Throne room.

Emperor Li Cheng was concentrating on reading, he coughed a few times from time to time, and the imperial eunuch hurriedly brought hot water, let him take a sip to moisten his throat, and patted his back while worrying: "Your Majesty!" Rest for a while, don't be tired anymore. ”

Li Cheng raised his hand to signal the eunuch to retreat, shook his head and held his spirit, and said in a hoarse voice: "I'm fine...... I am now in the prime of life, this little illness is not in the way, I am the Son of Heaven, how can I rest all day? ”

At this time, the chief eunuch Gao Li hurriedly came in, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Your Majesty!" The second prince he, he he went back to the palace! I'm asking to see you outside the temple! ”

Li Cheng was stunned for a moment, turned his face, his tired eyes were soaked with suspicion, and his tone was cold and unwarm: "Let him in, who else is with him?" ”

Gao Li replied: "Only the guards of Fengyi Palace are on duty to protect the safety of the second prince. ”

Li Cheng furrowed his brows, and scolded with a gloomy face: "Personal guard? At the feet of my Son of Heaven, in the grand palace, does anyone dare to assassinate? Do you even need the protection of a personal guard? It's ridiculous! I have to discipline him well today! Only the two princes were allowed to see each other, and the guards waited outside. ”

"Yes." Gao Li bowed his head and bowed his waist and retreated.

After a while, Li Min entered the main hall in white clothes and heroically, and said respectfully: "The son sees his father, long live his father, long live his father!" ”

Li Cheng raised his eyes, looked at Li Min carefully with a scrutinizing gaze, looked at him from head to toe, and said slowly: "Min'er has grown up, when your mother sent you to the border on an errand, you were still a hairy boy, and now you have become a prince with both talent and virtue." Of course, your wings are stiff, and you will inevitably think a little more.

I am very puzzled, what is your intention to go back to the palace without telling me in advance? Could it be that he heard that I have been in poor health recently, and was quite worried, remembering that my former harem was unsupervised, so he immediately returned to the palace to share the burden for me? Min'er is really a filial child! ”

Li Min is far away from the border, although he is far away from the disputes of the previous dynasty, he has also experienced countless intrigues, and naturally understands the emperor's meaning.

On the surface, he praised Li Min and was worried about the emperor's health, but in fact, he was testing whether Li Min would come back to fight for the throne, and even had bad intentions to usurp the throne.

He hurriedly shook his head, looked like he had been wronged, knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and replied with an oath: "Father! Sons swear! Erchen was forced to return to the palace! ”

"Oh? What do you mean by that? Li Cheng raised his eyebrows and said in surprise.

Li Min raised his face and looked up at Li Cheng, with an extremely pious attitude: "Father, there are always martial arts masters on the border who assassinate Erchen recently, no matter day or night, several times Erchen almost died.

Fortunately, I met Prince Wen in the western suburbs, he was traveling in the mountains and rivers, passing by the western suburbs of the city for a while, I heard that my son was hunted down, and I wanted to go back to the palace but I had palpitations, for fear that I would be framed on the way, and I would never see my father and mother again.

So, Prince Wen personally sent people to protect his sons, and took care of his sons and daughters every step of the way, so he arrived at the imperial city safely and soundly. Along the way, they really encountered the ambush of martial arts masters again, and they all had unique skills, or they were proficient in swordsmanship, or proficient in swordsmanship, or good at using hidden weapons, or good at light skills, and the guards were killed and injured more than half, so they barely killed this group of people in the rivers and lakes.

The father and the emperor and the sons were extremely scared, worried that they would never come back. Besides, Erchen remembered clearly that the deceased regent died on the way back to the palace in such an inexplicable way, and I heard that the person who assassinated him was the remnant of the enemy army, but ...... There are also many folk sayings that claim that the wounds of the regent and the guards are common kung fu and moves in the rivers and lakes to death, and they are not simply injured by the remnants.

Whenever Erchen thinks of the regent, he thinks of the murderers who have been assassinating Erchen in recent days! Father! You must be the master of your sons! I don't know who is looking at Erchen as an eyesore, even if he is far away from the border, he is unwilling to let Erchen go, it's really terrible! Erchen is weak, he has been cautious for many years, walking on thin ice, he really has not made enemies with a certain courtier, let alone contacted the people in the rivers and lakes, for some reason he has fallen to the point of being chased and killed, and Erchen is panicked! ”

Li Cheng patiently listened to Li Min's words, looking at his sincere and frightened appearance, not like an excuse to spread rumors and make things up.

