Once it comes to embroidery, it becomes very unusual in an instant.

The Emperor frowned.

He glanced at Zhu Lianxi, who had been following Chu Hong's side from beginning to end, and his eyes were fluttering at the moment.

looked at Qi Guifei, who had obviously changed her face.

There is also Chu Hong, who tried his best to be calm, but the wound on his shoulder, due to emotional fluctuations, began to bleed out again.

Even if the emperor didn't want to believe it anymore, the doubt in his heart had already prevailed.

He can see the father-son relationship with Chu Hong and the past relationship with Concubine Qi, and spare Chu Hong this time.

But it doesn't mean that he can be forgiven for the crimes he committed in the past.

In particular, these crimes also involve the embroidered picture and the lives behind the embroidered picture.

"Hongu doesn't understand what you're saying."

Qi Guifei noticed the emperor's gaze, clenched the feather arrow in her hand, and said coldly: "If you become a king or lose a princess, the crown princess will be killed or killed, and you don't have to make up stories in front of so many people." ”

Zhu Lianxi, who was next to him, also knelt on the ground and said to the emperor very innocently: "Your Majesty, after the crown princess embroidered the embroidery picture that day, the slave maid was able to see the small characters on it...... It was also the crown princess who asked the slave maid to enter the palace to tell the emperor, everything the princess said, the slave and maid really didn't know. ”

The emperor glanced at Zhu Lianxi lightly, looked at Shen Lingxi and asked, "You said these words, is there any evidence?" ”

"Naturally, the evidence is conclusive." Shen Lingxi looked at Chunjun in the audience and ordered loudly: "Bring all the witnesses here." ”

As soon as the words fell, an embroidered messenger led a few people to the side and walked up to the mausoleum.

The men had their hands tied behind their backs, and their heads were covered with white cloths, so they could not see their faces clearly. His mouth seemed to be stuffed with strips of cloth, and his body was twisted, and he could only make a "hmm" sound.

They wore the same prison uniforms, and it was completely impossible to tell what they were.

Shen Lingxi waited for them to walk up to the stage and was pressed to kneel on the ground by the embroidered messenger, and then glanced meaningfully at King Chu Hong of Wei and said:

"Things have to start from the time Yun Chong died in Beijing, and began to ......"

In order to find out the person who Yun Chong colluded with in the capital, the embroidered envoy designed to let Yun Chong escape by fraud. After Yun Chong escaped from Yunjiang, he disguised himself as Zhao Long, a spice merchant from Suzhou, and entered the capital. ”

Not long ago, the gossip scandal between Zhao Yuanwai and Li Xiaoqing of the Yiyang Marquis Mansion was called a vigorous scandal in the capital.

Everyone present, even the emperor, had heard of it.

At this moment, when they learned that Zhao Long was actually Yun Chong, the former prince of the Yun Kingdom, their faces showed shock.

Shen Lingxi took in their expressions and continued:

Yun Chong knew very well what Li Xiangyang, the Marquis of Yiyang, did to Emperor Xiaode five years ago, so he used the spice shop as bait to get close to Li Niangzi, and made a deep love for Li Niangzi like the sea, provoking the suspicion between Li Niangzi and his brother Li Xiangyang. Li Xiangyang had murderous intentions towards 'Zhao Long', Yun Chong took advantage of the situation, fled from death, and left Li Niangzi with the 'Tianxiang Pavilion' before he died. ”

"Mrs. Li read the 'deep friendship' of 'Zhao Long' to her, and wanted to have money by her side, so she opened the 'Tianxiang Pavilion'. Yun Chong used the manpower placed by Li Niangzi's side before his death to make Tianxiang Pavilion enter the purchase list of the inner attendants step by step according to the trajectory of five years ago, and the 'Goose Warm Incense' also became a tribute incense, and was distributed to each palace by the inner attendants. ”

Speaking of this, Shen Lingxi paused intentionally and looked at Zhu Lianxi, "Gonggong Zhu, you are the chief eunuch beside the emperor, tell me, a woman in the back house who had a disagreement with her brother and was abandoned by her husband's family, has neither power nor power, but opened an incense shop, how can she be selected by the inner chamberlain to buy incense into the palace in less than a month, and distribute it to the palaces for daily use?" ”

The palace ministers closest to the mausoleum, hearing Shen Lingxi's words, twisted their beards and shook their heads.

