I'm back

The next day, at the Hall of Supreme Harmony, all the civil and military officials had arrived, and even the elders of the four dynasties who had always arrived at the latest sat in his exclusive chair, but the golden dragon chair on the high platform of the Jinluan Hall was empty. .

Not only the emperor's chair was empty, but also the regent's exclusive chair beside the emperor was empty.

The little emperor and the regent have the right to be late, not to mention that it is a quarter to the hour, even if it is a quarter to the hour, they are courtiers who have nothing to say.

The Son of Heaven is the emperor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, not to mention a quarter of an hour at night, or two hours at night, as long as no one comes to notify, they have to wait here obediently.

The regent is even more so. If the emperor arrives but the regent does not arrive, and the emperor leaves early after the end of the court, they will stay in the Hall of Supreme Harmony and dare not leave.

When Mao Shi was on time, there was finally movement outside the Jinluan Hall, and the lazy courtiers straightened up one after another, standing taller than pines and cypresses.

But to their disappointment, it wasn't the little emperor or the regent who came, but a few eunuchs in eunuch uniforms.

Every day when the emperor goes up to court, there will be an accompanying servant at the bottom of the steps to bow down to the emperor who stepped up the steps. The little eunuchs are waiting, and the people on the dragon chair will come soon.

But these eunuchs looked unfamiliar, and they didn't wait on both sides of the steps, but climbed up the steps slowly, and then moved the chair that was placed beside the dragon chair. Come down, and put it not far from Li Lao Sima's left.

A few drops of water dripped from a boiling oil pan in the quiet hall, and it exploded in an instant.

Who gave these servants the guts to move the regent's chair down?The emperor has not arrived, and the regent has not yet arrived?Did the regent want to seize power, so he withdrew his chair, or did the regent intend to return the power to the little emperor and let the little emperor rule himself?

Among the civil and military officials, there are also some who think that the regent is familiar with each other, but they have not heard the slightest rumor before. Facing the probing or questioning gazes from their colleagues, they have no choice but to tense their faces or keep smiling. Show a pair of wind and rain, I will not move like a mountain.

After the eunuchs removed the regent's chair, they retreated silently.About a quarter of an hour later, in the eunuch's unique high-pitched voice, the regent Wang Yanyuge came late.

In the past, when the regent entered the palace, almost no one dared to look up at him, but today, even though all civil and military officials bowed their heads in salute, almost all of them sneaked a peek at the regent's figure from the corner of their eyes.

One step, two steps... The regent entered from the gate of the Hall of Supreme Harmony and walked straight to the high platform. From the corner of their eyes, they could see the regent's very long, slender and powerful legs.

Staring at the ground, he was wearing the black boots that the Prince Regent used to wear, but looking up, the Prince Regent seemed to have changed into a new black court dress. The end of the robe was embroidered with gold thread. The dragon pattern, but from the corner of their eyes, they can't see the whole body of the dragon, whether it is the four-clawed dragon used by the prince, or the five-clawed golden dragon used by the king of a country.

The steps of the regent were not slow, but every step seemed to be on the hearts of the courtiers. Their eyes followed the steps of the regent, watching the pair of black boots move forward step by step, until they reached the place where they were placed. Under the high platform with dragon chairs.

The courtiers all put their hearts into their throats. Although among the civil and military officials, there was no one who was really not afraid of the current regent. Talking about it in private, they seemed to have something to do with the regent's attempt to usurp the throne.But in reality, they weren't ready either.

Some loyal courtiers were already thinking, if the regent forced the palace, would they want to bump into the wall pillars of the Hall of Supreme Harmony for the sake of the orthodoxy of the royal family of Yan Kingdom.

However, they soon stopped thinking about this problem, because the footsteps of the regent stopped for a while at the foot of the steps, and then turned to the high chair that had been brought down.

Yan Yuge lifted the hem of his robe, and when he sat down on the high chair, he clearly heard someone let out a sigh of relief.

The regent came, but the little emperor hadn't arrived yet. After another quarter of an hour, the high-pitched voice of the emperor's regular attendant finally sounded again outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony: "The emperor is here!"

The guards with knives outside the hall knelt down in unison, and all civil and military officials also bowed down one after another, shouting loudly: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Before Yan Qin stepped onto the high platform, he glanced at the regent, and after seeing that the regent was sitting under the high platform, he heaved a little sigh of relief, didn't look back, looked forward all the way, and sat on his dragon chair superior.

Yan Qin looked at the civil and military officials in the Jinluan Hall, and didn't say what the lovers said, but said: "My dear friends, it's a little late to come to court today."

None of the officials made a sound, and they were not stupid. Would they be so stupid as to go along with the little emperor and say, "Yes, yes, Your Majesty is late, so it's not good." Such stupid things.

