Chapter 114: Slapping the Imperial Relatives and Insulting the Ministers
What did His Majesty and Xiu Xiu talk about, and where did they go, I will explain later.
This chapter is too stuck, it took two days to pass.
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Twilight's expression was unrevealed, and a thought flashed through her mind, and she immediately understood. It has been 19 years since Bu Xihuan ascended the throne, and it should have been ten years since he laid out the dark piles in Shengjing. Most of those dark piles are places where the Moon Gate collects intelligence, so most of them are green buildings, wine shops, teahouses, and theater gardens, which are all places where courtiers and princes often go. Tonight, Bu Xihuan is in danger, since the matter involves Bu Xichen, he naturally picked the restaurant that Bu Xichen often goes, so the place is the same, and her trial will be easy to try.
Xiang Ji?
Bu Xichen's cheeks bit tightly, and only after a while did he say: "Xiang Ji!" ”
"Shizi, you said that after you left the Governor's Mansion the day before yesterday, you and your brother-in-law went to a restaurant to drink, which restaurant is it?"
Twilight asked, Gao replied, answered smoothly, Twilight listened to it, and asked again.
"Back to the governor, the shopkeeper of the Xiangji wine shop was a dart in his early years, and he knew some martial arts, and the husband of the concubine was martial, and he had a few times with the shopkeeper, and he had an appreciation for him, and he went often since then. came and went, and the shopkeeper Xu relied on the husband of the concubine to appreciate him, so he opened his mouth to mention this family matter. However, with the door of our general's mansion, the first-class girl in the mansion marries a businessman, and being a concubine is really low, even if the concubine does not have the intention of taking a concubine for the general, she will not agree to this family matter. ”
"Gao, you said that the shopkeeper of Xiangji Liquor Store wants to take Songchun as a concubine, he is a businessman, how dare he mention this family matter to General Xuanwu's mansion?"
Then, she began to ask questions.
Gao and Twilight are in the same camp, so they naturally understand what she means, the women in the back house are quite talented in acting, Gao snorts and says what he just accused the murderer again, Song and Bu Xichen didn't expect Gao to say that the murderer is someone else, the mother and son are both shocked and angry, Twilight Qing sees the looks of the two in her eyes and knows it in her heart.
"Gao." Du Qing said, "King Heng's step-concubine and the prince must not have heard your previous words, you repeat your previous words and tell them." ”
Song's face was cloudy, and Twilight Qing glanced at her, ignoring her for the time being, she looked at Gao first.
Song is the princess and princess, the court ordered the woman, she did not want to kneel in the twilight, but she did not dare to ask the emperor to get up. The saint was afraid that he hated and poisoned their mother and son at this time, how could he let her get up?
Gao had tears in his eyes, looking at Bu Xichen's face that looked like he had been slapped by someone, and he was secretly sad in his heart. Anyway, the person who forced her husband to death is full of General Xuanwu's mansion tonight, and he can't be allowed to bear the crime of forcing his brother to death, but let him kneel in the flower hall of the general's mansion to kneel his dead brother, which is also right.
Twilight thanked her and got up, and she didn't need the palace people to move the chair, she dragged it and sat down in front of Bu Xichen! She was sitting, Bu Xichen kneeling, he refused, just wanted to get up, Twilight said: "It is against the principles of heaven to force my brother to die, this is what you said, then kneel!" ”
The fake emperor raised his red sleeves, covered the corners of his mouth twitching slightly, smiled in his eyes, and said, "Sit." ”
"If Lord Xiangguo can't wait for tomorrow morning, then send someone to the Governor's Mansion now to collect my handsome seal, but before your people come back, I am still the Governor of Jiangbei Naval Division, and I am still responsible for investigating this case! So, now, only I can ask questions, and people who have nothing to do shut up! Twilight said, turned around and knelt down, and said, "The minister begs to sit down." ”
The Yuan family has been in the dynasty for 600 years, and he has seen all kinds of people in the court since his father was free, but he has never seen such a stunned boy who dares to slap the emperor's relatives and insult the ministers! He didn't know anything else that could make her fear and surrender other than killing her.
"You, you ......" stunned! This kid is such a stunned young man!
"If you don't like me, tomorrow morning you will dismiss my official and pay my handsome seal, and I will shut up! Otherwise, whoever asks me to investigate the case, whoever asks me to practice as a water master, and whoever uses me, will shut up for me! ”
"You!"
Twilight sneered, "It's only this time that I've lost my honor in front of you, and it's been many years since you lost my honor in front of you." ”
Yuan Xiangguo's face suddenly turned blue, he was not a Song family, he was not afraid of the momentum of Du Qing's drinking, he got up and said angrily: "Presumptuous! The saint is here, you are out of order in front of the king, you should shut up! ”
"Shut up, too!" Twilight turned around and drank coldly.
