"Retreat the court--"

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Bianliang, the imperial city.

"I heard yesterday that the Admiral of the East Factory is coming back today..."

"What! Lord Wang is going to prepare to go to the city gate to greet him?"

"If there is no place... I, the literati, are also bone-like, how can I bow down?"

The morning sunlight dragged the shadows of people on the ground, and the officials who had withdrawn from the hall were preparing to return home, or go to the office to inspect. Their figures stepped on the shaking reflections and walked towards Xihuamen step by step. On the way, they whispered and said something.

.....

At the north gate, the city wall that lasted half a month was still being repaired, carrying loads and transported vehicles, and the workers were busy sweating profusely in the morning. The originally closed city gate slowly opened, and a group of people and horses came over in front with fierce flags.

An official named Qin Hui stood at the city gate and lowered his eyes. Then, the sound of the wheels pressing over the bricks and stones stopped beside him, so he bowed and retreated to the side. With his lowered eyes, the horse's hooves slowly entered his sight, and he could even feel the strong smell exhaled from the horse's mouth in front of him.

"The Lord of the Supervisor asked you to get on the car."

"yes."

Qin Hui bowed again, walked around the black-robed eunuch riding a horse, moved to the frame, stepped on the stool and got on the chariot, opened the door, and then walked in and knelt down to the opposite side.

"Everyone thinks that this is the governor of the East Factory, but the eunuchs are in power and are quite embarrassing to welcome them with courtesy. Why, Huizhi comes here alone, aren't he afraid that his colleagues will chew your tongue behind your back?"

When the silver knife cuts the small petals of melon and fruit, and when it is placed between the lips, Bai Ning looks at the middle-aged man sitting upright opposite him with expressionless face.

Then chew and soak the juice on the lips.

"......that is the world's shallow people, and they don't understand what the Dongchang did. I can greet the admiral at the city gate, just to congratulate the heroes." Qin Hui, who was sitting in the collar, had a calm tone, but the subtle tremor could not escape Bai Ning's gaze. After all, he was a martial arts body, his facial features were sharp, and the subtle differences were easy to distinguish.

Bai Ning threw the knife to the short table and leaned against the cushion. "Our family doesn't want to go around in circles, nor do they like you scholars. I just say, since you are willing to stand in a row, it's great, you are the first civil servant to stand here. In the court, don't look at those people being timid with this governor, you're afraid there's no one to be convinced. After all, our family can't put the knife on their necks all the time. It's still up to consciousness to do things."

"Yes, I thought that the Admiral should still put it first in subdue a group of literati. After all, it depends on their management of the place..." The figure on the opposite side was very casual, but Qin Hui did not dare to act rashly, and he was cautious in his words and actions.

On the cushion, Bai Ning leaned against her side as coldly as a poisonous snake, staring at the middle-aged man who was making suggestions... As he spoke, the bumpy carriage gradually stopped. Bai Ning interrupted the other party's continued topic, "Go to the palace, go down." Then he stood up and reached out to pat Qin Hui's back.

The weak body, who was about to get off the car, couldn't help but stagger, and almost fell down when it landed. In his sight, there were red and white palace walls around him, extending in all directions like a maze. Behind him, Bai Ning had already passed him, and walked forward with his hands in his arms, and hundreds of Dongchangmen on both sides broke their swords and opened the way.

"When you get to the palace, you must have the rules in the palace, and our family is no exception, so you don't sit in the carriage. Don't mind if you know it." The figure walking in front mentioned.

Behind, Qin Hui's figure followed half a step and bowed: "How dare you know this?"

"Although you have been in the Censorate for a short time, our family thinks you are not bad." Bai Ning stretched out his finger and shook it in the air. "Last month, I seemed to have killed a Censor Chief. You go and make up for it and take office tomorrow."

Qin Hui was stunned for a moment, and his steps immediately followed again, and he had not spoken yet. In front, Bai Ning's fingers were bent in the air, rolled in the palm of his hand and clenched into a fist, aggravating his voice: "But, I want to remind you that since you can thrust you up, you can kick you down with one kick, and even lose your life. So... After taking office, you must think twice before doing things, and don't waste our hard work."

"Meet it, understand."

"It's good if you promise."

The palace wall slowly moved backwards in his sight, and finally the outline of the Chugong Hall was revealed in his sight. Qin Hui said goodbye to Bai Ning here. Going backwards was about to enter the harem, and he could not continue walking forward.

The figures of a single figure were separated. Bai Ning crossed the arch and went to Cining Palace. When he walked on the small gravel path linked to the eaves, he heard the child's laughter. Then he went over and passed through the bridge. In the pavilion near the flowerbed in front of Cining Palace, Zhao Yi's small figure rode on a small yellow gate, excitedly riding as a horse. There were several small palace maids next to him clapping their hands to cheer for the little emperor.

The Empress Dowager Zheng Wan was sitting in the pavilion listening to the musician's zither sound, frowned and wondering what she was thinking. Soon, when the palace maid saw Bai Ning coming, she quickly whispered in her ear.

His frown brows spread out and his eyes looked over.

"The Queen Mother is so elegant."

The black pavilion stepped on the stone steps of the pavilion. Bai Ning's figure had already arrived at the pavilion and bowed to the woman, "I have seen the Queen Mother."

"Admiral, no gift." Zheng Wan showed an unnatural smile on her pretty face, stood up slightly, and raised her arms a little.

But afterwards, Bai Ning did not look at the other party, but looked at the little eunuch who was riding on a horse, the little emperor on his back, and the several palace maids who clapped and laughed. The people he was watching were so scared that they could not speak anything, and stood there tremblingly.

"Is it fun?" Bai Ning's voice was very calm, and she walked over and squatted in front of the confused little emperor, and said this.

He touched the other person's little head with his hand, and a cold voice came back: "We have only been away for half a month. It seems that you are having a happy life. Is this how the emperor taught?"

"Pull down, each person has twenty big boards, it's really a real fight." The eunuch of the East Factory who was powerful in court picked up Zhao Yi from the ground and gave a soft command. Several guards next to him came up and took the palace maids and eunuchs away one by one.

"Ah... dad..." The little emperor who couldn't speak lay on Bai Ning's shoulder in fear. Looking at his mother, his little hand reached over to hug him, but the woman over there didn't dare to speak, just grabbed the handkerchief tightly.

When he walked up to the stone steps with the child in his arms, Bai Ning pulled the child straight, and a smile appeared on his cold face, "Your Majesty, what's the fun with those little eunuchs? Come on, uncle will take you to see how to kill people."

"Ahhh... Uh?"

Looking at the person who was teasing him, Zhao Yi seemed to know something. He pointed outside, probably thinking that the person who was holding him wanted to take him out for fun, and he clapped his little palm with joy.

"Okay... Uncle will take you out to play now. Let's see how a big man named Qiong Yao was killed."

Bai Ning hugged the little emperor and glanced at the woman over there, and said lightly: "Empress Dowager, I'm leaving."

The woman bit her lip, then smiled reluctantly and nodded.
Chapter completed!