Cai Xiaoxiao's ridiculous behavior in the palace is already known to everyone in the harem.

There are many people in the palace, and if the people in the palace know, the people outside the palace will naturally know seven or eight points.

In this way, the water lord naturally knows.

Lord Shui asked this queen if she was the daughter of Prime Minister Cai, how good Prime Minister Cai was, and the son who taught him was also very good, and now he is a doctor of imperial history. The daughter who taught it will naturally not be too bad, if it is the daughter of Lord Xia Taiwei Xia, it is understandable that Concubine Xian has such a move.

Lord Cai's daughter, Queen Cai is absolutely impossible to make this move. Even if he was just like the doctor said, he recovered from a serious illness and forgot all his memories. The queen categorically would not do so.

After all, Lord Shui can be regarded as a person from the past.

The truth of this is naturally understood by Lord Shui.

You can deceive others, but you can't deceive Lord Shui.

What's more, he went to the harem with the prince and Gong, and picked lotus canopies with the queen.

After that, I went in and out with the prince frequently in and out of the queen's Zhai embroidery palace.

There were so many strange things, Lord Shui regretted it at the beginning, and when Gong returned to his hometown to repair the ancestral tomb, he didn't send anyone to follow.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be so passive today.

This is not to blame Lord Shui, before this, neither the palace nor the emperor had any warning.

If every official had to send someone to keep an eye on him, I am afraid that Lord Shui would not have such great strength. In this way, Lord Shui will soon leak, and he will definitely leave a handle for the emperor. In this way, there is no talk of the great cause of restoring the country.

There are so many doubts, Lord Shui can't figure them all out for a while.

Since this is the case, Lord Shui decided to start with the prince's mansion first. Maybe you can find some clues and solve some of the doubts in your heart.

Lord Shui instructed Lord Mu to inquire about the situation in the prince's mansion in recent months.

Subsequently, Lord Shui wrote a letter to Concubine Shu, asking about the recent situation in this palace.

Concubine Shu also observed the situation of the Empress Zhaixiu Palace for more than a year, as well as Concubine Shu's guesses, and truthfully informed Lord Shui.

Concubine Shu's letter not only did not let Lord Shui relieve the doubts in his heart. On the contrary, it made the water adults have more doubts in their hearts.

Lord Shui guessed in his heart that Empress Fei had died a year ago? But why, hide it? Why do you want to hide it so far, get a fake queen, or someone who looks exactly like the queen. Did you use a human skin mask? The queen behaves perversely, without the style of a queen. Since he has worked so hard to get a fake queen, why do he have to expose himself in such a manner. Isn't it deliberately suspicious? And the prince's behavior is even more incomprehensible.

In short, the matter is not as simple as it seems.

A few days later, Master Mu came to report to Lord Shui.

The two of them went into the study alone, and their voices were very cautious.

"My lord, in the past few days, the lower officials have inquired from the maids and subordinates of the prince's mansion. When he returned from Yezhou with the prince, he brought back a woman and lived in the palace courtyard. But in the palace, no one has ever seen the real appearance of this woman. ”

"No one has seen it?" Lord Shui was obviously a little confused.

"Yes. I heard them say that every day they cook meals and put them at the door, they are all delivered by the prince himself. After eating, the dishes were brought out by Prince He himself. Moreover, they said that the people who served the woman were also the people who trusted the prince the most. Even so, they had never entered the room to see her for what she really was. ”

"It's not a strange thing to have an affair with the prince and take a woman back to the palace. It's just that being able to make Prince He so cautious and so hands-on makes people a little curious. What does this woman look like so that Prince He can't even see the people in the mansion? So what do you do in the palace with the prince on weekdays? ”

"I heard from the people that Prince He stayed in the room with this woman almost all the time. Sometimes you can hear them giggling inside the house. ”

"It seems that Prince He is very interested in this woman."

