After night came day, and Ning Wang Zhu Quan's face was whiter than during the day.
White and weak, as white as paper.
He followed Ping An, his eyes constantly dodging. He was like a child who was afraid of being beaten when he made a mistake and was thinking about how to lie.
"Why is Old Seventeen here?"
In front of the mourning hall, among the vassal kings, Qi King Zhu Su was shocked and said in a low voice, "Didn't you receive my letter? Impossible! My subordinates clearly said that it was delivered to him?"
"Brother Qi, don't talk!" King Zhu Bai of Xiang suddenly spoke up and pulled Zhu Shu, "Old Qi's eyes are wrong!" He said, looking at Zhu Quan who was following Ping An and walking towards the mourning hall, "Look at him.
, it’s like I’ve seen a ghost, my shoulders are shaking!”
"Could it be?"
Suddenly, a question mark appeared in the minds of all the feudal kings.
"Things are going to get difficult. He must have been arrested by Ping Bao'er!" Zhu Zhu muttered in a low voice, "That person is really ready to quarrel, it's all a back-up move!"
"What should we do?" Valley King Zhu Su asked with some fear.
With King Ning and Zhu Quan outside, they, the vassal kings, have an extra guarantee. It's not that they really want to fight each other. It's that the emperor, more or less, has to take the overall situation into consideration.
But now that all the feudal kings are in the capital, things are beginning to develop in a direction that is not conducive to the feudal kings.
"Don't panic!" Zhu Lu whispered, "The more you do at this time, the more calm you have to be!" He said, glaring at Zhu Lu, "How brave are you usually? He can still kill all our brothers.
!" At this point, he breathed a sigh of relief, "Now that we have taken a step back, we will be shattered to pieces. We can only hold on bravely!"
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Quiet, the surroundings are very quiet.
Under the watchful eyes of the civil and military officials and the vassal princes, Prince Ning slowly walked into the mourning hall and walked straight towards the emperor who was standing in front of the old man's coffin with his back turned to him.
He walked very slowly, lowering his head and moving step by step.
The gazes from around him were like needles piercing his body, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead after only a few steps.
"Your Majesty, Zhu Quan, comes to greet the Emperor!" King Ning Zhu Quan stopped and saluted the Emperor's back.
Zhu Yunxi still looked at the old man's coffin, looking at the face that seemed to be sleeping soundly inside, and whispered, "Are you willing to come?"
With these words, King Ning Zhu Quan's heart skipped a beat, and he kowtowed and did not dare to say a word.
In one sentence, the sound was not loud, but everyone around could hear it clearly.
In a word, both the vassal kings and the civil and military officials were all in disgrace.
"Thankfully, the old man favors you. When he left, you didn't even want to come to pay his respects!" Zhu Yunxi sneered, "I finally invited you here, but you didn't go to see him first, but kowtowed to me first!"
Ha! What a good filial son!"
"It's not that I don't want to come. It's because Brother Qi wrote to me and said that you want to deal with me, so I don't dare to come..." Ning Wang Zhu Quan raised his head and said, "He said in the letter that as long as I come to Beijing, I will be there."
I was afraid that I could not come and go, so I was delayed for two days..."
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Suddenly, there was a deathly silence all around.
Behind Zhu Yunxi, the civil servants who heard this clearly turned their heads at the same time and looked at the group of vassal kings with a ferocious sneer.
Ning Wang Zhu Quan’s voice was so loud that the vassal kings also heard it.
The vassal kings in the distance were all stunned at first, and then seemed to explode.
"Old Seventeen, what nonsense are you talking about? When did I give you a letter?" Zhu Shu shouted in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, he has been a complainer since he was a child, and he always tells lies. You can't believe him!"
Chu King Zhu Zhen also shouted, "Old Qi, are you crazy?"
"Seventeenth Brother, you are obviously late, why do you have to involve Seventh Brother?" Zhu Gui, the acting king, also shouted.
"A bunch of rabble!"
At the forefront of the hundred officials, Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but shake his head, glanced at the vassal kings, and then his eyes fell on the end of the line of clan vassal kings, shaking his head silently again.
At the end of the queue of vassal kings were the two brothers Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui who had just arrived. Both of them were thinner and more capable. When they saw their brother's gaze, they nodded in response.
