Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Conspiracy Revealed
"It seems that Grandpa Liu cleaned up the house last night." Nalan Minhao lightly tapped a finger on his nose, and said with a smile: "So the person who murdered the prince last night was you Gonggong Liu, Gonggong Liu, I think you should hurry up and confess the master behind you, maybe the emperor will spare you." ”
"Your Majesty, there are no minions!" Gonggong Liu couldn't wait to lie on the ground, and kept kowtowing: "The slave is wronged!" ”
"Laurang Kong really gave you a lot of benefits, and even made you work so hard." Nalan Minhao raised his eyebrows and looked at Gonggong Liu, and said with a smile.
When Gonggong Liu heard Nalan Minhao's words, he seemed to have found a life-saving straw, and deliberately said angrily: "The slave has nothing to do with the Seventh Prince, why does the prince slander me!" ”
"That's Laurentine?" Nalan Minhao stroked his forehead and said thoughtfully: "No, the more you deny it, the more it has to do with it, Gonggong Liu, it seems that you are really Xiaoqi's person." ”
"The minion said that the minion has nothing to do with the Seven Princes!" Gonggong Liu deliberately denied his relationship with Luo Langkong, in order to confuse them, so that the emperor would naturally not suspect Luo Langyi.
"You have nothing to do with Xiao Qi, I estimate that it is more likely that you will touch the eighth child!" Nalan Minhao changed his words, approached Liu Gonggong and said as if suddenly realized: "Oh! You're a Laurentine guy! You deliberately denied that you were Xiao Qi's person, in order to mislead us, obviously I saw Laurent Yi go to your mansion that night! And he also said that if you kill the prince, when he is crowned in the grand ceremony in the future, you will be the chief eunuch! ”
A strange fragrance rushed to his face, and for some reason Gonggong Liu only felt that his brain exploded, and he realized that Nalan Minhao had been deliberately stimulating him and disturbing his mind, and when he was distracted by thinking too much about things, he was waiting for an opportunity to find his loopholes, in fact, Nalan Minhao had seen it early in the morning!
"Grandpa Liu, I told you at the beginning, I saw the scene of you torturing your concubine, could it be that you forgot, Luo Langyi happened to come to you that day?" Nalan Minhao's voice sounded in Gonggong Liu's ears again, "I remember that Luo Langyi also handed over the jade seal to you!" ”
"He took the jade seal!" Gonggong Liu suddenly stepped back in a panic, looking at Nalan Minhao's gaze as if he saw another person, he waved his hand again and again: "It's not a slave, it's not a slave!" Your Royal Highness the Prince, it's not me who wants to kill you! Spare the minions! ”
"Your Majesty, Grandpa Liu is crazy." Nalan Minhao shrugged his shoulders and pointed at Gonggong Liu, who was holding his neck, and said, "He seems to have seen the dead crown prince asking for his life, so he is ready to strangle himself to death." ”
"Come on, drag Gonggong Liu out and behead him." The emperor just watched the guards drag Gonggong Liu down, and was silent again.
"Your Majesty, Gonggong Liu clearly said that the mastermind behind the scenes is the Eighth Prince, doesn't the emperor plan to pursue it?" The queen endured and endured, but she still spoke, looked at the emperor with sad eyes and said, "Could it be that the prince is gone like this?" Please also ask the emperor to give justice to the concubines and the crown princess! ”
"Based on the words of just one minion, how can you conclude that it was the eighth man?" The emperor sighed, closed his eyes and said, "You go down first, and order Qin Tiandu to come to see me." ”
The crown princess was taken away by the old lady beside the queen with her eyes blankly, and the queen looked at the emperor's tired demeanor, her hands under the wide sleeves were clenched together, and her long nails pinched the palms of her hands, and then she said in a deep voice: "The concubine retires." ”
What the emperor cares about most is not that the eighth prince murdered the prince, but that he has lost the crown prince, and it is impossible to kill his other son with these ambiguous words of Gonggong Liu, so he can only execute Gonggong Liu first.
When Qin Tiandu came in, he saw the emperor thinking thoughtfully, and then said: "The emperor Wan'an, this monk heard that the prince swallowed gold and died, and asked the emperor to take care of the dragon's body." ”
"Qin Tiandu, the matter of the prince's burial will be handed over to you." When the emperor heard Qin Tiandu's words, he came back to his senses and said.
"Your Majesty, this monk recently watched the stars at night, and found that the emperor's purple star was dim and seemed to be obscured by dark clouds, what important things has the emperor lost recently?" Qin Tiandu's round face was full of worry, and he looked at the emperor and said: "This item must be related to the Jiangshan Sheji, please think about it carefully." ”
"Something important?" The emperor recalled carefully, and his eyes fell on the jade seal that had been placed on the table and said: "A while ago, although the jade seal was lost, it was found in a few hours. ”
"Your Majesty, please allow this monk to take a look at the jade seal." After obtaining the emperor's permission, Qin Tiandu carefully approached the jade seal to observe, and it took a long time for him to get up, as if inadvertently, he flicked his sleeves and directly knocked over the tea that was put aside.
