Prime Minister, he just refuses to usurp the throne

Xing Wenshu remained calm and raised his head to meet Xie An's smiling eyes.

The face so close at hand was so amazing that people could hardly take their eyes off. The fiery breath sprinkled on the side of the face, sweeping slowly like a light feather, picking up a piece of the sweetness of wine.

He and Xie Anshuang looked at each other calmly: "The weather has been cold recently, and your majesty will easily catch cold when drinking ice wine. I hope your majesty will put the dragon body as the most important thing."

Xie Anshuang slightly raised his eyebrows, stood up and looked at him condescendingly: "Could it be that Mr. Xing wants to change the subject?"

Xing Wenshu admitted it simply: "Your Majesty is wise."

"...You are sincere." Xie Anshuang snorted softly, "Aren't you afraid that I will offend you?"

Xing Wenshu's attitude remained unchanged: "I just said that your majesty is wise, so I believe that your majesty is not such an unreasonable person."

Hearing his words, Xie Anshuang smiled inexplicably: "Second Master Xing's flattering skills are much better than your rigid father and brother."

"I don't dare to do it, I just say what I think in my heart." Xing Wenshu spoke sincerely, as if what he said was exactly what he thought.

Xie Anshuang only passed his words over to his ears, leaving no impression of a single word.

After all, he has not been a fool for two years in vain, and he naturally still has the self-knowledge he should have.

He paced back to sit down in front of the soft collapse, handed the wine glass in his hand to the woman beside him, propped his chin with one hand, and looked at Xing Wenshu with interest: "Since you have come back to be the prime minister, then you will have to test your attitude. Recently, I learned about it from the imperial court in the capital."

Having said that, he paused for a moment before continuing meaningfully: "The lonely court doesn't raise waste that doesn't know anything."

Xing Wenshu cupped his hands: "I am willing to accept His Majesty's inspection."

He deserves to be straightforward, presumably he was already prepared.

On the contrary, Xie Anshuang rubbed his chin, but didn't think of any problem.

To be honest, as a qualified stupid king, he himself seems to be the "trash who doesn't know anything".

His expression didn't change, and finally he said casually: "Then Gu asked you, what's going on in the capital these days?"

Xing Wenshu thought for a moment, and replied: "When I returned to Beijing, I found that the roads were sparsely populated. I heard that a masked thief appeared in the capital recently, and five people were seriously injured within a few days. The most important thing to solve."

After hearing what he said, Xie Anshuang put one hand on the side of the soft couch to caress his upper hand, and tapped lightly one after another. The crisp sound echoed in the quiet imperial study room, as if he was thinking about something.

Including Xing Wenshu, no one could guess what he was thinking at this time, and Xing Wenshu was ready to be made things difficult again.

However, after a long while, Xie Anshuang turned to look at the old eunuch in doubt: "Fuyuan, is there such a thing?"

Fuyuan, who was called by him, looked a little more helpless, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials reported this matter to His Majesty yesterday. I sent Master Shang Shu away on the grounds of some trivial matters, maybe I didn’t listen carefully.”

"Oh."

Xie An responded without changing his expression on both sides, turned his gaze back to Xing Wenshu, and continued to ask: "Then according to the wishes of the second son Xing, how should we treat this matter?"

Xing Wenshu only briefly pondered for a moment, and replied politely: "The capital city is the area where His Majesty's daily activities take place. The thieves dare to do such things in the capital, and they succeed every time. It can be seen that the thieves are not ordinary in courage and skill. I heard that Your Majesty usually likes to go out of the palace alone to relax. Once the thief finds a gap and hurts His Majesty, it will be fine."

"That's why I think His Majesty can strengthen the guards in the capital and the palace, and search for thieves as soon as possible. In addition, reduce the number of times you act alone on weekdays. It is best to install a trustworthy bodyguard to protect your Majesty's safety."

Xie Anshuang sat on a seat one step higher, took a few sips of wine unhurriedly, seemingly lacking in interest, and said casually after Xing Wenshu finished speaking: "I can think about this in just a few breaths, Xing Er The young master really came prepared. If Gu doesn’t give you a chance, it’s really lonely.”

Xing Wenshu didn't seem to be able to hear the yin and yang in his words, and responded calmly: "Thanks to His Majesty's love, I only wish to follow His Majesty around and serve His Majesty."

"Heh, working for Gu." Xie Anshuang snorted lightly, "Gu has long been tired of hearing beautiful scenes and words. What Gu wants is your sincerity."

Xing Wenshu replied respectfully: "I am willing to obey your Majesty's orders."

