General, this plot is wrong

On the day of the Xishan Camp’s expedition, the heavy rain that had rained all night had just stopped, the sky was dawn, the clouds were sparse, and the faint layer of dawn in the distance in the distance only wiped out a layer of cool color in the sky.

All the soldiers went out to fight, and all the people who returned to Yancheng gathered at the gate of the city, watching them go far away in the clear dawn.

Chu Heng accompanied the princess to the gate of the city, looking at Lu Ting and He Moer on horseback, his heart was filled with special affection.

When going down the city gate, Chu Heng saw a familiar carriage parked on the side of the road at a glance.

The driver on the car saw him and hurriedly cupped his hands: "Doctor Chu."

The carriage looks familiar, and so does the way the cart is driven.Chu Heng ordered someone to help the princess into the car, and walked up to him in a few steps: "Madam Liu?"

A corner of the car curtain was opened, and there was Madam Liu's personal maid.Seeing Chu Heng, the little lady curled her lips and said with a smile: "Doctor Chu is here too? But he came to see off General Lu?"

Liu Chen also mentioned the relationship between Chu Heng and Lu Ting with his wife, and the servants who served him close to him naturally listened to it.Although it was a pity that the two in Yushu Linfeng finally chose the same sex, but the relationship between the young ladies and Chu Heng has always been close, and they always joke when they meet occasionally.

Chu Heng smiled and did not deny it.

Inside the carriage, Mrs. Liu scolded the maidservants in a low voice, and said: "Mr. Chu, before my lord left, he told me to obey Dr. Chu's orders. If Mr. Chu has anything to do, you can also ask someone to send a message." Go to Liu's Mansion. I am pregnant with a child at this age and it is inconvenient to walk outside, so I have to trouble Dr. Chu to come to the door."

"It's natural. Ma'am, you should go back to the house early to rest, don't tire yourself out."

Chu Heng took a step back and sent Liu's carriage away, then returned to his own carriage, took the reins and got on the horse's back.

Zhao Yan's body hasn't fully recovered yet, she got up early today, but he was talking to Madam Liu, and she had already fallen asleep in the car.

It wasn't until the carriage pulled for a while that Chu Heng heard Zhao Yan's voice from inside the carriage.

"If Mrs. Liu had listened to the Sixth Madam's advice, redeemed her life and entered Liu's mansion, wouldn't she have died in Wutun?"

"Maybe, but maybe not."

No one knows if Mrs. Liu hadn't rejected Liu Chen's request to redeem her body, whether she would have lived in peace and stability in this life.After all, life in the backyard is sometimes not as glamorous as it looks on the outside.

Mrs. Liu is indeed a good person.Getting along day and night for a long time is different from meeting occasionally.Even if Mrs. Liu does not have a rift with her, can get along peacefully, and is a sister, there is no guarantee that Liu Chen will not have other interests in the future.

After all, happiness is easy to lose.

Thinking of the several times he met Mrs. Liu in Wutun, Chu Heng couldn't help recalling the sleeves that slipped past his fingertips that day.

He wanted to follow the expedition, firstly because of his medical skills, Wanhuagu used to be a doctor, it would be more useful to stay in the city than to follow the expedition, secondly, it was because of Liu Niangzi's bones.

But Lu Ting refused, and before leaving, he even promised that the teacher would bring Miss Liu back with him when he returned to court.

In this way, he took a step back and stayed in Guiyan City to wait for their return.

"Doctor Chu." Zhao Yan's voice was tired, "I've already started to miss him."

"Ah, that's it." Chu Heng rubbed his nose, remembered the tall figure on the horseback, and said with a smile, "Me too."

In the imperial study room, Zhao Yin was sitting behind the desk case, his slender fingers were lighting on the living notes spread out on the desk case, without saying a word, as if waiting for the people below to speak first.

The few people kneeling in the study room were still young, but the few people who were invited to sit aside had gray hair and were in their twilight years.

