Three days later, the Nanjing Imperial Palace.

The side hall of Wuying Palace, the glass is drunk, and the blue and blue mist is low and presses the eaves of the palace.

Liu Xunzhan, the founding emperor of the Dalang Dynasty, sat on the dragon chair with a gloomy face.

At the foot of the steps, Zhuo Ruoning and her father knelt on the ground, silent.

The eunuchs outside the hall spread the news, and Zhuo Yuan, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, hurried over, and without stopping, entered the hall and bowed.

"Your Majesty."

The emperor's face remained unchanged, and he said in a deep voice: "Give me a seat." ”

The eunuch moved the chair, Zhuo Yuan glanced at the two kneeling people, sat down cautiously on the side of the chair, raised his eyes to look at the emperor's face, and his heart beat a drum.

Since he was forcibly summoned to Jiqing with a group of scribes, he has been serving by the emperor's side for more than ten years, and knows the emperor's temper very well: suspicious, moody, and murderous.

Since the son of the patriarch Zhuo Li is the sixth grade of the country's son supervisor business, the most cautious person, the emperor is usually polite to him, today I don't know how to touch the scales, if you don't know how to touch the scales, if you don't know the Zhuo family, the family will be ruined.

Zhuo Yuan stabilized his breath and asked tentatively: "But the dog did something wrong and made the emperor angry?" ”

The emperor did not answer him, but said as if chatting, "Sir hasn't been home for a while, has he?" ”

Zhuo Yuan hurriedly surrendered his hand: "Thanks to the emperor's compassion, let the old minister stay in the palace, yes, I haven't gone back for two months." ”

Zhuo Yuan, 70 years old this year, is the teacher of literature and history of the crown prince and the princes, and is also a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, presiding over the revision of national history.

The emperor sympathized with his old age, and it was too hard to travel between the palace, the yamen and the Zhuo Mansion every day, so he arranged accommodation for him in the palace, so he rarely went home during the period of repairing the history of the country.

The emperor seemed to be quite satisfied with this answer, if Zhuo Li did not report directly today, but secretly contacted Zhuo Yuan first, then the way of questioning would be different.

The emperor picked up a palm-sized white jade pendant from the dragon case: "Sir, do you know this thing?" ”

Zhuo Yuan's eyes were short-sighted, and the eunuch held the tray in both hands and sent it to him.

"This jade pendant seems to be a gift from the crown princess to the granddaughter of the old minister."

"Sir, do you know the origin of this jade pendant?"

Zhuo Yuan looked carefully again and shook his head.

"It seems to be an antiquity, forgive the old minister's clumsy eyes, I don't know the origin of this thing."

The emperor glanced at Zhuo Li, who was kneeling, and sneered.

"Mr. is a great Confucian in literature and history in the world, known as half of the world's scholars are under your tutelage, and Zhuo Siye is also a learned person. This jade pendant, even you don't know it, but a little girl recognized it? ”

"Shame on ......"

Beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on Zhuo Yuan's forehead, and his buttocks moved out again, like pins and needles.

The emperor's gaze moved to Zhuo Ruoning, and he said in a deep voice: "Five girls, you raise your head to answer my question, why do you recognize this thing?" ”

Zhuo Ruoning raised her head at this time, her big black eyes were exceptionally bright, and the ignorant and panicked expression on her face pleased the emperor, the emperor didn't like people who were too shrewd.

"I think I saw it in a book, but I can't remember exactly."

The emperor's eyelids jumped imperceptibly, and his face sank to the bottom.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhuo Li hurriedly pleaded guilty.

"The emperor forgives the sin, when the little girl came to Nanjing by boat from the Pujiang River, she had a serious illness, and her memory was problematic, and she didn't know anyone when she woke up, and she couldn't even remember her name. The book she read, Weichen has sent someone to the old house in Pujiang to look for it. ”

The emperor was not lightly angry, as long as he thought that someone dared to do dirty things under his nose, he felt angry in his heart.

"Take it down, and we'll talk back when I think about it."

Zhuo Ruoning didn't react, she didn't take medicine in the morning, she didn't have a grain of rice in her stomach, and she knelt here for a long time, her head was like a paste paste, she was groggy, and it was not easy to hold on until now.

She looked up at her grandfather and father, and saw that they both had dead faces and their eyes were full of anxiety, and then she realized that something was wrong.

But the emperor was angry, and the father and son of the Zhuo family dared to say one more word, for fear that it would lead to death.

The guards came in and took Zhuo Ruoning out of the hall, and when he came down the steps, he met a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy.

The guard let go of her and saluted the young man: "Second Emperor Sun." ”

The second emperor grandson saw Zhuo Ruoning's face pale, cold sweat on his forehead soaked his hair, and he stood there swaying, feeling strange in his heart.

He looked at her and said, "Father heard that Mr. Zhuo had something to do and asked me to come...... Hey—"

Before he finished speaking, Zhuo Ruoning finally couldn't hold on and fell into his arms.

The second emperor and grandson were so frightened that they hurriedly hugged her......