"During the summer vacation in Cuihua Mountain last year, smallpox was first discovered by the county lord of Chaoping, and it immediately spread throughout the courtyard." King Liang lowered his head, did not look at the first Emperor Duanhua, and said to himself, "At that time, the entire Cuihua Mountain was very frightened, and even the second prince, the minister's own nephew, and His Majesty's second son, all died because of this!" ”

After he briefly reviewed the matter of smallpox, the corners of his mouth curled even more, and he sneered, "This matter, Your Majesty sent the minister to investigate first, and the minister found out that Lu Ningye, the concubine, found out the Lu family, and then because of the matter of the two kings of Suxiang, it was blocked by the imperial aunt of the Jin State - and then His Majesty sent Gu Shao and Wei Shangshu to continue to investigate, and these two quickly found out the so-called real murderer: Jian Pingyu father and son!" ”

Emperor Duanhua frowned and did not speak.

After a brief pause, King Liang continued: "Actually, this is just Gu Shao's plan to kill people with a knife!" The purpose is to use His Majesty's hand to eradicate Jian Pingyu! ”

"Because he knows that since the first emperor left, the most likely person in the world to see through his true face is Jian Pingyu!"

Speaking of this, I heard a "bang" from Danqi, but it was Emperor Duanhua who saw that he still hadn't forgotten to attack Gu Shao, and took the case again - King Liang was not panicked, but sneered again: "Your Majesty doesn't believe it?" Nachen will tell you one more thing: the queen knows this matter best, but the queen will definitely not reveal the slightest tone to you! ”

"That is the second prince, the nephew of the minister, His Majesty's only male heir other than the crown prince, the reason why he contracted smallpox was not transmitted by Ah Xuan when he entered the palace at all! Instead, someone took advantage of that moment of panic and deliberately mixed something stained with acne powder into his bedding! ”

"In other words, the second prince did not die young, but died of murder!"

King Liang said hesitantly, "Otherwise, the biological mother of the second prince, Concubine Mao, was the most gentle and cautious person before her death, why would she be angry with the prince because of the untimely death of the second prince?!" After all, although Concubine Mao has not been favored in recent years, the possibility of having another heir is relatively small. But His Majesty is still in the prime of life - Concubine Mao has a high position, and she is an old man who served His Majesty when he was in the East Palace. Will it be that after the prosperity of His Majesty's heirs, she will hug. Isn't it decent to raise a low-level palace concubine and have children?! ”

"Since there is the hope of an adopted son, why should Concubine Mao take the narrow road?"

"In the final analysis, it was because she also discovered the conspiracy between the queen and Gu Shao, but because there was no evidence, she knew that she had no hope of taking revenge on the queen and avenging the second prince, so she turned to the prince to vent her anger!"

Emperor Duanhua laughed angrily: "What you said is wonderful, but I don't know what evidence there is?" ”

"How can the evidence in the palace be brought out by the minister?" King Liang didn't raise his head and said, "The minister doesn't have the courage to spy on the palace - but if Your Majesty is willing to believe in the minister, why not send the henchmen that the first emperor relied on when he was there, to thoroughly investigate the death of the second prince, as well as the contact between the queen mother and the Wei family and Gu Shao at that time?" ”

He sneered, "If these people find out that there is no problem, the minister is willing to die!" ”

He said this sentence loudly, and Emperor Duanhua was not a particularly determined person, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but be puzzled again.

After muttering for a long time, he didn't ask any more, but only called his henchman to come in and ordered him to put King Liang in prison first: "Keep an eye on it, don't let others see him, and don't let him have an accident!" ”

The inner attendant responded, and reminded: "This imperial capital is talking about it, I don't know what His Royal Highness King Liang has done......

In fact, there is nothing to talk about in the imperial capital, I am afraid that everyone will think that Emperor Duanhua is finally going to learn from Emperor Xianjia, and raise a big knife to cut at the head of his brother - the first one to be cut is the same mother and sibling that Emperor Xianjia has not cut - when the time comes, the two kings of Suxiang will be directly forced to rebel, and it will be fatal!

