Reborn as King again

At noon, Lan Mei, the queen mother's personal servant, took the time to sneak out of the Palace of Compassion and Ning to meet Wanfu privately, and revealed the news to Wanfu.

After Wanfu reported this matter to me, I couldn't help but sneer, seeing that the Liu family was pretty good at coming, and knew how to find his mother to protect himself, I told Wanfu: "Xiaoba should be in the Palace of Compassion and Ning now, you find someone to take Xiaoba Eight stole out and let him meet me in Qianlong Palace."

"Yes."

About half an hour later, I waited for Xiaoba in the side hall of Qianlong Palace. Xiaoba was led in by two men in eunuch uniforms. In fact, those two people were not eunuchs who served others, but I specially arranged them in the palace. The masters at my disposal in the palace, they usually look like ordinary eunuchs on the surface, but when some people must die in the palace, they are the best assistants.

As soon as Xiao Ba entered the door, he smiled and said to me: "Brother Huang, I didn't expect you to arrange so many eyeliners in the palace after you haven't been back for several years, even the queen mother." Xiao Ba went straight to the palace after returning to the palace yesterday. Going to the Palace of Compassion, the queen mother slapped him on the face as soon as she saw him, asked him why he came back now, and then cried and said that he had been impeached, wouldn't he be sent to die now?

Xiaoba listened to my words very smartly, and pushed away the rebellion talk and the ambiguous matter with He Wenwu. He knew that the only one who could keep him was his mother, so tears began to fall , Said that he was wronged, this time he just missed my brother and mother too much when he came back, just came back to take a look, he also said that if he knew that he was wronged and rebelled, he would not return to Beijing if he was beaten to death.Xiao Ba cried really hard, and the queen mother hated Xiao Ba crying the most, she patted her chest and promised to live and die with Xiao Ba.

Then the queen mother mobilized her power in the harem to surround the Palace of Compassion and Ning with three floors inside and three floors outside, in case I would bring people to force the important people in the palace, but just like that, two strangers appeared in front of Xiao Ba, wanting to... Take Xiao Ba out of the Compassion Palace.Xiao Ba saw that those two were masters, and he couldn't escape at all. In order to avoid physical pain, he had no choice but to obediently follow those two.

Xiao Ba walked up to me slowly and sat down, Wan Fu served Xiao Ba a cup of tea with a wink, and after I saw the two eunuchs leave, I asked Xiao Ba straight to the point: "Xiao Ba, time is urgent now, you Tell me honestly, obviously someone has impeached you, why are you going back to Beijing now?"

Xiao Ba was also very anxious, he desperately explained to me: "Brother Huang, I really didn't know that someone impeached me, and it was such a serious crime. If I knew, I would have hid in the deep mountains and old forests. Dare to come back, it’s not that I haven’t seen you and your mother for several years, and I just want to come back for a few days, this is really just a coincidence.” What Xiaoba said was half-truth, maybe he didn’t know that someone impeached him, but If he really missed me and my mother, why would he not go back to the palace directly after returning to the capital, but ran to Hefu?

I calmed down and said, "Xiaoba, tell me the truth."

Xiaoba pulled my sleeve and swung it left and right, and started his coquettish move: "Brother Huang~, can you trust me, there is really no special reason, I just miss you and the queen mother~"

If it was a normal fight, I would follow Xiao Ba's temper, but now it's different, Xiao Ba wants to protect himself and doesn't tell me the truth, how can this be so cheap?I held the teacup, took a sip of tea, and said coolly: "Xiao Ba, you said that if General He knew how Liu Rushi from Ran State died, and that Huo Lou, Minister of Rites of Ran State, was killed Who is behind Miemen, so will General He think you are innocent and harmless? I remember that you have done more than that, right?"

When I said these words, Xiao Ba's expression froze obviously. He withdrew his hand, looked up at me, a gloomy look flashed across his pretty face, "I'm your younger brother, but you're threatening me?"

Xiao Ba only knew that I sent guards to protect him when he left, but he didn't know that I had a few dead men follow him in private, so Xiao Ba kept the guards from the guards when he was doing things, but he didn't escape the eyes of the dead men.Those dead men have already reported to me everything that Xiaoba did in Ran Kingdom. I didn't expect him to be such a cruel and merciless person. He really deserves to be my own brother, with the blood of our Datong royal family.

Liu Rushi is the daughter of General Liu Wufei of the Ran Kingdom. Although she was born as a concubine, she is also a rare beauty.When He Wenwu led his troops to station in Ranguo, General Liu, the same military attache, seemed to be friendly with him on the surface, but he was very taboo in private, so he wanted to arrange someone by He Wenwu's side, and wanted to take the opportunity to monitor and get news by the way, so he did He asked his daughter Liu Rushi to meet He Wenwu a few times, thinking about making Liu Rushi a concubine for He Wenwu.Before He Wenwu himself agreed to this matter, Liu Rushi had an accident. It is said that when Liu Rushi went to the temple on the mountain to fulfill her vows one morning, she was entangled by some hooligans and dragged into the woods by them. Everyone in the imperial capital knew that Liu Rushi had been raped one after another, because someone hung her bellyband on the gate of the city.General Liu couldn't afford to lose this person, so he wanted to send his daughter to the Zhuangzi without asking, but Liu Rushi was blocked by those hooligans on the way to Zhuangzi, and then they dragged Liu Rushi into the village. There was another invasion in the grass, and after the incident, Liu Rushi was disfigured by being sprinkled with rotting corpse powder, and her originally white and tender body was also pitted.As a result, Liu Rushi couldn't go to Zhuangzi and couldn't go home at all, and finally died in a dark alley without anyone collecting the body, and the body was not found until it stinks.

