The Wife is First

Chapter 117
Gu Huaiqing laughed dryly, and was dragged away by the gloating Jing Shao.

I don't know what happened in Beijing, and there has been no order, saying that Jingchen should be the supervisor of the army, nor when it will be done.But if you come, you will be safe. Jing Chen doesn't seem to have any worries. He walked around Pingjiang City, and even went to Luzhou, carefully looked at Mu Hanzhang's revised trade regulations, and put forward some suggestions. What Shaomu Hanzhang didn't think of.

Gu Huaiqing, on the other hand, left the battlefield and voluntarily wandered around as a servant.Jing Shao was bored by himself, so he left his generals to fight on the battlefield, and he stayed at home raising a tiger to accompany the princess.

"Those who attacked my brother on the road were beheaded by Mo Yun's Eighteen Riders." Mu Hanzhang glanced at the 18 people who were practicing not far away. These people completely served the emperor, and they were sent to protect Prince Rui. Emperor Hongzheng didn't intend to deal with Jing Chen.

"You don't need to think about who sent it." Jing Shao wiped the sword in his hand. Although his father seemed to be protecting his brother, he was worried about Jing Chen's going back because of the weird situation before leaving the capital. of.

"I think..." Mu Hanzhang looked at the eighteen very powerful masters, and at the sword in Jing Shao's hand, thoughtfully.

"Huh?" Jing Shao tightened the scabbard of the sword, and looked up at his princess.

"Perhaps father asked my brother to come to you because he wanted you to protect him." Mu Hanzhang pursed his lips, although it was unbelievable to say this, it is not easy to protect Jingchen with the power of an emperor, why bother to go around this big lock up.

"Ah?" Jing Shao opened his mouth in surprise, then snorted disdainfully, when will his father think about this?If he could still think of protecting his son, he wouldn't have been led out of the cell at random and forced to die on Fengyue Cliff.

"My lord, my lord, it's not good!" The gatekeepers stumbled in and ran in, "People from the capital came to announce the imperial decree, and they came with a prison cart!"

"What?" Mu Hanzhang stood up immediately, the prison car!Why bring a prison van?Could it be that the matter between them and King Huainan was exposed, and Jing Shao's hand could not help but be tightened.

Jing Shao held back comfortingly: "Where are you?"

"Already arrived in front of the door, and bumped into His Highness Prince Rui!" This was also the reason why he was flustered, when the man saw Prince Rui, he didn't enter the door, and just ordered the paper, obviously the person who came was not good.

"Let's go and have a look." At this time, Jing Shao calmed down, holding the sword in one hand and pulling his princess with the other, and said in a deep voice.

When the two of them reached the door, they saw Gu Huaiqing standing in front of Jing Chen with his sword drawn from his waist. On the opposite side were more than [-] people in military uniforms followed by an official with a decree, and behind him was a wooden prison cart. The man in shackles was about to step forward, but was forced back a few steps by Gu Huaiqing's sword, and the atmosphere was very tense.

"His Royal Highness Prince Rui wants to resist the order?" The official looked at him, and he should not be a senior member of the third rank or above.

"Go and call Shibaqi." Jing Shao whispered in Mu Hanzhang's ear.

Mu Hanzhang nodded, turned and went back to the courtyard.

"What is the decree? Show me the king?" Jing Shao reached out to ask for the decree, and the official handed him the yellow silk in his hand confidently.Looking down, it is obviously not Hongzheng Emperor's handwriting, but there is a seal of Chuanguo Yuxi at the inscription, but it does not seem to be fake.

"The Emperor has an order to bring Prince Rui back to the capital as soon as possible. His Royal Highness, Prince Cheng, don't make it difficult for me to wait," the official said with a half-smile, "Prince Rui intends to kill Junfu by poison and seek to seize the throne. This is an unforgivable crime, if His Royal Highness Cheng obstructs it, he should be punished as the same crime."

Hearing this, Jing Chen felt struck by lightning. His father asked him to investigate the medicine powder. Could it be because his father also took the medicine himself?

Jing Shao snorted coldly, and pulled out his sword with a swipe.

"Jing Shao, don't be impulsive!" Jing Chen shouted, and gently pushed Gu Huaiqing's sword hand away, "I'll go back with them."

"No!" Gu Huaiqing blocked it again, and refused to let the man in shackles approach Jing Chen no matter what.

"Conspiracy to seize the throne?" When Jing Shao heard these words, he felt that the blood in his body was congealed. Among his crimes back then, the biggest one was conspiracy to seize the throne!Now, this crime was avoided by him, but it fell on his brother again.

