The woman's voice was not loud, but it was like a thunder that split apart the depression in the hearts of the father and son. She easily revealed the solution to a crisis.
Nangong Ming nodded and remained silent, remembering what Master Puguang said: This woman is not a kind person, beauty is a disaster... In Prince Ao's Mansion, Nangong Ao was restless and anxious, waiting for news.
The butler is as always, always able to come back in time when his master needs him. This is why Nangong Ao values him so much.
"Your Majesty, I have heard the news. Mr. Futai is not dead, he is just in a coma."
"Not dead?" Nangong Ao sat down with a solemn look on his face: "Who did it?"
"I don't know, no one knows, but it's definitely not Nangong Jie's fault. He's not that stupid to help us kill people and silence them."
"Then who did it? Oh... I have a headache!" Nangong Ao sighed, thought for a moment, and murmured: "I think it was probably the woman's arrangement. Huh, she used the same trick twice.
times, and it works smoothly every time!”
"Your Majesty, what you are saying is that the people from Prince Jie's Palace will pretend to be our people and hunt down the boy in the palace, so that he can reveal everything in anger?"
"Other than them, who else could be so bold? That Nangong Jie pretended to go to the Luo Mansion and said he was protecting the boy. In fact, he was just hiding it from others so that no one would doubt him. Well, they came to frame him again and again.
This king, this king will definitely make them regret it!"
The housekeeper couldn't help showing a horrified look: "Your Majesty, isn't our situation very dangerous?"
Nangong Ao's eyes flashed fiercely and he said: "So, no matter who did it, he must die before Futai wakes up!"
"Yes, I know the prince, I will go down immediately to make arrangements!"
"etc!"
Nangong Ao showed unprecedented calmness, and said with a desperate look on his face: "You don't need to do this to avoid mistakes. Now that the palace is placed in the palace, my identity as the king is the most important thing."
Good cover, remember, don't tell anyone about this matter."
"Yes, Your Majesty, of course I understand. Heaven knows and earth knows. You know that I...don't know..."
Nangong Ao rolled his eyes at the housekeeper, took out a letter from his sleeve and said, "Send this confidential letter to the palace to my uncle. Go and get back as soon as possible without any mistakes!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Night fell as scheduled, and the doctors in the imperial hospital gathered together to discuss the treatment method, while Lord Futai was lying quietly on the hospital bed.
As the night deepened, the imperial doctors finally dispersed, leaving only one person sitting in front of the hospital bed, guarding the patient.
The warm breeze of the summer night brought bursts of sultry heat, which soon made the imperial physician who stayed behind feel sleepy and yawn again and again.
"Who?" The imperial doctor heard someone knocking on the door, but no one answered when he asked, so he curiously walked over and opened the door to check.
"Ah..." The imperial doctor screamed, and was immediately knocked unconscious.
A masked man pulled off the triangular black cloth covering his face and walked towards the hospital bed step by step.
It was a coincidence that the patient who was treating the coma moved his fingers for some unknown reason at this moment, and then his eyelids opened slightly. When the assassin walked to the bedside, Mr. Futai had already struggled to sit up.
"You...you are so cruel!" Futai pointed at Nangong Ao and scolded in a hoarse voice: "I have committed the crime of deceiving the emperor because of you, and you still refuse to let me go!"
"Heartless? Let him go? If I let you go, who will let me go?" Nangong Ao didn't want to explain any more that it was not his idea to chase him. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Nangong Ao pulled out his long hair with a swipe.
The sword was thrust straight into the heart of Mr. Futai on the bed!
With a sound of "Dang...", the Futai boy suddenly pulled out the steel knife from under the pillow, just in time to block the tip of the sword in front of his chest!
Nangong Ao felt a chill in his heart, jumped back, turned around and jumped towards the window!
Because that guy at Futai doesn't know any martial arts at all, the person on the bed must be someone disguised as an impostor!
"Where are you running!" The person on the bed suddenly jumped and dragged him to the ground.
"Swish, swish, swish!" Several long swords were already pressed against Nangong Ao's neck... "Beast!" Only an angry curse was heard, and Nangong Ming walked in from the door with the prime minister and several ministers, waving his hand.
