These kids are so weird, who do they follow?

The treasury problem is about to be solved. The emperor and his ministers have been walking with the wind these past two days, smiling at everyone they see, and their grins are very conspicuous.

Especially the Minister of Revenue...

"Minister, this is an official document..."

"How do you know that the treasury will soon have money?"

"Ah? No..."

"How do you know that I won't be called a hard-working person soon?"

"I..."

"Guess why I'm so happy?"

As a clerk delivering documents, Xu Yanmiao put the official document on the desk of the Minister of Personnel and looked at Princess Wanshou (the clerk of the Ministry of Revenue) who was being held by the Minister of Revenue with sympathy.

Then...

[Hehe! ]

[Attack the Japanese! ]

[Hehe! ]

Xu Yanmiao saluted the Minister of Personnel, hummed a song in his heart, and walked out of the temporary office.

It is May now, and the typhoon is coming. Daxia cannot send troops for the time being, but after a few months, the treasure ship factory, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Revenue will be ready, and the troops will be led by Yongchang Hou.

I ran into the newly appointed head of the Ministry of Justice.

——The one who was just promoted from the magistrate of Qingpu County.

The other party: "You..."

The rank of the head of the Ministry of Justice is higher than him. Xu Yanmiao bowed according to etiquette: "Meet the head."

The other party did not speak. Xu Yanmiao glanced at the other party, and a question mark appeared on his forehead.

Why do I feel that this person's eyes are very... complicated?

Suddenly someone shouted from a distance: "Xu Lang!"

Xu Yanmiao looked sideways, a little surprised, and hurried forward again: "Mr. Zhong, this is..."

The eunuch smiled and said: "The emperor is looking for Xu Lang, please follow me quickly."

*

After entering the house where the old emperor stayed, Xu Yanmiao got the eunuch's signal, walked straight to the old emperor's office, and knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Xu Yanmiao pushed the door open and went in: "Your Majesty..."

"Okay, don't do these nonsense. Come here and write a word for me."

Xu Yanmiao was confused, but still sat down in front of the small table and wrote the word "En" with a brush.

The old emperor took a look and teased, "You are quite upright. You even asked a clerk to write for you when you copied official documents. I thought you didn't know how to write with a brush."

​​Xu Yanmiao paused for a moment and uttered, "I practice regularly."

After discovering that he had traveled to ancient times, he has been practicing on purpose. Although he can't learn the handwriting of the original owner, at least he can write.

The old emperor smiled and tapped the pile of memorials beside him with his pen: "Come, help me review them. There are too many, thousands of them, and I can't read them all by myself."

Xu Yanmiao was surprised and doubtful: "Your Majesty, you mean, let me..."

The old emperor explained: "Don't think too much, just review those that you can review." As he said, he picked up a memorial: "For example, this one asks 'Your Majesty, have you eaten? How is your appetite recently?' You can help me reply 'I have eaten, and my appetite is very good.' Similarly, you can reply whatever you want, just don't curse. As for those serious matters, you don't need to write, just move them over and put them on my left hand side."

Xu Yanmiao was simply stunned.

When he moved the mountain of memorials on the table to his side, his whole expression was shocked and floating.

[And... there are still such nonsense memorials? ! When the emperor is busy with all kinds of affairs, isn't he dealing with the important matters?

Xu Yanmiao picked up the first memorial and looked down.

'Your Majesty, may you be well.'

Then there was nothing else to say.

Xu Yanmiao: "..." He

silently picked up the pen and wrote "I am well" neatly at the back.

Then he took the second one.

'Your Majesty, the lychees here are ripe. Do you like to eat lychees? I ask the post station to send some over every year?'

Xu Yanmiao was confused for a moment.

[Well! The old emperor doesn't like the people's money and property being wasted, so I refuse it!]

Then he wrote 'I don't like it, no need' at the back.

The emperor paused while reviewing the memorials on important matters, raised his eyebrows slightly, and couldn't help laughing again.

This kid...

Xu Yanmiao picked up the third one.

'Your Majesty, my enemy is sick! I am very happy and I specially share this good news with Your Majesty! '

[Hey! I like this!] Xu Yanmiao's eyes lit up and he started to gossip: [Ah this...]

The old emperor paused with his pen tip and his ears tilted straight to that side.

[The enemy was made because I had to go out with a cold for something, and I didn't bring enough handkerchiefs with me. I kept having a runny nose, so I asked the other party to borrow one. Although the other party was not a germaphobe, he couldn't accept using a close-fitting handkerchief to blow his nose, and he refused to do so, which led to his face being covered with snot in public that day!]

