Fragrance in the wind

The morning light was faint, covering the red bricks and green tiles in the imperial palace.

The morning court in the front hall of Xianyang Palace was as noisy as a bustling market.

Speaking of the source of the incident, it was the sheriff of Sanchuan County who molested the young girl and was jointly sued to the Yushifu. The duty of the Yushi doctor Gan Yuan was to supervise all officials, so he drafted a memorial to impeach him for his crimes.

It was a very simple matter. The emperor read the memorial and handed it over to the Tingwei Mansion for investigation. All its own rules and regulations were placed there. The result of the processing was approved by the emperor and an edict was issued.But there are some things that seem simple, once they are moved to the court, they will be involved in a wide range of things, and they will be connected to the present prince.

The county guard was originally a distant relative of the princess, and at this time the prince was sent back to the northern border by the emperor to garrison. It is said that the prince was dissatisfied with the sixth prince for not going to the fief for a long time. After leaving the capital, although he was expelled from the capital, the emperor did not abolish the crown prince, so he is still the legitimate heir.

She is the rightful heir, and the Crown Princess is the future empress. As for how to deal with it, the ministers feel a headache, so everyone discusses it but still can't agree on it, in order to draw the emperor to personally rule.

Zizhou stood among them, looking at their arguing faces with a blank expression, thinking secretly: The crown prince has been in power for a long time, his power is stable, and he has many followers.Those people have long been dissatisfied with his playing tricks these days. They must have taken this opportunity to deliberately make things difficult for themselves. Maybe it's time to consider a big change for the court.

Thinking of this, his faintly bright phoenix eyes exuded a strange light, and there was such an urge to cut off all these people's tongues.

The voices of the ministers were louder and louder, but there was no one on the dragon chair, and it was already the third day.At this time, one of the admonishing doctors slowly came out of the shift, bowed his head and knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, please go to the court to discuss the affairs of state."

After he finished speaking, the hall was silent for a moment, and then, there were voices of seconding one after another immediately. After careful calculation, only a few people stood still, among them was Zhi Li Nei Shilan Zhengchu, general Shan Junyuan .

The corners of Zizhou's lips twitched slightly, but there was no response. Instead, Fu Zhi walked in the middle of the palace steps, lowered his eyes and did not look at anyone, and said dumbly: "Your Majesty is ill. The imperial doctor recommends staying in bed and resting. All government affairs are handed over to the Sixth Prince to personally decide."

The ministers kneeling on the ground felt extremely embarrassed when they heard the emperor's dictation. They raised their heads and glanced at the sixth prince at this time, and saw him walking up the steps of the palace, stretching out his hand to caress the dragon on the throne. , without saying a word.

In an instant, the atmosphere in the hall was so gloomy that one's heart trembled.

After a long time, the legs and hearts of the ministers were numb; after a while, their bodies were trembling involuntarily, obviously unable to kneel.

Zizhou turned around slowly, put on a look of embarrassment, and said: "Since this is the case, I can only reluctantly relieve my father's worries."

Shan Junyuan left the shift in good time, cupped his hands and said, "I don't know how Your Highness will solve this matter?"

Zi Zhou narrowed his phoenix eyes slightly, the corners of his eyes were cold and strange, and after a moment of silence, Fang shouted: "Tingwei!"

Ting Weiqing tensed all over, then cupped his hands and said: "The minister is here!"

"Should this simple matter still be decided by this palace? Then what's the use of your Tingwei Mansion?"

"My lord... panic."

"You only need to perform the duties of your Ting Wei Mansion, but this palace wants to see who dares to hinder you!"

"Yes. The minister will live up to His Highness's wishes and act in accordance with the court's laws."

Zi Zhou glanced around again, his eyes fell on Lan Zhengchu, his eyes cast a layer of hesitation, and then said: "Lan Qing stays, and the rest leave!"

Lan Zhengchu raised his eyebrows slightly, and responded in unison with other ministers.

After the morning court, Lan Zhengchu, dressed in an official uniform, silently followed Zizhou's pace, circling left and right, but he didn't know where he was going. Lan Zhengchu looked up and stopped walking immediately.

Zizhou felt that the people behind did not follow, so he turned around and asked in confusion, "Lord Lan, what's the matter?"

"Officials from foreign courts are not allowed to enter the harem without an edict."

Seeing his submissive look at the moment, Zizhou smiled slightly, raised his head and said: "Now it's up to me, whoever I want to let in can enter."

