A Precious Pearl in the Imperial City

Jiuzhu found out that Prince Qi was looking at him.

She put down her chopsticks, met his gaze, and blinked innocently.

His family committed evil crimes, it had nothing to do with her, and it was useless to stare at her.

"Four brothers..." Wang Chen noticed that Yun Yanze was watching Jiuzhu, and he got up and prepared to mock.

"The King Chen doesn't have to help the four princes to intercede." Ming Jinghai, who had been sullen and sipped his wine, stood up and interrupted Wang's words: "State-owned, national laws, family rules, please forgive me."

Emperor Longfeng raised his hand to prevent King Chen from speaking: "Duqing, I know that you value emotions, but today's affairs cannot be used emotionally."

Concubine Su Gui lightly climbed the shoulders of Emperor Longfeng: "Your Majesty, you know the temperament of Du Qing. Family affection has always been the most important. Recently, I have been living in the palace again, and I don't know what happened outside."

Wang Chen shut his mouth and took a step back.

He understands that if he didn't speak tonight, he was arrogant.

Yun Yanze retracted his sight and bowed to the ground and bowed: "Father, son... son..."

He couldn't make a sentence, he cried and sorrowed, and even hard-hearted people could feel his pain and helplessness. However, the actions of the Zheng family and Zheng Mei were truly unforgivable.

"Shilang Yang." After Ming Jinghai blocked Wang Chen back, he didn't seem to want to stop. He walked to the sluggish Shilang Yang: "Just now you asked the official niece, what is the lotus root in Lingzhou and the lotus root in Beijing? The difference, now my official will answer you."

"It doesn't matter where the lotus root is, the lotus root is the lotus root. It doesn't matter that the silk is short, it's delicious and it's over." Ming Jinghai rolled up his sleeves, scared Yang Shilang back a step.

Others roll their sleeves just to scare people, but Ming Jinghai can really fight.

Seeing him like this, Ming Jinghai sneered: "It's like all of our colleagues here. As long as they are loyal to your Majesty, care about the people of the world, and perform their duties, then you are a good official. Does it have to be divided into the ancestral home, the south or the north?"

"As the imperial order officer, Shilang Yang, indiscriminately accusing your majesty, is unfaithful. It is unkind for you to be wronged only for the King of Qi, but to ignore the people who are persecuted by the Zheng family. Dare to ask Shilang Yang, so not? Loyalty, how to be an official?" Ming Jinghai pointed to everyone present: "Today is the day when we are waiting for reunion. Jing Zhou obtained evidence but did not expose it in court. His Majesty learned that the imperial concubine and prince were almost assassinated. The grief has been concealed, for what?"

"For everyone to have a peaceful and beautiful New Year's Eve, for the monarch and his subjects to have fun and reunion. But all this has been ruined by you. Isn't there any guilt in your heart?"

Yang Shilang was repeatedly accused by Ming Jinghai, and he couldn't say a word. Maybe it was because Ming Jinghai was too powerful, or maybe because he was shocked by the countless crimes committed by the Zheng family and Zheng Meiren, Yang Shilang knelt before Emperor Longfeng with a thud.

"Your Majesty...Weichen is convicted." Yang Shilang pleaded vaguely, although for a moment he didn't know where he was wrong.

"Your Majesty." Ming Jinghai glanced at Shi Lang Yang who was kneeling on the ground: "Although Master Yang has no evil intentions, he has an impulsive personality and does not distinguish right from wrong. The Ministry of Households is in charge of taxation in the world, and officials need to be careful and cautious. Therefore, the Weichen thought, Mr. Yang's personality is not suitable for a post in the Ministry of Households."

The Ministry of Household's writing changed slightly. He hesitated and prepared to go out to intercede for Yang Shilang, but when he saw that his Majesty seemed to be a little moved by Ming Jinghai's statement, he dispelled his thoughts.

Ming Jinghai is now an official secretary, and he is deeply trusted by His Majesty. He doesn't need to offend Ming Jinghai for a department subordinate.

"Jinghai thinks, where should Master Yang go?" Emperor Longfeng didn't look at his son who was kneeling in front of him, but instead asked Ming Jinghai patiently.

"Weichen remembers that Lingzhou Tongju is very old, and he only submitted a letter not long ago to resign. Master Yang is curious about Lingzhou's lotus roots, so let him take over Lingzhou Tongju." Ming Jinghai bowed his hand and said, "Please complete your majesty. Master Yang’s curiosity."

