Wishful Things

"Why are you blushing!"

Princess Yufeng's eyes were full of suspicion: "Why, you seven-year-old girl, you can still understand this?"

Although everyone around him called Xie Dingning His Highness, as time went by, Xie Dingning might have accepted the title of eldest princess in a daze, but how could a seven-year-old child have such a big reaction when he heard the word consort?

"I'm choking! Can't I?" Princess Jingrong asked confidently.

"Really?" Princess Yufeng leaned closer to her, narrowed her eyes slightly, looked at that face, and said in a low voice: "Xie Dingning... why do I feel that you don't look really stupid today? Woolen cloth?"

"Of course I'm not stupid." Princess Jingrong rolled her eyes, "You're the one who is stupid."

Princess Yufeng's eyes glared—the unworthy girl who was not clear with the old man dared to contradict her in front of her?

Does this mean she can't lift a knife anymore?

Princess Yufeng immediately rolled up her sleeves and scratched at the Eldest Princess.

The eldest princess turned her body to avoid it, grabbed a pillow and threw it at it.

Seeing the mother and daughter fighting in the car, Shi Shi silently protected the teapot and bowl.

After going on like this for a while, the eldest princess was really tired, so she leaned on Princess Yufeng and yawned and closed her eyes.

"Xie Jiaojiao..."

"Why? Do you want me to nod my head to agree to your marriage with Ming Xiaozhi?" Princess Yufeng thought half-truthfully, and sighed: "Speaking of which, we have never accepted a bald old man in the princess's house. There is a precedent...I have to think about this matter carefully."

"..." The eldest princess ignored her words, hugged her arm and quickly fell asleep.

"Your Highness should be really tired." Shi Shi said softly beside him, and took a thin blanket to cover the eldest princess on her body.

Princess Yufeng looked at the evenly breathing face.

It is noisy and crying, can there be no shortage?

Originally thought that letting Xie Dingning be a child should be easy and carefree.

But her family, Xie Dingning...has it really been easy?

Princess Yufeng sighed vaguely.

A ray of autumn wind entered the car, Princess Yufeng raised the blanket and gently pulled it up.

...

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the emperor was leaning on the Arhat bed, but the bright candlelight could not dispel the darkness in his eyes.

The ministers gathered in the hall, and the atmosphere was tense.

Before that, no one would have thought that the riot in the Bairi Tai Temple was just the beginning...

Not long after Taimiao returned to the palace, there was news that all the people in Zhen Guogong's mansion, from the family members of the Xu family to the servants of the servants, all of them disappeared in just half a day!

What's even more shocking is that even Dingnan Wang's son and his wife disappeared together!

Under such circumstances, it is already obvious who planned the Taimiao incident today...

To be able to do so swiftly and neatly must have been planned for a long time... So since Lord Zhen Guo returned to the capital, this thought has been preserved. What I said earlier about the right to hand over troops was simply to tease the emperor!

A minister sighed heavily in his heart.

I thought Duke Zhen was a loyal and honest man, but he turned out to be an emotional liar!

However, if you think about it carefully, these changes are not without reason...

Let's not talk about the emperor's many suspicions, so he picked the closer one and said that just as King Yan was about to enter the capital, the emperor wanted to transfer the Xu family's army because of the matter of the Li family...

Zhen Guogong recommended himself to lead the army to go there, the emperor is lucky, the people on the other side are fighting to the death, and he is poisoning people on the other side! ——Don't say that it's all Xia Tingzhen's idea, who hasn't got eyes yet?

This is to take the life of Duke Zhen, but seeing that his life is not going to come true, he wants to bring the only granddaughter into the palace... Who in the capital does not know that this little girl is Duke Zhen's eyeball?

If you really want someone to come into the palace, I'm afraid it will be worse than taking the life of Duke Zhen!

The show moves one after another, not to mention that Lord Zhen is in a hurry, but they might not be able to sit still, after all, waiting for death is one of their hobbies!

Of course, it cannot be said that the emperor did something wrong...

There is no right or wrong in the art of the emperor, but the premise is that you have that ability, right?

If you don't have the skills, you still mess around, and you are addicted to vegetables. If you don't overturn your car, whoever overturns it!

If you really think that Duke Zhen's holding the Xu family's army is a disaster, you can call them to secretly discuss the countermeasures. Although it is not honorable to suspect heroes, but for the sake of the country, these old officials have to... right?

They are not white-collar salary!

If you want military power, tell them!

I wanted it again, but I couldn't lose face, and I wanted to keep my benevolent and magnanimous personality, so I closed the door and thought about it, oh, I asked Xia Tingzhen to discuss it—that's a manipulative trick for his own gain. The scourge of profit, just listen to him, can it not be over!

