Aspirations

Chapter 45 King Jing
Looking at the back of Lian Ruohan Pingting going down the stairs gracefully, Zhang Hou's face was slightly green, and he looked a bit embarrassed.He flicked his sleeves and said with a cold snort: "No matter how strange a woman is, she is just a businessman, but she still plays tricks and pretends to know people. It's really a joke!"

"Why do you say Lian's words are a joke?" Shi Er looked Zhang Hou up and down, not knowing, "I also think that Lian's words do make some sense. Compared with Xia Langjun, the second brother is indeed better."

"Where is it better?" Zhang Hou's face became even more ashen, and he was about to have a seizure.

"Just because you are going to have a seizure when you hear that you are not as good as others, you are not as good as Xia Langjun." Shi'er giggled and stuck out his tongue, "Second brother, if he is more ambitious in the future, no one will be able to match him. "

"I have a lot of heart." Zhang Hou fluttered his sleeves away, trotting like a fly, as if staying for a moment would mean humiliating his identity, "It's you, one who is trying to flatter Lianzi, and the other who is frivolous. Even the little lady is frivolous, being frivolous by Xia Langjun, she is not ashamed but proud, and I disdain to be in the company of you and others!"

Shen Bao glanced at Xia Xiang in amazement: "How could such a good party end like this?"

Xia Xiang smiled helplessly: "You ask me, I will ask who. Brother Zhang is very angry, but he is not bad. After returning to the inn, and having a few more drinks with him, he will be back to good."

"I made Xia Langjun and Shen Langjun laugh. I apologized to the two on behalf of the second brother." Shi'er bowed to Xia Xiang and Shen Baofu like a little adult, shook his head worriedly and sighed, "I don't blame him. , he has been competitive since he was a child, and he can't tolerate others being better than him by half a point.

Xia Xiang and Shen Bao looked at each other and were amused by Shi'er's pretentious words, and they laughed together.

But Man Tuo jumped out of the window, mixed into the crowd, and followed closely behind the man on horseback.Although the man on the horse tried his best to drive the horse, after all, he couldn't run fast in the busy market, so Yi Mantuo followed closely behind and did not lose track of him.

The law and order in Shangjing is good, and the people on horseback riding their horses in the busy city soon alarmed the governor of Shangjing.After following two streets, the man on the horse was stopped by the official officer of the Shangjing prefect.Facing four or five menacing officials, the man on the horse neither panicked nor dismounted, and threw a waist card.Under the inspection of the official, he stepped aside without saying a word, and immediately let him go.

If it weren't for the pedestrians all around and the officials, the flying knife in Man Tuo's hand would have already killed the person on horseback.Turning east and west, she followed the man on horseback for half an hour, and finally came to a tall mansion.

The mansion is majestic and imposing, with a white marble lion in front of the door, and several rows of horse-tethering posts. There is also a stone tablet more than one person high at the door.

The man on the horse rolled and dismounted, staggering, obviously exhausted.He threw the reins over the steward who came to greet him, and with the help of the steward, he entered the side door beside the gate.

There is a plaque with black characters on a red background above the gate, and three big characters are written on the plaque: King Jingfu.

Mantuo was stunned for a moment, why did Xie Jianhua enter King Jing's palace? Isn't he the most trusted killer of the third prince?Could it be that he betrayed the Third Prince?But no matter who he is, the revenge for killing her father is not shared by the sky, and she must take revenge for the unjust death of her father!
Although father was not killed by Xie Jianhua himself, but father's death was caused by Xie Jianhua, if not for Xie Jianhua's persecution, father would not have died in Hainan.

When Dad was banished from Beijing, he met Xie Jianhua not long after he arrived in Hainan.At that time, Xie Shihua was living on the streets, looking like a beggar, and his father took him in pitifully and made him work in the house.

Xie Jianhua stayed by his father's side for half a year. During the past six months, he remained calm, serious and low-key in his work, making it difficult for people to notice his existence.Later, my father also forgot about Xie Jianhua, until one day when he returned home, he suddenly felt unwell, so he invited a doctor for diagnosis and treatment.A prescription was prescribed, and after taking it, the condition did not improve, but the condition worsened day by day.

Seeing that the doctor was helpless and his father was getting seriously ill, Mantuo discovered the problem - it turned out that Xie Jianhua had secretly put something in his father's medicine when he was not prepared.She caught Xie Jianhua herself when Xie Jianhua was poisoning again. Xie Jianhua did not hide it, and generously admitted that his father's illness was also caused by the chronic poison he gave. Healing requires the use of the Three Treasures of the South China Sea as medicine to be effective.

