"Assassinate the ministers, this ...... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince admitted it? ”

In the evening, Xie An, who came out of Zongzheng Temple, said goodbye to Xun Zheng, Wen Qin and others, and rode back to Donggong Mansion with Liang Qiuwu in a carriage. Fastest update 78 novels //

On the carriage, Liang Qiuwu asked the doubts that had been held in his heart for a long time.

Looking at Liang Qiu Wu's stunned appearance, Xie An couldn't help but feel a little love, while reaching out to sort out a strand of messy hair next to Liang Qiu Wu's sideburns, he said with a smile, "Colluding with assassins and assassinating courtiers, will the prince admit this heinous crime?" ”

Liang Qiuwu was stunned, grabbed Xie An's strange hand, and said suspiciously, "An, but you just said ......."

"I didn't admit it, but I didn't ......deny it either," interrupting Liang Qiuwu's words, Xie An said in a condensed voice, "What does this mean?" - He acquiesced, acquiesced in sending assassins to assassinate the ministers last night! ”

Liang Qiuwu sighed when he heard this, shook his head and said, "The dignified prince and prince have done such a thing, this is really ......."

Looking at the look of disgust in her eyes, Xie An chuckled and shook his head, and said lightly, "What do you think this is?" This is a battle for succession, how can there be any favor? As he spoke, he paused, licked his lips and said, "I just chatted with Li Wei in the meditation room, and I found that I underestimated that guy a little in the past......

“……”

"Although that guy is still so hateful, I have to say that his original plan can be said to be perfect...... can not only get the criminal department quietly, but also eradicate the henchmen of the third prince Li Shen in the military, and also put the black pot of all this on the back of the eighth prince Li Xian...... What a plan to kill three birds with one stone! ――When I saw Brother Wang Dan earlier, I knew it clearly. The staff of the crown prince Li Wei...... It's really not easy to match! ”

Liang Qiuwu thought for a while when he heard this, shook his head and said, "An, I still don't understand what you said, if the crown prince really wants to blame the eighth prince for this matter, why did he send an assassin to assassinate him?" ”

"This is the cleverness of the crown prince Li Wei! - Well, or rather, the genius of the staff around him! Looking at Liang Qiuwu, who looked puzzled, Xie An slowly explained, "What happened last night. The crown prince Li Wei deliberately wanted to make people think that it was the hand of the eighth prince Li Xian, and for this reason, he did not hesitate to sacrifice Zhan Shi Zhou Zheng of Zhan Shifu...... In the eyes of others, the people on the side of the crown prince Li Wei and the third prince Li Shen were killed inexplicably, and they would subconsciously confirm the murderer as the eighth prince, right? ”

"What does this have to do with him deliberately sending someone to assassinate Li Xian?"

"Don't worry, isn't that all there is to it! - Who is Li Xian, even if it is me, I have heard many times that he has been smart since childhood. The intelligence is not inferior to the woman of the eldest grandson Xiangyu...... Since the crown prince Li Wei wants to frame Li Xian, he must create something that is in line with Li Xian's wisdom. For example, pretending to assassinate Li Xian...... In this way, the ministers who already knew Li Xian's wisdom would subconsciously link the two assassinations before and after, and subjectively judged that Li Xian deliberately created signs of assassination in order to assassinate that minister, so as to get rid of suspicion...... This is the set of the crown prince Li Wei for the eighth prince Li Xian! - Calculation of the plan! ”

Liang Qiu Wu was slightly stunned when he heard this, thought for a long time, frowned and said, "You mean." The assassin last night didn't want to be unfavorable to the Eighth Prince Li Xian at all? - Is there any evidence? ”

"Evidence?" Xie An smiled, shook his head and said, "This person's identity is evidence!" - If she really wanted to kill Li Xian, she would have succeeded a long time ago, but what was the result? According to Fei Guo, yesterday she was satisfied with several of Li Xian's escorts. Even, he has never stepped into Li Xian's three zhang radius...... Does this look like he wants to assassinate Li Xian? ”

"The identity of this person?" Liang Qiuwu's eyes became more and more suspicious, and he asked suspiciously, "Ann." Do you recognize the Assassin? ”

"It's not just me, you know it! ――Remember, who made you bleed and hurt that day? Xie An asked meaningfully.