Now that the situation has collapsed, I know that I have consulted with them to discuss countermeasures, but what so-called good ideas can there be now?

It was nothing more than waiting for news, hoping that the discovery would be in time and that the person could be recovered...

Otherwise, it would be a catastrophe!

After all, this is not just the power of the Zhen Guo Gongfu!

Amidst the tense atmosphere, the messenger finally arrived.

A security guard whose face was burned by poisonous powder and a soldier knelt down in the hall.

Seeing the demeanor and posture of these two people, the hearts of all the officials were already a little heavy.

The police guard spoke first, with his forehead resting on the cold gold brick, his voice trembling and uneasy: "Report to Your Majesty, Lord Zhen... has escaped."

This short sentence caused everyone in the hall to change their expressions.

Even though this possibility had already been thought of, the officials still felt a chill all over when they actually heard this sentence.

"..."

As early as when the two messengers entered the palace, they had already sat up straight with support, and Emperor Qing Ming didn't speak for a while.

After this eerie silence lasted for a moment, the emperor suddenly waved his sleeves, sweeping away the teacups and other things on the small table by his elbow.

"Clang!"

A loud noise spread in the hall, tea and broken porcelain splashed, and the two kneeling and trembling almost pressed their upper bodies against the floor tiles.

"Where's Han Yan?!" Emperor Qingming asked sharply.

"Back... back to Your Majesty, the commander is seriously injured and unconscious, and his life and death are uncertain..."

Han Yan was seriously injured? !

Several ministers were slightly surprised.

"That means Zeng has caught up!" The emperor's face was full of frost.

"Yes...but they used poison to escape...the commander only brought a hundred people with him..." The police guard tremblingly said: "But when they left the city, the commander had ordered someone to deliver a letter to the Beijing camp, Before the Duke and the others escaped, we had already heard the sound of a horn in the direction of the Jingying, so we thought..."

I thought that with the army of the Beijing camp, they would be able to stop it!

The soldier wanted to scold his mother-he couldn't escape anyway, and he was going to be dragged into the water at this time!

This is so unreasonable, can you still be kind when you are a companion on Huangquan Road!

"As soon as the battalion received the report, they mobilized their troops to pursue without delay. The villain followed Vice General Yang to the bank of the Jingshui River, but... Xu's army came to meet them first, and cut off the cable bridge on the Jingshui River. ..."

After hearing this, Emperor Qingming laughed suddenly.

"Good... good job, really good job!"

He really raised a group of useful and capable people!

This Jie Jie laughter hit everyone's hearts one after another, making people's hearts tremble.

Several ministers secretly exchanged a look, the emperor is probably going crazy...

After a while, the smile on Emperor Qingming's face disappeared suddenly, and he said in a steady voice: "Drag these two people down and stick them to death!"

"The emperor spare me!"

The soldier hurriedly kowtowed to beg for mercy, but before he could make a second sound, he was dragged out with his mouth covered.

The backs of all the officials felt chills, but no one made a sound to stop them.

At such a juncture, the most important thing is the next response. As for the lives of these two people and whether the emperor still wants to be a human being, it is no longer worth wasting words.

A minister stood up and suggested: "Your Majesty, Xu Qiwei has been convicted of treason, and the most urgent thing is to immediately send troops to encircle and suppress him!"

"Lord Su, don't forget that the little prince is still in their hands!" Ming Yushi stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I believe that this matter should not be acted rashly!"

"How can this be called a rash act? Xu Qiwei kidnapped not only the little prince, but also the queen mother and empress Wu, and the son of Prince Dingnan has also defected from the capital. It can be seen that this matter is a secret alliance between the Xu and Wu families. King Yan's conspiracy! If we don't get rid of it in time, will we let him grow up!"

Ming Yushi sneered and said: "Master Su encircled and suppressed one bite at a time. Are you just joking? There are more than 100,000 Xu's troops, and they can't be suppressed by a group of mountain bandits! What to use to suppress, is it up to Master Su?" Open your mouth?"

"you……"

"What the censor of the Ming Dynasty said is not unreasonable..." The Minister of Rites echoed: "Your Majesty, I believe that we should first try to appease Duke Zhen in exchange for returning to Huanyu."

"Where is there any possibility of returning to the world, since Xu Qiwei has robbed the Queen Mother and others, it is impossible to turn back!"

"That's not necessarily..." A minister thought about it and said, "Even if Lord Zhen Guo intends to vote for King Yan, what he wants is nothing more than self-protection in exchange for the current situation. , and then give it a place to stay, or it may avoid a turmoil..."

Emperor Qingming sneered again and again.

Show sincerity?

Is this asking him to beg Xu Qiwei!

How to make peace?

How to be at ease!

