King Changqing likes beautiful women, doesn't care about government affairs, and has little contact with King Ning.
He and His Majesty were named cousins immediately, and they were not low in the royal family, but his presence in the court was not half as good as Rong Xia's. However, when he came to visit with the honor of the king of the county, Rong Xia could never turn people away, so he could only put down the invitation and get up to meet him in person.
"His Royal Highness, King Changqing," Rong Xia walked into the door of the waiting room and saluted King Changqing, "Your Majesty is here, and the palace is full of brilliance."
"The Marquis of Cheng'an is so polite," King Changqing put down his tea cup and got up. "I've been wanting to see you for the past two days, but I know you must be busy investigating the assassination case recently, so it's not easy to come and disturb you. Now After hearing that the case has been investigated, I am relieved, and I am not worried that my visit will disturb you."
"These cases are all in charge of Commander Chen and several adults from Dali Temple. Now that the lower official has not healed from his old wounds, and he encounters such a thing, how can he have the energy to worry about it." Rong Xia smiled, "It's just watching in the room. Just read books and take care of your body.”
"It's good to live like this," King Changqing shook the fan in his hand, "By the way, my cousin niece is also recuperating here with you?"
Rong Xia smiled lightly: "Yes."
"Alas," King Changqing sighed, "this child has been restless since she was a child. She had a dispute with King Ning when she was eight years old, and even got into a fight with King Ning who was a few years older than her. How many children dare to fight with the prince like this?"
Rongxia didn't speak, or he didn't have the habit of talking about his fiancee's private affairs with other men.
However, King Changqing obviously didn't care what he thought. He walked directly to the door and said to Rong Xia, "Go, it just so happened that I haven't seen this niece for a long time. Today you accompany me to see her. Which yard do you live in, the yard next to you?"
Rong Xia saw that King Changqing was walking straight forward, and it was obvious that there was no one else, not treating himself as an outsider, and quickly followed.
"Your garden is well done." King Changqing stepped onto the nine-curved white marble bridge in the center of the lake. "I heard that this bridge was specially built for Lingtang when Ling Zun was alive?"
Rongxia looked at the koi wagging their tails in the artificial lake, "This lake and bridge have existed since I can remember."
King Changqing laughed: "Ling Zun Lingtang's relationship is really good and enviable."
Rong Xia smiled lightly and said, "When the old prince and his concubine were alive, their relationship was also symphony and melody, and the prince was joking."
Talking about someone else's deceased elder, even if it was a well-meaning joke, would be demeaning. He felt that his relationship with King Changqing was not good enough for such a joke.
"You are still so particular about your character," King Changqing sighed when he saw that he was displeased, "stop, stop, I won't say it."
The two walked across this bridge, Rong Xia did not take Changqing King to the next courtyard, but brought him to his main courtyard. When he walked to the gate of the main courtyard, he said to a servant who was guarding the gate, "Go to invite the Fule County Master and the Prince of the Class, and say that King Changqing is visiting."
Wang Changqing stopped the little servant when he heard the words: "You don't have to be so particular, the girl is sick, how can I bear her tossing back and forth, why don't I go and see her."
"Prince Prince, Lunyi, you are her elder, there is no reason for you to see her. Lun Gong, you are the prince of the county, and your status is higher than her, so you can't be condescending," Rong Xia smiled lightly, "It just happens that she is in a good mood today. The head is better, and a walk is also good for the body."
"It turns out that," Changqing Wang didn't show any embarrassment on his face, "I didn't think properly."
Rong Xia led Changqing King into the main hall of the main courtyard. Changqing King took the honorary seat, and he took the second seat.
A maid came in to serve tea, and King Changqing looked at Rongxia with a meaningful expression: "The maid in the Houye's mansion is really..."
"Master Hou, the county master and the prince are here." The voice of a servant outside sounded.
These subordinates are called the princess and the prince, not the prince of Fule County and the prince of Jingting Gongfu. The difference between the two is not the slightest bit. King Changqing lowered his head and took a sip of tea. It was rumored outside that Rongxia didn't like the Fule County Master, but the Fule County Master was entangled blindly, and now he had the life-saving grace to the Marquis of Cheng'an. Disregarding the eyes of outsiders, she left her in the mansion to recuperate, and could not bear to live up to her affection.
But if the Marquis of Cheng'an really has no love for Ban Hua, how could the servants in his house be so close to Ban Hua
"I have seen His Royal Highness King Changqing."
