Chapter 132 Double Case

Tai Chi side hall

In the early morning, it was supposed to be the time to change clothes and prepare for the early dynasty, but Li Shimin was wearing a regular suit and stood by the window of the imperial study to blow the cold wind, and Li Tai, who was recruited into the palace before dawn, stood motionless in front of the dragon case for a whole hour.

"Your Majesty," there was an inquiry from outside the door, and the hunched old lady led by the little yellow door came in from behind the screen.

"How?" Li Shimin turned around, his majestic face with a melancholy look on it, slightly nervous.

"Back to the emperor," the old lady was old, and her tone was slow, but she was also a little cautious and careful, and her voice didn't sound like she was going to say any good news:

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi has a high fever and a fever disease, if it goes on like this, I am afraid that my life will be in danger, and the ministers will come up with a pair of fierce medicines. However, if you use it to hurt your body, you will have sequelae, and whether you use it or not, please ask the emperor to decide. ”

"Bang" Li Shimin slapped his palm on the window sill, turned his head to look at Li Tai, a storm quickly brewed in his dark eyes, and regardless of the presence of the imperial doctor, he lowered his voice and asked in a cold voice:

"I'll ask you again, did you do it?"

Tonight's fourth watch, Li Shimin is resting in the frost palace of Concubine Yang, and there is an urgent rumor outside the palace, Li You, the king of Qi, drowned in Qujiang Pond late at night, and was already dying when he was salvaged up, and was sent all the way to the palace.

Seeing that the emperor was angry, the little yellow door shrank his neck and didn't dare to move, and the old lady doctor also lowered his head and was silent, only Li Tai looked flat and lowered his head and said:

"The father is angry, and the son doesn't know."

"Don't know? If you don't know, why did he repeatedly accuse him of being the one who harmed him before he fell unconscious? Will he still risk his life to wronged you? Li Shimin flicked his sleeves and made a "fluttering" sound, he walked straight two steps and approached Li Tai, and the back of the small yellow door on the opposite side was bent a few inches with a cold momentum.

No matter who pushed Li Ke into the water, murdering the prince is a big deal, as soon as Li You was sent to the palace, Li Shimin sent someone to understand the matter in general.

Last night Li Ke had a banquet in Pingkangfang, a group of princes and princesses gathered, and after they broke up, Li You drank in Shuyun Pavilion until midnight, and someone sent him a secret letter, he took the princess away after he saw it, and rushed all the way to Quchi, and got off in front of the Yanying Bridge outside the Furong Garden, and retired the guards and went to the bridge alone to make an appointment, not wanting to be pushed into the Qujiang Pond by someone taking the opportunity, and the guards heard the sound and went to save people, because of the dark night and cold water, almost drowned.

Li You is unconscious at the moment, the secret letter has long been wet by the river, the sender does not know where to go, the Yanying Bridge is so long, because of the panic at the time, there is no sealing, and the person who pushed Li You into the water does not know where to go, this is a headless case, but after Li You was scooped up, he spit out a few mouthfuls of muddy water, but he repeated a sentence intermittently, until he fell into a coma-

Li Tai hurt me

A cadre of guards on the side, Princess Qi, and even the street patrols who rushed to hear the sound heard the four words of the repetition clearly, so the spearhead was pointed at Li Tai

Li Ke, Li Kuan, Gao Yang, Linchuan and others were successively edicted into the palace, and before Li Tai entered the palace, they had all been asked by Li Shimin, and they were now waiting outside the palace.

Faced with Li Shimin's cold questioning, Li Tai just glanced up at him, then bowed his head and replied in silence, this indefensible attitude successfully provoked the emperor's anger, the golden boots paced a step forward, and was about to speak, when there was a commotion outside the door-

"Get out of the way and let the palace in, is Li Tai inside, let the palace go in the palace to see my father"

Li Chengqian's voice mixed with anger was surprisingly loud, he had not been grounded for a few days, and he should have stayed in the East Palace honestly, but he made a fuss at this juncture.

"Brother Prince, what's wrong with you, don't be impulsive." This delicate is Linchuan's voice.

"Brother Huang, don't worry, if there is anything, let's wait for someone to go in and report it." This is Li Ke's voice.

"Li Tai" Li Chengqian's voice suddenly pulled, thinking that he was blocked by the guards, and he couldn't get in, so he shouted outside the door, "You bastard, this palace knows that the person who caused me to fall into the river back then was you and I didn't die by you that day, but just lost a leg, are you very disappointed?" Is it now that you are using this means to harm the fifth brother, you shameless villain, despicable and shameless father, father, you look at it, you open your eyes wide, it is this brute who wants to harm our brother, you spoil him so much, but he has murderous intentions towards our brother, Father, you must not spare him this time, you can't spare him, if he doesn't kill you one day, father, he must still hold a grudge against Jin-"

"Shut up"

There was a sudden burst of shouts in the hall, the indoor air was suffocated, Li Shimin waved his backhand on the dragon case, the four treasures of the study fell to the ground, and the delicate red silk inkstone was broken into several pieces, bounced up on the hem of the father's and son's clothes, and the howl outside the door stopped.

