Jing'an came in with a bird's nest, and saw Qiu Xiaobei concentrating on squeezing juice on a branch that she didn't move: "Hurry up and rest, let His Highness know, he must be angry with you again." ”

Qiu Xiaobei put the juice in the bottle as small as an ear scoop, and then stood up with her waist propped up, her stomach was already bulging for five months, she already felt sinking, and she sat for a long time, with a sore back and legs.

Jing'an hurriedly went over to help her and took her back and forth in the pharmacy a few times before sitting down on the soft couch.

Qiu Xiaobei sighed comfortably, took the bowl handed to her by Jing'an, and drank the bird's nest inside, which was still bloody.

Jing'an put the blanket on her, and couldn't help but put her hand on Xiaobei's bulging belly, Xiaobei smiled at her, let her touch it, suddenly, Jing'an felt the stomach under her hand move, she looked up at Xiaobei excitedly and smiled: "It's moving, Your Highness has moved." ”

"Yes, it's only been five months now, and I'm so active, I really don't know how naughty I will be when I am born in the future."

"Naughty is good, the child should be skinny, the master doesn't have to worry about getting tired, and there are slaves and maids and Jingning." She is really full of gratitude to Qiu Xiaobei, the appearance of the other party has made His Royal Highness have affection, and also made their benefactor Queen Ling have a queen.

This is the queen's grandson, and when she thinks of this, Jing'an's heart is full.

Qiu Xiaobei finished eating bird's nest and was resting lazily, when he heard some noise outside, and sat up with a slightly heavy body: "What's wrong?" ”

Jing'an went out to take a look, and came back and said, "It's the third princess, who said that she came to visit our Royal Highness." ”

Qiu Xiaobei touched the corners of his mouth: "This is interesting, aren't these three princesses the most afraid of His Royal Highness, how could they take the initiative to come over to visit?" ”

"The slave thinks she might have come to you."

Qiu Xiaobei was surprised at first: "Looking for me? When I thought about it, I understood.

The news that there is a woman pregnant in the East Palace must have spread out, Wei Qing is still in the Buddhist hall and has not come out, and the most likely person who can take a walk is the emperor.

In the final analysis, he still didn't fully believe in Chili's words, and he couldn't find out from Fan Shenxi's mouth, so he couldn't go to the East Palace to search in person, just spread the news, there would definitely be a group of people who were eager to help him find out.

Qiu Xiaobei lay back: "These three princesses are the most white lotus, send her to me, heh...... Whatever she wants, I'll squint here. ”

"Okay, you sleep well." Jing'an was covered with a blanket and closed the open and ventilated window so that she could sleep comfortably.

When Qiu Xiaobei woke up, the third princess Fan Shenyue had already left, according to Jing'an, the prince saw her, she was so timid that she couldn't even speak, she only said a few words to take care of her body, and then sat dryly for a while, and then left after a few circles in the East Palace.

No one took the arrival of the third princess to heart.

A few days later, an urgent report came from the border pass, General Guo was defeated, the five princes were poisoned, and in just a few days, Tongcheng was also conquered by the army of the Bauhinia Kingdom.

At the border of the Dafan Dynasty and the Bauhinia Kingdom, there are three important fortress cities, Jincheng, Tongcheng and Yincheng, if the three cities are broken, then the Bauhinia Kingdom can go all the way to the hinterland of the Dafan Dynasty, and the situation is critical.

The emperor was so angry that he didn't know how many cups he had fallen, and before it was time for the early dynasty, he let all the courtiers rush to the Chaoyang Palace.

Now the situation in Tongcheng is still unknown, the only thing that can be determined is two things, the soldiers of the Bauhinia Kingdom will use a poison that is very similar to the miasma in the Buying Mountain, and the poisonous smoke will cover the entire battlefield, the people of the Bauhinia Country are fine, but our soldiers have suffered heavy casualties.

The second thing is that there are anti-thieves and spies in our army, who opened the city gate at night without authorization, allowing the enemy to take advantage of the situation and thus lose Tongcheng.

