Nether Jade

The morning light outside the window gradually became clearer. At this time, Emperor Hongwen had already asked his servants to change his clothes and was ready to go to court.

But at this time, there was no one waiting for Chengyu Palace, and it was so quiet.

Emperor Hongwen looked at Yi Shisan, who was full of suspicion, and said, "You still have half the time."

Yi Shisan rubbed the ring in his hand for a moment, then glanced at the Nether Piccolo in his hand, hesitating whether to say that he was Li You, the Shesheng school captain back then.

Since the emperor has been looking for him, it is absolutely impossible not to ask Lan Yu.If she admits her identity today, Lan Yu will commit the crime of deceiving the emperor.If he didn't admit it, he might not be able to walk out of Chengyu Palace alive.

The prince of the Fengshitang has come several times, saying that the prime minister and the minister are all waiting outside to see the emperor, and there is an excerpt to play.

Hongwen frowned, "Zhenlong is not feeling well, so I can't see you."

Yi Shisan looked at the back of the leisurely sipping tea, and twitched the corners of his mouth.

"Do you know how to deal with the crime of deceiving the emperor?" Emperor Hongwen turned to look at Yi Shisan.

Yi Shisan changed the twitching corners of his mouth into a smile, and he had already made a thorough calculation in his heart. Lan Yu is a dead person, and if a dead person deceives the king, he will be degraded at worst. He is a living person. Once he is convicted, he may have to go to see Lan Yu .

Although he is very grateful to Sapphire, he doesn't want to die either.

Yi Shisan touched his nose, not daring to look at Emperor Hongwen, "Actually, the person His Majesty is looking for is..."

"The Empress Dowager has arrived—"

Yi Shisan was interrupted by a hurried shout, and Yi Shisan looked towards the door.

Sure enough, it was the empress dowager with a tired face, and the fourth prince was by her side.

Yi Shisan tried his best to wink at the fourth prince, but the fourth prince was shaking his fan all the way, smiling reluctantly.

The empress dowager was tired and angry, and she turned a deaf ear to Emperor Hongwen's greetings, and walked directly in front of Yi Shisan.

Yi Shisan knelt down in a panic when they entered the door, and now he was staring at the folded branch lotus skirt in front of his feet, not daring to vent his anger.

"Don't both of you have to summon your soul, and this Nether Jade can only have one person's soul attached to it, so it's better to destroy him—"

Yi Shisan's hand was empty, and before he recovered, there was a loud noise in his ear.

The Nether Jade Emperor and the ring in his hand shattered to the ground at the same time.

The Fourth Prince's face turned pale in an instant, and a touch of purple in front of his eyes disappeared.The folding fan fell to the ground, and the person almost jumped on the sapphire fragments like a hungry wolf.

"Empress, how can you trust Si Tianjian's words? If the Nether Jade can really bring about national disasters, it will be fulfilled in the early years..." Emperor Hongwen looked at the ground, his eyes gradually gloomy.

The queen mother sneered, "Do you just think you don't have it? How much power did Lan Yu have back then, and how many people supported him to become emperor? If your father hadn't insisted on letting you follow him, do you think he would let you ascend the throne?"

Yi Shisan's heart skipped a beat, and he turned his head to look at Emperor Hongwen.

Emperor Hongwen frowned, "If he really wanted to proclaim himself emperor, he wouldn't have been stationed in northern Xinjiang for many years and kept silent."

"Then what if he privately stationed troops in northern Xinjiang?" The queen mother glanced at the pale fourth prince on the ground, "Let's end the matter of Lanyu here, and you should do more to make the daughter of the king of Liaodong the prince and concubine." Heart."

Liaodong is bordered by Jinrou, and the king of Liaodong had previously reported a disagreement with Jinrou. If he could marry Jinrou at this time, Jinrou would have nothing to fear, but the fourth prince has worked hard.

The dark jade is shattered, the lost princess is hard to come back, so I can only welcome the new princess, Yi Shisan sighed.

"As for these warlocks who are full of nonsense, the identity of the assassins has not yet been found out, how can they let the imperial court..."

Emperor Hongwen interrupted: "Let my son handle this matter."

