"Anyone who fails to do something will turn to others for help. If his body is upright, the world will return to him." [Mencius Li Lou Shang]

Weiyang Palace, Jiaofang Palace.

It was dusk, the setting sun was shining brightly over the palace wall, and the cool evening breeze could drive away the heat.

As soon as the emperor came in, he noticed something different: "The lamps and candles you have here are more than half missing. Why don't you light those beautiful ones?"

Empress Dong knew that the other party was joking, and said: "Now the imperial court needs money and food everywhere, and unnecessary expenses should be cut down. The same should be done for the concubine who presides over the middle palace. However, the nobles in the palace may be harmed by forceful orders."

Heqi, it is better to straighten yourself first, and then you can do the rest without being told."

Empress Dong, who used to like bright lights and filled the Jiaofang Hall with lampstands at nightfall, was extravagant and extravagant. Now she is frugal and does not say a formal greeting. This makes those who are ineffective because of her extravagance and are slow to react.

What to do? But her method was so high-sounding and so blameless that even the emperor had to take a high look at her.

He looked at Empress Dong deeply, with an unpredictable meaning in his eyes. When he deliberately allowed Empress Dong to light up the lampstand every night, consume lamp oil, and spend extravagantly, besides winning over the Dong family, he didn't care about such things.

The reasons are trivial and trivial, but in fact there is an ulterior and dark intention.

Whatever you experience in the future is what you do today.

Unexpectedly, Empress Dong's scheming was far superior to that of her mediocre father, and the disadvantage that the emperor had deliberately created for her was invisible, intentionally or unintentionally. This made the emperor pay attention, and his fixed thoughts could not be changed.

After a while, he lowered his eyes and said with a smile: "You are quite smart. What if others didn't realize it? In hindsight, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing for her? You have the idea of ​​setting an example and letting everyone in Ye Ting follow suit. This is very good.

Good, but it is not allowed to 'kill without teaching', otherwise it will be 'the person is not upright and will not obey orders'."

Empress Dong couldn't help but raise her eyes and look over. Although there was a smile on the other person's lips, there was no smile at all deep in his eyes, which made her feel sour.

The emperor's words were fair, but to Empress Dong's ears, they undoubtedly favored the Song capital. No one in the Weiyang Palace knew that the Song capital was fond of having fun, no more so than the sensible and restrained Fu Shou. If Empress Dong was extravagant first and then frugal, she would not be the first to react.

Then it would be the capital of Song Dynasty. No matter whether Empress Dong punished her or not, the reputation of the capital of Song Dynasty would be bad. This was originally a method that Empress Dong thought of, but now that the emperor had said it, she could not follow it anymore.

I did what I imagined.

"Jinnuo." Empress Dong's eyelashes slightly moved, and she lowered her gaze, still supporting the emperor with her hand, intending to move the emperor to the banquet and take a seat.

As she spoke, she turned slightly and said: "But what your Majesty said is a bit serious. The weather is hot now, and it doesn't get much cooler even at night. If you close the doors and windows and light more lights, wouldn't it mean that

People are bored! I thought, even if I don’t say anything, the palace servants who are serving them will realize that they will save money... However, I am afraid that there are some ignorant people, so I will just instruct Changyu to go and report it later.

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"Having you here in Ye Ting has saved me so much trouble." The emperor patted Empress Dong's catty-like hands encouragingly, and said to her with a smile: "You have an idea, just do it.

But always remember the word 'correct'. There is a drought this year, and the weather is dry. The palace must not only save water, but also prepare more water to avoid causing a fire."

The emperor originally had no expectations for Empress Dong, he just asked her not to cause trouble or commit any crimes, so that he might be able to let Dong have a good death in the future. After such a long time, the emperor owed her almost the same amount of debt he had when he established the empress.

All of them will be completely dissipated. Especially since Empress Dong has shown nothing wrong in the past two years except that she doesn't like the Song Dynasty, the emperor has calmed down some of his initial cold thoughts and plans to try to get along with her attentively.

