How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

Xie Jinyu finally left.

Xie Chengze opened his eyes, and his nose was filled with the sweet and sour smell of fruit peels. He turned his head and found that all the tribute fruits on the table had been peeled, even the bunch of crystal grapes, which were peeled to be quite round and shiny.

Xie Chengze: Hmm...

The prince's preferences are quite special?

Well, as a well-educated college student of the new era, he cannot laugh and must respect other people's habits.

Xie Chengze turned over and was about to reach out to take one to taste, when Zhu Xiaobiao walked in quickly without leaving any trace.

Seeing Xie Chengze's hand reaching for the fruit on the shelf, Wuji couldn't help but hiss and reminded, "Your Highness, aren't you afraid of being poisoned?"

Xie Chengze's hand shrank, and he said in fear, "Yeah."

Although Xie Jinyu attaches great importance to brotherhood, he is not the real Xie Chengze after all. What if the other party finds out the clues and secretly wants to kill him?

For example, he just strangled himself, but in the original text, Xie Jinyu had never been so cruel!

Tsk!

Xie Chengze couldn't help but feel secretly annoyed. How come this damn little hand moved before his brain?

Wuhen stood in front of the counter, looking at all the peeled fruits, and frowned slightly. Wuji, who was standing beside him, noticed it and asked, "Wuhen, did you roll your eyes just now?"

Xie Chengze's attention was immediately drawn to Wuhen's eyes covered by black cloth.

You can see this? Is this true?

Wuhen: "...You are so noisy."

Xie Chengze: Ah, no rebuttal, just accepted it.

Xie Chengze was very curious about what it looked like when Wuhen rolled his eyes. After all, according to the setting in the original book, Wuhen was a very taciturn and cold stone. It was hard to imagine that he would make such a vivid expression as rolling his eyes.

Unfortunately, he couldn't see it, and he couldn't force Wuhen to turn it over for him.

Wuhen handed the peeled orange in his hand to Xie Chengze and watched him eat one quietly. Then he and Wuji picked up the fruits on the table and walked out the door.

Zhu Xiaobiao, who had lively eyes, also hurried forward, carrying the remaining fruit plate and left with them.

When they reached a deserted place, Wu Ji turned over the fruit plate in his hand, and all the crystal grapes that had been peeled clean and shiny fell to the ground, and were stepped on hard, causing the juice to burst.

Wu Ji said in a cold tone, "It seems that he found out that Your Highness was pretending to be unconscious."

Zhu Xiaobiao followed suit and threw the fruit to the ground, then suddenly realized, "Found out?"

Wuhen squatted down, buried the fruits neatly one by one, and said lightly, "As long as he doesn't hurt His Highness."

"How do you know he won't hurt me?" Wu Ji said dissatisfiedly, "Others may not know, but don't you and I know what he is thinking? There is no one around His Highness. If it weren't for Concubine Hua's last wish before her death, I'm afraid you and I would have no chance to stay with His Highness!"

Zhu Xiaobiao looked up blankly: What are you thinking about?

Wuhen also raised his head, and asked in a puzzled tone, "Does that kind of thought count as hurt?"

Wu Ji choked, "You, you haven't forgotten it, have you? It hurt a lot! They all said so at the time! So how can it not be considered an injury?!"

Zhu Xiaobiao: ??? What pain? What harm? ???

Wuhen was silent for a moment, "Then you also want to hurt His Highness."

No trace:?

Wu Ji was so angry that he kicked him, "You too? Why don't you just kill yourself!"

Wuhen dodged and lowered his head to continue digging the fruit pit. "Save it. The grape juice has splashed all over me. Go wash your outer robe later."

Wu Ji: "No! I'll tear them all into pieces for you! Use your monthly salary to buy new ones yourself!!"

Zhu Xiaobiao was anxiously standing aside: "I'll wash it, I'll wash it! My two colleagues, what exactly were you thinking just now?"

Wuhen didn't say anything. He glanced at Zhu Xiaobiao. His beautiful peach blossom eyes suddenly narrowed with a smile. He said in a wicked tone, "That's it~ the way you feel about Jingze~"

……

……

After a moment, Zhu Xiaobiao covered his red face and said: Ah! I don’t have that kind of thought!

