Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 151

On the second day, maybe last night's thunderstorm had come to an end, so I got up early and the smoke and clouds from yesterday had dissipated, leaving only a thin layer of mist in the sky, wet moisture on the rainy ground, and sparse branches blown down by the rain The ground was all over the ground, which proved the intensity of the torrential rain last night.

After the morning court, Ming Shengdi went into the imperial study room, the books on the imperial table were piled up like a hill, most of them were played by the Yue family and the side branches to plead for Xia Ziqi, Ming Shengdi picked up a few books at random After looking at it, he threw it aside boringly, feeling a little unhappy in his heart.

"Hmph, these idle old men play a book when they have nothing to do. Do you really think that I want to read everything when I have nothing to do every day!"

Xia Shengqing served him a cup of tea, and said in a broad voice: "Your Majesty, don't be angry. It's probably because more people love their granddaughter, so they are trying to ask the staff to help them to intercede. They are not the Emperor, and they can't be the masters of the world. Your Majesty." If you don't want to pay attention to them, it's just as if you collected a pile of waste paper, and the servant put it aside for the emperor."

Ming Shengdi picked up the fragrant tea and took a sip, the sweet and slightly bitter taste rolled on the tip of his tongue, and he said for a long time: "That's all."

The wooden door of the study opened, and Xiao Xiazi folded his hands in his sleeves, and bowed to Ming Shengdi.

"Your Majesty, the eldest son of the Emperor is waiting outside the imperial study, do you want to see him?"

"What is he here for?" Ming Shengdi rolled his eyes suspiciously, raised his thoughts just now, put the fragrant tea heavily on the table, and said in a deep voice, "Call in."

"Yes."

After Xiao Xiazi delivered the message, Xia Bin entered the imperial study room. He lifted up his robe and knelt down to Ming Shengdi, saying respectfully, "I send my regards to my father, long live my father."

Ming Shengdi responded indifferently, took a book at random in his hand and read it again.

"Is there anything you want to tell me?"

Xia Bin straightened his expression for a while, raised his fat chin and cupped his hands, and said, "This time, I'm here to intercede with my concubine and fourth younger sister..."

After he finished speaking, Ming Shengdi's face changed. Xia Bin saw everything in his eyes, but he still said loudly: "Father and emperor demoted mother and concubine's status on the grounds that mother and concubine are not well-bred. As a son, I can't bear to see my mother and concubine don't think about tea and don't want to worry about the fourth sister. After all, the death of the seventh sister is caused by the fourth younger sister's youthful arrogance and unable to control herself. It has nothing to do with the mother and concubine. Youdao It's because the child has grown up and can't help her mother, and the fourth sister may not know everything about what kind of mother and concubine she has become..."

Ming Shengdi was still holding the folder in his hand, and while listening to Xia Bin's words, he didn't look up at him.

Xia Bin was not in a panic, and still talked to himself: "My son has grown up and become a talent now, it is because of the mother and concubine's ability to raise the son and minister, father, let me see that the mother and concubine have served you for many years. For the sake of labor, don't get angry with her!"

Ming Shengdi frowned, threw the folder in his hand on the table, snorted and said, "Is it the concubine Yue who asked you to intercede? The fourth princess committed a heinous crime and I'm just a minor punishment. Concubine Yue is covering up for selfishness and intends to oppose me, how can the fourth princess develop such a temperament without the slightest reason for Concubine Yue?"

Xia Bin had already figured out what Shengdi Ming was thinking. Seeing that Shengdi Ming was slightly angry, he paused and continued: "Father, the fourth younger sister has indeed committed a heinous crime! But she is still young after all. , and still don’t know how to distinguish between right and wrong, and she will definitely regret it later, her father’s sending her to a nunnery is already the greatest punishment for her, but this revoked princess status will never return to the palace... I’m afraid it’s It's too harsh..."

"Too harsh?" Ming Shengdi snorted coldly, "I see you are coming to be my master!"

Ming Shengdi's gray beard trembled with anger, he raised his hand to take a sip of the fragrant tea on the table, and put it back on the table heavily.

Xia Bin knelt down neatly, thinking about the time to change his mind.

He came to lobby for Xia Ziqi and Shui Yanran in front of Ming Shengdi this time, just to deal with Shui Yanran's petty temper, if he didn't see that Shui Yanran would be useful to him in the future, he would definitely not come to Ming Shengdi to displease him .

It is one thing for him to intercede for the two of them, but it is another matter whether he sincerely lobbies for the two of them.

After Xia Bin returned to the Emperor's eldest son's mansion from Yikun Palace, he had already arranged everything smoothly, and came up with a clever plan to kill two birds with one stone, which could not only stop Shui Yanran's mouth, but also avoid offending Emperor Ming by saying wrong things. .

Hearing only a few words of cursing from Ming Shengdi, he began to accuse Xia Bin: "You are my first prince, and you should be an example for all princes. It is already very worrying and difficult for me to govern the world, and I have to do it for all the princes in the harem." You don't know how to tell right from wrong, but you help Wuzhi women come to me to talk, is this how I taught you how to be a king and a servant?"

