Yan and the county lord Zhong Luhuan died less than a day after marrying into the Jingwang Mansion, and it was in the way of breaking the blood, as soon as the matter spread, it immediately caused an uproar throughout the capital, and the people began to speculate about the cause of the county lord's death, and were very curious about how the new emperor would deal with it.

When Cui Xiang was twisted into the palace, it was already dawn, and the person had completely calmed down, and when he saw Cui Yi, he just knelt down slowly: "Brother Huang." ”

Cui Yi didn't go to the court, and he wasn't in the mood to go to the court, so it was easy to coax Ying so that he didn't cry, so he went to the imperial study and waited, and Cui Xiang waited for half an hour before he came. "Tell me, what's going on." Cui Yi's gloomy face was like the sky on the eve of a thunderstorm.

"There's not much to say." Cui Xiang turned his head negatively.

"Nothing to say? People are dead, you don't have anything to say? Cui Yi wanted to calmly ask the whole story first, but he thought that his younger brother was even more brazen than he imagined, and kept saying that the woman he liked died on the wedding night, and he didn't seem sad at all!

Cui Yi's lungs were about to explode: "Didn't you say you liked her?" Didn't you say that if you marry her, you will treat her mother well? What the hell did you do to her, and how did she die? ”

Cui Xiang said irrationally: "She was killed by herself, and it is not her brother's business." ”

Cui Yi's eyes widened, he stammered for a long time, and asked, "Lu Wan committed suicide?" ”

At this moment, Zhiying heard that Cui Xiang had arrived, and hurriedly ran over despite Wang's obstruction, Du Zhenquan didn't have time to report, so she pushed open the door and broke into the imperial study, and saw Cui Xiang kneeling on the ground, and stepped forward and asked sharply: "Cui Huaiyou!" What the hell did you do with Lu Huan, how did she die? ”

"I didn't think anything about her, he couldn't think of it himself," Cui Xiang's tone was terrifyingly calm, and he raised his eyes to look at her, "I love her and want to be good to her for the rest of my life, could it be that the imperial sister-in-law thinks I killed her?" ”

Zhiying was so dizzy that he couldn't find anything to say for a while, so Cui Yi said: "Since you're here, sit down first, Lu Huan's death is a foregone conclusion, don't be angry anymore." Zhiying had to grit her teeth and sit down, her eyes barely spewed fire, and she couldn't burn Cui Xiang out of a hole.

Cui Xiang said with an indifferent expression: "After the cave room last night, the younger brother and Lu Wan rested, and then in the middle of the night, the younger brother urinated urgently, and got out of bed to find the night pot, but found that Lu Huan's head was bleeding and fell next to the cabinet, and she was out of breath, I don't know when she died." ”

"Impossible!" Zhiying immediately retorted, "Since Lu Wan has already agreed to marry you, why can't she think of suicide in the middle of the night?" She's not that kind of person, there must be some other reason! ”

Cui Xiang raised his eyelids to look at her, then looked at Cui Yi, and said, "The reason doesn't need to be said by the younger brother, and the imperial brother understands it, right?" has always been a brother who likes her unilaterally and pursues her hard, but she has always looked down on her brother in her heart and is unwilling to marry her brother. This time I heard that she was willing to marry me, I thought she had figured it out, and she was so happy, who would have thought that she would commit suicide in the middle of the night - Brother Huang, you gave Lu Wan to marry her brother, doesn't Brother Huang know that she doesn't like her brother? ”

Cui Yi said in a deep voice: "I didn't plan to marry the two of you at all, it was Lu Wan who personally said that she wanted to marry you in front of me and the imperial concubine, and I agreed." ”

Cui Xiang smiled, his face full of disbelief: "Lu Huan's temperament is so strong, how could she suddenly change her mind and say that she wants to marry me?" Didn't the royal brother feel that there was no proof of death, so he could put the blame on Lu Huan? ”

"You!" Cui Yi was almost angry with him again, grabbed the teacup and smashed it to the ground, the porcelain pieces splashed, cutting the back of Cui Xiang's hand on his thigh.