Lan Zhengchu was stunned, "Your Highness, this..."

Zizhou smiled and said, "I'm teasing you! Who told you to go to the harem, but to my bedroom."

"what?"

"Ah what!" Zizhou squinted his phoenix eyes and asked curiously, "What is Lord Lan thinking?"

"no no."

Lan Zhengchu lowered his head, avoiding the other party's probing eyes.When Zizhou saw him, he couldn't help teasing: "Master Lan, why do you have the expression that I would eat you? It wasn't like that in Shanyin County."

Hearing this, Lan Zhengchu's heart sank, and he waved away those awkward thoughts. When he raised his head again, he had recovered his previous calmness, and the words he said were still unforgiving, "Eat me? I'm afraid there will be fewer, Your Highness." A man who quarrels with you sounds like a great pleasure."

Zizhou smiled, it was rare for him to show a real smile these days.

After entering the Qingluan Palace, Zizhou asked Su Le to set up a chess board, and told him to guard the door and not allow anyone to approach.

In the beginning, the two chatted very happily, talking about everything in the north and south, and no one mentioned the court affairs.

Chatting and chatting, the scene when we first met is vivid in my mind, Lan Zhengchu saw that his waist was empty, and couldn't help asking: "Why don't you see the glazed gourd that His Highness carries with you?"

"Trapped in the imperial study room of Xianyang Palace all day, dealing with those overwhelming memorials, everything is available as soon as you raise your hand, and the glass gourd is naturally useless."

"Is Your Highness complaining to the humble minister?"

Zizhou raised his eyebrows, expressing his acquiescence.

Lan Zhengchu asked with a smile: "The magic of the glazed gourd is so magical, what is the use of it?"

"Fill water!" Zi Zhou acted as if it should be taken for granted, "Otherwise, what do you think? The road is long and long, and the road is long and obstructed. How can we do it without some water?"

Lan Zhengchu was enlightened when he heard that.

At this time, Su Le walked in, glanced at Lan Zhengchu and hesitated, Zizhou said: "There are no outsiders, just talk."

"The Crown Princess knelt outside the gate of Zhaoyang Hall to plead guilty."

"What did the emperor say?"

"Nothing was said."

"She likes to kneel, so let her kneel." Saying this, Zizhou played a game of chess, and seeing that he had occupied half of the country, he looked up at the opponent, "Lord Lan seems to be absent-minded."

Lan Zhengchu's expression was slightly condensed, and he remained silent for a while, before he asked, "How is Your Majesty?"

As expected, His Highness really looked down, pursing his lips and unwilling to talk more.Now that he had spoken, Lan Zhengchu did not intend to retreat, but continued to ask: "What is your Highness going to do in the future? What will you do in the face of those prince's confidantes?"

"Cholera courts, charms the monarch, and serves people with Israel. These are the hats they put on my head." Zizhou twitched the corner of his mouth, and snorted coldly: "That's good! I'll let them see what it is." The real cholera court!"

The reason why he asked this question, Lan Zhengchu vaguely guessed in his heart, for a few days, His Highness has been holding back, showing a gloomy and cold face, must be planning to get rid of it quickly, and now that His Highness said it himself, I still can't help being shocked, but Still maintained a calm look.

"Master Lan is now in the same camp as me. If you want to save your life, you should think about how to get rid of them one by one. If you want to save your life, you should save your life."

He did it on purpose, deliberately let him stay in front of everyone, deliberately led him around half of the palace, deliberately closed the door to prevent anyone from approaching, and attracted others to guess. Not only that, he also taught Shan Junyuan many things in private The purpose of visiting his mansion is to make him have no choice.

Lan Zhengchu didn't seem to care, took a sip of tea, and after a moment of silence, Fang said: "General Shan once told me about the scene when he and His Royal Highness went to the battlefield for the first time. It is still passionate when I mention it. I don't know Your Highness Do you remember?"

"Remember!"

"Now that I remember it, I know how many disasters a war has brought to innocent people. The turmoil in the court will make many innocent people lose their loved ones."

Zi Zhou froze for one place, without speaking.

"They deliberately spread rumors to confuse the public. In the past, the common people didn't understand His Highness's personality, so they thought it was true. Now, His Highness has become a purple hyacinth doctor and has done a lot of good things among the people. You may not know, but the common people are very Support Your Highness!" After a slight pause, Lan Zhengchu stared at the other party, and said firmly: "So Your Highness must not fail the people of the world, and be a good emperor who loves the people."

