Within ten days, two generations of emperors passed away one after another, and the country was in double mourning. The Cabinet and the Imperial Household Department jointly posted a notice that all officials in Beijing were not allowed to smoke or eat meat during the New Year holidays. Those who violated the notice would be stripped of their official titles and banned from serving as officials for life.

It’s okay not to eat meat, but you are not allowed to light a fire to cook. In this cold winter, even if you eat dry food, you have to drink some hot water.

Li Hu thought he would be criticized a lot, but unexpectedly, every policy has its own countermeasure.

The wealthy and powerful families directly asked restaurants to deliver “takeout”, while ordinary officials gave their money and food to their neighbors and asked them to help boil water and cook.

Li Hu was confused by the actions of the officials. Wasn’t this just perfunctory? The key point was that the palace and the cabinet acquiesced. It turned out that all kinds of ideologies always existed.

While eating the takeaway delivered from Taihelou, Li Hu was flipping through the copies of the military reports sent by the Ministry of War. They were all news from Liaodong. Marquis Zhongjing Shi Ding was fighting back and forth with Hong Zhou near Guangning. It was just a fight between two noobs.

However, it was not that the soldiers under their command were incompetent, but that neither of them had the ability to command an army of hundreds of thousands. On the battle line that was dozens of miles long, the soldiers under them fought on their own and took care of their own business, failing to unleash the power of a large army.

Lin Daiyu’s sigh sounded in his ears, Li Hu looked over and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Lin Daiyu took a small bite of the bun, chewed it twice, swallowed it with difficulty, and then said with a bitter face: “There is no meat at all, how can I eat it!”

Li Hu smiled and said, “It will be fine after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.”

After hearing this, Lin Daiyu put down her chopsticks, counted on her fingers, and then sighed, “There are still more than twenty days left.”

Li Hu looked at her with a smile. With this girl’s intelligence, there was no need for her to count on her fingers. There must be something fishy going on.

Sure enough, Lin Daiyu looked at him with blinking eyes.

“Is something wrong?”

Li Hu handed the copy of the military report to Hubo and said, “Put it in the box on the desk.”

Lin Daiyu: “I heard the vegetarian food in the imperial kitchen is good.”

Li Hu understood: “You want to eat too?”

Lin Daiyu hummed and looked at him.

Li Hu was a little puzzled: “Taihe Building has several chefs who came from the imperial kitchen. Can’t you just let them do it?”

Lin Daiyu pouted her lips, looked at him, and said nothing.

Li Hu was stunned for a moment. Did he say something wrong again? Thinking about it, he looked at Zijuan who was standing behind Lin Daiyu.

Zijuan smiled and then said silently: “The girl wants the master to speak.”

Li Hu suddenly realized that this was just a way of acting like a spoiled child. He picked up his chopsticks and picked up a piece of food for Lin Daiyu. “I’ll go to Taihe Tower in person later and watch them cook.”

Lin Daiyu rolled her eyes and said, “Just send someone to tell them.”

Li Hu smiled and said, “Okay, I’ll listen to you, Madam.”

Lin Daiyu smiled happily and asked, “When will you send someone to pick up Bao-ya-tou?”

Li Hu: “What’s wrong?”

Lin Daiyu: “Without her, there is no one to help me sort out the accounts”

Li Hu: “Xiangling can read, right? Ask her to help you.”

“she?”

Lin Daiyu curled her lips, “She is just a silly girl, a silly girl who has been spoiled by you, just like Xueyan, she is confused all day long.” At this point, she suddenly remembered, “Did you mention her?”

Li Hu: “Talk about her? What happened to her?”

Lin Daiyu was silent for a moment, then told Li Hu that Xiangling had changed her words.

Li Hu understood that it must be Feng, but it was better this way to avoid any trouble in the future.

“Hey, why do you have to send someone to pick it up?”

“If you don’t send someone to pick her up, she won’t have the nerve to come back.”

Li Hu: “What do you mean?”

Lin Daiyu asked angrily: “Why did she go home?”

Li Hu smiled awkwardly, “Why don’t you just send someone else? Why do you have to send me?”

Lin Daiyu: “You are so ungrateful. You have taken advantage of me enough.”

Li Hu was unhappy: “If you say that, someone who doesn’t know would think I did something to her!”

Lin Daiyu laughed angrily: “What else do you want?!”

Li Hu chuckled.

Lin Daiyu: “After dinner, send someone to pick her up. If no one goes, Bao will probably cry.”

Li Hu: “How do you know?” At this point, he suddenly realized that the maids and servants around Xue Baochai were all arranged by Lin Daiyu.

“Okay then, I’ll send the housekeeper’s wife there later.”

“Let Aunt Feng go. We still have to take care of Xue Ke’s face.”

Li Hu nodded and said, “I’ll listen to you, Madam.” As he was talking, Nanny Wang came in, bowed to Li Hu, and said, “Master, Lord Jia from Ningguo Mansion is here.”

Jia Jing? Why is he here?

Li Hu stood up and asked, “Where are the people?”

Nanny Wang: “Waiting in the outer study.”

