In the past, when the East Palace was not looked down upon, even the prince was a joke of others, but now the East Palace is slowly rising, saying that he still dares to underestimate the father-in-law beside the prince?

Not to mention that Qiu Xiaobei can already walk sideways in the East Palace now, even outside the East Palace, the four or five princes who were once able to trample on Qiu Xiaobei have to call her father-in-law politely.

Qiu Xiaobei hugged his arm: "The slave wants to experience a different life." ”

Fan Shenxi retracted his gaze and looked straight ahead: "Do you care about this Tong Shupei very much?" ”

Qiu Xiaobei paused, and then buried it in his arms coquettishly: "Your Highness, Your Highness, what does the slave care about him, the slave only cares about you, really." ”

"Heh," Fan Shenxi lifted her head out of his arms, "You think this palace can't see it, when you came out of Yingxiu's house, the cat urine in your eyes was about to roll down." ”

"What's the matter, the minion is in a good mood." She rubbed it from side to side in his palm, "Why are the minions crying?" ”

"Xiao Beizi," Fan's deep voice sounded calm, but irresistible, "Bengong doesn't want to see you lie to Bengong. ”

Qiu Xiaobei paused in all her coquettish movements, and then slowly pressed her forehead against his palm and didn't move, and after a while, she heard her say sullenly: "Your Highness, the slave is not lying, the slave really doesn't care about that Tong Shupei." ”

"What is that for...... "sad, let him see it, so unhappy.

Qiu Xiaobei closed his eyes and didn't make a sound for a long time.

She really didn't particularly care about Tong Shupei, she just remembered that a long, long time ago, there would always be people around her who scolded her for being neurotic, calling her a monster, calling her sick, and scolding her for not being productive in her life.

She wanted to prove herself and change that, but the price was too heavy for her to afford.

"Your Highness," she reached out to touch his waist, "the minion just thought of his own father, they are the best fathers and mothers, and the slave just didn't understand why Yingxiu's father could hurt his daughter like that." ”

She hugged him boldly, moved her head, moved from his palm to his arms and hid herself: "But in this world, slaves have no father and no mother...... Your Highness, what the minion just said is true, he didn't lie to you, in this world, the minion only cares about you. ”

Fan Shenxi's furrowed eyebrows were hidden with annoyance, hesitated, put his big palm on her head and rubbed it: "I said I didn't lie," he moved his arm, but he couldn't shake her down, "The clothes are all dirty from your crying, who do you want to wash." ”

"Minions, minions help you wash." She just hid and wouldn't come out.

He sighed and wrapped his hands around her: "As far as you are clumsy, how can you wash it cleanly, you don't need to wash it." ”

He didn't want to see her sad, but in his own heart, he was still a little excited, if she had only him, no one else would take any attention from her.

The condensed atmosphere just now warmed up, and Fan Shenxi gave an order, and the carriage moved slowly.

Qiu Xiaobei was swaying slightly, her mood eased up, and she was still drowsy, she rubbed a comfortable position in the arms of His Royal Highness the Prince, and her voice was loud: "Your Highness, don't sentence Yingxiu's father to death, the slave wants him to live." ”

I want him to live to see the day when Tong Shupei succeeds.

His Royal Highness, who had just made people cry, unconditionally connived: "Okay." ”

It's still very simple to sentence an indefinite sentence.

……

The retrial case submitted the results not only of Tong Shupei's case, but also the case of Fan Shenxi's son who felt that there was a problem with the soldier's squire, who committed murder on the street, and another criminal was indeed a murderer, but he dug out another hidden secret, which made people feel that the criminal's punishment could be reduced.

There are two other groups, one is to find out that the case is not something that can be completed by one person, and find out the accomplice who has been hidden for many years, the other is that the criminal killed not the two deceased people back then, and the other is the body that was divided and hidden in his own home, and the body that was not found is still the son of a high-ranking official who has been missing in Kyoto for many years.