"But the lower officials don't understand, since Prince He is so attentive to this woman, why did he frequently go to the queen's Zhaixiu Palace later?"

"How long has this woman lived in the Prince's Mansion? Have you heard? ”

"Listen to the next person, almost half a month. One night, he was personally sent by the prince from the back door to leave in a carriage. Or a carriage driven by the prince himself. This is also a minion who got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet and accidentally saw it, and felt curious, so he followed. ”

"If that's the case, the old man probably knows the ins and outs of this."

"The lower officials are dull, please make it clear."

"Many years ago, the old man had personally heard from the prince that she liked the queen's mother. At that time, the old man thought it was just a child's nonsense, and he didn't believe it. Unexpectedly, Prince He used a romantic appearance to cover up his single-mindedness towards the queen. From this point of view, the woman who went to Yezhou with the prince and Gong and brought back should look exactly like the queen. In this way, all doubts are explained. It's just that for some reason, Prince He was willing to send this woman into the palace to become the queen and serve the emperor. ”

"The lower official is stupid, but this woman behaves perversely, without the appearance of a queen. It's so easy to make people suspicious, and such a style doesn't seem like the emperor's doing. ”

"Definitely. The old man guessed that this move was deliberately done by the emperor and Prince He. I just don't know what their purpose is? ”

"My lord, the subordinate has an idea, I don't know whether to talk about it or not."

Master Mu said.

"Xia Guan thought, since the emperor and Prince He have a purpose this time, we might as well plan it."

"Oh, how do you count it?"

"This woman's willingness to return to the palace with Prince He must also have a purpose. If this woman really likes Prince He, we will use Prince He as a threat; If it is for other purposes, since we have already seen that he is a fake queen, we can also prove that he is a fake queen, so that she is threatened to become our man with her unfulfilled purpose. What do adults think? ”

"Good. In this way, it is more neat than Concubine Shu. I'll leave it to you. ”

"It's my lord. It's just that this woman is now in the palace, except for the lady concubine, we are afraid that it will be difficult to contact this person. Once we reach out, it is even possible to reveal our identity. ”

"Don't rush, take your time. After it is confirmed, it is not too late to come back, and we will wait and see what happens. ”

"Yes, sir."

"That's right. Mu Qing, this month's colleagues will take this as the main body, guide them to think like this, and then let them go to Yezhou to investigate, so as to confirm our thoughts. In this way, the evidence is conclusive. In this way, it can also add fuel to their anger. This anger is big enough, strong enough. ”

"Yes, my lord is wise."

After Mu Qing left, Lord Shui was alone in the study, thinking about whether to tell Concubine Shu the news he had inquired about from the Prince's Mansion. After thinking about it, Master Shui weighed all kinds of pros and cons, and in the end, he decided not to tell Concubine Shu, so as not to cause extraneous branches.

As a result, the only doubt is the time difference of the year. It is better to be cautious, after all, if this matter fails, it will be a matter of losing your head. There is no room for sloppiness, and there is no room for never once, and the opportunity is only once.

This month, the Shui Daren organized a gathering of colleagues, and the queen's outrageous behavior naturally topped the list of topics they discussed.

They not only counted Cai Cheng's goddaughters, but also counted the emperor's connivance.

They are the same as the harem concubines and ordinary people. They all thought that the queen was evil, and they wanted to find an excuse to exorcise evil spirits for her.

This was obviously wrong, and Lord Shui's expression was a little displeased. Xiang Mu gave him a look.

Lord Mu naturally knew what it meant, "My lords, this official thinks that the queen's move is not quite like an evil spirit. ”

"Why does Lord Mu mean this?" An official asked, puzzled, anxious, and questioning in a questioning tone.

"Dare to ask, have you seen the symptoms of this evil person here?" Mu Qing still said politely.

"Of course, I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but I've heard it from others?" Obviously, the confidence is not as strong as the person just now. Seeing can be false, let alone just listening to others. The confidence is naturally not so reasonable.

