Xuan Ye smiled and said: "You have thought a lot, and you have considered all this in just a few words?"
Lan Qi was suddenly alerted to the suspicion of interfering in the government's affairs. She immediately waved her hand and said, "Your Majesty, please send me back. I shouldn't have anything to do with this matter."
However, Xuan Ye casually took the silver hairpin on the table and put it on her hairpin, and said nonchalantly: "Since it is a private visit incognito, there is no Tianjia harem. You are my wife, and I am your husband-in-law, that's all."
The words "brother-in-law" and "lady-in-law" made Lan Qi blush. Xuan Ye laughed at her: "After so many years, you still blush? A few days ago, I still remember someone who said that my husband-in-law is not ashamed."
Lan Qi ignored him and turned around to pack her things and get ready to leave. What she blushed was not the words "husband and wife", but the blurred difference between wife and concubine. This was a thought she would not say to anyone.
Just keep it in your heart for the rest of your life.
Before setting off, Lan Qi thought of something and asked Xuan Ye: "Has the Emperor met Mr. Yu?"
Xuan Ye smiled: "He is the prefect of Jiangning. We have been here for a few days, how come we haven't seen him before?"
"What kind of private visit is this to the Emperor?" Lan Qi tutted, "The Emperor might as well listen to my concubine and kill her back in a few days."
"But he has never seen you." Xuan Ye smiled proudly and said in front of Lan Qi, "I'm waiting for you at the restaurant across the street from the Yamen. You go and see how the case is solved there. Come back 151
Tell me, whatever you say, I will think of Yu Jackie Chan the same way. His future as an official lies in your hands, Empress Dowager De."
Lan Qi's eyes widened and she felt regretful in her heart. No wonder she was so kind to take her out to play, go to the night market and stay outside. She just thought that she had done something good to make Xuan Ye so happy and wanted to reward herself. It turned out that they were all waiting here.
With.
"I don't want to go, I'm huddled alone in a crowd of people, how can I be kidnapped?" Lan Qi turned around and sat down and stayed there. Xuan Ye didn't expect that the emperor's grandmother actually warned Lan Qi before going out, saying
The emperor would always go to various places to pay private visits incognito, telling her not to follow blindly and vigorously. Women would suffer the most if they met bad people, and they would not be able to explain it in the future.
Xuan Ye asked curiously: "Grandma Huang even told you this?"
Lan Qi nodded, but Xuan Ye didn't believe it and scolded her: "You even dare to lie to people about the Yizhi that scares Suzhou Weaving. How can I believe you?"
"Your Majesty, believe it or not, I'm not going to go. It's not like you're going to pick a stranger's guard by your side. He might be better than me when he comes back." Lan Qi relied on the Empress Dowager to warn her, but she just refused to let go.
Anyway, the emperor would not kill her. At most, he would ignore her for a few days after the quarrel. She was really not afraid.
But she could understand Xuan Ye's temper, and the emperor could even see through her thoughts. Xuan Ye could not eat soft things but not hard things.
"It's so easy to pick a few guards. If it succeeds, why would I worry about you? Don't I just use you because I think they are all unreliable? In the imperial court, the most important thing is for officials to protect each other. How do I know what's behind the guards I choose?
Or have these people behind the scenes colluded with Yu Chenglong? Only you, I can rest assured that you will be protected within three steps. If anyone dares to hurt you, I will chop off his head."
It is said that you should not hit someone with a smiling face. The emperor told her so carefully. Lan Qi really didn't know how to refute. Xuan Ye also promised her to come back and reward her with hundreds of taels of silver, so that she could buy things back to the capital to give to the palaces and clans.
The emperor brought a gift. Lan Qi had originally calculated the cost and wasted hundreds of taels of silver, but when she heard that the emperor had paid for it, she was really moved.
If she was moved, it would be better to persuade her. When she came to her senses, everyone was brought out, and the carriage drove all the way to Jiangning Magistrate's Yamen. Xuan Ye told her in the car: "Just mix in the crowd and take a look.
Today's case was brought up by the county government. I have sent people to investigate and find out what it is. I won't tell you for fear of disturbing your judgment, and you don't have to decide whether the case is true or false. Just tell me what you think.
Yu Chenglong just doesn't have to pay attention when running errands."
Originally, Lan Qi was quite clear-minded even if the emperor didn't say anything. But when the emperor kept talking like this, she became a little confused. You must know that she had already lost her ability to survive in the world outside the Forbidden City since she entered the palace as a palace maid in the twelfth year of Kangxi's reign.
She didn't have the ability to go down, but she didn't know how to go to court to resolve the case. She also thought that the emperor couldn't really put the future of a minister into her hands, no matter what the consequences, so she just went there.
