Adventures in Heaven (novel) Zhang Baotong

However, I was still a little worried, and said, "Du Wei is the support of the Queen Mother, if Du Wei is removed, the Queen Mother will have no ministers to rely on, what do you rely on to call the wind and rain and dispatch the palace?" When the king heard this, he also felt that my words were reasonable, but he said, "Killing the king and killing him, falsely spreading a secret life, is such a serious crime, I think the queen mother can spare it." Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "I think what the king said is reasonable, and I think that no matter how favored the Queen Mother is, she will never be so open-minded, saying, "What is the king's will?" The king said, "You and I will visit the Queen Mother and inform the Queen Mother of the secret visit, and then I will present this material evidence to the Queen Mother, and if the Queen Mother has an order, you should immediately take Uker and Xuanyuan to arrest the Captain." I said, "Okay." But in my heart, I felt very conflicted and worried about being involved in this life-and-death battle that had nothing to do with it for no reason.

Immediately, the king took me to the crape myrtle garden. The Queen Mother was very happy to see me visiting, and when I had just knelt down, she took my hand and let me sit next to her, and then asked me, "Why haven't you come to Ziwei Garden for a long time?" But he forgot the king. Fearing to be embarrassed by the king, I said, "I have not taken care of any other matter lately, and today I have asked your majesty to come and apologize." I didn't want the Queen Mother to say, "If you come back in the future, don't let Your Majesty introduce you again, Your Majesty is very busy." I don't know if the Queen Mother's words have other meanings, so I hurriedly said, "That's, that's." ”

At this time, the Queen Mother raised her head and asked the king with a straight face, "My son is here today, must he have something important to discuss?" The king bowed respectfully and said, "The prince of Longhua entered the Winter Palace by chance, and heard from a girl that the murder of Miss Qingxia was very important, and he has come to report it to the queen mother." "The king's words changed in front of the Queen Mother, and made me sound very uncomfortable, as if I was a good man and liked to do nothing. If I had known that the king would be like this, I would not have come here with him under any circumstances. But considering the king's difficulties and face, I could not explain the truth, nor could I defend myself, so I did not say anything. The Queen Mother dragged out and asked, "Who is Qingxia?" The king hurriedly replied, "She is a maid of the Winter Palace, and she was the one who slept for her father on the night of his sudden death." The Queen Mother let out an "oh" in surprise, then looked at me with a very puzzled gaze and asked, "Is this really the case?" I hurriedly said, "Long Hua didn't know, but he heard about it by chance, so he told this matter to His Majesty as a story." The Queen Mother said calmly, "You might as well tell me about it." ”

Now that I've told it as a story, I'm going to have to tell it as a story. So, I took out the skill of storytelling, and tried to tell the story as vividly and interestingly as possible, full of legends, but without losing its truth. Moreover, I also added my own reasoning and speculation to make the story have a complete ending. After listening to my story, the Queen Mother said, "The story of the prince is very good, but the characters in the story should be changed, and the king and the palace maid should not be involved, so that the story can be circulated in the palace and among the people." I was afraid that the Queen Mother would really treat what I told as a fictional story, so I explained, "I am just reporting the truth to the Queen Mother today, and if I really tell the story, I will avoid real people." The Queen Mother's brows furrowed and she asked, "In Longhua's opinion, who should be the mastermind who murdered the king?" I saw that the Queen Mother's face was a little gloomy, so I said in a tone of Chen Ming and explanation, "This matter is a heavenly affair, and it has nothing to do with Longhua, but the Queen Mother is kind to Longhua, and she will report what she has heard to the Queen Mother to repay the Queen Mother's kindness." The Queen Mother breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Is this serious?" I said, "Long Hua just heard about it, it is difficult to distinguish the truth, and the Queen Mother will have a conclusion after a clear investigation." ”