"And how do others describe the symptoms of an evil person?" Mu Qing pressed forward step by step.

"Inexplicable horror, innocent fear, auditory hallucinations. He was riddled with pain, and he could not be cured for a long time, and everything did not go well. ”

"All the adults here, look at these symptoms of the queen who has just recovered from this serious illness, but they are quite in line with these descriptions of evil? 、！ ”

These adults began to talk to each other, and compared with the queen who had just recovered from a serious illness, the queen before this was more in line with the symptoms of evil. When Master Mu asked this, he hit the nail on the head, and confused these ministers and literati.

"Then what Lord Yimu saw, why is that?" It was a question just now, but now it has become a tone of inquiry.

"Some time ago, do you remember that the emperor approved Lord Gong Qin to return to his hometown to repair the ancestral tomb?" Master Mu continued to guide them forward.

"Yes. Could it be that Lord Mu thinks that this has something to do with the queen? ”

"Returning to the hometown to repair the ancestral tomb has nothing to do with the queen. Do you remember going with the prince at that time? ”

"This is related to the relationship between the prince and the Gong family, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty know it, is there anything doubtful about this?"

"There is no doubt about that. It's just that the official heard that when he returned to the capital with the prince and Gong, it seemed that there was a woman with him. After Prince He and Prince Gong returned, the queen mother was not only alive and vigorous, but also had a great change in temperament. This paragraph was obviously made up by Lord Gong himself. Although Cai Xiao knew that they did this, but in order to hide people's eyes, they sat on the ground in a carriage, and did not come down until they arrived at Prince He's mansion. It would be all the more strange if anyone in the city could see it.

But these ministers also believe it, and that's the point.

"What Lord Mu means is that the queen mother did such an outrageous thing, and it is not evil." An official is a little tactful.

"Is this a fake queen?" This other official did not shy away from saying it directly.

All of a sudden, all kinds of sighing voices continued. Condemnation, accusation, grievance...... There are all kinds of voices, and there is no shortage of one.

"But why did the emperor make a fake queen?"

"The holy will is unpredictable, how can we speculate." What Master Mu said is good, and it is so unpredictable. This firewood is just right.

"Recently, have you heard that you and the prince frequently go in and out of the harem to find the queen?" Mu Qing took the opportunity to add another handful of firewood.

"It seems that the two of them are lonely men and widows, and they don't know what they have done in this embroidery palace. It's really morally depraved and humiliating. One official was a little angry.

All of a sudden, there was another sigh.

"It's just that the lower officials are very curious, why does this woman look so similar to the queen, and she is exactly the same?" One official voiced a question on his mind.

"There are no wonders in the world, so what's so strange about looking like it." Without waiting for Mu Qing to answer, the urgent son of this official took the lead in answering the question.

"That's just as well."

"These are all speculations from all of us here, and there is no real evidence." Master Mu was a little cautious at this time.

"Isn't the evidence simple? When they come back from Yezhou, there must be some clues along the way. We'll find out as soon as we check. What do you think of this, Prime Minister? A clerk was desperate to show his talent and blurted out.

"Good. Then take a trip to Yezhou. It turned out that this matter was related to Prince He and Prince Gong, and the two of them have now returned to the capital, and their actions must be closely monitored. That's what Mizu-sama was waiting for.

Next, as long as you let Lord Mu assign these specific things to specific officials and literati to carry them out.

This matter outside the palace is naturally handled by people outside the palace. The affairs of this palace are naturally to be handled by the people in the palace.

The so-called, each has its own duties!

Back in the house, Lord Shui asked people to contact the concubine in the palace. Let her pay close attention to the queen's words and deeds, and if necessary, it is best to be able to contact the queen.

These things, even without Lord Shui's orders, Concubine Shu is already doing them. After all, it's not just about my brother, it's also about Concubine Shu herself.

Two months later, the officials who went to Yezhou returned.

