When Emperor Dongyuan returned to Xiyuan, it was not yet the time to hold the lamp.

The emperors of the Great Zhao Dynasty, starting from the Taizu period and ending with the grandfather of the Eastern Yuan Emperor, Ruizong, all used the Yong'an Hall of Yanshou Palace as their living place. However, this unwritten rule was broken by Emperor Wenzong, the father of Emperor Dongyuan. Emperor Wenzong has a broad temperament, the best is to travel to Ye, and his favorite thing in his life is to travel through beautiful mountains and rivers and magnificent rivers, but later became an emperor, "unfortunately can no longer walk on the peak and wade into dangerous beaches". With the rules and restrictions set by the ancestors, and the various obstacles of the ministers, he naturally could not be the Li Daoyuan of the Great Zhao, and his ambitions could not be rewarded and his ideals were shattered, so he was ruthless, and used up the little belongings accumulated by the emperors of the past dynasties to build a large number of buildings, and built Huatang high-rise buildings everywhere, in order to allow himself to have a place that could barely be regarded as "traveling" in his leisure time. Today, the royal gardens and royal villas that dot the beautiful scenery around Gyeonggi are almost all his handiwork. Today's Daqing Palace, the first garden in the inner hall, was also built by him personally and spent eight years supervising the construction. Since the day of the completion of Daqing Palace, he has lived in the past, and has never left until his death. Although Emperor Wenzong built gardens during his reign, he was still a good emperor in the minds of the people. First of all, he spent his own money to repair the house, and spent his own money to do his own business, who can blame him? On the other hand, Emperor Wenzong believed that "it is better to be happy alone than to be happy with all"; Not only did he think so, but he did it. The twenty or thirty gardens and villas he built were open to the world except those given to others, and people could not only go in and play, but also gather there for swallows and drinks, and for this alone, people would not blame him. Of course, this costs money, and it costs a lot of money. Who asked Emperor Wenzong to dig a big hole in the Tianjia family in order to repair these mountain manors and forests. Third, in the fourteenth year of Wenzong's reign, a total of five major examinations of the Ministry of Rites were held, during which all these mountain estates and forests provided accommodation and food to the candidates who entered Beijing free of charge, which won the hearts of scholars all over the world; There is no one in the world who does not say that he is good. Therefore, when he died, the emperor, who had not done anything earth-shattering in his life, and even didn't bother to pay attention to the serious official documents, was unanimously honored by the scholars with the temple name "Wenzong", which means that he has the talent of the world and the world, has a moral and broad cultivation, he is diligent and inquisitive, kind and loving the people, and is kind to the people...... In short, this is a good emperor with countless good qualities.

In his later years, Emperor Wenzong used Daqing Palace as his living hall, which changed the rules that had been passed down for decades. When Emperor Dongyuan ascended the throne, Emperor Dongyuan, who liked lotus, changed the living hall to the Wensi Hall by the Taiye Pool.

As the name suggests, Wensi Hall must be a palace, but in fact it is not. This is actually the layout of the front hall and the back room, but it is much more spacious than the hall of ordinary people. Emperor Dongyuan's temperament is more turbulent, like simple and disliked, the furnishings on the palace are relatively simple, and there are not many commendable things, in addition to the nine screens that symbolize the identity of the Son of Heaven, the red lacquer dragon chair and the red lacquer case, the others are the famous calligraphy and paintings he has collected for many years and some of his own more proud imperial pens. His attainments in calligraphy are very high, and he is recognized as the first regular script master in the world, but the pen and ink are very few, and he does not like to give people inscriptions, and only occasionally when he is in a good mood will he give one or two words to the important ministers of the court.

Now, Emperor Dongyuan has bathed and changed clothes and sat in the side hall.

He didn't go to the volume of "Book of Sui" on the case, but rubbed his beard and stared at the candle mountain in the corner. A few faint wisps of green smoke rose from the hollow lattice of the lotus-shaped bronze furnace, rolled and wound into a column, and then gradually disappeared; The side hall is filled with the elegant fragrance of lotus flowers......

