The crown prince stayed in the imperial study to play chess with Emperor Tianqing, and when Feng Yuan came in with a pale face to talk about Jinlinwei's affairs, Emperor Tianqing did not let the prince avoid it.

Listening to Feng Yuan say that Deputy Envoy Jin Linwei was bribed by the third prince, there were a few people who secretly spread the news with the outside world.

Tianqing put down the chess piece and said, "Kill with a cane." ”

Feng Yuan replied in a low voice and then pleaded guilty: "It is the incompetence of the servants that will make the people below cause such a right and wrong, and please punish Your Majesty." ”

Emperor Tianqing saw that although his back was straight when he knelt on the ground, cold sweat was hidden on his forehead.

After sending off Cheng Guogong and the third prince last night, Feng Yuan went to the criminal department to receive thirty canes, although the executioner may not have really been ruthless, but his attitude was enough to make Emperor Tianqing relieve his anger at him.

"Okay, forget about it this time, if there is a next time, it will not be spared."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Get up." Emperor Tianqing casually asked Feng Yuan to get up before he said to him, "You should keep an eye on the affairs of the Criminal Department, and let Wu Jinliang give a result earlier." ”

Feng Yuan respectfully: "The slave understands. ”

"Ning Jingshui hasn't come back yet?"

Emperor Tianqing lowered his head and looked at the chessboard, but in his heart he pondered the illness of Cheng Guogong, although he was angry when the courtiers above the early court knelt down and begged, but after the anger subsided, he also wanted to know if Cheng Guogong was really so sick.

Feng Yuan seemed to know what he wanted to ask, and replied in a low voice: "In the morning, Yongshun Hou went to Chengguo's mansion, Chengguogong was angry and vomited blood, and Imperial Doctor Ning asked the medicine boy around him to come back and take a lot of medicinal materials, and called Imperial Doctor Hu and them, but they bumped into Lord Xu in front of the palace gate and delayed for a while. ”

"Marquis Yongshun, what is he doing in the Chengguo Mansion?" Emperor Tianqing was puzzled.

Feng Yuan was a little nervous and stopped: "Set off firecrackers." ”

Emperor Tianqing: "......"

Although I have long known that the Liu family's hob meat is sprinkled and it is a headache, but such damage is indeed unexpected.

"What else did he do?"

"I heard that Marquis Liu also went to the coffin shop in the east of the city to order a good golden silk nanmu coffin, if it weren't for Jin Linwei's people to stop him, he would have planned to beat gongs and drums to send it to Chengguo Gong."

The corners of Emperor Tianqing's mouth twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but laugh and scold for a while: "That old thing! "No wonder it makes people vomit blood.

Emperor Tianqing was originally still cloudy, but he smiled when he heard the lack of virtue done by the Marquis of Yongshun, he shook his head with a smile and shook his head while playing chess with the prince, while remembering something else, he couldn't help but ask:

"You just said that Imperial Doctor Hu bumped into Xu Lizhen in front of the palace gate, what's wrong with him?"

The prince was still listening to the jokes, but when he heard Xu Lizhen's name, he was instantly alerted.

Feng Yuan said: "The slave is not very clear, he was in a hurry to come back and talk to His Majesty about Jinlinwei, but he only glanced at it hurriedly when he passed by, and Lord Xu looked very embarrassed, as if he had done something with someone. ”

Doing it with someone in the palace?

Emperor Tianqing couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, Xu Lizhen has always been cautious, and he would definitely not do such an unobtrusive thing.

He glanced at the attendant eunuch on the side, and the man went out to inquire about the news, and when he came back after a while, he said to Emperor Tianqing:

"Back to Your Majesty, the slave asked, I heard that it was Lord Han who had dispersed in the early days, and they found Lord Xu, and they argued a few words in front of the palace for Lord Xu to say that they would severely punish Cheng Guogong, and Lord Xu suffered some losses in the push."

Emperor Tianqing squinted slightly: "Suffer? ”

The attendant eunuch said in a low voice: "Lord Xu's leg injury has not healed, and he was deliberately knocked down and injured his leg, and he also fell into the pool of stagnant water. ”

Emperor Tianqing didn't expect it to be like this, Xu Lizhen's temperament has always been so strong, since he returned to the court a few years ago, only people have been afraid of him, and he has been quite cold to Xu Lizhen recently, but he didn't think that even Han Jinyuan would dare to make a move on him in the palace.

