Chapter 192 Killing Intent
A hand with sharp knuckles patted Zhou Yu's head, and then smiled softly: "Did you get into trouble again?"
Zhou Yi, who is 24 years old, has a temperament like jade, with a gentle smile in his eyes. Zhou Yi, who had just entered the court, could still see the dazzling light, but after several years of tempering, he has completely restrained his aura.
Zhou Yu was busy trying to please Zhou Yi's thigh even more tightly: "No, no, I just said a few inappropriate words and was overheard by my mother." "
Your boy, you are very naughty all day long. You've done it so many times, why don't you have a long memory?" Zhou Jia patted Zhou Yu's shoulder.
Zhou Yu pouted: "Second Uncle, you can't say that about me, Second Aunt says I'm very good." "
Hey, I think you probably learned your mouth from your father, and you owe it to me!"
Zhou Yu Hearing this, he frowned, puffed out his chest, put his hands on his hips, and said very solemnly: "Second Uncle, you say I can, but you can't say my father, what's wrong with my father?" "Come on, don't
you Thinking that if you flatter me a few words, I will protect you later, if you really say something wrong, when your mother comes back later, you can admit your mistake yourself, you know." Zhou Yi coldly interrupted Zhou Yu's righteous indignation look.
Zhou Yu, who was still like a bulging ball just now, heard Zhou Yi's words, collapsed immediately, and said dejectedly, "Got it." "Go and play,
your mother is out for a banquet, you go to accompany your younger siblings , I'll come later when I'm done."
Zhou Yu immediately became happy again after hearing this, and nodded hurriedly: "Father, that's a good deal, you must come later!"
Zhou Yi smiled and nodded : "Go."
Zhou Yu jumped and ran away.
Zhou Jia looked at Zhou Yu's cheerful back: "Brother, is the situation really so tense now, do we have to do this?"
Zhou Yi glanced around, "Let's go back to the study."
In the study, after the two brothers sat down, Zhou Yi nodded solemnly: "Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case. You are my most cherished family members, and I must make proper arrangements for you." "Then...how about you walking with us?
" , Big brother, can’t you not be this official, can’t our family not stay in the capital?” Zhou Jia said anxiously.
Zhou Yi sighed: "The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop. You can see that my official position has been promoted step by step in the past few years. The emperor favors me very much, but just half a year ago, the emperor's attitude towards me has gradually changed. If I hadn't dealt with it That's right, maybe the emperor has charged me with some crime now, he won't let me leave the capital safely..."
Zhou Jia was filled with grief and indignation: "Why did he do this, big brother, how much contribution you have made for the court, Without you, would Da Yue be what he is now? How many people in the world are praising you? Can’t these emperors see it?” Zhou Yi snorted coldly, with an indelible ice in his eyes: “It’s because I saw it, that's why he can't tolerate me even more. Now the emperor has been relaxed with me for a while because of his health, but if his condition continues to deteriorate, he will probably do it directly, so I must Send you out." "Brother, let me stay, since you can't leave, then I won't leave either." Zhou Jia stood up and said firmly. Zhou Yi frowned: "Don't talk angry, what can you help me by staying?" " I..." Zhou Jia was speechless, secretly hating himself for being useless. "I can't leave Beijing. My family needs you to take care of me when I go out. Zhou Jia, I will leave my family to you!" Zhou Yi looked at Zhou Jia firmly. Zhou Jia struggled again and again, but finally nodded in agreement. The two brothers held hands together, and at this moment, the voice of the green bamboo outside the study sounded: "Master, the father-in-law in the palace is here, saying that the emperor ordered you to enter the palace." Zhou Yi replied, "Understood." Zhou Jia was nervous Incessantly: "Brother, will the emperor..."
Zhou Yi smiled: "Don't be too nervous, the emperor has a good name, no matter what, he won't do anything in the palace, don't worry, I will come whenever I go.
" The economy is developing more and more rapidly, with Zhou Yi secretly pushing the helm at the helm, making Dayue look different every day, and as the heart of the country, the performance of the capital is even more obvious, because the age of navigation of Dayue has begun, and all parts of the world through Dayue's development. The fleets were connected, and the reputation of this city spread everywhere the Dai Viet fleet set foot. The capital of Dai Viet is not an exaggeration to say that it is a holy city for people from other parts of the world.
Every day there will be a large number of foreign people coming here with the Dai Viet fleet.
When they set foot on the land of Dayue, the huge port alone stunned these people and exclaimed again and again, let alone entering the bustling city of Dayue
... On the driveway, many people recognized Zhou Yi's carriage with respect and admiration in their eyes.
The carriage went all the way to the outside of the palace, Zhou Yi seemed to be leisurely, but in fact he followed the eunuchs all the way to the emperor's bedroom with great vigilance.
The emperor was seriously ill, and the princes and the concubines of the harem stood by, and the second prince even served the decoction himself, acting like a dutiful son.
