"It's okay to go and have a look..." The curtain on Zhu Qiwen's side automatically moved without wind. The old man in gray robe gradually retreated with the raised tassels. Only Zhu Qiwen was left in the entire Weiyang Palace. Inside the palace, there was silence. , a quiet candlelight hit Zhu Qiwen, who narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Father..." Zhu Qiwen slowly raised his hand, as if to grasp something void, but he squeezed it out of thin air, and what was left in the center of his palm was only nothingness.
"My daughter doesn't know if I can truly restore your glory at that time, and I don't know if I can continue your glory. But my daughter promises you, father, that the Great Xia Dynasty will not fall into my hands!"
Zhu Qiwen's feminine eyes were filled with tears, and a bead moved slightly on the bead curtain behind him, but Zhu Qiwen, who was already immersed in his own state of mind, didn't care at all, and the bead just slowly bumped into one It was just silk, and then there was no more swing.
In a mansion five miles away from Weiyang Palace, the main door of the mansion clearly read "Supervise Si Wu Mansion". The housekeeper opened a crack in the door and looked outside quickly, then immediately closed the heavy wooden door. He pressed the wooden latch, which weighed sixty kilograms, against the door panel and pushed it a few times before he felt relieved.
"Have you looked at the situation outside the door? Is there anything unusual?"
A middle-aged man wearing a loose nightgown asked the housekeeper. The latter kept his voice as low as possible, as if he was afraid that what he said inadvertently might be heard by others, even louder than the occasional wind noise around him. Be weak.
"Sir Wu, there is no suspicious person outside the door, you can rest assured!"
The person who was replaced as Mr. Wu was the owner of this mansion, and he was also a well-known fool in the court. He was ranked second in the third year of Yuan Jing, which was just three years after Zhu Qiwen's father succeeded to the throne. In that year, the imperial examination of the entire dynasty The third place, his literary talent is indeed difficult to match. He is also one of the few veterans who has not been led underground by Zhu Qiwen.
As for the reason, everyone in the court knows that it is because of this Wu De, although he has a belly full of ink, but it seems that there is only ink. In terms of merit or not, in terms of being a person or not, what else can you say besides these? There are even less other things. Wu De is not as "virtuous" as his name suggests, but has no virtue at all.
He kept talking about benefiting the people and benefiting the dawn, but his intentions were indeed very good. The late emperor also wanted to reuse him, but Wu De, who only had the ability to talk and write, was particularly capable of leading by example. In a county government When working, His Highness's staff were even allowed to have meals with ordinary people, and all their salaries were given to the people under the jurisdiction of the county government.
But even though he was so considerate of the people, he still couldn't save lives and still couldn't solve practical problems. It wasn't that Wu De couldn't grasp the key points, but that there were too many key points. Almost everyone who followed him never had a good life. , of course, I never got any good returns.
Moreover, Wu De was in the court, and because of his bad mouth, he constantly made his own enemies. Therefore, Wu De in this state was hidden in the snow. He was third in the imperial examination and third in the country. people! He almost killed hundreds of thousands of candidates, but in the early years, he lived in poverty and wore tattered and patched clothes for four seasons. Until a few years ago, the late emperor thought that he was really pitiful, and that he had a Sincerity, at least it will be used by the late emperor.
In addition, people's brains are devoted to studying. They were given a mansion to live in and arranged a marriage. Now they can be considered as having a family. However, two years ago, because of interrogating King Zhu Houyi in the court, They had a big quarrel, but in front of the late emperor.
Although the late emperor thought that Wu De had always been diligent and diligent, and although Wu De could not do anything useful for officials to benefit the people, as a person who specializes in writing, and he has this abnormality Justice has never changed in his heart, so the late emperor simply transferred him to the Yamen that specializes in supervising and compiling household registration.
There is no need to communicate with others at ordinary times, so naturally there will be no mistakes. In the court, the atmosphere will not be very embarrassing. After all, when literati curse people, it is really a general who can quote the classics without using any curse words. The eighteen generations of ancestors scolded him severely.
But this time, Wu De never thought that King Xun Zhu Houyi would come to his door. He was obsessed with helping his former enemy, and even avenged King Xun who had suppressed him many times to help him hide his body. , and invited those three people back one by one to the underground library where he usually stacked classics.
At this time, although Wu De was affirmed by the housekeeper, he was still uneasy. He leaned on the door and listened carefully to the movement outside, but there was indeed no sound.
"Mr. Wu, there is indeed no one left. The Royal Forest Army came this morning, and the Jin Yiwei just came again. Our mansion has been searched. They will definitely believe Mr. Wu! Mr. Wu usually..."
The butler stopped talking in the middle of his words. After all, he also knew that what he was talking about was Wu De's shortcomings. First, he couldn't speak, second, he couldn't do things, and third, he didn't know how to behave. After all these years, he was alone in the Supervision Department. One person has many faces and many scrolls.
Wu De usually has nothing else to do except rewriting, checking, and editing. He feels quite happy to go home early to accompany his wife and daughter, so Wu De's presence is above that of the court. The name is getting lower and lower day by day. Until now, it seems that not many people know the name Wu De. Even if they have heard of it, they must feel that someone who is so alienated from the crowd will naturally not have anything to do with King Xun.
But things in the world are so unpredictable. Wu De met King Xun and helped him hide in his mansion, avoiding being hunted again and again.
In fact, how could Wu De not understand what his housekeeper said, but his ordinary character...
"I understand! Lao Ma, we have been in a relationship for so many years. I understand you, but this is the first time I have done such an illegal and permissive thing. I can't bear the pressure in my heart!"
The steward, who was called Lao Ma, responded slowly: "Master Wu, you must remember what King Xun said when you kept it, and your own sincerity!"
Butler Ma looked towards a small wing in the distance, then turned back and sighed.