Emperor Duanhua knew the meaning of the inner servant's words, and after pondering for a while, he said: "To the outside world, King Liang was taken to prison because he was related to the death of the emperor's aunt of the acting country!" ”

First, this matter does have something to do with King Liang; The death of the eldest princess and his wife made the second king of Suxiang very nervous, and now Emperor Duanhua said that in order to give justice to the eldest princess and his wife, I have arrested my only sibling, what else do you not trust me?

Even if the two kings of Suxiang want to take advantage of this incident to make trouble, the name of righteousness will not be tenable.

After sending the chamberlain and King Liang, Emperor Duanhua hesitated for a while, and ordered someone to go outside the Qingxi Palace to inquire about the news: "Ah Xu entered the palace today, can he leave now?" If he is still in the palace, he will come to see me! ”

The palace people went in time - at this time, the palace gate was close to the next key, and Jian Xubai had already said goodbye to the empress dowager and was going to leave the palace and return home.

It was almost near the palace gate that he was stopped.

Hearing that Emperor Duanhua was going to go over by himself, Jian Xubai knew that there must be something important, and he didn't care about the upcoming curfew, so he walked towards Xuanming Palace with the palace people, and asked: "Do you know why Your Majesty summoned me?" ”

The palace people knew that the Empress Dowager and Emperor Duanhua attached great importance to this Duke of Yan and did not dare to slack off, but because Emperor Duanhua cleared the scene when he spoke to King Liang, he really couldn't provide any inside information, so he could only tell him what he knew: "...... After Chief Manager Zhu took His Royal Highness King Liang to the prison, it didn't take long for His Majesty to call the slaves and maids to find you! ”

Although everyone now knows that King Liang is going to be a tragedy, Emperor Duanhua did not issue an edict to abolish King Liang's prince for a day, and the palace people still dare not make mistakes in their titles.

"So?" Jian Xubai's mind turned, and he knew that Emperor Duanhua was looking for himself now, and most of them had something to do with King Liang.

Sure enough, half an hour later, he walked into the Xuanming Palace dressed in starlight, and the emperor saw him and hurriedly said: "Ah Xu, you are finally here - and sit down and talk!" ”

After the palace people made tea, they ordered the field to be cleared.

Only then did he sigh and said: "Today, I saw Gu Xiang first, and then detained King Liang to question. I don't know who to trust now! Thinking that Ah Xu, you happen to be in the palace, why don't you listen to their words and come up with an idea with me? ”

"Your Majesty is wise and martial, why do you want to be ugly in some small things?" Jian Xubai hurriedly said, "If Your Majesty doesn't give up, the ministers will listen to you!" ”

Emperor Duanhua didn't have the heart to pay attention to these clichés now, and frowned and roughly explained Gu Shao's statement to King Liang: "Now Gu Xiang said that King Liang was plotting to usurp the throne, and King Liang accused Gu Shao and the queen of having ill intentions - if you want to talk about evidence, it is naturally that the evidence in Gu Xiang's hand is conclusive, and King Liang is empty!" But when I look at King Liang's appearance, it may not all be a deception......"

When he said the last sentence, Emperor Duanhua seemed to feel that it was really shameless for him to say such gentle words as an emperor, so he subconsciously stopped his mouth and looked at Jian Xubai with expectant eyes.

Jian Xubai frowned and pondered.

After a while, he spoke slowly: "The minister is young, and getting along with Gu Xiang has only been a matter of the past few years, as for His Royal Highness King Liang, he is also the cousin of the minister, but the minister has been away from the imperial capital for six years before, and the past with him is not very frequent. Now that His Majesty wants the minister to say these two, who is more credible, and the minister really doesn't know how to speak? ”

Hearing this, Emperor Duanhua couldn't help but show a look of disappointment on his face.

