The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

In the late emperor's harem, there were many concubines, and the empress was the first wife of the late emperor, and also the most beloved woman of the late emperor.

Concubine Shu and Concubine Ming are both from powerful families. Concubine Shu is the daughter of a general, and Concubine Ming also has a group of ministers behind her. Relatively speaking, the presence of the eighth prince’s concubine in the harem is frighteningly low. Like a transparent person.

Neither of them even knew her name and title until now.

Yu Hanjiang said in a low voice: "The Eighth Prince's mother and concubine... I remember, Grandpa seems to have mentioned that his mother and concubine did not participate in the harem battles, she seems to be a woman who has nothing to do with the world."

Peace of mind?

In the turbulent harem, is it really possible to "stand aloof from the world"?

Xiao Lou frowned and said: "If our deduction is correct, the mother and concubine of the Eighth Prince should not be a woman who stands aloof from the world, but a scheming and top-notch female middle school Zhuge. She kills four birds with one stone and makes the prince The three princes died one after another, and the fifth and sixth princes fell out of favor one after another. Among the princes of the late emperor, only the eighth prince is left to pass on the throne. This scheme is really cruel and poisonous!"

Yu Hanjiang thought for a while, and said: "As soon as the sun rises tomorrow morning, we will go to see the Ninth Princess. She should know what kind of person the Eighth Prince's concubine is!"

Xiao Lou nodded: "Okay, we have to hurry up."

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Early the next morning, Long Sen returned to Jiangzhou City, and secretly came to the prefect's backyard to report.

Long Sen looked very tired, with thick dark circles under his eyelids, probably because he hadn't rested for two days and nights, and rushed back non-stop.

Seeing that he was going to be paralyzed from exhaustion, Xiao Lou immediately poured him a glass of water, and said softly, "Thanks for your hard work."

Long Sen drank all the water in one gulp, wiped his mouth and said, "I changed three fast horses halfway, and I didn't dare to rest for a moment. Finally, I arrived in time. It's really dangerous. There are two days left before the draft for Your Majesty! If we don't deliver the letter in time, His Majesty might be assassinated!"

Xiao Lou was stunned, and said: "It seems that once our reasoning speed is too slow, by the time we figure out the origin of the Yan Kingdom Assassin Group, His Majesty in the capital may have died unexpectedly."

Really a false alarm.

Fortunately, Xiao Lou remembered his younger brother who was on the front line in time, and led him out to investigate, otherwise, they would never have known that His Majesty would also be assassinated.Focus on investigating the case of the palace, if His Majesty dies, the whole secret room will fail!

Yu Hanjiang glanced at Xiao Lou appreciatively, and said, "Fortunately, it's in time."

Xiao Lou nodded and said, "Well, after reading the secret letter, what's your reaction?"

As the shadow guard arranged by His Majesty, Long Sen can contact the shadow guard in the capital and ask him to recommend him directly. This is why Yu Hanjiang asked Long Sen to deliver the letter himself. There must be no mistake in this letter.

Although His Majesty is young, he is very resourceful. He had secretly trained a large number of shadow guards before taking the throne.

Long Sen said: "Your Majesty let me take a secret passage. I was blindfolded and brought me to a strange place. I saw Your Majesty dressed as a young man. I gave him the secret letter. After reading it, he frowned and said , I didn’t expect these assassins to be so arrogant and dare to come to the palace to assassinate!”

Long Sen imitated His Majesty's words vividly: "Go back and tell Lord Yu that I will handle the draft carefully. The time for the draft is only two days later, and everything will go on as usual, just in time to capture all the assassins lurking in the capital and the spies who are collaborating with the enemy and treason in the court. come out!"

Yu Hanjiang frowned and said, "Does he want to put himself in danger and lure the snake out of the hole?"

Long Sen said: "Your Majesty does mean that. The Ministry of Rites has been planning the draft for a long time. There are many young women of the right age who are already on their way to the capital. It's hard to explain if you cancel it hastily. I'm afraid it will cause people to speculate wildly. Your Majesty Said, he will make arrangements in advance, staring at the more beautiful girls, looking for assassins mixed in, he reassured Lord Yu."

Yu Hanjiang nodded: "Since His Majesty will make arrangements, I think that with his city and strategy, he won't be afraid of a few assassins. This line of assassins in Yan Kingdom should be able to come to a perfect conclusion."

His Majesty will be responsible for catching assassins and checking spies from the Ministry of Rites. The next thing Yu Hanjiang has to do is to clarify the line of poisoning and murder.

