The prince changed into a more restrained blue robe, put on a black coat, did not bring his entourage, and went out by himself.

This guard is indeed from his father's side, he has seen it, this will not be bad. It's just that I don't have any contact on weekdays.

"Why is it that at this time, my father is still in the imperial study?" The prince made a gesture of "please" and personally led the landing guards to the door, asking as he spoke.

Guard Lu hurriedly bowed and saluted: "The lower official doesn't dare, just follow behind His Highness." ”

The crown prince smiled and said: "Lord Lu is polite, the ministers who often follow the palace know that the palace is not rigid about these false courtesies. ”

The Lu guard still bowed down and stopped, and did not step forward to walk with the prince.

The prince didn't embarrass him, and walked forward. Only then did the Lu guards follow up and replied, "Your Majesty's diligence in government affairs is the blessing of all officials and all the people. ”

The prince smiled: "That's true...... My father is like a bright lamp, a full moon, always illuminating my country. ”

Guard Lu didn't answer, just walked respectfully behind the prince.

Even if the prince is about to suffer disaster, he is still the prince, he is just a courtier, how can he really chat with the prince without knowing the heavens and the earth?

"By the way, what did my father call this palace to do? Who else is in the Imperial Study? After walking for a while, the prince casually turned around and asked, as if he had suddenly remembered something.

"Your Majesty didn't say it, and the lower officials don't know." Guarding Lu only answered the prince's first question.

"Who's in the study?" The prince then asked.

Guard Lu was silent for a moment and said, "The lower official doesn't know. ”

The prince looked him up and down, and saw that he was a bad talker. He didn't say anything more, and continued to walk, thinking in his heart about what method to use, whether he had to ask it, or just leave it at that.

What if you can't ask what method you can use? First, it has damaged the prestige of the prince, and second, if the father asks Lu Guards about the things on the road, and Lu Guards truthfully report them? Doesn't it seem that he has evil intentions?

Therefore, after thinking about it carefully, he did not continue to ask.

Approaching the gate of the Prince's Mansion, Lu Guards: "Your Highness, Your Majesty is waiting in the imperial study, why don't Your Highness take a carriage?" The lower official followed behind. ”

The prince nodded: "It's okay." ”

Summoned by his father, he was going to go sooner or later. If it drags on for a while, it can't drag on for a lifetime, right? If he goes late, won't his father be even more angry? It's better to go there earlier and make fewer mistakes.

originally thought that if the last game was successful, he would still be able to achieve the result he originally wanted - so that his father could not tell which was right and which was wrong.

If he fails, the consequences are naturally expected by him.

When he decided to take a risk, he would have to bear the consequences of possible failure, and he was prepared in his heart. But being prepared doesn't mean he's willing to accept it. Haven't you arrived at Weiyang Palace yet? As long as he didn't arrive at the imperial study for a moment, he had a chance to come up with a way to deal with it.

Nowadays, the third side is not important, the craftsman's side is also unimportant, the important thing is Zhou Guangren's side. If Zhou Guangren had confessed to his father, saying that he had sent them to kill the craftsman, then everything would be over; If Zhou Guangren hadn't said it......

He only defended that he knew that the third child wanted to harm him with the craftsman, so he was very upset in his heart. It happened that Zhou Guangren came to him to report on the defense deployment of the new year in the mansion, and when he saw that he was worried, he asked, so he chatted with Zhou Guangren. Zhou Guangren was grateful for his trust and promotion over the years, so he wanted to solve this problem for him.

In this way, whether the father believes it or not, he can finally pass the buck.

After all, on the third side, there is no evidence to prove that the craftsman was not instructed by him, is he?

As for the Weaving Star......

Zhang Fuhai said that the people they sent saw Cheng Dazhi carrying a person dressed as a member of the palace of the palace on his back, but the man was slender and looked like a woman. It should be Weaving Star. Apparently Weaver has been captured by them. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to bring back the craftsman.

But the third child has a weaving star in his hands, but it is useless at all. Who can prove that Weaver is his person?

Oh, you found a woman from anywhere today, and she said it was my shadow guard, and I will send another woman early tomorrow, and she said that she was an assassin you sent to me! But if it's just to frame someone, you will and I will too.

So...... When you get to the study, it depends on the situation.

If Zhou Guangren had already confessed, he wouldn't say anything, and knelt on the ground to admit his mistake in a proper manner. If Zhou Guangren has not confessed, he should say it this time, and first disturb his father's judgment.

Even if the father didn't believe his words in his heart, but there was no strong evidence to refute and could not prove that what he said was false, how could he be convicted?

What he wants now is not his father's trust in him, but as long as his father has no reason to dispose of him.

Father's trust...... Huh, does it work?

