Aggrieved Fish Sprite

There were people outside, and there was no fire in the Wenyuan Pavilion, and Mo Li felt that the material of the set of silver needles was not good enough. To solve the meridian problem in the second prince's body, it was not as simple as sticking a few needles.

"Your 100 taels should be used to save your life!"

Mo Li said without raising his head, "Your body needs to drink medicine for at least three years. The medicinal materials alone are more than 100 taels. If you are lucky enough to survive, once you catch cold or get tired, you must take medicine immediately to keep you healthy." .”

The second prince's expression froze, and he blurted out: "I have no intention of treating illnesses."

"Why, don't you want to live anymore?" Meng Qi crossed his arms and looked the second prince up and down, thinking that this guy might be afraid of taking medicine.

Thinking of the bitter medicine that the doctor had brewed, Meng Qi's back felt a little chilled.

The second prince said with a dark face: "I rebelled and forced the palace, now the emperor is not dead, even if I die, what medicine do I still take?"

Meng Qi stroked his chin with his fingers, and said playfully, "That's right, that's the reason. It's a pity that you didn't pay enough. I can't help you assassinate the emperor."

"Are you joking?"

The second prince stared at Meng Qi in shock, he had never seen such a greedy person.

Can the throne not satisfy this man?

Meng Qi sneered and said, "What are you doing looking at me like this? Let's be realistic, the throne is impossible. Do I think I'm living too easily, so I have to take over the mess?"

"...Then what do you have?"

Meng Qi smiled, stretched out his hand and said: "I heard that all of you brothers want to kill the emperor, and you are the only one who pays, don't you think it's unfair?"

The second prince looked at Meng Qi blankly.

Oh, it turns out that I still think there is too little money.

"What do you mean by staring at me and not talking?" Meng Qi continued to tease him.

"This king is thinking, how could the virtuous ministers of the previous dynasty look like this?"

The second prince looked at the clothes Meng Qi was wearing. The material seemed to be very ordinary, and he hadn't noticed it before, mainly because Meng Qi's extraordinary demeanor diverted his attention.He asked solemnly: "Master Meng Guo seems to be having a hard time? Could it be that all the money is spent on his face, so that he can maintain his face so well?"

"puff."

Meng Qi turned his head angrily, there was no smile on Mo Li's face, as if he wasn't the one who made the sound just now.

However, there were only three people in the pavilion.

"Doctor." Meng Qi called out in a low voice, very unhappy.

Mo Li met Shang Meng Qi's eyes, and for some reason, he remembered the fat man with a childish voice and complaining in the secret passage.

I can't bring up the awe and admiration for the golden dragon in my heart, and I can't get the idea of ​​admiring the person I like, so I might as well take a gerbil back to Zhushan County...

"Well, it takes a lot of money to maintain black hair and face." Mo Li said that he really knows a few beauty-beautifying prescriptions, and the medicinal materials are not cheap, and the prescriptions can't be eaten randomly. living habit.

Generally speaking, practicing martial arts is the most worry-free form of facial beauty.

The second prince was dubious.

Mo Li spoke neither slowly nor quickly, and was born with a trustworthy posture. The second prince really wanted to believe the doctor's words, but he was already a monster with such skillful appearance as Meng Qi!

The most popular folk remedies in the palace are childbirth prescription and beauty treatment.

Although the second prince has never eaten it, he has seen the concubine mother and the concubine eat these things, such as bird's nest, peach gum, red dates, etc., which cost a lot of money, but the effect is not very good.

"Don't talk, there is movement outside."

Mo Li raised his hand to signal, the second prince had no choice but to shut up.

Those imperial guards came back one after another, leaving only two people standing guard outside the Wenyuan Pavilion, and the others went into the Zhi room next to them to hide and rest.

Their voices were not loud, and they were separated by two floors, but Mo Li was willing to listen, and could still tell the general meaning.

What the Imperial Guards were talking about was none other than the second prince Lu Min.

"Is your mother locked up?" Mo Li turned around and said.