"Your Majesty, Lord Zhou is here."
"Ahem..." The emperor's heavy cough came from the tightly covered bed curtain.
"Your Majesty, you have to take care of your dragon body!!!" Zhou Yi choked with sobs, and knelt down in front of Emperor Chongzheng's sick bed with a plop.
"No...it doesn't matter", Emperor Chongzheng stretched out a hand from the bed curtain, the hand was covered with black spots, because of the lingering illness, there was only a piece of old skin stretched on the hand, which looked terrifying "Zhou... Zhou Qing, come here, come... beside me." Emperor Chongzheng seemed to have spent a lot of effort in saying this, and paused several times in the middle.
The concubines and princes looked at Emperor Chongzheng's hand and trembled subconsciously, but they didn't dare to make any disgusting gestures.
Zhou Yi, however, didn't seem to see the skeleton-like hand. He took a few steps on his knees and grabbed the hand of Emperor Chongzheng: "Your Majesty, what do you want to tell me? I will do my best, and I only ask you to do my best." Take care of the dragon body, my minister, my minister..." At the back, Zhou Yi was speechless and could only choke on his shoulders.
"Zhou Yi, you...you are a...good boy." Emperor Chongzheng said this while panting, and then he was speechless.
This sentence was originally nothing, but it would be too strange to say it in the identity of Emperor Chongzheng. He is the emperor and Zhou Yi is his subject, but such words are the recognition of the elders to the younger ones.
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty?" Seeing that Emperor Chongzheng had not spoken for a long time, the personal eunuch stepped forward and called a few times tentatively. Seeing that Emperor Chongzheng did not respond, his expression changed.
The imperial physician who was waiting at the side hastily stepped forward, sniffed his breath, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "The emperor is just tired and rested." In this way,
Zhou Yi was inexplicably called into the palace, and after hearing such an inexplicable sentence from Emperor Chongzheng, He praised him and left the palace again.
On the way back, Zhou Yi frowned even tighter. He kept thinking about the words of Emperor Chongzheng, "Zhou Yi, you are a good boy." , speaking to a junior as an elder, he can understand that if the emperor's status is put aside, Emperor Chongzheng recognizes and even loves him, but if he puts on the emperor's status, Zhou Yi deserves to die or die.
Zhou Yi's sense of urgency rose sharply. He hadn't seen Emperor Chongzheng for a month. The last time he saw Emperor Chongzheng, he had no problem sitting and talking. Unexpectedly, he looked completely terminally ill.
According to this state, Emperor Chongzheng might be powerless to recover.
Zhou Yi's deeds in the past few years are really eye-catching, and the people love him very much. Even in the court, after several years of continuous efforts and intentional resolution, many people have recognized him, even the students of the commercial academy After entering the court as the leader, there are still a large number of people who are his followers.
Emperor Chongzheng had to deal with Zhou Yi like this first, and it obviously took time to plan slowly, but now, he seemed to have no time for that.
Zhou Yi had already grasped Emperor Chongzheng's thoughts thoroughly. He believed that Zhou Yi was a threat to the Zhu family's royal family, so he had to deal with Zhou Yi so as not to cause trouble to the successor.
If this is the case, Emperor Chongzheng knew that he didn't have enough time, so he wouldn't be able to make dangerous moves...
Thinking of this, Zhou Yi's eyes widened, "Go outside Wulang." Wulang is the office location of all important institutions of the Dai Viet court.
"Yes, sir."
Zhou Yi rushed to the outside of Wu Lang, and did not enter the Ministry of Commerce, but went directly to the cabinet. Because the emperor was seriously ill, the cabinet was even busier. When Zhou Yi came, several cabinet elders were too busy. land.
Seeing him coming, even the elders of the pavilion smiled while being puzzled. There is no way, Zhou Yi has grown too fast in the past few years, and he seems to be the other big boss of the court.
Yang Zhiwen was getting older, but he looked more kindly: "Master Zhou came to the cabinet at this time, what's the matter?
" There are some trade frictions, the lower officials need to go and have a look. I’m here to ask for a note from all the elders.”
Originally, Zhou Yi was a first-rank official, although according to the rules, if his whereabouts need to be away for a long time, he must report to the cabinet. Prepare, and then review with the emperor, but generally unless it is a particularly serious matter, this rule is not followed at all. Moreover, Emperor Chongzheng was very lazy, these things were irrelevant to him, and he never reviewed them. Now that Zhou Yi took the initiative to talk about this matter, it is indeed a little surprising. Yang Zhiwen narrowed his eyes with a smile, but no one saw a glint of light flashing in his face, "Master Zhou, you should do business as you should. Your Majesty is not in good health now, so let's not let him go." Your Majesty is taking care, what are your opinions?" Oh, Yang Zhiwen made his own way three years ago, Zhou Yi stepped in and snatched the position of chief assistant from Xing Jing. So now he and Zhou Yi are in the honeymoon period, and the two of them have something tacit understanding. "It should be, it should be..." Xing Jing glanced at Zhou Yi, but he agreed without saying anything.
