Dressed as Tang Bohu

Nanchang, Jiangxi, Prince Ning's Mansion

Tang Ziwei woke up early in the morning from the big bed with carved hanging curtains, and the beautiful maids surrounded him and got busy.

Washing, dressing, putting on shoes, combing hair... There was even a little maid who took a box of ointment of unknown origin and wanted to rub it on his face.Ji Tong was squeezed aside and left out for a long time, seeing this, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and rushed over to snatch it, Tang Ziwei saved himself from being murdered.

It's almost April, Nanchang is not as cold as the capital city, but it is the coolness of spring.Ji Tong took a thin coat and put it on Tang Ziwei, tied it with a green belt, and hung a purse on it, and it was done.

After walking out of the room, Heisha, who was specially assigned another room by Zhu Chenhao, was dressed in gray civilian clothes of a servant, and stood low-key by the door.Seeing Tang Ziwei coming out, he said: "Young Master Tang, the prince has ordered people to set up court food in the garden, please come along with me."

"Why do you look like this?" Tang Ziwei pinched Heisha's palace entry and exit token on his waist with great interest, and looked him up and down.

Heisha grinned at him, and said: "It's so convenient. I've already checked the Ning Palace from top to bottom. If you want to do something bad, it's very convenient."

"This is also the prince's mansion, after a trip to the capital, have you become more courageous?" Tang Ziwei joked.

"Maybe it's true. In the past, I wouldn't dare to enter the palace even if I was killed!" Heisha turned around and walked to the front with his hands behind his back.

In the pavilion with cornices in the garden, Zhu Chenhao had really prepared food, and he was half-reclining on a reclining chair covered with white fur.Seeing the three of Tang Ziwei approaching, he showed a hint of surprise in his eyes, and said with a smile, "Ziwei, I was looking for someone to invite you, but I didn't expect to come here so soon."

Tang Ziwei glanced at Heisha who kept his head silent, the corners of his lips slightly raised, he lifted up his clothes and sat down opposite Zhu Chenhao.

Zhu Chenhao has long been used to his style, and he doesn't mind, he just asked: "Is Ziwei still used to staying here last night? If you need anything, just mention it, and I'll ask someone to prepare it."

As he said that, under the wide-eyed gaze of the maidservant, he took a piece of peach blossom cake for Tang Ziwei with a natural expression. "Try this, it's made from freshly bloomed peach blossoms in early spring, it's rare elsewhere."

"My lord's hand is still hurt, so I can do it myself." Tang Ziwei raised his smile, took a bite of the peach blossom cake, swallowed it, and said slowly:

"After entering the city yesterday, the officials who greeted me couldn't bear the hospitality. I drank some wine at the dinner party. It was getting late. I was invited by the prince to stay overnight in the palace. Now it's time to go to the government office. Now I am the magistrate of this Nanchang mansion. , it’s not easy to live in the palace.”

"What's wrong?" Zhu Chenhao suddenly darkened, not happy.

"Nanchang is the fiefdom of this king, you can live wherever this king wants you to live!"

Tang Ziwei paused with the chopsticks in his hand, looked up at Zhu Chenhao, and said with dissatisfaction on his face, "My lord, don't be willful."

Ever since Zhu Chenhao became the heir of King Ning, no one dared to speak to him in such a tone.He glared at the maids on both sides, and they backed away in fright. When he turned around, his face was full of embarrassment, "Don't treat me like a child! I will negotiate with Zhu Youtang to transfer you Nanchang didn't ask you to be a county magistrate, but to be my military adviser!"

"So? Do you want everyone to know about this?" At this moment, Tang Ziwei put away the dissatisfaction on his face.

He calmly stood up from the stone bench, and said to Zhu Chenhao with an expression that could even be called amiable: "If the prince thinks that I came to Nanchang with you, he can be at your mercy, then he is really naive." cute."

Tang Ziwei said this, smiled, and saluted him: "Thanks for your hospitality, Ziwei will take his leave first."

After speaking, he took Jitong and Heisha and left lightly.

