Pick all the cold branches

The late emperor's funeral is approaching, but the death edict and burial are still inconclusive.People in the imperial city were panicked.

The courtiers have to use carts to carry the papers every day. What they say is nothing more than admonishing the present to put filial piety first, honor the last wish of the late emperor, or advise the present to put benevolence and righteousness first, and not to kill indiscriminately. In fact, it is only Chen Shiqin who is fighting. life and death.

What's more, some people took the lead to gather and divided into two factions, one faction sat outside the Dagao Xuanmen, and the other sat outside the Xuanwu Gate, refusing to eat or drink, to put pressure on the emperor.

Jiafei was so angry that he even avoided the daily court meeting, and ordered Jin Yiwei to carry the fragrant rice porridge, the best white flour steamed buns and hot dishes to the two doors for the meal according to the meal time. Let these people who go on hunger strike and sit in meditation every day smell the smell of food and starve.If you can't bear to eat, you can eat it. After eating, go home and rest.If you want to die, you will be hungry.When he fainted from hunger, he asked Jin Yiwei to forcefully pour rice soup into his mouth. Anyway, he couldn't starve to death.

According to legend, the two palaces of Empress Dowager Zheng and Concubine Wan cried from time to time.Even imperial concubine Cui and the family members of the kings, thinking about the predecessors, today may not be their future, and it is inevitable that there will be many sorrows of rabbits and foxes, and daily gloomy clouds and mist.

As for those unborn former court officials in Xiyuan, they have already been sentenced to death, and they cry day and night without ceasing.Those who tried to escape privately were captured.Officials in the inner city accepted bribes and used death row prisoners as substitutes, or abducted women from the people and imprisoned them in Xiyuan to replace the dead.Forbidden can not be stopped, one after another.

When the matter became serious, it was reported to the Three Law Departments, the Ministry of Punishment and the Dali Temple did not dare to touch sparks at this time, so they all pushed it to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.All levels of the Metropolitan Procuratorate did not dare to manage it on their own.The case files can only be piled up in front of Zhen Xian.Master Zhen stayed up all night watching it all night, his eyes were bloodshot.

But who doesn't want to live?

This is simply a man-made disaster.As long as the imperial edict of the former emperor's death is not clearly decided by the present, until the time of the great funeral, the matter of buying people and dead people will never stop.

Originally, Zhen Xian didn't want to say too much to urge the Holy Will to adjudicate.

He knew how difficult this matter was for Jiafei.

One side is the last wish of the former emperor, one side is the deadly remonstrance of the officials, one side is Chen Shiqin, and the other side is the conscience of a person... His Majesty needs balance, and it is more than one person and one heart. It is really beyond the comprehension of outsiders.

In the final analysis, this is a matter between the Holy Majesty and the late Emperor.He had no position to "remonstrate" by talking to himself.

However, he couldn't continue to wait in silence, and he couldn't continue to ignore chaos and death.

Originally, he wanted to go directly to the Forbidden Temple, but when he arrived outside the gate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate's office, he was stopped by a carriage.

Mr. Cao Ge personally got out of the car and invited him to the mansion, without any other excuses, he just said that he had something important to discuss.

Cao Ge was always a colleague of his grandfather, the chief assistant of the current cabinet, his old mentor, and even an elder. No matter what, Zhen Xian couldn't do it. He had no choice but to get into Mr. Cao Ge's car.

However, when he arrived at the Cao Mansion, he was completely stunned.

In Mr. Cao Ge's study, the guest who had been waiting for a long time was actually Hu Jingcheng, the former governor of Zhejiang Province, who had already resigned from office and is now at home.

The moment he saw Hu Jingcheng, Zhen Xian felt his scalp tingle and his back feel cold, and subconsciously took a step back, but it was too late to turn around and leave.

Cao Ge Lao Qiang called him to the mansion, and asked Hu Dutang to wait in advance. There is no second possibility. Hu Jingcheng must persuade him, and then let him persuade the Holy One to compromise and obey. Chen Shiqin was bestowed with the death edict by the first emperor.

