In order to save some face for the crown prince, even if the matter had not been discussed, the emperor had to announce his retirement from the dynasty and take Pei Shu to the imperial study alone.

The queen looked at the imperial study with only three of them, and after learning about the affairs in the court, she hurriedly asked, "What about Qin Xiaoshuang?" There's such a big thing going on in their mother's family, she can't be unaware of it, right, she hasn't revealed anything to you? ”

"Qin Xiaoshuang...... She's dead! Pei Shu hung his head and spit out this sentence with difficulty.

He knew that it was over, and the Qin clan must have received the news of Qin Xiaoshuang's death, so he suddenly wanted to send troops, if this battle really wanted to be fought, he was afraid that he would be drowned by the spittle of the people in the world.

The queen was stunned, and before she could react, she asked in a daze: "What did you say?" ”

The emperor looked at Pei Shu coldly, and answered for him word by word: "Qin Xiaoshuang is dead, this is the real reason for Qin's change, we really raised a good son, how long has she been dead?" We don't even know about it until now. ”

The queen finally came back to her senses and muttered, "It's just a small barbarian country, and we can still be afraid of them." ”

With a "snap", it was the emperor who threw down the folds on the bookcase, and he pointed at the queen and Pei Shu and said angrily: "Yes, we are not afraid, but if you let the officials and the people know that the reason for this war is because your son killed someone's daughter, not to mention that he, the prince, is me, and I have to apologize to the people of the whole world." ”

"That Qin Xiaoshuang obviously committed suicide, what does it have to do with us!" The queen couldn't help but shout.

The emperor sneered: "Your spoiled son is already spoiled and can't distinguish between right and wrong, if it weren't for the persecution of your good son, would she be able to let go of her good life and choose to hang herself?" ”

"The son is guilty, please punish your father!" Pei Shu knelt weakly in the imperial study.

At the same time, King Ling also took Princess Jintai to the palace of King Xian, they received a secret letter from Northern Burma in the morning, and they were shocked by the content in their hearts, and they wanted to enter the palace directly to face the saint, but when they thought of the strangeness of the emperor before retreating, Pei Hao still changed his mind.

"You said Qin Xiaoshuang is dead?" Shen Jiahe looked at Jintai in disbelief, although she had already told herself that she had no relationship with Pei Shu and Qin Xiaoshuang for a long time, but when she heard the news of her death, she was still a little unacceptable, no matter what, it was also a living human life, and she was forced to die like this.

Jintai nodded, took out the secret letter that his father sent her, and handed it to Pei Yuan: "Qin Xiaoshuang's father went to my father, hoping to get help from our Northern Burma, but his father refused, but he sensed the unwillingness of the Qin clan, so he sent a letter to remind him. ”

Pei Yuan nodded and hurriedly read the contents of the letterhead: "No wonder Pei Shu's expression is a little strange today, if this matter is poked out, I am afraid that his position as the crown prince will not be guaranteed." ”

Pei Hao snorted coldly: "If you can't keep it, you deserve it, these messy things he did by himself, but he even affected others and suffered together, if he really wants to fight, it is the people who suffer." ”

If the emperor insists on protecting Pei Shu, I am afraid that he will not let the news go out, and as for this battle, it is estimated that there is no possibility of peace talks.

The four of them discussed for a long time but didn't come up with any solutions, so they had to take one step at a time.

When it was dinner time in the evening, Shen Jiahe went to the study to look for Pei Yuan, and when he saw someone in his room, he stood outside for a while.

It was Lao Xiao in the study, and recently the Yuan Pavilion found out the news of the golden silk clothes, and he specially rushed over to tell the news: "The whereabouts of the thing are there, but this hiding place is a little difficult to move." ”

Legend has it that the golden silk clothes are as thin as cicada wings, and they are treasures that everyone in the rivers and lakes compete for, but they have only existed in legends for a long time, and no one has ever seen its true face.

