The King's Favor [Rebirth]

When Xie Linxi heard the news that he had entered the palace, Qi Jingyuan was practicing calligraphy in Jinghua Hall, stroke by stroke, very serious and careful, looking quite calm.

However, Xie Linxi knew that he was in a bad mood, because the strength of his grip on the pen was a bit heavier than usual.He stood on one side without making a sound until Qi Jingyuan finished writing the last stroke.

Qi Jingyuan looked at the handwriting he had written, and shook his head dissatisfied, but he didn't intend to write another one.He threw the words into a random ball on the ground, put down the pen casually and said, "Wushuang, my wrist hurts badly."

Obviously there are no other words or hints, but there is an indescribable expectation in the voice.Xie Linxi's heart moved and said: "If the prince doesn't dislike it, I will help the prince to give some medicine."

"I don't dislike it." Qi Jingyuan said with a smile: "You don't need to apply medicine, you just rub it for me."

Xie Linxi narrowed her eyes and said yes.

Earlier I said that Qi Jingyuan had a pair of pampered and well-maintained hands, white and delicate, without even a hard callus, and it was soft and warm to hold.It's like fine silk, very smooth and comfortable to the touch.

As a courtier who knew how to advance and retreat, Xie Linxi naturally wouldn't touch casually, he rubbed Qi Jingyuan's wrist carefully.

His hands are used to treat criminals, and when he strikes, they are very strong, and blood is often seen.Naturally, he should be careful when facing Qi Jingyuan now, and try to use his strength as gently as possible.

When he was doing these things, he lowered his head and kept his eyes still, looking serious and careful.Qi Jingyuan looked at him quietly, the emotions in his eyes were rolling back and forth, and soon he was suppressed again.

After about a stick of incense, Qi Jingyuan said in a hoarse voice, "It's done."

Xie Linxi let go of her hands and took two steps back with her head down.

The moment he let go, Qi Jingyuan's fingertips moved and brushed past his palm.

Before Xie Linxi could make a one, two, three out of Zhongpin, Qi Jingyuan spoke again, and said, "I've heard about the Shenglin Terrace."

affirmative tone.

Xie Linxi said: "Regarding the Empress Dowager's birthday, the matter is so big that there is a lot of discussion inside and outside the palace. Before I came, I asked the workers who built the Shenglin Tower, and said that they are working day and night to build the Holy Lin Tower. Work unceasingly. Today, the man was mentally weak, stepped on the air and fell to the ground and died, no one deliberately did so."

Qi Jingyuan snorted and said, "The Empress Dowager has very high expectations for this birthday banquet, and she looks forward to it deeply. Even if the real evidence is presented to her, she will not believe it, and she will still think that someone is going to hurt her."

"What is the empress dowager thinking in her heart? I can't figure it out. After all, she has nothing to do with the prince. It's just that the empress dowager, as the head of the harem, really shouldn't be an official of the Ministry of Construction." Xie Linxi said a little coldly.

Qi Jingyuan didn't ask a word about the construction of Shenglin Terrace.

When the money came out from the household department, he directly handed over the relevant documents to the little emperor for his own handwriting.

Whether the Shenglin Terrace was repaired well or how much money was spent has nothing to do with them.

It's just that the Empress Dowager made a big move this time by taking advantage of the Shenglintai incident, and even skipped Qi Jingyuan and directly arrested the court officials, even in the name of the little emperor, it was too much.

If he knew about Xie Linxi, Qi Jingyuan squinted his eyes and smiled, and said, "Wushuang, do you think this king's temper is so good recently that some people have forgotten what this king does."

Xie Linxi hurriedly said: "My lord has always had a good temper and is easily bullied."

If there were other people around, they would definitely open their eyes and ask Xie Linxi if he was serious.

But at this moment, there was no one else in the hall, so Qi Jingyuan accepted his words calmly, and said after some self-reflection: "You're right, my king just said that life is not very comfortable these days. Bulls, ghosts and snakes all jumped out."

Xie Linxi didn't say anything.

Qi Jingyuan stood up slowly and said: "The Grand Tutor and several ministers are in the Emperor's Qianchen Hall, let's go and have a look."

Xie Linxi responded.

In the Qianchen Hall, the little emperor's complexion was not good, and he looked restless.

Grand Tutor Ji Mingyi, He Guogong He Yun, five ministers and other ministers above the third rank were all there.

