After being robbed by the prince of the enemy country

The fire in Prince Rui's Mansion burned all night, and it was not until the early morning that the fire was barely extinguished.

The periphery of the magnificent palace was already in a mess, all the precious flowers and plants were burned, and the surrounding houses collapsed. If the fire hadn't been extinguished in time, even the pavilions and pavilions in the inner courtyard would have been doomed.

King Rui didn't care about other losses, so he only sent people to rescue the books, calligraphy and paintings in the golden house.

The golden house was built so high that only the bottom two floors were blackened by the fire, and the upper attic was still intact.

The common people all know that there was a big fire in Prince Rui's Mansion last night. The gossip from the Palace is that His Royal Highness King Rui rushed into the Golden House last night to rescue books, calligraphy and paintings of famous masters, regardless of his own safety, just to leave precious materials for scholars. The literati are so grateful to the prince, they can't wait to write poems to praise him.

King Rui immediately went to the palace to file a complaint after taking care of the matter of the Golden House.

Coincidentally, Huai Zhen was also there.

If the emperor hadn't been there, Huai Yang would have fought Huai Zhen on the spot.

"Did you set the fire in the palace last night!" He asked Huaizhen in front of the emperor.

Huai Zhen looked innocent: "Was Prince Rui's mansion on fire last night?"

"You're pretending to be a fool! Everyone in the city knows that Prince Rui's mansion is in trouble, what are you pretending to do with me here!!"

Huai Zhen said to the emperor: "I really don't know."

Huai Yang: "Father! The fire last night must have been caused by Huai Zhen! Who would dare to do this to me in Kyoto except him!"

After years of painstaking management, the entire Qin capital is in the hands of King Rui and Queen Zhao. Almost half of the people believe that Huai Yang is the absolute candidate for the heir. A good hand at the helm?It was too late for them to curry favor with Prince Rui's mansion, who would dare to set fire to it?

Only His Royal Highness Yu Wang, who has just returned to Beijing, has this motive and means.

The emperor was naturally aware of this.

Huai Zhen stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "Since the emperor insisted that I let someone set the fire, what evidence does the emperor have? Did you catch the person who set the fire last night? Or did you find any evidence?"

"..." Huai Yang had no evidence.

There are so many masters around Huaizhen, it is absolutely impossible for them to fall into any tricks in the hands of ordinary servants in Ruiwang's mansion.

The fire seemed to have descended out of thin air, and it seemed to have nothing to do with anyone.

Seeing that he couldn't answer, Huai Zhen said: "It seems that there is no evidence, and the emperor's brother insulted my innocence out of thin air. It really makes my brother sad."

"You still have two faces?! See if I don't tear your fox tail out!!"

Huai Yang was so angry that he was about to rush up and fight Huai Zhen.

"Enough!" Emperor Qin yelled loudly, and Huai Yang stopped.

He glanced at his eldest son, who was now black and green, and then at his second son, whose face was full of "what can you do to me".

He sighed and said, "It's not impossible to start a fire out of thin air in the dry weather these days."

"Father!!" Huai Yang exclaimed in surprise, "You favor him!"

Huaizhen said: "If people don't offend me, I won't offend others. I would like to ask my father to learn from me."

"You still dare to fight back?!"

"Shut up! Cough, cough, cough!" The emperor coughed violently when he got excited, and the eunuch at the side quickly patted him on the back.

Huaiyuan was afraid that Huaizhen would expose the matter of Suizhou, and then it would be impossible to end the situation, so he simply made peace, and said to Huaiyang: "Since you can't produce evidence, then I will believe that the fire in Prince Rui's mansion is a godsend. It has nothing to do with Jiu Gu, and it has nothing to do with Jiu Gu. It is a big taboo for the royal family to fight against the wall. You should live in harmony instead of being suspicious of each other! Let me go back to the mansion and reflect on it!"

Since Emperor Qin did not pursue the fact that King Rui dispatched private soldiers to invade Suizhou because of "no evidence and no evidence", it is also "no evidence and no evidence" that Huaizhen burned Ruiwang's mansion today. Both sons got out of Yanfu Palace.

Empress Zhao heard that Prince Rui's mansion was on fire last night, so she waited outside the palace early in the morning. When King Rui came out, she held his face and kept feeling distressed.

The queen wanted to stop Huaizhen and reprimand her, but King Yu ignored him, completely ignoring the queen.