The Yuan Pavilion has been investigating the whereabouts of this treasure, probably for several years, Pei Yuan was hopeless, but he didn't expect to have news again: "Where do even the people of the Yuan Pavilion find it tricky?" ”

"In the ancient tomb of the head of the Chen family, it was one of his burial goods at that time, and we are still speculating whether it was worn on the body of the Chen family master, if it is, I am afraid that the clothes of the dead will be picked up at that time." Lao Xiao shook his head helplessly, and the thought of wearing dead man's clothes made him feel uncomfortable.

The secret guard of the Yuanyuan Pavilion who came with him also answered: "This matter should be done as soon as possible, and it should be taken advantage of the evening, if you have no opinion, you will do this matter tonight, brothers and sisters, everything is ready." ”

Pei Yuan nodded and ordered: "Then tonight, you go out and wait to follow me, and I will talk to the princess." ”

"You're going with you?" Lao Xiao was a little surprised, "This thing is too ...... What's that, or you can wait for news in the mansion. ”

"The cemetery of the head of the Chen family must not be something that ordinary people can pry open, otherwise he would have been robbed by tomb thieves to move so many things with him back then, and this king may be able to help with you." Pei Yuan explained.

Lao Xiao had no choice but to take the people from the Yuan Pavilion out to wait, and when he came out of the study door, he saw Shen Jiahe standing under the porch, and hurriedly saluted: "I've seen the princess." ”

Shen Jiahe also nodded, and when they left, they saw that Pei Yuan had already come out, "Dinner has been prepared, but look at you are preparing to go out like this?" ”

Pei Yuan nodded, and briefly said about the golden silk clothes: "I'm not very worried about them, I'm going to go over and have a look together, and I don't know when I can go back, you don't have to wait for me, go to bed early when you're sleepy." ”

As soon as she heard that she was going to dig a tomb, Shen Jiahe's hands not only itched, she had entered the tomb once or twice as early as when she was a special agent, but it was all some early tombs, and it was not as elaborate as the ancient tombs.

The tomb of the head of the family is also very rich, and the scale must be not small, Shen Jiahe was itching, and directly grabbed the hem of Pei Yuan's clothes and begged: "I will go too." ”

"Nonsense," Pei Yuan made a face, "This is to dig a grave, not to play, you stay at home and wait for me to come back." ”

Shen Jiahe dragged Pei Yuan's sleeves and continued to coquettishly say: "Don't stay at home, I'm just going to take a look and promise not to disturb you." ”

She hugged Pei Yuan's waist again and continued to wrap around: "I promise not to leave your sight, there will definitely be no danger." ”

Pei Yuan couldn't cry or laugh, there were a lot of people in the Yuan Pavilion this time, and besides, it was at the cemetery of the Chen family, he really wasn't worried about danger, but that place was really ......

"Okay, okay, I'll go with you, please!" Shen Jiahe is rarely coquettish, and this period of soft grinding and hard entanglement makes Pei Yuan rub his temples.

"Okay, okay, you go to dinner first, and we'll go later." Pei Yuan could only compromise.

Shen Jiahe pulled Pei Yuan and didn't let go: "Let's be together, otherwise what if you secretly run away first?" ”

Pei Yuan had a headache even more: "I'll go and tell Lao Xiao to let them eat some food before going, don't worry, don't run first, I'll look for you in a while." ”

Shen Jiahe happily went to the dining room to eat first, and then instructed Bai Ying to prepare things for himself to take away.

When Bai Ying packed the candles and bronze mirrors in a cloth bag and handed them to Shen Jiahe, she asked strangely: "What does Miss want these things to do at night?" ”

"It's nothing, I'll go out with the prince later, you can take care of the house." She didn't dare to tell Bai Ying that she was going to dig a grave, otherwise she would be scared to death of this girl.

The whole tomb of the Chen family is very large, fortunately, the cemetery of the head of the family is different from others, it is very easy to find, Shen Jiahe looked up at the sky, there are no stars today, and a round moon is big and round hanging in the sky, which is very suitable for digging graves.

