Crossing the East Palace

From the very beginning, Tang Luojin knew what the eldest prince wanted to do to him while hunting this time.

Although the First Prince's actions are concealed, they are not concealed enough.For example, he found clues from the eldest prince companion.The Eldest Prince and Concubine Li were in the palace, so there were more clues that could not be revealed.The empress refused to tell him what the two of them were doing, but the second prince's mother concubine, Concubine Jiang De, would not hide it from the second prince.

Therefore, in the actions of the eldest prince this time, what role did the second prince play, and what did the eighth prince, who was one year younger than him, do? Above all, he was never separated from Ning Junchi who was protecting him and the guards around him.

And the eighth prince's companion, although he kept trying to lure them to a certain place, Tang Luojin didn't fully listen to him.

Until he heard a roar of a tiger, and the exclamation of the Eighth Prince.

The child's cry was the clearest, and the cry of fear was directly transmitted to Tang Luojin and his party.

Tang Luojin's eyes sank.

The eighth prince's companion got off the horse immediately, knelt down and begged: "Your Highness! Your Highness the Crown Prince! The eighth prince is only one year younger than you! He is still a child! Anyway, I beg you to save the eighth prince. If you refuse to save He, the Eighth Prince, will definitely die this time!"

Although the First Prince is not smart enough, Concubine Li is not stupid.She had already calculated that if Tang Luojin was fooled, she would try to take Tang Luojin's life. If Tang Luojin was not fooled... then she would kill the eighth prince who was born to a court lady with no family background, and then give Tang Luojin his life. Jin An's crime of "refusing to save the younger brother" made Tang Luojin unable to be a "gentleman" in front of Emperor Tianyuan and the people of the world, let alone a qualified elder brother and prince.

With Concubine Li's calculations, whether Tang Luojin was fooled or not, she couldn't please her in this matter.

"Your Highness," Zhu Keshan, who is now 13 years old and good at equestrian skills, is the only companion Tang Luojin stayed with, he said in a low voice, "I'm afraid this matter is deceitful. Whether your Highness goes or not, this time there will be a difference." Wrong. Listen to the sound of the tiger, the tiger is very close to us, but we have to go now. The fireworks that His Highness asked me to bring are set off now."

Tang Luojin nodded slightly, then glanced at Ning Junchi, Zhu Keshan, and the other six guards behind him, the companions of the Eighth Prince, paused in his heart, and said, "Be careful, everyone."

Then he rode the pony and followed the place where the tiger and the eighth prince called.

When the ten people arrived, the only three guards around the eighth prince had already entered the tiger's mouth.

At the feet of the eighth prince, there was a little tiger that had been shot by an arrow, and that mad tiger was obviously the little tiger's mother. Now that the child was gone, how could the tiger not show its power?

Moreover, the tiger was so hungry that he was thin and skinny, and when he stared at him, the eighth prince's companion staggered twice in fright, and fell off the horse directly.

The Eighth Prince couldn't even cry now, looked up and saw Tang Luojin, and called out "Brother Seventh Emperor" in a voice as soft as a mosquito.

Tang Luojin ignored him, just glanced at Zhu Keshan and said, "You and Brother Li, take the Eighth Emperor Brother away, leave quickly, and then call someone to help. We are dragging this tiger here."

Zhu Keshan immediately said: "Brother Li and the companion of the eighth prince will go with the eighth prince. I am the prince's companion. If the prince does not leave, I will not leave." Then he took out his whip and slapped the eighth prince's companion Shake, "Still not up yet!"

Zhu Keshan hit ten percent of the whip with this whip.The Eighth Prince is young and has no support in the palace. Maybe there is nothing wrong with this matter, but the companion of the Eighth Prince is four years older than the Eighth Prince. He is already ten years old. How could he really not notice anything? arrive?No way, this accompanying reading is a move by the eldest prince.

Perhaps the companion was really guilty, and Zhu Keshan whipped him off, but he didn't even quarrel. He ran forward and took the eighth prince with him, and fled from place to place.

