Chapter 234: Embattled
"What kind of gifts are exchanged, the emperor gives the queen so many good things, will you like what I sent?"
"No, King Chen, if you send these things, you will see the outside, Niangniang has always wanted to leave the emperor, you won't know this, she helped you solve the dilemma, you help her leave, isn't it good?"
When King Chen heard this, he felt that things were more complicated than he imagined, and helped the queen escape, and it was estimated that he would die in the end without a place to be buried, he wrung his brows unhappily when he thought of this, and said unceremoniously: "No matter what you say, I don't believe it now, and the palace has always been short of rumors, you said before that the imperial brother made a holy decree to kill me, I don't believe it at all,"
"You can believe it or not, when you are imprisoned, see if you still believe in the person who is still sitting on the throne so much, and even if I am just running errands for the queen's mother, the holy decree is given to you by my people after all, I have helped you so much, and your way to repay your favor is to cut off my back road?"
After hearing this, King Chen's face became even more ugly, and after opening the door quickly, he hurriedly glanced around, and did not intend to answer his question, and was about to raise his feet to leave after finding a figure, but he stopped and turned his head to ask the person behind him: "Wuji, what is your purpose in doing this?" ”
"Long Yuling posted lists everywhere looking for someone to ask for my life, he didn't come down from the throne, I was always on the run, my previous chic and comfortable days disappeared because of him, I need to be sneaky when I go out, all day long to prevent anyone from harming me, I don't want to endure such days all the time,"
This reason sounded perfect to King Chen, but he still had doubts in his heart but did not give any response, and at this moment, wearing a cloak and a felt hat, he wrapped himself tightly out of the door of this inn and disappeared into this rainy night.
Leaving Long Yuling alone in the room, he stood in front of the candle, his fingers playing with the flames, and remembered the first time he met her, she said that if she could ignite the drink, she would buy him and go.
If he hadn't suppressed his feelings at that time, wouldn't the current situation be different?
By the time he found out that his feelings were not controllable, she had already become someone else's princess.
He hadn't pondered for long when someone squeezed in through the crack in the door, and said to his back: "Young master, the lord asked you to rush back to Shandong as soon as possible, then Zuo Tianzhen is already investigating the evidence at this moment, if this evidence is announced to the world by the emperor, the consequences will be unimaginable, young master,"
Wuji replied without even jumping his eyelids when he heard this: "Didn't I say it earlier, I'm not from the Zuo family anymore, and now that the Zuo family has an accident, it was also the sin that the head of the Zuo family did back then, what does it matter to me?"
"Young master, after all, blood is thicker than water, how can you ignore it?"
"Heh, Uncle Fu, how many times have I persuaded them not to do that kind of thing that oppresses the people, but he didn't listen, and now that the court wants to clean him up, what can I do to help?"
At this moment, this person called Uncle Fu sighed slightly and said: "Young master, the person who drove away Zuo Tianzhen back then was Madame, and now this Zuo Tianzhen has the support of the emperor, go back to Shandong to collect evidence, even if you don't look for him, he won't let you go, young master,"
"The emperor can't help me, what is he alone in Zuo Tianzhen."
After Wuji said this, he was ready to ignore the people behind him, but that Uncle Fu was a little anxious, and it was easy to see the young master, but he couldn't let it go easily, now is the critical moment of the Zuo family's life and death, and he can't be allowed to ignore the Zuo family like before.
"Young master, so far, I won't hide it from you, I heard what you just said to the prince, if you really want to overthrow the current emperor, you will definitely not be able to do it without an army."
Wuji didn't speak, and the pace of turning around to walk stopped there, and he also knew that he couldn't do without an army, so he found King Chen, at least there were tens of thousands of troops left in the suburbs of Beijing when this division returned to the dynasty.
"Young master, the master has been collecting money everywhere for so many years, and that's because the master has privately raised the army."
These words fell on Wuji's ears, causing his hands to be burned by the flames
Autumn morning, the air is a little cool, the so-called autumn rain is cool, yesterday night's heavy rain made the temperature drop a little, I sat on the swing in a thin jacket, until the warm sunlight slowly climbed up the book between my legs, Long Yuling's strong arm also climbed up my waist, the head from behind me to my shoulder, dissatisfied muttered: "In the past, you could know that I came behind you, what book are you reading today so fascinating?" Forget me."
