The Empress Dowager said: The palace wants to meet the three prisoners who were imprisoned the day before yesterday.

The Sanpin official hurriedly asked: There were six or seven prisoners who were imprisoned the day before yesterday, and I didn't know that the queen mother wanted to see those three prisoners.

Zhao Ying answered: The prisoners that the Empress Dowager wants to see are Zuo Prime Minister Kou Zhun, Sanguan Marshal Yang Yanzhao, and the new prefect of Kaifeng Mansion, Li Yinglong.

The Sanpin official hurriedly said: "The Empress Dowager, only two of the three prisoners that the Empress Dowager wants to see are still in the prison, and the prefect surnamed Li has just been taken away by a group of palace guards.

Hearing this, Zhao Ying was shocked: What, was taken away by the guards in the palace, where was it taken?

Sanpin official said: I don't know, the guards who came to take him away didn't say anything, they read out the emperor's decree and left in a hurry with people.

Zhao Ying asked urgently: In what direction?

That Wu Youjin didn't dare to answer, and another fourth-grade official answered: It was the one who sent them out of the prison, and they went to the east.

Hearing this, Zhao Ying said to herself: What, go to the east, where is the east?

After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly said to the Queen Mother: "Queen Mother, you always see Kou Xiang and Marshal Yang here, I'll go and find out where Ying Long went."

The Queen Mother nodded: You go and check, find a letter to me.

Zhao Ying responded: Okay, Queen Mother.

With that, he turned around and hurried out.

After Zhao Ying left, the Empress Dowager instructed the third-grade official: You go and bring Kou Xiang and Marshal Yang here to see me.

The Sanpin official hurriedly responded: Yes, the Queen Mother.

After that, he took the two fourth-grade officials and walked inside.

After a while, the third-grade official walked into the reception hall with Kou Xiang and Yang Liulang, who were wearing prison uniforms.

Seeing that it was the Queen Mother, the two of them hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down and kowtowed and shouted: The criminal minister Kou Zhun (Yang Yanzhao) See the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is a thousand years old, a thousand years old!

The queen mother waved her hand to the two: The two Qing families are even.

The two got up from the ground and stepped aside.

The Empress Dowager asked the two: Kou Xiang and Marshal Yang, what crime did you two commit?

Kou Zhun bowed down and replied: Empress Dowager, the emperor said that the minister secretly sent a killer to sneak into the house of Long Haitao, the secretary of the military department, and killed him, and then set up a suicide pretense to cover up the minister's crime, so he removed the minister from the post of left prime minister and went to prison, but what the minister didn't understand was where the emperor got such news. Besides, it is not clear that someone is framing the minister, who the minister is, doesn't the emperor know, why does the emperor believe such a boring thing.

Yang Liulang said: Empress Dowager, the emperor said that the minister did not leave the capital without permission and returned to the border pass, and his actions were suspicious, so he was arrested and put in the prison for investigation.

As he spoke, he looked at Kou Zhun and said: Kou Xiang, I left Beijing and returned to the border pass, but the emperor's edict you conveyed to me is that I did not leave the capital and return to the border pass without permission, you have to be responsible for this matter.

Kou Xiang nodded: Yes, it was the emperor's message that I conveyed to you, but this is indeed the emperor's nod and agreed, but I didn't fake the emperor's message to you to harm you, you have no grievances with me, why should I harm you. Besides, I'm not the kind of despicable villain who stabs people in the back.

Hearing this, the Queen Mother was angry: It's just nonsense, nonsense.

The two thought they were talking about them, but their faces showed fear, and they hurriedly closed their mouths and did not dare to say anything more.

The queen mother looked at the two of them: This palace is not talking about the two of you, I am talking about the emperor, and he is not a three- or two-year-old child, what are you doing.

After that, he paused, and then comforted the two of them: You two will stay in the prison for the time being, and the palace will go back to the palace to talk about your affairs, and let the emperor let you out as soon as possible.

Hearing this, the two of them said in unison gratefully: Thank you Empress Dowager.

