The Imperial City of Karanju • Yanling Palace

Lihou and the palace curtain walked on the way out of the palace, and he walked in front without looking back, without saying a word.

"Don't you have anything to say to me?"

Lihou was stopped by this sound, and looked back at the palace curtain with a gloomy face: "Is there anything you want to ask Your Royal Highness?" ”

"Of course I have, I don't even know where to ask." A strange smile tugged at the corner of Gong Wei's mouth, "It's better to start with the most important thing - Lihou, are you really sincere to this king?" ”

"Nature."

"Then why did you rush back from Lihan to help Lao Wu and the Lian family?"

"What the old minister wants to save is the righteous daughter Gui Ying, and it has nothing to do with the Fifth Highness." Lihou turned around, "The second thing to save is the Third Highness and the Fourth Highness." ”

Before the words fell, Lihou's shoulders had been grabbed, and the palace curtain roughly pressed his weak body against the palace wall, and the armor collided with the masonry and made a muffled sound.

"Help me? I think you're an old fool! Gong Wei's hoarse voice was like an enraged serpent spitting letters, "Do you know how long I have been planning for today; How much work did it take for the fourth child to find the family members outside the palace of the two girls in the Wangqi Palace; Fang Zhiyun has not been able to climb to the position of the waiter of the Criminal Department for many years, and today he was stirred up by you and directly became a prisoner! ”

Lihou didn't look at the palace curtain in front of him, but let out a chuckle: "You guys are still playing the trick of holding your family hostage, isn't the lesson of the fierce flame on the last Wanshou Festival enough?" ”

"You don't have to stand here and talk cool!" The arm of the palace curtain pressed on the chest of the Marquis of Lihou added a little more force, "Last time I was only one step away from getting it, and it was the straw bag that my father protected the boss and put things to a halt in a hurry!" ”

Lihou's gaze slowly moved to the angry face of the palace curtain: "Third Highness, do you really think that it is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that His Majesty wants to protect?" ”

"I thought that Fang Zhiyun had been arranged in the ghost prison, but the evidence of this crime is conclusive, and my father has nothing to do if he wants to protect him... But you! You're doing my good thing again, do you want to help me get on the board—"

Before the palace curtain spoke, Hou Ye had already made a move, his body was extremely fast, and he wrapped one hand around the arm of the palace curtain against his chest, and with a dodge, the palace curtain was staked on the palace wall.

"—Your Royal Highness said cautiously, this is in the palace."

The palace curtain was surprised, and the cheeks that were attached to the palace wall were painful. He struggled, but unexpectedly, Lihou's strength was surprisingly strong, like a mountain pressing him under him.

"Old puppet, you're crazy......"

"You're the one who is crazy. Not only are you crazy, you're stupid! Hou Ye's subordinates worked hard, but his voice floated slightly in his ears, "Do you really think that Xu Jin turned back for no reason?" It was His Royal Highness who held his friendship outside the palace hostage, and forced him to turn against you! ”

"What?" The hand locked by the palace curtain instantly lost the strength to struggle, "Is it the fifth child?" ”

"The Fifth Highness will make you and the East Palace powerless with one move, do you still naively think that you can easily bring him down with just two little palace maids?"

"But... But how could it be, there is no flaw in my plan-"

"- Of course you have a flaw! Your planning itself is the biggest flaw! ”

Hou Ye grabbed the hand of the palace curtain more and more painfully, "The most clever thing about the Fifth Highness is that he understands that no matter how clever he is, he can't hide it from His Majesty's eyes after all. The more you act in front of Your Majesty, the more Your Majesty will be afraid of you! Look at how he is silent and pretending to be stupid in front of the emperor today. Look at yourself again - you are so stupid as to bring someone into the palace by yourself, are you afraid that your father will not be able to make up his mind to move you! ”

"But... But even if I buy Xin'er Yun'er to arouse suspicion, what about Fang Zhiyun, he is my most powerful arm in the Criminal Department! ”

"That's why you are stupid! The ghost in prison is the crown prince, you actually let your people make false confessions? ”

Hou Ye's voice was already a little angry, "You know better than anyone how much Your Majesty loves you, today's confession is very different from the result of the Xuan Palace, and the Criminal Department has become an outcast." If you let your other minions make a move at this time, you will only expose them to His Majesty one by one! If I hadn't taken it over in time today, it didn't matter if the Criminal Department couldn't keep it, the prince who was finally defeated by His Royal Highness the Fifth Highness was afraid that he would also make a comeback! ”

"Old Five..."Gong Wei's pupils shrank suddenly, and his body had lost all his strength, "I've been planning for many years, and many deployments are not as good as his one-and-a-half moves?" ”

"In terms of scheming, you naturally don't lose to him, and if he wins, he will win by reading and understanding His Majesty, grasping the weakness, and killing with one move." Hou Ye let go of the hand holding the palace curtain, "Now Your Majesty has no trust in you at all. I can only help you press the prince to death. If you still want to save your life and fight with the Five Highnesses, don't do anything stupid anymore. ”

After Lihou finished speaking, he strode towards the other side of the long street without looking back.

"Old thing... Even if I can't move for the time being, your good righteous daughter must die. ”

Gong Wei rubbed his wrists, looked at the blurred back of Lihou gradually moving away, and showed a sinister and cruel smile.

