"The prince of Yan Guo, if you try to murder me, you should be punished, and you will be beheaded after the autumn."

For a while, the ministers below looked at each other, stunned for less than half a second.

"Your Majesty, the other party is the prince of Yan Kingdom. Killing the prince of Yan is equivalent to provoking a war between the two countries. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, please think twice!"

"Your Majesty, please think twice!"

……

In the main hall, Wu Yang fell to his knees.

"Smack!" With a bang, the emperor slapped the dragon chair angrily, stood up angrily, and pointed to the ministers below and said, "Is it that I want to provoke a war between the two countries?" ”

"It's them, it's they who don't want to live, they want to provoke a war between the two countries!"

"Or are you looking forward to my death."

A series of questions silenced His Highness.

"I've made up my mind. When will you think clearly, and when will you retreat. ”

Dropping a word, the emperor threw up his sleeves and left.

The ministers knelt on the ground, you look at me, I look at you, and no one paid attention.

Mo Xuanyin, who was standing on one side with his head down, looked at the side coldly, his ink-dyed eyebrows were tangled together, and he faintly felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn't say what was wrong.

It had been a long time since Gu Xiqian heard the news, and she discussed with Liuyun what lunch to prepare in the Shizi Mansion.

, I thought that the emperor was inevitably hasty, and the real culprit was not the prince of King Yan who said that he would be executed like this.

To put it mildly, it's child's play.

Knowing that Mo Xuanyin was back, she immediately went to ask about it.

"What?" Gu Xiqian exclaimed in surprise and said loudly: "The emperor still left a group of ministers and left, are the ministers still kneeling?" ”

Mo Xuanyin nodded, his eyebrows and eyes were serious.

Gu Xiqian felt a little dizzy, and hurriedly asked: "Then Nanyue really wants to go to war with Yan State?" ”

As long as it is war, it means that lives will be ruined, which she does not want to see in her lifetime.

Mo Xuanyin glanced at her, his eyes were uncertain, and said: "It's hard to say, but I learned that although this Mo Xun has the title of the son of the world, he is soft-spoken in the Yan country, and his death may not cause a war, and it is inevitable that the person who is the king of Yan will not take advantage of this to give birth to any other incidents." ”

In other words, is it still possible to cause war?

Gu Xiqian rubbed her hands anxiously and said, "It seems that we must quickly catch the real culprit behind the scenes." ”

Mo Xuanyin looked at her anxious appearance, her slender and bony hand covered hers, and comforted: "Don't worry, everything has me." ”

"Hmm." Gu Xiqian responded, but the anxiety in her heart did not decrease at all.

But fortunately, it is still early after autumn, and they still have time.

Gu Xiqian wants to devote herself to the case, solve the case as soon as possible, and avoid a war between the two countries. But some people were not idle, and soon she was tripped up.

Because within a few days, suddenly all the people in the capital were spreading that the lord of Ronghui and the prince of Yan Guo secretly Chen Cang, inside and outside, poisoned the emperor, and intended to change the dynasty.

When Gu Xiqian heard this trumped-up charge, the rumors had already reached the point where they were in full swing, and even the emperor and queen were alarmed.

The emperor immediately summoned her into the palace, although he didn't say anything, but just said that in order to avoid suspicion and for her own good, let her stop meddling in the poisoning case of King Yan's son.

But she is not stupid, and the emperor has clearly expressed that he no longer trusts her.

From the palace all the way back to the palace, Gu Xiqian's face was not good.

She only stepped into the gate of the palace with her front foot, and was specially sent by her father to stop her at the door.

"Miss, the master asked you to go to the study."

Apparently my father was aware of the rumors.

Gu Xiqian bit her lip, turned her steps, and went in the direction of the study.

In the study, King Xiang stood by the bookcase and didn't know what to write, he listened to the next person's report, "Master, Miss is here." ”

When I looked up, I saw Gu Xiqian walking in.

"Father, are you looking for your daughter?" She bowed decently.

"Hmm." King Xiang answered, but he didn't know how to tell his daughter when the words came to his mouth.

He hesitated for a moment before squeezing out a sentence, "During this time, you better go out less." ”

Gu Xiqian raised her eyes to look at him, even his father believed the unfounded rumors outside?

The black and white eyes looked at King Xiang, and said slowly: "Doesn't the father believe in his daughter either?" ”

King Xiang was looked at for a while, and he said a little uncomfortably: "It's not a question of trust or distrust, even if you don't have it, but people are terrible, the three of them become tigers, we can't help but guard against it, you can come back from the palace today to show that Your Majesty doesn't fully believe those rumors, but what about tomorrow?" What about the day after tomorrow? Can you guarantee that Your Majesty will always be sane? ”

Gu Xiqian was dumbfounded, she had no way to guarantee it.

Her silence made King Xiang think that he had moved her, and nodded again: "Companion is like a tiger, child." ”

"Actually, my father is more afraid that the rumors will implicate the palace later, right?"

There was a hint of sadness in Gu Xiqian's clear voice, she was the daughter of King Xiang, it was difficult not to let the emperor think that there might be collusion between King Xiang's Mansion and Yan Kingdom.

She didn't wait for King Xiang to say anything, she directly bowed her body, lowered her eyebrows and said, "What my father taught me is that my daughter knows." The daughter will stay in the house to concentrate on reading and embroidering, and will not listen to the things outside the window. Do you have any other teachings? If not, the daughter will leave first. ”

Without waiting for King Xiang to respond, she retreated.

