After the rebirth, I became the darling of the tyrant

After sending Gu Chen back to the door of his own tent, Xiao Tingshen didn't see anyone outside at all, and he automatically raised the curtain and was about to enter.Gu Chen paused involuntarily, his face obviously stunned.

"What are you doing in a daze?" Xiao Tingshen stretched out his hand and dragged him into the tent, "Come in quickly."

Gu Chen was forced into the tent by him, and the blush spread down the tip of the ear, and the whole ear was red for a while.He blinked and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, this is my camp."

"I know."

"Can……"

"I can't come?"

"...I don't mean that."

Gu Chen also has a clear understanding of his temper. This is a master who just does what he does and doesn't care what others think.He sighed, and felt an urge to break the jar for a moment—no matter who saw Xiao Ting dragging him back, no matter what the rumors were this time, he had even acted as the emperor, what else could he do? Bear it?

But then he realized that he overestimated himself——Xiao Tingshen would personally help him change his clothes no matter what.Where would Gu Chen be willing to do it? The two dragged a set of dry clothes around the tent.

"Your Majesty, this really doesn't work!"

"It's okay if I say yes, and besides, it's not the first time—!"

"His Majesty!"

Mr. Gu's ears were flushed, his face looked ashamed and angry, and he refused to let go.Xiao Ting tugged at the other end of the clothes, grabbing everything he said first.In the end, there was only a crisp sound of "hissing", and the fragile robe couldn't stand the toss of the two people at all, it was directly torn in two, and the two were holding a sleeve in each hand.

Gu Chen: "..."

Xiao Tingshen: "..."

Both of them froze for a moment, then Xiao Tingshen shouted outside the door: "Wei Dequan!"

The eunuch walked in calmly and knelt down on the ground.

"Give the people from Shangyi Bureau a half-year salary." Xiao Tingshen threw the torn clothes on the ground, "Let them see what this thing is?"

Wei Dequan silently picked up his clothes, a slight fluctuation appeared on his usually calm face.Even though it was far away, Gu Chen could feel his speechlessness for a moment——

No matter what kind of clothing material it is, it won't be able to withstand the toss you two are making, Your Majesty.

"Bring Gu Qing another set of clothes." Xiao Tingshen said.

Wei Dequan complied, walked out of the tent with the clothes that had been violently torn in half, and saw Song Cheng, the chief eunuch of the Shangyi Bureau, head on.He stuffed the clothes into Song Cheng's hands, conveying His Majesty's will.

Song Cheng, who was fined half a year's salary for no reason: "..."

He looked at his clothes, then at Wei Dequan, and whispered an outrageous question: "Is Your Majesty and Lord Gu so fierce?"

After a lot of tossing, Gu Chen finally changed into dry clothes—in the end, he changed it himself, mainly because Xiao Tingshen was wronged first, and he didn’t dare to grab it hard, and he didn’t dare to really provoke him, so he finally took it. An upper hand.

After changing their clothes, the two sat facing each other for a while. Gu Chen spoke first, with a little worry and concern: "How is the Queen Mother?"

Xiao Tingshen didn't expect that the first question he asked after he came back had nothing to do with himself, but something to do with his mother. A trace of warmth flashed in his eyes: "She's fine. The imperial doctor said that she had lost too much blood. If she wants to wake up, she needs some help." time."

"Did you see the archer at that time?"

Gu Chen shook his head: "I only saw the arrow branch."

After he finished speaking, he felt that this sentence was simply weak, without any convincing force or credibility. However, Xiao Tingshen did not have any doubts, and after pondering for a moment, he said: "This matter is of great importance. How dare someone dare to lie under my nose?" After the son shot and injured the mother, I must thoroughly investigate."

Gu Chen nodded: "The minister is under suspicion now, in order to avoid suspicion, I won't go."

Xiao Ting gave him a deep look: "You come with me."

"minister……"

"I believe in you."

Gu Chen was startled: "Your Majesty..."

Xiao Tingshen really changed.If this matter was in the past, he would never say "I believe in you" without hesitation.For Xiao Tingshen, trust is a luxury more precious than any treasure.

Xiao Tingshen had already walked to the door, seeing that he was still in a daze, he waved impatiently: "Come with me."

He believed him.

A warm current flowed through Gu Chen's heart, and without any hesitation, he raised his heels and followed.

Afterwards, Xiao Tingshen summoned his officials and ordered Yang Qin, Minister of Criminal Affairs in charge of the case, to track down the murderer.However, when the order was issued, the officials looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one responded.

"Your Majesty," Yang Qin took a step forward, and said in a deep voice, "I already have a suspect."

"tell me the story."

"I dare not." Yang Qin bowed and said, "Your Majesty, please spare me the death penalty, so that I dare to speak."

"Just say it, I won't hold you accountable."

