After Being Forced to Marry the Evil Star General - Chapter 82

Zhao Yelan was summoned into the palace on this day, and three days later it will be the sacrificial ceremony of the late emperor, Zhao Xuan asked him to discuss important matters.

Zhao Xuan didn’t want to hold it too grandly, but Xuanchao always attached great importance to sacrificial ceremonies, so superficial efforts must be made.

But Zhao Xuan came to him not just to discuss how to hold sacrifices, which are in charge of the Ministry of Rites, but to discuss how to deal with the people in other palaces.

There is also a former prince under house arrest in the other palace.

When he seized the throne, the deposed prince was the first to be dismounted, and then the other families began to seek momentum. When the second and fourth princes saw that Zhao Xuan started to show off his sharpness, they joined forces and sent people to assassinate them, but that time there was no danger, Jin Lingwei rescued them in time, and Zhao Yelan also blocked an arrow for him. Afterwards, the two planned to murder the two princes.

Now apart from Zhao Xuan, there is only the former prince, and a cowardly and innocent fifth prince. After Zhao Xuan ascended the throne, the fifth prince was sent to the northern border to be a vassal. During the Chinese New Year, he even went to Beijing to attend the state banquet. He has not returned so far, and he will return after attending the ceremony.

“The people in the Ministry of Rites said that the former prince should participate in the sacrificial ceremony. Is there any way to prevent him from participating?” Zhao Xuan asked.

“Yes, assassinate him before he participates.” Zhao Yelan said.

Zhao Xuan laughed: “Doesn’t that make the Ministry of Rites and the group of speakers more interesting?”

Zhao Yelan sighed: “Why is this guy still not dying?”

The Biegong is called Biegong, but it is actually a deserted cold palace, on the hillside in the outskirts of the city, there are only a dozen servants cleaning it, and the former prince who was dissolute by nature suffered a lot.

I thought that after a few years, I would be able to die. Last year, I sent Yu Junliang to visit the other palace. When I came back, I said that the other party was already a little crazy, but I didn’t expect that he was still alive.

“Forget it, forgive him for not being a good person, let him participate. Let the emperor’s spirit in heaven also see how messed up his favorite prince is now.” Zhao Xuan said, “Take someone to the other palace to inform him. “

“yes.”

After Zhao Yelan left the palace, he set off immediately. When he passed the market, he happened to bump into Yan Mingting who was on patrol.

Yan Mingting asked him where he was going, he said another palace.

“I’ll go with you.” Yan Mingting glanced at the dozen or so guards he brought, and whispered, “Why do you bring people from the imperial army? I don’t know that your husband is a general. There are too many people under his command. You Just go to the school grounds and pick a few are better than these people.”

Zhao Yelan laughed and said, “The emperor arranged it.”

“Don’t listen to him, wait until I find some new people.” Yan Mingting yelled along the road, and after a while, He Cuizhang, Zuo Ran and others appeared.

Hearing the chirping of the group behind him, Zhao Yelan always felt that he was bringing a flock of birds with him.

“When you get to the other palace, you should keep quiet, do you hear me?”

“I heard.” Everyone agreed again and again.

The mountain road in the other palace was rugged, but fortunately Yan Mingting pulled him, and after walking for a while, he directly picked him up. In front of the other palace, he quickly patted Yan Mingting on the back: “Okay, okay, let me down quickly.”

“Why, I’m an old couple, and I’m still shy.” Yan Mingting joked, and put him down.

“You are all waiting outside.” After Zhao Yelan finished speaking, he turned around and walked inside, only to find that Yan Mingting had also followed, and said, “You should wait for me outside too.”

“No, I heard that the former prince is a little crazy, I must protect your safety.”

Zhao Yelan still had some doubts, and warned: “Then he will talk nonsense later, you must not worry about it.”

“Okay.” Yan Mingting looked around, the place had been abandoned for a long time, and even the servants were somewhat perfunctory.

Zhao Yelan had been here several times, so when the servants saw him, they called Mr. Zhao, but when they looked at Yan Mingting again, they were a little dazed, as if they didn’t know who he was.

