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casually grabbed a palace maid and extinguished some fire, but the unhappy mood still couldn't be relieved.

It didn't take long to hear that Lu Xiang's son Lu Yi came to ask to see him. After casually straightening his clothes, Song Junzhe met Lu Yi in the side hall.

Lu Yi said: "Chen Shicai went to the academy to look for His Highness, and learned that His Highness returned to the palace early today, did His Highness encounter something unhappy?" ”

Song Junzhe snorted coldly and did not speak. Lu Yi smiled: "Actually, I also know what His Highness is thinking, but it is not pleasing to the eye to see the flying and domineering of the Ning River?" It's a pity that even if His Highness doesn't like him, there is nothing he can do about him. Don't say that Your Highness, even if it is a saint, you can't do anything with him. ”

Song Junzhe took a step forward abruptly and said dissatisfiedly: "I don't know what my father is doing?" I even thought of marrying Baotong to him, that guy, that guy ......"

"His Highness couldn't get his sister, but he had to marry his sister to him, and it was inevitable that he would be unhappy," Lu Yi said in a low voice, "Actually, Your Highness knows that there is no way for the Holy Lord to do this." ”

Song Junzhe frowned: "What do you say?" ”

Lu Yi said in a low voice: "Doesn't Your Highness know? This surnamed Ning not only sells his reputation and does everything possible to enhance his reputation, but also tries his best to smear the saint and the court. This time, when he came to Lin'an, he secretly sent people to slander the saint among the people and the rivers and lakes, saying that the saint secretly sent people to negotiate peace with the envoys of the barbarian army, and one of the conditions for the peace talks put forward by the barbarian army was that Ningjiang could not be allowed to live......"

Song Junzhe said angrily: "How can this be reasonable, since the day my father ascended the throne, he has been bent on taking the Central Plains as his own responsibility, and the world knows ......it."

Lu Yi said: "People of insight naturally know, but those people in the rivers and lakes are mostly stupid people who don't read, and the untouchables below don't know anything. Everyone said that it was surnamed Ning, who repelled the barbarian army and kept Jiangnan, so naturally everyone believed whatever he said. Don't Your Highnesses know? Recently, a large number of Jianghu people have entered Lin'an, but they have been secretly instigated by the people he sent. In addition, before coming to Lin'an, he had secretly bewitched Huang Fulin, the commander of the Southern Sword Xuanwei Division. The saint originally wanted to invite Huang Fu Lin to discuss the family affairs between his empress Fu Lu and his ministers, but Ning Jiang secretly bewitched Huang Fulin, saying that the saint had the intention of killing Huang Fu Lin and sowing discord, so that Huang Fu Lin did not dare to come. Has Your Highness ever read the Nine Yin True Explanations he wrote? The weak eat the strong, the strong are respected, the world is the world of the world, not the world of one person...... Confucianism's thousand-year-old loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, how could he really put it in his eyes? ”

Song Junzhe slapped the table suddenly: "I already knew that this guy was not a good thing, but I thought he would always have a little shame, but I didn't expect it to be such a sinister villain." ”

Lu Yi took a step forward and continued: "The saint is kind-hearted, for the sake of that Ningjiang even if he has no merit in the world, he is still talented after all, and he is unwilling to embarrass him. A few days ago, hundreds of officials played one after another, bluntly talking about Ningjiang's wolf ambitions, His Royal Highness thought, if it weren't for what Ningjiang did, which was so despicable that it was despicable and aroused public anger, how could it be so? Even so, the Holy One still spoke for him many times, and there was always a misunderstanding in it. But Fanna Ningjiang has some shame, so he should change his past mistakes and serve the king and the court wholeheartedly. Who knew that he intensified, spreading rumors, creating public opinion, and even designed to force the Holy Admiral to marry him......

"Your Highness thought, why did this surnamed Ning refuse to marry his sister to His Highness? It's nothing more than that His Royal Highness at that time was just a prince without any real power, if at that time, His Royal Highness was already the prince, he was afraid that he would cry and shout, and he would sacrifice his sister. At the beginning, he presented poems to the eldest princess of Luanmei, and now he is forcing the saint to marry the princess, isn't it all to marry the heavenly family? This person is good at taking advantage of the situation, when the eldest princess died, he took retreat as an advance, called resignation, and was really hopeful, and sure enough, he won the reuse of the first emperor Shenzong, Shenzong died, abolished the emperor and ascended the throne, exposing his ambitions, how did he do it? actually supported the army and respected itself, and sat back and watched the barbarian army capture Haojing and kidnap the Son of Heaven and hundreds of officials.

