At noon, the gate of the palace was open. As soon as the morning court had just dispersed, he slowly walked out of the West Palace gate, and then boarded a carriage or official sedan chair. Some officials took straight steps toward their respective yamen. The officials were talking and laughing while walking, discussing that after the evening, they made an appointment to go to the pleasure boat on the Qinhuai River, call a few red-card girls, and relax.

This is an ordinary day, with no war outside and no chaos inside. The morning court handled some internal affairs. Now the emperor is old, the prince is the governor of the country, and the two new and old masters of the Chinese dynasty sit in the main hall together, and the complicated political affairs are quickly handled.

The officials gathered at the gate of the West Palace and were leaving each other. A luxurious carriage came at a speed. The carriage was four horses and two wheels, gilded shafts, and a carriage tent with silver-edged flower decorations. Outside the carriage were carved with several golden wings and flying phoenixes. The officials' eyes were so vicious that when they saw this extremely luxurious carriage, they immediately knew that the owner of the carriage was extraordinary. The Hua Dynasty was very strict, and there were strict regulations on food, clothing, housing and transportation, and they could not exceed the specified range. Otherwise, it would be a serious crime and could be beheaded. How noble would it be to dare to use a carriage to pull four horses? Even the Duke of the State is not qualified.

A sharp-eyed old minister glanced at the carriage and suddenly said in surprise: "Huh? Isn't that the carriage of Princess Changping? This was the one given to her by the princess himself when she got married last month. What's wrong with the princess? It seems that there is something urgent to enter the palace..."

In the blink of an eye, the carriage had already rushed to the gate of the West Palace without slowing down at all. The officials were dodging to both sides. An official who could not dodge was rubbed hard by the car cloak and screamed in pain.

Inside the carriage, Mr. Changping shouted in a cold voice: "Everyone can dodge me! Don't block my way!"

There is a hint of anxiety in the voice.

Before the officials could see the salute, the horses rushed into the palace.

The Emperor's bedroom.

The emperor, who had just left the court, leaned on his gums a little tiredly, and let Concubine Li gently rub his sore waist and spine.

Li Gui was in his forties. Although he was middle-aged, he also gave birth to a son and daughter of King Fu and Changping. However, her rich charm has not diminished in the past. Every frown and smile is full of glory. In addition, she is gentle in character, never competes for favor and is low-key. She has a very popular reputation in the harem and is deeply loved by the emperor.

"My beloved concubine, look at me so old. In the past, I sat for a whole day even if I sat for a while, and I was sitting for a while, and my whole body was in pain. I can't accept my old age! I don't know how many days I have to live..." The emperor sighed, and his tone was filled with emotion.

"Your Majesty, don't say that. It's unlucky! You are in your prime. Are you not waiting to hug your grandson just after getting married?" Concubine Li's voice was soft and glutinous. She had a graceful charm of a woman from Jiangnan.

When the emperor heard this, he narrowed his eyes and smiled, "I really want to see who the children of Fang Zheng and Mi'er are like? Like our Mi'er, it looks like Fang Zheng's stingy face. That would be a big deal..."

Concubine Li gently pinched the emperor and said angrily: "Look at what you said. That is Mi'erdi's husband. You are loyal to the emperor and are filial to me. You often give gifts and your mouth is likable. How can you say that to him?"

The mother-in-law Li has always had a good impression of Fang Zheng, so he is always safeguarding him. Of course, this is related to Fang Zheng entering the palace every few days to pay his respects and flattering him. The emperor gave Fang Zheng the privilege of entering the palace at any time to participate in the confidentiality of the matter. Fang Zheng used it to please his mother-in-law.

The emperor laughed and was about to speak, but he saw a green light appearing at the palace gate. Changping was wearing a light green dress. He hurriedly rushed in without knocking on the door. After entering the door, he did not salute his father and mother, but looked around in the palace and looked quite anxious.

When the emperor saw Changping coming in, he couldn't help but spoiled: "Mi'er, you child, you are so irritable after marrying. What's wrong with him?"

Changping withdrew his search gaze and said anxiously: "Father, my husband didn't go home all night last night. Have you left him in the bedroom?"

The emperor said unhappy: "Nonsense! Fang Zheng is a foreign minister, how can he live in the palace? Last night I called him into the palace to discuss matters, and he left the palace about midnight."

