The Concubine in the Palace_The Feast of Masks【Complete】(143)

"You are so good! People in the court have repeatedly accused you of misbehavior and wanton indulgence. I always think that you are my eldest son, so I speak for you and cover for you. Now you are so good that you stole your father's head. Come on. Do you still want to deceive me? If the concubine has handed over to you, the relationship between you and me is not just a matter of one or two days..."

While cursing, Emperor Hongjing stood up and stretched out his feet to kick the prince, causing him to roll and crawl on the ground like a bereaved dog.

King An stepped forward and said, "Father, please calm down."

King Dai, King Yong, King Jin, King Qing, and King Wu also stepped forward and advised: "Father, please calm down."

Only King Lu stood there indifferently, still shouting: "You are still not my father's sons. This kind of thing makes my father angry. What the eldest brother stole was my father's woman..."

"Shut up!" Emperor Hongjing scolded.

This kind of thing is really shameful for a man, especially an old man. His own son stole his woman, and the double betrayal must have been unpleasant. At the same time, because of Emperor Hongjing's identity and age, he couldn't help but question whether the concubine disliked him for being old and weak, and was greedy for the prince's power. He would secretly have private meetings with the prince.

Emperor Hongjing himself didn't even know how many women there were in the Forbidden City.

Those who have been lucky, those who have been unlucky, those who have been pampered, and those who have not been pampered. Rubi is indeed his new favorite, but to him she is just a toy, and now this toy is having an affair with his son behind his back.

This is because he is afraid that if he dies, he will have no way out, so he is looking for a way out for himself.

Probably no man in the world could bear this, so Emperor Hongjing had clearly thought through all the pros and cons before entering this palace, but he still lost control.

"Do you think your father doesn't know what you're up to? Do you think that if you get him down, you can get in? Just dream about it!"

Emperor Hongjing's unscrupulous words made King Lu blush at that time. He admitted that he did not have good intentions and was gloating about his misfortune, but he just didn't like the prince. Why did he fail in every possible way, yet all the brothers could only succumb to him.

If it were King An, King Dai, King Yong, or even the King of Jin whom King Lu disliked the most, he would not feel so aggrieved, except the prince. The prince was incompetent and useless. He only relied on his direct descendants and elders, so they had to condescend to him, and even to his sons.

But King Lu would not say this. No matter how stupid he was, he knew that if he said this, he would not want his life now.

King Lu's face turned green and white, and he stood aside silently.

Emperor Hongjing's gun changed direction again, "And you guys, don't think that I don't know what you are planning." Before King An could defend himself, he said again: "Go and drag up the swordman."

When these words were spoken, the hearts of King An and the others immediately jumped.

What happened was such a coincidence, first the prince, then the princess, it seemed that everything happened today to the Dong Palace family. I'm afraid no one would believe it if no one was behind it.

But this method is too cheap. Even if you want to defeat the Donggong family, you can do it separately. Why put the two things together? It's not obvious that you are looking for trouble for yourself.

No matter what everyone thought, the swordsman was brought quickly.

This man does have a handsome appearance, but now his eyes are closed and his face is earthy. His clothes were in tatters and his body was covered in blood. It was obvious that he had been tortured before he came.

King Jin's face was dark, and his inner emotions could not be seen clearly. King Yong glanced at him again intentionally or unintentionally, and this glance made him look straight.

In fact, everyone is checking each other out at this moment, and most of them want to find out who is responsible for this.

King Yong groaned and suddenly spoke, "This person is not the orphan Meng Huoxian of the Meng family. Back then, the entire Meng family was slaughtered, and he was the only one left."

The specifics of the Meng family tragedy are a bit complicated. Generally speaking, it was Emperor Hongjing who judged an unjust, false and wrong case and listened to slander, which led to the entire Meng family being executed. This so-called slander was actually related to the prince. When it was later discovered that the prince wanted to cover up the crime of one of his nanny brothers, only Meng Huoxian was dead among the Meng family.

And the person who made this case unjust was none other than King Jin.

Because of this incident, the prince's reputation plummeted. If Emperor Hongjing hadn't saved it, he would have been impeached by the courtiers and lost his position as crown prince.

Because of this incident, King Jin was disliked by Emperor Hongjing for a long time.

Emperor Yu Hongjing thought about it, there were obviously many ways to do this, but he chose to make it happen in public, obviously targeting the prince. Not only did it embarrass the prince, but it also made him look foolish and ignorant.

Although the truth of the incident came to light later, it ended abruptly. No one expected that Meng Huoxian, who had disappeared inexplicably at that time, would actually infiltrate the Imperial Guard and even work as a servant in the imperial city.

Hearing what King Yong said, King An, King Dai and others all remembered what happened back then and confirmed that this person was Meng Huoxian, the orphan of the Meng family. At that time, this person was in his weak years. Although his appearance had changed over the years, the change was not significant. Because Emperor Hongjing is getting older, his memory is not as good as before, but he is still somewhat correct.

