The location of Qionghua Pavilion is not remote, but it is a waste of strength to walk, and when the lively army arrives at Qionghua Pavilion, it is already out of breath, but everyone can't help but be taken aback when they look at Qionghua Pavilion that is intact and there is no trace of fire.

"Your Majesty, this ...... What's going on? Could it be that this Qionghua Pavilion is not watery? The queen mother looked surprised, and was the first to ask.

"Could it be that I am disappointed that this Qionghua Pavilion did not walk the water queen?!" The emperor glanced coldly, and his words were very dissatisfied.

For so many years, he didn't say what the queen did behind her back, but it didn't mean that he didn't know it in his heart, Princess Changshan had a good relationship with the first concubine, so she was even more fond of the five princes who were the only remaining princess of the concubine, so she attracted the resentment of the queen mother for many years.

That day, Princess Changshan tried her best to leave the palace not only for herself, they all understood that as long as she no longer stayed in the palace as the help of the five princes, as long as her identity jumped down, the five princes could not be harmed by the queen and live in peace.

"That's not what the concubine meant!" The queen said on the side, "It's just curiosity! ”

The emperor snorted coldly, "I'm afraid that the queen's meaning is self-evident." Gao Tang, go and call Changshan! ”

"No need!" Changshan stepped forward from behind the crowd, "I heard that something like this happened, how could I not come!" ”

The queen's face was very bad, and she looked at the two brothers and sisters, and didn't know what was going on.

"Doesn't the queen want to admit it at this time!" The emperor didn't look at it and said, "Why did this Qionghua Pavilion catch fire?" Don't the queen know! ”

"The concubine really doesn't know!" The queen bowed and saluted, "Please also ask the emperor to see it!" ”

The emperor sighed, "Empress, you are confused! ”

In just such a sentence, there was no anger, no threat, and there was just a helpless sigh, but it made the queen seem to have been drained of all her strength, "The queen is unwell, so go back to the palace first!" ”

"Your Majesty!" A shy voice appeared, and it was Concubine Zhen who spoke, "The queen mother is not good, you don't say anything and let people take it away, doesn't this make the queen mother faceless!" ”

The emperor withdrew his arm from Concubine Zhen's hand in annoyance, "I see that you are not lightly ill, so go back with you!" ”

The people in the palace are most afraid that they have no eyesight, and the emperor is letting the queen return to the palace on her own, which means that he doesn't want these ministers to know what the queen has done, and what Concubine Zhen said at this time is perverse, why not be punished!

Although Concubine Zhen was reluctant, she also knew that she had just said the wrong thing, so she took her subordinates back to the palace in a gloomy manner.

The queen and Concubine Zhen left one after another, and the remaining harem mothers naturally didn't dare to say more, but everyone had the same question as the queen mother, that is, where did the fire in this Qionghua Pavilion burn.

The emperor looked at the crowd below, and then listened to Gu Changqing, "I know, what are you all wondering about, in fact, this Qionghua Pavilion has not gone to the water at all!" ”

A word of horror, everyone was stunned by these words, just now it was said that Qionghua Pavilion went to the water, and everyone rushed to come, but now it is said that this Qionghua Pavilion has not gone to the water at all, isn't it like a joke.

The emperor sat on the specially moved chair and glanced at Gu Changqing, who then clapped his hands, and from time to time the four guards walked out carrying a large iron pot, which was filled with some remnant ashes, a smell that had been burned in all directions.

Concubine Wen beside the emperor covered her mouth and nose, frowned and said, "What is this?" ”

"The smoke you see comes from here!" Gu Changqing looked at the iron pot and said, "Wet wood is hard to burn, but it is a good thing to smoke." Put such a pile of wet wood on the caged flame, and it won't take long for a fire to make a fire and smoke billowing out, and the water just now is not walking water, but someone sees this smoke and mistakenly thinks that it is walking water! ”

"Fortunately, it was a false alarm, otherwise this imperial brother's Qionghua Pavilion would have suffered!" Yun Wangye, who had been silent, only said at this time, "Especially the Tibetan paintings inside, it's heartbreaking!" But who did this big iron pot do, and what did it do it for? ”

"This pot is my doing, but I didn't do it on purpose!" Gu Changqing walked in front of the iron pot, "Today, someone wants to take advantage of the fact that the people in this palace are scattered and burn Qionghua Pavilion to cause chaos, but the emperor Shengming has already sent a few masters of the imperial guards to guard it like this, and wait for the rabbit." In order to find out who wanted to set the fire, I had to come up with such a trick! ”

"Oh? In that case, who is the arsonist? Yun Wangye looked surprised, in fact, what Gu Changqing did couldn't escape his eyes at all.