Tang Zi was afraid of this person, and the anger that appeared on his face might not mean that he was really angry. Often when he laughed, he had already sentenced the other party to death in his heart, but the other party didn't know it.But Zhu Chenhao has known him for more than three years, especially the incident in Beijing made him understand Tang Ziwei's nature somewhat.

Tang Ziwei's smile before he left made him terrified, but the more it happened, the more aggrieved he felt in his heart.

Eleven and Seventeen stood side by side silently behind the big tree. Looking at the situation in the pavilion, the two looked at each other, and each pulled a grass stalk from the ground quite tacitly.

After crossing, hold both ends of the grass stalks, three, two, one, pull!

With a soft "click", the green and white grass stem in Eleven's hands broke in two.He glanced expressionlessly at the smiling Shiqi, threw away the broken grass in his hand, turned and walked out.

"See the lord!" Eleven half knelt on the ground, peeking at the resentful eyes of his lord, he couldn't help his scalp tingling.

Zhu Chenhao didn't notice anything strange about him, so he just waved his hands casually, "Say!"

Eleven stared at his toes, and while reporting, tried his best to organize his words to avoid Tang Ziwei's name: "Yesterday, I was ordered to investigate the information of the bandits who attacked the prince. There is a cottage in the direction where the bandits fled, and there are scattered bandits hiding places. There are six places. As for the specific horses that attacked the prince, further identification is needed..."

Eleven spoke seriously, but Zhu Chenhao seemed to be thinking about something on his own.It wasn't until Eleven finished speaking, and stood there for a while, that Zhu Chenhao suddenly reached out and nodded at him, saying: "Go and find Tang Yin, and help him destroy the bandits."

"...Yes!" Eleven pursed her lips tightly and stepped back. After walking out of the garden, her steps became faster and faster.

He knew that his real mission was not just that.Suppressing bandits is an excuse, and wanting to reconcile is the truth.The prince is having a problem again...

On the other side, Tang Ziwei put one hand on Jitong's shoulder, followed by Heisha, who was wearing the clothes of the palace's servant, as he walked towards the Nanchang mansion, thinking deeply, "Heisha, don't you think that since Zhu Chenhao came to Nanchang , does it become a little strange?"

"What's weird?"

"Will a person who wants to rebel do whatever he wants so blatantly? Although Nanchang is thousands of miles away from the capital, Emperor Hongzhi is by no means a muddled emperor who ignores the hidden dangers of the vassal kings. Zhu Chenhao obviously knows this, and he has never done so in the capital." It's an outrageous move, and it's still prudent to act. Why did he seem to be a different person when he arrived in Nanchang? What is he planning?"

"To be too careful may just show a guilty conscience. Maybe the prince is doing the opposite, and maybe it will confuse the emperor?"

"Such a way of confusing, unless the emperor is a donkey, it is almost feasible." Tang Ziwei glanced at Heisha, as if he was questioning why his IQ also dropped.

Heisha rubbed his nose, and said, "Or maybe, he didn't think about it so much, and he did it when he wanted to. It's not as complicated as you think."

"Do you think I'm a fool?" Tang Ziwei stopped and asked him.

"?" Heisha shook his head in confusion.

"That's right." Tang Ziwei leaned closer to his ear, and said, "If Zhu Chenhao is really such a simple-minded person, and he wants to rebel, but I still accompany him, then I am a complete fool!"

Heisha nodded half-understanding, and grinned, "Maybe it really is."

Tang Ziwei was so angry that he let out a soft snort, flicked his sleeves and quickened his pace.Ji Tong, who was supported by him, staggered to keep up, and kept hitting Heisha with his small eyes of complaint and reproach, making Heisha suddenly feel as if he had done something bad and outrageous.

Then it came to the government office.

Tang Ziwei had already contacted the county magistrate of Nanchang Mansion at yesterday's reception banquet, the original county magistrate was forced to retreat by Zhu Chenhao, so Tang Ziwei did not see it, but was told that there was no official document in the government office for many days Deal with it and let him take over as soon as possible.

