"I was entrusted by the green flute to come and help you."

As soon as the third prince heard this, he quickly quieted down and honestly followed Chu Yaocen to the back.

When the two arrived at the house, after closing the door, Chu Yaocen lay on the door and listened to the movement outside, and the third prince looked at him like this, and couldn't help asking, "What happened?" Aren't you in the same group as Zhang Xiuhe? What does Qingdi mean by asking you to help me? ”

Zhang Xiuhe must have brought his own people and didn't know where to go to talk about it, Chu Yaocen couldn't hear anything at all, he turned around and asked the third prince: "Have you noticed any movement from Zhang Xiuhe recently?" ”

The third prince shook his head: "Recently, his henchmen should have found out that he had returned to Jianye, and many people came to visit, but whenever someone came, he would take me to the side, and I couldn't hear what they were plotting at all." ”

Chu Yaocen thought for a while and said: "It should be a plot to rebel, your imperial brother has been away for half a month, although the queen mother and Qingdi have governed the court very well, but there has been no news from the north, everyone is worried that something will happen to your imperial brother, and a turbulent atmosphere has begun to permeate the court, if Zhang Xiuhe wants to incite civil strife at this time, it will be easy." ”

"What should I do?" The third prince frowned, walked back and forth uneasily, and said with remorse: "I shouldn't have left the palace willfully if I knew that I should have done it, it's all my fault!" ”

"No, even if you are not there, Bei Zhai still comes back to provoke, and the character of the current emperor can't withstand such low-level insults from Bei Zhai, it is inevitable that he will send troops, and you can't change this." Chu Yaocen said: "What we need to do now is to guard against Zhang Xiuhe and ensure that the country is stable before we receive any battle reports from your imperial brother." ”

The third prince nodded, and suddenly thought of something, glanced at Chu Yaocen suspiciously, and said, "Didn't you join Zhang Xiuhe at the beginning?" It was you who handed me over to Zhang Xiuhe. ”

Of course, at the beginning, Chu Yaocen had an appointment with Zhang Xiuhe in advance, but no one knew that things would develop to the point where they would get to this point, the royal family of Wu Guo was even more useless than he imagined, and he no longer needed to rely on Zhang Xiuhe's power to get future support, his wife could do it better than any man in Wu State.

Chu Yaocen's eyes rolled, and he immediately looked at the third prince helplessly, and said, "You begged me to take you out of the palace at the beginning, and I took you out because I wanted to help you." Zhang Xiuhe told me that he could protect you, so I handed you over to him, how did I know that he had his own ideas, and he had been putting you under house arrest...... If you have to blame me, I can't help it. ”

Chu Yaocen is a complete master of lying, he once spent nearly twenty years of hard work weaving a lie, so that anyone can live in his lies, and now deceiving a prince who is not very experienced is not easy to catch.

The third prince really believed his words and said, "It turns out that the truth is like this...... I'm sorry I blamed you wrong. After knowing that you are my cousin, I feel that you will not easily harm me, but I also think that you will be like Zhang Xiuhe, who has a bad idea about the government of Wu State. ”

Chu Yaocen chuckled, although he only needed a few short lies to dispel his doubts, but he didn't want to say anything about this now. There are some things he doesn't want to refute and he doesn't want to hide.

"Green flute...... Qingdi, she asked you to save me? The third prince didn't know how to think of this again, and suddenly blushed and asked Chu Yaocen.

Chu Yaocen squinted his eyes, this kid still can't forget Qingdi. He said: "Yes, Qingdi is now the goddaughter of the Queen Mother, and she can be regarded as your sister." ”

"Oh? The queen mother accepted her as her goddaughter? The third prince was surprised, and then said again and again: "It's okay, it's okay like this...... The queen mother has left her in a different way......"

Chu Yaocen didn't plan to continue talking about Qingdi, and asked, "Do you want to go out?" ”

The third prince looked up at him suddenly: "Is it okay?" Do you have a way to take me out? ”

"If I rescue you secretly, I may successfully escape, but it is more likely to fall into the hands of Zhang Xiuhe......" Chu Yaocen hesitated for a moment and said: "I think it is best for you to stay here, stay by Zhang Xiuhe's side, pay attention to his movements, I will come over to see you from time to time, you tell me Zhang Xiuhe's movements, and we will prepare in the palace." ”

The third prince was silent for a long time, nodded and said, "Okay, I understand." ”

Chu Yaocen patted him on the shoulder and said, "I'll go out and see who came to find Zhang Xiuhe." ”

The third prince nodded, and Chu Yaocen went out. When he saw Zhang Xiuhe, the person who came to look for him had already left, Zhang Xiuhe turned around and saw Chu Yaocen coming out, so he asked, "Have you appeased him?" ”

Chu Yaocen retracted his gaze and nodded, "Yes, he shouldn't think about leaving." ”

Zhang Xiuhe smiled slightly, patted Chu Yaocen's shoulder, and said, "You still have a way." ”

Chu Yaocen also smiled faintly and said, "If you don't have anything you need my help with, I'll go back to the palace." ”

Zhang Xiuhe nodded and said, "Okay, be careful on the road." ”

Is it just a phrase "be careful on the road"? Chu Yaocen thought that Zhang Xiuhe was finally going to explain his plan to him this time, but he finally chose to conceal it, which proved that Zhang Xiuhe was really not credible.

