For the emperor

"Okay, why do you two fight?" Li Mi stared at the two people who were injured, she swore that the First Prince of Cang Kingdom and the Second Prince had never experienced a more embarrassing moment in their entire lives.

——Actually, it wasn't a fight at all.

After Cang Tianci was beaten up by Fatty for no reason, he finally understood the reason for Cang Tiansu's apology, felt extremely wronged, and cried loudly with his mouth puckered.

After beating him, Cang Tiansu, amidst his wailing, with a blank face, punched his eyes viciously, and then, under his horrified gaze, pulled out a blood-stained knife and stabbed it on his calf. He made a deep cut.

Cang Tianci understood very well that he looked miserable with a bruised nose and swollen face, but his injuries were far less serious than Cang Tiansu's.From Lenggong to Zhaoridian, the blood on Cang Tiansu's leg kept flowing, and once the blood had a tendency to solidify, he would let the heavens give him the wind, and then he bent down again, hardened his heart and tore the wound open.

Cang Tianci looked at the elder brother whom he didn't know at all, wanted to cry but didn't dare to cry, so he could only stand by and observe if anyone approached, while weeping silently.

"Anyone who asks will always say that the two of us fought." Cang Tiansu commanded expressionlessly, as if the blood that was bleeding was not his own, "Tianci, remember my words, don't make mistakes, I Your life is in your hands."

Li Mi sighed, "This is youth, youth", and at the same time asked for wound medicine, and simply treated the wound for Cang Tianci.

When it was Cang Tiansu's turn, she checked it carefully, and the smile on her face was a bit weird, as if the mother who loved her son had to be kind to the kid next door who hurt her son in order to look good, and suppressed her anger: "Heavenly gift, You must have spoken too harshly."

A large piece of flesh on the left side of Cang Tiansu's neck almost fell off in one piece.Li Mi looked at the hideous wound on his leg again, no matter what she did not believe that it could be the result of two children fighting, but she didn't make it clear, following Cang Tiansu's intention, she blamed it with a sullen face Heaven bestows a few words.

The latter was also very cooperative, bowing his head guiltily to listen to the training, the expression on his face made it impossible for any court ladies and eunuchs around to see anything strange.

Li Mi and Cang Tianci soon knew the reason for Cang Tiansu's strange behavior.

At dinner time that day, the chief guard of the palace rushed into Zhaori Hall with a group of people, and said anxiously to the three people who were looking at each other affectionately at the dinner table: "Prince, do you know where Master Liu has gone? "

Cang Tiansu dropped the chopsticks in his hand and waved at him.The head guard hurried over, but he didn't expect the other party to slap him with a slap.

"Jing Tian, ​​are the dozen or so guards of you dead people? Without my consent, who would allow you to put all cats and dogs in my Zhaori Hall? Treat me as a dead person?!" He has always had a good temper. If you fail to do well or even forget to do it, you will not say a word of scolding.This is the first time that Cang Tiansu got angry with the people in Zhaori Palace.

Jing Tian, ​​the chief guard, hurriedly led several guards to kneel on the ground to beg for punishment.

Cang Tiansu laughed, and then said to Xiaosi who was also frightened: "According to the rules of Cang Kingdom, what crime should be dealt with if trespassing on the royal family's dorm?"

"...Going back to the First Prince, it depends on the seriousness of the circumstances... At least half a year's salary will be fined, and at worst, you will be suspended for investigation." Xiaosi could only feel that although the beautiful and gentle young man in front of her was smiling, there was a chill in her voice. Unconsciously, there is a taste of caution.

Sure enough, Cang Tiansu, who usually has no expression on weekdays, heard this, and the smile on his face widened and deepened: "Then what are you still doing, drag me out."

Jing Tian raised his head in a "teng—" and obviously wanted to say something to persuade him, but seeing Cang Tiansu's expression, he immediately swallowed back the words that came to his lips.

"Don't you dare, I have the queen's warrant, you are a mere little prince, you are not qualified to deal with me!" The chief guard never expected such a result, so he rushed to speak out.

He is not stupid, he seemed very angry when the queen summoned him tonight, and came to search for the eldest prince who was rumored to be at odds with her. In order to please the master of the harem, he naturally raised his attitude a bit, wanting to make the sky look ugly , who would have expected that this good gentleman, who is usually at the mercy of others, would suddenly turn his back on him.

Cang Tiansu took the warrant and glanced at it, then his eyebrows softened, and he said with a pleasant face: "Master Guard, even if you have the warrant from your mother, you shouldn't forcefully break into my Zhaori Palace. It's already Xushi now."

