Qi Huang

Not long after the tenth prince returned to the palace from Banruo Temple, he was ready to report the sachet to the Queen Mother.

Although he didn't know what the sachet was for, he still did what Xie Xuan said.The abbot of the Banruo Temple is a compassionate monk. It is not the first time that the Tenth Prince has seen him. In previous years, when the emperor's grandmother handles the sacrificial ceremonies, the Tenth Prince will always be by his side to observe.

Even though he is not naturally gifted for power struggles, he is still a prince who has been raped by the royal family for several years, and he still has some ability to read words and feelings.

This sachet is definitely not just an ordinary medicated bath sachet, the Tenth Prince can be sure.

This is a big matter, and Xie Xuan is a person full of ghost ideas. It is one thing to want to get close to Xie Xuan, but it is another thing to be wary of him.What's more, someone used him to sneak into Li's house secretly, and later someone in the palace took his power.

He judged that the imperial grandmother needed to know about it.As a result, after going around, I heard that the Queen Mother was not in the palace, but went to the Palace of Qinzheng.

The tenth prince had no choice but to wait outside the Hall of Qinzheng for a long time under the gradually scorching sun, but what he waited for was the news that the Empress Dowager was still receiving courtiers.The eunuch who came out to reply was a tea serving eunuch. After finishing his report in a businesslike manner, he swung his whisk and turned to leave, but was stopped again.

"Who is the imperial grandmother receiving?" The tenth prince asked a little more, "Did you say that the prince needs to enter the palace to wait?"

The eunuch saluted respectfully: "How do you know this, my servant? The servant only takes care of the Empress Dowager's daily life, so I dare not talk about it."

The tenth prince snorted, took off a jade pendant from his waist and threw it on the eunuch: "Do you want me to ask again?"

"No need, no need." The eunuch immediately beamed with joy, put the jade pendant into his bosom happily, and said, "I don't know who the slaves and servants have met with, but I accidentally saw Lord Ye and Lord Li when serving tea just now."

Ye Wenxu and Li Jin?

The emperor's grandmother has never had a good look at family officials like Li Jin. They are so rich that they occasionally stretch their hands where they shouldn't be, which often causes the emperor's grandmother a lot of headaches.

Then why did Li Jin and Ye Wenxu meet the emperor's grandmother together?

Ye Wenxu was the elder of the three dynasties, and he assisted the three emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Up to now, during the Xiande period, he has retreated behind the scenes and ignored world affairs, becoming his idle scholar.Usually, it is not easy to enter the palace for non-essential things.

What's going on?

But this doesn't look like the atmosphere before the big event, does it?

The tenth prince couldn't figure it out. He wanted to enter the palace but was worried about causing trouble to the Queen Mother, so he had to press the sachet first, planning to wait for a good time and then tell the Queen Mother all about it.Unexpectedly, just as he was about to leave, when his eyes wandered, he saw the sixth prince walking out of the palace with his skirts in his arms, walking briskly down the stairs.

He didn't even think about it, so he rushed straight up and opened his mouth to ask, "Why are you here?"

When the sixth prince saw the tenth prince who was guarding outside the hall, his eyes couldn't hide his color: "Why can't I be here? The emperor's grandmother allowed me to enter the hall, so I went. Why, you were stopped outside the hall?"

His tone was sarcasm, his eyebrows were sly, and he looked like a villain. The tenth prince had finished his impulsiveness and calmed down.

He would not be angry with a few words of this kind of person.

"Yes, I sympathize with the emperor's grandmother's fatigue. No matter how anxious I am, I still have to wait outside the hall. If the emperor's grandmother doesn't tell me, I won't enter. It's not like some people who just see the emperor's grandmother and beat the gongs and drums. Shouting so that everyone knows." The tenth prince kicked the eunuch serving tea, "You said, the sixth prince was introduced into the palace by the emperor's mother?"

At the important moment when the imperial grandmother was receiving the courtiers, would she let the sixth prince enter the palace to make trouble?Or listen to politics?He doesn't believe it!

