Chasing death and chasing north

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Amused by his expression in the dream, I reluctantly woke up in the sound of Zheng Bingzhi's calling, feeling a long-lost joy.

"Um?"

"It's five watch, it's time to get ready for morning."

I stared at the lowered bed curtain for a while before I woke up a little.Turning his head slightly, he was sleeping peacefully beside me with his back to me.I just woke up, and my movements were still a little sluggish, I slowly reached out and stroked his bare back slowly.The other party didn't respond.Had a great time last night, he was sore all over, he may not have slept soundly, but he just didn't want to pay attention to me.

The aftertaste of the carnival is still there. If it was the insatiable moment at the beginning, it will inevitably be another one-sided vent.The strong desire for him has never changed, and now I can restrain it because I know that it will only make him hate him more, or has it become calm unconsciously?

While washing and dressing under the service of Zheng Bingzhi and the little eunuchs, this silly question kept lingering in my mind.

After afternoon, when I was changing clothes, I suddenly remembered a small thing.

"It's hot, so I'll make some cool clothes and send them to Huifeng Garden. I'll use the Lingling silk from Jiangnan's tribute a few days ago."

Zheng Bingzhi bowed and said, "Yes, this servant will go back and measure the size."

"No need." I stretched out my hand, compared his length from head to toe in the air, and reported the size after a little thought.

He is slightly shorter than me, with a bony body. Most of the muscles in his hands, feet, chest and abdomen have disappeared, leaving only a layer of skin that is miserable white due to lack of light.

From head to toe, there is no attractive figure at all.To be honest, I am afraid that most of the rich and powerful men and women of this age in Beijing are more beautiful than him.But when I compared it like this, it was as if my hands were really touching his body, and it was almost uncontrollable.

"Your Majesty, the queen empress brought a message to ask for a few horses of silk."

She was well informed.I managed to regain my composure and said, "Everything is business as usual."

"Yes."

I hid a very important person in Huifeng Garden, this is already an open secret in the imperial city.Not only do I sleep with him every night, but the best tributes for food, clothing and play are always sent to him first, and if there is any leftover, I will reward my concubines.The queen took the initiative to ask for it, but it was just to test my attitude after the palace lady became pregnant.

No one knows the identity of this person, the Imperial Forest Army can only patrol the outside and cannot enter, and the servants and maids assigned to serve the daily life are all entered the palace after I ascended the throne, and I can't recognize him when I meet him, let alone being in such a situation Confidentially.Naturally, some people are curious, but they are all afraid of my methods, and no one dares to try to inquire.

Now let the queen know that the person I cherish and value is a man, so what?

If I were afraid of people's words, how could I be here today.I'm not afraid that people all over the world will know that the current emperor has the habit of Longyang. The crimes of conspiring to usurp the throne and murdering relatives are far more eye-catching than Longyang. Why not add one more?

But he was not voluntary after all, I was afraid that he would find a gap and leave if he didn't pay attention, so I used this method to imprison him, even if he was only a walking dead, it was better than the long-awaited and inaccessible torment day and night.

Shaking my head and not thinking about it, I concentrated on flipping through the piles of letters on the table.Recently, there is no urgent matter in the court, and the appointment of the crown prince has appeared in the daily memorials.

Since ascension to the throne, except for the relocation of the concubines of the Supreme Emperor and the family members of the original East Palace, the structure of the "family" has not changed.

The ministers took turns admonishing them to accept the ladies from all over the world, and the queen also wrote a letter to mention this, but they didn't agree.It doesn't matter to me how many women are neglected, but as far as ruling the world is concerned, it is still possible to save money if it consumes people's energy.

I have a son with Empress Li, Concubine Zhai, and Concubine Qin. Di’s son Yuan Qi is the longest, Li’s son Yuanyou is the legitimate son, and Qin’s son Yuanzhen is the last.The eldest son should be established as the heir apparent, but I have not intended to establish an heir for a long time, and the relationship with the Zhai family is obviously closer than that of the Li family, so it is only natural that the empress and Li Guozhang are uneasy.

