Emperor's Grace

Half a month later, news came from Dali Temple that Xu Shixian, a former Hanlin editor, committed suicide in prison in fear of crime. Emperor Zhaoyang was furious and ordered his body to be thrown to a mass grave outside the city.

In another two days, the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate presented the results of the three joint trials of the Jingzhou prefect Du Tingzhong's anti-poetry case to the prison.The old magistrate is a native of Jingzhou, and has few connections in Beijing. The result of this verdict is just a stone thrown into the ocean. Except for a few people sighing in private, there is no splash.

In the suburbs of Beijing, Phoenix Mountain Private Villa.

Phoenix Mountain is a famous mountain in the western suburbs of Beijing. It is named after the birth of the founding queen. The mountain is full of ginkgo trees. Every late autumn, it is golden and beautiful. It is a great place for dignitaries in Beijing to enjoy the scenery. On the top of the mountain, there are dotted private manors of nobles in the capital, and Zhu Yunjing's Zhuangzi is among them.

This Zhuangzi was the dowry of Zhu Yunjing's mother, and Zhu Yunjing came over occasionally, and the Zhuangzi was decorated with comfort and luxury for his enjoyment.

At this moment, Zhu Yunjing had just entered the door, and the housekeeper on the Zhuangzi was reporting to him the situation of Mr. Xu, saying that Mr. Xu had been acting foolishly since he entered here, hiding in the room and not going out, and not being served by others. , Meals are used very little.

It has been several days since Xu Shixian was sent to Zhu Yunjing's private estate. Zhu Yunjing's cousin Xie Xuanming helped him organize this exchanging. Jing himself does not have more than five of them, and Xie Xuanming has no other skills, so he is still very quick to run such private errands.

Zhu Yunjing scoffed coldly when he heard the words: "He is really arrogant."

Pushing open the door and walking in, Zhu Yunjing waved his hand, and the following servants retreated consciously and closed the door behind them.

Xu Shixian was sitting by the window, dressed in clean plain clothes, and his hair was combed neatly. He didn't have the embarrassed look he saw when he was in prison that day, but his pale face seemed to be colder. He sat there, but he was not looking at the scenery outside the window, his eyes were empty, as if there was nothing in his eyes.

Zhu Yunjing walked forward slowly, and said sarcastically: "Xu Hanlin has such a big temper. I heard that you neither want to be served nor eat at Gu's place. Why, do you think Gu's hospitality is not good?"

Xu Shixian turned his head slightly to look at Zhu Yunjing, and after a while, he knelt down and prostrated himself on the ground, his voice hoarse: "I see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Zhu Yunjing frowned impatiently. Xu Shixian's humble but still alienated attitude really displeased him: "Gu has rescued you from the prison in Dali Temple, how are you going to repay Gu?"

Xu Shixian lay on the ground, silent for a while, he asked Zhu Yunjing: "Where is he, teacher? When can I see him?"

Zhu Yunjing sneered: "What? Do you think Gu is lying to you?"

"I dare not, it's just that I can't see the teacher, I really can't sleep or eat at ease."

"You have a deep friendship with him. To save his family, you are willing to do even the most despised things in the past. Is it worth it?"

Xu Shixian was neither overbearing nor humble, and replied in a deep voice: "Teacher's kindness to me is as great as a mountain. There is not only the friendship between teachers and students, but also the relationship between father and son. Even if I die, I can't repay it in case."

Zhu Yunjing only thought that he was pedantic. If he hadn't been implicated by the prefect of Jingzhou, how could Xu Shixian have fallen to where he is today? Instead of complaining, he only thought about saving people and repaying his kindness. Zhu Yunjing had never seen him before. Such a rigid and foolish person.

However, Xu Shixian's thoughts were doomed to be empty. A dozen members of the prefect's family in Jingzhou had been guillotined yesterday, and only Xu Shixian was kept in the dark.

Zhu Yunjing stood in front of Xu Shixian, raised her hand to pinch Xu Shixian's chin, forced him to raise his head, squinted his eyes and looked at him condescendingly: "Human, Gu has been rescued and sent to a safe place. It's not convenient for now." Bring me to see you, Guke reminds you that if you want to see your teacher again, you have to be happy to serve Gu, now you are asking for Gu, not Gu is begging you!"

Xu Shixian looked unmoved, and lowered his eyes slightly: "Your Highness, why bother to be obsessed with my ministers. I am rigid and incomprehensible, and I have nothing but this skin. If Your Highness wants beauties, there are as many beauties as you want. Picking, why waste your time on the subject alone."

Zhu Yunjing's slender fingers pinched Xu Shixian's chin forcefully, and sneered: "But what if I just fell in love with you as a beauty?"

Xu Shixian sighed: "Your Highness just feels that I have repeatedly rejected your face, because I can't do what you want, so you have to force me to submit. If I obey you early in the morning, I am afraid that you have already treated me. Lost interest."

"Since you know it well, why are you so pretentious? Could it be that you want to play the trick of playing hard to get with Gu?"

Xu Shixian raised his eyes to look at Zhu Yunjing, his eyes were clear, and he didn't flinch at all: "Although I am pedantic, I also yearn for the harmony between the two. It's a pity that I don't have that blessing. I don't want to be a sycophant of Israel's servants, but Your Highness saved the subject and the teacher, and I owe you a kindness, if Your Highness insists on asking the subject to repay in this way, then the subject will do as His Highness wishes."

