The undercover agent sent by the imperial court

Chapter 177

Ling Xuan still doesn't know what happened in the distant Yangzhou. Because of the New Year, the palace is very busy now, and the decorations in the palace have to be rearranged. Ling Xuan is dealing with these things in the palace during this time, especially It's these red items.

"Don't put it here." Turning around, he saw a red candle on the table. Ling Xuan frowned and asked to withdraw.

"Don't move the curtain, what's the matter with this gaudy red color?" Ling Xuan pulled up the newly delivered curtain, looked at it, frowned and made people retreat.

"My lord." The manager wiped his sweat, "Can spring flowers be posted? They will be removed after the Chinese New Year."

Ling Xuan looked at the red paper with animals cut out and nodded reluctantly, "Just paste a few pieces where I can't see them."

"Then, the prince's mansion should not be moved." The manager said after a moment of silence, "If you don't mind, let's put some decorations."

Ling Xuan finally loosened his brows, "Well, that's it, no one will come anyway."

As soon as the voice fell, the voice of the emperor, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, the emperor, and others quickly knelt down, Ling Xuan sighed and looked at the person who came, "Brother emperor, why are you here, shouldn't you be in the hall at this time? "

"Come here to see how you've cleaned up here." Huang Puwen looked around, "Don't you like these suits? I'll go get someone to change them."

"No need, it's almost finished, so don't add anything." Ling Xuan shook his head and didn't think there was anything wrong with the situation where nothing had changed.

Unable to see where it was completed, the manager knelt on the ground and said loudly, Huang Puwen shook his head helplessly, "Then you can do whatever you want."

Ling Xuan nodded casually, the manager was relieved and waited for the maid to collect all the things they were holding after the two left, and only took a few ornaments from the warehouse to replace some of the previous vases and it was completed.

"Do you still remember how to celebrate the New Year?" Huang Puwen asked with a smile, "We will have a New Year's Eve dinner tonight."

"It turned out to be tonight. I thought it would be a few days." Ling Xuan sighed. If he wanted to start eating, he would have to eat for half a month, and he would eat dumplings for every meal, which meant year after year.

Although the dumplings for every meal are different, Ling Xuan is very resistant to having to eat dumplings for half a month. Although the emperor can take a rest during this half month, for Ling Xuan, this is a one-year period. It's the busiest half month.

"Let's eat first, and we have to go to worship our ancestors." Huang Puwen rubbed Ling Xuan's hair and said.

"That's right." To visit the emperor father, the first emperor is right, and the empress mother will also go together.

There was still a small plate of dumplings on the dining table, only five of them, and a small plate of sauce. After Ling Xuan dipped it, he ate five dumplings one by one before starting to eat other dishes. The dumplings tasted very good. Today’s It's shrimp. The soft taste is very good, but it will get tired soon.

Formal dinners pay attention to eating and sleeping without talking. At a glance, there is no end to the delicious food. Ling Xuan only ate three bites, but the past half is already full, and the food on the plate is actually only two or three bites. The dish made with only the most essential part is just one bite, but it takes a lot of time for the chef to make it.

This is just an ordinary New Year's Eve dinner, and the New Year's Eve dinner at night will be more exaggerated and extravagant than this. After all, this is the education and life that Ling Xuan has received since he was a child. Compared with these occasional requests made by Ling Xuan, it is not too much.

"Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, and Prince." The priest with his head bowed lay down on the ground and shouted, "All the preparations for offering sacrifices to heaven have been made."

"Let's go." After a while, Huangpuwen's majestic voice came from above his head, and Ling Xuan quietly stretched out his hand to support his mother and walked towards the altar.

The graceful and luxurious dresses and the carpets under their feet are not ordinary. Ling Xuan and the Queen Mother stood in front of the altar, a little behind the Huangpuwen, and after receiving the priest's incense three bows, the priest inserted the incense in front of the altar .

Afterwards, they had to go to the imperial mausoleum, and the emperor stayed behind to continue offering sacrifices to heaven. Ling Xuan once again helped the queen mother onto the imperial mausoleum, and slowly carried her away.

The mausoleum of the first emperor was not far from the capital, but considering the speed of the emperor, it would probably be very late when he came back, but there was no other way.

"It seems that you and your brother are all right now." The queen mother said with a smile, "I heard that you refused to change the decoration of the palace? The emperor actually agreed."