Concubine Li looked anxious and couldn't help but care: "Mi'er, Fang Zheng didn't go home all night? Has he ever asked someone to bring a message back?"

Changping shook his head sadly, then glared at the emperor angrily: "Father, did he offend you? Have you locked him up?"

When the emperor heard this, he was amused and laughed: "Why do I keep him from here? He left the palace at midnight last night. If you don't believe it, go and ask about the imperial guards on the night night last night."

"Then where will he go? Yanran has moved into Fang's mansion, and he can't live in the outer house of Huapailou... Could it be that he went to Fengjie's place?"

Changping's big, lively eyes rolled, and then his beautiful eyes were filled with anger: "This conscientious bastard! He was worried that he had not slept all night, so he ran out to hook up with the fox charming boy! With so many wives and concubines in his family, how many will he marry before he will stop?"

He stomped his feet hatefully, and Changping didn't say hello, and ran out of the palace like a gust of wind.

The emperor and Concubine Li looked at each other and smiled bitterly. The child was always in a prosperous manner. I wonder how she and Fang Zheng got along.

With a group of female guards, Changping came to Ruyuzhai. Since Ruyuzhai was the property of her husband, Changping did not dare to make rash things in the store, so he dragged Fengjie into the backyard.

After asking questions, Changping suddenly felt a little chill when he looked at Feng Jie's pretty face that was so anxious that she was crying.

Sister Feng swore repeatedly and said that she hadn't seen Fang Zheng for several days, and asked Changping what was wrong with Fang Zheng. The anxiety and affection in Sister Feng's expression would never be

.

Chang Ping sat on the stone bench in the backyard, and ignored Feng Jie's question like a cannon. Until now, Chang Ping realized that something was wrong.

I was not in the palace, I didn’t go home, nor was I here with Sister Feng. Where would this bastard go?

What place is worth his staying at night?

Changping gritted his teeth and ordered the female guard to command the commander: "Call everyone up and search every brothel and brothel in the capital in batches and the pleasure boats on the Qinhuai River. Don't miss the whole family! Whoever dares to stop me will beat me hard!"

Changping knew that Fang Zheng had a good habit, that is, he would never gamble and the gambling blocks in the city could be ignored.

The female guard commander was also a little anxious. The Lord's son-in-law was good to them. Although he always stared at their bodies lustfully, he especially liked to stare at their chests and legs, and he was not aware of it. Even if they discovered it, the guy did not blush at all. He turned his eyes as if nothing had happened, and then went to see other female guards the next second.

But in addition to these minor problems, the horses still take good care of them. The Changping married guards also moved into the Fang Mansion. Regardless of food, clothing, housing and transportation, the prince-consort tried to arrange the best for them, and also paid them a monthly salary in the name of the Fang Mansion, so he was polite to speak to them.

Now, hearing Changping's tone, either something happened to the horse, or he was lingering in the brothel and forgot to return, the guard commander was anxious and angry, and an indescribable emotion filled his chest.

The servants quickly divided the work and then set out to find someone.

Changping stomped his feet hard: "If I find out which shameless brothel girl you sleep in, you will be dead! Look at me, I can't kill you!"

Yinya bit her head, Changping shook her head, Fengfenghuohuo came out of Ruyuzhai.

Sister Feng was anxious and didn't even call him, so she followed Changping out.

"Why am I looking for my husband to follow?" Changping glared at Sister Feng in a pretty look and said unhappy.

Sister Feng seemed to have casually closed her hair, which was a little scattered, and said, "I'll look for my husband too."

"You... why are you so shameless? You are so righteous? You are so proud of seducing your husband! You still want to pester him at this time. I... I want to kill you!" Changping was anxious in his heart, Feng Jie was acting like she was fighting for her husband, and she was so angry that she spoke without saying anything.

When Feng Jie heard this, her face turned pale, and her slender hands combed her hair trembled slightly. Finally, Feng Jie bit her lower lip hard and said sadly: "Yes, I am shameless. I am a widow, I am not a wife, seduced a married man, and I deserve to be paraded in the street and soaked in a pig cage..."

Then, Feng Jie changed her tone and her tone suddenly became arrogant: "But, I, a widow, like him. For him, I can be fond of reputation and willing to be pointed at for the rest of my life. As long as he has me in his heart, even if I only occupy a little bit of my position, I can face the contemptuous eyes of the world calmly and live happily for the rest of my life.

