Placid Chang'an

The three people who came out of Chen Ying's house had different expressions and walked slowly with their own concerns, without saying a word all the way.

Zheng Yang was the first to break the silence, wiped his hands with a handkerchief and said, "Sure enough, that bastard Li Sheng wanted to frame my uncle. Now that Chen Aniu is the witness, can my uncle be innocent?"

"A finger pull can't explain the problem," Su Cen shook his head and said, "Don't forget, there are also pure black finger pull princes."

"What do you mean? Why are you turning your elbows out?" Zheng Yang stopped, "Can my little uncle plant himself?"

"Brother Su means that the evidence of the crime must be confirmed." Ning Santong smoothed things over, "Li Sheng cannot be convicted of a crime with just one pull. If you want to bring down Li Sheng, you must have the collusion between Li Sheng and Chen Ying. Evidence, isn’t it Brother Su?”

Su Cen nodded, but the doubts in his heart rose instead. It stands to reason that both Li Shi and Li Sheng have black jade finger rings. Now that Li Shi has been framed, Li Sheng is indeed the most suspicious.But the problem is that it's too obvious, Li Sheng has obvious motives, and now the evidence points to him, but why does he ask himself to investigate?What good would it do him to check it out?

Zheng Yang was slightly appeased, and then asked: "Then what shall we do next?"

Su Cen said, "I want to visit the inner palace."

"Inner Mansion?" Zheng Yang was stunned, "Why are you going to Inner Mansion?"

The so-called Neifu is actually a database. On the one hand, it is used to collect books, collect and organize existing scriptures, histories, sons, and collections, and classify and integrate them to pass on to future generations.In addition, it is also responsible for storing materials, including the resumes of officials and the biography of palace life, and keep them for future reference.

"We all missed a problem. We started our investigation of Chen Ying from now on. We thought that Li Sheng approached Chen Ying to let him frame the prince, but judging from Chen Aniu's confession, Chen Ying and the finger-wielding man People should have known each other a long time ago. Is it possible that Chen Ying's planting of the prince was not a temporary idea, but a long-term plan?" Su Cen paused and continued, "Chen Ying entered the palace in the 13th year of Wude. At that time, Yonglong The palace change has not yet happened, and Prince Chongde is still alive. Chen Ying was on duty in the Ye Ting Bureau. There is a Taiji Palace between the Ye Ting Bureau and the East Palace. They bow their heads and see each other. Is it possible to see each other at that time? Li Sheng already knew Chen Ying?"

"That's right," Zheng Yang slammed his hand, "It is possible that Chen Ying has accepted the kindness of Prince Chongde again, just like... just like..."

Ning Santong couldn't help but smile wryly, "Just like my old man did back then."

Zheng Yang was dumb for a while, opened his mouth and finally had to whisper: "That's not what I meant."

"It's okay," Ning Santong smiled, "It's true, we admit the mistakes we made."

Su Cen continued the previous topic and said, "I want to go and see if I can find any clues to confirm my thoughts."

Zheng Yang nodded, but frowned again, "It's just that the records of the inner court are not necessarily exhaustive. If it's just a small favor, it may not be possible to file a case."

Su Cen led the way, "Just go and have a look."

As the year approached, all the mansions and temples were bustling with activity, only the inner mansion remained idle, and the small officials in charge were dozing off in the afternoon sun. Zheng Yang and the others didn't notice when they came close.

The little official woke up suddenly when Zheng Yang knocked on the table. First, he looked displeased at being woken up, but when he saw the person coming, he changed his face in an instant, smiled flatteringly at Zheng Yang, nodded and bowed and said: " Why are you here, my lord?"

Zheng Yang didn't have time to haggle over with such little people, so he asked clearly about the location of the Wude Nian materials and went straight in. The little officials eagerly led the people to the corresponding positions all the way, and waited for a while, seeing the three people busy in their own way. Everyone didn't bother to talk to him, so he went back to doze off again.

During the reign of Wude, due to the messy archives at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, many historical materials were not complete, and some were pieced together, which made it extremely troublesome to find.

The three of them didn't pay much attention, they sat on the floor, with a thick pile of files beside each of them, and the room was suddenly quiet, with only the sound of flipping through books.

