Dirty color

Chapter 152
With a dark face, the emperor was served by the eunuchs to clean his face, and seeing Feng Qingli's bored look, he couldn't help but feel angry. She was obviously gentle and cute, but why was Xiao Jiu so out of tune?
Staring at Feng Qingli, the emperor reprimanded: "Sit down for me, let's see what you look like."

Feng Qingli ignored the emperor's scolding, and while enjoying the fruit on the emperor's table, she asked impatiently: "Old man, you didn't really arrange a marriage for me, did you?"

"I am the Son of Heaven, how can I lie to you." The emperor was very unhappy that Feng Qingli questioned his words, and Feng Qingli was also very unhappy: "Old man, don't you ask my opinion? That's my right. concubine?"

"Oh..." The emperor waved his hand casually and said, "Okay, I see, I will ask your opinion next time."

Feng Qingli: "..."

"Whose girl?" Feng Qingli narrowed her eyes and asked.

"She is the eldest daughter of Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. She is sixteen years old. She is as beautiful as a flower, with a slender figure and fair skin..." The emperor said a lot of beautiful words from his mouth. , Feng Qingli looked at the emperor with a strange expression.

The emperor fell silent while he was talking. He glared at Feng Qingli and asked, "What kind of eyes do you have? Just talk about what you have to say. What are you doing looking at me like this!"

Feng Qingli looked at the emperor, and said slowly: "My son just admires the emperor's observation so carefully."

Emperor: "..." What does this mean?
After thinking for a while, the emperor flew into a rage!
Brat, what do you mean!
What is "observing so carefully"!
I choose my daughter-in-law, not my concubine, how can I observe it by myself!
Also watch carefully!
Can the little bastard talk?

The emperor stared at Feng Qingli for a long time, seeing that Feng Qingli was completely unmoved, he couldn't help but rubbed his head, and said: "Okay, don't be poor with me. They are all good, and the appearance is also charming, I plan to decree to give her a marriage in the near future."

"That won't work." Feng Qingli directly refused and said, "I have someone I like."

Emperor: "Who is so unlucky that you fell in love with?"

How strange!

He always thought that his son's eyes were in the sky, but he didn't expect that there would be a day when he would fall to the ground!

Feng Qingli: "Father! Emperor!"

This time it was Feng Qingli's turn to be speechless. After gritting his teeth and screaming, he glared at the emperor fiercely and said, "Is it unlucky to be spotted by my son?"

"That's not ordinary bad luck!" The emperor didn't feel that there was anything wrong with his words.

Feng Qingli: "..." Royal father, you should really be thankful that you are my father!

"In short, I have someone I like. If the daughter of Zuodu Yushi is so good, I don't mind having another mother concubine." Feng Qingli glanced at the emperor sideways and spoke.

"..." But I don't mind!

"Tell me, who is it!" The emperor waved his hand feebly and asked.

"Ah, father, you must know that she is Cousin Xuan." Feng Qingli looked a little excited, which made the emperor, who thought Feng Qingli was lying, couldn't help doubting his own judgment—could it be that his son was Do you really have someone you like?Didn't you just say something nonsense in order to resist yourself?
After looking at Feng Qingli suspiciously, the emperor thought for a long time before he remembered who the Xuan said in Feng Qingli's mouth - the emperor was in a daze. The cousin Huaqing in his memory was beautiful and gentle, and he could get along with anyone It's a good job, but it's a pity that the beauty is unlucky.

As for Huaqing's cousin's wandering daughter, when she was found back at the very beginning, the emperor also asked her a question, but later, after her bad behavior fell into the emperor's ears, the emperor didn't know how irritated she was .

Remembering the beauty of Zhonghuaqing's cousin, he didn't want to be destroyed by others - that was a rare family relationship in the royal family.

After thinking about it, the emperor asked: "Didn't you say that she is disfigured? Why do you like her? You won't be lying to me again, right?"

"It's just a scar. Since the old miscellaneous hair boasts that he is the master of medicine and the originator of Xinglin, if he doesn't show something good, how can he be recognized by his sons and ministers? Besides, the beauty products of the queen mother and the concubines are also There are so many, I have borrowed some from various places, and you, Father, also know about it!"

Borrowed some?The corner of the emperor's mouth twitched, and he waved his hands weakly, deciding that Feng Qingli should not talk about Gu Mingxuan's appearance, but asked, "Are you familiar with that girl?"

"Look at what my father asked, we are cousins, of course we have a good relationship... As for being very familiar... I know her very well!" Feng Qingli naturally couldn't tell Emperor Xuan that her cousin was also very close to him at this moment. Familiarity, lest the emperor think that cousin Xuan's conduct is not good.

