Chapter 719: The Secret in Chen Shubao's Belly

Once he decided to go out of the town to avoid suspicion, Yang Guang felt that he was facing another problem: where to go out of the town?

Now there is Yang Jun, the king of Qin, in the northwest, Yang Liang, the king of Han, in Hebei, and Yang Xiu, the king of Shu, in Yizhou in the southwest.

Although Yang Guang is quite fond of the pleasant climate and beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, he also knows that the most suitable place for him to ask out of the town is the Jiangzuo and Jiangnan areas. In that case, not only the eldest brother will doubt himself, but even the father will suspect that he has the wrong motive of borrowing the opportunity to take the south of the Zhenjiang River in an attempt to secede.

Therefore, although he had secretly decided to adopt Xiao E's suggestion and choose the opportunity to leave the town, he could not find a piece of land for him to leave the town for a while, so he had to silently endure the courtiers' doubts about him in Chang'an City for the time being.

During the period when he returned to the Chen Dynasty and lived in Chang'an, Yang Guang went back to the Jin Palace, in addition to returning to the Jin Palace, every day (since he was named a captain, the Jin Palace, in fact, it became the Generalissimo's Mansion of the World's Soldiers and Horses) to deal with the military affairs reported from all over the world, and went to the Zhengyang Palace to greet his father and queen mother, and reunited with his wife and children, in addition to one thing: Jiao 20,000 miles chased the murderer, and tracked down the "Wild Goose's Nest" leader Guan Zizai from Goguryeo, who was located in eastern Liaodong, to the south, and there has been no news so far.

Because before the attack on Chen, Yang Guang and Zhang Heng both had doubts about Xinyi's Shitai defecting to the imperial court, and revealing that Gao Liansheng was Guan Zizai, so after Jiankang saw Chen Shubao, the captured queen of Southern Chen, Yang Guang asked him more than once about the "Goose's Nest" and Guan Zizai, and wanted to confirm from Chen Shubao's mouth whether Xinyi's accusation against Guan Zizai was true.

However, whenever Yang Guang asked Chen Shubao about this matter, Chen Shubao either kept silent, or talked about it left and right, which made Yang Guangda angry, and twice almost turned his face with Chen Shubao on the spot, reprimanding him for refusing to tell Guan Zizai's true identity and name, but trying to restore the Southern Chen Dynasty, not sincerely claiming to the Sui Dynasty.

Chen Shubao was so frightened that he fell to the ground on the spot, sweating like rain, and argued to Yang Guang in fear that since he succeeded to the throne, he handed over the matter of taking charge of the "Wild Goose's Nest" to his imperial brother Chen Shujian, and then handed it over to Shangshu Lingjiang, and he had not asked about the "Wild Goose's Nest" for eight or nine years.

Regarding Chen Shubao's argument, according to Yang Guang, Zhang Heng and others after discussion, they believe that half of it may be true, but if Chen Shubao can't even remember who Guan Zizi is, it is naturally a nonsense that even a three-year-old playboy doesn't believe.

In order to let Chen Shubao truthfully tell Guan Zizai's true identity and name, Yang Guang and Zhang Heng and others resorted to various methods, and successively found Pei Yun and others to confront him, in order to prove that Guan Zizai has always been personally controlled by him and gave orders to him, Chen Shubao denied it in front of Pei Yun, and finally confessed that Guan Zizai was originally his father, a close scholar next to Emperor Xuan of Southern Chen, whose real name was Qinglian, but at the same time, he also argued that he had lost contact with him as early as three years ago, and he still does not know whether he is dead or alive.

Yang Guang listened to what he said in line with what Xinyi had previously denounced, and compared and corroborated what he knew about Gao Liansheng's whereabouts in the past three years with what Chen Shubao said, and believed that what Chen Shubao said was generally true, but there were still doubts about what he said about Guan Zizai having lost contact with him in the past three years. However, no matter how Yang Guang asked Chen Shubao about the reason for this matter, Chen Shubao insisted on the same statement, and couldn't help but make Yang Guang think that what he said was true, and Guan Zizai had not contacted Nan Chen again since he followed him to Bingzhou to open a branch.

