Salted fish, he thought about it

At midnight, the carriage drove to the palace.

Jiang Juan hadn't seen the capital city in the early morning yet, so he opened the curtain curiously, and it was pitch black, except for the Imperial Guards who were patrolling routinely, walking steadily.

Looking at it, Jiang Juan's thoughts drifted away again.

According to the plot, after Emperor Hongxing fainted this time, he couldn't afford to get sick, and the harem withered, so Emperor Hongxing had no choice but to recruit generals from among the dwarfs and let the eldest prince manage the government on his behalf.

The First Prince had too much contact with Marquis Anping, and Marquis Anping was highly valued by his subordinates. Later, when disasters struck, the Grand Prince sent Marquis Anping to the south, which also established a certain reputation for Marquis Anping among the people.

But—Eldest Prince, he seems to have offended the prince.

Marquis of Anping, he and the prince had offended once again.

Jiang Juan murmured, "My lord, where is your fief? Why haven't you mentioned it before? Otherwise... we will go to your fief tomorrow?"

"No, not tomorrow, after watching His Majesty, how about we go out of Beijing overnight?"

He seemed to be thinking about it, but his brows were furrowed showing a bit of worry. Xue Fangli looked at him a few times, and asked Jiang Juan, "Why did you leave Beijing overnight?"

"What are you afraid of?"

Jiang Juan couldn't talk to him about the follow-up plot, so he could only say nervously, "Your Majesty is ill."

Xue Fangli: "Huh? So what if he falls ill?"

Jiang Juan: "...our crime has offended many people, don't you want to run away?"

Xue Fangli lowered his head, gently pinched Jiang Juan's face, and said lazily, "Don't worry about what you should worry about, but worry about what you shouldn't worry about."

"Don't say that your father fell ill, even if the sky falls, this king will support you. What are you afraid of?"

Jiang Juan's face was pinched into a ball. He looked at Xue Fangli, but he was not comforted. He was still very worried.

The prince refuses to leave, what should I do?

Or...he just slipped away by himself?

Alas, not good.

He had to find a way to persuade the prince to leave together.

With an extremely heavy heart, Jiang Juan fell into deep thought, but did not realize that Xue Fangli had been looking at him.

Offended many people, run away.

What are you running away from?

Xue Fangli snorted silently.

Today, he finally knows what the boy is always worried about.No wonder I never let him suffer the slightest grievance, but the boy is always terrified.

He is afraid of offending people.

He was afraid that something would happen to Emperor Hongxing, they would no longer have a backing, and they would be plotted against.

So cute.

"This king is your backer."

Xue Fangli smiled and said, "It doesn't matter how many people you offend. No matter how much they hate you when I have this king in their hearts, they will worship you in a respectful and respectful way."

"But……"

Jiang Juan was still worried, he pursed his lips, but he didn't say anything after all, Xue Fangli looked thoughtful when he saw him like this.

Find a way to completely dispel the teenager's worries.

There was nothing to worry about, nothing for him to worry about.

Not long after, Jiang Juan and Xue Fangli rushed to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

They were considered to be late, and many people had already arrived outside the hall.

The eldest prince Xue Chaohua knelt on the ground, weeping and crying: "Father! Father! You must be careful, Father—!"

He was crying with sincerity, but Jiang Juan couldn't help but asked Xue Fangli in a low voice: "Didn't Your Majesty just faint? Why does he seem to be crying, crying——crying so badly."

Originally, I wanted to say "crying for mourning", but Jiang Juan didn't feel very well, so he changed the word, Xue Fangli said lightly, "I'm afraid that if you cry too softly, your father won't be able to hear his fistful heart." .”

Xue Chaohua: "..."

Jiang Juan spoke in a low voice, but Xue Fangli didn't deliberately lower his voice. When Xue Chaohua heard it, he couldn't help but shut his mouth embarrassingly and cursed inwardly.

If you run into these two couples back and forth, nothing good will happen.

Lots of bullshit.

With a "creak", the door of the Hall of Mental Cultivation was pushed open, Director Wang came out, he said with relief: "Your Majesty is awake, there is no serious problem now, ladies and highnesses don't have to worry."

As soon as the words fell, the singing sounded again outside the hall.

