The night gets thicker and the rain is pouring down.

All the torches that were not covered by umbrellas were extinguished, and only a few guards standing under the eaves were still burning in the courtyard.

Emperor Xiao was happy, but he refused to leave, holding an umbrella alone, standing under the window of the cave room, listening to the root of the wall.

Sima Nan asked for instructions a few times, but he didn't seem to hear it.

An hour later, Zhang's hoarse shouts rang out from the cave room.

Then, the door of the cave room was pushed open heavily, and calmly shook out of it, stumbling a few steps, and almost fell, but fortunately, Mama Zhou's eyes were quick and helped her to stabilize her figure.

"What's going on?" Emperor Xiao threw away his umbrella and walked in with his hands behind his back.

Calmly knelt on the ground, and his voice was cold: "Back to the emperor, the prince said that the slave and maid were sinners and refused to ask for slaves." ”

Emperor Xiao was stunned.

Zhang ran out of the cave room shirtless, with a look of disgust, and shouted loudly: "My mother said that I am a good person, I must find a good person to marry, the emperor's brother deceived Zhang, and Zhang will never play with the emperor's brother again." ”

Emperor Xiao frowned, looked at him calmly, and wondered a little: "How does Zhang know that you are guilty?" ”

"Since the slave maid is his princess, of course he has to tell the prince about himself, but he didn't expect that the prince couldn't accept it at all, so he pushed the slave and maid out of the door." Calm down.

Emperor Xiao stomped his feet, his handsome face was full of helplessness, he stretched out his hand to calm down, and scolded: "You woman, are you stupid?" He's just a kid, is it hard to fool him? It's better to live here than to live in the prison of the Execution Division, right? ”

"The slave and maid are wronged, and they don't want to live in the prison of the execution department anymore." Calm down.

Emperor Xiao waved his hand and snorted: "It's really stupid enough, you confessed your guilt, eldest sister, the queen mother personally handed you the steps down, you don't go down, you have to admit that you wrote the words, you are omnipotent as the queen mother and emperor?" You can put whoever you want?

Such an obvious crime, even the Jade Emperor is in the lower realm, and there is nothing to be done, can't save you, okay? Otherwise, what is the matter according to the law? Do you want to take care of this harem? ”

"The slave and maid have admitted that the word is a slave and maid, but they have never admitted that it was written by the slave and maid themselves." Calm down.

Emperor Xiao stared at her like a monster for a long time, shook his head, stepped out of the door, stood on the steps, looked at Sima Nan standing in the dark shadow, and shook his head again:

"It's really like things, dragons with dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, the son of a mouse will make holes, you two are the same, it's awkward and incomprehensible.

Sima Nan, it's not that I won't help you, it's that she is looking for her own death. ”

"Your Majesty, I'm 。。。。。。" Calm and about to open her mouth, Emperor Xiao waved his hand to interrupt her: "I don't want to listen, tonight is the night of the emperor's cave room, my will has already been made, it cannot be changed, you coax him, achieve good things, everything can start again." ”

"The slave and maid will not resist the decree, and will definitely marry the prince, but after proving the innocence of the slave and maid, the slave and maid will marry the prince with an innocent body, instead of marrying the prince to pass on this unruly disaster." said calmly.

"Prove your innocence? Those three old fellows in the Hanlin Academy have already condemned you! Emperor Xiao shrugged his shoulders and smiled bitterly.

"The slave can prove that although the words on the square are the slave's, they are not written by the slave." Calm down.

Emperor Xiao glanced at Sima Nan and slanted the corners of his mouth.

"Brother Huang, I don't want a sinner to be a daughter-in-law, Brother Huang, you lie to me, you are a big liar!" Zhang made a fuss on the side, threw the wedding ornaments on the table to the ground, and cried loudly.

Emperor Xiao grinned and smiled bitterly: "Gauntlet, I'm asking for my own hardships, on this rainy day, it's not good to drink and sleep with a beautiful woman in my arms, but I ran to this gloomy place to judge someone's case!"

Calm down, let's go, take the prescription while the queen mother is not lying down now. I want to see what you can do to get past this great sin. ”

Calmly kowtowed to thank him, stood up, and followed Emperor Xiao and his party to Renshou Palace.

, Empress Dowager Liu because of the affairs of the Shang Palace Bureau, she took a lot of effort, she had a headache, she just drank the medicine, she couldn't sleep, Guan Yong had not returned to the house, and she was gossiping with the Queen Mother.

Emperor Xiao came in with calmness, and when Empress Dowager Liu saw the calmness of a happy dress, she added three points of illness, reached out and pressed her forehead, and shouted a stack, asking Guan Yong to find a plaster to paste it on her.

"The Queen Mother has a headache? There is a way for the slave and the maid, and it may be relieved a little. Said calmly.

"Come and try it, I know that you can do it, you dead girl, you are stubborn, you have to run to the end of your life." Empress Dowager Liu greeted her with a sigh.

Calmly walked over, stretched out his hand to rub her, the technique was unique, not half a cup of tea, Empress Dowager Liu showed a satisfied smile on her face, stretched her neck comfortably, and nodded: "There is such a craft, but it is just hidden, it should be closed, it should be beaten!" ”

As he was talking, he only heard the eunuchs outside return, and the heads of several departments of the Shanggong Bureau arrived.

"Let them in." Empress Dowager Liu commanded, and said with a calm smile: "The emperor sent someone to say that you have a way to prove your innocence, so the mourning family called them all here, let them also look at it, and save it from going out and spreading it around, saying that the mourning family is partial to their own people." ”

"The Queen Mother is wise." Calm down.

Before the words fell, Zhao Yue and the three of them walked in together and saluted him.

