Phoenix Fight: The First Concubine

Chapter 158

He will not be proud and complacent because of this, what should be or what should be.

On the contrary, he has to be more cautious from now on.

Xiao Mingrui also didn't rest all night and night, and he was really tired at this time, so he ignored other things for the time being, he was eager to return home, and went directly to Tianxiangyuan to find a wife.

When we arrived at Tianxiangyuan, everything seemed like yesterday, the garden was filled with the fragrance of flowers, and the scorching sun at noon seemed to become shady here.

"My lord is back!" Aunt Yue rushed over to greet her.

"The princess is exhausted, and she didn't go to sleep until dawn, and she hasn't woken up yet."

Xiao Mingrui felt a little distressed when he heard it, he walked quickly into the room, walked around the screen and saw the carved bed, the lavender gauze curtain was hanging down, and there was a summer mat in the tent, Murong Wei was sleeping peacefully with a thin quilt on her body.

As soon as Xiao Mingrui saw her, his heart calmed down, those anxious emotions settled down, looking at his wife's jade-like face, he felt mixed feelings for a moment.

Having a wife like this, what can a husband ask for?
"Wei'er, I will definitely give you the most honorable position in the world and the best of everything." He said as if swearing.

The summer heat was just about to fall asleep, Xiao Mingrui saw his wife sleeping, and he was a little tired, so he changed his clothes, went to bed and slept with his wife in his arms.

Murong Wei slept until two or three o'clock in the afternoon before waking up. As soon as she woke up, she realized that there were hands on her waist, and she was not surprised. Turning her head, she saw Xiao Mingrui's sleeping figure.

She rubbed her eyes and was relieved to see that he was safe and sound. Only then did she have the time to think about what happened from the past few days to today.

Did Xiao Mingrui know something about this in advance?
After much deliberation, I can't think of a clue.

A figure flickered outside the tent, Xiangtao came over quietly, saw Murong Wei getting up, and hurriedly asked in a low voice: "Is the princess hungry?"

Murong Wei was indeed hungry, after a busy night and sleeping for so long, it's no wonder she wasn't hungry!
She wanted to get up and get out of bed, but Xiao Mingrui was sleeping outside, fortunately the bed was quite big, so she wanted to pass by his feet.

Suddenly, someone grabbed her sleeve, Xiao Mingrui opened his eyes and looked at her, "Wei'er?"

Murong Wei lowered her head and said with a smile: "You continue to sleep for a while, I'm starving, I need to eat something first."

Xiao Mingrui said like a fool: "You let them make it for me too, don't you think I'm hungry too, my lady?"

Murong Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Alright, let's get ready, Xiangtao, hurry up and get someone ready."

Seeing this, Xiangtao hurriedly went out to ask someone to bring the meal.

Xiao Mingrui put his arms around her to prevent her from getting off the bed, Murong Wei stared at him with almond eyes, Xiao Mingrui sniffed her neck lightly, as if he could smell her fragrance, and sighed softly: "I really miss my wife."

Murong Wei snorted: "I didn't make it clear when I went out, are you trying to make me worry to death?"

Xiao Mingrui smiled wryly: "I'm not sure, at that time."

Murong Wei asked curiously: "What happened in front? Is Father okay?"

Xiao Mingrui said in a deep voice: "Father is very dangerous this time, that's why I was taken advantage of. I was transferred out of the capital by a false imperial decree. As for the eldest brother, he just wants to solve Father from the outside and control the capital from the inside. At that time, the charge of rebellion may be mine."

Murong Wei thought to herself that there might be something hidden in it that others don't know, so she just asked him again, but Xiao Mingrui refused to say it.

"Wei'er doesn't need to ask me about the outside world. If I can't even protect my own woman and you have to worry about it, then what's the point? Besides, do you really want to know these dark things?"

After hearing what he said, Murong Wei didn't ask any more questions.

Whether Emperor Jianwu was injured or what, why King Qi was so impatient to go to war, there must be many problems.

