Chapter 43: The Crown Prince is Captured
The queen, who had no crown prince, seemed to have lost her backbone, stood up and stumbled back a few steps.
The emperor looked at the empress's dejected appearance and frowned: "I have always believed in you, and you actually did such a thing to my son. ”
Looking at the emperor's eyes, the queen suddenly laughed: "Believe me, Su Ruiwen, you really say it." ”
Among the guests, you look at me, I look at you, but I didn't expect the queen to suddenly go crazy. The Emperor looked at the Empress quietly and did not say a word.
"If you believed me, I wouldn't have refused to give me even a child for so many years, I just wanted to find someone to rely on, what was wrong with me. In the end, when you are a hundred years old, I will be a queen with a false name, and any of your sons will take me seriously. ”
The queen stood still and took a deep breath, "Only by showing kindness to people can this palace enjoy eternal happiness." Anyway, King Jing will not be the future emperor, so what if he dies. ”
"You're so mad that I can't ask you anything more." Su Ruiwen snorted coldly, "Come on, take down the queen for me." ”
The voice landed for a long time, but no one came up to make a move, Su Ruiwen felt that something was wrong, and said angrily; "Where are the forbidden troops?"
"Father, the emperor should save some effort, otherwise, he won't have the strength to write an edict of abdication for a while." The courtyard door opened, and the prince changed into light armor and strode in.
Behind him, two heavy troops drilled out at the same time. The soldiers, armed with spears and arrows, ran a few steps and surrounded the small courtyard. The guests invited to come in the small courtyard were all literati, and they were still very frightened for the reckless men of the army, and now they were surrounded like this, and they didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere.
"Su Zhongxuan, are you going to rebel?" Su Ruiwen shouted in a deep voice. Su Jingye saw that the situation was not right, and after pulling An Ning up, he stood on Su Ruiwen's left hand side, and consciously used himself to protect Su Ruiwen.
"Brother Huang, rebellion is a great rebellious felony."
"The soldiers are dangerous, and if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger's son, as long as my father is willing to give way to me, it will not be a rebellion." Su Zhongxuan snorted coldly.
"Good, good, this is my good queen, good prince." The Emperor clapped his hands and sighed self-deprecatingly.
"Brother Huang, you are already the crown prince, why bother making such a decision, the throne will be yours sooner or later." Su Jingye looked at the heavy soldiers around him, thinking about where the guards were weaker.
"You don't give me a fake there." Su Zhongxuan walked to the stage, holding a sword in one hand and a holy decree in the other. When the queen saw him coming, she hurriedly ran to Su Zhongxuan's side happily.
Su Zhongxuan pointed his sword at Su Jingye, grinned at the corners of his mouth and said, "Everyone wants the throne, will you be an exception?" If I don't take the first step, will you secretly please your father and depose me in the future? ”
Su Jingye stretched out his hand and blocked Su Ruiwen behind him. Su Ruiwen looked at it calmly: "You are afraid of your brother, but after all, you have been the prince for so many years, and I have never reprimanded you, why are you like this." ”
"You don't talk much." The prince put down his sword, and the tip of the sword slashed across the ground, almost touching Village Chief Liu, who was kneeling under the stage. In front is the current saint, and in the back is the crown prince, and Village Chief Liu is sandwiched in the middle, and the two are in a dilemma.
"I have been diligent for so many years, you haven't even praised him, Su Jingye and he haven't done anything, but you have always tolerated him, my father dares to say that he has never moved, and he has the intention of making him the prince?"
"Presumptuous, are you questioning your father?" Su Ruiwen slapped it on the table angrily, but it made the prince think that he was annoyed and angry.
Su Zhongxuan sent all the personal soldiers in his house this time, just to break the kettle and kidnap Su Ruiwen, which is a big deal. Su Ruiwen has been trying to stall for time, just to wait for the forbidden army to arrive quickly.
Generally speaking, whenever the emperor travels, he must be escorted by the forbidden army. But Su Ruiwen didn't know that Su Zhongxuan had already pretended to pass on his message and ordered Lin Chong, the head of the forbidden army, to guard the imperial city. Lin Chong always thought that the throne must belong to the crown prince Su Zhongxuan, so he had no doubt about his words, and he really stayed in the palace.
In Xishan Village, Jiang Mingyu looked at Jiang Liuyu's expression in the morning, he was always worried, and seeing that it was not too early, he calmed down the Liu family, so he took advantage of the opportunity to visit the shop and went to the capital to see the situation.
Su Jingye has always sent secret guards to guard the Jiang family, and now that he sees Jiang Mingyu's route, it is obviously different from the past, and the secret guard Liang Xin guessed that he was thinking of King Jing's Mansion. But King Jing and the emperor have something to do today, if he goes over, I'm afraid it will affect Su Jingye. After thinking about it, Liang Xin jumped off the branch with his face covered.
The coachman hurriedly restrained the horse, Jiang Mingyu was startled by this, opened the curtain to look, and saw a masked man with a sword standing in front of the car. Jiang Mingyu is a scholar, and he has no power to restrain the chicken, and even ordinary people can't beat him, let alone someone who knows martial arts.
Looking at the posture now, Jiang Mingyu thought that he was robbing the road, and hurriedly got out of the car and handed it over: "This hero, if you rob money, I can give you all the money on my body, as long as you let us go." ”
"I don't rob money." Liang Xin pointed his sword, scared the coachman away, and walked in front of Jiang Mingyu.
