The first-level Zhaohua Thousand-level Hall

Chapter 159 You Are Guilty
"Langsheng, you are guilty!"

As soon as the morning court, the emperor asked his servant to announce Lang Sheng into the inner hall, and he just said such a sentence, and his eyes were quite unfriendly.

If one is timid or has scruples, the most important thing to do at this moment is to kneel down and plead guilty.

But Lang Sheng is not that kind of person.

After Lang Sheng took out the memorial from the morning, he was ready to face the emperor's wrath.

"I don't know what the crime is."

The man's voice was exceptionally steady, without the slightest tremor.

"You actually said you didn't know! Have you forgotten what Li Zhen meant yesterday? Langcheng, you are acting obediently and violatingly, and are against the holy will! You deserve to die!"

The emperor violently swung the things at hand to the ground, and there was a loud crackling noise, and the broken porcelain pieces spread all over the floor, and even a piece of broken porcelain cut Lang Cheng's hand that was holding on to his side.

A deep bloodstain appeared on the back of the palm, but no one dared to take a look at it, but everyone felt that Lang Sheng would not get any chance to be good today.

What happened in court this morning had already spread throughout the harem before the emperor came down to court. Everything that should be known and should not be known is known.

Yu Zheng, who came to Yushitai in the early days, impeached the prince's house for restlessness, the family members' misconduct, negligence and immorality, and Lang Sheng immediately sued the prince's side concubine Wang for offending the general's mansion.

It will also cause many ministers who wait and see to turn their backs completely, criticizing the prince and the prince's side concubine, one crime after another, one evidence after another, there is everything that one can expect, only unexpected, nothing impossible, forcing ministers' wives, and robbing women's wives , Accepting bribes from officials, these are not big things, intercepting the disaster relief money issued by the emperor during the heavy snowfall last year, and embezzling military pay to make weapons, all these were all done by the prince, and finally knelt down and begged the emperor to agree to abolish the prince .

If the emperor hadn't made a big fuss in the court, I'm afraid those ministers would have made the abolition of the crown prince a reality, not just a proposal.

Even though the emperor suppressed the ministers' verbal criticism of the prince and the Wang family in the end, the prince's lost prestige in the court was lost after all, and the members of the Wang family were disgraced because of the Wang family, and they didn't dare to speak up all morning.

Those who impeached the prince were not too disappointed. Although the prince was not abolished, he still lost a lot. There are so many evidences and so many reports of misbehavior against the prince. The emperor said that he believed in the prince. What he thinks, only he knows.

However, seeing that the emperor later punished the prince and the prince's side concubine, he guessed that the emperor still had a grudge against the prince's withholding of relief money and privately manufacturing weapons.

He punished Wang Shi to live in the East Palace for one year and not to go out without his permission.

Punish the prince to personally write a letter of guilt, stating that his behavior is shameless, his personal morality is not cultivated, and it is passed on to the court.

As long as this letter of guilt is born, even if the prince is still a prince, the throne under his buttocks will be crumbling, and he may be abolished anytime, anywhere.

And all of this, not so much Yu Zheng's first move, if it wasn't for Lang Cheng who had been emboldened by those who had been worried for a long time, how could the prince have been dug out of so much privacy by the court.

Does the emperor not care about the prince's crimes?

care.

He cares more than anyone.

After all, the crown prince is the heir apparent. If the crown prince is under one person, he is above tens of thousands. If the crown prince has an unruly mind, the only one he has to deal with is him, the old man who occupies the throne of the emperor.

But the crown prince is his son, he is the crown prince himself. Today, the courtiers dug up so many evidences of misconduct, proving that the crown prince is not a good man. What about him, the father who made someone like the crown prince the crown prince?

Is it blind?

Thinking of this, the emperor looked at Lang Sheng with colder eyes, and the surrounding palace people even felt that if Lang Sheng answered one more wrong sentence, the emperor would kill him in court.

Many people trembled in their hearts, but they dared not move even more.

When the emperor is in a bad mood and wants to kill someone, the best way to protect himself is to keep himself inconspicuous and hidden from view.

"I plead not guilty."

Lang Cheng's words stunned everyone, even the emperor was stunned for a moment, he pointed at Lang Sheng, his voice was a little soft, strangely soft: "What did you say?"