"Now, if he marries Her Royal Highness the Princess, takes advantage of the benevolence of the Son of Heaven and the prestige he has worked so hard to cultivate, sets up the saint, and maintains the government in the future, who can control it? At that time...... The world is probably no longer the world of the Song family! ”

Song Junzhe sat there, his face cloudy, and suddenly, he turned his head sharply and looked out the window, only to see a shadow flashing quickly. He frowned, got up and said, "What you said, although it is reasonable, but the affairs of the court all depend on my father, I am just the crown prince, and I can't control so many things." ”

Lu Yi sighed: "How could the minister not know? The saint is merciful and deceived by the traitor, and we can't do it, but I am afraid that the prince will also be deceived by the traitor. Fortunately, His Royal Highness is wise and has already seen through the traitor's intentions, and there is no need for the minister to say anything more, and the minister retired. ”

Song Junzhe nodded, let him leave, turned around and went to the backyard, and asked a palace maid, "Who was here just now?" ”

The palace maid said: "Her Royal Highness Princess Shicai has been here, and she went in a hurry just now. ”

Song Junzhe nodded and didn't say anything more.

On the other side, after Lu Yi left, he crossed two streets under the protection of the family and boarded a carriage: "Father, I have already told the prince word for word what my father taught me...... Father, I don't understand, since the saint wants to deal with the surnamed Ning like that, he just started directly, how could he be made like this by a gossip? ”

"What do you know, you kid? Recently, give me a little restraint, don't do those ugly things that you don't get, and pay attention to my influence. The man in the car snorted and taught a few lessons.

After a while, Lu Yi got out of the carriage, and the carriage left the alley, and under the protection of a group of masters, it slowly moved forward. One of them came to the carriage: "My lord, where are you going next?" ”

"Go to the Ministry of Rites, those idiots of the Ministry of Rites. In the case of the Ma clan in Zecheng, when the barbarian army invaded Zecheng, after the Ma clan was humiliated, he actually stabbed one of her barbarians with scissors and was hacked to death with a knife...... What do you think this magistrate is doing? This woman is fierce, but whether it is voluntary or otherwise, after all, she is a person who has lost her virginity, and for the sake of her stabbing the barbarian's knife, she will set up a memorial arch? These stupid people, who have read the books of the sages for so many years, are becoming less and less serious about etiquette. The person in the car said coldly, "In this world, there are always so many people who have made watches...... I also want to set up a chastity archway. ”

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In the palace, Princess Baotong was pale and walking on the road.

The purple and yellow gold butterfly cardigan is lined with a green bandeau inside, and a light red half-arm is covered outside. Although walking under the eaves of red eaves and green tiles, this sultry weather does not look cool because the sun is blocked.

Raising his head, he looked at the sky in the distance, where the scorching sun was in the sky, but a trace of depressing dark clouds had begun to accumulate in the distance. It seems that showers are inevitable, but it is a bit difficult to say whether it will come down here or not.

Back in her room, the maid brought ice cubes to make the room cooler. Princess Baotong sat in front of the dresser, staring at the mirror in a daze. After a while, the bead curtain swayed outside, and the voice of the palace maid came: "His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Bao Tong turned around, and soon saw the imperial brother holding his hands and slowly walking in.

"Baotong, where did you just go?" Song Junzhe looked at her.

"I, I ......" Baotong didn't know how to explain for a while.

"Did you hear it all?" Song Junzhe waved his hand, "Then Ning Jiang wants to force his father to marry you to him, don't worry, I will never let his treacherous plan succeed......"

Bao Tong said suddenly: "Lu Yi's words can't be believed. ”

Song Junzhe frowned and looked at her.

Bao Tong said in a low voice: "Imperial brother that Lu Yi is a person, don't you know anything about it?" The ugly things he did outside were just blatant, and he wasn't a good guy at all......"

"I know, I know!" Song Junzhe waved his hand impatiently, "It's not a big deal." ”

"But he forcibly kidnapped the people's daughters and arrested all the people's families......"

