The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the wind became more and more cold, there was no stove, Zhao Che's hands were very cold, and his fingertips were even a little biting cold.

Shen Bai held his hand hard, trying to convey the warmth of his palm to him.

In the last life, she has been by Zhao Che's side, watching him change from the prince to the king of Zhaoling, and then sit on his throne step by step, she knows better than anyone that after the first queen was killed and died, except for his uncle Wei Ruzhao, he actually didn't believe anyone.

He was only ten years old when the first queen died, and he was only a child, he couldn't understand why his dignified and gentle queen mother suddenly disappeared, and his father didn't let him cry or ask him about the truth about his mother's death, and even drove his closest uncle from the palace besides his mother.

From then on, the great palace was no longer his home, but a dangerous cage, with hostile eyes everywhere staring at him, perhaps to seize his position as prince, or to make him die as quietly as his mother.

After all, after the death of the first queen, the Wei family is declining day by day, he is just a prince without any background support, if even Emperor Hengde does not support him, he is really isolated.

Zhao Che's eyelashes trembled slightly, a little surprised, he obviously wanted to coerce and lure Shen Bai just now, but this person didn't say anything, and actually had the courage to grab his hand directly.

She pretends to be a man very well, but she can't change the fact that she is a daughter.

Her palms are much smaller than ordinary men's palms, but her hands are surprisingly warm, and the snow is flying all over the sky at this moment, and the branches in the yard can't stop shaking in the cold wind, but that bit of warmth is like a fire that will never be extinguished, and it will always warm him.

The words that were not finished were stuck in his mouth and could not be said anymore, Zhao Che lowered his eyes, and used all his self-control to not pull Shen Bai into his arms and hug him tightly.

He has been walking alone in the dark for too long, and he can't let himself have a weakness because he covets the warmth of this moment, that is not good.

With such a thought, Zhao Che stood quietly and did not respond to Shen Bai.

As soon as the imperial doctor gave Zhao Chou's wound medicine to bandage the wound, Emperor Hengde didn't stay long in the dormitory before he came out, and as soon as the door of the dormitory opened, Shen Bai withdrew his hand and retreated to his original position.

The fingertips wrapped in warmth were instantly exposed to the cold, and Zhao Che moved his hand, but he didn't keep that warmth after all.

Emperor Hengde walked out with a calm face, Zhao Che personally held an umbrella to meet him, and tilted most of the umbrella towards Emperor Hengde, and he had a small half of his shoulders exposed to the wind and snow.

The group walked straight towards the imperial study, and by the time they reached the door, the umbrella had accumulated half a finger's thick snow.

The palace people opened the door early, Emperor Hengde went in first, Zhao Che and Shen Bai shook off the snow on the umbrella, put the umbrella away and stood outside the door before entering the room.

The temperature outside plummets, but the inside is steaming, like a spring in March, forming two completely different worlds inside and outside.

Emperor Hengde sat down in front of the desk, and the palace people immediately served hot ginger tea, Shen Bai was wearing a palace dress, and there were only two cups of ginger tea, and there was no share of her.

Zhao Che had a lot of snow on his left shoulder, the snow melted when he entered the house, and most of his sleeves were wet, Emperor Hengde saw his eyebrows twisted, and said in a deep voice: "Drink the ginger tea first." ”

Zhao Che obediently drank his cup of ginger tea.

Only then did Emperor Hengde look at Shen Bai and said, "Take a pen and paper and write down everything that happened last night." ”

Shen Bai stepped forward and took a pen and paper and wrote down what happened after attending the banquet last night.

Gu Hengxiu had already broken the intimate matter between her and Gu Hengzhou in the ice lake, Shen Bai didn't want to hide it, but just took the fault on himself, saying that Gu Hengzhou was drunk and went there, she deliberately went to look for Gu Hengzhou, and when she saw him alone in the middle of the lake, she suddenly had a bad thought, and took advantage of Gu Hengzhou's drunkenness and sobriety, and belittled him.

Anyway, it's not the first time she has done this kind of thing, Dafang Fang admits that it is better than Gu Hengxiu as a handle to blackmail, and there is nothing to do, she is vague and refuses to make it clear, once it is pierced, it will be very unfavorable to Gu Hengzhou.

After Gu Hengzhou sent her back to the room, Li Shan went out to fetch water and never came back, and then she was kidnapped and sent to Jiang Qinse's room, Shen Bai hesitated, but still explained that he borrowed Gong'e's clothes in Lu Xiu's room.

