This dynasty is really messed up

There was still more than an hour before noon, and Prince Shang rushed from his Jiangnan fief to the capital in a horse-drawn carriage.On that day, the prime minister sent someone to send a message quickly, telling him that the sage was taking care of all kinds of situations, contracted the cold, and fell into a coma in the early morning court. The first person he wanted to see after waking up recently was him, son Shang.In this way, how could he dare to slack in the slightest, and immediately rushed over without stopping.But who knows, when he arrived, he found that it was just a waste of worry, and he didn't even see the face of the Holy One.

When I arrived at the door of the emperor's bedroom, I saw that the palace door was closed tightly, and the prime minister stood in front of the door with a smile to welcome me.He wondered, did he fall into a trap?After the prime minister was directly promoted from the Taifu, he almost wiped out all relatives for the emperor.Could it be that he colluded with the emperor recently to get rid of my thorn in the side, the thorn in my flesh?

He frowned slightly, thought for a while, and finally squeezed out a smile to greet him: "The Prime Minister is here, Brother Xiangbi, he should be fine. Since the Prime Minister is taking care of you, then this king..." He turned around Pretending to leave.

"Hey, Your Highness King Shang, don't worry." The prime minister came up to him and stopped him with his hand, "The Holy One couldn't wait for His Highness, so he went to bed first. He told the minister, if Your Highness comes, he will give you a good reception." Fan, wash away the dust for you."

This prime minister was over twenty-five years old, he was originally a book boy who accompanied the prince to study, and he was the son of the palace scholar who was most valued by the late emperor.If it weren't for his scheming, how could it be possible for the third prince, whom everyone was not optimistic about, to become the current emperor, and he himself became the current prime minister.Young Master Shang has always disliked this person, if it wasn't for him, why would Brother Huang keep doing things he doesn't like.

"That's unnecessary." Seeing him take a step forward, Young Master Shang took a step back, "I have to worry about the prime minister and the emperor. The king has not been to the capital for some days, and there are still some old friends who need to visit. If your majesty wakes up If you want to see the king, please ask the prime minister to send a message to the posthouse where I usually live."

The prime minister nodded and agreed: "Then His Royal Highness King Shang, go slowly, and I won't see you off."

The sun is shining brightly and the flowers are blooming in spring. It can be said to be an auspicious day to go out and visit friends.

"Brother Lu, don't come here without any harm." Young Master Shang waved his fan and stepped into the gate of Shangshu Mansion.As soon as he entered the inner hall, he saw Lu Xinyu sitting at the table enjoying morning tea alone. "Hey, I'm eating. It's a pity that I just ate it. I don't have an appetite to try this ordinary family meal. By the way, those few good poems you wrote have spread all over the whole of Jiangnan. Would you like me to read a few words?" Let me hear it?" Without waiting for the master's permission, he sat down unceremoniously.

After hearing this, Lu Xinyu twitched the corners of his mouth in embarrassment, and put down the raised chopsticks in his hand. "It would be better if it spread only to you in Jiangnan. If everyone in the palace knew about it, then the person sitting here talking with you today would probably be just a wooden card. You don't know that the saint was caught wind and cold a few days ago. Well, the prime minister picked up his possessions and rushed to the palace without saying a word, where he ate and lived with the emperor. If the eunuchs and maidservants in the palace gossip, wouldn’t there be a bloody storm? Let’s talk , It wasn’t written by me, you gave me so much courage, I didn’t even dare to write! The poem was just passed down from the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and some good storytellers took it and named it after me. I see you leisurely It looks like, you really don't worry about the mountains and rivers laid by your ancestors being taken away by a foreigner? You know," Lu Xinyu paused and looked around, and after making sure there were no other people waiting, he leaned closer to his ear and whispered, "Everyone in the workshop It is said that the current emperor, the son inherits the father's career, indulges in male sex."

After hearing this, Young Master Shang put away his smile, and after a long silence, he slowly said, "He didn't dare."

"But... hey." Lu Xinyu embarrassed, turned his head, and didn't want to say anything more.

Young Master Shang felt bored, so he waved his fan again, and resumed his sloppy manner, "I heard that your Ministry of Punishment has recently had a **** trouble, and the other party has come and gone without a trace? .”

"That's right!" Lu Xinyu replied angrily, "Every first day of the new year, that guy will come to the prison to rob a felon, and when he leaves, he will leave a doggerel on the wall, just because of this broken poem. , I am still being teased by you guy, what are you talking about like "a real dragon is a good phoenix, the son of a dragon admires a phoenix". The above said that if I can't find out the case in time, I will be demoted three levels in a row and relegated to the Go to the barren land in the northwest, ouch, pity me, the old and the young!" Lu Xinyu was very depressed, he had worked on this matter for a long time, but he had no clue at all, thinking that if this continues, his official career will be ruined. straight down.

Hey, this thief has quite a personality, Gongzi Shang smiled.

At this time, a servant reported that a person who claimed to be Lu Xinyu's distant cousin had come from outside the house.

Lu Xinyu pondered for a while, but the family didn't say that any relatives came back.He moved his lips and was about to refuse, when suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, he remembered something, he hurriedly called the servant to let the person outside the house come in quickly.

The person who came was a handsome young man in his early twenties, with bright eyes and bright teeth, dressed in white clothes, looking like a scholar, with ink-like black hair tied high by a dark blue headband.But from his walking steps, it is not difficult to see that he is a martial arts practitioner, and his steps are steady and powerful.