Zhou Yi took the note with his front foot, and then went to pick up Li Yingru who was out for a banquet.
The granddaughter of the eldest princess got married, and almost all the ladies in the capital came.
"Ma'am, the master is here to pick you up."
Qing'er whispered in Li Yingru's ear.
A lady who was close to Li Yingru heard this, and immediately joked: "Mrs. Zhou, you and Mr. Zhou are too affectionate, can't we be separated for just a while?" Li Yingru stood up and said with a smile: "Ladies and
gentlemen , I have to take a step first." After Li Yingru accompanied the eldest princess, she hurried out of the eldest princess's mansion.
Ladies looking at Li Yingru's back, some are envious, some are jealous, and their emotions vary. No matter what these people think, it is undeniable that Li Yingru has become a specimen that all the ladies in the capital want to live.
The husband and son-in-law are good-looking, and the more important thing is that he has become a big boss at a young age. However, at the age of twenty-six, he has turned from a peasant boy to a first-rank official. It can only be said that Li Yingru is lucky and her husband is competitive, but what makes the eyes of many noble ladies turn red with envy is that Zhou Yi is so capable that Li Yingru is really the only wife.
Other men, even if they don't take concubines, which one won't come and go in Fireworks and Willow Lane? Even if you don't go to these places, there will always be one or two close friends.
But Zhou Yi really defended himself like a jade for Li Yingru, so much so that all the daughters in the capital who had not left the court wanted to follow Zhou Yi to find a husband.
Li Yingru didn't care what those people behind her thought of her. Zhou Yi had already analyzed the current situation with her. In addition, she was already smart, and she already smelled the wind and rain.
Li Yingru quickened her pace again and again, and soon reached the door, and saw Zhou Yi beside the carriage at a glance.
Li Yingru ran a few steps quickly, "My husband."
Zhou Yi took Li Yingru's hand: "Go home first."
The gate of the Zhou Mansion was closed tightly, and it was opened again around evening. All the Zhou family members came out from inside, and all the people of the Zhou Mansion got into the carriage, and soon the carriage drove towards Yuanping Mansion.
As the night gradually fell, the candles in the Zhou Mansion were lit.
Dozens of figures jumped into the courtyard wall of Zhou Mansion, and went straight to Zhou Yi's bedroom.
The door latch was pushed open quietly, but in the dark night, these people were all in vain.
They searched the entire Zhou Mansion for a long time, and after arresting a servant and questioning them, they found out that Zhou Yi's family had left Beijing in the afternoon.
"Where did you go!" The knife came to the neck of the servant of the Zhou family. The servant trembled with fear: "Don't kill me, don't kill me, the master
went to the port and said something happened in some country."
Soon, he chased in the direction of Yuanping Mansion.
Zhou Mansion's carriage didn't seem to be going fast, and it only took more than two hours for a group of people to chase after them on horseback.
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"Forgive me, forgive me, sir, I don't want this carriage anymore..."
In the darkness, these people sensed that something was wrong. When they got close, they opened several carriages and saw that they were all empty.
"Where are people!"
"What... who is it? I don't know. We picked up this carriage on the road. We were thinking of resting in it, so you came." The people who picked up the
carriage looked at it under the moonlight. Seeing these people covered their faces, they were not good people at first glance, they were scared to death, and they shrank their necks and said tremblingly.
"What should we do?"
"Keep chasing. They must have changed carriages and left. Let's chase them to the port and guard them."
It's a pity that this group of people searched all the way to the port, but they couldn't find any trace of Zhou Yi's family. .
They could not show their identities clearly, so they could only secretly check the departure records, and found that Zhou Yi's family was recorded by the port branch of the Ministry of Commerce as leaving the sea at the fourth watch. When they arrived at the port, it was about the fourth watch. Afterwards, it appears to be missed.
"Zhu Wu, you go back and report the news to the master first, and the rest will follow me out to sea." At
dawn the next day, a figure quietly approached Emperor Chongzheng's dragon couch: "Master, the mission has failed temporarily, and the target is to go to sea." I went to Yiyue Kingdom, and other people are chasing after me."
In the bed curtain, Emperor Chongzheng seemed to be greatly stimulated, and he gasped heavily.
He opened his eyes slightly, looked at the top of the bright yellow bed, and knew in his heart that the opportunity had been lost: "Wrong..." He shouldn't have called Zhou Yi into the palace to say that because of guilt yesterday, Zhou Yi must have noticed When the crisis came, he ran away first. Now that Zhou Yi is out at sea, it is conceivable that he will not show up until his funeral.
It would have been great if Zhou Yi had been eliminated in the palace yesterday, he still cared too much about his reputation, one wrong step, one wrong step...