Chapter 59: Staying Up All Night
Tuoba Yuan rode a fast horse to the prince's mansion, and it took less than half a pillar of incense to see that the gate of the mansion was still tightly closed, he immediately frowned, and immediately asked people to come forward and knock on the door.
"Your Highness." The one who opened the door was the subordinate who served Tuoba Jun on weekdays, and saluted respectfully.
"Where is the prince now?" Tuoba Yuan opened his mouth and went straight to the point, his sharp eyes scanning his face.
The subordinate's face changed slightly when he heard this, but he didn't dare to close the door of the mansion, and he couldn't say it, so it took a long time to spit out a few words intermittently, "Prince, I didn't return last night......
He lowered his head and didn't look at Tuoba Yuan's eyes, and his legs were actually so frightened that they were about to weaken.
Tuoba Yuan's face showed a look of shock, and the corners of his lips curled up as if he was smiling, and then asked: "At this moment, it is the time of the early dynasty, and my father and emperor saw that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had not gone to the Jinluan Palace, so he specially ordered me to come and check."
"Why did the prince not return overnight? Could it be an accident, or is it ...... If it's really life-threatening, I'll go to my father and search for Tuoba Jun's whereabouts throughout the capital! ”
The subordinate hesitated whether to tell the truth, but as soon as he heard that he was going to tell the emperor about this, he immediately looked panicked and shook his head: "Prince....... Since I went to Taoyao Tower yesterday evening, I haven't come back. ”
Of course, Tuoba Yuan had heard of Taoyao Tower.
The Fengyue place that has recently emerged in the capital can attract many dignitaries and nobles to go, and it is also a luxurious gold cave.
Although Taoyao Lou is different from the usual hook column, in the final analysis, it is a place of indulgence and decadence, but it is just more vassal and elegant.
At present, Tuoba Jun has not yet been married, so he dares to stay in that kind of place?
"You are not a small person, you dare to slander the reputation of the crown prince, beware of me telling him in the future, let him cut off your head!" Tuoba Yuan rolled his eyes and pretended to be annoyed and rebuked.
The subordinate knelt on the ground violently, and kept begging for mercy: "Your Royal Highness spares your life, the slave is not half a lie."
Tuoba Yuan didn't pay any attention to it, and after taking out the news of Tuoba Jun, he quickly got on the horse and left.
When I arrived at the Jinluan Hall again, the early dynasty was almost over.
"Where is the prince?" Out of the corner of his eye, the emperor stared at Tuoba Yuan, who walked in, and there was still no one behind him.
"Father, the son went to the prince's mansion and learned that ......" He pretended to be embarrassed and stopped, with joy hidden in his eyes.
The emperor thought that he had some scruples, and when he saw this, he shouted coldly: "Is there anything that can't be said until now?" You only tell the facts, and I will decide the rest for you. ”
"The prince is in Taoyao Tower." Tuoba Yuan opened his mouth with just a few words, causing the ministers' eyes to widen in disbelief, and the Jinluan Hall was dumbfounded.
The emperor's face gradually turned pale, a result that he had not expected at all.
If the prince carelessly oversleeps, but he is greedy for pleasure in that kind of place, and he misses the early dynasty because of this, isn't this a joke for the people of the world to see?
After all, the candidate for this prince was personally chosen by him at the beginning.
Isn't this just a slap in the face again?
"Go to Taoyao Tower, I really want to see what this rebel wants today!" The emperor walked down from the dragon chair angrily, and did not say anything about retreating from the dynasty, and the ministers and officials behind him had to follow.
The emperor's guard of honor went to Taoyao Tower, and the original guests had never seen this meeting, so they were so shocked that they left one after another.
"This ......" Xia Yin greeted him with a kind smile, although he had never seen the emperor, he knew the dragon robe on his body.
"Your Majesty." Everyone knelt down, even if it was the first time, there could be no problem with this proper etiquette.
Li Changge and Tuoba Truss sat in the compartment on the second floor, the bead curtain covered the true faces of the two, and the tea fragrance emanated from the dragon well brewed before the rain on the table.
One scanned everything that was happening downstairs with a lazy face, and the other had a playful smile on his face, which was quite triumphant.
"Where is the Prince?" The emperor swept over the women in front of him, and his solemn face was not angry.
"Your Highness......" Xia Yin's eyes unconsciously looked at a side room behind him, but there was not much more on his lips.
The Emperor took her actions into account and strode towards the chamber behind her.
Xia Yin hooked his red lips and quickly stepped forward.
The eunuch pushed the door of the chamber open, and the scene inside was unsightly.
Several women were disheveled and thrown to the ground, with only a big red mandarin duck playing in the belly pocket on their bodies, and the man lying in it was Tuoba Jun.
The Yiren woke up at this time, and hid in the corner of the bed in horror with their respective clothes.
Until he saw that the person who came was the emperor, he immediately cried and knelt down and shouted: "Please also ask the emperor to be the master of the little girl, the slave family is a geisha in Taoyaolou, and he doesn't do anything out of the ordinary."
"But yesterday the prince came to let our sisters have fun with him, and he forced him as the prince, so the slave family didn't dare to disobey." Her face was covered with tears, deliberately revealing suspicious marks on her shoulders.
