The person who could come out from behind the screen made everyone stunned.

"Brother Huang?"

The only princess Peixi, who was still a little rational, screamed.

Emperor Zhaoyang, dressed in a plain robe, walked out from behind the screen, glanced at Concubine Yin who was kneeling on the ground, and said with a smile, "I really didn't expect that one day, the Summer Palace would be so lively." ”

Everyone hurriedly knelt down, and Concubine Yin's face turned pale in an instant, and she fainted directly.

"Emperor, you can do it......"

Empress Dowager Xiao glanced at Emperor Zhaoyang and said lightly.

Since these days, this woman has been a little arrogant in the harem with the emperor's favor, although she doesn't dare to be too blatant, but if it continues like this, it is estimated that it will not be a fuel-efficient lamp.

Empress Dowager Xiao originally thought that Concubine Yin was just arrogant, and she shouldn't dare to do anything else. But I didn't expect that this woman was not only arrogant, but also dared to collude with others in private and meddle in the matter of the prince's seizure of the throne. Originally, it was a big crime to interfere in politics in the harem, but this woman was even more desperate, she even directly formed a party with others and coveted that position, this is not a hidden problem, it is simply a capital crime among capital crimes.

She wants to see if such a scandal has been exposed, will Emperor Zhaoyang condone it again?

Emperor Zhaoyang saw Empress Dowager Xiao's thoughts, and knew that she had been holding this resentment in her heart for too long, and if she didn't give her an explanation today, I was afraid she wouldn't be able to resist. So he looked at Concubine Yin and said coldly, "What else do you have to say?" ”

When the assassins attacked, it was thanks to Concubine Yin's rescue. Otherwise, he might have gone to see the first emperor a long time ago.

In fact, for the activities of the four princes and these people in private, how could Emperor Zhaoyang not know that the reason why he had to turn a blind eye was because he had other arrangements. However, now that the time is almost ripe, it is not impossible to close the net a little earlier.

Everyone thought that Concubine Yin would cry and plead for mercy, even if she didn't cry or make trouble, then at least she should pretend to be pitiful with a bitter face and explain.

To everyone's surprise, after Concubine Yin woke up from fainting just now, there was no extra expression on her face, she had a wooden face and did not move. He neither cried nor pleaded, but just knelt on the spot, saying nothing or expression.

"You have nothing to say?"

Emperor Zhaoyang frowned.

This woman, don't you plead for mercy?

In fact, if she pleaded, maybe he could open up the net appropriately, and find a random reason to send her into the cold palace and spare her life.

"Your Majesty, the concubines have nothing to say."

Concubine Yin raised her head and looked at Emperor Zhaoyang quietly.

The stubborn expression was very much like a certain face in his memory, and Emperor Zhaoyang's tough heart instantly softened, and he couldn't help laughing, "You have done so many things behind my back, don't you have anything to explain?" ”

At least one explanation, right?

Is it because of the supreme power?

Why is it that except for Empress Renxing, everyone around him, everyone close to him, is for that power, is that cold dead thing really that heavy?

Everyone looked at Concubine Yin, with different expressions on their faces, but without exception, they were all indifferent.

The dying person is not worth wasting his feelings for her at all, even if it is a superfluous expression, it is a waste.

"Your Majesty, do you remember the Marquis of Wuling back then?"

After a moment of silence, Concubine Yin raised her head. There was a bleak expression on the pale face.

When Empress Dowager Xiao heard this, her eyes froze. She probably guessed something, and subconsciously gently shook the hand of the eldest princess next to her.

"Marquis Wuling rebelled back then, the evidence is conclusive, what's the point of mentioning it now?"

Emperor Zhaoyang said in a deep voice.

"Rebellion?"

Concubine Yin suddenly laughed.

The bright smile bloomed on her pale face, which seemed extremely discordant, showing a ghostly strangeness.

"What is the danger of adding sin? It's not so much a rebellion, it's better to know the secrets of some people in the royal family and be killed. ”

Emperor Zhaoyang frowned.

Although he was already extremely restrained, his face still showed the precursor of anger.

