"Spread the decree of the mourning family, the twelve palace gates are blocked, only allowed to enter but not to exit, if anyone dares to leak this matter, he will not see the sun of tomorrow."

"As for the prime minister, what happened outside the palace, the mourning family must know."

Ling Xiang roughly told the Queen Mother what happened,

"The emperor was slightly subdued to Huaixia, and the first place he had to go to was Shuangxi Village, which was the most severely affected. But who knew that the entire village was burned down, and the villagers disappeared, becoming a deserted village. ”

"Burned?" The Queen Mother frowned, "Good village, why did it catch fire, the reason can be found." ”

The emperor sent people to investigate carefully, but they did not find any traces, and later found the villagers of the original Shuangxi Village on the edge of the river valley not far away. Now that I think about it, this place is unusual, and if I can be more vigilant, maybe nothing will happen. ”

"Then what, when did the emperor start to disappear, the mourning family just wants to know this."

The Queen Mother asked urgently.

"To answer the Queen Mother's words, it is necessary to summon someone to the palace here, and that person is also the key witness to the last person to see the emperor."

"Quick."

When I heard that it was the last time I saw the emperor, the queen mother did not hesitate at all, and she couldn't wait to bring it in immediately and interrogate it in person.

"Come, bring the people from outside to the temple."

Ling Xiang commanded in a loud voice,

In less than a moment, two guards were seen bringing in a man like a prisoner.

His hair is gray, his body is rickety, and his eyebrows are low, and he can't hide his head underground. Still trembling with a cane, Xu was shocked by the majesty of the palace, trembling all the way, not even daring to spread the atmosphere, nor daring to cut indiscriminately, his face was pale, and his entire back was wet with cold sweat.

Entering the palace in a hurry,

He was still wearing shabby coarse cloth clothes, which looked out of place and tattered compared to the splendid hall.

The Queen Mother wrinkled and didn't look up and down,

I don't know why Ling Xiang wants to send such an old person into the palace, could it be that such a person will have something to do with the assassination.

"Wang Tieniu, the head of Caomin Shuangxi Village, knocked to see the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose."

According to the rules taught before, the village chief knelt on the ground, trembling in his voice, and bowed in salute.

"Empress Dowager Qiyu, this village head, is the key person Weichen said."

The Queen Mother will be suspicious,

began to cross-examine.

"According to the prime minister, the last person the emperor saw before he disappeared was you? What have you said, but there are still others present, everything that happens, no matter how big or small, the mourning family wants you to answer clearly, if there is half a lie, you will not be able to get out of this Qianqing Palace. ”

The village chief's heart was still pounding, and he was so flustered that he subconsciously glanced at Ling Xiang,

Ling Xiang's eyebrows furrowed, he was so frightened that his body trembled, he buried his head and didn't dare to look at it anymore, and replied: Search for e-books

"The grass people are just a little common people, even if they eat the bear's heart and leopard gall, they don't dare to talk nonsense to the Queen Mother. It's just, it's just, it's just ......" The village chief said three times in a row, but he couldn't hold back the following.

"Bold, in front of the Queen Mother, how can you allow your words to flicker!"

Aunt Rui scolded sharply.

The village chief's shoulder was shocked, there was no way, he couldn't escape horizontally, so he could only put his heart horizontally, gritted his teeth and said: "It's just that when I talked about it, it was the grass people who hurt the emperor, and the grass people were afraid, so they begged the queen mother to spare the grass people's lives." ”

"You?"

The Queen Mother and Aunt Rui glanced at each other,

"Ridiculous! The emperor is very strong in martial arts, how can you harm him. ”

It's a fantasy and there's nothing credible about it.

"Naturally, the grass people didn't have and didn't dare to have this thought, but what happened later was indeed caused by the grass people's many words. Recalling that day, it was the grass people who privately spoke to the emperor about it, saying that one night, on the top of the mountain, they saw a sneaky person burying a box of things, and I don't know if it would be the same group of people who set fire to the village...... If they knew that this would happen, the grass people would have pulled out their own tongues, and they would never have dared to say more. ”

As he spoke, he slapped himself heavily and made a very remorseful look.

What he told really attracted the attention of the Queen Mother.

"What is the box buried on the top of the mountain? You told the emperor that day, and what the emperor asked later, and you told the mourning family word for word. ”

At that time, the grass people wanted to take advantage of the fact that there was no one at night to go to the top of the mountain to see if there were any weeds or anything like that, but they did not expect to encounter a team of people and horses quietly walking up the mountain, and pulling a big wooden box, and when they reached the top of the mountain, they began to dig a pit to bury the box in the ground. But this was not fun, and then something even more terrible happened, after filling in the soil, they couldn't see what was going on, and those workers were wiped off their necks and lost their lives. ”

The village chief told Yuan Ruiming and Bai Jingyin what he told the queen mother that day.

"Then what, what did the emperor ask?"

The emperor was very concerned about this matter, and asked the grass people if they remembered any details at that time. But when the grass people encountered this, they were so frightened that they really didn't know anything except hearing someone call the leader 'general'. ”

"General?"

The Queen Mother's expression was grim,

After glancing at Aunt Rui, he immediately realized that this matter was not simple.

"There will be no mistake, in the dead of night, the grass people really heard it, and they called the general. At that time, the emperor seemed to be very concerned about this, and after knowing that the grass people had not dug up the box, he asked for the location and planned to go to the top of the mountain in person. This is gone...... Just, never to come back. ”

The village chief kowtowed three more times in panic,

"The grass people really didn't know that something would happen, they really didn't know, the emperor was a benevolent monarch, he gave porridge and medicine, and saved the lives of our villagers, such a good emperor, how could he-"

He wanted to pretend to scold the real murderer behind the scenes, but when he thought that he was at the scene, he swallowed the words into his stomach and didn't dare to say more.

After the village chief finished speaking, without waiting for the queen mother to inquire, Ling Xiang took the initiative to step forward and arched his hand:

After the emperor disappeared, Weichen interrogated the village chief, and also sent people to the top of the mountain as said, and did not find anything unusual at first, and after digging up, there was no wooden box, there was no blood stain on the corpse of the worker, and no clues related to the emperor were left. But the more this is the case, the more suspicious it is, as the most critical place, Weichen once again went to the top of the mountain to investigate carefully, and the sky net was restored without leakage, and this time there was really a breakthrough. ”

took out an envelope from her bosom and presented it to Aunt Rui, who then handed it to the Queen Mother.