I just like the Prime Minister

Li Chengzuo: "Snow jade is ice, and phoenix is ​​fire. It is a symbiotic existence." Li Chengzuo said, "The phoenix chalcedony and the soul of snow jade are both obtained by Gu Xuecheng, and they belong to the same master. I am afraid it will resonate with the phoenix."

In order to please the prime minister, His Majesty the Emperor sent all kinds of trinkets, and the Prime Minister's Mansion could almost open an exhibition hall in the inner house to "enshrine" His Majesty the Emperor's heartfelt and inadvertent gifts.

Not long ago, when Li Chengzuo was assassinated, he rewarded Jiang Xizhu with a jade ruyi under the name of "rescuing him". This object is still placed on the desk of the prime minister's study-it had been collected when he was sick a few days ago. Woke up, recovering from illness in the past two days, the servant girl of the prime minister's mansion tidied up the study for the prime minister, and put it out again for some reason.

Jiang Xizhu didn't expect that what Li Chengzuo casually rewarded would be such a well-known thing, let alone that this Ruyi was the "Snow Jade" who was originally famous all over the world.

He can guess the cause and effect, and the secret, but he can't guess Li Chengzuo's intentions and unintentional intentions.

And... Li Chengzuo gave him such a thing, is it really a reckless act caused by his temperament?

Jiang Xizhu's heart suddenly sank.

The things he has known in recent days are like a sudden explosion after the extremes must be reversed - first he doesn't know anything, and then he is too involved in everything.

He never doubted Li Chengzuo's actions before, but later found out that those actions were all fake.From some perspectives and standpoints, he didn't want to suspect Li Chengzuo, but now, he doesn't know whether he should be suspicious or not.

"Your Majesty." Jiang Xizhu said suddenly, his voice was a bit dazed that he didn't even notice, "Did you plan it long ago... since you gave me that piece of snow jade, or earlier?"

Li Chengzuo was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that before he could feel complacent, he noticed that Junchi's face was wrong, and suddenly realized what Jiang Xizhu was talking about, and suddenly showed a trace of unexpected panic, and immediately defended himself.

"No." Li Chengzuo said anxiously, "Junchi, I don't have that many plans...I didn't mean that at first."

what do you mean?

Jiang Xizhu's brows were slightly frowned. It was clearly the midsummer season, but his palm felt as if he was holding a piece of ice for no reason. Feeling cold, his mood began to spread uncontrollably.

He thought a lot during his illness. After he recovered, Li Chengzuo's attitude of being low-key made him have a new idea-he used to think that Li Chengzuo was a dou who couldn't help him, but now, this dou suddenly became It's not an obvious generation of talents, that's all, his heart to assist Li Chengzuo is the same, and his heart to follow Li Chengzuo is also the same. Whether it's a generation of emperors or a generation of foolish emperors, he just needs to accompany him through the journey.

He never thought that maybe Li Chengzuo's imperial dominance or incompetence may not have him at all-he was originally the person who was not planned, and he was never with Li Chengzuo...

If only I hadn’t been born in the narrow place of a family in the capital, Jiang Xizhu thought, if I had walked across the vast rivers and lakes like the fifth princess of Taizong, or like Song Yingluo; or like Gu Xuecheng, Born in the darkness of royal conspiracy, but after all, he has the ability to make the court afraid and make the world admire him.

I can expand the territory for him, or I can retreat to the rivers and lakes for him, it is better than being a useless scholar, let him take pains to keep me away from disputes in order to protect me or think that I am a burden...

There was a turbulent storm in his heart, and he couldn't keep his face calm, but facing Li Chengzuo, he just slightly darkened his eyes and said nothing.

Li Chengzuo knew that he might have misunderstood, but he didn't know how to explain it. Seeing that Jiang Xizhu was silent, he had to smile wryly and dare not speak, secretly mocking himself that this is the reward of the world.Trust is like rubbed paper, even if the twisted ball is smoothed, the traces of wrinkles and unevenness will still be there after all, and the original everything will only turn into dust with the passage of time, but will not return to the past .

The frightened shadows of flying birds passing by outside the imperial study room suddenly broke the uneasy calm of each.

"Your Majesty." Jiang Xizhu stared blankly at the light feather left by Asuka that hadn't landed, "Thank you for taking care of my face and not mentioning the whereabouts of that piece of snow jade in public. I will take the snow jade back when I return home today." Come back, tomorrow morning, please ask the emperor to invite another capable minister to see if this thing can arouse Phoenix's nostalgia for the old master, so that he can be surrendered."

After Jiang Xizhu finished speaking, he made a wish to say goodbye.

Li Chengzuo was speechless, knowing that letting him go like this, the short-term harmony he got in exchange for being a small fuss and cheating was like a river of spring water, and he couldn't think of any reasonable reason in his desperation. The reason, blurted out: "Wait."

Jiang Xizhu turned around, and stood under the imperial steps a few steps away, facing Li Chengzuo indifferently.

Li Chengzuo was absent-minded for a moment, and his heart ached for a moment-many years ago, the young man under the peach blossoms in the spring breeze in front of the Chongwen Museum was still the same, but for some reason, the carefree and graceful smile of the young man was gone.

But he quickly came back to his senses.

"Zhen will send someone to the mansion to fetch Xueyu." Li Chengzuo said, "You don't have to wait until tomorrow to love Qing. If the matter is urgent, if this plan is not feasible, we still have to leave a day for the Qing family to discuss a feasible plan. There can be no delay.

