On the second day, several old princes who were in charge of the clan arrived, and each brought two literati who were familiar with imitating handwriting according to the emperor's order.

The fourth prince who came with him frowned tightly. He was wearing loose and cool clothes, and he was still sweating profusely. He was puzzled and refused to believe that what he saw with his own eyes could be fake?

At this time, he saw an old man walking outside the door. The old man was wearing a dusty cloth robe, but he was very energetic and his eyes were very bright.

After avoiding it, the fourth prince suddenly turned his head, as if he couldn't believe it, "It's... Taifu Zhao?"

"It's the old man. I haven't seen the prince for a few years and he's getting richer haha." Taifu Zhao shook his beard and said with a smile.

The Fourth Prince didn't know what this person was doing here, so he approached him with his own calculations and asked, "Why is Taifu Zhao here today?"

"Naturally someone came to invite me, so I have to give my younger generation some face." Zhao Taifu ambiguously pointed out that this person is the younger generation's face.

Then it was not invited by the emperor, the fourth prince thought to himself.

That's right, everyone has heard about what happened between the Taifu and the new emperor a few years ago. Neither the emperor nor Taifu Zhao gave each other face. Let's meet again?

Someone must have invited Master Zhao!

The fourth prince continued to make friends with him, one was intentional, and the other was intentional, the fourth prince immediately knew that the person in front of him was Mr. Wen Shi, he opened his mouth slightly, the flesh on his face trembled, and quickly cupped his hands and saluted as a junior, Surprised, he said: "It turns out that the Taifu asked Mr. Shi, but he really didn't know the true face of Lushan Mountain. Because he was in this mountain, I often read Mr.'s handwriting and felt that Mr. was a great talent. It was a pity that he could not get to know Mr. Shi, but he did not expect to meet Mr. Wenshi. So close."

Taifu Zhao put on a flattered look, "My lord often discusses articles with scholars and literati, but I didn't expect that my lord also loves calligraphy."

The fourth prince hurriedly continued his pursuit with a few words.

"The emperor and empress have arrived." At this time, the eunuch's singing sounded outside.

The Fourth Prince hadn't had time to completely win Taifu Zhao to his side, remembering Zhang Jingyi's suggestion yesterday that the handwriting was indeed written by the late empress, he couldn't help but connect these two things in his heart, is it possible for Taifu Zhao to prove...that is not the handwriting of the late empress?

First, the former empress is Zhao Taifu's disciple, and they have a good relationship. Zhao Taifu will not cover for the current empress. Second, Zhao Taifu actually asked Mr. Shi, so the handwriting of the former empress and He Chang'an must be able to be separated!

Thinking of this, and thinking of the trump card he had prepared, the Fourth Prince couldn't help but feel at ease.

"Zhang Jingyi hasn't arrived yet?" Li Ze glanced at everyone present, raised his eyebrows slightly, and took He Changan's hand to sit aside.

"Report to the emperor, I am late, please forgive me." Zhang Jingyi hurried over.

Li Ze said: "No problem, since everyone is here, Zhang Aiqing can tell you quickly, what is the progress of the case?"

Zhang Jingyi asked his subordinates to spread out the four handwritings on the table, and said, "I would also like to ask the princes and princes to invite the gentlemen you brought here to identify the handwriting of these four copied poems."

"Among the four sheets, two are the handwriting of the former empress, one is suspected to be the handwriting of the former empress, and it is also the one that gentlemen need to identify, and the last one is the handwriting imitated by Mr. Weichenling. The back of their paper Write on, true, suspicious, and false respectively, and now gentlemen, please distinguish!"

Zhang Jingyi took out the real one as a reference, and visited the other three in random order.

The clan brought dozens of gentlemen, who hesitated a little after hearing the request, and stepped forward to check the handwriting one after another after receiving the affirmation of the master's family, and finally wrote the results of the handwriting identification.

"False true"

"False true"

They were all false and true. After checking, Zhang Jingyi lifted the back of the paper on the table, collected these results one by one, and presented them to the emperor after they were checked by everyone.

"My Majesty, yesterday I invited ten old gentlemen in the capital who have been engaged in handwriting identification for more than 20 years. These people all said that the handwriting of the former queen and the suspected former queen came from a single person. The fourth prince insisted that those gentlemen were identified by the queen. Buying, the princes of the clan today, the retainers of the county kings, the results of the appraisal are also from the former empress, and I ask the emperor to decide."

The fourth prince couldn't believe it and went to check the four handwritings on the table, and the ones that were displayed on the back were false, true, suspicious, and false. Everyone thought the handwriting marked suspicious was the original one, "How is it possible?"

Zhang Jingyi asked: "My lord, can you see clearly?"

"This is impossible. I saw the handwriting written by the Empress with my own eyes. How could it be authentic!"

Li Ze suddenly looked over, "What, the Fourth Emperor saw the empress write it down with his own eyes?"

The clan present also looked over and saw the fake handwriting with their own eyes?

Zhang Jingyi knelt down expressionlessly, "My Majesty, the fourth prince said the same thing yesterday, and Chen Chun, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army, once said that he bought the fake handwriting of the former empress. The fourth prince participated in the crowd imitating the handwriting of the former empress, this matter is not under the control of Dali Temple, and the officials from the Beiyamen should be called."

