Gu Nian's question made Xiao Yue shake his head, and he said softly, "That piece of land is the dowry ...... of the Duchess of Yasukuni."

Gu Nian scratched her head when she heard this, this news completely stunned her.

"I have to think about it......" Gu Nian shook her head, which was completely unexpected by her.

She thought of King Ping, of any elderly prince in the capital, of a vassal king from other places, and even of the crown prince.

But she immediately overturned her idea, the prince was only in his thirties, and when he married the Ji family as a pawn to the King of Jin, how old he was.

It can't be the crown prince.

She also thought that it was the deceased British duke, if it was really a British duke, she would definitely not die so easily.

The age of the Duke of Yasukuni is about the same age as that of Emperor Yongping and Xiao Yi, which is in line with Ji's statement at that time that the mask man was young in shape and his voice was also young.

Otherwise, Ji would not have liked him.

Is it really Yasukuni?

Why is he? He is the companion of Emperor Xianyongping, he grew up together since childhood, and he is also good friends with Xiao Yi.

In that year, when Emperor Xianyongping set out on the expedition, he and the crown prince were in Beijing to supervise the country......

But he's not a princeling.

He has always looked to the emperor as the first horse.

But if it was he who passed the news to the enemy back then, and then Emperor Yongping would be besieged first, if it wasn't for Xiao Yi's appearance, then it would definitely be the crown prince who directly ascended the throne.

Thinking about it this way, I think it is very reasonable, but it is impossible to give up because of a temporary setback in planning and deploying such a big event.

And for so many years, Yasukuni Gong has not done anything out of the ordinary.

He was really clean, and he couldn't find any information related to the person behind him.

Perhaps, it's not that he didn't do it, it's just that they never set their eyes on him.

The more he thought about it, the more Gu Nian felt that Yasukuni Gong was so suspicious.

She remembered that Ji was in the Yasukuni Mansion at that time and the Duchess of Yasukuni wanted to design Xiao Yue and Ji Yu.

Yasukuni Gong is the head of the family, no matter how female protagonist is inside and male protagonist is outside, it is impossible for him to not let go of any manpower in the inner house.

How could he not know anything about the alliance between the Duchess of Yasukuni and the Ji family?

Xiao Yue frowned when she saw Gu Nian and rubbed her hair, "If it's really him, then there is a goal." ”

Gu Nian said, "This person is hidden in the dark, like a poisonous snake hiding in the grass, maybe he will pounce on it and bite it at any time, so he should be careful." ”

Xiao Yue also frowned and groaned, "Since there is a doubt, let's solve the doubt." ”

He called Dian Yi in, "From now on, twelve hours, to monitor the Duke of Yasukuni, where he has gone, and who he has met, we have to find out." ”

At the same time, he said to Gu Nian, "Do you remember the note that Manager Lu put in the Phoenix City Palace?" ”

Gu Nian nodded, "What happened later?" I've never heard you mention it. ”

Xiao Yue said, "I sent someone to guard for a long time that day, but I didn't see anyone to get the strip until we left, and it turned out to be a food delivery person."

At that time, the food delivery person pretended to be a small solution in front of the tree hole, but he did not reach out to explore the tree hole, and left after the small solution.

The person who was guarding in the dark was a good hand in the secret guard camp, Dark Seven, out of years of experience, he had his eyes on this vegetable farmer.

Before, he was instructed by me to follow the snake all the way.

The vegetable farmer, as if he was a serious person, did not behave in any other unusual way, but later, it was discovered that he had gone to a pawnshop in the city, and after that, the pawnbroker went to a house in the east of the city.

However, Dark Seven lost the man.

He kept watch outside for a long time, but he did not see the man come out, so he went into the house and saw that it was an empty house. ”

He turned back to the pawnshop and found that the man he was following had already returned to the pawnshop......

"That house has a greasy ......," Gu Nian said.

Xiao Yue nodded, "Indeed, later Dark Seven sent other people to investigate, and there was a secret passage leading to the outside of the city in that private house, and the people who came to the pawnshop should have found that someone was following, so they made a false shot......"

