Chapter 20: Sophistry

The capital city of Yasukuni is called Sheng'an City, in addition to the imperial city to the north, the city is divided into 36 miles, 12 vertical and horizontal streets, four main roads, each leading to the imperial city of Yong'an, Baoan, Jing'an, Ning'an four imperial city gates, the street is also named after this.

These four roads are also the busiest commercial areas in Yasukuni.

Except for the children of the royal family and the princes and ministers, the rest of the people are not allowed to enter the imperial city, unless summoned by the emperor or the mother, so Wei Chimu only entered the imperial city alone, and ordered Lin Ruo and Ji Minzhi to take Xiaolian and Wen Yuhang to the Shadow Pavilion's stronghold in the capital to wait.

As for Du Qingyang's disciples, they returned to Earthquake Heaven Castle with the castle master.

This time, the fifty people brought out by Du Zuo's envoy from the Earthquake Castle have been attacked by countless killers and assassins these days, and now there are only more than 20 people left, especially in the battle between Liangshan and Huangquanmen, the casualties are the most tragic, so he must let his people recuperate well, so he took his disciples back to the Earthquake Castle first.

Yu Chimu went straight to the imperial city, and when he arrived at the gate of the city, he showed his waist card to the guards, and the guards immediately let him go when he saw the waist card, and he continued to run towards the palace gate.

Originally, it was forbidden to enter the Imperial City on horseback, but in case of emergency or those with special waist badges, this rule could be ignored.

As a prince, he was previously ordered to the Shengxing Dynasty to inquire about the heavens, so Wei Chimu naturally had this privilege. However, when they arrived at the palace gate, no matter who had to dismount, but the emperor, the lady and the prince could take the sedan chair or carriage in the palace, but there was no need to walk hard.

Wei Chimu changed the carriage and came to the imperial study, but was told that the emperor was in the Chengqian Palace at this time, so he had to rush to the Chengqian Palace again.

Chengqian Palace is the sleeping palace of Emperor Jinglie, quite large, the Palace of Nourishing Heart is its main hall, on the splendid hall, Emperor Jinglie is talking to Yu Chimu's mother concubine Shufei.

Concubine Shu saw her son, she was very excited, she heard that the emperor ordered Chi Mu to return to China with twelve golden orders, and today she received the news that he had returned to the capital, and she came to speak for her son.

She didn't know why the emperor issued twelve golden orders to summon her son back to China, but she knew that it was not a good thing, and all along, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had deep scruples about Wei Chimu, and this incident may not be inseparable from the prince.

It was supposed to be followed by a time to talk about himself, but Emperor Jinglie didn't give Concubine Shu and Wei Chimu a chance to speak, and sent Concubine Shu back to Wenxin Palace.

Concubine Shu was about to say something, but Wei Chimu shook her head. Concubine Shu knew that her son was assertive and much smarter than herself, maybe she insisted on staying here, but it would be a bad thing, but when she left the Heart Cultivation Palace, she glanced at her son uneasily.

Wei Chimu could probably guess what Emperor Jinglie was going to say to him, so he didn't have any worries in his heart, he was more worried about his request to go to Ningguo, and he didn't know how his father would react.

"You have already found the Heavenly Machine Star, but why didn't you bring the Heavenly Machine Star back to China for a long time, and you didn't tell you about it?"

On the Palace of Nourishing the Heart, Emperor Jinglie sat on a couch, although the sitting posture was quite relaxed and leisurely, it seemed that he was just chatting with him casually, but his eyes revealed his suspicion of him.

"Back to my father, my sons didn't know who Tianji Xing was before they received the golden order. Wei Chi Mu replied tremblingly. He knew that his father would definitely not believe it, but before he encountered the killer of Huangquanmen, he really didn't know that Xiao Man was a Tianji Star!

"Bold!" Emperor Jinglie sat up straight, glared at Yu Chimu angrily, and said, "You still want to deceive Yu I now? Chi Xiaoman, that is, Princess Liuxia of the Shengxing Dynasty, hasn't she always been with you? and dare to say that you don't know that she is the Heavenly Machine Star?"