Concession and land, allow him to stand on his own as king!

Absurd!

The officials in the palace were very different, and they couldn't argue for a while.

At this time, an internal supervisor entered the hall, and the way was that Ji Xiu, Minister of the Ministry of war, asked to see the Minister of Dali Temple.

When the two were outside the hall, they could already hear the sound of arguing, but when they entered the hall, they didn't see much silence.

There are also good colleagues who want to pull him into the camp when they see the Minister of Dali Temple: "Xu Qiwei is openly rebelling, and there are still people who advocate peace. If the thieves and thieves blindly back down in the face of such a chaotic minister, it will not encourage his arrogance! If others With this as an example, I don’t know how many Xu Qiwei there will be! How can I stand in Daqing! Tell me why this is so!"

Seeing the faces of friends and colleagues fighting with each other, Dali Temple's heart is like still water, and he feels as if he has transformed into a lotus in front of the Buddha, peaceful, serene and detached.

He has already chosen his coffin, so why bother?

At this time, if there is no important matter to report, I would have gone home to eat and sleep.

Hearing the sounds of disputes beside his ears, Ji Xiu's mood was also very different from everyone else's.

What about asking for peace and not asking for peace, they quarreled so vigorously, and even listed the disadvantages of the act of asking for peace, as if Zhen Guogong would agree immediately.

Give a city?

People can grab it by themselves, and it's rare for you to give it to them!

Emperor Qingming heard a fire burning in his heart, looked at Dali Temple Minister and Ji Xiu who had no chance to speak, and asked, "Did those assassins who robbed prison be caught alive?"

"Return to Your Majesty, five people have been captured, and they have been handed over to Beizhen Fusi for interrogation and disposal." Ji Xiudao: "As for the remaining escaped people, I have ordered people to search and arrest them with all their strength in the city."

It's not that he's doing everything he can—

After all, if you don't try your best, even if you catch and chop all these people, it will be of no real use, at most it will just vent your anger on the emperor.

Dali Temple Minister then said: "Your Majesty, I have something to report."

"explain!"

He wanted to hear what bad things could happen today!

"Half an hour ago, Xia Tingzhen... hanged herself in prison in fear of crime."

"What..." Emperor Qingming's eyes changed.

Xia Tingzhen committed suicide?

The noise in the hall suddenly disappeared.

No one expected to hear such news at this time——

Up to now, there is no suspense whether today's incident has anything to do with Xia Tingzhen, the assassination or even the prison robbery is just a means for Zhen Guogong to use Xia Tingzhen's name to confuse people's attention.

Although Xia Tingzhen is in prison, she may not have heard of it at all...

Lord Zhen Guo rebelled, and the talk of exchanging military power became empty talk. Ordinarily, this was an opportunity for Xia Tingzhen...and why did he choose to commit suicide instead?

And what they could see, Emperor Qingming naturally thought of everything.

But the difference is that he has another guess.

Assassination and prison robbery, both of these things have been proven to be Xu Qiwei's actions...

There is only one thing that has not been confirmed yet - the poisonous tea that Mrs. Rong held in front of him in the Taimiao today...

That bitch of the Rong family is still stubborn and refuses to confess.

But he believed that she would confess sooner or later...

Therefore, there is no need to rush to conclusions about Xia Tingzhen's suicide.

As for whether the other party is dead or alive, it doesn't mean much to him right now. Now that he has achieved this step, Xia Tingzhen will not be able to use him anymore, and he will never dare to use him again.

When you die, you die.

"I know."

The emperor's voice was calm and cold.

The ministers couldn't figure it out for a while, and they didn't have time to guess too much. To put it bluntly, with such a major event imminent, the death of an insignificant Xia Tingzhen is nothing.

The world is unpredictable, and some things that are enough to cause a sensation are nothing at a special juncture.

Once the chief assistant of the dynasty, he had been in power for more than ten years, and now he died, and he couldn't even stir up a little splash.

Emperor Qingming's dim eyes fell on Ji Xiu.

"I am discussing Xu Qiwei's rebellion with the ministers, and I just want to hear Ji Qing's opinion."

Ji Xiu replied "Yes".

The lights in the Hall of Mental Cultivation lasted all night.

When the officials left, the sky in the east had turned pale.

They hadn't eaten for almost a whole night, and they only had to drink water. All the officials were probably exhausted at this time, and they were all arguing about what should have been argued. At this time, they left in twos and threes, and they all kept silent. None are optimistic.

Ji Xiu walked out of the gate of the Forbidden Palace and sat in the official sedan chair, his eyes flickering.

The emperor really doubted him.

Tan Zi's book! Xiuxian Wen, very fat, very fat, I haven't read it yet, look it up~ Don't miss it when you pass by, knock on the blackboard