There was nothing important about the dynasty this morning, so it was over quickly, and after Gonggong Chen announced his retirement from the dynasty, the emperor slowly prepared to go down to the palace. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

A sonorous and powerful voice suddenly came from outside the hall, "The son-in-law Liu Yan and Wanmin Chen asked for the death penalty of the general Chu Shenxia. ”

The hall suddenly boiled, the emperor's already tired face was even more ugly and terrifying at the moment, and Fu Hu, the guard with a knife in front of the palace, stepped forward from outside the hall and said: "Your Majesty, King Shun and all the officials kneel in front of the palace." ”

The emperor went down the steps with some unsteady, pushed away Gonggong Chen, and although his steps were unsteady but like the wind, he hurriedly walked out of the hall.

The three-zhang long white paper paved all the way, the words and handprints will be the three zhang white paper paved densely, the king of Shun knelt in front of the palace, and there were about sixty or seventy officials kneeling behind him, most of them were officials who were not of enough rank and were not qualified to go to the court.

A mere four-rank cavalry general is worthy of him to do this, the emperor's breath is heavy and thick, his two eyebrows are tightly wrinkled together, he tries his best to control his emotions, and said in a deep voice: "Zishun, are you forcing your father?" ”

King Shun knelt down and said, "The sons don't dare, the sons just plead for the people, and ask the father to forgive the sins." ”

"Wanmin Chen, please? Is it me, is it wrong? The emperor took two steps towards him, ignoring the white paper under his feet, and looked at King Shun with a grim gaze.

King Shun's gaze turned at the emperor's feet, gritted his teeth and said: "There is nothing wrong with my father's handling according to the law, but Chu Shenxia is not wrong, although arson and injuring people is helpless, it is really a great achievement to get rid of such a sinister place as Wuxin Pavilion." ”

The emperor snorted coldly, but there was a movement behind him, and several ministers ran down the stone stairs in front of the palace and knelt behind King Shun. You and others are like Your Majesty pleading for the actions of the general of the cavalry. ”

Wang Qin, the commander of the forbidden army, answered: "What Prince Zhan said is very true, although General Xiaocai is guilty of manslaughter, he also has merit, and the merit is offset by the demerits, and the death penalty should be avoided." ”

Several more ministers ran down and knelt on the side of King Shun, and said something similar, the emperor saw that the important ministers were all interceding for Chu Shenxia, and the clouds on his face were dense, and several ministers came out from behind him at the right time, and the emperor snatched the dust from Gonggong Chen's hand, threw it to the ground, and shouted in the dust: "Give me all back!" ”

Although the important ministers were frightened when they heard this, they did not panic, and knelt down on the spot. The few ministers who are still standing now must be King Qing's people, and among these people, only Chen Que, the head of the Punishment Temple, stood with his back straight in the crowd, his face was indifferent, as if he was not disturbed by these people in front of him, but it made the emperor's heart feel soothed.

"Chen Qing."

Hearing the emperor call him, Chen Que hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "Tell me what you think." ”

Chen Que responded, took out a fold from his cuff and handed it to the emperor, the emperor took it and flipped it roughly, Long Yan was furious, and looked at him angrily with a pair of eyes, Chen Que said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty, this is the statement of Lou Zhijing and the Feiwen officials who forced the death of the Wuguan family of twelve, Zhou Zhongjun colluded with rich businessmen from all over the country to sell the grain for disaster relief at a high price, and the minister is investigating." ”

The emperor didn't expect that Chen Que, who had always stayed out of the matter, would also be involved in this matter, the anger in his heart was almost about to burn a hole in his heart, his eyes swept over the people kneeling on the ground in front of him and behind him like a knife, and his voice was also full of endless cruelty, "Are you uniting to force me?" Is this all a conspiracy, all planned in advance? Do you still have an emperor in your eyes?! ”

The fold in his hand shook hard, and all the ministers knelt down in the sound of "uproar" and exclaimed, "Your Majesty is angry." ”

Yang Yin, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, suddenly rushed over, shouting in his mouth: "Your Majesty! Big things are wrong! ”

Naturally, this cadre didn't know what was going on, everyone's eyes were on him, and the emperor's gaze was even more fierce, in his opinion, everything that happened now was planned.

