The old sacrificial wine continued: "Not many people know about this matter, and rumors from the outside world are all about the nunnery invited by Concubine Jing. I also heard from His Majesty, and only then did I know that Zhuang Jinse had expelled his closest friends in order to dominate the power. palace."
Xiao Liulang frowned and said: "Your Majesty must think that the empress dowager's good for him and Concubine Jing in those years was a well-planned plan. The empress dowager only wants a puppet."
The old sacrificial wine took it seriously: "Yes, Your Majesty does have this idea. In fact, not only His Majesty, but everyone in the world thinks this way. Even the Empress Dowager's mother family thinks that the Empress Dowager has been doing dramas for so many years."
Everyone in the world is fighting against the emperor for Concubine Jing, and no one cares about Zhuang Jinse's gradually cold heart.
No one asked Zhuang Jinse if there was another secret behind his betrayal of his best friend.
Whoever is weak is right.
Zhuang Jinse's strength is destined to make people fear her, hate her, fear her, and wish she could be destroyed, but no one will love her.
All bad things will be easily counted on her head, who made her ignore Gangchang? Who let her dominate the imperial power!
Twilight slants west.
The evening glow fell on the cornices of the bucket arches of Renshou Palace, passing a layer of dazzling golden light.
After Empress Dowager Zhuang had dealt with nearly half of the government affairs, the whole person was full of silent exhaustion.
The life in the palace is not as leisurely as outsiders imagined. The piles of papers, the endless political affairs, the never-ending disputes... Each of them ruthlessly destroys people's will.
"The Queen Mother." Eunuch Qin walked in slowly and offered a cup of flower tea distressedly, "Let's take a break and have dinner first, and I will look at these books tomorrow."
"Tomorrow will have tomorrow's book." Empress Dowager Zhuang picked up another book, "Aijia is not hungry."
Qin Gonggong said earnestly: "If you are not hungry, you have to eat something. If you are exhausted, Miss Gu should feel distressed again."
Speaking of this, Empress Dowager Zhuang got angry and gave him a cold look: "Don't go to her for a trivial matter in the future! Don't think that the Aijia really dared to chop your head off! There are four confidant eunuchs around the Aijia, don't forget How did the first three die!"
It's all about beheading you...
Eunuch Qin touched the neck on his shoulders and said angrily, "Yes, the servants will not dare to do so in the future."
"The Queen Mother!"
The little palace maid Jade rushed in excitedly.
Empress Dowager Zhuang is annoying, anyone who provokes her will have to die!
Empress Dowager Zhuang is not a good person. She has killed people who don't need to be killed. She is so vicious!
"Drag out—"
As soon as the word stick reached his mouth, Jade Jade panted, "Master Xiao is here!"
The word stick and kill has their own ideas, and they slipped into the stomach of Empress Dowager Zhuang.
Empress Dowager Zhuang rolled her eyes: "Let him in."
Eunuch Qin secretly smiled.
Xiao Liulang entered the study room in the side hall. While reading the book, Empress Dowager Zhuang asked casually, "Didn't you leave? Why did you come back?"
Listen, what kind of arrogant tone is this
Eunuch Qin outside the door laughed so hard that he almost twitched. Isn't it because Xiao Xiuzhuan came to deliver things in the morning and left without seeing anyone
Xiao Liulang said, "Come and have a meal."
Empress Dowager Zhuang hummed: "Is there no food at home? I have to come to Ai's house to eat."
Xiao Liulang nodded frankly: "Well, there is no food to eat."
It has become shameless, and at first glance, it was taken crooked by that old guy Huo Xian!
Empress Dowager Zhuang narrowed her eyes angrily.
Eunuch Qin coughed lightly and said, "The queen mother, the servant will let you cook?"
"I have to work for Eunuch Qin." Xiao Liulang turned his head and said to Eunuch Qin.
"Hey!" Eunuch Qin happily responded and went away happily.
Empress Dowager Zhuang gritted her teeth: "Wow, everyone is eating inside and out. Renshou Palace is no longer surnamed Zhuang, right?"
Dinner is placed in Lingxiang Pavilion, in the same side hall as the study.