Seeing that Zhu Keshan was like this, Tang Luojin never reprimanded him, but only ordered: "Hold a bow and shoot an arrow. Shoot it in the eyes!"

Ning Junchi heard the words, and then he opened his mouth, and continued: "When it is shot in the eye, it will go crazy. At that time, I will bring three people forward to hold the tiger, and the rest will continue to shoot arrows. Be quick!"

Tang Luojin took out ten bows and arrows from the quiver bag at her waist, handed four to Ning Junchi, and said, "Shoot it with these bows and arrows."

Ning Junchi took the arrow and replaced his original arrow.

All of a sudden, Ning Junchi, the remaining five guards, and Zhu Keshan all took arrows and shot at the tiger's eyes!

Needless to say, Ning Junchi has been skilled in horse bow and horse since he was a child, and when he shot two arrows, he hit the tiger's eyes respectively!

Among the five guards, three were sent by Marshal Ning. They all had seen blood and had been on the battlefield. They followed closely behind and shot two arrows into the left and right eyes of the tiger again!

Zhu Keshan and the other two were nervous for a while, and only shot the tiger in the ear, and the rest of the arrows fell.

The tiger was already starved to the bone and had just lost its child. At this moment, several arrows had been inserted into its eyes, and it immediately went berserk. It didn't care about its eyes, and immediately rushed towards Tang Luojin and the others!

Everyone took a step back subconsciously, but Ning Junchi, with a slightly arched body, slammed straight at the tiger!

Still shouting: "Zhu Keshan sent the prince up the tree!"

Ning Junchi made a move, and the three guards who were originally arranged to defend against the tiger immediately rushed forward, stumbling the tiger's footsteps together.

Zhu Keshan reacted very quickly, although he alone could not restrain the prince, he immediately ordered one to shoot the tiger, and the other pushed Tang Luojin up a tall tree with him.

"The prince saves his life. In the future, I will wait for some good or bad, so the prince can avenge me!" Although Zhu Keshan is usually careless and serious, but at this time he has a clear mind. They can only live if Tang Luojin lives, but Ruotang Luo Jin is dead, even if they live, it is better to die, "Prince, don't be willful!"

Tang Luojin: "...you come up too!" He just didn't expect the tiger to be so powerful, and Ning Junchi and three soldiers who had been soldiers could only restrain him temporarily.Seeing that Zhu Keshan was in a daze, he said, "You draw the bow, and I'll aim at the tiger."

Zhu Keshan came back to his senses, and he and Tang Luojin went up the tree together.

In the paddock, most people found the fireworks in the sky.

As soon as the eldest prince saw the location of the fireworks, his expression changed: "Why would he carry fireworks with him, and would let them out to ask for help at this time? Could it be that he guessed our plan?"

The entourage next to the eldest prince squinted for a while, and said: "Even if I guessed it, I'm afraid it's just a clue. We prepared well this time, and prepared three 'gifts' in total. Even if the prince escaped the first time, I can't escape the second or third time."

Only then did the First Prince feel relieved.

"It's just..." The entourage hesitated before saying, "The location where the prince is asking for help is not far from our location. The eldest prince needs to consider the time to 'rescue' the prince. Of course, if the eldest prince is really unwilling to go , then, the eldest prince can only be wronged, and suffer some minor injuries that cannot save the prince."

Although the place where Tang Luojin met the tiger was a bit remote, it wasn't that no one went there.Some people saw that the fireworks were approaching their positions and were about to rush there when they heard a roar of a tiger and immediately stopped in their tracks.Some people looked at that location as if it was a hunting place for the prince, and they really rushed there for the future of wealth and honor.

And Emperor Tianyuan was hunting on the other side of the paddock.

When he looked up and saw the fireworks, he was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "I don't know whose brat is so brave that he even uses fireworks to play in the paddock."

The courtiers around Emperor Tianyuan joked: "Over there is the place where the princes and the young ladies of the family hunted. Maybe that kid met someone's young daughter, so the fireworks were set off, and the beauty smiled."