It doesn't matter, even if he is credible, it is definitely not as reassuring as his wife.

Chu Yaocen smiled meaningfully at him and left here.

In the next few days, they still didn't know what Zhang Xiuhe's movements were, and Zhang Xiuhe was obviously hiding it from them. Until one day, after the dispersal of the dynasty, when Qingdi was reviewing the recital with the Queen Mother, suddenly the eunuch came in and said that there was a minister outside covered in blood, saying that he knew the whereabouts of the three princes and asked to see the Queen Mother.

As soon as the Queen Mother heard this, she asked people to bring him in, and the man was really injured, and said: "The Queen Mother, the villain himself escorted the guards of the three princes out of the palace, the three princes planned to leave the imperial city, and then come back when the city was stable, but they were chased and killed on the way, and we had to rush back last night, and now the three princes are in the prince's mansion where they lived before, he was seriously injured, and he was almost powerless to return to the sky, he just wanted to see the queen mother before he died, so he ordered the villain to enter the palace to report...... The Queen Mother, this is a token from the three princes to the villain, and I hope that the mother will not delay any longer, and go to see the third prince for the last time! ”

The queen mother hurriedly ordered the eunuch to hand over the token he was holding in his hand, and after a closer look, it was indeed the jade pendant that the third prince brought from childhood to adulthood, and she quickly got up to see the third prince.

Qingdi looked at the person suspiciously for a long time, and suddenly said, "Niangniang, don't go out, I think this matter is strange." ”

"My sons are dying, what's so strange about this?" The Queen Mother was a little annoyed and roared the green flute.

The man who knelt on the ground glanced at Qingdi, and said righteously: "Is the princess suspicious of the villain?" The villain died in front of the princess and the queen mother, in order to prove the villain's innocence, as long as the mother went to see the third prince and fulfilled his last wish in front of him, the villain died without regrets! ”

After saying that, he suddenly opened his mouth and bit off his tongue, and soon, he was choked to death by his own blood.

The queen mother saw that this person was willing to prove himself with death, so she believed that it was definitely the third prince who came back, she no longer gave Qingdi any chance to dissuade her, called a few imperial doctors, and drove to the palace before the three princes.

Qingdi thought about it before and after, and always felt that something was wrong...... She knew that the third prince had always been in Zhang Xiuhe's hands, and what this person said must be a lie, he should have been sent by Zhang Xiuhe, the purpose was to lure the queen mother out of the palace...... So why did you let the Queen Mother out of the palace?

Qingdi thought about it for a while, and suddenly had a very terrible premonition...... Zhang Xiuhe, this is to hold the Queen Mother hostage to order the courtiers!

She immediately went back to discuss with Chu Yaocen and told Chu Yaocen everything just now.

Chu Yaocen listened to it and said: "I should have expected that Zhang Xiuhe would not directly rebel without soldiers and horses in his hands, so I could think of holding the Queen Mother hostage." ”

"What are we going to do? I don't have any soldiers in my hands, and I'm only a strategist, so I don't have any qualifications to order others to send troops. ”

"Don't worry, if the Queen Mother dies at the hands of Zhang Xiuhe this time, it will not be a good thing for us......" Chu Yaocen's mind quickly turned around Zhang Xiuhe's various actions in the past few days, and he said: "Maybe Zhang Xiuhe didn't want to hold the Queen Mother hostage to order the courtiers, he is very careful in doing things, and he won't let himself have a bad reputation." ”

Indeed, the people of Wu pay attention to what they do, and they are famous, in fact, Li is the same, but Wu Guo cares more about these. This leads to the fact that if anyone in Wu wants to seize power, he must come up with a famous reason, if Zhang Xiuhe really hostages the queen mother, then he is a sinner, and there is no legitimate reason.

"Anyway, he lured the Queen Mother to go, so what do you think he wants the Queen Mother to do?" Qingdi asked.

Chu Yaocen has a lot of ideas in his heart, combined with Zhang Xiuhe's character, there is one idea that is the most likely, Chu Yaocen said: "He probably wanted to kill the queen mother by the hands of the third prince, and then crusade against the third prince on the charge of wiping his mother...... It is true that he does not have troops on his hands, but the last time the worm disease made him win the hearts of the people, it is not difficult for him to recruit soldiers, maybe he has already recruited a lot. It is also likely that he had already formed an alliance with the ministers who had soldiers in the court, so that it was logical for him to become emperor. ”

"How could it be, did he forget that the second prince who was fighting far away still had no news? Even if he really crusaded against the third prince, if the second prince returned, he would still get nothing. ”

"Even if the second prince comes over safely, he is also a great contributor to quelling the civil strife, he can definitely enter the court, and then arrange his own forces in the court, even if the second prince is unwilling to continue to keep him, the ministers will have a plan in their hearts." Chu Yaocen chuckled lightly and asked Qingdi, "What's more, do you think the second prince can come back alive?" ”