Chapter 269 Wedding Banquet
"I'm settled the old accounts..." Guan Wuming looked down at Jiang Youlang who was angry and was losing his body. Then he continued with a sneer and said, "You are a disciple of Volcano, and you shouldn't have messed with me..."
While speaking, Guan Wuming had a long sword in his hand, and bent down and chopped down Jiang Youlang's head. Then he grabbed his hair and lifted it up, looked at Jiang Youlang's eyes and said, "I have to rely on you to do a little favor..."
While Guan Wuming killed Jiang Youlang, Zhu Di's ascension ceremony was underway in the imperial palace in the capital. After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he appointed Yongle as the year name, and issued several general amnesty in succession, and the decree of a meritorious minister of Jingnan, he issued an order to marry Zhu Neng's youngest son Zhu Henian to win Shao Nanhua, the daughter of the Shao family in the capital. No one expected that Zhu Di would give such great favors to Zhu Neng on the first day of his ascension to the throne. Only Zhu Neng, who had just been canonized as a Duke, knew in his heart that this was a benefit from his in-laws.
Three days later, it will be auspicious day. Although the Shao family has the conditions to marry into a marriage, it was the emperor who gave the marriage. At the beginning, the young master of the Zhu family lived in the Shao family and it was not good to see. Shao Qingmiao decided to let his daughter live in the Zhu family for three days after the wedding. After three days, he took his son-in-law back and stopped going back.
Three days later, Duke Cheng's mansion married the Shao family Miss. Although Emperor Yongle Zhu Di did not come to the house in person, he also sent the crown prince Zhu Gaochi to send a heavy gift. Seeing everyone around the crown prince during the wedding, those who didn't know thought that the one who married today was his crown prince Zhu Gaochi.
When it was time to hold the lights, Zhu Neng told his son not to stay in the front hall. Xi's wife led the groom to the bridal chamber, and Zhu Neng continued to stay here to drink with the prince.
"Duke Cheng Guo, Hetang has passed the imperial examination today, but it is more lively than when I was the prince's wedding." Zhu Gaochi smiled with a big belly and continued, "I just gave me a golden ruyi back then. Let's look at the gifts given to Hetang. This prince was jealous..."
Zhu Gaochi was always convenient for Zhu Neng to have a good relationship, and the two of them joked from time to time. If what was said just now was what Zhu Gaoxu, the newly-private Han King, said, Zhu Nengren would sweat coldly.
"If Your Highness the Crown Prince is jealous, you can marry a few more concubines." Zhu Neng drank a few more drinks at this time. He continued to Zhu Gaochi with a blushing face: "Don't talk about Your Majesty, all the civil and military officials in the court will try their best to curry favor with each other, then..."
As soon as Zhu Neng said this, he suddenly heard a scream from the back hall. After hearing this, Duke Cheng's wine was immediately awake. Just when he called the housekeeper to check what happened, he suddenly saw the Xi woman who had just led the groom to the bridal chamber and ran back to the front hall.
At this time, Xi Po was covered in blood. She didn't know where her forehead was touched. A hole broke out, and the blood couldn't stop flowing out. However, at this time, she no longer cared about the injuries on her head. After the old woman ran to Zhu Neng's side, she said stutteringly: "Mr.... The grandfather has something big... The groom is dead, and the bride is gone..."
After hearing the old lady's words, Zhu Neng's wine immediately woke up. He kicked the old lady Xi, who could not speak, and then turned around and ran towards the bridal chamber in the back hall. The guests who came to the congratulations had no idea what had happened, and they all stood up to follow Zhu Neng to the back hall to take a look.
"Everyone is still there! No one is allowed to move around..." Seeing the guests' faces waiting to watch the fun, Zhu Gaochi frowned and continued, "You continue to return to your seat to drink your wedding banquet. If you don't have this prince, no one is allowed to move around. People... Close the door, except for the Jinyiwei and the people from Yingtian Mansion, no one is allowed to come in..."
After giving instructions, Zhu Gaochi called the eunuchs who followed him and asked them to help him up. Then the fat prince also followed Zhu Neng to the bridal chamber in the back hall.
Standing outside the bridal chamber, a bloody smell was smelled. Zhu Gaochi frowned and then entered the bridal chamber with the support of the eunuch. Then he saw Zhu Neng standing beside the new bed. A corpse lying on the bed was his son, today's groom Zhu Hetang.
At this time, Zhu Hetang was cut open with a sharp weapon, and the internal organs were already flowing on the bed. The bride, Shao Nanhua, was gone. The prince frowned and then said to his guard: "Go! Let the prefect of Yingtian Liu Cai and the commander of the Jinyiwei Ji Gang come over... Liu Cai was outside for the wedding banquet, Ji Gang was in the palace, you go to the palace to find him... and the Xi Po, who just now, bring her together."
Although the prince Zhu Gaochi was so fat and stupid, he was clearly organized in his work. On the contrary, Zhu Neng could no longer speak, and today's wedding turned into a funeral. He was just toasting the guests back and forth, but in just a moment, he had lost his life. At this time, Duke Cheng was burned with all his internal organs. He was helped by Zhu Gaochi and sat in the outside room. After a while, he waited for a while before he understood...
At this time, Yingtian’s prefect and Xi Po had been taken to the bridal chamber. The prefect did not expect such a thing to happen. He hurriedly called his head of the third squad to investigate the scene.
Seeing that there was no clue from the prefect Yingtian, Zhu Gaochi called Xi Po, who had recovered a little, and said to her: "What happened just now? Why did the groom die so well? Where is the bride? Where did she go?"
"Your Highness, this matter has nothing to do with the old woman..." Xi Po picked herself out first, and then continued: "Just, I took the groom to the door of the bridal chamber. Just as I was about to go in, I suddenly heard a man talking to the bride inside. He said that he had been in Shao Mansion for so long and had already taken a fancy to the bride. Let the bride leave with him..."
While talking, Mrs. Xi wiped a cold sweat and then continued, "After hearing someone talk inside, the groom stopped doing it. He kicked open the door and prepared to hold the adulterer and the bride to argue..."
Before Xi Po could finish her words, the prince Zhu Gaochi, who was sitting on the chair of the Grand Master, was sealing his eyes and listening to her talk, opened his eyes suddenly. Then he slapped Xi Po a mouth, and beat the old woman in her forties and fifties to the nosebleed.
Seeing Xi Po being scared and didn't know what to do, Zhu Gaochi sneered and said, "The bride, Miss Shao, is a lady from a wealthy family, and is well-educated, pure and innocent. You, the woman, dares to say that she was raped by others. Are you tired of living? Let's continue, what happened later, where did Miss Shao go..."
"Yes... the old man deserves to die! The old man's stinky mouth is nonsense..." After understanding what Zhu Gaochi said, Xi Po gave herself a mouth, and then she continued: "After I came in with the groom, the groom wanted to fight with the traitor... the bandit fights hard, but the belly is cut by the man with a sword... Later, the bandit catches the bride, and he doesn't know what he did. The two disappeared in front of the old man... "
Just as the old lady finished speaking, Zhu Neng suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood. Zhu Gaochi could only start to get busy again. Zhu Neng was an important official in the country, so there was no accident. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ordered the imperial physician in the palace to treat Duke Chengguo. He wrote a memorial and informed the emperor of the time when it happened here.
As soon as the eunuch who delivered the letter left, three yamen runners and the people guarding the yamen rushed over. At this time, Zhu Gaochi said to Yingtian Prefecture Prefecture: "Come a skilled painter and ask him to listen to the old lady and draw the portrait of the man who killed the groom. Go and do it quickly, don't delay..."
Chapter completed!