"Let the messenger bring this along to brother." Jing Shao frowned, could it be that something has happened to the Rui Wang House?
"not," Mu Hanzhang unfolded the letter and carefully read it again, Jing Chen words between the lines are permeated with caution, seems to be more than just the Rui Wang Fu, "to brother back to the letter that we here still retained the year of the half packet, the other don't say more."
Jing Shao nodded, although he did not know what happened, but listen to his own princess is always right. In his last life, he did not remember any powder thing, of course, also because at that time he was still trapped in the southwest of the battlefield, these small backyard fire simply do not have the time to pay attention to.
The letter was sent to the capital, it is like a mud cow into the sea and then no reply, wait until the next ten days, Jing Chen's letter has not been sent.
"Something must have happened in the capital," Gu Huaiqing, who came every ten days on time and waited to read the letter, was a bit unable to sit still, "My people have not sent any more news either."
Mu Hanyang Zhang heard, the heart rises some bad feeling, this period of time after the queen and the fourth prince are too calm, and Rui Wang's popularity for a moment, which is very dangerous, I believe that with Jing Chen's prudence will not go to do something to attract the eyes of the people, then it is the intention of people deliberately touting.
"No, I have to go back to the capital to take a look." Jing Shao stood up with vigor, if anything happened to his brother, everything he was doing now would be meaningless.
"Your Highness, a group of people outside the city broke into Pingjiang City." The guards came in at a brisk pace to report, the group of people looked very tough and had a royal token, the gatekeeper didn't dare to stop them.
"Assholes, can't even guard a door well." Jing Shao kicked away the small few by his feet, raised his gun and walked out, there is a big army stationed in this Pingjiang city, who dares to break in so boldly.
"Whinny~" Just as he reached the front gate, he heard a burst of neat hoofbeats, strangling his horse violently in front of Ruoshui Garden's gate, the horse raised its hooves, and let out a crisp neighing sound.
The head of a person dressed in dark yellow power suit, face cold, not angry, and Jing Shao has seven points of similarity, only the eyes like a torch, calm and steady very much, who is not Jing Chen?
"Brother!" Jing Shao exclaimed.
When Mu Hanzhang and Gu Huaiqing heard the noise and ran out after them, they saw Jing Chen sitting on top of his steed, followed by more than a dozen black-clothed men, their breaths long and imposing.
When Jing Chen saw his own brother, he couldn't help but let his spirit loose, and suddenly he fell toward the horse with a black eye.
"Brother!" Jing Shao was about to pick it up when he saw this, but someone was faster than him, and he saw Gu Huaiqing leap up and accurately snatch the person into his arms.
"My subordinate, the Eighteen Riders of Mo Yun, escorted His Highness King Rui to Pingjiang by order of the Emperor." The men in black dismounted one after another and saluted towards Jing Shao.
Mo Yun eighteen horsemen? Jing Shao couldn't help but glance at them, these eighteen people he knew, were the supreme masters of the royal guards, and were only at the mercy of one person, Father Emperor.
"He's hurt!" Gu Huaiqing exclaimed as he smelled a faint odor of blood on the person in his arms.
"Quickly go to the house." Mu Hanzhang immediately let someone go to ask the doctor, and let someone take these eighteen people down to rest, while Jing Shao quickly followed in.
Jing Chen came to his senses as soon as he was placed on the bed, blocking away Gu Huaiqing, who was leaning too close, and propped himself up to sit up.
"Brother, where are you hurt?" Jing Shao pushed the obstructive Gu Huaiqing backward again and sat himself down on the edge of the bed.
"Some fatigue from rushing in a row, it doesn't matter," Jing Chen shook his head, seeing the two men by the bedside in complete disbelief, he could only pull back a section of his sleeve, letting them look at the small arm wrapped in a white cloth, "I encountered an ambush on the road, a little bit of a small injury."
Jing Shao looked up and down to make sure there were no other injuries before giving up.
Mu Hanzhang dismissed a cadre of subordinates and walked in with his own tea, "The eighteen riders of Mo Yun were placed in the guest house, they had to come over to keep watch, and were persuaded by me to go back."
Jing Chen nodded and took a cup of tea.
"Did something happen in the capital?" Jing Shao took out a green jade vial and bandaged his brother's wound again.
"Someone in the court impeached you for being passive, and Father asked me to be the supervisor." Jing Chen's eyes deepened, things were obviously not this simple.
"This king has collected two cities in two years and still thinks it's too slow, if you have the ability to let Jing Yu come to fight!" Jing Shao was furious when he heard this, in his last life when he fought in Huainan, those people also said this, and then the eldest prince and the fourth prince took turns to come, which one wasn't beaten up without resisting the move, and in the end he still had to clean up the mess.
"That's what it says on the surface, but in reality, Father has asked me to come personally to fetch that half bottle of medicinal powder." Jing Chen said and looked at Mu Hanzhang.
Mu Hanzhang was shocked and didn't go to get the powder, instead, he marched a few steps towards the bedside and stood behind Jing Shao: "What does father want with this powder?" The matter of the powder was originally an internal matter of the Rui Wang Fu, how could it involve Emperor Hongzheng?
