Jiaochu

After leaving Mingyue Garden, Ye Lingxi wondered who had been caught. After thinking about it, she thought of the missing guard. Wasn't Commander Wu tracing his whereabouts? How could the Imperial City Division have got there first? She didn't do it just now. Seeing Commander Wu, it was likely that Mr. Yuan did not inform him at all, so all the credit fell on him.

As Ye Lingxi expected, Yuan Luo didn't say hello to Commander Wu at all. After catching the person, he went directly to the palace to report to Ye Lanchen.

Now the person is locked up in the prison of the Imperial City Division.

The man was caught last night. Yuan Luo tortured and interrogated him until dawn. He was already half dead, with only one breath still breathing in his throat. Yuan Luo left two of his men to guard the prisoners in the cell. He changed into clean clothes and left the Imperial City Division for the palace.

In the imperial study, Yuan Luo presented a confession and a stack of account books to Ye Lanchen. There was a bloody fingerprint on the confession.

After reading the confession, Ye Lanchen's face darkened, and after reading another book and account book, he looked furious.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. Now that the murderer has been caught, the prince can be given justice."

"What's fair?" Ye Lanchen said with a sullen face and silence for a moment, "Please step back first."

Yuan Luo accepted the order and resigned.

The next morning at the court meeting, Yuan Luo, the commander of the Imperial City Division, reported that the murderer of King Liu had been brought to justice. He recounted the ins and outs of the confession, which made some ministers sigh with regret. He also handed over a thick stack of account books. The booklet was presented, and it was all evidence that King Liu had plundered the people's wealth, embezzled people's wealth, corrupted the law, and disregarded human lives.

The guard He Chi's real name was Lu. Because his beloved was taken into the palace by King Liu and was killed, he changed his name to He Chi and entered the palace to become a guard. It took five years to gain King Liu's trust and control the other party's search for people's wealth and wealth. There is a lot of evidence of corruption, abuse of law and human life. Before going to Beijing this time, he had made a plan to get rid of King Liu. But Meng Tianlan's disappearance had nothing to do with him. He only wanted to get rid of King Liu and did not send anyone to kidnap the Southern Crown Prince.

Taking advantage of King Liu's incident, Ye Lanchen took the opportunity to hit the vassal kings such as King Xu, King Chen and others. They all felt frightened and broke out in cold sweat.

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Ye Lingxi hid behind the pillar and watched the civil and military officials come out of the Jinluan Palace one after another. He noticed that Yuan Luo talked to Prime Minister Zhou for a while and then left.

Prince Liu hung his head in despair and no one paid attention to him. After all, Prince Liu's numerous crimes were there, and no one wanted to cause trouble for himself.

When Ye Lingxi looked at him from a distance, she felt that Liu Shizi's sturdy outline was eighty-nine times similar to the person she had seen in her previous daydreams. Then she thought of the gorgeous gold hairpin on that woman's head. She seemed to have seen it somewhere. She thought back for a moment and her expression changed. Was it her? !
Could it be that Prince Liu went to Mingyue Garden to cause trouble yesterday because she was instigated by her? What was the purpose of doing so? Was there a grudge against Pingnan Palace or was there another mastermind behind it?

After pondering for a few seconds, Ye Lingxi decided to meet the owner of the golden hairpin and confirm with his own eyes whether it was that hairpin.

She was also lucky, and she met someone as soon as she reached the palace road.

Zhou Guiren came over dressed brightly, and the palace maid Ping'er behind him was holding a food box in her hand. Ye Lingxi came bounding over and called Madam Zhou. She looked at the food box curiously and asked what delicious food was in it. Zhou Guiren excused herself and said it was nothing, and wanted to get rid of Ye Lingxi's entanglement quickly so that she could go to the imperial study room early. This little thought was exposed in a moment.

"Is Empress Zhou going to find the father? Lingxi also wants to go to the father." Ye Lingxi looked at Zhou Guiren with a pair of big, watery eyes, and almost put the words "Let's go together" into substance. Zhou Guiren couldn't be cold-hearted and drive people away, so he had to take them with him.

On the way, Ye Lingxi praised the beautiful golden hairpin that Zhou Guiren wore on his head. Ping'er said proudly that this golden hairpin was a gift from the emperor. Ye Lingxi took the opportunity to look at the hairpin twice more, and then quietly looked at Zhou Guiren. That face with exquisite make-up felt like all the thoughts were written on it. It was not as scheming as the one seen in the dream. If I had to use one word to describe it, it would probably be a stupid beauty.

After arriving at the imperial study, Xiao Anzi went in and announced. Then Eunuch De came out and said that the three highnesses were inside and asked Zhou Guiren to go back first. Zhou Guiren asked Ping'er to hand the food box to Eunuch De, saying that the lotus seed, lily and white fungus soup in it was stewed by her herself, and told Eunuch De to let the emperor drink it while it was hot. After telling the emperor to take care of himself, De The father-in-law asked Xiao Anzi to send Zhou Guiren away, then led Ye Lingxi in, and reminded her that the emperor was inspecting the work of the three highnesses, so that she could be prepared.

When Eunuch De led Ye Lingxi over, Ye Lanchen was inspecting Ye Xingye's homework. The latter's face turned red and he stammered in his answers, which looked really miserable.

"Your Majesty, the princess is here." Eunuch De promptly reported.

Ye Lingxi obediently walked over to say hello, winked at Ye Xingye with her big eyes, seemingly saying, "I'll take care of everything," and then ran over very diligently to give her father a pat on the shoulder, "Father, let's take Lingxi's exam too. .”

Ye Xingye silently expressed his gratitude with his eyes, deeply admiring the little imperial sister's spirit of self-recommendation.

Ye Lanchen didn't ask too difficult questions, so she drew a picture on the paper and asked her to write two poems on it. Out of curiosity, Ye Xingye stretched his neck and took a look, and saw a moon on it. Two lines of poems immediately popped into my mind. It was rare to have such brilliant thoughts. I couldn't help but read: "When will the bright moon come? Ask the sky for wine." After reading, he lowered his head in embarrassment.

"Third brother, there is only the moon and no wine above." Ye Lingjue said.

Ye Xingye stretched his neck and looked at it again. When he saw that there was no wine on it, he suddenly blushed with embarrassment.

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After coming out of the imperial study, the four of them left together.

"Lingxi, look at this." Ye Xingye took out a whistle mysteriously and proudly, which was the gift from Meng Jingxiu. Ye Lingxi picked up the whistle and looked at it. Just as he was about to blow the whistle to listen to the sound, the whistle was taken away by the other hand. Ye Lingjue observed the shape of the whistle and said, "This should be an eagle whistle."

"Second brother, have you seen it?" Ye Xingye wanted to reveal the answer by himself, but suddenly the duck flew away from his mouth. In addition to the accident, he felt a little depressed.

Ye Lingxi said: "Second brother has never seen anything. He knows everything about flying in the sky, running on the ground, and swimming in the water."

"Second brother is so powerful." Ye Xingye said enthusiastically, "That guy Hu Yuhan gave me something a few days ago. He said it was a rare and exotic beast called a pearl bird, which can spit out pearls. Second brother, please help me. Go and have a look to see if it's a pearl bird." He then asked Ye Qingran and Ye Lingxi to go and see this rare beast.

(End of this chapter)