Sometimes the palace is sunny

Chapter 45
Shen Shiqing herself never thought that things would go so smoothly.

She originally wanted to set up a trick for Cao Fengxi to get in by herself, but she didn't expect that she would just say the most terrible thing directly, just by making a head start.

This also shows what kind of waste the Cao family has been spoiled by the empress dowager.

The cautiousness she has cultivated over the years makes her rather think about it than think about it. Seeing Cao Fengxi's mindless madness at this moment, she can't help but feel a little dazed.

——It turns out that there are people in this world who are so stupid that they can be rich and prosperous.

Seeing that His Majesty did not speak for a long time, Zhuo Shengquan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, Qian Zhuo, Yushi of Zuodu, and others who were also in the Hall of Martial Arts were already kneeling on the ground.

Zhuo Shengquan had a national character face of worrying about the country and the people. As soon as he knelt down, he quickly knocked on the ground: "Your Majesty, the queen mother is in the harem, how can she interfere with the government affairs? Shoucheng Hou Cao Fengxi, as the brother of the queen mother, does not think of dying To serve the country, I just want to use the advantage of my status to cover up the fact that I was corrupt and broke the law, please punish me according to the law!"

Qian Zhuo, the censor of Zuodu, was more courageous than Zhuo Shengquan, who was only one step away from entering the cabinet. He directly pointed his sword at the queen mother, saying that the queen mother had the style of empress Lu and empress Wu in the past, as if the empress dowager used to be able to let The first emperor covered up Cao Fengxi's crimes, and he could bring disaster to the country and chaos in the future.

Frightened, several eunuchs from the Compassionate Palace outside the palace shouted for the empress dowager.

Cao Fengxi was at a loss as he watched the noisy people coming and going. When he heard the old bastard with a goatee say that his sister had the intention of harming the country, he almost got up and beat her up so much that he was beaten by two eunuchs. stopped.

Seeing that Cao Fengxi was going to beat him, a censor who met with Qian Zhuo, the censor of Zuodu, was overjoyed. He was accused of beating the officials in the Hall of Martial Ying, and he became the hero who brought down his relatives, which is enough to leave a name in history!

Thinking of this, the censor even rubbed in the direction of Cao Fengxi, half of his body was tilted, and there were four words written all over his body:
"You hit me!"

Cao Fengxi was so angry that his teeth were itching, and the hat on his head was almost torn off. He puffed out the unicorn on his stomach and said loudly: "My sister gave birth to Your Majesty! Your Majesty! You have to punish these people for grabbing your mother's mother!" ! Otherwise, you are unfilial!"

"Dang." A piece of paperweight was picked up and put back on the case, making a crisp sound,
The Hall of Martial Arts fell silent.

"Early this morning, the Empress Dowager sent someone to send over 10 taels of silver and two golden Buddhas, in order to let me check the accounts of various places with peace of mind. My empress mother is so virtuous, how could she do such a thing as protecting Shou Chenghou?"

After finishing speaking, Shen Shiqing waved and let the eunuch of Compassionate Ning Palace who was blocked outside the hall come in.

"Li Nian'en, as the eunuch in charge of the Palace of Compassion and Peace, you don't take good care of the Empress Dowager, why did you come to the Hall of Martial Heroes?"

Li Nianen prostrated himself on the ground, burying his head between his arms.

He knew that this was the emperor's last sliver of face for the queen mother. If he told the truth about the fact that the queen mother asked them to stop Daguo uncle, the queen mother would definitely be criticized by the civil officials, and she would really be regarded as a demon queen who harmed the country. Maybe.

Swallowing his saliva a little, Li Nianen said in a low voice:
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager was deeply relieved when she heard in the Palace of Compassion that His Majesty intends to eradicate the evils of the court. She bluntly said that His Majesty has the style of the former emperor, and then she personally chose two golden Buddhas for His Majesty. As for the 10 taels of silver notes It is the powder money allocated by the late emperor to the empress dowager over the years. The empress dowager has always been diligent and conscientious, and she is very worried about receiving this generous gift. Because her majesty acted like the late emperor, the empress was very happy, so she ordered someone to give the money to her majesty as well. I just hope that your majesty can get rid of the old evils and comfort the late emperor. As for the servants and others, it is because the empress dowager heard that Shoucheng Hou ordered the court to lose tens of thousands of taels of silver and did not want to return it. Handle it impartially, don't think about sympathy, and the two are to order Shou Chenghou to quickly pay off all the shortfalls."

