You hear it, do people say it?

A hand with red marks was stretched out in front of his eyes, and the owner of the hand was still looking straight at him, making it clear that if you don't comfort me, I won't give up.

It would be fine if it was in normal times; but when he thought that this man might have suffered a lot of grievances in the palace yesterday and today, and he didn't know what punishment he had received, he couldn't bear it after all.

Helplessly looking at Xun Yi, Fu Ning gently held Xun Yi's hand, leaned over and blew, and said something like coaxing a child: "Okay, it doesn't hurt anymore."

The warm breath passed over his hand, which made Xun Yi a little unbelievable, and gave birth to many charming conjectures.

He thought of the day when Fu Ning was cooking for no reason, and suddenly his heart moved—maybe, he could go one step further?

The warmth on the back of his hand was about to leave, it was Funing who let go of his hand.

Xun Yi, on the other hand, seemed a little reluctant, and still put his hand in front of him: "It still hurts."

Fu Ning raised his eyebrows, and looked at him with a half smile but not a smile: "Why didn't you notice that Brother Shengzhi is so delicate?"

Xun Yi was about to tell a lie, but suddenly there was a clattering sound from the pool in front of him, followed by random "meowing".

It turned out that the kitten had been looking at the fish for a long time, and finally couldn't hold back its greedy eyes. It stretched its paws down to the pond to catch it, but it slipped its three paws and fell into the pond.

Fu Ning looked at it looking embarrassed in the water, raised his eyebrows and looked at Xun Yi: "Brother Sheng just wanted to play with it, now is the time for you to show your skills and get closer."

Xun Yi was interrupted by the cat to "ask for comfort", and immediately saw that it was not pleasing to the eye: "It just scratched me, I don't want to play with it anymore."

Funing laughed, got up and walked over, and fished out the kitten that was flopping around in the pond.

The cat was not big at first, but now it was soaked in the water, it looked even smaller, curled up on Funing's lap, licking its fur pitifully.

Xun Yi looked at the water marks on his cuffs that instantly faded away, frowned, and passed the handkerchief beside him: "Just put it on the blanket."

His indifferent and dissatisfied tone reminded Fu Ning of how he was messing around on the official roads outside the capital before, and couldn't help laughing out: "It's just a kitten, Brother Shengzhi, you have a lot of people!" , why bother to get angry with him."

Xun Yi didn't know what happened to him today, but seeing him patiently cleaning the kitten, he couldn't help but want to say something childish.

After finally wiping the kitten half dry, Fu Ning put down the towel, and suddenly remembered what the third prince entrusted, so he took out the little cloth bag and handed it to Xun Yi: "I met the third prince when I came here just now. He asked me to pass this on to you."

Xun Yi took the small cloth bag, opened it for a look, then stuffed it back into Funing's hands: "It was originally for you, you just keep it."

Fu Ning was a little surprised. He looked down and realized that what was wrapped in the soft silk cloth was a lone ancient book left by the previous dynasty. It was the one he wanted to read but couldn't find.

But how did the third prince know that he needed ancient books?

Glancing at Xun Yi who was pretending to be reading a book as if nothing had happened, Funing held back his smile and said intentionally, "I never thought His Highness the Third Prince would be so careful and know my preferences. I will definitely come to thank you someday."

Xun Yi flicked the pages of the book for a moment, then remained silent for a while: "No need."

"Huh? Why?"

Xun Yi:......

Looking at his appearance, Fu Ning finally couldn't hold back and laughed out loud.

Hearing his laughter, Xun Yi didn't know that he was deliberately entertaining himself, raised his eyebrows and pressed his shoulder, and when he got closer to speak, someone knocked on the courtyard door.

A servant opened the door and walked in, but he didn't dare to move forward, he just lowered his head and said, "His Royal Highness, there are people from the palace, and they say they want you to go there to receive the order."

Xun Yi stopped moving, let go of his hand and said lightly: "Got it."

Funing looked over worriedly: "Shall I go with you?"

