I am a ruler in troubled times

Ye Shi who was the closest could also see the appearance of the 'auspicious fruit', loosened his hand, and half a bowl of tea was splashed on his clothes, frightened the maid beside him to kneel down quickly, and wiped it for Ye Shi if he wanted to cry or not. skirt.

Mrs. Song saw Song Peiyu and Ye's anomalies in her eyes, and found that the faces of other daughters-in-law were not as natural as before, and when she looked at the maid who presented her with the 'auspicious fruit', her eyes suddenly became sharp.

Song Peiyu personally took the tray from the maidservant's hand, and casually said to the panic-stricken maidservant, "Call your brother into the house, and go to uncle's study to answer."

"I know I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong!" The maid knelt on the ground with a 'plop'. She didn't know what she did wrong, but she felt that the atmosphere was not right. In order to torture, or even silence.

Instead, Song Peiyu calmed down, and said in a deep voice, "This is your brother's chance, let him think about the matter of the rich businessman in Yanzhou. After this incident, if there is no shortage of people in Uncle's study, let your brother come to my study Serve, and learn from Jin Bao."

Song Peiyu didn't care if the maid listened to her or not, and said something reassuring to the female family members with different expressions in the room, "The rich businessman is not in the way of anything, he probably wants to ask a routine question. It's just that this kind of 'Auspicious fruit' may be involved in the big event of years ago, I'll show it to my elder brother."

Only then did Mrs. Song regain the smile on her face, and she said to Song Peiyu, "Go to work if you have business to do, if the servants at home make you unhappy, just pull down the stick and kill anyone who has something to say, let him come to me .”

Feeling that the person beside his legs began to tremble silently, Song Peiyu couldn't laugh or cry, "It really can't be to this extent."

Afraid Mrs. Song would be thinking about this matter, before leaving, Song Peiyu deliberately whispered into Mrs. Song's ear, telling her, "It's still the case of the Qin Tianjian, and with the incident at the Taimiao, they will be in great trouble."

Mrs. Song doesn't care if Qin Tianjian is unlucky or not, as long as it doesn't affect the Song Mansion, she doesn't care about it.So after Song Peiyu left, he put this episode aside, and just focused on the grandson's happy event wholeheartedly.

The female relatives saw Song Peiyu whispering to Mrs. Song, and saw that Mrs. Song's mood was not affected but became more excited, and they also calmed down.

Song Peiyu asked Jin Bao and the maid to find the maid's elder brother together, and first asked where the rich Yanzhou businessman lived, and directly invited the wealthy Yanzhou businessman to Song's mansion as a guest.

On the way to the main room with the tray, countless thoughts flashed through Song Peiyu's mind, and her steps became heavier and heavier.

From "auspiciousness from heaven" to the burning of incense on the day of the Taimiao sacrifice, it can be said that there is a link.

If Qin Tianjian is offering auspiciousness, Emperor Yonghe has adopted Qin Tianjian Jianzheng's advice, and will save "auspiciousness" for the offering on the day of the Taimiao sacrifice, and make it known to the world, and invite the elders around Xianyang to come to the Taimiao Watch the ceremony.

Those waste incense alone can ruin Emperor Yonghe's reputation by half.

When rich merchants from Yanzhou arrived in Xianyang a few years later, the so-called "auspicious fruits" were everywhere. Not only did Emperor Yonghe's reputation fail, but the newly established Zhao State was also bound to be in jeopardy.

Song Jingjue saw that Song Peiyu was holding a tray and almost hit the pillar, so he quickly reminded Song Peiyu, "Uncle Seven!"

Song Peiyu suddenly came back to her senses, looked at Song Jingjue who was dressed extraordinarily gorgeously, and asked, "Where are you going? You are dressed so grandly."

Song Jingjue rubbed the back of his head with a smirk, "I'm going to start the job in a few days, Mr. Murong intends to teach me some experience in getting along with colleagues, so that I can go to his house when I have nothing to do during the New Year's Eve."

