At the same time, there were also discoveries in the palace.

"My Majesty, if someone really broke into the dungeon, the court lady who assassinated Mrs. Zhang has been poisoned and died! It was an eunuch who poisoned her, and she has already got all the stolen goods!" Li Xiu has been sending people secretly since receiving the order. Pay attention to the situation in the dungeon, and deliberately show a look of negligence, especially after realizing that someone sneaked into the dungeon secretly, and gave some convenience.

It is not uncommon for people to be murdered and silenced in the palace. Sima Yi just set up defenses at will, but he did not expect to catch someone.

"Which palace can you find out?"

Li Xiu was stunned, and said: "Go back to the emperor, it's from Zhaoyi's empress palace."

Sima Yi was a little surprised, although he guessed that it was Zhao Laiyi who ordered someone to do it, but this time it was really done by people in her palace, unlike the previous few times, it was all palace people from the next palace.

Sima Yi was not sure at the moment whether it was because many spies in the palace had been cleaned up due to the large-scale investigation, or whether Zhao Laiyi had no fear of revealing his identity.

Only a few of them knew about sending the little prince out of the palace. Judging from today's signs, Zhao Laiyi was undoubtedly the one who leaked the secret.

Thinking of this, Sima Yi said, "Where's Zhao Laiyi?"

Ever since Sima Yi knew that Zhao Laiyi was not easy, he had sent someone to monitor her, Li Xiu said: "Return to the emperor, according to the previous news, Lady Zhaoyi has already rested."

Hearing this, Sima Yi couldn't help sneering, was he too confident that he didn't even care about the result?

At this time, a hidden guard jumped down from the top of the building, "My subordinates pay respects to the emperor, long live the emperor!"

Seeing this, Sima Yi was overjoyed, "But there is news?"

"Back to the emperor, as expected, the princess met an assassin. Fortunately, he was prepared. Both the princess and the little prince are safe and sound."

Only then did Sima Yi feel relieved, "That's good." After a while, he asked again, "Did Danyang mention whether he wanted to enter the palace or go back directly to the manor?"

The secret guard said: "Go back to the emperor, the princess and Marquis Xuan Ping are already on their way back to the palace."

After the hidden guard retreated, Li Xiudao: "Your Majesty, what should we do with Lady Zhaoyi?"

A dark light flashed in Sima Yi's eyes, "Immediately send someone to take her down, and detain everyone in her palace!"

Li Xiu was in a good mood, "Yes!"

Just as he was about to walk out of the gate, Sima Yi suddenly stopped him, "Your Majesty, do you have any orders?"

"Send someone to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to protect the Empress Dowager."

After thinking about it, Li Xiu realized that the Queen Mother had always loved Zhao Laiyi, so it was hard to guarantee that Zhao Laiyi would find an opportunity to attack her.

"Yes, Your Majesty! This servant understands!"

Sima Yi sat alone for a while, then he got up and walked around to the Guangda plaque in the Imperial Study Room, where his father's private seal and his father's last words were placed.

It was already a familiar content, but Sima Yi read it again. Sima Yi knew that maybe his father had already guessed that today would happen, so he wrote such a last letter.

Sima Yi stood under the aboveboard plaque for a long time, silent like a stone statue, holding the paper as thin as a cicada's wing in his hand, unable to see his expression clearly.

When Zhao Laiyi was awakened, she felt a little flustered.

"What happened, why is it so noisy?!"

The maid serving outside the door hurriedly opened the door and walked in, "Ms. Hui, it was the Imperial Forest Army who rushed in for some reason."

Zhao Laiyi realized something was wrong, and immediately took the cloak on the side and tied it to her body, but it was too late, Huo Rufeng had already led many imperial guards into the inner room.

Zhao Laiyi thought about it calmly, looked around, and found that no one she knew was there, so she couldn't help feeling cold.

Even so, facing Huo Rufeng and many imperial guards, Zhao Laiyi's face remained unchanged.

"Commander Huo, why did you break into the palace in the middle of the night?!"

Huo Rufeng looked at this gentle woman, thinking of what she had done, he only felt that she was a snake.

"Today, someone broke into the dungeon and poisoned the maid who assassinated Madam Zhang to death. I found out that the murderer was someone from Madam Zhang's palace. The emperor ordered me to thoroughly investigate this place, so please let me go with you!"

When Zhao Laiyi heard this, she didn't know what was going on, and those underlings didn't obey her orders and acted on their own!

It really is more than success and failure!