, the guards put away all their swords and stood aside to wait.
Nangong Jie pulled out the mask on his face, threw it on the bed and said, "Brother Erhuang, you disappoint me so much."
Nangong Ao had a look of horror on his face, and he knelt on the ground with a thud: "Father, the child is guilty. The child was confused for a moment. Please have mercy, Father! Please have mercy!"
"Huh, God's sins are especially forgivable, but your own sins will not survive. You, a traitor, dare to do such a thing that harms the laws of nature. I will never condone it! Someone, take this traitor to the heavenly prison and ask for execution in the future.
!”
"No, Father, no!" Nangong Ao cried and begged: "For the sake of father and son, Father, please spare the child's life, Father..."
Nangong Ao even knelt down and hugged the legs of the ministers, asking them to plead for mercy. However, no one dared to say a word today. Everyone knew that Nangong Ao, a birdman, had committed a heinous crime, and they had no time to protect themselves.
How dare you speak for him and provoke your wrath?
"What are you waiting for?" Nangong Ming glared at the soldiers and said, "Did you not hear what I said, or do you want to disobey the imperial edict?"
The guards quickly ran over, tied up Nangong Aao, and escorted him out.
Nangong Ming's face turned blue and white in turns. It would be heartbreaking for anyone to raise such a rebellious son.
Duoduo stood behind the emperor, watching Nangong Ao being taken away. She felt extremely happy, but she couldn't show it, otherwise she would be incompatible with the current atmosphere.
"Wait a minute!" Nangong Jie suddenly took action to stop the guards, then knelt down and said: "Father, I beg you, please spare the lives of the two emperor brothers."
"What? Spare his life?" Nangong Ming was greatly surprised. He didn't expect that this little son would come back to plead for that beast!
Nangong Jie said: "Yes, father, although he has made a big mistake, but out of consideration for his flesh and blood, please spare his life, even if it means expelling him from the palace or sending him to the frontier, please..."
Duoduo almost fainted with anger. What kind of trouble did that stupid ass come out to cause trouble at the critical moment? Really, it was not easy to see that Nangong Ao had a good home, but he, alas! He was so angry that he was so angry!
"That's enough! Let go!" Nangong Ao suddenly broke away from the escort of the guards, walked up to Nangong Jie in a few steps and said: "Do you think you won? Are you amazing? Ah! Stop being so pretentious here and talking about the relationship between flesh and blood.
Qing, bah, I have nothing to do with you at all!"
After Nangong Ao finished speaking, he suddenly burst into laughter.
"Presumptuous!" Nangong Ming yelled angrily: "Beast, why are you laughing? You are still so arrogant when death is imminent!"
"Why am I laughing?" Nangong Ao suddenly glared at Nangong Ming and said: "I'm laughing at you, father. You are also an unfilial son. If you kill me, you will be disrespectful to our ancestors! If you kill me, the Nangong family will be in trouble.
No more descendants, hahahaha..."
Duoduo's scalp felt numb. What Nangong Ao said seemed to be related to the thing she had been worried about... "Huh, that's nonsense. I still have a fifth prince, so why would I cut off my descendants?"
"He?" Nangong Ao said word by word: "He is not of the Nangong family at all, he is a bastard!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Nangong Jie grabbed Nangong Ao's collar and said, "I advise you to stop making unnecessary resistance and accept your fate!"
Nangong Ao suddenly said with a fierce look on his face: "Humph, it's you who should accept your fate!"
Duoduo sneered and said: "Your Majesty, I think the second prince is crazy. Seeing that he is the prince, it is normal for him to talk crazy. Your Majesty, it is better to lock him up first. How to deal with it will depend on the situation in the future.
"
"Shut up! You two adulterers, you just let your husband and your wife do whatever they want, right? Huh, don't think that you can hide the truth! Father, I have evidence to prove that the fifth emperor brother is indeed not a flesh and blood of my Nangong family.
!”
Nangong Ming didn't speak anymore, he just glared at Nangong Ao, his meaning was obvious. Although he was angry, he allowed him to continue talking.
"Uncle..." Nangong Ao looked at Situ Nan asking for help.
Situ Nan understood, clapped his hands, and made a summoning gesture toward the door, and several guards escorted a eunuch in.