"Now, the pawnshop man is coming to the capital, and Dark Seven has also come back with him, so let's see who he will go to."

Gu Nian really wanted to make sure whose black hand the people over there in Phoenix City had reached in.

She frowned and said, "Is it okay for Dark Seven to continue to follow that person?" If he made a false shot at the house, could it be that it is also false now? Just to let Dark Seven follow him away, so that it can be convenient for other accomplices? ”

Xiao Yue paused, "Dark Seven has a lot of experience, and he will take over from Dark One in the future and become the commander of the next Dark Guard Battalion......"

However, Xiao Yue still called people in and ordered them to go down, so that the remaining people in southern Xinjiang should not relax.

Gu Nian didn't know how many manpower Xiao Yue had available for use. However, no matter how many people there are, it is too difficult to deploy on both sides.

She said, "Do you have enough men?" Why don't you find your father to allocate some manpower over? ”

Xiao Yue shook his head, it was not that he didn't trust Gu Shi'an, but that he didn't want Gu Shi'an to know the true identity of Emperor Yongping for the time being......

Now, it's not the time to confess to him.

Xiao Yue didn't know that Gu Shi'an had already gotten a plausible answer from the British duke.

During this time, Gu Shi'an was also very busy, when he came back from Jiangnan, he went directly to southern Xinjiang to see Niannian, and after Niannian came back, he went to the palace to report to Emperor Yongping about the situation he found in Jiangnan.

In fact, Emperor Yongping also knew that the assassination of the Four Princes' Mansion was just that the Four Princes were diverting the target and blaming Gu Shi'an.

After he heard Gu Shi'an's report, he was still relieved, after all, in the past, King Su's power was too great.

If it is not completely closed, it will be a big problem.

On this day, he came back from the yamen, passed by the candied fruit shop, and remembered that Gu Nian had liked these since he was pregnant, so he weighed two packs and asked his entourage Nanshan to carry them.

Seeing that it was too late, he went back to King Su's Mansion and prepared to go to King Jin's Mansion the next day to give it to Gu Nian.

There was only one master in King Su's Mansion, Gu Shi'an, and the mansion was quiet, until the second gate, he suddenly stopped and ordered,

"Put the candied fruit away, don't let the insects and ants crawl ......"

Nanshan stopped in Gu Shi'an's footsteps, and he also stopped, and before he could reply, his eyes were already rapidly focused on somewhere behind Gu Shi'an.

Gu Shi'an frowned and turned around, only to see that there was a tall man in black like an iron tower under the corridor.

This person was obviously just standing there, he just showed a pair of ordinary eyes, but the sense of oppression emanating from his body made people have to immediately feel vigilant.

"Who are you!" Gu Shi'an said.

Nanshan had quickly blocked in front of Gu Shi'an.

The man in black stood under the corridor for a long time, then put down the hand that was copied on his chest, raised his feet and walked over, without saying a word, and when he was a few steps away from Gu Shi'an, he suddenly bent down and pulled out a soft sword from his waist.

I saw him dancing with a sword in the middle of the courtyard.

This man was tall, and the soft sword did not feel unworthy in his hand in the slightest.

Gu Shi stood there quietly, and after seeing a few moves, his eyes showed surprise, he endured the shock in his heart, and asked in shock, "Who is Your Excellency?" ”

The man in black did not answer, but waited until the last dance was over, put away the soft sword, and walked to Gu Shi'an.

Gu Shi'an has already passed and is tall, but standing in front of the man in black, he can still feel a sense of oppression.

Not only because of the other party's height, but because of the aura emanating from the other party's body, the kind of aura that was so cold that it was close to death.

"King Su, Gu Shi'an, is it?"

He looked at Gu Shi'an, his tone was calm and steady, not as cold as the breath on his body.

Moreover, Gu Shi'an even heard a trace of respect in this tone.

Gu Shi'an said steadily, "Exactly, Your Excellency?" ”

I saw the man in black take out a white silk cloth from his arms, with a few lines of words written on it, and the important thing is that the seal on it is the big seal of King Su back then!

