The booklet fell to the ground, and a few large words came into everyone's sight: Jinping Chuan.
"The Story of Brocade Screen" is the most popular storybook in Beijing recently. It comes from the century-old shop Liuchu Huazhai. It tells the story of a lady from a prominent family who suddenly suffered a change of fate and lived in poverty. She took on the responsibility of supporting her family by relying on her exquisite embroidery. Later, with the help of a screen with superb embroidery, she made her family prosperous again and married a nobleman.
The storybook has twists and turns in the plot, novel ideas, strong emotions... and many other advantages that quickly captured the hearts of a large number of people who are addicted to storybooks. It is said that Rokkasai is now out of stock.
Emperor Jingming was stunned, and so were everyone else. Only Pan Hai reacted the fastest. He rushed out like a hungry tiger pouncing on its food and pressed the fallen notebook under him.
At this moment, the room was filled with silence, and one could hear a pin drop. Even Erniu, who had picked up a storybook from the pile of memorials, and Jixiang, who wanted to be left alone, were momentarily rendered unresponsive by Pan Hai's action.
Everyone, including the dog and the cat, looked at Pan Hai.
Pan Hai is worthy of being the Eunuch in Charge of Writing and the Governor of Dongchang, the most trusted confidant of Emperor Jingming, the awe-inspiring governor in the eyes of eunuchs like Xiao Lezi, and the occasionally kind-hearted eunuch in the eyes of female officials. He is considerate, witty, strict, and generous... He has more merits than the newly published storybook "Jinping Zhuan".
At this moment, his advantages were fully developed.
Pan Hai got up swiftly, and put the notebook into his sleeve without knowing when. He said anxiously, "Your Majesty, please don't worry. The report sent by Bei Dinghou is not damaged. I will put it away properly first, so that General Xiaotian won't damage it without knowing the seriousness of the matter--"
At this point, Pan Hai glanced at Yu Jin and reminded him, "Please ask King Yan to restrain General Xiaotian. Although General Xiaotian is a divine dog, he is different from us after all. He does not understand the importance of these reports..."
He suspected that the dog had become a spirit. How could it have dug out the storybook among the piles of memorials?
Every time the emperor hid the storybook, he was not able to find it so quickly...
Yu Jin actually didn't expect Erniu to be so "brave", so he stopped while he was ahead and shouted, "Erniu, come over here! If you keep messing around, I'll throw you out!"
Emperor Jingming's heart was in turmoil, but he glanced at Pan Hai with a calm expression and said, "Just put it away."
If he had deep doubts just now about Erniu's ability to discover the bones hidden in the abandoned well in Lao Ba's mansion, he now believed it.
This magical dog can even find the notebook he has hidden, so what else can’t it do?
Emperor Jingming thought so and slowly scanned the crowd.
Every prince who was swept by his father lowered his head silently, while Zhen Shicheng tried his best to suppress the urge to speak.
He has a bad habit of wanting to expose someone's lie as soon as he hears it...
Emperor Jingming narrowly avoided losing face in front of his sons, and thinking about the offending Prince Xiang, he undoubtedly felt even worse.
These bastards are all troublesome. He thought that Lao Ba was the youngest son and would not cause any trouble to him. He never expected that Lao Ba had no intention of fighting for power, but this evil beast actually killed someone, and the person he killed was his aunt's daughter.
Although Cui Mingyue had lost the emperor's favor long ago, disliking her niece was one thing, but it was another for her own son to kill her, not to mention that Princess Rongyang was no longer alive.
If the Queen Mother knew about this - Emperor Jingming started to feel a headache at the thought of this possibility.
What you fear will come true. As soon as Emperor Jingming had this thought, Cining Palace sent someone to invite him.
Emperor Jingming's heart suddenly sank, and he left everyone in the study and hurried to Cining Palace.
Seeing Emperor Jingming leave, Prince Lu whispered, "Should we still wait here?"
The King of Qi did not want to talk to the King of Lu, and the King of Shu did not want to talk to the King of Lu either.
The King of Qin had always been low-key, so when he saw that no one spoke, he naturally kept silent.
Prince Lu didn't realize that he was being excluded by his brothers. He smiled and said, "Seventh brother, your Erniu is really amazing. He just found out from the memorial -"
"Cough, cough, cough!" Several coughs sounded at the same time.
Prince Lu looked at Prince Qi, who was coughing the most violently, and curled his lips in dissatisfaction.
You were pretending to be dumb just now, why are you coughing now? Do you think your saliva won't fly everywhere?
The King of Qi was afraid that the King of Lu would implicate everyone, so he gently reminded him, "Fifth brother, this is the study room, let's talk less."
The King of Shu followed up with, "That's right, Father is in a bad mood right now, and my eighth brother is still waiting outside the palace."
They were not blind, and everyone saw the three big characters "Jinping Chuan". But if they told the emperor clearly, where would his father put his face? In his rage, not to mention the eighth brother, they would probably be in trouble.
Seeing the nonchalant expression of Prince Lu, Prince Shu suddenly had an epiphany: Could it be that the Fifth Prince wanted to bring misfortune upon everyone and then be demoted to a prince to keep him company?
Shameless, so shameless!
Hiss - maybe the fifth brother brought Erniu to the eighth brother's house with the intention of causing trouble. Otherwise, Erniu was not raised by him, so how could he have the leisure to walk the dog for the seventh brother?
Thinking of this, the King of Shu secretly became extremely wary of the King of Lu.
You have to be on guard against the seventh and fifth sons, and you can't be careless with the hypocritical fourth son. Just think about how tiring it must be to be the prince, and it's probably even more tiring to be the crown prince. No wonder the deposed crown prince sat on that throne for thirty years but eventually fell off and was smashed to pieces...
Thinking of this, the King of Shu became more determined: keep a low profile and endure, and try if there is a chance. If there is no chance, then just be a good person...
In Yu's study, everyone had different thoughts. Suddenly, they heard cats and dogs barking and realized that Erniu and Jixiang had been fighting each other.
The fat but strong white cat rushed forward, and the big dog stretched out its paws to slap it away.
The white cat persevered and rushed forward again, but was slapped away by the big dog again.
After repeating this over and over again, Erniu finally got impatient and pinned Jixiang down with his front paws, not giving the other party any chance to provoke him.
Xiao Lezi, who was left at the door of Yu's study, almost cried, and shouted tremblingly: "Don't let the cat stay under the claws of General Xiaotian, don't hurt it, don't let it hurt——"
When the white cat heard Xiao Lezi's crying, he felt insulted and hit Erniu.
Erniu had been on the battlefield before, so how could he be hurt by a fat cat that was used to being pampered? He flicked his paw, and a white arc of light flashed in front of everyone, and the big cat fell into the pile of memorials.
"Woof!" Erniu barked at Yujian with disdain.
Why can't it be hurt? It also has an owner!
The white cat buried in the pile of memorials meowed, and for the first time thought of its departed owner.
At this time, Emperor Jingming had already arrived at Cining Palace and was asking the empress dowager in a gentle voice, "Is there something you want me to come over for?"
The Queen Mother gently turned her rosary beads, with no extra expression on her face: "I heard that the Prince of Xiang is waiting outside. Is the Emperor still angry with him because of what happened at the birthday banquet?"
Emperor Jingming was stunned.
How did the Queen Mother know that the Eighth Prince was waiting outside?