The Way of the Consort

Ji Zhao was so uncomfortable that his heart was burning, and he only had one thought, let alone the prince, even the prince, he didn't want to talk to him.

He buried his face in Yin Yu's arms, Yin Yu turned his head and said softly: "My uncle is suffering." Then he looked at Yin Ming, "You go to see the prince with the elder brother of the guards, leave the others alone, and hurry into the city Come on, hurry up and call a doctor over, everything will go to the city before we talk about it, my uncle will have a good rest."

"Yes! Little one knows!" Yin Ming turned and left, and the chief guard followed him.

Seeing Zong Mi, Yin Ming was a little surprised, isn't this the fifth prince's bodyguard? !

When Zong Mi saw Yin Ming, he knew that what the man said was not a lie.He was bitter in his heart, he really borrowed Jingli's hand this time, and wanted to directly step down Concubine Guo's family. Passing the sentence is easy to exploit, has a lot of means, and has an official name outside. If he doesn't step on it, even if he is canonized, the prince's seat will not be secure in the future.

This time is undoubtedly the best opportunity.

He also didn't want to really do anything to these Beijing officials, otherwise he wouldn't be able to explain to Jin Ling.

Who would have thought that it was Ji Zhao who came!

Leaving aside Ji Zhao's identity, let's talk about Ji Zhao himself...

Zong Mi sighed inwardly, got off his horse and asked, "Maybe let me have a look at the son-in-law?"

Even though the fifth son's bodyguard is actually Prince Zheng's son, Yin Ming was not angry, but he was better than Chen Xing, so he wouldn't scold him directly. He didn't budge an inch, and said bluntly: "Our lord is suffering, why don't you Please send someone back to the city to call a doctor first!"

When Zong Mi came, he was afraid of accidents, so he just brought the doctor over. Hearing this, he waved his hand, and the doctor hurried to the carriage. Zong Mi wanted to follow, but Yin Ming stood in front of him and said straightly: "Your Majesty also Give us an explanation, I was ordered by our lord, and I planned to go to the city to visit the prince first, but before I entered the city, I saw sneaky people dressed in the guards of Prince Zheng's residence on the road, and tried to follow us. We felt something was wrong and rushed back, but our lord was actually surrounded by people from your Prince Zheng's residence!"

Yin Ming was so angry that his face turned red, and he said forcefully: "This is the way your Prince Zheng's mansion treats guests? Our lord is here at His Majesty's order! He is here to attend the funeral of the lord, and you actually want our lord's Life?!"

Another guard also "hmph" said: "I am the guard of the Princess Mansion. I was ordered by the Princess to escort the son-in-law to Guizhou. I really did not expect to encounter such a thing! Zheng Wang's Mansion is so majestic!"

Zong Mi said helplessly, "These are all misunderstandings."

"Misunderstanding? The guards of Prince Zheng's Mansion keep saying that they want to kill the dog official from Beijing, and want to avenge the prince! The dog official from Beijing? Who is this referring to?!"

Of course the guards knew that this was a game, but no matter who set it up, if it hurt the son-in-law, it was their fault!It is natural to take the opportunity to attack.

They were negotiating here, and the people brought by Zong Mi went forward to pick off the bodyguards of Zheng Wangfu who were left behind.

The doctor felt Ji Zhao's pulse and turned his eyes. The doctor took out a porcelain bottle and said, "The son-in-law is shocked, take a pill first, and after entering the city, the old man will prescribe a prescription for the son-in-law."

Chen Xing took it and threw it into his mouth. After a quarter of an hour, he was fine and his spirits improved, so he gave the pill to Ji Zhao.

After taking the pills, Ji Zhao didn't take effect as quickly as Dust Star, and still fell into Yin Citron's arms, but he was able to open his eyes to see people and speak a few words intermittently. Ji Zhao still remembered what happened just now, and asked, "What the hell? What happened..."

Master Du went to listen for a while, and now he said softly: "It was Prince Zheng's son who came and took off the clothes of the previous group of people with brother Yin Ming, and someone recruited them. It turns out that group of people is not from Prince Zheng's mansion." The guards are bandits. As for how the clothes came from, they are still asking, but—" Master Du laughed, "Hey, it's probably the reasons that I guessed about Old Du earlier."

