Ning Chen Ling Xiao

Ling Xiao talked to Chu Yifeng for a while, then got up and went to the side hall to order the officials of the palace to be called.

Ling Xiao sat on the bamboo chair, took the tea cup to sip carefully, raised his eyes and glanced at the person kneeling on the ground and said lightly: "Get up, although it happened in the palace, it has nothing to do with you, it's okay."

This official was originally promoted by Ling Xiao, and his name was Wu Yu. Because he was loyal and alert, he got Ling Xiao's favor, and gave him the fat post to take care of the palace. Now hearing Ling Xiao's words, I feel a lot more at ease , stood up and said: "It's really because of the poor supervision of the lower officials. I don't know how I was shocked today. I just went to see the imperial doctor. I don't know... Is the Eucharist still okay?"

Ling Xiao raised his eyebrows, put down the teacup, and smiled: "What's the matter with the holy body? I think the servants made a mistake in a moment of panic. I was the one who climbed over the wall and went out just now. The emperor has always been in the palace and never went out."

"Ah?" Wu Yu paused, just now this guy was in a hurry to force himself to find someone, why did he say that now... Wu Yu recalled that it was not good to say that the emperor overcame the wall, Zi Junhou was going to take the burden for the emperor, and said repeatedly, "Yes, I don't know, Lord Hou... but is he injured?"

At that moment, the servant came in and bowed, "Master Hou, the lords have received a letter saying that they want to greet the emperor."

Ling Xiao raised his eyes and saw that there were many officials standing outside, presumably they were the fathers of the urchins in the northwest corner of the palace. Now that they got the letter and knew about today's farce, they came to plead guilty, Ling Xiao didn't answer, just He sneered at Wu Yu: "If it wasn't for my sudden impulse today, I wouldn't have known that the accompanying officials were all very pompous! Many of them brought their children with them, and they were here to accompany their families. What are you doing here?! Is it showing off its flourishing branches or is there no one at home?!"

Wu Yu complained for those grown-ups in his heart. This was a custom in Taizu's time. Generally, officials appointed by the emperor to accompany them when they went out to play were allowed to bring their own proud children. It was not for the sake of letting the children out to play. The ones that can be brought out are all the favored elders of the family, and they are not too young. They want to let the children see the world and get acquainted in front of their colleagues. If they are lucky, they can impress the emperor. Even better, this will be of great benefit to the future career, so although there is no clear rule, this thing has always happened.

Ling Xiao obviously caught such a loophole, so he turned down his face and learned a lesson, and finally looked at the few people standing outside with a sneer and said: "The emperor is really good-natured, can he even take concubines out of the house in the future?" It’s coming? Don’t delay your family reunion when you go out to accompany you, it’s not conspicuous enough!"

Ling Xiao taunted Wu Yu in a strange manner inside, and the adults outside couldn't hold back their faces for a long time. Although these people are not cabinet ministers or relatives of the emperor, they are also famous outside. Ling Xiao scolded her so badly that she was embarrassing.

Ling Xiao was almost out of breath inside, took a sip of tea, and told Wu Yu about all the things this afternoon, but replaced the protagonist with himself, and finally let out a long breath: "It's normal for those young masters not to recognize me." It's just that this Marquis never expected that these young masters would call me a slave and even beat me to death... Fortunately, the emperor protected me, and I managed to hide quickly, and I didn't let the young masters and young masters beat me to death..."

The hearts of the officials listening outside were completely shattered. It's over, it's over, these prodigal children thought they had shocked the holy car, but who knew they had provoked this fierce god!

Wu Yu couldn't help being funny, and quickly knelt down to plead guilty: "It's all the fault of the subordinate, it's all the fault of the subordinate... I don't know what the imperial doctor said, but did you hurt Lord Hou?"

Ling Xiao sneered: "It's okay, the imperial doctor said there's nothing serious, it's just a flesh injury."

Wu Yu asked for warmth again, Ling Xiao agreed lightly, and turned his head to look at the servant who had been waiting for a reply after a long while, and said, "Tell my lords, the emperor has already rested, there is no need to greet you, let's go back."

The servants went out to pass on the message, but the officials couldn't do it, and they didn't dare to go in to pull out the tiger's beard at this time, so they had to go very worried.

Wu Yu paused, looked at Ling Xiao's expression, and said, "Master Hou, why... just let them go like this? How dare you hurt the emperor... Master Hou, no matter what, you have to teach him a lesson."

Ling Xiao smiled faintly: "Now it's not that the emperor was shocked, but I was hurt, so we can't deal with it strictly, not to mention...they are all children, the emperor is kind, and the emperor will not be willing to punish him if he is really punished. That's it, I Don’t kill him, but it can make him worry and doubt for a lifetime.”

Wu Yu couldn't help laughing: "Master Hou really knows people's hearts."

"Children are innocent...Go and find out what is going on with that Ling child. It's been a long time since he's been here, but no one has come to look for him. Whose family is it?" Ling Xiao was also puzzled, this time he came to accompany the driver The only one who is famous is Ling, why is there another child of the Ling family.

Wu Yu nodded: "Yes, I will go and investigate right away."

Ling Xiao was in a good mood after holding back the fire all afternoon, and turned to look for Chu Yifeng.

Chu Yifeng was holding a box of dried fruit in the main hall, and when he saw Ling Xiao approaching, he smiled and said, "I peeled it for you, pine nuts."

