Record of ups and downs in troubled times

Chilling.

Liu Pu felt a little cold in a daze, and then he woke up and opened his eyelids.When I listened carefully, it turned out to be raining.

The rain was not small, and it fell on the ground like a handful of broken beads into a plate, with a ding-dong sound.This battle didn't wake him up, it was really because he was tired recently.

How could he not be tired?

A lot of things hit his head all at once, and it was tiring just to think about the countermeasures, not to mention having to be patient with these old god-like captains and those trivial doctors.He has a bad temper. Although he still forced a smile on his face when he was angry, his teeth were already grinding in his heart, and he wished to drag all these people to prison for a few years.

Fortunately, there is another person in this palace who he can comfortably accompany and not have to be wary of: isn't there one in his arms right now?

Liu Pu just woke up, seeing the darkness in front of him, he subconsciously took Tan Yan back in his arms.There is a reason for his behavior like this: Yan Gui doesn't like the dark, usually at night he has to light a bronze lamp to sleep peacefully.It was dark at night, and Yan Gui woke up very quickly. Liu Pu thought that he was afraid of the dark, and he couldn't bear to expose him, let alone teach him to be scared.

"No need." Tan Yangui stretched out a hand, and pressed Liu Pu back on the couch who got up to light the extinguished lamp.The sky was dim, and his eyes couldn't see clearly. His hand, which was originally intended to be on Liu Pu's shoulder, accidentally touched the wrong place.Liu Pu's chest was bare, and he couldn't help feeling a little distracted when he gently pressed it with his cool and soft hand.

But what about a whimsical mind?He still had to light up the lamp for Yan Gui first.

Liu Pu reached out to light the copper lamp, thinking in his heart, listening to Tan Yangui's sober voice, he might have woken up long ago.I don’t know how to call him when I wake up, and if I don’t want to call him, it’s good to go to order by myself.

It's so easy to think, but I don't know how tight my arms are in my sleep, how can I get out?

The flame shook a few times, and stood firmly on the lamp.The warm yellow candlelight reflected the small bedroom in Changle Palace, as if the humidity had receded a bit.

"Is it cold? I'll teach them..." As soon as Liu Pu got off the bed, he felt cold all over his body. When he wiped his arms, a thin layer of pimples appeared.

Tan Yangui straightened up from behind the brocade quilt, leaned on the soft pillow behind her and shook her head at him.This shaking of the head stunned Liu Pu for a moment.

Tan Yangui is a handsome man, as long as he is not blind, there is absolutely no reason to refute this statement.

His pupils were originally as big and bright as stars in the cool sky, but now that he was squinting slightly, his long eyelashes cast a small hazy shadow on his eyes, making him look a little sleepy.This little bit of sleepiness fell on such a handsome face, like a tender willow with a little dew.

It was born so lazily and freely beside the picturesque Su Causeway.

Liu Pu was moved by seeing it, and lay back beside him, touching the greasy skin with his hands, couldn't help lowering his head from between Yan Gui's eyes, along the bridge of his nose to the tip of his nose.Tan Yangui was wrapped in the brocade quilt and embraced by him, and when he went too far, she hummed softly: "Stop!"

He only said such a sentence lightly, but Liu Pu stopped his movements obediently, but still hugged his waist and refused to let go, and pecked his neck a few times in hatred before he gave up.

Liu Pu was slightly taller than Tan Yangui, and buried him on his shoulders from behind, hugging him fully.

Tan Yangui leaned on the soft pillow for a while, seeing that the person leaning on his shoulder still refused to let him go, so she patted the back of Liu Pu's head with her palm, and called out, "Sleep on the couch. It's not uncomfortable like this. Is it?"

"It's not uncomfortable." Liu Pu replied sullenly in his neck, "I'm so sleepy, but I can't fall asleep even more. Anyway, I have to listen to their chatter tomorrow, and then I will fall asleep even if I'm not sleepy."

