Prime Minister dare not be

Chapter 16

Xie Shu walked in with a smile, asked the prince to sit on the top, and bowed his hands to everyone to apologize: "The truth is late, I have neglected you, I will not talk about political affairs tonight, I just want to have fun, everyone, please go."

Huan Ting shouted: "The prime minister is late, you should punish yourself with three cups!"

Xie Shu laughed loudly: "What's so difficult about this, I will definitely accompany you."

The others looked at the innocent Huan Ting and wanted to cry, but even Yang Saw and Yuan Peiling felt that they had been fooled.

Which of them is willing to get involved in imperial power disputes?Originally thought that the prime minister called everyone to have fun in private, how could they know that there are multiple princes, now outsiders must think that they are all related to the prince.

Xie Shu sat beside Sima Lin, and persuaded in a low voice: "The prince looks at the wine and beauty in front of him, laughing and laughing, has he regained some nostalgia for the world?"

Sima Lin shook his head with a smile: "The prime minister's kindness, how can I not know it, but you and I both know that these are just appearances, and after the glitz, it will always disappear."

Xie Shu twitched the corner of his mouth, it was really hard to get angry with the prime minister's airs, otherwise, with her temper, she would just want to shake this kind of person who moaned without illness.

Do you know how beautiful this day is!Are you willing to throw away delicacies all day long!Do you think that being a monk is a matter of shaving your head!ah?ah?ah?

She stroked her chest, trying to calm down...

After a while, Mubai led a few people to raise the curtains around the cabin, and the lights on both sides of the strait immediately came into view, but everyone present just wanted to bury their heads and hide.

Prime Minister, you are too deceitful!
Wang Jingzhi's brother and sister are about to return to Kuaiji, Mrs. Xiang is hosting a banquet on the painting boat today, which happens to be nearby.

Wang Luoxiu had sharp eyes and saw Xie Shu sitting on the top of the big boat. On such a summer night, she was actually dressed in black, and her lips looked redder and her teeth whiter under the lights.

Seeing her distracted, Mrs. Xiang followed her line of sight, and when she saw Xie Shu, she felt a shock in her heart, and reminded her in a low voice: "Luoxiu, you should have heard of it, the prime minister is very masculine."

Wang Luoxiu said with a smile: "That should be rumored by outsiders."

Mrs. Xiang twisted the handkerchief in her hand depressedly, while glaring at Wei Yizhi.I thought that his recent good performance was because he was interested in Wang Luoxiu, why didn't it work!
In fact, Wei Yizhi had already recognized the Xie family's big boat, but he deliberately didn't take a closer look at it. At this moment, he heard them talking and then raised his eyes. He saw at a glance that the prince was sitting beside Xie Shu, and immediately got up and left the cabin.

Wang Jingzhi followed out suspiciously: "What's wrong with King Wuling?"

He let go of his slightly frowned eyebrows: "It's nothing, I just saw Xie Xiang having a banquet."

"Oh?" Wang Jingzhi turned his head to look, there was a boatload of guests, all of them had heads and faces, and when he saw the prince in the row, he knew what was going on.

"King Wuling, Prime Minister Xie is good at winning people's hearts. You can't compare to this, haha."

Wei Yizhi naturally understood what he meant, which was implying that he should form an alliance with him.

"The governor said so."

Wang Jingzhi turned his head to look at his sister, and said with a low smile, "I don't know when we can wait until the King of Wuling to go to Kuaiji?"

Wei Yizhi looked at Xie Shu's smiling face like a spring breeze, and said in silence for a long time: "Of course I will go when it is time to go."

The emperor received the news the next day, and his mood was quite depressed.

Xie Shu actually helped the prince win the support of so many families, and the tendency of King Wuling to marry the Wang family became more and more obvious.

Alas, another migraine is coming.

At this time Xie Shu actually came into the palace again to provoke him, saying that the reason why the prince wants to become a monk is all because of the temptation and teaching of improper people around him, and he should re-select capable people to be the prince's sacrificial person.

The emperor rubbed his forehead and asked, "Then who do you think is suitable?"

"Uncle Xie Ran can take on the heavy responsibility."

Thank you family again!The emperor silently vomited blood.

In fact, Xie Ran never thought that he would have the opportunity to enter the officialdom, and he was such a high official rank when he came up.But he is a person who can't save his face. The last time he went to entertain guests for Xie Shu, it could be said that something happened suddenly. This time, whether he wants to thank him or refuse, he has to express it in person.

