Changsunji and his wife were already waiting for them in the carriage. They only waited for Qianru and Shangguan Yuan to get into the carriage before running away.
The group of people shook off the pursuers and left the county town, not knowing where to go.
Qianru complained to Changsunji and his wife about her grievances, "I really didn't hear that a child fell into the water, and I didn't know that the belt I dropped would become a murder tool."
"We are willing to believe you. There are many people expressing condolences in the palace, so it's not necessarily someone else who did it."
"The lotus pond is so big, and there are no tall blocks around it. I guess the gangster may have been hiding under the water for a long time, and then drowned the baby while you fell into the water. However, he couldn't have predicted that you would go to the lotus pond.
It’s even less likely that the doll would push you into the water. It’s really hard to find a reason to excuse you from all this, so it’s no wonder people think you are the murderer.”
"I'm not a murderer, I didn't kill anyone!"
"We can't just leave like this." Shangguan Yuan said: "If we leave like this, we won't be able to explain it even to ten people in the future!"
"It's hard to explain if we stay here." Changsun Ji said: "The baby is already dead, so we can't tell at all. Besides, there is also the matter of reselling medicinal materials mixed in, and things are getting fermented, which is extraordinary. Don't forget
The fate of Luojun Wang and his wife!"
Qianru said in frustration: "I hope my adoptive father is fine. If so, everything may turn around."
At this time, a guard reminded them to look in the direction of the county city.
There was thick smoke billowing and flames blazing into the sky, as if something big had happened.
Changsun Ji was shocked, "Is what Yi Zhonglun said true?"
Qianru and Shangguan Yuan were extremely surprised.
Xiangxiang said that after the news of King Luo's accident reached the capital, she went to Zixia Temple to offer incense and met Yi Zhonglun by chance.
Yi Zhonglun resigned from the official position and helped people in Zixia Temple to divine fortunes. He even divined a fortune for her, saying that it would bring disaster to the southeast.
Zhujun is located in the southeast of the capital.
Speaking of this, the group became even more curious about what was going on in the city, so they sent a few people to quietly go back to find out.
Unexpectedly, when we left the city, the city gate was wide open, but when we turned back, the city gate was closed.
Their people couldn't even get in. They only saw a few new big flags with the word "An" hung on the city wall.
A city changing its banner is a sign of rebellion!
But, who does this "An" refer to?
Just when they were confused, a carriage came speeding up.
The driver turned out to be Yi Zhonglun's personal attendant Yu Fu.
Yi Zhonglun, Li Ming, and King Zhang were all in the car.
"Hey, why are you still here? Let's go, let's go!"
Under Yi Zhonglun's anxious urging, everyone hurriedly set off and ran.
After running for a while and seeing no pursuers, they gradually slowed down, rested and fled.
No one knows whose banner the word "安" belongs to.
Yi Zhonglun only knew that Zheng Xiao was going to rebel.
In the early years, An Xingdao borrowed Zheng Xiao's hand to push him into position.
They all knew the emperor too well and knew that what he actually wanted was a puppet prime minister, so he could only have a chance to win the emperor's favor as a junior Hanlin official.
Privately, Yi Zhonglun and Zheng Xiao have no contact.
The reason why he concluded that Zheng Xiao had different intentions was because he knew an old incident from the previous royal family.
When King Zhang heard the words "old things from the previous dynasty" from Yi Zhonglun's mouth, he was extremely discouraged and sighed repeatedly that this was karma.
Yi Zhonglun saw that King Zhang only sighed but did not explain, so he had to stop abruptly.
Finally, we entered the Gyeonggi area and turned the danger around.
Unexpectedly, a group of officers and soldiers suddenly arrived and surrounded the inn where they settled.
The leading generals were very familiar to everyone. They were Jiang Xiaotian and his younger brother Jiang Xiaoyun, who were equally skilled in marksmanship as Shangguan Yuan.
The two men wanted to catch Shangguan Yuan and Qianru aggressively, but they were dumbfounded when they saw Queen Zhang.
The imperial concubine Ba Baili hurriedly sued Shangguan Yuan and his wife for murdering the little prince and grandson. In order to protect herself, she killed King Zhang and fled in fear of the crime.