However, thinking of the various signs of the activities of the "Wild Goose's Nest" before the defeat of Chen, Yang Guang had a great question in his heart: Could it be that under the personal participation and command of Guan Zizai, the "Wild Goose's Nest" provoked the Turks in the north, connected the Later Liang in the south, sent people to sneak into the Chang'an Palace to pretend to be a ghost, and Zhang Zhongjian assassinated Yang Su in Xinzhou, these actions were all out of the control of the Southern Chen Imperial Court, and they decided to implement them independently, which is also too contrary to common sense.

Yang Guang's heart moved, and when he was chatting with Chen Shubao once, he suddenly asked him about his wife.

"As far as Xiao Wang knows, more than ten years ago, Gu Pan'er, the daughter of the Gu family, was one of the best beauties in Jiangzuo, and Emperor Xuan had intended to marry her to the Duke of the Great Wall (Chen Shubao's title after descending to Sui), but I don't know why she was sent to Chang'an later and married to Emperor Ming of the Northern Zhou Dynasty?"

Chen Shubao's cheeks trembled sharply, and then replied with a smile: "I think the prince may have made a mistake." Although Gu Pan'er is beautiful, I am six or seven years old in terms of age, the first emperor, no, how could my father marry her to me? ”

Yang Guangyuan learned from Pei Yun that Chen Shubao and Gu Paner had a private affair between men and women, and at this time, seeing that Chen Shubao flatly denied that there had been a private affair between him and Gu Paner, it aroused his curiosity to inquire about this matter, and looked at Chen Shubao's face and asked: "Gu Pan'er, now that the legal name is called Xinyi, and now she lives in the Xiaowang Mansion, is the Great Wall Duke willing to see her?" ”

"I, what am I going to see her for?" In order to hide the panic in his heart, Chen Shubao reached out to drink tea from a tea bowl placed on several cases next to him, but unexpectedly, his hands trembled so much that he knocked over the tea bowl, and the tea was dripping all over the ground.

Yang Guang saw Chen Shubao's reaction in his eyes, and while summoning the maid to clean up a few cases, he said to Chen Shubao with a smile: "Xiao Wang Ke heard that Gu Paner has a sister who is more than ten years younger than her, named Gu Zi'er, and on the eve of Jiankang's capture, the Great Wall Duke also recruited her to the palace to serve and sleep. It is said that Gu Zi'er looks quite like Gu Pan'er, I don't know if it's true? ”

Chen Shubao secretly scolded Pei Yun for betraying himself in his heart, and even invited Gu Zi'er into the palace on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the trivial matter of fornicating with her was also used to invite Yang Guang for credit, but at this time, when Yang Guang mentioned this matter, he couldn't avoid it, so he had to answer with a shy face: "Wang Ye is only afraid that he will listen to the words." This Gu Zi'er was Xiao Maha's newly married wife, how could I recruit her into the palace to sleep? ”

"Since the Great Wall Duke refuses to admit that he once recruited Gu Zi'er to the palace to serve in the palace, naturally I don't know why this Gu Zi'er disappeared at the same time as her niece who went to Jiankang from Chang'an to join her? So, what does it matter if the Great Wall Duke goes to the Little King's Mansion to meet Gu Pan'er? ”

"The prince has an order, dare to disobey his orders?" Chen Shubao seemed to stabilize his mind and replied calmly.

In order to arrange a meeting between Xinyi and Chen Shubao, so that he could take the opportunity to find out whether there was a secret hidden between the two that was not known to outsiders, Yang Guang specially invited Xinyan Shitai, who was the same age as Xinyi Shitai, from Wanshanni Temple, and when he invited Chen Shubao to meet Xinyi in the Jin Palace, he arranged for Xinyan to appear in front of Chen Shubao with Xinyi.