The harem is not an ordinary people's home, how can buying it be like going out to buy a cabbage, just buy it?

Don't say it's a harem, it's a family with a little background, and it has a complete purchasing system.

In less than a month, even if it is a precious thing, at most the concubines of the palace like it, and send someone out of the palace to buy it privately. But if you follow the process, enter the inner chamberlain to buy the list, and then report it layer by layer, the imperial treasury will buy the silver, and finally distribute it to the palaces, to say the least, it will take a month or two.

According to the speed at which the "goose warm fragrance" entered the palace, the Li family had to have the help of the inner guard.

The emperor naturally understood this truth, and looked at Zhu Lianxi with heavy eyes.

Zhu Lianxi shuddered.

He hurriedly said: "Although the slave and maid are the head of the palace, there has always been a special person in charge of these purchases, and the slave and maid really don't know, let alone ...... Hasn't the poisoning of the Ten Princes been found out, and His Royal Highness King Rui instructed Li Xiangyang, Marquis of Yiyang, to do it? It is not surprising that King Rui and Li Xiangyang, one uses power and the other uses money to buy the inner eunuchs. ”

When Shen Lingxi heard this, he looked at Zhu Lianxi and smiled.

"King Rui wants to kill the Ten Princes, instruct the Imperial Doctor and the nurse to bewitch Zhao Guifei, and then blame me, so that I can kill two birds with one stone and solve the two imperial heirs of the Prince and the Ten Princes. In this game, there is no need for another Li family and Li family's spices. ”

"It is precisely because there is one more Li Xiangyang in this game, and the Li family will become the biggest loophole in this game."

"First, if King Rui is really Li Xiangyang's behind-the-scenes instructions, he will never easily drag the Li family into the game, if he does this, it will be tantamount to forcing the Li family to turn back, doesn't he want to live?"

"Second, Li Xiangyang already has a dislike for his sister Li Xiaoqing, and he doesn't want Li Xiaoqing to show his face, so he will never secretly make a move to help Li Xiaoqing's business."

"Thirdly, this kind of thing 'Goose Warm Fragrance' is involved in the case of the violent death of Emperor Xiaode five years ago, but as long as Li Xiangyang has a little brain, he will not help Mrs. Li and send Goose Warm Fragrance into the palace. Otherwise, wouldn't he be handed a knife and stabbed himself? ”

"What's more, King Rui is just a sick and weak prince, and his mother is only the daughter of a seven-rank county official, with neither power nor money, how can he buy off the people in the inner prison and do such a major event for him to rob his family and exterminate the clan?"

"Therefore, the goose warm fragrance can enter the palace, which is neither arranged by King Rui, nor will it be arranged by Li Xiangyang. Then there was only one person left, and that was Yun Chong's own arrangement. ”

When Zhu Lianxi heard this, he was already panicked.

He hurriedly said: "Haven't you forgotten the crown princess, Li Xiangyang has already pointed out that Yun Chong has a great relationship with King Rui, Yun Chong has been lurking in the Great Zhou for many years, he has money and connections, he helps King Rui ......"

Before he could finish speaking, Shen Lingxi interrupted him, "But Yun Chong went to the Drunken Flower Courtyard on the night of his death and met Mr. Chunshan. ”

Shen Lingxi's gaze fell on the prisoners who were covered with their faces, and asked meaningfully: "Gonggong Zhu, you say, who is Mr. Chunshan?" Who not only acquiesced in Yun Chong's idea of killing the Li family, but also regarded the Li family as an outcast, and helped Yun Chong let Li Xiangyang and King Rui bite each other, so as to put all the blame on the 'ghost for death' King Rui? ”

Zhu Lianxi's pupils suddenly tightened.