Time was urgent, Shen Bai used cursive, and he wrote quickly, and the words on the paper were like a group of demons dancing, and after writing, Emperor Hengde could see it.

Emperor Hengde looked at it carefully with a solemn face, and then looked at Shen Bai with sharp eyes and asked, "You said that you were taken to Miss Jiang's room, and she was already like that when you arrived?" ”

Shen Bai nodded, and Emperor Hengde asked again: "You suddenly broke into Lu Xiu's room, not only did she not yell and scream, but also helped you cover up, you knew each other before?" ”

Shen Bai nodded, took a pen and paper and explained clearly that he had visited the Moon Pavilion with Gu Hengzhou at night and happened to save Lu Xiu.

Gu Hengzhou can testify to this matter, but Lu Xiu has been staying by the Queen Mother's side since she was rescued, even if Shen Bai and her have no chance to contact, having such a friendship makes people feel very uneasy, this fourteen-year-old boy, without anyone knowing, can almost be regarded as placing an eyeliner next to the Queen Mother.

But everything is not at all arranged by anyone, except for coincidental explanations.

Lu Xiu was escorted into the palace by Jing Zhaoyin, and after entering the palace, she almost only had contact with the Queen Mother, and her ability to please the Queen Mother was completely due to her own character and upbringing, and she had been in the Lu family before, if it wasn't for the sixth princess inviting her to Hanjing, she would not have met Shen Bai at all.

It is impossible for Shen Bai to have anything to do with the Lu family, let alone ask Lu Xiu to help her do anything just by one side.

Emperor Hengde understands this truth better than anyone else, but it is too much of a coincidence that all coincidences have touched everything, making him feel like there is a pair of invisible hands behind his back, weaving a huge fine net, calculating everyone in it, controlling the development of everything.

Emperor Hengde asked Shen Bai: "If you are dressed like this, if you are not bumped by the prince, how are you going to deal with this matter?" ”

Shen Bai wrote on the paper: I am in the open and the enemy is in the dark, since I have not done it, I can naturally retreat with my whole body, I want to wait and see the changes before finding a way to deal with it.

If she hadn't met Zhao Che, she should have turned back into the personable Shen Xiaoye at this time, and she was watching the excitement like everyone else, if Gu Hengxiu still wanted to jump out and identify her like now, she would naturally have a way to refute it, not only to pick herself cleanly, but also to let these people who slandered her know what it means to eat the consequences.

But now the matter is getting bigger and bigger, not only involving Jiang Qinse's humiliation, but also involving the assassination of His Royal Highness.

It is not a matter of being drunken and humiliated by the daughter of an important minister and murdered by a noble heir.

Emperor Hengde couldn't believe Shen Bai's words because of this, he asked Shen Bai and Zhao Che to stand next to him first, and after a while, Zheng Yue, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, asked to see him.

Emperor Hengde answered, the palace people helped push the door open, Zheng Yue strode in, followed by two Praetorian Guards, the two carried a person on a stretcher, the person was covered in blood, he couldn't see his face clearly, and viscous blood dripped from the stretcher, and opened a gorgeous blood plum.

When he arrived, Zheng Yue lifted his clothes and knelt down, and the two Praetorian Guards also knelt down, and said loudly: "Weichen greets Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" ”

Emperor Hengde's face was tense, and he looked at the person on the stretcher and asked, "This is the assassin who assassinated the Four Highnesses?" ”

Zheng Yue nodded and said: "Your Majesty is wise, this person is the assassin who assassinated the Four Highnesses, he is highly skilled, and he fled immediately after the assassination of the Four Highnesses, and the guards of Yingze Palace immediately chased him out and caught him near the Zhaoyi Gate, and Weichen tortured him, and then found that he had his tongue cut off and was tortured by the palace." ”

was cut off and tortured by the palace, could it be Li Shan?

Shen Bai was surprised, and immediately walked to the stretcher, Zheng Yue just wanted to stop it, but Emperor Hengde spoke: "Let him see!" ”

Shen Bai pulled the sweat towel below to wipe the blood on the man's face on the stretcher, and the contours of Qingjun's face showed little by little, and it was really Li Shan.

His tongue had been cut out, and even his eyes were so red and swollen that he couldn't open them at all.

Shen Bai stained his blood and wrote on the floor tiles: Lord Zheng, was his eye also injured by torture?

Zheng Yue thought at first that this was just a bold Gong'e, but when he saw Shen Bai's face clearly, he couldn't help but gasp.

How does this Gong'e look exactly the same as Shen Bai, Taifu Shen's sister-in-law?

