A glance at the spring breeze

Ruan Lan suddenly raised her head, her eyes were full of surprise, and immediately retorted: "Impossible!" After speaking, she realized that she was too impulsive, and the attitude of the courtier towards the emperor could be called a crime of disrespect. Then he slowed down and lowered his voice, "Your Majesty forgives the crime. Is this evidence a bit far-fetched? My father has passed away for many years. When I was an official, I was exhausted for the country and the people, and worked hard every day and night. My father would never commit collusion with foreign countries and other collusion with the enemy and treason. Your Majesty, the Ruan family will never allow such a frame!"

The more Ruan Lan spoke, the angrier she became, and finally she knelt heavily on the ground, her eyes staring blankly at the ground, with a dignified attitude.

Before Yin Jian could speak in the future, he suddenly saw Ruan Lan laughing, his face was as gentle and warm as a spring breeze, but he heard him say: "No, no, the reputation of the Ruan family has long been ruined by the minister himself... The minister... the minister is a sycophant."

At the beginning, Yin Jian really wanted to scare Ruan Lan, but who knew that stealing the chicken would not lead to a loss of rice.

Ruan Lan didn't continue talking, but continued to kneel there, looking down at Yin Jian's shoe tip.

Yin Jian stretched out his hand to pull Ruan Lan up again, but Ruan Lan seemed to be nailed to the ground, no matter how hard he pulled, he couldn't move.Yin Jian had no choice but to let go, took out an envelope from his sleeve, and handed it to Ruan Lan. After Ruan Lan took it, he said, "This letter was received many years ago when I was just appointed as the prince." of."

The envelope was well preserved, but the corners were withered, yellowed and blackened, which showed that it was old.

Ruan Lan opened it, and quickly found the big words "Ruan Shangshu colluded with foreign countries" in the letter with sharp eyes, and the rest were all evidence related to Yin Chengxing's witchcraft.Ruan Lan read it through, and found that those criminal evidences had already been decided before, only the sentence "Ruan Shangshu colluded with foreign countries" had never been heard before.

Yin Zhen said: "I just said that Ruan Shangshu had contacts with foreign countries, not that your father colluded with foreign enemies. When I received this anonymous letter many years ago, I just thought it was someone who had a bad relationship with Ruan Shangshu in the court. I wanted to add insult to injury, but when I thought that Ruan Shangshu was already dying at that time, and there was not enough evidence to prove that he really colluded with foreign countries, I put this letter aside."

After the downfall of Prince Yin Cheng, the Ruan family had already lost power. In addition, Ruan Shangshu himself was seriously ill. It was obvious that time was short and he could not pose a threat at all.When Yin Xian ascended the throne for the first time, it was time to show his magnanimity to his father. Therefore, after copying the Ruan Mansion, he did not take the initiative to hurt anyone in the Ruan family. After all the palace physicians were sent to take care of him, who would have thought that Ruan Shangshu was unlucky and died soon after.

What Yin Xian chose were good words that sounded easy to accept, and he was afraid of irritating Ruan Lan again. After all, these things were an unforgettable nightmare for Ruan Lan, whether it was back then or now.Seeing that Ruan Lan's back was not so straight, Yin Xian continued: "It wasn't until this time when the envoy from the Northern Kingdom came to present the spring wind scroll that I remembered what was said in this letter many years ago. Think, the person who wrote me the letter back then may not have given up until now.”

"What does His Majesty mean?"

"If it's just an enemy of me, I can spare the Ruan family and protect the entire Ruan family from death. But if I collude with foreign enemies, it will be a death penalty for the nine clans, and even the emperor himself cannot pardon it." Yin Jian general He said clearly, "He not only wants the Ruan family to lose power, but also wants you all to die with Yin Cheng."

When Ruan Lan heard the word "Yin Cheng", she suddenly raised her head.

Yin Jian said: "Whether it is Ruan Shangshu who really colluded with foreign countries, or was caught on the grounds that there is nothing to do, that person has only one purpose right now, and that is to drag the entire Ruan family into hell."

Then Ruan's mother was killed for no reason, and there was a reason.

"The prince came back to look for me—" Ruan Lan murmured with a gloomy expression, "The prince must be watching the minister serving His Majesty underground, and he thought the minister was treacherous, so he came here to demand his life."

"Stop talking nonsense." Yin Jian took advantage of Ruan Lan's loss of consciousness and dragged him up from the ground, "I am the king, you are the minister, you are loyal to me, what's wrong?"

"I--"

Yin Xian didn't give Ruan Lan any room to think wildly, and directly interrupted what Ruan Lan wanted to say: "If someone is wrong, it is Yin Cheng's fault. Besides, people cannot be resurrected after death. Even if it is related to Yin Cheng, someone is hitting Yin Cheng. under the guise of coming to harm you."

When Ruan Lan heard this, she closed her eyes, shook her head, and slowly relaxed her frown, before speaking again after a while: "It's the minister who lost his composure."

Yin Xian saw that he had returned to his usual calm and calm appearance, so he continued what he said earlier: "Shang Shu Ruan has contacts with foreign countries, and it may not be collusion, but it gave the person who wants to harm you an excuse. At that time, this picture of the spring wind scroll wandering in the north... will inevitably not become a piece of evidence."

