Let me eat a soft meal

"Your Majesty," Mu Fengchun swallowed quietly as he looked at the cold expression on the young emperor's face before continuing, "Mr. Xie can't come because he has something to do today..."

"What's the matter again? Who is it this time?"

The young emperor's voice sounded calm, but Mu Fengchun felt like a knife ready to strike, icy sticking to the pulse of his neck, the sharp blade was already bleeding, and the moment he was separated from his body was also very painful. Not far away.

Since the disappearance of young master Fengyue last time, Prime Minister Xie, who usually lives in the palace from time to time, has not been here for half a month. Come, back and forth, refuse because of something.

The imperial guards who were in charge of secretly guarding the Prime Minister's Mansion came to report, and Prime Minister Xie was indeed engaged. The positions in the court were vacant. The head of the hundred officials is the chief directly under the six ministries.

In troubled times, Xie Xiang naturally took care of everything himself to avoid any mistakes in the newly re-established system.

So Xie Yushu went out early every day and returned late every day, and was very busy.

I don't know if it was a good agreement, Xie Xiang and the General Wang resigned from the post of supervisor at the same time, so the already heavy government affairs were repeated three times in an instant. Before Xie Xiang, it was gloomy all day long, and even Young Master Feng Yue and Pei Liulang, who always loved to come to the palace to make trouble, calmed down a lot, and they didn't dare to go to Qianyuan Palace at all.

Mu Fengchun gathered himself together, heard some small voices in his ears, glanced at the insects coming out from the corner of the corner of his eye, and frowned slightly: Those servants are really negligent, even the Qianyuan Palace was infested with insects.

He made a note in his heart, and answered Ye Xuan's question with difficulty, "Report to Your Majesty, Prime Minister Xie is at Jiang Xueshi's residence."

After all, Jiang He is smart. Although Xie Yushu, a [-]-year-old evildoer, does not show at all, his resume as an official is very good. Taxes paid to the imperial court doubled compared with previous years.

Moreover, the educational policy of "private education for the people" proposed by him is exactly what Ye Xuan and Xie Yushu need. The things have vacated their positions, at least they are also officials of the third-rank servant.

It can also be said that Jiang He was specially transferred to Beijing by Ye Xuan. Both the Hanlin Academy and the Guozijian have low positions, but one advantage is that they directly obey the emperor's orders, that is, confidantes, and Jiang He is available.

But...Ye Xuan thought that before Jiang He said that he wanted to tell Xie Yushu about his marriage, his face darkened visible to the naked eye.

"What did they say?" Ye Xuan's tone was still calm.

Mu Fengchun was about to break out in a cold sweat, thinking: the two of you just met, and even if the spies had eight legs, it would be impossible for them to deliver the news to the palace so quickly. Your Majesty, this is simply embarrassing.

Thinking about it in his heart, with a calm face, he knelt down and confessed directly, "This subordinate is incompetent."

Ye Xuan frowned instantly, and displeasure rose quickly in his eyes.

At this moment, there was a slight sound above the head, and a sneer from the boy.

The moment Ye Xuan raised his eyelids, Mu Fengchun tensed all his muscles, stood up to protect Ye Xuan, put his fingers into his sleeves, and caught the hidden weapon inside.

The young man's robe embroidered with exquisite patterns hung from the beam of the house, with a sarcastic smile on his face, and he didn't know how long he sat there.

Mu Fengchun was shocked by his extremely similar appearance to Feng Yue - he said that he had similar facial features with Mr. Feng Yue, but his whole body was closer to His Majesty, but His Majesty liked to raise his eyebrows, and his face was usually not as expressive as Li Taian's. He couldn't make such a sarcastic expression.

But the aura hidden deeply under the appearance of the two is very suitable.

Therefore, Mu Fengchun's first reaction was: This person is not His Majesty's illegitimate son, is it?

However, he quickly rejected this idea. After all, His Majesty is only nineteen this year. He may be able to give birth to a Fengyue, but he cannot give birth to a boy in his teens.

——Yes, Mu Fengchun always felt that Feng Yue was probably an illegitimate child created by His Majesty among the people.

This young man obviously has a strong aura, but he has no sense of presence, so that neither of them noticed him until just now, which is not a good thing.

