When Song Junzhe returned to the East Palace, it was still early and the hot air made the entire palace depressed.

I just caught a palace maid and relieved my anger. But the unhappy mood still couldn't be relieved.

Not long after, he heard Lu Xiang's son Lu Yu come to ask for a meeting. He casually tidy up his clothes, and Song Junzhe met Lu Yu in the side hall.

Lu Wu said: "I have just gone to the school to look for Your Highness. I learned that Your Highness has returned to the palace early today. Did Your Highness encounter something unhappy?"

Song Junzhe snorted coldly and said nothing. Lu Liu smiled and said, "Actually, I know what Your Highness is thinking, but I don't like Ning Jiang's domineering arrogance? Unfortunately, even if Your Highness doesn't like him, he still has no way to deal with him. Don't talk about Your Highness, even the Lord of the Emperor, you can't do anything to him."

Song Junzhe took a step forward and said dissatisfiedly: "I don't know what my father is doing? He actually thought of marrying Baotong to him, that guy, that guy..."

"Your Highness failed to get his sister, but he had to marry his sister to him. It is inevitable that he feels unhappy," Lu Hui whispered, "In fact, you can see that the Lord has no choice but to do this."

Song Junzhe frowned: "What do you say?"

Lu Yu whispered: "Don't your highness know? This man surnamed Ning not only seeks fame and makes every effort to improve his reputation, but also tries every means to discredit the emperor and the court. This time, when he came to Lin'an, he secretly sent people to slander the emperor in the people and the world, saying that the emperor secretly sent people to negotiate with the barbarian envoys. One of the terms of peace talks proposed by the barbarian army was that Ning Jiang could not be allowed to live..."

Song Junzhe said angrily: "It's outrageous. From the day of his ascension to the throne, his father has been committed to the north to settle the Central Plains as his mission, and everyone in the world knows..."

Lu Zhu said: "The knowledgeable people naturally know, but those people in the martial arts world are mostly stupid people who don't study, and the untouchables know nothing. Everyone says that the surname Ning, who repels the barbarian army and saves Jiangnan, so naturally everyone believes in whatever he says. Don't you know? Recently, a large number of people in the martial arts world have entered Lin'an, and he sent people to secretly instigate them. In addition, before coming to Lin'an, he had secretly bewitched Huangfu of the Nanjian Xuanweisi Department.

Lin. The emperor was going to invite Huangfu Lin to discuss the marriage between his daughter Fu Lu and his minister, but Ning Jiang secretly bewitched Huangfu Lin, saying that the emperor had the intention to kill Huangfu Lin and sow discord, which made Huangfu Lin dare not come. Has Your Highness ever read the true explanations of the Nine Yin he wrote? The strong prey on the weak, the strong are respected, the world is the world of the world, not the world of one person... He has never really taken the Confucian way of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism for thousands of years?"

Song Junzhe suddenly slapped the table: "I knew for a long time that this guy was not a good guy, but I thought he would always be a little shameless, but I didn't expect that he was such a sinister villain."

Lu Wu took a step forward and continued to report: "The emperor is kind-hearted. Even if the Ningjiang is incompetent, he is still talented after all. He is unwilling to make things difficult for him. A few days ago, all officials submitted a press conference, saying that Ningjiang's wolfish ambitions were bluntly. Your Highness thought, if it weren't for Ningjiang's actions, it was so despicable that it would be so? Even so, the emperor still spoke to him many times, and always said that there might be misunderstandings. If Ningjiang was a little ashamed, he should change his past and serve the emperor and the court. Unexpectedly, he became more and more powerful, spreading rumors, creating public opinion, and even forced the emperor to marry him...

"Your Highness, think about why this Ning surnamed refused to marry his sister to His Highness? It was simply because at that time, His Highness was just a prince without any real power. If His Highness had been the crown prince at that time, he would have to offer his sister. He would have cried and shouted, and he would have to offer his sister. When he first presented poems to Princess Luanmei, he now forced the saint to marry the princess, wasn't it all for marriage to the Tian family? This man is good at taking advantage of the situation. When the eldest princess died, he retreated as an advance, called resignation, but in fact, he was the hope of raising his hope. As a result, he won the value of the late Emperor Shenzong. Shenzong died, deposed the emperor ascended the throne, and exposed his ambitions. How did he do it? He actually held his own troops and watched the barbarian army capture Haojing and abduct the emperor and all officials.

