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. "Ning Yuan shook his head.

"In any case, since you have made this trip, you have done your best, and you have lived up to the old Duke's entrustment. What Ning Zhongkun wants to do, and what will happen in the future, is his own business." Hu Yan Yuan Chen said coldly: "Since he doesn't know how to flatter, even if there is a disaster of killing himself, it is his own fault."

"However, who would have imagined that the emperor's rumor of wanting to establish a crown prince this time is not thinking of establishing a crown prince at all, but to take this opportunity to clean up the bureaucracy in the capital." Jing Yi shook his head and said: " If it wasn't for Concubine Hui's observation of the situation in the palace and finding out about this matter, I'm afraid that facing such provocations from the First Prince, we would definitely have to choke with them a few times."

"Your Majesty is in his prime, so naturally he won't be in a hurry to establish a crown prince. Moreover, the relationship among the officials in Beijing is complicated, especially the three princes. Jing Guogong and Meng Guogong are still inexperienced. Only Ningguo Gongfu has gone through many dynasties. Extremely great, the emperor had already wanted to cut power, but he was only concerned about the prestige of the old Duke, and there was no suitable reason, so he didn't do it all the time, and now Ning Zhongkun, who is so incompetent, bumped into him head-on, he really wanted to die." Zhao Mo sneered, as if he had no sympathy for Ning Zhongkun and the others.

Concubine Shu Hui is a person with hidden treasures. Although the emperor kept the mystery of the establishment of the prince hidden tightly, she could still see that the emperor was simply a drunkard who didn't care about drinking. That's why she ordered Sikongxuan and others to let them relax a little bit. Don't be impatient, don't meddle.

No wonder.Now Dazhou and Daxia live in peace, the world is peaceful, and there are no external worries, so that the emperor can free up his hands to deal with internal troubles, suppress and suppress all the powerful families in Huajing City, so as to consolidate the royal family Among them, the Sangong of the current dynasty is naturally the emperor's focus.

As Zhao Mo said, among the three Dukes, Duke Meng and Duke Jing are still young, and the power inherited from the old Duke is also limited, and they are not a big threat to the royal family, but Duke Ning is different. There are so many students, and most of them are officials in the court. Although these people look insignificant, if they are twisted into a rope, the whole court will be shaken three times if they are twisted together. It is natural to guard against it.

It’s just that if the name is not correct, the words will not go well. The emperor must deal with the Ning family, so naturally he can’t do anything casually, but it’s not so easy to say that he wants to trip the Ning family. The emperor has a good plan, but Ning Guogong is also an old fox. It won't be so easy to get the bait, so the emperor has been waiting, and finally waited until seeing that Ning Guogong was going to be overwhelmed, he seized the time and let out the rumor that he wanted to establish a prince.

However, any ambitious official, in order for the new emperor to succeed to the throne and become a minister of humerus, must start to stand up from the time of the prince, in order to get a support in the future. As long as the old Ningguo is gone, the Ning family The idiot personality of the son will inevitably be mixed in. At that time, as long as the Ning family is casually labeled as a party and chaotic government, the emperor will be able to pull out the big nail in the Ningguo government. In the Qing Dynasty, the other emperors in the Qing court could not get used to it.

Old Ning Guogong also expected that there might be such a day before, and after recommending Ning Yuan to be the head of the Confucian Academy, he said something similar to Tuogu to Ning Yuan, and it was precisely because Ning Yuan Yuan accepted this love, and after learning the truth about the so-called Prince Li, and that Ning Zhongkun really showed signs of siding with the eldest prince, he had no choice but to come to the door in person, intending to explain the stakes to Ning Zhongkun clearly, so that He stopped just in time.

It's a pity that Ning Zhongkun obviously regarded Ning Yuan as a cheap relative who came to ask for favors. From head to toe, Ning Yuan didn't even see the corner of the new Duke's clothes.

Since others don't know how to flatter, let's not put hot faces on cold asses - this is what everyone around Ning Yuan means, but Ning Yuan always has a hurdle in his heart. He has always been a person with clear grievances, although he also He didn't care about Ning Zhongkun's life or death, but at the beginning he promised the old Duke Ning, but he didn't do it, so he felt a little uneasy.