Then he quietly moved his steps and distanced himself from the noisy Uncle Wang.
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"Your Majesty, I'm not telling lies!" King Ning Zhu Quan suddenly shouted, took out a letter from his sleeve and raised his hands above his head, "Here is Brother Seven's letter!"
Suddenly, there was a deathly silence all around.
The queue of feudal princes was divided into three lines silently.
The King of Yan, Zhu Di, the King of Qin, the King of Jin, the King of Lu, the King of Liao, and the King of Han stood on the left. The King of Shu, King Su, King Qing, King Min, and a group of young princes who had not yet joined the vassal, moved their steps and stood on the right.
In the middle are the king of Chu, the king of Qi, the king of Gu, the king of Xiang, and Zhu Rui... In addition, there is a young man who is at a loss, Zhu Zanyi, the king of Jingjiang.
King Chu and King Qi were panic-stricken. He looked left and right, at the brothers who were looking down at them, and then looked at Zhu Xi.
But when they looked at Zhu Di, the latter pulled King Jingjiang, slowly walked to Zhu Di and hid in him.
These feudal princes who caused the most violent troubles suddenly became the target of public criticism, and everyone stared at them with fierce eyes.
"Your Majesty..." Zhu Shu was really panicked and spoke timidly, speaking incoherently, "Seventeenth Brother, you...?"
"Brother Seven!" Zhu Quan turned around with resentment, "Do you regard me as your brother? If Ping Bao'er hadn't reminded you, I would have fallen for your plot to sow discord!"
"idiot!"
Ping An wished he could stop Prince Ning immediately. Is now the time to say this?
Now you just kowtow to the old man honestly, cry a lot, and then privately ask the emperor to tell you this. If you say it openly and openly in front of the old man’s mourning hall, what will the emperor do?
"It's not me...it's not..." Zhu Shu was stunned and shouted, "Fifth brother, fifth brother, please say something!"
"Shut up!" King Yan Zhu Di said with a face full of hatred that iron cannot become steel, "Old Qi, shut up!"
Obviously, it was impossible for Zhu Shu to understand the meaning of Zhu Di's words.
In this situation, it is more useful not to speak than to speak.
But Zhu Su still shouted, "Someone has wronged me, and I still keep my mouth shut? Brother Six, do you think so?"
Zhu Zhen was stunned for a long time. He looked at the brothers blankly, "You...?"
King Zhu Zhi of the Liao Dynasty had a simple and honest nature and whispered, "Sixth brother and seventh brother, stop talking!" He shook his head and said, "There are outsiders here, don't let others laugh at you!"
"Obviously someone wants to trap us into injustice!" Zhu Su continued to shout loudly, "As soon as our father left, we sons will be bullied..."
"Brother Seven!" Zhu Bai suddenly stamped his feet and shouted, then looked at Zhu Zhu, then at Zhu Zhen, then at Gu Wangdai Wang and others, straightened his back, "It's useless to talk harshly!" As he said, he looked
To Zhu Yunxi, "We are all the sons of our father. We cannot disgrace him. Don't act like a shrew!"
He said, narrowing his eyes slightly, "Just wait!"
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As soon as he finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to the emperor standing in front of the coffin.
With a wry smile on his face, Zhu Yunxi looked at the old man lying down and said in his heart, "Grandpa Huang, you have thought wrong from the beginning! It's not me who wants to make trouble in front of your mourning hall, but your sons!"
Thinking about it, he finally looked back at Zhu Quan.
The latter smiled flatteringly and raised his hands higher.
Zhu Yunxi didn't even read the letter. He glanced at the vassal princes again and said slowly, "Today is the last day for the old man to rest. Fortunately, on the last day, all his sons came back and were able to read it.
See him for the last time!"
He paused and continued, "Today, I leave you and the old man to talk about the relationship between father and son, and then look at his face!"
Having said this, he glared sternly at the imperial censors who were about to make a move, and said coldly, "If you have anything to do, wait until Grandpa Huang is buried in peace!"
Then, he looked at the vassal kings again and said, "If you still have a little bit of heart and are still like a human being, then really cry a few times!"