Chapter VIII Temptation and Suspicion
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In a daze, "Liu Gang" saw his mother crying and scolding, and felt his scalp and his mind was blank. It seemed that he shouldn't be staying in any part of the world.
If you are addicted to gambling | betting, you will face such a situation sooner or later. You have "confessed" many times and have repentant mistakes. Your credit will definitely go bankrupt, and even your own mother will not believe him.
He suddenly woke up!
He sat for a while with his eyes staring. Seeing the antique carved window and hearing someone beside him say, "How could the second brother fall asleep here?" He gradually came to his senses and remembered that he was already Zhu Gaoxu and was in the Ming Dynasty.
The person who was speaking just now was the third brother Gao Sui. Gao Sui looked at Zhu Gaoxu's face, "Second brother is dreaming?"
Even in the dream, Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to harm the people around him. He also wanted to be kind to his relatives and gain recognition, but he didn't have money and took the wrong path.
Zhu Gaoxu's chest was beating and his mood was in chaos... He couldn't help but sigh: Perhaps the original sin of a man is poverty and powerless, and he often hides desires.
Now in the Ming Dynasty, what he owns is very important. Keep everything he has! This desire is becoming stronger and stronger.
Gao Sui's voice said again: "Brother is sick!"
Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath, stood up from the couch, turned to look at Gao Sui, "Brother's health has always been bad."
Gao Sui frowned and said, "But this time it's not easy. It's like an emergency. He vomits and screams pain. He has a lot of red bumps as big as sesame! He has to find a doctor."
"I'll go see my elder brother first." Zhu Gaoxu said, "You go to the door and ask the guard's Jinyiwei to find the doctor."
Gao Sui nodded.
"Third brother." Zhu Gaoxu called him again, "Tell the Jinyiwei lieutenant, and first tell the fourth uncle (Xu Zengshou). I heard that the fourth uncle was happy to interact with strange people in the martial arts world, and there might be a way."
"I'll go now."
Zhu Gaoxu also walked out of the room and suddenly a wave of heat came to his face. I remember that when I first moved in here, there were still fine rain that was common in spring. It seemed that in the blink of an eye, the weather was already so hot.
After walking west along the downward room for a while, you can see the foyer of the inner house. Zhu Gaoxu slept outside at noon, so Gao Sui just asked him why he fell asleep here.
The brick walls of a row of houses hanging on the mountaintops absorbed gray and black dirt, and there was a stale and smoky smell in the air. Since the King of Yan enfeoffed him to Peking, most of the time, no one lived in this huge mansion, and only three or two slaves watched it.
Zhu Gaoxu walked to the foyer and looked back. Under the banana tree in the corner of the exterior wall, there was nothing, and the white flowers that once bloomed there were gone.
...The prince was sick. Although he asked Jinyiwei to tell Xu Zengshou first, the first one was Xu Huizu. Xu Huizu and a companion named Qu came to visit the disease with the imperial doctor from Taichang Temple.
The imperial doctor looked at the symptoms carefully and took the pulse, but he was unable to ask the prince himself. The prince was already drowsy and had no clear speech. The imperial doctor only confirmed that the prince was sick because it was "real".
In the afternoon of the same day, more than a dozen imperial doctors came immediately! The prince's condition was real and serious, so the court immediately paid special attention to it.
More than a dozen imperial doctors with the most excellent medical skills in the Ming Dynasty were unable to diagnose the prince's condition! Some people think it was heat, which caused fever, rash, vomiting and other symptoms, but the slow pulse was unexplainable.
Some people also think it is poisoning, but they cannot tell which poison is... And when it comes to poisoning, the imperial doctors all have a lot of worries, and most of them are silent.
Outside the prince's bedroom, Xu Huizu called a maid. She had just walked out with a copper basin. Xu Huizu asked, "Prince Su is always brought by his servants around him?"
The maid buried her head and stammered, "I don't know much, most of the time it is."
Xu Huizu immediately asked, "The prince is unable to move, and their brothers are harmonious. In addition to most of the time, the third prince... the prince of Gaoyang will also serve the prince to eat?"
Or because of the harmony between brothers, the maid immediately nodded and said, "It's OK."
Xu Huizu asked again: "The prince is vomiting, where is the filthy thing?"
"I have already cleaned up and poured it out."
"Oh..." Xu Huizu waved, "Tell the person who serves the prince that if the prince vomits again, don't lose things, the imperial physicians may be useful."
"Yes." The servant hurriedly said, "I sued him."
The companion next to Xu Huizu didn't say anything, but just stood aside and listened to his inquiries silently. Xu Huizu called out, "Let's go to the kitchen and take a look."
This companion named Qu, named Qu Neng, was a capable general. He took office as the commander-in-chief of Sichuan and made many contributions in Sichuan. He returned to Beijing not long ago to report his duties. He and Xu Huizu met him very early. Qu Neng, a military general who had nothing to do with the government, had a better relationship with Xu Huizu.
The two walked all the way to the kitchen located in the outer yard. Xu Huizu looked around and looked disappointed on his face. Now is not the time to cook, there is no one in the kitchen, and the pots and pans are neatly tidy. Xu Huizu turned around and looked at a ditch outside the kitchen, leading from under the wall to the outside of the mansion, and the ditch was washed by water.
