It was getting late, and a fast horse came outside Beiyang City, and a flag fluttered in the wind behind him.

The soldiers defending the city saw the banner from a distance and hurriedly ordered half of the city gate to be opened.

The quiet street was trampled by this horseman, and one rider had two letters, one to the palace, and the other was not to the eldest prince, but to the imperial palace.

Imperial Doctor Cui Ren just lay down, but he couldn't sleep, and when he heard the butler's knock on the door, he hurriedly sat up and asked, "What's the matter!"

The woman also got up, and looked at her old man's appearance these days, which was really distressing.

The housekeeper said outside, "Master, I have sent a letter from Lord He'an County. ”

Cui Ren frowned, his fingers trembled slightly, and hurriedly put on his clothes and went to open the door, and the woman also walked out with him.

Holding the letter, Cui Ren didn't dare to open it and look at it, and his fingers trembled slightly while sitting in the hall.

Hearing this, a layer of cold sweat oozed from Cui Ren's forehead, and he said with a solemn face: "Wang Lang, the county guard of He'an County, was my friend in my early years, and a total of two letters were sent from He'an County tonight, one of which was naturally sent to His Majesty the Emperor in the palace, and the other was not given to the eldest prince but to me. Counting that his son's itinerary should be about the same, Cui Er is going to have an accident. ”

The woman was shocked and said anxiously: "Master, this has not been opened to see, how can you say such a thing?"

Cui Ren stared at the letter tightly, sighed a little abruptly, and said, "If this letter is opened, I will also have an accident." ”

The woman was even more anxious, "It's not demolished, it's not demolished, we can't assume that we don't know, right? ”

Cui Ren took a deep breath, nodded with some difficulty, walked outside the hall and looked at the moon tonight, raised his head and said, "If you demolish it, you can't treat it as invisible, let's tear it down!"

The woman did not understand what the old man meant, but when she heard the other party agree, she hurriedly opened the letter, and then collapsed to the ground with trembling hands, and the letter fell from her hands.

Cui Ren never read the letter from beginning to end, nor did he pay attention to his wife's state and reaction, but put his hands behind his back, walked out, and came to the mansion to say to the waiting housekeeper: "Go inside and take care of your wife." ”

The butler was also a little anxious when he heard the other party's words, and asked puzzledly, "Where is the master going?"

Cui Ren chuckled, and then said softly, "Where are you going?"

In the night, the Imperial Master flicked his sleeves, got up and walked towards the location of the Prince's Mansion on foot.

The eldest prince is also not allowed to sleep peacefully, there are many eyes and ears in this city, and he is no later than the two parties who have sent two letters from He'an County.

Just as Cui Renneng knew what happened along the way from just an unopened letter, he also felt quite troublesome.

Outside the door, a man came with broken steps.

Before he could open his mouth, the eldest prince raised his finger lightly, dropped a random piece on the chaotic chessboard in front of him, and said, "Let him in." ”

When Cui Ren met, he saluted first, looked at the chessboard full of chess pieces in front of the other party and said, "His Royal Highness Gongzi is so Yaxing." ”

The eldest prince smiled slightly, looked at the chaotic chess game in front of him and said: "Your Majesty is in white in this game of chess, and my son is in black, why don't you talk about it, who will win?"

Cui Ren saluted and said, "The old minister doesn't know the art of gambling, and he can't help His Royal Highness Gongzi." ”

The eldest prince shook his head with a smile, raised his hand lightly to put the chess pieces, and said: "Just now, He'an County came to ride, Lord Yushi shouldn't think that this son did it, right?"

Cui Ren opened his mouth and said, "The old minister doesn't dare. ”

The eldest prince lightly put a sunspot into the white chess box, raised his head to look at the other party, and chuckled: "You already dare." ”

There were originally three white pieces in the white chess box, but now there is one more black piece.

Cui Ren looked at the other party's movements and said, "The old minister came just to ask His Royal Highness Gongzi, there were people out of the city to the south a few days ago. ”

The smile on the corner of the eldest prince's mouth froze, his eyes stared at each other, and he said lightly: "Master Cui." ”

Cui Ren was slightly startled, waved his hand and saluted, and said, "The old minister is guilty." ”

The emperor can know about the eldest prince sending people out of the city, but he Cui Ren can't.

The eldest prince stepped forward to help the other party up, and said with a smile: "Master Cui thinks that this son will do these things that are easy to fall into the hands of others?"

Choi Jin certainly doesn't think so.

He knew that it would not be the eldest prince's doing, because it was impossible for the eldest prince not to guess the current situation, but he still came to the prince's mansion.

Cui Ren shook his head slightly and said, "The old minister believes in His Royal Highness the Grand Prince. ”

The eldest prince laughed twice, put his hands behind his back, and sighed: "I believe in His Royal Highness." Then he came to the other party, looked at the other party's eyes and said, "Then please continue to believe in this son." ”

Cui Ren saluted and said yes, and then went out of the eldest prince's mansion, his back has been infiltrated by cold sweat, he is not just here to ask for the guilt, but just to see what the attitude of the eldest prince is in the face of this matter, the goal has been achieved, and it doesn't matter if the eldest prince did it.

