"Let the messenger bring this to my brother together." Jing Shao frowned. Could it be that something happened to Prince Rui's mansion
"No," Mu Hanzhang unfolded the letter and read it carefully again, Jingchen was cautious between the lines, it seemed that it was not just a matter of Prince Rui's mansion, "reply to my brother that we still have the half of the pack here, and the others. Don't say more."
Jing Shao nodded. Although he didn't know what happened, it was always right to listen to his princess. In the last life, he didn't remember anything about the powder, of course, because he was still stuck on the battlefield in the southwest at that time, and he didn't have time to pay attention to these little things that caught fire in the backyard.
When the letter was sent to the capital, it was like a mud ox into the sea, and there was no reply. By the next ten days, Jingchen's letter had not been delivered either.
"There must be something wrong in Beijing." Gu Huaiqing, who came to read the letter on time every ten days, couldn't sit still. "I haven't heard any more news from my people."
Hearing this, Mu Hanzhang had some bad premonitions in his heart. During this period of time, the successor and the fourth prince were too calm, but Prince Rui's limelight was the same for a while, which was very dangerous. I believe that Yi Jingchen's caution is inevitable. If you don't do something eye-catching, then you are deliberately touting it.
"No, I want to go back to Beijing to see." Jing Shao stood up abruptly, if something happened to his brother, everything he did now would be meaningless.
"My lord, a group of men and horses broke into Pingjiang City from outside the city." The guards rushed in to report. That team of men and horses looked very sturdy and had royal tokens. The gatekeeper did not dare to stop them.
"You bastard, you can't even guard the door." Jing Shao kicked the little girl at his feet and walked out with a gun. There is a large army stationed in Pingjiang City, who would dare to break through.
"咴~" As soon as he walked to the gate, he heard the sound of neat horse hooves, and the horse hurriedly restrained the horse in front of the Ruoshui Garden gate. The horse raised its hoofs and made a crisp neigh.
The head is dressed in dark yellow clothes, with a stern face, not angry but majestic, similar to Jing Shao, but with a burning gaze, very calm, who is not Jing Chen
"Brother!" Jing Shao exclaimed.
Mu Hanzhang and Gu Huaiqing ran out after hearing the sound, and saw Jingchen sitting on top of the horse, followed by a dozen black-clothed men, breathing long and imposing.
When Jingchen saw his younger brother, he couldn't help but feel relieved, and suddenly fell to the horse when it got dark.
"Brother!" When Jing Shao saw this, he was about to pick him up. Someone was faster than him, and he saw Gu Huaiqing jumping up and grabbing the person into his arms accurately.
"The eighteen riders of Mo Yun are under the emperor's order to escort His Royal Highness Prince Rui to Pingjiang." The men in black dismounted one after another and saluted Jingshao.
Mo Yun eighteen rides? Jing Shao couldn't help but glance at them. He knew about these eighteen people. They were the top experts of the royal guards, and only listened to the father and the emperor alone.
"He's injured!" Gu Huaiqing exclaimed when she smelled a faint smell of blood on the person in her arms.
"Come to the house." Mu Hanzhang immediately asked for a doctor, and then asked the eighteen people to go down to rest, while Jing Shao quickly followed.
Jingchen woke up when he was put on the bed, fended off Gu Huaiqing who was too close, and sat up by himself.
"Brother, where are you hurt?" Jing Shao pushed Gu Huaiqing back, who was in the way, and sat down beside the bed.
"I'm a little tired from the journey. It's okay." Jing Chen shook his head. Seeing that the two people beside the bed didn't believe it at all, he had to pull up a sleeve and let them look at the forearms wrapped in white cloth. "On the way In the event of an ambush, it's just a small injury."
Jing Shao looked up and down to confirm that there were no other injuries before giving up.
Mu Hanzhang dispatched all the servants, and walked in with tea by himself: "Mo Yun's eighteen riders have been resettled to the guest house. They insisted on coming and guarding, and I persuaded them to go back."
Jingchen nodded and took a cup of tea.
"What happened in Beijing?" Jing Shao took out the sapphire vial and bandaged his brother's wound again.
"Someone in the DPRK impeached you for sabotage, and the emperor asked me to be the supervisor." Jing Chen's eyes were deep, and things were obviously not that simple.
"It's too slow for this king to collect two cities in two years. He has the ability to let Jing Yu fight!" Jing Shao was very angry when he heard this. In the last life, he fought Huainan. The four princes are taking turns, which one is not beaten, and finally he has to clean up the mess.
"It's like this on the bright side. In fact, the emperor asked me to come and get the half bottle of powder in person." Jing Chen said and looked at Mu Hanzhang.
Mu Hanzhang was startled, he didn't go to get the medicine powder, instead he walked a few steps to the bed and stood behind Jing Shao: "What is the use of this medicine powder?" Is it involving Emperor Hongzheng
Jing Chen shook his head, lowered his eyes and said, "My father asked me to leave in a hurry, and he was not even allowed to go back to Prince Rui's mansion, so he directly asked Mo Yun Shiba to follow me out of the city."
