After returning home, Xue Yao stayed awake all night, repeatedly recalling where things started to go wrong.
He remembers the tyrant's heartfelt quest, which sprang up before he met with Azu.
What did he do then?
He pretended to be Azure's softness in front of Lu Qian as he imagined.
The answer he finally came up with made his heart skip a beat: was Lu Qian treating him as Ah Zhu? That's why the object of his heart's desire had a heavenly misunderstanding.
In fact, the reason why Lu Qian's Heartwarming Task broke out at that moment was because the accumulated mental fluttering collided with the physical reaction for the first time at that moment, and the Heartwarming Task formally began to calculate the progress.
It's not because Xue Yao twisted her body twice that she was moved. If another man twisted his body in front of her, Lu Qian would probably move his fists.
Xue Yao thought she got the leading lady treatment through the dastardly tactics of script snatching.
This was not what he wanted, he just wanted to be good buddies with Lu Qian for the rest of his life, to be together until old age, but he was not willing to turn into a relationship of that nature with Lu Qian.
Is he willing?
The lips that had been kissed warmed slightly, and the second Xue Yao hidden in his body made him unconsciously self-loathing.
Imagine future generations looking at their cell phone encyclopedias with a flirtatious look and saying that Emperor Long Aotian of Daqi, a man and a woman in his harem, had a very rich sex life. Do you think he's gay? How can a gay man have so many babies? Probably just think the male back tight, change taste to play. Ha, ha, ha. Ancient emperors are so fucking messed up.
Xue Yao's fists were clenched so tightly that he couldn't wait to punch over the imaginary backwoods people who were shaming Lu Qian.
Suddenly pounding on the bed, Xue Yao frowned in annoyance and rolled over, covering his head with the quilt.
He couldn't be willing, or else Lu Qian would go from being an emperor for the ages to a laughing stock for the ages.
*
After returning to the palace, Lu Qian thought he would be asked to fight by Sixth Brother, but he didn't expect Sixth Brother to nod to him and go back to his own temple with a heavy heart.
Lu Yi didn't ignore the seventh brother on purpose, but he was so caught up in all the emotions of the sinful act he had just committed that he momentarily overshadowed Ah Yao's matter.
He just did something unconscionable.
Just in the elegant room, in front of the man in green, he ate all the dishes, and then borrowed the excuse of ...... escaping on the pretext of paying respect! Run! Had!
Luu escaped without checking out.
He had really wanted Xiao Gong, but when he left the elegant room, his afterglow saw the green-clothed man's idle and comfortable appearance, and his mind's mischievous thoughts rose steeply: "If I slipped away, the table's three taels of silver for the food money, it's time for him to settle the bill."
Lu Zhan dared to think and dare to do, and when he went down to the first floor, he took advantage of the shopkeeper's inattention and slipped through the window.
The weakness of the first time to do something bad, so that Lu Yi three points of light strength, soared to seven points, all the way back to the palace wildly, gasping for breath full of killing.
After entering the palace, he was safe, and Lu Zhan now had a thrill of excitement he had never experienced before, as well as serious moral baggage.
Three taels of silver. Can the man afford it? Will this wipe out all his belongings? He'll be living on the streets from now on? Begging for a living?
Calming down, Lu Zhan was getting less and less savory.
Although this man in green was gangly, he didn't make any major mistakes, but he vented all of his anger and aggression of losing Ah Yao on this innocent man, and it also directly caused this man to become a beggar.
Lu Yi tossed and turned, feeling that his hands were already covered in blood and he had become a devil on the ground.
*
Early the next morning, Xue Yao, with two dark circles under his eyes, ate breakfast with his grandfather and mother.
Zhou Rui saw that her son was not in good spirits, so she advised him to rest at home for a day.
Grandpa gave Zhou Rui a fierce look and said that there is no disease or disaster how can you take leave at will, it is not allowed.
After dinner, Grandpa asked Xue Yao to go to the back room to talk alone.
Xue Yao thought that Grandpa was going to teach him that he couldn't be lazy, but he didn't realize that it was for another matter.
