I have a book to play

Banquets held in the Eastern Palace are always quite large.

But this time such a big thing happened, even if Xie Zhang wanted to put on a show, he was unanimously opposed by his subordinates.

Therefore, Xie Zhang hosted a banquet today to entertain Xie Chen, there will be no singing and dancing, no wine and meat, even the Crown Princess and Liangdi Fengyi will show their faces.After the whole meal, there were only three of them——Xie Yu was picked up by Xie Zhang from Queen Wang before the meal.

The Su Zhai was made by the East Palace Kitchen itself, but Xie Chen didn't touch the other dishes except for the bowl of vegetarian soup on the table.

Just when the three brothers had enough politeness and the room was full of awkward atmosphere, Xie Zhang who was sitting in the main seat asked, "Brother Huang, you think the food is not to your liking? I remember that Brother Huang used to eat very delicate food."

Xie Chen replied: "Being a monk for more than ten years, simple tea and light meals have become a habit, but the cook in the Eastern Palace may not be good at vegetarian food."

As he spoke, he gently moved an open clay jar, and said: "There is a layer of lard floating in this jar, even the crown prince, don't use too much to cause discomfort."

Xie Zhang's smiling face froze, and he looked at Xie Yu.

Taking advantage of his young age, the latter leaned over to Xie Chen's desk and took a look, and he saw a white layer of lard floating in the clay pot he pushed away.

The corner of Xie Zhang's lips was pressed immediately.He has already ordered that tonight, the vegetarian food must be served for Xie Chen, even if he doesn't know how to cook it, he can serve it completely vegetarian.But he didn't expect that these bastards would dare to cause him such a mistake, and he felt depressed right away.

As a result, the matter of brothers and sisters was forced to lose face and couldn't hold on anymore.

"Brother Huang entered the palace this time, but is he planning to return to vulgarity?"

"I haven't planned to return to vulgarity yet."

"When will the emperor leave?"

"If Your Majesty feels that the matter in the palace is over, the poor monk will go out of the palace with the teacher. Does the prince not welcome the poor monk?"

"How could it be?" Xie Zhang smiled awkwardly, "Even if Brother Huang becomes a monk, he is still an orphan. Brother Huang can live in the palace as long as he likes."

What he said was so false that even Xie Yu couldn't stand it.For a moment, the three brothers were embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

When Xie Yu drank too much soup and got up to go outside to relieve himself, Xie Zhang suddenly asked again: "Brother Huang, do you think that the lonely prince is too embarrassing?"

"Why the embarrassment?"

"Gu is the successor son. If the emperor's brother hadn't become a monk, he would still be a prince, and he could only be a happy prince in the future. And the emperor's brother is the crown prince that the courtiers look forward to. Now Gu only thinks that the prince is the prince. , how difficult it is to sit."

"The poor monk has no intention of the East Palace." Xie Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, "The poor monk has spent more than ten years in the clouds and wild cranes, at ease and quiet. The crown prince is the queen's son, so he should be the crown prince."

"Brother Huang, do you really mean it?"

"The poor monk has no intention."

I am afraid that only Xie Zhang can do such a straightforward probing and questioning.

When he was young, he was afraid of being compared with Xie Chen, so he finally became the prince, and lost all the things that Xie Chen had used in the Eastern Palace.

At the beginning, I was trembling with trepidation, for fear that if I made a mistake, the courtiers would take the blame.After securing the crown prince position, he finally gained confidence, but now...

Why did Xie Chen come back?

"I heard from my father that the emperor will stay in the palace for the next few days. Where does the emperor live?" Xie Yu came back from his hands and saw that Xie Chen's case had been replaced with a cup of tea, so he couldn't help asking beside him. .

As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Zhang's expression changed again.

Xie Chen didn't seem to see Xie Zhang's face, and looked up at Xie Yu: "The poor monk lives in Qingsi Palace."

"Boom", a wine cup fell on the table.

