Poor monks do not break the precepts

He was bumped by a carriage two hours ago, and now he is coming back again. Xu Sheng's complexion is really bad. Since his internal energy dissipated, his body seems to be not as good as before. Medicine, more and more nausea.When waiting to get off the carriage, his complexion was so pale that he looked like a person suffering from a serious illness, which directly frightened Princess Liang to ask for a doctor.

Holding a cold handkerchief to his head, the cold aura around his body was daunting, only Huai Mingmo sat beside Xu Sheng without fear, listening to Xu Sheng's monk's complaints like chanting sutras.

Nian Baohan sat opposite Xu Sheng and said with concern: "Why don't you invite a doctor to come and have a look?"

Xu Sheng took off the veil, smiled lightly and waved his hands, "No need, it will be fine in a while, Wangfei don't have to worry."

Nian Baohan saw that Xu Sheng insisted, so he didn't force it, turned his head to the maid beside him and said: "Fu Lu, go to the front yard to have a look, has the lord come back?"

There are always those people who are born with a majesty that is frightening. When they speak, they have the illusion that they cannot be refuted. When they are silent, they just stare at those black eyes, and the people who are stared at will feel a sense of oppression. Sensation makes people feel uncomfortable all over, and it is difficult to sit or sit.

"As for the prince, the lord was in trouble all day after he came back, so at noon in the palace, he learned that Mr. Xu had entered the capital, and a message came from the inner palace to invite you here." Nian Baohan's hairs stood on end, Turning his head to avoid staring at Xu Sheng, reluctantly laughing with him.

Not long after Fulu went out, she quickly turned back, followed by a few people who hadn't had time to take off their court clothes.Among them, Meng Qingrun was the one walking in the front. His face was as black as charcoal. He walked shoulder to shoulder with Meng Xiuran, distanced himself from the people behind him, and exchanged words with each other.

When Nian Baohan saw the two people walking behind, they were indeed husband and wife. There was a little dissatisfaction between his brows, but it was fleeting. He smiled and went out of the house, and said with a coquettish smile: "Second brother and fourth brother came together, why did the prince inform you?" Sound. This is good, the small kitchen has only made some light home-cooked dishes, and it’s a shame to take them out.”

Meng Yinghuan smiled warmly, and walked to the front in two steps, "Did the third sister-in-law turn a corner and scold us for trouble? My second brother and I heard that Mr. Xu was coming, and we have heard of his name for a long time, so we have the cheek to follow. Sister-in-law, don't trouble, We don’t stick to what we eat, and home-cooked food has its own flavor.”

Having said that, there was no excuse to chase people away, so Meng Qingrun had no choice but to invite people into the front hall and keep them for dinner, and one can imagine how difficult this meal was.

Fortunately, Meng Guangheng and Meng Yinghuan didn't talk much on the stage, and when they occasionally uttered a few words, they were all rejected by Meng Xiuran. Seeing that they had no chance to taunt, they simply looked at Xu Sheng viciously, wishing they could Eat it alive.

Not long after the dinner, gunpowder began to rise, and the first to break the peace was the duplicitous Meng Guangheng. He sneered, "Mr. Xu really has both sides. Not long after he came out of the palace, he plunged into Prince Liang's mansion. I don't know Mr. Xu When you are free, come to my house and let me see Mr.'s ability."

Xu Sheng approached Meng Guangheng coldly, and said out of shame: "Since King Jin knows that I am busy, how can I have time to visit?"

In private, Meng Guangheng has a violent temper. He directly smashed the tea bowl, slapped the table and got up, and said coldly, "I think you are tired of work."

Everyone knows Meng Guangheng's vindictive nature, and he couldn't help but sweat for Xu Sheng, but seeing that he was not timid at all, he looked at Meng Guangheng with a sarcasm, and said slowly: "Prince Jin can tell the emperor that I am in the palace. Wait. Speaking of which, I am also curious as to whose head will fall first."

With Xiaoshi tea in his mouth, Meng Yinghuan looked at Xu Sheng in amazement. He had never seen Xu Sheng's face before, so he didn't know his temper. When he first met him today, he knew that he was a fearless person. Thinking of his previous actions, his palms couldn't help Qin broke out in a cold sweat.