"The family doesn't pay attention to these things," King Changqing looked up at the handsome pair of siblings, and let them sit down with a smile, "I came to visit today, and it didn't affect the rest of the girl, right?"
Ban Hua replied with a smile, "How can His Highness care about me?"
King Changqing immediately smiled and said, "My niece said it well. There are no major events in the court now. I'm looking forward to eating your wedding wine, niece."
Ban Hua turned her face: "His Royal Highness, are you here today to make fun of me?"
North Korea is okay
I'm afraid that there is something happening everywhere, and everyone pretends not to see it.
Wang Changqing immediately laughed when he heard the words, like the gentlest elder, talking some jokes, but taking into account the mood of the younger generation, he joked just right. If Ban Hua hadn't had that strange dream last night, then she would have liked such an evergreen king very much.
But now, no matter what King Changqing does, what comes to her mind is the scene in her dream.
Because the soles of his feet were stained with blood, he wiped them on other people's bodies, as if he was not stepping on a person but a rag. She never felt how kind-hearted she was, but that didn't mean she could accept someone so ruthless.
"Girl?" King Changqing noticed something was wrong with Ban Hua's expression, and looked at her with worried eyes: "Is your body not healed yet?"
Ban Hua forced a smile and said, "I'm still a little dizzy indeed."
"Since that's the case, I won't bother you," King Changqing stood up and said, "I'm here today because I want to visit you. I can rest assured that you don't have any major problems."
Ban Hua squinted and smiled, her splendid eyes narrowed into a crescent moon, she seemed very happy, but she couldn't make people see her true thoughts clearly.
"Xiaguan to send the prince of the county." Rong Xia stood up and left the main courtyard with King Changqing.
When walking out of the Moon Gate, King Changqing suddenly said: "Master Ronghou, you are a lucky person."
"I don't know why the prince of the county made such a statement?"
"I originally thought that with your character, I would find a woman as elegant as a chrysanthemum, and I also thought that such a life would be very boring," King Changqing played with the folding fan in his hand, shook his head and smiled, " I didn't expect you to get this king's most interesting niece."
"The prince is joking," Rong Xia's tone suddenly changed, "but the prince is indeed a rare and good girl."
Changqing Wang chuckled lightly, turned his head and continued to walk out. When I walked to the second door, I saw several maids and servants walking in with countless gift boxes, some of which also had King Ning's logo on them.
Seeing this scene, the corners of his mouth curved even more, and he turned to Rong Xia and said, "Master Hou, stay here, you don't need to send it any more."
"Your Majesty, you are welcome, please."
"Stay on."
Rong Xia finally sent the person to the gate. Before King Changqing got into the carriage, he covered his mouth and coughed lightly.
When King Changqing heard the voice, he turned around and said to Rong Xia, "Master Hou must take good care of your body."
"Thank you for your concern, Lord of the County."
King Changqing walked into the carriage, and the luxurious horse carriage of the county king slowly drove away from the Marquis of Cheng'an Mansion. Rong Xia stood at the gate and quietly watched the carriage go away. When he could no longer see it, he turned around and walked back.
Who knew that as soon as he went back, he saw Ban Hua standing on the white marble bridge with nine bends, and Ban Heng, who liked to be her little tail, disappeared.
"Hua," Rong Xia walked to Ban Hua, "it's windy here, why are you here?"
"It's too boring to be bored in the yard, so I'll come out to bask in the sun," Ban Hua held her bun loosely, looking very relaxed and lazy, she raised her chin towards the gate, "King Changqing is back?"
"Well, go back," Rong Xia stretched out his hand to her, "Let's go to the yard to bask in the sun. It's windy here. If the disease gets serious, you'll have to drink medicine again. Isn't this a crime?"
Ban Hua looked at the hand stretched out in front of him and put it in Rong Xia's palm: "Okay."
She really didn't want to drink that bitter medicine anymore.
"What about Brother Class?"
"I asked him to go back to the yard," Ban Yan said. "His body is still too weak and needs to be practiced."
Rong Xia was stunned when she heard the words, then nodded and said, "You're right, it's good for a boy to be strong."
Anyway, what she said is right, then there is no problem.
The case of the Chenganhou mansion being attacked by a killer was ultimately characterized as jealous revenge by officials of the Ministry of Personnel and had nothing to do with other people. Some people believed this statement. After all, His Majesty sent people to investigate the case with great fanfare and rewarded Marquis Chengan with a lot of things. There were even rumors that if Marquis Chengan had not been in court recently and was just named Marquis, His Majesty would have wanted it. Jin made him the prince of the state, and this attitude doesn't seem to be disrespecting the Marquis of Chengan.
