Under the night, the carriage slowly drove out from Donghua Gate. The brightly lit Yu Street was still crowded with people. Among the bustling crowds, there were mostly scholars, literati, graceful ladies, shops, and stall vendors. The hawking sounds of hawking incessantly, which made the cool night look a little warmer.

As Zhong Qing recalled the words of the past few days, the voices of the palace maids and the coachman sounded outside: "The princess is the carriage of King Xin."

"I'll go, I'll go down first." Ye Qing was stunned and signaled the carriage to pull the side, then knocked on the rear compartment, signaling Mo Xiaobao, who was sitting behind the carriage to leave.

"Wait a minute." Zhong Qing grabbed Ye Qing's hand, and in the somewhat dark carriage, Zhong Qing signaled Ye Qing to move to the back of the carriage, and then heard the voice of King Xin and came in from outside.

"The Supreme Emperor summoned me to enter the palace immediately. Don't you know about this?" King Xin's voice came into the carriage through the curtain raised by Zhong Qing.

Zhong Qing's other hand was holding Ye Qing's hand, and at this moment, he looked at King Xin in the carriage slowly stopped beside him through the carriage. He shook his head slightly and said, "I have always been with the Empress Dowager, so I don't know."

Ye Qing in the carriage listened to the conversation between Zhong Qing and King Xin while watching his hand held by Zhong Qing, he could clearly feel the fine sweat oozing out of Zhong Qing's palm due to tension, but it was precisely because of this that Zhong Qing unconsciously grabbed his hand more forcefully.

With his backhand, he held Zhong Qing's hand hard. After watching Zhong Qing slowly lowering the curtains, the sound of horses' hooves and wheels sounded outside, Zhong Qing finally let out a long sigh and slowly pulled his hand back from Ye Qing's palm.

"Can you lend me two people you trust in the Imperial City Department?" In the dark carriage, Zhong Qing's tone was still a little nervous.

Ye Qing looked at the bright eyes quietly. From beginning to end, he didn't hear Zhong Qing use even once when talking to Xin Wang, but always called herself in the first person. Xin Wang outside seemed to be used to this, and when talking to Zhong Qing across the carriage, he did not feel even a little dissatisfied.

Seeing Ye Qing just staring at him quietly, Zhong Qing smiled and explained: "The coachman is Fangfei's brother. He will go home to get married in a few days. I can't believe the people in the mansion."

"Fangfei?" Ye Qing said in a vague memory.

"My palace maid." Zhong Qing pointed to the outside of the carriage and said, "Fangfei has been by my side since she was a child, and her brother has followed me... after she arrived at the palace, so after Fangfei told me, I agreed."

Ye Qing nodded silently, looked back at the back of the carriage, thought for a while and said, "Okay, no problem, I'll send someone to you in a few days."

"Thank you," Zhong Qing said lightly.

Walking off the carriage and standing on the Imperial Street, the brim of the hat was lowered again. After watching Zhong Qing's carriage slowly drive into the alley, Ye Qingcai took Mo Xiaobao to walk home on the crowded Imperial Street.

In the next day, Ye Qing never left home. It was not until Xu Qing and Zhao Qier brought the others back to Lin'an City that Ye Qing felt relieved.

The court had no intention of welcoming Ye Qing, the envoy, to return to Lin'an, so Ye Qing was so happy to stay at home that he was bored, instead of running out of the city to meet with Xu Qing and others, and then pretending to go into the city again.

Although Bai Chun and Yan Qingcheng didn't care about Ye Qing's actions, You'er and Jinse were a little angry when the court ignored Ye Qing's actions.

After all, when the current right prime minister Wei Qi returned from his mission to the Jin Kingdom, the entire Lin'an City was deserted, and even the current emperors all went out of the palace to welcome him.

Now that my master has made such great contributions to the Jin Kingdom, he has returned silently, from the royal family to the court officials, he is even reluctant to act like a person.

During the day, You'er and Jinse ran to Ye Qing's study for many times. Every time, the two of them pouted and looked unhappy, as if they were injustice from the court.

Bai Chun and Yan Qingcheng have also come here a few times, but the two women seem much more generous than Jinse and You'er. Especially after marrying Ye Qing, the two women's hearts are much more important than the rewards from the court.

So seeing the indifferent court treating his husband so unfairly, although the two women had complaints in their hearts, seeing Ye Qing not caring, with a relaxed look on his face, and interested in joking with them, the worries in their hearts faded a lot.

Seeing Bai Chun walking into the study again with tea, Ye Qing smiled and put a secret letter on the table. Bai Chun's question rang out in his ears: "Did the court not tell you when to go to court? Qingcheng and You'er had been busy with your Dali Temple Shaoqing's court wardrobe. Speaking of which, this court wardrobe is almost forgotten by us. Before you could wear it, you went to the Jin Kingdom to do so, and I don't know if it's appropriate."

"I will not go to court in three days. The court is polite. I will give me a few days off for a break." Ye Qing said with a smile.

Bai Chun slowly sat down opposite Ye Qing, glanced at the envelope that Ye Qing had installed on the table, nodded silently, and then looked at Ye Qing quietly with gentle eyes.

Since Ye Qing returned to Lin'an, Bai Chun has gone out once, but she has not seen her father Bai Bingzhong, so the matter between her husband and her father who are pressing on her heart is like a big stone, which makes her feel a little restless these days.