Good guy, the housekeeper of the third grade household department directly demoted people to the sixth grade and the old lady in the vegetable market did not bargain so hard.

"Good." Emperor Longfeng nodded: "After the Chinese New Year, Master Yang will go to Lingzhou."

"Master Yang, why don't you thank your Majesty?" Ming Jinghai said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty is compassionate to your servants. If you are curious about the customs of Lingzhou, I will send you to Lingzhou. Unfortunately, your Majesty is not considerate enough. Sigh with a sigh."

"Big Brother, Master Yang is drunk." Ming Jingzhou took the conversation: "Your Majesty, it is inevitable that you will lose your attitude with too much alcohol. Please also your Majesty to send someone to send Master Yang back to rest."

In the future, he should never have the opportunity to attend the palace banquet again.

After Yang Shilang was taken away, the two brothers of the Ming family glanced at the Qi Jun Wang who was kneeling on the ground and crying, and they both retreated to their seats and sat down.

Leave the rest to your Majesty.

The hall was too quiet, so quiet that Jiuzhu was embarrassed to stretch his chopsticks to eat.

She secretly said to Xiangjian, "Auntie, Prince Qi gave me a secret look just now."

So he must be doing a show now. How can someone who is really sad and sad can be distracted by others?

XiangJian smiled, and under the roots of the imperial city, there were all dramatists everywhere.

Qi Junwang’s cries were already hoarse, Emperor Longfeng looked down at his crying son after looking through the various crimes presented by Ming Jingzhou: “Fourth old man, do you know what the Zheng family and your mother and concubine did?”

"Father, son... Although he doesn't know it, he neglects to find out and fails to fulfill his duty of persuasion. The son is guilty." Yun Yanze felt someone kneel down beside him, and he looked up. Sun Caiyao, who accompany her to kneel down, quickly retracted her gaze, and Emperor Chao Longfeng kowtowed: "Father, the sons and ministers are not worthy of the throne of the county, please cut off the sons and ministers from the emperor."

It's a good way to retreat. The Zheng family and Zheng Lanyin have been unable to hold back what they have done. It is better to lower their postures, and they can also make the name of correcting if they know their mistakes and being brave to assume.

Concubine Su Gui chuckled, her eyes flowed, and she squeezed the traitorous concubine's flattery to ten percent: "No matter how high or low the title is, you are the child of your majesty. Four princes, hurry up, have a good face, knock it like this, you The imperial concubine of China feels distressed."

She bent down, lifted Sun Caiyao from the ground, and gently held her hand: "Four princes, concubine, stay with the fourth princes after returning, so that he won't be too sad."

Concubine Su's hand was very soft, but Sun Caiyao felt that it was a beautiful snake holding her hand.

The woman who smiled in front of her, and the dreaming concubine Su Gui, who went mad and drove all the princes to shame, constantly intertwined and changed in her mind, and the fear in her heart expanded infinitely. If there were no people around, she almost Can't help but pull out his hand.

When other people saw Concubine Su's opening, they called Yun Yanze the "four princes", without even a trace of hesitation, they sighed slightly, fearing that the title of the four princes could not be kept.

It is really sigh that such a prince who possesses both ability and political integrity has been so involved by his grandparents' family and his mother's concubine.

However, the officials who supported Yun Yanze did not give up. As long as His Majesty did not say the title of "Four Princes", there was still room for relaxation.

"Your Majesty." Concubine Su let go of Sun Caiyao's hand and looked at Emperor Longfeng with a smile: "You quickly get the four princes up, the most urgent thing is to settle the guilt of the Zheng family and Zheng Meiren."

Shen raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and Concubine Su's words made Zheng Mei completely clean. It is a woman who can be a favored concubine, and she is not merciless when picking up her enemies.

It seems that Concubine Su will not be able to stop without punishing the Zheng family and Zheng Meiren tonight.

That's right, if she was Su Meidai, she wouldn't have missed such a good opportunity. Their family helped her set up all the steps, if she didn't know how to step on it, that would be the real trouble.

Emperor Longfeng held Concubine Su's hand and looked down at Yun Yanze: "Fourth old man, do you really have no idea?"

"Erchen, I don't know."

"Okay." Emperor Longfeng closed his eyes and wrapped Concubine Su's hand into his palm: "Liu Zhongbao, help the fourth prince up."

The words "four princes" came out of his mouth, which was tantamount to condemning Yun Yanze to death.

