Chapter 355: The Imperial City Takes the Throne 9
The Imperial Forest Army looked at each other, and in the face of the emotional clergy, their hearts were very entangled.
Luo Jia glanced at everyone, and finally moved his gaze to the high priest, and chuckled lightly, as if he had met an acquaintance on the street and asked, "High priest, your believers are really fanatical~"
The high priest waved at the clergy and said, "Stand down, all of you." ”
"High Priest!" The clergy said excitedly, they didn't expect the high priest to surrender so easily, it must have been the crown prince's fault! Everyone stared at Luo Jia with hateful eyes, eager to cut him with a thousand knives.
In the eyes of everyone's hatred, Luo Jia looked very at ease, and he didn't feel panicked at all, but ordered his subordinates: "Don't do it yet?" Take down the high priest for me. ”
"Yes!" The Guards responded loudly, and it seemed more important to save their lives now than to be damned.
The group of Imperial Foresters was about to step forward to take down the High Priest, but they were stopped by the High Priest with his eyes, and only to hear his warm voice sound, "I can go with you, but please spare the people of the temple, they don't know anything." ”
Luo Jia didn't bother to feel uncomfortable in this matter, anyway, his purpose was just to take away the high priest and find the jade seal, as for those little minions, as long as they didn't come to trouble, he didn't care.
"Please rest assured, High Priest, this palace will not embarrass the people of the temple."
What Luo Jia said was not convincing, and the clergy who was lying in front of him who was already dead was simply a slap in the face, and when the Imperial Forest Army and the clergy clashed just now. There are also a lot of casualties, and it's a joke to say that it's not embarrassing.
But the high priest also had a good psychological quality, and he really listened to it as a joke, with a little smile on the corner of his mouth, and said: "In this case, thank you to the prince, let's go." ”
Seeing that the high priest was so obedient, Luo Jia always felt that there was fraud in it, and he glanced at the high priest sharply. The latter continued to look back at him with warm and harmless eyes. is pure, he looks like a villain.
It was as if a hard, indestructible spear had been inserted into the mud, though it was easy to do. But it's not easy to crush it. Luo Jia's mood at the moment is delicate.
His gaze sank. Said coldly: "Take it down!" ”
The matter of the crown prince Luo Jia's arrest of the high priest of the temple, I don't know who leaked the news, it was obviously a secret thing. Now it is rumored in the imperial city, although the people don't know the specific reason, but just because the high priest was arrested, the people's support for Luo Jia is much lower.
After all, the status of the temple is very extraordinary in Yaguo, after such an incident, Luo Jia's actions have become difficult, and the soldiers who blockaded the imperial city are often attacked and insulted by the local people, and when they really want to seriously arrest those people, the provocative people have run away without a trace.
Such a powerless affair lasted for several days, and Luo Jia, who was still handling the government affairs on behalf of the emperor, was annoyed by the reports from his subordinates, and finally could only grit his teeth and go to the high priest.
The high priest was not imprisoned, because his transcendent position determined that even if he really committed some sin, he should be forgiven in the face of the gods, and all this man was placed in a separate courtyard, heavily guarded.
When Luo Jia walked over, he saw that the high priest had no consciousness of a prisoner at all, and was being served with delicious food and drink, and seemed to have gained a pound or two.
Luo Jia stepped forward and said to the high priest who was drinking tea comfortably: "The high priest is so leisurely~"
The high priest turned his head, smiled at Luo Jia, and said, "It's easy to say, the environment here is quiet, and there are no idle people and other disturbances, and those who have nothing to do every day are indeed very leisurely." ”
Luo Jia's face was cold, he snorted coldly, carried the hem of his clothes, sat opposite the high priest, waved away the guards standing on the side, poured a cup of tea for himself, and said straight to the point: "The high priest still refuses to tell the truth? ”
"I've always told the truth, but unfortunately the prince hasn't believed it." The high priest spread his hands and said that he was very embarrassed.
