Chapter 196: Another Possibility

"Why do you have to do such a troublesome way?" The eldest princess was confused as she listened. Although Fang Xiaoyu had mentioned some things about Jian An last time, she didn't know the specific situation after all, including the matter of the five princes, she also didn't know much about it, so she didn't figure it out for a while.

"Did the Fifth Prince think of something?" Fang Xiaoyu saw the five princes' pensive expressions, so he asked.

The fifth prince hesitated for a long time, and still had unsolvable doubts in his heart: "Maybe it's my delusion." When I first learned about the poisoning, I suspected that it was because I found something that I shouldn't know and wanted to kill people, and I didn't think about it. Later, my body became more and more unwell, my mind was chaotic, and I was even more powerless to think about it, so I always thought that it was because my investigation touched the secret that Zhou Guifei tried so hard to hide that I would suffer this catastrophe. But now that I think about it, it's all too strange, and if I think about it, I always have a ...... Someone wanted to lure me into doubting Zhou Guifei's delusion. ”

"It's not necessarily a delusion." Fang Xiaoyu said suddenly: "If Zhou Guifei wants to put you to death, as I said before, you can start directly, simply and neatly, and it is not easy to make extraneous branches." But the murderer left you alive and even gave you multiple opportunities to pass on the news, which is really a bit too unusual. ”

As he spoke, Fang Xiaoyu narrowed his eyes and continued: "Listen to what you say, the person who sent someone to spy on you is Mei Guifei's person. Mei Guifei and Zhou Guifei have always been incompatible, one is the daughter of the former prime minister, and the other is the daughter of the new prime minister. Zhou Xiang and Mei Xiang also competed with each other, and such a contest extended from the previous dynasty to the harem, and the two must not be friends. Although Mei Xiang now seems to be cooperating with Ye Shucheng. But in fact, it's just that each of them has a ghost in their hearts and is just a snake. Concubine Mei never gave up the hope of having children, and Concubine Zhou Guifei must put Ye Shucheng on the throne, otherwise she would not be able to complete the task of Jian Zhengyan and his wife, let alone explain to King Yun of the Great Zhou. And Mei Guifei is not from the Great Zhou, I have also asked someone to check Prime Minister Mei's life experience, and there is nothing suspicious, that's the case. Why did Concubine Mei have to wade through this troubled water and roast Mei Xiang's Mansion on the fire? ”

"I didn't expect you to even know the origin of Concubine Zhou." The fifth prince glanced at Fang Xiaoyu with a complicated expression, and said, "But the person who is watching behind is indeed Mei Guifei's henchman." I've met this man more than once. If Concubine Mei has nothing to do with this matter, why did she send someone to spy on me? And he also blocked the news of my poisoning, and even the imperial doctor refused to invite him, as if he wanted to ......"

The words of the fifth prince were not finished. But the meaning is already very clear. So Fang Xiaoyu answered: "Let you die." ”

The Fifth Prince nodded. But Fang Xiaoyu said with a thoughtful expression: "Concubine Mei's actions really seem to want you to die." But I want to use your death to plan something else. ”

"Anything else?" The Fifth Prince frowned.

"Blame Concubine Zhou?" The eldest princess said suddenly.

Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said, "Concubine Mei sent someone to monitor His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, preventing the possibility of all His Highness's poisoning being discovered by the emperor." However, he did not prevent His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince from contacting me. ”

"...... the day I delivered the note to you?" The five princes suddenly woke up.

Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said, "If you really want to block your news, then you should be placed under house arrest in the palace and not have contact with anyone, but she allows you to walk in the palace at will." You are even allowed to contact me. ”

"If it makes sense. Even if I didn't find out about the fact that you stuffed a note to me, just in case. should also have monitored or investigated me, but the fact is that she completely allowed me to take all my actions after that, including that I was stopped halfway by someone sent by Zhou Xiang and taken to Wanghualou, and from beginning to end, no one except Zhou Xiang's people followed and monitored me. Fang Xiaoyu continued.

"This is not in line with common sense. If Xiao Wu was killed because she touched Zhou Ling's life experience, with Zhou Ling's thoughts, she shouldn't have revealed so many flaws, this is like deliberately asking people to suspect her, such an important matter, how could she be so childish? The eldest princess suddenly interjected.

She has some understanding of Zhou Ling. Because she has a very good relationship with Zhou Xiang, it's just that Zhou Ling doesn't get very close to her on weekdays, but this does not prevent her from understanding Zhou Ling's character.

A person who has been able to deceive Zhou Xiang for so long without revealing a flaw, how could he react so childishly here to Xiao Wu?

