Chapter 39 The Chu family’s crisis

Beijing.

Royal palace, royal garden.

Emperor Xia, wearing a yellow dragon robe, was sitting in the pavilion, sipping the fragrant tea in his hand.

At this moment, a soldier wearing armor suddenly appeared behind him.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates have found out that the news that the Eighth Prince sent people to assassinate the Ninth Prince was spread by His Highness."

Hearing this, the tea cup in Emperor Xia's hand broke instantly. Emperor Xia snorted and said, "These children of mine are really becoming more and more restless. Is it possible that they all hope that I will die soon? They Are you so anxious to be crown prince?"

After seeing Emperor Xia's anger, Situ Ce, the national advisor sitting opposite Emperor Xia, immediately said: "Your Majesty, please calm down. The position of the crown prince is still undecided. It is not surprising that brothers will attack each other. If your Majesty can establish the crown prince as soon as possible, it will be possible." Calm down some of His Highness’ minds.”

Hearing this, Emperor Xia laughed, and then said: "Master, you are the only one who dares to say this to me. If someone asks me to establish a prince early, I will definitely have him dragged down to fight a hundred battles."

Having said this, Emperor Xia stood up from the stone bench and looked at the lotus pond in the imperial garden with his hands behind his back.

"To be honest, I am more curious about how Xiaojiu survived than what happened in the capital."

Emperor Xia's thoughts were similar to Lu Shuyun's. Even if the Chu family really sent a mysterious master to protect Lu Chen, there was a high probability that the assassination in Xueyuelou would be successful.

According to the information obtained by the shadow guard, Xueyue Tower sent a half-step master and five ninth-level masters to Beijun this time.

In addition, Lu Shuyun himself had planted some chess pieces in Beijun. If they acted together, even if there was a grandmaster around, it would be unlikely that the Beiwang would survive.

But King Bei just survived.

This made Emperor Xia suspicious. Is the mysterious master around King Bei really just a master?

Situ Ce said at this time: "His Ninth Highness was able to survive, perhaps because His Highness was not destined to die, it was luck."

Emperor Xia said calmly: "That's all, the farce should end. Since the Chu family has not sent anyone to Beijun to contact Xiaojiu recently, we will just let Xiaojiu mess around in Beijun. I will not interfere with his affairs in the future."

Emperor Xia had people investigate the Chu family recently, and found that the Chu family had done nothing except sending Chu Yuqin and the mysterious master to protect Lu Chen when he went to Beijun to join the feudal clan.

No one was sent to contact Lu Chen. It seemed like he had given up on Lu Chen.

Emperor Xia even heard that the Chu family was very dissatisfied with Chu Xiong, the head of the family, and was already clamoring to change the head of the family.

Chu Xiong himself was already in trouble, so it was normal that he didn't have the heart to care about Lu Chen who was far away in Beijun.

Emperor Xia immediately said to the red-robed eunuch beside him: "Pass my command, the eldest prince is spreading rumors everywhere, which is detrimental to the royal majesty. He will be banned for three months."

"As for the Eighth Prince..."

Having said this, Emperor Xia paused for a moment, and then continued: "Eunuch Liu, go and talk to the Eighth Prince later and tell him to stop."

Upon hearing this, the red-robed eunuch in front of Emperor Xia immediately said, "Yes, Your Majesty."

Then Eunuch Liu left the palace and went to the residences of the eldest prince and the eighth prince to deliver the decree.

at the same time.

Jiangnan, Su Fengcheng.

Chu family.

An old man with gray hair was sitting in the yard, reading the letter over and over again.

At this time, a middle-aged man wearing blue brocade clothes came in from the entrance of the courtyard.

"Dad, didn't you say you would ignore the affairs of Prince Bei for the time being? Why don't you let Qin'er come back? And you actually secretly sent a grandmaster to protect Prince Bei!"

The man's name is Chu Hongfei, Chu Xiong's son, and Lu Chen's uncle.

After Chu Hongfei learned that there was a mysterious master in the Beiwang Mansion, he was in a bad mood. Although Lu Chen was his nephew, he and Lu Chen didn't have much interaction, let alone any good feelings.

What's more, the woman he likes has been following Bei Wang, which makes Chu Hongfei even more unhappy.