But Xiao Mingrui refused to say anything.

Murong Wei always felt that Xiao Mingrui must have been involved in this matter, anyway, it didn't look like he didn't know it from the outside.

"I don't ask how you are, but as long as you remember, no matter what, you have to come back wholeheartedly."

Murong Wei said while eating.

Hearing what he said, Xiao Mingrui saw the lobster on the plate for a moment, and said amusedly, "When did I become a lobster?"

"You are a dragon son, don't you also have a full beard and tail?" Murong Wei's eyes flashed cunningly.

Xiao Mingrui listened to her sophistry, and made fun of her with a smile.

After dinner, Murong Wei asked him if he wanted to sleep a little longer. After all, he hadn't slept for a long time. After being tired all night, Murong Wei saw that his eyes were bloodshot, and she felt very distressed.

Xiao Mingrui wanted to sleep for a while, but he had too many things to do, just for a while, Su De said that the Minister Zuo of the Ministry of Officials was here, and Xiao Mingrui had to see a guest again.

This trip was so busy that he didn't come back until the evening, and Xiao Mingrui didn't come back exhausted until the moon went up Dongshan Mountain.

Seeing him like this, Murong Wei hurriedly asked someone to prepare the bathtub, and put some herbs to relieve fatigue into it. Xiao Mingrui almost fell asleep while taking a bath.

As it was getting late, he fell into a deep sleep. Murong Wei fanned him with a fan, and the white cotton jacket she was wearing was occasionally rolled up in the breeze.

Incense was burned in the room, so mosquitoes did not invade, and the carved windows were covered with green gauze, allowing only the wind to pass through. Because of the use of ice cubes, the room was not too hot.

Murong Wei sighed in her heart, and said in her heart: You haven't become an emperor yet, and when you become an emperor, you will have a lot of things to do every day, and you don't know what's so good about it?

At this time, she thought of the ancient poem "Repent to teach your husband and son-in-law to seek a title".

Murong Wei thought that if she became a queen by then, she would probably be very busy.

But it's too early to discuss these things now, and it's hard to say what will happen in the future.

She slept through the day today, but she couldn't fall asleep at this time, so she got up and watched her children play for a while, and didn't fall asleep until late at night.

On the second day, a door was opened in the capital city, but it was only allowed to enter and not to go out. The people who enter and exit the huge capital city every day are very scary. They have to be checked. It is estimated that except for the toilet delivery person, there is no one. It's a good time to be in the limelight.

Murong Wei guessed that this was arresting people. Indeed, it was not until the third day that the capital should be arrested, and in the middle of the night on the third day, Emperor Jianwu also returned to Beijing from the border.

Not many people knew about his return to Beijing, and he summoned the ministers as soon as he returned, followed by the chief minister and other important ministers of the cabinet.

However, Emperor Jianwu did not go to the court, and the decree came down. In addition to sending money to those ministers who caused huge losses in their families because of the coup, he also had to deal with the matter.

The atmosphere in the capital these days is very strange. After Emperor Jianwu came back, although he did not go to court, he saw that King Qi's mansion was surrounded and guarded by heavy soldiers, and King Qi himself was also imprisoned. Ministers wrote letters one after another.

However, Emperor Jianwu just kept the memorial and did not release it, making it hard to guess what his attitude was.

The King of Qi did not make arrangements, but the people related to the King of Qi were very miserable. Whether it was the staff of the King of Qi or the ministers who were close to the court and China, they were all imprisoned. Check this out.

Even if you don't find out, it doesn't matter, anyway, this matter is destined to implicate many people.

The most surprising thing was King Wei, because he went to war with King Jing with King Qin at that time, so he was not involved in this incident.

But because of this matter, he also had to be temporarily placed under house arrest by Prince Jing.

Although not very optimistic, it is better than King Qi.

But although he was fine, his father-in-law's family was implicated. Who made this matter inextricably linked to them?

