[Red Mansion] Ronghua Road of Mrs. Hou's Mansion

The three princes entered the palace together and happened to meet each other.

Fu Wang was treated a lot more honestly by the princess, and he didn't dare to have fun for a long time.Recently, I heard that the crown princess is pregnant, but she is willing to stay with the princess, and hopes to have a son as soon as possible, so it is impossible for the princess to restrain him and not allow him to get close to the beauty?

Since he has been very honest recently, the number of beatings has naturally decreased, like a bird that has been released from a cage, but he is somewhat grateful to the princess, who somehow feels that the princess is quite reasonable.As long as he doesn't look for flowers and ask Liu, the princess will not do anything to him.

King Ning still doesn't know that Wu Ming betrayed him, no, he doesn't know that Wu Ming has never been bribed by him.Therefore, he was looking forward to meeting the prince.

"I see that the fourth brother is in a good mood today." King Fu had nothing to say.

King Ning put away the smile in his eyes, and said: "Fifth brother is in a good mood, so who else is in the same mood as you? I heard that the relationship between the fifth brother and his siblings is getting better. I am really happy for you as a brother. You too The boss is not young anymore, it is time to calm down and live a good life with the princess."

Fu Wang secretly slandered, really which pot is not opened and which pot is lifted.He knew that the princess was a rouge tiger, but he still didn't want others to say that he was afraid of guilt, so he immediately changed the subject.

"I don't know why the emperor called us into the palace together?"

King Ning had already made preparations, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and asked with doubts on his face: "Could it be that the father is dissatisfied with us in some way, and wants to call us over to scold us?"

King Fu didn't have the intention of seizing the heir, so naturally he couldn't think of the prince, but he still felt a headache when he heard King Ning's words, "I haven't caused any trouble recently."

King Ning smiled, "Fifth Brother, don't be afraid, you'll know when you go." As he spoke, he noticed King Qing who was silent all the way, "Why is Seventh Brother silent?"

King Qing came back to his senses, and smiled faintly: "When I passed by Zhenbao Pavilion just now, I heard that there are new jewelry. I thought that when I go back to the mansion, I will pass by there and pick some pieces for the princess to take back."

King Ning has always known that this younger brother is quiet and indifferent, he never imagined that he would be so unambitious, even holding a woman in the palm of his hand, he felt a little disdainful, but very happy.This is very good, if King Qing also has the heart to seize the heir apparent, he may not be able to win over King Qing, after all, King Qing has the backing of the Lu family and the in-laws of the Gu family.

King Fu glanced at King Qing, "Seventh brother is a man and a prince, how can he please the princess like this, isn't it a loss of dignity? It will also make the princess arrogant and domineering."

King Qing said with a smile: "Fifth brother, I'm worrying too much. The princess is gentle and virtuous, she is not the kind of person you said. Besides, it's just a matter of passing by, why should you care so much?"

Fu Wang was silent for a while, and said: "Seventh brother is also reasonable."

The most important thing is that Gu Qionghua is really dignified and gentle. Compared with her, Liu Qinglan is like a tigress that can eat people at any time. It is not surprising that King Qing is willing to pamper Gu Qionghua.

The three of them had their own concerns, and when they entered the hall, they saw the prince bowing his head and standing aside, even the governor of Shuntian was there.

The three saluted the cold-faced emperor, and stood in a row with the crown prince.

King Ning was overjoyed when he saw Wu Ming kneeling on the ground.

"Do you know why I called you here?"

Fu Wang stood last, trying to minimize his presence.King Ning and King Qing said: "Please tell my father clearly."

The emperor's gaze skipped over the three of them, and only paused for a moment on King Fu before moving away.

The emperor still knew these sons very well. Although King Fu loved to cause trouble, he didn't have the brains or the courage to design the prince.

The most likely ones to do so are King Qing and King Ning.

The emperor pointed to Wu Ming and asked, "Do you recognize this person?"

All three of them glanced at Wu Ming and said, "I don't recognize you."

The emperor looked carefully, "I really don't know you?"

Fu Wang was afraid that the emperor would scold him, so he was the first to say: "Father, from the looks of him, he is just a commoner, how can my son know him?"

The emperor chuckled vaguely, "Very good." Then he said to Wu Ming, "Look up at these three people, do you recognize them?"

Wu Ming kept his head down, but when he heard this, he raised his head boldly and took a quick look at the three of them.