Regarding the matter of Marquis Wuling, Nangong Yi had already reported to him before, and the clues were very clear. He had known the identity of Concubine Yin for a long time, and the reason why he didn't say it all this time was just for a deeper plan.

Lin Jue walked over with the prepared iced sour plum soup, but happened to witness such a scene.

Concubine Yin knelt on the ground, and Emperor Zhaoyang was furious.

It seems that Nangong Yi is already starting to fight back.

"Extinguish? Do you have proof? ”

Emperor Zhaoyang's face was gloomy, like a precursor to an approaching storm.

"As long as you have the heart, your Majesty, you will know it when you go to the ancestral hometown of Marquis Wuling. Those people are the proof. ”

Concubine Yin seemed to see a glimmer of life.

"Your Majesty, don't waste any more time, right?"

Empress Dowager Xiao spoke.

"Fornicating with outsiders, forming a party for personal gain, and vainly trying to rebel, no matter which one it is, it is a capital crime, so why listen to the past of the Marquis of Wuling, who has already been decided?"

Marquis Wuling is the first major thing that Emperor Zhaoyang did after he ascended the throne, even if it is an unjust case, then he must be wronged, otherwise, how will he face the people of the world in the future.

Moreover, the Marquis of Wuling may not be wronged. He was obviously framed because he shared the spoils unevenly with Empress Yang, King Qin and others. Among the people who brutalized Empress Renxing and the former crown prince, Marquis Wuling also occupied a very important position, how could such a heinous person who fought for power and profit be wronged?

"The Queen Mother is right. The case of Marquis Wuling was tried by His Majesty in person, how could it be wrong? Concubine Yin tried to confuse the public, and her mind is worth considering......"

Empress Yang, who arrived later, also agreed.

"You-"

Concubine Yin looked at her and sneered.

"What happened back then, Niangniang, you should be an insider, right? The emperor didn't make a mistake, it's you who are wrong-"

"Are you all stupid? What are you still doing in a daze? Why don't you hurry up and pull this crazy woman who talks nonsense down! ”

Without waiting for Concubine Yin to finish speaking, Empress Yang directly ordered.

This is the harem, and she has this power.

Even if she didn't have this power, would the emperor blame her for this little thing?

Several palace maids stepped forward directly, and they were about to drag Concubine Yin down.

Lin Jue thought that the emperor would open his mouth to stop Empress Yang, but to her surprise, the emperor did not stop it, he just looked at Empress Yang deeply, and then calmly looked at Concubine Yin's body, and said, "Concubine Yin intends to rebel, and her crime should be punished, in view of her meritorious savior, pull it down and reward her with a whole corpse......

Concubine Yin was even calmer than the emperor.

As if she already knew her fate, she didn't say anything, and let a few palace people drag her down. When she passed by Lin Jue's side, she suddenly raised her head, and a smile of unknown meaning appeared on her lips, which looked hairy.

Almost fleetingly, she returned to her original state, and let the palace people drag it down.

Although this matter was designed by Nangong Yi in advance, and she was also responsible for cooperating, Lin Jue still had some questions. Since there were doubts about the case of the Marquis of Wuling back then, why didn't the emperor plan to investigate further? Listening to the meaning of Concubine Yin's words just now, this matter is obviously related to Empress Yang, maybe you can pull out the mastermind of the fire in the palace back then, but the emperor just executed Concubine Yin like this, and directly skipped this clue.

Could it be that the emperor already knew the mastermind of the fire that year?

Also, Concubine Yin said so obviously about conspiring against the four princes this time, but the emperor didn't say a word about the matter of the four princes, and executed Concubine Yin early. Not even her comrade Hongyuan was implicated, what is the reason for this?

Could it be that the emperor also has his own plans?

Just as he was thinking, suddenly another eunuch hurriedly ran in.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Liu Yi, the commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, asks to see you."

