Dressed as the teacher of the Black Lotus Emperor

Shen Qingzhuo frowned slightly, suspecting that she had misheard, and confirmed inconceivably, "You think I'm dirty?"

Xiao Shen's eyelashes drooped, he mumbled his mouth twice, but he didn't make a sound.

The candles in the hall were bleary, but the young boy was standing in the dark place with the backlight, unable to see the expression on his face clearly, exuding an aura of repelling others thousands of miles away.

Shen Qingzhuo was furious. He didn't say he was a clean freak, but at least he was hygienic. He always kept his body clean. No one ever disliked him for being dirty.

"Where did I get dirty?" He spread his palms sullenly, and his tone rose unconsciously, "I just cleaned my hands before I came here."

It was only then that Xiao Shen suddenly realized that the master seemed to be angry. The hand that pinched the little mouse just now unconsciously grabbed the hem of his clothes, and his fingertips were so hard that they sank deep into the fabric, "It's me..."

He is dirty.

Everything in the cold palace is dirty, including himself.

Shen Qingzhuo was startled for a while, and suddenly came back to his senses after a while.

He was a little dumbfounded for a while, walked around the square table to the little apprentice, bent slightly and joked: "Could it be that you were secretly playing with mud before I came?"

Xiao Shen subconsciously denied, "I didn't."

"It's dirty, just wash it clean, what's the big deal?" Without giving him a chance to react, Shen Qingzhuo quickly grabbed the small wrist, "Come on, let's wash our hands first."

The little boy who was hiding in the shadows was forcibly pulled out, and the light of the candle was reflected on his dazed little face, making him look a bit dazed.

Shen Qingzhuo couldn't help but dragged him out.

Naturally, there is also a small dining room in the cold palace, but the fire is usually not turned on, and it is deserted, and a thick layer of dust has fallen on the stove.

Searching around, Shen Qingzhuo found a fairly clean small wooden barrel, and carried it to fetch water in the yard.

In the middle of the night, the temperature was extremely low, but the well water that was pumped out was warm, with wisps of white steam radiating from the surface.

"Come here." Shen Qingzhuo took a breath and called, "Come and clean your hands."

Xiao Shen walked over according to his words, looked at the crystal clear water in the bucket, and suddenly said: "This water is not drinkable."

"I know, but I didn't let you drink it." Shen Qingzhuo put down his rolled up long sleeves, "It's just washing your hands."

He had read relevant information. The drinking water in ancient imperial palaces was usually natural mountain spring water brought in nearby. The well water in the palace was mostly used for scrubbing and cleaning, or to prevent fires, and to fetch water from the nearest fire.

As for the reasons, one is to show off the golden branches and jade leaves of the nobles in the palace, and the other is to fear that during the struggle in the harem, someone will throw poison into the well, or lose the battle and throw the corpse into the well...

Thinking of this, Shen Qingzhuo's face changed: "No one has thrown into this well, right?"

Xiao Shen just stared at him and didn't speak, as if he had acquiesced.

Shen Qingzhuo's back felt cold, goosebumps appeared on his arms, and he pretended to be calm and said: "Then we won't wash it, let's go in first."

"I lied to you." Xiao Shen smiled suddenly, "No one has thrown into this well."

Shen Qingzhuo: "?"

"You little bastard, really—" He saw the young apprentice smiling for the first time, he was speechless for a moment in surprise, and finally pinched his waist with one hand and cursed, "How dare you scare the master, you are not small!"

The smile on Xiao Shen's face was still there, and the moonlight reflected in his dark eyes, shining brightly.

In fact, he is not cheating Mr.

Two years ago, someone wanted to throw him into this well, but fortunately, he grabbed the edge of the well so tightly that his ten fingernails were about to be split, otherwise he would have become a tortoise in this well. corpse.

Shen Qingzhuo only thought that the little apprentice had made a joke with himself, and urged him to wash his hands quickly, and then took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, and carefully wiped off the water droplets on his hands.

Xiao Shen obediently let him play around the whole time.

The two returned to the side hall, Shen Qingzhuo took the dumpling and sat back at the table, checking his two swollen little hands under the flickering flames.

"Why don't you use the chilblain medicine I gave you?" He opened his eyelids, only to find that Tuanzi's eyes were staring blankly at the jaw of his left hand.

Shen Qingzhuo understood, and raised his left hand to get closer to Tuanzi's eyes, teasingly said, "Look, which puppy bit this?"

The bite taken by the little wolf cub a few days ago has healed, forming a flesh-pink crescent-shaped scar on the tiger's mouth.

