Zhou Tianpeng twisted his beard, quietly listened to Zhang Changwen's words, and nodded from time to time.

"Prime Minister, I think what you said is right, there is no reason for the fourth child to assassinate the boss. However, there is no reason for the boss to do this. Zhou Tianpeng stood up and walked back and forth in the imperial study.

Zhang Changwen sat below, looked at Zhou Tianpeng respectfully, and said nothing.

"Alright, Prime Minister, you can go back first. Please also ask the prime minister to keep this matter confidential and not to tell anyone. Zhou Tianpeng said.

Zhang Changwen stood up from the stool and arched his hand: "Weichen retires!"

After Zhang Changwen walked out of the imperial study completely, Zhou Tianpeng said to Xiao Anzi next to him: "Let Li Wenke come over!"

"Yes!" Xiao Anzi bowed, and then retreated and walked out of the imperial study.

Half a quarter of an hour later, a Li Wenke dressed in black walked in.

"Your Majesty!" Li Wenke saluted.

This Li Wenke is the commander of the secret guard under Emperor Zhou Tianpeng in the Tianyin Sect, responsible for supervising civil and military officials, as well as detecting civil lawlessness.

Zhou Tianpeng looked at Li Wenke, who was kneeling in the center, and said, "You go to Minzhou County and give me a careful investigation of the real reason for this matter." Remember, you can't let anyone know about it. Otherwise, you know the consequences. ”

Li Wenke didn't say a word during the whole process, and respectfully withdrew again.

Zhou Tianpeng sat on the dragon chair, thought about it for a long time, and couldn't figure out the whole story, so he simply didn't think about it anymore and returned to the dormitory directly.

......

Lao Chai carried the four princes and kept running in the direction of the capital.

When it was dawn, Li Beixiang and the others finally stopped in front of the gate of the capital.

"Hurry up and take me to the palace!" The fourth prince didn't have time to take a breath, and hurriedly said loudly to Li Beixiang and Lao Chai.

"We don't know the location of the palace, how can we get there?" Li Bei had never been to the Tianyin Sect at all when he was in the past, so he didn't know the exact location of the palace at all.

"I'll show you the way, and take me with you. The fourth prince said urgently.

"Lao Chai, take him away!"

Several people kept galloping through the streets of the capital, like wild horses on the loose.

When Li Beixiang and the others left the city gate not far away, the carriage of the eldest prince also stopped at the city gate.

"We should be the first to arrive in the capital, right?" said the eldest prince as he lifted the curtain on the carriage.

Sun Wenjie jumped out of the carriage and walked to the guards at the gate of the city.

"Have you seen three people before?" asked Sun Wenjie in a low voice.

"See, they seem to have gone to the palace, and they have been walking for almost a quarter of an hour. ”

Sun Wenjie's face changed greatly, and he secretly said that it was not good. He hurriedly ran to the carriage and said to the eldest prince: "Your Highness, it's not good, they arrived one step ahead of us, and now they have gone to the palace." ”

"What? is this?" The eldest prince's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly got back into the carriage and said loudly, "To go to the palace, you must arrive before them." ”

"Drive, drive!"

The groom raised his whip and threw it on the horse's buttocks.

The horses were in pain, so they raised their hooves and ran forward.

......

"Your Majesty, the Fourth Prince is back, and he is now waiting for His Majesty's summons at the gate of the palace!"

A small yellow door ran to the imperial study, knelt on the ground, and whispered.

Zhou Tianpeng put down the brush in his hand and stood up, "What did you say?

"Back to Your Majesty, yes!"

"Hurry up and let him call me!"

Half an hour later, the four princes ran into the imperial study. He cried as he ran, shouting, "Father, the child almost won't see you, woo woo!"

Zhou Tianpeng looked at the four princes who were kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly, and frowned: "Stand up for me, what kind of system do you cry and cry for?"

"The father wants to be the master for the child, and if the father doesn't make the decision for the child, the child will not get up. Zhou Shunhao knelt on the ground, dead or alive.

Zhou Tianpeng said: "What is the matter with you? I am in charge of you, you stand up for me first." ”

When the fourth prince heard Zhou Tianpeng's words, he slowly stood up from the ground.

"You just said that you almost didn't see me, what's going on?" Zhou Tianpeng frowned.

"Back to my father, eldest brother, he wants to kill me, he wants to kill me. He killed all my guards, and now I'm the only one left. Zhou Shunhao directly hugged Zhou Tianpeng's calf and kept wailing.

"What? What are you talking about? The boss wants to kill you? Do you have any evidence?" Zhou Tianpeng's eyes widened, staring at Zhou Shunhao deadly.

"It's true. All of Erchen's 300 guards were gone, and only Erchen was left. ”

"And how did you escape?"

"Erchen met two down-and-out heroes before, they were penniless and depressed at the time, and it was Erchen who gave them some money. So they followed Erchen, this time, if it weren't for the two good men. The sons will never see their father again. Woo woo!" Zhou Shunhao cried bitterly, and the snot touched Zhou Tianpeng's leg.

Zhou Tianpeng looked at Zhou Shunhao's appearance, and couldn't help but feel distressed, "Xiao Anzi, bring a chair to the fourth child." ”

The fourth prince sat respectfully on the chair, and only half of his butt was next to it.