Emperor Tianqing rubbed the chess pieces and waved his hand to let the eunuch retreat.

The crown prince sat opposite Emperor Tianqing and had a hidden feeling in his heart, he couldn't help but glance at Feng Yuan, guessing whether he had mentioned Xu Lizhen intentionally or unintentionally just now?

"Smack."

The chess pieces were put on the board, and Emperor Tianqing took away a few chess pieces and said, "Yuan Yu, your chess skills have regressed. ”

The prince hurriedly came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Erchen had to be praised by Taifu a few days ago, it was my father's chess skills that improved, but my father don't let me, Erchen will definitely win a game against you today." ”

Emperor Tianqing burst out laughing when he heard this: "Yes, then I am waiting!" ”

……

Father and son are rarely harmonious, the prince accompanied Emperor Tianqing to play chess and chat, occasionally mention a few words about the court, and after accompanying Emperor Tianqing to have lunch and see him close his eyes and take a break, the prince then got out and returned to the East Palace.

Shen had been waiting in the East Palace, and when he saw the prince coming back, he hurriedly got up: "Your Highness..."

"No need to be polite."

The prince pressed Shen but asked him to sit down, and he also sat down and said, "This is more tiring than letting me watch a day's excerpts when I play chess with my father." ”

If you lose too much, it will not work, it will seem that he is incompetent, but if you win too much, it will not work, and it will sweep the emperor's face.

It's been a long time since the prince has gone to such great lengths to do something, and all he thinks about is that he wants to lose, but he can't lose too obviously.

He rubbed his fingertips: "I wanted to come back and talk to you earlier, but my father rarely got up and had to let me play a few more rounds, and I also decided to go on another autumn hunt before winter." ”

"Autumn hunting again?" Shen frowned.

The crown prince nodded: "Father said that Chongyang wants to worship his ancestors, and he is going to the imperial mausoleum, and the imperial mausoleum is next door to Jiuli Mountain." ”

"This year, things continue to be in the court, and my father feels annoyed, so he just wants to take advantage of the ancestor worship to let all the courtiers go to Jiuli Mountain to relax, and he also said that he will hand over the matter of this autumn hunt and ancestor worship to me."

Shen Ke's eyebrows furrowed even tighter when he heard this, it is normal for the ancestor to let the prince be in charge, which can not only show the stability of the prince's position, but also let people know Emperor Tianqing's attitude towards the prince.

But the matter of autumn hunting......

If it is an ordinary hunting, it is naturally not troublesome, but the holy car also has to go, and he has to bring the people in the court, and there must be palace concubines and female dependents with him.

Shen still remembered that the prince had died more than a year later in the dream, but he didn't know how the prince had an accident.

He is now subconsciously repulsed by such a dangerous thing.

Shen couldn't help but say: "The matter of the autumn hunt should have been handed over to Feng Yuan and the people of the fourth battalion of the forbidden army to prepare, why didn't His Highness push it off if he still wanted to take care of the government?" ”

The crown prince sighed: "I said it, but my father only said that it was for me to experience, and it was rare for him to take the initiative to explain something to me in the past few years, and he also promised to temporarily hand over the forbidden army and Jinlin Wei to me for mobilization, and even the soldiers and horses of the five cities were arranged with me." ”

"If I push it, what does my father think?"

Putting the matter of ancestor worship and autumn hunting together, he can't just agree to perform the sacrifice and ignore the autumn hunting.

Emperor Tianqing has always come to himself, feeling that the things handed over to him are a sign of entrustment and trust, if he refuses, he will not know what to do, and I am afraid that the relationship that has been eased with great difficulty will be finished again.

The prince said: "I know that this matter is troublesome to arrange, but the trouble can only be done, fortunately, there is still half a month before Chongyang, and there is time to prepare." ”

Shen also knew that the holy word was already out and could not be refused, and this matter could only be so.

The prince was also quite upset when he thought of the trouble of the autumn hunt, so he sent some herbal tea to suppress the dryness, and only then said when he felt that his heart was calming down:

"Fortunately, my father has already decided to fill the vacancy, Li Zheng and they can return to Beijing smoothly, Li Shangrong is lucky, he can enter the household department and occupy the vacant waiter position, and the others are also not bad."

"But there is one thing I'm afraid of being troublesome, this morning when the third person in the court interceded for Cheng Guogong, he had a dispute with Xu Lizhen, and after the next court, he stopped Xu Lizhen from making a move."