And in the Childe's Mansion, the black piece thrown into the white chess box quietly cracked, and it had already become a Fei chess.

The eldest prince looked at the only six sunspots in the black chess box, wrote a letter with a solemn face, and said, "Send it to the Prime Minister's Mansion." ”

Someone behind the scenes picked it up and left.

Doctor Goshi walked down the street, towards his location.

Facing the moonlight, looking at the big words on the door plaque, the old man with a straight waist bent down and slowly squatted down at the door of the mansion, looked at the moon in the sky and shook his head gently, and then wiped the sweat on his forehead and walked into the mansion.

Walking into the hall, the woman of her own family was also covered in a layer of sweat, and the housekeeper hurriedly stepped forward to inquire when she saw the master coming back.

Cui Ren waved his hand, signaled that it was okay, and asked, "Madame, is it in the way?"

The housekeeper replied: "I just looked for Lang Zhong and said that Mrs. was just frightened, and she was prescribed a side medicine to recuperate for two days." ”

Cui Ren nodded slightly, came to the woman and sat down, patted the other party's hand that was still holding the letter, and persuaded him: "Madam, Cui Er is a student of the Spirit Academy, and she has been practicing for many years, so she will be fine." ”

The woman grabbed each other's hands with tears and said, "This letter says that they were assassinated on the way back to the capital and suffered heavy casualties, and the seventh uncle also said that our son did not go with them to He'an County, but took a young man to the north to return to the capital. ”

Cui Ren was a little surprised, he naturally knew that nothing would happen to his son, although his son was assassinated, but in a very short time after the letter arrived, he quickly figured out that this assassination had nothing to do with him, and it was someone else's son who died.

He went to the prince's mansion just to see the attitude of the eldest prince.

But he couldn't think of why his son didn't go to He'an County, but took some teenager to the north.

Who is that young man?

Cui Ren said angrily: "Nonsense!" Then he looked at the woman's appearance and pointed to the letter she was holding tightly in her hand and persuaded him: "Didn't it say that it was okay? Don't worry about anything." ”

The woman hurriedly let go of the hand, spread the letter to Cui Ren, and said in a hurry: "Master, sir, can you help me take a look to see if it is okay to say it?"

"Good, good. Cui Ren glanced at the letter, pointed to one of the lines and read it to the other party, "Look, it is written on it, Wang Lang has sent Wang Zhaojun, the supervisor of He'an County, to escort the students all the way back to the capital." ”

Then he pretended to be relaxed and said: "This Wang Zhaojun is the nephew of Wang Junshou, when we were together, Lao Wang often boasted to me that his nephew had beaten all the soldiers in a battalion when he was twelve years old, and he was already invulnerable when he was eighteen years old. Now that he is also middle-aged, he thinks that the strength of the one in Wanqiu City should be not much different, and there is no need to worry about anything with this person escorting him all the way. ”

The woman sneered and said, "There is no invulnerability in this world." ”

Cui Ren nodded slightly and did not speak again.

After Cui Ren's explanation, the woman was rarely sober, and since she said that her son was taking a young man to the north, it also meant that her son was fine, so she took a few breaths and said, "But master, who dares to assassinate their son? Could it be Your Majesty?"

Cui Ren thought carefully for a moment, shook his head slightly, and said: "If this team of people is assassinated in the territory of Chu State, I have reason to suspect that His Majesty did it, and if it is assassinated in Qi State, it basically has nothing to do with him, but this is in his own territory, and His Majesty the Emperor will bear the brunt of this kind of thing, so I think the probability of His Majesty doing this is very small." ”

The woman agreed with her master's statement, if His Majesty the Emperor wanted to do something to these people, he could secretly send a cultivator to do something in the territory of Chu State, so that firstly, he would be famous for aiding Qi Shi, and secondly, even if everyone suspected him, they would not be able to prove that he had done it.

And the same is true in the country of Qi, aiding Qi and Chu and aiding Chu are just the same purpose, it doesn't matter whether to fight Qi or Chu and your own country, you have to fight anyway!

The courtiers could see that His Majesty's ambition to take revenge was not limited to this country, and they all agreed that his aid to Qi was just an attempt to take advantage of the opportunity to provoke a war, first uniting one country to destroy one, and then breaking up a grudge with the other country over the distribution of the spoils, and throwing away a son in advance for the next war.

In the future, if we go to war again, we will not be regarded as a clear ambition by the rest of the countries to join the Northern Expedition, after all, our two families have a grudge, why should you get involved?

However, what he can figure out doesn't mean that others can't figure it out, and people don't play with chess pieces, so the courtiers don't agree with his idea of aiding Qi.

But now it's a frequent fire in his backyard.

The woman looked at Cui Ren and exclaimed, "Could it be the eldest prince?"

Cui Ren shook his head again and said: "The eldest prince will not do such a dangerous thing, when I went to find the other party, he did not mention this matter, and it can basically be confirmed that it was not his doing." ”

The woman wondered, "Shouldn't it be more revealing to say nothing about this?"

Cui Ren explained: "That's not the case, if the eldest prince does it, he will inevitably add oil and vinegar to this matter without leaving a trace, so as to achieve his own goals to the greatest extent, who is the eldest prince? How can he not understand this?"