In addition, Xiao Jining did not forget what Xiaodan said to him before - the prince is going to die.

Because of this sentence, Xiao Jining originally wanted to die first was the prince, and Xiaodan said that the chaos of seizing the heir apparent had arrived, Xiao Jining even speculated at one point whether the prince's death was due to other princes' shady hands.

Who would have expected that the person who left first was Concubine Chen.

Thinking of this, Xiao Jining couldn't help sighing, he said to Jing Yuan: "I'm going to the East Palace to visit the elder brother of the crown prince, General Jing, go slowly."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Jining walked towards the East Palace, but before he could take a few steps, Jing Yuan stopped him: "Your Highness—"

Xiao Jining stopped to look back at Jing Yuan, and asked him: "Is there anything else you can do, General Jing?"

"Your Highness came to see Wei Chen just—" Jing Yuan held the cloak in his hand, raised his brows lightly, "Return the cloak to Jing Yuan?"

"Yes." Xiao Jining answered him as a matter of course, with a look of confusion on his face why he had already said it again, and Jing Yuan still called out his confusion, "I happened to be on the way."

Jing Yuan was silent for a moment when he heard the words, and suddenly said something very meaningful: "Your Highness may go down to see the crown prince, after all, the crown prince... probably can't hold on anymore."

Jing Yuan has said so, how can Xiao Ji Ning leave?Does Jingyuan know what will happen to the prince next?

He quickly walked back to Jing Yuan, raised his head slightly to look at Jing Yuan, with a solemn expression, frowned and asked in a low voice: "Why did General Jing say that?"

"Prince..." Seeing Xiao Jining leaving and returning, Jing Yuan opened his lips and said slowly, but shook his head after saying two words, "These are just my humble minister's guesses."

The death of the biological mother is indeed sad, but it will not make the prince "unbearable", and Xiao Jining feels that this is likely to be related to the cause of the prince's death, so he is anxious to listen to Jing Yuan's explanation, and urges: "Then you Say it too."

"How long the prince can last is actually only related to one person." Jing Yuan looked down at Xiao Jining in front of him, and slightly curled his lips and said, "Before the death of Concubine Chen, the Eastern Palace in the harem was always composed of the Queen, Concubine Chen and Xian The concubine supports her, but the concubine Xian still has the third prince to take care of, so there is very little she can do for the prince; after the concubine Chen passed away, the empress alone is the unshakable foundation of the crown prince's position in the East Palace."

Jing Yuan said such a series of words without being anxious or slow, but these are not secrets in the harem. It is well known that the third prince and the crown prince have a good relationship. After listening to what Jing Yuan said, Xiao Jining's inner doubts It was not untied, and there were a few more balls.

However, Jing Yuan didn't intend to say anything more, bowed his head to Xiao Jining and said, "I still have some matters to deal with, so I won't delay your Highness going to the East Palace to visit the crown prince, I will leave."

Xiao Jining: "..."

That's all, if Jingyuan doesn't say anything, then he can go to the East Palace to have a look.

The location of the East Palace is close to the former dynasty, so to go to the East Palace, one must go through the former dynasty. However, after Xiao Jining arrived at the East Palace, he did not see the crown prince. He, the eighth prince, the seventh prince, and the sixth prince were rejected outside the prince's room. .

The prince locked himself in the door alone, and no one saw him, even the princess was driven out by the prince.

Seeing this, the sixth prince was a little dissatisfied and said: "Brothers three and four were all met by the princes, even the second brother, and I saw a little eunuch come out of his room just now, why did he come to us? A few brothers are here, and no one is missing the prince?"

The Crown Princess could only bow to the princes outside the house and apologize: "Prince, he didn't sleep with his eyes closed last night, and his expression is in a trance today..."

"You don't need to talk too much, the princess." The seventh prince asked the palace staff to help the princess up, and said, "We all understand, since the prince is not feeling well, we will come to visit the prince again some other day."

Xiao Jining also said: "Yes, please ask the emperor's sister-in-law to take care of the prince."

The Crown Princess pursed her lips and forced a smile, then nodded.

The sixth prince listened to their nice talk with the princess, turned around and left with a cold scoff, while the eighth prince never said a word from the time he came to the East Palace until he left, with no expression on his face or any emotion.