Many of the rebels hiding in the city were dead soldiers recruited by King Qi, rather than the army. These people were in charge of King Qi's confidantes, and these were the main forces attacking the mansions.

And the rebellion outside the city is definitely related to King Qi and King Wei's father-in-law's family, and Commander He is also related to King Qi, and the other party and King Wei's concubine are cousins, this matter is unclear up.

Countless ministers were sacked because of this incident, and the bloody government made the whole city tremble.

But Murong Wei didn't care too much. She had asked people to go home to visit her before. Fortunately, although the Murong Mansion suffered a lot this time, several servants were injured or injured, and many houses were destroyed. At last, the family was fine. .

But the old lady was shocked because of this incident, she was sick, Murong Wei went back specially, and saw that many houses were destroyed in the Murong Mansion, such a situation made people feel very sighed, did not expect such a thing to happen.

The old lady was ill, Murong Wei had a conversation with her, and she was sleepy again.

But the old man also didn't go to court because he was sick, so he specially asked Murong Wei to talk.

"I just asked you to bring a message to Luo Wang. Now you should be more careful in everything. Don't be innocently involved in this matter, but it is not beautiful."

Murong Wei nodded, she was also afraid that if Emperor Jianwu got angry, he would reprimand his sons regardless of good and bad, and Xiao Mingrui would be implicated innocently at that time.

So recently Xiao Mingrui wasn't at home at all, he was all busy with the court affairs, and then he went to the palace to serve the sick. Apart from him, the king of Chu, and his younger son, Emperor Jianwu didn't want to see the clan, even the concubine.

This is the time to show filial piety, but who knows if the old man will lose his temper?
"Yes, I will bring the words of grandfather to the prince, and the prince also deeply agrees."

The old man sighed: "The situation is really not good now, although... But the Sacred Heart is unpredictable."

Murong Wei nodded: "The granddaughter knows."

The old man nodded: "Since that's the case, you don't want to come home these days. It's better to stay at home and not go out, so as not to worry others."

Xiao Mingrui had some thoughts in her heart, when she came out of Murong Mansion, she ordered Xiang Tao to make all the people in the mansion shut their mouths and not to talk about what happened that day indiscriminately.

Xiangtao was a little puzzled: "Why is this, Wangfei... this servant thinks that the prince has a good chance to come on board..."

Murong Wei quickly covered her mouth and scolded: "Is it possible to say this?"

Xiangtao was taken aback, and Murong Wei said with a serious expression: "I tell you, everyone should be tighter to me recently, just look at it now, the Sacred Heart is unpredictable, disaster comes from the mouth, just in case a word Annoyed... Then we will all be unlucky!"

Xiangtao was a little startled, feeling her neck was chilly.

At this time, the feverish mind also cooled down.

"Your servant understands." She whispered, "I will not cause you any trouble."

Murong Wei had just returned home when she heard something not very good.

Su De wiped his sweat nervously: "Long live Lord is angry, and punished the master to kneel in the Qianqing Palace."

Murong Wei was taken aback, looked at the sun above her head, it was almost ten o'clock, and the sun was hot, kneeling on the sun, wouldn't it be heatstroke?

"Because of what?"

Su De shook his head: "No one knows, but at that time it was the Lord Long Live who was talking to the Eighth Prince, and the Eighth Prince was reading to the Lord Long Live, and the Lord went in to serve the sick, but he didn't know what he said, so the Emperor was furious and kicked the Lord out to punish him by kneeling. .”

Su De looked at the sun above his head: "How about this hot day?"

Murong Wei couldn't help it for a while, it was impossible for her to enter the palace, this incident was obviously caused by Emperor Jianwu losing his temper, whether it was to show his majesty as an emperor or something, Xiao Mingrui had to bear this crime.

Murong Wei said with a sullen face: "Call the carriage to the palace immediately, prepare the doctor and the medicinal soup for summer heat, and see if you can find a way to bring the prince back as soon as possible."

