Early this morning, Xia Yan, who was supposed to be in a coma, suddenly disappeared. Cheng Xi immediately checked the whereabouts of Concubine Li, and then split up with Xia Zhao and Han Mengliu.

The best hope is naturally to stop Xia Yan, but things backfired, and the only way to do it now is to save her with all her strength.

After returning to the palace, Concubine Li's body was taken away by the Imperial Hospital. Cheng Xi and Han Mengliu accompanied Xia Yan to Wensi Hall with Aunt Ning, the chief of the guards and other people involved in the case.

Inside the hall.

Emperor Jianping had a gloomy face, his tiger eyes drooping, and he clasped his hands, turning a black jade wrench.

The chief eunuch stands like a bamboo pole, watching his nose, nose, and heart.

Jing Lan stood cautiously on the right side, Jun sat expressionlessly on the left side, Xia Zhao looked alert, Xia Ji's eyes were red and trembling, and when he saw Xia Yan coming in, he rushed up and grabbed his neck, losing control and yelling loudly: " You killed my concubine mother! Go to hell——!"

Xia Yan, who had only half his life left, now relied on the ginseng slices in his mouth to support him. After being pinched like this, he felt breathless immediately.

Cheng Xi and Han Mengliu immediately grabbed Xia Ji, Xia Ji struggled vigorously, shouted and rushed at Xia Yan with red eyes, Xia Yan struggled to breathe, but there was no wave in his eyes, as if there was no difference between life and death.

Cheng Xi restrained Xia Ji while looking sideways at him with sad eyes.

Suddenly, an inkstone flew down from the front and hit the ground heavily, making a loud noise.

"What kind of system is it?" Emperor Jianping's face was clouded with murderous intent.

Xia Ji was not afraid, and rushed to Emperor Jianping, crying heartbreakingly: "Father! He killed the mother and concubine! My son wants him to pay for his life!"

"I know." Emperor Jianping raised his eyes and glanced at Xia Yan, "After the trial, he should pay for his life, and I will naturally let him pay. As for you, stay if you want to listen, and go out if you don't want to listen."

Xia Ji was stunned for a moment, looking at Emperor Jianping, he suddenly felt rebellious: his mother and concubine died, he was so sad, but why didn't the father see a trace of sadness?Why was the father so calm and didn't even go to see the mother and concubine first?Why is the case that should have been strictly tried by the Dali Temple, but now it is in the Wensi Temple, as if it is dealing with ordinary harem disputes? !

He was stunned, but Emperor Jianping ignored him and said: "His Majesty, the witnesses will speak first."

The chief of the imperial guards and Aunt Ning shared what they saw one after another. Emperor Jianping looked at Xia Yan and asked, "What enmity does Concubine Li have with you?"

Xia Yan knelt with her head bowed, and said weakly: "Concubine Ligui threatened and beat my birth mother, the palace maid Yueyao five years ago in Jianping five years, and poisoned her with poison. He was killed by the killer sent by Concubine Li Gui on the first day of May of the year."

"Nonsense!" Aunt Ning immediately retorted, "Yue-yao left the palace because of family affairs, and it had nothing to do with the imperial concubine! After she left, the empress never looked for her, let alone sent someone to kill her! Besides, Yue-yao was a palace maid. , must be a virgin, how could it be your biological mother!"

Once this matter was revealed, Aunt Ning, as Concubine Li's maid in charge, would have to bear the blame, so she tried her best to deny it, but because of her impatience, her words were loopholes.

Emperor Jianping glanced over and asked, "Do you not agree with what His Royal Highness said?"

Aunt Ning insisted: "If there is nothing, the servants will naturally deny it!"

"Really?!" Emperor Jianping emphasized his tone, the emperor's coercion overwhelmed the hall, everyone held their breath, Aunt Ning trembled, and stuttered instantly: "This, this... slave..."

"I'll give you one last chance." Emperor Jianping stared at her, turned his fingers, "I've given you many chances. I'm not stupid. I will know who I am lucky enough to have and how my son got here. have no idea?"

Aunt Ning was stunned and shuddered, and suddenly she realized that her soul was blown away, and she hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy: "The emperor is angry! This servant was just confused for a while! This servant is wrong! This servant will just say it, just say it!"

Shaking like a sieve, he said everything, which was no different from what Concubine Li Gui said to Xia Yan in the Great Buddha Temple, and at the end he did not forget to drag the queen into the water: "Your Majesty! The identity of the person who informed the empress of Yueyao's whereabouts is unknown, but Since you know the inside story, you must be a person in the palace! I am afraid... it is the queen!"

All eyes in the palace turned to the Empress, and Xia Yan also stared at him. The Empress stood up unhurriedly, bowed to Emperor Jianping, and said calmly: "Your Majesty, this is a false accusation. Before today, I didn't even know about the Fourth Highness Really born."

"You're talking nonsense!" Aunt Ning knew that she was doomed to die, so she could pull one at a time, "You want to harm the imperial concubine, so..."

"Concubine Li Gui committed evil deeds by herself, so how can I frame you? You have no evidence, and you want to slander me just by talking nonsense?" The emperor looked at Emperor Jianping again, "Please look into it clearly."

Emperor Jianping waved his hand, and the guards took Aunt Ning down who was crying loudly.

After a moment of silence in the hall, Xia Ji trembled and said, "Royal father! Even if the mother and concubine are at fault, Xia Yan should be punished for private punishment!"

