The prince turned his head to avoid his mother's slap, held her cold wrist with his backhand, and looked at his mother quietly.
The queen didn't expect that the cowardly prince's eyes would be so sharp, she subconsciously trembled slightly, pulled her hand back from her son's, and said slowly, "Do you really think that mother did something wrong?"
The crown prince frowned, and said softly: "I dare not."
The queen suddenly raised her voice and said, "Don't you know that Fan Xian and the second child met in the flower boat?"
The prince suddenly raised his face, looked directly into the queen's eyes, and said quietly: "Can the queen mother let the child handle these matters by himself? As a poet of the generation, it is not unusual for Fan Xian to meet the second brother."
The queen was anxious and angry, but she didn't know how to speak to this cowardly and stern son.
The prince glanced at her and said softly: "Queen, I often wonder if you can stop being so sensitive. You will only drive the courtiers who may become the child's helper to the other brothers."
The queen gritted her teeth and said: "My palace is the mother of a country, if I punish a little minister a little, how dare he hold grudges?"
The prince sarcastically said: "Mother, you shouldn't let Han Shangshu do it that day, and you can't really beat Fan Xian to death, so why bother to offend the Fan family and the prime minister? I can't stand anymore, there are not many powerful ministers in the court who are willing to get close to the East Palace, but you want to cut off your own finger, I really don't know what you think."
The queen frowned and said: "After all, Han Zhiwei is the minister of the court, and he tried the case according to the law that day. What can the prime minister and Fan Jian do? With the Eastern Palace protecting him, His Majesty will always save some face for you, the prince."
"Don't forget, Fan Xian is the inspector of the Overwatch Council, and the emperor has always admired him." The crown prince let out a foul breath, shook his head and sighed: "Han Zhiwei offended too many people this time. Zhifeng is the meaning of the emperor, it is impossible for this palace to protect him."
The queen sneered and said, "Don't forget how many officials in the capital Fan Xian has offended, not to mention the fact that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is involved this time. Although your aunt is far away in Xinyang, her power in the court would not stand by idly by."
"Don't mention my aunt." The crown prince seemed to be disgusted with the eldest princess: "She has been too weird these two years. She has colluded with the Northern Qi side. She is too courageous. Where did she put Qingguo's face? As for the imperial court surnamed Guo Shi is just the little boy she played with back then, even if she was assassinated by the Overwatch Council, she wouldn't blink."
After all, the crown prince is the crown prince of a country. Although the eldest princess and the East Palace have always been very close these years, when Fan Xian's words were scattered all over the capital like snowflakes, the crown prince was also a little jealous of the eldest princess. Of course there are other reasons.
The queen said heartbrokenly: "We have no other help, we only need to rely on the eldest princess."
"I will rely on my father." The prince replied calmly. Until this moment, the prince, who had always seemed a bit cowardly, finally showed the natural political sense and judgment of a royal child.
The queen closed her eyes slowly, and said, "Anyway, I don't like Fan Xian, so I'll find a way to make him die."
The prince slapped the table angrily, and said angrily: "Death? Have you forgotten that Fan Xian is Chen'er's husband! Don't listen to your aunt's advice in everything, that woman is a lunatic, a lunatic, do you know that? Don't you also Want to become a lunatic and be kicked out of the palace?"
The queen was furious, trembling with anger, pointed at the prince's nose, and said with a trembling voice: "What do you know? What do you know? What do you know? You... what do you know?" Maybe it was the prince's words that touched the queen's years. In a fit of anger, he said four sentences in succession, "What do you know?"
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The eunuchs and maids of honor had already avoided far away, and there were only the mother and son in the East Palace. After a very long silence, the queen stood up, but her body seemed a little weak, and she shook. The prince quickly got up and supported her, and apologized helplessly.
The queen looked at her son, miserable, and there were wrinkles around the beautiful phoenix eyes, and said quietly: "In all dynasties, the crown prince is the most difficult seat to sit in. You have to guard against the front and the back, There is no one in the mother's family, and you probably don't have much memory of the turmoil twelve years ago, but mother remembers clearly that if you don't fight for it yourself, then what belongs to you will be taken away by others."
The prince tried to soften his voice as softly as possible, and said softly: "My child understands, the queen mother should go back to the palace to rest."
The queen shook her head: "You don't understand, you don't understand... These days, I have always had some ominous premonition, this feeling is very strong... Just like when that woman entered the capital many years ago."
"Which woman?" the prince asked curiously.
At this moment, the heavy wooden door of the East Palace was suddenly pushed open.
"Who?!" The prince scolded angrily, frowning.
An old eunuch hunched over and walked in, and said very respectfully: "Old slave Hong Siitch, by order of the Empress Dowager, I invite the Empress to go to Heguang Hall for a chat."
