It's just that Grandma Chang didn't mean to say it in detail, and scolded the people who served Princess Liang before for a while, thanked Song Yixiao for her suggestion, insisted on leaving a generous gift, and left.

And although Song Yixiao suspected that Princess Liang was pitted, she was afraid that there was another real culprit behind the scenes, and it was not easy to pull her to ask-after all, although the Sikong family does not have any outstanding men now, the eldest princess of Zhenyang is still there, this is the biological daughter of His Majesty Emperor Taizu, and she has never seen anything in her life through ups and downs?

She personally inquired about her granddaughter's pregnancy, who could do anything to Princess Liang again?

Chang Shao's grandmother didn't say it deeply, maybe she didn't expect it, I'm afraid that the inside story is inconvenient to spread - Song Yixiao reported to Sikong family at the beginning, and the picture was just an old relationship with Sikong Yiluo, and now Sikong and Princess Liang have a tendency to reconcile, and Princess Liang's pregnancy is also protected by her mother's family, and she is not very interested in those secrets.

After sending away Chang Shao's grandmother, he didn't think much about it.

At this time, more than half a month has passed since Su Bofeng's accident, and Zhao Wu and his party in escort are gradually approaching Gyeonggi.

And the rumors in the imperial capital that the East Palace instructed Qingzhou Thorn Shi to attack his mother's family are boiling again!

"Your Highness should make a decision as soon as possible!" Gu Shao privately reminded the crown prince, "Zhao Wu will arrive in four or five days, and if the actions of their father and son are all blamed on His Royal Highness, the former harem will make a fuss about it - Your Majesty has not been in good health recently, so it is not appropriate to worry about it!" ”

The crown prince heard the meaning of his words, even if Zhao Wu originally had no idea of dragging the East Palace into the water, but if the former dynasty and the harem all started this idea, someone would naturally remind him - didn't Emperor Xianjia say it? Can't let the Su family be wronged in this matter, the lives of Zhao Wu's whole family are now in the hands of the Su family!

If the Su family gives the Zhao family a glimmer of life in exchange for Zhao Wu biting the prince, can Zhao Wu agree?

"If you want to draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle, it is natural to let Zhao Wu and his son shut up forever." The prince was silent for a moment, and said slowly, "But there is no one in the hands of the lone hand to do this, I don't know if Gu Xiangcan teach me?" ”

When he said this, he was actually hinting that Gu Shao would arrange someone to handle this matter well, and if something went wrong at that time, he must not be involved in the East Palace.

Gu Shao expected the prince to say this before he spoke, but he was not surprised at this moment, but said: "The escort sent by the imperial court is easy to deal with, and I am afraid that the secret arrow will be difficult to defend against - the minister can only try his best!" ”

The prince said solemnly: "Everything is a matter of care!" ”

After a pause, he said, "Wait for the good news of Gu Xiang." ”

The prince regretted it a little when he said this, Gu Shao had already said that he could only try his best, whether he was humble or really not completely sure, he was now emphasizing a "good news", and he was suspected of persecution, so he couldn't help but look impetuous, and he lost some of the composure that the superior should have.

- Although the prince will really not be able to calm down.

He settled down and decided to remedy it, "The matter in Qingzhou has nothing to do with Lonely, there is a way that the body is not afraid of shadow evil, and Gu Xiang doesn't have to worry too much!" ”

Gu Shao bowed his head calmly, unable to see if he minded the prince's previous words, and said slowly: "Your Highness, rest assured, the minister will do his best!" ”

Two days later, Zhao Wu and his entourage encountered bandits in Jianling County, which is only dozens of miles away from Gyeonggi.

Only Su Bofeng, because he was traveling with an injury, his family couldn't rest assured, and he sent a master to accompany him, and Fang was lucky to pick up his life - but there was no one left with the servants and maids!

It's just such a thunderous action to extinguish the mouth, but it makes the prince angry: "Now the emperor is rumored that Zhao Wu was instructed by Gu to deliberately connive at his son to murder Su Bofeng-how could Gu Xiang make such a big move, wouldn't it be more and more solid for Gu's crime?!" ”

He doesn't even have to go out to inquire, he can guess what the rumors are surging outside now, okay?!

