old friends return

This time, it was two days later than when he came back. Cheng Muzhi wrote a memorial earlier and handed it to the attendants around him and sent it back to Shengjing.

Although Emperor Hengde didn't care too much about the affairs in Cangzhou, but this time such a big incident happened, and it involved two neighboring countries, so he should be more cautious.

As for the matter with Cheng Muze, it's better to wait until Sheng Jing talks about it face to face.These assassins failed in the assassination, and the news could not be passed on. Cheng Muze is not a fool, so he naturally has a countermeasure.

When it was daylight, they arrived outside the city of Shengjing.

Liu Qingyan and Cheng Muzhi got into two carriages separately, preparing to go to court early in the morning.

Returning to Shangshu Mansion, Liu Qingyan was in a delicate mood.

One is to face Emperor Hengde again, and it is inevitable that he will enter the palace again every three days. After being honest with Cheng Muzhi, he naturally does not want to do this, even if Cheng Muzhi is really so "magnanimous" and let him do his own thing , he himself did not want to.

Furthermore, Cheng Muze's deal is not over yet, but this time he will definitely doubt himself, and how to get this matter over will be irritating again.

What's more, after returning to Shengjing, he and Cheng Muzhi would not be able to see each other frequently.

He was afraid he couldn't bear it.

Really, everything is bothering you... Liu Qingyan sighed, and pushed open the door of the Shangshu Mansion, but saw two faces, both happy and fat.

With a human face and a meowing cat, Yuan Bao held Tong Bao in his arms, and saluted him excitedly, "Welcome my lord to return home."

"Meow~~" Tong Bao also yelled twice in a very appropriate way, then jumped out of Yuan Bao's arms, ran to his feet, grabbed his clothes and began to climb up on him.

Liu Qingyan couldn't think of anything else in his mind at this moment, and quickly bent down to hug Tong Bao. He didn't expect that the kitty could still remember himself after being away for so long, "Tong Bao, why are you so fat?"

Pinching the flesh that was about to overflow from the cat's face, he almost couldn't remember what it was like the first time he saw him, the only thing that hadn't changed was probably the eyes.

"And you, Yuan Bao, why are you so fat?" Liu Qingyan looked helplessly at Yuan Bao's steamed bun face.

Yuan Bao scratched his head foolishly, "I've eaten too much, hehe... Come in quickly, my lord, I know you're coming back, I specially prepared breakfast for you, it's all your favorite food, you can use it up towards."

Liu Qingyan nodded while holding the cat in her arms, but she was wondering how Mu Zhi would react when she saw the cat.

In the morning, the atmosphere was rare and solemn.

Emperor Hengde looked at the two kneeling people in front of him, then at Cheng Muzhi and Liu Qingyan who were standing beside him, and finally threw the memorial in his hand aside, "The prince and the imperial envoy went to Cangzhou this time, and they really found out A lot of things."

"You guys are so courageous!!" Immediately afterwards, the memorial fell in front of the prison magistrate and the county magistrate, "Drag it down and chop it up, I'm upset when I see it!"

He didn't ask any more questions, Emperor Hengde only felt that these people were deliberately trying to create trouble for him, and those who could be killed directly in Cangzhou had to be dragged to Shengjing to show him!

At this time, the supervisor knelt on the ground and said calmly, "The guilty minister knows that his crime is unforgivable, but please listen to your majesty, I have something important to report."

Emperor Hengde glanced at him, but saw Liu Qingyan smiling at him. He hadn't seen him for many days. Emperor Hengde panicked for a moment, and he had been using the incense Liu Qingyan left for him recently. For □□ is even worse than before, the face is also a little tired and yellow, it can be seen that the kidney qi is insufficient.

Liu Qingyan's smile almost made him react.

"Speak." Emperor Hengde said to him, "I want to hear what else you have to defend yourself."

"The guilty minister is not trying to defend himself, but to say something that sounds a bit unbelievable."

"Oh?" Emperor Hengde finally became interested.

"His Royal Highness and the imperial envoy met an assassin when they were working in Cangzhou." The supervisor slowly turned his head and glanced at Cheng Muze. He saw a trace of disbelief and fear in the other's eyes, but more With confidence.

"At that time, the criminals were interrogated according to their duties. Those assassins were recruited, but they said they were sent by the eldest prince. The criminals asked themselves that they had not been tortured, and this matter was indeed unbelievable. Therefore, they cannot be judged arbitrarily. The assassins are specially brought along with them. Go back to Shengjing for face-to-face interrogation."

As soon as the supervisor's words came out, there was an uproar in the court. The courtiers lowered their voices and discussed, "Is it impossible? Is this person dying and going crazy?"

"Who knows? But it's not impossible. Everyone knows what the eldest prince thinks about the position of prince, and it's not necessarily possible to do such a thing..."

"That's not stupid enough to be discovered?"

There was a lot of discussion in the court, but the two parties were very calm. Cheng Muzhi was not that anxious. It didn't matter whether Cheng Muze admitted to this matter, but he just wanted to calm down his thoughts first.

If he wanted to bring Cheng Muze down through this matter, how much would he overestimate himself?

Emperor Hengde coughed twice, then fell silent immediately.

At this time, Cheng Muze said unhurriedly, "I don't know where to start with this lord's words. Although the royal children are so ruthless, but this palace and the prince, brothers and friends are respectful, this pocket is full of sewage, but it is called this palace. Avoid it."

Cheng Muzhi met Cheng Muze's eyes, and smiled silently, yes, brothers and sisters, when he was forced to kneel, why didn't he go over and take a look to show his concern?When he had an accident, he didn't go to add fuel to the fire?

Really, what a brotherly love.

The prison order was blocked by his words, and seeing the half-smile expression on his face, even if he still had some doubts about this matter at first, he can basically confirm this matter now.

So he finally said: "Your Majesty, the guilty minister knows that it is a capital offense, there is no need to lie about this matter in front of so many people, the words of a person who is about to die are good, please the Emperor to look into this matter clearly. "

Emperor Hengde's eyes fell on Cheng Muzhi and Cheng Muze, he pondered for a while, and said: "Come here, take the two of them down first, and put them in the prison, and hand over the assassins to Dali Temple. Check back in a few days."

"I'm not very happy to hear this today," said Emperor Hengde, "but today the crown prince returned to court and made great contributions. Not only the lives of the people in Cangzhou are safe, but also the vitality of the Japanese country is greatly hurt. I am satisfied. In a few days, I will have a feast for the officials to cleanse the crown prince."

"Su Wenquan."

"The old slave is here." Su Wenquan nodded quickly.

"I'll leave this matter to you, don't let me down." Emperor Hengde's face was full of smiles, and Cheng Muzhi looked at him, thinking of Emperor Hengde's smile at the coming-of-age ceremony.

It never changes.