Chapter Eighty-Six: The Aftermath is Explained
King Lin was thinking nonsense, and the three princes outside the palace were pushed in by the attendants beside him!
He carefully tucked the things in his hand into his sleeve and hid the complicated look on his face.
"It's rare for me to see you smile so happily, did you encounter something happy?" The Three Princes said.
King Lin lowered his eyes and smiled faintly.
"It's nothing, it's just that the news of my beloved thing that I lost a few years ago made me a little excited for a while, and let Uncle Huang see the joke!"
"Speaking of favorite things, there was a meteorite falling to the ground outside the city of the realm of the month ago, and the emperor sent someone to check it, and found a strange thing, which looks like iron, and looks like jade to the touch, I know that you have always liked to collect jade, so I specially sent it to you!"
As he spoke, he took out the bag in his arms and took out a strange-looking black thing from it, although the thing looked very dark, but its dark appearance greeted the light, and it could see the fine fluorescence, which was indeed very special.
King Lin looked at what he saw with a hint of surprise.
"This is a meteorite?" Saying that, he waved his hand, "Uncle Emperor of such a strange thing should send someone back to the Imperial City of Kyoto, how can it be sent to me!" ”
When the third prince heard this, he put the things back into the bag and stuffed it into his hand.
"You can rest assured that it will be your birthday in two months, your imperial grandfather knows that you like to collect these, so he specially asked me to send this jade to you, no one who knows will not dare to say anything!"
King Lin looked at the bag in his hand, thinking that Yue Qing loved gold, stone and jade, if she saw this thing, she would definitely love it, so thinking like this, he didn't shirk anymore, and put it in his sleeve.
"In that case, I'm disrespectful!"
King Lin thought about Yue Qing's surprise appearance when he saw this stone, and he couldn't help but have a smile on his face.
When the third prince saw him smiling, he felt a little relieved in his heart.
"You should smile like this, the children of high-ranking officials in Kyoto will be afraid of you like crazy when they see your smile comparable to the bright moon!"
"I'm afraid that the people who are looking for the queen mother to say goodbye will be lined up from the palace gate to the Glory Palace!
King Lin didn't say anything, and whispered to himself.
"All they want is to be afraid!"
The third prince didn't hear what he said, and was about to ask him what he had just said, when an attendant suddenly walked up to the hall outside the door and leaned over.
"Your Highness, the banquet has been prepared, please sit down with the third prince!"
The three princes went to death row after getting off the boat, and they didn't even eat a bite of dinner, and when they saw that King Lin had prepared a dinner, they didn't make excuses, and they looked at King Lin, and they went out of the Anyue Hall one after the other.
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At this time, outside the Zhizhou Mansion of Linjun City, the official guards carried the freshly lit lanterns and assembled into two rows.
The Zhizhou Lord Xu Xiaoshou and Wu Tingshi were about to take them to the city to ring the gong to warn the people of the city that there might be a flood.
The two of them had just taken two steps with the team, when they saw a black shadow leaping over the eaves and landing on the open space in front of them.
"Who...... Who? Wu Tingshi and Xu Zhizhou said in unison.
The wind clasped his hands and leaned over slightly.
"The head of the house asked me to remind you, it's not a dark river, there is no need to disturb the city's people, the two adults will rest first, there are important things to do tomorrow!"
Wu Youzhong saw that it was the dark wind, and was about to ask something, but before he could speak, the dark wind flashed, and flew up to the eaves and disappeared!
"Who is this man? Can you believe what you say? Xu Zhizhou came up and asked.
Wu Youzhong looked at the eaves that no longer had a figure, and frowned.
"He's a guard in the palace!"
"Honor...... Guards? Xu Xiaoshou's eyes widened in surprise, "Isn't that the person from the Third Prince?" ”
As he spoke, he seemed to have guessed something.
"Don't you say that the third prince came to Linjun City, right?"
Wu Youzhong sighed when he heard this, nodded very reluctantly, and said dejectedly.
"Not only is he here, but he knows it all."
Xu Xiaoshou was shocked when he heard this, turned around and hurriedly dismissed everyone.
The gate of the Zhizhou Mansion was empty, and only the two of them were clinging to their official uniforms in the cold wind, whispering!
"The third prince has an enmity with the crown prince, if he knows about this, I'm afraid this matter will not be easy to handle!"
Wu Youzhong's face became even worse when he heard this.
He thought that there would be nothing wrong with catching Lin Yueqing and forcing her to ruin her marriage, who knows how her life is so thin, she can be drowned in death row, this gang of grandfathers can't do anything, and now that this thing has happened, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain.
Just as he was thinking about it, Xu Zhizhou on the side spoke again.
"However, this matter is not without a turn, isn't the eldest prince of the Qi family a chess friend of the three princes, and the three princes hate the prince, and they don't hate the Duke of Qi!"
"I see, the most important thing now is to deal with the people on death row, after all, you didn't avoid suspicion when you arrested them, things are in a uproar, you can't hide if you want to, unless you ......."
"Unless what?" Wu Youzhong asked anxiously.
Xu Xiaoshou said with a smile on his lips.
"Unless they escaped and hid on death row, they accidentally drowned!"
Wu Youzhong still frowned when he heard this.
"Even if they escaped from prison and died on death row, then they were not caught by mistake, and death was not forced to death by me, besides, who would believe this kind of words, will the emperor believe it?"
"Even if the emperor believes it, then there are still three princes, and when the emperor learns the truth and investigates it thoroughly, the official is not the same, no, no! It doesn't work! ”
Xu Xiaoshou sighed when he heard this, and spread his hands.
"Then there is no way for the lower officials."
Wu Youzhong saw the current situation, and he regretted it in his heart, but now that the wood has become a boat, it is difficult to recover the water, I am afraid that there is no room for turning around, he still went back to explain the future to his wife, and when the matter is over, he hurried back to Kyoto to take the blame, and see if the emperor can soften his heart and leave him a small life!
Thinking like this, Wu Youzhong didn't say anything more, he patted Xu Zhizhou's shoulder and said gloomily.
"This is already the case, you can go back and rest, it's late at night, the official should also go back to the inn, wait for the body to be found tomorrow, let's talk about it!"
Xu Zhizhou said anxiously when he heard this.
"Then the lower official asked someone to lead the carriage out to see you off!"
Wu Youzhong waved his hand.
"The inn is nearby, a few steps away, no need to send it!"
The lanterns on both sides of the wide street shook slightly, and Wu Youzhong walked to the inn alone, thinking about tomorrow's events, his head hurt.
At this time in Xicheng District, people are knocking on each other's doors door to door with a look of urgency, and the lights of each house are turned on one after another, but after a while, they illuminate the streets of Xicheng.