The mountains and rivers are quiet and broad

Soon they arrived at the Imperial Garden, and the moon was in the sky. Chen Ke pretended to be careless and got off the sedan chair, waiting for the development of the matter.

I haven't seen a sunny day for a long time, and naturally I may not have seen the moon for a long time. This crescent moon hangs high, and Chen Ke looked up quietly to admire it.

"Isn't the emperor drinking in the garden?" Eunuch Quan asked the eunuch calmly, holding his breath.

"I don't know." The father-in-law lowered his head, no matter what the father-in-law Quan asked, he just said he didn't know.

Eunuch Quan was aroused and said, "Put your face up!"

The father-in-law raised his head, with a small fair face, small eyes, small mouth tightly pursed, and his expression was very nervous.

At this moment, Chen Mao really came in a walking chariot, accompanied by Eunuch Kang.

Chen Ke was a little surprised. Before he could speak, Chen Mao asked first, "What's the matter?"

This night, if Chen Ke didn't have something important to call him out, he would definitely make Chen Ke look good.Chen Ke frowned and didn't answer.

Chen Mao also felt that something was wrong, and his eyes fell on the side of Quan Gonggong, who was a father-in-law he had never seen before.

"Who is this?"

Chen Ke didn't answer, but asked instead, "Where is Eunuch Ren?"

Chen Mao frowned, how could he know where Eunuch Ren was, but Eunuch Kang couldn't tell.

After having doubts about Eunuch Ren, Chen Mao deliberately alienated Eunuch Ren, and found someone to monitor Eunuch Ren. In the current situation, Chen Mao knew that something had happened.

"Go back to the Hall of Harmony." Chen Mao gave Chen Ke a look, and Chen Ke understood, and the two immediately decided to go back to the Hall of Harmony before discussing.

Chen Mao turned around, and suddenly an arrow shot out from the flowers, Chen Mao couldn't dodge it sideways, Chen Ke stretched out his hand and pulled Chen Mao to protect Chen Mao, but his right arm was injured.

"My lord!"

"Your Majesty! Help—there's an assassin!"

Eunuch Quan and Eunuch Kang suddenly exclaimed, and the hidden guards brought by Chen Ke quickly moved towards the flowers and caught a trembling little eunuch.And the eunuch who claimed to be Eunuch Ren's nephew ran out screaming loudly:

"Come here! King Ren is plotting a rebellion! King Ren is plotting, uh..."

Before he could run far, he was captured by the hidden guards.

Chen Mao was still in doubt. One was that the incident happened suddenly, there was an assassination ambush, and the other was that Chen Ke had no idea that Chen Ke had such skills.

"Hurry up and declare the imperial physician! Come here!"

There was chaos in the imperial garden, and Eunuch Kang ran to find the imperial doctor.

Chen Ke covered the wound on his arm, his lips turned pale, but he remained calm: "Be careful of them committing suicide!"

Chen Ke was referring to the young eunuch who assassinated and the face-to-face father-in-law.But it was too late to say that, the hidden guards caught them, heard the words and hurried to pick their mouths, the assassinating eunuch struggled twice, his hands and feet twitched, and he died.

The little eunuch who claimed to be the nephew of Eunuch Ren fainted from fright, and the secret guard stuffed a cloth into his mouth to ensure that he would not commit suicide.

Chen Mao picked up the arrow. Fortunately, the color of the tip of the arrow was the same, "It's not poisonous..."

Chen Ke responded in a low voice, let Eunuch Quan tore off the veil and bandaged it up briefly, and returned to Taiheng Palace with Chen Mao.

It was rare for the Taiheng Palace to be in such a panic. The maids and eunuchs shuttled back and forth, rushing in and out, making them a little more angry.

Physician Wang came soon.

"King Ren lost a lot of blood. Fortunately, the injury is not serious, and he can recover after a good rest." Doctor Wang bandaged Chen Ke and re-felt his pulse, "It's just King Ren..."

Physician Wang's expression was gloomy, thinking about how to speak.

"What?" Chen Mao kept his face sullen from the Imperial Garden to Taiheng Palace. At this moment, he only relaxed his expression slightly, and signaled Wang Taiyi not to hide it.

