Chapter 406: More suspicious
Song Ming was not stunned, and instantly understood what Emperor Duan meant, and directly took out the closing statement about the assassin last night in his arms and presented it with both hands.
Emperor Duan lowered his eyebrows and looked at the file in his hand, his face became even more displeased, "The assassin testified that it was the house slaves of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Mansion who asked them to assassinate a woman?" What kind of woman are you looking for? ”
"Back to Your Majesty, according to the situation that night, the target of these assassins should be the third lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Tang Nuoqing, but the third miss of the Tang family happened to be with His Royal Highness King Xun at that time, and because of the protection of the guards around the prince, it did not cause a big disaster."
"There's still something about Kyung-hoon!" The air pressure around Emperor Duan was lower, and he quickly and carefully read the closing statement in his hand, and found that Duan Jingxun seemed to be just with Tang Nuoqing at that time.
But although the paper is written like this, is the fact that Duan Jingxun's presence really happened to be an accident?
Emperor Duan squinted slightly, recalling all kinds of clips of the previous meeting between Duan Jingxun and Tang Nuoqing in the palace, especially at the palace banquet in the Chinese New Year's Eve, Duan Jingxun made it clear for a while that he was talking to Tang Nuoqing, such partiality seemed to be that he knew how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade and then relieve the girl's family, but if you look at everything in series......
First Tang Nuoqing stood out among the officials and daughters, and then performed a song in the main hall, at that time, Gu Xi was almost covering the sky in the harem, and Tang Nuoqing was Gu Xi's niece...... Is it really all just a coincidence? Or is this a complete set of step-by-step interlocking designed by Gu Xi in order to envelop rights?
Emperor Duan unconsciously tightened his fists, and the closing statement in his hand was gradually distorted, the mastermind behind this matter was undoubtedly Cheng Zhongnian, but judging from the situation that Emperor Duan knew, it was very likely that the Cheng family would choose to kill Tang Nuoqing under the guise of an assassin on the first day of the Lunar New Year in revenge for their woman.
Although Cheng Zhongnian's use of last night's assassin was a bit of a malicious and opportunistic trick, and today it also had a certain degree of bad impact on the people of the imperial city, but in the eyes of Emperor Duan, these are still mistakes that can be put aside for a while, and he doesn't want to make things bigger because of the real and fake assassins.
At least now Su Zhi has not fully woken up, and Emperor Duan doesn't want to bother to open this chapter anymore, but although he can endure these things for the time being, the relationship between Gu Xi and Duan Jingxun is a timely alarm for Emperor Duan.
Before the series, Gu Xi is very likely to have used his niece to catch up with Duan Jingxun, if this is really what she did, then isn't Gu Xi and Duan Jingxun's goal for the throne?!
Emperor Duan was shocked to think of this, in the past, he could ignore the quarrels between the princes and others, but if he coveted the throne, this should be another matter, not to mention that no prince has dared to be bold enough to unite the harem, Duan Jingxun can be said to be the first.
It's just that whether Tang Chengen knows about this matter or not is another situation, "What is the movement of the Tang family?" ”
Emperor Duan's cold opening frightened Song Ming and hurriedly replied, "Back to Your Majesty, the Tang family has been closed since yesterday morning, I heard that it seems that Xiangye is sick, and all the people who went to pay New Year's greetings were all turned away, and even the people in the Tang family's mansion didn't see anyone come out." ”
"Sick?" Emperor Duan snorted coldly, "It's really time for him to be sick," since ancient times, emperors were suspicious, which made Emperor Duan think of Tang Chengen who couldn't afford to offend both the Cheng family and Duan Jingxun, so he thought of such an excellent excuse to lock himself up and not ask about the fire in his backyard at all.
If this assassination is really Tang Chengen's ignorance, then no matter who it is, he will not believe it, Emperor Duan has already determined which side Tang Chengen must be leaning towards in this matter, but no matter who he is facing is extremely dangerous in the eyes of Emperor Duan.
If it is towards the Cheng family, it is the collusion of officials and officials, and it is not too late for Emperor Duan to deal with such a crime later, but if Tang Chengen supports Duan Jingxun's side, it proves that Duan Jingxun has actually stretched out his hand to the court, and the harem plus the court is enough to influence Emperor Duan's position.
Thinking about it like this, it can't help but make people feel creepy, this closing statement was finally crumpled in the hands of Emperor Duan.
Song Ming saw everything in his eyes, and with his cleverness, he could not only guess what Emperor Duan was thinking, but also to a large extent, Song Ming was guiding Emperor Duan to doubt.
He understands Emperor Duan's character, so as long as he does a little trick in the closing statement, he can naturally lead him into a dead end of suspicion, and the clever thing is that these hands and feet do not distort the truth of the matter, just a change of expression makes Emperor Duan involuntarily plant a seed of doubt in his heart.
This point was also discovered by Song Ming during the interrogation last night, and he suddenly realized that these seemingly ordinary things could be connected into such a frightening story, but from last night to now, Song Ming has not had a chance to see Duan Jingyi, and when he goes out of the Dream Garden, he will leave directly to avoid suspicion, Song Ming's brain is running rapidly, guessing that if Duan Jingyi knows all these things, he should be able to deduce Emperor Duan's current suspicions.
Song Ming didn't dare to be 100% sure of all this, he just guessed roughly according to his understanding of Duan Jingyi's dark belly and intelligence, but when he could move his whole body with a single shot, it was far from enough to guess.
Emperor Duan pondered for a long time and finally spoke in a deep voice, "This matter is put aside for the time being, no matter who asks, it is claimed that the assassin has committed suicide in prison, and tomorrow I will ask Li Kang to secretly transfer all of them to the prison of the Criminal Department for custody, you must ensure their safety." ”
"Your Majesty understands, please rest assured!" Song Ming solemnly assured, and then walked out of the gate of the Dream Garden.
Song Ming nodded with Su Mao again, and then took advantage of the dark to walk to the back door, he had the Imperial Forest Army on both sides to protect him, saying that it was protection, but any action he made in this Yi Palace's mansion would end up in the eyes of Emperor Duan.
Song Ming walked with his head down while quickly thinking about how to ventilate Duan Jingyi, and suddenly he saw a row of unknown small yellow flowers by the wall of the back door, which is almost impossible to exist in the majestic and luxurious palace, it must be a seed left in the summer, and the earth dragons in the courtyards are buried here in winter, so as soon as the underground temperature is warm, the flower will take root and sprout in the winter, and the reason why the nameless wildflower can also survive in the palace until now, I'm afraid that because of Su Zhi's affairs in the past few days, the people in the palace have been called away to avoid suspicion, so they happened to be left.