Mu Fengchun suddenly thought of a person, he moved his gaze calmly, and immediately confirmed it, "King Zhao is full of style, why should he be a gentleman on the beam? Why don't you come down and talk about it?"

Ye Yi rolled his eyes and stared straight at Mu Fengchun's face for a while, then suddenly raised the corners of his lips and pulled out a creepy and weird smile.

"Oh, I remember you, you are the little thing my father raised for Fifth Brother, and I have fed you a lot of blood." Ye Yi moved his hand, and the nine rings made of jade in his sleeve made a muffled sound of colliding, He looked at Mu Fengchun whose body was stiff and his expression changed, and asked, "Do you still remember me?"

Mu Fengchun didn't remember drinking any blood, he was selected as a dark guard and trained as long as he could remember, they were locked in a dark room and domesticated, food and drink were prepared long ago, He didn't know how many companions he had, anyway, there were only about twenty of them who could come out of that room in the end, and then... probably all of them died.

How did Mu Fengchun die? Zhao An only told him that he was the only one who survived.

Fragmentary memories flashed in my mind, there was a child crying, and there was a slippery and foul smell in my throat.

Mu Fengchun pursed his lips tightly.

Ye Yi seemed to understand, the corners of his lips moved, "You don't remember me."

"... His Royal Highness Zhao Wang was joking, this servant has never seen you before."

Ye Yi seemed to have heard something funny, and laughed directly.

"Ninth Brother, if you want to seek death, I will let Tai'an satisfy you. If you want to talk about something, you'd better hurry up. Seventh Brother is in a bad mood and has no patience."

As Ye Xuan said, he made Mu Fengchun, who was on guard all over, step aside, and he threw the memorial on the table with a "slap", and his calm voice was heard in the empty hall, "Although I don't know that you are How can I hide it from the eyes and ears of the imperial guards outside the palace, but after entering the Qianyuan Palace, it should not come out intact."

Ye Yi glanced at Mu Fengchun when he heard the words, and sneered mercilessly, "Just with these things in your hands?"

Ye Xuan raised his eyebrows to meet his gaze, and only said two words, "It's up to me."

Ye Yi looked at him with a half-smile.

Ye Xuan didn't change his face, and said directly, "If you don't believe me, try it."

The two looked at each other, neither letting the other go.

After a while, Ye Yi gave a "puhhh" smile, raised his hands, and said deliberately, "Brother Seven's bluff is really powerful, it's Brother Ninth, I lost."

"Say something quickly." Ye Xuan didn't bother to argue with him, leaned on the dragon chair halfway with his chin propped up, and tapped his fingers twice impatiently.

Ye Yi took out the Jiulianhuan from his arms, and threw it in Ye Xuan's direction.

Mu Fengchun's eyes sharpened, he pointed his toes, turned around with a light kung fu, and directly scooped Jiu Lianhuan into his hand.

The nine chains made of jade collided and made a dull sound. Mu Fengchun and the others fell to the ground only to find that the nine chains were completely wrapped and entwined by the veils cut into strips.

"Take it apart." As soon as Ye Yi finished speaking, Mu Fengchun felt his heart go numb, as if something was crawling in his blood vessels, and he felt dense pain all over his body, and the unhealed wound on his chest seemed to be bitten by insects Biting, itching and pain unbearable.

He clutched his chest and took a few steps back immediately, until he reached a distance where Ye Xuan would never be hurt even if he used his hands, he said coldly, "What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything." Ye Yi looked at him with a somewhat sarcastic expression.

Mu Fengchun didn't believe it. The feeling of something crawling in the blood was very clear, and there seemed to be slight movements, like crawling on the eardrum, which made him goosebumps instantly. .

Ye Yi ignored him, but looked at Ye Xuan, raised his chin, "Open it and have a look."

Ye Xuan didn't open it as he said, but asked him, "What is this?"

Ye Yi also answered calmly, "One of the plans to kill Concubine Liang."

Ye Xuan's expression suddenly cooled down.

He remembered that the seat of Ninth Prince Ye Yi was next to Concubine Liang, and besides the mess of overturned cups and plates, there were also scattered jade rings that couldn't be put together.

Ye Yi looked at him with a sneer, "You should have suspected it a long time ago, right? The evidence of the Queen's poisoning of Concubine Liang is too obvious and direct, it is simply designed, and the Nanny Chen who corrected me, I remember, was Concubine Liang Did you bring it from home?"