"Spread my message, the fifth son of the emperor Li You was almost murdered, Zhao Dali Temple immediately filed a case, to find out the culprit, the second son of the emperor Li Kuan, the third son of the emperor Li Ke, the king of Han Li Yuanchang, the king of Han Li Yuanjia and others, stay in Beijing to investigate. Feng Furong Garden, Yanying Bridge, the fourth son of the emperor Li Tai - temporarily detained in Qionglin Palace, without the edict, no entry and exit"

Li Tai looked at the few broken inkstones at his feet, lifted his eyelids, bowed down and said, "The son respectfully obeys his father's decree." ”

A few people outside the hall, hearing the holy will, each obeyed the sound, and saw a deserted figure walking out of the hall, several people looked at the past with complicated eyes, but Li Ke held Li Chengqian with one hand to prevent him from rushing forward, and covered his mouth with the other hand, approaching and whispering to reassure.

The large library building of the Literature Museum is open to all the literature museums, but after Li Tai returned to Beijing, it became the main place for the compilation of Kun Yuanlu, except for the editors who can still enter and exit the first to the fourth floor with the specially issued bookplates, ordinary scholars and bachelors turn to the other two small book buildings in the library, although the collection is not as rich as the large library building, but it is also enough to read.

According to the past practice, before and after the Spring Festival and before the release of the imperial examination, the three book buildings in the Literature Museum were not open, because there were often some students who studied hard in the middle of the night and would run to the book building to check when they were puzzled. Because of the compilation of Kun Yuanlu, there are literati working in shifts every night, and the door is not closed day and night, the front and back doors of the literature museum are closely checked, and there is no lack of patrols and guards in the museum, which puts an end to some people who fly off the eaves and walls, but in order to keep the big library quiet, there is no movement and half of it will not approach.

On the night of the accident, the guards patrolled around the museum and did not find anything unusual. The night passed, and the next morning, the handyman who was in charge of delivering breakfast and cleaning came in and found the literati lying on their backs, and at first they only stayed up and fell asleep, but unexpectedly, the twenty-eight people in the upper and lower floors would turn from living people into corpses overnight.

"There was such a big thing, and soon alarmed the government, because the literature museum is extraordinary, this matter was stabbed to the criminal department, I didn't stay in the museum last night when I drank with people outside, but the other adults who participated in the compilation mostly lived in the tent in the museum, and when I heard the letter and rushed over, they had been taken away by the officials of the criminal department for questioning, and the literature museum and the big book building were blocked, neither let people in, nor let people out, I only heard from a guard, and after the autopsy, they said that the twenty-eight people were all suddenly killed, I don't know where the rumors came out, a large group of people around the door began to talk about the prince's great achievements, in order to speed up the process of Kun Yuanlu, so that many literati would not sleep and compile the text, and these people would die of fatigue and sudden death. This is simply nonsense, except for the bachelor who is on duty every night, as long as the others do their part, the prince will never force them to do more. ”

Qi Zheng sat in the carriage, rubbing the messy broken hair on his forehead and roughly told him what he knew, "You may not know how valuable this place is to participate in the compilation of "Kun Yuanlu", someone once privately paid 5,000 yuan to buy a participating editor with the name, but the prince only chose a few young ladies of the scholar clan as a cover two years ago, but in fact, most of them are talented and untalented Han scholars, everyone knows in their hearts, and they are all grateful. Last night, something happened suddenly, but I dare to take Xiang Shang's head as a guarantee, these people are definitely not because the prince is so happy that they are tired to death,"

With Pingxia by his side, Yi Yu sat opposite him quietly listening, thinking, and silent, and after he finished speaking, he asked out loud: "Do you know who are the twenty-eight people who died?" ”

"I can only be sure that the bachelor on duty last night was Master Hu," Qi Zheng clenched his fists and said astringently, "Lord Hu is now Chinese New Year's Eve, his ancestor is in Huainan, he is a scholar in the second year of Zhenguan, like me, he is from a cold family, he is very kind and humble, and he took care of us when I entered the Literature Museum." He was alone, he only had a son last year, his wife and children all lived in the countryside, this year the prince gave us these poor Confucian mansions completed, their family moved from Huainan, less than a month, I went to his house the day before yesterday, the day before yesterday and the day before yesterday to eat. I was going to go to drink with him last night, but because he was on duty at night, I knew it earlier, and I forced him to go if I knew it..."

As he spoke, he choked up a little, turned his head unbearably and covered his face with his sleeves, saying that the man didn't flick his tears when he had them, but he didn't get to the sad place, Yi Yu listened to him silently, looking at his appearance of a few feet of big man wiping his tears, it was a picture that made people laugh, but it made her nose sour and swollen.

The 28 people who died were all living human beings, they had families, parents, wives and children, and they may be trying to live for a better life, but because of the selfishness of some people, a certain person, they lost their lives and everything.

While she was proud that her husband had given these people who longed and pursued a chance to treat them well, she was angry that those innocent lives had been used to tarnish their efforts and dedication, and to defile the man's hard work

"Lord Qi," Yi Yu took a breath, looked at Qi Zheng, and said in a warm and serious voice, "Don't be sad first, you will go to the Literature Museum immediately, Lord Shangshu Gao of the Criminal Department must have a personal grudge against the prince because of me, if this case is all investigated by the Criminal Department, it will be biased." First of all, we have to find a way to enter the museum and have a look. ”。.。

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