Cui Xiang said: "Lu Wan is unwilling to marry me, I can wait, I am willing to wait for as long as I want, but the imperial brother, you are the son of heaven, but you abuse the royal authority and force her to submit, the courtier knows that the imperial brother is for the good of the courtier, but when Lu Wan dies, the courtier brother is alive, and he is just a walking corpse, what is there to be nostalgic for the rest of his life?" ”

"You're just ...... It's just ......" Cui Yi couldn't answer a word, he was so angry that his brain hurt, that day Zhong Luhuan personally said that he was willing to marry Cui Xiang, and there were only three witnesses present, except for him and Zhiying, it was Zhong Nian, "Bring Zhong Nian up!" ”

Zhiying stopped: "Wait, you can't let Zhong Nian testify, he will definitely say that the emperor and the palace forced Lu Huan to marry Huaiyou, or wait for the results of the autopsy on Sister Cheng's side to come out, and directly hand it over to Dali Temple for trial, and the six Shangshu will be tried in the same court, so that people will not take advantage of the loopholes." ”

Cui Xiang was shocked when he heard this, and his expression froze, but he didn't have any proof of death, and he didn't worry, so he continued to pretend to be calm.

Cui Yi felt right when he heard it, since Zhong Nian was the culprit who forced Zhong Luhuan to marry, after death, he would definitely shirk his responsibility at all costs, even if one of them was the emperor and the other was the imperial concubine, he could be determined to spew blood and execute him, but it was difficult to block the mouth of the people, and it was safer to try it publicly.

"What Concubine Ai said is reasonable. Du Zhenquan," Cui Yi hooked his hand, "Spread my will, the case of the death of Yan and the county lord was handed over to Dali Temple for trial, and the six Shangshu of Xuan went to hear the trial together, and first brought Jing Wang Ye and Zhong Nian over and detained them separately. Du Zhenquan immediately went to do so.

Cui Xiang was honestly dragged down - Zhong Nian specially explained, so that he must remember that "he didn't do anything, it was Lu Huan who couldn't think of committing suicide", now is not the time to shout injustice, shouting seems to be a thief.

After the person was taken away, Cui Yi asked inquiringly: "Do you think there is something suspicious?" ”

Zhiying was weak, holding her forehead with one hand, and sighed: "I can't say it well, with Lu Huan's temperament, it's not impossible to commit suicide in the middle of the night, but she has decided to compromise before, and she doesn't look at the results of the autopsy on Sister Cheng's side, and she has to send someone to search the Jingwang Mansion carefully, if Lu Huan really committed suicide, she will definitely leave a suicide note." ”

Cui Yi also agreed with her judgment: "You're right, I'll let Wenyu follow the people of Dali Temple to Soujing Palace." Also, I think the Zhong Mansion may also have secrets, you also said before, Huaiyou frequently enters and leaves the Zhong Mansion for the first time, Lu Huan is Zhong Nian's own sister, I don't believe that he will sell his sister without getting a little benefit, now go to search the Zhong Mansion, maybe you will find unexpected moving things. ”

Zhiying's eyes flickered, and he hesitated to tell him the suspicions in his heart - the ministers had a close personal relationship with the prince of the current dynasty, and nine times out of ten it was for rebellion.

Cui Yi also expected this early on, but he decided to hide it for the time being, not wanting her to worry too much.

So the two of them sat together with the same heart.

After a day of on-site investigation and confession collection, Dali Temple opened the court the next morning to try the suspicious case of the strange death of the county lord Yan He. According to Cui Yi's request, the six Shangshu gathered together for a joint trial, and there were countless curious people outside the hall who gathered to watch.

