Fate with you

With the account book, you can follow the map to find out.The emperor was not in a hurry to act, nor did he get angry and hold on to the minister when he saw the minister making a mistake.The way of imperial servants is to combine leniency and strictness. If there is no serious fault for a useful person, the emperor will not mind letting go, but the emperor will never tolerate a mediocre and incompetent person who only cares about making money for himself!

Hand over the account books to Mr. Huai'an, and order her to investigate as appropriate.Mr. Huai'an received the account books, just like receiving a hot taro.His Majesty did not strictly specify who should investigate and who should handle it, let alone who should let it go, only said "discretionary".

How should she decide?How dare she decide on such a big matter?

Mr. Huai'an thought for a while, knelt on the ground, and said: "This matter is of great importance, and it is inevitable that I will neglect it alone. Besides, I really don't know much about the temperament of the ministers in the court. Since the establishment of Jinyiwei, I have obeyed the holy orders. Wei Jianzhang is obedient, and has also accepted many corruption and bribery cases, and understands the officials far better than the minister, so the minister asks for orders to order Jin Yiwei to assist."

The emperor said: "Yes."

Only then did Mr. Huai'an rely on him a little, and resigned.

As soon as she stepped back, Mu Sheng, who had been silent by the side, said: "Mr. Huai'an is afraid, and His Majesty has made things difficult for her."

"This is a very rare thing. If you don't pay attention, you will offend all the officials. If you make a mistake after you finish it, you may even annoy me. With her thoughtful temperament, she will definitely not accept it, but I have already opened my mouth. To take back the truth, she will naturally try to protect herself, and Jin Yiwei is the best candidate." Meng Xiuyi turned to Mai Rong'en and said, "Xuan Jinyiwei Commander Pang Zhongzhi will see you."

Mai Rongen bowed his head and went out.

Mu Sheng raised her eyebrows: "It turns out that His Majesty has long planned to use Jinyiwei?" Then why bother to involve Mr. Huai'an?

"Jin Yiwei's stern and selfless face has caused dissatisfaction among all the officials. Using Lord Huai'an is to make it look like he is not the head of Jin Yiwei. Lord Huai'an understands that when the time comes, Pang Zhongzhi will be the main one." Meng Xiuyi said casually.She is getting more and more powerful, after all, she is still young, and she has been on the throne for less than ten years. It would be bad if she really annoyed those old officials, but after this time...

The emperor's brows and eyes eased, he patted Mu Sheng's soft waist, and said, "I went to see it at home? Are your old servants all right? Did you get lost?"

Mu Sheng glanced at her, and said angrily, "It's fine."

"You are ready to move into the palace." Meng Xiuyi could not refuse.

It's not the first time she said this, Mu Sheng softly coaxed her: "I can't always live in the palace," without a name, "I go there once in a while, and most of the time I'm still with His Majesty. That's fine."

Meng Xiuyi smiled, stroked her temple hair lightly, and said angrily: "Fool." No queen can live in the palace.

Lord Huai'an came out of the palace and heard that His Majesty immediately summoned Pang Zhongzhi, as if he had known that she would pull Jin Yiwei into the water.Lord Huai An sat in the car with his eyes closed, carefully thinking about His Majesty's intentions.

I don't know how long after, the driver's husband asked outside the car: "Your Majesty, where are you going?"

It's a fork in the road.

Mr. Huai'an opened the curtains and looked at the sky outside. Arlene's party should be going away soon, so he said, "Go and pick up Miss back to the residence."

She left suddenly in the middle of the journey, and only ordered her servants, but she didn't know that she would meet Arlene. Thinking of the smiles on Arlene and the Lord of Lantian County before she left, maybe Arlene didn't realize that she was gone.Thinking of Meng Youlin's innocent and cute, occasionally a little confused appearance, Mr. Huai'an showed a faint smile on his lips.

The carriage soon arrived at the Junjun Mansion.

The Lord of Lantian County was originally an official in the court. After getting married three years ago, he resigned from his official position and returned home. He has become a gentle and virtuous housewife.She is the cousin of Meng Youshu. Others only know that the king of Lantian County is happy with her husband. She was afraid that her high position and power would make her husband feel pressured, so she simply resigned from office. She is a very pure, kind and gentle woman, but Meng Youshu knows that her The husband and son-in-law can hardly stand in the mansion now, everything depends on the cousin's face, as for resigning from office back then, it was just a family consideration, and the cousin herself did not care about the officialdom.

It was because Lord Lantian was shrewd and tactful, and had a good relationship with her, that Lord Huai'an was willing to bring Meng Youlin to her house for a banquet.

As soon as she got off the carriage, a servant from the Junjun Mansion ordered her to enter.

"Is the tea banquet over?" Meng Youshu asked casually.

"It's not over yet, and the ladies said they were not having a good time, so our county lord ordered a dinner for all the ladies to have dinner before returning." The servant said clearly, although he was serving at the door, what happened inside was a matter of course. Clearly, "The county lord of Longxi County Prince's Mansion said that he was going to carry out the wine order, and he was very excited."

Meng Youshu smiled, seeing the garden for the banquet was in front of him, so he rewarded him with ten qian and asked him to leave.

Across a clump of verdant and dense green trees, one could vaguely hear the laughter there, Meng You said in relief, it's really good for Arlene to come out and walk more.She strolled forward, through the forest covered by green trees, to the open place where the banquet was held.