"Are you going to see General Murong or Miss Murong?" Song Peiyu followed the brand-new golden crown on Song Jingjue's head again, and the smile gradually narrowed at the corner of her mouth.

Unexpectedly, Song Jingjue didn't like this, he even puffed out his chest proudly, "Miss Murong and I are already a fiancée, so it's in accordance with the rules to meet when we're passionate."

Song Peiyu took two steps back, feeling a certain sour smell.

Song Jingjue ignored Song Peiyu's two steps back, and reached out to lift the red cloth on the tray, "What good thing is this?"

'Snapped'

Song Peiyu hit Song Jingjue's hand.

Song Jingjue's skin was rough and fleshy, and he didn't feel any pain at all.But without delay, he frowned exaggeratedly, and called out pretending to be wronged, "Seventh Uncle"

Song Peiyu looked at Song Jingjue's performance with a half-smile, and took the initiative to send the tray in front of Song Jingjue, "I don't want you to watch it, but I want to remind you before watching it. After watching it, you won't be able to go to General Murong's mansion today."

Song Jingjue took a big step back when he heard this, and put both hands behind his back.

Seeing Song Jingjue's behavior, Song Peiyu only thought it was funny, but she erased the pretentious plan in her heart, raised her chin and said to Song Jingjue, "You go, I'm going to find my elder brother too."

Song Jingjue took the initiative to stop Song Peiyu, and said seriously, "I just say what Uncle Seven can be useful to me. I can visit General Murong any day, but I can't always be able to help Uncle Seven."

Song Peiyu's heart felt warm when she heard the words, and said in a warm voice, "It's just that I haven't figured out what to do yet."

"Did you visit His Royal Highness King Su on New Year's Day?" Song Peiyu asked suddenly.

After all, Song Jingjue grew up in the family, and he knew the elegance by hearing the stringed songs. He replied, "I went there yesterday, and His Royal Highness King Su even gave me a sign, allowing me to visit at any time. It's a coincidence that General Murong rewarded me earlier. It is a very unique dagger, it is said that His Royal Highness Su has been thinking about that dagger for a long time, and asked me to take it to please His Highness Su. I sent the dagger for maintenance, and I only got it when I came back from Su Wang's mansion yesterday."

Song Peiyu held up the tray with one hand, put the other on Song Jingjue's shoulder and pondered for a long time, and finally said, "You go to General Murong's mansion first, and I will ask Jinbao to look for you if there is anything."

Song Jingjue left after hearing the promise that he would return home early. He was stupid, but he had advantages that no one else had. He never pretended to be smart.

When he arrived at the door of Song Jinyu's study, Song Peiyu didn't go in right away, but said to Zimo who was pulling the curtain for him, "Please go to Tianhuju and ask Yinbao to put away the unfinished book on the desk in my study and put it in the In the third grid on the third floor."

Zimo nodded and said, "Qi Ye is really a book lover, so I'll do it when I'm young."

Song Peiyu thanked her with a smile before stepping into the study.

Song Jinyu laughed angrily when she saw 'Auspicious Fruit', and cursed, "That stupid thief Liu Ke is really a waste."

Liu Ke is the name of Qin Tianjian Jianzheng.

Song Peiyu quickly walked around behind Song Jinyu, and made a gesture of comfort on Song Jinyu's chest, "That is indeed a stupid thief, and it is not worth being angry about him as a big brother."

Song Jinyu closed her eyes, lightly brushed Song Peiyu's hand away, and said loudly, "Prepare the carriage, I want to enter the palace."

Song Peiyu glanced at the cracked teacup, and silently replaced the leaking teacup so as not to wet Song Jinyu's paperwork.

"Big Brother" wanted to ask Emperor Yonghe if he would deal with Qin Tianjian immediately, and the words circled around his mouth, and finally became, "I also want to enter the palace with Big Brother. I haven't seen His Highness for a while, so I just go Greet Your Highness."

Song Jinyu took the 'auspicious fruit' into his hand and looked it over carefully, and said 'um', which was his agreement.

Song Jinyu didn't wait for news from Yanzhou's rich merchants and servants, and was about to enter the palace without even changing his clothes. Song Peiyu didn't have time to pay attention to these things, and still followed Song Jinyu herself holding a tray.

