The emperor was stunned for a moment, but quickly nodded and agreed: "I will allow you to play, in my lifetime, as long as she does not break the law and do evil, I will ensure that the cigarettes are safe." ”

Yan Xiang looked at the master and was moved beyond words. All along, she thought that the master only loved the senior brother and did not love her. But I didn't expect that at the critical moment, the master was still thinking about her. Master's love for her is so deep.

The people present heard it clearly, and the emperor promised to keep the cigarettes safe. This means that the cigarette offends the queen, and the queen can't do anything to her.

Chu Tiankuo was overjoyed when he got the news, even more than Yanxiang himself.

After a pause, the emperor continued: "In addition, seal Chu Qing's family as the king of happiness, and give a palace of the happy king, so that the Chu Qing family can live for a long time." ”

"Thank you for your grace!" Without waiting for the master to say no, Yanxiang preemptively agreed.

Chu Aofei shook his head, helpless about the incense. That's it, the emperor has some thoughts, but he has no choice but to be disrespectful.

Many pairs of eyes cast envious glances at Chu Aofei. Is this a man who has attained the Tao and the chicken dog ascended to heaven? Why did Chu Tiankuo commit something, and their master and apprentice did not suffer with them, but followed with happiness?

Duan Zisheng and his entourage accompanied Chu Tiankuo, and under the attention of the emperor and others, they went to the gate of the palace, their backs getting farther and farther away until they disappeared.

The emperor blinked his moist eyes, his mood was low, and without saying a word, he strode straight towards the Heart Cultivation Palace.

Seeing this, Liu Xin hurriedly followed the emperor.

The palace maids and eunuchs who followed the emperor realized that when they reacted, their emperor master had already slipped away. Then they panicked, and hurriedly trotted to keep up.

After the emperor, the empress also brushed her sleeves away.

The palace maid and eunuch who followed the queen were much more vigilant, and the moment the queen got up and left, she followed the queen's steps forward.

Seeing the emperor and empress scrambling to leave, Song Liang, who was kneeling on the ground, got up consciously and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with his sleeve. He sighed, finally all right.

The crowd on the execution ground dispersed one after another......

Yangxin Palace, is a gilded treasure top of the square palace, civil structure, wood is good Nanmu, look at it from afar, solemn and majestic. There are many vermilion pillars in the hall, coiling dragons and carving phoenixes.

The emperor sat in front of the imperial case in the palace of nourishing the heart, facing the few small dishes placed on the imperial case, and did not have the slightest appetite. Those small dishes were sent by the imperial dining room, and they were his favorite dishes on weekdays. Because he was very annoyed in his heart, he didn't eat much, so he put down the dishes and chopsticks and leaned back on the dragon chair.

He closed his eyes slightly, pondering.

Liu Xin was rewarded by the emperor, and then used the meal sent by the imperial dining room. However, it was not the emperor's side dishes that were shared, but a separate large plate of mixed meals. Even so, he felt that it was a great grace.

He sat on the ground under the imperial table, sat cross-legged, and feasted on the food in the imperial dining hall, and ate happily. He watched the emperor all night last night, and when the emperor woke up, he followed the emperor to the execution ground. I didn't eat breakfast, and I was already hungry and dizzy until this moment.

Suddenly, Liu Xin glanced up at the emperor, only to see that the emperor had his eyes closed, his back against the dragon chair, his expression was lazy, and he looked like he was asleep. He continued to immerse himself in the pile of delicacies, eating them with relish.

The emperor was not asleep, but thinking about everything that had happened, thinking about the cause and effect of the whole thing about his emperor Chu Tiankuo, trying to connect all the threads together. He had to clear his mind and sort out the context of the whole thing.

There is no doubt that the queen is intent on dealing with the crown prince and wants to put the prince to death.

What is the real situation?

The emperor scrutinized and pondered the possibilities. From the moment the emperor Yong'an led him out of the palace to hunt, he seemed to have fallen into a game, a game carefully arranged by the queen. He was already sure that the queen used the emperor to lure him out of the palace to hunt and send people to monitor his whereabouts.

What about the purpose? The queen must have her purpose in doing this. The emperor thought about it, and in Meihua Mountain, Feng Nanyang came to see him alone and informed him of Chu Tiankuo's identity as the crown prince. At that time, he learned that his emperor Chu Tiankuo was involved in a criminal case and was sentenced to beheading.

If it weren't for a girl named Shui Mai, who stood up, endured torture, and sued Fang Hongyi, the prefect of Fengcheng, he was able to suspend the execution of his imperial son Chu Tiankuo. I'm afraid that he won't be able to see his emperor in this life, let alone father and son.

Come to think of it, this water vein girl is his great benefactor and a great hero of the royal family. On his day, the emperor's son Chu Tiankuo will get out of trouble, and he will definitely reward the girl of the water vein.

The emperor speculated that the queen deliberately broke him away and led him out of the palace, probably because she was worried that he would come forward to save Chu Tiankuo.

At that time, in Meihua Mountain, Feng Nanyang begged for an edict to release Chu Tiankuo and Chi Le from the prison. Why didn't Feng Nanyang bring the oracle to Dali Temple? If Feng Nanyang has two hearts and changes his hexagram halfway, why should he send Li Shuang to pass on the message?

