King Yan saw that the emperor had already believed his inference, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

He didn't actually have any definite evidence to prove that Xiao Mingyu had betrayed his sister, but he knew that it was true.

He had a certain tacit understanding with Li Yaozhi and Xiao Mingde in the old affairs, although he didn't know that Xiao Mingde had always concealed Xiao Rui's life experience from the emperor, but he also shared part of the responsibility for Xiao Mingzhu's future affairs. Because Xiao Mingzhu was still an unmarried daughter when she died, and Xiao Guifei objected, she was not buried in the ancestral grave of the Xiao family, but found a beautiful place to be buried on the mountain where she was attacked. Xiao Mingde and Li Yaozhi go to worship every year, but the former is busy with military affairs, and the latter is a woman in a deep house who cannot move freely, so except for the sacrificial activities of the Four Seasons Festival, they don't care about the tomb at other times. Anyway, the whole mountain belongs to the Xiao family, and there are also Xiao family's villagers living under the mountain, and no outsiders will trespass into the mountain and disturb the deceased, so they are relieved.

But King Yan was not very relieved, he arranged for a few veterans who were disabled by injuries on the battlefield to move to a town near the mountain, and regularly went to the mountain to patrol, just in case, and by the way, he also helped to weed or something. At the beginning of this year, when these veterans were performing this task according to their usual habits, they accidentally found that Xiao Mingde was taking someone to move the grave, so they reported the news to King Yan.

King Yan asked Li Yaozhi, she didn't know the news of the relocation of the tomb, but Xiao Mingde mentioned afterwards that it was the emperor who completed the general construction of the imperial mausoleum, and planned to move Xiao Mingzhu's coffin into it for burial first. Although Li Yaozhi was dissatisfied with Xiao Mingde not informing him in advance, she did not object, after all, this was Xiao Mingzhu's wish. Moreover, the tomb arranged by the emperor for Xiao Mingzhu was a little offset from the position of the queen, but it was closer to the location of the main tomb than the other concubines, and the emperor did not leave a place for Empress Cao. This is not much different from recognizing Xiao Mingzhu's identity as a "queen".

Of course, in order not to make the officials and craftsmen who repaired the tomb suspicious, the emperor claimed that it was a seat reserved for Concubine Xiao Guifei. And in order to ensure that Concubine Xiao Guifei herself would have her own place after her death, he ordered someone to open a small room next to Xiao Mingzhu's tomb, as if it was prepared for some vassal servant.

The emperor's commotion made Li Yaozhi speechless, but because Concubine Xiao Guifei, who had always been unfriendly with her eldest sister, only put up such a small tomb after her death, she secretly rejoiced. She took this incident as a joke and told Princess Yan and her good sister Wu Qiongye, and King Yan immediately knew.

He thought there was something wrong with the emperor's approach. Even if he really planned to let Xiao Mingzhu be buried in the imperial mausoleum in the name of Xiao Guifei, he shouldn't have done it at this time, and he made such a big fanfare...... Of course, it is impossible for the emperor to personally move the coffin of his old lover into the imperial tomb, nor will he personally inspect the imperial tomb, so this work is handled by his henchmen and inner servants, and he also brings a lot of manpower, and the craftsmen and officials in the imperial tomb are also aware of it...... How could the emperor have the confidence that this matter would never be leaked out?

If Concubine Xiao herself heard the news, obviously she was still alive, but the tomb prepared for her had already buried people, who was buried in it? Where will I be buried when I die?

King Yan left his hands behind, secretly staring at the movement on the side of the imperial tomb, and unsurprisingly found that a group of people pretended to be craftsmen and sneaked into it, and inquired about the news. His men followed them back to the capital and found them entering the backyard of a teahouse called "Shun Ji", which was opened by Xu Laishun, the godson of Xu Dewang, the eunuch next to the third prince.

