It's one thing to be an emperor to doubt a person's character, and it's another thing to continue to use that person. Therefore, although the emperor had a lot www.biquge.info of dissatisfaction with Lao Keqin at this time, this would not affect the decision he had already made, that is, to send the Lao family's men and horses to the southwest. Lao Keqin still needs to use this person, at least before the army is launched, Lao Keqin must not have any accidents.

Inevitably had a lot of dreams at night, and the emperor had to ask Qin Tianjian to choose a recent time to arrange for the third prince to marry Princess Huali.

And although Xi Cui was not involved in all this, she knew every step of the way things were developing. In addition to the letter that Qi Yu wrote to her, Yu Feng would also tell her everything that happened outside.

The two most important events in the capital are not the deaths of those officials, but the funeral of the Wang family and the marriage of the three princes.

After seven days of setting up the spirit, it finally came the day of the royal family's funeral. Because the Queen Mother and Concubine Ju have been guarding the spirit of the Wang family for the past few days, almost all around the Wang family have been Praetorian Guards these days. Although Liu Chen did not personally lead people to guard it, he also came to the scene three times a day to inspect. Although there is also his own sister Linglong's spiritual position inside, Liu Chen really did not care about it.

Lixiang Huixiang entered the Wang family in advance according to Xi Cui's instructions and followed Wang Shaomei's side, and after Concubine Ju entered the Wang family, they took over the two palace maids who served by Concubine Ju's side. Concubine Ju was also startled at first, but fortunately, the Queen Mother helped persuade them a few words, so she didn't let Concubine Ju drive them away.

The Wang family is now surrounded by the Praetorian Guards like an iron bucket, and Lixiang and the others can't pass on the news at all. It's easy to come to the day of the funeral, Xi Cui can enter the Wang family openly, and I'm afraid what happened can only be known if I have seen them.

On this day, the door of the king's house was wide open, although there was an endless stream of visitors, it was surprisingly quiet, people came in plain clothes, put on incense, and then stood silently aside.

The sound of monks chanting scriptures continued to be heard in the wing room next to the mourning hall, echoing with the wisps of green smoke on the mourning hall and the continuous arrival of sandalwood.

When Xi Cui arrived, there were already many people who had already made incense. The incense burner on the incense table has been inserted to the brim, Xi Cui followed Yu Feng forward, lit the incense and saluted, and found a place to insert the incense in his hand into the incense burner. The Queen Mother sat next to the coffin with her head bowed, Concubine Ju and Wang Shaomei knelt on the side of the Queen Mother, and Wang Shaoyan and Yun Ting knelt on the other side.

After staring at Yun Ting for a while, and making sure that Yun Ting was safe and sound, Xi Cui put her eyes on Concubine Ju with confidence, looking for traces of Lixiang Huixiang.

Wang Shaomei was the first to discover Xi Cui, and watched silently as Xi Cui stood behind the crowd after finishing incense, and then took the opportunity to touch Xi Cui's side, patted Xi Cui's shoulder, and pulled Xi Cui to a corner where no one was. "Huixiang said that you are going to take Shaoju away this time? But really? The old lady said some strange things to me before she died, it seems that Shaoju will be implicated sooner or later if she continues to stay in the palace, and it is difficult to say whether she can save her life or not. My aunt also said that she wanted us to cooperate with you and let Shaoju leave the capital forever. But I don't understand, they won't tell me what happened, Shaoju is obviously pregnant, doesn't having this child mean that her position in the palace can be very solid? Why take her away at this time? ”

Pregnant? After listening to Wang Shaomei's words, Xi Cui was struck by lightning! Wang Shaoju was pregnant at this time? Does the Third Prince know about this? According to Qi Yu, the plan of the three princes is that the emperor dies, there is no heir, and his brother succeeds to the throne. But if the child in Wang Shaoju's belly is known by anyone, it may destroy all his plans. And she didn't expect such a situation, and promised Wang Shangshu to protect Wang Shaoju and leave! Ridiculous! It's ridiculous! This matter is done, and she Xi Cui is a thorn in the eye of the third prince. No, she couldn't get out of it if she knew about it! Wang Shangshu ...... Ginger is really old and spicy!