Ji Zhao's head was very dizzy, and it hurt when he turned around. For the time being, he couldn't understand the twists and turns, and said in pain: "Let's go to the city first."

This time, the real guards of King Zheng's Mansion led the way, and finally entered the city smoothly.

Knowing that Jingli would send people over, and the place to live had already been arranged, Ji Zhao didn't even show his face, and the carriage went straight in.

Zong Mi still wanted to meet Ji Zhao, so he walked up to the carriage in person. Chen Xing got out of the carriage and wanted to scold him, but when he saw that this person was the fifth son's bodyguard, he understood it after thinking about it. It was Jinling who secretly went to Jinling in disguise, thinking that the royal family really didn't have any good things!

Chen Xing rolled his eyes, and said directly: "Our lord is very uncomfortable, the son will come to see you in a few days!"

After finishing speaking, he went in again, not paying attention to his son at all.

Zong Mi couldn't laugh or cry.

Chen Xing has nothing to be afraid of, they would have reasoned aside from this matter, and besides, the son has not been canonized as a prince, after all, he is only a son, strictly speaking, it can't compare with their lords, marquises or concubines, their lords Of course, if you want to see it, you will see it, and if you don't think it, you will disappear.

Even if he is really the prince, their lord is not afraid.

Even if the prince, their lords can scold them as much as they want, the prince is nothing.

After entering the room, Ji Zhao was carried to the bed and lay down for a good rest.

Yin Ming and the chief guard are still dealing with this matter with Zong Mi. They want to write this matter down and send a letter directly to His Majesty.

As for Master Du, when he was in the latrine, he took out the eyebrow pencil and paper he had hidden from his pocket, quickly wrote a letter, and went into the woods, where the birds were singing, and he whistled. A carrier pigeon fell from his arm. He tied the letter to the carrier pigeon's leg and let it out again.

Ji Zhao was frightened, dizzy and nauseous, and couldn't get up, but the doctors from the Ministry of Rituals immediately went to Prince Zheng's Mansion to help with the funeral.

On the third day, Ji Zhao recovered completely and didn't want to vomit anymore. He lay on the bed and listened to Yin Ming tell him what happened this time. His mother is Concubine Guo in the mansion, and Concubine Guo's natal brother is the general judge of Guizhou. In order to win favor, Concubine Guo got all the girls in the family who were good-looking to be concubines in the mansion.

One of the concubine's elder brother didn't learn well, and he hung out with the bandits all day long. The general judge, thinking of doing meritorious service, colluded with the bandits and caught some bandits every once in a while. Let them go in secret, and catch them next time.

Concubine Guo and the fourth son are jealous of the position of the prince, and seeing that Beijing is about to send people, they want these bandits to pretend to be the guards of Prince Zheng's mansion, so as to take the opportunity to frame the prince.

Thanks to this accident, Prince Zheng was able to use torture to extract these words, and he also knew that Guo Tongsan had been in collusion with bandits.

At present, Prince Zheng's son has ordered the arrest of Guo Tongpan, and also sent people to the mountains to find the escaped bandits. Guo Tongpan is currently locked in the prison of the Guizhou government office.

Ji Zhao was stunned and asked Yin Ming, "How can these people think of these things?"

What made Ji Zhao even more troublesome was that Yin Ming said with a naive smile, "Lang Jun, this is just one-sided words of Prince Zheng's son, and it can't be said that he deliberately set up this situation to trample the fourth son and the Guo family to death. You see ah--"

"Stop..." Ji Zhao closed his eyes, "I have a headache..."

Yin Ming didn't dare to say any more immediately, Chen Xing gently rubbed his forehead distressedly, Ji Zhao "hummed" a few times, and said sadly: "This trip is really suffering, I didn't expect so many people to come here. Breaking things..." Grandfather also told him to stay away from Prince Zheng's Mansion, he was used by others before he entered the city, and Prince Zheng's Mansion is more terrifying than the East Palace.

