After a month of fast horses, Chun Yudang and Yu Mao finally returned to the imperial capital in embarrassment. But as soon as he entered the city, he heard that the people of the Yongchang Dynasty were spreading everywhere that the prince collaborated with the enemy and treason, let the enemy army enter the city, and killed General Xi Qiang and the people of the city.

This news was simply a fatal disaster for Chun Yudang, which made Chun Yudang's heart unable to calm down for a long time.

Because, this time, he is really finished. After all, the gossip of the people is the deadliest weapon, which can kill people invisibly.

Even if he clears himself, he will not be able to withstand the slander of gossip and the impeachment of the ministers of the DPRK and the central government. He is the crown prince, and he understands very well that the East Palace is a place that everyone remembers. He has nine brothers, and as long as he makes a wrong step, his nine brothers will take advantage of the problem to play and rob while the fire is hot.

Chun Yudang hadn't figured out how to go to Beijing to face the saint, so he sent his subordinates to charter a good inn for him in the imperial capital and let him stay for a day or two.

When his men heard this, they went and did so.

At noon, in the Hanyang Palace, Ning Yihan was sitting in the hall with Jin Ge for dinner.

"Your Highness, is it Yuzhang County that Niangniang sent you to?" Jin Ge asked

Ning Yihan nodded, "Yes!" ”

"The emperor doesn't fancy His Royal Highness, but Niangniang admires His Royal Highness, if she says that she likes His Highness, it is unlikely. After ruling out the first possibility, it can only show that this concubine is a little unusual. ”

Ning Yihan chuckled, "What's not ordinary?" ”

Jin Ge replied lukewarmly: "The means are not ordinary! I guess this lady must be deeply favored, otherwise, she would not have dealt with the government with the emperor. If His Royal Highness handles it well, after returning to China, he will be highly praised by hundreds of officials, which is a good thing for His Highness. ”

Ning Yihan nodded, "I'm in the same place with me." Ning Yihan was puzzled: "It's just that I don't understand, how could such a smart person as the emperor not think of this?" I and the emperor are biological brothers, even if there is no grudge or grudge, but for the throne, if I want to, I can also fight, so if I become bigger, it will not be good for the emperor. ”

"Sometimes, people who fall in love can become very stupid. This concubine is not thinking about the emperor, which shows that she does not love the emperor. But the emperor loves the concubine very much! ”

Ning Yihan sighed lightly, "Yes, love is a poison, which can make life worse than death." Those who have achieved great things in the world should be ruthless and loveless. Ning Yihan said, and drank all the wine in the quilt He thought about it carefully, the noble concubine Niangniang, like a person, he frowned, "Frost, I remembered, that noble concubine Niangniang seems to be exactly the same as the emperor's biological mother." ”

"The emperor's biological mother?" Jin Ge was puzzled

"The emperor's biological mother is named Chu Ji. She was originally a prostitute, and she was beautiful and beautiful. She was once named the first beauty of Ning Ao by the first emperor. The first emperor could exhaust half of the treasury in order to marry her, and finally married back as a concubine, but the people in the palace were sinister, Chu Ji was killed by Ning Hao's mother for five years in the palace, and the five-year-old Ning Yuchen begged the first emperor for five days and five nights for this matter, only thinking about redressing his mother's grievances, but the first emperor was indifferent to the death of his mother's concubine. ”

Jin Ge nodded, "I see! ”

After the two finished speaking, they began to eat again. After a while, Jin Ge poured a glass of wine for himself and Ning Yihan, "Your Highness, tomorrow you will leave for Yuzhang County,......" Han Wei raised her glass as she spoke, "Han Wei wishes His Highness a smooth sailing and everything going well." I also hope that His Highness can return safely as soon as possible. ”

Ning Yihan clinked glasses with her, "Accept your auspicious words!" ”

The two of them spoke, drinking the wine together.

In the middle school of the Northern Lion Country, a woman in armor, riding a fast horse, was running at a high speed on the street, shouting constantly as she ran: "King Jing has won a great victory, Pengcheng County has been collected!" King Jing has won a big victory, and Pengcheng County has received ......"

This is undoubtedly not an earth-shattering and exciting good news for the people of the Northern Lion Country. Wherever the fast horse went, the people of the Northern Lion Kingdom gave way one after another.

Today's Northern Lion Country celebrates with the whole country, and the people in the country have begun to open their whips and release their guns to celebrate this good news.

In King Jing's mansion, Yu Yaorong and the three of them were overjoyed when they heard the news of Mu Zhijun's victory.

Yu Yaorong knew that his Royal Highness, his wife, was the best, and this expedition would never disappoint him.

The big stone in Yu Yaorong's heart can be regarded as settled.