"What do you mean you know that girl very well?" The emperor rubbed his head again and asked—why does it feel so difficult to communicate!
"This... I have been to Tsinghua Garden many times in the evening, and my father knows it. It is said that the uncle Yi Wang left a lot of family wealth to Aunt Huaqing. I am very curious, and I want to know what King Yi was. How much money did my uncle leave behind, and my son-in-law found something that no one else could find, so this proves that my son-in-law is as powerful as the father..."

Emperor: "..." No one is as shameless as this little bastard!

The emperor felt that if he were Gu Wenqian, he would definitely beat this stinky boy sitting across from him severely, until he couldn't take care of himself!

However, this little bastard is his own son!
While the emperor was deeply grateful, he also expressed deep sympathy for Gu Wenqian, and then he said, "But I think the daughter of Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is more suitable for you."

The little bastard is bold and reckless, and he is always impeached by the censor. He has a father-in-law who is the censor of Zuodu. Before others impeach him, he has to think about it.

"Then the emperor will transfer Marquis Shun'an from the Minister of the Ministry of War to Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so that Cousin Xuan will be the daughter of Zuodu Censor. I don't mind." Feng Qingli suggested to the emperor very sincerely. arrive.

The emperor roared in his heart: Get out!
After holding back and holding back, the emperor held back his anger and said, "What do you think a court official is, and you can do whatever you want? Don't keep coming up with bad ideas."

"Anyway, I think Zuodu Yushi's daughter is good." The emperor started an unreasonable mode, who made him the emperor, who made him Feng Qingli's father.

Feng Qingli felt that he could no longer have a pleasant chat with the emperor, so he got up, walked back, and said, "Anyway, I don't mind wearing a green hat on my head, and you don't mind yours if you are the emperor." If your son is staring at the cuckold, you can make an order, and when you make an order, I will send her to someone else's bed to sleep overnight!"

"Bastard!" The emperor scolded angrily. This time, he was really angry. He stared at Feng Qingli's back and said, "Xiao Jiu, you are not young anymore. Can you stop being so self-willed? Painful, isn't it?"

"Father, my son is not young, so I have my own choice..." Feng Qingli looked at the emperor and said, "At the beginning, others did not agree with my father making my mother a side concubine, but my father still wanted to do it." You insist on going your own way... Although the final result is not good, but Royal Father, your heart for mother is the same as my son's heart for cousin Xuan."

Hearing the words, the emperor was stunned for a moment, and then closed his eyes in pain—he was too confident back then, thinking that he could protect his beloved daughter, so he pampered and loved Jiaojiao more than everyone else, but in the end it caused She became the hated person in everyone's heart.

As a result, he ended up in a bloody collapse.

The emperor twitched his cheeks in pain. Seeing this, Feng Qingli walked over and held the emperor's hand. After a while, she said, "Father, you should be happy for your son, shouldn't you? My son still has a chance to marry cousin Xuan Concubine Zheng, don't wrong her, and don't make her face a..."

"You're right." The emperor didn't let him go on. After sighing, he looked at Feng Qingli and said, "Father didn't take good care of your mother, and I feel sad in my heart, so I hope you are well, but you are not well either. ...really..."

He is considered a successful emperor. Under the oppression of the noble family, he stepped forward step by step until he was able to compete with the noble family, and even now he has begun to overtake and suppress the noble family. A sense of accomplishment, even, as long as he is given a little more time, he will be able to weaken some aristocratic families that threaten the imperial power to the point where they cannot shake the imperial power.

But that couldn't hide the fact that he was a failed husband, a failed father.

The emperor's rare show of weakness made Feng Qingli's mood agitated and moved, and he whispered: "Father has done a good job."

If it weren't for the emperor's incomparable trust and love for him, he would have been plotted against by countless people long ago, who dared not do anything to him because of the emperor's anger.

The father and son were relatively silent. After a long time, the emperor asked: "That girl is Gu Mingxuan, isn't she? Is she really nice?"

Feng Qingli thought for a while, and said honestly: "I don't know if it's good or not, but Erchen thinks Cousin Xuan and Erchen are very suitable."

A radiance appeared on Feng Qingli's face. After the emperor looked at it seriously, he nodded weakly and said, "In that case, I know."

When Feng Qingli left, the emperor sat silently, remembering the anger and sadness in his heart when he heard that his favorite Jiaojiaoer had died at that time - he really wished that he could destroy the world and make the world feel ashamed for his Jiaojiaoer. Son buried.

Until now, he still remembers the great sadness in his heart at that time and the pain that he wished he could not follow.

It's just that he was selfish and afraid of death after all... However, at that time, he made up his mind - after he ascended the throne, the Pei family must be buried with his Jiao Jiaoer.