Yang Qin took a deep breath and knelt down: "I went to the scene to check, and there was only one person's horseshoe print. I also asked the soldiers on duty around me. Except for Mr. Gu, no one else has entered that forest." He said He raised his voice: "There is only one person I suspect, and that is the current Minister of the Household Department, Mr. Gu Chengu!"

As soon as this remark came out, there was a burst of whispering in the big tent.Gu Chen couldn't help being slightly taken aback, but then he was relieved - Xiao Ting believes in him deeply, but it doesn't mean everyone believes in him.What's more, he hasn't produced any useful evidence to prove his innocence, so it's only natural for Yang Qin to suspect him.

But Xiao Tingshen didn't have such a good temper and considerate thoughts, so he frowned directly: "Yang Qin!"

"Your Majesty!" Yang Qin spoke up first, and said loudly, "I know that Your Majesty trusts Lord Gu, and I also know that Your Majesty and Lord Gu have a deep relationship, but this matter is of great importance, involving the Empress Dowager, who is His Majesty's biological mother! I hope that Your Majesty can put aside the personal affair, see clearly, and return the empress justice!"

After he finished speaking, he fell on the ground, and all the ministers knelt down: "The ministers and others will second Mr. Yang's words, please make a clear judgment, Your Majesty!"

Xiao Tingshen hated others to threaten him like this the most in his life, and he was furious immediately: "You are so brave!"

"Your Majesty, I am also thinking about your majesty's reputation!" Yang Qin said loudly, "If your majesty insists on protecting Mr. Gu, if this matter gets out, your majesty will be criticized by many scholars—his majesty actually abandoned his own mother for a mere courtier. regardless of!……"

With a clatter, Xiao Tingshen threw out the folder in his hand: "Shut up!"

The veins on his forehead popped up: "Come on! Give Yang Qin to me—"

Before the word "drag it down" was out of the mouth, Gu Chen suddenly said, "Your Majesty, please allow Xuchen to say a few words to Master Yang."

Xiao Tingshen's anger suddenly hung in the air, and then it was extinguished as if a basin of cold water had been poured on it.He snorted coldly as a tacit consent, so Gu Chen turned to Yang Qin: "Master Yang, I really did not do this matter."

"Shooting the empress dowager is a capital offense, Mr. Gu will naturally say so."

Gu Chen was not angry, but just smiled: "My arrow has no arrowhead at all, how can it hurt the empress dowager?"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the audience was shocked, including Xiao Tingshen, who looked at Gu Chen in surprise.Gu Chen didn't look at anyone, but smiled and said: "Before I set off, I had already removed all the arrows used in the quiver. Such arrows can't hurt anyone at all. If Master Yang doesn't believe it, You can try it."

Yang Qin was stunned, stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but said: "Master Gu, who can testify?"

"The servants of the Gu family have witnessed me remove the arrowhead with my own hands," Gu Chen said, "My mother and sister can also testify."

"How can this be done?" Someone yelled, "You can't be your relatives who give evidence. Mr. Gu's mother and younger sister will naturally speak to Mr. Gu. The servants of the Gu family are also Mr. Gu's personal followers. They can't testify. Believe it!"

Yang Qin nodded and turned to Gu Chen: "Master Gu, you heard it too. If you can only cite these few witnesses, it cannot be used as the basis for your crime."

"What about me?" A voice suddenly came from the door, followed by the slight sound of armor colliding, and a burly man walked in, "Can I testify?"

"Jiang Chong?" Gu Chen was a little surprised, "Why do you..."

"Chen Jiang Chong has seen His Majesty." Jiang Chong bowed to Xiao Tingshen, Xiao Tingshen signaled him to get up, "I was on duty yesterday and just came back today, so I just found out about this. I would like to testify for Sir Gu."

"How do you testify?" Yang Qin raised his eyebrows, "Could it be that you saw it too?"

"Of course I saw it." Jiang Chong said gruffly, "Master Gu prepared two pots of sixty arrows in total, and one of them was the arrowhead I removed for him. It wasn't just me who saw it. Xiangwei's brothers have also seen it. Are you suspicious of me, Mr. Yang?"

As he spoke, he took out two arrow pots from behind, and threw them on the ground with a bang: "I brought Mr. Gu's arrow pots here. If your lords don't believe it, you can try it. Your Majesty is here, and no one can do it." Don’t dare to cheat.”

In fact, there is no need to check, after all, there are not many sixty arrows, and it is easy to see at a glance that all of them are arrowheads.Yang Qin was at a loss for words, his face flushed red, he checked these arrows over and over again, and after a while he said: "What if these arrows were removed by Mr. Gu later to exonerate himself?"

"I said Master Yang, you and Master Gu have competed, haven't you—"

Jiang Chong stared and before he could start cursing, Xiao Tingshen interrupted him in a deep voice: "I can also testify for Gu Qing."

