"Huaiyu."
In a daze, the empress walked quietly to Lu Chen's side.
"Are you OK?"
A slightly concerned voice sounded in his ears, and Lu Chen, who was originally hopeless, suddenly came back to his senses.
He turned back with a mask of pain, then twitched the corners of his mouth, forcing out a smile that was uglier than crying.
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I will not die yet."
fine?
Nima, do you want to experience two roller coaster-like ups and downs in succession? !
Before, he openly sided with the Empress, fought tooth and nail to offend the Empress Dowager Zhao, suffered a lot in the court, was so overpowered by Ling Tianfeng that his whole body seemed to fall apart, and couldn't get out of bed for a long time, just to offend the Empress Dowager Zhao in order to be removed.
The eunuch who was waiting to announce that he was dismissed from office and exiled thousands of miles suddenly came from the Holy King of Cangming. Before he could react, the Empress Dowager Zhao fell. The edict of dismissal from office that he had dreamed of was aborted. .
The eunuch who announced the decree did not wait, but a young Xuanwu Guard general who kindly asked him to take leave and not go to court.
The first opportunity to become an immortal was so inexplicably gone. He was so angry that he lay there for a long time.
Then when the Holy King of Cangming showed his ambition to covet the throne, he, like most people, really couldn't imagine the possibility of the Holy King's failure. After all, the Holy King was too powerful, so powerful that it almost made people despair. There is no weakness.
So he stood up again and firmly supported the empress. He looked like he was ready to die. This was also to offend the people in power so that he could be dismissed from office as a matter of course.
As a result...this stupid holy king is actually a die-hard loyal minister of the empress? Is it her biggest reliance on regaining the supreme royal power?
Damn!
This sudden and huge reversal not only caught Li Zheng and others off guard, but also left Lu Chen confused.
Then, he quickly realized that the current situation was extremely bad for him.
The empress is no longer the puppet emperor who can be manipulated by others. After passing through the ultimate power of Saint King Cangming, she will inevitably become the true dragon emperor who controls the world and is the supreme king in the world!
And he, whether it was when Empress Dowager Zhao was in power or when Saint King Cangming pretended to be a powerful minister and took power forcefully, he stood unswervingly by the side of the empress who was not favored by anyone.
What is this called?
This is called "a rare commodity to live in"!
When everyone despised and ignored the empress and avoided her, he was the only one who was loyal to the empress until the end. He can be called a model of loyal minister. In a political sense, this is equivalent to betting everything on a risk that is extremely risky. On the tall empress.
High risk means high reward.
But now, he has staked all his political investments. If it weren't for the existence of that weird system, he would almost lose money.
As long as the empress behaves a little bit, she won't be able to live up to his love of sacrificing life and death.
Naturally, it is impossible to dismiss him from his official position casually like the Empress Dowager Zhao did. On the contrary, it is very likely that he will be reused, and promotion and wealth will be around the corner.
But there are no ifs in the world.
Getting promoted and making a fortune is nothing in front of the Ascending Immortal World.
There are only two ways to be promoted: to be dismissed from office or to die in the line of duty, if it is reasonable and reasonable.
In other words, the condition of being dismissed from office, which could have been easily accomplished, became almost exponentially more difficult after he stood on the wrong team twice in a row.
Not to mention being dismissed from office, if you want to keep your seventh-grade official position, you have to do everything you can to find a justifiable reason to refuse. Otherwise, refusing to be promoted without reason will also violate system restrictions.
If a person is not good, he may be promoted by the empress "with good intentions", and then the system rewards will be immediately cancelled, not even the guaranteed reward of neither promotion nor reduction.
After figuring out the current situation, Lu Chen was about to cry without tears, and almost suffered internal injuries from the anger.
Regarding the Empress who was the culprit of all this, and the Holy King Cangming who had a smile in his eyes, he could not hold back from scolding because he had great self-control. How could he have a good face?
Hearing Lu Chen's obviously emotional words, the empress was stunned.
After she came to her senses, she thought for a moment, and then she didn't know what she thought of, and a flash of understanding quietly flashed through her bright eyes.
"Huaiyu, are you annoyed that I've hidden it from you so far?"
Hearing this, Lu Chen couldn't help but feel moved.
Um? Angry?
Angry emperor?
By the way, no matter how generous a superior is, he will gradually lose patience with his subordinates who are arrogant and pampered...
if it is like this……
Thinking of this, Lu Chen's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he was possessed by the Oscar winner again, and a cold look gradually appeared on his face.
"I don't dare."
Just because you don’t dare, doesn’t mean you won’t.
Jiang Chengwan instantly heard the implication of Lu Chen's words.
"well…"
She sighed helplessly, and then said softly: "I know very well that Huaiyu is loyal and loyal, and I also know that this move is a bit unkind to Huaiyu, but I have no choice but to wrong you for the sake of the overall situation. Don't worry. , I will definitely be honest with you in the future and will never let down your loyalty..."
As an emperor, it is undoubtedly a rare thing to be able to take the initiative to patiently explain to a minister, even vaguely intend to admit his mistake and restore the relationship, and also make a promise.
However, when he heard her say this, the corners of Lu Chen's eyes twitched slightly, and he looked inexplicably unnatural.
God is so loyal!
I beg you to chop my so-called loyalty into pieces and feed it to the dogs!
Moreover, being frank and so on... It can be done in the physical sense, but forget about the rest. I just want to be dismissed from office by you. Do you want your so-called sincerity to be of any use?
Shaking his head, Lu Chen waved his sleeves and turned around without any shame in response to the empress's sincere words.
"Your Majesty, there is no need to explain. The minister is just an insignificant seventh-grade official, and he should not be treated like this by your Majesty."
After a pause, before the empress could speak, he endured the pain in his body, took steps, staggered towards the direction away from Ziji City, and said without looking back: "Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Holy King There must be many follow-up matters to be dealt with, so I won’t disturb you and will take my leave first.”
Hearing this, the empress immediately swallowed back what she originally wanted to say, and just stood there, watching Lu Chen's swaying back gradually farther and farther away in the increasingly strong sunlight.
At this time, Jiang Chengdao suddenly turned his head and winked at the six personal guards standing by.
In just a moment, the six people nodded tacitly, and then quietly moved, disappearing in the blink of an eye, turning into black shadows that quickly flew towards Lu Chen, and finally disappeared around Lu Chen, protecting him silently. The man who was about to become the most favored minister of the dynasty.
After doing this, Jiang Chengdao walked slowly behind the empress.
"This guy doesn't know how talented he is, but he has quite a bad temper."
The empress said nothing and watched Lu Chen leave quietly.
It wasn't until Lu Chen's figure completely disappeared around the corner of the street that she finally looked away.
"That's good, too."
She turned around slowly, glanced at Jiang Chengdao, and then said calmly: "Having a temper, being angry about what happened to him, and not hiding it in front of me, this just shows that he is a person of flesh and blood, not just a human being. The saint and gentleman described in the text."
If Lu Chen were still here and heard these words, he would probably die on the spot.
Damn it, I dare to lose my temper in front of you, the emperor, but you are still not angry?
And you think this is better?
Isn't there all shit in your head?
Is it true that as long as it catches your eye, you just bring your own filter and see whatever you see is good?
Even Jiang Chengdao subconsciously shrugged when he heard this and had no comment.
