Shengshichun

Chapter 309 Will you take action?

The emperor's every word was filled with sorrow, and Pei Zhan and Liang Chen, who were still in the hall, couldn't help but feel heavy in their hearts.

The two said: "Please take care of yourself, Your Majesty."

The emperor took a deep breath and said nothing.

On the contrary, when the queen heard this, she raised her head and looked at the two people in front of her: "Do you have anything else to say? Before they arrive, the emperor and I should know everything that needs to be known. "

Pei Zhan was silent for a while and then said: "The methods of Prince Rong and his son are certainly cruel, but there are some doubts. I am still a little confused."

"You said."

Pei Zhan nodded and said, "I am confused. His Royal Highness, the eldest son of the Emperor, was already ten years old when he was separated from the Emperor and the Empress. According to what the Empress just said, His Highness is young, brave, and extremely intelligent. Logically speaking, since he has arrived in the capital, he should The best thing to do is to contact the emperor. Even if he can't contact him directly, he can still find those heroes who followed the emperor in the north and south to explain their identities and ask for introductions. Why did he quietly appear in the capital? "

When the emperor and empress heard this, they were all startled.

"One more thing," Pei Zhan said further, "My Majesty has been searching for His Highness for many years. Since she has continuously found some clues about him, which can prove that he was not killed that year, then why has he not taken the initiative to talk to the Emperor for so many years? Contact me?"

The emperor is the new king who overthrew the previous dynasty in one fell swoop. He is not an unknown person who can turn around and run into the sea of ​​people and then disappear. He is the leader of the rebel army. He is there wherever the war is fought. He is a existence that people look up to. There is no possibility that others are looking for him but cannot find him.

Even if Yang Yi didn't have the intelligence that the Queen said, he was already ten years old at that time. He was already a strong seedling in the military camp. As long as he hadn't died, he would have known how to find the emperor. , how to return to my parents.

But more than twenty years have passed!
He disappeared like this. The queen found out that he was not dead and was still alive. The clues were not broken until six or seven years ago. Why didn't he come to see his parents?
Combined with the mission given to Mrs. Ning by Mr. Ning before his death, and the deceased was Yang Yi, the eldest son of the emperor, many things can be explained.

As the eldest son of the empress, he indeed had great energy and could bring endless favor to Fu Yun and the Fu family at that time, raising the identity of the Fu family and Mrs. Ning as mother and son to a whole new level.

However, what Mr. Ning did was also very strange. Although the Ning family was a businessman, they raised a large amount of military pay for the Zhou Dynasty when they fought against Da Yue. It can also be seen from the Queen's several mentions of Ning Bochi that Mr. Ning was in the imperial family. The front is still somewhat decent.

So, why didn't Ning Bochi directly send information to the palace when he came into contact with the emperor's eldest son Yang Yi and recognized his identity?

Instead, he adopted such a roundabout method and asked Mrs. Ning to receive her secretly?

After Pei Zhan finished speaking, the emperor began to pace in the palace. The queen also calmed down and looked at the ground with her eyebrows in deep thought.

"These questions are right," the emperor stopped under the curtain, "but if nothing else, I may be able to explain one thing. Yi'er is irreplaceable to me and the queen. Many years ago , when we first got some news that he might still be alive, we immediately realized that it was not appropriate to make a big deal about it at this time.

"Because of his special status, he is in danger until our people actually find him. What's more, Da Yue has already attacked Da Zhou at that time. If the enemy country knows, our eldest son is still living outside, and our couple If we attach so much importance to him, I am afraid that in the end we will only get an irreversible result.

"So we decided to investigate secretly and sent people from multiple channels. You have never known that we were looking for Yi'er for so many years, just because we did it deliberately.

"Seven years ago, he secretly came to Beijing. Perhaps he knew that we were looking for him. After getting the news, he also knew that it was not appropriate to make a big announcement, so he did not alert anyone."

After listening to this, Liang Chen nodded towards Pei Zhan: "That makes sense. But where was His Highness during these eighteen years of separation? What was he doing? Why didn't he come to find the emperor? "

One sentence made all four people in the hall fall silent.

There is no doubt that the biggest sticking point is here.

No matter how cautious father and son were towards each other, they could not explain the eighteen years of missing contact.

But in the minds of Pei Zhan and Liang Chen, there is still another layer of doubt, that is, what was Mr. Ning worried about back then? With his connections in the court, it would not be a problem to send Yang Yi back to the palace. Why did he choose such a roundabout way?
Also, what happened to Mr. Ning on the dock? Who were the two parties fighting on the pier?

