"The Struggle of the Reborn King"

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a very grand festival in the Song Dynasty, a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is permeated with a strong festival atmosphere, the shops generally rearrange the color building in front of the door, everything is according to the new arrival, and the wine is also sold from the new Kaifeng new wine. At this time, it is the time of crabs, and it is also the season when fruits are competing to be the first to go on the market, and the fruit shops are full of fresh fruits, such as pomegranates, Libo, pears, dates, chestnuts, grapes, and oranges, all of which are newly listed. The Mid-Autumn Festival night is the most lively night, the most important activity is to admire the moon, dignitaries and wealthy families, enjoy the moon in their own pavilions, the piano is elegant, and the dawn is endless. Ordinary citizens are vying to occupy the restaurant first, and the restaurant can also make noise, so he can't be called idle, accompanied by the music of the silk bamboo flute pipe, enjoying while eating, and taking a sneak peek of the moonlight as the pleasure. It is the poor family, buy some wine and food, chat while eating, and enjoy the bright moon, the children are the happiest, and they can play without sleeping all night.

The village is full of excitement, but now the palace is full of slaughter, and there is no festive atmosphere. Huang Jingchen had come back a few days ago, he not only brought rewards from the palace, but also brought a large number of people, and all the old people in the original palace were sent to the horse circle for interrogation, and they were replaced by new people everywhere.

"How's it going?" Zhao Ta lay in the bathtub and asked while waiting for him.

"Second master, everything is done, Fengxi, Osmanthus, and Huaihua have already brought them back!" Seeing Xi hurriedly replied, he not only escaped the cleaning of the house this time, but also because of his merit, he was promoted to two levels, from the senior class of the inner servant, to the inner permanent servant, and now he has the official body of the eighth grade, and the moon has also grown to eight times, and his grade in the inner courtyard is only lower than that of the sixth grade Huang Jingchen, who is the deputy of the palace, and he is also ranked number in the palace.

"Well, they didn't suffer anything, did they?" Zhao asked again.

"Second master, Feng Xi was beaten on the board, and his buttocks were broken, but he didn't hurt his muscles and bones, those two girls only took the whip and let me bring them back, the injuries were not serious, and I was scared enough!" Seeing Xi and thinking about the scene he saw in the horse circle just now, he was still afraid for a while, the few people who came from the Imperial City Division were really the little ghosts of the Yama Palace, and they were ruthless, the chief steward and the second steward in the past had been beaten out of human form, and two of the gardeners had died, but Lao Zhangtou was worse than dead; The little Taoist Mingyue is being tortured, and he has lost a piece of good meat on his body, if it weren't for the prince pulling himself, it is estimated that he will be worse than them, thinking of this, he is even more respectful.

"Alas, they are all implicated, Mingyue and Lao Zhangtou may not survive, you will have to grow up in the future, if you don't clamoring to see the python, there will be no such catastrophe!" Zhao Ta said with a sigh.

"Yes, Lord Wang, thank you for your life-saving grace, but there is no difference between sending to see the sea of fire!"

"Okay, don't show loyalty, it's better to be less greedy for silver in the future!" Zhao Ta knew that he would be his own person after seeing him, and he couldn't help but tease him when he looked at him.

"Huh?! How do you know everything, lord? Seeing that Xi was taken aback, his jaw hung down, it turned out that he thought he was doing a very secret thing, the prince had already known it, and he suddenly felt that the prince he accompanied every day was not like a child, but like an old man who was more scheming than Huang Daguan.

"Hehe, because I'm a monster!" Zhao said with a mocking smile.

"Even if the prince is a monster, the little one will follow the prince in the future..." Seeing that Zhao Ta didn't mean to blame, he breathed a sigh of relief, held on the horizontal board of the bathtub made by the prince, dipped some bath beans and gently smeared it on him.

"See, why doesn't it taste right this time?" Zhao asked.