None of them spoke, they were all waiting for Qi Jingyuan who was almost half an hour late.

The little emperor looked at the hourglass from time to time, the more he waited, the more uneasy he became.

In the past six years, Qi Jingyuan, the regent, has been strong and domineering, but he has never been rude in front of him, and the relationship between the monarch and his ministers is just right.Today was the first time he sent someone to invite him, but he didn't invite anyone.

A blind person could tell that Qi Jingyuan was angry, and he was very angry.

Another unknown time passed, Ji Mingyi stroked his beard and looked at the little emperor, and when he was about to say something, there was a voice from the inner prison outside the door, saying that Qi Jingyuan and Xie Linxi had arrived.

Ji Mingyi put down the hand that was stroking his beard, and shook his head inwardly.

He had taught the former emperor and Qi Jingyuan, and now he was entrusted by the former emperor to teach the little emperor.

He can only say that Qi Jingyuan's sense of proportion and thoughts are very difficult to guess, the emperor is too young, if he really wants to fight with him, he may not get any advantage.This is also what he often said when he taught the little emperor that everything should be stable.

The little emperor is the heir appointed by the first emperor, as long as he can stand still, even if Qi Jingyuan really has some ideas in the future, he can be drowned before the emperor speaks to the spittle of the common people of Qi.

In the end, the queen mother was lucky, she had been stable for six years, and once Qi Jingyuan gave some sweets, he let go of repairing a holy Lintai, and gave it to others in a living way.

Not yet.

As for this, Qi Jingyuan, as a courtier, does not give face to the little emperor and other courtiers for half an hour, who would dare to say anything wrong with him.

When Qi Jingyuan and Xie Linxi entered the main hall, everyone except the little emperor stood up and saluted.

Xie Linxi greeted the emperor.

Qi Jingyuan was obviously in a bad mood. He drooped his eyelids and didn't even look at the courtiers. He called out to the emperor in a formal manner. Moved.

The little emperor asked Xie Linxi to stand up, gave him a seat, and dryly asked the other courtiers to sit down.

After everyone sat down, the hall was silent again.

In the past, Qi Jingyuan spoke first, but now he lowered his eyebrows and looked like he didn't want to speak, and others didn't know how to speak.Especially people like He Yun, who are blood relatives with the Queen Mother, are even more embarrassing.

Ji Mingyi knew that things couldn't go on like this, and someone had to save the little emperor, so he put on his old face and said, "My lord, the matter of the Ministry of Industry's misbehavior that caused the Shenglin Terrace to be stained with blood still needs to be investigated carefully." It's clear."

"The Ministry of Industry is not doing well?" Qi Jingyuan chanted these words, raised his eyes and said coldly: "The Taifu has already convicted those officials of the Ministry of Industry with his words, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry, big and small, are all in prison. Just stay here, why do you want to check carefully?"

Ji Mingyi didn't expect his old face to be useless today, and Qi Jingyuan came up with such cynicism.

He Yun raised his eyelids and shook his head calmly at the flushed little emperor.

The handle is in other people's hands, so I can only laugh at it.

If the little emperor really did something wrong by himself, he would not be afraid of being ridiculed, but now he just feels embarrassed and a little bit ashamed.

After all, Ji Mingyi is old and used to seeing all kinds of scenes. Regarding this, he continued to calmly say: "It is related to the Queen Mother's birthday, and the Ministry of Industry suspects that it will be unfavorable to take care of it."

Qi Jingyuan had a cold face, "The Ministry of Industry is in charge of the blueprints, and the person in charge of recruitment and supervision has always been Zuo Min, the servant of the Ministry of Criminal Justice? This king feels that the crimes committed by the officials of the Ministry of Industry are far worse than him, so he should also be arrested. Interrogation interrogation."

Speaking of this, he glanced at the little emperor and said: "Zuo Min is originally the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. It stands to reason that it is not his turn to supervise the construction of the Shenglin Terrace. The emperor and the empress dowager trust him and let him take on this important task. If he fails to do well, he will not say anything." He didn't want to plead guilty when something happened. As the servant of the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Punishment was supposed to avoid suspicion. After a while, he asked Linxi to bring people to the Heavenly Prison Division for interrogation. It's ridiculous to say that people often report that the Heavenly Prison Division likes to arrest people indiscriminately. People, this king thinks that the Ministry of Punishments is far worse than the Heavenly Prison Division, at least the Heavenly Prison Division has never arrested the wrong person."