"Do you know anyone?" the emperor asked.

Wu Ming nodded.

The emperor asked in a deep voice, "Who is it?"

Hearing this, King Ning's heart skipped a beat.He didn't tell Wu Ming that way before, how could Wu Ming identify him?

A great unease enveloped him, his hands were clenched in his sleeves, holding on to the last bit of hope, praying that Wu Ming would not identify him.

"Yes...it's the prince..." Wu Ming said with a trembling voice.

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, but it was King Ning!

King Ning's heart sank suddenly.

The prince was overjoyed, with an innocent look on his face, he said: "So it's you! Fourth brother, why did you want to kill me?"

King Ning tried his best to keep calm, and said in a confused way: "Brother Huang, why do you say that? I don't understand. How could I harm you?"

How could the crown prince let go of King Ning's mistake easily? He said loudly: "Now, do you still have to argue? Since you don't admit it, then listen to what this fisherman has to say."

Wu Ming looked at King Ning and said, "Although I didn't know you were the prince at the beginning, I did meet you. You bribed me and threatened me to frame the crown prince and take Jing's wife by force, forcing Jing's wife to hang herself. Everyone who preaches it knows it. In order to save my life, I have to agree to you and go to the Shuntian Mansion Yamen to beat the drums and complain. But I don’t want to commit the crime of deceiving the king, so I can only tell the truth in front of His Majesty. Please forgive Cao Min’s life , I have elderly parents at home, I really can't do this kind of framing."

He kowtowed while talking.

King Ning was anxious and angry, wishing to kill Wu Ming with a sword, but at this time, he had to remain rational.

He already understood that he fell into the prince's trap, no, to be precise, it was the queen's trap.From the very beginning, Wu Ming was arranged by the queen. I am afraid that Yu Niang who went to the prince's mansion to lure the prince is not Wu Ming's wife.

The emperor looked directly at King Ning, "What do you have to say?"

King Ning fell to his knees straight, "Father, I have been wronged. I don't know this person at all. You can't just listen to his one-sided words and convict me. For so many years, I have kept my duty. How dare I frame him?" What about the emperor? Someone must have framed the minister."

The prince was happy, and sneered, "Sir, don't make excuses, can you hide your thoughts from the father? You justify yourself with such clever words, thinking that the father is the kind of stupid person who can be deceived by you." Is it? Father is wise and powerful, and his heart is like a mirror, so don't try to get away with it."

The emperor glanced at the prince, who immediately stopped talking.

"Do you have evidence?"

"Yes." Wu Ming took out a jade pendant from his sleeve, "When Cao Min approached King Ning and pretended to agree to him, he secretly took off the jade pendant on his body. If His Majesty still doesn't believe it, Cao Min still has King Ning at home. Gold and silver bills for grassroots."

Eunuch Zhang presented the jade pendant to the emperor, and the emperor naturally knew that it was often worn by King Ning.Holding the jade pendant, he looked like a storm was about to come, "King Ning, what else do you have to say!"

King Ning touched his waist subconsciously, and sure enough, the jade pendant was gone, and what the emperor was holding was what he often wore.

He panicked, "Father, I don't know why this jade pendant was lost, but I really didn't give it to him."

The prince was afraid that the emperor would believe King Ning, and immediately said: "This is what you wear next to your body, so people who are close to you can take it away. If you didn't meet Wu Ming, how could he take your jade pendant?"

Now that the matter has come to this point, King Ning knows that he must grit his teeth and must not plead guilty, otherwise he is really doomed!

His voice was mournful: "Father, my son was really framed by someone. You have seen it with your own eyes. For so many years, my son has always kept his duty, loved his brothers, respected the prince, and never dared to wishful thinking to seize things that do not belong to him. But Erchen is in the royal family, and the status of the prince itself is a threat to some people. Even if Erchen behaves like he doesn't fight or snatch, and is indifferent to fame and wealth, some people still worry about Erchen, intending to kill the grass and root it out forever. There will be no future troubles. Father, my son said something disrespectful. You have also been a prince, so you can naturally understand the twists and turns. How many princes in history have no ambitions, but they were still driven out. Now the situation of my son is very serious. That's right."

King Ning was talking, tears streaming down his face.It's half play, half real fear.

