Between the vast sea of ​​clouds

Qingping seemed to have had a long dream, but after waking up, she didn't remember anything, only thought it was a warm dream full of bright sunshine, the afterglow of the setting sun flowed in her palm like molten gold, exuding a gorgeous of brilliance.Her whole body is bathed in golden light, her soul breaks through layers of white clouds like an arrow, chasing the distant sun in the sky.

As she got closer and closer to the source of the warm light, she couldn't open her eyes because of the white light. It seemed like a moment passed, and it seemed like an eternity. She closed her eyes and gradually melted into the golden light.

She couldn't tell the difference between reality and dream, she opened her eyes dizzily in the light.It turned out that the curtain had been opened a crack, and she lifted the turquoise cloth to look outside, always feeling a little pain in her body.Looking at her hands under the light, there were spots of bright red marks on the inside of her white forearms. She resisted the pain in her waist and sat on the edge of the bed. Could it be a dog?Then I couldn't hold it anymore and fell back on the bed.

With a soft beep, the door opened, she retracted her feet vigilantly, and because she moved too fast, she almost dodged her waist, her limbs were sore, her chest was also painful and swollen, her eyes were filled with white mist, and she felt sore. I don't know whether to rub the waist first or the legs first.

"Are you up?" Chu Jun's voice sounded from outside, he put something down in his hand, lifted the curtain, saw her complexion was snow-white, only her lips were fresh, and there seemed to be a flash of water in her light-colored eyes, her hands paused, Surprised: "What's wrong with you? Is this sick?"

Seeing her stretching out her hand, Qingping suddenly remembered what happened last night, and shrank back. It was just those lingering courtships when the tide was surging, lips and teeth rubbing, deep kisses, delicate parts being teased and played with maliciously... ...It's like doing all the embarrassing things, and now I feel a little ashamed when I think about it, not to mention the fact that I was pressed on the leg by Chu Jun last night and spanked, it was really embarrassing!

Seeing that she couldn't come out, Chu Jun went to grab her quilt with his own hands, but he didn't move after a while.In the dim curtain, she couldn't see Qingping's face clearly, so she simply bent over and grabbed her dodging shoulder, Qingping was forced to look at her, Chu Jun couldn't help but smiled and said, "Why don't you speak?"

After what happened last night, there seemed to be something more between the two of them, like some kind of strange tacit understanding, Qing Ping whispered: "No."

Her voice was hoarse and deep, and she was stunned when she said it, Chu Jun was overjoyed to see her dull expression, and pinched her face while she was not paying attention, Qingping said in pain, "What are you doing?"

Chu Jun looked gentle and said, "Get up, wash up, and eat something."

Qingping couldn't stand her expression, he would rather she kept a cold face, only felt goose bumps all over his body.Seeing that she was about to hide again, Chu Jun directly dragged her into his arms, the light and thin clothes were loose and half-faded as he struggled, and draped on his body, Chu Jun looked down and saw the imprint on her snow-white back like a falling plum, couldn't help stretching He raised his hand to stroke slowly.The skin under her hands was as warm and cool as jade, her eyes darkened, Qingping's tingling sensation from her waist intensified, he grabbed her hand and said seriously: "Your Highness, I'm getting up."

Chu Jun smiled slightly: "What to do when you get up, it's better to rest more."

Qingping's eyebrows twitched, she said to rest, her hands were not disciplined at all, she straightened her clothes and got out of bed to wash, said: "No, let's read the paperwork, there is always something to do, right?"

Chu Jun lost the warm and fragrant nephrite in his arms, and sat upright with his arms folded, "I never thought that Li Dianyu would be so diligent, it's really admirable."

Qingping wrung a wet handkerchief to wipe her face, then tied her hair in front of the bronze mirror and got dressed. Fortunately, this was her own room and she still had some clothes.Thinking of this, she straightened her collar, but she didn't know when Chu Jun left or if she was seen.But after thinking about it, the people in the palace are controlled like a prison, and there are no family members in charge, so it can be regarded as avoiding a lot of troubles.

She came out and sat at the table to drink porridge, her gestures were indescribably lethargic, her lips were slightly swollen, and the hand holding the porcelain bowl was trembling.Chu Jun looked at her calmly, seeing her face as if nothing had happened, an indescribable feeling arose in his heart, as if there was an impulse deep in his body, he wished to catch her and beat her up like last night I just sighed that my heart was too soft last night, and I didn't train her to be more obedient.

Qingping watched Chu Jun ponder, finished his porridge, stood by the door and said, "Your Highness, are you going to the study?"

Chu Jun came back to his senses and said, "Bring your notebook along with you."

Qingping was silent, Chu Jun glanced at her inexplicably, stepped out of the room and left.

