Zhou Chen felt as if he had been dealt a severe blow to his heart.
He came back in a daze, ate a bowl of noodle soup in a daze, and was told to go back to the house and lie down.
But he did not sleep well that night.
The next morning, after the rooster crowed three times, Zhou Chen heard a noise outside.
He got up, opened the door and went out.
Lu Yuanshan and his companions have already started practicing martial arts in the yard.
Seeing him come out, Lu Yuanshan seemed not to notice the dark circles under his eyes and greeted him directly:
"Awake? Great! Come over and practice with us! Let me see if your martial arts skills have been neglected in the past few years."
Zhou Chen could only suppress his complicated emotions and follow along.
After the morning exercise, I was sweating.
Lu Yuanshan patted his arm and said, "You need to work on your lower body strength and arms. Let's go and eat first."
Zhou Chen: ...
He really wanted to say that he was already able to beat Anshi, but he didn't dare to argue for fear of being punished.
After dinner, Lu Yuanshan pulled him to go out again.
Half a month passed like this, and Zhou Chen became tanned, but his overall temperament also seemed more mature.
Lu Yuanshan finally took him away from Xiangliu Village.
Before Zhou Chen could breathe a sigh of relief, he was stuffed onto a horse and bumped along the way.
They didn't take the main road.
Lu Yuanshan always managed to lead him accurately through sparsely populated paths.
It also always allows him to see the various sufferings that his people are experiencing.
Some families starved to death, leaving only an old man and a young child. Their houses were also taken away by their clansmen, and they could only dig wild vegetables and peel tree bark to fill their stomachs.
A disaster happened in someone's hometown, and his entire family was wiped out, leaving him alone.
Some people sat by the roadside crying, sticking grass branches on their heads to sell their children.
The sufferings in this world are not the same.
But at the same time, he also saw the wind and laughter that never went out in the night in the red-light district.
I saw that the rich would rather throw away the uneaten food and let it rot than allow the poor to get close.
If you see powerful people, they can take people's lives with just a flick of their fingers.
I saw the hardships that children from farming families face in their studies, and how those without connections are bullied and have no way to seek help.
Zhou Chen became more and more silent.
He remembered that when he was very young, his father held him on his knees, looked at him seriously, and said to him:
"Chen'er, your father hopes that you will become a good emperor in the future, a good emperor who can make the people of the world live and work in peace and contentment."
He once asked his father curiously: "But, Father, how can Chen'er be a good emperor?"
The emperor said: "Chen'er, you must learn to listen, learn to understand, and learn to be tolerant."
He said, “You must listen to the voices of the people, understand their needs, and tolerate their mistakes.
"You must keep the people in your heart, the world in your sight, and shoulder your responsibilities. You must learn to be a good emperor who is responsible, compassionate, and wise."
Zhou Chen didn't understand these words at the time.
But now, he seemed to understand a little.
Just as Zhou Chen was transforming little by little...
Imperial Palace. Cining Palace.
Xin Guoguo irritably threw a memorial aside and picked up another one to read:
"Wang Youxi, has your master sent back any news? When will they be back?"
Wang Youxi respectfully picked up the scattered memorials thrown by the Empress Dowager, closed them and put them away.
He caught a glimpse of the last comment on the memorial, "I have read it. If you have nothing else to report, please copy a scroll of scriptures and submit it to me next time." The corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.
The Empress Dowager has been getting more and more irritable these days.
Fortunately, the Empress never punishes servants at will, so the first to bear the Empress Dowager's wrath are the group of civil servants of the previous dynasty.
Wang Youxi couldn't help but gloat over the misfortune.
His face remained respectful. "In reply to the Queen Mother, the master didn't say anything. But General Lu sent a message saying that he should be back in half a month."
Xin Guoguo exclaimed: "What?!"
She decisively threw the memorial in her hand aside and said, "I won't read it anymore. I won't read it anymore. Move it back and wait for your master to come back and read it yourself."
It's not a big deal anyway.
If there was an emergency, the people from the cabinet and the six ministries would come to her immediately.
Wang Youxi: ...
"yes."
Move the piles of memorials out and have the young eunuchs take them back to the imperial study.
Wang Youxi walked in front, but he couldn't help but mourn for his master in his heart.
The master has been gone for half a year.
The Empress Dowager initially read the two memorials out of curiosity, but later she just picked and read them.
Many of these memorials have been piled up for several months.
Moreover, for important matters, the cabinet read the memorials and consulted the Empress Dowager, and then resolved them.
Most of the remaining ones are letters of greeting.
When Wang Youxi thought of the Empress Dowager's annoyed look when she read the memorials, he felt more and more sympathetic towards his master.
It has not been easy for the master these years!
Ever since I learned to read, I have been forced to read memorials for so many years!
Alas~
So pitiful.
Fortunately, he is just a little eunuch.
(^～^)
As soon as Wang Youxi left, Xin Guoguo collapsed directly on the couch, feeling that all her energy had been sucked away by those memorials:
"Madame Deng, I'm tired. Come and get me an ice bowl, and call Xiao Taohong for me too."
Long before her master ordered Wang Youxi to take away all the memorials, Nanny Deng had already asked someone to prepare a row of snacks.
When he heard his master asked for an ice bowl, he immediately asked someone to bring it.
Xiao Taohong also came along.
After greeting, Xiao Taohong was allowed to sit on the embroidered stool next to Xin Guoguo.
Xiao Taohong has also become proficient in the business.
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