Empress can't eat enough

Chapter 20 The Sage Talks About Dreams
This mutiny led by the British government came to an end in just one day and one night.The Yang clan ended up being slaughtered all over the house.The second prince, Li Xu, was also ruthlessly executed, and all the female relatives were sold into slavery, except for a two-year-old grandson who was taken away by the nurse and is still being hunted down.

A sage has many heirs, and the son who will plot rebellion is not his son, and he will kill him if he says he will.All the ministers could not see a trace of sadness on his face.It was as if the chess game was under his control.

But I don't know if he had any compassion for others when the tower on the Zidian Lake was burning to the sky, and all the officials were begging on the ground...

When Wei Yuan returned home, it was already midnight.

His face was full of exhaustion, seeing that his wife and children were safe, he wept with joy.God knows that this time in the court, he faces a huge choice: to be loyal to the saint or to protect his family?Although he didn't say it, he had the answer in his heart.

But after tossing all night, I have to go to the next morning.It's just that this morning, someone came from the palace.

Those who come are from the saint's side.He came with the imperial decree and rewarded the Wei Mansion:
The first reward is Master Wei, the servant of the punishment department, who is not afraid of personal life and death, he is outspoken, and he is brave to fight against the rebel party, and he is a loyal minister;

"In addition to these rewards, there is also an oral order from the sage, asking the servant to bring Mrs. Wei and her maid Aman into the palace to have an audience."

It was originally a great gift, but when Wei Yuan heard that he was about to enter the palace for an audience, Wei Yuan panicked.Wei Yingning and Ah Man were even more at a loss - how could they have thought that they could still enter the palace to meet the emperor in this life!
What Wei Yuan was worried about was that he thought that the sage had already rewarded him, and he still wanted to see them, so he might have some other intentions.

But no matter what, he couldn't allow him to think too much.

The huge palace is still solemn and solemn after a night of wind and rain.Although the stone steps under the feet have been washed with clear water and no blood stains are seen, but the breeze passes by, and the bloody smell hidden somewhere still penetrates into people's sense of smell, reminding the bloody storm last night.

Wei Yingning smelled it as soon as he entered the palace.

Not only did she smell it, she saw it.Those scattered ghosts wandered around, stubbornly refusing to leave.And she can only choose to turn a blind eye.

Soon after entering the palace, she and Ah Man were escorted by an eunuch and several court ladies, and walked through several palace gates to a side hall.

The eunuch only asked them to listen to the announcement here, and prepared tea and snacks for them, and then left, leaving only a few maidservants outside to wait on them.

Dim sum, Ah Man has never seen it before.She smacked her mouth, and her saliva was about to flow down.

"You just eat, it's okay."

With Wei Yingning's permission, she will not be polite.

They waited in this hall for a long, long time, until the sun was three poles, and no one came to call.

Ah Man couldn't eat any more, so he became a little impatient.She walked back and forth in the room, looked outside from time to time, and finally couldn't help but said: "The saint will not forget us, right?"

"It's not impossible." Wei Yingning joked, and then blamed Ah Man: "You have injuries on your body, how can you walk around like this? Why don't you come and sit down?"

"It's just a small injury, it's okay." The barbarian went back, but he had a smile on his face. "Ah Man, how can I hurt anyone? Yesterday I was overwhelmed, I was careless! Speaking of it..."

Recalling the fierce fighting last night, she suddenly thought of something, she lowered her voice and told Wei Yingning: "Miss, from the moves of those people in the British government last night, I don't think they are like military strategists, their moves are fierce but chaotic. , as if from the green forest."

"Last night was a big day for the British government. It's not impossible to invite people on the road because of insufficient manpower." Wei Yingning thought.

"But their moves are very similar to those men in black that the fourth prince met the day before yesterday." Ah Man said, and suddenly asked excitedly: "Will the one who sent someone to assassinate the fourth prince be the British government, or the second prince?" Prince?"

"No." Wei Yingning shook his head lightly, unconsciously thinking.

The British government and the second prince are about to rebel, but the day before the rebellion, they want to go out and assassinate another prince?It is superfluous.If the fourth prince is their obstacle, they can find a reason to get rid of him after the matter is done.

Therefore, it cannot be them who assassinated the Fourth Prince.

But if, as Ah Man said, those assassins were controlled by the same hand as the ones in Zidian Lake last night, maybe... besides the second prince and the British government, there are people who hide deeper behind this?
At this time, the eunuch who first escorted them came back.

The emperor's summoning was imminent, and both Wei Yingning and Ah Man were a little nervous.

After the two young women entered the palace, all the civil and military officials were whispering.After all, in this world, there is no precedent for a woman summoned by the Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty to the Qianqing Hall, except for the Empress Dowager and princesses from foreign countries who came to marry her.

"You don't want to talk about it." The emperor sitting on the dragon chair spoke, and the hall was suddenly silent.The emperor continued: "It was these two dolls who saved the lives of your wives and children last night."

baby?Since Wei Yingning and Ah Man entered the palace, they only dared to look down at the ground. Hearing what the emperor said about them, they felt that the emperor was kind.

Shuangshuang knelt down and bowed to the emperor, the two of them fell on the ground, and if the king didn't let them get up, they would never dare to move at all.

"Please get up quickly." The emperor raised his hand slightly, and then asked: "Which one is the young lady of the servant of the Ministry of Punishment? Which one is the wise and brave maid?"

Can't you tell by the clothes?The emperor asked knowingly.

"Back to the emperor, Wei Yingning, the minister's daughter, is the daughter of the servant of the Ministry of Punishment."

"My servant, Ah Man, is the one who is both wise and brave...it is that maidservant! My servant, Ah Man..."

Ah Man's reply did not intend to make Long Yan very happy.

"Maidmaid, Ah Man." The Son of Heaven laughed, then murmured, and happily said, "It will be gone soon!"

"Just a few days ago, I dreamed of the late emperor." Just when everyone thought that the emperor was going to reward the female slave in front of the palace, the emperor suddenly talked about his dream.

He spoke unhurriedly in the tone of an elderly man chatting with others.

"The first emperor told me that there are two roads ahead for me to choose. One water road and the other dry road. If you choose the water road, the world will no longer be my world. If you choose the dry road, the world will still be my world, but the hearts of the people Don't turn to me any more."

"I then told the first emperor, if the hearts of the people are gone, what use is the child in this world? I will choose that waterway!"

"But the first emperor said, if the world is gone, what do you want the hearts of the people? What use are the hearts of the people to you? If the hearts of the people are to you, the world will fall into the hands of thieves. ? No matter how much popular support there is, it can only be disappointing."

"I asked the first emperor, if the hearts of the people are gone, how can a child live in this world for so long?"

"The former emperor didn't reply to me, but he just sighed and told me: No matter what, you have to guard the world. If you can't keep the hearts of the people, leave it to others."

(End of this chapter)