Late at night, Hanjing.

There was a low call from the dormitory of Yichen Palace, Xiao Bei, who was on duty outside, immediately carried a lantern and went in to light the lamp, Zhao Che walked to the table in an apricot yellow bed coat and poured himself a cup of tea, Xiao Bei reminded in a low voice: "Your Highness, the tea is cold." “

Zhao Che was silent, raised his head and drank the tea in one gulp.

His face was very bad, a layer of fine cold sweat appeared on his forehead, Xiaobei put down the lantern to help him knead his temples, and asked with concern: "Your Highness, have you had a nightmare?" “

Zhao Che didn't respond, he drank three cups of tea in a row to suppress the manic depression in his heart, he looked out the window, it was dark outside, there was not even moonlight, I don't know what time it is.

Zhao Che asked, "What time is it?" “

Xiaobei replied: "Your Highness, it's just past the ugly hour, it's still early, you have just slept for two hours, let's sleep for a while." “

Zhao Che shook his head, his eyebrows twisted into Sichuan characters, and walked out of the dormitory to the study.

It's been summer for a few days, and the weather is getting hotter, but the nights are still a little cool. Xiaobei took a coat and put it on Zhao Che, and added a lamp to make the room brighter.

Emperor Hengde's spirit has not been very good these days, all the twists and turns are piled up on Zhao Che's desk, he is not as experienced as Emperor Hengde, he always feels tricky to deal with these official affairs, and if he is not sure, he has to wait for the second day to discuss with Taifu before making a decision, so that the efficiency is reduced by half, and Zhao Che still accumulates a lot of folds when he deals with official business every day and can't deal with it.

Xiaobei was worried that Zhao Che's body would not be able to stand it, so he made a cup of ginseng tea and sent it, but Zhao Che never drank it.

Zhao Che changed his clothes, and according to his habit, he first went to Dongchen Palace to greet Emperor Hengde.

Emperor Hengde had been ill for several months, and there was a strong smell of medicine everywhere in Dongchen Palace.

Zhao Che walked into Dongchen Palace, and Sun Yuehai, the head of internal affairs, greeted him and said eagerly: "Why did Your Highness come so early today?" Your Majesty is still sleeping, and he hasn't gotten up. “

Zhao Che walked outside Emperor Hengde's bedroom, did not let Sun Yuehai knock on the door, and asked softly, "When did my father sleep last night?" Did you sleep well? “

Sun Yuehai said with relief: "Your Majesty fell asleep at one o'clock last night, and woke up twice with a cough halfway, and after taking the medicine, he slept peacefully. Yesterday, Miss Su let the imperial dining room boil the medicinal food with ice cubes and then give it to His Majesty, His Majesty ate a whole bowl for the first time, and the slave knocked Miss Su's medical skills are excellent, and Your Majesty will be able to get better soon. “

Zhao Che didn't believe this, and asked again: "Has Imperial Doctor Zhang come to see it?" “

Sun Yuehai said frankly: "Imperial Doctor Zhang took turns yesterday and never entered the palace, so he should enter the palace today." “

Zhao Che responded with his head in response, stopped talking, stood outside the dormitory for a while, and waited for the morning time to come before turning around and leaving.

Emperor Hengde can't go to court, and Zhao Che has been acting for almost a month.

There is a two-quarter hour journey from Dongchen Palace to the Yizheng Palace, and Emperor Hengde generally takes a sedan chair. Zhao Che is not used to it, and walks over by himself every day.

He counted, from Dongchen Palace to the Council Hall there are a total of 1,876 floor tiles, before Zhenguo Gong was in Beijing, he would accompany him every day to go up and down, now Zhen Guogong went to Yuanfeng County, this road is only he walked alone, not even a person to speak.

Inexplicably, Zhao Che really misses the person who is twittering and always flattering.

If she was around, life wouldn't be so boring.

Thinking of some things when he went to Dongheng Kingdom, Zhao Che's coldness dissipated. There was a three-point smile at the bottom of his eyes, and when he was about to arrive at the council hall, the smile became cold again.

He had a very strange dream last night, he dreamed that the enemy army in the west of Yue broke through the city gate and killed him, he was forced by the enemy general to retreat all the way to the palace, at the critical moment, someone stood in front of him, but he couldn't see the man's face, the enemy general asked him why he wanted to kill a person, he remembered what he refuted in the dream, saying that only when that person died, they would not have weakness.

He also said this to Gu Hengzhou in real life. So after saying that, he woke up.

He didn't see the face of the enemy general and the man standing in front of him, and he only remembered this sentence vividly.

