The hall of Guangning was extremely quiet, and the dumb slaves encountered on the road were all kneeling on the ground.

Emperor Tianqing walked towards the hall, and before he could enter, he heard the faint sound of tapping wooden fish inside.

Pushing open the door of the temple and entering the hall, he stepped on the dim light around him and walked inside, and saw an old eunuch kneeling in front of the Buddha statue in plain clothes.

His eyes were slightly closed, and he tapped lightly with a hammer in his hand, and the hammer and the wooden fish were carved with intricate Buddhist verses.

In the sandalwood room, the Buddha statue on the platform standing not far away is hidden in the dim light, not a quiet and benevolent Bodhisattva statue, but a vajra Buddha holding a sword halberd, the painted red and blue color, angry eyes and horizontal face look a little terrifying in the quiet and peaceful sound of the wooden fish is particularly weird.

This Guangning Hall is a forbidden place in the palace, except for Emperor Tianqing, no one will come in under the guard of a dumb slave, the footsteps behind him did not change the bangs, the tapping action in his hand did not stop, and his mouth was still reciting Buddhist scriptures.

Emperor Tianqing walked to his side, and when he stood for a while, and when the chanting next to him stopped, he frowned and said, "Why are you worshipping Buddha again?" ”

Liu Hai opened his eyes: "Ask the Buddha to bless you naturally have to be sincere, Your Majesty had a nightmare some time ago, and the old slave recited the scriptures a few more times to ask for peace of mind." ”

Hearing this, Emperor Tianqing looked up at the Buddha statue in front of him, and after his eyes swept under the altar, what he wanted to say stopped, and he just stood quietly and waited.

Liu Hai chanted in a low voice for a while, then put down the hammer engraved with the complicated Buddha in his hand, got up and lit a few sticks of incense and sent it into the incense burner in front of the Buddha, and bowed three times to the Buddha statue with sandalwood in the room, and then dragged the stump and limped to lead Emperor Tianqing to the quiet room next door.

This Guangning Hall looks dilapidated on the outside, but it is exceptionally neat on the inside.

In the ashram next to the Buddha hall, futons are spread in the ashram, and charcoal fires are burning in the basin beside it.

Liu Hai served Emperor Tianqing to relieve the big slug on his body, and asked the dumb slave to send a teapot of clean water.

Particularly skillful in boiling water to cook tea, and carefully washed the already clean teacup on the table, and waited for the water in the pot to boil, the tea was fragrant, he went to the first tea and re-cooked, and waited until it boiled again, took the handkerchief on the handle of the pot, and poured hot tea for Emperor Tianqing and placed it in front of him.

Liu Hai put down the teapot before asking, "Why did Your Majesty come here today?" ”

Emperor Tianqing said: "It's okay, just come and see you." ”

Liu Hai was noncommittal about this, he and the friendship between the master and servant of Emperor Tianqing was indeed different, but the emperor of Guangning Hall would not easily set foot in this place, every time he came over, there must be something, seeing that His Majesty's face was shrouded in an endless haze in front of him, he asked gently: "Your Majesty is in a bad mood, but what happened?" ”

Emperor Tianqing sniffed the fragrance of tea in the room, relaxed a little and said, "Do you remember Xue Yan?" ”

Liu Hai was puzzled: "Your Majesty is talking about that Mrs. Jing Anbo?" ”

Emperor Tianqing said "um".

Liu Hai nodded and said that he still remembered that Mrs. Jing Anbo was charming, charming and affectionate between her eyebrows and eyes, and her figure and appearance were rare in the world, even if he was not a man, it was difficult to forget the last time.

Emperor Tianqing said: "Some people say that she is Xue Chen's niece Xue Linglong. ”

Liu Hai looked at Emperor Tianqing with some surprise.