It wasn't until they entered the palace gate that Song Jinyu and Song Peiyu separated and went to Qinzheng Hall and East Palace respectively.

Taking advantage of the lack of people around, Song Peiyu got what he wanted from Yinbao.

Tianhuju's study room doesn't have a third floor or a third grid at all. What I have to say is where the paintings are hung. Behind the paintings is a hidden grid that only Song Peiyu, Jin Bao, and Yin Bao know about.

Fortunately, Yinbao was clever, understood his hint, and brought something to wait for him outside the study of the big room, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to take the time to go back to Tianhuju to get things.

The guards of the East Palace were very surprised when they saw Song Peiyu, but they didn't stop him and let him in easily.

Lai Fuxu received the news, took the initiative to greet him with a cloak, and repeatedly said, "Shaoyin has a happy new year, why is there not even a carriage here, but the road is broken?"

Song Peiyu stretched out his hand and pulled the cloak up. The cloak he was wearing dragged the floor.

"It's the eldest brother who wants to see His Majesty, and I happen to be by my side. Remembering that I haven't greeted His Majesty for a long time, I decided to come along on a whim." Song Peiyu smiled wryly, probably guessing that he, who didn't even have a carriage or a cloak, was in Laifu's eyes How embarrassing.

"Your Highness was still talking about Shao Yin just now, and he will be very happy when he meets Shao Yin, and he will live up to Shao Yin's intention to enter the palace to pay his respects." Lai Fu's good words came as soon as he opened his mouth.

Song Peiyu smiled, for the sake of his face, he didn't ask Chong Yi how he was talking about him.

Presumably, either Eunuch An went to Chong Yi with the warehouse booklet, or Chong Yi laughed at Eunuch An and Laifu for playing mahjong worse than him.

It doesn't matter if you don't listen to this kind of nagging.

Because it was the first time we met in the New Year, Chong Yi placed a cushion in front of him.

Song Peiyu gave a big gift to Chongyi as kindly as possible, which can be regarded as New Year's greetings to Chongyi.

"Get up," Chong Yi said lazily, "Whatever you like, go back to the warehouse and pick one yourself."

Song Peiyu took a seat under Chongyi, and the little eunuchs filled Song Peiyu's table with his favorite food like flowing water.

Seeing this, Chong Yi snorted lightly, "The Song Mansion doesn't have any food for you, so you came to the East Palace for dinner?"

Song Peiyu was worrying about how to bring the topic to 'auspicious fruit' naturally, and defended herself when she heard the words, "Your Highness is wrong to blame this minister, I heard something interesting at the mansion, so I came to the palace to tell His Majesty a story. "

"Or your nephew's story? Don't listen to it anymore." Chong Yi turned his head to the side, and the words were obviously mocking, but he said them casually, making it difficult to guess whether he was joking or serious.

However, after all, Song Peiyu has been with Chong Yi for a while, so she can somewhat grasp Chong Yi's character, and understands that Chong Yi who said this sentence is serious.

Song Peiyu explained with a smile, "This time it's not a story about my nephew, but a story about His Majesty and Your Highness."

"Folk anecdote?" Chong Yi snorted lightly, and couldn't tell whether it was ridicule or indifference.

Song Peiyu will go to Mrs. Song's place to pay her respects, and tell Chong Yi that her elder brother bought 'auspicious fruit' from outside to ask for a reward, "there are two words 'auspicious' and 'xiang' on those two fruits respectively. In terms of appearance, it is almost exactly the same as the auspicious auspiciousness dedicated to His Majesty by the Qin Tianjian that day, except for the words on it."

"Is your family's 'auspicious fruit' so unpalatable?" Chong Yi casually put his two long legs together, speaking completely out of routine.

The expression on Song Peiyu's face froze for a moment, and she looked at Chong Yi with indescribable words. After a long time, she said truthfully, "When I saw those two fruits, my mind was full of the 'auspiciousness' that Qin Tianjian was offering. I never thought about it. What does that fruit taste like?"