"Your Majesty, that's... That Pei Shudong led the column to march... It's time to kill the golden city! Yang Yin panted.

Hearing this, Pei Fangming kowtowed a few times and shouted: "Your Majesty, my son is loyal and honest, and he will never do such a ridiculous thing!" ”

"The second brother is loyal to the emperor, he must have been deceived, please let the emperor know!" Pei Chendong on the side also kowtowed to his father again and again.

The emperor's eyes turned on the two of them, he didn't know whether Pei Shudong was loyal or not, and he didn't know whether he was loyal or not, he only knew that Pei Shudong had always stood behind King Shun and obeyed his orders.

"Zishun! Are you here to force the palace today?! The emperor's face twitched a few times, drew out the sword beside Yang Yin, and aimed at King Shun amid the exclamations of everyone.

King Shun's face was full of surprise, he didn't even have half a defense against what Yang Yin said, and looked at the sword on his chest in a daze. If Pei Shudong's move has nothing to do with him, wouldn't it violate what he said yesterday and never be implicated? If it is related, if it is not Yang Yin's exaggeration, and this is the case, then he will not confirm the name of forcing the palace? I didn't know what to say for a while, so I had to bite the bullet and say: "Erchen didn't mean that." ”

"Don't mean that? Did you ask Pei Shudong to march from Chenzhou to Jincheng? The emperor firmly pressed the sword in his hand against King Shun's chest, and a little deeper, only afraid of piercing his chest, the ministers finally began to panic, and also realized the seriousness of the situation, and they were silent.

It's okay to intercede for a Chu Shenxia, but no one wants to be forced into the palace and involve half of the relationship.

King Shun's eyes flashed, his teeth clenched, and he finally spoke, "It was the Jincheng that Erchen asked him to enter, and he also asked for Chu Shenxia's life, but..."

The pain in his chest only made him say half of it, King Shun looked at the long sword that penetrated deep into his chest in disbelief, and there was a lot of blood in front of him, he raised his head and looked at the resolute person in front of him with a sad gaze, you know, not long ago, the two were still laughing and playing against each other, as if they were in deep love between father and son.

"Please? Nonsense! I didn't expect that one day there would be a prince who forced the palace, which really gave me a long face! The emperor rebuked angrily, the sword in his hand was quickly drawn from King Shun's chest, and the blood continued to drip down along the sword body.

All the ministers were dumbfounded, their mouths opened in shock, and they couldn't say half a sentence, but Chen Que was the first to react, ignoring the emperor's ugly face, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, this matter is full of suspicions, and it is untenable to force the palace to say the truth, Your Majesty should not do something irreversible for the sake of empty statements!" ”

The emperor didn't listen to it at all, his cloudy old eyes turned slightly, making it impossible to see what he was thinking, King Shun snorted, and fell down, Rao is so, the emperor didn't cast half a point of sight.

Several ministers under King Shun saw that King Shun had fainted, and the blood on his body was gurgling out again, and they were anxious but didn't know what to do, so they had to kowtow desperately and said: "Please Your Majesty declare the imperial doctor, please Your Majesty declare the imperial doctor." ”

A neighing sound of horses suddenly covered up a loud call, and everyone looked up in shock and fear, looking at the long road behind them, only to see Pei Shudong galloping his horse, dismounting not far away, and rushing to the front of the Jinluan Palace.

