Chapter 219: Confession
Xie Yan asked Guang Haiming and Song Lin to take the others to take a walk around the city, get acquainted with it, gather at the north city gate an hour later, and enter the innermost mansion called Li Zi Lane, seeing that there was no one else around, he went straight to the wall that blocked the way and knocked lightly six times, the wall opened in response, and he walked straight in.
"Childe?" Xiao Ba greeted him, and Xie Yan asked Xiao Ba to stay in Li Zi Hutong for the time being.
"What about Miss Song?" Xie Yan asked, just finished asking, and shook his head again: "You don't know if you want to come, I'll go in and have a look."
There are three entrances in this house, the three of Jiang's mother and son and Song Xiaochi live in the innermost one, the six princes and Cheng Lao's father and son are in the second, and Xiaoba and several other subordinates who came from the Qu family live in the inverted seat room of the first entry, and now at this hour, Song Xiaochi should not have gotten up yet, and Xiaoba should not have seen anyone at all.
"Childe, the girl went out with Dr. Cheng Xiao early in the morning to buy medicine from major pharmacies, saying that there should be no pharmacies, they went to look for it first, if they couldn't find it, they had to go up the mountain to pick it themselves, or think of other ways." Hachi replied.
"No one is there?" Xie Yan didn't expect this answer.
Hachi nodded, "I just went out not long ago." ”
Although Xie Yan was a little regretful, he didn't say anything, and went directly to the second house to see the six princes, although the poison of the six princes was suppressed, but after all, he was hit by eight arrows, and the poison still existed in the body, which naturally had an impact on the body, plus he had been on the road during this time, and the road was not quite smooth, so the face of the six princes had always been pale, and his sleep was not very good.
Qu Jing temporarily assigned two small servants and two maids to serve the six princes, when Xie Yan entered, the six princes had already woken up, and when they saw Xie Yan, they were a little surprised at first, and then immediately understood, and said with a smile: "I heard the maid just now say that Miss Song went out early in the morning, speaking of which, I blame me for this, if I hadn't been poisoned by this strange poison, Miss Song wouldn't have to go around buying medicine early in the morning, second brother, did you have breakfast?" It's better to have some breakfast, and then Miss Song should be back soon. ”
The spirit of the six princes is good, maybe after the hardships along the way, they finally arrived at Yunzhou Mansion, and their hearts are relaxed.
Xie Yan was originally hesitant to tell the six princes about the prince's poisoning, but now he sees that the sixth prince is in good condition, and it is obvious that everything he and the prince have suffered is from the same line of the two princes, Xie Yan knows that the prince has no hatred for this younger brother of the prince except him, so he now wants to know the attitude of the six princes.
"Your Highness, something happened to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Xie Yan said bluntly.
The sixth prince was stunned for a moment, looked at Xie Yan for a moment, and saw that his face was solemn, he sat up slightly straight, and asked, "Brother Huang, what happened to him?"
Xie Yan didn't seem to be faking when he looked nervous, but he didn't know if he was nervous that something had happened to the prince, or if he was nervous that something had happened to the prince was not big enough.
"Poisoning blinded both eyes." Xie Yan said, but his eyes were staring at the six princes for a moment.
The sixth prince suddenly slammed the bed board, gritted his teeth and said: "I have fled here, it seems that he still won't let me go, heh, second brother, you wait and see, it will definitely not be long before news will come that the prince's poison was given by me, and the evidence is conclusive, and the human and material evidence is there."
When the time comes, you will find that the investigation in the palace will be more professional than the yamen of the Dali Temple Criminal Department, which specializes in handling cases. ”
The sixth prince looked sarcastic, Xie Yan did not interject, and after a while, the sixth prince calmed down a little and asked, "The prince, is he worried about his life?"
Xie Yan shook his head, "I don't know, the news was seen from the Di newspaper." ”
"Di Bao? How could such news be put in the Di Bao? The sixth prince looked surprised, "Does my father want to abolish the crown prince?" ”
As soon as this sentence came out, Xie Yan probably felt that the sixth prince had no intention of competing with the prince for the throne, and a prince who was always thinking about competing for the throne would pay special attention to his words and deeds, and words like "abolished prince" would not come out of his mouth.
"The second brother supports the prince, right?" Without waiting for Xie Yan to answer, the sixth prince threw down another sentence that should not have been said directly.
"Why does Your Highness think so?" Xie Yan did not answer the rhetorical question.
"Huh!" The sixth prince tugged at the corners of his mouth, laughed twice, and said: "Uncle is loyal to his father, no matter openly or secretly, he has always been obedient to his father, and therefore among the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and the emperor's relatives, the father and the emperor trust the uncle the most, the royal family has no father and son, and there is no brother, the father trusts the uncle, and it has nothing to do with family affection, which everyone knows."
The vast majority of people in the court think that Brother Zhu and Second Brother Yan are also the same as your uncle, and you are only loyal to your father, but I know that this is not the case. ”
"Why does Your Highness think it's not?" Xie Yan asked.
"Intuition coupled with daily observation, my grandfather's family has two cousins who have a good relationship with me, I asked them to pay attention, although there is no direct evidence that you are doing things for the prince, but many details make me feel that you are indeed supporting the prince with the eldest brother and the second brother Yan."
Although the six princes said that there was no direct evidence, their tone was quite firm.
"What does Your Highness want me to do when you say this today?" Xie Yan asked.
The sixth prince shook his head, "The second brother saved me without knowing whether I was a friend or foe, and asked people to help me detoxify, and he has already done a lot of things for me.
Second brother, I am telling you this because I want to say that I don't want to compete with the prince for that position, but I can't say this directly to the prince, I hope the second brother can help me with a word. ”
"Why did Your Highness leave the Jade Capital?" Xie Yan didn't directly promise him, but asked.
"If I hadn't left the Jade Capital, I would have been arrested as a sinner who poisoned the prince by now." The sixth prince smiled bitterly.
"So Your Highness knows what they're going to do next?"
"I guessed, but I didn't know what they were going to do, so I left the Yudu in advance, thinking that by escaping from that place, I could find a purity, I just underestimated Xie Ling's mind and ruthlessness, it turned out that he never wanted to force me back, nor did he have the purpose of solving it one by one, his heart was very big, and he wanted to kill two birds with one stone and directly solve the two biggest threats to the prince and me."
The sixth prince smiled bitterly, but then said with some schadenfreude: "But I don't know if it's my luck that is too good, or Xie Ling's bad luck, I sent so many dead soldiers, but they couldn't kill me, I'm afraid it won't work if I want to die without proof, and I don't know if he knows that so many dead soldiers he raised are dead, whether he wants to vomit blood in anger!"