After the rebirth, I became the darling of the tyrant

Gu Chen was inevitably a little surprised, but then he thought that perhaps Xiao Ting wanted to ask about the result of his negotiation with He Zhe... So he nodded: "Please trouble the father-in-law to lead the way."

He turned back and told Zhang Tian: "You take them back to the Beijing camp first, and I will see His Majesty, and then I will come."

"Yes!"

I thought Xiao Tingshen was either in the Zichen Palace or in the Imperial Study Room when discussing political affairs, but to Gu Chen's surprise, Wei Dequan led him all the way in the direction of the Imperial Garden.

Gu Chen secretly wondered: The Imperial Garden is not a place to discuss matters, what are you doing there?So he couldn't help but asked: "Eunuch Wei, your majesty summoned... why?"

Wei Dequan smiled kindly: "I don't know." Probably sensing Gu Chen's doubts, he said tactfully, "Your Majesty, don't worry too much. You will know when you see Your Majesty."

This eunuch is also an old fox... He didn't reveal the slightest bit of what he said, and he didn't even move his eyebrows from the beginning to the end, and there was no clue in his expression.Gu Chen had no choice but to suppress the doubts in his heart, and followed him to the northwest corner of the imperial garden.Another garden has just been built here, and from a distance, you can see the octagonal Linglong Pavilion with its eaves raised like flying swallows, and two winding corridors.Two young eunuchs stood guard at the entrance of the corridor, and when they saw Gu Chen, they saluted respectfully.

Gu Chen nodded, stepped on the three steps of the corridor, and walked inside.At the end is the exquisite and gorgeous pavilion, with a stone table and several stone benches in the middle, Xiao Ting is sitting in front of the stone table, flipping through a book.

"My subject sees—"

Gu Chen was halfway through the ceremony, Xiao Tingshen interrupted him: "Sit down."

Gu Chen sat down on the round stone bench opposite him, vaguely aware that Xiao Tingshen was not in a good mood.After a while, Xiao Ting rubbed the center of his brows deeply, put the book on the stone table, and unconsciously tapped the table with one hand, seeming a little irritable.

"Meet He Zhe?" He asked.

"Yes." Gu Chen thought it was really for this matter, so he said calmly, "I have met He Zhe and others, and the Xizhang Yan family is also in the mission."

Xiao Ting nodded deeply, and leaned forward slightly: "What do you think of He Zhe?"

Gu Chen thought for a while: "I think it is difficult for He Zhe to be generalized as 'good' and 'bad'."

Xiao Ting raised his eyebrows deeply, but did not speak, so Gu Chen continued: "He came from a long way to ask for relatives, to ensure the peace of the border between Baiyi and Dajing for a few years, he wanted Dajing from me, but he was unwilling to bow his head To show weakness, I want to show off the majesty of Baiyi iron cavalry."

He recalled the way Hezhe rushed over on his horse, and how arrogant he was when he spoke... Forget it, he couldn't convey the original words to Xiao Tingshen, otherwise, according to Xiao Tingshen's violent temper, no one would know him will make something.

After all, it's not like he didn't do it in his previous life.When Baiyi came to Beijing, it was probably a demonstration, but Xiao Ting endured it for nearly a year, and finally killed him with his hands?Gu Chen is still the coach who has personally experienced this battle.

So he thought about his words and decided to be more tactful: "...Hezhe probably did this because he didn't want to lose out in the negotiation."

Xiao Ting sneered deeply: "If he doesn't think about it, he's already at a disadvantage."

Gu Chen glanced at him inexplicably—he always felt that this sentence contained a bit of aggressiveness. He thought Xiao Tingshen would not say such a thing. It was too childish, like two children fighting, one They insisted on proving that they were better than the other, and the other insisted on competing with him. The key point was that neither of them could do anything, so they had to scold each other through Gu Chen, and Gu Chen was the one caught in the middle.

Gu Chen, who was fighting, felt a little funny, couldn't hold it back, and bent his lips to reveal a smile.Xiao Ting glanced at him deeply: "What are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing..." Gu Chen quickly suppressed his smile, and coughed lightly, "Your Majesty, from Yichen's point of view, He Zhe is not bad in nature, he has ambitions and ambitions, and judging from his actions in the country, he also has means. He thought for a while, and decided to give the other party a fair evaluation: "And he can clearly understand his own situation, and he can bend and stretch. Most importantly, he is not a vicious person, and he doesn't bother to use any indecent methods." .”

"I think this person can be handed over."

In fact, part of his comments also come from the contact in his previous life. He said that the person who knows him best is actually the enemy, which is not bad at all.Therefore, even though Gu Chen's elder brother died in the Huaihe battle against Baiyi, it did not affect Gu Chen's evaluation of him.

If they were not enemies in the previous life... maybe they could still make friends.

Xiao Ting saw Gu Chen's distraction in his eyes, and his face became more and more gloomy.He snorted coldly and said, "You have a good impression of him."

"If he is from Jing, he may be a great help to His Majesty." Gu Chen said with a smile, "But he is from Baiyi, so he can only become a hindrance to His Majesty."

"Even if he is Jingren, I don't need him." Xiao Ting said in a bad tone, "You like him very much?"

