[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Dynasty, April 16, Xushi, Wei Wangfu]

Today, Nangong Buyu and Cheng Wanli went to Xufu to catch demons with a large team, but the result was in vain, and not a single demon was caught.

For most people in the temple, it is inevitable to be disappointed after hearing about this incident, they have seen Xu Ke's power on the morning of the first day of April, and they were angry in their hearts at that time, and they heard that the Son of Heaven finally took him to prison and sent him to prison, all of them were overjoyed, but they heard that today Nangong Buyu and others tossed for a long time, and returned in vain, how could they not be disappointed in their hearts?

Of course, there are also a few people who secretly rejoiced after hearing about this, among them, there is Xu Ke's teacher, Hubu Shangshu Qiu Mingli.

After the Qiuming ceremony, he returned to the thatched cottage, hastily had dinner, and came to the Wei Wangfu overnight.

At the moment, in the study of the palace, Li Jin, the king of Wei, sat opposite Qiu Mingli. The two first analyzed the recent situation and discussed how to deal with the difficulties of the treasury, and after talking for a long time, the topic changed and fell on Xu Ke.

Qiu Mingli said: "Your Highness, Wu Zhi is in prison, today Nangong is silent and led someone to copy the Xu Mansion, although he has not caught the demon, but this matter is spreading, it is not good for Wu Zhi after all!

Li Zhen said: "People naturally want to be saved, but how to save him, sir, have you thought about it?"

Qiu Mingli pondered for a while, and said:

"Your Royal Highness, is it okay to go to the emperor again and plead for the absence of illness?"

Li Zhen waved his hand and said:

"Sir, if we don't find out the enemy behind the scenes, and enter the palace in vain to plead, I'm afraid it won't be of much use to be disease-free. ”

Qiu Mingli looked puzzled and asked, "Enemy?" is Your Highness saying that the reason why Wuzhi got this fate was because someone framed him?"

Li Zhen picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and did not answer, but nodded.

"Who is he, why did he frame Wuxi?" Qiu Mingli couldn't help but ask with a wave of anger on his face.

"Sir, guess what!" Li Zhen put down the teacup again, and said with an indifferent smile on his face.

"Isn't it, Shen Huan?" asked Qiu Mingli.

"Sir thinks too highly of this person!" Li Zhen shook his head, and said lightly: "Just a Shen Huan, how can I make my father suddenly change his mind? I heard that day that my father had already asked Gao Liangshi to go to the edict to pass the decree in the prison, and he was released without illness, but later, another person walked in the Daming Palace, and after his father saw him, he ordered the inner servant to pass the edict to Tsing Yi Wei, so that he was not sick and sent to prison!"

"Could it be that it's King Jin?" Qiu Mingli boldly guessed.

"It's him!"

"Why did the King of Jin frame Wuxi? Could it be that the two of them have a grudge?" Qiu Mingli thought about it again and again, but he still didn't know what it was, thinking to himself, although Wuxian was reckless and unruly, he had never heard that he had offended this King of Jin!

Li Zhen snorted coldly:

"Eighth brother and no disease, the two of them have never even seen each other, where is the grudge?"

"So...... King Jin is this, to deal with His Royal Highness?!" After all, Qiu Mingli has been an official in the court for more than 30 years, and seeing Li Jin's face frosty and cold, he thought about it a little in his heart, and understood the deep meaning.

Li Zhen nodded, stood up again, and paced a few steps in the study, the frost killing intent on his face was getting stronger and stronger, only to hear him say coldly:

"Eighth brother, this is ...... If you want to get along with me!"

Qiu Mingli also got up, followed Li Zhen and walked a few steps, stroked his long beard, and said:

"The old man heard that the king of Jin has always been a corporal of courtesy and virtuous, gentle and elegant, humble and self-disciplined, and can often be anxious about people's difficulties, solve people's difficulties, and read poetry and books, and have a profound education, and the court and the central government call him the 'Eight Sages King'! But I never thought that this person was also a person who sold his reputation and reputation! In order to deal with His Highness, he actually fabricated charges out of thin air and framed Wuxian for colluding with demons! Looking at what he is doing now, what is the difference between him and those insidious villains?!"

Li Zhen waved his hand, returned to the rosewood chair and sat down, and beckoned Qiu Mingli to sit down opposite, and said:

"Mr. Qiu, you don't know my eighth brother, he is not just a 'fame and reputation fisherman'! If he doesn't have some real talent in his belly, how can his father love him so much? This time, he only relied on his own words to make his father suddenly change his mind, so it can be seen that he must have made careful arrangements in advance!"

"Your Highness, it seems that it is not a matter of one or two days for King Jin to deal with Wuxi?!"

"Hmph, hum, hum......" Li Jin's face showed a grim smile, that smile made Qiu Mingli feel cold when he saw it, only to hear King Wei say coldly:

"The eighth brother is so deliberate that he wants to die without illness, and his intention is to fight me to the end!"

"Your Highness, what should we do about it?"

"Naturally, it will be saved!"

"However, King Jin is now favored by the emperor, and he has always been cautious in what he does in his daily life, and there seems to be nothing wrong or missing to catch ......"

"Sir's words are wrong, as long as he is a person, he will always make mistakes!"