The noble people scoffed at such rumors, it is the title of the duke of the country, not a candy for coaxing children. If you see that you are not happy, I will send you one.
There are only three people in total who really have the title of duke of the country.
One is the Empress Dowager's younger brother, the other is the Queen's father, and the other one is the banter of the Ban family.
These three princes have one thing in common, that is, they rely on women to ascend. One relies on his sister, one on his daughter, and one on his mother.
As an official or a minister, if you can earn a title, it will be a great event to honor your ancestors, and even on the genealogy, you will have to make a big note.
A few people could see clearly that His Majesty was not pampering Marquis Cheng An, but comforting him. Because the real murderer could never be the official of the Ministry of Personnel, but someone else. How could a small official in the Ministry of Personnel have such a great ability to invite such a professional killer, and bribe him into a servant of the Anhou Mansion
They don't need to think about who His Majesty wants to protect, they should understand in their hearts.
King Ning.
Some old ministers were a little chilled. King Ning did such a thing. Even if His Majesty protects his shortcomings, he should not let him continue to supervise the country. Today, the Marquis of Cheng An made him unhappy, so he sent killers to assassinate them. If what they did was not to his liking tomorrow, would he also send killers to kill them
The Marquis of Cheng'an is lucky, and at the most critical moment, the Lord of Fule came to save his life, but can each of them have such good luck
His Majesty acted like this, but he did not take the lives of their courtiers as one thing.
Some courtiers were heartbroken, some courtiers beat their chests and feet, Ban Huai brought a few dude brothers and still had a fight in the court, so angry that King Ning's face was ashen. Huai dragged on.
Originally, they thought that King Ning was so angry with Ban Huai that Ban Huai would definitely take advantage of the fire and go to the court to play wild games again. How could they know that when the court meeting started, Ban Huai not only didn't come, but also took an injury leave.
When everyone asked the reason, okay, Dangtang Jingting was on his way back home, when he was startled, his forehead hit the wall of the car, and he injured a big and small hole. Fortunately, the inside of the carriage that Mr. Jingting rides is covered with a thick layer of cushions, and even the walls are sewn with fur, so the injury is not serious.
However, Duke Jingting had just been fighting for the Marquis of Cheng'an when he was facing up, and he was injured on the way back.
They have never seen such a coincidence in the world, and I am afraid it is not a coincidence, but artificial. People in high positions are inevitably suspicious. Therefore, Jing Ting Gong's accident this time has been characterized in everyone's mind as someone else's purpose.
Let me ask, who would hate Jing Ting Gong so much
Everyone turned their attention to King Ning, who was sitting on the first python-patterned seat under the dragon chair. He was irritable, irritable, cruel, careless, and narrow-minded. If such a person became an emperor, how could they survive? Both the Marquis of Cheng'an and Duke Jingting were calculated by him like this, let alone them
After hearing that Ban Huai was injured, Ban Hua, who was still recovering from the injury in Cheng'an Hou Mansion, couldn't sit still, so she rushed back the same day. As a result, she circled around Ban Huai a few times, only to see a thumb-size on his forehead. There is no damage anywhere else.
"Father, what's going on?" Ban Hua drank half a cup of tea in one breath. In order to get back early, she didn't even have time to eat lunch.
"It's really a coincidence." Ban Huai laughed dryly and said what happened.
The general idea is that a person accidentally rushed out, startling the horse pulling the carriage, and Ban Huai, who was sitting in the carriage, slammed his head into the wall of the carriage. More coincidentally, the person who did the bad thing was a eunuch in Ning Wang's palace. He sneaked out of the palace to buy things.
This matter is unclear, even if it was not done by King Ning, in the eyes of everyone in the capital, it was done by King Ning.
So everyone sighed again that King Ning was really insane and could do anything.
Jiang Luo, who is on the cusp of the limelight at the moment, is arguing with the princess. Jiang Luo disliked Xie Wanyu's meddling in his own business, and should not send gifts to the Marquis of Cheng'an Mansion. Xie Wanyu laughed at him for not being smart in his work. Not only did His Majesty and the Queen rewarded Marquis Cheng'an, but even the prince who was imprisoned in the East Palace was sent to the Marquis of Cheng'an. When the gift came to Rong Xia's mansion, how big of a face did he have, and he didn't even want to give a face gift? Do you think that there are not enough rumors outside and not enough to be unpleasant
"What if I let him kill him?" Jiang Luo sneered, "What kind of thing is he, I am a dignified son, do I still need to see his face to live?"
