Leng Yi said in a low voice: "I suddenly thought of something, it was about the second prince, and I wanted to discuss it with you." ”

"Oh? What's the matter? Wang Jien asked.

"When I inquired about the accidental death of Da Ji Beauty during the day, I asked the second prince, and he once said that he thought that Da Ji Beauty was given death by the official family, so I didn't have to investigate, at that time I just thought he was a child, and I didn't think so, but now the more I think about it, the more uneasy I become. Now it has been found out that Da Ji Meiren died in an accident, but the second prince thought that it was given to him by the official family, and the second prince was young and didn't know the severity yet, so this kind of thing can't be said nonsense. If the Zheng family knows, it will be terrible. The more I thought about it, the more scared I became, and I had to give him a quick wake-up. But the official spoke humbly, and what he said had no weight. This kind of thing is only appropriate if you say it, after all, you are a person close to the official family, and your words are authoritative, and he will believe it. What do you think? ”

After hearing this, Wang Jien's face changed greatly, and he stomped his feet and said: "No wonder the Zheng family said that today, and called so many ministers, it turned out that it was the second prince who said this!" Presumably because he was forced by the Zheng family to ask him can't, and he said nonsense without basis, this is a big leak! No, I'll have to go to him and ask for clarification! ”

Wang Jien hurriedly walked to the second prince's side. Leng Yi followed, and when he arrived at the door, Leng Yi took the first step and said, "I'll knock on the door." ”

He knocked softly, and there was no movement inside. Leng Yi said loudly: "Second prince! Second prince, please open the door! I have an urgent matter with the king's minister. ”

But there was no sound inside.

Leng Yi said: "Nothing will happen again, right?" ”

Wang Jien's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly leaned on the window, looked in through the gap, and suddenly screamed in fright: "Oh no!" Someone hanged himself! ”

Leng Yi was also taken aback, took two steps back, and slammed forward, only to hear a bang, and the door was suddenly knocked open. Leng Yi staggered forward two steps, then stopped, looked up, and was also startled: "What's the matter?" ”

Wang Jien stepped in, and immediately saw Zhao Yuanxu lying on the ground, his head was in a pool of blood, motionless, and his face couldn't help but change color, he hurriedly stepped forward, probed his nose, and said in a panic: "Oh no!" The second prince is dead! ”

Leng Yi came over and sniffed, shook his head, stood up, looked up at the old eunuch hanging on the beam, and said to Wang Jien: "What should I do?" ”

Wang Jien said: "You look at the scene, I'll go to report to the official's house!" ”

"Good!"

Wang Jien came out, walked quickly to Zhao Guangyi's meditation room, walked to Zhao Guangyi's bed, bowed down and said, "Official! The official family is not good! ”

Zhao Guangyi was drunk and groggy, but he was worried about things, so Wang Jien screamed, he woke up immediately, opened the curtain, and asked unhappily: "What's wrong?" ”

Wang Jien stepped forward half a step further: "Just now, the old slave went to talk to Lord Leng to talk to the second prince, and found that the door was closed and could not be opened. The old slave saw through the crack in the window that the second prince's attendant had been hanged in the house. After telling Lord Leng, he knocked open the door and found that the second prince had ...... him, and he had died on the ground. ”

"Huh?" Zhao Guangyi looked surprised, "How did you die?" ”

"I should have stumbled and fell, hit my head on the corner of the coffee table, and bled to death. The specifics are not clear, by the way, the eunuch who served him also died, and he was hanged. ”

Zhao Guangyi understood that this was Leng Yi's arrangement, so he got out of bed: "Dress me!" ”

Wang Jien hurriedly served Zhao Guangyi and wore a dragon robe.

Zhao Guangyi put on a dragon robe, took Wang Jien and Long Zhen, and walked quickly to Zhao Yuanxi's meditation room.

Zhao Guangyi stepped in, looked at it, couldn't help but take two steps back, and then stepped forward and supported Zhao Yuanxi on the ground: "You'er!" Wake up......! "The cry was loud and crying.

Wang Jien hurriedly stepped forward and whispered: "The official family mourns, the second prince, he ......, he has already gone to ......"

Zhao Guangyi sighed, hugged the corpse and cried loudly.

This cry is really crying out to the sky and the earth, and people can't help but shed tears of sympathy when they hear it.

Leng Yi watched from the sidelines, thinking that this Zhao Guangyi is really a genius in acting, and he actually acted so realistically.

His cry soon woke up all the concubines and the little princes and princesses. One by one, they ran to check in a panic, and when they learned that it was the accidental death of the second prince, they all cried loudly. For a while, the whole temple was full of crying.

Zhao Guangyi finally stopped crying, put down Zhao Yuanxi, got up and asked Leng Yi: "How did the second prince die, have you checked it?" ”

"Just now, Wei Chen simply checked the situation in the room, and he has not inspected the second prince yet."

