The scattered words fell on Sun Xiangyong's ears, which means that Tang was shocked to spy on Sun Xiang for so long, and he didn't find anything. Most of the time, Sun Xiangyong has no problem. Even if you continue to monitor him, you are not in a hurry at this time. Sun Xiang felt that Jian Huaizhen had eliminated a lot of vigilance against him from his scattered words, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Sun Xiang said with a smile: "Since today is Miss Tang's big day, the girl might as well go back." Take care of the emperor's affairs, our family must do it. Please surprise the girl and the scattered aunt to return to the eldest princess. ”

At that moment, Tang was shocked and scattered so he said goodbye to Sun Xiangyong and went to Wan'an Palace.

Tang was very puzzled, she looked at no one around, and then lowered her voice and said, "Aunt Lingluo, why did you suddenly recall me back to Wan'an Palace?" But the idea of the princess's aunt? ”

"Exactly." Ling Luo also lowered his voice: "The princess said, if Sun Xiang has a disobedient heart, you are by his side, and he will definitely have some scruples when he acts." Since this is the case, it is better to let him relax his guard and go back to Wan'an Palace in advance. The princess also said that she didn't want to startle the snake, and wanted to test Sun Xiangyong again and lure out those who conspired with him. Now, since he has the heart to fight the emperor's idea, he can't do this anymore. The princess must not risk the emperor's life. ”

Tang was shocked and suddenly realized, and said, "It turned out that the princess's aunt was thoughtful. The two whispered as they walked into the Wan'an Palace.

At that time, Gao Xiang saw that Ling Luo had left with Tang Jingran, so he stepped forward and asked, "Father-in-law, now that Tang Jingran can't follow you, do you have any plans to do it?" ”

"I ......," Sun Xiangyong couldn't help but hesitate, "I don't know either." This matter still makes me think twice. ”

Gao Xiang's eyes rolled and said, "I have an idea, which can make my father-in-law successful, and others will not suspect my father-in-law." As he spoke, he pointed to the food box in Sun Xiang's hand and said, "Wasn't this medicinal soup sent by Princess Huaizhen?" The father-in-law may wish to poison the medicinal herb soup, so that the emperor has three long and two short, and the world only thinks that Princess Huaizhen wants to abolish the emperor, and will not think of you. It's a win-win. ”

Sun Xiang glanced at the food box, his heart was very restless, he walked back and forth twice, and said, "Let me think about this matter." ”

"Father-in-law, don't miss the opportunity and never come again, now it's to the point where either you die or I die. If the emperor didn't die, how could the people over there give up with us so easily? My father-in-law should make up his mind. As he spoke, he made a killing motion.

Sun Xiangyong still didn't speak. Gao Xiang continued: "The emperor's condition is so serious, it seems that he has not been treated. Instead of letting him be so miserable and sickbed, it is better for his father-in-law to do good deeds and fulfill the emperor. If the father-in-law wants to reassure the emperor, he can tell him before he dies that the crown prince is still safe. Gao Xiang looked at Sun Xiangyong urgently.

After listening to Gao Xiang's words, Sun Xiang looked at the gloomy sky above the Forbidden City, and finally sighed and said, "Okay, everything will be done according to what you say." ”

"The father-in-law is wise, and the slave will be poisoned." After saying that, he took out the poison and went down to the medicinal herb soup.

Tang Jingran returned to Wan'an Palace, Jian Huaizhen asked a little about Sun Xiangyong, and said: "Jingran was called back by me, I think Sun Xiangyong will most likely use this opportunity to murder the emperor." Shocked, I will dress up with you a little and secretly spy on Sun Xiangyong to see what he has done. ”

Tang said solemnly: "Yes." At that moment, he took out the two sets of eunuch clothes that had been prepared a long time ago, and after Jian Huaizhen and Tang Jingran changed, they went straight to the emperor's bedroom.

At this time, the twilight all around was low, and various palace lamps had been lit in some places in the palace, and a dark aura was emitted in the garden. Jian Huaizhen and Tang Jingran walked all the way, and soon walked to the front of the emperor's bedroom. The two hid behind a camphor tree, Jian Huaizhen pointed to the roof, and said softly, "Go to the roof." ”

The roof is cast with golden glazed tiles, and the water is slippery and slippery, and the people who are a little weak in martial arts will definitely fall down when they get into the house. The roof of the Forbidden City is very high above the ground, and if one accidentally falls, it must be shattered.