At present, there are still some secrets that need to be revealed in this line of the poisoning case.

Thinking of this, Yu Hanjiang brought Xiao Lou and Lao Mo to the palace together.

Yu Hanjiang personally reported the investigation results of the assassin organization to the Eighth Prince, and told the prince that it was a force from the Yan Kingdom, which was formed by the Crown Prince of the Yan Kingdom himself. He also said that the Yan Kingdom was planning to send assassins to assassinate His Majesty, and he had already sent a letter overnight to inform the emperor .

The prince suddenly realized: "It turned out that it was the people of the Yan Kingdom who dared to assassinate His Majesty, what an idiot!" The prince slapped the table and almost knocked it over.

Yu Hanjiang said calmly: "The assassins have all been captured. According to what the prince has seen, how should these assassins be dealt with?"

The prince thought about it carefully, and said: "Assassination of His Majesty is a capital crime. You don't have to show mercy, just charge them with a crime and execute them to death. In addition, since Tianxianglou is the stronghold of the intelligence organization, this place cannot be left alive."

Yu Hanjiang said: "There are still four girls left in the Tianxiang Building. I have carefully checked that these four people are indeed innocent, and they have no knowledge of what Aunt Qing and the others are doing. It is not good for us to kill innocent people indiscriminately. It is better to let these The four of them figured out their own way out?"

The prince frowned: "Are you sure these four are okay?"

Yu Hanjiang nodded: "Weichen has already searched the list of organizations from Aunt Qing, which does not include these four people. Moreover, Weichen has personally interrogated and investigated them. These four people really don't know anything about it."

We must not execute all the girls in Tianxianglou, after all, Ye Qi is also in Tianxianglou.

The prince said: "Okay, what to do with these four people, you are the prefect of Jiangzhou, so you can decide." The prince touched his chin, and said: "By the way, the two murders in the palace are not the same. Something to do with these assassins?"

Of course, Yu Hanjiang couldn't just say "Your daughter was probably killed by your son", but made up an excuse, saying: "The assassin did not admit to killing Missy. The case between Missy and Young Master Lin is still pending." Check, found some clues, Lord Rong will give you a few more days, and I will definitely catch the murderer as soon as possible."

The prince nodded and said, "Then there will be Lord Lao Yu."

Yu Hanjiang said: "I still have some details, and I want to ask Princess Nine. I wonder if Princess Nine is still in the palace?"

The prince couldn't help laughing: "Of course I still do. My sister is always self-willed. She was almost stabbed in the back by an assassin that day. She was so frightened that she didn't dare to go anywhere after she came back. She stayed in the palace for the past two days. Resting."

He waved to a maid and said, "Go to the backyard and call Princess Nine. Master Yu has something to ask her."

After a while, Princess Nine brought Qu Wanyue to the side hall of the front yard.

The two have changed back into women's clothes.

Qu Wanyue's women's clothing is simply a gentle and beautiful ancient Jiangnan woman, Long Sen's eyes can't help but brighten up.

Yu Hanjiang first used some gossip in the harem as a foreshadowing to confirm the old things that the nine princesses told Qu Wanyue: "Back then, I was in the palace as an accompanist for the crown prince for a period of time, and I heard some rumors... Concubine Shu is poisonous. Killing the Empress, Concubine Ming poisoned Concubine Shu, the Ninth Princess grew up in the harem, is it true?"

The Ninth Princess said: "This is all rumors, there is no real evidence. My father did not put Concubine Ming into the cold palace back then, but only made a decree that all the concubines in the harem should be buried for him."

Yu Hanjiang said: "What about the mother and concubine of the Eighth Prince? Can the princess understand how she behaves?"

Princess Nine thought for a while, and said: "Brother Eighth Emperor's mother concubine is Concubine Xian. It is said that Concubine Xian is a folk girl rescued by Emperor Father when he went to Jiangzhou. She has no relatives at home. She is the oldest concubine among all the concubines in the harem. The most beautiful one, with a clean and elegant temperament, after her father brought her into the palace, she chose to live in the most secluded "Qingxin Garden" in the harem. Tea and chanting to Buddha."

Yu Hanjiang said: "How did the late emperor treat the concubine Xian?"

Princess Jiu said: "Father loves her very much. Her personality is very quiet and gentle. Father often goes to her to drink tea. He said that drinking tea from Concubine Xian can calm the mind and refresh the mind. When I was young, I often Go and play with Concubine Xian. There are so many concubines in the harem. Concubine Xian is my favorite. She is really gentle and always smells like tea. By the way, she knows some medical skills. She showed me when I was a child I was sick, and gave me some herbal tea to take care of my body."

