The emperor's words were full of pain, and Pei Zhan and Liang Chen, who were still in the hall, couldn't help but feel heavy in their hearts.

The two said: "Please take care of the emperor." ”

The Emperor took a deep breath and did not speak.

On the contrary, when the queen heard this, she raised her head and looked at the two people in front of her: "Do you have anything else to say?" Before they arrive, the emperor and I should know everything we need to know. ”

Pei Zhan was silent for a while, and then said: "Although the methods of King Rong's father and son are cruel, there are a few doubts, and the minister is indeed a little puzzled in his heart. ”

"You say."

Pei Zhan's jaw head: "The minister is puzzled, His Royal Highness the eldest son of the emperor was ten years old when he was separated from the emperor and Niangniang, I heard what Niangniang just said, His Royal Highness is young and heroic, intelligent and abnormal, it stands to reason that since he has arrived in the capital, he should contact the emperor, even if he can't contact directly, he can also find those heroes who followed the emperor in the southern and northern wars to explain their identities and ask for introduction, why did he quietly appear in the capital?" ”

When the emperor and queen heard this, they were all stunned.

"One more point," Pei Zhan further said, "Niangniang has been looking for His Highness for many years, and since he has continued to find some clues about him, which can prove that he was not killed back then, why hasn't he taken the initiative to contact the emperor and Niangniang for so many years?" ”

The emperor is the new monarch who subverted the previous dynasty in one fell swoop, not an unknown person, he can't be found when he turns around and runs into the sea of people, he is the leader of the rebel army, where the war goes, he is there, he is an existence that people look up to, there is no possibility that others want to find him and can't find it.

Even if Yang Yi didn't have the intelligence that the queen said, he was already ten years old back then, and he was already a strong seedling in the barracks, but as long as he didn't die, he would definitely know how to find the emperor and how to return to his parents.

But more than 20 years have passed!

He disappeared like this, and the queen found out that he was not dead back then, but was still alive, and the clue was not broken until six or seven years ago, so why didn't he come to see his parents?

Combined with the task that Old Man Ning gave to Mrs. Ning before his death, the deceased was Yang Yi, the eldest son of the emperor, so many things can be explained.

As the eldest son of the emperor, he does have huge energy, which can bring endless grace to Fu Yun and the Fu family at that time, and raise the identities of the Fu family and Mrs. Ning's mother and son to a whole level.

However, the old man Ning's approach is also very strange, although the Ning family is a businessman, but when fighting against Dayue, they raised a lot of military salaries for the Great Zhou court, and it can be seen from the queen's several mentions of Ning Bochi that the old man is still somewhat decent in front of the emperor.

So, when Ning Bochi came into contact with the emperor's eldest son Yang Yi and also recognized his identity, why didn't he send a message directly to the palace?

Instead, he used such a roundabout way to let Mrs. Ning receive her secretly?

After Pei Zhan's words fell, the emperor began to pace in the hall, and the queen also stabilized her mind, staring at the ground and thinking deeply.

"These questions are right," the Emperor paused under the curtain, "but if nothing else, there is one thing that I may be able to explain, that Yi'er is irreplaceable to me and the Empress, and many years ago, when we first got some news that he might still be alive, we immediately realized that it was not appropriate to do it with great fanfare.

"Because of his special status, he is dangerous until our people actually find him. What's more, Da Yue had already attacked Da Zhou at that time, and if the enemy country knew that our emperor's eldest son was still in exile, and that our couple attached so much importance to him, I am afraid that in the end we would only get an irreparable result.

"That's why we decided to spy on it and send people from multiple sources, you never knew we were looking for Yi'er for so many years, and it was because we did it deliberately.

"Seven years ago, he secretly entered Beijing, perhaps because he knew that we were looking for him, and after getting the news, he also knew that it was not appropriate to make a big noise, so he did not alarm anyone."

After listening to this, Liang Chen nodded at Pei Zhan: "In this way, it is not unreasonable. But in the eighteen years of separation, where is His Highness? What is he doing? Why don't you come to the emperor? ”

One sentence made the four people in the hall fall silent.

Without a doubt, the biggest sticking point is here.

No matter how cautious the father and son are with each other, they can't explain the loss of contact in the middle eighteen years.

In Pei Zhan and Liang Chen's hearts, there was still one more layer of questions, that is, what was Old Man Ning worried about back then? With his connections in the imperial court, it would not be a problem to send Yang Yi back to the palace, why did he choose such a roundabout way?

