The return of the son-in-law

A few jade craftsmen were quickly brought here. They were not allowed to leave the palace. They had met with only a handful of people in the past few decades. Seeing so many strangers in the palace at first glance, none of them dared to speak out.

Fortunately, after every emperor ascended the throne, he had to summon jade craftsmen once, which was the meaning of Emperor Wu, who ascended the throne at the age of nine—at least let these jade craftsmen know what the emperor is, so that they can work peacefully for them. Royal business.So when these jade craftsmen saw that the two emperors were present in the palace, they ignored the curiosity in their hearts and saluted Li Chonghao and Li Shaojun in a proper manner.

"Li Shaoyu", who came earlier than the jade craftsmen, couldn't help but asked, "Father, what's the matter with you suddenly summoning your servants?"

Li Chonghao put his left hand on the armrest of the seat, and kept rubbing the armrest with his thumb. After a long time, he opened his eyes and said, "Yu'er, take off your jade pendant."

"Li Shaoyu" was puzzled, but he still took off the four-clawed dragon jade pendant that he had been wearing around his waist, and Li Chonghao's inner eunuch immediately stepped forward, took the jade pendant, and tied it on the jade pendant with a blue ribbon. It's a knot.

And the jade pendant in Ah Xin's hand had already been tied with a red ribbon, so he stepped forward and put the two jade pendants on the tray together with the eunuch, and then another palace servant placed the tray in front of the jade craftsmen.

"One of the two jade pendants is fake, take a look."

Li Chonghao's understatement made all the jade craftsmen below dumbfounded.

The four-clawed dragon jade pendant symbolizes the identity of the prince. Jade craftsmen have always carved jade after the prince is born. It can be said that there is a prince first, and then there is a four-clawed dragon jade pendant.

Moreover, at first glance, these two jade pendants can be said to be exactly the same.Whether it is the shape of the auspicious clouds on the jade pendant, the movement of the dragon flying, or the number of lotus flowers, they are all carved out of a mold.

Li Chonghao was a little impatient: "Don't be stupid, hurry up."

The jade craftsmen were terrified, but had no choice but to huddle around the tray and study the two jade pendants.

It wasn't just the jade craftsmen who were terrified in the hall, "Li Shaoyu" next to Li Chonghao almost couldn't stand still, and in desperation, he put his hands on the armrest of a chair so as not to fall down.

Several people close to him, such as Li Chonghao, Li Shaojun, etc., all noticed it.

Li Shaojun's mood can't be said to be good or bad now, so he doesn't bother to care about it.On the contrary, Li Chonghao was quite concerned about this lost and found son, and asked, "Yu'er, what's wrong with you?"

"Li Shaoyu" felt cold behind his back, shook his head with a forced smile and said: "Father is worried, probably because I got up late today, I haven't eaten yet, and my head is a little dizzy."

Li Chonghao couldn't help scolding: "Why are you still in bed when you're so good? Didn't you go to practice boxing early this morning?"

"Li Shaoyu" hurriedly acted coquettishly and begged for mercy: "Father, forgive me, I really did too much homework yesterday, and I fell asleep when I was about to be ugly, so I got up late today."

Li Chonghao has always doted on "Li Shaoyu", so he no longer blamed him when he saw this, but told the eunuch at the side: "Let the kitchen cook some of Yu'er's favorite food."

The internal supervisor took the order and went down.

Li Chonghao said to "Li Shaoyu" again: "If you can't finish your homework, you won't do it. There's no reason to stay up late at a young age. If your body breaks down, how do you ask me to explain to your mother?"

"Li Shaoyu" looked moved, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Father, for your compassion. But I haven't studied in the Liu Mansion these years, so I can't help Father and Brother. I really feel guilty in my heart. I can only hurry up. Only by studying hard can you repay your father and brother."