After talking for a long time, Lan Zhengchu still didn't get an answer. His Highness slowly stood up, looked at the blooming flowers outside the window, and asked in a daze, "How to be a good emperor?"

Lan Zhengchu smiled lightly, his eyes were still as indifferent as a bright moon, and he stroked the chessboard and said, "There is someone who is more qualified to give His Highness a complete answer to this question than this minister."

After Lan Zhengchu left, Zizhou went back to the imperial study, because there were still many papers to be approved, I don't know how long it had passed, when he looked up, it was already dark.

After inquiring about the time, he went to Zhaoyang Hall, and when he arrived at the door, he found the princess still kneeling there, so he ignored it and went straight into the bedroom.

Chunyufeng looked at the bowl of medicine in the waiter's hand for a long time, and asked stubbornly, "Where's Zhouer?"

The servant lowered his head and replied cautiously: "Your Highness is still in the imperial study, it would be bad if His Majesty took it first."

"Go and tell him, I won't drink unless he comes!"

When the servant was in trouble, Zizhou walked in, took the medicine from the servant's hand, "Get back!"

The servant wiped the cold sweat off his brow, bowed and retreated.

Zizhou sat opposite Chunyufeng, the warm candlelight reflected his thick eyelashes, he kept his eyes half down and never looked at the person opposite him, he took a spoonful and put it near Chunyufeng's mouth, every time Chunyufeng would Drink it quietly.

This kind of scene has been repeated for more than half a month. He personally prepared this medicine for Chun Yufeng. Since he finished drinking it, his originally strong body has deteriorated, and now his physique is not as good as that of a woman.But Chunyufeng never asked, or even refused, and silently accepted everything offered by the other party. His only request was that Zizhou feed him personally.

After a long time, he even looked forward to the time to drink the medicine every day, because only then would Zizhou be willing to look him in the eye, even if he was relatively silent, even for a short moment.Then there was a long period of loneliness and waiting, repeated like this, he watched himself sink soberly, and felt the changes in his body day after day.

This time Zizhou did not leave immediately, but glanced at the other party but did not speak for a long time.

Of course Chunyufeng knew that he had something to say, but he also knew that he would not stay for a moment after he finished speaking, so he didn't want to speak for a while.

The two just sat there, Chunyufeng looked at him quietly, but Zizhou's eyes kept drifting to the side, and the purple mist from Ruiborneo curled up in the air, the two didn't feel the atmosphere was awkward, but there was an extra There was a tacit understanding.

It wasn't until Fu Zhi came in that he coughed a few times when he saw the situation, and said: "Your Majesty, the Crown Princess has fainted."

Chunyufeng let out a faint "Oh" and said nothing more, while Fu Zhi stood aside silently waiting for a reply with his head bowed.

After a long time, Zizhou Fang said: "Teach someone to carry her back, so as not to be said that the father is hard-hearted."

Fu Zhi bowed his promise and slowly exited the room.

The smile in Chunyu Feng's eyes deepened. Focusing on Zizhou's arrogant expression, he realized that he couldn't get enough of it. He lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and said, "I will listen to everything that happened in the hall today." Zhi said."

Seeing the smile remaining on Chunyufeng's lips, he said in a vicious voice: "Your subject is being bullied, father is very happy, isn't he?"

Chun Yufeng was stunned, seeing that he was finally willing to speak to him, his heart couldn't resist another move, wishing to immediately rub the other person into his arms, and make love like before, but he knew clearly that it was in the past.

They have been separated for three years, and they have been like this since they returned to the palace. They are not deliberately close but not too far away. If they are indifferent, they will neither make you give up completely nor let you have other thoughts.

Just like now, when Zizhou sensed Chunyufeng's sharp eyes on him, he immediately turned his face to one side, and his expression darkened immediately.

Chun Yufeng had no choice but to swallow the burning pain in his chest, got up and walked to the copy as if nothing had happened, picked up the pen, and wrote a few words tremblingly.

Zi Zhoufang focused his gaze on the paper, but never noticed Chunyufeng's difficulty in holding the pen.He stepped forward, looked at it, and said in a low voice: "Mighty people don't see things, people who are wise don't hear things, to promote great virtues, to forgive minor faults, there is no need to be prepared for the righteousness of one person."

Chun Yufeng explained: "Your personality is too straightforward and too demanding of yourself, so first of all, you must learn to have sand in your eyes."