Qiu Mingli looked at Li Jin's resolute and cold eyebrows, and felt a chill all over his body, he vaguely remembered that back then, when the fourth prince mentioned his eldest brother, second brother, even the sixth brother, there was never such a resolute and cold look in his eyebrows......

Li Zhen then faced Qiu Mingli and commanded:

"Mr. Qiu, early tomorrow morning, you will go to see someone for this king!"

"Who?"

"Nangong is silent!"

......

......

Early the next morning, in the inner room of Nangong Buyu's official room, Qiu Mingli was already sitting opposite Nangong Buyu.

After a little greeting between the two, Qiu Mingli went straight to the point and expressed his intention.

He brought with him three directives from the King of Wei:

First, let Nangong be silent and be sure to protect Xu Ke's life, especially pay attention to Xu Ke's daily food supply in the edict prison to ensure that nothing goes wrong. For this point, King Zhao had already instructed him before, and Xu Ke was also his own brother, so Nangong was naturally happy to accept the order.

Second, arrest Pei Caibao immediately, temporarily lock Pei Caibao in a hidden place, no matter what, don't let him fall into the hands of others. On this point, Nangong was silent, although he had doubts in his heart, he didn't ask more, and immediately nodded in agreement. For Nangong, today's Pei Caibao is no longer a thousand households, just a commoner's white body, why is it difficult to arrest him?

Third, it is reported that a "demon of the rivers and lakes" has recently appeared in the capital, and this person's surname is Kang Youren, who is the eldest young man of Kangmen in Shuzhong. After this person came to Chang'an, he used the magic of witch and voodoo to deceive the royal family and nobles, in a vain attempt to tie up the powerful and cling to the wealthy to achieve his ulterior purpose. If this person indulges this kind of "demon Gu people in the rivers and lakes", cheats at will, and poisons everywhere, the capital will suffer from its troubles! Therefore, he ordered Nangong Qianhu to arrest him as soon as possible, and as for all kinds of evil deeds that this person secretly committed, he must also be interrogated clearly!

On this point, Nangong couldn't help but feel very puzzled, he thought to himself, when did King Wei care so much about the security of the capital? Qiu Mingli saw the suspicion on his face, so he smiled and said, Nangong Qianhu don't have to be suspicious, that Kang Youren is now a frequent visitor to the Jin Palace, and His Royal Highness the King of Wei's move is also intended to protect His Royal Highness the King of Jin!

Nangong was silent and didn't need to think about it, even if he understood the deep meaning of Qiu Mingli's words. It turns out that if you go around for a long time, you still have to let me deal with King Jin!

According to Nangong's silent nature, he originally didn't want to get involved in the party struggle between the princes, but at this moment, he had already ridden on the back of a tiger, and it was difficult to jump off easily. In addition, along the way, he has also been deeply valued by the King of Wei and the King of Zhao, even if he doesn't say it himself, the whole dynasty has regarded him as the party of the King of Wei. Now that he has made his choice, he should be responsible for his choice to the end. So, after Qiu Mingli finished his order, he didn't think much about it, and then agreed!

Qiu Mingli saw that Nangong was silent and agreed, but there was a trace of hesitation in his eyes, and when he got up to leave, he stepped forward and patted Nangong on the shoulder, and said seriously:

"Nangong Qianhu, do you know why the emperor issued two diametrically opposed decrees on April 15 in a row to be disease-free?"

"Why is this? Don't hide it from Lord Qiu, Nangong has always had doubts about this matter. ”

"Hehehe! It's nothing more than that at noon that day, a prince entered the Daming Palace!"

"What Lord Qiu said, is he ......?"

Nangong silently stretched out his thumb and index finger and made a gesture of "eight".

Qiu Mingli nodded, then said goodbye to Nangong without saying a word, and walked out of the official room.

At this point, Nangong Bu finally understood why Xu Ke was suddenly ordered by the Son of Heaven to be taken from his post and imprisoned, and why he suddenly received the secret decree of the Son of Heaven, and he had to wipe out all the "demons" in Xu's mansion!

It turned out that behind the scenes, it was all the "credit" of the King of Jin!

He immediately understood why the King of Wei would suddenly let him deal with the King of Jin. You don't have to guess to think that all this King Jin did was to frame Xu Ke on the surface, but in fact, it was nothing more than to cut off the right-hand man of King Wei!

After Nangong silently figured this out, he couldn't help but gasp in his heart.

At this moment, whether he admits it or not, others have already classified him under the door of King Wei.

So, by analogy, if King Jin cuts off Xu Ke, who will be the next one to be removed?

According to common sense, there is a high probability that it will be his turn to be silent!

Today, even if he doesn't want to help King Wei deal with King Jin, in the future, that hot King Jin will come to deal with him when he frees up his hand!

His original ideal was just to do a good job as his Bei'an Ping Division Qianhu, try his best to sort out the unjust cases, and do some good things for the people, and he didn't want to be caught in the party struggle and become a pawn of the princes.

But now, even if he has the intention to be impartial and avoid the party dispute between the princes, the party dispute still came to the door.

At this moment, looking at Qiu Mingli's figure gradually moving away, Nangong couldn't help but sigh secretly:

People in the rivers and lakes, involuntarily, people in the temple, even more involuntarily!

Isn't it?