Meng Guangheng had never met such a person before, his face turned purple with anger, and he said through gnash teeth, "Do you still dare to kill the prince?"

Xu Sheng patted Huai Mingmo's restraining hand away, and raised his eyebrows provocatively, "I also want to know, how about King Jin try?"

"Presumptuous!" Meng Guangheng slapped the table angrily, but Xu Sheng wasn't as scared as he imagined, instead his smile grew deeper.

The incident happened so suddenly that Meng Xiuran and Meng Qingrun didn't have time to react at all. It was beyond control when they came back to their senses. After all, Meng Guangheng was the most favored prince.Normally, they would not dare to offend Xu Sheng directly, let alone such a threat as Xue Xusheng, but while being shocked, even Meng Yinghuan admired Xu Sheng, even if he was too bold to describe Xu Sheng, he felt it was a kind of belittle.

Xu Sheng twisted his wrist, slowly raised his lowered eyes to look directly at Meng Guangheng's angry eyes, sneered at the corner of his mouth, killing intent suddenly appeared in his eyes, and said leisurely: "I don't like to cause trouble, and I hate trouble. Come here. Meng Guangheng, do you want to take a gamble that you won't survive three days?"

When he heard his name being called, Meng Guangheng stumbled and took half a step back, he clenched his trembling teeth, obviously he didn't believe Xu Sheng's words, but the cold air all over his body made him afraid.

Meng Yinghuan put down the teacup lightly, and smiled kindly: "Mr. Xu's words will spread to the outside world, but it will kill people and cause trouble."

Huai Mingmo also smiled lightly and said, "We are the only ones in the room, who would say that?"

The meaning in the words was obvious, but Meng Yinghuan still didn't seem to catch it, and continued to persuade: "Who would spread these two jokes to the outside world? It's just that Mr. Xu should pay more attention in the future, otherwise Concubine Wan may not be able to keep it."

Xu Sheng lowered his eyes and flicked his fingernails, didn't pay attention to these princes at all, and chuckled, "Of course this kind of trivial matter shouldn't bother Concubine Wan, I can solve it myself. In fact, it's easy to avoid others talking too much, don't worry about it." Those identities twisted the tongues of talkative people, one, two... the people behind, who would dare to talk nonsense. Besides, if they lost their tongues and couldn't speak, who would go to the imperial court to complain. Oh, yes, they can still write , then the hands and feet will be chopped off. When the emperor understands what those people want to express, I will wait here for the prison cart to arrive."

Suddenly there was a muffled sound of tables and chairs colliding in front of him. Meng Guangheng was not an idiot, so he could naturally hear that what he said was [-]% false and [-]% true, so he knew that if he made a rash move, Xu Sheng would definitely retaliate.

Everyone present was sweating coldly after hearing this. Everyone knew what would happen to a prince who couldn't speak and had no hands or feet.

Meng Xiuran looked at Xu Sheng with admiration and admiration. After all, there is no other person in the world who can scare his arrogant and domineering second brother to the point of speechlessness.Not only Meng Xiuran, but also anyone in the room who felt perplexed. After all, Meng Guangheng had been bullying him secretly for many years. After watching this scene today, the anger in his heart also eased a lot, and he felt really comfortable.

As for Meng Guangheng, the paper tiger, he staggered back a few steps, and fell silently on the chair, with a dazed expression on his face, as if he had been hit hard and hadn't recovered yet.

"Mr. Xu, don't be presumptuous." Meng Qingrun said in a low voice, and he didn't hear much blame in his words. In fact, he was just worried that Meng Guangheng would do outrageous things, such as sending troops to surround the Liang Palace.

Meng Guangheng held a bad breath in his heart, Zi blushed, and wanted to vent to his brother, but under the gaze of those icy eyes, his arrogance seemed to be splashed in ice water, and he was silent for a long time, stood up and swayed his sleeves and walked out the door. "Walk."