The news here is limited, and even the food is brought up by people from the bottom of the mountain. I am afraid that even Yan Mingting’s deeds are rarely heard, let alone his appearance.

The two of them didn’t intend to make more introductions, so they walked straight inside until they came to a door, and saw a person lying on the floor next to the bed, holding a jug of wine in his hand, holding it high, half of the wine It fell into the mouth, half of it dripped on the face, and laughed loudly: “Good wine, good wine, Xiao Er, serve me another jar.”

Zhao Yelan walked in and said, “The sacrificial ceremony of the late emperor will be held in three days, and the First Prince is invited to watch the ceremony.”

Zhao Xu turned to look at him, and asked after a while: “Zhao Yelan? Are you here again?”

Zhao Yelan remained silent.

Zhao Xu sneered a few times, threw the jug at him, and was stopped by Yan Mingting. Yan Mingting frowned and looked at Zhao Xu displeased.

Zhao Xu’s eyes fell on him again, his eyes were full of mockery, and then he said: “Zhao Yelan, you lackey, how are you worthy of talking to me?”

Zhao Yelan was not annoyed, walked up to him, stepped on his hand that was propped on the ground, looked down and said, “I’m a running dog, who are you? You’re just a beast that’s not as good as a pig or a dog.”

He will always remember that when he was in the dungeon, this **** walked into the cell swaggeringly and picked out young and beautiful women. He even touched his mother’s chin with his rotten hands, and even made a sarcasm: “It’s good-looking, but it’s older. I want What I’m looking for is a chick.”

“Ahhhh!” Zhao Xu’s fingers were crushed hard, and after Zhao Yelan let go of his feet, he immediately rolled his hands on the ground twice, his eyes were red, “Zhao Yelan! You wait for me! Sooner or later One day, I will definitely peel off your skin!”

Zhao Yelan slapped him across the face: “Then why don’t I kill you right now?”

“How dare you!” Zhao Xu covered his face and looked at him angrily. He glanced at Yan Mingting out of the corner of his eye, thought of something, sneered a few times, and suddenly said, “I have something to tell you, please tell Zhao Yelan to get out. .”

Yan Mingting was displeased and ignored him at all.

“Don’t you want to know the real cause of your old general’s death?” Zhao Xu asked.

Yan Mingting was startled suddenly, and looked at him in disbelief: “What do you know?”

Zhao Xu looked at Zhao Yelan with obvious meaning.

“Go outside and wait for me for a while.” Yan Mingting whispered.

Zhao Yelan walked outside the door worriedly, but he couldn’t hear the voice inside.

Yan Mingting walked up to him: “Can we talk now?”

“It was ordered by Zhao Xuan.” Zhao Xu lowered his voice.

“Impossible.” Yan Mingting controlled his temper.

“You just don’t want to believe it. Does the imperial doctor he sent you to the border really win the hearts of your father and son?” Zhao Xu paused and said, “I heard with my own ears that he ordered the imperial doctor to drink the old general’s drink. The poison is for you to be in charge of the army, so that you will be obedient because of a little kindness. Look, aren’t you a qualified dog now?”

Yan Mingting became short of breath, and after a while, he took a deep breath and looked at him fixedly: “Is what you said true?”

“I can swear to God.”

Zhao Yelan waited outside for a while, then when he heard the door open, he stepped forward anxiously and asked, “What did he say?”

“You go back to the mansion first, I have something to do.” After Yan Mingting finished speaking, he asked Xiao Gao and Zuo Ran to send him back, then called He Cuizhang aside, and gave him a few orders in a hurry while quickly step away.

“Yan Mingting!” Zhao Yelan yelled, and he disappeared from sight in the blink of an eye. He turned to ask He Cuizhang what happened.

He Cuizhang also looked extremely nervous, so he only asked Xiao Gao to take him back to the General’s Mansion quickly, and then disappeared with the others.

Zhao Xu’s wanton laughter came from the room.

“What exactly did you tell him?” Zhao Yelan asked with a gloomy expression as he walked quickly.