But Jian Xubai continued, "However, Your Majesty's question reminded the minister of an incident when he was in Wuhuan!" ”

Emperor Duanhua asked casually, "Oh? What's the matter? ”

"When they were in Wuhuan, they had a local fruit there, which was very different from the fruit we had here." Jian Xubai said, "Among them, the luscious ones are extremely delicious, but if you don't pick them, and if you pick them that are not yet ripe, they are sour and astringent, and they are difficult to swallow!" ”

"The minister belongs to the one who can't choose, it's because the waiter over there at the beginning came with the fruit, and the minister can only try his luck."

"Xue Pei, on the other hand, soon discovered how to choose good fruits."

"And the minister also thought of a way, that is, after Xue Pei picked it, the minister saw that he didn't pay attention and secretly took it."

"In this way, the minister will be able to eat delicious fruit."

Duanhua Emperor Patience. When Zi heard this, he was feeling bored, and suddenly his heart moved, and he muttered: "You can't pick, just pick someone who can pick?" ”

- Gu Shao and King Liang attacked each other, and it sounded like everyone was justified. However, Gu Shao is the candidate specially selected by Emperor Xianjia to assist Xinjun!

Emperor Xianjia, isn't he the one who can pick fruits?

So does Emperor Duanhua want to listen to King Liang's empty words and doubt Gu Shao, do you still need to say it?

"Ah Xu's words are very true!" Emperor Duanhua's heart, which had been moved by King Liang, suddenly calmed down in front of the three words "Emperor Xianjia", and said with some emotion, "I was almost fooled by that indisputable thing!" ”

Jian Xubai comforted: "Your Majesty, this is magnanimous and benevolent. ”

In fact, the emperor didn't know that Jian Xubai casually made up a story about picking fruits, but he was also selfish.

Because Gu Shao and Empress Wei, because of the crown prince, they have become a faction.

The revelation of the Song Lu family two days ago has already caused Empress Wei to be grounded, if Gu Shao has three long and two short, the situation of the queen's mother and son will definitely be more severe.

And if Empress Wei wants to fall, it will be difficult to bypass Cui Jianlian.

Then Song Yixiao will inevitably be dragged into the water......

In order to protect his wife, Jian Xubai also had to help Gu Shao.

Seeing that Emperor Duanhua had already considered it in the direction he wanted, Jian Xubai secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said a few more words, seeing that Emperor Duanhua had no other instructions, he retired.

At this time, it was getting late, but with the warrant given by Emperor Duanhua, he still left the palace smoothly and returned to the Yanguo Mansion.

At this time, Song Yixiao was already waiting for him to be a little anxious, and when he saw that her husband had finally returned, she didn't have time to wait for him to freshen up and change clothes, so she directly dismissed his subordinates, pulled him to sit down on the couch, and asked straight to the point: "What happened in the palace today, why was King Liang imprisoned?" ”

"Your Majesty has always cultivated him as your right and left hands, but he is plotting against him, how can Your Majesty not be angry?" Jian Xubai snorted, "Speaking of which, we were a little involved in this matter-I was able to come back before the curfew, but after His Majesty summoned King Liang alone, he was moved by him, and he was also a little suspicious of Gu Xiang." In the end, he stopped me in front of the palace gate and asked me to go to Xuanming Palace to tell him, who is credible between King Liang and Gu Xiang? ”

Song Yi smiled and hurriedly asked, "Then how did you answer?" ”

"I naturally said Gu Xiang." Jian Xubai said here and glanced at his wife, "After all, behind the Song Lu clan is King Liang, he wants to drag you into the water, how can I not give him a ride?" ”

Regarding Song Lu's family and Yuan Xuepei, many things are actually tacitly understood by the husband and wife, and they know it in their hearts, but they have never talked about it with each other - at this moment, when Jian Xubai said this, Song Yixiao's heart suddenly jumped for a moment, and he calmed down before he said: "It turns out that so many things have happened in the palace today, I said, it's almost evening, the imperial capital is in such a mess, before you come back, there are more than a dozen families who came to our house to inquire about the news!" ”

After a pause, "However, in the afternoon today, I handed a post to Marquis Yuan under your banner, invited him to come over for a while, and talked to him quite a bit in the small flower hall!" ”