In the splendid imperial study, several officials stood solemnly with their eyes lowered, not daring to make a sound.

A middle-aged man in a dark blue dress stood at the front and bowed his hand.

He has an elegant face and a bookish life, and he doesn't look like a battle-hardened general.

"Your Majesty, the minister is guilty!" After he finished speaking, his expression gradually became sad and indignant, "The dog has been away from Beijing for several months, and the minister has not found it, and he missed His Majesty's plan to go to Ansan, and it also caused the reputation of the fifteenth princess to be damaged. ”

An official stole a glance at him.

In this way, Dingguo Gong doesn't know how many times he has said it, the prince and His Royal Highness King Ping fought and beat the king of Qinghe County, and what he said was not light or heavy, which made His Majesty unhappy...... When they return, they must go to make amends to His Majesty.

The prince of Dingguo is really not worry-free.

Emperor Zhaowen, who was sitting behind the desk, rubbed his eyebrows, and the stacks of twists and turns on the table almost blocked his face.

"What's the use of saying this!" He reprimanded, "Scolding people in front of me all day, if you have this time, it is better to send more people to arrest Zhou Yunzhen back!" ”

Although it was a scolding, the officials on the side could hear the intimacy in His Majesty's words, if it wasn't for a good relationship, where would His Majesty directly say the name of the son.

Dingguo Gong responded and saluted again.

"Your Majesty, when the minister goes back, he will send out all the people in the palace who can go out of Beijing, and he will definitely arrest that rebel son and bring it to His Majesty, so that His Majesty can deal with it well!"

Emperor Zhaowen snorted: "I'm afraid that when the time comes, I will have to deal with it, and Dingguo Gong is reluctant to give up this precious son!" ”

"I don't dare." Dingguo Gong lowered his head in fear, "This time the minister will never intercede for the rebel, he made a mistake, and he should be taught a lesson." ”

Emperor Zhaowen's anger subsided a lot, so much so that the officials on the side silently raised their heads to look at them.

The prince disobeyed His Majesty's holy decree, and caused Dingguo Gong himself to be impeached, as a father, how could Dingguo Gong tolerate his son doing such a thing.

When the prince returns to Beijing, he will not only be beaten by His Majesty, maybe, the Duke of Dingguo and his wife will also beat the prince.

They just need to watch the excitement, and it doesn't matter anyway.

Just as I was thinking about it, a white-faced father-in-law came in to report.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asks to see you."

His voice was so sharp and thin that even the officials present couldn't help but tremble even after hearing it many times.

Emperor Zhaowen raised his hand.

"Let him in." He said, looking at the officials, "You guys stand down first." ”

The officials were relieved and saluted and retired.

When he walked to the door, Emperor Zhaowen spoke again: "Wait." ”

The officials couldn't resist looking at each other and looked back en masse.

What else is going on? Could it be that His Majesty and the crown prince, father and son, are they also going to listen to it?

I heard Emperor Zhaowen say lightly: "Dingguo Gong stays, and the rest go back." ”

A group of people breathed a sigh of relief, and involuntarily smiled at Dingguo Gong, and patted him on the shoulder.

It must still be about the prince of Dingguo, maybe His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has found the prince and is about to report to His Majesty.

Dingguo Gong had no choice but to return to his previous position, and then the prince walked in from the outside and stood beside him.

He wore a silk robe trimmed with silver and white gold threads, embroidered with pale cyan cloud patterns on both shoulders, and a yellow-black belt around his waist, on which a jade pendant was hung.

"Father." The prince gave a salute, and then greeted each other with the Duke of Dingguo.

Emperor Zhaowen nodded, his expression faint.

"What's the matter with coming to me? But have you found the prince of Dingguo? He said, "I heard that Yu Dafeng was looking for someone to find the south, and he wanted to go door to door. ”

The prince's face tightened.

This is by no means a good thing, and his subordinates are looking for a person from house to house, which is not only stupid and strategic, but also discredits the royal family, and also works the people and hurts the people, and adds chaos to the people.

Of course he couldn't admit it.

"Father, Lord Yu just secretly went to find the prince of Dingguo, and did not alarm others." He explained, "Presumably someone deliberately slandered Lord Yu to make my father dislike his sons. ”

The person he was referring to was King Ping.

