Lin Yuzhi lifted his clothes and knelt down firmly: "I don't know what crime I have committed."
The emperor threw his pen down, and the ink splashed onto the memorial beside him.
"It seems you don't recognize it."
"I don't know what crime I have committed, so how can I confess it?"
The emperor's face was filled with emotion and he stared at Lin Yuzhi for a long time.
"What a crime he has committed."
He picked up a secret copy of the Qianyuwei and threw it in front of him: "Look for yourself."
Lin Yuzhi leaned over slightly to pick it up. In fact, he had already guessed what was written in the secret memorial, and he also knew the emperor's intention of summoning him into the palace.
The six words "the king is the king, the minister is the minister" have been used by the emperor to criticize him more than once.
The princess is the monarch and he is the subject.
When he opened the secret letter, he found that what was recorded on it was exactly what happened in the princess's mansion last night, with every word and sentence being recorded without omission.
"Did you finish reading it?"
Lin Yuzhi closed the memorial and said, "Your Majesty, I have finished reading it."
"I allow you to explain."
"It is clearly written in the secret memorial. I have nothing to explain."
"In this case, do you admit your guilt?"
Lin Yuzhi said calmly: "If the crime that Your Majesty is talking about is what I said and did last night in the Princess's Mansion, then I don't feel guilty."
"presumptuous!"
The emperor slammed the table and said: "I'm afraid Prime Minister Lin has forgotten what he said before!"
Lin Yuzhi knelt in front of the prince, but his back was as straight as a pine tree.
"I have not forgotten, nor do I dare to forget."
Seeing him being so confident, the emperor was immediately furious: "You are the prime minister! You are the head of all officials!"
"Your Majesty, I would like to ask, Lu Ren is a first-rank cavalry general, and Jiang Qi is a third-rank Dali Temple official, which one of them is not an important official?"
emperor:……
He was silent for a moment: "My sister likes it."
After saying this, he no longer looked at him, but picked up the memorial beside him.
Lin Yuzhi: ...
For a moment, the only sound in the hall was the rubbing of paper.
After a long while, the emperor pinched his brows and said lightly: "In the final analysis, it depends on the emperor's sister's love, but the emperor's sister seems to have no interest in you, Minister Lin."
Upon hearing this, Lin Yuzhi slowly clenched his hanging hands, and then quickly released them.
"I am only expressing my feelings to the princess, and I am not forcing her to respond."
"Force? With the emperor's personality, you can't force her. Everything depends on her own willingness."
Lin Yuzhi: “… Yeah.”
The emperor picked it up heavily, then put it down gently: "Get up."
"When my sister liked you, you avoided her. Now that she doesn't like you anymore, you rush to the princess's mansion. I think you are just bored."
"..." Lin Yuzhi said, "The one I admire is the current princess."
The emperor narrowed his eyes and said, "What do you mean by current or former? They are all my sisters."
"For me, it's different."
"There is no difference. She is my sister. We grew up together. She is my treasure. How can I not know? Do you think you know my sister better than I do?"
Lin Yuzhi was silent.
"Although my sister was illiterate before, she could still be described as innocent and naive. But now..."
The emperor could not help but sigh and laugh: "Now he is illiterate, and his innocence is gone. All that is left is laziness and absurdity."
Lin Yuzhi remained silent.
"Back off, I'm tired too."
As the emperor said this, he threw away the memorial, ignored Lin Yuzhi, and left the hall on his own.
"Come here, go to the princess's mansion and tell her how the calligraphy I sent you last time is going. Hand it over so I can have fun. Ahem, check it out."
When Wen Yu received the message from the palace servant, the corners of her mouth twitched.
"What? You're taking it back? Once you give it to me, it's mine. How can you take it back? You're so stingy."
She immediately gave the thing to Lu Jin.
Palace maid: ...
"How about you go to the general's mansion to ask for the calligraphy?"
"General's Mansion?"
"The Japanese princess suddenly became very interested and wanted to discuss the profoundness of calligraphy with Lu Ren in the room. She took the calligraphy copybook to find Lu Ren and discussed all night. Who would have thought that she would leave the calligraphy copybook in the general's mansion the next day and forgot to take it back."
Palace maid: ...
Practicing calligraphy with General Lu all night long?
Princess, please listen to this for yourself. Is this correct?
But he didn't say much and went straight to the general's mansion.
When Lu Ren received the message asking for calligraphy, he took the palace servants directly to Lu Jin's room.
The palace maid sighed, "I didn't expect that General Lu's study would have so many books."
Lu Ren said, "This is my younger brother's room. He loves reading, so he converted the study into a bedroom."
"W-what?"
Did the eldest princess and General Lu actually communicate in her brother's room all night?
After receiving the calligraphy, the palace maid returned to the palace to report.
When the emperor opened it, he knew it was not written by Wen Yu.
Because it looked too much like a normal character, without those trembling, crooked strokes, it lost a lot of interest in the eyes of the emperor.
After Lin Yuzhi returned home, he did not attend court for more than half a month, citing illness as an excuse.
Wen Yu also learned the news from Liuchun.
"Princess, there is a widely circulated rumor outside. Would you like to hear it?"
"What?"
Liu Chun coughed lightly and said, "Rumor has it that the Prime Minister stayed overnight at the Princess's residence and then fell ill. They all said that you drained him dry and he hasn't recovered yet."
Wen Yu: ...
After a very long silence, Wen Yu exploded.
"This is simply alarmist! Who the hell spread this rumor! When did I let Lin Yuzhi stay at the Princess's mansion?"
Liu Chun explained: "That day, the Prime Minister stood in the front hall until dawn before leaving. It must be that someone with good intentions misunderstood."
"…Good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles. Lin Yuzhi is sick, and he blames me directly."
"Princess, just listen to it. It's just a rumor anyway. What you should pay attention to now is the talent show in three days."
"The clothing bureau has sent over the fabrics. Princess, please choose one."
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