The First Traitor [Rebirth]

The emperor went to the spring hunting meeting, accompanied by hundreds of officials, the team can be described as huge.Yuan Jing and others were guarded by the Royal Forest Army and rode their horses to their destination at a leisurely pace.

This time when he went out to hunt, he only brought Mai Ran with him. Although Yuan Ye wanted Hua Rui to follow him, but in order to avoid criticism and the Imperial Forest Army was there, he gave up.And Yuan Li brought Lu Wen out. Originally, he wanted to bring Lu Wu, but before leaving the mansion, Lu Wu had diarrhea. Yuan Li couldn't wait for him, so he brought Lu Wen instead.

Yuan was riding his horse leisurely, when the voice of Lin Jingran, the son of Lin Xuanda, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, sounded in his ears: "Yuan Siye, you didn't participate in the hunting last time, and I couldn't compete with you What a pity, you have to compete with me this time!"

"Jing Ran, when did you become so out of touch?" Yuan Jing asked.

Lin Jingran smiled, and said: "It's not that you have an official position, and I'm just a juren, so naturally I can't be as rude as before."

"Come on, Jingran, I don't know who called 'Yuan Erlang' the loudest when we went to drink with us!" Lin Jingran and Yuan Jing's friend, Guo Ping, who is also a son of the family, laughed.

"It's not like eating wine right now." Although Lin Jingran said this, he called Yuan Jing as usual.

Yuan actually laughed too, and said, "This time I won't end."

"Why, aren't you afraid that there are still people who will not deal with you?" Guo Ping asked in a low voice.

It turned out that Zhang Jinhou shot and injured her leg at the spring hunting meeting a few years ago, and it took several days to recover; later Zhang Jinhou repeated his old tricks, but mistakenly mistook Qian Ning for Yuan Jing, and she escaped the catastrophe.Now Zhang Jinhou deserved what he deserved, and the person who wanted to kill Yuan Jing the most is gone, why Yuan Jing still refuses to end?

It turned out that she couldn't say that she had menstruation, so she found an excuse and said: "You also know that I am about to become a "father". The master said that I cannot kill, otherwise the evil spirit will be passed on to the child. For the sake of the child, I only I can wave the flag for you at the camp."

It turned out to be random nonsense, but Yuan Li who was not far away heard it and couldn't help but interject: "Really?"

"I seem to have heard this saying." Guo Ping said.

Lin Jingran felt bored, Guo Ping saw this, patted him, and said loudly: "Jingran, why did you forget that there is me? When it comes to hunting, Erlang is far inferior to me!"

"That's right, in the past hunting, she was not the second-to-last one..." The person next to him agreed, "However, Jing Ran, you have always been the least. But without Erlang, you are not the least. La!"

"Yuan Erlang didn't participate, so I'm the least one in the end?!" Lin Jingran gave them a glare, which made them burst into laughter.

Lin Jingran took this opportunity to leave the team, Yuan actually followed after receiving his hint: "What's wrong?"

Lin Jingran looked around, and said vigilantly: "Father said that the emperor asked all the princes to go with him this time, and I'm afraid he has other plans. He asked me to pass a message to you - you need to calm down in everything."

"I will keep my uncle's words in mind."

After walking for most of the day, the group arrived at the Summer Resort until the evening.

As the palace built under the supervision of the prince himself, the Summer Resort is located near the mountains and rivers, and it is said to have excellent geomantic omen.The first third is palace housing, the third is lake, and the third is mountain and island.Surrounded by mountains and water, the island is surrounded by water, and the scenery is excellent. It is really a great thing to escape the summer heat here.

Naturally, foreign ministers could not enter the palace area. Fortunately, many gardens were built outside the Summer Resort, and the Ministry of Rites arranged their accommodation according to their identities and the emperor's instructions.

This time the emperor brought only one concubine, and the rest of the princes also lived in their own palaces.However, compared to the magnificence of the surrounding palaces where the emperor lived, the places they lived in were much worse: both the materials and the carpentry were worse than the mansions of the third-rank ministers, and the positions where the doors and windows were opened could not let in the wind. Come on, it's stuffy and hot in there.

The prince, who knew the twists and turns, said dissatisfied: "This prince and brother is too much, I don't know how much money he has embezzled, so that there is no way to live here!"

"Shh, keep your voice down, be careful that the walls have ears!"

They can only say in private that as long as the prince is still the prince for a day, they can't fight against him.But living in these places is not an option!So they thought of a way, found an excuse, and asked the emperor for instructions to live with the ministers in the court outside.

The emperor was not harsh on them, but the Crown Prince, King Qi, King Liang and King Zhao did not dare to propose to live with the ministers in the court. You must know that their identities at this time are very special in the eyes of the emperor. If it is too secret, it will also cause the emperor's dissatisfaction.

After resting overnight, the next day, everyone followed the emperor's car to the hunting paddock.The surrounding area is closely guarded by the imperial forest army. In order to avoid accidents, the emperor sent another guard of a hundred men to guard the paddock.Under such circumstances, the incident of Zhang Jinhou must never happen again.

"Let go!" Taichang Siqing gave an order, and all kinds of prey locked in the cage were released to run deep into the forest.All the princes and princes wanted to show off in front of the emperor, so they rode their horses and galloped out in pursuit.The emperor looked at their backs and smiled cheerfully, but Liu Xiao put a cloak on him in case he was blown by the wind.

"Why didn't Yuan Erlang go?" The emperor looked at Yuan Jing who was sitting on the table watching the excitement. At this time, she was not as energetic as the young people at all, but as quiet as the old courtiers who were traveling with her.

"Yeah, didn't you ask everyone to help catch rabbits last time?"