Li Hu: “Okay, I’ll go right over.” He then said to Lin Daiyu who had stood up: “If you don’t like it, then don’t eat it. Wait for the vegetarian meal in the evening.”

Lin Daiyu said “hmm”, took the cloak handed to her by Zijuan and put it on Li Hu.

Li Hu combed her hair, then turned and walked out.

As soon as he stepped into the outer study, Li Hu smiled.

Jia Jing, dressed in casual clothes, sat on a chair against the wall and flipped through a book, using his fingers dipped in saliva to turn the pages.

“Why do you always have this habit?” Li Hu walked over with a smile.

Jia Jing was startled and said angrily: “Why are you walking without making any sound?”

Li Hu sat down beside him and said with a smile, “You are so engrossed in watching.”

Jia Jing put the book in his hand on the coffee table and said, “I’m just flipping through it. Oh, by the way, this book was originally on the coffee table.”

Li Hu raised his hand and said, “You are being too polite if you keep saying that. Besides, there is nothing shameful in my study.”

Jia Jing stroked his beard and smiled, “If there is none in the outer study, then there must be one in the inner study.”

Li Hu was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, “Who would hide things in the study?”

Now it was Jia Jing’s turn to be stunned.

Li Hu smiled proudly, everyone can talk nonsense!
Jia Jing came back to his senses, smiled and nodded at him: “Good boy, you are calling me an ‘old pervert’ in a roundabout way.”

Li Hu: “Oh, I really didn’t mean it. If I knew you always like to hide things in the study, I wouldn’t say that.”

“Okay, okay, stop talking about this!”

Jia Jing interrupted Li Hu and leaned forward, whispering, “I’m from the Cining Palace.”

Li Hu: “Ci Ning Palace? What happened to the Queen Mother?”

Jia Jing: “Poisoned, the Queen Mother is poisoned.”

Li Hu’s expression changed immediately: “No Supreme Emperor!”

Jia Jing shook his head slightly: “The Supreme Emperor is not that stupid. It should be that the Queen Mother poisoned herself.”

Poisoning yourself? Li Hu’s long eyebrows slowly gathered together.

Jia Jing sighed softly: “The Queen Mother has put herself in the game. Only by putting yourself in the game can you break it! Even someone like you can guess that it is the Supreme Emperor, let alone others?”

Li Hu nodded. The Queen Mother understood that the Supreme Emperor would not let her go, so she intervened herself, took the initiative, and roasted the Supreme Emperor over the fire.

The Queen Mother could die, but she could never be poisoned. This was equivalent to tearing off the fig leaf of the royal family. Even if the Supreme Emperor didn’t care about his reputation, he still had to consider the entire royal family.

Once a royal family falls from the altar, it is not far from destruction!

Li Hu suddenly realized: “Hey, what did you mean by that? What do you mean even someone like me? What kind?!”

Jia Jing coughed awkwardly and changed the subject: “You just said ‘I also have this habit’, who is it? If you have time, introduce him to me.”

Li Hu snorted, “Now.”

Jia Jing’s eyes flashed. The little emperor indeed had this habit.

On the second day after Emperor Yongxing’s death, the young prince succeeded to the throne in front of the coffin and named the reign title Tianyou, which means “Chengtianzhiyou”. He hoped for God’s help, but would God help Dashun?

Thinking about it, Li Hu shook his head.

Jia Jing stood up and said, “Let’s go.”

Li Hu was stunned for a moment, “Where are we going?”

Jia Jing: “Go to the Cining Palace.”

Li Hu: “Go to Cining Palace?”

Jia Jing: “The Prime Minister meant that the Queen Mother must be protected. The Prime Minister went to the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion, and Jia Lian went to the Marquis of Baoling’s Mansion.”

Li Hu understood that the Prime Minister was going to join hands with the military to put pressure on the Supreme Emperor and support the Queen Mother!
East Warm Pavilion of Hall of Mental Cultivation
The Supreme Emperor stood by the window, with the string of nanmu beads in his hand slowly turning behind his back, faster and faster.

The eunuch swallowed his saliva and continued, “It is basically certain that the poison was administered by the Queen Mother herself.”

The Supreme Emperor slowly turned around, his face livid: “Bitch! How dare she!”

The eunuch who holds the seal smiled bitterly in his heart, this kind of thing cannot be explained, and the blame will only be placed on the Supreme Emperor. From now on, whenever there is any disturbance in the Cining Palace, the first person that everyone thinks of is the Supreme Emperor!
At this time, a red-robed eunuch hurried in and reported to the Supreme Emperor: “Your Majesty, the commander of the Yongwei Battalion, Duke of Lu Li Hu, the commander of the Imperial Guard, Duke Zhenguo Niu Ben, and the commander of the Infantry Yamen, Marquis Baoling Shi Nai have entered the palace and are going to the Cining Palace with the Prime Minister, Lord Jia, and the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel Jia Lian!”

The Supreme Emperor was startled at first, then he threw the rosary to the ground and shouted angrily: “Let her live, and live a long life!” (End of this chapter)