The story of the rich and the young being tricked into farming

Ye Xiaozhou looked back suspiciously, only to see that Jing Min restrained his indifferent face, and the seriousness that belonged to Jing Tianzhu appeared on his face, and Ye Xiaozhou felt that he might not be deceiving him.

At this moment, Han Xiuping, who was driving outside with a horse, suddenly sighed and pulled the reins on the horse.

"My lord, my concubine, the Jingren Palace is ahead."

Even though King Ning had the emperor's dispensation, according to the rules, the two of them were not allowed to drive into the sleeping hall of the middle palace.

"This is the empress's residence, and the idlers and other subordinates can't easily enter it," Han Xiuping explained to Ye Xiaozhou, "so for the next part of the journey, I have to trouble the concubine to wait for the prince to go."

Ye Xiaozhou tentatively grabbed the two wooden handles on the back of Jingmin's chair, and then pushed two steps forward.With King Ning's physique with long hands and long legs, even sitting in a wheelchair, he would feel flustered when pushed. In addition, he has no experience in pushing a wheelchair at all, so he moves slowly and messily. King Dening did it himself.

Jing Min held his breath and looked back at him, but this time he happened to meet Ye Xiaozhou's somewhat helpless gaze, and King Ning swallowed the phrase "waste snack" stuck in his throat.

"Ye Xiaozhou, if someone else is so clumsy today," Jing Min said sarcastically, "I will definitely be served by the family law when I go back."

Ning Wang was ridiculed on the surface, but secretly submissive, wanting Ye Xiaozhou to understand how important he is to him.

But Ye Xiaozhou didn't seem to appreciate King Ning's good intentions at all, instead he said angrily: "If it were me, I would be locked up in a dungeon, right? The grassroots are willing to accept the punishment, as long as the prince is happy."

Jing Min frowned unconsciously when he heard him speak like this, and immediately changed into a fault-finding tone: "After entering this Jingren Palace, why do you still call yourself a grassroots? Remember to change your mouth when you enter—and, since you have already After I let you out, there is no need to bring up the past, but if you want to go in and live again, the king will never stop you."

On the flat road, Ye Xiaozhou could barely push Jing Min to walk smoothly, but when he reached the stone steps in front of the hall, Ye Xiaozhou had more energy than he wanted. According to Jing Min, he had to rely on his arms to carry him along with others. The wheelchair resisted.

Ye Xiaozhou couldn't help being speechless, is this something that humans can do?Even Han Xiuping, I'm afraid it's enough, right?

Fortunately, the little eunuchs standing in front of the palace were quite discerning. Seeing Princess Ning's embarrassment, they immediately surrounded her to help her out.

After several rounds, King Ning finally arrived in the palace with Ye Xiaozhou.

Looking at Ye Xiaozhou from a distance, he felt that the queen didn't look very beautiful, but she had a dignified beauty that could not be ignored, which made it clear that she was a lady's temperament at a glance.

However, the emperor sitting on the main seat looks a bit shorter than Jing Min who is also sitting on the chair. He doesn't look like a brother with Jing Min, and compared with Jing Min's appearance, the emperor seems a little bit Somewhat mediocre.

When the two came close, Jing Min, a fake disabled person, naturally didn't need to salute, but Ye Xiaozhou had to salute them firmly.

"Exemption." The emperor said calmly.

The queen said rather enthusiastically: "Come on, today is a family gathering together to talk about family affairs, you two don't have to be too restrained, especially Princess Ning—your name is Xiaozhou, right?"

Ye Xiaozhou lifted his robe and got up, and replied neither humble nor overbearing: "Yes."

"I have long heard that Concubine Ning looks like Chang'e in the moon, and she is born with a celestial beauty. I saw it today, and it is really so," the queen smiled, half praising and half joking, "It's almost like calling Your Majesty this The three thousand beauties in the harem are all inferior."

The emperor stared at Ye Xiaozhou's face, and smiled meaningfully: "Ah Min is still blessed, no wonder you refused to take those famous ladies I mentioned to you before, so you have found such a beauty early on."

Afterwards, the two sat down one after another—of course, King Ning never stood up from the beginning to the end. Before the two of them sat down and had a few sips of tea, Jing Ling put aside the queen's domestic gossip and changed the subject suddenly.

"Ah Min, it's rare to get together today, why don't you play a game of chess with the queen?"

Before King Ning could answer, the queen refused and said: "Your Majesty, my concubine's chess skills are clumsy, how dare I compare with King Ning, I'm afraid I'm going to be clumsy."

Jing Ling said with a smile: "Didn't the Queen always say that she wanted to play a game with Ah Min? Everyone in Luojing knows Ah Min's chess skills. Doesn't the Queen want to see it with her own eyes?"

Naturally, the empress never said such things to Jing Ling, but since the emperor has said so, she must not be able to refute the emperor's face, she smiled slightly, and said gently and solemnly: "In that case, then Let the ministers and concubines have the honor to appreciate King Ning's chess skills."