"That's why I feel that this matter doesn't look like Zhou Guifei did it, and that's why His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince has the feeling that he was deliberately lured to suspect Zhou Guifei." Fang smiled and said in a deep voice: "We might as well think of another possibility. ”

"Another possibility?" The fifth prince subconsciously shrunk his shoulders. He still felt cold, but he could still think.

"What if, the poison of His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince was inflicted by Concubine Mei from the beginning?" Fang Xiaoyu suggested a possibility.

"But why did she do that?" The eldest princess didn't understand, and said: "Concubine Mei has never had an heir, and her mother has never been expensive in the palace. Although Xiao Wu is not her own child, after all, she has been raised under her knees, no matter how the throne is repeated in the end, Xiao Wu has no quarrel with the world, no matter how bad he is, he is also a prince, he has a son by his side, and he can follow Xiao Wu out of the palace to live in the palace in the future, without having to die of old age and deep palace, lonely and lonely, why should she cut herself off? ”

"The reason is unknown." Fang Xiaoyu shook her head and continued: "Maybe she has other plans, maybe she knows that His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince has hatred for her, and maybe even she feels resentful when she realizes why she has no heirs all along......

Fang Xiaoyu glanced at the five princes quietly, the five princes were shocked in their hearts, he didn't want to, Fang Xiaoyu even knew these details. He thought that these were all told to her by Ye Xici, but when he thought about it, he felt that it was wrong, Ye Xici should not be fascinated by beauty, he had never married, and even told him about the secret whistle that entered the camp of the second prince one by one, right? Where did that smile come from? There is also something about Zhou Guifei's life experience, she actually found out so clearly. Could it be that as the outside world says, she has an unpredictable prophet?

Fang Xiaoyu ignored the horror of the Five Princes, and said calmly: "If the poison of the Ice Wheel of His Royal Highness the Fifth Princes is caused by Concubine Mei. I'm afraid that she had already deduced His Highness's future actions from the beginning, including not trusting the imperial doctor who had been checking her pulse and going out of the palace to find another doctor, so she had the strange doctor who appeared and disappeared. ”

"But maybe the doctor really doesn't know anything? Could his disappearance also be because of Xiao Wu's affair? The eldest princess also suggested another possibility.

"Maybe." Fang Xiaoyu did not deny this possibility, but continued: "Until His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince listened to the doctor's words and took the prescription back to the palace, and someone in the palace replaced the medicine in this prescription with a strange poison like Ice Kiss. Then he found someone to spy on His Highness. pressed step by step, and even did not hesitate to kill the palace maid who was waiting beside His Highness, making His Highness think that the other party was going to completely block the news of His Highness's poisoning. ”

"I was poisoned. was driven to a dead end again, what should His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince think at this time? The corners of Fang Xiaoyu's mouth hooked up with a touch of coldness.

"I would think about why someone would want to put me to death, and then I would wonder if I was involved in an accident that had to be killed, and I would involuntarily think of what I had found out about the contents of the brown paper left by Princess Ann. Naturally, they will suspect that Zhou Guifei wants to kill her mouth. ”

The fifth prince followed Fang Xiaoyu's train of thought and guessed all the way. He continued: "Since I have doubts in my heart, and I am worried about my life step by step, then I naturally want to find someone to save my life, or leave clues so that I don't let myself die in vain......" The fifth prince's face sank, and he continued: "And since I already suspect that this matter was done by Zhou Guifei, the clues left behind must also be related to Zhou Guifei." In the future, if it is my father, the emperor will be suspicious of my death. Once it is tracked, it will inevitably follow the clues I left behind to trace it to Zhou Guifei's head......"

"But if so. It is equivalent to Mei Guifei knowing the details of Zhou Guifei, so she will make such a layout. Zhou Guifei has been cautious for many years, how did Mei Guifei notice this? "The fifth prince didn't understand.

He accidentally saw the clues left by Princess An, and deliberately traced it before he came to the truth. Zhou Guifei has been in the court for many years, there are many arrangements, and she doesn't know how many eyeliners she has, even if she is as shrewd as Zhou Xiang, she has never discovered the fact that he recognizes the thief as a woman, so Mei Guifei just stays in the deep palace every day, how can she know such a secret?

"I once heard Mei Chunshui mention that Mei Xiang had colluded with the people of the fox and wolf grassland...... Fang Xiaoxiao stopped talking about it without going into depth.

"You mean, the Mei Xiang Mansion may not be clean?" The eldest princess immediately grasped the point in Fang Xiaoyu's words. It seems that the outside world is rumored that General Fang is Wei Mei Cangyun is the first to look forward, and there is another hidden reason in this matter.

