Chapter Eighty-Eight: Hypocrisy
"Why did it take so long to come back, and there was no news to bring back." As soon as the prince entered the study and saw Yuan Xingang, although his tone seemed to blame, his eyes looked Yuan Xingang up and down carefully, and when he saw that he was uninjured and had a ruddy face, he sat down with peace of mind.
Yuan Xingang saluted, with a smile on his face, "I entered the thief's den, and I ran in the deep mountains and valleys for a long time, so I lived up to my mission and found out all the news that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wanted, as well as evidence, and Weichen also brought it back." ”
He took out a small brocade box from his sleeve, and when the box was opened, it was a peacock hairpin with exquisite workmanship.
The prince took a closer look, this bit of cui's craftsmanship is not something that ordinary people can have, "This thing, looking at Jin Gui,"
"It's from the palace."
When the prince heard this, he couldn't help but raise his head and look at Yuan Xingang, the light flashing in his eyes was as satisfied and proud as if a hunter had captured a wild wolf.
"Your Highness, as you might have guessed, he arranged for the female assassin and even those who attacked outside the palace. The evidence is in hand. ”
The prince was both happy and sad in his heart, and he bowed his head and did not speak for a long time. When he spoke again, his voice had already sunk, "Yuan Xingang, it's just the right time for you to come back." Now that the evidence is conclusive, let's make a decision. ”
The prince looked up at the sky, the sky was gloomy, there were no clouds, only the three words "Qingqiang Palace" came into his eyes, like clouds floating in the air. This was once the most conspicuous place in the palace, and Concubine Chen's mother was favored alone, and everyone here held her and let her. Even he, the crown prince, has to be ready to give up his position as crown prince to her son, the fourth prince Jing Xuan.
But now, the guards of the "Qingqiang Palace" are guarded with knives, and no one dares to approach them anymore.
The prince strode in, and the withering of all the plants around him looked particularly sad in this autumn day.
The fourth prince, Jing Xuan, was looking at the fallen leaves outside the house in a daze, and when he saw the prince coming in, he was not surprised or surprised, but just bowed, as if he had known that the prince would come.
"The fourth brother is so interested, is it a sad autumn cold here?" The prince's body was a little weak, so he picked up a stone pier in the courtyard and sat down, staring at Jing Xuan's face carefully.
Seeing that there was no wave on his face, as if he had experienced the vicissitudes of life for a long time, he was not shocked, and in a trance, the prince couldn't remember what the ignorant and simple brother looked like.
"Fourth brother isn't curious, why am I here?"
When Jing Xuan heard this, his face changed slightly, and he smiled slightly, "His Royal Highness the Prince, naturally you want to go wherever you want." The younger brother didn't dare to be curious. The meaning of the smile was vague.
If time suddenly stops at this moment, it seems that everything is very beautiful, he is still the fourth brother, and the prince is still the prince. Unfortunately, it doesn't.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here to tell his younger brother that he is going to leave the palace?"
The prince was sitting, and when he looked up, he suddenly felt that he couldn't see more and more clearly, what was shining in Jing Xuan's eyes?
"Or is it that His Highness is going to lock up his younger brother here for the rest of his life."
The prince smiled bitterly, "I came to tell you that Kang Yufei missed." ”
At that moment, Jing Xuan's face seemed to have a look of surprise, but it quickly returned to calm, "The younger brother doesn't know what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince means, what's wrong with the Crown Princess?" ”
"This is the first time you've tried to kill me?" The prince didn't seem to hear Jing Xuan's question, and continued to himself: "Starting from Concubine Chen, there are too many, I'm afraid you can't remember it clearly." Last time, on the way back to the palace, I arranged for more than a dozen killers to ambush me, and pretended to have a relationship with the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, and the last time, I pretended to be Kang Yufei and entered the palace to assassinate ......"
"What? Is the crown princess a fake? Jing Xuan looked at the prince with a shocked look.
