Li Tong hurriedly stood in front of the Summer Palace holding several memorials.
Guards wearing imperial uniforms with swords on their backs stood around the main hall, and eunuchs stood in the corridors.
It was noon and the birds were silent.
Li Tong couldn't help but swallowed. This was his first day on duty, and his heart was about to jump out of his throat.
For a while, I stood at the foot of the steps without moving for half a day.
A eunuch saw him and waved to him.
Li Tong braced himself and stepped forward shaking.
"Your Majesty wants the Dongyang disaster relief package..." he said in a trembling voice.
The eunuch looked at him.
"New here?" he asked, looking at the dense sweat on the man's face and wanting to laugh.
Where did this newbie come from?
His smiling eyes reminded Li Tong of his family's instructions, and he quickly took out a red envelope from his sleeve.
"Excuse me, father-in-law, please let me know." He said, shaking his hands and handing it over.
Oh, it's not bad. The eunuch smiled and took it calmly.
"Wait." He said, turned around and went in.
Li Tong's heart was beating hard and he felt that the clothes on his back were all wet. It seemed like a lifetime had passed before the eunuch came out.
"Please come in." He said with a smile and waved his hand.
The eunuchs on both sides immediately pulled up the door and opened it.
Sooner or later, this had to happen. At this time, Li Tong calmed down and went in.
The hall is spacious and filled with incense.
Li Tong didn't dare to raise his head and stood at the door for a while, swallowing.
"Your Majesty..." He raised the folded paper and saluted.
The voice is a bit hoarse after all.
"Here." A somewhat lazy voice said.
Li Tong bravely raised his head. The dragon chair in front of him was empty. He was stunned for a moment.
"Here." The voice said again.
Li Tong then looked over and saw a figure sitting behind the gauze curtain on the right side of the hall.
He boldly walked over, lifted up the veil and went in. Only then did he see the emperor again after that day.
The emperor was sitting on the Arhat bed, surrounded by a bunch of memorials. At this time, he was looking down at one, but he did not look up and stop because Li Tong came in.
"Your Majesty." Li Tong bowed and raised the memorial and said.
"Leave it alone," the emperor said.
He read the book very quickly, answering questions and answers. He finished one book and then changed to another.
Li Tong looked at the memorials in front of him, and didn't know where to put them.
The emperor then raised his head.
"Oh." He said, squinting his eyes to look at it, "New here?"
Li Tong hurriedly bowed and saluted and said yes.
The emperor doesn't remember him anymore. How should he introduce himself? He has rehearsed it many times at home, but when he comes to the real meeting, his mind goes blank.
"Is your grandfather feeling better?"
A voice floated from above.
Li Tong was stunned for a moment.
"Okay, okay." He stammered hastily.
The emperor smiled, put down the memorial in his hand, and looked at him.
"Is your grandfather okay?" he asked. "With the way you are dealing with it, does he really dare to send you here? Is this to protect you? Or is he planning to harm you?"
I have practiced various conversations, but this...this...
Li Tong was dumbfounded.
The emperor looked at him and smiled slightly, tapping the memorial in his hand repeatedly without saying a word, as if he was waiting for an answer.
The hall suddenly became quiet.
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty." Li Tong suddenly knelt down and kowtowed.
The emperor was a little surprised and changed his position to sit.
"Xie Zhen, what are you doing?" he asked.
"It's because of Your Majesty that I am what I am today." Li Tong said, lying on the ground.
The emperor smiled.
"Oh, why is it because of me?" he asked.
"I am stupid and stupid, and I am a bastard. I couldn't even stay in the capital, let alone have the opportunity to deal with you today. All this is because I was lucky enough to say a few words to your majesty. Therefore, everything I did today
, are all given by His Majesty." Li Tong said in a trembling voice.
As I talked, I thought about the changes at home in the past few days, and that my sister finally got rid of the nightmare marriage. Not only did I not have to leave the capital to survive, but I jumped into the cabinet and was able to walk in front of the king.
