Tyrant Whitewashing Plan [Transmigration Book]

A few days later, the letter from the Imperial Mausoleum came.

In the letter, the third prince said that his mother's fate was hard to break, and that he had already received Xiao Jining's longing, and that if Xiao Jining still wanted to see him when the ten-year deadline came, he would definitely come back.

This result was expected by everyone. It would be a surprise if the third prince really came back, so everyone was not surprised by this.

What really shocked the ministers and the rest of the royal family was that the sixth prince said that he didn't want to go back to Beijing either. As the third prince's brother, he stayed in Beijing with other brothers for too long, so this year's New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve he wanted to stay in the imperial mausoleum to spend with the third prince.

The content of the letter is really not like the character of the Sixth Prince. If it wasn't for the fact that this letter was read by the eunuch in the early court in front of all the officials and Xiao Jining, some people would suspect that it was Xiao Jining who wanted to prevent the Sixth Prince. When he returned to Beijing, he falsified the content of the letter.

Although it didn't affect them whether the sixth prince returned to the capital or not, this letter still opened the eyes of all the officials, who speculated about what kind of stimulation the sixth prince had received in the imperial mausoleum.

Only a few people noticed what the Sixth Prince emphasized in his letter at the end - it is not impossible to ask him to return to Beijing, but recently there are often horse bandits from the Western Regions on the border, and the way back to Beijing from the Mobei Imperial Tomb will pass through the border, so he The army is required to escort him back to Beijing, and the leader of the army should preferably be Jing Yuan.

Not to mention that it is impossible for Jingyuan to leave the capital at this juncture, even if he would leave, he would never "condescend" to pick up the sixth prince in the imperial mausoleum.

Therefore, the matter of taking the Sixth Prince back to Beijing had to be postponed. After Xiao Jining told Yaoguang about it, she got a reply of "It's a pity", and she didn't say anything else.

It's just that Xiao Jining always felt that there was something strange about this letter. After he asked for the letter back from the Ministry of Rites, he studied it carefully for a long time at night under the candlelight in the study, and finally raised his head towards the beam of the room and said, "General Jing, look Have you read this letter?"

As soon as Xiao Jining finished speaking, a black figure turned around and turned down from the beam of the room. After he stood still, looking at his face, that person was Jing Yuan.

Jing Yuan stood still beside the desk, glanced at the letter paper in Xiao Jining's hand and said, "I've read it."

"I think..." Xiao Jining said again, "Brother Sanhuang wanted to tell me something in the letter."

Hearing this, Jing Yuan walked up to him, leaned over the edge of the table, quickly read the letter again with Xiao Jining's hand, and then said: "I don't know the third prince very well, what do you see from it?" ?”

"Brother Sanhuang has never sent a letter to the capital since he went to the Imperial Mausoleum." Xiao Jining frowned slightly, and said with a serious expression, "Brother Liu Huang said that he would not return to Beijing because there are too many horse bandits in the Western Regions...he wants you to go Protect him and personally escort him back."

Holding the letter paper, Xiao Jining repeated the most bizarre sentence in his opinion.

Finally, as if he remembered something, his eyes widened suddenly, and he looked at Jing Yuan and asked, "General Jing, is it true that there are suddenly more horse bandits roaming around the border in the Western Regions?"

"Yes." Jing Yuan first replied to Xiao Jining with affirmative words, and then he also reacted, and was slightly stunned for a moment.

Sitting on the imperial chair, Xiao Jining looked up at him quietly, and said in silence for a long time: "I think there may be a fight on the border."

Jing Yuan didn't speak, but looked back at Xiao Jining silently.

"The descendants of Dongping County are exiled to the Western Regions. They may indeed collude with Tubo to attack the Great Xiao." Xiao Jining lowered his head, his eyelashes drooping, and said softly, "If there is really a turmoil on the border, what will you do?"

"The Ji family alone will never be able to defend the border."

Jing Yuan remained silent.

The Great Xiao's royal family changed so frequently, and even though the frontier forces were ready to move, they still didn't dare to directly attack Great Xiao. Not to mention all the credit goes to the Jing family, but at least half of it.

Now that Jingyue is dead, only Jingyuan is left in the Jing family. Once Tubo invades, Jingyuan can't stick to the capital to accompany Xiao Jining, he must go to the border.

Both Xiao Jining and Jing Yuan understood this truth. In the past, no matter how Xiao Jining asked Xiao Jining, Jing Yuan could give him an answer, an answer, but Xiao Jining's question tonight, he really couldn't answer.

After a long silence in the study, Jing Yuan finally opened his lips: "I—"

It's just that before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xiao Jining.

The young man in the golden dragon robe smiled, and the warm candlelight flickered in his eyes. He asked him, "Did you hang on the beam of the main hall in the same way during the draft?"

Jing Yuan's eyes flickered, and he also laughed: "Who said that? If I were really there, would you still be able to sleep so early last night?"

Xiao Jining leaned forward and hugged Jing Yuan's waist, buried his head in his waist, and said in a muffled voice: "Then let's sleep late tonight."

Jing Yuan put his hand on his shoulder, and then slowly stroked his hair, with a slow but firm voice: "I will not leave you."

Even if it is death, I will not leave you alone.

Regarding this letter, neither Xiao Jining nor Jing Yuan mentioned it again.

The end of the new year is approaching, and many people in other places in the capital are starting to rush to the capital one after another. The Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince are also preparing to embark on their journey back to the capital.

But before they came to Beijing, the Seventh Prince also brought good news to Xiao Jining—the Seventh Princess was pregnant.