But anyone who has been an official in the court for many years, who doesn't know that this spring wind scroll was originally a treasured item of Ruan Shangshu, whose house was confiscated?All the mouths make gold, and the accumulation destroys the bones.Taking it as evidence, many people will be convinced.

Yin Jian waited for Ruan Lan to reply, but heard him laugh again.

Ruan Lan's eyebrows and eyes were crooked when she smiled, and she looked at Yin, she was a little more tender than usual rigid and indifferent, if she didn't listen to what she said, she couldn't see that there was a little irony and self-deprecating in her smile .

"I didn't expect that I, Ruan Lan, would still be regarded as a thorn in my flesh after spending so many years in a daze after my family was ruined. Those people who wanted to harm me in the dark and destroy my father's reputation really took great pains."

Yin Jian sighed and raised his hand to caress his back.

Ruan Lan's back was touched by Yin Jian, she suddenly tilted to the side, and changed the subject: "By the way, Your Majesty, what was the first sentence you said just now? There is no place name "Wuxian", what do you mean? "

If there is no Wu County...wouldn't Ah Shan's death be in vain?

Surprised by Ruan Lan's jumping thoughts, Yin paused for a while before answering: "The household department said that there is no such place at all, and the person who sent you the news may have lied to you. There is no Wu County in this world, and there is no favoritism. A fraudulent county magistrate, he made up the whole thing."

"Impossible." Ruan Lan shook her head, "I also saw it in Ah Shan's dream. He did say that to Ah Shan at the time!..." Ruan Lan still had a glimmer of hope in her heart, thinking that Ah Shan shouldn't die in vain. So he said: "Your Majesty, could it be that someone bought the Ministry of Households, so, so..." Halfway through the sentence, even he himself realized that this guess was too absurd, "No, it's because the minister is stupid. How can the Ministry of Households This kind of supernatural ability can directly cover up the presence or absence of a county, so it is too easy to show one's feet like this."

Yin Jian continued: "Last night I ordered the dark guard who followed you that day to bring that man to me, but the dark guard reported back that the man had disappeared. Looking at the furnishings in the room, there was no fight, and only Some non-essential items should be left by themselves."

Ruan Lan kept her mouth shut after listening to it, and looked down at the bunch of sunlight slanting from the window, not knowing what she was thinking.

After a while, he said: "Your Majesty, can you stop sending secret guards to follow the minister?"

Yin Jian's eyelashes trembled, looked at Ruan Lan's side face in silence for a moment, and finally said: "Okay."

Unexpectedly, Yin Jian agreed so readily, Ruan Lan looked up at Yin Jian in disbelief.

Yin Jian brought up the topic they had discussed at the beginning: "Alan, recall carefully, when you and your father were officials in the court many years ago, who did you offend?"

"If it's an offense, the Ruan family must have offended the ministers of His Majesty's faction all over the place, but after all, it's just that the loyal masters are different, and there has never been a deep hatred between them, not to mention that the Ruan family has also declined now, so there is no need for such revenge. ...For a moment, I really can't think of anyone who still refuses to let go of the Ruan family after several years, it's so strange."

Yin Zhen shook the fan in his hand to express his understanding.

"But—" Ruan Lan changed the subject, "Your Majesty, I used to be your Majesty's enemy anyway. Your Majesty's ministers are so relieved to hand over the little prince to my discipline? Why has no one raised any objections?"

Yin Jian laughed after hearing this: "Ah Lan, do the math yourself, how many husbands has Xuan'er changed so far?"

"...the number of ministers is countless."

"Just after you left the palace, two gentlemen returned home one after another. One was so sick that he couldn't get out of bed for three days, and the other was so angry that Xuan'er broke his leg. In addition, he was a senior scholar who begged for the bones of Mr. Xuan'er before." ... At least eleven or twelve. Hmph, asking those ministers to choose one or two more gentlemen for me is just pushing each other, and now I choose one for Xuan'er myself, how can they still be unconvinced?"

Ruan Lan was very upright, her eyes flashed, and she immediately proposed a seemingly perfect solution: "There are too few dragon heirs in the harem, if there are more little princes, the eldest prince will not dare to be so domineering."

Seeing that Yin Jian didn't speak, Ruan Lan finally added: "Your Majesty should visit the harem more often every night. Sufficient dragon heirs are the foundation of stability and prosperity of the country."

Yin Jian still didn't speak, Ruan Lan thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, the position of the middle palace has been suspended for a long time. If His Majesty takes the throne immediately, it will definitely inspire the concubines in the harem. In the coming year, His Majesty's dragon heirs will spring up like bamboo shoots after rain—" —”

In the middle of Ruan Lan's words, Yin Jian suddenly said with a smile that was not a smile: "If Ah Lan is a woman, I don't know how many children I should have around my knees."

Now Ruan Lan was immediately shut up by Yin Jian.

"Father! Manager Zhang! Is Father in there?" A little boy's voice suddenly came from outside the door. If Yin Zhen hadn't said "a gentleman was so angry that Xuan'er broke his leg", the voice would have sounded even better. It really made Ruan Lan feel innocent and cute from the bottom of her heart——

"Father asked my son to come and see the new teacher! Hee hee."