The Prince's Mansion is in the east of the Imperial Palace, out of the Prince's Mansion, only through a Cuihua Gate is the square of the Palace Palace.

At this moment, the Cuihua Gate was open, and Jin Xiaolou followed Gao Lang to the Prince's Mansion, while looking sideways at the wide and majestic square outside a palace gate.

"It's like a cage." Gao Lang beside him suddenly spoke.

Jin Xiaolou retracted his eyes, looked at the high palace wall that stretched into the distance, and said softly: "There are still people who sharpen their heads and drill in." ”

As soon as the words fell, the two had already stepped into the gate of the prince's mansion.

There was a row of guards guarding Dali Temple in front of the door, and an internal official greeted him and saluted Gao Lang: "Your Highness the Seventh, please come with the old slave." ”

This official surnamed Li, who has been serving in the prince's mansion for ten years, is now taking Gao Lang and Jin Xiaolou to the main hall of the mansion.

The prince's coffin was placed in the main hall, guarded by guards.

As soon as the three of them passed through the middle gate, they heard a noisy noise in front of them, and Li Neiguan's face changed, and he hurriedly turned around and apologized to Gao Lang: "Please also ask Your Highness the Seventh to forgive your sins, the crying people are all the old princes, crying and grieving every day and reluctant to leave." ”

With that, Li Neiguan led Gao Lang to the main road with a white marble railing on the left.

Gao Lang stopped: "Go and see them." ”

Li Neiguan was taken aback and hurriedly bowed: "They are overly sad, their words and deeds are incomprehensible, and they are afraid of colliding with His Highness!" ”

Gao Lang ignored him and walked straight in the noisy direction.

The news that Gao Lang got early that the prince was sick was handed over by a new beauty beside the prince. This beauty's name is Xishu, and it is said that she was originally a piano girl who sang on the ship, and she was caught by the prince passing by and taken directly back to the house.

Xishu was specially arranged by Gao Lang on the waterway that the prince must pass, Xishu will be martial, Gao Lang originally wanted to send her to lie dormant beside the prince and protect him all the way safe.

But he didn't want to send the prince back to the capital safely, but the open gun was easy to dodge and the arrow was difficult to prevent, and the prince was still dead, dead under the imperial city, at the feet of the Son of Heaven; The death is not clear, it is not clear.

Since the cause of the prince's death is to be investigated, in addition to the corpse that can't speak, it is also necessary to investigate the person who can speak.

Passing through the corridor, there is a semi-open inner courtyard in front of you, and there are dozens of people standing under the eaves of the jade-colored glazed tiles on the top of the mountain, most of them are women with stunning appearances, except for a man in green clothes in the middle.

Jin Xiaolou's eyes were sharp, and he recognized at a glance that the man was He Guangkun!

I saw He Guangkun's face full of indignation, and he pointed to the nose of the junior official in front of him and scolded: "I am the prince's best friend with you, and the prince said that he would make me prime minister in the future!" Which of you dares to drive me away? ”

The petty official was not angry: "Since you are dead or alive in our prince's mansion and don't want to leave, then go and accompany the prince!" ”

"You, what do you mean by that!" Beside Guangkun, a woman wearing a ruyi pleated moon skirt leaned out.

"Aren't you two husbands and wives loyal to the crown prince? Then he followed the funeral procession and went to the underground palace to serve His Royal Highness, so as not to let the prince be lonely and no one to speak. The petty official raised his chin and rushed to the group of people, "Who else is crying and unwilling to leave?" I also went with the funeral! ”

As soon as the words came out, the three or five women who were originally crying suddenly stopped talking, and one by one turned around and went back to the house.

"Wait!" Gao Lang suddenly let out a voice and stopped a group of women who were about to leave.

Then he raised his hand all the way and hit one of the jet-black long-haired men with a slender figure: "You stay." ”

The woman had a small face like a peach tip, and a pair of small pear vortices at the corner of her mouth, which was Xishu.

Xishu bowed and saluted, standing in place and not moving, Jin Xiaotao next to her shouted loudly: "You! Aren't you Jin Xiaolou's stupid father?! ”

As soon as the words fell, he saw Jin Xiaolou coming behind Gao Lang.

Jin Xiaotao didn't know Gao Lang's identity yet, and was stunned by his momentum, how could that stupid prince change into such a noble appearance.

Jin Xiaolou just raised his hand to point at Gao Lang, and the junior official in front of him had slapped her to the ground, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Gao Lang: "Your Highness the Seventh forgiveness, this woman is a peasant girl from the countryside, she doesn't understand the rules, Your Highness must not be surprised!" ”

The three words of the Seventh Highness fell into Jin Xiaotao's ears like thunder, and his brain was coaxed, and he couldn't even care about the pain on his face, and raised his head in disbelief: "You...... Are you a prince? Impossible, how is this possible? ”

If this stupid prince is the prince, wouldn't Jin Xiaolou fly up to the branches and become a golden phoenix!

