After the scum of the enemy prince, I got pregnant

It's already March, but Chang'an seems to be as lively as New Year's Eve.Compared with the discussions in the village about the Battle of Mobei, the undercurrents in the court are more concerned.The expansion of the territory is the pen and ink left on the emperor by later generations, and to whose hands this dragon chair will be passed on, this is what the courtiers really care about.

Just talking about seizing reserves, the current situation is really weird.

The East Palace was also as deserted as before, and the residence of the Prince of Linzi was also locked.The generals and advisers who accompanied the crown prince to the expedition received awards, and even though many people congratulated them, the mansion of Ke Shunzhe, the servant of the Ministry of Rites who was frustrated in the officialdom, was the most crowded on the entire Suzaku Street.

For a whole day, the threshold of the Ke Mansion was about to be broken through.

The ministers and colleagues who stood in the middle of the court, those who were at the top of the fifth rank were sitting in the living room, and those who were not at the bottom of the rank also asked someone to hand over the post, nothing more than wanting to know the whereabouts of King Linzi.

It's just that everyone waited for nearly half an hour, and finally saw Ke Shilang come in with a serious face, and he didn't greet politely, but just raised his hand and bowed towards the audience:

"Someone just came from Daming Palace, and I told you adults to wait for a long time."

Hearing the three words "Daming Palace", these courtiers were shocked, but they quickly guessed the whole story - this statement is naturally not the will of the saint, but there is only one possibility at this time, Zhang Guifei heard that When I asked about the king of Linzi, I couldn't ask the saints, I couldn't get out of the palace, and I also asked Ke Shilang.

This Ke Shilang is indeed the confidant of the King of Linzi, and he is also one of the most cunning of the younger generation in the court. Originally, the Minister of Rites should have been in his pocket long ago, but it is a pity...

There were seven or eight people in the hall, looking at the court uniforms they hadn't had time to change, their official positions ranged from high to low, they were all ministers of the Central Plains, but at this moment they had to admit that the person in front of them belonged to everyone backbone.They all unabashedly supported King Linzi in the court. If the latter really fell and the crown prince ascended the throne in the future, all the official careers they had managed to earn in their lifetimes would have to make room for the new emperor.

No, there is no need to wait until then at all.

Right in front of you, isn't there Fu Nanyin who occupies the position of Minister of Rites?

At this point, there is no need to hide the intention of coming. A member of Yushitai asked straight to the point: "Is there any news about King Linzi these days, Mr. Ke?"

"No." Ke Shunzhe sat straight on the main seat in the hall. Although his complexion was not very good-looking, there was no hesitation or sloppiness in his words, "Your Highness has not heard from you since he entered the Northwest Camp."

He thought back when Li Jiao told him that he had detained Li Pei in the dark prison of the camp, and at that time "everything was under control", although he had doubts, he still didn't think much about it.After all, although King Linzi is young in his heart, in terms of his heart and ruthlessness, he is not comparable to that paper tiger Li Pei.

It's just that I forgot that it was the Northwest Camp.

"Heh..." A sneer sounded inappropriately in the hall, and everyone looked over in search of prestige, and saw the mocking smile on Ke Shunzhe's face.

What time is this, how can I still laugh

"Master Ke, what are you laughing at?"

All of you here are civil servants, so how could you know what the Northwest Camp means?He didn't know it at all, if he hadn't been lucky enough to enter that place two years ago...

The expression on Ke Shunzhe's face became more and more strange, "I just suddenly realized that I seem to have underestimated our Prince Highness all along."

Everyone was startled.

"After all, he holds the military power of the White Tiger Festival Hall in his hands, a mere northwest camp..."

Li Peiming knows better than anyone else, so how can he be trapped?It's ridiculous that the king of Linzi thought that his arrangement there was unexpected, but he didn't know that the oriole was already behind him.

Still underestimated the enemy.

But fortunately, it's just a Mobei.Competence on the battlefield is not the king of Linzi's specialty...Ke Shunzhe glanced at the people in the hall, Shang Shuxing's six censors, the power they hold cannot be underestimated, Li Pei wants to secure the crown prince , after all, it is still the level of the court.

Besides... Isn't there a Minister of Rites, Fu Nanyin, by Li Pei's side?

"The meaning of Yike Shilang, the king of Linzi

Is the disappearance really related to the prince? "

He didn't say it clearly, but all the ministers present could hear the implication.Perhaps everyone had already deduced that, after all, if he hadn't disappeared in Mobei, the only one in the Central Plains who dared to touch the prince was the one in the East Palace.

Just thinking of this, the person who asked the question couldn't help but gasp.

If it is really the prince, then the current situation of King Linzi...

"If you believe me, you can rest assured that the King of Linzi is still safe and sound."

There was a soothing power in Ke Shunzhe's words. Although he didn't know where his confidence came from, the anxiety in the hearts of the people in the room still dissipated a lot.

But he himself really knew that it was impossible for Li Pei to attack Li Jiao.

The latter still had that kind of thought about his elder brother. Before the last step, neither Li Pei nor Li Jiao could make things irreversible.

"It's just..." Ke Shunzhe raised his head and looked in the direction of Daming Palace, "Qin Yushi, according to the laws of this dynasty, imprisoning the prince and setting up a private punishment hall... What kind of crime is this?"