"Knock knock......" Outside Yu Yaorong's room, there was a knock on the door, Yu Yaorong opened the door, and saw Nangong Yiqing standing outside the door. He had a food box in his hand.

Nangong Yiqing smiled, walked into Yu Yaorong's room, put the food box on the table and opened it, and neatly laid out a table of meals.

This meal is meat and vegetarian, wine and meat. Nangong Yiqing said with a smile: "The horse has been doing things for His Highness these days, and he has been bathing and changing his clothes every day, and he doesn't drink meat. Now, His Highness has returned victoriously, and the horses can rest assured. Today is a day to celebrate, and I made a table of food to celebrate with the ponies. ”

Yu Yaorong walked to the table and sat opposite Nangong Yiqing. Yu Yaorong poured a glass of wine for himself and Nangong Yiqing, Yu Yaorong raised the wine glass, and said apologetically: "Yiqing, the last time the second prince of the Eastern Wilderness Kingdom sent someone to Jingwangfu to rob you, it was useless for me to protect you, I drank this glass of wine and apologized to you." ”

Nangong Yiqing still smiled calmly like water, and he said unhurriedly: "The last thing has passed. Don't worry too much about the colt. ”

Yu Yaorong shook his head and sighed lightly, "But the wife cares, if the wife knows that I didn't protect King Jing's Mansion, let alone you, I think, she will be unhappy again." ”

"As long as you do your best, Your Highness will not be unhappy. She just had a hard mouth and refused to admit that she was soft-hearted. ”

Nangong Yiqing said, picked up the chopsticks, took a bite of the vegetables, and then smiled deeply.

"Concubine, the last time Yiqing and the concubine said, between the wife and Nan Yuhou, the concubine can only choose one. I don't know if the colt has made a choice? ”

Yu Yaorong's heart trembled, Nangong Yiqing said to Yu Yaorong, he didn't think about it, it's just that on the one hand, his mother who raised him to adulthood, and on the other hand, his beloved wife, how to choose, it's too difficult!

Seeing Yu Yaorong's hesitant expression, Nangong Yiqing laughed leisurely, "Donkey, you have to come up with the answer as soon as possible, because there is not much time left for you." If the horse is still hesitant, the final result will be nothing more than harming both His Highness and Nan Yuhou. ”

The windows of the room were blown by the wind, making a "squeak-squeak——! Nangong Yiqing glanced at it, the smile on his face gradually faded, he sighed word by word, and said in a low and meaningful voice: "The wind is blowing!" Count the days, Your Highness, it's time to come back. ”

The night was silent, and in the corridor outside a certain inn, ten people dressed in black found a guest room, and the twenty people in this room were all people who accompanied Chun Yudang back.

The ten black-clothed men lit incense outside the door, and the incense emitted bursts of white mist and drifted into the room.

After a few moments, the white mist cleared, and the ten men in black entered the room lightly.

It's late at night, and it's three minutes old. In a dilapidated thatched hut, twenty people fell asleep on the ground with ropes tied hand and foot.

In an instant, a basin of cold water was poured on the heads of twenty people, and with a burst of cold to the bones, twenty people were awakened by the cold of the cold water.

After the twenty people woke up, they were in a daze, they looked back and forth, left and right, everywhere, and some people were still thinking, "Where is this?" ”

After watching left and right for a while, I saw a man in black standing in front of the twenty of them with his face covered. This startled twenty people, and these twenty people instantly sobered up, and they looked at themselves, and then they realized that they had been kidnapped.

"You, what do you want to do?" A man asked in horror

The man in black took out a bottle of medicine from his bosom and approached them. When the twenty men saw this, they sat down on the ground and moved backwards. The man in black was very impatient, so he directly pointed at a person's acupoint, and the man immediately couldn't move, the man in black poured a medicine from the bottle, and the man in black ignored the man's struggle, directly stuffed the medicine into his mouth, and forced him to swallow it.

The man who took the medicine was immediately frightened and the three souls disappeared, and the others were even more frightened, if they weren't tied hands and feet, they would have knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. The man in black unlocked the man's acupoint and asked softly, "Do you want to live?" ”

Everyone spoke in unison, constantly begging for mercy and flattery: "If you want to live, you want to live, the hero spares his life!" ”

The man in black chuckled, "It's easy to live if you want to." ”

The man in black said, directly a shapeshift, these people's acupoints were all blocked, they were forcibly fed medicine, and after the acupoints of the man in black were released, the man in black explained: "If you take this medicine, it will not kill you, but if there is no antidote within ten days, you will definitely die." So, you do something for me, and I'll give you the antidote. ”

"Hero, you say, you say!"

"Do you remember, how did the prince get out of Pengcheng County?"