Over there, the emperor brought the concubine De incognito for a private visit. The few adults who were kept in the dark but were kept in the dark had something to see the emperor. When they came, they were blocked by Nalan Rongruo who was guarding outside, saying that the emperor was resting in order to return to the capital.
, none of them saw anyone. When several other ministers saw that he was the young master of the Mingzhu family, they asked him to be accommodating and go in to talk to the emperor, but Rong Ruo all refused coldly.
As a result, Mingzhu couldn't keep his face. After other colleagues walked away, he angrily scolded his son: "Who are you to embarrass me like this?"
Nalan Rongruo said solemnly: "My son is on errands for the emperor. Please forgive me for not being able to have both loyalty and filial piety."
"Bullshit!" Mingzhu scolded, looked inside again to see what was going on, and sneered, "Long Live Master is out again, isn't he?"
Rong Ruo remained speechless, and Mingzhu added: "Do you think I'm still waiting for you to tell me? You're so self-righteous, just do your business in front of the emperor. If anything goes wrong, I will definitely kill you, the traitor."
Rong Ruo didn't take it seriously. Anyway, when father and son met, they could only say these few words. He had been numb to them for so many years. After his father left, he even ordered: "No matter who you are, you must not be accommodating. The emperor is in rest.
No one is allowed to disturb."
After Mingzhu left, he happened to meet the Aling'a people who were accompanying him a short distance away. They greeted each other politely and talked about the emperor's rest. Everyone understood it tacitly, except for one person who heard the news from someone who didn't know where.
It seemed that Concubine De was also recuperating. Everyone looked at each other and understood some of what they said. When they were leaving, they heard Aling'a say: "Yesterday, the emperor took his own bow and gave it to Brother Si. He taught him step by step. He is truly a father.
A loving son is filial, and the same is true for the prince."
In one sentence, everyone seemed to have heard it but understood in their hearts that the weight of the second son born to Concubine De in the emperor's heart was very different from that of the other elder brothers. The fourth elder brother was raised under the knee of the imperial concubine, who was only a few steps away from the throne.
With just one step away, Brother Si's future is limitless.
However, it is still too early to say about the future of the Fourth Brother, and the future of Mr. Jackie Chan is in jeopardy. At this moment, Xuan Ye is sitting in the restaurant across the street from the magistrate's office, happily listening to the little girl singing downstairs, thinking what if Lan
With Lan Qi by his side, he would become jealous if he even glanced at the little girl. Just when he was secretly feeling funny, he saw the guards who had gone with Lan Qi running back in a hurry, saying hurriedly: "Long live your Majesty, your Majesty has been killed."
Mr. Yu has arrested you."
"Arrested?" Xuan Ye was shocked. He didn't know the whole story until he came all the way to the prefect's Yamen.
Today's case is a bit special. I'm used to seeing local gentry oppressing poor tenants. This time, it's the other way around. There are vicious and cunning people who rely on their parents' official integrity to redress the injustice of the people and bite the landlords back. Xuan Ye has sent people to investigate in advance.
, just wanted to see if Yu Chenglong would really confuse right and wrong for the so-called honesty and integrity. He wanted to let Lan Qi open her eyes and find a reliable person to judge the case. Why did he think that she would be so impulsive.
Just because there was a ten-month-pregnant woman in that tenant house who was startled and weak in the hall. It is said that Yu Chenglong followed the rules of the hall during the interrogation. I don't know why Empress De Fei couldn't stand it anymore. She even came forward to accuse the hall official of troubling human life.
, seeing that a pregnant woman was about to give birth and did not tolerate it, Xuan Ye was angry and funny when he heard it. He could only blame himself for looking for trouble, why did he bring Lan Qi to join in the fun.
When Mr. Yu came to pick him up and listened to the emperor in casual clothes asking him if he wanted a wife, the smart man suddenly remembered the natural nobility of the little woman just now. He was so panicked that he asked the emperor who in the palace he was.
, the emperor smiled politely: "I and Concubine De were out for a walk, and happened to pass by you, disturbing your case."
Yu Chenglong was so frightened that he was sweating and hurriedly asked someone to release him. He was also afraid that the government servants below were clumsy, so he didn't even bother to leave the emperor here, so he went to welcome Concubine De out in person. Lan Qi was so frightened that her face turned pale.
I came here with a sullen face. When I saw Xuan Ye sitting in the hall, I immediately ran towards him with red eyebrows.
However, Xuan Ye winked at her and asked her to calm down. Lan Qi quickly calmed down her emotions and followed the emperor quietly. They hid in the back of the hall and watched Yu Chenglong's trial. The case was being filmed on the hall, and Lan Qi couldn't help but tremble in fright.