Jian Huaizhen and Tang were bold and not afraid, the two of them jumped up lightly one after the other, and they had already landed lightly on the glazed tile roof without making a sound. The two walked along the glazed tiles, and soon walked to the roof of the emperor's bedroom.

Jian Huaizhen uncovered the two glazed tiles, and the two looked forward together. There are two bright candles in the dormitory, which glow dimly. The brocade tent was hung high, and the emperor could be vaguely seen lying on the dragon couch.

Jian Huaizhen and Tang were shocked on the roof of the tiles, lying on the roof for more than half an hour, and did not see any movement, only occasionally heard a few unreal coughing sounds from the emperor.

Tang Jingran frowned and said softly, "Aunt Princess, could it be that we guessed wrong?" Or Sun Xiangyong didn't want to do anything to the emperor, or maybe it wasn't tonight. ”

Jian Huaizhen pondered slightly and said, "Wait a little longer." Now that Sun Xiangyong has been disrupted, he is naturally becoming more and more unable to hold back. ”

Tang was about to speak, but he heard someone say in front of the emperor's bedroom: "Your Majesty, the eldest princess sent someone to send her own medicinal herb soup, please show the emperor." ”

On the dragon bed, someone groaned and said, "Come in." The little eunuch who was serving in front of the dragon bed raised his voice and said, "Grandpa Sun, please come in." ”

The door was pushed open, and Sun Xiangyong walked in, holding a food box in his hand, but it was the medicinal soup that Jian Huaizhen ordered to be sent in the evening. Sun Xiangyong walked to the front of the bed and saluted: "Your Majesty, the eldest princess has made medicinal soup for you again, and before you woke up, the old slave was left outside." Now I see that you are awake, and I have warmed up again and served you to drink. ”

The person on the bed said "um", and his voice was very hoarse: "Aunt Taihuang has a heart." ”

Tang was shocked and lowered his voice and said, "Aunt Princess, you see, Grandpa Sun seems to be good to the emperor. Jian Huaizhen nodded and did not speak. She always felt that something was wrong in her heart, as if it shouldn't be like this, but she couldn't say what was wrong.

Sun Xiang took out the medicinal herb soup, and Gao Xiang, who followed him in, stepped forward and supported the emperor. Sun Xiang took out the spoon, blew the hot air, and sent it to the emperor's mouth. Gao Xiang said on the side: "Your Majesty, you should be careful of the soup, I heard that the eldest princess is proficient in medical skills, and the decoction she configured must be extremely effective." He was in his voice with a stiffly suppressed excitement.

Jian Huaizhen asked Tang Jingran as if he remembered something: "That little eunuch, is it with Sun Xiangyong?" Tang replied, "Exactly." ”

Jian Huaizhen shouted, "It's not good. As soon as her words came out, Sun Xiangyong had already raised the spoon and was about to feed the decoction to the emperor's mouth. Jian Huaizhen didn't have time to think about it, so he took out a plum blossom needle and sent it out from the gap in the tile to Sun Xiang's hand. She gave a second injection, and the target of the second injection was the medicinal herb bowl in Sun Xiang's hand.

"Aunt Princess?" Tang exclaimed.

Jian Huaizhen hurriedly said: "The decoction was poisoned. As soon as she finished speaking, Tang Jingran had already jumped off the glazed tile roof and went straight to the dormitory. Jian Huaizhen looked through the gap in the tile, Sun Xiang had a plum blossom needle in his hand, the medicine bowl in his hand and the spoon fell to the ground together, and the blue and white porcelain bowl was broken, making a crisp sound.

Sun Xiangyong was greatly surprised, stood up and shouted, "There are assassins!" ”

At this time, Jian Huaizhen also got off the glazed tile roof and followed Tang Jingran into the dormitory. Tang was shocked to see Sun Xiang shouting, and said coldly: "Grandpa Sun, what else do you have to shout?" Isn't that the assassin you? ”

Sun Xiangyong was very surprised when he saw Jian Huaizhen and Tang at first glance, and said to Ai Ai: "You guys..... How did you guys get here? ”

Tang was shocked and sneered: "Aunt Princess is the emperor's aunt and grandmother, she wants to visit the emperor, so naturally she came." ”

There was a look of horror on the emperor's dark yellow face, he grabbed Sun Xiang's hand, and asked repeatedly, "What's the matter?" What's going on? Sun Xiangyong glanced at the emperor, helped the emperor to lie down, and said to Jian Huaizhen: "The eldest princess, if we have something, go out and talk about it, don't disturb the emperor's rest." ”

Jian Huaizhen didn't say a word, just shook his head vigorously.

