Chapter 278: Three Fingers

Zhao Mo slowly moved into his cabin.

Zhen Zhong followed closely, and as soon as he entered the house, he closed the door with his backhand, and opened his mouth to say: "Brother, don't be willful! The prince asked you to go back for his own reasons, not just for the reasons mentioned in the letter. Chang'er is talking nonsense, it is ill-intentioned, and I will take him back to punish him severely. But my brother can't forget about filial piety because of his few words. The prince is anxious to wait for you to go back, brother, come with me tomorrow!"

Zhao Mo sat down casually: "I followed Yongjiahou, and I originally planned to leave tomorrow." It was too hard to ride a horse, but it was good to take a boat, and I went back comfortably all the way, and it was not bad for these two days. What is Uncle Zhen anxious about? This is Cangzhou, only a few hundred miles away from the capital. Father can't wait for a few days?"

Zhen Zhong is a person who will not change his mind if he admits death: "If the prince wants to see his brother, the sooner the better, how can he allow his brother to procrastinate any longer? If my brother had returned to Beijing immediately after receiving the letter, no matter what Chang'er said, he would have arrived home a long time ago, and what the prince wanted his brother to do would have been done a long time ago, so how could he be so angry as he is now? What the prince wants to hand over to you is a serious matter, and there is no delay!"

Zhao Mo glanced at him: "It's so serious, what does my father want me to do?"

Zhen Zhong stopped talking and paused: "Brother will know when you go back, and the prince will tell you what to do." ”

Zhao Mo smiled: "Don't Uncle Zhen know? Can't you tell me first? It's still a few hundred miles away from the capital, if I could have known earlier, and I could have thought about how to help my father get things done earlier, maybe I could do it directly after entering Beijing, wouldn't it be more effortless?"

Zhen Zhong thought for a while: "It's not necessary. After my brother goes back, just do what the prince tells him. The prince had already thought about what to do, so he didn't have to worry about it. ”

Zhao Mo sneered: "That's not good. What do you mean by this is that I don't need to know the ins and outs of the matter, I just need to do what my father tells me? But if I don't know anything, how can I do it? God knows what my father told me to do? Uncle Zhen should not teach me a lesson about filial piety. Heaven and earth are the king's teacher, there is heaven and earth in front of my father, and there is a monarch, if it is against the will of heaven, against ethics, against the law of the country, and against the king's order, then I can't follow him. ”

Zhen Zhong's face sank, and he looked at Zhao Mo, and was silent for a while before he opened his mouth and said: "Brother seems to have a good idea of what he will do after returning to Beijing? I thought they had heard something by themselves, and they were uneasy, so they came to probe the news. Now that I think about it, I'm afraid they were all ordered by my brother, right? I just said that my brother has grown up, and he can mess around no more than when he was a child, but I am confused. Since my brother has grown up, my heart and eyes will naturally grow up. You have been in Jiangnan for so long, how can you really know nothing about the affairs of the mansion? If you didn't know what happened in the mansion, you wouldn't have easily discovered Chang'er's flaws. In the past, I underestimated my brother, and I was really ashamed. ”

Zhao Mo smiled at him: "I don't understand what Uncle Zhen said. What did I say wrong? Could it be that what my father wanted me to do was really against the will of heaven, against ethics, against the law of the country, and against the decree of the king? Otherwise, why would Uncle Zhen be in a hurry when he heard it?"

Zhen Zhong said with a calm face: "Brother doesn't have to go around in circles with me, it's useless to delay time." The prince was in a hurry to see his brother, and I came by order, so naturally I wanted to bring my brother to the prince to go on an errand. Although Yongjiahou has some people under him, they may not be as strong as ours. Besides, Yongjiahou is just an outsider, so if he has to detain someone else's son, it doesn't matter if he makes trouble in the court!"

Zhao Mo raised his eyebrows: "So, Uncle Zhen still wants to make trouble in the court?"

Zhen Zhong choked for a moment, of course he wouldn't be so stupid, but didn't he say that when he was ruthless?

Zhao Mo smiled and said lightly: "Since Uncle Zhen doesn't want to go around in circles with me, I'll just be refreshed." To be honest, it's not that hard for you to escort me back. But does my father just expect you to escort me back? Do you want me to do anything for him when I go back, and if I don't make me happy, can I do it willingly for him? If I am really annoyed, I don't have to go against you, I just need to pretend to be obedient and go back to see my father. When it was time to go to do something, he did it according to his father's wishes, and when he was done, he went directly to the East Palace to hide. Anyway, the prince's uncle is very good to me, and probably won't care about how many days I eat.

Zhen Zhong's face darkened. It is really possible for Zhao Mo to do this. When Zhao Shuo suffers a loss, how will he, a henchman who is not in a good position, explain to his master?

Zhao Mo also said cool words to him: "Uncle Zhen, don't worry that your father will blame you, anyway, your father has always been very lenient." Lan Fusheng poisoned my younger brother, and wanted to kill his father's wife, but he was just thrown to stay in the Zhuangzi in Liaodong, and he was expected to return to his father in a few years, Uncle Zhen just didn't coax me well, didn't let me be obedient, and it was nothing, at most, he was driven to the Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing for a few days, right? It won't take long to come back, and he won't suffer. ”

Zhen Zhong's face darkened.

