Reincarnation of the powerful minister

In the end, Emperor Jing Long did not let Shen Qi lead the team to leave the capital, but chose Long Quan, the commander of Teng Xiang's left guard, and asked him to temporarily lead five thousand brocade-clothed guards and horses to go to Shaanxi to find the missing Su Yushi.

This day is the fourth day of August, nine days have passed since Su Yan fell into the valley——

It took three or four days for Chu Yuan to find someone, but it took three days for the pigeon to fly back.When dispatching troops, Xin Zhenhai accidentally fell off his horse and injured himself due to the original commander of Jin Yiwei, and the assassination of the crown prince was delayed for another day or two.Finally, when Longquan led the team out of Beijing, Su Yan was on his way from Dingyuan to Qingshui Camp in Lingzhou.

On August [-]th, Su Yan reunited with Chu Yuan and others at the Baiyun Inn.That night, the carrier pigeons from Qingshuiying flew to the capital carrying several secret letters.

When the secret letter was delivered to the imperial court, the Forbidden City was holding a Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet as usual.

It is said to be a palace banquet, but it is not like other festivals. The important ministers of the imperial court participate in the banquet. After all, it is the reunion festival, and everyone is eager to reunite with their families.

Therefore, this palace banquet became a royal family banquet.

The Empress Dowager has passed away, and the Empress Dowager is vacant, and the Moon Sacrifice Ceremony in the Imperial Garden is presided over by the Empress Dowager.

After the queen mother cut the moon cakes and distributed them to the people in the harem, she took this opportunity to remind the emperor in a circumstantial way, urging him to become a queen.

Emperor Jing Long paid a few words absent-mindedly, and left the table under the disappointed eyes of Concubine Wei and the other three concubines, who were holding the young son in their arms, under the pretext of changing clothes to relieve the smell of alcohol.

As soon as the father left, the prince Zhu Helin didn't want to face the cold face of the emperor's grandmother alone, so he slipped away.

King Yu also wanted to leave, but was persuaded by the queen mother to stay, so he had to stay with his mother for dinner, picking crab meat for her and dipping it in wine and vinegar.

The Empress Dowager steamed crabs with cattail bags with chopsticks, and asked King Yu: "I heard that the prince was assassinated a while ago? How is it now?"

King Yu washed the fishy smell from his hands in Suye Tang, thinking how many days had passed before you remembered to inquire about this matter.People don't ask in person, but ask me instead.

He knew that his mother didn't want to see Zhu Helin, half of it was because he didn't like the deceased empress and hated the house, and the other half was because Zhu Helin hadn't been close to her since he was a child, and the two didn't agree with each other.

But because Zhu Helin was the only prince in the palace for 14 years, the queen mother had nothing to say except persuading the emperor to go to the harem frequently, admonishing the concubines to be gentle and understanding to keep the emperor's heart.

This year is different. Concubine Wei gave birth to the second prince, Zhu Hezhao. In the harem, the mother is more expensive than the son, and there is no one in the limelight for a while, so she teases the queen mother and makes many hints in front of the emperor, wanting to raise her position, even if it is not enough to continue It is also good to be promoted to the imperial concubine.

The Empress Dowager is Wei's biological aunt, and she loves the newborn little prince very much, so she is naturally happy to see it succeed, so she must help her.

Concubine Wei acted like a coquettish concubine, and the Empress Dowager fanned the flames. Some courtiers began to bring up the matter of establishing a queen again. Emperor Jinglong was so annoyed by the previous court and the harem.

As a result, there was an assassination case at Lingguang Temple, Marquis Feng'an lost his arm, and the Wei family attacked Su Yan aggressively. Together with the courtiers and the Queen Mother, they forced him out of Beijing.

Before leaving, the Su residence was smashed up by gangsters in the middle of the night, and Su Yan himself was almost killed.This incident completely angered Emperor Jinglong, and he sent someone to punish Xian'an Hou Weiyan and Feng'an Hou Weijun for a full month before stopping under the persuasion of the Queen Mother, and did not give Wei Jun the remaining half of his old life. die.

Concubine Wei's promotion hopes also came to naught.

After crying for more than a month, she found that the magic weapon that had been tried and tested did not work. Her emperor cousin was really ruthless this time. If you don't step into her Yongning Palace, let alone stay overnight.

Concubine Wei suspected that it was some concubine, or some new palace maid, who had seduced the emperor's soul.After inquiring in the harem, it was discovered that in the past two months, the emperor had not unloaded any lanterns from the palace, nor had he been lucky enough to have any palace people. Excerpt until the morning of the next day.

... The emperor is only thirty-five, and he is getting tired of women?Concubine Wei was muttering in her heart, and there were many dishes in the imperial dining room that strengthen yang and invigorate the kidney.

