Daoist, I am not fragrant!

The little Taoist priest beside Wenwei led Li Bizhi and Zhong Tang all the way to the emperor's imperial study.

As far as the scenery in the palace is concerned, it is much better than Prince Ning's Mansion, but Zhong Tang was thinking about what happened just now, so he didn't notice anything.

"Oh, it's Daoist Li," the three of them had just stopped when they saw an old eunuch with a white face and white hair walking towards them with a smile: "The old slave has been there for a long time." , I haven't seen you."

Zhong Tang didn't know who he was, but when he saw that the old eunuch was wearing a dark blue python suit that was obviously different from other palace people, he was also secretly shocked by the old eunuch's identity.

"How is Mr. Lou?" Li Bizhi also took a few steps forward and saluted him.

"Okay, old slave is fine." Eunuch Lou smiled again, and waved the wind whisk in his hand towards the door: "The real man and the princes are still inside to talk to His Majesty, Daoist Li has to wait first."

Li Bizhi naturally had no objection, and Eunuch Lou's eyes fell on Zhong Tang behind him: "This little Daoist priest looks so handsome, why haven't I seen him before? But Daoist Li also accepted disciples?"

Seeing Li Bizhi's attitude, Zhong Tang knew that he should pay more attention to the old eunuch, so he took the initiative to salute him and said with a smile: "Thank you for your compliment, my father-in-law, Xiaodao's surname is Zhong, and it is indeed the first time he has entered the palace, but he is not Daoist Li's disciple. , but his—”

"Taoist."

Zhong Tang's "junior brother" hadn't uttered the words, and he was almost biting his tongue in surprise by Li Bizhi's "Taoist couple", and Lou Gonggong on the opposite side was also surprised, but after the surprise, he showed a few words. A very regretful look.

"When did Daoist Li achieve this good thing? The old slave's congratulations are too late." Lou Gonggong laughed again, and congratulated the two of them again and again: "But it is true, it is necessary to have someone like Zhong Xiaodao. , to be worthy of Li Daochang."

For someone like Zhong Tang, who is both arrogant and delicate, his face was a little hot when Mr. Lou said that, but before he could thank him, he heard the old eunuch whisper again: "It's a pity, I All those godsons still remember Daoist Li."

Sons!Thinking of Daochang Lee!Zhong Tang's eyes widened immediately, and he turned to look at Li Bizhi, as if he wanted to ask for an explanation.

Fortunately, Li Daochang was still able to keep his face unchanged, gently shook Zhong Tang's hand, and then turned to Eunuch Lou and said: "There is a father-in-law who owes his love, and this is the only person to avoid, and he will never change."

Zhong Tang pursed his lips, couldn't help shaking Li Bizhi's hand, and coughed a few times as a cover-up, but Eunuch Lou chuckled again: "Okay, okay, the old slave won't joke with Li Daochang, so as not to mess with him." Let Mr. Zhong Xiaodao taste it."

Hearing what he said, Zhong Tang relaxed a bit, leaned forward slightly and said: "If the father-in-law is really interested, you can also tell me about the little father-in-laws."

"Oh," Lou Eunuch waved the whisk in his hand, looked at Li Bizhi again, and shook his head again and again: "I don't dare to do this, old servant."

Zhong Tang originally wanted to say more, but out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a person beside the pillar.

Li Bizhi noticed his pause, followed Zhong Tang's gaze, and saw Si Qianjin who he hadn't seen for a few days.

This is not a strange thing, the news of Concubine Qing's encounter with a demon will naturally not only spread to the Golden Crow Temple, people in Taiyuan must have heard of it too.

It's just to make Si Qianjin wait here... Zhong Tang lowered his eyes and thought, could it be that the temple master from Taiyuan, who hardly showed his face, came in person and was also in the imperial study?

Eunuch Lou seemed to see Zhong Tang's doubts, and said as if chatting: "It's just a coincidence, His Royal Highness King Ning and the Chief Secretary said that they met on the way, so they came together."

Zhong Tang raised his eyes a little. It would be normal for Si Qianjin to lean towards King Ning wholeheartedly, but what is King Ning's attitude towards Si Qianjin now?

Thinking of this, the door of the imperial study suddenly opened, and Eunuch Lou bowed slightly to the two of them, and said goodbye: "The real man should be coming out, and the old slave will go in to serve."

