"Mr. Taifu, what I said is impolite?"
King Qi raised his smiling eyes, gave him a light look, and then said, "I know that Lord Taifu is loyal to the emperor, but it's not a woman who can participate in the discussion of state affairs at will. I believe Lord Taifu agrees with me."
"This..."
Xu Taifu laughed awkwardly to cover his mouth. In his heart, he secretly spurned his drunken aphasia, but his face showed a flattering smile. "King Qi, this... Old minister, really shouldn't say more to question the will of the emperor. Bah, bah, you should think that the old minister has drunk too much, and is drunk and confused, and says some bastard words. King Qi, you go in your left ear and out your right ear as if you didn't hear anything. "
Then he raised the wine pot and wanted to pour a glass of grape wine for Qi Wang Yanqi to show his gratitude.
Yan Qi didn't stop Xu Taifu from pouring wine for himself. She was not smiling, and her eyes were a little cold. "I didn't mean it either. I just came to Taifu's house by chance, chatted with Taifu at random, poured bitter water on each other... Taifu, don't be too nervous."
"Natural, natural!"
Xu Taifu and Qi wangyanqi hold their glasses high. They don't say much, but they have reached the bottom of their hearts.
The wind blows, the clouds build up, and the weather gets colder.
Tengge palace.
"Ah Choo"
"Ah Choo, ah Choo --"
After sneezing several times, he was wrapped in a thick fur coat and sat by the charcoal fire to bake his hands. Tao Su sniffed, "who's scolding me behind my back? I can't stop sneezing! "
As soon as the words fell, the door was pushed open, blocking a cold and piercing wind.
"Come on, close the door. I'm freezing to death."
Tao Su rubbed for a long time, but he didn't get warm. His slightly stiff hands sighed to himself, "don't you want to catch a cold? Damn it! I can't bear the endless sin of being sick in this weather! "
Close the door again, Su Yan carries the letter in his hand, with a happy smile on his face, rushes to the sleepy Tao Susu, "Madam..."
"Ah?"
Tao Su Su's dizzy head, subconsciously answered.
"Ma'am, a letter is coming!"
Su Yan's crisp voice, like falling beads, startled the sleepy insects in Tao Su Su's ears. She stood up and asked expectantly, "did you come back from the border? Is it your letter
"It should be!"
I don't know how many big characters, Su Yan also subconsciously thinks it is, so he says.
"Give it to me, quick!"
He reached for the letter and opened it. Tao Su was ready to read the contents of the letter. "What, it's not your Majesty's word at all!"
"Isn't it? The person who can deliver the letter says that it is urgent to deliver it to your wife in person. " Su Yan mentions this stubble, just suddenly way, "madam, that Messenger, still waiting for reply outside!"
Hearing this, Tao Su frowned slightly and looked at the contents of the letter carefully.
After touching a pillar of incense, she slowly put down her arm holding the letter with a heavy expression, and a layer of fog appeared in her apricot eyes.
Su Yan saw that her face was gloomy, and she couldn't help being anxious, "madam, what's the matter with you? What does the letter say? Why are you crying? Don't scare Yaner, madam. You have something to say! "
Tao Susu's chest seemed to be under the pressure of ten thousand layers of high mountains. Her breath was thick and heavy. She waved her hand to indicate that she was quiet.
After a while, I sorted out my mood, and then I got up.
"Meet the messenger."
"Yes
One before the other, they went to the hall of tengge palace.
I saw a father-in-law sitting on a wooden chair drinking tea and waiting. When he saw Tao Su Su, he put down his tea cup and saluted, "I've seen Mrs. Ruyi!"
"No gift!"
Tao Susu looked at him for several times, then he wanted to speak, and then he choked back. He only said faintly, "letter, this palace has been reviewed, you should go back to recover your life! My palace, do your best
"Yes, I understand!"
My father-in-law saluted again, and then he left tengge palace and went back to resume his life.
After dismissing the waiters and maids around, Tao Susu sat down on the wooden chair rather feebly, covered her cheeks with her hands, first sobbed silently, then sobbed softly, until finally she could no longer control her emotions and cried out.
I don't know what happened. Su Yan can only accompany her anxiously, and dare not speak more. She can only tap Tao Su Su's back to comfort her.The next day, the clouds became thicker and black, hovering on the top of the imperial city.
After all the ministers kowtowed, the early Dynasty officially began.
Xu Taifu and Qi Wang also expressed their views on the follow-up of the southern snow disaster. Tao Su was in a trance until he was awakened.
"Mrs. Zuo, Mrs. Ruyi..."
Hearing someone calling her, Tao Su looked at Xu Taifu in confusion, "what's the matter?"
For her casual appearance, Xu Taifu subconsciously slightly frowned and repeated, "the snow disaster in the South has now been dealt with half, and all the ministers think that they should continue to provide assistance. Now I'm asking Mrs. Zuo what do you mean?"
"Just discuss it with you."
Tao Su was thinking about other things, but he didn't hear what they had discussed. He just replied casually.
"Since Mrs. Zuo has no objection, it's so decided!" Xu Taifu said to the low officials, "do you have anything else to tell them? If nothing else, let's call it a day. "
All the ministers said, "I have nothing to do with you."
Just when Xu Taifu wanted to announce the end of the early Dynasty, Tao Susu, who had never opened his mouth, suddenly stood up and said, "something's wrong with this palace!"
"Er..."
Xu Taifu looked at her in surprise, and then looked at king Qi, who was the head of all the ministers. He saw that his face was light and windy, and his heart was tight. An ominous premonition rushed to his head.
He said to Tao Su, "Mrs. Zuo, please speak!"
"Yesterday, our palace received a military secret letter from the front line, one of which was extremely urgent and needed to be raised by our palace in the morning."
Xu Taifu asked, "Oh? What's the matter? "
Tao Susu glanced at king Qi and said, "as the letter says, there is a shortage of grain and grass in the front army. It needs to be transported as soon as possible to avoid delaying the war."
"This..."
Xu Taifu hesitated.
Because of his hesitation, king Qi opened the gate, stepped forward and walked out of the ranks of ministers, "Mrs. Zuo said that this matter, at this critical moment, is a major event. Lord Taifu, is there a message from the Lord to you? Do you know about the shortage of food and grass? "
"This..."
After thinking for a long time, Xu Taifu finally decided to tell the truth, "I don't know! In recent days, I have never received any more letters from the emperor. I have not received any information about the war situation on the front line or about food and grass. "
As soon as his words were finished, Tao Su was also surprised, and asked, "do you know that, Taifu?"
"I dare not lie!"
Xu Taifu replied politely, bowing himself. His appearance, tone and expression didn't seem to be lying.
If so, either he didn't receive the secret letter from the front line, or the old fox became an elite, so that people can't tell the truth.
"That's interesting!"
Qi Wang Yanqi walked back and forth two steps with one hand, stood still again, and said with a smile, "first of all, because of the snow disaster in the south, half of the National Treasury has gone, and Mrs. Zuo said that there is a shortage of food and grass in the front line, so we have to go half again for the urgent transportation of food and grass. In this way, the National Treasury is empty, and I'm afraid it can't survive the winter. "