Fake concubine, real queen

Wang Muchuan has always been venomous, even when talking with strangers, he never knew how to write euphemistic words, he could offend a large number of people inadvertently, and he himself couldn't remember who it was.

But Second Brother Wang's poisonous mouth is always telling the truth, and he has always seldom made judgments lightly on things he doesn't understand, so when He Gu first heard him say that, he didn't react much. After reacting, I couldn't help but thumped in my heart, and quickly asked: "Why did the second brother say that? How can you see it?"

Wang Muchuan said: "My dynasty has always had rules and rules for choosing a son-in-law, but it only considers the birth, family background, appearance and character of the son-in-law. , but the inspection by the Inner Court Secretary today seems to be for the purpose of selecting a son-in-law?"

He Gu was taken aback, thinking...

It seems that it is really not quite like it.

"The Prince Consort is below the Marquis and above the Earl. Once he is conferred, he can be regarded as a first-class relative in Beijing, but he has no real power. He can only have one or two errands. For the sake of this, if it is just for the sake of being a captain-in-law, why would His Majesty have another literary test and a military test today, setting such a high standard, wouldn’t it be a waste?”

"The content of today's investigation by the Inner Court Division, I think, seems to want us to retreat in the face of difficulties."

He Gu scratched his nose, and said: "What you said makes sense, but after all, Your Majesty is the biological father of His Highness the Eldest Princess, and His Highness has been loved a lot since childhood. I think it's only natural for His Majesty not to want her to cast a shadow on her."

"After all, look at today, His Highness the Eldest Princess refuted the person surnamed Zhao, and pointedly pointed out the shortcomings of his article. If a woman like Her Highness is both talented and beautiful, if she promises an embroidered pillow and a bag of grass, even a few simple words Isn't it too wronged for a fool who can't even understand the meaning of the scriptures?"

When He Gu said this, the expression that was close to shining eyes began to appear on his face again. When Wang Muchuan saw it, his heart was really blocked, and he didn't want to talk to him for a moment.

Zhengye also felt that his family's eldest son had been a little too bright recently, and now that the second son of the Wang family was here, he didn't restrain himself, he couldn't help being a little embarrassed, he coughed dryly, and wanted to ask Master He Xiaohou to restrain himself a little in front of outsiders.

How did he know that Mr. He Xiaohou is not a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy who just fell in love with Dou Chu? This is an old house that is on fire, and the burning is so fierce, how can it be so easy to extinguish it?

After Wang Muchuan had finished his good words, seeing that He Gu was still reticent and blindly optimistic, he had no choice but to shut up.

The carriage arrived in front of the Wang family's mansion, and before getting out of the carriage, he took a deep look at He Gu and asked, "What if His Majesty doesn't grant the marriage?"

He Gu said: "How is it possible, since the emperor's words are hard to follow, can he still deceive me, a brat?"

Wang Muchuan clenched his teeth when he called him this stubborn look, his cheeks trembled, he snorted coldly, jumped off the carriage and left.

He didn't even finish listening to He Gu's "see you later", and his back was very ruthless.

He Gu was puzzled, looked at Zhengye, and said, "What kind of medicine did he take wrongly?"

Zhengye laughed dryly, and said, "Isn't Second Master Wang always like this?"

He Gu said: "That's right."

He didn't think too much about which muscle Wang Muchuan made a mistake.

It's just that what he said just now made He Gu think deeply: What if His Majesty doesn't betroth the eldest princess to him?

In fact, although the marriage between He Gu and the eldest princess did not work out in the previous life, the two still had some kind of fate.

In other words, he and the eldest princess' younger brother, the third prince Pei Zhaoheng, still have some kind of fate...

After the crown prince ascended the throne, the third prince who was recuperating in Jinling was conferred the title of King Ke. King Ke was different from the second prince Pei Zhaolin. In He Gu’s memory, His Highness King Ke was a very uncontested person. I heard that he was seven or eight years old. With asthma, he couldn't stand the cold weather in the north, so he was sent to Jinling to recuperate, and he stayed there for twenty years.

It stands to reason that a prince like King Ke who grew up outside Beijing, even though he was a descendant of Empress Xiao Chen, did not grow up under the emperor's knees after all. In terms of the relationship with the emperor's father, he must be far inferior to the prince. Before the prince ascended the throne, he did not pose any threat to the prince.

