That little fly

"No, everything should follow the law, since we have the imperial code." Shi Ke said calmly.

Emperor Jiayou looked deeply at Shi Zilu, "Zhen, I don't mind using the authority of the emperor to override the code once, just this once."

Shi Ke shook his head.

Times are changing, and now is the time to establish judicial authority for the Eastern Continent Empire.It is a rare 'perfect marriage' for Shi Ke to meet Emperor Jiayou.Want to establish an authoritative code.First of all, the reigning emperor's desire for power should not be heavy, so that Shi Ke could forcibly deprive judicial power from the imperial power; second, the emperor would obey the constraints of the code.A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Although the imperial power now overrides the legal code, it is only an expedient measure at the beginning. Emperor Jiayou actually made a good start. Since he has this kind of overriding power, he has never used it without authorization , He respects the imperial code and is willing to obey. This is very rare for an emperor, but it is extremely important to the code.As long as you persevere, and persevere for another generation, when inertia becomes a habit and habit becomes a secular norm, the authority of the imperial code will be completely established.Now, it is rare for it to have a very good start. Is it necessary to destroy the foundation of all this for the sake of Luzi?

No, Shi Ke is unwilling.

"You, you, you..." Emperor Jiayou trembled angrily, "That's Shui Qingqian, your grandson, he almost... because of one, one coincidence. Don't tell me you really think this is A coincidence!" Emperor Jiayou shouted.The roles of their monarchs and ministers seem to be reversed. Shouldn't it be Shi Ke who is furious and demands severe punishment for the murderer?

no, no.In fact, when everyone treated the little corporal leader with an attitude towards the dead, it was Shi Ke who immediately insisted on starting the normal detention and trial procedures. Otherwise, the corporal leader would have been crushed by the same enemy You've become a fan, do you know how many people are waiting to take this opportunity to sell the Chief Attorney a favor?

Emperor Jiayou meant to punish him severely, regardless of what crime he was charged with, and use imperial power to execute all of them.According to the seriousness of the injury, all involved personnel will be severely punished.Cutting down a reckless little corporal leader is a trivial matter, but if the first offender is ransacked and exterminated, then the accomplices will be beheaded or exiled as slaves.Even if the kid from the Zhang family just bumped into him accidentally, gently.This is Emperor Jiayou's stern warning to those forces that are ready to move, and he also wants to decide a future through this matter: Qingshui, a precious little flying sky, anyone who dares to provoke or question the decision of the saint, will be killed without mercy!Emperor Jiayou was furious and wanted to raise the butcher's knife, but he didn't expect that the person who should least stop him came out to stop him.

"Officials, the matter has not reached this point." Shi Ke looked at Emperor Jiayou frankly, "We are very distressed that Luzi was hurt, but this is an accident."

"Do you really believe it was an accident?" The emperor's eyes were dark.

"Even if someone hit it on purpose, he can't guarantee that the arrow will turn into an arrow in the chest. This is an accident." Shi Ke absolutely does not believe that Zhang Yan has the ability to calculate the trajectory of the arrow. I just wanted to find a chance to teach me a lesson, but I didn't expect that it would be so coincidental that I almost killed someone, but it should be attributed to an accident. "Official, Luzi's injury is not serious. It's better to deal with it this way."

Emperor Jiayou grabbed Shi Ke's hand violently, and he couldn't tell what kind of complicated feeling he was feeling at the moment.

Yes, this kind of treatment is better.

Tianren Mansion is an imperial capital with a longer history than the emperor of this dynasty. Their network of relationships is even stronger and huge. With such a stable force, even when the dynasty changes, it is also a good way to win over. The faction of the party should not act rashly.The Emperor Jiayou's ancestor's imperial line was able to stabilize the country, and it also relied on the Heavenly Mansion at the beginning.Now the Tianren Mansion is in decline because Fei Tian'er has not been born for a long time, otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to get them out of the cabinet.

Even if they are declining now, they still firmly occupy a group of middle-level officials. The fifth and sixth grades are inconspicuous. Come, you can also kidnap the upper class.In fact, the situation should not be very serious if we deal with a useless descendant of a certain family alone, but it is hard to be justified if he wants to chop and kill just because Zhang Yan "accidentally touched it".This is a one-off case that involves the whole body. If it is not handled well, the emperor will be in deep trouble.

Now, Shi Ke's calm attitude made it possible to deal with this matter in another way.If Shui Qingqian's injury is very light, then this matter will have the basis to turn this matter into a minor one, and deal with the accident smoothly. explain.