"The weather has been exposed to the scorching sun for the past few days." Huai Zhen said to Wen Yan who was beside him, "Father Emperor Jinkou admitted that it was caused by the dryness of the sky, so this fire can't just burn once."

At Xu time that night, the mansion of Prince Rui burst into flames again out of thin air, and this time the fire was directly placed in the hinterland of the West Courtyard, only ten steps away from the inner courtyard where King Rui was.

"Too much deception! Too much deception!!" King Rui looked at the flames in front of him and the servants who were putting out the emergency fire, he had nowhere to vent his resentment, he raised his foot and ruthlessly kicked the long attendant beside him, leaving all his usual demeanor behind him.

The servants of Prince Rui's mansion were arranged by Queen Zhao personally, and the life and death of the family were all in the queen's hands, so she could only dare to be angry with King Rui and dare not speak out.

"Where is the princess?! This king is about to be burned to death, but he is very carefree?!"

"Your Highness, have you forgotten? The princess's waist feels unwell, and she hasn't been to the West Courtyard for the past two days."

"..."

Huai Yang threw up his sleeves and wanted to go to the East Courtyard. Wei Gu beside him knew King Rui's temperament best, and he would definitely attack the princess in such a rage.

If he strikes too hard, he may hurt Wen Pei even more seriously. He hurriedly stepped forward to stop Huai Yang, intending to calm down Huai Yang, but he didn't expect to throw His Royal Highness Rui Wang into the lake during the tugging.

King Rui: "..."

The water was even warmed by the fire in the west courtyard!

Resentment rushed straight to his head, Huai Yang pointed in the direction of Prince Yu's Mansion, and cursed loudly: "After this king ascends the throne, the whole family of Huaizhen will be destroyed!!"

Wei Gu on the shore couldn't bear to remind the prince: King Yu's entire family also includes King Rui himself.

At this time, a young servant came to report in a hurry: "My lord! My lord! I lost one of the books in the golden house!"

King Yu's expression changed after being rescued from the water.

The sky suddenly exploded with a loud noise, and fireworks were being set off above Yuwang Mansion.

There is a pyrotechnic wizard in Kyoto who can paint in fireworks.

Huai Zhen specially invited someone to paint in the air to make Chu Shao happy.

There was another explosion, and a blue firework rabbit lit up in front of Chu Shao's eyes.

"Do you like it?" Huaizhen asked Chu Qingxu in his arms.

Chu Shao's eyes were lit up by the fireworks, of course he liked it, not to mention he knew that Jiu Gu set off the fireworks specially for him.

Apart from being happy, I was also a little worried: "Prince Rui's Mansion is still on fire, but we are setting off fireworks here, isn't it too good? What if the people say that Prince Yu's Mansion is taking pleasure in other people's misfortunes?"

Huai Zhen: "This king is gloating."

"..." Chu Qingxu narrowed his eyes, poked the tip of Huaizhen's nose, "You are so arrogant!"

"No matter how many achievements this king has made, I am still a cruel prince in the hearts of the people in the capital. If so, I will do what a cruel prince should do."

Huai Zhen put his arms around Chu Shao's waist, and whispered in his ear, "I bought these fireworks for a thousand taels of silver. Those common people can appreciate this wonderful spectacle with your light, so they should treat me well." Prince Yu's Mansion is grateful to Dade."

"His Royal Highness King Yu is so domineering." Chu Qingxu leaned into Jiugu's arms and said flatteringly, "But I like it."

When the two of them were mixing oil in honey under the flowers before the moon, Wen Yan suddenly trotted over, "My lord! There is a woman from Suizhou at the door asking for help."

Both Huaizhen and Chu Shao were taken aback: "A woman from Suizhou?"

Under the din of fireworks, the door of Prince Rui's Mansion was knocked dozens of times before the servants inside heard the sound clearly. When he opened the door, he saw a woman in ragged clothes with charcoal marks on her face and hair. There are traces of being burned by the fire. Although she is in a terrible state, she can still see her beautiful appearance.

When the boy opened the door, he vaguely heard the sound of searches on both sides of the street. The woman was extremely helpless and begged him to save her life. She spoke with a Suizhou accent and remembered that this was the people of the prince's fief. It was only after breaking the rules that she was allowed to enter the palace to avoid the unknown disaster, and quickly sent someone to report to the prince.

When Huai Zhen and Chu Shao came to the front hall of the palace, the woman was already kneeling on the ground. As soon as she heard that the prince was coming, the woman immediately walked to Huai Zhen and knelt down at his feet: "His Royal Highness, please help!"

