Zhu Ningyao, the king of Anhua, has a very short temper in the past few days, and the servants of the palace who are serving by his side are often to blame, and there are more than a dozen of them who have been scolded and whipped by Zhu Ningjiao within a few days, but they don't know where they did something wrong; Even the staff members such as Sun Jingwen and Meng Bin, who are surrounded by flies all day long, are not less scolded; Sun Jingwen and Meng Bin naturally knew why the prince was so irritable and irritable, wasn't it because of Song Nan who caused trouble everywhere but couldn't kill him.

In the tall and spacious hall of the Cunxin Palace, King Anhua sat alone on a Taishi chair with a gloomy face, the sky outside was as lead-gray and gloomy as his face, and large snowflakes were falling non-stop. Or not only the falling snow, but also the qiē in the eyes are annoying.

On the night of Shangyuan, Ye Baoren and Ye Baoyi not only did not kill Song Nan, but were killed by Song Nan, which in itself had already made King Anhua furious; What's even more hateful is that this guy openly killed Shi Lian on the street the next morning, and even An Weixue went to rescue him to no avail, and even made King Anhua almost vomit blood.

Obviously, Song Nan's purpose in killing Shi Lian with a cane was a naked provocation to himself. Who in Ningxia Town didn't know that Shi Lian was his own person, and Song Nan was slapping himself in public by doing this.

The reason why King Anhua gathered Sun Jingwen, Meng Bin, Shi Lian and others under his account is because to achieve great things is not only to use force, but also to have some knowledge and can think of some demagogic ways for him.

But in fact, in Zhu Ningxiao's heart, Shi Lian's life is actually not valuable, if it is Sun Jingwen who dies, he will be even more distressed; Shi Lian's ability is far from reaching the point where he can rely on him. However, Shi Lian's death is not a matter of pity, but a matter related to his prestige and dignity, Song Nan forcibly killed Shi Lian with a cane, but he had no way to fight back against him, which would make all the officials attached to him feel that they were a wreck. This kind of blow to people's hearts is the most fatal.

After the incident, Zhu Ningxiao's first reaction was to immediately take someone to copy the Guanxue Tower, and kill Song Nan and a group of Jinyi guards in order to relieve the hatred in his heart. But reason told him that he could not do that. Song Nan cane Shi Lian has the Daming law firm to rely on, he has nothing wrong, and the right of Jinyiwei gives him the right to exercise law enforcement, and there is no excuse to arrest him. If you are rash, it is equivalent to rebelling, although this is exactly what you think, but after all, the time is not ripe.

There are three guards in Ningxia Town, and the two guards of Zhongtun Wei and Houtun Wei led by Zhou Ang and He Jin are almost in their own hands, but the most troublesome thing is the soldiers and horses of Qiu Yue of the Qiantun Guard. It's not that this Qiu Yue has anything extraordinary, but the place where he is stationed is very troublesome, in the Yuquan camp in the northwest of Ningxia Town, where the pass fortress used to defend against the enemy is very strong, once the incident is raised, Qiu Yue's soldiers and horses are like nails nailed to the back, and they have to deal with him. The focus of defense after the incident should be along the Yellow River, which is the inevitable direction of the imperial army to encircle and suppress, if it is involved by Qiu Yue, it is bound to be difficult to care.

I have thought of a lot of methods, but none of them have worked; In order to ensure the success of the big event, and not too explicit to do something against Qiu Yue, it's not that I'm afraid that Jiang Han, a wreck, will suspect anything, the key is that there are Li Zeng in this Ningxia town, as well as Zhou Dong, and Jinyiwei's yamen, once they are in a hurry, it is easy to stir the sensitive nerves of these people and make them think of something.

Another reason for Zhu Ningxiao's anxiety is that things seem to be progressing more and more in a direction that is unfavorable to him, and this Song Nan also seems to smell something, judging from his motives for breaking into the palace, he will definitely not take risks in order to find out about the secret agents who died in the palace, and he feels something. This is definitely a tricky thing, and Jin Yiwei is the most difficult, once they suspect it, things will be worse than ninety.

It is precisely in this dilemma that Zhu Ningxiao has been restless and evil fire has been raging for the past few days.

"Lord Wang, someone asks to see you." Sun Jingwen walked in from outside the hall with his body bent, shook the snowflakes on his body like a dog, and said in a low voice.

"Nope." Zhu Ningxiao said coldly.

"The prince must see this person." Sun Jingwen was a little panting, and he couldn't hide the excitement in his tone?

"Huh?"

"It's Qiu Yue." Sun Jingwen said in a low voice.

"He? Why did he come, didn't he say that the military affairs were urgent, and he wanted to go back to the Yuquan Camp barracks? This king invited him to drink, but he also pushed back, and this king invited him to watch the play, but he also said that he was not interested, and now what are you doing? ”

"Lord Wang......" Sun Jingwen shouted in a long voice.

Zhu Ningxiao frowned and waved his hand: "Invite him to come to the study to talk, and ask someone to make a good pot of tea and burn the brazier." ”

Sun Jingwen smiled and said, "Obey." ”

Qiu Yue stepped into the warm study of King Anhua with a sad face, King Anhua was already standing by the door with a smile on his face and waiting for him, and when he saw him, he smiled and arched his hand: "General Qiu, we only met yesterday, do you miss this king so soon?" ”

Qiu Yue bowed his hand and saluted: "Good prince, you are presumptuous." ”

King Anhua said with a smile: "What is this called, this king welcomes the arrival of General Qiu here at any time, sit, and serve tea." ”

Qiu Yue sat down in a daze, but he was stunned, and the clouds on his face were dense, and he seemed to be preoccupied.