Now no one dares to do this except him.

Emperor Zhaowen knew what he meant, and immediately wrinkled his eyebrows.

"The matter is in front of you, could it be that I wronged you?" He scolded, "Don't always target your thirteenth brother, he didn't tell me about this. ”

"It was the prefects of those states and counties who jointly wrote a letter, saying that your good subordinate Yu Dafeng, in order to find someone, threatened them to put down what they were doing and cooperate with him!"

"You personally promised me that you would bring people back quietly, but now you look at it, is this what you mean by quietly? And, what about people! I didn't even see him! ”

Sure enough, it came back to his son.

Ding Guogong shook his head and sighed slightly in his heart.

"Your Majesty, it's no wonder His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the fault of the rebel son in this matter!" He bowed his head and said, "If it weren't for the rebel son who disregarded the holy will and had to escape from the capital, there wouldn't be so many things to do." ”

Emperor Zhaowen snapped his words.

"The good things your Zhou Yunzhen did are not discussed for the time being! What I'm talking about now is the prince's mistake! ”

Dingguo Gong shut his mouth and stood aside like a wooden man.

The crown prince was embarrassed and a little annoyed in his heart.

His father, the emperor, reprimanded him in front of outsiders, which made him how to stand as a prince.

Anger is angry, but the prince still can't talk back, he immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty.

"Father, it is the son-in-law who is not strict, and when the son-in-law finds out the reason, he will definitely give his father an explanation." He said, putting his head on the ground, "If Yu Dafeng really did that, his son would not spare him." ”

"Then I'm waiting for your words!" Emperor Zhaowen snorted and patted the table, "Now we should talk about the matter of the prince of Dingguo!" ”

Or do you want to talk about his son?

What did you just say in front of that group of people?

Ding Guogong raised his head, his eyes puzzled.

"Prince, can you find out the whereabouts of the prince of Dingguo?" Emperor Zhaowen asked coldly, "You won't come to make amends to me, right?" ”

The prince suppressed the anger in his heart.

"The son came here today, indeed to talk to his father about the prince of the country." He lowered his eyes and said, "The people under Erchen have found Shizi, and he is in Gwangju. ”

"Gwangju?" Emperor Zhaowen frowned, glanced at Dingguo Gong again, and saw that his expression was also puzzled, and then he put his mind at ease.

"He went so far away from Gwangju?" He said, "Just to hide from this marriage? ”

After speaking, he couldn't help laughing, "It's really embarrassing for him, he has been sleeping outside for a few months, and he has been in such a distant and strange place." ”

Your Majesty is now very eccentric and moody, and I don't know when to be angry and when to be happy.

But these days, he is more angry, and this is the first time he has laughed recently.

If the prince of Dingguo can really please His Majesty, let him come back sooner.

The white-faced eunuch said silently in his heart.

Dingguo Gong listened to Emperor Zhaowen's words, and his peaceful and elegant face showed a little shame.

"Your Majesty, the minister is guilty, the minister is guilty!" He said, "The minister doesn't know that this rebel has done it so much, the fifteenth princess is so knowledgeable, gentle and gentle, and the rebel is really blind!" ”

"Not really." Emperor Zhaowen raised his hand.

He swept away a book of folds on his face, picked it up by the white-faced public horse, and then retreated behind His Majesty.

He wasn't sure in his heart whether the fifteen princesses that Dingguo Gong said were the same person as the fifteen princesses he saw, after all, she was knowledgeable and courteous, and she couldn't get along with gentleness and duanshu.

Emperor Zhaowen couldn't see others boasting about his daughter so against his will.

"I also know how the fifteenth temperament is, saying that she is knowledgeable and courteous, gentle and gentle, I don't believe it!" He said, "However, Fifteen is lively and cute, and she is also very pleasing to me, she likes Zhou Yunzhen so much, of course I want her to get her wish." ”

Dingguo Gong said that his child was not interesting and had poor vision.

The prince glanced at him and sighed silently.

The matter has come to this point, and only he, the prince, will mention it.

"Father." He arched his hand and said, "Erchen used to approve of this marriage very much, but now it seems that it is very inappropriate. ”