The old emperor clicked his tongue twice in his heart.

Can this also make an enemy?

[Pfft, now I finally caught the 'enemy' who also caught a cold, and I specially carried fifty handkerchiefs on my body, intending to use one in front of the other party and throw one away.]

The old emperor took a sip of tea and judged in his heart: How stingy.

[Ah! This! 】

The old emperor paused his pen that was about to approve the official document, his eyes wandering, his attention drifting towards Xu Yanmiao.

【You want to give the old emperor dried mangoes soaked in honey, it sounds like it's delicious. 】

The old emperor nodded.

Indeed.

【But you should still refuse it... It feels similar to the one about sending lychees? Both are a waste of manpower...】

The old emperor widened his eyes.

No! I want to eat it!

【Or, let him take it with him when he goes to Beijing for the New Year. He has to go to Beijing anyway. 】

The old emperor couldn't help but nodded.

Half an hour later...

"Xu Yanmiao."

Xu Yanmiao raised his head suddenly: "Your Majesty?"

The old emperor looked at the important matters that he had only approved two of, and reluctantly said: "Pick out the memorials and take them back for approval." If he

continued to read, today's work would not be completed.

Why was he not so attracted by these nonsense when he read them himself, but just felt annoyed? Why couldn't he help listening to Xu Yanmiao after he read them in his mind. Xu Yanmiao

blinked blankly: "Yes... I obey your order."

He lowered his head and packed up the memorials.

[Huh? How come there are memorials from the son-in-law? Aren't sons-in-law not allowed to be officials? Oh! It's the old emperor's eldest daughter, the son-in-law of Princess Fangling... Awesome! The top scholar! He passed the first imperial examination after the founding of the country! At that time, there was no law that a son-in-law could not be an official. This law seemed to have been established in the seventh year of Tiantong. 】

【Let me see what the son-in-law wrote...】

【There were thieves who plundered various counties and had been out of control for a long time. A woman took advantage of her drunkenness to kill him... So he submitted a petition to ask for credit for him? 】

【This should be a serious matter. 】

Xu Yanmiao put it next to the old emperor. As soon as he passed it over, he saw the old emperor took it and seemed to read ten lines at a glance. He picked up the pen and wrote something without reading for a few breaths.

【Did he just write "read" and that was it? 】

I took a sneak peek and found that the old emperor really read the content and approved "confer the title of Mrs. Chongyi" at the end.

【Is this the eyesight of the emperor! How many hundreds of words can he scan at a glance? ! 】

Hearing Xu Yanmiao's surprised voice, the old emperor felt that his mood was more comfortable than eating ice cream in the hot summer. He coughed and said, "Xu Yanmiao, I haven't seen the eldest princess for a long time. She and her husband are in Liaodong Dusi, but not in Fuzhouwei. They are probably seven or eight hundred miles away... What do you think?"

The college student's brain is still useful: "This is your majesty's family affairs."

- You can see her if you want.

The old emperor nodded with satisfaction and became happy.

He made up his mind to set off tomorrow to see his only remaining eldest daughter who didn't cause any trouble.

His Fangling! For half a lifetime! She has never made him worry! Compared to the second, fifth, and eighteenth sons, this was the dignified, self-possessed, and presentable daughter-in-law that made him feel at ease!

This was the child that looked most like him!

*

This happy mood lasted until the next day.

"Someone is chasing us! Please ask the senior officials to take charge of this matter for us!"

A woman rushed in with her son, and was stopped by the Jinyiwei, and she knelt down directly.

She didn't seem to recognize that the person in front of her was the emperor, but when she saw them coming out of the government office, she took a gamble.

"Senior official! I want to sue the current prince consort! Sue him for abandoning his wife and son! Killing his wife and destroying his heirs!"

The old emperor did not deliberately clear out the people near the government office. At this moment, the woman's screams could be clearly heard across several streets. In addition, the content of the shouting involved human relations, which was very explosive. Many people opened their mouths in confusion and looked over.

"Is it true? The prince consort? Abandoning his wife and children?"

"Hiss... Do you remember the popular play a few years ago? The prince consort was married in his hometown, but lied to the emperor and said that he was not married yet, so he was able to marry the princess. Later, the wife in his hometown came to the house with the children. Not only did the prince consort drive her away, he also sent people to hunt her down, so that there would be no evidence."

"This... Could it be that there is really no smoke without fire?" "

So cruel!"

"But this woman looks quite old, and the man next to her should be her son, who looks to be thirty years old. How old is the prince consort? The prince consort in the play is only about twenty years old?"