People who don't even look at me are flattering me with compliments...
His nose felt sore. Since the incident happened, he had been surrounded by happiness all the time, laughing wherever he went. Unexpectedly, when he came to the emperor, under the incomparable quietness, all the noise and noise disappeared, and he felt sad instead.
"My lord, if I get this chance, I will die without any regrets," he said with choked sobs.
The emperor looked at him and chuckled.
"Put the memorial here. I haven't seen it here," he said.
The topic changed and Li Tong didn't react for a moment.
"Put it down. Are you very free, sir?" the emperor said again, and he looked at the bed board.
Li Tong hurriedly stood up and put down the memorial according to the emperor's instructions.
The emperor lowered his head again, and continued to read the memorial. He did not use a pen, but dipped his fingers in the ink on the side, and dotted on the memorial this time and that time.
I heard that this was the emperor's new obsession with reviewing memorials. The four ministers were angry and knelt down at the gate of the palace to cry.
Li Tong stood quietly for a moment, confirming that the emperor had read the memorial seriously and with all his heart, and had nothing to say to him, and then slowly withdrew.
As soon as he exited the veil, the emperor spoke again.
"That," he began.
Li Tong hurriedly stopped, and the emperor's voice also stopped.
There was a moment of silence in the hall.
"It's okay. Go ahead." The emperor said again.
Li Tong responded and retreated.
The emperor put his head on his hands and looked at the gauze curtain, smiled again, lowered his head and continued to read the memorial.
But this quiet moment was soon interrupted by the noise outside.
Not many people dare to make noise here...
The emperor frowned.
Then I heard the eunuch coming in.
"Your Majesty, Dr. Zhou is here to see you."
Is this old guy back?
The emperor raised his hand.
Through the curtain, the eunuch could clearly see the emperor's gesture. He immediately turned around and said "Xuan". Before he finished speaking, a man rolled in and rolled on the ground.
"Your Majesty." He shouted with a crying voice.
The emperor was startled and looked at the man kneeling on the ground, dusty and disheveled. As he climbed up, the smooth ground was immediately covered with a layer of dust.
"Zhou Maochun, were you robbed?" he asked with a smile.
"Your Majesty." Zhou Maochun raised his head, his face was covered with flowers, and he looked like he was really about to cry, "Your Majesty, my Lady Qi..."
"Dead?" the emperor asked, shaking his head with a bit of gloating and pretending to comfort him, "My condolences..."
Zhou Maochun touched his nose with his sleeve.
"No, it's gone." He said.
"So I'm asking you to express your condolences." The emperor smiled.
"No, it's gone, it's gone." Zhou Maochun shouted.
"You old thing, so I asked you to express your condolences." The emperor also shouted, and hit him with a memorial.
Zhou Maochun raised his hand and slapped his face.
"No, no, I didn't find Mrs. Qi! People said she came to the capital!" Zhou Maochun said.
The emperor laughed. Looking at Zhou Maochun's appearance, one could imagine how embarrassed he was every time he went there.
"That's right!" He laughed loudly, "Who told you not to listen to me and insist on selling it yourself!"
Zhou Maochun felt aggrieved, annoyed and speechless.
"Okay, it's better to come to the capital. Go find your wife Qi quickly." The emperor said, "wash up before you go. You look like this, you will disgrace our hospital."
It would be better not to say this, but after saying this, Zhou Maochun really cried.
"Your Majesty, Madam Qi has left again." He shouted, beating the ground.
The emperor was stunned for a moment, then burst into even louder laughter.
The eunuchs outside the door looked at each other.
"Your Majesty hasn't laughed like this for a long time." someone whispered.
"Physician Zhou is still very good. No wonder His Majesty likes him so much." Another whispered.
Zhou Maochun was very unhappy that the emperor based his happiness on his own pain. He raised his head and looked at the emperor regardless of the disgrace.