"I'm not guilty, I don't plead guilty, I don't want to lie and cover up, His Royal Highness's side concubine, Wang's behavior is surly, vicious, and has harmed countless people, I can't do it knowing what she's doing, but pretend I don't know!"

The emperor's expression became even more embarrassing, and he pointed at Lang Sheng: "You, you!" How dare you!
For a while, I couldn't speak clearly.

There was murderous intent in the emperor's eyes.

Lang Sheng kowtowed deeply, buried his head on the ground, and the cold air poured into his forehead along the cracks in the bricks. Lang Sheng's mind became clearer and his voice became calmer and more stable. He didn't seem to know the emperor's eyes filled with The murderous intent is general: "What I wish is that Your Majesty will enjoy peace and happiness forever, and Daqing will enjoy peace forever. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the heir, so you should lead by example."

Lang Sheng's last words were filled with sincere prayers, and the emperor's anger was punctured at once because of his words like a swollen ball, and the emperor looked deeply at him and knelt down In front of him, there was Lang Sheng, who spoke the truth without any sign of weakness, with a clanging voice.

His mind cleared up little by little, and his eyes full of murderous intent towards Lang Sheng gradually became tinged with appreciation and joy.

Why did he keep Lang Sheng in the capital?Because he was worried about Lang Cheng, and he was worried about holding all the forces of the border army in his hands. The soldiers at the border only knew that Lang Sheng didn't know the emperor, so how could the emperor feel at ease.

And after Lang Sheng was summoned to the capital, why did he let Lang Sheng be the commander of the palace guards?
It was he who worried about his son even more.

Langsheng's loyal emperor actually believed it in his heart, but he was worried that he would be won over by his own son, especially the crown prince, the future emperor who was justifiably named, and the heir apparent of the Daqing Dynasty.

But now, although Lang Sheng's performance was abominable, after the extreme anger, the emperor slowly calmed down.

With what happened in the court hall today, Lang Sheng would never fall to the prince no matter what, even if the prince accepts the cousin of the general's mansion, it is useless.

Deep down in the emperor's heart, he always suspected that the relationship between the prince and Huang Yiyi was just a scheming and drama, and that the prince wanted to use Nahuang Yiyi to be the person around him and win over Langsheng.

The prince is his son, he knows the prince very well, and his guess is almost the same as the prince's mind, it's just that the man made a mistake.

The prince only wanted Xu Qingluo from the beginning to the end, and only Xu Qingluo could have a profound influence on Lang Sheng.

Huang Yiyi?
So what is it?

The prince was also throwing things in anger at the moment, he was slamming his mouth and cursing, scolding Langcheng, scolding Yu Zheng, scolding everyone in the court who made trouble, scolding the Wang family who caused trouble, scolding the Wang family's shrinking heads today, also Scolding Princess Xinghe who failed to achieve success but failed to succeed!
The servants around him didn't dare to breathe a sigh of relief. After all, even an uninformed person would know that if the current prince issued an edict to sin against himself, or sent it up and down the court, it would really be holding the prince's face on the ground. fell.

No one persuaded him, the prince became even angrier, he had nothing to smash at hand, and saw the decorative sword hanging on the wall.

With a clang, the sword was unsheathed, and the prince lifted the long sword upside down, and strode towards the side hall of the East Palace.

"Your Highness, what are you going to do, Your Highness!"

The personal servants around the prince did not dare to pretend to be deaf and dumb anymore. If the prince gets into trouble, the people around him will be the first to suffer.

"I'm going to kill Mrs. Wang!"

The crown prince gritted his teeth and paused every word, with a real killing intent in his eyes.

The personal servant standing in front of him felt chills in his heart. Although Mrs. Wang was the one who provoked the impeachment by the courtiers this time, the crown prince's punishment was ultimately his own problem. After all, she is also the side concubine who has been married to the crown prince for three years.

"Go away! Anyone who dares to stop me, Bengong, I will kill him!"

The prince was very hostile in his heart. Seeing the servant in a daze, he felt that even the servant dared to look down on him. A burst of anger surged up, and the sword in his hand slashed at the servant fiercely.

After a few exclamations, seeing the servant's unlucky blood splatter on the spot, the prince's sword was grabbed by a hand, it was an extremely delicate and soft hand, on the slender five fingers, the gorgeous Koudan seemed to be It was blood-stained, with a strange beauty.