“Zhao Yelan, you became Zhao Xuan’s lackey, did you ever think that he would die one day?” Zhao Xu said sadly, “Especially at the hands of Yan Mingting?”

Zhao Yelan’s pupils shrank suddenly.

“If Yan Mingting murdered the king and rebelled, do you want to help Yan Mingting or Zhao Xuan?”

Zhao Yelan immediately guessed that the murderer he mentioned was Zhao Xuan.

But he couldn’t be sure if it was Zhao Xuan, just as Zhao Xuan didn’t know that he had arranged an eyeliner in Beijing, so it was impossible for him to know everything about Zhao Xuan like the back of his hand.

But he instinctively felt that it wasn’t Zhao Xuan. Although Zhao Xuan did whatever he could to seize the position, he really cared about Sheji and had no reason to kill the old general.

But what if…

Zhao Yelan didn’t dare to think about the one in ten thousand possibility. He walked out of the other palace quickly, and went down the mountain in a hurry. However, the terrain was rough and the footsteps were too slow. It was already evening when he returned to the city, and then he continued without stopping Go in the direction of the palace.

“My lord, the general and Brother He asked me to take you back home.” Xiao Gao wondered.

“Then you go and do things with them, don’t follow me.” After Zhao Yelan finished speaking, he saw a horse on the side of the road, quickly got on the horse, threw an ingot of silver to the master, and hurried to the gate of the palace.

Xiao Gao had no choice but to run after him in fear, for fear that he would fall off, but fortunately, General Yan taught his apprentice very well, and the adults arrived at the destination quickly and steadily all the way, but he was a little flustered when he got off the horse.

Going further inside, Xiao Gao couldn’t follow in, so he took the short weapon from Zhao Yelan’s body.

It is not allowed to bring weapons through the palace gate, unless you have a special status, such as a general.

Zhao Yelan asked the guard flusteredly: “Has Yan Mingting entered the palace? Has the sword been untied?”

“I don’t know, it’s been almost half an hour since I went in.” As soon as the guard finished speaking, he turned around and ran in.

The number of imperial guards patrolling the palace had obviously increased a lot. Zhao Yelan asked all the way, and finally came to the side hall. Hearing that Zhao Xuan was arranging defenses with the new commander of the imperial guards, he hurried into the hall.

“Why are you here? Didn’t anyone tell you?” Zhao Xuan stopped and gave the commander a wink, and the commander immediately retreated, leaving only the two of them in the hall.

“Did Yan Mingting come to look for you?” Zhao Yelan blurted out.

“Yeah.” Zhao Xuan raised his eyebrows, “You’re so anxious that you even forgot your honorific title?”

Zhao Yelan didn’t care too much, and asked, “Where is he now?”

“Not here.” Zhao Xuan said.

“Where did you take him?” Zhao Yelan stepped forward and asked.

Zhao Xuan looked at him silently.

After staring at each other for a while, Zhao Yelan lowered his voice and asked word by word: “Old General, did you send someone to poison you?”

Zhao Xuan raised her eyebrows, stared into his eyes, and suddenly pointed at him and laughed out loud. She couldn’t stop laughing, supported the table beside her, and then swept the folder on the case to the ground.

“Zhao Yelan! Who are you talking to? Who are you suspecting?!”

Zhao Yelan said: “I want you to tell me, is it you?”

“We’ve known each other for so many years, but I’m actually this kind of person in your heart?” Zhao Xuan said hoarsely, and he forgot to use his honorific title, as if he had returned to the old days, but it wasn’t the real past.

Zhao Yelan sized him up for a while, pausing for a moment on his veined forehead, then squatted down and picked up the booklets one by one, saying, “It’s fine if it’s not you.”

Zhao Xuan looked down at him: “What if it was me? Are you going to rebel with him?”

Zhao Yelan shook his head, stood up and put the booklet back on the table, saying: “I never thought of turning against you, no matter what, you are always my savior, without you, there would be no Zhao Yelan today. But if you Those who want to kill me…”

The following words were not finished, but Zhao Xuan had already guessed, and he smiled desolately: “You are actually willing to abandon me for him, and bear the charge of killing the king?”

