Si Tian Guan

With his mind on his mind, Liu Chongming forced himself to chat with the Queen Mother.

Fortunately, the Empress Dowager was old and not in good spirits, she just wanted to have a lively time with a young child by her side, she didn't pick what he had to say, just listened with a smile, and called the small kitchen to bring up plates of snacks.

Liu Chongming went to the palace to play when he was young, and was often hugged by the queen mother. At this time, he wanted to relieve the old man's boredom, so he offered to ask for green grass and white rabbit dumplings, saying that he would take them home to eat.

The queen mother was so teased by this child's coquetry, she couldn't wait for him to stay for a while, and she didn't let him go until Concubine Xian asked to see her outside.

Liu Chongming carried the food box containing white rabbit dumplings, and met Concubine Xian outside the palace, and then he figured out why Mu Jingchen could talk the queen mother into her head.

There are many things that you can't see when you don't pay attention to them. Once you pay attention, you will find that everything is different from before.

He was sent out of the palace with a heavy heart. Before getting into the carriage, he saw someone getting off the carriage in front of him. He even saluted him when he passed by. Although it was an unfamiliar face, he recognized the official uniform.

The official uniform that once flashed by in his dreams.

Looking back now, it seemed that he hadn't had those horrible dreams for a while.

"Sitian official?" Qu Chenzhou asked softly, holding his chopsticks.

"Yes, when I was leaving the palace, I saw the newly appointed Si Tian Guan. The previous one got involved in King Ning's matter and somehow angered the emperor and died. This time, I don't know where he came from. "

When they had something to discuss, Liu Chongming refused to allow his servants to accompany him, so he opened the food box by himself, brought out the white rabbit dumplings, filled another bowl of ginseng lily japonica rice porridge and pushed it over, then turned the steamed silver carp over, Tear off the fish maw.

It wasn't until he finished his work that he realized that Qu Shenzhou hadn't moved anything, he was looking thoughtfully with his chopsticks in his mouth, and he didn't know where he was looking.

"At that time, was there a Sitian official in the court?" He remembered to ask, and urged: "Eat the dumplings first, don't let them cool down."

Qu Chenzhou picked one up, replied "yes" first, and then took a small bite.

His mask was taken off before meals and put aside, the wound was scarring, Doctor Qin worked hard to give him medicine, now his face was pasted so colorfully that it was almost impossible to see the skin, and it was difficult to even open his mouth.

"Do you remember who was there?"

Liu Chongming asked without thinking, seeing Qu Shenzhou silently glanced at him, making it boring.

This question is too unprofessional, let alone more than ten years, even if someone asks him now, who are the Sitian officials, he still can't tell.

Replaced too often.

He lowered his voice, and changed the question: "Then the emperor...is he so obsessive, so confused?"

With something in his mouth, Qu Chenzhou struggled to speak: "The emperor is not confused."

How could the emperor be confused?

Everyone knows that Si Tianguan's words are just flattering his own wishes, and the emperor is not stupid, otherwise he would not let those people go around.

Only when the emperor meets a person whom he has no choice but to trust, will he truly feel fear and awe in his heart, and he does not want to imprison him by his side all the time, for fear that someone will get his hands on him.

Just like himself, just like the Stargazing Pavilion.

"Don't underestimate the emperor," Qu Chenzhou chewed carefully, and added sullenly: "No matter where you go in the future, don't think about that position, it's a trap."

Liu Chongming picked out a fishbone. Thinking about this, he couldn't help but feel horrified: "Trap? The emperor deliberately showed his flaws? For whom?"

"To all."

A seemingly invulnerable person may not be invincible, what is terrible is a person who deliberately shows fatal flaws.

When everyone was fighting for that position, I don't know how happy the theatergoer was.

Qu Chenzhou watched him pick out the fishbone, sipped the fish maw, and then sighed: "My lord, do you know that the emperor is not the empress dowager's biological son?"

Liu Chongming nodded.

"When I was in the palace, I vaguely heard people say that the emperor's mother and concubine came from a lowly family background. They were just lucky maids who were lucky enough to be lucky. After giving birth to the emperor, they were only mentioned as beauties. He lost his mother when he was seven years old, just when the queen mother was not yet full. The three-year-old prince passed away."

Liu Chongming's back stiffened. Although he didn't know much about it, he couldn't hide these things from anyone, not to mention that the old people in the court were still there, and even King Ning would miss a word when he complained.

But now, when he heard the rigid statement from Qu Chenzhou's mouth, there was an unexplained sense of creepiness, and he couldn't help but think wildly.

