Dali Temple Qing Yu Qian, Shaoqing Xu Zhijin, Criminal Department Shangshu Wu Zhong, Zuo Shilang Wang Zhang, standing in the imperial study.

"Yu Qing, Wu Qing, the death of the first emperor should not be disturbed, but since everyone has doubts in their hearts, please also ask Dali Temple and the Criminal Department to inquire about the people around the former emperor and find out the cause of the emperor's death as soon as possible."

Zhu Zhanji added: "It must be done at this time, but don't make a big announcement, calm down the rumors, and make a smooth transition, which is the top priority." ”

Xu Zhijin and Wang Zhang were mainly responsible for this time, because they were investigating in the palace, they could only bring one assistant each, and the rest were assisted by Wang Zhen's internal courtiers.

Li Fu was killed in the last shipwreck, and when Zhu Zhanji was in the Nanjing Imperial Palace, he took a fancy to this smiling Wang Zhen and let him take the position of father-in-law.

Zhang Yue was sent to find out Zhu Wenzhi's whereabouts. Dongchang Huang Yan led people to monitor the Han Palace.

The enthronement ceremony is scheduled for June 27, and there is still half a month to go.

As far as Zhu Zhanji is concerned, it doesn't matter much whether he investigates the cause of his father's death or not, he just wants to use this matter to make the Han King and the ministers who questioned him have nothing to say.

As for the results, as long as the day of his accession to the throne has passed, it will be the same for him.

But the eldest princess Hua Qiao didn't think so.

After returning to the palace, she did not return to Kunning Palace, but directly lived in the side hall of the Queen Mother's Shou'an Palace.

The queen mother was in no mood to care about her, and sat in Kunning Palace in a daze all day long. finally became a queen from the crown princess, and it has been less than a year since she lived in Kunning Palace, and she is about to change from a queen to the queen mother.

"The funeral of the first emperor was sudden, and we returned to Beijing quickly, and the king of Han guided the ministers to link these two things, so that everyone felt that the funeral of the first emperor was related to the emperor." Zhang Yue pressed the shoulder of the Queen Mother's sister while telling them about the things outside.

"However, in the past two days, I have found out one thing, the death of the emperor, maybe it has something to do with this person."

Empress Dowager Zhang and Hua Qiao asked at the same time: "Who?" ”

"Zhu Wenzhi."

"How could it be him? Isn't there only a few stragglers left, how can he still put his hand into the palace? ”

Hua Qiao was excited, and tightened the black bean in her hand, and the black bean snorted twice, jumped off her thigh, and wagged her tail to find Xiao Gao next to her.

"I found out that Li Shimian, a student in the Hanlin Academy, was the head of the Criminal Department with Yi Chengjin during the Yongle period. This is normal, but when they investigated the case together, Yi Chengjin once saved his life. ”

Empress Dowager Zhang nodded and said: "With the grace of saving lives, the relationship between the two will be different from ordinary people." ”

"At the end of last year, Li Shimian gave a recital to the first emperor, more than a dozen suggestions, and the first one made the first emperor angry enough, and asked the guards to break his three ribs with a golden gourd on the spot."

"What did he say? Can you make your father so angry? Hua Qiao was a little curious, she always felt that her father had a good temper, and it was also a talent to be able to make her father angry like this.

"Don't ask, you're a girl, you can't listen to this." Empress Dowager Zhang said with a smile.

"What's this, what is said and written in the court, why can't Hua Qiao listen to it? He just said that your father was close to the concubines during the state funeral. This concubine is none other than the concubine Shun Concubine Zhang, the mother of the six princes. ”

Zhang Yue's meaning Hua Qiao understands very well, his father has always been indifferent to Zhang, you said that he wants to spoil his concubine in the midst of filial piety, and it will not be Zhang.

"Alas! The queen is derelict in her duties! The emperor has only these concubines in total, and there are no newcomers, and whoever goes to the emperor to make trouble, the queen will not stop it. ”

"I also found out this time that on the day the emperor died, he said to Xia Shangshu: Li Shimian insulted me in court! After saying that, my heart beat faster, my condition worsened, and I disappeared that day. ”

Hua Qiao's heart sank: Could this be the cause of my father's death?

She had known for a long time that her father had chest paralysis, foot disease, thirst quenching disorder and vertigo, among which vertigo was not being able to get angry, and he was already hyperactive in the liver and yang, and if he was too angry, it would make the heart that was already suffering from heart disease unbearable.

Then there is a great possibility that the father suddenly had an accident.

She looked at Zhang Yue and asked word by word: "Do you suspect that Li Shimian was called by Zhu Wenzhi and deliberately killed my father?" ”

Zhang Yue didn't speak, squatted down and touched Black Bean's head, and Black Bean immediately stood up in disgust and lay down at the feet of Hua Buckwheat. He smiled and said, "I didn't say anything. ”

Xu Zhijin took Feng Yuncheng of Dali Temple to interrogate the people around the emperor before his death in the side hall of the Qianqing Palace. Suddenly, a slender white figure was seen in the corner of his eye.

The corners of Xu Zhijin's eyebrows were raised, but he didn't look back at her, just continued to ask:

"The High Court ruled that the pulse of the former emperor was basically the same as before the aggravation of his condition, so why did it suddenly occur?"

There are only ten imperial doctors in the Tai Hospital, and usually the two people from the High Court and the Zhou Yuan are directly responsible for asking the emperor for pulse and treatment.

"Emperor Hong Xi's fatness is actually caused by the inability to reconcile yin and yang in the body, and the disharmony of yin and yang will cause many diseases, so it is expected.

But it's not been a year or two, and the sudden aggravation of the condition must have needed a trigger. As for what this trigger is...... The lower officials did not dare to speculate. ”

The judgment of the High Court is consistent with the judgment of the buckwheat.

When she was in Nanjing, she once told her father about her father's gout, and her father said that her father's syndrome should be taken care of calmly, and it may not be fatal.

When the High Court sentenced out, Xu Zhijin said with a smile:

"The princess came back from Nanjing City and learned to eavesdrop?"

Hua Qiao said flatly: "Feng Sizheng has seen me, and I will listen to it openly." Third Brother Xu, when you asked those attendants, did you find anything wrong? ”

"Chamberlain? The inner servants around the emperor are those Fucheng and Fuxi who have followed him for many years, nothing special. Feng Yuncheng had seen Hua Qiao's skills last time, and when he saw her ask, he knew that she had suspicions.

Hua Qiao sighed, this is indeed too slim, whoever goes in and says a word will leave, and no trace will be left.

"You guys, just pay attention, before Xia Shangshu met my father, he saw anyone......

Xu Zhijin asked, "Have you also noticed what Lord Xia said?" Did someone say something to the former emperor, that is, the 'inducement' that the High Court just decided, right? But I thought ......"

"Why do you think so?" Hua Qiao asked anxiously.

"I thought it was the first emperor who had eaten the pill." Xu Zhijin said with a frown.

"When? When did my father start taking pills? ”

The elixir contains trace amounts of toxicity, which can make people excited in a short period of time, causing the illusion of great efficacy, and over time, the toxins will settle in the body, and they will be poisoned and killed.

Hua Qiao knows this truth, and Xu Zhijin also knows it.

When she was a child, Ah Niang was sick, she asked her father to go to the Taoist priest to buy pills, and her father told her that Xu Zhijin was also there that time.