A few days later, Li Jinzhong and Zhang Xie were both beheaded.
Since Zhang Xie had a wife and daughter, there was no need for Huo Nan to collect the body.
That night, Huo Nan got drunk. Yan Shiyue didn't ask anyone to disturb him, but only asked Wei Bo to bring him a bowl of sobering soup.
Wei Bo asked the kitchen to prepare some wine and brought it to him. Seeing that he was very drunk, he simply lifted his head up by the hair and prepared to feed him directly. After completing his master's order, he went back to sleep.
As soon as she raised her head, Huo Nan suddenly hugged her waist with his arms and cried, "Mother!"
Wei Bo grabbed his hair and pulled him out.
But Huo Nan was also a martial artist, and he was extremely strong after being drunk, so she couldn't carry him out at all.
Huo Nan cried like a child: "Mother! Sister! I have avenged you! I have avenged you! I miss you so much... Mother! Liang'er misses you so much!"
Wei Xin: “…”
She tried to pry his arms open, but failed.
...
...
She called out to the outside: "Jia He! Ren Dong! Is there anyone here? Come in!"
There was no sound outside.
Huo Nan hugged her tightly, buried his face in her arms, and his tears wet her clothes.
Wei Bo, who was isolated and helpless, stared at him for a long time, but could only pat him on the back casually: "Alright, alright... don't cry! My dear son, don't cry... Hey! You dare to wipe your snot on me!"
He cried even harder.
By the time Wei Bo finally struggled free after a lot of coaxing and deception, more than an hour had passed.
But Wei Bo was not an ordinary maid, she was a shadow guard.
The so-called shadow guard is to resolutely execute the master's orders. So after she got away, she approached him again carefully, wanting to feed him the sobering soup.
Then, I was hugged again... It was such a tough battle!
Of course, Yan Shiyue knew nothing about this.
After giving Wei Bo instructions, she went straight to sleep.
It was on this evening that Jin Heqiao was in a good mood and invited a few people to dinner.
As for why I am in a good mood, everyone knows it without me saying it.
Normally, Qu Sinian would definitely go to such a small banquet with only a few "own people" present, but this time, Jin Heqiao didn't even invite him.
When Qu Sinian returned home, Tong asked him, "What is going on between you and that Prince Fu Yan?"
Qu Sinian said: "Nothing."
Tong asked anxiously, "Why doesn't the prince get close to you? Don't forget the prince's kindness!"
Qu Sinian was helpless and said, "Mother, I will not forget it. But the prince has given orders, and I can only obey. She just asked me to help him write a memorial, and I did nothing."
Tong said: "Then you should stay with His Highness more often and say good things about the prince!"
"Mother," Qu Sinian didn't know how to explain for a moment: "In fact, Your Highness really doesn't rely on me that much. I really can't say anything in front of Your Highness."
"How could that be?" Tong said, "Didn't she take the initiative to look for you many times? Doesn't this mean she values you?"
Qu Sinian was speechless.
He actually felt that Yan Shiyue only looked for him because Xu Wenqu was not there, and it was not even a deliberate plot against him. However, he was trapped in this situation, and he was caught between a rock and a hard place, and there was no way to explain it.
Tong looked at him earnestly, and after a while she said softly, "Don't be so pretentious. My son is naturally handsome, so he should be nicer to His Highness. These young ladies need to be praised, coaxed, and told nice things... Just listen to your mother, I won't harm you..."
Qu Sinian looked at her, feeling powerless for a moment.
Jin Hejiao would be fine, but Tong was his biological mother. How could a man like him be expected to use his beauty to serve someone else?
He sighed silently and lowered his head, but in his heart he remembered what Jin Heqiao said in his ear when he was leaving court.
He said: "Your Highness is very capable...why not go to the Ministry of War? Wouldn't you have more things to talk to Huo Qijing about?"
The emperor didn't seem to want Yan Shiyue to stay in the Ministry of Justice, but where would she go next? He grew up in front of the emperor, and he could roughly guess that the emperor seemed to want her to go to the Ministry of Revenue.
But the Minister of Revenue is Jin Heqiao's man. He definitely doesn't want Yan Shiyue to go to the Ministry of Revenue!
What he meant by saying that was that he wanted him to go find Yan Shiyue, use Huo Qijing to hook him up, and persuade her to go to the Ministry of War.
Between two evils, choose the lesser one. Compared with the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War seems less important.
However, he thought for a long time and couldn't figure out how to convince Yan Shiyue. He was really afraid that she would look at him with a smile and say to him, "Master Qu, don't cause trouble for your master..."
He didn't know why, but she was just a young lady who didn't know much about state affairs, but he was afraid of her from the bottom of his heart.
He hesitated for a long time but still didn't go.
Probably because of this, Jin Heqiao was completely annoyed with him and didn't even invite him to the evening banquet.
Tong was still chattering on and on, and Qu Sinian said after a while: "Mother, I know everything." He got up and left without even eating.
A day later, Xu Wenqu came back.
The work at the Northern Academy was almost done, so the three of them returned first. The remaining matters could be left to Yan Shirong.
In the evening, Yan Shiyue hosted a banquet to welcome him.
Xu Wenqu said to her, "Do you know that a lucky girl appeared in Longmen County recently?"
"Hmm?" Yan Shiyue asked, "What Fugu?"
Xu Wen asked, "It was the Taoist priestess who brought out the spring water. She claimed that she wanted to build a charity hall, and then she bought a piece of land. Then, she dug out a jar of gold from the ground. People said that she took your good fortune, so they called her Fu Gu."
Yan Shiyue was speechless.
It's common to try to take advantage of the popularity.
It is also common to copy people’s personalities.
But can you please innovate? Even if you want to develop a koi character, you can change the plot! Is it okay to just copy the original?
Yan Shiyue said: "Before I left, she was still doing all kinds of things for me, but as soon as I left, she started to imitate me?"
Xu asked, "What is lacking and what is more?"
She repeated what she had said to her before.
Huo Qijing asked her: "Do you want to deal with it?"
"No need," Yan Shiyue said, "If she just wants to hype up this 'Fu' name, she must do good deeds, so it's up to her! If one day, she wants to use this name to make a profit, it's not too late to deal with her later."
Wei Xin couldn't help but say, "It's just annoying."
It is quite annoying, but she didn't kill anyone or set any fire, and in modern times, it could still be used to stir up public opinion, but now... we can only pretend that she doesn't exist.
Xu Wenqu smiled and comforted her: "How can the light of a firefly compete with the brightness of the sun and the moon? No matter how hard you try, you will end up drawing a dog instead of a tiger."
Yan Shiyue touched Huo Qijing with a smile, then gave him a wink, meaning "Look how nicely others praise you!"
Huo Qijing said seriously: "The most precious thing about you is not this word 'Fu'."
Yan Shiyue couldn't help but laugh.
Yes, perhaps in everyone's eyes, her most obvious label is Empress Fu, but at least not in Huo Qijing's eyes.
A little happy.
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