The third year after the death of the emperor

Although this sleep was deep, it didn't last long.

The chirping of birds outside the window rang out one after another. It was hard to find birds willing to wake up so early in such a cold weather, and still chirping so happily.Xie Wen was woken up by the sound, had a headache and was drowsy, raised her hand to hook Xiao Xuanqian's neck in a daze, and rubbed it slowly.

His voice was hoarse and soft, and at this moment there was a very dissatisfied hum, which seemed very attractive to the ears.Xiao Xuanqian didn't want to wake him up, he had a rare good sleep last night.

His Huaiyu, his life-saving prescription and cure, his sleeping incense and aphrodisiac.Xiao Xuanqian put his hand on the other person's back and patted it lightly. Xie Wen's breathing was much more stable, and he fell asleep again as if curled up in a warm nest.

But in the first few days of the new year, there were firecrackers at dawn.Not long after Xie Wen fell asleep, he was woken up by the sound outside. He had a terrible headache, and happened to have one hand obediently moved over to press his temple. Xie Wen closed his eyes and was quiet for a while, suddenly felt something, opened his eyes squinted.

The two suddenly looked at each other.

Xie Wen looked at his face, and the memory in his mind was loaded into his mind one by one, scene by scene. Although it was intermittent and not very coherent, what he did could be deduced clearly.

. . . Alcohol is gut-piercing poison.

He looked at Xiao Xuanqian expressionlessly, but in his mind, he was thinking about what to do to leave this planet immediately, or to end this life immediately.

The little emperor...or His Highness the Ninth Prince, he couldn't tell the difference between the other's dual personalities just by looking at his appearance.Xiao Xuanqian stared at him for a long time, then whispered: "Are your eyes sore?"

This sentence can be said to poke at a weak point and hit a triple red crit.Xie Wen's thoughts froze, she looked away calmly, looked at the roof, and said without ups and downs in her sentence: "I drank too much yesterday."

Xiao Xuanqian poured him a cup of tea, which was warm, and stuffed the cup into Xie Wen's hand: "The student knows."

"I don't remember what I said to you." Xie Wen's tone was calm and serious, "If I said something inappropriate, don't take it seriously."

Xiao Xuanqian gave a habitual "hmm" at first, then frowned and said, "I've taken it seriously."

"Xiao Jiu..."

"You called me husband last night." Xiao Xuanqian said.

Fortunately, the sip of tea that Xie Wen handed to his lips hadn't been drunk, otherwise he would have choked.Holding the teacup in both hands, he retorted in an unpredictable tone: "I don't."

Xiao Xuanqian said: "It seems that you remember."

"..." If it wasn't for the fear of smashing this man's brain, Xie Wen would have thrown the teacup in his hand on his face. He felt deeply ashamed and annoyed at confessing himself, and felt very insecure. Close the shells. "Don't mention it any more."

Xiao Xuanqian shut up obediently.

Xie Wen washed and changed her clothes, and drank warm hangover soup. The situation finally eased, but her eyes and throat were still in poor condition, as if she had been severely bullied.

The jade lion lying next to him finished licking its fur, and jumped onto Xie Wen's lap with graceful steps, shrank its limbs, and collapsed into his arms like a fur ball.

Before Xie Wen tidied herself up, Xiao Xuanqian calmly handed over a warm towel to apply to the teacher's eyes.Xie Wen held the cat in her arms, and pressed the towel in her hand to relieve her tired and sore eyes. The long hair behind her was naturally gathered in Xiao Jiu's hands.

Xiao Xuanqian combed his hair silently and patiently.

For a while, Xie Wen didn't quite understand the ancient people's obsession with combing their hair, not to mention that they were between two men. He hugged the cat and closed his eyes to calm his mind. He was so afraid of being close to something, why did he sneak into his arms after being drunk, did he not learn enough lessons, or did he want to suffer again?

This is too embarrassing.

Although this side was only shown in front of Xiao Jiu, Xie Wen felt that she had already died socially, and she only hoped that this life would pass by once she closed her eyes, and that she would be a new person in the next life without drinking.