I have no intention of pampering my relatives, and the feudal powers granted to them are limited.Li Guozhang acted cautiously. When he was in charge of the bureaucracy, he had a lot of political achievements, and now he is at home; Li's elder brothers, each of them served in the local government and the court.

And Mingyuan's father, Cai Guogong, has not been involved in political affairs for many years, and some of his sons and nephews are quite capable, and they hold important positions in the court. Mingyuan's colleagues in the old ministry back then are not a few who are now among the ministers.When it comes to the ambitions of the prince's mother's family back then, the two parties are probably on the same level.

There may be only the three sons in front of me. Although the choice is limited, I still want to wait until they are older before making a decision. Based on current observations, there is no son worthy of entrusting Jiangshan.

While thinking about the words of the imperial criticism, Zheng Bingzhi reported that the inner guard had something important to report.

The man who was wrapped up tightly put the things on the table silently, saluted, and then hurriedly left.

What he brought was not unexpected.

I was in my prime, and if nothing unexpected happened, I would not be able to survive for ten or twenty years, but the government has been divided into two factions because of this matter, of course, there are quite a few people who stand by and watch.The barriers between the two systems are clearly defined, causing mutual constraints. For me, a loner, it is often a good thing, so I let them go.

But making friends is another matter.

Li Guozhang and Zuo Xun, the Governor of Monan, were the top scholars in the same discipline in the previous dynasty. The Guozhang always put their personal relationship in a very open position, but unfortunately his son did not learn from his father's wisdom.When I received this secret letter from the second son of the Li family to the governor's office, I was even more certain of this.

The five-sheet gift list is long, and the value of any item on it will cost at least three years of salary for a fourth-rank official. this matter.

I sent the boss of the Li family to meet with the imperial study alone and give him the gift list.As the pages were turned down, the middle-aged man known for his calmness rolled to the ground, and his hands couldn't help shaking. After turning the last page, he finally couldn't help his knees softening, and he Kneeling on the ground, there was no trace of blood on his face.

"Your minister is helpless, he deserves death!"

"Why did Li Qing say that?" I took a sip of tea and said slowly, "I really don't want to make the empress sad and worried, let alone disturb the old man, so I came to Li Aiqing to ask how to deal with this matter. good?"

He looked at me in panic, as if he wanted to find a way to deal with it from my expression, he immediately gave up, bowed his head and said in a deep voice: "It's unfortunate for my family, please Your Majesty judge impartially."

It's just a knock on the mountain, and it's enough to click it.I nodded approvingly, and said, "It's rare that Li Qing is sensible, and I'm very pleased."

"Your Majesty's absurd praise, I am ashamed to accept it!" The boss of the Li family responded loudly with a trembling throat, saying that he was completely lying on the ground, with his head deeply buried between his arms.

After meeting my brother-in-law, I will drive to the queen's bedroom.Mrs. Li raised her eyebrows and lowered her prime minister to greet her, as if what happened yesterday never happened.

I came to her yesterday to talk about sending off a palace lady.The Supreme Emperor was very happy, and the inner court was overwhelmed with people. In the past few years, several of the Supreme Emperor's concubines had passed away, and there were more and more free manpower. It was time to find something to keep the Queen and the others busy.Whether you are favored by me or not, as long as you are in the position, you will seek your own government. In this section, the queen is no different from the emperor.

"Your Majesty is sympathetic to the people and does not want to be drafted." The queen gave me a special look, which made me feel a little uncomfortable. I just heard her continue: "But there are a lot of chores in the palace, and the replacement of palace people is inevitable. Concubine I think, after this repatriation, we simply set a rule, select a group of court ladies every three years, and at the same time send an equal number of girls back to their hometowns to marry, and when they are released, each will be given a sum of money as a dowry, Your Majesty how about?"