For others, such a wound on his hand might not be conspicuous, but his hand is as white as jade and flawless, and this pink crescent moon looks particularly abrupt, as if destroying a kind of holy beauty.

Xiao Shen pursed his lips, a strange emotion flashed in his eyes.

"Okay, it's no big deal." Shen Qingzhuo quickly withdrew his hand, "Which man won't leave a few scars in his life?"

Xiao Shen forcibly moved his eyes away from that hand, and said in a muffled voice, "It won't happen next time."

Shen Qingzhuo raised his eyebrows slightly, and flicked his forehead with his fingers, "Do you still want to have a next time?"

But it's not certain, with the little wolf cub's strong temper of "rather to be broken than to be whole", given time, if they turn their backs again, there is still a high probability that the little guy will kill him and not let go.

This time Xiao Shen didn't avoid his fingers, and even raised his face imperceptibly.

Anyway, sir, he won't really use his strength.

"Drink the soup while it's hot, and later the master will apply the medicine to you." Shen Qingzhuo opened the food box again, "It's not easy to carry it all the way, so don't leave a single bite."

Xiao Shen took the soup cup: "Okay."

Shen Qingzhuo propped his chin with one hand, seeing the little apprentice burying his head in the soup like a gourd, he thought that this time he didn't doubt whether he had poisoned the soup.

Yes, there is progress.

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In the deep palace, the years passed unknowingly, and several days passed in the blink of an eye.

This morning, just as Shen Qingzhuo got up, he heard Xiao Dezi announce outside the door: "My lord, Eunuch Su is here."

Shen Qingzhuo paused as he wiped his hands.

Eunuch Su?Isn't this the eunuch who served the old emperor personally?

The drowsiness from getting up early was swept away, Shen Qingzhuo cheered up instantly, and walked out of the inner hall quickly.

"Mr. Shen, congratulations." As soon as he left the palace gate, Mr. Su, who was wearing a blue eunuch uniform, congratulated him with a happy smile.

Shen Qingzhuo also smiled: "Grandpa Su, what is the Holy Spirit's will?"

Eunuch Su held up the imperial decree: "Young Master Shen's birthday is approaching, the Holy One specially ordered our family to come to congratulate you."

Shen Qingzhuo understood, and immediately knelt down to accept the order.

Eunuch Su began to proclaim the decree.

The content of the imperial decree is full of nonsense, but in summary there is only one central idea: I pity that you came to Shengjing alone away from your hometown, and you can’t spend your birthday with your father, brother and relatives. I hereby give you gold and silver jewelry. If you have anything else you want, just come I beg you.

"Come here, bring in the sacred things bestowed by the Holy One." After the eunuch Su announced the imperial decree, he swept the dust away, and the young eunuchs waiting outside the hall immediately brought in two large boxes.

Shen Qingzhuo: "I thank you, Lord Long En."

Eunuch Su: "Young Master Shen, the Holy Majesty specially told you that if you want other rewards, you can go back to the palace with our family to face the Holy Spirit."

Shen Qingzhuo didn't want anything, but still responded softly: "Okay, then I will trouble Eunuch Su."

The two walked out of the main hall one after the other, Shen Qingzhuo glanced at the direction of the small study calmly, and sure enough, he saw Tuanzi sneaking behind the pillars, observing them secretly.

He didn't look much, and walked out with Eunuch Su.

After transmigrating into this world, in order to avoid trouble, Shen Qingzhuo seldom walked around in the palace at will, so he went to the Prince's Mansion in the East Palace before, and then went to the Leng Palace where he ran the most frequently, so he was not familiar with the layout of the palace at all.

During this face-to-face meeting, he secretly wrote down the route he took.

Outside the imperial study room, after the notification from the eunuch, Eunuch Su carefully lifted the curtain, and Shen Qingzhuo stepped into the hall gently.

Emperor Guangxi was sitting in front of the desk reading the memorial. Underneath was a minister wearing a court uniform. He knelt for an unknown how long, with his back straight.

"My minister pays homage to the emperor." Shen Qingzhuo lifted the brocade robe, knelt down and kowtowed to Emperor Guangxi.

He is a modern man who was born and bred, he kneels up to the heaven and earth, kneels down to his parents, but now he has to do as the Romans do, respectfully kneel down to pay respects to the old emperor.

This evil feudal society ah.

"Excuse me." Emperor Guangxi raised his eyes and said with a smile, "Raise your head, let me see how you look recently?"

Shen Qingzhuo stood up as he said, raised his face, and looked calmly at Emperor Guangxi behind the desk.

