The Xiao family was originally a small family, and it was only after Empress Xiaowei became the empress that they rose to become the emerging magnates of the imperial capital. Emperor Xiaotian once stipulated that the imperial family could not be given a hereditary title, in order to prevent the imperial family from shaking the foundation of the empire in later generations, but it did not stipulate that the imperial family could not enter the court as officials.

Of the three members of the Xiao family who served in the DPRK, two of them were in the Ministry of Military Industry, which was the Ministry of Military Industry in the Sixth Ministry.

The three magic crystal cannons that blew Di Xue half to death in the knight's cemetery were from the Ministry of Military Industry.

This is the first suspicion of the Xiao family.

The second suspicion or motive is that Di Xue will turn twenty years old this year.

According to the rules of the imperial family, after the prince reaches the age of 20, he will generally be crowned the prince on the New Year's Day of the following year, that is, the national day of the empire, or directly the crown prince.

The crown prince's position is rarely changed once it is conferred, and the crown prince is generally succeeded to the throne in the history of the empire, and the crown prince of the Rose royal family does not have the saying of being young and old, but selects the virtuous and capable, but even so, Di Xue is a world-famous magic genius, and secondly, he has performed extremely well in all aspects over the years, in the eyes of the imperial ministers, His Majesty is very fond of Di Xue, so after the age of twenty, if Di Xue is directly crowned Emperor Xue as the prince, it is definitely not an accident.

But...... Now the empire is not only Di Xue, but Di Xue also has a younger brother.

Empress Xiaowei would not have the idea of letting her son, the second prince Emperor Huanxiao, compete with Emperor Xue for the crown prince, because she knew that no one could leave or right the will of His Majesty, but this did not mean that the people of the Xiao family did not have this idea.

Emperor Huanxiao is only four years old this year, even if Di Xue is not crowned prince this year, it will definitely be sealed long ago after Emperor Huanxiao is twenty years old, the Xiao family, as the main family of Empress Xiaowei, wants to support the second prince Emperor Huanxiao, it is certain, if the future emperor is Emperor Huanxiao, then the Xiao family will be able to gain greater power in the empire, but if Di Xue will be crowned the prince on New Year's Day next year, then the hope of the Xiao family will completely become a bubble, and the future will be a noble royal family at best. At this time, if someone has a heart to help the trouble, then it is very likely that the Xiao family will be ruthlessly involved in the assassination of Di Xue.

In addition, as Princess Dilan said, the Xiao family is an emerging magnate, and it is possible that they do not know about the protection of the Eternal Tower, which has always been regarded as a royal secret and is strictly kept secret, so the possibility of the Xiao family taking risks is indeed very high.

In the investigation of the case of the Knight's Cemetery, there are also more than half of the clues pointing to the Xiao family and Empress Xiaowei, even if the truth of the most lull has nothing to do with the Xiao family, but the deliberate framing of the mastermind behind the scenes, this framing is also purposeful, the purpose is to make Di Xue and Di Lan and His Majesty Lean Fence have a trace of suspicion about the Xiao family and even Empress Xiaowei from now on, this intention to provoke the internal relationship of the royal family and thus disrupt the dynasty is really extremely sinister and insidious, which is what Di Xue said The seeds of suspicion and psychological trap.

Di Xue naturally will not fall into this psychological trap easily, but thinking from an objective point of view, it is indeed necessary to investigate the suspicion of the Xiao family, Di Xue held his chin and pondered for a moment, and said: " Xiao Lan and Xiao Qingfeng are two people I have come into contact with, they are both open-minded people who are not deep in the city, they concentrate on academic research and have no distractions, so my father will let them serve in the Ministry of Military Industry, and the general who hanged himself and left a suicide note admitting that he assassinated me is only a distant in-law relationship with the Xiao family, I feel that it is unlikely that the Xiao family will participate in the knight's cemetery. ”

Xiao Lan and Xiao Qingfeng mentioned by Di Xue are the two people who work in the Ministry of Military Industry of the Xiao family, Xiao Lan is the head of the Xiao family and the biological father of Empress Xiaowei, and Xiao Qingfeng is the younger brother of Empress Xiaowei.

Princess Tiran said: " Originally, after the Brotherhood of Light learned that the matter of the Knight's Cemetery had signs of the involvement of the Dark Brotherhood of the Continent on the other side, Master Herris personally came to the Eternal City to prepare to lead the power of the Brotherhood of Light to join the investigation, but since the suspicious matter of the Xiao family and the queen was known by Master Herris, the Brotherhood of Light, which has never been involved in imperial government and royal disputes, immediately withdrew from the investigation, and Master Herris also left the Eternal City, which made me lose a big help in vain!

I asked you to act in front of the ministers before, but it was also because I lost the strength of the Brotherhood of Light and couldn't let go of my hands and feet in many things, so I asked you to warn some restless people who like to meddle in things, so as to save me trouble. ”

Di Xue said, "I see, I was still wondering how Master Herris could leave Eternal City. ”

Princess Dilan still didn't know about Master Lu Dao Heris going to Di Xue to take Taylor, so she said curiously: "You just came back, and you know the news of Master Lu Dao Herris's departure?"