Empress Dowager Zhuang did not intend to go to dinner.
Xiao Liulang said helplessly with a hint of grievance: "I'm hungry, auntie."
Empress Dowager Zhuang rolled her eyes again, and then reluctantly put down the book and went to Lingxiang Pavilion with Xiao Liulang.
Eunuch Qin didn't know that Xiao Liulang came over. Several dishes were fried. He had been to Bishui Hutong so many times, and he knew Xiao Liulang's taste.
Empress Dowager Zhuang withdrew from the palace servants who served the meals.
Xiao Liulang gave Empress Dowager Zhuang a chopstick of vegetables.
Empress Dowager Zhuang frowned: "Aijia won't eat this!"
"I want to eat." Xiao Liulang gave her another piece of pork belly, but took off the fat part.
Empress Dowager Zhuang's face turned black.
Are you here to eat with me? I see you are here to kill me!
Empress Dowager Zhuang is very angry! Very serious consequences!
Xiao Liulang said in a low mood: "I didn't eat with my grandmother when I was a child. She didn't like my mother, so she didn't like me either."
Empress Dowager Zhuang's anger burned halfway and was extinguished.
Empress Dowager Zhuang had also heard a little about the relationship between Princess Xinyang and Mrs. Xiao. Mrs. Xiao was originally a daughter of a wealthy family, who was gentle and quiet.
But who ever thought that the Marquis of Xuan Ping would marry and go home was a big Buddha, who could not be beaten or scolded. Instead, they had to bow to her when they met.
Mrs. Xiao was so angry that it was said that she didn't like Princess Xinyang's son very much. Instead, she loved the two grandsons in the house.
Xiao Liulang didn't mind this at all, he was just playing sympathy when he said it.
Sure enough, Empress Dowager Zhuang felt that someone was pitiful and that it was not good for someone to take care of someone, so she ate the vegetable leaf with a look of disgust and suffocation.
The corners of Xiao Liulang's lips twitched imperceptibly.
Later, Xiao Liulang fabricated many miserable days under Mrs. Xiao's hands on the spot, and successfully coaxed the queen mother to eat all the meals she didn't want to eat.
When Empress Dowager Zhuang reacted, she realized that she had eaten half a bowl of rice more than usual.
This is her normal appetite in Bishui Hutong, but after returning to the palace, her appetite has been reduced by more than half.
She is all thin.
After a simple meal, the fool could also see that Empress Dowager Zhuang was more comfortable than usual.
After eating, Xiao Liulang didn't rush to go back, but went to the library that the Queen Mother built for him.
The library is opposite to Empress Dowager Zhuang's study, separated by a small garden.
Eunuch Qin opened the Xuan window very intimately.
As soon as Empress Dowager Zhuang turned her head, she could see Xiao Liulang reading hard beside the Xuan window of the Library Pavilion.
Empress Dowager Zhuang's irritable mood suddenly calmed down.
The deep palace is lonely, and the deep palace at night is especially lonely. It is the loneliness that can make you crazy, helpless, desperate to escape but can't escape.
Empress Dowager Zhuang has lived in the deep palace for decades, and she never felt that this was her home.
However, at this moment, looking at the figure of the young man and feeling his silent company, Empress Dowager Zhuang felt an unprecedented tranquility and peace.
Empress Dowager Zhuang read the book again. It was getting dark, and she still had a small pile to read, but she didn't plan to read it.
She said to Eunuch Qin: "You tell him that Aijia is going to rest, and he should go back too."
Eunuch Qin responded with a smile: "Yes."
He put all the persuasion here, but the Queen Mother refused to listen, so Mr. Xiao has a solution.
"Wait." Empress Dowager Zhuang stopped Eunuch Qin, "Send two secret guards to escort him along the way. Be careful to sail the Wannian Ship. He and Aijia are too close, and Aijia is worried that someone will harm him."
The moon is black and the wind is high.
As for returning to Bishui Hutong, there is no need to worry about Jiaojiao and Gu Yan's two secret guards.
"Yes."
Eunuch Qin asked people to prepare a carriage, personally sent Xiao Liulang to the gate of the palace, and pointed to two masters in the palace to follow him along the way.
