Prosperous advisors

Chapter 222
Gu Xiuting frowned, and wanted to say something. Suddenly, his eyes froze and he walked quickly to the door and pulled open the closed door. A petite figure fell closer, "Who are you?" Gu Xiuting asked in a deep voice.

It was a girl from Prince Ping's mansion, not very eye-catching, but she was the girl next to Princess Ping.

"Wang... lord... Gu, Gu..." The girl was terrified, and although she shut her mouth immediately, her eyes were full of shock and fear as she looked at Gu Xiuting.

"You know me." Gu Xiuting raised his eyebrows.Although he didn't wear a mask, the scars on his face hadn't been seen in the capital for several years. There should not be many people in the capital who still know him.The girl shook her head in a panic and refused to speak.Gu Xiuting said lightly: "Let me think about it, whose person are you? Your Majesty... King Gong... or King Zhi?"

"My lord... slave girl, slave girl..." The girl looked at Murong Xi begging for help, Murong Xi smiled calmly and said, "Xiu Ting, don't worry. This girl... belongs to the eighth younger brother, no, she is the general who protects the country People from the mansion." The little girl looked at Murong Xi in horror, she always thought that her cover-up was perfect, but she didn't expect that Murong Xi already knew her origin.

"Murong Zhao?" Gu Xiuting frowned slightly, looked at the girl and said, "Then I can't keep you."

The girl was terrified and wanted to struggle to escape from the study, but Murong Xi who had been sitting next to her suddenly stood up, a silver light flashed between her fingers, and a bloodstain appeared on her neck, slowly blooming.At the last moment of her life, she suddenly remembered that although Mr. Xiu Ting was a scholar with no power to restrain himself, the former Crown Prince, Prince Ping, had always been known as both civil and military.And the Palace of the General Protecting the Nation actually sent a girl with martial arts background into the palace. His Royal Highness Ping Wang has been suspicious of her since the very beginning, right?

Gu Xiuting looked down at the dying girl on the ground, calmly took out a delicate small porcelain bottle, opened it, and gently shook off the powder inside, and within a moment, the girl on the ground disappeared without a trace, leaving only a somewhat dark colored imprint.

Murong Xi asked curiously: "Is this the legendary Huashi powder? Where did you get it?" It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a legend, even Murong Xi has only heard of this thing but never seen it.If the corpses were scattered everywhere, there would not be so many dead people in the palace, and there would be countless missing people in this world.Gu Xiuting put away the porcelain bottle, said with a faint smile, "Qing Yi gave it."

Murong Xi raised his eyebrows, "Qingyi? She is very interesting, she can even find such things." Gu Xiuting smiled and said nothing, Qingyi does have a lot of interesting things at hand, and Gu Xiuting vaguely wondered where she came from. After a lot of guessing, Mr. Xiuting couldn't help but frowned when he thought of a cheeky guy who always had a playful smile on his face.

The next morning, Emperor Hua announced the intention of the eldest son, Murong Ke, the fourth son, Murong Xie, and the eighth son, Murong Zhao, to assist Dali Temple in Yingtianfu and the Ministry of Criminal Justice to re-investigate the Gu family's rebellion case several years ago.This imperial decree also sent a message to everyone: Prince Gong Murong Yu has been completely abandoned by His Majesty.

As the saying goes, when a tree falls, the monkeys scatter.But Murong Yu's situation is that his tree has not yet fallen, and those who followed him in the past can't wait to push him.The courtiers who used to be under the command of Prince Gong's mansion kept turning against each other, and before he knew it, Murong Yu finally realized that he was already alone.

The Gu family's case is actually not difficult to investigate, after all, the evidence back then when the Gu family ransacked all their families was a bit far-fetched.To prove the Gu family's innocence, as long as the superiors are willing to investigate, it is absolutely easy.In contrast, Murong Yu's evidence of framing the Gu family is much more difficult to find.After all, not many people knew about this incident at the beginning, and Zhu Mingyan, who was actually involved in this incident, was dead. It is also far-fetched to prove that this incident is related to Murong Yu.On the contrary, Prince Pingnan's mansion was implicated again after Zhu Mingyan was dead.Because there is a lot of evidence that the forged treason letter was indeed written by Zhu Mingyan.At that time, Zhu Mingyan and Murong Yu were not yet married, so naturally they could only be counted on Zhu Bian's head.

Even knowing that he was once again cheated by Murong Yu, Zhu Bian could only knock down his front teeth and swallow his blood alive.It's not that he doesn't want to defend himself, but the princes involved in this case have clearly made up their minds, not only to defeat Murong Yu, but also to break off all his power.And Pingnan Wang Zhu Bian was someone who had already helped Murong Yu's ship, so naturally he couldn't let him go.

"My lord." Concubine Pingnan walked into the study with a cup of ginseng tea, and her eyes turned red when she saw Prince Pingnan sitting behind the desk with a haggard look.These days, there are too many things going on at home. Before the cause of her daughter's death was found out, such a big thing suddenly happened again.Zhu Bian has been placed under house arrest in the mansion and is not allowed to go out. Before the Pingnan County Wangfu ransacked his home and entered the sky prison, he was already looking at the illustrious military exploits of the ancestors of the Pingnan County Wangfu.But Zhu Bian knew that once he was convicted of framing the Gu family...it was his time to die.

Zhu Bian wished he could drag the dead Zhu Mingyan out to whip his corpse to vent his anger.He did frame the Gu family at the beginning, but it was after the Gu family was imprisoned, and he did some things to take advantage of the fire.In the beginning, he didn't know anything about Gu's family treason.It's a pity that his not-so-young daughter is one of the main culprits in this incident. Now that she is dead, who would believe that this incident has nothing to do with Zhu Bian?Even His Majesty... would never believe him.Zhu Bian knew well that His Majesty needs a scapegoat!

Thinking of Zhu Mingyan, Zhu Bian looked at Princess Pingnan with a little more coldness in his eyes.Meeting his hateful eyes, Princess Pingnan's eyes immediately shed tears, "My lord..."

What's the use of being angry again?Zhu Bian waved his hands wearily and said, "Forget it, you can go."

"Pingnan County King." A deep male voice sounded at the door, and the two people in the study looked at the door in surprise.At some point there stood a young man in gray cloth.The young man's appearance was ordinary, and he belonged to the type that could be found immediately after being thrown into the sea of ​​people.But seeing him appearing so abruptly in the Pingnan County Prince's Mansion, one knew that he was not an ordinary character.At this time, the outside of the Pingnan Palace was surrounded by people sent by the Ministry of Punishment, and they were not allowed to enter or leave. The fact that this man came quietly showed that his martial arts were not weak.

Zhu Bian regained his composure, and said in a deep voice, "Who is your Excellency?"

The young man whispered: "I'm just here to deliver a letter to the prince." As he spoke, the young man took out a sealed letter from his pocket and sent it to the table in front of Zhu Bian.There was no handwriting or imprint on the envelope, Zhu Bian hesitated for a moment, but reached out to open the envelope.A few words on a thin letter paper changed Zhu's color.Throwing the letter back on the table with a snap, Zhu Bian looked hesitantly at the young man in front of him and narrowed his eyes: "How do I know if this is a trap?"

(End of this chapter)