Before he could apologize, the water-stained jade seal collapsed directly into stone foam, and the emperor pointed to the jade seal, looked at Qin Tiandu and said, "The jade seal is fake!" ”
"Your Majesty, this matter is too strange, the emperor still has to investigate thoroughly!" Qin Tiandu's face was also a lot more ugly, and he couldn't help but say, "If you don't get the jade seal back as soon as possible, I'm afraid it will have an impact on the qi of Huangyuan Kingdom." ”
The emperor immediately ordered the whole city to be searched, only saying that he wanted to find an important thing, and there were no clues after searching for two whole days, and at noon on the third day, Su Moran, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, was ordered to search the Eighth Prince's Mansion with a team of soldiers.
Luo Langyi was not in the mansion, but when he heard that Su Moran came to search, he immediately rushed back, and when he returned to the mansion, he found that Su Moran had found his secret room.
"Eighth Prince, please open the secret room, be ordered to search, and ask the Eighth Prince to cooperate." Su Moran, who had been waiting outside the secret room, immediately stepped forward and said when he saw Luo Langyi coming back.
"Commander Su, this is the prince's private place, and all the belongings stored in it are the prince's belongings, and you are doing this to make the prince very embarrassed." Although Luo Langyi knew the secret of the jade seal, he didn't want Su Moran to know that he had so many gold and silver treasures.
This secret room has always been hidden behind the rockery, why was it discovered by him, but before he could think about it, suddenly a sharp arrow came towards Su Moran's face door.
"Alert!" Su Mo dodged the arrow without danger, immediately drew his sword, and said to Luo Langyi: "The Eighth Prince, I came to search the mansion in the name of the emperor, and the Eighth Prince actually sent someone to attack the lowly position, what does it mean!" ”
"It's not my ......" Laurentine was about to explain, when a lot of black-clothed people suddenly appeared, and immediately entangled with the Praetorian Guard, and one of the black-clothed men shouted: "Protect the master!" Master, you go! ”
"Eighth Prince, you dare to besiege and kill the imperial court officials in broad daylight!" Su Moran and the Praetorian Guards he brought resisted the killing of the man in black together, and he didn't forget to shout: "If the emperor investigates it, you will not be able to escape the blame for the eighth prince!" ”
"Stop!" Lau Langyi shouted, he didn't know where this group of black-clothed people came from, but they didn't listen to his orders at all, and just when the two sides were deadlocked, the eunuch outside chanted: "The emperor has arrived!" ”
"Stop! Stop! When Lau Langyi heard this voice, he was even more anxious, and hurriedly reprimanded loudly: "Who are you!" ”
The black-clothed man at the head heard the sound of many footsteps, and shouted: "Eighth Prince, I'm afraid we won't be able to do it if you let us kill the Praetorian Guard, and the silver will be returned on another day, and the wind will be tight--"
The man in black retreated almost instantly, except for a few Praetorian guards under Su Moran who were slightly injured, and at this time, the emperor happened to walk in front of everyone.
"Your Majesty, the lowly duty was ordered to search, and let the eighth prince cooperate with the lowly duty to open the secret room, but I didn't expect the eighth prince to send secret guards to attack the Praetorian Guard, and ask the emperor to decide!" Su Moran didn't wait for Luo Langyi to come back to his senses, so he knelt in front of the emperor and pleaded guilty.
"Father, son-in-law is wronged!" Luo Langyi knelt in front of the emperor and shouted: "Erchen doesn't know where those black-clothed people came from, and I ask my father to find out!" ”
"Open the Chamber of Secrets." The emperor heard the words of the man in black just now, and his eyes fell on the stone gate hidden in the rockery.
"Father!" Luo Langyi wanted to say something, but found that the emperor's eyes when he looked at him were completely devoid of his previous appreciation, completely indifferent, as if he was looking at a stranger, he opened his mouth at the moment, but he didn't know what to say.
"I just like the Chamber of Secrets." Nalan Minhao stepped forward with a smile and patted left and right around the rockery, as if he was very curious and said: "Wow, Xiaoba, your secret room is really difficult to find." ”
When the emperor heard his words, his face became even more gloomy, and although Luo Langyi was nervous, he was also sure that Nalan Minhao would never find the mechanism of the secret room, as long as the emperor was not allowed to enter today, it was a big deal to donate part of the treasure to the treasury at that time, or explain to the emperor that there was a woman hidden in him at that time......
Suddenly, a clicking sound came, Luo Langyi suddenly turned his head and stared at the stone door that had been opened, Nalan Minhao touched a very inconspicuous stone on the rockery, and said with a smile: "It turned out that it was on the rockery, if it wasn't accidentally encountered, it really couldn't be found!" ”
The emperor glanced at Luo Langyi, who was stunned in place, and said in a deep voice to Su Moran: "Go and see what's inside!" ”
Su Moran received the order, immediately rushed into the secret room, and after a while, he walked out with two brocade boxes, knelt in front of the emperor, and said: "Back to the emperor, there is a study inside, there is nothing, only two brocade boxes on the desk." ”
"Open!" The emperor opened his mouth coldly, Qin Tiandu said that the location of the jade seal was deduced in this direction, Su Moran led people to search all the surrounding residential restaurants and inns in the past two days but found nothing, in fact, even if he didn't open the brocade box, the emperor had already understood in his heart that it must be the jade seal.
But people will only die after seeing is believing, when Su Moran opened the brocade box above, what was placed inside was the jade seal, the emperor's eyes fell on the brocade box below, as soon as he opened it, the bright yellow under the sun was so dazzling and flamboyant broke into his eyes!
It turned out to be a dragon robe!