Not to mention in the last life, with the help of He Gu and a group of supporting officials, the crown prince killed the second prince Pei Zhaolin after ascending the throne. His throne was originally as stable as Mount Tai, but unfortunately, in the end, he was still given to King Ke. He was charged with "disrespect" and asked He Gu to go to Jinling Ke's palace in person and escort him back to Beijing.

Although he ordered the escort to return to the capital, the new emperor specifically instructed He Gu in private at that time: "If King Ke has the intention of disobedience, he can be killed on the spot without a petition."

He Gu has followed him for many years, so of course he knows what he means. The new emperor wants to cut grass and roots, but he doesn't want to get his hands dirty, so he let He Gu use the knife. Needless to say, the knife knows it well .

This prince is not as benevolent and virtuous as all the ministers have thought for many years. The prince's suspicion is no less than that of his emperor's father, and even... a little bit more.

In addition to the fact that King Ke is also the queen, there is another layer of relationship——

King Ke and Princess Chang are twins.

In the Dayue Dynasty, twins were not a good omen, especially the twins born by the empress were even more ominous under Si Tian's surveillance.

After all, there are no two masters in the country, and there are no two suns in the sky. If one of them becomes the emperor in the future, how can the king on the dragon chair sleep peacefully when there is a prince and brother who looks exactly like the emperor outside?

Only one of the twins will be kept, and it has always been a rule that has never been stated explicitly, but everyone knows it well.

Fortunately, the eldest princess and the third prince, although they are twins, are brothers and sisters, not of the same sex, and the reserve position did not fall on the third prince, so both brothers and sisters are preserved.

It's a pity that the gods of the Si Tianjian are really hateful. Ever since the eldest princess and the third prince were born, they have often made indirect hints that the twins are unlucky, and they babble all day long about watching the sky at night, and the twins may hinder the prince of the East Palace. , which made the emperor very troublesome back then.

That's why the Third Prince was sent to Jinling to recuperate from his illness. It wasn't all because of his frailty. There was also a reason that all the officials knew well——

I'm afraid that he will really hinder His Highness the Crown Prince as Si Tianjian said.

For a dynasty that has been at peace for a long time, no matter whether it is a noble family or a noble family, there is nothing more important than the stability of the country.

It is better to rule out unstable factors.

It's just that He Gu has been with the crown prince for many years, and he also knows that the people in Sitianjian said this not only because of a reason for the country, but he really needs to get to the bottom of it...

It's just that they don't dare to go against the prince's own uncle, Mr. Chen.

He Gu had just been ordered to go to Jinling. When he arrived at King Ke's mansion, he didn't see King Ke. At that time, it seemed that it was because...

Sitting in the carriage, He Gu thought of this, and suddenly remembered something, his pupils suddenly dilated.

After his rebirth, he has been subconsciously unwilling to recall those past events that were really not pleasant, but at this moment when it is about the princess, he remembered——

Because at that time, King Ke got the news that his elder sister, the eldest princess, died of a sudden illness in Beijing for unknown reasons. The servants of King Ke's mansion said that just the day before he arrived in Jinling, King Ke had already left for Bianjing to attend the funeral for his sister. up.

At that time, He Gu was in vain, so he had to take his men and hurried back the same way, and finally caught up with King Ke in the suburbs of Beijing.

He Gu knew that the emperor had specially ordered him in private, which meant that he had found an excuse to end the disaster on the road. If he was really escorted back to the capital, and then he wanted to kill King Ke in the capital, all civil and military officials, Yu Shitaina Remonstrance will only cause trouble.

But this time, He Gu accidentally failed to make a move.

This was also the first time that He Gu did not obey the prince's order in the previous life, and it was also because this time that he obeyed on the surface but resisted the order in reality, the prince finally began to feel jealous of him.

When He Gu caught up with King Ke, King Ke rode lightly and simply followed him, dressed in black and wearing a veiled hat. The attendant only said that His Royal Highness Ke had asthma, and that Bianjing was on March [-]th. Can be covered with a hood.

King Ke guessed He Gu's intentions at the first sight, and asked him, "Master Hou is here to take this king?"

He Gu was silent and did not answer.

He didn't answer, and King Ke was not annoyed, he just said indifferently: "Or, Lord Hou came to take my life at the order of the emperor's brother?"

