A cold light suddenly shot out from the cell opposite.

Ye Han immediately turned around and drew his sword to block it, but he was still a step too late. The cold light went straight towards Princess Qing, piercing her throat accurately.

Princess Qing looked at the other side in disbelief, her eyes gradually straightened, and then the whole person slowly slid down the iron railing.

Ye Han hurriedly ran to the door of the cell opposite, threw the long sword in his hand, and pinned the people inside to the ground.

Ruan Qingzhi hurriedly rushed over to check on Princess Qing, but saw that her throat was cut by a three-edged dart, and she had already lost her breath.

He's dead. And the wound had begun to fester, and it was clear that the triangular dart was highly poisonous.

Ruan Qingzhi slowly stood up with the iron fence and walked to Ye Han's side: "Who is this person?" How could he kill Princess Qing? ”

Ye Han opened the cell door and escorted her in: "It's a secret guard of King Qing's Mansion." This kid has a hard mouth, and has been playing dead since he was locked in. I also want to ask him why he killed Princess Qing. ”

He pulled out his sword with all his might, and the dark guard shivered in pain, raised his hand to cover the wound, and then closed his eyes and pretended to be dead.

Ruan Qingzhi squatted down and pulled at the man's body, frowned, and said, "That triangular dart seems to be hidden in the hair, just one, and there is no more." ”

Ye Han grabbed her hand and rubbed it vigorously, but did not answer.

Ruan Qingzhi frowned and retracted his hand, and casually analyzed: "You must have searched him when you caught him in, right?" He took great pains to hide the last poison dart, which should have been used to kill you, but he used it to kill his mistress, and sooner rather than later, he killed it when she was going to tell the secret, and the reason was probably that secret......"

Ye Han corrected: "He won't do anything to me. Because his three little masters have no power to protect themselves, if I hurt his hands, the three children will have no way to live. He was a dead man, and the last killing move should be reserved for himself. ”

That's right. Ruan Qingzhi thought about it and frowned again: "It's not right to leave it to him!" Since it was left to him, why did he use it on Princess Qing? ”

"Maybe it's to save the face of King Qing's Mansion." Ye Han sighed and looked down at the dark guard: "Isn't it?" ”

The secret guard suddenly opened his eyes and glared at him angrily: "You can kill but not be humiliated!" Your Highness made a mistake and lost in your hands and had nothing to say, but you actually came up with such a dirty trick to humiliate the princess, it was too vicious! ”

Ye Han looked at him and narrowed his eyes: "It turns out that he is not dumb, very good." ”

The Dark Guard's face changed dramatically, and he immediately struggled to hit the blade, but was dragged to the ground by the heavy chains.

Seeing this, the two soldiers who followed him hurriedly held him down, but the secret guard bit his tongue again. Of course, he was still not dead, so angry that the two soldiers kicked him while helping him with the wound on his shoulder.

Ruan Qingzhi looked a little embarrassed, and waited for the secret guard to be escorted out before asking in a low voice: "Is this possible?" ”

Ye Han shook his head and sighed: "Probably not. The identity of a dead soldier is not necessarily a big deal, and his mouth must be extremely strict. ”

Ruan Qingzhi also sighed when he heard this, and asked again when he was about to go out: "So, you also think that he killed Princess Qing because of that secret?" ”

Ye Han snorted: "This is an obvious thing. If it was really for the sake of 'killing but not humiliating', he would not have done it until now, let alone in front of us. ”

And that's pretty obvious. Ruan Qingzhi thought for a while, and then asked, "So what is that secret?" Seventeen years ago, what happened to Nanqi? ”

Ye Han silently led her out of the dungeon, and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but saw that the sky outside the door was completely dark. The wind and snow are endless, and it is depressing.

"The plague." Ye Han looked at the lantern under the corridor and said in a dumb voice, "At that time, it had been two or three years since my father ascended the throne, and the world was almost stable. I can't think of anything else important other than that plague. ”

Ruan Qingzhi was startled and shuddered.

Ye Han hurriedly turned sideways to block the wind for her, and said in a low voice: "Let's go, go home." ”

Ruan Qingzhi let him lead him, and said as he walked: "I remember that the book said that such a plague had never been ...... before that."

This was something that both of them knew, so she wasn't confirming it to Ye Han.