He Qunying informed Mr. Ning that he was in danger. Now it seems that Xu Yin most likely gave him this clue. So why does Xu Yin know so much?
Even if he is a descendant of Prince Yi's Mansion and has a large number of people who can be sent out to search for news, is his scope too broad?
Thinking of this, Pei Zhan said: "Your Majesty, I have something important to report regarding Xu Yin."

The emperor came back from his deep thoughts, and his eyes fell on his face: "Yes, you came to the palace this time to sue Xu Yin."

He waved his hand, walked back to the edge of the couch and sat down: "Just tell me."

Pei Zhan said: "He Qunying rented two ships from the Ning family a few days ago, claiming to be transporting a batch of silk from Hangzhou to Beijing. However, because He Qunying's silk shop was founded by embezzling money from the He family, I felt confused and checked it out.

"During this process, I discovered that Xu Yin had a secret connection with He Qunying. I sent people to Xu Yin's ancestral home in Tanzhou and found that Xu Yin secretly maintained a large number of secret guards. The people he sent to take care of the ancestral home The steward, there is also a token of the Great Moon Kingdom Wing Palace hidden beside him.

"The steward named Zhou Yi gave orders with this token.

"At the same time, I also kidnapped the spies sent by the descendants of the Dayue royal family in the two merchant ships rented by He Qunying. According to this person, Xu Yin is most likely the direct grandson of King Yi of the Dayue Kingdom. ”

"what?!"

The emperor and empress raised their heads at the same time.

"Xu Yin is actually from Dayue Kingdom?" the queen blurted out, "Isn't he from the south that that girl from Taiping saved from the battlefield?"

When Liang Chen heard this, he lifted his robe and knelt down: "I deserve to die! Back then, the Liang family didn't know people well, and mistakenly mistook the nobles of the enemy country for the common people of our court and rescued them, so that they led the wolf into the house and killed many people!

"Currently we don't know what his purpose is, and whether he has done any evil deeds that will harm our great Zhou Dynasty. If so, I will ask the emperor to punish him!"

"Your Majesty!" Pei Zhan also knelt down, "Our army is guarding the border in the northwest. The Liang family is not the only general who saved the people in distress in Liming. The Liang family saved more than Xu Yin. In the eyes of all the generals, , the lives of innocent people are more important than heaven, how can you be a man if you don't save them?

“I think it’s not Xu Yin’s identity as a Dayue citizen that’s wrong, nor Liang Ning’s kind deeds, but Xu Yin’s evil intentions!

"Our Jiangmen family is fighting south and north for the sake of peace in the world, not to protect ourselves. The tradition of saving people on the battlefield has also been passed down from the time when the emperor led everyone to conquer the world!
"Xu Yin was born in Dazhou and has never lived in Dayue. If he didn't have a father of Dayue people, then he would be a citizen of Dazhou through and through!
"The life experience he mentioned can completely match the identity he mentioned!

"So why is it wrong that Liang Ning can't tell his identity?
"Not only was she unable to tell the difference, but no one who knew him expected that someone who spoke fluent Tanzhou dialect would actually be from Dayue's royal family!
"Even now, if I don't provide evidence, who in the civil and military dynasties can guess that Xu Yin is from Dayue?"

"And Liang Ning, who desperately saved Xu Yin, died under Xu Yin's knife that year!"

The queen gasped after hearing these words. Perhaps she heard so much shocking content that she could only ask a shocking question about the last one: "You said Liang Ning was killed by Xu Yin?" Didn't she die in an accident? "" Exactly!" Liang Chen nodded heavily, his chest rising and his eyes red, "About all this, when King Rong comes, the emperor can interrogate the truth from his mouth!

"Xu Yin originally killed my aunt because my aunt passed by the scene of the murder and picked up the dagger. When King Rong later searched for the dagger, Xu Yin saw the opportunity to abandon the Liang family and cling to Prince Rong's palace, and secretly set fire to kill her. Auntie!"

"Then how do you know all this?"

The queen couldn't contain her shock at all.

The death of the emperor's eldest son was more important to her than anything else, but Xu Yin, whom Pei Zhan came in to sue, was actually related to this murder, and he actually killed the general of the DPRK in the same battle situation at that time. sister!

