Shaodi Chunxin

Weird.

After a red wall, time seemed to slow down. The sky covered the palace wall, like a heavy curtain, hanging between everyone's hearts and brows, making people breathless.

The emperor respects and salutes.

The eunuchs who married into the palace followed a long, boring, and cumbersome etiquette system.

Keeping the rituals for the emperor and maintaining the face of the royal family.

The carriage could only be parked outside the Xuanwu Gate, and the eunuch who was in charge of rituals had already lifted a stool and waited for Fu Yuanqing at the Xuanwu Gate.

"Old ancestor..." Debao was a little anxious.

"what happened?"

"Master, he..." Debao glanced slightly into the car, "The Queen Mother came to the Hall of Mental Cultivation and said that she would have dinner with Master Long Live."

Fu Yuanqing was puzzled: "Isn't it a good thing for a mother to be kind and filial to her son? Why are you so anxious?"

"Yes... But you also know that our Long Live Lord is headstrong. After you left at noon, Long Live Lord refused to get up after a half-hour rest. Later, I heard that the Queen Mother was late, and she refused to come out to meet people. Now, the Queen Mother Still sitting in the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

Fu Yuanqing felt a headache.

Probably due to the loss of his father and mother when he was young, the young emperor's temper has always been a little perverted.

If you really become self-willed, ten cows can't hold it back.

Fu Yuanqing said to Chen Jing in the car: "I still need to go over to serve the pen and ink at the emperor's side. You should go back to the palm print room first."

Chen Jing answered yes.

Fu Yuanqing thought of his suffering the day before yesterday, so he comforted him in a low voice: "I am not on duty tonight, and I will go back when the person on duty comes tonight."

"Okay, old ancestor." After Chen Jing finished speaking, he retreated into the darkness.

Fu Yuanqing watched the carriage go around the outer city, and asked someone to let Chen Jing go back from Xihua Gate. After the carriage left, he got on the stool, and Debao led the way back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

According to the rules, at Xu time every day, you should enter the Hall of Mental Cultivation and wait quietly, waiting for the kowtow to be placed. After the kowtow, the steward on duty will leave the signboard, and other people can leave the hall.For many small matters in a day, if the master asks, he has to answer clearly. If there is any ambiguity, no matter what the grade is, he has to ask the board under the Hall of Yangxin.

In the past, when the emperor was young, such cumbersome rules were fine. Debao arranged for a steward on duty, and closed the door of the dormitory, even if the day's work was over.

I don't know why today, when Fu Yuanqing entered the Hall of Mental Cultivation, everyone from Prison 24 came, kneeling and waiting outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Judging by the solemn atmosphere, they must have knelt for a long time.

When Fu Yuanqing got off the stool, Debao whispered: "The queen mother said a few words. The servants in the palace are lazy without rules. The master is not here...cough! Before getting up, the queen mother made a proposal to let us All of you, please come and place your head on the head of the master. It just so happened that you came out of the palace to announce the decree, no one dared to disobey the queen mother, dozens of lords came here."

While the two of them were talking, they had already climbed the steps, and when the curtain was lifted, it was the Zhongzheng Renhe Hall.

Just as Fu Yuanqing was about to go in, he heard the Queen Mother's voice from inside: "If you come back late, don't come in. Wait and go later."

Fu Yuanqing responded: "Yes, I know."

The queen mother laughed again, and raised her voice to ask: "Liu Jiu, what are you?"

Liu Jiu, who was kneeling by the door, quickly replied: "Liu Jiu is a slave in the imperial city, a dog of the master."

"How do you call yourself?"

"Should be called a slave." Liu Jiu said again.

"Good slaves, they understand their own status, and don't need to be taught by Aijia. I thought that the servants who served the emperor would learn to steal and play tricks because of the emperor's young age. It turned out that there was something clear after all. "The queen mother sat inside and said slowly.

Debao looked troubled and looked at Fu Yuanqing.