Qingping looked at her back, hurriedly went to find the book among the piles of books, but found that it had been picked out and placed on the corner of the table. She took a deep breath, opened it with trembling hands, and saw that there were ink pens under the words and sentences in it. Some sentences were circled, with the word 'good' written beside them.

Of course she knew what this meant, and no one knew more clearly the meaning of the vermilion pen's instructions than her.

In the study room, Chu Jun sat at the main seat, Qingping stood beside her, and the officer on duty who came to report to the internal affairs recorded the big and small things that happened since the opening of the mansion, and submitted it to Chu Jun's case, respectfully said: "Your Highness , the booklet has been drawn up, please review it."

Chu Jun picked up the notebook and flipped through it, and said, "Where is Changshi?"

The subordinate officer paused, and said: "Lord Changshi...is on leave due to illness."

Chu Jun said: "Ask for leave?" After reading the booklet, she changed hands and threw it out, smashing it at the feet of the subordinates, and said coldly: "If Mr. He asks for leave one after another, please tell her and ask her to accept it by herself. Please resign from the Hui Mansion, you don't have to come to my mansion again!"

The subordinate officer was sweating profusely, and he responded repeatedly, took the booklet and retreated.

Chu Jun snorted coldly, then turned his head and told Qingping: "Go ask the rest to wait for me in Changshi Sizhong."

Qingping saluted and was about to leave when Chu Jun suddenly said, "Wait, put down what's in your sleeve."

Qingping rolled his eyes in his heart, but obediently submitted the notebook, Chu Jun said, "Why, are you reluctant?"

Qing Ping said respectfully: "Your Highness has orders, how dare you refuse?"

"Hehe." Chu Jun smiled, opened the notebook, and said, "At this time, he is very clever, but when he should be soft-spoken, he is very hard-spoken."

Qing Ping's face was a little hot, as a response to her words, he twitched the corners of his mouth, and went out to call someone.

At three o'clock in the unitary hour, Chu Jun's lecture ended, and the complexions of several sloppy subordinates were pale, and their eyeballs kept rolling, obviously they were greatly frightened.

Qingping served tea, Chu Jun dipped his lips, and said: "I guess you are all talented people, but you are not allowed to display them in my residence. If you feel wronged, then you will find your own way, please resign. Ben Although the king is not talented, he still has the capacity to accommodate people."

Several subordinate officials knelt down and said they didn't dare, Chu Jun threw the paperwork they handed over on the ground, recited it word by word, sneered again and again, and said: "If this kind of thing is submitted, you don't have to celebrate the New Year, just pick it up." Guan Mao knelt at the door of the house by himself, saving his family from harm!"

After saying that, he pointed to the door and said, "Get out, figure out how to write it, and then submit a new one."

Several people were dumbfounded by Chu Jun's violent words, Qingping picked up the folders on the floor, arranged them and put them back on the case, Chu Jun waved his hand and said: "It's useless to keep it, burn it."

Qingping had no choice but to turn on the charcoal stove, and threw a book into it. The fire in the stove was full of flames, and green smoke came out. Chu Jun said indifferently: "What kind of bullshit articles are you writing? Even using it to burn the stove feels choking."

Qingping couldn't help laughing, and immediately suppressed it.Chu Jun knocked on the table, and said to her, "Come here, and your account is not settled."

So she walked over, Chu Jun opened the book, pointed to one of them and said, "You said you want to plant more trees and grass in Yunzhou, and you mentioned this to Lu Nanhe before, but she was exiled to Chenzhou and never returned. Feng Ting, do you know what you wrote? Many of the remarks in this book are contrary to the system of our dynasty. Maybe no one before you imagined this, but none of them did it. Tell me, write this What is the use of things?"

Qingping thought for a while, and said, "Have you seen the map of Yunzhou, Your Highness?"

Chu Jun said, "I've seen it a few times."

Qingping understood it, and said: "That's what I've seen. Yunzhou is located in the northeast, the land is barren, and there is no harvest in disaster years. The government often opens warehouses for relief. This has been the case for a hundred years. But the officials once borrowed Taixue According to Zhongzhou Ji, Yunzhou was once a land of prosperity, so if wars can change a state so much in a hundred years, is that possible?"

She paused while talking, and glanced at Chu Jun, Chu Jun said: "Go on."

Qingping said: "About 100 years ago, since the discovery of minerals in Yunzhou, almost all the officials dispatched there were logging and prospecting, but except for Guiyun Mountain and other places, there are no mines to be opened in other places, but for the sake of political achievements , just pretending. Over time, the soil quality is getting worse and worse, and the crops will naturally harvest more."