Like Mo Li, Meng Qi was a little surprised.

He thought that the second prince's biological mother was dead, so he had no scruples about wantonly rebelling.

"Have you heard the conversation of the imperial guards? Huh, I have heard it a long time ago." The second prince said sullenly, he clenched his right fist, his eyes were full of resentment, "Yesterday I found out that the situation was not good, so I brought people Hiding in the palace, there are guards everywhere saying that my mother has been imprisoned in the prison."

Mo Li felt that his tone and expression were not quite right, so he asked in a timely manner: "And then?"

"... Then, I ignored it." The second prince said viciously.

Meng Qi folded his arms and yawned, but Mo Li didn't speak.

After a while, the second prince couldn't hold back anymore, and muttered: "Why don't you scold me?"

Meng Qi asked curiously: "You have no relatives and no reason, why should I scold you?"

The second prince stared and muttered: "Just... disloyal and filial, and don't care about your biological mother."

Mo Li really felt that the prince was a little insane, not smart, and even more reckless.Lu Zhang made an attack suddenly, and it was normal for the second prince not to take him away in time.

But since the second prince asked, Mo Li asked casually: "Did you not prepare in advance?"

Conspiring against forces outside the palace, it's fine if you're not afraid of death, and you haven't prepared a way out for others?

The second prince's face was ugly, and it took him a long time to say that the prince and concubine he married betrayed him, and his mother and concubine couldn't explain it even more.

"If she knows what I'm doing, it won't be my wife's turn to betray me."

"..."

Mo Li thought silently, the palace was completely different from what he thought.

Meng Qi glanced at the doctor, and said in a voice transmission: "The royal family of the Chu Dynasty is not like this, maybe his Lu family is special!"

Although the second prince couldn't hear what they were saying, he could guess something from Mo Li's expression. He angrily turned his head and lay down on the couch, refusing to speak any more.

Mo Li simply continued to listen to the discussions of the imperial guards.

According to the imperial guards, the second prince was ignorant and incompetent, and he was punished repeatedly for three days.

Either being punished by Hanlin scholars for reading and literacy, or being punished by the emperor or concubine Jia, and often grounded, there are hundreds of volumes of scriptures copied from childhood to large.How did such a useless prince have the courage to rebel?

Mo Li reckoned that this Concubine Jia was the second prince's biological mother.

The imperial guards knew very little about it, and they looked down on the second prince after all. If they could know the secret of the prince's mother-son feud, all the civil and military officials in the outer court would also know about it.

The ochre-red palace walls blocked many secrets, and if nothing happened, these secrets would be sealed forever in the dead palace and slowly rot.

Mo Li shook his head in his heart, seeing the second prince lying there upright, he couldn't help but think of the sick and crooked prince in the East Palace.

——Whoever has such a mess can't afford to die.

The second prince and the others have already met, and the sixth prince has also met. It is estimated that the remaining third prince will not be able to handle the matter.

"There are hundreds of memorials sent from all over the world every day, plus the memorials in the court... If you delay for one day, it is barely feasible, and if you delay for three days, something may happen. Taijing is under martial law, and the imperial city is sealed off. Lu Zhang will suffer at most. By this evening, we will summon the prime minister and give them a few reassurances, otherwise the entire capital will be panicked."

Meng Qi leaned against the wall, playing with the two golden nudes in his hand, and said casually, "I don't know where the prime minister and the direct ministers of Wenyuan Pavilion were taken by Lu Zhang. After all, the throne can be changed, but the central government cannot." Suddenly there are few people, let alone all of them die. We will wait in the Wenyuan Pavilion, and those important officials of the Qi Dynasty will show up sooner or later."

The second prince suddenly got up, and asked with bright eyes: "Then follow Prime Minister Jiang and the others, and we will be able to find him, and then we can do it?!"

This "he" of course refers to Lu Zhang.

Meng Qi said with a half-smile, "We haven't negotiated a price yet?"

"No, you are looking for the emperor, you will go if you don't have money."

