At the same time, Guiyuan Palace.
　　Meng Cheng and Meng Zhaiyue are siblings from the same mother, and they have always had a good relationship. Since Meng Zhaiyue got married, he occasionally talked to the queen and missed this sister very much.
　　Unfortunately, his sister Yingying is a "little conscienceless". Even after entering the palace and paying homage to the queen mother, she didn't come to Guiyuan Palace for a while. After Meng Cheng learned about this, he asked the eunuch Shang Kai who was in charge of the seal beside him to send someone to invite her from Cining Palace.
　　The princess entered Guiyuan Palace and did not salute. Instead, she looked around in the hall and smiled: "My brother is here alone, and there is no one to serve him. Why doesn't my sister-in-law come to visit?"
　　It would have been better if she didn't say it. Once she mentioned it, Meng Cheng remembered that last time because of Concubine Xu, Wang Wanrou was taught by his mother, and then she was cold to him for a few days. It turned out that she was still cold and warm until now, as if she was still blaming him.
　　Meng Cheng sighed, "Please don't mention this. If you do, I will be confused again. How can she be so soft-hearted when she obviously doesn't like him? She will blame me for being ruthless later."
　　Meng Zhaiyue pricked up her ears, leaned over to the table, and asked through the layers of memorials, "What's the matter? Tell me about it."
　　The little emperor never put on the airs of an emperor in front of his sister, but he was also ashamed to say what his mother had scolded him for, so he waved his hands again and again, "It's not a big deal, it's been dealt with."
　　Meng Zhaiyue said, "Was it handled by my brother or by my mother?"
　　Meng Cheng was speechless.
　　Seeing his embarrassed expression, the princess couldn't help laughing and said, "My brother enjoys the world and is on the throne, but he still has so many troubles. It shows that being an emperor is not easy. Fortunately, I am not a man, so I don't have to be treated so harshly by my mother. I can just act like a spoiled child to her."
　　She paused here and thought, "If all the beautiful men in the world enter the palace, I can also consider becoming an emperor."
　　If Dong Lingjiu was in front of her, she would definitely not dare to say so.
　　Meng Cheng had already spoiled her a lot, but she still got her eyelids twitching at these words. He picked up a memorial and slapped it on his sister's forehead, showing mercy, speaking loudly but softly, and pretending to be angry, "Is that something you can say? You're a princess!"
　　Meng Zhaiyue cried out, covering her forehead, and said aggrievedly, "It's ok for a princess to be bullied by her brother, but she is also bullied by her husband!" When
　　she said this, Meng Cheng stopped and asked her, "What's the matter? Did you enter the palace for this?"
　　Meng Zhaiyue repeated to her brother what she had said to her mother. After listening to what Meng Cheng said, "Did mother ever say how she could help you?"
　　Meng Zhaiyue shook her head and said with a bitter face, "My royal brother, you are such a fool. You are the emperor. Can't you just order him to divorce me? Isn't it enough that he has a bad character?"
　　Meng Cheng stared at her for a moment, shook his head and said, "You don't understand. Many things can't be done this way. If I issue such an imperial decree, it will certainly be suspected that the royal family is abusing its power. Now the politics is relatively clear. Not to mention those censors, even the few old ministers in the six departments always speak in a nonsensical way when they go to court... I don't believe that they will behave like this when they see my mother and my father?" The
　　new emperor had been on the throne for only a year. Although the empress dowager was still there, these old ministers had already broken free from the more than ten years of Emperor Mingde's rule and were qualified to take advantage of their seniority and act high-handedly.
　　In the past, when Emperor Mingde was in power, these old ministers dared to speak out and make suggestions to a mature and tough monarch, and died on the Panlong Pillar, thinking that such a death would leave a name in history. Now that Meng Cheng has taken over, and this young emperor has taken over, they dare to use their power to make things difficult for him. The
　　fact that Minister Xu had held back the money for the Changtai Palace was one of the manifestations of this, but Dong Lingjiu frightened him, and he quickly let it go.
　　The princess became even more frustrated: "Brother, why can't you accomplish anything? I heard that when father ascended the throne, the court and the country were in a mess, with eunuchs in trouble, princes eyeing, foreign enemies surrounding, and cliques forming for personal gain. Local governments at all levels embezzled tens of millions of taels of silver in taxes a year, and father still settled all these things, right?"