But Xun Yi just smiled: "No, I just listen to an order, just wait for me here."

As he spoke, he put on his clothes, shoes and socks by himself, and walked out unhurriedly. After a while, he came back with a volume of imperial decree.

When Fu Ning just came, he saw him sitting with full beard and tail, and he knew in his heart that the emperor did not punish him severely; but when he saw him coming back, he still asked: "What is the holy will, can you be punished?"

Seeing that he was worried about himself, Xun Yi felt much better again, and handed the imperial decree to him: "See for yourself."

After all, there was no one else here, so Funing accepted the imperial decree, read it at a glance, and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's just grounding and fines, it's okay."

For Xun Yi's status, grounding and fines are more of a face-saving punishment. Basically, the Holy Majesty does not intend to argue with him, so a small punishment is a big commandment.

The hanging heart fell to the ground, and Funing couldn't help showing a smile: "Sure enough, His Majesty still cares about family affection."

Xun Yi laughed, "Family love?"

Fu Ning looked at him with some doubts, but Xun Yi didn't continue the chat, but looked at him and said slowly: "Do you know how the Lin family punished them?"

Facing Fu Ning's slightly surprised gaze, he said calmly: "The Holy Majesty reprimanded Zhong Shuling, saying that he was not strict in discipline, causing the juniors in the family to despise others wantonly, ordered him to shut himself up and reflect on his mistakes, and fined him three months' salary."

Fu Ning frowned: "It's the same punishment as yours, the Holy Majesty is planning to make a bowl of water equal?"

The corner of Xun Yi's lips twitched: "In addition, Lin Ping frightened Zhongshu Li Shilang's daughter-in-law, spoke bad words to the students in the same school, spread rumors, and even drugged the students in the same school. His behavior was bad, and the Holy One was furious. He has been ordered to withdraw from Guozi Academy."

Dropping out of Guozixue basically cut off Lin Ping's official career.Poor old Zhongshu Ling has worked so hard to plan a lot for his children and grandchildren, and now it's all in vain.

Fu Ning said indifferently: "If you do many unrighteous acts, you will kill yourself. He has fallen into this situation today, and he can't blame others; it's just that His Majesty counts crimes and punishes him like this. There must be some reason?"

Xun Yi looked at him, and nodded approvingly: "That's right. When your uncle pleaded for me this morning, he said all this with tears in his eyes, so that His Majesty can take advantage of the situation and suppress the Lin family."

"Follow the trend?"

Xun Yi said: "The Lin family likes to form cliques for private interests and collusion between officials and officials. The Holy Majesty has disliked them for a long time. Now that they finally have a chance, how can they not be ruthless?"

Fu Ning suddenly remembered last night, when he and Li Shilang talked about Jing Shu, Li Shilang's sudden good mood.He originally thought that Li Shilang was happy because he had found the real culprit, but after hearing Xun Yi's words today, he suddenly discovered that there might be deeper reasons above the court.

And as for his grandfather handing over the manpower to him and letting him deploy to investigate this matter, I am afraid that most of it is not only the intention of the grandfather, but also the acquiescence of the Holy Majesty. His grandfather asked him to investigate the case. For the reason, let the Holy One see Fu Ning's ability.

Seeing that Funing bowed his head in silence, Xun Yi asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Fu Ning said softly: "I just feel that the court affairs are much more complicated than I imagined, and I'm really too dull."

But Xun Yi shook his head: "You are not stupid at all, it's just that you just arrived in the capital and don't understand the key points; there is still a long time before you actually set foot in the court, enough for you to slowly sort out the bright and the dark. at the line."

Fu Ning nodded, but his expression was not relaxed.After all, although his mother has many brothers and sisters, in this generation, there are only him and Jing Shu. Jing Shu is lively and unwilling to be restrained, so the fame and the responsibility of the court fall on him. It was a little unnerving to call him.

Suddenly there was a chuckle beside him.

Fu Ning raised his head and saw Xun Yi looking at him: "But if you really want to learn, how about calling me good brother, and I will teach you now?"?