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The people sent to Jiang's mansion were nimble, but within half an hour, the Jiang's mansion in the palace had already fought back and forth.

Hearing that Xueyu had been found, Concubine Song Guifei, who was facing a lawsuit on her forehead and was about to lead the whole palace up and down and rolled up her arms and sleeves to find old things, was relieved immediately, sweeping away the bad luck of being ashamed and looking at death as home, and also thought that she didn't have to go Digging tombs in the wilderness, Song Guifei felt a little bit lucky when she was lost, and immediately set out to drive the spirit beast garden with pride - the phoenix, which has lost countless loyal ministers' hair, is now being carefully raised there .

The Spirit Beast Garden followed the old system of the previous dynasty.

An emperor in the previous generation of Dayu loved small animals very much. The concubine who loved to keep cats, dogs and parrots in the palace was favored more than others. During those years when he was in power, the palace was like a pet market.What is good at the top must be good at the bottom, not to mention the emperor and empress Qianqiu during the festivals, all kinds of animals presented by the vassal states are all kinds of surprises, the dogs barking and the ducks singing in the palace are very lively, the busiest place is the imperial dining room ——After all, some courtiers can't afford to offer rare and exotic animals, and the staple food for dinner can meet the rations of the imperial dining room for at least three months.

But finally one day, the palace couldn’t keep enough—the imperial garden was full of wild ducks, swans, and mandarin ducks. It was rumored that a single imperial meal in the harem could attract seven or eight Pekingese, and even the corridor outside the imperial study was covered with parrots of various colors. Mynah.

One day, the queen mother was visiting Xingyu's garden, accidentally stepped on duck droppings, and her whole body became ill.The Empress Dowager has long been disturbed by all kinds of beasts, and this time it finally broke out, and she couldn't speak directly, so she had to find the emperor's father-in-law to discuss the countermeasures, and finally decided that the Empress should come forward to advise and build the Spirit Beast Garden. All the living things were locked in for the emperor to play at any time, which finally restored the purity of the harem.

Later, when the emperor went west with a crane, his son did not have the loving hobby of his father. On the contrary, he was allergic to the fluff of all pets.Since then, there has never been a grand scene of pets in the harem, and the spirit beast garden has also withered.

However, because foreign countries often offer some wild animals and strange things.These ferocious beasts are inconvenient to keep around, and they cannot be neglected. In order to raise them, the Spiritual Beast Garden was left behind, and sometimes it was opened to the children of the clan and royal family for entertainment, until today.

Song Yingluo maintained a relaxed and happy mood all the way to the Spiritual Beast Garden. As soon as she entered the ingenious arch, she felt that the Spiritual Beast Garden seemed to be different from other times.

She used to come to the Spiritual Beast Garden when she was young, and there were fewer of them when she grew up, but she still remembered the layout of the Spiritual Beast Garden, but looking at it today, for some reason, it was much empty.

The lion in the beast garden on the left has long lost its previous majesty, and is licking its fur in the corner with its head drooping, like a big cat that has been wronged. If you look closely, the tip of its tail seems to be glued together; on the right It is even more strange in the side spirit monkey house, none of the monkeys that have been raised for a long time are not on the ground, and the peaches they are feeding are neatly placed on the ground without a tooth mark. Actually squatting on the tree one by one, hugging the branches and trembling, not afraid that the tree would be crushed by their big buttocks, Song Guifei suddenly remembered the unreliable witticism of "riding a monkey on the tree"; Going forward, when passing the white tiger cage, Song Guifei was almost shocked. The majestic white tiger, the king of the mountain, was nestling in the corner of the cage with trembling fur ears. When he looked up and saw Song Yingluo, he immediately let out a weeping cry. Wailing, twisting her chubby body, and looking at Song Yingluo with tears in her eyes, Concubine Song felt that if the white tiger could speak human words, it must have said "I'm so scared, I want to hug and hold high".

Song Yingluo really couldn't figure out what was going on with all the strange beasts in the garden. She took two steps forward and finally found the culprit behind the submission of all the beasts——Phoenix was extremely boring in the cage, and at this moment, she was dying of boredom. He teased a pair of peacocks in a nearby cage.

It is said to be next to it, but the distance is actually a hundred meters away. After all, the phoenix is ​​bathed in fire, and the palace people in the spirit beast garden are afraid that it will turn other birds into roast chickens if it is not paying attention-but it turns out that this little worry It's useless.

The female of the pair of peacocks was obviously unbearable to be bullied, and she was lying beside her dying. Only the male bird was still full of fighting spirit, but his tail feathers had been burnt bald, and only a slightly showy one remained. standing.

I saw that the phoenix used its sharp beak to scratch off a burning miscellaneous hair on its body, squinted its eyes and aimed for a while, and at the right time, it suddenly shot at the only tail feather of the male peacock.

With a sound of "poof", the male peacock threw away his helmet and armor and fled in all directions.

Fenghuang seemed to be having a good time, flapping his wings in the cage, looking up to the sky and letting out a strange laugh.

Song Yingluo stood in the distance and witnessed all this in astonishment, and immediately stepped back a few feet.

This phoenix is ​​probably born by His Majesty the Emperor, Song Guifei thought, well, it must be.

The author has something to say: the second watch in the evening.