Emperor Tianyuan laughed when he heard the words, pulled the rein, and continued to run a few steps forward, suddenly turned the horse's head: "No! On this paddock, the only one who dares to set off fireworks at will is the prince! And my prince , How can you set off fireworks at will? Something must have happened! Come with me!"

"Holy Majesty can't do it!"

"Holy!"

……

In any case, Tang Luojin's goal was achieved, and indeed many people rushed to the place where the fireworks were set off.

And the tiger in front of Tang Luojin was howling mightily at first, and scratched two guards who stopped it. After inserting the tiger's throat three times, the tiger struggled and finally fell down.

As soon as the tiger fell down, Ning Junchi crawled out from under the tiger, only to find out how many arrows had been shot into the tiger's back.

He looked up at the little boy standing in the canopy of the tree, and suddenly smiled.

For the rest of her life after the catastrophe, Tang Luojin also wanted to laugh.But before he could adjust from his perennial facial paralysis to a smiling expression, three tigers quietly walked out of the dense forest.

The three tigers didn't seem to be awake, and when they saw the corpses of the mother tiger and cubs on the ground, they roared one after the other.

Tang Luojin: "..." The Eldest Prince really wanted his life, so he got so many tigers to kill him.

It's just... the first prince has lost the support of the Li family, so how could he still have such abilities, first help the first prince find the tiger, then help the first prince deliver the tiger, and then bribe the people around the eighth prince People... all kinds of things, even if you beat Tang Luojin to death, you wouldn't believe it, the eldest prince did it all by himself.

"Xiao Qi, come down!" If it was just a tiger, Ning Junchi would not say anything, and tried to help Tang Luojin beat the tiger to death, and after he got out of the paddock, it would be reported that "the crown prince shot at the age of seven." The story of "getting a tiger" can be considered as a momentum for Tang Luojin, and it should be done.But there were three more tigers in front of him, and even Ning Junchi could only choose to leave with Tang Luojin in his arms.

Tang Luojin also knew how powerful it was, so she hurriedly jumped off the tree, sat in front of Ning Junchi, and shared a ride with him.

"Spread out, let off fireworks, run!"

The group of people dispersed immediately, and two or three people ran to various places together.

At the same time, the fireworks in the sky continued, and the roar of the tiger in the paddock gradually came out.

In the paddock, everyone felt in danger.

Although everyone knew that there would be tigers in the paddock, shouldn't the ones in the paddock be the kind of tigers that are old and weak, covered in internal injuries, starved for several days but not too hungry?But listening to the successive howls of tigers, it was clear that there was more than one tiger, it was clear that there were more than one tigers, and they were obviously very energetic!

Emperor Tianyuan was running here on horseback, when he heard the roar of the tiger, his face immediately changed.

"Your Majesty can't go any further." Li Shouhan immediately got off his horse and knelt down, "A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. The Emperor is a holy son, and he should be a gentleman and take care of his subjects for the world. As for the two tigers ...The general is still here, the emperor can ask the general to bring many guards to rescue the prince."

Emperor Tianyuan paused.

After a while, the second prince rushed over in embarrassment with the eighth prince who had fainted.

As soon as he arrived in front of Emperor Tianyuan, the second prince got off his horse and knelt down: "I am ashamed. I saw the seventh emperor being chased by two fierce tigers, but the eighth emperor was frightened twice and passed out. I couldn't separate myself, so I had to send my bodyguard , sent most of them to help the prince, and brought the eighth brother back by himself." After saying that, he kowtowed heavily, "I am ashamed of the seventh brother, and I ask my father to come down!"

Emperor Tianyuan's complexion immediately sank.

Immediately the eldest prince also came back.

The eldest prince came back from an injury, so naturally no one would hold him accountable for not helping the prince.

Then, most of the other princes, princesses and ministers' children in the tiger-infested paddock also slowly came out.

Everyone kowtowed and begged Emperor Tianyuan to leave the paddock quickly.