I couldn't help nodding, her plan was exactly what I wanted. "According to this statement, you discuss with the other three people and come up with a plan, and I can implement it after reviewing it."

"Yes."

Seeing that she was still looking at me intently, I had no choice but to comfort her with gentle words: "The Queen is in charge of the harem affairs, it has always been hard work."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your understanding." She stood up and bowed her knees as a salute. "The concubine is doing her duty... that's all she can do." She forced a smile at me as she spoke.

The atmosphere was so stiff that I couldn't bear to sit for a long time, so I stood up and said, "Let's do the same in the future. If I can afford it, I will give it to you."

I wanted to tell her about my uncle Guo, but I couldn't say it for a while, so I just drove back to Huifeng Garden.

In the autumn of the fourth year of Hongchu, the son of the state, Siye Li, was demoted to Nanhuang by greedy ink, and hanged himself in the road.

My brother can see his only remaining son Yuanxi once a month. This is our agreement. I don't want anyone who disturbs his mind to appear in that secret room, so the meeting place is always on the third floor of the library.

After the coercion incident four years ago, Yuanxi fell into a madness from time to time, and he was usually not allowed to step out of the palace gate of his residence, so he felt that everything was new on the way he came, wandering around for a long time before arriving, often It was dirty all over, and the attendants were also out of breath.

Before Yuanxi arrived, his elder brother always leaned against the window, quietly watching the scenery of the hill behind Huifeng Garden. This was the only occasion where he could get in touch with the outside world.The library building is located on a very high ground, and there are heavy guards around the hill, so there is no need to worry about any accidents or being discovered by someone, so I will not stop him.

"Father!" Yuan Xi stumbled and pushed the door open, sweating profusely, and could smell the peculiar smell from two feet away.

The attendant next to him knelt at the door, and the leading eunuch explained tremblingly: "Your Majesty, the servants will go out after lunch. Your Highness ran all the way to the Royal Garden. When he was climbing a tree, he fell down. Fortunately, there is no serious injury; Going to the imperial dining room and playing with some roosters, thus delaying the time...Your Majesty, forgive me!"

"Father! I'm hungry!"

Yuanxi interrupted the attendant's narration, put his hands behind his back, and looked at me with a smile. "Father Emperor" is naturally calling me, on top of the clan's jade certificate, he is the prince who has adopted me.

Without waiting for my reaction, the 14-year-old half-grown child suddenly pulled away the chair opposite me, jumped up and squatted on it, grabbed the snacks on the table and devoured them.His hands are still relatively clean, presumably they were barely cleaned on the way here.

I motioned for the eunuch who followed me to retreat, and the door closed.

The elder brother came out from behind the screen and sat down beside him, Wen Yan asked: "Xi'er, what did you play today?"

If it was in the old days when children were surrounded by their knees, this child who was born out of concubine might not be happy to look at it a few more times, but now there is only one seedling left, but it looks a hundred times more precious.

"I fought with the big cock, it was very fun!" Yuan Xi, with his mouth full of food, excitedly pulled his brother to tell his heroic deeds.

The elder brother listened intently, occasionally asking some irrelevant questions.

"...I can't tell! Uncle, let's go together next time!" Yuan Xi poured the bird's nest soup into his mouth, and spit out some spit when he spoke.

"Okay." The relaxed expression similar to a smile kept flashing on my brother's face, and I focused on capturing it with all my strength.

Just to see him behave like a living person, I agreed to this monthly meeting.However, Yuanxi's situation was good and bad, if he suddenly went crazy, he would postpone the meeting arrangement later.

When this kind of situation first appeared, he would suspect that I would not let his father and son meet, and even willing to put down his body and obey my courtship, and then ask me after the matter.I see through his intentions, and sometimes deliberately delay the time, of course, this trick should not be used frequently.