Also, what happened to Old Man Ning on the dock? Who are the two sides fighting on the docks?

Old Man Ning's distress was told by He Qunying, and now it seems that nine times out of ten, this clue was given to him by Xu Yin, so why did Xu Yin know so much?

Even if he is a descendant of the Wing King's Mansion and has a large number of people who can be sent out to search for news, is his scope too wide?

Thinking of this, Pei Zhan said: "Your Majesty, about Xu Yin, the minister still has important things to do. ”

The emperor came back to his senses from his contemplation, and his eyes fell on his face: "Yes, you entered the palace this time, and you came to sue Xu Yin." ”

He waved his hand and walked back to the edge of the couch and sat down: "You say it." ”

Pei Zhan said: "A few days ago, He Qunying rented two ships from the Ning family, claiming that he wanted to transport a batch of silk from Hangzhou to Beijing, but because He Qunying's silk workshop was opened by embezzling the money of the He family, the minister felt puzzled, so he checked.

In this process, the minister found that Xu Yin and He Qunying had a private connection, and the minister sent someone to Xu Yin's ancestral house in Tanzhou, and found that Xu Yin secretly raised a large number of secret guards in the meantime.

The steward named Zhou Yi gave orders with this token.

"At the same time, among the two merchant ships leased by He Qunying, the minister also hijacked the spies sent by the descendants of the Dayue royal family, according to this person, Xu Yin is very likely to be the grandson of the Wing King of the Great Moon Kingdom."

"What?!"

The emperor and queen raised her head at the same time.

"Xu Yin turned out to be a member of the Great Moon Kingdom?" The queen blurted out, "Isn't he the southerner who the Taiping girl saved from the battlefield back then?" ”

Liang Chen knelt down when he heard this: "The minister should be damned!" At that time, the Liang family didn't know people clearly, and mistakenly thought that the nobles of the enemy country were saved by the people of our dynasty, so that they led the wolf into the house, causing them to kill many people!

"At present, I don't know what his purpose is, and there are evil deeds that have not hurt my Great Zhou Dynasty, if there is, the minister will ask the emperor to send it!"

"Emperor Mingjian!" Pei Zhan also knelt down, "Our army is on the northwest border, and the generals who saved the people in distress at dawn are not only the Liang family, but also Xu Yin, the people in distress rescued by the Liang family are not only Xu Yin, in the eyes of all the soldiers, the lives of innocent people are greater than the sky, and if you don't save them when you die, how can you talk about the husband?"

"What the minister thinks is wrong is not Xu Yin's identity as a countryman, and Liang Ning's kindness is not wrong, what is wrong is that Xu Yin's heart is not right!

"We will fight in the south and north for the peace of the world, not alone, and the tradition of saving people on the battlefield is also handed down from when the emperor led everyone to fight the world!

"Xu Yin was born in Da Zhou and has never lived in Da Yue, if it weren't for his father who has Da Yue human blood, then he would be a Da Zhou citizen through and through!

"The life experience he said can completely match the identity he said!

So Liang Ning couldn't tell his identity, what was wrong?

Not only did she not be able to distinguish it, but those who knew him did not expect that the person who spoke fluent Tanzhou dialect would be the royal family of Dayue!

"Even now, if the minister doesn't provide evidence, who can guess that he Xu Yin will be from Dayue?"

"And Liang Ning, who desperately saved Xu Yin, died under Xu Yin's knife back then!"

The queen gasped again and again after hearing these words, perhaps because she had heard too much shocking content, so that she could only ask a shocked question about the last one: "You said that Liang Ning was killed by Xu Yin?" She wasn't an accident either? ”

"Exactly!" Liang Chen nodded heavily, his chest heaved and he said with red eyes, "Regarding all this, when King Rong is here, the emperor can interrogate the truth from his mouth!"

"Xu Yin killed my aunt at the beginning, because Chen's aunt passed by the scene of the bloody case and picked up the dagger, and when King Rong later searched for the dagger, Xu Yin saw the opportunity to abandon the Liang family and climb to King Rong's mansion, and secretly set fire to kill my aunt!"

"And how did you know all this?"

The queen couldn't contain her shock at all.

The death of the emperor's eldest son is more important to her than everything, but Xu Yin, who Pei Zhan came in to sue this time, was also related to this bloody case, and he even killed the sister of the general of the DPRK and China under the same war situation at that time!

