Tranquility

Although Mr. Pei is the concubine's confidant, he is a man after all. In order to avoid suspicion and his personality likes to be quiet, he chose a quiet corner outside the palace, and Shu Hongyu found it without much effort.

In the middle of the night, there was a knock on the door in an unhurried manner. If it was someone else, he would have been frightened to death, but Mr. Pei just got up and put on a coat.

He sat on the bed for a while, and after making sure that the faint knock on the door was not his hallucination, he slowly fumbled to light the lamp, and then slowly opened the door.

It has been raining recently, and it was so dark outside that Mr. Pei only had time to make out Shu Hongyu's face when Shu Hongyu blew out the lamp in his hand.

"Doctor Shu." Mr. Pei let someone in, closed the door, and put the extinguished lamp back on the table.

Shu Hongyu's eyes were already used to the darkness, so he found a chair and sat down, but Mr. Pei stood still.

"Mr. Pei seems to have guessed it was me."

"Doctor Shu thinks too much. Mr. Pei is not a god, but he just finds it unexpected and reasonable."

"Oh? So Mr. Pei knows where my lord has gone?"

"Indeed, not only do I know, I can save him, but why should I tell you, and why should I help you?"

"Hehe," Shu Hongyu said with a smile, "I just saw a girl named Cui Ling in a doctor today. I heard that her mother is an old acquaintance of Mr. Pei."

Mr. Pei unconsciously took a step forward, but did not speak.

"The situation is urgent now. We are smart people who don't speak dark words. With Mr.'s ability, it doesn't take so many years to seek revenge from the princess. Mr. is not a reckless person. It is easy to die together, but it is very difficult to protect yourself, especially since there is only one Mr. People, without the help of the family, only the trust of the princess, I am afraid it will be difficult to get out of the muddy waters of Yongzhou. Since the husband has worked hard for more than ten years and has not made any progress, why not consider cooperating with me." Shu Hongyu tentatively said.

Mr. Pei was silent for a long while, what Shu Hongyu said was on point, he was born in Yongzhou, grew up in Yongzhou, his roots are here, and his homeland is hard to leave.Moreover, he has worked hard for more than ten years, and he has seen great success, but these are all based on the trust of the princess, and everything is given by the princess. If he kills the princess, it is tantamount to self-destruction, and it is difficult to protect himself.

What's more, it's not the concubine who is in charge of the entire palace, but the prince.There is no impenetrable wall in the world. He works next to the princess, and the past with the princess has been checked by the prince. Although the prince looks down on his father, he will not want his mother to have a relationship with his old lover, so He is destined not to be trusted by the prince.

It's easy to kill a person, but it doesn't resolve the hatred. If he knew the truth from the beginning, it would be easy to kill the princess with one blow.However, if there is no if, when he knew the truth, he had already lost most of his life to go in. For the sake of the princess, he did not have a family and a career.

So he hates, he is not reconciled, he wants to destroy everything the princess cares about, her two children, her power and position, he will destroy them all, let her collapse, let her have nothing, only then can he relieve his only hatred.

He has been crazy for a long time, crazy to the extreme, that is, extreme calm, extreme forbearance, he has been waiting, waiting for the opportunity to strike.However, after waiting for more than ten years, seeing that the prince is getting stronger day by day, he is about to rebel soon, and the situation is imminent. He still hasn't waited for that opportunity. He admits that he has become impetuous, so facing Shu Hongyu's empty words, he hesitates. I don't know if I miss this opportunity, whether I will have a next time.

He doesn't want to wait any longer.

"At least I still have some foundation here, and you have only been here for a month, and you are the only one who can do anything now. Don't you think it's ridiculous to want to go against the prince, like a fly shaking a big tree? I'm afraid you will be killed by the prince before you leave the city gate." If you get it back, even if you go out of the city, there is no one around to respond, and it is impossible to run back to the capital. I don't see any hope of success in cooperating with you."

