After I became a widow

The emperor didn't know about the flood in Princess Pingjia's mansion last night until the next morning.

The emperor was in poor spirits during the day and had to take medicine to fall asleep at night, and it was difficult to wake up once he fell asleep, especially Concubine Zhong Guifei had ordered that nothing should disturb the emperor's rest at night, so when the emperor found out about it, Ping Jia The Princess Mansion had already been burned in the fire, and no one in the mansion survived.

The emperor was naturally furious and wanted to punish those who waited around him.

Fortunately, Concubine Zhong Gui came to relieve the siege, and while putting on clothes for the emperor, she said: "The fire started too suddenly last night. When it was discovered, the entire Princess Mansion was already engulfed in the fire. Yi'er entered the palace early in the morning with the ministers." The concubine told about this, and he said that when he saw the Princess Mansion flooded, he sent people from the Wang Mansion to help put out the fire, but they were all too late."

"The imperial palace is farther away from Princess Pingjia's mansion. Even if the emperor wakes up and sends someone, it will be too late. Why bother to wake up the emperor to make you worry."

What Concubine Zhong said as if the fire was just a house, there was no one inside, let alone the emperor's daughter, it didn't matter whether the emperor looked at it or not.

This indifferent reaction made the emperor displeased, and he threw off Concubine Zhong Guifei's hand, "Where are you? Now that you have entered the palace, why don't you come to see me?"

Concubine Zhong Gui didn't care about the emperor's attitude at all, she still smiled gently and said: "Come on, isn't this waiting outside the door for your emperor to summon you? He is such a well-behaved person, how could he just break into the emperor without a report?" bedroom."

"Let him get out!" The emperor was angry, and his words were not pleasant.

Xiao Yunyi walked in a few steps, "I greet my father and my mother and concubine."

The Son of Heaven snorted, "Get up, tell me what's going on in Pingjia's mansion, how can it go wrong when it's fine, where are the Pingjia people?"

Xiao Yunyi knelt and didn't get up, instead he kowtowed, "Father, the son is guilty, the second minister was a step late, no... failed to save Huang Jie, please punish the father."

The emperor trembled when he heard this, "You mean Ping Jia is gone?"

Xiao Yunyi lowered his head and said in a heavy tone, "Yes, Miss Huang..."

"Impossible! I don't believe it," the Son of Heaven swung his sleeves heavily, with anger on his face, "Yesterday she was fine during the day, and I saw her."

"Father, my son didn't even think about it. In fact, everyone in the patrol battalion who went to fight the fire last night saw it and said that none of them came out. They rushed in to save people when they heard the scream of the emperor's sister, and the patrol battalion burned two people to death. They couldn't save anyone."

The Son of Heaven seemed to be unable to bear it anymore, and stepped back several steps, but it was Concubine Zhong who reached out to support him.

"Your Majesty, sit down and talk about it. The matter has come to this point. We need to find out how the fire started, and why it started for no reason. Fortunately, Princess Huai ordered the two princesses to be sent to the palace yesterday, so they escaped." One catastrophe, otherwise..."

The fragile expression on the emperor's face disturbed Concubine Zhong Gui.

She knew that she was thinking about his short-lived queen again. Before that, her own son died, and later, a daughter raised under Ye Fengwei's knee died. She didn't know how to explain to Ye Fengwei after she died.

Concubine Zhong Gui winked at her son indifferently and asked him to speak.

Xiao Yunyi understood, and hurriedly said: "Please take care of your father, the truth of the fire needs to be thoroughly investigated by your father, so as to give justice to Huangjie, otherwise she may be in trouble."

After the emperor calmed down for a while, he cheered up again, "You are right, we need to investigate thoroughly, and I want to see who is so daring to murder the princess!"

"Xu Cai, go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice..."

Seeing that the emperor wanted people from the Ministry of Justice to take over the matter, Concubine Zhong Gui immediately said, "Your Majesty, why don't you call Princess Huai into the palace first, because he ordered people to send the two princesses into the palace during the day, and the Princess' mansion will be gone at night." Chen Qie heard that he and Ping Jia seem to have had a dispute during the day, maybe he will know something."

This is almost to say that the fire in Princess Pingjia's mansion has something to do with Su Jingqing.

The Son of Heaven thought about yesterday that the housekeeper of Prince Huai's Mansion said that Ping Jia was going to bring his two daughters to commit suicide, his eyes flashed brightly, "Go, call the princess here."

Xu Cai hurriedly stepped forward to reply, "Your Majesty, the Princess has bumped her head and is still awake."

"Then pass it on to Princess Huai," the emperor changed his words.

Concubine Zhong Gui twitched her lips when she heard the words, Xiao Xinjin died, it was a good death.

The next one is Su Jingqing, the road blocker. As long as he is dead, Duke Huai's mansion will be burnt down.

Without Prince Huai's Mansion, even if Xiao Beihuai turned into a ghost, he would not be able to come back.

Although she didn't know who set the fire, Concubine Zhong Gui was very satisfied.

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Prince Huai Mansion

Su Jing changed her clothes early in the morning and waited for someone from the palace to come.