Thinking of someone taking away his cute little Taylor, Di Xue looked resentful: "Of course I know that when I was in Red Maple Town, he went to me and took Taylor away, saying that he wanted to take her to break through the Grandmaster realm." ”

Princess Dilan immediately gave Di Xue a look of pity, mentioning Taylor, the fire of gossip in Princess Dilan's heart burned again, before Di Xue didn't mention half a word about his Xiyue and his party in the correspondence, it had already annoyed Princess Di Lan Okay, this damn brother actually refused to tell her at all!

So Princess Dilan immediately leaned closer, and asked with a gossip on her face: "Tell my sister quickly, you went to Taylor this time, did you make any progress with Taylor's sister?"

Di Xue touched her chin a little embarrassed and said, "What's the progress...... Of course, there is a little. ”

Of course, Princess Tilan was not satisfied with this answer: "How much is one point? What are you doing with Taylor in the fog forest for so long?"

Di Xue thought about it, since she had promised the dark elf clan not to reveal the location of Greenstad to others, even if it was her own sister, she could not be an exception, so she said to Princess Dilan: "After Taylor was attacked and injured outside the fog forest, he hid in a relatively secret underground secret realm in the fog forest, and I also found the underground secret realm by chance, and then I accompanied Taylor to recuperate for a period of time, and when Taylor recovered from his injury, we will come out, and you should know everything after that, as for the progress...... Well, we confessed to each other and did some of the things that a couple should do. ”

In fact, what Di Xue said about what couples should do is just to pull a little hand and kiss a small mouth, and he and Taylor have indeed only done so much, although he really wants to do more, but he has no chance......

But Princess Dilan doesn't just think so, the atmosphere of the Manhua Empire is very open, and she takes it for granted that "things that should be done between lovers" are not so simple...... Her Royal Highness the princess silently gave a thumbs up to her brother in her heart!

Princess Dilan, who satisfied the gossip**, gave Di Xue an approving look, and Di Xue was a little hairy, sister, did you misunderstand something......

Without waiting for Di Xue to explain, Princess Di Lan looked at the time and said: "It's not too early, I just came from my father before I came to you, it is estimated that my father will be busy after a while, you can prepare now, wait with me to go to my father to say goodbye." ”

Di Xue left immediately to make some preparations.

Looking at the back of Di Xue leaving, Princess Di Lan smiled bitterly in her heart, her younger brother, after all, her heart was too soft.

She knew Di Xue too well! She knew that Di Xue had excused the Xiao family before, because he regarded the queen as his family, so he didn't want to doubt the queen's family, and Di Xue has been participating in the research of new magic flying saucers in the past few years, and has often worked with Xiao Lan and Xiao Qingfeng of the Ministry of Military Industry, and the relationship is not bad, with Di Xue's character, it is not so much that it feels not, but in fact, he instinctively does not want to believe that they will betray him.

Di Xue has always been introverted, he doesn't like to talk much in front of outsiders, and he doesn't have too many friends, but as long as he approves of the person, he will treat it sincerely, he usually acts calmly and moderately, but as long as he encounters something related to him, he will show some impulsiveness, this time he went to Xiyue Province desperately for Taylor, which is the best proof.

Because of him, he doesn't want to see anyone he cares about get hurt in any way!

Even if that person will hurt him......

This kind of character is really not suitable for being born in the royal family, but fortunately, this generation is great and wise under His Majesty, and there are no sinister intrigues in the Tower of Eternity.

Princess Dilan sighed in her heart, in fact, in the case of the knight's cemetery, in addition to the Xiao family, there is another family that is suspected, that is, the Tantai family, one of the five major families in the empire now!

After the incident in the Knight's Cemetery, the empire immediately launched a comprehensive investigation, and about a week after Di Xue's assassination, eight things happened on the Heroic Soul Plain (Note (1)), and many people died, among these eight things, except for the city lord of Winter City, who was ashamed of his lax rule and really asked himself to return to old age, each of the other seven things died, and these people were all "abandoned children" thrown by the main messenger behind the Knight Cemetery incident, Princess Dilan followed these abandoned sons to investigate, and found that they each pointed to two families.

In addition to the clues mentioned earlier and pointing to the Xiao family and the empress, the middle- and low-level generals of the military who resisted arrest and incited resistance and were shot to death by the pro-guards, the corpses of the ministers who were killed in the moat, and the city defense commander of the Cold Winter City who killed himself in prison, these clues point to the Lantai family.

The role of the abandoned child is to confuse, mislead or bait, and the two suspect families, one of them may be behind the scenes, or both, and it may not be either.

Just now, Princess Dilan had been thinking about whether to tell Di Xue that the Tantai family was also suspicious, but after hesitating for a long time, she still didn't tell him.

The only direct male of the Tantai family's generation, Ding Tangtai Mingjing, is Di Xue's only best friend, if it is found out that the Tantai family is involved in the case, then no matter whether the Tantai Spiegel has anything to do with this matter or not, he will definitely be implicated, exiled at the least, and killed at the worst, it must be the result that the love and righteousness of Di Xue can't bear to see.

Princess Dilan didn't want to see Di Xue embarrassed, so she didn't tell Di Xue about the suspicion of the Tantai family.

Princess Dilan, who was sitting quietly, had a cold look in her eyes, if this game of chess is at its worst, and it is really such a situation, then brother, what you don't want to do, my sister will help you do it, and if you don't want to kill, my sister will help you kill!

Only you are my only younger brother, after my mother died, there is no one in this world who I care about except you and my father, as long as I am in this world for a day, then I will help you for a day.

Even what I do may make you resent me......

(Note (1): See Chapter 13 for Eight Things.)