"......" Liang Qiuwu looked at Xie An in surprise when she heard this, under Xie An's stunned gaze, a little blush appeared on her face, as if she was angry, and said, "Mention ...... What did you do about that thing? ”

"What about it?" Xie An was confused, looked at Liang Qiu Wu strangely, thought about it carefully, and suddenly became angry and funny, raised his right hand, and gently knocked on Liang Qiu Wu's head with the knuckle of his index finger, and said angrily, "What is the little brain thinking about?" - I passed out last night, could I be the assassin who assassinated Li Xian? ”

"I ...... How do I know, it's Ann that you didn't make it clear......" Liang Qiuwu, who was red-faced, said weakly.

This stupid woman is so stupid and cute, I wonder how she could have thought of that......

Shaking his head, Xie An said weakly, "Okay, okay, it's that I didn't make it clear...... A woman, a woman who hurts you! ”

"Women?" As soon as Xiu's eyes turned, Liang Qiuwu's eyes became much more solemn, and after a little hesitation, he frowned, and suddenly said, "Jin Ling'er? - I said why did the assassin look so familiar last night...... It turned out to be her?! Speaking of this, she seemed to suddenly think of something, looked at Xie An and frowned and said, "An, do you mean to say that the assassin who assassinated the ministers last night is her, the ghost Ji Jin Ling'er?" ”

Recalling Jin Ling'er's face in his mind, Xie An sighed inexplicably, and with a tone that seemed to be defending Jin Ling'er, he corrected, "I can only say that it is one of them!" - Wang Tian, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Hongde, the servant of the Criminal Department, Wu Su, the general of Xiaowei, Wang Chang, the general of the Light Cavalry, and Zhou Zheng of the Zhan Mansion, were all killed by her, while several other ministers of the court and the central government died at the hands of another group of assassins! ”

"Ann, why do you think so? - Oh, by the way, you just said there was something [wrong] in the place where the crime occurred......"

"That's right! - If it was the same group of Assassins, why did one side leave the lives of the servants and the other side brutally killed? Therefore, I concluded that there was a group of assassins who committed the murder last night in addition to Jin Ling'er...... Jin Ling'er is the head of the Jinling Dangerous Lou Assassin Pavilion, and the Dangerous Lou Assassin only kills the mission target under normal circumstances, and never involves others, unless his life is threatened, and the horsemen and sedan chair men of several adults last night are obviously not people who are proficient in martial arts. There was no threat to Jin Ling'er, so she didn't kill them, but just knocked them unconscious...... But the other group of assassins was different, that group of assassins did not follow the rules of the rivers and lakes at all, and even killed the master and his servants! As a result, there are several adults who have been killed but their servants have survived, and there are several adults who have been killed with their masters and servants......"

"I see!" Liang Qiuwu nodded suddenly, and then looked at Xie An, with a bit of relief and joy in his eyes.

Seeing this, Xie An smiled. moved closer to Liang Qiu and danced a few points, looked at her and said jokingly, "Do you suddenly feel that marrying me is not too wronged yourself?" ”

"Huh?" Liang Qiuwu was stunned, his face was surprised, and he asked in a hesitant manner, "An, are you...... How do you know? ”

"How do I know? Hey, it's all written on your face, isn't it? Xie An shrugged his shoulders amusedly.

"How can there be ......" Liang Qiu Wu looked away with some weakness. He also raised his right hand and touched his cheek unnaturally, suddenly. As if she had thought of something, she turned her head, looked at Xie An and asked suspiciously, "An, how do you know that Jin Ling'er won't kill irrelevant people?" ”

Looking at the slight doubt in Liang Qiuwu's eyes, Xie Anxin chuckled, and Gu Zuoyan said, "Pass ...... That's what the rumors say, isn't it? ”

"Oh. ...... so," Liang Qiu nodded convincingly.

Secretly glanced at Liang Qiuwu, and seeing that she was not suspicious, Xie Anxin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

In all fairness, Xie An didn't want to hide about Jin Ling'er from Liang Qiuwu and his eldest grandson Xiangyu, but he also knew that if he said something about Jin Ling'er at this moment. The consequences are often severe.

On Liang Qiuwu's side, she had already compromised once for the matter of her eldest grandson Xiangyu, and she was wronged once, thinking of her pitiful appearance with tears streaming down her face at that time. Xie An felt his heart blocked.