Liu Rushi's fate was so miserable, all thanks to Xiao Ba, the local hooligans who raped Liu Rushi were pretended by Xiao Ba, when Liu Rushi was insulted, Xiao Ba stood by and watched, and still After finishing the work, he sprinkled corpse powder all over Liu Rushi's body with his own hands.As for Liu Rushi's father, Liu Wufei, he contracted a secret illness not long after, and died of festering all over his body. The entire Liu Manor declined because of the death of Liu Wufei, the head of the family.

As for Huo Lou, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites of the State of Ran, he died of injustice.Huo Lou's personality is very similar to He Wenyan's. He is upright and old-fashioned. He is a loyal and patriotic Confucian student. He Wenwu admires Huo Lou very much.But because Huo Lou was patriotic, he didn't agree to let Datong's soldiers and horses pass through Ran State to fight Zheng Guo, so his attitude towards He Wenwu has always been bad, and he always made things difficult on purpose, and even provoked Datong and Zheng Guo in the court of Ran State. However, He Wenwu didn't care about the relationship between the country. After all, everyone was loyal to different monarchs, and Huo Lou was indeed focused on the country.But later, in an imperial examination, for some reason, on the eve of the exam, the real test questions came out, but the real test questions were known only to the examiner who issued the test questions, except for the emperor who issued the test paper. It is Huo Lou, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites.You must know that the imperial examination is to select outstanding talents for the country, which is related to the future of the whole country, so Duan Mufeng, the leader of the country, directly punished Huo Lou's family in a rage, as a warning to everyone else.

In fact, the imperial examination questions were passed on by Xiaoba. Xiaoba knew that Duanmufeng's wine was not good, so one day he deliberately dragged Duanmufeng out of the palace to go to a restaurant to fight for wine. They hooked their shoulders and pulled their backs to make a fuss together, and Xiaoba said everything without restraint, which made Duanmufeng put down his guard, so Xiaoba insisted on setting out the exam questions.How could Duanmufeng, who had a bad drink, wake up the next day and still remember what he had said to Xiaoba.

In my opinion, Xiaoba has gone to two extremes with He Wenliu in a certain sense. He Wenliu loves me very much, but loves me so humblely. no regrets.But Xiaoba is just the opposite, he loves He Wenwu, loves him distortedly, intensely, possessively, he can't see the person he loves has other people around him, he can't see the person he loves being bullied, that's why he does it Come up with this series of things.

"Xiao Ba, you have grown up, you should understand that if you want to be unknown, you have to do nothing." Looking at Xiao Ba's delicate face, I couldn't help but suspect that he had deceived me with his attractive face and pure eyes. how many people?I said: "As long as you tell me the real reason for your return, I will help you hide everything you have done, and I will clean up all the things you have not done in Ran Country, how about it?"

Xiao Ba frowned slightly when he heard what I said, he was thinking, and after a cup of tea, he opened his mouth: "Then, brother, can you give civil and military a gold medal to avoid death?"

Xiaoba really made He Wenwu miserable, "Okay, I promise you." I replied.

After Xiaoba got my answer, he told the real reason for his return to Beijing: "I came back to Beijing to inquire about Huang Kun."

"What did you ask him for?"

"I suspect that he instigated Wenwu to seek refuge with King Rui." Xiaoba told me what happened before he left Ranguo: "More than ten days ago, I accidentally read Wenwu's personal letter, and read that Huang Kun sent Wenwu I thought he was very problematic when I wrote the letter. There were many places in his letter that mentioned King Rui. What was written about King Rui was so good. Duomen missed their days in the army. What else did they say? Let Wenwu go to Huainan to look for him when he is free in the future."

"You suspect that Huang Kun is wooing He Wenwu just based on a letter?" I think Xiaoba is making too much of a fuss and making a fuss?

"What one? It's 39." Xiaoba gave me a blank look, as if to say that I am such a stupid person?He said: "Wenwu sent troops to fight for four years, and he wrote 39 letters to Wenwu, almost ten letters a year, which is too many. Either he likes Wenwu, or he wants to win over Wenwu. I can see that from the letter. The person named Huang Kun seems to have grown up with Wenwu, so I wanted to go back to Beijing to find Wenwu's eldest brother, Prime Minister He, and ask him about Huang Kun."

