Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 603 Why the hell!

"Miss, this is..."

Shen Haolin and Shen Cha looked at a red envelope and a white envelope in front of them, looked at the Empress Dowager in puzzlement, and at Song Jue, Song Qiyun, and Song Jinyu who were sitting beside them.

As soon as they arrived at the gate of the palace, Eunuch Cui, who was waiting at the gate, led them to the Empress Dowager's palace. Just like what Song Jue said before, the Empress Dowager had something important to tell them.After they saluted, the Empress Dowager took out these two letters.

Judging from the reactions of the three Song Jue brothers and sisters, they had read the contents of these two letters before and knew what would happen next.But the three of them didn't know if they had been instructed by the queen mother, so they didn't give them any hints.

"Don't look at them, read these two letters first." The Empress Dowager smiled at the two of them, "You will understand after reading it."

"Yes!"

Shen Haolin and Shen Cha glanced at each other, picked up the red envelope on the left, pulled out the letter paper from inside, opened it and only looked at the beginning, and they were already shocked.

"This……"

Looking at Shen Cha next to him, his reaction was basically the same, with disbelief written all over his face.

"Continue, continue." The empress dowager waved her hands with a smile, telling them to continue reading, "You two can exchange after reading your own, look at each other's, and then find out the difference between the two letters."

The two exchanged a look, then lowered their heads to look at the letter in their hands, reading it very carefully, for fear of missing any clues.When they finished reading themselves, as the empress dowager said, the two exchanged the letters in their hands and read each other's carefully again.

Although the contents of the two letters were completely different, they also knew that what the Empress Dowager wanted them to read was not the contents of the letter.

They put the two letters side by side and compared the time of nearly half a stick of incense very carefully, but they didn't see any problems in it, and there was really no flaw at all.

"How?" The Empress Dowager smiled when she saw that they folded the letter intact and put it back in the envelope, "What do you gain?"

"If you go back to the empress, no." Shen Cha put the two letters back in front of the empress dowager, "From the content, the letter in my brother's hand should be the secret file kept by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the so-called ironclad evidence for Aunt Xue's conviction. According to the information we have, this letter was forged by a craftsman. The letter I got was a letter from Aunt Xue to the Empress Dowager, if it is correct, it should be written by her."

"You're half right." Song Jue poured a cup of tea for Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, "Both these two letters are forged. The one you saw was specially used by them to frame the queen mother. It just went wrong halfway." , This letter has never been taken out. This time, we found these in the pile of physical evidence."

"Frame the empress dowager?" Shen Haolin was taken aback, then looked at Song Jue, "What's the point of framing the empress dowager... No, that's definitely not their plan!" He shook his head lightly and smiled wryly, "We found the wrong case. It’s not that simple.”

"Oh? Let's hear it and see if you think the same as me."

"Aunt Xue...should have saved you." Shen Haolin looked at Song Jue seriously, "Their target is you."

"It seems that I'm not the only one who thinks so." Song Jue sighed, and leaned lazily towards Shen Haolin, "Their conspiracy was very big back then. Once the mother was convicted, as a son, I can keep the name of the prince. No. It’s lucky, don’t count on the throne. Their target is not only me, Qi Yun and Xiao Jiu are also included.”

"That's right. What they want is that everyone in the empress dowager's line will lose power. It can be said to be a two-pronged approach. Get rid of Aunt Xue, and the prestige of the Marquis of Wuding and the Shen family's army will be cut by more than half, no matter how many victories they have won. The first thing that people think of is the so-called collaboration with the old Mrs. Wu Dinghou. Facts have proved that this move is right. In the past few years, Brother Xiaotian has been carrying such a heavy burden and bearing such infamy. As for the Queen Mother Empress, I want to ensure that brother Xiaojue, Qiyun, and Xiaojiu have no chance of getting involved in the throne. I don't know how serious differences or great difficulties occurred between them on this plan, which led to them having to temporarily withdraw Hand, stop at Aunt Xue." Holding the tea cup, Shen Cha looked at the Empress Dowager, then at Song Jue, "In this way, the Empress Dowager's natal family is only the smallest link, the least important chess piece, and the golden In other words, the person who cooperated with Wan Yanping is actually another person, a person who has a lot of ideas about the throne."

"It's not that I haven't thought about the ghost, it's just..." Song Jue rubbed his chin, "If he really exists, then this person is hiding it too well. We haven't seen it for so many years. A little bit of awareness. If we hadn't been determined to find out the truth of the aunt's case, I'm afraid we wouldn't have discovered it."

"If this is the case, our previous reasoning will be overthrown." Shen Cha tapped the table lightly, "What we thought before was to use Aunt Xue to frame Wudinghou's mansion and the Shen family's army. But now it's different, their goal Your Majesty, the whole case is of a different character."

"Cha'er is right, their original plan should be much bigger than the current one." Shen Haolin sighed, "Aunt Xue's secret letter, if I guessed correctly, they should have forged it for the Empress Dowager first Yes, and then they forged the so-called ironclad evidence. They only need to mention something about the Kingdom of Jin in the forged letter to the Empress Dowager, to show that she maintains contact with the Kingdom of Jin and the eldest prince."

"But..." Song Jinyu frowned, "Such a serious matter doesn't need to be carefully verified? The Ministry of Criminal Justice has concluded that there is a connection based on a few words in a letter. They handle the case so hastily? Are you afraid of taking on a case of dereliction of duty or Charges of dereliction of duty?"

"Aunt Xue is at the border, and the eldest prince is at Yiqing Mansion. How to get the evidence? They have figured this out and arranged this step. If the evidence can be obtained, this lie can be easily exposed." Shen Cha sneered, "But this letter was not sent out, but a letter between Aunt Xue and the eldest prince was forged. The reason for this can be explored."

"The biggest doubt we had about this case at the beginning was that there was no aunt's confession, and the conviction was based on the vague letter. Moreover, the father clearly knew that the aunt was wronged, but for some reason, he still agreed with the Ministry of Criminal Justice. The charges against Dali Temple. I really don’t understand why this is! If you have any difficulties, you can tell them and we can solve them together, right?” Song Jue rubbed his forehead and looked at the Queen Mother Empress, "I remember, did the emperor send several letters to uncle?"

"Secret edict, the kind that burns instantly after reading it." The empress dowager also sighed, "I have inquired about it on the sidelines, but your father refused to disclose any details and secrets about this case, and he refused to say a word. He also advised me not to take care of this matter. He once said that if the children want to overturn the case in the future, the truth will come to light one day. At that time, the children will understand why he did this. He said When I said this, it looked very bitter and sad."

"This is..." The children present looked at each other, "What do you mean? So, is this case deliberately left for us?"

"It should be!" The queen mother looked a little tired, "Okay, I will tell you everything I know, and you will be responsible for the rest. Can you solve this mystery? Can you help your aunt and aunt? It depends on your ability to reverse the case." She waved her hand lightly, "You all go, I'm a little tired, I need to rest!"

Several children stood up, bowed to the empress dowager, and quietly left the bedroom.

"Let's go to the warming room!" Song Jue asked Eunuch Cui to order the imperial dining room to prepare dinner and supper, and then said to the people around him, "Let's have a good chat tonight!"

(End of this chapter)