Lord Prime Minister

"Fifth prince, you are the heir of the royal family, but what a crime is killing your fellow man?"

The door behind him was closed, and the interrogation room gradually became dark. Firewood was burning in the brazier, and the jumping flames illuminated the surroundings. The light from bottom to top made Hong Shaoqing's livid face look like a ghost.The two guards were hidden in the darkness behind him, motionless and imperceptible.

"What does Master Hongda mean?" Huangfu Yunhua calmed down at the first moment, and asked back.

"Killing the prince is a serious crime against the nine clans. The prince thinks, who would be so bold as to break the law knowingly?"

Huangfu Yunhua smiled, feeling ridiculous. "Hongda is the presiding judge, why did you ask about me?"

"The prince is also a prince, so he naturally understands the meaning of the lower officials. On the day the ninth prince was born, the sixth prince was killed. The lower officials privately think that this is not a coincidence." Hong Shaoqing leaned forward slightly, and the flames shone on him. The shadows on his face stretched longer.

"Hongda people think it is so, so it is. Hongda people think it's not a coincidence, then it's not a coincidence." Huangfu Yunhua flicked his sleeves, his attention was all on the clothes, and he didn't even look at Hong Shaoqing on it. "Master Hongda, hurry up, in another hour, Qinglianju will open."

Hong Shaoqing was at a loss for words for a while, and immediately asked: "Where is the prince during the time from the evening of the day before yesterday to the hour of Hai?"

"Of course it's in the palace."

"Six days ago, the lord entered the palace late at night, and there were many uninhabited side doors. What is the lord's reason for this trip?"

"The emperor ordered the king to go out to relieve the disaster, and he did not return for two years. The queen mother was worried and became ill, so he allowed the king to enter the palace to recount the past and express his longing."

"If you don't go during the day, why go there at midnight?"

Huangfu Yunhua laughed as if he heard some joke. "Master Hongda is joking, son visits his mother, so he has to pick a time?"

"According to what I know, besides the prince, there was another prince in the Kunning Palace that day, and he missed him too much?"

"The second emperor brother and this king are compatriots. Why not reminisce about the past together?" Huangfu Yunhua replied methodically, looking up at Hong Shaoqing.His face was silent, but his heart was beating like a drum.

He was so careful, but he found out. Who leaked the news? The servant who carried the sedan chair met the little eunuch, or Huangfu Renhao who just left with a blushing face?

Hong Shaoqing laughed with the corners of his mouth pulled. "That's not what the second prince said just now. The second prince thinks, you have always had a bad relationship with the sixth prince, and you even complained to him, saying that the sixth prince doesn't look like an heir and has never seen the world. It's very annoying to pester the prince all the time to ask questions..."

Huangfu Yunhua didn't expect that this would suddenly turn on him, his eyes widened suddenly, his pupils shrank suddenly, and his right hand behind him clenched his fist tightly.After a long time, he slowly let go.

"Brother really said that?" Before Hong Shaoqing could reply, he asked again: "Master Hong thinks he is the king?"

Hong Shaoqing smiled and shook his head, "I also hope to be the prince."

"But this matter was not done by the king."

Hong Shaoqing saw that Huangfu Yunhua was not enlightened, he sighed, and said softly: "My lord left the palace very early, I'm afraid things in this palace are a little strange."

Huangfu Yunhua didn't say a word, he already guessed the meaning of Hong Shaoqing's words.

"The death of the sixth prince will be thoroughly investigated by the lower officials. As for the real result, it is up to the emperor to decide. Since the prince likes to have fun, wouldn't it be best to be a real idle prince?"

Huangfu Yunhua finally moved, the smile on his face was gone, his eyes full of ice avoided Hong Shaoqing, and fell on the blazing fire. "I don't know what connection Hongda's words have with the death of the sixth brother?"

Hong Shaoqing looked at Huangfu Yunhua firmly, and said slowly: "In that case, I have said what I have said, and the prince can go back to the manor."

