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Luo Ping, smelling of alcohol, ran to hook up with Tsing Yi, scaring Qin Xue into hiding, thinking that he had run into a cheeky apprentice again, so he hurriedly called Nanmengyuan's thugs to coax him.

Luo Ping explained that he just came to ask for a champagne, but no one listened, and he was pushed to the door, but was suddenly blocked.Qin Xue and the thugs looked up, and saw that the man blocking the road was dressed in rich clothes and had a face like a crown of jade. He looked like a noble son, and he was much more pleasing to the eye than that drunk man.

At this time, Qin Xue didn't feel afraid anymore, she stepped up and said softly, "Young lady is polite, what's the matter with this young master?"

Zhou Tang glanced at her, and took Luo Ping who was staggering from the hand of the thug: "It's okay, I'm here to bring someone home. I'm sorry, I scared you, girl."

Qin Xue was taken aback for a moment, then smiled awkwardly: "It's all right, my lord, please go ahead."

Zhou Tang helped Luo Ping to go out, and got into the car. Luo Ping rubbed his temples and said, "It's not a trivial matter for the king of a country to linger in the Liyuan. As a virtuous minister, I should persuade him."

"Xianxiang himself is happy here and doesn't want to leave, so I, the emperor, can't control it?"

"You're really here..." Luo Ping curled his lips, "The national teacher was sent away by you, just to listen to me talk about drama?"

Zhou Tang kept silent with a cold face.

Luo Ping said with a smile: "Zhongli eats everything from inside to outside, so I know he won't treat my guests in vain."

Zhou Tang took his hand and rubbed his acupuncture points: "Eat the inside and the outside? Which is the inside and which is the outside? If I don't do this, how long will you keep this drama in your heart? Little master, I will always stand On your side, do you not trust me that much?"

"Will you believe me when I tell such a story?"

"I do not believe."

"That's right..." Luo Ping smiled wryly.

"I don't believe that emperor would be so ruthless." Zhou Tang said, "No one would do such a cruel thing to the person he loves so much. I think he must be too stupid to find a better way out. "

"A better way out? What about you, Your Majesty? Can you find it?"

"I... don't know." Zhou Tang pursed his lips, "What you said is not so much what you saw in your previous life, it's more like a prophecy now. I've found it strange since I was a child that you seem to know everything. But just because you know everything, you always hide everything in your heart. You are always by my side, but you never dare to give me more trust. Are you afraid that I will be like the emperor in the story? "

"..."

"Little master, let's face it together this time, okay? Let's not be self-righteous people anymore, okay?"

Luo Ping knew that he was very drunk, the whole world was blurred by drunkenness.

Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhenyang Hall.

Zhou Tang weighed the small medicine bottle in his hand, and said to Fang Jin below: "Fang Qing, Fang Qing, I only authorized you to enter and leave the harem not long ago, you brought me such a thing so quickly, and you deliberately detained it for me. Put on a green hat?"

Fang Jin bowed: "I dare not."

Zhou Tang said: "Well, you don't dare, someone dares. Concubine Xiang is pregnant? I have never entered her room at all, how could she be pregnant? How did you get this medicine bottle? Didn't it get discovered?"

"The minister did not directly contact the concubine Xiang, but asked the concubine Zhi to come and visit her. Huihui, the maid of the concubine Zhi, saw the medicine bottle handed to the concubine Xiang by the national teacher, so she took the opportunity to steal it and used a It was replaced by a bottle of wind-cold pills."

"Well, let's take it to the imperial physician for examination. Also, the young master said that the most suspected person is Lu Rujiang, the commander of the imperial army, but I always feel that something is wrong. Don't startle the snake in the near future, just keep an eye on it for me."

"Yes."

"Okay, you go down."

Not long after the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet ended, Fang Jin was condemned to leave, and Zhou Tang suddenly felt a sense of emptiness.

There was a bright moon hanging high outside, but in this huge palace, there was no one who could really reunite with him.Not reconciled, he sent someone to the Prime Minister's Mansion in the middle of the night to call Luo Ping who had just returned.

