Listen to the spring rain in the small building all night, and sell apricot flowers in the deep alley tomorrow.

There is a three-story beautiful building built in a courtyard of Prince Ning's Mansion, surrounded by apricot trees. This beautiful building is called the Xinghua Tower. It is already early autumn, so naturally there are no apricot flowers or even apricot trees.

The leaves began to wither and turn yellow, adding to the desolation.

At this time, sandalwood was lingering on the first floor of the Xinghua Building, which was decorated as a Buddhist hall. A woman in simple clothes was kneeling on a futon in front of the Buddha statue, holding a string of beads, and reciting the "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Original Vow Sutra" devoutly.

”, this is a Buddhist scripture used to save the souls of the dead.

This woman is Lou Suzhen, the concubine of King Ning Zhu Chenhao, the daughter of Shangrao County scholar Lou Liang. Before marrying King Ning, she was a well-known talent and beauty. King Ning Zhu Chenhao also loved his first wife very much, because

Lou Suzhen liked apricot flowers, so King Ning had this beautiful building built in the palace, with apricot flowers planted all around, and named it Xinghua Tower.

However, since the year before last, Concubine Lou had moved out of Xinghua Tower and converted the first floor into a Buddhist hall. She would recite scriptures in the Buddhist hall every night before going back to her room to sleep.

At this moment, the maid Xiaodie was standing quietly behind Concubine Lou. As the personal maid serving Concubine Lou, she naturally knew why the concubine wanted to convert Xinghua Tower into a Buddhist hall, and also went to the Buddhist hall to chant sutras every day. It was really

The prince has committed too many murders over the years. The princess is trying to atone for the prince's sins and save the souls of those who died unjustly!

Take the year before last, for example. Yan Shun, the treasure eunuch in the palace, secretly went to the capital to expose the prince's secret imprinting of official seals. As a result, the lawsuit was not successful. Instead, the prince colluded with the powerful people and was sent to the Xiaoling Guard. Because of this incident, the prince

He killed 60 members of Fengcheng (a kind of eunuch official in the prince's palace) Zhou Yi's family, and also massacred Dianzhang Chawu and others, a total of more than 300 people. The killing was really bloody and cruel. For a time, Ning Ning

Everyone in the palace was in danger, but in the end it was the princess who repeatedly begged the prince to stop pursuing Zhu Lian, otherwise more people would die.

At this time, Concubine Lou finally finished reciting the sutra and put down the string of Buddhist beads. The maid Xiaodie quickly stepped forward to help the princess, then skillfully picked up the tray containing the beads and placed it on the altar table in front of the Buddha statue, and then supported Concubine Lou

Leave the show building.

Xiaodie helped Concubine Lou to the bedroom and said at the same time: "Princess, it's already autumn. The servant went to the prison to deliver food to Master Song, but found that it was very cold inside. Master Song is still covered with a single quilt!

"

"Oh, then go get a quilt for Mr. Song later!"

Concubine Lou sighed secretly. She was clearly aware of her husband's ambitions, but as a Taoist woman, what could she do? Apart from giving tactful advice, she could build a Buddhist temple and chant sutras every day, in the hope of alleviating her husband's sins in this way.

, praying that everyone in the house will be safe and sound.

Song Yifang, the prefect of Nanchang, refused to rely on Prince Ning, and he was the direct chief executive of Nanchang Prefecture, which naturally caused many constraints on Prince Ning's residence. Prince Ning Zhu Chenhao simply put him under house arrest, and his fellow magistrate Ke Zheng took control of the government office.

It is said that Song Yifang was imprisoned in Prince Ning's Mansion before Sun Sui took office. It has been more than a year now. Out of sympathy and guilt, Concubine Lou took good care of Song Zhifu and sent her maid to serve him three meals a day.

He delivers meals.

Xiaodie took the opportunity to say: "Oh, by the way, when I went to deliver meals to the prison tonight, I found a scholar coming from Shangrao County who was rushing to take the exam. I heard that he offended His Highness, so His Highness sent people to arrest him!

"

Concubine Lou's beautiful eyebrows suddenly frowned: "There is a hospital examination tomorrow. Wouldn't that ruin someone's future? Zong'er is getting more and more outrageous. Go and ask the guards to let him go...Wait a minute, Shangrao County

The scholar here? What’s his name?”

"Xu Jin...ah, could it be him!" Xiaodie subconsciously covered her mouth.

In the past few months, Xu Jin's song "Picture of Picking Woodcutter" was widely circulated. Because of this incident, the prince was furious. He suspected that there were spies in the palace and sent people to investigate. In fact, many people suffered disaster. As Xiaodie,

Concubine Lou's personal maid is naturally one of the objects of suspicion. If it were not for Concubine Lou's protection, I am afraid she would not be able to escape the physical pain.

