On the Chengqian Palace, Baili Qingcang rubbed his forehead with his hands, his face was pale and angry, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the group of people kneeling in the center of the main hall.

"Okay, it's really good, one is a member of the imperial court, and the other is Princess Zhaohua, who was personally sealed by me, the two of you can fight in front of the public, and you have implicated so many people, is there still a royal law in your eyes, and is there still an emperor like me?"

"The emperor is angry."

"I can't get rid of my anger now! Xiao Jingran, you want to send Xiao Huanxi for the funeral of Xiao Huanxi, and I miss you for sending the white-haired person to the black-haired person, so I won't pursue it, but for a good funeral, why did you go around the two streets to the door of Princess Zhaohua's mansion? ”

Xiao Jingran knelt on the ground, raised his head and wanted to speak, Baili Qingcang didn't give you a chance to speak, and interrupted his words with a wave of his arm: "And Ning Hua, I regard you as the most beloved daughter, and I love you in every way on weekdays, I thought you were the most sensible, but I didn't expect you to do such a foolish thing!" ”

Shen Ninghua kowtowed: "Ninghua is guilty, please punish my father." ”

"Is this a simple punishment that can be done? At that time, both streets were blocked and so many people gathered together......"

Baili Qingcang sighed deeply, his expression was full of tiredness, the impact of this matter was too bad, and he didn't know what the loss would be yet.

Xiao Jingran and Xiao Fengjue knelt on the right side, Shen Ninghua and Chu Junyi knelt on the left side, and the other officials all knelt behind the four with their heads bowed, trying to shrink their figures, for fear that the emperor would take the lead in finding out.

There was silence in the main hall, and after a while, an attendant finally came to report: "Your Majesty, the Hubu Shangshu and Jingwei Mansion Yin who went to investigate have returned." ”

Baili Qingcang suppressed the vigorous anger in his heart, and spit out a word in a cold voice: "Xuan!" ”

Jingwei Mansion Yin knelt in front of Baili Qingcang and presented the folded fold in his hand with both hands: "Back to the emperor, this big funeral incident involved more than 500 people, including 26 dead, 12 lightly injured, and 6 seriously injured. ”

As soon as these words came out, many officials were surprised, and there were many dead and wounded, and the people were only slightly frightened. Youyu Shi couldn't help but speak: "Jingwei Mansion Yin, are you too hasty, twenty-six people died and six were seriously injured, this number is already very large in Kyoto, and the people are only slightly frightened?" ”

Jingwei Mansion Yin turned around: "Lord Qin, the lower official has not finished reporting to the emperor, and after the lower official report is finished, can I explain it to you?" ”

Lord Qin, who spoke, was immediately choked, and when he saw the cold eyes of Baili Qingcang on the stage, he hurriedly fell to the ground and pleaded guilty: "Your Majesty, Weichen is just too worried about the people, and he is anxious for a while, and he asks the emperor to forgive him." ”

"Jingwei Mansion Yin, you go on, what else?"

"Back to the emperor, the reason why the people did not panic too much was mainly thanks to Her Royal Highness Princess Zhaohua. At that time, the scene was out of control, but fortunately, the princess sent people to rescue the people and stabilize the people's hearts, which allowed the situation to be controlled. ”

Baili Qingcang looked at Shen Ninghua: "Ninghua, you sent someone to help the people, just now my father asked, why didn't you tell my father?" ”

Shen Ninghua looked ashamed: "Back to my father, the incident happened at the door of my mansion, causing such a riot to cause my father to worry, I have remorseful in my heart, how my father punishes him is deserved, Ning Hua confessed, there is nothing to explain." ”

Hubu Shangshu was extremely disagreeable: "The princess is too modest, more than 500 people panicked, the princess can send someone to save everyone, only causing some people to be slightly injured, this can be described as a miracle thing, the emperor, Weichen asked the emperor to reward the princess!" ”

The officials below were shocked, so many people gathered together and there was chaos, and in the end, few people were injured, only a dozen people were slightly injured?

Baili Qingcang was also stunned for a moment, and then asked out loud after a while: "Who ......are the twenty-six people who just said that they died?"

Hubu Shangshu looked a little strange, and glanced at Xiao Jingran: "Back to the emperor, the people who died were all the Xiao family's funeral procession, and the seriously injured person was also a slave of the Xiao family, except for a few stalls around that were trampled and destroyed, the people were not injured." ”

"What?" Baili Qingcang glanced at Shen Ninghua who was kneeling on the ground with wide eyes, and suddenly smiled loudly, "Okay!" Ning Hua, hurry up and tell me, what the hell is going on? ”

Shen Ninghua straightened up and didn't get up according to his words: "Back to my father, you also know that Xiao Huanxi died because he failed to murder me, but General Xiao obviously didn't think so, he thought that I killed his daughter, but because of his father's will, he didn't dare to trouble me openly, so he had to secretly stumble, wanting to deliberately embarrass me in the name of funeral, preferably involving some innocent people." ”

Xiao Jingran raised his head suddenly: "You don't want to talk nonsense!" ”

"Am I talking nonsense, Lord Xiao knows best in his heart. The funeral procession went around two streets to the front of the house, and stayed in front of the door for about a quarter of an hour, which attracted the surrounding people to stop and watch, Lord Xiao didn't admit that it didn't matter, so many people could testify for me!