Li Chonghao patted "Li Shaoyu"'s hand and sighed: "It's rare for you to be filial. This person, in this world, doesn't just need to read a lot of books and be a high official. The most important thing is to know how to be filial." Elder, as the saying goes, sheep kneel and suckle, crows feed back, if people don't understand filial piety, they are even worse than animals!"

When it came to the end, Li Chonghao was so excited that he stretched out his right hand and waved it vigorously a few times, then looked at Li Shaojun next to him out of the corner of his eye.Seeing that Li Shaojun didn't react at all, Li Chonghao became more and more angry when he was disappointed, he cleared his throat and said, "Third brother, what do you think?"

Li Shaojun hurriedly replied: "Father is right."

"..." Li Chonghao almost lost his breath.

Over there, the three of Li, father and son were undercurrents. Here, Guo Zhan'an quietly went to see Huo Yu, and found that the latter glanced in the direction of the three above from time to time.That expression could not be called envy, but a hint of sadness.

Seeing this, Guo Zhan'an took advantage of the fact that everyone's focus was on the jade craftsman and Li Chonghao, and whispered to Huo Yu, "Go back to eat duck lees today?"

Huo Yu was taken aback for a moment, then the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, he nodded, and never looked at Li Chonghao and others again.

More than half an hour passed, and when Li Chonghao saw that the third cup of tea was about to bottom out, the jade craftsmen finally came to a conclusion.

The leading jade craftsman was over 50 years old, holding the two jade pendants and said: "Return to the emperor, your majesty, the two jade pendants can be said to be exactly the same from the outside, but..."

"Okay, don't drop the book bag, tell me directly, which of these two jade pendants is real?"

Hearing this, the jade craftsman turned around and picked up the red silk jade pendant from the tray, and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, this jade pendant is real."

Everyone in the hall exclaimed, Guo Zhanan was the first to react, grabbed Huo Yu's hand, squeezed it hard, and then reluctantly let go.

Li Shaojun got up quickly and shouted: "Come here, let me take down the villain who pretends to be the sixth prince!"

"Wait!" Li Chonghao immediately stopped the guards who were about to rush in to arrest "Li Shaoyu", pointed at the jade craftsman and said, "Tell me, why is this jade pendant real!"

The jade craftsman wiped the sweat from his forehead and explained: "The emperor does not know that the four-clawed dragon jade pendants of the princes are all produced from a royal jade mine in the upper north of Kunlun. There are strict records. Compared with other jade mines, the jade unearthed in this jade mine is more transparent, and there are some flocs in the middle of the jade, which can only be seen from a special angle when facing the sun at a special time, so It was called "Dragon Qi" by Emperor Wen. There is "Dragon Qi" in this jade pendant, but not in that one, so this jade pendant is real."

Li Chonghao still didn't want to believe it: "Could it be that you were bought by someone and deliberately made up a set of rhetoric to deceive me?"

The jade craftsman shook his head again and again: "I don't dare to wait, I don't dare to wait!"

Seeing this, Li Shaojun asked, "What do you think of this 'dragon energy'?"

The jade craftsman replied: "The time is not right now. If you want to see it, you have to wait until tomorrow."

Li Shaojun was worried that Ye Chang had many dreams - if he didn't get rid of this fake "Sixth Prince", he was afraid that King Liang outside the palace would know about it soon, and it would be even more troublesome then.

He said: "No, I want to see this 'Dragon Qi' now."

The jade craftsmen looked at each other, and in the end the jade craftsman who was the leader said with the sweat on his forehead: "If this is the case, you can only see it by smashing the jade pendant."

Li Shaojun turned his head to look at Li Chonghao: "What do you think the emperor wants?"

Li Chonghao shook his head and said: "The jade pendant is the symbol of the prince, how can it be destroyed at will?"

Li Shaojun refused to budge: "Father, now someone is using the jade pendant to pretend to be the sixth younger brother, not only for you and me, but also for the blasphemy of the queen mother! It's just a piece of jade pendant, how can it compare to our father-son and brotherhood? What if If you can find the real sixth brother, let alone a piece of jade pendant, my son is willing to take out a hundred yuan or a thousand yuan!"