King Rui extended his minions to He Wenwu. I didn't expect it. If Xiaoba hadn't accidentally discovered Huang Kun's letter to He Wenwu, wouldn't I have been kept in the dark.

I stretched out my hand to Xiao Ba and said, "Take out the letter and let me see it."

Xiao Ba replied innocently: "The letter is burned."

"Burn?" This little Ba is too unreliable, I said: "How can I trust you if you don't have faith?"

Xiao Ba said in a tone of whether you believe it or not: "Brother Huang, will I keep evidence that people think that Wen Wu has taken refuge in King Rui?"

I asked, "Then you burned He Wenwu's personal letters, and he wasn't angry with you?"

"Angry." Xiaoba said so, but he looked smug: "Those letters were originally placed in the books on the bookcase in his bedroom, so I burned his entire bedroom, so he didn't I would think too much, but I just scolded me a few words very angrily, and I pretended to be wronged and went back to Beijing~"

I'm a little speechless, Xiaoba really hasn't matured yet.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Xiao Ba continued to speak out what was in his heart: "I was just skeptical before, but when I knew that it was Liu Guogong and the others who impeached me and conspired with Wenwu to rebel, I was completely sure that Huang Kun had a purpose. of."

"Why do you say that?" I asked.

"Brother Huang, think about it, if you don't know the relationship between me and Wenwu, will you suspect that we are really rebelling?" Xiaoba analyzed to me and said: "If you doubt us, you will call us back to Beijing. Civil and military temper, do you think he will be convinced? He is fighting for the country on the front line, but you suspect him of plotting rebellion in the capital, can he not be chilled? When he has nowhere to go, he will naturally think of the monthly Huang Kun, who he wrote to, may then join King Rui." Then Xiao Ba said in a strange and meaningful tone: "Brother Huang, our brother Rui Wang is really not simple, maybe the one who wants to rebel is not me, It's him."

"This is all your guesswork, don't talk nonsense." Although I said that on the surface, I secretly muttered in my heart, Xiao Ba's analysis is too correct, so it seems that it is indeed King Rui's thoughts, King Rui has his own strength in the domain Moreover, He Wenwu had 30 soldiers and horses in his hands. If He Wenwu really took refuge in King Rui, the consequences would be unimaginable.

I asked Xiaoba: "You asked me to save the gold medal from death, because I was afraid that He Wenwu would really join King Rui one day? You want to save his life?"

"En." Xiaoba nodded, and said softly: "Although you didn't call civil and military officials to Beijing, the news that someone in the court impeached him for rebellion will reach his ears sooner or later. Wang." Between Xiaoba and He Wenwu, Xiaoba always takes the initiative, why Wenwu does this and that, I remember that they both have a son, why can't Xiaoba catch He Wenwu's heart?

I smiled and patted Xiao Ba's little head, I'd better comfort him, "Okay, I promise you, whether He Wenwu joins King Rui or not, I will save He Wenwu from death." Even if civil and military were demoted by me, my elder brother was forced to die by my dismissal, and my younger brother was forgotten in the harem, he did not turn to King Rui to drive me off the throne, but stayed at the border all the time, preferring to live a hard life. Willing to be an unfaithful and unrighteous person.Imagine if he was like this in his previous life, let alone now.

Hearing what I said, Xiaoba finally breathed a sigh of relief, showing a sweet smile, "As long as I can save my civil and military lives, I can do whatever I want."

I looked at Xiao Ba dotingly: "You are my imperial brother, what can I let you do? I only hope that you can live a good life, find someone you like, and live happily." Not like now , struggling to woo someone who is not worthy of him.

"I've found it a long time ago, it's civil and military~" Xiao Ba said happily.

"But if one day, He Wenwu knows that you have done so many things behind his back, will he still accept you? Would it be better to be honest?" I tentatively asked.

Xiao Ba was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly: "Brother Huang, didn't you agree to help me hide it~"

At this moment, Wan Fu hurried into the side hall, greeted me and said: "Your Majesty, there is news from the new moon in Qingluan Hall that Concubine Wen was summoned to the Palace of Compassion by the Empress Dowager the moment she entered the palace."

"I see, you go down first." Sure enough, the Liu family wanted their mother to use He Wenliu for surgery in order to protect themselves.

Seeing that I was worried, Xiao Ba picked up his teacup and asked, "Brother Huang, what's the matter?"

"Xiaoba, do me a favor," I said what happened last night: "Last night I stayed in the He Mansion. After I slept with Concubine Wen, I was smashed by the Imperial Forest Army, so..."

Before I finished speaking, Xiao Ba spit out the tea from his mouth, and after looking at me for a long time, he said, "Brother Huang, have you been raped?"

"Forget it...forget it." I replied depressedly, cursing in my heart, sleeping with my concubine can be called rape?If it weren't for Xiao Ba, you appeared in He Mansion yesterday, how could the Imperial Forest Army break in in the middle of the night?It's not all your fault.

"Then how can I help you?"

"It's very simple. Stay in Qianlong Palace. Without my permission, you can't go anywhere." That is house arrest.