Compared with Zhu Lianxi, among the few prisoners covered with white cloths, one of them suddenly twisted his body excitedly and let out a "hmm" scream.

Shen Lingxi glanced at Chunjun.

Chunjun stepped forward directly and reached out to remove the white cloth covering the man's face.

And all the people looked at the man—

immediately recognized that he was none other than the party in Shen Lingxi's mouth, Li Xiangyang, the Marquis of Yiyang.

Li Xiangyang's angry gaze searched for the people on the mausoleum, and when he saw Chu Hong, the king of Wei, who was hiding behind Concubine Qi, his eyes showed a strong hatred.

He never expected that the person who really backstabbed him and let the Li family die was actually the master he was wholeheartedly loyal to.

Chunjun unveiled his mouth at the right time.

"King Wei, we have always been loyal to you, why do you treat me like this!" Li Xiangyang asked hatefully.

As soon as these words came out, a touch of gloom flashed in Chu Hong's eyes.

"Yiyang Hou, you don't want to spew blood." Qi Guifei blocked Li Xiangyang's sight and scolded: "My son has never crossed paths with you, why did he harm you?" ”

Li Xiangyang was already furious, and when he heard Qi Guifei's words, his eyes were cracked, and he looked into Qi Guifei's eyes.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, it was you who said it at the beginning, as long as my Li family is loyal to the King of Wei, and the King of Wei will be crowned a great treasure in the future, my Li family will be the first powerful person in this Great Zhou...... But now, he is not even a prince, he has already unloaded the mill and killed the donkey, your mother and son, is this how you treat us? ”

When everyone present heard this, their faces changed.

As we all know, the Li family is a family that defected from the previous dynasty.

He called Concubine Qi "princess", not the princess of this dynasty, but ......

Thinking of this, everyone, including the emperor, thought of a rumor that had been circulating in the capital before-

“…… Princess Rui was born in a family of the former dynasty, and it is reasonable for the Marquis of Yiyang, as a person who surrendered to the former dynasty, to collude with the old master and attempt to subvert the Great Zhou regime. ”

If Concubine Qi is really the princess of the previous dynasty, then in this rumor, changing 'King Rui' to 'King Wei' is just right!

The emperor's eyes narrowed slightly, he never imagined that the former pillow person, Concubine Qi, who had known him in trouble, still had such an identity.

"Yuan Niang, what he said, is it true?" He asked.

Concubine Qi did not have the slightest panic on her face, she replied slowly, "Your Majesty, the Qi family and the Chu family live next to each other, and the concubine and you have known each other since childhood, what is the identity of the concubine, others don't know, don't you know?" ”

The emperor frowned, and there was a slight wavering on his face.

Li Xiangyang laughed out loud, "The daughter of the Qi family has indeed known the emperor since childhood, but unfortunately, when the Chu family was soaring, she died of illness on the way to Beijing, and you replaced her, all of this was arranged by my Li family." ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Concubine Qi with hatred, and asked with pity: "So, Your Royal Highness Princess, our Li family has done so much for your mother and son, why would King Wei be stupid enough to put us to death?" ”

When Shen Lingxi heard this, his eyes looked at Yun Chong, who was floating beside Li Xiangyang.

At this moment, Yun Chong looked at Li Xiangyang and then at King Wei, smiling happily.

King Wei's backstabbing of Li Xiangyang was actually not King Wei's original intention at the beginning.

It was Yun Chong's personal revenge.

Yun Chong colluded with King Wei and Li Xiangyang to stir up trouble among the powerful in the capital, and lurked beside King Rui, trying to get close to the Queen Mother and Chu Yan in the name of King Rui.

Later, Yun Chong was captured by Chu Yan and taken to Yunjiang.

From beginning to end, neither King Wei nor Li Xiangyang came to the rescue of him.

Therefore, when Shen Lingxi asked Yun Chong to "exchange his work for his life", Yun Chong's first thought was to take Li Xiangyang as a vote.