As if he understood that Bai Chun was worried, Ye Qing put one hand on the table and stroked the envelope, and said lightly: "After going to court, I will go to see Uncle Bai with you. Although I have not gone out these days, my ears are not deaf, and I can hear what is being discussed outside. But after court, everything will be solved."

"It's thankless." Bai Chun frowned and said, "I'm still talking to Qingcheng today. If you made such a great contribution, the court was too lazy to even act. It was obviously because someone was secretly using this matter."

"If you don't ask for merit, you just want to be without mistakes. As long as the court can clearly distinguish between good and bad, right and wrong, it's enough? Besides, now I am a young minister of Dali Temple who is above the fourth rank. If I were rewarded by the court for the contribution of the Jin Dynasty, I would not know what rumors would be criticized by me at that time." Ye Qing explained to Bai Chun with comfort.

But Bai Chun's brows were getting tighter and tighter, because Fan Niande's incident is now in a rampant situation, and there is still some shadow of her father.

Since Bai Bingzhong questioned her last time, he has been avoiding her for several days. Obviously, he doesn't want to have any interaction with Ye Qing before this matter is revealed.

Just as Ye Qing and Bai Chun were sitting in the study and comforting each other, Li Heng was already taken to the door of the royal palace by the carriage from the Prince Xin's Mansion.

Seeing Zhu Xi and Lu Zujian and Lu Zuqian, the two brothers Lu Zuqian greeted him kindly, Li Heng also saluted the three with a smile on his face.

"The prince has been waiting for you in the hall for a long time. The young man is promising." Lu Zujian bowed to Li Heng with a smile on his face.

"You are polite, Master of the Temple. The last general is just a martial artist. How dare you deserve to praise him like this?" Li Heng said modestly.

"General Li is a little too humble." Lu Zujian suddenly lowered his voice and said, "In the past two years, both the Supreme Emperor, the King of Xin, or our ministers, they all took General Li's actions in the Imperial City. To put it bluntly, they are no worse than Ye Shaoqing."

"How dare you? Commander Ye is the last general..." Li Heng's heart moved, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the voice of the King of Xin inside.

Hearing the enthusiastic voice of King Xin, Lu Zujian and others hurriedly saluted Li Heng again, and then said goodbye to Li Heng with a kind smile on his face.

As Li Heng walked into the main hall, he saw King Xin standing in the center of the hall and looking at him with a smile. He looked up and down with his steps and exclaimed: "It turns out that he is a handsome man, and he deserves to be another young talent in the Imperial City Department."

"The last general Li Heng met King Xin." Li Heng bowed seriously.

After King Xin sat down, Li Heng slowly sat down on the chair beside him at King Xin's gesture, and from time to time he looked at the magnificent hall with his eyes.

"Let's just be straightforward. You and Ye Qing were in the Divine Army, and then demoted... and were dispatched to the Imperial Army, and then entered the Imperial City Division together. In the past two years since Ye Qing was on an envoy, the Imperial City Division was obviously better than before under your leadership." King Xin looked at the palace maid putting the teacup in front and behind Li Heng, and then signaled the palace maid to leave before he said slowly.

"All of this is the merit of Commander Ye. If it weren't Commander Ye..." Li Heng said to King Xin modestly.

"Or won't it? Ye Qing has been leaving for nearly two years. Could it be that he can still command the Imperial City Division thousands of miles away? You don't have to be humble. Although in addition to the commander, there are two deputy commanders Lin Guangchao and Guan Li,... Now Lin Guangchao is going to be dispatched to the Shenjin Army, and the vacant deputy commander... I wonder if General Li is interested?" King Xin's eyes were deep, and when he looked at Li Heng, who suddenly became a little uneasy, asked.

"What... what does King Xin mean by this? I am in the Imperial City Office, so I should be serving for my Song Dynasty. As for the promotion, I am now feeling..." Li Heng looked at King Xin, who was full of confidence in his every move in front of him, and his heart was beating wildly.

"You and Ye Qing were dispatched as the Divine Army, both as the Imperial Army, and also in the Imperial City Division. He rose from the imperial guards to the commander of the Imperial City Division, and you... don't you feel any imbalance in your heart? After all, whether in the Imperial Army or the Imperial City Division, your achievements in the past two years are no less than him. Even in the Imperial City Division, you have been in the Imperial City Division for a longer time than he has actually been in the Imperial City Division, right?" King Xin's eyes became gloomy.

"The last general did have more time in the Imperial City Division than Commander Ye, but the contribution of Commander Ye to the Jin Kingdom was enough to prove that Commander Ye was in the Imperial City Division..."

"Otherwise, the court sent him to the Jin Kingdom, but he was sent in the name of the Shaoqing of Dali Temple. Although he has returned to Lin'an, there are some things he has left the Imperial City for nearly two years. I am afraid that Ye Qing will not know much more. Then he will rely on you, right? But General Li doesn't want to..." King Xin pointed up at Kong with his finger.

"But even if the general is appreciated by King Xin, he is still under Commander Ye..."

"General Li makes sense. I will naturally not let you continue to surrender to others this time. However, we must also see if you have such ambition and strength. The deputy commander position can help you easily, but I am afraid that General Li will need to think of some solutions himself."
Chapter completed!