There was a big incident in the court today, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty did not leave, all of them stood respectfully in the council hall, Gu Jiong stood outside the hall like a pine, and when today's son sent a fire, he dropped a sentence and went to the side hall to rest, and even the prime minister Gu Yuanfeng and Zhao Hanzhuo, the young secretary of Dali Temple, pleaded together It was useless.

To say that this Gu Zhi is also looking for his own death, and he has not cleared up his grievances when he is involved in the murder case, so he came to the palace to ask to marry the county lord of Renxian.

said that he was begging for marriage, but he didn't have a gesture of begging, although the lord of Renxian County was a righteous sister recognized by His Majesty, not a royal family with pure blood, it was not something you could marry if you wanted to.

Your Majesty asked you what was going on with the murder, and you passed with a sentence of 'I didn't kill anyone', in front of Your Majesty's brother-in-law, you don't even need to be a 'minister', you just use your own name, do you dare to be a little more arrogant?

Forget it, Your Majesty gave you the name of the Manifest Envoy, what's wrong with stuffing a few people under you? You still refused in public, and you refused so simply, just like Your Majesty begged you to marry the county lord, how can Your Majesty serve the public after not giving you the name of the following crimes?

Everyone muttered in their hearts, although they didn't have any friendship with Gu Jiong on weekdays, they were afraid of the relationship between Gu Jiong and the Guogong Mansion, and they all stayed to wait and see.

Sure enough, after a stick of incense, Chu Huai'an and Lu Ji hurried into the palace.

Since Chu Huai'an got married, he has been quite casual in the court, and it is no surprise for others to ask for leave for three days and two ends, because Lu Ji got married a few days ago, Chu Lingzhao specially allowed him a few days of marriage leave, so he didn't have to go to court.

"Your Majesty, Marquis Xiaoyao and General Lu ask to meet!"

The palace people whispered that Chu Lingzhao was sitting in the side hall and drank the ginseng tea slowly: "I don't see it." After saying that, he put the teacup aside and asked, "What about the people in the council hall?" ”

"Your Majesty Long Yan is furious, all the ministers are still waiting and not leaving."

"Where's Gu Jiong?"

"Lord Gu, he ......" The palace man swallowed, looked up at him carefully, Chu Lingzhao's eyes narrowed slightly, and the light of his eyes instantly became cold, the palace man was startled, and hurriedly lowered his head: "Lord Gu has been standing outside the hall. ”

"Never knelt?"

"No, I didn't."

The palace people shook their heads, Chu Lingzhao laughed instead of being angry, and said very happily: "Then let him kneel!" ”

The palace man lowered his head and didn't dare to speak casually, but he could feel that the cold gaze of the prince stopped on him today, and he didn't know what he was thinking, but after a moment, a cold sweat soaked out of the palace man's back.

I don't know how long it took, but another palace person came to report outside the door: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come down." ”

"Come in!"

Chu Lingzhao raised his voice and finally looked away, and the palace people finally breathed a sigh of relief and stepped aside.

The door of the side hall opened, Chu Shen carefully crossed the high threshold with the hem of his clothes, and after stepping in, he lowered his head and tidied up his appearance, and made sure that there was nothing wrong before walking in front of Chu Lingzhao with a small face.

"The son of the emperor to meet his father!"

He grew up quickly, and now he was past Chu Lingzhao's knees, his appearance was five points similar to Chu Lingzhao, and he was taught extremely well, as if he was a miniature version of Chu Lingzhao.

"Get up."

Chu Lingzhao stretched out his hand towards Chu Shen, and after Chu Shen got up, he obediently walked to his side, but he didn't dare to be presumptuous, his small body was slightly tense, and his face was serious: "Father, it's time to spot check Erchen's homework today, recently Mrs. Ye asked Erchen to memorize a few articles on the art of war, and Prime Minister Gu Cheng said that Erchen's talent in calligraphy is not high, and I think Erchen's calligraphy has not improved these days." ”

Chu Shen reported his academic progress one by one, Chu Lingzhao looked at his little face, but he didn't listen too much to what he said, and couldn't help but wander.

Chu Lingzhao remembered that he was strictly taught by the Queen Mother when he was a child, and he always had to go to the first emperor to recite his homework, the first emperor was good at martial arts, and he was not very interested in dancing and writing, and he was always hasty, and occasionally the first emperor was interested, and he would take him out to hunt or travel in micro-clothes, and he was always very happy at that time.

