King Xian sat quietly in the cell of Kaifeng Mansion, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, his eyes were shining and he looked at the only small window in the cell, as if he was reminiscing about the past, through that small window, he seemed to see his mother holding his little self, swinging on the swing frame in the imperial garden, surrounded by hundreds of flowers blooming, birds singing and fragrant, the palace maids held their favorite fruits and waited on the side, he and his mother played wantonly in the sun, and when he was tired, he took two mouthfuls of fruit from the palace maids, and he was at that time How cheerful and carefree.

The cell door was opened from the outside by the cell boss with a 'squeak', and the eighth prince slowly walked into the cell, looking at the child in front of him who he once wanted to protect with his life, but now he has fallen into this step, his heart is indescribably sore.

King Xian looked at King Eight Sages and said with a faint smile: "I didn't expect that Uncle Eight Wang would come to see me, I thought that Uncle Wang would wait directly in the lobby of Kaifeng Mansion to watch Bao Zheng cut off my head with a dragon head." ”

The Eight Sages King sighed and said: "You don't have to sneer at me, Bao Zheng will be promoted to the court tomorrow to try the case, I came here today to tell you the truth about your mother's self-hanging, so that you can die to understand." ”

King Xian laughed and said: "This is really strange, I tried every possible way to ask you the truth of the matter, you just kept silent, and now I am going to die, but you are willing to speak, why is this?"

The Eight Sages King shook his head and said, "At the beginning, I didn't say anything, because I was afraid that after you knew the truth, I wouldn't think of doing something deviant for a while, but I didn't expect that my concealment would cause you to do such a rebellious thing. ”

The virtuous king simply sat on the ground and no longer cared about the eight virtuous kings.

The Eight Sages walked in front of the Sage King and sat cross-legged, facing each other with the Hyun King, he stretched out his hand and took the Hyun King's hand and said, " Child, your mother really died for you, when Concubine Yan suspected that the Queen Mother was framed by Concubine Zheng, and had been secretly investigating Concubine Zheng, but unfortunately, she had just found out some eyebrows and was discovered by Guo Huai, at that time, Concubine Zheng had just given birth to a prince, and was named a concubine by the emperor, with a noble status and a harem, no one dared to resist it, your mother saw that the situation was not good, so she wrote a letter to me in advance, which not only stated the clues she found at the time and her suspicions, but also asked me to protect you well no matter what, she said that she would fight to the death to save your life, at that time, I still watched inexplicably, thinking about finding an opportunity to enter the palace one day to ask your mother personally, but, Just the day after I received the letter, the palace came to your mother hanged herself, I hurried into the palace to see the first emperor, only to learn that your mother was accused by Guo Huai of poisoning the prince of Concubine Zheng, the evidence is there, the emperor is angry and gave your mother to death, after the matter you have been clear, I will not say more, but I have been curious in my heart, your mother has said in the letter that let me protect you in case someone will harm you, but after the death of your mother, the palace has been very peaceful, until a few years ago the civet cat for the prince case was pulled out, Guo Huai told me before he died, in fact, your mother had already found out the conspiracy of Guo Huai and Zheng Taifei, but it was found before it was spokenIn a hurry, she lied and deceived the Empress Dowager Zheng and said that she had told others all about the matter, if they dared to attack you after her death, that person would make everything public to the world, and Concubine Zheng agreed to your mother's conditions as a thief, and in this way, your mother confessed to the crime of murdering the emperor's heir in order to let you live well, and committed suicide. ”

After listening to the words of the Eight Sages, King Xian had already burst into tears, and he cried and asked the Eight Sages King: "Since the tanuki changed the prince and returned everyone's justice, what about the justice of my mother's concubine? Why didn't the emperor tell the world that my mother was wronged, why could the emperor respect the murderer as a concubine, but he didn't want to call my mother a concubine, didn't my queen mother die for the sake of it? Uncle Bawang, I don't think I'm wrong, the emperor doesn't give my mother an explanation, why can't I ask for an explanation for my mother?"

The eighth prince helped King Xian and said: "Child, if we were born in an ordinary family, there is nothing wrong with what you have done, but who are we? We are members of the royal family, once these things are known to the world and become the topic of gossip after tea and dinner in the world, the face of the royal family is still there? The majesty of the royal family is still there? If it is used by people with intentions, how much impact it will have on the Jiangshan Sheji of the Great Song Dynasty, have you ever thought about it?"

King Xian sneered: "For the sake of the face of the royal family, you can sacrifice a person's reputation, my mother has been dead for so many years, and she is still called me a demon girl, a demon concubine, why?"

