Because the prince was "drunk and unconscious", we postponed the return to the palace. I also just want to get together with my parents and have one more reunion dinner.

Unexpectedly, just as we were sitting around for dinner, a more dramatic scene happened.

There was actually another guy who came to the door with a cricket cage, saying that the crown prince and His Royal Highness the crown princess had taken a fancy to his crickets and asked him to send them to the Taiwei Mansion to receive the reward.

His father asked him to be ushered into the hall and asked him in front of a full house, "Have you not heard of the farce that took place at the gate of the house this afternoon?" ”

The man said, "The villain heard a little bit, it seems that two people offered crickets and came to the house to ask for money, but they didn't get it." Because the palace said that the prince was drunk, he slept in the room all afternoon and didn't go out at all. ”

The father frowned and said, "Then you are still here?" ”

The man said, "The villain was also afraid of encountering a liar, so he did not offer crickets." They said they wanted to buy it, but they didn't take out any money, only a silver ticket. The villain still didn't agree, afraid that the silver ticket was also fake. In the end, they had no choice, they were going to leave, but the prince refused to go, arguing that he had to ask for this cricket, and the princess asked the villain to carry the cricket to the house to receive the reward. The villain thought, anyway, the crickets are still there, just come and go, what are you afraid of. ”

My father pointed to the prince and said, "This is the prince and the princess, are you the crickets they want you to send?" ”

The man only glanced at it, and immediately shook his head.

The father thought for a moment and then asked, "Do you have any other crickets at home?" ”

The man began to say, "No," but when his father asked him if there was anyone else in the house, his face suddenly changed, and he muttered, "Oh my God, those few at home won't ......," and hurriedly kowtowed and ran out.

After he left, someone at the banquet said that this person was a famous cricket tooth in Luoyang, specializing in reselling crickets, and there were at least several stocks at home. If the gang he said really made a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, then he would have suffered a heavy loss this time, and his crickets were worth at least a few hundred taels of silver.

The father was furious. In the afternoon, Luoyang Taishou had already been ordered to investigate the matter, but he didn't expect those people to be bold enough to dare to continue to commit crimes. is so rampant at the feet of the Son of Heaven, isn't this a blatant challenge to the majesty of the Great Jin Law Calendar?

's father immediately exchanged for Zhang Hua and asked him to write down what had just happened as an excerpt and send it to the Taishou Yamen, so that the Taishou could add manpower, and it was necessary to find out the case.

During this whole process, I tried to see anything in my father's face, but until I finally left the Taiwei Mansion and drove back to the palace, I did not see any clues in his face.

Maybe I'm too sensitive, as long as my father is involved, I think it's definitely not what it seems, but there is something else inside.

Just like the last time Zhang Hua happened, I suspected that from the time Zhang Hua was sentenced to 'behead and decide' to the time he was later taken in by my father, it was just a game from beginning to end. And tonight's incident, I suspect that my father arranged it, and he didn't really believe my lie, but he tried to help me make it happen. To add credibility, he put on a play in front of many guests, confronting us face to face, so as to clear our suspicions once and for all.

Sitting on the chariot back to the palace, I have been pondering about this matter, and the prince has been playing with his crickets.

That's right, those two crickets are in his hands now. He kept them in a cage and watched them dry up with great excitement.

I also know that it is very dangerous to let him take these two crickets back to the palace, but if he is not allowed to take them back, he will not move the nest at all, and he looks like a little scoundrel, which is clear: If you don't let the prince bring the crickets back to the palace, the prince will not return to the palace.

It was not until the last moment of the unitary time that he had to let him get into the car with the crickets. If you don't leave, the palace gate will be closed. And it is unthinkable to let the prince stay overnight, how to do the defense work this night? Did you transfer the Praetorian Guards to the Taiwei Mansion overnight?

Looking at those two crickets, I had a headache again, these two hot potatoes, what should I do when I take them back to the palace? The last time it was so secretive, it was quickly revealed. In the palace, there are prying eyes everywhere, and it is too difficult to hide something that is alive and jumping, especially something that can scream.

Watching the two crickets fighting each other, you are alive and dead, I suddenly thought about it.

After returning to the East Palace, after a short bath, the prince took me into the dormitory, and then drove away all the attendants. I know, he's going to play with crickets.

I played late this night and didn't go to bed until late.

When he woke up the next morning, he looked for his cricket as soon as he opened his eyes. I took the initiative to get out of bed to get him a cricket cage, and as soon as I lifted the cage, I cried out: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, something is wrong." ”

"What's wrong?"

"Your cricket, if you don't move, it won't be dead, right?"

The man rolled out of bed and grabbed the cage, this look, at first he was in disbelief, he reached in and dialed it, and after a long time he didn't react, he actually grinned, turned around and hugged me and cried.

I half-dragged and half-hugged him and made him cry enough in the quilt, and while comforting him in my mouth, I analyzed: "This cricket is so aggressive, you put the two of them in a cage and fight all night, so don't you fight to death?" Do you see that people put crickets one by one? Who do you see in a cage? ”

His nose twitched: "But when fighting crickets, aren't they all put in one cage?" ”

"That's when people are fighting, and after the fight, don't you take it out and divide it."

He thought about it for a while, and agreed with my statement, but immediately accused me again: "If you know, why didn't you tell me last night?" The two crickets were locked up together and fought all night, and they fought to death, my poor crickets, oh, woo......"

"I didn't expect it last night, I'm not a cricket expert, how do I know these things? I also watched the crickets die, and I suddenly realized this truth. "That should be a reasonable reason.

He didn't have anything to say when he heard it, just looked at the two dead crickets in the cage, and couldn't help but let out a sad voice: "My cricket ......", a big quilt came with a head and covered his face, engulfing his voice.

I hugged him under the covers, patting and coaxing him incessantly. Alas, for the sake of these two dangling crickets (because he personally dangled them on the street and didn't spend a penny, so they are especially precious in his heart), he doesn't know how long he will be sad.