Zhao family

Zhao Li hurried to the study at home and teased the man behind the bookcase.

"Father, it's not good, something happened to Zhao Guifei."

Zhao Shoufu held the bamboo slip in his hand, and when he heard this, his eyes moved, and he raised his head.

He was a sturdy old man, his hair had turned gray, but his eyes were secretive, revealing a shrewdness to the point of insidiousness.

He rolled up the bamboo slip slowly, "What wind did you hear?" ”

"This afternoon, Yikun Palace sent a letter, and the concubine brought someone to identify the champion Hou Qiye, who had a personal affair with Ji Rong's daughter Ji Shu. But things didn't go well. I didn't receive any more letters after dusk, and when I asked again, the concubine had already been grounded by the emperor. Even the six princesses were the same. ”

Zhao Shoufu furrowed his eyebrows, "It's good, what is she going to do against Qi Ye." Where are the three princes, can you send someone to ask? ”

Zhao Li was about to answer, when a movement sounded outside the door of the study, "My lord, the third highness has come down." ”

Zhao Shoufu walked out from behind the bookcase, and it happened that Xie Lian pushed the door in at this time.

"I've seen Your Highness."

"Uncle, grandfather, this is a private house, no need to be polite."

Zhao Li: "It just so happened that His Royal Highness came down, and I was just telling my father that the matter of the concubine being grounded was quite strange. ”

"I already know the cause and effect of this. It was because I knew that I came to inform my uncle and grandfather. ”

The three of them closed the door and had a detailed conversation, but no one in the study spoke.

Xie Lian frowned, turned the jade wrench on his thumb, and said after a long time:

This time, the mother concubine was impulsive, not only failed to move Qi Ye at all, but also fell in front of her father. I came to look for my uncle and grandfather, and I also hope that you will avoid the limelight at the moment and don't touch your father's mold. ”

Zhao Shoufu: "That's true, the emperor is suspicious, and now he must prove that His Royal Highness has no intention of snatching the military power in Qi Ye's hands." ”

Zhao Li's face was ugly, "The previous arrangement can only be postponed." ”

Xie Lian glanced at the door, it was quiet outside, he lowered his voice, his eyebrows were gloomy.

"It's been a long time since there. Start with the Beijing camp drill. ”

Zhao Shoufu: "Your Highness doesn't have to worry too much. They are all veterans, from the ambush in the Dragon and Tiger Army to the pro-army that entered Qi Ye, there is no trace of our interference, even if Qi Ye investigates, he can't find anything. It should be that the wind has been tight in recent days, and there is no news. ”

"Qi Ye is cunning, and now there is another matter of the concubine, I am afraid that he will think of us and affect the plan."

"You keep an eye on it, see if there's any movement in the joint."

The three of them plotted to have a curfew before they knew it.

Xie Lian originally wanted to ask someone to carry a lantern to open the way back to the prince's mansion, but Zhao Shoufu said that it was dark and the road was not easy to walk, so he stayed in Zhao's mansion and vacated an upper room for Xie Lian to live in.

Xie Lian also spent too much energy today, and he quickly fell asleep after extinguishing the candle.

The moon was dark and the wind was high, and in the middle of the night, Xie Lian was awakened by a burst of urine, and pulled the bed curtain and shouted:

"Come on, hold the lamp! The main hall is going to get up at night! ”

The servant who had been on the night quickly woke up, lit a candle and went up to help Xie Lian up.

"Your Highness, the thatched house is outside, and the servants will help you go."

The two walked out of the inner room, the little eunuch walked in front, opened the door and stepped out of the threshold first, and was about to turn around to help Xie Lian, but he was stunned when he raised his eyes.

Smack-

The copper candlestick in his hand fell to the ground, and the faint flame was extinguished instantly.

Xie Lian only felt that his eyes were dizzy, and only the 'moonlight' shrouded the courtyard.

The little eunuch standing in front of him did not move.

Xie Lian pursed his lips and scolded angrily, and stepped forward to pat him: "Dog minion...... The candles can't hold steadily—"

Before he touched it, the little eunuch's body fell down softly, and he didn't make a sound.

Without his cover, a scene in the courtyard fell into Xie Lian's eyes.

His pupils narrowed, and he inhaled sharply, his throat popping.

There were two 'people' kneeling in the square courtyard.

They could no longer be said to be human, and by the moonlight they could see that their faces were distorted, and their naked bodies were covered with traces of severe torture.

The two of them knelt under the step, their eyes rounded, their gray pupils still lingering with pain and fear, and their mouths were wide open and torn under the base of their ears.

From above, it was clear that they had all been poured something into their bodies to keep the corpse standing, and it was poured all the way to their mouths, and it was these that supported the wick and burned slowly.

Xie Lian's body stiffened for an unknown amount of time, and when he reacted, it was already wet and cold under him.

He was trembling, breathing with great difficulty, and tried to lift his legs to leave, but he lost his balance due to the stiffness of his limbs and fell down.

Directly with the secret rape who made adult wax, came to face veneer.

"Ahhhhh!!hh

The entire Zhao Mansion was woken up by this scream.

Zhao Shoufu and Zhao Li rushed out of the door, followed by a roar of ghosts.

At the same time, the imperial city and the palace were extremely quiet.

Zhao Guifei slept sweetly in the dormitory, but in her dreams, she always felt that there was a bad smell lingering on the tip of her nose, which disturbed her good dreams, and she opened her sleepy eyes-

A head was hanging above her head, and a pair of protruding eyes were staring!!

The moonlight peeked through the bed tent, shining on this gray face, leaving only two bloody holes in his ears, and his eyes were full of horror.

It's not the eunuch Zhou Qing who did things for her before! Who else could it be!

Zhao Guifei's mouth opened wide, and after a few deep breaths, she screamed loudly-

"Ahhhh

She rushed off the bed, and when her aunt rushed to the room at night, Zhao Guifei was so frightened that she curled up in the corner and screamed.

"! Mother, what's wrong with you, mother! ”

"Bed! There is a dead man's head on the bed!! There's a dead man's head on the bed! Come! Come on—"

Zhao Guifei climbed out of the inner dormitory, and as soon as she came, the guards outside the hall did not dare to relax, and broke in one after another.

As soon as she opened the bed, her aunt was stunned, "Niangniang, no, Niangniang!" Mother, are you having a nightmare? ”

Zhao Guifei was frightened, hiding behind the screen and refusing to come out.

The mouth muttered, "Dead man's head, dead man's head...... Don't come to me! Don't come to me! I didn't kill you! It's not me—"

There was a commotion in the hall, and Zhao Guifei's blood surged, her eyes rolled, and she was stunned.

……

When Xie Lian woke up, there was no one in the house, he recalled the scene before he fainted, his hands trembled badly, and he quickly lifted the brocade quilt and stumbled to the ground, snatching the door out.

Zhao Shoufu happened to come up from under the corridor, the two looked at each other, Zhao Shoufu was as pale as ever, but better than Xie Lian.

Xie Lian's lips trembled, "Grandfather, grandfather ......"

"Come into the house and say."

Zhao Shoufu urged him to enter the door, and ordered someone to close the door.

He said in a deep voice: "The corpses have been moved to the dark room, and a few people have seen it, and your uncle will solve it." You also have two or three secret guards there, and your grandfather has already cleaned them up for you. ”

Zhao Shoufu's face was expressionless and full of cruelty.

"The secret guards around you, as well as the people in my house, need to be replaced. A bunch of useless waste, so blatantly letting people come and go freely! ”