When Jing Shao heard this, he and his princess looked at each other with a little surprise in each other's eyes. It's not like sending him to do some errands, it's more like an escort!
Jingchen was silent for a long time, and then slowly and briefly explained what happened recently.
At that time, Jingchen sent someone to investigate the Mosei matter. She was very close to many wives of Gonghou's family in Beijing. Because Jingshao felt that there was something wrong, he went a little further and found that the most important thing was. Among the people who often came into contact with Mo Bei, there was Mrs. Mao Guo's wife. However, there is nothing else to do after the investigation. Until a few days ago, a concubine of the Maoguo family suddenly collapsed when giving birth, and the mother and child could not be saved. Some people say that this situation is very similar to that of the Yuan Dynasty. It was a small talk, but Jingchen felt that it was not so simple, so he asked Concubine Shu to reveal the matter to Emperor Hongzheng as a gossip. Who knew that Emperor Hongzheng suddenly changed his face and immediately asked Jingchen to investigate the matter of Xianghui. However, after rummaging through the capital, I couldn't find this thing again.
After Jingchen finished speaking, several people's brows couldn't help frowning even tighter. At this point, the matter was even more confusing and confusing.
"Don't think about it yet, Jingchen will definitely be exhausted from the starry night. If there is anything else, let's talk about it tomorrow." Seeing the tiredness on Jingchen's face, Gu Huaiqing opened her mouth and hurried her husband out, but she had no intention of going out at all.
Jingchen glanced at him: "you go out too."
Gu Huaiqing laughed shyly and was dragged away by Jing Shao, who was gloating at the misfortune.
I don't know what happened in Beijing, and there has been no decree, saying that Jingchen should be the supervisor, but he didn't say when he would do it. However, it seems that Jingchen has nothing to worry about. He strolled around Pingjiang City, and even went to Luzhou, and took a closer look at Mu Hanzhang's revised business regulations and proposed no Shaomu Hanzhang hadn't thought of it.
Gu Huaiqing, on the other hand, left the battlefield and volunteered to hang out with him as a servant. Jing Shao was bored alone, so he left his generals to fight on the battlefield, and he stayed at home to raise tigers to accompany the princess.
"Those who attacked my brother on the road were killed by Mo Yun's Eighteen Horsemen." Mu Hanzhang glanced at the eighteen people who were practicing the exercises not far away. These people completely served the emperor and could be sent to protect Prince Rui. It shows that Emperor Hongzheng has no intention to deal with Jingchen.
"You don't have to think to know who sent it." Jing Shao wiped the sword in his hand. Although the father and emperor seemed to be protecting his brother, the situation before leaving the capital was so eerie, now that he is not worried about Jingchen going back by himself. of.
"I think..." Mu Hanzhang looked at the eighteen strong and very powerful experts, and at the sword in Jing Shao's hand, thoughtfully.
"Huh?" Jing Shao tightened the scabbard of the sword and looked up at his princess.
"Perhaps my father asked my brother to come to you because he wanted you to protect him." Mu Hanzhang pursed his lips. Although this is a bit bizarre, it is not easy to protect Jingchen with the power of an emperor. lock up.
"Ah?" Jing Shao opened his mouth in surprise, and then snorted in disdain. When did his royal father think about this? If he could still think of protecting his son, he would not have been arbitrarily taken out of the cell and forced to die on Fengyue Mountain.
"My lord, my lord, it's not good!" The guards who were guarding the gate stumbled in, "The people from the capital came to announce the imperial decree, and they came with a prison cart!"
"What?" Mu Hanzhang stood up immediately, the prison car! Why bring a prison van? Could it be that their relationship with the King of Huainan was exposed, and they couldn't help clenching Jing Shao's hand.
Jing Shao held it back comfortingly: "Where have you been?"
"Already in front of the door, I bumped into His Royal Highness Prince Rui!" This was also the reason why he was flustered. The man saw Prince Rui and did not enter the door.
"Let's go and have a look." At this time, Jing Shao calmed down, holding the sword in one hand and his princess in the other, and said solemnly.
When the two walked to the door, they saw Gu Huaiqing pull out his sword and stand in front of Jingchen. On the opposite side, two dozen people in military uniforms followed a decree official, and behind him brought a wooden prison cart. The man in shackles was about to step forward and was forced back a few steps by Gu Huaiqing's sword, the atmosphere was very tense.
"His Royal Highness Prince Rui is trying to resist the decree?" The official looked at the student, and he should not be a high-ranking member of the court above the third rank.
"Go and call the eighteen riders." Jing Shao whispered in Mu Hanzhang's ear.
Mu Hanzhang nodded and turned back to the courtyard.