He didn't go to Princess Pingjia's mansion last night, and he only asked Bai Shu to bring people to help put out the fire, but Bai Shu went too late, and the fire could not be saved.

Bai Shu came back and said that he didn't see any suspicious people nearby, but the patrol battalion who went to put out the fire was not dedicated, the water didn't even wet the ground under his feet, and people from Yiwang's mansion were there.

Su Jingqing guessed that this matter would have something to do with him.

Who let himself ruin Xiao Yunyi's ghost murder plan, and fall out with Princess Pingjia after choking for Princess Pingjia and Concubine Zhong Gui.

He sent the two princesses into the palace on the front foot, saying that Princess Pingjia wanted to commit suicide, and burned them to death with a fire on the back foot. How could Concubine Zhong, mother and son miss this good opportunity to drag themselves into the water.

Siyan and the others were a little worried, "Princess, the emperor doesn't really think that fire has something to do with you, does he?"

Su Jingqing comforted them: "Don't worry, the emperor won't be too hard on me for the prince's sake."

If the emperor really wants to blame himself, then the secret he has been hiding for Xiao Xinjin will no longer be able to hide.

Maybe Xiao Xinjin is not important in the eyes of the emperor, but Xiao Beihuai is important. He will not allow Xiao Beihuai to have a princess who kills his elder sister, let alone allow people to know that Xiao Beihuai has an elder sister who treats him as his property.

In short, for the sake of Xiao Beihuai's reputation, the Son of Heaven will not easily put a hat on himself.

Concubine Zhong Gui and Xiao Yunyi will definitely detain them, but there must be evidence, otherwise...

Su Jingqing got up when he saw Eunuch Xu who followed Uncle Zhong into the door. He was not a vegetarian either.

Seeing Su Jingqing's prepared appearance, Eunuch Xu was stunned for a while, and then said: "Princess, the emperor has called you into the palace."

Su Jingqing said, "Let's go."

There was no delay at all, and he left as soon as he said, even the carriage was already waiting at the gate.

Xu Cai had seen the reaction of Princess Huai when she received the imperial decree of marriage, and wanted to make a good sale, so she took the initiative to mention the reason why the emperor summoned him.

Su Jingqing nodded to show that he knew, and then asked, "Is Concubine Zhong here?"

Xu Cai paused before saying: "Yes, His Royal Highness Prince Yi also entered the palace early."

"Thank you," Su Jingqing thanked, and Xiang Yu stuffed an ingot of silver into Xu Cai's hand.

When it was time, Su Jingqing realized that the queen mother had also come, and she had just heard the news, but she couldn't see, but she kept crying.

With the name Fengwei in his mouth, he probably felt that he couldn't explain to Ye Fengwei, which made the emperor look sad.

Su Jingqing saluted, but before the emperor said anything, the queen mother repeatedly waved at Su Jingqing, "Come on, my child, come to Ai's family, Ai's family would like to thank you for sending the two sisters Jingyue into the palace, otherwise Ai's family... "

The queen mother was so choked up that she couldn't even speak, the emperor quickly came to persuade her to let the queen mother go back first, and he would handle the matter.

She gave Su Jingqing a wink, and Su Jingqing then persuaded, "Grandmother, go back and rest first, the two princesses are still waiting for your troubles, you must not fall down."

"You're right, the Ai family can't fall down, the Ai family has to take care of Jingyue and the two sisters, and they have to wait for Beihuai to come back, the Ai family will go back and rest now."

The Empress Dowager was supported by the palace servants to leave, and when she heard Xiao Beihuai mentioned, everyone present had different reactions, Concubine Zhong Guifei's mother and son had the same ugly expressions, and they couldn't hide it.

The emperor looked even sadder, and the look in Su Jingqing's eyes also showed a little bit of parting.

The Son of Heaven cut to the chase, "Do you know what happened to the fire in Pingjia's mansion?"

Su Jingqing: "Father, my son and minister don't know."

In front of the emperor, he was always respectful, silent and calm, never revealing any emotions, and never said a word of extraneous words.

"The imperial concubine said that you had an argument with Ping Jia on the street yesterday, so why?"

Su Jingqing explained: "After leaving the palace yesterday, the princess invited the son to get on the carriage and said a few words, but halfway through, the princess pushed the son out of the carriage. After that, the carriage of the princess mansion ran away, and the rope for the carriage was cut. The carriage fell off the horse, and both the princess and the princess were injured. Seeing that the princess was seriously injured, I ordered the two princesses to be sent to the palace."

Concubine Zhong Gui answered, "If there is anything you can't talk about, you have to get in the carriage. You and Ping Jia are lonely, and the influence is not very good."

"What did Ping Jia tell you?" the Son of Heaven asked almost at the same time.

Su Jingqing said: "The princess said that she doesn't like son-in-law. She was bullied at home and suspected of being a murderer when she entered the palace. She felt that life was too hard, so she wanted to find a place to end it." If there seems to be nothing to sweep over Concubine Zhong Gui, the hint should not be too obvious.