This is an act of ingratitude in private! This kind of person is not worthy of being a tanhualang, and he is not worthy of being an official!

As far as Yu Gong is concerned, he killed the families of the soldiers to shake the military spirit of the generals who resisted the enemy in the rear!

This is not allowed by the imperial court!

"Chen's mother-in-law happened to witness the whole process of the bloody case, because of her low status and family affairs, her mother-in-law hid this secret and did not dare to reveal it.

After that, she had a relationship with Liang Ning, and this dagger was also temporarily asked by Liang Ning to keep it. None of them expected that Liang Ning would be killed soon after. ”

"Your Majesty, the dagger has been taken."

At this point, the eunuch who went to the palace gate to get the dagger came back.

A short dagger glittering with cold light was presented to the emperor.

When the queen saw it, her eyes were moist again, and he gritted his teeth in a trembling voice: "It's this murder weapon that took the lives of my son and grandson?!" ”

Pei Zhan was slightly silent, nodded and said, "It was this knife that Liang Ning took away from the pool of blood in Baiyue Hutong. ”

The queen hid her face and wept bitterly.

The palace maid at the door hurriedly came in to help.

The queen swept them away and tried her best to steady her breath: "Good! Go and spread Xu Yin and let all of them enter the palace! ”

……

Xu Yin said goodbye to the prince and returned to the mansion, and Lian Yu still greeted him at the door.

Xu Yin's gaze stopped at him for a moment, and then strode into the study.

The oncoming glass screen reflected the rays of the sun, which had climbed high but had just found the angle to shoot into the room, like a sword that had just been fed with blood.

Lian Yu followed behind him, and only after he turned around did he say, "It seems that things are not as smooth as expected." ”

Xu Yin tore off the black gauze hat on his head and threw it on the case, and said slowly: "I actually misjudged him." ”

Lian paused: "Who did you see wrong?" ”

"Prince." Xu Yin's eyes were bottomless and unfathomable, "I thought he had mediocre qualifications and was not an emperor's talent, after all, he wanted to bring his favorite concubine to attend the crown ceremony before, but I didn't expect him to be not!" ”

Lian Yu was stunned. "However, the courtiers' evaluation of the prince is just modest and generous, and there are no special words of approval."

"Apparently that's just a façade." Xu Yin sneered, "Not only is he not generous, but the city government is not shallow!" ”

"So what did he say? He doesn't accept your surrender, sir? ”

"He didn't disagree, it's just that he thinks that the handle of me killing Princess Rong is not enough as a vote, and he wants me to get rid of King Rong's father and son!"

Lian Yu couldn't help but be surprised: "How can this be made?" This is going to be done in the Chaorong Palace, isn't that waiting for the emperor to come and arrest him? If you really do it, the prince won't be able to protect you, right? ”

"If it could be done easily, why would he let me do it?" Xu Yin snorted coldly, "Right now, the evidence is in Pei Zhan's hands, and it is likely that it has been presented to the emperor, if King Rong's father and son are arraigned, they will definitely spit out the truth and accuse the prince."

"But there is no definite evidence that the prince is the mastermind, except for King Rong's father and son, the prince can get out.

"So it is inevitable to kill King Rong's father and son.

"And at this time, I killed someone for him, and with these murders in Rongwangfu, I would be dead for any one of them.

"Only by doing this, can he reassure me."

Lian Yu frowned: "From this point of view, it can be seen how hard the emperor's family cultivates the prince. But is the master really going to do it? ”

Xu Yin opened the incense box, twisted a stick of incense, lit it and inserted the incense plug, looked at the slowly rising smoke and said: "I don't have to take refuge in him, but even if it is for myself, King Rong's father and son really can't stay."

"Not only can it be proved that the crown prince killed the emperor's eldest son, only King Rong's father and son, but also King Rong's father and son can prove that I killed Liang Ning.

"I didn't participate in the bloody case in Baiyu Hutong, only Princess Rong really died in my hands, but King Rong's father and son killed the emperor's eldest son, if I want to get out, as long as I tell the emperor all this in turn, I can also make up for it, at least I can't die." But in this way, I will lose the crown prince. It's not worth it.

"Moreover, King Rong knows that I killed Liang Ning, and he will definitely expose me, so I really can't escape this capital crime."

Standing under the curtain, Lian Hong's face was dark: "Then the master is planning to start?" ”