"Father, Father, why don't you speak? But did Erchen say the wrong thing? Chu Shen's eager call pulled Chu Lingzhao's thoughts back, Chu Lingzhao rubbed his head to show comfort, and was about to explain, but he heard Chu Shen blame himself: "It's the son-in-law, the father is in a bad mood today, the son-in-law not only can't relieve his father's worries, but he also comes to disturb the father, it really shouldn't be." ”

Chu Shen said with tears overflowing from the corners of his eyes, such a young child can say such a thing, who can't praise him for being well-behaved and sensible? Chu Lingzhao's face sank slightly: "How do you know that I'm in a bad mood today?" ”

He was in a big hurry in the Yizheng Palace, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty knew that this matter was estimated to be spread out of the palace soon, but no matter how it was spread, it should not reach Chu Shen's ears.

Because of Chu Shen's life experience, he has killed a lot of palace people, and he has also carefully selected the people around Chu Shen, who is so bold as to chew the root of his tongue in the ear of his prince?

Although Chu Shen was still young, he felt extremely keenly about the emotional changes of the people around him, and realizing that he might have said the wrong thing, Chu Shen looked at Chu Lingzhao with wide eyes slightly and was silent.

"Scared?"

Chu Lingzhao softened his tone slightly, Chu Shen nodded hesitantly, he didn't know how to get along with his father.

Chu Lingzhao hugged him to his lap, Chu Shen was flattered, and subconsciously wanted to struggle, but was held down by Chu Lingzhao: "Don't move." ”

Chu Lingzhao ordered, carrying Chu Shen out of the side hall, Chu Huai'an and Lu Ji were stopped outside and couldn't come in, Chu Lingzhao directly carried Chu Shen to the Moon Viewing Tower.

The moon viewing building was established at the beginning of the founding of the Yuanzhao Dynasty, and was originally used to observe the stars and measure the national fortune, and later this old habit of speculating on the national fortune by magic was gradually abolished, but this building was retained.

The Moon Tower is five stories high, and when you climb to the top, you can see the whole of Kyoto and the beautiful rivers and mountains in the distance.

Chu Lingzhao hugged Chu Shen and walked to the top of the building step by step, seeing such a magnificent scene for the first time, Chu Shen's eyes widened in astonishment, and he was shocked by the scene in front of him.

Chu Lingzhao hugged him and stood by the railing, a breeze was blowing, and Chu Shen exclaimed slightly.

"Is it beautiful?"

"Beautiful!"

"Do you know what the title Prince means?"

Chu Shen turned his head and looked at Chu Lingzhao seriously, hesitated for a while and said: "Mother concubine said, this title means that when the son grows up, he will become you." ”

If others hear this, I am afraid that they will be said that the prince wants to replace the Son of Heaven at a young age, which is really a big rebellion.

"Your mother is right." Chu Lingzhao was not angry, and nodded: "You are my sister-in-law, when you grow up, everything in Yuanzhao as far as your eyes can see will be yours!" ”

Chu Shen didn't seem to understand, and he couldn't quite understand what kind of supreme power was represented behind Chu Lingzhao's words.

Chu Lingzhao pinched Chu Shen's cheek and relayed to Chu Shen word for word what the first emperor said to him many years ago: "Everything you will do in the future is left to you by me, you and I are the closest people in this world, I will not harm you, nor will I alienate you because of anything, no matter when, you have to remember this sentence, you know?" ”

To this day, Chu Lingzhao understands that the favor given by the first emperor to the queen mother and the An family is fake, since most of the men of the An family died on the battlefield, the first emperor did not believe that the An family would always bow down to the courtiers.

From a very early age, the first emperor provoked the mother-son relationship between him and the queen mother.

If it was placed in the past, Chu Lingzhao would have felt that the first emperor had turned his face ruthlessly, but now, when he also came to this point, he knew that this was actually a very sad thing.

He sits on the throne and is above 10,000 people, but there is no credible person around him, and even his own relatives have to be calculated.

"I remember my father!"

Chu Shen nodded obediently, Chu Lingzhao laughed, his smile was slightly cold, but Chu Shen couldn't see it at this time.

"Now that you have remembered, you can now tell your father who taught you those words."