Xie Anshuang sipped his wine lightly, and smiled, "Then I want you to be the guard of the orphan, and a watchdog who will come and go when the orphan calls. Would you like it, Mr. Prime Minister?"

After his words fell, Xing Wenshu raised his eyes to look at him, and there seemed to be a slight smile in his dark eyes.

"I am willing to obey your Majesty's orders."

Xing Wenshu still answered like this, but Xie Anshuang always felt that he had been waiting for his words before.

Xie An lowered his eyes slightly, and the smile on his lips remained unchanged: "It seems that the prime minister's sincerity is not bad. The orphan will allow you to go back to the mansion today to spend the Lantern Festival with your wooden brother, and come to the palace to serve as the orphan from tomorrow. Guard."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xing Wenshu cupped his hands and saluted, his words and deeds made it impossible to find any mistakes.

Xie Anshuang drank the rest of the wine in the cup and waved his hands lazily: "Okay, let's all go down. I'm lonely, what else can I talk about next time."

Xing Wenshu and the rest of the ministers had no choice but to resign and leave as promised.

After the officials left, Xie Anshuang pushed back all the other people in the house, leaving only the woman beside him.

When the last court lady walked out of the imperial study and closed the door, the woman who was leaning beside Xie Anshuang stood up without saying a word, and distanced herself from Xie Anshuang.

Xie Anshuang pretended to be sad: "Master Ruhuai is so ruthless when I despised me as soon as I left."

The woman he called "Master Ruhuai" gave him even more ruthless eyes: "If it wasn't for maintaining your image of a foolish king, do you think I would be happy to mess around with you?"

Ru Huai was a person from the world that Xie Anshuang accidentally rescued when he was about ten years old. At that time, he was still a little prince without freedom, and he secretly gave Ru Huai wound medicine to help her recover.

Later, Ru Huai taught him martial arts as a reward. He didn't want to take advantage of others, so he simply worshiped her as his teacher.

Now that Ru Huai is in his thirties, he still seems to be in his prime, and usually hides in the most famous place of fireworks in the capital as an oiran who does not sell himself.After Xie Anshuang ascended the throne, Ru Huai was the one who accompanied him most of the time, and would often provide him with news about the wells in the capital.

He called Ru Huai here today to discuss the masked thief that Xing Wenshu mentioned just now.

Ru Huai obviously thought of this too, and after disliking Xie Anshuang, he turned back to the topic: "Just now you said you didn't know about the masked thief, you should have pretended it? You came to me today to ask this?"

Xie Anshuang nodded: "Does Master know any other news?"

Ru Huai pondered for a moment, sorting out what she had learned in the past few days before giving an answer.

"This incident did not start to spread throughout the capital until these few days. I didn't know much about it. I heard that the masked thief has seriously injured five people. Three of them are ordinary people, and two of them are sons of officials. "

"Those two official boys were stabbed the night before and last night, and it was because of them that the news spread."

Xie Anshuang frowned lightly after hearing this: "Is it life-threatening?"

Ru Huai shook her head: "The thief doesn't seem to plan to be cruel, it seems more like he wants to create panic, or..."

"Maybe he wanted to warn something." Xie Anshuang took what Ru Huai had left to say, and frowned even deeper.

Ru Huai let out a long breath, and her sorrow did not diminish: "The thief didn't kill him these few times. It's hard to guarantee that he will really kill someone next time. This matter has to be resolved as soon as possible."

Xie Anshuang thought so.

He pretended to be a faint king, but in fact he didn't want the people to suffer innocently.

He thought for a while, and then asked: "Master, do you know the approximate scope of the thief's activities?"

Ru Huai replied: "According to the five people who suffered misfortune before, it should be in the southeast of the capital."

"Southeast?" Xie Anshuang was taken aback.

Ru Huai sensed that he was wrong, and looked at him suspiciously: "What's wrong?"

Xie Anshuang quickly regained consciousness, shook his head and said, "It's nothing. Then I will sneak out of the palace tonight and go to the southeast side to have a look."

Ru Huai casually asked again: "Then are you going to hold the Lantern Festival palace banquet tonight? The palace banquet is different from the nightly singing and dancing you used to pretend. There will be more and more people coming and going, so I'm afraid it's not easy to sneak out."

Usually, Xie Anshuang pretended not to care about anything that happened in the court hall. At night, he made the illusion of singing in the hall all night, and handed over the scene to the "concubine" who also accompanied him to play on the occasion, and then put on night clothes to secretly to investigate.

This time is no exception.

After thinking about it, Xie Anshuang said: "It's okay, I'll leave the palace banquet to Sister Xianfei, the palace people in her palace are tight-lipped, and her palace is also close to the palace wall."