Zheng Yue shook his head, Shen Bai knocked on the floor tiles with his fingers to urge, Zheng Yue finally came back to his senses, and hurriedly shook his head: "No, his eyes are not injured, his skills are very high, the Praetorian Guards wasted a lot of effort to catch him, he tried to commit suicide by taking poison after he was caught, but he was stopped, it should be the person behind the scenes to avoid being identified and poisoned him." ”

Shen Bai shook his head solemnly, and continued to write on the floor tiles: There is no one else behind him, he is my little servant.

Zheng Yue was stunned, Li Shan was dumb, he couldn't see it at this moment, and he didn't do anything after he was caught, he originally thought that this would become a headless unsolved case, but he didn't expect Shen Bai to directly admit the master-servant relationship with Li Shan.

Zheng Yue has been handling the case for many years, and it is the first time he has encountered such a thing, he quickly calmed himself down, and asked Shen Bai suspiciously: "Young Master Shen said that he is your little servant, but he already knows that he is so strong?" ”

Li Shan was sent by someone else to monitor her, she knew that Li Shan was a practitioner, but she had never fought Li Shan head-on, and she didn't know how high his skills were.

This kind of thing is not clear in a few words, Shen Baiyou walked to the case of Emperor Hengde and took a pen and paper, and wrote out the set of statements before Shen Ruxiu with a slight modification.

This person was bought by Shen Ruxiu from the traffickers to serve him, at first he just saw that this person was dumb, and he was honest, so he bought him, Shen Bai found out that Li Shan would do martial arts in the process of getting along, and only after questioning did he know that Li Shan was actually a young dart master of a dart game, because of the dart, the family provoked the people on the road, and was destroyed, Li Shan was cut off because of his young age, slaughtered the root of his life, and was sold to human traffickers, he has not given up revenge, so he secretly practiced martial arts.

Shen Bai has read countless books in these two lives, and he casually made up a miserable life experience for Li Shan.

After reading the contents of the paper, Emperor Hengde asked Shen Bai to hand the paper to Zheng Yue, and Zheng Yue asked Shen Bai after reading it: "Young Master Shen has sent someone to check whether that dart game really exists, can you guarantee that what this person named Li Shan said is the truth?" ”

Shen Bai shook his head, this was made up by her, where can it stand up to verification? And how could Emperor Hengde have the patience to wait for someone to investigate such an inconsequential matter?

Shen Bai wrote on it: I can't guarantee that what he said is the truth, but I can guarantee that he is definitely not the assassin who assassinated the Fourth Highness, his eyes should have been poisoned, if you want to find out about this matter, please ask Lord Zheng to come and verify the truth.

Zheng Yueqi said: "Why do you want to invite you to come?" Wouldn't it be faster to ask for a doctor directly? ”

Shen Bai didn't care about anything, and wrote directly: I don't believe in the imperial doctor.

Imperial Physician Zhang is Zhao Che's person, and Imperial Physician Su is Concubine De's person, no matter who you invite, it is unfair, or it is most appropriate to directly let the servants of Dali Temple check it.

Zheng Yue didn't expect Shen Bai to dare to say so, he glanced at Emperor Hengde, and saw that Emperor Hengde had no intention of stopping it, so he asked him to ask him to come over and check.

Concubine De knew that Zhao Chou's life was not in danger, and after seeing Zhao Chou in Yingze Palace for a while, she rushed to the imperial study to ask for a meeting, wanting to seek justice for Zhao Chou.

Emperor Hengde let her in, and as soon as she entered the door and saw a bloody person in the house, Concubine De screamed in fright, and then saw Shen Bai dressed as a woman, her eyes suddenly widened, and she pointed at Shen Bai in disbelief, and scolded sharply for a while: "Shen Bai, you are so bold, you dare to bully the king!" ”

Zhao Che looked at Concubine De coldly, and did not rush to argue for Shen Bai, Emperor Hengde said with a slight reproach: "Concubine De, you lost your words, Shen Bai was born in Shuxian's dormitory, if Shen Bai is bullying the king, isn't Shuxian deceiving the world?" ”

Empress Shuxian is a reverse scale that Emperor Hengde can't touch, when Emperor Hengde said this, Concubine De also reacted to her overreaction, and quickly admitted her mistake: "Concubine gaffe, please forgive Your Majesty." After speaking, he looked at Shen Bai without giving up, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that Shen Bai was a woman, and he had no sense of disobedience.

