Pei Gonggui

"Poisoned?" Jiang Zhan was startled.

These words sounded like thunder on the ground, making the chaotic scene in the hall suddenly quiet.Everyone looked at the little eunuch and the servant of the Huangmen who followed him into the hall and knelt down.

Pei Jun was in a daze, and was about to speak, but Jiang Zhan asked anxiously before him: "You mean that King Jin is dead? Where did you get the news?"

The little eunuch hurriedly prostrated himself and said: "Returning to the emperor, this matter has been spread all over the world, and it is too late for the palace to know about it. The slave must never dare to talk nonsense! Today is the counting of the soldiers and horses of the five cities." On the day when I heard that Maoshi was together, Prince Jin went out to inspect. Unexpectedly, just after leaving the Dongcheng treasury, Prince Jin suddenly fell off the horse before taking two steps on the horse. He vomited blood and closed his eyes. After passing the breath, I can’t wake up no matter how I scream. There are many vendors in the East Street early in the morning, and there are many people with mixed eyes. Everyone who sees them is frightened and shouts everywhere that the prince’s face is black and his mouth is purple. Poisoning! This commotion, the whole capital should be aware of it soon. Although the soldiers and horses hurriedly sent the prince back to the mansion, but after waiting for a long time, the manor sent people to the palace to invite the imperial physician... ...We, our news, we still call the Tai Hospital..."

The little eunuch whispered more and more, and trembled more and more, but the meaning of these words was understood by everyone present:

The relationship between the Prince Jin Mansion and the palace has never been considered close, and the doctors in the families of several major palaces in central Beijing may not be as good as the academicians of the Imperial Hospital.If Jin Wang's mansion never invited the imperial physician to the palace to treat Jin Wang at the critical moment, but instead came to the palace after a long time to invite the imperial physician, then it should definitely not be for emergency.And if it wasn't for the emergency, when the royal family in Beijing was dying, it would have been for another thing.

That is the death of the royal family.

Once a royal family member dies, his body must be examined and signed by the imperial physician in the palace before the news of the death can be confirmed and presented to the imperial court--at this point, it is confirmed that there is no hope of recovery. Submit the documents to Sejong Pavilion and the Ministry of Rites, and start to prepare for the funeral.

Therefore, what the little eunuch said, in other words, means that Jiang Yue is dead.

As soon as Pei Jun thought of this, his chest felt cold for a moment, as if a gap was suddenly smashed by a huge boulder, and the falling shattered the cold slag all over the ground, splashing his whole body with coolness, like falling into an ice cellar, or like a thousand arrows piercing through his heart , Painful.

——In vain he was still in the palace waiting for Jiang Yue to rescue him, but he neglected that Jiang Yue was also in a deep pool of danger outside, and now he was poisoned, vomited blood, and died in the downtown... After all, this was Jiang Yue's plan to fake his death. Or is it true?Why was Jiang Zhan detained him yesterday, and Jiang Yue died today?

Everything was too coincidental.

On the first day, the two of them made an appointment to have dinner together at the gate of the palace. Jiang Yue's voice was handsome and his laughter was still there. Now he has not yet attended the appointment, but he has already heard the news of Jiang Yue's death in the Forbidden Palace——

how can that be!

However, if this matter is false, the alleys outside Dongcheng Mansion are criss-crossed, the roads are facing the sky, and there are so many people, officers and soldiers everywhere, could they all be colluding with the rumor that Jiang Yue died?

For a moment, Pei Jun thought of Li Cunzhi's terrible change in the water coming out of the ground on the day Li Cunzhi entered the palace. He felt that Song Yi's voice of "Jin Prince is fierce" still rang in his ears. Song, his whole body swayed slightly, his feet seemed to be stepping on a handful of steel needles, and he murmured quietly: "No, it's impossible..."

Jiang Xuan hooked his neck and shouted anxiously: "Uncle, how could Uncle Qi be poisoned? How could he vomit blood? Why do you need to call a doctor? Uncle!"

The child's yelling was abrupt and piercing in the momentarily silent Liuying Hall, causing Jiang Zhan to look over with furrowed eyebrows, showing impatience.

Seeing that Pei Jun was shocked and unbelievable, he was about to ask, but the servant of Huangmen, who was kneeling beside the little eunuch, continued:

"Reporting to the emperor, the imperial hospital is not the only one that got the news! Long before Jin Wang's mansion entered the palace to invite the imperial physician, Dongcheng soldiers and horses sent people to the cabinet to appeal. They said that as soon as the prince of Jin fell from the horse, the department arrested him. A suspicious person fled through the back door. That person was very skilled in martial arts, and the prince's entourage could only intercept him on the spot. After searching the body of the assassin, it is, it is said..."

