Cui Xiang said: "Empress Changsun gave birth to a little prince to the imperial brother in November last year. ”

For a moment, he was stunned like a stick in the back of his head.

Cui Xiang saw her ugly expression and was startled: "Second sister-in-law! What happened to you? Cui Yi heard movement in the room, and asked loudly: "Holding profit?" ”

"No, it's okay! It's okay, it's okay! Zhiying hurriedly squeezed out a smile, her heart was still surging, and she could only pretend not to care on her face, "I'm just a little surprised, you went on to say that the queen gave birth to a son, and then what?" ”

Cui Yi's puzzled voice came out: "The queen gave birth to a son? ”

Zhiying said to the inner room: "Don't worry about it, I'll tell you when I get back." Cui Yi stopped interjecting.

Cui Xiang didn't know the secret in Zhiying's heart, and thought that she was happy for her sister, so he said: "It was originally a great joy, the imperial brother was very happy and decided to grant amnesty to the world, but I didn't expect that the little prince died only three days after he was born." ”

Zhiying had just recovered from his recovery, and then he was taken aback again, and his mood was like jumping off a cliff, and he was carried to the sky again, and he stammered for a while: "Dead? This...... What's going on, how, how did you die? ”

Cui Xiang lowered his voice and said: "They all said that they died of illness, but I don't think the imperial brother is particularly sad, most of them are ......."

Zhiying's heart sank, and he understood what he didn't say.

Cui Xiang wanted to say that this child was most likely killed by Cui Jie's instructions. In fact, this is not difficult to understand, although the eldest grandson Tai married the youngest daughter to the prince, and later the princess became the queen, but everyone understands the truth that the mother is expensive with the son, the children born by the eldest daughter can walk, and the belly of the younger daughter has not moved, so it is difficult to guarantee that the eldest grandson family will not have other ideas.

Therefore, it is imperative to give the eldest grandson Lingfang a child, but if the child is kept, it will be a huge threat to Cui Jie, so the best way is to give birth to the child first, and then fabricate a statement that the child died of illness and kill the child.

Zhiying didn't doubt that Cui Jie would do this kind of thing - after all, the only child in his previous life was so gone, but Ye didn't seem to believe it, and said weakly in the room: "Xiang'er, don't hearsay, as a parent, who doesn't feel sorry for their child, that's the emperor's eldest son, how can the emperor ......"

Cui Yi said lightly: "There are no absolutes. ”

Zhiying also nodded, and said: "There are no absolutes, before I came, I was still thinking about why the emperor was suddenly so anxious to call the prince back, now it seems that the death of the little prince should be the trigger, we will suspect that the death of the little prince is strange, father...... The eldest grandson must also know in his heart, if he finds out what clues and knows that the emperor is guarding against them, maybe it will not be good. ”

Cui Xiang lowered his head in shame and muttered, "It's all my fault...... I shouldn't have written that letter. ”

Zhiying smiled and stroked his shoulder: "If you don't want to write something, they will force you to write it in other ways, or even forge one, there are many ways." ”

"What now?" Cui Yi asked, "Escape with your mother and Huaiyou?" ”

Zhiying pondered and replied: "I don't know yet, Huaiyou will tell me if there are other things, I always feel that this alone is not enough to make the emperor mess up and kill in advance." ”

Cui Xiang then told him about marrying the niece of the Empress Dowager Yiming, as well as the matter of Cheng Hu's family, Ye sighed and said: "Mrs. Cheng is a woman with a hard life, and I don't know what is happening." ”

Zhiying's eyes darkened, thinking of Cheng Fengyi, whose life and death were uncertain, and thinking of Yang Qiong, who was desperate, sighed and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

Cui Xiang couldn't think of anything, so he shook his head, Zhiying was not very satisfied with the amount of information in his hand, he always felt that there was a piece of the puzzle missing, and he couldn't make up a complete appearance, but since Cui Xiang said that there was no big deal, it should be really gone, could it be that he was too careful?