Except for Shui Qingqian's grievances.

After several struggles, Emperor Jiayou spoke again, his tone was not as strong as before, "How is Qingqian injured?"

A flash of extremely complicated emotions flashed across Shi Ke's face, "Before I came, Ah Heng had announced to the public that Luzi was fine, it was a false alarm."

Emperor Jiayou noticed Shi Ke's wording, which was 'declare nothing happened', "Tell me the truth, how is he?"

Shi Ke no longer concealed his distressed expression, "The impact of the arrow is too powerful. Doctor Yang said it hurt his heart. Ah Heng didn't know much about it. The doctor meant to take care of it slowly. The sequelae of backwardness, now we must avoid tiredness and lack, avoid great sorrow and great joy, there is no rush."

Emperor Jiayou's complexion changed a few times, and finally he described his loneliness, and said bitterly, "Isn't this emperor a failure?" He didn't let go of Shi Zilu's hand for a long time.

Shui Qingqian was shot with an arrow in the chest. It was a big event that happened under the watchful eyes of the public, and it spread quickly, but then Ning Renhou announced that Shui Qingqian was only slightly injured and frightened, and the direction of the gossip was different. Turned into compliments such as 'miracle', 'God bless', 'flying son mighty'.Only a few noticed that this so-called 'miracle' seemed to be attributed to the light and thin deer leather armor that blocked the armor-piercing arrows.

The deerskin armor is very new in color and fits well. No matter how you look at it, it looks like it was custom-made for a child, and it is newly made.This accident unexpectedly exposed the magical side of leather armor - if this kind of heaven-defying artifact can be used in the army, it is not given to soldiers, even if it is only prepared for generals, it will be lighter and cheaper than those iron armors.It's just that Shui Qingqian was injured, and the court didn't know how to speak.

However, the Minister of the Privy Council heard that Ning Renhou had given his son's deer leather armor to the Ordnance Department for their study.

The envoy of the Third Division of the Ministry of War next to him was full of embarrassment and wiped off his cold sweat, "Uh, it's because the subordinate officials are incapable of disciplining their subordinates. Those elm-headed tricksters from the Ordnance Division took the initiative to ask Ning Renhou for what they want..." Yue Yue said smaller.

In any case, it was a good thing that Ning Renhou took the initiative to send the deerskin armor to the Ministry of War.

The third division envoy broke out in cold sweat, "It's not that leather armor. They...the ones sent by Ning Renhou are not the ones that the young master of the Hou's mansion wore...it's just an appearance. Very similar to ordinary buckskin armor." It doesn't have such a strong defense at all.

This result cannot be said to be surprising.Who doesn't have a secret that is not passed on.This is also a drastic move: Anyway, the leather armor was given to you, and you have to say that it is not true... What's the matter, do you really think that the Ningrenhou Mansion will not be confiscated?Ning Renhou's hand was expressing his own meaning in a subtle way, and the deerskin armor incident ended here.This is to let them get out of trouble.

In fact, those who are interested in that pair of deer leather armor are not only technical nerds and people in power in the empire. Is it the Mithril Silkworm Ice Silk Armor that is "invulnerable to fire and water" in the legendary storybook?

The child's father was completely defeated by the child's unrestrained imagination.

"Invulnerability is true," Ning Renhou held the deer leather armor in his hand and continued to flicker, "Water and fire are invulnerable, I really don't know... Want to try, son?"

"Of course." Shui Qingqian sat in his father's arms with various excitements, "How should we try?"

"Come on." Ning Renhou picked up his son in one hand, and walked into the courtyard with the leather armor in the other.

In the garden, Mrs. Shui is directing the servants to work.Her little Luzi's favorite game is to run wildly in the mountains with a bow and arrow, fantasizing that she is a jungle robber who robs the rich and helps the poor, and lives a life of eating and drinking in the woods all day long... Oh, well, the sickest one, So at the moment, camping tents are set up in the exquisite back garden of the Hou Mansion, a bonfire is lit, and there are a bunch of pickled hares, pheasants, deer legs and so on, waiting for the whole family to barbecue outdoors for a while.

"It's not dark yet." Madam Shui cooperated with her son's script, "Shouldn't you be hunting Zhou Papi's coffin in the woods now?"

"This hero got a treasure by accident today," he said in various ways, "The mithril silkworm ice silk armor that is invulnerable to fire and water."

"Oh, really?" Madam Shui pretended to be surprised.She saw the leather armor in her husband's hand, and stretched out her hand to touch her son's little face comfortingly.