"Now, if he is allowed to marry His Highness the Princess, use the reputation he has cultivated with all his efforts to defeat the emperor and maintain the government in the future, who can control it? At that time... the world is probably no longer the Song family's world!"

Song Junzhe sat there, his face was gloomy and sunny. Suddenly, he turned his head suddenly and looked out the window. A shadow flashed quickly. He frowned and stood up and said, "Although what you said is reasonable, the affairs of the court all depend on the father. I am just the crown prince and I can't control so many things."

Lu Zhu sighed, "How could the little minister not know? The emperor is kind and deceived by the traitor. We cannot do so, but we are afraid that the prince will be deceived by the traitor. Fortunately, your highness is wise and has long seen through the traitor's intentions, so I don't need to say anything more. I will take my leave."

Song Junzhe nodded, told him to leave, turned around to the backyard, and asked a palace maid, "Who has been here just now?"

The palace maid said, "Your Highness the Princess has just arrived here and has gone in a hurry just now."

Song Junzhe nodded and said nothing more.

On the other hand, after Lu Yu left, he crossed two streets under the protection of his servants and boarded a carriage: "Father, I have already told the prince to listen to what my father taught me... Father, I don't understand. Since the emperor wants to deal with the Ning surname, he might as well start directly. Why is it so caused by a rumor?"

"What do you know, kid? I'll be more restrained recently and stop doing some ugly things that are not bad. At least pay attention to the impact of me." The person in the car snorted and gave me a few lessons.

After a while, Lu Hui got out of the carriage, the carriage left the alley, and slowly moved forward under the protection of a group of masters. One person came to the carriage: "Sir, where are you going next?"

"Go to the Ministry of Rites, those idiots from the Ministry of Rites. In the case of the Ma family in Zecheng, when the barbarian army invaded Zecheng, the Ma family was humiliated by the wheel, and they secretly stabbed one of the barbarians with scissors and were killed by random swords... What do you think this local official does? This woman is Lie Lie, but whether it is voluntary or otherwise, she is a person who has lost her chastity after erecting the barbarians. Just for the sake of her stabbing the barbarians, they have to set up a arch for her? These idiots have read the books of sages for so many years in vain, and they are less and less and less taking ethics seriously." The person in the car said coldly, "There are always some people in this world who have made cousins... and want to set up a arch for chastity."

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In the palace, Princess Baotong was pale and walked on the road.

The purple and yellow two-color golden butterfly's paired jacket is lined with a green strapless inside and a light red half-armed jacket on the outside. Although walking under the eaves of the red eaves and green tiles, the stuffy weather does not appear cool because of the sunlight.

I looked up and looked into the sky in the distance. In this scorching sun, a trace of dark clouds that suppressed people's hearts began to accumulate in the distance. It seemed that showers were inevitable, but it was a bit difficult to say whether they would come here.

When she returned to her house, the palace maid brought ice cubes, which made the room cooler. Princess Baotong sat in front of the dressing table and looked at the mirror a little stunned. After a while, the bead curtains outside swayed, and the palace maid's voice came: "Your Highness the Prince."

Baotong turned around and soon saw the emperor's brother walking in slowly with his hands on his back.

"Baotong, where did you go just now?" Song Junzhe looked at her.

"I, I..." Baotong didn't know how to explain for a moment.

"You heard it all?" Song Junzhe waved his hand, "Ning Jiang wants to force his father to marry you to him, don't worry, I will never let his trick succeed..."

Baotong suddenly said, "Lu Hui's words cannot be believed."

Song Junzhe frowned and looked at her.

Baotong whispered: "Your brother, Lu Yu, are you not aware of the personality of the emperor? The ugly things he did outside were simply blatant. He was not a good person at all..."

"I know, I know!" Song Junzhe waved his hand impatiently, "It's not a big deal."

"But he raped the women and arrested all his family..."

