Chapter 107: You’re in a hurry, I’m in a panic.

Emperor Jinglong finally did not let Shen Qi lead the team to leave the capital, but chose Tengchong Left Guard Commander Long Quan to temporarily lead 5,000 Jinyiwei soldiers and horses to run to Shaanxi to look for the missing Su imperial historian.

This day was the fourth day of August, nine days had passed since Su Yan fell into the valley-

Chu Yuan unsuccessfully looking for people spent three or four days, pigeons flying back spent three days. When deploying the men, there was another delay of one or two days because of the scheduled Jin Yi Wei Commander Xin Zhen Hai accidentally falling off his horse and getting injured, as well as the assassination of the Crown Prince. In the end, when Long Quan left the capital with his team, Su Yan was on his way from Dingyuan to Qingshui Camp in Lingzhou.

On August 12, Su Yan reunited with Chu Yuan and the others at the White Cloud Inn. That night, the carrier pigeons from the Qing Shui camp flew to the capital carrying several secret letters.

When the secret letter was sent to the imperial court, the Forbidden City is in accordance with the usual practice, held a mid-autumn palace banquet.

It is said to be a palace banquet, but not like other festivals, leaving the court officials to participate in the banquet, after all, it is a reunion festival, everyone is returning to the heart of the family want to reunite with their families.

Therefore, this palace banquet has become a royal family banquet.

The former Empress had been sworn in and the throne of the Empress was vacant, so the Empress Dowager was to preside over the moon ceremony in the Imperial Garden.

After the Empress Dowager cut the moon cakes, distributed to the harem people, take this opportunity, and remind the emperor sideways, urging him to set up a queen.

Emperor Jinglong absentmindedly coped with a few sentences, excused himself to change his clothes to dissipate the smell of alcohol, and left the table under the disappointed gazes of Guifei Wei, who was carrying her infant son, and the other three concubines.

As soon as his father left, Crown Prince Zhu He Lin didn’t want to face his royal grandmother’s cold face alone and slipped out after him.

King Yu also wanted to go, but was the Empress Dowager’s words to retain, only to stay with his mother meal, hand picking crab meat for her dipped in wine vinegar to eat.

The Empress Dowager used her chopsticks to steam crabs in bushels and asked King Yu, “I heard that a while ago, the Crown Prince was assassinated? How is he now?”

Yu Wang in the Su Ye soup to wash his hands fishy, thought to myself how many days have passed, you just want to get up to inquire about this. When people are here, they don’t ask me face to face, but come to ask me.

He knew that his mother didn’t like Zhu He Lin, half because she didn’t like the deceased Empress, and she disliked her, and the other half was because Zhu He Lin wasn’t close to her since he was a child, and the two of them didn’t share the same temperament.

But because fourteen years, the palace only Zhu He Lin so a prince, the Empress Dowager in addition to daily persuade the emperor diligently to the harem to move around, admonished the consort gentle to understand the intention to retain the emperor’s heart, and other things also have nothing to say.

This year is different, Wei Guifei gave birth to a second son Zhu He Zhao, in the harem, mother by son, a moment of wind without two, will urge the Empress Dowager, in front of the emperor many hints, want to mention the position, even if not enough to follow the position of the Queen, to promote a Royal Concubine is also good.

The empress dowager is Wei’s own aunt, and the newborn little prince is very fond of, naturally happy to see it, no less than from the side to help.

Wei Guifei as a delicate sell obsessed, the Empress Dowager fan the flames, part of the courtiers began to reintroduce the matter of the establishment of the Queen, Jinglong Emperor was the former dynasty and the harem annoyed, in the second son of the full moon, but also considered whether to promote Wei’s as the Royal Consort.

As a result of the Lingguang Temple assassination case, the Marquis of Feng’an broke his arm, and the Wei clan furiously counterattacked Su Yan, joining forces with courtiers and the Empress Dowager to force him out of the capital.

