end of days

After midsummer, it is cool autumn.

The heat that made people toss and turn dissipated day by day, and the night became more and more chilly.

The sweet scent of sweet-scented osmanthus in the air is becoming more and more intense, making people suddenly realize that at some point, autumn has penetrated into every bit and every drop around them.

As night fell, in the quiet palace, the imperial study could be seen from afar to be brightly lit. You don't even need to guess to know that today you are staying up late to deal with government affairs.

Because of the order of the emperor, there was no one waiting in the imperial study room. Xuanyuanhen focused on drawing on the paper with a vermilion pen. For a while, the whole hall could only hear the rustling sound of the pen tip on the paper.

After an unknown amount of time, Xuanyuanhen closed the last book, rubbed his sore wrist, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Suddenly saw the cool tea cup on the table, wanted to take a sip to suppress the irritability in my heart, opened it and found that it was replaced with osmanthus tea today.

It turns out...it's already autumn...

Suddenly lost the mood to drink tea, Xuanyuanhen put down the teacup and walked to the window, a crescent moon could be seen far away in the sky, surrounded by a few stars, it looked very deserted, for no reason, Xuanyuanhen suddenly There is a feeling of loneliness.

"Feiqing, where are you..." The emperor's voice was very lonely, and De Yu, who guessed that the emperor should go to bed and entered the room to wait on him, happened to hear this sentence.

"I just received the letter from Fei Ge. My son went to Jiangling ten days ago." Seeing the emperor's depressed look, De Yu felt a little funny in his heart. Who would have expected that such a domineering person in front of others would actually be childish in private On the one hand, especially when encountering things related to Zhuo Ran, the emperor suddenly became a child.

"Hey, why don't you think he can't live in the palace in peace and contentment for a few more days? I always feel empty in my heart." For children who can't eat sweets.

"This..." De Yu didn't know what to say to comfort the distressed emperor.

"Forget it, forget it, I don't want to mention it, who made the choice myself! By the way, what did he go to Jiangling for?"

"It seems that there is a dam near the Han River that has been damaged, but it has not been repaired for a long time. After hearing this, the young master felt that there was something wrong with it, so he went there, and after a search, he found something tricky. It turned out that the Jingzhou government office In the spring, I made a report on this matter. It was just a trivial matter. The Ministry of Industry sent people to inspect it, and later allocated a sum of money to it. I didn't expect it to be embezzled by local officials. It seems that the young master is not this time. If you are generally angry, those people will not be punished lightly."

"I'm most annoyed by this kind of people. The official salary from the imperial court is really not much, and sometimes it is inevitable to get a little profit. As long as things are done well, I will just turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye to let them go, but so The relentless search is really too disrespectful to the court."

Xuanyuanhen is proficient in the way of the emperor, so he naturally knows that the emperor should leave room for it, and that corrupt officials should be severely punished, but he must pay attention to what corruption is. As long as there is power and desire, there is no way to completely eliminate it. The thing is, the former kings came up with a series of tortures in order to punish corrupt officials. Officials who acted a little bit for personal gain would be imprisoned and punished. In the end, there were not many complaints.

However, Zhuo Ran never thinks that way. Xuanyuanhen's way of being an emperor often becomes abusive and crooked for him. He especially hates corrupt officials, exploits the people, and corrupts the court. But because of Xuanyuanhen's thoughts, he can only follow Opening one eye and closing one eye, I don't know how much anger I have accumulated.

"It's no wonder that this time I hit him so hard. I haven't caught this kind of person for many years to relieve his anger..." Xuanyuanhen couldn't help laughing, Zhuo Ran is actually quite cute when he is angry, but if he knows this , I am afraid that I will have to eat again and walk around.

But thinking about what happened in Jiangling, Xuanyuanhen felt a little unhappy. Fortunately, this summer was a bit drier than in previous years, and the rain was not too much. If not, the flood season is here, and once the damaged dam breaks, how many Liming people will be killed. .

How innocent are the common people, who have to bear the consequences of these moths!

"Decree to the Ministry of Punishment, this case must be handled strictly! It can be regarded as an explanation to Feiqing." Xuanyuanhen drew up the decree, stamped it with a big seal, and handed it over to Deyu. He can also please his sweetheart, maybe when Zhuo Ran is happy, he can come back and stay with him for a few more days.

Thinking about it, Xuanyuanhen swept away his previous depression and smiled instantly while still holding a pen in his hand.

De Yu looked at Xuanyuanhen whose face was changing back and forth, and finally couldn't help laughing.

"By the way, what are we going to do with this year's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet? Is it still a big banquet for the ministers like in previous years?" Mid-Autumn Festival banquets have been held over the years, and enjoying the moon and drinking wine can be regarded as increasing the communication between the monarch and his ministers, although it is just a walk. A cutscene, but it also has its meaning of existence.

"Why, it's the Mid-Autumn Festival so soon?!" Looking at the crescent moon outside the window, Xuanyuan Hen was a little astonished. These days, he was concentrating on government affairs and didn't pay attention to the time. After thinking about it, he found that it was indeed the beginning of August, and it was less than half a day away. The first month is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

"Come as usual." Xuanyuanhen was a little frustrated. The Mid-Autumn Festival was a time for reunion. After the banquet, those ministers must have a family banquet when they returned home, but he... didn't even have a reunion person.