Seeing that he had a plan, Ru Huai didn't ask any more questions: "Then you must be careful, and don't confront a masked thief head-on."

Xie Anshuang nodded in response, and after a brief discussion with Ru Huai, he sent someone to send Ru Huai out of the palace.

He was the only one sitting on the soft bed in the huge imperial study room.

Xie Anshuang exhaled lightly, looked at the ice cubes and the ordinary exquisite fruit plate on the table, lowered his eyelashes slightly, and recalled in his mind that Ru Huai said that the place where thieves often haunt was the southeast of the capital.

——And he remembered that the Xing Mansion was also in the southeast of the capital.

At night, the lanterns hang high.

In the lonely deep palace, there is only one place that is extremely lively.

The Palace of the Concubine Xian is holding a Lantern Festival banquet specially arranged by the emperor. The concubines in the harem gather together to exchange cups and sing songs.

Within a hundred steps, the patrolling palace guards and passers-by could almost hear the music of silk and bamboo orchestras coming out of the palace, and they all lamented the current emperor's fascination with gold.

However, they didn't know that Xie Anshuang, the protagonist of the extravagant and indulgent palace banquet in their eyes, was not in the palace at all at this time.

On the city wall not far from the palace, Xie Anshuang avoided the patrolling palace guards and walked to a weed-covered corner of the palace wall with ease.

He glanced around, and after confirming that there was no one around, he pushed aside the weeds half a person's height, opened the thin stone door hidden behind the weeds, and left the palace smoothly.

"Huh, it's coming out."

Xie Anshuang, who was wearing night clothes, exhaled softly, shed his usual lazy demeanor when pretending to be a faint king, and when he looked up, he saw a bright full moon hanging in the starless night.

The Lantern Festival was supposed to be a day when the capital was so lively that laughter could be heard near the palace, but today it seemed particularly deserted.

Xie Anshuang frowned lightly, found the right direction and went straight to the southeast of the capital.

The southeast of the capital is a relatively affluent place in the entire capital, where ordinary people with middle family backgrounds and some high-ranking officials and nobles mostly live here, so it also has the largest and most prosperous market and street in the whole capital.

When Xie Anshuang came here on weekdays, there was a lot of traffic no matter day or night, but today only a few people came to enjoy the lanterns.

Xie Anshuang hid in the tree, glanced at the place with the most people, and found that the people who came here were all men or couples, brothers and sisters, fathers and children in groups, and there were no single people or single women and children.

It seems that "people panic" is indeed not an exaggeration.

Xie Anshuang couldn't help thinking of Xing Wenshu who also lived in the southeast of the capital.

He looked in the direction of the Xing Mansion, and slightly clenched the hand holding the branch beside him.

Xing Wenshu lives in the Xing Mansion with his general brother. He is also very good at martial arts, and he was once the leader of the hunting competition held by the late emperor.

No matter how you think about it, it is impossible for the masked thief to attack the Xing Mansion.

……Bar.

Xie Anshuang thought so in his mind, but unknowingly walked towards the Xing Mansion, and when he came back to his senses, he was already standing on the branch of a big tree near the Xing Mansion.

... It's all here, let's take a look.

Xie Anshuang made up a reason for himself, and after a while, he walked around to the vicinity of Xing Wenshu's former courtyard. Sure enough, he saw Xing Wenshu sitting in the courtyard wiping his sword.

It was cold at night, and Xing Wenshu was still wearing the white cloak he had worn in the morning, looking down at the silver-white sword hilt intently and seriously.

Xie Anshuang hid in the darkness of Ye Gap, hiding himself and his emotions.

Two years later, he finally met the person he had always wanted to see in this yard.

The bright moonlight happened to pass obliquely through the courtyard wall and fell on Xing Wenshu's snow-white figure.

Bright and soft.

Such a gentle and beautiful person may be more suitable to be an emperor than him who is used to living in darkness.

Xie Anshuang lowered his eyelashes, and couldn't help but recall the secret attention to Xing Wenshu when he was a child.

Xing Wenshu has been excellent since he was a child, and he was able to communicate with the late emperor fluently when he was 15 years old, and was favored by the late emperor to become an official in the court.When he went to the border with his brother, he made outstanding military exploits at a young age. After returning to the court at the age of 17, he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War.

During that period, Xie Anshuang just watched him secretly as an unfavored little prince, seeing his vigorous, gentle and confident appearance, and was attracted by his unique brilliance.

Xie Anshuang looked down at the thin and dark night clothes on her body, a faint thought flashed in her eyes, and turned to leave.

However, at this moment, he heard a clear voice coming from the courtyard.

"Your Excellency waited and watched from the tree for a long time, and left without coming out to say hello. Is it impolite?"