Zhen Xian thinks that he has no personal relationship with Mr. Hu, let alone mutual admiration, but no matter how you say it, when the emperor returned to Beijing from Nanzhili, Hu Jingcheng was a meritorious minister, only at this level In fact, he really can't be rude to Mr. Hu.

Opposite one is a mentor, and the other is even a benefactor. This game of chess is destined to be very difficult.

Zhen Xian had no choice but to bite the bullet and take his seat, frowning wryly and waiting for a good lesson.

After all, Mr. Cao Ge is still Mr. Ge, he is much more peaceful than those who hastily wrote books and sat quietly. He chatted with Zhen Xian in a leisurely manner, and gradually mentioned that someone in Xiyuan paid money to buy someone to help the late emperor’s childless The case of a concubine vacating a cage for a golden cicada to escape its shell.

The sit-in of the officials may not have been instigated by Chen Shiqin's followers behind the scenes, and the purpose is nothing more than to demonstrate to the Holy Majesty.Regardless of the final outcome, the more people involved, the greater the price to be paid.

Therefore, when Elder Cao Ge said to him in great distress: "Chen Shiqin will not die, others will die, and more people will suffer." At this moment, it is really difficult for Zhen Xian to refute that this sentence is wrong.

He just can't make a difference.

Killing Chen Shiqin with the method of human sacrifice also involves death, but the ones who die are not court officials, but some women.

In the eyes of Mr. Cao Ge, it is even more irrelevant whether these are in the harem or ensnare women from the people. Since there is always death, letting them die is a more acceptable choice.

But Zhen Xian had a hard time accepting it.

He heard Elder Cao Ge persuading him earnestly, saying that the people in the harem "died for the burial of the late emperor, and it is considered an honor to die", and his family can also receive a generous reward of silver, which is enough for three generations to live comfortably. Death is finally worth it.

Zhen Xian only felt like a stick in his throat.

The upbringing he received from a young age did not allow him to question his teachers and elders.However, he could always hear the voice that kept roaring and shouting in his heart.

What does it mean to die with glory?

Man is mortal, and it is indeed honorable to die for the sake of righteousness and to die well.

However, being killed by a decree and placed in the tomb like an object as a funeral object, what kind of glory is this?

No one deserves to die for anyone.

He kept his face sullen, his eyebrows frowned, his teeth clenched, and he didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, and he refused to nod and compromise.

Until he heard Mr. Cao Ge ask him: "Xiuwen, what do you think imperial power is?"

Zhen Xian was taken aback suddenly.

Mr. Cao Ge said: "The right is in your hands, use it when you want it, and use it for your own benefit, but suffer its harm."

Of course he knew what Cao Ge was always talking to him.

The teacher was telling him that the law governing the world is that the power of the king is granted by God, and that the power of the emperor is above everything else.

So the emperor can say that whoever wants to die will die, including those court ladies, courtiers, including Chen Shiqin, including them, including ordinary subjects.

Born like this, there is no reason, let alone questioning and resistance.

This is the ultimate power in the world.

Only by truly mastering such totalitarian power and using it for oneself can we remain invincible.

So the Holy One can kill Chen Shiqin like this.

Even, the Holy Majesty should have killed Chen Shiqin like this.This is the simplest, cleanest way.It is far more convenient and more effective than the Metropolitan Procuratorate's investigation of the criminal evidence and its exhaustion of energy to punish Chen Shiqin according to the law.

And he just doesn't know the current affairs.

Therefore, it is actually not Chen Shiqin, but Zhen Xian, who makes it extremely difficult for the Holy One to walk.

It was his ridiculous obsession and vainness that trapped the Holy Majesty, who had a sharp sword in his hand but could not use it, and could not let go of his hands and feet to compete with Chen Shiqin, so he fell into the embarrassing situation of being protested by his subjects on a hunger strike.

These people have nothing to fear, precisely because they are sure that the Holy One will not let them die easily.

An emperor who can't kill people won't feel fear, and then he will easily lose his authority and be choked by those in power.

In this cycle of order, fear itself is power, it is domination.