He stared round, looked at Xia Bin's wide and fat body and shook his head, feeling that this son was really ignorant.

At this time, Xia Bin bent his lips and started his hypocritical drama.

"Father, you have misunderstood my son. As the eldest son of the emperor, my son is naturally one-hearted with you. Father's decision has always been the most appropriate to distinguish right from wrong. How can my son question or be dissatisfied? Zuo It's just that the mother and concubine are very old, and my ministers couldn't bear to see her worrying and worrying every day, and wanted to do their best to be filial, so in order to comfort the mother and concubine, they came to the father and emperor to intercede."

Xia Bin sighed again while speaking, raised his head and glanced at Ming Shengdi's slightly relieved expression, then lowered his head and said: "If my son doesn't care about his mother and concubine's thoughts, wouldn't he become that unfaithful and unfilial person, even if he knows Saying these words will offend my father, but I have to come here, I hope my father will listen to it for the sake of my son's filial piety..."

Ming Shengdi saw that what he said was sincere, and there was nothing wrong with it, so he put down his face a little.

"It's good for you to have this kind of thought. Your mother and concubine are becoming more and more ignorant of how to deal with things. If you have time, you can persuade her more, so as not to make me feel bad when she brings up the old things again next time."

Xia Bin respectfully replied yes, and let out a sigh of relief in his heart. Fortunately, he had followed Ming Shengdi's mind in advance and followed the path, so there was no danger.

If he really followed Shui Yanran's request and pleaded for Xia Ziqi's mercy without hesitation, he might be the one who is annoyed by Ming Shengdi now.

Xia Bin flattered and behaved to Ming Shengdi, but at the same time he complained that Shui Yanran was becoming more and more useless, didn't know how to weigh the pros and cons, and insisted on pleading for the dead girl, which caused her to be demoted.

Xia Ziqi shouldn't have been left behind in the first place, and a lot of troubles happened for no reason. Xia Bin has no shortage of heirs, and secondly, he doesn't want to admit this sensitive daughter. Follow her so that this wild species that shouldn't exist is left behind.

Anyway, it would be a disaster for Xia Ziqi to keep it sooner or later. It is of no use to him, and it is also a piece of evidence that can prove that he has an affair with Shui Yanran. Xia Bin hopes that Xia Ziqi will die sooner.

After leaving the imperial study, Xia Bin quickly sent the news that his intercession was useless to Yikun Palace, and pretended to comfort Shui Yanran, expressing that he had tried his best.

Shui Yanran was so angry that she smashed a lot of porcelain in the palace, and just after a while, she became noisy again.

And when the news that Xia Bin's appeal to Ming Shengdi was fruitless spread all the way outside the palace, in the simple single room, Xia Ziqi heard the rumors from the palace man, and his palm-sized face trembled pale in an instant.

"Are you sure you heard me right? How is it possible! Father always loves me the most, how could it be useless to even plead with big brother..."

Xia Ziqi kept chanting while shaking his head, his hands tightly pinched in his palms, and his heart became more and more ashamed.

"If there is nothing else, the slave will leave first." The servant who delivered the message bowed to her, turned around and left without waiting for Xia Ziqi to reply.

Before the servant stepped out of the door, Xia Ziqi vaguely heard a few disdainful curses.

"Heh, do you really think that you are a princess with golden branches and jade leaves? If you fall into such a ghost place as a nunnery, you can just resign yourself to fate. How can you believe it or not?"

Coming to Xia Ziqi to send a message is not profitable, and it is a waste of effort. He will not come next time.

Xia Ziqi was sitting blankly in the simple single room, she was wearing coarse linen clothes, her black hair was loosely hung behind her head without the embellishment of gold and silver jewelry, and her eyes were full of the worldly infestation. Tired, nowhere does he still have the original agile and arrogant appearance.

As soon as the servant who delivered the message left, the steward in charge of the nunnery stepped in, slammed a thick whip on the wooden door a few times, and his sonorous voice hit Xia Ziqi's eardrums.

"Hui Qi, why are you still secretly sitting in the single room, after today's work is done?"

Huiqi is Xia Ziqi's monk name in the nunnery. The presiding teacher said that since he entered the nunnery, he would leave the world of mortals and return to Buddhism. Qi is called Hui Qi.

Xia Ziqi's heart was terrified by the vicious appearance of the master in charge, and she responded obediently: "My disciple will do it now..."

The master in charge snorted coldly and said, "If I see you being lazy again, you won't be allowed to eat a single grain of rice for dinner!"

After saying that, she waved the thick whip in her hand and left, and went to the next single room to urge others.

Xia Ziqi took a deep breath, carried the bamboo basket by the door on his back, and went up the mountain to cut firewood for today's routine.

Xia Ziqi was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child, and coming to this nunnery is like dying, no one in the nunnery be it the steward or the abbot, no one treats her as a princess, and the daily schedule is heavy and tiring As for the work, it has only been three days since I came here, and Xia Ziqi's delicate hands have already blistered a lot of blood, and the slightest touch hurts badly.

(End of this chapter)