Jiang Zhan couldn't hear him hesitating, and shouted sharply: "What are you talking about, express!"

The servant of Huangmen immediately closed his eyes and kowtowed loudly: "It is said that the assassin has a deep relationship with Mr. Pei, and the evidence is convincing! Once it was reported, the cabinet signed and approved the order accordingly, ordering Dali Temple to go to the Zhongyihou's mansion immediately to take Pei. Bring me to justice, my lord!"

"What?" Jiang Zhan's eyes turned cold, "Why hasn't this order been passed to the palace for my review? Pei Jun is a second-rank minister appointed by me personally. If the cabinet wants to arrest him, it should always ask me first."

Hearing the words, the servant of the Huangmen shrank his head even more, and said in a whisper: "Return, return to the emperor, although this important minister is involved in the case, according to the system, it has to be approved by the imperial court... But in the early years when the emperor first ascended the throne, he was still young. The cabinet followed the last emperor's last order, and set the rule of 'constant with slowness and power with haste', which has never changed. Now that Prince Jin died in a busy city, the government and the public were shocked, and the murderer's envoy pointed directly at Mr. Pei. The cabinet thought it was an 'urgent matter'... Therefore, this decree has already been signed out. But Mr. Pei is not at the mansion right now. If Mr. Pei cannot be found in the Zhongyihou Mansion from Dali Temple, then... That……"

The servant of the Huangmen raised his head cautiously, glanced timidly at Pei Jun, and didn't dare to say any more.

But Jiang Zhan knew exactly what he was going to say.After slowly retreating back to the wooden couch, he squeezed the square corner of the low table on the couch with his right hand, and said in a low voice: "You mean... If they can't catch Pei Jun in the Zhongyihou's residence, they will come to me again." Take someone from the palace?"

The attendant of the Huang Gate immediately kowtowed and called "Your Majesty forgive me, Your Majesty forgive me", he shrank into a ball and did not dare to raise his head again.But at this time, another guard came outside to report:

"My Majesty, the cabinet ministers have arrived, and the princes of Sejong Pavilion have also arrived!"

"So fast..." Jiang Zhan didn't have time to give the order, but he saw Pei Jun beside him suddenly walking out with Jiang Xuan in his arms.

He couldn't help getting up and scolding: "Pei Jun, where are you going? Pei Jun!"

But Pei Jun seemed to be able to see only the gate of the palace with his red eyes, and nothing else, he had already crossed the threshold and walked down the stone steps in a short while.

——What he wants to do right now is to leave the palace desperately to have a look.If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that Jiang Yue was really dead!

Jiang Zhan quickly ran two steps, grabbed his arm, and pulled it hard: "Where are you going!"

Pei Jun broke away from his hand, and said with frustration, "Leave the palace."

"You are crazy!" Jiang Zhan grabbed his sleeve again, "Whether you want to stay in my palace or not, you have to stay now! Otherwise, you will die as soon as you leave the palace! ——The death of King Jin It’s too strange, someone must have set up a frame. They want to frame you to kill the royal family and plot wrongdoings just like they framed your sister. Naturally, they want to kill two birds with one stone, and sit and watch your Pei and Jin parties fight to reap the benefits of the fisherman! Now the King of Jin is really Died, died so suddenly, the Cai family must be inseparable, the cabinet wants to take you, it is nothing more than Cai Yan's means to completely defeat you, you can't follow their wishes and resist it. So hurry up and go into the palace to avoid it, and let me come—"

"Are you coming?" Before he could finish speaking, Pei Jun shook off his hand vigorously, turned his head and glared at him sullenly, "How do you know it wasn't your killer who did such an evil thing? If you didn't plan to kill him Jiang Yue, why did you suddenly detain me in the palace yesterday?"

Jiang Zhan's eyes widened when he heard the words, and before he could defend himself, he saw Pei Jun take a step closer to him: "Why, is it impossible? You have hated Jiang Yue for so many years, either because you are afraid that he will take over the army, or that he will seize the throne... You have already I think he’s dead! Now someone has killed him, isn’t that what you want? Anyway, whether it’s him or King Rui, life or death is just a result, so who killed him, who was framed, and who deserved it Fufa, is it important to you? The person who killed him is guilty and innocent, where he will go, and if he will die, why should you pretend to worry? Now it is better to let me take the blame for you, and let me die! "

These words were like a slap in the face, hard on Jiang Zhan's face.

He never expected that what he said casually to judge Pei Yan's murder of her husband at the beginning, now, through fate's tricks, it will be reincarnated on Pei Jun's body, making him inherit it and taste the bitter fruit.

