"Wake up so early."

Su Jiao was restless and avoided his gaze, "I can't sleep." ”

Wei Jingji didn't pierce her, his gaze lingered on her for a moment, and then, when he turned over and put on his boots, he paused for half a second, and turned the topic lightly.

"Those women, I'll let them all go today."

Su Jiao wanted him to do this, but now that Wei Jingji had done this, she was not at ease.

He was too calm.

In other words, it is meaningless to ignore the secret decree of the saint at all.

This extraordinary calmness made Su Yao feel that he didn't take the saint in his eyes at all.

When Bai Lu came in to clean up, he unexpectedly saw scattered pieces of dance clothes and rags all over the ground, and the faint morning light hit the ground, and there were several places where fine golden light flashed.

Yesterday, Bai Lu personally put on the dance clothes for Su Yao, and he knew that it was a golden bell strung with red thread at the waist and hips, and now it was scattered all over the ground, and it flashed when the sun shone on it.

She cleaned up some traces and cleaned the red thread hanging from the window before calling someone to clean it.

Su Yao slept until noon, and the whole person was wilting.

Bai Lu handed over an invitation, because Wei Jingji stayed in the main hall last night, she was sincerely happy for Su Yao, and said with a smile: "Crown Princess, this is an invitation from Miss Sheng to invite you to go to Daxiangguo Temple to burn incense and pray for blessings in half a month. ”

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Autumn is high and cool, and the withered yellow leaves are accompanied by the ringing of the ancient temple bells, which has a unique beauty of ancient rhyme.

After Su Yao and Sheng Hua burned incense, they each asked for a few charms, and then sat in the pavilion to enjoy the shade, and several maids stood in front of the pavilion with towel teacups, and the gurgling water moistened the pebbles on the bank of the river.

Fanxiang was pure, and Su Yao's nerves, which had been tense for a long time, gradually relaxed, "Sister Shenghua, how did you think of coming to Daxiangguo Temple to seek marriage?" ”

Sheng Hua took a sip of tea and said, "I just heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is unusual, and has accepted a lot of dancing girls into the East Palace, and I am afraid that you will not be able to think about it for a while, and you will have a dispute with him, so I want to take this excuse to bring you out, one is to relieve your worries, and the other is to teach you some more things." ”

Su Yao leaned on the beauty, fanned the fan and asked, "What to teach me?" ”

"You have no parents or sisters to take care of you, so I treat you as my own sister, that's why I said this to you, and you don't blame me for being a good teacher," Sheng Hua explained, and then said: "I heard that after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince brought back that batch of dancing girls, it didn't take long for them to be dismissed. ”

Su Yao's fan stopped.

"Although you and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are young husband and wife, it is useless to rely on such a little affection in the palace in the future, you should learn to win over people's hearts, I see that you are sullen along the way, and you must have had another dispute with His Royal Highness the Prince," she hesitated, "In order to fill the backyard?" ”

Su Yao didn't know how to explain this to Sheng Hua, so she said simply, "No. ”

Sheng Hua was a little surprised, and wanted to say more, but Su Jiao grabbed the conversation and said as if begging for mercy: "Good sister, don't tell me these truths, I was carried by my grandmother a lot before I got married." ”

After all, she still had a glimmer of hope to stay away from the deep palace.

The sage said that after all, it was Wei Jingji's father, and no matter how unruly he was, he would not be able to resist the decree, right?

Therefore, Su Yao thought about it for several days and came up with a compromise method.

In fact, Heli just said it nicely, and anyone knows that she was deposed as the crown princess.

If she skips all the things in between, as long as she does not follow the rules and behaves according to the appearance that the saint does not like, such as being jealous and domineering Wei Jingji all day long, even if Wei Jingji really accepts anyone, she will not be able to sit in the position of crown princess for long.

In this world, there are still saints after all.

Sheng Hua smiled helplessly, shaking his head while lifting Bao Zhengyuan's marriage talisman and looking at it.

Su Yao looked at her appearance and quipped: "Sister Shenghua has a favorite son-in-law, how can she not stop watching her." ”

Sheng Hua sighed and said, "There is one, but ......."

Her face was a little abnormal, and she looked at Su Yao and said: "But his situation has not been very good recently, and his father and mother are still thinking about it, do you know that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has imprisoned many important ministers through a case, and now the court is like being washed in blood." ”

Su Yao was stunned for a moment, and unconsciously thought of Wei Jingji's calm and indifferent gaze these days.

Some words cannot be explained, but Sheng Hua can use the word "bloodbath" to explain the implication behind this.

Wei Jingji was ordered to supervise the country, and he was once a son of heaven and a courtier, and during this time, his relationship with the saint was probably the same.

Sheng Hua said: "As early as when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince returned to Beijing, some people visited him and accused him of bringing the tyrannical and bloody style of the generals into the court. ”

The Su family is the only one left, no one is in the court, she is in the East Palace, and no one will tell her about the changes outside.

The Sheng family is different, there are many generations of hairpins, there are many capable people, there are not a few officials in the court, and Sheng Hua can hear the wind to some extent.

Su Yao was faintly uneasy, and he wandered for a long time before the fan in his hand moved again.

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The view of the hall of Dali Temple is dim.

Next to the wall engraved with the edict of the Great Zhou, an official dressed in a light blue uniform had a serious face, holding a newspaper in his hand and talking to the official in a low voice.