Chu Jun said: "You also mentioned the matter of the mutual market. Although this dynasty said that it would open a mutual market, it has not made up its mind for a long time, but you said that'the profit is not shown in front of others, and I dare not do it for fear of losing'. What is it?"

"The lower official once read the records of the Ministry of Household Affairs. In the tenth year of Yongning, there was a caravan privately selling iron pots of cloth and tea to exchange horses with Xirong. When the investigation was carried out, the caravan was already huge. If it is handled easily, the loss may be even greater. I asked Mr. Wu, Minister of the Household Department, who was born in the Wu family of Hezhou, so he naturally knew the key point, so he asked the cabinet for a case, and then opened a mutual market. This request was rejected dozens of times in three years, and finally the Minister of the Household Department showed it. The amount of profit obtained from the smuggling made the cabinet mention the mutual market." Qing Ping said, "It can be seen that it is not that the imperial court does not open it, but that the benefits obtained are too little. If there is more, it will be acceptable to them. At that time, there will naturally be countless people talking about opening up the mutual market.”

"What's more, this move is really convenient for the people. There are often insufficient horses in the army. If the goods are exchanged to facilitate the flow of commerce, once the mutual market forms its own interest system, it will no longer be easily disturbed by external forces and closed at will."

Chu Jun didn't speak, Qingping thought for a while and said, "As for persuading His Majesty, only one thing is enough. If Ming Dan is in Xirong, once the mutual market opens, business exchanges will be frequent. Wouldn't it be easier to go to Xirong to find something? ?”

Chu Jun reached out and nodded at her, and said, "Very good, but it's easier said than done. Great plans on paper are easy to achieve. Since ancient times, scholars have talked about wronging the country, so you have so much confidence in yourself?"

Qing Ping looked at her and said: "If His Highness really thinks it's not feasible, he won't ask this question."

Chu Jun said: "Put away your things, and don't tell anyone when you leave this door."

Qingping was silent, after taking the notebook, he felt a little uneasy, as if he was waiting for the teacher to give instructions on the homework, Chu Jun smiled and said: "Although it is a bit of a whimsical idea, it is still feasible, if there is such a day, I will let you do it ,Do you want to?"

Qingping blinked, and said happily: "Of course." She looked down at the things she had accumulated over the years, sometimes she just took them as lies, but who doesn't want their ambitions to come true?Is it so willing to do nothing and let time pass by?

The corner of Chu Jun's mouth curled up, and he said, "Let's discuss it now, do you have anything else to say?"

After she finished speaking, the two of them fell silent again, and Qingping said after a while, "Yes, I do have a question I would like to ask His Highness, what do you think is the best place in Chang'an?"

Chu Jun clasped his hands together and said: "The scenery is also changing, and the palace is also tilted. Naturally, it is the clouds in the sky, which is the best."

With mixed feelings in Qingping's mind, he said softly, "Sky light and cloud shadows are impermanent things. Your Highness actually thinks this is the best? Then how do we get it?"

Chu Jun closed his eyes and said, "There's no need to search for it. The more deliberate you are, the worse you will be. You just need to wait, and it will come back naturally."

Qingping took a deep breath and said, "What if I can't get it?"

Chu Jun opened his eyes, stared at her and said, "If you fight with your back, there is no way out, so naturally you have to do that."

Qingping understands what she means, and it is absolutely impossible for him to rise to the top. If he quietly waits for the time to come, and waits quietly, this battle for the succession may not be without chance of winning.

She looked at her with some confusion, if the world is a game of chess, then since when did Chu Jun start to build plank roads to cross Chen Cang secretly?Unable to think about these things, she suddenly remembered that on the Linyuan Pavilion, just like their current position, it seemed unattainable, but in fact it was in danger.

Seeing that she had finished asking, Chu Jun said in a leisurely manner, "Then it's time for me to ask you, Li Qingping, did you hear what I said yesterday clearly?"

Qingping almost didn't turn the corner, and looked at her in disbelief, who would inexplicably talk about private matters while talking about official business, but at this time in the study, she thinks she must have misunderstood... ?He said: "I said a lot yesterday, I don't know which sentence His Highness said?"

Chu Jun walked in front of her with his hands behind his back, stared at her and said, "The official business has been finished, now let's talk about private matters."

Forced by her aura, Qingping took a slight step back, and said cautiously: "What's a personal matter?"

There seemed to be deep meaning in Chu Jun's eyes, the two of them breathed intertwinedly, Qingping could clearly feel the warm breath rushing towards him, as if returning to last night in an instant.

The author has something to say: I drank a lot of milk yesterday and my stomach hurts due to lactose intolerance

Sorry for being late.

Of course, I remember to collect the vows that have broken thousands of days, and I will make it up, really, believe me!