The king's apex spoils him and is reborn

Since the public quarrel with Ji Muqing in the palace was painted last time, Xiao Beichen asked the inner mansion for the little eunuch who was licking his hair and sucking ink behind the rockery, and gave him the name Mo Yan.

The little eunuch is clever, although it was discovered that he tampered with Qianjin's portrait earlier, he is indeed a good painter.A few days ago, he was doing miscellaneous things in Qinghui Palace, and now he follows Xiao Beichen, painting some daily portraits, so that they can be sent to the western region to make people love each other.

At this moment, Xiao Beichen didn't deliberately ignore Qingcheng's lead dancer, it was because Mo Yan drew him extraordinarily graceful.He tilted his head and commented in a low voice: "You can only draw beauties?"

Mo Yan scratched his head, "Master is already good-looking."

"But you drew the back view." Xiao Beichen was a little helpless, and then he saw Mo Yan smiled naively, puffed up his cheeks with a look of guilt, and sighed: "That's all, put it away. "

After people backed away, Xiao Beichen frowned slightly, fearing that this painting would not be able to be produced.While thinking, he turned his head and saw everyone looking at him, and then he noticed the lead dancer who was looking at him eagerly.

Mo Yu leaned close to his ear to answer his doubts: "Master, the lead dancer is the daughter of Zhongshusheren, named Xia Xiyao, and it is said that she loves you very much, master."

"Oh." Xiao Beichen nodded, and asked back, "Is that the one Ling Jing commented on 'The Appearance of a Middle Man'?"

"Master!" Mo Yu almost fell down, but after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and replied, "Yes."

When the two asked and answered, the center of the stage was full of sleeves.Perhaps it was because Xia Xiyao didn't get the attention of the person she likes, at this moment her brows and eyes are frowning, which is very pitiful.

Before you know it, the singing and dancing are over halfway.Xia Xiyao regained her thoughts and danced lightly to the front of the hall accompanied by the drumbeat.Everyone's eyes followed him.

Clothes fluttering, sleeves volleying in the air, unexpectedly knocked down a glass of wine when the dance music was high.The wine flowed on the small table, and a few drops fell on Xiao Beichen's black robe.

Xia Xiyao immediately knelt down, "His Royal Highness, forgive me!"

With his eyes wide open, Mo Yu stepped forward to pick up the wine glass that was still swirling, then took out the handkerchief and handed it to him.Xiao Beichen gently pushed his hand away and said, "Just go back and change one." Then he stared indifferently at the person kneeling on the ground in front of him, and said coldly, "Raise your head."

Xia Xiyao raised her head in fear and looked directly at him, her tearful almond eyes were full of tenderness.

Time is moving slowly.

Full of anticipation, Xiao Beichen waved back, "Give her a mirror."

The ministers are dumb, what is the purpose of the mirror?

Before they could figure out why, they saw a young eunuch trotting up to Xia Xiyao blankly holding a big round mirror, and said: "His Highness sent you, take it."

After a moment of confusion, Xia Xiyao was pleasantly surprised and took it happily.She was about to pay thanks to Xie En again, when the terrifying ghostly symbols on the mirror made her let go of her hand in shock.

"I told you to take it, it's almost unlucky." Mo Yan quickly caught it, and then he was about to hold Zhaoren himself, when Xia Xiyao stood up and ran out of the hall.

The officials looked at each other in blank dismay, and the nearby officials stretched their necks to take a closer look, and saw a face sketched on the silver mirror, with a few lines added to it, and a big "ugly" character underneath.

Xia Zhe, a member of Zhongshushe, immediately raised his eyebrows, "Why does His Royal Highness need to be humiliated like this?"

Xiao Beichen looked at him leisurely, and said with a sneer, "Why don't the hall be responsible for the collision first?"

Xia Zhe's voice weakened: "My little girl..."

"Whether it is intentional or not, there is no second time." Xiao Beichen looked around the crowd indifferently, and then looked at the host.

Xiao Tianze was furiously stared at by him, and was about to speak to control the field, when he saw Xiao Beichen saluting and leaving.

"Father, my son is going to change clothes."

On the way back to Qinghui Hall, Xiao Beichen walked very slowly, quietly listening to the troubles of the people behind him.

Mo Yu looked at the mirror, pointed to the words on it, and said, "You added the word 'ugly' by yourself, it's too ugly, you clever little ghost, now you have His Highness's backing, you've become fatter."