"Why don't you speak? What's going on? Wang Shaomei urged, "I can't come out for too long, but my aunt has been sending people to keep an eye on me, and she explicitly forbade me to tell anyone about Shaoju's pregnancy." Even the emperor was kept secret from her. ”

Yes, even the emperor didn't know, but he told you to know. Obviously sent someone to stare at you, but watched you pull me over without stopping it, does the queen mother's purpose need to be said? She just deliberately told you to tell me everything, maybe Reika and Huixiang also knew. In this way, I became a grasshopper tied to the same rope as the Wang family, either living or dying together!

"You go back first, don't make people suspicious, I have my own arrangements for Concubine Ju, if the Queen Mother asks, you can tell her that I will do what I say." After Xi Cui finished speaking, he turned around and left, leaving Wang Shaomei with an inexplicable expression.

When she went back, the Queen Mother really asked her what she had just done, but she went to see Xi Cui. Wang Shaomei replied to the Queen Mother according to Xi Cui's words, and the Queen Mother smiled slightly after hearing this, and did not speak again.

After the spirits are raised, the guests can basically disperse on their own.

Xi Cui only saw Lixiang and Huixiang at this time, and there were also Mother Qi and Mother Mu with them. The four of them seemed to be talking about something together, and Reika Huixiang meditated absent-mindedly, but had to reluctantly stay there. It seems that he was dragged by two mothers.

Xi Cui smiled, walked over, didn't say hello to the two mothers, and pulled Lixiang Huixiang away. It was the first time for Mother Qi to see Xi Cui's attitude towards herself so coldly, and she was inevitably a little sad. Mother Mu was relieved, "Although I don't know why the Queen Mother wants us to pester Lixiang and Huixiang, I probably guess that it must be related to Xi Cui, and now I understand Xi Cui's attitude." We, I'm afraid we've caused Xi Cui some trouble this time! Maybe Xi Cui thought in her heart that we had betrayed her, but she seemed to have forgotten that we were just slaves who obeyed the master's orders, and we couldn't make our own decisions about many things......"

After hearing this, Mother Qi sighed and followed Mother Mu to other places.

Lixiang and Huixiang really knew about Concubine Ju's pregnancy, but the Queen Mother's people followed them almost inseparably, so that they couldn't find any chance to send the news out. Even Zhao Fazi, who has a good relationship with Huixiang on weekdays, has been taken care of by the Queen Mother, and they say that they are serving Concubine Ju these days, but in fact, they have been arranged to serve the Queen Mother closely.

Although it was expected, Xi Cui smiled helplessly after hearing this, and the Wang family ......

According to expectations, after the funeral, the Queen Mother and Concubine Ju should return to the palace. Liu Chen personally brought someone over to pick up people this time, but his men waited at the Wang family for two hours and did not see the car of the Queen Mother and Concubine Ju, and even the Wang family did not come back. Finally, Liu Chen couldn't sit still, and led his people to the direction of the cemetery.

Out of town, he finally realized that something was wrong.

The road that was supposed to be the one who sent the spirit back was clean, and there was not even a blank piece of paper to be found, which means that no one took this road at all. But there are more than 100 people in the team to send the spirit, even if you don't take this road and go to other places, there should be a lot of movement, but there is a dead silence around here, and even a little eerie and terrifying.

Liu Chen made a gesture, signaling his subordinates to be careful of the ambush, slowing down and continuing to move forward.

The team had walked about two miles before they heard the sound of people shouting for help. Liu Chen's people hurriedly ran over to take a look, and it was actually a spirit giver lying in a deep ditch on the side of the road covered in blood, and there were more than a dozen corpses piled up around him, and they were all dressed as spirit deliverers.

After carrying the man up, Liu Chen asked what was going on. It turned out that after burying the bodies of the Wang family, they were ready to go back with the designated route. Unexpectedly, after walking a few steps, a large group of black-clothed people wielding swords suddenly appeared, they didn't say anything or ask anything, and they came up with a burst of slashing and killing. Most of the guards only cared about protecting the Empress Dowager and Concubine Ju, and they didn't care about the life or death of these spirit deliverers, so almost all of his brothers were killed. He had escaped by fainting, and when he woke up, he found himself crushed underneath the corpse. Liu Chen asked him where he could see where the Empress Dowager and Concubine Ju went, the man thought for a while and shook his head, saying that he only knew that those people in black seemed to say that the key was to arrest Concubine Ju, and the Empress Dowager could ignore it. For the rest, he didn't know anything.

