"The prince liked to eat sweets when he was a child, and he would often carry a few with him." Ji Zuo smiled and shook his head, and actually told Lou Jing about the prince's preferences, "His favorite is a kind of milk and honey candy.

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"Milk and honey?" Lou Jing's eyes lit up. Milk and honey is made by boiling milk into a paste and then coating it with honey. So is the milky smell on His Highness the Prince's body a result of secretly eating sugar?

"Yes, but those were his childhood preferences." The queen's eyes showed a bit of nostalgia, "The child has become more and more reticent over the years. I don't know what he likes to eat now."

Lou Jing made a mental note and prepared to go back and ask Chang En.

"He is not good at playing silk and bamboo, let alone singing and dancing. As for his nickname..." Empress Ji showed some hesitation in her eyes, "When I brought him here when I was a child, I heard Concubine Shu call him Yuan Lang."

The Qinghe River burst its banks, destroying countless fertile fields and displacing thousands of people. From August to now, the situation has not been alleviated, but has intensified.

Xiao Chengjun knelt on the ground, looking at the mountain of folding papers in front of him, and the hands hidden in his sleeves gradually tightened. He was previously responsible for disaster relief matters, and had already asked the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate silver coins. The Central Plains has good weather all year round, and there are eight counties in Qingyang County.

They are all considered wealthy. As long as the new county governor works conscientiously, there will be no problem in settling the people of Qinghe County.

"Hundreds of refugees gathered outside Qingyang City..."

"Refugees rushed into surrounding counties, smashing, looting and looting..."

"The granary in Qingyang was attacked, refugees looted, and 87 people were killed or injured..."

Before the wedding, Xiao Chengjun had already handled 80% of the disaster relief matters. If someone hadn't deliberately caused trouble, such a big mistake would never have happened.

Today there are memorials to report the suffering of the refugees, and tomorrow the memorials to depose the prince will follow one after another.

Closing his eyes, Xiao Chengjun felt tired as never before. In such a court, in the position of the prince, even if he had the civilized and martial virtues of Taizu Taizong, he could not save the people from suffering.

Closing the memorial in his hand, Xiao Chengjun slowly kowtowed to the ground, "When I was twelve years old, I came to the court with my father to listen to the government. I studied hard day and night. However, my qualifications were dull and it was difficult for me to make any achievements in political affairs. Now that the Qinghe disaster relief work is not going well, in fact,

I am ashamed of my father and son..." The prince slowly raised his head, his red eyes filled with tears, "But please, father, abolish the position of son and prince, and choose a worthy person to establish another one."

Emperor Chunde was stunned. He never expected that the prince would say these words, "... Is it child's play for the crown prince to abolish his throne? Go back and we will discuss this matter tomorrow."

Xiao Chengjun said no more, kowtowed and resigned, feeling a chill in his heart. If his father had not already planned to destroy him, he would never have said this.

There was a long way to go from the Imperial Study Room to the East Palace. Xiao Chengjun waved back the chariot and walked back slowly.

The long palace road was deserted. Occasionally, the guards and maids passing by would stop to salute and wait for the prince to pass by before continuing forward. The human palace wall was ten thousand feet high, but in fact it was only one foot or three feet. Xiao Chengjun touched it with one hand.

Thick walls, watching birds fly over the high walls. For those trapped inside, even if it is only three inches high, it is as difficult to cross as ten thousand feet.

"It's almost noon, why doesn't His Highness go back?" A pair of warm hands suddenly stretched out from behind and hugged His Highness the Crown Prince's waist.

Lou Jing came out of Fengyi Palace and heard that the prince had not returned to the East Palace yet, so she wanted to take him back for dinner. Unexpectedly, she saw His Highness the prince walking forward step by step, holding on to the palace wall, and she felt a sense of pain in her heart.

My prince husband must have been wronged in the court, so he quickly went up to hug him.

Xiao Chengjun's originally cold heart suddenly felt warm again because of this warm embrace, "My eyes are red, I'm afraid that people will see me."

"Let me take a look." Lou Jing pulled the person over and saw that His Highness the Crown Prince's beautiful eyes were all red. Not only were the eyes red inside, but the eye circles were also glowing with a layer of pink. So, so beautiful, I really want to kiss her! Like this

Thinking about it, Lou Jing did the same.

The cool thin lips touched the warm eyes, which felt very comfortable. Xiao Chengjun closed his eyes subconsciously when Lou Jing came closer, and he succeeded. He quickly stretched out his hand to push the person away, and His Royal Highness looked around.

Fortunately, no one passed by. Anshun and Lexian, who were following behind, looked at the sky and the ground, pretending not to know anything.

"Let's go," Xiao Chengjun coughed lightly and took the Crown Princess back to the East Palace, "Why haven't you gone back yet?"

Lou Jing allowed the prince to hold her, and dragged her steps backwards. She stared at the tips of His Highness's reddish ears and said, "My father is dragging me to practice swordplay, so I wasted time."

"Did you have a sword duel with your father?" Xiao Chengjun stopped and looked back at him, "Did you get hurt anywhere?"

"That's not the case," Lou Jing smiled and grabbed His Highness the Crown Prince's shoulders, "I'm just a little tired."