Tang Ziwei was supposed to come back the next day at that time, but he was delayed in the palace in the morning, and there was no one there to greet him when he came.

Fortunately, Tang Ziwei didn't care about these hypocrisy. Seeing that the door was open, he stepped over the threshold and walked in.

Entering the hall, as soon as Tang Ziwei appeared, he heard a scolding, "Who dares to trespass in the court?!"

It was a yamen servant who spoke, and there was another yamen servant standing next to him. Seeing that Tang Ziwei was wearing clothes that ordinary people could not wear, his tone was much more polite, "Young master, you are not allowed to enter the government office without permission, Mr. County Chancellor We are dealing with business, please move outside the lobby..."

Before finishing speaking, Tang Ziwei raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and walked in front of him, and came to a few big men dressed in rough linen standing in the middle.

"What are you doing?" Tang Ziwei asked.

"I have met Mr. Tang." The county magistrate is a middle-aged man in his 40s, with a white face and long beard, like a teacher.He greeted him when he heard the sound, gave the two yamen servants to retreat with a look, and tactfully did not mention Tang Ziwei's late arrival, and immediately replied to his question:

"Just now these four people came to the door by themselves, saying that they were the bandits who attacked Lord Ning yesterday. They surrendered themselves because they were afraid, and hoped that they would be given a lighter sentence. Because the matter is of great importance, the officials dare not make decisions without authorization, and are waiting for you, my lord. deal with."

"Oh?" Tang Ziwei blinked and asked, "Is that how many?"

"Yes, just these four people."

"More than that. I remember what I saw yesterday. There were at least six or seven people?" Tang Ziwei glanced over the faces of the four big men who had just been shackled. She couldn't help lowering her head to avoid his scorching gaze.

Tang Ziwei smiled slightly and said, "It's kind of interesting. You must have been instructed by someone to come here. That scholar-like person? What did he promise you?"

The faces of the big guys were a little shaken, but they suppressed their emotions and didn't say a word.

Tang Ziwei was not impatient, as if he suddenly remembered something, he touched Ji Tong's head, "Speaking of which, do you know that it was Prince Ning who fell off the horse and was injured? Probably not. Ji Tong, tell them Let’s talk about how to deal with the prisoner who hurt the prince.”

"Yes!" Ji Tong ignored the disturbing palms on his head, and said solemnly:

"According to the book of the Daming Law Office, all robbers who surrender themselves, except those who kill people, rape women, and burn people's houses, are strictly prohibited. Personnel cases are dealt with. However, if the emperor’s relatives are injured, he shall be sentenced to exile. For the lightest, a 36-mile stick can be redeemed for [-] copper coins, and for a severe one, a [-]-mile stick can be redeemed for [-] copper coins. Generally speaking, this is the penalty Usually, more than half of the people who received this punishment died before reaching the frontier.”

The four men were illiterate, but they couldn't be more clear about what the Law of the Ming Dynasty was.Listening to Ji Tong's utterance at this time, every word revealed a cruel punishment, and fear and pressure fell on several people immediately.

Tang Ziwei leaned over at this moment and said, "The crime of self-surrender will be reduced by one level, and the crime of accomplice will be reduced by another level. If you confess to the mastermind, maybe you can relax."

"I—" the dark-skinned man just opened his mouth, and the other three stared over.

"Did you forget what Mr. said?" a person whispered.

"However, it's not necessarily what Mr. said..." The other one also began to waver.

Tang Ziwei saw the disagreement among several people, and the smile on his face deepened.But at this moment, Heisha tugged on his sleeve and told him to look out the door.

Eleven, who was dressed as a guard, appeared by the door at some point, with a badge hanging on his waist, and slowly approached while looking at Tang Ziwei complicatedly. "Young Master Tang, the prince ordered me to assist you in eradicating bandits."

Tang Ziwei sighed, turned to face the four big men, clapped his hands twice, and said, "Well, you have missed the opportunity now."