In the darkness, the corners of Shu Hongyu's lips twitched. Mr. Pei said so, and he was already loose, "I can guarantee that as long as we can get out of the city, we can go west and go to Kunnan. The prince of Zhennan who traveled with us last time is here There, there will always be no one to answer."

"Hmph," Mr. Pei sneered, "Kunnan has long formed an alliance with Yongzhou to rebel."

"Sure enough, it's treason, but I've known him for more than ten years. I believe that Mr. Xie can win over King Zhennan's power."

"But I don't believe it. I'm not familiar with him." Mr. Pei said angrily.

Seeing that Mr. Pei was so unhappy, Shu Hongyu was no longer angry, and said slightly mockingly: "But you have no choice, right? The whole Yongzhou is the world of the prince, and those who know that he is rebelling must either surrender or follow him." With the sudden death of the former Yongzhou Tongzhi, no one will form an alliance with you, except me."

Mr. Pei was so blocked that he had nothing to say, so he could only say awkwardly: "It seems that you know a lot, and that's all I know."

"I guess, if you can't figure out the situation at the beginning, after these days of hiding, you should have figured it out. At the beginning, I didn't believe that the son would rebel. He has no status and no soldiers. King Zhong is a timid and fearful person. No matter how you think about it, it is impossible to succeed in rebellion. But afterward, all kinds of unusual things in Yongzhou made me think about it. The former Tongzhi of Yongzhou probably knew about the rebellion. If you don't want to get along with others, you will be silenced, right?"

"Doctor Shu is really smart, and his guesses are almost the same. However, there are twists and turns in the matter of the former accomplice, and it took me a lot of effort to find out some of them. The former acquaintance knew that the son was going to rebel, so he pretended to surrender and went undercover several times. I don't know what kind of handle he got, but he was unlucky and was about to hand it out when he was discovered by the crown prince."

"Did my lord also discover something, so he was caught by the prince? Will the prince also silence him?" Shu Hongyu was a little nervous after hearing this.

"Your Majesty is very busy now. I guess it's been two days since the incident happened. I don't have time to pay attention to Mr. Tang. By this time, it is no longer necessary to block the news. Besides, Mr. Tang still wants to win Mr. Tang, so Mr. Tang has no Life is in danger. In addition, Princess Fushou seems to have taken a fancy to your lord. I followed her in to see him. He is in good condition. He is now locked in the dungeon of Prince Zhong’s Mansion. Princess Fushou sent a lot of things in, and he basically didn’t suffer much. .”

"No matter what, this matter is urgent. Any delay will lead to further changes. Take me to the dungeon right now. It's important to rescue the person first." Shu Hongyu stood up as he spoke, wanting to pull Mr. Pei.

"What's the rush?" Mr. Pei evaded and said, "It's Shizi's private prison, and it is tightly guarded, especially at night. Even if you rescue someone, you will be found within a quarter of an hour. On the contrary, there is still an opportunity during the day. "

"Then you prepare first, we will do it tomorrow."

"Hey, don't be so impatient, young man, take me to a place first."

"where?"

"Loyal King's Courtyard."

"What are you going to do there?"

"You think the son's private prison is so easy to break into. During the day, the guards of the private prison are changed every hour. The people I arrange can only guarantee that the person will not be found for an hour after being rescued. Now the city gate is under martial law, and everyone will be searched when entering and exiting. King Zhong It is a good cover. Although he is not worth mentioning in the eyes of the prince, he is the father of the prince and the nominal owner of Yongzhou after all. Unless the prince comes in person, the guards will not search his carriage."

"This method is not bad, but King Zhong is just weak, not an idiot. Can you persuade King Zhong to fight against his son? This is treason. If the son fails, he will definitely be unlucky. If the son succeeds, he will be the overlord .He has no reason to help us."

"It depends on man's effort. Can you think of a better way? With the bargaining chip in my hand, I can be sure that even if he doesn't help us, he won't inform Shizi."