Ning Yuan is worrying about other people's hearts here, but the troublemaker over there has no intention of stopping for a moment. The old Duke's funeral has just ended, and even the big white flower at the main entrance of the mansion has not been removed. The father-in-law actually exchanged white flowers for red flowers, and started to organize red weddings on the spot.

It turned out that the number one beauty in Huajing back then, Ning Shanshan, the eldest lady of Ningguo Duke's Mansion, after experiencing a series of ups and downs in her life, she was said to be a funeral star and was sent to a nunnery. While people were interested, she finally found a good marriage, and suddenly she was about to be married back by the eldest prince Si Kongyue to become the prince's official concubine.

This happened very suddenly, and there was no warning before, when outsiders got the letter, the grand prince's mansion welcomed the relatives in front of the Duke's mansion.

Therefore, everyone guessed that this marriage, in all likelihood, was made suddenly when Sikong Yue went to the Duke's Mansion to express his condolences that day. Obviously, in order to get the crown prince, the First Prince wanted to formally marry Ning Zhongkun. The new Ning Guogong is in a hug, and marrying Ning Shanshan, an old girl who no one cares about, can naturally show Sikong Yue's sincerity.

But what is strange is that when Duke Ning's mansion organizes such a happy event, there is no congratulatory figure at the mansions of the other two Dukes. Not only that, Meng Zhifan, the son of Duke Meng, unexpectedly The memorial went to the Golden Luan Hall, pointing out that Ning Zhongkun didn't care about filial piety. The old man's bones were not cold, so he just didn't keep his filial piety. It's unreasonable for him to make such a fuss about a wedding.

The matter of Meng Zhifan's impeachment letter naturally reached Ning Zhongkun's ears, but Ning Zhongkun dismissed it very much. Zhifan's heir is more than a generation taller, and the other side of this happy event is the eldest prince's mansion, the eldest son of the emperor. Meng Zhifan wrote a letter to impeach him, and even the emperor scolded him.

The facts were not as Ning Zhongkun expected, although Meng Zhifan handed over the booklet, it was silent in front of the emperor without even turning over the slightest splash.

This time, Ning Zhongkun became even more unscrupulous, and turned a deaf ear to outside gossip about him being unfilial, and made the marriage with the First Prince's Mansion even more grand, even a few days before the wedding ceremony, a The running water seats are so lively that the alleys are empty for thousands of people.

However, the good times didn't last long, and at the same time that Ning Zhongkun was eager to marry off his younger sister, after Meng Zhifan, several imperial envoys jointly signed a letter of impeachment, saying that Ning Zhongkun was an undisciplined man and formed a party among officials for personal gain. , and used the pretext of arranging weddings to collect property and bribes, corrupting the official style and arousing criticism.

It's a pity that Meng Zhifan's lessons from the past are there. Ning Zhongkun doesn't think that a few small imperial envoys can really sway him, not to mention forming a party for personal gain and accepting bribes. Will you invite relatives and nobles to accept gifts?So he still didn't take it seriously, and put the matter behind him in a blink of an eye, and continued to greet and send off with the congratulatory officials.

As a result, this time, his little calculation was wrong.

On the day when Ning Shanshan came out of the cabinet, the car driver of the Great Prince's Mansion had just picked up the bride and left, and the imperial envoy with an emperor's decree led many imperial guards to the Duke Ning's Mansion, in front of all the officials who came to congratulate him In front of him, he read through the imperial decree accusing Ning Zhongkun of being unfilial first and disrespectful later, and then escorted the stunned Ning Zhongkun away.

The news spread very quickly. Ning Zhongkun had just been taken away here, and while the Ning family was still in chaos, Ning Shanshan, who was supposed to be married into the First Prince's Mansion, was about to enter the door. The queen who got the news sent someone to stop her first, and then sent her back again with a blaze of fire. She actually meant to call off the engagement at this juncture.

It is already a great humiliation for the bride who has already left the court to be returned to Zhao, but at this time, who else in Ningguo's mansion would care about Ning Shanshan's affairs? Xiao Li, who was sweeping the floor, was anxiously looking forward to the news of Ning Zhongkun, hoping that the emperor would send him back with just a few words of reprimand.

It's a pity that the emperor couldn't let this little braid go if he wanted to.