When Duoduo took a look, he was surprised. It was indeed that guy. What a disaster!
"Father, you can know everything by asking him!" Nangong Ao stared at the eunuch and said.
"Are you from the palace? How come I have never seen you before?"
The eunuch said with a panic look on his face: "Your Majesty, my servants in the Ministry of Internal Affairs rarely go to the Imperial Garden, so the Emperor has no impression."
"Tell me, what do you know?"
"Your Majesty, spare your life, Your Majesty, slave, slave deserves death, slave deserves death!"
"Tell me, as long as you tell the truth, I promise to spare your life!"
"Yes, the slave said it, the slave said it all!"
The eunuch turned around and pointed at Nangong Jie and said: "He, he is not a prince, he is a descendant of a slave..."
"You're talking nonsense!" Nangong Minglongyan was furious: "Whoever comes here, take him out and kill him!"
No one can bear such a cruel fact. If what he said is true, then he has been a cuckold for decades and mistakenly raised a wild beast as his own flesh and blood. What's more, he is a cuckold.
How can the king of the country endure such humiliation?
"Your Majesty, spare your life, Your Majesty, everything my slave said is true, if you don't believe me, just look at it!" The eunuch said and suddenly took off his pants!
On the eunuch's butt, a black five-pointed star pattern appeared in front of everyone's eyes!
Nangong Jie's eyes suddenly darkened and he almost fainted and fell to the ground. Fortunately, the prime minister was there to help him.
"Humph, you know you're scared, right?" Nangong Ao looked down at Nangong Jie with a bit of pride and said, "If I remember correctly, you also have such a birthmark on your butt, and it's exactly the same!"
"Ah? This..." The ministers all opened their mouths in shock, because they could tell from Nangong Jie's reaction that King Jie must have the same birthmark on his buttocks.
"Physician, tell me, can birthmarks be hereditary?"
"Back to the Emperor, birthmarks are generally not hereditary, but once they are hereditary, the birthmarks will be very similar, both in shape and in the places where the birthmarks appear."
"Your Majesty, you must make it clear. The foundation of my Great Southern Dynasty cannot be entrusted to others in a haphazard manner. If it were not for the noble blood of my Great Southern Dynasty, then-"
Duoduo knew that this matter was inevitable at this point, so he suddenly pulled and pulled Nangong Jie's trousers loose for me, and most of his buttocks was exposed.
A black five-pointed star, indeed exactly the same as the one on the eunuch!
Everyone was shocked, but Duoduo said with contempt: "Just this, can it prove that the relationship between the two is father and son? Huh, that's too ridiculous."
"What did you say!" Nangong Ao said angrily: "Are the words of the imperial doctor false?"
Duoduo continued to disdain: "What the imperial doctor said may not be true. Your Majesty, to be honest with you, the idea that these people with the same birthmark are related by blood is not convincing at all, because my son also has a birthmark on his buttocks.
With an identical black five-pointed star, is it possible that you also want to say that my son is the son of that dead eunuch?"
"You lied!" Nangong Ao simply believed it and said, "Father, since Concubine Qian said so, just go and bring her child over and you will know!"
"You can go wherever you like, my son is at Zizhuyuan."
Duoduo said it very easily, but his heart was pounding. If the emperor believed that the birthmark was real, his son would also suffer because of it... Soon, Bin'er was taken to the Imperial Hospital.
, Nangong Ao couldn't wait to say: "Take it off, didn't you say that he also has the same birthmark on his butt? Do you want him to take it off?"
"Son, take off your pants." Duoduo said lightly.
"Mom..." Bin'er didn't know why he was asked to take off his pants, but seeing so many adults looking at his mother as if they wanted to eat someone, he had no choice but to pull his pants down obediently.
"Ah..." Everyone exclaimed, and sure enough, there was a black five-pointed star on the child's buttocks, and even the angle was exactly the same.
Nangong Ao's face suddenly changed: "How could this happen? It's impossible, how could this happen? No, there must be something wrong with them!"
"Is there a problem? What's the problem?" Duoduo said angrily: "I have never been to the capital before, and I don't know any eunuchs or King Jie. Is it possible that we can have sex with each other from a distance? And then get pregnant? Humph, this is ridiculous!"
