The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 64 Handling
Wei Chen returned to the mansion half an hour later, and from the moment he entered the gate, the man in the mansion was very busy.

Xueli was the one who knew him the most among the palace people, and when she heard the news, she hurried to his residence, the door was already crowded with people, including imperial guards and palace maids and eunuchs.She jumped behind for a long time but couldn't see what was going on inside. In the end, the imperial guard who took her to the market that day happened to be there and blocked a way to let her in.

"Master Wei?!" Xue Li rushed to the side of the couch, so she stumbled on the threshold.On the couch, Wei Chen's face was still as pale as half an hour ago, but his lips seemed to be even whiter upon closer inspection.He was lying on the couch with his eyes closed, a bruise on his forehead was particularly conspicuous.

Sydney had already heard what happened—it was said that he fell off his horse suddenly halfway, and the horse couldn't stop in time even though he had been trained, so he inevitably kicked him twice.

I think it's because I have been too depressed in the past two days, and I haven't eaten well, which makes my body too weak.

Xue Li looked anxiously at the imperial physician who was diagnosing his pulse, anxious but did not dare to urge him.After a while, after seeing the imperial doctor's consultation, she stepped forward and said, "My lord, how is Lord Wei?"

The imperial doctor's expression was as usual: "Oh, the fall was not heavy, nothing serious. It's just that Mr. Wei's body is very weak, he needs to pay attention to his diet, and he will be fine."

Sydney breathed a sigh of relief.Since the imperial guard went out to get medicine with the imperial doctor, she stayed in the room. After a while, Wei Chen lost his eyes.

"Master Wei?!" Xue Li was overjoyed, and bent down to look over.

Wei Chen stared blankly at the wall next to him, and after a moment of silence, he said to her, "Let everyone else get out and close the door for me."

As soon as he said this, there was no need for her to shout, the others went out tactfully.Xue Li closed the door and came back, pouring tea to his mouth: "My lord, drink some water. I'll make whatever you want to eat later. The imperial doctor said that your body is weak..."

Sudden grip on the wrist, Sydney fell silent.

"Can you go to the palace for me?" He asked her, reached into his arms, and found the memorial, "Give this to Your Majesty for me."

Xue Li was stunned, his empty gaze made her a little scared, she felt as if she was lost with him, she was stunned for a while before asking him: "My lord, what's on your mind..."

Why have you been listless.

He was silent for a while, and only said: "I want to rest, I will tell you when you come back."

"Oh..." Xue Li replied lightly, still hesitating in her heart, but looking at the memorial in her hand, she was afraid that she would delay some important matter if she dragged on, so she put away the memorial, gave him a blessing, and withdrew.

When she arrived at Zichen Palace, the emperor had just finished discussing some matters about Luo Wu with several important ministers.

The emperor seemed to be in a good mood, Xueli guessed that Luo Wu's business was going well, but she couldn't laugh, she briefly told what happened to Wei Chen, and then handed over the memorial he wanted her to hand over.

Xie Zhao frowned, picked it up and turned it over, his brows couldn't be opened anymore.

"...Your Majesty?" She was flustered by his expression, and as soon as she called out, he looked over and sighed, "Have you read this memorial?"

"No..." Xueli shook her head in confusion, "Of course I didn't read it" written on her face.

She is real.

Xie Zhao smiled helplessly, and handed over the memorial: "Then have a look."

Sydney's first reaction was to shrink back.

How dare she look at this, the memorial... the memorial presented by the minister to the emperor, what's the matter if she read it!
"Then let me give you a rough idea." The emperor put the memorial back on the case and said slowly, "Ming Xuanjun said that he wants to resign from office and will not stay in the imperial guard."

Xue Li was so surprised that her mouth formed an "ah?!", but she didn't even say the word "ah".

The emperor sighed: "He said that it was his fault that Lu Yong died. As long as he could kill the dart thrower first with his hand one step faster, Lu Yong would not have died."

Sydney's whole body trembled.

Think about it carefully, this taste must be uncomfortable.Just thinking about it made her heart tremble, but Master Wei watched helplessly as Master Lu died when he was a step too slow to strike.

No wonder he was so miserable that he couldn't even eat.

Sydney was silent, Xie Zhao took the memorial and patted her: "What do you say?"

"My servant thinks...it's not Mr. Wei's fault." She muttered, seeing the faint smile in the emperor's eyes, before continuing, "If Mr. Wei was present at that time, he must have tried his best. But it was almost Almost... there is no other way, how can he blame himself?"