She was expressing her fears. Seventeen years ago, there was an unprecedented plague, and Princess Qing's deathbed sentence "That secret is about Your Majesty". Taken together, these three elements can lead to a shocking conclusion.

Ye Han had obviously been frightened by that conclusion, and Ruan Qingzhi was not spared.

Neither of them spoke again, and turned back to the hall in the front yard. Lao Cheng and the others immediately greeted them and reported the new news.

Ruan Qingzhi listened for a while, and then understood a general idea.

It turned out that the slave guards of the Qingwang Mansion were indeed taken away by the soldiers of the Northwest Army.

It's just that the vast majority of those people don't know that it was the Northwest Army who did it, and they don't know much about what King Qing and his wife did. Such a person can't get in the way, and it's easy to take it to another place to work, join the army, and get married.

What is more difficult to do is the henchmen of the original King Qing, although the number is not large, but all of them are very important. Ye Han was already trying to recruit or control them to ensure that the soldiers and horses that King Qing had hidden would not be in trouble.

These things have always been done by people underneath, and they are orderly, but there is really no need for Ruan Qingzhi to worry about it.

Ye Han didn't think there was anything new when he heard it, so he asked a few words to bury Princess Qing and be patient with that secret guard, and then took Ruan Qingzhi away.

At this time, new news came back. The messenger was a very thin boy of fourteen or fifteen years old, and he was very surprised to see Ye Han: "Your Highness is also here!" Your Highness, I ......"

Lao Cheng impatiently patted him on the shoulder: "Let's get down to business first, let's get down to business first!" ”

The young man grinned so much that he hurriedly took two steps back, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, that servant girl in King Qing's Mansion has been done!" Dali Temple closed the case, saying that King Qing did commit suicide, and those slaves were afraid of being buried so they fled en masse, and the maid fell into the ditch when she ran away and froze into a daze, thinking that His Royal Highness could get away with it, so he opened his mouth...... Now I have already reported to the palace. ”

This news made Ye Han's mood slightly better, but Ruan Qingzhi pouted beside him: "So it's still an accident, no one instructed you?" Dali Temple is also quite good at mud! ”

Ye Han frowned again when he heard this.

When you think about it, it's not quite right. Such a big case was characterized as an "accident", not only was Ruan Qingzhi not satisfied, but the emperor was afraid that it would be even more difficult to explain.

If Dali Temple knows how to do things, it should easily push the charges on Ling Xiao's head, anyway, the hundreds of charges on that person's body can't be washed away, and one or two more can't be seen.

But Dali Temple did not do this. Ye Han once suspected that the people of Dali Temple had really become iron-faced and selfless, and would rather cause trouble themselves than make false cases.

But this is obviously impossible, so why did Dali Temple suddenly become "upright"?

Ye Han added a little uneasiness, so he had to ask someone to investigate the origin of the plague seventeen years ago, and on the other hand, he asked Zheng Lao Liu to send more people to keep an eye on the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, in case Ling Xiao's remnants made any small moves.

When many things inside and outside were clear, when Ye Han sneaked back to the Prime Minister's Mansion with Ruan Qingzhi, it was already the dead of night.

But the people in the garden did not sleep.

As soon as Lin An saw Ruan Qingzhi, he immediately greeted him: "County Lord, the second lady saw Lu Hanwen in Jinxi Tower today!" ”

Ruan Qingzhi hurriedly beckoned him into the house and asked, "Who is Lu Hanwen?" ”

Lin An said quickly: "It was a strategist of the Rui Wangfu in the past. After King Rui's defeat, most of those strategists were arrested together, but there were still a few clever ones who ran away, Lu Hanwen was one of them, and he was also the one most relied on by King Rui. ”

Ruan Qingzhi's heart sank when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked, "What did they say?" ”

"The subordinates will go a little late," Lin An was a little embarrassed, "and they are very cautious, the subordinates don't dare to get too close, only when they said goodbye, they heard Lu Hanwen say, 'Second Miss, don't worry, this matter is a great merit, Your Majesty will be happy when you know it'." ”

Ruan Qingzhi sat down, her brows tightened.

Lu Hanwen is from the Rui Palace, if he comes to ask Ruan Biyun to save Ling Xiao, then there will be no problem at all. But listening to the meaning of that sentence, he didn't seem to be asking for someone, but as if he wanted to give Ruan Biyun a merit.

