I became the leopard cub of the paranoid emperor

When Luo Bai heard Chu Yuzhao's voice, he turned his head to look. After seeing the black-bottomed golden dragon robe and the handsome face behind the bead curtain, his eyes lit up suddenly.

Ah, I said why I couldn't find him, it turned out that he was sitting here alone.

The guards who had been standing by the side of the hall responded loudly, and stepped forward quickly, grabbing backhanded the officials who had been beaten the hardest.

The officials didn't dare to resist, they obediently had their hands cut behind their backs, and stood facing Chu Yuzhao.The rest of the guards continued to search among the crowd, finding and arresting those who beat each other with wat boards, took off their boots and threw them.

Luo Bai was looking at Chu Yuzhao, but he caught a glimpse of a guard walking in this direction from the corner of his eye. He panicked and quickly hid behind the young man beside him, lowered his head and whispered nervously: "I'm not making noise. , I'm not noisy, I'm not noisy..."

The young man glanced slightly sideways, and before the guard came over, he moved half a step to the side, completely blocking Luo Bai.

The guard passed the two of them, and stopped in front of an official with only one boot nearby: "Lord Wu, I'm sorry." After speaking, he twisted the official's hands behind his back and pushed him out.

After the surroundings became quiet, the young man turned his head and whispered again: "It's nothing, I just caught an old wild cat."

"Then has he left?"

"left already."

Luo Bai let out a long breath, and said gratefully: "Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Luo Bai thought for a while, and then said: "Then what's your name? I'll bring you almond cake next time."

The young man raised his hand to half cover his mouth: "My name is Chu Yu, and I will serve that Yu to the king's side."

"Ah, oh, my name is Luo Bai, Luo Bai is Bai."

"I know, you just said, shhh, stop talking."

"Okay."

The hall was quiet, and the guards retreated to the side of the hall. A row of officials participating in the brawl stood in the middle, while the others stood on both sides, all silent.

Chu Yuzhao was sitting on the dragon seat, with a gloomy look on his pale face. He tapped lightly with his right hand on the armrest, and said slowly, "Cheng Shangshu, Li Shangshu , Wang Shilang, really good skill."

The few people who had been playing happily at the beginning did not move at this time. Some people looked straight ahead with a wooden face, and some looked to the side with their necks bent, their faces full of dissatisfaction.

"There are more than a million people living on both sides of the Chaojiang River. The imperial court allocates money to control the river every year, but there are floods every summer. This year, the area with severe floods broke through the dams and flooded tens of thousands of houses and tens of thousands of hectares of fields. " Chu Yuzhao turned his gaze coldly to the disheveled official in the middle, "Li Shangshu."

"The minister is here."

"I ask you, where did all the money go?"

"The minister is wronged!"

Li Shangshu fell to his knees with a puff, and Cheng Shangshu, who was fighting with him beside him, snorted triumphantly, and raised his mouth to blow away a strand of gray hair that blocked his sight.

"Your Majesty, I send officials from the Ministry of Industry to supervise the work every year, and they all bring back detailed record books. The book weighs dozens of catties, and it is all kept in the office. Whether it is procurement expenses or sandstone labor, every penny They are all recorded in the book, and they all have their sources, so I can submit them now for His Majesty to review."

Luo Bai originally shrank behind Chu Yu, but at this moment he couldn't help poking his head out to look. He saw an old man in a dark red official uniform, kneeling on the ground, beating his chest with his hands and shouting for injustice, watching It's really pitiful.

He looked at Chu Yuzhao above him again, and saw that the pretty brother was silent, with only those beautiful eyes hanging down, with no expression of joy or anger, so he moved a step to the side, wanting to see more clearly.

Chu Yu also gave way to let him step forward, and asked in a voice that could only be heard by two people: "Do you think what he said is true?"

"Who?"

"The kneeling old man."

Luo Bai didn't understand what the old man said just now, but seeing his pitiful appearance, he also replied in a low voice: "It's true."

Chu Yu smiled slightly, and continued to whisper to him: "Let me ask you, an old cat, who ate a lot of dried fish on other people's plates, left a complete set of bone spurs, fish heads and tails, and said that A fish with all its tail and tail is a complete fish. Tell me, is the old cat telling the truth or lying?"

"False." Luo Bai frowned gradually, and asked, "Is your cat so annoying?"

"It can be regarded as my cat, but I am not its real owner."

With an idle smile on Chu Yu's face, after saying this ambiguous sentence, she turned her head to look at the kneeling people in the hall.Luo Bai didn't ask any more questions, and just looked at Chu Yuzhao who was above him frequently.

At this time in the hall, the Cheng Shangshu who was fighting with Li Shangshu was also kneeling beside him now, his face lost the complacency at the beginning, and he beat his chest and stamped his feet just like Li Shangshu.

"...People from the Ministry of Industry come to block the door of the Ministry of Households every day, but last month they just sent a batch of military rations to the Ningzuo border. Even though the treasury has been emptied, it is not enough. Although 15 taels of silver can only be used for [-], the Ministry of Household Affairs has been trying to fill this hole..."

Luo Bai listened absent-mindedly, but his eyes were on Chu Yuzhao, seeing his hand tapping the armrest of the chair unhurriedly, feeling that his fingers were straight and long, and he really liked it indescribably.

"Do you think this old man is lying?" Chu Qiang whispered again in his ear.

"Ah?" Luo Bai was startled, his eyes moved away from Chu Yuzhao, and fell on Cheng Shangshu, and he replied casually, "He's about to cry, isn't he lying?"