After a few turns in her heart, Zhao Laiyi said angrily: "Is the people in this palace ordered by this palace?! Commander Huo should be more careful when speaking, don't want to wrong someone!"

Huo Rufeng was not moved at all, and said calmly: "Everything is the emperor's order, I dare not speak up, if the empress does not agree, just follow the minister to face the saint."

Zhao Laiyi felt angry when she saw that he didn't enter. She looked at the Imperial Forest Army in the room calmly. There were no fewer than 20 people. With Huo Rufeng here, there was almost no possibility of escaping.

After a while, Zhao Laiyi raised his jaw slightly, "In this way, I will face the Holy Spirit with Commander Huo."

Zhao Laiyi thought about countermeasures along the way, wondering how much Sima Yi knew, the matter of the dungeon could be passed on to the people below, falsely claiming that he didn't know people well and had no way to rule.However, when she thought about the assassination of the little prince today, there was nothing wrong with it, but now it seemed quite strange.

When Zhao Laiyi met Guo Chan and Xuan Ping Hou who had just returned to the palace, and met Guo Chan's cold gaze, she finally understood that everything was just a trap.

Seeing Zhao Laiyi whose clothes were messed up, Guo Chan sneered, "Miss Zhaoyi, don't come here without any problems."

Zhao Laiyi's heart was sour, but he was a very strong person after all, "Princess, don't come here without any problems."

"Thanks to your mother's blessing, I'm safe tonight."

Zhao Laiyi, who was still holding on to a little bit of luck, felt relieved when she heard this. She smiled slightly, "It turns out that the princess is waiting for me here on purpose."

The matter of sending the little prince out of the palace was just to test whether she would make a move.

"Can the Princess tell me how she suspected me?"

Guo Chan looked at her, "I didn't suspect you, it was Jinyan who noticed."

Zhao Laiyi was startled, and sneered, "So it's her..."

At this time, Zhao Laiyi did not hide the maliciousness in his tone, and Guo Chan frowned.

At this moment, Li Xiu came out to greet them, and first showed an eager smile to Guo Chan, Xuan Pinghou and the others, "Thanks for the princess and Lord Hou, the emperor has been waiting for a long time."

Turning to face Zhao Laiyi, Li Xiu's expression turned sharply down, and she called out coldly, "Ms. Zhaoyi, please."

Zhao Laiyi had expected such a reaction long ago, and thought in her heart, let me make you proud, you will be the ones crying later.

As expected, when Zhao Laiyi saw Sima Yi, his expression was still very calm, as gentle as himself.

"The ministers and concubines have seen the emperor." Zhao Laiyi gave a salute, and said indifferently: "The emperor must have known about the summons of the ministers and concubines today."

Sima Yi said "Yes", knowing that the Zhao family had a connection with Sai Lu, he had already sent someone to find out about Zhao Laiyi's details, and he asked Zhao Laiyi to come because he had other plans.

Sima Yi thought for a while and suddenly said: "Do you know that Zhang's birth is actually a princess, not a prince?"

Zhao Laiyi was stunned, and cast a glance at Guo Chan involuntarily, remembering that day when Lu Jinyan entered the palace in a hurry, she suddenly realized, she couldn't help but said: "The princess is so clever, she actually stole the dragon and turned the phoenix into a phoenix."

After a while, Zhao Laiyi suddenly laughed, "Hehehehe... I don't want Empress Zhang to work hard, but in the end she only gave birth to a princess. But if this is the case, you have suffered a great crime, Your Majesty?"

Li Xiu was about to shout angrily, but Sima Yi stopped him, and looked at Zhao Laiyi suspiciously. Perhaps he would have an answer to what he had been wondering all along.

Zhao Laiyi probably knew that she had no way out, so she said with a sinister smile, "Your Majesty, do you think you still have a chance to get a prince to inherit the throne?"

Thinking of a series of things, Li Xiu exclaimed, "Poison woman, what did you do to the emperor?!"

Zhao Laiyi asked back: "What can I do? But presumably tomorrow morning, the whole capital will know that you are barren, Your Majesty."

Li Xiu gasped for breath.

"Is that so?" It was obviously a very serious matter, but Sima Yi, the person involved, acted calmly, "It's a good strategy."

Zhao Laiyi was taken aback. Shouldn't an emperor be devastated when he learned that he was infertile?Why did Sima Yi have such an attitude.

Sima Yi said: "What's your next plan? Let the whole world know that I can't bear children, and the emperor's heir will be damaged. What can you do?"

Zhao Laiyi was puzzled by Sima Yi's attitude that this matter was none of his business, and wondered if he had a back trick, and his eyes unconsciously became defensive.