Yuan Yuan smiled sheepishly, and then felt a little sad: "Since my sister... joined the Tianshan Qingling sect, I stopped catching rabbits. Besides, my concubine is pregnant, and the master said that it is not appropriate to kill, so this time I will kill you." Just watch the excitement here."

Everyone has heard about Yuan Mixue's story, and after hearing Yuan Jing's words, they only thought that she was thinking about the face of Yuan's family and brought up a sad incident, so they believed it more or less: "So that's the case."

The emperor smiled and said, "In that case, come in with me and have a drink!"

After entering the tent, the emperor retreated for four weeks, Yuan actually knew that the emperor had something to say.Sure enough, the emperor chatted with her for a while and then suddenly became serious: "Yuan, I want to ask you something."

"My majesty, please, I will tell you everything." Yuan Jing restrained his face and looked respectful.

"I ask you, did the crown prince withhold the money for building the summer resort?"

"This, the minister doesn't know?"

After a question and an answer, both of them got the answer.The emperor had already guessed from Yuan Jing's expression that she knew about the crown prince's embezzlement of silver, and her answer was that she did not know, but she did not express surprise or take this opportunity to add insult to injury.And Yuan actually sensed a trap from the emperor's question, she knew that the emperor definitely did not want to collect evidence of the prince's crimes to suppress him, so she could not take this opportunity to expose the prince.

"I really don't know?" The emperor stared at Yuan Jing, those eyes that grew shrewd as he got older seemed to want to see through Yuan Jing's heart.Yuan hadn't answered yet, so he said, "I know that the prince's actions over the years have become more and more insane, and he has done many things that cannot be tolerated by the country's laws. I am really disappointed in him. But he is the prince after all, and I can't look at him Keep messing around like this and don’t care about it.”

Yuan actually thought to himself: If you really can't bear to see him messing around like this, you should have criticized and warned him about his behavior many years ago, and let him behave properly.Now that he is getting more and more nervous and impatient, it is too late for you to care about him.

"If this ledger is published, the crown prince will be finished. Yuan Jing, what do you think I should do with it?" said the emperor, and Liu Xiao took out a ledger from the box and handed it to Yuan Jing.This account book is a list of bribes received and sent by the prince and his officials over the years. Although it is not detailed, there are several items in it that are enough for the officials to ask for an order to abolish the prince.

Yuan actually felt the coolness from the bottom of her heart, but her back was soaked in sweat.The emperor's move is already obvious - he wants to tie the Yuan family and the prince together so that the Yuan family can keep the prince.

Yuan actually wanted to understand the emperor's mind, but she couldn't easily agree, after all, even if the Yuan family was willing to help the prince, if the prince was wary of their Yuan family, then sooner or later the Yuan family would repeat the disaster of ransacking and destroying the family in the previous life.

In a short period of time, Yuan actually thought a lot, and replied cautiously: "I don't know whether this account book is true or not, and whether it has wronged His Royal Highness. Even if it is true, I believe that the emperor has his own conclusion. Finally, To put it mildly, the crown prince is the son of the emperor, and this matter can be regarded as the emperor's family affairs, so it is inconvenient for me to comment on it."

The emperor took a deep look at her, and suddenly his throat tickled, and he coughed.He waved at Yuan Jing, and Yuan Jing backed out.

It turned out that after leaving the emperor's camp, he quickly returned to his own camp, and not long after, some people came back first.Looking at Yuan Li who was empty-handed, everyone laughed and said, "Yuan Dalang is just going for a formality this time, he didn't even leave the bow and arrow."

"Could it be... because the princess is happy, Yuan Dalang is also afraid of killing?"

"I'm not good at riding and archery, so I don't dare to be ashamed." Yuan Liyi said modestly, changing his previous habit of being pushy.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, there is your boy to help you, see how much he fights."

Sure enough, Lu Wen, who was following Yuan Li, brought a lot of pheasants and rabbits, each of which was hit by an arrow.Everyone laughed and said, "Lu Wen, you should change your name to your younger brother's and call it Lu Wu, haha!"

Lu Wen laughed. Yuan Li didn't feel that what they said was humiliating Lu Wen, but felt that Lu Wen was giving him face.Seeing Yuan Jing coming out, he raised his eyebrows, with a respectful look on his face: "Second brother."

"It seems that this trip has been fruitful!" Yuan Jing looked at Lu Wendao.

"Where! The second brother didn't go hunting, so I'm afraid we won't be able to eat any game tonight. Fortunately, there is a big brother, so I can give you a full meal tonight!"

"I would be disrespectful to you, brother."

A little later, the rest returned with varying numbers of game.The most admirable thing is that King Qi personally shot and killed a ferocious wolf and an aggressive wild boar. As the most eye-catching prey, they were used for sacrifices, and the rest were used Feast guests.

The emperor glanced at the prey brought back by King Liang and King Zhao, and asked, "Why are there only these pheasants, rabbits and deer?"

"My son spent a lot of time catching these prey alive, so I couldn't get more wild beasts." King Liang said.

"Why do you want to capture it alive?"

"These beasts do not threaten other people's lives, and my son cannot bear to kill them." Just as if they did not threaten the status of the prince, the prince should not touch them.

The emperor was startled, then burst out laughing, then looked at them with admiration, and said, "Well, it's a good thing that you are kind-hearted."

In the evening, except for handing in the prey to the emperor, everyone else handled the rest by themselves.After dinner, there was a dance and music performance arranged by Si Yue of Taichang Temple, which brought everyone's interest to the highest point this night.

Just when the emperor was extremely happy, a servant hurried over and walked to Liu Xiao's side and whispered a few words.Liu Xiao was taken aback, and hurriedly whispered in the emperor's ear, "Your Majesty, Yuan Erlang has fallen."