Therefore, emperors throughout the ages will never let go of the knife that can kill at will.

But he chose not to let the Holy Majesty kill someone.

The teacher is blaming him, blaming him for taking the Holy One to ask for trouble.

Zhen Xian couldn't help laughing wryly.

He subconsciously raised his eyes to look at Hu Jingcheng who was sitting beside him.

Today, Hu Jingcheng is dressed in commoner clothes, and he dresses himself up like an old country man who has lived a peaceful life. People who don't know see him like this, and they can never imagine that he was once the governor of two provinces. I sat in the position for eight years.

At that time in Zhezhi, Hu Dutang finally waited until King Jing went south and borrowed the emperor's murderous knife, so that he could wipe out the scourge that had been hindering him for many years in one fell swoop.

But in the past eight years, how much suffering the people of the two provinces have endured, and how much price they have paid for these power struggles that are neither known nor imagined, I am afraid that only the mountains of corpses and the sea of ​​blood and the pairs of tearful eyes are the real truth. Know.

And these, in the eyes of power, are just a series of numbers in the dossier, which are helpless, and are "necessary prices" that can be deleted, modified or even erased as needed.

This is only in Zhejiang Province.

Going further up, in Beijing, on the king's side, how many "prices" are left, which have been or will be submerged in this power struggle...

The emperor must not only see the pros and cons but not the people, otherwise the world will be catastrophe.

In an instant, Zhen Xian's eyes overflowed with indescribable self-mockery.

He finally opened his mouth and asked Cao Min word by word: "According to the teacher, if the emperor commits evil, he can be dealt with by the imperial power. The student dares to ask the teacher: If the imperial power does evil, how should it be suppressed?"

Cao Ge never seemed to have thought that he would say the words "imperial power commits evil" to his face, his face turned livid with shock, his hands trembled, and he froze for a long time and angrily shouted: "Xiuwen!"

Zhen Xian received this rebuke, but he refused to back down.

"Isn't the teacher persuading me today to ask the Holy Majesty to strangle innocent people with imperial power? But if the Holy Majesty really becomes a person who can strangle innocent people as long as he has a purpose, what does it matter if Chen Shiqin dies or not? Our lord compares What about the Chen family? At that time, who will the teacher expect to have the 'right to use'? Will God punish him?"

He quietly looked at the chief assistant of the cabinet of the two dynasties in front of him, his benefactor, his slightly raised face would never bow down no matter what, only his face was extraordinarily pale.

"Teacher, you may... think that it should be the case under balance. But I don't think so. I don't want to, and I can't let him become like that. As long as I am still alive, I will never persuade him to do that kind of thing. So The teacher doesn't need to persuade me anymore."

The person referred to by "he" is naturally the present day.

Cao Ge just cursed the word "you" and couldn't continue cursing. His eyes turned black with anger, and he coughed violently. He had to lean back in the chair and close his eyes for a long time, and almost passed out on the spot.

Many people in the court knew about the relationship between Zhen Xian and the Holy One, especially Cao Ge.

He also saw his two students, how to say, what they looked like when they were young.

For Zhen Xian, the Holy One is indeed an emperor, but he has never been more than an emperor.

But to the Holy One, what exactly is Zhen Xian?

For Cao Min, he thinks that Zhen Xian still doesn't understand.

Elder Cao Ge couldn't help smiling bitterly.

"What do you think the former emperor did so hard for?"

Zhen Xian's eyes sparkled slightly.

He knew that in the past two years, Jiafei had made drastic changes, was determined to innovate, and was even more eager to clear Chen Shiqin's network as much as possible, which really touched the interests of many old and noble people in the court.

The meat that was used to eating in the bowl suddenly disappeared, no one would be happy.Because of this, many people complained about the Holy One, and they just held back because they still couldn't figure out the depth.Regardless of other things, it can be seen that this time the incident of this person's death has made such a commotion.

And, there is His Royal Highness King Rong.

Ever since King Rong Jiayu seized Jinyiwei, the old people of Prince Jing's mansion have also returned to the experience department and the township department, and each took up important positions. , but what he did, even if he was restrained, was actually not much different from before.

