"Jing Chen was attacked on the southwestern border." Emperor Hongzheng took a secret letter from the table and looked at him with a deep gaze.
"Second Elder Brother he, is he injured?" Jing Shao asked in shock, seeing Emperor Hongzheng's calm appearance, he realized that his brother should not be in fear of his life, and only then calmed down a little.
Emperor Hongzheng narrowed his eyes and handed him the letter in his hand, "Read it yourself."
Jing Shao quickly opened the thin piece of paper, skimming over the polite words, and anxiously looking for the word "peace".
"...... Fortunately, the guards gifted by the third imperial brother to fight to the death to protect, the son of the court is not in any serious trouble, and will return to the capital in the next few days ......" Seeing this line of words, Jing Shao exhaled, which read from the beginning, and returned the letter to the Father.
The meaning of the letter is that things have already had a brow, for the assassination is just a word, but to Jing Chen's nature, both so said, then certainly is ferocious and dangerous. Jing Shao slowly clenched his fists, if it is the southwest king sent people, a blow will not be sure to do it again. Southwest from the capital of three thousand miles, this way and do not know what will be changed. Thinking about this, only feel upset.
"Father, 3,000 miles of high mountains and long distances, my son has the audacity to ask my father to allow me to bring a team of soldiers and horses to go and receive my second royal brother." Jing Shao knelt on the ground and said earnestly.
"Jing Chen has already said that there is nothing wrong, so get up." Emperor Hongzheng sat back down on the dragon chair, picked up the zhang folders on the table and started to read them.
"Father!" Jing Shao refused to get up, not to mention the fact that that person, the Southwest King, had always been one to do nothing, and once this matter came out, someone might take advantage of the opportunity to lay a black hand on him, and the Southwest King would be the one to take the blame anyway.
After waiting for a long time, Emperor Hongzheng glanced at Jing Shao, who was still kneeling, and sighed helplessly, "I've already sent someone there!"
Hearing this, Jing Shao Fang put down his heart. He sent over to protect his brother's fifty soldiers and generals will certainly still follow, after this matter will certainly appear out, plus father sent people, unless blatantly sent soldiers and horses to chase, should not be dangerous again.
Jing Shao out of the imperial study, is encountered Hongzheng emperor's personal eunuch An Xian, with a small eunuch serving tea, seems to have just come from the pantry, see Jing Shao busy bowing and salute.
"Eunuch An," Jing Shao smiled politely, "still so hands-on after all these years."
"His Majesty's living and drinking is not the slightest bit sloppy, the slave girl is always uneasy about these hairy children, just have to watch everywhere, let the king laugh." An Xian, perhaps because of the reason of always worrying, is not like the usual old eunuchs like the blossom, walking is also tigerish.
Outside the imperial study, there are many people and it is not good to inquire about anything, Jing Shao said a few words and left.
"Almost twenty years old, you can't use your brain to think about anything other than leading troops to war." Emperor Hongzheng took a sip of the tea made by An Xian and said.
An Xian carefully glanced at the Emperor's expression and said with a smile, "Doesn't the Emperor just love His Majesty's straightforward nature?"
Emperor Hongzheng put down his teacup and slightly hooked his lips, "It's quite a sentimental one." He did not tell Jing Shao that the assassins could not kill all of them and could not find any clues. Today, if Jing Shao first asked who committed the assassination, then he would not be able to get away from this suspicion. Fortunately, this son did not let himself down. Although like a child as often as temper tantrums, to brothers and sisters is not ever harbor harm.
Jing Shao out of the palace gate, saw two carriages toward the side door line, expected to be a female family members into the palace, also do not care, riding on the small black back to the king's house to go.
Those two, were none other than the carriages of the Marquis of Northern Wei and the Duke of Maoguo.
"The dog's son was ignorant and injured the World Son the day before yesterday, I wonder if he is better now?" Duke Maoguo's wife laughed lightly, but the expression on her face was not at all apologetic.
"Early a few days on the matter, ma'am is not the day before yesterday know?" Bei Wei Marquis Lady looked at her with cold eyes, Duke Maoguo Shi Zi injured Mu Ling Bao, just verbally accompany a not, so many days, their house did not even send over a subordinate to visit, it is clear that it is a bully.
As soon as the two met, they started to go toe-to-toe, the two young ladies standing behind them also quietly sized each other up, and the palace maid sent by the Empress to greet them saw them and only restrained her eyes.
Jing Shao returned to the Royal Mansion, not yet at noon, into the East Garden, Duo Fu on the bitter face to welcome up: "Your Highness, the Princess has not been up, the slave girl did not dare to call people to disturb."
Jing Shao saw his fat white face wrinkled together and couldn't help but laugh at him, "Didn't you used to be in charge of the inner house? Who are you showing this face to?"
"Your Highness does not know, this inner house is now being managed by Wangfei, the daily affairs are more than twice as much as before, the slave girl looks at that account book and has a headache." Duo Fu really admire the Wangfei, every day so many accounts, affairs, but all can be divided clearly, there are problems with the account at a glance can see, now the stewards do not dare to fool, back to the matter is also nothing, he dealt with this morning, only feel a head two big.
"You're just used to being lazy, look at other people An Xian, they don't even have this fat." Jing Shao said as he had already reached the bedroom door, waving his hand to stop Duo Fu who wanted to continue complaining, and gently pushed the door in.