"Okay, you check it out immediately, I'm waiting for your news outside!"

After that, Zhao Guangyi came out and stood under the corridor, and when those concubines saw him come out, they cried even harder, even more vigorously, even more afraid that their own flesh and blood were dead, and they had never been so sad.

After Leng Yi inspected the corpse, he put down the body of the old eunuch on the hanging beam and examined it. Then, Leng Yi walked out and bowed to Zhao Guangyi, who was standing under the corridor, and said, "Back to the official's house, the second prince and his personal attendant have no other external injuries on their bodies. The latch of the door was fastened from the inside, and there was no sign of outsiders sneaking into the scene. Judging from the situation at the scene, it should be that the second prince was drinking and drinking alone in the room, and the old eunuch poured tea for him with a teapot, but accidentally the teapot was overturned and spilled on the second prince's head and face. The second prince was poured with hot tea, panicked under severe pain, unfortunately fell down, and his head just hit the coffee table, and unfortunately passed away. The old eunuch regretted his guilt and was afraid of being responsible, so he committed suicide in fear of sin. Hanged in the house. ”

Zhao Guangyi nodded: "Bring the latch to me." ”

Leng Yi hurriedly took the door latch that was broken into two sections to Zhao Guangyi. Zhao Guangyi took a closer look and said, "That's right, it was smashed, which means that the second prince and his attendants were both in the house at the time, and closed the door from the inside." The doors and windows are closed, and it seems that my son did fall and die by accident. With that, he raised the sleeve of his robe to wipe away his tears.

When the concubines, little princes and princesses under the corridor heard this, they all cried.

Wang Jien, who was next to him, stepped forward and bowed and said: "The eunuch who followed the second prince did not take good care of the second prince, so that the second prince was in trouble, and he should be punished. ”

Zhao Guangyi shook his head sadly and said: "Forget it, compared to him, he didn't mean it, he has committed suicide to apologize, so let's stop it." ”

"Yes!"

"Spread my will, posthumously crown Xu'er as the crown prince, and be filial piety. And the Ministry of Rites will arrange the funeral according to this etiquette. ”

"The old slave obeys!"

Zhao Guangyi turned around and looked at Zhao Yuanxi's body on the ground, cried for a while, and then returned to his residence. That night, he couldn't sleep all night.

Early the next morning, someone from the Ministry of Rites transported Zhao Yuanxi's body away for the funeral.

Zhao Guangyi asked Leng Yi to report the accidental death of Zhao Yuanxi, the second prince of Mrs. Hua Rui, in the meditation room, and invited him to have lunch with him to apologize for what happened last night.

Leng Yi went, and soon came back, and said to Zhao Guangyi with a bitter face: "Hua Rui Niangniang said, please mourn the official family." She was busy with her cultivation, and she had already delayed her cultivation in the past two days, so she really couldn't accompany her anymore. I ask for your forgiveness. He also said that the official family should not delay too much time here, and should go back to take care of state affairs. The mother will not come to send each other, please forgive me. ”

Zhao Guangyi was very disappointed and said, "Then did you say that I apologized?" ”

"Having said that, Madame Blossom has no comment."

Zhao Guangyi said dejectedly: "She's angry and doesn't want to pay attention to me." Alas! ”

Leng Yi hurriedly said: "The official family doesn't have to worry, wait for a while." ”

"That's all it can be. Let's get back! ”

Wang Jien hurriedly agreed, came out, and said in a long voice: "The official family will drive back to the palace!" ”

So, the concubines also packed up their things, hugged each other, went out of Nanke Temple, and returned to the palace.

When Zhao Guangyi returned to the palace, a personal eunuch held a large stack of folds and placed them in front of him. Zhao Guangyi frowned and said, "Didn't I give orders?" The recitals of officials below the fourth grade, first send them to Lord Leng for him to see, and then give them to me? ”

The eunuch hurriedly smiled and said, "Officials, these are all officials above the third grade." ”

Zhao Guangyi was taken aback, you must know that these officials above the third grade have weight in their words, and they are all scheming and calculating, and they don't speak easily. Therefore, they don't play much, at most a few copies a day. It's rare to see a stack like this.

Zhao Guangyi took a notebook, and the payment on it was Prime Minister Xue Juzheng. This memora talks about Zheng En's military exploits and his kindness to the first emperor, and suggests that the official family should give Zheng En a meritorious monument.

If this fold was before Da Ji Beauty's accidental death, Zhao Guangyi wouldn't have thought about it a lot, but as soon as Da Ji Beauty died, the school residents took such a fold, and Zhao Guangyi couldn't help but think about it.