Liu Chen looked at him as if he was really frightened, so he didn't continue to ask. found someone to go back to the palace to report the news to the emperor, and he himself led someone to follow the footprints.

When the emperor heard that the Empress Dowager and Concubine Ju had been assassinated, he immediately panicked, and on the one hand, he ordered the yamen of all the states and counties around the capital to send people to find out the news, and on the other hand, he sent out all his secret guards, and found Concubine Ju no matter what. The queen mother thought that she was hiding from everyone when Concubine Ju was pregnant, so he just let her go for the sake of Concubine Ju's safety. But I don't want this to happen now, Concubine Ju is pregnant with his first child! You must know that he and the queen have been married for nearly ten years, and there are many concubines and aunts in his house when he is still the prince, but he has no children. Now that there is finally such one, don't let anything go wrong.

On the other side, Liu Chen's people chased the chariot and horse imprints all the way to a Zhuangzi, and found the Queen Mother who was tied up in a secret room and was unconscious. And the people around the Queen Mother died, the dead and wounded, and the news that Liu Chen got from the mouths of those who were still alive was that Concubine Ju was taken away by those people.

As for where it went, they don't know.

Liu Chen asked the queen mother to escort her back to the palace, and then he continued to stay and investigate.

On the other hand, the emperor's secret guard also found the Zhuangzi, not long after Liu Chen left. However, as soon as the guards entered Zhuangzi, they were ambushed, and they barely escaped after being injured more than halfway.

The emperor's search for Concubine Ju with such fanfare caused a storm in the city for a while, and the streets and alleys were talking about the degree of favor of Concubine Ju, and simply said that Concubine Ju was a demon girl who confused the emperor's heart, and made an emperor go crazy for a woman.

For three days in a row, Concubine Ju never had any news, and even the news handed back by her secret guard became less and less. The emperor suddenly had a premonition that something didn't seem right, so he hurriedly ordered the recall of those secret guards, but a whole day passed after the news was sent, and none of his secret guards came back to their lives. In a hurry, the emperor ordered Liu Chen to enter the palace quickly, and Liu Chen had already returned to the palace that night.

The emperor didn't tell Liu Chen about the secret guard, but only asked him if he had any clues he had found recently. Liu Chen was silent for a long time, and instead of answering him directly, he took out a cone-shaped poison dart from his arms. And the Dart Emperor also had one in his hand, which was found by his secret guard from the scene where those officials were killed when they were killed one after another. According to the Dark Guard, such a dart is very ordinary, but the poison on it is unique, and ordinary people can't make it. Liu Chen wrapped the dart in silver foil, the surface of the silver foil was already obviously blackened, although he didn't say anything, the emperor had already concluded that this dart did belong to the same person as the one found by the secret guard before.

Lao Keqin! The emperor gritted his teeth and didn't let himself shout this name, but he didn't expect that he would spare him again and again, but in exchange for his kindness, he would take revenge! Did he really think that with a Lao family as a backer, the emperor couldn't help him?

After Liu Chen withdrew, he calmly walked a distance of two or three hundred steps, and suddenly his legs went weak and he almost collapsed to the ground. He looked around vigilantly, making sure that no one had noticed him, and then he settled down and continued walking.

The wedding of the three princes and Princess Huali was held as scheduled.

The wedding has added some customs unique to the country of Jinyi, and the bride's friends are present to weave a wreath for the bride to send blessings before the ceremony. So Xi Cui was once again pulled away by Princess Huali early. Because Lixiang and Huixiang were not there, there was only one Lingxiang by Xi Cui's side to protect, Yufeng was not very relieved, but he couldn't find a suitable person to follow Xi Cui, and in the end he went on the field in person, almost inseparable from Xi Cui.

Fortunately, the customs of Zhenyi Country don't particularly care about the difference between men and women, and Baituo and several of his guards are also present, otherwise Yufeng should really be a little embarrassed to be alone among a group of women.

Huali has few friends here, but the custom of Zhenyi is that the more wreaths the bride receives before the wedding, the happier she will be in the future, so Xi Cui came here and sat there to weave wreaths for Huali without doing anything.