"But you didn't kill him," Xie Wanyu said in despair at Jiang Luo's mind, "If you really had the ability, you should have killed him that night. Now you don't talk about it, and many people are aware of your situation. Motivation, what do you want the courtiers to think of you?"
"I don't care how they see me, treat me..." Jiang Luo sneered, "It's just a group of dogs, who cares what the dogs think?"
Xie Wanyu was too lazy to talk to him, and simply got up and left the room.
Dogs can also bite people. Besides, even if these people are willing to be dogs, they are not necessarily willing to let Jiang Luo be their master.
"Princess," a servant girl ran up to her in small steps and whispered, "The eldest son has sent a letter."
Xie Wanyu took a step and raised his eyebrows: "You mean eldest son?"
"Yes."
She took this piece of paper, which was rolled thinner than her little finger, and unfolded it. Her face turned pale, and she turned to look at the yard behind her.
"Princess, what's wrong with you?" The maid looked at her worriedly when she saw her expression was wrong.
"I'm fine," Xie Wanyu took a deep breath, and pinched her neatly trimmed nails into her flesh, "Remember, you can't tell anyone about this note, including the people in Zhongping Bofu, you know. ?"
The maid nodded in fear: "Yes, the maid has written it down."
She tore up the note bit by bit and threw it into the large water lotus jar next to it. The pale yellow paper floated on the water, like an unsightly stain, stabbing Xie Wanyu's eyes.
"Snapped!"
She slapped the water heavily, and the water splashed around, splashing her face and clothes. She wiped the water from her face with the back of her hand and looked back at the maid who was kneeling on the ground in fright, "What are you doing on your knees, get up."
"Yes." The maid stood up tremblingly, not daring to look at Xie Wanyu's face.
But Xie Wanyu's expression was extraordinarily calm. She rubbed the water droplets from the corner of her mouth with her fingertips and chuckled, "Wait for me to change."
The consequence of Ban Hua rushing back to Jingting's mansion was that she fell ill again, good and bad, and repeatedly. Rongxia came to Ban's house from time to time when she was not good, so she could only have people deliver things to Ban's house. Send gems today, smoke cloud satin tomorrow, and a novel book the day after tomorrow. Valuable and worthless, but whatever he thinks Ban Hua will be interested in, he will give it to Ban Hua.
The summer gradually passed, and it was only in the late autumn and early winter that Ban Hua completely recovered. She really answered that sentence, the disease was like a thread, and she was the kind of thread that was very slow.
His Majesty has issued several decrees to let Rong Xia return to the court, but it seems that Rong Xia's health has not been very good since the last time he was beaten. Emperor Yunqing sent an imperial doctor to check the pulse in person, and the imperial doctor also said that he had hurt his body, and he would not get better if he didn't take care of it for a year and a half.
In desperation, Emperor Yunqing had no choice but to promote a few people who had nothing to do with King Ning and the Prince's faction.
These people don't seem to be very conspicuous, but the prince and the officials of the Prince Ning faction can't avoid them, and the officials of Prince Ning and the prince's faction do not dare to move these people too much, not only can't move, but also guard against others plot.
People on both sides know that His Majesty is testing the hearts of both sides. If something happens to these people, His Majesty will naturally be suspicious.
When the first snow of winter in the capital fell, Emperor Yunqing was able to throw away his crutches and walk a few steps without anyone's support. On the night he planned to regain control of the government, he began to have nightmares again.
He dreamed that he was only in his teens, his father didn't want to see him, his brothers looked down on him, only Ban Huai and Rong Xiaolang Jun, who were several years younger than him, followed him sincerely.
He saw Duke Jingting coming to take over Huai, but Duke Jingting's throat was full of pus and blood, and his face was covered in blood, "Uncle, what's the matter with you?"
"Your Majesty, didn't you let people poison Wei Chen to death?"
"Your Majesty," Rong Xiaolangjun, who was originally next to him, suddenly had his hair fall all over the floor, and black blood oozes from his ears, nose, and nose, "Your Majesty, you hate me for seeing all of your embarrassing past, so you Did you kill me?"
"no no… "
Emperor Yunqing stepped back again and again: "I, I am for the sake of Jiangshan and Ji..."