As for the eldest grandson Xiangyu's side, that woman just gave Xie An her virginity that had been preserved for nearly twenty years last night, but she didn't want the East Window incident to happen, and now she was confined to her home by her father, and was in a stage of extreme psychological uneasiness. After all, the eldest grandson, Xiangyu, was the most dangerous woman Xie An had ever seen.

In view of various reasons, Xie An had to temporarily conceal something about Jin Ling'er, firstly, because he was afraid that Liang Qiuwu and eldest grandson Xiangyu would react violently when they learned about it, and secondly, Jin Ling'er's current identity was too sensitive and embarrassing, and there were several bloody cases in front of her, even if Xie An wanted to exonerate her, but there was nothing he could do.

At the moment, the only thing Xie An can do is to try to curb the rumors, try not to spread the news that Jin Ling'er committed such a serious crime, or in other words, find Jin Ling'er in advance and persuade her to stop before the matter spreads.

On this day, Xie An had been waiting for Xiao Li, the assassin of the dangerous building, to contact him, but for some reason, it was clear that Jin Ling'er had done such a big thing yesterday, but Xiao Li had never come to report to him.

In Xie An's opinion, if it wasn't Jin Ling'er who was suspicious of Xiao Li, or Xiao Li's affair with him was broken by Jin Ling'er, so the little brother who turned his arms and hands out was put under house arrest.

In any case, this is not good news for Xie An, you must know that if Xie An can't find Jin Ling'er before the assassination of several courtiers is exposed, and stop her from making mistakes again and again, once the deeds are revealed, even if Xie An is now the secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, he will not be able to protect Jin Ling'er.

When Xie An and Liang Qiuwu returned to the Donggong Mansion, the old lady Liang Qiugong had also returned to the mansion from the palace, and was sitting in the living room of the main mansion drinking tea. ”

Xie An smiled bitterly and said, "The old lady made fun of the kid...... What [Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment], the old lady begged His Majesty for the boy, right? ”

"Hehehe," Liang Qiugong smiled noncommittally, and said with a smile while holding the teacup, "Liubu Shangshu, that's the official of my freshman year...... How does it feel? ”

Xie An thought for a while, and said with a wry smile, "If the kid says it, it doesn't feel very good, will the old lady believe it?" ”

"......" Liang Qiugong paused towards the movement of blowing in the tea bowl, glanced at Xie An, and said, "Tell me about it!" ”

Xie An licked his lips when he heard this, and said, "The kid has some ability, and he knows best, he can barely live as a young master in the Great Prison Temple, and as for the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, the first-class official in the court, ......"

"Huh!" Liang Qiugong smiled and took a sip of tea. Zhengse said, "It seems that you haven't been carried away by the sudden joy, so it saves the old man a lecture......

How can you get carried away with joy? ――If you think about it, you know that it is through the fame of the Liangqiu family......" Xie An said in a somewhat awkward tone.

Liang Qiu Gong glanced at Xie An when he heard this, and said with a smile, "What? I can't see it, how much do you kid pretend to be high? ――What happened to Liang Qiu's family? With the help of my Liang Qiu family's fame, what happened to the high-ranking officials? You need to know that you are married to a woman from my Liangqiu family! -- Okay, okay, give the old man less to get cheap and sell well...... Tell me, how is the case investigated? ”

A wry smile. Xie An told Liang Qiugong everything he knew, only to hear Liang Qiugong frowning frequently.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince acquiesced? ――It seems that Xuanwen guessed that the prince went to Zongzheng Temple this time to avoid trouble......"

"Xuanwen? Yin Gong? Xie An looked at Liang Qiugong in surprise.

"Hmm," Liang Qiugong nodded, stroked his beard and said, "When I left the palace, the old man and Xuanwen discussed the incident of last night, Xuanwen thought. Last night's incident was done by the prince, but there was something wrong with it...... Hear you say that now. The old man understood, if your boy's calculation is not wrong, the prince is afraid, and seeing that he was being designed, he deliberately quarreled with His Royal Highness in the morning, in order to go to Zongzheng Temple to avoid trouble, and try to dissociate himself from last night's incident......"

"......" Xie An secretly looked at Liang Qiugong's expression in surprise, and said secretly in his heart, it is really an old man. There are few people who live for a long time......

