When Zhu Wanhong heard the intelligence summary brought by his confidants, Hexi's smile gradually turned cold.
Especially when he heard that Prince Xing's Mansion had sent people to set up checkpoints at the streets around the Prince's Mansion, and no ordinary people were allowed to approach, he finally curled up his five fingers and slapped them heavily on the table.
The reporting by his subordinates naturally stopped.
"Why, less than two days after I came back, the palace could notice the clues? Previously, the palace sent people to test the situation, and they had clearly heard the rumors... Could it be that there are traitors who are leaning towards King Xing lurking in the Jinyi Guards?" Zhu Wanhong said with questioning in his tone.
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How could his men answer such pointed questions?
I was stunned for a moment.
Just at this time, there was a knock on the door from outside. Zhu Wanhong said nothing, got up, went to the door and opened the door. It was Xiaoqi, a Jinyiwei who came to Anlu with him from the capital.
"Zhu Qianhu, the royal carriage is parked outside and he says he wants to see you. How should we deal with it?" Jin Yiwei Xiaoqi asked for instructions.
Zhu Wanhong sighed: "Invite people in."
The confidant in the room reminded: "Don't you go to greet me in person?"
Zhu Wanhong turned around and went back to his room indifferently, ignoring the advice of his confidant, and then the two men went out together.
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Not long after.
Zhu Jia just went upstairs and arrived at the door of her son's room. At this time, Zhu Wanhong put on an excited expression like a filial son visiting his mother. He looked into his mother's eyes and tried desperately to squeeze out a few tears, but the tears just rolled in his eyes and remained there.
Can't fall down.
"Mom, why are you here?"
Zhu Wanhong trembled and helped the old lady into the room.
The Jin Yiwei who came up with him from outside closed the door and immediately guarded the entrance to the stairs, not allowing anyone else to approach.
Zhu Wanhong helped his mother sit down, then took two steps back, knelt down and kowtowed in front of Zhu Jia: "Mother, I wish you well, my child."
Looking at her son's pitiful but extremely filial appearance, Zhu Jia couldn't help but sigh, tears streaming down his face, and smiled comfortingly: "Okay, okay, just come back! You suffered a lot in the capital! I brought you back here."
Man, I’m not embarrassing you, are you?”
At this moment, Zhu Jia still felt that her son did not come home because he was held hostage by the Jinyiwei people. After all, she saw many suspicious people from the moment her carriage stopped outside the post house, and then when she saw her son, she still needed someone to report her.
There were people following him upstairs in the post house. Doesn't everything prove that the son is in the hands of others and at the mercy of others?
Zhu Wanhong was still kneeling on the ground without raising his head: "Mom, it's okay."
"Get up quickly and let me see if you have lost weight?"
Mrs. Zhu Jia helped her son up and looked at him carefully for a long time. She was greatly relieved when she saw that although her son's face was pale, he did not say he was malnourished.
She asked: "My son, do you have any important errands to do while you are staying in the county? If you can't finish it alone, let your mother help you. Even if your boss is unkind, you should not be allowed to return to Anlu."
, you are still separated from your wife and children... You should live in Zhujia Manor, not an inn... What is the difference between this and wandering in a foreign land? "
Zhu Wanhong was startled.
He didn't understand why my mother would guess that he was on an errand. As for going home, he didn't even think about it. In other words, he had become very indifferent to family ties after being away for several years.
"Mom, my son is fine. You don't have to worry. He will go back to see his father after finishing his work." Zhu Wanhong indirectly admitted that he did have important matters to deal with when he stayed in the city.
Zhu Jia asked: "My son, what kind of errand has the imperial court assigned you? Is it still related to Prince Xing's Mansion? Doesn't His Majesty already have a dragon heir? What is the reason behind it?"
"After you came back and stayed in the city quietly, how worried was your family? If you have something to do... just tell your mother, and the family will try their best to help you."
Zhu Wanhong burst into tears and choked up: "Before I left the capital, Commander Qian of the Jin Yiwei came to me and asked me to find a way to get rid of Crown Prince Xing..."
"ah?"
Zhu Jiashi was shocked.
Zhu Wanhong cried: "My child has no choice but to act according to Commander Qian's instructions. But after returning to Anlu, I discovered that in fact, Prince Xing's palace had already taken precautions. The palace was heavily guarded, and my people could not spy on the information inside... Is it child's fault?"
use."
Zhu Jiashi stood up and paced back and forth in the room, his old face gradually becoming distorted.
"The Zhu family has done so many things for the court in Anlu. Even your father almost died in a foreign land. Just like this, the court continues to persecute... But you don't have to worry. If you really want to kill Prince Xing, there is nothing you can do.
, our family also has a hidden spy in the palace, and he is your third brother’s son.”
Mrs. Zhu Jia thought about her son's thoughts and worried about his son's needs. In order to help her son succeed in his career, he did not consider the interests of others at all.
"Third brother's child, he..."
Zhu Wanhong deliberately didn't say anything further and let his mother take the initiative to come up with the plan.
Zhu Jiashi said: "This nephew of yours is very capable. He went to the palace twice to accompany the reading boys. Yuan Zonggao, the head of Prince Xing's palace, actually spoke for him in person before leaving. This shows that he has won the trust of the palace. He usually stays with the prince.
Study, then add some poison to the prince's food, or give him a dagger directly..."
"Mom, if my third brother's child does this, will he be able to leave the palace?"
