Emperor Ming stood up and helped Liu Xiang, who was kneeling on the ground: "My lord of the owl, please leave it to you."

Liu Xiang kowtowed: "The emperor is serious! The minions should be broken to pieces, and they will do their best to assist the new king!"

Emperor Ming suddenly remembered something: "Who is the exclusive guard of the King of Evil now?"

Liu Xiang replied, "It's the introductory disciple of the slave who practices red peony. Although he is still young and his martial arts have not yet become popular, he has been raised by himself since he was a child, and his character is cautious and loyal, and he is responsible for his great responsibilities."

Emperor Ming smiled with satisfaction, he had nothing more to say. So he lightly ordered Liu Xiang: "Stand down."

Liu Xiang received the order and withdrew quickly and silently with light skills.

In the box of the desk, he took out a picture scroll of a beauty, slowly unfolded it, his eyes were filled with eye drop, and another drop fell heavily on the yellowed rice paper.

"Concubine......

Hold the hand of the son, grow old with it. It is so difficult to achieve in the emperor's family, and the only way to hope is that this life can be renewed in heaven.

Finally, Emperor Ming died in the Zichen Palace. Buried in the Zi Palace is a picture scroll depicting the portrait of the concubine, which Liu Xiang secretly put up. The Emperor would probably have liked this arrangement.

At the same time, the king had received the edict two days ago, before the funeral of the emperor of Daxing, led a heavy army into the imperial city, ascended the throne in front of the spirit, abolished the prince as the blessed king, and presided over the funeral.

More than half of the credit for such a painless ascension to the throne was due to the advance preparations of Emperor Ming and Liu Xiang - including the use of edicts to suppress public opinion.

But the Dong family has taken action after all. Caught Liu Xiang's gambling brother owing money and did not pay it back, and sued Liu Xiang for "abusing power for personal gain, harming Zhongliang, and conniving at his brother to repeatedly violate the king's law".

Xinjun and Liu Xiang knew that Dong's relatives were just using the topic to play and wanted to cut off the wings of the new emperor so that they could continue to support themselves in the imperial court.

At present, the new emperor still has to rely on the Dong family to slowly cultivate his cronies, and now he has no ability to put down the Dong family, and under the trade-off, he can only follow their wishes at present, which is why Liu Xiang is in prison.

The sound of the wooden fence opening "Yiah", and it was the new Jun Xuanxiang who was dressed lightly who walked into the cell.

He ordered the guards on the left and right to retreat, leaving only a small yellow door holding a vermilion lacquer plate.

Xuan Xiang's expression was solemn: "Dong Qizhang wants you to die."

Liu Xiang smiled coldly, when he was a celebrant eunuch, that Dong Qizhang saw him and beat him like a pug!

"I can't help it, I can only let you die with pleasure and dignity. Please be considerate of my plight."

He took the poisoned wine handed over and smiled calmly: "The slave boldly hopes that the emperor will take pity on the slave's relatives, although the slave's brother is a good gambler, but his nature is not bad, I hope the emperor will be light."

Perhaps at this moment, Xuan Xiang was really embarrassed and sad, because his expression now was such regret: "If there was no father-in-law and concubine in the palace at the beginning, I would have died and had no place to bury. I got the throne of God today because of the power of my father-in-law. I will definitely treat my father-in-law's relatives well. And," he clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, "Father-in-law's grievances today, I will definitely ask the Dong family for it back in the future!"

With this reassurance, he had nothing to worry about, and he believed that Chi Peony had the ability to protect Xuanxiang on his behalf in the days to come. Emperor Xian, my mission is over. "The slave is not here, the emperor will be careful in everything in the future, Chi Shao is a person that the emperor can trust, please assign her if the emperor has something." This is a minion's words, but it is a reminder: to annihilate the enemy, remember not to rush."

"I know."

Looking at the yellow poisonous wine, it smelled sour and fragrant: "Actually, the first emperor loved the emperor very much."

It seems that the bull's head does not match the horse's mouth, but it is only with each other that they understand its meaning.

Xuan Xiang didn't answer.

Not long after, Liu Xiang bled through seven holes and died violently.

The Emperor also left the cell, where all kinds of dark secrets were buried. In the eighth year of Yuankang, the sky was gloomy and thundering, the torrential rain had been raining for three days and three nights, and the dark clouds had been shrouded in the capital.

