Xiangmen Concubine: The Emperor's Abandoned Concubine

Chapter 794 Love is not over, the night is young (2)

The weather was a bit hot, so Feng Changxi chose the Liuxu Pavilion in Shizi Mansion.

There are willow trees planted around the pavilion. It is just summer, and the green willow buds are covered with weeping willows. The summer breeze is blowing, and there is a lake next to it, which is very cool.

The pavilion is built on the lake and surrounded by water.A white marble stone bridge is built from the rockery on the side and extends to the catkin pavilion by the lake.

As soon as the three of them sat down, there was a gentle laugh from the white marble bridge: "I said why I didn't see Princess Wushuang when I entered the palace today, and I was told that I was called by His Royal Highness Xuan Wang to practice calligraphy. It turned out that it was the master and madam." Wanting to come out for a walk, I actually lost our lovely Princess Wushuang to my 'gentle' brother."

"Come here, talk a lot!" Feng Jiuyou glanced at Zixu who was wearing a fancy robe over there, although his words were not pleasant, but there was no blame on his face.

Those guards and maidservants in the Shizi Mansion were all left behind when Feng Changxi left. Although Feng Changxi was not in the mansion for so many years, the old butler Zhang Sheng was a capable person and taught him very well.

Hearing that the courtiers over there are not like courtiers, and the king here is not like a king, I am not half curious.Everyone in Shizi's Mansion knows that the emperor is very kind to the current prime minister.

Not only the Shizi Mansion, but even the entire Jingling City know about it.Of course, there is a time for grace, and there is a time for punishment.

Three years ago, the prime minister was directly thrown to Dali Temple by the emperor because of his negligence. It lasted for half a year.

Unexpectedly, half a year later, the household secretary Feng's family was ransacked because of embezzlement and breaking the law, ignoring the court guidelines. The emperor learned that the prime minister was among the merits of the Feng family's copying, so he released the prime minister.

Those ministers who saw the prime minister being imprisoned and robbed were dumbfounded at the time.Who knew that the fish on the chopping board still had time to turn over.

At that time, many people regretted their mistakes, and many ministers who took a wait-and-see attitude closed their doors and secretly rejoiced that they did not take advantage of the fire.

Besides, Mr. Prime Minister unexpectedly, after that prison disaster, the emperor initially reinstated him as an official, but many important matters were not handled by Mr. Prime Minister.

Those ministers who wanted to curry favor with the Prime Minister hesitated again.Until a year ago, there was a mutiny in the border town and frontier county, and the emperor ordered people to encircle and suppress it.

It was freezing cold at that time, and the soldiers' clothes were thin, which was too cold.

The emperor ordered ministers to send warm clothes to the soldiers guarding the frontier counties. Two months later, the Hubu Shangshu stated that all the warm clothes had been sent.

As a result, after waiting for only three months, there was news from the frontier county that the warm clothes had been received, but they were all cut corners. Many soldiers froze to death, and the frontier county defenders were already ready to move.

The emperor was furious when he heard the words, and wanted people to prepare for a thorough investigation of the matter, but after checking and checking, there was nothing wrong with it at all.

The only thing that could be explained was that the military department had indeed sent someone to deliver the warm clothes, but they didn't expect that they would be robbed by a group of bandits after leaving the city for two hundred miles.

The Minister of the Ministry of War sent people to chase after him, but there was no news of the gang of thieves.As a result, the matter of warm clothes became stalemate.

The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households were fighting, but they couldn't find the gang of thieves, and they couldn't get the whereabouts of the gang of thieves at all. Therefore, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households had been in a stalemate.

Finally, the emperor asked the prime minister if there was any way to recover those warm clothes and send them to the border in the shortest possible time.

The prime minister directly took out the gang of thieves with thunderous means in just seven days.After the truth of everything came to light, it was discovered that it was the military guard who stole it himself.

The emperor was furious, and directly copied the Minister of the Ministry of War to punish the nine clans. As for the prime minister, it was only natural that he lived in the emperor's favor.

