Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 28

[28. Chapter twenty seven]

There was silence in the banquet hall, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they greeted Zhu Nanxian with hindsight.

Ma Shaoqing knelt on the ground, shaking like a sieve for some reason, but Zeng Youliang took out the demeanor of walking backwards, poured a glass of wine and handed it to Ma Shaoqing, smiling: “Shaoqing has such a big face today, even ten The three highnesses are willing to enjoy the full moon wine, Shaoqing, why don’t you have a toast to His Highness?”

Ma Shaoqing raised his eyes, looked at Zeng Youliang blankly, and finally understood –

this is a game, he thought he was the one who set up the game, never Think it was a deadly move in the game.

The wine cup was handed to him without a doubt, Ma Shaoqing’s mustache trembled, and he took the wine cup and bowed to Zhu Nanxian.

Zhu Nanxian hesitated for a moment, and was about to pick it up when Su Jin in his arms suddenly whispered, “Don’t drink.”

Zhu Nanxian reacted and covered Su Jin’s body with the hood of his cloak in silence. Face, took her hand and strode out of the mansion, leaving a sentence: “No need, this king is not used to it.” It was

almost midnight, and the streets were dead silent.

Zhu Nanxian took Su Jin to the direction of returning to the palace quickly, and walked quickly with the night wind blowing on his face, which was actually cold.

Su Jin’s mind was spinning rapidly.

Judging from the situation just now, Ma Shaoqing must be a chess piece kept in the dark and the scapegoat for this game.

Someone probably told him that he wanted to use the Full Moon Wine as a game and use the Xunyuelou old bustard as a bait to lure Su Jin, but he never thought that in this game, the person who really wanted to lure him was the Thirteenth Highness.

This also explains why there are two groups of people who help in the back kitchen of the Ma Mansion, and the other wave of people from other places to help, should be the real bureaucrats who are placed in the Ma Mansion. Thirteenth Highness prepared poisonous wine.

No wonder Ma Shaoqing just now saw Zhu Nanxian’s face as pale.

Trapping a governor is nothing, but if you trap and kill the direct prince, it would be the death penalty of the Nine Clan.

But who is this setter who is so daring to trap and kill a prince?

Su Jin thought of this, and there was a buzzing in his mind–Emperor Jing Yuan was old, and the princes used their own self-respect. They were willing to submit to Emperor Jing Yuan but not necessarily to the prince who was about to ascend the throne, and Zhu Nanxian was the younger brother of the prince. Hold the Jinwu Guard to lead the army, when will it not be removed sooner rather than later?

Su Jin paused and called out in a deep voice: “Your Highness!”

Zhu Nanxian turned around, he pursed his lips, seemed to want to say something, but swallowed it back and said only: “Don’t worry, this king I will take care of you.”

Su Jin shook his head and asked, “His Royal Highness travels, and there will be a few dark guards by his side. Is your Highness not aware of the voices of these dark guards now?”

Zhu Nanxian was startled . , He lowered his eyes and didn’t answer, he held Su Jin’s hand even tighter, as if to make her feel relieved.

Su Jin said, “I can’t move forward.”

She stood still on the long street and looked around, the surroundings were silent, the quiet moonlight hit the blue bricks and tiles, reflecting a cold light from time to time, if you didn’t look carefully, I thought it was the sharp edge of the swordsman.

Su Jin said in a low voice, “Your Highness, do you know why they are so slow to act?” She took a deep breath, looked up to the north, and looked at the end of the long street: “Ahead, it is the residence of His Royal Highness the Four Kings. “The

four kings sealed the domain of Peiping, and held the northern part of Shenzhou’s throat. If they could kill the thirteen princes in front of the palace of the four kings and pour this dirty water on him, wouldn’t it kill two birds with one stone?”

Zhu Nanxian was silent for a moment, and then pulled Su Jin to the east, wanting to take a detour back to the palace.

Su Jin shook his head again: “I can’t go either.”

She had always suspected that there was someone behind the troubles of the official before, and it was not without clues that she went back to the day.

At the time of the trouble, Suzaku Lane was full of turmoil, and the soldiers and horses of Nancheng were unable to support the situation alone, and it was difficult to control the situation.

When Su Jin asked why, what Tan Zhaolin said was that the soldiers and horses of the two cities in the east and west were on the road with the bandits.

Now that I look into it carefully, no matter how chaotic the capital is, how can there be rioters who can block the way of the soldiers and horses?

80% is that these two soldiers and horses have already been bought by people who want to let them go and make things worse.

So if you go west to east, there must be soldiers and horses from two cities blocking the way.

Su Jin didn’t explain, but Zhu Nanxian already understood, he said: “Then let’s go south, Tan Zhaolin is Zuo Qian’s person.”

Su Jin grabbed Zhu Nanxian’s hand and said, “Since they carefully set up this game , then the net must have been set up, even if the commander of the Nancheng Bingma Division is from General Zuo, what about his subordinates, or is there anyone else in ambush?” She paused, let go of Zhu Nanxian’s hand, and looked at The only place where the lights were lit in the dark night, “His Royal Highness, listen to me, there is another place that is safe.

” Although Wei Chen has not guessed who the person who set up the game is, the two uncles and nephews of the Zeng family There must be no way to get rid of it. They want to use Ma Shaoqing as a dead ghost to clear their suspicions, so they must have witnesses. Therefore, there must be a third type of people in this banquet hall. They don’t know it, and they are serious guests. If His Royal Highness took the poisoned wine just now, they can just prove that the banquet was set by Ma Shaoqing, and the drinks were prepared by Ma Shaoqing. This glass of poisonous wine was handed to His Highness by Ma Shaoqing.

