King's favor is hard to do

"Woooo..."

Du Yuzhang struggled desperately, and his ten fingers and nails were scratched with blood stains on the ground.But Xiao Xizi grabbed his collar and blocked his throat, and he soon lost his strength.Several young eunuchs roughly grabbed his limbs, dragged him out of Fengqi Palace, and stuffed him into the palace sedan chair.

The sedan chair leaves the ground and heads for the cleansing room.

Du Yuzhang stuffed the knot on his wrist into his mouth and gnawed hard.The hemp rope was rough, and his gums were bleeding, but Du Yuzhang didn't care about it, and tried his best to tear the rope loose.Du Yuzhang untied the ropes on his feet again, jumped to the door of the sedan chair and looked out—turning a corner here, he would pass Li Guangning's imperial study!

The sedan chair just turned a corner, Du Yuzhang jumped off the sedan chair and ran outside!

He yelled as he ran,

"Your Majesty, save me! I am Du Yuzhang! Come here..."

Unexpectedly, Xiao Xizi followed beside the sedan chair!Du Yuzhang had only run a few steps when a stone fell from behind him, hitting the back of his head!

The back of Du Yuzhang's head felt hot.When he felt the pain, his body could no longer be controlled, and he fell limp to the ground.

"Dishonest? I think you want to die! When cleaning your body, it is your grandpa Xi who decides whether to cut more or less! If you make trouble for grandpa Xi, then I will make you unable to stand up and spend the rest of your life. Just be a paralyzed man!"

With a ferocious face, Xiao Xizi picked up Du Yuzhang by the back of the neck, stuffed him back into the sedan chair, gagged him, and tightened several ropes around his body.Now, not to mention struggling, Du Yuzhang couldn't even move.

……

In the imperial study room, Li Guangning was reviewing the memorial.After reading a few words, he sneered and threw the memorial on the ground.

"Isn't it the one who played Du Yuzhang before? Now that he has obtained the iron scroll of the alchemy book, they all tell him how clean and capable he is, how wise and powerful I am! It's all nonsense! How can such a courtier govern the country for me? A bunch of idiots! "

At this time, I suddenly heard someone shouting outside.He raised his head and glanced at Wang Li.

"Who is this? Are you so ignorant of the rules? Listen, it sounds a bit like Du Yuzhang's voice."

"Your Majesty, this old slave is going to have a look!"

"Go ahead."

Li Guangning looked out of the window, but his mind wandered away—for some reason in the past few days, he often thought of that monster Du Yuzhang.Even when I hear irrelevant people shouting, I can think of him.

It seems that he should be given another house, which will be built behind the palace.It's more convenient to see you anytime you want.

……

On the path outside the Imperial Study Room.

Xiao Xizi just got into the sedan chair and pulled the curtain of the sedan chair tightly.A shout came from far away from the direction of the imperial study room,

"Whose sedan chair is that? Someone yelled in the imperial garden just now, have you seen anyone?"

——This is Wang Li's voice!

Du Yuzhang's heart was shaken, and he struggled desperately again.But Xiao Xizi stuffed the hemp rope into his mouth, and wrapped it around his neck again, strangling him hard!

"Woooo..."

Du Yuzhang rolled his eyes and almost lost his breath.Xiao Xizi whispered viciously in his ear,

"Don't think that Your Majesty will protect you! Your Majesty ruined Qiye, and I was sorry for the old lady! Besides, the Queen Mother is the closest to the Xu family. Without Xu's army, no one can be in the world! Don't say that you are a minister like you. To be a eunuch, even if the Queen Mother wants your life——His Majesty will not say no!"

After speaking, he pulled the rope around Du Yuzhang's neck.Du Yuzhang was about to suffocate, clutching the rope around his neck in pain.But Xiao Xizi tied the other end of the rope to the roof of the sedan chair, opened the curtain of the sedan chair as if nothing happened, and went out.

"Slave Xiao Xizi, I have met Director Wang!"

"It turns out to be Chief Xi of Fengxi Palace! I wonder if the Queen Mother is in good health? Your Majesty has always been thinking about it!"

"For His Majesty's blessing, the old man is in good health. Every day, he eats fast, recites Buddha's name, accumulates virtue and does good deeds, all in order to pray for His Majesty and Dayan!"

After some courtesies, Wang Li asked, "Someone was yelling in the imperial garden just now, and His Majesty heard it. Did Mr. Xi see that lifeless thing?"