After Pei Jun finished speaking, he continued to walk towards the gate, but was stopped by a group of guards rushing up in the atrium.

A group of guards pulled out their swords and waited for orders. Jiang Xuan let out a scream in his arms, and trembled with his hands clutching his lapel: "Uncle, uncle, I'm afraid..."

Pei Jun patted Jiang Xuan on his back, looked back at Jiang Zhan on the independent stone steps, and said in a cold voice, "Jiang Zhan, I'll say it one last time, let me out."

Jiang Zhan was condescending, looking down at him with cold eyes, and asked between his teeth: "Go out? Do you want to go out and prove your innocence to the cabinet, or do you want to go out in a hurry to see if King Jin is dead?"

Pei Jun's eyes trembled, and Jiang Zhan continued to grit his teeth and said, "Pei Jun, do you really think I don't know? Since years ago, you have been in secret contact with King Jin frequently, and you have heard and heard from each other. Deng Zhun, led the Sixth Division to meet him in secret. When you were hunting, you two went out to the camp for secret talks, and he even came in and out of your camp several times! You took the crime of treason and blocked Qiu Yuanzhi's marriage contract for him, and called Taiping Guoji suddenly Returning to the court, he also took away our court skills and craftsmen, and he handled the case of Li Cunzhi and your sister for you, and took care of Jiang Xuan for you—do you think I am blind? Can't see?"

Jiang Zhan walked down the stone steps slowly, stared at Pei Jun with unbelievable eyes, and gradually walked up to him: "Pei Jun... I will let you go, let you go, let you say it's business, or that he is looking for you. Trouble, I believe you! But now you are going to plot against me with him. Once he dies, you will think that I did it——but have you forgotten? You used to help me kill that You are the traitor! It was he who wanted to take my throne, it was he who had planned to murder me for a long time, it was you who said you would help me get rid of him, it was you who said you would help me guard against him, but now you are relying on My grace, guard me for him!"

Speaking of this, he suddenly smiled sadly, his eyes were sad, he looked up into Pei Jun's eyes, opened his lips and said lightly: "Now that he is dead, he died on the street with a green skin and purple face, maybe he thought it was you who killed him before he died. If you die, you will be hated to death in the Underworld...Then what's the use of going out of the palace right now? Just to see his corpse?"

Almost bewildered, he took another step towards Pei Jun and lowered his voice:

"A person cannot be resurrected after death, and there is no place to return to power. No matter how much you hate me, if he is dead, who else will you seek my country with? Who else can you help to the throne? Even if you go out now, it's just It’s all about paying yourself to the Cai family, he will never survive again. When you are captured by Dali Temple, not only will you not be able to save yourself, but you will also be unable to save your sister.”

He turned his head slightly to look at Pei Jun, as if persuading him: "In my opinion, you might as well stay in my palace to save your life. Pei Jun, listen to me... as long as you live in peace and prosperity in the future, don't think about it anymore." Watch him, don’t betray me anymore, as long as you stay with me and stay by my side as before, then I can listen to you what you want to do in the future. I will pave the way for you, and I will let you show your political opinions Ideal, I can also help you take down the cabinet and save your sister from the crime. Even if you want to take Cai Yan's place, it will take time. And... And! As long as you want, I will do it right away. Li Jiangxuan is the crown prince, and when I die, he will be the emperor! As long as you stay with me, you can still enter the palace to teach him to read, and you will be the uncle of the country in the future, and you can also help him to criticize papers and rule the world. With endless glory and wealth, no one will dare to call you a traitor, no one will dare to call you a sycophant... tell me, what's so bad about it?"

His words filled his ears like a devil's voice, and every word was the temptation of power.Pei Jun retreated step by step under his persecution, not answering, not arguing, not making a sound, but when he finished speaking, he replied in a low voice:

"No matter how good it is, as long as it is given by you, I will not care."

Jiang Zhan's face turned cold when he heard the words, and his voice tightened: "Then you would rather go out and die?"

Pei Jun looked into his eyes and said with great hatred: "I'd rather go out and die than suffer any hypocrisy from you."

"Okay...Pei Jun, you are very good! What I have done for you for so many years...in your mouth, it is a lie!" Jiang Zhan sneered in anger, and said coolly, "Since I You don’t want to give it, you have to go to the mountains of swords and seas of fire...then you get out of here! Wait until you and your sister have suffered through the Cai family’s suffering, beaten to the point of pain, tortured to the point of madness, and can’t think of Jiang Get better than that dead man, and you'll know how to turn around and beg me!"