Seeing this, Sima Yi naturally guessed what she was thinking, he laughed at himself, did he want the childless ending?Naturally, I don't want it, it's just reincarnation in the sky, maybe this is the so-called retribution.

Guo Chan grew up with Sima Yi and knew him best, so she couldn't help saying, "Put him in prison first, she won't confess anyway if you ask her."

Zhao Laiyi glanced at Guo Chan, "Who says I can't confess? It depends on who asks me."

The meaningful look and tone made Guo Chan feel annoyed.

None of the people present were fools, and they all looked sideways. What Zhao Laiyi said was true. Who did she need to ask before she spoke?

Zhao Laiyi didn't care about others at this time, she walked slowly in front of Guo Chan, and said with a smile: "Princess, if you leave Lu Jinyan, I will tell you everything behind the scene and the next deployment. How about it?"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was amazed.

Xuan Pinghou didn't dare to look at her daughter, and being threatened in public was not her usual style, and what Zhao Laiyi did would only make her more disgusted.But I never thought that Zhao Laiyi would like Guo Chan, a concubine...

Li Xiu felt that she had heard some terrible secret, and lowered her head, the emperor's concubine actually liked Princess Danyang, it would be a scandal if it got out.It's no wonder that Zhao Laiyi always refused to serve her bed, and she didn't want to be favored, so she blindly flattered the Queen Mother.

How could Guo Chan get what she wanted.

"Don't even dream about it." Guo Chan looked at her coldly, "I will check the people behind the scenes myself. As for you, what is waiting for you is a dead end!"

Zhao Laiyi felt pain in her heart, but she deliberately smiled on her face, "It's really regrettable, I am better than Lu Jinyan...oh, no, Ren Suyi knows a lot more."

Li Xiu gasped, Lu Jinyan?Ren Suyi?

Guo Chan couldn't stand Zhao Laiyi's so-called affectionate gaze, so she just didn't look at her.

Zhao Laiyi knew what Guo Chan was thinking, turned around and said to Sima Yi: "I advise the emperor to call the imperial physician to see, maybe there is still a chance of rescue? But if there is no cure, it's okay, the emperor can also come to me."

Sima Yi ignored her, and said calmly: "Come here, take him to prison."

After Zhao Laiyi left, Guo Chan insisted on asking Imperial Physician Xuan to check it out, but the result was not satisfactory.

Guo Chan said: "Is there no help at all?"

The imperial physician was silent for a long time, and sighed: "Judging from the current pulse condition of the emperor, it is indeed very difficult to have an heir in the future. Maybe it can be recuperated and recuperated, and it may be able to recover in the future."

Guo Chan knew very well that the imperial physician could only say [-]% of what he said, and he only said [-]% of what he said. If he said that, it meant that Sima Yi had no results in the matter of heirs.

At this time Xuan Pinghou murmured: "This is too vicious..."

Sima Yi raised his eyes and told the imperial physician to leave.

Guo Chan looked at the two of them, and said coldly: "What do you know? Even in this situation, you still don't send people to search the General's Mansion? What are you waiting for?!"

Things have developed to this day, and Guo Chan doesn't believe that these two people don't know the cause and effect, especially Sima Yi, who obviously has many things in front of him, but he has never really acted, as if step by step into the enemy's trap voluntarily generally.

Xuan Pinghou opened his mouth and asked Sima Yi for a long time: "Does the Emperor know what happened 14 years ago?"

Sima Yi nodded.

"Even so, the emperor should cheer up. The events of the previous generation should not affect the next generation. Besides, enough sacrifices have been made."

Sima Yi showed a confused expression on his face, and said in pain: "In the end, I let them take advantage of the loopholes, so that those princes sacrificed in vain. I will eventually pay for the sins committed by my father."

Guo Chan was at a loss when she heard this, but Sima Yi's unloved, inaction appearance made her feel angry, she pointed at Sima Yi and said angrily: "What evil, I only know that at this moment Those people’s actions are rebellious officials and thieves. What they do will only destabilize the country and make the people suffer! What’s more, colluding with the Turks, treason and disaster should be forgiven and indulged?! Sima Yi, think about Luoshui City Thousands of soldiers and people died, their bones are still cold, do you want the Turkic people to mess up the whole country, and you will understand that no evil can compare to what it is today!"

Since Sima Yi ascended the throne, no one has called his name again, but these words made Sima Yi cheer up.How could he forget the original intention of assuming the throne at the beginning, only when he stands taller can he protect the people he wants to protect, and he can create a great river and mountains himself.