"Your Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, do you still remember the appearance of the doctor outside the palace?" Fang Xiaoyu did not answer the eldest princess's question, but suddenly changed the topic and said.

"The doctor looks very ordinary, but I still have some vague impressions." The fifth prince recalled it carefully, and then said.

"Your Highness, can you draw the man's face?" Fang smiled and said again.

"You can give it a try." The Fifth Prince nodded.

"Come on, go and prepare pen, ink, paper, and inkstone." The eldest princess immediately ordered her subordinates.

It didn't take long for the pen, ink, paper and inkstone to be prepared, and the fifth prince dipped the pen in ink, but he didn't put down the pen for a long time, but seriously re-painted the person's face clearly in his mind, and then started to write.

Fang Xiaoyu looked at the characters written by the five princes, they didn't look very old, at most twenty or thirty years old, there was no difference from what the five princes said before. The face is indeed an ordinary public appearance, and the reason why Fang Xiaoyu can see it depends on the painting skills deliberately practiced by the five princes in order to perform the unruly and uninhibited wanderer.

His paintings, with great attention to detail, bring faces to life.

If the face he painted was indeed the face of the doctor he had seen that day, it would have been difficult to get any favorable clues from it.

There is nothing impressive about this face.

"Huh?" Fang Xiaoyu's gaze moved away from that face, but he suddenly paused.

"How?" The eldest princess was attracted by Fang Xiaoyu's movements and asked.

"This ...... What is it? Fang Xiaoyu asked.

The fifth prince and the eldest princess looked in the direction of Fang Xiaoyu's finger, and saw that the person in the painting maintained a sitting posture, just like the five princes did when they saw him that day, but there was a shallow trace on the bare wrist.

"Oh, when I first saw him, he had a small scar on his hand, which looked like it had scabbed, but it was a little strangely shaped, so I remembered it. I accidentally drew it. "The fifth prince was a little embarrassed. It's his habit to always notice some special details, and when he paints, he will subconsciously draw them on paper. It's just his old mistake again.

"This shape ......" Fang Xiaoyu frowned, and his face gradually sank.

The shape was somewhat like it had been scratched by a rock, and the reason why she thought so was because she seemed to have seen it somewhere......

Where have you seen it?

Fang Xiaoyu's expression became more and more gloomy, and the cold aura emanating from his body gave the Fifth Prince the illusion that his poison had spread again.

"She's ...... Angry......? The fifth prince was baffled by Fang Xiaoyu's sudden reaction.

The eldest princess shook her head. She had only met this future daughter a few times, and she was far from being able to understand what she was thinking.

And just as the air in this room was getting heavier and heavier, Fang Xiaoyu suddenly laughed, as if the gloomy face just now was just an illusion.

The fifth prince didn't know what was going on in his mind. Although he may have found the truth about his poisoning, his heart is still as heavy as a mountain at this time.

The person who watched him must have known that he was in the Eldest Princess's Mansion. But what will he do?

If, as Fang Xiaoyu said, everything is Mei Guifei's plan, does it mean that his appearance in the eldest princess's mansion now is actually what Mei Guifei wants to see?

If even the eldest princess, who was respected by her father, was involved, wouldn't it be easier to find out Zhou Guifei? If Concubine Mei thinks so, then they will still be safe.

"What did Your Highness think of again?" Fang Xiaoyu saw that the fifth prince's brows were sometimes frowning and sometimes stretching, so he asked.

The fifth prince looked at Fang Xiaoyu in a rather complicated manner, and there was a moment of guilt in his eyes and said, "I'm afraid that I have caused you a burden in this matter." These things have nothing to do with you......"

"Your Highness is really a good person." Fang Xiaoyu smiled a little playfully. Most of these royal relatives and nobles take it for granted that they are angry with others, but they didn't expect that this fifth prince, who is also very deep-minded, would feel guilty for this.

The five princes couldn't cry or laugh. It was the first time he had been said to be a good person, and he didn't know whether to be happy or sad, so he said, "The person who is watching is definitely still around, you should be careful lately, and bring more guards when you go out." ”

The fifth prince couldn't help but remind Fang Xiaoyu.

Fang Xiaoyu chuckled and said, "You're talking about him?" ”

The fifth prince looked at the place where Fang Xiaoyu's finger was pointing. There was a closed door.

But the door was suddenly knocked on, and after getting permission, an expressionless woman walked in slowly with a man tied up by flowers.

The five princes were momentarily stunned.

This person...... Isn't he the one who has been watching over him and brutally killing all the people who serve him? (To be continued......)

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