Ye Wen is from the Ministry of War, although he is not in charge of the transfer of troops, but he can also see that the Shangshu of the Ministry of War and the two squires have entered the palace, and several armies near the capital have moved.

Everyone speculated that the Empress Dowager Qi and the Qi family did not have the ability to mobilize troops and horses while the emperor was still alive, and it should be that the emperor was prepared just in case.

Not long after, the old man came to Fuxi Hall from Zhuxiang Pavilion and called the second old man and his son to the west side house for a secret talk.

Until dinner, Ye Feng and his son had not returned. Everyone didn't want to go back to the house to rest, so they sat in the east side room and chatted with the old couple.

At the end of the day, the old prince waved his hand and said, "You all go back, it seems that the two fathers and sons will not be able to come back today." ”

He'an's mouth was tightly pursed, and although she believed that her husband and son were fine, she was still afraid of accidents. I always thought that she had died for her husband, but today she realized that she missed her man no less than her son.

As soon as everyone got up, they saw Ye Feng coming back in a hurry.

He An was the first to ask, "What about your father?" He's all right, right? ”

Ye Feng hurriedly said, "Don't worry, my father is fine, he and several important ministers were left in the palace by the emperor to discuss matters." ”

The old man looked around the room, knew that everyone in the room was concerned about that important matter, and said, "Sit down." Then he asked, "What's going on in the palace?" ”

Ye Feng sat down and said, "The Qi family really did it......"

On the eighteenth day, the emperor did not go to the court, but went to Cining Palace to accompany the queen mother, and the Ming prince's family, several princes, princesses and their children also went.

The Queen Mother is really not well, most of the time she reclines on the couch, she can't get out of the house, and occasionally she will cough up blood. Seeing so many children and grandchildren come to accompany her, she is extremely happy.

The emperor had not come to visit his old mother for several days, and he was sad to see her like this, and wanted to make her as happy as possible. At noon, the emperor took the lead, and everyone continued to accompany the queen mother there, and waited until dinner in the evening to go back.

When it is unitary, the sky is getting dark. The third prince, the fourth prince, the fifth prince, and several half-grown sons of the princess's family went outside to set off firecrackers and fireworks to increase the blessing and longevity of the queen mother.

In order to drive away the disease and eliminate the evil, there are a lot of fireworks and firecrackers today, piled up in the open space by the lake, the crackling sound and the bright beam of light stimulate those teenagers to laugh, feel particularly enjoyable.

Suddenly, the fourth prince was pushed forward and crawled into the pile of firecrackers and fireworks that were being set off.

Everyone was frightened, and several eunuchs hurriedly went over and hugged the four princes out. But the clothes of the four princes had already been set on fire, his face had been blown up with multiple scars, and one eye had also been blown up......

When the emperor heard about it, he was furious and hurried to find the murderer. Someone saw that it seemed that one of the eunuchs of the fifth prince pushed the fourth prince, and when he caught this eunuch, he was bleeding from his nose and mouth and was already dead. It turned out that he had already been poisoned or had been poisoned himself.

Fu Jieyu, the biological mother of the fifth prince, was frightened, knelt down in front of the emperor and the queen mother and cried, saying that the fifth prince was still young and didn't have much thought, and the relationship with the four princes was usually good, and it was impossible for the eunuchs to harm the four princes.

The Queen Mother almost fainted with fright, and also wiped her tears and said, "Xiao Wu'er is innocent and kind, and the mourning family doesn't believe that he will let people do that kind of bad thing." Xiao Si'er is well-behaved and sensible, who is so ruthless and hurts him so much, investigate thoroughly, investigate thoroughly. ”

Concubine Qi Shu gritted her teeth and scolded, "That person is really bad, doing such a bad thing on the birthday of the Queen Mother, he not only wants the lives of the four princes, but also finds bad luck for the Queen Mother." ”

The Queen Mother shook her head and sighed, "I have an old bone, and if I die, I will die." But Xiao Si'er is still so young, so there must be nothing wrong. ”

After checking again, the eunuch had a close relationship with Wang He, a personal eunuch who served King Ming, and had a brief contact earlier today, and had asked someone to return a large sum of money to his sick mother at home.

The eunuch not only died without proof, but also detained the jar on King Ming. The guards immediately went to arrest Wang He, who had also been poisoned, and the guards arrested him and asked the imperial doctor to detoxify him.

Everyone exclaimed, "Is there something wrong with King Ming?" ”

"It can't really be King Ming who asked Wang He to buy eunuchs to harm the four princes, right?"

Ye Feng said, "Of course Wang He didn't buy the eunuchs to harm people, and there were other people who bought and intimidated the eunuchs. The person who poisoned Wang He was also found, and it was Li Tu, another eunuch who served His Royal Highness King Ming......"

Their plan was for the eunuch and Wang He to "commit suicide by poisoning", so that King Ming could not explain it at all, and the fourth prince would die or become disabled again, and the fifth prince would be too young, so the third prince would be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman. It's just that the Ming Wang party got the news in advance, found out the "secret pile" Li Tu, and mastered all his actions and contacts......

King Ming invited the emperor to go to the side hall for a secret talk, and said very guiltily that he had noticed that Li Tu was secretly bought by the Qi family, and in order to "put a long line to catch a big fish", he didn't catch him immediately......

The emperor was furious at the persecution of the royal heirs by the two women and the Qi family again and again, but he did not fully believe in King Ming. He felt that if the four princes had a case, the third prince would be able to make a profit, and King Ming and the fifth prince would also be able to make a profit. He was angry, and he didn't trust any of his sons except the four princes.

He immediately had Wang He, Li Tu and people who were connected with him arrested and interrogated them secretly, and also searched their residences. These people are in the palace, as well as the Ming Wangfu and the Qi family. At the same time, the palaces of Concubine Qi Shu, the third prince, the fourth prince, and the fifth prince were taken care of, and a search was also conducted. He also sent people to announce Ye Guogong's father and son and several important ministers believed by the emperor into the palace, and secretly monitored the Qi family and the Ming Palace. Just in case, the defenders of the capital are also on standby......

Li Tu and those people couldn't withstand the punishment, they all confessed, plus the evidence they couldn't deny, all of this was done by the Queen Mother, the Third Prince, Concubine Qi and the Qi family. Some of those evidences are true, and some are fake, such as the witch Gu that cursed the Four Princes and King Ming, and other things were prepared by King Ming and others in advance, and this Ye Feng didn't dare to say it explicitly.

The reason why the three princes and the Qi family were in a hurry was because the queen mother's body was getting weaker and weaker, and they wanted to completely settle the matter of making the three princes the crown prince before the queen mother died.

In addition, it has been determined that the left eye of the four princes was blown blind, and a small puppet with the names of the four princes written on it in Concubine Qi Shu's palace happened to have a needle pierced in its eye, and the emperor was so angry that he spat out a few mouthfuls of blood.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, the Queen Mother also vomited blood and pulled the emperor to plead......

"When I left the palace, the emperor didn't say how to punish the three princes and the Qi family, but they were rabbit tails - they couldn't grow." Ye Feng smiled heartily.

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