Emperor Hengde didn't want to dwell too much on the question of whether Shen Bai was a man or a woman, he looked at Concubine De and asked, "Jing Yuan hasn't woken up yet, Concubine Ai is not taking care of him in Yingze Palace, what are you doing in such a hurry?" ”

When it came to business, Concubine De suddenly sobered up, lifted the hem of her skirt and knelt down, and instantly cried with red eyes: "The concubine begs Your Majesty to be the master of Jing Yuan, and you must break the assassin's body into pieces, find out the people behind the scenes, and punish the nine clans to solve the hatred in my heart!" ”

The women of the harem have not been happy in this life, Concubine De only has one child under her knees, Zhao Chou, and naturally regards him as a treasure, and now that Zhao Chou is so seriously injured, she naturally can't wait to personally cut all the people who planned this matter alive.

There is also a Li family behind Concubine De, after the death of the first queen, the entire harem is almost alone She has the final say, she comes to ask for an explanation today, she must give an explanation, otherwise she will make everyone uneasy.

Emperor Hengde asked people to add a chair for her to sit down next to her, and the Praetorian Guard quickly brought him to the imperial study.

He is the most experienced one in Dali Temple, and he has dissected countless corpses until now, but it is the first time that he has been asked to conduct an autopsy in front of so many dignitaries, and he is so frightened that he speaks a little unfavorably: "The grass people meet Your Majesty and meet the nobles." ”

Emperor Hengde stiffened his face and didn't respond, Zheng Yue asked him to check quickly.

He knelt down and walked to Li Shan's side, took out the autopsy knife and looked at it, but found that the person was still alive panting, and hesitated: "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, this man is still alive. ”

"You can only test the dead?"

Emperor Hengde asked rhetorically, shaking his head again and again, at this time, he can test anyone.

Slowly check the injuries on Li Shan's body, this is a set of delicate work, and it takes a long time, Concubine De sat next to her and watched for a while and lost her patience, and couldn't help asking: "Lord Zheng, who is this, why do you still ask the Dali Temple to do an examination?" ”

Concubine De didn't dare to ask Emperor Hengde directly, she could only ask Zheng Yue, Emperor Hengde didn't stop her, Zheng Yue said truthfully: "Back to Concubine De, this is the assassin caught today, Weichen has already tortured him, but he is a mute, he didn't say anything, just now Young Master Shen said that his eye injury may be a little strange, so please come and check it." ”

Concubine De didn't expect that there was anything else about Shen Bai here, and immediately glared at Shen Bai viciously: "Young Master Shen? As a man, it is already unsightly for you to dress like this today, why do you dare to handle the case in Dali Temple? Since this person is an assassin caught by the Praetorian Guards in the palace, he stabbed the four princes of the dynasty, he should be killed immediately, do you think there is something strange in it, isn't there any unsavory relationship with this assassin? ”

Concubine De asked with a gun and a stick, thinking that Shen Bai would be frightened, but she didn't expect Shen Bai to nod very frankly, she did have something to do with this assassin.

Concubine De frowned, and Zheng Yue replied on her behalf: "Concubine De, this person is Young Master Shen's personal servant." ”

"What!?" Concubine De stood up excitedly, pointed at Shen Bai and shouted: "Since it has been ascertained that the assassin is his personal servant, why didn't Lord Zheng hurry up and take him down and imprison him in Dali Temple?" ”

Concubine De was so angry that her chest couldn't help but rise and fall, Zheng Yue didn't know how to answer this question, Zhao Che, who had been sitting quietly next to her, said in a deep voice: "Mother, the assassination of the fourth brother is very important, Rui Xuan can understand your feelings of distress for the fourth brother, but the father has always been fair and strict, Dali Temple will find out the case, naturally will not let go of any suspicious person, but you can't just wronged an innocent person, and please don't be impatient, the truth will come out." ”

Zhao Che said this calmly and calmly, and even a little indifferent.

Zhao Chou has been grounded by Emperor Hengde because of Shen Bai these days, Concubine De already suspected that this matter had nothing to do with Zhao Che, although Zhao Che was speaking from a neutral position at this time, Concubine De also felt that he was defending Shen Bai, and her anger couldn't help but rise, Concubine De couldn't help but say: "I know that Jing Yuan has been a little arrogant in recent years, and many places have also offended Rui Xuan, but now that this kind of thing has happened, Rui Xuan, you can't protect outsiders because of this." ”

Zhao Che's face did not change, and he asked gently and gently: "What does the mother concubine mean by this, I have a prejudice against the fourth brother, and I deliberately want him to be bad?" ”