Before leaving, Su House was smashed in the middle of the night by criminals, Su Yan himself almost got poisoned. This thing completely enraged Emperor Jinglong, sent people will Xianan Marquis Weiyan and Fengan Marquis Weijun reprimanded for a full month, only in the Empress Dowager’s persuasion to stop, did not put Weijun the remaining half of the old life to the living death of anger.

Wei Guifei’s hopes for promotion were thus dashed.

She cried for more than a month, found that the once tried and true magic does not work, her emperor cousin this time is really ruthless, regardless of the grace of the pillow, but also regardless of the total corner of love, in addition to visit the second prince, not a step into her Yongning Palace, not to mention the overnight stay.

Wei Guifei suspected that which concubine, or which newly emerged palace people as a demon, hooked the emperor’s soul to go. Probing in the harem, but found that in the past two months, the emperor did not unload any of the palace lanterns, but also did not visit any of the palace, every night is not teaching over the Prince after sleeping alone in the Palace of Yangxin, is in the South Study Room until the next morning.

…… Royal Master this only thirty five, began to tire of female color? Wei Guifei heart straight muttering, with the imperial kitchen on a lot of aphrodisiac kidney dishes.

Jinglong Emperor did not care at first, used a bowl of deer blood cream, that night will be more than hyperactive Yang, the body’s hot and dry feeling of washing through the cold water did not come down. Wei Guifei took the opportunity to dress up a thousand charming, go to Yangxin Hall to send hand-stewed iced sugar bird’s nest, of course, drunkenness is not the wine, in climbing the bed also.

The dragon bed is climbed up, but the emperor did not accept her service, in front of her face to his own diarrhea fire, and then put on the robe, whisking his sleeve away.

Wei Guifei understood the emperor’s meaning – I’m not not good, but no interest in you, save your strength! She felt very insulted, cried all night on the dragon bed, and the next day for the sake of face, had to make the appearance of deep rain, all the way back to the Yongning Palace in the phoenix carriage.

It was the night the emperor sat in the imperial study for two hours, pinching a lotus leaf translucent carving green jade pendant, lingering back and forth between his fingers, and then took out a book hidden in the drawer that came from Shaanxi, and repeatedly looked through it.

To the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, this matter is only a few days past, the emperor naturally did not have a good face to Wei Guifei look, and even the attitude of the empress dowager is also cold some, did not show up for a long time on the excuse to go.

The imperial carriage turned to the southern study. A few moments later, the Crown Prince poked his head around and appeared at the entrance of the study.

Emperor Jinglong glanced at his son, smiled, beckoned him in, and asked, “Why did you leave the banquet just after it started, this year’s mid-autumn dishes are not to your liking?”

“Didn’t Father also leave the table.” Zhu Hailin listlessly sat down on the circle chair, “Thinking that Qinghe is still stranded somewhere and suffering, I have no appetite at all. Father, do you think that Qinghe wouldn’t–“

A breath caught in his throat, and he opened and closed his lips a few times like a fish out of water, his eyes dark with panic and anxiety, and he looked to his father as if he desperately wanted to find a powerful solace.

Emperor Jinglong suppressed the renewed surge of distraction and said flatly, “It will be found.”

“However, the Brocade Guards have traveled for eleven days, and if they traveled day and night on fast horses, they should have arrived in Shaanxi by now! How come there is still no news to come back?” Zhu Hailin was so concerned that he forgot that it takes time for a carrier pigeon to fly over thousands of miles.

The Emperor watched the Crown Prince’s demeanor and asked, “Are you in a hurry?”

Zhu Hailin was stunned and asked rhetorically, “Of course I am in a hurry, could it be that father is not in a hurry?” Although his heart is not deep, but he is not blind, his father’s attitude towards Su Yan is exceptionally different compared to other ministers, although his father tries his best to hide it in front of the people, but he can’t hide it from him as a son. He sometimes even suspected that his father was not harboring ulterior motives for Su Yan.

