Chapter 194: Zongzi (Part 2)
Gu Yunxie's complexion changed slightly, Huarong moved towards the exit in a pale manner, and heard the sound of "pop" clearly echoing in his ears.
The long whip slammed onto the box bench beside her, and the strong wind it brought along swept across the back of her delicate hands, making her skin sore.
Gu Yunxie's fingers retracted reflexively.
Gu Yanfei looked at Gu Yunxie with a smile, his eyes filled with a sly smile.
She didn't intend to really hit Gu Yunmai, after all, Gu Yunmai is a daughter of destiny blessed by heaven, if she really hurt Gu Yunmai, she will definitely be in bad luck for a long time to come.
She didn't want to kill a thousand enemies and damage herself by eight hundred.
Gu Yanfei held the handle of the whip and flicked his wrist, and the whip crackled with a clear and crisp sound.
This long whip was as flexible as a part of her body, and the tail of the whip actually rolled up the teapot on the small table...
Ridiculous! Gu Yunxi opened his eyes slightly, bowed and pushed open the door of the carriage, and jumped out of the carriage.
Gu Yanfei was the only one left in the carriage.
It was finally quiet. Gu Yanfei rolled up the whip casually, put it on the table, knocked on the wall of the compartment again with a smile, and told the driver: "Let's go."
She didn't care at all about how Gu Yunxiu returned home.
The coachman outside agreed, and flicked his whip again.
The carriage started on the road again, and this time it returned to Dingyuanhou's mansion non-stop.
Two carriages stopped near Neiyi Gate.
After Gu Yanfei got off the car, she saw Wang Shi and Gu Yunxie getting off from the carriage in front one after the other.
While standing still while supporting the maid's hand, Gu Yunxi inadvertently exchanged glances with Gu Yanfei, and turned her face away.
Mrs. Wang didn't pay attention, and absently explained to the two girls: "You two go back to your own yard, don't talk nonsense."
The last half of the sentence is a little bit of a warning.
Mrs. Wang didn't care about Gu Yanfei and Gu Yunxie's reaction, hurried back to the main courtyard, and asked the servants to call Gu Jian, Marquis of Dingyuan, and the couple closed the door and talked for a long time.
After a stick of incense, the Hou Mansion closed its doors to thank the guests.
Not only Dingyuan Hou's Mansion, but also many people in the capital closed their mansion doors tightly, with a somewhat anxious posture.
Although most of the houses were not like Dingyuanhou's Mansion, they also stopped coming and going to entertain guests. In the last two days of the Chinese New Year, the festive atmosphere weakened a lot, and the weather was cloudy for two days, with continuous clouds.
Until the tenth day of the first lunar month, the emperor began to write.
The first early morning of the new year is quite lively.
As soon as the court opened, a censor with a square face and a goatee jumped out holding a booklet:
"Your Majesty, I have my own performance."
One sentence attracted the attention of all the ministers.
"The eldest prince is domineering, disobedient and unfilial, and dares to put the queen mother under house arrest. Could it be that he thinks that being a prince can cover the sky with one hand?!" The censor impeached the eldest prince Chu Yi impassionedly.
"Your Majesty, this trend cannot last long. Please punish the Eldest Prince severely. Don't let the people in the world think that the Emperor is a son of disobedience!"
"Your Majesty, torturing a child is like killing a child!"
As he said that, the censor knelt on the ground in his robe, and kowtowed heavily to the emperor on the golden throne.
However, before his papers were presented, the British official Fang Huairui immediately stood up from the queue of generals, and scolded the censor bloody with righteous indignation: "A dog can't spit out ivory!"
"As the censor, instead of arresting those corrupt officials, you'd learn to hear from hearsay like those shrews in the market!"
"Hmph, you are jumping up and down on the Golden Luan Hall without proof, and slandering His Royal Highness, what crime should you have!"
The British Duke even called him a dog! The imperial emissary was so angry that his face was ashen, he blew his beard and stared, his thin body shook like a sieve, and said angrily: "I think that I am worthy of the world, the sun and the moon, and my loyalty reflects history...the world can learn from it!"
The imperial envoy became more and more indignant as he spoke, suddenly jumped up from the ground, and bumped his head towards the pillar beside him.
However, Fang Huairui had been guarding against him for a long time, and winked at a middle-aged military officer next to him.
The middle-aged military officer rushed over quickly and stopped in front of the pillar.
Yu Shi bumped his head against the opponent's thick and strong chest, and the opponent was as stable as Mount Tai, but the Yu Shi bounced back from the impact, staggered and fell to the ground, falling on his back.
"Ouch." He groaned twice in pain, and even the official hat fell off his head, in a state of embarrassment.
In the Golden Luan Hall, there was a dead silence.
For these Qingliu imperial censors who often come to show their ambitions, most of the courtiers are not surprised, and the corners of their mouths twitch.
Most of the courtiers were watching the progress of the situation with cold eyes. A few old foxes secretly exchanged glances, thinking: Where is the stupidity? He was really looking for his own death, and he didn't even know he was a knife in someone else's hand!
"Hey, Li Aiqing, you are too careless." The emperor looked down at the censor and sighed quietly, "Come here, send Li Aiqing back to have a good rest."
Like a peacemaker, the emperor dismissed Li Yushi's act of bumping into the pillar lightly, and then he told the eunuch Zhao Rang in public: "Zhao Rang, call some imperial doctors to Li Aiqing's house to see, don't break it."
When he said these words, the emperor's expression and tone were full of concern and compassion.
The ministers are not surprised at all, he has always been a kind-hearted person, that is to say, he is a little weak and sick.
"Hey—" the emperor sighed again.
"Li Aiqing is getting old, and she is always sick like this. I really don't feel relieved." The emperor patted the golden armrest of the dragon chair casually twice, "Health is the most important thing in this life. Li Aiqing might as well become an official, and live a leisurely life with grandchildren."
"..." Li Yushi, who fell to the ground, his eyes widened in disbelief, and his goatee trembled for a while.
In the queue on both sides, several officials exchanged glances with each other, and the corners of their eyes twitched.
Li Yushi is only in his thirties, how can he be called old.
Isn't the emperor opening his eyes and talking nonsense? !
"The emperor is right!" Fang Huairui echoed without saying a word, clapping his palms, and his voice resounded like a bell, resounding throughout the entire Golden Palace.
This sentence expresses the momentum of final conclusion.
Wei Shen, the Duke of Wei, showed strange eyes, looked Fang Huairui up and down, almost doubting for a moment whether he had been transferred.
Strange, when did his little brother become so flattering?
Fang Huairui can naturally feel the speculative and shocked eyes around him, but he can only pretend that he didn't see it. His heart is as bitter as if he had eaten Coptis chinensis. Nothing different.
Since he had already boarded the eldest prince's thief ship, he could only walk down with a black eye.
Fang Huairui cursed Yu Shi again in his heart, and was about to make persistent efforts, when he saw a middle-aged waiter in front of him panting and walking quickly to Zhao Rang's side and whispered a few words, and then Zhao Rang went over and whispered whispered to the emperor:
"...the eldest princess... is dying soon."
Zhao Rang's voice was so low that only the emperor could hear it.
The smile on the emperor's lips froze, his brows furrowed, and his face changed drastically.