"We're going to try it now. True gold is not afraid of fire." After speaking, Ning Renhou threw the deer leather armor into the bonfire.

"Father?" Luzi was taken aback, his mithril silkworm ice silk armor!

The smell of burnt leather soon wafted through the air.

"Son." Ning Renhou stroked the Luzi in his arms, and said softly, "I'm sorry to disappoint you...it's not a treasure, it's just an ordinary buckskin armor."

Shui Qingqian stared at the bonfire for a while, finally sighed deeply, turned around and put his arms around his father's neck, "No, father, it's a very handsome buckskin armor."

Ning Renhou bowed his head and kissed his son's face, his little Luzi really knew everything.

Shui Qingqian was injured, and some people may gloat over his misfortune, but there are still many people who expressed their deep concern, and sent all kinds of sympathy gifts like water.The water is clear and shallow No matter how the adults use it to socialize, in the condolences like flowing water, he only cares about the gifts of those who he regards as friends, such as Yuan Mu, Xie Ming, Meng Shaogang, Feng Ran, and the others ... Shui Qingqian has set super high standards for his gift-giving: it must be in line with his wishes. "It's time to test our friendship. If you don't have a heart-to-heart with me, do you have the nerve to still call us brothers?"

As a result, a certain little one justified the one, two, three, and four rules for condolence gifts,

Anyone who dares to send gold, silver and jewelry will be killed!

Anyone who dares to send any homework notes will be killed!

Dare to give a gift that doesn't meet his wishes, directly, accept, pat, die!

After more than half a month, he managed to collect a room full of trophies, mostly toys, and various novelty items, plus two sika deer, two pairs of red-crowned cranes, one horse, sabers, bows and arrows, several martial arts cheats, and small birds. There are a lot of fish pets, and there is no condolences from Brother Azhao, which makes Shui Qingqian a little disappointed.Of course, since he was far away, he probably didn't know that he was injured, so Shui Qingqian decided to forgive him for the time being, but in the future, His Royal Highness Zhaojiu will make up for double comfort.Uh, he doesn't have to choose Su Xiaopang's gift, he just needs to come and play for him.

On this day, taking advantage of the fine weather, Shui Qingqian counted his spoils, holding a grasshopper gourd in his hand, and lowered his head to pack his big box of things, he suddenly muttered dissatisfied, "It's annoying, Aunt Zheng messed with me again." s things."

The brows of the three parents who were drinking tea and enjoying the coolness in the lotus water pavilion all moved in unison.

The little bird over there was packing up and muttering,

"Xie Shanhu is dead, didn't I tell him I don't like yellow?"

"Gu Er, you idiot..."

"Let's save these first, and play with Xiaopang and Rongrong tomorrow..."

"This, this, this, this..." Shui Qingqian held the notebook to reconcile the accounts, and suddenly realized, "It turns out that Xiao Yao is the most disrespectful. He didn't give me a comforting gift, not even a piece of paper?" Shui Qingqian Frowning, feeling a little depressed for some reason, how could this be?Does she not want to be good friends with him?

The three parents exchanged glances at each other.Shui Qingqian just looked up and saw it.Uh, what kind of underground intelligence are you doing?

Ning Renhou, "Ahem, you treat Xiaoyao very unusually. I thought you treated her the same as Princess Yuegui."

"Where is it? Xiaoyao is much better than her, she is my friend, she is not coquettish at all. Yuegui is so much better than passerby." Shui Qingqian hurriedly draws the boundaries and gestures with her fingers.

Ning Renhou, "Oh."

"Oh?" Shui Qingqian questioned his father's tone, "Dad, what are you doing, you are not bored just to ask about this?"

His father, "I'm fine."

Shui Qingqian: No matter how I look at it, I don’t think it will be all right.

after a while,

Mrs. Shui took the conversation, "Your father probably didn't expect that Xiaoyao would be an important friend of yours. Son, you...won't be. In the future, you want us to go to the official's house to propose marriage to you and Xiaoyao?" Mrs. Shui always thought that he liked Sister Rong Rong of the Su family.

"Get married?" Shui Qingqian looked terrified, "The kind that will live together for the rest of your life?" Immediately shaking her head like a rattle, "No, I don't want it. Xiaoyao is too weak, I will definitely tell her We can't play together, and it's okay to go fishing once or twice, but we can't stand being together every day. Besides, she is not pretty enough."

Mother,"…………"

Daddy's face burst into tears, "Do you still know that you need to find a beautiful one when you get married?"

Shui Qingqian took it for granted, "If I don't want to be annoying or pretty for the rest of my life, how will I live my married life?"

