Although Concubine Shun's matter has been discussed in private for a long time, in the end it is just talking, it is impossible for anyone to deliberately go against Zhao Tiannan's will because of an unfavored concubine, even Concubine Shun's mother's family, even if they know that Concubine Shun cannot do such a thing, but because they are inferior to others, they can only endure this breath.

If the matter ends here, it will be enough, but the concubine, who has been submissive all her life, did not continue to be submissive this time, which made this matter extraordinarily complicated.

After the holy decree was issued, Concubine Shun was taken away from the title and sent to the cold palace.

Concubine Shun has never fought or grabbed in her life, and it is precisely because of her temperament that many concubines in the palace who are lower than her will not fight back even if she suffers a loss.

Fortunately, the disputes in the palace are at most such things, and there have been no other problems over the years.

Concubine Shun herself, in fact, doesn't care about the titled dormitory or anything like that, with her unfavored Cheng dù in the palace, even if she lives in a gorgeous palace, in fact, the coldness on weekdays is not much worse than the cold palace.

If Concubine Shun has always held such an idea, in addition to being beaten into the cold palace, in addition to the food and clothing will be more bitter than before, in fact, nothing else will be much different, but partial, Concubine Shun suddenly made a twist this time.

suffered this catastrophe for no reason, with such a big black pot on his head, not only was he taken away from the title but also was beaten into the cold palace, maybe it will also affect the mother's family who is already declining, and the concubine Shun, who has always been open, will inevitably be unhappy this time, and she has not closed her eyes in the cold palace for several nights, thinking that she has been wronged in the palace for so many years, but now she has such a fate, and she has carried such a big black cauldron, I am afraid that she will not be able to wash it away for the rest of her life, the more she thinks about it, the more she feels wronged, Concubine Shun actually thought about it for a while, The bed tent in the cold palace was directly used as white silk, and he was hanged in the cold palace.

The cold palace is a sparsely populated place, and even the palace people who deliver the food usually put down the food and leave, and will never stay here for more, and it is not until a few days later that the concubine committed suicide by hanging the beam, if it were not for the palace people who sent the food, they found that the food sent for a few days had not been touched in the slightest, and they felt that something was wrong and went to Concubine Shun's residence to see, but I was afraid that Concubine Shun's bones would have to be found after a while.

At this time, it is the hottest time of the year, even if the cold palace is colder than other places, after a few days, when Concubine Shun's hanging beam was discovered by the palace people, her corpse was already a little stinky.

One of the nine concubines, who can be regarded as the number one concubine in the palace, died on a bed of tent like this, which made everyone in the palace sigh for this.

Concubine Shun died like this, and the news of her death did not stir up the slightest wave in the palace.

Concubine Shun's death was naturally because of that holy decree, but when the news of her death reached the ears of Zhao Tiannan, who made the decree, she only got an indifferent look from Zhao Tiannan and a faint "um" word.

In Zhao Tiannan's eyes, it was just a concubine that he was not impressed by at all, and if she died, she would die, and it would not have any impact on him at all.

He was already a cold man, how could he expect him to be in any way sad by the death of a concubine who was useless to him?

Zhao Tiannan didn't expect that Concubine Shun's only mistake in her life would give him a blow in the end.

Concubine Shun's surname is Zhang, her maiden family is very simple, her father and mother have long passed away, and now there is only one younger brother Zhang Zhenming, who is six or seven years younger than Concubine Shun, as well as Zhang Zhenming's wife and a son and a daughter.

Concubine Shun's mother went early, so Concubine Shun's younger brother Zhang Zhenming was almost taken care of by Concubine Shun since childhood, and the relationship between the sisters and brothers was naturally deeper than that of ordinary sisters and brothers.

When Concubine Shun entered the palace, Zhang Zhenming was only eleven or twelve years old, it is said that Zhang Zhenming hugged Concubine Shun and cried all night on the eve of Concubine Shun entering the palace, and the Zhang family was not weak in the capital at that time, so this matter was not less used as a joke.

Of course, this joke is enough to explain the relationship between Concubine Shun's sister and brother.

This time, Concubine Shun was suddenly condemned, and she won the title and went to the cold palace, and the matter was so big, Zhang Zhenming was angry and worried.

Zhang Zhenming knows Concubine Shun very well, of course he knows that his sister, who has been obedient all her life, cannot have such vicious intentions, not to mention that her sister has no grudges with Mrs. Anguo at all, how could she deliberately target Mrs. Anguo.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if my sister really has a grudge with Mrs. An Guogong, she really wants to take revenge, but with her sister's status as a transparent person in the palace, how can she let the rumors spread all over the capital overnight?

Just because the Zhang family, which has now become unpopular?

It is absolutely impossible for Concubine Shun to do this, Zhang Zhenming is extremely sure of this, but even if he identifies it, what can he do, can he still rush to the emperor to accuse the emperor of the error of the holy decree just by virtue of his own identification?

Zhang Zhenming also knows that what he can imagine, there are naturally more people in the capital can think of.

However, since the Holy Decree came down, who among the civil and military officials in the capital has raised any questions about this matter?

Of course, Zhang Zhenming also knows that no one can be blamed for this, it is a fact that the Zhang family is down, others have no friendship with the Zhang family, and it is normal not to help my sister speak.

Concubine Shun is a supple character, in fact, Zhang Zhenming's temperament is also somewhat similar to Concubine Shun.

Zhang Zhenming can think about it, after all, my sister's usual life in the palace is not necessarily much better, and I don't need my sister to support her, so if I take the title, it doesn't matter if I enter the cold palace, as long as my sister is still alive, it is a great blessing.

Besides, in the cold palace, who is not bad luck among the concubines in the palace, my sister stays in the cold palace, and no one will go to the cold palace to find trouble, maybe my sister can live more freely.

Zhang Zhenming even planned to do so, after a few days, the rumors of this matter passed, he had a good time to try to see if he could let his wife go to the cold palace to visit Concubine Shun, as long as he was sure that Concubine Shun was fine, he could be considered to be able to settle down.

But Zhang Zhenming didn't expect that Concubine Shun couldn't wait for his wife to visit, so she couldn't think of committing suicide in the cold palace for a while.

When the news reached Zhang's house, Zhang Zhenming stayed where he was for a long time.

He couldn't believe what he was hearing.

His sister, who has always been obedient to any injustice, usually just wants to endure anything and pass, but this time she will commit suicide in the cold palace?

Ren Zhang Zhenming didn't believe it, Concubine Shun's suicide was still a foregone conclusion.

Xu Shi finally felt ashamed of Concubine Shun, although Zhao Tiannan did not issue an order to restore the title of Concubine Shun, but he also allowed Concubine Shun's family to enter the palace to collect the bones for him and allowed the Zhang family to bury Concubine Shun back to the ancestral tomb of the Zhang family, Zhang Zhenming was able to enter the harem as a foreign man, and saw Concubine Shun's body with his own eyes.

Concubine Shun has been in the palace for many years, and only went back to her parents' house to kiss once, counting, Zhang Zhenming has not seen his sister for more than ten years, and when he saw Concubine Shun's corpse that had been slightly decomposed and exuded a foul smell, he couldn't believe that it was his sister who was a little cowardly, but had never loved Jie!

If my sister knew that she would become like this after she died, I don't know if she still had the courage to commit suicide?

With such thoughts, Zhang Zhenming collected Concubine Shun's bones in a trance, and then arranged the funeral and buried Concubine Shun in the ancestral grave of the Zhang family.

After a qiē was done, Zhang Zhenming could no longer suppress the anger in his heart.

Zhang Zhenming didn't hold a grudge against Shangfeng Zhige or Anguo Mansion because of the death of Concubine Shun, in his opinion, his sister died too unjustly, if it wasn't for the emperor's undifferentiated decree like that, my sister wouldn't have been unable to think of looking for death for a while.

Every time he thinks of this, Zhang Zhenming feels a heartburn-like pain.

But no matter how distressed he was, he couldn't do anything at all.

The person who made the decree is the current emperor, even if he fights for this life, he is afraid that he will not be able to seek justice for his sister and come back, but will lose the lives of his wife and children.

With such an awareness, Zhang Zhenming's heart was very depressed, and the number of times he borrowed wine to drown his sorrows inevitably increased, and he often lingered in the wine shop until late before returning home.

As mentioned earlier, the Zhang family is now down, so even if Zhang Zhenming wants to borrow wine to drown his sorrows, he doesn't have the conditions to go to those big restaurants, so he can only choose a small wine shop closest to his home, anyway, he just wants to buy drunk, what kind of restaurant to drink in, what kind of wine to drink, is not what he cares about.

It was in this very inconspicuous wine shop that Zhang Zhenming met a person.

Zhang Zhenming went to buy drunk, and at first he didn't notice the other customers in the wine shop, but after meeting the same person in the wine shop for several days, he inevitably looked at the person carefully.