These words seemed to give the chief guard a reassurance, he straightened his back slightly: "The eldest prince doesn't know something, the empress empress has just given orders to the humble officer, saying that it is a matter of urgency, and the humble officer accepted the order, feeling anxious, I rushed over immediately, it is inevitable that I will be a little rude..."

Cang Tiansu caressed his palms, arched his eyebrows, and smiled softly, even a little guilty and uneasy: "Sir, did you really rush over immediately after receiving the order?"

The chief guard became more relieved, so he simply stood up and said arrogantly: "Naturally, I have worked for the emperor and empress for many years in a humble position, and I have gained the trust of the two of you. How can you tell lies out of thin air?"

"But how do I remember, there are rules in the palace, which expressly prohibit the concubines in the Youshi harem from having face-to-face contact with the men in the inner court." Cang Tiansu tilted his head, and his voice was drawn out, "Come on, drag me out, and destroy this group of people who dare to spread rumors." Bold lunatics with the reputation of mother-in-law and empress--one by one will be rode to death."

The chief guard is a member of the inner court of the palace. Unlike the eunuchs in the guards like Jing Tian, ​​according to the regulations, he is not allowed to walk in the palace at will.On weekdays, they can only do things for the empresses of the palaces at specific times during the day, and usually the eunuchs under the concubines deal with them.

The head guard's cold sweat dripped down in an instant.This matter was indeed a little inconsistent with the regulations, but the queen lost the news of her most beloved younger brother at that time, so she couldn't take care of this in a moment of desperation, so she called him over directly.

And it's not like this kind of thing has never happened before. When there is an emergency, everyone tacitly understands it. As long as no one raises it explicitly, the Internal Prison Office that manages the women's family members will not request punishment for it.

But now Cang Tiansu insists on this point, and no one else can tell what's wrong.He used the queen's reputation as an excuse to directly block the mouths of the queen's party.If you intercede for them, it means that the two of you are really tricky - no one can bear the crime of adultery in the court.

What's more, this matter was said by the "leader of madmen". As the prince, Cang Tiansu directly killed people in order to protect the honor of "mother", so Cang Jinglan would not say anything.

Hearing the screams outside, Cang Tianci couldn't bear it, turned his head and opened his mouth to say something, Cang Tiansu looked over lightly, and immediately swallowed the words that came to his lips, not daring to plead for mercy.

Whenever this person was angry, his left foot would tremble slightly and imperceptibly.

Cang Tianci regarded his eldest brother as a magical creature since he was a child, and secretly observed it for four or five years.Now, not to mention mastering all of his unconscious little movements, he has already understood eight or nine points.

Taking a peek at the trembling left leg of the eldest brother, Cang Tianci vaguely felt that if he really dared to talk any more, Cang Tiansu would probably turn his back on him tonight.

In view of the bloody tragedy that just happened outside the Zhaori Hall, even though the floor tiles outside the door are now clean and there is no trace of blood, Cang Tianci still did not muster up the courage to step on it and leave, but fell asleep on the floor. The side hall.

When Li Mi pushed open the door of the main hall and entered, he found Cang Tian sitting beside the desk with a blank face, holding a corner of a dark green leaf in his hand and looking carefully at the candlelight.

She leaned over, threw the cooked lean meat porridge on the table, narrowed her eyes and asked, "What is this?"

Cang Tiansu's reading scope is very extensive, useful and useless, as long as he is interested, he will study it for a period of time, although many things are only limited to paper.

This is not the first time Li Mi saw him identifying herbs.

"This is the leaf of Molan." Cang Tiansu turned over a page of the medical book on the sandalwood table, pointed to the introduction and diagram on it, and said, "This leaf has a very interesting effect, and it can be combined with the other two medicines. , taking it can make people lose the memory of the previous two hours."

Li Mi has always been not very interested in these things, nodded, and was about to persuade him to drink the porridge, but today Cang Tiansu's willingness to confide was particularly strong: "On weekdays, people who have taken this herbal medicine can't detect it from the pulse condition at all. , but once the flower of Molan is taken, it will cause coma, and the length of time has a corresponding relationship with the time of taking this herbal medicine. Experienced doctors also use this to judge when the patient took the herbal medicine."

"Molan leaves are very useful, but it's not difficult to get, but most people don't know its purpose..." Cang Tiansu said as he moved his eyes from the medical book to the bowl Li Mi brought, staring at the faint white rice. His voice gradually weakened.

Seeing that his expression was not right, Li Mi frowned and asked, "What's the matter?" It had been a long time since she had seen the ugly expression on the blue sky.

Cang Tiansu shook his head, and said softly: "It's nothing, just put it aside, I'll eat it after it cools down."

Li Mi looked at him suspiciously, remembering that Master Cangtiansu never had the bad habit of his younger brother secretly pouring medicine and porridge, and he didn't go into it, so he stood up, stretched his shoulders, yawned and walked out.

