Chapter 593 Your Majesty, if you want me to die, just say so (1 update)
Pei Ruqing read the imperial edict over and over again, and confirmed the contents written on it again and again, and couldn't help revealing a look of martyrdom.
Your Majesty, I am indeed your confidant,
right? Right? Right? Right? Right?
Are you sure you are going to lose me now?
Have you found someone to replace me?
What's the difference between sending this imperial edict and asking for his life?
Your Majesty, if you want to replace the Minister of Justice, just say so!
Pei Ruqing felt so heavy that he couldn't even take a step forward when he walked out of the palace!
After leaving the palace, Pei Ruqing immediately led people to surround Prince An's mansion.
The Ministry of Justice has so few manpower, it's not enough. Prince An is a ruthless man who commands the camp outside the capital. If he wants to break out of the encirclement, no one can stop him!
Not only can he not be stopped, he may also be killed by the opponent!
Pei Ruqing felt that his future was worrying. Today he offended the eldest prince, a prince with a large army. When the eldest prince recovers from the injury, it will be strange if he doesn't take revenge on him in the future.
Standing outside Prince An's mansion, Pei Ruqing felt very heavy. This was the price of being a lone minister.
Prince An's wife was pregnant, this was the future grandson of the emperor. No matter whether the eldest prince was the mastermind of Chen Chu, it would not affect the identity of the grandson of the emperor.
If anything happened to this child, Pei Ruqing's life would be over.
Although Princess An is a woman from the south of the Yangtze River and looks gentle and weak, she is not afraid of soldiers in armor.
When she heard that Pei Ruqing was ordered to surround Prince An's mansion, and that the eldest prince was suspected of instigating Chen Chu to assassinate the crown prince, the second prince, and the third prince, and was taken to the prison to await trial, and that Prince An's mansion was immediately sealed and no one was allowed to enter or leave, the eldest prince's wife only turned pale, but she was still able to remain calm.
Having been a princess for so many years, she could handle this situation.
She was very clear that as long as the eldest prince was not convicted, she would still be the princess! This was still the palace!
And she was still the princess that no one dared to despise!
"Sir Pei, since it is the order of my father, Prince An's Mansion will certainly obey it. But you don't know that the prince is not in the mansion now. It is really unfortunate that you come here."
Pei Ruqing: "..."
Is this a coincidence?
He is here to arrest someone, not to visit.
The real owner is not in the mansion, so wouldn't it be in vain for them to come here with such fanfare?
Not only is it in vain, but it also makes trouble.
Pei Ruqing has a headache.
He offended someone, but the matter was not accomplished. Very good, he can already foresee his miserable future.
Pei Ruqing left people to seal the eldest prince's mansion, waiting for the eldest prince to fall into the trap, oh no, waiting for the eldest prince to return to the mansion.
And he himself brought a small group of people to capture, oh no, it should be to look for the eldest prince.
The eldest prince is skilled in riding and shooting, and has great martial arts skills. He can take the heads of enemy generals in the three armies as
easily as taking something from a sack. Such a ruthless man, and he is facing him with these few shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and it is still unknown who will be captured by whom! Pei Ruqing sighed again. Today is the day he sighed the most in his life.
But there is no way, who makes him the emperor's confidant?
Pei Ruqing led people to the palace gate. The eldest prince was not in the palace, so the most likely place to go was the East Palace where the prince was.
After all, since the eldest prince returned to the palace, he has been in the East Palace for four out of five days. The news that the prince was in poor health came from the palace people seeing the eldest prince's red eyes.
And the East Palace is much more lively than Prince An's Mansion.
The prince's bedroom was in chaos. The eunuchs and palace maids in the East Palace were kneeling on the ground, and Fulu was checking them one by one.
Huahua led the Fufu soldiers to guard the gates and courtyards of the East Palace like an iron barrel.
Huahua's real name is Hua Hua. He is a guard personally selected by the young prince from a list provided by his uncle Shen Hong.
Hua Hua was born in the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion and has inherited the martial arts of the old Duke.
Knowing that the young prince was going to provide disaster relief, Duke of Zhenguo and Shen Hong were very worried about his safety. After all, the prince had been assassinated during the previous siege.
At that time, all the guards around the prince died in the battle, and the prince himself fell off a cliff. If it weren't for the prince's good luck, he would not have survived.
They were naturally worried about leaving the capital this time, so they asked the prince to select a few guards from the mansion to accompany him for protection.
The people in the Zhenguogong Mansion were all old men who had followed the Zhenguogong to the battlefield, or they were their descendants. Apart from anything else, their loyalty could be guaranteed.
The little prince chose Hua Hua among all the people, just because this man wielded the sickle the fastest when harvesting corn on the imperial estate.
The little prince was very pragmatic, he felt that he would have no problem protecting himself, and these guards might not be as good at fighting as he was.
However, since his grandfather and uncle were so worried about him, he could choose a guard from them, and it would also put their minds at ease.
Regardless of whether it is useful or not, from the speed at which Hua Hua swings the sickle, it can be seen that this man must be a good hand in the fields. When the autumn of next year comes, if Hua Hua is placed in the imperial manor, the speed of harvest will be much faster.
The other guards in the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion who were waiting to be selected accidentally heard the reason why Hua Hua was selected, and they all practiced swinging sickles with all their might.
If they lost in martial arts, they would have nothing to say, but they were very dissatisfied with losing in the harvest.
The little prince didn't know that because of his weird selection criteria, he directly led a group of young people who were swinging silver spears astray.
Hua Hua naturally knew the thoughts of these brothers who grew up together. In order to consolidate his position, Hua Hua worked very hard.
Especially during the recuperation period, he personally arranged the guards of the East Palace, trying to prevent even a mosquito from flying in.
However, who knew that even with such strict guards, there would still be problems.
The little prince had to take a medicinal bath every day. After soaking for so many days, although he knew that these were for strengthening the tendons and veins, but looking at his increasingly fair and smooth skin, his little face was like a peeled egg. The little prince couldn't help but wonder if this medicinal bath might have other effects.
He was just about to ask Jiang Yuanzheng about this matter, when he saw him walk in hurriedly and take out a bag of herbs. The herbs were what he needed every day, but they were contaminated with poison and treated with poison juice.
Although the dosage was very small, it would not be discovered if it was not carefully checked.
Because the poison ingredients were very small, even if ordinary people were exposed to it, at most they would feel uncomfortable for a few days, and their spirit would be restored after lying down for three to five days.
Therefore, it was easily ignored by doctors.
However, the prince's physical condition was already very dangerous, and even a minor illness could kill him.
Therefore, even if the poison on this herb was very small, the prince would report directly to the Yanwang Palace if he encountered it, and no matter how great a god you were, you could not save him.
The other party's intention is very obvious, that is, to kill the prince!