"When the child was a few decades ago, he was probably about the same age!"

The woman was covered in dirt and dust, and not a single spot on her body was good. At this moment, she kowtowed again and again, her lips trembling, and she described incoherently, obviously frightened: "Please help me, sir! My husband is the current emperor's son-in-law. He abandoned me and my son and married the princess. I didn't dare to compete with the princess for a man, so I just lived in the countryside with my son and never left for the rest of my life. Thirty years had passed without any trouble, but a few days ago, someone suddenly released... My house was on fire. If my mother and I had not gone to the county town, I would have died there! Today, I knocked over the rice bowl while eating, and the neighbor's dog ate it. The dog died immediately! He was the one who ordered the fire and the poison! It must have been him! I have always been timid and dare not even blush in front of others, let alone offend anyone! My son is also a simpleton and has no temper with anyone!"

Her simpleton son followed her and kowtowed continuously behind her, shouting: "Please help! Please help!"

The old emperor looked angry.

Thirty years ago, he had only two daughters who found prince consorts. Qinghe and Jisui’s marriage was fake, so it was impossible for them to do such a thing. So it could only be Fangling...

"Someone come!" After hearing what the woman said, the old emperor did not believe it directly, but just said, "Go and invite the prince consort over, and don't disturb Princess Fangling."

Flipping his sleeves, the old emperor turned and entered the yamen. Behind him, the woman kowtowed to express her gratitude, but after only a few kowtows, she was taken in by the Jinyiwei. The

prince

consort rode in hurriedly, dusty and exhausted. It was obvious that the Jinyiwei had already told him what happened on the way. As soon as he entered the government office, he lifted his robe and knelt down. Without even glancing at the woman, he shouted, "Your Majesty! I have never had a wife or children. Please investigate!"

When the woman heard the word "Your Majesty", she looked at the hall with wide eyes as if a duck had its neck stepped on. "Your Majesty... Your Majesty? The high official I begged for turned out to be Your Majesty. ? ! "

Then, reacting to what the prince consort said, she cried out in a heartbroken "Ah——" "Yan Lang, even if you don't acknowledge me, you must acknowledge your child! When he was born, you were preparing for the imperial examination, and you didn't even hold him a few times! Now you are so cruel, not only not acknowledging him, but also want to kill him!"

The people were still not driven away, and they repeatedly looked outside the yamen several times before they could see the situation in the center of the yamen clearly.

The prince consort Yan Chun was already over fifty years old, with handsome eyebrows and long beard, and a slender figure. He still had the demeanor of the former top scholar. Even though he had been in such a bitter and cold place like Liaoning for more than 20 years, his demeanor was still intact, and he showed a calm and graceful demeanor.

But because of this, the ragged and barefoot woman next to him looked even more miserable.

Many officials had already begun to feel sorry for the woman.

The prince consort was being roasted like this, but he didn't seem embarrassed. He just said calmly: "Madam, I don't know you."

The woman's face was very pale: "Beiyang Village, Boye County, Baoding Prefecture, you have been so cruel to forget it, Yan Lang?"

The prince consort spoke slowly and clearly: "My household registration is not a secret, anyone with a mind can find it out. If you can use this to say that you are my first wife, then am I not someone who can marry anyone?"

How annoying!

There were people coughing a few times to cover up their smiles.

The woman was stunned for a while, and cried, "The child can recognize you by blood."

The prince consort said again: "Your Majesty has long told the world that blood recognition is a ridiculous act and cannot be accurate. Even if there is no blood relationship, the blood can be mixed together."

The woman's eyes were blank.

An official said with dissatisfaction: "How could a country woman know about this? The prince consort is a bit deceiving."

Yan Chun smiled and said: "Minister Liu is righteous! Why don't you set an example yourself and do a blood test with her son first?"

Minister Liu: "..." He made himself look boring, choked for a long time, and didn't say anything else.

It's been so long since I last saw the prince consort that I actually forgot that when the princess and he were young, one was known for being competitive and the other was known for being sharp-tongued. Damn it!

The woman stared with her eyes wide open and thought for a long time, and suddenly became excited: "Your Majesty! I have evidence!"

She was so sure that the prince consort's heart skipped a beat for no reason.

Then, the woman was heard shouting: "There is a birthmark on Yan Lang's vest, which looks like a three-petal plum! It is more delicate than embroidery! I don't know him, I haven't slept with him, how can I know this!"

The prince consort: "..."

Everyone clearly saw that the prince consort, who had been calm and at ease since entering the door, changed his face.

The Jinyiwei received the old emperor's signal to take the man to the back to undress and check.