"His Royal Highness, think clearly, don't..." Before the official could finish his sentence, his eyes widened suddenly, he looked at Jing Shao in disbelief, and then at his own body, blood flowed from his neck in an instant The time spurted out and died unexpectedly.

Jing Shao flicked the sword in his hand, as calmly as if he had just cut a branch, and the soldiers escorting the prison wagon were in a mess.

"Mo Yun's eighteen riders are here, who dares to touch Prince Rui!" A deep and deep roar came from the courtyard, and eighteen black-clothed guards immediately surrounded Jingchen in the center.

Jing Shao pointed at those people with the bloody sword tip: "Not one will be left."

"Leave one alive!" Mu Hanzhang quickly answered.

Mo Yun Eighteen Riders got Jingchen's approval, and they all unleashed their knives, like chopping melons and vegetables, and killed those soldiers in the blink of an eye, leaving only the big man in shackles.

The man was already so frightened that his legs went limp, and he knelt on the ground trembling, without any trace of ferocity and arrogance just now.

"Who are you and others?" Jing Shao said coldly with his sword against the big man's chin.

"Hui, Hui Chengwang Qiansui, we are the prison guards of the Ministry of Punishments, and the one who delivered the decree is the head of the Ministry of Punishments." The big man stuttered in fright, and honestly told everything he knew.

"Who told you to come?" Mu Hanzhang stood beside Jing Shao.

"The villain doesn't know. The master in charge said he was going to Jiangnan to preach the imperial decree, so the little one followed..." After the man finished speaking, he fell down suddenly, and he fainted from fright, with a puddle of yellow stains flowing from his body. thing.

Jing Shao immediately retreated to the steps with his own princess in his arms, and ordered the man to be locked up first.

Back in the courtyard, Jing Chen took the imperial decree and looked at it carefully, and gradually frowned: "This jade seal is real." The person who wrote the imperial decree does not have to be the emperor himself, but as long as the jade seal is stamped, it is true. decree.

"Anyway, he has already been killed," Jing Shaoman said indifferently, "If the emperor asked, he would say that he met the Huainan army on the road and was killed by the king of Huainan."

Gu Huaiqing's face darkened immediately when she heard the words: "How much black do you plan to smear on me?"

"Anyway, you are already a treason, that's not bad." Jing Shao leaned on his princess and bared his teeth at King Huainan. Xiao Huang climbed onto the soft cave and bared his teeth too, but it was much more ferocious than Jing Shao.

Mu Hanzhang looked at the three guys who didn't know the disaster was coming with a headache, sighed, and could only look at Jing Chen: "If this edict is true, what should we do?"

Jing Chen's eyes were deep, he rolled up the imperial decree in his hand, and slowly clenched it tightly: "There is no news now, there are only two possibilities, one is that the father really wants to take me back to question the crime; the other is that the father has already He was seized by Jing Yu." As Mo Yun's Eighteen Riders are still here, Emperor Hongzheng must have entrusted them before leaving, so the first possibility is unlikely.

"There is another possibility," Mu Hanzhang stroked the tiger's tail slowly, "Father is also trying to find out who is the poisoner."

As soon as this remark came out, several people were startled, and Jing Chen pondered for a long time: "That's right." He must have been suspicious of him when he was not allowed to return to Prince Rui's Mansion. Yu, that incompetent, seized power.

"No matter what the situation is, you have to go back to Beijing to find out." Mu Hanzhang looked at Jing Shao.

Jing Shao's eyes were full of coldness: "I'll take fifty thousand soldiers back, if it's really impossible, I'll go back to the imperial city!"

It was rare for Jing Chen not to reprimand Jing Shao for his reckless words, but remained silent for a long time.If the imperial decree was not issued by Emperor Hongzheng, then the four princes usurped the throne, and their outside princes should return to the side of the Qing emperor; if the imperial edict was true, and if Emperor Hongzheng really suspected him this time, then returning to the capital alone would be a dead end.

Mu Hanzhang looked at Jing Shao and sighed lightly: "The matter has come to this, and the only way to find a chance is to let go."

With Prince Rui's aptitude, he was naturally the best candidate for the heir apparent. He originally thought that as long as they acted prudently and kept a low profile, Emperor Hongzheng would naturally ascend the throne in a hundred years, but they did not expect such a calamity.However, since ancient times, the royal family has rarely seized the throne in a peaceful manner. Aren't the many preparations they made before just to guard against this day?
Jing Shao understood the meaning in his eyes, held that shiny and slender hand, and looked at his brother who was as steady as a mountain again. This time, with his military power in his hands, he would definitely be able to protect the two of them.

"Go back," Jing Chen finally spoke, his voice was calm, and it was reassuring to hear, "It's better for the jade to be broken than for the tile!"

(End of this chapter)