Emperor Tianqing rubbed the edge of the somewhat hot teacup, and said the previous Chen family's affairs in a deep voice, and only after finishing speaking, he said: "This matter has been investigated, it was the fourth child and Uncle Ping Yuanbo deliberately framed it, and some people secretly instigated the fourth child to take the opportunity to frame the prince and the Shen family to kill two birds with one stone." ”

"I have severely punished the fourth child and Uncle Pingyuan, and I have also asked people to check the past of Sun Xue and Xue Yan's sister and brother, all of which show that they have nothing to do with Xue Chen......"

Liu Hai understood, and only raised his eyes to look at Emperor Tianqing: "But Your Majesty is still suspicious?" ”

Emperor Tianqing let out a low "um", the old servant in front of him had followed him for many years, and no one knew what he cared about better than him from his youth to the present.

He didn't hide anything in front of his bangs, and he didn't hide his jealousy of Xue Chen: "It's too coincidental for their sister and brother to appear, especially Xue Nuo, he gives me a very familiar feeling." ”

I don't know if it's because of what Zheng Weiyong said in front of him before, or the influence of Xue Fei's incident this time, when Emperor Tianqing looked at Xue Nuo's young man again, his appearance was obviously extremely unfamiliar, but he always felt as if he had seen it somewhere, and that vague sense of familiarity made him feel uneasy.

Emperor Tianqing didn't know if he was talking to Liu Hai or himself, and his eyebrows frowned when he muttered in a low voice,

"Xue Nuo has been involved in the Jiangnan smuggling salt case since the beginning, and the affairs of the DPRK and China seem to have nothing to do with him, but if you think about it carefully, many of the recent events are inextricably linked to him."

The Hu family ran into Shen because of him, and Shen was involved in the case of illegal salt, and Shen accidentally obtained the Cao Yun account book in order to track down Xue Yan's whereabouts for her.

If it weren't for the fact that the Shen family grabbed Chai Chunhua and didn't let go of it, it wouldn't have been involved in Meng Dehui's maintenance of the outer room, let alone the corruption case of the household department, so that the DPRK and China were purged one after another, and the officials changed frequently.

In addition, the prince suddenly stopped fighting with him unusually, and even the Shen family changed their attitude, as well as the third and fourth children, they seemed to have been targeted and repeatedly frustrated, Zheng Weiyong also lost his position as the prince of the country, and Pingyuan Bo was deposed, and all kinds of things seemed to have started since Xue Nuo entered Beijing.

When Emperor Tianqing sat on the futon, the more he spoke, the more gloomy his expression became: "You say, could he really be someone sent by Xue Chen?" ”

"Xue Chen wants to take revenge on me, wants to disturb the court, wants to avenge Yongzhao, Yongzhao has been dead for eight years, she has long been dead, but they are still thieves and want to subvert my imperial power......"

"Your Majesty!"

Seeing that Emperor Tianqing seemed to be indulging in old things and falling into the magic barrier, his words were full of anger, and Liu Hai suddenly snorted lightly.

Emperor Tianqing raised his head and looked at the face of the person opposite before his expression regained some clarity.

Liu Hai frowned and said: "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, you have the final say in everything in the court, Chengguo Gong and Pingyuan Bo were punished for offending Heavenly Grace, and the third prince and the fourth prince were also angered by the Holy Anger because of their power, so what ability does Xue Nuo have to make His Majesty act as he wants?" ”

"If you really doubt him, let people take him."

Emperor Tianqing pursed his lips, he also knew that if he was really suspicious, it would be the best way to let people take Xue Nuo's sister and brother, but Xue Yu had Xiao Chi behind him, and Xue Nuo had the prince and the Shen family behind him, and most importantly, he didn't have any evidence to prove that the two of them were related to Xue Chen or even the old people of Yongzhao.

Many things are just speculations, and they also start from his jealousy of Xue Chen and Yongzhao, but a few days ago, the talents of the Sun Xue family and the Xue family cleared Xue Nuo and them of suspicion.

Xue Nuo is still responsible for saving the driver, and the royal family owes him a life.

At this time, if he took the two of them for no reason, what would people outside talk about? What will those people in the court think of him?

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