Young Master Shang put away his fan, put the handle of the fan against his chin, and looked at this person carefully with great interest.How did this kid suddenly become a distant relative of the Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment?Obviously not long ago he was still an injured big disciple.Forget it, it's none of my business.However, it was quite surprising that he recovered quite quickly, and he was able to move freely in less than a month.It's a pity that my sword blade missed the position that day, and he was spared.Young Master Shang tapped his chin lightly with his fan.

Shang Xie saw that there were two people in the hall, and he didn't know which one was Lu Xinyu. As he walked in, he thought in his mind that the person sitting in the upper seat should be Lu Shangshu, so without a moment's hesitation, he went straight to Lu Xinyu, bent over Whisper in his ear.

Young Master Shang sat on the side and saw that the boy walked over to Lu Xinyu without even saying hello and whispered in his ear, and Lu Xinyu listened with a more solemn expression.Gong Zishang didn't like being left alone like this, which made him very upset, so he kept his face sullen and muffled his voice until they finished the so-called whisper.

When Lu Xinyu saw the gloomy expression on Young Master Shang's face, he cried out inwardly that he was not good, and hurriedly apologized to him.He has already offended the court, and he doesn't want to offend this surly prince again.

It was only then that Shang Xie really noticed Gongzi Shang.The man in front of him seemed to be about the same age as him, and his face was as delicate as a jade carving, with a feminine look.This person was wearing a silk dress with a white background and green borders, and his long and narrow phoenix eyes were facing him, with a smile that was not a smile.The black hair was pulled up by a delicate hair crown, and a finely crafted light green hosta passed through it.

"Who is this?" The young master pointed at Shang Xie with the handle of his fan.

"My Shang Xie is the son of Mr. Lu's distant cousin." Before Lu Xinyu could speak, Shang Xie said first.Before going down the mountain, the master told him not to reveal his identity to others at will.He came here this time because the sect was entrusted by the imperial court to assist in the investigation of the case, and the master just wanted him to go down the mountain to practice, and the second was to look for Xuanyuan Xia Yujian, because the poems left by the thief Yin Shang in the Treasure Pavilion and the poems left by the thieves in the capital The poems and handwriting are the same, so there must be some connection between the two.

"Yes, yes, he is my nephew. He just came to the capital and doesn't understand anything. I hope you will forgive me. Nephew, this is His Highness King Shang, the younger brother of the current emperor." Lu Xinyu immediately echoed for the two of them. After making an introduction, I felt relieved to let go.

"Oh, I just arrived in the capital, so I haven't seen a lot of things. Brother Lu, don't you still have a case to deal with? Why don't you let me take your nephew to the capital for you? , to show the friendship of the landlord." Young Master Shang unfolded the fan in his hand, smiling.How could his son, Shang, believe this improvised lie?He wanted to see how the two of them acted.

"That's fine." Shang Xie replied, "It's really a great honor for Shang to be led by a nobleman as big as the prince. I'm here for the first time. If I'm disrespectful, please forgive me." He smiled politely.

"Where is it, this king is also flustered recently." Young Master Shang waved the fan in his hand, hmph, I want to see what kind of plans you have in mind.

Lu Xinyu sat at the side in a daze, Zhang Er couldn't figure it out, he didn't know whether Shang Xie's coming was a blessing or a curse.

Young Master Shang thinks that he has deep inner strength, so walking in this big city under the sun without a single drop of water is naturally not a problem.But Shang Xie next to him is not necessarily so.Young Master Shang took a sneak peek at him, and his heart immediately blossomed with joy, his handsome little face turned pale immediately after he was tossing around aimlessly in the city.

The weather had just warmed up, but the upper shoes were still wearing thick cotton padded clothes, sweat slipped over the newly scabbed wound, and bursts of stinging pain penetrated into his bones.Shang Xie raised his hand to wipe off the fine sweat on his forehead, gritted his teeth and continued to hang out with him, pretending to be nothing, patiently listening to him introduce the streets of the capital.

Suddenly, in a daze, he saw a thin figure in the crowd in front of him, immediately threw off the young master Shang who was enthusiastically introducing the capital, and rushed into the crowd.Seeing someone looking at him and running up, the man had a ghost in his heart, so he immediately threw away the things he bought and ran away in a panic.Shang Xie pursued him closely and identified him.

"Say! Who released you!" Shang Xie asked sharply as he pushed the man back against the tree trunk.

After chasing him all the way, he was taken to the outskirts of the city by men.Taking advantage of the man mistakenly thinking that he was not chasing him, he squatted by the stream to drink water, and took him down in one fell swoop.

This man's real name is Zhao Dazhuang, and he used to make a living by slaughtering, but one day after he saw his wife committing adultery with a man at home, the butcher's knife immediately became a wife-killing knife, and he carried a life on his back. The wife's bloody knife sneaked into the husband's house and killed all four members of his family.It was originally captured and brought to justice, and held in a large prison in the city, waiting to be executed after the fall, but was released on the first day of this month.Shang Xie had gone to the Ministry of Criminal Justice before, and carefully looked at the portraits of every released prisoner. With his photographic memory, he could easily identify Zhao Dazhuang.

"Let go of me first, and then I'll recruit." Zhao Dazhuang howled like a pig being killed.However, his parents should have given him the wrong name, and his name and name are extremely inconsistent.His body is as thin as a monkey, not strong, and he looks timid and fearful.

Shang Xie, who had not experienced much sinister heart, naturally believed his words and let go of his hand.

Zhao Dazhuang staggered and fell down on the river beach, and there happened to be a big stone beside him. He was born to butcher pigs for a living, so he lifted the stone without any effort, and threw it hard at Shang Xie's chest. On his left chest, the sword wound on his chest split open immediately, and a large amount of blood stained his white clothes red.