Chu Shao saw that the clothes on her body were gorgeous, covered with a tulle, if you just look at the clothes, it was full of dust, and...Although he didn't intend to take a closer look, there were many lumps on the girl's back under the tulle. Red marks and bruises of varying shades.

That's... a mark left on the bed.

Realizing this, he quickly looked away and asked Tingxue beside him to find a woman's coat, and Tingxue went to do it immediately.

After all, there are many males in Prince Yu's Mansion, Chu Shao first took off his coat and put it on the girl to cover her embarrassment on the skin.

Naturally, Huai Zhen also noticed something strange, but compared to Chu Shao's simple kindness, he thought a little more.

Just listening to the accent, this person is indeed from Suizhou, but he came to the palace in the middle of the night to call for help, and he was so inappropriately dressed... I am afraid that someone is trying to plot something by taking advantage of the woman's frail appearance.

He pulled Chu Shao up, took him behind him, and prevented him from getting too close to the girl who might be the female assassin, and then asked: "I can save you, first tell me, what is your name, where is Suizhou?" family?"

"... Minnv..." The woman choked up for a long time before she dared to say her name, "Minnv's surname is Yang, her name is Ruoxue, and she is the only daughter of Suizhou cloth merchant Yangshan."

"?!"

Everyone present was shocked.

Huai Zhen knelt down, patted the woman on the shoulder, and asked her to raise her head. Although her face was distressed, it was an alluring face that couldn't be concealed by dust.

Huai Zhen had seen the portrait of the number one beauty in Suizhou.

"Are you really Yang Ruoxue?! Yang Ruoxue who disappeared on her wedding day half a year ago?"

When mentioning the wedding half a year ago, Yang Ruoxue burst into tears, "It was me. That day I was happily waiting for the wedding team to arrive in the boudoir when two masked men broke into me outside the window and fascinated me." I was robbed after fainting, and when I woke up, I was already trapped in Kyoto."

"...Where are you trapped in the capital?" Huai Zhen noticed that Yang Ruoxue's hair and clothes showed signs of being burned, and had a rough guess in his mind - the only place that was on fire tonight was Prince Rui's Mansion.

Chu Shao also comforted: "Miss Yang, don't be afraid, even if it is the current emperor who robs you, His Highness can still uphold justice for you."

Yang Ruoxue didn't know who this handsome young man was, but his gentle voice made people want to confide inexplicably, so she dared to tell her own experience: "The girl was trapped in Ruiwang's mansion... Ruiwang's mansion Half a year in the golden house."

Chu Shao: "Golden House? Isn't that an academy for literati to study?"

Yang Ruoxue shook her head crazily: "No, that's not a place to study at all! Those scholars just came to play with their books in their hands during the day, and the golden house in Prince Rui's Mansion is just... just a..." She choked for a long time, Only then did I struggle to say those two words, "brothel."

"The women inside are all hijacked by King Rui from various places in Zhongqin. It's like choosing a concubine from the palace. If the girl who is kidnapped can get into King Rui's eyes, she can stay in the golden house. If she can't enter King Rui They will be... sent to the Goulan Washe in the most remote area, and those who stay in the Golden House will also be betrayed if they swear to die."

"Minnv cares deeply about her husband and family in Suizhou, and she knows that there is still a ray of hope in the capital. If she is sold to a remote place, she will lose her life. That's why I... endured the humiliation and stayed in the golden house for half a year. For a long time, there are many innocent women like civilian women hidden in Prince Rui's Mansion, most of them are from Xiaozhou County, they are not familiar with Kyoto, even if they want to escape, they don't know how to escape."

The people of Xiaozhou County don't have a prince sitting in the town like Suizhou, and the prince also has a mansion in Kyoto, which is at least a source of life.

"Minnv is looking forward to His Royal Highness Yu Wang's return to Beijing day and night. Yu Wang's mansion is the only hope for the minnv in desperation. In the past two days, Rui Wang's mansion caught fire, and the golden house was implicated. The minnv was able to run out in the chaos and escape from Rui with all her might." The search and arrest of the palace, I only ask His Royal Highness to save the daughters of the people and those innocent women in the golden house, and ask His Royal Highness to uphold justice for us..."

After hearing the ins and outs clearly, Chu Qingxu was startled and angry: "It's simply...absurd, how can a dignified prince do such a thing? It's ridiculous that this King Rui actually won a good wife with his devoted wife. The reputation is simply ridiculous!"

