Raiders of His Royal Highness

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After a while, the guards who had gone to capture Roupin and Yu Sheng came back and returned.

"My Majesty, the concubine Rou is already waiting outside the palace, but... but the sixth prince has disappeared. Our people have searched for a long time, but we have not found the sixth prince..."

Hearing this, Emperor Jing Ming's skeptical thoughts disappeared without a trace.

With a cold face, he said in a deep voice: "Bring that bitch up here."

After a while, the neatly dressed concubine Rou was brought in by the guards.

Emperor Jingming saw that Chen Jiarou, who had lost his previous tenderness, took a long time before he said, "Say it yourself, and make it clear."

Chen Jiarou chuckled.

I don't know if I am laughing at my current situation, or at the words of Emperor Jingming at this moment.

"Since the emperor ordered people to arrest the concubine and Sheng'er, do you need to explain anything to the concubine?"

This is an admission.

"Very good. Unexpectedly, I have been fooled by King Huainan and your mother and son for so many years!"

Emperor Jing Ming narrowed his eyes and asked sharply, "Where is that evil seed?!"

Chen Jiarou was very disgusted with the word 'evil species', "Cheng'er is not an evil species!"

After refuting Emperor Jingming's words, she sneered again, and said coquettishly, "Hehe, I wanted to spend a little more time at first, but I didn't expect this trash Lu Zhenglan to actually find me."

"It's also my fault that I wasn't ruthless enough to kill you when Hu Deshan exposed the private weapons!"

Lu Zhenglan lay on the ground, glanced at Roupin from the corner of her eye, seeing her stern words, she silently looked away again.

The lights in the hall crackled and crackled, and the flickering candles flickered on and off.

Emperor Jing Ming looked at Concubine Rou with a complicated expression, and after watching for a while, he opened his mouth and said: "You guys go out first."

Hearing this, Lu Zhenglan hurriedly wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, got up after saluting, and left the Xuanzheng Hall in a short while.

Eunuch Cheng glanced at the concubine Rou who seemed to be unaffected by this incident, feeling a little worried, "Your Majesty, you are alone in the palace..."

However, Emperor Jingming didn't pay attention to his worries, he waved his hand and said in a cold voice: "It's okay, just step back."

As Eunuch Cheng bowed and slowly exited the Xuanzheng Hall, the two people in the hall were silent for a long time.

Emperor Jing Ming sat on the dragon chair, looking at the face below that was very familiar to him but seemed strange at the moment.

"Is there anything else you want to tell me?"

Chen Jiarou lowered her eyes, but didn't speak.

Suppressing all the emotions in his heart, Emperor Jingming suddenly stood up from the dragon chair.

He walked down step by step and stood in front of Chen Jiarou.

"I thought that you were my lifelong confidant and the love of my life. For you and Yu Sheng, I pushed the Queen and the Crown Prince in front of everyone, and blocked the next morning's conspiracy for you.'

"For your sake, I turned a blind eye to you instigating Yu Sheng to push the crown prince and Ning Ping into the water, and even let the imperial guard Hu Deshan out of Beijing after being kind to you."

"Also for you, I let Yu Feng and Yu Lang fight each other in the open, and in the end they raised their minds, and I almost died at their hands."

"Not long ago, I sent the crown prince out of Beijing for you. As long as the crown prince dies, Yu Sheng will be able to become the heir apparent."

There was no trace of emotion in Emperor Jing Ming's low voice.

He looked at this face that he had been with day and night, and was silent for a long time, before he said again: "You let me down so much."

"You bitch, let me down with all my hard work, and played with me between applause."

"very good……"

"I won't let you die. A glass of poisoned wine is too cheap for you..."

Hearing this, Chen Jiarou smiled softly, "Since I let Sheng'er out of the palace in advance, I also expected today. Does the emperor think I will be afraid of death?"

Putting her smile back, she fixedly looked into Emperor Jing Ming's eyes.

"Also... Your Majesty, do you really love me as much as you say?"