It's just that no one knows that these three years were actually planned by the emperor and the prime minister, in order to find out those corrupt officials in the imperial court who are enriching their own pockets and have evil intentions.

After the court was almost clear, all the ministers couldn't help sighing secretly when they saw the relationship between the emperor and the prime minister.

He clearly knew that when the emperor was still the ninth prince, he had a good relationship with the Prime Minister who was a fourth-rank official at that time, very good.

But who knew that the emperor and the prime minister would spend three years making a bitter plan?
Here Ruan Mianmian couldn't help laughing at Zixu who was walking over smiling, and his colleague looked at his empty back: "Where are Ruolin and Wen'er, didn't they come with you?"

Zixu sat down at the stone table with a smile, and when he took the tea handed by the maid, his voice was a little depressed: "She still has me in her eyes at the moment, she is guarding Wen'er every day."

Feng Jiuyou listened and smiled: "Why, our prime minister fell out of favor?"

Zixu's complexion turned even darker, he took a cup by himself, and poured wine directly.

Feng Changxi watched from the side, with a smile flashing across his eyes: "I'm afraid that the prime minister has a happy event coming, so let's say that deliberately at this moment."

Everyone was stunned, and Zixu stared at Feng Changxi who was smiling and looking at him in surprise: "My lord, are you joking? Is there a happy event? There is a happy event in our family, why don't I know?"

Ruan Mianmian blinked and rolled her eyes, as if thinking of something, without saying a word, she threw a wine glass directly at the opposite Zixu's face.

Zixu's eyes were sharp and his hands were quick. He tilted his body and avoided it directly. When he stretched out his hand, he saw that the wine glass was in his hand.Not wanting a flash of the scarlet sleeve beside him, Zixu hurriedly backed away.

In a blink of an eye, the man had already stood up on the stool, jumped out of the pavilion with one step, and the wine in front of his eyes scattered like falling petals.

The faint smell of wine lingered inside and outside the pavilion, and Ruan Mianmian laughed while sitting on the stone bench looking at Zixu who still had some wine dripping from his head.

Zixu's cheeks were flushed, and he stared at Feng Jiuyou who was sitting on the spot without any movement, drinking lazily.

"My lord, you are deceiving! You are deceiving as much as you can!"

Feng Jiuyou sat there with a smile, looked at Zixu who was a bit embarrassed and said with a smile: "Cheating? Deceiving more and less? En? Who saw it?"

Zixu stared in disbelief at Feng Jiuyou, who was talking nonsense with his eyes open, and turned his gaze to Feng Changxi.

"My lord, tell me, are you cheating on me just now? No, that's called sneak attack!"

Feng Changxi was holding a white jade porcelain cup, slightly lowering his eyes to sniff the aroma of the wine in the cup: "Really? Your Excellency Prime Minister, there is a trick in the book of war for this kind of thing."

Zixu was surprised: "Which move?"

Ruan Mianmian answered with a smile: "Of course it means that soldiers never tire of cheating!"

"Pfft!" Zixu spit out a sip of wine from his mouth.

Ruan Mianmian looked at him with some disgust: "Hey, it's a good thing that Ruolin didn't come today. If I came here and saw you like this, I'm afraid you might not be allowed to enter the room."

Feng Changxi answered from the side: "Hehe, you don't have to worry about Wu Ai, I believe there must be the best painter in the Shizi's Mansion, just draw it and send it to Ruolin to see."

Zixu's legs softened, and he almost knelt down: "Master, isn't it?"

Feng Jiuyou smiled, and cast a sideways glance at Feng Changxi.

Feng Changxi casually spun the wine glass, his eyes fell on Zixu, who was begging his brother-in-law for help, and nodded slightly.

Seeing Feng Changxi's movements, a smile flashed across Zixu's eyes.If Feng Changxi was on his side, it would be two to two today, better than one to two.

(End of this chapter)