"By the way, there is one thing, I don't know if it matters," Ye suddenly remembered something, and said, "The young master of the eldest grandson family married a girl from the Tang family. ”

The girl of the Tang family? Zhiying was confused, remembering that his younger brother married ...... in his previous life Yes! Isn't the person who his younger brother married in his previous life the Rong family who is now married to Cui Xiang? Now that the Rong family is married to King Jing, and a Tang family has popped up out of nowhere, is it a relative of Cui Jie's maternal uncle's family?

Cui Yi sat on the edge of the bed, his brows furrowed for a while, and he suddenly relaxed: "The girl of the Tang family, could it be the niece of Yan Shangshu's wife's family?" ”

Ye smiled bitterly: "It's that Tang family." ”

Zhiying was still confused, so Cui Yi reminded: "Do you remember when I talked to you about General Xu in Yanzhou, I mentioned Lord Yan Fengyan, who was the secretary of the ministry?" After Lord Yan was convicted, he was exiled to Cangzhou, and his wife's maiden family was still doing business in the capital. ”

A flash of lightning crossed her mind, and Zhiying finally pieced together the complete picture of the matter, but the relationship was too complicated to explain clearly, so she could only mumble to herself: "I see......"

Cui Jie, in order to stabilize his relatives, must give the eldest grandson family a child, but in the past, the eldest grandson's family was attached to him and had to be uprooted, and now the second daughter of the eldest grandson family is married to the prince and the prince, which is already suspicious, and Cui Yi has repeatedly calculated that Cui Yi has all failed, and it is inevitable not to suspect that the eldest grandson's family is collaborating with the enemy, since this is the case, it is even more impossible to let the eldest grandson Lingfang come out.

So the death of the little prince became an inevitable result.

And if the suspicions about the eldest grandson's family in the past were all out of nowhere, then this time the eldest grandson Pei married the Tang family, which was simply a scratch on Cui Jie's face!

An eldest grandson family who was already suspected of collaborating with the enemy married the Tang family, and the Tang family and Yan Feng, who tried to protect Cui Yi back then and was subsequently convicted for Cui Yi, are in-laws, so connected, it is difficult not to think - could it be that the eldest grandson Tai is going to defect to support the eldest son-in-law?

In addition, the premeditated plan of the Xie family to vote was broken because of the death of Xie Yuchan and Xie Yongshuang, Xie Xiao continued to show favor to Cui Jie with a fluke heart, or knocked out his teeth and swallowed blood, acquiesced in the death of his children and continued to do things for Cui Yi, Zhiying thought from the perspective of ordinary people, and felt that the latter was more likely, after all, Cui Yi saved face for the Xie family, and still admitted that Xie Yuchan died as a princess, if it happens in the future, Xie Xiao will be the ruler of the country, and Cui Jie's side has exterminated the kings, and the Xie family is just a hero.

Both the Xie family and the eldest grandson's family have signs of falling to Cui Yi, how can Cui Jie sit back and endure it? In order to strangle this possible danger in the cradle as soon as possible, he had to take the risk of tricking Cui Yi back and killing him, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

"It seems that the situation is not good, if the emperor is worried that the eldest grandson's family also has a rebellious heart, then he will definitely do everything possible to kill the prince." Zhiying's expression was solemn and authentic.

The three people in the room were worried at the same time, and Ye said anxiously: "Then you better hurry up!" ”

Cui Yi was about to carry her out of bed, but Ye shook his head and blocked his hand: "Leave me alone, I'm like this now, and I'm a drag with you, if you still have the strength to spare, take Xiang'er away." ”

Cui Xiang rushed to the side of the bed: "If the mother concubine doesn't leave, I won't leave!" Ye's tears fell again: "Silly boy, hurry up, you won't be able to leave if it's too late!" ”

Holding Ying followed up, with an expression of wanting to say something, Cui Yi asked, "What?" ”

Zhiying was very embarrassed and said: "We only have a thousand people, if the emperor is determined to kill, he will casually say that we are rebels, it is easy to kill, let alone bring Niangniang and Huaiyou, even if it is only me and the prince, it will be difficult to escape." ”

For a while, the four of them were silent again, Zhiying was telling the truth, not to mention bringing people, even if Cui Yi was alone, with only a thousand troops, it was impossible to be the opponent of the 40,000 forbidden troops in the city, once they clashed, they would all die in less than a quarter of an hour.