With such rhetoric, Tan Yangui couldn't push him away.Fearing that he would catch a cold, he pulled out the quilt feet from between the two of them, wrapped it around Liu Pu's back, stared thoughtfully at the bundle of black hair hanging down the back of the head of the man in his arms, and asked aloud: "I heard , killed all the palace servants in the Yonghe Palace today?"

"Kill them all? These people, don't they have nothing to do all day long? The more they talk, the more outrageous they will be. Sooner or later they will pull out their tongues." Liu Pu couldn't help grinding his teeth when he mentioned this.He turned around, "You don't believe me?"

"Believe is what you believe. Naturally, you have your reasons for doing this." Tan Yangui's voice was gentle, and it was especially pleasant and comfortable in the flickering candlelight. "only……"

"Guess what's the truth?" Liu Pu teased suddenly.

Yan Gui's temperament is upright, and he has some innate lofty habits, so he has always looked down on being competitive and conspiring, and it is precisely for this reason that he insisted on leaving Liu Pu to do Lantai Is an official.Compared with the intrigues in the palace, the world in the books is more stable.

"They are probably the secret works of someone else An□□Yonghe Palace?" Tan Yangui guessed.There is something remarkable in the book. He has seen the records of the previous dynasty, and he has heard a little about the methods used to fight for power.As he said this, seeing Liu Pu nodded in agreement, he thought for a while, and added: "But there are only a few people in the detailed work, and all the palace people in the Yonghe Palace were implicated for this matter. Wouldn't it make people say you Loyalty does not distinguish?"

"I knew you were going to say that." Liu Pu sighed helplessly while laughing. "It's just a few people killed, the rest are just rumors. I'm in your heart, so tyrannical?"

Well.

Tan Yangui lowered her eyes and smiled lightly, with an inexplicable look on her face.The smile flashed by, but failed to fall into Liu Pu's eyes, he just fell down on the couch with Yan Gui in his arms, and said softly, "Are you tired? Go to sleep."

At this time, the sky has some signs of dawn.

Zhou Zheng was rushed by the aunt sent by the Longevity Palace. Seeing a ray of orange light in the distance in the sky, he boldly and carefully propped up the curtain, and poked his head to see if the emperor was awake.

Liu Pu closed his eyes and was not asleep yet. He was excited by the sound of jade beads hitting each other on the bead curtain, took out a soft pillow from the back of his head, and threw it towards the door.The soft pillow drew an arc in the air, and happened to hit Zhou Zheng's not-so-straight nose.Zhou Changshi laughed along with him, and asked softly, "Your Majesty?"

Liu Pu ignored him, lay on the couch for a while, finally got up slowly, laid the person in his arms flat, and tucked the quilt in.Dazed, she stood up, stretched her arms and let the palace servants wait for her to change her clothes.

"Your Majesty," Zhou Zheng speculated on the emperor's mood, and complained at every turn: "The people who came from the Longevity Palace outside are still waiting for an answer. How should I deal with it? It's okay to say that it's someone else who wants to come, so I dismiss it easily. But this time it's Da Changqiu next to the queen mother, it's really difficult..."

The emperor laughed back in anger: He can't vent his anger in front of outsiders, so why can't he swear a few truths to Zhou Zheng?

"What does the Queen Mother need to trouble me, a useless emperor?"

"It's probably what happened in the Yonghe Palace yesterday." Zhou Zheng replied, "If they were all killed, there would be nothing to blame. But if they only killed their people now, wouldn't it be a warning?"

"Are you afraid of scaring the snake?" Liu Pu sneered, "I don't get along with them, why should I hide it? They should also know, and from now on they will know what fear is."

well.Zhou Zheng sighed inwardly, and said nothing more.He has been in the palace for many years, and he understands the truth of "Zangfeng" very well, and he also understands that King Ke's first death is the most difficult time for the emperor.It's a pity that as an internal official, he has absolutely no reason to interfere in the government affairs. He cannot intervene, and he is not the one who should intervene.