Hearing the roar of the tiger, Emperor Tianyuan almost broke the rein in his hand, closed his eyes slightly, and said after a long time: "The general obeys the order, a group of 20 people, follow the direction of the fireworks, look for the prince and other people, and kill the tiger !"

After the general came out and promised, Emperor Tianyuan hesitated for a moment, then turned and left.

In the depths of the paddock, Tang Luojin and Ning Junchi cooperated tacitly. Ning Junchi held the rein in one hand, and together with Tang Luojin in the other, they drew a bow and shot an arrow. tiger.

Seeing the tiger fall to the ground, Tang Luojin's hands were overstretched and trembled slightly.

Ning Junchi didn't expect that this arrow could kill a tiger. Seeing that the child in front of him was silent, he thought that the child was scared, and said with a smile: "So, Xiao Qi also became a parachutist once. Shoot and kill a tiger! Prince Datang is indeed majestic!"

Tang Luojin forced a smile, and wanted to raise her hand to shoot the arrow again, but found that her hands were still shaking.

——It was not because of fear that he trembled, but because he exerted too much strength for a moment and was shocked by the longbow.

Ning Junchi hugged Tang Luojin tightly, and said, "Don't be afraid, uncle is here. Uncle won't let Xiao Qi have an accident."

Feeling the warm and thick chest behind him, Tang Luojin suddenly felt that he might be able to trust Ning Junchi a little more.

No matter how the queen is, at least Ning Junchi treats him sincerely.Even if Ning Junchi's original intention was to love his nephew, isn't he himself the one who is really loved by Ning Junchi?

Tang Luojin shrunk herself down to a small size, and just as her mind was shaking, she heard the continuous sound of horseshoes behind her.

"It's the reinforcements!" Ning Junchi laughed, "Fortunately, there are fireworks brought by Xiaoqi Tete, they found us."

Tang Luojin's mind, which had been slightly shaken, stood firm again in an instant.

——Ning Junchi did treat him very well, but what about the future?If the queen has no children in the future, they can still be close uncles and nephews. However, Master Zhishan never speaks falsely. Since he said that the queen will have a son after the age of 35, then this matter is a certainty.

The queen will have a son, and the Ning family will have a true son who truly has the blood of the Ning family.

At that time, the queen will not tolerate him, the first prince will not tolerate him, and the Ning family... may not tolerate him.Even if Ning Junchi waits for him to really have family affection, can Ning Junchi let his own nephew live under others for the sake of an unrelated prince, can he not be the most honorable person in Datang?

Tang Luojin thought about it, and the slightest feeling of dependence on Ning Junchi dissipated in an instant.

The person who came was the confidant of Emperor Tianyuan, the commander of the left and right guards, and the general Wei Mian.He brought a lot of people, and with the crowd and bow and arrow tactics, he thought he would be able to take down the tiger soon.

"The Emperor is worried about His Highness, Your Highness should go back quickly." Wei Mian said, "There may suddenly be tigers in this paddock, maybe there will also be other unclean things. Your Highness is valuable, so you should go back quickly."

Tang Luojin nodded, and said: "The corpses of these tigers are all kept by Gu and sent to Gu. The people who intervene in the middle can only be the generals. If these corpses get out Questions, I don’t ask anyone else, I only ask the general.”

Wei Mian said seriously: "I dare not obey orders!"

Tang Luojin nodded, and rushed to the camping place outside the paddock together with Ning Junchi.

Followed by 20 people arranged by Wei Mian, they walked past the place where the Eighth Prince Chuchu died again.

Tang Luojin's heart skipped a beat, and she realized that from behind the forest, more than [-] tall men in black, with long swords or bows in their hands, attacked directly without even calling.

Naturally, Wei Mian's people practiced their soldiers every day, but the people who came were not soldiers, but dead soldiers, and they rushed towards Tang Luojin desperately, unless they were injured to the root, they didn't care what other people chopped at them. hurt.

Tang Luojin watched with a blank expression.