I have always respected you, letting you look coldly and letting you speak and mock you. It is not because I am afraid of your princess identity, but because you are his wife. In my eyes, you are Fang Zhou, you are the family, the eldest wife, and the woman he likes. I respect you because I love him, but don’t want to use the name of the princess to stop me from like him! I, Cui Fengniang, do not seek fame or wealth, and I have never thought about entering the Fang family. What I want is nothing more than the man’s affection for me. Both are women, why should you be so hard to force each other? Should a widow die if she wants to pursue her own happiness?"

Feng Jie's face turned flushed due to excitement, and her pretty eyes stared at Changping without blinking, and her eyes showed a firm look of rather than surrender.

Changping looked at Feng Jie in a daze. After a while, he finally stomped his feet helplessly, turned around and left, and hummed, "If you want to follow me, I'm too lazy to care about you. Then the mess will be in trouble, don't be scared..."

Sister Feng smiled faintly, said nothing, and followed Changping slowly.

On this day, the brothels and brothels in the capital were once again affected. Hundreds of female guards were divided into dozens of teams and launched an indiscriminate search of brothels and pleasure boats in the capital.

For a moment, the brothels in the capital were indeed as Changping said, with chaos and people rushing up, the madam cried, and the big teapot was shouting. There was the thug who was blind and wanted to stop it, but just hit the female guards' anger. So, after creating a few more eunuchs for the palace, the brothel shopkeepers calmed down and helped to let the female guards kick open the room door one by one, and thoroughly search for Fang Zheng's whereabouts.

It's so lively now. How could the clients who are sleeping with the girls know that this would happen? Seeing the female guards crashing into the head, they were so scared that they were out of their minds. Some were shouting and some were scolding. The brothels and pleasure boats were more lively in the day than they were open at night.

Of course, such a big thing happened, naturally, the figures of the city guards and the yamen runners of Jinling Mansion were indispensable. After receiving the report from the brothel shopkeepers, they rushed to the scene without stopping.

But when I looked closer, the arrogant and rude searching brothels were all women, and they were dressed in uniform guard uniforms. These old men who had been living in the streets and alleys of the capital for many years naturally knew that some brothels must have provoked a noble person. How dare they interfere in such matters? So the city guards and the yamen runners gave each other a wink and quietly left the crowd watching the fun. They saw nothing or heard nothing, and went whatever they should do.

The search situation of the female guards reported back was very disappointing. The brothels in the city were basically searched, but there were still no Fang Zheng's figure.

Changping finally cried in a hurry. Fang Zheng could not be found in the pile of his favorite women. This was really a big deal.

After wiping away tears, Changping ran to the palace without saying a word, the brigade guards

The sister-in-law bit her lower lip and followed Changping.

The emperor and Concubine Li were still in the bedroom. When his daughter came to tell him cryingly, Fang Zheng was still missing, and the emperor and Concubine Li were stunned.

"Is it missing? How is it possible?" The emperor said in disbelief: "Where is a living person, there are always traces to be found, right? Will he linger in the brothel and forget to go home? You know that boy has always been very handsome..."

Changping wiped his tears and sobbed: "No one has been sent to search the brothels in the city, and there is no trace of him..."

The storm-torn emperor finally realized that things were unusual.

"Xuan Wensen, Feng Qiudao, Dashi's visit, hurry up!" The emperor's face was already gloomy and he said coldly.

Soon the three of them entered the palace and appeared in front of the emperor.

"My son-in-law, Wen Sen, your boss Qiu Dao, your friend Fang Zheng is missing. Do you know about this?" The emperor asked before the three of them bowed.

"What?" The three of them looked up together, incredibly surprised. When they turned their heads, they believed that Fang Zheng was really missing when they saw Changping crying. The three of them began to feel anxious.

"Wenson! Zheng is your boss. Your boss is gone, but you, the subordinate, have no idea. What crime should you be punished!" The emperor slapped the case and said furiously.

Wensen's face was pale and sweated profusely. He was so scared that his legs became weak when he heard this. He knelt down and said, "I know my guilt!"

