Returned

Author: six silent

At three o'clock in the morning, before dawn, the door of Chaohua Palace was gently opened.

Sanmao led a group of little eunuchs to arrange the dragon robes that His Majesty would wear, and also prepared all the utensils for washing, and then carefully knelt down in front of the bed and whispered:

"Your Majesty, it's time to get up. You said last night that you were going to ride a horse and go to the garden this morning."

The long eyelashes moved slightly, and after a moment, a pair of eyes slowly opened.

Zhao Surui, who was not yet fully awake, frowned: "How can anyone ride a horse and go to the garden so early in the morning? I..."

The next moment, the young emperor with the reign name Zhaode suddenly sat up.

He looked at Sanmao's round face, then at his own hands, and then, barefoot, he walked directly in front of the bronze mirror that the little eunuch was carrying.

he?!

He changed back?!

He turned around and looked at the three cats who had hurriedly followed him out. Then he looked at the dragon robe, jade belt, gold basin and silver lamp beside him. He clenched his fists and then unclenched them.

It's true, it's really changed back.

The three cats looked at the emperor's face and lowered their heads carefully.

After all, Zhao Surui had been the emperor for many years, and he wore a dragon robe. He looked at the extra callus on his right hand with some dissatisfaction and said lightly:

"Today is the fourth day of the first lunar month, and all the officials are resting. Why did you wake me up so early?"

"Your Majesty, you said last night that you were going to ride a horse this morning. Please make sure I wake you up early."

horse riding?

That was Shen Sanfei's desire to ride a horse. What does it have to do with him, Zhao Surui?

With this in mind, Zhao Surui picked up the riding crop held by the young eunuch and blinked at the red gem on it. This was the one he used to use. Yesterday he was in court.

He hadn't seen it yet in the palace, but it was brought to him today. It must have been Shen Sanfai who had done something to him yesterday and had someone specially look for him.

Thinking of this, the anger that had grown up after being surprised stagnated in his heart. Zhao Surui raised his eyebrows and tightly held the riding crop studded with red envelopes in his hand.

Ergou, who was waiting outside the door, saw that the satin curtain was opened, and the emperor strode out:

"Let's go and ride a horse with me."

"yes!"

Ergou quickly followed, and when he turned around, he saw Sanmao winking at him.

It means asking him to be careful.

After watching the emperor leave, the three cats sighed. The emperor said last night that he had been upset recently and asked him to make some soup to relieve fire and protect the liver. Today, it seems that he has actually made it.

"First use Sichuan clams and pears to make sugar water for the emperor, then use barley and japonica rice to make porridge, and add some smilax."

With his mind settled, the three cats moved faster on their legs.

"I finally met Madam Shen yesterday, but Madam Shen happened to be drunk again and didn't say a few words. No wonder the emperor is so angry that he can't get out of it."

This thought was swirling in his cat head, but he didn't say a word to anyone else.

About an hour and a half later, breakfast was all ready. The three cats looked at the sun that had risen in the eastern sky and wondered in their hearts why the emperor didn't come back for dinner.

Just as I was thinking about it, I saw a little eunuch running back quickly.

"But the emperor wants to pass on the meal?"

"Grandpa Sanmao, when the emperor saw the dawn, he asked Grandpa Ergou to accompany him out of the palace!"

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"Girl, this is the account book I have kept here over the past few months. The man put seventeen thousand taels of silver here and there. I have recorded every transaction clearly."

Looking at the account book that Tunan placed in front of her, Shen Shiqing raised her hand and pushed it:

"I've never been worried about you taking care of the accounts. Besides, there's no point in asking me to settle the accounts just after I came back?"

Tunan saw his girl with a slight smile on her face and glanced over her head. The jade beaded hairpin was inserted neatly into the girl's bun.

Shen Shiqing was more interested in the homework assigned to the little maid by Tunan Achi and others than the account books, and was looking at the red-painted notebook handed in by a little girl with great interest.

"Although this little girl named Chunxin is not good at writing, she has good wrist strength and occasionally has smooth strokes. If you teach her well, over time, she will not only have good calligraphy that is not inferior to Achi, but also your good kung fu. This person named Qiaoer is also new here, right? Although his background is poor, he is serious and there is not a single mistake in the entire three hundred words."

"Zhu Chunxin and Lin Qiaoer are both newly elected by Aunt Liu, and she plans to select some more people in the first month."

Hearing what Tu Nan said, Shen Shiqing nodded:

"The Xie family building is about to collapse. Tianxing herself came from a family of little maids. Knowing the hardships of those little maids, she will naturally try her best to get more people. This is not a bad thing. She looks a little naive. She is smarter than anyone else, so help her, find a name, select someone and send it directly to Zhuangzi and hand it over to Peifeng."

"Yes." Tunan naturally did everything he wanted to do to his own girl.