The more he resists remorse, the clearer the picture of last night is. Xie Wen is not the kind of brain that goes blank after drinking. On the contrary, he is extremely sharp and has a vivid memory when he is attentive. It is only in the past two years that he has exhausted his energy and often has a headache. , not as good as before.

Xie Wen thought of Xiao Xuanqian's face - last night, the other party called him vaguely, obedient and obedient, as if he was really a beast that had removed its claws and teeth, and could only lick his wound with a wet tongue... …

Wounds... no, I wasn't hurt.Xie Wen closed her eyes, settled down, and collected herself.His tenacity is so strong that it bursts out at the right time, and he denies his own weakness and refuses to relax.

The jade hairpin penetrated into the hair, and the subtle friction sound rang in the ears along with the breathing.

Xiao Xuanqian said: "Okay."

The jade lion in his arms raised his head and licked Xie Wen's fingers. The two were relatively silent, and fell into an awkward situation for a while. Only the big white cat was squeezed into Xie Wen's arms, swaying and acting like a broom with a long tail. Tong stepped forward, blinked at Xie Wen, and hinted: "Father, brother Xiao Jian wishes you New Year's greetings."

"Okay." Xie Wen breathed a sigh of relief, "I got up late."

He stepped forward to open the door, but sitting in the outer compartment besides Jian Fengzhi, there was also a well-dressed and well-behaved Guo Jin. Supervisor Guo respectfully saluted him and said, "Everything is renewed, Mr. Xie." Everything goes well, every year is auspicious.”

"Thank you." Xie Wen also congratulated, glanced at Jian Fengzhi with a strange expression, and let the two of them come in together.

As soon as Jian Fengzhi entered the door, he saw the once cold and unapproachable king sitting not far away, as if he had just washed up, looking at the charcoal in front of him like a child. It is probably indispensable to keep the room warm. His care.

Seeing His Majesty pretending to be sitting there, Jian Fengzhi's eyelids twitched. He leaned against Xie Wen and whispered: "Are you alright?"

Xie Wen said: "What can I do?"

"Okay," Jian Fengzhi said, "Your Majesty seems to have been wronged. Could it be that Tong Tong really belongs to both of you? Or was it you who ran with the ball back then?"

Xie Wen was puzzled: "Are you sick too?"

Jian Fengzhi stopped talking, touched the tip of his nose, wondering: "Who else has it?"

Xie Wen kept silent and looked to the other side.The two guests seemed to have a tacit understanding. Xiao Jian came over to greet her, and Guo Jin talked to the little emperor directly after saluting. Because of the presence of Jian Fengzhi, Guo Jin was cautious and kept his words down, so he couldn't hear what they were talking about. What.

Xiao Xuanqian was sitting on a narrow seat. This place was neither majestic nor luxurious, but when he was there, he naturally had an aura of calmness. He was reading with a piece of paper in his hand, and he didn't know what was on it. .

Jian Fengzhi just turned around here, and after confirming that Xie Wen was fine, there was a sound of a book falling on the other side. Xie Wen turned her eyes and saw those memorials with dark yellow paper covers falling down. Jin fell to his knees with a plop, and knocked his head on the ground.

Xiao Xuanqian raised his hands to cover the upper half of his face, pressed the acupuncture points on both sides very hard, he quickly put down his hands, and there was a sense of displeasure, anger, helplessness, and deep exhaustion in his black eyes. mood.

Guo Jin kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, please return to Beijing. If you delay any longer, you will miss the original time limit for returning to Beijing."

Xiao Xuanqian said: "Are you trying to force me?"

Guo Jin's shoulders trembled: "This old slave doesn't dare, and neither do adults."

"Then this scripture," Xiao Xuanqian kicked the broken notebook away, "Pan Wenzhuo wrote this scripture himself, is he tired of working?"

Just when Xiao Xuanqian was about to kick this thing into the brazier, the abandoned memorial was picked up by one hand.He looked up angrily, saw the teacher's slender and thin hand, and suddenly became dumb.

Xie Wen lowered her head and tidied up the messy inner pages, and said, "Huh? Xuan paper is quite expensive."