Li Chonghao was speechless, and couldn't think of what to say to refute for a moment.

At this time, Guo Zhan'an, Yue An, and Zuo Xingzhi all came out and said: "The minister seconded the proposal!"

Forced by the situation, even though Li Chonghao is used to giving orders, now he has no choice but to say: "Forget it, I will do as you want, after all, I am getting old."

Li Shaojun didn't bother to do those superficial things at this time, so he asked Ah Xin to pick up his four-clawed dragon jade pendant in person: "The two jade pendants are real or fake, so let me use my jade pendant as a standard."

Ah Xin quickly fetched the jade pendant. In order to prevent the pieces of the jade pendant from being mixed together, Li Shaojun specially ordered someone to fetch three basins, and even took the lead in smashing his own jade pendant with his own hands.

The maid brought three trays, put the pieces of jade pendants in the three basins into the three trays, and stood in front of Li Chonghao in a row.

The jade craftsman took a fragment of the jade pendant from the middle tray with tweezers, and explained it to Li Chonghao: "My lord, please look at the middle of this piece. This flocculent is what Emperor Wen called 'dragon spirit'. This jade pendant belongs to His Majesty. Yes, it is genuine. Your Majesty, move forward, and please look at the jade pendant on the left. You see, there is also a 'dragon spirit' here, just like His Majesty's jade pendant. Your Majesty, please move forward again, and look at the jade pendant on the right. Although the jade pendant is also Hetian jade, there is no so-called 'dragon energy' in the jade. My lord, my lord, please be careful!"

Impatiently, Li Chonghao snatched the tweezers from the jade craftsman's hand, and looked at the pieces of jade pendants in the tray on the right, but he couldn't find any so-called "dragon spirit".

Li Shaojun didn't persuade him, and waited until Li Chonghao dropped the tweezers on the ground before he said: "Father, it seems that the real sixth younger brother has been found. I wonder how Father intends to deal with the villain pretending to be the prince?"

Li Chonghao sighed: "Catch it, and send someone to invite King Liang into the palace."

The people who went to invite King Liang came back soon, but what they brought back was not good news: "Go back to the emperor, go back to your majesty, King Liang is not in the prince's mansion. People in the prince's mansion said that King Liang went out of the city to hunt early this morning."

Li Shaojun frowned and asked, "Send someone to the royal hunting ground to invite King Liang into the palace."

The man said, "I have already sent people to the hunting grounds to look for King Liang."

Li Shaojun nodded and said: "The Commander of the Prohibition Army has an audience. Guo Qing, you take Huo Yu back to the Guo Mansion to rest first, I'm afraid this matter today will scare him."

After hearing this, Li Chonghao said displeasedly: "Since he is the prince, how can he live in the minister's house? Yu'er, our father and son have finally met again, so let's stay in the palace from today on."

Of course Huo Yu refused, and hurriedly came out and knelt down and said, "Thank you for your kindness, the Emperor, but Huo Yu is just a white man who knows very little about the rules in the palace. If he stays in the palace, he is afraid of offending the nobles. Trouble."

Li Chonghao shook his head, smiled and comforted Huo Yu and said, "Hey, Yu'er, what are you talking about. You are my son, who else in the world is more noble than you, who can be bumped by you? You are the prince, It is unreasonable to continue to live in the minister's house."

Huo Yu bit his lower lip, kowtowed and said, "I also ask the emperor for mercy."

Li Chonghao was immediately displeased: "How dare you not listen to my words?"

Guo Zhan'an was worried that Huo Yu would suffer, so he hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, Huo Yu grew up among the common people, so he really doesn't know much about the rules in the palace. Even if the Emperor is sympathetic, Huo Yu will never let the Emperor and His Majesty lose face."

Li Chonghao scolded angrily: "Where is there a place for you to speak!"

