king and his guard

Xue Ai sighed secretly, and asked, "Don't you need to study today? Didn't the Taifu give you a lecture?"

Dan said obediently, "I've already said it."

Xue Ai patted him on the shoulder and said: "You can play by yourself, I won't accompany you until the official duties entrusted to me by my father are completed."

Dan looked disappointed, but he didn't want to bother him anymore, he just said, "Then I'll wait in the garden."

Xue Ai said nothing, turned around and left.Walking straight into the study room, flipping through the history books absent-mindedly, and pouring a sip of cold tea from time to time with the calendula carved with lacquer flowers and carved dragons.

The wind blows from the window edge, and the clothes are wrapped in snow moss. Although it is May, the weather is still cold in the morning and evening.He suddenly remembered that Dan was only wearing a thin shirt and a sleeveless single jacket over it. The weather was cold, and he was afraid that he would catch cold in the garden.

Without thinking about it, Xue Ai hurried to the garden and saw Dan sitting on the swing alone, swinging back and forth feebly.When he was young, the palace people brought clothes, but he refused to wear them.

Xue Ai didn't want to go up and said: "Dan, are you disobedient? What should I do if I freeze for a while?"

Dan raised his head suddenly, jumped up on the swing, and said excitedly: "Brother, are you done with your work so soon?"

Xue Ai took the clothes and put them on him, felt his hands were cold, and ordered Xiao He to cook a bowl of ginger soup and send it to the study to warm Dan's body.

Dan came to the study room, flipped through the calligraphy and paintings written by Xue Ai, and praised: "Brother is so eager to learn, he is really Dan's role model!"

Suddenly seeing two sapphire faucet handles in a wooden plate on the table, I couldn't help but hold them in my hand to look at them carefully, and praised: "What exquisite gems! Where did you get these pair of faucets? "

Xue Ai said: "Last year, Fanbang paid tribute, and it's very cool to hold in your hand in summer."

Dan pursed his lips: "I heard that my father has a pair of sapphire dragon heads. I originally gave it to my brother, but I accepted it with a gold-plated pendant."

"If you like it, just take one." Xue Ai smiled indifferently.

Dan was so happy that he chose one of them carefully and put it in his palm and couldn't put it down.

While talking, Xiao He came in with a bowl of hot ginger soup, Dan took it and drank it all in one gulp, with a child's innocent smile on his face.

Xue Ai stroked his head and said, "Dan, you should go back. If your mother can't find you, don't you blame me for hiding you?"

Danji was reluctant to let go, but he didn't want to bother him any more, so he blinked mischievously and said: "Then I'll take my leave first, thank you brother for the ginger soup hospitality, brother will visit again tomorrow!"

Xue Ai nodded with a smile, sent Dan away, closed the door, and took a sip of the marigold.

It was night, news suddenly came from Yongming Palace that Prince Dan was ill, and after returning from the East Palace, Dan suddenly fainted, and then he started to have a fever, which made him feel dizzy.

Coniferous grass is dried and ground into fine powder, which is mixed with water and food. It is colorless and odorless. Consuming a small amount can cause high fever and coma.Fortunately, the elixir poisoning is not too deep, just take a few doses of antidote, and there is no danger of life.

But what is unbelievable is that Dan developed symptoms of poisoning shortly after returning to the East Palace, and he did not eat other water or food during this period.Xue Ai couldn't figure it out, he felt that all the blame was suddenly pointed at him, and this matter was clearly aimed at him.

He then asked Xiao He sharply: "What the hell is going on?!"

Xiao He knelt down on the ground with a plop, and cried: "Your Highness, I don't even know about this servant!"

Xue Ai jumped up at the table and said angrily: "Dan got poisoned without eating anything after leaving the East Palace. It means that the ginger soup is poisoned? Did you cook the ginger soup? You don't know, who knows?!"

Xiao He was frightened and kowtowed: "Your Highness, please forgive me! The ginger soup was not cooked by the maidservant, but by Ming Cui from Yushanfang, who cooked it! The maidservant only waited for her to cook it before bringing it over, and the maidservant didn't have anything Do it, this servant didn't see anything, Your Highness!"

Xue Ai listened to her explanation angrily, and suddenly heard the report from the palace outside the palace: "The king and queen are here!"

Seeing Empress An supporting Long Jie walking all the way, Xue Ai hastily stepped forward and bowed: "Father..."

Without even looking at him, Long Jie went straight to the big chair in the middle of the hall and sat down, and said with a gloomy face, "Tell yourself, what's going on!"

Xue Ai didn't know where to start, but An Hou's peach blossom eyes were still full of tears, standing beside Long Jie and staring at herself bitterly.

Xue Ai pretended to be confused and said: "Father Wang Heyi, I don't understand!"

Long Jie said angrily: "You still have to play dumb! Dan was poisoned after he left your place, what's going on?!"

But Xue Ai asked back: "Father, are you saying that my son poisoned and murdered Dan?"

Long Jie's eyes suddenly became wet. After all, both of them are his sons, which one can he let go of?He begged in his heart that this was not done by Xue Ai, absolutely not!He didn't want to hear Xue Ai's confession, and he didn't want to find any evidence here, but facts are facts, even Xue Ai, who else could it be except him?

Suddenly a guard with a knife walked in, holding a bag of something in his hand, knelt down on one knee, raised the thing in his hand above his head, and presented it in front of Longjie's eyes.

"My subordinates found this package in the Yushan room of the East Palace. After verification by the imperial physician, it is the conifer powder that murdered Prince Dan!"

Suddenly, like five thunders, Xue Ai was stunned, his mind was blank, in the East Palace, he had never seen this kind of poison, and he had never even heard of it!But now it is clearly presented in front of my eyes!

Everyone's eyes focused on Xue Ai, Xue Ai was stunned, and she knelt down in a panic and shouted: "I am wronged! I have never seen such a thing before, someone is deliberately framing me, Father please look into this matter thoroughly!"

Empress An pointed at him and said, "Your Highness, if you say that someone has defiled you, who would be so bold? The Imperial Dining Room of the Eastern Palace is heavily guarded, how would idlers dare to enter it? After Dan left the Eastern Palace, he was poisoned before he had enough water and food. Your people must come from the Eastern Palace!"

What Long Jie didn't want to see still happened. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath of the heavy air, and suddenly opened his eyes again, and said unwillingly, "I don't believe it, I can't believe it! Who cooked the ginger soup?" ? Bring that person up! You must ask him yourself!"

Afterwards, Ming Cui, who was cooking ginger soup in Yushanfang, was brought up. She, a little servant girl, had never seen such a battle. Before Long Jie could speak, she was scared out of her wits.He just lay down on the ground and kowtowed: "Your servant knows your mistake, your servant knows your mistake!"