Cheng Xi immediately stepped forward and bowed, "Your Majesty, I checked the wounds of the imperial concubine and empress, and found that the abdominal stab wound was not actively stabbed, but passively met, and it was not fatal. The fatal part was the injury caused by falling down the steps." According to the traces at the scene and the testimonies of the witnesses, it can be seen that the empress was not pushed down by the Fourth Highness, but accidentally lost her footing. From this, it can be seen that the Fourth Highness went to the Great Buddha Temple not to kill people intentionally, but to ask the truth, and a dispute arose during the inquiry..."

"Cheng Xi, you're helping him!" Xia Ji pointed at Cheng Xi and said angrily, "Who doesn't know that you and him are having trouble!"

Cheng Xi's face turned cold, and he said seriously: "The imperial physician and the assistant are examining the body of the imperial concubine, and the colleagues from Dali Temple have also gone to the Great Buddha Temple. These results will be presented to the imperial court later. I just read it in advance and said it first. "Looking at Xia Ji solemnly, "Your Highness the Second Prince, Your Highness the Fourth Prince have always maintained a clean life, and the minister and the Fourth Highness are even more innocent, never deviant, I hope you speak carefully."

"You! You..." Xia Ji looked around in a hurry, and realized that no one was by his side.

"Don't argue." Emperor Jianping coughed heavily, his tiger eyes glanced around, and said in a deep voice, "The fourth prince is indeed the son of the court lady Yueyao. Back then, Yueyao told me that she didn't like the bondage in the palace, let alone the harem." Fame, I wanted to go out of the palace to live some free days. I agreed, but I didn't know that at that time she already had a dragon species in her belly. She was alone, and she didn't want her child to suffer with her, and she didn't want her child to go back to the palace to be restrained again. Ask the late Tan Qing to take care of her."

Xia Yan raised his eyes with difficulty.

"When the fourth prince returned to the palace, I only thought that Yueyao was attacked by bandits and died accidentally. Considering Yueyao's past intentions, I didn't want to make the fourth prince sad, so I didn't announce his real life experience to the world. In fact, the fourth prince's His birthday is the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the sixth year of Jianping, the Mid-Autumn Festival...he is indeed younger than the third prince."

Xia Yan clenched his fists weakly, thinking about what Emperor Jianping said, he always felt that there were still ambiguities.His chest was congested, and he wanted to vomit blood again, so he had to persevere desperately, and listened to Emperor Jianping say again: "This is a big matter, and I still need to think carefully about how to deal with it. Let's leave for now. The fourth prince is sick, as if returning to the Nuan Pavilion." Little, there are not enough attendants..." Looking at Jing Lan, "Jing Qing, how about letting the fourth prince come to your house to recuperate?"

Jing Lan immediately knelt down, "The minister accepts the order."

Xia Yan was slightly surprised, and subconsciously looked at Cheng Xi, who was also looking at him with soft eyes and comforting expression.

"Father!" Xia Ji stiffened his neck, still unwilling to let it go.

"Let's do this first, this matter is not over yet, you all should be quiet." Emperor Jianping waved his hand resolutely, "Liu Xi, let's go and see Concubine Li, Ji Er will come with you."

Eunuch Liu Xi, the leader of the eunuchs, responded in a drawn-out tone, and Emperor Jianping stepped out of the palace gate, followed by Xia Ji, who had tears in his eyes and a trembling face, and gave Xia Yan a very vicious look when he passed by.Xia Yan's mind was spinning for a while, and he fell unconscious again.

When he woke up, he was already in the prime minister's mansion, still living in Cheng Xi's Chaohua Garden, sleeping in Cheng Xi's big bed, and asked Cheng Xi to accompany him on the other side of the screen.

The imperial physician, the doctor of the prime minister's mansion, and Han Mengliu consulted and changed the treatment several times after a long time of consideration. Xia Yan knew it and could feel it with his body.

He hung the small animal lanterns from Cheng Xi on the bedside, looked at them over and over all the time, tried his best to be obedient and cooperate with the treatment, chatted with Cheng Xi gently, talked happily, and tacitly did not mention the matter that everyone already had. well-known thing--

He's not going to get better, and he's probably going to die soon.

When will that day come?

However, what he didn't know was that in fact, Cheng Xi never really thought about that day, what Cheng Xi thought about thousands of times was before that day.

Without knowing medical skills, he spared no effort in what he was good at: searching through the books at home, writing dense annotations, and forgetting to eat and sleep for more than ten days, finally in the dead of night, he raised a lamp to illuminate all the books and bamboo slips spread out on the case, in countless After frowning for a while and calculating carefully, once I figured it out——

"Washing the marrow... a way to wash away all the essence, blood, internal strength, etc. of a person, can be replaced..."

Cheng Xi muttered to himself, after a while his face stretched out, the corners of his lips curled up, his eyes were happy and sad, but full of regret.

He opened the notebook that recorded the daily points, held the pen for a long time, and wrote the word "Yan" seriously.

This is his end, his everything.

In the early morning of the next day, Xia Yan sat on the bed, looked suspiciously at Cheng Xi who was having breakfast with him, and asked, "Aren't you going to the yamen today?"

"It's free today, it doesn't matter if you go later." Cheng Xi smiled, his eyes full of long-lasting and reluctance, "I want to ask you something."

"What's the matter?" Xia Yan was at a loss.

"The past." Cheng Xi said, "From the time you and I first met to the time we met again, everything you experienced, and all your emotions."

Xia Yan was stunned for a moment, thinking that this question was quite good, and the language was gentle, but it hit the deepest and softest place in his heart right away.

Time is running out, he hopes to leave everything that belongs to him in this world.

But not for everyone.

If you want to tell the story of the past, the listener must be Cheng Xi.

There is no second option.

So he smiled, with a pair of clear eyes, and said softly to Cheng Xi: "Okay, I'll tell you."

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