, Xuan Ye softly told her what the case was about, and said earnestly: "The weak may not always be righteous, and justice can never be judged by eyes alone. The law is the law, and human feelings are human feelings. This woman really wants to
If the child is born, the yamen will not take human life lightly. Of course, what I am talking about is just for the immediate future. If there are people in government yamen across the country who ignore the law, I cannot control them."
After retreating from the court, the emperor talked with Mr. Yu, and the female family members came to wait for her to rest elsewhere. Lan Qi remained silent, and others did not dare to disturb the empress. She only waited for the emperor to disperse and go back, then she came to the front to wait for the empress.
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After getting on the carriage, the curtain was lowered, and Xuan Ye held the frightened person in his arms. He had a very happy chat with Yu Chenglong today, and he was in a very good mood. He felt even more sorry for Lan Qi to be frightened like this, so good
It took a long time for the person in her arms to relax and asked her if she was scared, but Lan Qi said: "You must feel that I am stupid and stupid in your heart. Now I am not convinced. This is the fact. It is really embarrassing to think about it."
, I stayed there for several hours, and I really wanted to crawl into the cracks in the ground."
"I wanted you to go back directly after you came back today. I didn't plan to meet Jackie Chan. Now everything is different from what I planned. Other ministers will know about it to some extent. It's embarrassing enough." Having said that,
Xuan Ye's face was full of smiles. He gently rubbed Lan Qi's stiff cheek and said, "Yu Chenglong has gone from a fourth-grade officer to a first-grade officer. Standing among them, he has no chance to be with me."
You can't speak from your heart. Today I listened to him talk about Jiangning's customs, culture and economy, and I learned more from him than what I have seen and heard in person these past few days. Thinking about it this way, isn't it all your credit?"
After all, Lan Qi was not very happy and muttered: "I don't want such a credit. It's embarrassing to think about it now." She also begged Xuan Ye not to go back and tell the Empress Dowager. Of course Xuan Ye didn't agree, and they talked and laughed.
Although she was shocked, she couldn't feel at ease for a while. When she returned, Huanchun and others saw that her face was not good and asked what was going on. Lan Qi only told Huanchun in private, but Huanchun also laughed and made her angry.
Half dead.
On that day, the emperor issued an edict, stating that he had heard in Beijing that the prefect of Jiangning was an upright official in Cheng Long, and that he had indeed visited him this time. It was no different from what he had heard. He ordered the great scholar Mingzhu to pass the edict to Cheng Long and give him a scroll of imperial writing as a sign of his integrity.
Jing Yang, and told him to start well and finish well, and not to change his conduct.
Afterwards, the emperor was about to return to Beijing. On the way back to Beijing, the emperor also inspected flood-prone rivers and rivers. The imperial memorial was delivered every three days, so there was no free day. As for the joke that Concubine De made in the Yamen of Jiangning Prefecture, although some of the courtiers
Rumor has it that due to the fact that the concubines had a clean reputation and did not dare to talk nonsense, Lan Qi herself did not mention it to her sisters, and the matter faded away all the way back to Beijing.
The emperor planned to arrive in Beijing at the end of the month. A few days later, news came from the front. Concubine Wen, Concubine Hui, and Concubine Yi met with the Empress Dowager in Cining Palace.
If you are tired, you should have a good rest when you come back. There is no need to make it too grand and formal, just let the emperor go home in peace and contentment."
Everyone did not dare to disobey, and after agreeing on everything, they bowed and left, and dispersed in front of the gate of Cining Palace. Seeing Concubine Wen walking away, Concubine Hui said softly: "I thought I was going to mention the draft next year, but it's already November.
If there is still no movement, why don’t you choose next year?”
Concubine Yi said, "Has your sister seen Concubine Wen? She hasn't looked so radiant for a few days. In my early years, I followed Concubine Zhao at that time. Between the two sisters, Concubine Wen was superior in appearance. No wonder my sister even gave birth to a son.
"
As he spoke, he looked at Concubine Hui again, and saw that she looked tired and had a patch of indigo under her eyes, and became concerned: "Sister, you should take better care of yourself. Why have you become more and more haggard these days?"
Concubine Hui muttered a few perfunctory words without saying anything. She only waited for Mrs. Mingzhu to enter the palace two days later, and then she told her about what happened in Jiangning. She covered her heart and said, "Fortunately, Third Brother is fine, otherwise Concubine Rong and I would be like this."
The friendship of many years is over."
Mrs. Mingzhu said: "This is one of them. There is also news from the master that the emperor has taken special care of Concubine De and the fourth and sixth brothers during this trip. He took Concubine De out for private visits incognito.
And I was walking around lazily, whether in the open or covert, with Concubine De by my side."
"The Emperor has always liked her." Concubine Hui said coldly, "The Concubine doesn't care about the people she follows. I am annoying people even if I waste my time thinking about something."
But Mrs. Mingzhu said: "My queen is not thinking about favoritism, but about our eldest brother's future."