Seeing that King Ning had drawn the fire on him, the crown prince lost his temper immediately, "King Ning, don't be so eloquent. Even if I want to frame you, you should frame King Qing, at least King Qing's mother family is the Marquis of Nanning. But what do you have, why did I go to great lengths to frame you? Now the people in the capital know that I robbed women from good families and killed people. Is your own reputation involved?"

It was rare for the crown prince to be so eloquent and reasonable in front of the emperor. In fact, several people present thought so. There was indeed no need for the crown prince to make such a big circle to frame King Ning.

The emperor looked at King Ning, his eyes were as indifferent as his tone, "Prince Ning, you have disappointed me so much."

King Ning was terrified, his body trembling under the loose robe.

"Father, my son was really wronged. In order to frame me, the crown prince did not hesitate to damage my reputation, and let someone steal my jade pendant. Everything was arranged by the crown prince long ago. Please investigate clearly."

The prince sneered: "Prince Ning, I really admire you for not pleading guilty until now."

King Ning looked at the prince with righteous indignation and said, "Okay, I understand, this is killing two birds with one stone. You deliberately found someone to frame you, let your father misunderstand you, scold you, and then reverse the situation, Plant it on me. In this way, you can let me get rid of me, and you can pretend to be wronged in front of the father, so that the father will feel guilty about you. Prince, you are really amazing, I am ashamed."

The prince said angrily: "King Ning, you are really eloquent and eloquent. No matter what you say, there are witnesses and material evidences. Can you really escape the guilt? If Wu Ming had a conscience, I would be the unlucky one today. He solemnly bowed to the emperor, "Father, please punish King Ning severely, and give justice to your son and minister. If you don't punish King Ning severely today, brothers and ministers will follow suit in the future. There will be no rules and regulations for the royal family and the court." Say, isn’t it all messed up?”

King Ning was very sad, "Father, I know that the Crown Prince has produced these testimony and evidence, and no matter how I explain it, it will not help. But if you have not done it, you have not done it. Even if you want to execute this minister, I will not do it." admit."

As long as there is still a chance of life, he cannot plead guilty.And Gu Xingchi, Gu Xingchi will definitely help him.

"Father!" the prince said.

The two insisted on their own words, and King Ning refused to admit it to death, with another look of grievance.The emperor pondered for a moment, "Come here, first send King Ning to Zongzheng Temple for detention."

Seeing that the emperor did not convict King Ning, the Prince's expression changed, "Father, are you going to let King Ning go like this?"

The emperor squinted at him, "Could it be that you still want to torture your fourth brother to extract a confession?"

"I dare not." The prince could only say.

"In that case, let King Ning be imprisoned in Zongzheng Temple first." The emperor said, "Then call the minister of Dali Temple into the palace."

This is to let Dali Temple thoroughly investigate the case.King Ning breathed a sigh of relief temporarily, hoping that Gu Xingchi would seize the time to rescue him.

Coming out of the golden palace, the prince went straight to the queen's palace.

"My son pays homage to the queen mother." The prince walked in quickly.

The queen frowned, "As a prince, what do you look like in a panic?"

"Mother, there are all the witnesses and evidences, but the father did not severely punish King Ning. Then the empress mother's painstaking arrangements are in vain?"

"King Ning is his son after all, and besides, without King Ning, who will trouble you." The queen said.

The prince said bitterly: "This time it is clearly King Ning who framed me, but the emperor still wants Dali Temple to interrogate him. He is partial to Gu Xingchi, but he still protects King Ning. Am I not his son?"

The queen smiled, "Your father is the most cruel and ruthless person."

The crown prince gritted his teeth and said, "If my mother hadn't been prepared, would my father take this opportunity to abolish me?"

The queen gave him a cold look, "Do you still have the face to say that? Isn't there enough concubines in the prince's house? Is it what a prince of a country should do if he wants to forcibly defile a fish girl?"

The prince whispered: "Isn't this the person arranged by your mother?"

The queen hates iron for being weak, "I arranged it behind the scenes, but it was arranged by King Ning on the surface. If I didn't let people watch King Ning's every move, and didn't have insight into King Ning's plan in advance, then what you defiled is You are the real Yu Niang. Then you will really make a fuss, let the common people know your incompetence, and you will lose the support of the people, will you still be able to sit on the crown prince?"

The prince was sweating coldly, "My son... my son..."

"As a prince, you mess around all day long. Even if you succeed in ascending to the throne in the end, will your position be secure? Do you want to become a foolish king who loses his country?"