He seemed to be in a dream, killing Shen Bai.

This guess made Zhao Che frightened, and at the same time, his heart was faintly stuffy.

Shen Bai's existence did make him uneasy, and at the beginning, he also thought about killing Shen Bai so that he and Gu Hengzhou would not have weakness, but the more he got along, the more vivid and agile Shen Bai's image in his heart became, and he became more and more unable to do anything to her.

But he won't have such a dream for no reason, does this mean that he will still get rid of Shen Bai in the future because of some things?

Because of this dream, Zhao Che was a little uneasy, and it was only under Xiaobei's reminder that he found that he had walked to the council hall.

The hundred officials were already standing in line in the council hall, the eunuch of the palace shouted that His Royal Highness the prince had arrived, and Zhao Che walked into the main hall with steps.

He was only acting as the government, and in order to show respect for Emperor Hengde, the palace people only added a chair next to the dragon chair.

Zhao Che walked over and sat down, and the hundred officials saluted according to the rules, and shouted in unison: "The ministers and others meet His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness Chitose Chitose Chitose!" “

"Everyone, please get up!" Zhao Che said in a deep voice, put aside the distractions and took out the prince's majesty, glanced at everyone lightly, and asked, "Do you have anything to do today?" “

After Zhao Che finished speaking, Jiang De'an came out. Raised the ivory wat above his head, knelt in front of Zhao Che and said loudly: "Your Highness, the little girl Jiang Qinse was humiliated for no reason in the Winter Gui Festival, when His Majesty ordered the palace to be blocked, no one was allowed to enter and exit at will, and the most serious suspect was Shen Bai, the son of the Taifu, but because of the flood in Mozhou, Shen Bai took the initiative to ask Ying to go to Mozhou to govern, and the case has been shelved so far. “

As soon as Jiang De'an finished speaking, Prime Minister Li Deren also knelt down and said: "Your Highness, on the night that Miss Jiang was humiliated, the fourth highness was also assassinated by the assassin and almost died, this case has been investigated by Zhenguo Gong and Dali Temple, but a few months have passed, and the real culprit behind the scenes has not been found. “

The two cases were not small at that time, Mozhou suddenly had a flood, after Shen Bai left Beijing, the progress of the case slowed down, Li Deren and Jiang De'an also tacitly did not urge, now Gu Hengzhou and Shen Bai are about to return to Hanjing, the two of them came to ask Zhao Che about the progress as if they had discussed, and they clearly made up their minds to bite Shen Bai to death and not let go.

Zhao Che was not frightened by the two, first looked at Jiang De'an calmly, and said: "In the case of Miss Jiang's humiliation, the palace had already given a solution at that time, and asked the palace grandmother to examine Miss Jiang and prove her innocence, but Lord Taiwei's refusal to live or die will cause Miss Jiang's reputation to be affected now, isn't it?" “

Jiang Dean slammed his head on the ground and said in a deep voice: "So many people in the palace have seen the embarrassed appearance of the little girl, and the reputation of the little girl can no longer be saved. She has not yet come out of the cabinet, her face is thin, and her temperament is fierce, if she lets her check her body again, I am afraid that she will be ashamed to death, the old minister refuses and does not want her to do stupid things, the old minister only has such a daughter under her knees, if she has something to do, the old minister??"

Jiang Dean was so choked up when he said this, and he vividly interpreted the image of a loving old father, as if Jiang Qinse had anything to do, he would also die with him.

Jiang De'an acted such a play, and all the civil officials who had a good relationship with him on weekdays knelt down with him, asking Zhao Che to administer justice for Jiang Qinse.

But many months have passed since the incident, and the traces left by the crime at that time have long been erased, what evidence is there to prove that Shen Bai has nothing to do with this case?

Zhao Che didn't rush to respond, looked at Shen Ruxiu and asked, "Shen Bai is not in Hanjing, what does Master Taifu have to say?" “

Shen Ruxiu came out of the ranks, held high the ivory wat and bowed, maintaining the usual elegance and self-cultivation, and said calmly: "The dog's character Weichen is very clear, she will never do anything to humiliate Miss Jiang, but Weichen can't come up with evidence, please Dali Temple to investigate thoroughly, His Royal Highness the Prince will deal with it impartially, no matter what the result is, Weichen has no complaints." “

Shen Ruxiu only expounded his own views, and did not argue for Shen Bai.

