xu Jinwen held the door and did not move.Rong Xuan frowned, but looked at Zhou Xiuyao, who was downcast, and cupped his hands: "Your Highness, I have something important to report."

Only then did Zhou Xiuyao look at Xu Jinwen, his voice was obviously much gentler: "Go and see how the meal is going?"

Xu Jinwen let out a long voice, angrily announcing: "!!!" This little thing actually only listens to His Highness, is he His Highness's slave or this Yuxin Palace's slave?

Xu Jinwen stuck out his tongue a little bit, and ran away. Zhou Xiuyao had made him a lot more courageous these days, and he knew that Rong Xuan would not do anything to him.

After Xu Jinwen left, Rong Xuan frowned and brought the things that Rong Dehai handed over to him: "Look, this is from the adoptive father, I'm afraid it's... not good."

Zhou Xiuyao opened it, and there were only three words on it, pity and fear.

After Zhou Xiuyao finished reading, the corner of his mouth twitched and he smiled mockingly.

"You can still laugh? What do these three words mean, pity, pity for the noble concubine, I'm afraid of danger, I just inquired about it, the emperor of Zhou let King Lin enter the palace, and the secret letter has already been delivered. Not long after, the Imperial Study Room There was a movement, but after Concubine Lian went, King Lin came out without incident. I am afraid that Concubine Lian used some kind of monster, how did you offend the Tao family? She has not made any movement in the past two years, why suddenly Against you?"

When Rong Xuan got the news, he couldn't understand it.

On Zhou Xiuyao's handsome face, there was still no emotion: "What's the rush? I don't even worry about it."

Rong Xuan looked at Zhou Xiuyao's eyebrows, startled, "You guessed it a long time ago?"

Zhou Xiuyao hummed: "Even if it wasn't her, it would be someone else. To Gu, it doesn't matter. After all, Emperor Zhou won't believe it." Those people really think that he is only recuperating these days and doing nothing?

Rong Xuan breathed a sigh of relief: "But what happened to the pity concubine? When did you offend her? Or did you offend the Tao family? If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have sent Tao Guifei away, but in the end I sent away a helper. Here comes a difficult one."

Zhou Xiuyao: "It's not that I offended the Tao family alone, but the Tao family's heart...is just getting bigger."

Concubine Tao Gui hadn't been pregnant in these years, and the Tao family was powerless, so naturally they wouldn't do any tricks.

But she was not reconciled, so she cultivated such a woman who looked very much like Concubine Yu. Even if Concubine Tao did not feign death and leave, Concubine Lian would be sent to the palace, but it was only a matter of time.

Now that Concubine Lian has successfully conceived, the members of the Tao family naturally understood.

However, based on his understanding of Patriarch Tao, the other party is not so stupid. Before he is sure whether he is pregnant with the prince or the princess, he is afraid... This is Lian Guifei's own idea.

Zhou Xiuyao sneered, summoned the hidden guards, and asked them to inquire about Concubine Lian's current situation, and at the same time, sent a "big gift".

Since the other party made him unhappy, wouldn't it be impolite for him not to return the courtesy?

At night, pity the palace.

Concubine Lian was sleeping, suddenly there was some slight noise outside the hall, Concubine Lian woke up startled, opened her eyes, because there were palace lanterns around, she could vaguely see through the bed curtain, the surrounding was silent, poor Concubine always felt like Being stared at by someone, hairy all over.

She sat up and called someone in, only to find a letter suddenly placed on the table not far away.

Obviously not before she went to bed.

Concubine Lian asked Mammy to hand it over, but when she opened it up and saw what was written on it, Concubine Lian's face changed drastically, and she quickly waved everyone away.

Waiting to read it carefully, especially the transcripts about her origin, the deed of selling her body, when she entered the Tao family, Li Daitao's death... everything was so detailed that it scared the noble concubine Lian out of her mind, and later she was terrified all night. sleep.

Zhou Xiuyao stood in front of the window lattice, his black hair frizzed by the cool wind, after receiving the feedback, the corners of his mouth twitched, and then he turned and went back to the bedroom.

Using internal force to dissipate the coolness from his body, he got on the bed. As soon as he got up, the boy who was huddled in a corner immediately entangled his hands and feet. I don't know what he dreamed of in his sleep. All softened.

He tilted his head, looked at the young man's exquisite eyebrows and eyes in the dark, leaned over, and kissed him on the forehead very lightly: he will protect him, protect the Xu family, as long as he wants...he will stand up to that supreme... The position, one day, so that no one can bully him, can't... take him away from him.