Ling Xiao picked up white and tender pine nuts, and said with a smile: "I've been doing this for a while now, is the child awake?"

"I slept soundly. I have had someone carry me to the side hall." Chu Yifeng's voice lowered, "I just heard someone coming outside to say hello, are you okay?"

Ling Xiao smiled indifferently: "It's okay, I told them that I climbed over the wall, anyway, the only ones who saw you were children, and they didn't know the east, west, north and south after being scolded by their father when they went back. It's okay. If it's passed on It’s a big deal for you to go out, you don’t want me to cut off all those children, do you? Besides, if my aunt hears this in the palace, she will be worried, it’s still appropriate.”

Let Ling Xiao top the vat again, Chu Yifeng felt a little embarrassed, he was always not conscious of being an emperor, he didn't know that his behavior was different from before, Ling Xiao knew it by looking at his little eyes, and smiled: " It's okay, it's not a big deal." As long as it can be covered by you, it's not a big deal.

As he was talking, Wu Yu asked to see him outside, Ling Xiao knew that Chu Yifeng also wanted to know the details of the child, so he directly sent Wu Yu in. Wu Yu had only seen Shengyan from a distance before, and it was rare to be called in now. Without losing his composure, he bowed in a proper manner.

Ling Xiao ate the last few pine nuts, and said lightly, "Have you found out?"

Wu Yu nodded: "The inquiry is clear. This child is called Ling Shixian. Speaking of which...you are of the same family as Lord Hou."

"Oh?" In the Lingxiao clan, the main family has not had a large population in recent years, but there are also some people in the side branches. Although Ling Xiao can't remember all of these people, he still has an impression. Where is this Ling Shixian? ?

Wu Yu nodded and said: "Yes, this Ling Shixian and Lord Hou are of the same family..."

After listening to it for a while, Ling Xiao realized that the Ling clan was still a powerful clan for generations at the end of the previous dynasty, with a large population and flourishing children. In addition, the lords who are loyal to each other are different, like Ling Chunqiu, who was loyal to the Chu family that day, and the old Hou Ye has long eyes and bet on the right treasure.

And there was such a family that fell that day, and after several generations, it is natural that there is suffering that cannot be understood by outsiders. Now that the population has withered, there is only Ling Shixian, a single seedling left living in the uncle's house. This uncle is this The accompanying official Kang Yanqiu.

Ling Xiao was funny, this Kang Yanqiu was one of the officials who just came to greet Chu Yifeng and was scolded back by him.

Wu Yu also saw Ling Xiao's meaning, and continued: "I didn't have time to investigate carefully, I only heard a few words, and I heard that this young master Ling's life in Kang Yanqiu's mansion was not going well..."

It's not easy for an orphan to live in his uncle's house, but it's still not right, Ling Xiao wondered: "Since he is not favored in Kang's house, why did Kang Yanqiu bring him here?"

Wu Yu raised his eyes, bowed and said in a low voice, "Your official dare not speak nonsense."

Ling Xiao understood in an instant that this child had this level of relationship with him, and he was afraid that Kang Yanqiu would treat him as a rare commodity. He thought about using this child to talk to him. I saw him the next day when I came to the palace.

Ling Xiao sneered when he thought about the child's appearance, what was he thinking?It's just a person with the same surname who came out of Wufu, will he look up to him because he raised Ling's orphan?Dreaming?

Ling Xiao sneered: "The child is probably awake now, you can just take him to Kang Yanqiu directly, you don't need to talk to him too much, and you don't need to let him know that I asked about the child."

"No!" Chu Yifeng didn't really understand the relationship between Ling Shixian and Ling Xiao after listening for a long time, but when Ling Xiao said that he would send the child back, he immediately stopped him, "Didn't you see that the child was taken away by them?" How did you bully me? I don’t know how to get angry after sending it back like this.”

Chu Yifeng saw that Ling Xiao wanted to make Ling Xiao share his hatred with him, but unfortunately Ling Xiao's sympathy for irrelevant people was limited, and he couldn't understand Chu Yifeng's anger at all. Seeing that Ling Xiao didn't mean it, Chu Yifeng said anxiously: "You... What is it called, you... kneel down."

Wu Yu was stunned for a moment, swallowed, and knelt down.

Ling Xiao couldn't laugh or cry: "What's wrong?"

Chu Yifeng couldn't help being anxious: "Why do you ask that person to send the child back? Can he still be good for you if you send it back?"

"What else should we do?" Ling Xiao pulled Chu Yifeng to sit down, "Could it be that we keep him in the side hall? What about when we return to the city?"

Chu Yifeng paused: "Back to the imperial city... just... anyway, he is also from your family, and it is not appropriate for him to always live in a mansion with a foreign surname. Can you..." Chu Yifeng didn't say anything, but Ling Xiao immediately understood Chu Yifeng I mean, I want him to be a good person and raise that child in his own house... It's not too difficult.

Seeing Ling Xiao's expression, Chu Yifeng begged in a low voice: "It's all caused by me...but I can't bring him back to the palace when I get back to the imperial city, so just...you can help raise him. When he becomes an adult, I will give him a sum of money to start a family, okay?"

Ling Xiao slightly looked down at Chu Yifeng's face without speaking, couldn't help but smile for a while, and turned his face sideways: "Kiss one."

Chu Yifeng knew that this was an agreement, so he kissed him flatteringly, and his heart was clear, thinking that this would solve all the troubles.