After watching for a while, Ning Santong suddenly raised his head and sniffed around. After finding nothing, he lowered his head and continued to turn around. After a while, he raised his head and repeated the action again.

"What are you doing?" Zheng Yang couldn't help laughing.

Ning Santong smiled and said: "You don't know, our brother Su has his own fire attribute, and he can burn it wherever he goes. I followed Brother Su to the warehouse of the Ministry of Rites to find test papers, but in the end he burned the warehouse of the Ministry of Rites, so I You have to pay attention from time to time, don't make any fools this time."

"Actually, you already knew it." Su Cen turned the page of the book without raising his head, "Your dog's nose can't escape the smell of white phosphorus, and Feng Yiming put such a big lump there, you don't know ?”

Ning Santong rubbed his nose and smiled, "So I have already warned you that you would have run away before the fire started. If not, the warehouse is so hot, you can run out?"

"What warehouse? What white phosphorus?" Zheng Yang looked at the two and frowned, "Why is there Brother Feng?"

Su Cen and Ning Santong looked at each other, but fell silent in unison.

It was only a year since that day, but now Feng Yiming was no longer there.

When Feng Yiming tried to prevent him from investigating Tian Pingzhi's case, he presumably knew that Li Shi would be involved in this case in the end. He had done so much for Li Shi's abandonment of principles, but he ended up like this.

The room fell silent again for a moment.

"Found it." Ning Santong said suddenly.

Su Cen looked up, Zheng Yang looked over, and saw Ning Santong handing the book forward, "Chen Ying's life."

Su Cen took the book over and looked at it carefully. It was indeed as Zheng Yang said, most of the records were concise and important events. In what year and where did he work as a value, and what merits and demerits were they? Already known things.

"Where is Tsinghua Palace?" Su Cen suddenly raised his head and asked.

"Tsinghua Palace?" Ning Santong repeated, "I'm not familiar with the Imperial Palace, is there such a place?"

"It is written here that Chen Ying was on duty at Tsinghua Palace for half a year. It was the summer of Yonglong's second year. When winter came, he was transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

"The second year of Yonglong?" Ning San said, "Didn't the palace change already happen, and Prince Chongde is already dead?"

Su Cen nodded lightly, "I just feel that this place has never been heard before, and it's a bit abrupt."

"Tsinghua Palace, how could it be Tsinghua Palace?" Zheng Yang snatched the book over with his hands, and after confirming it again and again, he lowered his hand and murmured, "How could it be Tsinghua Palace?"

Su Cen asked, "What happened to Tsinghua Palace?"

"The Tsinghua Palace is not in the palace, but in the Lishan Palace. It is famous for its numerous springs and has been used as a place for the royal family to recuperate." Zheng Yang pursed his lips, "Back then Concubine Rong was in poor health and was sent to I went to Tsinghua Palace to recuperate for half a year, which happened to be Yonglong's second year, and not long after I came back, people left."

Ning Santong asked: "Who is Concubine Rong?"

Zheng Yang bit his lower lip lightly, "Concubine Rong is the side concubine of Emperor Taizong who passed the mansion when he was still a prince. She has a son and a daughter for Emperor Taizong. One is Princess Taining, who is also my concubine mother. There is one, it is..."

Su Cen's gaze slowly sank, "It's the prince."

When Su Cen returned to Xingqing Palace, it was already dark. Following the light, Li Shi was sitting leaning on the couch, copying a book in his hand, obviously waiting for him.

Su Cen took off his shoes and got on the couch consciously, lay down in the person's arms, and didn't move.

"Have you eaten?" Li Shi asked.

"Well," Su Cen responded, with a somewhat sullen tone, and added after a while, "I ate with Zheng Yangning and the others."

Li Shi held the book in one hand, and with the other hand he slowly sorted out Su Cen's three thousand hairs, while asking, "Did the investigation go well?"

"It went well." Su Cen pursed her lips, "it went well."

Li Shi didn't continue to ask, and nodded, "That's good."