In short, each group of the re-examination of small departments has achieved more or less success, and Fan Shenxi also gave bonuses and praise as he said, and then presented all these to the emperor for inspection.

Just because of these cases, the people finally regained confidence in the Criminal Department, and the emperor was still very satisfied, anyway, these cases did not involve people who he couldn't touch in the bottom line.

The Criminal Department has accumulated many unjust, false and wrongful cases for so many years, and the emperor also rewarded the small department for the retrial of old cases with meaning, gave support, and asked the prince to lead the team members to make persistent efforts.

The only thing that made him feel ashamed and angry was what the fourth prince Fan Shenxuan did.

Fan Shenxuan's case was chosen by Fan Shenxi, and Fan Shenxi felt that there was no problem, but he was ruthlessly lost face by Fan Shenxi, and he had to find it back, if you think it was no problem, he would have to find out the problem.

As the son of Zhou Guifei, he has been arrogant and expensive since he was a child, and that much education will not make him stupid, no matter how much this case is tossed, at most it will be fruitless, as the fourth prince, the team members dare to laugh at him?

The problem lies in the matter of his criminal trial of witnesses.

Being able to find the witnesses of the year is also considered to be a bit of a skill, but he extorted confessions from witnesses in various ways, thinking that the witnesses could appear testimony in favor of the criminals, originally this was nothing to him, and the witnesses were erased afterwards, and the left and right were just a cheap life, the people in the palace who were contaminated with imperial power, who had no life in their hands, and the prince was estimated to have killed more people than him, who could take it seriously, as long as it was not exposed, it was easy to say.

was exposed.

said that in order to help the criminal get rid of the crime, he wanted to beat the witness into a trick, and this news almost made the image of the criminal department that was not easy to rise fall to the trough again, and let the entire small department of the retrial of the old case work in vain, but fortunately, it was all solid evidence in front of everyone, and the growing weight of the prince in the hearts of the people reluctantly suppressed this matter.

The emperor called the four princes to the study and scolded him bitterly, and Fan Shenxuan defended himself: "This matter must have been deliberately revealed by the prince, he directed and acted in such a good play, just to trample his sons under his feet!" ”

The emperor didn't want to talk to this fourth son anymore.

Now, half of the criminal department is in the hands of the prince, and it is the emperor himself, not necessarily all departments are his own people, but each department must have its own eyeliner, he doesn't care what method the fourth son uses to try the case, but he is so stupid that he does something "out of line" on Fan Shenxi's turf, so he can't blame Fan Shenxi for doing anything.

"You don't have to get involved in this matter of the Criminal Department, I will arrange other things for you."

Fan Shenxuan endured the humiliation and responded: "Yes, everything is arranged by my father." ”

In fact, the emperor also had another thing about this son, and he was dissatisfied and ...... Smell a rat.

The son of the squire of the military department, who was summoned by Fan Shenxi, confirmed that the horse he was riding at that time was drugged, causing the horse to go crazy, so he went crazy for no reason, not only trampling on people but also killing people, and although the person who drugged his horse had been found out, he was a small official in charge of horses in the military department, and his confession was that he had a grudge against the son of the squire, so he deliberately designed to frame him.

There are clues that it is likely to be instructed by a certain master in the palace.

Fan Shenxi stopped these clues and did not follow them down, but presented them to him, the emperor was very satisfied with the prince's acquaintance, and at the same time suspected Zhou Guifei and Fan Shenxuan, suspecting that they probably wanted to get the position of the squire in the military department, so they wanted to use his son to break his will.

The emperor was suspicious, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible, he looked at his beloved fourth son, his eyes became more and more dissatisfied, and he hastily sent him away.

No matter what happened to the emperor and his son, the squire of the military department was very happy with his son, and he was simply reborn, and their father and son were very grateful to His Royal Highness the Prince, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gave them a hint to keep their distance from them, so they didn't express anything, and only thought that in the future, as long as they could do it, they would give the prince more help.