The second prince is not stupid, he can still turn around this logic, he stared at the two people in front of him suspiciously.

——If you don’t want to assassinate the emperor, then what will you do if you see the emperor? Isn’t it to rob the emperor?

"To tell you the truth, as for me, your father is not pleasing to the eye, and I want to knock out his teeth and add some beautiful colors to his face. The blue and purple are more beautiful, and no one will recognize him. Dragon robes will be suspected of treason."

When Meng Qi said a word, the second prince's eyes lit up a little, and in the end he wanted to jump up and applaud.

"For your brother's sake, I'll give you a chance." Meng Qi smiled all over his face.

Mo Li vaguely had a guess.

Sure enough, the next moment he heard Meng Qi asking the price: "I'll take you with me, punch and kick, and charge 100 taels of silver, how about it?"

The second prince's expression struggled, his eyes wandering.

It could be seen that he wanted to agree, but his reason was still there, and he successfully prevented him from nodding.

"Bare-handed? Can't you replace it with a knife?" The second prince tried to bargain.

"You want to stab the emperor's heart with this knife!" Meng Qi exposed him mercilessly.

"...So what! I'm going to die, and I'm not allowed to take a breath?"

At this moment, Mo Li interjected, "Who said you were going to die?"

The second prince said with a stern face: "You beat the emperor and left me there, wouldn't I have to die?"

Hearing this, Meng Qi said angrily: "Then you write another IOU of one hundred taels of silver, and we will take you out of the palace?"

The second prince hesitated for a moment, but refused: "I have no money to pay back, the emperor's brother is not in good health, and no one will help me pay back the money when he's gone."

Mo Li was speechless, Meng Qi raised his eyebrows and asked, "Don't you still have brothers?"

"It's hard for them to protect themselves, and besides, they usually look down on me, saying I'm reckless and stupid." The second prince curled his lips and said contemptuously, "I still think they are procrastinating, so I just say I won't do it!"

Meng Qi sighed from the bottom of his heart: "It seems that no matter whether it is an assassination or a beating, I am destined to only earn the 100 taels of silver note on you, and there will be nothing more?"

"otherwise?"

The second prince thought for a long time, and tentatively said, "The sixth child is not in the capital, the third brother should be guarded by the imperial guards, I will draw a map and you ask him for money? He is not married yet, so he probably has more savings than me."

Ink Carp: "..."

The princes of the Lu family may not be brothers and sisters, they sold their brothers in the blink of an eye.

***

The imperial palace, Changle Palace.

This is the northernmost part of the imperial city. It was a palace a long time ago. With the gradual expansion of the imperial city through the dynasties, Changle Palace was finally included in the imperial palace.

Although it belongs to the harem in name, it is a distance from other palaces. It is an independent palace and occupies a large area.There are also gardens and lakes in the palace, which are very delicately maintained, and the specifications of the palace are so high that ordinary concubines cannot live there.So Changle Palace became the residence of the queen mother and concubines.

There is currently no queen mother in the Qi Dynasty, and there is no master in Changle Palace. Only some young and beautiful low-ranking concubines live in the pavilion to the west of the palace.Anyway, after the emperor died, all the female family members in the palace would move in and squeeze in here, so it was not considered a violation of the rules.

Since yesterday, the gate of the palace has been locked, and the imperial guards are coming and going outside.

The few concubines staying in Changle Palace knew that the emperor was here, but they couldn't get out, and they couldn't pass on the news, so they could only wait in fear.

Speaking of concubines, the highest rank among these women is only the fifth rank.

The harem of the Qi Dynasty was empty, and such a grade was the norm.

The women in the harem are not like the stories in the script, they are always jealous and entrap each other.Of course, there are all these things, but they are not the only ones in their minds. The women in the harem are not so much concubines as officials.

They have salaries and ranks, and they don't just sit in the palace all day and just need to dress up, eat and drink and wait for the emperor to come.There are also many affairs in the inner palace. From top to bottom, everyone has their own things to do and responsibilities to share. If they don't have anything in their hands, it means they have been rejected or their health is too poor.