At a glance, she saw Meng Youlin in the crowd.The smile on Meng Youshu's lips froze, she expected to see a lively younger sister, but she only saw a withdrawn and alienated girl.Meng Youlin sat in the crowd, not saying a word, and there was no smile on her face. There were people around who wanted to talk to her, but she just listened, occasionally smiled politely, showing a lack of interest, and the woman who spoke to her walked away Go, Meng Youlin was still sitting there with a calm expression, as if she was just waiting for time, until the banquet, until returning home.

It was clearly not like this when she left!

Everyone was in high spirits and elated, everyone was chatting, laughing, appreciating refreshments, only she was extraordinarily lonely in the lively environment.

Meng Youshu closed her eyes, feeling her heart ache.how so?she asked herself.How did this happen?

Before going in, Meng Youshu backed out, replaced a passing servant girl, and asked her to invite Lord Lantian.

When Lord Lantian saw her, he said: "A Lin is a little quiet, it seems that she doesn't like such a lively banquet, why do you force her to come?"

"I have no idea……"

"Aren't you so busy?" Lord Lantian didn't ask too much about her family affairs, instead he said casually, "I'll take her out."

That's exactly what Meng Youshu meant, and when she saw her mentioning it, she hurriedly thanked her.

Not long after, Meng Youlin came out behind Lantian Junjun, holding a jade bamboo for exploring the way in her hand, with a happy smile on her face, that smile was so bright, it seemed that she was not the one who was lonely in the crowd.

Meng Youshu saw that the corners of her eyes were sore, she stepped forward and called out: "A Lin." She took the Polygonatum odoratum from her hand, and went to hold her by herself.When she touched Arlene's hand, she obviously felt that Arlene trembled, and reflexively withdrew her hand, but she held back and called her obediently: "Sister."

"En." Meng Youshu held back his words, handed the jade bamboo to the maidservant, held Meng Youlin by his hand, thanked Lord Lantian for his hospitality today, and took Meng Youlin back to the mansion.

On the way back, Meng Youshu couldn't help but want to ask her if there was anything she couldn't say well, why did she pretend to like it, if she knew she didn't want to go, would she still force her to go?

One question after another, but she dismissed it when she saw Meng Youlin leaning on the pillow in the corner, sitting quietly, so well-behaved that she didn't look like her at all.

Before, it wasn't like this...

"A Lin." Meng Youshu said in a slow tone, as if afraid of scaring her, "Did you have a good time today?"

"Happy." Meng Youlin replied, "My cousin is fine."

"Will you come again next time?"

Meng Youlin nodded: "Yes."

Meng Youshu stared blankly at her docile demeanor, and said nothing more.

She didn't speak, and the car fell silent.Meng Youlin moved her body, stared blankly at the front, and pursed the corners of her lips, showing a kind of uneasiness.

Meng Youshu watched her closely, looked at the corners of her lips, her cheeks, the corners of her eyes, her eyebrows, and every change in her face, wondering if her sister would still be like The same as before, confiding in her, talking to her about everything.

"Sister..." Meng Youlin couldn't see her eyes, but her intuition became very sensitive. She instinctively felt that Meng Youshu was very unhappy now, so she called obediently.

Meng Youshu's ears were pierced by this elder sister's voice, and she said expressionlessly, "What's the matter?"

Meng Youlin pursed the corner of her lower lip, showing nervousness: "Where did you go?"

"Your Majesty has summoned me, so I went to the palace."

"Oh." Meng Youlin nodded, and didn't ask her what she was doing in the palace, but Ah Shu was so depressed, it must be that His Majesty gave her some difficult errands.Meng Youlin calmly put her hands on her knees and listened quietly to the wheels turning.

When they returned to Huai'an Monarch's Mansion, Meng Youshu sent Meng Youlin back to her room.

There is still a while before dinner, and the host who returns from the banquet can freshen up and rest to rest from the exhaustion of the day.

Helping Meng Youlin to sit down on the couch, Meng Youshu made people prepare hot soup for bathing.

After all the maidservants left, or prepared clothes, or prepared bathing utensils, or went to the front hall to order dinner, Meng Youshu sat down beside Meng Youlin.Meng Youlin suddenly became nervous, Meng Youshu looked at her and said slowly: "A Lin, don't lie to me."

This is an affirmative sentence, and it has been determined that she is lying.Meng Youlin was flustered and at a loss for what to do. She called anxiously: "Sister...I, I..." She couldn't say anything without two words. Ashu had already said not to lie to her. If she lied again, it would only make her She resents it.

"You don't want to go out, so you don't have to go out." Meng Youshu said slowly, "In the future, whatever I mention, if you don't want to do it, then you don't have to do it."

Meng Youlin didn't know what she didn't do well enough, and she didn't understand why Ashu said that. She just felt very scared. Ashu didn't ask her for anything. Is she going to give up on her?

Meng Youlin bit her lower lip, she didn't nod her head, she didn't shake her head, she was only worried that if she made a wrong choice, Meng Youshu would give up on her.

It didn't take long before the little girl who didn't know much about the world became hesitant and learned to worry and be afraid.Seeing her pale face, Meng Youshu felt extremely sad.In the past, she was always worried that Arlene would not grow up, and that she was too naive, what would happen if she was bullied, but now that she finally looked like an adult, it made her heart feel like a knife.