The Holy Majesty relied heavily on His Royal Highness Rong Wang, and used Rong Wang Jiayu to do things that Zhen Xian could not and would never do.

Because the Holy One wants to rob people with Chen Shiqin.Therefore, whatever the Chen family knows, the Holy Majesty must know; what the Chen family does not know, the Holy Majesty must know even more.

Those who are dissatisfied with this do not know geometry.Even himself, if it wasn't for His Majesty's avoidance on purpose and His Royal Highness King Rong was involved in it, I'm afraid there would be a lot of friction with His Majesty because of this...

In this way, he may have already tacitly agreed to it without knowing it, so he has no position to talk about it in front of the teacher.

Sudden block and pain in the heart, Zhen Xian was in a daze for a while, frowning.

"The Holy Majesty may indeed be a little radical since he ascended the throne, but—"

He wanted to defend Jiafei, but he couldn't say it in the end.

Old Cao Ge could only shake his head and smile wryly.

"You are wrong, Xiuwen! The former emperor wanted to protect you!"

Zhen Xian couldn't help being startled, but suddenly understood.

As early as in the old year, when he was in Suzhou, His Royal Highness King Rong opposed the Holy Majesty and Chen Shiqin's hard work, saying that the Chen family was already old and dying, as long as the situation was stabilized, the Holy Majesty was still strong when Chen Shi died. In [-], the problem was solved without any attack, and there was no need to fight.

What the teacher said today is still this "principle".

Chen Shiqin was always going to die, and even if he didn't kill him immediately, he might not survive another ten years.

Originally, there was no need for the Holy Majesty to insist on Chen Shiqin being buried.

However, the dying snake is bound to show its fangs in order to fight for its life.How can Chen Shiqin be an exception for a greedy man?He knew that the general situation was over, and there must be a fight of the poor. If he couldn't move the Holy One for a while, he would attack the people around the Holy One.

And those who have something to do with it in the past, or have suffered a lot of guilt and resentment under the New Deal that the Holy Majesty is trying to promote, or worry that the Holy Majesty insists on a thorough investigation and liquidation will eventually be liquidated on them, but there is a chance to attack the Holy Majesty , forcing the Holy One to give up the idea of ​​continuing to compete with nobles and powerful ministers over some old cases, who would not be happy to participate in it, even if it is just to express a grievance, that is "great joy".

Thinking about it this way, Princess Jingjun, as the elder of the current clan, brought a maidservant carrying poison into the confinement. It may not be a real plot to poison the crown prince. Maybe it was aimed at the imperial concubine Cui, or maybe it was just to take advantage of it. If you stir up muddy water with a stick, as long as you make people panic, you will succeed.

Another example is the matter that His Royal Highness King Zhao suddenly announced that he was going to be sealed outside. With His Royal Highness's temperament, there is the ability to unite so many people to force His Majesty to drive His Royal Highness King Rong out of Beijing... Just take advantage of the chaos and stab the knife.

Whether His Highness King Rong, Imperial Concubine Cui, or His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, they were all people close to and cared for by the Emperor. It was not surprising that they became targets to harm the Holy Majesty under the watchful eye of a pack of wolves.

But they are all royal family after all, no matter the crown prince or Rong Wang, even the imperial concubine, their identities are always different from ordinary people, and it is not so easy for them to be bitten by others.Targeting them always costs more.

And there is another person who is on the king's side but is not from the royal family. He is clearly in a high position but has no cronies, is young and has a shallow foundation. He is the best fat man to attack.

This person is him Zhen Xian.

He is the most vulnerable and riddled underbelly beside the Holy One.

It was too easy for him to die.

But he still doesn't know how to be prudent and ingratiating, and he doesn't know how to manage people's hearts.

Zhen Xian suddenly recalled that the Supreme Emperor specially called him away before he died, grabbed his hand and said, "Don't give them an excuse to kill you. Don't learn from your father."

At that time, he thought that the Supreme Emperor was just about to die, so he was extra sentimental and thoughtful, or he was always obsessed with his father's death, and finally broke out when this life was nearing the end.

