Emperor Mingzong didn't speak, and Lin Ruo still knelt at the foot of the steps, silently confronting each other.

After a long time, Emperor Mingzong sighed heavily and said, "Minhui, I only now realize that I have never seen you, your city, your ability, and your ambition clearly. ”

Lin Ruo raised his eyebrows and said calmly: "Your Majesty, people's hearts are the most unpredictable. You say you don't see me, but do you see anyone else? Your courtiers, your children, your concubines, and even your deceased mother...... If someone has not told the truth in front of you, even if he is a bully, then the person who deceives the king, how can he be more than Minhui? ”

Emperor Mingzong's face turned cold and said, "You really dare to say anything!" ”

"Your Majesty," Lin Ruo's face was pale, "The truth has always been the most hurtful, there is an article in "Warring States Policy" "Zou Ji satirizes the King of Qi", Zou Ji said, "The wife of the minister is a private minister, the concubine of the minister is afraid of the minister, and the guest of the minister wants to ask for the minister, all of which are beautiful to Duke Xu." The people around the emperor are nothing more than the same. It's just that Minhui relied on the particularity of her mother in the emperor's heart, and became the Zou Ji who could sarcastically admonish in an appropriate way. ”

"Humph!" Emperor Mingzong snorted coldly, and was very disdainful of Lin Ruo's self-description, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't find a reason to refute it. It is true that although Lin Ruo has repeatedly deceived the king and annoyed him, he always has a reasonable excuse, but among the final beneficiaries of this excuse, there are the court, the society and the people.

Lin Ruo sighed lightly: "Your Majesty, Minhui doesn't dare to say that she is innocent, but it is not an exaggeration to say 'extenuating circumstances'." You are the king of Qi Wei who can admonish him, but the crown prince is not. Knowing the son Mo Ruo's father, the prince is small and jealous, and he is useless, you can't be more clear. At present, Su Muyu, the servant of the Criminal Department, is lying in the Loei Mansion, seriously injured, and he does not know the personnel, which can be seen in the prince's measurements. Jealousy is a terrible thing, especially that this jealous person is the prince, and it is Minhui and the Lin family who are hated. ”

Emperor Mingzong's face sank like water, if Su Muyu's matter was really done by the prince, then this prince did too much, but even if the prince was overwhelmed, and there were so many civil and military people in the Manchu Dynasty, it would not be the turn of the little girl in front of him to put his beak, right? Thinking of this, Emperor Mingzong said sarcastically: "So, are you dissatisfied with the next prince, and you plan to go beyond your authority and choose a new prince for me?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's not that Min Hui wants to act as a substitute," Lin Ruo raised his eyelids, his eyes burning, "but someone wants to re-appoint a prince for the emperor." ”

"Oh?" Emperor Mingzong seemed to be smiling, seeing that Lin Ruo's gaze lingered for a moment on the jade pendant in his hand, and then pinched the jade pendant between his fingers, "Could it be that you want to say that it's him?" ”

Lin Ruo bowed slightly and said, "The emperor is wise!" ”

Emperor Mingzong's face changed suddenly, and he patted the case and said, "Lin Ruo, do you know what you're talking about?" ”

"If you go back to the emperor, Minhui knows."

"Then do you know whose jade pendant it is?"

"If you go back to the emperor, Minhui also knows." Lin Ruo took out another jade pendant from his arms, pinched the silk silk attached to the jade pendant, straightened his back, and said slowly, "If not, Minhui will not be willing to risk the felony of bullying the monarch and enter the palace alone to see the emperor!" ”

Emperor Mingzong got up, walked down the stairs step by step, stopped in front of Lin Ruo, and took the piece of dragon and phoenix Chengxiang Xiu jade jade pendant from her hand, the same carving skill, the same jade quality, the same pattern, only the yin and yang of the dragon's eyes and phoenix eyes, the two jade pendants are different, and this secret is only known to Emperor Mingzong who personally designed the jade pendant and the old craftsman who carved the jade pendant.

