Su Shi asked, "What did you confirm?" ”

"The actions of the Dark Guard in the past five years have been recorded, and it took me ten days to read them." Zhou Jin said in a deep voice: "In the past five years, my father has used a total of seven hundred and sixty-three secret guards to follow up and investigate one hundred and seven people for five years. During these five years, five people died, 65 still live in the capital, and 37 leave Kyoto. But whether it's people living in Kyoto or people who are leaving Kyoto, everyone has at least two secret guards around them to spy on them. Judging from the records of the dark guards, the following things can be confirmed. ”

Su Zhou obviously knew it for a long time, so his expression did not change, but after Su Shi heard it, he was shocked, because he did not expect that the Son of Heaven would not hesitate to spend such a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources in order to investigate this matter.

In this way, he naturally lost confidence in his own judgment just now.

Because if the Son of Heaven is making a play, first of all, who does he want to do this play for. Secondly, in order to make a show, is it worth spending such a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources?

Su Shi was in a trance, and Zhou Jin continued: "The first thing confirmed by the secret guard is that there is no problem with the judgment of the three imperial doctors on the cause of the prince's death. In fact, in addition to these three imperial doctors, the father also secretly assigned two imperial doctors to investigate the cause of the prince's death, and their conclusions were not different. And in the past five years, there is nothing suspicious about these three imperial doctors. ”

"Does the prince have a hidden illness?"

Zhou Jin replied with great certainty: "No, the prince's brother has no hidden disease, whether it is the imperial doctor who diagnoses the prince on a daily basis, or the five imperial doctors can prove it." ”

Su Shi thought for a moment and continued to ask, "The second thing confirmed by the dark guard is that no one has bewitched the prince. ”

"Bewitching the Prince?" Su Shi was a little puzzled and couldn't help asking.

Zhou Jin nodded and said, "Do you remember that you just told the story of a Taoist priest?" ”

Of course Su Shi remembered.

"Monks and Taoists, these so-called outsiders are the best at demagoguery, and my father was worried that the prince's brother would have such abnormal behavior because he was bewitched by some people, so he sent a secret guard to investigate the whereabouts of the prince's brother and the people he came into contact with every day for three months before his death."

Su Shi sighed at this time: "But nothing has been found. ”

Zhou Jin nodded helplessly: "Among the people that the prince's brother has come into contact with in those three months, not only have there been no monks and Taoist priests, but even the people he has come into contact with have not been in contact with monks and Taoist priests. ”

Su Shi suddenly frowned, and Zhou Jin saw that his expression was different, so he immediately stopped talking.

"Did you think of something?" Su Zhou also noticed Su Shi's abnormality and asked.

"If there are no living people, then no dead people will check them?"

"Dead people?" Zhou Jin and Su Zhou wondered at the same time.

Su Shi sighed: "It's the people who were buried for the prince." ”

Zhou Jin and Su Zhou's faces changed at the same time, obviously they didn't think of it, not only did they not think of this, but even the Son of Heaven didn't think of it.

Zhou Jin's expression became a little hesitant, and she hesitated for a while before saying: "The prince's brother died violently, and under the anger of his father, a total of thirteen eunuchs, maids and guards who served him were killed. But we all know that these thirteen people who serve the prince's brother are actually loyal people, and it is absolutely impossible for them to have different intentions. ”

Su Shi smiled bitterly: "Plus these people are dead, so when the secret guard was investigating, he didn't think about investigating these people again. ”

Zhou Jin finally nodded and sighed, "Yes, the secret guard didn't think about investigating those thirteen people at all when they were investigating. Speaking of this, she smiled bitterly again: "Don't talk about those secret guards, even we didn't think about it at all. ”

Su Shi was also a little helpless, because so long had passed, and now that he wanted to investigate, the matter had already changed, and everything had disappeared.

"Is there a third?"

Zhou Jin obviously hadn't come out of her chagrin yet, and it wasn't until Su Shi asked a question that she cheered up and continued: "The third thing that has been confirmed is that there is nothing suspicious about the one hundred and seven people, so ......"

Su Shi continued: "So the Son of Heaven finally thought that the cause of the prince's death was not suspicious, so he stopped the investigation. ”

"Yes." Zhou Jin said: "But my father saw that I still had to insist on investigating, so he handed over all the files tracked down by the secret guard to me, if you are interested, I can ask someone to move to the General's Mansion." ”

Su Shi hurriedly shook his head and said, "I'm not interested." ”

He really didn't have any interest, as soon as Zhou Jin read it for ten days, it showed that there were a lot of files, and he was not willing to sit in the General's Mansion for ten days to read those boring files.

The second is that Zhou Jin has already finished reading the file, but he still hasn't found anything, which means that the secret guard has not found any useful clues at all, and it will be useless for him to look at it again, so why waste time.

"Anything else?"

"Nope."

Su Shi sighed: "It means that seven hundred and sixty-three secret guards were used to track it down for five years, and then it was verified that the cause of the prince's death was not suspicious, the people the prince came into contact with were not suspicious, and no one was bewitching the prince." ”

"Yes."

Su Shi smiled bitterly: "Then what are you still looking for?" ”

Su Zhou said in a deep voice: "Then how to explain the abnormality of the prince during that period of time, and what he said to us?" ”

Su Shi rubbed his temples and said distressedly: "Then maybe only the prince himself can explain." ”

Su Zhou stared straight at him, and suddenly said, "You are willing to come here today, obviously not to say cool things. ”

Su Shi closed his eyes and thought for a while, then looked at Su Zhou and said, "I still want to know something." ”

"What's the matter?"

"Qin Daodao, why does Lord Qin also want to investigate the cause of the prince's death?"

"Because Lord Qin and the prince are also teachers and friends, and the prince also attaches great importance to Lord Qin, the scholar is the one who knows that he has died, since Lord Qin knows that the cause of the prince's death is suspicious, of course he must investigate it."

"During that period of time, the prince also summoned Lord Qin?"

"Yes." This time he replied to Su Shi's Zhou Jin.

"When? What did the prince say to Lord Qin again? ”

"The twenty-seventh day of the winter month. That day, the prince summoned Lord Qin into the palace, and the two talked about political affairs for half an hour, and when they left, when the prince's brother sent Lord Qin out of the house, he suddenly looked at Lord Qin with a solemn face and said: "Lord Qin, even if there are great changes in this capital, I still hope that Lord Qin will take state affairs first and not worry about idle affairs. ’”

Su Shi couldn't help but be stunned, because no matter how he listened to this sentence, he had a feeling of entrusting the future.

"At that time, Lord Qin didn't know why, and wanted to ask the prince's brother about the meaning of this sentence, but the prince's brother went straight back to the house, so Qin's lord had to press the doubts in his heart and prepare to ask the prince's brother in a few days." Speaking of this, Zhou Jin sighed and said, "Lord Qin naturally didn't know that that meeting had turned out to be a farewell. ”

"And Lord Qin also had doubts about the cause of the prince's death because of that sentence, so he will investigate this matter."

Su Shi clenched his hands into fists and tapped his forehead lightly, as he felt more and more that this matter was simply bizarre.

What Zhou Xuan said to Qin Zhidao was simply a prophecy.

The great change in the capital naturally refers to his death, and he asked Lord Qin not to worry about idle matters, as if he did not want Qin Zhidao to investigate the cause of his death.

This made Su Shi feel extremely strange, because judging from the dialogue between the prince and Su Zhou, Zhou Jin and Qin Zhidao, he seemed to really think that the twenty-ninth day of the winter moon was his death.

Then on the twenty-ninth day of the winter month of the seventh year of Hexing, the prince was born.