Everyone in the palace naturally knew that only King Chengwu's personal army in the capital would wear black armor. I saw King Chengwu and two other sergeants holding sharp swords, accompanying the Empress Dowager to her left and right. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is not a guard, but a hijacking-although it is not so blatant as to put a sword on the neck of the Empress Dowager, but that distance is the distance that can kill her at will.

The Empress Dowager is still a noble and noble demeanor, but Gonggong Zhao, who is supporting her, is full of timidity, and if you get close, you can see that his facial muscles are twitching slightly.

His timidity also confirmed that these black armor soldiers were not their accomplices.

The hall was quiet, and Xie He's eyes gradually sank. Shouldn't King Chengwu be locked up in the Zhaoyuan Hall of Yuxi Palace? The Empress Dowager deliberately suggested that the Son of Heaven take the opportunity of King Chengwu's mistake to summon him into the palace and detain him on the grounds of withdrawing the military talisman, just in case of such an emergency.

However, the life of the Son of Heaven is now in his own hands, even if King Chengwu holds the Empress Dowager hostage, at most the two sides will temporarily truce, and when the other forces of the Twelve Guards of the capital arrive, it is not necessary to worry about sweeping them away.

Seeing King Chengwu, Song Ran couldn't help but ask the man beside him in surprise: "Your Excellency is waiting for the prince to come?" When did you negotiate it? ”

Shen Hanxi just held her hand tighter, looked at King Chengwu, and said, "The prince is almost late." ”

King Chengwu raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said dissatisfiedly: "Next time Lord Shen tries it himself, what kind of errand is it to take only fifty soldiers to kill all the way from Xihua Gate to Renshou Palace." ”

Because he couldn't leak Xingzang in advance, and in order to kill the other party by surprise, he could only transfer fifty elite soldiers from the Lingbei camp and ambush outside the Xihua Gate in advance. Today, he led these fifty soldiers to Renshou Palace to "invite" the Empress Dowager.

He can go so smoothly, firstly, because these soldiers are different from Xie He's guards, they have all followed him on the battlefield and killed people, and each can be used as ten, and secondly, it is also because Xie He's focus is all on the Jinluan Palace, which creates opportunities for his actions, otherwise, this plan is really not easy.

The Son of Heaven obviously didn't know when Shen Hanxi had formed an alliance with King Chengwu, his eyes were slightly sunken, but he didn't have time to sort out the current situation, and raised his eyes to look at the woman who was not related to him, but he wanted to call the emperor's grandmother.

The Empress Dowager didn't look at him, and said to Xie He: "You step back first." ”

Xie He silently put the knife into the sheath and motioned for the guards who were besieging the Son of Heaven and the others to disperse.

The Son of Heaven called in a low voice: "Imperial grandmother." ”

The Empress Dowager looked around and said calmly to several ministers: "This is a family matter of my heavenly family, and it has come to this point, so that you can see the joke." It's better for you to stay away for the time being, so as to save your lives. As he spoke, he called, "Commander Xie." ”

Xie He understood what she meant, and immediately asked his subordinates to take those ministers out of the hall and take them to other places for the time being.

In this way, only the parties to this farce are left in the palace.

The Son of Heaven looked at the Empress Dowager, and Liang Liang asked her: "Imperial Grandmother, in your heart, am I just a dispensable chess piece?" ”

The second king Zhu Yunqi, who was standing next to him, looked messy, what happened today was too beyond his comprehension, first Shen Hanxi forced the palace to make himself the emperor, and before he was happy for a while, he suddenly killed a Xie He, thinking that he was going to save the driver, but who knew that he was going to kill the Son of Heaven. Now, King Chengwu has taken the Empress Dowager hostage here again, and the key is that Xie He is still obedient to her old man......

He couldn't get around for a while, and couldn't help but say, "Imperial grandmother, what's going on?" ”

The Empress Dowager suddenly turned her face and said, "Shut up." ”

He shrank for a moment and listened to her: "In this world, there is only one person who has the blood of the mourning family in his body. Slowly walked in front of Song Ran, there was no trace of tenderness in his eyes, only a kind of toughness that was almost paranoid, "The mourning family waited for twenty years before you came to the side of the mourning family, this country was originally a gift prepared for you by the mourning family." But you disappointed the mourning family too much. As she spoke, her gaze swept over the Son of Heaven, the Second Prince and King Chengwu, and fell on the man named Shen Hanxi, and said coldly, "The man in the world, no matter who you choose, the mourning family can fulfill you, but you chose this man." This man who should not be with you. ”

Song Ran's hand trembled slightly, and the Empress Dowager's words confirmed the speculation in her heart about her life experience.

Those speculations were enough for her to overturn everything that had been hers up to now. But she pressed back the emotions tumbling in her chest, letting the sharp pain spread along her veins, but she never let go of the hand she was clenching.