“So, Your Highness, with these people around, the Zeng family’s uncle and nephew will not dare to openly attack you. Your Highness just go back and set up a table next to the two of them. Some people serve food, you let them taste first, and some people toast, you let them They will take the first order and wait until the dawn of tomorrow…”

“Until the dawn of tomorrow, my imperial brother will definitely come to rescue.” Zhu Nanxian said, “What about you? If I go back, what will you do? This dress, no matter if anyone finds out, is a dead end.”

Su Jin resolutely said: “I will go north, Your Highness will go back. Those who were in ambush when they saw me separated, they must have felt tricky for a while, but they did not dare to act rashly. This is just the right time for His Highness to return to the Mafu.

Zhu Nanxian was stunned: “You want to trade yourself for me?” Su

Jin raised his eyes and looked at Zhu Nanxian: “Yes, if you can exchange the order of Wei Chen for the order of His Highness, you will only gain and not lose.

” The hood is very large, covering most of Su Jin’s face, Zhu Nanxian can only see the faint moonlight flowing into her eyes, melting together with the fire in her eyes, revealing an exciting light.

Zhu Nanxian smiled briefly, looked into Su Jin’s eyes, and said, “You don’t understand.”

But he didn’t say what he didn’t understand, and then he took Su Jin’s hand and said in a low voice, “This king Take you away, whether it’s back to the palace or out of the city, if someone wants your life, this king will kill them.”

He turned to the south, and said without turning his head: “With this king here, no one will. I can’t hurt you.”

Shen Xi briefly explained the matter of Lu Yuwei to Liu Chaoming, and continued: “The Mafu has set up such a big game, it must not be to lure Su Jin to go, Su Jin is just a bait, they want to trap and kill. , someone else.”

He said, staring intently at Liu Chaoming: “If Lu Yuwei was bought by His Highness, and tonight’s game was set up by His Highness, who would kill the Seventh Highness in the best interest?” The

answer is in front of you.

The vassal of the Seven Kings is in Huaixi. If he has the ambition to seize the reserve, then the biggest threat to attracting troops from Huaixi into Yingtianfu is Zhu Nanxian.

At present, Emperor Jing Yuan is still alive, and the military power is still in the hands of the emperor, but Zhu Nanxian has led the army from the northwest for five years, but he is not a white-collar worker. When Emperor Jing Yuan dies, Zhu Minda, as the eldest son, will be the orthodox successor. Even if the seven kings are strong and strong, He was able to drive straight in from Huaixi, but he couldn’t stop Zhu Nanxian from the Northwest Guard’s command and attacked from the rear.

Therefore, for the Seven Kings, Zhu Nanxian would undoubtedly be his confidant’s serious concern if he wanted to seize the heir.

After listening to Liu Chaoming with his hands down, he thought for a moment and said, “Since the Seventh Highness has set the game, it is in vain for you to send people to follow you along the way, there must be a lot of network, there must be their people in the military divisions of the five cities, I am afraid even if even Zhu Shi The three secret guards have also been recruited unexpectedly.”

Shen Xi nodded and said, “Yes, I will go to the East Palace now and report back to His Royal Highness.” In

this palace, only two princes can lead the military guards, one is Prince Zhu Minda’s Yu Yu Lin Wei, the second is Jin Wuwei of the Thirteen King Zhu Nanxian.

Judging from the current situation, only Zhu Minda led Yu Linwei to the past to be able to make a strong enemy.

Shen Xi took a deep breath and said, “I’ll go back to the Crown Prince, and then I’ll rush to the Ma’s House.” As he said, his eyes suddenly turned cold, and a smile appeared, “It’s a good idea to take countermeasures to this official. They are all staying in the Ma Mansion, don’t even think about running away.”

Liu Chaoming watched Shen Xi’s figure disappear into the night, silent for a while, and suddenly called out, “Qian San’er .” Qian San’er walked

from the side of the court . Going around: “My lord, but the imperial censor of the city is going to rush over together with his lord.”

Liu Chaoming gave a faint “um”, and then said, “Please ask Mr. Wei again.” Qian San’er was taken aback for a

moment.

The Lord Wei in Liu Chaoming’s mouth was Wei Zhang, the commander of Jinyiwei.

But Jin Yiwei directly obeyed the orders of the sage, and did not give orders to any yamen. Liu Chaoming went to invite Wei Zhang, wouldn’t it make people feel that Jin Yiwei was involved with the Supreme Court?

Qian San’er said, “Master Liu, did you want Master Wei to rush over by mistake in the name of arresting the robbers?”

Liu Chaoming shook his head and said, “No, let him go to save Zhu Nanxian. Qian San’er looked puzzled: “Sir, but this…” Liu Chaoming glanced at him, then turned to look at the clear moonlight and said, “You said, tonight, if Shen Qingyue is in the Mafu to kill the seven kings all the confidants .

”

After all, Zhu Minda led Yu Lin Weiqing to clear the seven kings of the five city soldiers and horses. What will happen to the situation in the palace in the future?

“Your Majesty is old, the status of the crown princes is unbalanced, and the Eastern Palace is the most powerful. I will only be able to rely on the Eastern Palace. It will be difficult to act in the future.”

Since the situation tonight is a battle between the prince and the seven kings, then When Jin Yiwei went to rescue Zhu Nanxian, the first suspicion that Emperor Jing Yuan first suspected was not the Imperial Court, but that the prince had an affair with Jin Yiwei.

In this way, the final result must be 50 big boards each, and the prince and the seven kings are still in check and balance, and who will sit on the throne will remain to be seen.

Qian San’er suddenly realized, and bowed in admiration for a while: “Your Excellency is wise, it’s because the lower officials are short-sighted.”

[End of This Chapter]