Nan Min Palace, on the court.

Emperor Nanmin sits on the dragon chair, the fine rosewood will carve the dragon line vividly, a layer of gold paint makes the dragon chair more solemn, the ministers stand in the main hall, look at the high platform is a piece of gold.

It is this dragon chair that makes many people hide their undeserved desires, and the undercurrent is surging in the court.

"Why didn't the prince come today?"

As soon as Emperor Nanmin's words came out, all the courtiers held jade fluorene in their hands, and they lowered their heads and glanced at each other, but they didn't speak.

"Gonggong Li, you go to the East Palace to see what the situation is."

"No."

Emperor Nanmin sighed and said, "The drought in Nanmin has been three months, Huai'an is the most serious, and now is the season to sow autumn vegetables, but this land is dry and cracked, and it is as hard as a stone!" What do you say you want the people to reap in the autumn?"

"Wait for death together?"

Seeing that the emperor was angry, the ministers knelt on the ground in fear, and their faces were embarrassed and did not speak.

This Anhuai is the nearest county town from the capital, in the past, the vegetables and wheat of Nanmin were planted and supplied by Anhuai, but today since the beginning of autumn, Anhuai has not rained a single time, and the riverbed is dry and dirty, more than three months of drought, all rely on the capital to transport water to Anhuai to survive to this day.

But transporting water is a big project that costs the people and money, and it is not easy to transport the little water that can be used to keep the people alive, let alone moisten the land and plant.

This natural disaster and man-made disaster is not man-made, and the sacrifice of praying for rain is not known how many times it has been held at the shrine, and it is useless.

Just when the court fell silent and no one dared to reply, the fifth prince, Shen Yu, knelt on the ground and hiccuped.

He was drunk and smelled of alcohol.

Emperor Nan Min's face was even more embarrassed, and he picked up the fold at hand and smashed it, "Stupid!"

"Lonely, who has worked hard all his life, didn't dare to relax for a moment, and gave birth to you, a waste who only knows how to drink and have fun."

Shen Yu staggered up from the ground with the strength of the wine and said, "Father, you, hiccup—"

He burped again with his tongue open, "You are angry."

Emperor Nan Min was both helpless and angry with him, and did not want to argue with him anymore.

At this time, the crown prince Shen Qingyun rushed into the court with his personal guards.

As soon as he came, he knelt on the ground, and four guards surrounded Shen Muzhou.

Emperor Nan Min stroked his forehead and said, "What kind of trouble is this, you are going to rebel with your personal guards?"

Shen Qingyun knelt on the ground, looked directly at Emperor Nanmin, and said, "Erchen doesn't dare, it's just a matter of urgency, and he has no choice but to do it."

"It's because the sons are incompetent, the guards are not strict, and the jade talisman of the East Palace is stolen."

The five kingdoms of the moon and darkness each have their own tiger talisman and jade talisman.

The Tiger Talisman is in charge of the military power of various countries.

The jade talisman is a symbol of power.

In the south of the Min jade talisman handed over to the lord of the East Palace for safekeeping, the future succession to the throne needs to pass on the edict and jade talisman, both are indispensable.

Emperor Nan Min asked in disbelief, "Can your jade talisman be stolen?" I've really given birth to a bunch of waste."

Shen Qingyun bowed his head and continued, "It's Erchen who is incompetent, but Erchen has already traced down who stole the jade talisman."

Shen Muzhou looked at him with gloomy eyes, and vaguely felt that this time the incident was coming at him again.

"Who is it?"

Shen Qingyun looked at Shen Muzhou and said, "It's the Ninth Prince, Shen Muzhou."

Emperor Nan Min paused, surprised, he looked at Shen Muzhou and asked, "Xiao Jiu, is there such a thing?"

Shen Muzhou stepped forward and saluted, wanting to speak.

Emperor Nan Min stretched out his hand and motioned for him to silence him: "This matter is a family matter of the royal family, so please step down first."

The ministers looked at each other, and none of them exited the palace.