Li Bizhi also saluted him as farewell, and it didn't take long to see Master Wenwei walking out of the imperial study room for the first time.

Zhong Tang also recognized the person who was following him, but he was the master of the young Aji, the son of Concubine Qing——Wang Duan.

Although Wenwei and King Duan walked one after the other, they didn't communicate much, they just bowed and bowed to each other when saying goodbye, but Zhong Tang felt that the two were not as alienated as they seemed on the surface.

The one who came out after King Duan was King Ning. As soon as he came out, Si Qianjin went up to meet him. Unlike before, King Ning seemed to get closer to him this time, and the two of them bowed. Lowland didn't know what to say and left.

Just as Zhong Tang was about to hold Li Bizhi's hand, and teased Si Qianjin a few more words, Si Qianjin finally got what he wanted, but after seeing King Ning by accident, another person in royal clothes walked out of the imperial study.

His appearance was much more mature than that of Ning Wang and Duan Wang, and he was estimated to be in his thirties. Zhong Tang was even more surprised that his skin color and eyes seemed to be of a foreign race.

"That's Prince Feng," Li Bizhi said in Zhong Tang's ear at the right time: "He is His Majesty's eldest son, and his mother is also a consort princess. Because of the decline of the country, he only became His Majesty's concubine Ji."

Therefore, the son who was born could only be crowned king early, and he had no chance other than the prince.

Zhong Tang looked at that Feng Wang from a distance for a while, but was quickly taken away by the menacing question.

"You are still here!"

Sometimes, the suffocation is suffocated and suffocated until the body and mind are exhausted, and the suffocation is gone.

Zhong Tang was angry all night, and now when he really saw Wen Wei, he suddenly felt that he didn't want to talk to him, so he just leaned on Li Fangzhi and said lazily: "Senior Brother Lao has been thinking about it for so long, Zhong Tang is afraid that he will Brother, I’m worried if I don’t see you.”

Wen Wei viciously shook his sleeves, suppressed his anger and said: "That little junior is really thoughtful."

"Thank you, Second Senior Brother, for your compliment." Zhong Tang still leaned on Li Bizhi's body, casually making salute gestures: "Zhong Tang deserves it."

"A Tang." Li Bizhi finally couldn't bear it, and called Zhong Tang in a low voice, and before Zhong Tang got angry, he said to Wen Wei: "Second Senior Brother, I just avoid leaving him alone. That's why I brought it into the palace, and I ask my senior brother to calm down."

"Don't worry about him staying outside alone. There are some monsters and ghosts out there. Can they swallow him alive?" Facing Li Bizhi, Wen Wei finally managed to calm down. Said.

"In Lin'an, there are things that are worse than demons and ghosts. The second senior brother should understand."

Now Wenwei didn't say anything more, and after looking at Zhong Tang and Li Bizhi for a while, he clinging to the old whisk in his hand, turned around and said, "Let's go."

Wen Wei said he wanted to leave, but he didn't leave the palace, he didn't need others to lead the way, he went straight into the imperial garden, came to the Furong Pool, and he could see the long corridor opposite through the water.

"Have you gone to meet Concubine Qing?" Wenwei turned to Furongchi, but did not need Li Bizhi and the others to answer, so he asked again: "Did you see the mark on her hand?"

"Yes," Li Bizhi nodded, and took the congealed cinnabar juice from Zhong Tang's hand: "That's how the seal was made."

Wen Wei glanced back, and waved the cinnabar juice into a two-inch square small seal, and suddenly saw the name of King Rong Li Xiucheng.

"King Rong, I haven't seen this title for a long time."

"Brother, do you know what happened back then?" When the accident happened to the former crown prince, Li Bizhi was in the desert of Xili with the real person at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and he didn't know what happened. .

"Back then," Wen Wei shook his head, a sarcastic smile appeared on his usually cold and staid face: "Of course I knew, but in the final analysis, I didn't know."

"I can only say what I know, how much of it is credible, you can judge for yourself."

Everything seems to have started back then, when Da Chong's Song family, who was guarding the South China Sea, suddenly revolted.

This is a major event but not a difficult one. The emperor just dispatched troops from several nearby provinces to put down the rebellion within three months.