Zhao Ying hurriedly walked along a street, and when she passed by a grocery stall, she hurriedly stopped and asked the stall owner, an old man who looked to be sixty years old, "Uncle, I would like to ask you something, were there some palace guards and a gray car just now?"

Colored cars passing by here, huh?

The old man nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes, yes, it's not been long since then."

Then, with his hand, he pointed to the east and said: Go to the east, it's too late to catch up.

Hearing this, Zhao Ying pulled out her legs and rushed eastward.

Zhao Ying chased after him and came to the east gate of the palace, and found that there was no way, looking at the heavily guarded east gate and couldn't help but secretly say: Could it be that the emperor got Ying Long into the palace?

Then she looked around with her eyes, and saw a big tree more than 100 meters away from the city gate, and under the big tree there was a fortune teller's stall, and the fortune teller was a middle-aged thin man who looked to be in his forties, so she walked over to him.

When the middle-aged man saw a girl, he hurriedly stood up and asked with a smile: Does the girl want to tell a fortune?

Hearing this, Zhao Ying apologized: I'm sorry, sir, I'm not a hexagram, I'm here to ask you about things.

The middle-aged man who told the fortune smiled and said very cheerfully: Girl, please speak.

Zhao Ying asked: Sir, did some palace guards escort a gray caravan into the east gate of the palace just now?

The middle-aged man who told the fortune nodded his head: Yes, just now there was a team of guards with knives escorting a gray caravan into the east gate of the palace.

After a pause, he asked curiously: Why is the girl asking this?

Of course, Zhao Ying couldn't tell him what was going on, so he smiled and said: It's nothing, just ask casually.

Then, she reached into her bosom and took out a small ingot of silver and threw it on the table: Thank you, sir.

After that, he didn't wait for the middle-aged man to say anything, turned around and hurried away.

Zhao Heng looked at the recital in the imperial study.

Suddenly, there was a shout from outside: The Queen Mother has arrived!

Zhao Heng was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly greeted him from the back of the table, but as soon as he arrived at the door, the Queen Mother walked in from outside, and she was so anxious that Zhao Heng couldn't help but be stunned.

Zhao Heng hurriedly knelt down and said: "The son of the minister visits the queen mother."

The queen mother said: The emperor doesn't have to be polite, get up quickly.

stepped forward and dragged Zhao Heng up, and then the mother and son came to the two chairs and sat down.

Zhao Hengdao: If the queen mother has something, just summon the child to meet in Cining Palace, why come in person.

The queen mother said: The matter is urgent, and the queen mother can't wait to come over to see the emperor herself.

Hearing this, Zhao Heng was stunned and said: The matter is urgent, what happened?

The queen mother instructed the three eunuchs standing aside: You go down first, I will talk to the emperor about something.

The third son hurriedly bowed down and answered: Yes, Queen Mother.

Turned and walked out, closing the door outside.

After thinking about it for a while, the Queen Mother suddenly asked Zhao Heng: Your Majesty, why did you lie to the Queen Mother?

Hearing this, Zhao Heng seemed to understand something, and said with a pale face: What does the queen mother mean by this, the son doesn't understand.

The queen mother's face sank and said: Your queen mother and I just came back from the prison, and I know everything.

After that, he paused, and then said: The emperor not only ordered your brother to be arrested, but also arrested Kou Xiang and Marshal Yang in the prison, what does the emperor want to do?

Zhao Heng's face flushed, and then he showed a look of annoyance, and he said coldly: Yes, I did arrest them all, because they were preparing to rebel.

Hearing this, the Queen Mother jumped up from her chair and shouted: Rebellion and rebellion are such a serious crime.

After that, he paused, and asked coldly: Your Majesty, is your brother rebelling, or is Kou Xiang and Marshal Yang rebelling?

Zhao Hengdao: It was my brother who rebelled, and Kou Zhun and Yang Yanzhao were my brother's accomplices.

The queen mother said coldly: In this way, isn't your mother also your brother's biggest accomplice, and the emperor also arrested me and put me in prison.