He put down the fold and picked up another one, but it was the fold of the privy envoy Chu Zhaofu, who was equivalent to the Minister of Defense. He still writes about Zheng Eun's past. It's just that the ending is different from Chu Zhaofu, he didn't suggest a monument to Zheng En, but bluntly said that the official family should make public the reason for giving Daji a beauty to death. Especially to Zheng En's family, so as not to criticize.

Zhao Guangyi was very inexplicable, thinking, when did he give the order to kill Daji? And what reason is it disclosed?

Zhao Guangyi angrily threw the fold aside, and picked up another copy, but it was the Chinese book that ordered Shi to keep his word. The content is the same as Chu Zhaofu's.

He then looked at it, and most of the content of this pile of twists and turns was the same, all involving Zheng En and Da Ji Beauty. Moreover, most of them directly said that the official family should not give Da Ji a beauty, or that the reason for giving Da Ji a beauty should be made public and blocked everyone's mouth.

During the Song Dynasty, the relationship between monarchs and ministers was not as strict as that in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and courtiers dared to express their thoughts bluntly. Moreover, officials above the third rank are either old qualifications such as the founding fathers, or talented and brave civil servants. Therefore, the words in the fold are naturally not so good.

Zhao Guangyi didn't wait to finish reading all the twists and turns, he was already furious, and said, "Call Chu Zhaofu, Shi Shouxin, and Xue Juzheng to me!" I'm going to ask them face to face, when did I decree the death of Daji's beauty? ”

――――――――――――― Leng Yi returned home, Zhuo Qiaoniang and Xiao Zhouhou were both happy, Zhuo Qiaoniang said: "Official, what have you been busy in the palace for the past two days?" Two days and two nights to go home? ”

Without waiting for Leng Yi to answer, Xiao Zhouhou had already preemptively said: "Sister! It's best not to ask about my brother's affairs in the palace, there are some things that my brother can't answer you well. ”

Zhuo Qiaoniang suddenly woke up and stuck out her tongue.

Leng Yi smiled: "It's nothing." However, something happened in the past two days, I accompanied the official family to the Nanke Temple in the inner court to send the portrait of the first emperor for worship, and as a result, two people died in two nights! ”

Zhuo Qiaoniang and Xiao Zhouhou were taken aback. Look at him.

Leng Yi said: "On the first night, the first emperor's beauty Daji died unexpectedly, she fell, hit the back of her head on the blue brick floor, turned over and lay in the pile of clothes, and suffocated to death. ”

Xiao Zhouhou nodded: "We have also heard that many ministers have gone to Da Ji Beauty's mother's house, and there are still a lot of discussions. ”

"Oh? What to discuss? ”

Xiao Zhouhou smiled: "I'm not a nosy person, it's just that yesterday afternoon, Princess Li, the wife of Zhao Tingmei, the king of Qi, came, and when the three of us were chatting, she said about it." King Qi also went to Zheng's house, and heard that many important ministers of the court, such as the prime minister, deputy minister, and privy envoy, went. It's because of the death of Daji Beauty. ”

"Her death? Didn't she die unexpectedly? ”

"Princess Li said no!" Xiao Zhou lowered his voice and said, "It was the official family who gave him death!" ”

"Who said that?"

"It was the second prince Zhao Yuanxi who said it personally in the Zheng family! Princess Li was also there at the time. I heard it with my own ears. ”

Leng Yi frowned: "What did he say?" What did he say? ”

He said that the official family didn't know what the reason, and was very angry with Da Ji Beauty, so he asked the official family's Imperial Obi Ryu to enter the house through the window at night, kill Da Ji Beauty, and then disguise herself as her suicide. Moreover, this matter was seen by Lianqiu, the maid of the eldest princess of Wei! He said that he had reported it to you, but it seemed that you didn't dare to say it. ”

Leng Yi smiled bitterly: "It's not that I don't dare to say it, it's that this is a non-existent thing, and she may have seen it wrong." ”

"You can't go wrong!" Xiao Zhou said: "Princess Li said, they quietly took Lianqiu out of the palace through the relationship in the palace the night before yesterday, and a group of ministers surrounded her and asked repeatedly for a long time, she said that it was indeed what she saw with her own eyes, but she was afraid of Long Zhen, so she didn't say it." Later, it was my brother who investigated the case, and she said it. After listening to it, Zhongshu made Shi Shouxin and the others very angry, - they are not angry with you, they are angry with the official family, why did they kill Zheng En, but also kill his own sister, what kind of big mistake did his sister make, and the official family wanted to kill her? You must know that she is not the concubine of the official family, she is the concubine of the first emperor, and the official family has no great reason to directly give death to the first emperor. However, since it is a big deal, why not connect with the people of the Zheng family? And, if death is given, why not give a reason? These ministers were so angry that they went to the officials' homes to ask for an explanation! ”

(To be continued)