Even if the rain does not know that the spring is over, Yiqing feels that the summer is deep, and suddenly, the king is already steaming with heat.
A lot has happened in the past few months. Bai Xingzhi was sentenced to be executed, Bai Xizhi was sick and returned home, and even Bai Zhixuan, who was pregnant with a dragon descendant, could not escape being implicated, and was demoted to be a noble and condescending to the heart. Yuan, the situation is desolate, and everyone in the world says that the Bai family is gone.
In stark contrast to this is the Ye family, Ye Huaixin made great strides in the palace exam, ranked in the top three, successfully entered the Zhongshu Province, and officially took Yue Ting as his teacher. With a subtle stroke, breaking the ice in the future will start from today, but this is another story, let's not mention it for the time being.
Dragon boat races have always been popular in Chu during summer time, and this year is no exception. The emperor spent millions of silver taels to build a viewing platform on Huan Lake, called Youlong Water Corridor. The eaves and the glazed windows look like a long dragon lying on the river. It is very grand and magnificent. After it was built, it was vacant for the whole winter.
On the day of the summer solstice, the emperor brought his concubines, officials and their families here to watch the dragon boat race. The carriages on the shore stopped in a line, but the water corridor was still empty, showing the vast area. The female relatives love the side of the hanging sky, where they can see the lake and mountains, so they gathered in twos and threes by the handrail, and when they approached a little, the sound of Yan Yuying came into their ears, which was very happy.
In the room at the end of the veranda, Pei Yuanshu was standing there alone and quietly enjoying the scenery.
The flags and flags on the lake were obscured, the dragon boats were running side by side, and countless brawny men with naked upper bodies beat drums and shouted with great momentum.
A huge viewing platform, roaming for a few miles, consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, just to enjoy this annual dragon boat race, it is really a waste of money!
There was a creaking sound from the door behind him. He thought about Yue Ting's arrival. He couldn't hold back the indignation in his chest any longer. He turned around and blurted out, "Teacher, look at this golden screen, the eastern pearl lantern, and the mahogany table with pictures of ladies. Which one should I take out? It's enough for the people in the drought-stricken areas of the northwest to live for a few months.
He stopped abruptly in the middle of the sentence, his face instantly flushed red, and there was a trace of panic.
"How is it really?"
Chu Jinglan paced in with his hands behind his back, as stern as the wind, Xu Rulin, holding the ground without anger and arrogance, Pei Yuanshu was dumbfounded, and he didn't recover until the sound of the door closing.
"Wei and Weichen didn't know that the lord was coming, and their words and deeds were unremarkable. I will return the offense, and ask the lord to forgive me!"
"Get up." Chu Jinglan walked past him, stepped onto the terrace and looked at the majestic lake, "Isn't what you said just now very neat? Why did you stutter like this when you saw this king?"
Pei Yuanshu got up sweating profusely, and almost fell to his knees after listening to the second half of the sentence.
"... Wei Chen is just a little nervous."
"What are you nervous about? I'm afraid that this king will sue you in front of the imperial court, saying that you have slandered the Sage?" Chu Jinglan glanced at him sideways. He instantly froze and stomped like a stick for a long time before slowly coming out. Voice.
"Wei Chen didn't mean this, but last year, the disaster in the northwest was severe, and local officials would only perfunctory and take responsibility. Many people still have no food and clothing. When Wei Chen thinks of this... I can't help it..."
He didn't finish speaking, but the initial panic disappeared in his eyes, replaced by deep regret.
Chu Jinglan didn't care about his disrespect, and asked the key point in one sentence: "Why does Pei Qing care so much about this matter?"
Pei Yuanshu lowered his head, his face seemed to sink into the haze, and it took a long time to answer: "Wei Chen's hometown was plagued by locusts when he was young, thousands of hectares of fertile fields were turned into scorched fields, starving and dying everywhere, grief everywhere, Wei Chen's parents Ji eldest sister died of starvation at that time, so Wei Chen knew very well the suffering of the victims, but it was not according to people’s wishes. Wei Chen’s participation was rejected many times. Heart."