At the same time, taking advantage of this opportunity, the military department Shangshu proposed to return to his hometown.

The military department is old, and there was an intention to tell the old before, the eighth prince's mother, Concubine Shu, also used to take medicine with Fan Shenxi for the eighth prince, but later, Fan Shenxi felt that it was not the right time, so let Concubine Shu stabilize the military department Shangshu and let him stay longer.

Now is the moment of various official positions and the replacement of the old and the new, and the son of the squire of the military department has been framed, and he feels that he is to blame for the old man as a scholar, and the emperor can't doubt whether someone is instigating the position of the secretary of the military department.

What's more, because the one who later took over as the secretary of the military department was a neutral general, who had fought on the battlefield and made a lot of meritorious contributions, but he was injured later and was not suitable to go to the battlefield again.

He is not the prince's person, and it is not rumored that he has any intimacy with the prince, and it is precisely because of this that when someone recommended this general Zhao to be the secretary of the military department, the emperor thought for two days and agreed.

It's very strange that Concubine Shu wants her to owe a favor, but Fan Shenxi used this favor in exchange for it, and he actually gave it to someone who has nothing to do with him?

Fan Shenxi met her when he accompanied Qiu Xiaobei to the imperial garden for a walk, and when she asked, he smiled indifferently: "The criminal department is already considered to be the palace, and if there is another military department, where can the father and emperor still tolerate it, what does it mean to be that bird, the position of the soldier is very good." ”

Whether it is the former general Zhao who is already a Shangshu, or the soldier who is already his person, his character is good, which is conducive to ...... General Ling Xiao's secret development, that's enough.

Of course, there is no need to mention this latter point to outsiders.

Taking advantage of the busyness of the Criminal Department during this time, Qiu Xiaobei secretly left the Criminal Department and came to Zhang's house when he went out of the palace with Fan Shenxi, after informing Fan Shenxi.

Zhang's house has been sealed.

Because the incident in the Criminal Department is too big, there is no one to replace the Shangshu of the Criminal Department at present, but let Ying Shurong temporarily replace this matter, the emperor did not speak out against it, and the former Shangshu of the Criminal Department, as the mastermind on the bright side who was pushed out, it is not an exaggeration for him to be punished by the Nine Clans, as his daughter and son-in-law, are now all locked in prison, waiting for the fall, and the Zhang family will naturally be sealed.

I don't know what Zhang Wenzhong's mood is, he married his daughter in order to marry Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and he did not hesitate to kill his original partner and son, but what he did was not revealed, and because he was tired of the old man he wanted to stammer, he suffered in prison, and what was waiting for him was either beheaded, or confiscated, and various punishments before that.

With Qiu Xiaobei's current identity, it is still very easy to enter the sealed Zhang family, as long as she takes out the token and says what she needs to investigate the case, the guards will let her in.

Standing at the gate of the main courtyard, she saw Zhang Wenzhong's original wife, Mrs. Zhu, who was stunned with her son, at a few wooden hairs, and when she saw her, she happily beckoned her to let her in.

"Master Pei, can you do us a favor?"

"What?"

"Make us a swing rack!"

“……”

Qiu Xiaobei took a saw to saw wood, and a hammer to hammer nails, and there was a clanging of it.

Mrs. Zhu also helped, she couldn't easily touch the items in the Yang Realm, but she could make these pieces of wood lighter so that Qiu Xiaobei could operate them.

It didn't take long for a swing to be built in the courtyard, Qiu Xiaobei burned incense, and the ghost child could finally sit on the swing board, swaying up and down, and laughing happily.

Qiu Xiaobei looked at him happily and gently touched his stomach.

"Thank you."

"No, kid." There is also a swing in the garden west of the East Palace, and she herself likes to sit on it and swing, but she has always thought that she likes it when she is pregnant with a child, so the baby in her belly likes to swing.