"What the hell is going on? you tell me well!" Zhou Tianpeng sat opposite the fourth prince and said.

The four princes spoke slowly, telling themselves how they were invited to Wenfeng Pavilion by the eldest prince, how they were surrounded by the eldest prince's people, how they were killed by the eldest prince's guards, and how they were rescued by those two heroes.

Of course, the four princes hid all their affairs.

Zhou Tianpeng put his right hand on the table and kept tapping.

"Are you saying that Minzhouwei's Liu Hailong took refuge in the boss?" Zhou Tianpeng's tone gradually turned cold, and a layer of frost seemed to form on his face.

No emperor would allow anyone else to meddle in military power, even if the person who interfered was his own son.

The fourth prince looked at Zhou Tianpeng's reaction, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice: "Hehe, don't blame me now, you brought it all on yourself." ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the eldest prince is waiting for Your Majesty's summons at the gate of the palace at this time. ”

Another small yellow door ran in.

The fourth prince looked at this little yellow door, and his heart tightened, why is this so fast?

The speed of the eldest prince exceeded the expectations of the fourth prince, and he really couldn't understand why the speed of the eldest prince was so fast.

In fact, all this is very simple, the four princes have taken a small road along the way. The trail is rough and bumpy, and it is still long, so it is difficult to walk.

Lao Chai's speed along the way was naturally much slower, while the eldest prince took the official road.

The official road is flat and wide, and the carriage is driving on the official road, and the speed is naturally not much slower than that of the four princes.

"Let him come in for me!" Zhou Tianpeng said in an unkind tone.

At this time, the eldest prince stopped at the gate of the palace, sweating profusely in a hurry, walking around in place.

"It's still a step slower, how is this good, how is this good. ”

Sun Wenjie looked at the eldest prince who was extremely anxious, and said, "Your Highness, don't worry, the four princes have just entered." Your Highness doesn't need to be so worried, as long as Your Highness tells Your Majesty that the Four Princes are going to assassinate you. His Highness is naturally invincible. ”

The eldest prince listened to Sun Wenjie's words and slowly relaxed.

"His Royal Highness the Great Prince, Your Majesty has summoned you!" Xiao Huangmen ran out of the palace gate and said to the Great Prince.

"Mr. Sun, I'm in. The eldest prince followed the little yellow door into the palace.

"This father-in-law, how is Your Majesty's face? Did my fourth brother say something that shouldn't be said?" The eldest prince quietly took out a silver ticket worth five hundred taels from his sleeve and stuffed it into Xiao Huangmen's hand.

Xiao Huangmen glanced at the silver ticket, and saw that it was a silver ticket of five hundred taels of silver, so he hurriedly stuffed the silver ticket into his sleeve and said, "Your Majesty's face is not very good, as if he is about to be angry." What the fourth prince said, I don't know very well. ”

"Thank you, father-in-law!"

The eldest prince arched his hand towards the small yellow door and walked towards the imperial study.

In the past, the eldest prince would not have looked at these little yellow doors at all. But now it's different, and it's not easy to get the latest news as soon as possible.

"The son of the emperor to see his father, long live the father, long live the emperor!" the eldest prince knelt directly in the center of the imperial study, and threw himself to the ground.

"Hmph, long live me, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live,

Countless cold sweats appeared on the eldest prince's face in an instant, and he knelt on the ground and raised his head to look at Zhou Tianpeng.

found that Zhou Shunhao, who was sitting on the side, looked at him and kept sneering.

"Father, where do you start with this?" the eldest prince was shocked.

"Where do you start? I'll give you a heads-up. Why did Liu Hailong, the commander of Minzhouwei, listen to your order and assassinate the fourth child? You have to give me an explanation, right?" Zhou Tianpeng looked at Zhou Shuntian who was kneeling on the ground, and suddenly had an urge to kick him to death.

Is military power something you can touch? I haven't died yet, so I can't wait? Today is Minzhouwei, could it be that tomorrow will be Jingying? If this goes on for a long time, do you want to seek a dynasty to usurp the throne and establish yourself as a king? Or do you want to tear the earth and seal the king?

The eldest prince wiped the cold sweat on his head and said tremblingly: "Father, don't listen to the lies of traitors, your sons are wronged." ”

"How is it wronged? You tell me about it, and I'll take a look at it today. You are not wronged. ”

Zhou Tianpeng sat on the dragon chair, looked at Zhou Shuntian, who was kneeling on the ground, and said coldly.

"How could Erchen command Min Zhouwei to command Liu Hailong, all this is just a coincidence. ”

"Coincidence? How can there be so many coincidences in this world?" Zhou Tianpeng said jokingly.

"What a coincidence, I got a note before, and it said that the fourth brother was going to assassinate me. But I didn't believe this lie at all, and it just so happened that Commander Minzhouwei was a guest at my place at the time, and he also saw this note. So he volunteered to solve the case. To be honest, Erchen didn't believe that the fourth brother would assassinate me, after all, the fourth brother and I were siblings, and the fourth brother would never assassinate me. Zhou Shuntian said.

"What about the note?" asked Zhou Tianpeng.

"Here I am!" Zhou Shuntian took out the crumpled note from his sleeve and handed it over respectfully.