"Has Pei Qing participated in the performance recently?" Chu Jinglan asked coldly.
"No, Wei Chen recently..." Pei Yuanshu froze again, he couldn't say that he was coerced by Ye Huaiyang to do that recently, and he didn't have time to worry about anything else, right? But it was a little embarrassing for him to lie. Just when he was scratching his head and scratching his head, Chu Jinglan spoke again.
"Is this the same as it used to be?"
Pei Yuanshu was stunned for a while, and his face suddenly lit up.
Yup! How could he forget this? This time, he has taken a big credit for the Censor Terrace. Although the official position has not changed, the emperor and the long history have seen it. The Censor Terrace has also regained its importance. He dismissed his report, and it may be possible to allocate funds for disaster relief!
He immediately lowered his head and folded his sleeves, gave Chu Jinglan a long bow, and said gratefully, "Thank you for your guidance!"
"Forget it. The officials in the northwest have been serving vegetarian meals for a long time. The superiors can't help the masters, and the inferiors can't benefit the people. This king just wants to see what happens to them."
Pei Yuanshu opened his mouth and didn't know how to answer. After thinking for a long time, he saluted Chu Jinglan again. Tang Qingfeng couldn't help but look at him with such a big gesture.
"My lord, please forgive Wei Chen to retire first."
After all, he hurriedly left the room and hurried along the steps outside the water corridor, almost falling in the middle. Fortunately, he reached the shore safely. Tang Qingfeng looked at his buttocks on fire. Hit the laughing hole.
"My lord, why did Master Yue accept such a stupid student?"
"He judged that it was Ye Huaiyang's bureau just based on Ye Huailing's words, and secretly persuaded the Censor Chief Shi to present Bai Xingzhi's criminal evidence on his behalf. How stupid? Power seeks profit."
Tang Qingfeng nodded clearly and said, "Perhaps it is also related to Lord Yue who doesn't talk about political affairs on weekdays. I wonder if Ye Huaixin will be like Pei Yuanshu in the future when Ye Huaixin joins him?"
Chu Jinglan snorted coldly and turned to look at the lake again. The competition had already started. Dozens of dragon boats shot into the staggered waterways like arrows from the strings. The drums were loud, and the red silk fluttered in the wind.
Seeing that he was silent, Tang Qingfeng said to himself: "With a sister like Young Lady Ye, my younger brother must be not far behind. Speaking of which, when Young Lady Ye came up just now, she pretended to be very similar, as if she didn't know each other at all. It's like a prince... Huh? Isn't that her?"
Chu Jinglan turned his eyes slightly, Ye Huaiyang was indeed at the corner under the third floor.
The Dragon Water Corridor is built in the shape of a dragon, so two dragon claws on one side are protruding from the water surface, and a small slope is built at the end, which leads directly to the lake. Chic, Ye Huaiyang stood on it, as if talking to someone.
They never thought that the other person standing under the eaves would be Bai Zhixuan.
"The appearance of the nobleman makes me wonder whether to congratulate or regret."
Ye Huaiyang raised her pink lips and looked at Bai Zhixuan, and saw that she was wearing a pink palace dress, her belly was slightly raised, her hairpins were full of hairpins, her makeup was exquisite, and she was as beautiful as ever, but her face was a little haggard. due to pregnancy.
"Ye Huaiyang, Ben Gong really underestimated you."
There was a lot of haze in Bai Zhixuan's eyes, as if to engulf her, but she turned her back casually and went to play with the water, ignoring Bai Zhixuan at all.
"There are so many people who look down on the nobles, how much more am I the only one?"
"Bengong knows who you are talking about." Bai Zhixuan sneered, showing a bit of sternness, "Ye Huaiyang, you really do anything to step on the top of the Bai family, and you dare to cooperate with him. Impatient to live! As long as the emperor knows, he will teach you that the Ye family will die without a place to be buried!"