The daily life notes that Zhao Yin read belonged to the late emperor.

The living note, the official responsible for repairing the living note, accompanied the emperor in all public activities, but recorded every word and deed of the emperor, even including greetings to the empress dowager and other whereabouts and words.

Zhao Yin found the record that the Kucha businessman presented the Kucha dancer to the late emperor under the recommendation of others from the late emperor's daily life notes.

Among them, there was a dancer whose name was casually asked by the first emperor, and was recorded in the living order at that time.

That dancer's name is Zhange.

"Where are these Kucha dancers back then?"

The dancers in the teaching workshop in the palace never leave anyone who is getting older.Talented scholars, if they are lucky, can stay in Jiaofang as officials, teaching new dancers how to entertain others at palace banquets.

But more dancers, especially these barbarian dancers, are usually rewarded to court officials as gifts, or sent out of the palace when they are old.

Zhao Yin checked the records of the Jiaofang. This batch of Kucha dancers had a record of entering the Jiaofang, but they couldn't find any information about leaving.Come to think of it, someone moved his hands and feet.

"Most, most of them have been rewarded to the ministers in the court one after another."

"This is called Zhan Ge, who was the reward given to?"

"Chen... I can't remember."

Zhao Yin stopped his movements, raised his head, and his eyes fell on Taichang Siqing who was kneeling on the ground and answered the words. The latter's face was slightly pale, and he didn't understand why he suddenly brought up this matter.

The teaching workshop is under the management of Taichang Temple, and all the dancers and musicians under the name are registered in Taichang Temple.Taichang Siqing is not young, but compared with Taichang Siqing when the late emperor was alive, he is obviously younger and can remember more.

"Your Majesty," Taichang Siqing gritted his teeth, "It's been many years since this matter happened. At that time, I was only Feng Lilang, so there are many things that I didn't..."

Zhao Yin didn't speak, his lips were drawn into a line.

Not long after he ascended the throne, he had just cleared out the forces left by the empress dowager in the court. Now he has a lot of estimates for the people in the six departments, but it doesn't mean that he dare not kill all the six departments.

"Do you think that if you don't know, I can let you go." Zhao Yin sighed, closed the daily life note, and said, "Mr. He, tell me, where did that dancer named Zhange go?" .”

He Lao who was named was the former Taichang Temple Minister and the elder of the current Taichang Temple Minister.At this moment, Mr. He knew in his heart that the newly enthroned emperor might have heard something.

"Your Majesty, that girl named Zhange from Kucha, if I remember correctly, I have already given it to Marquis Jingyuan a few years ago."

Hearing what he wanted to hear, Zhao Yin nodded slightly: "You all go down."

After the words fell, the other people in the study got up to leave, and hurried out of the room, covered in cold sweat.

"Your Majesty..." Old He's voice was dry and hoarse.He is now very old, and not long after he learned of the royal secret, he chose to resign and retire.But there were some things that he still couldn't bring him into the coffin.

Emperor Mingde didn't know about it, and the empress dowager kept her secret for many years, more because the former emperor made things to the extreme, but this one is different.

"Whose flesh and blood is Prince Qing's adopted son?"

Zhao Yin didn't beat around the bush, and cut straight to the point.

Mr. He listened carefully, his mind was spinning, and he vaguely guessed what Zhao Yin meant.

"Zhange did serve the first emperor. At that time, Zhange had a close relationship with King Qing and Princess Qing, so no one dared to bully her at will in the teaching workshop. The first emperor was drunk and favored her unintentionally, and he followed suit afterwards. According to the old rules, I drank the decoction so as not to conceive an heir."

Zhao Yin listened carefully, without interrupting Mr. He, the screen behind him made a "boom", and he leaned back, tapping on the armrest of the chair with his fingers.

"The first emperor was drunk and had no memory of Zhan Ge who fled in a hurry after being favored. On the second day, the Empress Dowager who came after hearing the news used the excuse of gifts to reward several barbarian dancers including Zhan Ge. It was given to several ministers in the court, including Marquis Jingyuan."