A thing that surprised him.
"Ah Yao, during the late emperor's imperial expedition, did you ever let slip that the late emperor would encounter danger on the other side of Baisu Ditch?" Grandfather asked in a worried whisper.
Xue Yao was scared out of his wits.
How does that kind of talk get out?
He calmed down and thought about it carefully, it couldn't be, this was something he had only told the then Crown Prince, and the Crown Prince wasn't a broken man.
"No, how could I dare to say such rumors that disturb the army? Grandmaster, why do you ask?" Xue Yao firmly said.
Zhou Chong frowned and sighed, "I wonder who is spreading these rumors in the court."
Xue Yao said anxiously, "How did the rumors reach me?"
"Now who doesn't know that you are the red man beside King Ning?" Zhou Chong said in a serious tone: "Someone has already gotten some news from King Rui, in a few months, once King Ning's eighteenth birthday is over, the Emperor will immediately abdicate to King Ning. How many people in the dynasty want to try to tie up with the King of Ning, have hit a wall, the other day and want to come to tie up with you, they send gifts on the grounds of filial piety to me, all were sent away by me, I am afraid that these people are up to the heart of the retaliation nah, can be harmed by your bitter."
"Grandmaster need not worry." Xue Yao comforted, "The King of Ning will never believe such rumors that are created out of nothing."
"This whole thing isn't all about nothing."
Xue Yao's heart thumped, "What are they basing this on?"
Zhou Chong said, "I heard that the goddess, Aunt Po, had persuaded the late emperor on the eve of the expedition, and the late emperor had also laughed about Aunt Po's accounted for measurements after winning a few battles, so now some people are holding on to this matter, and intimidating Aunt Po with private interrogations.
Before the late emperor's death, he changed Ning Wang to be the heir, this matter is really puzzling, some people suspect that Aunt Po was not instructed by Princess Shi Shi to put some exotic curse on the late emperor.
It is said that after Aunt Po was intimidated and forced to question her, in order to clear Princess Shio's name, she said that all these things were done at the behest of a young companion beside King Ning."
Xue Yao's brain buzzed!
Zhou Chong said, "But there is no tangible evidence for these things, after all, Aunt Po is a Divine Maiden personally appointed by the late Emperor, and there were several people who requested to interrogate her before, but they were all rebuked and refused by His Majesty and King Rui, and even if they had interrogated her privately, they wouldn't have dared to blatantly say so, or else they themselves would have to be convicted first."
Xue Yao's forehead veins jutted out, not bothering to respond to Grandpa for a moment.
Zhou Chong has not found his grandson's face is different, still some worry muttered: "Even if you wash out the remaining party of the Tong family, there is no one day in the dynasty is clear, the late emperor kept the Tong family, is to constrain this group of people, and now the Tong family's party is gone, this group of the original with the Tong family tug-of-war with the party, all the strength in his majesty, and even you are so insignificant small companion, can not be pulled together, they all want to completely eradicate them."
In this instant, for the first time, Xue Yao understood with incomparable clarity why ancient emperors were so fond of playing with power.
Some emperors condone a group of corrupt officials and the puritanical parties to fight for power, but also pull on the eunuchs together, which party is weak, let the eunuchs go in to stir up the water, always let the two parties are evenly matched, so that no one has the strength to fight with the emperor.
For example, if the emperor wants to build a palace and a garden, he leaves it to the officials to speculate.
Where there is a corrupt official brain is not good have to work for the people to hurt money and leave a bad name for years to come? All is to guess the emperor's mind on the folding, for the emperor to carry the name, in order to seek the emperor as his dog, a little bit of holy favor, get a life of glory.
Eunuchs are also the emperor's people, some of them call themselves "we (za) home", with the monks and Taoist priests to express a meaning of the world, see through the dust and indifferent to the world, after all, the eunuchs were forced to extinction, there is no enjoyment of that, only to the emperor as the backbone of the emperor, so the most trusted by the emperor.
Both types of parties were pawns of the Emperor.