As for who the woman he likes is, of course it is Chu Yuqin.

Faced with his son's question, Chu Xiong was silent for a moment, and then asked: "Hongfei, do you really think that I sent the Grandmaster of Beiwang Mansion?"

Hearing Chu Xiong's words, Chu Hongfei was stunned for a moment, and then he said: "Besides you, who would send a grandmaster to protect a useless prince."

In Chu Hongfei's opinion, Chu Xiong probably thought that Lu Chen was his grandson, so he was afraid that he would be injured. So a grand master was sent there.

Chu Xiong sighed at this time and said: "I did think about sending a grandmaster to protect King Bei, but when I thought about the various actions in the capital recently, I finally gave up this idea."

"I don't know where that mysterious master comes from."

"As for Yuqin, she voluntarily followed Bei Wang to Beijun. Now she no longer listens to the Chu family's words."

At this time, Chu Hongfei showed a suspicious look on his face, and then he asked: "Dad, are you lying to me?"

"If it weren't for your order, how could Qin'er follow an unlearned waste? I don't believe it."

Chu Xiong hated the iron and said: "Now that Emperor Xia is making constant moves, the commanders of the imperial guards in the capital have been changed again and again. Even Zhou Wangtian has had his family confiscated and his family exterminated, and Mu Changtian has also been imprisoned in the capital. Emperor Xia is obviously going to deal with it next. The Aristocratic Family has used the knife, and I still dare to have too much contact with King Bei at this time. Do you really think that I am an old fool, are you afraid that Emperor Xia’s knife will not come down fast enough?”

"As for Yuqin, I advise you to give up as soon as possible. Although her husband died on the first day she married into the Wang family, she is still considered the Wang family's daughter-in-law."

Hearing Chu Xiong's words, Chu Hongfei said thoughtfully: "Dad, if it is really not the grandmaster you sent to Beijun, then there should be no grandmaster who would protect King Bei?"

Chu Xiong touched his gray beard, and then said: "I was very confused when I saw the news at first, but I just received news from the capital. I'm afraid this matter has something to do with the eldest prince."

Having said this, Chu Xiong handed the letter in his hand to Chu Hongfei. Chu Hongfei picked up the letter and glanced at it, the expression on his face changed again and again.

Then he said: "Dad, do you think that the eldest prince sent a grandmaster to protect King Bei, and he wants to win over our Chu family in this way?"

Chu Xiong said calmly: "It's not about winning over the Chu family, it's about winning over me."

The letter in Chu Hongfei's hand was sent by the Chu family's spies in the capital. The spies found out that the eldest prince had spread news related to the Northern King several times, including the news spread in the capital that the eighth prince sent someone to assassinate the Northern King. It was also spread by the eldest prince.

It looked like the eldest prince was protecting King Bei.

But Chu Xiong is not a fool, this was obviously done to him by the eldest prince.

As for whether the grandmaster around King Bei is a subordinate of the eldest prince, it's hard to say.

As the eldest prince, the person most likely to become the prince, there must be a master under him, there is no doubt about this.

But the grandmaster is not a cabbage. The eldest prince himself needs the protection of the grandmaster. If he sends a grandmaster to protect King Bei, then who in the capital will protect him, unless there is more than one grandmaster around him.

At this time, Chu Hongfei put the letter on the stone table, and then said: "I don't care, no matter what, Qin'er must come back. What are you doing in Beijun with a useless prince? The environment in Beijun is so bad, she only has Suffering.”

Hearing this, Chu Xiong burst out of anger and angrily said: "You think about women every day, and that's all you can do! Now the Chu family is about to be in disaster, and you still think about women!"

Chu Hongfei said nonchalantly: "What does the Chu family's impending disaster have to do with me? When that happens, I will take Qin'er to the Dawu Dynasty."

Hearing Chu Hongfei's words, Chu Xiong almost breathed out.

"Get out! Get out of here!" Chu Xiong yelled loudly.

Seeing that Chu Xiong was angry, Chu Hongfei quickly left the yard.

After Chu Hongfei left, Chu Xiong looked at the empty yard, sighed deeply and said: "Yue'er, daddy can't help you. He didn't protect you well at first, and now he doesn't even dare to send someone to protect your child." .”