"You...you mean," he lowered his voice, and asked with difficulty, "you mean, the death of the emperor's mother and the death of the empress dowager's son... have something to do with it?"

"I don't know," Qu Chenzhou replied calmly, "Do you want to know how the Empress Dowager died at my time?"

Liu Chongming's neck was stiff, and he no longer knew how to nod.

Qu Chenzhou drooped his eyes, thinking of the hexagrams under that luxurious head that indicated death.

"First, Eunuch Xi next to the Empress Dowager was killed with sticks. The charges are unknown."

"The empress dowager fell ill that day, and died suddenly the next night. Before she died, only the emperor stood by her side. Everyone outside the Palace of Compassion and Peace heard the empress dowager yelling loudly——Son."

"I don't know the inside story, and I'm just guessing. If the empress dowager's death has something to do with the emperor, then the emperor's biological mother may also die unexpectedly."

"Behind this, who is the most profitable person, can't Shizi figure it out?"

"Such an emperor, do you think he will be a confused person?"

As if a dark wind was blowing into the flower hall, Liu Chongming shivered and got goosebumps all over his body. The seemingly lazy old man and the kindly smiling queen mother were all distorted into another look.

"Your Majesty...enjoys the honor of filial piety..." He thought chillingly, but he also thought thoroughly.

Of course the emperor must put filial piety first, everyone knows that he was adopted by the empress dowager, if he didn't have this attitude, how would he be praised by all the people?

A warm hand rested on the back of his hand, as if to comfort him, and quickly retracted.

"My lord, there are some things that I know very little. I just want to remind you that the emperor is not a kind person. Everyone may have secrets that you don't know. My lord is very smart and decisive. If someone has money and wants to investigate, There's always something to gain."

Liu Chongming smiled wryly in his heart, but he didn't have such self-confidence. He also tried his best for his brother's affairs, but he still got nothing.

But there was already an agreement between them. After getting the Jinxiu Camp, Qu Chenzhou told him the truth, and now there is no need to ask.

Now that someone has shown him the way, he only needs to fight for it desperately.

"My son..." Qu Shenzhou called him softly.

He came back to his senses and forced a smile: "I know, fortunately I have you helping me now, thank you."

"That's not what it means..." Qu Chenzhou rubbed his chopsticks loudly, staring at the empty plate in front of him: "Where's my fish?"

Liu Chongming dropped the fish on his plate.

Qu Chenzhou had no choice but to sigh, and then he lowered his head and slowly rummaged for the fishbone.

He couldn't eat fish in Qisheng Building, and he was served by someone in the palace, and he had never done this job before. The silver carp had many spines, and a few of the spines didn't come out, but the fish meat was stirred into a rotten ball.

Liu Chongming couldn't bear it anymore, and took his plate away again.

"Why are you angry?" Qu Chenzhou asked.

"I'm not angry!" Liu Chongming was irritable.

"What is the prince angry about now?"

"..."

Liu Chongming rubbed his forehead, took out a pill from his bosom, and swallowed it.

Seeing that Qu Chenzhou still wanted to speak, he raised his hand to stop: "I don't have any fish today, so I'll drink your porridge. I still have something to ask you."

Sometimes he felt that it might be a good thing for Qu Chenzhou to be quiet like before.

At least he won't get angry and hurt himself.

"Have you ever heard of 'Bindilian'?"

Qu Chenzhou took a mouthful of porridge, thinking carefully, he had experienced too many things in the past, and had too many hexagrams, it was hard to remember just three words immediately.

"Where did you hear it?"

"Because of Pan He's incident today, I'm going into the palace..." Liu Chongming watched him lower his head, spit out a slice of ginseng on the plate, his brows twitched, and explained everything in the palace in detail.

"Eunuch Yu..." Qu Chenzhou stirred the porridge with a spoon, and picked out round-grained rice and lily to eat: "What do you think?"

"Since it was spoken publicly by Yu Gong, it must not be aimless. Following the emperor's order before, this 'Bing Dilian' should be related to Pan He. But firstly, Pan He is still in Jinxiu Camp, and secondly, if you don't understand what Bing Dilian is, Whatever it is, I'm afraid I can't pry Pan He's mouth open."

Qu Chenzhou nodded slowly: "My son thinks that Pan He is still alive for so long, is it the emperor's order, or does Liao Guangming have a plan?"

Liu Chongming really didn't expect to go here, he frowned and thought for a long time: "Liao Guangming is used to guessing what the emperor means, maybe both."

"If Pan He is related to Bing Dilian, and he committed a crime now, he can no longer be used," Qu Shenzhou stretched out two index fingers: "This is the prince, this is Liao Guangming, and the one hanging in the middle is Bing Dilian, what does the prince think?"