The man in black saw Gu Shi'an looking at the big seal, he didn't move for a long time, his eyes flashed slightly, and he said, "Under Wang Hu." At that time, he was a guard captain in the Qinglong Guard, King Su, and was later placed in the current Chinese military camp by the prince.

Today, he is a staff general in the Chinese military camp. ”

When Gu Shi'an heard this, his steps couldn't help but step back.

Qinglongwei, he knew about it in King Su's codex. said that it was Qinglongwei, but it was actually a battalion of dead soldiers.

Gu Shi'an stared at Wang Hu tightly, "You just said that the military camp in China?" His face changed.

"Exactly." Wang Hu replied, "Not only that, as far as I know, there should be a few brothers inside, but I don't recognize who they are." ”

Gu Shi'an was not thinking about this, but about the subordinates of King Su who had been taken in.

He steadied himself and said, "Let's go into the house and say." ”

……

In the palace, in the palace of nourishing the heart, Emperor Yongping sat cross-legged on the kang to watch the excerpts, and the father-in-law stood on the side, and the little eunuch outside came in to report that the queen had made a sweet soup and sent it over.

Emperor Yongping threw the fold in his hand onto the small table, loosened his muscles, and ordered, "Just let someone put down the things." ”

The little eunuch said, "Niangniang personally sent it." ”

Emperor Yongping's hand rubbing his shoulder paused, and he was silent for a while, "Let her in." ”

For so many years, he has not been close to the women of the harem, even the palace maids have not been touched, these women are all the women of that person, and he will not move.

He can't remember how long it has been since he has been close to a woman, did he start by knowing that Yun Niang is the person he is looking for?

Or did it start after being drunk and violating Yun Niang?

He really doesn't remember, at first it was because he had just taken over the government and had to adapt to his new identity, so he had no time to take care of it.

Later, when he thought of Yun Niang's death, he had no nature.

For so many years, the ascetic life, he felt that it was not bad.

The queen mother came in with two palace people carrying food boxes, and after greeting Emperor Yongping, Emperor Yongping pointed to the end of the kang table, "Sit down." ”

The queen sat down according to her words, saw that the kang table was full of folds, rolled up her sleeves and tidied them up, and while tidying up, she said angrily,

"Every time the Chinese New Year comes, the concubines are very envious of those people.

No matter how hard and tired they are on weekdays, they can start from the end of the year until the fifteenth day of the New Year, when the yamen is sealed, the courtiers do not need to be on duty, and the people do not need to go to the ground, they can reunite at home and enjoy their family. ”

Emperor Yongping used a few mouthfuls of sweet soup offered by the palace people, put down the bowl in his hand, and sighed, "Yes, although I am the king of a country, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, but the joy of family is indeed not as good as those ministers, let alone the people." ”

He thought of how happy he was when he was still 'Xiao Yi' in the past, before he married a wife, he spent the New Year with his mother and brother.

Later, when he had a child, although he and Ji had a rift, he also took Yue'er to see the lanterns......

It was like a dream, and it would never happen again.

The queen mother naturally didn't know what Emperor Yongping was thinking, she sorted out the folds on the table, got up, walked to his side, and raised her hand to help Emperor Yongping pinch his sore neck.

Emperor Yongping blocked her hand and said with a smile, "At the end of the year, you are tired of taking care of palace affairs, and there are so many people waiting here, you sit and talk to me." ”

The queen thought that many years ago, he didn't say that, he said that he was tired and tired, and he hoped that she could help him rub it......

She withdrew her hand, sat down in the position just now, slowly helped grind the ink, and said, "If it gets colder and colder today, Your Majesty must take care of yourself, the concubine heard that when she was in court today, the minister dozed off and fell down the steps, and his front teeth fell out......

After speaking, she pursed her lips and smiled, "The emperor has been prosperous for thousands of years, and now the court is pure and clear, and these capable ministers have made great contributions." ”

Emperor Yongping also laughed and said, "Yes, that's Honglu Siqing, who is over seventy years old this year, and everyone else is already old at this age."

But this old man refused to do anything, even if the memoranda of the imperial history impeaching him was piled up on the desk, he didn't see him move.