Luo Ping ate five egg yolk mooncakes at the banquet. He was in a panic and took a walk every time he came and went. But when he returned to Zhenyang Hall, before he had a sip of tea, he heard Zhou Tang say: "You are hiding it from me. ...How long have you been communicating with Concubine Zhi secretly about the song?"

He was so frightened that his stomach convulsed that he almost spat out the egg yolk.

Seeing that his face turned pale, Zhou Tang knew that he had overplayed his joke, and hurriedly handed him a cup of tea: "Don't be afraid, little master, I don't want to blame you."

Luo Ping looked deeply into his eyes to confirm that he really didn't intend to ask for guilt before taking the teacup, his fingertips still trembling slightly.In his last life, he ended up like that because of being confused with his concubine, until now he still has lingering fears.

Seeing his appearance like a bow and snake, Zhou Tang felt a throbbing pain in his heart: "Little master, I was wrong, listen to me, I was investigating the national teacher and concubine Xiang, and that girl Yuzhi helped a lot, I guess it must be You pointed him, so I just wanted to ask how you arranged it."

To tell the truth, he was still a little pissed, because Luo Ping would rather turn to a little girl for help than to be honest with him, but his little jealousy was no match for the fearful eyes of the little master.

Luo Ping said: "That person has a relationship with the He family, so let the He family dig him out, that's the best way. It's not convenient for me to go in and out of the harem, so I have to ask the concubine Zhi, of course, there are conditions. I hope His Majesty will make it happen."

"What conditions?"

"When the matter is over, please Your Majesty make Concubine Zhi the queen."

"Queen?!"

"The power of the He family has been reduced to the point where only the concubine Zhi and his uncle are left in Mo City. It will be a huge benefit for Dacheng to be able to stabilize their loyalty."

"Just for this, you let me make her my queen? Little master, you can't do this, you know that I like you! You can't force a woman into prostitution!"

"..." Who is going to be forced into prostitution?Luo Ping twitched the corners of his mouth, "Your Majesty, you always want to have a queen in charge of the harem, and this is beyond my ability."

Zhou Tang froze for a moment, seeming to realize that Luo Ping was right... There was absolutely no way the little master would agree to be his queen.

Sighing, Zhou Tang said: "Little Master, you know, when I was a child, I always dreamed that one day I would become the real owner of the palace. Now that I have realized it, I find that it is no different from before. These pavilions and palaces are still the same as before. The people inside are just as selfish, and no one will consider this place a home."

"Your Majesty, the heights are unbearably cold. Now you are standing on the highest place in the world. How can there be someone else?"

"...You're right." Zhou Tang smiled wryly, "Now I can understand why my father was so unfeeling to the woman who gave birth to me, and why he was so indifferent to me, it was because both I and that woman betrayed him For the request of my dearest relatives. The higher you are, the more unbearable it is. Little Master, now someone in this palace has also betrayed me, how do you think I should deal with her?"

Luo Ping was startled, hesitated and said: "Concubine Xiang, she..."

"She has a wild seed in her stomach, and she is thinking about how to hide it." Zhou Tang said in a cold voice, "Life is really like a play, young master, shall I avenge the prime minister in the play? When the time is right, I will So what if I put this woman in the Prison of Unforgiveness and tear her face apart with Xi Zhao, they did something shameless first, and I, Zhou Tang, will never be afraid of him!"

"Is there no pardon..." Hearing this familiar place name, Luo Ping couldn't help being moved.

Zhou Tang is really the person who resembles his father the most. He will never give a chance to forgive those who betrayed him.

"Little master, little master?" Zhou Tang called him back to his senses, "Come and watch the moon with me and eat mooncakes."

He put the mooncakes specially made by Yushanfang in front of the two of them: "Do you still remember, when I was a child, you brought me mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the kind wrapped in oil paper, flavored with salt and pepper... Yushanfang is so useless, I told them for a long time , what is made is still such a fancy thing.”