He obviously didn't expect that the eldest prince would do such a great job, not only using Datang's power, but also bringing in foreigners——Tang Luojin could recognize those dead men even with their faces covered. They are not from Taitang at all.

The crowd surrounded Tang Luojin all the time.

However, those dead soldiers rushed upwards desperately, and after a while, someone broke through the gap and stabbed at Tang Luojin with a long sword——

Ning Junchi directly bowed back and hit back!

But at this moment, a feathered arrow shot from a tree canopy not far away. After Ning Junchi hit the man back with his bow, he was turning sideways to deal with another man. Tang Luojin was facing the other man. , Straight to that feathered arrow!

"His Royal Highness!"

Wei Mian let out a cry, Ning Junchi turned around, barely grabbed the tail of the feather arrow, and blood oozes from his whole hand.

Wei Mian saw that the feathered arrow pierced Tang Luojin's clothes, and felt sad in his heart!

"Your Highness! Hurry up, try to capture it alive, or if you can't catch it, kill it!"

After Wei Mian gave the order, he rushed towards Tang Luojin's horse.

"Your Highness, Your Highness?"

When he got close, Wei Mian realized that Tang Luojin's complexion was even better than that of Ning Junchi behind him.

"Is it poisonous?" Tang Luojin hurriedly said, "Uncle, let go, I'm fine." Then he tore open his skirt, revealing a piece of thick and wide jade pendant and golden silk soft armor that were broken inside.

Wei Mian came back to his senses, thinking that Emperor Tianyuan loved and valued the crown prince so much, and it was only right that he gave one of the only two golden silk armors in the world to the crown prince.The prince wore a jade pendant in his skirt, and it was said that jade had spirituality. It could be that the piece of jade prevented the prince from disaster, so the prince was fine.

Seeing that the crown prince was fine, Wei Mian knew that his official position and future were preserved, so he hurried forward to investigate, looked at the blood on Ning Junchi's hand, and said happily, "Don't worry, Your Highness, it is not poisonous. I want to write to Duke Guo , it should be because of working hard for half a day and bleeding again, that's why he looks bad."

Tang Luojin finally breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the words, first she dismounted carefully, and had someone help Ning Junchi down, then bandaged Ning Junchi's wound herself, then frowned and said, "Does it hurt?"

When Ning Junchi hunted down his second brother's sweetheart before, he was chased by others behind him, and the injuries he suffered were much more serious than this time.

This time, he just grabbed the tail of the feather arrow that had been inserted into Tang Luojin's chest, how bad could it hurt?

"It doesn't hurt." Ning Junchi sighed, "It's my uncle's fault. I've lived a comfortable life for a long time, and I never thought that someone would be so scheming and come up with such a series of tricks just to kill you."

If Ning Junchi and the several princes had grown up, and Emperor Tianyuan was already old, Ning Junchi might have known how dangerous the battle for the heir apparent was, and if he was not careful, his life would be ruined.

However, Tang Luojin was only seven years old!

A seven-year-old child can attract those people to expend so much energy to create such a situation, and even give up those chess pieces involved in this chain plan...

Ning Junchi's face darkened slightly, but he didn't know if the second sister would be able to look back and really love Xiao Qi after knowing the danger Xiao Qi had faced.

Because Ning Junchi was not seriously injured, he rested for a while, and the group surrounded Tang Luojin in the middle, and then returned to the camp in a mighty manner.

When the First Prince saw Tang Luojin come back intact, his eyes widened like copper bells.

Although Emperor Tianyuan had been standing and looking into the distance, his mind was still divided among his sons and courtiers.Therefore, he saw the abnormality of the eldest prince at a glance, and he was furious in his heart.

This matter must have been led by the First Prince, and several people secretly helped the First Prince to achieve this goal for their own purposes.

However, the eldest prince is so dull that he has not discovered it until now. If he did it himself, this chain plan would definitely not even start.And who are those who helped the First Prince complete this chain plan, the First Prince must have no idea.

Emperor Tianyuan hated the eldest prince's stupidity, and hated the eldest prince's cruelty even more - back then, he and his brothers fought for the reserve position, although they fought to the death, but no one ever took action against the underage prince.

