Need for a Guard

"Eunuch Mao, listen to my explanation, it's not...it's not like this!"

Hearing this, Zeng Shan blushed anxiously. Xiao Yan is the leader of their department, and he received this wronged title for no reason. The prime minister is busy, so it is really inconvenient..."

"The miscellaneous family really don't know what is more important than visiting the Empress Dowager's condition! Prime Minister Xiao has no regard for the royal family!"

Sanmao snorted coldly and said angrily, "Okay! Since Prime Minister Xiao didn't come, then Zeng Shangshu and Zhao Shangshu, please wait at the door, wait for Prime Minister Xiao to finish his work, and then come to visit the Queen Mother together, or Prime Minister Xiao I don’t even bother to come, Zeng Shangshu, Zhao Shangshu, then please go home.”

call!

The emperor didn't give Xiao Yan any face.

The officials were thinking that Sanmao would never have the guts to attack Xiao Yan's family on purpose, and even though Eunuch Hu was a close confidant of the Empress Dowager, when he reported to the emperor, he would sort out the important officials who did not come to visit. When he came to visit, the little emperor already knew it well.

Eunuch Mao's behavior today is nothing more than pretending to be a tiger, acting as a substitute for the little emperor.

Zeng Shan and Zhao Shuo were about to cry but stomped their feet in anger, but their reasons were obvious. Even if they were full of resentment, they couldn't vent it. They also knew that if they didn't visit the Queen Mother today, this matter would most likely become Kang Shanzhen's, Bai Mochou joined forces to attack Xiao Yan's handle.

Zeng Shan didn't dare to delay, so he quickly sent his guards to invite Xiao Tuzi out of the mountain!

So far, among the hundred courtiers, counting King Fu and the eldest princess, only ten people can enter the palace, which made the hundred officials heave a sigh of relief.

They are afraid that people with the same status and power as themselves will enter the palace, but they will lose face if they do not enter. Now there are only ten people selected to enter the palace, and most of them are blocked from the door, and they are also avoided. It's a joke. Anyway, everyone stopped outside the gate of the palace together. Who can laugh at whom?

Moreover, what made them even more surprised and excited was that Zeng Shan and Zhao Shuo, Xiao Yan's right and left hands, did not enter the palace—hehe...there were these two aggrieved guys staying at the gate of the palace to accompany them What is there to be dissatisfied with being rejected?

After hearing Sanmao finish reading the list, Yantong secretly glanced at Shi Yue, with hesitation in her eyes, and seemed to ask again: Why is there no your name?

Bai Mochou frowned, coughed lightly incessantly, and glanced back and forth at Sanmao and Shi Yue with shrewd eyes.

Shi Yue also broke out in a cold sweat from depression, squinting at San Mao with a smirk at the corner of his mouth, but he wanted to kick San Mao's ass in half with hatred in his heart.

The courtiers cut off the idea of ​​entering the palace, relaxed physically and mentally, and bowed to leave.

But Sanmao waved his hand and said: "The list is not finished yet, why are you in such a hurry?"

ah?Not over yet?

All the officials stopped and looked at each other—even Zeng Shan and Zhao Shuo were turned away, and I really don't know who jumped the dragon's gate.

"Shi Yue, a thousand households of black guards, has repeatedly made extraordinary achievements, destroying the Beicheng gang, and relieving the suffering of the people; in the fire scene of Taohuawu, regardless of safety and danger, he led his troops to rescue the officials from danger; the king of Fu was assassinated in Beijing, and Shi Qianhu remained in danger. , Bravely retreating from the assassin, not to mention saving the eldest princess from the cliff, how can the empress dowager and the emperor take such a peerless hero lightly?"

Sanmao smiled at the corner of his mouth, looked at Shi Yue's face that turned from black to white, and said loudly: "Shi Qianhu, the emperor and the empress dowager specially invite Shi Qianhu to enter the palace!"

Whoa!

The ministers stared at each other, envious, jealous, and puzzled!

Shi Yue is just a military officer who has just been promoted to rank four thousand, and the military officer has always been half a rank lower than the civil servants of the same level, but this military man with very little qualifications is actually invited by the emperor and the queen mother?It's unreasonable - you must know that among the ten people who entered the palace, they were either summoned by the queen mother or the emperor, but Shi Yue was summoned by the queen mother and the emperor at the same time. How many people can have this honor?

Shi Yue also put aside his resentment towards San Mao, and saluted San Mao, "I thank the Queen Mother and the Emperor for your favor." He probably understood why the Queen Mother and the Emperor would summon him at the same time!

The reason why the little emperor summoned him blatantly and without avoiding suspicion was because he had meritorious service, and the summoning was a matter of course. Moreover, the little emperor also wanted the friendly relationship between himself and him to gradually emerge from the dark to the surface, and he entered the palace to summon him. It's just the first test.

The empress dowager summoned herself because she considered that she was Kang Shanzhen's confidant and beloved general, and took this opportunity to consolidate Kang Shanzhen's power. One hero and three gangs, without your confidants, you can't do it without your abilities—— This old guy is still very considerate of her old lover.

Yan Tong also looked towards Shi Yue, blinking her beautiful eyes, her red lips were raised up, and she smiled slightly, she obviously didn't expect Shi Yue to be so beautiful, secretly speculated: Who is Shi Yue?How could the emperor and queen mother who were always at odds show favor to him at the same time?

Zeng Shan couldn't restrain the resentment in his heart, his face turned pale, and he snorted: "Mr. Mao, I'm so puzzled! Among these officials, there are four first-rank officials, eight from the first rank, 12 from the second rank, and 14 from the second rank. There are 36 people from the third rank, 36 from the third rank, and only one Shi Qianhu from the fourth rank. Why are so many high-ranking officials not allowed to enter the palace? Yan? I... I really don't understand."

Although the ministers did not have the courage to question Zeng Shan blatantly, they were happy to see the excitement.

"Master Zeng, are you not convinced?"

San Mao stepped down from the high platform, fixed her shrewd eyes on Zeng Shan's face, and said with a sneer: "The emperor and the queen mother have said that since ancient times, heroes have been born as teenagers, and they should support young people to do things for the court, regardless of seniority or age. Credit, otherwise, wouldn't I, little boy, also serve Eunuch Hu tea and water?"

Eunuch Hu broke out in a cold sweat, nodded and bowed his head and said urgently: "Old slave... this old slave doesn't dare, this old slave knows how capable he is, so this old slave is willing to obey the arrangement of the emperor and queen mother!"

"you……"

Zeng Shan's face became paler with anger, thinking that you little brat are you a fart hero?Just knowing that accompanying the emperor to mess around and cause trouble, is that considered meritorious service?

If I were the emperor, I would have killed you little bastard a long time ago.

The eldest princess heard it interesting, smiled sweetly, raised her red lips, and said softly: "Even though my father-in-law is young, he is well-versed in words and knowledge! This palace thinks it makes sense."

"According to my palace, there is no distinction between age and age when working for the imperial court, and there should be no distinction between men and women. Those who make meritorious deeds should be rewarded, and those who are vegetarians should be punished! How can it be so pedantic to the point of ranking seniority?"

Bai Mochou and Kang Shanzhen said in unison: "Princess Shengming!"

Looking sideways at Zeng Shan, he found that his complexion was getting worse and worse, it turned red like a monkey's buttocks, his eyebrows were ferocious, and he seemed to be unbearable to be ridiculed!

The two looked at each other and smiled, and there was a tacit understanding in the early years in their eyes!