Lu Xingyuan sighed: "Your Majesty is afraid that you will be humiliated again when you arrive at the Third Division, which will damage my Lu family's face." Now Liu Mingyan and Zhu Zhiling are eager for you to live in the court of the three divisions, forcing you to bite out as your father and your younger brothers, so as to take the opportunity to attack my Lu family. Your Majesty is extremely wise, and there are countless people, how can you not notice it. If these two people continue to do things step by step, they are afraid that there will be extraneous branches. That's why His Majesty ordered the old man to come over tonight, so as not to have too many dreams at night. Think about it, it was General Chenglang who brought you here today, and she was the one who personally guarded it. She only obeys Zhu Zhiling's orders on weekdays, if there is no His Majesty's will, how can she let me in? Could it be that Zhu Zhiling allowed me to bring this wine in? ”

Lu Wenchi thought of the iron flower at the door, pondered it carefully, and felt that everything his father said was reasonable. couldn't help but sigh and said, "That's it, the child wrote it." It's just that there's no pen and ink here......"

Lu Xingyuan had already taken out the pen and ink from his fat sleeve and handed it in, and said emotionally as he handed it over: "It's because my father can't stand you, son, my father is also forced to be helpless for the Lu family." I only hope that in the next life, you can vote for a better family, and don't be a father and son with me again. ”

Lu Wenchi stopped talking, spread out his pen and ink, and began to write hard. But after half an hour, I had already finished writing two large sheets, and I read them carefully again before handing them to my father.

Lu Xingyuan took the guilt, gently dried the ink, and looked at it under the lamp before carefully folding it into his sleeve. With another sad look on his face, he handed the flask in.

Lu Wenchi took the wine jug, opened the lid of the jug and looked under the candle, only to see that it was faintly blue, but it was very turbid. couldn't help but feel sad, and sighed: "I think that Lu Wenchi has been rich and noble all my life, but in the end I drank such turbid wine." ”

Lu Xingyuan was stunned for a moment, and replied casually: "The color of the wine is a little turbid, but the taste is good wine." ”

Lu Wenchi looked at his father and asked, "When my father handed the poisoned wine to my brother to drink, what did my brother say?" ”

Lu Xingyuan shook his head.

Lu Wenchi said: "Okay...... The son didn't say anything. He raised his neck and poured the whole pot of wine down from the mouth of the pot, bowed deeply to his father, and said: "The son can only pray for his father's good health and safety in the ground." The child is not filial, so say goodbye, father, please go back. With that, he curled up in the corner, turned his back to the landing, and refused to speak again.

Tiehua looked at the moon in the sky and estimated that it was more than half of the third watch. The guards were snoring loudly and were sleeping soundly. Suddenly, the cell door was gently pushed open from the inside out, and a man came out, dressed in a jet-black cloak.

The man walked up to Tiehua, handed him the key, and instructed, "Go and clean up the flask after a while, and leave no traces." He took out the confession that Lu Wenchi had just written from his sleeve and handed it to Tie Huadao: "Early tomorrow morning, just go and hand this to Zhu Zhiling." ”

He wiped his face a few times like a trick, and rubbed off a delicate mask, revealing Yang Huairen's face.

Yang Huairen stretched lazily and complained: "Zhu Zhiling, this waste, I have arranged all the tricks to this one, and she can't finish singing, but she wants me to wipe her ass in the middle of the night!" Tossed me all night again, tired! ”

After speaking, he sighed: "I didn't know that Lu Wenchi was such a poor guy, and he was born in the wrong place." I am also the blade clan of Imuran, if I were his son, I would not have raised such a bear. It's just that the descendants of Imulan lost to the Cangwu Kingdom, which really makes people a little unhappy. ”

It seems to be talking about Lu Wenchi's defeat to Su Xiaochen on Fuxing Platform today, but it doesn't seem to be.

Tie Hua only smiled and whispered respectfully, "Please rest well, the chief butler." ”

Yang Huairen looked at her with satisfaction and nodded, turned around and disappeared into the bamboo forest.

* * * * * *

Early in the morning, come to the Dingxiang Hall of the Yi Palace.

A new little palace maid was silently sweeping the golden incense ashes in the furnace, and she gently and carefully used a brush to pour the incense ashes into a copper pot, and then solemnly closed the lid.

I heard the old palace maid say that this incense ash cannot be discarded just like this, it must be put into a large porcelain basin, and when the moon is full every month, it will be taken to the corner of the back of the palace to be buried with soil.

Over time, there was a small hill behind the palace. Where the wind passes, the fragrance is elegant. But all the palace maids did not dare to approach there, let alone set foot on it. As for the reason, no one dared to mention.

Sometimes the reason that no one dares to mention is the most shocking reason.

The little palace maid tiptoed to hold the copper pot and bowed her head and walked out of the hall, for fear of waking up the Ming Emperor who had not yet gotten up in the hall. Suddenly, a person hurriedly stepped in and collided with himself. The copper pot was completely upside down on the little palace maid's body, and the light palace veil like cicada wings was immediately scalded out of countless small holes by the embers in the incense ash.

When the palace maid looked up and saw someone coming, she was so shocked that she immediately knelt down and begged for mercy: "The slave and maid should die, the slave and maid should die, and I hope that His Highness will forgive her sins!" I wonder if it hurt His Highness? "I endured that the skin on my body had been burned to the fire, so I just kowtowed.

Zhu Zhiling glared at the palace maid, and was about to have a seizure, when he suddenly heard a voice from the Ming Emperor in the palace: "What's the noise?" Then he shouted, "Go down." ”

The palace maid didn't care that her shoulders were already red and swollen, and she hurriedly escaped from the hall with a copper pot.