Moreover, Li Cheng couldn't know more about this group of martial arts masters in Li Min's mouth, they were a group of people secretly cultivated by Prime Minister Longde, helping the prime minister to do things through the exchange of gold and silver interests, and the regent was their hand at the beginning, and Li Cheng acquiesced in this matter.

However, the assassination of the second prince is definitely not Li Cheng's plan, he has not yet considered the matter of the crown prince, the second prince is on an errand at the border, and there is no need to attack him at all. What's more, he is his own biological son, even if he is not allowed to inherit the throne and canonize a prince, he will enjoy endless glory and wealth for a lifetime, so why bother to take his life?

Li Cheng's furrowed brows gradually relaxed, his temples were like knives, and he smiled angrily from time to time: "I will order someone to investigate this matter and see who you have offended, and you will encounter these accidents." In addition, since he returned to the palace, he stayed in the palace for a few days, so as not to go back to the border and be targeted again, and he had to toss back. ”

"Yes, yes! Thank you for your father's permission! Erchen doesn't dare to go back now! I'm afraid I won't be able to get to the border, so I'll put my life in vain first! As if he had been favored, Li Min kowtowed again and again to express his gratitude.

Although this son is not around, Li Cheng's attitude is also very clear, as long as Li Min does not covet his throne, Li Cheng will not blame him or punish him.

"That's it, you are a second prince, and living in Fengyi Palace is not a long-term solution. The eldest prince Li Mufa was assigned to the Northwest Fiefdom and was canonized as the King of the Northwest by me. His former Long Mu Hall has been vacant for a long time, so it is better for you to move in. ”

Li Min rolled his eyes, thought for a while, and hurriedly refused: "No, father!" First, dare to ask where the royal brother wants to live when he comes back? Second, Erchen was afraid of being plotted in the palace, so he still stayed by the side of the queen mother of Fengyi Palace, and his heart was more steady. In case of a slight accident for the son, there are three long and two short in Longmu Hall, which will not only make the father lose face, but I am afraid that it will also implicate the imperial brother, and it will be speculated that it is the emperor's brother's hands and feet, isn't it the affection between our siblings! ”

Li Cheng listened carefully to Li Min's words, which was not unreasonable, and simply responded cheerfully: "Okay, then according to your wishes, live in your mother's Fengyi Palace temporarily, wait for some time, and then make plans." ”

Li Min kowtowed again: "Yes, my son, thank you for my father's permission." ”

"Okay, you go down, and in the future, I will often come to my father's palace to sit and tell my father the story of the border soldiers." Li Cheng said earnestly, with a kind fatherly smile on his face.

Li Min got up slowly, and responded with his chin bowed: "Yes, the sons obeyed the order, and the sons and daughters retreated first." ”

Immediately, he left the dormitory with a slight hunched waist.

Li Cheng's face gradually darkened, and he ordered: "Gao Li, you immediately summon Lund into the palace, I want to see what this old thing has in his head!" ”

……

Half an hour, Lund wore court clothes and official hats and came to the Jinluan Palace.

Li Cheng was a little tired, lying on his side on the soft collapse to rest for a while, and heard the footsteps of Gao Li and Lund, then he slowly opened his eyes, and the imperial eunuch helped him straighten up, poured him a cup of fragrant tea and drank it, Li Cheng felt much better.

"The old minister sees the emperor!" Lund bowed his hand.

Li Cheng raised his hand slightly, signaling everyone to retreat, and only Lund and Li Cheng were left in the hall, one sitting on the soft collapse, and the other standing in the middle of the hall.

Li Cheng's sharp gaze like an eagle stared at Lund's expression tightly, intending to find clues from his demeanor, and asked bluntly: "I remember, when dealing with the regent back then, the prime minister used the martial arts people you had privately raised?" I wonder if this group of people are still working under the command of the prime minister? If I need it, can the prime minister do it again? ”

A moment of surprise flashed in Lund's eyes, but it was quickly replaced by an overwhelming composure. Li Cheng never brought it up, just as the regent was really killed by the remnants of the enemy.

Suddenly took the initiative to ask today? There must be a cat in it!

Lund said in a tentative tone: "What does the emperor have to arrange for the old ministers to do?" At that time, many of the people left the command of Lao Chen, they were all wandering around the rivers and lakes, and they were all at home, and it was not easy to find their traces. If the emperor really has a confidential task, the old minister will try to find a few capable cadres to ensure that things are done cleanly and without leaving traces. ”

Li Min's face was calm and calm, and he changed his words and asked curiously: "The second prince has returned to the palace, has the prime minister heard of it?" ”

Lund nodded: "The old minister went down to the early court today, and happened to meet the second prince and Prince Wen, and exchanged a few words of greeting in public. When the second prince grows up, it is inevitable that his mind will be heavier, and his words, the old minister must also figure out the meaning of it. ”

Lund deliberately reminded Li Min like this.

