I'm afraid that the main hall of the East Palace will have to be rebuilt, and from the middle of the dormitory is a large collapse, and the two people who just went down the tunnel must have been crushed to death......

Hong Changming, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Chi Fu, the waiter, and a few other officials walked briskly towards this side and said, "What's the matter?" ”

A few entourages accompanying Hong Changming said: "I heard that the palace people who were busy just now said that there was a tunnel under the East Palace, and there was an explosion, and someone should have set fire below." ”

After Hong Changming and Wei Chifu looked at each other, Hong Changming said, "What about His Royal Highness the Prince?" Is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seriously injured? The attendant replied: "I heard from them that the prince was taken captive earlier, and the explosion occurred later." ”

At this moment, Hong Changming and Wei Chifu suddenly couldn't walk, when the prince was taken captive, and now they don't know their safety! The construction of the East Palace is not only time-consuming, laborious, but also costly. It seems that this time it is not good......

Think about it, you still have to hurry up!

Wei Chifu: "My lord, this tunnel must have been dug up from outside the palace, but there must be an internal response to this...... "It seems that there is a ghost in the East Palace."

Hong Changming: "There should be something inside, but this tunnel can be dug outside the palace, which is really shocking!" ”

The eunuchs and maids in the East Palace were all injured to a greater or lesser extent because of the explosion just now, but there were no major casualties. It's just that, after excavation, the two minions who went to investigate were found dead in the shallow part of the tunnel.

When you are young –

"Lord Hong, the tunnel was dug in from the outside, but the middle of the tunnel has been blown up, and it is estimated that it will take two days to dredge it outside! The emperor ordered me to go to the Taihua Hall immediately after I was done. So how should this matter be reported? A squire who bowed his head asked.

"How do you report it?" Wei Chifu felt very strange after hearing this...... He turned his head to look at the attendant who had just finished looking through the tunnel, but he kept doing that, not even raising his head to reply.

That's a strange question......

Wei Chifu always felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he didn't know what was wrong! Is there any other way to do this than to report it truthfully? It was indeed the people in the palace who died, but the prince was not present at the time! Therefore, even if this matter is overcome, that is, there was an explosion in the East Palace and the foundation collapsed, and the prince was not involved...... What's wrong with that?

Hong Changming looked at the tragic situation of the collapse: "You report to the emperor, and after inspecting, you found that the gunpowder in the tunnel blew up the tunnel, and two eunuchs died under the tunnel." It took two days to clear the rest of the place before we could know where the tunnel came from. ”

"Yes." After the attendant answered, he left with a father-in-law in the Taihua Palace.

Odd...... There was no problem with what Hong Changming said, but Wei Chifu always felt that something was wrong when he listened to it.

Gunpowder blew up the tunnel, rightly so. Under this collapsed foundation, it will indeed take a day or two to dredge it. However, why does Wei Chifu always feel weird, as if something is wrong?

"Then Lord Wei Chi, the two of us are done. The rest is the personal stuff to do, let's go. "Hong Changming looks so comfortable......

Wei Chifu looked at the collapsed foundation in the middle of the East Palace, and still felt too surprised. Now that the situation is turbulent, it's not that this can't be the case at the feet of the Son of Heaven, it's just that this disaster happened to the emperor!

The East Palace is so close to the emperor, just within the walls of this palace, who is it that wants the prince's life? In other words, if he shoots at the emperor's favorite prince, does he want the emperor's life?

Seeing that the red bricks and green tiles of the past were broken for a while, what if they were repaired? If the foundation is damaged, I am afraid that there are already scars in people's hearts, and the disaster that happened is irreparable after all......

The hour has passed, the twilight is heavy, and the cold night has quietly fallen.

In a hidden woods in the east of the city—

Tuoba opened his eyes slowly, it was pitch black, and his mouth was gagged...... He was so dizzy that he couldn't even tell whether the sky was black or white!

What's going on! He only vaguely remembered now that someone said that they were going to make a trick for him, and that trick could change things in and out, which was amazing. Then Tuoba asked the trickster how he came up with it, and the man told him—

"You put your head in a box and you can see the secret."

Eager to know how the trick had changed, he stuck his head in...... only to find out that there are no secrets inside! It's just a tattered empty box. When he opened the box, he smelled a terrible smell, and then he didn't know what to do.