Now the Empress Dowager and the Cheng family are pressing each other closely. Yesterday, the matter of King Ke's funeral has already been quarreled on the bright side. Today, I don't know what kind of hidden plot it is.I'm afraid that they will use the murder and burial in the Yonghe Palace as a trick, and a villain will file a complaint first to force the emperor to give in.

Zhou Zheng's thinking is not without reason: the so-called "no wind, no waves".The Cheng family wanted to set off this wave, how could they not seize this rare east wind?

He can understand this truth, but the Cheng family, who has been immersed in officialdom for several years, can't figure it out?

"The Ai family is also wholeheartedly thinking about you. The Ai family only has you as a son, why don't you wish for your well-being? You should also understand the painstaking efforts of being a mother." The Queen Mother Cheng's words are sincere, and she does not know the truth. Looks like a loving mother.

"It's not that I'm petty. To be honest, what is there not to give to the Empress Dowager's own brother, such a position as the Regent?" Liu Pu hurled himself in front of Zhou Zheng. When he really came in front of the Empress Dowager, he still had to say something with a smile. round past.

"Let's not talk about adding an official to a noble, in the world, no matter what rare treasures, as long as my uncle likes it, I can take it. However, although the title of 'Regent' is worthless, it was bound by laws in the previous dynasty. , All emperors who have passed the age of weak crowns are not allowed to have the regent king. Although the child is obtuse, he still knows not to violate the teachings of his ancestors. Only this matter, I can't do what my mother wishes."

This is turning a corner and scolding the queen mother: as the queen mother of a country, she actually ignores the previous court's laws and tries to meddle in politics, how can she still have face? !

"Do you really want to be this official when you are your uncle?" The Queen Mother changed the subject. "Isn't it because you killed people at Yonghe Palace at will, that Cao Cao wrote a letter to ask for a regent to restrain you? There is no precedent for a regent in the previous dynasty, but there is no one in my country who became emperor at your age. There is a precedent. You are still young, and you can't be careful when you do things, so naturally you need someone who has experienced it to show you the way."

"I understand," Liu Pu agreed, and said with disdain in his heart: I'm still young?But it can be considered eloquent!Do you think I don't know who instigated yesterday's letter?If it wasn't for the censor Luo Ke's conscientiousness, I'm afraid that a memorial to depose me will be placed on the Jingren Palace case tomorrow.

Is the Cheng family going to avenge those palace people?If it wasn't just a good time to kill them, and he was afraid that something would happen as time goes on, Liu Pu would rather have a good trial, more or less able to find out what he should know and what he shouldn't know. You Cheng family's face is slapped!

"The king of Chaoguo should be a descendant of the surname Liu. No matter how close my uncle is to me, his surname is Cheng after all. I am afraid that the officials will not agree to make my foreign surname king. You also know that Luo Ke, you are so stupid , I was born unable to turn corners, and I have to follow the instructions in the book everywhere. If this one is in the way, I'm afraid it won't work."

I don't believe you dare to tell me clearly that Yushitai has been brought under your command.

"Naturally, we have to think about it in the long run." The queen mother nodded thoughtfully.

She nodded, but Liu Pu's heart skipped a beat: Seeing how she behaved, maybe she would jump over the wall in such a hurry, and simply kill Luo Ke with a knife?Even if she is a woman who can't do it, her elder brother, the current prime minister, Cheng Nan, is not a kind-hearted person. If he kills a little Yushi doctor, he might not even blink his eyelids.

Thinking of this level, Liu Pu was about to open his mouth to test her intentions, but finally stopped: his tricks may be able to scare the queen mother, but in the ears of his old fox-like uncle, he might not be able to pretend.

As soon as the words came to my lips, I couldn't stop them.Liu Pu thought about it, and quickly changed his words: "Does my mother know the reason for ordering people to kill those palace people in Yonghe Palace?"