Personally speaking, this is an act of ingratitude! This kind of person is not worthy of being a prostitute or an official!

As for Yu Gong, he killed the families of the soldiers to shake the military morale of the generals who resisted the enemy in the rear!

This is not allowed by the imperial court!
"The minister's mother-in-law happened to witness the whole murder. Due to her low status and family affairs, her mother-in-law hid this secret deeply and did not dare to reveal it.

"And then she had a chance encounter with Liang Ning. Liang Ning asked her to keep this dagger temporarily. Neither of them expected that Liang Ning would be killed soon after."

"Your Majesty, the dagger has been brought."

At this point, the eunuch who went to get the dagger from the palace gate came back.

A dagger shining with cold light was presented to the emperor and empress.

When the queen saw it, her eyes became wet again. She gritted her teeth with a trembling voice: "Is this the murderous weapon that took away the lives of my sons and grandsons?!"

Pei Zhan remained silent, nodded and said, "This is the knife that Liang Ning took away from the pool of blood in Baiyu Alley."

The queen covered her face and cried bitterly.

The maid at the door quickly came in to help.

The queen brushed them away and tried her best to keep her breath steady: "Okay! Go tell Xu Yin and let them all come into the palace!"

……

Xu Yin bid farewell to the prince and returned to the mansion, but Lian Ruan still greeted him at the door.

Xu Yin's eyes paused on him for a moment, and then strode into the study.

The glass screen in front of me reflects the sun's rays. The sun has climbed very high, but it has just found the right angle to shine into the room, shining brightly like a sword that has just been fed with blood.

Lian Ruan followed behind him and waited until he turned around before saying, "It seems things are not going as smoothly as expected."

Xu Yin took off the black gauze hat on his head and threw it on the case, and said slowly: "I actually misjudged him."

There was a slight pause: "Who did you see wrong?"

"Prince." Xu Yin's eyes were filled with bottomless unpredictability, "I thought he had mediocre qualifications and was not an emperor's talent. After all, he wanted to bring his beloved concubine to attend the crowning ceremony before, but I didn't expect that he was not! "

Lian Ruan was stunned. "However, the court officials' evaluations of the prince are all modest and honest, and they have no special words of praise."

"Obviously that's just the appearance." Xu Yin sneered, "Not only is he not honest, but the city is not shallow!"

"Then what did he say? He didn't accept your surrender, sir?"

"He didn't refuse to accept it, but he thought that my killing of Princess Rong was not enough as a pledge of surrender. He wanted me to get rid of Prince Rong and his son!"

Lian Ruan couldn't help but be surprised: "How could this happen? If you attack Prince Chaorong's palace right now, aren't you waiting for the emperor to come and arrest you? If you really do it, the prince won't be able to protect you, right?"

"If it can be done easily, why would he ask me to do it?" Xu Yin snorted coldly, "Right now, the evidence is in Pei Zhan's hands, and it has probably been submitted to the emperor. If Prince Rong and his son were During the interrogation, they will definitely tell the truth and accuse the prince.

"But there is currently no definite evidence pointing to the prince as the mastermind. Except for Prince Rong and his son, the prince can get away with it.

"So it is inevitable to kill Prince Rong and his son.

"And at this time, I killed someone for him, and I was carrying several murder cases in Prince Rong's Mansion. If I picked up any one of them, I would be dead.

"Only by doing this can he trust me."

Lian Ruan frowned: "It seems that the emperor's family has worked hard to cultivate the prince. But do you really want to do it?"

Xu Yin opened the incense box, twisted a stick of incense, lit it and inserted it into the incense stick. He looked at the slowly rising smoke and said, "I don't have to take refuge in him, but even for myself, Prince Rong and his son really can't." Stayed.

"Not only are Prince Rong and his son the only ones who can prove that the prince killed the eldest son, but also Prince Rong and his son are the only ones who can prove that I killed Liang Ning.

"I was not involved in the murder in Baiyu Hutong. Only Princess Rong actually died in my hands, but Prince Rong and his son killed the eldest son of the emperor. If I want to escape, as long as I tell the emperor all this, I can be saved. If I make up for it, at least I won't die. But if I do this, I will lose the prince, which is not worth it.

"Moreover, Prince Rong knows that I killed Liang Ning, so he will definitely expose me, so I really can't escape this death penalty."

Lian Ran, who stood under the curtain, had a gloomy face: "Then the master is planning to take action?"

(End of this chapter)