Xie Shu was trying to pull the Ninth Prince's pigtails in the study, and he was not surprised to see him appear: "Actually, you don't need to see me, just take the post. I'm not sure how long I'll let you do it, if what happened last time If you show up again, you will be a shameless Mr. Ran in the Prime Minister's Mansion for the rest of your life."

Xie Ran said angrily: "The prime minister will only understand the painstaking efforts of retreating after suffering a loss!"

Xie Shu looked up at him: "I understand what you mean, but it's still the same sentence, since you have followed me, you have to listen to me."

Xie Ran snorted: "Then I would like to thank the prime minister for my promotion."

"You are going to teach the prince from a god to a mortal, and you are thanking me."

Xie Ran brushed his sleeves and left.

The Prince Sheren was originally Pei Yun, the son of the Pei family. Xie Shu transferred his position to Xie Ran. He couldn't hold back anymore. When Xie Shu left the palace that day, he quietly climbed into the Xiangfu's car.

"Prime Minister, did the subordinate do something wrong, and you want to treat me like this?"

Xie Shu didn't expect him to be so bold, and it's not easy to drive him out of the car directly, so he could only express his displeasure with a sullen face, hoping that he would understand by himself.

Pei Yun bit her lower lip and looked at her, her voice suddenly became soft and charming: "Prime Minister, take your order, as long as you don't take away the position of the lower official, the lower official is willing... to be the prime minister's guest!"

"Ah?" Xie Shu thought there was something wrong with his ears.

Mu Bai outside the car was so startled that he overturned and got out of the car.

Pei Yun is actually a handsome man, but his face is pale and always a little sick.

Xie Shu knew a little about this person, because this was one of the officials who had winked at her before. He was known for his masculinity, especially for his bold style.If it weren't for the benevolence of the prince, with his behavior, he would definitely not be able to do the prince's sacrificing.

"If the prime minister doesn't speak, I'll take it as your consent." Pei Yun moved closer and was about to reach out to untie Xie Shu's clothes.

"No, this is in the car." Xie Shu hurriedly stepped back, blocking his hand with his fan upright, and Mu Bai who was outside suddenly exclaimed: "Wuling King, this is..."

The curtain of the car was lifted, and Wei Yizhi's face was full of shock when he saw the situation inside the car clearly.

Pei Yun put one hand on Xie Shu's shoulder, and the other reached into her collar. This posture is absolutely indecent.

The three stalemate for a moment, Wei Yizhi suddenly smiled: "I called Mrs. Xie a few times but there was no answer, so there is an 'important thing' to do."

Xie Shu took his time and straightened his clothes: "What's the matter with King Wuling?"

"It's gone now." Wei Yizhi put down the car curtain and strode away.

Pei Yun looked at Xie Shu, and resentfully said: "Prime Minister is still worried about being seen?"

Xie Shu held back his anger and said, "Master Pei, please go back."

Pei Yunxiao was very annoyed that the beautiful thing he had thought about for a long time did not come to fruition.

The prime minister is definitely willing, but he is too impatient, alas, he should have gone to the prime minister's mansion if he had known earlier!I regret it!
After Pei Yun got out of the car, Wei Yizhi's chariot and horse had just driven out.Xie Shu felt that his sudden visit must have something to say, so he ordered Mubai to follow.

However, Wei Yizhi didn't intend to stop or wait for her, Mubai almost called out from behind, and his carriage also moved quickly as usual.

"My lord, forget it, Wuling kings are rare and strange." Mubai held his frightened chest and pretended to be calm.

Xie Shu covered his face with a fan and sighed, "I've completely lost my face now."

Xie Ran will soon go to the East Palace to take up his post.

The prince began to think that Pei Yun's loss of official position was caused by Xie's family, and he was a little cold towards him, but seeing that he followed the rules and was many times stronger than Pei Yun, he gradually softened his attitude.

Xie Ran didn't try to persuade him with great principles, as if he didn't know anything, he just followed him around every day, and the prince didn't interfere with what he said or did.

The prince gradually relaxed, and it didn't take long for him to discover his preferences.

It was raining heavily in the sky, Xie Shu was sitting in the water pavilion, holding tea and asked Xie Ran who was sitting opposite: "You said the prince also has obsessive things?"

"That's right, the prince is addicted to Go."

"Is this also worth indulging in?"

Xie Ran twitched the corner of his mouth: "He loves playing chess."

Many dignitaries in the state of Jin are keen on gambling, and there are different forms. For chess gambling alone, there are Azalea, Go, Playing Chess, Shuanglu, etc. There are also people who are keen on cockfighting. Unexpectedly, the prince who seems to have no desires and desires also has this kind of gambling. Hobby.