Afterwards, he turned to Huo Yu with a gentle face: "Yu'er, father is alone in the palace with no one to accompany him, and it is very lonely. You can stay here, and we, father and son, can enjoy family happiness. You are not young anymore , how can you stay in a minister's house all the time?"

Huo Yu still shook his head: "Thank you for the emperor's kindness, but Huo Yu has been among the people for a long time, and I'm afraid he can't adapt to the prosperity of the palace, so I ask the emperor for mercy."

Li Chonghao snorted coldly: "According to what you said, I am forcing you?"

Huo Yu quickly shook his head in denial: "That's not what Caomin meant."

Seeing that the timing is almost up, Li Shaojun leaned over and said with a smile: "Since the sixth brother has been found, why should the emperor be in a hurry? The most urgent thing now is to catch this fake 'sixth brother' and the mastermind behind him." Yes. I'm afraid my father didn't know that Yu'er went to Yong'an Mansion to participate in Qiu Wei a few days ago, and was ambushed by several killers on the way, and almost died halfway. Fortunately, Yu'er was clever, so he saved his life. "

Li Chonghao asked with concern: "Are you injured? Come on, hurry up and help the sixth prince up!"

Huo Yu stood up abruptly, and replied, "Thank you, the emperor, for your concern, I didn't suffer any injuries."

Li Chonghao said dissatisfied: "Then you are still injured. Yu'er, stay in the palace, and the imperial doctor will treat you. I feel uneasy that you continue to live in the minister's house."

This gave Huo Yu an excuse: "Your Majesty, the doctor said that Caomin's illness needs to be recuperated. If he suddenly changes to another place to recuperate, it may be difficult to recover."

Li Chonghao has been the emperor for decades, and now even if he is the Supreme Emperor, he still firmly holds the power. Even Li Shaojun, an imposing emperor, has to stand aside. How can he stand Huo Yu's repeated rejections?

"Forget it, since you insist on this, then you are up to you. It's just Yu'er, my father hasn't seen you for more than ten years, and in the future when my father announces you to enter the palace, you have to come. Pack up a palace for you, whatever you like, just say it, and move in after you recover from your injury."

Huo Yu just nodded and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Guo Zhanan and Huo Yu left the palace first, using the excuse that Huo Yu was injured and needed to recuperate.

As soon as he got into the carriage, Huo Yu let out a long sigh of relief: "It can be regarded as coming out."

"Tired now?" Guo Zhanan saw Huo Yu in his arms, let him rest on his shoulder, and said with a smile, "I have to enter the palace in the future, what should I do?"

Huo Yu said disgustedly: "I don't want to enter the palace, this Supreme Emperor doesn't treat me like a son at all."

Guo Zhanan was taken aback for a moment, and asked back, "How do you say?"

Huo Yu changed into a comfortable position in Guo Zhan'an's arms, and then said: "Brother, you give him my jade pendant, and he wants to smash the jade pendant without even looking at it. It's clear that he doesn't care whether the sixth prince is If it’s true or not, he must protect him. Later, the jade craftsman proved that my jade pendant was real, but he still didn’t believe it, so he smashed three pieces of jade pendant before giving up. Afterwards, he insisted on keeping me in the palace, which was completely different from the previous attitude. If two people. I always feel that he doesn't care whether the sixth prince is true or not, as long as he can stay in the palace, it seems that he wants to anger the emperor."

Guo Zhan'an never told Huo Yu about this matter, he never thought that this little guy would figure it out by himself, and he didn't know whether to say that Huo Yu was smart, or that he was connected with Li Chonghao and his son.

Guo Zhan'an kissed Huo Yu's cheek, and said, "You don't need to worry about the affairs of the court, you can go when the emperor announces you to enter the palace. The current emperor is your own brother, and he will never let you or himself suffer. But there is one more thing that Yu'er needs to make up your mind about."

Huo Yu asked curiously, "What is it?"