"Then don't stop them just yet." Ruan Qingzhi muttered, "Keep staring, put a long line to catch big fish, maybe there will be a surprise!" ”

Lin An agreed to retreat with some excitement, and with Yun Banyue was so sad that he was about to cry: "Why is this going to be in trouble again?" Miss, when can we stop for two days? ”

"Life is a toss-up, and when you die, it stops." Ruan Qingzhi took off the cloak and threw it onto the soft couch in a large shape.

The two girls were a little helpless, and they wanted to quit but were unwilling, so they had to send the late dinner.

Ye Han honestly and unceremoniously took the first seat.

Ruan Qingzhi got up lazily and looked at him: "Your Royal Highness King Li, can you still eat at this time?" Let me express my thoughts first! ”

"I don't think much of it." Ye Han said lightly, "Even if the soldiers are in the city, they should eat." What's more, the claws of those demons and monsters haven't been revealed yet. ”

Ruan Qingzhi slowly followed and sat down at the table, lamenting: "It's almost time if you don't show up!" Eating with bad news will make you tummy! ”

"No bad news." Ye Han stood up and picked up a few dishes and piled them on the plate and put them in front of her: "They have the means, don't we have them?" ”

Ruan Qingzhi felt that he was reasonable, but he always felt that something was wrong with the chopsticks in his hand, and after trying a few times, he finally slapped it on the table, looked up and waved his hand to Xianyun Banyue: "You two go out first!" ”

The two girls had long felt that they were redundant, and they didn't hesitate at all when they heard this, and ran away in the blink of an eye.

Ruan Qingzhi turned around and looked at Ye Han: "To be honest, are you also suspicious of that plague ......?"

"Eat first, okay?" Ye Han didn't look up, his eyes only looked at the dining table, and he refused to let go of the chopsticks in his hand.

But they didn't eat anything.

Ruan Qingzhi couldn't bear it anymore, reached out and snatched his chopsticks and threw them back on the table: "The plague didn't arise for no reason, it must have a cause!" Seventeen years ago, all the people involved in the plague were burned to death, and it was a fire and lime, and it stands to reason that it should be dealt with cleanly! Why would Ling Xiao have a way to plant a plague on that pair of grandchildren? Where did the 'seed' of the Yangcheng plague come from? Who kept the 'seeds'? How is it stored? Since the plague was so terrifying and the thunderous methods of the imperial court were so ruthless, who had the courage and ability to save those 'seeds'? ”

The night cold sat motionless, like a wood carving.

Ruan Qingzhi flicked his sleeves and walked around, and the more he spoke, the faster he became: "Also, my father said that he was a young man, but in fact, he only took more than 30 exams in Jinshi and the first rank back then, and it was a great creation to be assigned to the Hanlin Academy to run errands, how did he take half a year to achieve the six-grade cultivation, and how did he rise all the way in the next three years and become a bachelor at the age of twenty-two?" The night was cold, and my father was appointed to the Hanlin Academy to cultivate, only two months before the outbreak of the plague! ”

"Don't guess!" Ye Han couldn't bear it anymore, slapped the table and stood up: "These are obviously two things, and the time is not consistent, don't force them together!" ”

Ruan Qingzhi looked at him, his face flushed: "Two months before the outbreak of the plague, my father suddenly began to rise to prominence; Three months after the end of the plague, my father was suddenly imprisoned for a trumped-up crime, and then he was inexplicably released and reinstated, and then he was married to the Luan family, and after getting married, he went all the way smoothly and became prime minister, and no one could shake him for so many years...... Each of these things can be connected, and now you're saying to me, 'These are obviously two things?'" ”

This time Ye Han didn't refute, but his face became more and more ugly, his eyes stared without blinking, the corners of his eyes gradually reddened, and beads of sweat dripped down his forehead.

Ruan Qingzhi couldn't bear it, lowered his head and looked away, and softened his tone: "Ye Han, if that plague is really man-made, the most suspicious people are your father and ......"

Before she finished speaking, Ye Han suddenly rushed over and pressed her against the wall: "Do you have to say it!" ”

Ruan Qingzhi was caught off guard and was frightened, and tears suddenly welled up: "I can't help but say it!" I'm scared when I hold it in my heart...... I'm not afraid of killing people, I'm not afraid of killing many people, I'm not afraid of evil spirits...... But this matter is the lives of hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people......"

Ye Han stretched out his hand to hug her, tightened it, and said in a dumb voice: "But if you say it, I will be afraid." You don't know how scary you looked! ”

"How scary?" Ruan Qingzhi asked stunned.

Ye Han's arms tightened a little tighter, and he took another half step forward to squeeze her between the wall and his chest, tightly: "It's still scary, don't talk yet!" ”

Why is it scary?

Ruan Qingzhi was a little dazed by him, and his mind was confused, so he didn't speak again.

Ye Han stood silently holding her for a long time, Ruan Qingzhi only felt out of breath, and he suspected that all his bones had been squeezed by him.

Before she opened her mouth to beg for mercy, Ye Han finally opened her mouth again, her voice hoarse: "You are right, if that plague is man-made, the most suspicious ones are our Majesty and the Prime Minister." The coincidences of those times you are talking about...... It's really intriguing, so it's very likely that the truth of the matter is what we guessed. ”

Only something as horrific as spreading the plague is most likely to become a disease of mutual jealousy among a generation of emperors and courtiers.

This speculation frightened both of them, for the ferocity of the people's hearts, the darkness of the court, and for the hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the north, for the vast catastrophe that none of them had ever experienced.

"However, we have no right to be afraid." Ye Han said in a hoarse voice, "If that disaster is man-made, someone must come out and seek justice for those people who died in vain." If we don't dare, who else can do this? ”

Ruan Qingzhi silently hugged him back, and sighed low for a long time: "Just because I'm afraid of that incident doesn't mean that I don't dare to find out the truth of that incident." These are two different things entirely. ”

Ye Han thought for a while, and his arm relaxed slightly: "You're right. The more vicious and vicious their hearts are, the more we must thoroughly investigate to the end and not back down. ”

"Okay," Ruan Qingzhi patted Ye Han's back twice soothingly, "You let go of me, I'm going to laugh at you if you hug me again!" ”

Ye Han really let go of her as he said, and when he noticed that the blood was instantly unblocked, he couldn't help but be stunned, and was slightly shocked: "Did it hurt you?" ”

"What do you say?" Ruan Qingzhi asked angrily, and angrily beat his chest and two arms, all the blood.

Ye Han was a little apologetic, looked at Ruan Qingzhi's face and breathed a sigh of relief, and asked cautiously, "Now...... Do you feel better? ”

"What if it's uncomfortable? Still have to endure it? I can't help but live! Ruan Qingzhi sat heavily on the soft couch, his face still ugly.

Ye Han pulled a chair and sat down next to her, holding her hand: "I'm really sorry, I want you to see such a disgusting thing again." ”

Ruan Qingzhi was amused by him, and raised his hand to pinch his nose: "What did you say to me, 'I'm sorry'?" It's not your doing! ”

Ye Han shook his head and shook off her hand, gloomy: "You came to this world to enjoy glory and wealth, but all you saw was dirt and darkness along the way. I'm afraid that you will dislike this world and dirty your eyes. ”

Ruan Qingzhi heard him say something funny, and smiled again: "It's true that the world is dirty, but 'that side' may not be much cleaner. ”

At this point she paused and frowned, not quite understanding why she had come up with such a sentence.

But there's no need to dig deeper. She thought for a while, and then said: "Moreover, I have been thinking these days, will the prosperity I saw before, those people's security and Guotai, and the splendid rivers and mountains all be illusions, and only what I see in this life is the real world?" ”

Yehan didn't understand this, and couldn't answer for a while.

Ruan Qingzhi rubbed his eyebrows and said, "In the previous lives, I didn't seem to have anything to heart. It seems that no one has ever told me about the hardships of people's livelihood. I only know that everything around me is smooth and smooth, and the biggest daily worry is nothing more than sisters' bickering, and the most means of competing for favor in the palace is who robbed whose satin, who asked the emperor for a bracelet and other...... There's not even the slightest thing worth frowning about. Ruan Bijun always said that I couldn't live with her in my last life, but I clearly remember that I died very safely in every life, and I sincerely felt that I never owed anyone anything......"

She babbled slowly like a little old lady, and Ye Han couldn't say a word, so she had to listen silently on the side.