No matter how dull Gu Chen is, he still finds this question strange.He couldn't help but look deeply at Xiao Ting, who was staring at him, his lips were tightly drawn into a slit, and the displeasure on his face was almost overflowing.Gu Chen didn't understand, so he was a little confused. After pondering for a while, he thought it was better to be cautious: "...I don't like him."

Xiao Tingshen's expression softened a little.

"Of course, my personal feelings don't matter." Gu Chen continued, "The most important thing right now is the Xizhangyan clan. I already know that the Xizhangyan clan has suffered from leg problems for many years, and it has been fruitless to search for famous doctors. I think, If you can find Zhao Zhongqi and find a doctor, maybe you can give it a try."

Xiao Tingshen: "...I already know about this."

Gu Chen: "..."

Xu Shi saw Gu Chen looking at him, Xiao Ting said deeply: "Before you came, I had already received the informant."

Gu Chen: "..."

You already know the whole story and why are you asking me such a big article! ?

He really wanted to express his incomprehension and doubts about Xiao Tingshen's behavior of knowingly asking, but when he thought that the other party was the emperor... well, just be happy.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Ting said another sentence after a long while: "I will send someone to send a new set of official uniforms to your house in a while, so don't wear this set."

Gu Chen: "...Your Majesty, this set is new."

"If I say I'm not allowed to wear it, I'm not allowed to wear it!"

Xiao Ting deepened his tone, his unkind eyes swept over Gu Chen's right arm, and his eyebrows were tightly knit together.Gu Chen looked at his right arm suspiciously - there was not even a speck of mud, why did Xiao Tingshen have such an expression?

Reminiscent of Xiao Tingshen's mention of He Zhe...could it be related to He Zhe?

Gu Chen recalled the whole scene at the gate of the city, and finally, after remembering that he said "what do you want the general to do?", He Zhe patted his right arm.Could it be because of this that Xiao Tingshen was so unhappy and insisted on giving Gu Chen a new official uniform?

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a while—is this person naive?

"Your Majesty," Gu Chen said calmly, "I would like to thank Your Majesty for your kindness, but my clothes are new, so it would be a bit extravagant to give me another set—"

"—You don't need to." Xiao Tingshen interrupted Gu Chen's words abruptly, staring at Gu Chen with a pair of dark eyes, and suddenly smiled with an unknown meaning.Gu Chen's heart skipped a beat——Xiao Tingshen changed his face too quickly, making him involuntarily have an ominous premonition.

Xiao Tingshen raised his voice and called out: "Wei Dequan! Bring that pot of wine up."

The eunuch entered in response, holding a wooden tray in his hand with an exquisite jug on it.Behind him was a young eunuch, dressed in red and purple, and Gu Chen recognized him as one of the two young eunuchs guarding the entrance of the corridor, holding two celadon wine glasses in his hand.

With a soft sound, the jug was placed in the middle of the two of them, and then the two wine glasses were placed in front of the two of them respectively.Wei Dequan rolled up his sleeves and took a step forward to pour wine, but Xiao Tingshen raised his hand to stop him.

"You don't need to wait, let's go down." He smiled and turned his gaze to Gu Chen, "Gu Qing is here."

Gu Chen: ...! ? ?

Wei Dequan responded, turned around and left with the little eunuch.Xiao Ting deeply nodded the wine glass in front of him, and said to Gu Chen, "Pour the wine."

Gu Chen: "..."

He twitched the corners of his lips, feeling that this routine seemed familiar.

Oh, by the way, seven days ago, in Xiao Tingshen's study, that's how he threatened himself.

...Why is this person so shameless?

While thinking this way, he raised the flagon expressionlessly.

The thin wine flowed into the quilt, clear and transparent, with a mellow aroma.Gu Chen couldn't help being distracted for a moment—the taste of this wine was so familiar that even if he closed his eyes and there were hundreds of jars of wine in front of him, he could still distinguish this wine from it.In the years when Xiao Tingshen and Xiao Tingshen were friends, the tavern in Shenjing Dongfang that the two of them often went to had this kind of wine as their signature.

Gu Chen was still very young at that time, Xu Shi, the shopkeeper, saw that he was young, and enthusiastically recommended this wine to the two of them——

"This is our signature here! To drink this kind of wine, you must use a celadon cup!"

The young Gu Chen asked curiously, "Why?"

The shopkeeper personally poured a glass and handed it to him: "Did you see it?"

The clear and transparent wine flowed into the cup, moistening the wall of the celadon cup like a piece of fine jade, moist and clear.The shopkeeper said proudly: "If you use a celadon cup to hold this wine for a long time, the cup will be more beautiful than jade. Many nobles like this. Therefore, this wine has another name, called floating celadon."

Xiao Tingshen looked at the cup for a long time, and then suddenly showed a rare gentle smile, and said to Gu Chen, "I like this color that suits you."

Gu Chen recovered from his memory, put down the jug, and said in a low voice, "After all these years, Your Majesty still likes floating celadon?"

A low smile flashed across Xiao Ting's deep brows.His handsome brows stretched out, and there was an unprecedented tenderness in his eyes.

"I've always liked it."

After speaking, he pointed to the glass of wine again: "Drink together."