After the rebirth, I was picked up by the prince

Song Yaoxu frowned, and quickly asked, "What's going on?"

Zuo Jiayi did not dare to delay, and briefly reported what happened this morning.

It turned out that Song Shi didn't bring a scroll this morning and wanted to go back to the palace to get it, so Zuo Jiayi asked him to go back during the morning class review time.However, Song Shi never came back after leaving the South Study Room.

At first, Zuo Jiayi thought it was a child playing around, but he didn't realize something was wrong until two hours had passed before he came back. He asked the palace servants to go to Song Shi's residence in the harem to ask what was going on, but he never took care of Song Shi. Concubine Yuegui learned that Song Shi never went back.

Zuo Jiayi is just a grand tutor, and he is not qualified to enter the residence of the concubines in the harem to find someone. He temporarily entrusted the princes in the South Study Room to the care of the fifth prince, who is the oldest, and came to report to Song Yaoxu in person.

After simply understanding the situation, Song Yaoxu calmed himself down as much as possible, and said to Zuo Jiayi: "I will send someone to continue looking for it as soon as possible, please Mrs. Zuo."

With Song Yaoxu's guarantee, Zuo Jiayi saluted and did not stay any longer, and said goodbye to the South Study Room after explaining the time clearly.

On the other side, Qi Zizhen, who was listening the whole time, frowned, and suddenly asked Song Yaoxu after Zuo Jiayi left: "Your Highness, do you have a map of the harem?"

Song Yaoxu nodded: "Yes. Does Zizhen have any ideas?"

"Hmm." Qi Zizhen replied, put one hand on his chin, and said with a frown, "I remember Song Ping arrested and imprisoned me for stealing holy books in the twelfth month of last year. After I came out, His Highness also told me that you asked Song Shi to help keep an eye on the situation in the harem."

When he said this, Song Yaoxu understood what he meant.

Song Zhi usually likes to study with Zuo Jiayi, and it is impossible for him to find an excuse to play missing in order to play truant.

Then maybe he encountered an abnormal situation on the way back to the palace, and because of Song Yaoxu's instructions, he went to investigate further, and it was very likely that he was accidentally discovered.

Song Yaoxu figured out the reason, and immediately went to the bookshelf to find a detailed map of the harem, and spread it out on the table.

He also took a pen and circled the South Study Room and the palace where Concubine Yue Gui, who took care of Song Shi, lived, and connected the two paths he knew Song Shi most often walked.

Qi Zizhen carefully observed two places and two routes, took a pen from Song Yaoxu, and finally circled the other two palaces.

"Based on the route and distance, it is very likely that one of the three concubines and concubine Yue is abnormal."

Song Yaoxu glanced at the other two places he circled, and after pondering for a moment, he pointed to one and said, "This is Concubine Jing's residence, she is the mother concubine of Xiao Liu and Xiao Shi, and there is a three-year-old Princess Ten under her knees." .”

Then he moved his index finger to another place, and continued: "This is Concubine Xuan's residence. She was childless at first, and helped take care of Little Twelve after the concubine's mother died of illness."

After roughly knowing the most likely candidate, Song Yaoxu called Cui Liang again and asked him to lead the guards to the harem to find Song Shi's whereabouts. At night, he would pay attention to the movements and abnormalities of the concubines, focusing on the three circled by them. concubine.

Cui Liang accepted the order with fists in his arms, and quickly summoned his guards to go to the harem, preparing to find Song Shi's whereabouts.

Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu watched him leave, their expressions obviously becoming more serious.

It was only when Xu Xiaoqi's Gu poison was told that there was probably no solution, and Song Shi suddenly had an accident, which made them unable to relax even if they wanted to.

After a while, Qi Zizhen exhaled lightly, rubbed his temples tiredly, and said, "Then I'll go back first, Your Highness, please remember to rest and be safe."

Song Yaoxu himself is not in a good mood at the moment, unable to comfort Qi Zizhen, he forced a smile, and said gently: "I will, and you have to pay attention, I don't want...one more person to have an accident."

His last words were spoken very softly, as if he would drift away with the air if he didn't pay attention.

But Qi Zizhen still heard it.

He looked up at Song Yaoxu with the same tired expression, stepped forward and hugged him gently: "I won't let His Highness bear everything alone, we will be fine."

Song Yaoxu felt the temperature in his arms, took a light breath, and slowly hugged him back.

"Most definitely."

*After leaving the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Qi Zizhen avoided the patrolling guards again, and walked out of the palace all the way in the dark, heading towards the National Teacher Tower.

Song Shi had an accident in the palace, and Xu Xiaoqi's Gu poison, Qi Zizhen, couldn't help him. The only thing he can do now is to straighten out all the things related to Song Ping in recent days, and try to find the one who can bring him down as quickly as possible. handle.

He rushed to the direction of the National Teacher Tower almost without stopping, and when he returned to the National Teacher Tower, he met the waiting guards.

"Young Master Qi!"

The guard waved at him when he saw him from a distance, as if he had something to say.

Qi Zizhen walked over quickly and asked, "But what's the matter?"

The guard shook his head: "I'm fine for the time being, Mr. Ning is here, and he's waiting for you on the top floor of the National Teacher Tower."

