coobybook Chapter 424: Song Yu, the prince of King Jiang.
Chapter 424: Song Yu, the prince of King Jiang.
Li Mu just lay there quietly in the carriage, not knowing whether he should wake up at this time.
Beside him, Bai Luofu knelt obediently, wiping the back of his hands and neck with a wet handkerchief from time to time.
Li Mu could sense that Bai Luofu was in a bad mood.
Maybe it was because it was my first time away from home, or maybe it was because of something else.
However, no matter how much psychological preparation Li Mu had done beforehand, as the 'murderer' who killed Bai Luofu's grandmother, he still didn't know how to face Bai Luofu.
Even though Bai Luofu didn't know all this.
"If she knew the truth, would she hate me?"
Smelling the faint scent of the moonflower on Bai Luofu's body, Li Mu's thoughts gradually became blurred.
However, what Li Mu didn't know was that Bai Luofu knew more than him. Apart from the fact that Bai's grandmother was dead, Bai Luozhi told her everything.
Originally, Bai Luofu only had a little girl's admiration for Li Mu, and was not so sure about leaving the Southern Region with Li Mu.
Everything was just in accordance with Bai A Niang's arrangements.
But when Bai Luozhi told her what had happened in the past few days, Bai Luofu didn't know how to face the man who changed the "destiny" of the Bai family.
"He saved my sister and my mother, and he also risked his life to protect me."
For a moment, Bai Luozhi felt that the man in front of her was particularly dazzling.
Just like when they first met, it was as if fairies from heaven had descended to earth.
"Ah~hu~"
Bai Luofu tried hard to control her breathing, and her small chest rose and fell vigorously.
The rosy little face became hotter and hotter, and the look in her eyes when she looked at Li Mu seemed to be drawing silk.
She secretly glanced at Ge Peining who was driving the car outside, then bit her lip and put her small hand into Li Mu's big hand.
"That does not work."
Just as Bai Luofu was squinting her eyes and grinning to herself, she suddenly heard Ge Peining's slightly teasing voice in her ears.
"what!"
"Sister Aning, I...I..."
Bai Luofu quickly pulled back her hand, turned around and tried to run out of the carriage.
But Ge Peining grabbed him and pulled him back to Li Mu's side.
"If you want this..." Ge Peining whispered softly in Bai Luofu's ear.
"This……"
Upon hearing this, Bai Luofu's already red face suddenly broke out in sweat.
"Gudong~"
Li Mu couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he heard the conversation between the two. Then he roared in his heart,
"I don't, this is slander, I don't have this fetish!"
Bai Luofu bit her lower lip with her teeth, looked at Li Mu, then looked at Ge Peining whose eyes were full of encouragement, closed her eyes, and kicked off her embroidered shoes.
……
At the same time, in Jing'an City, in the Imperial Palace.
"Your Majesty, today in the Imperial College, there was a brawl among the students of the Qingyi Academy. Please punish them severely."
Emperor Hongwen lowered his eyes and glanced at the person who spoke. He was the Minister of the Imperial Household Department, a hunchbacked old man with white hair and eyebrows.
"Oh, I see."
Emperor Hongwen just responded without saying much.
This is the seventh time this month. Previously, the Minister of Taichang Temple sued the servants of Linglong Waterside for oppressing the people and running a brothel.
Later, the Minister of the Imperial Household brought the matter of the students' fight to the court.
Emperor Hongwen knew very well that this was just the beginning and the climax was probably yet to come.
"Your Majesty, Li Mu is the prince of a vassal king. Even if he has some talent, it is absurd for the Imperial College to set up subjects and recruit students. Please issue an order to close this Qingyi Courtyard."
"Your Majesty, the evidence of Li Mu's crime of deceiving the emperor is irrefutable. We cannot delay any longer. Please issue an order to summon Li Mu to the capital for trial immediately."
"His Majesty……"
The court was filled with indignation, with everyone talking at once, making the noise as loud as a vegetable market.
Emperor Hongwen glanced at these people, suppressing his anger in his heart.
I yearn more and more for the declining dynasty called Song that Zhao Chuyi once talked about.
Although the story mainly tells the love-hate relationship between a one-armed boy and his master, Emperor Hongwen discovered other things in it.
In the court, everything is in order and everyone performs their duties.
The emperor doesn't have to worry about trivial matters.