　　Meng Cheng was so angry at this that he stretched out his hand to pinch his sister's face and rubbed it hard a few times. He wanted to scold her but stopped, and said angrily: "But father has mother! Before marrying the Crown Princess, father's East Mansion couldn't even take out the money to repair the windows. If it weren't for Master Dong marrying mother to him--"
　　He spoke without thinking, and only came to his senses at this point. He quickly stopped talking, his face gloomy: "You are not allowed to be so rude."
　　The princess covered her face with tears in her eyes, and the two siblings started a new quarrel.
　　After a while, the tea beside Meng Cheng had gone cold. He slammed the table and said, "Where are the people? The princess is angry with me, and you are angry with me too!"
　　The eunuch hurriedly brought the tea up, and the eunuch who grew up with Meng Cheng said kindly, "Your Majesty, please be less angry. It's not easy for you to see the princess."
　　Meng Cheng calmed down, turned his head to look at her, and said, "...Brother will help you think of a solution. You should be honest and don't make trouble when you return to the princess's mansion."
　　Meng Zhaiyue took out a handkerchief, wiped the corners of her eyes, and muttered softly, "What can you do?"
　　Meng Cheng didn't know whether he didn't hear it or didn't say anything after hearing it. She thought about it and said, "There is another thing. You just went to see the Queen Mother. I wonder if the Queen Mother mentioned it? She issued an imperial decree to grant marriage to the Prince of Lin'an and a family... I have never heard of it."
　　Meng Zhaiyue shook her head first, then curled her lips and said, "What's the big deal? My second cousin should get married. I just don't know what kind of country family he will marry. Not to mention a daughter of a noble family, but at least a noble family, to be worthy of my second cousin, right?"
　　Meng Cheng wanted to find out a little bit about his mother's feelings from her, but it turned out to be very difficult to talk to this sister. He pressed his throbbing forehead and said, "I mean, why did the Queen Mother allow him to return to the capital to get married?"
　　In the past, when Emperor Mingde was ill, Dong Lingjiu ordered the Prince of Lin'an Palace to enter the Shenwu Army for training. He was neither in the fiefdom nor in the capital, but in the Shenwu Camp under General Geng Zhe. General Geng was Dong Lingjiu's man, so it was like supervision. Three years later, Meng Cheng ascended the throne. Not long after ascending the throne, Princess Lin'an came to the capital and met with his mother several times.
　　After receiving such an order, he always felt that there was some kind of exchange between the princess and his mother, so Meng Shen was able to return to the capital to get married.
　　Meng Zhaiyue thought about it and guessed, "It should be that the princess asked for love and begged my mother, right?" If
　　this is said to others, some people may believe it, but based on the little emperor's understanding of his biological mother, Dong Lingjiu has always been clear about public and private affairs, and even if she has feelings, they are very dull. As long as the politics is clear and the situation is stable, so that people in the world can benefit from it and live a peaceful life without any waves, it is difficult for his mother to be unwilling to sacrifice something.
　　Meng Cheng waved his hands, thinking that his sister is really destined to enjoy a happy life, and said helplessly, "You really don't understand my mother."
　　The princess thought dissatisfiedly, you don't understand, the little doctor that my mother keeps by her side is so fair and handsome, don't you know to find a few more similar ones to serve my mother and make her happy?
　　She wanted to say something sarcastic, but when she thought about her brother being a man, and probably standing on the same side as those men who attached great importance to chastity, they were on the same boat, so she held back and hummed, "I've been here for so long, and the sister-in-law didn't even come to ask about you. You must have made her angry."
　　Meng Cheng was touched in the heart, and he gritted his teeth and spoke, "Yingying..."
　　...
　　Dong Lingjiu thought that the brother and sister would spend a long time reminiscing about the past, and estimated that Yingying would be kept in the palace for a few days. Unexpectedly, Meng Zhaiyue stayed in Guiyuan Palace for a short time before leaving the palace.
　　But after Princess Zhaoyang left the palace, the emperor was said to be so angry that he got a blister in his mouth and couldn't eat. At dinner, Ruixue mentioned this matter beside her. Dong Lingjiu pondered for a moment and ordered: "Let the queen manage his diet."
　　Managing diet inevitably means eating together. As soon as Wang Wanrou went to accompany him, Meng Cheng's anger disappeared for the most part. After eating for several days in a row, he and the queen soon reconciled. It was
　　June in the second year of Huining, midsummer.