Concubine Lou's face darkened. The poem "Picture of Picking Woodcutter" was written by her to tactfully admonish her husband. She did not believe that a young scholar far away in Shangrao actually wrote a poem exactly like her own.

"Go and bring that scholar to see me...forget it, I'll go on my own."

Concubine Lou was obviously worried that her maid could not point out the guards, so she decided to go there herself to find out what the poem was about.

…

…

The backyard of the governor's office is where Sun Sui lives and eats. It is said that when Sun Sui arrived in Jiangxi last year, he heard about all the evil deeds of Prince Ning and seemed to have objections, so he sent all his family members back to his hometown, taking only two of them with him.

The servant came to Nanchang to take up his post.

Therefore, the huge governor's office seemed extremely deserted. Except for a few servants who called for envoys, there were fifty soldiers responsible for Sun Sui's safety.

Originally, only military generals could provide personal soldiers, and civilian officials did not receive such treatment. However, Sun Sui mobilized troops to suppress bandits some time ago, and he also had the title of admiral for suppressing bandits, which was equivalent to the generalissimo of suppressing bandits in Jiangxi.

At this time, Sun Sui was in his study receiving the visiting deputy envoy Xu Kui. It was said that the bandits in Poyang Lake were causing a lot of trouble during this period. Sun Sui had inspected Jiang Fang a few days ago and only returned to Nanchang this afternoon.

Xu Kui was an outspoken man and one of the few officials in Jiangxi who was not attached to Prince Ning's palace. Therefore, Sun Sui valued Xu Kui very highly and would bring him to discuss any important matters.

In the study at this moment, Sun Sui and Xu Kui were standing next to the desk, looking at the topographic map of the Poyang Lake area, and discussing strategies to round up the Poyang Lake thief Ling Shiyi.

At this time, an old servant came to the book door and reported: "Sir, the two young masters from Fei Ge's hometown said they have something urgent to ask for!"

Hearing this, Sun Sui put down the pen in his hand and said: "Ru Deng, you have to preside over the college examination tomorrow, so let's call it a day and go back to rest."

Xu Kui nodded. It was getting late now, and the curfew was estimated to be in half an hour. At this time, the Fei brothers came to see Governor Sun, so they must be in big trouble.

In the living room, Fei Maoxian and Fei Maozhong were waiting anxiously. It was said that Prince Ning wanted to kill Xu Jin when he was in Shangrao County. He also threatened revenge before being expelled and warned Xu Jin not to go to Nanchang to take the exam.

At this time, Xu Jin was captured in Prince Ning's palace, and his life was probably in danger!

"Greetings to Mr. Sun and Mr. Xu!" Fei Maoxian and Fei Maozhong saw Sun Sui and Xu Kui coming out from behind the screen and hurriedly came forward to pay their respects.

Sun Sui asked doubtfully: "The people sacrifice and the people receive. It's so late. If you don't rest to prepare for tomorrow's college examination, why do you come to see me?"

Fei Maozhong said anxiously: "Master Sun, Xu Ziqian has been captured by Prince Ning and taken to the palace. I'm afraid his life will be in danger if it's too late. I beg you, sir, to rescue him as soon as possible."

As soon as these words came out, Sun Sui's expression changed drastically, and Xu Kui even blurted out and cursed: "This is unreasonable, Prince Ning's son An dares to be lawless."

Sun Sui's expression was cold, Prince Ning's Mansion had long been lawless in Jiangxi, and he said in a deep voice: "Two worthy nephews, don't worry, I will go to Prince Ning's Mansion to ask for someone right now."

"I'm going to go with Mr. Sun!" Xu Kui said indignantly. Although he criticized Xu Jin's radical ideas, he still admired Xu Jin's talents. What's more, Xu Kui was an upright person and couldn't get rid of the sand in his eyes.

, and Xu Jin happens to be a candidate who is here to take the college entrance examination. As the great master who presides over the college examination, he naturally has to take care of this matter.

The Fei brothers were overjoyed and said: "Thank you two adults for your help, Zi Qian is saved!"

The Fei brothers were a bit blindly optimistic. In Shangrao County, Sun Sui could use violence to force Prince Ning to bow his head, but in Nanchang this method obviously did not work. Not to mention the large number of guards in Prince Ning's palace, even if Prince Ning's palace had no guards,

It was impossible for Sun Sui to force his way into a prince's mansion to rescue someone, otherwise he would have rescued Song Yifang, the prefect of Nanchang, who was imprisoned.

Unless ordered by the current emperor, no official would dare to break into and search the palace of a prince, let alone a vassal king with military power like Prince Ning?
Chapter completed!