Now that I think about it, maybe not.

The Taishanghuang was really reminding him, telling him to be careful and save his life.

Zhen Xian was in a trance again for a while, when he heard Cao Ge sigh repeatedly.

"How much the Holy Majesty values ​​you, don't you know? The late emperor saw everything clearly, knowing that to keep you is to keep the Holy Majesty, so he made arrangements for you everywhere. But why are you...you—"

His teacher looked at him with a complicated expression, his face was old, his face was full of regret, and his words were earnest.

"You are not a young man who has just entered the officialdom. Why can't you understand? If you can't kill the grass and roots, don't block people's way of making money, don't force people to a dead end, and you would rather do nothing than give others a handle." If I had known that you had always had such a personality, it would have been better to go away and leave the world, than to come back to Beijing again. But now the teacher regrets why he brought you back from Lingnan, it was too late! "

Zhen Xian's heart trembled, and his face suddenly turned ashen.

He also thought over and over again that when he was exiled to Lingnan, he was just an immature boy, and his whole family was a death penalty. He was left alone, and it was a blessing to survive. It happened that Bole took good care of him in Lingnan ?Now Mr. Cao Ge himself admitted that it was because of Mr. Ge’s entrustment that he was able to protect him all the way back to Beijing, and was nominated by the Golden Palace... It’s ridiculous that he was still childish and passionate at that time, and he thought he was lonely and brave , thinking that he has great ability.

He really didn't have the qualifications to speak rudely in front of the teacher and say some great truths.

But he couldn't admit it, and he absolutely couldn't obey the teacher's decision.

Elder Cao Ge was already asking him directly, if he had known that he was so stubborn, taking pains to bring him back to Beijing from Lingnan would be harmful to both parties, so why bother?

Zhen Xianlue propped up his forehead with some collapse, covering up the unspeakable despair in his eyes.

He didn't speak out to refute, but he didn't just admit his mistake, he just lowered his head and bit his lips desperately without saying a word.

Elder Cao Ge also looked so heartbroken that he didn't want to say more.

The scene suddenly froze and became very embarrassing.

Hu Jingcheng, who sat aside and watched for a long time, finally sighed, shook his head, leaned forward to comfort Cao Min first, and asked Mr. Ge to allow him to say a few words too.

Old Cao Ge's face was full of despair, and he waved his hand dejectedly to tell him to do whatever he wanted.

Only then did Hu Jingcheng straighten his body, turned his head to look at Zhen Xian, nodded his head slightly in appreciation, and then spoke slowly.

"Master Zhen is a student taught by Mr. Ge himself. The year Hu entered Enke, it was because of Mr. Ge's respect that he had a future. If we barely climbed up, you and I can be regarded as the same teacher. Back then in the south of the Yangtze River At that time, Hu had seen the vigor of the adults, knew that the adults were the talents of Wang Zuozhi, and knew that Lord Zhen did not agree with Hu's deeds. But at that time, even though Lord Zhen could not agree with Hu, he still left Hu It is enough to be decent. Today, the adults are already on the king's side, and Hu is just a mediocre person, but every time Hu thinks about the past, he always thinks of the kindness that the adults treated Hu. Therefore, Hu is bold , Ask your lord directly, have you changed your mind after returning to Beijing and entering the court?"

This question was so straightforward that Zhen Xian choked up when he heard it.

When Hu Dutang mentioned vigor to him, he was asking him, and this year he is getting older and more experienced, but he still has his original intentions, or he has already realized that he was naive back then.

Zhen Xian couldn't help laughing at himself.

In fact, he also clearly understands that in the past, he was born in the family of a high-ranking official, urinating and reading and learning calligraphy with the princes, and then became the close minister of the prince and prince, and became a bachelor of the Imperial Academy. , does not change the essence.

He is completely different from Hu Jingcheng, a poor family who really entered the official examination through the imperial examination and climbed up to the position of minister step by step from the private sector.

What is the real officialdom, Hu Jingcheng thought that he didn't know it before, and he didn't bother to know it. Until now, he has been the censor of the left capital of the capital procuratorate, and the most trusted cabinet minister in today's world. In the middle of the officialdom, he is the same.

