In the face of King Jing's pressing question, Mei Changsu did not answer directly. He turned his eyes slightly, and turned to the imperial tent on the east side: "Didn't your Highness come over to greet you?"
"Father is taking a nap, how long can you please?"
"Then why didn't your Highness come in?"
"Mother obviously wants to take me away, so why should I go in so quickly to make her annoyed?" But, Your Highness... Still want to know what we're talking about? "Of course." Xiao Jingyan was a little lost by his relaxed attitude, "Mother hasn't lost her composure like this for many years, and I have to know the reason."
"Then why didn't Your Highness eavesdrop on the account? Neither the niece nor I are experts. Be careful, we won't be able to find out."
King Jing glared at him with a thin layer of anger on his face, "It's not that I never do such things, but I won't do it to my mother." Since His Highness didn't come to eavesdrop just now, why do you need to question me now? "Mei Changsu said coldly, "Is there not much difference between the two? If His Royal Highness really wants to know the content of our conversation, it is best to ask Concubine Jing, ask me, it is not very good. "
King Jing was at a loss for words, his eyes wandering, hesitant.
"Actually..." Mei Changsu slowed down his tone and said slowly, "In Su's humble opinion, as long as your Highness knows that Concubine Jing is a good mother and will be dedicated to your well-being, why should you pursue it too deeply? Everyone has their belongings. It is a kind of filial piety not to ask about the part of yourself that you don’t want to be known about. If you can’t help it, then ask it face to face. In short, I won’t say anything, please forgive me, Your Highness.”
King Jing strode back and forth several times. Stopped again: "Won't your mother let you say it?"
"Niangniang didn't tell you that. But she told you to go out, so she didn't want you to know."
"Don't want me to know, so why can you know?"
Mei Changsu slumped his shoulders helplessly. "It seems that His Highness really can't help it, then go and ask the lady. I'll go back first." Shi Shiran actually left.
King Jing felt angry for a while, but he had nothing to do with his mother, he hesitated for a while, and he was worried, so he lifted the curtain and entered the tent again.
Concubine Jing is cleaning her face with wet wipes. In addition to the slightly red and swollen eyelids on his face, there are no other messy traces. Seeing her son come in, she put down her handkerchief and said with a slight smile, "You're back, Mr. Su didn't wait for you, he has already left."
"Baby knows. We... met outside..." Xiao Jingyan came over, helped her mother to sit on the chair, pulled a cushion and sat down in front of her knees. He raised his head and asked slowly, "Mother. You really have nothing to say to your child?"
Concubine Jing put a hand on her son's head. Knead lightly. With a long sigh, "Jingyan, can you not ask?"
"But I haven't seen my mother so sad in a long time. Maybe I can make it clear and I can do something..."
"I understand your filial piety," Concubine Jing showed him a mournful smile, her voice still so gentle and kind, "But Jingyan, my mother also had a mother's past. Many things happened before you were born, but it has nothing to do with you. , why do you have to ask?"
"I came out, before I was born?" King Jing was stunned. For every son of Rumu's mother, it is indeed difficult to think that she also had a past before he was born.
"I'm so sad because it's been too long, so long that I've forgotten it and I'm not prepared, so when I suddenly think of it, I feel so uncontrollable," Concubine Jing murmured, but the meaning was very vague, "actually Mr. Su is not directly related, but those memories... are just hooked up by him... He is a very thoughtful and considerate person. Although I didn't ask him to say nothing, he certainly won't say anything, so you Don't press him, and when mother thinks she wants to explain it to you, she will naturally tell it."
Concubine Jing and Mei Changsu, who had not discussed it, tacitly adopted the same method. The scene just now has been turned into Concubine Jing's secret rather than Mei Changsu's secret, but Prince Jing did not realize this. Out of concern and love for his mother, even if he was full of doubts, he had to force it down and could no longer ask questions.
Although he was not convinced at this moment in his heart, he had turned countless thoughts and guessed all the possibilities, but in the end, he had to lower his head and whispered: "Then please take care of your mother, baby. quit."
Concubine Jing nodded silently and did not hold back. After her son left the tent, Fang took out a box of ointment from her sleeve and smeared it on her eyes.
This meeting ended in such a hurry, there were no turbulence and no accident, but the consequences seemed a little strange, at least that's what Lie Zhanying, the general of Jingwang's residence, felt. The two people who went out together came back one after another, one was as if nothing had happened, the other was frowning in thought. They said that they had fallen out, and they still greeted each other every day, saying that everything was business as usual, but suddenly they became estranged. They hadn’t sat together for a long time to eat and talk. Instead, it was that Duke Huai who only loved to read. Books, and more closely with Mei Changsudi.
This strange situation continued for seven or eight days, and was finally broken by an unexpected visitor.
"According to the report from the guards, that person said that he came to look for Mr. Su, and he should have been expelled. It happened that a captain of the guard was passing by. He knew that I had always paid respects to Mr. Su, so he ordered someone to guard him first, and came to inform me." Meng Zhi sat in King Jing's main tent, wearing soft armor all over his body, apparently running over to squeeze in time, "But that man won't tell his name, does Mr. Su want to see him?"
Mei Changsu pondered for a while, and said, "If it's not troublesome, it's better to meet up."
"Then I'll ask someone to bring him here." Meng Zhi walked to the tent and gave an order, then returned to his original seat and sat down, looking at the two people opposite, "What happened to Your Highness and Mr. Su?"
"Huh?" The two looked up at the same time, "What's wrong?"
"Is there something wrong with Mr. Su... making His Highness angry?"
