After refusing to marry the prince, the general regretted it too much

Xie Heng lowered his eyes, and there was no trace of joy or anger on his face.

This is an answer that is both unexpected and reasonable.

The fourth prince, Duan Wang Xie Wei, is an "elder brother" who has an extremely weak sense of existence, and he has never met a single face so far.

Among the princes who had the jade certificates on their teeth, Emperor Hui ordered them to die, those who died young, and those who had accidents, and there are only four who have survived to this day.

Among them, the eleventh prince Xie Yi is less than five years old, not yet old enough to make trouble.

Duan Wang Xie Wei and Jin Wang Xie Ke are the only remaining adult princes of Emperor Hui besides the prince.

When the prince is out on patrol, the defense force around him is always much weaker than that in Beijing. It is not too difficult for Xie Wei to jump out to stir up trouble at this time.

But this person... never appeared in the original book.

Xie Heng pondered for a moment, then waved his hands. Gu Mingzhao took Yang Chong out wisely, handed it over to the guards, and then returned to the room, looking at the prince worriedly.

"Why doesn't Your Highness ask him any more questions? This man has acted despicably at both ends, and now that he is about to die, he may not be telling the truth."

There was no one around, so Gu Mingzhao spoke directly: "It's not a lie that King Duan has been unable to get out of bed all these years. He depends on all kinds of rare and precious medicines to hang his life. How can he come to harm His Highness? According to Yichen, it's still a lie. It should be more likely to be King Jin."

Xie Heng shook his head with a calm expression: "It shouldn't be Xie Ke."

He said it calmly, Gu Mingzhao looked at the prince's determined expression, and suddenly said: "You have played tricks again? This time, instead of slapping your face, just lie down?"

Gu Mingzhao thought, according to Xie Ke's toughness, he would have to beat him until he couldn't get out of bed for several months before he could settle down.

……

Xie Heng cast him a cool look.

Is Gu such a rough person?Still lie down?

The point is, there are certain things that can’t be done separately. Every time Xie Ke goes to the flower boat, there can’t be a grumpy wife with a lot of good hands to catch the rape, right?

too obvious.

Xie Heng thought for a while, and explained: "It was Xie Ke who insisted on rolling around in the East Palace, saying that the lonely person beat him up, and he didn't care about it, but he wanted to find some compensation for the lonely person, and he didn't want Ning Xun to go to Huai County to inspect the salt administration. .”

"His Royal Highness agrees?"

"No," Xie Heng said leisurely, "it's my father's order that I don't want to touch this brow. But I told Xie Ke that if I went to the southern border for the past few months, he would be more peaceful, and I would rather find him here." Huai County is sure to be safe and sound, Jin Wang agreed, and insisted on three high-fives as an oath."

Huai County is the domain of Ning Guogong Gu's family, and Gu's family is the crown prince's loyal supporter. The prince said that he wanted to keep Ning Xun safe, so Ning Xun will not encounter some fake "bandits and rogues" in Huai County. Even the real bandits can't see half a hair.

However, Xie Heng didn't really pin all his hopes on those three high-fives.

He just felt that Xie Ke was like a silly son of a landlord's family. He was a bit impatient, but he acted skillfully...it wasn't so unpredictable.

Even Xie Ke's title of 'the most favored prince by the emperor' can squeeze out half a catty of water. I'm afraid that after the death of the crown prince, Emperor Hui didn't have many sons, and he was afraid that the crown prince's family would dominate, so there was no choice. Yes, it was forcibly promoted.

For example, the last time Xie Ke went to Ren Ming Palace to aphrodisiac him, and even ran to catch the adulterer. He looked at the weightlifting with ease, but how could it be so easy?

Afterwards, the East Palace investigated and dealt with many court ladies and eunuchs, all of whom had been put in by Jin Wang's birth mother, Concubine Xian, after years of painstaking efforts.

Such a person, if you want him to collude with Yang Chong, and while secretly ordering Yang Chong to make troubles, and at the same time not forgetting to send a group of dead men to supervise the work, it may be because he thinks too well.