Not long after Meng Guangheng left, Meng Yinghuan saw that the provocation was unsuccessful, and worried that if he stayed, he would be targeted by the false, so he found an excuse to leave behind. Compared to the frightened Meng Guangheng, Meng Yinghuan was calmer.He pretended to be indifferent and walked out of the second door, and when he went out of the second door, he suddenly looked back vigilantly to make sure that Xu Sheng didn't follow, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

After the front yard manager came to report, Meng Xiuran, who felt very happy, said happily: "It's the first time I've seen my second brother get so angry. If I tell you, you're not afraid of death. Second brother is very good at holding grudges. Today you offended me. He will be brought back sooner or later, and I'm afraid you will suffer."

"He has to live until then." Xu Sheng looked indifferent, as if he didn't know the meaning of what he said.

Meng Qingrun's eyebrows twitched violently, his eyes flashed, and he instinctively lowered his voice and asked, "What are you going to do to him?"

Xu Sheng raised his eyes, looked back at Meng Qingrun with clear eyes, and smiled innocently, "What can you do? The second prince has a high status, and if he loses a hair, his head will fall to the ground. I don't even have time to hide, why don't you go up by yourself?"

How could Huai Mingmo be fooled by these two sentences, he wondered: "Don't hide it, just say what you know."

Putting his fingertips against Huai Mingmo's soft vermilion lips, Xu Sheng smiled mischievously, his mouth tightened like a gourd with a saw's mouth, "I'll know in two days, it's not fun for you to be in such a hurry."

"Playing... this..." Meng Xiuran didn't expect Xu Sheng's real character to be like this, turned around and saw Meng Qingrun signaling himself not to talk, so he sighed heavily and gave up struggling.

After playing with them capriciously, Xu Sheng gradually returned to his original appearance, suddenly recalling the conversation with Concubine Wan, he wondered, "King Liang, does he know why the Crown Prince suddenly brought up the matter of marriage?"

Meng Qingrun shook his head blankly, and regretfully said: "When the eldest brother of the prince came to me to talk about this matter, I persuaded him several times, and finally stopped him. For some reason, within a few days, he suddenly brought up the matter in the morning meeting. , and even argued endlessly with my father in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty."

Meng Xiuran kicked the chair angrily, and said angrily, "Second brother and fourth brother have no good intentions, and deliberately let the people below help to choke, deepening father's misunderstanding."

"Where is the prince now?" Xu Sheng didn't wait for them to answer, he said to himself: "Confinement in the East Palace? That means there is no reason to let him down, that's just right, someone can cater to the Sacred Heart."

In fact, even if Xu Sheng was not forced to tell the truth, just guessing from his simple few words, he could probably guess that Meng Guangheng might be killed.As for who wants to make a move, besides myself, there are only two other princes. The five princes who are incompetent have never been in the eyes of Emperor Meng. Only Meng Yinghuan was alone.

It's just that Meng Qingrun didn't believe that Meng Yinghuan would really make a move, but the sudden news of the funeral in the palace two days later made even him, who was prepared in his heart, show a natural expression of surprise.Not to mention that Emperor Meng, who was discussing general affairs in the northwest with him, passed out immediately after hearing the news.

There was a great chaos in the palace, and when Concubine Wan got the news, it was already after Shen Shi when Xu Sheng got the news.

Unlike others who were surprised after hearing it, Xu Sheng was as calm as a jade carving, without blinking his eyes, and responded with an "oh" after hearing it, buried his head in looking at Fang Gan's ink-stained painting, and took Huai Mingmo's hand , pointing to the eyes of the person in the painting and said: "No, I'm not so cunning, I have to redraw."

Huai Mingmo touched the person in the painting, then raised his hand to touch Xu Sheng's eyes, washed his brush and ignored it, and said back: "It's not like it, it's obviously lifelike."

Xu Sheng picked up the portrait and looked at it for a moment, tearing it into pieces without any explanation, lowered his head to grind the ink, and forced the pen holder into Huai Ming's hand, quite unreasonably making trouble, "Anyway, you have to redraw."

