The Wife is First - 103 Chapter 103 Broken Ax

“Ask the messenger to bring this to brother. Jing Shao frowned. Could it be that something happened in Prince Rui’s Mansion again?

“No,” Mu Hanzhang unfolded the letter and read it carefully. Jingchen’s words were filled with caution. It seemed that it was not just a matter for Prince Rui’s house. “I wrote back to my brother and said that we still have the half of the package here, and the rest.” Don’t say too much.”

Jing Shao nodded. Although he didn’t know what happened, he was always right to listen to his princess. He didn’t remember anything about medicinal powder in his last life, of course because he was still stuck on the battlefield in the southwest at that time, and he didn’t have time to pay attention to these small things like backyard fires.

The letter was sent to the capital, but there was no reply. By the next ten days, Jingchen’s letter had not been delivered either.

“Something must have happened in the capital,” Gu Huaiqing, who came on time every ten days to read the letter, couldn’t sit still. “My people didn’t send any more news.”

Hearing this, Mu Hanzhang had some bad premonitions in his heart. During this period, Jihou and the fourth prince were too calm, and Prince Rui was in the limelight for a while. This was very dangerous. I believe that with Jingchen’s caution, it will be inevitable. If you don’t do something that attracts people’s attention, then it’s just someone deliberately flattering you.

“No, I want to go back to Beijing.” Jing Shao stood up. If something happened to his brother, everything he was doing now would be meaningless.

“Your Majesty, there is a group of people outside the city that broke into Pingjiang City.” The guard rushed in to report. The group of people looked very tough and had a royal token. The gatekeeper did not dare to stop them.

“You bastard, you can’t even guard the door.” Jing Shao kicked off the table at his feet, picked up his gun and walked out. There was a large army stationed in Pingjiang City. Who would be so bold as to dare to break through.

“Hey~” As soon as he walked to the gate, he heard the sound of neat horse hooves. He suddenly reined in the horse in front of Ruoshui Garden. The horse raised its hooves and made a clear neighing sound.

The leader was dressed in dark yellow attire, with a stern face, not angry but powerful. He was very similar to Jing Shao, but his eyes were like a torch and he was very calm. Who else could he be if he wasn’t Jing Chen?

“Brother!” Jing Shao exclaimed.

Mu Hanzhang and Gu Huaiqing heard the noise and ran out. They saw Jingchen sitting on the horse, followed by a dozen big men in black, breathing long and imposing.

When Jingchen saw his younger brother, he couldn’t help but relax. Suddenly his vision went dark and he fell off his horse.

“Brother!” Jing Shao saw this and was about to pick him up. Someone was faster than him, so he saw Gu Huaiqing jump up and snatch the person into his arms accurately.

“My subordinate Mo Yun’s Eighteen Riders, on the order of the Emperor, escort His Royal Highness Prince Rui to Pingjiang.” The men in black dismounted their horses and saluted Jing Shao.

Mo Yun’s Eighteen Riders? Jing Shao couldn’t help but glance at them. He knew these eighteen people. They were the top masters of the royal guards and only obeyed the orders of his father.

“He’s injured!” Gu Huaiqing exclaimed when she smelled a faint smell of blood on the person in her arms.

“Come to the house quickly.” Mu Hanzhang immediately sent someone to ask for a doctor, and then asked someone to take the eighteen people down to rest. Jing Shao quickly followed in.

Jingchen woke up as soon as he was put on the bed, fended off Gu Huaiqing who was getting too close, and sat up on his own.

“Brother, where are you injured?” Jing Shao pushed Gu Huaiqing back, who was in the way, and sat on the edge of the bed.

“I’m a little tired from the long journey, so it’s okay.” Jingchen shook his head. Seeing that the two people beside the bed didn’t believe it at all, he had to pull open a sleeve and let them look at the forearm wrapped in white cloth. “On the way Encountered an ambush, just a minor injury.”

Jing Shao looked up and down and made sure there were no other injuries before giving up.

Mu Hanzhang dismissed a bunch of his servants and walked in with tea: “Mo Yun’s Eighteen Cavalry has been placed in the guest courtyard. They insisted on coming to guard it, but I persuaded them to go back.”

Jingchen nodded, took the tea and drank a cup.

“What happened in Jingzhong?” Jing Shao took out the sapphire vial and bandaged his brother’s wound again.

“Someone in the court is accusing you of being passive and sabotaging your work. My father asked me to be the supervisor.” Jing Chen’s eyes were deep, and the matter was obviously not that simple.

“It’s too slow for me to conquer two cities in two years. If you have the ability, let Jing Yu come and attack!” Jing Shao was very angry when he heard this. In his last life, when he attacked Huainan, those people also said the same thing. Later, the eldest prince, The four princes took turns, and no one was beaten so badly that he had to clean up the mess in the end.

“That’s what they say on the surface. In fact, my father asked me to come and get the half bottle of powder in person.” Jingchen said and looked at Mu Hanzhang.

Mu Hanzhang was shocked. He did not go to get the powder. Instead, he walked a few steps to the bed and stood behind Jing Shao: “What does your father want this powder for?” The matter of the powder was originally a matter for the inner chamber of Prince Rui’s Mansion. How could it happen? Emperor Hongzheng is involved?

