I am neither beautiful nor crazy

above the hall.

There were bloodstains that had not been cleaned up on the pillars of the palace, the emperor glared at him from the dragon throne, all the princes and powerful ministers were standing by his highness, no one dared to say anything.

When Xiao Xiangling arrived, what he saw was such a tense scene.

"The general has seen His Majesty." Xiao Xiangling said in a deep voice to His Highness.

In the whole hall, no one answered.

Xiao Xiangling caught a glimpse of the bloodstains on the pillars of the palace, and had an ominous premonition in his heart, but he still said as usual, "May I ask your majesty why he summoned his ministers so urgently?"

"What's the matter? Could it be that I can't call you here if there is nothing to do!" The emperor slapped the table vigorously, "You are a subject of my court, serving the king is a matter of course, you still want to go against it!"

Xiao Xiangling paused, "Your Majesty's words are absolutely true, I have never had a second heart."

"It's so unambiguous. Then I will ask you, on the day of the palace banquet, as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Xinjiang army, why didn't you reply to my letter on a fast horse, why didn't you show up!"

"Northern Xinjiang is far away from the Central Plains, and Kuaima still needs a day and a night. I have tried my best to hurry, but I still can't arrive on time. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me." Xiao Xiangling said solemnly, "It's just that Kuaima passed on the letter, and I never received it."

"I ordered the prime minister to send letters to you fifteen days ago. There are more than ten letters back and forth. You know that deceiving the emperor is a death penalty!" Make a loud noise.

No one dared not to kneel, and the whole hall was silent.

"I dare not deceive the emperor." Xiao Xiangling did not compromise at all, "I have not received it."

"Then I'll ask you again, among my many princes, the prince is kind, Jiang Chibin is smart, and the third prince is the tallest. Why do you insist on accompanying the seventh prince!"

Xiao Xiangling suddenly lost his voice.

"Then I'll tell you!" The emperor raised his finger tremblingly and pointed at Xiao Xiangling, "You didn't come to the palace banquet that day to avoid suspicion, and you secretly sent someone to poison the wine of the prime minister and the seventh prince. The prince is still alive, so you will not give up!"

The emperor took a deep breath, "You insisted on being the seventh prince's companion, just to wait for an opportunity to get rid of it. So you deliberately set fire to the prince's palace, and at the same time sent an assassin to the seventh prince's mansion. The witness is the assassin who committed suicide in fear of crime. , what else can you say!"

"I hope Your Majesty will speak carefully!" Xiao Xiangling interrupted loudly.

The people in the hall were all terrified when they heard that the emperor was angry, and they wanted to save their heads before speaking.But instead of kneeling, he lowered his gesture of saluting and forcibly interrupted the emperor's words.

"You..." Probably no one had ever dared to confront him like this, and the emperor was already blushing with anger.

"The minister and the Seventh Prince have never met each other. How could they have set up a banquet before coming to Beijing? The prime minister and the assassin have no proof, so how can they prove that what they said is true?"

"Besides, during the time I came to the capital, I have never even met the Seventh Prince. I only had an accidental acquaintance with a guard in His Royal Highness's house. He can prove to me that during this time, I have not had any personal interests. Opportunities to pass assassins, set fire and poison. I hope His Majesty will see clearly!"

Inside the Palace of the Seventh Prince.

"His Royal Highness is fine, it's just a high fever caused by a traumatic infection, and he can recede in a few hours. His Royal Highness is just asleep now, not comatose." The imperial physician said to Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan thanked the imperial physician and sent him out.

Jiang Yu lay unsteadily on the bed, his brows were tightly furrowed, his body was struggling unconsciously, and he seemed to be still saying something.

Gu Yuan approached, but found that Jiang Yu's voice was too vague, and he couldn't understand the words at all.But judging from the mouth shape, it seems that they have been repeating two words.

like a personal name.

in a dream.

A simple and humble house stood halfway up the mountain, and Jiang Yu sat casually on the open space at the door, wiping the blade with a small rag.

The cold and handsome face was reflected on the blade of the sword, aloof and inviolable, like a fairy in the sky.

In the next moment, a drop of blood suddenly fell on the sword, which happened to block the image of Jiangyu.

