Seeing Wang Zhuo's stunned expression, Xuan Tianming snorted and said, "I'm not dreaming, nor am I eating. It seems I'm singing." After that, he stretched out his hand to push the door and walked in.
Wang Zhuo followed him in, and after walking a few steps, he heard Tianwu singing in his hoarse voice: "Brother plucks willow branches for sister, sister weaves baskets to pick mushrooms; brother catches fish for sister, sister raises them by the stream."
Wang Zhuo was confused. What on earth was this for? There was unrest outside, but in the palace there were people drinking pigeon soup and singing opera. Was this crazy?
Of course, he only dared to mutter these words in his heart, and dared not say them out loud. He looked at Xuan Tianming again. The Ninth Prince did not have any special reaction, as if everything that happened in front of him was normal. He stopped and half turned his head and said to him: "Since the palace is fine, you can take the people outside to meet Bu Cong and his heavy armored soldiers. If you can catch one, then catch it. If you can't catch one, just kill it. Tell Bai Ze to send a letter to the Jingjiao camp immediately by flying an eagle, and let Qian Li lead people to encircle and attack the remnants of the Northern Territory. Don't leave any one behind."
Wang Zhuo finally breathed a sigh of relief. He would rather go out of the palace to fight than feel the weird atmosphere in this palace! So he quickly responded loudly: "I obey your command!"
The noise was quite loud, which startled Tianwu. The song stopped abruptly, and he shouted angrily: "Who is making so much noise over there?"
Wang Zhuo shuddered and knelt down with a plop. "Your Highness, I am Wang Zhuo, the governor of the capital. I kowtow to you, Your Majesty!"
Tianwu walked out of the inner hall of Zhaohe Hall angrily, obviously impatient. He did not ask Xuan Tianming and Wang Zhuo why they came to the palace in the middle of the night, and directly discussed with Xuan Tianming: "Can't you go to Qiankun Hall? There is a dragon chair in Qiankun Hall, you can sit there, command whatever you want, and give whatever orders you want. I asked Xiaoyuanzi to bring the jade seal to you. If you feel that the oral statement is not strong enough, you can ask someone to draft the decree, and then stamp it yourself. Okay? Don't make a fuss here, I'm busy."
Wang Zhuo collapsed several times after hearing this, but Xuan Tianming had long been used to it. But this time he was really angry. Even a golden mask could not hide his fury. Rage surged from his whole body, forcing Emperor Tianwu to involuntarily take two steps back.
"Ming... Ming'er." Tianwu felt a little guilty. "Who offended you? Speak up! Your father will decide for you. Is it not the third brother? The third brother or the fourth brother? Or are the third brother and the fourth brother in cahoots with each other? You can arrest them all, or ask your wife to go and beat them both to death! Oh, the last time your wife beat the third brother, I said it was too light. In fact, you don't have to save face for me. I didn't want that bastard a long time ago. She..."
"She's outside the city!" Xuan Tianming suddenly raised his voice and shouted at Emperor Tianwu: "Hengheng and Qige were tricked out of the city by Duanmu Qing, and they haven't come back yet!" He was so angry that he clenched his fists, and his knuckles creaked. Although he knew that Feng Yuheng had a Qiankun space to hide, what if he couldn't hide in time? What if he got hurt? What if the Qiankun space had problems at a critical moment? He didn't dare to take even a little risk with Feng Yuheng's life. Tianwu and the indifference of this palace really angered him.
Tianwu was also stunned. Feng Yuheng left the city? Was he deceived by Duanmu Qing? Old Seven also left? He was startled, and cold sweat broke out on his back in an instant.
"I... I, I didn't expect them to leave the city." Tianwu was very upset. He originally thought he was quite calm, and even the palace was quite calm. Even though the crash at the end of Duanmen was so loud that it spread to every corner of the palace, he still calmly asked Zhang Yuan to send a message to the palaces, saying that there was no need to be afraid, and the Ninth Prince's army had already captured the thieves outside. The people in the palace really listened to him. If he said it was okay, they really took it as nothing. They ate what they should eat and slept what they should sleep. It was even said that the queen who was not afraid of trouble even pulled a few concubines to the theater to listen to the opera. But he never expected that Feng Yuheng would be caught.
What to do? Even the king of a country was getting anxious at this time, because he knew what Feng Yuheng meant to Xuan Tianming, and even more so what Feng Yuheng meant to Dashun. That girl was a national treasure, and she couldn't be in trouble no matter who was in trouble, otherwise it would definitely be enough to make him regret for the rest of his life.
Seeing Tianwu was so anxious that his face turned pale, Zhang Yuan hurried forward to support him, and then advised: "Your Majesty, please don't be anxious and angry. Your health is the most important thing. Princess Ji'an is a lucky person. Even if there is no heaven, doesn't the Ninth Prince still support her? Besides, the Seventh Prince has also left the city. With the Seventh Prince's kung fu, he will definitely be able to protect the princess."
Tianwu stamped his feet and said, "What if there are many people in the Northern Territory?"
"Nothing will happen." Zhang Yuan said firmly, "Your Highnesses will definitely be able to handle this!" After that, he glanced at Xuan Tianming, "Your Highness, don't you agree?"