Otherwise, he shouldn't still be sticking his neck like this, failing to live up to the favor of the Supreme Emperor and the kindness of his mentor.

These people, together with Hu Jingcheng, wanted to save him.He knew it clearly in his heart.

But he just didn't want to accept this kindness.

He didn't even want to argue with them, explain, and tell them that he was not what they thought he was.

It's not that he doesn't understand, he just can't accept it and doesn't want to compromise.

He even knew earlier that, under the tragic surface of all these human-to-human struggles, where the real and unforgivable crime lies.

It is the source of all evils that everyone keeps quiet and turns a blind eye to, and it is the fertile ground that allows all evils to grow and turn people into ghosts.

But no one dared to say such a thing.Because speaking out is a death penalty without pardon, and it is a heart-to-heart death.

Even he claimed that he was never afraid to speak out. After all these years, he never once dared to say these words, let alone tell the Holy One.

Of course he also has weaknesses.There is also selfishness.Also afraid of death.

But Hu Jingcheng insisted on persecuting him, smiled gently and politely, and poked his lung tube.

Zhen Xian smiled wryly, opened his mouth several times, and finally responded with a hoarse voice.

"Under totalitarianism, there must be evil. Either do evil or die, and there is no other way. So it doesn't matter who you are. Under the overthrow of the nest, there will be no eggs. Who is innocent? Who is spared? There is no escape. Hu Dutang just wants to hear this from me.”

"Xiuwen!" Cao Ge glared at him, and slapped the table several times heartbroken.

Hu Jingcheng quickly persuaded Cao Min, and then turned to look at Zhen Xian.

"So what exactly do you want? What else can you do?"

He deliberately paused, and then asked word for word:

"Master Zhen, you have thought about it, do you want to change the sky?"

The breath suddenly froze, but the burning pain spread from the blood vessels, becoming a strong smell that could not be ignored.

Zhen Xian was silent for a long time, speechless to answer.

Of course I don't want to change the sky.

He can't do it at all.

No matter what it is for, even if it is only for his selfishness, even if he has really seen it, if he can't do it, he can't do it.

There will be bloodshed every day.

But whose blood is not dead?

And no matter how much he thinks about this world, he is still a mortal. With the person he is obsessed with, he can never let go, can't give up, and can't care less.

So, he knows he's never been fearless.

Therefore, he is even extremely weak.

Therefore, he is the same after all, and he can only do something and not do something in the world.

No matter how unwilling and stubborn he is, he will eventually become like this, just like Hu Jingcheng back then.

And this person is sitting in front of him at this moment, looking at him with clear eyes, waiting for him to give up struggling, waiting for him to be full of old age, and then maybe he will pat him on the shoulder to comfort him and persuade him not to be too harsh For myself, it is not easy to say that I can "do something and not do something", and it is already beyond the reach of most people in this world.

But so what?

What's the point.

He didn't need such relief.

"You are too impatient."

He heard Hu Jingcheng say to him earnestly:

"What your majesty has done is already beyond the reach of the previous emperors. And your majesty is in his prime, so he can do more things. In the future, when the crown prince succeeds to the throne, the sea and the sky will be even brighter. There are many things that you and I may see at this time. I don’t see you, maybe you may not see them in this life, but the mountains and rivers are always there, and the sky is always there. When the sky is blue, there will always be a dark time. After the long night, there will always be dawn. And after you and me, there will always be someone who comes. This is the operation of all things The principle of mutual generation of yin and yang. Why should you be in a hurry."

Zhen Xian was in a daze for a long time, but finally sighed.

"But I can't persuade Your Majesty to do an evil thing." He fixedly looked at Hu Jingcheng.

Hu Jingcheng was helpless, "Why do you have to decide that this is evil?"

Such eyes, extremely sincere, are indeed an elder who sympathizes with his younger generation.

But Zhen Xian still shook his head firmly.