　　Midsummer is rainy, and the days are long and the nights are short. There are several large basins of ice in Cining Palace. The ice basins are placed in various corners of the palace. They are watched by eunuchs and maids and often replaced. Therefore, no matter how hot it is outside, as soon as you enter the inner palace, you will still feel cool and refreshing.
　　After the official document for the appointment of Shujishi was issued, after several deliberations and proposals by the Ministry of Personnel, and then the decision of the Empress Dowager, a list was finally confirmed. For the final decision, the Minister of Personnel Gan Wenyi personally entered the palace.
　　Before Emperor Mingde fell ill, court officials were not allowed to set foot in the inner court. At that time, Dong Lingjiu was surrounded by eunuchs. It was a bit cumbersome and sometimes inconvenient for eunuchs and court officials to issue orders. Since Emperor Mingde fell ill, the Empress issued an imperial edict on his behalf, breaking this rule. Since then, it has not been a new thing for those in power to meet court officials in the inner court.
　　Gan Wenyi is an old minister, over fifty years old. He has personally witnessed the late emperor from the East Palace to the throne, and then after more than ten years of governing the world. This person has great confidence in the abilities of the late emperor and the Empress Dowager, so it is always easy to compare Meng Cheng with the late emperor, and he can't help but appear arrogant during court discussions.
　　But at this moment in the Cining Palace, he was respectful and bowed his head across a beaded curtain, saying: "All vacancies are like this. The old minister has also found the old abandoned papers that the queen asked about."
　　Ruixue presented the articles that were dismissed that year on the table.
　　Dong Lingjiu did not look up, but continued to proofread the list. She stroked the paper and said calmly: "It was very hard to find the old abandoned papers. I guess it delayed you for a few days?"
　　Gan Wenyi said: "The queen mother asked for it, and I dare not ignore it."
　　Dong Lingjiu smiled and said: "You are almost the same age as my father, and you have made you, the minister, spend so much effort."
　　Gan Wenyi was shocked and said quickly: "I dare not compare myself with Master Dong."
　　Dong Lingjiu's father, Master Dong, if he were still alive, he should have a very valuable status.
　　"Let's fill the vacancies according to the quota agreed upon." Dong Lingjiu made the final decision, and Ruixue took the Empress Dowager's seal and stamped it at the end of the official document to show that the Empress Dowager approved.
　　Minister Gan took it back with both hands, breathed a sigh of relief, and asked about the Empress Dowager's health again before stepping back and leaving.
　　The weather was hot and stuffy for the whole morning, and when Gan Wenyi was about to leave, it finally started to rain heavily. He hurriedly walked out of the Cining Palace and bumped into another person at the corner of the corridor. The other person quickly bowed and apologized.
　　Minister Gan glanced up and wanted to wave his hand to say it was okay, but his eyes fell on his face and he suddenly stopped him subconsciously.
　　Zheng Yuheng was also stunned.
　　"This is the way to the Cining Palace." Minister Gan first said this without any context, and then carefully looked at his appearance and demeanor, his expression suddenly changed a little, "This imperial physician, are you serving the Empress of the Cining Palace?"
　　Zheng Yuheng was wearing an official uniform, and was not surprised that he would be recognized, and said, "Yes, I am Zheng Yuheng from the Imperial Hospital."
　　Minister Gan murmured, "... This is a bit like..."
　　His unpolished jade-like gentle demeanor, and a little restrained bookish air, as well as his eyebrows, are a bit like the young emperor, so pure, clear, and with a bit of precious gentleness.
　　Meng Cheng and Meng Zhaiyue could not recognize this, not to mention that the little emperor didn't know what his biological father looked like when he was young, even if he knew, it would be difficult to recognize him from a person's temperament.
　　The rain was falling outside the corridor. Zheng Yuheng didn't hear what he said clearly, so he asked tentatively, "Sir?"
　　Minister Gan came back to his senses, waved his hand, and said, "Nothing, you should take good care of your health."
　　Then he left in a hurry, with a trace of worry in his expression. Zheng Yuheng looked back at him, and felt that he seemed to have missed something very important.
　　The author has something to say:
　　The type that the Queen Mother likes has not changed...
　　If it weren't for the good temperament of the ex-husband, the Queen would not have married him hhh
　　I once liked the late emperor because I liked this type
　　. I will like Xiao Zheng in the future because I like him.