The five greasy egg yolk mooncakes that Luo Ping ate came out again: "No, I'm not hungry, Your Majesty, you can enjoy it by yourself."

Zhou Tang saw that he was about to vomit, and jokingly said, "Little master, what's the matter with you? Could it be that... you are pregnant with a dragon seed? I don't believe that Concubine Xiang is pregnant, but I will believe you if you say you are pregnant!"

As he spoke, he put his hand dishonestly into Luo Ping's lapel, touched his soft stomach, then went down, and down.

Luo Ping held down his hand, and stuffed a small piece of mooncake into his approaching mouth: "Your Majesty, in the past, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, when you ate mooncakes, I would tell you a few folk stories, since you miss that time so much , I might as well tell you a few more stories. After Wu Gang and Hou Yi got together..."

Zhou Tang looked up to the sky and sighed: "Little Master is really the most unemotional person in the world!"

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Concubine Xiang was still unable to turn Zhou Tang into her bed, and seeing that the opportunity was about to pass, she couldn't help becoming anxious, and it was at this time that she showed her flaws.

Fang Jin discovered that there was a loophole in the night guards of Yuchan Palace.This loophole is too obvious. As the commander of the imperial guards, it is impossible for Lu Rujiang not to have discovered this problem, but this loophole exists so nakedly, leaving a small hole for people to come and go freely.

Lu Rujiang has an affair with Concubine Xiang, which is almost a certainty, but it is Luo Ping who raised the question at this time: "The loophole appeared every month when the moon was waning, and at that time Lu Rujiang was training outside the city. In the camp, there are a lot of people who can prove that he is not there. I think His Majesty's concerns are not unreasonable, there are other people in contact with Concubine Xiang, and Lu Rujiang is at best a pusher."

"Who is that? National teacher?"

"There is no need for the national teacher to do such a thing."

"Who can say for sure, maybe the national teacher is an old cow eating young grass, haven't you seen him, how old is he, and he looks so young, he must be using the beauty technique to seduce another spring."

"Zhongli, you can't say that..."

Just when the two were about to start arguing again, Zhou Tang said: "What's the use of arguing about this? First arrest Lu Rujiang, who is 'negligent of duty', and question him, and then slowly peel off the cocoons, and we will see the result."

Luo Ping and Fang Jin bowed at the same time: "I would like to obey His Majesty's order."

After yelling for a long time, they just wanted Zhou Tang to say this.Both of them are bureaucrats, and no one wants to take the matter of offending the Forbidden Army Commander on their own, and the right way is to work together to push it to the emperor.

After Zhou Tang gave the order, he also realized, okay, okay, these two "virtuous ministers" have teamed up. It turned out that he was the one who got into the drama the most, but he actually thought they were old enemies like in that drama?

Lu Rujiang recruited in Dali Temple.

This was the place where Luo Ping asked him to surrender, but this time Luo Ping didn't make a move, and Yuan Xu dug out the facts from his mouth.

Yuan Xu led Luo Ping to meet people: "Master Luo, sometimes people are really powerful. He is someone whose brains have been washed by you, but he still remembers what he cares most about."

After reading the confession, Luo Ping looked for what Lu Rujiang cared most about on the paper, and when he saw one of the lines, he suddenly understood.

Lu Rujiang is taking revenge.

Because the person he loved died under Zhou Tang's throne.

The person he loved once lived in the Feili Palace, and had the title of empress but was not favored by Emperor Jing. People only knew that she was Dong Yunxi, the granddaughter of Grand Master Dong, who belonged to King Ning's school, but they didn't know that she was just a little girl who didn't know much about the world. .

When the raging fire engulfed Feili Palace, Lu Rujiang was seriously injured and fell into a coma. He didn't even have a chance to save her. When he woke up, Feili Palace was in ruins, and there were no living people.

The emperor's woman?

Why can't others love the emperor's woman?

That's why he didn't expose it after he found out that Concubine Xiang was having a private meeting with others, and even provided convenience for them.

