09 Clever tongue

After Jielan left the royal city, she missed her mother day and night, and was even more worried that she would be sad because of herself. Jielan nodded, and got on the Pegasus of Qingzhan, and Qingzhan led the horse and walked slowly.

Jielan looked at Qing Zhan, who was leading the horse for herself, and felt very stable in her heart, she couldn't help asking, "How do you know that I will return to the royal city today, and why am I waiting here alone?" ”

Qing Zhan smiled indifferently and said, "That's natural, I went to see the soothsayer yesterday, and he told me that the stars were shifting and moving in the direction of Pingdu, so I knew that you must be coming back, as for why I went out of the city alone to see you..." ”

Jielan felt ridiculous for Qingzhan's careful thoughts, she couldn't help laughing, and then said angrily: "Aren't you afraid that something will happen to you outside the city alone?" How worried should be Split Bo and Tan Qi! ”

"The two of them follow Ben Jun every day, which makes Ben Jun a little annoyed, and it is nothing to avoid them occasionally, not to mention, these two people are very verbose, when they see you, do they have a chance to talk to you?" Qing Zhan hadn't seen Jielan for a long time at the moment, and her words became much gentler, Jielan listened to it, and felt very comfortable in her heart, but even if she was happy to reunite with Qing Zhan, she was only in a temporary mood, after all, walking back to the royal city was walking back to another place of struggle.

The city gate was opened, and when the soldiers who opened the city gate saw the young monarch waiting at the gate, they were so frightened that they fell to their knees, and Qing Zhan asked them to get up, and these soldiers got up in panic, and Qing Zhan said to one of the soldiers: "Quickly report to the king, and say that Princess Jielan has returned to the court." ”

The soldier immediately rushed to the royal court to deliver the news, while the general guarding the city gate sent soldiers to escort Qing Zhan and the princess to the court.

When she arrived at the gate of the palace, she saw that the king and the ministers of the court were already standing there to greet her, and when Jielan saw her mother, she hurriedly got down from the heavenly horse and walked quickly towards her mother. When her mother saw her daughter, her hands trembled a little with excitement, and she couldn't believe that her daughter, who she had been looking forward to, had finally come back safely.

Jielan walked in front of her mother, seeing her already haggard mother, Jielan's tears could not be held back, she stretched out her hands and grabbed her mother's hands, and then knelt in front of her on one knee, and said, "My son is not filial, so my mother is worried about me." ”

King Xiao couldn't hold back her tears anymore, she looked at the thin and weathered daughter in front of her, how could she not pity her in her heart, she helped her up, and said: "If you want to ask for sin, you should ask these ministers for sin, only if they forgive you, this king can forgive you, you know?" ”

Jielan knew that this time she would come back and face a turbulent storm, she walked up to Lord Zaifu, bowed deeply, and then bowed to the other ministers, and said: "I acted willfully and recklessly, and I didn't tell the palace to leave, although it was an important matter, but I didn't want the ministers to report in advance, and it was really my fault, but please forgive the ministers for the mistakes of this daughter, and I will tell the ministers in detail the reason for my trip later." ”

Lord Zaifu because the young monarch had already told him about her going to Heimu County to investigate the rebellion, so in his heart not only did he not blame Princess Jielan, but he respected and admired him very much, but many other officials did not know why Princess Jielan suddenly disappeared for so many days, so they would be more or less prejudiced against her, among which King Nabelon was the most victorious, he stepped forward and said angrily: "Princess Tangtang, if you escape from the court, you should be punished and beheaded for your crimes, but when you first arrive in the royal city, your sin can be mitigated a little, But there is no escape from the suffering, the king should act according to the law, but today he is here to greet her, but it is really ridiculous, since ancient times, there is a criminal royal family still received this favor, this is really a chaotic national law. ”

When Jielan heard King Belon's shout, she was very angry, she turned around and faced King Belon, and said resolutely: "Is King Belon so sure that I escaped from the court?" With so many ministers present, they all wanted to hear from Princess Ben where she had been going and what she had been doing in the past few days, but only King Peron was bent on taking me into custody and punishment first, and I wonder what King Peron was thinking? Throughout the ages, all those in power or people of the royal family have had examples of micro-service private rooms, the so-called micro-service private visit to the princess does not need to explain more to King Beron, since the princess is a private visit, how can people know where I go, so why do you want to run away, could it be that King Peron wants to put this big sin hat on the princess for no reason, so you want to put me to death? ”

I didn't see him for a few days, but King Belon didn't expect that the woman who didn't even dare to say anything at the beginning had become so clever today, and he was speechless, and he was speechless after a long time, and he reacted and replied: "How can this king have such thoughts, it's just that the princess said that she was a private visit, and it was just your one-sided words, otherwise why did you choose to escape from the palace in such a disgraceful way as a canal when you left the palace, and when Bai Bingshang went to persuade you to return to the court, you injured his guards and fled, what is the explanation?" ”

