What is the truth of the matter, Liu Yue doesn't know what to do, and he can't make up his mind. Moreover, now that Su Bi is angry, if there is solid evidence for what she has decided, she will also think that it is a false accusation, and it is useless to explain it to her.

"How the princess feels, that's how it is." Liu Yu said, "It's better for the princess to come back after asking the emperor's will, so no one can stop her." ”

Obviously that Liu Yu didn't give her face, Su Bi glared at him angrily, and said, "You wait, this palace will go and ask for a decree!" ”

Seeing the four princesses leaving, the surrounding Imperial Forest Army soldiers finally breathed a sigh of relief. The fourth princess is notoriously arrogant, and if she really breaks in, she will inevitably be condemned. Commander Liu was able to make the fourth princess compromise, and the guards looked at Liu Yu with a little more reverence in their eyes.

"Don't forget your duties." When parting, Liu Yu reminded the guards.

After walking out with Qi'er for a while, Qi'er asked, "Brother Liu, where are you going?" ”

"Go blind, leave that place, lest your fourth sister come back and trouble me again. Wait for Mr. Han to come out and ask him to take us to see your mother, do you want to go? ”

Qi'er nodded and said, "Qi'er also wants to see her mother." ”

"Little stammer, not with you?" Liu Yu thought of Wu Shuo, and it stands to reason that they should be inseparable.

"I don't know what to say, Yaya didn't come out today, I was still waiting for her, but I heard that my mother had an accident."

Liu Yu really wanted to take Qi'er to Old Man Wu to ask him what he talked about with the old emperor last night, because Liu Yu had a bad idea in his heart, this poison may have been ordered by the old emperor, and Concubine Qin and the other three just happened to meet him, referring to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to kill Mrs. Gouyi. No matter how low-key Mrs. Trolling is now. It is inevitable that she will become an authoritarian queen mother in the future.

In addition, since ancient times, the emperor Bintian has the tradition of concubines being buried and buryed.

There are some things that you have to endure. Wu You can't see him for the time being. When Han Sheng came out, Liu Yu proposed to meet the three concubines who committed the crime, Han Sheng looked embarrassed, and said, "What the emperor means, the three imperial concubines can't see people for the time being." ”

Even her mother couldn't see her, Qi'er cried anxiously again, Liu Yue comforted a few words, and Qi'er held back her tears. At this time, someone came over from the Yaqian Hall to spread the word. It was said that the emperor summoned the commander of the Imperial Forest Army.

Liu Yu hurriedly went to see the old emperor, and in the Yaqian Palace, the old emperor was still coughing, and he seemed to be in good spirits, and it seemed that he had not become depressed because of the poisoning case that happened today.

"Wen Yan, you are the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, what do you think should be done with such a thing in the palace?"

Liu Yue could hear the meaning of these words, not to say how to investigate and collect evidence, but to directly say how to deal with it, the old emperor meant that he wanted to sit down on this matter. Either the old emperor ordered someone to poison him. Either that, the old emperor has decided that there is no suspense about the matter. In short, the emperor's attitude was very unfavorable to the three concubines of Qin.

Liu Yu said respectfully: "Back to the emperor, the poison is not owned in the palace. Entering the palace, the minister was negligent. Please ask the emperor to condemn the crime. ”

The old emperor sighed: "There are a lot of people in the palace, if you deliberately entrain and hide privately, and it is not as conspicuous as a weapon, it is difficult to find out." Get up, Wen Yan, you are not at fault in this matter. ”

"Your Majesty." Liu Yu continued, "The minister has another proposal. ”

"Oh, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

"The minister thought that if there was a case of poisoning in the palace, the three palace gates should be temporarily closed, leaving only one main gate, and the guards should strictly check the people entering and leaving, etc., and register for the record, so as to maintain order and stability in the palace, and second, to find out the people who brought poison into the palace."

Liu Yu's proposal was close to martial law in the palace, and it was definitely not the case in the palace when it mattered. But now not only has there been a poisoning case, but also when the throne is about to change, the old emperor thought for a moment, and then nodded and said: "It should be like this, and the matter will be handed over to Wen Yan to handle it." ”

The martial law in the palace means that everyone who comes and goes has to be searched by the Imperial Forest Army, and whoever enters will register for the record, and Liu Yu will know it well. A poisoning case put the entire palace under control, and Liu Yu suddenly felt that he was sure of the overall situation.

After Liu Yu left the front hall, he wanted to go into the inner court with Qi'er again, but when he heard that Su Bi was still arguing with the guards at the door, it meant that the emperor did not allow her to enter the inner court, so Liu Yu didn't want to join in the fun.

For Yang Lie's instruct to close the three doors and leave only the main gate to enter and exit, Liu Yue first asked Qi'er to go back and wait for news, and he also had to go home for lunch.

The Forward General's Mansion is also very busy, not because of changes in the palace, but because the wedding of his daughter's deputy marshal Xu Caihua is imminent. The house was full of joy, and there were a lot of dowries ready for Lu, as Xu Caihua's "mother's family", Xu Xuanzhu was helping to prepare.