"..."

Ye Yi paused his voice on purpose, paying attention to Ye Xuan's face, Ye Xuan was calmer than he imagined, his expression didn't change at all, he only squinted his eyes and raised his eyebrows to look at him, "So?"

Ye Yi also raised his eyebrows, "I don't want to know who the murderer is?"

The eyes of the two met each other, and they were clearer than themselves in the bronze mirror.

Ye Xuan rubbed his fingertips playfully, and suddenly asked, "Are you my uncle's son?"

Ye Yi showed obvious disgust on his face, and he retorted almost without a pause, "No."

"Oh, you are very similar." Ye Xuan said.

Ye Yi's face was ugly, and the three words "You are blind" were written brightly in his eyes.

"Li Tai'an is his son." Ye Yi said emphatically.

Ye Xuan hooked the corners of his lips, noncommittal.

"Are you here to drive a wedge between uncle and me?" Ye Xuan asked.

Ye Yi sneered and asked back, "You and him need to separate?"

Ye Yi's eyebrows twitched.

Indeed, there is no one in the entire imperial court who does not know that although His Majesty and the Great General Wang are nephews, their positions are completely at odds. In the past few days, His Majesty has directly inserted many people into the generals, making it clear that The general king surrendered his military power.

The Great General Wang did not show any weakness, and submitted a lot of proposals for His Majesty to choose a concubine. The roster presented was all the daughters and sisters of officials of his line, and he made no secret of his desire to be a regent.

His Majesty first came to power, and his roots in the court were unstable, but he was a king after all; although the general king was a minister, he had a brave and skilled army in his hands, dominating the military power, and his power was overwhelming.

The gods are playing games, and the fish in the pond will suffer. The recent officials in the DPRK and China are as well-behaved as quails, for fear that if they are not careful, they will become victims of the game between the two sides.

The most active person outside the two factions is Xie Xiang, and Xie Xiang, the whole court originally thought that Xie Xiang should be biased toward His Majesty, but now half a month's estrangement, and accidentally bumped into Xie Tong Huang Mang approaching, now I don't know who to lean towards.

Ye Xuan believed in Xie Yushu, the others were not Ye Xuan.

For example, Ye Yi, he saw Feng Zijian fall into the trap of power with his own eyes, being bound and unable to escape, he did not believe that Xie Yushu would be an exception.

Mother always told him not to worry, wait and wait, what are you waiting for, what is there to wait for, but it's just because you are soft-hearted.

Mother is still reluctant, no way.

Ye Yi's eyes were deep, with a twist in them, and he was quickly suppressed again.

"Let's work together to bring down Feng Zijian, he is... the real murderer who poisoned Concubine Liang."

This is the second time Ye Xuan heard the "truth" of Concubine Liang's death from others, and it was all in this palace.

The first time was the day the first emperor died, Concubine Xian persuaded him to become emperor, telling him "Feng Zijian will not kill you, because he owes his own sister a life"; Based on this incident, he tried to draw out his murderous intention towards Feng Zijian.

These people just decided that he would turn against Feng Zijian because of the fact that the medicine Liangfei took was given by Feng Zijian?

Oh, that's not right, he and his uncle were like enemies.

Forcing him to assume the position, evading his power, and placing troops from the Western Regions to help the rebellious Fourth Prince kill him... Since the two returned to the capital, they have been fighting to the death because of this monstrous power, and they have never concealed their mutual desire and malice. .

Feng Zijian wanted to get his hands on the imperial power, and Ye Xuan wanted to hand over his soldiers and horses, it seemed that fire and water were incompatible.

But in fact, both of them seem to be fighting fiercely, but they didn't lose anything.

Ye Xuan narrowed his gaze, suddenly felt that these people were quite meaningless, he didn't want to continue making false claims with them anymore.

He lowered his eyes and said lazily, "You don't have to separate, I know the truth myself."

"Concubine Liang designed everything." Ye Yi rushed to answer, Ye Xuan raised his eyelids and looked at him.

Ye Yi smiled treacherously, and continued, "Feng Zijian designed a good concubine."

"...I know, and then?" Ye Xuan picked up a memorial, "If the ninth brother has nothing to say, go back, I still have to approve the memorial."

