"I will give you another day, if there is no result of the investigation, then I will directly punish you for half a year!" Emperor Wen of Liang gave an ultimatum.

The punishment is a small matter, does a dignified prince still expect this small half a year's money? It's just that this time it's a punishment, so I don't know what it will be next time.

When Xiao Qisheng sent a letter to ask Zhao Lingshu if the spices given by Cui Guifei were true, Zhao Lingshu did not take this matter to heart, but continued to study medical books.

Recently, when Xiao Qisheng sent a letter to tell her what happened in the palace and asked her to be vigilant, Zhao Lingshu realized that he was almost framed and imprisoned.

"This Xiao Qiming is really a femme fatale." Zhao Lingshu threw down the medical book in his hand, stood up and took out the box of spices that Cui Guifei gave him.

Zhao Lingshu opened the box and smelled it, this box of spices was indeed produced in the Western Regions. But Zhao Lingshu took a closer look and found that this box of spices was much less when Cui Guifei gave it to him at the beginning.

Zhao Lingshu picked up the box containing spices and sniffed it carefully, in addition to the original taste of spices, there was also a faint smell of rouge gouache.

"Could it be that someone else planted a spy in the house sneaked into my room and took the spices?" Zhao Lingshu guessed, but there was no other evidence, so he could only leave a heart eye and observe carefully.

"I recently wanted to develop a healthy rouge gouache, can you give me an idea?"

Zhao Lingshu, who couldn't find any clues of spies, thought of a way, that is, under the pretext of developing rouge gouache, to discuss with the maids in the house, so as to eliminate and determine one by one.

But those girls chatted with her for a few days, and came up with countless ideas, Zhao Lingshu searched for it, but he couldn't smell the smell of rouge gouache stained on the spice box on the maids in the house.

"Could it be that something is wrong with my sense of smell?" Zhao Lingshu, who didn't find the slightest clue, began to wonder if she had made a mistake, and just when she was suspicious, Zhao Susu helped a maid walk past her.

The smell of rouge gouache on Zhao Susu's body was blown away by the wind, and Zhao Lingshu suddenly realized: This is the smell stained on the spice box!

"Auntie." Now that the target has been locked, Zhao Lingshu stopped Zhao Susu and wanted to ask, "The smell on your body is so good, where did you buy the rouge gouache you used?" Tell the corpse that the corpse wants to buy it too. ”

Zhao Susu listened to Zhao Lingshu's question, thinking that it was nothing to tell her, and she was also in a hurry to go out of the house, so she didn't think much about telling Zhao Lingshu the name of the rouge gouache shop she was used to, and then left in a hurry with the maid.

asked the answer he wanted, Zhao Lingshu immediately took the maid to the rouge gouache shop that Zhao Susu said. She asked around in the store, and looked at many goods under the guise of buying rouge gouache, but in the end she didn't find anything unusual, so she could only return in vain.

But after returning to the house, Zhao Lingshu thought of the situation when Zhao Susu left the house in a hurry before, and suddenly had doubts in his heart, and decided to go to Zhao Susu's room at night to have a look.

In the middle of the night, the Weiguo Mansion was already silent, everyone slept very deeply, most of the lights in the mansion were extinguished, the mansion was dark, only Zhao Susu's room still had a light on.

Zhao Lingshu, who was hiding outside Zhao Susu's room, carefully observed Zhao Susu's room, and vaguely found two figures in Zhao Susu's room.

"Two people? Who else is this person? It was not true from a distance, and Zhao Lingshu cautiously moved closer to Zhao Susu's room.

As soon as he got closer, Zhao Lingshu heard some movement from Zhao Susu's room, and he could also hear the voice of a man talking.

In order to hear the conversation clearly, Zhao Lingshu ventured under the window and squatted there to eavesdrop.

But Zhao Lingshu listened to it for a long time, and the voice in the room was only faint, and he couldn't really hear it at all.

The night was getting deeper, and Zhao Lingshu's squatting legs were also numb, and she was a little sleepy and yawned loudly but silently, ready to go home.

After Zhao Lingshu left, the man in Zhao Susu's room in black took off the cloak he had been wearing on his head. It turned out that he was Xiao Qiming's confidant and attendant Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and as soon as he heard movement outside, he naturally found the person hiding under the window and eavesdropping, but he couldn't startle the snake, so he could only pretend to talk to Zhao Susu in the room and nothing else.

Xiao Qiming, who failed to frame Zhao Lingshu and was grounded by Emperor Wen of Liang, has gradually lost the patience to wait for the opportunity. Emperor Wen of Liang had already announced that he would announce the selection of the crown prince to the courtiers at this year's New Year's banquet, and he had little time.

So this time he sent Xiao Yan to tell Zhao Susu that she had to find a way to put the letters he had prepared in advance about the intention of rebellion into Zhao Hong's study no matter what.

Xiao Qiming's henchman Xiao Yan handed over the rebellious letters to Zhao Susu, and then turned out the window and left the Weiguo Mansion.

After Xiao Yan left, Zhao Susu hid the letters, then blew out the lights, took off his clothes and went to bed.

After taking over the task, Zhao Susu has been looking for opportunities to enter Zhao Hong's study, but Zhao Hong's study has always not allowed others to enter, except for his most trusted sons and daughters, Zhao Lingshu and Zhao Yechen.

On this day, while Zhao Hong was not in the house, Zhao Susu made an excuse to go into Zhao Hong's study to find a book, and got rid of Zhao Lingshu and took her into Zhao Hong's study.