"It's said that it's a folk girl. He doesn't dare to touch the girl who really comes to the house. No matter what, it's Lu Xiang's son, and he still has a sense of qualities." Song Junzhe sat at the table, raised his head, looked at his sister's shocked gaze, and thought for a while, "Baotong, you used to be in the palace, and you didn't have a chance to see bad things. In fact, something like this... is not a big deal. Now the father still has some places to value Lu Xiang, and these things are just pressed. If you don't use Lu Xiang in the future, you can find it out at any time. It's his fault if you don't teach your children strictly. Besides... there is no evidence, it's just a rumor. Don't listen to outsiders' propaganda."

Unable to believe that even my brother would say such words, Baotong was a little hesitant for a moment. The world outside was very different from what she had thought before. Although as she got older, she began to slowly understand this point, the emperor's understatement and the funny attitude that seemed to look at the innocent child made her truly realize that... no one took those evil deeds seriously.

For fathers and brothers, as well as officials in the court, what Lu Li did was all appropriate. He dared not touch the girl's house with real status and coming... This is enough.

The purpose of going to the emperor's brother was to ask him to help him and tell his father that he would not marry Lu Er to Lu Li. He originally thought that as long as the emperor knew about what Lu Li did, the emperor would not ignore it. However, at this moment, she truly understood that Lu Li was wrong, but for the court, perhaps his biggest sin was that he was too blatant. In private, mistakes like him were probably happening every day, right?

She bit her lip: "But, my elder brother, as far as I know, Lu Liu is just a playboy. He knows nothing about the affairs in the court. The words he said to the elder brother just now were clearly someone who used him to provoke them."

"What are you provoking?" Song Junzhe sneered, "Ningjiang seeks fame and reputation, and keeps building momentum for himself with the credit of others. It is well known that others still need to provoke him? If Lu Wu doesn't say it, don't I know? Or are you like those stupid girls outside, you have never seen him a few times, just for his little things, treating him as your dream lover? Or do you really want to marry him so much?"

"Brother...the emperor brother," Baotong felt a little aggrieved, "It has nothing to do with those."

After all, it was his sister. Song Junzhe suppressed his anger and said slowly: "You are still young and easy to be deceived. This is not your fault. Ning Jiang, you don't know enough about him. Why did Song Gan get caught? Isn't it because he deliberately held troops? These things in the south, not to mention, are fought by others, and all the credits are his. This person's wolfish ambition can deceive those idiots who don't know whether to distinguish right from wrong."

Baotong held his arm and sat down at the table, his eyes somewhat confused: "But, I still don't understand. It was all his fault to say that the deposed emperor was captured and Haojing was destroyed. However, at that time, Ning Jiang had obviously been dismissed by the deposed emperor. After the barbarian army invaded a large-scale invasion, he used a commoner and a man to pull the remaining defeated generals who escaped from the north with the invincible Meng Yu's elite soldiers, and with tens of thousands of mobs, facing the barbarian elite soldiers who had surpassed their morale and number, and finally won hard. On the other side, the official troops of the states in the north almost collapsed when they heard the news. The Grand Marshal Tang Haogong used the position of Privy Councilor, and used hundreds of thousands of troops, and even the capital did not dare to approach. The other generals were generally like this, either defeating at one touch or fearing. How could it be that in the end, Haojing was destroyed and the deposed emperor was captured, which was all the fault of Prince Ning?"

She turned her head and looked at her brother in confusion.

Baotong was also hesitant at this moment. Although she was only thirteen or fourteen years old, as the current situation changed in the past or two years, and her growth, she began to slowly discover that many people and many things were completely different from what she had thought before. Even the father of a prince to a prince and a brother of a prince, sometimes it felt like she had completely changed, which made her feel like she had become an indescribable stranger.

In this situation, she couldn't help but wonder whether Ning Jiang was the same?

After all, she didn't know him either. Maybe her brother's opinion of him was right. After all, he was his brother. Compared to others, she was more willing to trust her relatives.

However, she still couldn't figure out some of the truths. In the situation of a state of decay and defeat in the north, the court lost thousands of miles of land, the generals were incompetent, and all officials were useless. A young man who had no official position led a group of defeated soldiers with only tens of thousands of people and defeated an enemy that others could not defeat. How could this be a huge contribution in the end, but instead became his serious crime?
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