Chapter 253: Palace and Court

The Emperor, however, wrapped her in a hug and clasped her to his chest.

Then with both hands behind her back, he rolled his sleeves up on each other and said, “What are you going to make for me to eat? I’ll come and help too.”

Zhao Su was caught off guard by the scent of his body and said after a pause, “Can you make ramen?”

The emperor’s hand paused, “No.”

“Then sit down. Keep an eye on the fire in the stove for me.”

She ate the apricots in three batches and then pointed to the small bench next to her.

Only then did the Emperor see the soup on the stove and walked over to wave the steam wafting out, “It smells good.”

“It’s sea cucumber. It’s been a long time since I made seafood. After making this meal today, I don’t know when I’ll be able to make it for you to eat.”

The emperor sat down on the bench and looked at her who was kneading with her back facing this way, “Even though you can’t work as an officer in the Forbidden Guards Department, you can still go to the palace, and no one is saying that you can’t see each other during the period of waiting to be married.”

Zhao Su said, “Then it’s also better to wait for the cabinet side to die down. It’s not necessary to go arching fire at this juncture.”

The Emperor looked at her with his cheeks out for a while and reached out to tug on her sleeve.

Zhao Su twisted her head.

He said, “Did you not come into the palace for a few days because of this?”

“Not at all.”

The emperor smiled.

Zhao Su paused and put the dough on the counter. Turning back around, she said, “Those guys who said I behaved badly and didn’t deserve to be the Empress, did they hold a bellyful of bad water long ago?”

Seriously, she couldn’t hold it in. Those sour showmen, day after day to create public opinion, in order to let the world recall her nature is how naughty and bad, even the things she did from childhood to adulthood all turned out, including her three years old to the other people’s flower pots poured this kind of thing, this capital originally has many original master’s enemies, and her cross over the beams of the enemy, have this opportunity, will not fall on the well? In this way, a lot of fabricated things also came out, listening to people really fire!

The emperor convergence color, hold up her hand: “Let you suffer.”

“It’s none of your business.” Zhao Su sat down next to him, frustrated: “They would have looked at my eyes, this time but also just happened to catch an opportunity.”

The emperor raised his lips, “It’s not that simple. Compared to striking you, they probably want to oppose me more.”

“You?”

The emperor withdrew his hand, looking at the underground sun shadow: “From the time when he became the crown prince. Or – and earlier.”

Zhao Su flinched: “What’s going on? Hasn’t Da Liang always been peaceful?”

“Remember when I told you that I was in danger in the paddock ten years ago?”

Zhao Su nodded. How could this not be remembered? The old man he spoke of who was suspected to have crossed over was still unaccounted for. And this person, too, had become a knot in Zhao Su’s heart.

“That time when I was in danger, I actually suspect that it wasn’t an accident.”

“……”

Zhao Su involuntarily straightened his body.

The emperor’s original calm color, at this moment also slightly heavy. “At that time, although I was not the crown prince, in the case of the late emperor only three imperial sons, I and my second brother are actually also have forbidden guards closely guarded. Because I am the youngest, and even big brother is not assured that I, from time to time to personally test the ability of the guards. But that day, I managed to avoid the guards, and no one was looking for me for several hours after the accident.”

When Zhao Su heard about this incident, his mind was fully focused on the old man who was suspected to have crossed over, and he did not think deeply about other things. At this time, he didn’t know how to answer.

“Although I sneak out of the palace in order to avoid obstruction, is indeed spent some thought, and I have full confidence in their own means, but even so, I disappeared for half a day no one came out to pursue, and then think about it, there are still some puzzles.”

“You went back and did not ask?”

“At that time, I was young, I do not know the danger, and because I took Yanping out with me, worried about the mother blamed, and because there is no danger, so I did not say.”

“Then you did not ask the guards what happened?”

The emperor saw here eyes on her: “The guards said, they all thought I was in the palace, and no one found me out.”

This is really a dead end.

The young emperor wanted to run out to play, can get out of the door, must be a lot of effort.

Since the effort, with his talent, then the guards really did not find, is also possible.

Zhao Su silent for a while: “How did you find out later?”

The emperor’s eyes deep, the skin of the remaining apricot peeled, handed her: “is later on the big brother went to the northwest, came back to decide to easy reserves, and we thought the peace of the court, suddenly emerged a group of people yelling not allowed.

“See originally is our own thing, the result of a group of people outside their family name to fight red, I realized that the original founding of the emperor to calm down only the national chaos only, the court struggle, is no matter when there is.

“Temporary peace, but because their own interests have not been damaged.

“In fact, every dynasty was pushed up to the new king, where is not the result of the forces of all sides after the calculation? The emperor above the dragon chair, can never really do a word nine Ding, he can only try and try again, with strategy to balance the parties, to defend the regime.

“So I became suspicious, of course, so far it’s just suspicion.””

A more obvious solemn look than usual surfaced on the Emperor’s face, his tone was decisively certain, and his apprehension was present.

Zhao Su said, “But you are also a direct descendant of the late emperor and the empress dowager, both from the same parents, and you are not weak, does it make that much of a difference who you set up?””

The emperor was slightly concerned, “This is only on the surface. In reality, what they objected to was the violation of the ancestral system, which allowed the establishment of the younger but not the elder. With the Empress leading the various ministries to create the new dynasty, and our three brothers being carefully taught by the two of them, there is no one who is unworthy of this seat.

“Do you think they really care who this throne falls to? What they actually care about is that the world is getting more and more off track in the hands of the Empress and Empress, becoming uncontrollable.”

Said here he looked at Zhao Su: “This force can not be underestimated, of course they will not plot against, but do not pay attention to but will gradually form a dark current, and so into the climate, the country will be over. And this influence, you should be able to guess, is exactly the same as your origin of my mother brought.

“Originally, like every founding emperor in the past, the late emperor pacified the chaos, settled the country, formed a new court, and set up the major government offices along the former system, all of which were very much in line with the system of etiquette. The empress dowager in the process of pacifying the chaos and settling the country although there are some provocative acts of etiquette, that year in the matter of the establishment of the Crown Prince still follow the principle of the establishment of the first and the eldest, but also be ignored in the past.

“These twenty years, she did not rush to subvert the world, but chose the subtle way. She also didn’t tell us about this, it was only after knowing where you came from that it took me a long time to sort out her intentions.”