"Lord Wang, please take a look." Pei Yun calmly took out a roll of silk silk from his arms and presented it to Yang Guang.

Yang Guang took the silk silk and unfolded it to take a look, only to see that there were some names densely written on it, so he asked Pei Yun puzzled: "Are these people written on it related to the cat ghost case?" ”

Pei Yun approached, pointed to one of the names and said to Yang Guang: "This is a list obtained by the lower officials who were ambushed outside the Yueguo Mansion and found that the cat ghost was hiding in the prison, and asked Qu Tutong to send his soldiers to monitor the prison, and the people on the list were all people who had been to the prison three days before the cat ghost was killed. Among them is the prince of the East Palace, Neifang Ling Ji Wei. ”

"Do you mean that Ji Wei colluded with his uncle to drive the cat ghost into chaos?"

Pei Yun nodded and said: "Maybe the prince will feel strange, with Jingzhao Mansion, Dali Temple, and the Criminal Department, who are familiar with investigating cases, why did the emperor and Niangniang only use a person like Xia Guan, who has not long returned to Beijing, to investigate the haunted case in the palace?" didn't dare to hide it from the prince, and it was also because he felt that this matter was extraordinary, so he was extra careful and came up with a way to kill the cat ghost on the spot......"

Yang Guang faintly realized from the list with Ji Wei's name on it that Pei Yun presented him, and that this case of the cat ghost may be completely different from the case of the haunting in the palace seven years ago, and may contain a greater hidden meaning, so he instructed Pei Yun: "If you go on, what are you suspicious of?" ”

"Xia Guan still remembers clearly, dozens of days ago, Niangniang summoned the ministers into the palace in the name of summoning the prince's subordinates to the palace to visit the princess who was frightened and had a miscarriage, and then the emperor personally appointed the ministers to investigate the case. The lower officials also had doubts because of this: even if the emperor and Niangniang could not trust the officials of the various government offices in Beijing, they wanted to appoint the lower officials to investigate the case, why did they adopt such a tortuous way?

According to the facts of the case introduced by Niangniang to the lower officials, the lower officials had new suspicions in their hearts about the motives of someone driving the cat ghosts to cause chaos.

Lord Wang, when Xia Guan was in Guangling, he once heard the drunk General Duan Da say that Yuwenshu had found the internal aid of Shangshu's right servant Yang Su for the prince in the court, I don't know if the prince knows about it? ”

Yang Guang let out a "hmm" and did not explain more.

Pei Yun received Yang Guang's affirmative reply, and felt more confident, so he continued: "At that time, I heard from Niangniang's introduction, the cat ghost did not go to the palace to make trouble and steal at first, but repeatedly sneaked into the Yueguo Mansion to steal. ”

Yang Guang flashed Pei Yun and shook his head.

Seeing this, Pei Yun hurriedly added: "But to the great surprise of the lower officials, this cat ghost is hiding in the prison guarded by General Dugu......

"If, as you said, someone drove the cat ghost to repeatedly sneak into the Yue Guo Mansion to steal, in order to coerce the Yue Guo Gong and have another purpose, then how do you explain the cat ghost breaking into the palace to make trouble, frightening the princess in Lanzhi Palace, and stealing from Zhengyang Palace?"

According to common sense, with the identity and status of the real master who drove the cat ghost to make trouble, he should not have driven the cat ghost to the palace to make trouble. However, a series of changes that occurred in the harem of Xia Guan's killing of cat ghosts gave Xia Guan an answer: that is, this person wanted to use the cat ghost to make a big fuss about the chaos in the palace, so that he could truly control the forbidden army. ”

"How so?"

"After returning to Beijing on the order of the king, Xia Guan found that the situation in the court and China had changed, and not long ago, the emperor restored the crown prince's power to govern the court and his military power to command the forbidden army. According to the lower officials, Qu Tutong and other forbidden army generals learned that although the emperor ostensibly restored the crown prince's power to lead the forbidden army, in fact, the military power of the two guards of the left and right leading military mansions was still firmly in the hands of the emperor, that is to say, the crown prince only restored extremely limited military power......"

When Yang Guang heard this, he waved his hand in time to stop Pei Yun and said, "I already understand what you want to say, but these are just your conjectures, and at present, just the fact that Ji Wei has been to the heavenly prison is not enough to prove that everything you suspect is true." So, let's stop the investigation of the cat ghost case. ”

"The prince is wise, and the officials obey orders."

"According to what you just said, someone drove the cat ghost to make trouble in order to threaten Yue Guogong, so how did Yue Guogong react to this?" Yang Guang asked Pei Yun curiously.

"This matter is also quite puzzling, the Yue Guo Mansion knew that there were often ghosts and monsters in the mansion, but they did not report it, ignored it, and still often stayed in Shangshu Province...... Just two days ago, Xia Guan also got the news that Yue Guogong asked the emperor for orders to go to Qizhou to personally supervise the construction of Renshou Palace. ”

"It's okay for him to leave the center of the court for a while. Chongzhi, today this king told the truth, this king really has no heart to compete with anyone for the throne, so no matter what you find, you don't need to think too much, let alone suspect the prince out of thin air, write it down? Yang Guang solemnly warned Pei Yundao.

Despite this, Yang Guang couldn't keep calm for a long time after listening to Pei Yun's detailed report on the investigation of the cat ghost case, and after returning to Lanzhi Palace at Xiao E's invitation that night, he couldn't help but sigh to Xiao E: "I didn't expect that after Pingchen, there are still so many rights and wrongs in Chang'an City, Er'er, you should go back to Jiangnan with me and stay away from this place as soon as possible!" ”

Although Xiao E didn't understand where Yang Guang's emotion came from, he didn't make any more inquiries, but only snuggled in Yang Guang's arms, and said softly: "It's all because the concubine was careless, so that the prince lost a daughter...... As long as you can be with the prince, you will be willing to be a concubine no matter where you go. ”

"When Jianping returned to Guangling before, he came with Hongxuan, I already knew the princess's kindness to me, not long ago I had Nasese as a concubine, and asked her to go to Bingzhou to move Ruoxi's bones back to Jiangnan for burial, without telling the princess in advance, you won't be angry with me, right?" Yang Guang stroked Xiao E's soft long hair and chatted with her about family life.

This night, Yang Guangyin repeatedly thought about how to dispel the hostility that his eldest brother Yang Yong had towards him, tossing and turning in bed, and almost didn't sleep all night.

The next day, as soon as the day dawned, I heard someone outside the dormitory report: "The king of the Holy Upload Jin will immediately come to the Linde Hall to see him." ”

Yang Guang turned over and sat up from the bed when he heard the sound, agreed, washed and changed his clothes under Xiao E's personal service, and hurriedly left Lanzhi Palace and walked towards Linde Palace.