Tuoba Hei's hands and feet were tied, his mouth was stuffed with cloth, and his eyes were so tightly covered that he couldn't see any light! His body moved a few times, and the person next to him knew that he was awake by looking at it.

"Prince, I don't want to hurt you, it's not my intention to get you here, I also obey people's orders." The man covered his face, and he couldn't see his appearance at all. He tied his hands and feet with ropes and sat down easily......

After a while, the masked man noticed that Tuoba was moving and suddenly stopped moving.

He walked over and shook Takoba - "Hey, hey, why don't you move?" Prince? ”

Well? He calls me the prince, could it be him...... Is it someone from the palace? Tuoba was just tied up, and his hands and feet cramped and couldn't move, but it looked like this person might not be a living person......

Tuoba suddenly shook his head weakly, the man was a little anxious, and hurriedly asked, "Oh my God, you're not dead, are you?" I was ordered to watch you here, but I didn't want your life, don't die! It seems that he also knows that killing the prince is a great crime to punish the nine clans.

Tuoba still didn't move, just shook his head slightly. Judging from this man's performance, he didn't want to kill, so he shouldn't have any worries about his life today.

The masked man looked around, it was impossible for people to come in here, why don't you let this prince catch his breath?

"Listen, I'll take out the cloth from your mouth now, but you are not allowed to shout, as long as I hear a shouting sound, I will immediately knock you out, do you understand?" After the man finished speaking, he looked at Tuoba Hei, this posture has been tied, and it is indeed too terrible for a child.

Tuoba kept nodding, the weather was cold. If he didn't take a big breath of air, he would have suffocated to death.

The masked man looked at Tuoba and nodded, telling him, "There's no one here but you and me." If you dare to shout a word, I stuffed your mouth with a cloth this night, hear? The masked man saw that Takubashi had been nodding, and tightened the rope that bound Takuba's hands and feet, and then took the cloth from his mouth.

"Whew, suffocate me! My mouth hurts. Tuoba complained, but he complied, and his voice was indeed small. Tuoba didn't dare to shout...... His hands and feet were tied hard enough to let him know that this person wasn't playing with him! If he really makes that kind of cry for help and is found again, then this man is afraid that he will be killed.

"Can you please let go of my feet, I can't run, my feet hurt so much." It was only then that I really heard the voice of Tuoba - if I had to describe it in one way, the voice of this twelve-year-old boy was like a piece of jasper! Even if the person was tied hand and foot, he didn't complain and sigh, just talked to the person well......

This......

The masked man sat under another big tree, and saw that Tuoba Hei was there without moving or shouting, this prince was quite easy to toss, but: "No, if I let go of your hands and feet, then if something happens, I will take my hands and feet to compensate, I don't want to be a waste." ”

"You know I'm the crown prince?"

"I must know, getting you out of the East Palace will also cost a lot of effort!" Tuoba didn't know what was going on, why did he tie him up here and not kill him?

"Then why didn't you kill me?

"What exactly do these people want to do?

"Kill you?" The masked man sat up suddenly, thinking it was funny. He rubbed his hands together, and the later it was, the colder it became.

"What am I going to kill you for?"

"Why are you doing this to me now if you don't kill me?" Takubashi became more and more confused, and slowly became a little irritable.

The masked man suddenly felt that this child was ridiculous, and he was bent on begging for death: "People are going to do big things, and tying you here is just a barrier, not your life!" Aren't you the crown prince, you will be the emperor in the future, a big child, who has no enmity with you, what are you doing to kill you? ”

Tuoba's hands and feet were very uncomfortable, especially his hands, which had been tied behind his back, and he felt that his arms were about to break! Listening to the voice from the side, I feel that it is really inexplicable, doing something big to tie him up to delay time? It's ridiculous.

"What are you going to do?"

The masked man was idle, and he had a sentence to say: "It's your business." ”

"Then you must not work in vain! You are here looking at me, and how much silver do they give you? "Looks like we're going to have to save myself somewhere else.

"Fifty taels."

"What? That's it? It turns out that I am only worth fifty taels of silver as a prince! But fifty taels is not enough money for the opera troupe in my palace, you might as well be a trickster. ”