Chapter 72: The Palace Banquet (4)

"Innocence? How can it be so easy to look at the clouds and see innocence? ”

The sixth prince looked at Wen Tingyu and said, "The little nephew is thinking too simply. Have you ever wondered why Your Majesty didn't thoroughly investigate the death of the seventh brother? Since the death of the seventh brother, only the third brother and the fifth brother are in charge of this case, and everyone with a discerning eye knows that the third brother and the fifth brother have their own faction, and they have long been incompatible with the prince. “

Wen Tingjunjun's eyebrows twisted slightly, "How could Grandpa Huang be so confused?" “

"Not bad!" The sixth prince said: "The imperial grandfather is extraordinary, he will not be so confused, the imperial grandfather has the intention to suppress Chaoyunguan." “

"Why?" Wen Tingyu said: "Chaoyun Guan has always been a place outside things, and the master Xu Daochang is dedicated to the Tao, and he has never offended the emperor's grandfather. “

"There are three major palace Taoist temples in Shangrou City, which are clearly Xingyun Taoist Temple, Xingcheng Taoist Temple, and Jinghan Taoist Temple, but which Taoist temple does Qi Hou go to most often?" The sixth prince looked at Wen Tingyu with a smile: "It must not be these three imperial city Taoist temples." ”

Wen Tingyu wondered: "Could it be...... Chaoyunguan? ”

"My nephew is really smart. A little bit is clear. The sixth prince said: "Not bad." Ten years ago, there was a prayer for everything, and Qi Hou was the first to choose Chaoyunguan. You know why? ”

Wen Tingyu shook his head.

The sixth prince stretched out his slender hand, picked up the teapot, and added another lamp to Wen Tingyu, and his voice was exquisite: "It seems that the little nephew has not done enough homework." I just know that reading is not good. ”

"Please also ask the sixth uncle to give advice." Xiaojun Gong's eyebrows were crooked, and he smiled at the six princes.

"That was decades ago." The sixth prince smiled: "Now our mother-in-law is Empress Qi, and decades ago, there was also a little Empress Qi. I have to call Xiao Qi Hou an aunt, because she is Qi Hou's sister-in-law. Do you know why we call the Duanqi Dynasty? ”

Wen Tingyu nodded: "Of course my nephew knows." Because our ancestors Duan Chengzu fought in the south and the north in the past, in order to unify the world, he married with the Great Qi clan, and relied on the strength of the Great Qi clan to have today's Duanqi Dynasty. ”

The sixth prince nodded: "Not bad." According to the rules of our Duanqi Dynasty, the male son of the Duan clan inherits the throne and must marry the daughter of the Daqi clan. The two clans of Duanqi have guarded each other for generations to calm the country. However, the father did not want to do this, and the father wanted to turn the Duanqi Dynasty into the world of the Duanhuang Dynasty and the Great Duanchao. ”

The sixth prince said with a smile: "However, the queen of Qi is carrying the glory of the Great Qi Clan, and he is bent on finding loyal ministers worthy of trust, and wants to protect the Great Qi Clan." ”

"Could it be that Empress Qi found Chaoyunguan?"

"Yes, Empress Qi did find Chaoyunguan, and she was very good to Chaoyunguan, and secretly had a lot of dealings with Chaoyunguan."

The six princes' fingers touched the beads in his palm one by one, and smiled: "Empress Qi has been secretly planning for a long time, and her dealings with Chaoyunguan are also quite secretive, I didn't know about it. Later, when he was praying for the seventh brother in the Huanghua Temple, he overheard the confession of Empress Qi. I learned these secrets. ”

The sixth prince said again: "You ask me why I don't tell the truth about the death of the seventh brother since I feel guilty in my heart." Actually, I don't need to say that my father has always known that the seventh brother died unjustly. ”

Wen Tingyu was puzzled: "Does the imperial grandfather really know? Yu'er really didn't know, and asked the sixth uncle to give advice. ”

The sixth prince raised his head: "I used Qili incense to kill the seventh brother back then." ”

Wen Tingyu said: "Qili Xiang? I remember that the murder case in the inner court recorded that the horse clover killed the seventh uncle. Why is it a seven-mile incense again? ”