Gu Mingzhao didn't think of this for a while, but since the crown prince was sure, he didn't say much, he just said: "If it's really King Duan, he sent people to do it this time but failed, and we may not be able to collect evidence. I'm afraid it won't work."

After talking about this conversation, Xie Heng was already a little sleepy, and he slightly closed his eyes, as if he didn't care about it.

"That's after returning to Beijing."

-

When Qin Ye heard the news of the prince's assassination, he was sitting on the gate tower of Xicheng, watching several soldiers escorting Xu Daoyan, who was disguised as a soldier, walking towards him.

On the day before the invasion of Xicheng, Xu Daoyan did nothing, just stood where he was sitting now, holding a letter of persuasion written by Xinjun of Nanzhou himself, and tirelessly explained in various forms.

This man is not good at fighting, but his mouth is very sharp, and his tongue is like a lotus flower. In his mouth, the Xinjun of Southern Zhou's letter of persuasion that promised different surnames to divide the world equally is said to be heaven and earth. Qin Ye will regret it tomorrow if he misses it today. Find a rope to hang yourself...

Xu Daoyan was babbling here, and Qin Ye was not idle either. When he had nothing to do, he let the Southern Border Army he brought shout under the city gate, "Xu Daoyan led his troops to be punished for treason. In this campaign, only the leader and the rest will be punished!"

The results speak for themselves.

If another person had to come, even if he shouted outside the city with the imperial decree that Emperor Hui would not pursue it, perhaps Xu Daoyan's [-] elite men would still hesitate because of this, and after being appeased by the chief, they forced themselves to calm down and resist the enemy.

But it was Qin Ye, the well-known and uncompromising commander in the Southern Border Army.

Qin Ye was the signboard that made them let go of all hesitation.

In less than three days, Xicheng had already fallen.

Qin Ye was in a much more relaxed mood, and was even more pleased when he saw Xu Daoyan who had been captured. Just as he was about to start teasing him, he saw Lu Yanhe hurriedly walking towards him with something.

This is not the military camp of Mingjun, and there will not be many military security guards. The only ones that can be handed over here are the news of the crown prince and Yan Xuansheng.

His heart skipped a beat, he stood up, and without waiting for Lu Yanhe to speak, he grabbed the Flying Pigeon Letter from Lu Yanhe's hand and opened it to check.

Qin Ye's face suddenly darkened, it was even ugly and scary.

"His Highness was assassinated," he said, "I asked Yan Xuansheng to take good care of him."

It was noon and the sun was hot, but Lu Yanhe heard a biting coldness from these two sentences.

He mourned for Yan Xuansheng for a moment in his heart, and hurriedly remedied: "It is said in the letter that His Highness is not seriously injured, and since Yang Chong made a move, Lao Yan will definitely lead people to surround him personally. At this moment, there are some scruples. ..."

Qin Ye's heart is like a mirror.

Yan Xuansheng is not a person who is good at shirking responsibility, and he will not exaggerate or minimize the severity of the incident in order to mitigate his fault.

He said that the prince was not seriously injured, so his life must not have been in danger. He said that the group of assassins came out of the blue and took advantage of the situation, so it was probably hard to guard against.

What's more, before Qin Ye left, he also informed the prince about the communication channel in Southern Xinjiang that he had been operating for many years.

At this moment, seeing Yan Xuansheng's interrogation but not the prince's, only means one thing.

The prince felt that his own assassination was not a big deal, at least not so important that Qin Ye needed to be summoned urgently to interrupt the progress of attacking Xicheng.

This recognition not only did not let Qin Ye breathe a sigh of relief, but made Qin Ye panic.

The prince was assassinated and injured, but he got the news from others.

Lu Yanhe watched his father-in-law's face change for a while, as if he had finally made a decision, and didn't bother to press Xu Daoyan, he threw the horsewhip in his hand at him, and ordered: "Order five hundred guards, Follow me back to the county."

Lu Yanhe was dumbfounded.

"Aren't you staying here to count the books and count the prisoners of war?" He said with a struggling expression, "We just entered the city..."

Qin Ye nodded as a matter of course: "Yes."

He looked at Lu Yanhe: "The city has been taken down, can't you handle it?"

