I am neither beautiful nor crazy

"Princess Ruoyang didn't die at birth, but was gifted to death by the emperor?"

After the court, Xiao Xiangling and Xia Zhixing walked side by side, Xiao Xiangling turned his head and asked.

"That's right. As a concubine princess, she still communicated secretly with Beijiang in private, revealing the marching and food maps of the Central Plains. The evidence is so overwhelming that the emperor turned gray almost overnight. But... ..."

Xia Zhixing lowered his voice and covered his mouth with his cuff, "It's really hard to tell the outside world about this kind of thing, let alone let Beijiang know about it, so he claimed that he died after giving birth."

Xiao Xiangling smiled mockingly, "Your majesty is really thoughtful. It's just that, it's so difficult for Beijiang to know, why bother Mr. Xia to tell me, a native of Beijiang?"

Perhaps due to years of fighting, Xiao Xiangling was already taller than the Central Plains people.Coupled with that pair of godless and ghostly masks, it adds a bit of arrogance and wild arrogance, bringing people an invisible sense of oppression.

Xia Zhixing said with a sneer, "This is not the order of the Holy Majesty, General Xiao, please help me?"

"En." Xiao Xiangling nodded, "That's right. On the day of the palace banquet, the prime minister and the seventh prince also died at birth?"

Xia Zhixing didn't mention it in one breath.

"Don't worry, I'm planning to tell you about this." Xia Zhixing smiled and rubbed his hands secretly.

He was also originally a Minister of the Ministry of Justice who was able to speak out against all Confucians, but he did not expect that Xiao Xiangling would hit a wall for the first time, and he would be guessed clean within a few words, and his coefficient would come back.

"Actually, someone was there that day...Hey, General Xiao, your mansion should go east."

"Why, want to sit down?" Xiao Xiangling stopped and looked at Xia Zhixing with interest.

"..."

He shook his head slightly, and then said with a smile, "But now I want to go to the Seventh Prince's residence."

"I drank the wind and sand in northern Xinjiang, rode back day and night, didn't even have half a day's rest, and went to investigate the case of his mother and concubine 17 years ago. Could it be that he didn't even want to invite me for a bowl of herbal tea?"

Xia Zhixing's face suddenly became ugly.

"But the Seventh Prince..."

"But the Seventh Prince—I'm afraid his life won't be long."

Suddenly, a voice came from behind the two of them. The voice was elegant and unique to young people, but at first glance, it was cold and mean.

Xiao Xiangling turned his head abruptly, only to see a young man in white standing not far away, with a lingering smile in the corner of his eyes, mocking without malice but without concealing it.

It was the "Little Guard of the Seventh Prince's House" he rescued on the palace road last night!

Last night, the moon was dark and the wind was high, so I couldn't see his face clearly, but I only remembered that his complexion had an abnormal paleness, which seemed to blend in with the spotless white clothes.

But looking at it now, it is enough to describe it as stunning.

It's just that this layer of astonishment is covered with a layer of ice, like a flower covered in thorns, and even the posture of standing there seems stubborn and indifferent.

But the corner of his eyes smiled again.

But behind Xiao Xiangling, Xia Zhixing was lip-synching frantically where he couldn't see.

——I didn't stop it!

Jiang Yu's eyes flicked casually, shifted from Xia Zhixing's body to Xiao Xiangling's tightly tied neckline, and continued to sarcastically say, "The Seventh Prince was seriously injured by the glass of poisonous wine at the palace banquet, and he is still paralyzed on the bed. I can't get up when I spit white and foam. General Xiao is the first person who dares to meet him in this civil and military court. Could it be..."

Jiang Yu smiled, "Is it possible to be a widow for him in such a hurry?"

What a mean beauty.

Xia Zhixing had goose bumps all over his body.

It seems to be unintentional, and it seems to be planned for a long time.

Xiao Xiangling suddenly strode towards Jiang Yu, Jiang Yu's eyes moved slightly, he raised his arm hastily and lightly blocked it, but his wrist was instantly stuck.

Great power.

Jiang Yu took a few breaths and raised his eyes to look angrily at the ignorant person.

"Let go." He gritted his teeth.

"Anyway, I also saved the little prince last night, so why am I being so mean and unreasonable today." Xiao Xiangling said with some regret, "Now I am the gravedigger guarding the seventh prince's coffin, and you are holding the seventh prince's corpse His funeral attendant, to put it bluntly, still has a friendship that has passed the gate of hell."

Jiang Yu moved his clenched red wrist, but his mouth did not stop, "General Xiao's words hurt my feelings. I was plotted against, and it was fate that you came to help when you saw injustice. You and I If the matter between the two of you has to be involved with the Seventh Prince, wouldn't it be a matter of birth?"