After finishing speaking, he raised his sleeve and raised his hand, and in an instant, the guards who were tightly blocking behind Pei Jun moved out of the way, and their movements were uniform without any dragging.

Pei Jun was about to go out without delay, but just as he lifted his foot, he heard Jiang Zhan's extremely gloomy voice behind him:

"and many more."

Pei Jun paused, and Jiang Zhan continued after listening:

"Master Pei, I told you to 'get out', what are you holding Jiang Xuan for? Come here, leave Prince Rui's son for me."

Pei Jun's heart was chilled, and immediately he saw the servants around him rushing towards him again, with dozens of hands reaching out to Jiang Xuan in his arms, grabbing Jiang Xuan's arm and grabbing it out.

"Ah! Uncle—uncle!" Jiang Xuan's small arms and legs were desperately wrapped around Pei Jun's body, but he couldn't resist the seven or eight big men stretching out their hands to grab him.

Now he was really frightened and started crying, grabbing Pei Jun's clothes and shouting: "I don't want them! Don't... Uncle hug me—uncle!"

Pei Jun hugged Jiang Xuan tightly with all his strength, but the servants from all over the world broke his hands desperately, scratched his nails, scratched the back of his hands, and finally pulled his elbows with severe pain, and his clothes were about to be destroyed. Dozens of people tugged and persisted for a while with all their strength, but Jiang Xuan's little hand, which was tightly held by him, suddenly slipped out of his fingertips, in exchange for the child's tragic scream.

"Xuan'er!" He looked at the crowd, wanting to burst into tears, and tried to reach out to hug Jiang Xuan back, but on the other side of the hustle and bustle, Jiang Zhan, who was standing with his hands behind his back, ordered again coldly:

"Okay, the son is staying, let's send Mr. Pei out now."

The servants around answered loudly, and immediately rushed up without hesitation, picked up Pei Jun and walked out.

In an instant, the heart-piercing cry of the child resounded through the palace, but the footsteps of the servant stepped on it, pulling Pei Jun away without stopping.

Jiang Xuan stretched out his hand and shouted among the servants: "Uncle! Uncle, don't go... You are not allowed to take my uncle away! Uncle save me, uncle comes back! Uncle——"

But within a short while, the guards had already pushed Pei Jun out of the palace gate.When Pei Jun tried his best to turn around, the heavy palace door slammed shut in front of his eyes, shutting the chaos inside and the crying children inside, and even cut off Jiang Zhan's cold eyes looking at him.

He knocked on the door in vain and shouted, only to hear that Jiang Xuan was still crying bitterly behind the door, just as he was about to raise his hand to pull the door, Gong Chai at his side blocked him with just one hand.

At this moment, there was another loud voice behind him:

"The servants of Dali Temple listen to the order, and quickly take down the traitor Pei Jun for this pavilion!"

For a while, the servants around him backed away, but some other hands quickly supported Pei Jun and pulled him vigorously towards the corridor in front of Liuying Hall.

When he got close, he looked up in the twilight, and saw that the cabinet ministers and several clan members were standing under the red wall.In the first row are Grand Tutor Xue, Cai Yan, and King Tai, and in the second row are Zhang Ling, King Cheng, and Sejongge elders, and behind him there are a group of Dali Temple servants in soap clothes, exactly the same as the people holding him at this time.

Apart from Zhang Ling's cold appearance and Cai Yan's old-fashioned old-fashioned appearance, when everyone else saw Pei Jun approaching, they all described it as filled with righteous indignation.

They stared at Pei Jun, the chief culprit, who was arrested in desperation, and before they could start scolding, they heard Pei Jun ask in a word:

"The news of King Jin's death, but is it true?"

Seeing that Pei Ziyu, who usually smiles like a spring breeze and speaks eloquently, now looks defeated and hesitates in speaking, this description makes everyone present sneer.

"Pei Ziyu, what are you pretending to be? You instigated this matter, which caused King Yingnian of Jin to die and die in the city. This is what the common people saw and what the officers and soldiers heard. Can it be false?" Taifu Xue originally regarded Gangchang ethics as the basis for his studies and management of officials. Chong, when he saw Pei Jun walking out of the emperor's bedchamber with disheveled hair and disheveled robes, he felt that the scene was corrupting his character and insulting the sages, so he reprimanded him, "It's strange that the Marquis of Zhongyi can't find Mr. Pei. It turns out that Mr. Pei is actually the emperor of good luck." Chong, fearing sin and hiding in this Liuying Palace to seek the protection of the emperor! This act is in vain and disregards ethics, dare to ask Mr. Pei where is the shame? Where is the learning of sages? What is the virtue of being a minister!"