He raised his eyes again, and Yu Zu said, "I haven't written to him for several days..."

Master Du, who just came in, just heard this, and laughed "hehe" in his heart, thinking about going back and telling His Highness about it.

Prince Zheng's Mansion has been really busy for several days, and Zong Mi, who finally found some time, was also pale. He walked out of the mourning hall, and listened to the guard report to him: "My lord, I still haven't been able to find Xiao Wei."

Zong Mi secretly sighed: "This is a variable."

The guard said: "Your Majesty, at present, everything is beneficial to us. The collusion between bandits and officials must not be tolerated by Jinling. We just wait for the letter to be received there and send someone to deal with it. The house is completely over."

"Where did the people sent by Jinling go?"

The people sent for the second time will tell them the number and specific personnel. The guard said: "We have already sent someone to pick them up, I am afraid they have already passed Jiangling."

"Xiao Wei can't be found, it's always a big problem."

"Your Majesty, we have taken the first opportunity. Anyway, Xiao Wei is from the Guo family, so we will just leave it to the Guo family."

Zong Mi shook his head, he wasn't worried about this matter, after all, even his bodyguard didn't know why his father died.

Xiao Wei didn't know.

No matter how worried they were, there was nothing they could do, they couldn't be found, and Ji Zhao still couldn't see them. Zong Mi wondered if he should ask Zong Yan to go, Ji Zhao and Zong Yan had always been on good terms.

In Jinling, in the study of the East Palace, His Highness the Crown Prince weighed the letter in his hand, it was very thick and heavy, probably filled with a dozen sheets of paper.

Zong Zhen was surprised, what did Ji Zhao write?He even looked forward to it, and carefully cut open the envelope with a dagger, and took out a stack of papers from inside. It looked like there were more than a dozen sheets.

Zong Zhen immediately spread out the paper, there was no words, he turned to the next page, still no words, he frowned unconsciously, his hands turned faster and faster.Because of thinking about Guizhou's affairs, His Highness the Crown Prince's brows are always furrowed recently, and only when reading letters, his brows can be stretched a little. Seeing him frowning when reading letters, Bao Qing and Cheng Shen began to shrink in again. .

Zong Zhen flipped through twenty sheets of paper in a row, and finally saw a line of words: Are you curious?

His brows furrowed even deeper, and he turned to the next page, still with a line of words: Are you looking forward to it?

He wanted to see the last one all at once, but he patiently flipped through one by one. The next one was: Are you already guessing what it is?

He quickly went to the next one: Then you guess again!

Zong Zhen raised his head and took a deep breath, Cheng Shen was only close to sticking to the wall, Bao Qing rolled his eyes at him, it's a worthless thing.

Zong Zhen continued to scroll down: Guess again!

Zong Zhen had already started to become extremely impatient, and the study room instantly became darker, Bao Qing's legs trembled, and he wanted to stick himself against the wall.

Finally, His Royal Highness turned to the last page, and Zong Zhen was stunned for a moment.

Baoqing seized the time and took a sneak peek back, only to see that His Highness suddenly raised the corner of his mouth after being stunned, revealing an extremely joyful, yet somewhat shy smile?shy?Bao Qing pondered in his heart, is it a matter of shyness?

Bao Qing had never seen such a smile before, so he looked at their highness a little lost in thought, until his highness looked up at him in displeasure, Bao Qing hurriedly stood facing the wall again.

Zong Zhen glanced at Cheng Shen, and stood firmly on the wall.

He just looked down at the paper again, pursed his lips in relief, and then raised the corners of his mouth.

There are only two words written on the paper, "brother", there are countless "brothers", big and small, it is a big piece of paper, after Ji Zhao wrote it, he folded it by [-]%.Zong Zhen just recognized it through the words on the back of the paper. Now he pursed his lips and carefully opened the [-]-fold paper. Seeing so many "brothers", he still couldn't help but quietly laughed again. smiled.

Zong Zhen wanted to ask Bao Qing to come over and help him count, how many did Ji Zhao write, and the moment he opened his mouth, he quickly shut up.