Seeing the appearance of the Eighth Prince, Xiao Jining suddenly remembered the old things - after they fell into the water and were rescued seven years ago, Emperor Xiao once asked the Eighth Prince if he could see clearly who pushed him into the water, and the Eighth Prince only said that The hem of the man's clothes is ocher red.

And Jingyuan told him that the vermilion wedding dress worn by the crown prince would also turn ocher red after being exposed to water.

Seven days after the incident of falling into the water, Dongchang found a guard and a court lady, saying that they were the murderers who intended to murder the Eighth Prince. After they were executed, the incident of falling into the water passed.

But Xiao Jining clearly remembered that before the incident of falling into the water, the Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince were loyal little fans of the Prince. .But after the incident of falling into the water, the eighth prince never mentioned anything about the prince. Even if the seventh prince talked to him, the eighth prince just listened quietly from the sidelines.

The moment these memories appeared in Xiao Jining's mind, he was shocked into a cold sweat. While his thoughts were chaotic, he suddenly remembered a detail - he had actually seen that little eunuch who came out of the prince's room in the East Palace just now.

When he was ten years old, he bought Yingluo outside the palace and went to the Queen's Changle Palace to apologize to the eldest princess.

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Concubine Chen passed away, and the queen has always supported the prince. It is not surprising to send a eunuch to visit the prince at such a moment. What is strange is that after seeing the eunuch, the prince shut himself up, not even seeing anyone.

The most important thing is what Jing Yuan said - only the empress is the unshakable foundation of the crown prince's position in the East Palace.

Xiao Jining knew that Jing Yuan never said useless words, if he didn't say anything, there must be deep meaning in it.

So the absurd idea at the beginning gradually took shape in Xiao Ji Ning's mind at this moment, and was gradually sorted out into a fact that was closest to the truth, or it was the truth.

But this truth is too shocking, even if Xiao Jining has already set off a storm in his heart, he can't reveal half of it on his face.

After returning to Chongyang Palace, Xiao Jining also locked himself in the room alone without seeing anyone.

His heart was inexplicably chaotic, Xiao Jining always felt that something big was going to happen next, this night he hardly closed his eyes, he put on his clothes immediately after dawn, and went to wait for Jingyuan on the road that all officials of the previous court must pass when they go down to court, He wanted to ask Jing Yuan some more questions.

But on this day, when Xiao Jining waited until the sun was near the center of the sky, he still did not see all the civil and military officials coming out of the Xuanzheng Hall.

And Xiao Jining had already stood under the tree for a full hour, even if the sun was not very strong in late autumn, a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

"Your Highness, the sun is very strong here, why don't we go to the side hall and wait for General Jing?" Mu Kui was a little worried about Xiao Jining's body, and asked him, "Where can you sit, Your Highness, you can see General Jing when they come out, no Missed."

"It's okay, it's right here." Xiao Jining frowned and shook his head, stepped on his feet and looked at the open doors and windows of the Xuanzheng Hall, but they were far away from the Xuanzheng Hall, except for the blurred backs of the officials inside, there was nothing nearby I can't see it, "They should come out soon."

After another quarter of an hour, the Xuanzheng Hall did have movement, but still no one came out. Instead, many forbidden soldiers came, some entered the Xuanzheng Hall, and some stayed outside to surround the Xuanzheng Hall. All the doors were shut.

Seeing this, Xiao Jining immediately trembled, almost unable to stand still, grabbed Mu Kui's hand and said to him: "Mu Kui, you can ask someone, just ask if the prince has gone to court today, hurry up go!"

The prince is different from the other princes. The other princes don't have to go to court on weekdays if they don't have the emperor's dispensation or are appointed to an official position. However, as the crown prince of a country, the prince can attend the morning court every day.

"Yes, yes... this servant is going!" Mu Kui suddenly opened his eyes wide, as if he had noticed something, and immediately ran to the side hall of the Xuanzheng Hall, where he could see the eunuchs and maids who went to court every day to ask questions. .

After a while, Xiao Jining saw Mu Kui stumbling towards him, and said tremblingly, "Your Highness... the prince has come to court today..."