A prince who has grown up and got married has turned from a prince to a polished prince. This is the emperor telling the whole world in a straightforward manner that he has given up on him.

"Your Majesty." Several officials from the Ministry of Households, as well as those who have a good impression of Yun Yanze, all stood up: "Your Majesty, please think twice!"

"Yanze." Emperor Longfeng ignored these ministers: "They let me take my life back, what do you think of me?"

Yun Yanze's hands hidden in his sleeves clenched into fists, and his eyes were flushed red.

"I will fulfill you." Emperor Longfeng looked at these pleading ministers with indifferent tone: "I fulfilled the request of a son. You have to intervene in the affairs between our father and son?"

The ministers knew that the four princes were gone.

"The minister waits, dare not."

"The Zheng family has done a lot of evil and is too numerous to write. If it is not punished, it will not be enough for the common people." Longfeng said: "The Zheng family's head beheaded to show the public. The descendants of the Zheng family are all slaves. The son Lang who is twelve years old will be given three thousand miles. You can’t return to Beijing for life, and you won’t get slave status for three generations."

"As for the beauty of Zheng..." Emperor Longfeng sighed: "After the midnight tonight, give Bai Ling."

"Father!" Yun Yanze opened his eyes in astonishment, knelt in front of Emperor Longfeng, hugged his legs and said: "I beg the emperor for mercy and spare the life of the concubine."

"The number of people who died at the hands of your mother has exceeded ten, and one of them is still your emperor sister's mother." Emperor Longfeng put the evidence submitted by Ming Jingzhou into Yun Yanze's hands: "How can you forgive me? she was?"

On the chairman, a princess sitting behind was hiding her face in tears. She lost her mother very early, and the mother who served her said that her mother died of illness not long after giving birth to her. She always thought that her mother died of illness because she gave birth to her, but she did not expect that Zheng had actually killed her.

When others are accompanied by her mother and concubine, she does not.

When others are sad, there is comfort from the mother and concubine, but she does not.

Even her marriage to her husband is owned by Concubine Su.

How difficult is it for a child without a concubine to be in the harem? How would Yun Yanze, a prince who has a concubine and a foreign family, know?

She raised her head and looked at Yun Yanze bitterly. All of this was caused by his mother.

"Four imperial concubines, you accompany the fourth princes to walk outside." Concubine Su thoughtfully comforted Sun Caiyao: "If you have any difficulties in the future, it is the same if you come to this palace."

Yun Yanze pinched these yellowing evidences, and walked out of the hall in unconsciousness under everyone's eyes. When the wind blew, these evidences flew up and scattered all over the sky.

He regained his senses abruptly and stretched out his hands in embarrassment to grab, but the evidence that had been flying away, as he wanted, fell into the hall with the cold wind.

No one dared to look at the things on it, and no one dared to reach out and pick it up.

One of them fell on the table of Jiuzhu, and she stretched out her hand.

Xiangjuan opened her mouth, trying to stop her behavior, but seeing that she had already held the paper in her hand, she swallowed it back.

[Xiande twenty years, the side concubine Wang gave birth to a daughter, because of fighting with Zheng...]

"Ming County Lord." Yun Yanze held a handful of yellowed paper in his hand and stood beside Jiuzhu: "Thank you, the county owner, for finding this thing for me, please return it to me."

Jiuzhu looked up at him, his hair was messed up, his sleeves were muddy, and his complexion was paler than paper.

She looked down at what was in her hand, her eyes hurriedly passing over it.

[Zheng's hatred so deeply, he killed it. 】

At this moment, she felt that this piece of paper was as cold as snow. The paper fluttered down her fingertips, hit a Xuaner in the air, and fell at Yun Yanze's feet.

In everyone's eyes, this is because she deliberately humiliated Yun Yanze.

"The county owner." Sun Caiyao walked to Yun Yanze and stooped to pick up the yellowed paper: "It's cold in winter. The county owner should not freeze his hands. If you lose something, you can do nothing. appropriate."

Yun Yanze took the yellowed paper from Sun Caiyao, and said in a deep voice, "Let's go."

When he walked out of the hall, he was trembling all over, squeezing all the evidence fiercely, turning around and saying to Sun Caiyao, who was following behind him: "You go with the next person first, I want to walk by myself."

"His Royal Highness, I'll accompany you..."

"No need!" Realizing that his tone was a bit heavy, Yun Yanze apologized: "Cai Yao, I just want to be quiet for a while by myself. You go back first, okay?"