After finishing speaking, he stared at him, lowering his eyes as if deep in thought, and continued: "A good general can be convincing if he can clearly distinguish rewards and punishments; he can establish majesty by combining grace and power, and governing an army is like governing a country. A king Either be kind and compassionate, which makes people grateful; or violent, which makes people fear. If the monarch is too benevolent, he will be oppressed by the people below and ignore his majesty; Deceived, as a father, he thinks that both are at the same time, so that the world can be peaceful."

Zizhou listened patiently, and the way he was talking to his father was lost in thought before he realized it, until the candlelight flickered a few times, and the strangeness in his eyes was taken away by the flickering, followed by a look of indifference Looking at him, he cupped his hands and said: "I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

Before the other party could respond, he turned around and left. Unexpectedly, when he was approaching the door, he bumped into someone head-on. When he was about to blame him, he suddenly stopped, looked at the other party in surprise and called him with a smile on his face: "Brother Huang!"

"Eighth brother!" Zizhou was stunned for a moment, and blurted out without thinking, "What are you doing here?" As soon as the words came out, he wondered why the tone was so...

"My younger brother came to see my father!" He replied calmly.

At this time, Chunyu Feng's voice came from inside: "Is it Ling'er? Come in."

Zizhou stood under the curtain, looking back at Chunyuling happily running to his father, who sat him on his lap, looked at his eighth younger brother doting on him and said, "Why are you looking for your father in such a hurry?"

"Hmm...Father, there is something I don't understand about the lesson taught by Master today."

"What don't you understand?"

"that is……"

The picture in front of me seemed familiar, it turned out to be so beautiful from the perspective of a bystander, but when I approached him at that time, I had such dirty thoughts.Now that I think about it, it seems that even I can't tell who has failed who.

"Your Highness..."

Following Fu Zhi's sound, Zi Zhou withdrew his thoughts and stepped out of Zhaoyang Hall. Fu Zhi followed behind him, seeing His Highness's complexion, he approached and said, "Don't misunderstand your Highness's matter."

"There's no misunderstanding. He can treat whomever he wants. What do I care? I don't care about anything!"

Having said that, the obvious smell of vinegar still reached Fu Zhi, and he hurriedly said: "Your Highness has been away for three years, Your Majesty misses you very much, recalling the acquaintance that year, he was at the age of the Eighth Prince, so it was inevitable that you would The Eighth Prince loves you more."

After talking for a long time, Zizhou sighed for no reason, "Eunuch Fu, go back, I want to walk alone."

In the early morning of the next day, the sixth prince lost his temper and beat up several ministers.In the days that followed, the courtiers became more calm, and their words became more straightforward, and they stopped probing and probing.

Because they understand that the people in power will lose their temper and punish them, which means they are accepted, and they don't have to worry all day long, thinking about getting rid of them if they don't pay attention.

However, there are inevitably a few ministers who are straightforward and conservative, and still look down on the current person in power. They think that the crown prince has not been abolished, and the orthodoxy is still alive.

Even so, as long as there is no major disturbance, Zizhou will choose to turn a blind eye.

Every day seems to repeat yesterday.He got up early to go to court, and then stayed in the imperial study for a long time. Occasionally, he would have a meal with Chunyufeng in Zhaoyang Hall earlier in the morning, and later he would eat alone in the imperial study.

These days, no matter how the two get along, as long as they will deliver a bowl of medicine on time at the same time, it will never stop and will not change for any reason.

Although Chunyufeng's body didn't deteriorate any more, it still wasn't getting better.Everything seems to be normal, but I feel inexplicably depressed, as if I will never see hope, and I have to grope forward in the dark, because there is no way back.

Time flies, and it is summer solstice in a blink of an eye.The doors and windows of Zhaoyang Hall were fully opened, and the slightest coolness floated into the hall, bringing a fresh fragrance.

Chunyufeng finished his dinner early, sat in front of the table and imitated pictures, he didn't even notice that Zizhou walked in.

Chunyufeng has few hobbies, he doesn't like drinking or poetry, but he likes to imitate the decorations on various bronze wares.This hobby was somewhat less obvious when he was in power, but now that he is free, he realizes that he is even a little stubborn about this hobby, just like someone.

Zizhou picked up the rubbings that had already been formed on the case, and looked left and right under the lamp, but he still couldn't see why, so he couldn't help asking: "Why does my father like to rub these weird patterns? The day is not enough for the night. To expand!"