Hearing the queen's reprimand, the crown prince's scalp became numb, "I know that my aptitude is mediocre, so I understand that everything I have done now is based on the help of the queen mother. Naturally, I have to listen to the mother's teachings and change from then on."

The Queen chuckled.

The prince couldn't figure out what the queen meant, so he secretly observed the queen's face.

After a while, the queen waved her hand, "Back off."

The prince bowed and retired as if he had received an amnesty.

The Queen's voice sounded from behind him, "Take good care of the Crown Princess, I don't want to hear the women in your backyard make any more messes."

The prince knew that the empress was talking about Gu Zhaoyu, so he hurriedly said, "Your servant, please remember."

King Fu and King Qing left the palace together.

Although Fu Wang didn't want to seize the heir, he was still very happy to see other princes getting into trouble.He suggested: "Seventh brother, it's still early, why don't we go to Linjiang Pavilion for a drink together?"

King Qing was wearing a moon-white cloak with green bamboo embroidered by Gu Qionghua himself. Under the sun, his smile became warmer and warmer, "I remember Fifth Brother likes to go to the Red Building, I just have time today, why don't I go? "

King Fu thought to himself, he naturally wanted to go, but if Liu Qinglan found any clues, he would be taught a lesson again.

Of course, this cannot be told to King Qing.He waved his hands and said, "It's boring to go to one place all the time. Naturally, I have to change my taste. If the seventh brother doesn't want to go, then forget it."

King Qing smiled, "Fifth Brother, go slowly."

He watched King Qing's carriage go away, and said to his followers, "Go to Zhenbao Pavilion."

King Qing said that he would choose a few pieces of jewelry for Gu Qionghua, which was indeed not a perfunctory word for King Ning and King Fu.He really likes Gu Qionghua, Gu Qionghua is elegant and dignified, and considerate to him.However, he realized that Gu Qionghua had only treated him as a prince, not a husband so far, so he wanted to use some methods to narrow the distance between the two.

Jing'an Hou Mansion.

"Prince Ning is definitely waiting for you to save him now," Sister Feng said.

Gu Xingchi laughed and said, "How do you know he won't plead guilty?"

"How can a person who wants to fight for that position not be able to bear this little setback? If he wants to stand up, the only way he can do it is to die and not plead guilty." Sister Feng said, "But I'm also curious, what do you want? How can I help him, can't I ask His Majesty for mercy?"

Gu Xingchi sighed softly, "Even if King Ning thinks so, I will definitely not do this. Even if His Majesty pampers me on a daily basis, he will allow me to have anything to do with the fight between his sons."

Sister Feng said impatiently: "Quickly tell me, what can you do?"

Sister Qiao opened a pair of bright black eyes and turned around. When she saw Gu Xingchi's hand stretched out, she grabbed it tightly and let out a 'giggle' laugh.

While teasing Qiao Jie, Gu Xingchi smiled and said, "It's the time, we can only ignore life and death."

Sister Feng thought for a moment, and seemed to understand something. "And the Queen."

"So, be quick."

King Ning has been imprisoned for four hours, and now it's night, and it's time for dinner.

He touched his empty stomach, eagerly hoping that Gu Xingchi would quickly find a way to get the emperor to let him go.Not pleading guilty all the time is not a long-term solution. The prince and queen will definitely convict him as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, he really regretted it. If he knew earlier, he should have discussed with Gu Xingchi before taking action.Falling into the trap I set up now is really a mistake and shameful.

Just as he was regretting, he heard someone coming and opening the cell door, it turned out that someone brought him food.

The man didn't speak, just brought the food in and left.

Seeing the people walking away, King Ning quickly checked the food.After searching for a long time, I finally found a sandwich in the tray, which contained a folded paper. I reached out and touched it, and it seemed that there was something wrapped in it.

He quickly opened it and was horrified when he saw what was inside.

Inside is...a pack of poison!

He held the ball of paper tightly in his hand, and his thoughts turned sharply.If Gu Xingchi sent it late, what does he mean?

At the climax of the moon, he still didn't feel sleepy, and his heart was tangled.

After some time, he made up his mind...

Before dawn the next day, Zong Zhengqing asked to meet His Majesty.

"Your Majesty, it's bad, King Ning has been poisoned!" Eunuch Kang hurried over.

Eunuch Zhang waited on the emperor to get dressed, and saw that he was reckless, so he couldn't help scolding him lightly, "What's going on, are you yelling in front of His Majesty?"