Huai Mingmo had no choice but to write again, the two were flirting here, completely ignoring the toothache who was watching, Xinli's lips moved slightly, and couldn't help but said: "When are you two still Are you in the mood to paint? That day you offended Meng Guangheng in the Liang Palace and openly threatened his life. Now that something happened, Meng Yinghuan would definitely go to the imperial court and talk nonsense. The one who died now is the emperor's most beloved son. If I knew what you said, It doesn't matter if you are Concubine Wan's brother or not, it's too late to execute you."

Xu Sheng looked at Xin Li inexplicably. After getting along with him for a long time, he didn't take his arrogance seriously. After a while, Liang Liang explained, "Meng Yinghuan is not stupid, first get rid of the serious troubles in his heart, and then use this opportunity to solve the prince. The most urgent thing. Use this matter to deal with me? It's too cost-effective, would you do this instead. "

It made sense to think about it, Xinli was speechless for a while, but then he felt that there was a loophole in his words, and he patted the corner of the table, speaking a little impatiently, "What if he slanders you as ordered by the prince to kill Meng Guangheng?"

Huai Mingmo noticed that the desk was shaking, so he had to stop writing, put it aside, and said calmly: "He didn't dare, firstly, he was afraid that Xu Sheng would shoot him to death, and secondly, he would offend Wanxin, so he just had nothing to say to him. Pillow wind. Now that he has not sat on the crown prince, he will definitely not take the risk of causing trouble."

Seeing Huai Mingmo's penetrating look, and seeing Xu Sheng next to him, and not allowing Huai Mingmo to stop writing, Xinli shuddered unconsciously, with goosebumps all over the floor.

Xu Sheng raised his head to look at Xin Li who was speechless, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have my sense of proportion, it's just..." Looking at Huai Mingmo with a little worry, Xu Sheng sighed silently: "Prince, I'm afraid this disaster will be difficult."

Huai Mingmo paused, and said with a wry smile at the corner of his mouth: "You promised me that you would let him survive."

"Yes, I promised, and I will do it."

Huai Mingmo gradually clenched the pen holder, feeling as if he had swallowed a big mouthful of Coptis chinensis, chewing it carefully, his mouth and heart felt bitter, "Aunt... Mother Concubine, will she be okay?"

Although Xu Sheng didn't like Concubine Ji's rudeness and domineering, she was Huai Mingmo's biological mother after all, and she was considered to have kept Huai Mingmo back then, so he didn't want to see Concubine Ji die.

Or because of being infected by Huai Ming ink, Xu Sheng's mood also became a little depressed, and he was silent for a long time before he opened his mouth: "Emperor Meng didn't intend to abolish Concubine Ji, and the confinement of Concubine Ji just wanted to prevent the prince from being abolished. If you act impulsively, you will never be hurt."

"That's good. I have nothing else to ask. As long as the elder brother is alive and the concubine mother is not implicated, it will be good to treat them well when King Liang ascends the throne."

The current atmosphere is not suitable for joking, Xu Sheng thought that this request is not too high, the prince who is a waste prince is a thorn in the flesh in the eyes of the new emperor, and he has been wronged, what kind of tolerance is needed to tolerate the existence of this person who threatens his throne.

As for Concubine Ji, she has a son who used to be the crown prince. Wouldn't Meng Qingrun remember that Concubine Ji is the daughter of the Ji family when she dreams back at midnight, and her martial arts are enough to break in without others noticing, and help His own son killed himself to take the throne for his own son?

Huai Mingmo could figure out this lot of talk, if he didn't talk about it in detail, the two of them seemed to agree with each other and didn't talk any more, and they returned to their previous appearances, one made a foolish request, and the other agreed with a smile.

Five days later, a roll of bright yellow paper with a dozen sentences shocked the court, and the prince was suddenly deposed and demoted to a commoner. The reasons for this were only generalized in a few words.Many courtiers of the prince's faction were dismissed that day, but what's interesting is that those two generations of veterans were all sullen and didn't say a word.

Two days later, news came from the palace that Emperor Meng gave Meng Qixian a house in the suburbs of Beijing, imprisoned people inside, and sent heavy soldiers to guard the outside. No one is allowed to go to see Meng Qixian, otherwise it will be regarded as treason and will bring disaster to everyone. family.

Concubine Ji lifted her foot restraint that afternoon, and the torrential rain in the capital seemed to have subsided.