Jing Chen shook his head and lowered his eyes, "Father let me leave in a hurry, I wasn't even allowed to go back to the Rui Wang Mansion, and directly let the Mo Yun 18 Riders follow me out of the city."
Jing Shao heard this, and his own princess looked at each other, each other's eyes are a little suspicious. This kind of behavior is not like sending him to do any errand, more like escorting!
Jing Chen was silent for a long time and slowly briefly talked about the recent events.
That Mo Pei thing Jing Chen at that time on people to check out, she and the capital of many dukes and marquises in the house of the lady are very close, because of the Jing Shao think there is a problem, he will then poor finer, and found that the most often in contact with Mo Pei people, there is the Duke of Maoguo wife. But things to check here and then no other, until some days ago, the Duke of Maoguo family of a concubine when giving birth to a sudden avalanche, mother and child were not able to keep, some people say that this situation is very similar to the year with the Queen of the yuan.
This matter seems to be just a gossip, but Jing Chen feels that it does not seem to be as simple as this, then let Shufei as a gossip will be revealed to the Hongzheng Emperor, who knows that Hongzheng Emperor suddenly changed his face, and immediately let Jing Chen to investigate the matter of the incense ash, but the capital can no longer find this thing.
After Jing Chen finished speaking, several people's brows could not help but knit tighter, this matter to this point, but more confusing, let a person puzzled.
"Don't think about it first, Jing Chen must be exhausted from traveling all night and all day, let's talk about anything tomorrow." Gu Huaiqing saw that Jing Chen's face showed exhaustion, so he opened his mouth to rush Cheng Wangfufu out, while he himself had absolutely no intention of going out.
Jing Chen glanced at him, "You go out too."
Gu Huaiqing snapped and laughed dryly, and was dragged away by the gloating Jing Shao.
I don't know what happened in the capital, there has been no decree, said Jing Chen to do the supervision of the army, also did not say to do when. However, both come to peace, Jing Chen does not seem to have anything to worry about, in the Pingjiang city wandered around, and even went to the Heron Island, Mu Huanzhang modified the charter of commerce carefully read, put forward a lot of Mu Huanzhang did not think of the place.
And Gu Huaiqing left the battlefield, voluntarily as a boy to accompany the idle. Jing Shao one person to fight no fun, left their respective generals in the battlefield to set up the battlefield, their own nest in the home pension tiger accompany Wangfei.
"Those who attacked brother on the road were all beheaded by the Eighteen Riders of Mo Yun." Mu Hanzhang glanced at the eighteen people practicing not far away, these people were completely in the Emperor's service, and the fact that they could be sent to protect King Rui meant that Emperor Hongzheng had no intention of disposing of Jing Chen.
"There's no need to think to know who sent them." Jing Shao wiped the sword in his hand, although his father seemed to be protecting his brother, but the treacherous situation before leaving the capital, now he was not assured that Jing Chen would go back on his own no matter what.
"I think ......" Mu Hanzhang looked at those eighteen strong and very strong experts, and then looked at the sword in Jing Shao's hand, pondering.
"Hmm?" Jing Shao tightened his sword into its scabbard and looked up at his own princess.
"Perhaps Father asked brother to come to you just to have you protect him." Mu Hanzhang pursed his lips, although it was a bit unthinkable to say this, with the power of the emperor to protect Jing Chen was not a breeze, why bother going around in this big circle.
"Huh?" Jing Shao opened his mouth in surprise, then snorted lightly in disdain, when would that Father Emperor of his think about this? If he could still think about protecting his son, back then he wouldn't have been casually led out of his cell and forced to die on the Sealed Moon Mountain Cliff.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, it's bad!" The general guarding the gate stumbled in, "Someone from the capital has come to proclaim an imperial decree, and it's with a prison carriage!"
"What?" Mu Hanzhang immediately stood up, the prison wagon! Why did you bring a prison wagon? Could it be that their affair with the King of Huainan had been exposed, and he couldn't help but clutch Jing Shao's hand.
Jing Shao returned the grip soothingly, "Where are we?"
"Already arrived at the door and collided with His Highness King Rui!" This is exactly why he panicked, that person saw King Rui, and did not enter the door, but directly declared the paper, obviously the visitor is not good.
"Let's go take a look." At this time, Jing Shao calmed down instead, holding his sword in one hand and pulling his own princess with the other, and said in a deep voice.
When the two of them traveled to the door, they saw Gu Huaiqing pulling out the sword on his waist and blocking in front of Jing Chen, on the opposite side of the two dozen people in military uniforms followed by a decree-issuing official, with a wooden prison wagon behind them, and two people with shackles were about to go forward, but were forced back a few steps by Gu Huaiqing's sword, and the atmosphere was very tense.
"Is Your Highness King Rui going to disobey the decree?" That official looked unfamiliar, and should not be a great member of the court above the third rank.
"Go call the eighteen riders." Jing Shao softly whispered in Mu Hanzhang's ear.
Mu Hanzhang nodded and turned around to go back to the courtyard.
