After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

Zhou Xun: ... the truth?

After meeting his suspicious eyes, the emperor scratched his head and said heartily: "The truth, of course it is..."

"The lower officials didn't know that the emperor was coming, so they were far away to meet them." A bald-headed official wearing an official hat wiped his sweat and ran towards the direction of the two of them.His expression was extremely happy, as if he had encountered something wonderful: "Report to the emperor, the new siege machine called 'Truth Cannon' has made a new progress!"

Zhou Xun:?

He turned his head and glanced at the emperor. The emperor was originally looking at the sky, but after realizing his gaze, the fingers of the two hands behind his back began to vibrate uncontrollably.

Zhou Xun: ...

He turned to look at the emperor, and when his eyes met, the emperor immediately turned his head to the side again.

Zhou Xun: ...

Why didn't the emperor look at him?

Since the journey on the carriage, the emperor suddenly seemed to be a different person, and he didn't even look at him...

Zhou Xun: ...It feels a little weird.

No matter how clever Zhou Xun was, he couldn't think of the reason why he was suddenly "treated coldly" by the emperor.After a little deliberation, he decided to give up trying to figure out the holy will of the emperor who was originally like a flying fairy.

At the moment when he turned his head, the emperor who had been watching the sky secretly glanced at him and breathed a sigh of relief.

A passer-by boy who was passing by, holding a calculation paper:?

From his vantage point, there were two figures standing at the other end of the camp.While the taller man was looking at the sky, another man was looking at him.When the slightly shorter man turned to look at other places, the slightly taller man lowered his head instead, secretly glanced at him cautiously as if afraid of being discovered by someone.

A passerby: ...

...What happened to these two big men.

However, he has no interest in the relationship between the two.Even the sight of these two men here in broad daylight doing something they loved wasn't as glamorous to him as the cannon being adjusted.

"Xiao Gao, have you calculated the ballistic trajectory?" Another voice came from the ear of a passer-by boy.

Only then did the passer-by boy turn around.Holding the calculation paper, he said to the young man in front of him: "Not yet. The emperor said that according to the shooting range of the new projectile, a new projectile launch platform with four degrees of freedom should be designed, and the rotation angle corresponding to each degree of freedom should be designed. , The elongation gives the trajectory model of the launch... But at present, I don't have any ideas..."

"It's okay. In a short period of time, we can still rely on the experience of multiple launches to get an approximate shooting range." The young man patted him on the shoulder. He was a head taller than the young man, but his smile was bright, "Let's slow down Come on, the emperor also said that the road is long and long, and I will search up and down. It is not too late to get things done in my lifetime."

"Um……"

The young man's mood was still a little depressed.The young man then laughed and comforted him: "So what if you can't figure it out? The salary that the emperor gave you is still paid! Besides, your job is much safer than other people's... A few days ago, the burning group over there It’s on fire again. They recently ran to the mass grave next door to dig something, and they said that it can be set ablaze in broad daylight, and they are researching it!”

"Mass burial?" The young man raised his head slightly, his expression a little surprised and frightened, "What... can be dug out of this mass burial?"

"The emperor said that thing is called... a will-o'-the-wisp." The young man said mysteriously, "They want to see how useful the will-o'-the-wisp can be in the daytime! By the way, have you received your salary for last month... "

"Brother Fu, what's the matter?"

"Go buy some ginger and Polygonum multiflorum, look at your head..."

The two walked away talking and laughing.

Zhou Xun was walking back to the carriage, looking back at the valley for the last time.The valley was covered with a thin golden twilight by the setting sun, and the voices of young people and teenagers inside, together with the sounds of construction and sawing, became farther and farther away.

"?"

He felt a puzzled look behind him, and when he looked back, the emperor sitting in the car had already raised his eyes to the sky.

Zhou Xun didn't expose him, just smiled and followed the emperor into the car.

The wheels drove out of the valley, and it took a long time before Zhou Xun heard the emperor's voice.

"You... How do you feel about this area?"

When he looked back, the emperor still didn't look at him.

"Isn't it weird? Like a... place full of weird people and weird things?"

Zhou Xun shook his head.

"This is a valley where gold is hidden." He said softly.

……

It was already Xu time when the two of them returned to the Forbidden City.

Along the way, the emperor still didn't dare to look at Zhou Xun, sitting very straight at all times.When he approached the palace gate, he heard the emperor say to him: "Today is too late, let's have dinner first after we go back, wash up and go to sleep, shall we?"

Just as Zhou Xun was about to raise his head to answer his words, the coachman stopped the carriage.

The emperor asked: "What's the matter?"

"If you go back to the emperor, there is someone waiting at the gate of Donghuamen." The coachman said.

Zhou Xun: ...

Why is there someone waiting in front of Donghua Gate every time.

...And the first three times were his good brother Zhou Cai.

Could it be Zhou Cai waiting in front of Donghua Gate again this time?