After two months of investigation, it can be regarded as a fruitful harvest.

The officials who went to Yezhou took the portrait of the queen and asked them one by one in the city of Yezhou.

They learned from the owner of a restaurant in the city that the woman was the real owner of the restaurant. This woman was doing business all over the world, and she happened to pass by Yezhou, so she opened a restaurant in Yezhou and hired someone to take care of it.

Then the two took out the portraits of Prince He and Master Gong, and the boss saw so many people every day, so naturally he couldn't notice these two.

The two officials later went to the vicinity of Yezhou to investigate, but were never able to obtain more information about the woman.

On the way back to Beijing, the two officials also inquired about the woman by the way in the city where they were staying.

Unexpectedly, on the way back to Beijing, I found the news of this woman again in a place called Mizhou.

According to insiders, this woman came to Mizhou a few months ago, as if she was doing a funeral. So the two found the funeral shop in Mizhou City, inquired one by one, and sure enough, they heard the news of this woman.

In order to confirm what the shopkeeper said, the two officials went to the cemetery according to the shopkeeper's description.

The tombstone is engraved with the three words Ye Mei.

After that, the two left Mizhou.

Hearing these words, all the adults present were filled with righteous indignation. I didn't expect the prince and the emperor to do such a thing.

The news report from Yezhou is over, and next, it's time for the news from the capital.

From the prince's mansion to two months ago, he and the prince came back from the state. And also brought a woman back. It's just that when this woman entered the house, she covered her face with a hat.

and was arranged with the prince in the mansion, a very inconspicuous courtyard. No one in the house had ever seen this woman's true face.

This is consistent with the news of the prince and what Lord Mu inquired about.

The news of the concubine in the palace is nothing more than that her behavior is still perverse. However, it seems that the emperor treats this person very preferentially, and every day for lunch and dinner, this person goes to the emperor's Qinzheng Palace for dinner.

This kind of honor has never been had by the true queen, nor the concubine.

All of a sudden, all the ministers and literati present thought that the emperor liked this woman very much. Even Concubine Shu was left out in the cold, and some were upset about Concubine Shu.

"My lord, in the middle of the court today, the lower officials have made another discovery." Master Mu began to speak again.

"Oh, what did Master Mu find?" Naturally, the water lord has to cooperate.

"He and the prince have not been to the Zhaixiu Palace once in the past two months, and the emperor has never summoned the prince."

"Oh. This is also a normal move, how can a prince be in and out of the harem frequently, what kind of system is this?" said Lord Shui pretending to take it for granted.

"My lord, Xia Guan thinks that Lord Mu's words may have other meanings. The woman was sent from Prince He's palace to the palace, and he was also sent by Prince He himself. In Prince He's mansion, Prince He also treats her well. It seems that the prince and the emperor like this woman. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was silence on all sides, that is, the emperor deliberately did not let Prince He go to see the queen.

"So to speak. Xia Guan noticed that he and the prince didn't seem to be as close to the emperor as they used to be. An official said thoughtfully.

"My lord, can we win over Prince He?" An official said.

"Not with the Prince." Master Mu answered for Lord Shui.

"Why?"

"Prince He and the emperor are brothers born of the same mother, and the variables are unpredictable."

"It's true, if we regret it one day, we will be miserable."

After such a discussion, the time for today is almost up. It's time to dismiss.

After all, there are some extremely important things that the water lord will never let them know.

It's still that sentence, that purpose, what Lord Shui wants is just the dissatisfaction of these people!

After these ministers left, Lord Shui instructed Lord Mu to inquire about the silver that could be mobilized at present, as well as the soldiers and horses that could be mobilized at present.

As the saying goes, the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first.

If you want to rebel, grain and grass can be about equal to silver, and soldiers and horses can be about equal to silver and people.

Such two important things, cleaned up and rectified as soon as possible, can be well understood, and the deficiencies can be supplemented in time.

From now on, you must be ready to fight at any time.

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