I thought that he was an old minister of the Three Dynasties, and that he had always been safe and loyal, so I went with him. ”

Saying that, Emperor Yongping couldn't help laughing, "When people are old, their experience is not good, and I accidentally dozed off at today's court meeting, fell down, and lost my only two front teeth......

"He threw such a big ugly man at the court meeting, and knelt down while covering his mouth and begging the bones to tell the old man, I approved it on the spot, and I did not investigate him for the crime of losing honor in front of the palace, and rewarded him with good land and gold and silver."

"Your Majesty is kind." The queen mother praised, "Speaking of which, the concubines also think of tomorrow's winter solstice banquet, as well as the next New Year's Day celebration."

Among the women who came to congratulate, there were also old ladies who were older than Honglu Siqing, and some of them were already in their eighties.

The high grade is good, you can go to the inner hall to hide from the wind, but those with low grades have to be lined up outside the hall, kneeling and worshiping during the New Year, the cold wind outside is biting, and even the banquet is eaten in the wind. ”

The concubine thought about whether to build a shed or something outside, so as to block the wind and cold, and put a foot stove under the feet of one person to keep warm.

Asaga is the time to experience the majesty of the royal family, and we should have some warmth at the same time, right? ”

Emperor Yongping had never thought about this problem, he had always been the one sitting high in the inner hall, and he muttered, "It's hard for these old people to suffer this crime......

"It's just that letting the women worship has been around since ancient times, so how can it be easily modified?"

The queen mother got up, knelt on the side of the kang, and said, "Your Majesty, the ancestors set this rule so that they could feel the mighty imperial grace and royal majesty.

Now, revising this is still to let them feel the royal grace and royal majesty.

The concubines have the courage to ask Your Majesty Longen to pardon those old and frail women, seventy or eighty years old, as well as those who are pregnant, six or seven months old, and have difficulty moving, as well as those who have given birth to a child within three months of the court, as a sign of the emperor's grace. ”

When the queen mother said that she was six or seven months pregnant, Emperor Yongping suddenly remembered Gu Nian, she should also be this month, right?

He pondered for a moment and asked, "How is Princess Jin?" Last time, the queen mother called their husband and wife in to reprimand them because of the matter of the medical girl, and after she went back, was she okay? ”

The queen mother pursed her lips and said, "There is no bad news, but the queen mother, it seems that in order to make up for it, yesterday, she deliberately asked people to pass on the word of mouth, so as to avoid the winter solstice of Princess Jin, the first day of the first month, and the fifteenth day of the first month." ”

Emperor Yongping's eyes turned cold in an instant, and he said, "I didn't even know that there was such a thing? Whose wife did the Queen Mother exempt from the court? ”

The queen mother lowered her head and said, "No, there is only Princess Jin." ”

Emperor Yongping groaned for a while, and when he saw that the queen was still kneeling there, he motioned to his father-in-law, "Why don't you help the queen up?" Queen Mother, she is really getting older and more willful......"

After the queen mother got up, Emperor Yongping put his hand on the table and knocked, "I will play." ”

The queen said a few more words to the emperor, and saw that there were still so many twists and turns on the table, so she got up and said goodbye.

Out of the Heart Nourishing Palace, the queen exhaled heavily, as if to vent the depression in her heart.

The female official behind her stepped forward to support her and said, "Niangniang, the emperor has approved your invitation, you should be happy." ”

The queen shook her head, this time, she was entrusted by the prince, thinking that it was because of Xiao Yue that she would come here, the queen was not so happy in her heart.

For Xiao Yue, she didn't like it so much from the first sight, even if he assisted the prince wholeheartedly, and was even punished by Emperor Yongping for the sake of the prince.

She still doesn't like it.

She only had an intuition deep down that Xiao Yue would rob the prince of something.

*

In the evening of the same day, the Yongping Emperor's Ministry of Rites issued the last decree of the 22nd year of Chengping, pardoning all the ladies who were over 70 years old and infirm, who were more than six months pregnant, and who had given birth within three months.

As soon as the will came out, the elderly women in the capital were grateful, and they thanked the emperor in the direction of the imperial city.

They thought of the great pilgrimage in previous years, and every time they worshipped, it was as if they had gone for half a life, and it would take a long time to recover.