Jingchen shook his head, lowered his eyes and said, “My father asked me to leave in a hurry. I was not even allowed to return to Prince Rui’s Mansion. He just asked Mo Yun’s Eighteen Cavalry to follow me out of the city.”

Hearing this, Jing Shao and his princess looked at each other, with some surprise and uncertainty in each other’s eyes. It’s not like sending him on some errand, it’s more like escorting him!

Jingchen was silent for a long time, then slowly and briefly explained what happened recently.

Jingchen went to investigate Mo Bei’s matter at that time. She was very close to the wives of many princes and princes in Beijing. Because Jing Shao felt that there was something wrong, he went to investigate more closely and found out that she was the last one. Among the people who often came into contact with Mo Bei was Mrs. Mao Guogong. However, when the matter was investigated, there was nothing else. Until a few days ago, a concubine of Maoguo’s family suddenly collapsed during childbirth, and neither mother nor child could be saved. Some people said that this situation was very similar to that of the Yuan Dynasty.

This matter seemed to be just a casual chat, but Jingchen felt that it was not that simple, so he asked Concubine Shu to disclose the matter to Emperor Hongzheng as a casual chat. Unexpectedly, Emperor Hongzheng suddenly changed his face and immediately asked Jingchen to Chen investigated the matter of incense ash, but he searched the capital and could not find it.

After Jingchen finished speaking, several people couldn’t help but frown even more tightly. At this point, the matter became even more confusing and confusing.

“Don’t think about it now. Jingchen must be exhausted from traveling all night under the stars. Let’s talk about anything tomorrow.” Seeing the fatigue on Jingchen’s face, Gu Huaiqing opened her mouth and hurried Wang and his wife out, but she had no intention of going out at all.

Jingchen glanced at him: “You go out too.”

Gu Huaiqing laughed dryly and was dragged away by Jing Shao who was gloating about his misfortune.

I don’t know what happened in the capital, but there has been no decree. It was said that Jingchen would be appointed as the supervisor, but there was no word on when it would be done. However, he was content with what he had come. Jingchen didn’t seem to have any worries. He walked around Pingjiang City and even went to Luzhou to carefully read the trade regulations revised by Mu Hanzhang and put forward some objections. Something Shao Mu Hanzhang didn’t expect.

Gu Huaiqing, on the other hand, abandoned the battlefield and volunteered to hang out with him as a servant. Jing Shao was tired of fighting alone, so he left his generals to fight on the battlefield while he stayed at home raising tigers to accompany the princess.

“Those who attacked my brother on the road were all killed by Mo Yun’s Eighteen Cavalry.” Mu Hanzhang glanced at the eighteen people practicing not far away. These people were completely serving the emperor and could be sent to protect Prince Rui. It shows that Emperor Hongzheng has no intention of dealing with Jingchen.

“You don’t have to think about it to know who sent it.” Jing Shao wiped the sword in his hand. Although his father seemed to be protecting his brother, the weird situation before leaving the capital made him uneasy about Jing Chen going back on his own. of.

“I think…” Mu Hanzhang looked at the eighteen powerful masters and then at the sword in Jing Shao’s hand, thoughtfully.

“Huh?” Jing Shao sheathed his sword and looked up at his princess.

“Maybe my father asked my brother to come to you just to protect him.” Mu Hanzhang pursed his lips. Although it was a bit unbelievable to say this, it is not easy to protect Jingchen with the power of the emperor. Why go around this big place? lock up.

“Ah?” Jing Shao opened his mouth in surprise, and then sneered disdainfully. When would his father consider this? If he could still think of protecting his son, he would not have been taken out of the cell at will and forced to die on the cliff of Fengyue Mountain.

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it’s not good!” The soldier guarding the gate stumbled in, “Someone from the capital came to declare the imperial edict, and they came with a prison car!”

“What?” Mu Hanzhang stood up immediately, prison car! Why bring a prison van? Maybe their affair with King Huainan was exposed, so he couldn’t help but tighten his grip on Jing Shao’s hand.

Jing Shao hugged back comfortingly: “Where are you?”

“We have already arrived in front of the door and bumped into His Royal Highness Prince Rui!” This was the reason why he was panicking. When the man saw Prince Rui, he didn’t even enter the door and just handed over the rice paper. It was obvious that he was not a good person.

“Let’s go take a look.” Jing Shao calmed down at this time, holding the sword in one hand and holding his princess with the other, and said in a deep voice.

When the two of them walked to the door, they saw Gu Huaiqing pulling out the sword from her waist and standing in front of Jingchen. Opposite there were more than 20 people in military uniforms followed by an official who announced the decree. Behind him was a wooden prison cart and two people with weapons. The shackled man was about to step forward, but was forced back a few steps by Gu Huaiqing’s sword. The atmosphere was very tense.

“His Royal Highness Prince Rui, are you going to resist the decree?” The official looked surprised. He should not be a high-ranking official of the third rank or above.

“Go and call the Eighteenth Cavalry.” Jing Shao whispered in Mu Hanzhang’s ear.