Zhao Che nodded and said: "In the past few months, Dali Temple has been following up on these two cases, the two cases are widely implicated, and they are both serious crimes, even if they are to be sentenced, they will have to wait until Shen Bai returns to Beijing, Taiwei and Prime Minister can rest assured, you are all veterans of the two dynasties, and you have made many contributions to Zhaoling over the years, and this hall will definitely not let you be wronged." “

Zhao Che had no intention of dealing with these two things immediately. But he made a guarantee in front of the civil and military officials, and it can be regarded as biased towards the Jiang and Li families.

Speaking of which, Jiang Dean was not too aggressive, and thanked Huang En for stepping aside and standing aside, but Li Deren still knelt on the ground and said, "Your Highness, about Shen Bai, the old minister has one more thing to say." “

Are you going to talk to Shen Bai today?

Three points of anger surged into his heart, and Zhao Che suppressed his anger and said calmly: "Prime Minister, please speak." “

Li Deren took out a fold from his sleeve pocket and asked the palace people to present it to Zhao Che, and at the same time said loudly: "Shen Bai took the initiative to invite Ying to go to Mozhou, nominally to control the flood, but when he arrived in Mozhou, he did nothing, but instead looked at the little man in the place of the wind moon in the city. Entangled with them all day long, buying things on credit everywhere in the city in the name of Qincha, and finally asking Wei Xun, the governor of Mozhou, to help him pay the bills, such a fake public and private interest, it is really a shame for Zhaoling! “

Li Deren's tone unconsciously became angry when he said the latter, as if Shen Bai was a sinister and treacherous shameless villain.

He added fuel and vinegar to the fold and told everything that Shen Bai had just done in Mozhou, emphasizing that Shen Bai was a lustful person, and he didn't do anything practical when he arrived in Mozhou, and asked Wei Xun to give her money and accept bribes in disguise.

The news that Shen Bai likes Gu Hengzhou spread all over the city before, and later there were still that kind of books circulating everywhere in the city, and the reputation was originally very bad. When Li Deren said this, almost no one doubted it, and they all began to accuse Shen Bai of doing this badly and insulting the lintel of the Shen family.

Shen Ruxiu's face was not very good, since Li Deren dared to sue the emperor, it must be that Shen Bai really did these things in Mozhou, and Shen Bai was not here at this time, so he couldn't help her justify, plus other culpabilities, it really couldn't make people have a good impression of her.

Shen Ruxiu looked at Zhao Che worriedly, he, as a father, naturally believed that his child had done such a ridiculous thing for a reason, but it was not certain whether Zhao Che would believe it.

Zhao Che quickly finished reading the excerpt. looked at Li Deren and asked: "Mozhou is thousands of miles away from here, why didn't Weizhou Mansion report to the imperial court earlier, and wait until now to play?" “

Li Deren said calmly: "Shen Bai is the grandson of the Taifu, and he is the Qincha of His Majesty's order, he is in Mozhou for a day, Weizhou Mansion is a little jealous, and he does not dare to talk nonsense, and the drought was serious before, and Yuexi suddenly invaded, and the courtiers will also see jokes if there is infighting, so Weizhou Mansion has been holding back." “

This is to say that Shen Bai deliberately used his identity to oppress Wei Xun when he was in Mozhou.

Zhao Che closed the fold, and someone from the Ministry of Industry knelt down and seconded: "Your Highness." Shen Baiqi was greedy for money and lustful at a young age, even if he had some talents, he was useless, he committed many crimes this time, if His Royal Highness did not punish him severely, he was afraid that he would break into a big disaster in the future, please think twice! “

One person stood in line, and the others followed the team, and soon a large number of people knelt down in the court.

Zhao Che swept their faces one by one and asked rhetorically: "Weizhou Mansion said that Shen Bai only knows pleasure and doesn't do business, but the canal in Mozhou has been completed, and the prince of Zhenguo, the prince of Guogong, and the captain of Mozhou have all seen it, how can this be explained?" “

After Zhao Che asked, someone immediately said, "Shen Bai just moved his mouth." Only Lord Wei and the people of Mozhou do things, and it is normal for the canal to be repaired, maybe Shen Bai also gave a death order to the Weizhou Mansion, so that the Weizhou Mansion must hurry up and complete it. “

This is as if he followed Shen Bai to Mozhou to deal with the flood.

