The man in front of him, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, was handsome and extraordinary, locking his sad eyebrows, faintly bursting out with a majesty that people did not dare to approach. The red sandalwood dragon robe was a little dull, but it made his face pale and pale. Lan Xin stared at him for a long time, and finally nodded. "It's not that the concubines don't understand the emperor's intentions, but if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and the concubines always feel that there is a pair of invisible hands, pushing the emperor into this fog......"

Hongli thought about it calmly, and felt that what Lan Xin said was exactly what he was worried about: "Does the queen still remember the words of the nurse?" The jade plaque she told me was written by the first emperor himself. ”

"Naturally, I remember." Lan Xin's regret is that it is this jade plate that does not know where he is, even if there is a clue of the slightest clue, things will be easy to do.

"The crux of the matter is here." Hongli was puzzled, and said slowly: "The nurse entered the Changchun Palace in the middle of the night, if this jade card is really so important, and she trusts the queen, why didn't she say where she went out earlier." At this time, he felt that things were much clearer, and when he glanced at Lan Xin, the doubts in his eyes gradually warmed up: "That's why I'm annoyed...... Since childhood, I don't know why I don't see that jade plaque. ”

Lan Xin immediately understood what Hongli meant, pondered for a moment, and finally his eyes fell on the inner eunuch who was lying on the ground. "Your Majesty, put aside the words for the time being, and let the concubines interrogate and interrogate the inner chamberlain of Cining Palace, why did they stay and hide in Changchun Palace, and they never left until dawn."

Xue Guining kicked the little eunuch on the shoulder, kicking him obliquely, quite a taste of someone turning on his back. "Xiao Changzi, the queen mother asked in person, you didn't recruit it quickly!"

Xiao Changzi resisted fear, and hurriedly got up and fell to the ground: "The emperor spares his life, the queen mother spares his life, the slave is ordered to stay in Changchun Palace, and secretly visit the criminal maid who escaped from Cining Palace, whether she is hiding in the queen's bedroom, there is no more to do." ”

"It's as simple as that?" Lan Xin already had the answer in his heart, so he naturally didn't believe Xiao Changzi's words. "If it's really as you say, when you know that Ruying is hiding in the bedroom of the palace, why don't you escape from the palace and return to your life. Instead, he had to hide until dawn until Ruying was poisoned. ”

Kowtowed again and again like pounding garlic, and Xiao Changzi came in with half his life: "Gao Xiang and Gao Gonggong said that it is inevitable that people will be suspicious, and they must let the slave find an opportunity to sneak out of Changchun Palace." But after last night's incident, the palace gates in Changchun Palace are tightly handled, and the servants really have no way. Before the person sent to pick up the slave arrived, the little eunuch under Xue Gonggong caught the slave......"

Hongli listened to this, and always felt that Xiao Changzi was not the one who poisoned him. If it was really him who poisoned him, why didn't he escape for such a serious matter, but he had to wait until someone found out and twisted it, and even his life could not be saved. It's too stupid, unless it's a trick, someone deliberately left him behind, and after the nurse died in vain, all kinds of suspicion and responsibility had to be shirked to a small inner supervisor.

So who is the one who originally wanted to cover up the past and has major suspicions?

"Lan Xin, you come with me." Hongli put his doubts in his heart and turned around like this, but he couldn't listen to it anymore.

"It's the emperor." Lan Xin nodded at Xue Guining and Duo Lan, Xue Guining escorted Xiao Changzi down, and Duo Lan obediently followed by his side.

Hongli walked in a hurry, and walked into the inner bed where Lan Xin had just taken in the nurse. Turning his head to look at Lan Xin, he said unhurriedly: "Let's see, if there is anything missing from the nurse on this bed, or something that does not belong to this side room." ”

Following Hongli's words, Lan Xin was looking for it, but as soon as she stretched out her hand, she suddenly remembered: "Your Majesty, the nurse's original clothes and accessories are all in tatters, and the concubine asked her to change her clothes." I'm afraid that there is no other object in this house, which is what the nurse originally brought in. Unless ......" flashed in her eyes, Lan Xin hurriedly called Duolan: "Go and see, is there anything hidden in those objects of the nurse?" ”

Although Lan Xin instructed Duolan like this, he still opened the curtain uneasily and groped for something on the bed.

"If the nurse really has a hard time, she must not be able to bring important things with her to Changchun Palace." Hongli was a little lost: "With her mind, it will definitely not be allowed." ”

Lan Xin understood that she was referring to the Queen Mother in Hongli's mouth, although she also didn't like the Queen Mother's methods, but she understood that the relationship between the Emperor and the Queen Mother should not be tense. "Your Majesty, at this time, the concubines always feel that it may not be the Queen Mother's doing." Seeing that the brilliance in Hongli's eyes instantly darkened, Lan Xin unhurriedly relieved his doubts: "It's not that the concubine's selfish favoritism or side reasons, I'm just afraid that it doesn't matter if the queen mother is wrong, let go of the person who really instigated it, it will really be regretted." ”

Nodding, Hongli suddenly remembered that the nurse had taught herself to learn words since she was a child, there was a "court" word, and he couldn't write it well, so the nurse was dipped in water and wrote it to herself over and over again on the desk with her fingers.