Before the baby was born, he carried the pot for Ma Ma.

"I'm talking about Zhang Wenzhong...... Thank you. ”

Mrs. Zhu thanked her heartily.

If she really killed Zhang Wenzhong at that time, the grievances between her and the child would not be resolved, and she herself would have to be punished, leaving the child with a soul, wouldn't she be bullied by that group of lonely ghosts.

Now that Zhang Wenzhong is inside, what he did was shaken out by his current wife, Lu, during his interrogation.

After that, the bones of Mrs. Zhu and her son were dug up, and Mrs. Zhu's family cried and picked them up and buried them on a certain day.

"Thank you, we are helping each other, you can also see that I approached Zhang Wenzhong, and my original intention was to go to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs."

If she wants her Highness to ascend to that position, she has to look for opportunities for him.

"Don't be modest, besides, I'm not the only one who wants to thank you."

As soon as Mrs. Zhu's words fell, the whole courtyard suddenly became gloomy, the wind gusted, Qiu Xiaobei trembled, and saw several ghosts standing behind Mrs. Zhu, all with blue faces and white eyes, and some still retained the tragic state before death, which was enough to scare the timid people to death.

The yin qi that rushed to his face made Qiu Xiaobei take several steps back.

She can accept one or two ghosts, but she can't stand so many at once.

"You, you ......"

"Don't be afraid," one of them said, "We have no ill intentions, we are here to thank you." ”

The drifters here are all killed by Zhang Wenzhong and the Lu family for money and power, or for helping the former Criminal Department Shangshu take care of some "tails" over the years.

Qiu Xiaobei smiled awkwardly.

Even if these drifters are all "kind-hearted", the yin qi they gather is too fierce, and she is afraid.

The strong yin qi had a great impact on her.

Piao saw that her face was not very good, and they all stepped back at the same time, and distanced themselves from her: "Benefactor, we are all people who died in vain, and we will not be able to reincarnate for a while, because of the separation of yin and yang, there are not many people who can help you, but as long as you have any needs, you can find us at any time." ”

"Yes, yes, we're at your disposal."

Qiu Xiaobei stopped: "You guys are too polite, cough, I came today to tell you that this courtyard is estimated to be closed for a long time, anyway, no one comes in, you can stay here temporarily, I will let people come to you regularly, but I also have requirements, whether it is to worship you, or someone accidentally enters here, you had better hide it, don't scare people, let alone hurt people!" ”

……

Qiu Xiaobei opened his sleepy eyes, looked at Fan Shenxi, who had finished dressing, struggled to get up, and then was pressed back by Fan Shenxi.

"You don't have to follow this palace today, have a good rest." Fan Shenxi touched her face and said.

Qiu Xiaobei was reluctant, but she really wanted to continue sleeping, so she could only hum while turning over and pressing his hand to prevent him from leaving.

Gentle Township is really the most irresistible, Fan Shen Miao looked at her deeply, let her rely on herself, and pulled her hand back.

After putting her to sleep again, she withdrew her hand, and found that she had kicked the quilt away, so she leaned over to pull the quilt back and cover her, and her face was close to her chest.

Because she didn't sleep honestly, the neckline had long been loosened, exposing the thin white collarbone, and his hand touched it unconsciously, and suddenly found that the part where the collarbone and the chest were connected had a raised "skin".

He shook his head and smoothed out her restless "skin" so that he couldn't see any flaws before letting go.

It was really careless, he thought as he helped her cover the quilt, it was lucky that it was by his side, otherwise...... He chuckled, she could only be by her own side!

Qiu Xiaobei slept until lunch, because Fan Shenxi was not around, and he didn't have much energy to eat at lunch.

But at this moment, a bird landed in front of the window, chirped twice, Qiu Xiaobei twisted his eyebrows, let the waiting Jing'an go down, and walked to the window by himself.