"But when the Song family was investigated, they discovered the letters they communicated with the former prince in private." Wen Ji's voice was extremely low, recalling the past: "So His Majesty secretly sent someone to the East Palace to investigate, and it didn't take long The letter with the Song family was also found at the former prince."

"Then, does the former prince have a defense?" Even though he knew the ending, Zhong Tang couldn't help asking.

"Should be." Wen Ji shook his head, and he didn't have the heart to point at Zhong Tang any more, so he just sighed: "The former crown prince was summoned into the palace, and he was alone with the emperor in the palace... What I saw was his dead body after drinking poison."

There was a sudden silence between the three of them. Zhong Tang didn't know about any royal affairs, but felt a little aggrieved that the prince of a country died like this.

But after a while, Li Bizhi asked a seemingly irrelevant question: "Did the former prince raise a white crane?"

After hearing this, Wen Ji suddenly smiled wryly: "Yes, he raised it."

"He not only raised it, but also drew it...he drew a picture of a lame white crane, and it was sent to His Majesty."

"What?" Zhong Tang looked at Wen Wei in confusion, and even Li Bizhi frowned.

"This happened a few months before the Song family's rebellion. I can't remember what caused it. The crown prince presented a scroll with a picture of a lame white crane in front of everyone."

He paused for a while and said: "The former crown prince apologized immediately, saying that he was confused for a while and ordered his servants to take the wrong painting. His majesty looked very bad at the time, but... he didn't go into it."

The so-called did not go deep into it, but it was lightly exposed on the surface, but in the end it left something in the emperor's heart.

"What does this have to do with Concubine Qing?" Zhong Tang's hand gently fiddled with the jade bead string around his waist, and the little golden bell hanging at the end rang repeatedly.

According to the easiest way to think of it, since Bai He came to find trouble with Concubine Qing, maybe it was Concubine Qing who took the wrong painting back then, which made sense.

But this time, is it really that simple?

Zhong Tang faintly felt that what happened last night seemed to be just the corner of a certain curtain, and it was far from the end.

"It doesn't matter, it's just a word from His Majesty." Wen Wei recalled the person on the dragon chair in the imperial study just now: "It's just like whether the former prince rebelled or not, it's just a word from him."

"As for Concubine Qing," Wen Wei's eyes seemed to be ridiculed, but also seemed to show pity: "When the emperor wants to abolish the crown prince, naturally he will not be influenced by only one woman."

"But if one day the emperor wants to regret it, then this woman can be an excellent excuse."

Zhong Tang's eyes widened slightly. The seemingly simple concubine's encounter with a demon seemed to have become no longer simple at a certain point.

What to do next?

Is it to find out who is going to harm Concubine Qing, or is it to find out whether the former prince has been wronged?

Zhong Tang leaned his head on Li Bizhi's body with some distress. The meaning of asking Wei just now was very clear. It concerns the royal family. The truth is of course important, but the emperor's attitude must also be taken into account.

"How do you check this..."

Li Bizhi reached out to wrap his arms around Zhong Tang's waist, kissed his forehead lightly on the side of his neck, and coaxed him softly, "Then don't investigate anymore, go back."

Zhong Tang was tickled by his kiss, but muttered in his mouth: "Don't coax me, you must still investigate..."

Wen Wei tried his best to ignore the movement of the two people behind him, pretending to be blind and deaf, but looking at the corridor opposite Furong Pond, the long corridor with curtains fluttering in the wind, he also sighed in his heart: "Check, definitely check..."

Even if they don't want to investigate, the matter will not end like this.

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Night fell again, under the dragon candle, the emperor who was over fifty years old was still writing with the ink brush.

Eunuch Lou waved away the little eunuch who was serving on the sidelines, almost dozing off, and silently raised the wick with a bamboo stick.

But at this moment, the emperor suddenly raised his head and looked at the Zhumen who were separated from the thick night——

"Lou Ming." He opened his mouth, seemingly without emotion.

Lou Gonggong immediately put down the work in his hands, and came in response: "Your Majesty, the old slave is here."

"Tomorrow... for me, go and see what that Nizi left behind."

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Sorry again to everyone who followed up here.Because the new job requires closed training, the next three to five days may not be able to update the article...

When I started the article, I never expected it to be so difficult. Until now, the work has not stabilized. Because of personal reasons, everyone’s reading has been affected, and I feel very sorry.

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