If there is no major event in the court, the morning court will usually end before noon, but now it is [-] noon, and the morning court is not only not over, but also came to surround the court hall layer by layer, so it can be seen that something big must have happened in the hall!

Xiao Jining took a few steps back in a daze, it was Mu Kui who supported him so he didn't fall to the ground, Xiao Jining's voice trembled: "Mu Kui, hurry up to Concubine Zhen's and Concubine Li's palaces, and take the Seventh and Eighth Princes—"

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Jining suddenly fell silent as if he had lost his tongue, because the gate of Xuanzheng Hall was opened.

The civil and military officials did not scatter in twos and threes as in the past. They chatted with friends from the court and China with smiles on their faces, or frowned and worried about people's livelihood.All the officials, civil and military officials who came out of the Xuanzheng Hall today walked in a row, each official had no expression on his face, his eyes were dull, his eyes were dull, and everyone was silent.

Xiao Jining soon saw Jing Yuan in the crowd. Jing Yuan didn't smile today, and there was still some blood on his left cheek and neck, which was dripping down, but Jing Yuan didn't reach out to wipe it. Because of this, Xiao Jining also found out that not only Jingyuan, military officers were not so obvious because of the black court clothes, but some civil servants with gray court clothes had some bloodstains on them.

What happened this morning?

Xiao Jining kept hiding behind the tree, and waited until Jing Yuan approached him before opening his mouth: "General Jing..."

However, before Xiao Jining could finish his sentence, Jing Yuan suddenly raised his head to look at Xiao Jining, and then quickly walked towards Xiao Jining, without saying a word, he tightly grasped his wrist, and led Xiao Jining to the direction of the harem, It wasn't until it was too far to see the front court that Jing Yuan stopped and asked Xiao Jining in a deep voice: "Your Highness, why are you outside the Xuanzheng Hall again today?"

Jing Yuan was very strong, and Xiao Jining's wrist was very painful when he grabbed it, but Xiao Jining didn't care about the pain at all because he had never seen it on Jing Yuan's face except the day when Jing Yuan returned to court. With such a solemn expression, Xiao Jining raised his head and asked Jing Yuan in a trembling voice: "General Jing... What happened in Xuanzheng Palace today?"

Jing Yuan remained silent, and after a long while he opened his mouth and only said: "Nothing." Then he immediately said: "Your Highness, you hurry back to Chongyang Palace, you have never been to Xuanzheng Palace today."

"Mu Kui—!" Jing Yuan called Mu Kui up with a low snort, stared at him and instructed carefully, "Hurry up and take your Highness back to Chongyang Palace. Remember, His Highness has never been to Xuanzheng Palace today."

Mu Kui trembled all over, and repeated: "...Yes."

After finishing speaking, Jing Yuan immediately turned around to leave, Xiao Jining took his hand from behind again, and pleaded: "Brother Jing Yuan..."

With this title, after Jing Yuan returned to Beijing, he had never heard Xiao Jining call him that, so when Xiao Jining called him Brother Jingyuan again, Jing Yuan still couldn't help but stop.

"Brother Jingyuan, please tell me." Xiao Jining walked up to him, looked into his eyes and begged, "What happened in the Xuanzheng Palace today? Is it Brother Prince, he... what happened to him? ?”

Jing Yuan lowered his head and met Xiao Jining's eyes, he looked at his own figure reflected in those almond eyes, and the bright red on his face - it was the prince's blood.

"Prince, he..." Jing Yuan closed his eyes, his voice was a little hoarse, "He committed suicide early this morning."

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"Guidelines for Correct Reading of This Article" - Chapter 28

Jing Yuan sent Ning Ning back to the palace: falsely on the way, the autumn is thick and the night is cold, anyway, I want to go home, although my house and the palace are not on the way, but I can still send His Highness back to the palace by the way, and put some clothes on him by the way.

Ning Ning returns the clothes in the morning: Really drop by the way, the sun is good in the morning, anyway, I will return the clothes to you when I go to see the prince brother, if you feel cold, I will send you some nice-colored hats after a while.

Identifying the real way to go will help you stay warm through the winter without spending a penny.

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