"Liu Yi?" , Emperor Zhaoyang was stunned, "What is he here for?" ”

Liu Yi is a good person, he is a good person on weekdays, but once he gets serious, he is very scary, too reasonable, too upright, as long as it is something he believes, even if the king of heaven Lao Tzu puts a knife on his neck, it will not change. With such a person, Emperor Zhaoyang would not bury him, but he didn't dare to use him too much, so he arranged for him to have a position in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses.

"It's said that there is something important to report."

Li Dehai, the chief eunuch, explained beside him.

"Let him in."

Emperor Zhaoyang was a little tired, these chores were one after another, when was the end?

After a while, Liu Yi walked in in civilian clothes.

It stands to reason that a martial artist like him enters the palace to face the saint to bathe and change clothes and change into court clothes, but today's matter is really urgent, and he doesn't care about it much, so he comes directly in civilian clothes.

"Do you have an urgent report?"

Emperor Zhaoyang sat in the middle, his face was calm, and he couldn't see his expression.

Lin Jue stared at the iced sour plum soup on the tray in front of him, and suddenly wanted to take a sip.

"Your Majesty, when the minister patrolled to the broken temple in the west of the city today, he suddenly heard a scream, and Weichen didn't dare to slack off, so he took people to ......."

"Getting to the point."

Seeing that Liu Yi Luoli was rambling a bunch of things that had not yet entered the topic, Emperor Zhaoyang frowned and reminded.

"Focus...... The point is that when the minister leads people into the ruined temple, he sees and sees ......"

The scene at that time was really unbearable, and even if he brought it up now, Liu Yi still felt that it was difficult to speak.

Lin Jue lowered her head and continued to stare intently at the sour plum soup in her hand.

Judging from Liu Yi's abnormal behavior, Lin Qiong's side seems to have succeeded smoothly.

"What do you see?"

Emperor Zhaoyang became more and more impatient.

He has other things to attend to, where does he have time to spend here blindly.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter is about reputation, do you need to report it privately?"

Liu Yi asked again.

In front of a room full of female dependents, especially Empress Dowager Xiao, he really couldn't open his mouth.

"There are no outsiders, you just say it."

The Emperor glared at him, as if he was trying to restrain his affection.

"When the minister led people in, he found and found that under the statue of the god of the ruined temple, there was a man and a woman doing unscrupulous things."

Liu Yi gritted his teeth and finally told the story.

But when everyone heard this, they showed very disapproving expressions.

Isn't it just a matter for men and women?

What is there to fuss about.

Liu Yi has been married for a long time, and it is impossible not to know about men and women. This little thing, still needs Baba to run to the palace to report?

"I see."

Emperor Zhaoyang replied lightly. looked indifferent, looking at Liu Yi, as if he was looking at a neuropath. Since when did he even have to take care of this kind of private affairs between men and women in the market?

"Your Majesty, the minister's words are not finished yet."

Liu Yi also felt the strange gaze of everyone, so he didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly explained.

"Everyone knows the man and the woman."

"It can't be some little girl in this harem who went out to steal a lover, right?"

Empress Dowager Xiao quipped on the side.

"Back to the Queen Mother, not a person in the palace, yes, yes-"

"It's the county lord of Qingyun and her second brother Gaoyang County King!"

Suddenly, a crisp voice snatched Liu Yi's words, and everyone followed the reputation, but found that they didn't know when Li Aoshan also came.

Seeing Emperor Zhaoyang and Empress Dowager Xiao and others at this moment, Li Aoshan hurriedly took two steps forward, blessed everyone sitting above, and then stood next to Lin Jue very naturally.

The two looked at each other.

Li Aoshan's eyes were full of strange looks, full of murderous aura, and she seemed to want to eat Lin Jue alive in the next moment.

Lin Jue was helpless, she didn't do anything. But she recruited such a person out of thin air, this is all to blame for the paralyzed Nangong Yi, and another day, she will settle this new and old account with him.

"Why is the girl here?"

Empress Dowager Xiao said with a smile.

Li Aoshan's biological mother is her niece, so the two are naturally closer.