The bird man didn't fly away when he came to his side, let Qiu Xiaobei touch it a few times on its back, and then raised a paw towards Qiu Xiaobei, with a paper rolled into a cylinder on it.

Qiu Xiaobei took it and disposed of it, and after taking a look, he burned it.

After eating, she applied to Gonggong Li to go out of the East Palace, or went out alone without a guard, Gonggong Li didn't agree, but he couldn't control her, fortunately, he knew that there was a shadow guard who had been secretly following her, Gonggong Li was a little relieved, otherwise when His Royal Highness came back, how would he explain.

Qiu Xiaobei actually didn't go anywhere, she went to the Inner Ting Division.

Although there is no Zhang Wenzhong who can guide her, the Inner Sixth Division will be in Fan Shenxi's grasp, and it is not difficult for her to enter the Inner Ting Division to "visit the prison".

Still in the cell where she stayed, sitting in front of the round window between the two cells, Chili on the opposite side had a transparent two-inch diameter ball like a glass ball in his hand, and there was a drop of bright red liquid in the ball, rolling in the ball, Chili lifted the ball high, and the light from nowhere was facing the ball, and under that light, there was a kind of bewitching beauty.

"Beautiful, isn't it?"

Qiu Xiaobei was silent.

Chili sighed to himself: "This is the most beautiful blood I have ever seen." ”

"Thanks for the compliment." Qiu Xiaobei's face did not change.

"But I'm weird." He wrapped his palm around the ball and sat up straight, facing Qiu Xiaobei, "I found that this is neither pure human blood, nor demon ingredients, nor demon breath...... Can you tell me, what the hell are you? ”

He also winked at her, selling cuteness.

"Can't!"

There is no soft cuteness in front of Fan Shenxi at all, Qiu Xiaobei refuses indifferently and toughly!

Chili showed an aggrieved look: "Just tell me......"

Qiu Xiaobei was not moved by his beauty: "I remember, I came here today because you told me that the Heart Lantern Fruit was found." ”

"Don't worry," Chili was not overwhelmed by her indifference, and looked like he wanted to talk to her for three days and three nights, "Although I haven't studied what you are......

The word "well" appeared on Qiu Xiaobei's head, and the hand on his lap clenched his fist: You are a thing, and your whole family is a thing.

“…… But I found something more important. ”

As he said this, his gaze went beyond the round window, and his gaze went down little by little, and finally settled on her stomach.

Qiu Xiaobei's heart tightened, and he couldn't help but move his hand to cover his stomach.

However, I still heard him say, "You are pregnant with a cub!" ”

"Bang-"

Qiu Xiaobei couldn't bear to kick the wall: "Chili, you ......"

"Shhh The white jade-like fingers are on the lips, seductive.

When Qiu Xiaobei reacted, he had already stopped.

"Pregnant women don't lose their temper so much, it's not good for the cubs." Chili was very worried, and then blamed himself, "Alas, you should be angry, I asked for so much blood from you last time, you must have a great influence if you have cubs, it's okay, are cubs okay?" It's all my fault, it's all my fault, but why didn't you tell me, if you tell me, I won't want so much blood, at most a little ......"

"Can you shut up?"

Qiu Xiaobei couldn't wait to take off her shoes and throw them over, she never knew that a man could talk so much, and, "Don't call me a baby, a cub, you should be a monster ......"

She paused, and then suddenly looked at Chili: "Are you a demon?" ”

Chili blinked his very seductive eyes, pure and innocent: "Don't you know? ”

Qiu Xiaobei: "......"

She covered her head for a while before she raised it again: "I'm not here to tell you this today, am I pregnant with a cub or a baby, whether you are a demon or not It doesn't matter to me, where is the heart light fruit, do you want to talk about it?" ”

He was very aggrieved: "I'm not afraid that you will leave after saying it directly," he put one hand on his cheek and sighed, "I'm so lonely, I haven't had anyone to talk to me for a long time." ”