Perhaps noticing Xie An's strange expression, Liang Qiugong glared at him angrily, and then said, "Xiao An, what are you going to do now?" ――Report the prince? ”

"Well...... Xie An hesitated for a moment, then slowly shook his head. Hesitantly said, "The kid thinks it's better not to publicize this matter for the time being...... First, yesterday he instructed the Assassins to assassinate those adults. The crown prince is not alone; Second, even if the kid reported the prince, there was no evidence, and there was no basis for his words...... Why did the old lady ask such a question? - Could it be ......"

As if he had guessed what Xie Anxin was thinking, Liang Qiugong smiled slightly, and then his face turned correct, and he said in a deep voice, "Xiao An, Your Majesty asked the old man to bring you a sentence, and asked the old man to teach you what [to be sold at a price]!" -- The battle for the heir is very dangerous, and if you lose your footing for a while, there will be endless troubles in the future, so you must not stand on the wrong team! -- Your Majesty has asked you to pursue the case, and you will do your best to pursue the case, and you will not do anything superfluous, and you must not identify any prince until you have definitive evidence...... Even, even if the evidence is conclusive, you must not do anything superfluous, you only have to hand over the things that have been verified to the imperial court, and the court and your majesty will decide, remember, we are the ministers of the Great Zhou, and we shall not interfere in the affairs of the royal family at any time and place......"

What does the old lady mean by telling herself not to tear her face with any prince? Because any prince is likely to inherit the throne in the future?

The way to protect oneself......

With a slight pang in his heart, Xie An nodded solemnly, after all, he is no longer the one he was a year ago, and now he is the entire Liangqiu family behind him, his behavior towards something is related to the Liangqiu family's view of this matter, for example, if Xie An identified the prince Li Wei this time, and completely offended the prince's party who finally got along with him for a while, then the world will think that the Liangqiu family does not like the prince, if the prince Li Wei ascends the throne in the future, it will be natural, The Liangqiu family in Donggongfu will be in big trouble.

Seeing Xie An nodding, Liang Qiugong still seemed to be a little uneasy, and said in a deep voice, "The old man knows a little about the grievances between you and the prince...... However, as long as he is still the prince and prince one day, you can't make a move on him, whether it's open or dark! - Even if he is deposed in the future, you will not be able to take revenge yourself! -- Even if the crown prince is wrong, his majesty has his own guilt with Zongzheng Temple, and it is not our turn to be a courtier...... Got it? ”

"......" Looking at Liang Qiugong's slightly stern gaze, Xie An hesitated for a while and nodded hesitantly.

What do you mean?

That is to say, even if the crown prince Li Wei is deposed, if there is no intention of His Majesty, he will not be able to avenge Fu Bo?

This......

Thinking that he had sworn with Li Shou in front of the tomb of Fu Bo, the old housekeeper of the palace, to kill the crown prince Li Wei to avenge the old man, Xie An was a little depressed.

Late that night, in his own wing room in the Donggong Mansion, Xie An lay on the couch, pillowed his arms, and stared at the dark roof.

Perhaps it was because he was depressed that Liang Qiugong reminded him not to do anything unfavorable to the crown prince Li Wei, Xie An tossed and turned for a long time and couldn't sleep, so in desperation, he had to think about and analyze the case of the murder of more than ten ministers last night, so as to pass the time.

But there is one thing, Xie An really can't figure it out, he can't figure out why the other group of assassins killed the two adults, Zhang Ji, the servant of the Chinese book, and Cai Jin, the servant of the door.

It is undeniable that the Zhongshu Shilang and the Menxia Shilang have a high status, both the left and right hands of the Prime Minister, and the close attendant of the Son of Heaven, but then again, because the Great Zhou Dynasty is the Prime Minister system, there are six departments and nine temples under it, which makes the rights of the two official positions of Zhongshu Shilang and Menxia Shilang are not big, to put it mildly, that is, to give the prime minister a hand, pass on the oracle for the Emperor of the Great Zhou, or prepare an edict or something, and have the name of [the palace ministers], but in fact, it is only a high status, but there is no power, what do the people behind the scenes do to kill these two?

Hey? Wait a minute......

As if thinking of something, Xie An's face changed suddenly, and he sat up suddenly, staring intently at the candlestick on the side of the bed, his eyes narrowing slightly.

Preparing an edict?

For some reason, a slight smile appeared on the corner of Xie An's mouth.

"Oh, I see! ――Are you looking for [that]? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )