See the smoke from the farmhouse

Chapter 86 The Emperor
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The emperor's palace.

It was late at night, but the emperor was still sitting in front of the desk reading the memorial, with his usual frown.

At midnight, Wei Xiping, the eunuch in the palace, walked in slowly, and knelt down tremblingly: "Your Majesty, Qiu Feng has returned and is asking to see you outside."

The emperor immediately put down the memorial: "Xuan!"

After a while, the emperor's personal bodyguard and his confidant Qiu Feng came in. Qiu Feng came back from a long journey with a dusty face on his face: "Your Majesty, we have found King Rong."

"Where is he?" The emperor's eyes were deep.

It was his intention to send someone to find King Rong.

Although the two are brothers, some rumors have spread to his ears from time to time in recent days, asking him to be wary of King Rong. He also said that many people in the folk are saying that if King Rong was not his younger brother, the throne would have belonged to King Rong in the first place.

Qiu Feng quickly handed a stack of cardboards to the emperor respectfully.

These cardboards are the method that the emperor's personal soldiers "Chi Yanjun" have always used. They use pictures and texts to thoroughly check a person's whereabouts without anyone noticing, but the person under investigation is not aware of it at all.

The emperor spread out the stack of cardboards, and first saw a small isolated farmyard. Inside the yard, a young woman and two children were watering the cabbage in the yard. At the gate of the yard, a young man was carrying a wild boar, as if he had just returned from outside. .

The second cardboard is a small town. A young woman is selling roast pigs in front of a small stall, while a young man and two children are playing in the back. It seems that they get along very harmoniously.

Then there is another picture. At sunset, the young man returned to another dilapidated courtyard. There was a guava tree in the courtyard, and his white horse was still tied to the tree, chasing the wind.

The emperor put down the rest of the cardboard, but kept staring at the two children.

The memory suddenly returned to five years ago.

At that time, he and King Rong were hunted down by King Qi's soldiers. In the chaos, they fled to a place called Dafengling Village. Both were injured. Fortunately, a village girl who went up the mountain rescued them. Arrange them in a house on the mountain, deliver water and food every day, and take good care of them.

In my impression, the village girl was quite handsome, kind and simple, but the two of them grew up in the palace and had experienced countless beauties and talents, so it was unlikely that they would fall in love with her just because of the village girl's life-saving grace.

The two hid on the mountain for four or five days, until the last night before leaving, King Rong took out a jug of wine. He loved drinking since he was a child, but he didn't know that the wine was drugged by a mole. The three of them After drinking it, they fell unconscious and woke up to find each other naked.

This matter was regarded as a stain, the emperor and King Rong were unwilling to mention it afterwards, coupled with the constant turmoil afterwards, he gradually forgot about it, if King Rong hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten about it.

Those two kids...

If the village girl hadn't married afterward, the two children would either be his or King Rong's.

He was considering whether to send someone to investigate again, when the eunuch Wei Xiping came in again, looking very flustered: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister Cao has been waiting outside for a long time to ask for an audience."

"It's so late, what's the matter with him?"

"It is said that I have mastered it..." Wei Xiping glanced at Qiu Feng who was next to him, and Qiu Feng quickly retreated.

The emperor put away the cardboard on the case, and then said coldly: "Xuan!"

Not long after, Prime Minister Cao came in, almost in his 80s, with a righteous look on his face... and his self-serving aloofness.

But after all, he was over 80, and the emperor respected him very much:

"Cao Aiqing came here so late at night, what's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, I received a secret report last month, saying that Governor Liu in the north had embezzled 70 taels of gold when building a new city, and besides..."

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(End of this chapter)