Concubine Zhong Gui's complexion changed, but she quickly restrained herself and asked Su Jingqing, "Princess Huai is questioning whether the emperor made a mistake in marrying Ping Jia?"

She chooses the person, but the emperor chooses the marriage, so it can't be blamed on her.

Su Jingqing said: "It's true to refer to the marriage, it's just that the person is wrong. However, Qian Zhengxuan has been imprisoned and awaiting beheading, and the matter is over. The princess is just wronged. When she returned to the palace, she was supposed to go home, but the imperial concubine accused her of killing herself." In-laws, empresses, what would you think if such a thing happened to you?"

Su Jingqing directly applied Concubine Liang's words to Concubine Zhong Gui, causing Concubine Zhong Guifei to scold her, "Presumptuous, Concubine Huai, you have to think too much, my parents-in-law are the former emperor and queen mother, I will never To do such a reckless thing."

"Why does the imperial concubine have to react so violently? I'm just making an analogy."

Then he averted his eyes and continued to say to the emperor: "Father, the princess couldn't bear to see my son die with her, so she pushed my son out of the carriage halfway, but unfortunately yesterday, I happened to run into a horse that was coming towards me. The frightened horse, my son almost died under the hooves of the horse, and the carriage that came to the Princess Mansion had an accident in the city, maybe it was also affected by the frightened horse."

"Whose family is that startling horse?" The emperor stared at Su Jingqing, as if he was trying to find out the truth of what he said.

Su Jingqing said truthfully: "There are two families living in the alley where the horse runner was arrested, Mr. Wang, the doctor of the Ministry of Punishment, and General Zhen, the general of Xuanwei."

"That's all during the day, what does it have to do with the fire in the imperial sister's house last night..."

After listening for a while, Xiao Yunyi couldn't help but talk, and wanted to drag Su Jingqing into the arson matter.

Su Jingqing interrupted him directly, "What does arson have to do with me? Did the second brother suspect that I set the fire?"

When he called second brother, Xiao Yunyi's face darkened.

Su Jingqing didn't care about him, and knelt down in front of the emperor, "Father, the matter of arson has absolutely nothing to do with my ministers, please pay attention to it."

Xiao Yunyi rushed in front of the emperor and said: "If you say it's nothing to do, then it's nothing to do? You know that the emperor wants to commit suicide, but you are willing to die. You are such a vicious person, there is nothing you can do."

Su Jingqing retorted, "Since I want to set fire to kill people, why did I send the two princesses into the palace?"

"That's because you think they are young and have a little conscience, so you don't want to kill them."

"I have a vicious heart, so how can I have a conscience?" Su Jingqing looked at Xiao Yunyi firmly, and asked him to give him an answer.

"Enough!" The emperor was angry because of the dispute between Su Jingqing and Xiao Yunyi.

"I didn't ask you to accuse each other, I just want to know whether the fire in Pingjia's mansion has anything to do with you, and how much do you know?!" The emperor glanced at several people, with a stern look.

Concubine Zhong Gui hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I don't know."

Xiao Yunyi also said: "Father, I don't know, this matter has nothing to do with my son."

The emperor glanced at Concubine Zhong, mother and son, and released the coercion on his body, "I don't know now, didn't you all speak vigorously just now, saying that it is related to the eldest princess, how did you know that?"

Concubine Zhong Guifei sneered, "Your Majesty, where did the concubine and Yi'er say this? The concubine just thought that Princess Huai and Pingjia are close, and she talked on the street yesterday, thinking that he would know something inside."

"Since Princess Huai said it's irrelevant, then it's irrelevant. Assuming that the concubine never mentioned this matter, the emperor will order a thorough investigation into the arson incident."

"There's also the matter of Ping Jia's death, and the concubine will have to prepare for it."

Concubine Zhong Gui's good tricks, the framing failed to withdraw, she and Xiao Yunyi were unharmed with a few words.

If I am easy to handle, and the emperor is not on my side, I am not sure what will happen.

It's the same as yesterday, if you tell him it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

Su Jingqing lowered his head, with gloom in his eyes, and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the concubine is right, let's investigate the arson matter first. Since the concubine and the second brother said that they did not set the fire, they should not have set the fire." , now it's important to catch the murderer."

Who doesn't know what to say, as long as there is a rumor about him setting fire to murder Xiao Xinjin after leaving this door, neither of these two people will try to run away.

Concubine Zhong's eyes were cold, staring at Su Jingqing like a poisonous snake.

Another confrontation, no winner.

Concubine Zhong Gui was going to attend to Princess Pingjia's affairs, Xiao Yunyi left the palace on her own.

Before Su Jingqing left the palace, he was left behind by the emperor.

The emperor's eyes that seemed to be able to see through people's hearts stared at Su Jingqing for a long time before asking him, "Is there nothing you want to tell me?"

Su Jingqing thought for a while and said, "Father, my son had a dream about the prince last night."

The emperor was a little anxious, "What did he say?"

Su Jingqing said: "My lord said he was homesick, and he will go home soon."

"It's just that there are many ghosts at night, and it's difficult to go home."

The emperor was silent for a moment before saying: "I know, I will send someone to take him home."