"What's the matter, General Qiu, yesterday this king invited you to watch a play and drink, you said that you were busy with military affairs and wanted to go back to the barracks, could it be that something happened in the barracks?"

Qiu Yue rubbed his hands and hesitated for a long time, then suddenly got up and knelt down in front of Zhu Ningxiao and shouted, "The prince saved my life!" ”

Zhu Ningxiao was stunned and hurriedly got up and said, "Get up quickly, what's wrong, tell this king to hear." ”

Qiu Yue shouted: "I can't live in a lowly job, I can't live in a lowly job." ”

"What is this, get up and make it clear, otherwise this king will know how to help you."

Qiu Yue got up, took a few sips of hot tea to calm down, and then plucked up the courage to say: "Lord Wang, I confessed to you that I made a big mistake in my humble position; Huang Liu, a hundred lowly subordinates, complained to Jinyiwei about an old incident of lowly duties, and Jinyiwei commanded Song Nan to take advantage of this to attack me, and begged the prince to save my life. ”

King Anhua's heart was shocked, but his face remained silent and said: "What you said is vague, this king really didn't understand; What is the old past, what Song Nan is attacking you, make it clearer. ”

Qiu Yue lowered his head and said: "Lord Wang, the humble post confessed to you an incident a few years ago, four years ago, the humble post drank in Helan Tower one day, and was happy that day because of the new reward from the Shangguan for side affairs, so he drank a few more glasses of wine, and when he left the restaurant, he was already drunk; It is precisely because of the drunken mind that the lowly duty has committed a great sin, the lowly duty...... Despicable is not a person, drunk and promiscuous, seeing a beautiful woman on the street, he forcibly dragged her into the alley with the strength of alcohol...... But the woman was fierce and shouted, and in a moment of anger, she slashed her with a knife......"

"Huh?" King Anhua opened his mouth wide in surprise, and a burst of ecstasy surged in his heart in shock.

"At that time, he was so frightened that he woke up, and he was accompanied by one of my personal guards named Huang Liu, who witnessed the whole thing; Afterwards, he wanted to stop Huang Liu's mouth, obey all kinds of requests he made, give him silver, promote him to a hundred households, and want him to keep a secret for me. Unexpectedly, this guy was not greedy enough, and some time ago he coveted my beloved daughter and asked me to marry my beloved daughter to him. How could he agree to the lowly position, so this guy threatened to denounce me. I thought he was just angry, after all, it wouldn't be good for him to denounce me, but this morning, I got the news that this guy really went to denounce me, and he told Song Nan, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, who had just come to Ningxia Town. This Song Nan heard that he was extremely lazy and difficult, and threatened to make a big rectification in Ningxia Town, and this time the humble post will definitely be over. ”

Qiu Yue pulled his hair with remorse and panic on his face, and lowered his head and sighed.

Zhu Ningxiao's heart was beating wildly, trying his best to stay calm, quickly thought about Qiu Yue's words, and said, "Where did General Qiu come from?" Since Jinyiwei wants to arrest you, how did you escape? ”

Qiu Yue said: "The lowly post was in the barracks, but the Jinyi guard didn't go to the barracks to arrest me, but the lowly post rushed back to the city immediately after getting the news." ”

Zhu Ningxiao said lightly: "How do you know that I will help you?" He came to ask for the king? ”

Qiu Yue looked at Zhu Ningxiao in amazement and said, "Lord Wang...... Won't the prince help me? Humble ...... I know that I deserve the most capital crime, but I have tried my best to remedy it in the past few years, and every year I will secretly order someone to give them silver, so that they can have no worries about food and clothing, although they do not know that I killed their daughter, but I already know remorse, and I have made amends. The lowly office does not want to ruin the hard work of the lowly job because of this matter, and the lowly position is not a vicious person, but when he drinks, he will go crazy drunk. In the past few years, I have not drunk a drop of alcohol, that is, I am afraid of another incident after drinking, yesterday the prince invited me to stay and drink, and I knew that I had the problem of drunkenness, so I could only leave. The lowly position knows that the prince is unhappy, but how can the lowly position say it clearly because of the unspeakable things......

Zhu Ningyan said in his heart: It turns out that he is afraid of drunkenness and disorder, so he refused his invitation several times, isn't it because he doesn't want to attach himself to this king? But none of this matters now, the important thing is that Qiu Yue took the initiative to stuff the handle into his hand, this is really a big meatloaf that fell from the sky.

"This king doesn't ask you how to repent and remedy, but you regret and remedy, and the life of other women will not be able to come back; This king asks you, "How do you know that this king will save you?" Although this king is a relative of the emperor and the country, how can this king protect you if you have done such a traitorous thing? ”

Qiu Yue stood there in a daze, his face was pale, and he said miserably for a while: "What the prince said is right, how can I have the face to ask the prince for protection, I should have surrendered myself when the incident happened, and I shouldn't have concealed it until now." Hey, if I am careless, my reputation will be ruined, and I am also to blame. ”

King Anhua said lightly: "It's good that you know, besides, this matter is known to Jinyiwei, this king came to save you, didn't you pull this king into the quagmire, you are also ridiculous, and you actually begged me for this matter." ”

Qiu Yue silently arched his hand and said: "The lesson of the prince is that he is dizzy from his humble position, and he is also sick and rushed to the doctor, all over Ningxia Town, only the prince can save the humble position, so he came without thinking, but he didn't know that no one can save the crime of the humble position, and that Song Nan is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and he has been in the limelight recently, so no one wants to provoke it." Lord Wang, he was presumptuous, so he took his leave. ”

Qiu Yue turned around like a wooden carved clay puppet, got up and walked out.