"Lord, the bath beans used this time are rewarded by the palace, I heard that it is configured according to the "Thousand Gold Fang", there are cloves, agarwood, green wood incense, peach blossoms, stalactite powder, pearls, jade shavings, Shu water flowers, papaya flowers, Nai flowers, pear flowers, red lotus, plum flowers, cherry blossoms, white hollyhock flowers, swirling flowers, musk and other seventeen flavors, the gold is very expensive, and most people have never seen it at all!" Jianxi quickly replied.

"yes, it's just too extravagant!" Zhao Ta shook his head and said, no longer speaking, let Jianxi serve, Jianxi touched the thin little body of the prince, patted some water from the front, and the back could be soaked, it can be said that he was powerless, but he easily killed the assassin with extraordinary skills, it is really hard to understand how to do it, is it really a monster. ,

"Lord Wang, why do you want to bring them back?" Miki said his doubts while teasing the water.

"You are really a pig's brain, they are by my side every day, I can't see who they are, although Osmanthus is greedy and often steals, Huaihua loves to gossip, but it is a simple-minded person, they serve me all day long, do you want me to watch them suffer?"

"Yes, Lord Wang, what about the others?" Jianxi asked again.

"Hehe, I don't know what to say about the others, but there must be assassins among them, and I can't discern them all, so I have to make them suffer!" Zhao Ta pursed the corners of his mouth and said, "We are in danger this time, you think that it is definitely not something that one person can do, first Lao Zhangtou spread the rumor that he found a python, and then deliberately said it to Mingyue." Mingyue is young, and he has no heart, and immediately said to us again, and you are impetuous, and I am young, I must not be able to suppress my curiosity, I must be clamoring to see, he caught our weakness, step by step into the trap, the person who manipulates behind the scenes must be thoughtful, and know our every move well, which can only be understood by those who can get close to us, otherwise it will not be possible to rely on Steward Li in the outer courtyard alone! ”

"Oh!" Seeing that Xi listened to a chill, he was the companion of the prince, and he was also the person who knew the whereabouts of the prince best, of course, he was the object of suspicion, if it wasn't for the prince who pulled himself, the end would be the worst without asking.

"Later, you go to Imperial Doctor Wang to get some medicine for Fengxi and them, don't arrange errands for them these days, take care of your injuries first, and when the official asks, you just say what I said!" After taking a bath, Zhao Ta got dressed and told Jianxi to say.

"Yes, they will be grateful for the kindness of the prince!" Seeing Xi's heart, he is also warm, the prince is so considerate, and it is also their convincing.

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Seeing that Xi was waiting for Zhao Ta to rest, he arranged for two small yellow doors to guard the door, and then went to Imperial Doctor Wang to get medicine.

"See, is the prince sleeping?" Jianxi just ran into Huang Jingchen as soon as he went out, followed by two people, Jianxi had seen them in the palace, they were all from the Imperial City Division, their faces were gloomy, let them take a look, and their hearts were furious.

"Yes, big official, the prince is asleep!" Jianxi hurriedly saluted and replied.

"Well, you've worked hard these days, and the people in the house have been tried, so come and listen to it if you don't have anything wrong, and see what's wrong!" Huang Jingchen felt that he was a little old, and he was a little exhausted after several days of hard work.

"The senior official should also pay attention to his body!" Seeing that Xi understood that through this matter, the official regarded him as his own, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him and said.

"Well, I can't take care of it these days, so you have to pay more attention to it!" Huang Jingchen's attitude towards seeing joy was very useful, and he instructed him.

Several people came to Huang Jingchen's residence, and when they saw Xi, they hurriedly instructed Xiao Huangmen to light the candles everywhere, send the freshly boiled tea soup, pour it for them in person, and then stand beside Huang Jingchen and pinch his shoulder and beat his back, as respectful as in the past.

"Go out of the city, keep the door, and no one shall come near!" Huang Jingchen waved his hand to let the little yellow door guarding the door retreat, leaving only the four of them in the house.