As Ning Zhongkun was imprisoned, another group of imperial envoys seemed to have made an appointment, and snowflakes of papers flew into the upper study room, which were full of accusations of Ning Zhongkun's crimes. Putting it aside, those envoys with great powers also dug out a lot of ridiculous things that Ning Zhongkun did in the past, such as bullying others, occupying people's fields, disregarding human lives, etc. The relatives of the servant girls who were killed at will also knelt in groups in front of the palace gate, crying and rushing to avenge the emperor and severely punish that villain Ning Zhongkun.

As a result, Duke Ning's Mansion, which had stood majestically before, suddenly collapsed overnight when such a wall collapsed and was pushed by everyone.

The emperor's decree was merciless, cutting off the title of duke of Ning's family, seizing the title of first-class duke, confiscating all property of Ning's family, disbanding his servants, expelling his direct descendants from Beijing, Ning Zhongkun was exiled for three thousand miles, and the old man Due to her advanced age, Mrs. Wu was placed in a nunnery outside the city. Ning Shanshan was forced to become a monk to accompany her, and she was not allowed to step out of the nunnery for the rest of her life.

It was not too late for the Ningguo government to fall, and the emperor followed this trend, in the name of bewitching the prince and being disrespectful to the emperor, and sent down several officials who had been jumping up and down in a ball in the name of the prince in the court before, and those who were thrown into prison Imprisoned, exiled exiled, without mercy.

During that period of time, everyone in the court was in danger, because no one knew that after waking up from sleep, the colleagues who were standing next to the court would have been kicked out of the capital. Going to work as a coolie where chickens don't lay eggs, only those who have never stood in line and have always held a neutral attitude are relieved.

As for the matchmaking between the eldest prince and the empress with court officials, although the emperor did not take it seriously, he also made the empress think about it in the empress's hall, and the elder prince wrote a letter admitting his mistake, which gave them a wake-up call.

Then, the turmoil of the so-called establishment of a crown prince quietly passed away. Except for the half-empty court, the emperor no longer mentioned the matter of establishing a crown prince. I have to shut myself up and think about my mistakes, and I can't do anything else.

At the same time, she was disheartened, this time something like this happened, if the emperor really wanted to establish a crown prince in the future, would he still consider Sikong Yue?

Of course, no one will know what will happen in the future, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the eldest prince acted recklessly and was reprimanded one after another. Compared with the sixth highness, who has always been calm and composed, he is more and more outstanding in front of others .

On the day Ning Zhongkun was escorted out of the city, on an inconspicuous hill outside the city, Ning Yuan and Huyan Yuanchen stood side by side, looking at the officials on the official road below the mountain, sighing for a while.

"Why do you show that expression? If you hadn't walked around to explain clearly, Ning Zhongkun would have been exiled for his turn, and his head would have fallen to the ground." Huyan Yuanchen looked at Ning Yuan's face and said: "You really know how to do it." Nosy, don't be afraid that he will implicate you, don't forget that your surname is also Ning."

"If I can save his life, I have lived up to my uncle's entrustment. It's a matter of my heart. It's not meddling." Ning Yuan shook his head and said, "What's more, the so-called involvement... I really hope he can It implicated me, so I resigned from this official position and left with my family. Before I came to the capital, I only thought that I could get a better life in the capital, but after going through so many turmoil, I discovered that the prosperous Huajing City is comparable to Jiangzhou. It’s not a good place, far less peaceful and happy than living in other places.”

"You always have your own thoughts, but I don't care. I have nothing to do now. Naturally, I will follow wherever you go." Huyan Yuanchen put a hand on Ning Yuan's shoulder, and continued: " But I still can't figure out one thing. I thought you and that Meng Zhifan were always at odds, why did you send a letter quietly to ask Meng Zhifan to take the first step to participate in the Ning family, and he did what you said. , followed the emperor's wishes, and won the favor of the emperor, so that the emperor did not touch the Meng family except for the Ning family this time."

"You think I'm selling Meng's family? You're wrong, I'm just in the Duke of Baojing's mansion." Ning Yuan said: "That guy Ning Zhongkun's mud can't support the wall, and the Duke of Ning's mansion will definitely not be able to keep it." , but if the emperor wants to move other people besides the Ning family, it is really bad, if the Meng family also suffers, how long do you think the Jing family, the last king, can sit for?"