The emperor has naturally heard of the rules of Taoyao Building, although he is the emperor, it is inconvenient for him to directly intervene in the affairs of the shopping mall.
Hearing what Yiren said, the emperor immediately became angry, stepped forward and kicked Tuoba Jun hard.
"Who dares to kick me?" Tuoba Jun was woken up in an instant, and saw that it was the emperor who beat people, and he was so frightened that the six gods were left without a master, "Father ...... Emperor"
"It turns out that you still have me as the father in your eyes, how did you tell me in the past? Today's events really disappointed me, if you don't want this crown prince, you can replace it with someone else! ”
The emperor drank like thunder, his face was pale, and the green tendons on his neck could be seen clearly.
Tuoba Jun's face changed dramatically when he heard this, and he was so shocked that he rolled down from the bed directly, and couldn't care about anything else: "Please also ask my father to calm his anger, and my sons don't know why it became like this, this matter is clearly strange......"
He just watched a dance that day, but he fainted inexplicably, unconscious until now, and he doesn't know what happened next.
How the other women in this room came to this room really had nothing to do with him.
But the emperor didn't believe his words, and whoever saw this scene would no longer believe that these people could still be innocent.
"If you don't know, then why are these women here? You have repeatedly failed to know the checkpoints, and when I came over, there were still people crying and asking me to redress her grievances! ”
The emperor felt more and more gloomy, and then dismissed his ministers, ordered Tuoba Jun to return to the palace to receive fifty boards, and then angrily shook his sleeves and left.
Someone soon reported the matter to Tuoba Truss and Li Changge.
She lowered her eyes and fell on her legs, and her eyebrows twisted a little solemnly, in the past, Taoyaolou had made a rule that she would not embarrass a woman, but now, ......
Tuoba Juan nodded with a chuckle, and his deep phoenix eyes stared at the small face of the woman in front of him, and he could naturally understand why she was worried.
"Those women didn't really break their bodies, they all volunteered, Tuoba Jun is not worthy of being involved in your Taoyao Building!" He was worried that she would misunderstand, so he simply explained it directly without concealment.
"Are you ......" Li Changge raised his gaze when he heard this, he was slightly stunned at first, and then he understood his intentions, and a slight smile appeared on his face.
"Aren't you afraid that the prince will come to investigate this matter in the future?" Thinking of this, the smile on the corner of her mouth gradually cooled again, and she couldn't help but feel a little worried in her heart.
Tuoba Truss didn't think so, and picked up the rain in front of the table and sipped it lightly, his cunning expression mixed with sinisterity: "Let's wait until he is punished."
Even if Tuoba Jun really wants to investigate this matter in the future, it depends on whether he gives him this opportunity.
Some things are not necessarily the result, and there may be broken vines.
Prince's Mansion.
Tuoba Jun was only after receiving the punishment and was carried back from the palace, and even the imperial doctor did not dare to invite him at this time, so he still asked his subordinates to invite the doctor, and it took several hours just to take the medicine.
"Can you move lightly, the last medicine requires you to be so grinding, it hurts so much that His Royal Highness's body is about to stiffen, is it sincere? Get out of here! Tuoba Jun lay on the bed and wailed, and there were some marks of being beaten on his back.
The doctor next to him accidentally touched his shirt and was pushed to the ground by him.
"The grass people deserve to die, please forgive His Royal Highness the Prince!" The doctor endured the pain and got up from the ground, carefully lifted the medicine box and exited.
When the people outside the house saw this scene, few dared to enter at all.
This is already the fifth doctor to be driven away, and no one wants to lift their heads up.
This time the emperor was furious, and those executioners in the palace did not dare to be soft, the last time the grounding had only passed, and it seemed that the body would not be better if he did not lie down for ten days and half a month.
"Someone!" Tuoba Jun looked at the tea on the table, and felt more and more dry in his throat.
Immediately, a subordinate ran in when he heard the sound, respectfully poured the tea and handed it over.
The subordinate turned around and was about to leave, but he suddenly shouted, and turned back tremblingly: "Your Highness......"
"You go and find out who the owner behind Taoyao Tower is!" Tuoba Jun commanded, drinking the tea in the cup, and the teacup was discarded aside.
The man knelt on the spot and did not move, seeing that Tuoba Jun was about to get angry again, he hurriedly stepped forward to explain.
"Your Royal Highness, presumably now that the emperor has not let go of the Taoyao Tower, why do you bother to touch this mold again, the slave heard that it was two women working together to do it, but I don't know anything else."
Tuoba Jun pondered his words, thinking that they were not all unreasonable.
The punishment this time is really wrongful, but there is no evidence to prove his innocence, and he can't even find the person behind it.
Is this a waste of time?
"Who came to the house that day to ask me where I was?" Tuoba Jun asked again.
The subordinate raised his hand and scratched his head, thinking of the scene of that day, and simply told the truth: "The four princes came that day, and he also said that he would tell the emperor about it, and the servants remember it clearly."
Tuoba Jun's eyes were gloomy, and he didn't say anything more and directly asked his subordinates to retreat.
I thought it was Tuoba Truss's ghost, but it turned out that he actually fell for Tuoba Yuan's plan this time!
Tuoba Jun recuperated in the house for nearly a month, during which Tuoba Jun went to visit but was stopped by his subordinates because it was inconvenient to see guests.