"What decree? Show it to this king?" Jing Shao reached out for the imperial decree, and the official was emboldened to hand him the yellow silk in his hand. Glancing down, it was clearly not Emperor Hongzheng's handwriting on it, but there was a seal of the Transmitting Jade Seal at the bottom, but it did not appear to be a forgery.
"The Emperor has decreed that we should quickly bring King Rui back to the capital, Your Highness King Cheng should not make things difficult for us," the official said with a smile on his face, "King Rui's intent to poison his father and plot to take over the throne in treason is already an unforgivable crime, and if Your Highness King Cheng obstructs it, he shall be punished for the same crime."
When Jing Chen heard this, he was struck by lightning, Father asked him to investigate the powder, could it be because Father himself had taken this medicine?
Jing Shao snorted coldly and drew his sword with a brush and pull.
"Jing Shao, don't be impulsive!" Jing Chen spoke out to stop him, gently plucking away Gu Huaiqing's sword-wielding hand, "I'll go back with them."
"No!" Gu Huaiqing once again blocked the way, saying nothing and refusing to let the shackle-wielder get close to Jing Chen.
"Plotting against the throne?" When Jing Shao heard these words, he only felt that all the blood in his body had frozen, back then, in his crime, the biggest one was plotting treason to seize the throne! Now, this crime was avoided by him, and even fell on his brother's head again.
"His Highness King Cheng should think clearly, but don ...... t finish a sentence, that official suddenly stared wide eyed, unbelievingly looked at Jing Shao, and then looked at his own body, blood instantly spewed out from between his neck, and he died.
Jing Shao flung the sword in his hand as if he was just chopping a branch with ease, and those soldiers escorting the prison wagon were suddenly in disarray.
"The Eighteen Riders of Mo Yun are here, who dares to touch King Rui!" A deep and long whistle came from the courtyard, and eighteen black-clothed guards surrounded Jing Chen in the center in an instant.
Jing Shao pointed the tip of his bloodied sword at the men, "Leave no one behind."
"Leave one alive!" Mu Hanzhang hurriedly picked up.
The eighteen cavalry of Mo Yun got the approval of Jing Chen, and all of them issued their swords in unison, just like chopping melons and cutting vegetables, and in the blink of an eye, they killed those soldiers under their swords, leaving only the big man with the shackles behind.
The man had long since softened his legs in fear and shivered as he knelt on the ground, no longer half as vicious and arrogant as he was just now.
"Who exactly are you people?" Jing Shao put his sword against the big man's chin and said in a cold voice.
"Back, back to King Cheng's thousand years old, we are the prison guards of the Ministry of Punishment, and that one who passed out the decree is the head of the Ministry of Punishment." The big man stuttered in fear and honestly told what he knew.
"Who told you to come?" Mu Hanzhang stood next to Jing Shao.
"I don t know, the master of the Lord said that he wanted to go to Jiangnan to pass the imperial decree, and the little one followed him ......" The man finished, and suddenly collapsed, actually fainted in raw fear, and a puddle of yellow dirt flowed under his body.
Jing Shao immediately retreated back to the steps with his own princess in his arms and had the big man locked up first.
Back in the courtyard, Jing Chen took that imperial decree and looked at it carefully, gradually frowning, "This jade seal is real." The person who wrote the imperial decree did not necessarily have to be the emperor himself, but as long as the jade seal was stamped on it, it was a real imperial decree.
"Anyway, the person has already been killed," Jing Shao said, full of concern, "If Father asks, just say that he met the Huainan army on the way and was killed by the King of Huainan."
Gu Huaiqing's face darkened when he heard this, "How much more blackness do you intend to rub off on me?"
"Anyway, you're already a treasonous criminal, it's not that bad." Jing Shao leaned on his own princess and bared his teeth at King Huainan, Xiao Huang climbed onto the soft collapse and followed suit, only much more hideous than Jing Shao.
Mu Hanzhang looked at the three guys who didn't know about the impending catastrophe with a headache, sighed, and could only look at Jing Chen: "What should we do if this imperial decree is true?"
Jing Chen's eyes were deep, he rolled up the imperial decree in his hand and slowly clenched it tightly, "Now that there is no news, there are only two possibilities, one, my father really wants to escort me back to ask for the crime, and the second, is that my father has already been taken over by Jing Yu." The Mo Yun eighteen riders are still here, and Emperor Hong Zheng must have some instructions before his departure, so the first possibility is not very likely.
"There's another possibility," Mu Hanzhang slowly rubbed the tiger's tail, "Father is also trying to find out who the poisoner is."
The words out, a few people are all stunned, Jing Chen pondered for a long time: "good." When he was not allowed to return to the Rui Wang Fu, certainly also on his suspicions, to Hongzheng emperor's means, even if the disease is very serious, but also not to be Jing Yu that the untalented seize the power to go.
"No matter what the situation is, we always have to return to the capital to find out." Mu Hanzhang looked toward Jing Shao.
The cold light in Jing Shao's eyes showed all: "I'll bring 50,000 soldiers and horses back, and if I can't, I'll kill my way back to the Imperial City!"