Normally, the inner pages of the general memorials are made of bamboo paper, not to mention this kind of time when the emperor is away and things are not always available.Xie Wen opened the memorial and glanced at it, and glanced at the long string of beautiful words in front of it, thinking about it and looking down, couldn't help but smile.

Xiao Xuanqian stared at his expression, seeing that he was actually smiling, he felt a great deal of sulking again, his heart, liver and lungs were about to be twisted into a rope and torn apart, he was so stuffy that he couldn't lose his temper with Huaiyu , I just pushed the brazier heavily with an iron hook, and the edge of the charcoal was worn away, splashing high sparks.

Guo Jin was still kneeling on the ground, even the hem of his clothes had been burned by sparks, but he didn't get up until Xiao Xuanqian put down the iron hook and said, "Get up."

Guo Dajian immediately stood up with lowered eyebrows, as if nothing had happened just now.

Xie Wen saw the end all the way, and said: "Pan Wenzhuo, a great talent, is as famous as Shen Yuexiao, and his writing style is so handsome."

Xiao Xuanqian snorted, gritted his teeth and said, "Why are you praising him?"

Xie Wen glanced at him: "Want me to praise you? To praise that you are 26 years old and haven't found a national mother for Daqi, and the harem is so empty that the courtiers are desperate to match you up and choose your concubine?"

Xiao Xuanqian said: "Then you still laugh?"

"It's so well written, why can't I laugh." Xie Wen said, "Besides, it's true. How many people are there in the Xiao family, you, your sister, Meier, and your paralyzed and blind fifth brother, ministers If you don't worry, you will be cut off, the main reason is that your family really has a throne to inherit."

Xiao Xuanqian stared into his eyes, stood up abruptly, hurriedly walked in front of Xie Wen, then turned his head around for a few steps, walked around in this small building where walking was difficult, and suddenly said : "I'm quitting, I'll just abdicate now, and I'll write an imperial edict, saying that I have committed a lot of crimes, that I can't choose a concubine, and I only have the emperor in my heart, and I forced the emperor to follow me..."

Before he could speak halfway, he was hit head-on by the book.Xiao Xuanqian caught it in anticipation, and heard Xie Wen say indifferently: "You still have the face to say it."

Xiao Xuanqian stepped forward and hugged him suddenly—suddenly and hastily, but it was different from the kind of hug that locked him up. He was not so fierce and not so hard. Xie Wen could push away or hug him from him at any time. escape through the gap.

Xie Wen didn't feel the fear that follows him everywhere, he froze for a moment, and the little bastard hugged him for a while, as if he was not so uncomfortable, and then slowly let go, with a solemn expression: "Teacher, do you?" My queen?"

Xie Wen: "...don't talk nonsense when I think you're better."

This refusal was expected, Xiao Xuanqian threw the memorial into the brazier with his backhand, watched it being swallowed by the fire viciously, and said: "Pan Wenzhuo must have no good intentions."

"He did it for your own good." Xie Wen said.He remembered that Pan Wenzhuo was a straight man, and there was a virtuous wife who was said to have no salt in his family. After marrying his wife, Pan Wenzhuo and his daughter-in-law had held each other for three years, and they have been in love ever since.

If one day, all the officials in the court know about his affair with the little emperor, then Mr. Pan is the last to know, and when he knows, he has to grow his mouth into a circle that can be stuffed with eggs Son, begging His Majesty to fail, then crashed to death on the dragon chair.

It's so graphic that Xie Wen has already imagined the scene.He sighed softly: "It's not easy. As a courtier, I still have to worry about your affairs in the house."

Xiao Xuanqian didn't understand why Xie Wen still felt sympathetic to Pan Wenzhuo. He leaned over, smelling his ears warmly, gritted his teeth, and said with blatant jealousy: "No, he has no right to be good to me. I only want you to be good to me."

Xie Wen covered her ears and took half a step back: "Psychopathy."

He paused, remembering that the other party was really mentally ill, and softened his tone: "I'll take Tongtong out to pay New Year's greetings, don't be self-willed, don't leave things behind when you leave, I'm living a good life here."

After he said this, he left without even looking at it. If Xiao Xuanqian hadn't let Xie Wen cry until his shoulders were wet last night, he would really believe his calm, indifferent and ruthless face.