Feng Shiyi quietly walked over and put a hot tea soup on the table.

Emperor Dongyuan didn't speak, just glanced at the tea soup.

Feng Shiyi, who lowered his head, noticed his gaze passing by Cha Tang completely by feeling, and immediately whispered: "The old slave has tested ......."

The corners of Emperor Dongyuan's mouth couldn't help twitching. In fact, he was in a distraction and subconsciously paid attention to such a thing that suddenly appeared at hand, who knew that he would hear such words! For a moment, he only felt that the blood in his whole body was rushing to his head, the side halls, bookshelves, scrolls, and scrolls...... Everything in front of him became blurred, and even though there were a dozen or so large waxes lit in the hall, he could not feel much light, only the boundless darkness that surrounded him from all sides; Even the great eunuch Feng Shiyi, who had followed him for nearly fifty years, became extremely unfamiliar. The black and blue linen shirt Feng Shiyi wore seemed to be hidden in the darkness, leaving only a pair of skeleton-like claws and a miserable white face that were so thin that their muscles burst into blue muscles......

In a drowsy state, he seemed to hear someone calling out to him urgently:

"Holy! Holy ......"

With this call, those ghostly ghosts suddenly vanished, and there was a bright light in front of them again.

"I, I'm ...... Where is it? Emperor Dongyuan, who came out of the nightmare, didn't react for a long time, where he was. He stretched out his hand and touched it on his forehead, his cool hands were covered with cold sweat, and it took him a long time to realize that he had actually fallen asleep and fell into his arms.

"Holy Lord, this is the Wensi Temple." Feng Shiyi reminded in a whisper. He lowered his head, his lips squirmed, but he didn't say anything. Ouchi is the most righteous and pure place in the world, and the Son of Heaven is the most masculine and rigid body in the world, the Eastern Yuan Emperor Dragon is healthy and has no old age, and naturally dispels all demons and evils, how can he be unconsciously invaded by demons and ghosts? There must be a villain! But the stakes were so great that he didn't dare to make groundless speculations anyway, so he could only keep an eye on them in secret. He didn't even dare to mention the matter of Nightmare Town! He immediately made a decision, and within this day or two, under the pretext of cleaning up the Taiye Pool, he first asked Emperor Dongyuan to move to the Yong'an Palace, and then arranged for his henchmen to carefully survey the Taiye Pool and the Wensi Palace, even if he dug three feet into the ground, he must find out those evil things and find the crazy guy! If he can find that person, whoever it is, he will eat his flesh raw!

Emperor Dongyuan was not as thoughtful as Feng Shiyi. He is a person who reads the books of sages, regardless of the existence of the Liuhe, whether it is a god or a ghost, it doesn't matter much to him whether he has it or not, just stay away; Moreover, he has also read some miscellaneous books such as "On Balance" and "Theory of Divine Annihilation", and he is also quite suspicious of the so-called gods and ghosts. He held the teacup and hesitated. Ever since the death of the crown prince, he had let Feng Shiyi take on the heavy responsibility of checking his diet, and now there was only this person left who could be trusted by his side! In the end, he still picked up the lamp and took a sip, and asked casually: "The matter of the hospital, or is there no follow-up?" ”

"Nope."