Sun Xiang showed a pleading look on his face, and said again: "Princess, let's go out and talk, okay?" ”

Jian Huaizhen said word by word: "It's not good." This palace wants the emperor to understand, and it is not in vain to show you twenty years of kindness. Emperor, don't you say? ”

Although Zhu Qizhen was sick, his heart was as clear as a mirror, and when he saw such a situation, he vaguely guessed what was going on in his heart. There are only two truths about the matter, either Jian Huaizhen wants to depose him and canonize Zhu Jianchen as the new emperor, or Sun Xiangyong has done something sorry for him.

One is his aunt and grandmother who have supported him for six years, and the other is an old courtier who has followed him for twenty years, Zhu Qizhen didn't know how to choose for a while, and happened to hear Jian Huaizhen ask him, so he replied forcefully: "I want to find out clearly." ”

"Sun Xiangyong, you have been with the emperor for 20 years, born and died, why do you have to kill the emperor now? Is it to avenge Cao Jixiang? If Bengong's guess is correct, the medicinal soup that Bengong gave to the emperor has been poisoned by you. Jian Huaizhen was unhurried and said.

"Princess!" Sun Xiang stared at Jian Huaizhen with no fear on his face, and said, "You are really very powerful and smart!" On that day, you summoned me and gossiped with me, but suddenly mentioned that my hometown is Luanzhou, and I already guessed that you know my relationship with my eldest brother. ”

Jian Huaizhen was silent and nodded.

"Yes, Cao Jixiang is my eldest brother. I didn't know at first. Both of us brothers had the same hard life, and we both entered the palace as eunuchs. I had no father or mother when I was very young, and then I had a serious illness and had no money for treatment, so my eldest brother entered the palace and became a eunuch in order to save me. Later, I followed Uncle Sun and Aunt Sun, and I lost my eldest brother's money in exchange for a life. Although I was not yet ten years old at that time, I clearly remember how my eldest brother gave his life to save me. Sun Xiang's tone was very slow, as if he was immersed in memories and couldn't extricate himself.

"Later, I also entered the palace as a eunuch, I served the emperor, and my eldest brother followed Wang Zhen's father-in-law. Although the two of us met occasionally, we didn't know that they were actually two brothers. Until one time later, Xu Youzhen wanted to deal with the eldest brother, so he entangled many people and impeached the eldest brother. That was five or six years ago. Sun Xiangyong said slowly.

"I still remember that incident clearly." Jian Huaizhen replied.

Sun Xiang said with a "hmm": "That time the eldest brother came to ask me for help. He knew the emperor's heart, because he was seized from Emperor Jingtai, so it was inevitable that he would be suspicious from time to time. After the eldest brother was impeached by Xu Youzhen, he was very panicked, and he came to see me and begged me to help him once for the sake of everyone who is also a eunuch. ”

"He asked you to slander Xu Youzhen?" Jian Huaizhen's face became very ugly.

"It's not. He knew that I would not interfere in the affairs of the court, let alone do anything unfavorable to the emperor. He just begged me to remember the conversation between the emperor and Xu Youzhen when the emperor summoned Xu Youzhen alone and told me. He told me that if I didn't save him this time, I was afraid he wouldn't have a way to live. I saw that he was very miserable, and that everyone was a eunuch, and they shared unknown bitterness, so I relented for a while, so I agreed to him. Sun Xiangyong said.

"It turns out that when the emperor descended Xu Youzhen, you also contributed. Needless to say, you told Cao Jixiang about the conversation between the emperor and Xu Youzhen, and Cao Jixiang passed these words to the emperor. made the emperor feel that Xu Youzhen was a talkative person, so he gradually lost trust in him. Am I right? Jian Huaizhen stared at Sun Xiangyong and asked.