"Why are the hints so vague, beauty and ugliness should be clear." Mo Yan pouted.

Hearing this, Mo Yu couldn't refute, so he threw the mirror to him, and strode forward to report to Xiao Beichen: "Master, just now two court ladies were found in Qinghui Palace, what should we do this time?"

"Send it back to the harem. You won't see blood on the first day of the lunar new year." Xiao Beichen put his hands behind his back, looked up at the sky and sighed, "Go back to reward the leaves."

Mo Yu was stunned for a while, not knowing the connection between these two sentences, but Mo Yan quickly widened his eyes, and happily jumped to the front, "Thank you, master, for the reward!"

Xiao Beichen chuckled, rubbed his head and continued walking.

***

There are seven days of rest and bathing in the New Year, and the officials will start to go to court after the seventh day of the lunar new year.And on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there will be another day off, and on this day, the monarch will often invite his ministers to the Linglong Pavilion next to the moat to enjoy the river lanterns.

After the beginning of the month, Wangdu did not receive any reports from the Western Region, and Ji Muqing did not reply for some days.At this moment, although Xiao Beichen was writing to guess the lantern riddles, he kept thinking about the situation at the border.

Lantern Festival lantern riddles are an annual tradition in Linglong Pavilion, and this year the jackpot is prepared by the palace.He answered a few questions casually, while Xiao Mingxuan seemed to be ready to win the jackpot.

Although Xiao Mingxuan is only three years older than him, he already has two sons, the older one has just learned to walk, and the younger one is still in his infancy.At this moment, Xiao Mingxuan was writing on the lantern riddle paper with his eldest son's hand.

Concubine Ning was a little embarrassed, she pushed Xiao Mingxuan lightly and said in a low voice: "My lord, You'er is still young."

"It's not too young." Xiao Mingxuan turned his head and stared at her, then came back to talk casually, "I remember that the prince has been very smart since he was a child."

Xiao Beichen raised his eyes and talked about him again for some reason, "Brother is too famous, I just picked up a pen when I was three years old."

"That's right," Xiao Mingxuan raised his eyebrows, and withdrew his hand supporting his son.Then he saw his son holding the brush in a daze, and suddenly he was elated: "Your is awesome, you are indeed my son."

Xiao Tianze, who was on the main seat, had nothing to say about this inexplicable comparison, rubbed his eyebrows and took the memorial to the side.

"Prince."

When Xiao Beichen heard the call, he handed the lantern riddle to Mo Yan, and then stepped forward solemnly and asked, "What's the matter, father?"

"In the afternoon, the new governor of Linzhou announced that all the dams had been dismantled. However, he was worried that the snow in the mountains would melt and floods would occur after the spring, so he asked for instructions to expand the width of the river."

"The governor of Linzhou has already killed him before playing it?" Xiao Beichen frowned. He hadn't followed up on the Linzhou dam in the past few days, and he missed so much without thinking.

Xiao Tianze handed him the booklet, and didn't feel anything wrong, "It was said that there were signs of a sudden increase in the water level, so he started the downstream work first."

"The water level has increased dramatically?" Xiao Beichen asked seriously without any warmth in his eyes: "Now that the upper reaches of the river have not yet been frozen, how did the governor see it?"

"Don't ask Gu, the governor said that he asked an expert for advice." Xiao Tianze quickly pulled himself out.

What annoyed him the most was that Xiao Beichen asked back when he was talking about business.Although it is not questionable, it is impersonal and too serious.

Xiao Beichen sighed inwardly, and quietly studied the memorial by himself.

The beginning of spring this year was later than in previous years. Although silver charcoal was burned in the wing room, it couldn't resist the complete ventilation on one side.

"Your Majesty, cover the screens." Xue Tao was shrewd and had prepared screens on both sides of the room early in the morning.

Seeing that neither of his two sons was enjoying the scenery, Xiao Tianze nodded at Xue Tao.

The two screens approached slowly, and he was about to drink hot tea to warm up when he caught a glimpse of a black shadow flying straight towards Xiao Beichen from the corner of his eye.

"Chen..."

At the critical moment, Xiao Beichen shook off the memorial in his hand, barely stopping the round stick-shaped thing that flew into the wing room.

"There are assassins!"

The author has something to say: Today is a bit short, the next chapter will zoom in on OVO