This reaction was unexpected and reasonable to Ye Yi.

With a cold face, he said with a cool smile, "Sure enough, you all have the blood of the Feng family, and you are equally indifferent."

There was no fluctuation in Ye Xuan's heart, and he even began to think of Xie Yushu.

He wanted to know what Xie Yushu was doing now, he should have returned home, right?There are a lot of memorials, and I definitely can't finish them today... Forget it, since I can't finish them anyway, I might as well leave them alone.

After a while, he will go to the prime minister's mansion through the secret door.

Ye Xuan made a decision, and then began to dislike Ye Yi for wasting time here, and what he disliked even more was the brochure in his hand, which was full of bragging.

Ye Xuan knew it belonged to Li Shangshu without even looking.

Li Shangshu is the real father of Queen Li.He is a first-class Shangshu, and he seems to have a great reputation, but in fact, when the empress poisoned the concubine Liang, the emperor kept it secret and suppressed the younger generation of the Li family secretly. As a result, all the members of the Li family were relegated except Li Shangshu. In Beijing, when the juniors of the Li family entered the officialdom, they were all pressured by the little officials.

The situation in the court is treacherous, and all the officials above the third rank are conspiratorialists who play tricks. They can't see it on the surface, but they are laughing at Li Shangshu behind his back.

After Prime Minister Xie resigned and went into seclusion, the Xie family was once thought to be at an end. The in-laws of the Li family within three generations were naturally suppressed. How much money was borrowed at the beginning will be returned in the future. Li Shangshu In order not to be implicated, almost all of his relatives and friends cut off contact with him.

After all, the Xie family is a real upstart, without the capital of the family's entanglement, even the Li family can't support it under the emperor's wrath, let alone the Xie family who has no foundation at all.

At that time, no one thought that the Xie family could produce another Xie Yushu.After Xie Yushu became chancellor, it's not that the offshoots of the Li family who have long been separated have never visited. Xie Sanlang looks gentle, but in fact he doesn't let in oil and salt. To play the emotional card.

Unexpectedly, they were all kicked out by Lao Xie Lianlian with a gift, and lost a lot of face.

In short, the Li family and the Xie family had already severed their ties, and Li Shangshu was quite kind, and did not get involved in the wooing between collateral families, so he survived in the officialdom for several years.

Ye Xuan used to think that Li Shangshu could continue to be a first-class Shangshu because Li Shangshu was still acquainted. Now that he became the emperor, every time he looked at the memorials presented by Li Shangshu, he always felt... Maybe he was relying on flattery.

Ye Xuan frowned, thinking that the format of the prepared memorial should be issued as soon as possible, otherwise he might really chop off the other party's head because of Li Shangshu's nonsense notes.

He put down the eye-catching memorial, and reached out to press the center of his brow.

"If the ninth brother has nothing else to say, the seventh brother will not send it away." Ye Xuan issued the order to chase away the guest again.

He lost his eyes, and Mu Fengchun, who was shocked by all kinds of secrets, immediately stepped forward.

"His Royal Highness Zhao Wang, please." The handsome little eunuch with a fair face has a pair of round smiling eyes, and there is no deterrent effect when he raises his eyes to look at people, so he directly draws out the hidden soft sword, the blade clangs, and the cold light suddenly appears, Instant murderous look, "Your Highness, don't make things difficult for your servants."

His voice is thin and soft, with a rising end.

"Ye Xuan!"

Ye Yi sat firmly on the beam, and suddenly called out the name of the young emperor rebelliously. He met the young emperor's dark eyes and said again, "My mother is not from the Li family."

"It was Feng Zijian who sent her to the palace in the first place for the sake of your mother's good concubine. Feng Zijian can even be cruel to his wife, son and sister. You and Feng Yue are just his nephews. Do you think he will let you go? ? You can't beat him!"

Ye Xuan didn't raise his head, and said in a calm tone, "I don't want Brother Jiu to care about our Feng family's affairs."

"Oh." Ye Yi sneered, "Ye Xuan, he has already started to act like your people. Half a month ago, Xie Yushu had dinner with him in Wufangzhai."

As soon as the word Xie Yushu came out, Ye Xuan suddenly raised his eyes, piercing them coldly.