Zhao Heng was angry: Queen Mother, I am doing this for the sake of the country, for the sake of my Great Song Dynasty, please don't interfere with the Queen Mother.

The queen mother was furious, and pointed at Zhao Heng with her hand: You

What you are doing is destroying our country and destroying our Great Song Dynasty, please ask the emperor to immediately issue an order to release the three of them.

Zhao Heng said angrily: I say it again, this is the government of the court, please don't interfere in the government of the queen mother, otherwise------

Hearing this, the queen mother raised her hand and slapped it heavily on the coffee table next to her and shouted: Otherwise, what are you going to do, and you will also arrest your queen mother, right?

Zhao Heng suddenly shouted loudly: Where are the guards?

As his shouts landed, the door was slammed open from the outside, and four swordsmen rushed in.

Zhao Heng Leng Sensen's order: escort the Queen Mother back to Cining Palace.

Hearing this, the four guards were stunned for a moment, and then responded loudly: Obey the order.

Zhao Heng said coldly to the Queen Mother: Please ask the Queen Mother to return to Cining Palace.

The Empress Dowager looked at Zhao Heng with angry eyes, and said coldly: Your Majesty, you will regret it.

After that, he didn't say anything more, turned around and walked outside.

After the queen mother left, Zhao Heng walked back and forth on the ground restlessly for a few laps and then suddenly shouted outside: The third son comes in.

The third son hurriedly ran in from outside and responded urgently: The third son is here, what does the emperor command?

Zhao Hengdao: Go and send Zhou Hong, the chief guard manager, to see me.

The third son responded: Obey the order.

Turned around and ran out.

Half an hour later, I saw hundreds of Praetorian Guards running outside the Cining Palace, and then scattered to surround the Cining Palace.

The queen mother sat on the bed with a very ugly face.

A palace maid ran in in a panic and knelt down in front of the queen mother and reported: The queen mother, something is wrong, Cining Palace is surrounded by hundreds of Praetorian Guards.

Hearing this, the queen mother was stunned for a moment, then stood up and walked to the palace gate to look out, and saw that there were a large number of Praetorian Guards surrounding the Cining Palace, and after seeing it, she shook her head with a sad face, but didn't say anything, and returned to the bed, and then ordered the two young palace maids who followed her: change clothes.

Hearing this, the two palace maids were stunned for a moment, and asked suspiciously: Queen Mother, what kind of clothes are you wearing?

The queen mother said lightly: The palace is going to rest, and the palace will change its pajamas.

Hearing this, the two palace maids looked at each other suspiciously, but they didn't dare to ask anything, they hurriedly went to the closet to bring pajamas and waited for the queen mother to change into, and then pulled off some jewelry on the queen mother's head, tied the queen mother's hair behind with a silk ribbon, helped the queen mother to lie down, covered the queen mother with a quilt, put down the bed tent, and then stood in front of the bed one by one and waited.

Li Yinglong carefully looked at the secret book with a dim small oil lamp, and after reading it for a while, he threw the book on the table and scolded: Old bastard, what are you doing, there are many nonsense, I think I am a Taoist priest who hunts ghosts.

Then, he got up from his chair and walked back and forth in this small secret room, perhaps too bored, when he walked to a wall and looked at it carefully, as if a beautiful picture had been painted on this wall, and he looked at it with relish, and even did not let go of some of the pits on the wall, and from time to time touched and pressed with his hands.

After looking at this wall, he looked at the other wall, and when he saw the fourth wall, he found a large square of one foot square carved in one corner of the wall, and in the large square there were nine small squares, and on the top of the large square was engraved a set of numbers, 123456789=15.

After reading it, Li Yinglong was a little confused, and couldn't help but think strangely: The sum of 1-9 should be equal to 45, how can it be equal to 15? Idiots can be counted, what's going on?

So, he researched it.

After studying it for a while, he seemed to figure it out and raised one of his hands to pat him on the head happily: I see, nine numbers, nine squares, each square puts a number in it, and any three numbers in the nine squares add up to fifteen, haha, interesting, interesting.

So, Li Yinglong sat on the ground and studied it again.