Lin Zezhi raised his eyebrows, looked at the emperor, and smiled: "It's very simple, Your Majesty, you ask the prince to do something to stimulate you. It's not impossible for you to act a little absurd."
Uh! The performance was absurd, and he even asked his brother for help. Isn't it too useless? The emperor waved his hand and said, "I'd better not trouble you, Your Highness. Okay, okay, you can go back. It's just absurd, a small problem."
It seems that the emperor cares a lot about the ability he shows in front of the prince. It is better not to let the prince participate in such things.
"Your Majesty, are you sure that the prince doesn't know what's going on here?"
The emperor rolled his eyes and said, "You are so annoying! He must know. If he wants to help, he will definitely help. If he doesn't help, it proves that he recognizes my ability."
Lin Zezhi nodded thoughtfully: "Your Majesty is right, maybe the prince really trusts you and won't interfere! Then I am really leaving, and I am ready to face an absurd emperor. Take care."
The reason for taking care of yourself is very simple. He is prepared, but it does not mean that others are prepared. Especially the Princess Yongxi has a bad temper. She will definitely rush to the palace and beat the emperor up. He suddenly became a little excited.
The emperor looked at Lin Zezhi's back and had a bad feeling as if something was about to happen. He fell on the bed and decided to go to sleep.
After the morning court the next day, the emperor began to show off and specially promoted some of the people mentioned by Concubine Yi. Of course, these things were still opposed by Gu Xiangning and other ministers.
The emperor immediately stood up, ready to get angry: "Shut up, I am the emperor, do you want to openly disobey my will?"
Gu Xiangning saw that the emperor was really going to be angry, frowned, and knelt down in front of the emperor: "Your Majesty, if you insist on doing this, I will kneel here forever."
The emperor suddenly laughed out of anger: "Haha, you, you are threatening me, do you think you can threaten me?"
Gu Xiangning just kept silent and knelt there without getting up. Seeing this, the people behind Gu Xiangning knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please think twice."
"Your Majesty, please think twice."
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The crowd knelt in dismay, and the emperor instantly became angry and stood up. "You want to kneel, right? Fine, I will let you kneel enough. Duke Wei, and you, you, the rest of you, Lin Zezhi, come with me to discuss some things."
Hearing this, Lin Zezhi's mouth twitched slightly, but he didn't say anything, just followed silently. The others were confused, why did Lin Zezhi follow too, did these three people break up
Many people from Lin Zezhi's group knelt down. What should they do? At this time, it would be awkward to stand up, but it would also be awkward if they didn't stand up.
The emperor had already turned around and left. Lin Zezhi walked at the back, bid farewell to Gu Xiangning, and then followed him.
Gu Xiangning waited for everyone to leave, then looked at the remaining ministers who were still standing and said quietly, "The court has been dismissed, but you guys are still not leaving? Are you planning to stay and watch me make a fool of myself?"
When the other ministers who had not knelt down heard this, they were like having their buttons ignited: "I have some things to do at home, so I will take my leave now."
"I have returned home, my Lord, please kneel down slowly..."
What does it mean to kneel slowly? Gu Xiangning glared at the minister and said, "Stop."
The minister did not dare to leave, after all, the influence of Prime Minister Gu was still there: "What do you want, Prime Minister?"
Gu Xiangning rolled his eyes. "Why are you so scared? I am not a murderer. Go to my mansion and inform them. I am kneeling in the hall today. Tell my county lady not to wait for me to go back for dinner. Eat early and go to bed early tonight. Well, most importantly, remember to bring me three meals a day."
Is this already done? Are you going to kneel all night, or until tomorrow? The minister was a little flustered, but he could only nod and think that he was unlucky.
He dared not not go, otherwise, if he was targeted by this Prime Minister Gu, he would have a hard time. "Prime Minister, rest assured, I will definitely pass on your message."
So the minister turned around and ran away quickly. After leaving the palace, he patted his chest and said, "Fortunately I ran away quickly. I was just delivering a message. It shouldn't be a big deal."
Thinking of this, the minister walked quickly, and then quickly came to the residence of Prime Minister Gu, and was invited in. It happened that Xiaoman had not yet gone out, and when he saw the minister he didn't know coming to his house, he was stunned for a moment, and then went to meet him.
When the minister arrived at the hall, he saw Xiaoman and immediately bowed his head: "This humble official greets the county lady."
Xiaoman was a little confused: "Who are you?"
The minister quickly said, "My name is Su, and I am here to convey some words to you, my Lord..."
After repeating Gu Xiangning's words verbatim, Lord Su left the Prime Minister's Mansion as quickly as if he felt a dog chasing him.