Changes in mind and attitude are difficult to see from a person's behavior at first, let alone a thoughtful person like the emperor.

Empress Dong did not think that the emperor's sudden request to her was because he had expectations for her and wanted to get along with her for a long time. Instead, she misunderstood that the emperor was deliberately reminding her to behave 'correctly'. Wasn't this a secret slap on her?

At that moment, she just said "only" and then became silent.

Empress Dong didn't know what she was feeling in her heart. She didn't like Song Du. It was simply the jealousy of her youngest daughter's family. She tried her best to please the emperor, but was criticized in the end. This made her feel bitter and resentful.

Frustrated and with nowhere to go.

"You." A gentle voice whispered in her ear, half helpless and half tender. Then, a warm hand covered her forehead and flicked her hair in a playful way.

The golden antler attached to it shook with its golden steps, making a tinkling sound.

Empress Dong calmed down, then slowly raised her eyes, and saw the handsome young man looking at her with a smile in his eyes: "In the whole Weiyang Palace, you are the one who has the most thoughts. Sometimes you think less about things, and your mood is also different."

Better.”

She blinked in disbelief. She had never seen the emperor speak to her in such a doting manner. In the past, the relationship between the two could be summed up in four words: "respect each other as guests".

Empress Dong's mood fluctuated from depression to joy, and she didn't know what to say for a moment. She stared blankly at the emperor, her beautiful eyes sparkling.

Looking at the woman in brocade clothes sitting next to her, her lips were like red and her skin was as good as snow. The emperor smiled slightly, held her hand with one hand, and stood up calmly: "Come here, I will talk to you about something personal."

The woman raised her sleeves to half cover her beautiful face, and smiled. The little daughter's posture just now seemed to be just an illusion. She was still the most charming and shrewd queen in the Weiyang Palace.

"I wonder if your majesty has anything special to say to you between the mat and the bed?" Empress Dong walked to the bed gracefully. Before she finished speaking, all the eunuchs and palace people in the palace stepped back knowingly. She turned around and flirted with her.

She opened her long train and calmly sat on the edge of the bed side by side with the emperor, looking sideways at the emperor with an ambiguous smile on her lips.

The emperor looked at him without flinching at this time and said: "Don't send prostitutes to me again in the future."

The words resounded like thunder in her ears. Empress Dong was stunned for a long time and was speechless for a moment.

The emperor is not in a hurry. He has been laying the groundwork for so long since the beginning, just to explain these words clearly at once. Otherwise, there are not many "enthusiastic people" in the palace who want to share the emperor's worries, and things like this will happen again in the future.

Now that Song Du has grown up, there is no shortage of people around her who can tell her about the affairs of men and women, so he can no longer hide from her and just deal with it. Instead of finding reasons to stop it every time, let him tell her about it.

Having a reputation like "Longyang" or "incompetent" will cause a lot of trouble later. It would be better to let a person with a certain weight like Empress Dong block the "enthusiasm" of everyone in front of him.

So the key now is how to convince Empress Dong to accept the fact that the emperor will not be "cool" with others before he reaches adulthood, and explain to her that modern medicine will definitely not be able to explain it. Fortunately, this era has the rhetoric of this era.

"Although the group that came before were all good-looking, I could still bear it. But then you came again. With your appearance, didn't you seduce me?" The emperor gently held his hand.

The other party's plan was revealed. Empress Dong was sweating coldly as she listened. Her body went limp and she almost fell down. Fortunately, the emperor held her waist at this time and made her lean against the emperor reluctantly.

Even though she was leaning in the emperor's warm embrace, Empress Dong still felt chills. She couldn't tell for a while whether the person who treated her with respect just now was the emperor, or the person with whom she had a warm relationship was the emperor, or,

Now this man with a smile on his face but a cold tone is the true face of the emperor.

The emperor's chin rested on Empress Dong's head, and the two of them cuddled quietly. To outsiders, they looked like a loving couple rubbing their hair together. Who knew that the "personal talk" between the two was so cold?
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