you got on my tail

Three days later was the Lantern Festival, the four parties were reunited, a grand ceremony was held in the palace as usual, and the empresses and concubines were all dressed in grand costumes, it was very lively for a while.

Fu Jiying was sitting at the head, looking at the courtiers who bowed far away, and when he was about to toast, he frowned and said, "Why didn't Master Bai come?"

All the ministers looked at each other, there was indeed no sign of Bai Xuehe around, and he had never said a word beforehand, this was disrespectful, but Fu Jiying was not annoyed, she just put down the cup and stopped her movements, as if waiting for him to come.

The congratulatory speeches of the ministers were all on the lips, but no one dared to speak out. The emperor has always been moody, cold-blooded and mean, but since Xu Yan's accident, the emperor trusted Bai Xuehe very much, they knew it well, and they didn't want to. Say more.

After about half an hour, some veterans stood staggeringly, and then the eunuch rushed to report, saying that Lord Bai is not in good health today, so he really can't come here.

"En." Fu Jiying responded shallowly, absent-mindedly raised the wine cup in his hand, and the music rang out, and the ceremony officially began when none of the parties were interested.

Everyone took turns to enter the congratulatory speeches. The next one was Yue Feng, Minister of the Ministry of Rites. He cupped his hands and raised his glass. ,how?"

Fu Jiying nodded, an eunuch fetched a lottery, and the ministers began to compose poems. Fu Jiying casually threw down the wine cup after hearing half of it, stood up and said with a smile: "I'm not in good health today, I have to go back to rest, you don't have to worry about it."

All the ministers knelt down and sent them off. Li Lun stood at the head of the team with white hair. The next round of poetry was about to start. Li Lun frowned and said nothing, and went directly to the inner courtyard of the palace.

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Standing in front of the bronze mirror, Fu Jiying carefully put a strand of broken hair into the hair crown. He had already changed into azure casual clothes, wearing a pair of moiré buckskin boots, his waistline was straight, and he even specially wore a piece of jade.

He was in his thirties, but he was still tall and straight, and he still looked like a young man in his early twenties.

Fu Jiying raised her hand and was about to put on the cloak, but there was a movement behind her. The person who came in was Concubine Shu. She put a food box on the table, tied Fu Jiying's belt, and said with a smile: "The emperor seldom wears such clothes." The bright clothes are full of spirit."

"If I dress like this, will it look like an old man pretending to be young?" Concubine Shu was Fu Jiying's concubine when she was a prince. She came from a famous family and has always been gentle and delicate.

Concubine Shu shook her head with a smile, and continued: "Your Majesty is so energetic, Mr. Bai must be ashamed to get sick. After seeing you, all diseases will disappear immediately."

"You can talk." Fu Jiying couldn't help smiling, then paused suddenly, his face darkened a bit, "How do you know that I'm going to see Lord Bai?"

"I saw Lord Wei waiting outside the door, so I knew that the emperor was going out of the palace. Today is the Lantern Festival, and we should have a reunion, but Lord Du Duloi didn't come." Concubine Shu still had a gentle expression, and straightened his clothes for him, "Master Bai is sick , it is common sense that the emperor wants to go and have a look."

Fu Jiying nodded, but did not speak again. Concubine Shu gently tugged at his sleeve, pointed to the food box on the table and said, "The emperor is so empty-handed. The concubine ordered the small kitchen to make some snacks. The emperor will take them with you."

"I thought you would be dissatisfied, but you are sensible." Fu Jiying smiled, reached out and stroked the top of her head, and took the food box from Concubine Shu.

Fu Jiying had just left the house for a while, when someone came over in a hurry, his legs and feet were inconvenient, and he almost slipped in the snow, but he still dragged his body forward, moved to Fu Jiying's side and stopped, took a few breaths before kneeling down.

Fu Jiying smiled coldly, and put his hands in his sleeves without moving. Wei Lan couldn't stand it anymore, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty..."

"Get up." Fu Jiying narrowed his eyes, shaking the snow on the food box, "What do you want to teach?"

Seeing that it was Li Lun who came, Wei Lan quickly stepped forward to help him, but Li Lun stood up and knelt straight, took out the memorial from his sleeve and held it up, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, I found out that Bai Xuehe took bribes worth a million taels. I am here to ask the emperor to order a thorough investigation."

Fu Jiying sneered, picked up the memorial and flipped through it casually, saying: "These are all old things, since everything is settled, I won't pursue it."

"Your Majesty." Seeing that Fu Jiying was unmoved, Li Lun said bluntly: "I have something that I should not have said, but Bai Xuehe came from a humble background, being an official messed up my discipline, bullied my subordinates and flattered my superiors, my Majesty knew in his heart that he was charged with crimes." It doesn't stop at this one? Chen Xinjin learned that Bai Xuehe has been taking Xitong ointment for a long time, and I have a loyal minister in the Great Zhou Dynasty, how can I allow such smokers to stay in the officialdom?"

Li Lun knelt crookedly, Fu Jiying only said: "I am the emperor, as long as I can bear it."

Li Lun completely lay down on the snow, tremblingly said: "The emperor is a wise king, he has been decisive in killing and attacking, can't this beautiful woman of the world not know which is more important?"

"Snow Crane is an important minister by my side, what kind of beautiful woman?" Fu Jiying smiled coldly, and only walked forward with a flick of her sleeves, then turned around and said, "I don't know who taught you to say such nonsense, but I think you are old and loyal, so I will not pursue it gone."

Li Lun let out a long sigh, wept sadly, and was finally speechless.

Wei Lan glanced at him and sighed silently.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the snow lights up, and the newly replaced red lights in the White Mansion are also covered with velvet snow, but Bai Xuehe sits leisurely in the hall with the door open, watching the snowflakes fly down.