"The Empress Dowager is here—!"

"Emperor, my emperor!"

The empress dowager walked in quickly with the help of the palace maid, the empress dowager was different from the concubine and the prince, no matter how worried the concubine and the prince were, they had to wait for his summons, but the empress dowager didn't need it.

She was about to walk straight in, but Director Wang hesitated and said: "Empress Dowager, Your Majesty has told you that if you come, please go back and rest. After all, it is not too early, and he is fine."

The empress dowager was taken aback for a moment, and asked sadly, "My lord, are you still unwilling to see Ai's family?"

Without any reply, Emperor Hongxing's meaning could not be more obvious. Director Wang smiled and persuaded: "Empress Dowager, don't think too much, Your Majesty is just unwell, I'm afraid it will make you sick, you..."

"Ten years," said the empress dowager, "you and the Ai family have been angry for ten years. The Ai family gave birth to you and raised you, but in the end it was only for a woman, and you have hated the Ai family so far!?"

"Wow—cough cough."

In the hall, Emperor Hongxing finally made a sound, Manager Wang smiled apologetically, and ran in quickly.

After a while, Manager Wang came out again, the Empress Dowager looked at him earnestly, but Manager Wang said to Xue Fangli: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty wants to see you."

Xue Fangli said "Yes", looked at Jiang Juan, and signaled him not to run around, Jiang Juan nodded, and Xue Fangli left.

With a sound of "creak", the door of the Hall of Mental Cultivation was closed again. The Empress Dowager looked at it sadly for a long time, but in the end she hated it and gritted her teeth, "Your Majesty, you would rather see this bastard than I don't want to see Ai's family."

"Evil star, the Ai family shouldn't have kept him alive back then, what a evil star!"

The empress dowager's tone was desolate, her figure swayed slightly, Concubine Mei hurriedly stepped forward to help her, the empress dowager said with tears in her eyes: "The Ai family did those things for the sake of the emperor, all for the sake of the emperor, how can he resent Aijia?"

Concubine Mei followed her words to comfort her: "Empress Dowager, don't be angry, Your Majesty will figure it out sooner or later."

The empress dowager shook her head, still gritted her teeth and said: "This evil star killed his mother and concubine, and now he is here to kill my emperor's son. How could he be like this—" "Is the ghost still lingering?"

Jiang Juan was once detained by the empress dowager, and he knew that her evil star was the scolding prince, and he also roughly knew what the empress dowager had done.

——The fire in Chunshen Palace seemed to be inseparable from the Empress Dowager, and later she used an excuse to resolve the punishment and locked the prince and his poppy's body together.

Is this for Emperor Hongxing?

Jiang Juan didn't think so.

But that's not important, what's important is that Emperor Hongxing didn't see her, but the empress dowager blamed the prince blindly. For no reason, Jiang Juan was still flustered because he had offended too many people on the way into the palace, but now he thought about it.

Anyway, she has already offended many people, and the Empress Dowager has never offended her before, so if she offends a little more, it won't do much.

"The Empress Dowager..."

Jiang Juan said slowly: "You believe in Buddhism, and there are three karma in Buddhism - body, speech, and mind. If you insult the prince, you have created oral karma, and you are still talking badly. It seems that you will fall into the three evil ways."

The three evil realms are hells. When the empress dowager heard this, she was furious and said, "What did you say?"

Jiang Juan pretended that she didn't hear clearly, and repeated it word for word. The Empress Dowager asked him coldly, "You curse Aijia to go to hell after death?"

Jiang Juan said seriously: "It's not a curse, you believe in Buddhism, I'm just reminding you not to stoma, it's very serious."

"you--!"

Jiang Juan thought of something again, and asked her: "Empress Dowager, do you have any basis for saying that Yu Meiren was killed by the prince? If there is, let it be. If not, this is another lie, and it is also one of oral karma."

The empress dowager laughed angrily, "What a lie, you know a lot."

"Empress Dowager, don't take it to heart," Concubine Mei said with a smile, "Princess, you really know a lot. You said that the Palace of Compassion and Peace is deserted. Last time I saw a cat with four ears, I wanted to give it to you. Carry it, but the princess also said that you believe in Buddhism, you can’t raise cats and dogs, and it’s easy to create bad karma, so you finally took it back and raised it yourself.”