The emperor's face showed an anxious look. Not only did he open Fang Zheng as his son-in-law, Fang Zheng was an important role in his new layout of the government affairs. If Fang Zheng could not find it, then the checks and balances against the prince in the court would be ineffective, and he could only find another person to replace Fang Zheng's position. However, the capital had just passed the Pan Ni rebellion, and among the civil and military officials in the court, who is more worthy of trust than Fang Zheng?

"Look! At all costs, you must find Fang Zheng!" The emperor gritted his teeth, looked at Changping's heartbroken expression, and added: "... I have to see people alive, and I have to see corpses when I die!"

The three of them hurriedly knelt down and obeyed the order.

"Transfer my oral order, four cities are closed, Han Dashi transferred 5,000 Longxiang Army into the city to assist Jinling Prefecture Prefecture Dasuo. Wen Sen, all the shadows were dispatched to investigate Fang Zheng's whereabouts. Feng Qiudao's Longwu Army searched outside the city, and within a hundred miles of them you must find! You hear it clearly, I must see Fang Zheng appear in front of me with my own eyes!... Whether you live or die!"

The three of them hurriedly bowed and bowed, and hurriedly left the palace and arranged for them to go.

Changping held the emperor's hand tightly, as if he was holding a life-saving straw. Tears had already flowed over her cheeks, and he said sadly: "...Father, he will be fine, right?"

The emperor caressed Changping's head lovingly and said with a forced smile: "Of course he will be fine. This kid is insidious and cunning, and he is not smooth. When it comes to running away to save his life, he is the best in the world. Who can harm him?"

Changping laughed when he heard this and said to himself comfortingly: "Yes, this bastard has always been greedy for life and fear of death. Whenever he is in danger, he will run faster than a rabbit. It is really not easy for others to harm him..."

Suddenly, he seemed to remember something. Changping wiped his tears and said, "My father-in-law doesn't know about this yet. I have to go back quickly. Don't worry the two elders... Maybe, maybe as soon as I go back, he's already sitting at home, hugging Xiaolu Dada to take advantage... Humph! This shameless bastard!"

After saying that, Changping turned around and left, hurried to Fang Mansion with the hope that Fang Zheng had arrived home.

The emperor frowned, staring at Changping's gradually disappearing back, and a bit of harshness flashed in his eyes.

Who is it? Who is destroying the court that I have painstakingly arranged?

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The news that the emperor dispatched troops to find Fang Zheng's whereabouts soon spread throughout the capital, and the ministers sat at home and were anxious.

After just experiencing the Pan Ni rebellion, the ministers were scared by the emperor's iron-blooded methods. Now Fang Zheng is gone again. There are really a wave of Fangping, and the court will fall into a new chaos.

The emperor was furious and blood flowed into a river.

It is easy to guess that Fang Zheng's disappearance must be related to the latest power layout in the court. With Fang Zheng's current important position in the court, if he cannot be found, or... all he has found is his body, it can be imagined that the angry emperor would let many people be buried with him.

The capital city finally boiled again on this originally quiet afternoon.

In the evening, Wensen finally looked panicked and staggered into the palace, reporting a very unfortunate news to the emperor.

The shadow subordinates found a male corpse on the east bank of the Qinhuai River in the suburbs. The body had been cut by swords and was beyond recognition. After being identified by the imperial guards on the night that night, the clothes worn by the male corpse were exactly the same as Fang Zheng wore when he left the palace at midnight. Moreover, judging from his body shape and height, the male corpse looked very much like Fang Zheng.

"Die...dead?" The emperor sat on the chair with a pale face as if struck by lightning.

Wen Senqiang suppressed his grief and anger and whispered: "...The body was stopped outside the gate of the West Palace. If the emperor wanted to identify it, the empress would ask someone to carry it in..."

"Come in,... carry him in... come in, I, I want to see with my own eyes..." The emperor stared blankly at the front, his mind was blank.

Wensen responded respectfully.

The emperor was still sitting on the chair, and only a buzzing sound came from his ears.

Fang Zheng died? How is this possible? How could he... die? He was assassinated by an assassin and broke out of the city from thousands of troops. This kid lives well, why didn't he avoid it this time?

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, Princess Changping for some reason, rode into the palace on a fast horse, cried all the way, and headed straight to the bedroom..." A small yellow gate reported in a panic.

Mi'er, my Mi'er...(To be continued,)
Chapter completed!