Zhu Zhiling carefully stroked her bulging lower abdomen, and straightened the Pisces gold silk crown on the top before entering the hall.

When Emperor Ming saw that it was her, he frowned.

"Why did you come so early?" As he spoke, he sat up and sighed, with a little displeasure in his words: "Are you here for Lu Wenchi's business?" ”

"Exactly." Zhu Zhiling lowered his eyebrows and said.

When Emperor Ming heard this, he became more and more impatient, and said, "Didn't I already say it yesterday?" The stakes are so high that it must be handed over to the three divisions ......"

Zhu Zhiling suddenly interrupted her mother's words, calmly handed over a neatly folded manuscript and said, "Please take a look at this first." ”

Emperor Ming took the manuscript suspiciously, opened it and looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more solemn his expression became. Between the lines, it was full of shocking things, and I didn't feel a chill all over my body. Suddenly felt a warmth on his back, but it was Zhu Zhiling who took a single coat from the side and gently draped it on himself.

"Although it is spring, the morning dew has not dispersed, and my mother must also be careful about her body." Zhu Zhiling's face was concerned.

Emperor Ming ignored these and hurriedly asked, "Where did you get this thing from?" ”

"Erchen knew that this case was important, and yesterday he specially sent Tiehua to personally guard the Bibo Water Prison. Early this morning, before Erchen got up, Tiehua sent this. The retainers felt that this matter was important and did not dare to make a judgment, so they hurriedly came to tell the mother and asked the mother to show it. ”

Emperor Ming still felt as if he was in a dream, as if he was asking and as if he was talking to himself: "He confessed so cleanly? No half-point justification? It's like the previous Zhao Yu......"

"Erchen was also surprised when he saw it, you must know that on the Fuxing Platform yesterday, Lu Wenchi claimed to be wronged, and he didn't recognize a word." Zhu Zhiling's face was also surprised.

"He's confessed so far, isn't there only one way to die?" Emperor Ming was in a hurry and stood up.

When Zhu Zhiling heard this, she secretly wondered in her heart, her mother really didn't plan to kill Lu Wenchi, but also planned to find a big thing to turn into a small one, fortunately, God has eyes!

But he said, "He...... He's dead. ”

Emperor Ming was shocked again, looked at his daughter in disbelief and asked, "...... he Why did you die? ”

Tie Hua came and said that when he went to the prison in the morning to inspect the body, he found that the body was stiff, so he hurriedly asked the prison to conduct an autopsy, and it was estimated that it should be about three watches last night, and the cause of death was...... Take poison. ”

"Poisoning? Where did he get the poison? ”

"Yesterday, after the mother queen came out of Fuxingtai, Erchen asked Tiehua to personally escort Lu Wenchi to Bibo Water Prison, Erchen was afraid that such a thing would happen, so he ordered her to stay there all night. No one entered during the period, and it can only be said that Lu Wenchi brought such poison on his body on weekdays. ”

Emperor Ming's art of contemplating the mind is already perfect, and he can observe the mind without looking at the face, just hearing his voice. She had been secretly contemplating before she asked the reason, and listened carefully to every word her daughter said, but there was indeed no hypocrisy in her tone, and it was obviously unexpected, and she had no idea about the poison. secretly felt that it was not her daughter who moved her hands and feet at night, but no matter how she thought about it, she felt unreasonable, so she stared at her and asked, "You really don't know?" ”

Zhu Zhiling was so smart, knowing that her mother was suspicious of her, she was a little annoyed when she was asked, but she immediately hid that trace of anger, and replied very calmly: "Erchen really doesn't know. In fact, Erchen felt that although Lu Wenchi confessed cleanly, he took all the things he committed on himself, and said that he had nothing to do with his clansmen, which was really suspicious. It must be known that Liu Mingyan entered Taiye this time to pay homage to His Majesty, which made the whole city know, which is nothing more than a campaign to ask the mother emperor to investigate to the end and see how many raccoon dogs there are behind Lu Wenchi. Lu Wenchi is now dead like this, and there is no way to find out, and the son wants to deal with his mother's worries impartially, and he wants to give Governor Liu an explanation, which is also very rare. ”

This slight anger can't escape the eyes of Emperor Ming. Emperor Fang Cai was a little hesitant when he used the art of contemplating his daughter to look at his daughter. After all, it's his own daughter, so looking at her like this, wouldn't it seem that he couldn't believe her. Seeing this hint of anger, she knew that she was a little aggrieved in her heart, but she was a lot more relieved, indicating that she was wrongly blamed. Hearing her say these benefits again, I knew that she didn't want Lu Wenchi to die now, and I was even more convinced.

In fact, Zhu Zhiling couldn't get rid of Lu Wenchi in the palace yesterday, she was very annoyed, and she was surprised and happy when Tiehua came this morning, not to mention that she really didn't know anything, and of course Emperor Ming couldn't see any traces with the technique of contemplating the mind.

Emperor Ming was silent when he heard this, and said after a long time: "Can Duke Pei Guo know about this matter?" ”

"We don't know yet."

"In this way, don't make a noise first, move Lu Wenchi's body to a safe place and place it first, and I will summon Pei Guogong to talk to him in person." After Emperor Ming finished speaking, he sighed and said, "The white-haired person sends the black-haired person...... It's the second time he's done. ”

Zhu Zhiling saw that her mother did not plan to make this matter public, so she was reluctant and asked, "Where is Liu Mingyan ......?"

"Tomorrow morning, summon her over, I want to kiss Fuxingtai!"