Yan Qin didn't want them to answer either, and then said: "You dear friends, do you know why Gu came late?"

The courtiers were not allowed to raise their heads, they couldn't look at each other, they couldn't see other people's expressions, and for a while, no one cooperated with the little emperor.

The hall suddenly fell into a strange silence, and it was the "kind" regent who broke the silence, and very cooperatively took over the important task of flattering: "Why?"

In fact, Yan Qin originally planned to ask and answer by himself, but it would be better if someone took over. Yan Qin took another look at the regent and said slowly: "On the way to go to court today, I called a woman who beat the drum of injustice. Someone stopped her, and she called Gu, and asked Gu to judge her."

What the little emperor said was like a made-up story.Not to mention that the emperor lives in the imperial palace, from the sleeping palace to the Hall of Supreme Harmony, it is impossible for any woman to block the way.Even if there was such a woman, the grievance drum was set up in front of Jing Zhaoyin, and the emperor was not staying in the palace early in the morning, so he specially took a Luanjia and ran to Jing Zhaoyin's yamen, and then walked back slowly no.

Yan Qin didn't know what his courtiers were thinking, even if he knew, he didn't care, after all, he made up this story in order to draw out the following words.

He went on to say: "The village woman told Gu a strange story. Her son was gifted and intelligent. He was good at reading since he was a child. He was very competitive. He passed the Tongsheng examination, became a scholar, and finally entered the city to take the examination of Juren. , with the expectation of my loving mother and fellow villagers, I left my hometown and went to the capital, to win the title of the gold list, and return to my hometown with good clothes to repay my widowed mother and relatives.”

The courtiers were silent, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in the emperor's gourd, but the last time the emperor was abnormal, it was because of the fraud in the imperial examination, this time it was more abnormal than last time, and there must be another big case involved, just not Knowing who it could be is such an unlucky guy.

The little emperor continued to tell stories to the ministers who hadn't gotten up until now, as if he forgot that the ministers had knelt on the ground for a long time: "The village woman waited and waited, and waited for two full years after spring, summer, autumn and winter. She decided to look for her son, but on the way, she found a notice somewhere that the government had posted a body identification notice, saying that the local bandits were wiped out by the officers and soldiers, and the bandits had killed many people. The corpse was stored in the government office, and someone came to claim it. If no one claimed it, it would be buried in a few days. The village woman's heart was beating violently. Fortunately, she went to claim it, but did not find her son. She left the town , and continued to walk up the mountain, when she climbed the mountain, she saw a very beautiful flower, and fainted on the ground on the spot."

This time the little emperor didn't wait for anyone to flatter him, he directly called the name: "Dong Shaoqing, guess why that woman fainted?"

The officials named by the little emperor straightened up: "Your Majesty, I believe that the woman must have been too tired to climb the mountain and fell to the ground due to exhaustion."

"No, guess again."

"Is that because she fainted from hunger, or because the flower is poisonous and can make people faint?"

"No, not at all. The village woman fainted because she saw a flower unique to her hometown. The seed of that flower was found for her son through untold hardships, and then embroidered in the pocket of his son's clothes. "

Yan Qin went on to say: "The village woman frantically picked up the soil under the flowers, and she really pulled out her son's body. The body had rotted and turned into a bone. It turned out that as early as a year ago, her son On the way to Beijing for the exam, he was murdered by bandits."

The story is really embarrassing, but there is one point. Those who beat the drums to express their grievances have huge grievances to sue. Since the mountain bandits who killed the village woman's son have been wiped out, why does she still want to beat the drums?

Due to the habit of adjudicating cases on weekdays, Dong Shaoqing, who made a mistake in the adjudication of the case in Dali Temple, didn't pay attention, and asked out the doubts in his heart.

He regretted it when he asked, and he didn't think about it, and he even got an appreciative look from the little emperor.

"Dong Aiqing's death."

Dong Shaoqing braced himself and stood up. He looked around and saw that all civil and military officials were kneeling, but he was the only one standing. I have to say, this feels pretty good.

"Aiqing asked a good question. The village woman's enemies are all dead. Why did she travel across the mountains and rivers to the capital, beating drums to complain, and begging Lord Qingtian to make the decision. Gu asked her and promised to make the decision for her, so she told Gu It turns out that her son is not only dead, but also replaced by a villain, who has enjoyed decades of glory and wealth, she is not reconciled, but the villain is now so powerful that she was forced to enter the capital."

Yan Qin's eyes turned to Xiao Yuan's two sons again. After Xiao Yuan's accident last time, he also demoted the official positions of these two. The Xiao family is no longer as arrogant as it used to be. .

But I'm sorry, this time, he still has to take them under the knife.