Xuan Tianming sighed helplessly. What could he say? Tianwu was calm. This was a good thing. It was also a good thing to believe him. No one had expected Feng Yuheng to be tricked out of the city. No one could be blamed.
"Yes." He nodded at Tianwu, reassuring him, "With Seventh Brother here, nothing will happen to Hengheng, but..." He frowned again, remembering that Wang Zhuo was still there, and quickly kicked Wang Zhuo - "Go out and do your business." Wang Zhuo ran away without saying a word.
Tianwu looked at the man with a wound on his leg running like a rabbit and couldn't help asking, "Is his wound fake?"
Xuan Tianming was in no mood to joke with him, and said in a cold voice: "Really." Then he briefly recounted what happened outside, and also told him the news that Xuan Tianye had been thrown into the mountain prison. Then he continued with the above words: "Although the situation is under control, can you be more careful? Your way to calm down is to sing? Even if you sing, at least sing military songs. What brother and sister songs, what kind of shit is that?"
Tianwu was not happy: "Isn't this just to please your mother? She sang this song to win my heart back then, ah! After winning my heart, she just left it alone and let it go? She is so beautiful! I must sing it back to her!"
Xuan Tianming felt that his emperor father was simply unreasonable, so he waved his hand and said, "You continue to sing! I'll go to Qiankun Hall."
Tianwu was anxious: "Hey! Why don't you just stay here? I can't sleep anyway. Don't leave! Um... I'll give you the jade seal!"
Xuan Tianming was so angry that his nose was crooked. The jade seal, was that something given casually? Could his father be reliable for once? He waved his hands helplessly behind him: "No!"
"Then you have to send someone out to look for Hengheng! Or you can go by yourself! There's nothing wrong in the palace!"
Xuan Tianming said in a cold voice: "I leave? What if something happens if I leave? If the palace is in chaos, none of us will survive!"
Tianwu wanted to say something else, but Zhang Yuan pulled him back and said, "Alright, His Highness has gone far away, so stop pretending."
Tianwu looked out for a while and asked uncertainly, "Is he really far away?"
"real."
"Okay, let's continue singing. Where were we just now?"
The last sound Xuan Tianming heard when he walked out of the Zhaohe Hall was Tianwu's broken voice singing again, which made him roll his eyes in anger. He simply doubted how the great Dashun had been able to thrive under this unlucky emperor for decades. Their vitality was really tenacious!
That night, Xuan Tianming was stationed in the palace with 20,000 troops under his command, plus all the imperial guards in the palace, as well as the guards of Prince Yu's Mansion, Prince Chun's Mansion, and Ji'an County Lady's Mansion. All of them were mobilized and dispatched by him. Within an hour, all the heavily armored soldiers in the capital were captured, but Bu Cong was the only one who was not found.
Bai Ze hurried into the palace with a soldier guarding the city gate. The soldier knelt down when he saw Xuan Tianming and said in a trembling voice, "Your Highness, about an hour and a half ago, Princess Ji'an and General Bu Cong left the city together, and they went through the East Gate. I saw them going all the way east, but I don't know what they were doing."
"Did you see it clearly?"
"It's absolutely true!" The soldier said again: "I have spoken to the county lady, and it is definitely the county lady herself."
Xuan Tianmingxin made several guesses, but he still couldn't guess why Feng Yuheng followed Bu Cong out of the city and went east. Didn't she say that she was going north to chase Duanmu Qing?
An idea suddenly occurred to him, and he ordered Bai Ze, "Go and call someone to guard the city gate."
Bai Ze nodded and left. Not long after, he came back, but the person he brought back was seriously injured. "Master," he said to Xuan Tianming, "The North Gate was replaced by Bu Cong's people. This is the only one alive."
Xuan Tianming nodded and said to the man, "Don't be afraid. Although your injury is serious, it is not fatal. All injured soldiers will be treated immediately by military doctors tonight."
The soldier kowtowed to him gratefully, and then Xuan Tianming asked again: "I want to ask you, before you were attacked, did you see Princess Ji'an and His Highness the Seventh Prince leave the city?"
The man nodded and said with certainty: "I saw it. Not only the county princess and the seventh prince, but also two maids." At that time, Ban Zou was hiding in the dark and he did not notice it.
As soon as these words came out, the soldier guarding the east gate was confused and asked anxiously, "When did you see it? Did the county lady come back later?"
The man thought for a moment, "It was just nightfall when the county lady left the city, and there was no chaos in the capital, and people were still coming and going on the streets. As for whether she came back..." He looked at Xuan Tianming and said with a guilty look on his face, "The city gate was lost, and I don't know what happened afterwards."
Xuan Tianming nodded, and he already knew what was going on. It was true that Feng Yuheng and his seventh brother left from the north gate, and it was impossible for them to come back in a short time. Therefore, the person who left the city with Cong from the east gate should not be Feng Yuheng. But who else could it be if not Feng Yuheng?
His brows were slightly knitted, but he had already opened his mouth to order Bai Ze - "Continue to send people to the north to support the county lady and Prince Chun, and send another person to the east to hunt them down. No matter whether it is Bu Cong or the so-called county lady, bring them back alive to this king!"
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