Although the little emperor was angered, Lin Xiaodong was in a good mood.

Guo Xinwen disagreed with him and did not conspire with him, but the two temporarily reached an agreement on sending troops. When the court was over, Guo Xinwen became the thorn in the side who wanted to pick a bone from the egg again.

Surrounded by his colleagues, he left the hall, and when he went down the steps, he inadvertently glanced back at the young man who was still standing there, knowing that the other party was waiting to meet with His Majesty in private, he couldn't help but sneered.

"hypocritical."

People who don't know the inside story probably think that Lin Dongqing is the iron-clad royalist, but only Guo Xinwen understands how difficult it is to wring out a little bit of power from him and return it to His Majesty.

This guy firmly holds the power of the entire Jing Dynasty in his hands. He does everything by himself. Even Guo Xinwen sometimes wonders why this person hasn't died suddenly. He is obviously so weak that he still deals with it every day. So many government affairs, even a normal person can't bear it!

But Lin Xiaodong, who was waiting at the same spot, did not wait for Jingji's summons.

"Lord Lin," a young eunuch walked over with a embarrassed expression and said, "Your Majesty said that he doesn't want to see you now."

It's not that Jing Ji doesn't want to send troops, as the king of a country, he wants to regain northern Xinjiang more than anyone else.And since the suggestion to send troops this time was put forward by Guo Xinwen, the other ministers would only think that it was ordered by His Majesty, and had nothing to do with Lin Dongqing, because everyone knew about it.The two have been at odds for a long time.

It's just that Jing Ji felt bored and aggrieved when he thought that Lin Dongqing had thought of everything for him.

"Really." Lin Xiaodong replied calmly, didn't say anything, just nodded, turned and left.

When the little eunuch went back to report, Jing Ji leaned on the back of the chair, tapping his knuckles lightly on the armrest, and after a long time, he opened his eyes and waved him away.

"Little Youzi," he said, "come with me to see the queen mother."

You Shu was taken aback for a moment, but quickly restrained the expression on his face, and replied in a low voice: "Yes."

The imperial guards in the palace had already been replaced by Jingji, but because of a certain agreement, Jingji had not seen the Empress Dowager Changfeng again in these years, but only came into contact with the empress dowager's confinement in the harem.

Anyway, he didn't have a concubine, and he rarely even went to the bedroom, so Lin Xiaodong acquiesced in his behavior.

Only this time, he crossed the line first.

Therefore, Jing Ji did not intend to abide by any agreement anymore.

A few years have not changed the appearance of the Empress Dowager Changfeng, but the spirit of the woman is much more sluggish than when she first came to the throne from Qianjingji. Although she still has exquisite makeup and elegant clothes, her whole person reveals from the inside out. There was a faint smell of decay, as if an old object that hadn't been seen for a long time was suddenly moved into the sun, and even his expression seemed a little dazed.

After seeing the grown-up scene, she didn't show too much excitement, instead she just raised her lips sarcastically and asked, "It seems that you finally can't stand him anymore."

Jing Ji didn't want to discuss this issue with his mother, he came here just to express his attitude to Lin Dongqing, but gossiping with Empress Dowager Changfeng was not in the plan.Therefore, he just poured a cup of tea for the Empress Dowager Changfeng respectfully, and said lightly: "Seeing that the Empress Dowager is in good health, I am satisfied."

"Bah!"

You Shu held his breath, looking at the teacup that was slapped to the ground by the Empress Dowager Changfeng, he felt a heart almost popping out of his throat.

But Jing Ji acted very calmly. He glanced at the shattered teacup on the ground and asked, "What does the queen mother mean?"

"What do you mean?" The Empress Dowager Changfeng giggled, "My son, it's not your first day as emperor, why don't you understand this truth?"

"……what?"

"To become the Ninth Five-Year Master, one is doomed to be lonely." The Empress Dowager Changfeng stared at him with those dark eyes, and said every word.

Jingji has no words.

But he knew that the Empress Dowager Changfeng had discovered his friendship with his husband over the years.

After all, it was his mother who gave birth to him. Jingji recovered his composure after a short shock. He looked into the Empress Dowager Changfeng's eyes without avoiding it, and said calmly, "I know, there is no need for the Empress Dowager to bother here."

"Really?" Empress Dowager Changfeng sneered, "If Lin Dongqing knew what you thought about him, what do you think he would think?"

Jingji's face darkened instantly.

Even if he is the Ninth Five-Year Honorable, Lin Dongqing is also a powerful official under one person and above ten thousand people, and even told him personally that he already has someone he likes... How could someone like Mr. Wang be willing to condescend to others? Down?

Jingji dare not gamble.