After Xu Shixian finished speaking, he raised his hand and slowly loosened his belt. Zhu Yunjing watched his movements intently. He was obviously about to get what he wanted, but he was not happy at all. To be ingratiating would be to die generously, but that's all.

Is it that uncomfortable?

The door was kicked open, Zhu Yunjing rushed out angrily, and strode away, Wang Jiu who was guarding the door was startled, and trotted to follow: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you?"

"Shut up!" Zhu Yunjing kicked a floor-to-ceiling vase on the corridor, and with a "crash", the vase shattered to the ground.

Wang Jiu was shocked, and immediately supported him: "Your Highness, be careful! You are seriously injured!"

He winked, and a few servants behind him quickly came forward to clean up the mess on the ground. Zhu Yunjing still couldn't understand his hatred, seeing that no one was pleasing to his eyes: "Get out! Get out of here!"

Wang Jiu hurriedly led the people back down in a hurry. He didn't dare to go far, so he waited outside the corridor. After a while, he heard Zhu Yunjing call him angrily: "Wang Jiu!"

Wang Jiu rolled back immediately, smiling face: "Your Majesty is here, what orders do you have?"

Zhu Yunjing squinted at him, seemed hesitant to speak, and hesitated for a while before saying: "Do you think Gu is that dirty and nasty person?"

Wang Jiu's heart suddenly fell, and his legs gave up in fright, and he knelt on the ground: "Of course not! Who dares to slander His Highness like this?!"

"Then why does Xu Shixian regard Gu as a scourge, and is Gu so unacceptable?"

Wang Jiu groaned secretly in his heart: "That's because Xu Hanlin doesn't know what is good or bad. It's his blessing that His Highness sees him, and he doesn't know how to praise him!"

Zhu Yunjing's eyes flickered, and after a moment of silence, she seemed to be discouraged. She walked to the edge of the corridor and sat down, staring blankly at the slightly depressed winter scene in the yard outside.

Wang Jiu got up and stood not too far behind Zhu Yunjing, and he couldn't help but secretly complained about Xu Shixian.Outsiders all know that His Royal Highness the crown prince is a romantic, and all the maids in the East Palace have to choose the most beautiful servants, but Wang Jiu has followed Zhu Yunjing's side since he was a child, but he can really see that Zhu Yunjing doesn't even have the hands of those maids. I have touched him, and sometimes I would tease him, but His Highness dismissed him. It was the first time he had thought about life, even when he was in love with Hanlin Tanhua, the other party didn't appreciate it.

Zhu Yunjing's heart was on fire, and she was annoyed at the thought of Xu Shixian's frosty face, but she was unwilling to just let him go.As Xu Shixian said, he would get any kind of beauties he wanted, and there were several stunning ladies in his palace who served him, but those people either submitted to him tremblingly, or they tried their best to fly away. Turning into a phoenix on a branch, no matter how beautiful the skin is, he has no interest in it. It's rare to fall in love with one, why is it so difficult?

There are only a few days left before the Zhengyuan army returns to the court, Zhu Yunjing has no time to go out of the palace, and has to discuss with the officials of the Ministry of Rites every day about various matters to welcome the army's triumphant return. Zhu Yunjing actually does not have much patience for this matter, but Emperor Zhaoyang valued it very much, so he had to settle down and finish his errands properly.

This day, the Minister of Rites came to the East Palace to present the proposed process. Zhu Yunjing browsed it absently, then glanced at the Minister of Rites who was standing below with a worried face, threw it back, and asked, "Who drafted this process?" What? Let He Huailing lead [-] troops into the city? Are you planning to open the city gates and let him come to force the palace?"

Minister of the Ministry of Rites sweated profusely on his knees and pleaded guilty: "I have no such intentions, Your Highness, please be aware! It's just that this is the usual practice of this army's triumphant return..."

"Maximum 5000 people will be allowed in, and the rest will camp and wait outside the city." Zhu Yunjing didn't give the other party a chance to argue at all.

"……promise."

"And after entering the city, just lead people to the imperial palace. What are you going to do when you go around the streets of the capital and arrange people to welcome you? Do you think he is the emperor going on tour?"

The Minister of Rites was almost terrified by Zhu Yunjing's astonishing words, and when he thought that his predecessor was kicked into hell by him just because he offended the crown prince with a few words, he was even more embarrassed. In cold sweat, he hurriedly explained cautiously: "I have absolutely no such intention! It's just that the people's hearts are boiling with the great victory in the north. Even if there is no deliberate arrangement, there must be countless people spontaneously flocking to the streets to welcome the triumphant return of the army. Gathering in those few streets, I am afraid that something will happen..."

Zhu Yunjing was not happy when he saw that the Minister of Rites in front of him was so useless, and he didn't know who made this process. It would be too obvious to please He Huailing. , and now I don’t want to show a good face, and said coldly: "The detour will be avoided, all the over-regulated places in the process have been changed, you know what Gu is talking about, as for the other things, you can find a way by yourself, really something happened That means you are incompetent!"

Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites has a bitter face, this is a bit difficult...