Yong'an City, the main hall of Chunhe Palace, the emperor Yin Guang, who was dressed in civilian clothes after the imperial case, dozed off on the chair. Behind Yin Guang, Yu Fu stood on the left, Wen Xiu stood on the right, Yu Fu stepped forward lightly and covered the emperor with a thin blanket, did not dare to say anything, waved his hand at His Royal Highness, more than 200 female sumo wrestlers saluted the sleeping emperor, and quietly retreated in line, and the hall suddenly became empty.

When Wenxiu was hesitating whether to wake up Yin Guang, Yin Guang's head moved, he opened his eyes and looked left and right, and found that the female sumo wrestlers had already retreated, Yin Guang smiled self-deprecatingly, "Eh, how did I fall asleep in the average score?" Yin Guang got up from the chair and didn't look back, "Let's go, go back to the Yang Shen Pavilion." Yu Fu and Wen Xiu agreed together, and the three of them were about to leave Chunhe Palace.

The three of them had not walked more than a dozen steps away, and Wei Dehai, the deputy head of the inner hall, ran in from outside the hall in a panic. Wei Dehai was out of breath, and Yin Guang saw that Wei Dehai was sweating profusely, there must be something urgent, so he stopped. Wei Dehai ran to Yin Guang and hurriedly knelt down, "Your Majesty, there are two people who have broken into the palace all the way with the imperial gold medal, claiming to be from the Tang family of the Jiangnan Provincial Protector Mansion, saying that they have something important to see the emperor face to face!"

Yin Guang frowned, folded his arms in front of his chest, bit his lip and groaned, and asked, "Since they are from the Tang family, the national teacher, presumably there will be a Qin prisoner Tang Jiusheng?"

Wei Dehai shook his head and replied, "Your Majesty, this minion can't be sure, because these two people are different from the image of Tang Jiusheng on the picture drawing! Not only the face is different, but even the weapons are different. Tang Jiusheng used a knife, but one of these two people was carrying a big sword, and the other was carrying a very strange scimitar, the emperor, do you see, see or not? If you don't want to see them, the minions will let them be sent away!"

Yin Guang had an indifferent expression on his face, and said with a smile: "Forget it, since everyone is here, why is it so good? Even if Tang Jiusheng comes in person, it's nothing, this is the palace, it's my home field, even if he has the ability, he won't choose to do it with me here! Wei Dehai, you go and take them to the Chunhe Palace, I'll wait for them here!"

Wei Dehai hesitated a little, and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, why don't you go and transfer more guards to escort you?" Yin Guang shook his head, "Wei Dehai, how smart you are usually, why are you confused? Have you ever heard of someone holding a royal gold medal to assassinate? Besides, in our palace, you don't know the rules, and the guards usually can't come here, so it's enough to have a skilled eunuch here!"

Wei Dehai was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile, "Okay, then the slaves will go right away and bring them to the Chunhe Palace to see the emperor!" Yin Guang waved his hand, "Go, go!" Yin Guang turned around and sat down on the sandalwood chair again, Yu Fu and Wenxiu were still standing behind him on the left and right

Wei Dehai took the two young men to the gate of the Chunhe Palace, and the guards with knives guarding the gate of the palace saw that the two young men were carrying weapons, and they dared to put them in the palace without authorization, so they immediately ordered the two to hand over their weapons and let the guards keep them on their behalf. Wei Dehai remained silent and watched coldly. The young man with the scimitar was very well-behaved, and immediately took off the scimitar and handed it over to the guard on duty for safekeeping.

The other person took out a royal gold medal from his arms and said loudly: "The national teacher Tang family holds."

"As soon as they saw the gold medal in person, the guards on duty in Chunhe Palace hurriedly knelt on the ground and saluted, and after saluting, the guards flashed to both sides and let the two people go.

On the top of the main hall of Chunhe Palace, Yin Guang sat on the sandalwood chair behind the imperial case, looked down, and saw two people from the Tang family, one was a young man, about twenty years old, with a medium stature, and his appearance was not bad, but his skin was darker. The other was even younger, a young man, fifteen or sixteen years old, of great appearance, dressed in scribe's garb and carrying a four-foot sword on his back.

The dark-skinned young man knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and said: "The third prince Tietun of the small minister suddenly returned to China, see His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Shang Kingdom, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Yin Guang was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Eh, didn't you say that you were a member of the Tang family in the National Teacher's Mansion before? Why did you become a prince who suddenly returned to China again? You get up first, and I will ask you later! Come on, give Tieton a seat!" The little eunuch on duty brought Tieton a bright yellow embroidered pier, Tieton kowtowed and thanked him, and sat on the embroidered pier tremblingly.

The young man who stood up without kneeling and carried the long sword on his back gently peeled off the covering on his face, and arched his hand: "Weichen Tianchang Protector Mage Mansion Tang Jiusheng, see the emperor!" Behind Yin Guang, the little eunuch Yu Fu shouted loudly: "Bold Tang Jiusheng! As a prisoner, you dare to bring a sword to face the saint, what is your intention when you see the emperor standing without kneeling?"

Tang Jiusheng said with a smile: "This father-in-law, the Tang family of the Holy Chartered National Teacher's Mansion holds the gold medal of the imperial gift, and does not enter the court, go to the palace with a sword, and do not kneel when he sees the driver! Besides, he came to see the Holy Son of Heaven today, just to clear his name!"