The three treasures of the South China Sea are tortoiseshell, huanghuali and South China Sea pearls.Using huanghuali as a medicinal pestle, grind the tortoise shell and pearls into a very fine powder, and then mix it into the medicine and take it, which may have the effect of bringing the dead back to life.

Mantuo was ill and went to the doctor in a hurry, and he acted according to Xie Jianhua's words, and sure enough, his father's condition was getting better day by day.Overjoyed, she asked Xie Jianhua again why he had secretly murdered his father. Xie Jianhua claimed that he was ordered by the third prince and had followed him all the way since he left Beijing and was ready to take his father's life.But he couldn't bear to do it a few times, because his father was a kind man and loved the people like a son. On the way, he helped the dead and the wounded, sympathized with the orphans and widows, and helped the poor and the poor. Whenever he encountered emergencies and hardships, he always gave generously, never stingy with money and manpower, and let him Impressed.

It's just that after arriving in Hainan, the third prince repeatedly urged him to take his father's life.Although Xie Jianhua respected his father very much, he could not violate the king's order. In desperation, he secretly administered chronic poison, hoping that his father would die painlessly in his sleep.The third prince wanted his father's head, but Xie Jianhua couldn't do it. He poisoned his father so that he could do business with the third prince, and he could also leave a whole body for his father.

It's just that after his father became seriously ill, Xie Jianhua regretted what he had done, so after Mantuo took him down, he didn't hide the truth and told all the facts.

Mantuo had no doubts about him, believed it to be true, and hated the Three Kings to the core.Daddy is only in the court to oppose the reform carried out by the third prince and Hou Pingpan. Political discord is a common thing in the court, and it is nothing to be demoted. To put people to death is to deceive people too much.

Although Xie Jianhua wanted to repent and tried to save his father, Man Tuo still couldn't forgive him and ordered him to commit suicide.But Xie Jianhua had a sudden attack and attacked Mantuo.Fortunately, Mantuo reacted in time and escaped Xie Jianhua's fatal blow. When he was about to fight back and kill Xie Jianhua on the spot, Xie Jianhua quickly escaped with a few leaps.

Only then did Mantuo know that Xie Jianhua was not only a master of poison, but also a master of martial arts.Although she was also puzzled, thanks to Xie Jianhua's skill, she secretly took her father's life.But she still didn't think deeply about whether Xie Jianhua's words were true or false. She wholeheartedly believed that Xie Jianhua was the killer sent by the Third Prince, and all the hatred was recorded on the Third Prince.

Father's condition had already improved, but after hearing about Xie Jianhua's incident, he was inexplicably sad and indignant. He yelled "Third Prince" three times and vomited blood three times. His condition worsened again, and then the residual poison in his body was triggered, and he fell ill and died not long after.

After the farewell in Hainan, Mantuo never saw Xie Jianhua again.When she came to Beijing this time, on the one hand, she wanted to secretly investigate the evidence that the third prince had disturbed the Chao Gang and held the government, on the other hand, she also wanted to take revenge for her father.Therefore, when Haojing often saw Xie Jianhua in Taipingju, she immediately swelled with blood and chased after him.

But he never thought that Xie Jian, who was incarnated with a heavy responsibility, actually went to King Jing's mansion.

After thinking about it, Mantuo asked for a pot of tea at a tea shop near the palace, and she could see the entrance of the palace from the window. She drank tea with peace of mind and decided to wait for the rabbit.

But he said that Xie Jianhua was helped into King Jing's mansion, passed through the front yard of rockery and flowing water, turned from the corner gate, and entered the backyard of flowers.Nine-curved corridor, green trees like forests, fragrant flowers bursting, and birds chirping.Xie Jianhua's face was as pale as paper, his footsteps were vain, and black blood was flowing from the arrow behind him, and the poison arrow was visible.

"Quick, quick, I want to see Mr. Li." Xie Jian Huaqi was like a gossamer, and tried his best to support, "I have something to tell him, can Mr. Li be in the mansion?"

The person who supported Xie Jianhua was Liu Sanjin, the housekeeper of King Jing's mansion. Liu Sanjin was about forty years old and was as thin as a wood, as if a gust of wind could blow him away like a kite.But regardless of his appearance, he was quite trusted by King Jing and King Jian in the palace, and he was the most favored among the many housekeepers of the palace.

