Poor monks do not break the precepts

Ji's family is not as good as it used to be, but there is absolutely no lunatic who dares to come to Ji's house to make trouble, this is the first time such a thing has happened.

Surrounded for no reason and invited out like a prisoner, Mr. Ji was very annoyed. He rushed straight from the backyard to the front yard. Seeing Meng Yinghuan standing in the yard on crutches, he almost tried to teach him a lesson, so he directly abolished the other Obtrusive legs.

Ji Sushan was indifferent, waving his fan to enjoy the cool air from time to time, with a deep smile on his lips, but there was a slight chill in his eyes, "Your Majesty the Fourth Highness led the troops here, may I ask why?"

"I respect the will of my father and emperor, and I want to arrest this thief." Meng Yinghuan pointed out the last Xu Sheng, and with a wave of his hand, the soldiers beside him quickly stepped forward and surrounded Xu Sheng, and two of them were even bolder. Take hand and foot shackles to his eyes.

Compared to the flustered expressions of the rest of the Ji Zhai, the last two people who came out were very calm after listening, as if they had known it a long time ago and were mentally prepared.Normally, Huai Mingmo, who was nervous about things, actually turned around and whispered comfort to Bai Zhaorong who looked worried.Looking at Xu Sheng, as if it had nothing to do with him at this moment, he flicked the iron chain with his fingers so cheaply.

"Thief? The grass people don't understand what His Highness Fourth Highness said." Xu Sheng neither resisted nor the people surrounding him stepped forward.

Meng Yinghuan saw him pretending, laughed and said: "Mr. Xu and the third brother framed the crown prince, murdered my second brother, and assassinated the father again and again. Now that the matter has been exposed, sir is very calm."

Wanting to accuse him, swearing is useless here, Xu Sheng folded his arms and stood in front of people watching, his gaze stayed on Meng Yinghuan for a long time, making people hairy all over.Xu Sheng's face was indifferent, but his heart was beating a bit, because Meng Yinghuan acted too naturally, as if this matter had nothing to do with him, which is really a skill.

After confronting people for a while, Xu Sheng glanced at those iron chains, and the corners of his lips curled up in disdain, "Your Highness, is this taking me to confront the imperial court? I'll go with you, don't bring these things out to embarrass yourself, Break it as soon as you break it."

Meng Yinghuan clenched the hilt of the sword tightly, looked at Xu Sheng suspiciously, knowing that these things could not trap him, he waved for him to retreat after a while, made a gesture of asking, and escorted him to the palace himself.

Along the way, the two stayed in the carriage without talking to each other, and occasionally looked at each other, but neither of them spoke to ridicule or abuse. Everyone knew that a storm was coming, so they didn't waste much saliva.

Obviously the road ahead is dangerous, but Xu Sheng lifted the curtain of the car very freely to enjoy the night view.The opening of the car window is very small, even if you have a bone shrinking skill, you have to spend a lot of effort to escape.Therefore, Meng Yinghuan didn't bother to care about Xusheng, and let him look out the window, while he closed his eyes and rested his mind, the corners of his mouth were full of confidence, as if he had been convicted.

The carriage was not moving fast, and the majestic palace looked more and more lifeless under the darkness of night.

The car drove to Chonghua Gate and gradually stopped, and in a blink of an eye, there were three circles inside and three circles outside of soldiers. Candles were brightly lit on the palace wall, bows and arrows glowed with cold light, and rows of soldiers were facing Xu Sheng.

Meng Yinghuan slowly climbed out of the carriage on crutches, and said with a sneer, "Mr. Xu, please."

The corners of Xu Sheng's lips raised slightly, he involuntarily pulled the ring crossbow, nodded slightly, without any resistance, and walked slowly towards the Golden Luan Hall.