"I have another question. The relationship between the son and King Zhong is already like this. Why did he let King Zhong live? He dared to commit treason. I don't think he dared to kill his father. Besides, as you said, he worked so hard. It's not for the sake of having an overlord over my head to rebel against me."

"King Zhong is actually a shield. With him around, Yongzhou is his fiefdom in the eyes of everyone. King Zhong is notoriously cowardly. If he is a little bit tougher, it may not be who is sitting on the throne now. You must know that after the death of the first emperor, he had the support of the entire cabinet. If he had killed Imakami heartily at that time, the cabinet would not have said anything. But he did not, so people in the world feel that he will no longer have courage Rebelled.

With King Zhong around, who would care about a son of a vassal prince? If King Zhong died, the son would go to Beijing to be enshrined, and instead expose himself to others. "

Shu Hongyu thoughtfully, nodded, and agreed to Mr. Pei's plan.

Zhongwang Bieyuan said it was another courtyard, but it was actually located in the southeast corner of Yongzhou City. This is a disguised form of house arrest. Fortunately, in order to deceive people, Zhongwang still has a certain degree of freedom. At least he can escape the summer heat in summer, hunt in autumn, and occasionally go outside the city. Dabei Temple had a talk with the host.

On a dark and windy night, Shu Hongyu took Mr. Pei to easily bypass the loose guards in the other courtyard, and woke King Zhong out of bed.

Fortunately, he recognized Mr. Pei, so he didn't call out.

After a few seconds between the two implicitly hostile eyes, Mr. Pei said, "Don't blame your lord, Mr. Pei has something important to tell, can you find a convenient place to talk?"

The knife is on his neck, can he say no?Obviously not, so under Shu Hongyu's coercion, King Zhong opened the secret room in the bedroom.

This secret room is small, and there are many daily necessities in it. It should be a refuge prepared by King Zhong for himself. When the three of them came in, it immediately seemed crowded.

Shu Hongyu pressed King Zhong to sit on the only bed in the room, and Mr. Pei stood and looked at King Zhong, forming a natural oppression.

Maybe it was because the secret room was stuffy, maybe it was nervous, King Zhong's forehead was already sweating, he looked at Mr. Pei with hatred in his eyes, but he didn't dare to speak.

Mr. Pei didn't care, and said lightly: "I know the prince hates me for killing your youngest son. Although the princess gave the order, I threw him to death myself."

When King Zhong heard this, his forehead burst into blue veins immediately, he ignored everything, and said angrily: "You still have the face to say, he is still a newborn baby, you beasts threw him to death, thanks to you, you are still a baby!" Scholars, I'm bah, adulterer and adulterer, a pair of poisonous mandarin ducks."

The corners of Mr. Pei's mouth curled up. He had pondered over this rival for decades and knew him well. King Zhong could bear anything in his life. Only this matter was the hatred in his heart and could not be touched.One reason is that the maid was really beautiful back then, King Zhong was moved by her true feelings, and that maid died at the most beautiful age, leaving only beauty to King Zhong.The second reason is that the child died too tragically back then, and was thrown to death in front of King Zhong, which completely exceeded the limit of King Zhong's tolerance.

"You will definitely go to hell after you die, it's your retribution for being childless." King Zhong was still cursing.

Mr. Pei's words made him feel as if he had been fixed.

"How can Pei be compared with the princess? Pei thinks she still has the bottom line of being a human being. In fact, when I was holding the child, my hands were soft and I didn't throw it hard at all. The princess hated the child at that time and didn't want to look at it. He thought the child was dead if he didn’t cry, so he ordered me to bury the child.”

"You mean, my son is not dead?" King Zhong struggled to squeeze out the words as if he was being strangled by the neck.

"Naturally, you have met the abbot of the Great Compassion Temple, right? The Zhiwu beside him is your son. Back then, I put the baby in front of the gate of the Great Compassion Temple, and I saw the abbot carry the child in with my own eyes."

King Zhong cried bitterly before Mr. Pei finished speaking. At this time, he had long since forgotten the knife on his neck. Wu, my son, my son!"