Wishful Things

The maid huddled and knelt down: "My servant knows my mistake, please forgive me..."

It turned out that a cup of tea had been left for more than two quarters of an hour, and it was too cold to be touched by the prince, but she just replaced it with a hot one, and the prince couldn't wait to bring it up to find something hot...

When the king of Xiang, who was on fire in his heart, glanced at the maidservant with angry eyes, his eyes changed slightly.

The young maidservant was wearing lotus root pink bijia, and she knelt there with her head down, revealing a delicate and fair neck.

King Xiang's heart felt itchy when he saw it, and his tone softened unconsciously: "Raise your head and let me have a look."

The maid raised her head hesitantly, revealing a clean and beautiful face.

King Xiang narrowed his eyes slightly.

Although it can't be called stunning, it is much better than the few who dangle in front of him on weekdays - the tigress in the family usually controls this kind of thing strictly, which is really annoying.

Looking at the timid servant girl, King Xiang felt a little moved for a moment, before he had time to take action, he heard footsteps, and then a familiar voice sounded through the bamboo curtain: "My lord, there are people coming from the palace, please come quickly to the palace to face the saint..."

The thought he had just started was interrupted, King Xiang frowned, and said impatiently: "What is the purpose of letting this king enter the palace at this time?"

Could it be that Ji Xiu's matter has come to a conclusion, and now his mother and concubine are going to be dealt with, and he is specially called into the palace for a discussion?

While thinking about it, King Xiang got up from the couch and went out to meet the housekeeper.

At this time, Fang saw that the butler was faintly flustered: "The person who came to pass the message is Commander Han of the Police Guard, and he brought a lot of people... The prince should hurry up and get ready..."

Police officer?

King Xiang's complexion changed slightly, and when he was about to ask something, he heard some movement in the courtyard, turned his head and looked outside the hall, and saw that Han Yan, who was wearing a Feiyun knife on his waist, came with the security guards in person - this is his residence, how dare these people rush in without notification!

"Your Majesty, you don't need to prepare anything." Han Yan strode up the stone steps, came to the door of the hall, cupped his hands, looked at King Xiang and said, "Your Majesty is in a hurry, please enter the palace immediately."

Facing those eyes that seemed devoid of any emotion, King Xiang's heart sank, and he asked tentatively, "I don't know why Brother Huang is so anxious to see me?"

"Of course the prince will know when he's gone."

"..." King Xiang secretly clenched the fingers in his sleeve.

What kind of thing is the security guard, but a dog in front of the emperor, how dare he speak so rudely to him.

And the more so, the more he felt that the situation was not good.

The king of Xiang turned his head and glanced at the steward beside him: "I will return as soon as I go—"

Seeing this look in his eyes, the housekeeper lowered his head and said "yes" respectfully.

Han Yan turned slightly to give way to King Xiang.

King Xiang went down the stone steps, stopped and looked back at Han Yan who was still standing outside the hall: "Why, isn't Commander Han going with me?"

"Han has other official duties, and has ordered his subordinates to lead the way for the prince."

Hearing this, King Xiang's back felt cold, but at this moment he could only go with the Jishiwei.

As soon as the king of Xiang got into the carriage and left, Han Yan immediately ordered people to surround the mansion of the king of Xiang and started a large-scale search.

The incident happened so suddenly that the Xiangwang Mansion fell into a panic and tense atmosphere.

Under the strict guard of the police, this magnificent mansion seemed to have turned into an unbreakable cage in an instant.

There are also four detective guards at the back door of the palace.

"Follow me, here!"

"Hurry up……"

"I saw it, it must have landed here!"

The sound of children chasing came, and several police guards followed the sound and looked over.

The childish boy knew nothing about the storm that was hanging over the palace. The leading boy was about ten years old, holding a slingshot in his hand, and followed by a group of small followers.

"Kid, stay away." Seeing the group of children approaching, a security guard warned with a long knife on his waist.

Although the child is young, he has a keen sense of danger. Probably because he did something naughty and guilty, the boy who was leading a group of younger brothers in a majestic manner just now was scared and ran away.

Even though the other children didn't know what happened, they didn't hinder them and ran away in a hurry.

"It's a pigeon."

A security guard found the injured white pigeon under the corner not far away—it should have been injured by those children with a slingshot.

"No...it seems to be a carrier pigeon." The security guard lifted the pigeon, and a bamboo tube was exposed under the feathers between the unconscious white pigeon's legs.

The leader of the police guard's eyes moved: "Take the thing down!"

At this time, the group of children had already run away, cheering and playing, and disappeared into the downtown.

King Xiang got off the carriage outside the Forbidden Palace and went all the way to the imperial study.

At this time, he was undoubtedly very disturbed.

But there was always a voice in his heart telling him that he had always acted cautiously, and it was absolutely impossible for him to be caught by someone.

At this moment, the emperor summoned him into the palace, perhaps it was because of his arbitrariness in arguing against the empress dowager earlier, his brother has always been suspicious, maybe he still didn't fully believe what he said...

Whether it's a temptation or a harsh accusation later, he just needs to adopt the attitude of the past and deal with the past carefully - as long as he can escape from the capital and return to Dianzhou safely, nothing else matters.

At that time, the mountain will be high and the emperor will be far away, so what he wants to do will not be under the control of the emperor.

And after that, he no longer needs to rely on other people's breath, and act according to other people's faces.

King Xiang, who had made up his mind to survive this temptation no matter what, didn't know that what was waiting for him was not the so-called temptation at all.

"The younger brother sees the emperor brother."

In the imperial study room, King Xiang bowed to salute.

The sky was always gloomy, the palace door behind him was slowly closed, and it was still daytime when the eyes in the imperial study were blurred.

The two inner eunuchs stood under the imperial steps with their hands down, without making a sound. It seemed that everything was still in the huge hall, revealing unspeakable oppression and mystery.

"..."

It had been a long time since there was a response to the Long case. The King of Xiang raised his head slightly and asked, "...Brother Emperor, I wonder if the thorough investigation of Ji Xiu is going well?"

"smoothly--"

Emperor Qingming's cool voice sounded: "If I have the intention to cover and protect you, how can this matter not go well?"

"Yes, I know that this matter is all due to the protection of my brother by the emperor..." King Xiang looked very ashamed, and said: "Don't worry, my brother, I really knew my mistake this time, and I will not dare to make a claim next time. Although this matter is over, my fault cannot be easily erased. I hope that my brother will not be soft-hearted, just punish and punish me, so that my brother can really learn a lesson."

He said these words to show his sincerity in admitting his mistakes, even if there were some punishments, once he left the capital, he would follow them if he wanted to, and if he didn't want to follow them - it would just be ignored.