"What do you want?" He calmed down, looking at the Empress Dowager Changfeng with terribly cold eyes.

Empress Dowager Changfeng had a chill on her back, even though she knew that the person in front of her was her only son in this world.She calmed down, and said in a slightly relaxed tone: "No matter what, you are my son. Since you want it, I will help you. It just so happens that I have someone available under my hand, which is a gift from Aijia." Your gift."

Following the sound of footsteps, Jing Ji frowned and turned around.

The visitor's face was exposed to the sun, his pupils suddenly shrank, and then he showed an extremely complicated expression.

"This is……"

"What, Your Majesty asked you to accompany the army!??"

In the Lin Mansion, Xie Chen, who just got the news, stood up from his seat. He held the brush tightly in his hand, and he didn't even realize that the ink dripped on his body. He just asked loudly in an unbelievable tone: "How is it possible? Your Majesty is not ignorant of your body. Could it be that he wants you to go away forever!"

Lin Xiaodong snorted, stretched out his fingers to tease the bird in the cage, and said casually, "Who knows."

"No, I'm going to find His Majesty!"

Xie Chen couldn't calm down anymore, he was about to run out in a hurry as soon as he put down the pen, but Lin Xiaodong grabbed him from behind.

"Stop," he frowned, "look at what you look like now."

Hearing what he said, Xie Chen realized that his robe had been stained black with ink. He lowered his head and calmed down a little. He noticed that the young man beside him was still calm and calm, so he couldn't help asking : "My lord, is there something else hidden in this matter?"

"I told you, I don't know." Lin Xiaodong twitched the corner of his mouth, "After all, the child is old, even if he is a parent, he can't fully know what he is thinking, can he?"

But when Xie Chen listened to his tone, he only felt it was absurd—Your Majesty is His Majesty, holding the power of life and death for the world, could it be possible that he could really be treated as a child?

"...So, are you planning to go?"

Lin Xiaodong straightened up: "If His Majesty really asks me to go to Northern Xinjiang, I will naturally not be able to disobey orders."

After all, Xie Chen has been with Lin Xiaodong for so many years, and he quickly heard what the young man meant: Jing Ji's order may not mean that he really wants to send Lin Xiaodong out.

That's right, a majestic Minister of the Ministry of Officials naturally wants to sit in Kyoto.If he was sent to the battlefield casually, let alone Lin Xiaodong's own wishes, even the ministers in the court would definitely disagree.

"Then why did His Majesty make such a decree?" Xie Chen didn't understand.

Lin Xiaodong didn't answer, but picked up the writing brush on the table in a good mood, rolled up his sleeves and began to splash ink on the rice paper.Xie Chen took a look and found that he was drawing, but what he drew was...a cube-like thing with long arms and legs?

"What is this?" he asked.

Lin Xiaodong: "SpongeBob SquarePants."

Thank you:? ? ?

He doesn't understand.

But Lin Xiaodong couldn't really explain to Xie Chen what it was. Ever since Gu Xi returned that night, he had keenly sensed that something had changed in the palace.Maybe it's because of Jingji's attitude towards him, or maybe it's an unexpected character who has been silent for a long time... In short, it's really not his style to be a civil servant in Jingchao for so many years. thing.

——He is going to let himself go!

If the system is still there, it must be obvious at a glance. This is a typical bear child symptom.

It's a pity that the only person who can cure Lin Xiaodong is still sleeping in Jingji's subconscious, and Xie Chen beside him is obedient, so he can only watch his own adults mess around.

"His Majesty."

After many days, before the army set off, Lin Xiaodong was finally summoned to the palace again.

He changed into a dark green robe today. The gold inlaid jade belt outlines the young man's slender waist. A strand of black hair hangs down on his forehead, covering his handsome eyebrows and eyes, and was picked up by the young man's ear back.

If you only look at the appearance, he doesn't look like a prestigious and powerful minister, but more like a handsome scholar who is paired with a beautiful woman in the storybook.

Jing Ji couldn't help biting the tip of his tongue, so as to avoid showing any aggressive eyes.He raised a smile, as if he was not affected by the previous incident at all, he still approached Lin Xiaodong affectionately, and pulled him to sit down as usual.

"Sir," he said, "how are you doing these days?"

Lin Xiaodong didn't know what he wanted to say, but looking at the wine bottles on the desk, he already had some guesses about Jingji's intention to invite him this time.While marveling at Jing Ji's boldness, he replied without any abnormality: "Thanks to Your Majesty, I'm in much better health."

"That's good." Jing Ji said with a smile, "I thought that Mister would blame me."