Huaizhen asked someone to set fire to Prince Rui's mansion. He wanted to vent his anger on Suizhou and Chu Shao, and he also sent people to sneak into the submerged fire team to investigate the reality of Prince Rui's mansion. Unexpectedly, the spies didn't get any useful information. Burn out the whole truth of the bride's disappearance case.

"Miss Yang, don't worry." He personally supported Yang Ruoxue and promised, "I will definitely give you justice."

-

The invitation from Prince Yu's Mansion was delivered to Wen Pei overnight.

In the past two days, the entire Prince Rui's Mansion was filled with a burning smell. Although the East Courtyard was not damaged at all, it was still unavoidably affected by the smell.

Wen Pei had a sore throat from choking every day, and heard reports from his servants that the prince was tinkering with the books, calligraphy and paintings in the golden house every day. He thought to himself that this person even had to use counselors to write the memorials to the court. He was fascinated by these calligraphy and paintings. In order to pretend to deceive outsiders, so as to consolidate his knowledgeable image among folk storytellers.

When he was young and ignorant, he also thought that King Rui was a learned man, but after meeting him, he found that he was a man of gold and jade, and his mouth was full of secrets, so he looked down on him even more. Less than two years after marriage, the two They live in separate courtyards, and the east courtyard never asks about the affairs of the west courtyard.

The fire in the west courtyard had just been extinguished, so it was inevitably noisy. At this time, Huaizhen sent a message to invite him to drink tea in the elegant garden on the outskirts of the city, and he happened to go out to find a quiet place.

Suburban Yayuan is a private property under the name of Yu Wang. It is located in the peach blossom forest in the suburbs of Beijing, far away from the hinterland of central Beijing. It is a paradise far away from the hustle and bustle.

In order to guard against the tongue and eyeliner of Prince Rui's mansion, Wen Pei only brought a close-fitting maid, Suo Qing, to follow.

He came as promised, and saw that Yu Wang and his sweetheart were already waiting in the small pavilion, so he quickened his pace.

"Try the Biluochun brought by Qizhou, Xiaoshao made it himself."

Huaizhen invited Wen Pei to sit down, and pushed a cup of warm tea to Wen Pei's hand. Wen Pei looked at Chu Qingxu with a smile, thanked him, took a sip, and praised: "The taste is fragrant and rich After drinking, there is a feeling of sweetness, it is really good tea, the tea in Qizhou is better than that in Kyoto, no wonder, people are also more beautiful than those in Kyoto."

Chu Shao smiled and said, "Has Princess Rui always been this funny?"

"Hey, since you're in the depths of Taoyuan, don't call me Princess Rui. Others may regard this name as a treasure, but I think it's unlucky. So Xiao Shao, just like Jiu Gu, just call me Lu Bai."

"Jianjia is green, white dew is frost." Chu Shao said carefully, "Lubai Jiacang, a good name."

It's summer now, the peach blossoms in Yayuan are all withered, and the peach trees are lush green, occasionally you can see a few peaches.

"Your Highness sent me a post overnight to invite me to the outskirts of the city. You can't just let me taste this Biluochun?"

Wen Pei is not stupid, who set the fire in Prince Rui's mansion, he and Huai Zhen tacitly agreed.

If you want to enjoy tea, you can find any teahouse in Kyoto. If you have something important to do, you don’t have to avoid the hustle and bustle of Beijing and go to the private area of ​​Yuwang Mansion to drink a cup of hot tea.

"Is something wrong?"

Since Wen Pei asked this, Huai Zhen didn't beat around the bush, "I heard that brother Huang lost a very important book."

"Huh?" Wen Pei didn't understand.

"This 'book' fell into my hands, and I asked Lubai to come out today, just to let you take a look at this 'book'."

Huai Zhen raised his finger, and a beautiful but well-dressed woman walked into Wen Lubai's sight.

"Minister Yang Ruoxue, see Princess Rui."

Wen Lubai was confused, he smiled and asked Huaizhen: "Where is the book you are talking about?"

Yang Ruoxue said: "Minnv is the book His Royal Highness Rui Wang lost in the golden room, would the princess want to listen to it?"

Books and people are equal.

Wen Lubai's expression gradually became serious, and he probably guessed that the matter was not simple, so he held the teacup and said, "Let's listen to it."

Yang Ruoxue then told the ins and outs of how King Rui hijacked unmarried women from various places into the golden house for him to have sex with other dandies he had befriended. At least fifty innocent women were sold off, and now there are still twenty girls in the golden house who have suffered from it.

