Chapter 28: The Truth

Zuo Xiang took his guards and cronies to the prince's mansion overnight. Jing Hong, who was about to rest, heard Hei Yi whispering outside that Zuo Xiang was here and had something urgent to tell.

Jing Hong hurriedly got up and asked Hei Yi to lead Zuo Xiang to his study to wait. Jing Hong knew that Zuo Xiang was a safe person, and if it wasn't for the big event, he would never take the risk of coming late at night.

When Jing Hong rushed to the study, he saw that Zuo Xiang's eyes were red and swollen, as if he had just cried, and he was stunned.

When Zuo Xiang saw Jing Hong coming in, he threw himself in front of him, knelt at his feet and cried loudly. The prince hurriedly helped Zuo Xiang to get up: "Zuo Xiang, what's wrong with you? ”

Zuo Xiang's face was full of tears and his face was very embarrassed, and he said while crying: "I just know that Yan Zhao was killed by someone, and my mother and sister were also killed by someone." I want revenge, I want them not to die well, I want them to ......"

Jing Hong's words were like being struck by lightning, and his eyes stared at Zuo Xiang in a daze. In his previous life and in his current life, Jing Hong had never heard that his mother was killed. Also, the left minister is called Yan Zhao, and there are almost no people in this world who can be close to his mother Yan Zhao......

Jing Hong helped Zuo Xiang sit on the chair, Zuo Xiang wiped his face with his sleeve, took out a note that he crumpled into a ball and handed it to Jing Hong. Jing Hong unfolded the note and wrote: I know the cause of the death of your mother and the former queen, if you want the truth, first keep my family safe and leave.

Zuo Xiang said: "This font was quietly handed to me by Chen Yu, the eldest palace maid of the Huang family, in the afternoon, she is the son of the Huang family, her parents are no longer there, and her brother and sister-in-law and niece are in the Huang family." Chen Yu's mother used to be Ren's dowry maid, and later married a subordinate, gave birth to a daughter Chen Yu, gave birth to a son, and is now the second master's steward......"

Jing Hong asked suspiciously: "Why would Chen Yu take such a big risk to betray the queen and do something informing?"

"Huang's mother and daughter have the same virtue, never treat others well, punish people everywhere if they do wrong, and don't see any rewards for good things. I thought about it carefully, this Chen Yu is backlashing at this time, I'm afraid it's for her to get out of the palace and get married, Chen Yu is twenty years old this year, and the flowering period has passed for women. It may be that Chen Yu is capable or she knows what the queen has done, so the queen doesn't want her to leave the palace, and the queen usually beats and scolds her when she is angry, and she hates her. ”

Jing Hong thought for a while: "Since she gave you this font, it means that what she said is true nine times out of ten." We want to know everything, so we have to let her brother's family leave safely before letting her out of the palace. This should be planned carefully. ”

"They are born of a family, and it is impossible for them to leave in the light. I can only find a way to make them disappear, so that people feel that they are not running away, but dead, so as not to startle the snake. ”

Jing Hong nodded: "I'll ask someone to get a few road guides for them first, and then let people send them away from Chang'an, the farther away the better." ”

The two of them discussed all night behind closed doors, planning carefully. Before leaving, Zuo Xiang said hatefully: "I will definitely want them to pay for their blood debts, and I want them to go to the funeral for my dearest." With that, he hurried away.

Jing Hong knew that his mother was killed, his heart was painful and angry, he was in the same mood as Zuo Xiang, and he must pay for the blood debt of the person who harmed her.

They went according to plan.

Jing Hong asked Hei Yi to tell Chen Yu's brother Chen Fu, and a few days later he took his family to Linyun Temple to light the lantern for his deceased parents. Zuo Xiang gave news to Chen Yu here, and after getting the news of her brother-in-law's niece's death, he excused himself to leave the palace for a funeral.

A few days later, Chen Fu reported to the steward that his parents' death day was coming, and he wanted to take his family to Linyun Temple to light two everlasting lamps for his parents, and the steward agreed to give them a day off, and Chen Fu took his family to rent a carriage to Linyun Temple.

