Chapter 168: Exploring the Emperor's Tomb at Night
Who is Liang Li, it is the traitor who came out of the Southwest Army at that time, Adjutant Liang. He followed General Zhou for ten years, but finally chose to betray. And after realizing that he was being used, he would even rather die to apologize than tell who was behind the scenes.
They have never found out the reason, and they have never understood why Liang Li is like this since he is not Nan Yuan's meticulous work.
"Liang Li is dead, haven't you received the news?"
As soon as Lu Beibei's words came out, the woman kneeling on the ground was obviously panicked, she was a civilian woman and child, the news was blocked, and she always used her cousin as an official in the southwest army to show off on weekdays, and suddenly learned the news, and for a while the whole person was confused, stammering, and couldn't speak.
The woman knelt on the ground, snorted and cried, crawled to the feet of Ming Ruonan, kowtowed vigorously to make amends, and asked the princess to open up.
Ming Ruonan frowned: "Why did you find me when you pleaded?" ”
"They said that this supervision and trial is His Royal Highness King Yu, I think I have a relationship with the Southwest Army, you will definitely be able to intercede for me in front of King Yu!"
This argument is reasonable, Ming Ruonan raised his fingers, hemp balls and fruits, and forcibly dragged the woman out.
"Since my young lady let you in, she agreed to your request, go home and wait for news."
The woman knocked her head to the ground a few more times before the petition was dragged away.
Lu Beibei's little face was wrinkled, rubbing the corners of his clothes, and it was really difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.
"Can't tell?"
"Well, young master, there are too many true and false things in this capital, and I can't figure it out now, whether this is true information, or just the information that others want to tell us."
Ming Ruonan smiled and rubbed Lu Beibei's head, looked at the study that was lit not far away, and whispered: "Since you can't tell the difference, let's check it out yourself and see who this woman interacts with on weekdays. If you follow her for a few days, if there is a problem with this person, you will definitely be able to find out the clue. ”
Lu Beibei nodded as if he didn't understand, looked at Ming Ruonan and suddenly felt a little depressed: "Young master, am I stupid?" I can't figure out this little thing, and I can't practice kung fu well. ”
Yuan Jing had just come out of the study, and he happened to hear Lu Beibei's words, and he couldn't help laughing: "Beibei is seventeen?" ”
Lu Beibei nodded: "Next month's birthday." ”
"How can a seventeen-year-old be so thoughtful as you? Don't compare yourself with your sister all day long, although she is smarter than you, but she hasn't read a few books, unlike you, who is well-versed in the past. ”
Ming Ruonan squinted his eyes slightly, glaring at Yuan Jing who was laughing at him: "It's not necessary to step on the high and praise the low." ”
Lu Beibei "poofed" and said loudly: "I understand what my uncle means, I'll let people check." ”
After Beibei left, Ming Ruonan pondered the woman's words just now, this Liang Li's parents died early, so if he really obeyed anyone, it must be the noble man who took him away in the first place. This is undoubtedly the solution of the mystery that has been haunting their hearts.
According to the woman, Liang Li lost his father and mother when he was seven or eight years old, and grew up eating hundreds of meals at his relatives' house all day, until one day he accidentally bumped into a nobleman, who not only did not get angry, but also took him away, saying that he wanted to take him home as a domestic servant.
After that, Liang Li gradually faded out of their lives. It wasn't until I went to the southwest later that I completely cut off contact with my relatives.
The woman only said that the woman who took Liang Li was dressed luxuriously, especially the colorful birds embroidered on the clothes.
"Colorful bird...... Color? It must be a concubine or princess in the palace. Yuan Jing Chao Ming Ruonan explained that although there were no explicit regulations on the embroidery of clothing in the Great Xuan Dynasty, everyone tacitly knew that the phoenix was only available to the queen, and Caizhi could only be embroidered on the women's clothes.
Liang Li was taken away at the age of ten and committed suicide at the age of thirty-six, so if you count it like this, twenty-six years ago, the princesses had not grown up......
"If it is calculated by age, only Concubine Zhuang and the late Concubine Hui and Concubine Liang are suitable. The lady concubine was not married to her father at that time. ”
Ming Ruonan rubbed the jade bracelet and thought: "Concubine Hui is deceased, if it is really behind the scenes, then King Rui will not be able to get rid of it." And then there is Zhuang Guifei......"
When Ming Ruonan thought of this, she felt uncomfortable again, worried that if it was really Concubine Zhuang, her heart would hurt again.
She thought about it for a long time, but finally couldn't sit still.
"Nan'er?"
"I went to Huangling, and some things were not asked clearly to King Rui, and there was always a stone in my heart." As soon as Ming Ruonan got up, he was grabbed by Yuan Jing's arm.
"Don't worry, I'll go with you." Yuan Jing was helpless, "You are not familiar with the road, even if you go, you can't find where the Fifth Emperor Brother is." ”
Ming Ruonan didn't want Yuan Jing to be with her, after all, this was a matter in the southwest, and she didn't want to pull Yuan Jing into the water.
But looking at her father-in-law's sincere eyes, her heart instantly softened.
"Okay."
The two took advantage of the night to go out, and when they arrived at Huangling, it was already time. Ming Ruonan only came to worship her ancestors once on the third day of marriage, thanks to Yuan Jing with her, otherwise she would not even be able to touch the door by herself.
Yuan Jing took Ming Ruonan up from the back mountain, which was hidden and guarded, so they tied their horses to the foot of the mountain, and after a short time, they came to the place where King Rui lived.
"The lights are still on?" Yuan Jing was a little puzzled, and stretched out his hand to stop Ming Ruonan, who wanted to go over, "Taimiao is cold and lonely, the Fifth Emperor Brother is not the kind of person who can read at night." ”
Ming Ruonan also frowned, looked at the lights in the room, flickered on and off, pricked up his ears and listened for a moment, his eyes widened: "Someone!" It's not far yet! ”
Ming Ruonan didn't say anything more, pointed to the house and said, "You guard, I'll chase after you." ”
Ming Ruonan heard the heavy footsteps of this person, it didn't look like he knew kung fu, and he was full of confidence that he would definitely catch up, but who knew that just when he saw the corner of this person's clothes, an arrow flew from a distance. She watched for it, and when she looked again, the man was nowhere to be seen. I heard the sound of horses' hooves whistling by. Ming Ruonan stomped her feet in anger, no matter how fast she was, she couldn't outrun this fast horse.
Ming Ruonan stomped his feet back, with a look of anger on his face.
"Didn't catch up?"
She nodded angrily: "Yes." And Akakoma! ”
Yuan Jing raised his eyebrows, looked at his angry daughter-in-law, and felt incredible: "Did you see anyone when you saw the horse?" ”
"I didn't see a horse!"
"And how do you know it's a red horse?"
"Listen to the sound of horses' hooves! vigorous and powerful, and a high-pitched cry, you can tell it to be a red horse when you hear it. ”
Yuan Jing couldn't help but give a thumbs up, raised his chin and pointed ahead: "Go find the Fifth Emperor Brother first?" ”
Ming Ruonan nodded, made sure that there was no one around, and went directly to knock on the door.
Yuan Jing also shouted in a low voice, but no one in the house answered.
"Did you sleep too much?"
As soon as Yuan Jing's words fell, Ming Ruonan suddenly became alert, sniffed the smell coming from the house, and his face immediately changed color: "The smell of blood!" ”
She kicked the door open, and the sight made both of them stunned on the spot.
I saw that the house was full of splattered blood, and King Rui fell in a pool of blood, unconscious......