Linque

Contrary to Chu Heng's panic, Dabai Tuanzi immediately moved and jumped off the couch when he saw his father, saluted carelessly, then jumped into Ling Ye's arms like a bird, and tugged at his clothes. Robe, said in a childish voice: "Father! My son pays respects to Father."

"En." Ling Ye responded, bent over to straighten Tuanzi's body, lowered his eyes and said, "Didn't you still rely on your cousin two days ago, why are you willing to go home today?"

"Hmm..." Tuanzi thought for a while, then replied, "Ayan came back after missing his father."

Ling Ye was noncommittal.

In a few days it will be Princess Changning's birthday. The emperor respects his aunt. According to the usual practice in previous years, he will always take the little prince to the princess mansion to sit down and drink a glass of water and wine. Therefore, Gu Yanshi will send Qing Yan, who is reluctant to leave, a few days in advance. After sending it back, he had just met the saint in the main hall, and now he has left the palace.

Ling Ye repeated: "Miss me?"

"En." Tuanzi nodded heavily, then raised his face and asked, "Did Emperor Father miss Ayan?"

Ling Ye glanced at him, "I don't want to."

"Humph!"

Tuanzi turned his head in dissatisfaction, ignored his father, turned around and ran a few steps, and threw himself into Chu Heng's arms.

Ling Ye followed behind him, rubbed his head with a smile to comfort him, and said to Chu Heng, "You haven't answered the question just now."

"Yes, that's right." Qingyan immediately remembered the matter after his father reminded him, and asked eagerly, "What does Uncle Dongjun look like? If he is a junior, he must know it?"

Qing Yan glanced back at the emperor, Ling Ye nodded in agreement, and said with a smile: "Of course junior brother knows."

Then the father and son looked at Chu Heng together.

"..."

Chu Heng looked at Tuanzi's innocent and lovely face, and met the emperor's half-smiling eyes, his head dilated twice.

It’s wrong to say too much in front of the emperor, and it’s even worse to tell lies——Chu Heng has already realized this, he was silent, looked at the two people, one big and one small, and said sincerely: “I don’t know, big brother In Lishan, I never take off my mask to show others."

"Liar!"

Chu Heng's eyelids twitched, and the dumpling in front of him pouted, his cheeks puffed up, and he looked at Chu Heng dissatisfied, as if he didn't want to believe it.

Chu Heng was poked into his mind by this dumpling, and quickly raised his eyelids to glance at the emperor, who was still smiling, as if he was watching them play.

Chu Heng heaved a sigh of relief, squatted down and looked at Tuanzi, and said seriously: "I didn't lie to you, I really don't know, if you don't believe me, I will take you to Luyuan to ask, the people there are all Dongjun's juniors, and they also have no idea."

Dabai Tuanzi looked at him suspiciously.

Chu Heng was heartbroken, and said self-deprecatingly: "Dongjun is very fierce, he can beat people, we dare not ask him."

"No!" Tuanzi shook his head like a rattle, and hurriedly defended Ji Wuyue, "Uncle Dongjun is obviously very good."

"That's right for you." Chu Heng pinched the little face of Tuanzi lightly, "Our prince is cute and cute, everyone likes it. What does Dongjun look like, and when I see him in the future, can you ask yourself? I want to Know."

Tuanzi was overjoyed by the praise, her cheeks flushed, and she asked embarrassedly, "Then when will he come again?"

Chu Heng stood up and threw the question to the emperor: "I have to ask your father, see if your father is right."

Dabai Tuanzi turned around and looked at the emperor expectantly.

Ling Ye raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes fell on Chu Heng's face, and he seemed to respond casually: "I don't care about his legs, should he report to me where he goes? He is a Mahayana, and no one will stop him when he is free." Don't worry, even if you sneak into the imperial capital without asking for an order, no one will know about it?"

"..."

Chu Heng remained calm, but his heart skipped a few beats.

He knew that His Majesty did not like to see Ji Wuyue very much, but the tone of these few words now is casual, but it is shocking to look at carefully, and he does not know whether the emperor is joking or really thinks so.

With a thorny back, Chu Heng bit the bullet and argued dryly: "My elder brother won't do anything foolish, and he will definitely ask for an order when he comes to the imperial capital..."

Ling Ye was noncommittal, stared at him with a slight smile, and when Chu Heng almost thought that he meant something, Ling Ye finally nodded and said "Yes": "I know, but I just said it casually. "

At the end of the sentence, Ling Ye reached out and took a piece of candied fruit from the box on the desk, and fed it to the disappointed and discouraged Dabai Tuanzi.

Chu Heng looked at his expression indiscriminately. The emperor didn't seem to notice anything wrong. The few words that hit the bull's-eye just now seemed to be just because he didn't like Ji Wuyue very much. , has turned this matter over.As for the more crucial words in front of Tuanzi, I think I didn't hear them.