The first time he was held by his father to watch the scenery from the Moon Tower, and after listening to such heart-to-heart words, Chu Shen was completely unguarded, and said frankly: "It was the mother concubine who told her son, and the mother concubine said that the person named Gu Zhi was a very bad and bad person, he has been singing against his father, and his father has no other benefit from keeping him except for adding blockage to himself, it is better to take off his head and let him go to the family reunion as soon as possible!" ”

"What else did your mother tell you on weekdays?"

"The mother concubine also said that the sister of the imperial uncle's family is the most noble in the capital, and only she is worthy of the position of the crown princess of the son in the future, and the imperial aunt will inevitably teach her well, and only she can take the responsibility of the mother of the country......"

Chu Shen babbled a lot, and many things were expected by Chu Lingzhao.

After so many years, he knew that his Concubine An was not a person who was so peaceful.

After staying on the moon viewing tower for half an hour, the palace people hurriedly came to report, saying that the Marquis of Xiaoyao had broken into the side hall and confronted the Imperial Forest Army.

Chu Lingzhao asked the palace people to take Chu Shen away, and did not ask Chu Shen to hide today's conversation from An Ruolan.

Back in the side hall, there was indeed a large area of the Imperial Forest Army outside the hall, Chu Huaian stood in the hall with an irritated face, and there was a halberd standing next to him.

"I can't talk to the prince who accompanies me for a while, is this a rebellion?"

"If the minister doesn't break in, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait until it gets dark, right?" Chu Huai'an didn't feel scared at all, Chu Lingzhao raised his hand to wave the Imperial Forest Army back, and waited for the side hall to be empty before he spoke again: "Gu Zhi's disobedience in front of the court, I haven't let people escort him to the vegetable market for execution, what are you doing like this?" ”

He is the emperor, he really wants to kill someone, why do you need to wait so long, wouldn't it be good to just cut someone with a knife?

Chu Huai'an sneered: "If we don't come, how can you get off the stage?" Wouldn't all the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty faint from hunger in the council hall? ”

Both of them have passed the year of their establishment, and the brotherhood at the beginning is getting weaker and weaker, and their understanding of each other is getting deeper and deeper.

His mind was punctured, the corners of Chu Lingzhao's lips hooked, walked to the hall and sat down, and ordered the palace people to go to the political hall to call Gu Yuanfeng and Zhao Hanzhuo.

When the two arrived, Chu Ling Zhaoping retired from the palace and said lightly: "Zhu Qing thinks that it is better to choose the date of the wedding of the county lord of Renxian?" ”

The Manchu Dynasty Wenwu who still didn't know: Your Majesty, is it really good for you to be so inconsistent?

At the same time, Su Li rode out of the Xiaoyao Mansion in a carriage.

A quarter of an hour after the carriage had departed, a man dressed in a short linen coat quietly jumped onto the carriage, hijacked the coachman with a dagger, and forced the coachman to turn around and drive out of the city.

The carriage ran all the way out of the city, and after half an hour, it stopped in front of a moon-old temple.

Although the temple is small, it is full of organs, and there is a lot of incense in it.

"Mrs. Xiaoyaohou, please get out of the car!"

The man ordered, and the coachman trembled and helped Su Li open the curtain, Su Li was not surprised, and got out of the car with a calm expression.

"Inside, please!"

The man made a gesture of please, and Su Li walked into the temple with steps, there was no one else in the temple, only a statue of the old god of the moon, and a lot of red silk was wrapped around the roof beams, but it looked a little more joyful than other temples.

"Madame, can you see where this is?"

The man asked in a cold voice, Su Li didn't look carefully at the situation in this room, only looked at the man: "Since you have taken me hostage here, it must be of great significance here, you might as well explain it to me." ”

"Back then, it was rumored that the third lady of Shangshufu in Beijing was kidnapped by mountain bandits and lost her body, I thought this place would be unforgettable for Mrs., but I didn't expect Mrs. to recognize it?"

It turned out to be here.

Su Li sighed secretly, but her face was unwavering: "It's already an old thing many years ago, I have nothing to remember what it does?" ”

"Huh! Mrs. said this, but it was really in vain for the painstaking efforts of the Marquis of Xiaoyao, when the lady went to Hudi alone, the Marquis of Xiaoyao spent a lot of money to renovate this place, so that it has today's appearance! ”

Su Li was a little surprised, Chu Huai'an could still think of having someone renovate and build this place, but now she was more concerned about how this person could know so much about the matter between her and Chu Huai'an.