At this point in the confession, one problem has already been explained, Lu Rujiang is not the father of the child in Concubine Xiang's belly.

"Then who is that person?" Luo Ping looked at Lu Rujiang in the cell.

"A bodyguard. I haven't met him directly, and I don't want to get involved too deeply." Lu Rujiang remained calm, "I was dereliction of duty, but I didn't collude with the enemy and treason. These two crimes are not the same."

"You are cunning." In fact, Luo Ping admires him very much. This person is smarter than him. In his last life, he was involved too deeply, and ended up being charged with collaborating with the enemy and treason...

Just halfway through the conversation, Shaoqing suddenly rushed in: "Lord Luo, Lord Yuan, something has happened! Something has happened to Concubine Xiang! Come on, the emperor tells you to go to the Zhenyang Hall immediately!"

At this time, the Zhenyang Hall was very lively.

Kneeling on the ground was a guard covered in blood, next to Concubine Xiang who was pear blossoms and raining, Fang Jin pulled a hole in his sleeve and said, "Your Majesty, this is a public injury", and a group of imperial guards put their knives on his neck plead guilty.

Luo Ping's eyes fell on the guard, and he was startled for a moment.

He remembered the figure and eyes of this person, it was the assassin who came to kill him on the way he was escorted to the Unforgiven Prison.

Zhou Tang looked at the man coldly: "Abducting my concubine, making such a big commotion, you are really courageous, who ordered you, or who are you?"

The man turned his head and didn't answer, Zhou Tang kicked him heartily, and when he was about to make amends, the national teacher staggered in and said sadly: "Please Your Majesty, please spare his life!"

Zhou Tang withdrew his foot.After all, the national teacher is Xi Zhao's important minister, so he has to take care of his face to some extent.So Zhou Tang sat down, dismissed irrelevant people, and let him speak slowly.

Seeing that the matter was irreversible, the national teacher had no choice but to tell the truth - that guard was Fengde, the third prince of Xizhao, and also the only heir to the royal family of Xizhao.

In recent years, the Xizhao royal family has been condemned by heaven.The royal family was declining day by day. First, several offspring of concubines were forced to rebel, and then the eldest prince and the second prince died inexplicably. Xizhao's national fortune was also declining day by day. King Xizhao was so anxious that he asked the national teacher to calculate his destiny.The national teacher said, Xizhao's star luck has no light, and his vitality is about to run out. Only by borrowing his life can he be safe all the way.

Xizhao believed in the gods, and the people heard that Xizhao had come to perish, and they were panicked everywhere. In order to appease the people, King Xizhao decided to marry his daughter to Dacheng, hoping to use the power of Dacheng to extend the grace of the gods.

Unexpectedly, God's punishment still did not let them go. Princess Xiangwan had an affair with her half-brother Fengde for a long time, and this incestuous relationship made the third prince chase him to Dacheng.

Excuse me, they wanted to take advantage of Dacheng's luck, but they didn't expect it to turn into such a farce.

Concubine Xiang was pregnant with Fengde's child, which caught them off guard. At this time, the emperor seemed to have noticed something, and they had to find a way to escape.

"Hmph, what excuses! Why do I have to rely on Dacheng for my Xizhao's fortune!" Fengde spat out a mouthful of blood, "Xiangwan married, and he never treated her sincerely for a day, so what's the point of such charity !"

The national teacher was in a hurry, and hurried to Fengde to dissuade him: "Your Highness, please stop talking! This matter is our fault, I have sent a letter to report to the Lord, and let the Lord decide."

"I still have to bring Xiangwan first..."

Fengde wanted to say more, the national teacher lightly brushed off his sleeves, a burst of fragrance came out, and Fengde passed out.

Xiangwan was too frightened to speak, the national teacher sighed, and saluted Zhou Tang respectfully: "Your Majesty, for the sake of diplomatic relations between the two countries, please allow me to take care of the concubine Xiang and our crown prince for the time being, and wait for the Lord to order me to do it again." discuss."