It’s just that the month is too early, and the news is not suitable to be released, so now only Xiao Jining, the Eighth Prince and the palace people who serve the Seventh Princess know about it. In case of a sudden change, the seventh prince can come to Beijing, but he must not bring the seventh concubine with him.

Although the Seventh Prince is far away in the fiefdom, he has a clear view of the situation in Beijing. He was already hesitant about whether to bring the princess to the capital. In the feudal Huaining Prefecture, it was only announced to the outside world that Concubine Zhen was seriously ill and the Seventh Princess would stay and take care of her, so she could not accompany the Seventh Prince to the capital this year.

While waiting for the Seventh and Eighth Princes to arrive in Beijing, Xiao Jining took advantage of the busiest time before the end of the year, and issued the imperial decree to confer Ding Shuxue as Concubine Shu. The concubine conferment ceremony was also kept simple.

Although Ding Shuxue was dissatisfied with not being able to hold a large-scale banquet so that everyone in the palace knew that she was now a Concubine Shu who could sit on an equal footing with Qiao Xi, but the emperor's order had to be obeyed, and the thoughts of holding the banquet could only be rested, so let it go.

But two days later, Xiao Jining heard that the eldest princess Yaoguang held a small banquet with Qiao Xi, Ding Shuxue and others in the imperial garden.

There were only three women, and the banquet was not large, no matter how luxurious it was, Xiao Jining was just curious about when the relationship between Yaoguang, Ding Shuxue, and Qiao Xi became so good.

After asking, he found out that Ding Shuxue had organized this small banquet, and originally only planned to invite Qiao Xi, but Yaoguang gave Ding Shuxue a lot of congratulatory gifts when she became a concubine, so Ding Shuxue invited Yaoguang as well.

In Yaoguang, she didn't only give presents to Ding Shuxue, Xiao Ji Ning's three concubines in the palace, she all prepared generous gifts, saying that they were New Year's gifts-compared to those small gifts she gave to the Queen Mother Chun, they were really "Thin" ceremony.

A deep friendship cannot be obtained under heavy money, but a superficial friendship can still be obtained.Even if Qiao Xi didn't want to go to Ding Shuxue's small banquet, even Princess Yaoguang went, it would be too disrespectful to Ding Shuxue if she didn't go, so she went anyway.

The three had some snacks and chatted in the imperial garden, and the eldest princess touched her stomach to show off to them, but there was nothing else to do.The hidden guards didn't notice anything unusual, so Xiao Jining put the matter aside for the time being and waited wholeheartedly for the Seventh and Eighth Princes to return to Beijing.

And on the last day of December of this year, the Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince finally arrived in the capital, and brought Xiao Jining soy milk prepared by the Seventh Princess, which would not cause Xiao Jining to develop a rash.

Among the royal family, Xiao Jining has a better relationship with the Seventh and Eighth Princes. He really treats the two of them as relatives. The fourth prince "turned green" and was stared at by the fifth prince.So when I first saw the Seventh Prince Xiao Jining, I couldn't help giving him a hug: "Brother Seventh Emperor, I really miss you."

The Seventh Prince didn't dare to hug Xiao Jining, he just patted Xiao Jining's shoulder lightly and let go, asking him: "Does the Ninth Brother miss me, or the soy milk prepared by my princess?"

"Think about it all." Xiao Jining smiled.

"Ninth Brother, I miss you too." The Eighth Prince saw Xiao Jining hugging the Seventh Prince, and he also stretched out the next door to hug Xiao Jining, "I heard from the letter from my mother and concubine that you were drafted, but you didn't choose any concubine. superior."

"Yes." Xiao Jining not only admitted, but also said bluntly, "I don't want to accept concubines anymore."

The Eighth Prince still regarded Xiao Ji Ning because he planned to treat the four concubines in the palace well with all his heart and soul. He stretched out his voice and said "oh" and said, "I understand."

Knowing why Xiao Jining no longer accepts concubines, the Seventh Prince felt a little helpless, shook his head and scolded the Eighth Prince, "What do you know?"

"Brother Seventh Emperor, you have a concubine and empress who treats me so fiercely now." The Eighth Prince was scolded and wronged.

The Seventh Prince said again: "I didn't scold you, I just said that you don't understand anything."

Eighth Prince: "..."

Why does it sound like you are scolding someone?

However, the Seventh Prince was still very worried about Xiao Jining, so after he followed Xiao Jining into the palace, he found an opportunity when the Eighth Prince was away, and planned to ask Xiao Jining about him and Jing Yuan.

"Ninth Brother, I know that you and Jing Yuan are together." The Seventh Prince did not tact, and used his most straightforward words to talk to Xiao Jining, "But the empress and concubine don't know about this, right?"

At the beginning when he saw Jing Yuan and Xiao Jining's posture in Li Xing Palace, he thought that Xiao Jining was coerced by Jing Yuan and exposed himself in a moment of impatience, but later when he observed the situation of Jing Yuan and Xiao Jining, he found that he must have misunderstood.

But no matter whether Jing Yuan and Xiao Jining are in love with each other or are under coercion, there are big problems in it.

One of the problems is the empress and concubine in Xiao Jining's harem.

When they were in Lixing Palace, the two of them went to rescue Xiao Jining regardless of danger, so the Seventh Prince had a good impression of both of them, but as for Jingyuan, even if the Seventh Prince had no good impression, he couldn't say it, and it probably wouldn't be useful.

The second problem is the blood of the royal family.

The Seventh Prince deliberated over his words several times in his heart before he said solemnly to Xiao Jining: "Ninth Brother, I have already got news. It has been a year since the Empress and Concubine entered the palace, but there is still no movement. Regarding the matter of the emperor's heir... ...what do you think?"