The first thing to bear the brunt of is to catch those spies, and it is not too much to cut them with a thousand knives, and secondly, you have to find a way to break the poisonous smoke, otherwise it is useless to send more soldiers.

In the end, the fifth prince was poisoned and must be sent back for treatment, so will he continue to send the prince to the next place? General Guo did not find out the situation of the other party's poisonous smoke before the fight, not to mention killing countless soldiers in the unauthorized dispatch of troops, and could not find the spies in time, and did not arrange patrols so that the spies succeeded.

When the atmosphere in the Zhaoyang Palace was frozen, the eunuch came up and whispered a few words in the emperor's ear.

The emperor frowned: "What is the matter?" ”

The eunuch said two more words, the emperor thought for a while, or got up and left to the side, and the chief eunuch announced his retirement from the court, and asked several important ministers to wait in the main hall.

As the crown prince, Fan Shenxi was naturally among the ministers, and he waited in the study early.

After waiting for almost three quarters of an hour, I heard the eunuch shouting: "The emperor has arrived, Zhou Guifei has arrived, and the third princess has arrived." ”

The courtiers were very surprised, they gathered in the study, all for the war at the border pass, and the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics, how could they let Zhou Guifei and the third princess come here?

But the doubts in their hearts were doubtful, and when they came in, they still saluted one by one, and before the emperor explained, they didn't ask the treacherous and cunning.

After the emperor sat down, he said to everyone: "Just now, Zhou Guifei came to me and told me about a major matter, which is related to the border pass, so let's tell you to hear it and then make a decision." ”

After speaking, he looked at the red-eyed and obviously cried, and he would hide behind Zhou Guifei, as if he was very afraid and panicked by someone in the scene: "Say, tell everyone, what's going on." ”

Zhou Guifei pulled Fan Shenyue, who was so scared that she didn't dare to go out from behind her, Zhou Guifei helplessly explained to everyone first: "As soon as the palace got up in the morning, I heard the palace people come to report, saying that the third princess is crying for some reason, the third princess has grown up under the knees of the palace, and the palace is worried and went over to take a look, and saw that the third princess was so afraid that she hid in the quilt for some reason and didn't dare to come out, and the palace patiently persuaded her, so she could hear her open her mouth......"

Speaking of this, Zhou Guifei hesitated and looked at the emperor.

"Say."

Zhou Guifei blessed the emperor, turned to everyone and continued: "The third princess said that she was worried about the prince's body a few days ago and went to visit, but she accidentally bumped into a person and felt that his whereabouts were strange, so she secretly followed him. ”

Zhou Guifei pulled Fan Shenyue: "Yue'er, it's up to you to say it, only you know the situation best, aren't you?" ”

She reassured: "You don't have to be afraid, with your father and emperor here, no one will hurt you, think about those innocent soldiers who died, they are all heroes who defend us, are you so kind, can you bear to let them die in vain?" Come on, be brave enough to say what you know, huh? ”

The kind princess was moved, wiped the tears that flowed out for fear again, and carefully moved out from behind Zhou Guifei, and when she saw the prince, she almost hid back again.

Anyone could see that she was targeting the crown prince, not to mention that Zhou Guifei had just mentioned the East Palace, but Fan Shenxi's expression was indifferent and unmoved.

"I, I just wanted to go to see the second brother that day, he has been in poor health, and recently he has been tired for the war, I, I really don't worry about him, but I have always been in awe of the second brother, I didn't dare to say anything when I saw him, just saw that he was fine, and left, who knows, when I was leaving, I saw a eunuch with eyes hurrying by, and deliberately avoided others, picking places that others didn't pay attention to, I, I was curious, so I quietly followed, and then ......"

She glanced at Fan Shenxi again, just in front of Fan Shenxi's cold, dark eyes that seemed to have no luster at all, she shrank beside Zhou Guifei in surprise, and grabbed her arm tightly.

Zhou Guifei faintly flashed impatience, and gently persuaded: "Then what's the matter, you kid, you don't have to be afraid." She urged Fan Shenyue with her eyes to hurry up and say.