After these few secret observations, Zhao Lingshu was already very suspicious of Zhao Susu in his heart. Now seeing that she still wants to let her take her into Zhao Hong's study, she is even more vigilant.

But in order to draw out Zhao Susu's true intentions, Zhao Lingshu made a plan, followed Zhao Susu's wishes, and took her into Zhao Hong's study.

After Zhao Lingshu took Zhao Susu into Zhao Hong's room, he always paid attention to his behavior.

Zhao Susu saw that Zhao Lingshu had been following behind him and couldn't do anything at all, so he made an excuse: "Lingshu, I don't like people around when I look for books to read, otherwise you should wait for your aunt outside, and your aunt will go out as soon as she finds it." ”

"But my father wouldn't let him in his study, and if my father found out, the corpse would be blamed." Of course, Zhao Lingshu knew Zhao Susu's original intention, and also used Zhao Hong as a shield to naturally refuse Zhao Susu's request.

Seeing that Zhao Lingshu just didn't leave, and he couldn't find a better reason, Zhao Susu had no choice but to sit with Zhao Lingshu in Zhao Hong's study and read the book for an afternoon.

In the evening, Zhao Susu and Zhao Lingshu left Zhao Hong's study together. And the forged and conspiracy letters that Xiao Yan handed over to Zhao Susu were still carried by Zhao Susu.

Zhao Lingshu, who was walking behind Zhao Susu, found that Zhao Susu's clothes were much wider than usual today, so he asked casually: "Does my aunt like looser clothes today?" ”

Unexpectedly, the random question made Zhao Susu's body stiffen immediately, and his expression became a lot stranger: "Yes." It's hot today, and loose clothes are cooler. As he spoke, he unconsciously pressed down on his clothes, which contained a letter of forgery and plot rebellion.

Zhao Lingshu looked at Zhao Susu's abnormal behavior, so he put all his attention on Zhao Susu's clothes.

Seeing that his clothes were stared at by Zhao Lingshu, Zhao Susu also panicked, and hurriedly made an excuse: "After staying in the study for so long, my aunt is also a little tired, so I will go back to the room to rest first." Then he turned and left, went back to his room, and found a new place to hide the forged letters in his clothes.

By the time Zhao Lingshu saw Zhao Susu again, it was already time for everyone to have dinner together in the evening. Zhao Lingshu saw that Zhao Susu had changed his clothes, and he concluded in his heart that there were ghosts in the clothes that Zhao Susu was wearing before. But there was no way to ask directly, thinking that I would find an opportunity to go to Zhao Susu's room to find out.

The one-day deadline set by Emperor Liang Wen is approaching, but Xiao Qisheng's thoughts on the case have not made any new progress. Thinking of Zhao Lingshu's wisdom in the past, Xiao Qisheng decided to ask her for help to see if Zhao Lingshu could find clues. So he put pen to paper and wrote a letter.

"Xiao Si, go and give this letter to Miss Zhao."

When Zhao Lingshu received Xiao Qisheng's letter, he was thinking about how to get to Zhao Susu's room. So the two hit it off, and Zhao Lingshu immediately prepared a horse and went to Xiao Qisheng's palace.

After Zhao Lingshu arrived at the palace, Xiao Si immediately led him to the place where Xiao Qisheng was.

As soon as Xiao Qisheng saw Zhao Lingshu, he immediately asked him to sit down and explained the reason for inviting him to come.

After hearing this, Zhao Lingshu immediately said to Xiao Qisheng: "Can His Royal Highness the Sixth go and check on a person?" ”

"Who?"

"My aunt, Zhao Susu."

Xiao Qisheng had an incredulous expression on his face after hearing this, but she believed that Zhao Lingshu must have his reason for saying this, so she immediately patted Xiao Si to check on Zhao Susu.

After Xiao Si was ordered to leave, Zhao Lingshu told Xiao Qisheng all the abnormal behaviors of Zhao Susu that he had seen in these days and a few days ago, and also expressed his doubts: "I suspect that Zhao Susu must have something to do with the case of stealing and killing. ”

Xiao Qisheng, who was at a loss, instantly found the breakthrough point of the case, and he immediately sent someone to assist Xiao Si, and wrote down the suspicion that Zhao Lingshu had just said, and asked the guards to bring it to Xiao Si.

Xiao Si used all his connections, and after finding out that there were a lot of connections between Zhao Susu and Xiao Qiming, Xiao Qiming suddenly sent someone.

"Sixth Highness, this is the mastermind behind the investigation of the third highness of my family, let me escort here to the sixth highness for trial." Xiao Yan, Xiao Qiming's henchman, who was escorting a person in, said to Xiao Qisheng.

Xiao Qisheng looked at the so-called mastermind behind the scenes in front of him, knowing that this person had already been opened up by Xiao Qiming, no matter how he tried it, he would only insist that he was the mastermind behind the scenes, and he would be labeled as not believing Xiao Qiming.

"Now that the three have been found out, the sixth brother doesn't need to do anything more." Since there was no real evidence to identify the relationship between Xiao Qiming and the case, Xiao Qisheng decided to push the boat down the river and deal with this substitute ghost pushed out by Xiao Qiming as the mastermind behind the scenes.

Hearing the result of the case, Emperor Liang Wendi didn't say a word. Even if he didn't really get into the case, he knew that this so-called mastermind behind the scenes must have just been pushed out to die in place.

But aren't the seizures of the throne in all dynasties such open and secret battles? With such a result, it can only show that none of the princes has the upper hand at present, and no one can threaten his current power and position. Therefore, Emperor Wen of Liang decided not to take measures, let them fight slowly by themselves, and just hide in the palace and sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight.