- Because, as early as half a month ago, the royal family received a secret letter.

The letter was hidden in the armrest of the emperor's dragon chair, and a crack was cut and the letter was inserted into it, revealing a low edge, painted in a similar color as the dragon chair.

The letter was made of a thin bamboo slip, the edge was extremely sharp, the emperor was in the early morning, his hand on the armrest, immediately was scratched to the bleeding, he pulled out the letter and looked at it, there were officials present at that time said that the emperor suddenly looked stern, it seemed to be very surprised, but the matter reported was not worth commendling, so although the civil and military officials felt abnormal in their hearts, they were still silent.

After retiring from the dynasty, the emperor announced the matter, and the queen mother was so angry that she was not poisoned, but the content was that the day of the winter solstice, that is, tonight, was to assassinate the emperor.

It sounds incredible, who sent the letter, how did it appear on the emperor's dragon chair, and how did it get close to the emperor?

But this is credible, because gradually, some people in the palace began to fall into this mysterious poison, and died one after another, and the Queen Mother claimed that this was caused by the cold wind and cold in the palace, and privately sent someone to investigate, but there was no result.

And the winter solstice feast, there are many people, and it is very likely that someone will come in, just afraid that something will happen. Therefore, today's security is extremely strict, and idle people are not allowed to enter and exit casually, and the emperor is protected by three layers of guards, and no one can get close.

Wang Chuli said a little sleepy, and half-squinted his eyes.

"These guards were all arranged by his brother, and he was absolutely relieved that nothing happened overnight. It's a pity that after a dinner party, my brother was a little slack, and suspected that it was a prank, so he went out of the palace with King Duan, who expected that something would happen in the middle of the night, and I don't know what the reason was. And King Shen visited my house the other day and asked my brother if he could replace some of the guards with his people, and what else he said, but the voice was too low for me to hear. The two didn't talk about it, and finally broke up unhappily. But in the end, King Shen threatened my brother with me when his favor and efforts were fruitless, saying that he would never see me again. Unfortunately, I was too confident to escape, and I fell for him - maybe he knew I was listening. ”

Lu Shihagi thought for a while, and suddenly smiled and said: "These things, except for the last part, the part where General Wang and His Royal Highness King Shen have intersected for the first time I know, I have also heard about other places." So you think that His Royal Highness King Shen wants your brother to help him poison the emperor, don't you?"

Wang Chuli said: "Yes." ”

Lu Shihagi blinked: "It's not entirely correct." ”

"How?"

"Although he wants the emperor to die to inherit the throne, it is too risky to do so, if you want a person to die, you may not really kill him, right?"

"Ah, that makes sense...... How's that going, don't you think?"

Lu Shihao smiled: "I can't continue to talk about this." ”

Wang Chuli's brain turned quickly, and after thinking about it, he understood: "Ah...... Although Zhao Yan is not strange to do anything, he doesn't like to do strange and stupid things, if the poisoner is someone else......

Lu Shihagi said with a slight straight face: "Top master, you can't stop it, even if this person wants to kill the emperor, if he is powerful enough, he can succeed." No one knows if they will succeed in protecting the emperor, but there is a word called 'killing with a sword' - I mean it is obviously much easier to frame a person, right? ”

Wang Chuli said: "Ah, so he tried to persuade his brother and wanted the two of them to join forces to frame King Duan? If so, it would be really difficult to achieve, King Duan and his brother had a deep friendship, and with his brother's character, he asked him to murder the emperor, betray his friends, and form a party for personal gain, he couldn't do this kind of triple betrayal at all." This kind of thing that seems impossible to accomplish, I suspect, in fact, maybe it is necessary to frame it with a different target. ”

Lu Shihao sighed: "Ah. I kind of know. ”

She raised her head and looked at Lu Shihao: "I thought, if it were you, 'planned the whole operation, and kidnapped Wang Liefeng's sister to threaten him to do things, and was detected by King Shen and transferred to the Queen Mother for questioning'...... My brother was not a nobleman after all, and even if he was forced, he could be put to death, which probably didn't matter, but it seemed to be a doubly good thing for King Shen. ”

Lu Shihagi has been by King Shen's side for many years, and he thinks he knows King Shen's temperament very well, and he has escaped death many times to show his loyalty. If he intersected with the impermanence next to the Queen Mother, he would definitely find that his idea was naïve.

It seems that in order to survive, you can't feel relaxed for a moment, even if you are willing to be a substitute for the dead. Always be suspicious, always be lonely, always have a high IQ, and always be highly nervous. In addition, you have to make King Shen feel that you are still useful, or there is no one to replace, or he is not prepared to break the boat.

Like now, it's a bit of a stretch.

