Happy rivers and lakes

Chapter 12 Prince Crisis

Because of the memory I gave him, Renzong already knew the mystery of his life experience, but the play still needs to be full, otherwise he won't know how to act it later.So when Bao Zheng told his life experience, Renzong was furious and ordered Bao Zheng not to intervene in the royal affairs, but Bao Zheng was expelled from the palace for speaking out boldly.Although acting is one thing, Renzong was born with a filial piety. For more than 20 years, he regarded Empress Liu as his biological mother.

After Bao Zheng returned to the mansion, he explained the story to the Eighth Prince and Concubine Li, hoping to give Renzong some time to digest the matter. Concubine Li was not happy because of Renzong's delay in taking her into the palace.At the same time, in order to prevent Bai Yutang from knowing the inside story of the case, he went back to Xingkong Island to wait for the notification.Although Bao Zheng knew Renzong's mood, he couldn't agree with him, and he was afraid that Renzong would not bear to punish Liu Hou, and Guo Huai would also be exempted from punishment. Renzong.

Renzong thought hard all night, tossing and turning, recalling Concubine Li who was in the cold palace when he was a child, and finally went to Empress Liu's palace to confess Guo Huai to Empress Liu, and knelt down to thank Empress Liu for her 20 years of nurturing leave.Empress Liu knew that the general situation was over and she committed suicide by hanging herself.Renzong led all his relatives to Kaifeng to welcome Concubine Li back to the palace. Unexpectedly, Concubine Li refused, even unwilling to open his eyes to look at Renzong. Sin Shengtang punishes Renzong before he agrees to admit his son.

Bao Zheng's punishment of the spine stick was deftly resolved by "beating the dragon robe with the stick is like hitting the king".Renzong welcomed his mother back to the palace and issued an imperial edict to educate people's hearts to show filial piety, and Renzong's life experience came to an end with this.The matter of Bai Yutang's theft of the pendant was also passed, but Renzong put forward a condition, that is, let Bai Yutang help Bao Zheng solve the case from time to time, let Bao Zheng record Bai Yutang's participation in solving the case, and he will make inquiries from time to time.I know that this is an excuse for Zhao Zhen to keep Bai Yutang for me. I was secretly named a side-by-side king by Zhao Zhen, titled "Xiaoyao King", which is at the same level as the emperor, saying that it will make things easier for me in the future. Also casually help him patrol the world.

I shook my head and smiled wryly when I saw the imperial gold medal in my hand. I wanted to be happy in the world, but who would have thought that Zhao Zhen would come to this set, but in the end he still had to do something. It's really difficult to be happy.It's a pity that not long after the ordinary days, something happened to Zhao Zhen's harem again.Because there is no queen in the harem now, but there are four concubines: Concubine Lan, the daughter of a courtier, has no background, but she is the most likely to be named queen, because she is about to give birth, and the imperial physician has confirmed that she is the prince , then her position as queen will be stable, and she is also a woman Zhao Zhen likes very much.Concubine Pang: She is the daughter of Taishi Pang. Although she is not as good as Concubine Lan to please the emperor, she is not bad. I just don't know why she is not pregnant yet, so she didn't think about becoming a queen.Concubine Chen: She is the daughter of a merchant, she has no fighting spirit, and only works in her own palace.Concubine Xuan: She is the daughter of King Xiangyang, very arrogant and domineering. Zhao Zhen was not happy to see her. If it wasn't because she had a prince's father, Zhao Zhen would have given her to death without knowing it. Was it luck that she was pregnant.Concubine Xuan is even more arrogant now, she doesn't take anyone seriously, as if she has long been a queen.It's no wonder she thinks so, after all, she has a powerful father.

But just when she thought she would be the queen, the maids in the harem said behind her back that the future queen must belong to Concubine Lan, because Concubine Lan is now favored by the emperor.So Concubine Xuan was in a hurry, and hurriedly found her confidant, and told her father, King Xiangyang, the news, and wanted her father to advise her that she wanted to be the queen.Of course, Zhao Zhen didn't know all this, otherwise he wouldn't let Concubine Xuan go.When the king of Xiangyang got the news of his daughter, he made a big conspiracy. The king of Xiangyang was originally a hero who followed the first emperor to conquer the country. The first emperor gave him the city of Xiangyang and named him the king of Xiangyang.

However, the King of Xiangyang was not satisfied at all, and always wanted to become the emperor himself, but this time it was a good opportunity.Because after so many years, the current emperor has no prince. As long as the child in Concubine Lan's belly is removed, everything will be much easier.

