[Rebirth] The wind enters the forest

On the way back, it started to rain lightly, and it was sticky, with grass clippings on the edge of the shoes.

Wei Feng raised his hand and poured two cups of tea. He relaxed slightly and turned to his side for a while. He suddenly caught a glimpse of the emerald wrench on the prince's hand, and said with a casual smile, "I saw that the third prince gave you a rare one last time. , why are you still carrying this old one?"

The prince raised his eyes to look at him, and teased him: "It's rare to give it to you, do you want it?"

"I don't dare to ask for it. Your Highness is thinking of ways to make enemies for me." Wei Feng rubbed his fingers against the cup a few times, and asked softly, "What's going on, Your Highness and the Third Prince?"

"That's it. He came back to look for me, and I called back with two or three sentences. It's not appropriate to seek skin with a tiger, let alone with a delirious one?"

Wei Feng smiled and stopped talking.

The sedan chair went forward for a while and suddenly stopped. An attendant ran back and preached through the curtain: "I met Cao Jixia, Mr. Cao, and said I have something to report."

The prince thought for a while and ordered him to come in.

After a while, the attendant raised the curtain, Cao Jixia stooped and stepped up, bowing to salute.He was wearing a gray-blue coat, which was decent, and standing there like a gray magpie made people feel comfortable, and it was good to just put it aside and take a look.

The prince supported his head and looked at him: "Lord Cao, you don't need to be polite, get up. It's cold outside, why don't you go back with us in a sedan chair?"

Cao Jixia naturally didn't dare to take it seriously, he lowered his head and replied, "Thank you for your understanding, but I came out with a little boy, I'm afraid it will disturb your highness's cleanliness, so I will leave after speaking."

The crown prince didn't keep him, and nodded: "I heard that you named him Heming?"

"It's called in private, if your highness has a suitable name, why not reward him with one?"

The prince smiled and didn't answer: "Let's get down to business, it's not good for the children to wait so anxiously."

Cao Jixia lowered his eyes, like a slender doll wrapped in a fancy dress, he frowned with a pale color: "It was the assassination of Lord Lin last time, that man kept his mouth tightly shut, but the emperor has been working all over the place for the past few days. The day is suspicious and staring closely, but we are not easy to act."

The prince snorted: "There is nothing to judge, it must have something to do with the second child. Isn't he anxious to become that clown? So what if you give him a chance? You find an excuse to coax Concubine Qi Go, cut first and play later, won’t it be done?”

The prince took a sip of tea: "There are eyeliners everywhere, and the news of my coming out has already been flying all over the sky. You should go back and wait earlier. The Queen Mother will not call you. What to do next is up to you." .”

Cao Jixia was about to respond, when Wei Feng stood up: "The Queen Mother doesn't like him very much, it might be difficult to see him for a while, I'd better go."

"You can go, you look pleasing."

Wei Feng pretended not to hear that the prince was playing tricks on him, and saluted the prince respectfully. The prince raised his hand and made a gesture of pushing people away, but turned around and didn't want to answer.

Wei Feng and Cao Jixia got off the sedan chair, and when they turned around, they saw a child standing beside him, with dark eyes, standing there calmly.

Cao Jixia hesitated for a moment: "Do you want me to carry it for you to see?"

"No." Wei Feng smiled at the child: "Hurry up and go back to play with the rabbit after finishing your work, I will make a special trip to see it another day." He nodded at Cao Jixia, turned and left.

When the Queen Mother heard that Wei Feng was coming, she asked the woman beside her to invite him in. Wei Feng knelt down to greet the Queen Mother, and took out two boxes of vegetarian fruits from the temple: "Your Highness is thinking about the Queen Mother, and I am afraid that the cold will spoil the taste." Son, tell me to hurry up and send it here first."

The queen mother smiled and asked the woman next to her to take it over. She has always liked Wei Feng, and insisting that when Wei Feng's grandmother was still around, the two families could have some friendship, and even led him to do his best by the prince's side all these years. He tried his best, he was handsome and sweet-mouthed, it was hard for the Queen Mother not to give him favor.

The queen mother gave Wei Feng a seat: "I thought that only an elderly person like me would like to eat a meal and recite a Buddha. You guys are used to please me."

"Sincere sincerity leads to spirituality. The crown prince has you in his heart. How did Lafayette protect him from growing up all these years? He reads it every day, and occasionally tells his ministers, never dare to neglect Understand."

Speaking of the past, the Empress Dowager inevitably thought of the prince's mother who died young, and her eyes turned red: "It's not easy for Guang'er all these years, and it's hard for you. If there are any servants below who are not dedicated, just tell me."

Wei Feng laughed and said: "How can you not be dedicated, I heard that the prince has been cooking a cup of gardenia and lotus root soup in the small kitchen every day before going to bed for the past two days."

The empress dowager was startled, the gardenia and lotus root soup tasted bitter, why did the prince drink it happily?She quietly twisted the handkerchief in her hand, and asked intentionally or unintentionally: "Did the prince say anything to you about depression and upset in the past two days?"

Wei Feng thought for a while, and said strangely: "His Royal Highness has always been merciful and kind, even if the emperor sometimes encounters some difficulties and traps him, he always thinks about himself. The relationship between father and son is the most important thing. How can he tell the ministers about this?" Woolen cloth?"