Emperor Hongjing looked at King Jin with sharp eyes. King Jin had been entangled with this person back then. Could it be said that King Jin was responsible for what happened today?

"What else do you have to say? He is your eldest brother! Back then you designed to slander him, and now you have targeted him many times. How can your eldest brother be so annoying to you?"

Seeing that King Jin was involved in the incident, King An and others did not express their emotions clearly, but they could not hide the joy in their eyes.

Prince Qing couldn't help but step forward: "Father, please be aware of everything. Fifth brother is not that kind of person."

King An grabbed King Qing and said, "Lao Qi, please stop being meddlesome. My father will definitely know everything and will not let anyone go who wants to cause trouble secretly."

King Lu said: "Fifth brother, I am not telling you, but you have done something unreasonable in this matter. Even if you hate elder brother, there is no need to find someone to make him a green cloud."

This was said in a very vulgar way, but it struck a chord in the heart and lungs.

The prince didn't care about lying on the ground and pretending to be dead. He jumped up and said, "You old man, you did this to your brother. You are still not a human being. Did you do that concubine to seduce the orphan?"

Although the prince is incompetent, he is not stupid, and he deeply understands that this is his last chance. If Lao Wu could be allowed to memorize this matter, his father would definitely take pity on him, pick him up heavily and put it down gently.

He was born as stupid as a pig, big and fat. Such a large volume rushing towards King Jin is undoubtedly overwhelming.

Fortunately, King Jin stayed calm and dodged the moment of collision, but the prince fell to his death because of the strong momentum.

The prince cried out in pain, and the King of Jin looked at Emperor Hongjing indifferently, his eyes solemn: "I hope my father will see clearly, this matter was not done by my son."

King Yong sighed at the side and said hypocritically: "Who else could it be if you didn't do it? This Meng Huoxian was probably trying to repay the favor of saving his life back then, and he also had grudges against his elder brother, so he did this trick."

King Jin glanced at him expressionlessly and sneered: "Since the fourth brother is so good at solving the case and does not even need human or physical evidence, why don't you ask your father to go to Dali Temple or the Ministry of Punishment and return it?" What does Yongzhou do as Nao Shizi vassal king?"

These words were obviously meant to be ridiculed. King Yong looked embarrassed and flicked his sleeves fiercely: "I am also doing this for your own good. After all, you are my father's son. If you take the initiative to admit your mistakes to your father, your father will definitely not punish you severely. "

King Jin didn't speak, obviously he didn't want to talk to him.

Emperor Hongjing glanced past King Yong, then looked at King An, Prince Edward and others. These sons had different faces, making it impossible to guess what was behind their faces. The veins on his forehead jumped up and down, and he couldn't help but reach out to touch it, and then focused his eyes on Prince Jin's face, which he couldn't see through the most.

Regarding his sons, Prince An was incompetent, Prince An was scheming, but unfortunately not generous enough; Prince Dai was a talented general, but he could not be a commander; Prince Yong was smooth and flawless, but it was this smoothness that made Emperor Hongjing very proud. He didn't like it; the sixth child became violent because he didn't teach him well; the seventh and eighth children were still immature and couldn't take it seriously.

Only the fifth King of Jin has not been able to see through Emperor Hongjing for so many years. I always thought this was his real face, but he always surprised people.

Emperor Hongjing moved his gaze to Meng Huoxian, who was lying on the ground with his eyes closed. "Who is the master of this? You'd better tell the truth. Otherwise, I will have all kinds of means to make your life worse than death."

Meng Huo moved first on the ground. He climbed up from the ground with great difficulty. During this period, his movements were very slow. It was obvious that he had been tortured too hard and could no longer support himself.

"You don't need to torture me, I said it myself." Meng Huo laughed first, with a trace of blood coming from the corner of his mouth, "His Royal Highness King Yong ordered me to do it."

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was really shocked.

Shouldn't it be King Jin? Why is King Yong involved again? !

Meng Huo first looked at the livid King Yong and smiled brightly: "Your Highness, King Yong, I admit that you are extremely smart and scheming, but you treat everyone as a fool. You were the one who found me back then, but you planned it I brought His Highness the Prince of Jin here just because I didn’t want to make an enemy for nothing. Later, His Highness the Prince of Jin avenged the injustice of my Meng family. Although the situation was not satisfactory, who would have thought that I would accept this kindness from him. You will be a good person afterwards, secretly order someone to contact me, and tell me how much effort you put in to make this happen, and His Highness the King of Jin was just pushed aside.

"I was young and ignorant at that time, and His Highness Prince Jin was indifferent, so I listened to you. I planned to hide my plans for my future affairs secretly, and then I entered the Imperial Guard through your arrangement and was used by you. But you should never do this. I shouldn't have hidden this secret move of mine for many years. This time was enough for me to find out the clues. I originally wanted to find out the truth of what happened back then, but I unexpectedly found you. I'm afraid you were involved in what happened back then. You can just sit back and reap the benefits of being a fisherman.