"At that time, I saw that there were too many people around, and I hurriedly asked people to block the people, for fear that there would be any accidents, but fortunately, as a princess, I can call three hundred guards in the house, otherwise, I am afraid that it will be really difficult to be thoughtful this time."

Xiao Jingran gritted his teeth tightly, his cheekbones trembled, he raised his hand suddenly, and saluted deeply to Baili Qingcang: "Back to the emperor, the old minister is indeed uncomfortable, the old minister has fought for the country for many years, and there is only one son and one daughter under his knees, but I didn't expect the old minister's daughter to be gone all of a sudden, so he was angry and did such a thing, please punish the emperor." ”

Seeing that there are people who testify and can't quibble, they simply admit it, can the emperor still punish the old minister who has fought for the country for many years and died his daughter for a moment of anger?

Shen Ninghua sneered: "Lord Xiao, what you have done is much more than that. ”

Xiao Jingran turned his head suddenly, frowned tightly and asked, "Why did the princess say that?" ”

Hubu Shangshu nodded: "What the princess said is reasonable, if the people just watch, it will not cause a riot at all, mainly because someone deliberately threw silver ingots down from the upper floor while the people gathered, and the people robbed this is the event after it happened." ”

"Someone threw silver ingots?"

"Yes," the secretary of the military department asked the secretary of the military department to present the evidence, "Your Majesty, this is the evidence obtained by the lower officials." ”

Baili Qingcang pinched the silver ingot in his hand and looked at it for a long time: "It's just some ordinary silver taels, can anyone prove it?" ”

"Because the site was so panicked, we didn't find a strong certification."

Xiao Jingran's clenched fist slowly loosened, and his tense expression loosened slightly.

Baili Qingcang sat on the throne, his eyebrows furrowed tightly, the people were not harmed by this incident, if Xiao Jingran's crime was directly convicted, it was too much, if he was not punished, it was inevitable that he would become even worse in the future.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think about this incident?"

Officials, you look at me, I look at you, and one by one they take turns to speak:

"Your Majesty, Weichen believes that this matter has not had serious consequences and can be dealt with lightly."

"No, although the consequences are not very serious, but the nature of this incident is extremely bad, Weichen believes that it should be punished heavily, otherwise it will inevitably be followed by someone next time, and I am afraid that it will lead to extremely serious consequences at that time."

"Although the nature of the matter is bad, there is no lack of coincidental factors, and besides, it is understandable that Lord Xiao is sad. If it is a heavy punishment, it will inevitably chill the heart of the old minister. ”

Everyone came and went and made a lot of noise, but they didn't say a word about what to do. Shen Ninghua lowered her eyes, these officials have a set of mud, fortunately, she has a prepared backhand, otherwise it will be difficult to shake the Xiao family this time.

When everyone was arguing, the attendant walked in in a panic: "Back to the emperor, the presiding officer of Guangning Temple is outside the palace." ”

"What?" Baili Qingcang got up suddenly, causing the officials to stop immediately, and they were all curious about why the emperor reacted so much.

Chu Junyi looked at Shen Ninghua and nodded slightly at her.

The abbot of Guangning Temple is surnamed Qiu, but he had a wife before entering Buddhism, who was the aunt of Baili Qingcang, and later this aunt was assassinated because of her support for Baili Qingcang's accession to the throne, and her husband was also framed because of the later party dispute.

A monk dressed in a robe and with white hair walked in slowly and bowed to Baili Qingcang.

"Master excuse me, come, sit down!"

"The poor monk doesn't dare." Guangshan did not sit down and directly excused himself.

Baili Qingcang sat back in his seat, with a hint of nostalgia on his face, decades have passed in a blink of an eye, and there are very few old people in the court now: "Why did the master come?" ”

Guangshan looked at Shen Ninghua on the side: "This time I came here for the monks in the temple. ”

"The monks in the temple?"

"Yes, Princess Zhaohua invited four monks in the temple to do a ritual before, but only three of them returned to the temple later, but they were seriously injured, and one monk has disappeared now, may I ask the princess, where is that person now?"

Shen Ninghua raised his eyes: "Master, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, that monk will never return to the temple." ”

Guangshan's expression moved, and he closed his eyes and recited a Buddha name: "Amitabha." ”

Shen Ninghua raised his head: "Father, the Xiao family's funeral procession will use a coffin to smash the door of my mansion, at that time several senior monks were on the stage, after the gate fell, the high platform was smashed, four senior monks, one of them died on the spot, and the other three were also seriously injured." ”

"Is there such a thing?" Baili Qingcang frowned. 、

Shen Ninghua lowered her eyes: "Ninghua doesn't know, it's a pity that the four monks, speaking of which, they all blame me, my mother's birthday is coming, I can't be at ease in my dreams these days, thinking about doing a Dharma for my mother to accumulate blessings, but I didn't expect so many things to be involved." ”

Jing Yan's birthday? Yes, he used to celebrate his birthday with Jingyan......

Xiao Jingran turned pale, the matter was still involved in Guangning Temple, others didn't know, but he knew the relationship between Guangning Temple and the emperor, and the matter was ...... It's hard to do......