The Fourth Prince took two steps back in shock, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Is it nonsense? The fourth prince knows better than Chen. We searched the historical accounts of Hongyuan Bookstore and found that last year, the bookstore sold more than 60 pieces of fake characters and paintings, totaling 50 taels of silver. All kinds of expenses, [-] of which was taken away by Zhang Qing, the chief steward of the fourth prince's mansion, isn't it under the prince's instigation?"

The other princes at the side heard the 60 taels of silver, and they all looked up, and couldn't help opening their mouths: 60...that's a lot of money.

The fourth prince was shocked and angry, "You...you are talking nonsense, and the accounts are all with me..."

Zhang Jingyi said: "Oh, at the prince's mansion?"

"How is it possible?" The fourth prince tried his best to disregard the relationship with Hongyuan Bookstore, "the paintings and calligraphy sold in Hongyuan Bookstore are often fake, I just need to run my own bookstore, how can I lose my reputation."

Zhang Jingyi doesn't care so much, he only completes the tasks entrusted to him, "Reporting to the emperor, Qiao Yucheng, the adoptive son of the fourth prince, said that the empress empress imitated the handwriting of the previous empress empress to copy the handwriting of the Book of Songs. The fourth prince and Qiao Yucheng sat down together, I implore the emperor to make a decision."

The clan now understands that the co-author is the fourth prince who set up a trap at the family banquet to beat him up... Now it has been discovered.

The fourth prince was anxious, and sweat was all over his back. At this moment, he suddenly saw Mr. Zhao beside him.

"Wait." The Fourth Prince smiled kindly, "My Majesty, I just learned something, it turns out that Taifu Zhao is actually the famous Mr. Wenshi, I wonder if Mr. Shi can go to identify these handwriting together. How about proving your innocence?"

The Fourth Prince gritted his teeth in his heart, and refused to believe that he saw the handwriting with his own eyes...

He found someone to imitate the handwriting of the former empress, and he could barely justify it, but if he couldn't prove that He Changan copied the Book of Songs, he would have to admit that he was the one who framed the empress with his adopted son, and there was also the Hongyuan Bookstore.

Before the fourth prince came, he didn't expect that he would be so devastated.

The clan was already dumbfounded when they heard the words of the Fourth Prince, and asked, "Ask Mr. Shi?"

"Teacher Zhao actually asked Mr. Shi?"

Li Ze slightly hooked his lips, "It depends on Zhao Taifu's wishes, if Zhao Taifu is willing, of course he can."

"Then I will not be disrespectful, I just ask Mr. Zhang to change the order of these words, and I will distinguish them later." Zhao Taifu still smiled kindly.

Zhang Jingyi did so.

The fourth prince regained his confidence, "Mr. Wenshi not only writes handwriting that is hard to find, but he is also famous for imitating handwriting."

He Changan, who had been silent all this time, could not bear it any longer, and complained in his heart, you deserve what you deserve when you meet the right master.

No matter how cleverly you can imitate your handwriting, how can you write it yourself?

Taifu Zhao looked around the paper carefully, picked up a pen and wrote down his judgment on the paper.

Zhang Jingyi went to compare Zhao Taifu's answer again this time, and his face was completely expressionless. "In the Taifu's answer, he also thinks that the suspected handwriting is the first queen."

"Impossible, I really saw how the words were written on this piece of paper." The fourth prince glared at Zhao Taifu, and then remembered something. He stepped forward to check and asked Zhang Jingyi, "Is this really from Hongyuan Bookstore?" The book of poetry that was sold?"

Zhang Jingyi said sincerely, "If the Fourth Prince doesn't believe in handwriting, you can ask the people from Hongyuan Bookstore to inquire, and he will definitely give the Fourth Prince a satisfactory answer."

Taifu Zhao stroked his beard, "My disciple's handwriting is not enough to admit a mistake."

The other clan members already knew the answer in their hearts, so they looked at the Fourth Prince mockingly.

The Fourth Prince's face was ugly, knowing that this time He Chang'an was lucky. Zhang Jingyi's words not only provided enough evidence for the queen, but also made him dare not mention that He Chang'an earned money by using fake handwriting.

But the person he brought could not be wasted, the fourth prince asked Zhang Jingyi to bring the witness, "Even if this matter is the fault of my adoptive son, the Empress's family, Princess Wenfeng, has a marriage contract. To regret the marriage privately, it must be the empress's fault, right?"

He Changan, who was drowsy, suddenly heard the roll call. He sat up straight and watched a woman being brought in in a daze. He watched carefully for a while before he saw clearly the woman with her head bowed and her clothes dirty. who is it.

He said in disbelief, "Aunt Zhang?"

Li Yuegui's appearance was really very different from that of a few days ago, his face was haggard, his hair was messed up like withered grass, and his whole person seemed to have lost his support and spirit.

"Caomin pay homage to the emperor." Li Yuegui knelt on the ground with a hoarse voice.