Being an official naturally has a lot of knowledge, and promotion and relegation are commonplace.

When there is no order in the harem, and the concubines don't have to bother to take care of things, it means that the servants have taken power, and the power that should have belonged to these women has been diluted.

The Qi Dynasty is very special. The servants are not arrogant in the outer court, but in the inner court.

The reason is that not only is there no queen in the palace, but there is only one "concubine". She has a doughy temperament and has not raised a good son.Just being an echoer all day long, everything the emperor said was right, and what the emperor's confidant chief executive said was also right, and he didn't have the slightest idea of ​​his own.

In this way, the concubines below will have nothing to do.

In addition, the emperor was really moody, and there was not even a woman in the palace who dared to speak out because of her status. The inner court became more and more like a pool of stagnant water.

Although Lu Zhang has the bad habit of beating and scolding concubines, not everyone has been beaten, and he doesn't go crazy every day.

Those who can only see the emperor once a year or so, usually don't know about it.

These little concubines in Changle Palace don’t know. Today, the oldest and highest-ranking Wang Cairen had a broken forehead and was carried out by the maids. They thought it was Wang Cairen who angered the emperor. refused to come out.

"You haven't found the second prince yet?" A stern voice came from the inner room.

"Yes……"

"Where's Concubine Jia?"

The servant returned with a low eyebrow and pleasing eyes: "According to His Majesty's will, I have been detained in the east side hall of Changle Palace. I have been crying since yesterday, and no one has come to rescue me."

"Rebel!"

Lu Zhang slapped the table hard.

He is tall, with bushy eyebrows, sharp eyes, and a whole body of power.

Having been an emperor for many years, he has an awe-inspiring aura that cannot be offended.

This servant is also very majestic on weekdays. When he came in front of Lu Zhang, his calves trembled slightly. He tried to maintain a respectful posture, and said in a low voice: "The imperial guards still caught the two servants of the East Palace outside. They insisted I came out to invite the imperial physician, and I still have to wait for His Majesty to deal with it."

"Don't talk about the East Palace anymore." Lu Zhang frowned deeply, and then added, "Let the imperial physician order to diagnose and treat the prince."

The servant bowed and was about to leave when Lu Zhang stopped him again.

"Call the two prime ministers and the commander of the imperial guards, and then bring the third prince over..."

"His Majesty?"

Lu Zhang said coldly: "Since the prince is not successful, let's make the third prince the crown prince. Isn't it just as the ministers wish?"

The servant didn't dare to answer, bowed his head and stepped back.

As a result, halfway through, he almost collided with another servant who came in from outside.

The former glared at the latter, and the latter hurriedly made a hand gesture and lowered his head.

"What's wrong?" Lu Zhang also saw the movement at the door.

The servant hurriedly said in a respectful voice: "Reporting to Your Majesty, a talented man is not blessed."

The so-called no blessings, of course, can not live to enjoy the blessings.

Lu Zhang didn't take it seriously at all, waved his hand, and made people back off.

The majestic chief servant in the palace wiped his sweat quietly after going out, and asked with a straight face, "I just got kicked, why did I disappear? Isn't it troublesome to catch up with this time?"

"The imperial doctor said that when Wang Cairen fell, his forehead just hit the corner of the table..."

The servant who came up was hesitant to speak, and was busy fanning the manager.

"Forget it, go and invite Prime Minister Jiang, Prime Minister Zhang, and Jiang Zhengshi. I will invite His Royal Highness the Third Prince first... Hey, I really lost my mind. I didn't expect that after all the twists and turns, the Third Prince might ascend to the throne in the future." .We can't be negligent, we're still trying to please you."

The head servant rushed to the third prince's residence in a hurry to take a look.

Unfortunately, the person disappeared.

No one knows, not even the imperial guards surrounding the third prince's residence, how he disappeared.

The head servant was sweating profusely, stomping his feet in anxiety, almost turned the neighborhood upside down.