"Because it looks vulgar, I don't want to change it." Ling Xuan answered while looking straight ahead.

"It's really rare. How long has it been since the emperor came to the throne?" The queen mother sighed slightly, "I thought you would no longer be willful."

"Mother, although I don't want to admit it." Ling Xuan opened a smile, "But, to the emperor and mother, I will always be that wayward child, so what's wrong with that?"

"That's right." The queen mother stretched out her hand, and Ling Xuan bent slightly to let the queen mother take her arm, "Father will not be happy, the child he grew up with great difficulty finally changed back because of the book he left behind Woolen cloth."

"Let me tell you." The queen mother walked down the hall slowly, "This person asked for it himself. I obviously didn't even open my mouth to take it, but this guy revealed all his secrets in a book."

"I still don't understand." Ling Xuan said with a slight sigh, "The queen mother doesn't seem to like the emperor's brother but still insists on recognizing the emperor's brother's status. Is it because of her biological sister?"

"Although the relationship is not good after entering the palace." The queen mother walked to the imperial tomb, "but she is still my biological sister, but unfortunately she still did not escape the conspiracy of the deep palace."

"That's why the queen mother arranged for her to be buried with the emperor?" Ling Xuan looked at the huge ancestral temple, which listed the signs of every important person who was buried with the emperor.

In fact, the father is not here. After all, how can the emperor's tomb let others know that this ancestral temple is only used to worship ancestors. Ling Xuan waved his hand, and the people behind came with scrolls of paintings, "This is the period of time Some paintings for my father."

"You have a heart." The queen mother watched with a little relief as Ling Xuan burned one scroll after another.

"It's just some landscape paintings." Ling Xuan threw the last painting into the stove and backed away, "I have gone to all the places my father wants to go. Although it is not as good as I imagined, but since then."

Ling Xuan knelt down facing the memorial tablet, "From now on, I will do things according to my own ideas. This year, I will go to a place for a close friend of mine, hoping to find the news he wants."

The Queen Mother also knelt down quietly, "My husband, please bless our child."

After burning incense and chanting scriptures one by one, the queen mother stayed behind, "You go back first, I will copy a Buddhist scripture for him before leaving."

"I understand." Ling Xuan nodded slightly and went back to the palace first.

"It seems that there will be only our two brothers at this year's New Year's Eve dinner." Seeing that only Ling Xuan came back, Huang Puwen was not surprised at all, since the death of the first emperor, it has been like this every year.

"En, yes." Ling Xuan straightened his clothes, "I'll go and change first before I come back."

"Go."

Although the New Year's Eve dinner is said to be a time for family reunion, it is more than that here. The emperor will choose his confidants to enter the palace to eat this meal together.

This time Ling Xuan simply called Chu Ziyan and Chu Yuan together, besides that, there were also the prime minister and the servant of the Sixth Ministry.

Ling Xuan changed into simpler clothes than the one in the morning before returning to the main hall. The food was already prepared on the table, and then the ministers who entered the palace one by one, everyone will get a New Year's red envelope from the emperor, saying yes That's not all the red envelopes are, they are treasures packed in kits.

It is a reward for the ministers he trusts and values, and the meaning it represents is far higher than its value. Ling Xuan naturally received a copy, which made Ling Xuan unconsciously touch the Tianyin, because it has been worn for a long time, sometimes Ling Xuan will forget the existence of this.

But sometimes I just think of it suddenly, because the sense of innocence of this thing is too low when I don't pay attention, "Sit."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The ministers who sat down one after another were all far away from Ling Xuan's position, especially Chu Ziyan, who was the only non-official person present, and the ministers tacitly did not talk about him. Existence is just silently speculating on one's own thoughts in the heart.

Chu Ziyan didn't feel uncomfortable at all, he just did what he had to do, he had the demeanor of a prime minister's grandson, making it impossible for anyone to jump wrong, but the servant of the Ministry of War knew the existence of this man very well, and intended to make friends with him.

But Chu Ziyan just ignored him.

Even so, the enthusiasm of the Minister of the Ministry of War could not be dispelled. Ling Xuan ate five dumplings as usual. This was only the second meal, and the taste was replaced by vegetables and minced meat. The reason for this is because Ling Xuanzhi couldn't figure out what kind of meat it was. Taste, dishes seem to be like cabbage.