Yin Guang looked Tang Jiusheng up and down, and saw that he was fifteen or sixteen years old, with an angular face, and his eyes were bright, vaguely the young man who killed many eunuchs and guards in the Yangshen Pavilion in the early morning of May 18, Yin Guang patted the case and said angrily: "Tang Jiusheng! I ask you, in the early morning of May 18, why did you assassinate the king in the Yangshen Pavilion?"

Tang Jiusheng arched his hand and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Weichen is really wronged! On May 18, Weichen is in Qingchuan County, Henan Province, how can he appear in the palace to assassinate the king? Someone must have framed Weichen, please let the emperor take a look!"

Yu Fu took a step forward and reprimanded sharply: "Tang Jiusheng, in the early morning of May 18, our family personally fought with you, and our family can see your face clearly!

Tang Jiusheng arched his hand and asked: "I don't know what this father-in-law is called? You said that you have fought with me, but with your mere force of three grades, you can't go through a round in my hands, I want to kill you as easily as possible, how can I let you live? Besides, seeing it may not be true, there are many cases of impersonation and framing!"

Yu Fu sneered: "Our family is called Yu Fu, in the early morning of May 18, you killed He Rongting, the commander of the second-grade guards, in two rounds, and wanted to assassinate the emperor, but many guards and eunuchs couldn't stop you, so our family had no choice but to cut off the steel knife in your hand! At that time, the emperor and Deputy Chief Wei were both present, and they could all testify, how can you deny it!"

Tang Jiusheng laughed, "This father-in-law, don't say that I am holding a steel knife in my hand, even if I am holding a brick or a wooden bar, you can come and try it, can you cut it off in my hand! Also, you said to see my face? Come, you come to see ......" Tang Jiusheng came to Tieton

, carefully took out a piece of dough from his bosom, covered it on Tieton's face, and began to adjust the details of the dough.

Yin Guang, Yu Fu, Wen Xiu and Wei Dehai who were present were all very curious, they didn't know what Tang Jiusheng was going to do, and after half a cup of tea, Tang Jiusheng smiled and said, "Grandpa Yu, please look!" Yin Guang and the four of them looked at it curiously, only to see that Tieton's face had completely changed into Yu Fu's appearance. Tang Jiusheng said with a smile: "If someone wears this mask to assassinate the emperor, will it be able to prove that the assassin is your father-in-law Yu?"

Yu Fu was dumbfounded, and he couldn't speak for a long time. Yin Guang clapped his hands and smiled: "It's just a miraculous skill!Tang Jiusheng, tell me what's going on with this dough?"

Tang Jiusheng bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, this face was worn by an assassin from Wanshouju when he wanted to assassinate Weichen when he was in Henan Province a few days ago, and later the killer was captured by Weichen. This dough is well-made and can imitate many people's faces, and as far as Weichen knows, the process of making such a delicate dough is extremely cumbersome, and it will take at least three years to make it and can be used more than 100 times. Therefore, Weichen suspected that someone was wearing such a face to assassinate the emperor and blame Weichen!"

Yin Guang clapped his hands and said loudly: "Come on, give Tang Jiusheng a seat!" The little eunuch on duty moved out a bright yellow embroidered pier again, Tang Jiusheng thanked him, and then sat down with a generous oblique sign.

Yin Guang said with a smile: "Tang Jiusheng, I know that you have been wronged, and I even know that it was not you who came to assassinate the king that day! The reason why I let you carry the black cauldron these days is precisely to catch that assassin in order to find out the mastermind behind him! The eldest princess of Qingchuan has already sent me a letter, and the letter is to redress your grievances, I know that on the night of May 17, there was an assassin from the Luoyu Pavilion who broke into Princess Qingchuan's mansion and killed five of the princess's guards, and it was you who arrived in time to save the princess, Tang Jiusheng, you have no fault!"

Yin Guang said again: "I just want to see your boldness, to see how you will behave in the face of unjustified disasters, you dare to enter the palace to see me in person, it is really very bold, I like it! However, I still have an old account to settle with you, you were promoted in the first two years, and you didn't even enter Beijing to participate in the examination in the second year, and said that Jinshi is a protégé of the Son of Heaven, and I don't want to have a teacher of the Son of Heaven who can be bullied even by eunuchs, what should you be guilty of if you despise me so much?"

Tang Jiusheng smiled and said: "The emperor is graceful! Weichen was born in the National Teacher's Mansion, according to the rules of our dynasty, the national teacher is hereditary, and when the first emperor was alive, he personally gave Weichen the title of a small national teacher, according to reason, Weichen should not participate in the children's examination and the township examination, but Weichen wanted to try what he learned in his chest, so he first entered the school, and then participated in the township examination, this is already the limit, how can he still enter Beijing to participate in the meeting examination, the palace examination?"

Tang Jiusheng immediately added: "Besides, where does Weichen dare to despise the emperor's dragon power, it's just that the minister's father Tang Fulong once secretly said to Weichen that the emperor is in Taoguang to raise obscurity, in order to help the emperor play more realistically, Weichen dared to say that he didn't want to have a teacher of the Son of Heaven who could be bullied even by eunuchs! The minister's father also mentioned this matter in the secret compromise, please forgive the emperor's painstaking efforts and forgive the minister's sin!"

Yin Guang nodded, laughed, and then lowered his face and asked, "Tang Jiusheng, I believe that you are loyal in this matter! However, I still have one more thing to ask you, how much benefit did you receive from Yang Jingzhong, and dare to intercede for Yang Jingzhong in the secret fold?"

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