Yuan Xiangguo's face sank, and then Song's words said: "The saint is here, you ......"
"Shut up!" Twilight Qing stabbed at the Song family with cold eyes, and the Song family fell back in shock, almost turning his back on his back.
Song's face turned blue with anger, and he pointed at Twilight Qing and said, "Presumptuous! The Holy One is here, and you ......"
Bu Xichen is the son of Heng Wangfu, even if the emperor is weak now, Heng Wangfu also maintains a three-point face because of the relationship with the saint, the Song family regards the son-in-law as the top of the heart, Bu Xichen has not been scolded since he was a child, even if he has not been scolded, and now he has been slapped by the courtiers and insulted, how can this shame be endured?
Lin Meng took the official robe to block his face, and when it was over, someone was messing with this living Hades again.
The sound was like spring thunder, exploding in the flower hall, and I only felt my ears hurt and my scalp was numb when I smelled it.
"Fart!"
Half of Bu Xichen's face was pulled out with a red mark, this is not counting, just listen to the young man shouting angrily!
Syllable!
Twilight shook her hand, her sleeves were like palms, and she swept it sharply!
As soon as his brows furrowed, he suddenly felt a strong wind blowing on his face!
"That's right." Bu Xichen straightened up, but frowned uncomfortably as he looked up at Twilight.
"You say, Bu Xisheng is the mastermind of the case of hiding corpses at the bottom of the lake?" She walked up to Bu Xichen and didn't look at him, just asked.
The young man walked step by step, stepping on the cold green bricks of the flower hall, the footsteps were silent, but every step was like running over human bones, and the killing intent was silent.
"Really?" A clear sound suddenly came from the door of the flower hall, and everyone turned their heads to see Twilight striding into the flower hall.
A smile appeared in Yuan Xiangguo's eyes, and at this time, it seemed that everyone had forgotten what Gao had said earlier.
Yuan Xiangguo glanced up, and saw the emperor looking down, staring at Bu Xichen's kneeling back, and his eyes that had always been unpredictable also revealed a heavy murderous intent.
The night breeze passed through the hall, the candles flickered rapidly, and the figures were stacked on top of each other, fluttering like ghosts.
No one made a sound in the flower hall for a while, only the sobbing sound of Bu Xichen was heard.
"I have been a brotherhood with my eldest brother for 20 years, he died because of me, I feel uneasy after all, what the mother said is that forcing my brother to death is against the norm of heaven, and the man should act worthy of the monarch's father, so I came to the Holy Lord tonight to ask for sin! The eldest brother was confused and committed the crime of collaborating with the enemy for a while, but he also asked the saint to spare the eldest brother's widow and young son for the sake of him who was still lost and knew that he had returned! The subordinate brother is willing to accept the sin! Bu Xichen knelt on the ground, spoke generously, and wept silently.
"In that case, why did the prince say this tonight?"
"I didn't know, but the day before yesterday, the Governor's Mansion sent an invitation, asking my eldest brother to come to the house for questioning, I remembered the case of the Governor Yingrui in the Governor's Mansion, and the body fished out of the bottom of the lake was heard to be a Hu person, and the Governor would not ask someone to interrogate for no reason, I guessed that the eldest brother might have something to do with the case, so he went with him. Sure enough, what the governor asked that day was about the garden party of the Prime Minister's Mansion that year, and the eldest brother said that he didn't remember, so the governor sent the guests off. After coming out of the Governor's Mansion, I suspected this matter, so I found a restaurant with my eldest brother to drink, and drunk him during the banquet, and asked about the events of the year tentatively, but I didn't expect it...... It's really my big brother! He actually collaborated with the enemy, I couldn't bear it for a while, and blamed him for doing this in disregard of the saints, the court, and the Hengwang Mansion! At that time, I was very afraid that my eldest brother would implicate my father and mother, so I said that I would expose him, and my eldest brother was afraid that after being exposed, it would cause trouble to General Xuanwu's mansion, so he begged me to keep this matter, and he was willing to commit suicide to protect his wife and children. ”
"Oh?" Yuan Xiangguo interrupted the Gao family and wanted to go down and say, "How does the prince know? ”
Gao's body trembled, the hatred in his eyes was surging, his teeth were closed, he bit the tip of his tongue, and swallowed the hatred with blood, and when he raised his head, his face was only frightened and puzzled, "Why does the son ......?"
When Lin Zheng and the others heard this, their jaws were in danger.
"Because...... My eldest brother is the mastermind of the case of hiding the corpse at the bottom of the lake in the Xiangfu Courtyard! Bu Xichen closed his eyes and looked sad.