-

After Shen Yuan was transferred to the position of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, he acted vigorously and decisively, clearing out many officials involved in the Yizhou corruption case. This made the officials terrified, but also secretly angry at this newcomer for being ignorant and arrogant.

This also caused all of their hateful gazes to be focused on Shen Yuan, and they momentarily forgot that there was an unconscious Second Prince.

And this is also the result that Xie Chengze wants.

Shen Yuan is a good shield. As long as he insists in the court that the things in Yizhou have nothing to do with him and that he was just coveting the achievements of Liang Wanda and Shen Yuan, these ministers will not do anything to him.

After all~

The Second Prince's mediocre and greedy personality has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Rather than believing that the Tianfu plan was his idea, the ministers would rather believe that Xie Chengze was ambitious and deliberately stole the credit from Liang Wanda and Shen Yuan.

After "lying" in bed for half a month, Shen Yuan had almost dealt with him, and Xie Chengze finally "woke up slowly".

Upon hearing that Xie Chengze had woken up, Emperor Jian immediately went to Chenghuan Palace to visit him.

"My son Zeze!" Emperor Jian hugged him with a heartache, as if his most precious treasure was almost lost, and said with tears in his eyes, "You have suffered! Does the wound hurt? Do you want your father to blow on it for you?"

Xie Chengze cried out "Wow", and the expression on his face was more artificial than that of Emperor Jian, "Father! This son is in so much pain! At that time, the sword was only 0.01 feet away from my throat, but soon, the owner of the sword let me go, because I decided to tell a lie. Although I have told countless lies in my life, I think this one is the most perfect!"

"Your son said: You should do this, and I should die. I once had a sincere love in front of me, but I didn't cherish it. I regretted it when I lost it. This is the most painful thing in the world. If God can give me another chance, I will say four words to you who I fell in love with at first sight: I like you!"

Xie Chengze wiped the non-existent tears from his eyes and howled hoarsely, "The assassin was obviously intimidated by my beauty and lies, and decided to spare my life, but he had to report to his master, so he stabbed me twice in the arm and right leg!"

"Father! It is all thanks to you and mother that I have been given such beauty that it could make fish sink to the depths and geese fall to the ground! Otherwise, you would never see me again. Wuuuuu..." Xie Chengze howled in a ghostly voice.

Emperor Jian: ...

Emperor Jian almost lost the sentimental feeling he had just had. This damn kid was still so good at talking nonsense that he couldn't handle it anymore.

Eunuch Zhao smiled softly and said jokingly, "Your Majesty, it seems that the Second Prince is really afraid of leaving you."

"Ahem." Emperor Jian coughed lightly, "Yes, so am I. Chengze, you've suffered a lot in Yizhou this time. Tell me, what do you want? I'll satisfy you!"

After saying that, he glanced at Xie Chengze inconspicuously.

Now that Shen Yuan is making drastic changes in the court, it is not difficult for those ministers to see that it is the emperor himself who is tacitly approving his actions. However, those who are being liquidated now are only the minions, and the real court vermin cannot be touched, otherwise the court will be unstable, and it will be harmful to the people without any benefit.

But this is equivalent to giving these termites a chance to breathe. In order to avoid being liquidated in the future, they will inevitably look for new backers and consider choosing another monarch.

His previous self-defeating behavior had already made Xie Chengze famous among the people of Yizhou and students from all over the country. In addition, due to his arrogant and easily provoked character, it was the only choice to support him as the puppet emperor of the Jian'an Dynasty.

But... Emperor Jian knew that Xie Chengze today was by no means as mediocre as he appeared to be.

Once he really wants the throne...

Emperor Jian was just thinking about it when he saw Xie Chengze lower his head and smiled shyly, "Father, is it true that any reward is acceptable?"

Emperor Jian's eyelids twitched, and he had a bad feeling, but he still gritted his teeth and said with a smile, "Of course, even if Ze'er wants this world, father is willing to give it to you."

Xie Chengze raised his little head, his eyes bright and expectant, "Then can I stop attending court in the future? I feel so sleepy getting up early every day, I have become ugly."

Emperor Jian: ...

Emperor Jian roared, “No!”

Xie Chengze: Tsk(;￢＿￢), you old scumbag, you just said you could say anything.