King Jing's Mansion is the largest among the many palaces, with a population of more than a thousand people, not including the soldiers of the palace.Therefore, there is not only one butler in King Jing's mansion, there are more than a dozen butlers, big and small. Among the many butlers, Liu Sanjin's ranking is not high, and he is not obvious, but everyone in the palace knows that Liu Sanjin Jin is the prince's confidant.

The Prince Jing's mansion is talking about is, of course, King Jing.Although Xia Cunxian has been conferred the title of Jian Wang and is opening the mansion, but seeing that the Wang Mansion has not been completed, and Xia Cunxian has not yet married, even after seeing the completion of the Wang Mansion, he often lives in Jing Wang Mansion and no one says anything about him.Although it is not in accordance with the etiquette system, unless the emperor speaks, no one will dare to say that Xia Cunxian is wrong.

King Jing's mansion still calls Xia Cunxian the little prince to distinguish King Jing.

Liu Sanjin knew the weight of Xie Jianhua in King Jing's mind, and helped Xie Jianhua to go straight to the most secret room in the backyard of the palace.There are several secret places in the palace. There are secret rooms for recuperation, secret rooms for healing, and secret rooms for discussions.No matter what kind of secret room, extraordinary people can enter.

Xie Jianhua was one of the few leaders in King Jing's mansion who could directly meet King Jing or the leader of the Golden Armored Battalion.The elite army of the three kings of the Xingwang is the Xuanjia Battalion, the elite army of the King King is the Jinjia Battalion, and Xie Jianhua is one of the three leaders of the Jinjia Battalion, responsible for the assassination training of the Jinjia Battalion.

Although Liu Sanjin looked calm on the surface, he was filled with astonishment in his heart. Xie Jianhua's martial arts were as high as he had ever seen in his life. In his opinion, looking at the entire Great Xia, there are very few masters who can compete with Xie Jianhua Few, as far as he knew, Yan Hao was the only person in Shangjing who could be compared with Xie Jianhua. Today Xie Jian's incarnation was so seriously injured, who did it?
Although he was horrified and full of questions, Liu Sanjin still maintained his due demeanor, and never asked a question that shouldn't be asked.It was his prudence and caution that allowed him to win King Jing's trust and to accompany King Jing for more than ten years.It is said that accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, so why not accompany the prince?The princes of this dynasty are very different from the previous dynasty. The princes of the previous dynasty were mostly in name only. Either the fiefs were in other places, people could not stay in the capital, or the people were in the capital, only the name of the prince was noble, and he had no official position or strength.

Daxia Wangye, because the ancestors of Taizong lived in Taizong when his brother and brother were together, there were many discussions in the court. Taizong set rules to treat the descendants of Taizu's family kindly.At the time of Taizong, Taizong once named Taizu's two princes the Nine Thousand Years Old and the Eight Sages.Nine thousand years old and the Eight Sage Kings can hold the golden mace personally bestowed by Taizong and the monk Fang Baojian to the temple, and at one time the power will be overwhelming, even the prime minister will look at the wind and worship.

Fortunately, although Nine Thousand Years and Eight Wise Kings had a lot of power for a while, they were cautious and did not do whatever they wanted because they had great power.But even so, some ministers complained a lot about the high position of the prince and his interference in the affairs of the court, and wrote several times requesting that the prince should only be rich and not powerful.Not only Taizong suppressed this matter, but after Emperor Zhenzong succeeded to the throne, he also ignored all the proposals that the prince should not be involved in politics.

After the current emperor ascended the throne, it is very rare to mention abolishing the power of the princes. After three dynasties and two generations, it has become a common practice for princes to take power.

Liu Sanjin was quite dissatisfied with the power of the third prince, who was powerfully suppressing King Jing.Fortunately, the emperor was wise and made the little prince a king, which can be regarded as a suppression of the power of the third prince.The emperor has no children, Liu Sanjin believes that seeing the king is the best candidate to inherit the throne.If seeing the king becomes the emperor, King Jing will definitely be named the Supreme Emperor, and everyone in the palace will be promoted to heaven because of it.

It's just that the current situation is not very clear. King Jing has not clearly expressed his desire to fight for the throne. Seeing that Wang is still young and playful by nature, he doesn't seem to care about the throne very much. He even had a fight with the third prince a few days ago. Gao Jianyuan and Yan Hao from the mansion go to arrest Yang Di together, which is really worrying.Why don't you think about it when you see the king, the third prince is now the most powerful opponent to fight for the throne with him, and he also helped the third prince to take down Yang Di, not only helping the third prince, but also making enemies for himself. ill-advised move.