The three sisters of their Jin family, Jin Xiaotao is the best married and the most faceful.

How could she endure that the most inconspicuous Jin Xiaolou actually climbed on top of herself!

But no matter how much I can't believe it, I can't resist seeing a pearl on the side of the high boots when I look down, so big, such a smooth bead is far more precious than the prince's reward, and the pearl earrings that I wipe every day are more than three circles, but he actually set the bead on the shoe.

Jin Xiaotao only felt that the blood in her body was drained away in an instant, and her body was as cold as falling into an ice cellar.

She raised her head fiercely, wanting to glance at her deeply when Jin Xiaolou taunted her, but she didn't expect that Gao Lang led the woman who came out and walked out hand in hand with Jin Xiaolou.

It's as if they don't know themselves at all.

This kind of neglected and contemptuous shame goes far deeper than being spat on and ridiculed.

If a person will still scold you and sarcastically mock you, it means that she has hated you in her heart, and her current happiness will come because of your downfall. But if she doesn't even look at you, it proves that in her heart, you are just an ant, a grasshopper, which can be brushed away with her hand, and it is not worth mentioning.

Jin Xiaotao trembled with anger, but she could only tremble, and under the gaze of the junior official, she went back to the room to pack her clothes.

Fortunately, she still has a virtue to rely on, otherwise, there would not be a place for them in this huge capital.

……

"Open the coffin."

Gao Lang spoke softly.

With a bang, the lid of the coffin was pushed open by the guards, and a rancid smell came out of the coffin.

The weather was not hot, but it was not cool, and the prince's body was already slightly decomposed.

Jin Xiaolou took two steps forward with courage, leaned behind Gao Lang, and looked into the coffin.

Zhao Wei was wearing a golden jade robe, a jade crown on his head, and his body was full of jade utensils, lying peacefully in the golden brocade.

His face was so bruised and blackened that only one face was exposed, and his body was so tightly covered that nothing could be seen.

Jin Xiaolou frowned slightly, if he wanted to check the prince, it was not enough to look at it like this.

Just thinking about it, I only heard that Gao Lang had ordered someone to come, and after a while, a middle-aged man with a small wooden box came to the front of the hall with two guards.

The man is a servant in the yamen of the capital, and he has come to assist the Seven Princes in investigating the case.

After the servants and the guards removed the prince's body, stripped off the golden jade clothes and underwear, only the short clothes and shorts were left and placed on the long case.

The prince's whole body was blue and purple, his meridians were angry, the tips of his ten fingers were even more swollen, and his round nails were like wilted grapes.

Gao Lang inspected the prince's whole body with his servants, and there were no injuries.

Jin Xiaolou was stunned.

She still clearly remembered the prince's high-spirited, golden and noble appearance, but in a blink of an eye, it was like dead wood and mud, lying in front of her.

Even if there were so many gold, silver and jewels piled up around him, even if the underground palace was magnificent, what was the use, he couldn't feel it anymore.

Jin Xiaolou took a deep breath and listened to the gesture to Gao Lang: "Your Royal Highness the Seventh, the prince has been restless since he came back from Xinning, and after several treatments by the imperial doctor, he said that he was overly frightened and his heart was weak, and he needed to recuperate. ”

Na Zuo continued: "On the day of the death of the prince, he indulged in lust all night, and the internal officials dissuaded him many times to no avail, until he suffered heart failure in the early morning of the next day, could not breathe, and suffocated to death. This was ascertained at the first autopsy, and the Imperial Physician also presented it to His Majesty, and the death of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was indeed an accident. ”

Listening to this meaning, it is to blame the Seven Princes for opening the coffin and conducting an autopsy.

Jin Xiaolou also leaned in, held his breath, and slowly checked Zhao Ji's body.

Gao Lang nodded, when he received the news of Xishu, it was also said that the prince was frightened, he didn't think about tea and dinner, he often woke up in the middle of the night, and his body was sick, and that person was like an oil lamp, looking at it and about to go out.

Although everything sounds normal, Gao Lang just doesn't feel right.

With a wave of his hand, he sent the servants and the guards away, leaving Xishu alone.

Gao Lang asked aloud: "You are serving with the prince, have you found anything strange?" ”

Xishu shook her head: "His Royal Highness the Seventh knows me, I have been walking the rivers and lakes since I was a child, what kind of way has I never seen it?" As soon as I found out that the prince was sick, I secretly took the prince's daily food and water and took it for inspection, and there were no problems. ”

"What happened on the day of the accident?" Jin Xiaolou looked at the prince and didn't raise his head.