Chu Yu clicked his tongue, and said again: "Another old cat, every time it passes the small dried fish in front of it, it will secretly snatch a few, and then say that there are only so many fish in the plate. What do you say? , which one is more annoying than the old cat at the beginning?"

"I hate them all." Luo Bai looked at him sympathetically, "Why do you have cats like this in your house?"

Chu Yu shrugged and said, "Anyway, I'm not their owner, whatever you want." He raised a finger to his lips, "Stop talking, let's watch a play."

Luo Bai thought that it was you who were talking to me, and kept talking about your cat, but thinking that this man had blocked the guards for him just now, and that he still owed him and the few almond cakes he promised to give him, he didn't make a sound. .

After the two ministers from the Ministry of Household Affairs finished crying, Chu Yuzhao, who had been silent with his eyes downcast, raised his eyes and looked at the kneeling people in the hall with deep eyes.

The two ministers were pulling their sleeves to wipe away their tears, their hearts shivered when they saw this gaze, and they kneeled up subconsciously.

In the silence, the two young eunuchs finished cleaning the crumbs of the teacups in the hall, brewed new tea and brought it up, gently placing it on the table in front of the dragon seat.

Chu Yuzhao leaned slightly, picked up the teacup with one hand, gently lifted the top layer with the lid of the cup with the other, and said in a calm voice without audible joy or anger: "Chuan Hongsi."

"Biography——Hongsi!" The imperial eunuch passed on loudly.

Everyone looked at the gate of the palace, and saw a non-commissioned officer in a black military uniform striding in, with a heavy sack on his shoulder.His short boots were full of mud, his clothes were also stained with mud, and his face was dusty, as if he had just rushed back to the capital from somewhere.

When Luo Bai saw him, he immediately recognized that this was Hongsi who picked him up to Beijing, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of intimacy when he saw an old friend.It's just that at this moment, he also knew that he couldn't go out to say hello, so he just put his hands behind his back and happily tiptoed twice on the spot.

Following his movement, Chu Yuzhao, who was putting down the teacup, glanced to the left side of the hall.When it landed on a thin figure who was looking up and looking up, the phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and then calmly looked away.

Hong Si walked to the front of the hall without squinting, threw the sack on his shoulders to the ground, knelt down and saluted, "Your Majesty, Hong Si, kowtow."

"Pingshen, Hongsi, I sent you to Zhenkou and Qianyuan to investigate the flood, what did you find?"

As soon as Chu Yuzhao finished speaking, Li Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, who was kneeling below, suddenly changed his face, and Cheng Shangshu beside him relaxed.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Hong Si stood up and replied loudly: "I was ordered by Your Majesty to go to Zhenkou and Qianyuan to investigate the local water control situation, and I found a problem."

He bent down to untie the sack beside him, grabbed the bottom and fell down, and there was a pile of sand and gravel on the ground, with a few dead branches mixed in the middle.

"My lords, can you guess where this pile of dirt that the servants fell on the ground came from?" Hong Si cupped his hands to the surroundings.

The officials whispered to each other, and someone asked loudly: "Since it is for water control, did Master Hong dig the soil from Zhenkou and Qianyuan by the Chaojiang River?"

Hong Si: "That's natural."

"The fertile fields washed away by the flooding of the Chaojiang River?" asked another person.

Hong Si shook his head in denial.

"I see. There are rotten branches in it. They must have been dug from the woods next to the embankment."

Hong Si continued to shake his head.

Li Shangshu, who was kneeling on the ground, became even more flustered, and his face became pale.

The people present were still guessing. Some said it was the sediment dug out from the bottom of the Chaojiang River, and some said it was the river sediment in the submerged area.

Luo Bai didn't care about what they said, he only cared about Chu Yuzhao who was sitting at the head of the hall, kept peeking at him with his eyes, and imitated his movements, raised his left hand, rubbed his chin with his thumb, and made a face It's secretive.

Hearing these conjectures, Hong Si looked back at Chu Yuzhao, and saw that he nodded slightly to him, then turned around and interrupted: "My lords, the bag of soil that Hong Si brought back is neither from the forest nor from the forest. It's not the sand at the bottom of the Chaojiang River, but the soil I dug out from the embankments of Zhenkou and Qianyuan prefectures with my own hands."

As soon as Hong Si finished speaking, a pot exploded in the hall.

"What? Did I hear correctly? The soil dug out of the embankment? Aren't the embankments all built with the strongest Qinggang rock?"

"Yes, not long ago Li Shangshu was still reporting, saying that Qinggangyan is not very good."

Li Shangshu was already sweating profusely at this time, and the dark wet marks on the back of the court clothes were getting bigger and bigger. He looked to the right side for help, then turned back and continued to kneel.

Just as Chu Yuzhao was about to speak, someone suddenly walked out of the crowd, stood in the center of the hall, held a wat board in his hand and saluted: "Your Majesty, I have something to say."

After Chu Yuzhao heard this person's voice, his thick black brows frowned slightly, and a cold light flashed in his eyes, and his whole body emitted a strong hostility at that moment.

But he immediately regained his composure and concealed that emotion without a trace.

Others didn't notice Chu Yuzhao's sudden change, but Luo Bai, who had been staring at him, could see it.

Although his mind is weak, he can keenly perceive Chu Yuzhao's mood changes, and when he realizes that he doesn't like to talk, he can't help but also stare at him.