The Empress Dowager squinted at her: "Shaowei, you should already know the meaning of the mourning family's words." ”

She lowered her eyes and said lightly: "What I know may not be the whole truth, there are some things, just take this opportunity to confirm with you." The voice spoke slowly, "When my lord and I were investigating the case of Zhou Zicheng in Zhejiang, Lord Yan, who had an inextricable relationship with this case, once left a hint about the mastermind behind the scenes before he died, and this hint was related to a play called "Splendid Story". Not long ago, I learned from Xie Qige that this drama is directed at you. The whole play is made for you by Liu Erlang, a famous singer in Hangzhou. ”

The Empress Dowager didn't say a word, except for Shen Hanxi, everyone else showed expressions of disbelief.

Song Ran took a deep breath and said, "Perhaps, everything has to start with Wu Anhou's case. At the beginning, the Ting Wei Division found out that the reason why Wu Anhou blatantly sold illicit salt was actually behind the scenes was to get your support. In order to cut off your relationship with this matter, you asked Lord Yan to kill Zhou Zicheng and kill him, and deliberately planted this matter on the body of Ting Weisi, I originally thought that you did this because Ting Weisi was against you and was your stumbling block, to put it more noblely, it was also because you felt that Tingwei Si was a tumor of Dajing and should be uprooted. However, your motives are not so noble, and you only do this because you have a deep hatred for adults. ”

While she was talking, Shen Hanxi had been watching her quietly.

Daylight shone obliquely through the hollow carved window, and she stood right in the hall where the dark and bright places intersected, her side face delicate, her eyelashes long, and her whole person was as weak as a flower that could be easily bent by a snow. However, he knew that she was not so vulnerable, never had been.

"There have always been rumors in the Mo family that when my mother married into the Mo family, she was already pregnant, so she gave birth to me when she was less than eight months old. For as long as I can remember, my father has been suspicious of my origins. The reason why I made up my mind to come to Ling'an from the Mo family was to know who I really was and whose blood I had in my body. When I was in Yaozhou, I secretly checked that before my mother married into the Mo family, there was indeed a beloved, and you also said that person abandoned her for fame and fortune. This person is Gu Linsheng. ”

King Chengwu's face was stunned, Gu Linsheng?

What do these things she said have to do with Gu Linsheng?

She continued: "I think I may be Gu Linsheng's daughter, and for this reason, I went to find Zhou Shibo once, but Zhou Shibo refused to say anything. I tried my best to check Gu Linsheng, but I could only find out what happened after he joined the company, and his previous life was all shrouded in a fog. I was already dead, but later, I knew more about the Sorrow Pavilion and could use it, so I used the power of the Worry Pavilion to re-investigate his life. ”

When she said this, she bit her lower lip and paused for a moment before she said slowly: "Gu Linsheng is also related to Liu Erlang. That's right, that's the one who wrote "Splendid Notes" for you. ”

Deathly silence hung over the hall at this time.

The Empress Dowager, who had always looked calm, heard this, and her face changed color.

Song Ran took a deep breath again and calmed himself down: "The reason why I couldn't find out his life before was because Gu Linsheng was a fake name, he didn't have the surname Gu at first, but the surname Liu, his adoptive father—perhaps, his biological father, was the famous Lingliu Erlang of Hangzhou Mansion. Even if Liu Erlang's name moves the world, the drama is the drama, according to the Dajing law, the descendants of the drama cannot participate in the imperial examination, and it is probably because of this that Gu Linsheng will try his best to change his name and surname. Later, he was in power, and naturally he had to find ways to erase his past. ”

"All of them seem to be coincidences, but I tried to make two assumptions in my mind, and found that many things that I couldn't understand made sense."

She glanced at Shen Hanxi beside her, and in his gaze, she whispered, "What if, Gu Linsheng is the illegitimate son of you and Liu Erlang, and I am the illegitimate daughter of him and my mother?" You hate adults because of his death, so for more than ten years, you have been trying hard to take revenge, and I may be his only bloodline in this world, and your only bloodline in this world, so you won't kill me, not only won't kill me, but you also try your best to make me the queen of Dajing. ”

After this speculation, she only felt that her heart was pressed by a big stone, and she was extremely tired, and she clenched her fingers tightly that were intertwined with Shen Hanxi, and then she burst into a faint smile.

"Wang Zhuo, the deputy envoy of the Imperial Guard, is a follower of Gu Linsheng, but I don't believe that he can maintain his loyalty for more than ten years after Gu Lin's death, and even risked his family's life, just to avenge a young admirer. In this world, no one will be confused by paranoia and evil thoughts just for such a thin reason, go crazy, and still be obsessed with it until death, even the most paranoid people should not be so crazy. Thinking about it now, there is only one reason why he is so paranoid - he has to do this, because, like Yan Shining, he is at your orders, if he doesn't do this, he can't live in peace, and his family's lives will not be guaranteed. ”