Between the lightning and flint, Hongli suddenly lifted the brocade quilt on the bed, and even the sleepers turned over. "There are words, there are words, I remember, the nurse has read and can write. Lan Xin, look at it, these blood words must have been written by the nurse......"

Lan Xin and Hongli are equally happy, with these clues, things are much easier.

Hongli Jiangjin was flipped in the direction and let the words be right to himself: "Grievances are not the original intention, life is threatened, and I have no choice but to do it." ”

Lan Xin seemed to understand something, but in fact he didn't understand anything at all. "Your Majesty, what does the grievance in the mouth of the nurse mean? Threatening each other's lives, do you ......"

"It couldn't be more obvious." Hongli's heart couldn't help but ache at this moment: "It was I who harmed the nurse, if I hadn't gone around to find out her whereabouts, and the starry night tracked these people who might know the truth, they wouldn't have died one after another, it was I who harmed them." ”

"Don't blame the emperor." Lan Xin has always been generous, but the words blurted out at this time were inevitably cold: "Life and death are fateful, and wealth is in the sky." There are some things that can not happen if the emperor does not investigate them. The concubine felt that the twists and turns that crisscrossed the country were gone, but they made things clearer. ”

Knowing what she meant, Hongli nodded: "I decreed that I would be exempted from the evening dynasty and accompany the nurse to talk, which would inevitably alarm the government and the opposition and the harem." This is the first time since I ascended the throne that I have dismissed the dynasty. In this way, the death of the nurse can quickly spread everywhere, if the jade card is really still in the world, and the person holding the jade card is really the person entrusted by the nurse to keep it, he will definitely stand up......"

The second half of the sentence that was not declared in his mouth is what Hongli wishes, and it is good not to burden this person again.

"Xiao Changzi didn't tell the truth, and if he wanted to be tried again, he put a bench in front of the main hall of this Changchun Palace, tied people to the bench, rewarded the whip, and beat him until he said it." Hongli's heart was already full of resentment, and at this moment, he no longer believed that he had blood and family ties with the Queen Mother. So Cining Palace became a thorn in his heart.

Lan Xin really wanted to ask him if this whip was intended to be given to the Queen Mother. But when the words came to her mouth, she swallowed them back.

Sitting side by side with the emperor in the inner bed, he could still hear Xiao Changzi's heart-rending wail, and the whooshing sound of the whip cutting through the flesh.

It took a long time for Xue Guining to walk in. At that time, the sound of wailing was gone, and the sound of the whip was not heard.

Lan Xin raised his head and motioned for him to say. Xue Guining lowered his head and said: "Xiao Changzi only said that he listened to Aunt Yafu's instructions and came to search the palace. secretly got Gao Xiang's instructions and stayed in Changchun Palace to find out if the queen mother was hiding the nurse. As for the poisoning, he refused to admit it even to death. ”

"If you fight again, you will be willing to fight until you say it." Hongli's words were extremely calm, but he overwhelmed everything with the spirit of the emperor, and no one could distinguish and refute it, let alone disobey it.

It's just that this matter is also difficult to do, Xue Guining had a bitter face, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Xiao Changzi has already lost his breath, and I am afraid that he will not be able to say anything if he fights again......

Even though he had already prepared for the worst, Lan Xin was still shocked. A person who was still alive just now, in the blink of an eye, became a corpse with open skin, coming and going, it was just a matter of the emperor's words, which was too ......

"Lives are in danger." Hongli remembered the words written in blood by the nurse on the mattress, and his heart trembled slightly: "What a life." ”

"The emperor is saying that in fact, the nurse had already taken poison before entering the Changchun Palace?" When Lan Xin thought of this, he felt even more afraid. "In this way, she has always been coerced to do this."

Hongli's heart was shocked, and he sneered: "Coercion, what a coercion." Almost without thinking about it, Hongli called Li Yu in: "Go, together with Xue Guining, personally carry Xiao Changzi's body and send it back to Cining Palace." After all, he was a servant of Cining Palace, and he died for no reason, and I had to give an explanation to the Queen Mother. ”

Li Yu's face turned purple with bluff, and he quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "The emperor thinks twice, this can't be helped, what if it collides with the queen mother's phoenix body." These days, the Queen Mother is already sick, Your Majesty, you must not. ”

Xue Guining also knelt down with Li Yu, but he didn't stop anything. After all, the emperor's will has never been something that can be stopped by a minion. Of course, he also understands Li Yu's difficulties, if he doesn't persuade a word, he will inevitably be defeated in the future. It's hard to be a slave, and you have to think about it.

"I don't want to repeat it again, I'll go now." Hongli's tone was a lot stiffer, and the killing intent in his eyes was like a mountain rock pouring down, and there was nowhere to dodge. "It is precisely because the Queen Mother is ill that I have to explain this matter clearly. Otherwise, if you don't know, you should still be a slave in Cining Palace. Does the queen think what I said makes sense? ”