The queen mother nodded: "You go back, if the prince is not happy in the future, you can untie him."

Wei Feng knelt down to thank him, and went out backwards.

The Empress Dowager took two sips of the white fungus soup, sighed, and told the old mother next to her: "Go and invite the emperor to come and sit here at Ai's house. Ai's house hasn't seen him for quite a while."

As soon as Cao Jixia had settled the fourth prince here, he rushed to Concubine Qi's palace, and wanted to invite her to the Ministry of Punishment.

Concubine Qi looked at him with a sneer: "Your Majesty Cao doesn't even look at your identity, you are the one who can invite me to the Ministry of Punishment?"

Cao Jixia bowed and said, "I dare not, I'm just following the rules. First of all, the prisoner has insisted that it was your empress who instructed me. I dare not make a rash decision. I want to ask my empress to confirm it."

"It's a bunch of nonsense. If your criminal department is really doing well, you should tear his biting mouth. Why come to me to put on airs?"

Cao Jixia still said calmly: "Now the emperor is also monitoring the progress of the case in the Ministry of Criminal Justice. We don't think we have the guts to mess around in front of the emperor. If the empress is really innocent, we should return her innocence."

Bring out the emperor to suppress me?Concubine Qi was so angry that she gritted her teeth, but she couldn't take it seriously, so with a sullen face, she reluctantly ordered the servants to prepare the sedan chair, thinking that she must make Cao Jixia look good when she saw the emperor later.

Cao Jixia was not worried at all, he timed it just right, the emperor was invited by the empress dowager on the front foot, and he brought Qi Guifei in on the back foot, but he didn't meet face to face at all. With a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, he stood still in front of the criminal department and bowed slightly: "Young lady, please."

It is true that the emperor hasn't come to the queen mother for a long time. Firstly, a lot of things have happened recently. Secondly, he is a little angry and has a quick temper. Adding fuel to the fire usually makes it even worse. Trembling, seeing no one is right, I want to do everything myself, but my health is not good, on the contrary, everything is half the result with half the effort, and the repeated delays are even more delayed.

The Empress Dowager asked the mother to bring tea, and first said a few homely words to the emperor, and seeing that the emperor listened to each other, he didn't seem to care very much, and felt a little unhappy: "The emperor feels sorry for his family. What's the matter? Neither come to pay respects nor listen to Ai's family?"

Only then did the emperor come to his senses, and said with a quick smile, "What's the matter, it's just that I've been too busy recently, and my energy is short."

The queen mother picked up the teacup and lifted the lid: "Since you are busy, you should assign the work to those ministers. You have done everything yourself, but what does it look like to let them idle? Besides, the princes are not young, and they are not young. They should be told to practice and practice, and it should be fair and just."

The emperor's heart was as thin as a needle, and he was about to explode when he heard this. He frowned and said in displeasure, "Does the Queen Mother think that I prefer the second child? In recent years, the noble concubine Qi has also been regarded as her duty, and the second child is also a good one." As filial piety, even if I hurt more, it is understandable."

The queen mother was not happy when she heard it, and put down the tea cup in her hand: "What does the emperor mean by this?"

"It's not interesting." The emperor squinted his eyes halfway. After so many years, he didn't remember the scene when he was still young when this woman protected him and struggled to survive in the deep palace. It's just that once he got some things, his feelings would change With the change of taste, he can respect the woman who gave birth to him and raised him, but he can't indulge her to control himself.

The emperor got up slowly: "Queen Mother, the former court is the former court, and the harem is the harem. We each take care of our own affairs and don't interfere with each other, isn't it right?"

The queen mother's heart twitched, this is the son she raised.She closed her eyes, a little powerless: "The emperor thinks that the family is meddling in politics? Okay, okay, you go, you go."

The emperor pursed the corners of his mouth, he felt a little unbearable, and was about to open his mouth to persuade, a woman came in hurriedly and reported: "Cao Jixia from the Ministry of Punishment asked to see the emperor, saying that he has something important to do, so we can't wait."

How soon after I left the Ministry of Criminal Justice will I have something important to report?The emperor looked at the queen mother who was so angry that she sat there silently, hesitated for a moment and said, "Tell him to come in."

Cao Jixia came in and saluted first, then said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, the prisoner is dead."

Everyone knows who this prisoner is. Although the fact that Lin Gantang was targeted by someone out of nowhere, and unfortunately met an assassin has been kept silent on the surface, but privately, rumors have spread all over the sky.This matter is actually quite big, if the palace is so big, if even the safety of the courtiers cannot be guaranteed, what about the girls?What about the princes?To put it a little further, where is the emperor?

This is really the reason, the emperor is very concerned about this case, but this guy's mouth is unexpectedly tight, he doesn't eat hard and soft, this side has not figured out a suitable way to knock open the mouth of the hard clam, and the other side said he died.

How can I die?How can you die!

The emperor's face turned red from holding back, and he almost wanted to kick Cao Jixia hard. He gritted his teeth and glared at him: "What's going on? Give me a little, a little, and explain clearly!"

The author has something to say: Good evening everyone.