"Prince, he, he sacrificed the county guard to escape from Pengcheng County!" A man explained

As soon as the words fell, the man turned around, and a short knife in his hand wiped the man's neck, and the man fell to the ground before he could react.

"He answered incorrectly, so he died." The man casually walked up to a man and asked with a smile, "You know what?" ”

The man trembled with fear. But he is a clever man, and there have always been rumors in the city that the prince collaborated with the enemy and treason, and now this man can kidnap them without killing them, that is, he has a grudge against the prince.

The man said intermittently and slurredly: "Tai, the prince, he, he is, collaborating with the enemy and treason, so he can come back alive." ”

As soon as the man finished speaking, a man behind him said unfairly: "How can you say that, the prince is obviously ...... "There is no treason with the enemy!"

Before he finished speaking, he had already wiped his neck by the man in black in front of him, and then fell to the ground, and the blood on his neck had stained the ground red. The man in black continued to laugh and said, "What you just said is not entirely right, but by the way, I will give you another chance, you can think about it carefully, what did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince say when he came back?" The enemy let him go. ”

The man in the back was reminded by these words, and suddenly remembered that the prince had said something that day. A man jumped out and said, "I know, the prince said that day, military master, don't kill us, we are willing to surrender!" ”

After hearing this, the man in black smiled with satisfaction: "Yes, that's it." When you wait for the main hall and the emperor asks, you should know how to answer, right? ”

Eighteen men nodded and said in unison: "I know, I know!" ”

"Don't fool me, some people, even if they risk their own lives, they will also help the prince. So, if you don't think about your own life, you have to think about your wife, children, and family, right? ”

One man was furious and said, "You, how can you? ”

One of the men stopped: "Don't be fooled, maybe he lied to you!" ”

As soon as the dissuasive man's voice fell, he was stabbed in the throat on the spot. The man in black frowned and said unhappily: "There are really loyal!" ”

"Forget it, I know you don't believe it! So, I brought someone up, I don't know which one of you belonged to? As soon as the words fell, a thin woman was brought in, and the man in black said, "Don't you believe that I arrested your husband?" Look at your husband in there. ”

The woman walked over and took a closer look, her eyes suddenly fixed on a dead corpse, the woman saw the corpse, and immediately walked up, she held the head of the corpse, shook it, and said unsteadily: "Husband, husband, what's wrong with you?" Husband, husband, husband, wake up! ”

Shaking and shaking, the blood on the neck stained the woman's hands and clothes red. Tears fell into the woman's eyes, "Husband, husband, didn't you say that after you become a soldier, you will have a bright future, and then marry me?" Husband, wake up......"

Those of them who served in the army never thought that the people in the army were their own families, so they didn't know each other at all.

Everyone saw that the woman was crying sincerely, so they had to believe what the man in black said, the woman stood up directly, her eyes were full of hatred, and she yelled: "You killed him, you killed my husband, didn't you?" ”

"I killed it!" The man in black admitted without hesitation.

"You killed my husband, I want you to pay for your life!" As she spoke, the woman rushed desperately towards the man in black.

The man in black grabbed the woman's neck and said, "Don't measure yourself!" ”

As he spoke, he threw the woman to the side, and the woman was hit not lightly, "Come on, drag this crazy woman down and execute her directly." ”

As he spoke, two men in black came in, and dragged her down, despite the woman's struggle.

The man in black sighed lightly, "I originally wanted to do good deeds and let that woman go, but she was like that, she hated to kill me immediately, forget it, I will be a good person to the end, give her a ride, and when she and her husband go underground to meet." ”

Seeing this, everyone had to bow their heads, after all, they really couldn't afford to gamble with their family members.

One man said, "We are willing to testify on your behalf, but we ask you to spare our family." ”

The man in black said lightly: "This is easy to say! Also, you are not testifying on my behalf, but you are stating the facts. ”

Another man also said: "I state the facts, but you not only want to spare my family, but also spare our lives!" ”

The man in black nodded, "Yes!" ”

After a transaction, everyone could only sigh and bow their heads, expressing their sincerity. And in order not to let Chun Yudang see the flaws, and in order to better monitor the seventeen, the man in black placed three people in the middle, so that there were exactly twenty people.

On the banks of a river, the silver glow of the moonlight shone on the river, glowing white.

In the distance, a man in black escorted the woman to the bank of the river before letting go of the woman. The man in black took out a bag of silver from his bosom and praised: "The play is good!" The man in black handed the money to the woman, and after the woman took it with a smile, the man in black said, "This is a reward for you!" ”

The woman smiled: "Thank you for that." ”

As soon as the woman turned around, she felt a pain in her heart, and the money bag in her hand immediately fell to the ground, and blood stained the money bag. The woman didn't even have a chance to speak, so she fell to the ground and died.