But Chu Heng was really puzzled, why His Majesty had objections to Ji Wuyue, since the first time we met, he was targeting Ji Wuyue for no reason, as if he was not pleasing to the eye, and he didn't know when he offended His Majesty.

Chu Heng couldn't help but sighed in his heart.

Dabai Tuanzi was not easy to coax this time, after eating two pieces of candied fruit in a row, he was still depressed, so Chu Heng proposed to Ling Ye to order someone to bring a cup of steamed yoghurt with sugar, and took Tuanzi by the hand to take him to eat.

Qingyan suffered a lot when he was a baby. He was obviously a nobleman, but he was as thin as a kitten, until the emperor carried him back to Ming Cheng Palace.He was too young and had been poisoned, so he learned to drink medicine before he knew how to eat. When it was bitter, he especially liked sweets.

But this wish can't always come true.

The emperor put him in the Mingcheng Palace to take good care of him, and finally managed to raise a big white dumpling carved with jade. He always obeyed the old doctor Cheng's instructions when eating, and did not dare to let him indulge in such things as candy and candied fruit. .

So a bowl of sweet steamed crispy cheese easily coaxed the disgruntled Dabai Duanzi, and when they ate it, they didn't forget to give half of it to Chu Heng, and two people, one big and one small, gathered around the table and chatted for a long time , Ling Ye couldn't help but bend his eyes and chuckle.

Later, Dali Temple presented a Taobao booklet. It was not thick, but a few thin pages. Ling Ye read it back and forth several times. Looking at the name, he felt both helpless and a little irritable. He pondered for a while, and finally dipped the imperial pen Cinnabar, drop a word "quasi".

After dinner, Qingyan was carried back to Yuzheng Palace by the maids of the East Palace, leaving only Chu Heng and Ling Ye in the study.After resting on the couch for a while, seeing the snow outside stopped for a while, Chu Heng was about to get up, when Ling Ye reached out and held him down: "Where are you going?"

"Didn't you agree to return to the Hall of Martial Arts today?"

Now is not the time to announce their relationship to the public. Chu Heng can't stay overnight in the Mingcheng Palace every day, otherwise it will easily arouse suspicion. He returned to the Wuying Palace yesterday, and he planned to do the same tonight, but now, His Majesty the Emperor has obviously changed his mind.

Ling Ye stood up and took Chu Heng's hand and walked to the imperial case. There were several brand new cinnabar pens of different thicknesses neatly stacked on the corner of the table—he had asked Chu Heng to pick them out in the afternoon.

Ling Ye picked up one of the jade tubes casually, held it between his fingers and twirled it twice, then turned his head and smiled and asked, "Did you pick the one you like?"

Chu Heng keenly detected a hint of "danger" from his smile, hesitated for a moment, and nodded slowly.

"Just like it." Ling Ye smiled deeper, picked up the memorial that was left aside and handed it to Chu Heng, "Your case is closed."

The emperor had already stated his position at the Great Court Meeting, so Dali Temple naturally had no scruples.As expected, Xiao Gaomin, Ye Shuli, Su Lang and Chu Heng were fined, but Yun Fei——

"Forty sticks?!" Chu Heng was stunned, "Really?"

Ling Ye nodded, "Yes", and said flatly, "He is the main culprit."

Chu Heng frowned, lowered his eyes and hesitated for a while, and then said: "Your Majesty, forty sticks are too heavy, right? Fighting and wounding are only thirty sticks according to the law, not to mention that Yong'an Hou Shizi was also said to be a king at the court meeting." The principal culprit was only fined. It’s not right, isn’t it?”

"This is the number determined by Prime Minister Yan." Ling Ye said, "After the court meeting in the morning, Prime Minister Yan went to Dali Temple in person and said that Yunfei didn't have to go through eight meetings, and everything would be strictly investigated. Ten sticks."

Ling Ye's eyes were deep, his voice paused for a moment, and he said slowly and flatly: "There's nothing wrong with it, you don't know what's going on when you're blessed, just let your temper take it for granted, and after being beaten and learned enough, he knows what to do Shouldn't have done it."

After saying that, before Chu Heng could speak again, Ling Ye cut off the words first: "Okay, the book has been approved, it's too late for you to plead now, let's think about yourself first—"

"Me?" Chu Heng was slightly surprised.

Ling Ye played with the jade-tube Langhao brush, raised his eyebrows and smiled and said, "Isn't it spread all over the world? Today, I severely punished the imperial servant Mo. You are not joking. Those who committed crimes with you will be added up in the main hall." Kneeling for nearly an hour, I have to be fair to you—"

An ominous premonition suddenly rose in Chu Heng's heart.

Ling Ye reached out and clasped his waist, and said with a smile: "But the queen is different from other people, she can't kneel on the golden bricks in the main hall, so I changed the place."