Huangfu Yunhua turned around and walked towards the door, when Hong Shaoqing's voice came from behind him. "Also ask the prince to invite Seventh Princess to come in."

He paused for a moment, and opened the door.

When the door opened, everyone in the outer hall looked over, with different expressions on their faces.

The eldest prince, Huangfu Mingxuan, came late, and was sitting in the position of the second brother just now, raising his eyes slightly to look over.Wenmei lowered her head and stood behind him politely.

Huangfu Yunhua grinned, walked up to Miaotong, saw that she was dozing off with her chin on her head, and woke her up again.

"Miaotong? Wake up."

Miao Tong rubbed her eyes and woke up, raised her head to look at Huangfu Yunhua, seeing the smile on his face, she was relieved a bit. "Fifth brother is out."

Huangfu Yunhua nodded. "I'm going back to the mansion first, you go in."

"Me?" Miao Tong pointed at herself and asked in surprise.

"Correct."

After hurriedly replying, Huangfu Yunhua turned around and left the outer hall, a guard was waiting outside the door, when he saw Huangfu Yunhua coming out, he immediately stepped forward.

"My lord, let the villain take you out."

Huangfu Yunhua gave him a sideways glance, and walked in front of him, pretending that he didn't exist, until he left Dali Temple, the guards stepped back.

Sitting in the carriage that had been waiting at the door, Huangfu Yunhua frowned. There were a lot of miscellaneous thoughts in his mind, which were constantly overturned and new hypotheses emerged. Such a constant cycle of tossing made his brain ache.

The carriage stopped in front of the palace, and the groom outside called out a few times before the prince got out of the carriage, frowned, and walked in with a pale face.

Mu Zihuai waited in the front hall for almost a day, and finally saw the prince came back at dusk, and stepped forward happily, but found that the prince's complexion was unstable, and the joy on his face disappeared in an instant.

"My lord?" Could it be that the sixth prince's death was really related to my lord?Mu Zihuai was making guesses in his heart, he didn't dare to ask directly, and carefully observed his face.

Huangfu Yunhua raised his head, only then did he see Mu Zihuai, seeing his worried face, the depression on his face dissipated instantly. "I didn't ask anything, I just told me where I was that night and what I did and came back."

Mu Zihuai nodded, still a little worried. "Then the prince went to wash up first, I asked the kitchen to prepare food for writing, and I didn't eat anything after staying all day."

"Excuse me, I'm pregnant." While walking towards the master bedroom, Huangfu Yunhua turned his head abruptly. "Is Dan Feng in the mansion?"

Mu Zihuai was taken aback. "Yes, do you want me to call him over?"

Huangfu Yunhua waved his hand again, "No need." After saying that, he turned and walked into the room.

Although he was a little puzzled, Mu Zihuai still ordered his servants to prepare hot water and send it to the prince's room, and then went to the kitchen to inform the meal to be ready.After waiting for a while, he didn't see the prince coming to the dining room to eat. Thinking of the abnormality when he came back in the afternoon, Mu Zihuai couldn't sit still, got up and walked to the green bamboo garden where the prince lived.

After entering the Green Bamboo Garden, I saw that the light in the prince's bedroom was dimmed. Just as he was wondering where the prince had gone, he suddenly saw light coming from the room at the other end of the bamboo forest.

The Green Bamboo Garden is a bit like a quadrangle. When you enter the gate, you are faced with a large cluster of lush bamboos. Behind the bamboos is the prince’s bedroom. On the left is a large study, and on the right is a small treasure house for storing various treasures.At the beginning, Mu Zihuai knew that the prince kept his small treasury beside him, and he was very envious.

Now he saw that the one with the lights on was the study room on the left side of the bamboo forest.

Mu Zihuai walked around the bamboo forest, and before he got close, he vaguely heard the voice of the prince.

"Father is like this, isn't it because he hopes that the king will hand over the more than 1000 soldiers? If the king does not hand over, the death of the sixth prince will fall on the head of the king. The death of a son is not as important as a thousand elite soldiers. It is really important." Good father."

