Xiao Yan frowned tightly. He had never heard of any military talisman.
Back then, the late emperor allowed the East Palace to fight against the aristocratic family, but secretly suppressed the subordinates of the East Palace. When his father was weak in the fight with the aristocratic family, he never mentioned that he had military power.
Even though there was a fire in the East Palace and his father died, he had never seen the so-called military talisman.
Seeing Xiao Yan frowning, King Cheng just thought that he didn't understand the importance of the military talisman, so he explained to him in a deep voice:
"Governor Xiao is not a member of the royal family, so he doesn't know that the Longting Guards are the private army of the Xie family. Outsiders only know that they obey the emperor's orders, but in fact they obey the orders of the person holding the military talisman. The Zhen'an Army also recognizes Ling doesn’t recognize anyone.”
"The military talisman is usually handed over by the former emperor to the new emperor when the person ascends the throne. Therefore, only the person who carries out the order, as well as the leaders of Longting Guard and Zhen'an Army know what the military talisman looks like. Now Emperor An is here There was no major war in the North, and the people in the northwest always thought that the military talisman was in the hands of Emperor An, and the daily deployment was under the emperor's order."
"But once someone from other royal families appears with military talismans, the more than 200,000 soldiers in the northwest will switch sides in an instant."
Xiao Yan frowned.
King Cheng said: "The late emperor never mentioned this matter to anyone. The aristocratic family also always thought that they defeated the prince. After Xie Tianzhao died, the whereabouts of the military talisman was unknown. The late emperor suppressed the matter forcibly. Even Xie Tianyong also Uninformed.”
"After the late emperor died, only the eunuch who served him closely knew about this matter. Lu Qingfeng didn't know what method he used to find out from that person, so he kept searching secretly."
At that time, everyone around Prince Ru was killed and injured, but Rong Qian'an was the only one who survived the bloodbath.
It's not that the late emperor didn't want to disturb the Rong family, it's just that Rong Qian'an had a special status, and he seemed to know the cause of Prince Ru's death. After taking the initiative to enter the palace to "talk" with the late emperor, he resigned from the court, gave up his power, and reached an agreement with the late emperor. A strange "tacit understanding".
After careful consideration, the late emperor did not touch the Rong family. Rong Qianan also quietly guarded the Rong family school and never set foot in the court again.
Lu Qingfeng also determined that the military talisman was in the hands of the Rong family.
Prince Cheng's eyes flashed when he talked about the military talisman: "Lu Qingfeng wanted to borrow the power of the aristocratic family, but she didn't want to be threatened by the family and have the fourth prince be restrained like Emperor An after he ascended the throne. She wanted to find the military talisman and consolidate the northwest town on behalf of the fourth prince. Anjun and Longtingwei."
"Is this also the reason for Tang Ning's marriage to the Lu family?"
"yes."
King Cheng said: "When Taifu Rong was seriously ill, Lu Qingfeng sent people to visit him several times, intending to send the fourth prince and Lu Zhinian to Rong's school. Taifu Rong always refused, but he couldn't bear the Song family's tricks and secretly guided the young people. Tang Ning was getting along with Lu Zhinian, and even allowed Taifu Rong to see this several times."
"The Lu family coveted the Rong family's reputation, and with Lu Qingfeng's persuasion, they proposed that Lu Zhinian and Tang Ning be engaged. Naturally, Grand Tutor Rong refused and refused on the spot."
Xiao Yan said in a deep voice: "Then how did the marriage happen?"
King Cheng laughed: "Of course he did something."
"A few days before Taifu Rong died of illness, I put medicine in Rong Yue's tonic soup, which made her feel extremely tired and weak. When Taifu Rong died, she could not get up, so only me and the Song family were left in front of his bed. The Taifu was afraid that Tang Ning would lose his father and be treated harshly by the Song family, so he left a handwritten letter entrusting Tang Ning to his good friend, and trusted the Song family to forward it to his student Wu Ziji to return to Beijing to inherit the Rong family school, so that he could Protect Tang Ning."
"Song Hong found someone who was good at tracing and imitated Taifu Rong's handwriting for the relics he left behind. In addition, the king was present to testify that Taifu Rong had agreed to a marriage contract with the Lu family before his death. Rong Yue was mourning the death of Taifu at that time. She suffered a serious illness, and by the time she got better, Lu Qingfeng had already made an order to marry Tang Ning and Lu Zhinian in compliance with Grand Tutor Rong's 'last wish'."
Although Rong Yue was reluctant, the marriage was a foregone conclusion.
As the elder of Tang Ning's father's family, the Song family agreed, and he persuaded her from the side. In addition, the young Tang Ning was deliberately guided to "fall in love" with Lu Zhinian, so the marriage was decided.
Rong Qian'an never agreed to the Lu family's marriage.
The so-called engagement was a scam from beginning to end.
For the first time, Xiao Yan felt that there was no lower limit for the most evil people in this world. It was an advantage for the Song family to let them go into exile.
This family is damned!
King Cheng saw the change in the expression on Xiao Yan's face and said slowly: "I know that Governor Xiao loves Tang Ning and treats her as his own sister. I also see what you have done for her during this period. , I will inform the Song family affairs, I wonder if I can change Governor Xiao to fulfill my wish?"
Xiao Yan raised his eyes: "What do you want?"