On the day of the winter solstice, Gu Nian slept peacefully until he woke up naturally, as for Xiao Yue, he braved the cold wind, ate first and participated in the court meeting, and went to the palace to attend a dinner party in the evening.

On an ordinary day, if there is anything special, it is the Ministry of Rites, saying that the five princesses have been gone for a long time and should marry the princess for the five princes, and there has been no birth of a baby in the palace for more than ten years, so please ask the emperor to have a spring draft......

For the five princes to marry concubines, Emperor Yongping approved, and the draft ...... Emperor Yongping rejected it without any reason.

The words lightly asked the Ministry of Rites to do what should be done.

After the winter solstice banquet, the fifth prince went to see Emperor Yongping, he knelt on the ground and pleaded, "Father, Erchen knows that the third sister has done something wrong, but she is Erchen's sister after all, and Erchen wants to visit her." ”

Emperor Yongping stared at the back of the fifth prince's head for a long time, and said, "You go." ”

The fifth prince kowtowed three times gratefully and bowed to leave.

Coming out of the palace, the five princes did not stop for a moment, and went directly to Huangjue Temple to see the three princesses.

He had thought about many scenes of meeting the third princess, but he had never thought of it like this.

The first thing the five princes saw was a three-foot-high wall, gray and black in color, and a sense of depression came to their faces when they looked at it.

If the wall here of the third princess is like this, then the fourth prince is there...... He didn't dare to imagine.

Should he be grateful that the emperor did not lock him up here, but only imprisoned him in the palace?

A high boxy wall, with no doors, only an inch-square opening, to send things in.

When the guards at the entrance of the cave saw the five princes coming, they came forward to salute him, and then shook a string of bells on the wall.

The sound of the bell rang crisply, and the five princes pursed their thin lips.

There was a sound of footsteps inside, accompanied by the sound of chains, and then an unkempt man appeared behind the mouth.

When the fifth prince saw that face, he immediately took a step back in shock.

I only heard an excited voice from inside, "Fifth Brother......" and then stretched out his hands, "Fifth Brother...... Fifth Brother ...... Help me......"

When the third princess saw the fifth prince, she immediately howled, waving her hands desperately.

"Fifth brother, are you here to save me? Let me out, let me out, I don't want to stay inside, I'm going crazy, I'm going to die......"

The three princesses cried heartbreakingly, and sobbing flowed.

She's really going crazy, no, she's crazy, she feels like she's being locked up and crazy.

From the moment she entered the Huangjue Temple, she arrived at this strange courtyard.

There was food, drink, and even books to read, but everything had to be done by yourself, cooking, boiling water, chopping wood, and washing clothes.

It's okay to do this, but she is the only one in it, and no one talks to her.

In the beginning, she couldn't make a fire, she couldn't cook, she could only eat raw, and when she burned the fire, her hair was ruffled a lot.

Clothes can't be washed at all, there are only a few sets of clothes that can be changed and washed, and if you don't wash them, you don't have to change them.

This is not a human life, she is a princess, a royal princess, how can she live such a life?

Later, she was hungry for three days, and the people outside brought her something to eat.

After eating, if she doesn't make it herself, she will continue to be hungry, and when she is no longer hungry, she will send something in from outside to prevent her from starving to death.

The fifth prince stepped forward to hold the hands of the third princess who were desperately waving, the hands that were delicate and round in the past were now only a handful of bones, and then looking at her skinny and sallow face, his eyes couldn't help but sour.

His sister used to be so delicate and beautiful.

At this moment, it is not as good as the beggars at the root of the imperial city.

The beggar is still free, but she is not even free.

He didn't dare to imagine what his mother would be like when she knew about her sister's life, he didn't dare to say.

"Fifth brother, fifth brother......" The third princess calmed down after the madness, she stared at the fifth prince directly, and grabbed the hands of the fifth prince tightly with both hands.

"Fifth brother, aren't you here to take me out?" Her hands had not been trimmed for a long time, and because of the force, the nails were deeply embedded in the flesh of the five princes.

"You let me out......," the third princess continued, as if saying this, the fifth prince would really let her out.