Mu Hanzhang nodded and turned back to the courtyard.

“What is the decree? Show it to the king?” Jing Shao reached out to ask for the imperial decree. The official felt confident and handed him the yellow silk in his hand. I lowered my head and glanced at it. It was obviously not the handwriting of Emperor Hongzheng, but there was a seal of the Imperial Seal at the signature, so it didn’t seem to be a forgery.

“Your Majesty has an order for me to bring Prince Rui back to the capital as soon as possible. Your Highness, Prince Cheng, must not embarrass us,” the official said with a smile, “Prince Rui intends to poison your father and conspire to seize the throne. This is an unforgivable crime, and if His Highness King Cheng obstructs it, he should be punished with the same crime.”

When Jingchen heard this, he felt like he was struck by lightning. His father asked him to investigate the powder. Could it be because his father himself also took the medicine?

Jing Shao snorted coldly and pulled out his sword with a swipe.

“Jing Shao, don’t be impulsive!” Jing Chen shouted and gently pushed away Gu Huaiqing’s sword-holding hand, “I’ll go back with them.”

“No!” Gu Huaiqing blocked him again, refusing to let the man in shackles get close to Jingchen no matter what.

“Conspiracy to seize the throne?” When Jing Shao heard these words, he felt that the blood all over his body froze. Among his crimes back then, the biggest one was conspiracy to seize the throne! Now, this crime he had avoided had fallen on his brother again.

“His Royal Highness Cheng Wang, please think clearly, don’t…” Before the official finished his sentence, his eyes suddenly widened and he looked at Jing Shao in disbelief, and then at his own body. Blood instantly flowed from his neck. It spurted out and died unexpectedly.

Jing Shao shook the sword in his hand as calmly as if he had just chopped a branch. The soldiers escorting the prison van suddenly became confused.

“Eighteen Mo Yun are riding here, who dares to touch Prince Rui!” A profound roar came from the courtyard, and eighteen guards in black instantly surrounded Jingchen in the center.

Jing Shao pointed at those people with the bloody sword tip: “Leave no one behind.”

“Keep one alive!” Mu Hanzhang quickly answered.

Mo Yun’s Eighteen Cavalry got Jing Chen’s approval, and they all used their swords, just like chopping melons and vegetables. They killed the soldiers in the blink of an eye, leaving only the big man with the shackles.

The man was so frightened that his legs were weak and he knelt on the ground tremblingly. He no longer had the ferocious arrogance he had just now.

“Who are you?” Jing Shao put his sword against the big man’s chin and said coldly.

“Hui, Hui Cheng Wang is a thousand years old. We are the jailers of the Punishment Department, and the one who passed the order is the head of the Punishment Department.” The big man stuttered in fright and honestly told everything he knew.

“Who asked you to come?” Mu Hanzhang stood next to Jing Shao.

“I don’t know, I don’t know, but the master in charge said that he was going to Jiangnan to spread the imperial edict, so I followed him…” After the man finished speaking, he suddenly fell down, fainted from fright, and there was a pool of yellow dirt flowing under his body. things.

Jing Shao immediately hugged his princess and retreated to the steps, asking someone to lock up the big man first.

Back in the courtyard, Jingchen took the imperial edict and looked at it carefully, and gradually frowned: “This jade seal is real.” The person who wrote the imperial edict does not have to be the emperor himself, but as long as it is stamped with the jade seal, it is authentic. of the imperial edict.

“Anyway, he has been killed,” Jing Shao said nonchalantly, “If my father asks, just say that he met the Huainan army on the road and was killed by King Huainan.”

When Gu Huaiqing heard this, his face suddenly darkened: “How much more shame are you going to put on me?”

“Anyway, you are already a treasonous criminal, so that’s all.” Jing Shao leaned on his princess and bared his teeth at the King of Huainan. Xiao Huang climbed onto the soft cave and bared his teeth too, but he was much more ferocious than Jing Shao.

Mu Hanzhang looked at the three guys with a headache who didn’t know that the disaster was coming. He sighed and looked at Jingchen: “If this imperial edict is true, what should we do?”

Jingchen’s eyes were deep, he rolled up the imperial edict in his hand, and slowly held it tightly: “There is no news now, there are only two possibilities. One, my father really wants to take me back for questioning; the other, my father has already The power was taken away by Jing Yu.” Since Mo Yun’s Eighteen Cavalry are still here, Emperor Hongzheng must have given instructions before leaving, so the first possibility is unlikely.

“There is another possibility,” Mu Hanzhang slowly stroked the tiger’s tail, “Father is also testing to see who is the poisoner.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was startled. Jingchen pondered for a long time: “That’s right.” He must have been suspicious of him when he was not allowed to return to Prince Rui’s Mansion. With Emperor Hongzheng’s methods, even if he was terminally ill, he would not be exposed. Yu, the useless person, took the power.

“No matter what the situation is, we won’t know until we return to Beijing.” Mu Hanzhang looked at Jing Shao.

Jing Shao’s eyes were full of coldness: “I will bring 50,000 soldiers and horses back. If it doesn’t work, I will fight back to the imperial city!”