There were quite a few people standing in the hall, almost all the children of the Meng family were present, only a few old princes who were uncomfortable and unable to get out of bed were absent.And in this bright as day hall, the most conspicuous thing is the Third Prince kneeling in the hall.Emperor Meng sat on the dragon chair with a tired face, and his eyes were cloudy, showing his age.

Meng Yinghuan followed behind into the main hall, seeing Xu Sheng standing still and not kneeling, he said sharply: "Mr. Xu is so bold, he still doesn't kneel in front of the emperor."

"Long live the emperor, Jin'an." After Xu Sheng knelt down, he quietly glanced at Meng Qingrun beside him.

Meng Qingrun also turned his eyes back, and continued to lie low on the ground, not defending himself.

On the other hand, Meng Xiuran who was beside him was very anxious. Seeing that the third brother was silent, he was the first to jump up and said, "Father, there may be a misunderstanding in this matter, and I hope Father will investigate strictly."

Meng Yinghuan slammed his crutches on the bricks, snorting coldly: "The sixth brother and the third brother are friends, everyone knows that."

"Fourth brother, speak according to your conscience." Meng Xiuran's face flushed slightly, and he restrained his temper in front of Emperor Meng, and said sharply: "Father's assassination was first suspected by Tai...Meng Shu, and then rumored to be Second brother, it was you a while ago, this time it is third brother. Shouldn’t we check it out? What should I do if I made a mistake this time? If it spreads outside, it will damage the reputation of my father.”

"Outside the palace? Sixth brother, tell me, who is spreading the word?" Meng Yinghuan supported his crutches with both hands, and said provocatively: "Today, there are only a few relatives here, who dares to spread the word, could it be you, the sixth brother?"

The fifth prince, Prince Pingjun, has a simple and honest temperament, his mother and concubine are not very favored beauties, and he himself is not in power, so he is particularly shy when doing things.

Just now when Meng Yinghuan pressed the question, King Ping hurriedly dismissed it: "Who dares to spread the word, anyway, I dare not."

"Okay! All of you are thinking that I don't know? Shut up." After Meng Di was furious, he panted heavily, and looked down with a serious expression, "Old man, what are you talking about?" .”

Meng Qingrun lowered her head, her forehead resting on the cold stone floor, her mind became clearer, and she said in a loud voice: "I'm telling my father, I don't know, and I never murdered my father, let alone my brother. In fact, I also want to know, who said that I sent someone to assassinate my father, I hope my father will learn from me, and I will return my innocence."

The words were sincere, sonorous and forceful, without any panic or fear, and Meng Qingrun's pain at being wronged could be heard more.

There was a sudden silence in the hall. The old princes sitting beside him all came with Emperor Meng. They knew Emperor Meng's temperament very well, so naturally no one would make trouble for himself.On the contrary, some of the younger generation whispered a few words, but Emperor Meng glanced at them sharply, and quickly lowered their heads in fright.

Emperor Meng was not in a hurry to ask Meng Yinghuan to bring witnesses, he looked down at his dragon chair, touched the armrests on both sides, raised his eyes to rest on Xu Sheng, and said slowly and majestically, "Where is Mr. Xu?"

Xu Sheng knelt gracefully, bowed his voice a little, and spoke in awe: "If you go back to the emperor, Cao Min really doesn't know why Fourth Highness arrested Cao Min and entered the palace."

The pair of Xusheng eyes that were squeezed from above moved a little, but it was barely visible, there was no wave on Meng Di's face, his jaw was slightly raised, his pupils were down, and he sat in the dragon chair without moving.There was a frightening and dangerous aura in Emperor Meng's eyes, like an eagle staring at its prey, or like a poisonous snake planning to attack its prey.

But not long after, Emperor Meng's eyes gradually moved away, paused on Meng Yinghuan's face, and then returned to Meng Qingrun.

"Third brother, then who do you think is going to frame your eldest brother and kill your second brother?" After Emperor Meng finished speaking, Hei Mou had already wandered around the hall.

Meng Qingrun said earnestly: "I don't know, I beg my father to investigate clearly and return my innocence."