Maybe it was because my eyes were too hot, my brother suddenly stopped the meaningless conversation and stared over in displeasure.I laughed, looked away, and looked at the other person.

Another bowl was knocked over, and the soup flowed all over the table. Zheng Bingzhi hurried forward to deal with it.Yuanxi's clumsy movements are in stark contrast to his neat appearance. If others see him like this, everyone will sigh a pity.

Giving up his will to die for such a bondage that is worse than death, is there any meaning to his brother's choice?However, if Yuanxi is still a normal person, I will probably be on guard against him everywhere now, and he will be imprisoned tightly and unable to move an inch.

I don't have a deep impression of the normal Yuanxi in the past. I was always one of the children who worshiped and shouted "Uncle Huang is so capable".Leaving aside the imperial physician's diagnosis, a ten-year-old child would have been greatly irritated when he saw that kind of scene, and he was not cheerful, so it was reasonable for him to go mad.

But I always feel uneasy. After all, no one knows better than me how quiet and well-behaved Sun Zhaoan was when he was a child, and how deep and dark his heart was.It's not that he didn't suspect it, but he drank bad water, ate mud, fell into the hut to pick up a kite, and incontinence was even more common... A child who is only ten years old should never have such deep scheming and perseverance.

According to my personality, once I have doubts, I must resolve them, and I will not allow them to grow again, but there is no second choice for this matter. Even Yuanxi's life is barely preserved. It is easy to kill him. But after that, I have no way to threaten my brother.

At this time, I just quietly watched their father and son getting along.

There was a considerable distance between the seats of his elder brother and Yuan Xi. He talked to his son gently, but never touched him actively.The child smiled for no reason and drooled from the corners of his mouth. The elder brother frowned and moved his hand holding the handkerchief, but he didn't wipe it off after all.

Since it is only this level of care, then as long as there is an existence similar to Yuanxi, it can be replaced - I almost forgot about that, since Yuanxi is not the only bargaining chip, this child is no longer a rare commodity.

"Hey, eat more." I casually put some food on his plate, putting on a friendly air.

Yuan Xi pushed that thing onto the table with his fingers, his whole face wrinkled childishly, and muttered, "Mushrooms stink! I hate it!"

"Then let's not eat it." The elder brother said plainly, lowered his head and took a sip of the soup. His clear silhouette was outlined by the candlelight.

At this moment, without any warning, three figures suddenly jumped down from the top of my head, the cold light flashed, my coat was cut by the dagger, the sound was harsh, I barely avoided a blow, and in the blink of an eye, a pair of Emei thorns pierced my arms As soon as I dodged it, I was almost hit by a judge's pen at the waist.

After a few tricks, I broke out in a cold sweat—the people here are not weak!The three of them are all using close-quarters fighting weapons, and they show their killing intent, and they are afraid that they want to die with me.I calm down and deal with it with all my strength.

"There is an assassin!" Zheng Bingzhi shouted towards the door, and then he jumped up and entangled the assassin who wielded the dagger. Although he had studied martial arts with a teacher for a few days before entering the palace, facing such a powerful enemy, at most he could It can only last up to twenty strokes.

Twenty strokes was enough time for me to take care of the remaining two people, but these years there are few actual combats, and I have indeed laid down a lot of kung fu in the past. Although I have the upper hand, the advantage is weak, and I can't help but feel a little regretful. Da, as soon as he came here, he slackened his vigilance, and only ordered the Imperial Forest Army to be on duty downstairs.He heard the noise of fighting downstairs, he thought it was the assassin and his accomplices.

Yuan Xi screamed and started to cry, I didn't intend to care about his life, and I saw my brother dragging him to hide in a corner from the corner of my eyes, and I felt relieved.

In an instant, more than ten moves were dismantled, and Zheng Bingzhi's strength was getting more and more difficult. The person who made the Judge's Pen was already knocked out by my kick, but the person who made the Emei Stab was extremely brave. Fatal, but still attacking with all his strength, his hands are full of desperate killing moves.