Zhu Wanhong originally just wanted to test whether his family could really help him, but he didn't expect his mother's suggestion to be so straightforward.
There is no strategy at all, just let your nephew get close to Prince Xing and kill him with one blow... Mom, can your plan have some technical content?
Zhu Jiashi sneered: "He is loyal to the family and fulfills his filial piety on behalf of his parents. Why not? This is his honor as a descendant of the Zhu family."
The muscles on Zhu Wanhong's face twitched twice, and his expression became extremely ugly: "Mom, even if the third brother's child is allowed to assassinate and it succeeds by chance, how can we get rid of our Zhu family's involvement in this matter? King Shixing will not report it to the court.
, the court will not take the blame on my Zhu family to calm down the public anger? Mother, think twice before you act!"
"Son, how can you have the benevolence of a woman when doing important things? Could it be that you secretly assassinated someone and then restored the palace without knowing it was you who did it? Wouldn't you anger the Zhu family? As long as it is good for you and the Zhu family.
, you must not miss this best way!”
Zhu Jiashi looked at her son eagerly.
Unexpectedly, she quickly discovered that her son's eyes were much colder than when she first entered the room, and there was no longer any fetters of family ties.
"Mom, I will think about this matter carefully...Besides, I have no control over this matter. Everything must be arranged by the superior...Mom, please don't stay here for a long time. If someone stabs you, I'm afraid it will affect your life."
Regarding the child’s future, mother should go back first.”
Zhu Wanhong's tone was sincere, but the depths of his eyes were cold.
There was a bit of hatred in Zhu Jia's expression.
"Boss, my mother has finally noticed that you are still the same cowardly and honest person as before... Being sincere and being an ordinary person is an excellent quality, but if you want to achieve great things, this will definitely drag you down.
"In order for you to inherit your father's position early and for my Zhu family to prosper, Mom will secretly plan everything for you. You wait here, Mom will go now!"
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Zhu Jia's vigorous and vigorous actions gave Zhu Wanhong a lot of experience.
You don’t have to use your tactics, but you still insist on going?
Why do you, an old woman, have so many ideas? Should you run the errands or should I? It makes it seem like you are in charge of the overall situation and I am just a follower?
The trusted subordinate came back to the room and listened to Zhu Wanhong's account of the conversation.
The confidant said: "Zhu Qianhu, this is a good thing. There are insiders lurking in the palace, so why worry about the big thing not happening?"
Zhu Wanhong responded with sternness on his face: "Today she can sacrifice one of my nephews, but tomorrow for the sake of the family, she may not know who she will sacrifice... To do big things, you must use any means, but you must also think about your retreat. Now it is obvious that Prince Xing's Mansion is on guard against me. My nephew openly commits murder, will Prince Xing’s palace easily let me and the Zhu family go? Isn’t this the birthday man who hanged himself because he thought his life was too long?”
"this……"
The confidant thought about it and felt that Zhu Wanhong's words were reasonable.
"It seems that only one of my nephews was sacrificed. Fortunately, His Majesty King Shangshu, when the court holds the Zhu family accountable, the person who will be sacrificed must be me! For the benefit of the Zhu family, what can't the old lady do? I am Who gave me these years of living in darkness? Others don’t know it, so why don’t I know it myself?” Zhu Wanhong was filled with resentment.
He didn't mind sacrificing Zhu Hao very much. As Zhu Jia said, those who do great things cannot be benevolent as women.
But the problem is that Zhu Wanhong feels that he may be regarded as an abandoned son by the family and take the blame for the entire Zhu family, with the same fate as Zhu Hao, so he feels that this move cannot be made and needs to be considered in the long term.
Even if you want to kill Prince Xing’s son, you can’t do it blatantly, at least so that Prince Xing’s palace can’t find fault with it. There is no substantial evidence that it was Jin Yiwei or the Zhu family who did it...
Only in this way will you not become a victim of political struggle.
"Zhu Qianhu, what should we do?"
The confidant was a little confused.
Prince Xing's Mansion is on guard. The plan we made has reached a dead end. The family gave you a straightforward and good solution but you don't use it?
Then aren’t we just blocking our own road?
If you can't complete the mission, how can Commander Qian let you go so easily?
Zhu Wanhong said: "At this point, do I still have a choice? Since I can't complete the errands for the court, why not... make progress in the opposite direction... seek benevolence and get benevolence. If I don't seek benevolence, what will God do to me?"
The confidants obviously did not have Zhu Wanhong's wisdom and had no idea what Zhu Wanhong was talking about.
But at the same time, I feel that it is quite inscrutable and a bit ashamed of myself.
Otherwise, since he is a Qianhu family, why would the higher-ups feel free to let him assassinate the prince of the feudal lord? How can he handle such an important job if he has no real ability?
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Zhu Jia came out of the post house and got on the carriage directly.
She was so anxious that Butler Liu, who was driving the car, didn't understand the situation.
"Old madam, have you seen the eldest gentleman?"
Butler Liu thinks that your old lady's time to enter was too short?
When you reunite with your son, even if you don't have a meal together, there's no need to leave in such a hurry, right? Or is it that the old man has offended you again and made you want to leave in anger?
Zhu Jiashi shouted sharply: "Drive to the current residence of the third family."
Butler Liu asked: "This is..."
"Just hurry up when I ask you to catch the bus. Where did all the nonsense come from? Could it be that you were also infected by the second child?" Zhu Jiashi's attitude was indifferent, as if he didn't regard Butler Liu as a human being.