Sun Xiang nodded with a wry smile and said, "That's right." Later, Xu Youzhen was removed and repatriated, and the eldest brother was very grateful to me for helping him. He brought some gold and antiques to thank me. I only helped him out of sympathy, and I didn't have any selfish motives, so I refused to accept it. As we were pushing, I suddenly noticed a very peculiar hook-shaped birthmark on his arm. I distinctly remember that my eldest brother also had this birthmark on his arm. I asked him, and I found out that he was really my eldest brother. ”

"What you said is false, haven't you ever thought of looking for your eldest brother after you have been in the palace for so many years?" Tang said disapprovingly.

"As soon as I entered the palace, I asked someone. Unfortunately, my eunuch told me that there was once a eunuch from Luanzhou, who was about the same age as my eldest brother, and was burned to death in a palace fire. The eunuch in charge described the man as very similar to my impression of the eldest brother, and I always thought that my eldest brother was dead, so I never thought about it again. At that time, our brothers recognized each other, and we had mixed feelings, as if we were separated from each other. Since then, we have often corresponded privately. But for fear that the emperor would know about it, he would think that we were colluding, so he hid it from everyone. Sun Xiangyong said.

"Unexpectedly, my eldest brother was later executed. I also knew that he had done a lot of things to be sorry for others, so I wanted to ignore this matter and slowly forget about it. Who knew that Li Xian, who killed my eldest brother, was repeatedly promoted and reused by the emperor. I was very angry, so I said a lot of bad things about Li Xian in front of the emperor. The emperor has always been obedient to me, but only Li Xian's matter, the emperor not only did not allow me to mention it in the future, but warned me that the ministers were not allowed to interfere in politics. The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and the more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I became, so I wanted to use the power of others to execute Li Xian. Later, by chance, I finally met someone who could help me kill Li Xian. So, I asked him to help me overcome the hatred in my heart. He promised me and asked me to help him once. I helped him once. After that time, he refused to give up, so he asked me to help him repeatedly. ”

"You also did the disappearance of the crown prince. Where the hell is the crown prince? Jian Huaizhen asked aggressively.

"It's us who do it together. I ordered someone to lead the crown prince to the Qinglou, and he sent someone to rob the prince. Sun Xiang turned his head and looked at the emperor, as if begging for forgiveness, and muttered: "Actually, I don't want to, I don't want to......"

"You....... It turned out that you captured Shen'er, and after all these years, I regarded you as the most trusted person, and you actually harmed my son. Tell me where he is now. Zhu Qizhen was very excited and asked.

"Your Majesty......" Sun Xiang licked his somewhat dry lips and said, "The crown prince is very safe, don't worry, the dragon body is important." ”

"Tell me where the crown prince is? You keep saying that my dragon body is important, don't you want to kill me? Zhu Qizhen was very excited.

Sun Xiangyong shook his head, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I'm sorry." I can't tell you where the crown prince is. Because my adoptive father and adoptive mother have fallen into the hands of that man, if I tell the whereabouts of the prince, my adoptive father and adoptive mother will surely die. People say that the grace of life is not as great as the grace of the raiser, please atone for the emperor's sins. The old slave didn't want to poison the emperor, Gao thought that he poisoned the medicinal soup, but the slave quietly went to the imperial dining room to pour out the poisonous bowl, and ordered the imperial dining room to fry the medicine again for one night to give to the emperor. The old slave was afraid that Gao Xiang would have an outside heart and would report it to that person privately, so he didn't tell anyone about changing the medicinal herb soup. ”

"Father-in-law, why are you doing this? If you do that, we'll both die!" Gao Xiang looked at Sun Xiangyong with very crazy eyes and asked.

Sun Xiang became frank for a while: "I once told you that I would not deal with the emperor." As the eldest princess said, for so many years, the emperor and the old slave have relied on each other, and the emperor is as kind to the old slave as a mountain. Even if the old slave dies by himself, it will not be detrimental to the emperor. ”

"You're crazy! If you do that, you'll kill me!" It's nothing if you die, why do you drag me into the water as an old immortal? Gao Xiang said as he took out a dagger from his sleeve, put it on the emperor's neck at a sudden speed, and said maniacly: "Don't try to harm me!" If you kill me, the emperor will also die! ”

Gao Xiang's actions were very crazy, and his heart was even more nervous, his hand trembled slightly, and the dagger placed on Zhu Qizhen's neck drew a faint blood mark. Zhu Qizhen was shocked and angry, he couldn't breathe for a while, and he couldn't stop coughing.