Except for a few assassinations at the beginning of my ascension, I have not encountered such strong and direct hostility in more than four years.

Feeling that his strength was getting more and more difficult, Xue Fan shouted and kicked open the door. He showed his long knife and wrestled with the assassin.

"well enough?"

I pushed away the panting little eunuch who came up to help bandage me, held the wound on my right arm and walked to the hiding place of my brother and Yuanxi.The elder brother didn't speak, looking at the blood stains all over the floor, his eyes were empty.

"The dog emperor dies!"

Before the words were finished, the sound of piercing the sky sounded from the back of their heads, everyone exclaimed, I took a step to the left, and the dagger pierced shallowly into the beam in front of the right.

Liang Zhu stretched out a small hand, and pulled out the dagger neatly. I was a little surprised. I saw Yuan Xi staring at the dagger in his hand, and suddenly let out a crazy roar, and pointed the sharp blade at his brother's chest. Plug it in.

The square inch tightened suddenly, and the composure I had lost when facing the enemy just now, I raised my dominant right hand to grab his arm, and I didn't remember the injury here until I felt severe pain in my upper arm.

The frenzied child was unexpectedly strong, and he broke free from me with a flick of his hand, and rushed to attack his father again.I inserted between the two of them, and pushed away the dazed elder brother, and then there was a piercing pain in my back.

"His Majesty!"

"His Majesty!"

Compared to the enthusiasm of the group, my brother just let out a soft "ah" - this was the last sound that reached my ears.

It was dark all around, I walked in a certain direction without any hesitation, I couldn't tell where the destination was, it seemed to be pushed by a force somewhere.After an unknown amount of time, there was a faint light on both sides of the road.The light was erratic, like the phosphorescent fire on the cemetery.

With that light, I could clearly see the material of the road under my feet, and I couldn't help feeling horrified—it wasn't the large and small stones I thought before, but countless dismantled skeletons.Who knows who spliced ​​these dead bones into an almost flat road, as big as the gap between the ribs of a skull, all of which are tightly embedded with fragmentary small bones and teeth of different thicknesses, and a few finger bones are extremely small, which seem to belong to the future. adult children.

The faint light of the phosphorus fire was suddenly replaced by a red meteor. The countless bands of light that fell from the midair had just flashed, and then fell into an invisible distance. In front of me was a vast expanse of white wilderness, boundless. I looked around, but there was no shadow of any living thing .

Zheng Bingzhi!Xue Fan!Lu Shuanghu!He called out everyone's names, but there was no response.

Only then did I realize it was a dream.I have had quite a few nightmares, and this one is especially weird, but it doesn't matter, no matter how long the night is, I will always be called up by Zheng Bingzhi to go to the morning court, and I simply sit down and wait for the time to pass.

A chill suddenly penetrated my neck, I turned my head, and couldn't help gasping—a head with disheveled hair was hanging in the air.

"Second Brother, Second Brother! Let's go find Big Brother!" A child's voice came from the black hole in the head, calling me cheerfully.

I couldn't maintain my composure, so I stood up and ran, and the head chased after me with a smile.

After running a few steps, a skeleton with a big hole in its chest stopped in front of me, and said excitedly: "Brother Zhao'an, we concubines may not be able to win the concubine!"

I made a detour, and the head and bones followed like a shadow, and another familiar voice came from the opposite direction: "Zhaoan, I got the purple snow lotus! Come here, come and have a look!"

I covered my ears in dismay, and ran faster. I didn't expect to be caught by something, and I tripped and fell to the ground. I looked around in panic, and a pair of intact hand bones stretched out from the ground, holding my hand tightly. ankle.

"Er—brother—", "Zhao—an—brother—", "Zhao—an——" The head and bones suddenly had a flesh body, bleeding from seven holes, slowly approaching, and screaming The sound kept lingering in my ears.