King Yan's people kept an eye on Shun Ji, and the next night, they saw a few sneaky people coming out of the backyard of the teahouse, avoiding the officers and soldiers who were patrolling, and secretly went to a street and alley, and stayed in a rather imposing house for less than half an hour, and then left again. By the next morning, the owners of the house, men and women, young and old, hurriedly packed their belongings, sat in a carriage with large bags and small bags, and left the capital in a hurry, and even the house was sold.

King Yan's people inquired later, and only then did they know that this family was Xiao Guifei's nursing mother's family. After they left, the nurse's son-in-law was also transferred, and on the way to meet Yue's family, they went to Rendi together, but unluckily met a bandit, and all of them died.

King Yan's people only learned afterwards that the two families were dead, and they didn't follow. However, they have inquired about the local government records of the accident, and the local county magistrate is not stupid, and they are also wondering why a thief who has never heard of it suddenly appeared in the county that has been peaceful for more than ten years, and directly attacked the official, but only took away some of the property on the surface, and the gold, silver, pearls and jade on the female dependents have not been moved?

This murder happened not long ago, after King Yan heard the news, combined with various clues before and after, he knew that Xiao Mingyu was a thief with a weak heart, so he would be ruthless to the nurse's family in order to kill him. She killed someone, and naturally no one could prove what she had done. But if she didn't do anything, why bother?

King Yan had no evidence, and he could not truthfully report what he found to the emperor. He knew the heart of this imperial brother, and he didn't want the other party to know that he had arranged people in the capital, what he had done secretly, and even monitored the imperial tomb, the imperial concubine, and the prince. But it doesn't matter, just because he can't tell the truth doesn't mean he can't sue. Sometimes, "evidence" is not a necessity for those in power.

King Yan did not continue to mention Xiao Mingzhu's death, but changed his words and mentioned other old things: "When my younger brother and Mingzhu were first engaged, he went to the Zhuguo General's Mansion a few times before leaving Beijing. There are some things that maybe even Mingzhu doesn't know, and the royal brother probably doesn't know, right? He looked at the emperor, "The concubine Niangniang was not in time at that time, but for some reason, she appeared in front of her younger brother several times dressed up in fancy clothes, and there were some inappropriate words and deeds. ”

The emperor's face darkened again: "What did you say?!" Could it be that the emotional dispute between him and his brother is not limited to one Xiao Mingzhu?! Even Xiao Mingyu was deceived by his brother?!

As if he hadn't seen his face, King Yan said unhurriedly: "My brother was also stunned at the time, and he came to his senses later. Where does Miss Xiao Er really think about her younger brother? She was just unconvinced that her eldest sister had a good family affair and compared her to her, so she wanted to snatch the eldest sister's fiancée to prove that she was stronger than Mingzhu. The younger brother reprimanded her a few words, and then avoided it, just in case, he still told Yaozhi in private. Yaozhi later passed the word, saying that she was secretly angry with the nurse next to her, and vowed that one day she would marry better than Mingzhu and step on the eldest sister! ”

Xiao Mingzhu was already a princess Yan who had not passed through the door at that time, and if she wanted to marry better than her, Xiao Mingyu had to be at least an imperial concubine.

The emperor immediately had an association.

Since Xiao Mingyu plans to marry the imperial concubine in order to fight for a breath, he must hook up with him, the prince. He went to the General of Zhuguo's Mansion to worship General Xiao and his wife, and when he secretly worshiped Xiao Mingzhu, she would wear a moon-white dress, dressed like Xiao Mingzhu, which aroused his interest. And considering that the Cao family was powerful at that time, and Empress Cao controlled the harem, if he wanted to be a concubine, it was impossible not to go through the nod of Empress Cao.

Empress Cao couldn't tolerate Xiao Mingzhu, why did she give Xiao Mingyu a decree without saying a word? Although she has always looked down on Xiao Mingyu, she did not prevent the latter from entering the palace back then.

Could it be that there is a ...... between them? Ever had some kind of shady deal?!

The emperor's face was immediately difficult to look at.

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