"My lord might as well procrastinate. Those soldiers are not good enough. It only takes some time for Gu Li to train them into elite soldiers. As long as there is no conclusive evidence, Hong Shaoqing will not be able to convict the lord."

"Hong Shaoqing is the father's man, so he is naturally on his side. If he wants to punish him, there is nothing wrong with it. Today, Huangfu Renhao has already said something that is not good for me. I don't know if Hong Shaoqing forced him to do so, or he did it on purpose. .”

"No, my lord, don't be overwhelmed by anger. Let's calm down and think about it. If the second prince had planned this at the beginning, there is no need to tell you the plan. The testimony Hong Shaoqing said may be a cover, maybe If it is the former, it will be self-defeating in a short time. If it is the latter, it will be even better. Since Hong Shaoqing has the handle of the second prince, it is enough to restrain him. If you subdue Qing, the Second Prince will no longer be a roadblock, but will instead become an excellent stepping stone."

"That's very good. If it's the former...the queen mother puts all her heart on Huangfu Renhao. In order for him to ascend the throne, she can sacrifice anything. It's not surprising that she made a career of using her own parents and children as bait."

"My lord, the so-called mother and child are connected, even if the tiger's poison does not eat its children, why do you... who?"

Mu Zihuai just wanted to ask the prince to have dinner, but stood at the door but was dazed, and began to listen to what they were saying.The more I listened, the more frightened I became, and I couldn't help taking a step back, but accidentally touched the gravel on the ground.

The stone rolled on the ground, making a thumping sound.Ren Danfeng shouted loudly and rushed out the door.

There was a flash of white light in front of Mu Zihuai's eyes, and the next moment he saw a gleaming white sword pressing against his neck, and the word "bad" popped out in his mind belatedly.

The second thought is that Ren Danfeng actually knows martial arts.

Ren Danfeng held a long sword in his hand, with a murderous look on his simple face, and he rolled towards the eavesdropper with a fierce aura.Only an inch, and the point of the sword would be in the throat, and the man would be killed with one blow.

Huangfu Yunhua who came out frowned, "Mu Zihuai?"

Mu Zihuai's heart turned cold when he didn't come, and he forced a smile at the stern and unfamiliar prince, but didn't know what to say.

Ren Danfeng also saw Mu Zihuai's face clearly, but he didn't withdraw his sword, and his aura dissipated a little.

"what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to invite the prince to eat in the dining room. I've been in Dali Temple all day today. I think I haven't eaten yet." Mu Zihuai replied cautiously. In an ice cave.

Huangfu Yunhua smiled, he did say that before, but he didn't let go of his guard, he didn't speak.

Mu Zihuai's legs trembled a little under his oppressive gaze, which was more terrifying than the sword in front of his neck. He couldn't help but said: "The villain lives in a humble way, and he only wants himself and his family to live in peace. Be merciful, the villain is willing to live in seclusion in the mountains and never show his face again. From then on, he will never speak a word, willing to be a deaf-mute." As he spoke, he swore with three fingers.

This is begging for a living, Mu Zihuai should have expected this result long ago.He should have expected this from the time when the Prince of Ji County's ambitions were revealed, and when he stood in front of a thousand elite soldiers to swear an oath. Survive.

Huangfu Yunhua looked at Mu Zihuai who didn't dare to move, he was obviously terrified to death, cold sweat dripped from his forehead, but he could still say these words calmly.

It's exactly the same as when I first saw it.

"My lord." Ren Danfeng called out to him.

Huangfu Yunhua raised his hand, and his eyes fell on the shallow tooth marks on Mu Zihuai's wrist.

"Mu Zihuai, this king asks you, are you willing to be my supporter and help me become the Ninth Five-Year Supreme?"

"If Zihuai refuses..."

"Then I will kill you."

Under the moonlight, the prince bared his teeth and threatened him, but he was sure that this person would stay, so he smiled smugly.