"Time is running out, so I have to find more things to do that I like. I always restrained myself in the past, but said I don't like what I like, and I can only do what I don't like." His tone sounded very relaxed, and he looked up at Zizhou's eyes are very clear.

The weather was hot, and Chunyufeng only wore a black robe, with the front of the skirt half exposed, his brown skin glowed against the candlelight.At this moment, he was sitting relaxed, the cool breeze came, and the black hair behind him was fluttering. It was obviously such a seductive scene, but there was a bit of bewilderment for no reason.

Zizhou was stupefied for a while, then he seemed to remember something, glanced at the door, and deliberately put aside the topic, "Why didn't you see the eighth brother today?"

A faint smile appeared on Chunyufeng's lips, "Ling'er is naughty, and I don't know where to go to play?" He glanced at the way Zizhou pursed his lips, and then returned to the ornament in his hand, and he continued. : "I heard... you and Lan Zhengchu got very close recently?"

"Very close?" Zizhou blushed lightly, "However, after playing chess once or twice, and summoning him a few more times, someone began to gossip in Emperor Father's ear."

Chunyufeng put down the pen and paper in his hand, staring at the other party with turbulent eyes, and said solemnly: "Father just asked a question, and the reaction is so strong, why are you protecting him like this?"

Upon hearing this, Zi Zhou raised his eyebrows, became punitive, raised his eyes to look into Chun Yufeng's eyes, and said slowly: "People who approach me will have no good results, so I will not let anyone approach me." , only...except you."

Chunyufeng raised his head and smiled when he heard this, stood up, walked slowly behind Zizhou, stroked the other's hand, followed his rhythm and covered the paper on the vessel, soaking it with water.

"Father really gave it to me so reassuringly?" Zizhou asked vaguely, "Aren't you afraid that I will destroy it?" His hands trembled intentionally while speaking.

"When doing things, don't use two minds at once." Chunyu Feng whispered in his ear, teaching him carefully.

Zizhou ignored the other party's ulterior motives, and continued to test things, "Even if it contradicts the method of the father, the father is at ease?"

After a while, Chunyu Feng replied in a low voice in his ear: "Don't worry! Your life is yours, how can you not worry about it!"

During the conversation, Chunyufeng got closer and closer, and even when he opened his mouth to speak, he could feel the hot shivering from each other separated by the thin brocade.

His little hands are cool and lubricated, and they are very comfortable to hold in the palms. How many times has the desire to caress him with these hands reached its peak.

When he spoke, the looming white teeth made people couldn't help but want to lick them once, recalling the taste, it was terribly cruel;

His tall and straight neck outlines a smooth and charming curve, and the skin between the ears is more crystal clear than snow. Every time the two face each other, the two colors are entangled together, which is the combination of femininity and strength.

When the line of sight reaches the end of his eyes, the slightly raised arc always arouses his soul-stirring every time he looks at you with anger.Chunyufeng's throat slides up and down, greedily enjoying every moment he can have.

"You..." Zizhou suddenly said angrily, because he felt something hard was being pressed between his buttocks, he twisted his body, but Chunyufeng clamped his waist, and shouted: "Don't move!"

The heat-promoting breath sprayed against the ears, and watched it be dyed a delicate pink by his own desire-desire, and he really wanted to hold it in his mouth.Thinking of this, he added a little more strength to his arms, continuously absorbing every ray of charm from the opponent's body.

Zizhou tried to break the atmosphere at this time, and started the topic, "During the three years I was in Jianghu, those people who imitated Zihu were all arranged by you, you already knew my whereabouts."

"kindness!"

"why?"

"Isn't that good? It saved you a lot of trouble."

Zizhou stopped talking, Chunyufeng slowly turned around Zizhou's body, lowered his head slightly, fixed his eyes on the bright red lips, and said in a bewitching hoarse voice: "Zhouer, admit it, you have done so much. I just want to get my attention, you are afraid... I am afraid that after a long time, I will forget you... are you?"

After their eyes met for a moment, Zizhou moved away first, and said with a cold face: "Let me go!"

"Zhouer!" Chunyufeng was unwilling to let go, "How can I forgive, I have done so much for you, can't you see it?"

Zizhou's lips trembled violently, because he felt that his body had reacted shamefully, he pushed Chunyufeng away in shame, and rushed out, all the way to Qingluan Palace.

He ran into the bathroom, held up a bucket of cold water, and poured it from head to foot.

He fell to the ground trembling.

"You have to hate him..."

"You have to hate him..."