"Little brother-in-law?" Qi Zizhen was stunned for a moment, this was the first time Ning Qingwei came here in person after moving out of the National Master Tower.

He nodded to indicate that he understood, thanked the guards and went straight upstairs, and he saw Ning Qingwei sitting on the recliner unceremoniously petting the cat.

Seeing Qi Zizhen, Lingning meowed softly, jumped out of Ning Qingwei's arms, and walked to Ning Qingwei's feet with graceful cat steps.

Qi Zizhen squatted down and rubbed its head, picked it up before asking Ning Qingwei: "Why is brother-in-law here?"

Ning Qingwei, who didn't have a cat to masturbate, didn't bother to get up, rested his chin with one hand, and gestured towards the small table: "Let's take a look at that document."

It was only then that Qi Zizhen discovered that there was a stack of rice paper on the small table, and there seemed to be a bunch of densely written words on the rice paper.

He sat directly in front of the desk and asked curiously, "What is this?"

As he spoke, he picked up the rice paper, looked at the first page, and saw the time written on it, which seemed to be recorded 19 years ago.

Ning Qingwei sat on the side with a calm expression: "This is the real cause of your parents' death that I have investigated in the past few days."

Qi Zizhen was stunned for a moment, and put away some of his careless emotions, and almost read all the materials seriously.

The very first part of this document is about the fraud case Ning Qingwei told him about 19 years ago. Qin Huanshu's name appeared on the first list of frauds. This is what Ning Qingwei had always thought The cause of Qin Huanshu's death was framed and slandered by Qi Yuan.

But after the content of the dossier of the fraud case, there was the trace of Qin Ling that Ning Qingwei had investigated in the past few days.

At that time, Qin Ling hadn't fled to Wumeng Country yet, and she followed Qin Huanshu to the capital not long after she arrived in the capital, but she didn't know if she was hiding her tracks well most of the time to prevent Qin Huanshu from being noticed, and 19 years had passed It was really difficult for Ning Qingwei to investigate too detailed content.

In the end, it was only found that she entered the capital and had been to Qi Mansion before and after the fraud case.

Later, Ning Qingwei followed this breakthrough and used his former national teacher Yu Wei to find the relevant officials at that time, the former servants of the Qi Mansion, and the prison guards in the prison, and asked them about their specific conditions, and then secretly searched into the already locked prison. Search for all relevant information in the sealed Qi mansion.

In the end, he integrated all the fragmentary information revealed and restored the truth.

According to the truth restored by Ning Qingwei, it is true that Qi Yuan created the fraud case on purpose, but his plan at that time was to get Qin Huanshu arrested and imprisoned, and then use this to threaten Wei Qingling and make Wei Qingling Agree to his marriage proposal.

At that time, Qi Yuan didn't intend to do such a bad job at all, he just wanted to use the prestige left by the Wei family to successfully climb to the position of prime minister, and then he would release Qin Huanshu and divorce Wei Qingling.

Qi Yuan has no intention of doing anything to beat mandarin ducks, he only has power in his eyes.

If he could have followed the original plan at that time, Wei Qingling would have lost his reputation, but his innocence and life were still there.At that time, she and Qin Huanshu can leave with their parents who originally intended to emigrate to the south of the Yangtze River. At this point, the Wei family has completely withdrawn from the capital and court, and has become an ordinary family in the south of the Yangtze River.

But there was one more Qin Ling.

The few times Qin Ling went to the Qi Mansion before the fraud case, she just wanted to seek cooperation with Qi Yuan, but was rejected by Qi Yuan every time.

Qi Yuan has been in the court for many years, he understands that if he wants to use the power of the Wei family, he can't do things too extreme, otherwise he will be easily backlashed by the Wei family.

So Qin Ling bribed the jailer herself, poisoned Qin Huanshu's prison meal, and poisoned Qin Huanshu.

After poisoning her, she went to find Qi Yuan again. Qi Yuan knew that there was no way to recover, so he had no choice but to call Qin Huanshu's death a suicide in fear of crime, so as to conceal Qin Ling's guilt.

According to Ning Qingwei's speculation, it is very likely that Qin Ling had grasped the evidence of Qi Yuan's fraud case at this time, and threatened Qi Yuan with the fraud case.

In order to be able to climb to the position of prime minister, Qi Yuan naturally couldn't allow people to expose this matter, so he agreed to help Qin Ling cover up the evidence.

Later, it was Wei Qingling who agreed to Qi Yuan's marriage proposal, but found out that she was pregnant, so she had to give up her original plan to assassinate Qi Yuan, and endured humiliation in Qi's mansion.

And during this period of time, Qin Ling also appeared in the Qi Mansion several times, and Wei Qingling's later illness was also inseparable from Qin Ling.

In other words, Qi Yuan, who Qi Zizhen has resented for so many years, is just an accomplice.

It was Qin Ling who really killed his parents.

And in the first life, Qin Ling was also the real culprit who killed him.

The cause of all this is only because of Qin Ling's own love, and love gives birth to hatred.

Her own pathological paranoia will harm their family.

Qi Zizhen tightly clutched the rice paper in his hand, his fingertips turned white.

The author has something to say: Tomorrow there will be double updates, the first update will be at [-]:[-] noon.

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Thank you [an arctic rabbit] and [Huaisu] for the nutrient solution mua~