"lie!"
"lie!"
"No!" Emperor Yunqing was suddenly pleasantly surprised and shouted in horror, "It's not me!"
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" The eunuch and the palace maid filed in, and when they saw Emperor Yunqing lying under the dragon bed, they broke out in a cold sweat. How could His Majesty fall off the bed
Soon the imperial doctor rushed over. After seeing the symptoms of Emperor Yunqing, he shook his head solemnly. His Majesty seemed to be more seriously ill.
"Royal doctor..." The queen looked at the emperor lying on the bed, her expression numb and haggard. In the past six months, due to the strange temper of Emperor Yunqing, their former affection was almost wiped out, but looking at the bed, she felt numb and haggard. The man whose beard was half white, her heart softened, "What's the matter with Your Majesty, why did you turn so much white hair overnight?"
"The Empress, Your Majesty is too worried." The imperial doctor knelt in front of the Empress, "We are incompetent, Your Majesty's condition has gradually improved, but after tonight..."
The queen waved her hand weakly: "I see."
It is even more difficult to recover from a second stroke.
When Emperor Yunqing woke up, he found that he couldn't leave again, he lost his temper, and scolded many palace servants in Dayue Palace, and even the queen was severely scolded by him.
"Where's my lucky bag?" Emperor Yunqing found that the lucky bag under his pillow was gone, and his eyes widened in horror, "Who stole my lucky bag?"
The lucky bag was gone, and even the door god attached to the door was damaged by the wind last night. Emperor Yunqing leaned on the head of the bed with disheveled hair, staring at the gauze tent blankly, as if he had lost his mind, "It must be because these are gone, they will come to me, it must be for this reason."
"Your Majesty, it's time for you to take medicine." Wang De walked in with the medicine bowl in hand, but Yun Qingdi, who suddenly became agitated, knocked over the medicine bowl in his hand, and the medicine poured over him and soaked his body. clothes, but Wang De didn't even dare to frown.
"Go and pass on my oral edict, and immediately summon the Marquis of An and Fule County to enter the palace." Emperor Yunqing grabbed Wang De's hand tightly, "Let them enter the palace immediately."
"Your Majesty," Wang De whispered, "Marquis Cheng'an is ill and is still in bed."
"If someone lifts him, he should be brought in." Emperor Yunqing's eyes lit up, like someone who had been short of water for a long time, found a pool of clear spring water, and ignored everything, "Go quickly."
"Yes." Wang De bowed and stepped out.
When he got out of the house, the cold wind got into his bones along the soaked clothes, and he couldn't help shivering.
"Grandpa De, what are your orders?"
"Send your majesty's oral order, Xuancheng Anhou and Fule County Master have an audience."
"This..." The little eunuch looked at the heavy snow outside. Two days ago, Marquis of Cheng'an suffered from a disease, and His Majesty even rewarded him with tonics. As a result, it was frozen like this today, and he asked people to enter the palace. Isn't this tossing people
"Let the people of the Praetorian Guard handle this matter quickly. Your Majesty is eager to see them."
"Yes!" The little eunuch didn't dare to say more. His Majesty's temper is getting more and more strange. Several people in Da Yuegong have been beaten to death by the board.
Ban's family is eating hot pot around the warm stove. Although their family can't eat big fish and meat now, it is delicious to cook in hot pot. Hearing that Emperor Yunqing summoned him urgently, and only summoned Ban Hua alone, the Ban family members were both surprised and worried, but they did not dare to expressly resist the decree.
Ban Hua put on the white fox collar uterus dress, and put on the white fox cloak, and walked out of the gate of Ban's house under the worried eyes of Ban's family.
The carriage sent from the palace was already waiting outside the gate, and the person standing at the front was Shi Jin.
Seeing Ban Hua, Shi Jin silently bowed to her and took a few steps back.
A janitor squeaked and squeaked on the snow and moved a wooden bench in front of the carriage. Ban Hua nodded at the janitor, who immediately retreated to the side with a red face.
The cold wind blew the fur collar on Banyu's fox fur, she pulled the placket and stepped on the wooden bench.
"Please be careful with your feet."
Shi Jin stood beside the horse bench, lowered his head and whispered something.
Ban Hua tilted his head to look at him, he was still wearing silver armor, and a few strands of red tassels on the top of the silver helmet swayed in the cold wind, which was almost the only bright color on his body.
"thanks for reminding."