Li Nianen spoke with sincerity, as if every word was true.

Sitting on the dragon chair, Shen Shiqing couldn't help marveling that Li Nian'en was indeed a character who had a good relationship with Zhang Wan and was able to escape when Emperor Zhaode strangled Zhang Wan. These words simply picked the Queen Mother clean , and saved enough face for the emperor.

Cao Fengxi was going crazy when he heard Li Nianen's words. It was his sister who cleaned up the matter for him and said that he didn't have to pay back the money. Why is this eunuch opening his eyes and talking nonsense? !

Qian Zhuo, the censor of Zuodu, asked: "Officer Li, Shou Chenghou said that you passed the Queen Mother's order to him..."

Li Nianen kowtowed in the direction of His Majesty: "I did go to Xingtaipu Temple in Gansu to meet Shou Chenghou back then. It was because the Empress Dowager knew that Shou Chenghou had caused a catastrophe, so she ordered my servant to warn Shou Chenghou. The Queen Mother has been in the palace for many years , has always only taken care of the late emperor and His Majesty as the most important task, and never said a word in government affairs, I hope Your Majesty will learn from you."

Unscrewing three thousand layers of folds on his thick neck, Cao Fengxi looked at Li Nian'en fiercely: "What nonsense are you talking about, old eunuch? The Queen Mother is my own sister, why wouldn't she help me? If I didn't want to, don't Even if I want to be the elder of the court, even if I want to be the elder of the court, my sister will not refuse!"

"presumptuous!"

Emperor Zhaode seemed to be in a hurry. He stood up as soon as he slapped the table, and stared at Cao Fengxi angrily. He seemed to suppress the turbid air in his chest before he flicked his sleeves:
"Come here, take Shouchenghou into custody, and order Jin Yiwei to go to Shouchenghou's mansion to confiscate 30 taels of silver to make up for his crimes of the past!"

Shou Chenghou still wanted to speak, but the four mice had already gagged him, and several eunuchs and guards dragged him out together.

Crossing the bridge outside the Hall of Martial Arts is the Corridor of the Sixth Division. The civil servants in the duty room of the Sixth Division poked their heads out when they heard the noise in front of the hall, and saw Shou Chenghou being dragged out.

Seeing this scene, Li Congyuan sighed softly. Zhuang Changxin, the servant of the official department standing beside him, glanced at him, then lowered his eyes and seemed to say to himself: "All these years, your majesty treats the Cao family for the empress dowager's sake." All sorts of You Rong, this time in order to investigate Taipu Si, he took his own uncle as soon as he came up, I'm afraid His Majesty is really going to get serious this time."

The speaker seems indifferent.

The listener naturally cares.

Soon Zhuang Shilang's words and Li Ge's sighs became various versions of legends and flew to various high-ranking families in Yanjing City.

Many people were so frightened that they touched the back of their heads, their necks were not as hard as His Majesty's own uncle.

When Jin Yiwei actually went to Shouchenghou's mansion to carry the silver in boxes, the entire front of Gulou Street, which was full of dignitaries, seemed to be three minutes quieter than usual.

"It's so quiet, how come the Shouchenghou's mansion hasn't ordered five hundred elite soldiers to kill them?"

On the Zhuangzi in the outskirts of Beijing, Zhao Surui ate a mouthful of bad pig ears out of boredom, and the crispy bones were crunched by him. While eating, there was a bit of ferocity in his eyes.

Liu Tianxing, who had just learned how to use a stick from Tu Nan, had the courage to pick up a pig's ear with chopsticks. Under Zhao Surui's watchful eye, she changed from three to one, and carefully put it in her mouth.

"Young Madam, don't worry, the later they come, the deeper the pit outside will be dug."

"Hmph, what do you know?" Zhao Surui rolled her eyes, and took another sip of jasmine wine smoked with Autumn Dew. Zhao Surui is so happy that he is still reluctant to drink it. "Cao Fengxi, the Marquis of Shoucheng, has an empty neck, a whole bag of wine and food, and only a little bit of heart is left, half of which is used to hold grudges and the other is used for greed. It is impossible for him not to come after suffering such a big loss. There is no movement now, either his brain is broken, or he has been persuaded."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Surui took another sip of wine.