The sixth prince said: "Because the seven-leaf clover comes from a foreign land, the Great Qi clan was in the border pass back then, and the Great Qi clan is very insightful about exotic flowers and plants. And the viewer of Chaoyun Temple once saved the barbarians and was given a horse chestnut, a poisonous and insecticidal plant. I originally wanted to kill Lao Qi with horse chestleaf clover, because this herb happened to be found in Chaoyunguan. In order to hide people's eyes, I asked the third brother to secretly contact the frontier guards, and secretly sent dozens of horse chestnut clovers, wanting to cultivate this poisonous weed, and on the day when the seventh brother went to Chaoyunguan to burn incense, he used herbs to harm him, so as to blame Chaoyunguan. It's a pity that the cultivation of this herb is extremely difficult, dozens of plants have been planted to death by me, I have no choice, and conspired with the third brother to replace the horse clover with the poisonous herb Qili Xiang, which is similar to the effect of horse clover. Therefore, a month before the death of the seventh brother, the third brother used means to transfer Xiao Ming, the former academician of the Tai Hospital, and let his manpower Xiao Chu make up for Xiao Ming's vacancy. After the death of the seventh brother, Xiao Chu wrote a book, explaining that the seventh brother died of the seven clovers, and the seven leaf clovers can be found in the Chaoyun Temple in Shangrou City, and the seventh brother went to the Chaoyun Temple to incense before dying. The spearhead was pointed at Chaoyunguan, and during that time, there were also rumors in the imperial city that the seventh brother and the crown prince were vying for the throne. Under the attack of rumors from all sides, his father decided that the death of the seventh brother was instructed by the crown prince to Chaoyunguan. ”

The sixth prince paused and said: "I thought it would be seamless, but who expected that when I went to the Imperial Secret Mansion Library to look for the Tao Sutra of the Dead that day, I found a medicine scripture that was folded up and two pages. Only the father and the queen mother, and we who have titles can enter the library of the Imperial Secret Palace. It is rumored that when Empress Xiao Qi was alive, she liked to have fun with her father in the library pavilion, so the queen mother did not like to go to the library pavilion, lest others say that she was acting like an example and was boring. Among those of us who have titles, there are very few people who like to go to the library to study, but they are afraid of meeting their father and the emperor and being interrogated to grow every day. I saw that the medicine scripture was folded up a page, and I was sure that it was the book that my father read, and I opened the medicine scripture to see that the two pages that were folded up recorded the difference between the medicinal properties of seven miles of incense and horse clover. ”

"The seven-leaf herb is poisonous, likes to grow in cold clods, and dies when eaten, which is irreversible. The deceased's body will show several bruises. Wen Tingyu said.

The sixth prince glanced at him, his gaze was extremely desolate, and his resolute facial contours were melted, and the light appeared plain and soft, old and mournful: "The medicine scripture records that Qili incense is poisonous, grows in wet soil, and dies when you eat it." The body of the deceased showed several purple spots. The difference between horse chestloover and seven-mile is the corpse spots, seven-leaf clover is a blue spot, and seven-leaf leaf is a purple spot. ”

Wen Tingyu said: "I remember that the emperor's grandfather has read a lot of books since he was a child, and he has also dabbled in many books outside the state. Before the body of the seventh uncle was buried, the imperial grandfather had also seen the body of the seventh uncle with his own eyes. Therefore, the imperial grandfather can infer that the seventh uncle died of Qili incense based on the purple spots on the corpse of the seventh uncle, not the horse crocks that grew in Chaoyunguan. ”

Wen Tingyu frowned: "But the emperor's grandfather still thinks that the fake is true, knowing that Chaoyunguan is wronged, but he still exiles Chaoyunguan and Xu Guanzhu." Or let my father belittle Xiangshangcheng. ”

The sixth prince smiled: "The holy will is unpredictable. Although his father pretended to be deaf and dumb about this matter, Dr. Xiao Ming, who was previously transferred out of the Tai Hospital by the third brother, was reinstated as the vice president of the Tai Hospital half a year later. I know the meaning of my father's move, so I have no contact with the third child. ”