Zhao Yelan raised his eyes: “Not only for him, but also for myself. If something happens to him, it will be difficult for me to live in this world, so I will definitely stand by his side.”

“What are you living in the world?” Yan Mingting appeared at the entrance of the main hall.

Zhao Yelan turned his head, walked up to him in two or three steps, and asked with a frown, “What did you do?”

“I just went to deploy the defense of the palace and the capital.” Yan Mingting stroked his somewhat messy hair, “Didn’t I tell you to go back to the mansion first? Why did you come here?”

“Can I go home with peace of mind?” Zhao Yelan asked.

Yan Mingting smiled: “That’s right, you’ve worked so hard all this way, if you don’t play a role for Zhao Xu, he might not make the next move.”

“What action?”

Yan Mingting’s eyes darkened slightly: “Do you still remember the private meeting between the princess of Nanjiang and the man after New Year’s Eve?”

“Could it be him?”

Yan Mingting nodded: “Zhao Xu told me that His Majesty sent an imperial physician to poison you. I have just asked His Majesty for proof. You were the one who sent the imperial physician to the border. During this time, Your Majesty has never intervened in this matter.” thing. And you, it is absolutely impossible to do such a thing, so Zhao Xu can only lie.”

“When he finished talking about it, I was thinking, the servants in the other palace didn’t know who I was, so why did he know me? He also knew that we had a good relationship, and even knew about my father’s poisoning. ? Either, he really heard His Majesty order this matter, or… he is the murderer.” Yan Mingting’s eyes turned cold.

“So you came to the palace to ask for proof?” Zhao Yelan had calmed down at this moment, recalling the scene in the other palace, he said suddenly, “Deliberately snubbing me in front of him, and then secretly sending He Cuizhang and the others to guard in the other palace?”

Yan Mingting nodded: “He must have found a way out by making such a fool of himself, and the capital has long since lost his eyes and ears, unless he finds a new backer and a way out.”

“Princess of Southern Xinjiang.” Zhao Yelan turned to ask Zhao Xuan, “When the king of Southern Xinjiang came to the capital, did he bring the princess with him?”

“One time, it seemed that they were here to talk about marriage. At that time, they were talking about the second princess, not the eighth princess. But I was still in confinement back then, and Zhao Xu, the prince, was in charge of receiving them.” Zhao Xuan said.

Zhao Yelan and Yan Mingting looked at each other: “It’s very likely that they have already been secretly in the dark.”

“That’s right. As soon as Princess Nanjiang left, Zhao Xu couldn’t wait to bring this matter up to anger me. On the one hand, he wanted to see if he could instigate me, and on the other hand, he had already arranged to escape from the capital, and he was worried that we would directly arrest him.” Received the palace to participate in the sacrificial ceremony, and destroyed his plan.”

“Then Princess Nanjiang said she wanted to marry you, but it was just to test her out.” Zhao Yelan said.

Yan Mingting nodded, and looked sideways at Zhao Xuan, “Your Majesty, if I beheaded the prince with the Chisha sword, would you blame me?”

“Zhao Xu has an affair with the princess of another country, and he has the intention of treason, so he can beheaded first and played later.” Zhao Xuan said.

Yan Mingting cupped his hands, his veins bulged, his eyes were dark but firm, he pressed the sword on his body, turned and left the hall.

Then I didn’t know what to think of, turned around and shouted: “Mengting, just wait for me here.”

The palace is far safer than the outside, Zhao Yelan walked to the door and said, “Be careful.”

“En.” Yan Mingting whispered in his ear again worriedly, “You just stay here, don’t get too close to him, do you hear me?”

Zhao Yelan: “…”

Zhao Xuan: “I heard it.”

Yan Mingting didn’t control the volume at all, he just said it to him on purpose, raised his chin, and left in a hurry.

Zhao Xuan reluctantly went to the door to watch him, but Zhao Yelan sensitively moved two steps to the side.

“…Am I some plague god?”

Zhao Yelan also felt that this subconscious action was a little funny, touched his nose in embarrassment, and laughed softly.