Mountains and rivers pray for peace

Chapter 96
"No, Father, there is another way."

Huo Ruhai was worried at first, but after hearing Huo Qi's sudden statement, he couldn't help but wonder, "What do you mean?"

Huo Qi smiled: "Enter the palace."

"Enter the palace?" Huo Ruhai was taken aback.

"Daughter heard that a few days ago, the palace order turned fifty, and begged the Empress Dowager Pei's grace to retire and return home. After the New Year's Eve, the palace routinely selects female officials. If the daughter enters the palace, I'm not afraid that someone will easily make a mess Thoughts." Huo Qi said eloquently.

On the way Yang Qian sent her back, she had been thinking about the conversation she had with Shen Yuning on the Wupeng boat tonight.After thinking about it, the decision to enter the palace appeared more and more clearly in her mind. This might be a very good decision.

For one thing, if she enters the palace by herself, no one will be able to use her marriage as a raft at will.

Secondly, the reason why Ningguo Duke's Mansion is now in a delicate position is because although his father is standing on the opposite side of half of the court, he is standing beside His Majesty. Emperor Xiaowen will not easily attack the Huo family.Even if others wanted to frame Ning Guo's palace, they would still have to commit heinous crimes such as treason.But how could a person who wanted to rebel be willing to send his daughter to the palace to become a female official?Isn't this a disguised form of sending hostages into the royal family?How much more would Emperor Xiaowen think about this?

Furthermore, if she can practice for a few years, achieve something, and be appreciated by Queen Mother Pei, it will be worthy of her rebirth.

Since "retirement" can't save Ningguo Mansion, it's better to do the opposite.Go one step further until there is no one to bully and no one to humiliate.

Huo Ruhai stroked his beard and pondered for a moment: "Have you thought clearly?"

Huo Ruhai wanted to say something else. For example, there are endless battles in the palace. If you don't pay attention, you will be involved in the whirlpool of the court. Even if the Empress Dowager appreciates it, you still have to live by looking at people's faces. After all, it is better to be happy at home.But now he felt that these words were superfluous.

Since Huo Qi could say so much clearly, I'm afraid it was not just a whim, but a long time of thinking and decision-making. As a father, no matter how much he said, he couldn't stop her.

Furthermore, Huo Qi's words were not without reason.These years, he kept a low profile because he was too sharp in the early years and became a loyal minister of Emperor Xiaowen, but he offended too many colleagues.Now apart from a pair of children, he and Wang Qin have nothing to take care of.If Huo Qi could go to the Empress Dowager Pei's side, her situation would be much better than at the Huo family.

He taught Huo Qi to read more books in order to be sensible and to know right from wrong.Let her avoid the edge, to avoid disaster and spend the rest of her life.If Huo Qi can know the longitude and latitude in his chest and know how to keep a low profile, then even if he enters the palace, there is absolutely no reason for him to be buried. What can he do to stop him?

Huo Qi nodded, smiled lightly and said, "Father also understands, this is the safest way, isn't it?"

"Although this method sounds good, how did you know about the palace order?" Huo Ruhai narrowed his eyes.

Although the palace order is not a secret matter, it is a matter within the palace, even he, a foreign minister, is not very clear about the transfer of personnel in the Queen Mother's palace, how would Huo Qi, a boudoir, know?
Although Huo Qi is smart and smart, he is worried that Huo Qi has become involved with the people in the palace and will be controlled by others in the future.

Huo Qi secretly thought it was not good, this matter was also mentioned by Shen Yuning to him tonight, but she forgot for a while, whether it meant anything in Huo Ruhai's eyes when she said everything about the affairs of the palace.

She had an idea and said: "Tonight, someone under the second prince came to report the Queen Mother Pei's New Year's gift to the prince. They said that usually the palace order personally delivers the gift, but this year the person suddenly changed, and the reason behind it was revealed. My daughter was also there. Overheard."

"I see." Huo Ruhai said, "It won't be too late. Since you have this intention, your father will give you a note to recommend you to the palace."

Huo Qi shook his head lightly, with a faint stern look between his brows and eyes: "No, my daughter will participate in the election in April next year, and use her own strength to enter the palace."

*
The night was as cool as water, at the corner of the street in front of Ningguo Mansion, two figures stood, one black and one white, they were Shen Yuning and Tang Zhiyao.

Tang Zhiyao took the folding fan and tapped it on Shen Yuning's shoulder, teasingly said: "Yang Qian brought so many people to escort this Miss Huo family, why do you have to make this trip yourself, and have to watch other girls enter the house? "

He paused again, and his expression became obviously serious: "Shen Qi, if I was just joking with you before, now I really doubt that you are interested in Miss Huo's family."

Shen Yuning twirled the fingers in her sleeve, her face was still as cold as usual: "There are not many people I can talk to, and she is barely one."

"You don't really have a crush on her, do you?" Tang Zhiyao's face changed drastically, as if he didn't quite believe that it was Shen Yuning's words.

When he and Shen Yuning first met, this person's attitude was not very warm.It wasn't until he saved Shen Yuning's life in Qingzhou a few years ago, and the two became true bosom friends, that Shen Yuning reluctantly said to him, "You make me feel like I can say a few words".

He knew Shen Yuning well enough to make Shen Yuning think that he could talk, and he already regarded this person as a confidant.

Shen Yuning now regards Huo Qi as a confidant?

Tang Zhiyao seemed to have thought of something again and said puzzledly: "Are you really planning to let her go to Queen Mother Pei? Although Queen Mother Pei protects you, she is not easy to talk to in front of others. If you really value Huo Qi, why bother? You want her to go to the palace to endure hardship and use Huo Qi to do things for you..."

"Use?" Shen Yuning chewed the word again, "It is better to say cooperation. She is not a bird, but a tigress. It is a pity to keep such a person in the house."

Tang Zhiyao gave Shen Yuning a strange look, and muttered: "I really don't understand you...how can you say that a girl is a tigress? You treat her like a tigress, and you let him look for Huo Rushan's evidence? Huo Rushan Yamamoto is just a small character, you can do it with a raise of your hand, and you have to go around such a big circle."

"Give her a test first." Shen Yuning turned her hands away, her peach blossom eyes unconsciously narrowed, "Besides, this is also her own wish."

Huo Qi is not a cruel person, otherwise he would not take such a big risk to save Qin Xiaolian, and find a way to send Qin Xiaolian and the aunt from the Nie Mansion to Zhuangzi to keep them safe for the rest of their lives.But since she had compassion for people she met by chance, how could she plot against the Huo family's second brother and sister?These two are her nominal cousins.The only explanation is that Huo Qi has deep resentment towards the second wife of the Huo family, although he doesn't know where this resentment comes from.

The two were talking when suddenly a black shadow flashed across the roof.

Tang Zhiyao's eyes froze, and he said in a low voice, "Who!"

Gouyue came quickly from the darkness, Tang Zhiyao let out a long breath, but saw Gouyue bowing to Shen Yuning: "Master, the second prince has returned to the residence."

"Nothing else?" Shen Yuning sneered.

Gouyue hesitated for a moment, and said in a difficult tone: "After the second prince returned to the mansion, he was furious and sent a letter to the Shaofu Supervisor's mansion. The wife of the Shaofu Supervisor Huang Zhongting... is Miss Huo's cousin."

(End of this chapter)