After listening to the emperor's question, Xu Zifan frowned slightly and asked suspiciously: "Father, is there something wrong with that fragment? The minister took a few glances that day, only to think that it should be a very mysterious Taoist scripture, and he should study it carefully. Maybe it makes sense."
The emperor picked up the fragmentary scroll in his hand and motioned him to come over and look at it, "I asked Qingfeng Zhenren to read it. He said that this fragmentary scroll is like a method of self-cultivation that can be entered into the Tao. If you can understand it thoroughly, you can strengthen your body and prolong your life."
Xu Zifan understood, the emperor's focus was on "prolonging longevity", and no emperor wanted to live a long life. This thing was delivered to the emperor's heart.
He carefully flipped through the scraps and said in deep thought, "If that's the case, it's a good book, but I don't know where the Liu family got it from, and whether I can find the complete book."
The emperor said inexplicably: "Since this is given to you by the Liu family to repay your kindness, then it is up to you to ask about this matter. It is a good thing to be able to collect a complete booklet for the benefit of the people all over the world."
Xu Zifan heard that the emperor was trying to test him. During the period of seizing the throne, the emperor was extremely sensitive to any disturbance. The Liu family suddenly showed his favor to him, and the Liu family wanted to repent and marry him. In the eyes of the emperor, this was tantamount to standing in line. Naturally, it was necessary to test Xu Zifan's bottom line.
It doesn't matter, every emperor is like this, otherwise the throne will be unstable, and he can take the opportunity to blackmail.
Xu Zifan hesitated slightly: "Father, the fifth sister-in-law sent the scraps that day, saying that it was to repay my son's life-saving grace. The son thought that the Liu family should have only got this part of the scraps and couldn't find them. The whole book should not be sent out like this. If Erchen goes to investigate, he will inevitably have to visit the people, and there may be some negligence in government affairs. This…”
The emperor didn't care about the tunnel: "Let go of government affairs first, and you only focus on finding the whole thing. This is a major matter for the benefit of the country and the people, and it should not be ignored."
"Yes, Father. I have one more thing to do with my son..." Xu Zifan said with some embarrassment, "My son is very shy, if you visit the people, you will inevitably have to spend money. If you really find other chapters, you must buy them with a lot of money. Missed time, this aspect…”
Before Xu Zifan could finish speaking, the emperor waved his hand and said, "You go to the Ministry of Household to make an advance, and find someone related to government affairs in your name. Don't leak this matter out, lest it be ruined by people with ulterior motives."
"Father, in order to conceal this matter, Erchen wants to take the child with him and act as if he is doing errands while playing, so that no one will be curious about what Erchen is doing. What do you think?"
"Yes. Remember, the sooner this matter is done, the better. If you can find the whole book, you must find a way to get it back."
"Yes, my son understands." Xu Zifan readily agreed. After the holiday, he could still travel with public funds, so why not do it
Xu Zifan, the servant of the Ministry of Industry, made a pretext of finding ways to make a few utensils and collecting techniques for planting farmland, so he advanced a large sum of money from the Ministry of Households. This was personally approved by the emperor, and the Ministry of Household will naturally not stop it.
After Xu Zifan returned to the mansion, he instructed Hu Feng to arrange carriages and horses, "We are going out this time, and we still don't know the return date. You arrange the manpower in the mansion, so that no major troubles can be made, and no scandal can be spread out of the mansion. Take all three children away, nurse. , The servants have brought enough, all of them must be healthy and trustworthy, go and ask two honored imperial physicians to bring them, and those who are good at hunting and cooking are brought. Refit the carriage, and make sure the children are safe and sound. go out."
"Yes, my lord." Hu Feng was very surprised at Xu Zifan's decision, but he went down to work immediately. He felt that the women in the mansion might have caused troubles one after another recently, and Xu Zifan could no longer trust them to take good care of the children. Anyway, they have a lot of people with them, and they can take care of everything properly, and it will not be worse than in the mansion.
Xu Zifan called all his disciples and discussed matters in the study until dusk. He said a lot, mainly because he would not participate in the struggle for succession. The emperor was also staring at several princes and ministers. The successor may have already been decided. Down.
Those who can join Xu Zifan's family naturally don't look down on other princes. Now that Xu Zifan is not fighting, they don't have the merits of the dragon, but if they only want to be prosperous, rich and promoted, it seems that following Xu Zifan is not a disadvantage. And from Xu Zifan's words, we can tell that the emperor is very afraid of several princes now, and he seems to trust Xu Zifan, so they can't guarantee safety when they join other princes. It is better to continue to follow Xu Zifan and become a staunch royalist. .
This kind of thing still has to be carefully considered, it can't be decided overnight, Xu Zifan analyzed the pros and cons to them, and let them go back and think about it. He is not afraid that they will endanger him by switching to others. The original owner has not done anything that would make the emperor unhappy. It doesn't matter if someone wants to go to others from Longzhigong.
Xu Zifan dealt with these matters, and then asked someone to inform a few women in the mansion that he was going out with the children to run errands. This was reported to the emperor, and it was useless for them to have opinions.
A lot of things in the women's rooms were damaged that night, but there was nothing they could do about him. What are their chances? Xu Zifan was about to leave, they couldn't use any means when they couldn't see anyone, and as the women of the prince, they always hugged and hugged when they went out, and it was impossible to go wherever they wanted. They couldn't do anything at all. It was as if the goal had been lost.