Three parents: ……………

Continue to exchange glances with each other.

Shui Qingqian thought they were weird, and was about to get to the bottom of it, when Yuan Bao ran in with a familiar little yellow bird in his mouth.

"Ah, my Tianyin'er," the Chief Attorney-General blew up on the spot, "I said that my eight guan'er and willow branches disappeared for no reason, so you bird thief! Don't stop anyone!" Come on, today I have to..."

Then there was a flurry of nonsense, and then the topic went sideways.

After another half a month, Shui Qingqian recuperated and became white, tender, and fresh. Yuan Mu and Xie Ming's buddies kept coming to the door, and they were all on the point of paying homage to his mother. He didn't feel lonely.It's just that she hasn't received any news from Xiaoyao, which makes Shui Qingqian feel strange, because he wrote to her, anyway, out of courtesy, he must reply.Xiaoyao is illiterate, and Xiaoyao is seriously ill, these are not reasons.However, Shui Qingqian only thought about it occasionally, he was too busy, and rushed to visit his confidant, friends, classmates, and even many friends' relatives, classmates' sisters and so on.

Coincidentally on this day, Eunuch Xing came to the mansion to announce the reward, but was bumped into by Shui Qingqian when he was about to leave the house.Eunuch Xing is not as high-ranking as the chief executive of Qingli, but he also runs around the official family, and he knows most of the big and small things in the palace.Shui Qingqian suddenly thought of Xiao Yao, and asked by the way.

"Princess Twelve?" Eunuch Xing looked surprised, "Princess Twelve left more than a month ago."

"Go?" Shui Qingqian was surprised, "Where did she go?"

Eunuch Xing's face froze, he didn't know how to answer, he stumbled and explained, "It's gone, it's just... gone."

"Gone?... What is she missing?" Shui Qingqian didn't understand it at first, but after repeating it softly, he suddenly began to realize another hidden meaning behind the word, the correct meaning.

"Xiaoyao is gone? You, you said she's gone... gone... gone means she, she..."

death.

This thought stimulated Shui Qingqian's breathing to become short, his little face turned pale instantly, and his murmured voice trembled, and Eunuch Xing screamed out in fright, "What's wrong? This is, Lord Hou... Marquis!"

"Luzi." As soon as Ning Renhou rushed out of the room, he saw his son's eyes were red, his face was pale, and his breathing was not smooth. It's cold.

"Xiaoyao... Dad, he said Xiaoyao, said Xiaoyao..."

Ning Renhou sighed.

"Is it... Xiaoyao, dead... dead?" Shui Qingqian's face turned pale, and she began to hiccup very frequently.

The twelve princesses died when they were in the barracks.Originally Ning Renhou should have told Shui Qingqian, but it happened that Shui Qingqian was startled by the blood on the battlefield, so the parents kept the news away.A series of things happened in the following series, dragging back and forth, and Lu Zi was kept in the dark.The doctor said, he is now refraining from great joy and great sorrow.But in the end, let Luzi know.

"Luzi. There is bad news..." Ning Renhou followed Shui Qingqian's back, slowly helping him to relax.Since childhood, this should be the first time Shui Qingqian has come into contact with death. The person he was familiar with and whom he cared about died.A young and fresh life about his age disappeared.Ning Renhou kissed his son's forehead, "Luzi, death is always bad news, but death is not terrible, just like a small tree sprouts in spring and leaves in autumn, every leaf will have to experience once after all. This is normal. Xiaoyao knows She is not in good health, she has already prepared herself, she is very brave, facing death, she has never been afraid..."

After hearing the news of Xiaoyao's death, Shui Qingqian was in a state of emptiness all the time. He didn't hear what his father said, but his eye circles became redder, and then he felt a heat in his nasal cavity, and he couldn't stop crying—he I don't know why, I just cried.

"Xiaoyao said that no matter the storm or the rainbow, she can be very calm." Shui Qingqian sobbed.

"Yes, she walked very peacefully. In the future, she will never be tortured by illness again." Ning Renhou followed his son's wishes.

"I told her to teach her to fish, but I haven't, I don't mean anything..."

"She won't blame you."

"I still owe her something and haven't paid it back."

"Well. She said she was keeping it for you as a souvenir."

"I don't know, I don't know, woo woo... I want to make friends with her..."

"Yes, you are her good friend, she knows."

"Woooooo...she's not afraid of bugs."

"Xiaoyao is very brave, Luzi must be brave too, son, let's stop crying."

"Well, I, I, I don't cry...don't cry woooooooooooooo..."