The windows of the house were closed, the light was much dimmer than outside, and the light blue tent was closed tightly enough to see the beauty of what was not inside the bed.
Jing Shao changed out of his court dress and slowly pulled open the tent. The person on the bed was sleeping peacefully, one arm was resting outside the brocade quilt, revealing half of his shoulder, his white skin was imprinted with dots of red marks, very attractive. Climbed onto the bed, tucked the arm that was drying a little cold back into the quilt, lay beside him, even with the quilt into his arms, kissed on that sleeping handsome face.
Mu Hanzhang frowned, slowly opened a pair of hazy beautiful eyes: ''You came back ......'' slow tone, with just woke up nasal voice, lovely very.
Stealing a scent on those still swollen lips, Jing Shao hugged the person toward his arms again, "Is the body still uncomfortable?"
Mu Hanzhang slowly woke up, his body's weakness had gotten better, only his waist and femur were still a little sore, he looked up at the person holding him, and moved his head to his shoulder to find a comfortable position, "His waist is a little sore."
Jing Shao froze, Jun Qing this is ...... pampering? Jing Shao, who had managed to digest this fact, immediately sat upwards, allowing his own princess to lie on his chest and knead his waist through the covers.
Powerful big hands, pinching up through the quilt, the force was just right, relieving a burst of soreness, very comfortable. Mu Hanzhang couldn't help but narrow his eyes and quietly hooked his lips at an angle that Jing Shao couldn't see.
"Brother was assassinated," Jing Shao told him about today's events while rubbing, "Do you think it could be the Southwest King?"
Mu Hanzhang frowned and said after a moment of silence, "No."
"Why?" Jing Shao on the way back, carefully combed through the things that happened at this time in his previous life, at that time he was fighting the southern barbarians in Yunnan and Tibet, but he still knew the major events in the dynasty, and hadn't heard of any assassination of the imperial guards.
"The matter of the tribute being robbed was already fishy, and the Southwest King would mention this reason in a dignified manner simply because he has long been clear about the situation in Yunnan-Tibet." Mu Hanzhang converged his eyes and said, "He just wants to reduce the tribute and doesn't want to start a war."
Jing Shao kneading hand paused, will recently happened all wear up to see, suddenly suddenly suddenly. Because the southwest near Yunnan and Tibet, so the situation of the southern barbarians southwest king is most clear, he knows that the court attacked the southern barbarians is likely to want him to send troops, and do not want to lose the southwest king on the first to find a reason to reduce the tribute, if the court to let him go to war, we must use this as a condition, if not to let him go to war, they will make up for the tribute is.
If it is not the Southwest King who kills, but these two brothers of his want to fish in troubled waters, this is a good thing, as long as they are away from the Southwest, it is not good to frame them, and they will not dare to take risks again. But ......
Since Junqing can see it, then the father must see it clearly, and today he called him to go to the imperial study ...... to think about it, Jing Shao could not help but break out in a cold sweat, and the father is testing him!
Mu Hanzhang saw him reveal a bitter smile and couldn't help but feel a little heartbroken, "What you said today, Father will definitely not be suspicious."
Jing Shao lowered his head, saw his arms full of worry looking at himself, went over and kissed on that beautiful eyes: "I'm fine." The so-called father, in fact, when called the royal father, no matter when, are first for the emperor, and then for the father! After eating the loss of one life, this life should have woken up long ago.
The next day, the Marquis of Northern Wei sent someone to deliver the melons shipped from the northwest.
"Marquis Bei Wei's wife would even send us melons, it's really rare." Jing Shao pinched a piece of cut melon, the melons grown in this Northwest ripened early and were bigger than those in the Central Plains, and tasted very sweet. Marquis Bei Wei's military power is in the northwest, where he bought a lot of land to grow melons and fruits.
"I heard from the underling who delivered the melon that mother came back from the palace yesterday, and the smile on her face hasn't stopped." Mu Hanzhang handed him a bamboo stick and couldn't help but evoke a cold smile when he spoke of that first mother who didn't know how to restrain herself.
The Empress rewarded the Mu family miss a pair of jade bracelets, but only rewarded the Maoguo Gong family miss a purse, Du felt that the position of the fourth prince consort in all likelihood is her own daughter, coincidentally, the northwest of the melon shipment, so they were in a good mood to send them some.
"How do you know all this?" Jing Shao was given a look at his own princess's wet fingertips and had to wipe his hands to eat with a bamboo stick.
"There's that fast-talking third aunt, now I'm afraid that the entire Marquis Beiwei residence knows about it." Mu Hanzhang sighed, the underling who delivered the melon was familiar with Lan Ting, and when he saw her, he talked about this matter incessantly, at this rate, in less than three days, I'm afraid that everyone in the entire capital will know that the Mu family's young lady is going to be the fourth prince's consort.
"Your third aunt is really something, next time you want to spread rumors about Jing Yu, let her do it!" Jing Shao couldn't help but stifle a laugh, this Third Lady must have a grudge against Marquis Lady Bei Wei.
"Nonsense again." Mu Hanzhang helplessly shook his head, but think about it this third aunt can't help but really intentional. If Mu quality is married to the fourth prince is okay, at most let people say Bei Wei Marquis wife flamboyant; if it is not married, Bei Wei Marquis House this time can be a big loss of shame!