The trace of panic on the Queen's face was fleeting, and then a smile was all over her face. With the support of the maid, she followed the hunched old eunuch Hong to the real mistress' palace of the palace.
The prince frowned slightly, although he didn't like the old dog's rudeness very much, but he knew that the other party was the eunuch closest to his grandmother, and even the queen mother was unwilling to offend him, so he naturally wouldn't do anything more.
The candles in the palace were getting darker, and the crown prince Li Chengqian was even more depressed when he thought about the absurd farce at the Ministry of Punishment that day. He really didn't understand why the queen mother listened to the eldest princess like this. When he thought of that young and charming aunt, the prince His heart felt hot, his face felt ashamed, and there was a little fear, but his eyes gradually showed lust.
He flicked his sleeves and walked towards the apse, and after a while, there were bursts of inaudible spring groans, a court lady was tossing and turning under him begging for sex, the prince lifted all the palace shirt of the woman to her neck and face, covering her face. On her face, only the gleaming white plump breasts were exposed. While attacking vigorously, he panted heavily, thinking to himself why all the charming women in this world are not willing to lie on the bed honestly, insisting on showing off their stupid tricks
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Spring is here, the flowers are blooming, and the birds are singing. Yang Wanli's four newly promoted officials went to Fan's mansion again, wanting to enjoy the spring breeze of Mr. Fan, but unexpectedly Mr. Fan is still not in the mansion today. What made Hou Jichang even more headache was that he got the news that Mr. Xiao Fan was carrying out a certain mission, and he would be sent to Northern Qi tomorrow.
Second-class jinshi are not admitted to the Imperial Academy, and according to the rules of the past, they will be sent to any local officials. Seeing that the dispatch of officials is about to start, except for Shi Chanli, the other three will naturally come to listen to Fan Xian's opinions. After all, the three of them relied on Fan Xian's strength to make it this far. They took it for granted that Fan Xian needed them to do something locally.
Unexpectedly, Fan Xian did not meet with them, but left them two letters, one for the three new officials who were about to leave Beijing, and one for Shi Chanli who was going back to his hometown for another contest. .
The four of them sat in the study of Fan's mansion, took a sip of the good tea brought by the servant without knowing what to do, and opened the two letters left to them by the sect master without caring about avoiding suspicion.
Among them, the letter to Hou Jichang and the others was a blank piece of paper with only two simple sentences written on it.
"Be a good man, be a good official."
At the end there is a single sentence reserved for Hou Jichang, Fan Xian wrote in the letter: "Ji Chang should not be too fearful of internal affairs."
This was a cold joke that Fan Xian only understood. Naturally, the three Juren didn't understand what it meant, so they only focused on the first two sentences. To be a good person, to be an official, the three of them became more and more aware that there was a very real truth in these simple words. If you want to learn to be an official, you must first learn to be a human being.
But there is another meaning to these words. I don’t know which one of them has come out—to be a good person, not to be a good person. To be a good official is not necessarily to be a good official.
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After reading this letter, Yang Wanli was naturally very interested in the letter in Shi Chanli's hand. He didn't know what Mr. Fan wrote in the letter specially left for Shi Chanli. After all, among the four, only Shi Chanli The future seems bleak.
Shi Chanli opened the letter with some anxiety under the eyes of the three friends, and when he looked carefully, there were only a few broken sentences, but he almost laughed out loud.
"As far as the old governor is concerned, three points are in the hands of people and seven is in the sky. Mo Chou has no confidant under the umbrella, so he just plays around and waits for nothing."
The last three words are only waiting for leisure, which naturally means waiting for Fan Xian to come back.
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At this time, Fan Xian was sitting in the courtyard he bought, frowning slightly. His fingers stroked the hollow belt, and touched the pill that Fei Jie gave him when he was a child. At that time, the teacher said that if something goes wrong with the domineering zhenqi in his body, he will rely on this pill to save his life. However, after entering Beijing, the domineering zhenqi in his body has always been very obedient, so he somewhat forgot about it. It was only then that I remembered it, but so many years had passed, and I didn't know whether the medicine Fei Jie had prepared had any effect.
Sitting opposite him, Wang Qinian replied respectfully: "The person has been found." He raised his head hesitantly: "The resemblance is of course somewhat resembling, Mr. Tisi is proficient in the art of makeup and disguise, if you think about it Ordinary people should not be able to see any flaws when looking at it from a distance, but there is always something wrong."
"What's wrong?" Fan Xian was slightly stunned and said, "Didn't you say it looks alike? After raising it for a month, the skin color is getting closer."
Wang Qi replied in a youthful voice: "It is difficult to find someone who is as handsome and handsome as an adult among these filthy men. , is really difficult to do.”
Fan Xian was stunned for a moment, then understood immediately, and scolded with a smile: "You flattery, now flattering is becoming more unbearable, more unruly, and more wonderful."