Xue Yao has always been displeased with Emperor Lin An's reuse of the Tong family's clique and the eunuchs of the Secret Service, and now that the eldest prince is in power, he has eliminated these two cliques in one breath and is waiting for Lu Qian to take the throne.
It seemed to be helping his brother to clear the court, but in reality, it was allowing Lu Qian to tug of war with the officials on his own.
To this kind of juncture, can only see ginger or old hot, Lin An emperor is not not distinguish between loyalty and treachery of the emperor, this big pig's hooves in the heart than anyone else understands it.
Xue Yao's heart was simply in turmoil. If those so-called puritanical parties in the court couldn't even tolerate such a small companion as him, and in the future so many pairs of eyes were staring at Lu Qian, who hadn't yet cultivated his right-hand man, how hard would it be to live through those days?
It was strange that at a time like this, Xue Yao wasn't worried that she might lose her head over these rumors, but was just worried that Lu Qian was having a hard time.
It was only when he looked back that he realized Grandpa was calling out to him.
Xue Yao hurriedly responded, "What did you say?"
"What are you froze na?" Zhou Chong urgently said: "This matter can be big or small, you enter the palace today, hurry to let the King of Ning to the Aunt Po's side to deal with it, the King of Ning if it is inconvenient to come forward, let the King of Rui to help, this is a big matter, do not leave behind the scourge of the night long dream more."
"Ah Yao understands, don't worry Grandmaster."
Xue Yao did not really understand what Grandpa said about "dealing with Auntie Po", how to deal with it, can not be silenced, right? It would be unacceptable for Princess Shio to do so.
Then what should he tell Lu Qian?
Aunt Po to Lu Qian is actually similar to the grandmother, even if dealt with, can only be sent back to Shi Fei's old home to go, just like this Shi Fei is afraid that it is difficult to accept, she can be a family member in Dazhi has been too few people.
After thinking about it, Xue Yao still went to Aunt Po in person and asked her not to spread her private affairs just because she was intimidated.
Lu Qian is going to be the emperor, what is she afraid of?
When Aunt Po, the little old lady, saw Xue Yao coming to find herself, she was so scared that she didn't dare to raise her head, and she embroidered flowers there by herself like an ostrich.
Xue Yao said I have something important to see you today.
The old woman pretended to be deaf, stretched her head and ears crooked toward him, and asked, "Huh?"
Xue Yao was a bit anxious: "Aunt Po, this is a perfunctory matter, but you have to cooperate with me, who were the people who forced you to ask about the expedition prophecy before? Do you remember them all?"
The embroidery frame in the old lady's hand fell to the ground, shivering, she stood up, knelt in front of Xue Yao, tilted her head and said to him, "I'm old, I'll save you the trouble by going into the coffin earlier, I just can't let go of the Empress Mother and the Little Highness."
"Don't say that." Xue Yao helped her up and asked as pleasantly as he could.
The result was quickly asked out, Xue Yao originally guessed that it was Xue's family who found Aunt Po in order to retaliate against him, but it turned out that it was not, it was a fourth-grade official of the Ministry of Households.
Which means it could be the Household Secretary who is behind this.
Xue Yao couldn't figure out when he had offended an official of the Ministry of Households, and then after careful reasoning, it occurred to him that the Minister of Households was a student of Lord Li, the Cabinet Minister.
It's not really a teacher-student relationship, but Lord Li was the examiner for that session of the Household Ministry's examination.
In Daqi, the chief examiner will be honored by the candidates as the sitting teacher, and after successfully entering the dynasty as an official, many people will use the name of teacher and student to befriend the chief examiner and form a community of interest, and the Minister of the Household Department is likely to be the one who risked interrogating Auntie Parker for the sake of Lord Li.
Lord Li was originally assured of being the next chief minister, but was squeezed out of his position by Zhou Chong, more or less related to Xue Yao.
Now that King Ning's ascension to the throne was imminent, the correct target for trying to bring Zhou Chong down was, naturally, Xue Yao.
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