In the end, there was nothing to do, so I had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk back. As I walked, I felt that my head might be in danger, and met the servant who was sent to invite some important ministers with a bitter face.

"Director Xu, where is the Third Highness?"

It's okay if you don't mention it, but if you mention it, the chief servant will be furious.

But in front of several important officials of the court, he couldn't get angry, so he could only smile and say: "Sirs, wait a moment, and wait for the old slave to report to His Majesty."

As he spoke, he stepped into the main hall first, and the other servants vaguely sensed that something was wrong, so they wisely invited several important officials to wait in the side hall, and served tea.

Prime Minister Jiang committed an old problem, pain in the waist and legs.

Prime Minister Zhang was worrying about when this disaster would end. He hadn't been home for two days.

The two were absent-minded, but Jiang Zhengshi felt strange and quietly tugged Prime Minister Jiang's sleeve.

There is a faint figure in the corner of the side hall.

Prime Minister Jiang followed Jiang Zhengshi's gaze, and instinctively stood up to ask questions, but suddenly felt his eyes go dark, and then lost consciousness.

The people in the side hall, including the court lady serving tea, fell into a coma.

In the main hall, Lu Zhang heard the voice of his valet reporting respectfully, and knew that the two prime ministers had brought people here. He thought that these people had to go to Wenyuan Pavilion halfway to get the memorial, which made him wait for a long time.

Lu Zhang didn't care about the third prince.

But the prince can be established or abandoned.

Compared with the sixth child who has a bad temper and often offends the academicians, the third child is of course more in line with the wishes of civil servants.

Lao Liu is not too old, so he might be able to get back after a break.

Lu Zhang thought coldly, the sixth child has a temper that refuses to admit defeat, knowing that the cowardly third child has become the prince, he still vomits blood in anger?Just relying on the bait of the reserve position, the sixth child can be provoked to regard the third child as an enemy, and it will also prevent the sixth child from thinking about his mother and concubine like a baby all day long, and resenting his father.

Lu Zhang didn't take the sixth prince's grievances seriously at all.

In his mind, it was because the sixth prince was young and inexperienced. After suffering enough, he would understand that power was the most important thing, and power was in the hands of the emperor.

——No matter how unwilling you are, you have to kneel down and put on a submissive expression in order to get everything.

Lu Zhang didn't care about what happened after his death. No one knew better than him that being an emperor was not comfortable.

Even if his son wished to tear down the imperial tomb, he had to act like a filial son and grandson in front of the courtiers and the people of the world.Which emperor in the past dynasties dared to disrespect the past emperor in the open?

Lu Zhang looked at the door with a sullen face.

He didn't see his confidant servant, nor Jiang Zai and others.

Instead, he saw the third prince first.

The third prince was wearing crumpled clothes, his hair was blown like a bird's nest by the wind, his face was terrified, his waist was hunched, and he almost tripped over the threshold.

"What's it like?" Lu Zhang shouted angrily.

The third prince's legs went limp, and he knelt in fright.

Lu Zhang also felt something was wrong at this time. The servant who was supposed to come in disappeared, and no one outside told the third prince to wait to be summoned, and he himself did not agree. Why did the third prince appear?

Lu Zhang pulled out his saber with his backhand, and broke the screen in front of him.

At this time, the window was smashed open, and another person was thrown in.

Lu Zhang took a closer look, and his expression changed immediately.

The second prince didn't faint from the fall, and he didn't tremble with fright like the third prince. He turned over after landing, picked up a table and case as a shield, and rushed towards Lu Zhang.

Lu Zhang joined the army at the border in his early years and was a military commander. Even though he is old and pampered, he still has some foundation.

The second prince managed to block the falling sword with a table case, and kicked it in the air, but was kicked to the knee by Lu Zhang and screamed in pain.

"Evil son! How dare you come?" Lu Zhang shouted angrily.

The second prince pulled over the chair and shouted as he ran: "I have given you all the money, what about the person? A virtuous minister who has left his name in history can't refuse!"