Chapter 5: Palace Secrets

The weather has been very hot these days, and even the sound of insects is listless in the scorching sun.

The scenery in the palace is very beautiful, the water in the small pond flows down the pipe carved from the white jade, and flows back into the water with a dingdong dong, which is very elegant.

Li Muyuan is also bored these days, King Fugong is not in the house these days, the last time she returned to the house with the saint, it was late at night, and she had already fallen asleep after experiencing the fatigue of the boat.

On the morning of the second day, I heard from others that when the prince came back, he also brought thousands of brocade guards with him, saying that the emperor gave the prince to expand the security department.

Even Li Muyuan was taken aback when she heard thousands of people.

She has nothing to do today, and her master is not here these days anyway.

The prince also seemed to have deliberately forgotten her, and did not arrange an errand for her, nor did he mention the change of name and surname again on that day.

It was close to evening at this time, and Li Muyuan was sitting in the pavilion, looking at the small fish in the pond outside the pavilion.

When the little fish saw someone approaching, they mistakenly thought that they were feeding it, and they all gathered at Li Muyuan's reflection, causing ripples on the water surface.

She couldn't help but be in a trance.

At that time, when she was eating with her family, it was the same scene. The parents sat above the round table, she held her brother's sleeve to prevent him from walking in front, and the two of them squeezed me in the courtyard to hide, and finally came to the dinner table.

As they sat down, Father examined them both happily, while Mother looked at them with a smile on her face.

She and her brother are always secretly competing: whoever answers first will pick up a meatball on a plate first, and the results are comparable every time.

There was a "ding dong", and a small teardrop fell into the pool.

The fish flicked their tails and avoided the small splash.

After a long time, the princess walked quickly out of breath: "Ouch, Miss Li, it turns out that you are feeding the fish here, the prince has been back for a while, and he is waiting for you in the study!" “

After hearing this, Li Muyuan immediately got up, and went straight to the study after announcing her resignation to the prince. She walked quickly, and when she reached the door of the study, a thin bead of sweat floated on her forehead.

When she walked into the study, she saw that Zhu Changxun was already sitting on a chair, holding a book in his hand and flipping through it casually.

After she curtched and saluted him, Zhu Changxun motioned for her to close the doors and windows.

When everything was done, she found a random stool and moved it over and sat down.

Zhu Changxun saw that she was so rude, although he didn't say it, but there was a layer of displeasure between his eyebrows. He looked at Li Muyuan, who was only a meter away from him in front of him, as if he had noticed something.

"Crying?" He asked in a deep and calm voice.

Li Muyuan rubbed her eyes, not wanting to be seen by him. Only then did he reply: "No, maybe the wind and dust have lost my eyes." ”

He no longer mentioned the matter. His fingers lifted a teapot on the table, trying to pour himself a cup of tea.

"Slave and maid come." Li Muyuan stood up, took the teapot, and immediately poured him a cup.

"A few days ago, the emperor gave this king 5,000 brocade guards, and asked this king to expand the guard division in Beijing. I guess you know that, too. ”

She nodded and handed the poured tea to Zhu Changxun.

Zhu Changxun took the teacup and was not in a hurry to drink it in his hand.

He also said, "Today the emperor has summoned this king. He paused before continuing, "The Red Pill case was mentioned. ”

Li Muyuan raised her head, the teacup in her hand had been put down, and she asked, "But what about the concubine living in the cold palace?" ”

"Hmm." Zhu Changxun nodded.

As if he was not familiar with Concubine Zheng, he continued: "He explained to the king that it was not his intention to punish the concubine. It's just that now there are many and chaotic forces in the DPRK and China, and the people of the Donglin faction have been pulling this braid again. There's no way he can do it. And this time he let this king enter Beijing, but he felt that he owed this king a little bit. ”

Li Muyuan was silent for a while and asked, "What does the emperor plan to let you do?" ”

Zhu Changxun looked directly into her eyes, and she saw that the eyes that had always been as calm as water were surging with a terrifying wave at this moment.

His still calm voice came, but after Li Muyuan heard it, she felt that there was already a trace of cold sweat behind her.

"He wanted this king to be regent."

Li Muyuan slowed down for a while, and vigorously suppressed the tremor in her voice: "The slave persuaded the prince... Reject the matter. ”

The expression on Zhu Changxun's handsome face moved slightly, and then he smiled, as if what he just said was just an ordinary family matter.