Seeing that he was pressing step by step, Jielan was determined to let her be imprisoned for trial today, but how could Jielan, who had experienced many lives and deaths outside, be afraid of the obscenity of this King of Belon now, not to mention that Jielan already knew that this King of Belon would do whatever it took to help his daughter win the throne, and the people who colluded with Heimujun were likely to be them, so how could Jielan be polite to them, and only said: "I don't know if King Beron knows how much a generation of kings has to pay in order to rule the world, and I, as a candidate for the king of this bloody country, For the sake of this bloody world, the matter I want to investigate is extremely strict, and I can't leak half a point to the outside world, so even if Lord Bai Bing comes to stop this princess, this princess must not forget the big thing because of this, so I will start with Bai Shangshu, who becomes a big thing, is not informal, is a minister, swears allegiance, I believe that this princess is disrespectful to Bai Shangshu, but after Bai Shangshu knows what this princess wants to investigate, he will not blame me again, do you say yes? Bai Shangshu! Jielan turned to Bai Bing, who was standing on the left behind her mother, and asked coldly, Bai Bing heard Princess Jielan's words, and was immediately shocked by her courage and courage, and only reacted after a while, and replied: "If the princess's departure from the palace is really related to the country's important affairs, then Weichen will not take care of the previous matter, but will feel ashamed to interfere with the princess's main affairs." In fact, Bai Bing replied like this, he was helping Jielan, because he didn't know whether Jielan was fleeing from the palace or whether it was really an important matter as she said, but no matter which one it was, Bai Bing wanted to save her life, which could be regarded as repaying the king's pleading.

"Since Lord Bai has said so, I don't know if the prince has anything to object?" Now that Jielan is pressing on him step by step, this makes King Belon so angry that his face is red, and he is angry.

And Princess Nanrong, who has been standing on the right side of the king, saw that the momentum turned to Jielan, as if in an instant, this person called Jielan changed from the identity of a sinner to the identity of a meritorious person, which made her hateful, but her face was also pleasant, she was so busy that she came over, took Jielan's hand, and said kindly: "Sister is so sensible, always considering the major affairs of the family and the country, it is really admirable to my sister, and my sister will definitely learn from my sister in the future, of course, not only in governing the country, but also honoring my parents to learn from my sister." , If my sister and I can also find my long-lost father for my mother, then it is filial piety and kindness. ”

What Princess Nanrong said seemed to be nothing, but it happened to stab Jielan's soft help, and those ministers were very disappointed when they heard that Jielan had gone out of the court to find her father, and began to talk about it, and some began to condemn it continuously.

Jielan pushed Princess Nanrong's hand away, she smiled coldly, this smile was a provocation to Nanrong, but also a disdain for her, Jielan only said: "My sister's memory is really bad, I'm afraid my sister remembered wrongly, it was my sister who said that she wanted to find my father for the princess, and said that you have been sending people to find his whereabouts for more than ten years, my sister and mother are grateful to my sister for this heart, but my mother and I don't have this thought, but let my sister be hearted, if my sister still has this thought, you might as well find my father for my sister and me, Although he abandoned me, it was my father after all, and I just hoped that my sister would tell my sister when she found my father. ”

Nan Rong's face turned pale with anger, it stands to reason that General Long Ke fled with King Xiao back then, and it was the business of the Criminal Department to pursue them, and no one else was allowed to act privately, and Fang Cai Jielan's words showed that King Belon had been privately looking for General Long Ke and them all these years, which was a violation of the law of the country, and the law was to be questioned.

Nanrong didn't know what to do for a while, she only smiled and said, "Sister said that I was laughing, how could I do such a thing." ”

Jielan also ignored her anymore, walked straight to her mother's side, took her mother's hand, and said, "Everything will be talked about when we return to the royal court." ”

King Xiao nodded, and then said to the ministers: "Go back to the court first, since the princess is coming back this time for important matters, I will discuss with the ministers at the court meeting." ”

After hearing this, all the ministers knelt down in unison to welcome the princess and King Xiao back to the court. King Xiao took Jielan's hand, got on the sedan chair, and was carried into the palace by the palace people, and King Xiao kept holding Jielan's hand, afraid that as soon as he let go, his daughter would disappear.

And in King Xiao's heart, she was also very happy, because she had just heard the clever argument between Jielan, King Belon and Princess Nanrong, and immediately knew that her daughter had become much more mature and wise, and she was no longer like the willful little girl who only relied on force to solve things before, and for this reason, she, as a mother, must be the happiest among everyone.

However, Jielan's miraculous transformation made the people of King Belon's forces feel angry, and they felt more and more that this woman named Jielan was really not so easy to deal with, from the beginning to now, she couldn't kill her after thinking so many ways, this woman could not be protected by the gods, or was she really the destined king.

Nanrong didn't dare to think so, and she didn't allow herself to think like this, her sedan chair followed behind, looking at Jielan's back on the sedan chair in front, she couldn't wait to fly over and stab Jielan to death with a sword, so as to relieve the resentment just now.

After returning to the royal court, Jielan went to bathe and change clothes first, after all, she hadn't taken a bath for a long time, and her body was full of blood, and it smelled really unthinkable that she was a dignified princess, and when Jielan took a bath and changed into clean clothes, her tired body became much easier, and the fatigue of these days was eliminated.

After Jielan simply dressed up, she waited for the internal officials to come to inform the court, and during this free time, the palace maids kept serving some meals, Jielan hadn't eaten a full meal for a long time, but no matter how hungry she was, she couldn't gobble it up like before, she ate some meals elegantly, and when her stomach was a little full, she let the palace maids withdraw.

And when the inner chamberlain was not yet about to convey the news of the court, Jielan returned to her jade case, she unfolded the rice paper, picked up the brush, and tried to recall the map of Heimu County, so she drew Heimu County into a map, and then marked the important places, ready to be used in the court, after she got it, just the inner chamberlain came to inform her, Jielan got up and went to the main hall under the leadership of the inner chamberlain, to discuss the rebellion of Heimu County.