In fact, until Chong Yi asked this question, Song Peiyu didn't think about it.

"Before the eldest brother left home, he told the servant who was going to find someone to bring the rich businessman from Yanzhou to the palace gate to wait for the summons. If he wants to come, he will also bring a few more 'auspicious fruits'. If His Highness is curious about the taste of the 'auspicious fruit', we will go there too." Let the government hall join in the fun?" Song Peiyu took advantage of the opportunity to make a suggestion.

Chong Yi squinted at Song Peiyu, "It's you who want to go to Qinzheng Palace, not Gu."

Song Peiyu hesitated for a moment, then nodded kindly, "It is true that I want to go to the Hall of Qinzheng, and try the taste of the 'auspicious fruit' that is in season."

"Call someone to come and dress Gu." Chong Yi got up from the soft couch, and pulled up the loose pajamas.

Song Peiyu always felt that something was wrong, but she racked her brains and didn't realize what she had overlooked, so she could only put this violation aside and go out to call someone as she said.

With the cold wind blowing in front of him, Song Peiyu suddenly realized that Chong Yi had a golden bell at hand, and asking him to make it clear that he was deliberately trying to persuade him.

Song Peiyu was in a hurry to go to the Hall of Qinzheng, and was too lazy to argue with Chong Yi, and he might not be able to figure out anything.

When going to Qinzheng Hall, Chong Yi only wore a slightly thick jacket, only the light gray fur collar around his neck seemed warmer.Song Peiyu, who only went out in her winter jacket, walked around the East Palace, but she had everything from hats to cloaks to fluffy gloves.

The atmosphere in Qinzheng Hall was very bad, broken porcelain and unknown mud were scattered on the ground, and now only one of the two 'auspicious fruits' was left, and half of it was rotten.

After Song Peiyu entered the Palace of Qinzheng, she silently stood behind Chongyi without even raising her eyelids.

Being able to come to Qinzheng Hall to watch is already the limit of what he can do now, if he wants to do more, that is to die.

Emperor Yonghe focused his eyes on Chong Yi, and then restrained his anger a bit, but his tone was still not good, "What are you here for?"

If he can wink, then he is not Chong Yi.

He expressed his intentions without any pressure, "Song Peiyu wants to know if the taste of 'auspicious fruit' is better than the winter fruit from a few days ago, I will take him to have a look."

Song Peiyu caught the flying horizontal pot steadily, and knelt on the ground, "I have nothing to say, please forgive me, Your Majesty."

Song Jinyu frowned and scolded in a low voice, "Nonsense!"

Emperor Yonghe laughed, and turned to persuade Song Jinyu, "What are you doing, you fierce raccoon slave? Anyway, there are a lot of 'auspicious fruits', and it's not like there are only four in 'Heavenly Auspiciousness'."

Song Peiyu heard the tone of Emperor Yonghe gnashing his teeth at the end, and lowered his head even more.

"River slave, get up." Emperor Yonghe casually raised his hand, turned his head and said to Meng Gong who was in the shadow, "wash the 'auspicious fruit' brought by the servant of the Song family, and bring it to Suzaku and the raccoon slave. Let's also taste this 'auspicious fruit' with Song Qing. Ask Su Wang to quietly order troops at Qianniuwei, and then enter the palace."

Song Peiyu stood up silently, stood honestly beside Chongyi, didn't even make a sound when eating the fruit, and carved the elegance and calmness of the aristocratic family into his bones during his actions.

During the period, Emperor Yonghe and Song Jinyu interrogated the young servant who bought the "auspicious fruit" in the Song family and the rich businessman in Yanzhou.

The young servant of the Song Mansion already knew that he had caused a big problem, but he kept in mind that his sister told him that if he could pass this test, he could go to the uncle's or Qiye's study to serve him.Furthermore, his family members are all servants of the Song Mansion who have signed the contract of selling their lives. Even if he is hopeless, he still has to think about his family.

Therefore, although the young servant of the Song Mansion was so frightened that he was trembling when he spoke, he was still organized, he knew everything he said, and he could echo back and forth without any loopholes.