"Why don't you ......" Ye suddenly had an idea, "Yi'er will take someone to go first, hide in the palace with Ying as a palace maid, and then send her out when Mama goes down the mountain to buy?" ”

Cui Yi categorically refused: "No, if the emperor comes and can't see me, he will definitely turn the palace upside down, even if he doesn't remember Zhiying's appearance, there is also the queen, and the eldest grandson Tai, they won't be unable to recognize their loved ones, and they can't risk Zhiying's life." ”

As soon as Ye thought about it, he no longer insisted, but Zhiying was inspired, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind: "Otherwise, let's do it!" The four of them put their heads together and muttered for a while, Ye's eyes flashed with hope, and he couldn't help nodding: "This is a good idea!" Cui Xiang asked reassuringly: "What if you are still recognized?" ”

"Don't worry, the guards at the gate of the palace don't care about who they look at at all, at most they remember what the clothes look like, and they won't recognize it," Zhiying was not worried at all, "When the emperor comes and finds that he has pounced, he will definitely think that we have escaped, and send someone to chase all the way to the north, as long as we go the opposite way and go to the south, go to Jiangzhou, and enter Jiangzhou is the territory of the Zhong family, everything will be easy." ”

Cui Xiang heard her so sure, and he didn't have any ideas, so he didn't say anything anymore.

The plan has been decided, Cui Yi changed the clothes on his body and handed them to a personal soldier, and the clothes of Zhiying were worn by the maid, and when Cui Jie came, the two only needed to pretend to be stupid and stunned, insisting that they were the nephews and nephews of the Ye family, Cui Jie at least did not dare to openly drag the Ye family's family out and kill them without evidence, so they could only let them go.

In addition to the Ye family, the three of them had to temporarily go to the palace, go to the maple forest to hide, and wait for Cui Jie's attention to be turned to the north, and then come back to pick up the Ye family, and go south to Jiangzhou together.

Ye still did not give up the idea of letting them escape by themselves, and after being persuaded by Cui Yi and Cui Xiang's brothers, she dispelled the idea of staying and waiting for death.

The three of them changed into inconspicuous clothes, climbed over the palace wall to the mountains to find a hiding place, and Ye and the two fake "nephews and nephews" calmly waited for Cui Jie to come in the palace.

Before the time came, Cui Jie really came to the palace with a large group of people, asked the guards guarding the door, and learned that a carriage had entered in the name of Ye's nephew, so he immediately sneered and flicked the sleeves of his dragon robe: "This trick is too clever." Then he strode towards Ye's residence.

Ye was having dinner, and when he heard the eunuch report that the emperor was coming, he waved his hand, and the two impostors hurried outside to pick up the driver.

Cui Jie walked into the courtyard quickly with his hands behind his back, and a man and a woman walked in front of him, all dressed very luxuriously, and thought it was Cui Yi and Zhiying, but when the two knelt down at the door and shouted long live, he frowned again - this voice is not like ah.

"You two, keep your heads up." Cui Jie coldly ordered.

The two raised their heads and looked at him with a look of trepidation, Cui Jie gasped and shouted angrily: "You are so bold!" How dare you deceive me! The soldiers and maids were so frightened that they hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy, saying that they didn't know what they had done wrong to anger Long Yan, and asked the emperor to spare his life, Cui Jie was full of anger, but he couldn't express it, he was half angry.