Xiao Chengjun helplessly looked at the dog-skin plaster hanging on his body again, "Anshun, go call the chariot."

The turmoil in the court for several days finally erupted on the day when the prince returned to court. After noon, the papers to impeach the prince were delivered to the imperial study like snowflakes.

Emperor Chunde looked at the fold in his hand and couldn't help but sigh, "I feel a little sorry for the prince."

Huaizhong, the chief eunuch, was dozing off while standing by the pillar, but when he heard these words, he suddenly woke up.

"Huaizhong, how do you think the prince has done these years?" Emperor Chunde threw the memorial aside.

Huaizhong broke out in a cold sweat. What should he say? But when the emperor asked, he had to say it. After thinking about it for a long time, he said: "I don't understand the things in the court. I just watch, the prince's wedding and so on."

These days, the Emperor is much busier than before."

Normally, those greeting papers that Emperor Chunde did not want to approve, or those that were required for routine reporting, were all given to the prince for review. Before Emperor Chunde could say anything, he heard the guard outside the door report, "Your Majesty, I would like to see you."

Returning to the East Palace, Lou Jing first took the prince to wash his eyes with water. "It is not good for the eyes if you smoke the pepper water for a long time."

"This trick of yours actually works," Xiao Chengjun smiled slightly and allowed the Crown Princess to wipe the water off his face with her own hands. "Did you use this trick often when you were a child?"

"No way," Lou Jing smiled and couldn't help but kiss the red corner of his eye again. There was no one in the room, so His Highness the Crown Prince did not stop him. "If my grandpa sees me crying, he will definitely feel...

It’s interesting, let me stand in the middle of the yard and cry in ten different ways for him to see.”

"Haha, how can you cry in any way?" Xiao Chengjun couldn't help laughing, he couldn't imagine that there was such a grandfather in the world.

"Of course," Lou Jing smiled and hugged His Highness the Crown Prince, "If His Highness bullies me in the future, I will go to Taizu's memorial tablet and cry in twenty different ways to show it to the ancestors of the Xiao family."

While they were talking and laughing, someone came to report that there was a guard named Yun who wanted to see him.

The guard named Yun could only be Yun Ba, who had the East Palace waistband. The two looked at each other and walked out.

After shooing away all the servants, the man wearing the uniform of the East Palace Guard stepped forward and saluted, "My subordinate Yun Shiliu, I have met His Highness the Crown Prince and my master."

Yun Liuliu! Xiao Chengjun hurriedly asked people to get up, and it turned out to be Yunliu Liu who was sent to Qinghe to investigate the news.

Qinghe is not far from Beijing. It can be reached by riding a fast horse in a day and a night, but it took Yunliu so many days.

"There is a strong force in Qinghe that is looking for information, and my subordinates were almost caught by them when they inquired about the information." Yun Liuliu told the reason for his late return. Qinghe County is now like an iron barrel, except for the Ministry of Punishment The officials who went to investigate were not embarrassed. Anyone else who inquired about this matter in Qinghe County would be arrested by a group of people who looked like local gangsters.

Xiao Chengjun frowned. The Qinghe case was supervised by Shen Lian. With all these people, Shen Lian was the only one who dared to do this. There was a reason for You Xiang to harm him, but Shen Lian had no enmity with him, so why should he do it for You? Surrendering each other?

"Is Qinghe County really building an emperor's temple?" Xiao Chengjun sat down and asked in a deep voice one by one.

"Someone is indeed building the Emperor's Temple," Yun Shiliu told the news he had found out. "There are heavy troops guarding the place and no one is allowed to come near. My subordinates went to investigate at night and found that except for a pile of wood, there was only A very shallow foundation was dug, and the sweeping monk of Qingliang Temple said that the wood was only transported there in August."

When Lou Jing heard this, he narrowed his eyes. It turned out that someone was deliberately framing the prince.

Yun Shiliu went on to say that there are more weird things about Qinghe County.

Qinghe County is now sparsely populated. The county town has been flooded. Many hooligans have appeared from nowhere and are driving the people out of the county town. Some people are robbing them of their money and food on the road. As a result, mourning is everywhere and the people are in dire straits. Yun Liuliu is among the refugees. After escaping the pursuit of those gangsters, he found out something amazing among the people sleeping outside Qingyang City.

"The Qinghe County Magistrate has been collecting corvee labor since March and built a very luxurious ancestral hall on the hill behind Qingliang Temple," Yun Shiliu said with a bit of solemnity in his voice. There was a carpenter among the refugees who was responsible for carving a tablet for the ancestral hall. Therefore, he knew a lot, "That ancestral hall is not an ancestral hall, but a living temple."

"What!" Xiao Chengjun couldn't help but widen his eyes. The so-called living temple means that the person worshiped in it is still alive, but because of too much respect, a living temple will be built to pray to God to bless the person worshiped. This kind of living temple There have been few temples since ancient times, and those worshiped are all loyal and righteous people who saved the world from danger.

"Who is enshrined there?" Lou Jing also frowned. Today's Emperor Chunde is so suspicious. Anyone who is enshrined in the living temple will undoubtedly offend the emperor.
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