——

"Sure enough, it's a straightforward woman."

Concubine Ying smiled at me and poured the remaining tea into the wooden barrel. "The first time I drank steamed green loose tea when I was young, I was also blunt to say that I couldn't get used to drinking it."

"He—" said Miyahata, and my heart was filled with sweetness, "He has a similar taste to mine." ”

"Yes, when she was young, she was just like Lian Girl, she was smart and smart, she loved to laugh, and she was very popular with the emperor." Concubine Ying's eyes reflecting the green tea soup in the tea cup were covered with a layer of dirt, "It's just that later, he became stubborn and dull, and he was silent." Gradually, he became more and more disgusted by his father. ”

"Why is that?"

"Girl Lian, would you like to hear the story of a banner?"

"But I don't know what kind of story it is, looking at the tone of the mother, it seems like a secret of the palace." I smiled and said, "If the courtier's guess is right, why is the lady willing to tell this story to the courtier?" ”

"Since Miss Lian is a smart person, she naturally knows your place in her heart. You are so important to him, why should I, as a mother, deliberately alienate from you? ”

A warm current welled up in my heart - it turned out that Miyahata, he loved me so much, had he already introduced me to his mother......

"Niangniang, please speak, the courtiers listen to you."

Concubine Ying smiled gently at me: "If you want to talk about this, you have to start from twelve years ago, when the Chu Chu clan defeated the first kingdom and conquered the imperial city of Kazhou. At that time, there was a little princess under the emperor's knees. ”

"-Princess?" I was very surprised, "The courtiers have never heard of any princesses who have been married far away or have passed away!" ”

"Of course you don't know. In fact, except for the emperor, no one should know. The princess's name was Gong Man, and she was born of a maidservant, who was a year younger than the woman, and she had not left the court, nor had she ever been out. ”

"Since the little princess is still alive, why isn't she in the palace?"

"Her whereabouts are Daxin's biggest secret, and only the emperor knows." Concubine Ying came to her senses from her deep thoughts, turned to me and said, "Does even the girl know the story of the Heavenly God Vermilion Bird, the Ancient Desert Princess, and the Flower Demon Incense Pith?" ”

I remembered the night under the peach blossom tree in the backyard of the peach pin building, and the palace flag, and nodded blankly.

"Fifteen years ago, the emperor had not yet set the capital of Kazhou, and Zhu Chun was not the royal family of today. One day, a monk from the south came to the camp and made a prophecy in front of the soldiers of the whole clan that in three years, the clan would establish the most powerful country in the Central Plains. ”

"The prophecy of that alchemist has come true."

"Yes, although the emperor didn't know the truth at the time, he was also very happy. It's just that the Fang Shi reminded that if the Zhu Chu clan established a country, then the emperor, who was still the head of the tribe at that time, would become the emperor of a country, and the emperor's daughter would naturally become the princess of the country. ”

"Princess," I realized, "yes! That ancient legend once mentioned that the flower demon incense pith would parasitize the princesses of every dynasty to torture and avenge the god Suzaku who abandoned her! ”

"Not bad. Although this legend originated in the southern desert, the northern frontier countries are also well known. At that time, although the country had not been founded, the emperor's maid had been pregnant for nearly four months, and the doctor diagnosed that it was a female fetus. ”

Concubine Ying's tone was calm and simple: "At that time, Fang Shi asserted that the day of the founding of the capital was the time when the little princess was parasitized by the flower demon. The emperor was anxious and hurriedly asked how to crack it. But Fang Shi said that the curse of gods and demons cannot be broken by human beings. If you want the little princess to avoid this difficulty, the only way is to let her follow her incognito, travel all over the world, dissolve the royal family's anger, and avoid the invasion of the flower demon. ”

"It's... That's too mysterious, isn't it? ”

Although the words of the priest are mysterious and mysterious, the emperor's protector is anxious, and he is afraid that the god Suzaku will come to the world again in the future, take away the princess, and bring disaster to the tribe. After struggling for a long time, he finally made up his mind and asked Fang Shi to take away the maid who was still with a big belly at the time. ”

"The little princess was taken away like this? That... What does this have to do with Miyahata? ”

"Because the princess's biological mother was a maidservant in the emperor's camp, the emperor did not inform the tribe of her existence at that time. And the only people who know about this are the late Empress Zhaoyi, Concubine Li and the palace. The emperor told us that the servant girl was infected with a vicious disease and died violently. We know what's at stake, so we don't dare to ask more. The matter passed peacefully. Until three years ago, the emperor conquered Katju. The alchemist came back with the little princess again. ”

"-Come back? Now that you're gone, what are you doing back? ”

"I don't know about this palace. It was only at the beginning that the Chu Chu tribe set the name of the country, and according to the suggestion of the Marquis of Li, the surname of the country was changed to the palace. We just moved into Kashu, and we were all shocked by this luxurious and spacious first palace. The adults were fine, but the four princes and the banners, who were children at the time, were happy. At that time, it coincided with the birth mother of the fourth prince, Lan Zhaoyi, passing away, and in the entire palace, only Wan'er ran excitedly and curiously all day long. ”

I had a bad feeling in my heart: "And then? ”

"Then, finally, one day, he ran to a place he wasn't supposed to be going and ran into someone he wasn't supposed to see."