Presumably something happened to Feng Nanyang! Feng Nanyang is known as a fortune teller, who is good at martial arts, guarded, and alert, how could he be plotted? I am sure that the person who plotted against Feng Nanyang has a lot of background.

The emperor frowned, the empress sent someone to supervise his whereabouts, and she must have known that Feng Nanyang had come to look for him. Therefore, it is very likely that the queen sent someone to assassinate Feng Nanyang, which is very likely.

Later, she hurried back to the palace and killed the queen by surprise. He originally decided to make the matter public in the court when he was in the early court, first recognize the crown prince, and then make plans. I didn't expect the queen to take the lead and strike first.

Knowing this, he should really be patient, and he shouldn't have rushed to the queen to question the color of leaving the palace in advance.

Come to think of it, that day, when Xiangye was in the early dynasty, he objected to him recognizing the crown prince Chu Tiankuo, which was premeditated, and he must have been ordered by the queen and prepared in advance.

Recalling the scene in the court that day, Xiangye turned the tide by himself, and explained the way by the side. Xiangye clearly did his homework, and even the witnesses were notified in advance to be present.

Thinking back carefully about the situation when many courtiers scolded him in the court that day, most of them were the Xia family, that is, the wave of people who appeared on the execution ground today.

There was a fire in his heart, he treated them well on weekdays, thinking of their founding fathers and meritorious ministers, and he couldn't bear to deal with them. I never thought that they were so calculating him, no, even if they didn't calculate him, calculating the prince, it would never work.

He suddenly realized that he must be resolute, he must not be so indecisive anymore, and if he is so indecisive, he will one day bring about his own destruction.

On that day, he proposed in the court that he wanted to recognize the prince, but he was strongly opposed, and he fainted in a fit of anger. And after waking up, he learned that Chu Tiankuo broke into the palace at night, was captured by the queen, and ordered to be beheaded at noon. He couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. If he woke up after three o'clock in the afternoon, wouldn't he be separated from the emperor's yin and yang?

Thinking of the execution ground, the cigarette incense pointed to the empress, and the portrait mentioned was in the hands of Jinyiwei, and the emperor's brows furrowed even tighter. He knew that Smoke Incense would not lie, and what he said was true. This matter must be the queen's conspiracy.

However, I didn't see the painting, and I couldn't find the brocade guard. What's going on?

The emperor's head was a little swollen and painful when he thought about it, so he simply didn't think about it for the time being. He suddenly opened his eyes, stared at Liu Xin, who was gobbling up, and broke the silence with his mouth: "Liu Xin, you will tell me what happened after I passed out in the court, 1510." ”

The originally quiet Heart Nourishing Hall suddenly remembered the emperor's voice, which made Liu Xin completely stunned. He was originally buried in his head, nibbling on the delicious chicken wings, but when he heard the emperor's words, he pressed down. He was forced to raise his head and look up at the emperor, but the chicken wings that had been bitten a few times were still in his hands.

He had unchewed chicken in his mouth, his cheeks bulging, and he looked at the emperor. That picture, how to look at it and how funny.

However, the emperor was not in the mood to appreciate Liu Xin's comical appearance. His face was solemn and solemn, and he was serious: "Don't hide it!" Don't worry, I will call the shots for you, and the queen won't dare to embarrass you. ”

The emperor mainly wanted to find out about the empress, and he was afraid that Liu Xin would have concerns, so he said this to eliminate Liu Xin's worries.

In the palace, except for the emperor and Liu Xin, there was no third person, and all the palace maids and eunuchs were sent back. The Emperor's voice echoed through the empty hall.

Hearing this, Liu Xin was so frightened that the mutilated chicken wings in his hand fell to the ground on the spot. That's right, Liu Xin was frightened, but he was not frightened by the emperor's voice, but by the emperor's words.

Liu Xin's mind spun as fast as he could, considering the emperor's words. What does the emperor mean by this? What's the point? Why did the emperor emphasize that the empress did not dare to be embarrassed?

He couldn't help but be confused, he knew a lot of the queen's inside story, but should he say it?

"Huh? Liu Xin! The Emperor's face sank, and he exerted pressure again.

Liu Xin had no choice but to reveal a little.

In the first year of Xingde, Hong Gaode proclaimed himself emperor, established the Great Western Kingdom, and set the capital of Fengcheng. In the early days of the establishment of the regime, the surrounding countries were eyeing the Great Western Kingdom and provoked wars for no reason. Before the expedition, Xu Guifei, the mother of Xigong, was 8 months pregnant. The emperor proposed an edict, if the prince was born, he would be named Hong Chengye, and the prince would be established, and if he was born a princess, he would be crowned Princess Changyu.

After Emperor Hong left the palace, Queen Xia made a plan to let Xu Guifei slip the fetus, who knows, the sky did not fulfill her wish, and the fetus in Xu Guifei's womb was born, and it actually survived.

"Your Majesty has already doted on Concubine Xu, and now, she has given birth to a prince again, and I see that our master and queen throne will not be able to be kept."