At this time, the king took the opportunity to say, "In the eyes of the king, this matter is conclusive, Du Wei has already colluded with the lord of Tao Village in private, killed the king, intercepted and killed me, and assassinated the Governor of Wei and Miss Qingxia, the crime is extremely evil, the queen mother should make a quick decision, take down Du Wei early, and punish him with capital punishment." Hearing this, the Queen Mother looked extremely frightened and asked, "You said that the facts are conclusive, but there is physical evidence?" The king took out the cloth bag from his bosom and handed it to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother opened the cloth bag, looked at it, and scolded loudly, "This traitor and thief, so bold, come here-" A guard immediately came in, knelt down on one leg towards the Queen Mother, and said, "Please give an order to the Queen Mother." The Queen Mother shouted, "Quickly bring someone to escort the lieutenant to me." The guard said, "Obey." And he went out.

After a while, two guards escorted the lieutenant in. The Captain glared at me and the King fiercely for a moment, and then angrily asked the Queen Mother, "What is the Captain's crime?" Why does the Queen Mother want to treat me like this? The Queen Mother stared at Du Wei Dao coldly, and said in an unhurried tone, "I see that you are both civil and military, loyal and dependable, and treat you as a close minister, but I don't want you to kill the king and rebel, and design to kill people, but you are a chaotic minister and thief, and the killing is unforgivable." Hearing this, Du Wei did not panic, but boldly asked, "The Queen Mother wants to kill Du Wei, why is there no word?" Let the lieutenant die and understand. The Queen Mother threw the secret orders in her hand in front of the captain.

Du Wei knelt on the ground, picked up the secret order thrown by the Queen Mother, and looked at it, and immediately there were fine beads of sweat rolling down his forehead. He deliberately looked at the secret orders very slowly, but in fact he was thinking about how to escape responsibility. After waiting for a long time, the lieutenant read the secret order, and then put the secret order in order, and said to the queen mother with a calm face, "I don't know who is insidious and vicious, who wants to put Ben Duwei to death, fake the palace secret order, and want to blame me for the king's death." The king died of a sudden illness, and the royal doctor and the prime minister had already examined and concluded it. And the king went to Peach Village to escape the winter, and I didn't go with him, how can the king's death be related to the ministers? The Queen Mother nodded thoughtfully, "This is also true." Then he looked at the king with questioning eyes.

Seeing that the queen mother's attitude had changed, the king retorted on the side, "Although Du Wei did not go with his father, he had a long-term collusion with the lord of Peach Village, secretly masterminded, killed his father with poison, but covered people's eyes and ears with sudden death. What else does the Lieutenant have to say about this? The lieutenant trembled suddenly, but his tone did not weaken, and he argued, "Your Majesty was not present at the time, so why should you make such a conclusion?" It must be His Majesty's imagination. His Majesty's father died of a sudden illness, and there was a text of examination by the imperial doctor and the prime minister, not a decision made by the subordinates. If the Queen Mother and Her Majesty don't believe it, they can pass on the prime minister as proof. The king said, "Although I was not present at the time, I saw my father's body scrubbed on his face, and there was still blood on his nose and at the corners of his mouth. The lieutenant said with some timidity, "Your Majesty may you show witnesses?" The king said, "The witness has been sent to Dongshan for exile by you instructing the lord of Tao Village to murder the palace governor of Wei." This matter was told to me by the witness's mother. The Queen Mother immediately said, "Can the mother of the witness come here as a witness?" The king said, "Because the lord of the peach village is secretly pursuing the family of the witness, his mother and sister have been living in seclusion in the wilderness, and I do not know where they live." The Queen Mother asked, "Even so, how did Wang Er know about this?" The king was speechless for a while, and said, "This is because Wang Er and Longhua met an old woman when they were traveling, and the king asked the old woman why she lived in seclusion here, and the old woman said this. This person is the mother of witnesses. The Queen Mother asked me, "Young Master Longhua, is there such a thing?" I had to nod my head and answer, "Yes." ”

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