Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Truth About the Murder
"What did you say!" The emperor was originally sad because of the death of the crown prince, and when he heard Nalan Minhao's words, he got up directly and asked hurriedly: "Wu Yige is heavily guarded, how can someone murder the prince?" ”
"Crown Princess, come on." Nalan Minhao turned sideways, Fang Yuqing's hair behind him was scattered, his face was pale, and he suddenly knelt on the ground tremblingly.
"Ask my father to call the shots for the crown prince!" Fang Yuqing fell to the ground and cried.
"You get up first, and tell me what's going on!" When the emperor saw Fang Yuqing's appearance, he was even more anxious, and hurriedly urged.
Fang Yuqing spoke slowly, intermittently recounting what happened last night.
Since the crown prince and Fang Yuqing were imprisoned in Wu Yige, Yue Zhu'er naturally had no way to continue to poison the prince, so the prince seemed to be much more sober, and he was very puzzled by the fact that he actually killed the Praetorian Guard.
Although Fang Yuqing complained about the prince at the beginning, after all, the husband and wife were a husband and wife, and the prince carefully analyzed what happened during this time with her, Fang Yuqing realized that maybe he was being used, and the prince heard the news that the queen mother was rejected by the emperor, and knew that his father did not give up on him, so he stayed in Wu Yige with peace of mind.
The prince and Fang Yuqing shared hardships, and their feelings slowly warmed up, and the prince also told her that the first thing he had to do when he went out was to find the third prince, and it was he who chilled the third brother's heart, so he also had to make up for it.
Maybe people are like this, when you find that you have missed a lot of important people or things, God may not necessarily give you a chance to make up for it.
Last night, the heavy rain came, Fang Yuqing listened to the thunder in his room and panicked inexplicably, seeing that the girls outside slept soundly, he did not alarm them and walked towards the prince's bedroom.
Just when she walked to the window, she heard the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the house, and she wanted to rush in to see what was going on, but she heard the prince shouting: "Grandpa Liu, why did you harm me!" ”
"His Royal Highness the Prince, if you want to blame, blame you for blocking the master's way!" Gonggong Liu looked at the two little eunuchs who pressed the prince with a hideous face and said: "Hold it down to the miscellaneous family, and when the master ascends to the palace, you will be the heroes." ”
"Yes! Grandpa Liu! The two little eunuchs held down the prince to death, letting the prince struggle desperately, and one of them said with a smile: "Prince, you still struggle less, maybe you can suffer a little less." ”
Fang Yuqing watched outside the window as Gonggong Liu stuffed the gold into the prince's mouth, and poured the liquor into it, the prince struggled like that, struggling, clutching the void with both hands, as if he wanted to catch something life-saving, but after all, he still hung down weakly, his eyes were wide open, and he couldn't see it.
Gonggong Liu kept watching the prince breathe, and then he relaxed and said with a smile: "You put the prince on the bed." ”
Just when the two little eunuchs moved the prince's body to the bed, Gonggong Liu suddenly made a move and wiped the two of them directly and killed them.
Fang Yuqing covered her mouth outside the window, tears fell down her eyes, she didn't dare to look anymore, she was so frightened that she fled, she was afraid that the Liu Gong Guild would come back and kill herself, so she hid in Wu Yige's firewood room until Shuntian Mansion Yin found her.
In fact, Fang Yuqing was just frightened, Gonggong Liu killed the prince in order to create the illusion that the prince swallowed suicide, so naturally he would not kill her again, otherwise others would see that it was murder.
Fang Yuqing pointed at Gonggong Liu and said frantically: "Your Majesty, he killed the prince!" I saw it with my own eyes! The crown prince, the prince died so miserably, but I can't save the prince......"
In the main hall, except for Fang Yuqing's heart-wrenching cry, there was a dead silence, the emperor was pale, and his eyes looked sharply at Gonggong Liu, who was kneeling on the ground, and asked in a deep voice for a long time: "Gonggong Liu, what she said is true?" ”
"Your Majesty, the slave is wronged!" Gonggong Liu kowtowed again and again and cried: "The slave didn't go to Wu Yige at all last night, how could he murder the prince!" The slave is loyal to the emperor and has no two hearts, and the slave doesn't know how to offend the princess, so that the princess slanders the slave so much! Please the emperor to see! ”
"Father! The prince was mutilated to death by this minion! When Fang Yuqing heard Gonggong Liu's words, he rushed up and tore him like crazy, completely losing his former nobility, and scolded non-stop.
"Stop!" At this time, the queen walked in from outside the hall with a pale face, and said to the grandmother behind her: "Go and pull the princess away, what kind of system does a master and a slave have?" ”
The two grandmothers hurriedly stepped forward to pull Fang Yuqing away, Fang Yuqing saw that the queen seemed to have found an outlet for all her grievances, crying so much that she cried a handful of tears, and the fear and sorrow of the whole night hit this noble woman almost crazy.
"Your Majesty, the crown prince died tragically for no reason, and the concubines only begged the emperor to severely punish the murderer." Although the queen and the emperor gradually separated, the queen knew the emperor's thoughts, so even if the emperor threw the prince into Wu Yige, she only knelt for a few hours and did not ask about it again, because she understood that the emperor would not easily abolish the prince.