Tang Luojin is so young, how could the eldest prince come up with such an idea, and use a series of tricks to try to take Tang Luojin's life?

If Tang Luojin hadn't always been smart, and Ning Junchi had protected Tang Luojin tightly, maybe this time, several people would attack together, and by the time he knew the outcome, his prince would be gone.

Thinking of this, Emperor Tianyuan stepped forward quickly, helped Tang Luojin who was about to kneel down, looked at it carefully, and said: "Fortunately, my crown prince is fine. If my crown prince is in trouble, in this life, I will No more crown princes! In the future, the succession to the throne will only be selected from the princes after my ninth prince. The other princes who are older than the ninth prince will have no chance!"

But the Ninth Prince had not been born at all.

The crowd was in an uproar.

Needless to say the first prince, even the second prince raised their heads in astonishment and looked at Emperor Tianyuan in disbelief.

Emperor Tianyuan didn't look at them, but looked at Tang Luojin: "Xiaoqi was wronged today. I promise you a wish. Whatever you say today, I promise you."

Everyone's eyes shifted from Emperor Tianyuan to Tang Luojin.

The prince was killed in the paddock, but was attacked three times in a row.It is a coincidence, even a three-year-old child would not believe it.Now the emperor is in front of everyone, after promising that the prince will have an accident, all the existing princes will not be able to inherit the throne, and then make an arbitrary promise to the prince... All the people who heard these words can only sigh secretly Emperor Tianyuan valued the prince.

Tang Luojin's heart warmed slightly. She glanced at the place where the prince was standing, and said slowly, "Even since my son was born, although he was seriously ill and stupid, God blessed him and finally recovered his sanity. For Yu'er, being able to live soberly is already enough." It's a blessing. I didn't ask for anything else. Just..."

His voice changed, and he suddenly said: "It's just that I still remember that when the elder brother just returned to the palace from Fujian, he once said that he was willing to give up his glory and wealth, but to be an idle monk, eat fast and chant Buddha, and make a big house for me. Pray for blessings. Since the father asked the son if he had a wish, then the son's wish is to ask the father to fulfill the request of the elder brother."

Everyone was almost stupid.

Let a prince become a monk?Or do you really eat fast and chant Buddha?Even if it was really the eldest prince who did it this time, didn't the prince come back alive?If the crown prince died now, they believed that the emperor would definitely deal with the eldest prince; but the crown prince is alive and well, and the eldest prince is also the emperor's son, and he is still the eldest son, so how could the emperor really treat the eldest prince like this?

The eldest prince argued: "Father, I never said those..." words.Be a monk?How could he say those words?

But Emperor Tianyuan refused to listen to his defense, thought for a while, and said: "I also remember what the prince said."

The eldest prince raised his head suddenly, as if he did not want to believe that Emperor Tianyuan would ignore the facts like this.

"Since the crown prince pleads for the eldest emperor's son, then I will give the eldest emperor's son the title of Innocence. After three days, I will personally send you to Wanjue Temple to see you ordained as a monk, so that you will never step into the world of mortals again."

The eldest prince was completely dumbfounded.He raised his head to look at Emperor Tianyuan in a daze, but he saw that Emperor Tianyuan was also looking at him.It's just that there was a coldness in those eyes, as if he had already seen all the nasty things he had done.

The First Prince could no longer say anything to explain.

In the autumn of the 14th year of Tianyuan, the eldest prince voluntarily shaved his head, and the emperor bestowed him with a dharma title of no fault.

If you become a monk, you will not be blamed, but if you enter the world of mortals, you will die.

Wujiu has practiced Zen for 40 years, and only realized the meaning of it when he was in meditation.

In the 17th year of Tianyuan, the crown prince was ten years old, and his mother, Ning Shi, became pregnant again, and gave birth to twelve princesses in the same year.

In the 19th year of Tianyuan, the crown prince was 12 years old, and the twelve princesses died.