Pei Jun's legs trembled for a while, and it was all because the guards were still holding on to his arms so that he would not fall down.At this moment, he looked coldly at the princes and officials standing in front of him, he felt that he was out of breath, tasted blood in his throat, he couldn't say anything, and his eyes seemed to be a little pale.

Cai Yan who was on the side glanced at his miserable state lightly, and half-closed his eyes and said: "Master Pei has been proud of his spring breeze for ten years, brilliant articles, flattering thousands of miles, promoted in a short period of time, and uniquely favored by the emperor, how could he expect to have today... It will take a lot of effort to get you out of the emperor's palace until today...how could you know that today the emperor himself became enlightened, and he drove you out with his own hands before we called the door."

"This traitor dares to murder my younger brother...it is a heinous crime! Belonging to the Nine Clans!" Supported by Zhao Taibao, the Thai king pointed at Pei Jun angrily, blushed angrily, and said in tears, "My younger brother Standing at a young age, he has been fighting for me for more than ten years. He has no marks of sword wounds and arrows on his body, and he has experienced hundreds of battles—how could he have survived the battlefield and the barbarian interception, but now he died in the The poison of this treacherous thief! I hate it...I must chop up this treacherous traitor with my own hands and bury him with him!"

Suddenly there was the sound of a sword being unsheathed, and people around were clamoring "Brother Wang, calm down" and "My lord, be careful that the sword has no eyes", and there was an instant chaos.But then there were still people saying something, but Pei Jun could hardly hear them clearly.

At this time, the glaring morning light in the Forbidden City was cast on his head. When he raised his eyes, he saw bursts of paleness. He couldn't tell where the flowers were and where the trees were. Everything was very similar to the place where he was escorted to the execution ground in his previous life when.

For some unknown reason, he was pushed into the prison cart and sent to the main hall of Dali Temple. In a daze, he felt that someone took the shackles and put them on him.In a trance, he seemed to see a hand pointing at his face. It had distinct bones, long and icy white, rising and falling to follow the voice of the people. If it wasn't blocked by someone, it would have poked his face.

——This should be a very important person.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but listen intently, and finally the voice became clearer, and even the scene in front of him became a little clearer——

It turned out that Zhang San was in front of him.

At this moment, Zhang San was blocked three steps away by Duan Cheng of Dali Temple and two guards.His face, which had never been stern and smiling, was now flushed with jade, red eyes, full of anger, stretched out his hand, tremblingly pointed at Pei Jun's nose and scolded: "...in vain for my master to believe in you and help you!" ! You wolf-hearted treacherous sycophant! How dare you poison my master like this!"

Seeing him suddenly, Pei Jun woke up a little, and tried his best to ask again: "Is your master... really dead?"

These words angered Zhang San even more, and told him to break through the barrier immediately, raised his hand and punched Pei Jun, grabbed his collar and gritted his teeth angrily: "It's not true? How else can it be true? How else can he kill you so tragically?" Satisfied? Now that there are all the witnesses and material evidence, I have brought the assassin's body! This time, I want you to plead guilty and subdue the law, worth your dog's life, and use this blood to sacrifice the spirit of my master in heaven!"

The four people rushed forward again and pulled Zhang San away.Zhang San's hand holding Pei Jun's neck suddenly loosened, causing Pei Jun, who was being lifted by him, to lose his balance, and fell to the stone floor in the hall with his iron shackles on - but it was only then that he saw that Zhang San's feet had stopped A load of corpses wrapped in white cloth.

——This is the assassin who poisoned Jiang Yue.

As he thought about it, his brows gradually frowned, and suddenly his eyes became fierce, and he rushed over with his hands on the ground, and tore off the shroud——

"Aren't you giving up now? You ungrateful and cunning villain!" Zhang San was still glaring at him with hatred. Seeing him remove the white cloth, he became even more angry, "Although this assassin is disguised, his appearance is completely ruined. , but he still has tattoos from your father's army, and he even belongs to the scout battalion under your father's command! How can you make excuses now?"

Following his words, Pei Jun's hand that lifted the shroud suddenly paused.

His eyes fell on the corpse under the white cloth, and the pupils of his eyes gradually narrowed. Gradually, the defeat and grief on his face faded away, replaced by astonishment and daze.

The next moment, his expression of astonishment and hesitation gradually turned calm, and then he stretched his eyebrows, and suddenly let out an extremely ridiculous snort.Immediately afterwards, he laughed a second time, and finally burst out laughing.

Everyone didn't know why he was crazy, they looked at each other, but they saw Cai Yan in the high seat in the upper hall suddenly stood upright, looking at the corpse in the lower hall with a startled expression.