However, when he became the emperor, he realized that this wish was really difficult to realize.

Step by step, it took more than ten years to reach the current level. The emperor laughed, and the destruction of the Pei family is not far away!

As for Xiao Jiu, the emperor sighed, the child is grown up, so he can't help him, since he likes that girl so much, then... Well, we have to talk to Gu Wenqian first!
Gu Wenqian didn't know that the emperor had such thoughts at this moment. Recently, he was dealing with a series of problems raised by the little official of the Qu family according to the method of taking care of Mingxuan. Knowing, the government and the opposition, the scholars, the common people, in short, everyone knows.

Then there is the matter of checking the warehouse!
This check is incredible!
Not only Gu Wenqian and others were stunned, but the emperor himself was stunned!
In their imagination, although there might be a problem with the warehouse, the problem will definitely not be too big. After all, every six months, the warehouse will carry out an inventory check. However, there are one-third of the weapons and armor in the warehouse. It's beautiful, but it's actually useless at all—how can it be compared with the low-quality iron block that has not been calcined to clean the dross?
The value is completely different!

Therefore, those armors look brand new, but in fact, they are just paper!
In this way, another group of people were involved, and soon, there was another big shock in the ruling and opposition parties.

At this moment, the emperor felt great pressure—the emperor restrained his officials, but conversely, the combination of the officials could force the emperor to compromise.

But this time, the emperor put on a face of "I will never compromise this time", and stripped several censors who had written to impeach Gu Wenqian and others in the downtown area, and beat them severely.

It is said that the punishment is not good enough for a doctor, so severely beaten, those censors, when they went back, they all died—either from being mad or ashamed, because the emperor beat them at the same time, He also revealed all the things they have done - such as occupying good land, forcing people to sell their property at a low price, which is equivalent to saying that the reputation of these people has been ruined!

As a censor, he impeaches others every day and requires them to stand upright. If they are not upright, how to impeach others?

There was a censor, before he died, he left a last letter: Today Huangquan looks for old records, hate hate hate!
After Gu Mingxuan heard the words, she felt a little regretful and a little embarrassed. Perhaps these people were full of passion and justice at the beginning, but unfortunately, with the passage of time, as their official positions became higher and higher, those blood and justice were gradually worn away. Now, only the ugly faces of corruption and greed that only those corrupt officials have left.

Things are getting worse and worse. Those court officials, the absolute emperor, have done a bit too much. These days, who is not greedy? If they are not greedy, how can the family support them?

Not to mention anything else, they are all first-rank/second-rank/third-rank...Master, the house must be able to handle it, otherwise it would be embarrassing when entertaining guests. Do you sweep the floor?The concubine must have two... the maidservant must also...

In short, relying on the salary, the whole family went to drink the northwest wind.

Since it was an unspoken thing, it's okay for the emperor to beat them if they go too far, but it's not good to make trouble to this point!
Some officials, especially those from the family, began to link up with each other to put pressure on the emperor——

Your Majesty ordered this matter to be difficult to handle, and I have tried my best to do it, but it is true that it has not been completed, and wait, wait, I will try my best to do it.

Your majesty, my minister is sick, please leave!

Your majesty, this humble minister is old, begging for bones!

This time, the emperor was as determined as he was, and immediately agreed to those who asked for leave!

Begging for bones?

Yes, why not, it's an old bone, don't take what is not what!

Then, the emperor immediately promoted a large number of young officials to come up—those who asked for leave, the promoted young officials became deputies, and temporarily took over the affairs of the Yamen. The emperor also sent eunuchs to contact those officials, telling them that An Xin was sick, Don't worry about getting well, Yamen is doing very well now.

For the vacant positions of officials who have already begged for bones, the emperor directly occupied the principal and deputy positions.

Although those newly promoted young officials will encounter many difficulties when they are doing things, they are young, energetic, capable and skilled, and things can always be straightened out.

Then those who waited to see the emperor who could only do nothing because they were on strike, were dumbfounded!

What?Let them feel at ease?Is this what people say?No, no, they are not attacking the emperor, the emperor is the son of heaven, how can the emperor be compared with ordinary people!
However, when An Xin is sick, there is no need to worry about recovering from the illness, which really makes people feel...

Painful to die!
No, that's not the point, the point is that they were waiting to see the emperor look ugly, but in the end, the emperor slapped them and beat them up!

What do you mean?
Where did so many officials come from?