Emperor Jing Long didn't pay attention to it at first, and used a bowl of deer blood ointment, and his yang became hyperactive that night, and the hot and dry feeling all over his body did not subside even after washing with cold water.Concubine Wei took the opportunity to dress up charmingly, and went to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to deliver bird's nest with rock sugar stewed by herself.

The dragon bed was climbed up, but the emperor did not accept her service. He vented his anger in front of her, then put on his robes and walked away.

Concubine Wei understood what the emperor meant—it's not that I can't do it, but that I have no interest in you, so save your energy!She felt that she had been greatly insulted, and cried all night on the dragon bed. The next day, for the sake of face, she had to pretend to be deeply in love with the rain and dew, and returned to Yongning Palace ostentatiously all the way.

That night, the emperor sat in the imperial study for two hours, pinching a lotus leaf openwork sapphire pendant, twisting it back and forth between his fingers, and then took out a memorial from Shaanxi hidden in the drawer, and flipped through it repeatedly.

It was only a few days before the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, the Emperor naturally did not show a good face to Concubine Wei, and his attitude towards the Empress Dowager was also a little colder, he made excuses and left after not showing up for a long time.

Yu Jia turned to the South Study Room.A moment later, the prince appeared at the door of the study with his head poking around.

Emperor Jinglong glanced at his son, smiled, beckoned him to come in, and asked, "Why did you leave the banquet just after the banquet started? This year's Mid-Autumn Festival dishes are not to your taste?"

"Didn't Father also leave the table?" Zhu Helin sat down on the armchair listlessly, "I lost my appetite at the thought of where Qinghe was living and suffering. Say, Father, Qinghe wouldn't—" —”

He held his breath in his throat, moved his lips a few times like a fish out of water, his eyes concealed panic and anxiety, and looked at his father as if desperately looking for a powerful comfort.

Emperor Jing Long suppressed the upset that surged up again, and said flatly: "I will find it."

"However, Jin Yiwei has been away for eleven days. If the horse travels day and night, it should be in Shaanxi by now! Why hasn't there been any news?" Zhu Helin was concerned, and he forgot that it takes time for a carrier pigeon to fly thousands of miles.

The emperor watched the prince's expression and asked, "Are you in a hurry?"

Zhu Helin was stunned, and asked, "Of course I'm in a hurry, isn't my father not in a hurry?" He tried his best to hide it in front of people, but he couldn't hide it from his son.Sometimes he even wondered if his father also had ulterior motives for Su Yan?

The reason for saying "also" is because Su Yan frequently appeared in his erotic dreams in the past two months.

The Jingguan has been opened, and I have read a lot of spring paintings. Even if I am ignorant about love affairs, I gradually understand the key points, and know that I have developed a desire for Su Yan.This is not just the sincere "never bear" of the young people, but a more fanatical, more eager, and more uncertain and soul-stirring emotion.

This emotion made him feel like a newly grown male beast, and he began to have a sense of crisis and competition for other male beasts around him who had the same hunting and courtship goals, even if the other party was his father.

He stared into his father's eyes, trying to find a clear answer, with a heroic stubbornness like a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers.

Emperor Jing Long weighed the weight of his son's gaze, and slowly said: "The key is not whether you are in a hurry, but to know how far you can go. He Lin, you are the prince, and you have more than others since you were born. You also have a lot of burdens. In the future, you will encounter more "urgency", "difficulty", "anger", more "dilemmas" and even "helplessness". If you can't have a clear judgment on the situation and ability, you can't If you want to make sure that the final decision is made or that you can be captured in one fell swoop, then the best way is to sit still, deploy the net secretly, and wait for a good opportunity to make a move."

At this time, Zhu Helin's mind was full of Su Yan's whereabouts, and he was impatient to listen to the teachings. At the same time, he thought that his father was talking about him, and he was clearly guilty. , are you in no hurry?"

Emperor Jing Long shook his head slightly, and sighed softly: "You, you will understand one day. The sooner that day comes, the less detours you will take."

Zhu Helin thought to himself, don't look at the person I like, and my path will be easy.

While speaking, the servant held the secret package just delivered by the carrier pigeon, and trotted all the way up to present it.

The emperor opened it and glanced at it, with a smile on his lips.

The prince leaned his head over to look at a few lines, and exclaimed in surprise: "I found him! He is in Qingshuiying, Lingzhou!" A huge rock fell to the ground in his heart, and he was so excited that he was tossing and turning and not knowing what to eat. Soothed and calmed.

"Are you happy?" the emperor asked abruptly.

Zhu Helin replied: "Of course! Qinghe has been found and is safe and sound. Isn't that something to be happy about?"

The emperor closed the secret letter and put it in the memorial, "Everyone has feelings of joy and anger, but the emperor's joy and anger are different from ordinary people. Be happy and keep it quiet, so as not to be noticed by others, so as to flatter or restrain you." "Anger is targeted, people or things that are absolutely unbearable must be eradicated in time, and should not be stopped."

