"My lord, please don't embarrass me. Your Majesty really won't see you. You'd better go back!" An internal eunuch stood beside Wang An outside the gate of Qianqing Palace and tried to persuade him. ,
Wang An, who was dressed in a python robe, knelt on the stone steps and said, "Our family won't embarrass you. You just need to go in and report to the emperor."
"Alas." The eunuch sighed and said immediately, "My lord, please wait a moment. We will go in again to report. As for whether the emperor will see you or not, we can't guarantee it."
Wang An nodded and said, "Just go and complain, our family won't blame you."
"My lord, please wait a moment. We will go in and make a report." After the eunuch said this, he turned to walk to Qianqing Palace.
"No need."
At this moment, a voice that was different from other internal prisoners came from the Qianqing Palace, and at the same time a figure came out.
"Wei Zhongxian!"
Wang An frowned when he saw the visitor.
Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "Eunuch Wang, please get up quickly! It's so cold, and I'm already not in good health, and Eunuch Wang is frozen to death. Someone, please help Eunuch Wang up quickly."
Two eunuchs from the Qianqing Palace rushed to help Wang An, who was kneeling on the ground.
Wang An did not continue to kneel down, but stood up and said, "Wei Zhongxian, have you bewitched the emperor and prevented him from seeing our family?"
"Hey, what are you talking about?" Wei Zhongxian said lightly, "Why doesn't your Majesty see you? I don't know why the prince doesn't know why he should blame our family."
"Hmph!" Wang An snorted coldly and flicked his sleeves.
Of course he knew why Tianqi didn't see him, but he believed that Wei Zhongxian must have told him something, otherwise with Tianqi's temperament, even if he was dissatisfied with him, he would not even see him.
Wei Zhongxian said with a smile on his face: "My lord, why do you need to embarrass the people below? Your Majesty doesn't want to see you, so no matter how many times they go in to complain, it will be useless, so my lord, please come back!"
As he spoke, he made a gesture of invitation. ,
Wang An stood still and said coldly: "Don't think that our family doesn't know what your plans are. It's just that we don't want our family to see the emperor, and we are afraid that the emperor will agree to the request of the princes and let the guests Hakka's departure from the palace, we tell you now, it's useless, no matter how you try to stop her, it's useless, even if the emperor doesn't agree now, he will figure it out sooner or later, and Hakka will definitely leave the palace."
"Eunuch Wang is joking." Wei Zhongxian said with an unchanging expression, "Whether the Hakka family can leave the palace or not is decided by the emperor. Our family has no control over it. If Eunuch Wang said this, he is blaming the wrong person."
Wang An gave Wei Zhongxian a cold look and said, "You know what you have done. Now our family wants to see the emperor."
"Eunuch Wang," Wei Zhongxian said in a calm tone, "Your Majesty said, if I don't see you, please come back!"
"What if our family insists on going in to see the Emperor!" Wang An stared at Wei Zhongxian coldly.
Wei Zhongxian smiled brightly and said: "Why does the prince bother our family? Without the emperor's will, who dares to let the prince in without your head?"
"Are you afraid that I will see the emperor?" Wang An said coldly.
"Haha, Eunuch Wang is really good at joking. Why should our family be afraid that the Emperor will see you, Eunuch Wang?" Wei Zhongxian opened his mouth and smiled.
Wang An sneered and said: "You and a store in Beijing called Tiger Flag don't know anything about it. Don't think that our family doesn't know. You sent Xu Dahua there!"
The two internal guards who were originally standing next to him all took a few steps back and moved further away.
The two most powerful eunuchs in the palace were competing against each other. They, ordinary eunuchs, were afraid of being affected and could not afford to offend by sleeping with both sides.
Wei Zhongxian frowned slightly, and then said with a smile: "We don't know what Eunuch Wang is talking about, but we have indeed been to the store called Tiger Flag several times. As for the one Eunuch Wang is talking about, we are not sure. Our family doesn’t understand the relationship.”
"Don't pretend to be confused here." Wang An said coldly, "Xu Dahua is your man, but when he was arresting people in Dali Temple, Xu Dahua led the people from the Ministry of Punishment to stop the people from Dali Temple and arrested them. The people arrested in Dali Temple were released, and they said they were not under your instigation."
"That is also a matter between Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment. What does it have to do with our family." Wei Zhongxian spread his hands and said immediately, "The prince asked our family this, but he asked the wrong person. He should ask the Ministry of Punishment .”
"We won't argue with you. We will find out when we meet the emperor." Wang An said a word and walked towards Qianqing Palace.
Wei Zhongxian hurriedly followed.
The two eunuchs outside the Qianqing Palace also hurriedly caught up.
"My slave, I kowtow to the emperor." When Wang An saw Tianqi, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed.
Wei Zhongxian, who was on the side, took two steps to come to Tianqi and apologized: "Please forgive me, my lord, for failing to stop the prince."
"I understand." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and immediately asked Wang An, "Why did my companion come to see me? If it's for the sake of Madam Feng Sheng, there's no need to talk about it. If you don't mind it, I'm bored too. "
"In response to your Majesty's request." Wang An bowed and said, "This servant is here for Wei Zhongxian's affairs."
"Oh? For Wei Daban." Zhu Youxiao glanced at Wei Zhongxian beside him.
Wei Zhongxian looked puzzled at the same time.
Just listen to Wang An continue to say: "Wei Zhongxian befriended Donglu and secretly communicated with Donglu. Please keep an eye on it."
Wei Zhongxian on the other side of the puff fell to his knees and cried: "Your Majesty, this servant is unjust. I have never had any affair with Donglu, let alone with Donglu. Please enlighten me."
Zhu Youxiao looked at Wei Zhongxian with a cold face and glared at him so hard that Wei Zhongxian trembled in fright.
Today's Donglu is the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and anyone who gets involved with Donglu will not be happy.
Wei Zhongxian has been serving Tianqi, and he is even more aware of Tianqi's worries about Liaodong. If he gets involved with Donglu at this time, it will be useless even if he is the most favored eunuch around Tianqi.
"Big companion, please get up and tell me, what's going on?" Zhu Youxiao raised his hand to signal Wang An to stand up.
As for Wei Zhongxian who was kneeling on the ground, he ignored him.
If Wei Zhongxian had an affair with Donglu, he would never stay by his side again, even if he trusted the other party again.
Wang An glanced at Wei Zhongxian who was kneeling on the ground, and then said: "Returning to the emperor, I learned that Wei Zhongxian went to a shop called Tiger Flag in the capital many times, so I sent someone to check it out. Who knows? We found out about Wei Zhongxian’s secret acquaintance with Donglu.”
Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting in his seat, raised his eyebrows when he heard the words "tiger-character flag".
Wang An continued: "According to the information found by the slave, this shop named Tiger Flag is a business in Datong. The goods sold in the shop are mostly iron goods. In addition, there are many other things. Pearl ginseng and leather goods.”
At this time, Wei Zhongxian suddenly said: "Your Majesty, this servant only bought some leather goods from their house, nothing else."
Zhu Youxiao said: "Daban, these things I heard from you are just goods sold by merchants, and they cannot prove that Wei Daban is a traitor."
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Wei Zhongxian kowtowed hurriedly. 11