The eighth prince sighed: "Child, this is our life, we were born one level higher than the world, and enjoy the glory and wealth of the world, but we must also be able to endure the suffering that the world cannot bear." ”

King Xian wiped away his tears and said lightly: "If I can choose, I would rather be born in an ordinary family, with a mother and a filial piety, and coarse vegetables and light rice for a lifetime." ”

The eighth prince patted King Xian's hand and said: "I will go to ask the emperor to remove your title of prince and demote you to a concubine, I have bought a house and land for you in Xishu, which is enough for you to live in peace, so you can live in Shu with peace of mind." ”

King Xian shook his head and said: "I have so many lives in my hands, even if the emperor is willing, Bao Zheng will definitely not agree, Uncle Huang, I am not afraid of death, I just feel that the queen mother is too wronged, and I have no intention of going against the emperor, but only the imperial power can make my mother concubine suffer from her grievances, I....I just thought about rebellion, Uncle Huang, I was wrong, but I don't regret it." ”

"You ......" The Eight Sages King was also in tears for a while, unable to speak.

"Although the prince can rest assured, as long as you can confess everything in the hall tomorrow, Bao Zhengpin's head is not covered with this black veil, and you will also go to the imperial uncle to ask for the holy decree of recovering the innocence of Concubine Yan for you. After listening to the ins and outs of the whole thing outside the cell, Bao Zheng couldn't help but walk into the cell.

King Xian smiled and said, "What Uncle Wang can't do, how can you do it?"

Bao Zheng said: "Although the prince can rest assured, Concubine Yan and the Queen Mother are friends of life and death, and Niangniang died for the emperor's affairs, the saint is a generous and benevolent person, after he understands the truth of the matter, he will definitely make the right decision." ”

When the Eight Sages King heard Bao Zheng say this, he also came to confidence, and hurriedly said: "Yes, I will enter the palace with Bao Zheng and ask for this holy decree for you." ”

As he spoke, he pulled Bao Zheng and walked out, Bao Zheng stopped the eighth prince and said, "Lord Wang, please wait a moment, Bao Zheng still has something to ask His Royal Highness King Xian." ”

King Xian said, "But you came here for the poisoning of Zhanzhao?"

Bao Zheng nodded and said: "Exactly, please also ask the prince to give Bao Zheng the antidote, and the righteous courage of the guards should not end up like this." ”

King Xian said coldly: "Who should fall into such a fate? My mother should be? It can be seen that the things in this world say whether they should or should not have no meaning at all, Zhanzhao's poison, I have no antidote, but I have an antidote, if you can get up for me and return my mother's innocent edict, I will give you this antidote prescription, otherwise, I will not give it to you based on what you say." ”

After that, King Xian turned around and faced the prison wall, and no longer paid attention to anyone, Bao Zheng had no choice but to leave the prison with the eighth prince and rush to the palace.

Feifei and Gongsun Ce waited in the flower hall until it was dark, only to see Bao Zheng dragging tired steps back to the study, Gongsun Ce cleanly brought a cup of tea to Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng took a sip of tea and said: "The emperor is still blaming the virtuous king in his heart, and he has been refusing to let go, I and the eighth prince went to see the queen mother again, and the queen mother promised to persuade the emperor for us, but it will not succeed, only to see tomorrow." ”

Feifei hurriedly said: "If the emperor doesn't agree, won't that Xianwang be ready to come up with an antidote?" Ruoxi said that Brother Zhan's situation is only 2 days at most, and after 2 days, even if he is detoxified, he will be stupid and stupid, and the adults really can't do it, so I will go and knock the Xianwang unconscious, and then hypnotize him. ”

Gongsun Ce said: "No, now King Xian already knows that you have the ability to hypnosis, and he has also suffered this loss, so he must be wary of you, and it will be useless for you to use this trick again." ”

At this moment, the jailer came to report that King Xian wanted to see Miss Xue.

Feifei was stunned for a moment, looked at Bao Zheng, and suddenly a hope somehow rose in her heart, she saw that Bao Zheng did not object, so she followed the jailer to the cell, Gongsun Ce was not at ease, and followed behind.

In the cell, King Xian looked at Feifei for a while and said, "You are the eldest lady of the Xue Mansion?"

Feifei looked at King Xian in disgust and said, "That's right, I'm the Miss Xue who wasn't killed by you, why are you so disappointed?"

King Xian laughed and said: "You don't have to be so angry, now your family feud will be avenged soon, you can change your happiness, I'm just curious, you were obviously seriously injured at the beginning, why did you suddenly heal without medicine?"

Feifei rolled his eyes and said, "What's the matter with you, can't I be talented?"

King Xian smiled again: "What a talent, it's a pity that I have failed, and I can't be blessed with your talent, but I heard that you want to save Zhanzhao?

Feifei heard that he was willing to talk about saving Zhanzhao, and before he could think about it, he blurted out and asked, "Didn't you refuse to tell us? Could it be that you are willing to say it again now?"

King Xian said: "The medicine is the medicine and the prescription is the prescription, I called you here, naturally I want to tell you the medicine." ”

"What is it?" Feifei asked.

King Xian looked at Feifei with blazing eyes and said, "Have you heard of the Seven Exquisite Hearts?"