He couldn't believe that General Wang had crossed paths with His Royal Highness King Shen. His Royal Highness King Shen gave four million taels to take his life.

He felt a little aggrieved when he thought about it. But he also knows that many things don't make sense.

Lu Shihagi couldn't find a proper expression to express his emotions, so he could only smile miserably: "Oh, I didn't expect that there would be something that His Royal Highness King Shen didn't tell me." If he doesn't tell me, then I'll be really miserable. If this matter is really as you said, it is a part of his premeditation, then there is a more than ninety percent chance that things will really develop in the direction you expect, which is the maximization of interests, yes. You're smart to be able to analyze this far...... Thank you. ”

Wang Chuli said: "Did you provoke him somewhere, or did something that he discovered?"

"Most of the time I don't make him angry, I know what to do to make him satisfied, even the level of satisfaction. I know his temper too well, I can be his wife, maybe I can emotionalize this big demon king with love, but unfortunately I don't like men. Lu Shihagi shrugged his shoulders as if deprecatingly.

"That's strange, is it true that every one of you who comes to him has committed a capital crime, so you feel grateful that he doesn't kill you?

"Ah, this is because—if it were me, I used to have a hard time, so you probably don't know how powerful money is. Most of the people were abducted by the pit, and nine out of ten girls didn't know that he was a murderer, and he couldn't escape when he came, and he was afraid of retaliation if he didn't want to do it-joked. In fact, he never kills a person when they 'deserve to die', but when they 'can die'. He had almost no one to trust, and he didn't need anyone to trust him, and you could see how terrible his temper was, really moody, cruel and violent. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Shihagi stretched his waist - after half the night, he was completely sleepy: "So, if you are locked up here, I don't know when he will lose patience and poison you." It's not once or twice, and you're not the first. ”

Wang Chuli smiled: "I know my situation, but now, aren't you and me grasshoppers on a pole?"

Lu Shihao felt that Wang Chuli was really difficult to understand. Are girls like this, crying when they should be happy, angry when they should be grateful, and laughing after revealing the truth? But he couldn't contradict her, her smile was a triumphant laugh, an irresistible laugh, a beautiful girl's smile to him, "wanting to cooperate".

She said, "Lu Shihagi, you want to go out too, right?"

Lu Shihagi spread his hands: "I didn't say it." But I can't help it, His Royal Highness King Shen has commanded, I can't make you angry. ”

Zhao Ji woke up in prison about the next morning. Why not in the morning, because Zhao Ji slept too deeply, according to normal circumstances, he might sleep until noon, and the jailer tried to wake him up several times, but failed, and also caused Zhao Ji to get out of bed.

"It's time - get up - "

The jailer's voice was like a suona at a funeral, and he was hoarse and mocking. Just shouting, he also struck the gong, and the irregular sound of dangdangdang was endless, and people were dragged out of the dream again and again in a half-dream, facing the cold reality.

The quality of sleep of the prisoners who have been held for a long time is good, they concentrate on sleeping, because they have nothing to do, and the scene they wake up is dull and depressing, which is not as interesting as dreaming;

This is certainly not the original purpose of the prison, so to destroy the spirit of the prisoners and make them unhappy.

Under the order of the jailer, the prisoners woke up one by one, began to dress, and then walked to the edge of the iron fence, pulled the railing and waited for food. The jailer came over and knocked them on the hand with an iron rod to keep them from lying on their stomachs, which was not good and suspected of escaping. In fact, they don't want to escape from prison, they just have no hope, only a few meals a day are regular, they use this time, and slowly look forward to the moment of getting out of prison, but some people give up this idea, drag the heavy shackles, sit quietly on the side, and see if everyone is a fool.

There are only two meals a day in prison, and the place where Zhao Ji is seems to be noble, there are three meals. Breakfast was porridge and pickles, and there were a few grains of rice floating in the rice soup, but fortunately it was still warm, and after eating it, the stomach was swollen with water, and after a while, I was hungry again, which could only warm people. There was a sound of snoring and drinking porridge.

Zhao Ji refused to get up, and he didn't want to drink porridge, without his favorite dishes to match, porridge lost its charm. He felt in a daze that someone around him was pushing him: "Brother, wake up, don't get up again, a few people who will be the king and hegemon here will come later, and it will be too late to beat you!"

Zhao Ji felt very angry and delirious, and turned over with his eyes closed: "Ah, who dares to beat me? Who is the king? I am Duan Wang Zhao Ji...... I told me to sleep a little longer, and waking up early would give them a few more dollars this month? I—" He couldn't help but yawn and said, "How much money they deduct, I'll make it up to them......"

Suddenly, someone sneered: "Yo, there is a new one? Another self-righteous one, they are all in prison, and they still regard themselves as masters, do you think you can still get out?"