Fan Shenyue didn't dare to look at Fan Shenxi anymore, so she stared at the ground and began to say, "I saw him walk to a very remote place where no one would pass by, and start burning something. Not long after he burned, someone called out to him, and he left before he was finished, so I took advantage of this time to go over and look at it, and secretly took the unburned letter from the fire. ”

One of the adults immediately asked, "Letterheads?" ”

Fan Shenyue nodded, took out the things that had always been held tightly in her hand, wrapped in a silk handkerchief, she opened the silk handkerchief, and there was a letter paper that had obviously been burned by the fire, folded it, and found that after opening it, there was still a third of some left, and some only had a small corner left.

The emperor's face was gloomy, obviously he knew what was written on the letterhead, but he didn't have a seizure, he just said, "Show it to everyone." ”

Fan Shenyue didn't dare to approach Fan Shenxi, only took two steps forward in front of Zhou Guifei, and then held a silk handkerchief and presented the letterhead on it, and the ministers themselves stepped forward to check.

The ministers found that what was written on this letter paper was actually the war at the border pass, although it was slightly mutilated, but it was still able to piece together and guess it, and in one or two of them, they found the signature and signature, which was the name of the prince, some were written by others to the prince, some were written by the prince, and the prince wrote indeed the prince's handwriting.

"This ......" The ministers looked at each other, the reason why there were anti-thieves and spies in the first battle of Tongcheng was because the prince was obstructing them?

The nasolabial folds on the prime minister's forehead deepened a little, and he looked at Fan Shenxi, but he didn't ask, but the other ministers spoke: "His Royal Highness the Prince, what is going on?" ”

"What can it be," an old minister snorted heavily, "The prince abandoned the soldiers and the people of Tongcheng for his own selfish desires, what a ruthless heart, the emperor, the Son of Heaven broke the law and committed the same crime as the common people, please think about the soldiers who died innocently in vain, think about the five princes who killed the enemy on the front line, and are now poisoned!" ”

"Interesting, this is really interesting," Ying Shurong, who is also the temporary manager of the Criminal Department and also among the ministers, stepped forward, the corners of his mouth twitched, and the innocence of the nerd immediately turned into a fox-like cunning, "Your Majesty, when the Criminal Department handles the case, if a person is convicted of a crime based on just a few pieces of paper, I don't know how many unjust, false and wrongful cases will be made." ”

"It's not just a few pieces of letterhead, it's about the worst things it says, and the prince's handwriting and his signature."

"The handwriting can be imitated, and the signature is more likely to be written by someone else."

"But this was inadvertently discovered by the third princess in the East Palace, if that person is not the prince's person, how can he enter the East Palace and burn these things?"

Ying Shurong looked at the third princess with a smile: "But except for the third princess, no one else has seen this, right?" ”

The minister was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "Could it be that the third princess lied?" ”

"No, no," Fan Shenyue shook her hands excitedly, "I didn't lie, I didn't lie," she looked at the emperor with a frightened and helpless look, "Father, Yue'er didn't lie." ”

"Why should the third princess be in a hurry, the minister didn't say that you were lying." Ying Shurong saluted to the emperor, and then saluted to Fan Shenxi, "I don't know the minister, can you ask the third princess a few questions?" ”

The emperor agreed, Fan Shenxi naturally had no opinion, he watched this farce like an outsider from beginning to end.

Ying Shurong turned to Fan Shenyue, who was nervously holding his hands, and his eyes were floating from side to side, but he didn't dare to look at Ying Shurong.

"Third princess, do you often go to the East Palace?"

Without waiting for Fan Shenyue to speak, Fan Shenxi laughed to himself, full of sarcasm, he is not a person who keeps to himself and will give face to women: "These three sisters have always been afraid of the palace, from childhood to adulthood, the number of visits to the palace is only a handful, after the palace was named the prince, after the palace, it was calculated, there were less than three times in total." ”

Ying Shurong asked Fan Shenyue: "Third princess, what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said is true?" ”

Fan Shenyue defended herself aggrievedly: "That, that second brother, he really ...... Indeed...... "made her scared from a young age."