He was serving in the carriage house, and because it was convenient for him to go out of the house, he would occasionally bring some outside things back to the maids in the inner courtyard.I happened to hear about the existence of "Auspicious Fruits". I wanted to use this to get some limelight in the eldest son's marriage and get a better job. The rich merchant bought two 'auspicious fruits'.

The rich businessman in Yanzhou saw that Emperor Yonghe did not behave any better than the boy of the Song family, and expressed his willingness to hand over all the goods for this trip to Zhao Guo, and only asked Emperor Yonghe to spare his life.

Naturally, Emperor Yonghe would not do this kind of thing. If the rich businessman was innocent, but he confiscated the rich businessman's property, how could anyone dare to do business in the territory of Zhao in the future?

The rich businessman said that in the fall of last year, a lot of seasonal melons and fruits with characters appeared in Yanzhou, and because of their novelty and uniqueness, they sold very well in Yanzhou.The wealthy businessman also wanted to earn this money, and it took a lot of money to learn the secret of the fruit with characters.At the request of the person who sold the secret to him, he could not sell this kind of fruit with words in Yanzhou.

The wealthy businessman had already invested heavily and couldn't wait to make money. At that time, he only had time to raise characters on the winter fruit, otherwise he would have to wait until the next spring.So the wealthy businessman turned his attention to the country of Zhao, which is separated from Yanzhou by the country of Yan, and made up his mind to be the first person to sell "auspicious fruits" in the country of Zhao.

"Your Majesty, I just arrived in Xianyang three days ago, and I haven't officially started selling 'auspicious fruits'. I will make an exception and sell them to the two boys because I have heard the name of Yunyang Bowei for a long time, and I want to use it to catch up with the Song family. Relationship. The young one is a businessman, and he really doesn’t know anything.”

The wealthy businessman in Yanzhou was afraid that Emperor Yonghe would not listen to him, so his voice was extremely shocking. Song Peiyu knew it was useless, so he restrained himself and moved behind Chongyi.

Nothing was found from the servant of the Song Mansion and the rich businessman of Yanzhou, so Emperor Yonghe simply concentrated on waiting for King Su to enter the palace.

Looking at the place that had been quiet for a long time, Emperor Yonghe laughed out of anger, pointed at Chong Yi and said, "Didn't you say that the raccoon slave wants to taste the 'auspicious fruit', why did he only eat one, you this……"

Emperor Yonghe counted the fruit cores on the plate, and the more he counted, the more incredible he asked, "You ate six?"

No, Song Peiyu who was behind Chong Yi silently corrected Emperor Yonghe's mistake in his heart, Chong Yi still had one in his hand, and he ate seven.This is because the little eunuch only washed so much, otherwise Chong Yi might have eaten more.

"It tastes good." Chong Yi threw the last fruit core into the plate, and took the wet sweat towel from the tray to wipe his hands.

This statement is true, ripe winter fruit and immature winter fruit are simply two different kinds of fruit, even Emperor Yonghe couldn't refute it.

King Su hurriedly rushed to Qinzheng Hall, saw Chongyi and Song Peiyu were also there, and took a few more unexpected glances.

Emperor Yonghe and King Su talked about the 'auspicious fruit', and said in a deep voice, "Now go and search Liu Ke's house, and send all the seized things to the palace. Send people to seal up the mansions of other officials of Qin Tianjian."

"Brother Huang, don't worry, I guarantee that not even a bird can fly out of Liu Ke's mansion." King Su cupped his hands and was about to leave the palace.

Song Peiyu was so anxious that she could only poke Chongyi's back desperately.

However, Chongyi's center of gravity was unbelievably stable, and his deceptive flesh was far from being as fragile as it seemed. In the end, it was Song Peiyu's fingers that hurt so badly.

Just when Song Peiyu decided to give up struggling, Chong Yi suddenly turned to look at him, "You want to watch the excitement with Uncle Huang."