Eunuch Kang hurriedly saluted the emperor, saying: "Your Majesty, Zong Zhengqing personally went to the palace to seek an audience early in the morning, saying that King Ning was poisoned!"

The emperor was also very shocked, and he didn't have time to ask carefully, "Hurry up and let Xia Taiyi go to Zongzheng Temple to treat King Ning, and ask Zongzhengqing to find out how King Ning was poisoned."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Eunuch Kang hurried out of the bedroom.

Accidents happened one after another in the past two days, and the emperor was a little absent-minded when he went to court.

As soon as the court was over, Eunuch Kang reported: "Your Majesty, the doctor Xia said that the poison of His Highness Prince Ning has been suppressed for the time being, but it is not appropriate to lock it up in Zongzheng Temple."

The emperor ordered: "Bring King Ning here first." After a pause, he continued, "Please come here, King Fu, King Ning, and the crown prince."

When the crown prince saw King Ning, who was being supported to sit on the embroidered stool, with a pale face and blood smeared at the corner of his mouth, his first feeling was: King Ning was going to play tricks on him again.

As soon as he saw King Ning, he became angry and blurted out a sentence: "King Ning, what the hell are you doing?"

The emperor sternly said: "Your fourth brother was poisoned and almost died. As a prince, you don't worry about him, and you utter bad words. Is that what you do for a brother?"

The prince scolded King Ning hundreds of times in his heart, and he could only admit his mistake to the emperor.

The emperor asked Zong Zhengqing, "Can you find out why King Ning was poisoned?"

Zong Zhengqing said: "After the examination by Imperial Physician Xia, King Ning was poisoned because of the food he ate last night."

"Have you interrogated the food delivery person?"

"Return to Your Majesty, that person suddenly contracted a disease and died of a sudden illness..."

Everyone was shocked, isn't this a murder to silence?Someone wants to take this opportunity to kill King Ning, then let people put medicine in King Ning's food, and finally kill him to silence him, with no proof?

King Fu and the emperor looked at the prince.

The prince was so angry that he jumped, "Royal father, this has nothing to do with my son, I didn't send anyone to poison King Ning."

The emperor's voice was cold, "Have I said that you did it? What are you rushing to defend?"

There was a sneer on King Ning's lips, he understood Gu Xingchi's intention of giving him the poison.As long as he was poisoned and the person who delivered the food died, no matter whether it was done by the prince or not, the prince would not be able to remove the suspicion.Although he can't get rid of the crime immediately, he can also drag the prince into the water.

After all, the one with the most reason to kill him is the crown prince. How could he get the poison while being locked up in Zongzheng Temple?

King Ning coughed a few more times, blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, and his breath was weak, "Father, I don't know what I did wrong. I became a thorn in the flesh of my brother, and I want to get rid of it quickly. Brother is very respectful, I dare not expect too much, we are all brothers, why can't Brother Huang tolerate me?"

"Shut up!" The prince was furious, "Father, King Ning must have framed me."

The emperor said: "Framed you? Look at King Ning's current appearance. Did he use his life to frame you?"

King Ning spit out another mouthful of black blood, "Brother Huang, you keep saying that I framed you, and I am in prison. Could it be possible that you can conjure poison and medicine out of thin air? Could it be that I killed the person who delivered the food? Brother, can't you wait for a moment, can't wait to put me on the charge of 'suicide in fear of crime'? If the emperor still doesn't want me to live, then I will hit my head to death right now, and say to the outside world that I framed the emperor but failed, Ashamed, committing suicide in fear of crime, this will also improve the reputation of the emperor, wouldn't it be in line with the wishes of the emperor?"

Saying this, he spit out several mouthfuls of blood one after another, it was black, and it looked like he had been deeply poisoned.

"Physician Xia, come and see Prince Ning."

Doctor Xia hurried over and said after a while: "The poison His Royal Highness King Ning has been poisoned is extremely poisonous. If he finds out later, His Highness is already dead by now. King Ning can't move now. Rest in bed for three months."

Is the poison so powerful?If you are not careful, you will die. Who dares to use this to frame others?

The emperor said: "Since this is the case, King Ning will not leave the palace for the time being, and go to Concubine Jing's palace to recuperate first."

The prince's face was gloomy. Did the father believe King Ning's words and think that he wanted to harm King Ning?