Xie Shu nodded: "Good job, then let the prince play to his heart's content until he gives up the idea of ​​becoming a monk and trusts you completely, and then you persuade him to bow his head and admit his mistakes to His Majesty. Only when he bows his head can His Majesty have a step Forgive him, the truth can also be lobbied."

Xie Ran glanced at her with a cold and arrogant expression.

Xie Shu laughed: "Why, are you planning to reconcile with me?"

"It's the Prime Minister who thinks that I made a mistake first, how dare I show my face and ask the Prime Minister for forgiveness?" The words were good, but the tone was really bad.

Xie Shu sneered: "You are at fault. The fault is that you didn't listen to my order. If I pamper you once, there will be a second time, and your appetite will become bigger and bigger. Can you admit this?"

Xie Ran's eyes flickered, but his face was still cold, "I'm thinking of the prime minister, and the prime minister has not secured his position so far because the methods are not ruthless enough!"

"Wrong," Xie Shu spread his hands, "It's because I jumped out of nowhere."

Xie Ran was taken aback.

"Think about it, you live with me, how have you seen me in the past eight years? I started as a small official in Menxia Province, but most people only remember that I became the prime minister in one step, so the family will wait and see and hesitate It's not surprising that even you must have a lot of doubts about me."

Xie Ran pursed her lips and remained silent.

Xie Shu turned his head and looked at the pouring rain outside: "Even grandfather, he didn't take cruelty as a necessary means back then. So what if you have a high position and authority? What great things you have accomplished and how many capable people you have trampled on are not capable. It is the ability to preserve and develop the interests of the family to the greatest extent."

Xie Ran's complexion changed a lot, and finally he returned to calm, got up and said: "Thank you for your teaching, Prime Minister, I will retire and leave."

Xie Shu watched him walk into the rain, and reminded him: "You forgot your umbrella."

"Use it, Prime Minister, lest you get sick again."

Xie Shu is funny, even reconciliation is so proud.

After several torrential rains, midsummer finally arrived in full swing.

Xie Shu hadn't seen Wei Yizhi in private for a long time since Pei Yun recommended himself as a pillow in broad daylight last time.She originally wanted to look for a chance to speak clearly with him, but Wei Yizhi either left early or left behind, so he couldn't catch up with her.

Xie Shu let it go, anyway, now that they are fighting against each other, he doesn't regard himself as a brother, so why should he care what he thinks of him.

Mubai leaned in from the outside of the car, seeing her with a sullen face, said cautiously: "My lord, the carriages and horses of the Wang family are in front, they have stopped halfway, it looks like they are waiting for your carriage to pass by."

Xie Shu opened the curtain and saw Wang Luoxiu's protruding face just in time, and then he laughed: "Then drive the car over."

Wang Luoxiu had just entered the palace with Wang Jingzhi to bid farewell, and was about to leave the city. Hearing that the prime minister was behind him, she deliberately told the driver to slow down.

When Xie Shu came to him, he avoided her salute, and said with a smile, "It's a coincidence, let's see him off now, I hope we can meet again in the future."

Wang Luoxiu's originally smiling face suddenly dimmed a bit: "We should be able to get together again soon, but things will change by then."

Seeing her expression, Xie Shu understood a little bit. Even if men and women in Jin State are not strict, she is still a girl waiting to be married. If she can come to Jiankang again, she must be married.

Things are different and people are different, it is true, but marrying Wei Yizhi is not so sad, right?

Regardless, it's a great opportunity.Xie Shu hurriedly bid farewell to Wang Luoxiu, and ordered Mubai to turn around and return to the palace.

The Emperor was treating his headache with a folk remedy that Concubine Yuan Gui had found somewhere, when he heard Xie Shu begging to see her, the headache worsened a bit, and he turned over on the couch, not happy to see her.

Eunuch Xiang went out to answer, and came back after a while to report: "Your Majesty, let's see each other. The Prime Minister said that it has something to do with King Wuling."

The emperor finally stood up.

Xie Shu entered the palace to salute, the emperor didn't even want to look at her, he took a wet handkerchief and pressed his forehead lightly, and asked, "What's wrong with King Wuling?"

"Your Majesty, King Wuling will go to Kuaiji to propose marriage soon."

"What?" The wet handkerchief in the emperor's hand fell to the ground: "How did Prime Minister Xie know?"

"The words of the Wang family are not false, so Your Majesty must not abolish the crown prince!"

The emperor was stunned again: "What does this have to do with the deposed prince?"