"Prime Minister and Shangshu are still waiting in Qianqing Palace, do you still have time to deal with these trivial matters?" The Queen Mother stared at Yi Shisan, "Let's take him to Dali Temple first, and we'll talk about it after the trial."

Yi Shisan looked up in astonishment, Dali Temple is a place of severe punishment, if he enters there, it is hard to guarantee that his skin will not peel off after several rounds of interrogation.

Looking at the man in the bright yellow robe at a loss, he saw that the man nodded indistinctly.

With a chill in my heart, I was already dragged out.

The criminal officer who enforced the law lifted the face in front of him with a cowhide whip, "You have a good face, but unfortunately this is not a place to be pitiful, you should have recruited earlier, huh?"

Yi Shisan smiled but did not smile, showing harmless eyes, "What does the poor man want me to recruit?"

"Who sent you to assassinate?"

After the whip left, Yi Shisan lowered his head, and said softly, "But the Fourth Prince?"

The forces in the court are scattered, and the fourth prince will make enemies no matter what, this person is probably the fourth prince's enemy.Yi Shisan shook his head, "I'm just Mochizuki..."

"Hmph, tie it up!"

……

When the wind, fire and rain reached the sky, someone suddenly shouted, "His face..."

Hearing this, the criminal officer looked at Yi Shisan who had just been poured with a bucket of cold water, but he touched something looming on his face, and the edge floated up, like a very thin layer of skin.

Hesitantly peeling off the layer, the criminal officer suddenly took a step back, and said in an unsteady voice, "Go, go and report to the emperor."

As soon as Yihong stepped out of the serving hall, someone reported that the Fourth Prince was waiting for His Majesty in Chengyu Palace.

Emperor Hongwen was playing with a Dongzhu in his hand, his eyes were dark and dark, "Is the thing repaired?"

Eunuch Sun handed over the ring that the craftsman stayed up all night to mend and polish in good time.

Emperor Hongwen took the very natural one and put it on his hand, and replaced Dongzhu.

Eunuch Sun held Dongzhu in his hand, glanced at the black ring, scratched his ears, wondering how Dongzhu could not compare to an ordinary ring.

As soon as he entered Chengyu Palace, he saw the Fourth Prince's distraught look, no matter how he tried to cover it up, the reaction of that day finally fell into the eyes of Emperor Hongwen.

"Death cannot bring people back to life. I will make people chase her as Prince Shuo and concubine. It can be regarded as comfort to the souls of the dead."

Emperor Hongwen took the tea and drank it slowly.

The fourth prince smiled lightly, and said bitterly: "Thank you for the gift, brother, but I didn't come here today for this matter."

Sensing a probing gaze from above, the Fourth Prince continued: "It's for the eunuch from last time."

Yesterday, all my thoughts were on the Nether Jade, and because of the power of the Empress Dowager, I couldn't intercede, so I came early this morning.

"Yesterday, didn't you hear that he was in Dali Temple."

"He's not an assassin, I let him enter the palace to get the Nether Jade."

Emperor Hongwen said calmly, "He is not weak in martial arts, he is a private soldier raised by your family? You know what the Empress Dowager taboos, so let Dali Temple handle this matter."

"But," the Fourth Prince twirled his fan several times in his hand, and finally said, "He is not an ordinary secret guard, but a member of General Sapphire. General Sapphire repeatedly told me to ensure his safety before he left for the expedition, so I took him in." He. This time he entered the palace voluntarily, so..."

"Sapphire's man?" Hongwen raised his eyebrows, as if thinking of something, "Why did you hand him over to you?"

"Here, during the Battle of Xisha, Yi Shisan was taken captive by Beiyi, and later he got involved in that sky fire. When Sapphire rescued him, he was already seriously injured..."

The teacup in Emperor Hongwen's hand paused, and the notebook handed in by Lan Yu emerged.

"... Li You, Lieutenant of Shesheng, was taken captive by the northern barbarians in the battle of Xisha. Later, Xisha burst into flames, and Li You was buried in a sea of ​​flames. I obeyed Li You's long-cherished wish and buried his bones in northern Xinjiang. I feared that I would lose the holy will, and I could not Take him back to Beijing..."

He was also injured in the Battle of Xisha, and he also knows about Sapphire...

"Go back first. I won't let him die."

outside the cell.

The eunuch shook like chaff.