However, she didn't expect that under her own protection, the prince would swallow gold by himself! When she heard the news in the morning, she almost fell to the ground, but when she heard that the prince was murdered, she endured the great grief in her heart and went directly to the Qingxin Palace to find the emperor.
She knew that if such a big change happened, Fang Yuqing would definitely only cry and make a fuss, and such an approach would only make the emperor suspect that Fang Yuqing was crazy, so she rushed to control the situation, thinking of this, the queen's eyes fell on Gonggong Liu, and she quietly said nothing.
"Queen, I am also very sad about the prince, you get up first, I will definitely find out about this matter." Seeing that the queen was enduring the pain, the emperor felt a little more guilty in his heart, and gently persuaded him.
"Your Majesty, since the crown princess and Gonggong Liu have their own opinions on this matter, it is better to wait for Shuntianfu Yin to check it before making a decision." Nalan Minhao has been watching from the wall, and when he saw the queen, he made the emperor believe Fang Yuqing for seven points, and suddenly had another understanding of the queen.
"That's all there is to it." The emperor nodded, but the eyes that looked at Gonggong Liu had begun to have doubts, Gonggong Liu had been by his side for many years, and he was not visible on weekdays, could it really be that he was hiding too deeply?
In fact, the emperor should have made a decision in his heart, for him, there is no need for the crown princess to slander a slave, and this slave is still the person around him, so what the princess said is likely to be the truth, but who is the person behind Gonggong Liu? Can you reach out to him?
Third? It's impossible, Luo Lang Shi has always been from the prince, so he won't poison the prince, then only the seventh and eighth are left, and what he loves the most is Luo Langkong under the knee of Concubine Yun, so it is impossible for the seventh to install people around him in one more move, and the secret guards who have been by the side of the seventh over the years have always sent back the news that he is keeping to himself.
Then only the eighth child is left, the emperor remembered that the eighth and the seventh had diametrically opposite attitudes in the matter of the jade seal, and couldn't help but be more suspicious of Luo Langyi's thoughts, in fact, this is also the reason why Qianfan deliberately asked Luo Langkong to intercede for the prince that day.
The more Laurang interceded for the crown prince, Lau Lang Yi would constantly refute him, which was equivalent to planting the seeds of doubt in the emperor's heart, once it took root and sprouted, it would be out of control, and at that time, Lau Lang Yi only thought that Lau Langkong was deliberately contradicting himself, so that he ignored the emperor's thoughts.
Nalan Minhao looked at the emperor and frowned tightly and knew that he already had the object of suspicion, so he said lightly: "When I was drinking in the drunken love building, I heard that Gonggong Liu has purchased a lot of real estate outside, and has also raised seven or eight concubines, a servant around the emperor, and the monthly monthly silver is only that, Gonggong Liu, it seems that your master has given you a lot of rewards over the years." ”
"The slave doesn't know when he collided with His Royal Highness the Prince, why should His Highness the Prince embarrass the slave?" Gonggong Liu didn't expect Nalan Minhao to learn about his secret, so he gritted his teeth and refused to admit it.
"As I said, my favorite thing is to look into other people's secret rooms." Nalan Minhao smiled indifferently: "So after I learned about Gonggong Liu, I let Hanshuang sneak into your house with me, and I happened to meet Gonggong Liu doing something embarrassing in the room......"
Gonggong Liu's face turned pale, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, but Nalan Minhao covered his face and said shyly: "Oh, it's really embarrassing, I didn't expect Gonggong Liu's methods to be really cruel." ”
"Your Highness! Even if His Highness sees it, it is also the private matter of the minion, so why should His Highness humiliate the minion! Gonggong Liu is a eunuch, and his heart is already twisted, but now that he has been exposed, he suddenly said angrily: "His Royal Highness the Prince of the World is peeping on others*, it is really not a gentleman's doing!" ”
"I'm not a gentleman." Nalan Minhao looked at Gonggong Liu indifferently and said, "Back then, Gonggong Liu told me that this kind of trick of going over the wall and entering the hospital was the most fun, you won't forget it, right?" ”
At that time, he just thought that he was ordered by the emperor to teach himself badly, but it turned out that behind it was Luo Langyi, who was just a teenager back then! It's really a vicious mind!
"Grandpa Liu, who told you to say this in front of Min Hao back then?" When the emperor heard Nalan Minhao's words, he immediately understood that Gonggong Liu was not his person from the beginning!
Although he was on guard against King Nalan, he was only such a son after all, so he also tried his best to find a famous teacher to teach him, after all, Nalan Minhao would always have to guard Waishu for him one day, but at that time, Nalan Minhao repeatedly disappointed him, it turned out that someone was making trouble behind his back!
"Your Majesty, there are no minions!" When Gonggong Liu heard the emperor's words, he was shocked, he didn't expect Nalan Minhao to go around the incident many years ago, and kowtowed again and again and begged for mercy: "The slave was just watching the prince play around back then, in order to please the son." ”
"Your Majesty, there are obvious signs of clenching on the prince's wrist, and there are obvious traces of struggle in the room, it is messy, it is not a suicide!" At this time, Yin Wuzu of Shuntian Mansion walked in and spoke respectfully.
"Impossible!" Gonggong Liu, who was a little distracted because Nalan Minhao mentioned the old things, immediately retorted when he heard Wu Zu's words, but as soon as the words came out, he knew that something bad was wrong, and his face turned pale.