After being robbed by the prince of the enemy country

Inside Yanfu Hall, there is a pungent medicinal smell.

The emperor, who was half lying on the couch, relied on the medicine to regain some of his blood, barely holding on to his energy, and met Huaizhen.

The people in the inner hall were sent out, and even Queen Zhao could only wait in the outer hall.

After the turbid cough, Emperor Qin Huaiyuan took another look at the memorial that Huai Zhen handed over.

The above clearly listed the suspicious points of the Suizhou banditry, and finally pointed the finger at King Rui.

"How true are the confessions of these low-class people?" In the eyes of the emperor, bandits are the last class of people, even worse than cow dung on the roadside. ?

"Huaiyang has been raised under my nose, and at the feet of the emperor, where does he have the courage and courage to collude with bandits, and even raise tens of thousands of private soldiers?" Huaiyuan closed the memorial, coughed a few more times, "You shouldn't doubt your brother like this."

Huaizhen said: "Brother Huang is in charge of clearing up and enlisting the bandits in Langshan. It was the counselors of Prince Rui's Mansion who conducted the recruitment negotiations back then. It is clearly stated in the confession. The private army team is indeed not colluding in private, but colluding openly."

"In recent years, young and strong prisoners have disappeared on the way of exiles everywhere, but no officials have dared to investigate this matter. If the emperor suspects that his sons and ministers have slandered the emperor's brother, he can ask the Criminal Department to investigate these cases of exiles' disappearances, or Directly let officials from all over the country take the portraits and identity information of the exiles to claim the corpses, and see if the identities of these exiles can match those of the private soldiers who attacked Suizhou that night."

Emperor Qin said in a weary voice: "Huaiyang used to be really stubborn and unruly, but in recent years he has restrained himself a lot for Wen Pei, becoming humble and docile, and he is also very diligent in government affairs. , to recruit talented people from poor families all over the world, everyone in Beijing praises him for his benevolence and love for the people, but you tell me that he is good at raising private soldiers outside, intending to massacre the people of Suizhou, it is extremely absurd!"

He snorted coldly: "You are soaked in killing every day, do you think that everyone regards human life as worthless like you? Suizhou slaughtered more than [-] people overnight. If it is true as you said, that group of people is also the middle class." Qin Min, why don't you show mercy? At least you should produce a living witness to testify that Huaiyang did these things, instead of slandering your brother and questioning your father with a dry memorial!"

Huaizhen raised his eyes, looked at his father on the bed, and suddenly sneered, "When the border was repeatedly provoked, my father praised me for killing and decisively. Now the north tour is stable, Nanqi destroys the country, and the celebration banquet has just ended. Son In the mouth of the father, has the subject become a butcher who regards human life as nothing? Father knows that more than ten thousand people have taken poison beforehand. Even if they don't die under the guns of our army, they will not survive 12 hours. Is human life worthless?"

"Suizhou is the fiefdom of my son. I will kill anyone who dares to invade. My hands are stained with blood for the sake of Zhongqin. In the end, I will be reprimanded for being cruel and inhumane by those who enjoy it. Is there such a reason in the world?"

"you you..."

"Father, calm down." Huai Zhen saluted, and said kindly: "Since the father believes that these ironclad evidences are not enough to accuse the fact that the emperor wants to slaughter the city, I can only admit that I am unlucky. After all, the father is partial to the emperor, isn't it? It has been a day or two, and I have already gotten used to it, so how dare I hope that my father will uphold justice? I will resign."

Huai Zhen straightened his body and walked out of the inner hall, leaving the emperor alone on the couch coughing to death.

The queen in the outer hall heard the movement, and quickly turned into the inner hall. On the way, Huai Zhen passed by her, and the queen grabbed his hand: "You foreigner, what did you do to your father?"

"Your Majesty, you might as well ask yourself what you and King Rui did to Suizhou." Huai Zhen shook off the Queen's hand, straightened his sleeves, and strode out of Yanfu Palace.

The empress was terrified, and when she rushed into the inner hall, the emperor coughed and threw the memorial that Huai Zhen had handed over to the empress, hitting Mrs. Zhao on the forehead.

Huai Yuan scolded angrily: "Look at the good deeds your son has done!"

The memorial that fell on the ground was spread out indiscriminately, and the words and sentences on it directly poked Zhao's eyeballs.

She fell to the ground in fright—how could Huai Zhen see through the private soldier matter so carefully? !

-

The moon was bright and the stars were thin, Chu Shao stood outside the carriage by the palace gate, waiting for Huai Zhen to go back to the palace together.

The wind slowly picked up at night, Tingxue took a cloak from the carriage and tied it on for Chu Shao.

"Sir, do you want to go back to the car and wait?"

They have been waiting for an hour.

Knowing that Huai Zhen was going to see the emperor, the longer the delay, the more worried Chu Shao became.

The emperor is moody, and rewards and punishments at night are common occurrences.

After waiting for a moment, Chu Qingxu's heart became more suspenseful, so that when the familiar figure appeared in front of him, he unexpectedly ran towards the Huaihe River, ignoring the many etiquette and taboos in the palace. Lingering in Zhen's arms, the cloak was pulled back in the night wind, but it couldn't stop Chu Shao from galloping.

Seeing the moon-white figure running towards him like a rabbit, Huai Zhen's cold heart gradually warmed up. He opened his hands and hugged Chu Shao tightly when he threw himself into his arms.