The concubine side is the most worried, her child has just been born, how can she take the newborn child out of the house? She couldn't get up, so she asked Xu Zifan to ask Xu Zifan to keep the child. Xu Zifan casually found a reason to take the child to see the master to pray for blessings, and sent her away directly.
Side Concubine opened the plane trader and stared blankly at several connected planes, nothing could help.
Liu Shi was learning about the dynamics of the mansion through plants. Originally, he just asked the attitude of a few women casually, and wanted to know if they were making trouble. Who knew this question, and found that Concubine Side was talking to herself in the room alone, Talking about "planar trading" and "interstellar apocalypse", she was shocked and knocked over the tea cup!
"Planar trading? Could it be that she also traveled through?" Liu Shi hurriedly asked the plant to monitor the side concubine, and heard the side concubine say, "This was obviously not the case in my last life, why does the prince like children so much?"
Liu Shi held down her frantic heart to calm herself down. She knew that the side concubine was reborn and had a plane trader!
Before, because she didn't pay too much attention to Concubine Side, or when she happened to pay attention, there was no abnormality, so she never found out. Now think about it, she can travel through, who knows what adventures other people have? She suddenly thought of the princess, why did the princess wipe on Chen's bracelet and the bracelet broke
This time Liu Shi had a heart, and she asked the plant to monitor everyone in the mansion in an all-round way and reported all the news to her. There is a lot of news and miscellaneous information, but there is no way. The matter of the side concubine makes her feel too dangerous. She must now confirm whether there is any other abnormality in the house.
During this surveillance, she discovered that the princess was reborn with many strange medicines, and that the Li family had traveled through an idyllic space. Compared with them, she only has a plant ability, and the golden finger seems to be weaker. Her full self-confidence before was punctured like a balloon, and she lost all confidence.
There are four women in the backyard, two of them are reborn and are good at house fighting and Goldfinger, how can she fight? Fortunately, they can't monitor her, and her abilities are concealed enough. In the future, they must clamp their tails and be careful.
Mrs. Liu monitored Xu Zifan's instructions to Hu Feng, and it seemed that it would not take long for her to return from this trip. She hesitated, and immediately took a bath and dressed up, painted the most suitable makeup for her, and went to the garden to wait for Xu Zifan.
With so many plants in the mansion, she knew where Xu Zifan was going, so she waited there first, and when Xu Zifan was about to arrive, she started picking flowers. With a smile on the corners of his mouth and a focused expression, he seems to be immersed in a happy atmosphere, which is very attractive.
Xu Zifan walked over with Hu Feng, saw her at a glance, Xu Zifan paused, changed his direction without saying a word, and prepared to detour. Since people are so focused, don't disturb them.
Liu Shi saw his movements out of the corner of his eye, and his heart suddenly burst. He pinched his fingers on the thorns of the flower stems, and exclaimed in pain, "Ouch!"
Beads of blood appeared on her fingertips, and she turned around and pretended to have just seen Xu Zifan. She was surprised and hurried forward to salute, "My concubine has seen Wang Ye, Wang Ye Wan'an."
"Well, go back if you're injured." Xu Zifan said coldly and was about to leave.
Liu Shi hurriedly said: "My lord, the concubine knows that you will be away from the mansion for a long time, so I specially made you a shirt, I hope you will be more comfortable to wear outside. Do you... want to go to the concubine's place to see it? If it doesn't fit, the concubine Change immediately."
Liu Shi slightly raised his eyes to look at Xu Zifan, his cheeks were crimson, and he looked a little shy, looking very beautiful. Unexpectedly, Xu Zifan just frowned and said, "Call someone to send it over, this king has something to do."
This time Xu Zifan didn't give her another chance to speak, and strode out of the garden. Liu Shi was stunned, is this prince not close to women? Still don't like the original owner very much? But from my memory, the prince is not enthusiastic about things in the backyard, but he is not particularly indifferent to anyone. Why is it so difficult to have a child
Liu Shi wanted to use some aphrodisiac plants, but Xu Zifan didn't even enter her room, so it was useless to use anything.
Liu Shi failed to seduce Xu Zifan again, and she finally lost her mind. She never thought that it would be so difficult to attract her husband's attention in such an ancient environment. She was a little dazed for the first time, what should she do? If you don't compete for favor, you won't get good treatment, and the means of the end times won't work. Why is Xu Zifan different from other men
Several women had their own thoughts, and all fell asleep. Li Shi didn't know that the princess was on the ground, and she was terrified. Xu Zifan left the house and she had no support. Wouldn't the princess take revenge on her? The concubine and the concubine were both worried, especially worried that their son would have an accident when he left the house with Xu Zifan. It was their reliance in this life, and it was all their hope, and they were both anxious. Liu Shi was worried about his future and couldn't sleep all night.
After practicing all night, Xu Zifan woke up refreshed again. The children were very excited when they knew they were going out. After breakfast, Xu Zifan set off with a group of people to Linyang Mansion, the hometown of the Liu family. Liu made an excuse to say that the scraps were found in his hometown, which just gave him a reason to leave Beijing.
The concubine side's family has not asked Xu Zifan to explain it, the concubine's family has not helped the concubine to explain, and Xu Zifan is gone, leaving a group of people guessing randomly, not knowing what to do next.