Gu Qingci

Yan Xi saw that I had made up my mind, so he stopped persuading me.

"Okay, let me bring you some food. You are in good health, eat more, don't make it too late."

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When there is no time, I ate some whole, and continued to write in the cabinet.It was late at night, and the tears of the candles fell down, and the candlelight shrouded the table, and the eyes hurt a little after a long time.After rubbing, the ink on the brush stayed on the manuscript paper for a long time, leaving a bean-sized ink dot, which smudged.

Take a deep breath, close your eyes and shake your head, try to kick the feeling of dizziness out of your mind, and write again.Suddenly a gust of night wind came in, almost blowing out the candle.In a hurry, he used a small cover to cover the candlelight, and the light that was bright enough dimmed a little.Too lazy to get another one to ignite, I lowered my head and continued to organize.

"Why are you here?" There was a thunder on the ground, my whole body trembled, and the ink on the document I was about to present to the emperor flickered.When she raised her head, what caught her eyes was Liu Yuehua's delicate face.He didn't have a good temper with her at first, but when he thought that this page of paperwork had to be rewritten, he became even more angry and didn't want to talk.

Liu Yuehua carried a lantern and ran to the cabinet in the middle of the night, not knowing what to do.Could it be that she secretly plotted behind the emperor's back? ——That would not be enough to visit in person, so stupid to leave a clue.When she glanced at her, the girl's face hadn't fully opened yet, and she was much inferior to her sister, with a little childishness.I was thinking too much, just a little girl who was forced to be independent under the wing of her elder sister.

"I'm asking you something!" She pretended to be old-fashioned and frightened me, she didn't have the natural majesty of the emperor at all, which was a bit funny.

"Why did the eldest princess sneak to the cabinet late at night alone?" I bit the word "sneaky" very hard.

"Nonsense! Where is this palace sneaking around, but you, who are still sneaking around late at night, I don't know what you want to do!"

"Princess's words are wrong. The lower official sits here honestly and writes a document to the Holy Majesty. How can it be called stealing? Does the princess think this document is chicken and dog? Are you scolding the emperor?"

Liu Yuehua pinned the golden lantern on the table angrily, clenched her small fists and said to me: "Yang Li, last time you purposely bullied me in front of the emperor, and you still dare to continue to provoke me before you have given me an explanation for that matter." Gong?" She raised her eyebrows, showing her teeth and claws.

"How dare the lower official contradict you, the jewel in the palm of Daxing. If you say that I deliberately slandered you in front of the emperor, you will not be able to wash it away by jumping into the Yellow River. Princess, when I went to your mansion that day," I was full of sincerity and grievance.

"It's true that I didn't hear a word."

"Yang Li!!" Liu Yuehua went into a rage, grabbing his sleeve and trying to hit me.

I quickly circled her tightly and threatened in a low voice: "Princess, don't mess around, here are all the valuable materials compiled by the officials, if there are any missing pages, Daxing's old coins cannot be collected in place, it is not easy to report to her." The emperor explained."

Looking at it under the candlelight, Liu Yuehua's little face was flushed with anger, and she was quite cute. It turned out that Emperor Lingxu, who will inherit the prosperous age in the future, is this little thing in front of him.

As expected, Liu Yuehua was bluffed and didn't dare to make any big moves, but he gouged me several times and said, "My lord has a lot, so I don't care about you!" Then she walked to other places with that gorgeous golden lantern At the table, I don't know what I'm looking for.

I wanted to ask her what she was looking for and if she wanted to help me, but I thought she would yell at me and say something like "you don't care", so I didn't ask.

Bowed his head, tore off the scrapped page, and rewrote it.I am focusing on what I write, but I am too lazy to touch the mold.

"Hello..." A low voice came, and Liu Yuehua ran up to me at some point, and saw two unfinished steamed buns on the plate beside my table: "You eat this kind of food at night. ?” She was a little incredulous.

"Yeah, I'm in a hurry to sort out the materials here, and I don't have time to eat." He replied casually.

She was stunned for a moment, not knowing what she was thinking, then she lowered her head a little bit without confidence: "Why are you still sitting here and not accompanying me to find something!"

"What is the eldest princess looking for?" It's better to wait for her to ask me.

"It's... the documents compiled by Xiangcheng County."

"Why did the princess come to look for it in person at night?" I got up slowly, persuasively.

"She didn't ask me to get it." She pouted, a little aggrieved.Liu Yuehua realized that she couldn't put on the airs of a princess in front of me, and couldn't call someone to clean me up at night, so she simply showed weakness.

"The emperor asked you to come now, hasn't she gone to bed yet?" Pretending to ask casually, he casually went to the desk of his colleagues to search.

When Liu Yueying was mentioned, it seemed to give Liu Yuehua a reason. She began to say: "No, the gong was knocked outside just now, and Miss Huang was still reading the paperwork. She read it by herself or let me read it. I was so sleepy." It's gone." Well, when the princess is not angry, her face is obviously tired.