Tai Fu Lin stepped forward and saluted: "Your Majesty's words are wrong, but if the royal family is involved, there will be no family affairs, and the loss of the jade talisman will disturb the government of my Nan Min Dynasty, and it should be tried by the public."

Lin Ze knew that this was the emperor's intention to favor Shen Muzhou.

"The minister seconded the proposal."

"The ministers seconded the motion."

Emperor Nan Min sneered: "Hmph, let you come up with a way to deal with the drought, you are all silent, but you are active at this time."

"Then tell me, how do you think that your ninth brother did this?"

Shen Qingyun glanced at Shen Muzhou and said, "This is the roster of daily entry and exit from the East Palace recorded by the guards, the day before yesterday, the Ninth Prince took advantage of my absence in the East Palace to enter my East Palace to search in the name of investigating the assassination case."

"I want to ask the prince, can you find any useful clues in my East Palace?"

Shen Muzhou met his eyes and said coldly, "No."

Shen Qingyun sneered: "Of course the prince can't find any clues, your assassination in the capital was originally directed and acted by yourself, in order to find trouble in my East Palace and frame me."

"On the surface, you are looking for clues to make trouble in the East Palace, but you actually took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the place where the jade talisman is located and steal the jade talisman."

"Here's the proof."

He pulled out a piece of paper from his cuff, and on it was shoe prints rubbed in ink.

"This shoe print was left by the thief in the East Palace."

Gonggong Li took this shoe print and presented it to His Majesty.

Emperor Nan Min frowned and asked, "Xiao Jiu, do you have any explanation?"

The corners of Shen Muzhou's cold white skin and upper lips tightened, and he slowly spoke, "I did go to the East Palace, just to find clues to the assassin, and I didn't take the jade talisman, nor did I see the jade talisman."

"Besides, it's too far-fetched for you to condemn me with just a shoe print."

Shen Qingyun smiled and said, "Why do you suspect my East Palace? What right do you have to search the East Palace?"

As soon as these words came out, the ministers standing on both sides began to discuss.

"These Nine Princes have always acted domineeringly, and now they dare to search the East Palace privately?"

"Sodong Palace is to despise the prince and have a heart of disobedience!"

"I think he can't hide this thought, search the East Palace, steal the jade talisman, if Your Majesty doesn't punish it severely, I'm afraid it will cause a big disaster."

Shen Qingyun wanted this effect, and he continued to ask, "And I want to ask Ninth Brother, where did you go when you left the East Palace that night?"

"I'm in a hurry to send the jade talisman out of the capital."

After Shen Muzhou left the East Palace that day, he went to the Taifu Mansion to find Lin Yanxi, his eyes were cold, looking at the ministers and princes who were standing on top of the main hall and wanted to tear him apart immediately.

I am afraid that this matter has been planned for a long time, and the prince is waiting for him to confess to Lin Yanxi, so that the two can be convicted together, and the Taifu will definitely give the entire Taifu Mansion to the hands in order to rescue his daughter.

Seeing that he couldn't answer, Shen Qingyun chuckled and said, "Father, you will know if it is true or false, and you will know if you are sent to Zongzheng Temple for the first trial."

"Yes, it should be imprisoned in Zongzheng Temple, and for the sake of Nanmin's stability, the whereabouts of the jade talisman should be interrogated as soon as possible." A minister stepped forward and chimed in.

Lin Zedao: "Your Majesty, Zongzheng Temple will give Nan Min an explanation."

Shen Yu's wine woke up suddenly, "Guan, Guan into Zongzheng Temple?"

"You are one for Nan Min, how many victories did the ninth brother fight for Nan Min, he was thrown into the battlefield at the age of twelve to fight with foreign enemies, why did he steal the jade talisman?"

"When he went around fighting for Nanmin, why didn't you powerful ministers who were greedy for life and afraid of death say that they would imprison him in Zongzheng Temple? Because if you put him in, no one will work for Nam Min anymore!"