"Who are you—"

The prince's eyes were blank, staring at the person who dared to grab his hand, the other person's face made his heart tighten for a while, and then it swayed, the soft and boneless touch on the wrist made him People feel weak from the bottom of their hearts.

Mo Li looked at the astonishing eyes of the prince, slightly curled his lips, and it was done.

How could a man be able to resist her appearance!
"His Royal Highness is happy and angry, my little girl, Mo Li, is here to help His Royal Highness."

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"General Lang, why are you bothering? If you had softened in front of His Majesty just now, you wouldn't be like this. If not, you can say a few soft words now, and the villain can help you convey it."

The guard escorting Lang Sheng was familiar with Lang Sheng, seeing no one around, he couldn't help but sigh.

After Lang Sheng took over the imperial palace guards, he devoted himself to his duty, was serious and responsible, taught the guards their martial arts every day, ate and lived with them, that is, after Xu Qing fell into Beijing, Lang Sheng was no longer on duty every day. Just came home.

Not to mention that Lang Sheng is an excellent soldier, and if anyone has any troubles, he is never stingy in helping. Most of the imperial guards are Lang Sheng's loyal supporters. Lang Sheng bluntly stated his innocence in front of the emperor, and was ordered by the emperor to be taken to the outer hall to kneel for six hours, and couldn't help but persuaded him.

Six hours, half a day, now in the cold spring, the bluestone slabs in the outer hall are bitingly cold, not to mention six hours, even two hours, one hour can make those two legs swell and catch the cold.

Langsheng was highly skilled in martial arts, but he was also made of flesh and blood. In the palace, the imperial guard had seen many people who were punished by the emperor to kneel down and have their legs crippled.

"No need, His Majesty just punished me to kneel for six hours, which is already a mercy. If I plead guilty, Lang Cheng will still say the same thing, Lang Cheng is not guilty."

Lang Sheng's words made the imperial guard stare fiercely, and he was really convinced by the stubborn temper of the current immediate boss.

Why is this so incomprehensible?

If you say a confession, you will not lose a piece of meat. Maybe the emperor will let him go straight away if he is happy.

Lang Cheng appreciated the guard's kindness, but Lang Sheng would not follow his wishes.

It is easy to admit guilt and bow your head, but it is difficult to stand up and raise your head again.

It's not that Lang Sheng is really blunt, it's not that he doesn't know how to talk to people to achieve his goals more easily, if he is a blunt person, how can he be invincible with all kinds of tricks on the battlefield?
The best generals may not be the best strategists.

It's just that he didn't want to learn in the past, he didn't bother to learn, but now that the crown prince's side concubine Wang has come to bully him, the crown prince's desire and ambition for Xu Qingluo has been fully displayed in front of him.

Lang Sheng could no longer simply be loyal to the emperor, to the prince whom the emperor asked him to be loyal to.

In his short twenty years, he used to be obsessed with defending the country, but now he understands that protecting the people he cares about is as important as defending the country.

If Xu Qingluo hadn't been so vigilant that day in Zhaixing Pavilion, and if he hadn't helped, what would Princess Xinghe and the crown prince have done to Xu Qingluo?

In the General's Mansion yesterday, if Xu Qingluo hadn't stood up resolutely, a prince and side concubine would be able to speak nonsense in the General's Mansion and wantonly insult his family.

These are things that Lang Sheng can't bear.

So he followed Yu Zheng to impeach Wang in the court, so he pleaded not guilty in front of the emperor, but he said something in the end, so he didn't care about the punishment now.

All these can make the emperor trust him more. In the capital, there is no greater right than the emperor's attention.

In the capital, only power can protect one's family and one's lover.

Lang Sheng and the imperial guard stopped at a corner outside the hall, selected a spot, lifted their robes and knelt down directly.

"Why are you kneeling there? Did the emperor punish you?"

The boy was wearing a gold-thread robe and a jade crown, his face was shiny and pink, and his breath was not a little bit better than the previous two days.

"Oh, Your Highness the Ninth Prince, this person must have done something wrong to kneel here, let's not meddle in other business, hurry up and enter the palace, Your Highness, don't you understand some of the sentences in the book and want to talk to Your Majesty?" Do you want to ask for advice? If you go late, it will be bad if you delay your Majesty's meal."