The storm is coming.

The folk blind physiognomy who was hiding from the rain in the inn had a serious face and pinched his fingers, and after a while, his face changed, and then he shook his head unpredictably, and walked away in spite of the heavy rain outside, and then there was a hoarse voice of sadness and joy.

"The jade dragon entered the world alone, no phoenix should cry blood, today and night, only the dragon and phoenix are auspicious."

The people in the inn were confused when they heard it, and they only felt that the blind physiognomy was talking nonsense, and the faces of the people who had a bit of meaning in the physiognomy master's words changed slightly, and they didn't dare to think about it again.

A young and handsome man sitting by the window table on the second floor read it silently, and only felt that these four sentences were very familiar. Suddenly, the man's face changed suddenly, and he immediately lowered his head to hide his shocked emotions.

Lu Huai remembered that half a year ago, the emperor prayed for the pregnant queen in the White Horse Temple, and presided over the four sentences of Master Wu's formal criticism of the prince in the queen's belly.

At that time, the emperor's face changed, and he was furious, if it wasn't for the fact that no master would have changed anyone's life, and then the emperor issued a gag order, ordering these four sentences not to be passed on.

Now that he heard these four words in this inn, thinking of the second sister waiting to give birth in the palace, Lu Huai's heart palpitated, and he hurried out despite the heavy rain.

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Chaofeng Palace

There was a painful moan from time to time in the Yuzao Palace, as well as the sound of the steady woman and the doctor and the woman, and the palace maids who came in and out were all nervous and cautious, lest they accidentally make a mistake.

Yuan Kangdi paced in the hall, his eyebrows were not spread, and even if the wind and rain outside, he couldn't blow the anxiety in his heart.

With the passage of time little by little, Emperor Yuan Kangdi pursed his thin lips, his expression was majestic and his brows were furrowed deeper and deeper, his mind was full of the comments of Master Wu half a year ago, and his heart hung high with a thick uneasiness.

None: The jade dragon entered the world alone, no phoenix should cry blood, now and at night, only the dragon and phoenix are auspicious.

At this time, Li Sanbian, the chief eunuch, came to Yuan Kangdi's side with light steps, bent down and bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, the crimson next to Concubine Su has brought warm soup to Your Majesty, and Concubine Su is worried that Your Majesty will be sick in the cold, so she specially stewed warm soup and sent it with her own hands, and now Crimson is waiting outside the hall." ”

Emperor Yuan Kang glanced at Li Sanbian coldly: "Pass the word, the crimson disturbs the purity, and drag down the staff for twenty." ”

The twenty canes not only hit the crimson body, but also directly and mercilessly hit Concubine Su's face.

Li Sanbian felt a pang in his heart, and responded "yes" very respectfully, and quietly withdrew from the hall, and whispered to the guards guarding the hall to drag away Crimson.

As for Concubine Su's reaction when she knew that she was slapped by His Majesty, this is not what Li Sanbian cares about, after all, this is not the same as in the past.

Crimson was dragged away by the guards and struggled and was about to scream, Li Sanbian's feminine face turned cold, Crimson shivered when she saw it, and remembered the day she first entered the palace, and saw the chief eunuch coldly order the little eunuch to beat a little palace maid to death with a stick.

The guard also pulled a ball of cloth and stuffed it into Crimson's mouth in time.

Yuzao palace is produced by the queen mother Lu, now His Majesty twenty ascended the throne, Yuankang one year of marriage, Lu's heroine phoenix, to Yuankang eight years of palace no son-in-law.

At the beginning of the year, the queen was pregnant, and the world was happy, and Emperor Yuan Kang, who was looking forward to his son-in-law, even wanted to stay in Chaofeng Palace all night to keep the queen safe and give birth to a child.

In the past six months, no matter how the harem concubines did not sing, Emperor Yuan Kang also turned a blind eye, and the officials of the court and the central government also ignored the rejection.

No one can stop Emperor Yuan Kang's desire for his son, and subtle changes have also taken place in the former and harem.

Today's noon queen mother attack, all the imperial doctors are guarding the side hall of the Yuzao Palace, Yuan Kangdi also put down government affairs and has been guarding the Yuzao Palace, the sky is gradually darkening, and the rain is not abating.