"I don't know what His Majesty's words mean?" Lin Xiaodong said slowly, "If it is because of the matter of joining the army, it is my long-cherished wish, and I would like to thank Your Majesty for fulfilling it."

"But I'm still very sorry," Jing Ji sighed, "Although it's already spring, the northern border is bitterly cold. If you really leave, sir, I'm afraid you will suffer."

As he spoke, he poured Lin Xiaodong a glass of wine.

"Sir, please."

Lin Xiaodong looked down at the clear liquid in the glass, and drank it down with a sullen head.

And when he put down his wine glass, what he saw was Jing Ji's slightly complicated expression.

"I thought, Mister would at least ask a question." He said softly, looking at Lin Xiaodong with gentle and deep eyes.

Lin Xiaodong lowered his eyes and said, "I believe in Your Majesty."

The alcohol content of this bottle is not low, it belongs to the type with great stamina, it is easy to get drunk for no reason after drinking it.

The last time Lin Xiaodong saw it was at the New Year's Eve banquet set up by the Empress Dowager Changfeng.

Now Jingji has put it out again, plus what was written in the information Xie Chen handed over to him recently, the place just gave the royal family a daughter of Mi Chenxiang... He sighed, thinking about the courage of this child It's really big, are you really not afraid that you will be reversed like this?

Jingji, however, seemed completely unaware of his inner activities, seeing Lin Xiaodong drank the wine in his glass, he happily poured him another glass.He seemed to be intentionally trying to get Lin Xiaodong drunk, and after a few glasses of wine, the young man's cheeks showed a slight blush.

"We have to leave tomorrow..." Lin Xiaodong wanted to decline politely, but Jing Ji suppressed his hand with a smile, "It's okay, General Zhao said, the food and grass are not ready yet, it may take half a day, sir, don't worry. "

He lowered his voice and comforted him with a coaxing attitude: "Sir, have another drink. There are medicinal materials in this wine, so it won't hurt you."

"Well……"

Lin Xiaodong blinked his eyes a little slowly. Indeed, the taste is soft and has a long aftertaste. It is not considered strong wine, but the taste is very good.He doesn't like the strong smell of wine, and this wine is rare to suit his appetite, otherwise no matter how much Jing Ji persuades him, he won't drink much.

But there is another possibility, that is, Jing Ji has already figured out his preferences, that's why...

He shook his head, his chaotic consciousness couldn't think about such a complicated issue, so he could only mechanically take the wine glass poured by the young emperor, and drank it all.

In the blink of an eye, most of the bottle was eaten.

Curly white smoke floated from the incense burner in the hall, and there was still a faint scent of agarwood.

"Your Majesty," after clinking glasses again, the young man's curled eyelashes trembled slightly, and he asked vaguely, "Did you call me here just to drink?"

Jing Ji also drank a lot with him, but he was still sober after all.Hearing this, he smiled and put down his glass.

"Of course not," he no longer concealed his eyes, staring at Lin Xiaodong with fiery eyes as if he wanted to tear him apart, "I'm just thinking about one thing, sir just listen."

"You... you said."

Probably because he was really drunk, Lin Xiaodong even forgot to say the honorific words.

However, Jing Ji didn't care about these small details. He continued: "If there is no accident, there will be a group of ministers kneeling in the hall tomorrow morning and begging me to evacuate before leaving. After all, sir, as two Bu Shangshu, the capital will definitely not be able to leave, and it would be too childish for a pillar of the country to be sent to the frontier battlefield as a staff officer."

Lin Xiaodong raised his eyelids: "Then what does His Majesty think?"

"Although I am the emperor, I also have selfish intentions," Jing Ji's voice was getting closer and closer before he knew it. He stretched out his arm and supported the young man's crooked body to let him lean against him. His voice was low and hoarse, as if I was suppressing a certain emotion, "I hope that my husband can stay by my side, and at the same time, I want to satisfy the wishes of the ministers. It is really difficult."

"Is it difficult?" Lin Xiaodong frowned and thought for a while, "The two don't seem to be contradictory, right?"

Don't they all stay in Beijing?

"No," Jing Ji said with a smile, "When I said 'stay with me', it's not just as simple as staying in the capital."

This is also thanks to his mother, who sent him such a useful chess piece.

Jing Ji turned his head and stared at the person standing in the corner, but his eyes did not have any nostalgia for looking at Lin Xiaodong, but revealed a cold indifference.

This person has a face that almost resembles that of Lin Dongqing.

If he had rashly used such a "defective product" to replace Lin Xiaodong's existence in normal times, he would definitely be discovered within two days.

But coincidentally, it was the time when Jing Chao was going to the northern border, and Lin Dongqing was a well-known main combat faction - if Jing Ji sent him to accompany the army, he would definitely agree.