It is indeed those two jade pendants, such as a fake.

Emperor Mingzong's expression was as usual, but there was an undercurrent in his eyes, and he was holding a jade pendant in one hand, and he trembled a little because of the force of his fingers. "Who is he? Where is it? ”

asked without a beginning, but Lin Ruo understood that Emperor Mingzong was asking the owner of another jade pendant.

Lin Ruo raised his eyes, looked up at the emperor standing tall, and did not directly answer Emperor Mingzong's question, but said: "Your Majesty, these two jade pendants, one of them, you rewarded my mother, and the other one was given to Concubine Xian, right?" ”

Emperor Mingzong did not answer.

Lin Ruowu said from below: "So, the owner of the other jade pendant is the prince born to you and Concubine Xian, right?" ”

Emperor Mingzong remained silent.

Lin Ruo continued: "It is said in the palace that Concubine Xian Niangniang has never conceived an heir, but it is rumored that a palace maid in Qinmei Palace was pregnant with a dragon heir and gave birth to a dead baby, which is actually a rumor deliberately spread by Concubine Xian, in fact, the child was stolen out of the palace by a guard who gave birth to a different heart, and life and death are unknown, right?" ”

Facing Lin Ruo's three consecutive questions, Emperor Mingzong finally spoke, his voice a little hoarse: "What do you want to say?" ”

"Back then, the emperor ordered the winged fire guard to investigate secretly, and found that the guard who stole the child was a forbidden army guard named 'Zhou Zhisheng', and found out that it was a little palace maid in the palace of Concubine Shugui who gave him a lot of property in private and instigated him to do this thing. It's just that no matter how much the Wing Fire Guard looks, he can't find the whereabouts of Zhou Zhisheng and the Four Princes. ”

"How do you know so well?" Emperor Mingzong said in a deep voice.

The corners of Lin Ruo's mouth rose slightly, and he said, "Because I found the Four Princes, and I also found the old people who were related to this matter back then." ”

Emperor Mingzong propped his hands on his knees, leaned over slightly, and the green tendons on his forehead jumped: "You found Zhou Zhisheng?" ”

Lin Ruo sneered: "To be exact, I found a clue to the person who pretended to be 'Zhou Zhisheng'." ”

"Say!"

"Your Majesty, Shaoqing has a secret guard, called the 'Shadow Guard', which was left to him by King Yu, and you already know it now, right?" Lin Ruo paused slightly, and after receiving a soft snort from Emperor Mingzong, he continued, "The leader of the Shadow Guard is called the 'Shadow Envoy', and after the 'Shadow Envoy', there is also a 'Deputy Shadow Envoy'. At that time, half of the shadow guards followed King Yu to fight on the battlefield in Beiqi, but they were poisoned, causing King Yu to die on the battlefield and the entire shadow guard army was wiped out. ”

"And then?"

"But in fact, the shadow guard was not wiped out, there was one person who survived by luck, his name is 'Fei Ling', he was the 'deputy shadow envoy' of the shadow guard back then, he is Leng Shu's father-in-law," Lin Ruo's eyes flashed a fine light, "The original name of 'Fei Ling' is called Zhou Zhiji." ”

Zhou Zhisheng, Zhou Zhiji?

Emperor Mingzong's eyes lit up: "What is the relationship between the two of them?" ”

"If you go back to the emperor, Zhou Zhiji, that is, 'Fei Ling', is Zhou Zhisheng's cousin."

"Cousin? What do you mean......"

"Your Majesty, I have always wondered why Fei Ling, who is the deputy shadow envoy, did not return to Bian'an City and return to Princess Yu, and since then he has never gone to see his young master as 'Fei Ling'. Leng Shu said that his father-in-law felt ashamed of the prince and Shaoqing until his death. But his words and deeds are not very consistent, Your Majesty, what do you think, why is this? "Hundred Plating" The latest chapter of "Female Businesswoman Claw Book House" is free to read for the first time.