Sure enough, the eunuch had just received the Tenth Prince's belongings, so he naturally wanted to turn to him: "I don't know too well, but when I was serving tea and leaving, I happened to hear His Highness the Sixth Highness saying that he had something important to meet with the Empress Dowager. stop……"

The tenth prince immediately sneered: "Oh? Is this what you said about being allowed to enter the palace? Sixth brother, your skin looks quite thin, how did you say such a thing?"

The sixth prince: "You!"

His face, which looked somewhat jagged due to the protruding bones, twisted a few times, and then suppressed it, only the blue veins were swaying under the flesh, like a wriggling restless snake.He stared at the tenth prince for a moment, and suddenly showed a sinister smile: "Xie Duan, you won't be happy for long."

Because he often hangs out with Xie Xuan, the tenth prince has learned five points from his thirteenth brother's ability to open his mouth to anger people, and the sixth prince is naturally defeated.It's just that the poisonous snake-like look in his eyes before leaving still made him feel very uncomfortable.

It is not advisable to walk around in the palace today.

The tenth prince shrugged and went back home.

It was a few days later that I saw Xie Xuan again.

The Tenth Prince had ordered in advance that Xie Xuan didn't need to stop Xie Xuan when he came to the door, and the palace servants outside the Yuhua Palace naturally didn't dare to neglect, and escorted him into the main hall graciously.

However, he came at an unlucky time. At this moment, the Tenth Prince who was supposed to be practicing calligraphy in front of the desk, was writing with one hand and laying ink with the other, but his face was face down, sleeping in the dark.

Xie Xuan leaned over to look, and saw that the words on the paper were neat and neat, and it was written stroke by stroke: "Heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe is prehistoric, the sun and the moon are full, and the days and nights are listed."

Hey, it's still the thousand-character prose I learned when I was just enlightened.

Xie Xuanti slipped the tenth prince's sleeve and tried to look down, which naturally woke him up.

Seeing Xie Xuan as soon as he opened his eyes, the tenth prince's first move was to knead the calligraphy practice paper into a ball and throw it out of the window.

"What are you throwing it for?" Xie Xuan smiled, "The writing is pretty good."

The tenth prince blushed: "Is it related to you again?!"

Different from those royal brothers who just got by, he worked very hard when he was young, learning the art of emperor under the teaching of the Queen Mother.It's just that he is not proficient in poetry and prose, and his eyes are dizzy when he reads the book. To put it bluntly, the word "scholar" has nothing to do with him.

But he was born with a stubborn tendon. While refusing to admit defeat, he studied painfully for many years before he finally learned something.

It's just that he doesn't know that the current tenth prince is exactly what the Queen Mother wants.

Thinking of this, Xie Xuan felt a little unhappy, snatched the brush from the hand of the tenth prince, and wrote a word of thank you on the new paper.

Running script pays attention to the flow of clouds and flowing water, and the strokes have their own direction, but the character written by Xie Xuan does not follow the usual method. Between the movement and the stillness, one can see the aura of the person who writes the pen at a glance.

But in the eyes of the Tenth Prince, there is only dry "good".

He looked at the word for a long while, before his anger arose, his frustration overflowed first: "You did it on purpose, didn't you?"

"Yeah." Xie Xuan nodded and admitted.

"..." The tenth prince was speechless, "I know you are smart, so you don't need to compare me with you."

"So don't learn it, you don't really like it, why learn it." Xie Xuan said, "Don't you love to fight crickets, I will accompany you after learning."

The tenth prince's eyes lit up, and he was really moved for a moment, but soon, the principles in his heart sounded an alarm on his forehead.

He will be the emperor in the future!How can you be so playful!Xie Shisan is really calculating!

The Tenth Prince slapped the table angrily, and said bluntly, "What are you doing here?"

"Oh, that's right." Xie Xuan pretended not to know what the Tenth Prince was thinking, and continued, "Did you give the sachet to the abbot of Banruo Temple that day?"

The tenth prince thought that not long ago he planned to inform the emperor about this matter, so he hesitated: "...I have."

"Can the abbot answer?"

"Never." The Tenth Prince asked suspiciously, "Why?"

"Did he really say nothing?"

Xie Xuan sat down leisurely and turned to look at the tenth prince.

Really didn't say a word.

