Baochai is a mermaid

Wei Chi had been busy all day, and he didn't realize that he was tired and hungry until he finished a bowl of sweet soup, so he ordered his maid to bring him another bowl.

Usually Wei Chi is very picky about his meals, no matter how delicious the soup is, he will never drink a second bowl. It seems that he is very hungry, and he doesn't know if he has eaten dinner in the palace.

Xue Baoer hurriedly called the maid to stop, and said to Wei Chi: "The soup is too sweet, it's not good to drink on an empty stomach, I'll ask someone to serve you a bowl of chicken noodle soup."

"Alright." Wei Chi loves to eat meat, and is not very interested in sweets.

Xue Bao'er turned her head and told the little maid carefully: "Put more chicken shreds in the noodles, the chicken shreds should be cut finer, and it can be melted at night."

The little maid went away at the sound, and was stopped by Xue Baoer after walking a few steps, and she continued to order: "Put a few more quail eggs in the noodle soup. If you want quail eggs, don't put eggs."

The little maid turned around and said yes, and then she went.

Wei Chi listened to Xue Baoer's nagging about a bowl of chicken noodle soup, and felt warm in his heart, feeling that she finally had the meaning of a little wife.

It's a pity that I'm too young, I can only watch from a distance, I can't...

Seeing Xue Bao'er turned his head to look at him, with clear eyes, Wei Chi had no choice but to put away the little bit of unruly thoughts in his heart, and talked to her about the serious business while cooking the noodles.

After hearing this, Xue Bao'er's eyes opened wider and clearer, and it seemed that they were still shining with water.

"Wei Chi, how much do you like me?" Xue Bao'er couldn't help asking softly, "In the future... will I be spoiled by you as Bao Si or Da Ji in the future, a disaster for the country and the people? If I said I want to watch fireworks, would you Could it be that Fenghuo is really playing princes?"

Wei Chi raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, and said that he could give you his life, so what are the feudal lords?

But... why is the little girl on the other side about to cry?

Xue Baoer was indeed about to cry.

Just because of her request, Lin Ruhai flew straight from a seventh-rank official to a third-rank official like a rocket overnight, and even moved from the place to the center.

Did Wei Chi take Jian Guo as a joke, or did he regard her as Baosi or Daji?

"Do you want to think about it again?" Xue Bao'er wanted to cry, "I just want to help the Lin family cousin, please transfer Mr. Lin to the capital to reunite their father and daughter, no, no other ideas."

"Isn't this the transfer?" Wei Chi smiled gently at her.

The gentler he is, the more Xue Bao'er wants to cry: "Isn't it too hasty to go directly from the seventh rank to the third rank?"

It was because of this.

Are you worried that the cabinet will object and that he will be impeached by the speaker?

Wei Chi really wanted to explain to Xue Baoer, but it was about the emperor's private treasury, so it was not convenient to say so, so he could only vaguely say: "This is none of your business. I think Mr. Lin is a rare talent. It was a time when talents were urgently needed, so they were promoted exceptionally.”

Xue Bao'er has always believed in Wei Chi, and Wei Chi said that Lin Ruhai is a talent, so he must be, so he no longer doubted it.

The next day, out of respect, Wei Chi notified the cabinet of his decision to promote Lin Ruhai. After a while of silence, no one stood up to object.

Such a result was what Wei Chi expected.

The reason is simple.

More than half of the cabinet are officials from Jiangnan, and now the Jiangnan Salt Administration has been troubled by Lin Ruhai, and most of those officials are old students of several big bosses in the cabinet. Everyone has a share, who would be stupid enough to jump out and oppose it?

Er Zelin Ruhai is Tan Hua Lang handpicked by the sage, and he once served in Lantai Temple. His ancestors are also three generations of nobles, not to mention ability, even if he stays in the capital for qualifications, he should have reached the third rank.

It is not considered an exceptional promotion.

Not to mention Yangzhou, I heard that on the day Lin Ruhai handed over and left, the fireworks in Yangzhou city went on until midnight.

On the contrary, those speech officials were holding on, and impeachment papers flew into the palace like a snowflake. They didn't dare to impeach Wei Chi, and they didn't know where they got the news. They even collectively impeached Xue Baoer. It is said that she is in power, and what is more, she is directly slandered as a catastrophic enchantress like Daji Baosi.

The guards of these memorials only took a few glances before ordering someone to bring in a brazier and burn them all up.

The impeachment memorial that reached Tianting was destroyed before the emperor read it, and a single stone caused a thousand waves.

How could Yu Shitai give up, they knelt outside the palace gate and asked to face the saint, and knelt for three days, only to get a reply from Fu Quanhai: "My lords, please go back, the saint is still in retreat."

After a few days of commotion, Yu Shitai had no choice but to give up, but the rumors about the evil girl who harmed the country still spread quietly in the official circles of the capital.

Some people beat their chests and stamped their feet, lamenting that if things go on like this, the country will not be a country in the long run. of favor.

On this day, the Empress Dowager was tending flowers and plants in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, when a maid came to report: "Empress Dowager, Empress Shu Concubine has come to greet you!"

"Oh? She's a rare visitor." Ever since the Queen Mother made the decision to bring the newly born Princess Jingxian to the Queen's care, Concubine Shu hadn't been to the gate of the Palace of Compassion for a long time.

The sun is out in the west today.

The Empress Dowager didn't want to give Concubine Shu this face at first, but she was idle when she was idle, and it's always good to talk to someone, so she asked the maid to lead her in.

Concubine Shu smiled and came in to greet the Queen Mother, saying that the chrysanthemums in her palace bloomed in spring, and the yellow ones were really beautiful, so she specially picked a few pots of good ones and sent them to the Queen Mother to enjoy.