The Queen Mother ordered someone to take out the prescription, put it on the table, pointed to it and said: "It is this prescription that caused trouble, and now Her Royal Highness the Ninth Princess said that she has a way to prove that the words on it were not added by her, and the mourning family feels that she should be given a chance, so as to save her from disobedience, and always say that she was wronged."

What do you three think? ”

Li Siyi obviously shrunk his neck, and said recklessly: "Queen Mother, she admitted it herself, why did she retract her confession so quickly, I'm afraid she wasn't instructed by someone?" ”

Emperor Xiao let out a long laugh and nodded: "Li Sishan is really a person with great wisdom, but no one instructed him to retract his confession, that person is me!" I feel that she is wronged, and I want to give her a chance to defend herself, should I ask Li Sishan first? ”

Li Siyi shook his head in fear and kowtowed desperately.

"Okay, don't talk nonsense, calm down, the prescription is here, do you have a way to prove your innocence?" Empress Dowager Liu said.

"Ancestor, the slave needs a basin of water." Calm down.

Empress Dowager Liu ordered someone to bring a basin of water.

Calmly came to the table, picked up the prescription, unfolded it, and gently spread it on the water, and the paper was quickly soaked with water.

Emperor Xiao laughed "poof", looked at the face of the Empress Dowager Liu, was busy and serious, and said: "Leng Sishe, you want to destroy the corpse and destroy the traces?" I thought you had a good idea. ”

Calmly did not reply, and after staring at the prescription on the water for a while, he picked up the small tweezers that the Queen Mother used to turn the pages of the book every day, and gently picked at the wet paper.

Emperor Xiao stretched his neck, put his head closer to look, and after a moment's time, he pointed to the prescription and shouted: "Hey, interesting, really interesting, this word was actually pulled out, calm down, what is going on?" ”

Calmly picked up the small shovel to shovel the prescription out of the water, carefully put it on the silk cloth on the table, and then picked up the small tweezers and carefully pulled out her words on the paper one by one, put them aside, and then put down the tweezers and knelt down in front of the Empress Dowager Liu.

"The queen mother, the child understands, the word calm is framed! It was framed later, you see, the words written on the paper are scattered when the water is encountered, but the words of calm are not scattered, not only not scattered, but also picked out, obviously there is glue on it! No wonder the ink looks much lighter.

Which game is this, it's really clever enough! It's a character! Emperor Xiao gave a thumbs up and said with a strange smile.

Empress Dowager Liu glanced at her son dissatisfiedly, and sneered: "The three of you came to take a closer look, the Shanggong Bureau has always been a place that relies on ability, but now it has changed, and it has even played a trick of intrigue, which is really disappointing to the mourning family!" ”

Zhao Yue kowtowed three times.

"Li Siyi, is it a trick you played, you want to be happy and calm to death, do you want to be this Shang Palace?" Empress Dowager Liu asked coldly.

"Queen Mother, wronged! How can a slave or maid have such courage! Besides, the medicinal diet was originally made by slaves and maids, and if something happened, naturally the slaves and maids were the most suspicious, how could the slaves and maids be stupid enough to be cocooned and bound themselves? Li Siyi said loudly.

"Come on, all the palace maids and eunuchs who are responsible for boiling Liang Si's medicinal food will be tied up to the mourning family, and handed over to the inner chamberlain for strict interrogation, so as to find out the murderer who harmed people!" Empress Dowager Liu shouted angrily.

"As for the three of you, you must know what to do, if the mourning family finds out, this matter is done by one of you, and the nine clans will be punished!" Empress Dowager Liu angrily pointed at Zhao Yue and the others.

The three of them shook their clothes and fought, not daring to say a word.

A palace maid walked in and said a few words in Guan Yong's ear. Guan Yong nodded, walked to the side of the Empress Dowager Liu, and said in a voice that was not big or small, but everyone present could faintly hear it: "Old ancestor, the palace maid who just took care of the patient said back and forth, although Liang Sizhi didn't wake up, but his fingers moved just now,

I have already asked her to call Qin Feng and give her another consultation, maybe she will wake up in the next two days. ”

Empress Dowager Liu nodded: "If she can wake up, the person who harmed her will be revealed, Huanxi should know a lot of things, otherwise how could she be poisoned by this." ”

Emperor Xiao yawned slightly, stood up, bowed to his mother, and said with a smile: "Look at my son's appearance, he has been busy for most of the night for a group of palace maids to compete for the wind and jealousy."

It is time for the queen mother to go to bed, and the child to take her leave. ”

Empress Dowager Liu pulled calm to her, glanced at Emperor Xiao resentfully, and snorted: "It's all you, the unserious emperor, who gave such a good person to that fool as his wife."

Can't you see your mother, huh? It's easy to find someone who can help me, but you're going to leave again. ”

"She lives in the palace and has to see each other every day, if you really feel sorry for her, make a decree and order Zhang to move out of the cold palace and live outside?" Emperor Xiao said with a smile.

"Fart!" Empress Dowager Liu was furious, scolded loudly, and darkened her face.

Emperor Xiao shrugged his shoulders at Sima Nan and stuck out his tongue, pulled him around and left.

The two left the Renshou Palace, and Emperor Xiao stopped and let go of Sima Nan's sleeve, patted his forehead, and laughed to himself: "Sure enough, I thought there was a chance to work." ”

"Does the emperor want to take advantage of the Queen Mother's love for calmness and pardon the Nine Emperor Princes?" Sima Nan asked coldly.

Emperor Xiao slanted the corners of his mouth and snorted: "After all, he is a brother, and he is a fool, he looks pitiful and wants to help him, can't he?" ”