Bai Yan entered the imperial city and was personally greeted by the empress, first, to show the honor of Yuanzhi, hoping to let go of southern Jiangsu on this face; Second, I am worried that there are any regulations that southern Jiangsu will bear, so as to save face.

The battle was lost, but I don't know if it will work, and I don't know if I can save Sunan's life, but I never thought that the Jiangcheng army did not hurt Yeli, and brought her back unscathed.

I can't even think of a war, Yuan Zhi never wanted to recover southern Jiangsu, and he didn't want any resources, just to get justice for the dead people.

She and Yuanzhi thought about it before, thinking that the killing was just an excuse to find fault, but when she saw that Bai Yan brought all the arrows and mentioned it again, she knew that it was serious.

So I inadvertently wondered if the third prince had killed someone and refused to admit it, and at that time I was only thinking about the prince's death, and I didn't think about it when my head was hot, but how did he say what he believed in?

After thinking about it, she decided to ask the third prince again, and she faintly wanted to use this excuse to invalidate the request she had promised him.

But where is he so easy to bully, without waiting for the empress to find it, he has already found a scapegoat, and he even spoke righteously and wept bitterly in the palace.

Just when Bai Yan asked her to find the third prince to confront him, he kicked a guard to the palace, and everyone saw the person with a blue nose and swollen face in front of them, and they didn't know why for a while. The empress, on the other hand, thought that she would not look for it. Instead, he came to the door, and it was fine.

But who knew that before he could speak, the third prince rushed to the front of the palace and knelt down, just crying: "Erchen to meet the mother!" ”

The empress didn't know how happy she was to find a reason to abolish the third prince, but she pretended to be surprised and worried on her face and said, "What's the matter?" Get up and talk slowly, what is such a big battle? There is no sense of proportion at all. ”

I saw his eyes glance up for a moment, and then he said to Bai Yan: "General Bai, I was rude, but I never thought that it was the mother emperor who received you today, and now you are just right." Then he bowed to the head and said, "My son has come today to ask for sin!" ”

The empress was a little surprised when she heard this, and asked, "What's the matter?" What sin please? ”

The third prince pretended to be very embarrassed, looked around and said: "Erchen only found out today that the arrow that the mother asked me some time ago was indeed Erchen's!" ”

She was shocked when she heard this, and couldn't help but wonder why this person had suddenly come to plead guilty.

But he also thought that he had just paved his own way, so he took the case and scolded: "You are bold! When the emperor asked you, you still refused to admit it! You've made a big mistake! If our country is at war because of you, you should behead you! ”

The third prince knew that she was eager to kill herself, but she didn't feel a sneer, and somehow she felt a bleakness. An accident that happened in the palace also stunned Bai Yan and Yeli, and they were curious why this person suddenly confessed?

Bai Yan's face gradually became ugly, and he unconsciously asked the empress: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this is not a misunderstanding, right?" You just said that you were going to call the third prince to ask, why did you admit it yourself? How are you going to explain this to our emperor? ”

The empress's face is also ugly, although he himself ran out to be the bottom, but she just said that she didn't know, he ran out, isn't this a slap in the face? What's more, this is still in front of outsiders!

"Yes, yes, the general is really the emperor's negligence. Why don't you hurry up and make it clear! She turned her head towards the third prince and her face changed for a while.

I saw that his face was aggrieved, and he only said slowly: "Mother, this arrow is indeed mine, but I didn't kill anyone!" ”

The empress looked puzzled and had to ask, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"The mother didn't know, you asked Erchen at that time, and Erchen thought that he had indeed not shot this arrow, so he said no. But today, when Erchen heard that General Bai and his group had entered the city, he thought about it for a while, and then he remembered. On that day, the whereabouts of the royal brother were searched, and the retainer did not shoot an arrow, and the bow was given to this person——"

As he spoke, he pointed his finger to the side of the guard, who was already trembling and his face was blue, and said, "Erchen was afraid that the arrows belonged to Erchen, so he called him to ask, and he confessed everything under this questioning."

It turned out that he went to explore the way at that time, and met a few woodcutters who recognized him as a native of southern Jiangsu, and he was afraid that he would accidentally kill someone if he leaked the news of our whereabouts. One of them ran away, and in a hurry he shot an arrow and forgot to bring it back, and then he was afraid that his son would blame him, so he didn't say a word. ”

He seemed to sigh for a while and then said, "This is the improper discipline of the son-in-law, the son-in-law is guilty, and today's forced confession is only brought to the mother emperor!" ”

Still didn't wait for the empress to speak, Bai Yan preempted him and said, "Wait a minute, does it mean that you really sneaked into our territory secretly?" Your Majesty, this is your command, right? What does that mean? You've got to give an explanation, right? ”

This is related to the prince's matter, but now that Sunan has been defeated, she can't say that she suspects that Yuanzhi sent someone to kill the prince, right? A prince and a country, the empress chose the latter in the end.

After hesitating for a while, she stubbornly said: "Yes, this is the emperor's order, the reason is that our crown prince in southern Jiangsu, the eldest prince of this emperor, was slaughtered by bandits in southern Jiangsu, but the prince's body could not be found."

The emperor is a mother, the emperor is anxious and has no choice, and knows that the emperor has vetoed the emperor's proposal, and he is afraid of being unhappy because of this trivial matter. Therefore, the emperor quietly ordered him to cross the border, until he never thought of this matter. ”

Saying that, she faintly carried some tears to express her sadness, "This is the emperor's order, it is the emperor's duty, and the emperor is willing to apologize to the emperor." ”

Her words startled Yeli, and then she thought that maybe she was defeated, and she didn't dare to say what Yuanji's responsibility was, so as not to cause Yuanji's displeasure again. She was worried about what those regulations would do to the people of southern Jiangsu, so she had to relent.

This is the empress's decision, and there is nothing wrong with it, but I have to say that as the prince's fiancée, she feels that the empress's decision is cruel, which is tantamount to not looking for the cause of the prince's death. It turns out that what he said in the past that he wouldn't be afraid of Yuanzhi was just angry talk.

Bai Yan also knew about the prince of Sunanguo, since the empress chose to take a step back, he naturally cooperated, and he didn't want to say anything more so as not to cause others to misunderstand Yuanzhi.

So he said: "Coincidentally, our emperor has also heard about this, he said that the prince had an accident in our territory, and since it has nothing to do with him, he also has a certain responsibility."

is to ask me to bring Miss Ye with me, hoping to accompany her to investigate this matter, and because she is the fiancée of the crown prince, she has the right to know, I wonder what Your Majesty's opinion on this matter is? ”