……

The imperial edicts from Chang'an—the visible ones and the invisible ones—were sent to the old palace one by one, filling Li Pei's desk again.

The Xuanzhi officials in the Central Plains worked hard all day long, causing dust to fly in the king's city, making the people even more panic-stricken.

At first Li Pei also felt weird.He handed over the tiger talisman to He Bi early on, and the follow-up matters in Mobei should have been handed over to the Six Departments. Even if they want to award rewards, they can wait for them to return to Chang'an before issuing an order; but for five days in a row, the saint sent ten The two decree officials worked so hard to make him think that something happened to Daming Palace.

Until he opened the seal of the imperial decree and read it, he was helpless and felt a little bit emotional - this has always been a sign of life and death under the ink brush and jade seal, the saint's eloquent writing is more like a family letter, three sentences It has nothing to do with Fu Nanyin and the child, and he alone has nothing to do with the person who receives the order on the face of it.

But for a while, Li Pei was taken aback again.

Suspicion arose in his heart, he picked and picked, and only pulled out a yellow scroll and a thin letter, and only read these two for a long time.When Funanyin came in, he saw that he was still holding a cloud brush in his hand, and the ink was dripping down the tip of the pen, staining the two powerful characters on the rice paper.

Funanyin looked at it, but her eyes tightened——

Ning Xu.

"Consort Ning...where is he buried?"

Sensing the person behind him, Li Pei rarely moved or turned his head, just asked the person in a low voice.

Even though it has never been confirmed, the two have long been tacitly aware of the name Ning Xu.The son-in-law who feigned death and escaped from Chang'an more than ten years ago gave birth to Fu Nanyin in Mobei.And there were only a few lines in the dossier of Consort Ning back then, it only stated that he was pregnant as a man, but did not say with whom he had conceived secretly.

There were some weird emotions in Li Pei's voice, but when it met with Fu Nanyin's bone-chilling words, it was obviously inferior.

"He, he was completely burned by a fire."

Li Pei turned his head in astonishment, and saw Fu Nanyin with an indifferent smile on his mouth, holding half a bowl of unfinished bitter medicine in his hand—perhaps there was too much bitterness left on the tip of his tongue, which made it difficult for him to speak later. It's so heart-wrenching.

"People in Mobei regard it as normal, but I didn't realize it until I arrived in the Central Plains. It turns out that it is called...depressing bones and throwing ashes."

Li Pei could hear the trembling that he forcibly suppressed when he said the last four words, so all the complicated thoughts in his mind were forgotten and empty.

"Ayin, come here."

He stretched out his hand to pull him into his arms, but Funanyin spread out the bright yellow scroll directly in front of him.

"Third grade, Shangshu. I didn't expect the sage to be true to what I said casually about the Ministry of Rites. From this point of view, the name of the emperor's eldest grandson will still have to go through my hands..."

The latter looked at Li Pei with a careless smile on his face and said, "Of course, if you have another little grandson, I will also draw up the name."

It's just that the atmosphere in the room didn't lighten up because of these few words.Funanyin also fell silent, as if waiting for something.

Li Pei would not suddenly ask about Ning Xu.

Not to mention inexplicably on rice paper

Write Ning Xu's name.

"Ayin, the sage wants to 'invite' Consort Ning back to Chang'an and bury him in the tomb of the Li family."

It's just that this sentence seems particularly cruel and ridiculous after learning the way of the old man's return.A person who was regarded as an ominous person by the clan, and his bones and ashes were left behind after death, what would he take back to Chang'an?

Ning Xu also... didn't want to go back to that place at all.

It's just that when this thought flashed by, Fu Nanyin suddenly remembered the look in Ning Xu's eyes before he died, regretting, reminiscing, unwilling... He suddenly became a little uncertain.

Really don't want to go back?

Still waiting for something at the last minute.

"The saint was enthroned in the first year of Tianqi, 15 years ago..." At that time, Ning Xu had already turned into dust, and he sighed: "It's too late."

Words without beginning or end.

The medicine bowl was gently placed on the table, Fu Nanyin didn't look at the strange look on Li Pei's face, and carefully looked at the imperial edict again, as if he forgot about Ning Xu in a flash.

"It turns out that the Qin Tianjian can also deduce the Book of Changes to calculate bad luck, and calculate that Ah Fei's five elements are short of water..."

Qin Tianjian.

Just like how he disliked Yushitai, Funanyin must have treated Qin Tianjian more than nothing.

Li Pei seemed to feel the coldness in the words of the people around him, he gently held Fu Nanyin's hand, and wanted to change the subject to coax others.

"Just now you said that the names of the other little emperor's grandsons were also drawn up by you?"

Funanyin paused for a moment with her fingertips on the jade seal of the imperial decree, "Yes."

"Then what you mean is to propose a few names and give the orphaned little grandchildren?"

"..."

With a tremor of her fingertips, Fu Nanyin immediately denied, "Of course not."

What Li Pei clearly thought was that the attention of the sage and Consort Ning was too much in any way, and it would be unreasonable to just cleanse his sister's son-in-law.

But he couldn't ask that sentence no matter what——

Do you know who your other father is?