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other.

Concubine Xian, the biological mother of the Eighth Prince, was a woman brought back to the palace by the late emperor from the people.

On the surface, this woman looks gentle and virtuous, aloof from the world, and usually lives in the most secluded corner, making tea and praying to Buddha. Perhaps, she is the most terrifying Boss in the harem.

She loves to make tea, maybe she can put poison into the tea, poison the queen and concubine Shu to death quietly, and then plant it on others!

Yu Hanjiang followed up and asked: "The late emperor left a decree to let all the concubines be buried, so what about the virtuous concubines? Did they also die?"

Unexpectedly, Princess Jiu shook her head and said, "Concubine Xian is still alive!"

Everyone: "…………"

Everyone's hairs are about to stand on end!

When Xiao Lou heard this, his heart constricted for a while, as if his neck was being targeted by a poisonous snake.

This hidden boss is still alive?

Yu Hanjiang immediately asked: "How could this be? Didn't the late emperor let all his concubines be buried? Didn't the virtuous concubine obey the late emperor's will?"

The Ninth Princess sighed softly, and said: "More than ten years ago, my father established the current emperor as the crown prince, and the Eighth Emperor brother was named the King of Zhenjiang. My father built him a magnificent Zhenjiang Palace in Jiangzhou. The Eighth Emperor Brother likes to be an idle prince very much, so he brought a few wives back to Jiangzhou to settle down. He travels around the mountains and rivers all day long, and is happy and carefree. When the concubine Xian knew about it, she told her father that she wanted to go to Qingshan Temple to pray for her father. ..."

——Qingshan Temple is the temple outside Jiangzhou City!

The nine princesses admired and said: "Concubine Xian really sees through the world of mortals and her heart is like still water. The late emperor found her eating fast and reciting Buddha in the palace all day, so he let her go. So Concubine Xian escaped into Buddhism and came to Qingshan Temple. A female cultivator in the Qingshan Temple. The late emperor ordered all the concubines in the harem to be buried for him, but the concubine Xian does not belong to the harem anymore, so of course there is no need to be buried."

Ye Qi and Liu Qiao, following Zhao Guo's envoy last night, happened to catch up to Qingshan Temple, where they found Qi Fenghua and the second prince of Zhao Guo secretly talking.

The entire Jiangzhou is so big, and there are so many places suitable for chatting in the small forests in the suburbs, why is it Qingshan Temple?

That's it!

Concubine Xian is still in Qingshan Temple!

Yu Hanjiang looked at Xiao Lou and met his bright eyes.

The case finally came to light.

This concubine who seized the right time to "escape into Buddhism" was probably very angry with her son. She planned for so long and killed all the enemies, but in the end she was tricked by her own son.Who would have thought that the Eighth Prince had no interest in power, but at the last moment, when the late Emperor was about to pass on the throne to him, he would take the initiative to submit a memorial to push the throne away? !

In the eyes of the Eighth Prince, touring the mountains and rivers, with beautiful women in his arms, is the greatest joy in life.

Sitting on the dragon chair is too troublesome, he would rather be an idle prince.

Concubine Xian's plan failed, so she had to kill a group of people in the capital to silence them. This is probably the reason for the serial poisonings in Beijing that year. After all, Concubine Xian must not be able to do so many things by herself. She should have secretly cultivated a group of subordinates, and even Combined with some officials of the imperial court, including those from the Ministry of Punishment.

Since the plan failed, of course these people couldn't stay, so she poisoned a group of people, implicating Xiao Lou's father, maybe his father was also silenced after finding out about the queen and prince.

After doing a good job in the aftermath, Concubine Xian pretended to see through the world and wanted to escape into Buddhism.

The late emperor was already old at that time, and the empress and prince had accidents one after another. The old man must be very tired. Nian she was always gentle and virtuous, and worried that she would be murdered if she stayed in the harem. Therefore, the late emperor agreed to release her from the palace and let her stay in the temple. Enjoy your old age.

The first emperor probably never expected that the most gentle and peaceful concubine in his eyes was the real murderer hiding behind the scenes.

She hides so deep!

Xiao Lou couldn't help admiring her scheming.If women in this world could be called emperors, concubine Xian might be able to become a female emperor. She played around with the entire harem of the former emperor. In the end, all the women in the harem were buried, and she was the only one who survived.

The son didn't live up to expectations and wasted her planning.

So, she turned her attention to her grandson—began to assist Qi Fenghua in plotting a rebellion?