"Qian Er, there are no outsiders now, what do you say you have tried in the past few days?" Huang Jingchen took a sip of tea and asked the person sitting at the bottom.

"Father-in-law, Ma San and I have gone through the sieve of the people in the house, and the most suspicious people have been punished, everything points to the dead Steward Li, he bought the gardener Lao Zhangtou in the back garden, let him spread rumors, and deliberately said it to the little Taoist priest Mingyue of the Taoist temple, and he found out the law of the prince's activities, knowing that the prince of the Taoist road was going to the Taoist temple to incense on the first day, and calculated that the prince was going to see it, he ordered Lao Zhang to lead the prince to the place where he was ambushed in the back mountain, but he didn't count that he was killed by Jianxi..."

"Ahh Hearing this, he was taken aback, the result of Qian Er's interrogation turned out to be the same as what Wang Ye analyzed, and Wang Ye had been hiding in the house since the accident, which made him so surprised that he couldn't help but make a sound.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that Xi interrupted Qian Er's words, Huang Jingchen frowned and asked unhappily.

"The little one should be damned, he was actually used by gangsters, and let the prince be in danger, it is really a crime that deserves death!" Seeing that Xi was also clever, he immediately knelt down and said with a panicked face, but he didn't dare to say that the prince had already calculated the result.

"You did make a mistake this time, but you can't be blamed entirely, they arranged it too carefully!" Huang Jingchen raised his hand and asked Jianxi to get up and say, Jianxi hurriedly stood aside with his hands down and didn't dare to say anything more. ,

"Ma San, have you found out the origin of Steward Li?"

"Dutou, according to the wooden tag on Steward Li's body, it is judged that he is the killer of the Night Gate, their identities are all fake, and I can't find the source, but I found out that he was introduced to the mansion by someone from Cui Guogong's mansion, and the person who introduced him died of a violent illness soon after!" Ma San bowed and said.

"Oh, Cui Guogong is the father of Concubine Cui De in the palace?" Huang Jingchen sat up sharply and asked.

"Exactly!"

"Concubine Cui De, how could it be her?" Huang Jingchen touched his smooth chin and whispered, Concubine De was born in a family of eunuchs, and she was involved in the palace dispute that framed the queen and queen, but now she has only given birth to two princesses, so it is said that she should not be involved in this kind of battle involving the seizure of the heir, is there another hidden secret, "Is there anyone else involved?" ”

"After strict interrogation, there are several other ladies in the palace who have also planted eyeliner, all of them are miscellaneous servants and small yellow doors with no grade, but they are just passing on some news and are not involved in this matter!" Ma San said.

"Hmph, they think my tiger is a sick cat!" Huang Jingchen snorted coldly with a sullen face, "You can deal with the rest of the matter, there is no one left related to the assassination, those spies do you know how to deal with it, all those who are of unknown origin or implicated in the palace and outside the palace will be sent to the government together, and let them deal with it according to a crime, this matter must be handled well, and we must not let down the trust of the mother in us!" ”

"This crime is easy to find, these stewards bullied the prince at a young age, and even divided the minister's money three thousand yuan privately, the courage is really not small, just this one is enough!" Ma San said with a smile.

"You can't live by doing your own evil, you do it cleanly, don't let people grab the handle!" Huang Jingchen said.

"Yes, we will take care of things and never leave any trouble!" Qian Er and the two of them bowed down and replied.

"Okay, take care of things and go back to Beijing tomorrow, Niangniang remembered that you came out to do things hard, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was not able to spend at home, so I prepared a gift for the two of you, and then take it with you!" Huang Jingchen said with a smile.

"Xie Niangniang, Xie Daguan, the two of us will do our best!" The two glanced at each other and couldn't hide their excitement, this is really a good thing with fame and profit, and in the future, they will have the concubines in the palace to take care of them, and their good days will come.