The general will give birth soon

In the early spring of the sixth year of Chengxuan.

In the study room of Jiuhua Palace, Xiao Yuheng hugged his two-year-old eldest son Yuansi, gently supported his little hand holding the pen, and drew horizontally and vertically on the paper.

Xiao Yuansi clenched his hands tightly and pursed his lips earnestly. It was completely opposite to Yuan Yan's appearance as the devil king when he was enlightened, and the naive attitude that was only occasionally revealed was exactly the same as Yuan Yan's.

Xiao Yuansi read the names of each stroke in a drawn-out tone while writing, Xiao Yuheng was very satisfied, and he couldn't wait to praise him after he finished writing a page: "Si'er is awesome, you can learn the whole character in one month. "

"Okay!" Xiao Yuansi clapped his hands excitedly, twisted his buttocks and climbed off Xiao Yuheng, took out a stack of papers from the brocade bag that held his homework, ran back and held them up respectfully, "Father, this is the homework of my father." , show you!"

Xiao Yuheng took it and flipped through the pages. There were temporary posts, poems, and political comments, all of which were written by Emperor Chengxuan himself.

In the past two years, he and Emperor Chengxuan rarely met.When he enlightened his son half a year ago, Emperor Chengxuan seemed to have found an opportunity, and seemed to join in the fun, writing something to send over every now and then.

Now that they were all delivered, Xiao Yuheng looked at them carefully, making comments and making suggestions carefully.

What Emperor Chengxuan faced today was an article expressing gratitude for the deep love between husband and wife. Xiao Yuheng's heart was touched for a moment, and he couldn't help but recall the old events two years ago.

When Gu Chongming was sent away that day, he knelt in front of Emperor Chengxuan to plead guilty. Emperor Chengxuan was surprised and asked him what was wrong.

Xiao Yuheng knelt under the court case, saying that he had three crimes and one ashamed: crime one, going out of the palace privately, stopping the imperial envoy's car on Huzhou Road with a false imperial decree, allowing Gu Chongming to stay until after Si You gave birth; crime two, taking care of Chongming's caravan without permission Instead of traveling, he was allowed to use no torture tools along the way; the third crime, the containment strategy offered by Gu Chongming in the case, was indeed selfish.

Emperor Chengxuan was in a trance for a moment, a thought flashed in his mind, and he asked again, what about the shame?

Xiao Yuheng said, Xiao's children have been adhering to the style of a gentleman for a hundred years, but what he did this time was a trick of checks and balances, which lost integrity and magnanimity, humiliated the lintel, and went against the heart.

Xiao Yuheng kowtowed to the ground, saying that all kinds of crimes must be punished severely.

Daxia envoys can participate in politics and discuss politics. They seem to have a high status and glamorous status, but they may make mistakes at any time and end up with irreversible results.

Emperor Chengxuan didn't know that, if he calculated it seriously, Xiao Yuheng's head could be taken away by just passing on the imperial decree, but, but...

Emperor Chengxuan stepped forward cautiously, and comforted him: "This matter sounds serious, but in fact it's just a case of haste, and there are still human feelings outside the law. It's nothing, I, I don't blame you."

Xiao Yuheng kowtowed again, then raised his eyes to look deeply at Emperor Chengxuan, and said in a low voice, "I have done the most contemptuous thing in the past, and I feel remorseful. I really don't know what to do. Only your majesty will make a decree." Punishment can reduce the guilt in my heart. I know that this is hypocritical, but... I beg your majesty, for the sake of the two emperors, let me be willful once."

Xiao Yuheng's eyes were red, and he kowtowed to cover it up.

Emperor Chengxuan stared at Xiao Yuheng's back obsessively, feeling and pondering the meaning in his every word and eyes, his heart was warm and painful: he thought he was still the chubby and stupid kid back then, who couldn't understand anything, what? I can't figure it out.

actually not.

All his good intentions, I can see clearly.

Emperor Chengxuan took a few steps back, sighed deeply after a while, as if he had compromised, and said to himself: "I will not remove your title, other, other things are fine, but this is not allowed, only this, no matter what. ..."

At the court meeting the next day, Emperor Chengxuan decreed that the envoy Xiao Yuheng be excluded from participating in the administration of state affairs and in charge of the Six Palaces, cut off half of his salary, banned from the Jiuhua Palace, and prohibited others except the prince and princess from visiting.

After the super meeting, Emperor Chengxuan sat alone in the empty hall, thinking about the words and sentences in the imperial decree.

As an emperor, he has a very kind heart, and he and Gu Chongming are congenial, just like friends who get together to laugh and laugh.This time Gu Chongming had to give up, but he couldn't do those prisoner-like tortures.Even if Xiao Yuheng didn't make a move, he would show compassion and give Gu Chongming some preferential treatment.

But in that case, he would be equivalent to revealing his handles and weaknesses to the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, especially to the Prime Minister's Mansion and Ping Nanhou Mansion, which would inevitably leave hidden dangers.

So Xiao Yuheng deliberately rushed to attack him, not only did what he wanted to do, but also picked him clean.

As for the method of using the case of Gu Chongming to contain the powerful officials, Xiao Yuheng said that he felt shameful and guilty, but his real intention was to let Emperor Chengxuan punish him for his crimes, and then Zhou Guang, Dou An, Si Xing and others would immediately understand However, the person who made the plan was actually Xiao Yuheng.

Pulled hatred, caused trouble, so that he would not always be on the cusp of the storm and suffer from the enemy.

Xiao Yuheng was devoting himself to plotting everywhere, all for himself.

Emperor Chengxuan smiled wryly, leaning back on the dragon chair, trying his best to hold back his sore nose.