Luo Jia knew that the magic stick was quite good at fooling people, otherwise how could he instigate his father to pass the throne to that unconscious little girl? He threw the note in his arms on the table and said coldly, "Look what this is." ”
The high priest's expression remained unchanged, he lowered his head, picked up the piece of paper and looked at it, the words on it were the emperor's handwriting, and it was said that he should leave the imperial city as soon as possible with the jade seal to find Princess Zhen Ning.
The high priest read the note several times, and the handwriting did not seem to be fake, and there should be no reason for the prince to come to someone to imitate the emperor's handwriting to slander him, so this note is true.
Luo Jia saw that the high priest had been silent, and his eyebrows were even slowly wrinkled, he chuckled lightly and asked, "The high priest has a good relationship with his father, so he shouldn't be unable to recognize whose handwriting is on it, right?" ”
There are all the human and material evidence, and there seems to be nothing to explain, but at this time, the high priest is still calm, he put the note on the table, and commented pertinently: "This is indeed from the hand of Your Majesty. ”
After Luo Jia heard this, he was a little surprised that the high priest confessed so quickly, and he knew that he should have taken out the note earlier, his eyes narrowed, and he said: "Since the high priest also said this matter in the father's handwriting, then should you ...... it?"
Before Luo Jia could finish speaking, the high priest interrupted, "But the jade seal is not with me. ”
"Smack!" The tea set on the table was knocked over to the ground, and the guards around heard the movement and hurriedly rushed over, and saw Luo Jia looking at the calm high priest with an angry face.
The men cautiously asked, "Prince...... What happened? ”
Luo Jia turned his head and glanced at those people coldly, and replied in a cold voice: "There is nothing for you here, let's all go down." ”
"Yes!" Naturally, the guards were reluctant to bump into the muzzle of their guns at this time. Since Luo Jia said that it was okay, then they should treat it as if there was really nothing to do, and the group of guards returned the same way.
Luo Jia had a calm face, looked at the high priest and said, "It's all at this time, you still want to say no?" High Priest, do you really think that this palace will not dare to understand you? Even if they don't dare to understand you, the group of believers in your temple, this palace can still move. ”
A trace of heaving appeared on the high priest's calm and calm face, "Prince, they don't know about this matter. Why involve unnecessary people? I don't have a jade seal on me. That is, there is no jade seal. ”
Although the jade seal was not on him, the high priest could probably guess where the jade seal was.
Through that note just now, he knew that the emperor intended to hand over the jade seal to him. Probably before the prince forced the palace. I have a vague premonition. But his actions are too obvious, and the jade seal must have been given to him by someone, but in this part of the delivery. But something went wrong, the jade seal was not delivered, but the information fed back to the emperor was delivered.
In this palace, the person who can cover the sky with one hand, except for the queen mother of the lord of the first palace, is Wei Xianzhong, the head of internal affairs.
And one of the emperor's henchmen, that is, the empathetic Duke Wei, since the prince is so enthusiastic and mobilized everyone to find the jade seal, it means that the jade seal is really not on them, so the only one who can contact the jade seal is the Duke of Wei.
No matter what the purpose of this father-in-law is, why did he hide the jade seal behind their backs, but judging from the current results, it is indeed the best choice, and it is better to hand over the jade seal to Luo Jia in tone, it is better to let Wei Xianzhong take it first, and then put down the prince's rebellion, and then it is not too late to take the jade seal back.
The high priest had a small calculation in his heart, and now, he only needed to fool the prince over.
"Say! Where is the jade seal hidden? "Luo Jia has been irritated by those big and small things in the past few days, and his mood is inevitably a little restless, after he took the high priest into custody, he has ordered someone to turn the temple inside and out, and he has not found the jade seal, the original hope has been disappointed, making him anxious, and now seeing that the high priest is so uncooperative, his heart is even more angry.
The high priest glanced at him, and sighed in his heart, from the analysis of the prince's attitude today, he can know that if he doesn't give him an explanation today, I'm afraid it won't work, but what reason should be used to fool this person? The high priest was a little distressed.
In the end, he simply pushed the boat down the river and said, "Yes, the jade seal was indeed in my hands a few days ago." ”
Luo Jia frowned, how many days ago? The other way around, it's not in his hands now, that's what it means?