This look is like something happened.

That person is Lin Zhan, the biological father of Prince Zhao Zaicun and Princess Hanyue.

Zhang Zhenming had seen the prince, and he happened to meet him when he entered the palace to collect the bones of Concubine Shun, because it was the first time he saw the prince of the Dawu Dynasty, even if Zhang Zhenming was in a very bad mood at that time, he was still very impressed by the prince's appearance.

And now, a person he casually met in the wine shop looked at least five or six points similar to the prince?

Zhang Zhenming's brain, which was not too bright, suddenly seemed to be enlightened, and he smelled something unusual about it.

After that, although Zhang Zhenming still lingered in the wine shop every day, the purpose was not simply to get drunk, but to get close to Lin Zhan with a purpose.

Lin Zhan pressed such a secret related to the life and death of the two families in his heart, and he was worried and frightened for nearly twenty years, and during this time, he didn't know why he always remembered what happened at the beginning, lest he would show something unusual in front of his sick and weak wife, so he chose such an inconspicuous small wine shop that would never run into his colleagues to kill time, so he was able to meet Zhang Zhenming.

Since Zhang Zhenming had the idea of deliberately approaching Lin Zhan, and he was not a person who was good at hiding, it was inevitable that Lin Zhan could see that something was wrong, and Lin Zhan was also vigilant, although he felt that Zhang Zhenming did not seem to have malicious intent, but in the few conversations between the two, he was cautious in his words and deeds, and did not reveal anything that should not be said.

Lin Zhan had this expression, and Zhang Zhenming naturally didn't hear anything from him.

I don't know why, Zhang Zhenming's intuition is that there must be something between the prince and this Lin Zhan that can't see people, and he talked to Lin Zhan a few times, and later found that after Lin Zhan never came to this small wine shop again, he no longer remembered to buy drunk every day, but began to check Lin Zhan's identity.

The Zhang family is very depressed, if it is really up to Zhang Zhenming to check it himself, I am afraid that it will take me to find out Lin Zhan's identity just by finding out, and Zhang Zhenming is lucky, when he was out of the house once, he happened to see Lin Zhan return to the Lin family from a distance.

With the Lin family's address and surname, it is undoubtedly much easier to check another person, and Zhang Zhenming naturally found out about Lin Zhan.

Of course, all he could find out was superficial.

For example, the Lin family and Concubine Ning's family were close back then, Lin Zhan worked as a royal guard many years ago, and then he was willing to be idle after leaving the palace for some reason, and now Lin Zhan's reputation as a wife who loves him.

Although there seems to be nothing wrong with it on the surface, whenever he thinks of Lin Zhan's face similar to that of the crown prince, Zhang Zhenming always feels that there must be something strange in it.

This man, as long as he dares to think, there is nothing he can't think of.

The reason why no one has associated Lin Zhan with the prince over the years is that Lin Zhan and Concubine Ning had an oral marriage contract that was not known to outsiders, and after Concubine Ning entered the palace, the two families were even tight-lipped about it, and secondly, the Lin family is too inconspicuous in the capital now, and the people who know Lin Zhan are all small officials who are not in the stream, and they have nothing to do with the prince in the palace at all.

Now there is a sudden appearance of Zhang Zhenming, who already has a grudge against Zhao Tiannan in the palace, and has seen the prince and Lin Zhan respectively, which can be regarded as an outlier.

Zhang Zhenming is a person who dares to think.

In fact, if Concubine Shun was still in the palace, even if it was in the cold palace, even if Zhang Zhenming saw the prince and Lin Zhan, he would not think too much, but the death of Concubine Shun aroused the anger and resentment in Zhang Zhenming's heart.

The appearance of the prince and Lin Zhan is similar, Concubine Ning's mother's family was friendly with the Lin family back then, Lin Zhan's errand in the palace at the beginning, and his willingness to take on an idle job with no future after leaving the palace, and the palace has been recruiting concubines for more than 20 years, but in the end, only Concubine Ning gave birth to a son and a daughter......

This kind of unreasonableness converged in Zhang Zhenming's heart, and Zhang Zhenming had so much resentment against the royal family in the palace, which was enough for him to make no more bizarre speculation.

Zhang Zhenming was also frightened by his own speculation at first, but after the fright, his heart ignited madness again.

Okay, didn't the emperor cure his sister's sin because of that rumor, so that my sister couldn't think of committing suicide?

Then, what my sister hasn't done, let him, the younger brother, complete it! (To be continued.) )