Xiao Xiangling lowered his eyes slightly, and his gaze directly met Jiangyu.

It's not connected, it's like two tough vines coming through the air, pulled together in mid-air, then twisted along the force, and finally settled between Jiangyu's tight neckline.

Today, Jiangyu's neckline is tied high, covering the piece of jade tightly, and only a small red line can be glimpsed.

"Very beautiful." Xiao Xiangling commented softly, "It matches you."

"Pick it up."

"..."

"General Xiao..." A sergeant ran over from a distance, but stopped abruptly.

Jiang Yu and Xiao Xiangling were originally in the wrong position, but from some angles, it looked like an intimate posture.

Xiao Xiangling put away the only hint of teasing in his eyes, turned around and said, "What's the matter?"

"Report to the general, there is someone in the house asking to see you." The sergeant glanced at Jiang Yu secretly, and said instead.

It wasn't until Xiao Xiangling disappeared from sight that Jiang Yu looked away.

The deliberate feigned weakness and smile did not remain, he raised his eyebrows, and stretched his right hand into his wide sleeve.

He actually took out the scroll that had been hidden in his cuff just now.

"You!" The moment he saw the file, Xia Zhixing suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at Jiang Yu in disbelief.His face was flushed, but he swallowed the exclamation in his throat after all.

The case file in Jiang Yu's hands obviously has a long history, it has turned yellow, the font has become dim, and there are occasional traces of being eaten by moths.

It's just that there are a few large characters written in cinnabar on it

——The case of Princess Ruoyang.

Xia Zhixing swept around, then lowered his voice and said angrily, "You don't want to die?"

Jiang Yu patted the other person's shoulder with the scroll nonchalantly, and said vaguely, "Thanks to General Xiao, I'm still alive and well."

Xia Zhixing pressed Jiang Yu's hand violently, and said quickly, "How many times have I told you, don't take the risk yourself. You broke into the cabinet and stole the case, and the whole court knows it. Now the emperor sent Xiao Xiangling to Investigate the case."

Jiang Yu's expression changed slightly.

"Also, the prime minister was poisoned and died at the palace banquet yesterday. Could it be you too..."

Jiang Yu stretched out a finger, posing in a silent posture, and then separated Xia Zhixing's fingers one by one from his wrist.

"You can't talk nonsense about this matter. Everyone has seen that the poison was originally poured into my hip flask, and the prime minister didn't drink the wine from my hip flask. And Mr. Xia, you happen to be in charge of this case, so don't worry about it." You can check the prime minister's cause of death, check his wine pot, wine cup. Whether it is related to me, you can find out."

Xia Zhixing narrowed his eyes slightly, "Do you know the cause of the prime minister's death?"

"I don't know." Jiang Yu said calmly.

"Death from poison is the same poison as the poison in your wine." He paused, and continued, "It's just that the source of the poison is not from the wine and food."

"Instead of a subtle needle-stick wound on the forearm."

Jiang Yu shook his head lightly.

Xia Zhixing sighed, "Anyway, you'd better be careful, the poison was put in your wine, it's obviously going to kill you."

He glanced at the file in Jiang Yu's hand, "From now on, you must not act recklessly. I tried my best to protect you, but you are looking for your own death."

"Lord Xia, please rest assured." Jiang Yu replied with a smile, "You know my temperament best. I didn't consider this matter thoroughly, but I promise that there will be no similar things in the future."

Xia Zhixing couldn't say anything more.

He was the Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment at that time, but few people knew that he was also an old friend of Princess Ruoyang.The two grew up together almost as childhood sweethearts. When Xia Zhixing was weak, they came to the Central Plains to serve as servants, and Princess Ruoyang became a concubine.

When Ruoyang died, Jiang Yu was just born.Before she died, she asked Xia Zhixing to protect Jiangyu secretly.

In the blink of an eye, 17 years have passed, and the two have long been like relatives.It's just that Xia Zhixing discovered that Jiang Yu has the precocious stability of a young man, but the whole person is very clever and cunning, and sometimes he, who is well versed in court laws, is helpless.

"What do you think of Xiao Xiangling?" Xia Zhixing asked Jiang Yu, "I heard from Gu Yuan that he saved you from the knife last night, and today he gave up the chance to accompany the prince to read with him. 'Dying body', how touching?"

Jiang Yu snorted, "My second elder brother Jiang Chibin wanted to kill me, but he saved me. I wanted to hide myself in the court, but he insisted on dragging me out in front of the civil and military officials of the court by himself. On the surface It's helping me, it's actually pushing me from nobody to the cusp of this case."

Xia Zhixing didn't talk to him, but judging from his expression, he obviously thought of Jiang Yu together.

"It's hard for him and my second brother to be so well-intentioned." Jiang Yu sighed, "It's an honor, I'm... very touched."