Emperor Meng smiled softly, Xuanmei asked: "What about him?"

Even if he didn't say it clearly, Meng Qingrun knew who he was talking about, and said without hesitation: "The fourth brother said that my son colluded with Mr. Xu, and murdered the father and the emperor to frame his brothers. My son has never done so, so how can Mr. Xu collude? If so, as long as the truth is found out, the rumors will be self-defeating."

Meng Yinghuan was impatient and couldn't hold back, secretly seeing that Emperor Meng seemed to be protecting him, he quickly said: "Father, my son has brought the testimonials, and I can interrogate him at any time."

As soon as these words came out, Emperor Meng glanced at Meng Yinghuan meaningfully, and waved his hand indifferently, "Come on, successor."

I don't know where Meng Yinghuan found a group of people, Wu Lala knelt behind him, Xu Sheng leaned in front of him and couldn't turn his head, otherwise he really wanted to take a good look at the faces of these people who were talking nonsense.

It's a pity that these people don't seem to be well dressed, and the more they talk, the more confused they are, full of mistakes and omissions.

Meng Yinghuan frowned and looked at the group of people, and suddenly felt suspicion and disappointment in the gaze cast by the dragon chair, mixed with other emotions.

The court seemed to be noisy at Caishikou for a long time, Meng Diwu smashed the jade string on his wrist forward, the beads fell to the ground, a few broken beads cut the string, and the beads rolled everywhere.Seeing this, Meng Yinghuan ignored the fragments of jade on the ground and knelt down in fright.The hall fell silent for a moment, and even the old princes who were sitting on their seats were helped up one after another, and immediately knelt down, not daring to breathe heavily.

"What's going on?" Emperor Meng's voice was already bone-chillingly cold.

Don't say that Emperor Meng couldn't figure it out. There was no one who understood it. Whether it was Meng Yinghuan who poured dirty water on it or Meng Qingrun who really did it, it shouldn't be the current situation. A large group of people chattered a lot of nonsense for a long time Instead, it seemed to be exonerating Meng Qingrun.

Meng Yinghuan looked at Xu Sheng with resentment, saw the resolute smile on the corner of his lips, and said angrily: "It's you, you bought them."

It is the end of the twelfth lunar month now, and the sky is freezing cold. Even if you kneel on the bluestone brick floor in thick clothes for a long time, the biting cold will slowly seep in. After a long time, your knees will become unbearably cold.How could the nobles of these days have suffered this kind of crime, trembling and struggling, only Xu Sheng straightened his back, and looked sideways at Meng Yinghuan after hearing the words.

"Your Highness, the grassroots don't even know what happened before His Highness besieged Ji Zhai? How can they predict the foresight and bribe the people His Highness found?"

Meng Xiuran boldly interjected: "Don't say that Mr. Xu didn't know, even I only found out after entering the palace. Fourth brother, don't blame others when something goes wrong. Is it because you can't wrong Mr. Xu and ask others to frame you?" Is it? As a younger brother, I would like to ask, did the third brother and Mr. Xu frame Meng Shuren? Did they slander the second brother? Did they send someone to assassinate the father?"

In such an atmosphere, Meng Yinghuan did not expect that someone would dare to stand up, trembling with anger, he turned around and said, "Sixth Brother, you can make this clear, why should I wrong Third Brother?"

"Why are you being wronged, fourth brother doesn't know?" Meng Xiuran pointed out.

"you……"

Every dynasty and every generation can't avoid the topic of seizing the heir. Emperor Meng came here in this way, and he himself knows the twists and turns.Therefore, as long as the son's insidious methods did not harm anyone's life, he could sit on the dragon chair and watch the tigers fight across the mountain. Emperor Meng always turned a blind eye to those confrontations between you and me.It's just that Emperor Meng didn't expect that so many things would happen later, and it became difficult to control after Meng Guangheng's death.