Emperor Dongyuan frowned and let out a long sigh. He remembered his eldest son, who had died half a year earlier. The people still don't know that the cause of the prince's death was that someone poisoned him; But at court, it's almost an open secret. Now the Criminal Department, together with the court guards, has checked clearly, the prince did not die suddenly of poison, but as early as four or five years ago, someone has been quietly poisoning the Ganquan Palace, the prince's mood has changed drastically in recent years, in fact, it is caused by the poison. That's the scariest part! What does it mean that God has been poisoned for years without anyone knowing? This means that even if he is a genius, he is not safe at all! If this poison can enter the Ganquan Palace, it will naturally be sent to Ouchi and to his diet! Not only him, but also those important ministers of the court are also in danger, and they may also be secretly poisoned...... Everyone has a fear of death, and in this matter, he and the prime ministers rarely agreed: check, we must find out, and we must find out the people behind it! The Criminal Department secretly locked up and down the Ganquan Palace, from officials to eunuchs and palace maids, to ordinary people who sent water and charcoal, as well as all the imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital who had diagnosed the prince's condition and read the medical records, including some people's family members and neighboring acquaintances, all of them were secretly locked up and tortured next to each other, but even if these people were tortured to the point that they were not human, no one has opened their mouths so far. The official documents submitted by the Criminal Department also mentioned many times that the vast majority of prisoners did not even know what had happened......

He knew very well in his heart that the vast majority of these hundreds and nearly thousands of people were innocent. Sometimes when he calms down and thinks about the tragic experiences of those people, he will inevitably have a trace of compassion. But he immediately warned himself that he must not be soft-hearted in this matter! The crown prince was poisoned and even died in the prime of life, this matter has been shaken to the foundation of the country, in front of the Qianqiu foundation of the Chen family, let alone hundreds of people, it is thousands of people and tens of thousands, so what?

In addition to the prince's poisoning case, the election of the new prince also made him frown for a long time.

Personally, he is more satisfied with his seventh son, Chen Huang, and has vaguely revealed this meaning in front of people. But he didn't expect that this idea would attract so many people's strong opposition. Needless to say, the sixth son Chen Jin's group of people; Although their voices were not loud and their reactions were not very intense, they did not stop all kinds of small actions against Chen Huang behind their backs. Chen Jin contacted Yan Gu, and brought Xiao Jian with him, and there was the support of several important ministers in the court, and his power was great for a while. If Zhang Pu hadn't reached a tacit understanding with Chen Huang temporarily and pushed Yang Du to Chen Huang's side, maybe he, the son of heaven, would have to change his mind now. Just when he didn't know how to decide the ownership of Ganquan Palace, the clan made another sound, and a group of princes and county kings stood up to speak, asking him not to arbitrarily make up the master of the East Palace until the facts of the poisoning case were completely clear. It seems that the clan is crying out for the dead prince. But what about the facts? It's hard to say who will be involved in the poisoning case in the end; No matter who is involved, it is also very common; It is possible for all his sons, and some of the clans also have motives; And if this case really comes to the end, it must be a scene of exhaustion, and the perpetrator is desperate, in case he indiscriminately frames or exposes other people's secrets, will he investigate or not? If it is investigated, it will inevitably be one big case after another; Don't check ...... Without checking the sect, it is impossible to support him in implementing the crown prince's candidate. He knew very well in his heart that this was Xiang Zhuang Dancing Sword in the sect, which meant Pei Gong! They were neither satisfied with Chen Huang nor Chen Jin, and were bent on finding someone who could speak for the clan. He agrees with this idea of the clan; But he is not optimistic about the prospects of this matter, so he cannot support it. Could it be that the "Liu Lingtai case" more than ten years ago did not leave enough lessons for him and the clan? At that time, he had to demote his most beloved third son to the king of Luzhou, cut the princes of two uncles and a brother, and disposed of a large number of clans involved in the case...... It has been almost fifteen years since Liu Lingtai's case, but when he thinks about it, he can't help but feel a feeling of palpitations. For him, the blow was too heavy. He had to admit with sadness that he did not have the courage to take the same blow again. Perhaps, there is another way......

Feng Shiyi bowed his waist and listened quietly to Emperor Dongyuan's breathing. He didn't know what the Son of Heaven was thinking, but he could hear from his breath that Emperor Dongyuan's mood was very unstable.

He suddenly said, "Oh, look at me, I forgot something!" One by one, Princess Nanyang is here. ”