"Look at your little bit of talent, with a book, "
I casually closed the book in my hand, got up and took his outstretched hand, and asked very naturally, "Didn't you say that King Tianchen had arrived in Kyoto in the past two days?" Now that he has come back with military merits, are you going to personally decree that he will be crowned a prince? ”
"Well, there is such a plan, and it is strange to say, according to the footsteps, I should have arrived yesterday afternoon at the latest, but the guards guarding the door said that I didn't see a figure, and even the army was only led by the deputy general and stationed in the suburbs of Beijing, but I didn't see King Chen's others."
Hearing this, I raised my eyebrows slightly, and asked half-doubtedly, "Could it be that the news we released scared him, and he sent the army back to find Nina?" ”
"A prince is so daring, I just said when I met the minister that he lived up to my expectations and betrayed my trust, and I didn't say what to do, and if I spread the word, at most, I was angry, and I wanted to reprimand him a few words, how could he leave the army and run away?"
After he said this, he pressed me on the stone table in the pavilion, and ordered someone to put the chessboard on it, and said with great interest: "Come, kill two games, it is rare to be refreshed in this autumn."
When he spoke, he looked at me and said teasingly: "Let you have a word, you go first."
"Let you be arrogant, and I'll kill you later."
After I finished saying this angrily, I quickly dropped a word, he followed behind slowly, and whispered to the eunuch who was waiting beside him: "Go and steam a pot of Longjing, and by the way, someone will send some snacks."
I squinted, where is this kind of trivial matter used by the chief eunuch of the emperor, isn't this overkill?
But the great eunuch was gone, and all the people who were guarding him were gone.
"Mo'er, this King Chen hasn't reported to me how the general on the edge of the town died? And what is the situation in the Rus' country, what is the situation, what is the statement, he has to come back to tell me, if he runs back to the Rus' country like this, it will be really dangerous."
I rolled my eyes, looked around at no one, and asked in a louder voice, "Where did you start with this?" ”
"Mo'er, don't pretend to be confused, he is also the prince at worst, my siblings, even if you are afraid, you should come back and report these things to me, I always feel that there is something wrong with things,"
When I heard this, I laughed, and after falling next to his sunspot, I said teasingly: "It's rare, you can still have seven up and eight times?" ”
"Mo'er, don't laugh at me, I haven't felt like this for a long time, and my heart is strangely unstable."
I squinted when I heard this, and before I could say a few words, Gong'e sent a snack, but they were obedient, and after sending things, they consciously retreated far away.
"Didn't you plant a secret guard in the city? King Chen may have returned to Beijing, just want to find out the truth of the rumors, but I made a mistake, I just wanted to spread the rumors and force Nina to come back, but I never thought that you were the emperor, and the words he said were all holy decrees, not rumors, it is estimated that King Chen was provoked by someone with a heart, and it is not necessarily."
When I said this, half of the chess pieces on the chessboard had already fallen, and I watched my chess pieces being faintly surrounded by him, and frowned in embarrassment and said, "Next time you let me have two sons,"
"Well, what you just said is not impossible, but now that the army is lined up on the outskirts of Beijing, and the prince is gone, how can this be good? The rumors have spread, and if you change your words at this time, then Nina is not stupid, so that we know that we lied to her, and it is estimated that it is not necessary to go back halfway."
Hearing this, I lifted my forehead slightly and said, "It's really worrying, but are you sure that the rumors can spread so quickly?" It's only been a few days since you released the news."
"Mo'er, you are not as good as me at this point, although Nina said that she would not come back, who would guarantee that she was really not mixed in the army, or secretly followed behind a few miles away from the army, but she was just hiding it from my third brother,"
When I heard this, I looked up and saw the malicious smile on the corner of his mouth, and said with a smile: "You can count."
"People are not as good as heaven, who knows what scene outside the palace, King Chen will not come back, I have never been at ease in my heart, Mo'er, guess what, guess where he is hiding in Kyoto?"
"Someone else wants to hide, how can you find it?"
After saying this, I saw him brace his waist, his eyes firmly fixed on the chessboard, as if this chessboard in his eyes was the outside of the country, it was this strange change in the situation in Kyoto, he raised his hand sleeves, but a son fell, and he ate all the chessboard on my elbow.
He breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes were still on the chessboard, I also looked at it, squinted his eyes and fell down again, hooked his lips and said with a chuckle: "Your Majesty, there is a fire in your rear,"
He realized that his chess pieces were blocked by me at once, and if he went back again, he would give up the place he had just determined, and if he didn't go back to the rescue, his city and land would suffer.
I looked at him embarrassed, and said coquettishly: "It's just playing chess, don't be angry, seeing you staring at me like this, I'm afraid of you."
"If it's you ahead, what's the fear of losing the country?"