After the Empress Dowager moved into the Palace of Compassion and Peace, she only had two hobbies, one was worshiping incense and worshiping Buddha, and the other was gardening flowers and plants.

It is well known that the Empress Dowager loves flowers and plants in the palace, so it is appropriate for Concubine Shu to send flowers, but the flowering period of this chrysanthemum is obviously in autumn, how could it bloom at the turn of spring and summer?

When things go wrong, there must be a demon. The Empress Dowager was displeased in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face. She asked people to move those pots of chrysanthemums into the house. Before the flowers arrived, the sweet and greasy fragrance that only belonged to chrysanthemums came out casually. The wind blows in.

The queen mother frowned slightly, and when she saw those golden clusters, she suddenly felt ominous.

Listening to Concubine Shu said again: "I don't know what happened this year. I heard that the golden osmanthus in the imperial garden has also grown flower buds, and it seems to be blooming in spring! The empress said that these two flowers are bright yellow. Competing to bloom in spring is an auspicious omen, implying that the royal family is full of flowers and the blessings are endless."

The queen mother only found it ironic when she heard that, the harem was indeed full of flowers, but no prince was born. Fortunately, the queen still has the face to say that the blessings are endless, how can it last without heirs?

Concubine Shu sat for a while before saying goodbye and leaving, but the queen mother was restless all morning, so she called the queen over to ask questions after lunch.

"Has something happened in the imperial court these few days?" The queen mother was not in the mood to go around and asked straight to the point.

The queen hesitated to speak: "The concubine is serving the Holy Majesty in the Hall of Mental Cultivation day and night, and I have never heard of it."

It stands to reason that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, but the queen mother does not believe that the queen will know nothing about the previous dynasty.

The queen mother herself was once a queen.

"It's the Ai family who asked you to say it, but it's okay to say it." Probably because of the influence of the eldest princess, the queen mother has never been able to get close to the queen.

The queen was still hesitating, the queen mother was so angry that she put down the teacup, the queen hurriedly got up and knelt down, impeaching Yushitai to impeach Chenghui Township Lord failed, and because of the memorial being burned, the group knelt at the gate of the palace. told the Queen Mother.

"Chi'er was young, and was bewitched by this woman, so she came forward to ask for a title for a merchant girl." The queen said and glanced at the queen mother, "and used the word 'Chenghui'."

Seeing the Empress Dowager's complexion as usual, the queen lowered her eyes and continued: "Later, in order to praise the elder brother of Mr. Chenghui, she made an exception and opened the Enke for the martial arts spring test. Enke was just opened, and the conditions for selection were relaxed, no need to go through the court. As long as you pay a certain amount of silver, you can directly participate in the general examination."

The queen mother snorted coldly: "How is this different from selling officials and conferring titles?"

The queen excused Wei Chi with a look of embarrassment: "I heard that there was a war in the northwest, and last year was a disaster year, so the treasury must not be rich."

The Empress Dowager suppressed her anger, and heard the Empress say again: "The cabinet turned a blind eye to the above, but Yu Shitai didn't say anything."

The Empress Dowager was angry, and asked coldly: "Then why did the Yushitai kneel in front of the palace gate and ask to be interviewed? Pick up the important ones!"

The queen tremblingly said: "Chi'er should never have done so. He transferred a seventh-rank official who was far away in Yangzhou to the capital, and also directly sealed him as a third-rank official. He is now the servant of the household department."

"What!" The Queen Mother couldn't believe her ears.

I don't know how many local officials sharpen their heads every year to squeeze into the capital, and they don't hesitate to be downgraded to become a Beijing official. How could that Yangzhou seventh-rank official He De be transferred to the capital, and he was promoted to the fourth rank, and went to the very popular household department? .

Is this playing tricks on government affairs?

"Where's the cabinet? Didn't anyone raise any objections?" The queen mother was so angry that she couldn't even breathe.

Ai Ai said in the queen's period: "This... I don't know."

"Then what do you know?" The queen mother was a little angry.

The queen's expression was full of hatred: "The concubine heard that the daughter of the Yangzhou petty official had a handkerchief with Mr. Chenghui, and asked Mr. Chenghui to run an official position for her father in front of Chier. These may be Yu Shitai found out, that's why he impeached Chenghui Xiangjun so radically, saying that she is a confidante who is a disaster, similar to Daji and Baosi, a demon concubine who is a disaster for the country."

The Empress Dowager's face turned ashen when she heard the words, and the Empress secretly rejoiced, and lit the last fire: "Before the Holy Majesty retreated, I asked my concubine to go to Zhongshun Prince's Mansion to propose a marriage, and wanted to marry Chi'er and Princess Anning. The concubine was very happy, Princess Zhongshun said Wanting to keep An Ning by my side for a few more years, this concubine thought that she could get engaged first."

The Empress Dowager also liked An Ning very much, and besides, the war in the northwest was just the time when the court needed King Zhongshun's efforts. It was indeed a good idea to marry the Prince Zhongshun's mansion at this time.

"Since it was confessed by the Holy Majesty before the retreat, why didn't the edict of granting marriage be issued?" The queen mother had a faint guess in her heart, and her face became more and more ugly.

The queen sighed heavily: "The imperial decree has already been drawn up, and it only needs to be issued with a seal. The concubine sent someone to remind me several times, but Chi'er didn't comment, and it has been delayed until today."

"The concubine is afraid that the majesty will go out of the customs, and asked about the marriage. When the time comes, the concubine..." The queen knelt down on the ground with tears in her eyes, and said loudly, "I also ask the queen mother to be the master! Even if the concubine is useless, the majesty will be useless." Son, and we must not let the future prince marry a Shangmen demon girl, and bring disaster to the country!"