She seemed to be persuading the empress dowager, but in fact, she was not kind at all, and what she said seemed like Jiang Juan wanted to keep the four-eared cat, so she used the saying that Buddhist believers are not allowed to keep pets as an excuse.

Sure enough, the Empress Dowager's face sank a little when she heard this.

Seeing this, Concubine Mei curled her lips slightly.

Concubine Mei gritted her teeth with hatred every time she thought about her pendant. Xue Fangli was so deceitful. He forced it out of her hand and gave it to a bastard. Make good use of it.

After a pause, Concubine Mei said to Jiang Juan again: "You, what are you doing against the Empress Dowager? Hurry up and make amends to her. After all, the Empress Dowager is also an elder, how can you contradict her?"

Concubine Mei seemed to be a peacemaker, but in fact, she was deliberately provoking trouble.

When she said this, the empress dowager also realized that she was speaking against Jiang Juan. The empress dowager snorted coldly, "It's really uneducated, why don't you make amends to the Ai family?"

What kind of crime is there to apologize for? The empress dowager said so many bad things about the lord, and she never apologized to the lord. Jiang Juan said quietly: "But empress dowager, I am just afraid that you have forgotten the Buddhist taboos, so I kindly remind you, why do you have to do this?" Apologize?"

The empress dowager asked him: "According to what you say, the Ai family has to thank you?"

Jiang Juan thought for a while, and answered her: "That's unnecessary, I just mentioned it in passing, to help others."

The empress dowager was sarcastic, but Jiang Juan climbed up the pole, choking the empress dowager herself. She said darkly, "The last time I saw you, I didn't realize that you are so eloquent."

This is to praise him, Jiang Juan said modestly: "It's okay, not very eloquent."

The empress dowager was really laughed at by him, and she stared at Jiang Juan several times. She didn't want to provoke that mad dog again——Xue Fangli was not afraid to wear shoes when he was barefoot. Last time, Jiang Juan just copied a few With just a few pages of scriptures, her Compassionate Palace was almost turned upside down.

But now, the Empress Dowager was really angry, she gritted her teeth, and said angrily: "You just grew up in the countryside, it's so unseemly!"

As she said that, she walked towards Jiang Juan, raising her hand and about to slap her—"Empress Dowager!"

A figure flashed past, and someone stood in front of Jiang Juan. In addition, the empress dowager's slap was also stopped, but it was another person—Jiang Sentao. At the same time, Jiang Juan felt that someone was pulling him back, and he turned his head At first glance, it was the son-in-law Su Feiyue.

As for the person in front of him, Jiang Juan was a stranger, but soon, Jiang Juan knew his identity.

The man cupped his hands and said, "Gu Yunzhi has seen the Empress Dowager."

Jiang Sentao and Su Feiyue also bowed to the Empress Dowager, took a step forward, and quietly protected Jiang Juan behind them. The Empress Dowager frowned and said, "You..."

Gu Yunzhi?

He should be Gu Puwang's father, Gu Xiang, right?

Jiang Juan looked at him, Gu Yunzhi seemed to have noticed something, turned his head slightly, as if he had misunderstood something, and gave Jiang Juan a soothing look.

"What's wrong with the empress dowager, she lost her temper with a junior?"

Gu Yunzhi smiled slightly, "Not at all."

Su Feiyue also nodded and said: "If you are angry with him, if you attack him, you will be the one who is angry at the end. The queen mother must take care."

That's all for Jiang Sentao. He has a special status and has something to do with Xue Fangli, so it's not surprising that he tried to stop him. Both Gu Yunzhi and Su Feiyue were facing Jiang Juan, which really surprised the Empress Dowager.

She looked them up and said with a smile: "Aijia will take care of himself. It's just that he repeatedly contradicted Aijia, and Aijia thought that someone should teach him the rules of the palace."

"So that's it," Gu Yunzhi nodded, "I'm also thinking, the Empress Dowager has always understood the righteousness, she will not punish the juniors for no reason, and she is not a small-hearted person."

Pausing for a moment, Gu Yunzhi said again: "Young generation, you have a lively temperament, but this livelyness makes it easy to speak out. It's just an unintentional mistake. It's not a contradictory thing. Don't take it to heart, Empress Dowager."