"Maybe what you said, Hu Dutang, is right. But I don't think I'm wrong. Because doing evil is doing evil, no matter what the reason is. If I can't persist in my life, I dare to ask Hu Dutang In a word, how can I pay attention to those who come?"

He stood up resolutely, quietly cupped his hands and bowed to the two Cao Hu, and stood up again, speaking calmly as if he had already found out the way back.

"If blood must be shed, it's better to shed my blood. Zhen Xian is never afraid of death, nor is he willing to be generous to others."

He insisted on leaving first, regardless of asking to stay.

Mr. Cao Ge chased him all the way until he reached the gate of the house, even if he wanted to take him in a car, he would not accept it, knowing that there was no other way, he could only watch him go away, and finally disappeared at the end of his sight, closing his eyes very tired Long sigh.

"The first emperor once locked up the whole family of Zhen's family. He just wanted a soft word, and he didn't want it until the head fell. You and I are really making fun of ourselves."

When the first emperor was in his old year, he tried to repeat a sentence over and over again, the people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death.

Cao Min knew who it was talking about.

Now this sentence reappeared in his mind again, as if reappearing yesterday, reincarnation of fate.

Cao Min looked gloomy, turned around tremblingly, took only one step, and then supported the assistant head on the vermilion lacquered gate of his house.

"It's going to be windy... If you have a place to go, go as far away as possible."

Hu Jingcheng on the side frowned for a long time, and when he bowed his head to salute, he could only sigh.

Zhen Xian left Cao Ge's old mansion and had no car to drive, so he walked all the way in a daze, and when he came back to his senses, he had unknowingly walked under the palace wall.

The guards and internal officials on duty outside the Xi'an Gate were all taken aback when they saw his unguarded appearance, and carefully escorted him to the Qianqing Palace to meet the emperor.

When he arrived at the South Study Room, Jiafei was disturbed by the similar memorials, seeing that he finally came, he immediately got up and hugged him, not shying away from it in front of people, and complained: "Why did you come? "

Zhen Xian also changed his usual behavior and did not refuse to struggle. Instead, he leaned his head on Jiafei's shoulder obediently, and responded in a low voice: "I just came out of the teacher's house."

Jia Fei trembled slightly, and grabbed him with a sudden hand, and immediately frowned, "What did Cao Min say?"

Zhen Xian was speechless for a long time, then he raised his eyes and looked at the person in front of him blankly.

Those eyes seemed to contain thousands of words and it was too late to say, Jiafei was frightened for a while, and called "Xiaoxian" several times again and again. Bring that old fox Cao Min into the palace to make it clear.

Zhen Xian was leaning against him weakly, his palms and forehead were covered with cold sweat, as if he had just been fished out of the water.

It was so silent for a long time, so long that Jia Fei almost thought that he was asleep, and couldn't help stretching out his hand to test his breath, then he opened his mouth slowly:

"In fact, I often feel scared, and I don't know what to do. Is it right or wrong, is it helping you or hurting you... But—"

His voice was low and hoarse, struggling with all his might.

He looked at him deeply with dark eyes.

"Your Majesty, let's issue an edict, we can't delay any longer."

Jiafei was startled suddenly, "...you really don't even ask me a question?"

Zhen Xian lowered his eyes, pressed his face to his heart quietly, and murmured.

"I don't have to ask. I know you."

A familiar voice came from the heartbeat.

Jiafei's throat was hot, and tears almost welled up.

In the third year of the Xinlong period of the Holy Dynasty, the Supreme Emperor died, and all the empresses, concubines and cronies and internal officials were ordered to be buried.Today, the benevolence is generous, the system of human sacrifice is old and barbaric, the previous dynasty was abandoned, so it was abolished, and the first empress and concubine, together with the eunuchs, were not killed, and they were given Taoism, and they were dressed in cassocks. , to fulfill the last wish of the late emperor.The crying in the harem stopped, and the trend of selling people for lives was forbidden, and everyone was grateful for the kindness of the emperor.Among the ministers of the previous court, there were those who cried and went on hunger strike outside the Dagaoxuan Hall. They fainted outside the hall without touching a grain of rice for three days.When the rest of the people saw it, they all dispersed.