"Father, please believe me. Although there is no evidence of the child yet, that child must be the biological son of the Fifth Emperor's brother. None of them are of the Nangong family's blood!"
"Joke, I won't allow you to insult my son like this!" Duoduo turned to Nangong Ming and said: "Your Majesty, since my son has the same birthmark on his body, I'm sure there will be many more in this world. Is it possible that they,
Are they also the descendants of that dead eunuch?"
"Hahahaha..." Nangong Ao looked up to the sky and laughed: "A lot? Go ahead and lie to ghosts. I don't believe you can find another person with this birthmark in this capital..."
"Don't believe it? Just search it and you'll find out."
Soon, more than a hundred palace guards set out from the palace and searched door to door along the palace gate. Because it was inconvenient for adults, they specially selected children's trousers to take off.
As a result, after searching, five or six were found!
So the guards came back to report: "Report to the Emperor, we searched a section along Zhengxin Street at the palace gate, and found five or six children. They all had black five-pointed stars on their buttocks. They were the same as Concubine Qian's mother-in-law.
Exactly the same as a child’s!”
"Impossible!" Nangong Ao was driven crazy. Although his hands were tied, he was in a state of madness. Even several court officials present felt that the outcome of the matter was too unbelievable.
But the evidence was right in front of them, and they couldn't help but be unconvinced.
"Did you hear it, everyone?" Duoduo suddenly said with an aggrieved look on his face: "My son is so pitiful that he is so suspected..."
"Hmph..." Nangong Ming waved his hand and said, "Bring this nonsense and lawless traitor to my custody! You should all go and do other things."
"Yes, my lord, please leave!"
"Prime Minister."
"I'm here!"
"Nafutai is dead. You are responsible for handling the funeral affairs and giving him a grand burial according to the great etiquette of our country. Alas, in the final analysis, he was forced to death by my unfilial son."
Seeing everyone retreating, Nangong Jie also bowed to say goodbye, and Duoduo hugged his son and left.
"Hmph..." After Nangong Ming waited for everyone to leave, he overturned a table to the ground with his fist, and kicked the perfectly good table into seven or eight pieces.
The eunuch was so frightened that he did not dare to speak. He could only stand aside and tremble, because he had never seen his master lose such a temper. If he didn't like him, his life would be at risk.
After Nangong Ming calmed down for a while, he ordered: "Go and tell Situ Nan to wait for me in the imperial study room immediately."
"It's your Majesty, I'll go right away." Eunuch Li walked out of the Imperial Hospital as if he was running away, fearing that the Emperor would tear him to pieces if he delayed for a moment.
Nangong Jie returned to Zizhuyuan with Duoduo, and then told the reason for Futai's death. Duoduo said angrily: "You guy, why are you so unreliable in your work? You will die if you follow anyone.
Now, tell me, how can you make us two feel at ease in the future?"
"In the future? Now that Nangong Ao has been imprisoned, I will soon become the prince. Then we can be together openly. What else do you have to worry about?"
"Sigh... If only that was the case." Duoduo said worriedly: "Didn't you see your father's face just now? He was clearly reluctant to deal with Nangong Ao. I'm afraid you want to sit on the throne of the prince, right?
It's all morning and night, I'm really worried that something will happen."
"It's making trouble? Don't worry, my wife, you said that there is a god who keeps your head above water. As long as we don't do anything bad, there won't be any big trouble. Look at today, isn't Nangong Ao making enough trouble? The result is not his own fault.
?”
"This... stupid man, in fact, you don't know at all, he..." After thinking about it, I decided to forget it. If I told him the truth, the medicine would probably cause serious problems, so I swallowed it hard.
"Wife, what do you want to say?"
"Oh, it's nothing. I mean, he deserves it, but we have to be careful at every step and not be careless, you know?"
Nangong Jie couldn't help but laugh. This woman really treated him like a child... Duoduo said unhappily: "Why are you laughing? Look at how stupid you are."
"Oh, it's nothing. I think Bin'er and I are really destined to have the same birthmark. If it weren't for the big age difference, I really thought he was my twin's brother."