The voice of the emperor sitting next to him was also a little more irritable and impatient: "Wait and wait, why is there someone waiting in front of Donghua Gate? In the future, someone will put a sign here, and no one is allowed to come here." Parking in front of Donghua Gate for more than a stick of incense, especially not allowed to kneel, if anyone kneels, they will all be dragged away. If the surname is still Zhou, the crime will be aggravated!"

Zhou Xun: ...

Zhou Xun silently turned his head and glanced at the emperor.

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Emperor: "...Oh, I forgot that your surname is Zhou."

Zhou Xun: ...

Emperor: "It's okay, I won't let you kneel there."

"Your Majesty," the guard who went to inquire returned to the car and said to the emperor, "It's not that lord who is waiting at the gate of Donghua this time."

Zhou Xun: ...

The guard said this, as if the whole palace knew the method of coding the name "that lord" by heart.

In a sense, it was as if everyone in the palace knew who liked to kneel at the gate of Donghua the most.

"... Rather," Zhou Xun raised his eyelids at the next name the guard said, "Lord Lu Xiandao."

"Master Lu has returned from Qingzhou and completed the errands you entrusted him with. He is here to report on his duties."

"Lu Xiandao?" The emperor was taken aback for a moment, then became happy, "Oh, he's back!"

A wind blew up the curtain of the car, and outside the curtain, Zhou Xun saw a young man in a crimson uniform standing there under the twilight.

The position where he stood was quite strange, it was the very center of the entire Donghua Gate.

"Lu Xiandao," the emperor opened the car window and said to him, "come into the imperial study and talk—have you had dinner yet?"

Lu Xiandao immediately replied respectfully: "If you go back to the emperor, this subordinate has already had dinner before coming."

Emperor: "Oh, come in and talk - have you been waiting here long? Are you tired?"

Lu Xian said: "If you go back to the emperor, the subordinates will not be tired. And this land is quite clean."

Lu Xiandao got out of the way, and the emperor's carriage entered the Donghua Gate.Zhou Xun saw him bowing his head from the car window, saluting respectfully.

... He seemed to be well-mannered, but Zhou Xun felt that the phrase "clean" was strange.

It wasn't until entering the palace that Zhou Xun remembered...

Isn't the land that Master Xiao Lu stepped on, the one where Zhou Cai likes to kneel the most?

……

Before he had time for dinner, the emperor rushed to the imperial study to listen to Lu Xiandao's report on his work.

As usual, Zhou Xun was also brought by his side, sitting on the sofa next to him like a personal secretary or mascot.

Zhou Xun: ...

He could clearly feel that Lu Xiandao couldn't help but glanced at him after entering the imperial study.

...This may be a great gaffe for him.

Lu Xiandao was at the side reporting on his work. He first talked about his experience of arresting corrupt officials in a certain place - this was the task assigned to him by the emperor at first.Zhou Xun was listening beside him, thinking that it was no wonder he was so surprised when he saw his eyes just now.

Unlike other palace people in the palace who were used to the emperor's special treatment of Zhou Xun, Lu Xiandao was sent directly to Qingzhou as an errand the day after Zhou Xun was released. I know the news from Beijing.He looked at Zhou Xun just now, like a child in an old village deep in the mountains who was suddenly connected to the intelligence network.

...That's right, more than a month ago, Lu Xiandao was probably still holding the case file of his assassination of the emperor, lamenting his boldness in his heart, and guessing his tragic future fate by the way.He probably didn't think of it at all, but after more than a month, the entire Forbidden City has changed a lot.

"The fraud case of selling officials and nobles in Qingzhou has now come to an end. A total of more than [-] people have been arrested." Lu Xiandao reported back, "Except for the leader who was executed after Qiu Wen, the rest of the people have all ransacked their homes and exiled..."

Zhou Xun obviously felt that he was drowsy from hunger, but he just supported the decent emperor and sat up straight from the bottom of his heart at that moment.

Emperor: "Confiscation of the house?"

Lu Xiandao paused for a moment, then said: "Your Majesty thinks... that it's a bit too heavy to confiscate your home and go into exile?"

emperor:……

"It's not serious, it's not serious, just ransack the house to your heart's content, ransack the house as much as you want!" The emperor threw the pen on the table, and said righteously, "These people are court officials, but they are moths of the court, and they are paid by the court. , but depleted the treasury of the imperial court for some petty profits, it is a heinous crime that cannot be punished! So... this ransacking of the house..."

The emperor coughed: "How much silver was copied in total?"

Lu Xiandao reported the number.The emperor puffed up his palms and smiled all over his face: "Okay, okay!"

Lu Xian said:?

The emperor coughed lightly: "It's great that justice can be served! This kind of people should have their homes confiscated... By the way, their houses should be confiscated too, right? What about the tiles? What about the bricks? Make walls..."