Another official armed with a fire and water stick brought the shackled prisoners, and the guards counted them according to the roster, and immediately led people into the inner hall with the judges.

The door to the inner hall was closed, and they waited outside.

All kinds of torture instruments were placed on the walls on all sides, and the stinging smell of blood rushed into the nose.

However, a clean desk was placed in the center, and after the desk, Wei Jingji pressed another blood book under the inkstone and laughed without much warmth.

"Seventeen kinds of punishments are a little righteous."

"Your Highness! Your Highness, the old minister knows that he is wrong, and please give the old minister a chance to mend his ways, Your Highness! ”

Wei Jingji crossed out the name of the person who was screaming below, and his eyelids narrowed slightly.

"Death row."

The man who pleaded out suddenly felt a chill all over his body.

Liang Yuan understood, pushed the door and called a few officials, ignoring the hoarse and terrifying roars, and dragged the people to death row.

After coming back, Wei Jingji asked, "There are a few more." ”

Liang Yuan looked through the list and replied: "Fang is the last one, and all the suspects have been interrogated so far." ”

As he spoke, he paused for a moment: "Your Highness, aren't you afraid that the saint will blame you?" ”

Wei Jing sneered lightly: "He wants to surrender his crimes, and it will be difficult to do it early." ”

Liang Yuan was silent, and handed over a letter from his hand: "Your Highness, this is the testimony of a person who was a good friend of Gao in the past. ”

He had already read the contents, and when Wei Jingji read the letter, he gave out all what he knew.

"Gao Qi's family is poor, his life is cold, few people know that he was a frequent visitor to the beauty pavilion when he was young, the beauty pavilion was built at that time, it is difficult to enter the elegant hall, the literati raise their sons to avoid criticism, do not report their real names to the outside world, Gao Qizhi once took the name of "Ling Gongzi", and the then lady concubine Niangniang was a close friend. ”

Speaking of this, Liang Yuan could not help but think of the objections about the background of the five princes.

"In this witness's confession, Gao Qizhi and Concubine Shuniang met earlier than before Concubine Shu's mother entered the palace, and after Shufei Niangniang entered the palace, Gao Qizhi never set foot in the Beauty Pavilion again."

This news came as a surprise to Wei Jingji.

The letter was sent into the candle flame, and it was burned to ashes in an instant, and his eyes were full of interest, "Bring the witnesses and follow me into the palace." ”

Liang Yuan was stunned for a moment, "Your Highness, this is what you want to ......."

Wei Jing didn't know what he was thinking, and his face became cold.

A trace of coldness crossed his eyes, his long sword eyebrows frowned slightly, and he said coldly: "Naturally, I am looking for something to do for the saint." ”

lest he be idle.

Liang Yuan immediately heard the faint anger in the young man's words, and he didn't dare to say more, so he replied: "Yes, Weichen will go and prepare." ”

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The dark clouds hanging over Kyoto are getting bigger and bigger.

The people of the Kyoto family were wise enough to protect their lives, for fear of being implicated in the case of military salaries, and as more and more people were imprisoned, there were many fewer people who criticized Wei Jing.

Although he acted ruthlessly, he had to say that if a saint came to investigate, he would definitely not be as quick as Wei Jingji.

The day before the Prime Minister's Mansion was searched.

Su Yao lay on the beauty couch by the lake and basked in the sun, and the exquisite lacquered red fishing tackle extended the fishing line, and the end sank to the water.

She has received a lot of banquet invitations these days in order to learn more about the situation outside.

Wei Jingji and the sage are in a-for-tat confrontation, whether she can be successfully abolished, but it still depends on the sage, so she found a reason, ask Sheng Hua to pay more attention to the situation in the palace, her aunt is a virtuous concubine, it is easy to know some movements.

When the fish bit the hook and puffed out its cheeks, Bai Lu walked in from outside the moon gate, and her steps were hurried.

"Crown Princess!"

Su Yao sat up from the beauty couch, a little sleepy from the sun, and her skin was white and red.

"Why is there such a hurry? But Sister Shenghua's people came. ”

Bai Lu glanced around, leaned over and said, "Exactly, this is given to the slave maid by Miss Sheng Jia, she said that this is a very important matter, so you must remember to destroy it after reading it." ”

Su Yao took the note and straightened it, the note was clean and ink, and there was only one sentence.

- "The saint is critically ill, and his life will not last beyond the early spring." ”

Her mind shook like falling into an ice cellar.

Chapter 45

Su Yao held the letter paper in his hand and read the words on it many times.

It wasn't until Bai Lu realized that something was wrong and called out to her a few words that she stopped, her jaw pressing against her knees as if she had lost her strength suddenly, looking flustered.

Her heart was in turmoil.

After a long time, he moved his lips.

"Bring me a lamp."

Bai Lu brought the lamp, and the orange candle flame was blown crooked by the wind, and the filigree was covered with letterhead.

She wrapped the ashes in a silk cloth and said worriedly, "Princess, but what's the matter? Your face doesn't look good. ”

These days there is a lot of rain and the air is fresh.

The flowers and plants on the shore are still hanging with droplets of water that are about to fall.

Su Yao looked at the only green grass on the ground, and her appearance reflected in the water droplets was like an extremely soft and transparent cage.