"...that man's appearance is different, the servant went back to the emperor, met the queen mother on the way, and the queen mother asked him to take him away..."

"...is there a difference in appearance?" A very slow voice came out of Emperor Hongwen's throat.

"Yes, that man had a mask on his face, and the face under the mask was completely destroyed, like a burn, very scary..."

The fourth prince said that Yi Shisan was the person Lan Yu specially asked to take care of him. May I ask who in the army besides Li You deserves Lan Yu's attention.

Emperor Hongwen trembled violently, and was immediately supported by Eunuch Sun, "Your Majesty?"

"Go to Chaoyang Palace."

In the courtyard of Chaoyang Palace, the Empress Dowager dressed in golden clothes was sitting at a stone table and was fiddling with a pot of dwarf green pine. When she saw the emperor coming in from the door, she didn't stop and said softly, "Do you think this pine is good?"

Emperor Hongwen sat down directly and looked it over, "No, I remember it was sent in the year before last, but it is still the same size as it was then."

"I let people raise it with nutrients and support it with wooden sticks, but it doesn't appreciate it."

"It might be better if the queen mother can let it grow according to her own ideas."

The green pine was silent on the stone table, but the queen mother still took the trouble to cut off some yellowed branches and leaves, and suddenly said: "Do you still remember what I asked you the night before you came to Beijing?"

Emperor Hongwen saw the stern look on her face, and said respectfully: "Remember, my mother asked me why I wanted to be emperor."

"Then how did you answer?" The queen mother raised her eyelids.

"One is for parents not to be detained, and the other is for the well-being of the people of the world."

"Isn't the matter of you asking Lan Yu's dignitary aroused enough turmoil back then? Those uncles of yours often find you wrong. Although they are not in Beijing now, your throne may not be secure. The court is stable, and the common people Only then can we be at ease."

"Li You is also one of my people."

Accompanied by the "crack" sound of pine branches breaking, "Confused the people of the monarch?"

Emperor Hongwen suddenly got up and walked towards the hall, "My son took the man away first, even if he is confused, I can protect him."

"Today, I'm afraid you won't be able to protect him."

His body froze, and he paused in mid-air when he touched the closed door.

In the end, he kicked open the palace door.

In the center of the hall, a thin figure curled up in a pool of blood. Whiplashes and burns made this body extraordinarily terrifying, but the most terrifying thing should be his face.

Someone wanted to help Yi Shisan, but Emperor Hongwen restrained him, and he picked up the person on the ground with his own hands.

His body, which was lighter than expected, lay against his chest, and the warm blood quickly soaked through the skirt of his clothes.

When the people from Tai Hospital rushed to Chengyu Palace, they saw Emperor Hongwen was covered in blood. They were in a panic to check the emperor's wound, but they were directed to look at the bed.

Old wounds add new wounds, the imperial physician dared not say that he was not sure, so he had to send people to seek the genius doctor in the valley of medicine.

When Yi Shisan woke up, it was already autumn.

There are yellow leaves all over the ground outside the window, but no one cleans it, it seems to be a very secluded place.

Emperor Hongwen was batching papers on one side of the room, looked at him for a few seconds, got up and handed him a cup of hot water.

Yi Shisan was about to kneel, but was stopped by Emperor Hongwen's other hand, "But there is still some discomfort."

"No, no." Yi Shisan smiled dryly.

Emperor Hongwen put water on the bedside, turned around and added some silver charcoal to the stove in the house, "You can live here from now on."

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Yi Shisan felt that the emperor in front of him was a bit haggard. He hadn't changed his mind after hearing this, and said slowly: "The slave should go to the Sixth West..."

"The Fourth Prince has told me about you. He has led the troops to Xisha a few days ago, and you have nowhere to go. You can stay here for as long as you want."

"The fourth prince went to Xisha? What about the marriage of the Liaodong king?" Yi Shisan remembered that there had been news of the marriage before.

"I chose the prime minister's son and went."

"Oh."

Yi Shisan lay back and watched Emperor Hongwen critique the papers. After reading it for a while, he felt bored, and asked again, "Where is this?"

"Seven Square Hall."

"Seven Square Hall?"

Filling up the ink on the tip of the pen, Emperor Hongwen thought about it and said, "My harem."

(Finish)