How could they not know!
The emperor sat in the golden hall and sneered. He has been emperor for more than ten years, not for ten days or ten months. For more than ten years, every spring, he will select a large number of poor students and cultivate them with heart—— —

Perhaps these people are not as eye-catching as the No. [-] in the Tanhua list. Some people even failed the list and had to use the status of a juren to become an official, rising from the lowest position to the official position. However, their talents may not be comparable. Those in high school, even, because their rankings are not high, they may not have so much pride, but are more down-to-earth.

Year after year, he managed the layout, and these officials after experience were all placed in the insignificant but not unimportant positions of each yamen by him. Wait, wait, the affairs of various yamen.

Today, raising soldiers for thousands of days and using them for a while, basically none of these people let him down. Finally, his hard work was not in vain.

Yes, from the moment his Jiaojiao'er died, he had already started his own revenge. Until now, he had endured for a long time before finally showing his sharp claws.

Those officials who wanted to pinch the emperor but were almost crushed to death by the emperor saw that the big thing was not good, and hurriedly recovered, but the emperor looked at them again with a sneer-you said you were sick and you were sick, and you said you were well and you were sick. Alright, I thought I was a soft persimmon, so it's up to you to decide?

Or do you think that the imperial court is like a vegetable market, where you can come and go whenever you want?
The emperor very kindly sent the imperial physician to each family to make a diagnosis. The name is sympathetic to the courtiers. The emperor favors. Naturally, the courtiers should be respectful and grateful. Therefore, they had to be diagnosed by the imperial physician——

Then those imperial physicians said the hype, in short, you are sick, you have a serious illness, you have a disease that makes you almost die, how to treat it?
rest on bed!

Those imperial physicians returned their orders to the emperor, saying that "my lord is not yet fully recovered", "my lord still needs to rest in bed" and "my lord should not bother me"!
In short, everyone is sick!

The emperor rewarded the medicinal materials again, so that they can feel at ease when they are sick, and don't worry about getting well!
It's been more than a month since this came and went, the time has come to the end of February, Mrs. Yang's birthday has also passed, Gu Mingxuan thought about what happened on Mrs. Yang's birthday last year, her lips curled up up.

A year ago, she was trampled underfoot like dust; a year later, He's became seriously ill, Gu Minghe and Gu Mingzhi lost the glory of her previous life, and Gu Yuwen was about to formally make an appointment with Qi Feiming.

There is also the third prince, although the embargo has been lifted by the emperor, but he is disgraced, and he is no longer as prominent as before. Instead, the fifth prince has become very popular now.

Things have undergone earth-shaking changes from her previous life, but everything is moving in a better direction, and she is very satisfied.

It is naturally better for the Fifth Prince to ascend the throne than the Third Prince's ascension to the throne, which shows that her vengeance is expected to be avenged. Moreover, Gu Mingxuan couldn't help but be happy for Feng Qingli when she thought about Feng Qingli's good relationship with the Fifth Prince.

As for the situation outside, Gu Mingxuan had the feeling of looking at the flowers in the fog, but she still understood some things, that is, the emperor now has the upper hand, and as the emperor's confidant, her father is now even more powerful.

A smile flashed across Gu Mingxuan's eyes.

The more powerful the father is, the more he can threaten the third prince.

Of course, if you want the third prince to die, it's not something you and your father can do. After all, don't say that the third prince is still a prince, even if the third prince has been demoted to a commoner, he is still the son of the emperor. The emperor himself can beat and scold, but others cannot touch him.

At that time, Feng Qingli's help will be needed. He is also the prince, and it is only right and proper to avenge his mother.

Thinking of Feng Qingli, Gu Mingxuan couldn't help feeling a little worried—after more than a month, the evidence presented by Mrs. Qiu has been verified one by one. After asking or confirming, the decision will be made.

In short, Mr. Qiu has been able to go out twice in a sedan chair, but Feng Qingli is still missing. Didn't he go to investigate this case?
Why has there been no news.

Gu Mingxuan felt very strange.

At this moment, Gu Mingxuan heard someone talking outside. From the sound, it seemed to be the maid from the grandmother Cui's side. What did the maid from Rong'an Hall come here for?
Gu Mingxuan was a little puzzled, and saw Lurui come in to report back, saying that it was Cuijiao who had come.

Gu Mingxuan let her in.

"My servant has met the eldest lady." After Cuijiao saluted Gu Mingxuan, Du Juan brought a small stool to Cuijiao and said, "Sister Cuijiao, sit down and drink a cup of tea to warm yourself up. It's still cold now."

Cuijiao smiled and pursed her lips, and said, "I dare not sit down, the old lady can't leave."

As she said that, she said to Gu Mingxuan: "It was the old lady who asked the servants to invite the eldest lady to come over. She said that there was a post in the palace today, and the old lady asked the young ladies to come over."

(End of this chapter)