On this day, Concubine Lan gave birth to a son. Zhao Zhen was named the prince when he was happy. I also secretly entered the palace to congratulate Zhao Zhen. At the same time, it was also a national celebration. No one would have imagined that the conspiracy that followed was revealed up.Of course, because Zhao Zhen was afraid that Concubine Lan would be lonely during her confinement, she sent someone to invite Concubine Lan's younger sister, A Min, into the palace to accompany her.Concubine Lan was very happy to see her younger sister Amin, and took her sister to talk about family affairs.At this time, General Tu Shan took the imperial golden knife and led someone to break in, falsely preaching that the prince is the illegitimate son of Concubine Lan and the leader of the Imperial Guard Ge Qing, and the emperor is furious and wants to kill Concubine Lan."Because Concubine Lan treated the maids and eunuchs in her palace very well, those court ladies and eunuchs planned to protect Concubine Lan with all their lives when they saw Tu Shan's menacing approach.

Concubine Lan and her younger sister A Min fled the capital with the help of the eunuch Liangxi and the prince in the chaos. Ge Qing knew that she must have been framed when she found out about this.Just a few days ago, Tu Shan found him and asked him to join the King of Xiangyang, otherwise he would make him look good.Faced with Tu Shan's threat, Ge Qing finally refused. He didn't expect that Tu Shan held a grudge and framed Concubine Lan for having an affair with him.It turns out that Ge Qing and Concubine Lan were childhood playmates. Later Concubine Lan entered the palace and Concubine Lan was sent to guard the city at the border. He only recently returned. How could he have an affair with Concubine Lan.

Therefore, in order to prove his innocence, Ge Qing broke into the Kaifeng mansion at night and committed suicide in court.Fortunately, Zhao Zhao was beside Ge Qing at that time and saved him.Bao Zheng believed that the matter was of great importance and ordered Zhaozhao to investigate the case.And I also received news that I bid farewell to Zhao Zhen and hurried back to Kaifeng Mansion.

"Master Bao, what happened here?" As soon as I returned to Kaifeng Mansion, I saw the complexion of everyone in Kaifeng Mansion.

"Yan Huwei, you are back! Last night Ge Qing, the commander of the imperial guards, also broke into the Kaifeng mansion and told us that the general Tu Shan had framed him for having an affair with Concubine Lan, saying that the emperor would kill Concubine Lan. Concubine Lan and her younger sister Min hugged the prince, took advantage of the chaos and escaped from the palace under the cover of her father-in-law Liangxi." Bao Zheng quickly told Haoyue what he knew.

"What? I just came back from the emperor, and I didn't hear that the emperor wanted to kill Concubine Lan! Besides, the emperor was very happy that Concubine Lan gave birth to a prince for him, and planned to make Concubine Lan a queen." I frowned. brow.

"What? The emperor didn't intend to kill Concubine Lan, so how could it be... Could it be that Tu Shan falsely preached the imperial decree, did he know that the false imperial decree was to exterminate the nine clans, isn't he afraid of death?" Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce beside him were shocked.

"I'm talking about my Lord Bao! Do you think that Tu Shan would have done this if he didn't have a strong background? Hey, where did Zhao Zhao go? Why didn't I see him, even the white mouse wasn't there."

"Bai Yutang Bai Shaoxia returned to the empty island to report his safety, and Zhan Huwei went to investigate this case. Yan Huwei, you are back, then investigate this matter with Zhan Huwei, we must find out who is behind Tu Shan."

"Yes, my lord!"

After Concubine Lan and her younger sister A Min escaped to the palace, they were hunted down by Tu Shan.But the folks are still unaware of the changes in the palace, and the whole country is jubilantly celebrating the birth of the prince.Concubine Lan and the others evaded Tu Shan's pursuit all the way, while Bai Yutang was sitting in a teahouse listening to storytelling.At this time, Tu Shan led his men and horses on a rampage on the street, which caused panic among the people on the street, and Bai Yutang also came out of the teahouse to watch the excitement.Not surprisingly, he saw Lan Fei and sisters running away with a basket in their arms. Bai Yutang had never seen Lan Fei and the others before, but he couldn't just watch them being caught by Tu Shan.

Therefore, Bai Yutang rescued them and took them back to the empty island. Zhaozhao and I got up and rushed to the empty island after hearing the news, and told Bai Yutang that Lord Bao wanted to take the prince and concubine Lan back to Kaifeng mansion.Unexpectedly, on the way back to Kaifeng Mansion, we were ambushed by Tu Shan. Tu Shan, who was hiding in the dark, shot an arrow at the prince, and the prince's life and death were uncertain.Fortunately, when Lan Fei and the others left the island, the witty five rats had already dropped the prince, and there was a white rabbit in the basket.In this way, Lanfei and the others followed Zhaozhao and I back to Kaifeng Mansion.Concubine Lan was wronged, and the crown prince was wronged. They were very anxious, and hoped that Mr. Bao would report to the emperor quickly to avenge his grievances.