What made Liu Sanjin even more puzzled was that King Jing knew that Gao Jianyuan and Yan Hao had come to the mansion to invite the little prince to go with him to arrest Yang Ting. They had no good intentions, but they did not stop the little prince and let him go directly. What did the prince want? for?

If you don't understand, you don't understand, Liu Sanjin dare not and will not ask more questions, he believes that the prince has his own long-term plans, and he will not allow the third prince to grow up step by step, let alone let the third prince take advantage of the young prince.

Xie Jianhua was busy outside recently, and Liu Sanjin didn't know what he was doing.But you can probably guess one or two. As one of the prince's most trusted subordinates, what Xie Jianhua has done must be the big thing that the prince is planning.However... Xie Jianhua was injured so badly, doesn't it mean that the prince's plan was seriously hindered?

Liu Sanjin thought too much for a while, and his heart was up and down. Just in time for his subordinate Sun Xigan to approach him, he immediately ordered: "Sun Xigan, please quickly invite Mr. Li to come to the secret room."

Sun Xi dared to follow Liu Sanjin for many years, knowing Liu Sanjin's calm personality, seeing Liu Sanjin's expression flustered and his voice trembling a bit, knowing that it was a big deal, he hurriedly bent over to take orders: "Yes, Butler Liu. Where is Mr. Li?"

"My lord's study." Liu Sanjin just confessed in a hurry, keeping his feet, and continued to help Xie Jianhua to move forward, "Hurry up and invite Doctor Jin to come to the secret room."

"Yes!" Sun Xi dared not to be slighted, and immediately walked in the direction of the prince's study. First, he passed through a small courtyard, and then passed a pond. There was a wooden house by the pond. He pushed the door in and came out after a while. , Doctor Jin hurriedly walked towards the secret room with the medicine box on his back.

Sun Xi dared to move on, and crossed a moon gate, which was a more delicate and elegant courtyard.The small courtyard is not big, just like the courtyard in the south of the Yangtze River, with three steps, one courtyard and five steps, one scene. In addition, there are more than a dozen towering trees with a height of more than ten feet. The small courtyard is not only shady and breezy. It is also very quiet, like a paradise isolated from the world.

There is only one house facing the south in the small courtyard, which is King Jing's meditation room and study.King Jing believed in Buddhism, and when he had nothing to do, he would come to the meditation room to meditate in meditation.Important guests will also be brought here to chat.

"My lord, my lord."

Sun Xi dared to stand under the steps, but did not dare to take half a step up the steps. His voice was not too loud, not too loud, enough for the prince to hear from inside, but it would not disturb the elegance of the people inside talking.

"What's the matter?" The lord responded in a dignified and indifferent voice, "Didn't I tell you to stop bothering me when you have nothing to do?"

"Back to the lord, Xie Jian's avatar was seriously injured and was sent to the secret room by the housekeeper Liu. Xie Jianhua insisted on seeing Mr. Li." Sun Xigan was careful and concise, not long-winded, let alone making the wang ye not aware of the matter. importance.

"..." There was silence in the room for a moment, and then came the gentle voice of the prince, "Got it."

Sun Xi dared to bring it up, how the prince arranged it was the matter of the prince, he didn't ask any more questions, took a few steps back, and stood at the door of the moon.There is just a shade of trees at the door, and the wind blows through the hall, which is very refreshing.The most important thing is that, standing at the Moon Gate, if it is not deliberate, he cannot hear the words of the prince and the guests in the study, and it can also ensure that when the prince has something to order, he can hear the prince's call and respond immediately.

In the study, King Jing was sitting down with one person to play chess.

The chessboard is made of high-quality golden nanmu, and the chess pieces are all made of jade.Heizi is carved from black jade, firm and moist, pure black like ink, the whole body is pitch black, without variegated colors.Baizi is ordinary Hetian white jade, which is also warm in color, pure white and flawless.

"Something happened to Xie Jianhua, and I want to see you." King Jing was about fifty years old, his face was like a crown jade, rich and peaceful, his eyes were hidden, hidden sharpness, his eyebrows were drooping, he had a kind appearance, and his ears were big. He has wheels, a big mouth with lips, a beard under his chin, and a gray beard. He is wearing a rich silk gown with flowers and cloth boots on his feet. He sits with his legs crossed on the futon. Although he is slightly fat, he can double cross.

"Ning She is a son, you can't lose the whole situation." Mr. Li, who was sitting opposite King Jing, was covered by King Jing's broad body, and he played chess with his head down, making it difficult to see his appearance. He was about forty years old. Dressed up as a scholar, holding a white piece in his hand, he dropped a piece, "My lord, the corner is lost."

(End of this chapter)