I couldn't bear the fear in my heart anymore, and screamed.

"His Majesty!"

"His Majesty!"

I opened my eyes suddenly, and all the familiar faces shouted the same two words, with surprise in their eyes.Looking at the furnishings on the bed, it took a long time to realize that he was in the bedroom in Chengtian Palace.Chengtian Palace is said to be the emperor's bedroom, but I have hardly used it.

"What do you think, Your Majesty?"

The queen's eager question came to my ears, and I opened my mouth to speak, but was forced to cough by the intense discomfort in my chest. Every time I coughed, there was a deep pain in the back, and she hurriedly stroked my chest with her hand.

Doctor Wang took the pulse on my wrist, and after a while a smile appeared on his wrinkled face: "The dragon's body is fine, just take the medicine and rest properly. Your majesty is full of blessings, the poison on the dagger has been cured, and the trauma is only as good as it is." As far as the lungs and internal organs, it must be known that if it is half an inch longer, it will pierce the central vein."

"How long have I been asleep?" I opened my mouth, and the air sucked into my mouth, and there was another tingling pain.

The queen wiped her tears and said, "It's been five days."

Mrs. Zhai and the other two concubines were all present, and they all looked like they had cried. I thought from the bottom of my heart that they didn't need to cry. If I died, it might not be good for them.

"Go and rest first."

"His Majesty!"

I tried to raise my hand to drive away, but another pain reminded me of my right arm injury.

Zhai looked at my face, trembling with fright, hurriedly said: "You have a good rest, don't move around at will. It's fine if the concubine doesn't come and disturb you." After she finished speaking, she pulled the queen to leave first, Qin and Kong Also left afterwards.

A few imperial physicians went outside to discuss prescriptions, I winked, Zheng Bingzhi sent the rest of the servants and eunuchs to work, and while carefully changing my sweat-soaked shirt, he explained the follow-up situation.

"The nobleman is all right. When the servants went to invite the imperial physician to Huifeng Garden, General Xue had arranged for him to go back to his room to rest, and no one else saw him. His Royal Highness Yuanxi was immediately put under guard and is now in the Zongren Temple.

"There were five assassins in total, two of them died, and the other three were detained in the prison. The results of the torture have not yet been reported. The past few days, Xu Xiangye presided over the government, and just came to greet him with Lord Yao and others. There is no urgent report yet. His Majesty must order it personally. General Xue and the servants only told the ladies that His Majesty was assassinated while having dinner with His Royal Highness Yuan Xi, but the ladies did not ask any further questions."

I think this response has been brewing for a long time, he told me everything I was eager to know, and changed his clothes just in time.I smiled with satisfaction and asked him about his injuries.

He hastily knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, please ask me. I have a small scar on my servant's body. It's not a serious problem. The servant's ineffective escort caused damage to your Majesty's dragon body. I deserve death!"

I looked at the large bruises and dark circles on his face, and said, "Go to sleep and come back."

He shook his head. "Your servant is here to serve His Majesty!"

I glanced over sharply, he didn't dare to argue anymore with a pale face, he stood up, bowed and retreated behind the curtain, and whispered a few words, soon two eunuchs came in to serve.

I stared at the hanging drapery and slowly closed my eyes.Well, he's fine, that's good.

After I was able to walk around for a while, stacks of memorials were moved into my bedroom.

Looking at the little table that was temporarily placed on the bed, I sighed: "Can you two let me take a breather?"

Xu Bo and Yao Wenci looked at each other, and said: "Ordinary people have only a few acres of land, and if they don't work for a day, the family's prosperity is still in jeopardy. From this inference, if your Majesty rules the world and ignores government affairs for a few days, the consequences may be disastrous."

I was helpless, pressed the mountain-like memorial with both hands, and said: "If anyone writes any nonsense in it, I will beat him up!"

Yao Wenci, who always likes to go around the corner to quote, shrank his neck, and Xu Bo just looked at me with a smile.

