virtuous king

I originally thought that after Wen Che's incident, Chu Hong would somewhat change his mind about me, but I didn't expect that I was too optimistic.

In the past, Prince Chu Jiu was a domineering and domineering king of power, while Chu Hong was a cautious emperor, so Wen Che's case alone was not enough for me to show my heart and abandon evil and do good.

I'm rather disappointed.

After exchanging some pleasantries with Chu Hong, I got up and said goodbye to pick up Chu Xiao in the Imperial Garden.

"...Scary, what is Eunuch Hai doing?" When I went out, I accidentally bumped into Eunuch Hai who was listening to the corner with his buttocks up. His face confessed in a muffled voice, during which the red nosebleeds dripped down between his fingers, paired with a pale face that was heavily powdered, it looked horrible.

I:"……"

While it was still early, I walked slowly along the path in the palace, bypassing two corridors and three rockeries, and finally found Chu Xiao and the Empress Dowager in a gazebo by a pond.

When I walked into the gazebo, I heard Chu Xiao telling the Empress Dowager the "interesting things" in my residence.

Chu Xiao dabbed some rouge with her fingertips to smudge out, spread her palms and approached the Empress Dowager to show off. "Grandmother, don't these rouges look good today? The thirteen princes in the imperial uncle's mansion taught me how to grind them. He has done some research on these things, but he is a bit stingy and only willing to teach me how to grind them. Rouge, she refuses to teach others..."

The Empress Dowager frowned slightly, and nodded hesitantly.

Chu Xiao stretched out her hand to make a big circle on her chest again, and said with a sad face: "Also, the eighth girl in the emperor's uncle's mansion has a good figure, but she doesn't seem to like me, and she just ignores me all day long. I have never found an opportunity to ask her for advice on how to keep in shape."

The Empress Dowager's mouth also opened into a circle following Chu Xiao's gesture, and she let out a hum.

Chu Xiaoyue spoke more vigorously, rolled up her sleeves and leaned closer to the Empress Dowager's ear, deliberately lowered her voice and said: "Also, the 26th son in the imperial uncle's mansion, he is really a practicing family boy, a sword dancer. He looks really good, but it's a pity that he always dances secretly at night, if I didn't wake up the night before and found out, he would still pretend he doesn't know martial arts."

The Empress Dowager's face immediately turned pale, and she confirmed to Chu Xiao with trembling lips: "Dancing sword secretly at night?"

Chu Xiao nodded, resting her chin with her two small hands, pink bubbles appeared in her eyes: "Isn't that right, he was sneaky, and asked me to help him keep it secret when he saw me."

Very good, never tell Chu Xiao about anything in the future, this girl's mouth is like a trumpet, asking her to keep it a secret is almost more difficult than asking the sun to rise from the west and set in the east, I emphasized to myself in my heart.

"Ping'er." The Empress Dowager finally noticed that I was coming, she thought for a while, then turned her head and told me with a complicated expression: "Just now, Xiao'er told Ai's family something about your house, Ping'er, listen to Ai's family Advice, now that you have a concubine, don't bring those messy people into the mansion anymore."

I hurriedly nodded sincerely: "I don't take it anymore, I won't take it again."

Bring a few more back, and the whole palace will be poor and suffer from the northwest wind.

The Empress Dowager and I chatted until the sun was about to set before we were released. On the way back, Chu Xiao, who was always talkative and active, was surprisingly quiet.

I was very surprised by this, so I asked, "Why don't you talk, you don't feel well?"

Chu Xiao gave an unanswered question, her face obviously in a state of trance, she held her cheeks and smirked: "Hehe, hehehe, no, I'm not uncomfortable."

As an elder who cares about the younger generation, I am very worried about Chu Xiao's current appearance as a silly elder sister. After pondering for a while, I raised my hand to touch her forehead to test the temperature, and asked doubtfully, "Is it sick or is it evil? Xiao girl, you Don't scare the king."

Chu Xiao was startled by my action, her eyes flickered to avoid my touch, her delicate face turned red like a monkey's ass, she hesitated for a while, bit her lip and came to my side mysteriously Question: "Uncle Huang, do you recognize the new deputy commander in the patrol battalion? What's his name?"

I was puzzled and said, "How could this king recognize... wait, the new arrival?"

Chu Xiao nodded, and shyly said: "I heard that it's not long since I took office, oh, that looks really handsome."

I suddenly had an ominous premonition.

"What does he look like?"

Chu Xiao hesitated for a moment, and raised her hand to draw a rough height: "It's probably this tall, maybe even higher, with a well-proportioned figure and a thin waist, and looks very different from those pink-faced boys in the emperor's uncle's mansion." , the face is like a knife cut, not angry and majestic, very heroic and sharp."

I looked at Chu Xiao's girlish appearance, and twitched the corners of my mouth: "Coincidentally, this king really knows this person——Su Minghan, twenty-three this year, not yet married."

