"How?"

Princess Jin's voice was hoarse and she asked.

King Jin paused for a long time, and then chuckled in a low voice: "At first, he didn't suspect me and gave me the evidence. But for some reason, when I looked through it, he was puzzled again, and he reached out to take it back, but I naturally refused, so I picked it up and walked out of the palace.

"He came after me, and I fell halfway, and I hurried back to help him, and he grabbed my robe and didn't let go.

"I can't believe that he is such a thin person, and he uses so much force to pull me, and his fingers are so tight that I can't break them!

"I argued with him and said a lot of cruel things, including being the second child, I never received their attention, so I could only think more about myself. I watched his face suddenly flush sickly under the lamp, and suddenly turned bloodless and pale, and I felt an inexplicable sense of relief when I saw him so fragile and embarrassed by his natural wealth. And he told me—"

His throat rolled, and he stopped.

"What did he say!"

"He called me by my nickname and said, Ah Jian-I am the second in line, when I was a child, they called me Erlang, and he didn't like it, so he called me Ah Jian. He said, 'Ah Jian, the eldest brother has never hated you, nor has he ever complained about you, if this evidence of the crime is given to the father, the handwriting on the document will not be able to distinguish between the junior son, but I believe that he will never be such a person. It must be someone framed! If you send it to your father and queen mother, then you and Xiao San'er will never be reconciled in the future, and the eldest brother will not be able to be your peacemaker anymore, don't be impulsive! Check it out again. ’”

King Jin choked up in his words: "At that moment, I did hesitate, even if there are many precedents of our three brothers in history, we have always really loved each other." I was willing to copy the homework for the third child, and there was no resentment when I was beaten for him.

And he snatched it back at that moment. Probably too much exertion, he fainted on the ground. I didn't want to fight with him anymore, so I picked him up and put him on the couch to lie down,—— my piece of jade, presumably it fell at that time. I hid in the tent and kept watch over him for more than an hour, and after a while I went to sniff him out, lest he should die at that time. When he woke up, I left the palace in a daze, and the day after I returned to the palace, the news came that he was seriously ill. Soon after, he went.

"Counting the time I spent on the road, it was less than a month since I last saw him."

As the last word fell, the room became eerily silent, save for a few birdsongs in the mist pierced by the morning light.

Princess Jin sat still, as if she was in a state of flux.

"That's the way it is," and King Jin put his hands on his forehead, propped himself on the table, and said in a deep voice: "Afterwards, I also asked myself, did I kill him?" Did I kill my own big brother? But I don't believe he killed me, and I don't want to bear this sin. But I can't help but admit that if it hadn't been for the argument that night, and without the excesses I said, perhaps he would not have caused his serious illness, and he might not have left so quickly.

"After returning to the palace, I suppressed the thought of complaining, and when his bad news came, I met the third child in the palace who was a little alienated from me but did not treat me as an outsider, and I did know that the eldest brother did not tell him about it, and even did not tell anyone about my dispute with him, and I completely extinguished the idea of denunciation.

"I guess that's it, he's gone anyway, and no one will know what I've checked, so I'll leave it to fate. On the night of the wake, I did go to the East Palace, not entirely to find the piece of jade, but to find the evidence. I think that since this matter has to be pressed, then of course the evidence cannot remain in the palace. But I couldn't find it, perhaps, he had burned it before he died. ”

The weather in October was very cold, and even though the palace had the most luxurious decoration, the princess still felt that her toes were as cold as iron.

"Do you hate me very much?" King Jin asked.

The princess looked at him.

"I know that you are in love with him, and I still use means to marry you. Later, it aggravated his condition. ”

The princess retracted her gaze: "You are wrong. He never fell in love with me. ”

King Jin paused.

"He never accepted me, and he never wanted to marry me. Therefore, he said that he didn't blame you, he really didn't blame you. The voice floated out of the princess's hoarse throat, so light that it dispersed as soon as it came out. He never lies, and if you don't, then I still believe what he says is true. ”

King Jin's lips trembled slightly, and his back was straight.

The princess looked at him and said, "There is another thing that you probably didn't think of. Although I have loved him, and although I am not willing to marry you, but after marriage, I am single-minded.

"I don't think I can make a heart-to-heart relationship with you, but it doesn't prevent me from having children, husbands and children, and trying to create conditions for my children to be able to marry the person they want. There are too many marriages in the world, and there are many ways for two husbands and wives to live in harmony.

"He didn't accept me, and I was depressed at first, but then I thought that if I insisted on committing my obsession, I would be able to accompany him day and night, and achieve my goals against his will, and most of my temperament would not be happy. It is indeed the means by which you marry me, because you do this, and you have no respect for me at all. ”

King Jin was silent, and his fingers began to tremble slightly.

"If you're not lying," said the princess again, "then you should tell you about the Ning Palace." ”

King Jin narrowed his eyes and slowly curled up his ten fingers: "I don't know more about Ning Wangfu than you." ”

"I know you once went to King Ning's Mansion to find the third child, what did you say? According to you, you didn't know he had evidence of your guilt, so why did you go to him? ”

"I don't know what he's doing, but he does something in private, but the news reaches my ears. And the main reason why I went to find him was that after I left Beijing and returned home, I was still paying attention to the matter of the Shu Metro Mine, so when I learned that he had private actions, I couldn't help it, and went to Xi'an Mansion to pick out with him, and had a showdown, wanting him to do it himself!

"How did I know, I came back not long ago, and it ended up happening!"

The princess said: "You mean to say that Ning Wang's Mansion was later broken into by a killer, and it was not the person you sent?" ”

"Of course not! Of course not! ”