Wen Lubai's hand holding the teacup gradually tightened, and his complexion slowly darkened. Suo Qing, worried about his body, fetched a cloak and wanted to put it on for Wen Pei. When Wen Pei raised his hand to refuse, he realized that he was His whole body was stiff, and his palms felt even colder, as if all the blood in his body had flowed backwards.

"You..." Only when I opened my mouth did I realize that my voice was trembling, "How dare you swear that what you said today is absolutely true?"

Yang Ruoxue immediately made an oath: "I swear to the heavens, a woman, if I slander King Rui today, I will be struck by five thunderbolts, and the entire Yang family in Suizhou will die in a terrible way."

"..."

"Okay...very good." Wen Lubai picked up the cold Biluochun in the cup, trying to use the tea to suppress the despair and anger in his heart, but as soon as the tea was in his mouth, his blood surged and he spit out a mouthful Blood.

"Wen Pei?!" Huai Zhen was taken aback, and quickly supported Wen Pei, and Murong, who had been ordered to wait outside the pavilion, arrived in time.

Chu Shao stepped forward to help Yang Ruoxue who was frightened, and comforted Suo Qing.

Wen Pei was carried into the inner room of Yayuan, and Murong stepped forward to feel his pulse and take medicine.

Seeing Wen Lubai's eyes closed tightly, Huai Zhen blamed himself for a moment. He knew that Wen Pei was not in good health, and stimulating him with this fact would definitely make him angry, so he let Murong follow.

Although this matter is cruel, is it necessary to hide it from Wen Pei for the rest of his life?

Under the balance of the two, he chose to tell the truth truthfully, so as to prevent Duke Zhen's beloved son from being abused by King Rui.

After Murong applied the needle, Wen Pei woke up quickly.

He was out of his mind for a while, then suddenly struggled to get up, Chu Shao didn't know what he was going to do, so he could only support him.

After Wen Pei's feet landed on the ground, he walked up to Yang Ruoxue, and suddenly knelt down to her.

"princess?!"

The whole room was shocked, and Yang Ruoxue was even more at a loss.

Chu Shao wanted to help Wen Pei up, but Wen Pei insisted on kneeling, he said in a hoarse voice: "Miss Yang, I was blindfolded, and I have never noticed such dirty activities in the palace for several years. Yang is in the company, but in the end it is the princess he is marrying, and if he has done it, it means that the whole Rui Palace has had it, and Rui Wang's mansion is sorry for you."

"The concubine must not take all the sins on herself." Yang Ruoxue dared not accept his big gift, and quickly helped her up. In the past six months, she had already figured out the situation in the inner courtyard of Prince Rui's mansion.

King Rui and the concubine live in two houses separately, the concubine never asks about the affairs of the west courtyard, and King Rui deliberately conceals it, Wen Pei is completely kept in the dark, or in other words, he is also a victim.

Back then, King Rui married the son of Lord Zhen Guo, who didn't know that King Rui had made a poisonous oath that there would be only Wen Pei in this life, and he would never take concubines, otherwise he would die badly.

After ten years of husband and wife, Wen Pei saw through Huaiyang's many lies, and became more and more frustrated with him, but he was the only one who believed in this oath.

However, the construction of the golden house began in the third year after their marriage, and in the following seven years, countless innocent women were harmed, but he was unaware of it.

"Dad didn't like Huaiyang's character back then. It was Huaiyang who made a solemn vow never to take a concubine. Even if he became emperor, he would dismiss the harem, so he allowed this marriage."

He smiled wryly and said, "Thinking about it now, it's really a joke. In order to stop Youyou's mouth, he didn't dare to accept concubines in the palace, and in order to maintain the reputation of his beloved wife as dedicated, he didn't dare to go to Goulan's house, that's why... It's so absurd that in the palace, under my nose, such a golden house was built, and he fooled me, the people, and even the emperor."

"I'm just... a tool Huai Yang uses to cleanse his bad reputation and compete for the position of crown prince. Such a hypocritical, greedy and shameless person is actually the one I want to spend the rest of my life with. How can I Allow such a person to ruin my life?"

Wen Pei's eyes were red, but he didn't shed a single tear, and his voice was as cold as ice: "I really want to kill him."

The author says:

Wen Lubai - one of Chu Shao's regicide enlightenment mentors.

Chirp:? ? ?Don't look, don't learn! ! !

Shaoer: I have realized the essence.

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