The reason why I said “also” was because Su Yan had frequently appeared in his wet dreams over the past two months.

The essence of the gate has been opened, and see a lot of spring paintings, even if the love affair again ignorant, but gradually understand the key, know that he is on Su Yan born love. This is not just a young man’s heartfelt “never to lose”, but a more fervent, more eager, and more uncertain, soul-stealing emotions.

This emotion made him as if he were a newly grown male beast who began to feel a sense of crisis and competition for other males around him who shared his hunting and courting goals, even if the other was his father.

He stared into his father’s eyes, trying to find a clear answer, with a bracing stubbornness as if he were a newborn calf.

Emperor Jinglong weighed the weight of his son’s gaze and slowly said: ”The key is not to be in a hurry or not, but to understand how far you can go. He Lin, you are the Crown Prince, you have more than others at birth, and you also bear more burdens, and in the future you will encounter more ‘haste’, ‘hardship’, ‘anger’, more ‘Difficulties left and right’ or even ‘hopelessness’, if you can’t have a clear judgment of the situation and ability, and can’t ensure that you can make a final decision or capture the enemy in one fell swoop, then the best thing to do is to stay still, secretly lay a net, and wait for a good opportunity to strike. “

Zhu Helin was full of Su Yan’s whereabouts at this time, and was impatient to hear the teachings, and at the same time thought that his father was clearly weak-minded as he looked around, and skimmed his mouth and said, “My son is being taught. But Father Emperor is really not panicked or in a hurry?”

Emperor Jinglong shook his head slightly and sighed softly, “You, you will understand one day. The sooner that day comes, the less you’ll have to go through.”

Zhu Hailin thought to himself, “You don’t fancy my favorite person, my way will naturally be good.

As he spoke, the chamberlain held the secret folders that the carrier pigeon had just delivered, and presented them all the way at a trot.

The Emperor opened it and swept it, the corners of his lips lifting into a smile.

The Crown Prince brought his head over to read a few lines and exclaimed in surprise, “Found him! In the Clear Water Camp in Ling Zhou!” A huge stone fell to the ground in his heart, excited beyond words, the recent tossing and turning and lack of appetite were all soothed and calmed at this moment.

“Are you happy?” The Emperor asked coldly.

Zhu Helin replied, “Of course! Qinghe has been found, safe and sound, isn’t that something to be happy about?”

The emperor closed the paper letter, clip into the folders, “is a person have feelings of joy and anger, but the son of heaven’s joy and anger is different from ordinary people. Happy when the immobility, so as not to be perceived as a soft underbelly, so as to pander to or constraints; anger is targeted, never tolerate people or things to be eradicated in a timely manner, can not be cut off constantly.”

Zhu He Lin felt that his father has been a little strange since this period of time, forcing him to stay in the Palace of Yangxin every night, according to the head of the study of governmental affairs, not to mention that, but also especially like to say some words to play on the subject, as if he wanted to the previous fourteen years because of spoiling and indulgence led to the teaching of the vacancies, and intensified to make up for the back, in the shortest possible time to him to be ripe.

He bowed his head to show that he was taught, but his eyes were flexible and restless, wanting to go back to the East Palace to immediately send a messenger to Lingzhou, to pass on his heart and handwritten letter to Su Yan, and then ask the other party when he could return to the capital. The Mid-Autumn Festival has been missed, there is still the Chung Yeung Festival, no more, New Year’s Eve should always come back to celebrate the New Year, right?

The emperor saw his mind floating, knowing that his soul had drifted thousands of miles away, and only waved his hand, “Go back.”

When the prince got up, the emperor added: “In the future, you are not allowed to leave the palace without authorization, and if I catch you again, I will directly break your legs.”