Zhao Che put the fold aside, looked at Gu Huaijin and said, "Gu Aiqing has always been fair and strict in the Ministry of Officials, how should I deal with this situation?" “

Suddenly named by name, Gu Huaijin was taken aback, he has never stood in line, and when he heard this, he hurriedly came out of the queue and said in a proper manner: "According to the law, since the Weizhou Mansion has sued Shen Bai, it should take care of her, and Dali Temple will intervene, go to Mozhou to find out the matter, and make a decision when the matter is clear." “

It is very reasonable to say this impartially, Zhao Che nodded and said: "Then according to what Gu Aiqing said, when Shen Bai arrives in Beijing, he will send someone to guard her, and she will not be allowed to move around until the matter is investigated." “

This is a compromise, but Li Deren is still not satisfied, and said loudly: "The prince of Zhenguo has a very good relationship with Shen Bai, and this time he and Shen Bai fought against the enemy army in Yuexi in Yuanfeng County, and their feelings are even deeper, I am afraid that they will favor him." “

Zhao Che propped one hand on his knee, looked at Li Deren meaningfully, licked his lips and asked, "So what about the prime minister?" “

Li Deren held up the ivory wat and kowtowed without hesitation: "The old minister has the courage to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to send someone out of the city to bring the prince of Zhenguo and Shen Bai into the capital to take custody, and don't let them contact anyone in the capital!" “

As soon as these words came out, the entire council hall fell into a dead silence.

On weekdays, those courtiers who had a good relationship with Li Deren did not dare to rush to second.

The prince of Zhenguo is a person who has just made great achievements against the enemy army in Yuexi in Yuanfeng County, and when he returns to the city this time, he should open the city gate. The Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites personally led people to welcome him into the city, let the people welcome him, and praised him for making such a contribution at a young age, how could he take people into custody without saying a word?

Zhao Che's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at Li Deren and asked word by word: "Does the prime minister know what he is talking about?" “

Li Deren straightened his back, looked at Zhao Che with bright eyes, and said firmly: "The old minister knows that when everything comes out, the old minister is willing to personally pour tea and apologize to the prince of Zhenguo!" “

Li Deren was resolute and did not have the slightest intention of backing down, Zhao Che confronted him with a cold face, and after a while, Jiang Dean knelt down again and echoed Li Deren's statement.

Zhao Che was about to get angry, and the shrill voice of the eunuch in the palace sounded: "The Queen Mother Yi said!" “

Everyone turned around, and a little eunuch from Ci'an Palace entered the hall with the edict and read it out.

Yi Zhi said that the assassination of the fourth prince Zhao Chou is very strange, the murder of the emperor's heir is a big matter, Shen Bai is the most suspicious, although he has the merit of controlling the flood, he cannot erase the suspicion on his body, he should be taken into custody immediately, cooperate with the investigation of Dali Temple, and Gu Hengzhou, the prince of Zhenguo, was injured on the battlefield. In the name of recuperation, the Queen Mother asked Zhao Che to take care of the two.

Yi Zhi found a good reason for Zhao Che to be less ruthless and angry.

Zhao Che stared at everyone coldly, Shen Ruxiu is Shen Bai's father, he wants to avoid suspicion at this time, he can't say too much, Li Wei and Wu Zhongyi have an intuition that is inappropriate, and they are thinking about saying something, Zhao Che said in a deep voice: "Since the emperor's grandmother has said so, then according to what the prime minister said, after the next dynasty, the palace will send Zhou Xiaowei to take people to pick up the prince of Zhenguo and Shen Bai back to the city." Is the prime minister so satisfied? “

Li Deren knelt on the ground and shouted: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is wise!" “

There was nothing important to say about the rest, and soon the dynasty was dispersed, and the hundred officials withdrew from the council hall in turn, and the palace people took the edict and went to the Hanjing school captain camp, and at the moment of Shen, Zhou Deshan took five people out of the city to pick up Gu Hengzhou.

In the evening of the same day, the group arrived in Meng County.

The county official personally greeted and brought Zhou Deshan to the post station, Gu Hengzhou and they had just arrived in Meng County at noon, so they rested at the post station and prepared to return to the city tomorrow.

The county officials are timid. Shocked by Zhou Deshan's momentum, he entered the post station and pointed to the room where Gu Hengzhou was and didn't dare to step forward, Zhou Deshan directly led people upstairs, knocked on the door, and got permission to push the door in.

In the room, Gu Hengzhou only sat at the table with his coat on, and bandages were wrapped around his waist, abdomen and shoulders, showing that the injury was not over, Shen Bai lay on the edge of the table without any sitting, and when he saw Zhou Deshan, he stood up happily and said, "Captain Zhou, I haven't seen you for a long time, why did you come here?" “

Seeing that the two of them were fine, Zhou Deshan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he still said officially: "By the order of His Royal Highness the Prince, I will take you back to the city." “

Shen Bai bent his eyes and asked excitedly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is so heartfelt, but he wants to give me and Brother Gu a big reward?" “

There are not necessarily awards, but it is true that they will be detained for a few days.

