152. Chapter 151. Scapegoat
Just after the palace banquet, when Mu Xijin returned to the East Palace, suddenly a dart was shot into the pillar next to him with a piece of paper, he took it down and looked at it, only to see that it was written "Fire Phoenix is going to assassinate the emperor tonight, she is the daughter of General Shangguan, Shangguan Xiangning." ”
In just two lines of small characters, it was a woman's handwriting, but he was so shocked that he unconsciously slipped the note in his hand, and reacted after realizing that the fire phoenix was Shangguan Xiangning's business.
When he saw the woman in blue, he recognized that it was the Fire Phoenix, she was here to assassinate his father, but it was only when he saw the note that he knew why the Fire Phoenix had to kill his father, it turned out that she was here to take revenge, she was the daughter of the Shangguan family.
I especially remember that more than ten years ago, when he saw Shangguan Xiangning for the first time. At that time, she was being bullied by several of his royal sisters, her little face was full of stubbornness, and she didn't cry when she was bullied. He was still young at the time, but he was used to seeing weak women, and the girls he had ever seen, when he bumped a little, he was crying pear blossoms with rain, and he was weak, but it was the first time he had seen such a strong little girl, and she was different from all the girls he had seen.
Moved in his heart, he relieved her siege, reprimanded his imperial sisters, and found out that she was the daughter of the general of the court. He knew that Mrs. Shangguan had a good relationship with his mother, and was often invited to the palace as a guest by the queen. His mother also told him that the daughter of the Shangguan family would be his crown princess in the future, so every time Mrs. Shangguan and her daughter came, his mother would send someone to ask him to go too.
Probably because he was pestered by the official's daughter since he was a child, he was very disgusted with this kind of thing, so every time his mother sent someone to find him, he excused himself by saying that he wanted to study or practice martial arts.
That was the first time he saw Shangguan Xiangning, and he took her to his mother's harem and sent her back to Mrs. Shangguan. Since then, every time Shangguan's mother and daughter come to the palace, even if the queen mother doesn't call him, he will consciously report to the palace.
He gradually felt that if there was such a crown princess, it seemed to be a good thing. Over time, he positioned Shangguan Xiangning's identity as his future crown princess, thinking that he would marry her in the future, she was his, and no one else could touch her.
He was so young at the beginning, but he also had such a strict possessiveness towards her.
It wasn't until later that he noticed that Shangguan Xiangning and Mrs. Shangguan hadn't come to the palace for a long time, but when he asked who, no one would tell him why. In the end, when he was sneaking behind the rockery, he accidentally heard the palace maids talking about the destruction of the Shangguan family, and he knew about it. He angrily questioned the palace maids, and the palace maids told him the truth, and knew from them that it was rumored in the world that his father ordered the Jianghu killers to quietly kill General Shangguan's family.
He was so angry that he ran to ask his mother, but his mother couldn't bear his questioning, so she cried and nodded, telling him the truth, and he knew that it was really his father who sent someone to do it!
Since then, he has always thought that Shangguan Xiangning is dead, and his relationship with his father, who was not very close, has been further aggravated by his father's killing of the crown princess he identifies. I have to say that in those days, he hated his father, and hated his father and caused him to lose Shangguan Xiangning.
In the past ten years, he seems to have gradually forgotten Shangguan Xiangning, and he has never mentioned such a girl again, but it doesn't mean that he really forgot about her. A man always forgets the first girl he likes, and he does the same, he cherishes her in his heart, and does not let any world pollute the beauty of the woman on the tip of his heart.
It wasn't until half a year ago that he unexpectedly learned that his father found out that Shangguan's family had a daughter alive, and he also sent someone to assassinate him. But in the Shangguan family, twins are not allowed to survive, and only one of the two can live! Mrs. Shangguan was reluctant, so she handed over her youngest daughter to her subordinates and raised her.
But his father found out about it somewhere, and he was going to send someone to kill the woman! That woman is the only remaining bloodline of the Shangguan family, and she is the sister of Shangguan Xiangning, he wanted to save her, but he was designed by a traitor on the way there, and his head was seriously injured to the point of amnesia......
Later, he recovered his memory and returned to Shangguo, but on the way back, he met someone sent by Fengguo. After investigation, I learned that they were looking for Mrs. Shangguan's daughter, and they were looking for Shangguan Xiangning, the girl who should have passed away! After another investigation, he learned that it turned out that Shangguan Xiangning was not dead, she survived!
The housekeeper of the Shangguan family, desperately took his last breath and went to the adoptive parents of another daughter of the Shangguan family to tell him about Shangguan Xiangning, hoping that they could find Shangguan Xiangning, raise them, and send them back to Fengguo when the two girls reached adulthood.
But the couple did not find Shangguan Xiangning, and ten years later, when another girl was almost an adult, she wrote a letter and the trustee sent it to Fengguo and gave it to the empress of Fengguo. It also said that Shangguan Xiangning was still alive, but she was missing. But they didn't want their family to be killed before Feng Guo sent someone to come.