King Xiang opened his mouth, but in the end he still didn't call anyone back.

As soon as she returned to her courtyard, Liuyun greeted her, and she said angrily: "County Lord, those rumors are definitely Gu Miaoxuan's ghost, except for her, no one wants to harm you so much, let's go to her now and let her give an explanation." ”

Liuyun said yes, as if she saw with her own eyes that Gu Miaoxuan did it, her cheeks flushed with anger, adding a touch of cuteness to her.

Gu Xiqian glanced at her, and said helplessly: "Liuyun, you have to catch stolen goods." ”

"Didn't the county lord realize that she did it?" Liuyun was not convinced.

"It's not." Gu Xiqian denied it.

In the rumors outside, in addition to saying that she and the prince of Yan secretly crossed Chen Cang, they should have colluded with the outside world to murder the emperor, and there are similar examples,

"Lord Ronghui is climbing the wall, she obviously has a marriage contract with the prince of Yunnan and does not abide by the woman's way and seduces a foreign man."

"In addition to the prince of Yunnan, the lord of Ronghui also tried to seduce the emperor's righteous son."

I heard that King Xiang didn't look down on the prince of Yunnan, and he also brought the priest to the lord of Ronghui, and she agreed, she is, is she a man, will she take it all?"

……

These are enough for Gu Xiqian to lock the mastermind behind the rumors on Gu Miaoxuan, and only she can't wait to label herself as a "slut".

"Then you ......" Liuyun was puzzled.

Gu Xiqian explained, "Because we have no evidence, if we send it to the door, we will only be mocked." ”

"Then are we going to leave it at that?" Liuyun not only felt aggrieved for the county lord, she was worried: "She won't say anything about ruining your name for the time being, but it is rumored that you and the prince of Yan should cooperate with the outside world to murder the emperor, but it is a big crime to kill the head." ”

Gu Xiqian knew that she really cared about herself, reached out and touched her head, and said, "Don't worry, I have my own way to deal with her." ”

When Liuyun heard this, his eyes immediately lit up, and he asked, "What way?" ”

Gu Xiqian smiled at her and said; "It's a secret."

Compared with Gu Xiqian's calmness, Gu Miaoxuan's side became more and more uncomposed.

The rumors on the street were indeed concocted by her, she heard that Gu Xiqian was called into the palace by the emperor in the morning, and then she was called into the study by her father to teach a lesson, so she moved a chair and sat in her courtyard, waiting for Gu Xiqian to come to the door to settle the account.

But she didn't wait for anyone, so she sent the maid to inquire and said that the two of them were actually embroidering in the garden.

What a hell of a thing.

She spent so much money to spread rumors everywhere, but she didn't want to see this kind of result.

In addition to putting Gu Xi to death, he also had to mock her face to face to see how she would be arrogant in front of her in the future.

No way.

If she didn't take a sip of disgust first, she wasted so much effort and money on herself.

Since she didn't come, Gu Miaoxuan decided to go to the door in person.

She strutted and went straight to the direction of the garden, but halfway down the road, she saw Gu Xiqian walking in the direction of the gate with the girl talking and laughing.

Gu Miaoxuan hurriedly said in a loud voice: "Yo." Isn't this the person of the year in the capital recently? My sister has been really proud of the spring breeze recently, and when she saw her sister, she didn't even say hello. ”

Gu Xiqian and Liuyun stopped, and the moment they looked back at her, the smile on their faces was almost lost.

This is exactly what Gu Miaoxuan wants to see.

She lowered her voice and said to the little girl beside her, like a singing: "Sure enough, he is the person who is favored by King Yan, the rumors outside are like that, and my sister dares to go out to visit, this feeling is really moving." ”

Her girl immediately said, "Miss, don't guess, maybe the county lord is watching the sacrificial adult?" Alas, no, maybe it's the prince of Yunnan, or ...... Oh, there are too many guests of the county lord, and the slave doesn't know who the county lord is looking at. ”

The two sang and harmonized, and cooperated tacitly.

Seeing that it was a private statement in a low voice, the voice was not lowered at all.

Gu Xiqian sneered in her heart, if she was angry about this, she would be reborn in vain.

I saw her smile slightly, and said to Gu Miaoxuan: "You are all wrong, I am going to find His Royal Highness King Ping." ”

One sentence hit the nail on the head, making Gu Miaoxuan's face change instantaneously, and she looked at her with hatred.

That's not all.

Gu Xiqian continued: "The porter received a letter from His Royal Highness King Ping, I think it should be His Highness who asked me out for tea, right?" It's really time-catching. When he talks about me like that outside, he still asks me out, presumably because he still has me in his heart and trusts me. I knew that His Royal Highness King Ping was so good, I shouldn't have rejected him before. ”

Liuyun immediately said: "Miss, it's not too late now, His Royal Highness King Ping is so good, as long as you apologize and show goodwill, he will definitely not blame the past." ”

"You're dreaming." Gu Miaoxuan shouted hysterically, "His Royal Highness King Ping already knows your true face, so he won't ask you out for tea, that letter must be for me." ”

Gu Xiqian touched her chin and said very embarrassedly: "That's hard to say, after all, His Royal Highness King Ping ...... me before."

She didn't finish her sentence? Seeing Gu Xiqian carrying the corner of her skirt, she ran to the concierge, afraid that she would be a step too late.

Hum!

Isn't it acting, who wouldn't be the same?

Gu Xiqian squinted her eyes, and the good show was still to come.