This hypocrisy is like two dragons playing with pearls, with just one glance, Liu Chongming immediately understood and took a deep breath.

"Your Majesty, let me fight with Liao Guangming!"

This is no longer just a dispute over the jurisdiction of Dali Temple and Jinxiu Camp.

No matter what this Bingdilian is, Pan He is gone, the emperor needs a reliable person to take over this matter, obviously, Liao Guangming is not the best candidate in the emperor's heart.

And if he made a wrong move in the first step, lost to Liao Guangming, and could not win this opportunity, then it would be even more difficult to get closer to the center of the storm.

The person who really understands Shangyi is not Liao Guangming, but Yu Dexi. Ever since Yu Dexi said the three words "Bingdilian" to him, he is doomed not to stay out of the matter.

There was no room for him to back off, it was his biggest challenge, and it was his best time, everything happened just right.

"Don't be in a hurry." He said to himself and Qu Chenzhou.

"I will report on my duties after the next year, and now I have no position to go to Jinxiu Camp to be an important person. If the emperor really wants us to fight, Liao Guangming will know the news in a short time. These days, I will let people go to privately check Pan He's whereabouts, yes Liao Guangming, respond to all changes with the same.”

"The son is wise."

I don't know why, even if this person praised him, Liu Chongming felt that the taste in the words was wrong, he glanced at Qu Chenzhou and then lowered his head and spit out the ginseng slices on the plate, wrinkled his brows, and continued to talk.

"If Liao Guangming knows the news, if I don't look for him, he will look for me, drag him first, and ask him for someone later. After Pan He gets it, show me your skills."

"Understood, I will do my best."

The lower the spoon goes, the harder it is to avoid the ginseng slices. Qu Chenzhou straightened his mouth and was about to spit it out, but Liu Chongming slapped the table unexpectedly: "Don't spit!"

He has ginseng slices in his mouth, but he doesn't know why.

"After bleeding so much, the government doctor said that you are weak, and the best ginseng will give you supplements. Why do you vomit! Can't you eat this?"

"It's edible," Qu Chenzhou didn't want to vomit, and didn't want to swallow, he bit his teeth and protested vaguely: "But it's unpalatable."

"Why is it unpalatable?" Liu Chongming scooped a spoonful into his bowl, and swallowed it in two mouthfuls: "The simmering fire boiled until it boiled, and the taste was released, so it's unpalatable! Swallow it!"

Qu Chenzhou refused to swallow, Liu Chongming blocked his lips with a spoonful of porridge, and refused to let him vomit.

He stuck out his tongue and spit the ginseng slices into the spoon.

Liu Chongming was furious, and shouted: "Come on!"

Some servants rushed into the flower hall and pressed Qu Shenzhou knowingly.

"My lord!" Qu Chenzhou was pinned down with his hands, and seeing the spoon was handed to his mouth, he struggled and said, "Your lord, don't do to others what you don't want yourself to do to others. Isn't your lord also eating parsley? Why do you force me to eat this? thing!"

"Who said that!" Liu Chongming blushed, "Who said I don't eat parsley!"

"Is your son willing to eat it?" Qu Chenzhou looked at the porridge mixed with ginseng slices in front of him, his scalp numb.

Whether it was after the forced palace night or during the four months in the dark prison, he had been given a lot of ginseng soup just to hold his breath, so even though he knew it was a good nourishing food, he couldn't help but feel nauseous.

Liu Chongming stared at the porridge bowl through gritted teeth.

The government doctor emphasized several times that Brother Xiaoqu had been injured for a long time and became ill, and his poor foundation needs to be repaired. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes today, he would not have known that the usual ginseng had been so ruined.

This time the fleet came back and brought back an extremely rare top flower, Jinjing Yulan, which he wanted to use together, but the doctor said that Qu Shenzhou couldn't stand it, so he had to keep it first.

Even a Jinjing Yulan can't stand it. It's so weak that it still refuses to mend it!

Liu Chongming felt his temples throbbing with pain. If he didn't win this game today, he couldn't swallow his breath.

"Okay, don't do to others what you don't want to do to yourself, right? Then what if I am willing to eat parsley? Are you willing to eat ginseng slices?"

Qu Chenzhou couldn't get off the tiger, if he shook his head, he couldn't escape being force-fed, thinking about Chongming's way of avoiding tigers and wolves when he was in front of Xiangxian, he nodded.

Liu Chongming fought fiercely in his mind for a long time, motioned for people to let go of him, gritted his teeth and said: "Go and buy parsley!"