She hoped that Xiao Mingrui would "faint" as soon as possible, but in this case, it is obviously not acceptable to pretend to be fainted, and it would be even worse if the imperial physician saw it through.

At this time, Murong Wei had no other choice.

After all, the so-called father and father, what is it if you are punished to kneel?
As a daughter-in-law of hers, there is no way to get involved in political affairs, and I am afraid that it will still annoy Emperor Jianwu even more.

Su De hurriedly bowed to the sky, "God, why don't you rush to the cloudy sky!"

Murong Wei smiled wryly, she looked up at the blue sky, it looked cloudless, it really didn't look like it could be cloudy.

Su De hurried out of the Luo Palace, and asked someone to take the doctor with him, and waited outside the palace gate together.

Su De was an eunuch, so it was not difficult to enter the palace, but at this time, he didn't dare to approach Qianqing Palace casually, so he called the eunuch he knew well in the palace to see the situation.

The sun was shining, and Xiao Mingrui was wearing a blue Baohe Panlong crown suit. Although the material had been made into a summer shirt as much as possible, there were three pieces inside and three pieces outside. Kneeling, but the sun is hot and sweating profusely.

Although Xiao Mingrui is also wearing a summer sachet, under the sun, anything like a summer pearl is a joke, unless he is now wearing an umbrella over his head.

Xiao Mingrui knelt straight, although sweat was already breaking out on his forehead, he didn't move, he just knelt outside silently.

The guards at the gate of the Nuan Pavilion looked at each other, and the eunuchs and maids also made eye contact.

Making the son kneel like this is not only a possibility of heat stroke, but also embarrassing.

And Xiao Mingrui still had a calm expression, neither feeling depressed nor indignant.

He half closed his eyes, but he was thinking about the past in his mind.

There was nothing to do today, he went to Xinuange to report some recent political affairs to Emperor Jianwu.

Emperor Jianwu's complexion was still a little gray, as if he was injured, he was half leaning on the couch, and beside him was a seven or eight-year-old little prince with red lips and white teeth, who was the Eighth Prince Meiji.

Before Xiao Mingrui came in, Emperor Jianwu was listening to the reading of his youngest son, the eighth prince. The eighth prince was also very intelligent since he was a child. My son, I often call him to teach him to read.

"You went to see your elder brother yesterday, what did he say?" Emperor Jianwu asked with half-closed eyes.

"Eldest brother hasn't eaten since he returned to Beijing. He said he pleaded guilty to his father..."

Xiao Mingrui didn't hide these things, and he didn't need to deliberately slander King Qi in front of Emperor Jianwu. This was not because of his kindness, but because he knew what Emperor Jianwu wanted.

Sure enough, Emperor Jianwu's expression turned cold, of course it was not for Xiao Mingrui.

"He wants to go on a hunger strike, why does he still want to threaten me?"

"My son didn't think that elder brother meant that, he just felt guilty. However, my son dared to ask father to spare my brother's life!"

After finishing speaking, he seriously kowtowed to the ground.

Emperor Jianwu said angrily: "You want to intercede for that rebellious son? Ah, tell me, a rebellious son like him who has no king and no father wants to kill his father and stand on his own feet, kill his brothers and brothers. Such a rebellious son should be terminated with a sword." he!"

Xiao Mingrui thought to himself, if he wanted to kill him, he would have killed him at the border, why did he come to the capital, but he was still reluctant, or didn't want to be charged with killing his son.

He is clear that Emperor Jianwu may have a father-son relationship on the one hand, and on the other hand he does not want to taint himself, that's why King Qi is fine.

It is estimated that King Qi also knew that he would not die, and now he just wanted to arouse the affection between father and son.

Xiao Mingrui is aware of all this, but he has his own ideas, so he just looks on coldly.

So seeing that Emperor Jianwu was angry about this matter, he didn't follow up with accusing King Qi.

After all, they are brothers, and Emperor Jianwu is the father. A father can scold his son, but he can't scold his brother when he is a younger brother.