When Gongsun Ce hid outside and heard King Xian say that he had seven exquisite hearts, his heart jumped, and he felt that something would happen if he listened to him, so he hurriedly came out to interrupt King Xian and said: "King Xian doesn't want to talk nonsense here, how can there be any exquisite heart in the world, a bunch of nonsense." ”

This is, Feifei frowned and said, "Mr. Gongsun, I have heard Ruoxi mention this word, this Linglong heart can really save the guards?"

King Xian didn't wait for Gongsun Ce to answer, but grabbed the conversation and said: "Of course, in the past, Daji was distressed, and he dug out his exquisite heart for Daji to eat, isn't Daji better?"

Gongsun Ce said angrily: "Nonsense, Daji is a fox demon, not a human at all, she did this on purpose to harm Bigan." ”

King Xian said coldly: "Daji is not a person, is this Miss Xue a person? ”

King Xian paused, saw that Feifei and Gongsun Ce's faces had changed, and said with a satisfied smile: "Maybe you can also ask the emperor, he is the dragon and phoenix among people, and he says that he loves the people like a son all day long, maybe he also has a delicate heart?"

Feifei and Gongsun Ce came out of the prison, they were speechless all the way, thinking about their own thoughts, and when they were about to reach the door of the flower hall, Feifei said to Gongsun Ce: "Sir, it's too late, I won't go in, I want to go back to the room to rest." ”

Gongsun Ce nodded and said, "Girl, rest well, don't listen to King Xian's nonsense, he said this on purpose, so as to upset us." ”

"Well, I understand. Feifei nodded, turned around and went back to the room.

Gongsun Ce went back to the flower hall and told Bao Zheng what had just happened, Bao Zheng was silent, and he always had an ominous premonition in his heart for some reason.

On the second day, in the public court, King Xian, Rouge, Huang Que and others all confessed to what they had done, and King Xian admitted that at the beginning, he made Huang Qi close to Yue Qi and let Rouge control Yue Qi's family with poison, and secretly observed Zhang Yao, and found that he was interested in the red porcelain of the Xue family, so he took advantage of the time when he was looking for Jia Ren to grab the red porcelain, and asked Huang Que to secretly help him kill people. Later, in order to make things bigger, Huang Que burned Xue's house to clean up, and ambushed him halfway, killing Xue Feifei and seizing the red porcelain.

After that, Yue Qi used fake red porcelain to trick Zhang Yao into offering treasures in the palace, the purpose of which was to attract Bao Zheng's attention and make him focus on the red porcelain case, so that King Xian would have time to arrange the rebellion. It's a pity that Bao Zheng has too many capable people, and in the end he fell short.

After listening to King Xian's confession, Bao Zheng felt that he was generally right, just one point, he asked King Xian why he wanted to replace the real red porcelain, and where is the real red porcelain now?

King Xian refused to say anything, and the other two saw that the master didn't say anything, no matter how coercive Bao Zheng coerced, they gritted their teeth, but they didn't say it, just when the hall was deadlocked, Gonggong Zhang in the palace suddenly came by order, and everyone knelt down to receive the order.

The general meaning of the emperor's will is to allow Bao Zheng to play, posthumously seal Concubine Yan as Concubine Huiren, and wait for the Queen Mother to be buried in the imperial tomb with the Queen Mother for a hundred years, and enjoy the temple worship forever. However, the virtuous king disregarded the law of the country, and the prince was guilty of the same crime as the common people, so he hoped that Bao Zheng would deal with it impartially and not favoritism.

King Xian knew in his heart that no matter how broad-minded the emperor was, he would not be soft-hearted once someone endangered his throne, but at the moment, he really didn't care, he finally earned back his reputation for his mother before he died, and everything was worth it.

After everyone thanked him, King Xian kept his promise and took out Zhanzhao's antidote prescription, Feifei took the prescription, and King Xian asked: "Miss Xue, I don't know anything, why did Zhan's guards come to me and say that they had successfully assassinated Bao Zheng, and they looked calm, and they couldn't tell that they were lying?"

Feifei said: "You only think that you can control everything by relying on poison, and you are too arrogant and ignore the abnormality of the Zhan guard, in fact, as long as you look more carefully, you can find that in fact, the Zhan guard's eyes at that time were wooden." ”

King Xian smiled and said: "It seems that this Kaifeng Mansion is really a master, there is someone who can break my Gu poison, I think Zhanzhao's poison will be able to crack it in the end, but you have to pay a considerable price, anyway, I can't see it, this king is in a hurry to see the concubine, come and come, Bao Zheng will start with this king first." ”

As he spoke, he smiled and strode towards the dragon head, and without waiting for Zhang Long and Zhao Hu to make a move, he put his head into the dragon head by himself.

The eighth prince couldn't bear to look at it anymore, turned sideways, and a tear crossed his cheek......

Huang Que and Rouge knelt down to worship King Xian, unable to raise their heads for a long time, and soon after, both of them were also beheaded by dogs.

Everyone looked at the three of them and didn't have a trace of joy, and they all sighed in their hearts, and the hall was silent for a while.