Chapter 103: Trickery and Controversy (3)
"You are so bold, you dare to chirp at this king!"
King Yi glared angrily, shook his sword, and rushed out.
"King Yi," Ming Huiguang hurriedly stepped forward to stop, "This is within the palace forbidden, and you can't use force." After that, he turned his head and said, "Cai Shilang, don't you hurry up and make a compensation." ”
Cai Xianqing only rolled up his sleeves: "Even if you are a member of the royal family, you can't be so unsightly." If you want to chop off your old hands at every turn, how can you achieve great things? ”
"You!" King Yi was full of anger again, and was about to swing his sword forward, but he was stiffly pulled by Minghui Guang, and he was entangled for a while before separating the two a few steps.
"He, who is he? I've got to remember the name of this guy! King Yi's face turned red, and he gasped and asked.
Ming Huiguang bowed his head and said: "He is the squire of the military department, named Cai Xianqing." ”
As soon as King Yi heard the 'military department', he immediately remembered the name Ye Yongjia, so he looked at Cai Xianqing again and thought, "Then this old guy must be Ye Yongjia's henchman." I thought that Ye Gong was clear and bright, and he must be surrounded by knowledgeable people, but I never thought that there would be such rude people! It's a pity that the New Deal was run by these people......
Therefore, he was disappointed in Ye Dang, and he withdrew his sword indignantly, and had to reconcile with him, and saluted: "It's actually a member of the military department." I have always respected Lord Ye, for his sake, and I don't have the same knowledge as you. ”
"Thank you for your uplift." Cai Xianqing was still a little unconvinced, and made a gesture without humility or arrogance.
Seeing that the conflict had been resolved, Ming Huiguang waved to the sergeant behind him, and several soldiers carried the dead tiger together, and King Yi and the others went to the dormitory to face the saint.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, the emperor summoned the ministers in the palace to meet King Yi, you ...... This trip should be taken as well. ”
Lan Yuan knelt on the ground, and after reporting the last sentence, he raised his head slightly and looked at the prince.
The prince rubbed the yellow robe in his hand, and sighed depressedly: "Cunzhao is incompetent, let King Yi come to Jingshi, he knows the plot of the post station, he must be angry, how can he spare me?" This hard-won position of prison country is probably going to be in vain! ”
Lan Yuan hurriedly admonished: "Your Highness, don't panic, King Yi is a concubine in the end, and it is not appropriate to be the crown prince after all, even if Your Majesty really has the intention, you must also consider the opinions of the court." Why don't you go to the meeting and find out about the situation. ”
The prince had no choice but to obey, immediately got up from the circle chair, put on a yellow robe, and called the servant to open the way and walk to the dormitory.
The two places are relatively close, and they only walked through a straight road, and they have reached the edge of the temple gate. The prince did not dare to raise his voice so far, but walked slowly and entered the inner courtyard, and saw that it was full of flowers and plants, and the trees were blooming with new leaves, which was very beautiful. When the prince was enjoying the game, he heard a noisy sound in the distance, and he stretched out his neck to look at it suspiciously, and saw that it was King Yi who came from the side door with several people.
"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Cai Xianqing, who was in the distance, glanced at the prince's face, and hurriedly shouted and made a deep sigh.
The prince was taken aback, his expression was extremely embarrassed, and when he saw that there was nowhere to hide, he coughed twice, came to him, and smiled reluctantly: "Cai Gong, you are here too?" ”
"Oh, I was ordered to lead King Yi to offer to the emperor," said Cai Xianqing took two steps back and pushed King Yi out, "No, the prince is here." ”
The two of them looked at each other, and each stiffened for a long time before bowing in silence, and then turned his head away, and the brothers did not say a word to each other.
"Prince Xuan and King Yi are here!"
The door of the palace squeaked open, and King Yi and the crown prince walked side by side, bowing to the curtain sprinkled with gold in front of them: "Erchen knocks to see his father!" ”
The emperor raised his hand lightly, the two stood up, and the prince, because he was in charge of the country, walked to the palace and stood on the emperor's left hand.
"The son is not good, he has lived outside Gyeonggi for a long time, and he has not waited for his father once during the Spring Festival. Entering Beijing today, it is expected that the New Year is approaching, so I specially sacrificed a prey to congratulate His Majesty. King Yi bowed his hand.
"It's really rare for you to have this filial piety. Let someone carry it up. The emperor said.
King Yi agreed, and with a wave of his hand, six soldiers behind him carried a huge dead tiger up and placed it in the center of the main hall.
"Good stuff, good stuff!" The ministers on both sides were all amazed, pointing to the tiger and discussing.
King Yi knelt on one knee: "This is what the son of the minister got from hunting this year, and the minister personally subdued it." Such a fierce beast is enough for the sacrifice of the Taimiao! ”
"Good, good!" The emperor couldn't help but clapped his hands a few times, and his voice was crisp, "My sons are very capable." Put this in for now! ”
"I will ask you again," and seeing that the beast had gone down, the emperor turned his head, "why did you come to the capital quietly?" I was unprepared, and I didn't know until I was close. ”
The crown prince lowered his head, and his lips twitched.
King Yi then replied: "The ministers did not want to disturb the Luzhou Mansion, for fear that they would be extravagant, so they only came to Beijing in the name of hunting. ”
"I heard that Cunzhao picked you up." The Emperor's tone was light and breezy.
"That's right, in Jingbei Station, it was Cun Si Ban and Master Shi who came to greet him."
"Cunzhao."
The emperor suddenly named Cun Zhao, which caught the latter off guard. He thought that he could escape by hiding in the crowd, but he didn't expect to implicate himself, so he had to cower and walk out: "Your Majesty, what, what's the matter?" ”
"Didn't I tell you to go north to patrol the border and see the love of the captives? Why did you come back with someone? ”
Cun Zhao was prostrate on the ground, sweating like pulp, and he was so nervous that he spoke faster: "Your Majesty, the minister went to Jingbei Post to rest, and happened to bump into King Yi, so he had to stop and wait for Prince Yi." ”
"You should serve him, but when he left the post station, he came to Beijing as a teacher, why did you come back with him?"
Cun Zhao kowtowed three times in a row: "The minister is just worried about King Yi, and has no other intentions, isn't that Lord Shi the same......"
"This is strange," the emperor did not wait for him to finish, and said to himself, "Why did Shi Xiushen leave his military horse behind and return to Beijing with only two people with King Yi?" ”
"Master Shi said before......" Cunzhao spoke with great difficulty, and he even felt a little stuffy and out of breath.
"I also heard that there are too many soldiers at the post station, and they can't be squeezed out at all, and you let the forbidden army camp outside the post station, on all sides, almost forming an encirclement situation, why is this? Could it be that I saw my son as a prisoner? ”
Cun Zhao gritted his teeth and almost fainted; His clothes were soaked with sweat, but his mind was blank, and he was silent at this time, and he did not dare to answer.
The prince was anxious on the side, eager to help Cunzhao defend himself, but was pulled by Lan Yuan - he understood that any explanation was pale and weak, and that incident could not be hidden.