The two were soon taken to the Qianqing Palace, but Gao Xian was turned over with a face full of resentment, while Yin Ciguang did not resist, and his posture was obedient.

When they arrived in the hall, the two were escorted to kneel down, and next to them were Yin Chengjing and Concubine De.

Yin Ciguang glanced sideways at the mother and son who were in a state of embarrassment, with a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth: "I thought I couldn't see the result." His voice was soft and shallow: "The third brother loves killing people with a knife. I don't know how it feels to kill my father with my own hands this time?"

Yin Chengjing slowly turned to look at him.

It's just that he was starved for several days, and his life was completely cut off and his spirit was crushed, so that he lost even the strength to refute, his expression was distorted for a moment, and he could only curse "lunatic" weakly.

Yin Ciguang smiled, not taking it seriously.

On the contrary, the courtiers standing in the palace were shocked by the short conversation between the two, and regretted this trip into the muddy water even more in their hearts.

It's just too late to resign now.

Yin Chengyu took a fixed look at Yin Ciguang, and asked, "Is it what King An did to lock Yin Chengjing and Concubine De in the royal father's bedroom?"

"Yes."

"Collude with the eunuchs, hold the father hostage, pass false edicts, bring chaos to the court, plot treason and commit crimes, can you plead guilty?"

"A guilty plea."

Yin Ciguang confessed all the crimes without a single sentence of refutation.

Seeing this, Gao Xian said sharply: "King An was coerced by the crown prince! Before his death, His Majesty left an edict to pass the throne to King An. You are the rebels!"

However, he is just a servant, and all his power depends on the emperor's favor.Emperor Longfeng died, and his power also disappeared.

What's more, he is now involved in conspiracy.

No one believed his words.

Gao Xian looked around and saw that no one believed it. He took out a small piece of yellow cloth left by the burnt from his sleeve, and said in a dying struggle: "Your Majesty left an edict to pass on the throne, it is absolutely true! It was just burned by King An! "

His voice became higher and higher, as if it could vent his fear of death.

"If you can't speak, don't open your mouth."

Xue Shu took two steps forward and drew the saber with his backhand, the gleaming blade flashed across his face in an instant, and quickly returned to the sheath.

Gao Xian's expression froze, a blood line slanted from the left cheek to the right chin, running through most of his face.

The pain came slower than perception, and when the dripping blood overflowed, Gao Xiancai covered his face and howled in pain.It's just that his mouth was also scratched, and he rolled all over the ground in pain after wailing twice, and he could only utter a suppressed wail.

The courtiers who saw Xue Shu's cruel methods for the first time were horrified. They subconsciously looked at Yin Chengyu, but saw that his expression was normal.

Gao Xian, who kept howling, was quickly dragged down.

There is no room for a eunuch like him to talk about royal matters.

As for Yin Ciguang, Yin Chengjing, and Concubine De, they were demoted to common people and temporarily detained in the clan's residence, awaiting final conviction.

After several people were suppressed one after another, Yin Chengyu rubbed the center of his brows, comforted the ministers who had witnessed the royal scandal with good words, and let them out of the palace.

The next step is to rectify the defense of the palace, clean up the mess caused by the two palace changes, and order the Ministry of Rites and the cabinet to formulate the funeral ceremony for the emperor Daxing.

It took time to sort out the piles of things, and when all the dust settled, it was already three days later.

Emperor Longfeng's body was temporarily parked in the funeral palace. He had been building a mausoleum for himself during his lifetime, which saved Yin Chengyu's work and just waited for the auspicious day to help the coffin to be buried.

Because the national treasury was not abundant, Yin Chengyu ordered the Ministry of Rites to keep all funeral ceremonies simple.

The auspicious date of burial was planned by Qin Tianjian. Emperor Longfeng died disgracefully, and the funeral was simplified, so the date of burial was set seven days later.

During this period, Yin Chengyu still had to deal with the three people who were imprisoned in the clan mansion.

The disposition of Yin Chengjing and Concubine De has long been concluded, and the one-zhang white silk is their final destination.

Only how Yin Ciguang will deal with it has not yet been decided.

"Someone will marry Yin Chengjing and Concubine De today, how will His Highness plan to deal with King An?" Xue Shu asked.

Yin Chengyu thought for a moment when he heard the words, and said: "It's not what I wished to get to this point, but the matter has reached this point and it is irreversible, so I will send him off for the last time."

The two went to the clan mansion.

The jailer opened the cell door, Yin Chengyu ordered Xue Shu to guard the door, and walked in.

The prison in the clan's mansion is simple and simple, with only a wooden board for rest in the prison.At this time Yin Ciguang was sitting on the wooden plank against the wall with a calm expression.

"Your Highness, why did you come to this dirty place?"

Yin Chengyu looked at him probingly, until now he still couldn't understand the person in front of him: "If you don't resent Concubine Rong's death in vain, Gu can help you avenge you, why is this?"

He knew that the death of Concubine Rong had dealt a great blow to Yin Ciguang, and he had also suffered from the loss of his mother in his previous life, so he could understand Yin Ciguang's grief.

But if Yin Ciguang wants to take revenge, there are thousands of ways, but he chooses the one that kills everything.

"But I don't want them to die." Yin Ciguang looked at him for a moment, then looked away.After removing the calm and gentle mask, he finally revealed the twisted and ferocious hatred inside: "His Royal Highness has helped me a lot, why bother to be dragged down by me again? I have been enduring and giving in all my life. I have endured enough and given up enough." .”