"Queen Mother, you don't know how scary things I encountered today. The two of them were rolling around, naked, and they scared me to death—"

Originally, everyone's attention was all on Li Aoshan, who suddenly appeared, and almost forgot the ugly thing in Liu Yi's mouth. Now listening to Li Aoshan say it so openly, she was so frightened that she almost fell out of her eyes, and when she heard that the identities of those two people were the county lord of Qingyun and the king of Gaoyang County, Queen Yang was unstable and almost fell off the high platform.

"What did you say?!"

Emperor Zhaoyang is really not calm now.

The royal brothers and sisters messed up the code of ethics, so what's the matter?

"What I'm talking about is that this afternoon I saw the two siblings of the county lord of Qingyun and the king of Gaoyang in the ruined temple in the west of the city—"

No matter how thick-skinned Li Aoshan is, in front of so many people, she can't talk anymore.

"Emperor, if this matter is not ...... for another investigation"

Empress Dowager Xiao spoke, trying to resolve the somewhat embarrassing scene.

Since even Liu Yi came to report it so excitedly, this matter is very true. But seeing it may not be true, the brother and sister messed up Gangchang, this thing is really weird, it's better to check it carefully.

"Yes, the emperor, the concubines also think that there are strange things in this matter, maybe someone is designing it behind the scenes-"

Empress Yang also hurriedly spoke.

In his heart, he secretly scolded the two unsuccessful brothers and sisters. Today's incident seems to be designed by people with ulterior motives behind their backs, but these two people fell into it so easily, they are as stupid as pigs!

"Queen, I have my own measure."

Emperor Zhaoyang glanced at her and didn't take her mention to heart.

Then he ordered, "Come on, bring the Qingyun County Lord and the Gaoyang County King to the Heart Cultivation Palace!" ”

Lin Jue followed behind everyone, holding the sour plum soup in his hand, and walked out slowly.

The ice cubes in the sour plum soup have almost melted, and the royal family has had two scandals in one day, and one is stricter than the other, Empress Dowager Xiao and Princess Peixi, and they are probably not in the mood to think about relieving the heat at this moment.

A large portion of sour plum soup, the plums are all good, what a pity to throw it away like this. Lin Jue thought about it, thought about it again, and finally decided to find a place to have a few sips first. The sun was scorching, she hadn't drunk water since just now, and she was so thirsty now.

There was a corner in front of the cloister, and she walked slowly, so that no one would notice her when she had a sip there. Thinking like this, Lin Jue couldn't help but slow down, carefully holding the sour plum soup, thinking that a better day was coming, but when she passed by the door of a wing room, a force suddenly burst out from inside, and directly fished her whole person in!

The sour plum soup in his hand was spilled on the ground.

A familiar and unflattened face flashed in front of him.

Lin Jue, "......"

She had been looking forward to the sour plum soup that she had been planning for so long, but it didn't ...... Gone!

"Accompany me in sour plum soup!"

Lin Jue glared at him.

Nangong Yi, "......"

The two haven't seen each other since they came back, and they finally found a chance to meet, but in the first sentence of the meeting, she actually asked him to compensate for the sour plum soup? She only pays attention to sour plum soup?

Could it be that he is such a big person, but he is not even as good as a bowl of sour plum soup?

Thinking of this, Nangong Yi instantly felt tired.

"Forget it, let's pay together later......"

Lin Jue saw someone's blank look and changed his tone. Anyway, even if you cry now, it's useless, it's gone, it's gone, is it possible that Nangong Yi has to go out of her way to make a copy for her?

In fact, she was just thirsty and wanted to drink water.

"Why are you here?"

The wanted criminal wanted in the whole city is hiding in the palace, if Emperor Zhaoyang knows, he will probably vomit blood, right?

"See you."

Nangong Yi's answer was light and light.

But Lin Jue knew that even if he wanted to enter and exit the palace that was so heavily guarded without being discovered, he still had to work a lot. Moreover, although she believed in Nangong Yi's feelings for her, he would appear here, but definitely not just because he wanted to see her.

"Jue, I've heard everything about my family."

Nangong Yi put away her playful expression, looked at her and said.

The Lin family changed drastically overnight, and the Qin Wang family contributed a lot.

