The next day, Gu Yanbai complained of illness and did not go to the morning court, and the prince rushed over to visit as soon as he saw Gu Yanbai's dying appearance, he was taken aback and hurriedly asked.

Gu Yanbai didn't hide anything, and directly told the truth about the seventh princess's arrival last night, and entrusted him to tell the emperor all this.

The crown prince thought that the seventh princess had done such a ridiculous thing, and if she didn't discipline her, she would simply not be in a proper manner, and she went back to the palace to meet the emperor without stopping.

"The seventh princess ran to the Hou Mansion last night and drugged Gu Yanbai, and finally forced him to jump into the cold water and fell ill with wind cold?"

The emperor gritted his teeth almost word by word, his eyes almost burst into flames, his fists were clenched on the table, and his bones were white.

The prince arched his hand, bowed his head and said sincerely: "Yes, Erchen doesn't dare to exaggerate, this matter is indeed done by the Seventh Sister, Gu Xiaohou is now weak and sick, and Erchen has seen it with his own eyes." ”

"How can it be!" The emperor was furious, and he got up in a rage, and ordered the people around him, "Go and call the seventh princess for me, and I want to ask her what she did last night!" ”

The seventh princess was brought to the emperor, and she had a lot of worries in her heart, and before she could say goodbye, she heard the emperor reprimand angrily: "Evil girl, don't kneel down quickly!" ”

The seventh princess was frightened by the emperor's anger, knelt down obediently, and looked at the emperor with an aggrieved expression: "Father, the emperor ......"

"Ziwei, you are a princess, and you already have a marriage contract at this time, how can you do such a ridiculous thing, where do you put my face, where do you put the royal face!"

The seventh princess lowered her head knowing that she was wrong, and only dared to admit her mistake, but she thought in her heart that if the emperor hadn't forced her to kiss, she wouldn't have come to this road.

She kept admitting her mistakes, and the emperor angrily reprimanded her, but she couldn't do anything else, and her mood calmed down a little: "How did you get out of the palace last night?" I want to know, who is so bold as to bewitch the princess! ”

The seventh princess chuckled in her heart, remembering what Xia Nanfeng said when she left after sending her to the palace last night.

"Seventh sister, you'd better remember who will help you and who will harm you, if you bite back on the person who helped you, I'm afraid no one will help you in the future."

Thinking of Xia Nanfeng's threatening words, she gritted her teeth and said stubbornly: "If I go back to my father's words, I ran out by myself, and it's none of anyone else's business." ”

The emperor immediately sneered, and his sharp eyes narrowed: "You treat me, the king of a country, as a three-year-old child to deceive?" You don't have any martial arts in you, so you can avoid the guards of the Night Watch? ”

The seventh princess made up her mind and refused to say it, and the emperor had nothing to do with her, but the punishment was naturally aggravated, and in anger, the emperor gave the seventh princess a ban again.

This time, not only did the number of guards increase, but the wedding date with the scholar was also advanced, directly arranged a week later.

In a week's time, the princess got married, and the palace was in a hurry, so that everything was ready on the last day, just waiting for the princess and the scholar to marry tomorrow.

"The ...... of the Horse"

A palace maid hurriedly looked for Li Yuan with a wedding robe made for Li Yuan, ready to let him give it a try.

However, the palace maid searched in the courtyard for a long time, but there was no one, the moment she pushed open the door of Li Yuan's room, she was so frightened that she sat directly on the ground, screamed, and didn't even care that the wedding robe would be punished if it fell to the ground and was stained with ashes.

The palace maid looked at the corpse dangling on the beam in front of her, her upper and lower teeth bumped in fright, and her voice changed as she got up and ran out in a trembling voice: "Come on, the master of the horse hanged himself-"

There were many people who were busy working nearby, and when she shouted, everyone ran over to this side, and when they saw the scholar's body, they were so frightened that they didn't dare to approach, and hurriedly went to report the matter to the emperor.

The emperor was talking with the ministers who came to congratulate him in the palace, when he saw a eunuch running in in a panic outside, shouting in a sharp voice: "The emperor is not good, he is gone!" ”

The emperor didn't react for a while, and the minister on the side was taken aback, and looked at the emperor in disbelief: "Your Majesty, this ......"

"Can you confirm it? Where did he die? When? ”

The emperor came back to his senses and asked three questions in a row, and the eunuch told the emperor the whole process of the matter, and the emperor was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

Tomorrow is the day of the princess's wedding, but today the master of the horse hanged himself, saying that this is a coincidence, I'm afraid fools won't believe it!

This matter is related to the face of the royal family, and the emperor immediately summoned Gu Yanbai and Du Ziqiao and ordered the two of them to investigate the matter thoroughly.

After Gu Yanbai and Du Ziqiao received the order, they hurried to the scene, the place where they were originally busy and ready to get married was already deserted at this time, and the two of them didn't have to care about others anymore, and directly began to check the body.

Mingyuexi followed behind Gu Yanbai, looking at the tragic situation of the book's life and death, and couldn't help but shudder.

Lifting the body off the rope and placing it on the ground, after checking the scars on his neck, Gu Yanbai untied Li Yuan's clothes and put them aside, and when Mingyuexi took it, he accidentally found that there was a knife mark on the back of the clothes.

"You see, Li Yuan may not have committed suicide."

Although this knife left traces, it didn't seem to want to stab Li Yuan directly, but it seemed to be left to force him to fake the appearance of suicide.

While gently rubbing the mark with his fingertips, Gu Yanbai imagined in his mind the scene where the murderer pressed a knife against Li Yuan's back and threatened him.

He touched it and suddenly felt wrong, and hurriedly looked down to see that one of the knife marks was uneven! And in the headquarters of Linlang Pavilion, there are similar weapons.

Gu Yanbai told Du Ziqiao about his guess, Du Ziqiao was very shocked, and at the same time puzzled: "Linlang Pavilion is mysterious, and the possibility of others pretending to be is very small, but Li Yuan is just a scholar, what grievances do you have with them?" ”

The three of them returned to the Hou Mansion to discuss how to deal with it, and Mingyuexi also took the initiative to make suggestions, which was very positive, and Gu Yanbai repeatedly tried to break her up.

Sure enough, when he finally said that he wanted to go to Linlang Pavilion again, Ming Yuexi didn't hesitate to look at him: "I'm going too." ”

Gu Yanbai was not surprised by what she said, and sighed helplessly and dotingly, "Okay, just let you go, I know that you came here and waited for this sentence." ”

"I just stopped by to listen to ......" was exposed, Mingyuexi's little face turned red embarrassedly, and she muttered to defend herself, which was unconvincing.

"The relationship between the two is really good, Mrs. Gu is so worried about the little marquis, whether she is born or dead, she is all by her side, such a relationship is really enviable."

Du Ziqiao looked envious, and inadvertently remembered Gu Qianqian's matter, and her face froze.