"That's true, the queen mother, the sons ......" Yang Guang replied truthfully, and then wanted to say goodbye to the queen mother, only to hear her say again: "The strange way is that there are rumors in Chang'an recently, saying that the princess of Jin has a god protector and is not afraid of demons and monsters, it turns out that she really lives in that dormitory." This Daxing palace was built on a lower terrain, and recently it is unstable for the mother to sleep, Ah Zong, it is better to ask Er'er to move into the palace tomorrow to live, for the yin and evil atmosphere in the palace of Niangzhen Town. ”

Yang Guang heard it bizarrely, and couldn't help but ask: "Why did the queen mother say this, there were many ghosts and monsters in the Chang'an Palace, but now they have moved to the newly built Daxing Palace, why are there still ghosts in the palace?" Isn't it because the weather has been hot recently, and the queen mother's qi and blood are lacking, so she can't sleep well at night? When he was in the state, Xiao E often used needles for his sons to relieve his fatigue, and tomorrow his sons asked her to live in the palace, and every day he did needles to relieve his mother's fatigue, and she could be safe after three or five days. ”

"Fei Zhiniang is like this in Daxing Palace, that is, even the crown princess Yuan is in the East Palace. Being in a trance all day long, like a ghost possessed, since you promised to move Er'er into the palace tomorrow to live, it is better for your mother to summon the Yuan family into the palace, and ask Er'er to treat her by the way, so that she can give birth to a son for your eldest brother as soon as possible, and it will be a matter of mother's heart. ”

Yang Guang only felt funny when he heard it: Fang Cai was obviously talking about the haunting in the palace, but the queen mother insisted on asking Xiao E to treat the crown princess Yuan's illness, so that she could give birth to a concubine for the prince, so it seems that the appearance of the ghost is just a false statement, the queen mother and Xiao E's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law got along well in the past, and it is in her heart to want Xiao E to live in the palace and accompany her more!

Thinking of this, Yang Guangyun smiled and said for Xiao Eqian: "Mother, your daughter-in-law is just because she grew up in the mountains and wilderness of the south of the Yangtze River since she was a child, unlike ordinary boudoir women who are superstitious that there are ghosts in the world, how can she have the ability to help the princess give birth." In my opinion, you might as well find a few doctors who are good at gynecology in the Taiyi Bureau to take a look at the illness of the crown princess, and you can count on it. ”

The two of them chattered for another half an hour, Yang Guang really couldn't sit still, Fang got up and said goodbye to Dugu Jialuo: "Today, there are still some urgent matters in the house waiting for the sons to rush back to deal with them as soon as possible, and the sons will deal with these urgent matters, and if they are free, they will enter the palace and talk to the queen mother, and the sons will retire." ”

Dugu Jialuo still refused to let Yang Guang go, stared at him and asked, "Mother heard a few days ago that the little slut surnamed Yun in the East Palace lost his reputation?" Now that Jingzhao Yamen is under your control, Ah Zong, my mother will entrust this matter to you, and after the matter is verified, my mother will definitely ask your eldest brother to take a break from the Yun family's little slut and drive her out of Chang'an. ”

Yang Guang smiled bitterly, speechless for a while, because he thought that he could take the path of the queen mother in the future, and persuaded his father that he did not have to blame Zhang Xutuo, so he hugged his fists and replied: "Please rest assured that the queen mother will find out about this matter and give the queen mother an explanation." ”

finally bid farewell to his mother from Zhengyang Palace, and went out of the palace to return home. When Yang Guang returned to the Jin Palace, it was already past the time of the fixed shift.

Fortunately, Zhang Heng had received the news of Yang Guang's return to Chang'an during the day, and rushed to the Jin Palace's mansion early to wait for Yang Guangyu to report the latest progress of Zhang Xutuo's escape from prison.

"Let's talk about it, have you found Zhang Xutuo's whereabouts?" Yang Guangping retreated from the crowd, leaving only Liu Fang and Xian Yuluo two guards to guard at the entrance of the palace, and before he could sit down in the main hall of the Jin Palace, he asked Zhang Heng, who had been waiting in the main hall for a long time.

Zhang Hengqing knew that Yang Guang was most concerned about Zhang Xutuo's whereabouts at this time, so he was not in a hurry to report other things to him, reached out and took out a towel with objects in his arms, presented it to Yang Guang, and replied: "Lord, this is the only object that Xia Guan and his people have found in Chang'an City so far that can show Zhang Xutuo's whereabouts after escaping from prison. ”

Yang Guang took the square towel in his hand, unfolded it and took a look, and saw that it was wrapped like a piece of coarse cloth torn from a human robe. Yang Guangdu took the coarse cloth in his hand, approached the bright place in the hall to take a closer look, and saw that the coarse cloth was dotted with a lot of bloodstains, and hurriedly turned around and asked Zhang Hengdao: "Jianping, where was this cloth found, can you be sure that it was torn off from Zhang Xutuo?" ”

Zhang Heng nodded solemnly and replied: "After a careful visit led by the lower officials for several days, this piece of coarse cloth with blood stains was found under a big tree outside the west gate of the old city of Chang'an. Therefore, Xia Guan deduced that after Zhang Xutuo escaped from prison, he probably had a fight with people and fled west. Before the prince arrived in Beijing, Xia Guan had ordered Pei Qiantong to chase all the way to the west. ”

"According to you, after Zhang Xutuo escaped from prison that day, he obviously didn't have a fight with the officials of Jingzhao Mansion, but mostly fought with the group of people who lured him to escape from prison and then wanted to kill him, and was forced to flee west, right?" Yang Guang's gaze was fixed on the bloodstains on the coarse cloth in his hand, and he asked with a gloomy face.

"The prince clearly saw that the lower officials guessed that the same was probably the case. However, the lower officials need to remind the prince to pay attention to the fact that this group of people can not only successfully force Zhang Xutuo to escape from prison to save his life, but also be able to encircle and kill Zhang Xutuo in the imperial capital Chang'an. The prince must not take it lightly. ”

"Mobilize the six rates of the East Palace and kill Zhang Xutuo? Jianping, do you mean that the prince has learned about this? Because he knew that the sixth rate of the East Palace was not the crown prince Yang Yong himself, and no one else in the East Palace had the right to call it without authorization, Yang Guang was secretly taken aback when he heard Zhang Heng infer that the sixth rate of the East Palace was likely to be involved in this matter, and blurted out a question.

"Quite the opposite. Xia Guan can say with certainty that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still knows nothing about this matter now, otherwise, Xia Guan led people to cooperate with Su Fu Yin to search inside and outside Chang'an for many days, and it would have been long overdue to find Zhang Xutuo's body. Zhang Heng replied calmly.

Yang Guang didn't quite understand what Zhang Heng came to such a conclusion on at first, but when he thought about it from a different angle, he already understood what Zhang Heng meant: If the prince himself learned that his concubine was spied on by Zhang Xutuo, there was no need to force him to escape from prison, and he would directly force Su Wei to hand over Zhang Xutuo to the East Palace for disposal. The reason why the opponents came to risk alarming the emperor and took great pains to trick Zhang Xutuo into escaping from prison and then killing him shows that they are also afraid that once this matter is known by the crown prince in the future, it will be very disadvantageous to them.