"Back to my father, my son's failure to report in time is really distressing. Tianji Xing is the princess of the Shengxing Dynasty, when this matter came out, the son had already left the capital of the Shengxing Dynasty, why did the master of Yuan Zhi say that the heavenly machine had already ordered people to quickly whip the horse to submit a secret letter to the father, at this time the gap in the hour, the father should know. ”

Wei Chi glanced at his father and continued: "On the way back to China, the son wanted to take the opportunity to have a glimpse of the customs of the Shengxing Dynasty, so he delayed his return to Beijing, which was the fault of the son, but he did not expect to meet someone who was exactly the same as Princess Liuxia when he traveled. Erchen already loved Princess Liuxia, and he was naturally curious when he saw people who looked the same, but at that time, the Shengxing Dynasty had already spread the news that Princess Liuxia had fallen into the water and died, so when he claimed to be surnamed Chi and his name was Xiaoman, and wanted to go to Huancheng to run a teahouse, Erchen did not think of it with Princess Liuxia. ”

He paused for a moment, and said in a rather helpless tone: "Erchen is an idle person, and he went to Huancheng with him on a whim...... has developed mutual love, and wanted to bring it back to Yasukuni immediately, but when he met a killer in the rivers and lakes, he gave Xiaoman ...... It was robbed. ”

What he said is true or false, for a time Emperor Jinglie is also difficult to distinguish the truth from falsehood, in recent years, Wei Chimu's expression is indeed as he said, is an idle prince, although at the beginning of the exertion, in the fiefdom to do a lot of construction, but then only know how to linger in the flowers, often in and out of the land of fireworks, so in the Shengxing Dynasty for a woman lingering, but also credible. And he robbed Princess Liuxia in Tianlong Temple with King Dingnan of Ningguo in the Shengxing Dynasty, and Emperor Jinglie also heard about it.

Moreover, as soon as he learned of the heavenly opportunity, he submitted a secret letter, and at that time, the Shengxing Dynasty had not yet declared that Princess Liuxia was the star of the heavenly machine, and the people who accompanied the King of Huai'an to the Shengxing Dynasty said that Wei Chimu did leave the capital of the Shengxing Dynasty after getting the heavenly opportunity and returned to Yasukuni, but on the way, he suddenly got into a tour, so he asked the entourage to return to Yasukuni first.

After those who accompanied him returned to China, Emperor Jinglie had already inquired about it, which was why he was not in a hurry to recall Wei Chimu at that time, because since the Heavenly Opportunity had been obtained, he could send others to find the Heavenly Machine.

And the matter of encountering a killer, although it is impossible to distinguish the truth from the false, but Emperor Jinglie thinks that he knows quite a lot about this son's ingenuity, and if he wants to come up with a reason to win the trust of others, there can be thousands of better reasons than the broken reason of encountering a killer, so the incident of encountering a killer should be true.

"So if the Jixing is in the hands of the people of Huangquanmen today, why did the killers want to rob the Tianjixing? Do they want to rebel?" Emperor Jinglie stared at him with a burning gaze, but his tone was a little softer than before.

In fact, as long as this son has no intention of rebellion, he is not willing to abandon him, after all, this son's intelligence is incomparable to other princes, and he also needs him to give advice when necessary.

"No, Father. The killers of Huangquanmen only took money to do things, and they didn't even know who entrusted them. This is what Erchen asked from the mouth of the first killer of Huangquanmen, King Hades, and found a letter on his body as proof. Yu Chimu handed over the letter he had obtained from Hades.

It is easy to confirm the truth of this matter, and it is easy to send someone to Huangquanmen to investigate, so Emperor Jinglie did not suspect that he was lying, and nodded: "In that case, why did you catch the people from Huangquanmen but didn't bring Tianji Star back?"

"Erchen was bent on rushing back to Yasukuni at that time, so he sent someone to save Chi Xiaoman, and hurried back to Beijing on the other hand, but Erchen's people saved Xiaoman, but let the king of Dingnan of Ningguo take him captive, and it was then that Erchen knew that Xiaoman was Princess Liuxia, that is, Tianji Xing. Wei Chimu said with a sad face. And he did only know that Chi Xiaoman was Tianji Star a few days ago, so he didn't lie about this, as for other details, there is no need to say more, anyway, what his father cares about is only the whereabouts of Tianji Star.

Emperor Jinglie frowned, "So Tianji Star was taken away by the people of Ning Kingdom......"

"Exactly. Yu Chi Mu Zhengse said: "Ning Qingyun's martial arts are not weak, and the people of the sons and daughters can't catch up with him, so the sons are in a hurry to enter the palace, and they are also going to discuss with their father the matter of rescuing the Tianji Star!"