After the failed assassination of the powerful minister

They rushed like crazy for two days, and rushed back to Shangjing from Jiangnan.

During this period, Shang Zhi and Jiang Jinyue chased Cen Xian and Shuo Wang exhaustedly, but they were always a little behind, unable to catch up.They didn't rush to these two people until the foot of the imperial city.

Walking to the gate of the imperial city, Shuo Wang got off his horse and took the reins of Jue Ying, while Cen Xian was wrapped in a mink coat and sat on the saddle with his hat covering half of his face.

Shang Zhi managed to get ahead of them, and didn't have time to rest for a while, so he took out his token and showed it to the city gate guards: "Shang Zhi, General Banner of Jinyiwei!"

The guards looked at each other, and glanced at the man in the mink coat with only a small part of his pale chin exposed. They suddenly understood, and quickly gave way for them to go in.

When they arrived at Cen Xian's mansion, Shuo Wang stretched out an arm to Cen Xian, and Cen Xian gave him a condescending look, his knuckles put on the black wristband on Shuo Wang's wrist, and he got off the horse with a little effort.

Shuowang reached out to support him, not letting him fall.

Manager Ji knew that they were coming back, so he had been waiting at the gate of the mansion for a long time.Jin Yiwei's deputy envoy Zhang Jiucheng was also there, and when he saw Cen Xian enter the door, he greeted him as if he had found a backbone: "Master."

Cen Xian didn't respond, and took off his coat casually, showing a cold face: "What's the situation in Shangjing now?"

Zhang Jiucheng followed behind Cen Xian, cast his eyes on the handsome young man in mink fur clothes beside his commander, then quickly turned back, and said respectfully: "The Minister of the Ministry of Officials, the Minister of the Ministry of Households, and the left of the Metropolitan Procuratorate The capital censor jointly wrote a letter to join you, saying that you were ineffective in governing, neglected supervision and morality, falsely accused Chen Xiang, acted recklessly, and intentionally caused Chen Xiang to die in prison..."

"A few people knelt outside the Empress Dowager's Palace. The Empress Dowager has always had no backbone, so I can only call you back to Beijing."

Cen Xian sneered: "They are free, they come to break ground on my head when they have time."

Zhang Jiucheng didn't make a sound.

"Also, is the Jin Yiwei in the imperial prison a vegetarian meal?" Cen Xian looked over with sharp eyes, and slapped his palm on the stone table, "You can die under your nose!"

Cen Xian usually looks gentle, but when he gets angry, even Jiang Jinyue, who has always been daring, dare not go over.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that Cen Xian was angry now.

After all, Jin Yiwei Zhao Prison can't even look down on individuals, how can he not be angry?

Zhang Jiucheng's eyes fell on the cracks on the stone table under Cen Xian's palm, and he quickly knelt down: "My subordinates have already fined them fifty slabs each, and the commander has returned to Beijing, and my subordinates will go to receive the punishment. Be open."

Cen Xian said coldly, "I went to the punishment room to think about my mistakes."

Zhang Jiucheng breathed a sigh of relief: "Yes."

He just went to the torture room to watch the execution, at most he would vomit for ten and a half months, if he was sent to the torture room to be tortured like last time...it would be unimaginable.

Afterwards, Cen Xian washed up, changed into the black standard official uniform of Jinyiwei, and prepared to meet the queen mother.

Shuo Wang followed him step by step, Cen Xian turned his head, the coldness in his voice was still lingering, but it was already much gentler: "You have finished sending off people, it's time to go back to Jiangnan."

The general idea is that in his eyes, Shuo Wang is like the younger brother next door, he is always kind of tolerant.

It's just that he didn't expect Shuowang to be a disobedient brother next door.

The young man in front of him paused: "I won't go."

He sat down and said with a smile, "I have feet growing on my body, even if you drive me away, I will still come back."

Cen Xian's brows moved slightly, his tone was calm, and he was still well-mannered: "It's up to you."

Then Cen Xian quickly stepped out of the mansion, his thin black official uniform was lifted up, dark golden cloud patterns surged, and soon disappeared by the door.