And he can take this opportunity to drop people. Anyway, General Zhao and Lin Dongqing are a general and a civil servant. They are not familiar with each other on weekdays and have little contact with each other. It is basically impossible to find them on the march.As for the capital, after a month or two, he would just find an excuse to transfer the double back, and no one would be able to notice that something was wrong.

Even if people from the Lin family found out, Jing Ji could still find an excuse to say that it was because Lin Dongqing met a gangster on the road and was frightened.

This plan sounds far-fetched, but it is very feasible. Jing Ji thought about the next series of steps almost the moment he saw this double.

Jingji did hesitate.

But he understood that this was probably the only way he could keep Lin Xiaodong.

Lin Xiaodong tilted his head and looked at him for a while, then suddenly laughed.

"Your Majesty," the peach blossom-faced young man propped his chin, half-closed his eyes, and asked with a smile, "are you planning to do something bad?"

Jingji's breath was suffocated.

He couldn't help watching Lin Xiaodong's cloak that he unbuttoned because of the heat slowly slipped from his shoulders, as if the half-faded scene almost made his nose feel hot, and the surge of drunkenness made his brain seem to freeze. I can stare blankly at the long-haired Mr. who is close at hand, and the sound of my heartbeat is like a drum.

"Yes." He said hoarsely.

Hearing this, You Shu immediately obediently took the double in the corner and left, and before leaving, he closed the door for the two of them very considerately.

With a creak, apart from the flickering candles in the empty hall, there were only two figures left.

Thousands of thoughts welled up in Jingji's mind, but in the end they were all suppressed to the bottom of his heart. After the panic when making plans faded away, Shi's long-cherished wish was fulfilled followed by ecstasy.

His breathing gradually became quicker, and he unconsciously moved closer to Lin Xiaodong's position, until he could smell the faint fragrance of alcohol at the tip of his nose.

a little closer...a little closer...

"Your Majesty," Lin Xiaodong said suddenly, "You are drunk."

Jing Ji paused.

He looked at the young man's blushing face but sober eyes, and his heart sank to the bottom of the valley in an instant.

Is this legendary Mi Chenxiang that can cause hallucinations useless?

He has thought of all kinds of methods, but none of them can make young people stay for themselves. They can be monarchs and ministers, mentors and apprentices, or even close friends, but because of their respective positions, they will never reach the most intimate relationship .So Jing Ji could only settle for the next best thing, using this despicable method to make Lin Xiaodong completely withdraw his heart from him.

Even if the young man at this moment is not seeing him, Jing Ji recognizes him.

Because he knows that Mr. is a soft-hearted person, as long as he is given a chance, no matter whether the other party has a heart or not, he can use all means to completely occupy this heart.

But looking at Lin Xiaodong's current appearance, it seems that he has not been tricked at all.

Jing Ji's figure was clearly reflected in his eyes, and he never looked at others through him from the beginning to the end.

This discovery made Jing Ji both happy and painful. He lowered his hands as if discouraged, sat up straight again, and comforted himself: It’s okay, they haven’t reached the final step yet, even if the husband notices something, as long as he refuses to admit it, it’s fine.

... He definitely wasn't afraid of the look of contempt and hatred that his husband would show him, absolutely not.

"Drink." He poured himself a glass and said in a muffled voice.

If the plan fails this time, then tomorrow's court meeting will go smoothly and agree to the courtiers' request.

It is absolutely impossible for him to let Mr. really leave the capital, let alone go to the northern battlefield thousands of miles away.

Always be prepared for the worst, this point is left to him by the husband, Jing Ji drank the wine in the glass bitterly, with mixed feelings in his heart.

Lin Xiaodong silently watched the young emperor in front of him suddenly become depressed, not only gave up drinking, but also started to drink one after another, pouring the remaining half of the bottle into his stomach as if to vent.

Not long after, he lay down on the table and made a whining sound.

But the sound didn't sound like crying, but more like humming aggrieved.

"Your Majesty," he rubbed his temples, and asked helplessly, "are you alright?"

It is true that he was drunk before, but Lin Xiaodong has spiritual power, as long as he circulates his meridians for a week, he is basically sober at all times. Jing Ji really thought too much when he wanted to get him drunk.

Jing Ji groaned twice more, then fell silent on the table.

This is really drunk.

Lin Xiaodong: "..."

What else could he do.

Lin Xiaodong glanced at the closed palace door, sighed, and was about to get up to call someone, when suddenly a hand grabbed his ankle.

He tripped and nearly fell to his knees.

After finally stabilizing his figure, he raised his head and met a pair of gloomy black eyes.

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