"What is the decree? Show me to this king?" Jing Shao stretched out his hand to ask for the imperial decree, and the official, without fear, handed him the yellow silk in his hand. Looking down, it is obviously not the handwriting of Emperor Hongzheng, but there is a seal of the National Jade Seal at the inscription, but it does not seem to be a forgery.
"The emperor has a decree, ask me to bring Prince Rui back to the capital as soon as possible, His Royal Highness Cheng Wang should not make me wait," the official said with a smile, "Prince Rui intends to poison the king's father, rebel and seize the throne, It is already an unforgivable sin, if His Royal Highness Cheng Wang obstructs it, he should be punished with the same crime."
When Jingchen heard the words, he was struck by lightning, and the father asked him to investigate the powder. Could it be because the father himself took the medicine
Jing Shao snorted coldly and pulled out the sword with a swipe.
"Jingshao, don't be impulsive!" Jingchen shouted and gently pushed away Gu Huaiqing's sword-wielding hand, "I'll go back with them."
"No!" Gu Huaiqing stopped him again, and refused to let the man in shackles approach Jingchen without saying anything.
"Seize the throne by treason?" When Jing Shao heard these words, he only felt that the blood all over his body had solidified. Among his crimes back then, the biggest one was treason and seizing the throne! Now, this crime has been evaded by him, and it has fallen on his brother again.
"His Royal Highness Cheng, think about it clearly, but don't..." The official suddenly widened his eyes before he could finish a sentence. He looked at Jing Shao in disbelief, and then at his own body. Spit out and die.
Jing Shao threw away the sword in his hand, as if he had just chopped off a branch, and the soldiers who were escorting the prisoner van suddenly became a mess.
"Eighteen Mo Yun rides here, who dares to move Prince Rui!" A deep roar came from the courtyard, and eighteen black-clothed guards immediately surrounded Jing Chen in the center.
Jing Shao pointed at those people with the tip of his bloody sword: "No one will be left."
"Leave a live!" Mu Hanzhang hurriedly answered.
Mo Yun's eighteen cavalry got Jingchen's approval, and they all took out their knives, like chopping melons and vegetables, killing those soldiers under the knife in the blink of an eye, leaving only the big man in shackles.
The man had already been so frightened that his legs were weak, and he knelt on the ground tremblingly, without the arrogance and arrogance he was just now.
"Who are you waiting for?" Jing Shao pressed his sword against the big man's chin and said coldly.
"Hui, Huicheng Wang Qiansui, I am the prisoner of the Ministry of Justice, and the person who passed the decree is the head of the Ministry of Justice." The big man was frightened and stammered, and honestly told everything he knew.
"Who asked you to come?" Mu Hanzhang stood beside Jing Shao.
"I don't know, the master said that he was going to Jiangnan to pass the imperial decree, and the little one followed..." After the man finished speaking, he suddenly fell down, and he fainted from fright, and a pool of yellow dirt flowed from his body. .
Jing Shao immediately hugged his princess and returned to the steps, so that the big man was locked up first.
Back in the courtyard, Jingchen took the imperial decree and looked at it carefully, and gradually raised his eyebrows: "this jade seal is real." The person who wrote the imperial decree does not have to be the emperor himself, but as long as it is covered with a jade seal, it is true 's decree.
"Anyway, the people have already been killed," Jing Shao said indifferently, "If the royal father asks, he will say that he encountered the Huainan army on the way and was killed by the king of Huainan."
Hearing this, Gu Huaiqing's face turned dark: "How much are you planning to smear me?"
"Anyway, you are already a treasonous sinner, so this one is not bad." Jing Shao leaned on his own princess and barked his teeth at the King of Huainan. Xiao Huang climbed onto the soft slump and bared his teeth, but he was much more ferocious than Jingshao.
Mu Hanzhang looked at the three guys who didn't know the catastrophe was coming with a headache, sighed, and had to look at Jingchen: "if this imperial decree is true, what should I do?"
Jingchen's eyes were dark, he rolled up the imperial decree in his hand, and clenched it slowly: "there is no news now, there are only two possibilities, one is that the emperor really wants to take me back to inquire; the other is that the emperor has already The power was seized by Jing Yu." While Mo Yun's Eighteen Riders are still here, Emperor Hongzheng must have entrusted him before his departure, so the first possibility is unlikely.
"There is another possibility," Mu Hanzhang slowly rubbed the tiger's tail, "The emperor is also trying to find out who is the poisoner."
As soon as this remark came out, several people were startled, Jingchen pondered for a long time: "Yes." At first, he was not allowed to return to Prince Rui's mansion, but he must have been suspicious of him. With the means of Emperor Hongzheng, even if he was terminally ill, he would not be punished by Jingchen. Yu, the incompetent, took over the power.
"No matter what the situation is, you have to go back to Beijing to find out." Mu Hanzhang looked at Jing Shao.
Jing Shao's eyes were full of cold light: "I will bring 50,000 soldiers and horses back, but if I can't do it, I will kill the imperial city!"