Jiang Yu only felt a little dizzy in his head, and subconsciously reached out to touch the tip of his nose, only to realize that nosebleeds had flowed down in streams, staining his white clothes.

At the same time, there was a piercing pain in my heart, like ten thousand ants biting my heart, biting my heart full of holes.

This is not the first time.

And recently, the probability of occurrence is significantly more frequent.

And the haunting voice in his head rang again.

"Jiang Yu, turn back as soon as possible, you will suffer retribution."

The voice said, "The person you love, he will not die, and he can't be called alive. He is so lifeless and deathless. What is the difference between him and an evil ghost? And you have the fate of a real dragon and the emperor. If your fate is incompatible, you Definitely not going to end well.”

Jiang Yu seemed to have never heard of it, and shook his head indifferently, and continued to wipe, "The devil is different from him."

"..." The voice was obviously angry, "I don't know how to repent! You must end up dead without a whole body to be satisfied?"

"I don't want to repent, so I'm still alive these few days." Jiang Yu said slowly, "Don't bother us anymore."

The word "we" was emphasized so heavily that the other party was instantly stunned speechless.

In the distance, there was a long black figure walking quickly, holding a ball of unknown object in his hand.

But in a few years, he has grown a lot, from a cold boy to a handsome young man.

The voice in the head disappeared instantly, and the conversation came to an abrupt end.

Jiang Yu stared fixedly at that figure, and slowly called his name in a very low voice.

Then he smiled mockingly, unable to tell whether he was laughing at his life or himself.

In an instant, the surrounding environment changed suddenly.It was raining cats and dogs, and it was the dark cliff again, and it was the biting cold.

The pain seemed to be paralyzed by the almost frosty temperature. He leaned halfway on the boulder behind him, and cut open his chest with the soft sword, severing his heart veins one by one.

He never knew that there was so much blood in his body.

It was so much that it sprayed out along the opening of the heart vein, melted into the turbulent rain, soaked into the white clothes, soaked into the soil, flowed along the small ravines, meandered into the shape of blood mist and went away.

But so much blood can't warm a heart with a broken meridian, and the heavy rain that can't break through the mountain is torrential.

Jiang Yu stared at the way he came from, and softly read the man's name.

……

"A Ling!"

Jiang Yu suddenly sat up from the bed, unaware of the severe pain involving the wound, and tightly clutched the brocade on the bed with both hands.

The soft sword was placed beside him, and the blade reflected his lifeless face, gray and trembling lips, and pupils suddenly terrified.

"Aling..."

Jiang Yu only felt a splitting headache, and was extremely unfamiliar with the intentions that appeared in the dream.

But I can't remember any more.

Above the court hall, Xiao Xiangling was still standing stubbornly, and everyone around couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"Your Majesty, this is a serious matter." Xia Zhixing said tremblingly, facing the emperor's extremely stressful gaze, "The case of poisoning at the palace banquet has not yet been settled, and now the assassin committed suicide in fear of crime, and there is indeed no proof of death. Incompetent."

He knelt down and continued, "Having the intention to kill the prince is a serious crime, a capital crime. Since General Xiao said that the guards in the Seventh Prince's house can testify, it would be best if he could be called up to confront him..."

The emperor tensed his jaw line due to extreme excitement and anger, but he didn't speak for a long time.

Xia Zhixing has followed the emperor for many years, he is a man of discernment, upon seeing this, he rushed a soldier to call the seventh prince's attendant over.

At the same time, he fawned over to the front of the hall, sorting out the volumes that had just been swept to the ground by the emperor in a fit of anger.

"What happened to the missing file?" The emperor asked after taking a few deep breaths.

"Report to Your Majesty." Xia Zhixing hastily put down the files he had just sorted out, and clasped his hands again, "It's the Ministry of Punishment's ineffectiveness. There is no conclusion yet. Please, Your Majesty..."

In the middle of speaking, Xia Zhixing suddenly opened his eyes wide, his mouth was still open, but he couldn't say a word.

"This... this..." He stretched out a finger that was shaking into straw, and pointed at something in front of him extremely unsteadily.