"My husband is kind to me, I will always remember it, but today you kidnapped me here, is it just to make my husband and wife more affectionate in the future?"

"Love?" The man sneered, and crazy hatred flashed in his eyes: "No, I said so much, I just want to tell Madame that from now on, you and Hou Ye can only be separated by yin and yang!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the man immediately drew his knife and stabbed at Su Li, Su Li took a few steps back, and when the tip of the knife was about to pierce in front of him, a long whip appeared out of thin air and wrapped around the knife.

"Leave you grandma!"

Zhang Zhizhi scolded, pulled hard, and pulled the knife away, the man glanced at her sideways, and his face showed mockery: "I can't help myself!" ”

After speaking, his wrist flipped over, and the blade of the knife shook, and he directly crushed Zhang Zhizhi's long whip, and Zhang Zhizhi fell backwards because of inertia.

The man didn't fight, and continued to swing his knife towards Su Li, the tiles above his head suddenly shattered, Su Xun and the three of them fell from the sky, the man was forced to retreat quickly, and his face changed slightly: "Slut, you cheat?!" ”

"You're a slut, your whole family is a slut!" Zhang Zhizhi fell on his heels and didn't forget to refute immediately: "You big man's mouth is so broken, your mother knows that she has to stuff you back into her mother's womb and rebuild!" ”

Su Li covered her nose with a handkerchief to avoid inhaling dust, and said lightly: "If you don't first make a plan to lie and report the news to lure me out of the house, how can I be a general?" ”

When the words fell, Su Xun and the three of them no longer gave him a chance to speak, and attacked with their swords.

The swordsmanship of the three of them was passed on by Chu Huai'an, and they fought side by side for many years, and the tacit understanding was needless to say, and they quickly forced that person to fall behind.

Su Li helped Zhang Zhizhi up and walked out of the Yuelao Temple to avoid being injured by mistake.

"What kind of person is this, why do you have so much strength? Can the three of them fight? Do you want to call a few more people? ”

Zhang Zhizhi covered his ass and asked, it was not a light fall just now, Su Li was confident in the skills of Su Xun and the three of them, but she just saw that the man was used to using a long knife, and his moves were very similar to Hu Ren.

Who colluded with the Hu people?

Su Li was puzzled, the fight in the house was over, Su Xun came out of the house with a sword, and his face was solemn: "Madam, we are one step slower and tell him to commit suicide by taking poison!" ”

Dead soldiers!

This word immediately popped up in Su Li's mind, only the dead man would hide poison in his mouth, and once the mission failed, he would immediately take poison and commit suicide, and he would never confess to the mastermind behind the scenes.

"Did he find anything on him?"

As soon as Su Li finished asking, Su Lou ran out, still holding a small bamboo tube in his hand: "I found this on him!" ”

The bamboo tube is specially made, colored with cinnabar, and there are silver lids at both ends, and the lid is engraved with a circle of lines, and the craftsmanship is actually specially made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs!

How could this person have anything to do with the Ministry of Internal Affairs?

Su Li was shocked and said to Su Xun: "Go back to the city immediately!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a group of masked black-clothed people suddenly jumped out of the surroundings.

"There is an ambush! Protect Madame! ”

Su Xun let out a low snort, took out a signal flare from his waist and launched it, while Su Lou and Su Xian protected Su Li one after the other.

The man in black was not as skilled as the man just now, but he was also well-trained, and with a relatively large number of people, he quickly gained the upper hand, Su Lou and Su Xian were difficult to defeat and could not protect Su Li, Su Li took the opportunity to pick up a knife from the ground and barely could deal with one or two.

However, her physical strength is not as good as before, and after only a few blocks, the tiger's mouth was shocked open.

Seeing that the situation was in crisis, a team of officials suddenly came in, Su Li took a closer look, and found that the leader was Zhao Hanzhuo's royal coachman Zhao Shi, and these officials were all from Dali Temple.

The people of Dali Temple are stronger than the people in black, and after half an hour, the people in black were defeated and most of them were exterminated, and the remaining few were removed from their chins and left alive.

"How could the people from Dali Temple be here?"

Su Li frowned and asked, Zhao Shi bowed to Su Li: "Madame will know everything when she returns to the city with her subordinates." ”

The car back to the city was driven by Zhao Shi, his skills were excellent, the car drove fast and steadily, and it took less than half an hour to go back.