Xie Chen heard the sound and looked, Xie Zhang's complexion was not very good, the maid behind hurriedly stepped forward to clean up the table for him.Even Xie Yu was taken aback.

"What's the matter, Brother Prince?"

"it's okay no problem……"

Qingsi Hall is the closest to the palace where Emperor Xihe lived.

What Xie Zhang is most worried about is that before Xie Chen left the palace, because of his frequent contacts with Xi Hedi, people will think of his kindness again.

And those courtiers must have raised their gratitude several times. At that time, even if Xie Chen has no intention of regaining the crown prince, some courtiers will slowly stand behind him and make suggestions.

The more Xie Zhang thought about it, the more worried he became. After a meal, he had completely lost his appetite.The banquet ended early, and he didn't bother to send Xie Chen and Xie Yu out of the East Palace, so he directly plunged into the study, and after a while, an attendant from the East Palace hurried out.

The banquet in the Eastern Palace was over, but the thank you did not take long.Xie Yu wanted to follow him to Qingsi Hall to sit for a while, but he was left behind by someone inadvertently, and the figure was nowhere to be found.

"Trash! A bunch of useless things!"

"Three princes..."

"A good living person can't keep up! What are you doing to raise you!"

Xie Yu's voice was filled with indelible anger, arrogant and domineering, completely opposite to his usual cuteness.

Until the sound faded away, someone came out from the corner behind.

"I... I didn't mean for you to hear this." Sun Peng was a little embarrassed.

Thank you for not saying a word.

Sun Peng glanced at the figure in the distance, and said: "I was just worried that His Highness the Crown Prince would be unfavorable to Master, and I didn't expect you to hear this by accident... The Third Prince..."

The more Sun Peng spoke, the more anxious he became. He didn't remember that the third prince had such a temper before he was reborn.It was clearly born of the same mother, but the temperament of the two brothers is so different...

Xie Chen was not surprised.

Xie Yu, who can kill brothers and fathers, naturally wouldn't be a sudden idea one day.I'm afraid that the child has always had such thoughts in his heart, but because he was young and under the restraint of the queen, he always maintained the appearance of a well-behaved little prince who was raised and abandoned.

He looked at Sun Peng, rolled up his sleeves, turned around, and stepped forward: "Let's go, follow the poor monk to Qingsi Hall."

"What are you going to Qingsi Hall for?"

Xie Chen turned around: "It's getting dark, it's inconvenient to go out of the palace, Qilang will stay in the palace with the poor monk tonight, and leave tomorrow."

Just as Sun Peng was about to reply that he could go to Lenggong to squeeze with his colleagues, suddenly the big raindrops fell down.

The suddenness of the rain, from sparse to dense, from slow to urgent, was nothing but an instant.Sun Peng was about to find a place to shelter from the rain, but a monk's robe suddenly covered him, blocking him, and then dragged him with one hand, trotting all the way in the rain.

Sun Peng couldn't recover, and felt that the wrist that was being held was scalding hot.And the back running in front of him, and the monk's robe tightly attached to his body, which was wet by the rain, all carried a breathless temperature.

*****

Ever since Emperor Xihe personally invited the eminent monk of Jingming Temple into the palace that day, he lived in the palace for half a month. Every now and then, he would stop by the dry well in the East Palace, even though the dry well had been filled up firmly with soil. To be honest, they were still there, facing the mouth of the well covered with soil, chanting various scriptures.

No one dared to say anything, after all, Emperor Xihe invited him into the palace, and there was a former prince in there.

But it was precisely because of this that in just half a month's time, many people in the front court began to become active, and accidentally ran into Xie Chen who was staying in the palace.

For a time, undercurrents surged inside and outside the capital.

On the surface, the courtiers wanted to get in touch with the eminent monk, but in fact, everyone was thinking about abolishing the prince, and asked Emperor Xihe to re-appoint the former prince as the master of the East Palace.

But in this way, gradually, some strange voices started from outside the palace, and came back to the palace bit by bit.

Even, people were killed.