"It's said that it's a people's girl, and he doesn't dare to touch the girl's family who really has a background, no matter what, it's Lu Xiang's son, and there is still proportion." Song Junzhe sat at the table, raised his head, looked at his sister's rather shocked gaze, and thought for a while, "Baotong, you used to be in the palace, and you didn't have much chance to see bad things." Actually, something like this...... It's not a big deal. Now that my father still has a place to reuse Lu Xiang, these things are just that. If you don't use Lu Xiang in the future, you can turn it out at any time, and it is his big fault that his godson is not strict. Besides...... In fact, there is no evidence, it's just rumors, don't listen to outsiders' nonsense. ”

couldn't believe that even his brother would say such a thing, Baotong hesitated for a while. The world outside was very different from what she had thought before, although as she grew older, she began to understand this slowly, but the royal brother's understatement, and the funny attitude of looking at an innocent child, made her really realize...... It is true that no one takes those evil deeds seriously.

For his father and brother, as well as those officials in the court, what Lu Yi did was measured, and he didn't dare to touch the girl's family who really had an identity and background...... That's enough.

The purpose of going to the imperial brother is to ask him to help him, to tell his father and the emperor, don't give Lu'er to Lu Yi in marriage, originally thought that as long as the imperial brother knew about the things Lu Yi did, he would not care, but at this moment, she really understood that Lu Yi was at fault, but for the imperial court, maybe his biggest sin was too blatant, in private, a mistake like his was afraid that it happened every day, right?

She bit her lip: "But, Brother Huang, as far as I know, Lu Yi is just a fool, he doesn't know anything about the affairs of the court, and the words he said to Brother Huang just now are clearly someone using his mouth to provoke." ”

"Stir up what?" Song Junzhe sneered, "Then Ning Jiang has a reputation for fishing, taking the credit of others, and constantly building momentum for himself, everyone knows, but he still needs others to provoke?" Lu Yi didn't say it, didn't I know? Or are you like those stupid girls outside, you haven't seen him a few times, and you can't treat him as a dream lover for his little thing? Or do you really want to marry him that much? ”

"Brother...... Brother Huang," Bao Tong was a little aggrieved, "It has nothing to do with those. ”

After all, it was his sister, Song Junzhe still suppressed his anger and said slowly: "You are still young and easy to be deceived, and it is not your fault." Ning Jiang, you don't know enough about him at all. Why was Song Qian arrested? Isn't it because he deliberately held back the army in the first place? These things in the south, not to mention, the battles were fought by others, and all the credit was his, and this person's wolf ambition was able to deceive those fools who didn't know what was right from wrong. ”

Baotong sat down at the table with his arms in his arms, his eyes were a little confused: "But, Brother Huang, I still don't understand." said that the abolished emperor was captured and Haojing was broken, all of which were his fault. However, at that time, Ning Jiang had obviously been deposed from his official position by the deposed emperor, and after the large-scale invasion of the barbarian army, he relied on the strength of one person to pull the remnants of the defeated soldiers who fled from the north, facing the invincible Mengyu elite soldiers, with tens of thousands of rabble, facing the barbarian elite soldiers who exceeded them in terms of morale and numbers, and finally won with difficulty. On the other hand, the officials and armies of the northern states were almost immediately defeated when they heard the news, and the Taiwei Tang Haogong served as a privy envoy, with hundreds of thousands of troops, and even the Beijing division did not dare to approach. The other generals were probably the same, either they were defeated at the touch of a button, or they were afraid to move forward. How did it happen that in the end, Haojing was broken and the abolished emperor was arrested, and it all became Ning Gongzi's fault? ”

She turned her head and looked at her brother suspiciously.

At this moment, Baotong was also hesitant in his heart. Although she is only thirteen or fourteen years old, with the changes in the current situation in the past two years and her own growth, she has slowly discovered that there are many people and many things that are completely different from what she used to think. Even the father who changed from the king of the county to the son of heaven, and the brother who changed from the son of the world to the prince, sometimes, it felt like a completely different person, making her feel indescribably strange.

In this case, she couldn't help but wonder, is Ning Jiang the same?

After all, she doesn't know much about him either, maybe her brother's opinion of him is right, after all, he is her own brother, and she is still more willing to trust her relatives than others.

It's just that she still couldn't figure out some of the truths after all. In the north, in the kind of eroded thousands of miles, the whole line of the rout, the imperial court lost thousands of miles, the generals were incompetent, the officials were useless, a young man who had no official position, pulled a group of only tens of thousands of remnants of the defeated generals, and brutally defeated an enemy that others could not defeat at all, how did in the end, this is not a great merit, but has become his serious crime?

The capital was broken, the abolished emperor was arrested, and hundreds of officials were taken captive, how could it be the fault of the only one who won the battle?