The lights in Chaofeng Palace were bright, and a happy palace maid hurriedly walked out of the palace to report the good news to Emperor Yuan Kang: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, the queen mother gave birth to a little prince." ”

The queen gave birth to a son-in-law, and she didn't see the happy Yuanyasu, but asked hurriedly: "What else?" ”

As early as when the queen was four months pregnant, the imperial doctor checked out that the queen was twins, because Yuan Kangdi had been remembering Master Wu's comments for some reason, and he had not let go of the good news that the queen had given birth to a son-in-law.

Although the palace maid Bai Lu was puzzled by the emperor's lack of joy, she still responded with a straight face: "Niangniang is still ...... alive."

Before she finished speaking, a medical woman hurriedly walked out of the hall, and said in a panicked voice: "Your Majesty, the little princess is born insufficient, and there are signs of weakness. ”

The implication is that the little princess who has just given birth may soon be out of breath.

The voice of no half compassion and half compassion seemed to ring in the ears: The jade dragon entered the world alone, and the phoenix cried blood.

Emperor Yuan Kang hurriedly said: "Imperial Doctor, Imperial Doctor, Imperial Doctor!" ”

The imperial doctor in the side hall heard that the emperor was eagerly summoned, and immediately rushed over.

Emperor Yuan Kang ordered in a deep voice: "Go in and save the princess, if you can't save the princess, you will follow the funeral!" ”

The imperial doctor saluted in panic, and Emperor Kang couldn't wait to kick the imperial doctor into the inner hall, and the imperial doctor behind didn't dare to salute anymore when he saw this, and hurriedly entered the inner hall.

The moon set and the sun rose, and the heavy rain that had fallen for four days and four nights also stopped, and the sky above the Feng Palace was shrouded in colorful glow, and the imperial doctor walked out of the inner hall with soft legs and feet. He saluted Emperor Yuan Kang, who had been guarding outside the palace, and said, "Back to Your Majesty, the little princess is born inadequate and weak......"

Emperor Yuan Kang stayed up all night, and he didn't even go to the top of the early dynasty, but it wasn't to listen to the nonsense of the imperial doctor, he said angrily: "Tell the point." ”

"The little princess is no big deal, the congenital deficiency needs to be slowly adjusted, and the longevity is long, and the ...... is not good" The imperial doctor's voice became smaller and smaller, and just when Emperor Yuan Kangdi was about to go crazy, he said: "Frail and sick." ”

Emperor Yuan Kangdi took a deep breath, endured the desire to kill the imperial doctor, and silently recited in his heart, "This is to save merit for my little princess to praise her longevity." ”

Watching the housekeeper walk away, Mo Xifei also went downstairs. It was still early, and the guests didn't get up much, so she had to help her aunt prepare snacks before they got up.

"Congratulations, auntie, you have won the battle." Yin Moxi playfully made a gesture of arching his hand.

"Dead girl, if you give me an ugly life, I won't be so tired, show me the store before I die!" Yin Jinyue glanced at her.

"Oh......"

The inn is just her and her aunt, and most of the people who live in it are women or outsiders, and it is the aunt who specially does this in order to prevent anyone from disturbing Moxi, so there are not many people in the store. Most of the time, Moxi watches the store, and the aunt cooks, except for the three meal times, the store is not busy.

When it comes to cooking, Yin Moxi is a little stingy, she rarely cooks, not that she can't, and she has been teaching her aunt to cook well over the years. It's just that the aunt said that Moxi was raised by her, and only she is qualified to eat the dishes made by Moxi, and she knows that this is because her aunt feels sorry for her.

"Moxi." At this time, my aunt came from behind.

"What's wrong?"

"You go to the West Market to buy some salt and come back, I was so busy yesterday that I forgot about it."

"Hmm." Mo Xi took some silver and went out into the street.

There were a lot of people rushing to the market in the morning, and she was very uncomfortable with bumps along the way, so when she came back, she felt like she was about to collapse.

She sat down in the chair next to her, and when she patted her dress and thought everything was fine, she found that her purse was gone!

It doesn't matter if the money bag is gone, and there is not much silver in the bag, but the golden lock in it makes her head big all of a sudden, it is the golden lock she brought from childhood to adulthood, and she has always regarded it as a treasure - of course, the golden lock was originally a treasure, its exquisite lines, ingenious workmanship, must have been made by a famous general, but now......

"Auntie, the salt is on the table, I'll go out for a while!" Without waiting for her aunt's reply, Yin Moxi ran out of the inn.