Pei Shudong's footsteps were fast, and after a while, he came to everyone, and before he stopped, he had already knelt down and saluted: "The minister is late to save the car, and I hope that Your Majesty will give you the sin!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, especially the emperor couldn't hold the sword in his hand, shook his body slightly, and looked at Yang Yin angrily, Yang Yin didn't know about this change, and asked, "General Pei, what are you talking about?" What's going on? ”

"The minister was appointed in Chenzhou, yesterday received a flying pigeon from King Shun, so that the minister rushed to Jincheng with him in the early dynasty kneeling in front of the Jinluan Palace for the cavalry general to ask for his life, the minister is trying to refuse His Royal Highness, but at the same time received a secret report from Jincheng, saying that there will be chaos in Jincheng today, and I need to lead the troops to Jincheng to rescue, sure enough, today at the gate of the city encountered a group of thieves, killed some on the spot, but still escaped some, the minister ordered Wang Zhen to lead the team to chase, thinking of His Majesty's safety, so the minister rushed to the palace first." Pei Shudong searched for King Shun again, but he didn't find it, he was a little surprised at the moment, King Shun's clothes were conspicuous, and he should be able to find it at a glance.

The sword in the emperor's hand took off his hand, and it hit the ground with a "dang" sound, Pei Shudong looked at the place where the sword fell, there was a person lying there, and that person was actually King Shun! At first, it was covered by those kneeling ministers, and he didn't notice it carelessly, Pei Shudong immediately guessed the situation at that time, and his brows furrowed tightly.

"Someone! Tell the Imperial Doctor! Tell the Imperial Doctor! The emperor shouted urgently to a group of ministers, seeing that King Shun's face was already white without half a point of blood, he felt guilty and unbearable, and hurriedly hugged him personally, but the emperor couldn't hold King Shun at all, thinking that King Shun liked to cry when he was a child, and he often hugged him to comfort him, and saw that the placket on his chest was dyed blood, and two lines of tears flowed down, shouting like a helpless child: "Quickly pass the imperial doctor!" ”

Everyone hurriedly carried King Shun to the emperor's bedroom, and all the people were crowded in the room, the imperial doctor frowned and turned around to look at the officials, and the emperor hurriedly reprimanded: "Give me out!" ”

So a cadre of ministers responded in fear and retreated, several officials looked at each other, sighed, and hurriedly said: "What is this called, God bless, Your Highness must be safe and sound!" ”

Pei Chendong quietly approached Pei Shudong and said softly: "Didn't the second brother be in Jincheng yesterday?" ”

"Shut up!" Pei Shudong looked around cautiously, fortunately, everyone was more concerned about King Shun's injuries and didn't notice the two of them, "If you have something to say when you go home, don't say a word more, understand?!" ”

The emperor paced uneasily, Zishun didn't know it, why was he so confused for a while, and stabbed him with a sword? I am really old, this is obviously someone using Pei Shudong to impose the crime of forcing the palace on Zishun, I am really old, so I can easily fall into the trap of others.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Concubine Gao Xian had already received the news and rushed over, but she hadn't seen Zishun yet, but her eyes couldn't help crying when she saluted the emperor, and when she saw the knife's lips turned white and a blood hole in her chest, she gritted her teeth and shook her body, and the emperor looked at her a little bewildered, not to help, not to help.

In the end, she still didn't fall, Concubine Gao Xian knelt in front of the bed, holding King Shun's cold hand and weeping silently, the emperor jumped between his eyebrows, swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and called in a low voice: "Concubine Xian..."

Concubine Gao Xian bit her lower lip tightly and looked at the emperor, in this eye, in addition to being full of pain, she didn't even have half of the grievances and resentment, as if she had expected to come on this day, and the pain should also be borne by their mother and son themselves, and they couldn't say the first half of the complaint.

The emperor's heart tightened, and he squatted in front of Concubine Gao Xian in a panic, and wiped away her tears with trembling hands, but as soon as the tears were wiped away, they flowed out again, Xu hadn't seen Concubine Gao crying for too long, and hurriedly comforted: "It's not good for me, it's my fault, don't cry, it's all bad for me." ”

Concubine Gao Xian looked at the emperor expressionlessly, her voice was hoarse but calm, "Your Majesty is not wrong, the concubine does not blame Your Majesty, the concubine is just worried about Zishun's injury." ”

Facing her cold eyes without half a point of warmth, and listening to her words coldly, it seemed to be full of decisive disappointment, and couldn't help but break her body, as if to crush her bones, and swore to her bleak expression: "From now on, whatever Zishun does, I promise that I will never doubt him." ”