Zhou Deshan didn't answer Shen Bai's question, and ordered the people behind him: "Come on, take off the armor of His Royal Highness the Prince!" “

Gu Hengzhou's face changed slightly, and Zhou Deshan said coldly: "This is the decree of His Royal Highness the Prince, if you have any questions, wait until you see His Royal Highness the Prince." “

The people who came with Zhou Deshan said "offended" and went into the house to take Gu Hengzhou's armor.

Shen Bai propped his head and snorted. As if he couldn't sense that his catastrophe was coming, he said: "I thought that when I came back with Brother Gu this time, how could I be welcomed by the people in the city, and call a hero to try, but I didn't expect to be treated like this, I don't care, Brother Gu went to the battlefield with real knives and guns to fight with the Yuexi people, if you let the soldiers of the Zhenbei Army see it, how chilling it should be." “

Zhou Deshan couldn't listen to it a little, and said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has no opinion on Xingyuan, it is the decree of the Queen Mother, I am worried that Xingyuan's injuries on your body are not healed, and you will not be able to bear it if you pick up the wind and dust immediately, so I want to wait for Xingyuan to recover from his injuries before giving you a celebration banquet." “

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has no opinion on Gu Hengzhou, that is, he has an opinion on Shen Bai.

Shen Bai sniffed and sighed to himself: "Alas?? I knew that when I was in Yuanfeng County, I also took a knife to kill a few enemies, and when I came back, I might be able to get special care from the Queen Mother. “

Zhou Deshan didn't say much, accepted Gu Hengzhou's armor, let the two of them get into the carriage, and immediately rushed back to Hanjing.

The Li family has many mansions in the city, and a large mansion was deliberately vacated in the east of the city for the two of them to live.

The messenger of Dali Temple waited outside the house early, to ensure that not a single fly could fly out, Zhou Deshan sent people to the door, looked at the two of them for a while and told Gu Hengzhou to say: "The Queen Mother is also kind, go far and stay at ease first, don't be rash." “

Gu Hengzhou replied, "I understand, Uncle Zhou rest assured." “

After going to the battlefield, Gu Hengzhou's whole person looked very different from before, Zhou Deshan believed that he had his own judgment, and he didn't say much, and took people away.

The two turned around and entered the mansion, where there were all kinds of servants and maids, and looking at the clothes on their bodies, they should all be domestic slaves of the Li family.

They were very polite to Gu Hengzhou and Shen Bai, and took the two of them to their respective courtyards first, Gu Hengzhou had a higher status than Shen Bai. The subordinate prepared for him in the north courtyard of the main courtyard, and Shen Bai was in the west courtyard.

Both of them were dusty, and the servants quickly brought hot water and clean clothes to bathe the two.

Finally returned to Hanjing, even though she knew that she was now under heavy control, Shen Bai's tense nerves still relaxed, but she didn't dare to take a bath, she still soaked her body with a handkerchief.

She only rushed to Meng County from Chenzhou today, and the abrasions on her inner thighs were not good at all, but worse, not to mention wetting, it was difficult to walk.

After wiping his body and changing his clothes, Shen Bai broke out in a cold sweat, and was about to go to bed to paralyze, when the window creaked open, and Gu Hengzhou skillfully turned in from the outside.

Shen Bai muttered in a low voice: "Brother Gu, you are a little too skilled at turning over the window now, and you don't even knock on it beforehand, what if I don't have any clothes on." “

Gu Hengzhou ignored it, walked straight to her, stuffed a black porcelain bottle into her hand, and said lightly: "Many of these subordinates are good at martial arts, you pay attention, don't be tough if you have anything, find a way to call me." You can't beat them. “

Shen Bai opened the porcelain bottle and smelled it, it was a good trauma medicine, which was a bit similar to what Gu Hengzhou gave her in her previous life.

The corners of Shen Bai's lips hooked slightly, and he looked up at Gu Hengzhou with sparkling eyes and asked, "Brother Gu, how can you see that I am injured?" “

Gu Hengzhou lowered his eyes, saw that she was covered with fine sweat, her little face became thinner and thinner, and he whispered: "This is the last time, it won't be like this in the future." “

After Gu Hengzhou finished speaking, he wanted to leave, but Shen Bai reached out and grabbed his sleeve and asked, "Brother Gu, do you really want to confess that incident to Your Majesty this time?" In this way, I will have to go out of the door like everyone else, and it will be inconvenient for you to see me again. “

"As long as I want, there's nothing inconvenient."

"Would you like to see me, then?"

“?? Well. “

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