"The noble person is really forgetful. Now the emperor suspects it is your Bai family." Ye Huaiyang said lightly, the small wire net in his hand had already picked up several fry, and they were all released again and again. Don't get bored.
"This palace will prove to the emperor that you did it!"
"I didn't force Bai Xingzhi to betray the country to seek glory, and I couldn't threaten the prince with a knife to send someone to save him. How dare I ask the nobleman to prove it?" Ye Huaiyang turned around and smiled, staring at her belly and said meaningfully, "If I were a noble person, I would be too lazy to care about those things that are powerless to return to heaven, and I should wholeheartedly protect this piece of meat in my belly."
Bai Zhixuan hurriedly covered her stomach and asked cautiously, "What do you want to do? This palace has a dragon seed. If you dare to touch him, the emperor will not let you go!"
Ye Huaiyang clapped his hands and stood up, put the wire mesh aside, and slowly approached Bai Zhixuan and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, noble, I'm not as mad as you were back then, and I don't even spare the young children of the prince's important officials, but I don't care. Moving doesn't mean that the emperor won't move, you remember to be on guard."
"You are talking nonsense! How could the emperor attack his own flesh and blood!"
"My own flesh and blood?" Ye Huaiyang raised her brows, her phoenix eyes glowing with dim light, like a deep sea that does not see the light of the sun, "The noble person has served the king for six years without showing anything, and now the prince is pregnant when he comes back to you, guess what? What will the emperor think?"
"You spit out blood!" Bai Zhixuan's face turned pale with anger, she raised her hand and was about to hit Ye Huaiyang, but she was held in midair, unable to move at all.
"You're wrong again, I'm just taking advantage of the emperor's suspicion. If you and the emperor are more in love than Jin Jian, why should you be afraid of these rumors?"
"you-"
Bai Zhixuan had a colicky pain in her stomach, she couldn't help bending down, the anger in her chest became more and more difficult to express, she could only stare at Ye Huaiyang angrily, wishing to peel her to pieces and tear her to pieces. Ye Huaiyang looked at her disfigured appearance, her heart seemed to be poured over by a torrential rain, dripping with joy.
"This hurts? Do you know that when Concubine Chen drank poison and killed herself, the pain was almost to the bone? Do you know that Wang Ye was forced to fall off the cliff by your Bai family's killers, and so far, every cloudy and rainy day, his knees would feel dull pain? What do you think? Not even 11 or 12 of this has been received!"
Bai Zhixuan vaguely sensed something, pointed at her with shaking fingers, and said, "So you..."
With a sudden bang, the door was pushed open from the outside, both of them looked up and saw that it was Wang Yaru.
How could she be here
Ye Huaiyang saw Bai Zhixuan's question, and said very gently: "Don't be surprised, noble, she was invited by me. Do you look familiar?"
Bai Zhixuan stared at it, and was instantly startled.
Although she knew that the queen mother had given Chu Jinglan a concubine, she had never seen the person's appearance, but now it seems that she was carved out of the same mold! Not only are they similar in dress, but they have also learned seven points of sex, and the graceful appearance is nothing less than that!
Ye Huaiyang seemed to be very satisfied with her response, and when Wang Yaru approached, she made the last knife in Bai Zhixuan's ear.
"It is said that when the queen mother picked someone, she let the emperor go first, and when the night emperor came to her, she also ordered her to monitor whether you had contact with the prince. It seems that he never believed in you from the beginning to the end. The so-called favor is also It's just acting..."
Hearing this, Bai Zhixuan couldn't hold back any longer, and rushed towards Ye Huaiyang with a twisted expression, her sharp fingernails pierced the air and attacked her throat. The thrust of the two men made them take a few steps back, and they slid from the slope into the water at once!
With a thud, thousands of splashes of water splashed, stunned everyone.