She is not stupid, how did she not find the strangeness of the five princes.

The fifth prince was sweating painfully when he was caught by her, but he didn't return his hand, he tried hard to say in a rigid voice, "Third sister, you did something wrong, your father asked you to reflect here, as long as you reflect, your father will naturally let you out." ”

The third princess shook her head desperately, what did she do wrong? She did nothing wrong. She couldn't listen to the words of the fifth prince, she only knew that she would continue to stay in this place.

She can't get out, she can't get out.

This cannibalistic place.

The third princess pounced, wanting to poke her head out of the window, and shouted hoarsely, "I already know it's wrong, I really know it's wrong, fifth brother, please, let me out."

Go and tell your father, I know it's wrong, I really know it's wrong. ”

She kept repeating, repeating, trying to lean out of the window, but she couldn't get out.

The fifth prince said softly, "Third sister, don't worry, I will definitely tell my father." ”

Actually, there is no need for him to say, when their brother and sister meet today, what they say and do, naturally someone will report it to their father.

If the father knew that the third sister was living such a life, he would definitely not be able to bear it, although he would not release the third sister immediately, but he would definitely improve the environment.

After all, this is his child.

Through the opening, the fifth prince saw the situation of the third princess clearly, her hair was knotted, messy, and her face, that face, I don't know how long it had not been washed.

I don't know how long I haven't changed the clothes on my body.

The third princess begged in a broken heart, "Fifth brother, this is not a place for people to stay, you must let me out, otherwise, I will die inside." ”

She said these words over and over again, and the fifth prince tried hard to force back her tears, knowing that the third princess was probably not in good spirits when she was locked up inside, and she couldn't understand it at the moment.

He said, "I will tell my father, and I will bring you food and utensils." ”

After speaking, he tried to withdraw his hand from the third princess's hand.

But when the third princess saw the five princes, it was like seeing the last straw, she held the hands of the five princes tightly, and the five princes wanted to withdraw their hands, but they could only be scratched by her fingernails.

The third princess cried and said, "Fifth brother, you have to help me avenge, if you don't help me avenge, I won't recognize you."

The father is eccentric, he is eccentric, you can't be eccentric.

Who is responsible for the way I am like this? It's all about that slut!

Why? Why do I just like Brother Jiu, why can't I like him? ”

The third princess suddenly slammed her head against the wall around the mouth, and the blood from the collision splashed on the body of the fifth prince.

His pupils contracted violently, and he wanted to stop the third princess's movements, "Third sister, third sister, you don't want to do this." ”

The guards standing not far behind the fifth prince saw the third princess's movements, and shouted neatly, "Go and call the imperial doctor." ”

Then, two guards skillfully pulled the rope hanging next to the bell, went up the wall, jumped over the wall, and jumped inside.

The five princes watched straight as the guards skillfully took the third princess away, and after a while, they saw one of the guards walking to the entrance,

"Lord, the princess is fine."

The fifth prince only felt cold, and he asked in a daze, "Is she often like this?" ”

"This is the tenth time."

"Does the Father know?"

"The big and small things here will be reported by the subordinates immediately."

After so many times, there was nothing else to tell except to send an imperial doctor to stay in the city.

The fifth prince moved his throat in despair, and stood there for a while in despair, before he said to the guard in a dry voice,

"Please take care of her."

The guards did not dare to accept the courtesy of the five princes, although the five princes had also been imprisoned, but he was still the prince, and now he was vaguely liked by the emperor.

The five princes were distracted, and left the Huangjue Temple with vain steps.

He originally wanted to go to see the Four Princes, but at the moment, he didn't dare to go.

He thought, when the crown prince takes the throne, probably, his fate will be worse than the third sister.

Such a life is worse than death.

He walked out of Huangjue Temple, it was dark inside, and the sun was dazzling outside, making his eyes blink twice unconsciously.

He stood there, head held straight, eyes closed, and let the tears of the sun run down his face.

"Lord Wang, I didn't expect to meet you here......"

The fifth prince turned his head and covered it with his hand, and saw that it was Yasukuni who was standing not far away, looking at him with a smile.

*