Whether his father thinks he is "loyal and filial", or thinks he is "treacherous", as long as he can't find a reason to abolish him, he doesn't care.

Anyway, his father is cold by nature, how can a person who doesn't even care about his father and brother for the sake of the throne take care of his son?

In my father's heart, only the imperial power and the throne are the most important.

And he, only this, is most like his father.

Since ancient times, the winner has sat on the world, and the history books are always written by the winner. It is said that merit is left to future generations to comment, but once you sit on the throne, what you get must be the honor of a hundred generations, no one dares to say anything, and no one has a basis for saying anything.

After thinking about how to deal with it, I thought about it for a while as the carriage jolted. When I arrived at the north gate of Deweiyang Palace, the sky was already very dark. There are no stars and no moon in the night sky, and I am afraid that a heavy snow is coming.

After figuring it out, the pace of walking towards the imperial study was faster.

Hurriedly arrived at the imperial study, stood outside the imperial study, settled down, and asked the little eunuch at the door to pass the message.

When the door of the study opened, he saw twelve people kneeling in a row next to him.

The rest of the people didn't have to ask, he had already seen their bodies on the way here. The people in the old third mansion are just surrounding those corpses like prisoners.

Tonight's imperial study was a little crowded, in addition to his people, there were also four imperial guards, as well as Imperial Physician Xue, and Li Zhonggui, who was standing next to the emperor.

"Father." The crown prince gave a salute to the emperor.

The emperor did not look at him, but at the pale King Chen, who was being bandaged by the imperial doctor on his chest.

Seeing the wounds on the third child's body, the prince also frowned. repeatedly instructed Zhou Guangren not to hurt King Chen, but this is good, not only was it hurt, but it was also injured in such a dangerous position.

"Third brother, this is ......" Because he didn't know the situation for the time being, he said this sentence as a temptation.

Only then did the emperor look at the prince and said in a deep voice: "You did a good thing!" ”

The prince knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and said: "The son is blunt, ask his father to ......show his name."

"Look back at your people! You ask them! Ask them why they didn't succeed! The emperor said angrily.

When the crown prince heard the emperor say this, he quickly thought about it in his heart, and felt that in this way, his father should not have asked anything.

No matter how stupid Zhou Guangren was, it was impossible for him to tell the emperor that the order they got was to kill King Chen. That would be tantamount to pushing him himself to a mortal situation.

So I put my heart sideways and decided to use the fool I had set. He got up, turned to look at Guangren, and asked in a low voice, "Bengong was about to ask you, why are you here?" ”

"Your Highness, I ......" Zhou Guangren didn't know how to answer for a while.

You can't say that I'm walking and I'm caught in a daze, right?

The prince gave him a look, and reprimanded in a low voice: "Still dressed like this? What are you going to do? Raiding a house? Didn't you guard well in the prince's mansion at night, what did you do when you came out of the palace behind your back? ”

Zhou Guangren immediately understood what the prince meant......

What the prince meant was to put all the blame on them.

But how can he recognize this? If it weren't for the prince's instructions, why would he kill this craftsman if he had no grudges or grudges with this craftsman? He didn't know who the craftsman's name was, and he didn't know what the craftsman had to do with the prince, even if he wanted to lie, he had nowhere to talk about it.

The prince just asked him to come out and kill. said that he was with King Chen, there was a craftsman with a Jianghuai accent, and King Chen must be by his side, so that they must succeed in one fell swoop, and they must not hurt King Chen.

They didn't even see the portrait of the craftsman, so they just relied on these few words provided by the prince to go out and do things.

I didn't know how to answer the prince for a while, but I didn't dare to offend the prince, so I had to use the safest way, kowtow heavily, and said, "Your Highness forgives your sins!" ”

This heavy kowtow is really sincere, and there is a "bang". Because his body was tied with a rope, he couldn't support it with his hands, so he could only hang his head and upper body down in a daze.

When several other people saw Zhou Guangren kowtow, they also kowtowed together.

For a while, there was a row of kowtows in the imperial study, which made people feel pain just by sounding it.

The prince glanced at the craftsman who was standing against the wall with his head down, then looked at Zhou Guangren and reprimanded in a low voice: "Why are you so confused? This palace is just complaining casually to you, you have done such a bold thing! Originally, the purifier of this palace was self-purifying, but now he is going to be killed by you!"

glanced at King Chen, and continued to reprimand his subordinates: "This palace said that King Chen Xu wanted to use a person to slander this palace, but this palace also said that since he is the younger brother of this palace, this palace will not care about him in general, and his father has his own holy judgment in his heart, why do you bother to do this, disturb your father's clear decision, not to mention, and hurt King Chen......"