Chapter Seventy-Five: Assassination
Zhuang Zhizhou looked at his face and said with some curiosity: "If the princess is really gone, I don't know whose girl is worthy of you." ”
These words made Zhuang Yanchen, who had always been cold-faced, couldn't help laughing. "The royal brother has always been serious, but I don't know when I like to joke."
The two of them looked at each other, and the sharp edges splashed between their eyebrows, and each of them could easily see each other's thoughts.
"I'll have someone look for it." Zhuang Zhizhou put down the fold in his hand and picked up another book casually. "If you don't feel at ease, just look in the palace, maybe where to enjoy the scenery."
The clouds in the other party's eyes were light and light, and Zhuang Chenchen saw it clearly. He is so calm and peaceful, I am afraid that it is because Cen Muning is under his control. The reason why he didn't finish her at the moment was because he couldn't hold on to whether this woman was important to him or dispensable.
"In that case, the younger brother will go to find it." Zhuang Chenchen saluted him and quickly turned to leave.
After he left, Zhuang Zhizhou slowly put down the fold in his hand. Seriously, this is the first time that His Royal Highness King Ruiming has recklessly broken into his study for a woman. It's just that the time hasn't come yet, he has to wait for Zhuang Chenchen to hold back, and find out the secret sentinels he hid in the palace one by one.
On the road in front of Zhuang Chenchen and the Emperor's Golden Palace, some guards who had been ordered to help him find Princess Ruiming were gathered. Most of these people are just guards patrolling the palace, and they don't have waist cards to enter and leave the harem at all.
He didn't understand the emperor's thoughts, but at this time, whether he could find Cen Muning or not was not the most important thing. The important thing is not to let the opponent see through which move you are going to make next.
"Search as far as you can." Zhuang Chenchen stiffened his face and said in an unkind tone: "Be sure to find the princess of this king." Whoever can bring the princess back safe and sound, there is a reward. ”
"Yes." After the guards bowed, they began to search.
Yin Li frowned and said, "Qingli, do you remember the way the princess came out of the Fengling Palace?" ”
Qingli nodded: "Walk through the Imperial Garden, that road." ”
"These guards can't enter the harem at all, how can they search the Imperial Garden?" Yin Li said with a smile: "The emperor just doesn't want us to find the princess. ”
"Master, how is this good?" Qingli couldn't help but be anxious.
"Go and say hello to the concubine." Ling Yechen's heart moved slightly, and he thought of such a good idea.
"Yes." Yin Li and Qingli both understood, and the two of them entered the harem with Zhuang Chen.
"Master, this is the way." Qingli said worriedly: "Not long after the princess asked the slave maid to get the chariot, it rained. The slave maid thought to herself, this huge imperial garden, if you want to shelter from the rain, there is only ......"
"Rockery." Zhuang Chenchen said this without thinking, and led the two of them over there.
"Stop." A familiar voice came from behind him.
Zhuang Chenchen immediately stopped and turned around: "Say hello to the concubine." ”
"What are you doing in the harem?" Concubine Zhen's tone was a little cold.
"Naturally, I want to say hello to my mother." Zhuang Chenchen said with a calm expression.
"Isn't it because your princess is gone, so you searched the harem with great fanfare?" Concubine Zhen said disdainfully: "When did Concubine Ben move into the rockery?" Where are you going to go to greet me? ”
Zhuang Yanchen frowned slightly, his face was cold and a little scary: "Since the mother concubine knows, why bother asking." ”
"Is she that important?" Concubine Zhen said unhappily: "As a mother concubine, she didn't do the two things I asked her to do. It's not good to want such a useless person to stay with you. Now she is so stupid that she disappeared in the palace, Yan Chen, what kind of woman do you want, the mother concubine can find it for you, that's all, don't ask for it, she is not worthy of you. Is it good to listen to the mother's advice? ”
"It seems that the mother concubine is not going to help her son find someone." Zhuang Chenchen said quietly: "Then please ask the mother concubine to go back to the palace to rest, and let the son go to you to say goodbye." Also, what you told her was just what you told her a few days ago. How do you know she can't do it? Could it be that there is still the eyeliner of the mother concubine by his son's side, staring at his son's every move all the time? ”
After saying that, Zhuang Chenchen turned around and went to the rockery, unwilling to stay any longer.
He knew that Cen Muning must be in the emperor's hands, but he wanted to know why the emperor did this. Maybe there are clues inside the rockery.
Concubine Zhen was not lightly angry, and watched the three of them leave together. "Lei Zhen, what kind of ability do you say that girl has, how can she capture Chen's heart in such a short time?"
Lei Zhen said worriedly: "Other slaves and maids are not worried, but they are afraid that His Royal Highness will be negligent because of her, so that the emperor can see what clues." Concubine, otherwise, let's help His Highness. The princess and Cen Xiang are also not on good terms. If His Highness hadn't spoken, Cen would not have been allowed to enter the mansion with her mother's god card. ”
"Help him?" Concubine Zhen couldn't help but hesitate: "I'm afraid that he will indulge too deeply and help him, but harm him." ”
In the rockery, there doesn't look anything unusual.