"That's right, it's called 'the fan of the authorities'." Xie Zhao took a deep breath, looked at her eyes that were still full of doubts, and asked her self-consciously, "What don't you understand?"

Xueli pursed her lips: "What does His Majesty plan to do..."

"There's no need to 'do it', just let it go." Xie Zhao shook his head, "Didn't he just fall and hurt? Just let him take care of it first. After a while, he will naturally understand that Mr. Mingxuan is not an unreasonable person."

He just got stuck in a dead end temporarily and couldn't get out, Xie Zhao was very confident about this.

So he stuffed the memorial to the bottom of a large pile on the desk—well, he stuffed it hard into the bottom, and then told Sydney: "Tell him you brought it, but I don't know when I will read it. There is no other need Say more, if I don’t nod, he won’t starve himself to death.”

Sydney was terrified by his words...

After returning to the hotel, he was very hesitant to speak to Wei Chen, and there were many pauses for "hmm, huh, huh", and it took him a long time to get through the few words that were not difficult to say.

After finishing speaking, he looked at Wei Chen eagerly, and added after a while, "Your Majesty, take care... Your Majesty has so many memorials on his desk, there is no way for this!"

She was so afraid that Wei Chen would really starve herself to death!

After a long time, I heard Wei Chen say "I see".Sounds extremely weak.

For the next few days, although Sydney was full of worries, she didn't see Wei Chen at all.

Inside and outside the courtyard are his imperial guards. If they want to block it, no one can get in.Sydney can't help it. Fortunately, every time she makes food to send, someone will happily take it, thank her, and then turn around and send it into the yard.

The number of times was so high that Sydney stomped her feet in anger: Why only recognize food but not people!

After more than ten days like this, the hotel is changing every day, but Wei Chen is bored in the yard and can't be shaken!
This contrast is so stark. Sydney watched the Luowu people become more polite to the palace people day by day, and the letter from the palace also changed from "the envoy's wife made Mrs. Concubine Shu unhappy today" to " Today, Qi Ke is going to give a big gift when he resigns"; then he turned his head to look at Wei Chen's side - behind closed doors, life and death are uncertain.

She even occasionally thinks wildly, is it because His Majesty miscalculated?Did Lord Wei starve himself to death?
Of course, after thinking about it, I know that there must be no, otherwise it would not be so peaceful - and then Sydney is very angry!Eat as you want, but don't even hand out a letter, at least to report that you are safe, really!
In the yard, Wei Chen, who had been playing chess with himself for several days, was very annoyed by Chen Jijiang's sudden visit.

What is uninvited?What is an uninvited guest?This is.

Wei Chen was made so awkward by him!
In fact, there is nothing else, the main reason is that the voice of the eunuch became thinner after the knife, and most people would still feel frightened when they heard it. Wei Chen, a young man with a strong blood...

Hehe, listening to Renren on weekdays has passed, and now I am trying to relieve myself, and I am really irritable when I hear this voice.

Every time Chen Jijiang said a word, Wei Chen imagined that in the next moment, he would pull a golden cudgel out of his ear like the Monkey King, and hit him on the head—and then it really came to the "next moment", holding his forehead and holding back Go!

However, the chief supervisor still spoke very slowly, talking about the ins and outs without any haste, and when he finally finished speaking, Wei Chen finally couldn't bear it anymore, yawned and choked him: "Can it be simple? A little bit? Isn’t it just a word—let me find Sydney to order a meal.”

"Oh, yes, yes, yes..." Chen Jijiang nodded again and again, and quickly changed his words in the middle of nodding, "No, it's a table meal."

"Master Chen, do you think Sydney is not busy enough?" Wei Chen looked at him with a smile, but still wanted to beat him out, "Your Majesty asked her to be the imperial catering lady, and she handles the affairs of the diplomatic mission every day. Give her an errand?"

"Oh...Master Wei, this is what you don't understand. It's called 'drunkards don't care about drinking'. It's not about the meal at the table. You have to clean it up in front of me. Look, I'll give you the list Once it’s finished, I’ll send it through your mouth.”

As Chen Jijiang said, he put a meal list on the table, and Wei Chen pressed his temple with his hand on his forehead, and his skin was aroused by his "ouch".

After recovering for so many days, I was just about to pass that hurdle, but what happened to him that I wanted to resign from office again...

That night, the movements in the hotel gradually spread into the Zichen Hall.Xie Zhao practiced calligraphy and listened at the same time. He was a little confused at first, but he became clear after a while.