Su Cen listened to Li Shi's quiet sound of turning the pages of the book, and the impetuousness accumulated in a day's running around suddenly subsided.Li Shi often said that he was his tranquilizing incense, and Li Shi was not like that with him, no matter how long he had been wandering outside, or what storms and waves he had experienced, when he came back here, there would be no wind, no rain, and the clouds would clear and the sky would be blue.

"Do you remember Chen Ying?" Su Cen raised his head and asked.

Li Shi still didn't take his eyes off the book, and asked casually, "Who is Chen Ying?"

Su Cen pulled Li Shi's neck to stand up, straddled him, and separated Li Shi and the book with himself.Then he held Li Shi's neck and asked condescendingly: "Who do you think Chen Ying is? Answer well, don't put me off."

Prince Ning is smart all his life, it is impossible not to know who he has fallen into. Even if he really didn't know him at the beginning, he should know him now.

"Lord Su is such a powerful official." Li Shi smiled, put down the book, and put his hand on the man's waist, "he has a good body."

"Be serious!" Su Cen frowned and pulled that restless hand to the front, interlocked his fingers and put it on his chest, pretending to be serious: "Don't talk about him from left to right, otherwise... otherwise it will be big Punishment!"

"Oh?" Li Shi had a smile on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes slowly moved, "What kind of punishment?"

Su Cen's face became hot from being stared at, and he cleared his throat and asked, "Quickly, do you still remember Chen Ying?"

Li Shi withdrew his gaze and nodded slightly, "I've met you a few times in the palace."

Li Shi answered, but Su Cen's breathing was messy instead. He knelt down in front of Li Shi, his body was filled with heat, and when he lowered his head, Li Shi's lips slightly raised. Leaning down, grabbing and entangled with it.

After the kiss was over, Su Cen breathed slightly, and then tried to calm down and said, "That's a good answer, a small reward for encouragement."

Li Shi licked the corners of his lips eagerly, "Then I know everything, and I can say everything."

"What do you think of Chen Ying?" Su Cen continued to ask, "Is he the kind of villain who is greedy for small money and favors small profits?"

"I don't have much contact with him," Li Shiyao thought for a while, "but on the surface, he looks like an honest and responsible person?"

"I went to see the house he bought today. His family is poor and there is nothing valuable in the house. He has stayed in the palace all his life. Even if he brings out a little things, the house will not look like that, so I also think He is not a person who is greedy for petty gains." Su Cen said while thinking, "It's not for profit, nor is it being persecuted, could it really be an old grudge? Zheng Yang and I found this Chen Ying today. Do you still have any memory of the time when you worked in Tsinghua Palace?"

After waiting for a long while without waiting for a reply, Su Cen looked over suspiciously, and looked at Li Shi for a long time before realizing what was wrong, but had no choice but to lower down and peck at the corner of the man's lips, and said angrily: "Speak quickly."

Li Shi asked without answering, "Do you still remember the name and name of the person who was responsible for sweeping the courtyard when you were eight years old?"

"I really remember," Su Cen smiled slyly, "that man was a mute that my father picked up from the side of the road. Everyone called him the mute grandson. The reason why I remember him is because I was naughty when I was young, and I often skipped classes with my elder brother. When going out to play, just pick a place where the mute is in charge, the mute will not complain, and no one will know when we leave."

Li Shi smiled, and returned to seriousness after laughing: "I don't remember."

Su Cen: "..."

Sooner or later, he will be mad at his prince.

Li Shi patiently explained to him again: "My concubine was already seriously ill when she was sent to Qinghua Palace to recuperate. I was assigned to Concubine Cao to take care of me at that time, so I don't know what happened in Huaqing Palace."

After hearing this, Su Cen couldn't help feeling sad, it was the time of enlightenment, he was loved by his parents, loved by his elder brother, and what he did every day was to jump up and down to contradict his wife, but Li Shi had already lost the protection of his mother and concubine, and he lived under the fence of others, eating people here Every step of the way in the palace.

Unable to bear it in his heart, he wanted to lower his head to comfort him, but before he could fall down, someone hugged his back and suddenly rolled over on the couch.

"It's too painful to scratch." The cold finger brushed Su Cen's face lightly, and then slowly passed over the Adam's apple, "Let's wait for the torture."