Give you a spring

Qi Zheng had just come to court in the morning, and in the past he didn't have to go if he had nothing special to do, but last night the border between Linjing City and Nanling was bombed, Lord Qi felt that Emperor Chong might want to ask him something about such a big event, so he got up early , specially rushed to the palace.

Emperor Chong saw him, and said that just in case, he asked him to check whether there were Donghu spies lurking in Linjing City. In addition, the Ministry of War should always pay attention to the situation in Nanling and respond in time.

Today's morning court lasted for more than an hour, Qi Zheng never saw Ping Wei, wondering why His Majesty didn't let him come to court after he came to Beijing for so long, and when he left the palace and returned to the Yamen, he saw what he was thinking about at the door That Highness.

Ping Wei stood at the door and waited, seeing him coming, she smiled gently, "Did Master Qi go out just now?"

"Going to court," Qi Zheng said in a purple official uniform, "Why is Your Highness here today?"

Ping Wei was not in a hurry to say why he was here, and walked in with him. Qi Zheng noticed that the other party was alone today, and He Zhou, who was usually inseparable from him, was gone. He couldn't help asking, "Where's your guard?"

"He's gone to Nanling," Ping said with a smile. "He just left this morning. I asked him to help look after Guan Yue and Jingzhao. Did your lord tell their father for me?"

Speaking of this, Qi Zheng's face changed slightly. He recalled the matter of running to Guan Mansion and Liang Mansion in the early hours of last night, and said with some embarrassment, "I said, they all reacted quite..."

"What?" Ping Wei looked at him.

"Complicated?" Qi Zheng couldn't think of a word to describe it, "The two adults seem to be very calm, but I don't think that's the case in their hearts."

Pingwei smiled slightly, "Naturally, most parents love their children very much."

most?Qi Zheng looked over inquiringly, and the other party looked as usual.The two sat down in the hall and said calmly, "I came here this time because I have something to ask my lord."

"Please speak, Your Highness."

"You know why a man would want to kill another? Except hate."

Qi Zheng was stunned, "What?" He frowned, and asked in a low voice, "Did something happen to Your Highness?"

"It's indeed a little bit, but telling the adults may have a great impact on you, so it's good to answer it as a normal question."

Qi Zheng frowned even tighter. He thought he had dealt with two matters peacefully, and they were considered close to each other. Now that the other party brought up the matter, he even bluntly said that it was so serious that it would affect his career. This is obviously a big deal , How can he not be in a hurry.Qi Zheng thought for a while and asked, "Is the second prince trying to kill you?"

"No," Ping Wei said, "It needs to be deeper."

Qi Zheng was taken aback for a moment, and then thought of Xie Shi who was knocked down, but it's been a long time, it's impossible...

"Who is it?" Qi Zheng simply stood up, looking at Ping Wei with burning eyes, "Please tell me, Your Highness, I am willing to help."

Before Ping Wei came here, he thought that he would react like this, but he would always have more feelings after experiencing it personally. His expression became softer, and he said softly, "It's Your Majesty."

"What?!" Qi Zheng was horrified, quickly glanced around, and lowered his voice after making sure that the conversation between the two had not been heard by the rest, "Are you sure?"

"You Buqing is his man, he acquiesced last night."

"..." Qi Zheng was stunned, as if he was digesting what he said, and asked, "Can you tell me in detail what happened in the palace last night?"

In the hall of concentricity, undercurrents surged.

Emperor Chongdi and Heping Wei stood face to face, one with deep eyes and the other without timidity.

"How did you come to this conclusion?"

"Just a random guess."

"You guessed me right away?" Emperor Chong didn't have any expression on his face, he looked at his prince, "Tell me the reason, do you think You Buqing, a commoner, can be promoted to a high ranking in just four years?" Governor of the capital?"

"Yes," Ping Wei said, "everyone needs a chance to enter the imperial court. Some people pass the literary examination, and some people have been officials in their families for generations, so they can get in based on their background. But You Buqing is an ordinary family, and they have changed their names. Violently treating Madam, how could such a person quickly become a third-rank official in such a short period of time."