"Good." Sun Caiyao reluctantly agreed, but she also knew that at this moment, His Royal Highness did not want her to follow.

Yun Yanze walked west until he saw the door plaque of Qianyi Pavilion before stopping.

On both sides of the door plaque, red lanterns swayed, he stepped up the steps and heard the scolding of his mother and concubine coming from the house.

He stopped and listened quietly.

Gradually, his expression calmed down, and he turned around to leave, only to see Bai Peony walking out of the room, covering his face.

"His Royal Highness." Bai Shao saw Yun Yanze standing at the door and hurriedly bowed to him: "His Royal Highness, please wait a moment. The slave and maid will go to inform the master."

"No need." Yun Yanze stopped her, and saw the red and swollen palm prints on her face, and was silent for a moment: "Why is it only you, where did Hongmei go?"

Bai Peony shook his head and said nothing.

Yun Yanze noticed that her hair bun was a bit messy and even the silk flowers were crooked. He guessed that the mother concubine must slap her very hard: "Tomorrow I will intercede with Su mother concubine and let you go to Zhang Sixth Palace to serve you."

"Master here..."

Yun Yanze did not answer her words, turned around and left, and soon disappeared into the night.

Behind him, the mother concubine's yelling and cursing sounded again.

In the darkness, Yun Yanze wiped away a drop of tears from his eyes and walked away.

Bai Peony covered her face, listening to the master's unwilling yelling and cursing, there was a faint premonition in her heart.

Two hours later, she saw the Dali Eunuch who appeared in Qianyi Pavilion with Bai Ling, and finally understood why His Highness's face was so ugly, and finally understood why His Highness let her go to Zhang Sixth Palace.

Listening to the eunuch's reading of his majesty's oratory, Bai Shao looked at the crying and laughing master in a daze, and wondered in a daze, why did things come to this point?

"I want to see your majesty, I don't believe it!" Zheng Lanyin pushed away the Dali **** who was close to him. When people were extremely crazy, they were so powerful that they were unimaginable: "All of this is Su Meidai's conspiracy. Your Majesty can't kill me!"

"It's me who wants your life, it has nothing to do with others." Emperor Longfeng walked into Qianyi Pavilion. The two hadn't spoken well for many years. He looked at her as if he was looking at a stranger.

"A couple hundred days of grace in one day, Your Majesty." Zheng Lanyin cried bitterly: "Why are you so ruthless to me?"

"Do you still remember a sentence, the husband and wife are birds of the same forest, and the catastrophe is about to fly separately." Emperor Longfeng looked at her: "If I were ruthless and unrighteous, there would be no Concubine Ning in the palace when I was enthroned."

Zheng Lanyin looked at him in horror, and stepped back again and again: "No, it's not me. I didn't say this back then. Your Majesty, I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong. Please, please forgive me. , I don’t want to die, I really don’t want to die."

She did say this to her family more than ten years ago.

"Lan Yin, you really decided to cooperate with us inside and outside, and control the palace. You won't regret it?"

"Why should I regret it? The husband and wife are birds of the same forest and fly separately. What's more, the person I originally liked is not him. If it is not for the benefit of the family, why should I suffer this grievance?"

"I know you married into the palace for the sake of your family. As a woman, you have no choice but to choose." Emperor Longfeng sighed: "Under the imperial power, you and I were both pawns at that time, and I don't want to embarrass you."

"But you made too many mistakes." Emperor Longfeng closed his eyes: "It is me who favors Mei Dai and Du Qing. If you hate, you hate me. If you can turn into a ghost after death, come to me too. "

After speaking, he turned and left.

"Yunyixing!" Zheng Lanyin screamed: "You are just luckier than your third brother! You are just luckier than him!"

"You're right." Emperor Longfeng stopped and turned to look at her: "I, I have better luck than all the princes, so I am the last victor."

"No, no." Zheng Lanyin's eyes widened, her teeth trembling constantly: "It's you, it's you..."

Emperor Longfeng glanced at her and put on the cloak Liu Zhongbao handed over: "Let's go."

"Your Majesty." Liu Zhongbao asked with a smile: "Where to go?"

"You old thing, of course, go to Mingyue Palace." Emperor Longfeng sat on Longyan: "On New Year's Eve, naturally I have to be with my family and call Du Qing. If he does not come, this year's New Year's money will be gone. ."

"Your Majesty, I am afraid that it will take a while for my Royal Highness to return to the Mingyue Palace. The old slave just saw him, and his Royal Highness accompanied Ming County Master to the direction of Zhuquemen."