Everyone understood that Qi Jingyuan was making excuses, but everything he said was reasonable, and it was difficult to refute it.

Who made the queen mother be careful back then, afraid that Qi Jingyuan was willing to let Xiu Shenglin Terrace secretly sabotage, so Zuo Min was forced to take responsibility.Now that something happened, Qi Jingyuan took Zuo Min to the knife, no one could say a word wrong.

He was the one who recruited the workers, and he was the one who supervised the workers. If things were not done well, he would naturally have to be in the prison.

The meaning of Qi Jingyuan's words was very clear, if the Queen Mother dared to move the Ministry of Industry, he would move Zuo Min.

Ji Mingyi saw from his tough attitude that today's matter is not easy to deal with. He pondered for a moment and said: "My lord, your majesty is filial. Seeing that the Empress Dowager's birthday is coming, it is really unknown that the Holy Lin Terrace will be stained with blood before it is used. If we build another Shenglin Terrace, spending more money is not what the emperor and the empress dowager wanted, and there is too little time. The Ministry of Industry did not make complete preparations, so there is a three-point fault. Of course, the left servant is not good at supervising the work, and there is also a three-point fault. But the workers know The Holy Lin Terrace was used for the Empress Dowager’s birthday celebration, so if you don’t care enough to stain the Lin Terrace with blood, it is a great treason. But the Empress Dowager’s birthday is a happy event, and the worker is dead, so let him be spared.”

The implication is that the Ministry of Labor and Zuo Min should not be held accountable for their faults, and everything should be blamed on the dead worker.Everyone take a step back and pretend this never happened.

What Ji Mingyi said was completely from the standpoint of the emperor, the empress dowager's reputation must not be compromised, otherwise the little emperor would be implicated.

It's better to cover up the Queen Mother's arrest. It's not easy for people in the world to be fooled, and it's best to be fooled.

The lives of scholars, farmers, businessmen, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen have always been the least valuable in the eyes of scholar-bureaucrats.

Qi Jingyuan looked at Ji Mingyi and smiled, he squinted his eyes and said: "Teacher is right, this king also thinks that it is an ominous omen to see blood on the Shenglin Tower before it is used, this king thinks it is a warning from the heavens to the emperor and the empress dowager." Reminder, this Shenglin Terrace is not needed."

Ji Mingran choked, he didn't expect Qi Jingyuan to mean this at all, isn't it just blatantly saying that the Queen Mother's birthday is not good enough.

Qi Jingyuan looked at the little emperor and said, "What does your majesty think?"

The little emperor Qi Yu's smile almost froze, he thought it was very bad.The Shenglin Terrace has been repaired halfway, and everyone in the world knows that the Empress Dowager will celebrate her birthday here. If you repent now, doesn't it mean that people in the world will laugh at you?

So the little emperor forced a smile and said: "Uncle Huang is right to be worried, but the Qin Tianjian has already counted, and it is auspicious to repair the Shenglin Terrace."

"Since it's a very auspicious event, let him go if he sees the relationship between the blood and the officials of the Ministry of Industry." Qi Jingyuan said coolly, "Does He Guogong think what this king said makes sense?"

He Yun stood up and said, "What the prince said is true."

He had crawled out of the pile of death, and he didn't take human life as lightly as Ji Mingyi did, even the life of an ordinary carpenter.What's more, he knew Qi Jingyuan well. At this moment, Qi Jingyuan said something like this, if he disagreed, there might be worse words waiting for him later.

"It's very good." Qi Jingyuan stood up and said, "Linxi, you go and get Zuo Min into the prisoner."

Xie Linxi stood up and said yes, and when she was about to leave, the little emperor said: "No."

Everyone including Qi Jingyuan looked up at him, only to see that the little emperor was full of anxiety, holding the edge of the chair tightly with his hands, and said in a trembling voice: "I received a message from the Ministry of Punishment half an hour ago, saying that the Ministry of Industry The servant, Wang Yu, has pleaded guilty to all charges and committed suicide in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment."

"Plead guilty?" Qi Jingyuan repeated this sentence playfully: "I don't know what crime Wang Yu pleaded to?"

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