The queen mother vented here, but because Liu Jiu's soldier talisman was taken away, Yang Lingxue became the governor, and the situation was reversed in an instant. Her plan to use the support of the Ministry of War to exchange power for the future fell through.

She bears a grudge, but she can't take revenge on the emperor, so she wants to embarrass his subordinates.

But since he is already a servant, it is not difficult to bear these.

It's just that the news came out at noon, and the moment he left the palace, the queen mother came. If someone hadn't reported the news, the timing might not be so accurate.

Thinking of this, Fu Yuanqing glanced at Liu Jiu who was kneeling in the first place.

"Old ancestor..." Debao was anxious.

Fu Yuanqing patted Debao's shoulder reassuringly, swept his robe lightly, knelt down beside Liu Jiu and kowtowed: "I know my mistake."

Inside, the queen mother didn't speak for a while, and then said after a while: "I think you suffered some torture in prison, and your legs and feet are not good. I will give you a stool to walk in the Forbidden City. But the stool is a stool after all, and two poles are used together. A chair, that's not a walking chariot. Fu Zhangyin needs to be more vigilant."

"What the queen mother said, the maidservant wrote it down." Fu Yuanqing replied.

"The stool should be removed." The Empress Dowager said, "Our Forbidden City can't support such a delicate slave."

"Yes, order the Queen Mother to speak."

"Go away." The Queen Mother said, "Kneel to the back."

"Yes."

Fu Yuanqing got up and knelt down to the end of the crowd.

After passing through the crowd, Fang Jing raised his head to look at him, the rims of his eyes were reddened, and there was nothing he could do.

In front of the 24 prisons, at least two or three people came from one prison, and they went in one by one to kowtow to say goodbye. It took more than half an hour. The green bricks on the ground of the gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation were much cooler than the shade under the eaves. The ancestors knelt there for half a day At this moment, it was already a heart-rending pain.

After a while, Debao came out in a hurry and said, "Your Majesty is awake, you can come in and kowtow."

The crowd began to move slowly.

But extremely slow.

There was a sound of kowtow to say hello from inside the warm pavilion, but it took a while for Da Dang to come out.Fu Yuanqing speculated that the queen mother deliberately delayed the time, and she had to teach them a lesson one by one.

It was finally dark.

Both sides held palace lanterns.

Then someone hurried in from outside the gate and knelt down beside Fu Yuanqing.

Fu Yuanqing went to see it.

It was Cao Ban'an, the supervisor of ceremonies, who was sweating a little on his face, but after kneeling down, Fu Yuanqing's crumbling body could be relied on.

Then he greeted the little eunuch next to him, took a small table, and placed a bowl of hot ginseng soup.

"Old ancestor, drink two sips of ginseng soup to cheer yourself up." Cao Ban'an whispered, "The empress dowager has to endure this battle."

"Take it away, let the masters see it and have something to say." Fu Yuanqing was a little tired, and said lightly, "I can still bear it."

"If you see it, tell me that I, Cao Ban'an, have a big show." Cao Ban'an replied, "Don't worry about the old ancestor. Whether you want to be put in the shackles or be beaten, you have a small burden."

Fu Yuanqing didn't refuse any more.

Cao Ban'an has always had no temper in front of Fu Yuanqing, but his temper is stubborn, and he is rarely willing to change things that he has made up his mind.

He stopped persuading him, so as not to waste Cao Banan's painstaking efforts.

"When did you return to the palace?" Fu Yuanqing asked him.

"Quickly close the palace gate and rush into the palace." Cao Ban'an replied.

Fu Yuanqing finally regained some energy. He coughed twice and asked, "Qian Zongfu..."

Cao Ban'an said "Yes", took out two cushions from his arms, and secretly placed them under the ancestor's knees, then raised his eyes and said: "Qian Zongfu has been captured from Nanjing. I have personally watched Master Lai Liqun lock him up." Go to imperial prison, rush all night, return to the palace to restore the life of our ancestors."