The palace people behind him approached the Ninth Prince and said so.

His meaning is obvious, to tell the Ninth Prince not to meddle in other people's business, the most important thing now is Gu Chong.

Following a favored prince and following an unfavored prince are completely different things. The Ninth Prince has gained the emperor's favor these days, and the palace servants around him are all transferred from the Reserve Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But just hoping that the Ninth Prince would be more loved by His Majesty, and he would be more important in the palace if he followed suit.

Now seeing that the Ninth Prince was not going to do his serious job of pleasing the emperor, but instead ran to an inexplicable person, looking like that, he still wanted to step into the muddy water. The palace people were dissatisfied, but they dared not speak out directly Remind the Ninth Prince to pay attention to 'business' in such a non-yin and yang way.

"Talk out, what does your highness want to do and say? Do you want your servant to teach you? Slap your mouth twenty times!"

The Ninth Prince raised his brows, and yelled at the palace man who was talking. He spoke so harshly that the other party didn't dare to fart. He slapped himself in the face unwillingly against the gloating eyes of several companions around him. up.

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As soon as Xu Qingluo got off the carriage, a young man dressed as a Taoist priest came up to him: "This is Miss Xu, please follow the path."

He spoke politely, but his eyes were full of contempt. He held the whisk in one hand and held his head high. After speaking, he turned around and walked forward without waiting for Xu Qingluo to answer.

In the imperial palace, as long as a person wearing his current Taoist robe is not afraid of the concubine, let alone a woman like Xu Qingluo who has no status, Lang Sheng's fiancée, is in the palace. , is not enough at all. ,
Xu Qingluo stared at the other person's body and that very arrogant back, not looking for trouble, but heeled up.

At this time, it is not beneficial to argue with a little servant who wears a Taoist robe and thinks that he has obtained the true teaching of Taoism. She is here this time to discuss the elixir with those Taoist priests who refine medicine for the emperor.

No matter how much foreshadowing and talking in front of the emperor, it is better for her to refine a few more useful pills and truly become a person whom the emperor has to respect. The right to speak.

Langsheng's fiancée, it's just that this title can't do too much in the capital, and Xu Qingluo didn't mean to rely on Langcheng entirely, she wanted to be Langcheng's backing, the most solid backing, she She has to help Lang Sheng find the poison and the antidote, she has to deal with the prince, and she has to let Lang Sheng have no worries in the future, all of these require rights.

Starlight shone in the girl's eyes, looking very bright.

The little servant dressed as a Taoist priest stopped in front of him: "Here we are."

Xu Qingluo raised his head, and on the plaque hanging in the middle of the palace were the three big characters of Shoukang Palace.

The copper-cast and gilt fonts give people a sense of wealth and nobility. Xu Qingluo moved his nose slightly. Through a thick palace door, he could smell the strong smell of medicine, especially the most important one in Taoist alchemy. A few commonly used things.

Sure enough, they are all 'good things'.

Xu Qingluo curled his lips slightly, raised his legs and stepped up the steps of Shoukang Palace.

The emperor was really afraid of death, and he didn't know how long he had been taking these things.

As for whether it has been taken, Xu Qingluo once checked the emperor's pulse, and she knew very well that although there were not many erysipelas, some of them had settled into the heart and lungs.

Stepping into the Shoukang Palace, it was full of smog at first glance, and at the same time, there was the sound of chanting sutras in his ears. Xu Qingluo raised his eyes and looked at the Sanqing statue surrounded by smog. For a while, he was really confused. It is not clear whether this is the Taoist mountain gate or the palace.

The Taoist priests are very busy, some are chanting scriptures, some are writing scriptures, some are looking at the alchemy furnace, some are doing Taoist body-building boxing, and more are distributing the same medicinal materials, Discussing what kind of medicinal material it is and what medicinal properties it has, it is somewhat similar to what Xu Qingluo saw in the imperial hospital.

Even ignoring her was a bit like it.

Xu Qingluo entered the hall contentedly, and walked towards the pile of medicinal herbs, his eyes became brighter and brighter, black nightshade grass, seven second lotus, agave leaf, agarose grass, these are extremely rare things that are only heard of by their names but never seen. Cherishing rare medicinal herbs made Xu Qingluo's heart a little hot, especially the six-leaf flaming grass, which was crystal clear and red like fire crystals. It didn't look like grass, but like a rare treasure.