It wasn't until Ruan Qingzhi himself stopped that he cautiously asked, "Ahead...... Do you remember the events of those lifetimes? ”

Ruan Qingzhi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I don't remember." In retrospect, it seems that through a layer of fog, I can see human figures, but I can't remember people's faces or names...... It's like watching a shadow puppet show in a half-dream, and waking up and forgetting it all. ”

Ye Han held his breath and listened to her, and a smile slowly appeared on his face.

After Ruan Qingzhi finished speaking, he looked at his face and was stunned: "What are you laughing at?" ”

Ye Han leaned forward, lowered his voice and asked cautiously, "So, you haven't made a promise with anyone like 'husband and wife for the rest of your life', have you?" ”

Ruan Qingzhi laughed: "Where did you think of going?" ”

The night cold is ridiculous. He squeezed Ruan Qingzhi's hand hard, nervous: "I can't help it!" You are here to take charge of the phoenix seal, and the previous generations must have married emperors, so ...... Then I'm under a lot of pressure! ”

Ruan Qingzhi thought about it along his train of thought, and it took him a long time to understand, and he couldn't help laughing.

Ye Han made an aggrieved expression, and waited for her to explain.

Ruan Qingzhi subconsciously raised his hand to rub the top of his head, but Ye Han hurriedly dodged away, his face was red, and he looked angry.

Ruan Qingzhi retracted his hand in a daze, and also leaned forward to look at him: "You, do you mind?" ”

Ye Han nodded.

Ruan Qingzhi wanted to laugh, but hurriedly held back, and said: "You don't mind it for any reason, everyone has a past life, and everyone has an old person in their past life, if everyone minds, how can you live that life?" ”

Ye Han hurriedly said: "But you are different from others, you remember!" ”

"I don't remember!" Ruan Qingzhi said aggrievedly, "Who will remember those?" I usually die later than men, and by the time I die, maybe the old emperor has been reincarnated for decades, and what do I remember him doing? If I die early, I don't have to remember, I still have to rush to the next life, why am I worried about a man? ”

Ye Han Mumu let out an "oh", feeling that he was not comforted.

Doesn't it all say that a hundred years of cultivation can sleep together? How did she come here, as if a man had used a handkerchief, which could be thrown away casually, thrown away and forgotten?

Ye Han was very nervous, looking at the handkerchief thrown by Ruan Qingzhi on the soft couch, he felt very kind, and there was a kind of sadness that he was also a fallen person at the end of the world.

This is really a painful thing, no matter whether Ruan Qingzhi has any memories of the husbands of the previous eight generations, he can't be happy.

However, Yehan was a little confused: how did the topic come to this?

He recalled the previous topic, adjusted his mood, and asked tentatively: "So, you inadvertently resumed your habits when you were in a high position in your previous life just because of anger, and you didn't mean to kill me, right?" ”

"Fierce?" Ruan Qingzhi was stunned for a moment, "Was I really fierce before?" You just said that you were scared, not frightened by that incident, but by my ferocity? ”

Ye Han's gaze subconsciously lowered a little, the corners of his lips moved, and then he sighed: "It can't be said to be fierce, it's ...... It's majestic. At that time, I was really suppressed by you, and I thought that all those dirty things were done by our father, but I felt scared enough, I was really afraid that you would wave your hand and destroy this world. ”

Ruan Qingzhi sneered, and felt a little sour in his eyes, so he hurriedly smiled in disguise, and raised his hand to pinch Ye Han's face: "Where do you want to go?" I am not the creator god, where is my turn to destroy the world? I still want to live a good life! ”

Ye Han looked at her smile and felt better, but the hand that stretched out made him feel extremely aggrieved: "So can you stop rubbing the top of my head and pinching my nose?" It's like coaxing grandchildren! Have you forgotten that you are a little girl and that I am an 'old man'? ”

Ruan Qingzhi thought for a while and smiled wryly: "This is really infuriating. I'm sorry, old man. ”

Ye Han snorted heavily, and wanted to stand up to end these troublesome topics, but suddenly saw Ruan Qingzhi cross-legged on the soft couch, lazily acting like an old queen mother.

He suddenly felt so stressed.

It turns out that this little girl's film is not just relying on small sales. When she was so angry, she turned into a domineering old lady?!

That's really ...... Can't resist!