The carriage rented by Chen Fu was a black one, and the carriage ran towards Linyun Temple. More than an hour later, Chen Fu's family changed their clothes, got into another carriage and left quickly on the left side road. Hei Yi drove the carriage on the mountain road and ran faster and faster, and when he was halfway up the mountain, Hei Yi exclaimed: Quickly dodge, startled the horse. Occasionally, pedestrians hurriedly dodged the speeding carriage, and in full view of everyone, the horse broke free from its restraints and ran away, and then the body rolled down the cliff. Everyone panicked, and shouted continuously: "Help, someone fell down the mountain, hurry, run to Linyun Temple to find someone to save people......"

When the monk of Linyun Temple rushed to the bottom of the mountain with a group of people, he saw that the body was broken into a lot of pieces, scattered around the bottom of the mountain, and there were a few people who could not see their faces on the road, and their breath was completely gone. Hei Yi, who was mixed in the crowd, stared at the dead people and thought: I finally picked out a few people of similar height and shape from the pile of dead people, and I have to change their clothes, is it easy for me?

He followed the crowd to clean up the corpse, waited for the official to come to check, and then took the corpse back to the official office with them, waiting for them to find the Huangfu waist card from the deceased, and went to the Huangfu to ask if anyone in the mansion had gone to Linyun Temple today. After the Huang Mansion sent someone to confirm that the deceased was Chen Fu's family, he asked someone to inform Chen Yu to leave the palace for the funeral. Hei Yicai quietly turned around and went back to the prince's mansion to tell his master the whole story. The prince was satisfied: "Very good, reward." ”

The crown prince knew that in order for his subordinates to be loyal, they had to be rewarded and punished clearly. His black guards were the most capable, then the white guards, and the blue guards. For the guards who have families, the reward is gold and silver. The gains obtained by the guards when they go out to perform any tasks do not need to be handed in, they belong to themselves or share equally with their companions. For those who have no home and no silver or gold, they are promoted by merit: from blue to white, and from white to black. After becoming a black guard, the credit has accumulated a lot, and if the prince wins in the future......

Meritorious service is every man's ideal, and it is every man's dream to become a marquis, and the black guards who don't want to worship the marquis are not good guards. The crown prince didn't mind the ambitions of his guards, and he promised that he would try to lead them to achieve their ambitions.

When Chen Yu received the news that his brother and sister-in-law's family fell to death on the way to Linyun Temple, he almost fainted on the spot. She knelt down and begged the queen to cry and said, "Niangniang, the slave and maid have no relatives anymore, let the slave and maid give them a ride and handle the funeral for them." ”

The queen said impatiently: "Bad luck, you have to cry and go out of the palace to cry." You hurry up, come back when the work is done, and don't come to the palace with a sad face. ”

Chen Yu saw that his master was so ruthless and unrighteous, and he was so angry that his fake crying turned into real crying.

Chen Yu bought three thin coffins and went to Yizhuang to collect the bodies of her brother and sister-in-law nieces, and she bought a piece of wasteland on the outskirts of the city to bury them. At dusk, she was wearing a filial piety robe, kneeling by the grave and burning paper, and a person gently came over and stood beside her and asked, "Do you leave the palace now or leave after returning to the palace?"

Chen Yu looked up at the man: "Are they safe?"

"They are very safe, they have been given a new identity, they have bought a house for them to live in, they have a sum of money to settle in, and they have arranged for them to start a small business, so that they will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives, and they will no longer have to wait for others. If you want to be reunited with them, I will send you there as soon as I see my master. ”

Chen Yu said: "No, I won't leave now, I will go back to the palace to help you avenge." It's just ...... then."

The man said, "You can tell my master about this, and I think he will give you a satisfactory answer." ”

"When are you going to see your master?"

"Now. ”

In the middle of the night, Chen Yu was disguised as a manservant and brought into the prince's mansion.