She pursed her lips and said with a hint of sarcasm in her tone: "At the beginning, the emperor had just ascended the throne, and the queen's natal family was very powerful. You felt aggrieved by this, so you were satisfied with my gentleness."

"On the one hand, you use the Song family to consolidate the power in the court, but on the other hand, you don't want the courtiers to think that you are a coward who was able to take advantage of the power of the Song family, so you just don't like the queen who was born in the Song family."

"Because in my Changqiu Palace, you can feel the reverence and complacency that you don't have in front of the empress, that's why you love me in every possible way."

"Your Majesty, you have pretended to be affectionate for a long time, do you really think that you really love me?"

At this moment, Chen Jiarou ignored Emperor Jingming's anger, smiled lightly again, and said, "Your Majesty, in fact, you only love yourself."

Snapped--

As if his mind had been exposed, Emperor Jing Ming slapped Chen Jiarou hard on the face.

"presumptuous!"

Chen Jiarou, who was slapped on the marble, slowly stood up, wiped off the blood overflowing from the corner of her mouth, pulled the corner of her mouth, and mocked: "Coward!"

Emperor Jing Ming, who had already lost his patience, was so furious that he kicked her on the body.

"Come here, drag this bitch down and interrogate her severely!"

The door of the Xuanzheng Hall opened with a creak, and Eunuch Cheng walked in with two guards with swords.

With a wave of his hand, Eunuch Cheng directed the two guards to drag Chen Jiarou who was curled up on the ground out.

"Go and check, the whereabouts of the evil seed."

"Let the civil and military officials come to discuss the matter."

Eunuch Cheng lowered his head, and after receiving the order, he went out cautiously to deliver the decree.

He looked at the capital city still shrouded in darkness, and knew that a storm was coming.And... the next candidate for the crown prince may only be the fifth prince who is not well-born...

Unless...unless, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who left Beijing can return safely...

……

The prince Yu Ling who was missed by Eunuch Cheng was far away from Beijing, and it took a day for him to receive the news of Qin Zhirong's disappearance.

"...The shadow changed into the appearance of the original palace, and stayed with Huai Lu to assist the third prince..."

In a somewhat rudimentary tent, Yu Ling sat at the top with a serious expression, explaining the follow-up to the people below.

"But, if you're not here, how can I take over the follow-up matters?" Yu Lang on the side also knew Yu Ling's anxiety, but he couldn't show it to others now, and he couldn't participate too much in many things, so after hearing Yu Ling's confession, , he was a little overwhelmed.

Yu Ling glanced at him.

"Originally, Bengong's plan did not have Li Gong. So you can rest assured, without Bengong, they will know what will happen next, you just need to point out from the side."

As soon as the words fell, Yu Ling's figure disappeared into the tent.

Yu Lang asked Huai Lu and Ying Ying a little worriedly: "Is it safe for the prince to return to Beijing alone?"

Shadow, who had already taken out the disguise tool that he carried with him, fiddled with it, and replied, "Don't worry, Third Prince, His Highness has hidden guards following him."

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It only took a whole night, and Yu Ling rushed back to Beijing without rest.

Taking advantage of the sky before dawn, she used her lightness kung fu to return to the East Palace in an inconspicuous corner.

In the study, Huai Ning, who was extremely anxious, clenched his fists and walked back and forth by the candlelight.

Hearing movement outside the house, he looked towards the open door.

Yu Ling, who was covered in snow and pale, entered the house with a gust of cold wind.

"Have you found the whereabouts of the princess?"

As soon as he entered the room, Yu Ling's mouth was dry and he asked Huaining in a low voice before taking a sip of tea.

Huaining shook his head, and handed Yu Ling a cup of hot tea, "That day was the Shangyuan Festival, the Crown Princess left early and disappeared in the imperial garden."

"The person who kidnapped the princess was very skilled in martial arts, and disappeared into the rockery next to him in the blink of an eye. Even the hidden guards following the princess hadn't seen clearly what that person looked like..."