The carriage stopped, Zhao Shi got out of the car and lifted the curtain, Su Li came out, and the two gilded characters of Su Fu came into view.

"This is the mansion of Su Qing, the squire of the Ministry of Works."

Zhao Shi explained that Su Li knew that since the two brothers moved out of the county lord's mansion, she had never paid attention to the news of the two of them, but she didn't expect that now he was sitting in the position of the waiter of the Ministry of Works.

Su Li jumped out of the car and stepped forward with Zhao Shi, Zhao Shi showed the waist card of Dali Temple, and the porter was so frightened that his face changed, and he hurriedly welcomed the two in.

After entering the gate, a strong sense of familiarity came to the face, the structural layout of this mansion is basically the same as that of Shangshu Mansion in those years, but the area is not large enough, and the carved beams and painted columns are not exquisite enough.

With Zhao Shi leading the way, Su Li went all the way to the front hall unimpeded, and soon, a woman came in a hurry, and when she saw Su Li, her face changed suddenly, and Su Li took the lead to say hello: "Mrs. Su." ”

She took the initiative to put aside the identity of the other party's sister-in-law, and Liu also reacted quickly, and saluted: "Meet Mrs. Xiaoyaohou." ”

After saluting, the Liu family asked people to serve hot tea, and saw Zhao Shi standing next to him with a cold face, feeling worried, and cautiously probed: "Husband has not come back to the court today, I don't know why Mrs. is here?" ”

"I don't know what the matter is, I can only solve my doubts when Master Su comes back."

“……”

Liu Shi was speechless, and sat dryly, but the more he sitted, the more anxious he became, seeing that the sun was getting higher and higher, it was almost noon Su Qing had not come back, and Liu's heart was drumming.

"I don't think it's early, Madame is hungry?"

Liu Shi only asked Su Li if she was hungry, and did not say that she wanted to prepare food, which clearly meant to drive away customers, but Su Li replied: "I am indeed a little hungry, and Mrs. Lao Su asked her to prepare two more pairs of dishes and chopsticks." ”

“……”

Liu Shi choked up and silently went down to let people prepare the meal, and coincidentally, as soon as she left with her front foot, Su Qing entered the door with her back foot.

The next person had already told him about Su Li and the people from Dali Temple coming to the house together, Su Qing walked in a hurry, and when he stepped into the front hall, his robes were blown by the wind that he had brought up.

"What are you doing here?!"

As soon as he entered the door, Su Qing asked unceremoniously, Su Li sat upright and didn't move: "Why did I come to the house, doesn't Lord Su know?" ”

Su Qing frowned in shock, looked at Su Li and then at Zhao Shi in disbelief, and still spoke in a tough tone after weighing it for a long time: "Madame is now married to a wife, and her words and deeds should be a woman's way, so it's not appropriate to be a guest at someone else's house so rashly, right?" ”

Between his words, it is implied that Su Li does not abide by women's morals, and he is clearly poking at Su Li's sore spot back then, Su Li is not angry but laughs: "The left and right are not the face of Lord Su, what are you doing so angry?" ”

Su Qing snorted coldly, and was about to reprimand Su Li, but heard Su Li say coldly: "Today, I was first kidnapped by gangsters, and then ambushed by others, and almost died in the wilderness, doesn't Lord Su want to give me an explanation?" ”

"There are so many people in this world, why is it that only Mrs. has encountered such things one after another? Madame doesn't want to think about whether she does too much evil on weekdays, and will incur vendettas? ”

In terms of meanness, Su Qing's eloquence can be regarded as home.

Su Li nodded approvingly, and smiled with bent eyes: "I have a lot of lives in my hands over the years, but if you really count it, among these people, the lives of Mrs. Shangshu and Concubine Su Wanyue are the most valuable, and the exile of Lord Su is also inseparable from me, in this world, there should be no one who hates me more than Lord Su, right?" ”

On the way back to the city, Su Li had probably figured out the cause and effect, but when she really confronted each other, she still felt ridiculous.

Maybe Su Bangyue didn't expect that she would personally force Su Li to oppose the entire Su family, and finally destroy everyone in the Su family with her own hands.

Su Qing's face changed, but he still held on to his luck, feeling that there could be no evidence in Su Li's hands, and scolded angrily: "Su Li, even if you are now the lady of the Marquis of Xiaoyao, you will lose your head if you frame the imperial court officials!" ”