There was a bit of gnashing of teeth in his words, and Luo Jia paused word by word and asked, "The jade seal has been delivered to the princess?" ”
The high priest's eyebrows moved silently, and he continued to put on a calm and calm appearance, and said, "Yes, a few days ago, the jade seal has been sent out, and now even if the prince detains me here, it will be useless." ”
The high priest didn't wait for the imaginary rage, he raised his head, just in time to see the prince raising his eyebrows, and said with great relief: "It turned out that it was sent to Zhen Ning?" Pity...... What a pity...... I'm afraid that if you send it over, it will be gone. ”
"Oh?" The high priest did not know at this time that the elegy had been poisoned.
Luo Jia didn't have the heart to explain to him, now he just needs to send someone to Guangyang City to take the jade seal back.
Today's elegy has been highly poisoned, and it is in danger, but Guangyang City is a very remote place, a poor and remote place, there is no way to find a decent doctor, and it is impossible to survive.
Therefore, now that the jade seal is not in Zhen Ning's hands, it is not so important, anyway, it will be dead at that time, and in the end, the jade seal will still return to his side after all.
Luo Jia stood up, stood with his hands in his hands, and with the gentle and polite smile on his face, he said, "High Priest, before this prince ascends the throne, please rest in this place now." ”
After saying that, he left without looking back, leaving the high priest there alone and thoughtful.
Why did the prince's attitude change all of a sudden? Could it be that the princess has already encountered an accident during her southern tour?
If so? Is the body hopeless? What should the real Princess Zhen Ning do? Can you regain the initiative of your body? The high priest began to worry about this matter, if the real Princess Zhen Ning was gone, wouldn't that person have to worry about him?
was still breathing a sigh of relief for fooling the prince, but who knew that there would be even more exciting ones in the future!
What to do? So far, it can only be taken one step at a time, since something happened to the emperor, that person will definitely not sit idly by, everything depends on what she does.
The high priest shook his head and stood up, and he was about to take a step under his feet, when the guards behind him surrounded him and looked at him vigilantly, because Luo Jia had not forgotten to tell him before leaving, that he must "take care" of the high priest.
The high priest is not annoyed, anyway, whether it is here or in the temple, he is surrounded by the stars, and now compared with before, it is even more relaxed, and he only needs to eat and wait for death every day, and the difficulty coefficient is not too big.
Thinking of this, the high priest felt a little sorry for the prince, just now he saw that the man's eyes were blue and black, and his face was extremely bad, obviously entangled in trivial things, maybe he still couldn't sleep at night.
Is it bad to be a good prince? Why be in a hurry to rebel? The young man's thoughts were really incomprehensible to an old man like him, and the high priest shook his head as he walked towards his room.
Luo Jia came out of the high priest and went back to the prince's mansion directly, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Qiu Yuezheng walking outside with a pale face, and the two happened to bump into each other.
"Ahh Luo Jia, why did you come back? Qiu Yue saw Luo Jia, a pair of heterochromatic pupils suddenly constricted, and his eyes, which were already a little painful, felt even more painful because of this.
Luo Jia's eyes swept over Qiu Yue, and finally stopped his gaze on Qiu Yue's pale face, he suddenly became nervous, and asked, "Why is your face so bad?" Is it unwell? Do you want to find a doctor? ”
Qiu Yue hurriedly shook his head, squeezed out a reluctant smile, and waved his hand: "No need, I'm not in the way, but you, you haven't rested for several nights, since you're back, go back and rest quickly." ”
Luo Jia nodded, the purpose of his return was also the same plan, he saw that Qiu Yue looked like he was going out, he was a little curious, and asked, "Look at your appearance that you are going out, what's wrong?" Where are you going? ”
"Uh...... It's a little stuffy in the house, and I want to go out to breathe. Qiu Yue hesitated.
"Breathable?" Luo Jia's eyes flashed, he saw Qiu Yue's dodging eyes, paused, then turned around, and said, "Okay, I just want to go out for a walk, then let's go out together." (To be continued.) )