"At that time, the sacrificial official was practicing the painting of eliminating demons, and when it was so thrilling, even if this Qionghua Pavilion was on fire and there was smoke, who would see it!"

Everyone looked at the little eunuch who was the first to find out that it was on fire, thinking and speculating!

"You mean, he set the fire!" Princess Changshan quickly pointed to the little eunuch who was the first to shout that Qionghua Pavilion had gone to the water, "He was the first to run out and shout to go to the water." ”

The little eunuch stood upright, and did not change in any way because of Princess Changshan's words, but seemed to have nothing to do with him, indifferent.

"What the princess said is very true."

"But how could he be, he was with us at the time!!" Princess Changshan said incredulously.

"It was because he was with us at the time that he came over and shouted loudly when he saw the smoke from Qionghua Pavilion! In fact, this reason is very simple, this person knows that the priest will set up an altar to cast spells today, and most of the palace will go to see the excitement, and the remaining few palace people on duty will not be too vigilant, so before the matter started, he had already prepared all the things that could make this place on fire here in Qionghua Pavilion! Since it has been carefully prepared, I confidently saw the smoke of Qionghua Pavilion coming together, so I ran over to tell us that there was water here! But the fact is that this Qionghua Pavilion has not gone to the water at all, if he really came from Qionghua Pavilion, how can there be such a statement! ”

"Do you have proof of your speculation!" The emperor's expression was grim, and he pondered for a long time before he said.

Gu Changqing said, "Everyone doesn't want to believe it if it's so unfounded, and the things he makes are really exquisite, if you don't take a look at it for yourself, it's a pity." ”

After that, a little eunuch took out a box from behind and walked up, Gu Changqing took it and put it on the ground, and said, "This box looks heavy, but it's actually a fake!" ”

Everyone didn't know why, but Gu Changqing smiled happily, "I went shopping with Yanmu that day, and he gave me a gift." As he spoke, Gu Changqing took out the hairpin that Yan Mu bought, showed it to everyone, and asked, "What do you see?" ”

"It's gold dust on it." Princess Changshan said, "This kind of thing is actually not uncommon, the inside is carved out of wood in the shape of a hairpin, and then the outside is coated with a layer of gold dust!" Such things are generally not used to deceive people, but are sold exclusively to those who just want to save face! ”

"The princess is right, and the same is true of this box!" Gu Changqing smiled slightly, "This box was originally made of sheets of paper, as long as it is thick enough and skillful, it can be made into the appearance of a box, and then the color of the special picture on the outside looks no different from the real box, and no one will pay attention to it if it is placed in Qionghua Pavilion in advance." However, there is another principle that others don't understand when making the paint outside, that is, in order to achieve realism, the paint must be mixed with oil. So this carton doesn't look like much, but as soon as a little open flame appears, it will burn instantly! ”

Gu Changqing walked over and opened the box, and a glass lamp suddenly appeared inside, Gu Changqing smiled, "At this time, you don't need to say it, everyone can understand, as soon as this glass lamp is lit, as long as a little spark falls on the box, it will catch fire, although this flame is not big, but in a place like Qionghua Pavilion, I am afraid that it will be a fire that rises to the sky!" ”

"Just in case the fire in this glass lamp doesn't come out! Then wouldn't all these elaborate designs of his be done in vain! It was Concubine Wen who was listening attentively who spoke.

"The mother is right, if this spark does not come out, this thing will be made in vain. But since he had already designed it so exquisitely, how could he be willing to let this thing not function! Gu Changqing said as he leaned down and took out the glass lamp in the box, "This glass is very expensive, and it is not popular in the palace. So most people don't know about this glass lamp! ”

Gu Changqing said, turned his head and glanced at Yan Mu, from time to time, Yan Mu brought a bucket of water, and said, "This water has just been brought up from that deep well, and it is very cold!" ”

Concubine Wen was stunned, "What are you going to do here?" ”

Gu Changqing didn't speak, but took down the glass on the lamp and threw it into the bucket, "This glass can be soaked in cold water to achieve the function that this person wants!" ”

Under the sigh and wait, a stick of incense had passed, Gu Changqing took out the glass from the cold water, turned it on the lamp that had been lit, and said, "Please wait patiently!" ”

The emperor, who had been silent, only knew that Gu Changqing was going to make a situation to lure the people behind him out, but he didn't know anything about what he was going to do, and it was strange to look at his series of behaviors at this time.