Song Peiyu's fingers under his wide sleeves were tightly clenched, but an embarrassed smile appeared on his face, "I have never seen such a scene before, and I am really curious, I'm afraid it will delay His Royal Highness Su's business."

Hearing this, King Su put his left hand on Song Peiyu's shoulder, his right hand on Chong Yi's collar, and walked straight to the door, "What kind of bastard is Liu Ke? Why can something go wrong if you copy his house? Come with me, so I can see his face." .”

Chong Yi staggered forward following King Su's pace, and said helplessly, "It's he who wants to see, not me."

King Su was unmoved, "No, you want to."

The three of them left the Hall of Qinzheng bustlingly. Emperor Yonghe looked at Chongyi's leftover fruit core for a long time, and sighed, "The raccoon slave has changed Suzaku's temperament a lot."

It is no longer just living in one's own world and turning a blind eye to foreign affairs.

Song Jinyu did not agree with Emperor Yonghe's statement. He shook his head and said, "Your Highness is determined and will never be easily changed by others. What His Highness shows now has always existed in His Highness, but His Majesty did not discover it before."

"It's this bastard who didn't let me see it." Emperor Yonghe cursed suddenly, his expression became frustrated, "Since Li Nu was a companion reader in the East Palace, Suzaku let me see this."

Song Jinyu poured two cups of hot tea, placed them in front of Emperor Yonghe and himself, and said softly, "Everything is getting better, after all, there will be no more difficult days than the previous few years."

Emperor Yonghe nodded silently, he was holding hot tea but felt like drinking strong alcohol, he drank it with his head held high.

This was the first time Song Peiyu saw the process of ransacking the house, and it was far more shocking than he had imagined. King Su took them out of the palace and rushed straight to Qianniuwei's mansion.

Before King Su entered the palace, he had received the order from Emperor Yonghe, ordered his generals, and went out directly with the team ready to go, and rushed to Liu Ke's mansion at lightning speed.

On the street, the people from Wucheng Bingmasi realized that something was wrong and came to stop Xianyang from galloping, but they saw the men on horseback raising the banner of King Su.

The people from Wucheng Bingmasi didn't dare to stop them anymore, but they couldn't just let it go, so some went to report to their superiors, and some fell far behind Qianniuwei to prevent any changes.

Qianniuwei, who was riding a horse and raising a flag, was the first to surround Liu Ke's mansion. King Su got off his horse, stood in front of the gate and said coldly, "Go smash the door."

Immediately, Qian Niuwei took the order, and four or five strong men stretched out their feet to kick the gate of Liu Mansion, even though the ghosts and wolves inside didn't stop, until the gate was completely smashed.

Liu Kelian crawled out from inside, and he thought he was asking loudly, but in fact his voice was no louder than mosquitoes, "What does King Su mean?"

Su Wang sneered and patted the saber on his waist, unwilling to say a word of nonsense, "Chasing the house."

Liu Ke's legs softened all of a sudden, but he still stood firmly in front of King Su, stammering, "No, you can't do this without His Majesty's will!"

"Don't you know what stupid things you did yourself?" King Su kicked Liu Ke away, "Lao Tzu's saber was given by Shang Fang from the emperor's brother. why not?"

"I'm planning to go in and have a look, does Your Highness want to come with me?" Song Peiyu softly asked Chong Yi beside him.

Chong Yi leaned on the horse's back and stretched out his hand casually.

Although King Su smashed the door fiercely, he didn't do anything to the people in Liu Ke's house. He also focused on collecting evidence when ransacking the house, so Qian Niuwei's actions were very careful.

Song Peiyu really came to gain knowledge as he said, and went to places with many people.

Finally, he walked around Liu Ke's yard. When he passed a plum tree, Song Peiyu paused as if inadvertently. An oiled paper bag fell out of his sleeve and landed on the root of the tree, half buried in the snow and half exposed.

All done, Song Peiyu was about to go out to look for Chongyi, when he suddenly felt a gaze that couldn't be ignored, he looked over by feeling, and was facing his unusually deep eyes.

"Your Highness?!" Song Peiyu stared at the people in the canopy in disbelief, "Why are you here?"