The emperor frowned slightly, and the ministers at the side also came kneeling one after another, looking at the position Xia Zhixing pointed at.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty...!" Xia Zhixing kowtowed with tears in his voice, "This, this is the dossier of the missing Princess Ruoyang. It is included in a dozen memorials that His Majesty is about to read!"

On the day of Yang's death, the prime minister was poisoned and died, and then the file was lost, and a fire broke out in the Prince's Palace, and the file strangely appeared in the file that the emperor was waiting to read.

This can already be called the level of horror of the haunted souls.

The emperor just wanted to stand up and immediately collapsed back on the chair.

Xiao Xiangling's heart sank, and he strode forward to take a look.

I saw that the dossier was broken and yellowed, and the cinnabar on the cover obviously had some years, and it was written grimly and desolately: Princess Ruoyang's judgment file of the enemy.

He couldn't help frowning.

And on the dragon chair, I saw that the emperor stretched out his hands tightly to cover his chest, rolled his eyes, and was about to faint.

The people in the hall shouted "Your Majesty", but no one dared to go up to the steps to help him up.

In desperation, Xiao Xiangling raised his leg and was about to step up the jade steps.

The next moment, suddenly a pair of hands stretched out from the side of his body, and pointed two fingers at the position of his belt. The force was not strong, but it blocked his steps.

Xiao Xiangling looked down.

It was a very slender hand.

The thin skin and tender flesh on the back of the hand seemed to be spoiled, but there were white calluses hidden between the fingers.It was so pale that it seemed to blend into the cuffs, but it taught people not to be half charming.

The fingertips don't pick flowers, but only play chess; the cuffs don't hold incense, but only hide the sword.

Xiao Xiangling raised his head abruptly.

"you……"

"Wait a minute, General Xiao." The moment the two passed by, Jiang Yu turned his head and said softly.

If the gaze lasted a little longer, it would not be difficult to discover the complex meaning contained in it.

It was an extremely tangled, contradictory, but determined look.

Da da da

Jiang Yu stepped on the jade steps alone, bowed his body under the shocked gaze of the emperor, his head was almost at the same height as the emperor.

This is a very submissive and safe posture.

"Why did the emperor call his son here?" He asked softly, supporting the emperor's body with both hands.

This sentence is like a pinch of saltpeter thrown into the fire, and it rang like an explosion in an instant.

Xiao Xiangling suddenly opened his eyes wide.

——He is the Seventh Prince!

"General Xiao said that he has been making friends with the guard of your mansion recently, where is that guard?" The emperor calmed down a little and asked.

During this conversation, Jiang Yu raised his head and met Xiao Xiangling's eyes.

The two have looked at each other many times, but never once have they faced each other like this.Like a gorgeous poisonous snake, it finally spat out the letter unscrupulously, violently tore off the hypocritical smiling face, and smashed the naked ferocity and hatred in front of it.

Xiao Xiangling's eyes were on fire, and he subconsciously clenched his fists.

He had never been so disappointed and angry before.

On the night of the palace banquet, he saved someone from the sword, and he was still worried about the impact of this matter, so he didn't dare to speak out as evidence for his suspicion just now.He risked his life and rushed into the fire to save each other, but he didn't know that he had already become a piece of the opponent's comprehensive chess game.

Jiang Yu withdrew his gaze and said meekly, "Father asked this, why?"

"The case of poisoning at the palace banquet and the fire in the Prince's Hall." The emperor tremblingly said, "When the Prince's Hall caught fire, an assassin lurked near your palace. Before his death, he confessed that all this was under Xiao Xiangling's instructions."

The emperor continued to say angrily, "And Xiao Xiangling said that there is a guard in your house, who can prove his whereabouts in the past few days, call him up!"

Jiang Yu could almost feel the gazes of civil and military men from the Manchu dynasty on him, but one of them was particularly burning.

Not gentle, almost peeling off his shell, revealing a sinister and dirty inside.

"Report to Emperor Father." Jiang Yu took a deep breath, and then said, "There is no... this person. Apart from Gu Yuan, there are no other close attendants in my house. And General Xiao..."

His fingertips began to tremble.

"Recently... I haven't come here."

His fingers snapped at the fabric of his clothes.