Chapter Seventy-Two: Suspicion
Sure enough, when Princess Lu hid in the corner of the wall and pierced the window paper in Huangfu Jingbian's bedroom, she saw everything that happened inside. There was a woman lying on the ground, with her back to her, just dressed as a simple folk woman, looking very slim, but also a little familiar. Huangfu Jingbian did not mention the woman's name, but from their conversation, Princess Lu still heard some clues, it was really this woman's hand on the prince, I am afraid that the prince wanted to use force, but he almost accompanied one of his eyes. This Huangfu Jingbian is dirty enough, and he actually wants to send an innocent woman to the Qinglou to be a **, but what shocked Princess Lu even more was that at the moment when the guards dragged the woman from the ground and prepared to go out, the woman's face made her see it clearly. This is - the Queen?! She used to meet the queen often when the emperor was not on the throne, no wonder she felt that her back was very familiar. But didn't the palace say this morning that the queen was sick and delayed after the seal? Why did the queen appear in her own palace? The prince is really bold, how dare he hide the queen in his own mansion and still want to do something wrong, does he want to kill the entire palace? Seeing the guards take people away, Princess Law didn't dare to stop her, she quietly returned to the room with the maids around her, but she couldn't sleep all night.
"Commander Bian, why did you always enter the palace?" As soon as the guards saw Bian Yi, they nodded their heads.
"The emperor summoned the official into the palace and instructed the official to pay attention to the safety of the envoys of various countries." Bian Yiming's identity on the face is the commander of the Gyeonggi garrison camp, responsible for the safety of foreign envoys entering Beijing, so he said this as an excuse.
"Yes, the queen is ill, and the envoys of various countries will have to return home immediately, and there are a lot of send-off matters, so you must be busy."
"Hey, don't talk about the queen's affairs, be careful that people who have a heart will make a big fuss about it." Bian Yi warned with a serious face, but he turned his face and pretended to be mysterious and said, "It's strange to say, why did the queen get sick so coincidentally?" ”
"Yes," one of the guards slapped his thigh, and then felt that his movements were too exaggerated, so he shrank his head again, and whispered, "Don't say, is there anything unclean in this palace, it has been a little bad lately, and the day before the ceremony, there was a little palace maid who died of smallpox." ”
"Oh, it's unlucky, but how do you know that?" When Bian Yi heard this, he felt that there was a breakthrough in the whole thing.
"That night happened to be my night, and two little eunuchs pushed the coffin to send the body out."
"Really, then you have seen the corpse and are sure it is a dead palace maid?"
"The little one didn't dare to look at it, she died of smallpox, how dare the little one touch it, of course let them get out of it immediately!"
Bian Yi finally figured it out, someone must have put Chu Xiangwan in a coffin and lied that it was a little palace maid who had smallpox, so the top priority now is to find the whereabouts of those two little eunuchs.
Early in the morning of the second day, the early dynasty was still going on as usual, but everyone felt that the atmosphere of the court was very depressing, and there was no smile on the emperor's face. Huangfu Jingwen was more than halfway through the dynasty, only to find that Huangfu Jingbian was not present at all, so he moved his eyes to Ma Hui, and Ma Hui nodded and signaled to report to the next court.
"Why didn't King Law come today?" Entering the imperial study, Huangfu Jingwen asked Ma Hui.
"Back to the emperor, someone from the palace came to report this morning, saying that King Lu injured his eye while practicing swords at home last night and needs to recuperate at home for a while."
"He's in a good mood, and he's in the mood to practice swords. But this is strange, he is not a three-year-old child, nor is he a first-time martial arts practitioner, how could he hurt his eyes? How? Is the injury serious? Huangfu Jingwen flipped through a few books, but they were all excerpts with no content, so he threw them aside.
"I heard that I was injured on my face, and I almost lost my left eye."
Huangfu Jingwen's hand paused, and he looked up at Ma Hui: "What?" Why didn't you tell me in the morning? "I thought it was Huangfu Jingbian who was in the room at night, maybe he was too tired to have fun and found an excuse not to go to court, but I didn't expect that his eyes were almost wasted, what the hell is going on? Huangfu Jingwen felt that this matter was not simple, and his intuition was related to Chu Xiangwan's disappearance.
"Summoning Bian Yi back immediately, I have something to explain to him."
Bian Yi had just finished asking from the palace guards, and he also wanted to go back to the imperial study to report to the emperor, so he met Ma Hui who was going to pass him on the road.
"Commander Bian, the emperor asked you to go to the imperial study immediately to see the driver." Ma Hui walked out of breath, and before he could react, Bian Yi had already walked away.
"Weichen see the emperor. Your Majesty, Weichen has something important to report. It's about the Queen. ”
"Say."
"Weichen can now be sure that the queen mother was sent out of the palace, as long as you find the two little eunuchs who sent her out, you can know where the queen mother was sent to."
"Okay," Huangfu Jingwen didn't mention King Lu first, he instructed Bian Yi, "Don't leave the palace for the time being, go to Cihe Palace first to keep an eye on, you know what to do if anyone moves." "The people installed by Ma Hui have been waiting outside the Cihe Palace, but where are these people as well-trained as the secret guards under the Queen Mother, and to find Chu Xiangwan's whereabouts, the source is still in the palace, so Huangfu Jingwen still decided to send Bian Yi to keep an eye on the Queen Mother first.
"Yes, Wechen understands." Bian Yi didn't expect the emperor to directly say that this matter was related to the queen mother, it seems that because of the queen's disappearance, the estrangement between the emperor and the queen mother will become deeper and deeper.
"There is another thing," Huangfu Jingwen thought about it and said together, "King Law said that he injured his eyes by practicing the sword, I feel that this matter is not so simple, as if this matter is inseparable from the disappearance of the queen, if the Queen Mother has not moved, you can go directly to the palace to investigate the King of Law's mansion." ”
"Yes, Weichen retired." Bian Yi didn't know why the emperor suddenly suspected King Shanglu, but since the emperor ordered so, he must have his reasons.
However, as soon as Bian Yi went outside the Cihe Palace, the Queen Mother's people began to act, and the Queen Mother summoned the two people who had sent Chu Xiangwan out before, and said to them: "Now that you know where the people are, I believe that with your skills, it is not difficult to get people out again, but there is one thing, don't expose your identity." ”
"Yes, the minion obeys." The two of them were dressed in black this time, and they planned to leave after listening to the Queen Mother's orders.
"Wait," the Queen Mother instructed more, "There are people watching outside the Cihe Palace, you should be careful, if you are caught, the mourning family will not protect you, you know?" ”
The two men clasped their fists and quietly withdrew.
But who is Bian Yi? These people were all cultivated by him, and their way of acting was clear to Bian Yi. In fact, as soon as they entered the Cihe Palace, they were discovered by Bian Yi, so after they left, Bian Yi also followed them and followed them out of the palace.