Zhu Helin felt that his father had been a little weird during this time, forcing him to stay in the Hall of Mental Cultivation every night, not to mention learning about government affairs, but he also liked to make some excuses. The teaching vacancy caused by laissez-faire was intensified to make up for it, ripening him in the shortest possible time.

He bowed his head to show that he was taught, but his eyes moved nimbly and restlessly. He wanted to go back to the East Palace and immediately sent a messenger to Lingzhou to deliver his heart and handwriting to Su Yan, and then asked when he could return to Beijing.I have missed the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Double Ninth Festival, no matter how bad it is, I have to come back for the New Year’s Eve, right?

Seeing his thoughts floating, the emperor knew that his mind and soul had drifted thousands of miles away, so he could only wave his hand: "Go back."

When the crown prince got up, the emperor added: "From now on, you are not allowed to leave the palace without authorization. If you are caught again, your legs will be broken."

Zhu Helin shrank his neck and said with a smile: "Isn't Beizhen Fusi looking for the murderer who assassinated me? When the murderer is caught, I can go out of the palace, right? I'll be locked up in the palace all day, either in the Wenhua Palace or in the martial arts training ground." , or it is the Hall of Mental Cultivation review, but it suffocates me!"

The emperor tapped the prince's forehead with the hard-covered memorial in his hand: "Don't cause trouble, just stay in the palace and be honest."

The prince's eyes were sharp, seeing Su Yan's handwriting on the cover of the memorial, he suspected that his father was putting his love on things, that's why he kept the memorial on Qinghe in his hands, neither sent it to the cabinet for discussion, nor filed it into the warehouse, even himself Never seen what was written on it.

What exactly did Qinghe say to his father?Also like writing a letter to yourself, asking about your health, chatting about trivial matters in a relaxed and happy manner?Or is it under the pretense of presenting government affairs, but in fact the paper is full of love words, vows of eternal love?

——How far has the relationship between Father Emperor and Su Yan reached?The more Zhu Helin thought about it, the more he felt that his claws were scratching his heart, and he wished he could blurt out and ask clearly, even if he was punished for angering his father, at least he would be punished clearly.

But the words taught by the emperor just now popped out of his mind suddenly, and he thought it was windy, but it turned out to be in his heart.

"If you can't have a clear judgment on the situation and ability, and you can't guarantee a final decision or capture in one fell swoop, then the best way is to sit still, deploy a net secretly, and wait for a good opportunity to make a move."

...Father is right.Zhu Helin lowered his eyes and thought about it, held his temper, and saluted: "My son and minister will leave. My father and emperor will have a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, and all wishes will come true."

May all your wishes come true?Emperor Jinglong looked at the full moon outside the window, and sighed softly: "The green and green osmanthus are not folded, I can't bear to sing."

The prince came out of the imperial study, still pondering over the poem his father sang in a low voice.

"Zhegui" means winning the championship and enrolling in the imperial examination.If you are not a fallen scholar, why don't you want to give up and can't bear to give up?

Thinking about it again, could it be that it is not Gui that the father wants to break, but the person who passed the exam this year?And it is bound to win, if you don't break your hand, you will not give up?

The more Zhu Helin thought about it, the more flustered and annoyed he felt. The anecdote that Su Yan told him in the car a few months ago when he and he went to Dongyuan to participate in the Dragon Boat Festival shooting willows appeared in his mind.

Su Yan said that there is a custom in the Xiyi country to weave laurel branches into a corolla and wear it on the winner to show honor.And the sun god... I forgot, anyway, he is the sun god of a foreign country. When he fell in love with the daughter of the river god at first sight, he broke off the laurel branches and made a passionate courtship to her.It's a pity that King Xiang is interested, but the goddess is ruthless. The woman would rather be turned into a laurel tree than accept the pursuit of the sun god, and finally lead to tragedy.

Su Yan said, even if I am courteous, the emperor should have the right to refuse.

And how did you respond?

"Pursuit?" He sneered, "That's called grace. Which woman the emperor takes a fancy to and wants to accept her as a concubine is the blessing she has cultivated in several lifetimes. If you dare to say a word of no, you will not be afraid of being accused of rebellion and sentenced to death." A whole family of copycats!"

The emperor takes a fancy to... the blessings cultivated in several lifetimes... dare to say a word of no... copy and chop all over the house...

The words that came out of his own mouth buzzed in Zhu Helin's ears——

In case the emperor is not looking for a woman!

Tianwei is like a mountain, if he has to commit himself shamelessly or willingly to protect his family!

... Young master, I really shot myself in the foot!Standing in the shadow of the corner of the corridor, Zhu Helin suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself hard in the midst of the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus sent by Rushuiyuehua.