Gu Yunzhi said it was so, but turned the confrontation into outspokenness, and finally it became an unintentional mistake.

Since it was an unintentional mistake, the empress dowager was obsessed with teaching him the rules, as if he really had a small belly.

The empress dowager really couldn't care less about being worn by his high hat, not to mention that Gu Yunzhi was the minister of Emperor Hongxing, so the empress dowager would naturally treat him a little less, no matter how dissatisfied she was in her heart—— Being pointed out that ostomy industry will go to hell, she can only laugh and say: "Guxiang is right, junior, it's better to be lively."

Gu Yunzhi smiled and said, "Not bad."

Gu Yunzhi and the others made it clear that they wanted to protect Jiang Juan, and the empress dowager was not easy to refute face, so the big and small things were turned into small ones. The empress dowager was dissatisfied, and Mei Fei was even more unwilling, but I had no choice but to grit my teeth with hatred in my heart.

Emperor Hongxing didn't see him, the Empress Dowager stared at the Hall of Mental Cultivation for a few times, finally sighed, waved to the grand maid, and walked away staggeringly.

After she walked away, Jiang Sentao asked Jiang Juan, "Are you okay?"

Su Feiyue and Gu Yunzhi also looked at him with concerned eyes, Jiang Juan shook his head, "I'm fine."

But he was a little strange.General Jiang and his son-in-law were rescued by his grandfather, so it is not surprising that he cares about him, so why is Xiang Gu?

After thinking for a while, Jiang Juan asked directly, "Master Gu, did my grandfather... also save you?"

Gu Yun was taken aback, then smiled and said, "No."

Jiang Juan let out an "oh", feeling even more strange in his heart, but in the next second, Gu Yunzhi said again: "But he saved Pu Wang."

Jiang Juan: "..."

His grandfather is really a strange person.

It's fine if you love to save people, but the rescue is too precise, either the son-in-law or the general, or the general or the prime minister's son.

Jiang Juan was speechless.

As soon as the empress dowager left, the hall became quiet both inside and outside. Jiang Juan felt a little sleepy after such a silence, and he couldn't help yawning.

In this era, there were no entertainment facilities. Jiang Juan was used to going to bed early and waking up late. He rubbed his eyes a few times, and the door of the Hall of Mental Cultivation was finally opened, and Xue Fangli walked out.

Jiang Juan: "My lord..."

Xue Fangli looked at him a few times, but his brows were wrinkled. The young man's eyes were red, and there was water in his eyes, as if he had been bullied, but he didn't say anything, just said: "Father wants to see you."

Jiang Juan said in surprise, "Huh? See me?"

Xue Fangli nodded, "Yes."

Jiang Juan walked a few steps and found that the prince hadn't followed, so he asked again: "My lord, don't you come with me?"

Xue Fangli said: "You go first."

Jiang Juan had no choice but to walk into the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Emperor Hongxing was leaning on the dragon bed. When he saw him, he smiled and said, "Here we come."

Emperor Hongxing said: "My good boy, do you remember that day in the hall, I promised to reward and let him go?"

Jiang Juan was taken aback, "What day?"

After asking Jiang Juan, he remembered.Someone committed a crime in the bookstore, the prince reported to the official, but was blackmailed, Jiang Juan spoke for him - if the prince hadn't reported to the official with good intentions, the government would not have arrived in such a timely manner, maybe it would have caused a catastrophe, he should not have punished, It should be rewarded heavily, and Emperor Hongxing agreed.

Seeing his sudden realization, Emperor Hongxing coughed a few times, "Remember?"

Jiang Juan nodded, "Yes."

Emperor Hongxing said sadly: "Later, I was thinking, let go, no matter what it is, as long as I reward him, he probably won't like it, if I reward you, forget it, but I have never thought about rewarding him." What, I have an idea today."

Jiang Juan asked him curiously, "What is it?"

Emperor Hongxing smiled slightly and said, "I will reward you as the Crown Princess."

At the same time, Xue Fangli walked towards Concubine Mei step by step, with an extremely indifferent voice, "Concubine Mei, my princess seems to have cried a lot, and I want to ask you what's going on."

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