Yuan Xiangguo also suddenly stared at Bu Xichen, his eyes were hazy, and asked, "Why did the prince force his brother to death?" ”
"What?" Lin Meng and Zheng Guangqi were both shocked.
Bu Xichen was dressed in a plain robe, went to the crown hairpin, knelt down, and also looked sad, and said: "Qi Qi Sheng, big brother...... He was forced to die by his brother! ”
Song glanced at Bu Xichen, it seemed difficult to speak, he opened his mouth a few times and didn't speak, and finally tilted his head, wiped his tears with hatred, gritted his teeth and said: "The concubine has no face to say, let this unfilial son say it himself!" ”
"What did the son of the world do wrong?" Yuan Xiangguo asked out loud without waiting for the emperor to speak.
Song was so frightened that she went back to the house, and after an hour of work, she came back again, but this time it was different, she came in plain clothes, went to Cui Dai Yin, her face was full of grief, and she pushed Bu Xichen into the flower hall before she entered the flower hall! Bu Xichen knelt on the ground, respectfully invited Sheng'an, Song walked past Duqing without squinting, knelt beside Bu Xichen and hid his face and cried, and said: "The concubine respectfully invites Sheng'an, the concubine committed suicide suddenly, the concubine is grief-stricken, and she should take care of the future, how do you know that this unfilial son was confused for a while, and he made a big mistake that is intolerable by heaven!" ”
Twilight turned around sharply, and saw the little girls coming with lanterns, the lanterns were brocade embroidered, the words were wild, dancing among the flowers, the lanterns were swaying with the wind, and the words were seen from afar, inexplicably revealing a bit of murderous intent.
"Princess Heng, Prince Heng has arrived-"
"If you were poisoned, why did you send someone to report that you had committed suicide by taking poison?" Yuan Xiangguo is not so easy to bluff, but his voice made Twilight Qing wake up, she looked into the flower hall, raised her foot and was about to go inside, just stepped into one foot, suddenly heard a long report behind her!
Joy ......
Twilight Qing vaguely guessed why the Gao clan didn't mention the mother-in-law, and pushed the charge of poisoning Bu Xisheng to the Piercing Moon Gate, but she couldn't think about it at this time, and only one sentence echoed in her mind - someone didn't want you to take it.
Twilight's heart was shocked, and the shock was like a wave, and it was so hard for her to think for a while, only to feel that her brain memory was picturesque, but it was cut to pieces, and she vaguely pieced together a piece of paper. It was written to her by Bu Xihuan, and the list above was the hidden pile of the Thorn Moon Gate in Shengjing City, although she had never been there, but she remembered clearly, there was a wine shop in the outer city, and it was called Xiang Ji Wine Shop!
Xiang Kee Liquor Shop?!
"Songchun is a first-class girl in the big kitchen, the concubine is smooth, I was thinking of giving the general a concubine, how can I allow others? How did the shopkeeper know that the general wanted Na Songchun to be his concubine and had murderous intentions? He knew that the general liked to eat almond cake, so he gave the general a bottle of almond milk, and Songchun took it to make a snack, and after the general used it, he ...... The general believed that the shopkeeper of the Xiangji wine store thought that the almond dew was really a rare thing, and after using it, he was afraid that the smell would be dissipated, so he ordered Songchun to bury it under the apricot tree outside the study...... Your Majesty wants to be the master of the concubine, and the husband of the concubine died unjustly! When Gao thought of his deceased husband, he couldn't help but feel sad and cried without pretense.
This is completely different from what she and Gao discussed in the Buddhist hall!
Matsuharu?
Shopkeeper?
Gao was also in the Flower Hall, she was kneeling in front of the holy car and crying, and when Twilight arrived, she heard her whimpering, "...... The shopkeeper already has a wife and children at home, and he wants Na Songchun to be his concubine, how can the concubine be willing to follow him? ”
Yuan Xiangguo also arrived, and he sat on the left side of the emperor's car, and opposite stood Cao Shangshu Lin Meng and Shengjing Mansion Yin Zheng Guangqi.
The big red dragon robe was added, his face was exactly the same as Bu Xihuan, crooked on the side of the broad chair, and the casual attitude between his eyebrows was really like Bu Xihuan.
The emperor has arrived, and the flower hall is at the top, and a person is sitting lazily.
When Twilight rushed to the front yard worriedly, she saw that the front yard was already lively.
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In the study, Bu Xisheng's body was lying quietly on the couch, but Bu Xihuan and Yuan Xiu were gone.
Twilight Qing was stunned for a long time before she came back to her senses, and her intuition was that Bu Xihuan had done something after she left, and she suddenly felt bad in her heart, and hurried back to the study.
