What about the stepmother dressed as three villains?

Liao Jiu urged Jiang Lianzhu, "Restore the stone slab and move me back to the original place. You hurry up, someone is here. Come back to study when you have time next time."

Jiang Lianzhu was also afraid that there would be more troubles, thinking that the time was almost up, so she recovered quickly.

"I'll see you again tomorrow."

Liao Jiu nodded quickly, "Let's go."

Jiang Lianzhu went out without a sound.

Liao Jiu pricked up his ears and listened for a long time, but he didn't hear any commotion, which meant that Jiang Lianzhu went out safely and was not arrested, so he was relieved.

Jiang Lianzhu came out of the prison, took off the guard's clothes, put them in the grass, looked around, and there seemed to be no one around.

She skimmed away from the wall.

After she left, behind the trees in the flower garden, several silent poisonous snakes appeared.

Staring at the direction Jiang Lianzhu left, his eyes were cold.

Breathing out the snake core, a few followed the direction of Jiang Lianzhu's figure, a few quickly turned around, burrowed into the ground, and disappeared.

***

East Palace.

The empress is checking the prince's homework today.

Before entering the palace, the queen empress was a well-known talented woman, she had read a lot of articles, followed Xuanhuang's side, read too many memorials, and she still had a bit of real knowledge.

He would come to the East Palace every now and then to check the prince's homework and so on.

"Mother, that Liao Jiu is so bold to resist the order? Why didn't the father execute him! He simply despised the majesty of our royal family."

The queen concubine hummed casually.

"No one will execute Liao Jiu. Liao Jiu is so proud of his favor. Your father is old and can't suppress him anymore. Liao Jiu is dead. Do you want the six doors? Prime Minister's Mansion, Qingninghou Mansion, There are also many old officials in the court intertwined, and even the King of War will take action... Your father was decisive in killing when he was young, but now he is old and useless, and he has started to talk about kindness and family affection. Rehabilitation?"

The prince scratched his head, "I can't, Queen Mother, the king of war is said to be dying, too sick to get out of bed, and he won't be able to live for a few days. He didn't see anyone else at such a big banquet at Prince Xiang's mansion that day. What will happen? I don't believe it!"

The empress sneered, "Duke Zhou has been jumping up and down these two days, what do you think he's jumping about? King Zhan owed Duke Zhou a great favor..."

The water is deep!

Zhou Gong, Zhou Prime Minister's Mansion, Liao Jiu...

If Liao Jiu really married that Jiang Lianzhu, and Jiang Lianzhu is the adoptive mother of King Xiaoxiang and the others...

This relationship alerted the empress, she would rather let Liao Jiu marry the eldest princess.

The prince is ignorant, not very smart.

He quickly gave up thinking about such a complicated question, and he said, "That little King Xiang said how good he is, how powerful he is, but I think he is a waste, the gold medal to avoid death, my father didn't even give it to me, give it to me." He's gone, it's a waste of time."

The empress still said calmly, "The waste is also the waste that threatens you the most! Your second elder sister is gone, and there is another young King Xiang. You are destined to sit in an uneasy position."

The prince obviously didn't believe it, "Which onion is he? He can influence the prince? The prince crushed him to death, like an ant."

"Have you only learned the word arrogance? Ignorance."

The prince suddenly froze, "Mother, it's my son's fault."

The empress didn't want to talk to him anymore, "Be cautious in your words and deeds, your second sister is right, you should study more and learn more about governing the country. Sooner or later, the Da'an Kingdom will be handed over to you. You don't need anything else. Think about it."

"Yes, Queen Mother." The prince agreed in this way, but he was really helpless in his heart.

He doesn't like studying at all, he doesn't like reading, and when he sees his master, his brain hurts and his whole body feels wrong.

He secretly swore that when he becomes the emperor and drives all the masters out of the palace, no one will let him open the books again in this life.

***

In the early morning of the next day, veteran officials from the Ministry of Rites and several others jointly wrote a proposal to plead guilty for Liao Jiu.

Among them, the first name of the joint book is the signature of the King of War.

Xuan Zhan!

Emperor Xuan recognized Zhan Wang's handwriting, which was Zhan Wang's autograph, although he did not come to court.

At this time, Duke Zhou stood at the edge of the courtiers with his head bowed solemnly.

Eye to nose, nose to heart.

As long as he doesn't look at Emperor Xuan, Emperor Xuan won't be able to find out that it was him who went to Zhanwang's Mansion.

Everyone took turns explaining the reasons for pleading for Liao Jiu, and Emperor Xuan listened silently.

When it was time to go down to court, Emperor Xuan let go.

"That's all, spare this Zhuzi! Remove him from the position of governor of the six sects... Get out of here as far as possible, out of sight and out of mind."

Duke Zhou was overjoyed, regardless of his old age, he knelt down, "Thank you, Your Majesty Long En!"

Xuanhuang threw the joint letter in front of Duke Zhou, "You too, you are not allowed to enter the palace for three months!"

Duke Zhou immediately put on an old face and wiped his tears, "Your Majesty, this old minister is getting old, and I don't know if he can live for another three months. Is this three months too much? This old minister misses the emperor day and night, and misses his well-being... ..."

Emperor Xuan stared at him, Duke Zhou was dumbfounded, "Thank you Lord Long En."

All the courtiers wanted to laugh but held back, not daring to laugh.

***

After the morning court, Duke Zhou took people to the prison to welcome Liao Jiu out of prison.

To the left of the six doors, they also went to pick up their master.

Liao Jiu was dismissed from the post of governor, and there is no one in charge of Liufan Sect. All matters are provoked by Xiang Zuo and he takes care of them.

For Xiang Zuo, there is no slight difference from before. When Liao Jiu was governor, Xiang Zuo took care of the basic affairs.

Now that there is no governor, he will take care of it.

Zhou Gong took Liao Jiu out of the prison, and gave Liao Jiu a hard lesson on the way.

Liao Jiu didn't reply a word, and asked Duke Zhou to scold him.

After cursing, Liao Jiu bowed deeply to Duke Zhou, "Thank you grandpa for your care, and grandson thanks grandpa for your kindness."

Zhou Gong stroked his white beard, "You, the family doesn't say thank you, I'm just a grandson like you, this time the emperor is really angry, let's calm down for a while, I have already discussed with the emperor After that, our Prime Minister Zhou's Mansion is willing to marry the eldest princess. Your cousin Zhou Yuan is also one of the best children in the capital. Compared with you, he is not much worse than you. He is also worthy of the eldest princess. The emperor also agreed. Now It just depends on the eldest princess changing her mind, it will be a peace for you."

As soon as Liao Jiu's face darkened, he knew that things were not that simple.

"Zhou Yuan?"

Zhou Gong smiled and said, "You think everyone is like you! Don't take the princess seriously! Our Zhou Yuan is still very concerned about marrying the princess. It is very cost-effective for our family to marry the princess. The two generations of prime ministers of our Zhou family Well, three generations of prime ministers are basically impossible, because His Royal Highness doesn't seem to be close to our Zhou family. Zhou Yuan might as well marry a princess and be an idle son-in-law. The glory and wealth will never fade. The eldest princess is valued by our emperor. This happened again, when the princess gets married in the future, there must be a lot of dowry, and our Zhou family has made money, of course, our family is asking to marry anyway, as for whether the eldest princess will agree or not, that is another matter."