Chapter 337: Going to Beijing
Lin Zhishen nodded and smiled, "I came here after I finished my work. I'll eat with you guys."
After eating and drinking, Lin Zhishen began to talk about what he had done in the past few hours.
After a long while, Lin Baoer frowned, "You said that the person who sent someone to assassinate us might be a younger brother you have always trusted?"
"It's just a suspicion, not confirmed yet."
Lin Zhishen sighed.
Although he was the unfavored seventh prince, because of his mother's relationship, his lineage had always been close to the tenth prince's lineage, so he was naturally quite close to this younger brother.
Fortunately, the Tenth Prince was kindhearted, unlike his brothers who had ulterior motives and were not pure-hearted, so he was willing to be close to him. They occasionally exchanged letters when he was away from home for a long time to look for Lin Baoer.
So when he saw the letter in the inn for the first time, he was sure that it was written by his younger brother.
But he didn't want to believe that it was done by the Tenth Prince, so he hurried back to Beijing to find out everything.
After leaving the private residence, he went to see his confidant who had been lurking in Kyoto and learned what had happened during this period. At
first, the news of the emperor's critical illness did not spread, and only a few close people knew it occasionally, so the princes and princesses did not make a fuss too fiercely, and they all conserved their energy.
Among them, there are many factions in the court, led by the Second Prince and the Fourth Prince, each holding their own side and fighting against each other. There are also those who remain neutral or support other princes.
Each prince has a chance, but he, the Tenth Prince, and the Fourteenth Prince have little chance, because their mothers are of low status, they have no support from the court, and the emperor has never shown any closeness, so they were kicked out early. This is why he, as the Seventh Prince of Jiang, can stay away from Kyoto for a long time without anyone caring.
Originally, this should have been a fight between those princes, but because of a word from the emperor, Lin Zhishen was pulled into the vortex of this fight.
"Shen'er, how are you doing now?"
Just this one sentence made everyone's alarm bells ring, and also dragged Lin Zhishen into this turbulent fight.
"Why did he ask you suddenly?" Lin Baoer was puzzled.
Since Lin Zhishen was not favored, he should have remained unfavored. How could he suddenly ask such a question when he was critically ill? Didn't the emperor know what his sons were thinking? Isn't this obviously trying to push Lin Zhishen to the forefront?
Lin Zhishen sighed softly and looked back.
"My mother met him outside the palace."
Just like the bloody plot in the novel, the emperor was chased while on a secret tour and was rescued by Lin Zhishen's mother. In the end, they had a good relationship. The emperor took the opportunity to bring her back to the palace and promised her the position of concubine.
But the emperor had many concubines, and with the passage of time, who knew her name?
As time went by, the emperor naturally forgot about the person who had saved him. Especially when Lin Zhishen was born, he had a scary birthmark covering half of his face, which made him look like a ghost. Everyone in the palace called him an ominous person and wanted the emperor to execute him.
However, the emperor remembered the life-saving grace of Lin Zhishen's mother and did not execute them. Instead, he banished Lin Zhishen's mother to the cold palace and no longer cared about the newborn seventh prince, leaving the mother and son to fend for themselves in the cold palace.
When Lin Zhishen was three years old, the palace was suddenly attacked by thieves. They failed to assassinate the emperor, abducted Lin Zhishen at that time, and disappeared without a trace.
At first, the emperor was furious and sent people to look for him everywhere, because it was related to his royal dignity. But as time went on, he lost interest in finding him. In the end, he just sent people to continue looking for him symbolically. In fact, he had given up on this prince.
After all, he already had almost four or five sons at that time. Why would he care about this ugly and unknown son?
That's how Lin Zhishen was sold all the way to Taiping Kingdom. It was not
until he took the medicine given by Lin Baoer to restore his appearance and returned to Jiang Kingdom to restore his status as a prince with the token that he discovered that his mother had died of depression because of his disappearance. As
a result, he lost interest in the royal family and grew up as an invisible man until now.
Perhaps it was God's fault. During a family banquet, Lin Zhishen happened to be in Kyoto and attended the banquet. Who would have thought that the emperor would be distracted when he saw him.
Because Lin Zhishen, who had lost his birthmark, looked too much like him when he was young, not only in appearance, but also in his words and deeds, which reminded him of the fisherman's daughter who had saved him early in his life.
That true love suddenly made him feel guilty, and therefore, he paid attention to Lin Zhishen all the time, asking about his well-being, like a belated father's love.
But it was just asking about his well-being. He never gave Lin Zhishen any other real power, nor did he let him go to the court to take a leisurely position. He just let him be a free prince and not ask about other things.
Therefore, those people did not take Lin Zhishen seriously.
At this point, it had nothing to do with Lin Zhishen, but at the moment when the emperor was critically ill, he woke up from his coma and only mentioned Lin Zhishen, which caught everyone by surprise and made everyone point the finger at him.
This is also why, after they arrived at the narrow guard cave, waves of killers came to them.
They wanted to take precautions and kill Lin Zhishen on the road, so that they would not have a strong enemy, and would rather kill him by mistake than let him go.
After listening, Lin Baoer had only one thought in her mind.
"That old man is sick!"
Lin Baoer was stunned and a little confused.
Did she say what was in her heart?
But after a while, she realized that the sentence was said by Jiang Yuzhi.
"Just because of a sentence, his own sons killed each other to death. They really deserved it." Jiang Yuzhi complained in a low voice, his face full of resentment.
Lin Baoer nodded in agreement.
"Later, I went to meet Jiang Yu." Lin Zhishen took a sip of tea, his eyes flashing, "I didn't notice anything unusual. He didn't seem to know about those killers."
Jiang Yu was the tenth prince. When he went to see him, he was very surprised to see Jiang Yu. He was surprised that he suddenly returned to Beijing. After a brief greeting, it was no different from before.
So he was not sure whether those killers were related to Jiang Yu, and he had to investigate further.
If he was really sent by Jiang Yu, then it proves that he has been misjudged all these years. This person's mind is as cunning as his, and he even has some plans. He has been coveting that position for a long time, and he had to expose it at this time.
He was even more disappointed, as their friendship over the years was no match for that position.
But if it wasn't, he would definitely get to the bottom of it and not let those people drag Jiang Yu into it.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