He suddenly showed weakness and said: "Teacher, I am now...you know what is going on with me. I am going back now. I am not very familiar with the government affairs in Beijing. If I mess up one or two items, it seems that my mistake is not a big deal. , but the decree is implemented to the localities, and the people of Liming who are affected will suffer and suffer a lot."

Xie Wen's footsteps slowed down for a moment, but he quickly picked up Tongtong and pushed Jian Fengzhi, as if he didn't hear anything.

The voice behind him continued.

"I know that the teacher has excellent vision and considerate thoughts. I am like this now. You don't love me. At least you are thinking about these ministers who have worked hard. It doesn't matter if I let future generations poke a hole in the back and scold me, but they are Hold back and want to follow me to manage a peaceful and prosperous world.

"I have cleared up the names and details of the students, staff and scribes of the common clan that you valued before, and called them from the local area. I know they are talented, but I don't know how to employ them. Only the teacher knows how to use them... this world Although it is mine, in the final analysis, it is the teacher's game of chess, if you stop halfway through the game, wouldn't it be boring..."

Xie Wen's figure completely disappeared in front of his eyes, and Xiao Xuanqian stopped talking. He stared deeply at the staircase where the other party's back disappeared, and turned his head with restrained eyes. Shocked and surprised expression.

He is different from Cui Sheng, Cui Sheng has followed him for a long time, and he has seen the Ninth Prince so pitiful and impeccable, but Guo Jin was brought under Xiao Xuanqian after he supervised the country, he never saw Xiao Xuanqian bow his head.

Guo Jin put the two words just now in his mouth and pondered, the more he pondered, the more he tasted the smell of white lotus that sells badly.But these few words really sounded appropriate, very demeanor of a wise emperor.

When their eyes collided, Guo Jin hastily lowered his head, but Xiao Xuanqian didn't care.He said, "What did Gao Kun say?"

"Gao Shizhong said that he also agrees with Mr. Pan..."

"I didn't ask you this." Xiao Xuanqian said impatiently, "I asked him if he urged me to go back."

Guo Jin wiped off his sweat and made a tour of the south. His Majesty's temperament has really changed a bit. He said respectfully: "Master Gao told this old slave that if you don't set off on the fourth day of the lunar new year, I advise you to go back. If you can't leave after the fifth day, he will personally Advise."

Xiao Xuanqian said: "I know he has a tough temper, and he would come here to remonstrate this virtue every now and then."

He sat back in a corner of the small building, opened the window a little bit, and then continued to read the memorial brought by Guo Jin, without raising his head, he said: "You take these back today and tell Gao Kun that I have something important Things have to be done, if you don't return to the emperor teacher, even if I go back, I won't live for three months."

Guo Jin's heart suddenly slipped to his throat, and he said quickly: "Your Majesty, you—"

"No," Xiao Xuanqian knew what he was going to ask, and pointed to his head expressionlessly, "it's the problem here."

Guo Jin choked for a moment, he was by his side, serving the emperor with pen and ink in this place far away from Ziwei Palace.Seeing Xiao Xuanqian's more casual posture and relaxed expression than before, he couldn't help but turned his head and looked around, and suddenly realized—as long as he can keep Mr. Xie by his side, it is better than any advice, even the dog The jade lion who ran away with the emperor, and the little ancestor who was served by seven or eight people, all saw a circle of fat.

While Guo Jin'an was serving the pen and ink in an orderly manner, Xiao Xuanqian stretched out his hand and took out a copy from the memorial, which was written by Gao Kun, the Minister of the Ministry of Servants. When I brought up the pen, it was not as clear and logical as before, but after thinking for a while, I only replied a few sentences.

He asked: "How is it?"

Guo Jin didn't dare to answer, looked at Xiao Xuanqian's expression, but the king whose temperament changed a little asked himself: "It's not very good, right?"

Guo Jin watched helplessly as he took the paper away, put it aside very preciously, and then continued to reply to others, a strange thought suddenly popped up in Guo Supervisor's mind: Your Majesty, this will not be...... Poor...

The author has something to say: Yes, yes.