"I also heard it in a daze. I wanted to get off the sedan chair and reprimand him, but I couldn't find that person."

Before the words were finished, there was a bang in the sedan chair—it sounded like someone kicking and beating.Wang Li looked at the official sedan chair,

"Sir, where is this going?"

"Of course I'm going to run errands for the queen mother and her elderly."

"This sedan chair..." Wang Li paused, "Mr. Xi, may I ask, what is the errand?"

Originally, the most taboo in the palace is to inquire about other people's errands at will.But people like Wang Li certainly wouldn't commit such a taboo for nothing.He continued,

"This sedan chair looks familiar to me. It's the same sedan chair that His Majesty rewarded Mr. Du before. Has Director Xi seen Mrs. Du? Your Majesty is looking for him, so hurry up."

"Really? It's a coincidence. It's just that I haven't seen this lord before."

"So, it's really a coincidence."

Wang Li looked at Xiao Xizi, but he didn't see anything unusual.And there was no sound from inside the sedan chair.He had no reason to stop Xiao Xizi, he could only watch the sedan chair go away.

"Follow them...see where they are going!"

Wang Li ordered a young eunuch to follow the sedan chair secretly.He himself hastily reported back to Li Guangning.

"I want to report to Your Majesty, but I didn't find anyone who yelled. But this old slave found a strange thing - Xiao Xizi from Fengqi Palace never leaves the Empress Dowager's side, but today she detours to the imperial study alone, and I don't know what she's up to."

"So what? Let him come when he loves it."

Li Guangning's tone was indifferent, and he didn't even raise his head.

"But, Your Majesty, the sedan chair I saw him sitting on is not quite right, it seems to be the same as the one Your Majesty gave to Du Xiang!"

"Oh?"

Li Guangning stopped writing.he thought about it,

"Du Yuzhang...how could he have anything to do with the Queen Mother? The Queen Mother must have hated him to the bone for the fact that he ruined the seventh brother back then."

Speaking of this, Li Guangning seemed a little lost.

"Since I was young, my mother didn't like me, and only favored my seventh brother. Even three years ago, my seventh brother wanted to take my life, and my mother... Finally, I didn't allow me to kill the grass. We are both sons, so I am afraid that I am too annoying. Betrayed everywhere, even my biological mother doesn't care about my life or death."

Wang Li didn't look up.The late emperor passed away early, when His Majesty and the Seventh Prince were still young, so it was not obvious.Looking at it now, His Majesty and the late Emperor are almost carved out of the same mold, while the Seventh Prince looks more and more like the Prince Duan who traveled far away when he was young...

Who in the palace didn't know about the empress dowager's entanglement with Prince Duan when she was young?But which one dares to mention this before His Majesty?

"Your Majesty, Lord Du..."

"You don't have to worry about it. If the Queen Mother wanted to make things difficult for him, she would have done it long ago. I'm afraid that if Xu Yanqiu was killed this time, the Queen Mother would hold her breath—that idiot is just an ear that the Queen Mother planted beside me. Go find him, Du Yuzhang, Probably because he has no integrity, he betrayed me three years ago and went to seek refuge with my seventh brother, and later he sold himself to please me. Now, the queen mother wants him to be my next ear."

"But if this is the case, isn't Master Du in danger?"

"What danger will he be in? Too loyal to die?" Li Guangning grinned, "If he is so shameless, he won't bully the king again and again! I'm afraid, he agreed on the spot, Still kneeling down to thank you!"

Li Guangning paused, then continued,

"However, I don't ask him to be upright. Even if I promise my mother face to face, and I can tell me when I come back, I won't blame him."

"This……?"

Wang Li was taken aback.Rebelling against the Lord outside, even if it is hypocrisy and submissiveness, is definitely not the character of a scholar!If Mr. Du really does this, he should be expelled from the court and never hired!Why does His Majesty still "not blame"?

"What? Strange?" Li Guangning smiled mockingly.

"He, Du Yuzhang, only cares about his own life and death everywhere. How can he think about me? I really don't have much hope for him. Just don't betray me again, just stay on my bed obediently... I will be satisfied."

"Your Majesty, you really don't want to send someone to check?"

"I don't think it's necessary. If Du Yuzhang is willing to take half of the risk for me, then the sun is really coming out from the west!"