In the woods not far away, several figures flashed by.
A quarter of an hour later, in the dark room, there were five fingers out of sight.
A man in black said: "Report to the master, the masters of Renshou Palace will follow along the way, and the subordinates will not succeed."
The figure in the dark waved his hand lightly: "Go back."
The next day, Xiao Liulang took a break, and the Imperial College Supervisor Meng Xue did not have any classes.
Because Xiao Liulang slept late at night, he woke up for a while in the morning, and the small clearance was already up. He went to the backyard to wash and watered his relatives.
When Xiao Liulang dressed neatly and came to the backyard, he unexpectedly found that there were two marquis in the courtyard—Marquis Xuanping and Marquis Dingan.
Xuanping Hou came to accept Xiao Jingkong as his apprentice. He thought about it, as long as he accepted him as his apprentice, he would be able to enter the hutong openly. At that time, it would not be a problem to investigate Xiao Liulang's life experience and please his daughter-in-law. .
But it was a coincidence that the Marquis of Ding An also came to accept Xiao Jingkong as a disciple.
In fact, he didn't leave last night, because he fainted from fright, so he stayed overnight in Bishui Hutong.
After getting up, he already knew that the child was his seed, and had nothing to do with Xuanping Hou. The reason why Xuanping Hou appeared here was just because he fell in love with the little monk and wanted to accept him as his disciple.
In the past, Lord Gu would never have dared to compete with Duke Xuanping, but it was related to whether he could live in Bishui Hutong.
That's right, he thought about it, Yao Shi was pregnant, and the situation was special. She really didn't want to go back to the Hou residence, so he stayed with her for the time being.
Everything will wait until the child is born before making other plans.
For the sake of his wife and children, Gu Houye fought hard!
Even if you are a first-rank Marquis, and your status has overwhelmed me several times, I can't back down!
Marquis Xuanping put his hands in his sleeves, and he could hold it in such a hot weather, which was really admirable. He said casually, "If that's the case, let's compete fairly and see who has the skills. What do you think, little monk? "
Xiao Jingkong thought about it seriously: "Okay, okay!"
He brought two small cards, wrote a few words, then moved to a small bench, sat on the bench cutely, and began to watch by himself.
Lord Gu snorted coldly and asked, "I don't know what Marquis Xuanping wants to compare with me?"
Xuanping Hou raised his eyebrows: "Face."
Lord Gu, who almost choked to death: "...!!"
Is it so shameless
Xiao Jingkong raised the small card in his right hand: "Xiao Houye wins!"
Obviously the bad brother-in-law's daddy looks better than Jiaojiao's daddy.
But Jiaojiao is the best-looking, and does not accept refutation!
Gu Houye started before he could react, and then he still lost, where can he justify it
He gritted his teeth and showed his ultimate move: "Bie back poetry!"
Xuanping Hou: "..."
fuck!
So ruthless!
Although Marquis Gu's calligraphy and painting were not satisfactory, the ink in his stomach was still a little more than that of Marquis Xuanping.
Xiao Jingkong took five poems, but Lord Gu recited two, but Hou Xuan Ping couldn't recite a single one.
Xiao Jingkong raised the card in his left hand: "Master Gu wins!"
But then, Lord Gu was not so lucky. Except for his lack of knowledge, Hou Xuanping was not capable of anything else. Lord Gu was crushed horribly.
Even in the competition, Marquis Xuanping suffered a waist injury, and he was still in vain when he fought Lord Gu.
Gu Houye lost so badly!
An hour later, the ambitious Gu Houye was finally broken. He put himself in big characters, rolled his eyes, stuck his tongue out, and slumped on the steps inexorably.
"It's great!" Xiao Qingkong sat on the small bench, straightened his back, and clapped his little hands.
The corner of Xuanping's lips twitched, and he said proudly: "Okay, this Marquis has won, you can worship Ben Marquis as your teacher."
Xiao Jingkong tilted his head and said seriously: "But, I already have a master! I can't take you as my teacher again! A good apprentice does not serve a second teacher!"
Isn't it a good woman who does not serve two husbands
Marquis Xuanping frowned and began to doubt life.