This thing is exactly what Xu Qingluo thought of as a possible useful medicinal material when he was researching the worms that came from the extremely cold place last night.

Everything in the world is mutual-growth and mutual-inhibition. Although it is more useful to study the worms, it is also possible to find the flame grass that is suspected to be incompatible with its extreme cold toxicity under the circumstances that it cannot be seen now.

Xu Qingluo's hand couldn't help reaching out to the blazing grass.

"stop!"

Always turning a blind eye to Xu Qingluo, the Taoist priest who devoted himself to the medicinal materials shouted: "What are you doing, this red grass is an important alchemy material, you can't touch it!"

Xu Qingluo stopped her hands, turned to look at the middle-aged Taoist priest who was frowning at her, and smiled: "Red grass? I really don't know when the six-leaf flaming grass changed its name to red grass."

Compared with these half-assed Taoist priests who can't even tell the types of herbs, Xu Qingluo is an expert in herbs.

It is easier to gain a foothold here than in Tai Hospital.

The little waiter dressed as a Taoist who brought Xu Qingluo to Shoukang Palace looked at the Taoist priests in the main hall of Shoukang Palace with some astonishment, surrounded Xu Qingluo and asked one by one. She has a problem, she just feels that she is not good.

Is he going to talk kindly to Miss Xu's family later and make amends?

With the name of Shoukang Palace, wearing a Taoist robe, he is quite respected by some concubines in the palace, and even the concubines are very kind to him, but in front of the serious Taoist priests of Shoukang Palace, he is the most cautious person one of.

Just when the servant was hesitating, not knowing when would be the best time to go and make amends, a voice sounded from in front of him: "You, yes, it's you, go in and ask Aunt Xu to come out, and say that Jiu'er is looking for her!"

The little eunuch lowered his head and saw the luxurious Ninth Prince.

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"Aunt Xu, quickly find a way to help General Lang, he was punished by his father to kneel for six hours!"

The Ninth Prince's words made Xu Qingluo's face completely cold.

"what happened?"

Even though he was burning with anxiety, Xu Qingluo still had to be patient and understand the situation clearly before speaking.

Damn it, Lang Sheng's leg has an old disease, and there is a very yin and poisonous Gu worm lurking in his body, how can he bear the cold air, it is still the cold air in the palace.

There are too many dead people in the palace, it looks lighter than the chill between the ice and snow, but the most vicious thing is the air in the palace.

How many people knelt and died in the palace!

"I heard that it was a matter of the morning court. General Lang played a book about the prince's side concubine in the morning court, and other ministers followed suit." Help, he still has to take care of this matter. The Ninth Prince boasts that he is a man who knows how to repay his kindness. Let alone the relationship between Lang Sheng and Xu Qingluo. Lang Sheng watched him from the sidelines, so he couldn't turn a blind eye.

It's just that the Ninth Prince's intercession with the emperor hit a wall, and finally thought of Xu Qingluo, and the Ninth Prince, who was fascinated by Xu Qingluo, came to Xu Qingluo's side: "Aunt Xu, you must have a way to save General Lang Right? In fact, I think he is right at all. The crown prince and his side concubine are so arrogant and bad on weekdays. The ministers should impeach them. There is still evidence. How can we all blame General Lang?"

The Ninth Prince is a person who has a clear distinction between likes and dislikes. Those who love want to live and those who hate want to die, it's as simple as that. Now Xu Qingluo and Lang Sheng are close and lovely people in his heart.

Xu Qingluo looked into the clear eyes of the Ninth Prince, and felt a little soft and warm in his heart: "Yes, General Lang did the right thing."

"I won't save him."

After the Ninth Prince's wide-eyed expression of disbelief was revealed, Xu Qingluo continued the second sentence: "I will only help him in my own way."

What Lang Sheng did was what he wanted to do, how could he call for help?

Xu Qingluo patted the Ninth Prince's forehead: "I'll be there later, can you help me go over to General Lang and guard?"

The Ninth Prince nodded, and Xu Qingluo gave him a nice smile: "Good boy."

Turn around and walk towards Shoukang Palace.

She would make the emperor let Lang Sheng go willingly.

(End of this chapter)