He Gu let go of the handle of the long knife that he was holding in his palm after he revealed the reason for his visit.

... The former third prince, and now His Royal Highness King Ke looks really weak, and he doesn't look like a person who can threaten the throne at all.

After the crown prince ascended the throne, he had already tried to kill the queen, the mother and son of the second prince and his biological mother, Concubine Yuan Gui, also went on the road together.

Now there is only such a weak brother left, and he wants to kill them all.

He Gu looked at King Ke who was wearing a veiled hat and coughing lightly in the snow. The suspiciousness and cruelty of the new emperor made He Gu feel a little afraid for the first time.

He couldn't help thinking that in the future the new emperor would secure the throne——

Will he show his fangs to him, a subordinate who has the power of a dragon and holds a heavy soldier in his hand?

He Gu was silent for a long time, and said: "The new emperor ascended the throne, but the prince has not given the congratulatory form within [-] days, and has been impeached by all the ministers for the crime of disrespect. I was just ordered to escort the prince back to Beijing and wait for his punishment."

King Ke seemed to be taken aback.

"You won't kill me?"

He Gu's lips were a little chapped in the cold wind, and he only said: "My lord is overthinking."

He Gu escorted King Ke back to the capital in this way, holding the handle of the long knife for the whole journey, but never took it out of its sheath. When they arrived in the capital, in the snowy and cold weather, everyone's exposed noses and ears were red from the cold. But the sweat in his palm was so much that he couldn't hold the knife handle steadily.

The knife is still not out of its sheath.

He Gu was entangled in his heart along the way, but he had a lot of conversations with King Ke. After talking, he discovered that this sick and weak prince who had been staying in Jinling was also a man of good insight and talent.

Lord He Hou even discovered that he and Ke Wang had very similar views on many things, and for a while there was a feeling that they hated seeing each other too late.

If he didn't have such a weak body, he might not only have to compete with Pei Zhaolin for the crown prince's throne——

He Gu thought about this, and then suddenly remembered that this person is the master he followed, and now he has a thorn in his side, but he has nothing to say to him, and he hates seeing each other late, so he couldn't help laughing.

I secretly felt a little irony in my heart.

After all, King Ke is from the royal family. Even though he was accused of crimes, the court has not issued a sentence and cannot treat him harshly. Before the decree comes down, he only needs to confine him in another courtyard in the middle of the capital and guard him heavily.

Before He Gu sent him into the other courtyard, King Ke lowered his head slightly under the veiled hat.

Only then did He Gu realize that he was looking at his right hand holding the handle of the knife.

"pat".

A drop of clear sweat fell out of his tiger's mouth, and landed on the thick snow, forcibly smashing a small melted crater.

He Gu let go of the handle of the knife.

King Ke paused for a moment, and said: "...for today's kindness, this king will never forget it forever."

He Gu laughed at himself, and said: "My lord's words are serious, but I can't care less about following orders. How can I be kind to you?"

He turned around and was about to leave, but King Ke yelled again in a low voice behind him.

"...Zihuan."

He Gu stopped in his tracks, feeling mixed emotions in his heart for a moment.

How ridiculous... He had acquainted with the prince when he was young, and now that the prince is enthroned as emperor, he just feels cold all over his body when he is called by his name. But it feels so natural.

He Gu paused and didn't look back.

"What's the matter, my lord?"

"..." King Ke was silent for a while, the voice was so low that only the two of them could hear, "...my brother is not worth following, Zihuan is very good at taking care of himself."

He Gu chuckled lightly, and said: "Don't you think that Wang Ye's words are too shallow and deep?"

King Ke was not annoyed by his sarcasm, but added another sentence: "... If you have a chance in the future, you can return the military power to the emperor brother. Don't love power. Your life is the most important thing. Go out as soon as possible." .”

He Gu just smiled softly, shook his head slightly, turned around and jumped on the horse, reined in the reins, looked at King Ke and said, "The prince should worry about himself more, so he can take care of himself."

After finishing his speech, he clamped the horse's belly with his legs, rode the horse and left with a mighty group of people.

The sky and the earth intersected, and there was a vast expanse of whiteness. King Ke watched his back leave, but only a long series of mottled horseshoe prints remained on the snow.