King Cheng looked back at the messy haystack: "I would like to ask Governor Xiao to help me bury the child and find a good place for him."
"This king is sorry for him and his mother. He shouldn't be like this."
Xiao Yan was a little silent. She thought he would say something else, or ask him to avenge him, but she didn't expect him to make this request.
Seeing Prince Cheng looking at him intently, with a hint of pleading in his eyes, as if he was afraid that he would refuse, Xiao Yan didn't feel moved at all, but only felt that it was extremely ridiculous. He didn't reject him either, he just raised his eyes indifferently and stood up, walking out. Go, he said.
"The governor agreed."
After leaving Dezhao Prison, Jinyun hid in his sleeve a thick stack of "confessions" obtained from King Cheng.
Seeing Prince Cheng being dragged into the prison car, Jinyun lowered his voice with some curiosity: "Master Governor, is it true that the fourth prince is not Prince Cheng's son?"
Xiao Yan asked him: "How do I know this?"
"??"
Jinyun was stunned: "But you just..."
"The governor just said that the fourth prince is not very similar to him."
There are no ugly people in the royal family. Queen Lu is already very good-looking. Otherwise, how could she have attracted Prince Cheng and Emperor An back then? In addition, Emperor An and Prince Cheng were not bad in appearance, and the appearance of the fourth prince was naturally not bad, but Coincidentally, he looked neither like King Cheng nor Emperor An, but more like Empress Lu in his facial features.
Xiao Yan folded his hands and looked casual. He didn't lie. The fourth prince didn't look much like Prince Cheng, but he didn't say he looked like Emperor An.
As for King Cheng’s misunderstanding, do you blame him?
Jinyun: "..."
Touching the thick stack of "confessions" in his sleeve, Jinyun reached out and touched his heart, remembering what King Cheng had just said, knowing everything he knew, and feeling guilty and regretful under the sudden remorse.
Forget it, it's not his conscience that's lost anyway.
As long as the governor doesn't feel any pain.
…
King Cheng was executing the execution. There were many people watching the execution. When he was put into the prison car and taken to the place of execution, King Cheng looked up at the sky outside with a confused expression. He suddenly remembered that deliberate encounter many years ago. , standing on the stone bridge holding a rabbit lantern, his eyes full of bright girls from the Rong family.
The lake was rippling with moonlight, and he saw her at a glance among the bustling crowd.
The little girl, who has just reached hair extensions, is wearing a gorgeous red dress, dazzling like the sun falling into the crowd at night. When she laughs and laughs with the sister next to her, she sounds like an oriole.
Rong Yue...
King Cheng thought he would not remember what happened back then, but before he died, the thing that stood out most clearly in front of him was not Lu Qingfeng, but the person he had spent nearly twenty years with.
When his eyes were in a trance, he actually saw Rong Yue above the crowd.
Above the restaurant opposite, in the open window, even through the crowd, he still recognized it.
"Yue Niang..."
King Cheng suddenly became excited and stared in that direction. He opened his mouth wide and wanted to say something. As soon as a sound came out of his mouth, Yu Zu, who was being escorted, hit him hard on the chin and then dragged him to the high platform. superior.
The executioner was singing about the crime against King Cheng, and Rong Yue looked at the extremely embarrassed man in the execution ground, watching him being pressed to the ground, with his mouth wide open as if he had thousands of words to say, and he looked here with guilt in his eyes.
Next to her, Gu Helian subconsciously wanted to reach out to block Rong Yue's eyes.
Rongyue tilted her head: "What are you doing?"
"What's so good about beheading? It's all bloody. Be careful not to have nightmares when you go back..." Gu Helian spoke while looking at the high platform over there fiercely.
That bitch Xie Tianyu actually wanted to seduce Rong Yue before he died!
Rongyue didn't know what he was thinking, so she just stretched out her hand to hold his wrist and pulled down the hand that was covered in front of her eyes: "My biggest nightmare has already happened, what is there to be afraid of?"
She turned to look at the execution ground. She always had to see clearly her past stupidity with her own eyes before she could be reconciled to seeing his ending.
Gu Helian didn't listen to Rongyue's words at all. He just looked at the wrist held by Rongyue with some distraction, and his ears turned red a little bit.
Rongyue took his hand.
She pulled him, pulled him, pulled him! ! !
Rongyue was thinking about all the past events in her mind, and seemed to be trying to borrow strength not to let go for a moment. When she looked directly at King Cheng over there, her cold eyes stunned him. He looked at the one who once loved him most. The woman watched quietly as he was pushed onto the platform where he was beheaded, and watched as the man behind him raised and lowered his knife.
Even when the head fell to the ground and blood splattered, there was no trace of emotion on his face.
Rongyue listened to the exclamations from the crowd and saw the blood, then let go of his hand: "Let's go."
Gu Helian: Rongyue pulled him!
"Gu Helian?" Rongyue turned around: "Why are you so dazed?"
Gu Helian grinned: "The weather is really nice today."
Rongyue raised her head inexplicably: "Okay?"
"Okay! Ask Mu Feng!"
Mu Feng couldn't bear to look at his master's smiling face and his worthless look. He turned to look at the dark clouds drifting outside the window, silently brainwashing himself.
This is the head of the family, who gives him monthly money, saves his life, and throws gold at him from time to time.
Mu Feng showed eight white teeth and smiled sincerely: "The head of the family is right."
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