The sound of the board hitting the flesh was not crisp, but rather dull.
"Your Majesty," Liu Zhongbao stepped forward and advised, "You have been busy for a whole day and night. Go and rest first."
"No need." Emperor Longfeng stood in front of the window, looking at his two sons being beaten, and said in a low voice: "I will watch them finish the beating."
The room was dead silent. He closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he was the clear-headed emperor again: "After the fight, send a doctor to check their injuries. Make sure they don't have any symptoms."
"Your Majesty, please rest assured. We have sent someone to invite the doctor." Liu Zhongbao supported Emperor Longfeng.
"How much did the servants of the Zheng family find out?" Emperor Longfeng closed the window only after he saw his two sons being carried onto the sedan chair by the palace servants.
Liu Zhongbao's face changed slightly, and he pulled out the confessions of the two fugitives from his pocket: "These have not been verified by the Dragon Guards, so I don't know whether they are true or false."
It is not uncommon for servants to turn the tables on their masters, so he cannot guarantee how much of this horrifying confession is true or false.
"Show it to me." Emperor Longfeng took the confession and read it carefully. The more he read, the gloomier his expression became.
"In the fifth year of Longfeng, Lingzhou..." Emperor Longfeng sneered, "The Zheng family has a good plan. No wonder they want to kill people and silence them."
In the fifth year of Longfeng, he toured the south to appease officials and people in the south.
After that tour, he took control of all the military power of Dacheng. From then on, Dacheng began to develop in the direction he had imagined, but he never imagined that there was a conspiracy against his beloved concubine and son.
"Everything is planned perfectly." Scar repeated the same question countless times. In just one day, he lost a lot of weight and looked depressed. He answered the dragon guards' questions honestly.
"In order to assassinate Concubine Su and her son, we arranged countless flawless plans." Scar's voice was hoarse: "But the plan I participated in, an accident happened."
"What accident?" asked the General.
"A child." Scar licked his cracked lips, his tone filled with unspeakable hatred and regret: "A damn girl who came out of nowhere, she found us."
The commander gripped the pen harder, and his tone was a little angry: "So you killed her?"
Scar did not deny it: "That child was very strong. We almost let her escape. If we let her escape, we would all die. We had no choice but to kill her."
"Who made her hear things she shouldn't have heard, and see things she shouldn't have seen." Speaking of the little girl he killed, Scar didn't feel a bit guilty: "It's a pity that I couldn't kill her with a single blow. I could only tie her hands and feet, gag her, and throw her into the river."
"Beast!" The commander could no longer bear it, broke the pen in his hand, picked up the whip on the wall, and lashed at Scar: "You might as well kill her with one blow."
In such cold weather, with his hands and feet tied and unable to shout, how much pain and despair must the child have felt before dying?
"Sir, servants like us who were bought into the mansion when we were young, do we have any choice?" Scar twitched in pain. He looked at the angry general and said, "When I entered the mansion, I was younger than the drowned girl. Who has ever been sympathetic to us?"
The Consul looked at the scarred man who had completely lost his humanity, walked back to the table and sat down with a sullen face: "Go on, why did your plan fail?"
"I don't know the reason either. I only know that Concubine Su and her son did not go to the restaurant to taste the food as planned. All the assassination methods we planned were useless." Scar's voice gradually became smaller: "The Marquis suspected that there was a traitor among us, and killed several people with suspicious whereabouts. Since then, he has never sent me out to do anything."
"Why didn't Concubine Su and her son go as planned?"
"I don't know." Scar's body trembled with pain: "I don't know."
Seeing that he could not get any more information out of him, the commander-in-chief disgustedly ordered someone to take Scar away, then turned around and called his men, "Have you found out where Concubine Su Gui was in Lingzhou?"
The subordinate shook his head in embarrassment: "Boss, there are Dark Dragon Guards sent by His Majesty to secretly protect Concubine Su. When they learned that we were investigating Concubine Su, the two women rushed here and almost got into a fight with our people."
They are all dragon guards under His Majesty, why are those two women so fierce.
"Let's put the matter of Concubine Su on hold for now. I'll report to His Majesty first." The commander's eyes were cold and hard. "I didn't expect the Zheng family to have done so many evil things over the years."
"Princess, the prince has been carried back."
"What's going on?" Sun Caiyao stood up and asked, "Didn't the prince go to see the emperor?"
"I don't know what happened. The prince was punished by His Majesty with a stick, and his lower body was covered in blood." The maid replied tremblingly: "I asked the eunuchs in Taiyang Palace, but they were unwilling to say anything."
"I'll go check it out." Sun Caiyao was extremely panicked. She rushed into the room where the Prince of Qi lived. She smelled a strong smell of blood. She reached out and grabbed a eunuch who was escorting the Prince of Qi back. "Why is the Prince injured? What happened?"
"Princess Princess, please calm down." The eunuch explained, "Your Majesty has sent a doctor to examine the prince's injuries. They are just superficial wounds that will heal after a period of rest. There are no injuries to the bones or muscles."
Princess of a county?
What princess?
Sun Caiyao let go of the eunuch in a daze and looked at the man on the bed in a daze. How could the man she loved be a prince?
"Please take good care of the prince, the decree on his title will be issued soon." The eunuch bowed and dared not look at the princess's expression: "If the princess has no other instructions, I will return to Taiyang Palace to report."
"Thanks to Eunuch Lao for sending us home... Prince is back." Sun Caiyao took out a banknote and put it in the young eunuch's hand: "I hope Prince is in good health."