"Can't he be instructed by other powerful officials?"

"No one dares to be so bold," Ping Wei said softly, "Everyone here...isn't your Majesty firmly in your hands?"

Emperor Chong stared at him fixedly, and didn't respond positively to what he said, but said, "Xie Xu, you are really bold, you dare to talk to me like that."

"I just think I'm chatting with my father now," Chongdi said in a soft voice without claiming to be "Zhen", so Pingwei was very cooperative.

"Even if this father wants to kill you?" Emperor Chong answered quickly.

"If so, I would like to know the reason," Ping Wei did not confront him.

Emperor Chong opened the corner of his mouth and smiled lightly, "You are really not afraid at all, I thought you would beg me for mercy." Emperor Chong's eyes were a little more complicated, and he remembered Ping Wei's experience in the black market. the things that were done.

"You hate imperial power, don't you?" That's why I went to secretly deal with those people who had already been judged by the government.

"One thing," Ping Wei said frankly. Emperor Chong's gaze was indeed very aggressive, as if he could see through him, but sometimes He Zhou would stare at him nakedly like this. The feeling is a bit similar, maybe because I am used to it, Ping Wei doesn't feel too much discomfort.

"But you became the prince again?" Chongdi asked.

"It's not totally disgusting, it's just that some of these practices are questionable."

"Question," Emperor Chong sneered, "Do you want to question me?"

"I don't have any," Ping Wei lifted the hem of his clothes and knelt on the ground.

It was this sentence again, Emperor Chong seemed annoyed, he waved his hand and said, "Okay, get out."

After that, Ping Wei went back to the other courtyard, told He Zhou about it, and then came to find Qi Zheng again.

Inside the yamen, Lord Qi began to think about the reason why Emperor Chong wanted to kill Pingwei, "Did you have anything to do with him before?"

"No, although I'm a bit crazy, I still have a sense of proportion, so I wonder if it's not me who offended him, but the people around me."

Hearing this, Qi Zheng first thought of He Zhou next to Pingwei, and thought it was absurd. His Majesty would not kill his son just because he likes a man. Then he thought about all the people around Pingwei, but still thought it was unreasonable. , "Your Highness, you just came to Beijing, and you only know a few people, including me, you don't have much contact with His Majesty, you shouldn't..."

"Yes," Ping Wei said, "So I wonder if it might be some people who have not had much contact with me, but who have connections with me."

"for example?"

"Concubine Ming," Ping Wei said about her biological mother, and looked at Qi Zheng, "I wonder if something happened between her and His Majesty that made His Majesty want to kill me."

Pingwei has been in Yu'an for 25 years. In the early years, he lived with an old local couple. Later, they died of illness when he was six years old, and he lived alone all the time.Yu An is a small border town, and the people are very simple. Although he occasionally encounters some financial difficulties, he can barely get by. Every year and festivals, neighbors in the neighborhood will send him a lot of things, which is very kind to a junior like him. care.After meeting He Zhou, Ping Wei thought about improving his quality of life. He first asked him to practice martial arts for a few years in a martial arts school, and then began to work with him on the black market to make money.

How to put it, he didn't expect that he would have anything to do with the royal family before. He felt that he was just an ordinary person. Although he was famous in the black market and killed some people, he still wanted to make a living.

That day someone knocked on the door of his house suddenly, told him his life experience, and handed him a letter from Concubine Ming, leaving a large sum of money, which was large enough for him to live comfortably in the next few years.

Ping Wei thought this person was joking at first, but when the other party took out half of the jade pendant, he believed it [-]%-the old couple once told him that someone secretly sent the baby over and told them to raise it.There is half a jade pendant in the baby's clothes, with the word "Ping" engraved on it.

And now on the half of the jade pendant given by that person, there is a "micro".

"...how do you feel?" After sending the man away, he closed the door, and He Zhou greeted him and hugged him.

"Unexplainable?" Ping Wei smiled wryly, holding the jade pendant in his hand, "Is there such a boring thing as the prince living among the people now? It's just a cliché plot in the storybook, right?"