"Now you are nothing more than afraid that Xiao Jiu is acting ruthlessly and want to put him to death, what kind of righteousness do you pretend?"

Lin Ze looked at Shen Yu and said viciously, "Fifth Prince, be cautious."

"Achievements are not a reason to act recklessly."

Emperor Nan Min slapped the table, and the ministers in the hall looked at His Majesty.

"Xiao Jiu, let me ask you, where did you go out of the East Palace?"

Shen Muzhou dragged the big dan on his body to offset the chill that permeated his body, and his gloomy and fierce eyes swept towards those ministers, and the ministers were immediately silent, and a strong sense of fear arose in their eyes.

His voice was indifferent and firm, as if he was not talking about a matter of life and death.

"Where I went has nothing to do with the theft of the jade talisman, anyway, the jade talisman is not

It wasn't my steal."

Lin Ze sneered and said, "You said it wasn't you, then it wasn't? You'll need to show proof!"

Shen Muzhou looked at him and smiled inexplicably, while Lin couldn't figure out what the meaning behind the smile was.

The ministers again admonished Shen Muzhou to be imprisoned in Zongzheng Temple.

Emperor Nan Min shook his head helplessly and said, "Someone is coming, the Nine Princes Shen Muzhou ...... Detention of Zongzheng Temple, trial by Zongzheng Temple Qing and Shaoqing, and recover the jade talisman as soon as possible."

Shen Yu still has something to say for Shen Muzhou.

Shen Qingyun stepped forward and asked with his usual gentle smile on his face, "It seems that the fifth brother, the idle prince, is tired of doing it, and he has to take care of the affairs of this court?"

Shen Yu and Shen Qingyun are both from the queen, he knows too well what kind of face this prince and royal brother is under the warmth, so he has been friends with the cold-faced and cold-hearted Shen Muzhou since he was a child, and he is not willing to deal with Shen Qingyun more.

He could understand the meaning of Shen Qingyun's words, he stopped talking, and could only watch Shen Muzhou being taken away in a hurry.

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Taifu Mansion.

Outside the opening of the mourning shed, dignitaries and dignitaries who came to mourn came one after another.

Lin Yanxi and Lin Ruoyan knelt in the spirit shed together, guarding Jiang Wan's spirit, and Lin Ruoyan was still smoking and shedding tears.

Xu Xiaoniang, who was in the second room, had stopped for a long time recently, and her mood had been dull for a long time, but today she changed her normal situation, wore mourning clothes, and took care of the trivial things of the funeral in the Taifu Mansion.

Standing in front of the mourning shed, he was like a lady.

Lin Yanxi was chilled when she looked at her jumping up and down, her mother has always been good to the second room and tolerated it in every way.

But now that my mother has just left, some people have moved their minds that they shouldn't move, and the coolest thing is that her father actually acquiesced to Xu Xiaoniang's behavior.

"Yan Xi, Sister Ruoyan."

The crown prince Shen Qingyun came to the mourning shed with a few personal guards.

He turned to a few of the guards and said, "Go and wait outside the gate, don't bump into the lady's spirit."

A few of the guards nodded and withdrew.

Lin Yanxi saw his unconcealable spring breeze and knew that what he wanted to do had been done, and if he wanted to save Shen Muzhou, he had to start from the East Palace.

She looked cold and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Shen Qingyun's eyebrows were flat and sad and said, "When I was a teenager, I often came to the mansion to ask the Taifu for learning, and every time I came to the mansion, Mrs. Taifu would always order someone to bring me tea and snacks."

"I want to give Madame a ride, too. By the way, there are some things to discuss with Master Taifu."

Lin Yanxi didn't pay attention to him anymore, and looked coldly at him hypocritically offering incense to his mother.

Ruoyan saw him get up from the ground after putting on the incense and said, "Thank you, Your Royal Highness the Prince, my father should receive guests in the study, and I will take His Highness to him."

The prince looked at Lin Yanxi for a pause, then nodded and said, "It's okay."