Zhu Hailin shrunk his neck and laughed: “The North Township Division is not tracking down my murderer, when the murderer falls into the net, I can leave the palace, right? All day shut in the palace, not the Mandarin Palace is the martial arts field, or is the Yangxin Hall to approve the folders, can suffocate me!”

The emperor used the zhang fold with hard leather in his hand and knocked a blow on the crown prince’s forehead, “Less trouble, give me an honest stay in the palace.”

Prince sharp eyes, see the folding cover is Su Yan’s handwriting, the heart is even more suspicious of the father of the Emperor sent to things, so the Qinghe on the zhang discount in the hands, neither send the Cabinet to discuss, but also do not file into the library, even their own have not seen what is written on it.

What exactly did Qinghe say to Father? Did he write to him as he did, chatting about trivial matters in a relaxed and pleasant manner? Or is it under the guise of reporting on government affairs, but in fact the paper is full of words of love and oaths of friendship?

–Between Father and Su Yan, what exactly has developed to the point? The more Zhu Helin thought about it, the more he felt that he was scratching his heart, and he couldn’t wait to come out and ask for a clear answer, even if he was punished for provoking his father’s anger, at least he would be punished for understanding.

But the emperor just taught some words, suddenly popped out of the mind, thought the wind through the ears, but it turned out into the heart.

“If you can’t have a clear judgment of the situation, of your capabilities, and you can’t ensure a clean sweep or a clean sweep, then the best thing to do is to stay put, lay a net in the dark, and wait for the right opportunity to strike.”

…… Father is right. Zhu Hailin hung his eyes in thought, and with patience, saluted and said, “My son will leave. Father’s mid-autumn festival is a happy one, and his heart is in the right place.”

The heart wants what it wants? Emperor Jinglong looked out of the window at a full moon and sighed in a faint voice: “Before folding the green laurel, I can’t bear to rest from chanting and watching.”

The Crown Prince exited the Imperial Study, still pondering over the poem that his father had whispered.

“Folding the laurel” is the meaning of winning the crown and enrolling in the university. It is not a scholar who has failed in his studies, so why should he be reluctant to give up and not bear to give up?

On second thought, could it be that what my father wants to fold is not the laurel, but the one who will be admitted to the imperial examinations this year? And he is so determined to get it that he won’t stop until he gets it?

The more Zhu Hailin thought, the more he felt flustered and annoyed, and in his mind, a few months ago, when Su Yan went to the East Garden with him to participate in the Dragon Boat Festival Willow Shooting, the anecdote that he said in the car came out of his head.

Su Yan said, the western barbarians have a custom, with laurel branches woven into a flower crown, to the winner to wear to show honor. When the sun god, who is a …… god of the sun, fell in love at first sight with the daughter of the river god, he broke the laurel branch and wooed her passionately. Unfortunately, the king was interested in her, but the goddess was not. The woman would rather be turned into a laurel tree than accept the sun god’s pursuit, which finally led to a tragedy.

Su Yan said that a woman in my dynasty should have the right to refuse even if she is pursued by the Son of Heaven.

And how did one respond at the time?

“Pursuit?” He snorted, “That’s called grace. Whichever woman the Son of Heaven likes and wants to take her as his consort, that’s a blessing she’s had for several lifetimes. If you dare to say half a word against it, you are not afraid of being criminalized for resisting the decree and sentenced to a full house!”

The son of heaven looks at …… several lifetimes to cultivate the blessing …… dare to say half a word of no …… full of the family to be decapitated ……

These words that came out of his own mouth buzzed back in Zhu Hailin’s ears–

In case it’s not a woman that the Son of Heaven is looking at!

If he is forced to commit himself with shame or willingly give himself up to save his family, then he will not be able to do so, but he will be able to do so!

…… Little master I really lifted a stone and stoned my own feet Wow! Zhu He Lin stood in the shadows of the corner of the corridor, in the fragrance of fragrant osmanthus flowers sent by the watery moonlight, suddenly raised his hand and fiercely slapped himself.