Wu Jin shook his head, the person had already walked to the porch, and in a blink of an eye, he was far away.
Wu Jin came out of the Buddha hall, walked through the courtyard, and walked out one step ahead of Duqing, the man had wide sleeves and curls, and the fragrance of medicine was faint, "The world is full of people who sell their fame and reputation, and those dirty things can't be pretended to be others, you are good, you are scrambling to get your own pollution, it's really ...... Stupid! ”
Twilight paused at the courtyard gate, turned back and asked, "What do you mean?" ”
The bottom of the man's eyes seemed to have affection, and he couldn't figure out the product, crumpled it into a ball, and finally turned into a melancholy sigh, "It's a pity that some people don't want you to bear it." ”
Twilight left quickly, Wu Jin stood in the Buddha hall and looked at her back, seeing that the moonlight was like silver, sprinkled on the young man's shoulders, the back was thin and lonely, obviously a clear and unstained person, but he had to bear the heaviness, knowing that he would rather punish his heart.
But...... If she can resolve this crisis for Bu Xihuan, she would rather bear the responsibility of her life!
Her life's wish is that there is no injustice in the world, and tonight she will create an unjust case with her own hands, even if she will try her best to save people afterwards, and will not let the woman be executed for the crime of killing the master, but she will never forgive herself in her life for wronging one person with her own hands.
But to act like this is, after all, to mistake a person's innocence.
She wants to block the possibility of Bu Xichen turning herself in tonight and solve the danger of Bu Xihuan!
Gao wanted to know who poisoned her husband, but he didn't know that the truth of the case would put the Xuanwu General's Mansion in danger of overturning.
Counting the hour, the people in the palace are almost there, and the murderer can only be found in the general's mansion, and there is no time to confess, so only those who have been punished with the rod are suitable. Those people were seriously injured and unconscious, and they couldn't open their mouths, so they didn't need to confess, and the reason for killing the lord was that the Gao family came to return to the palace.
But Bu Xisheng's death is in danger tonight, Bu Xichen is staring at the throne, for so many years, this time is probably the only time he is so close to the throne, with his temperament, he should not wait for her to find out the murderer and turn himself in, and then the situation will be troublesome, so close the case quickly, it is best to rush before the people in the palace come!
Bu Xisheng's death needs a murderer to close the case, she wants to let the hidden guard go to the prison to change a death row prisoner to confess this crime overnight, this is the least innocent way, but it is not so easy to change from the prison to a death row prisoner, one needs to prepare a mask, two need to find a stand-in, three need to confess, and also need to find a time to change the guard in the prison and relax, this matter needs careful planning, and it may not be possible tonight.
With that, she strode out of the Buddhist hall.
With these words, Twilight's shoulders trembled, the sleeves of his shirt were pulled tightly, and there seemed to be a thousand equal forces hidden under the sleeves, and the ten fingers were pinched white, as if they had crossed the silver-white moonlight. She didn't say anything for a long time, only backed the Buddhist shrine, and said lightly: "My sins, I will bear them." ”
Wu Jin looked at Twilight Qing, was silent for a long time, and shook his head slightly, "I thought that Du Du was the only person in this world who firmly believed in justice. ”
"Hmm." Twilight was still staring at the yard.
Wu Jin was silent for a moment when he heard this, and said with his head bowed: "Okay." Among those people who had their waist bones broken, there was a housekeeper who was frail and old, and it was difficult to live, so let's pick her. With her age and injury, I have been given an injection, and she may not survive tomorrow morning. ”
Twilight looked at the courtyard, her voice like the night breeze, "Hmm." ”
After Wu Jin entered the Buddha Hall, he looked at Duqing for a while and asked, "Does the Governor really plan to act like this?" ”
The night is deep, there are several apricot trees planted outside the Buddhist hall, the old corridor nine turns around, the white lights on the trees outside the corridor, and there are people in the corridor with two sleeves like snow. The man entered the courtyard in front of the hall, and as soon as he stopped, the courtyard seemed to be a flying flower season, and the east wind was blowing, and the garden was full of medicinal fragrance.
Before long, there were few people walking in the night.
She walked away quickly, but there was no one in the Buddha hall who did not move, and that person stood in the dark where the moonlight did not reach, and waited.
The moonlight was frosty, half of the Buddha hall was bathed in moonlight, Gao came out of the Buddha hall, the moonlight crossed her face, and she saw the cold killing intent in the woman's eyes.
The small Buddha hall in the backyard of General Xuanwu's mansion was closed for a moment, and when the door of the Buddha hall was opened again, the wind rose in the courtyard in front of the hall, and the wind swept the new branches, and it was endless, and there was a killing machine inexplicably.
This night is destined to be long.