Emperor Longfeng smiled slightly: "Let him go."

After all, Erda couldn't help but father.

"His Royal Highness." Jiuzhu glanced at the front: "The Suzaku Gate is in front of you. Father and mother are waiting for me outside the door. Go back soon."

"This king knows that the front is the Vermilion Bird Gate." Wang Chen snorted with a smile, "You look up."

Jiuzhu looked up, hearing only a bang, beautiful fireworks exploded in the air.

The fireworks reddened her face, and she stared at it without blinking: "His Royal Highness, did you put this on purpose for me?"

"Every year in the palace after midnight on New Year's Eve, there will be a firework, which can be seen in many places in the capital."

"Oh." Jiuzhu nodded, not for her.

"Those are not, but these are." Chen Wang raised his hand, and the attendant **** held a bunch of firecrackers.

"The sound of firecrackers is a year old, and the spring breeze brings warmth into Tusu." He picked a firecracker and placed it on the ground: "Ming Xiaozhu, lighting this firecracker will be the new year. I wish you all the best and peace of mind. "

He tied the firecrackers of firecrackers to the long stick, and handed the stick to her: "Come, try."

Jiuzhu's heart moved and a little frightened, shaking the stretched stick and tapping the firefold on the fuse of the firecracker, but it dangled and didn't tap it for a long time.

"Have you never played firecrackers before?"

Jiuzhu shook his head: "I haven't played."

Seeing her unfamiliar movements, Wang Chen gently supported her wrist: "I teach you, when this firecracker is lit, we will run, remember?"

"Yeah!" Jiuzhu nodded, staring at the fuse as if facing an enemy.

laugh!

The lead was lit, she threw down the fire fold, grabbed the king Chen and ran away.

"Don't be afraid." Chen Wang pulled away the cloak and wrapped Jiuzhu in with his head and face.

Bang!

The firecrackers exploded, bringing up a burst of light.

"It's successful!" Jiuzhu poked his head out of the cloak, happily reaching out where the firecrackers exploded: "The sound is so loud."

"Is it fun?" Wang Chen looked at the girl who was almost leaning in his arms and laughed.

"It's fun." Jiuzhu pulled his sleeve: "His Royal Highness, let's order one more, okay?"

"Okay." Wang Chen picked up the Huozhezi from the ground and handed it to her: "This time you order it yourself."

"Yeah." Jiuzhu blew a few times at the burning firecracker, blew the firecracker on fire, and shook his hands to light a firecracker.

This time, she ignited the fuse on her own, then whimpered, turned around, and ran to the place where King Chen was standing.

Looking at the girl running towards him, Wang Chen opened his cloak again.

The girl plunged into his arms.

Smiling and wrapping her in the cloak again, the firecrackers exploded, as if his heart was beating.

"His Royal Highness, go order two too." Jiuzhu pushed him: "Go, go."

Wang Chen took the firecracker: "This king can order three firecrackers at a time, do you want to watch it?"

"Yes." Jiuzhu put three firecrackers together, hesitated, then withdrew one, and turned to look at him: "His Royal Highness, or order two, three are too many."

"Little pig, are you looking down on me?" Wang Chen walked to her and arranged the firecrackers that had been withdrawn: "Stand farther, I will show you what is a master of firecrackers."

Jiuzhu pattered away, covering her ears: "Your Highness, you have to be careful."

Wang Chen waved his hand carelessly, quickly finished lighting the three firecrackers, got up and looked at Jiuzhu.

Three firecrackers sounded one after another, Jiuzhu put down her hands covering her ears, she looked at the gentleman standing in the fireworks, and whispered to herself: "Your Highness... looks so beautiful."

"What are you talking about?" Wang Chen walked to Jiuzhu's side and found her blush.

She shook her head sharply: "No."

"Looking around, with such a guilty conscience, what haven't you said yet?" Chen Wang poked her cheek with a smile: "Ming Xiaozhu, do you think this king is very easy to deceive?"

"No, no." Jiuzhu covered her face to prevent King Chen from poking, seeing that she couldn't hide, and finally plunged into his arms altogether.

Boom, boom, boom.

This is not the sound of firecrackers, but the sound of His Highness's heartbeat.

Jiuzhu raised his head from his arms, her eyes sparkling: "His Royal Highness..."

She wants to say, your heartbeat is so loud.

"Little fool." Wang Chen laughed, his laughter softly and quietly, like a peach blossom in a mountain.