"You are not conventional." He Zhou bowed his head and kissed his lips without knowing whether he understood. The two kissed for a while, then Ping slightly pushed him away, "I have to find the other piece."

"Find out what to do," He Zhou asked, "Do you really want to be a prince?"

"No," Ping Wei turned his back on him and began to rummage through, "I just want to make sure."

He Zhou said "Oh", walked over and looked at the letter that the person sent just now, and saw a portrait inside, he raised his eyebrows, "This is Concubine Ming? It looks like you."

He walked up to Pingwei, pinched his chin to make him face himself, and confirmed after comparing, "She is a bit more beautiful than you, and you will be more heroic."

"What if I look the same as her?" Ping Wei cast a helpless glance at him and said.

He Zhou was still looking at his face, he knew he was pretty, but... "What does Emperor Chong look like?"

With this question in mind, Pingwei glanced at each other several times when he entered the palace for the first time. Emperor Chong seemed to be very curious about him, and both sides were looking at each other seriously—Emperor Chong had a square face, with eyes that were neither too big nor too small, like a hawk. Hooked nose, thin lips, outstanding height, medium build, the overall demeanor looks a little sinister, usually serious, giving people an unfathomable feeling.

However, Pingwei likes to laugh very much. He treats people gently, with exquisite facial features and fair skin. His lips are naturally red, almost in the middle of coquettish and indifferent.

Ping Wei didn't find out how the other party resembled him, but the emperor on the other side looked away after looking at it for a while, as if he had already determined that the other party was his lost child.

In the yamen, when it came to Concubine Ming, Qi Zheng thought about it for a while, and said softly, "There were rumors that she and His Majesty were at odds, she lost her position from the previous favorite of the Sixth Palace, and had no contact with His Majesty. Your Highness thinks what happened to them has something to do with you?"

"I don't know," Ping Wei said, "I don't understand why I was exiled to the common people and was called back to the palace after more than twenty years."

Moreover, Concubine Ming had someone come to recognize her that year, and then Pingwei officially came to Linjing, and the two of them hadn't seen each other a few times.

The number of times he met with the other party was less than the meeting with a king like Chongdi who was busy with everything.

Pingwei has always remembered such trivial things, but he didn't think it was necessary to go into details. He told He Zhou that it was true that he had no relationship with them, and he believed that those two didn't love him much.

Now they have come up with the trick of borrowing a knife to kill someone.

Pingwei has mixed feelings in his heart.

"I'm going to help you to ask?" Qi Zhengdao, he can understand Pingwei more or less, if his father wants to kill him in the underground, he must be very sad.Master Qi is very considerate and authentic, "Xiaguan will go to the palace in the afternoon."

"Okay," Ping Wei said, "Be careful, I don't want to be discovered by Emperor Chong."

"Well," Qi Zheng replied, and said again, "By the way, Zhang Lingsi, who reported to us last time that someone cheated in the palace exam, does your Highness still remember?"

Ping Wei thought for a while, "Remember, did he make the list?"

"Entered, and was arranged to work in the Ministry of Rites. The lower official felt that if His Highness needed it in the future, he could ask him for help."

"Okay," Ping Wei responded.

The two of them were about to settle the matter, Qi Zheng hesitated for a moment, and then said, "His Royal Highness, to be honest, I think the matter between His Majesty and Concubine Ming will be very difficult to find out, if you didn't deliberately mention it today, I wouldn't bring them up." It's been brought together. Those two haven't appeared together for too long, very few people in the palace would mention Concubine Ming."

"You mean the news was deliberately withheld?" Ping Wei looked at him.

Qi Zheng shook his head, "I think His Majesty killed all the people who knew about it back then, leaving only Concubine Ming."

Ping Wei was stunned for a moment, "Is it so serious?"

"En." Qi Zheng looked at him worriedly, "otherwise he wouldn't do anything to you, a prince."

"I see."

"What are you going to do?"

Pingwei smiled slightly, "In that case, I will go to the palace in the afternoon to meet my concubine mother."