How can he ask the people around him to help him with such a thing?

Zongzhen didn't want to count by himself, let alone ask others to count, but he really wanted to know. He struggled for a moment, bowed his head and started counting by himself. When he counted halfway, a little eunuch hurried in from outside, panting, "Your Highness! Your Majesty is here to invite you!" ! Said something big!"

Zong Zhen was startled, Cheng Shen was about to reprimand him, Zong Zhen raised his hand.

It's almost there. Zong Zhen knew what was going on. He looked at the paper on the table full of "brother". I had a good time.

He got up, walked out directly, and said: "Don't move on the table, wait for me to come back."

"Yes……"

Zong Zhen rushed to Yanfu Hall, besides his father, there were also Wen Zhichang, Yu Tan and other officials present, and when they saw him coming, they all saluted.

Zong Zhen pretended to cough a few times, and asked, "Why did the emperor ask me to come?"

Renzong glanced at him, wanted to speak, but gritted his teeth, his face flushed with anger, obviously unable to speak, and finally pointed to Wen Zhichang: "Tell the prince, I really can't speak!"

"The old minister received a letter from the Jiangling Mansion today..." Wen Zhichang explained everything one by one. It was the things arranged by Zongzhen. He was stopped, saying that there was something important to report, and when he heard that it was Prince Zheng's mansion, the Minister of Rites took him there and asked him carefully.

"The elder brother of the concubine Guo of Zheng Wang's mansion, Guo Zhenhua, the general judge of Guizhou, sent countless women to the palace for his own selfish desires, and even dared to ask the doctor Xiao Wei to give Zheng Wang medicine in secret! He even borrowed the power of Zheng Wang's mansion to sell it in Guizhou Officials, corrupt ink, interfering in the imperial examinations, the evidence is conclusive! The most important thing is——" Wen Zhichang was very old, and he was ashamed to say it.

Zong Zhen said kindly: "Speak slowly..."

Wen Zhichang quickly waved his hands and said "Don't dare", but finally said: "King Zheng didn't fall off his horse and died, but died immediately!"

When Renzong heard this, he slapped the table again angrily.

Zong Zhen also acted in a daze of shock at the right time. Yu Tan stepped forward and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, Prince Zheng's Mansion is really absurd! They are so far away in Guizhou and you can't see them, how dare they do this?" Unreasonable behavior! The majestic prince died because of..., but the small Tongjuan dared to use the hands of the prince to sell his officials and disrupt the officialdom. You were kind to them, but they ruined your world! The people on Guangnan Road are innocent O Your Majesty!"

The more Yu Tan spoke, the more excited he became, and his voice became louder and louder.

Zong Zhen bowed his head, and after listening to Yu Tan's emotional words, he was indifferent yet calm, so Yu Tan was easy to follow the emotional route.

The two of them have been prime ministers for more than ten years, and they have already grasped Renzong's fate. Sure enough, Renzong was so angry that his eyes were flushed, and he slapped the table hard: "Nonsense! It's just nonsense!"

Wen Zhichang took advantage of the situation at this time: "Your Majesty, we need to come up with a regulation for this matter. The old minister is the master, let them bring Xiao Wei back first, Xiao Wei fled early because he was afraid of being killed by the people of Prince Zheng's mansion. So, you can’t trust Xiao Wei’s words, if there is any misunderstanding about this matter, you should ask your Majesty face to face.”

Renzong nodded again and again: "Very true! I want to ask face to face! I don't believe that my cousin is such a person! Then send people to Guizhou to investigate this matter!"

"Yes!"

Yu Tan looked at Zong Zhen respectfully: "Does Your Highness have any ideas?"

Zong Zhen shook his head: "I don't really understand these things, the adults are discussing with the emperor."

Wen Zhichang quickly exchanged glances with Yu Tan, and began to talk about this matter with Renzong again.

Zong Zhen didn't want to listen to the nonsense of these two old things at all, his thoughts had already wandered, he was thinking, how many "brothers" are there on that page?

Before coming, he counted to 210 eight.