Zheng Xingchuan, the secretary of Dali Temple, is also an old minister of the Jianyuan Dynasty, he has served three generations of emperors, and it is the first time to see this kind of big scene, the emperor on the left and the imperial concubine on the right, and the six Shangshu are on both sides, and the official ranks together are enough to crush him, and the shocking wood has to be shot carefully.

Cui Xiang, as the main suspect, was the first to be brought to the court, without handcuffs or shackles or anything, and he still looked like a prince. Zheng Xingchuan's grade was not as high as his, and he wanted him to stand and reply, but Cui Yi put the teacup in his hand: "Don't kneel down yet!" The corners of Cui Xiang's mouth twitched, and he knelt down reluctantly.

Zheng Xingchuan was a little embarrassed, touched his nose, cleared his throat and said: "Thanks to the trust of the emperor and the imperial concubine, today's official presiding officer will definitely handle the violent death of Yan and the county lord fairly, Lord Jing, you are the first person to find the corpse, please tell you carefully about the before and after the discovery of the corpse." ”

Cui Xiang's face did not change, and he said what he said to Cui Yi the day before, and finally requested: "This king is newly married Yan'er, and he doesn't want his beloved wife to die overnight, it really hurts, as long as the cause of Lu Huan's death can be found, what the adults want to ask, this king will definitely know everything." ”

It would be easy for the parties to cooperate, Zheng Xingchuan nodded, and confirmed: "In this way, the county lord was forced to marry the prince and was wronged in his heart, so he found a short-term view, and when the prince found out, the county lord had died and was powerless to return to the sky, right?" ”

Cui Xiang nodded: "This king doesn't know how to judge the case, he only knows that when he woke up in the middle of the night, he saw Lu Huan's body, and there was no one else in the room. ”

Although he said so, he had actually secretly put the blame on Cui Yi - if he hadn't given the marriage in disregard of Zhong Luhuan's wishes, there would have been no blood-spattered tragedy of the new house. The people outside the hall talked about each other, and because Cui Yi was the emperor, they didn't dare to point fingers, but their eyes were full of dissatisfaction.

Cui Yi sat in the chair and changed his posture unhappily.

"Is the county lord really unwilling to marry the prince? Could there be other reasons why she had to choose the path of death? Zheng Xingchuan asked again.

Cui Xiang said indifferently: "If it's for other reasons, why die in the cave room on the wedding night." ”

Zheng Xingchuan nodded, feeling that he was reasonable, Cui Xiang then said: "The imperial brother said that Lu Huan voluntarily married this king, but this king knows in his heart that Lu Huan has always admired military generals, and he doesn't look down on this king as useless, if he is not persecuted, he will never marry this king, and he committed suicide on the night of his wedding." ”

"What I said is the truth," Cui Yi was a little annoyed, "I sent Lu Wan to the palace to ask questions that day, just because I knew that she didn't want to marry you, but that day Lu Wan was unusual, and even took the initiative to marry you, the imperial concubine saw that her expression was wrong, thinking that she was in trouble and being persecuted, and gave her a chance to change her words again, but she still insisted on her original intention, and I had to follow her." ”

Cui Xiang smiled faintly and said: "The imperial brother is the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, so naturally whatever he says, what is black can also be said to be white, and dead can also be said to be alive." ”

Zheng Xingchuan slapped the shocked wood: "Bold!" ”

Cui Xiang was fearless, looking like a broken jar: "It was this king who killed Lu Huan, this king will not deny this, if it weren't for this king's persistence, the royal brother would not force her to marry me, then she wouldn't die like this, if you have to find someone to be responsible for this matter, let this king come, anyway, Lu Wan is dead, and there is no point in this king alive." ”

There was an uproar outside the hall, Cui Xiang's words seemed to be out to take responsibility, but in fact, it made the people feel that he was innocent, and Zhong Luhuan's death was caused by Cui Yi.

Cui Yi was so angry that he really wanted to jump out and beat him.

"If someone is really responsible for the death of Sister Luhuan, it should indeed be you!"