"Wang Shangshu also came here in person today and agreed on the big wedding with Sister Cauliflower's mother." Xu Xuanzhu saw Liu Yu and recounted the harmonious scene of the two in-laws meeting in the morning with a smile.

Liu Yuzhi said that this "harmony" is obviously unilateral between the two patriarchs, and the two parties involved in the marriage are a hundred unwilling.

"Wang Dashao is also here?" Liu Yu asked with a sip of tea.

"I didn't come, Sister Cauliflower didn't go back to the city for a few days as if she was angry, and she ate and lived in the barracks." Xu Xuanzhu smiled, and suddenly asked again, "Husband, I heard that the palace gate has been closed over there, has there been an accident in the palace?" ”

Liu Yu told the original story of the poisoning case that happened in the palace, and Xu Xuanzhu sat down next to Liu Yu with a grim expression. At the end, it seemed that he was asking Liu Yu's opinion.

"Wait and see." Liu Yu said later, "The palace struggle has always been turbulent, and we are outsiders, so we should not be too deep. ”

Liu Yu said this just to put Xu Xuanzhu at ease.

Xu Xuanzhu was about to go to inform the opening of the meal, and the sisters of the Han family also came out of the inner room, when Lu Chuer reported that the national teacher asked to see him.

Liu Yu was very surprised that Wu You did not shy away from coming to the mansion to ask for a meeting in person at this time, wasn't he afraid that the old emperor would have any misunderstanding? Liu Yu instructed Xu Xuanzhu that no one could approach the side hall of the reception.

Wu You still looked careless and lazy as before, Liu Yu invited him in the door and asked directly: "Master Wu, did you vote for today's poison?" ”

Wu You was in a hurry at the moment, and scolded and said: "You stinky boy, can you not be blind and wronged, the little old man is a cultivator, and he never does anything that hurts heaven and reason." ”

"Did you supply the poison?" Liu Yu asked again.

Wu You said disdainfully: "Little Lao'er is an alchemist, not a poison refiner, where can I find poison?" ”

Liu Yue knew that if he did it, he didn't need to hide it, and seeing that he was conclusive, it didn't look like a lie.

"I said Master Wu, but you encouraged me to rebel at the beginning, if the emperor knew about this matter, what would happen to you?" Liu Yu said angrily, "Don't say that the emperor asked you to come over to test my tone." ”

"Does the emperor have a reason to encourage his courtiers to rebel?" Wu Shuo was quite angry and said, "I won't tell you, the purpose of coming to you today is to encourage you to do it early!" ”

Liu Yu was embarrassed and asked, "What did the emperor say when he summoned you yesterday?" ”

Wu You Zhengse said: "The emperor summoned me over, in addition to asking about some astrological things, the most important thing is to ask him about his own time limit. Xiao Lao'er also spoke bluntly, saying that according to the astrology, the life of the Son of Heaven is only ten days. ”

"Ten days?" Liu Yu was shocked, "What did the emperor say?" ”

The emperor immediately summoned someone to the past and wrote a secret note for him to take out of Chang'an City, and Xiao Lao'er guessed that it should be a secret edict to summon someone to enter Beijing quickly. After that, the emperor talked about it a little more, saying that Xiao Lao'er's prediction was roughly consistent with the diagnosis of the imperial doctor, saying that his own spirit was not as good as day by day, and he felt that the time limit was approaching. ”

People who are dying are quite accurate in predicting the remainder of their lives. Liu Yu didn't expect the old emperor to skip him, and directly issued a secret edict to the secret envoy in the Imperial Forest Army to summon the king of Chu to return to Chang'an quickly. Liu Yu was not too worried, after all, it was dark when this happened, and the old emperor had the habit of giving direct orders to secret agents, so he would not deliberately go through Liu Yu's second procedures to find trouble.

But when the old emperor summoned him today, he did not say a word about it, which made him quite puzzled.

Liu Yu guessed that the old emperor didn't want to leak the news about his upcoming Bintian. Perhaps it is because of this that the old emperor will kill the women of the inner court. A conceited and arrogant emperor, when he is about to die, will still be very selfish and want to bury his loved ones with him, and also remove obstacles for his son's accession to the throne, killing two birds with one stone.

Wu You continued: "Maybe the dying person has a lot of emotion, the emperor said a lot about his past experience last night, saying that he should not usurp the throne of his brother, saying that he was harsh to his children, and saying some nonsense. After the end, he asked Xiao Lao'er to calculate for him and asked him if his son could sit on the throne. ”

Liu Yu was even more interested: "Then what is the result of your calculation?" ”

"It's not too difficult, Xiao Lao'er will calculate it for him, whether it is a hexagram or a celestial or astrological phase, it is exactly the same. Xiao Lao'er told the truth, saying that the bloodline of the Great Shun Dynasty would continue among his descendants until the end of the Shun Dynasty, and Xiao Lao'er did not lie. Wu You showed a sly smile, "The emperor ordered Xiao Lao'er to calculate the national fortune of the Shun Dynasty, and Xiao Lao'er pinched his fingers and said, 'At the beginning of Zhongxing, it has not been stopped for a long time'." As for how long, it will be left to the emperor to ponder slowly. (To be continued......)