But the King Zhang in front of him is clearly a living person!
The two brothers decided to take the Shangguan Yuan couple and Prince Zhang to see the emperor to clarify the truth.
Yi Zhonglun was afraid that it was late at night and it was dark before he could see the emperor, so he leaked the news that King Zhang was still alive. He hurriedly used the excuse that King Zhang was ill and was not suitable for riding, and asked the Jiang brothers to wait until daybreak before setting off to see the emperor.
Although Jiang Xiaotian had the Holy Purpose at his disposal, there was no reason not to take care of King Zhang who was in ill health.
Moreover, this inn was still forty or fifty miles away from the capital. Even if he rushed into the palace slowly, it would not be possible to wake the emperor from his sleep.
But in fact, this was just Yi Zhonglun testing the Jiang brothers.
The fact that they can agree to set off tomorrow shows at least two points: first, they have not turned against each other yet; second, the capital has not yet rebelled.
But he was able to strategize, but Qianru and Shangguan Yuan could not remain calm.
After all, the soldiers and horses around the post station were here to capture them, and they had fled here from Zhujun. King Zhang never listened to their explanations.
Considering that King Zhang suffered a major blow after losing his wife, son, and grandson one after another, it was not easy for the two of them to always mention this matter.
So much so that I felt anxious and restless.
At this time, the sound of horses suddenly came from outside.
Shangguan Yuan cautiously opened the window and looked out, and saw a figure carrying a box getting into the car. He was confused, why did Li Ming leave in such a hurry?
Early the next morning, Brother Jiang Xiaotian urged them to set off, and they discovered that the person lying in Prince Zhang's room was a clerk from the inn, and that Prince Zhang had already disguised himself as Li Ming's servant and left with him last night.
The two of them were riding in Yi Zhonglun's carriage, and Yi Zhonglun and Yu Fu also left together.
Brother Jiang Xiaotian was surprised, and they were even more surprised.
Why leave them behind and go quietly?
Is this already completely distrusted?
With a worried heart, Qianru and Shangguan Yuan followed the Jiang brothers on their way back to Beijing.
Just next to the pavilion about three miles away from the city, another group of soldiers and horses appeared, holding an imperial edict, and took the two men away from the Jiang brothers.
However, they were not taken into the palace, but were sent to the princess's mansion.
Hundreds of archers surrounded the two of them, threatening them with their hands tied and being whipped one after another by Princess Nandu.
After all, she was pregnant and it was too strenuous to use the whip. After beating them more than a dozen times, Princess Nandu decided to use other torture instruments, intending to torture them to death and then make it look like she committed suicide out of fear of crime.
Just when she was enjoying the torture, Zheng Xiao suddenly rushed over and slapped her hard.
There was a loud crackling sound, which caught Princess Nandu off guard and made her even more confused, "Are you crazy? How dare you hit me? You."
It was obvious that Princess Nandu didn't know that Zheng Xiao had turned against her again. When Zheng Xiao acted like a polite and virtuous corporal and expressed his intention to recruit Shangguan Yuan, she was so frightened that her lips and teeth trembled and she was speechless.
"I will never betray the emperor and the country!"
Shangguan Yuan's decisive words elicited several sneers from Zheng Xiao.
"In that case, then I will hand you over to the emperor for punishment. You can also tell me about my rebellious intentions and see how he will deal with it?"
So the couple was brought before the emperor.
Royal study room.
The emperor stood behind the bookshelf and waved his hands, and all the officers and soldiers escorting them retreated.
The couple did not believe in evil and told Zheng Xiao's words exactly as they were.
With a bang, the book in the emperor's hand fell to the ground.
The couple quickly reiterated that everything they said was true, but the emperor made no response.
At this time, the waiter waiting on the side shouted in panic: "Here, help the driver, help the driver."
The couple didn't know why. When they came to the bookshelf and took a look, they were shocked to find that the emperor had died. The reason why he could remain standing was because of the support of a chamberlain behind him.
When the two chamberlains saw that they had discovered everything, they turned around and hit the wall and died.
In this way, the couple was inexplicably charged with the crime of regicide and was imprisoned in the sky prison.