Chapter 37

Two flowers bloom, one on each side.

After Lu Desheng separated from his daughter, he walked the familiar road to Yugan Palace under the leadership of a familiar young eunuch.

When he arrived at Yuqian Palace, he first confessed to the emperor, "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I was late because I was waiting for my daughter to go out together."

Emperor Kang Cheng heard this and asked curiously, "You and your daughter go out together?" Lu Aiqing rarely mentioned his wife and daughter, and his son only occasionally talked about it when he mentioned the prince. Now he actually took the initiative to mention his daughter?

Lu Desheng smiled and said, "Yes, the Queen Mother summoned her, and our father and daughter separated at the palace gate."

"The Queen Mother summoned her? What's the matter?"

"Wei Chen doesn't know."

Emperor Kang Cheng didn't care. He comforted him casually and took him to play chess together.

Lu Desheng lost two or three games in a row. He lasted the longest in the first game, and lost faster than the last two games.

Emperor Kang Cheng was a lousy chess player. He won three games in a row and was in a good mood. He commented on Lu Desheng with some complacency, "Ai Qing, your chess skills need to be improved."

Lu Desheng said unconvinced, "Your Majesty, Wei Chen is not convinced by your words. Wei Chen's chess skills are not bad. Wei Chen has been playing chess for so many years and has played so many chess records. Where is his level? Can he be any worse?"

As if to prove this point, he added, "In the past, when we played chess with the emperor, we had some interactions. Your Majesty, have you forgotten?"

The emperor drank tea, smiled, and pointed at the mess that had not yet been cleaned up, "Here, you lost three games in a row, and you still talk a lot?"

"That's why I was distracted!"

Lu Desheng said, but secretly rolled his eyes in his heart. The emperor's bad chess player only bullied an honest person like him. But he knew that many of the emperor's ministers could not win the game because others secretly allowed him to do so. But he could see that some of his ministers were letting loose, so he wouldn't be happy. The emperor liked to catch and torture novices like him. He had played chess with his daughter, and she heard him brag that he could occasionally play chess with the emperor. When he won the emperor, he was shocked and said that their fight was just a novice pecking each other. He thought about it for a while and felt that it was really like this.

Perhaps Emperor Kang Cheng was in a good mood and allowed Lu Desheng, an old minister, to cheat, "Okay, tell me why you were distracted?"

Hearing this, Lu Desheng's mood dropped, "Today is the first time that my daughter has entered the palace alone. I am worried that she does not understand the rules and may have offended the Queen Mother."

Emperor Kangcheng ordered, "Wei Zili, please send someone to Changle Palace to have a look and come back later to report." His beloved Qing mentioned his daughter one after another, and it seemed that he was really worried about her.

"Yes." Wei Zili walked out and thought that Lu Yushi was really highly valued by the emperor. Then he ordered his most valued young apprentice to visit Changle Palace in person.

Emperor Kang Cheng asked him with a smile, "You should feel relieved now, right?"

"I would like to express my gratitude to the Emperor for his consideration."

"Do you want another round? I'll give you a chance to avenge your shame."

Lu Desheng shook his head, feeling that it was not enough, and gave up. "It will be another day. I will go back and practice for two days before coming to the emperor to play chess. Then I will definitely avenge my previous shame!"

"Hahaha." Emperor Kang Cheng laughed, "Okay, then I will wait."

Lu Desheng looked at him sadly, Your Majesty, you are smiling like this, do you think I can't beat you no matter how hard I practice after I go back?

Emperor Kang Cheng stopped laughing, pointed to the boxes stacked on the table next to him and said, "Okay, those things are rewards for you, go and see if you like them?"

Lu Desheng glanced at it, and then looked away with difficulty, "Your Majesty, I have something to say."

Lu Desheng's different reaction from the past made Emperor Kang Cheng raise his eyebrows, "If you have anything to say, just say it."

Lu Desheng immediately knelt down and said a series of words of loyalty.

For the emperor, it was very useful for Lu Desheng, a minister he personally promoted and valued, to express his loyalty. However, when he heard Lu Desheng say that no matter how many contributions he made or how many qualifications he accumulated in the future, he would not be promoted, Emperor Kang Cheng

First it was an accident, and then the suspicious and sensitive nerve of the emperor was touched.

The emperor has a conspiracy theory, there are always unscrupulous people who want to harm me!

Emperor Kang Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly, "Why does Aiqing have such thoughts?"

Could it be? "I heard that you were attacked at the door when you were the first to go home?" Are you afraid? Are you so cowardly?

Lu Desheng said nonchalantly, "Hey, some little bastards who don't like me are just throwing rotten eggs at me. What kind of attack is this? I don't know where these little bastards got so many rotten eggs. How good are the eggs?"

Eat, they don't eat and they still keep the stinky thing to hit people and ruin the family!" The latter sentence was muttered.

"As for your Majesty asking me why I have such thoughts, to be honest, I only had such thoughts in the past year."

"Weichen is now a fifth-grade imperial censor. Weichen feels that he has climbed very high and is very contented. In Weichen's hometown, this is a high official. In the words of his hometown, this is like smoke rising from the ancestral graves in his hometown.

." Speaking of this, Lu Desheng couldn't help but puff up his chest.

Emperor Kangcheng laughed. A fifth-grade censor is not a high-ranking official. If he puts it on Chang'an Street and throws a brick over it, he will probably hit several officials.

"Weichen always remembers that when Weichen was in his last years, it was the emperor who had the wise eyes of the emperor and promoted me to the Yushitai. If there was no emperor, I might have been tricked and returned to my hometown. I don't know where.

Are you working as a farmer on the ground?" As he spoke, Lu Desheng glanced at Emperor Kang Cheng, who motioned for him to continue.

Lu Desheng said in a low voice, "In the past two years, I have been a little scared of what happened in the court."

"What are you afraid of?"

"Weichen is afraid that if he continues to rise higher and higher, the change in status will make Weichen lose his mind and do something to hurt the emperor. The most important thing is that Weichen likes the current censor.

This official position cannot be done well by other ministers."

"You, you..." Emperor Kang Cheng stretched out his hand and nodded in vain. This Lu Aiqing spoke with sincerity. In the sentence he just said, anyone else would have put the words 'the most important thing' in the previous sentence.

Go to show his loyalty to Chicheng, the emperor.

At this time, neither the monarch nor the minister spoke.

Emperor Kang Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at his minister.

Lu Desheng sat upright, looking at his nose and heart, allowing Emperor Kang Cheng to look at him, but he didn't feel much nervous in his heart. He and his daughter had analyzed this situation, and no matter what Emperor Kang Cheng's considerations were, he would not be in danger.

His dear friend has many faults. He is upright, petty, and can't stand anger. He also has advantages. He is very good at impeaching and framing other people's crimes. He knows how to be grateful. The most important thing is that no matter how much infamy he bears for the emperor, he has no complaints. Now.
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