Zhuang Chenchen stood here quietly, without saying a word.
Qingli and Yin Li didn't dare to disturb, and only silently looked for traces on the side.
"You stay and keep looking." Zhuang Chenchen said this suddenly, and then left in a hurry.
Cen Muning was woken up by freezing. When she opened her eyes, she was locked up in a place where she couldn't see her fingers. With her feelings, she slowly groped, and what she touched was hard and cold.
"Ice cellar ......" Cen Mooning gasped, only to feel that his lungs were full of such coldness.
This emperor is so terrible that he tortures her with such means. But it's okay, when I think of her avenging my mother, I don't want to mention how happy I feel. Although he was not sure that Zhuang Chenchen would come to rescue her, this disappearance was undoubtedly an opportunity for him to stir up trouble.
He's so smart that he'll definitely take advantage of it.
Cen Mooning hugged herself, found a corner a little away from the ice, and jumped up and down to keep warm.
At this time, the queen mother who also felt uneasy was the queen mother who controlled all this behind the scenes.
The Queen Mother was holding the teacup, a little uneasy. saw Zhuang Chenchen come in alone.
"Greetings to the Queen Mother." Zhuang Chenchen saluted gently, with an incomprehensible warmth in his eyes, and his demeanor was slightly different from usual.
"Why are you here?" The Queen Mother smiled slightly: "Today the palace is quite uneasy, it seems that something big has happened." ”
"Why should the queen mother ask knowingly." Zhuang Chenchen's smile showed a little pride: "The son came here to thank the queen mother. He glanced outside the hall, and suddenly turned his face to look at the queen mother again: "Erchen has been doing his best for the court all these years, and now he has finally benefited his mother and seen the reward." ”
This sounded quite strange, and the Queen Mother couldn't help frowning: "What do you mean by that?" ”
"Erchen also doesn't understand, why is the queen mother bent on purging the emperor? Just like this Fengluan Palace, it was only repaired, isn't it the greasy smell of the queen mother's residence? As soon as Zhuang Chenchen's words fell, he heard a strange birdsong outside.
At first glance, I really want to think of the chirping of birds, but it sounds several times in succession, and the sound is the same, so it's not so simple.
"Lao Jiu, what do you want to say when you come to mourn here?" The Queen Mother was slightly weak, and her eyes were slightly sharp.
"The emperor has always been suspicious of his sons, but this time, it was the queen mother's clever plan to let the emperor have a way to force his sons to do it. In this case, the sons naturally want to repay this love to the queen mother. Zhuang Chenchen smiled slightly: "Right now, the entire Fengluan Hall is under the control of Erchen. Make sure it's impossible to get in or out. The emperor imprisoned and the wife of the son, then the son of the minister will protect the emperor's mother, if someone in the palace is murderous, it may not hurt the most noble person in the world. Black is white, and white is black. ”
"Hmph." The Queen Mother snorted lightly, and her face became cold: "Are you going to seek a usurpation of the throne?" ”
"There is no excuse for the sin you want to add." Ling Yechen smiled: "Over the years, the mother concubine has been holding back, and she has been servile and obedient to please the queen mother, hasn't she also dispeld your concerns?" Where did those wasps in the Royal Garden come from, others can't see clearly, can't the sons see clearly? You're just selling a flaw and luring your mother to do it. ”
When the Queen Mother saw him say it so clearly, she couldn't help but feel a little worried in her heart. "What the hell do you want to do?"
"One life for another." Zhuang Chenchen said gently.
From his unusual behavior, the worry in the Queen Mother's heart deepened little by little. "Cen Xiang's daughter, is it so important to you?"
"Mother, in fact, you might as well understand it this way." The corners of Zhuang Chenchen's lips rose: "Erchen has been waiting for this day for a long time." Since the imperial brother is willing to give this opportunity, the minister there is just the right to use it. ”
Over the years, the mother-son relationship between the Queen Mother and the imperial brother has been tense. Zhuang Chenchen put her in the middle and forced the emperor to consider such a mother-son relationship. "What the hell do you want to do?"
"Don't worry, Queen Mother." Zhuang Chenchen arched his hand and said: "It's just that I don't want the chaos in the palace to affect the peace of the queen mother." Rest assured, this will be over soon. ”
After saying this, he glanced at the Queen Mother with a special gaze, and turned to leave.
It seems that every step is extremely calm, but the worry in my heart arises suddenly. The emperor has always been ruthless, and he may not give up the life of the queen mother. Where will he keep Cen Muning?
In fact, it is not difficult to go through this magnificent forbidden palace, the difficulty lies in how to justify it. What to do, so as not to expose his years of deployment and cheapen the emperor in vain.
"The subordinates only found a hollow ground in the rockery. There is a mystery in it. "After Yin Li carefully searched the rockery, he rushed to the queen mother's palace to wait for the report." In fact, if something happens to the princess, the master will have a reason to act. ”
Zhuang Yanchen frowned and looked at him, and his tone was unpleasant: "The people of this king, whether they live or die, can only be controlled by this king." released the news for the king, and the queen mother was assassinated. ”