Ye Xiaozhou is vague about the identity and origin of the queen of the current dynasty, but King Ning is different. This queen is the only daughter of a great Confucian in the previous dynasty. This great Confucian is famous all over the world and has countless students who admire him Naturally, there were many people. Jing Ling was able to regain power smoothly, and the great Confucianist and his disciples also played a role in fueling the flames.

More importantly, this great Confucianist is not only well-known in literature, but also has a profound knowledge of chess. He only lost one game before his death. Even that Confucian student didn't dare to play against her lightly, for fear of embarrassing loss.

The emperor specially asked him to play chess with the empress today, presumably wishing him to lose, so that he could regain the face he lost yesterday.

Jing Min smiled lightly, still with that unobtrusive appearance: "I also ask the queen to enlighten me."

The two played chess at the chess table, and Ye Xiaozhou and the emperor sat on the original soft bed and watched the chess.

Since the chessboard was a little far away from the chess table, the two young eunuchs set up another chess table in front of the emperor and Ye Xiaozhou respectively, and restored the chess game between the two to the chess table in front of them in real time.

Ye Xiaozhou has no interest in playing chess. He was forced by Ye Hongfang to learn a little bit of superficial chess. He could never understand the game between masters like Jing Min and the queen. Only when the emperor approached did he reluctantly pretend to be watching chess seriously.

The emperor first took a sip of tea, and then suddenly asked, "Princess Ning was born in Gusu?"

Ye Xiaozhou nodded: "If you go back to the emperor, I grew up in Gusu since I was a child."

"That's a good place," Jing Ling smiled at him, "A few years ago, I lived in Pingjiang for a few days during my southern tour, and it was like a small Luojing. Compared with Shangjing at that time, it was much more prosperous. More than that."

"Your Majesty is absurd," Ye Xiaozhou said neither humble nor overbearing, "I think Pingjiang is more than prosperous, but in terms of grandeur, Shangjing City is far better than Pingjiang. After all, it is the imperial city, how can the Red Snake be more majestic than the real dragon? "

Ye Xiaozhou's flattery was just right, Jing Ling listened to it very well: "You are so sweet, but it is a pity that you are just trapped in the palace of Prince Naning to be a princess."

"I saw that you were young, but you didn't show any timidity when you saw me. You were born in a merchant's family, but you didn't smell of copper. Your father taught you very well."

Ye Xiaozhou is not stupid, he heard that Jing Ling is a drunkard who doesn't want to drink.

At this time, the black pieces in the chess game in front of him were clearly at a disadvantage. Jing Ling felt relieved, and the smile on her face gradually grew stronger: "Princess Ning must be very concerned about Ye Hongfang being assigned to the Border Gate?"

Ye Xiaozhou blurted out, "What does Your Majesty want to say?"

"It's nothing." Jing Ling turned the lid on the teacup inadvertently, and then continued, "I just feel sorry for such a good person as Princess Ning, but she was kept in the dark—do you really think that Ye Hongfang did it because of smuggling?" Was he convicted of the two crimes of smuggling salt and smuggling ironware?"

"Of course not, my father has never been involved in these illegal activities." Ye Xiaozhou said firmly.

Seeing that the fish had already bit the hook, Jing Ling gradually began to tighten the fishing line: "I know, it's just that when Ah Min asked me to marry you two, he was my younger brother after all, so I naturally wanted to reveal the details of the Ye family's origins. The investigation is very clear, guess... what did I find?"

"What did His Majesty find out?" Ye Xiaozhou didn't seem surprised at all despite asking this question.

Jing Ling was sure in her heart that Ye Xiaozhou knew the ins and outs of this matter, so it was easy to handle. The smile on his face disappeared and was replaced by a slightly sad face.

"Although I learned about that incident, I thought it was the Ye Mansion who took in their mother and son, so that my two relatives survived, and I was also called Emperor Xiaoren, so I regretted it, so I spared Ye Hong Fang's death penalty, he was only dispatched to a remote place, but..."

"But what?" Ye Xiaozhou asked.

The emperor closed his eyes, and waved his hand to ask an eunuch to present the secret letter with the news of Ye Hongfang's death to Ye Xiaozhou, and then heaved a heavy sigh.

Ye Xiaozhou opened the note, and it was in neat small script, but he couldn't understand a single word, and his mind was buzzing.

His fingers trembled, and he could hardly hold the rice paper as light as a thin feather.

The criminal minister Ye Hongfang died of illness at the second quarter of this morning.

Ye Xiaozhou's eyelashes also trembled, and salty tears dripped on the rice paper, blurring his eyes and blurring the handwriting on the rice paper.

His father is actually dead... But didn't Jing Min just promise him that he would save his father?Is this what he calls saving lives?

Before Ye Xiaozhou could speak, Jing Ling said again: "Don't blame Ah Min, who would have thought that Ye Hongfang, who was fine yesterday, suddenly died suddenly today?"

Jing Ling didn't mention Jing Min's suspicion in a word, but he believed that as long as Ye Xiaozhou was not stupid, he would definitely think of Jing Min.Ye Hongfang's death, he and Jing Min both had the possibility to do it, but if the emperor really wanted to kill Ye Hongfang, he would just have to execute him at that time, why bother so much trouble?