Chapter 8: Throwing Stones and Asking for Directions
If others don't want to give what they want, then they fight for it themselves, there is no luck in sitting back and enjoying it, everything is like this!
Feng Ying said truthfully: "He's still investigating, and he doesn't have a clue yet?" The place was almost found, and the results came out quickly. ”
They were waiting for the results of the investigation, and if there was nothing he wanted, the contract they had made with the Emperor would no longer exist, and they would be able to get out of the quagmire of the North.
The walls of the palace were deep, and the night was dark, and the occasional night guard passed by, and the two talked as they walked, but they were not worried that their conversation would be heard.
A night guard had just passed on the way.
Not long after the guards passed, Yu Ziling stopped, his eyes fell on a certain palace wall in front of him, and his face was thoughtful.
Kazekage stopped, following the direction he was looking, not seeing anything, but he heard a faint, swift sound of footsteps approaching.
Kazekage said, "Alone." ”
Yu Ziling shook his head: "There is another person behind him." ”
Kazekage was surprised: "You mean the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind!" ”
"Whether it's a praying mantis or a yellow finch, it has nothing to do with us, go over and hide first, there's no need to cause unnecessary trouble."
Yu Ziling came to the other palace wall and jumped up, and the wind shadow jumped up with it.
The two of them clasped against the eaves of the wall, revealing a pair of eyes looking at the high wall opposite, slowing down their breathing, and in the dark, it was difficult to detect their presence.
After a while, a black shadow appeared on the high wall, and it walked quickly, and disappeared into the night without a few breaths.
At the same time as the black shadow disappeared, a person quickly jumped out of the high wall, keeping a long distance, and hurried towards the person who disappeared.
Until their aura completely disappeared, Yu Ziling jumped off the high wall and stared in the direction in which they had disappeared, silent for a moment.
Kazekage took two steps, pondered for a moment, and said, "The direction they went to was the prince's residence, what did they want to do at such a late hour?" ”
As soon as the prince came back, someone couldn't wait to find the door, and the person who came to the door didn't know that he was being followed, no matter what purpose he found the prince, the yellow finch that followed him in the end would probably be the prince's trouble!
Kazekage thought about it for a moment and said, "The current situation is not good for the crown prince, or I'll go and talk to him." ”
Yu Ziling said: "Try not to ask about their affairs, and without the emperor's order, it's best not to ask." ”
Reminding Xiao Fangzhi is not necessarily to help him, outsiders don't understand what happened, how do they know that Xiao Fangzhi doesn't want to see that person?
If Kazekage intervenes in it, it will ruin his big thing.
As for the last stalker, why didn't he stalk others, but instead beware of Xiao Fangzhi?
There is a law for everything, there is a cause for the effect, there is no accident in everything, there must be a reason for it!
All they want is a finger of things, the grievances and grievances of leaving the palace are complicated, and it has nothing to do with them, and before they get something, it is the best choice to be alone.
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In the middle of the night, Xiao Fangzhi had no intention of sleeping, his heart was heavy, and he was even more depressed when he stayed in the room, walked out of the room, and wandered aimlessly in the garden.
During the day, he avoided the second and fifth emperor uncles in front of the palace gate, thinking that if he turned a blind eye and did not hear it, and if he did not hear what was going on outside the window, things would not fall on him.
However, when it was vital to the safety of the Four Emperor Uncles, they still found it!
As early as in Kezhou, the Four Emperor Uncles committed crimes, and Xiao Fangzhi had heard about it.
It is said that the fourth emperor uncle was to help Kezhou prepare for disaster relief, and embezzled the taxes sent from various places, and was finally discovered by his father.
However, they did not find the money in the Four Emperors' Uncle's Mansion.
Although the money was missing, there was no direct evidence that he had embezzled the money, and his father was furious and ordered him to be imprisoned in the palace without freedom.
The person who came to him at night was the person of the Four Emperor Uncles, and that person passed the word for the Four Emperor Uncles, the silver was indeed taken by him, and the purpose was clear, but the huge amount of money could not be recovered.
If the emperor knew that the money was gone, he would definitely kill him, so he hoped that Xiao Fangzhi would help him intercede in front of the emperor and spare his life······
Xiao Fangzhi was worried, the Fourth Emperor Uncle used the tax to help Kezhou, and the accident had nothing to do with him.
With his father's miserly temperament, he would kill the four emperor uncles for the money, and the truth could not be buried forever, and soon after, the father knew the whole story, and at that time, the lives of the four emperor uncles were in danger.
It is incumbent on him to help the Fourth Emperor Uncle intercede, the question is, is it useful?
Almost all the officials who helped him intercede came forward, and the second and fifth emperor uncles moved with affection and reason, begging the emperor to let go of the fourth emperor uncle in tears, but in the end, the emperor was still indifferent.
Now, do they expect that Xiao Fang's power alone can change the emperor's mind and turn the situation around?
They desperately pinned their hopes on him, but they didn't know that in the emperor's heart, the status of the crown prince was almost equal to that of the courtiers.
The Imperial Garden is full of early spring flowers, full of flowers, fragrant and overflowing, facing this scene, Xiao Fangzhi has no intention of appreciating it, his eyes are looking in the direction of the West Garden, his eyebrows are deeply furrowed, and he is thinking about another thing.
Yu Ziling went out at night, and he hasn't come back for two hours, so he went to his father's place, right?
Yes, he has been out of the palace for more than three months, and what happened in Kezhou during this period should be reported to his father one by one.
There is no right or wrong place to talk about the responsibility!
Xiao Fangzhi looked at a pair of bright and deep eyes, in front of the arch of the West Garden, Yu Ziling appeared there at some point.
Looking at the night opposite, there was silence for a while.
However, looking at the place where he appeared, Yu Ziling said: "If you don't sleep so late, is the prince waiting?" ”
The palace was so big, if it wasn't intentional, how could he possibly go to the vicinity of the West Garden?
Xiao Fangzhi said: "I can't sleep, I came to you for a drink, do you have time?" ”
Although it is a habit to sleep lightly at night, however, it is limited to himself, Yu Ziling refused: "Just have a drink, the night is getting bright, the prince will bow down to everything, or go back early to rest." ”
Yu Ziling left with his hand, Xiao Fangzhi did not stop him much, but he just thought of the sentence 'everything must bow down' and fell into deep thought.
For some reason, he felt that this sentence seemed to mean something?
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The next day, a major event occurred in the court.
The four princes Xiao Qi were in a situation, ignoring the king's law, embezzling national taxes, and damaging the law, so that he committed suicide the next day!
Poisoned wine was given by the emperor!
The crime of embezzlement of ink, the crime does not lead to death, and there is currently no evidence that it was committed by the four princes.
Even if he swallowed the silver privately, Xiao Qi was a respected prince and swallowed a huge amount of money in his private pocket, which was not a big deal for outsiders.
However, the emperor ordered him to be killed because of this!
Everyone knows that the so-called crime of greedy ink is just an excuse for the emperor to kill him.
The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, and the emperor has supreme power.
Standing at the pinnacle of power, whoever he wants to die must die, and even the innocent will become guilty.
Killing people is the emperor's usual method, and it is also the simplest and most direct means of deterrence!
At the end of the early dynasty, the civil and military officials had not yet come out of the shock of the death of the fourth prince, and left the court in a daze, as if in a dream.
There was a sudden noise behind him, and when Baiguan looked at it, he was shocked.
The fifth prince was holding the prince's collar and wailing: "You bad boy, it's all because of you, and the fourth brother died because of you!" Why don't you plead with the emperor, why don't you plead, what are you afraid of······"