At the end of the spring, Xiaoyu was brought back to Wuji Gate by his master to teach martial arts. The two sons are so young that they don't know anything.

And the person I miss the most... Xuanyuanhen felt sour again as he thought about it.

I was still in Jiangling a few days ago, how could I come back to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with me... I guess I might just drop by the Promise Gate to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Xuanyuanhen even wanted to run away willfully and sneak out of the palace to meet Zhuo Ran, but sometimes he couldn't help himself, and it was fine to do anything wrong on weekdays. Rumors would spread in Tianshijing, and rumors spread after dinner that maybe he "died".

"Alas..." There was another long sigh, and Xuanyuanhen suddenly realized that since he met Zhuo Ran, he sighed every day, which is really what he owed him in his previous life... In this way, he should really become a "resentful husband in the palace" up.

If Zhuo Ran was with Dan Zhu back then, he wouldn't believe that Zhuo Ran could hang out like this every day and wouldn't want to spend more time with her!As soon as he got into the dead end, Xuanyuanhen's imagination became more and more abundant, and he started to eat the jealousy of the dead. De Yu watched him go farther and farther with dumbfounded eyes, and then followed him as if suddenly awakened.

Alas——De Yu suddenly misses the frosty emperor in the past, at least not like now, he is startled, I really don't know what he is thinking all day long.

Why is it so difficult... Deyu wants to cry but has no tears.

Half a month passed quickly, and the moon became rounder day by day, until it was as plump as a bright pearl, every family began to prepare for the moon sacrifice, to bless the whole family with happiness and health, and to bless relatives far away...

It is another round of Mid-Autumn Moon, similar every year, but different every year.

Farewell to Xinchou wine with a glass of wine, to enjoy the cool autumn, to say goodbye...

The noise at the banquet could not make Xuanyuanhen feel the slightest warmth. All the officials noticed the loneliness of the emperor but no one dared to point it out. They could only gossiping with each other tremblingly while watching the emperor who was sitting alone in the chief seat drink after cup. Drinking, and Xuanyuanhen naturally didn't notice the nervousness of the ministers, and just added wine and toasted on his own.

Different from the sweet-scented osmanthus wine on the table of the ministers, the one on Xuanyuanhen's table is an extremely burning knife, which is choking and hot, but it can comfort Xuanyuanhen's loss at this time.

Xuanyuanhen's alcohol capacity is not bad, but it's often not the wine but the sorrow that makes people intoxicated. Maybe it's the reason for trying to get drunk to relieve a thousand sorrows, and soon he began to feel a little fuzzy.

When the banquet was finally over, all the ministers scrambled to leave the palace and returned home. The meal was really tasteless, and they suffered a lot.

Yu Huayuan suddenly returned to desertion, and Xuanyuanhen became dazed all over. Seeing that he was staggering even when he was walking, De Yu sent him back to the dormitory, dumbfounded.

"Feiqing... Feiqing...I miss you so much... woo woo woo..." Xuanyuanhen, who was drunk, looked more like a child than when he was having trouble, and even the words of missing were accompanied by a crying sound.

Hugging tightly to the quilt on the bed, Xuanyuan Hen kept trying to press it into his arms, but he seemed to feel something wrong while holding it, so he immediately pushed away the warm cloth covered by him in his arms.

The hotness caused by drunkenness made him writhe on the bed, Deyu felt a headache seeing Xuanyuanhen like this, no matter how he thought about it, it would be a physical effort to serve him to sleep today.

De Yu frowned, and was about to reach out to change Xuanyuan Hen, who was in a daze of consciousness, into a clean underclothes and wait for him to sleep when he was stopped, and when he looked back, he was immediately startled.

Smiling behind him was not Zhuo Ran but who else.

Zhuo Ran looked very embarrassed, his clothes were covered with dust, his shoes were covered with mud, and he was very eager to walk along the way.

De Yu smiled and left the Yaohui Palace. Since the person whom the emperor misses is back, let them get along well.

In a daze, Xuanyuanhen only felt a familiar figure appearing in front of him, and immediately jumped on it, but he didn't know that he was on the bed at the moment, so he fell down in agitation, Xuanyuanhen thought he would fall to the ground, conditioned reflex He wanted to stretch out his hand to support the ground, but fell into Zhuo Ran's thin and powerful arms at the next moment.

"Feiqing..." Seeing the dignified emperor's crying tears and snot all over his body, Zhuo Ran also felt a little distressed. He knew that Xuanyuanhen must miss him very much, so he hurried all the way back from Jiangling In the capital city, it only took more than ten days on the way. I didn't expect to see Xuanyuan Hen in such a mess when he came back. Even he had never seen such an insecure emperor... It turns out that this person is not like usual As strong as he saw, he has suppressed too much in order to be able to stand beside him...

"Really... what should I say about you..." He tightly hugged Xuanyuan Hen who couldn't help sobbing, Zhuo Ran stroked his back gently.

Xuanyuanhen tossed the clothes that were already in a mess, it was really ugly. Zhuo Ran looked at the distressed state of the two of them at this moment, thought for a while, and then half-supported and half-dragged Xuanyuanhen into the nearby bathing pool.

I don't know how long it took, Xuanyuanhen's alcoholism gradually faded with the water flow, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the person he was thinking of leaning naked beside him.

Xuanyuanhen's whole body became agitated all of a sudden, and leaned against Zhuo Ran's slightly parted lips.