Looking up again, Sima Yi's gaze has been replaced by determination.

Seeing Sima Yi like this, Guo Chan let go of the stone in his heart, "So, what happened 14 years ago?"

Sima Yi didn't answer immediately, but ordered: "Li Xiu, you go and guard the door and don't let anyone approach!"

Li Xiu sighed from the bottom of her heart, "Yes! The servant obeys!"

The door was gently closed, and under Guo Chan's puzzled eyes, Sima Yi said slowly: "14 years ago, although the father had already sat firmly on the throne, the uncle, the King Ruyang, was still very respected both among the people and in the court. Has a very high reputation. I don’t know if it’s because he has been on the throne for a long time, but his father’s suspicion has become more serious, and he regards the emperor’s uncle as a thorn in his flesh. Therefore, in the war with the Turks 14 years ago, the father deliberately let The emperor's uncle is going to fight."

After a pause, Sima Yi continued: "Everyone thought that the emperor's uncle would return triumphantly, because the emperor's uncle's ability is obvious to all. However, the emperor's uncle was shot by an arrow in a battle, and finally died of serious injuries."

Guo Chan was terrified when he heard this, and what Sima Yi said was clearly saying that the death of King Ruyang was related to the former emperor, and it was the former emperor who designed and killed King Ruyang.She suddenly remembered the letters she saw in the general's mansion. Also 14 years ago, old general Ling sent several letters just to recall Ling Pingzhi who was far away on the battlefield.

"What about Ling Pingzhi?" Guo Chan glanced at Xuan Pinghou, and from his unsurprised expression, he could tell that he knew what happened 14 years ago. "Ling Pingzhi died in battle 14 years ago. It's related, today we met a masked man, Father said that man was Ling Pingzhi."

Sima Yi didn't know that Ling Pingzhi was still alive, so he was a little surprised when he heard this, "It really is retribution."

When Xuan Pinghou saw this, he continued: "When King Ruyang died, the war was not over yet. But Ling Ping has always been on good terms with King Ruyang, and the two are confidants to each other. Desperately asked for orders to go to Luoshui City. In the end, both our army and the Turkic army were defeated, and he and his wife who went with him also died in battle."

Guo Chan heard the unknown meaning in his words, so he said: "You mean, the deaths of Ling Pingzhi and his wife were not killed in battle?"

"I'm just skeptical." Xuan Pinghou glanced at Sima Yi when he said this.

Sima Yi could only sigh: "Back then, Ling Pingzhi had always suspected that something was wrong with the death of the emperor's uncle. After he arrived in Luoshui City, he had been secretly investigating the matter. Later, he found out that the emperor's uncle died of poisoning, and he knew it. The person behind the scenes is Father Emperor. So..."

Guo Chan took the words, "So, the first emperor kept doing nothing and silenced all the insiders!"

Xuan Pinghou said: "It's just that I didn't expect that Ling Pingzhi didn't die..."

"So this is Sima He and Ling Pingzhi joining hands to take revenge."

Sima Yi could see her disdain and shamelessness from her expression, even he could hardly accept the behavior of his father.Maybe the emperor himself didn't agree with his behavior, otherwise how could he take care of Sima Heduo.Before he died, his father told him the truth, and it was this fact that made him feel guilty, unwilling to doubt Sima He.

The battle for the throne has always been like a pool of sewage, Guo Chan shook off other thoughts from his mind, the former emperor was indeed at fault, but how innocent are the dead princes and princesses now?Sima Yi is not a fool, it is impossible for her to watch him being bullied like this, let alone watch Sheji being manipulated by them.

Xuan Pinghou is not two people, he has experienced the previous dynasty, he knows a lot about the past, and also knows that royal disputes have always been like this, there is no right or wrong, only winners and losers.Therefore, he reminded the two, "After today's incident, the other party will definitely be prepared. They are in the dark, and we are in the open. Without knowing their next plan, we should make plans early."

Guo Chan also nodded, "Zhao Laiyi looks like she has a plan in mind." After a pause, she was inexplicably sad, "Cousin, your body may turn around if you take good care of it."

Sima Yi was stunned, and smiled wryly: "Forget it, I don't force the issue of heirs now, if it's not possible, it's not impossible to choose a smart child from a side branch to adopt."

It would be best for Sima Yi to think about it, but Guo Chan still couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him. This matter, in the final analysis, was not his fault, but he had to bear the final consequences alone.

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Work has become very busy, and I have a cold again, so the update time is uncertain, but I will post it when I have it!

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