After all, she is still a little younger, and has always been favored by the first emperor, unlike her sister who was raised as a prince since childhood, the princess's mind is very easy to understand.Seeing that I was willing to help her, I stopped losing my temper.

"It's not good for the emperor to stay up so late."

"Isn't that right, sister Huang has been like this for countless nights, and I can't even count them." Saying this, the eldest princess yawned, seeming to be even more aggrieved: "It's fine if she doesn't let me sleep, it's still too big." In the evening, let me come here alone to find documents..."

"The emperor asked you to find the documents, but you asked me to help you find them. Is this disobedience to the imperial decree?" She deliberately teased her.I held Liu Yuehua's weakness and kept silent.

"Well, this time I will help you as a secret between the two of us, and it will be evened out with the thing that offended you last time. What does the princess think?"

Liu Yuehua stood motionless by the candlestick on my table, a little dozed off, and whispered: "Okay."

"You're not afraid of the dark, are you?" My tone was exaggerated as if I had discovered some shocking secret.

"No, I'm not afraid of the dark!" Her eyes widened again in an instant, and she firmly denied it.

"That's right, the princess doesn't seem very sleepy now." I searched for a while, and found a few documents from Xiangcheng County—this is much less than mine!

"Here, here you are." He reached out and gave her the paperwork and the lantern.

Liu Yuehua took a look, nodded, and stopped talking.

"Is there anything else to look for?"

"It's gone, you're still useful." She turned around and was about to go out, when she was about to leave, a soft "Thank you" came with the evening wind.

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Been busy till midnight.In summer, the temperature difference between day and night is very large. I went to the well next to the cabinet to fetch water for a simple wipe, and then went to the side hall to wrap myself in a thin quilt and fell asleep.

The next day, he was woken up by Master Zhang Yi.Simply wash up, Yan Xi came very early today and brought me a hearty breakfast, I devoured it hungrily without showing any signs of demeanor.

"Yang Lu, you look like a starving ghost." Yan Xigou couldn't spit out ivory.

"Hmph, I have all the state and county documents for your Zhenli!"

"You just came a few days late and accumulated too much. We have been working every day for the past few days."

"It's different, it's different—" I chew, denying it.

"Why is it different?" Yan Xi stretched out his head and asked in a low voice, "Which county are you sorting out?"

"Isn't this a secret, can you say it?"

"Oh, there is something confidential between the two of us. Let me tell you, I am sorting out Xianyang County. Master Yang, please satisfy my curiosity and let me know how heavy your task is~~~ "She grabbed my sleeve and shook it three times.

Feeling cold, she quickly pulled her sleeves back from her grip, and whispered in her ear, "Oh, I'm Jiangnan County."

"What?" Yan Xi was really stunned and didn't react for a long time.She came back to her senses and firmly held my hand: "Master Yang, if you are rich, don't forget each other!" She did not forget to shake it three times excitedly.

"Aren't we rich now? What a mess."

"It's definitely not a matter of degree, you will definitely rise to the top, my God, the empress thinks so highly of you!" She took my hand again, endlessly. "Think about it with your Jingui brain, how long have you been an official, and this big piece of fat fell on your head. Besides Wang Ji, Daxing is the wealthiest in Jiangnan County. According to common sense, this place must It was handed over to Master Zhang Yi, why did she just give it to you, huh?"

The last rhetorical question, I don't know how to answer it.

"Now you admit that I'm smart." I still don't forget that she scolded me that day.

"Lord Yang must be the most intelligent and wise minister in history. Don't pay attention to my short-sighted nonsense, Lord Yang. If you succeed in the future, don't forget to support me, a small official." She speaks eloquently. , put me in a bout of comfort.

"Okay, I won't chat with you here, I still have a lot of materials to sort out." After finishing speaking, he returned to his desk to start a new day's work.

After sitting at my desk for three days and three nights, I felt that my shoulders were so sore that I was about to go wrong, and my cervical spine was also hurting. I finally sorted out all the messy paperwork handed in from Jiangnan County, and by the way, I also sorted out the complicated documents of the rich and powerful businessmen. Sort out the relationship.

Turning his head, there was a clicking sound from his neck, which was the result of being frozen for a long time and not moving.Organize the paperwork in order and put it in the drawer of the desk.

After returning home, he took a thorough shower, changed into a new official uniform, and stared at the mirror for a long time, finally getting rid of the previous tiredness.Entering the palace again, holding the thick stack of documents and preparing to report to the emperor.

Thinking about it carefully, I haven't seen her for four whole months. In a blink of an eye, the hottest part of summer has passed, and the cicadas outside have become weaker in the past two days.

The eunuch first communicated to the emperor and let me in.After not seeing her for a long time, the familiar tension emerged again, and her little heart was beating a little faster.I strode into the meeting room, saw the bright red figure sitting behind the high-position main desk, and quickly knelt down to salute.

"My humble minister, Yang Ling, kowtow to His Majesty."