"It's such a cold day, but the patient can't lie down properly." Fu Jiying didn't knock on the door, and stepped into the snow on the familiar road. Bai Xuehe hurriedly got up and wanted to kneel, and the big cloak and hand stove fell to the ground.

"You don't need to kneel." Fu Jiying helped him up, wrapped his clothes around him, pointed out the door, and Wei Lan immediately understood.

"The emperor just came here like this, I'm afraid someone will criticize the minister." Bai Xuehe sighed, but his face was still smiling, that face was buried in the snow-white down of the cloak, making him look thinner and more beautiful.

Xu Shitian was cold and sick, his wet lips were slightly red, and there was even a bit of a monster, which made Fu Jiying a little dazed.

"The palace is indeed very lively, but it's none of your business, it's all the ministers who are congratulating you." Fu Jiying concealed his unhappiness, held his hand and said with a smile: "You don't want to join in the fun, so I have to come and see you. Tonight there are fireworks for the Persian tribute, you are not lucky to see it."

"What is Persia? I also have good fireworks here." Bai Xuehe got up and took a few steps, took out the fireworks from the cabinet, and jumped about to put them in the yard.

"You are so stingy, you have lived in such a small courtyard for many years." Fu Jiying was a little speechless, wondering whether to laugh or cry, "Why are you willing to buy fireworks?"

"The emperor is happy, so he will naturally reward his ministers with good things." Bai Xuehe had already set the fireworks, shivered and jumped back to the spot, blinking and asking: "Isn't it?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Fu Jiying has been in a bad mood recently for all kinds of miscellaneous matters, so he showed a sincere smile, casually took off the jade pendant around his waist, and tapped it on the tip of his nose, "Hetian Ziyu, I only brought this , I will allow you to blackmail after returning to the palace."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Bai Xuehe didn't care about the three-seven-two-one, hurriedly took it and put it in his arms, took a candle from the table, and walked forward holding the candle light.

"But..." Fu Jiying was stunned suddenly, looking at his frozen back, and said in a very soft voice, "How do you know, I will come today..."

It was also such a late night at that time, during the Lantern Festival, Fu Jiying was still an ordinary prince.

The dinner was as usual, the brothers drank very happily, but King Yan escaped early. King Yu was young, so he wanted to know where King Yan had gone, and begged him to take him to find him.

So Fu Jiying had no choice but to take King Yu out of the palace, and played a game of catching and tracking, but saw King Yan stopped in front of a dilapidated courtyard.

There was a dead tree in the yard, and there was a man sitting on the tree. The man turned his head against the snow, his long eyelashes were covered with downy snow, his eyes were full of spring water, and somehow he saw him.

King Yan said: "If you don't come down again, I will teach you a lesson."

The man turned his head, Fu Jiying met those eyes, pointed to King Yu who was hiding by the wall beside him, and waved his hands helplessly.

King Yu has already got behind the wall.

The still young Bai Xuehe didn't know what kind of official he was, he just regarded him as a follower of King Yan, so he smiled brightly and waved his hands.

Seeing that he was still sitting on the tree, still waving, King Yan laughed angrily, but he could only raise his head and ask, "What are you looking at?"

"I want to watch the fireworks on the fifteenth day in the imperial city."

Suddenly, the fireworks exploded in front of him, and a streak of emerald green splashed in the air. Fu Jiying, as the emperor, was not surprised by good things, and couldn't help but raise his head and look sideways.

The memories in her mind accelerated instantly, Fu Jiying thought of the pair of white porcelain dolls, and also remembered what she had said.

"How do you know that I will come today?"

"Whatever he gives you, I will make up for it."

"I want to watch the fireworks on the fifteenth day in the imperial city..."

Fu Jiying was a little surprised, looking up at Bai Xuehe's rippling eyes, the winter night was bitterly cold, but he could see some warmth from that usual smile.

"Are you agreeing to me?" Fu Jiying smiled tremblingly, and then squeezed his hand tightly, as if to crush his joints, "The past is over, I was wrong, but you are not all right, I I will make up for it little by little, you finally understand, from now on we will never care about each other, you promise!"

But Bai Xuehe didn't respond, his smile froze suddenly, he just raised his head in a daze, looking into the distance, as if someone was strangling his throat.

Fu Jiying's expression tightened, and suddenly, a woman's voice came from where his eyes locked, followed by an arrow, "You dog emperor, I will kill you today!"

Fu Jiying quickly dodged the arrow and held Bai Xuehe behind him. Wei Lan had already led people towards him, and the arrows rained down. Although Jin Yiwei was strong in martial arts, he was in the clear and at a disadvantage, so he had to dodge.

Fu Jiying narrowed his eyes and sneered, drew out his sword, hugged the white snow crane and hid in the house, a man rushed out of the rain of arrows, piercing the snow with a cold light, pointing directly at Fu Jiying's heart!

Bai Xuehe turned around suddenly, and pushed Fu Jiying into the room. The arrow stuck firmly in his back, and everyone stopped suddenly.

But after a while, Jin Yiwei rushed into the room, and the assassin disappeared instantly like a ghost.

Fu Jiying's eyes were round and his canthus were cracked. He clasped Bai Xuehe tightly in his arms, and his hands were bright red from time to time.

"Imperial physician, imperial physician." Fu Jiying roared in a low voice, "Tell the imperial physician!"

Wei Lan was terrified, and rushed out even rolling and crawling.

The night wind rushed in, just in time to blow out the candles on the table, and at the last moment, the flames condensed on Bai Xuehe's eyes.

Those eyes are still smiling, like fireworks.