The smile on the corner of Shuo Wang's mouth disappeared.

Jiang Jinyue, who was dying of exhaustion, didn't go back to Anninghou's mansion at all because Cen Xian needed to check his pulse. He went into the courtyard, yawned, and was about to catch up on sleep. He stepped out and touched the bottom of Shuowang's sole.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Jinyue opened her eyes with difficulty, "Did you quarrel with him?"

It's not really a quarrel, Shuo Wang thought, but he wanted to follow him around, but Cen Xian didn't like it, so he just left him alone without saying a word.

In the final analysis, Shuo Wang was reluctant to quarrel with Cen Xian.

However, Jiang Jinyue saw that he didn't answer, and already agreed that the two of them had quarreled, and said earnestly: "He is not in good health, and it is too cold to deal with him today. Don't be angry with him, just follow him, otherwise he will What do you do when you get sick?"

Shuo Wang didn't explain and nodded in agreement.

Jiang Jinyue patted Shuo Wang's shoulder in relief, went in to rest, Shuo Wang tapped his toes, and left the small courtyard.

In the imperial city, the palace walls were majestic, eunuchs and maids walked by in rows, Cen Xian endured the injury on his leg, and walked on the straight and wide palace road.

Shangjing was colder than Jiangnan, and the official uniforms were obviously not enough, Cen Xian felt a dull pain in the joints of his bones.

When he was about to reach the Empress Dowager's Yongshou Palace, the Minister of the Household Department happened to be leaving. Presumably he had just gone to participate in Cen Xian's few strokes but got no results. When he saw Cen Xian, he glared angrily and scoffed: "You dog thief!!"

Cen Xian remained calm and his expression did not change, he just glanced at the Minister of the Household Department, and then went into the palace.

The empress dowager and the little emperor were sitting in the main hall, and the little emperor was sitting and playing with his fingers. His eyes lit up when he came in: "Lord Cen! Have you recovered from your illness? Excuse me! Get up quickly!"

Cen Xian smiled at the little emperor and stood up.

Sitting below the two was a woman with a very good appearance, a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes, and a very outstanding temperament.

It was the prime minister's wife, Wei Changle, the eldest princess of Wei.Even the little emperor had to call him aunt.

She sat on the chair with a majestic expression, looking fixedly at Cen Xian below: "This is the Commander! My husband is the Prime Minister of a country after all, what mistakes did you make, you want him to die in prison!"

"Although I have lived in the mansion for a long time, I also know that you and my husband have always had a rift," Wei Changle wept blood, "You took him away with the seal of approval indiscriminately, and let him die in the imperial prison! You It's the same party cutting down dissidents and killing Zhongliang! What do you want!"

It can be said that these hats were fastened and ruthless, and the major crimes of killing Zhongliang with poison, attacking dissidents, using private power, and secretly lynching were all committed to Cen Xian.

Cen Xianya's long blue eyelashes moved slightly, and his gorgeous appearance was breathtaking. He didn't react too much when he was dunked into the cauldron, and he just said: "Princess, Chen Xiang's death is due to Jin Yiwei's dereliction of duty."

Then he didn't care that the one sitting above was the queen mother and the emperor, and said coldly: "It's just what the princess said, I don't agree with it."

"Since I became Jin Yiwei, I have supported the government and implemented new laws, and I have never harmed Zhongliang. I admit that I have never committed the mistakes that the princess said!" Making huge profits is a crime that deserves to be punished!"

He was imposing, and the queen mother above him was sweating. Speaking of which, she didn't dare to provoke this powerful commander. Cen Xian held Jinyiwei and the North Camp. If Wei Chen, Chen Xiangyu and Cen Xian were not holding back, who would Do you know if he will point his sword at the emperor?

But now that Chen Xiangyu is dead, the three-legged power is missing a corner, and she dare not let Cen Xian have too much power.

Wei Changle jumped up against the crime, and laughed back in anger: "What evidence do you have!"

Cen Xian's chest heaved and he lowered his eyes, his indifferent appearance made people feel horrified.