He looked down at his hand, grasping it vaguely as if he wanted to grab something, but finally couldn't let go.

Yin Chengyu was silent.

On the contrary, Yin Ciguang spoke again, without raising his head, his gaze was fixed on the bloodless fingertips: "Have you ever regretted helping me recover my identity, Your Highness?"

"Never." Yin Chengyu did not hesitate.

When he first helped Yin Ciguang recover his identity, it was not that he hadn't imagined what would happen if the other party was hostile to him.But Yin Ciguang had helped him before, and he was really willing to treat Yin Ciguang as his brother.The ancients said that employing people is not suspicious and others are not. Since he has made a choice, he naturally has the ability to bear the consequences.

Even though the ending is not satisfactory now, he has never regretted helping him in the first place.

"Then have you ever regretted it?" Yin Chengyu asked back.

Yin Ciguang's expression was miserable, he shook his head and remained silent.

They are different after all.

The bright moon is bright without the slightest haze.But those who are shrouded by the moonlight are born with delusions and trapped in confusion.

Yin Chengyu never regretted helping him, but he regretted that he begged in Prison Xuefulang back then.

If he hadn't taken that step, stayed with his mother in Yongxi Palace, and pretended to be a good princess, wouldn't he have given birth to so much unwillingness and regret?

Unfortunately, there is no if in this world.

Clenching and loosening his fingers, Yin Ciguang suppressed all emotions, and said calmly: "I know that my crime is unforgivable and I can't escape death, but I saved a jar of snow water and a pot of good tea last winter, and I haven't had time to taste it in the future. Could Your Highness be kind enough to send someone to bring it? It also saves the poisoned wine in the clan mansion."

"The lonely will be sent by someone."

Yin Ciguang thanked him with a smile, and said: "I am the body of a sinner. After death, I cannot enter the imperial mausoleum, and there is no need to wastefully hide me. Burn the body, and find a place to scatter the ashes in the mountains."

Yin Chengyu complied, and took one last look at him before turning around and leaving: "I will order someone to find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers."

Yin Ciguang leaned over, touched his forehead to the ground, and bid farewell: "Thank you, Your Highness, take care, Your Highness."

On the day Yin Ciguang bestowed him with death, Yin Chengyu did not go to see him off again.

He only sent an order to the clan's mansion to order people to collect the body properly. After cremation, his ashes were buried in the back mountain of Jinyun Temple.Peach trees are planted all over that place, and the Buddha's voice is wafting. It is not disturbed by the mundane world, and you can sleep peacefully.

After another day, it was the day of Emperor Daxing's burial.

The relationship between the two generations had already worn away Yin Ciguang's feelings for Emperor Longfeng.On the day of the burial, he completed what he should do according to the ceremonial schedule, but he really didn't feel any sadness in his heart.

After Emperor Daxing was buried, he had to prepare for the enthronement ceremony.

As the crown prince, Yin Chengyu was the rightful successor after the late emperor's success.After three invitations from the courtiers headed by cabinet bachelors, Yin Chengyu followed suit, and the Ministry of Rites began to prepare for his enthronement.

Although the enthronement hall is simple but solemn, the Qin Tianjian calculated and calculated again and again, and finally set the auspicious day on the sixth day of June.

There was still more than half a month between this, and Yin Chengyu, as the heir emperor, had not yet officially held the enthronement ceremony, but all the official duties handled by the emperor had been placed on him, because he had taken over at the beginning, and there were more and more affairs than before. miscellaneous.

At the time when the old and the new are changing, people in the court are panicking.In addition, Xie Wendao's imperial examination fraud case has entered the retrial stage after the national funeral, and the number of people involved is so large that some people in the court are quite panicked, for fear that they will be liquidated by the new emperor if they are careless.

Yin Chengyu is busy with appeasing people's hearts and dealing with government affairs every day, so he doesn't have much time and energy to allocate to others.Seeing the day of the enthronement ceremony approaching, and the affairs of the government gradually being straightened out, Yin Chengyu finally had some leisure, only to realize that Xue Shu seems to be a lot stranger to him recently.

He hadn't formally enthroned yet, and he really disliked the bad luck of Qianqing Palace, so he still lived in Ciqing Palace.

In the past, Xue Shu would try his best to stay in the dormitory every night and refused to leave, but now he is often nowhere to be seen.

Yin Chengyu frowned and thought back, only to realize that Xue Shu hadn't been with him for three days.sleep.

The person who wished to grow up with him in the past is not serving him now, and his whereabouts are unknown.

Yin Chengyu didn't think much about it, he just thought that Xue Shu had encountered something difficult.Taking a look at the official duties that were almost handled, he didn't ask anyone to summon him, but got up and went to find someone himself.

Xue Shu is now more powerful in the palace than Zheng Duobao, Yin Chengyu casually found a servant and asked, and he knew that Xue Shu was at the Jianxiang Pavilion.

He has nothing to do to recommend Xiangting?

Yin Chengyu was puzzled, and was already heading towards Jianxiang Pavilion.

When they got there, they realized that not only Xue Shu, but Xie Yunchuan was also there.The two sat opposite each other in the pavilion, with a tea set on the stone table in the middle, talking with a smile and a smile.

Compared with the tense situation in the previous life, the atmosphere between the two is quite harmonious.

He had never seen Xue Shu be so kind to anyone other than him.

Narrowing his long and narrow eyes, Yin Chengyu stopped to look at it for a long time, but without stepping forward, he went back to Hongren Hall with a flick of his sleeves.

It seems that he is self-indulgent.

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