"There was a turmoil in the capital a few months ago. Afterwards, there were many restaurants and shops for sale. I asked Jia Huan to inquire about them. There are three restaurants with good locations. I'm waiting for you to make a decision."

Huo Yu hesitated: "But I didn't pass the exam..."

Guo Zhan'an smiled and rubbed Huo Yu's head: "Before I was thinking about it, I always thought that what I decided for you was the best. In fact, it doesn't matter whether you are a person or not, as long as you are by my side and do what you like things will be fine.”

Huo Yu couldn't help but turned around and buried his head in Guo Zhan'an's arms: "I'm the happiest when I'm by my brother's side."

For a while, there was warmth in the carriage.

Just as Guo Zhanan and Huo Yu got off the carriage, a fast horse rushed all the way to the palace.

"Report! The Emperor, Your Majesty, King Liang is not in the hunting ground!"

"Not here?" Li Shaojun looked at Li Chonghao, "Father, King Liang..."

Li Chonghao became alert: "Emperor, how many people knew about this before you came here today?"

Li Shaojun thought for a while and replied: "Among the ministers are only Yue Xiang, Zuo Xingzhi and Guo Zhan'an, and only Ah Xin knows about the inner prisoner. It is absolutely impossible for them to leak the news to King Liang."

Li Chonghao calculated the distance and time in his mind, and said: "It's impossible for someone from my palace. No one has ever left. Even if you send a message from the palace to King Liang, it's impossible to send him to the palace faster than you sent to summon him." people."

"Since it wasn't news from the palace, how did King Liang know about it?"

For a while, everyone in the palace fell into deep thought.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, is it King Liang who sent people to attack the Sixth Prince?"

Li Shaojun nodded and said: "Huo Yu is a kind person, it is impossible to make enemies with others, except for King Liang, I can't think of anyone else who would kill him."

Yue An expressed his guess: "Since King Liang wants to kill the Sixth Prince, he may send someone to keep an eye on the Guo Mansion, in case the Sixth Prince returns to the Guo Mansion after escaping. The Sixth Prince returned to Beijing yesterday, maybe Liang Wang came from the Guo Mansion." After learning about this matter, I was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so I left Beijing early."

Li Chonghao was furious with Guo Zhanan, and cursed, "I don't know that King Liang's spies have sneaked into my house, and I can't even manage the inner house well, so why are you Jing Zhaoyin!"

Li Shaojun naturally wants to argue for Guo Zhan'an: "Father, Guo Qing's father and stepmother are both in the mansion, when will it be his turn to intervene in this inner house? Ah Xin, take care of the pen and ink, and I will pass on a letter for Guo Qing to arrest first." It is the traitor who came out of Guofu."

Li Chonghao only felt that he was being led away by Li Shaojun all day long, feeling unhappy all over his body: "It is important to capture the king of Liang, but Yu'er is your real brother, you have to remember this. Hurry up and prepare a palace Let Yu'er move in earlier, there is no reason for a prince to live in a minister's house."

Li Shaojun smiled and procrastinated: "Father, King Liang has not yet been punished, and the matter of the 'sixth prince' was aroused in the capital. If this matter is not dealt with first, my son is afraid that Yu'er will provoke criticism."

Li Chonghao waved his hand: "With me here, you don't have to worry."

Li Shaojun has endured for so many years, and he has already figured out Li Chonghao's mind.He didn't confront Li Chonghao head-on, but instead asked: "Father, who should take care of King Liang?"

Sure enough, Li Chonghao's attention was drawn to King Liang again—the son was used as a puppet, so there is no need to worry about it now, but King Liang found a fake "Sixth Prince" and urged him to abolish Li Shaojun. Changing the establishment of "Li Shaoyu", what he planned was probably the dragon chair.

Li Chonghao has been worried that others will rob him of his dragon chair since he ascended the throne in his life. How could he spare King Liang lightly?

"Let's leave it to Yue An. After capturing King Liang, he will be imprisoned and I will personally interrogate him."

"Yes."