Emperor Guangxi was over forty years old, and he was in his prime. He wore a dragon robe embroidered with bright yellow Dagon, and his demeanor carried an innate majesty of an emperor.

With just one glance, Shen Qingzhuo pretended not to dare to look directly, lowered his eyes slightly, "Thanks to the emperor's concern, everything is fine with me."

"I see that my complexion is better than the previous few months." Emperor Guangxi joked, "Could it be that the Jiyue Pavilion is more comfortable to live in than the East Palace?"

Shen Qingzhuo said lightly: "Jiyue Pavilion is the residence awarded by the emperor to the ministers, so it is naturally comfortable to live in."

Emperor Guangxi laughed and said, "My boy, your mouth is getting sweeter and sweeter."

Shen Qingzhuo: "I'm just telling the truth."

"It's a good one to tell the truth." Emperor Guangxi put down the memorial, got up and walked down the high platform, and pointed out, "There are many talented people around me, but there are a few people who dare to tell the truth. Xue Shilang, what do you say?" Woolen cloth?"

Xue Yan, who was kneeling like a statue, said, "The emperor is right."

"That's all." Emperor Guangxi sneered, "Today you are in the light of young master Shen, you step back first, don't kneel here and obstruct my eyes."

"Yes. I will take my leave first." Xue Shilang knelt for too long, his legs were unavoidably stiff, he swayed slightly when he got up, and then quickly stabilized his figure.

When passing by Mr. Shen's side, he accidentally tripped over the threshold under his feet, and Shen Qingzhuo helped him casually, "Be careful, my lord."

Xue Shilang's face turned red: "Thank you, Mr. Shen."

Shen Qingzhuo smiled lightly and let go of his hand.

The hall was quiet again, and Emperor Guangxi sat back on his chair, "Qing Zhuo, do you still like the little gadgets I rewarded you?"

Shen Qingzhuo said neither humble nor overbearing: "The emperor loves you, but the minister has no worries about food and clothing in the palace, so those rewards are really useless."

"You will accept what I reward you." Emperor Guangxi paused, "On your 20th birthday next year, I will summon your father and brother to Beijing to accompany you for the coronation ceremony, how about it?"

Shen Qingzhuo thought to himself, what kind of bad old man are you pretending to be a good person, but there was a look of surprise on his face: "Your Majesty really?"

"You are not joking." Emperor Guangxi said softly, "You left home and came to Shengjing at a young age. It has been three years now. I think you must miss your father and brother at home."

Shen Qingzhuo lowered his eyes: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your compassion."

Emperor Guangxi nodded in satisfaction, and said casually: "I forgot to ask you, you volunteered to be the attendant of the Seventh Prince, how do you feel?"

After rambling a lot, we finally got to the point.

There was a hint of shame on Shen Qingzhuo's face: "The seventh prince has not yet been enlightened, and the humble minister has little knowledge, so he is powerless to teach him."

"It's hard for you." Emperor Guangxi said casually, "So what do you think, is there still a need for that child to continue teaching?"

Shen Qingzhuo fell silent for a while.

It's not that he doesn't know the real intention of Emperor Guangxi's questioning.Firstly, Emperor Guangxi had seven sons, one more and one less, and he didn't care too much about the seventh prince who grew up in the cold palace.

Secondly, the Tian family had no father and son. Back then, he slaughtered the entire Zhao family in one night, and he felt somewhat ghostly in his heart. For this seventh prince who had half the blood of the Zhao family, he felt uncomfortable no matter how he looked at it, and even had a very secret fear.

So he originally planned to keep Xiao Shen in the cold palace like this, but the Empress Dowager wanted to intervene, so he had to put on a show and ordered to find a servant for the Seventh Prince.

A few days ago, Shaofu Pei also reminded Shen Qingzhuo that he could take this opportunity to throw away this hot potato and return to the East Palace to continue his leisurely life.

"Why don't you talk anymore?" Emperor Guangxi's eyes were deep, and he said with a smile that was not a smile, "Just now I was still praising you, dare to tell the truth."

Shen Qingzhuo made a decisive decision and knelt down to plead guilty: "I am not talented, so I can only enlighten His Highness the Seventh Highness, teaching His Highness the principles of filial piety, loyalty, courtesy, righteousness, integrity and shame. If the emperor wants His Highness to learn something, I am afraid that His Highness will go with the princes. Learning is the best policy."

The author has something to say:

Little wolf cub: Mister hasn't come back for so long, don't you really want me?

Mr. Shen: Don't think, I'm struggling with your unlucky father...

Say Happy New Year's Day in advance~ I wish you all a fortune in the new year!

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