Originally, I thought that Gu Shao was a fine person, and he must have done it properly to personally preside over the extermination of the mouth, but he didn't know it, so that people couldn't find a place to say it-but he didn't expect that this well-known minister in the sea would actually do things so stupidly: now is not the troubled times of decades ago, Darui is at the time of Chengping, the country is rich and strong, Jianling County is so close to the imperial capital, if you hurry up, it can be said that it is the beginning of the day, how can there be bandits on a large scale? !

Taking a step back, even if there are bandits, the normal purpose of the bandits is nothing more than to seek money, and they should also find caravans and the like, so how can they target the team escorting the prisoners?!

You must know that Zhao Wu is a member of the third rank, and in order to escort him, the Criminal Department sent a Lang Zhong - this is a five-rank official from the imperial examination!

Killing officials is tantamount to rebellion, not to mention, who in the government and the opposition now doesn't know that Zhao Wu's case was paid attention to by Emperor Xianjia and personally spoke?

All in all, now even a fool can guess that there are eight times out of ten in the Jianling bloody case. Nine is what the prince is for!

If it weren't for Gu Shao's high morality, the prince would only be able to count on him to turn the tide, and the plan at this moment would not be as simple as just shooting the case - Rao is so, the prince has lost his usual courtesy and gentleness towards him, and looked at the prime minister who had not been in power for a long time with a gloomy expression, and waited for him to explain with a calm face.

Gu Shao, who didn't want to be summoned in a hurry, had an ugly face than him: "Your Highness, this matter has nothing to do with the minister!" ”

"What did you say?" The prince looked at him in disbelief, but his first reaction was that Gu Shao couldn't clean up after getting into trouble, and planned to withdraw and let himself, the prince, give him a top cylinder?!

But the anger between his eyebrows flashed, but he heard Gu Shao hurriedly say: "Your Highness, the minister did send someone, but the person sent by the minister is planning to do it tonight, and it is the matter of building a mausoleum, and it really has nothing to do with the minister!" ”

"Could it be that something happened that they did it in advance?" When the prince heard this, the anger in his heart dissipated a lot, and he said, how could Gu Shao be stupid enough to create a shocking bloody case like Jianling in broad daylight?

Now it seems that things are probably not going well...... I didn't know how to think of this, but I saw Gu Shao sigh, shook his head and said: "Your Highness, this is absolutely impossible-because when the ministers sent people, they made it clear that they would go to assassinate Zhao Wu's father and son in the name of a certain henchman of Zhao Wu in Qingzhou, because that henchman helped Zhao Wu do many things that angered and resented people, but I was afraid that Zhao Wu's interrogation would affect him, so he had the idea of destroying his mouth." Therefore, those people would rather be wiped out than do such a tragedy as they are now, let alone attack that Lang Zhong in the Criminal Department! ”

After all, a Qingzhou subordinate official, who is only four or five ranks, is worried about his life, sends outlaws, and chases thousands of miles to kill Shangguan, who is already extremely courageous, capable, and desperate.

And a middle-level official from an ordinary background, where did he get the ability to unify the escorted court officials and the errand servants? !

The old minister, who has always been quiet, couldn't help but show a touch of frustration at this moment, "After receiving the news of the accident in Jianling, the minister has ordered people to fly pigeons to pass the book, so that they can immediately cancel the plan and disperse and hide!" However, they just arrived near the escort team, and the team suffered such a disaster, coincidentally to this point, Zhao Wu and his party are mostly a trap, I am afraid that this will retreat, it is too late! ”

- It's really late, because that night, Jianling County Cheng, who led the troops to search for the "bandits", blocked the people sent by Gu Shao!

Although it was late in the day, it was not possible to catch everyone, but those who were hacked to death in the chaos did not mention, and they also took three of them!

And the physical evidence was naturally sent to the imperial capital at a rapid pace!

The three living people were killed soldiers sent by Gu Shao, and they were tortured in the criminal department all night, and they never said a word - but if they didn't say it, it didn't mean that there was no progress in this case.