When Li Ze heard He Changan's address, he remembered who this person was, and then remembered that she was hugging Chang'an's leg and crying, and said unhappily: "Get up, Fourth Prince, tell me what's going on, you Do you know what is the crime of slandering the younger generation of the same clan? What is the crime of slandering the innocence of a girl who has no marriage contract?"

The matter of Hongyuan Bookstore failed. If it can't win the round, Hongyuan Bookstore may be seized. The income there will almost support the expenses of the entire palace. At that time, some of the servants employed by the palace will be removed.

It is bound to bring back the situation, and the fourth prince's heart has already tensed up, "Reporting to the emperor, this minister is also a clan, so I naturally know that if this matter is fabricated by this minister, I would like to get rid of this official on my body." gown, downgraded to the county king."

People in the clan made an uproar. The emperor's children started as county kings. Only a few princes who can please the emperor or be real-time princes can become princes. The clan used for the first time.

The Fourth Prince stared at He Changan, "Confront me, if it proves that I am not the Princess Wenfeng whom I slandered, then the Queen will be punished, and Princess Wenfeng will be deprived of the title of Princess."

With a "click", He Changan threw away the fragments of the broken teacup in his hand. He didn't look at the blood dripping from his hand. He is a role model for my generation."

Even if he knew that He Lan could wash away his grievances, every time this matter was brought up by others, He Xiaomei was very upset.

Once again, what he pays attention to is nothing more than those few things, the family is undoubtedly the most important part, and the fourth prince just stepped on this point.

He stared at Li Yuegui with cold eyes, as if he was looking at some source of pollution. It was this person who caused his sister to suffer such injustice many times. The humiliation suffered by the younger sister and the humiliation suffered by the family were spread out.

"You... Zheng Shi quickly call the imperial physician." Li Ze held the hand in distress, not letting him move, and carefully squeezed out the pieces on it.

He Chang'an looked at the fourth prince coldly, "The laws of the Jin Dynasty fabricated facts to destroy people's reputation, hit [-] boards hard, slandered girls and women's reputation, and smeared the reputation of girls and women with [-] boards. You must also be punished by the law, Mr. Zhang, do you think this is the rule?"

Zhang Jingyi answered appropriately, "Go back to the empress, the empress is right, the clan law also has regulations, and when it comes to matters involving the same clan, the prince's crime is the same as that of the common people."

Otherwise, after so many years, a capital city would no longer be able to accommodate more than a dozen princes, county kings and clans.

"You... are deceiving people too much, and you still ask Lord Ye to be the master for the younger generation," the fourth prince was so angry that his face was bloodshot and his seven orifices rose to heaven, and he couldn't help panting heavily.

When it came to the clan, the Prince Ye whom the fourth prince spoke of was facing the emperor. He looked at the queen and thought that this was not a person to be trifled with, so he said tremblingly, "Master Zhang is right, there are rules in the clan law. , both belong to the clan, and shall be dealt with according to the provisions of the Great Jin Law."

In the past, the fourth prince only thought that these clans were as timid as a flock of quails, but no one was looking for trouble, and he was the only one in the capital, which was exactly what he wanted.

Who knew that it was his turn, and none of the many clans were willing to speak for him. Seeing that he was powerless, the Fourth Prince could only look at the woman on the ground and shouted angrily: "Hurry up and say that Princess Wenfeng and your family marriage."

The humiliation now is for the reward later, the fourth prince said silently in his heart.

This was introduced by Zhang Jingyi's in-laws, and it was finally possible to win the round.

The Fourth Prince just wanted to wait for this matter to end. He decided to publicize the matter of Queen He's family throughout the capital, so that everyone would know what good things the Queen's mother's family had done.

There is also his adoptive son Zhang Jingyi, a waste who did not accomplish much but failed. He had already disliked him, so he had to dispose of it as soon as possible.

Li Yuegui said in a hoarse voice the words he had taught a long time ago, "Caomin and the Empress's mother are good sisters for many years. The Empress's family has a doll. Zhang Huaixin of my family happened to be about the same age as her. Both of us thought about it at the time." After kissing and kissing, we made a verbal kiss."

"Later, the empress was admitted to Juren, and my son Zhang Huaixin was a year later than him. The relationship between our two families has become better and better over the years, and our children are satisfied with the marriage, so we agreed that whether my son Zhang Huaixin was admitted to Juren or not, we The two families will form a friendship between Qin and Jin, just after this year's Qiqiao Festival."

A clan couldn't help but nodded, "Isn't it just a few days later, my daughter will also get married on that day."

Li Yuegui didn't seem to have heard this, "The Qiqiao Festival is a good day. Half a month ago, my son and the empress had a good relationship, and they talked about Brother Chang'an. The empress also wrote my son about his exam experience. In the end, my son was admitted to Juren. This is a great event worthy of celebration, but in the past few days, the Queen’s family has denied this marriage. There are rumors all over the place that He Lan, who was engaged to my son, was named princess."

Li Yuegui raised her head abruptly, "Caomin implores the emperor to do... Lord..."

Like a string that suddenly snapped, Li Yuegui stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes, suspecting that he had misread it, this person is the emperor, how could he be so similar to the young man who beat him?

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