Hu Yanyuanchen rubbed his chin and nodded, "That's right, lips are dead and teeth are cold. If the Meng family also disappears, it will be a matter of time for the emperor to consolidate the imperial power and the Jing family."

"Fortunately, Meng Zhifan is not stupid. He has seen the seriousness of the relationship. He has shown his loyalty to the emperor by impeaching Ning Zhongkun. Moreover, Meng Guogong has always been diligent, so the emperor will not chase after him. Ning Yuan sighed and said, "However, with the lessons learned from the Ning family, Jing Guogong and Meng Guogong should also weigh the future of the two families, and they will not end up in the same fate as the Ning family."

"When they have to deal with other people's affairs, don't worry so much." Huyan Yuanchen looked into the distance for a while, "It's still early, after delivering Ning Zhongkun, why don't you get some game to eat eat?"

Ning Yuan was taken aback, "Now?"

Huyan Yuanchen didn't say anything, he pulled Ning Yuan and got on the horse. The two rode for a while, and soon arrived at a small town not far from Huajing City, and stopped in front of a small courtyard.

Ning Yuan is very familiar with the appearance of the small courtyard, but it was the place where he gave birth last when his soul returned to his previous life and changed his life against the sky. Because of changes in this life, this courtyard was not owned by Huyan Yuanchen at first, but since then Ning Yuan came back to his soul for a while, and after more memories in his mind, Huyan Yuanchen bought this place from the original owner without saying a word. rest here.

However, there were not only the two of them in the small courtyard at this time. Yan Fei and Zhou Shi were already busy in the courtyard shirtless. A large grill was set up in the middle of the courtyard. Washed game, and cans of seasoning.

"Before in Beijing, you had to be on duty every day, and Bao'er was always relying on you. There were not many opportunities for the two of us to get along. Today, we managed to catch a chance when no one was disturbing the situation. After all, the two of us It's time to be alone." Hu Yanyuanchen smiled at Ning Yuan as if he had planned it long ago, "Just meat and meat are ready-made, A Yuan, should we drink first, or eat meat first, or Do you want to sleep in the house first?"

After finishing speaking, he took advantage of people's unpreparedness and bit Ning Yuan behind the ear with a sense of molestation.

Ning Yuan's face turned hot, thinking that what Hu Yan said was right, he thought that after returning to Beijing, the sea and the sky would be brighter, but he happened to be busy with the affairs of the Confucian Academy. After the turmoil in the Ning family, although he and Huyan Yuanchen saw each other often, they hadn't been intimate for a while.

The current scene was obviously carefully prepared by Huyan Yuanchen. While Ning Yuan was moved, he was about to respond, but the door of the main room over there was pushed open with a creak, and then Huyan Yuanchen and Ning Yuan had some troubles. With surprised eyes, an old man with a white beard and a gentleman in robes came out.

The old man took the lead without even looking at the two of them. He walked up to Zhou Shi, who was busy cutting meat there, picked up a piece of red mutton, smelled it, and sighed, "It's so coquettish and strong." Only Mr. Robe , showing a smile to the two of them, "I'm just waiting for you two, if you don't come again, the two of us will have to eat first."

Ning Yuan raised his hand calmly, and pulled out Huyan Yuanchen's claws that had been inserted into his trousers, while Huyan Yuanchen stared at Zhou Shi not far away with a blue face, as if he wanted to eat people.

"I don't know, young master..." Yan Fei quite understood what Huyan Yuanchen meant, and walked over with a flattering smile, "When Zhou Shi and I were hunting in the mountains, we accidentally ran into Mr. Chen and the others, so..."

"Hey, Ning boy, Huyan boy, hurry up and start a fire to barbecue, what are you doing there, I can't starve to death!" Old Chen stood by the lit charcoal fire and waved to Ning Yuan and the others.

Ning Yuan responded, then squeezed Huyan Yuanchen's palm quietly, and said, "I'm hungry too, it's too late, so hurry up and go back to the city after this meal." After finishing speaking, he smiled He greeted Mr. Chen.

Huyan Yuanchen glared at Yan Fei again, and let out a long breath as if accepting his fate.

Although the current life is good, but to live the happy life he expected, it seems that there is still waiting...

The one-time wisher took the bait