The most important thing is the so-called imperial examination system, which really hit the heart of Emperor Hongwen.
However, despite Emperor Hongwen's repeated inquiries, he was still unable to find the source of the story.
In the end, it was the Queen who stepped in and found Lu Jianjia from Zhao Chuyi, and then found Li Linger from Lu Jianjia.
Only then did they realize that it was just a story Li Mu made up to amuse his maid after dinner.
Emperor Hongwen immediately determined that Li Mu had great talent in governing the country, which once again reaffirmed his determination for the new policy and he insisted on dragging the Prince of Yan's Palace into it.
In his opinion, Li Mu was a man whose talent was not appreciated. After all, he was the prince of a vassal king, and it was no small matter for him to comment on state affairs. That was why he used the name of telling a story to express his true feelings.
However, as the king of a country, he took on such great pressure and invited the two of them to conspire together, but King Yan and Li Mu were both unwilling to accept his kindness.
It would have been fine if the King of Yan was unwilling to enter the capital in the name of guarding against Ran Nu.
After all, Donglai Pass had just experienced a major battle, so King Yan's reasons were quite sufficient.
Li Mu was outrageous.
He helped Li Mu suppress the joint impeachment of hundreds of officials. As a result, this month, yesterday there was news that Li Mu was fishing in the South China Sea, and today there was news that Li Mu was planting trees in the northern wilderness.
It's simply unreasonable.
For this reason, Emperor Hongwen almost dismissed Zou Pu from his position as commander of the Dark Ice Guard.
Calling them a bunch of trash.
Emperor Hongwen pinched his brows and thought to himself that in the end, I had to bear it all alone.
Just as I was about to smooth things over as I did in the past.
At this time, Eunuch Deng carefully leaned close to Emperor Hongwen's ear and whispered:
"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince Song Yu of King Jiang entered the capital yesterday and is now seeking an audience with the envoys outside the palace."
"Envoy?"
Emperor Hongwen was stunned, this is the surrounding area of Xing Dynasty.
Except for the Rongyi in the southwest, the Rannu in the southeast, and some small countries that exist today and disappear tomorrow and cannot be named.
The rest were completely defeated by Jun Liu, to the extent that Xing Dynasty did not even have officials to receive envoys, and etiquette only existed in books.
Emperor Hongwen didn't understand where the envoy came from.
"Yes... yes... an envoy from the barbarians."
"Red barbarians!"
Emperor Hongwen's eyes fixed, he thought for a moment and said,
"Inform them to come in."
Soon, with a sound, the prince of King Xuan Jiang and the Rongyi envoys entered the hall.
In the court, a single stone caused a thousand ripples.
Many ministers thought they had heard wrongly and asked people around them for confirmation.
Russian qing.
A man who was about thirty-five or thirty-six, followed by a man and a woman, walked into the hall together.
"Your Majesty, I, Song Yu, pay my respects to you."
As soon as Song Yu and the other two entered the hall, they knelt down and kowtowed to Emperor Hongwen.
However, Emperor Hongwen's expression turned somewhat gloomy.
He had abolished the ritual of kowtow early in the morning. Song Yu's move seemed respectful, but in fact it was a slap in his face.
Emperor Hongwen ignored Song Yu and had no intention of asking him to stand up. He looked at the two people behind him.
The woman's face was covered with a veil. Judging from her charming eyes, she should be young and had a graceful figure. She must be a beauty.
The man had delicate features and looked to be in his early twenties. He looked no different from other Xia people, except that his pale skin was particularly eye-catching.
There is a light blue tattoo on the neck, which looks like a fish but has four legs.
For a moment, one could hear a pin drop in the court, and all the officials were wondering why Prince Jiang came to the capital at this time.
As for the redundant foreign envoys, no one took them seriously.
The two men bowed to each other as soon as they met, and were already regarded as Song Yu's followers, which was as expected of foreign barbarians.
Some people even felt that if they were not given the title of envoys, they would not be worthy of meeting the emperor in the palace.
At this time, Song Yu knocked his head heavily on the ground again, and what he said made everyone look a little strange.
"Your Majesty, the Prince of Yan is arrogant and domineering. Not only did he kill my ninth brother's confidant, he also imprisoned him in the palace, torturing and humiliating him every day. I beg Your Majesty to make up for the Jiang Palace and my ninth brother and seek justice."