After the palace feast, everything is not over.

According to the ancestral system, the emperor should take the queen to worship the ancestors after the palace banquet, and then keep the New Year's night.

Because Yuanzhi was young and did not have a queen, Su Youyi had to work for him and go to Baohua Hall with Yuanzhi to burn incense and worship.

The mother and son seemed to have a tacit understanding, and no one mentioned anything about the banquet in the palace.

When kneeling on the futon and chanting, Su Youyi couldn't help but yawn.

Yuan Zhi heard the movement and opened his eyes, "The queen mother used to be a Chinese New Year's Eve was not a year, and when she became an empress and a queen mother, she had to keep it year after year. ”

Su Youyi was a little embarrassed and smiled: "Isn't it?" Your queen mother is the laziest of all. But in this position, many things are involuntary. In the past, I always felt that I was uninhibited by nature, and I didn't have to keep what others wanted to keep. But when I got to this position myself, I found that I was willing to keep it. ”

"Willing to keep?"

"yes."

Su Youyi looked around, and the incense ash in Dingzhong was almost burned, so she slowly got up.

Yuanzhi got up to help her, and the two walked towards the outside of the hall, Chunhua was about to help her get on the sedan chair, Su Youyi said: "No need, I have to keep a night of keeping the New Year tonight." I walked with the emperor, so I could wake up, what does the emperor think? ”

"Okay."

Yuanzhi also felt that keeping the New Year was boring, "Let's walk back to the Qianqing Palace from here, walk slowly, we can kill half an hour." ”

Su Youyi smiled and nodded, and the two walked in front, followed by a large number of honor guards.

Su Youyi said slowly: "I'll tell you a story." ”

Motoji looked at her with wide eyes curious.

Su Youyi's stories have always been beautiful and warn the world, of course he is willing to listen.

"Once upon a time, there was a local guard, and when he went out to observe the people's feelings, he was accidentally hit by a bamboo pole by a person drying clothes."

"The people went to pay for it, only to know that this person was too guarded. Taishou had an uninhibited temperament, and wanted to teach this people a lesson, so he asked people to take him back to the official office. The people shouted that they were wronged, and they ignored it. ”

Later, the people were imprisoned in the government for three days, and the Taishou did not pay attention to him for three days. It was not until the last day that he remembered this man, ordered him to be released, and gave him ten taels of silver, and told him to be careful in drying his clothes in the future, and that if he hit the old man and the child, something might happen to him. ”

Su Youyi said, glancing at Yuan Zhi's expression, "The people are naturally happy." But after being imprisoned for three days, he could get ten taels of silver, so he went home with the money to find his wife. ”

"What's this story?"

Yuanzhi felt a little bored, being hit by a bamboo pole to dry clothes for such a trivial matter, this is too shou barely considered to be close to the people and generous, but it is nothing.

Su Youyi said: "What's the hurry, I haven't finished talking yet." ”

"The people went home with the money, only to find that there was a coffin in their house. It turned out that his wife thought that he had been executed by Taishou, so she wanted to hang herself by hanging herself. He also remembered that there was a one-year-old child at home who had no one to take care of him, so he simply strangled the child to death. When the people saw the bodies of their wives and children, they wept aloud. ”

"And then?"

Motoji was shocked when he heard it, but he hoped that this story was not over.

Unexpectedly, Su Youyi spread her hands, "No more, the story is over." ”

Yuan Zhi was not happy when he heard it, why did Su Youyi tell him such a miserable story during the Chinese New Year?

"How can there be none?"

Motoji pestered her, even if she made up an ending, "It's too miserable." It's just that if you accidentally touched a Taishou with a bamboo pole, you will ruin your family, is there any reason for this? ”

Su Youyi pretended to be calm, "Who caused his family to be ruined?" Is it too shou? Taishou didn't have any malicious intent, he just wanted to punish him a little, and gave him ten taels of silver. ”

Yuan Zhi frowned, "But if he hadn't detained that person for three days, his wife wouldn't have been so desperate that she hanged herself." ”

"Then what do you say should be done with this Taishou?"

Yuanzhi was speechless for a while.

From his point of view, the wives and children of this common man were killed by Taishou, but this Taishou was not intentional......

The blame is that there is no good communication between the two sides, and if the wives of the people know that their husbands are fine, they will not seek death.

Su Youyi saw that his face was complicated, and she knew that her intention had been achieved, "Yuanzhi, just a Taishou, a small move may cause the people's families to be ruined." And you and I are in the highest position in the world, how dare you not be cautious? ”

Yuan Zhi said: "This is what the queen mother said, are you willing to keep it?" ”

No matter how uninhibited a person is, when he reaches this position, he has to take care of his influence on the people, and he can't do it at will.

Yuanzhi understood, and sighed again, "A small move without malice may ruin the people's families, so if you have malicious intentions...... Just like the previous Northwest disaster relief. ”

Who he was talking about, the two knew each other.

Su Youyi accompanied him and continued to walk forward, and said slowly: "Yuanzhi, now is the time when we are hit on the head by a bamboo pole, we must be very careful." If one measure is wrong and the court is unstable, it may affect many people. We can only tremble and walk on thin ice. ”

Yuanzhi opened his mouth, and some wanted to ask her what to do next, what should Su Qing do about the confusion of the officials, and who will inherit the position of the head and assistant of the cabinet?

I thought about whether tonight was Chinese New Year's Eve, or it was better not to talk about these.

Su Youyi didn't take the initiative to talk.

The mother and son walked forward quietly, and when they arrived at the Qianqing Palace, Yuan Zhi said: "It's better to go to the Kunning Palace of the Queen Mother to keep the New Year, if the Queen Mother is tired, you can also take a rest." ”

Su Youyi just smiled at him, and the eunuchs in front of him said again, heading towards Kunning Palace.

The night was already dark.

The palace is brightly lit everywhere, and everyone lights up the lamps in the house to keep the New Year, hoping that everything will go well in the coming year and that the whole family will be harmonious.

A chessboard was set up in Kunning Palace, and Su Youyi and Yuanzhi sat down on the chessboard, and the two of them relieved their boredom.

Nameless sat on the top of the main hall, letting the wind howl, he held a pot of warm wine in his arms, and listened carefully from time to time, and could hear the sound of Su Youyi and Yuan Zhi's falling chess pieces.

The palace is full of dazzling red lanterns, and when the wind blows, the light and shadow sway.

In the apse of Kunning Palace, in the neat and spacious room, someone yawned.

"Brother, I want to sleep, the Queen Mother will probably not be summoned tonight."

"Don't sleep."

Song Rubai sat under the lamp, and gently unfolded a small note in his sleeve, this was when the palace banquet was held, Su Qing's attendants secretly ordered someone to pass it to the harem.

He read the note and burned it on the candle.

When Song Rumo saw it, most of the note had already been burned, and his yawning immediately stopped, "Brother, what is this?" ”