"I'm not a good person anyway......", Lin Jue smiled with a relaxed face, "Since everyone can do this, then I have nothing to worry about." ”

If Lin Lang is to blame, what about Lin Ke?

What's wrong with him?

Why didn't Ling Nan even let him go?

Even if it is a punishment, there is no need to directly take Lin Ke's life, he is still so young and has a great future, but he was ruined in the hands of these people early. Not even his life was spared.

"So you designed to let Lin Qiong assist in tying those two brothers and sisters together and stewing them together?"

A chuckle appeared on the corner of Nangong Yi's lips.

"At least I didn't take their lives."

Lin Jue said lightly.

She just ruined the reputation of the county lord of Qingyun and the king of Gaoyang, and her life was still saved, which was already cheap for the two of them.

"Sure enough, the county lord of Yunshu is resourceful, if it is replaced by the next, it is estimated that the two of them will be sent directly to see the king of Hades."

Nangong Yi said with a smile.

"Less pretend in front of me." , Lin Jue reached out and patted him on the shoulder, "Today's matter of Concubine Yin, dare to say that it is not your handiwork?" ”

However, she still felt strange, how did Emperor Zhaoyang appear in the Summer Palace, and it happened to appear in the "old place" where Concubine Yin and Hongyuan discussed major matters?

"Actually, the emperor wants to close the net, I'm just helping to pull the net cable."

"You mean—the Emperor knows about this?"

Self-directed?

The emperor still has such a hobby?

"Actually, Ah Jue, there is something I haven't told you."

Nangong Yi looked at her.

"The wanted notices out there for me are just a façade. I'm still working for the Emperor. Including going to the Northwest, including today's things...... As for the ins and outs of the palace fire and the Marquis Wuling incident eighteen years ago, I had already found out before I went to the northwest. It's just that the emperor hasn't moved......"

"So?"

Lin Jue was a little confused.

Since they all already know the murderer and the mastermind behind the scenes, and also know that the four princes have the intention of rebellion, why didn't the emperor directly take action to get rid of these people?

Leaving so many jackals by your side, staring at them every day, don't you feel panicked?

"The reason why he kept the four princes was probably to use them to balance Empress Yang's power, right?"

Nangong Yi was thoughtful.

If the power of the four princes is eradicated at once, the court will become the power of Empress Yang, and in this way, he will be in danger. But if there are various forces to check and balance each other, even if these forces are not good goods, as long as they can check and balance each other and calculate each other, Emperor Zhaoyang can sleep peacefully every day.

Hearing him say this, Lin Jue couldn't help but sigh.

It sounds good to say above 10,000 people, but every day you have to face the days of deceit, and not everyone is competent.

is still like her father, it is more reliable to be an idle cloud and wild crane, travel all over the world, and wander in the mountains and rivers.

"I promise you, as soon as these things are over, we will get married, and then get out of here."

Nangong Yi stared at her.

In the bottomless eyes, the stars are shining.

"Marriage?"

Lin Jue raised his eyebrows.

"Didn't I promise to marry a wanted criminal?"

Nangong Yi's eyes widened, and her face was full of grievances, "You dislike me?" ”

"Nonsense."

Lin Jue disagreed.

"Good. Since the county lord dislikes it, then he can only—"

Nangong Yi said, and made a gesture to pounce on her.

However, Lin Jue had already taken precautions, and he dodged someone's attack as soon as he slipped through the smoke.

After making a fuss for a while, they suddenly heard footsteps coming from afar, and the two were instantly alert.

Lin Jue was embarrassed.

blamed Nangong Yi for being improper, making her forget the tragic fact that the two of them were still in the Summer Palace.

Nangong Yi hurriedly stretched out his hand and pulled her into the corner.

Lin Jue shrunk tightly in his arms, not even daring to come out. Even if the emperor's wanted for Nangong Yi was fake, the holy decree was issued after all. This holy decree is still valid for outsiders. If Nangong Yi is discovered at this time, even if the emperor comes out to rescue him, it will take some twists and turns. (To be continued.) )