On this day, Chen Xi was watching people clean up the ruins in the Taihe Palace, when suddenly a guard handed him a letter: "There is a small servant outside the palace gate, saying that it is a subordinate from your house and sent you a letter." ”

Chen Xi nodded, took the letter and opened it, and found that it was written by Du Mingxin. He hurriedly scanned the letter, looked at it for a long time somewhere in the middle, and then called two teams of people over and ordered: "Your team, go to the ruins and find me the dragon head on the eaves of the Taihe Palace, especially the dragon tongue and dragon whisker!" The rest of the men went and dug down the pillars at the four corners of the main hall for me to see what was under them. ”

After the two teams were ordered to leave, Chen Xi read Du Mingxin's letter for a long time, and there were many doubts in his heart.

"What is Lord Jin looking at?" A clear voice came from far and near.

Chen Xi looked up, but it was Li Mobai and Ding Shao, who were wearing the cyan official uniforms of the Hanlin Academy, walking side by side.

"For no reason, what are you doing to make fun of me?" Chen Xi said with a smile.

"The prince is in a high position, how dare the lower officials joke?" Li Mobai smiled and glanced at the letter in his hand, "Such a beautiful handwriting, it can't be written by my sister-in-law, right?" Tut-tut, both of you children are half a year old, see each other every day, and do you want to pass on the book? ”

Ding Shao was a little embarrassed when he stood aside, he was Chen Xi's brother-in-law who had not yet married.

"You kid, I haven't cleaned you up for a few days, are you itchy again?" Chen Xi scolded with a smile.

Li Mobai smiled and said to Ding Shao: "Jixian, your brother-in-law is not good. With such a affectionate brother-in-law Zhuyu in front, be careful that your wife will compare you with the prince every day in the future. ”

Ding Shao smiled: "I don't dare to compare with the prince." ”

"Your brother-in-law is very cautious, just in the palace, only listening to the elders talking, pulling me behind without saying a word." Li Mobai said with a smile.

Chen Xi also smiled: "You two editors of seven or eight grades still want to speak at the court meeting, but your heart is too big!" What are the elders arguing about? ”

Li Mobai lowered his voice and said: "There are rumors and discussions outside, and the old man in the high pavilion is pedantic, and he wants the emperor to make his own edict!" ”

"This ......" Chen Xi was dumbfounded. The emperors of all dynasties have issued a lot of edicts for their own crimes, but the content and charges of their own crimes are very particular. No courtier dared to write the real rebellious crime in his own edict, at most he lived a luxurious life, listened to and believed partially, did not know people, and even the crime of not cherishing the people's power was rare.

Chen Yuantai has only been on the throne for two years, he has always been diligent in government and loves the people, and he has just recovered Jiangnan.

What's more, what is being discussed among the people is Chen Yuantai's identity as an anti-thief, if this is written in the edict, then will he be the emperor, and will the Great Yan Dynasty be passed on?

"Then what did the emperor say?" Chen Xi asked with a frown.

"What can the emperor say," Li Mobai chuckled, "I almost didn't reward Gao Chen's two big mouths." ”

Chen Xi sighed, this matter is really a nest. "Where is it now?"

"Where can it be!" Li Mobai smiled, "Your adopted son is not in it, but the emperor's son-in-law is here!" Lin Lang said that this matter was very strange, and he took the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division to check the source of the rumors, and found that it was spread on the same day in the east, west, north and south of the capital. The people who spread the rumors go everywhere, teahouses, wine shops, bookstores, vegetable markets, and Goolan courtyards, so everyone in the capital will know about it in a day or two! ”

Chen Xi's expression became solemn, if the truth is really as Lin Lang found out, then this rumor is probably not just as simple as foolish people speculating privately, there must be a promoter behind the scenes.

"Lord Wang, the two dragon heads in the eaves of the back of the Taihe Palace have been burned, and the two in front have been burned in half and are being lifted to this side."

Chen Xi's eyes lit up, and he waved his hand to Li Mobai and Ding Shao: "You two come with me to take a look." ”

Several people stopped in front of the two huge blackened dragon heads, Chen Xi squatted down to look through carefully, and found that sure enough, as Du Mingxin said, the dragon whiskers and dragon tongue were made of iron, and the root of the dragon tongue went straight to the inside, as if a whole iron drill was poured into it.

Chen Xi turned around and called a guard: "Untie your saber." ”

The guards hurriedly unsheathed their sabers and offered them with both hands. Chen Xi pulled out the scabbard and slashed at the dragon's head.

"Ahig, what are you?" Li Mobai was interested, and when he brushed aside the broken sawdust on the dragon's head, he saw the iron dragon's tongue digging deep into the dragon's head.

"All the way to the neck, there is an iron hammer the thickness of the entire arm, and then down to here," Ding Shao pointed to the last part of the dragon's neck, "It seems to have become an iron chain, but unfortunately the lower part has been burned off." ”

Li Mobai said excitedly: "I can see this!" In the past, it was recorded in the miscellaneous records of craftsmen that this kind of thing could catch the thunder and lead the thunder fire to the ground, and it would not burn the house. ”

"But ordinary people's houses are not so high, and secondly, who has the spare money to make such a thick iron drill? It's something that only happens in the palace! ”

"This is the record that your sister-in-law dug out in the archives of the Construction Division," Chen Xi looked at the split dragon head intently, and said in a deep voice, "The Taihe Hall was struck by lightning and burned down by the former Emperor Xiaohe, and there has been no similar accident for more than a hundred years after the reconstruction. I still think it's strange that the emperors in front and behind are so mediocre that God doesn't split them? ”

"What about the chains that lead to the ground?" Li Mobai was excited to go to the ruins to see.

Chen Xi stopped him and said, "This hall hasn't been cleaned up yet, and broken tiles and wood fall from time to time. You don't have much work on you, so I'll take you to see it when you dig it out, and I'll take you to see it......"

Before he finished speaking, someone came to report: "Lord, the iron chain connected to the eaves faucet in front of the palace has been dug up, but it ......"

Chen Xi sensed that something was wrong, so he asked, "How?" ”

The man frowned and said, "It seems that it was broken before the fire in the Taihe Temple." ”

The three of them looked at each other, and they all smelled a hint of conspiracy.

Chen Xi hurried over to see that the guards had fenced off the small area, and after passing through the crowd, he saw a pile of floor tiles that had been turned out, and half of the iron chain that had been dug out of the ground.

Li Mobai rushed to the front, picked up the chain, looked at it carefully, and said, "Brother Ahi, look here, there are scratches all over the place. It's not a natural break in disrepair, it's filed! ”

Chen Xi squinted his eyes and shouted, "Go and dig out the other chains for me!" ”

The guards did not dare to delay, and hurriedly took people to dig again.

"Who could have done this?" Chen Xi asked to himself.

"The Taihe Hall was struck by lightning and burned down, which is a sign of extreme ferocity." Ding Shao thought for a while and said, "Just like the current situation, the emperor will be questioned for being incorrect, and there are many rumors among the people. Although it can't hurt the emperor's roots, it's a bit messy after all. ”