"I'm leaving now." The young eunuch stuffed the banknote into his sleeve and turned away.
Sun Caiyao walked to the bedside in a daze and sat down. She took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat off Yun Yanze's face, her eyes slightly red.
Clearly in her dreams, His Highness had never suffered such a fate, so why did it happen today?
She thought that as long as the prince avoided Ming Jiuzhu, she could escape the fate of being killed by Ming Jiuzhu. Why did everything get worse and worse after the prince and Ming Jiuzhu had no contact?
What's wrong?
Was it the dream that deceived her, or was it because she was with His Highness that everything became worse? !
"Your Majesty, His Highness has sent you a box of pearls." Xiangshen brought a box. Concubine Su opened the box and saw several pearl necklaces inside.
"These necklaces are so beautiful." Xiangshen praised: "Your Highness is so thoughtful."
"How can he be so considerate?" Concubine Su picked one and put it to her neck and compared it: "Count it, how many necklaces are there in total?"
Xiangshen lowered her head and counted, eight.
"There are eight in the box, one on my hand, nine pearl necklaces in total." Concubine Su put the necklace back into the box: "How can this be a gift of jewelry to me? It's obvious that she is thinking about her future wife, but she can't bring herself to say it directly. She is asking me, her mother, to invite Jiuzhu to the palace as a guest."
"Your Majesty is still smart." Xiangshen smiled and shook her head: "I am stupid and didn't think of this."
"It's not that you are stupid, but no one knows a son better than his mother." Concubine Su smiled and picked a necklace and put it on. "As a mother, I have accepted his kindness, so I have to help him. Now take my invitation and go to Ming's house to pick up Jiuzhu. Tell her that I want to keep her in the palace for two days."
"I will go right away." Before Xiangxian left, she smiled and teased, "Your Majesty must miss Miss Ming too."
Concubine Su smiled while stroking her pearl necklace. She looked at herself in the mirror, and her beautiful face became more gentle.
The Prince of Chen flicked the pearls on the table boredly, and finally impatiently swept all the pearls into the box.
I wonder if my mother understood his hint?
In case he didn't understand, should he make it clear?
But if I make it clear, won’t it seem like he really wants to meet Ming Xiaozhu?
He walked around the yard twice and kicked a tree root. Ming Xiaozhu was the county lord and could have sent a letter to the palace herself. The fact that she didn't come only showed that she had never thought about him at all.
It doesn't matter if you don't think about him, he doesn't miss her that much anyway.
After kicking the tree roots twice, Prince Chen turned and left the yard.
"Your Highness, where are you going?"
"I'm going to go see my fourth brother."
When he was in a bad mood, he would go to visit the sick. Seeing that other brothers were not doing well, he would feel better.
The young eunuch hurriedly followed him, worried that His Highness had accidentally angered Prince Qi to death.
"Miss." Chunfen looked at Jiuzhu in confusion as she stuffed all the silver and many valuable gold hairpins into the box: "Why did you bring so much gold and silver into the palace?"
"Shh." Jiuzhu held the box and hid it under her cloak: "Good sister, keep your voice down, don't let the aunt in the palace hear it."
"Miss Ming." Xiangshen saw Jiuzhu coming out with something that looked quite heavy: "Let me help you get it."
"Thank you, Auntie." Jiuzhu hugged the wooden box tightly: "They are just little things, I can do it myself."
"Okay." Xiangshen nodded and helped Jiuzhu onto the carriage with a smile.
"Aunt." Jiuzhu hid the wooden box carefully behind her cloak. "Can I go see where His Highness lives now?"
"Of course you can." Xiangshen glanced at the things in Jiuzhu's arms from the corner of her eyes: "From Suzaku Gate to Chaoyang Gate, you can go to Zhangliu Palace where His Highness lives. Let's go around Chaoyang Gate to see His Highness later?"
"Okay, okay." Jiuzhu nodded quickly, the dragonfly on her head fluttering its wings, looking a bit naive and cute.
After coming out of Yun Yanze's courtyard refreshed, Prince Chen found a familiar head dangling at the gate of the courtyard. Seeing him, the girl at the gate jumped up and down in her place: "Your Highness, Your Highness, here, here."
The corners of Prince Chen's mouth rose. He put his hands behind his back, walked in front of Jiuzhu, and raised his chin slightly: "Why are you here?"
"Your Highness, come here." Jiuzhu grabbed his sleeve, turned her head and smiled at Xiangshen: "Aunt, I want to say a few words to His Highness."
After saying that, she dragged Prince Chen away, and only squatted down when they reached the corner of the wall: "Your Highness, don't stand there, squat down quickly."
Prince Chen looked around, then looked at Jiuzhu who looked mysterious, touched his nose, and squatted down like her: "What's wrong?"
Forget it, I won’t tell her. There are guards outside the yard watching this matter.
Jiuzhu had an expression that said "I'll show you the treasure" and secretly opened her cloak.
"Liu Zhongbao." Emperor Longfeng stopped and looked at the two people squatting in the corner, whispering head to head: "The ones squatting there seem to be my son and the little girl from the Ming family?"
What are they doing squatting there?
Are you imitating three or four year old kids, playing in the mud?
"Your Majesty, it is indeed His Royal Highness and Lord Ming County." Liu Zhongbao looked carefully and thought with some confusion, the Zhangliu Palace is full of secret guards protecting the princes, His Royal Highness and Lord Ming County don't need to act so mysterious, there is really no need.
Emperor Longfeng began to worry that his son really took the little girl to play in the mud.
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