Lu Yanhe looked at his father-in-law's appearance that he had returned to the county despite his heart, and he didn't dare to say a word, he nodded and said, "It's done, it's done."

The return journey was no worse than when he came, there was no large army to accompany him and no food and supplies. Qin Ye and his men rode fast horses, and the journey took only two days.

He hurried back all the way, desperately wanting to see the person on his heart, but when he got to the gate of the city, he realized that he couldn't get in.

Forget about the closure of the city.

Qin Ye stood outside the city, looking at the city gate and sulking.

In broad daylight, the county city is still investigating the state of high alert for Southern Zhou's secret spies, so let's go over the wall as usual, I'm afraid it won't work.

Wait until night as before?He felt itchy and unbearable, and really couldn't wait for a moment.

In the end, the guards were sent to shout under the city gate, and Yan Xuansheng came out to pick them up in person, and asked the city gate order to open a side door to enter the city.

Yan Xuansheng didn't know why his father-in-law came back so quickly.

Siege is not a trivial matter, and it is not easy to be a shopkeeper after the attack. A strategic place like Xicheng, plus Xu Daoyan's [-] soldiers need to be disposed of. According to common sense, it will take ten days and a half months. .

As for the assassination of the prince?Yan Xuansheng never thought about it.

That assassination was really accidental, and the crown prince was a lenient and reasonable master, so he went to Du Ruoyuan to kneel down to plead guilty that day, and it was Xie Heng who had just woken up who helped him up himself, saying that he couldn't be blamed.

Indeed, Yan Xuansheng's main task was to lead troops to surround Yang Chong in such a chaotic night, and he was already very careful to be able to detect the existence of those people.

According to Yan Xuansheng's thinking, his father-in-law has always protected the calf, since the crown prince doesn't care, then this matter must be exposed lightly.

It's just... Seeing Qin Ye's face that sank slightly when he saw him now, Yan Xuansheng still felt a little thumping in his heart.

Is this getting angry outside?Who can make the father-in-law angry?

Qin Ye entered the city, got on his horse, and headed towards Du Ruoyuan. Yan Xuansheng looked at his completely different silent posture from the past, and felt worried, so he had nothing to say: "I didn't know it earlier, so these days, Only then did I know why my lord is like this..."

He paused, looked at Qin Ye's expression, and carefully said: "His Royal Highness."

He chatted endlessly about the current situation in the city all the way, but Qin Ye didn't respond to him, but raised his eyebrows after this sentence, and asked, "For what?"

Yan Xuansheng, who finally got the reply, was shocked, cheered up and said, "Hello, Your Highness!"

Yan Xuansheng gestured with his fingers: "Those correspondence documents, account books and national registries found from Yang Chong's mansion give my subordinates a headache when they look at them. Your Highness can remember them after reading them once, and find out that something is wrong after reading them twice."

"The subordinates led people to search house by house in the county, and focused on the places where Yang Chong's subordinates and Zhou Su confessed. His Highness never asked the guards to intervene during the whole process. In comparison, those imperial envoys and military governors sent down from the former Tangjing are nothing."

Yan Xuansheng spoke with high spirits.

He was originally impatient with these so-called big men who came down from Tangjing, and Qin Ye told him in every possible way to serve him carefully.

Who would have expected that the prince would be such a character?

He handles affairs neatly and decisively, and never suspects his subordinates. In private, he is really 1 kind and dependable, like a spring breeze.

It's just that my body is really weak, and I see soup and medicine in it from time to time.

Qin Ye listened intently, and the serious displeasure on his face finally faded away, but he bent his mouth and restrained himself from saying "Thanks for the compliment".

"Do you think His Highness trusts you?" Qin Ye suppressed the upturned corner of his mouth, trying to keep his voice calm, "It's just because you are in the Southern Border Army."

Isn't the general in the Southern Border Army your subordinate?

With Du Ruoyuan right in front of him, Yan Xuansheng's temper was not as good as Lu Yanhe's, thinking that he never said anything, he just twitched the corner of his mouth indistinctly.

After talking all the way, the father-in-law finally smiled a little.

It's the last two sentences. Although they sound right, but when you say them in the mouth of the father-in-law, there is a taste of self-respect and arrogance...