"Shouldn't the prince have died at that time?"

Lu Zhan's voice came from the air.

"Actually, it's not," Princess Jin retracted her gaze, clenched her hands and said: "He was originally frail, and he was indeed sick for three or four months that year, and he himself asked the emperor to choose another prince, and his departure should be said to be expected by everyone."

"Even if no one intervenes, it's really hard to say how long he will live. However, the longevity of a person is determined by God, and it should not be changed by anyone, right? ”

Lu Zhan was silent. Then he said: "Since he is indeed terminally ill, why do you say that it is related to King Jin?" ”

"On the day of the prince's burial, King Ning showed me something. That's half a jade pendant. It was found in the cracks of the prince's sickbed. Coincidentally, I recognized that the piece of jade was very similar to the piece of jade hanging from the waist of King Jin. ”

Song Xiang frowned: "According to the time, at that time, the Jin King's mansion was still in the original fiefdom, and the clan relatives were not allowed to enter Beijing without being called, why did the fragment of the jade pendant of the King of Jin fall on the prince's bed?" ”

"You're right! When we were ordered to enter Beijing, it was already the seventh day of the prince's death, and King Ning was close, and he hurried day and night, earlier than us. It stands to reason that there is no reason for us to go to the prince's bedchamber.

"But that jade is the King of Jin's innocence, I recognize it! After that, I went back to the palace to check carefully, and I really didn't see the jade again. ”

Lu Zhan said: "Has he ever entered Beijing privately?" If so, why did the prince pass him into the palace and never tell outsiders? ”

Song Xiang also said: "The jade should have been hanging on King Jin's body in a good manner, but half of it was left on the prince's bed, which can only show that something happened and the jade will be broken."

"And the broken jade fell into the crack of the bed and no one noticed it, and picked it up on the spot, which shows that the person holding the jade was also careless, and he should have no time to take care of such a 'little thing' at that time.

"Therefore, the person holding this jade is either the king of Jin, or the jade has already fallen into the hands of others. The king of Jin entered Beijing for ten days and a half months, and the princess only needs to remember whether there is a record of going out for a long time. ”

"But there is, not only that, but several times." Princess Jin looked at them, "At that time, I gave birth to Minjia and Yang'er one after another, and most of my energy was on the child, and as a man, he also had his affairs to be busy after all, and sometimes he had to cooperate with the people's livelihood in the fiefdom under the control of the government, and it was not surprising that he often did not return home."

"It wasn't until King Ning showed me the jade that I figured out the possibilities you mentioned, and I realized that it was very likely that he had secretly entered the capital and entered the palace in those days when he was not at home—you know, if the prince allowed to see it, then it would be easy for the gods to bring someone into the palace without knowing it."

"Then this 'Yun Jian' makes people wonder, obviously it should be seen openly, why did the prince agree to King Jin to meet in the palace privately?"

Princess Jin was silent for a moment: "I don't know, and King Ning didn't find out the results of this matter." But with that in mind, it's pretty obvious. Regardless of whether the prince's death is directly related to him, at least there is a secret. He asked me to keep an eye on Lu, the king of Jin, so that I could find out the truth. ”

When Song Xiang heard this, he thought of her relationship with King Jin, and said in his heart: "Why does King Ning trust the princess so much and make such a request?" ”

Princess Jin pursed her lips and said, "Probably because I met them when I was young, he didn't treat me as an outsider." ”

Lu Zhan frowned.

Song Xiang also felt that this reason was not convincing, no matter how King Jin and her were husband and wife, they had already given birth to children at that time, it stands to reason that this relationship must be higher than the "sister and brother relationship" between King Ning and her, if King Jin really participated in the death of the prince, then shouldn't he avoid Princess Jin?

But such a sentimental princess of Jin is full of grief and sorrow, which makes her feel that this is not a good time to pursue these.

"And what choice did the princess make?"

Princess Jin was silent for a while and said, "Although there is no evidence, these coincidences have actually made me believe in this conjecture a little.

"But after all, he is my husband, the father of the child, and at the beginning of marriage, my wish was to grow old safely, so naturally I didn't want him to do these things.

"I'm in this matter...... It's hard to choose. ”

Song Xiang comforted: "This kind of thing falls on me, it is closely related to me, and the princess will be embarrassed, it is already rare." ”

Basically, most women don't hesitate to side with their husbands, right? How can a fair and righteous person investigate his husband privately because he has done something wrong, and then wait for the opportunity to file a complaint? It's not that there is a grudge with him.

However, King Ning must also understand such a simple truth, but he told the princess, and the princess finally took such a big risk for King Ning, which still made people more and more confused.

"In this way, even if that piece of jade still does not fully explain what the King of Jin has done to the crown prince, it at least shows that his motives for entering the palace at some point are unusual. It's just that, except for Mother and King Ning, no one else found anything abnormal? What about the crown princess? ”

After hearing Lu Zhan mention the crown princess, Song Xiang remembered that after the crown prince, the crown princess volunteered to go to the temple next to the imperial tomb to be a nun.

"She didn't know." Princess Jin said. "Because the prince is weak, he can always think about people, he always feels that he will not live long, no matter who marries him, he will step into the fire pit, and his good youth will be buried in the palace.

He pitied those ladies and did not want to embarrass the big families in the DPRK and China, so he said several times that he did not want to get married.

"But he is the crown prince, how can he have no heirs? Later, he made a slight compromise and married the daughter of a low-ranking official who had been favored by the emperor and volunteered to share the worries of the emperor as a concubine, hoping to continue the heir.

"The crown princess has a soft temperament, and her mother's family is not in the capital, so she is afraid that she will make a mistake, and she is not able to manage the affairs of the previous dynasty at all.

And the prince was afraid that she would not be able to protect herself in the future after being exposed to too much government affairs, and he did not want her to be involved in the whirlpool of the court, so after two years of marriage and no heirs, he would no longer enter her room, lest she be subjected to harsh public opinion again.

"Therefore, it is impossible for the crown princess to know what happened later.

"As for outsiders, for example, I was indeed bedridden for a long time before his death, and when I went to visit the palace, he was already very thin and not in good spirits, and I was very worried about whether he would ......

"In this case, who would have thought that there could be other reasons for his death?"

"In that case, King Ning shouldn't have been suspicious from the beginning. Moreover, the death of the crown prince, King Ning's grief is understandable, but why did he go to the East Palace to search for the prince's bed? ”