"What about the assassin?"

"According to today's report, they have been tortured for many days, and the three of them refused to give any reason except for their insulting and obscene words."

I raise my eyebrows. "When did the people from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice become so incompetent? Come to Qiao Jing and Jin Cishu."

Zheng Bingzhi went out to announce the decree, and the chief officials of Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment arrived shortly after.

"What did you ask?"

"Your Majesty, forgive me for my incompetence. I haven't made any confession yet." Qiao Jing responded by standing under the gate.

"All the instruments of torture are on?"

"Yes."

Jin Cishu pondered for a while, and said: "They confessed indiscriminately to officials of all sizes in the capital, some of them couldn't even name them, and they just blindly reported their official positions."

I felt weird when I heard it. "On Kung Fu is obviously the top killer in Jianghu, but he knows many court officials?"

Jin Cishu looked up at me, then averted his gaze, and said, "Yes."

"Didn't you check those officials as they said?"

Qiao Jing shook his head and said: "If we investigate according to what they said, the implications will be too great, and I'm afraid it will make people panic."

I frowned impatiently. "Okay, don't play dumb anymore. People refuse to confess, what do you see?"

Jin Cishu and Qiao Jing exchanged glances, but hesitated.

"Is there a fire in my backyard?"

Both of them looked up at me, with terrified expressions on their faces.

"You don't want to explain your scruples, aren't you afraid that I will fall into their ways again?"

"It won't be—" Qiao Jing stopped talking when Jin Cishu pulled his sleeves.

"Xu Bo."

"The minister is here."

"According to the law of my dynasty, the crime of deceiving the emperor should be punished for a few days behind closed doors?"

"Your Majesty may have misremembered. As far as I know, the serious crime of deceiving the emperor seems to be to punish the nine clans." Xu Bo's response was very relaxed.

"Are you sure?"

Xu Bo smiled slyly. "Even if I'm not sure, Mr. Jin and Mr. Qiao are both experts, so they must know."

I stroke my chin. "Zhu Jiu Clan sounds very serious. Then why would the two of them want to cover up the murderer who plotted to assassinate me? Yao Qing, tell me."

Yao Wenci put on a serious face, cupped his hands and said, "In my opinion, it's probably because of the murderer's identity, even your Majesty, you have to weigh it up."

"Oh? I want to give him three points? Who is it? Could it be that the empress is anxious to become the queen mother? No, she is so prominent that she dare not take such a big risk. Cai Guogong's family is also the same."

"Your Majesty is so insightful, I admire you." Yao Wenci acted with me decently.

"Hmm... Could it be Old Ruan, Lao Lu and the others? These guys are very successful in the world. It's a trivial matter to invite a few dead soldiers to come into the palace to kill people and buy goods."

"Ahem, I'm afraid these two will reincarnate a hundred times more, and they don't think so much."

"Then who else is there? Could it be the two of you? In vain that you two claim to be my right-hand men, so you actually have the heart of disobedience?" I pointed to Xu Bo and Yao Wenci and said loudly.

"I don't dare! I can show my loyalty to His Majesty!"

The two looked terrified, clutching their hearts and swearing to the sky, Xu Bo added: "The subject suspects that Mr. Jin and Mr. Qiao are guarding against themselves, that's why..."

"Your Majesty is clear, I have no two hearts!" Jin Cishu and Qiao Jing fell to their knees with a plop, and kowtowed.

There is no news about a case that has been tried for so long. Based on this alone, we can make a good guess. If we want to hide it, we will not think of a better way. .

I stared at the two gray and half-bald heads, and said angrily, "Tell me what you found and what you thought of."

After listening to Jin Qiao's report, I only ordered them to deal with the assassin.The two of them were courtiers promoted by their father, and the things they were willing to do did not stop there.For the other senior ministers and palace officials who participated in the planning, it would not be too late to assign others to take care of it another day.