"Father!" He took a step forward and said loudly: "I know that elder brother has done something wrong, but no matter what, he is your son! Father, is there anyone closer than father and son in this world? My life was bestowed by my father, my father can take it back, but I ask my father to spare my elder brother's life out of the love between father and son, I think he is just obsessed with ghosts, not intentionally doing this."

Emperor Jianwu opened his eyes and scolded: "It's not intentional, how can it be called intentional? I almost died, and this is not intentional? Father and son, does he have my father in his eyes?"

Emperor Jianwu scolded his head and face for a long time, and the Eighth Prince knelt aside in fright.

When he had finished scolding, he glanced coldly at his two sons, snorted, then closed his eyes and concentrated, no one knew what he was thinking.

After a while, Emperor Jianwu said, "Meiji, you don't need to kneel when you get up, this matter has nothing to do with you."

The Eighth Prince looked at Xiao Mingrui, and said in a low voice: "Father, is Second Brother getting up too?"

Emperor Jianwu glared at him, "If he wants to intercede with that rebellious son, let him kneel down. Didn't he let you read just now? Where did you get to? Keep reading!"

Xiao Mingrui said softly: "I just ask father to remember the love between father and son, even sending elder brother to guard the mausoleum, it's better than taking his life. I don't want father's reputation to be a burden for son."

Emperor Jianwu glared at him: "Just kneel down for me!"

After finishing speaking, he scolded the Eighth Prince and asked him to study.

The Eighth Prince got up in a panic, and flipped through the book he was looking for just now. He rarely saw his father angry, his little face was pale with fright. page, read it.

"In the beginning, Zheng Wugong married Shen, named Wujiang, and gave birth to Zhuanggong and Gongshuduan. Zhuanggong Wusheng surprised the Jiang family, so he was named Wusheng, so he hated him. He loved Gongshuduan and wanted to establish him..."

After reading a paragraph, the Eighth Prince hurriedly said: "I read it wrong, my minister read it before..."

Emperor Jianwu's expression changed slightly, he raised his eyes to look at the Eighth Prince, and Xiao Mingrui, who was kneeling on the ground, also shuddered.

Emperor Jianwu said coldly: "Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan? Read on."

The eighth prince seemed to be in a panic: "Father, son, son..."

"I let you continue!"

The Eighth Prince was startled, and hurriedly continued reading "Zuo Zhuan" that he had just read with trembling voices.

In the quiet Xinuang Pavilion for a while, only the eighth prince's immature and clear voice was reciting this famous story passed down through the ages... Zheng Boke and Duan Yuyan.

The gentleman said: "Ying Kao Shu, pure filial piety, loves his mother, and gives to Zhuang Gong. "Poetry" says: "There is no shortage of filial sons, and Yongxier is like that." Does this mean?"

After reading this ancient text, the Xinuang Pavilion was completely cold.

Emperor Jianwu listened in a deep voice, his expression unpredictable.

Xiao Mingrui lowered his eyes slightly, but there was a huge wave in his heart.

Why is it such a coincidence that the Eighth Prince read Zheng Boke and Duan Yuyan at this moment?

This story happened in the state of Zheng in the Spring and Autumn Period. Duke Wu of Zheng married a wife named Wu Jiang in Shen State, and she gave birth to Duke Zhuang and Uncle Duan.Zhuang Gong was born with dystocia, and Wu Jiang was frightened, so he named him "Wu Sheng", so he hated him very much.Wu Jiang favored his youngest son Gongshuduan, and wanted to make Gongshuduan his son, so he asked Wugong many times, but Wugong refused.

Later, when Duke Zhuang came to the throne, his mother, Wu Jiang, doted on her son and wanted a generous fief for her son. The city walls exceeded the standard, and the land was expanded illegally. The ministers advised Duke Zhuang to solve the problem of his younger brother as soon as possible. Kill himself, sooner or later he will perish.He intentionally indulged his younger brother's desire to expand, until Uncle Gong rested the city and prepared food and military vehicles to attack the capital. Duke Zhuang knew the date of the attack long ago, so he ordered people to attack in advance, and drove Uncle Gong to a foreign country to flee.