Although the smile did not reach the bottom of her eyes, the demeanor of that moment was like a rainbow after the wind and rain, which also made Li Muyuan's uncontrollable trembling hand gradually calm.

"That's natural, and the king rejected him at the time."

His voice was still calm, but his tone sounded a little more relaxed.

Li Muyuan was a little embarrassed, this master called this kind of big thing that was not enough to cut off ten heads if it was passed out.

If she doesn't satisfy him with a little answer, the master may just kill her.

Zhu Changxun naturally didn't care about the little Jiujiu in her heart, and then continued: "In addition to this, the emperor also mentioned one thing. ”

"What?"

She promised that if she could turn back time, she would never want to ask "what" at this moment.

He calmly began to narrate: "He spoke to this king......

said that before he ascended the throne, the night of the emperor's death.

At that time, Concubine Li Kang, who was favored by his father, in order to make the emperor make her the queen, broke in directly when the emperor made a will.

The first emperor was so angry that he didn't even have the strength to cough up blood, so he was so angry that he fainted. It didn't take long for him to die.

A nation shall not be left without an owner for a day.

At that time, while the Donglin Party was accusing Zheng Guifei and others, Wang An, the father-in-law who had served the emperor, stood up at this time and moved out of the fact that the former emperor had appointed him as the crown prince, and immediately supported him to the throne.

But who knew that Concubine Li Kang had moved to the Qianqing Palace when the emperor died, and she wanted to listen to the government.

And he was placed under house arrest by Concubine Li Kang in the Qianqing Palace, although he was a prince at the time, he was afraid of Concubine Li Kang since he was a child, and he couldn't say anything to refute it.

At that time, the situation was urgent, and several old ministers in the court wrote one after another to ask the new emperor to ascend the throne, and in no way, Wei Jinzhong Wei Gonggong next to him took a group of prestigious old ministers in the court and ran all the way to the Qianqing Palace.

Even if Concubine Li Kang tried every means to stop him, he still let him meet with the old ministers in the end.

As soon as this group of people saw him, they directly knelt on the ground and kowtowed and shouted long live, and protected him from the Qianqing Palace.

Afterwards, he ascended the throne and became emperor, and Concubine Li Kang was forced to move elsewhere. Although he hated Concubine Li Kang very much, he had a cowardly personality since he was a child, and he grew up in the shadow of Concubine Li Kang's pampering, and he did not punish Concubine Li Kang too much afterwards.

……

though I do not know what he means by saying these things to this king. But this king thinks about it, Xu thinks that this king is also a member of the heavenly family, and those old ministers know about it, and this king should also have the right to know. ”

After Li Muyuan heard this, she couldn't spit out a word for a long time. King Fugong is a member of the Heavenly Family, so he doesn't have to shy away from things in the palace, but she is not.

Now she seems to be stuck in a bottomless swamp pool, sinking deeper and deeper.

She tried to climb up from the swamp, but found that her hands and feet were so tightly bound that she was a little out of breath.

"Are you alright?" Zhu Changxun looked at her with a little pale, and the broken hair on her forehead was also wet with cold sweat.

He stretched out his hand and shook it lightly in front of her eyes, and she reacted and looked at Zhu Changxun reflexively.

He didn't say anything, just looked at her and waited for her to speak.

"Ah, the slave is fine... It's just that this matter doesn't seem to have anything to do with the case in the slave's family, and I also ask the prince... Don't mention these things in the palace to the slaves and maids in the future. ”

The corners of Zhu Changxun's mouth hooked slightly, and his voice was a little indifferent and harsh: "Do you think that the case involved in your family will not become a secret for everyone in the palace to shut up?" ”

He knew that for a young girl who had never been exposed to the secrets of the court, these things were enough for her to kill her a million times.

But he still continued: "Now the emperor has shut up the people who knew about the transfer of the red pill to the palace by different means, after all, it is not their turn to talk more about the royal affairs.

And those ministers are closely watched by the Jinyi Guard at all times, and those who make a big fuss about this matter will die. ”

Li Muyuan was frightened, and there was already a crack on her little face, which had always shown a strong appearance.

"But this king does not want to talk to you about this today. This king came to you because he wanted you to do something for this king. A smile appeared in Zhu Changxun's eyes.

It's a pity that in Li Muyuan's eyes, this person's image is already a gray wolf, and the things he explained must be unacceptable to ordinary people.

At this time, the evening breeze caresses the prosperity outside the window, bringing in some warm fragrance unique to summer, which makes people feel very comfortable.