"The subordinates are the secret guards of His Royal Highness King Jing, Master Jiang, don't be afraid, please go back first."
As soon as he heard King Jing, Jiang Mingyu was relieved, and then grabbed Liang Xin and asked, "Then how is my Yu'er?" ”
"Master Jiang, don't worry, with His Royal Highness here, Miss Yu will be fine." Liang Xin comforted a few words, personally sent Jiang Mingyu back to Xishan Village, and after explaining to the other secret guards, he returned to the palace to report.
Who knew that when I arrived at the palace, it was not as lively as in the morning, and the people in the palace were trembling. Liang Xin hid his figure, walked to the study, and saw the housekeeper walking out of it.
When the housekeeper saw Liang Xin, he hurriedly greeted him; "Liang Gongzi, you're back."
"What's the matter, lord." Liang Xin asked, and the housekeeper pulled him to the corner and whispered: "The prince led his own soldiers to rebel, surrounded the prince's worship hall and courtyard, and did not allow anyone to enter and leave the palace. ”
Every prince has a private soldier, and as long as Liang Xin gathers it with a token, he can immediately break the siege. But after the crown prince this time, I am afraid that the emperor will be suspicious of King Jing's private soldiers.
Liang Xin thought about it, so he stepped into the study and rummaged around. The housekeeper closed the door at the back, "Liang Gongzi, I looked for that thing, but I didn't find it." ”
There is a piece of jade pendant, which was given to Su Jingye by Su Ruiwen before, and seeing the jade pendant is like seeing the saint, with which the jade pendant can be adjusted to the forbidden army. But Su Jingye hid deeply, and the housekeeper searched for a long time in the study but didn't find it.
Liang Xin fumbled for a long time, and finally found a hidden compartment on the back of the bottom drawer of the desk. Liang Xin took the jade pendant: "I'll go and inform the forbidden army, butler, you stay here and watch the situation at any time." ”
"Okay, you can go with confidence." The butler was relieved and came out to close the door of the study.
The two sides confronted each other in the small courtyard, and many people had already thought of standing on Su Zhongxuan's side in order to survive, but because Su Ruiwen was there, they didn't dare to act rashly. Su Ruiwen saw all of them in his eyes, and couldn't help sneering in his heart.
The crown prince stood in place with a sneer, and the queen was worried that something would change later, so she snatched the holy decree from Su Zhongxuan's hand, "Your Majesty doesn't have to waste time, let's write the edict first." ”
The crown prince was noncommittal about her unauthorized behavior, and Su Jingye asked loudly: "Brother Huang, what you do today, aren't you afraid of being spurned by the world." ”
"Becoming a king or defeating a king, as long as I become an emperor, who else dares to talk more." Seeing that no one was coming, Su Zhongxuan walked up with his sword with the holy decree. When everyone in the audience heard what he said, they all suspected that Su Zhongxuan would kill people and kill people, and they immediately complained a little.
"I can't write, my country must not be handed over to someone like you." The emperor blocked Su Jingye's hand, and Su Zhongxuan had just gone up the first step when he was shocked by his words.
"Then the father, let me blame my sons for being unfilial." Su Zhongxuan was angry from his heart, raised his sword and wanted to walk up. Before the words fell, the door of the small courtyard was kicked open.
A group of soldiers in fine armor ran in and took down all of Su Zhongxuan's private soldiers. Lin Chong personally stepped forward to hold Su Zhongxuan down, handed it over to the others, and then knelt in the audience to plead guilty; "Lin Chong, the head of the Weichen Forbidden Army, is too late to save the driver, please ask the emperor to surrender."
Su Jingye looked at the crowd and saw Liang Xin, Liang Xin met his gaze, nodded, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye, as if he had never come.
"Sect Leader Lin, come in time." The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, thought of something again, and asked, "It's just that I left the palace today, why did Sect Leader Lin arrive at this time." ”
Lin Chong knelt down on his knees when he heard this, "It's the prince who faked the holy word and asked Weichen to guard the palace, and Weichen was negligent for a while, so he asked the emperor to surrender." ”
"If you neglect to do so for a while, you can put me in the place of life and death," the emperor closed his eyes angrily, and Gonggong Su hurriedly gave him a good breath, "For the sake of your meritorious rescue, the merits and demerits are offset." ”
"Thank you, Emperor Longen." Lin Chong also thought that he would definitely be punished, and he was already grateful for this result.
Looking at the captured prince and queen in the audience, he ordered; "The crown prince colluded with the queen to assassinate King Jing, and he wanted to blackmail me, trying to usurp the throne, and the crime was heinous.
The private soldiers were all escorted away, and everyone in the audience looked at the stage, not knowing if they could leave. Su Ruiwen had seen enough of their faces, flicked his sleeves, and Father-in-law Su shouted; "Ladies and gentlemen, please leave first."
The small courtyard suddenly fell silent. Su Ruiwen looked at An Ning, An Ning was shocked, and knelt on the ground with his head down, "An Ning knows that he is guilty, and he is willing to be punished, and he only asks His Majesty to spare the courtier's family." ”
An Ning did Su Jingye a great favor this time, and Su Jingye was not the one who crossed the river and demolished the bridge, so he immediately saluted: "Father, although the county lord is involved with the queen and the prince, she reined in the precipice, revealed the truth, and asked her father to be lenient." ”
An Ning soured the tip of her nose and closed her eyes heavily. Su Ruiwen looked at him and smiled: "What." It's not that you don't want to marry An Ning, but now, you're willing to intercede for her. ”