King Yan Luo Ren was on the couch with a cold face, and behind him was the emperor with a stern expression. The doctor Wang did not dare to hide anything, and said cautiously: "The poison on King Ren is much more serious than before. The pulse condition is disordered and the breath is not adjusted. It's time not to..."

"Got it." Chen Ke knew his body better than anyone else.

And what about Chen Mao?For this second brother, Chen Mao's feelings have always been complicated. Hearing this, Chen Mao's heart sank slowly.

Chen Mao always thought that Chen Ke was just a minor illness, and used poisoning to prevaricate him, but what the doctor Wang meant, it seemed that Chen Ke had indeed been deeply poisoned.

So is it true that you are looking for golden bell flowers and insisting on going west?Chen Mao remembered that when Emperor Xuanwu had just passed away, Chen Ke seemed to have changed, became more stern, and more unpredictable.

It would be a lie to say that he was not vigilant against Chen Ke.The two brothers who were already strangers had eight years of estrangement between them. If it wasn't for the recent reconciliation between the two, Chen Mao would have attacked Chen Ke first sooner or later.At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he was on guard against Chen Ke, but Chen Ke left the capital in a hurry.

I didn't understand it at the time, but thinking about it now, I'm afraid Chen Ke knew about his poisoning at that time.

Chen Mao contacted the time when Chen Ke was poisoned and thought of more.His eyes darkened, and he remained silent.

Chen Ke had no intention of explaining that the poison was related to Xu Qingfeng, so he skipped the topic and talked about what happened tonight.

"Grandfather Quan said he had never met that father-in-law, so I expected something wrong, but I still blamed him." Chen Ke first took the blame on himself.

"I don't blame you." Chen Mao sat aside and analyzed what happened tonight with Chen Ke.

At night, Chen Mao was still reviewing papers, when Eunuch Kang came in suddenly and said that it was King Ren asking to see him.

Chen Mao didn't raise his head, "Xuan..."

But Eunuch Kang said again: "Your Majesty, King Ren said to meet you in the Imperial Garden."

"Now?" Chen Mao looked up, a little surprised.He knew that Chen Ke would leave tomorrow, so what's the important thing about asking for a meeting at this time?

"Yes. He said that Eunuch Quan came and left in person, and he looked very anxious."

Hearing this, Eunuch Quan's eyes widened, "I'm not a slave! Your Majesty's lesson, your lord's lesson!"

Naturally, it won't be Quan Gonggong, who has been under Chen Ke's nose all day long.

Chen Mao ignored it and continued.It was a young eunuch from Taiheng Palace who came to report the matter. Eunuch Kang did not see Eunuch Quan himself.

King Ren is about to leave Beijing again. Only King Ren, the emperor and their close relatives know about this matter. Eunuch Kang became suspicious when he asked to see him at this time.

Eunuch Kang told the truth about his concerns, but Chen Mao still chose to go.If it is said that Chen Ketuo has grown up, why hasn't he, Chen Mao, become careless and conceited?Only then did the near-miss farce follow.

"Where is Eunuch Ren?" Chen Ke asked, and he hadn't seen Eunuch Ren since just now.

Chen Mao also wanted to know the whereabouts of Eunuch Ren. Eunuch Kang had been searched for just now, but he couldn't find it after searching the palace, so he didn't know the whereabouts of Eunuch Ren.

"The whereabouts are unknown?" Chen Mao said in a low voice. Under such circumstances, Eunuch Ren is very suspicious.However, Eunuch Ren followed him for eight years...

Chen Ke shook his head and proposed another possibility: "Life and death are unknown."

The assassin was not an eunuch, but changed into eunuch's clothes, fearing that he was hiding in the palace instead of a certain father-in-law.

The murder weapon is an ordinary bow and crossbow, and the arrow is not special, it is used for ordinary hunting and is very easy to find.

Chen Ke took the bow and crossbow in his hand to check, but he couldn't find any clues.

Doctor Wang prescribed a prescription, and Eunuch Quan sent him out.Chen Mao waved his hand and screened everyone away.

Only Chen Ke and Chen Mao were left in the hall. It wasn't just fate, the two brothers who had never been close had been spending more time together recently.