The early morning sunshine shone on the window lattice, and a little red and pink shadow could be vaguely seen through the window paper. That was the plum tree she gave to Zhao Surui.

Sitting back in front of the "Breeze" window again, Shen Shiqing looked calm, as if the killing and decisiveness of the ninth level of King's Landing in the past few months were just a dream.

The only thing she was wearing was a blue satin swastika pattern. There was nothing I could do about it, it was much neater than a woman's dress.

After reading the red drawing lessons, she put them aside and said with a smile:

"I don't have to get up early, go to court, or approve papers. I'm really not used to such a leisurely life."

Tunan originally thought that her girl had swapped bodies with a young prince, but later she saw the various behaviors between that man and her girl, and she probably guessed that the girl had become a very important person. She listened to what her girl said casually. She was still heartbroken after the "Public Disclosure" came out.

"Girl, seeing that the Xie family is about to collapse, and the crown prince of Yingjun, Zhao Qinyang, is also trapped in Yanjing and unable to move, why did you come back like this?"

Shen Shiqing raised her head.

Her hair color and eyes are dark, and she is naturally more resentful than others. And because of her long eyebrows, she makes people feel pity when she is silent.

It happened that a woman with such an appearance, when she switched bodies with an emperor, dared to do something that no one had dared to do in thousands of years.

"The more it gets to this point, the more I have to change it back."

With nothing to do, Shen Shiqing picked up the mortar that had been idle for a long time.

"I remember that there are some not very good dyes collected in this yard. You can find them and I'll rinse them out again."

Tunan quickly took out a wooden box, and Shen Shiqing selected a paper bag from the bottom of the box and poured the white pieces inside into the mortar.

A thin grinding sound was heard, and Shen Shiqing's tone was accompanied by a leisurely tone:

"Of course I can stand high above the temple and watch the Xie family be destroyed and the Yingjun Palace be annihilated in the world, but who am I then?"

Her rhetorical question made Tunan startled.

"At that time, I will be nothing more than a coward hidden behind power. Power is certainly useful, and the position of supremacy is intoxicating. But, Tunan, I have been the emperor for almost five months, and I understand more and more. , I will never be a monarch like an ordinary emperor."

The white fragments gradually turned into powder. Shen Shiqing was grinding while looking at Tu Nan:

"If I can only hide my parents' hatred behind the imperial power in order to feel comfortable for a while, then the other things will be a hundred times more difficult than this. How should I deal with it when it comes? Use power to suppress it and seek checks and balances. , If eunuchs are useful, use eunuchs; if party struggle is useful, use party struggle... Everyone in the world can do such an emperor, so why use me, Shen Shiqing?"

There was a smile on the woman's lips. In the past few months, someone had been carrying bricks every day to help her. She felt that she had more strength than before, but in the eyes of others she was still slender.

"So, Tunan, I must come back."

The finely ground powder was placed in a small bowl. Shen Shiqing added some yellow powder to it. Before it was finished, she took another piece of dried medicinal material and wrapped it in the mixed powder. Among them, at first glance, it seems to be a thing for preparing burning incense.

Shen Shiqing went to get the small red clay stove again. There was no charcoal in the red clay stove. She picked up a copper pen holder on Duobao Pavilion and stuck it on the mouth of the red clay stove. Take an open flame and light something on fire.

Putting it into a copper cylinder and covering it with a lid, letting it occasionally make a crackling sound, Shen Shiqing said:

"This was our previous method of making it, and the dosage was a little off. Fortunately, there is a method of dividing water into pills, which can make up for it a little. Those official craftsmen just skipped the calcination step, and it can be used on bird guns."

"Girl, you have made enough over the years." Tunan said softly, "That's enough."

It was enough to put the entire Xie family in ruins.

Shen Shiqing smiled and the sound in the tube stopped. She opened it and took a look and found that the flame had gone out. She stirred it with a copper wire for a while to remove the excess powder. She poured the toner and water in together.

"It's not a bad thing to have more of this kind of thing."

The water flies, grinds, and purifies, and Shen Shiqing does what she has been accustomed to doing for seven years.

Until small black round particles appeared on her fingertips one by one.

"Girl! The adult who came to our house to help us before is here again!"

Hearing the message from the little maid, Shen Shiqing put away her things and sat at the table again.

"If that adult has something to do, ask him to wait in the front yard."

"What are you waiting for!"

A handsome man wearing a moon-white suit and a sable fur coat strode into "Qingfengxu". When he entered, he smiled coldly.

"Shen Sanfei, do you think you can cover up your disrespect by trying to please me in every possible way? Today I..."

He raised his hand to grab the curtain, walked in, raised his head with a smile, and after completing these three things, Zhao Surui looked at Shen Shiqing who was sitting leaning on the table with a smile, and suddenly closed his mouth.

There were people on the left and right, Shen Shiqing stood up slowly:

"How is this gentleman going to do today?"
To be continued...