The prince consort followed silently for a few steps, then suddenly stopped, turned around, knelt down, and bowed to the old emperor.

“No need to investigate.” The prince consort said decisively: “Your Majesty, I did it!”

...

Xu Yanmiao saw a group of people surrounding the yamen from a distance, “Admitted it”, “It was actually ***”, “Wow! *** in the court was so angry”, “What a high-ranking official! ***’s daughter, any daughter would be angry if she met ***”, “That prince consort is a beast”, the whispering voices could be heard from a distance, but some words were still not clear.

"!!!"

Xu Yanmiao was suddenly filled with passion, and he grabbed the hand of the clerk of the Ministry of War and almost dragged him away: "It's about a high-ranking official! I don't know what it is! Let's go! Let's go and see the excitement!"

The clerk's eyes lit up: "I don't know what kind of high-ranking official it is..."

After going in and out of the crowd at the entrance of the government office, the two people: "Uh..."

This... The emperor's excitement, doesn't it look inappropriate?

Xu Yanmiao and the clerk of the Ministry of War looked at each other.

"How about..."

"Let's go..."

Suddenly, the prince's familiar shout came from the crowd: "Make way! Make way! Please make way! I'm an official! Please let me pass! Thank you!"

Then...

"I don't know what the excitement is!"

Although he lowered his voice and there was only a little excitement in his tone, Xu Yanmiao still heard it.

[Maybe... probably...]

...Xu Yanmiao?

A flash of surprise flashed in the prince's eyes, but before he could react, he was squeezed by the people behind him, and staggered a few steps before rushing to the front of the crowd.

His vision was still shaking, and he couldn't see the situation in the government office clearly, and the first sentence drilled into his ear -

[Is it your family's excitement? ]

"?!"

The prince raised his head suddenly, and saw his sister's husband kneeling in the hall, his clothes and hair seemed to be wet with sweat.

The prince's eyes suddenly widened.

Whose house collapsed? !

Oh, it turned out that my house collapsed!

The voice of my biological father came from the government office: "Get in!" Looking closely, my biological father smiled sinisterly, revealing a mouthful of white teeth that shone like snow.

See the excitement, right?

Pretending to be an official to clear the way, right?

Get in!

"Xu Yanmiao! And you!"

Xu Yanmiao, who had shrunk half of his body, quietly poked his head out again, and walked into the yamen with his head down, next to him was the prince with his head drooping.

"And you..." The old emperor looked at the clerk of the Ministry of War and thought for two breaths: "That... Lian Hang, come in too."

The clerk of the Ministry of War: "..."

He swore that if it weren't for Xu Yanmiao, His Majesty would never know who he is!

It is a good thing to be remembered by His Majesty at ordinary times, but at this time...

The clerk of the Ministry of War looked at Xu Yanmiao's back in front of him with resentment and accusation, and always felt that every step he took was like stepping on a thunderous fireball that could explode at any time.

He would rather His Majesty not remember his name!

* When

he arrived at the court, the prince sneered: "Father, what's wrong with my brother-in-law? What mistake did he make?"

The old emperor frowned: "What mistake?! Your brother-in-law has deceived your sister and me! Before the wedding of Qionglin Yanci, I asked him if he was married, and he said with his own mouth that he was not married! Now, thirty years have passed, and his original wife actually came to him! Not only did he abandon his wife and children! He also sent people to hunt down the mother and son! He even let the mother and son come to report to the police!"

"I will chop off his head! No one is allowed to plead for him!"

Caught off guard by this answer, the prince's face was filled with obvious surprise, and then he was deeply angry.

The prince's wife was not supposed to be an official, but when his brother-in-law became the prince's wife, there was no such law in Daxia - it was set in the seventh year of Tiantong, and Yan Chun was the first imperial examination champion in the fourth year of Tiantong.

The prince had a very deep relationship with his eldest sister, who was his only relative of the same age. He knew very well how proud and competitive his eldest sister was.

When the prince was young, he went out to buy food. The boss liked him and gave him an extra steamed bun. The next day, when the eldest sister went to buy food, she worked as a laborer for a juggler for half a day, and bought two more steamed buns with her wages.

Recalling the childhood with his elder sister who was always strong-willed, the prince masked his pain for a moment, and quickly pulled his memory back to the present.

Yan dared to slap his elder sister in the face like this -

the prince walked over, raised his hand and slapped the prince consort.

[Abandon, abandon your wife and son? ! ]

Xu Yanmiao was so shocked that her heart almost dropped.

[But she is a female prince consort! ]

[Abandoning your wife is fine, but how did she abandon her son? ]

The prince's slap just brushed the tip of the prince consort's nose.