Xie Shu said earnestly: "Your Majesty, think about it. Once King Wuling marries the royal family, his power will increase greatly. He also has friendship with the Ninth Prince. If the Ninth Prince becomes the crown prince, then he will be in full bloom. Your Majesty's good intention to use him, but If raising a tiger becomes a problem, wouldn't the gain outweigh the loss?"

The corner of the emperor's mouth was twitching violently, a tiger came to warn him about the strength of the other tiger, what's the matter!

It is not appropriate to talk too much, Xie Shu left a sentence "Think twice, Your Majesty", and went out of the palace to return to the mansion.

Mrs. Xiang has been very happy these few days, and finally her son let go, and when she was about to embrace his grandson, the Queen Mother suddenly announced her into the palace.

Wei Yizhi didn't know about this, and when he went back to the housekeeper, he heard that his mother was lying on the bed in depression. He was very surprised, and hurried to greet him.

"The Xie family doesn't have a good thing!" Mrs. Xiang hugged her pillow and cried loudly, "It's all that Xie Mingguang broke up your marriage, but his grandson broke up another marriage and let no one live!"

Wei Yizhi finally understood what was going on from her crying.

It turned out that the Empress Dowager learned about Wang Wei's upcoming marriage from the emperor, so she summoned Mrs. Xiang to persuade her, to the effect that it would be good to find a girl with an ordinary family background like the previous marriage, and it would not be worth looking for. A big family like the Wang family made the emperor uncomfortable. We are all a family, so we should be considerate of each other, right?

"What kind of family is this!" Mrs. Xiang cried again to Wei Yizhi: "Poor my grandson..."

Wei Yizhi supported her shoulders and comforted her patiently: "Mother may have misunderstood, Mr. Xie has no time to break up my marriage, please don't listen to provocations."

Madam Xiang stopped crying and glared at him: "You actually speak for him! You... get out, don't come to see me!"

Wei Yizhi knew his mother's fiery temper, so he had no choice but to avoid her sharp edge and backed out of the door.

Rumors seemed to have grown legs, and quickly spread throughout the capital.The Xie family started to destroy the marriage of the Wei family again, these two families are enemies from the past!But what everyone didn't expect was that the supporters of King Wuling and Prime Minister Xie actually sat together for the first time and got along peacefully.

"Prime Minister Xie is too cunning to treat our county king like this, but the county king may really postpone the marriage, how wonderful..."

"Hmph, how can we be in vain if we thank the prime minister? Just wait, you Wuling King will never get married!"

"Come, come, have another drink."

"Good talk, good talk."

Xie Shu is very melancholy, even more melancholy than being misunderstood by Wei Yizhi as a swinger. She just took advantage of this incident a little, and it really didn't ruin his marriage.

Xie Shu was ready to completely break with Wei Yizhi who hadn't seen Wei Yizhi for several days.

At this moment Mubai suddenly said: "My lord, have you noticed that none of Wuling King's chariots and horses have returned to Qingxi these few days, they all went to Bird Clothes Lane?"

"Oh?" Xie Shu took the wet handkerchief he handed over and wiped off the sweat on his forehead, sat in the car, and sighed, "Let's go to the old house of Wei's family to have a look."

There was no housekeeper in the old house, so Fu Xuanying opened the door, leading Xie Shu to a two-story attic in the house, and invited her to go up by herself.

Xie Shu went upstairs and found that this place was not for people to live in, but for books.

Wei Yizhi knelt by the window and sat behind the case, wearing a thin shirt, with black hair untied, writing something with a pen.

Having not met in private for a long time, Xie Shu first drafted the words in his stomach, and was about to speak when he saw a copy of the "Mingdu Sutra" on his desk, and asked unexpectedly, "Are you copying Buddhist scriptures?"

"Well." Wei Yizhi looked up at her: "I offended my mother, so I can only copy Buddhist scriptures and ask her for forgiveness."

Xie Shu naturally understood what was going on and smiled.

"Is Ruyi looking for something for me?"

Xie Shu tried his best to wink his eyes as a gesture of emotion: "Zhongqing still treats me as a brother, so I'll just say it straight, no matter how different you and I are in the court, in private, I won't do that kind of thing that destroys people's marriages." Yes, you have to trust me for who I am."

Wei Yizhi gave a "huh" indifferently.

Xie Shu looked out the window: "It's still early in the day, how about I copy some for you?"

Wei Yizhi lowered his eyes and continued to copy: "Alright."

Xie Shu rolled up his sleeves and held the pen, and was about to write when he suddenly saw his handwriting and said in surprise, "Your handwriting is so beautiful? When I read your letter before, I thought it was written by someone else. This handwriting is not worse than Wang Jingzhi's." ah."

(End of this chapter)