"Go on."

"Yes... I heard that Marquis Jingyuan dotes on this girl a lot, and soon there was news that she was pregnant."

"Child, whose is it?"

If Chu Heng were here, he would definitely say that in an era without DNA testing, a child's biological father could not rely on his biological mother not giving birth to a full-term child to determine whether the child belonged to Lao Wang next door.

Elder He could only say: "After learning that this girl was pregnant, the capable eunuchs around the late emperor informed the late emperor of the matter, and then successively sent Feng Yu to check her pulse. Presumably... this child is indeed the late emperor's flesh and blood."

Hearing the faint movement behind the screen, Zhao Yin turned his head slightly: "Does Marquis Jingyuan know?"

"Jing Yuanhou didn't know about it. It's just that after this woman gave birth to a child before the full term, someone seemed to have said something to the Hou Ye. The child was quickly let go by the Hou Ye, and Zhan Ge fell out of favor immediately. I heard that the Hou Ye suspected it. This child belongs to His Royal Highness Prince Qing."

Lu Ting was considered to be the illegitimate son of King Qing. There had been rumors in the court for a long time. After all, in terms of appearance, the two did have similarities.

Zhao Yin turned his head, took a deep look at the screen, and asked again: "Why didn't the late emperor recognize this child as his ancestor?"

"Your majesty, the crown prince was not established at that time. Even you, the late emperor, spent a lot of effort to save him before his death. How could he devote his energy to protecting a child who was still in his infancy? Why not just If you make a mistake, let the child live outside the palace and be an ordinary person, and he has the guilt of being a father."

After saying these words, Zhao Yin's expression darkened even more.

"Other than Mr. He and the Empress Dowager, who else knows about this?"

Knowing that even if he didn't tell, with Zhao Yin's ability, he could still find out the people who had been involved in this matter back then, Mr. He sighed and said: "There is also the great eunuch next to the late emperor, but the one who was in the post of the late emperor Bintian, has been ordered to die."

Mr. He was sent out of the imperial study, and Zhao Yin sat behind the table, silently listening to the rapid breathing behind the screen.

After a while, he knocked on the table: "Come out, Lord Hou."

Behind the screen, Jingyuan Hou Luzhan walked out with a bow, followed by his wife Yuan Shi.

The two of them were called into the palace this time, but they didn't know it at first, they thought that Zhao Yinchu was enthroned, and wanted to attract all kinds of forces, and planned to discuss marriage with them and accept their daughter as a concubine.Unexpectedly, I would hear such a topic.

At this time, Jingyuan Hou hated and feared at the same time.

He hated Zhange for making trouble, and was afraid of Zhao Yin's imperial power.If it wasn't for Zhan Ge's death and Lu Ting far away in the sky, Marquis Jing Yuan might have vented all his anger on their mother and son.

Yuan Shi was relatively calm.

In the past, she only thought that Lu Ting's status was different, but since the child was born, it always needed to be taken care of, but she never thought that this child would be... the flesh and blood of the late emperor.

"Lu Zhan, you heard everything clearly."

Zhao Yin's voice was flat, and his gaze was so overwhelming that he couldn't lift his head: "What did Zhange die for? He really hanged himself?"

He was indeed dissatisfied with the sudden appearance of brotherhood, but the account of the bullying of the late emperor's son who had been left outside had to be settled.

Marquis Jingyuan knelt on the ground, as if his heart was ashamed, he couldn't help shaking: "It's...it's the minister...the minister... strangled him to death..."

Yuan shi let out a low cry, never expecting that the real cause of death of Lu Ting's biological mother was actually being strangled to death by her husband.

Zhao Yin's eyes changed slightly.Marquis Jing Yuan was still kneeling on the ground, and said loudly: "I killed her...I strangled that unfaithful woman to death..."