In the next day, there was another breakthrough in Jianling County: the officials of Jianling County, who were full of energy and wanted to atone for their sins, followed the traces of the people who fled the night before, and chased them all the way to the end, and finally chased them to a grange under the name of the prince!

"Those people are definitely not the ministers!" Gu Shao explained to the prince like this, "The people of the ministers ......"

"This thing was for Lone in the first place!" The prince interrupted before he finished listening, "Otherwise, what did Zhao Wu do to confront the Su family, so he hurriedly wrote a letter to take refuge in Lone?!" After that, before Lone could think about it, Su Bofeng was crippled under the hands of Zhao Wu's son, and then the imperial grandmother ordered the arraignment - if it weren't for this series of things, how could Lone be moved to send someone to kill him? If Lone didn't send someone to get involved in this matter, even if Su Bofeng, including Su Bofeng, died on the way, what did he have to do with Lone?! ”

"Your Highness!" Gu Shao was extremely ashamed, lifted his robe and bowed down, and said, "It's all the incompetence of the old ministers, which caused His Highness to step into the trap without knowing it!" What's more, the matter of destroying the mouth is handled by the minister alone, but what does it have to do with His Highness? ”

The prince shook his head and said calmly: "Gu Xiang, get up, although you did the matter of exterminating the mouth, it was from the instruction of Lone, how can Lone stay out of the matter?" ”

He has been taught by Emperor Xianjia's words and deeds for 20 years, although due to the lack of tempering, the fighting methods, experience, mentality, etc., are not enough in the eyes of the elders such as the eldest princess of the country, but when the matter comes, he will not be completely panicked.

At this moment, he appeased Gu Shao for a few words, made him get up, and said, "There were rumors in the imperial capital that slandered Gu, and now there is conclusive news from Jianling County that the murderer is hiding in Gutianzhuang, and then the harem will definitely attack Guqun!" ”

Wave his hand to stop what Gu Shao was about to say, "The Criminal Department is in the hands of the fourth brother's people, and the whole of Jianling County is now working together to get rid of the crime, even if the three people who fall into the Criminal Department are always silent, the second brother and the fourth brother will also do their best to attack, and the imperial grandmother is condescending, and she may interfere at will!" ”

A touch of determination flashed on the young prince's face, and he said in a deep voice, "It's just that fratricidal and suspicious ancestors and grandchildren certainly make Gu sad, but Gu doesn't dare to disappoint his father!" ”

After a pause, he said, "Gather our people immediately and go to the study to discuss matters!" ”

Half an hour later, He Wenqiong, Jian Xubai and others gathered in the study, sat precariously and listened to Gu Shao's description of the ins and outs with a solemn expression - of course, the matter of sending people to destroy the mouth was taken by Gu Shao alone, and he didn't mention the prince, only said that he made his own decisions - King Liang, who had little experience in the court, was the first to be dissatisfied: "Gu Xiang's move is too rash!" ”

Jian Xubai and the others exchanged glances with each other, and they all knew in their hearts: How could Gu Shao hide such a big matter from the prince and do it without permission? Slowly, now that he has lost his hand, he is still being seized by political opponents; Even if he succeeds, he may not be able to win the prince's approval afterwards, after all, no matter how generous the superior is, he will never like his subordinates to hide from the world on key matters!

"It's useless to talk about that now." He Wenqiong, who was the highest official and the oldest in the audience except Gu Shao, stroked his short hair and spoke out, "What's more, it seems that the whole thing is a bureau set up against His Highness, even if Gu Xiang doesn't send someone to kill him, I'm afraid that the Jianling Bloody Case will still happen, and the 'bandits' will still hide in the property under His Highness's name in full view!" ”

The prince's calm expression could not see the joy and anger: "That's exactly the truth." So now there is no need to investigate the merits and demerits of our own people, and discussing countermeasures is the task of the moment! ”

"Does that martyred criminal department know what the details are?" There was silence in the room for a moment, and Jian Xubai spoke first, "How come he is also a five-grade official, this time he went to Qingzhou to relieve people on the order of the imperial court, and now he has become an outcast, I don't know what his family thinks?" ”