Very cheap vegetables but the taste is surprisingly good, Ling Xuan didn’t eat much, wiped his mouth when he was [-]% full, and left, leaving the seat for everyone who is still chatting, I don’t know what to do if I chat with these people It was time to rest, so Ling Xuan left early every day and the ministers present were used to it.

On the contrary, Chu Ziyan also sneaked out, or in other words, no one cared about him so he came out easily. The prime minister sat next to the emperor, the person closest to the emperor after Ling Xuan, and Chu Ziyan's position Basically, it was the closest to the door, and with the prime minister's presbyopic eyes, he couldn't see whether Chu Ziyan was there.

"You came out too." Ling Xuan wasn't surprised when he said that, Ling Xuan would be surprised if Chu Ziyan stayed there obediently and chatted with those people like Chu Yuan.

"Yeah, I'm not the first to come out anyway." Chu Ziyan smiled slyly, "You're going back to the palace, leave me alone, I came here in the same car with the old man today, I don't want to go back .”

"Okay, then stay with me for one night first." Ling Xuan shrugged, "Any news recently? Frontier."

"It's a little bit, I'm going to start preparing." Chu Ziyan let out a breath and formed a white mist in the air.

"Looks like it's a big battle. Will Chu be here after this time?" Ling Xuan exhaled a white mist from the tip of his nose. The night was really cold.

"I guess it's very dangerous, so you have to work hard." Chu Ziyan smiled at Ling Xuan, "Otherwise I will have to give up."

"I know."

The palace is brightly lit. Although the owner has not returned yet, the palace is still making a series of preparations for the New Year. Ever since Huangpu Wen ascended the throne, Ling Xuan has always been considerate of the emperor who sat in that position for himself. It can be said that the past few years have been really obedient. So much so that these new maids didn't even know what Ling Xuan wanted.

"Leave them all, don't light up the palace without people." Ling Xuan went into the palace, looked around and explained calmly, "I don't like red."

I don't like red in the New Year, this one is very self-willed, the manager completely understood this time, and asked everyone to remove all things and put them away.

"Prepare a room for Master Chu." Ling Xuan said to Chu Ziyan after explaining, "It's already late, don't disturb me, I'll go back and rest."

"Okay, my lord, go slowly." Chu Ziyan smiled slightly and followed the maid.

Just after finishing speaking, Ling Xuan, who was going to rest, turned around and saw a familiar figure, "Yin Tianming, why are you here during the Chinese New Year?"

"It's because it's Chinese New Year that's why I came to see you." Yin Tianming smiled harmlessly to humans and animals, if he ignored the large circle of guards who appeared around to protect Ling Xuan.

"Stand back, this is the king's friend." Dispelling the surrounding guards casually, Ling Xuan took off his cloak and put it aside, "Your presence means that all the things I told Ouyang have been completed? "

"Yes, none of the people on the list was spared, don't worry." Yin Tianming sat next to Ling Xuan, "Are you happy?"

"If you're asking about my mood, it's really not bad." Ling Xuan nodded slightly, "However, what about Shao Ziqian, didn't he go with you?"

"He." Yin Tianming waved his hand, "still dealing with the rest of the matter."

"He handles it? Are you sure?" Ling Xuan looked at Yin Tianming suspiciously, Shao Ziqian's IQ can handle these things?

"Don't underestimate him." Yin Tianming smiled inexplicably, "This guy is quite smart."

"That's how it is." Ling Xuan didn't bother to pursue so much, "When will he come back?"

"What's wrong?" Yin Tianming raised his eyebrows and approached Ling Xuan, "Why do you care about that guy so much?"

"There is one more thing for him to do." Ling Xuan pushed Yin Tianming away and said, "I'm going to Chu State, it would be better to take him along."

"Hey, no matter how you look at it, I'm better than him, right? Obviously it's more appropriate to take me to such a dangerous place?" Yin Tianming knocked on the table dissatisfied.

"But you don't look like a good person at first glance. If you take you there, you will be arrested on the first day." Ling Xuan glanced at Yin Tianming and said.

"He looks better than me?" Yin Tianming pointed at his handsome face, "Look, he's so kind."

"I only saw evil spirits." Ling Xuan pushed Yin Tianming out expressionlessly, "Prepare a guest room for this guy. I want to rest. I'll talk about everything when I wake up tomorrow."

Seeing Ling Xuan's slightly displeased eyes, Yin Tianming swallowed his words back, "Okay, you should have a good rest."