He wanted to turn around and leave, but his feet couldn't take that step anyway. He knew in his heart that if it weren't for the really critical moment, Zhao Shuo would not let him go out of Beijing to pick up Zhao Mo in person. Now that he has seen Zhao Mo, he must complete the task assigned to him by Zhao Shuo. Since Zhao Mo refused to eat hard, he could only change to a softer method.

So he slowed down the expression on his face as much as possible, and tried to say to Zhao Mo in a gentle tone: "There is anger in Brother's words, is it because the prince did not severely punish Fusheng? Brother rest assured, since the prince has taken Fusheng, he will not let him come back." The reason why he didn't beat people to death with a stick was just because of the friendship between master and servant for many years. Besides, although Fusheng used the wrong way, he still knew that the prince intended to divorce his wife, but he hindered the Wang family from resting, so he was confused for a while and took the wrong path. ”

Idiot.

Zhao Mo didn't want to say anything anymore.

Zhen Zhong continued: "Whether it is what the prince said in the letter, or Chang'er's slander to sow discord and let the prince go back to Beijing to take care of the housework, it is actually just an excuse. The real reason ......" he hesitated, "is because the prince was implicated by the Wang family, and now he is in a bad situation in the court, and he originally wanted to explain a thing or two to the emperor and His Royal Highness the Prince, but the palace refused to summon him." The prince handed over messages to the palace several times to ask for a meeting, but they were all sunk in the sea, but there were many not very good rumors on the side of the clan...... The prince had no bottom in his heart, thinking that when his brother was in Jiangnan, he had a friendship with His Royal Highness the Prince, and the friendship between uncle and nephew was deep. If the elder brother asks to see the East Palace, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will definitely not refuse! When the time comes, the elder brother will help the prince to say a few good words and explain the misunderstanding clearly, and the prince's predicament will be solved. ”

Zhen Zhong persuaded Zhao Mo hard, in his opinion, Zhao Mo is Zhao Shuo's son, and if his father is good, he will naturally follow suit. But if his father loses power, even if he once had the blue eyes of the prince of the East Palace, he will be implicated far from the center of power and gradually disappear from everyone. No matter how much Zhao Mo complained about his father, for the sake of filial piety and his own future, he must help Zhao Shuo with this, otherwise the father and son will be both prosperous and lossy, what future can Zhao Mo have?

He also said to Zhao Mo: "When the prince is in the middle of Beijing, even if his brother is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, he is still flattered by the stars. But once the prince loses power, my brother will never think about such a good life again. In the past, how prominent was the palace of the king of Shu? The youngest son of the king of Shu was once a frequent visitor to the palace, and whoever saw him would give him three points, but now what is the case? Even if the emperor's grace is mighty and he has never condemned him, when he goes out to participate in the banquet of the royal family of the clan, he still has to suffer the anger of a three-year-old child. Aren't you afraid that your brother will end up in the same fate?"

Zhao Mo smiled: "Uncle Zhen is really eloquent. It's just that I don't understand why my father was implicated by the Wang family? Didn't I hear that my father was planning to divorce his wife? Although my wife became pregnant later, the matter of divorce was over, but since I had intended to draw a line with the Wang family, why did I get involved with his family now? My father was always the emperor's own nephew, and he had always been valued by the emperor and the prince. As long as the purifier clears himself and clears up with the Wang family as soon as possible, the emperor will be wise and will understand his father's innocence. Where do I need to ask for mercy?"

Zhen Zhong frowned, and was about to persuade again, but Zhao Mo interrupted him: "I can't tell you about these things between adults, but I have heard a few interesting news recently, it seems that Uncle Zhen doesn't seem to know, why don't I tell you, Uncle Zhen will also go and check?"

Zhen Zhongqiang suppressed the unhappiness in his heart: "What does my brother want to say?"

Zhao Mo smiled and raised an index finger: "The first thing, Lan Fusheng was familiar with Aunt Lan when she first entered Beijing, and the relationship was still very close. At that time, they often had secret meetings outside, borrowing the small courtyard in the back garden of Longfu Temple, or renting the courtyard in the name of their father. Does my father know about this?"

"What?!" Zhen Zhong was stunned.

Zhao Mo didn't wait for him to react, and raised a second finger: "The second thing, I'm afraid that Madame's pregnancy is fraudulent." There is news that she is actually pretending to be pregnant, I don't know whether she bribed the doctor or took any medicine, but in fact, she just wanted to stop her father from moving before he divorced his wife. But later, she saw that her father didn't mention the divorce of his wife anymore, and she was afraid that if she pretended to be in this belly, she would reveal her flaws, so she took the opportunity to enter the palace and acted in a play to save the queen mother's miscarriage. With the help of the princess, no one exposed her. Now that she has the will of the Queen Mother, her father can no longer help her. I guess my father doesn't know about this, right?"

Zhen Zhong's mind was already in a mess, and he barely had a little reason left: "Brother, where did this news come from? Who said it?! Is it reliable?!"

Zhao Mo didn't tell him the source, but put up a third finger: "The third thing, Lan Fusheng actually found out that his wife's pregnancy was fake, so he repeatedly secretly inquired, intending to expose his wife, in order to help Aunt Lan eradicate the main room, who knows that bad luck made the Wang family vigilant, set a trap and beat a rake, exposing the truth that he poisoned Zhao Qi and blamed his wife." I'm afraid my father doesn't know about this, right?"

Zhen Zhong's eyes widened, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.