Lao Xiao led people to survey around the cemetery, looking for the entrance to the cemetery, one of them used lime to draw two long lines on the ground, one horizontal and one vertical, and the people behind began to dig according to the lines.

There are two ways of horizontal shaft and shaft dug from the mouth of the tomb, Lao Xiao commanded people to prepare to go down from the mouth of the well, but was stopped by Shen Jiahe: "Wait, you can't do this, there are traces of quicksand in the crosswell, if you go down like this, I am afraid that you will be buried in quicksand." ”

Lao Xiao looked at Shen Jiahe in surprise: "The princess still understands this?" ”

"Hehe, I've learned a little, you can pick up the mechanism at the crosswell according to the traces, and export all the quicksand to the surface." Shen Jiahe commanded.

She stared at the tomb intently, not paying attention to Lao Xiao's strange eyes looking at her, a young lady from the Xiangfu family, would she have nothing to learn how to dig the tomb? It's a bit weird.

Lao Xiao turned his head to look at Pei Yuan again, and the corners of his mouth were still smiling under the cold moonlight, and he didn't doubt the princess's weirdness at all, so Lao Xiao had no choice but to swallow his doubts.

When all the quicksand was gone, Lao Xiao led people down, and Shen Jiahe followed, but was pulled by Pei Yuan: "You are on top, and I will leave two people on it to accompany you." ”

"Didn't you promise to take me?" Shen Jiahe looked at the entrance of the tomb with a blank eye, she was here, how could she not follow in to find out.

Pei Yuan frowned, digging people's graves is really a thing that is detrimental to yin morality, although the theory of ghosts and gods is really illusory, but he really doesn't want Shen Jiahe to have the slightest bad possibility.

"I promised to take you to the cemetery, but I didn't promise to take you down, you just wait for me above, good!" Pei Yuan said soothingly.

"I'm afraid, I have to follow you, you can't leave me alone." Shen Jiahe was ready to go out in order to enter the tomb, "I don't want to be on it, it's so dark, how can you rest assured that I will be alone." ”

Lao Xiao shouted below: "Lord Wang, have you come down?" ”

Pei Yuan rubbed his forehead again, he never knew that Shen Jiahe was so pestering: "I'll leave some more people here for you." ”

"But none of them are you," Shen Jiahe hugged Pei Yuan's waist, and the secret guards of the Yuan Pavilion on the side turned their backs with a smile, and Shen Jiahe continued, "I didn't tell you that Zhou Qian taught me this, you see that if you take me, maybe I can still help, if it weren't for me just now, your people would all be folded in that quicksand!" ”

"Let's go, let's go!" Shen Jiahe pulled Pei Yuan to the entrance of Hengjing, Pei Yuan could only follow helplessly, and waved his hand to signal all the secret guards to follow behind.

Walking to the entrance of the tomb door, Shen Jiahe opened the package prepared by Bai Ying, took out the candle inside, lit it and placed it at the entrance of the passage.

The red candle flame burned higher and higher in the passage, and after a while, Shen Jiahe nodded and said, "You can go in." ”

The group began to enter the passage in turn, Pei Yuan pulled Shen Jiahe to walk in the middle, the passage was long and narrow, and the stone walls made of bluestone slabs on both sides were very cold.

Shen Jiahe instructed one person in front and one person behind him to sit on the marker along the road to prevent them from going off, but because he couldn't calculate the time, Shen Jiahe could only estimate silently in his heart.

After about half a pillar of incense, Shen Jiahe held a torch close to the wall, pointed to one of the white scratches and said to Pei Yuan: "We have been here before." ”

"Yes, it's a mark I made, and it looks like I'm sparing it back." Lao Xiao looked at it and said affirmatively.

"Go again, continue to mark this time, even if it's already done, it's doing it again." Pei Yuan commanded.

But after the time for another half pillar of incense had passed, Pei Yuan's face changed slightly as he stood in front of the wall with three carved marks.

Someone behind him asked in a trembling voice, "This ...... Isn't this the legendary ghost hitting the wall? ”