The emperor tried hard not to laugh.
"Then, hurry up and catch up, lest you miss it again." He smiled.
"Your Majesty, I can't catch up. Madam Qi can't be found." Zhou Maochun wiped his nose again and said.
The emperor was very curious.
"Why can't I find it?" he asked.
"I don't know, I just can't find it." Zhou Maochun said, kneeling and taking a few steps forward, "Your Majesty, I have come to ask you to lend me the Imperial Guards and then order the helpers from all over the state to look for it..."
The emperor didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and hit him with a memorial.
"You old guy, you really dare to think!" He laughed, "In order to find your sweetheart, you actually planned to come to me. I haven't used all this to find..."
He coughed and stopped talking.
"What are you looking for? Your Majesty is also looking for someone?" Zhou Maochun asked with concern despite his age but sharp eyes and ears. He ignored his sadness at being rejected.
"Go away." The emperor waved his hand and said, "Go and wash up quickly. Stay away from me. It stinks."
Zhou Maochun left helplessly and dejectedly.
Where did Mrs. Qi go?
Many people are puzzled.
"I must have been traveling." Fan Yilin said without thinking, while pouring wine for Li Tong.
"It's such a pity that I haven't thanked you in person yet," Li Tong said, asking Fan Yilin to do the same.
"Ms. Qi doesn't care about this." Fan Yilin said as if she was one of my own.
Li Tong smiled.
"Are you used to being in the official department?" he asked.
It's okay not to say this, Fan Yilin frowned.
"I guess you won't be able to see me if I wait another ten days and a half," he said.
Li Tong was puzzled.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"I will be exhausted." Fan Yilin said, "I am busy in the ministry. When I get home, I have to report everything that happened during the day to my father, and then give a lecture. After finally finishing it, I have to go back to my yard and have to do it again.
Report it to your daughter-in-law, and I feel strange. You said that my daughter-in-law should just wait at my father's place and listen together... Aren't you torturing me twice?"
Li Tong laughed.
"It's better to be tired, it's better to be tired," he said with a smile.
Fan Yilin raised his wine glass and looked out the window.
"Okay, okay, okay...my mother!" He shouted suddenly.
Li Tong was startled.
"What's wrong?" He followed and looked out the window.
At this time, they were sitting in a box on the second floor, with the window facing the street, which was bustling with people.
As soon as Li Tong finished asking, he saw Fan Yilin smashing the wine glass in his hand with lightning speed.
"Grandson! Finally it's in grandpa's hands!" Fan Yilin shouted loudly, lying on the window.
Li Tong was so frightened that he reached out and hugged Fan Yilin tightly. He looked like he was about to jump down in the blink of an eye.
What exactly is going on?
He followed and looked around, seeing people coming and going on the street, including men, women, young and old, Xixi. He didn't know that the unlucky one was hit by Fan Yilin, and there were three or four people looking up.
Obviously there was no target for Fan Yilin in this, because he turned around and randomly grabbed the wine glass and bottle from the table.
"Grandson, stop for grandpa!" he shouted loudly, slamming down the things in his hands.
Finally, there was chaos on the street. The crowd screamed and fled, revealing a tall man. He raised his head and looked over, with a stern face and a slight frown on his thick eyebrows.
Upstairs and downstairs, our eyes are facing each other.
Li Tong saw that the corner of the man's mouth moved slightly, stretched out his hand and tapped it gently. Immediately, five or six people around him looked up, and then walked over. They looked very experienced. Two of them automatically stood guard at the door, and the others rushed towards him.
Come in.
There was some distance between upstairs and downstairs, but Li Tong could still feel the sharp aura of this man. This was no ordinary person!
Li Tong suddenly hugged Fan Yilin and dragged him down.
"Brother Fan, this joke is not allowed, and this person cannot be messed with." He shouted urgently.
The thumping footsteps on the stairs are already coming up.***(To be continued)