"Isn't it? Listening to the palace maid in the West Palace, the prince was born white and fat, very cute, his face resembled His Majesty, there was a righteousness between his eyebrows, and he must be a good emperor when he grows up. ”

This is the little palace maid in the queen's palace whispering in private.

Even if they don't talk about it, the Empress Xia knows that if she doesn't try to get rid of the prince, I'm afraid that life won't be better in the future.

She immediately summoned her elder brother Xiangye and Chu Xiang, the head of the imperial guard, to discuss countermeasures. They plotted to burn down the West Palace, which was carried out by General Chu.

At the critical moment, General Chu gave up the idea of harming the prince and exchanged his own son for the prince's exit from the palace.

Xu Guifei cried and cried, turned her heart sideways, picked up the hairpin, and used the tip of the hairpin to tattoo the word "heaven" on the prince's left shoulder. The stab is in the child's body, the pain is in the mother's heart, and after the stabbing is finished, Xu Guifei's painful liver and intestines are broken. She trembled and hung a jade pendant on the crown prince, which was given by the emperor himself, and there is only one in the world today.

Concubine Xu Guifei kowtowed to Chu Xiang, and said with tears in her eyes, "General Chu, please accept my three bows, your great kindness and great virtue, this palace will repay it in the next life." ”

"Niangniang, you can't help it, please get up ...... quickly" As he spoke, he heard footsteps outside, General Chu picked up the prince and hurriedly fled through the side door.

Xu Guifei fainted.

The person who came was the imperial doctor Feng Nanyang. Legend has it that this person was originally a man in the rivers and lakes, and his nickname was the fortune teller. He can pinch and calculate, not only has excellent medical skills, but also has extraordinary martial arts. He took away General Chu's son, performed light skills, shuttled freely in the palace, easily got rid of the pursuit of the palace guards, and left the city safely.

After Xia, he ordered people to burn down the West Palace, and Xu Guifei and a cadre were buried in the fire. During the inventory of the body, it was found that the body of a baby was missing. Plus General Chu Xiang's whereabouts are unknown. Empress Xia and Xiangye concluded that the prince was most likely taken away by Chu Xiang. So, Empress Xia secretly sent people to hunt down and kill General Chu Xiang.

In the fourth year of Xingde, the emperor returned triumphantly.

Xia Hou was shrewd and capable, and kept this matter a secret. Emperor Hong didn't believe that Xu Guifei really died in an accident. He often dreamed of the crown prince, and he has been sending people to investigate the matter secretly, but he has not been able to find out the truth, Chu Xiang disappeared, and Feng Nanyang also disappeared.

In the fifth year of Xingde, the queen gave birth to a son, and Emperor Hong named him Hong Cheng'an. The queen thought to herself, the emperor obviously did not have high hopes for this son. Empress Xia thought to herself, even if the emperor delayed issuing an edict and appointing a new crown prince, Emperor Rihong would die, and the throne would be her son's sooner or later. However, she still had some concerns, twenty-four years ago, she sent someone to hunt down and kill Chu Xiang, Chu Xiang was seriously injured and died, but the prince did not know who rescued him.

For more than 20 years, there has been no news of the prince. If the crown prince is still alive, then he will be the biggest threat to Hong Chengan's succession to the throne. Besides, once this matter is revealed, she and Xiangye will definitely be in trouble.

Emperor Hong Gaode reigned for 24 years, he worked hard, knew people well, the country was strong, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. Emperor Hong grew old and missed his lost prince more and more, and finally fell ill.

Knowing that Emperor Hong was ill, Feng Nanyang sneaked into the palace to see the emperor.

"Bold Feng Nanyang, you are guilty, you have been hiding for more than 20 years, and I have been sending people to look for you and General Chu for more than 20 years. Do you know about Concubine Xu? Emperor Hong cried with joy when he saw him.

"Your Majesty, the minister is guilty. When the queen wanted to burn down the West Palace, the minister arrived after learning about it, and the minister came one step late, and the prince had been taken away by General Chu. In a panic, Zhongchen rescued General Chu's son and handed him over to a foreign master to raise. For the past 24 years, I have been secretly searching for the whereabouts of the prince, but I have never found it. The ministers have the great trust of the emperor. Feng Nanyang was full of guilt.

"What a queen. Over the years, I have seen her keep to herself and teach the emperor carefully, but I never thought that she would be so vicious. I'm going to send her to the cold! Emperor Hong gritted his teeth angrily and slapped the imperial case.

"Your Majesty, you can't do it. There is no evidence, if the emperor does this, it will definitely cause turmoil in the court and panic among the people. Feng Nanyang persuaded.

"I can not pursue the queen's guilt first, but the prince can't be left behind, and I must find him back." The emperor was resolute, calmed down for a while and sat on the dragon chair.

"Your Majesty, look for the prince openly, and the prince will inevitably be framed. It's better to visit secretly. Feng Nanyang suggested.

Emperor Hong painted a portrait of a twenty-four-year-old man according to his own appearance, handed it over to Feng Nanyang, appointed Feng Nanyang as the minister of the Qin Mission, and gave Shang Fang a sword.