"No," King Jing said quickly, "other things have nothing to do with Mr. Su."
"Oh..." Meng Zhi actually wanted to know what the result of seeing Concubine Jing was. But Mei Changsu refused to say anything, and he didn't dare to ask, but he saw King Jing's appearance. I can't tell if I've been fooled again.
After about a cup of tea, two guards of the Imperial Army escorted a man in ragged clothes. Pushing him into the tent, he saluted and backed out. The man with the hair stooped to his knees, took two steps on his knees, bowed to Mei Changsu, and called out in a hoarse and choked voice, "Sect Master..."
Mei Changsu was slightly startled. When he was about to reach out to brush his hair, Meng Zhi had already grabbed the front, and lifted the man's chin up, the hair on both sides then fell back, revealing a bruised and dirty face, barely able to identify the true face. .
"Tong Lu?" Jiang Zuomeng's line of sight jumped, "Why did you come here?"
"Sect Master!" Tong Lu fell to the ground and cried, almost unable to cry, "My subordinates are right... I'm sorry for you..."
Mei Changsu stared at him. After a long while, he took a glass of water and placed it in front of him, and said in a steady tone, "Drink some water first and be quiet."
Tong Lu wiped his face. He grabbed the water glass and drank it all, then took a breath. Said: "Thank you Sect Master."
"Tong Lu. Mr. Thirteen said you betrayed, do you recognize it?" Mei Changsu asked quietly.
Tong Lu sobbed. Fudi said nothing.
"Since you have already admitted the charge of betraying the alliance, why do you need to come? Isn't it good to be under the protection of Yu Wangyi?"
"Sect Master... The subordinates are doing something wrong, but they are definitely not betraying the alliance," Tong Lu gritted his teeth and his face was pale, "The reason why I recruited Miaoyinfang is because...because..."
"I know, Mr. Thirteen has already checked, is it because of a woman named Junniang?" Yes..." Tong Lu lowered his head, a look of shame on his face, "I can sacrifice my life, but I can't give up Junniang's life, so... so..."
"Don't say it, I understand." Mei Changsu said lightly, "You really didn't recruit everything you know, so we also guess that you were forced to betray the alliance, not voluntarily. But betraying the alliance is betraying the alliance. , I have nothing to say. Mr. Thirteen has checked your whereabouts carefully, but he couldn't find it, how did you escape by yourself?"
Tong Lu touched the ground with his forehead, his originally pale face flushed red again, and he whispered: "At first, they threatened me with Junniang, but later they imprisoned me and threatened Junniang. One day... Junniang secretly When I came to find me, I found out that Junniang was sent by them... they sent..."
"Junniang is Qin Banruo's senior sister, which was found out later." "Junniang lied to me like this, I shouldn't have believed her anymore, but she said... She also wants to cut off the past and return to the countryside with me, Live a life of freedom... Sect Master, she also has her helplessness, she is different from Qin Banruo..."
"I don't want to comment on Jun Niang, why did you come to see me directly?"
"Three days ago, Junniang took me to escape, but as soon as we left the city, the people who killed the mouth caught up with us. In the end, although they desperately escaped, Junniang was also seriously injured. That night... she just... swallowed. Exasperated..." Tong Lu's lips trembled violently, his eyes were blood red, but there were no tears, "We originally planned to find a mountain village to live quietly... ,... Sect Master, Jun Niang, she is really different from Qin Banruo, really of… "
Mei Changsu couldn't help showing a trace of pity in his eyes, but he immediately suppressed this emotion, and his voice was still calm, "If you chase after killing, why did you say silence just now? Don't you know any secrets? That's why you came to me, right?"
"Yes," Tong Lu bit his lip fiercely, as if he wanted to make himself more painful and sober, "King Yu wants to rebel..."
As soon as this statement came out, not only Meng Zhi, but also Xiao Jingyan jumped up, "Impossible, how many people does King Yu have? Why did he rebel?"
"I... I don't know much..." Tong Lu said while thinking, "I heard Junniang say that just after the holy car left the city, King Yu went to visit Xia Jiang secretly in the prison. I don't know what they planned, but they can. Certainly, King Yu has already figured out a way to control the imperial guards who stayed in the capital..."
"What?" Meng Zhi's face changed drastically, "There are nearly 7,000 guards left behind, how can they be so easily controlled?"
"It is said that the two deputy commanders who commanded the left-behind Imperial Army have been loyal to King Yu." Facing King Jing's inquiring gaze, Meng Zhi felt a little embarrassed, "These two deputy commanders were not the ones I brought out, and the internal prisoner was murdered. I was just transferred, and I really can’t grasp it, but… I believe my soldiers will not listen to the orders to make trouble.”
"Tong Lu just said that they were under control, not fully grasped." Mei Changsu shook his head and said, "The Imperial Army is well-trained and has always obeyed orders. Now the capital respects the Queen's edict, if they were to be placed in a team It can be done by separating the teams, collecting weapons one by one, and then concentrating them in one place to guard them. After all, there has not been a fight outside, and although the Imperial Army cannot understand Shangfeng's orders, it will not be forced to resist for no reason. "
"Even if the Imperial Army is abolished, King Yu will only have two thousand soldiers from the government. What's enough? At most, he can fight against the patrol battalion, but he may not be able to fight..."
"Not only, but also..." Tong Lu said in a hurry, "Junniang learned from her uncle that King Yu has strong help in western Beijing... What is it called Xu... Xu... "
"Xu Anmo!" King Jing's brows twitched, and his hand on the table was clenched into a fist.