"Third princess, please answer the minister's question."

“…… Yes, I rarely go to the East Palace. ”

"In that case, most of the palace people in the East Palace are strange to you, right? Can you tell the minister how many people you know in total? ”

Fan Shenyue didn't know why he asked these questions, twisted his hands into trouble, and replied cautiously: "Know Jing...... Sister Jing'an, also, and Gonggong Li, and ......"

Ying Shurong waited for a while: "Can't remember?" ”

Fan Shenyue nodded.

There are so many people and so many masters in the palace, it would be good to remember one or two major palace maids and eunuchs around you.

"So," Ying Shurong's expression became serious, "How did the third princess feel that her eyes were raw when she saw a palace person from the East Palace?" It stands to reason that almost half of the palace people in the East Palace are eye-born to you, so why are you inexplicably curious about one of them? ”

Fan Shenyue's heart beat faster, and her eyelids blinked several times: "That, that's because he was in a hurry and sneaky ......"

"If the master has orders, is it not normal to be in a hurry to do things? Have you ever seen a minion who is still slow to do things, I'm afraid I'm going to be hit by the board, right? Besides, this sneaky ......"

Ying Shurong said with a smile: "Heh, the third princess, Weichen may not have the ability to do it, this memory is not bad, the original words you just narrated are 'I saw a eunuch with eyes hurrying by, and I also deliberately avoided others, and picked the place that others didn't pay attention to', Weichen wanted to ask the third princess, if he really intended to avoid others, and picked the place that others didn't pay attention to, how did you find him?" ”

"I, I'm ......" Fan Shenyue stammered, "I don't know, I don't know how I saw him, I don't know why, I just feel, I think something is wrong with that person." ”

"Yes, people sometimes have this strange feeling, some people call this the sixth sense, we can leave this aside for the time being, but the minister still wants to ask the third princess, where did that person burn the letter paper in the East Palace?"

Fan Shenyue seemed to have been prepared for this question for a long time, and she could answer immediately: "It's ...... After turning left, there is a large stone statue, about a foot high, just behind our stone statue. ”

Ying Shurong "hissed" suspiciously: "Third princess, the minister used to be the prince's companion, but he often visited the prince, and he is quite familiar with the East Palace, and the place you said has never had any stone statues." ”

"No way, I saw it for real!"

Ying Shurong even stopped pointing at the sky with his chest: "Minister, Ying Shurong can also swear to the sky, there is absolutely no stone statue in that place." ”

Then, he knelt down towards the emperor: "Your Majesty, and all the adults, if you don't believe it, you can go to the East Palace to check immediately, the prince was here before he was sent, and he couldn't report the news at all, so naturally he couldn't let people deal with that place, not to mention, the place where the third princess said, there are a few old trees planted, you can go and check the soil, you can know, whether it has been turned recently, it can prove the prince's innocence." ”

"You talk nonsense, you talk nonsense!" Fan Shenyue shouted excitedly, even that weak appearance was washed away a lot, she opened her eyes wide and thought of a possibility, "You, did you say that on purpose, Ying Shurong, are you trying to up?" I'm telling you, I went to the East Palace that day, and I saw it with my own eyes, and there could be no mistake! ”

"There's no need for the minister to do this, because what the minister says is the truth."

"Impossible," Fan Shenyue's face froze, "It's impossible." ”

Ying Shurong faced the emperor: "Your Majesty, you can know this matter as long as you check it, and whoever lies between the minister and the third princess, you only need to send someone to check it." ”

The emperor called: "Yi Liyun." ”

"Humble duty."

"You send someone now...... No, you take someone to see it yourself. ”

"Obedience."

Yi Liyun left, the imperial study fell into silence, the atmosphere dropped to freezing, Ying Shurong was still kneeling, and the emperor didn't mean to let him get up, Fan Shenyue squeezed around Zhou Guifei, looking at the ground, her face was shocked, and her chest kept rising and falling, showing that she would be extremely uneasy.