Arguing endlessly in front of outsiders, losing the face of the Tian family, Emperor Meng's eyes were fixed on his son who was talking endlessly.These suspicious eyes slowly swept over each of his sons, full of distrust.

After a long silence, Emperor Meng said in a slow and majestic voice, "Don't you two feel ashamed enough?"

A moment ago they were still questioning each other, but Meng Qingrun and Meng Yinghuan said in unison: "I dare not."

"I haven't collapsed yet! I don't care about everyone." Emperor Meng said more and more calmly.

"I don't dare." "My son dare not." The voices in the hall came one after another, and they were so timid that they were almost peeing. As for the brave ones, they were already sweating profusely.

A gust of cold wind rushed into the palace, I don't know if it was cold or scared, all the royal family and nobles were shaking like a sieve.Xu Sheng glanced around a few times from the corner of his eye, and finally stopped on the face of Meng Qingrun who was looking at him together. After a moment of eye contact, the two suddenly smiled inscrutablely, as if they had a tacit understanding of something unknown .

But when Emperor Meng's eyes drifted back to the two of them, nothing seemed to have happened. The figures of the two were a little depressed, as if they had endured grievances and let them go, looking pitiful.

Emperor Meng did not rule out his doubts about Meng Qingrun, but now he is more suspicious of his other sons. After all, if Meng Qingrun and Meng Yinghuan are taken away, there will be many people who will benefit.

The more he thought about it, the more complicated it became, Emperor Meng couldn't help staring at Xu Sheng, since today's incident is already a joke, those who read the joke should not stay.

Before Emperor Meng could open his mouth, the eunuch, Mrs. Hou Gongwei's confidant, rushed over suddenly and rushed into the palace in a hurry.

"Bold! Who let you in without summoning?"

The confidant eunuch knelt down and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty invites you to go."

Having shared the same bed for many years, Mrs. Wei's temperament, as the person next to the pillow, Meng Di knew very well that if it wasn't for the big event of the collapse of the sky, he would never invite him to go at this time.After deliberating over and over again, Emperor Meng slowly stood up and walked away, leaving the hall full of kneeling people.None of these people dared to get up at this time without the words of Emperor Meng, so they had to continue kneeling, and this kneeling lasted for half an hour.

The eunuch who came from the harem had a very bad complexion. When he arrived in the hall, he managed to calm down and speak slowly.

Looking at the old men and brothers who had been pardoned in the distance, Prince Ping was a little restless, paced back and forth in the hall, and said fidgetily, "Why did the emperor keep us here? Do you still doubt us? "

Meng Yinghuan never looked down on the fifth younger brother, and detested and sneered: "Just wait, what are you afraid of? Did you do something shameful?"

"Fourth brother! The conscience of heaven and earth, you can't talk nonsense." After being frightened all night, Meng Xuchun's nerves were very tense. Right, I can swear to God that I have not done anything unfilial or unkind."

Meng Xiuran snorted and said, "You are not afraid of being crooked when you are upright, fifth brother, please be safe and don't be impatient. Whoever framed brother and murdered father will always be revealed."

Meng Yinghuan slapped the pillar with glaring eyes and said, "Sixth brother, speak clearly, do you suspect me? It's obvious that the third brother conspired with Xu Sheng, and you are still talking nonsense when you open your eyes."

Xu Sheng looked at everything in front of him coldly, and never said a word. Not long after, Aunt Qiu Xi, who was beside Mrs. Wei, came to invite him away.It's just that Qiuxi didn't bring him to Emperor Meng or Mrs. Wei, but sent him out of the palace safely.

"Are you okay?" Huai Mingmo was no longer indifferent as before, trotted forward and hugged Xu Sheng.

Xu Sheng looked up at the towering palace wall in the night, laughed suddenly, then pulled Huai Mingmo up, the two people clasped their fingers tightly in the darkness, Xu Sheng said after a while: "It's about to end, let's go."

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