He came out of nowhere, everyone focused their eyes on his direction, and Gu Chen couldn't help showing surprise—in all fairness, Yang Qin's doubts were not unreasonable, unless Gu Chen could prove that the sixty arrows were all shot. It was the sixty he put in the quiver at the beginning, otherwise even if he showed the arrows with the arrows removed, there would still be loopholes.But Xiao Tingshen...is he mad?

Gu Chen couldn't help but wanted to speak. After all, this matter involved the Empress Dowager. If Xiao Tingshen insisted on defending her regardless of everything, his own reputation would be damaged, and the reputation he had worked so hard to recover earlier would fall by the wayside.However, before he could speak, Xiao Tingshen had already sneered: "Commander Jiang came just in time, otherwise I really wouldn't have remembered."

He walked to those arrow branches, bent down to pick up one, and said to the ministers: "The bows and arrows that Gu Qing used that day were all given by me myself."

When he said this, Gu Chen also remembered that when he left Ganquan Palace that day, a young eunuch indeed handed him two pots of arrows, saying that it was a gift from His Majesty, and asked Master Gu to take them to hunt.At that time, he was full of joy because Xiao Tingshen wanted him to go hunting with him, and the two pots of arrows looked no different from ordinary feather arrows, so he didn't look carefully at them.

Could it be...

Sure enough, Xiao Tingshen continued: "I ordered the craftsmen to engrave words on each arrow, and now there are records in the palace."

It's engraved! ?

Everyone, including Gu Chen, was shocked.Several courtiers picked up the arrow from the ground and looked at it carefully. Yang Qin, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, also took one, and Gu Chen also took one-only Xiao Ting said deeply: "It's at the tail of the arrow."

Gu Chen turned the feather arrow over to take a closer look. As expected, there were two extremely small characters engraved on the part near the end of the arrow: Piercing the Cloud.

His eyes suddenly became hot, and his nose immediately felt a little sore... Chuanyun was his title when he was in the Yanbei Army, and it was given by Donghu people.Because he doesn't like to use swords, his archery skills are more exquisite than swordsmanship, and he has never missed a hundred steps, so Donghu people gave him this nickname.

General Cloud Piercer.

This was originally just an extremely inconspicuous matter, and no one would know about it outside of Yanbei, but Xiao Tingshen did.

Gu Chen didn't confirm until now that Xiao Tingshen had never really exiled him. Perhaps from the moment he arrived at the Yanbei battlefield, Xiao Tingshen split a part of his own power, and went to Yanbei to protect him in secret. Just like Jiang Chong in his previous life...

He blinked vigorously to force back the tears in his eyes, and looked up at Xiao Ting deeply.The other party just happened to look at him, their eyes met, and their hearts blended together.

Gu Chen smiled lightly.

Xiao Tingshen's eyes were originally covered with a layer of frost, but when he saw Gu Chen's smile, his brows and eyes couldn't help softening.He returned to the desk with the arrow, and said to the ministers: "You might as well count them to see if there is any one missing."

Yang Qin actually counted it once, and after counting, his face was ashen, and he didn't speak for a long time.

Of the sixty arrows, not one was missing, and it was indeed not Gu Chen who shot the Empress Dowager.

"No less?" Xiao Tingshen raised his eyebrows, with a faint smile, "I think it's because you people are incompetent that the villain wants to shoot and hurt my mother and then frame Gu Qing. After all, the queen who hurt my mother The culprit is not Gu Qing at all, but your courtiers who take it for granted!"

The last sentence was like a heavy hammer, causing all the officials to kneel down again: "Your Majesty, calm down, I am guilty!"

"Yang Qin, for slandering important ministers, you will be fined for half a year. I give you three months to find out the real culprit, otherwise you can come here to receive the punishment."

"...Yes, I thank Your Majesty Long En."

"The rest of you keep your mouths shut. If I hear a single word about this matter, I'll take you as questions."

"Yes!"

All the ministers wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads one after another, and retreated one after another. Jiang Chong also bowed to Xiao Tingshen, and retreated, leaving Gu Chen and Xiao Tingshen in the tent.Gu Chen was still holding the arrow in his hand, and he opened his mouth when he saw that the last person had also left.

"Why didn't His Majesty tell the minister..."

"Didn't you also not tell me?" Xiao Tingshen stretched out his hand to brush his long hair on his forehead, Gu Chen was about to laugh when he heard the words, when he suddenly felt his waist tighten, Xiao Tingshen pulled him into his arms.

He bowed his head and pressed a soft kiss on his forehead.

Gu Chen's face turned red instantly.He turned away in a panic, and subconsciously repeated what he said just now: "Your Majesty should have told me earlier..."

"It's my fault." Xiao Ting laughed deeply, his voice vibrating in his chest, "Don't be angry with me."

However, even if he didn't think of it, he still believed Gu Chen.Gu Chen's heart was sour, he raised his head slightly, and felt Xiao Tingshen's hot eyes gliding across his lips.

He closed his eyes.

However, the next moment, a notification came from outside the tent: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager woke up half an hour ago and said she wanted to see you."