Xiaoman was speechless and asked someone to find out what went wrong. Knowing that Gu Xiangning was kneeling in the hall and the emperor was leaving with a group of people, she felt a little strange: "Okay, go prepare lunch, prepare more, and deliver the food at noon."
At this time, the emperor had already arrived in the usual hall, sitting on the dragon throne, looking at the ministers who were called to follow him and said, "Tell me, how should I deal with those who kneel down?"
Duke Wei naturally exaggerated the situation and said, "Your Majesty, why don't we just do as you said and let them continue to kneel. When they can't kneel any longer, they will naturally stand up."
The emperor rolled his eyes and said, "Do you still need to say this? But did you see that? One third of the people are kneeling there, and the imperial envoys and doctors from the Censorate will kneel before me soon."
"So we have to make them rise up no matter what, do you understand? There are so many of you, hurry up and think of a plan for me, Lin Zezhi, you say."
Lin Zezhi raised his eyebrows: "It's not easy to get him up, as long as the emperor decides to listen to Prime Minister Gu's opinion. I also think that Lord Sun is not qualified to go to the disaster relief work. The emperor should consider changing someone else."
The emperor immediately became angry: "No! I will never change him. You are here to irritate me, right? I don't care. Go and get him up for me now. If you can't get him up, I will only hold you responsible."
Lin Zezhi looked at the emperor helplessly: "Your Majesty, you said you were forcing me to kneel down too, right?"
The emperor almost couldn't catch his breath, and stared at Lin Zezhi fiercely: "Alright, get out of here."
Lin Zezhi just said, "Then I will take my leave."
After saying that, he actually turned around and left. All these things combined were no match for Gu Xiangning. He had been worrying in vain.
When he got home, it was almost noon. Wan Xi came up to him and looked at Lin Zezhi: "Did something happen in the palace today? Why did you come back at this time?"
Lin Zezhi simply recounted what happened in the palace. Wan Xi blinked her eyes and said, "I'm afraid something big is going to happen. Xiaoman has an impatient temper. I'm afraid this matter will not end well."
It's not a good ending. Lin Zezhi finally figured it out. Well, it's okay not to ask the prince for help, because the emperor has already found another person who can help.
In fact, it seems more appropriate for the county lady to take action. Besides, if she is left idle, there will only be more trouble. Lin Zezhi looked at his wife and said, "Don't worry, the problem can always be solved."
Wan Xi nodded: "I'll go and comfort her."
Lin Zezhi looked at Wan Xi and said, "Let's go, together, if there's still time."
Wan Xi looked at him in confusion. What did she mean by "there's still time"? Shouldn't Xiao Man be in the Xiangfu now
When she arrived at the Xiangfu, Wanxi found that Xiaoman was not there at all. She had gone to the palace to deliver lunch. At this time, Xiaoman, with two maids behind her, pushed a cart and headed towards the palace for the court session.
When they arrived at the entrance of the hall, Xiaoman looked at the group of unhappy people kneeling inside, raised her eyebrows, and asked the maid beside her to bring in the food and give each minister a portion.
The ministers had been kneeling for the whole morning and were already a little hungry, so this lunch was really well prepared.
Only Gu Xiangning looked at Xiaoman with a smile: "Madam, you are here."
Xiaoman squatted next to Gu Xiangning: "What did the emperor say?"
Gu Xiangning blinked his eyes and said, "The Emperor told me to kneel and stand up whenever I want. I'm afraid Madam will be alone in her empty room tonight."
Xiao Man rolled her eyes: "Has the Emperor really decided to send Sun Shang to provide disaster relief?"
This disaster relief was because some cities along the river had suddenly experienced floods, leaving the people homeless. The news had just been received, so it was discussed during the morning court session.
Gu Xiangning said, "Why else do you think your husband is kneeling here? The emperor has appointed many useless people today. Those useless people are fine for daily use, but it is not appropriate to use them for disaster relief. Isn't that playing with the lives of the people?"
After hearing these words, Xiaoman stood up and said: "The emperor may have had water in his brain recently, just pour it out. I will go to help."
Xiaoman stood up and walked outside. Gu Xiangning subconsciously felt that it was inappropriate, but he couldn't get up, so he could only tell the maid beside him: "Go and watch over the lady, don't let her do anything wrong. If you can't stop her, remember to come back to me."
Xiaoman went straight to the hall where the emperor was. The emperor was a little hungry, but things were not over yet! He was in no mood to eat. "It's been a long time. Don't you have any solution? The censor has already come and is kneeling outside."
At this moment, the eunuch outside suddenly shouted, "Princess Yongxi is here."
Princess Yongxi, isn't that Xiaoman? The emperor stood up and was about to leave.