Because his knowledge is not good, it may be that he remembered it wrongly. The original words are indeed good disciples who do not serve second teachers.
This is not the point, the point is that this brat is playing him again!
Marquis Xuanping gritted his teeth: "You can't be a teacher, why are you so excited just now?"
Xiao Jingkong spread out his hands and said innocently: "I only said that I would see you compete, but I didn't say that I would apprentice after the competition. You said it yourself, but I didn't agree!"
Xuanping Hou has a toothache!
Stinky little monk, I owe it!
The Marquis of Xuanping can't always fall into one place, the little monk wants to fight him, it will be another five hundred years!
He snorted coldly, and said in a mighty and domineering manner: "I don't care, you have to agree, and you have to agree if you don't agree. Chang Jing!"
Chang Jing rushed in, grabbed Xiao Jingkong and carried it on his shoulders.
Xiao Jingkong's small arms and calves fluttered: "Oh, what are you doing!"
The Marquis of Xuanping lightly brushed his wide sleeves: "Take it away!"
Go to the grandfather!
"Oh, don't, don't, I don't!"
A certain little monk was chattering for a while, but he was still ruthlessly captured by some bad monkey!
Today, there is a class in Qinghe Academy. Gu Yan doesn't know what happened at home. Liu Quanlai took Gu Xiaoshun to Master Lu and Nanxiang to study art. He didn't go.
He was lazy again.
On the one hand, he doesn't have much interest and ambition. On the other hand, it is true that his body is worse than ordinary people. Sitting in the carriage in the hot summer is so boring that he can't stand it.
He walked back leisurely, and before he took a few steps, an old man who was old but in good spirits and whose sword was not old walked over.
"It's such a coincidence." The old man said with a smile.
"Well, what a coincidence." Gu Yan knew who he was, his grandfather Gu Chao.
The first time he came to see him outside the academy, he recognized him.
He was only four years old when he left the capital, and he hadn't seen him for eleven years. The old man thought he didn't remember him.
In fact, Gu Yan really doesn't remember it, but the old man's face is too representative, and the three generations of their grandparents and grandchildren look alike.
Furthermore, he found that as long as the old marquis approached him, his dark guards would stay far away.
Gu Yan may not be able to study, but he is a real villain.
The old marquis wanted to see his grandson, but couldn't let it go, so he had to have a few "random encounters" with Gu Yan.
He thought that Gu Yan didn't recognize him.
"Aren't you going to study art today?" the old man asked.
"It's hot." Gu Yan said, "Are you coming to see your grandson again?"
The old marquis said embarrassingly, "Ah, yes."
Gu Yan asked knowingly, "Then have you seen him?"
The old man looked at Gu Yan and laughed dryly: "I see."
"Oh." Gu Yan raised his eyebrows, "Then do you want to eat jelly today?"
The old man was stunned for a moment, then quickly nodded: "Yes, yes!"
The two had eaten jelly once before, and Gu Yan found that the old man liked it very much. Gu Yan's impression of this grandfather was not too bad.
In my impression, my grandfather treated him well and his mother well. When he and his mother moved to Zhuangzi, my grandfather gave him two secret guards.
He fell ill several times in the middle of the night, and everyone fell asleep. If the dark guard had not noticed the abnormality in time, he might have died long ago.
After eating the jelly with mint, Gu Yan felt refreshed, rubbed his stomach and said, "You invited me last time, this time I will treat you! Reciprocity!"
The old man said, "No need."
Gu Yan waved his hand: "It's alright, although I don't have much money, but I can earn some pocket money by doing part-time jobs every day, and I can still afford a meal of jelly."
The old man frowned when he heard the words, his grandson has actually been reduced to the point where he can earn money by taking part-time jobs for others
How did that bastard Gu Chong become a father!
Don't you give your son monthly money? !
"Where's your father?" the old man asked.
Gu Yan sighed and said, "My father, he forced me to move back every day. If I didn't want to, he cut off my monthly payment. I mentioned to you that I was born prematurely, was weak, and suffered from heart disease. My sister worked really hard to support me."
Could it be that the girl became a doctor for her own younger brother
It was her fault that she was wrong.
Good night, sweet dreams.
(End of this chapter)