"The evidence will be presented to the princess," Cen Xian said, "Princess, don't be impatient, I will convince you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Hubu Shangshu who came back pointed at his nose and cursed: "There is no distinction between superiority and inferiority! How can you attack the eldest princess like this!"

Cen Xian's thin and long eyelids lightly lifted, his cold eyes swept across the face of the Minister of Rites, and he snorted lightly: "What? How does Liu Shangshu want to punish this official?"

"Is it grounding or punishing the official's monthly salary? Or do you want to punish more severely, cut off the official's position and let the official go to prison for a while?"

Liu Ye blushed with anger, gritted his teeth and said, "The punishment for you will naturally be determined by the laws of the Great Wei!"

"If I remember correctly, the law of the Great Wei once said that offending the saint's face should be punished for crimes," Cen Xian chuckled, "Liu Shangshu didn't even salute His Majesty when he saw it in writing, so he wants to cut off his head to apologize, if Liu Shangshu's hands and feet are not good enough, I can do it for you.”

Liu Ye's angry words suddenly stuck in his throat, neither spit nor swallowed, and looked at Cen Xian in disbelief.

Cen Xian looked back, with a chilling expression and deep eyes.

There is no doubt that if he dares to kill, he definitely has the power to kill.

"Enough!" The queen mother roared, but she was obviously lacking in momentum, and Cen Xian didn't even move her eyelids.

"Liu Shangshu violated Shengyan, fined his salary for half a year, and then received ten boards." The queen mother thought for a while, glanced at Wei Changle, and forced herself to calm down, "The evidence of the commander's envoy has not been presented yet, and Chen Xiang is dead. , you have committed the crime of negligence, plus you bumped into the princess just now...how about the Ai family punishing you to kneel outside the Taiji Hall for half an hour, and then confine yourself for ten days?"

Cen Xian rolled his eyes: "I'm sick and can't kneel down. I hope the Queen Mother will forgive me. I still have business to do in Jin Yiwei, so I will leave first."

The queen mother was choked hard, unable to speak, a sense of helpless anger rose in her heart, he, a courtier, dared to attack her, the queen mother of a country, like this!It just doesn't make sense!

But she couldn't move Cen Xian, Cen Xian was too powerful, even the late emperor had to be courteous, let alone her puppet queen dowager?All he could do was watch Cen Xian walk out of the palace without any scruples!

Seeing that Cen Xian had left, the little emperor pursed his lips in displeasure, and jumped down the steps to chase after the Queen Mother before he could reach out to stop him.

He just chased him far away, but he couldn't see Cen Xian, so he could only scratch his head and sigh, and went back with the court ladies and eunuchs who rushed over.

He pursed his lips and thought, why did Mr. Cen disappear so soon?

On the edge of a rockery not far away, Cen Xian's dagger was inserted into a crack in the stone, and beside the tip of the knife was a neck with blood throbbing slightly.

Shuo Wang was wearing gray and black clothes, holding the overcoat in his hand, and was pinned down on the rockery by Cen Xian. The stone pressed against his waist, making him feel a little uncomfortable, and he couldn't help moving.

Then he was brutally suppressed by Cen Xian - he was pushed down on the rockery with a "bang", his back was sore.

The two of them got close, and Shuo Wang could smell the bitter medicinal fragrance on Cen Xian's body.

The wind from Shangjing blew across Shuowang's face like a knife, he thought, it's really cold here.

Cen Xian's voice was very close, yet seemed distant, and his tone was urgent: "What are you doing here?! Do you know that the imperial city is heavily guarded, and you don't pay attention to your life..."

The mink fur coat suddenly covered Cen Xian's body, and the anxiety and questioning behind him suddenly stopped.

"I'm just afraid that you'll be cold, so I'll send you some clothes. Jin Yiwei's movements are not as fast as mine..." Shuo Wang said softly.

He raised his hand to fasten his coat.

"I was wrong, don't be angry."

The author says:

Little Emperor: What about Mr. Cen, who is my age?