In this way, he can not only take revenge on Li Xiangyang, but also solve his rival in front of King Wei, so that King Wei can only rely on him.

So, Yun Chong approached Li Xiaoqing and laid out the bureau of "Tianxiang Pavilion".

After Yun Chong died, he went to "Mr. Chunshan" as soon as possible, told the truth what he had done, and threw out the plan of "killing two birds with one stone".

At that time, Yun Chong had pushed the Li family to the cusp, and Li Yuejiao entered the palace as a concubine and was favored by the emperor, so King Wei felt that the Li family had a different heart.

So, King Wei pushed the boat down the river, helped Yun Chong, pulled the Li family into the water, and let the Li family and King Rui "dog eat dog", and he could sit on the Diaoyutai and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

If King Wei had always thought of Li Xiangyang's kindness, he would not have been able to do such a thing of unloading the mill and killing the donkey.

But he just did it.

This is also the reason why Li Xiangyang will leave his anger.

Shen Lingxi, with his understanding of Yun Chong, used him as a chess piece and placed him on the chessboard when he left Yunjiang.

This step by step, Yun Chong really did not disappoint her.

Stupid, bad, self-righteous and intelligent, and extremely ambitious......

This kind of Yun Chong, for his allies, is simply a big killer with all five poisons.

To this day, he is still happy to see the jokes of Li Xiangyang and King Wei's mother and son, and he is complacent. And he didn't realize that he himself was a part of this chess game, Shen Lingxi could only say that stupid people have stupid blessings.

Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan, after Li Xiangyang was imprisoned, never tried him, they were just waiting for today's opportunity-

Only let Li Xiangyang see with his own eyes that the master he serves wholeheartedly is a dog.

He can become the biggest weapon to nail King Wei to this mausoleum.

Thinking of this, Shen Lingxi took a moment to look at Concubine Qi.

"Hongu doesn't understand what you're saying." Concubine Qi frowned and said in a cold voice, "Your Majesty, don't listen to this person's nonsense, he must have been deliberately instigated by someone else." Since he said that he was the man of the wise king, then he must be the man of the wise king. ”

Li Xiangyang seemed to have expected that she would deny it outright, and said directly to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the Qi family and the Chu family live next to each other, and you should know that the Qi family and the Sui family of the previous dynasty are in-laws. The Sui clan is the former dynasty wang clan, the best at the art of poison, the Sui clan people are both men and women, and there are butterfly-shaped birthmarks on their bodies. ”

When the emperor heard this, his face changed slightly.

Li Xiangyang turned his head to look at Concubine Qi Guifei, and said hatefully: "Princess Fengyi, the youngest daughter of the tyrant of the previous dynasty, her mother is the daughter of the Sui family, Princess Fengyi was born, and there is a butterfly-shaped birthmark on her waist. The Li family was friendly with the Sui family, and after the minister surrendered to the Great Zhou Dynasty, he was entrusted by the Sui family to secretly place Princess Fengyi. ”

"The Sui clan, after the fall of the previous dynasty, fell apart and went incognito. At the beginning, in order to gather King Rui and Xu Yuanshan, the second son of Zhenguo Gong, the concubine Niangniang secretly sent the descendants of the Sui family to treat the weak diseases in the womb of King Rui and Xu Yuanshan. ”

"And the person who healed them, the emperor must have heard of it, is the Imperial Doctor Liu who was beheaded five years ago because of the violent death of Emperor Xiaode."

"If the emperor doesn't believe it, this time in prison, the minister has seen the only remaining bloodline of the Liu family-Danzhu, and she has the same birthmark as Concubine Qi."

"After Imperial Physician Liu healed King Rui and Xu Yuanshan for Concubine Qi, they designed it and destroyed the whole family."

"Then, in the harem, Concubine Qi and King Wei, Concubine Wen, who were the best friends, and the Eighth Prince, all died at the hands of their mother and son......"

As soon as these words came out, the emperor turned his head to look at Qi Guifei, and his eyes were full of murderous intent......

(End of chapter)