The Empress Dowager looked as usual, but the emperor saw that he was not speaking well, so he asked again.

Shen Chi had to cough even louder, and he suddenly realized that the emperor had not yet been married, and he must know very little about personnel.

However, the Empress Dowager was a little surprised when she heard the emperor's question, and then she was calm as usual, but there was more complicated meaning in her eyes.

Seeing Shen Chiyu's face flushed from coughing, the Empress Dowager reminded softly:

"That's all bad stuff, and it dirties the emperor's ears to say it." He instructed Shen Chi again, "Shen Shangshu continued to talk about business. ”

Shen Chiru was pardoned, bowed his body and continued:

"After the investigation by the minister, after the death of the deceased, the missing person report received by the Shuntian Mansion did not match the characteristics of the corpse. And we have two men missing, Li Sansi and Niu Fang. So the minister used a stupid method to take the portraits of Hu Da, Li Sansi and Niu Fang to the more upscale Qinglou brothel to inquire, and then found the witness. ”

Hearing what Shen Chi said about the brothel of the Qinglou, the emperor suddenly understood what the few herbs he had asked were for, and his face was slightly feverish.

"It was witnessed that Li Sansi stayed in the brothel the night before the incident and left in the afternoon of the incident. The items consumed were the same as the results of the deceased's autopsy, and Li Sansi's itinerary was consistent with the confession provided by the old servant in his family. ”

"I actually thought of using Li Sansi to replace Li Taozhuang, it seems that Huda is very important to them."

The emperor muttered that it had taken them several days to make sure that the deceased was not Huda.

"The Shuncheonfu side also reported that a male corpse was found on the slope of a falling hill thirty miles outside Kyoto, who rolled off a cliff and died, and it has been confirmed that the deceased is Niu Fang."

Niu Fang is the suspect who killed Hu Da, no, he is the suspect who killed Li Sansi who pretended to be Hu Da, and now he is also dead.

Shen Chi was also a little uncomfortable, this case was not difficult to investigate, but it was rare to be led by the other party like this, and when he found out the truth and found that he had found nothing, he bowed down and pleaded:

"Your Majesty, in view of the fact that Hu Da, the most important criminal in this case, still cannot be found, I ask the emperor to allow the disposal of Hu Da's family in the closing letter."

His words were vague, and the emperor had to open the closing book again and read it carefully, and when he saw that the corners of his mouth were crooked in the end.

These veterans of handling cases are really cunning and cunning, and the emperor laughed and scolded in his heart.

Shen Chi suggested that Hu Da's family should be exiled westward for 3,000 miles, and there is a lot of work in it.

Hu Da's crime can be regarded as an attempt to rebel, and his family should be killed, while Shen Chi was left alive and sentenced to exile.

The crime of Dachen's exile is mostly sentenced to the east or west, and the northeast is a bitter cold place outside the Guan, and the perennial ice and snow are rarely inhabited; In the west, due to the many years of operation of the Huaiyuan Road Army, and the frequent traders coming and going in the neighboring Tuxilu, the west is now a lot more prosperous, and it is not very difficult to calculate.

He kept Huda's family under surveillance, because he wanted to wait for Huda to show up.

The Emperor frowned and said:

"I don't think it's right."

Shen Chi was extremely surprised, and looked up to ask, but saw the emperor smile and said:

"Three thousand miles to the west is too far, just a thousand miles."

It is too difficult to find relatives for 3,000 miles, but it is much easier to find relatives for 1,000 miles.

Shen Chixi raised his eyebrows and knelt down and said:

"The emperor is sage, and the old minister has to obey."

The Empress Dowager also understood the doorway in the words of the two of them, and pursed her lips and smiled.

The Emperor added:

"Sending them out of Kyoto and to the place of exile with gongs and drums also let the officials and people along the way know that the families of the criminals are not having a good time."

With great fanfare, Huda himself could see that he was about to collide with him, and he didn't need to wait until he entered the penal colony to open his net and wait for the rabbit.