"You've been away for a long time!" Chu Shao snuggled into Huaizhen's arms. After nightfall, the open space in the palace gate was not as lively as in the daytime, so he dared to raise his hand and gently hug Huaizhen, remembering himself No matter where she is, she just hugged her lightly and planned to let go, but Huaizhen didn't want to let go, but instead hugged her tighter and tighter.

"What's the matter? Chirp?" Chu Shao was a little out of breath, and his voice was extraordinarily soft.

Huai Zhen didn't say a word, his face lay on Chu Shao's collarbone, the soft cloth rubbed against his face, and a unique medicinal fragrance surrounded him.

He has been on the battlefield since he was 15 years old, like a falcon with nowhere to go, he has been circling tirelessly in the border and war for ten years. I have no home.

His only peace of mind is Chu Qingxu, the one who fell in love with him only after being deceived by the love gu.

"Cough-cough-"

It wasn't until Chu Shao coughed twice because he couldn't breathe that Huai Zhen escaped from the absent-minded and injured state.

He let go, under the moonlight, Chu Shao's cheeks overflowed with a lovely blush, he was the most beautiful scenery in the whole Qin Palace.

Huai Zhen suddenly bent down, put his hands through Chu Shao's knees, picked him up horizontally, and brazenly hugged him in his arms.

The body suddenly flew into the air, Chu Shao said in surprise: "This is the palace!"

"I know."

"People will see it, and they'll say you're inappropriate."

"Let them go."

"..."

Jiu Gu's embrace was warm and steady, and Chu Qingxu didn't want to leave, so she wrapped her arms around His Royal Highness King Yu's neck, and said playfully, "Then let them go."

He heard Huaizhen chuckle in his ear twice, and he laughed too.

Tingxue, who was waiting outside the carriage, didn't know what the prince and Young Master Chu were having fun with, but when the master was happy, she was also happy. Only Si Yun, who was acting as the carriage driver temporarily, was downcast.

It wasn't until they got into the carriage that Huai Zhen put Chu Shao on the soft chair. Chu Shao quietly looked at Jiu Gu's expression, his words were stuck in his throat, and he wanted to ask but dared not.

Huaizhen said that he wanted to seek justice for Suizhou. As long as the emperor is not sick and stupid, he should believe that King Rui has done everything he can to suppress his brother.

But who can guess the emperor's mind?

Chu Shao's big eyes blinked and blinked, with an expression of inquiry and curiosity on his face, Huai Zhen guessed what he wanted to ask, and gave the answer directly: "Father is so ill that he is unconscious, it's okay, the emperor brother gave you a gift. Whatever big gift you give me, I will just pay it back."

Chu Shao didn't understand. When the carriage reached the middle of the upper street, Huai Zhen led Chu Shao down and pointed to a pavilion in the northwest direction: "That building is the academy where the Ruiwang Mansion raises scholars, it's called the Golden House."

"Golden house?" Chu Shao thought for a while, and said, "From 'the book has its own golden house'?"

"Exactly."

Huai Zhen raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and sixteen black shadows jumped out of nowhere, startling Tingxue beside Chu Shao.

Sixteen men in black knelt in front of King Yu and obeyed.

King Yu looked in the direction of the golden house, and said coldly: "Go, go and return the gift from Suizhou to King Rui."

-

At Xu time, when people and animals were quiet, there was a sudden scream in Prince Rui's mansion: "It's flooded! It's flooded! The west courtyard is flooded!! Come and put out the fire!!!"

Wen Pei, who had just drank a bowl of medicine, was drowsy, but was awakened by this sound.

He walked out of the small courtyard quickly and looked towards the west courtyard, and saw that the flames were soaring into the sky, and the golden house was surrounded by the flames.

A gust of wind blew violently, and Wen Pei, who was only wearing unlined clothes, was suddenly blown by the wind, and his face turned pale in an instant. Only then did the maid next to him recover from the shock of running into the water, and hurried to get a cloak for Wen Pei to put on .

The summer night wind does not actually freeze people, but Wen Pei's body cannot be blown by any wind.

After the gust of wind passed, the fire in the west courtyard became even more rampant.

"Is the... northeasterly wind blowing today?"

Wen Lubai saw that the fire was only burning in the west courtyard, while the east courtyard was not affected at all. There was a lake in the garden between the east and west courtyards. Also in Prince Rui's mansion, the fire didn't go to the east courtyard at all - it seemed that someone was exacting revenge on the west courtyard where King Rui often lived, while the east courtyard was completely out of the way.

The servant girl carefully reminded: "The prince is still in the west courtyard, if the princess is worried, do you want to go and see?"

After a quarrel tonight, Huai Yang was driven back to the West Court—after he made a fuss in Wen Pei's study and broke the few arrow feathers Huai Zhen gave him.

The injury on Wen Pei's waist is still hurting. No matter how painful his waist is, his heart is hard: "The fire is only burning on the periphery of the east courtyard, but it can't burn the inner courtyard where the prince is. Besides, there is no one in the golden house at night. Can there be any casualties? The east courtyard has the most family members, the palace is on fire, and the fire diving team must be on the way, so the west courtyard can only send ten people to help put out the fire."

"If the lord comes to look for him, just say that I'm not feeling well and I'm asleep." Wen Pei hung it up high, wrapped in a cloak, and really prepared to go back to the house to rest.

The servant girl hesitated and said, "But..."

"That's right." Princess Rui turned back and added, "If His Highness Prince Rui accidentally dies in this fire, please come and report it to me quickly. I will cry for him."

Maid: "........."

The author says:

King Rui:?

Shao'er: I am a role model for my generation!