Of course, Li Min heard the meaning of his words, and said slowly: "The second prince was really frightened, just now he came to ask me for peace and told me some things that had happened recently, he was assassinated by people in the martial arts on the border and in the western suburbs. Even on the way back to the palace, he was assassinated by a group of people and almost lost his life.

The second prince is now flustered, afraid of dying in the palace, and does not dare to go back to the border. came to beg me to make the decision for him, I thought about it, he is my sister-in-law, wouldn't such an encounter become a laughing stock in the world! I will summon you over, and you will personally come forward and call the people in the rivers and lakes under your command to the vicinity of the western suburbs, including on the way back to the palace, to investigate thoroughly to the end, and find out who is still involved in the martial arts people, and intends to kill my prince! ”

Every word Li Min said, he stared at Lund's expression seriously, and in the slight dodge of his eyes, Li Min noticed that Lund had a fleeting weakness of heart, and he was even more sure of his inner thoughts - this thing was done by Lund!

It's just that...... Why should he have trouble with the second prince? He and the eldest prince were at odds at the beginning, the two were enemies, and the Prime Minister's Mansion and the General's Mansion were originally hostile forces, so he designed to frame them, which is indeed understandable.

As for Li Min, the two of them don't seem to have any intersection and contradictions, and they actually used the means to deal with the regent and killed him, why is this?

Lund hesitated for a moment, his cheeks were full of vicissitudes, and he pretended to analyze the matter: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that it will be the second prince who provoked the enemy on the border, so he will be ......"

"Your Excellency! This is the trick you and I used to deal with the regent back then, how could it really happen to the second prince? Li Min immediately interrupted Lund's words, his eyes bursting with a hint of anger, and his tone was mixed with unquestionable majesty.

Lund swallowed the explanation to his mouth, he knew that he was afraid that he would not be able to hide from this matter, so in desperation, he had to agree unhappily: "The old minister understands, please give the old minister some time, and promise to investigate it thoroughly." ”

"Three days." Li Min said without hesitation.

Lund was stunned and hesitated: "Three days...... After all, the western suburbs are more remote...... Three days is too hasty......"

Li Min recognized that it was Lund's poisonous hand, what else did he investigate!? He is the Lord, and all he needs is to find a plausible explanation and find a scapegoat.

"I only give you three days, and if you can't find out who framed the second prince, I will punish you!" Li Min's cold tone made the temperature of the hall drop a little.

Lund sighed lightly: "The old minister understands and obeys the emperor's holy decree. ”

"Very good, step down, I believe in your ability, and I will definitely not let the murderer have a chance to escape."

Lund left the hall with a solemn expression, and he was pondering all the way: Could it be that the emperor has already suspected him? When the second prince first entered the palace, he was testing him inside and outside the words, and it must have been him who informed the emperor, plus the matter of the regent at the beginning, which made the emperor suspicious......

When he was frowning, Manwen hurriedly greeted him and blessed Longdefu: "Father! My daughter was about to go out of the palace to find you, and the guard at the palace gate told my daughter that the emperor had announced that you had come to Jinluan Palace! ”

"What's the matter?" Lund frowned, he was anxious about the emperor's affairs, and he was worried about how to deal with it! What's going on on Manwen's side now!?

Manwen took Lund's arm and dragged it aside, his little face was full of anxiety and worry, he lowered his voice and said slowly: "Father, something happened to the little prince!" The daughter didn't know the ins and outs, so she only heard Jing Guiren come back and say that the little prince had offended Princess Yue, and Jing Guiren was not convinced, so she went to find Princess Yue to theorize, but she was half angry to death.

Princess Yue has placed the little prince under house arrest and is now imprisoned in the Bright Moon Palace. Jing Guiren has no choice, there is no one to support the harem in the front court, and the emperor has been distressed by Princess Yue since she was a child, and she may not be partial to Jing Guiren, she is really powerless, so she begged her daughter to help and asked her father if he had any good ideas.

Listening to Aunt Jin, this matter is related to Tang Anxia, and the little prince followed Tang Anxia's kite into the Bright Moon Palace, and he didn't know how to speak, which annoyed Princess Yue. Father, do you think there's something strange about this? ”

Chinese Net