The wedding went much smoother than expected, and almost all the ministers of the DPRK and China came, except for the Wang family and the Lao family. The three princes toasted the guests one by one, and when they began to stagger, the queen arrived. also brought a gift from the emperor, and the third prince had to call Huali out to talk to the queen, while he himself hid aside to vomit.

The queen actually didn't have anything to say to Princess Huali, and after a few polite words, she glanced at the three princes' side, and it seemed that the imperial doctor had handed a pill to her, and it seemed that the third prince's body was really as the imperial doctor said. After the queen left, the third prince drank with everyone for a while before returning to the cave room.

Before that, Huali kept pulling Xi Cui to prevent her from leaving, saying that it was too boring to sit in it alone, and she had to ask Xi Cui to accompany her. Obviously, Princess Chaoyang can accompany her, but Huali has to pester Xi Cui. Yu Feng had to stay outside and watch the three princes drink, but he kept a gloomy face, and those guests were scared away by his eyes when they wanted to drink with the three princes. In the end, the third prince finally found that no one was drinking with him, so he turned around and walked in the direction of the new house.

Yu Feng saw him move away and walked away, and followed in three or two steps, the third prince thought that he wanted to help himself, and just wanted to praise him, he saw him directly cross over to the front and knocked on the door of the new house, "Xi Cui, the third prince is back, let's go home!" ”

Xi Cui answered the door crisply and walked out, and the third prince only walked up the steps at this time. Yu Feng pulled Xi Cui and walked down the steps briskly without even looking at him, leaving the third prince with a gust of wind.

The third prince looked back at their figures, raised his eyebrows, shook his head, sighed, and stretched out his hand to push the door open......

Second, Japan should enter the palace to thank him, but the third prince did not go under the pretext of being unwell, and the three **** did not even go to the early court.

Princess Huali is married, but it is time for Baituo to go back. But who should be sent to escort him back to the southwest, the emperor began to worry. Lao Keqin can't let go of this person no matter what, Concubine Ju is still in his hands, but why did he kidnap Concubine Ju, but he has never figured it out.

On this day, Baituo entered the palace and handed over the post, and set a plan to return to Zhenyi in three days.

The Lao family naturally received the news early, but the news that Lao Keqin led the troops to escort him was delayed, and Uncle Lao couldn't hold his breath. As I said last time, the emperor won't regret it at this time, right? In the end, he still waited for the emperor's news, to be precise, an order, to ask him to enter the palace with Lao Keqin.

The place where the Emperor met their father and son was in the Imperial Garden of the Imperial Palace, and although it was already night, it was still as bright as daytime. The Emperor sat at a round table, saw them come in, and beckoned them directly to sit opposite him.

Accompanying the emperor is Gao Deshun, who has been following the emperor on weekdays. After the two sat down, Gao Deshun hurriedly added wine and prepared dishes.

The emperor took a bite casually, then looked up at Lao Keqin, "Keqin, you and I grew up together, and I am even closer to you than those of my own brothers, you know this, right?" ”

Lao Keqin nodded, his narrow eyes narrowed, and his smile was stiff.

The Emperor continued, "I can help you suppress the assassination of those officials, because I treat you as a brother." But shouldn't you explain to me about Concubine Ju? ”

Lao Keqin twisted his head to the side, glanced at Uncle Lao Guo, then looked at the emperor opposite him, and picked up the wine glass in front of him, "What did the emperor say, Keqin didn't understand very well. But there's one thing I know very well...... You said we were brothers, and that was when you could use me, right? Now that there is no need for it, he thinks of sending me far away to the southwest, and adding some trumped-up charges to me before leaving! I don't know what court officials, what Concubine Ju! Even if you are the emperor and want to punish me, you should show evidence, right? My family has worked hard to send you to this throne step by step, is it just to let you take revenge? ”

"Presumptuous!" The emperor and Uncle Lao almost stopped in unison, and he continued to talk nonsense.

The emperor was okay, he adjusted his clothes and adjusted his emotions, and Uncle Lao Guo's face was already blue with fright. Quickly stood up, bent over and pressed Lao Keqin's head to apologize to the emperor.

But Lao Keqin didn't bow his head head, and looked at the emperor with a wicked smile and said, "Don't worry, Dad, he won't touch us at this time." First, if I die, the little military power left by our Lao family will not be so easy for him to get his hands on, and second, doesn't he think that Concubine Ju is still in our hands? (To be continued.) )