Time passed little by little, and no one present knew exactly how it happened, and at the last moment, a thud was clearly audible.

People looked at the past in disbelief, and even the emperor couldn't help but walk over and look carefully, "What's going on!" ”

"The emperor has a lot of opportunities, he naturally doesn't know about such a thing, in fact, the truth is very easy, the glass is fragile, especially after being roasted by the fire after being cold, it is easy to break under the combination of hot and cold!"

"I see!" Concubine Wen couldn't help but exclaim, "As long as this glass lamp is broken, the oiled paint paper will inevitably burn, but I didn't expect there to be such a scheming person in this palace!" ”

"Concubine Wen is wrong, this person's scheming is not only that. As I said before, this guy is very clever at making things. This thing seems simple, there is only one box, a glass lamp, from the temperature of the cold water of this glass, to the time when the candle flame burns it, to the time when the Qionghua Pavilion smokes, and even the time when the tengu swallows the sun, it is all after this person's countless experiments, to achieve one by one interlocking with each other, to be able to stop all this before the "palace night banquet map" into the sea of fire! ”

"Then why did he do it? With such a well-designed, could he have an enmity with this Qionghua Pavilion! Concubine Wen asked again puzzled.

"He has no enmity with this Qionghua Pavilion, it's just that this Qionghua Pavilion can just satisfy his conspiracy!"

"Can this little eunuch have such scheming? I see if you're confused! Yun Wang Ye came over with a fan, glanced at the little eunuch casually, and raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Whether you are scheming or not, Lord Yun doesn't have to question it!" Gu Changqing looked at the little eunuch, "A person's heart is not something that can be shown on the surface. ”

Yun Wang Ye walked over, stood in front of the little eunuch, and said with great interest, "What Changqing said so, this king is curious about your identity!" ”

"Those who know will know, and those who don't know, even if I tell you, you won't understand. It's just because you're so stupid! The little eunuch who had not spoken all this time smiled coldly, and his miserable white face was completely disdainful! Immediately afterwards, he looked at Gu Changqing, although his expression did not change, but there was appreciation in his words, "You are very smart, I thought that this matter was really going to become an unsolved case in this palace, but I didn't think about it, you can actually see it and lead me to come out!" ”

"I wasn't sure before I brought you out, because as long as you keep hiding, I don't even have any chance of finding you. But it's like a game, and I'm betting on another possibility, which is that you don't care about all this, you don't care if you are found out and caught, and you even want to be found yourself! ”

Their words were like dumb riddles that confused those who were waiting for the answers, but the two in the middle of it only felt that it was a hearty confrontation.

"Hahaha!" The little eunuch laughed, "Interesting, interesting!" Talking to smart people is naturally enjoyable, otherwise I wouldn't have waited for more than half a year, if it weren't for those stupid people, how could I have waited for so long! ”

As soon as the little eunuch's words came out, it was tantamount to thunder on the ground, the emperor, Concubine Wen, Luan Chuan, Changshan and everyone stabbed at him, everyone was thinking about the sentence for half a year, half a year ago was the day when the first little eunuch died in a dry well!

Feeling their inquiring, speculating, hesitating, and fearful gazes, Gu Changqing raised a slightly moving look, and then said calmly, "Yes, this person is the murderer of the palace mystery and the creator of all conspiracies!" ”

The palace mystery that lasted for more than half a year, the rumors of cannibalistic paintings, the palace people who died one after another, and the serial murder cases that made the entire palace city panick, the murderer appeared so suddenly, simply and peacefully, so that everyone present had a feeling that the mountain rain was about to come.

"You're saying he's a murderer?!" Luan Chuan, who had been holding the painting silently, squeezed out of the crowd after stuffing the painting to Dongsheng, and couldn't help but be excited under his thin face, "That means that this case has nothing to do with this palace night banquet?!" ”

Gu Changqing shook his head, "I only said that he was a murderer, when did I say that he had nothing to do with this palace night banquet?" ”

Luan Chuan's expression just now instantly froze on his face, and he squeezed out a desolate smile vigorously, "What do you mean!" ”

"He is not only the murderer of the palace mystery, but also the painter who created the picture of the palace night banquet - Dansheng!" Gu Changqing's voice was like the erratic catkins, gently falling on everyone's hearts, and flying away into the distance!