The granddaughter of Master Yu, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, was found hanging from a beam in her boudoir and hanged herself.

But to trace the reason, it turned out that rumors started from nowhere in the city, saying that Miss Yu ran into Master Chang He when she entered the palace.The two disregarded ethics and taught each other privately, which insulted Buddhism.

This is of course a rumor, but whether it is true or not, that is what the people in the streets and alleys need to know.They only know that if someone swears about this matter, after dinner, it will be widely circulated.

The Yu family was a little shocked when they heard the rumors at first. Their children naturally know their temper best, and how could they do such a thing of disregarding ethics and giving and receiving in private.What's more, on the day Miss Yu entered the palace and met Xie Chen, she was clearly accompanied by Yu Shangshu's wife and other female relatives.

Yu Shangshu is in the Ministry of Punishment and has his own connections to investigate the source of the rumors.But this time, he struggled a bit.

Until the granddaughter was found hanged in the boudoir and left a letter, saying that she wanted to prove her innocence by death, Yu Shangshu couldn't understand who would pour dirty water on an innocent little lady like this, stain her reputation, and ruin her reputation. She has a good reputation.

Yu Shangshu was not stupid. After burying his granddaughter, Sun Junliang's words woke him up instantly.

"When this happens, who do you think will benefit the most?"

"what?"

"I'm afraid that your granddaughter is just implicated innocently."

"You mean that person is going to deal with Qian... against Grandmaster Chang He?"

Calling the former crown prince a master is somewhat unfamiliar.But Yu Shangshu is too familiar with this former prince, if not for thanking Chen Chu's family, one of his sons should have been selected as an official of the East Palace.

Sun Junliang didn't intend to continue to play tricks, and said bluntly: "That man never thought about other people's lives at all, he just wanted to tarnish the reputation of the master."

Yu Shangshu smiled wryly: "So, my poor-fated granddaughter has become a wronged soul under his hands?"

Sun Junliang sighed.

He didn't know that Miss Yu died innocently.

It's just that when something like this happens, even if the truth comes out, so what.Fame has been ruined, how many men in the world don't care.If you are thankful and return to vulgarity, there is still some possibility of marrying him, but he is a monk who has left home, so how can he marry a wife and have children.

Yu Shangshu lowered his eyelids: "This prince... can't stay."

Sun Junliang frowned: "Your Majesty may not be able to abolish him."

Yu Shangshu laughed loudly: "That's why he can't stop jumping up and down!" He burst into tears, and said angrily, "He deserves to be a crown prince, and he deserves to be disgraced. The Wang family wants to support him, and they don't want to Think what kind of trash that is!"

Xie Zhang thinks he did a great job with this move.

As soon as the rumors come out, no matter what the truth is, it will more or less make people look at Xie Chen with other colors.

As for the granddaughter of Yu Shangshu who was forced to death by the rumors, in his eyes, it was just something that could be discarded casually.

He thinks it's wonderful, he thinks no one can know, but he doesn't want Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment and even Yushitai to understand the ins and outs of it.

Sun Peng naturally heard about it too.He has met the young lady of the Yu family a few times, and he is an extremely gentle person.The Sun family intended to hire Miss Yu as his wife, but they didn't want such a thing to happen before he refused.

Unavoidably, Sun Peng felt a little depressed, and when he met Xie Chen several times, he couldn't help but sigh.

Today, Xie Chen looked at him, and suddenly said a word: "He has offended Shangshu Yu, the Kujing case should be settled."

Sun Peng was a little unclear, but Xie Chen smiled and didn't elaborate.

He didn't know until evening that the Donggong dry well case was originally full of difficulties. The Queen Mother and Queen Wang continued to exert pressure, and the Wang family even secretly tried to destroy the corpse several times.However, after Miss Yu was buried, the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Dali Temple, and Yushitai suddenly worked together to thoroughly investigate the truth in the shortest possible time——

The fourteen corpses were all from the hands of Xie Zhang.