Cang Tiansu watched her close the door softly, waited for a while and saw that she didn't come back to disturb her again, stared at the flesh-white preserved egg and lean meat porridge again, remembered what he had done today, finally couldn't hold back, and lowered his head Holding the table with one hand, he spit it out in one mouthful.

The sky is dark, the sun and the moon have no light.

After a full stick of incense, Cang Tiansu barely suppressed the tumbling in his stomach, stopped vomiting, straightened up with difficulty, raised his hand and wiped his mouth with his sleeve.

He didn't eat much for dinner, and just after contributing all the food, he vomited a lot of acidic gastric juice. In the end, he couldn't vomit anything, and could only retch with his mouth open.Now when I lifted my body up, I felt dizzy, my brain was congested with blood, and my temples were bulging and throbbing.

The relationship with the queen was finally settled, so I just bought an extra night at any rate.Cang Tiansu picked up the teacup to rinse his mouth, and then spit out all the water.

He paused for a while, and after calming down, he shifted his gaze back to the small black orchid leaf on the open medical book.

On the second day, the chief eunuch Li Quan followed the newly appointed head of the court guards to the gate of Zhaori Hall one after another.When Li Quan was smiling and handing the jade that Cang Jinglan had rewarded to Cang Tiansu in the hall, Jing Tian happened to come to report that the chief guard was waiting outside.

Cang Tiansu took the purple seed jade with a gentle and polite face, but a little bitterness in his heart.For the first time in his life, his father gave him something, but under such circumstances.

After seeing off Li Quan unhurriedly, Cang Tiansu turned to look at the new chief guard who had been kneeling on the ground for a while, and said softly, "Get up."

The other party kowtowed again, then slowly got up, pondered for a while, found the right words, and explained the purpose of coming.

In the evening yesterday, the empress received a message from her family, saying that her younger brother had come to pay his respects in the afternoon and had not left the palace until the palace gate was closed.

The lord of the six palaces, who loves his brother, immediately found the former head of the palace guard and ordered him to come to Zhaoyang Palace to ask, but he didn't expect his brother to be found in the end, and even all the people he sent were there.

After Cang Tiansu heard it, he was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "This is really strange, the empress's younger brother has disappeared, why did you come to me to look for it?"

The chief guard faltered for a long time, but he didn't say anything.

When the empress first found him, she only said that she wanted to ask the eldest prince, but kept it secret and didn't explain the reason at all. The chief guard knew very well what secrets in the palace were involved, so he didn't have the courage to ask clearly.

"Forget it." Cang Tiansu smiled, didn't care, and made a gesture of letting go, "Take someone in."

The chief guard made a complaint, and with a wave of his hand, thirty or forty people rushed in.There were more than a dozen people who came last night, and today the number has increased to more than 30. It can be seen that things have escalated in the queen's heart.

Cang Tiansu lowered his head and tugged at his sleeves in a dispirited manner.

Not in Zhaori Palace.The chief guard led people to search almost every inch of the hall, and almost lifted up the bricks and tiles to have a look, but still did not find even a single adornment belonging to Liu Guangliang.

The chief guard glanced at Cang Tiansu, who was staring and smiling, and the eunuchs, court ladies and guards standing neatly behind him, he was really embarrassed to say, "Everyone, lift up your clothes and let me have a look", and he bravely proposed to go to the Lenggong to have a look voila.

Judging from what the empress said inside and outside the meaning, that seems to be the most important place to search.

Cang Tiansu didn't make things difficult for him this time, and waved his hand, casually pointing to Xiaosi, asking her to lead people to search in Lenggong.Young Master Cang suppressed a yawn, he didn't sleep well last night, and now he was wondering if he should go back to bed to catch up on sleep.

——Well, I will go after the maid has spread the messy sheets.

When the eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom was sleeping soundly on the couch, the head of the guard was sweating profusely.

He didn't dare to be careless when dealing with Leng Gong. He ordered people to search through the huts where Cang Tiansu and Li Mi usually lived. After finding nothing, he expanded the scope and searched the vegetable garden and the grass and shrubs near the pool. .

In the end, there was really no other way. The chief guard led all the guards and eunuchs in the whole palace to turn over every inch of land in the [-]-acre Lenggong, digging three feet, trying to find the missing queen's brother from the corners. , It's a pity that I haven't even seen a human hair.

He actually found a small piece of soil by the river that was stained with blood. Although he became suspicious, there was news yesterday that the first prince had fought with the second prince, and the first prince was also injured. The blood really flowed a lot Little—if people say that before going back to Zhaori Hall, they should go to the riverside to wash briefly—you can’t help it, can you?