The Tenth Prince also smelled the sachet, and it was full of tonic medicinal herbs. Hanging it by his side might be able to cure some headaches and colds.When the abbot took it, he didn't take a second look. He just bent over and put his palms together, and said "Amitabha".

Speaking of the sachet, the tenth prince remembered what he had seen and heard that day outside the Hall of Qinzheng. After the statement was finished, Xie Xuan murmured thoughtfully, "The tea eunuch?"

Ye Wenxu would not stand on the same rope as Li Jin.This Ye Hanlin is very smart, a veteran of the three dynasties, a person who knows many secrets of the royal family, is still alive and well, and even ranks in a high-ranking official, which is enough to prove that this person is good at dancing.

Li Jin's wolfish ambition can be seen by everyone in the world. How could he, who is used to being wise and safe, meet the Queen Mother together with Li Jin?

Xie Xuan raised her head: "The eunuch lied."

Li Jin and Ye Wenxu could not have been the only ones in the Hall of Qinzheng with the Queen Mother that day.

Xie Xuan did not have the right to transfer the eunuch serving tea from Qinzheng Palace to Yuhua Palace, but the Tenth Prince who was still favored could.The eunuch didn't know what happened when he stepped into the door. He didn't react until he saw two princes sitting on the left and one on the right, and one of them had a face so black that he could squeeze out ink.

He knelt down with a plop, without acknowledging himself: "Your Highness, spare your life! Your Highness, spare your life!"

"You are so courageous!" The Tenth Prince slapped the desk case in shock, "How dare you lie to the eunuch who serves tea! If you don't punish severely today, you may run amok in the palace in the future!"

He didn't know that something that could have been concealed seamlessly would be seen through all of a sudden!The eunuch who served tea kowtowed and cried, with tears and snot dripping all over the floor: "Your Highness, please forgive me! What does Your Highness want to know, there is no reason for the servant to refuse, but if you say so, the Queen Mother will definitely pick off the head of the servant if she knows. !"

"Then you still accept my tenth brother's things?" Xie Xuan interjected.The tone was calm, but the eunuch who served tea broke out in a cold sweat, "I have seen a eunuch before, who made money by passing on news, do you know him?"

Seeing him dripping cold sweat but not speaking, Xie Xuan smiled slightly: "It seems that in the palace, this is still a long-term business. Tell me, if the emperor's grandmother finds out, will she kill your nine clans?"

Eunuch serving tea: "..."

"Well, if you tell me everything you know, I might be able to persuade my tenth brother to let him spare your life. After all... these things are in the dark, and they are not actually a threat to us. Do you agree?"

Naturally, he couldn't refuse, and he had no right to refuse.

Without this episode, I am afraid that Xie Xuan and Xie Xuan will miss a good show today.

According to the tea eunuch, there were originally four people who met the Queen Mother in the Hall of Qinzheng that day. In addition to Ye Wenxu and Li Jin, there was also a minister named Du Yuzhi.Although Du Yuzhi's surname is Du, his family has a relationship with Huaiyuan Wang Feng Jiuyuan, so he can be called a collateral descendant of the Feng family.

But the fourth person seemed to be late, and the eunuch who served tea did not see him until the last refill of tea.

The Empress Dowager's maiden name is Wang, and the Hussar General at the border is from the Wang family. The four active families, except Ye Wenxu who is a courtier and veteran, can be excluded. The Li family, the Feng family, and the Wang family are all in the small Qinzheng Palace up.

What's more coincidental is that at this time today, these people stayed in the Palace of Qinzheng again, discussing something.

"Who do you think the fourth person is?" Xie Xuan turned around and asked rather amusedly.

"Who?"

Xie Xuan didn't answer.He stood up, without looking at the Tenth Prince, and walked forward.

"Let's go. Let's go to Qinzheng Hall to meet the emperor's grandmother."

"Ah?" The tenth prince was taken aback, "The imperial grandmother summoned the courtiers, what are we going to do now? What if the imperial grandmother blames me..."

Xie Xuan interrupted him: "Aren't you planning to tell the imperial grandmother about the sachet? Isn't this a good opportunity?"

Tenth Prince: "..."

This Xie Xuan is a monster, right?Can you guess this? !