Chu Xiao lowered her head and said thoughtfully: "Uncle Emperor... I seem to have made a big mistake..."

I already guessed what she was going to say.

Sure enough, Chu Xiao raised her head suddenly, and said to me with bright eyes: "As a married woman, I seem, maybe, probably... fell in love with Deputy Commander Su at first sight."

"you……"

Chu Xiao didn't want me to answer at all, she just muttered to herself: "Uncle Huang, what kind of girl do you think Deputy Commander Su would like? Can someone as smart as me catch his eyes? "

I looked at Chu Xiao's face that was sometimes happy and sometimes sad like an emoji, and suddenly wanted to ask her if she still remembered that she had the status of the princess I was marrying.

Forget it, don’t ask any more, you probably won’t get any reliable answers.

I raised my hand and rubbed the top of Chu Xiao's hair, and told her earnestly, "Girl Xiao, it's fine to say this in front of the king, and don't mention it in front of outsiders, especially in front of the empress dowager——" The king promises you that after two or three years, this king will finish all the things that should be done, and I will find you a good man to marry, and then you will be able to have as many commanders as you want."

Chu Xiao put her hips on her hips and said, "I want Vice Commander Su, and nothing else!"

I laughed and said, "Okay, okay, don't want anything else."

May I ask how many husbands in the world are able to take care of their wives and future husbands like me?

I looked at Chu Xiao who was full of shyness and pink, and thought of my sixteenth son and eighth girl who must be hiding somewhere in the mansion at this moment, and I felt very complicated.

I don't know what the real Prince Chu Jiu would think if he knew that I made him a tortoise, a green and transparent tortoise that is rare in the world, and a very tolerant and peerless tortoise.

I think the real Prince Chu Jiu would come alive and punch me twice—I was suddenly very glad that he had already been cast as a pig, and he had no chance to come out of the underworld to settle accounts with me.

"Your Highness is back. The servants all thought that His Highness will not go back to the mansion tonight for dinner." The sedan chair was carried to the gate of the palace, and I saw Uncle Li standing at the door with a sad face. He got out of the sedan chair, then turned around and carried Chu Xiao out of the sedan chair. .

"Why this expression, did someone in the mansion commit suicide again? Swallowing gold, throwing himself into a lake, or hanging himself?"

Uncle Li glanced at me, shook his head and said, "No, no, the reed chickens raised in the kitchen are all alive and well."

"What's the matter?"

Uncle Li bowed to me, and said in a trembling voice: "To tell you the truth, there is not much money in the house, and your highness usually doesn't... care about small things... It's best for you, young masters and girls, to spend on food and clothing. Yes, now... now..."

I understand, the translation of Uncle Li's words is nothing more than that I usually spend a lot of money and don't know how to be frugal, and I failed to take the lead. As a result, all the masters in the mansion followed me to learn how to be extravagant. These prodigal sons are completely squandered and poor, and the poor are almost unable to eat.

Li Burt paused, then boldly said: "At first, I thought it would last for a while, but when I went to investigate today, I found out that I couldn't last. At this rate of spending, I'm afraid it won't last until the end of the month."

I couldn't help being a little surprised: "In such a huge palace, it's really so poor that you don't even have money for food?"

Uncle Li nodded sadly, and peeked at me out of the corner of his eye, and said, "Your Highness, you don't know. In fact, the imperial court's salary is not enough for a fraction of the daily expenses of the palace. In the past, there was Mr. Zhang's filial piety, and there were many... other silver coins. Only after entering the account, the palace can... Now that Mr. Zhang has fallen, and His Highness is wearing a sinful body, so few adults come to visit."

Uncle Li's words are euphemistic, but I understand - the palace costs a lot. In the past, the salary was not enough to make up for it with bribes, and the bribes were not enough to go to the common people. However, it is different now, many people have leaned towards me The people on the fence saw Zhang Yuan's downfall with their own eyes, and saw me "willing to die for Wen Che's favor".

"Your Highness, how about... Let's negotiate with the major companies as usual and raise some money?"

The corner of my mouth twitched: "No, this king is determined to do good, so don't do the things of the common people. How about this, from today onwards, with this king taking the lead, the food and clothing of the people in the mansion are all simple Well, besides, those useless antique calligraphy and paintings should be sold as soon as they should be sold, and they can’t make any money if they keep them. The girls farm the land, the girls weave, and they are self-sufficient, how wonderful it is.”

Uncle Li raised his head and looked at me in horror: "Slave, I know, I will pass the order."

"You can make His Highness willing to do this, Mr. Wen is really amazing..."

When I entered the door, I vaguely heard Uncle Li sigh with emotion in such a low voice.

That's all, the word innocence is destined to have nothing to do with me. Youdao means that you are not afraid of the shadow, so let them say it.

The author has something to say:

Benwang and Xiaowen are innocent, but the whole Great Chu doesn't believe it, alas.

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