Xie Mulin felt that there was no mouth.

She asked Xiao Rui in disbelief: "Is this the exact news?" It can't just be a rumor, right? What did Concubine Xiao Guifei do when she ran to see Lin Zhaoyi? Why did she provoke Lin Zhaoyi to assassinate Empress Cao? Lin Zhaoyi was confined in the cold palace, not thinking about his son who might succeed the clan at any time, but ran to the detriment of Empress Cao? Is her brain watering? How did she, a weak woman, hide everyone's eyes and ears and run to Kunning Palace? Are all the people in Kunning Palace dead? would even let Lin Zhaoyi run to Queen Cao's hospital bed and stab him?! How does it sound like a fantasy? The whole thing is like it's made up! ”

Xiao Rui couldn't help but smile bitterly: "You think it's strange, and the prince thinks the news in the letter is even more outrageous." But that's just the way it is. The urgent letter sent back from the capital was not written by one person, but several people wrote their own letters, and wrote in the letters the news and thoughts they had heard, and even Bandung had a long letter. Whatever they heard, what happened in the palace was roughly that. In the next few days, presumably other families in Beiping City will also receive letters from relatives and friends one after another, and you will know the truth by then. ”

Xie Pu nodded. He also felt incredulous, but the news that King Yan got was like this. And......

He said with a heavy heart: "The news obtained by the Yan Wangfu is already three days after Empress Cao's assassination, and several waves of news have come out of the palace, and the conclusion has been reached. At first, General Yuan, what they heard was not the case. ”

At the beginning, Empress Cao was assassinated, Lin Zhaoyi was controlled by the people of Kunning Palace, and the imperial doctor rushed to treat her, but she was never able to stop the bleeding for Empress Cao. After the emperor arrived, he had a short conversation with Empress Cao for the last time, and watched Empress Cao close her eyes before angrily going to interrogate Lin Zhaoyi.

Lin Zhaoyi was already in a state of semi-madness at that time, and she was incoherent at all, but the emperor still deduced from her words that something was wrong here, and she seemed to be stimulated by some kind of impulse to run to assassinate the queen. How could the Emperor allow someone to play a plot in a place he didn't know? He immediately ordered someone to interrogate the palace people who were waiting for Lin Zhaoyi in the cold palace and the guards who were responsible for guarding the palace gate and road, and found out who let Lin Zhaoyi go.

However, the palace attendants around Lin Zhaoyi didn't know whether it was fear of crime or some other reason, and before the emperor's people arrived, they actually hanged themselves. The emperor's henchmen and eunuchs went to look for the guards who were in charge of guarding the door on the road from the cold palace to the Kunning Palace, and found that except for some of the guards who temporarily left their posts due to normal shifts, patrols, etc., there were all the guards who were on duty at the time, two of them were killed, one inexplicably appeared in the pool of the imperial garden and drowned, and one was missing. So, how Lin Zhaoyi ran to Kunning Palace became an unsolved case.

But no matter how cold it is, the emperor also knows that something is wrong here. How could it be so coincidental that more than half of the guards were transferred at that time? Who did the slain? Where is the missing man?

He felt that there must be some ulterior conspiracy here, so he planned to press the matter down, and only announced to the public that Empress Cao was seriously ill and died - anyway, she had been sick for a long time, and she had not seen her mother's family and the foreign woman for a long time, so it was not difficult to convince the courtiers to let the imperial doctor cooperate.

Up and down the Kunning Palace, the emperor ordered people to guard them strictly, and ordered them to just decorate the funeral for Empress Cao and not allow them to go out of the palace. Afterwards, he would also send his henchmen and eunuchs to interrogate - these palace people could let Lin Zhaoyi run in front of the queen with weapons, it was extremely derelict and unforgivable! When the results of the trial are out, he won't let them go easily!

As for Lin Zhaoyi, he had to be re-locked up in the cold palace and sent more people to monitor him. The emperor personally went to invite the queen mother, and begged her mother to send a few reliable grandmothers to interrogate Lin Zhaoyi, and make sure that she revealed the truth, especially the black hand who could clear the obstacles in the palace for her and make her reach Kunning Palace all the way.

The emperor's most important thing is his own safety. If someone in the palace can get past him and mobilize the guards, so that some dangerous people can go straight to the front of the palace, then wouldn't he have no life guarantee?! Empress Cao can be assassinated today, and God knows if he, the emperor, will suffer in the future?!

At the beginning, things were still going according to the emperor's plan. The foreign ministers only heard that Empress Cao died of illness, and they didn't know what assassination did not kill, and even the second prince didn't hear that his mother had anything to do with this matter. He had been under house arrest for some time, and he had been trying to control his temper as much as possible, copying the Book of Filial Piety or any other way to show the emperor that he was a dutiful son. The matter of leaving the succession clan is almost decided. He knew that he had no hope of change, so he had to try to get a better result for himself.

Clans and clans are also different. There are several branches of the clan that have interrupted the heirs, including the prince's mansion, the county prince's mansion, and the declining royal family that even the prince may not be able to keep. The second prince hopes that he can inherit a wealthier palace, preferably with fiefs and property, closer to the royal family, and his ancestors have not had any rebel sinners, nor have they fought with the emperor for the throne. That way he still has hope of making a comeback.

Therefore, the second prince has been obediently under house arrest and has never been out. In addition, Lin Zhaoyi has been in the cold palace for a while, and it is not easy for the mother and son to meet, and he has not mentioned that he wants to visit his mother. After the news of Empress Cao's death came out, he endured the schadenfreude, tried to show his sadness, and copied Buddhist scriptures to pray for his mother-in-law, so as to prove to the emperor that he was no longer the original self. He didn't bother to pay attention to his biological mother.

Everything was well hidden, but I don't know why, within two days, all kinds of gossip spread in the capital. Not only was Lin Zhaoyi's assassination of the queen exposed, but even the second prince's past friendship with the Janissaries was explained as the reason why his mother was able to break through many obstacles to reach Kunning Palace. Such a big crime was exposed, not to mention that Lin Zhaoyi had made it clear that his life could not be guaranteed, even the second prince was likely to be demoted to a concubine for the crime of conspiring with others to assassinate his mother-in-law, what else to talk about the succession clan?

The emperor was furious about the leak of the news, but he still confessed the truth in front of the important ministers and clans who came to inquire about him, and at the same time said that he was investigating the truth. Rumors are not necessarily true. Because of the people in the guards that the second prince once befriended, the best friends had already been conditioned or belittled, and the rest were people who alienated him early after the Lin family's accident, and it was impossible to do such a taboo thing for him.

The courtiers and the clan were suspicious and had to wait for the results of the investigation. But the results haven't come out yet, and only half a day later, news came out again - two rough palace people in the cold palace confessed, saying that they saw Xiao Guifei coming to the cold palace after Lin Zhaoyi's accident, and they didn't know what to say to Lin Zhaoyi. Immediately afterwards, the fleeing guards were caught, and he committed suicide in fear of crime, but before he died, he confessed that he was ordered by Concubine Xiao to clear the way for Lin Zhaoyi to walk in the palace, so as to help her go to Kunning Palace and assassinate Empress Cao.

At this point, the two princesses' mothers in the emperor's harem who threatened the crown prince were all involved in the assassination of Empress Cao.

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