He ordered people to sink a hollow reed into the bottom of the pond, and searched the mud carefully, but found nothing.

The chief guard leaned against the half-built vegetable garden wall, sighed for a while, and heard a subordinate whisper: "My lord, could the First Prince use the trick of carrying the bricks yesterday to have someone transport the corpse out?" ?”

A strong man disappeared in the heavily guarded Forbidden Palace, and no one was alive or dead. Now everyone knows that the so-called Mr. Liu Guangliang, Mr. Liu, has probably already confessed to Lord Hell.

The chief guard pulled the corner of his mouth and sneered: "Take such a big dead man out of the palace? Are all the brothers standing guard at the gate of the palace eating dry food?"

In his opinion, expecting to tuck the corpse out of the clothes in autumn, not only would there be three hurdles of body search, but also how many eyes and ears in the palace would be fooled, it was just a dream.

Besides, if someone was killed, and the one who died was the most favored male of the Liu family, it would definitely be impossible to use outsiders to do this.

And according to the information given by the empress, several of Cang Tiansu's confidantes stayed obediently in the Zhaori Palace yesterday, and did not go out for half a step—only that Xiaosi, who just reported a letter to the second prince, It took less than an hour before and after leaving the palace, how could there be time to transport the corpse outside the palace?

"Then... could it be that he is not in these two places?" The subordinate racked his brains and said again, "Look, it is clear that Master Liu is missing, we will definitely search Zhaori Palace and Leng Palace carefully, did the First Prince not expect that? Arrived—maybe transferred to another palace—I think the second prince is extremely suspicious!" It was rumored in the palace that the two had a good personal relationship.

The chief guard raised his hand and gave him a slap, cursing with a black face: "Nonsense, did the second prince take the corpse to the East Palace early in the morning to greet the empress?!"

The subordinate covered his face a little aggrieved, and racked his brains for a while: "Boss, maybe it's in the well..." Isn't it written like that in scripts and novels, the best place to kill people and hide corpses!

"...You mean we still have to dig a well?" The chief guard's face darkened, "It's not like you didn't see that the well is covered with moss, it's obvious that no one has been there for a long time." Could it be? The eldest prince is still a secretive throwing expert, and from a distance of more than ten meters, Lin Kong accurately threw a [-]-jin meat bomb from the mouth of the well?

"That's in the vegetable garden!" The subordinate said seriously, "I think the place where the eldest prince has appeared is extremely suspicious!"

The head of the guard rolled his eyes, looking through the vegetable garden three or four times?What are you kidding... The eldest prince even went to greet the emperor, even if he couldn't see anyone, at least he kowtowed outside the door, why didn't you say to search the Panglong Palace?Maybe it's nesting under the emperor's dragon chair!

The subordinate looked behind him, and Heidou's eyes lit up immediately: "It may be inside the fence!"

"Bullshit!" The chief guard followed his gaze, and was finally out of breath, spat hard, "Have you got your brains, the walls are all built so high, and three bricks are in a row, not enough When it reaches the thickness of one person, let alone a man who is five big and three thick, the eldest prince himself can't fit in!"

Seeing this, his subordinates realized that their boss's mood was really not beautiful at the moment, so they immediately obeyed and did not dare to speak out.

In the next three months, except for Cang Jinglan's Panglong Palace, the queen who was about to go mad almost lost the entire palace, found a lot of underworld officials who accepted bribes, and caused a lot of trouble in the city, but she finally The beloved younger brother seemed to have evaporated and disappeared without a trace.

Li Mi bent over, sprinkled a handful of radish seeds on the wet ground, then straightened up, pretending to wipe off the sweat that didn't exist at all: "Where do you think Liu Guangliang went?"

There have been rumors among the people that this person has done too many evil things, and God couldn't see it, and a thunder fell, and he was chopped to death, and he was chopped into fly ash.

"Don't meddle in your own business, Baba." Cang Tiansu, who was reclining on the soft couch, turned over a page of the book, raised his hand lazily, poured himself a cup of tea while his eyelashes were fluttering, and picked up the bloody Yin Yin on the side plate. Yan Cake took a bite.

Li Mi thought about it and thought it was true, so she lowered her head and continued to fight against the seeds.The guards had already searched the land five times. Although no one was found, it saved her a lot of digging effort.

——Live Lei Feng in the new era~

Li Mi took out a handful of cabbage seeds, and lamented that it is a pity that this living Lei Feng of Wuji Continental version has been suspended at home and dismissed for investigation-of course, even if it is replaced by a guard who is not so Lei Feng, his own land will be sure. It will usher in its sixth overturning.

Alas, the problem of labor duplication is very serious.Do you want to give advice to the emperor?