Now it seems that the adopted girl is Ye Hui'er. He never thought that Shangguan Xiangning, who was innocent, strong and kind back then, would be the terrifying number one killer Fire Phoenix on the rivers and lakes today! Come to think of it, the fact that Shangguan's family was wiped out overnight left a big shadow in Shangguan Xiangning's heart.
But what Mu Xijin was puzzled about was that after he returned to the palace with his memory, he went to his henchman to ask about another girl. The man was obviously sure that the other girl had been killed! But why is Ye Hui'er still alive?
He would never have thought that Ye Hui'er was not the daughter of the Shangguan family at all.
Now that Shangguan Xiangning killed his father for revenge, he can understand her, this is what his father owes to the Shangguan family. But he couldn't let anyone know that it was the Fire Phoenix who killed his father, and he couldn't let her be wanted.
After walking through another palace gate and returning to the palace, the news of the emperor's assassination had already spread in the palace. He got out of the carriage with a deep brow, thinking about how to hide the fire phoenix from the past, the best way was to find a scapegoat.
Just when he was worried and didn't know who to find to be the scapegoat, he saw the coachman kneeling directly in front of him, clasping his hands into fists and solemnly saying: "The prince doesn't have to worry, the slave is willing to apologize for the Shangguan girl." Seeing that it was Shangguan girl who killed the emperor, all the people died, and no one knew that it was a woman who killed the emperor. General Shangguan is a meritorious hero of our country, and the slave has admired him since he was a child, and now the slave can sacrifice his life and keep the blood of the Shangguan family, which is the honor of the slave, and I hope that the prince will be fulfilled. ”
As soon as the words fell, he cut off his left arm with a sword without blinking, and in an instant, blood spurted out and splashed on Mu Xijin's body. Mu Xijin was taken aback, and before he could speak, the man dressed as a coachman said in a low voice: "Prince, you have cultivated slaves in the past few years, and the slaves have nothing to repay, I only ask the prince to take care of the slave's family, and the slaves will repay the prince's kindness in the next life." ”
Mu Xijin was a little unbearable in his heart, this person was a confidant he had secretly cultivated, he had never let this person appear in front of people before, no one in the palace had seen him, and this person was even more loyal to him. He helped this man when his family was in the most difficult time, and since then he has used it for himself, and he has helped himself a lot over the years. And this time the fire phoenix is Shangguan Xiangning's business, except for Mu Xijin in the Shang Kingdom, only this person knows. How could Mu Xijin not know that he was doing this for himself.
Although he couldn't bear it in his heart, he couldn't find other suitable candidates in such a short time, his eyes were closed, and when he opened them again, he solemnly promised to the man dressed as a coachman who was kneeling on the ground with only one arm left: "You can rest assured, this palace will ensure that your family has no worries about food and clothing, and a prosperous life!" ”
The man said gratefully: "Slave Xie His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”
As soon as he spoke, he hid his severed arm in the carriage and shouted, "Someone! ”
After a while, Jinyi Wei rushed over when he heard the sound, and saw a man with a broken arm lying on the ground, looking at their Royal Highness the Crown Prince with unwilling eyes, and shouting: "How can you rejuvenate the country if you don't kill the faint king?!" Hahaha, now that the faint king has been killed, I will die without regrets! ”
The brocade guards heard the meaning of his words, and saw his bloodied left arm, and immediately remembered the broken arm in the Zhaohua Palace, so they decided that this person was an assassin.
Several brocade guards stepped forward to restrain the man, and said to the prince, who couldn't see his joy or anger on the side: "The slave escort is late, and I hope the prince will forgive his sins." ”
Mu Xijin let out a deep "um", with no expression on his face, and looked at the man who seemed to be struggling and was being held by the brocade guard, as if he was pondering for a while. I saw that in the next second, Mu Xijin directly pulled out Jinyiwei's matching sword, and stabbed the man's chest with a sword, the white knife went in, the red knife came out, the man spit out a few mouthfuls of blood, and he lost his breath in a moment.
The brocade guards looked at each other, and no one dared to say anything, but the one who killed the assassin was the one who was about to become their king, what could they say.
Seeing his henchman swallow his breath, Mu Xijin threw the sword that was still dripping with blood in his hand to the ground, and said coldly: "The assassin has been corrected on the spot by this palace, and the corpse is ...... Just deal with it according to the palace rules. After saying that, he turned around and left, he still had to go to the Zhaohua Hall to dispose of his father's corpse.
It was the only thing he could do for this man, and it was better for a sword to kill him than for him to die in prison torture. In all places, the prison treatment of prisoners was extremely cruel, especially since he was charged with assassinating the emperor, and I am afraid that he would be punished with a thousand knives.
All he could do for this man was to give him a good time and let him not suffer so much and leave.