It is not easy to be an emperor. Those who want to protect are not only not protected, but they want him to protect themselves.

Emperor Chengxuan clenched his fists.

So, that's why he issued such an imperial decree, he wanted Xiao Yuheng to stay away from these disputes, and stay quietly in the deep palace with his children as companions, only to be his wife, not a counselor.

He also decided to ignore him for the time being and not to visit him, let him stay away from him, and then he would be safer.

He faced the treacherous waves of the previous dynasty alone; he walked alone on the difficult and dangerous road of the emperor.

When he has enough strength to hold the whole world in his hands and turn it over easily, he will go to him again and tell him that he has finally become what he has always hoped for.

"Father..." Xiao Yuansi stood at Xiao Yuheng's feet, grabbed his clothes and shook them gently.

Xiao Yuheng came back to his senses, and smiled at the little face that looked like Yuan Yan, "Father is here, what does Si'er want to say?"

"Father," Xiao Yuansi squeezed into the desk from Xiao Yuheng's legs, grabbed Xiao Yuheng's hand, and tiptoed to read the paper.Xiao Yuheng hurriedly hugged Xiao Yuansi and put it on his knees. Xiao Yuansi's vision suddenly widened, and he happily touched the handwriting of Emperor Chengxuan on the paper, "Father said that his knowledge was also taught by his father, and he also said that his knowledge was taught by his father." Learning is good, let the son and father study hard."

Xiao Yuheng felt emotional in his heart, touched the top of Xiao Yuansi's head and said: "Being a father was just to enlighten your father at the beginning, just like teaching you how to learn calligraphy now. Most of your father's knowledge is taught by the Taifu, and the fonts are also taught by the Taifu and the university. The soldiers only practice well under supervision, and dare not take credit for my father."

"Then why is it the father who enlightened the son, not the son's wife?" Xiao Yuansi scratched his head in complete confusion.

Xiao Yuheng frowned in surprise, "Where did you hear that?"

"I don't hear it from anywhere." Xiao Yuansi shook his head, "I see that my father is also my father's enlightenment teacher and my father's wife."

Xiao Yuheng breathed a sigh of relief, and said earnestly and kindly: "It's not that you are both Teacher Kaimeng and your wife, but that you were Teacher Kaimeng first, and then your father was enthroned, and then you were appointed as your father's envoy. Si'er won't have it until she is an adult." Wife, Si'er is young now, so don't talk about wife and so on all the time."

"Oh." Xiao Yuansi nodded, "Then why don't father and father always see each other? Both the son and the emperor want to eat and play with father and father. The son will marry a wife in the future," suddenly covering his mouth, nervous Looking at Xiao Yuheng anxiously, "Father, is it okay to say it again? If you marry a wife in the future, if you can't see her face, it's better not to marry."

The son is too clever, and he would ask all kinds of questions at such an age. Xiao Yuheng felt that his head was too big, and he didn't want to dismiss the child casually, so he could only say: "Your father is always busy with everything, and rarely has time for leisure. Besides... because of the father's mistakes in the past, being punished."

"Is it just to punish father and emperor for not coming to see father?" Xiao Yuansi stared eagerly, feeling that this was really too miserable.

Xiao Yuheng was taken aback for a moment, then nodded with difficulty, "Also...you can't go out casually."

"What did father do wrong? When will the punishment be over?"

Xiao Yuheng was silent, he was thinking about how to explain to the child, but Xiao Yuansi said first: "I understand, I am still young, there are many things I can't ask." He twisted his buttocks, got up and stood on Xiao Yuheng's lap , put his hands on Xiao Yuheng's shoulders, and looked into Xiao Yuheng's eyes seriously, "When it's time, the father will tell the son, and the son is willing to help the father to be punished together, and the two will be punished together, and the punishment will be fast."

Xiao Yuheng smiled gratifiedly, and patted his son's thick buttocks lightly, "Okay. If you need help from the emperor, you must speak up as a father."

"Hmm...but," Xiao Yuansi leaned on Xiao Yuheng's shoulder, lowered his eyes and pinched his fingers for a while, then discussed, "Can I not let the emperor come to see my son without punishment? My son likes the emperor."

"Naturally." Xiao Yuheng's tone was firm, and he said after a while, "Your father...how is it these days?"

"Father is in good health, father don't have to worry." Xiao Yuansi replied very childishly, "Father often asks my son and sister the same way, and son and sister also say that father is in good health, so don't let father worry .”

"Well, you and Qinghui did the right thing, it's for your father..." Xiao Yuheng hugged his son and paused, "I'm a good boy with my father."

At dusk, Yuan Si and Qing Hui had dinner together in Jiuhua Hall. After the meal, Xiao Yuheng played with them to digest food. Suddenly, his trusted guard came to report that he had something important to report, and Xiao Yuheng frowned instantly.

Although he was removed from the right to participate in and discuss state affairs, it was absolutely impossible to allow Emperor Chengxuan to deal with the former court alone, so he had been sending his trusted guards to observe and visit secretly for two years.Everything was calm before, but today, both the words of the guards and the dignified expressions told him that something serious happened.

Xiao Yuheng asked the nanny to take the child away, screened everyone away, and summoned him alone in the study.

Even so, the guard still didn't dare to report, and after asking Xiao Yuheng's consent, he walked up to him and leaned down, almost speaking by ear, before telling the story.

The guard's judgment is correct, things are very bad.Xiao Yuheng's face immediately changed, he stood up abruptly, trembling and supported the desk, panting for a long time before he finally accepted it reluctantly.

"...Bold. Immediately, immediately, secretly bring the person to the Jiuhua Palace. No matter what...don't let His Majesty know."