At the beginning, Hua Ling was full of energy and her eyes were shining with excitement. However, as time went on, she gradually felt tired, and a trace of fatigue appeared on her face. She became listless and wilted, which made people feel pity for her.
But more and more people followed her, and everyone spread the word, knowing that a peerless beauty had appeared in the capital.
After the prayers were over and they came out of the Flower Temple, Hua Ling fell on the carriage without caring about her image.
"I'm so tired." It's even more tiring than sleeping together.
Xuanyuan Mo was reviewing memorials. Hua Ling rested her head on his legs. Her attention was still on the memorials, but her hand subconsciously reached inside along the collar.
Hua Ling couldn't help but moan softly. Her pretty face was like a gorgeous sunset, with a shy blush on it, and a hint of anger flashed in her beautiful eyes.
"What are you doing?" The voice was soft and melodious, like the sound of nature, which made people's hearts beat faster.
Xuanyuan Mo realized what he was doing and his body suddenly stiffened. However, he did not take it out, but it became more and more intense.
The corners of his mouth lifted slightly, revealing a playful smile: "We've done more intimate things than this, what else is there to be shy about?"
Hua Ling's long eyelashes like butterfly wings trembled slightly, like pear blossoms in the rain, swaying gently in the spring breeze. Her beautiful eyes were watery, and her delicate lips were slightly opened, exuding unparalleled charm and temptation.
Xuanyuan Mo no longer had the heart to read the memorial.
A carriage passed by the long street. Fang Yunheng stood quietly by the second-floor window, the breeze gently blowing his hair. When he saw the carriage below, his eyes narrowed slightly.
A gust of wind blew, lifting a corner of the car curtain. Fang Yunheng's face showed an expression of astonishment, as if he had been cast under a spell and could not move.
"Why didn't you let me go find Xuanyuan Mo?" Wen Qinning questioned, "I just wanted to tell him that the current Concubine Ning is fake. I don't want to see him being deceived."
Fang Yunheng turned around, his eyes filled with unknown emotions: "You tell him, then what? Do you want to enter the palace or continue to be entangled with him?"
"I didn't. I just didn't want him to continue being kept in the dark by us and have his feelings misplaced."
"But you agreed to this plan." Fang Yunheng said, "You don't like sharing a husband with others and don't want to enter the palace. This is the best situation now."
"But..." Wen Qinning cried, "I can't forget him, I can't forget him, do you understand..."
Fang Yunheng laughed at himself: "So now you can accept that he has another woman?"
"I..." Wen Qinning paused, "I don't know..."
Fang Yunheng looked at her silently and wiped away her tears.
"There will be a palace banquet the day after tomorrow. If you really want to see him, I will take you with me."
Wen Qinning looked at him with tears in her eyes: "Really?"
Fang Yunheng: "Really."
Wen Qinning burst into laughter.
The emperor and the regent are the two most powerful men in the Great Zhou. She couldn't bear to lose either of them. If she had known this, she shouldn't have let Hua Ling enter the palace in her place.
Xuanyuan Mo and Hua Ling were fooling around all the way.
When she was carried down from the carriage, Yun Yuan's face turned red, and she buried her head in Xuanyuan Mo's chest, not daring to look up.
Fortunately, those who could serve as the emperor's personal guards had strong mental qualities. Apart from the slightly red ears, there was no extra expression.
After Xuanyuan Mo sent her to Ninghuan Palace, he did not leave immediately, but sat at the desk and continued to review memorials.
Hua Ling was lying on the bed, drowsy, and asked him, "You've been reading this memorial for so long, and you haven't finished it yet?"
Xuanyuan Mo shook his head and smiled, "Indeed, how about my beloved concubine come and help me?"
Hua Ling was indeed curious about how the ministers wrote their memorials, so she got off the bed, sat next to Xuanyuan Mo, and casually opened a memorial.
Then his brows furrowed.
A greeting is hundreds of words, a flattery is hundreds of words, and good wishes for the future are hundreds of words, but the report is only a few words and will be ignored if you are not careful.
The whole article is long-winded and difficult to understand, as if the author is deliberately showing off his vocabulary and knowledge. There are no punctuation marks, and you have to break the sentences while reading.
Hua Ling didn't know why this word appeared in his mind. It was as if someone had dropped a message into his mind. She knew punctuation marks.
Don't underestimate punctuation marks. Different punctuation marks can greatly change the meaning of text. In the past, many cases have been brought to court over punctuation marks.
For example, there was a man who married a live-in son-in-law. His wife died early, so he married a concubine in his middle age. The concubine gave birth to a son for him, and named him Zhang Yifei, nicknamed Zhang Yi.
One day he died and left a will.
"Zhang Yi is not my son. All my wealth belongs to my son-in-law and no one else can compete with me for it."
Do you mean that he is "Zhang Yifei is my son, all the family wealth is given to me as my son-in-law, and no one else can compete for it" or "Zhang Yifei is my son, all the family wealth is given to me as my son-in-law, and no one else can compete for it"?
There was also a contract that a teacher made with a rich man: "No chicken or duck, no fish or meat, but vegetables, tofu and tuition are indispensable."
The rich man read it like this: "It is okay to have no chicken or duck, and it is okay to have no fish or meat, but vegetables and tofu are indispensable, and no tuition fees." He was overjoyed, and fed the teacher vegetables and tofu every day. At the end of the year, he refused to pay the tuition fees.
The two men took the contract to the county magistrate for judgment. The magistrate read it this way: "If you don't have chicken, you can have duck. If you don't have fish, you can have meat. But you can't have vegetables or tofu. And you have to pay the tuition fee."
The rich man was sentenced to pay tuition.
Hua Ling has to spend a lot of effort to read a memorial, and Xuanyuan Mo spends the whole day reading memorials. It seems that being an emperor is not easy either.
She sincerely suggested, "Why not set a word limit for memorials? Why write a long article when you can say it in one sentence? You'd be better off thinking about how to benefit the people."
Xuanyuan Mo thought what she said made sense. He always had a hard time reading memorials, for fear of missing some information. Sometimes he would read the whole article only to find out that it was just an article wishing him good health and nothing serious.
He nodded immediately: "Good idea, my beloved, do you have any other suggestions?"
As if inspired, Hua Ling expressed her thoughts. "I think the vocabulary should be more colloquial, obscure words should be used less, and sentences should be broken."
Xuanyuan Mo was puzzled: "How do you break the sentence?"
Hua Ling explained to Xuanyuan Mo the function of punctuation marks and wrote him a few commonly used punctuation marks. Xuanyuan Mo's eyes became brighter and brighter.
"I don't know why I know this, but it just comes to mind when I think about it, and I think I knew it before."
Xuanyuan Mo thought about her background and didn't ask any more questions. If she wanted to know something, she could just investigate it herself.
Hua Ling was not as ignorant as he imagined, but rather very smart. Xuanyuan Mo had an idea and asked the question that had been discussed in the court for several months.
"What do you think of using the Huimin and Changping grain purchase funds as capital, distributing them to households, requiring them to pay 20% interest, with one guarantee for every ten households, and collecting them in spring and autumn?"
This means that the reserves of Huimin and Changping warehouses will be converted into capital and lent to farmers and low-level handicraftsmen at an interest rate of 20%. Ten households will be guaranteed one guarantee, and the rich and the poor will be matched. The loan will be borrowed in spring and repaid in autumn.
Hua Ling pondered, "It's too idealistic. Over time, hidden dangers will easily arise, enriching the country but not benefiting the people."
Xuanyuan Mo was shocked: "What do you mean?"
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