She tied the money bag very well, it stands to reason that it will not fall, it must have been stolen by someone, generally after stealing something, the thief is in a hurry to get rid of it, and the gold lock should be sold to the pawnshop.

Knowing this, it's easier, it's just a pawnshop in the capital, say too much, say less, let her run all alone, it's obviously very difficult, but it's her own trouble, who can you blame? If it hadn't been for the fact that he had casually put it in his money bag after observing the golden lock last night, the golden lock would not have fallen into the hands of others.

Yin Moxi searched along the street, grabbed the store and ran inside, but he found dozens of stores in a row, and there was not even a shadow of the golden lock.

Could it be that she made a mistake in judgment? That's troublesome, if the golden lock is not in the pawnshop, then it will undoubtedly only be a needle in a haystack, and it will be difficult and difficult. But she couldn't just give up.

"Uncle, is there a pawnshop around here?" Yin Moxi walked up to a stall selling trinkets and asked the stall owner.

"There is one in the alley, go straight to this intersection and turn right." The old man pointed to the alley next to him.

"Thank you, uncle!" Yin Moxi thanked him and entered the alley.

There is a small pawnshop at the second alley on the right, compared with the pawnshop on the street, it is much more inconspicuous, not to mention that it is in this deep alley, and there is not even a signboard outside the door, the word "dang" is printed on the curtain, and you can't really find this place if you don't look carefully.

Maybe in a remote place with few people, it is more convenient to sell gold locks?

Lift the curtain and go in, a faint fragrance greets you, the store is not big, but the store is full of antiques, and the incense burner in the corner rises with curling green smoke, and the fragrance also comes from this. The shopkeeper was a young man, and at this moment he was sitting at the table and carefully examining a painting, until Yin Moxi entered the store, and he didn't know it at all.

"Shopkeeper, excuse me." Yin Moxi said softly.

"What's the matter?" The shopkeeper looked up at her, but still refused to put down the painting in his hand.

"Excuse me, have you ever received a golden lock?"

"What kind of golden lock?" The shopkeeper then carefully rolled up the ancient painting and put him in a brocade box.

"It's the word "Chenglin" in the front and the word "Jing" printed on the back, the texture is a little complicated, but it is very detailed, and the shape is a little different from the general lock......" Yin Moxi gestured to him.

During this time, the shopkeeper made tea and handed it to Yin Moxi with both hands.

"Huh?!" Yin Moxi was a little inexplicable.

"I've seen that lock, but it's just ......"

"I can give as much money as I want!" Yin Moxi took over the conversation. This is not the time to sell off!

"Not the ...... of the problem"

"What about gold..... I'll try to get it for you. Yin Moxi stared at him with a little disdain.

"I ...... Girl, will you listen to me? ”

Yin Moxi stared at the shopkeeper and didn't say a word. Okay, okay, a chronic son like him, I really can't afford to mess with it......

"The golden lock was sent by a man this morning, and the prince asked him the origin of the golden lock, but he was hesitant, and when he saw that the prince was suspicious, he dropped the golden lock and ran away. Now this gold lock is in the hands of the prince. ”

"Lord Wang? Which prince? ”

"Who else? Of course, it's the King of Fengge. ”

King Fengge? Yin Moxi felt a little cold in his back.

King Fengge is the fourth prince of the first emperor, named Li Xuanzhen, because of his talent, the instrument is magnificent, and he is regarded as a treasure by the first emperor. Just when everyone thought that King Fengge was the best candidate for the crown prince, fifteen-year-old Li Xuanzhen took the initiative to ask to build a mansion outside the imperial city, which meant that he had no intention of fighting with the princes. Later, he was canonized as the King of Fengge by the first emperor.

It is said that King Fengge has a strange temperament and rarely goes out, but the women who have seen him are all fascinated by him. It is said that King Fengge likes singing and dancing, and countless women rack their brains in order to dance or serve. But King Fengge was never moved by beauty and has not married yet.

Who said that a country and a city are described as women? It is not an exaggeration to describe King Fengge, and it is even a little demonic.

Yin Moxi had a relationship with him, and he gave people a feeling of being out of reach. If it were those dignitaries, it would be fine, but King Fengge ...... If she is bumped into by his admirers, then she will become the target of public criticism.

"The shopkeeper's ...... Can you take a trip for me? Yin Moxi asked.