However, Fan Shenxi, who was accused, looked leisurely, and watched the wrench in his hand from time to time, and did not put the third princess in his eyes at all, or, never put it in his eyes.

The ministers also had different expressions, but no one would speak until Yi Liyun returned.

East Palace:

Qiu Xiaobei was walking in the dormitory, as her stomach bulged, when Fan Shenxi was not there, she was even more reluctant to leave the dormitory, she walked to the window and looked out, wondering why Fan Shenxi hadn't come back today, it was almost time for lunch, and she went to the court earlier than usual today, she was confused at that time, and she didn't know if he had eaten enough to go again.

was worried about whether her husband was hungry, Jing'an hurried in and said a few words in her ear, Qiu Xiaobei's face sank when she heard it, and she said coldly: "Okay, you third princess, under the pretense of probing my pregnancy, you are doing this kind of thing behind your back." "The white lotus is blackened, or is the lotus heart originally black?

She said to Jing'an: "Tell me to go down and cooperate with Lord Yi in the investigation." ”

"Yes!"

……

Yi Liyun quickly returned to the imperial study and knelt down on one knee: "Your Majesty, according to what the third princess said, I found that place, where there are indeed a few big trees that are some years old, as Lord Ying said, and I have checked the soil, and there is no trace of being turned over, nor has I found the stone statue that the third princess said." ”

"You're lying!" Fan Shenyue was about to rush towards Yi Liyun uncontrollably, but was stopped by Zhou Guifei.

Zhou Guifei smiled reluctantly: "Is it possible that there are both big trees and stone statues, and the stone statues were transported away in advance?" Saying that, she clarified for herself and said to the emperor, "The concubine is not suspicious of the prince, but just expressed her doubts, after all, the third princess knows what character the emperor knows, she is really unlikely to lie, since the third princess was able to find that person at that time, maybe the third princess took away the burned letter paper was also found, so the stone statue was transported away in advance?" ”

said that he did not doubt the prince, and every word told the message that the prince was the real murderer.

"Back to the emperor," Yi Liyun ignored the concubine, and continued, "That place is very remote as the third princess said, next to the city wall and behind the house, those trees are almost half of the position, and there is really no room for a stone statue as big as the third princess described." Moreover, the lowly duty had carefully inspected the ground, the walls, and every tree, and if there were often burned letters and other items, there would have been traces of contamination, but the lowly duty had inspected them and found nothing. ”

"Impossible, impossible, how could it not be, I obviously saw a big stone statue there, so big, so big!" Fan Shenyue was timid and timid from the beginning, and she was a little crazy because she was repeatedly questioned, she stretched her hands and gestured to the size of the stone statue, "I deliberately found such a place, how could there be none!" ”

Ying Shurong immediately seized the loophole in her words: "The third princess just said, you specially looked for it?" ”

Fan Shenyue was startled, quickly covered her mouth, she shook her head, trying to justify: "No, I was too anxious to say the wrong thing just now, I mean, I mean, I mean, I chased that person there, I remember it very clearly, there, there ......"

She tried to find out what other characteristics of that place were, but her mind was already confused by Ying Shurong's series of questions, which would be distracted, how could she still recall.

Ying Shurong smiled sneeringly, didn't look at her again, and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, my lords, things are already very clear, the third princess has only set foot in the East Palace a handful of times, but she seems to know all the palace people in the East Palace, and she feels angry when she sees a stranger?" Not to mention, if that person was really assigned by the prince to burn the physical evidence, how could he be an ordinary palace person, he must have a certain ability, how could he be discovered by the third princess casually, and even be followed without realizing it? Even, how can the prince be a stupid person, if there is really such a thing, His Royal Highness the prince can burn it directly in the furnace of his own bedroom, why send someone to burn it outside? ”

He kowtowed to the emperor: "Right and wrong, presumably the emperor knows it in his heart, please give justice to His Royal Highness the Prince." ”