"Who do you think?" Chen Mao took a few steps, having an idea in his mind, but he wanted to hear Chen Ke's opinion.

"Who else could it be?" Chen Ke put down his crossbow.The assassination case tonight is so sudden, but after careful consideration, it has many similarities with King Jin's case.

The use of Eunuch Ren, the pretense to lure the target, and the framing of King Ren were obvious eight years ago, and they are still obvious eight years later—it was not because the murderer was poor or negligent, but because he deliberately repeated the same tricks.

"He did it on purpose."

"Yes……"

"I have never been able to figure out what his purpose is." Chen Mao walked back to the chair and sat down, "If he wants this country, it will be an opportunity many times."

Chen Mao was right, if Yan Keqing wanted to usurp the throne, the best time would be when Emperor Xuanwu died.Needless to say, Chen Mao put himself in the position of Yan Keqing:

"If I were him, based on my current status and reputation, I just need to use some more means to abolish me. If you die from poison again, the sixth child will be a sick child. He only needs to do it when his father dies, or fake it." Or even more, or directly raise troops..."

Chen Mao can come up with various methods, so Yan Keqing can naturally.But Yan Keqing didn't.

"You think it's Yan Keqing?" Chen Ke adjusted his sitting posture and looked at Chen Mao.Yan Keqing was his suspicion that he inferred based on various clues. Before there was no evidence, Chen Ke did not draw conclusions at will.

"A person who has been in the capital for ten years, a person who participated in the King Jin case, and a person in a high position, there are not many such people."——

The years in the capital determine his familiarity with the capital. Participating in the King Jin case may be tampering with it. Only in a high position can he have enough ability to realize these schemes.

"There are not many people like this." Chen Ke rarely raised the corner of his mouth, showing an expression that could be called a smile, "But we both meet the conditions."

In the hall where there were only two people, the voices were slightly lower or higher, and it seemed empty, and the emptiness deepened the sense of silence, and every word and every word could be heard clearly.

"Then you, do you want this world too?"

The candles were blazing, and the hall was brightly lit. Chen Mao stared at Chen Ke, not letting go of every subtle expression on his face.

"No." Chen Ke was silent for a moment before speaking.He didn't think about it before, and then he thought about it, but now he doesn't think about it anymore.

"As for me..." Chen Mao continued, even a little aggressively, "The world should belong to the world, but the dragon chair is already my dragon chair."

Chen Ke didn't continue to answer the conversation, the topic was off topic.

"Indeed, it seems far-fetched just based on the current doubts about Yan Keqing." Chen Mao picked up the topic again, "His achievements in politics are outstanding, and he treats people with restraint. In anyone's eyes, he is a perfect prime minister. But Yan Ke Qing has no family, no parents, no wife and children, all alone, looking pitiful.

But this background is fake - it is not a good thing if there is no reason to threaten him.

And what is behind the false identity?What is he trying to do?I—I don't like people who have too many secrets. "

Every courtier in the court, regardless of their official position, has something that can intimidate them.

It should even be said that there are many things involved in a person's life, and it is human nature to have things more important than life.Even though he was as indifferent as King Ren, didn't Xu Qingfeng appear.

Having said so much in one breath, Chen Mao's mouth was a little dry, the tea on the table was a little cold, he picked it up, took a sip, and then put it down.The cold tea has a slightly astringent taste.

What Chen Mao said, Chen Ke had already thought of it.But as a subject, Yan Keqing couldn't find any faults, so Yan Keqing became the youngest prime minister in history, holding the power of one person under ten thousand.

"You said, what is his purpose?"

Chen Ke can understand Chen Mao's anxiety.Knowing that someone is watching, but don't know how to defend.

"There is no need to be so nervous, after all, the military power is in our hands." Emperor Xuanwu was vigilant about losing everything in the same way as he had conquered the country on horseback.

Back then, the central people repeatedly came to commit crimes. Emperor Xuanwu slaughtered the central people and returned to the capital. After seizing power, he weakened the military strength on the border and firmly held the military power in his hands.

"Now the border has changed again..." Chen Mao spread out his right hand, and then clenched nothingness, "This military power is hot."

The two of them were speechless for a while, and after a long silence, Chen Ke suddenly said: "Keqing Yan may have set up a huge situation."