"This is not a good ......," the shopkeeper shook his head, "the prince said, and asked the owner of this lock to find him by himself." ”

Yin Moxi drank the tea sent by the strange shopkeeper, and walked out of the pawnshop with a sad face, the matter has come to this point, and she can only go to the Fengge Palace.

Fengge Wang's Mansion is not very far from this shop, but it is still far away for the tired Yin Moxi. The palace is far away from the bustling area, giving people a grand but very quiet feeling, which is very comfortable.

Yin Moxi came to the gate of the palace, unlike the usual mansions of princes and nobles, there were no guards at the gate of Fengge Palace, I heard that most of the guards were only arranged when the prince enjoyed the song and dance, which was rare in normal times. The gate of the mansion was closed, with only clean steps, and the spotless gate told that the palace was still inhabited.

Yin Moxi sighed heavily, just die, let's die.

She picked up the knocker and knocked lightly on the door of the palace, and in a short time, a maid opened a crack and revealed her head.

Probably because there were many women who asked to see the prince, and the maid seemed a little unhappy.

"What's the matter?"

"I want to see the prince, and I'll bother the girl to report it."

"There are more people who want to see the prince, but the prince is gone, please go back." Without allowing Yin Moxi to say more, the maid slammed the door shut.

Yin Moxi wanted to knock on the door again, but her hand stopped in mid-air, if the prince didn't want to see the living, she only had two consequences if she knocked like this, one was to knock herself back, and the other was to anger the people in the palace and be bombarded back. Well, both of these consequences seem to be ......

Yin Moxi was a little deflated, how could the prince say that he could see it when he saw it? Besides, why did the prince hand over the golden lock to her?

Just as she was thinking nonsense, the door of the palace opened again, and the maid looked at her with an iron face, "Count your good luck, the prince wants to see you." ”

Yin Moxi was overjoyed and followed the maid into the house.

"Stand here and wait."

"Qingge, don't be rude."

Following the sound, a man stepped out from behind. He wears a gold silk sapphire crown and a green background and a gold-patterned Confucian skirt, which is not like those princes and nobles who wear gold and silver, but faintly reveals nobility.

"Lord Wang." Qingge saluted her.

"The people's daughter Yin Moxi has seen the prince."

"No courtesy."

Yin Moxi only felt that she had lost the courage to knock on the door in the first place, what should she say? Will the prince believe her?

"The girl is here for the golden lock?"

Li Xuanzhen spoke very softly, not at all as indifferent as Yin Moxi's impression.

"Exactly."

"Where did you get this golden lock?" Li Xuanzhen doesn't seem to be in a hurry to deal with the golden lock.

"The folk girl doesn't know where the golden lock came from, and the golden lock has always been there since the folk girl can remember."

"How long has it been with you?"

"The aunt of the folk girl said that the folk girl injured her head when she was six years old, and she can't remember anything before the age of six, so the folk girl doesn't know either." Although she didn't want to mention the past, she couldn't care so much about it in order to prove that the golden lock was hers.

"That's it, the lock is yours, just take it back, but be careful in the future." Li Xuanzhen handed over the brocade box she was holding in her hand.

Yin Moxi took the brocade box in Li Xuanzhen's hand and opened it carefully. Inside the box was her golden lock. The stone in his heart fell to the ground, and Yin Moxi's tightly knit brows finally relaxed.

Yin Moxi frowned, "The folk girl thanked the prince!" ”

"Is it true that if this king asks you in the future, you will be willing to help?"

Just as Yin Moxi turned around and was about to leave, Li Xuanzhen suddenly said this.

"If I can help... The women of the people should do their best. Yin Moxi was stunned for a while before answering, he is the prince, what use will the prince have to get her?

"Go ahead." Li Xuanzhen waved her hand.

Li Xuanzhen followed her out of the palace from a distance, standing at the door and watching her drift away.

"Qingge."

"The slave is here."

Li Xuanzhen's golden fan was closed, "Send someone to keep an eye on her." ”

"Auntie." Yin Moxi basically ran back. By the time she returned to the inn, she was out of breath.

"Where did you go again? I didn't return to the nest for a few hours. Yin Jinyue couldn't avoid reproaching again.

"Isn't it just running around on the street to see if you can bump into a prince or something?"

"Flim Flam."

Yin Moxi stuck out her tongue, this time she really bumped into her.