The Empress Dowager personally packed a jar of white tea and gave it to Shen Chi, and ordered Li Gongling to personally send him out of the palace to show his contribution to the emperor's worries.

There are only two grandchildren left in the main hall.

The Empress Dowager breathed a sigh of relief, and her tone was a little emotional:

"Emperor, you have done a good job, it is the blessing of Dachen, and it is also the blessing of the mourning family and your father."

The Emperor sighed, a hint of exhaustion in his voice:

"Grandmother Huang, don't praise me, everyone here and outside has their own thoughts, it's really not easy."

The Empress Dowager did not say anything, took the emperor's hand and put it in her palm for a while, and said softly:

"No matter what, grandmother always stands with the emperor."

Perhaps it was the temperature on his hands that was reassuring, the emperor was slightly stunned, and a trace of warmth welled up in his heart.

He smiled and nodded solemnly to the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager seemed to suddenly remember something, and said to the emperor with a smile:

"When the mourning family was trapped in Yan'an Palace, they couldn't even see your father's face, only a team of guards in the palace often came to bring some supplies. Now that the mourning family has returned to the palace, they want to promote those guards, which can be regarded as encouraging their loyalty. Emperor, is this possible? ”

The emperor responded, "They take care of their grandmother, they are also dutiful, and they also take care of their grandmother, and they should be rewarded and promoted in both public and private affairs." ”

"It's okay for others, in the past ten years, the guards who go back and forth to the palace have often changed, and the mourning family can't remember who is who. But the ten thousand guards they led were dutiful for ten years, and the mourning family only promoted him. ”

Seeing that the emperor couldn't stop nodding, the empress dowager said again:

"Wan Guard is currently a deputy from the seventh grade, and the mourning family wants to promote him to be a guard of honor, and he guards here in Funing Palace every day."

The emperor's face did not move, but he was secretly surprised in his heart, the guard of honor was the fifth grade, from the seventh grade to the fifth grade, and he was promoted five levels in a row, presumably the emperor's grandmother attached great importance to this person.

Thinking of Kuang Li's discovery last night that Li Gongling was also following Zhang Ping's spying, the emperor was a little clear, or there was no manpower to spy on the news, so he was in a hurry to promote a confidant.

Hiding the unhappiness and doubts in his heart, he still nodded and said:

"Since he is a person valued by the imperial grandmother, it must be appropriate, and the grandson has no objection."

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The brilliance of the glazed palace lamps reflected on the bright snow, making the palace a little brighter than usual in the middle of the night.

A man who was the head of the guard team slowly walked into the gate of Funing Palace.

This person has a slender figure, about thirty years old, his complexion is extremely beautiful and fair, and his upper lip is slightly bearded, and his jade-like face is more and more handsome.

He respectfully arched his hand to Li Gongling, who was sitting under the porch drinking tea with a hand stove, with a somewhat familiar smile on his mouth.

Seeing this, Li Gongling also smiled and nodded, did not speak, only raised his hand and pointed to the hall, and the person walked towards the hall.

The light in the east is tinged with orange-red warmth under the palace lamps and red candles, and in the palace room where no one walks around, the golden peacock Ling Baolian with the spring furnace next to the couch is spitting a sweet aroma.

The Empress Dowager hung a beautiful palace fan on her wrist, leaning on the couch with her hands, her eyes slightly closed as if she was asleep.

The soap boots under the feet of the guards stepped on the soft cushions in the room, making a gentle sound.

When the Empress Dowager heard this, her eyelids raised slightly, and her face was already full of bright light.

There was a hint of anger on her face: "You enemy, you came so early!" ”

Wan Guards stepped forward and wrapped his arms around her waist, Fang chuckled lowly, and blew lightly on her earlobes with his lips, "Isn't it good to come early?" ”

The Empress Dowager lowered her head to dodge, her lotus face was dyed pink, and she couldn't help but chuckle.

Pulling him apart, holding one hand to his chest, patting it gently, and spitting in a low voice, "What's the hurry!" ”