It's called jasmine wine, but it seems to be a bit hotter than the already mellow Qiu Lubai. Zhao Surui almost choked, and put a large piece of bad pig's ear into his mouth.

There are only two people who can persuade his good-for-nothing uncle, one is his uncle who wants to drink to death in the brothel, and the other is his empress dowager.

These two people have one thing in common with Zhao Surui, that is, they both make him uncomfortable.

Especially his mother.

Zhao Surui took another sip of wine, so that he didn't want to think about those bad things back then.

"Young Madam, are you wrong? You just said that the top of Shou Chenghou's neck is empty, why did you say that his brain is broken?"

While talking, Liu Tianxing took advantage of the fact that the young lady was drinking and didn't have time to watch her, so she pulled several pig's ears into her mouth.

Zhao Surui doesn't want to talk to this fool anymore.

Only fools talk to fools!
"I said the top of his neck is empty, but he is not really headless! I see that the top of your neck is also empty!"

"No! I can eat and talk to the young lady. I have a head on my neck."

Zhao Surui suddenly felt like he couldn't even speak of a fool.

Just when our wise and mighty Emperor Zhaode was seriously considering whether to knock Liu Tianxing's head with a wine bottle, A Chi at the gate of the courtyard led a woman wearing a lilac-colored jasmine-haired long coat and a treasure-shaped flower gem hairpin on her hair. walked in.

Zhao Surui narrowed his eyes, and saw the woman smiled and said:
"Is this Mrs. Shen? My maiden name is Han. I used to know your mother well. You might as well call me Aunt Han."

Aunt Han?
Zhao Surui looked at his little aunt, rubbed his head and stood up from the chair.

"Madam Baopinghou is so precious, I don't dare to casually date relatives, why are you here looking for me?"

Drinking in the courtyard during the day, sitting or standing, such a woman, even if she couldn't see it on the face, she had to say a few words "no rules" in her heart, but Han seemed to be looking at her. Not the same, just looked at "Shen Shiqing" with a pair of smiling eyes.

"I don't make false claims with you. I came to you because my sister-in-law, Mrs. Shouchenghou, entrusted me. Before, the servant of Shouchenghou's mansion offended your family. She felt ashamed, so I will make peace with you."

As soon as Liu Tianxing saw a majestic lady, she stood up and stepped aside, Han Shi was not polite, and sat down in her place.

"This wine is very fragrant. Is it soaked in jasmine with Qiulubai? The aroma is more positive than the other one. How about pouring me a glass?"

Zhao Surui looked at his little aunt, and even suspected that he had identified the wrong person.

Since he became an adult, he has rarely seen these female relatives of his mother's family, but he still has an impression of his two aunts.

The eldest aunt is the daughter of a county magistrate, and she only knows how to be obsequious to the eldest uncle. The younger aunt's father is an academic student in the academy, probably because he is stupid in reading, and seems to be a piece of wood that can blink in the palace.

Because his empress mother suppressed the emperor's father and forbade him to choose a concubine, and the Cao family was afraid to let his two uncles divorce their wives and marry another one for fear of causing trouble for his mother. Zhao Surui always felt that his two aunts belonged to the Cao family. Two living archways.

One reads "Wives of dross will not go to court".

One reads "Only one back house is good".

Unexpectedly, his little uncle hangs around in brothels, and his little aunt is also...a heroine in wine?

He took another wine cup and drank a few glasses of wine.

Mrs. Han patted "Shen Shiqing"'s hand: "Don't pay attention to that idiot Cao Fengxi, he is a big waste! Sooner or later, my sister-in-law will be implicated! You have a chance to take revenge on him! You don't have to talk to him at this time." He is head-on, and will give your Aunt Han a face, let's not care about it for now."

Zhao Surui: "...Oh."

　Siri Zhao: Who are you?

　　Qiulubai was a famous Shandong wine in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the technology of steaming jasmine flowers with wine was really used to make jasmine wine, which can be called the practical application of distillation extraction technology.

　　
　
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