Mrs. Bao is also in a hurry, but there is nothing he can do, because there is no evidence in hand, if Concubine Lan returns to the palace by then, she will probably die.Tu Shan was able to convince the emperor to falsely preach the imperial decree, and when Concubine Lan sues Tu Shan to the emperor, he can easily put aside the crime of falsely preaching the imperial edict. Loyal minister.

"Master Bao, now that Concubine Lan is in our Kaifeng mansion, I think Tu Shan will restrain himself a little bit, but I am afraid that Tu Shan will come to our Kaifeng mansion secretly, so I suggest that it is better to protect Concubine Lan first." I told Master Bao As he said so, he thought in his heart that he should tell the emperor about it so that he could make preparations.

"Yan Huwei, you are right. According to the words of Concubine Lan and Commander Ge, Tu Shan may have taken refuge in the King of Xiangyang, and the King of Xiangyang may rebel. However, we must find evidence that the King of Xiangyang is going to rebel, otherwise It's all empty talk." I nodded.

Faced with all kinds of doubts, Master Bao ordered me and Zhaozhao to take turns protecting Concubine Lan, while Concubine Lan's younger sister, Amin, had already gone to Xingkong Island under the protection of Ge Qing.The King of Xiangyang may have sensed that the Kaifeng government had suspected him, so he quickly transferred back to Tu Shan and ordered him to implement the second step of the plan - to kill the prince.Tu Shan was ordered by King Xiang to chase and kill the five rats frantically, but Xu Qing, Jiang Ping, and Han Zhang were caught by Tu Shan.Moreover, Lu Fang, the leader of the Five Rats, exchanged the prince for the lives of their three brothers.

Lu Fang had no choice but to hand over the prince.Only under the begging of his wife, tearfully, he used his son who was born not long ago to pretend to be the prince, and exchanged him for the lives of his three brothers.I also told the emperor about this before, the emperor and Zhaozhao was also injured while protecting Concubine Lan, Mr. Bao saw that Zhaozhao was injured, so he told him to rest well, but Zhaozhao stubbornly accompanied Mr. Bao and me Enter the palace to report.The emperor was furious, and ordered Zhan Zhaohe and I to quickly recall the prince back to the court.

I saw Zhaozhao's face turned pale because of the injury, and I was very distressed, but when I saw Zhaozhao's resolute eyes, I couldn't say anything to persuade him to rest in peace, so I had to accompany him to Xingkong Island to bring the prince back.The moment Tu Shan snatched away the fake prince, we arrived with the imperial decree. Tu Shan accepted the imperial decree very unwillingly. After all, the king of Xiangyang has not really broken face with the emperor, and the fake prince is Lu Fang's son who was rescued. However, Zhaozhao was forced to hold on to the injury, but because of the seriousness of the injury, he fainted on the empty island.

Zhaozhao was recuperating on Xingkong Island because of her injuries, so I had to stay and take care of her, because I knew that Tu Shan would not let it go, but I didn't expect that Tu Shan had already sent someone to sneak into Xingkong Island.So, I called the Five Rats. Rats and cats were at odds with each other. Maybe because Zhaozhao and I rescued Lu Fang's child, the atmosphere between us and the Five Rats eased a little.On this day, Mrs. Lu came to visit Amin. When Amin was changing Lu Fang's son's diaper, a mysterious dart hit Lu Fang's son by mistake. The atmosphere between us and the five mice suddenly became tense again.

King Xiangyang learned that the prince was not dead, so he ordered Tu Shan to send another master to assassinate him.Under the escort of us and the Five Rats, the prince and Amin, who had gone through hardships, walked into the Kaifeng mansion.And Ge Qing and A Min also fell in love with each other during this period of time, but because of the prince, they didn't break the paper between them.Amin is well aware of the unpredictable changes in the government and the palace, so she is worried about her sister and the prince entering the palace, and wants to seek justice from the emperor before her sister and the prince enter the palace.

Bao Zheng took sisters Lan Fei and the Five Rats into the palace together.The emperor finally handed over Tu Shan, who was chasing and killing the prince, to the Kaifeng government for strict punishment.When King Xiang came to Kaifeng mansion after hearing the news, Master Bao suddenly cleared his doubts. He knew that after killing the crown prince, the only one who could be the crown prince was the grandson of King Xiangyang, and King Xiangyang could be the Supreme Emperor, so he let Tu Shan go.Bao Zheng was afraid that Tu Shan would harm the prince, so he sent Ge Qing to secretly protect the sisters Lan Fei.After the prince of Xiangyang knew that the prince was returning to court, he did not return to his own city of Xiangyang. Instead, he visited the prince every now and then, as if he was very happy that the prince was returning to court.