At this moment, suddenly, Zhu Gaoxu was walking towards this side alone and gazes with Xu Huizu. He heard Zhu Gaoxu say, "A man says that a gentleman is far away from the kitchen, and his uncle has a noble status, so why do he come to the kitchen?"
Xu Huizu was slightly embarrassed and said, "I'll see if this kitchen is not clean, I'm afraid that the prince will have a stomachache."
Zhu Gaoxu nodded and looked at the person next to him, "This one is..."
Qu Neng, wearing a gray cloth robe, hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Qu Neng, the commander of the Sichuan Metropolitan Government, pay homage to Prince Gaoyang."
Zhu Gaoxu looked calm and could not see any panic. He also bowed back and said, "General Qu, I'm lucky to meet you."
Today, Xu Huizu did not take off his elders or scolded him. When he looked at his nephew in front of him, his eyes were somewhat equal. Although Zhu Gaoxu was tall and strong, he was only in his teens after all, and his face was still childish. Only those eyes, bright and had a kind of experience, which was extremely inconsistent with his age.
Maybe it was an illusion. Xu Huizu felt incredible.
Xu Huizu was on a whim and suddenly sighed, "Many people do things, it's very interesting..."
Zhu Gaoxu asked with great interest: "Why don't you say it, what's the interesting thing?"
Xu Huizu smiled and said, "Test."
"Oh?" Zhu Gaoxu turned his head slightly, "What do you want to test for uncle?"
Xu Huizu shook his head, took a breath from hissing and frowned, "Maybe because he was not fully aware of what he could not confirm other people's thoughts, so he did something, looked at it, and kept speculating and confirming it. It was safe..."
After he said that, he stared at Zhu Gaoxu's face without blinking.
Zhu Gaoxu looked confused and said, "Did your uncle say he is hooking up with a little girl?"
Xu Huizu was stunned for a moment, embarrassed again, and immediately said, "The prince is seriously ill. You are not a good brother, and you still want that lustful thing!"
Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly stood there with his fists clasped his fists.
"Hmph!" Xu Huizu shook his sleeves, lifted his legs and left. Zhu Gaoxu's voice came from behind, "Uncle, General Qu, go slowly."
Xu Huizu and Qu Neng left the mansion and rode a horse to leave.
Qu Neng called his followers to walk slowly, slapped his horse and asked, "Duke of Wei met Prince Gaoyang in the kitchen. I wonder what the meaning of that sentence is?"
Xu Huizu looked around and said in a deep voice: "I just thought today that Gao Xu killed that official last month, perhaps because he was thinking about trying to test the court!"
"This..." Qu Neng pondered endlessly.
Xu Huizu said calmly again: "Just just went out, I wanted to call the Jinyiwei lieutenant at the door to check. Is the prince poisoned? But it is useless to say that. Now the Jinyiwei no longer has the right to torture and investigate. Unless the court first asks the court and orders from above, the Jinyiwei will search the palace. I then held back and didn't say it."
Qu Neng responded, but did not comment. The two of them were not inconvenient to say more, and they soon fell silent.
Xu Huizu had a kind of intuition in his heart: the prince was poisoned, which might be Gao Xu’s actions!
But there is a lack of evidence and some unreasonable things, so he will not say it rashly. He thought to himself: This is true in the world, others are suspicious of themselves, and they are also suspicious of others.
Thinking of this, Xu Huizu still smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Qu Neng looked at him in confusion, not understanding why.
Xu Huizu immediately regained his serious expression, looked back at Qu Neng, no longer talking about the prince's condition, and instead said: "My nephew Gao Xu was cunning and fierce when he was young. Later, he followed his father to Peiping, and learned the art of archery, horse riding and shooting, and often taught soldiers to arrange troops. He heard that he had followed his father in the north many times before he was young. He often became a vanguard general, which was never simple.
This time I arrived at the capital, I paid special attention to him. Now it seems that it is still worse than before, and it is a bit... terrible!"
Qu Neng showed some surprise at Xu Huizu's words, and quickly agreed: "The prince is Taizu's bloodline after all, and he is more divine and martial than ordinary people."
...Xu Huizu had just left, and Xu Zengshou came. After Zhu Gaoxu arrived in Nanjing, he had never seen the two brothers appear at the same time.
The ones who arrived at the mansion were Wang Ning, the son-in-law Wang Ning, and Wang Ning's eldest son Wang Zhenliang. They were all relatives, and they could not help but ask about their well-being and express their sincere concern.
Xu Zengshou also brought a monk, saying that he was trying to expel evil spirits.
Zhu Gaoxu asked about the monk's origin and said in private that he had become a monk at Qingshou Temple.
Qingshou Temple? Zhu Gaoxu remembers that there was a counselor around his father, a monk with the name Daoyan, named Yao Guangxiao. Yao Guangxiao happened to be the host of Qingshou Temple.
Zhu Gaoxu looked at Xu Zengshou with meaningful eyes several times. What is Xu Zengshou doing behind his uncle seems to be more interesting.
Zhu Gaoxu did not take the initiative to mention this matter again. With the monk's relationship, Xu Zengshou seemed to have close contacts with the Prince Yan's Mansion; but there was another relationship... Yao Guangxiao was appointed to assist the prince. From the inside, Xu Zengshou and the prince's mansion seemed to be closer.
Chapter completed!