Zhou Tang reluctantly agreed.

When the matter came to an end, some of Luo Ping's doubts in his previous life were also resolved: Back then, they did not hesitate to frame him in order to deceive the world, and then the fortune of the Great Cheng declined day by day.

He didn't really believe in the gods, but if it is said that there is no destiny, how can he explain his resurrection from death.The chief judge asked him to do his best to ensure the future, and he should have foreseen such a destiny.

Fifteen days later, the envoys of Xizhao entered the palace.

The envoys spoke earnestly, begging the emperor for forgiveness, saying that they would devote all their efforts to make compensation and atonement. As long as the emperor spared Prince Fengde, they would also take back Princess Xiangwan, and never mentioned the matter of "borrowing life".

Zhou Tang didn't rush to make a conclusion, and asked Prime Minister Luo what he meant.

Prime Minister Luo said: "Xizhao has always been a friendly neighbor of mine. Although this matter has shamed both countries, there is no need to terminate the friendship between the two countries because of this. Your Majesty, I think that King Xizhao is very sincere. Cheng also should show his due bearing."

"Well, I will listen to Luo Qing." Zhou Tang said to the envoy, "Your princess and crown prince can be taken back. Look, there is a small one for you as a gift. Our Dacheng is really generous."

"Yes... yes, Your Majesty is wise." The envoy wiped his sweat and tremblingly went to lead the people.

Zhou Tang was in a good mood: "Luo Qing, you solved such a puzzle in just one play, it's really amazing. You've done a great job, tell me, what reward do you want?"

Fang Jin coughed lightly, which meant that he had also made a lot of contributions and suffered a public injury. He hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would take care of him, but it was a pity that Zhou Tang was the only one in his eyes and completely ignored him.

Luo Ping took a step forward and said: "Return to Your Majesty, I dare to ask you for a beauty."

Zhou Tang's heart skipped a beat, and it was hard to get angry in front of so many ministers: "Well...Luo Qing, do you want a beauty? Okay, I promise you."

That night when Luo Ping returned to the mansion, he heard from the servants that the emperor had sent him a reward.Just as she was wondering, she fell into a firm embrace as soon as she entered the door, with a sullen chuckle hidden in her ear: "Luo Qing, can I be considered a beauty?"

Luo Ping stroked his forehead and sighed: "...Your Majesty, the beauty I want is for Crown Prince Xizhao."

"Huh? Ah..." Zhou Tang showed embarrassment.

"They want to take advantage of Dacheng's fate. Although there is a reason for the incident, they are really vicious. How can they pass if they are not punished lightly?" Luo Ping explained, "Dacheng is generous, but the minister has never been generous. Xiangwan and Feng Dena Aren’t brothers and sisters lovers deeply affectionate as husband and wife, then we’ll send a beautiful woman whom we have inherited to be married, and see if they accept it or not.”

"Little Master, you... really still hate them."

"..." How could he not be resentful, they planned to kill him.

Zhou Tang kissed the corners of his eyes and lips, and said softly, "It's all right, little master, it's all right. That scene won't be repeated again, you must believe me."

After a lingering affair, Zhou Tang returned to the palace refreshed, and suddenly heard a report that Master Xizhao asked to see him.

National Division?Xizhao and his party will leave Beijing tomorrow, what is the purpose of the national teacher coming to him at this time?

Zhou Tang thought for a while and called him in.

The national teacher met and bowed deeply: "Your Majesty, it is really presumptuous to visit late at night, but my lord still has something to ask you, please be sure to listen to me."

"What's the matter? Tell me."

"Your Majesty, please give Prime Minister Luo a chance to go to Xizhao as an envoy."

"Why should I send him to Xizhao?"

"Because he is a descendant of our Xizhao royal family, and his mother is the lord's cousin. Now Xizhao, besides Prince Fengde, is the closest person to the crown prince."

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final chapter.

The frosty sky and the dawn of the moon urge people to grow old, and when the banquet is over, they are always annoyed.