It was said that someone in the hotel had poisoned the food, and put it in Wei Chen's dish, and when it was served, Wei Chen saw that something was wrong, so he escaped.After finding out and arresting her for interrogation, it was Xue Li who was killed first, and then the criminal trial was launched, and Li Fei was bitten out.

Ah.

Xie Zhao raised his eyebrows.No matter how I think about it, I feel that the poisoning may be true, but thinking about it from the beginning to the end, it is more like "please enter the urn".

So he smiled: "After so many days, the poison didn't get into the envoy's bowl, but into Wei Chen's bowl? Mr. Mingxuan has always been very careful."

Sure enough, as soon as he asked these words leisurely, Chen Jijiang fell to his knees with a thump.

This is so guilty...

Then he stopped talking and continued to practice his calligraphy.

He could see all these people clearly and knew everyone's habits.For example, Wei Chen, who has been in charge of the imperial guard for so many years, licks blood on the tip of the knife every day, so he is extra careful on weekdays.It was because of this that he handed over the affairs of the envoys to the imperial guards. The government was complicated, and others might make a mistake and the envoys were brutally murdered, making it difficult for Da Qi to explain clearly, but the imperial guards would not.

Unless they pretend not to see it.

Poisoning is not something that can be done immediately, there must be an explanation and an arrangement in front of it, and if there is any sign of it, the imperial guards will definitely be alert.At the very least, there must be a series of inspections - if he said he was found out in it, he might believe it, but if he said it was brought to the table, Wei Chen could see it...

The emperor wanted to say, Mr. Mingxuan, have you been bored for too many days, why don't you write a storybook to relieve your boredom?

Who is it!How rough the poison can be seen at a glance?
So this is a well-thought-out double reed, which must have wanted to show Sydney a long time ago, but accidentally let Chen Jijiang sniff it out.As for Chen Jijiang, he just wanted to do the trick, and he did this scene both from outsiders and from him.

Wei Chen must also know about it, but he just wanted to hide it from outsiders, not from him, so he put a big loophole in it.

The emperor smiled inwardly as he tasted the ends of the twigs, he was very satisfied with this!
He had been protecting Sydney's integrity before, but he was also worried that something would go wrong if he was negligent one day - she is stupid, although she has improved slowly, but after all, she cannot be expected to "grow by leaps and bounds".

So every time he was very ruthless, the purpose was not to calm everyone down, but to let the smart people under him see a way and follow him to protect her, which was more comprehensive.

It seems to be done!

It was probably because all kinds of things had weighed on his heartstrings too tightly recently, and suddenly seeing this matter became a reality made him feel a little proud in his heart.Calmly finished copying the page of "Warring States Policy" at hand, raised his hand to wake up Chen Jijiang, and asked him, "Did you scare Sydney?"

"..." Chen Jijiang lowered his head for a while, "I'm scared."

After he finished speaking, he raised his eyes and glanced at the emperor, who was looking at him sullenly.

Chen Jijiang has this injustice in his heart!He didn't think he was to blame for this, it was because Sydney was too timid!

He shrank back in embarrassment and apologized for laughing, and the emperor took a deep breath: "Call her back, the envoys are fine."

"Nuo..." Chen Jijiang responded quickly, and after a while, he raised his eyes to see that the emperor was dipping in the ink and was about to continue practicing calligraphy, so he had to ask again, "Then...the two maids, and Concubine Li... ..."

The pen in the emperor's hand paused in the inkstone, as if he just remembered that he had to make a decision.

He pondered for a moment, then said in a moodless manner: "The two maids will be handed over to Gong Zhengsi. Concubine Li... Let her go to the palace to serve her mother."

Chen Jijiang was startled by the latter sentence.Thinking about it, I deserve it, recently I saw Concubine Li jumping up and down, so I can't blame others for my lack of memory.

Leaving from the Zichen Palace, Chen Jijiang looked at the crescent moon in the sky, beckoned his subordinates to come forward, and then clicked his lips.

"Go to the hotel to pick up Mrs. Ruan," Chen Jijiang said.After he finished speaking, he thought about it for a while, and after weighing it clearly, he said with a smile, "'Accidentally', I mentioned to her that His Majesty's birthday is coming soon."

Chen Jijiang knew clearly that it didn't matter what status she was now, anyway, people were so spoiled, if she could present a birthday gift, His Majesty would be happy!

(End of this chapter)