"Uncle and aunt accepted?"

"If you don't accept it, you can't help it. After this incident, we still have to go back to the 'master' after all. ”

Empress Yin looked at Xia Qingyang and then at He Minghua.

It's a dumb riddle that they all understand.

He Minghua lowered his eyes and was silent, but it was also like he had fallen into some distant memory.

Xia Qingyang patted Queen Yin: "The flow of time in this world is slow, maybe the next time I come back, a month has not passed here." ”

Empress Yin: "Well, it's okay, I'm very content to be like this." After all, if you have been imprisoned in that dark palace, I am afraid that it will be difficult to fulfill your filial piety in this life. ”

Xia Qingyang saw true relief and relaxation in Queen Yin's eyes.

She knew that from now on, the rope named Ren Fu could no longer restrain Queen Yin.

If Zeng Qi was here, he would probably be able to see it at a glance, and congratulate Empress Yin very happily.

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Subsequently, Xia Qingyang and the three of them went into the inner room where Zuo Cheng and his wife were resting.

Now that his identity has been exposed, in order to show respect, Xia Qingyang took off his hat, veil and other disguises before entering the door, and greeted Zuo Cheng and his wife with his original voice.

"Please, the lives of our husband and wife were saved by the girl, and the girl doesn't have to make this great gift to the two of us. But it would be a bit rude for us to see the girl with such a haggard appearance. "Mrs. Zuo Cheng's gentleness and virtuousness are as good as Queen Yin's.

Seeing Mrs. Zuo Cheng, Xia Qingyang seemed to have seen the former Empress Yin-

It's just that Queen Yin has been aggrieved in the palace for so many years, and when she first entered the game, she was still a little weak and indecisive.

And Mrs. Zuo Cheng is more like the advanced Empress Yin, giving people a very traditional feeling of being a housewife, gentle and majestic.

Xia Qingyang smiled and said sweetly to Aunt Xie.

made Mrs. Zuo Cheng smile.

On the other hand, Yin Zuocheng, for some reason, from the time she came in to the present, the muscles in her face have become more and more tense.

"Ah, don't be afraid, girl, your uncle can't accept the reality yet." Mrs. Zuo Cheng flew a small eye knife and reminded Yin Zuocheng, "My daughter told you that the Qingyang monk is a woman, you still don't believe it, but now you see it." ”

Yin Zuocheng pursed his lips, looked at Xia Qingyang carefully for a long time, and finally sighed deeply: "With this talent and courage, even if it is a woman, it is enough to achieve a great cause." It is a blessing for the country to have you and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess. ”

Xia Qingyang came back to his senses - should Yin Zuocheng want to see her, just to see with his own eyes whether she is a woman or not.

"Uncle, to be able to have Sister Xuan is also a blessing for the Dachun country and the people." Xia Qingyang said very seriously.

Yin Zuocheng snorted: "Compared with you, she is far behind." ”

"Nothing." Xia Qingyang pulled up Queen Yin, "Sister Yixuan is the one with the best temperament and the most stable among us." I don't know how many times, when even I couldn't hold on, it was Sister Xuan who silently supported us to get us to where we are today. ”

Sure enough, even parents who are upright and upright will be happy from the bottom of their hearts when they hear their children being praised.

He Minghua moved a chair, and the three of them sat down in the room.

Now we get down to business.

Xia Qingyang told Zuo Cheng and his wife all the causes and stories as concisely as possible. Including the changes in the palace, their plans to assist the eldest princess, and what they saw and heard along the way.

Yin Zuocheng asked a few questions from time to time, and he was able to ask the point as soon as he asked, which shows his understanding of the movements of various forces in the Dachun Kingdom.

It took nearly an hour to finish.

Xia Qingyang also asked Yin Zuocheng the question that he had been thinking about for several days:

"Do you know anything about Fan Xi? Why did someone assassinate him? ”

Yin Zuocheng breathed a sigh of relief: "I don't know more about this Fan Xi than you. ”

Yin Zuocheng said that about a dozen years ago, Fan Xi was just a small magistrate, and he seemed to be an official in charge of household registration.

After Ren Fu succeeded to the throne, Fan Xi suddenly rose to prominence, and was directly promoted to the capital not long after.

Although Fan Xi can't see any problems with his personality, in terms of ability, Fan Xi is still much worse than other Beijing officials of the same level.

As a result, there have been some unpleasant rumors among officials. said that Fan Xi must have held some handle of Ren Fu in his hand, which made Ren Fu keep biasing towards him.

Later, Ren Fu sent Fan Xi to investigate the case of the detention of relief grain, which gave him a lot of power and a lot of manpower. That was probably the year before last. Yin Zuocheng continued, "When Fan Xi returned to Beijing last year, he found nothing, nothing was found, and he didn't find out anything, not the officials who were sent to investigate before. Ren Fu was very disappointed, so he transferred him to Luo Shu City. ”

I see.

Xia Qingyang thought thoughtfully: "Could it be that Ren Fu actually deliberately used this case as an excuse to send Fan Xi down?" ”

"Not impossible." Yin Zuocheng said, "I also asked someone to secretly investigate this case for a long time. Although the evidence is not complete, the combination of many clues is enough for some officials who are greedy for ink to drink a pot. On this basis, I have already made many statements to Ren Fu openly and secretly, and it is impossible for Ren Fu to be unclear about the truth of this case. ”

Yes, since Ren Fu wants to take power and has already achieved initial results, it means that he is not a straw bag, and he must have his own means to know many things.

It is impossible for him not to know that the relief grain case involved many officials, and the most important thing is that it also involved the mountain of An Youcheng.

But at this stage, Ren Fu also needs to use An Youcheng's strength to join forces with An Youcheng to bring down the Queen Mother.

Therefore, Ren Fu can't act arbitrarily, he can only pretend to know nothing.

"Maybe Ren Fu wants to press this matter to the end, use it to bring down the Right Cheng faction, and complete the recovery of power." Xia Qingyang said while thinking, "Therefore, he asked Fan Xi to investigate the case, just to be prepared to find out nothing." And what he wants is this result - he wants to use this as an excuse to get Fan Xi out of sight and out of mind. ”

After listening to her father and Xia Qingyang's analysis, Empress Yin also understood: "So, in Fan Xi's hand, he really holds Ren Fu's handle?" ”

"Quite possibly." Xia Qingyang nodded.

And maybe it's behind the key!

"Thinking along this line, after Fan Xi returned to Beijing, he suddenly married his daughter to the son of Youcheng, and there was another explanation." Yin Zuocheng said, his eyes on Xia Qingyang, as if he was deliberately guiding her to continue to deduce.

Xia Qingyang: "Fan Xi should really find some evidence during the investigation. It's just that he was co-opted by Youcheng...... In other words, threatened, and had to marry his daughter into the Youcheng family, and lied to Ren Fu about the results of the investigation. An Youcheng also promised him that after lying about the results of the investigation, he could intercede for him in front of Ren Fu to exonerate him - no. ”

No, An Youcheng wooed Fan Xi and interceded for Fan Xi, not for the evidence that Fan Xi found.

Xia Qingyang took a light breath: "I understand, An Youcheng should have guessed that once Ren Fu overthrows the Queen Mother, the next one will attack him." Therefore, he wooed Fan Xi and ensured that Fan Xi would not be deposed to a farther place, in order to fight against Ren Fu! ”