The prince hissed because he used too much force, and covered his waist with his backhand.

Good... I think it's wrong...

Yan Chun is a local official and can't hear the inner voice. He just thinks that the prince is considering the face of the eldest princess. He lowered his eyes, was silent for a moment, and said calmly: "Yes, I did it. I did abandon my wife and children. She pointed out that there is a birthmark on my heart... It is true, there is no need to check it."

"The princess is really the only beauty I have ever seen in my life. She is extremely beautiful and talented, like an immortal in heaven. In order to get the princess, I will not hesitate even if I risk my life!"

The prince: "... This."

Seeing that people around him were talking about it, and some people had already started discussing how outstanding the eldest princess should be,

the prince looked at his "brother-in-law" with a hard time saying anything.

Even when he was about to die, he still didn't forget to flatter the eldest princess in front of everyone. Very good. Now he knew how his elder sister, who had been so strong-willed all her life, had been so loving with her husband for decades.

The old emperor also quickly came to his senses.

No wonder she admitted to the so-called "abandoning his wife and children". She was afraid that if she took off her clothes, the fact that she was a woman would be exposed.

The old emperor: "..."

His eldest daughter was not the kind of person who could tolerate not having sex for 30 years, so...

Xu Yanmiao's strange ideas when she was absent from court every day flashed through the old emperor's mind.

Could it be that she had hired guards, and after the lights were turned off every day, they pretended that she and the princess had consummated their marriage? !

The old emperor was furious!

The old emperor was furious!

The old emperor was furious!

Xu Yanmiao: [How strange, she will die no matter what, why would she admit this crime... Oh, she had planned it before coming here. If she really couldn't get away with it, she would die anyway, so she would choose a way that would not tarnish her dignity. It's better to be deceived into marriage than to marry a woman.] The

old emperor: "......?" Why does it sound like his daughter knew about it?

Could it be that...

The old emperor followed his thoughts in great pain and came to a conclusion: Could it be that his daughter knew that this was a female consort and was willing to hide it for her? !

He slowly, slowly, held his forehead.

The eldest daughter married a female consort.

The second daughter likes to play role-playing and has a contract marriage.

The fifth daughter, before she came to her senses, allowed her husband to humiliate and abuse her, and they were in a love affair.

The youngest daughter was spoiled and became very willful. She even dared to trouble her father, the emperor, in order to become an official.

...Does he still have gentle, well-behaved, sensible, obedient, virtuous and kind daughters? ? ?

These children are so weird, who do they take after?

"Dad!!!"

The old emperor blurted out: "Nonsense!"

It's not him!

Then he felt a lot of strange and suspicious eyes.

"..."

The old emperor came back to his senses and looked carefully. He found that there was another person in the hall. The other person stood in front of the prince consort and knelt down to salute. He looked no more than 40 years old, with cold eyes and full of dominance: "Dad! The prince consort has never deceived the emperor. This person is really a false accusation!"

The prince consort was surprised and said: "Princess!"

Oh, it's his eldest daughter. The old emperor gritted his teeth in anger. Looking at the messy hair and uneven breathing, it is obvious that she rode all the way here. Are you so anxious? !

The old emperor: "Didn't deceive the emperor?"

The eldest princess said firmly: "No!"

The old emperor: "Haha."

Disguising as a man is not considered deceiving the emperor? I really believed your lies.

The public couldn't hold the concubine accountable. The old emperor pinched his nose and said, "Do you have any evidence?"

You can't ask the prince consort... well, you can't ask that public servant named Yan to take off his clothes, right?

"Yes!" Princess Fangling said decisively, "When my father asked me how to choose a prince consort, I said I wanted the best. At that time, Yan Chun was the top scholar, so he was the best--" "

Well..." The old emperor nodded.

Princess Fangling said, "But I'm afraid that he has done something in the past that will embarrass me, so I sent people to his hometown to investigate him inside and out."

"Well???" The old emperor was stunned, "When did it happen?"

Even the prince consort was stunned and almost blurted out "What".

Princess Fangling stated calmly: "The day after the Qionglin Banquet."

Princess Fangling was still very calm: "The results of the investigation at that time were placed in my bedroom in the palace. It was a scroll from thirty years ago. I'm afraid it is very old. It contains his deeds from childhood to adulthood, which should prove that he was not married thirty years ago. Now I am here, and it is impossible to falsify it in advance. Please judge it, Your Majesty!"

The old emperor opened his mouth.

Xu Yanmiao helped him to say it——

[Fuck, fuck! ]