The prince laughed out loud, this love is true and false, the play is real and fake, and now he really feels that he is confused enough to be completely confused. If he hadn't seen the evidence that Yuan Xingang had just brought back, he was afraid that he would doubt himself again.
"Zhao Baojiang, take it."
Zhao Baojiang walked up to Jing Xuan with a box in his hand, opened it, and inside was a hairpin, with several confessions, a few letters, and a jade pendant.
"What do you mean?" Jing Xuan was very calm and calm, raising his eyebrows, with a contemptuous gesture.
"Doesn't it look familiar? Hairpins and jade pendants. ”
"The jade pendant is a little familiar, like a ......"
"Your jade pendant."
Jing Xuan was unflustered and smiled faintly, "Brother Chen seems to have a piece like this before, but Brother Chen has never cared about these objects, I haven't seen them for a long time." ”
"You mean it's lost?" The prince waved his hand to let Zhao Baojiang go down.
"Maybe, or the younger brother will send someone to find it."
The prince looked at his disapproving expression, and only at this moment did he understand that this fourth brother did not understand at all, and he was cute and sensible, modest and honest in the past, but he was just hiding people's eyes.
"Jing Xuan, I don't want to spend more time with you, whether you do it or not, you know it in your heart if you understand it or not." The crown prince raised his eyes to look at him, his gaze was determined, "I just came to tell you that everything you do is counted on your head." The Hou Mansion in Zhenbei will not be dragged into the water by you. ”
Jing Xuan's eyes flickered, as if hearing these words made him a little panicked.
The prince slowly stood up and stared at him, waiting for his next move.
"Zhenbei Hou Mansion? Brother I still don't understand, you just said that the crown princess is a fake? ”
His eyes wandered, as if he was thinking about countermeasures, and he still immediately grasped the key to the problem under his own step-by-step watch, Kang Yufei.
The prince only understood at this moment, no wonder he had a difficult life in the past, compared to the scheming city, he was not his opponent.
"Yes, I have already sent someone to ...... these things that you arranged for the Zhenbei Hou Mansion in order to blame the blame."
"Your Royal Highness, my younger brother grew up with the crown princess since he was a child, this is absolutely impossible, she is definitely Kang Yufei."
The crown prince had already calculated what Jing Xuan was thinking, and from the beginning he planned to push everything to the Zhenbei Hou Mansion. If it weren't for the fact that in addition to these physical evidence, he also had several personal witnesses, this set of statements would indeed be confusing.
On this trip, the prince didn't actually need to come, he just thought about his brother, thinking that if Jing Xuan admitted his mistake, he might consider letting him go. Now it seems that it is really a toss-up.
"Your Highness, what you said, my brother really doesn't understand. If you suspect that the crown princess is a fake, this, the courtier brother can swear, she is definitely the sister of Yufei of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion......"
The prince smiled and turned to leave. The meaning of this smile is that he doesn't want to listen to his nonsense anymore, although Jing Xuan's words sounded behind him, "Brother Chen has a way to prove the identity of the crown princess......"
But now, the prince no longer dared to believe anything he said.
Thinking of seeing the evidence in front of him, the prince still had a trace of suspicion, and even when he saw the jade pendant, he still felt that the things were similar.
But when Yuan Xingang brought all those witnesses, when he saw Zhong Fengyang, the eldest son of the Zhong family of the Yuanshan Army, entering the hall with a half-burned letter, everything was settled.
As a fact, when he died, Jing Xuan had a chance to ascend to the throne. There has always been only Jing Xuan, only Concubine Chen, and she can't wait for his life.
He used to dare to believe it, but now he has to believe it even if he doesn't believe it.
"Your Highness, these four princes ......"
"After all, brothers." The crown prince sighed, and the yellow fallen leaves in late autumn fell one by one, as if God was lamenting for him, "Let Yuan Xin impose guards, no one is allowed to approach, and from now on, only exit and entry are allowed here." ”