In a story like this, there is also the Han Emperor Liu Qi, who dealt with his younger brother and deliberately indulged him. He waited until the other party revealed that he was in collusion with the Huns, and then took him down. However, when he sent his younger brother, the other party died on the road. , that's hard to say.

Xiao Mingrui glanced at the seven or eight-year-old eighth prince, feeling cold in his heart. When he was persuading his father to let his eldest brother go and guard the mausoleum, this little prince read out such a passage. Every word punishes the heart, and the intention is extremely sinister!
This is deliberately implying that the father, he knew in advance that the king of Qi was going to rebel, but he still used Emperor Jianwu as a test product, and defeated the king of Qi with this!
Such accusations are very insidious and vicious, no matter whether they guessed it or not, but the emperor must not let Father think so.

"Many acts of unrighteousness will lead to self-death, and that traitor is like this." Emperor Jianwu said coldly: "It's not that I didn't give him a chance, but he chose to take risks."

Xiao Mingrui's heart moved, he kowtowed and said: "My minister thinks that elder brother must be deceived by villains. It is said that elder brother's counselors have different ambitions. Elder brother is good at first, but he can't stand the villain's provocation day and night."

Emperor Jianwu suddenly took "Zuo Zhuan" to read, and said indifferently: "Zheng Boke, Duan Yuyan, Mingrui, when you were reading, how did you feel about this story?"

Xiao Mingrui paused, and said: "I feel that, as it is said in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zheng Bo is unrighteous, and his younger brother is unfaithful. Zheng Bo indulged his younger brother, failed to raise his younger brother, and drove his younger brother to a foreign country. It is really not for brothers , as the king does."

"What you said is somewhat interesting... I think that without Zheng Bo's connivance, Gong Shuduan might not dare to rebel, what do you think?"

Xiao Mingrui said awe-inspiringly, "I don't know, but since my uncle Duan has been favored since childhood, he is extravagant and lustful, so I'm afraid there will be differences sooner or later."

The father and son, one lying high and the other standing kneeling, seem to be talking about "Zuo Zhuan" on the surface, but in fact, the two of them are scheming in every sentence at this moment, and if they accidentally answer the wrong word, Xiao Mingrui There is absolutely nothing good to know about yourself!

The eighth prince lowered his head and said nothing, just listening to the conversation between his father and his elder brother. Although he was precocious, he knew that today was a very dangerous day.

Emperor Jianwu sneered: "Not necessarily! The human heart is like this. Greed is not enough to swallow an elephant, and you always want more. If you don't give him a chance to lure him at the beginning, it may not be the case."

Xiao Mingrui said indifferently: "Father is also reasonable, but I still think that although Duke Zhuang drove away his younger brother, Uncle Gong is still alive and well. Although Mr. Zhuang's character is not good, he has done his duty."

Emperor Jianwu raised his eyebrows: "Do you still want to intercede with that rebellious son now? Do you want to do your best to be a brother and learn from Duke Zhuang?"

Xiao Mingrui said in a deep voice: "I don't want to be like Duke Zhuang, and my father is not Wu Jiang. Pleading for my elder brother is just a brother's righteousness, and the righteousness to my father, a monarch and my ministers. I don't want my father to fall into injustice again for my sons. among."

Emperor Jianwu sneered: "In that case, you should go outside and kneel. If you beg for mercy for that rebellious son, do you sympathize with him, or are you unable to yearn for him sincerely?"

Xiao Mingrui hurriedly said in a hoarse voice: "I have absolutely no such rebellious thoughts, please learn from my father!"

"Go out, I don't want to see anyone now!"

Emperor Jianwu waved his hand and asked Xiao Mingrui to go out and kneel with a straight face.

(End of this chapter)