Empress Dowager Empress Dowager

Chapter 194 Became a Murderer
At this time, the silly prince was strolling in the imperial garden of the East Palace. He looked at the setting sun in the sky, and there was something extra in those innocent and harmless eyes.

Cao An followed closely beside him, guessing in his heart that the prince has been like this since he came back from the palace, he doesn't like to talk, and always looks at the sky in a daze.

In order to make the master happy, Cao An exaggeratedly said: "His Royal Highness, look at the sunset, it looks very red, it is a good omen."

"This sunset scene is like this, what good omen does it have?" The silly prince was not interested.

"Your Highness, the setting sun is indeed like this, but the setting sun is different every day. If you look carefully, you can discover the mystery." Xiao Anzi pretended to be mysterious.

The silly prince frowned and looked at Cao An: "What kind of medicine are you selling in your gourd?"

"Back to His Highness, it's not the medicine that Xiao Anzi sells, but Xiao Anzi wants to tell His Highness that this sunset is the same as what His Highness thinks in his heart. If you think about it carefully and look at it carefully, you will find that today and yesterday are the same. It's different, yesterday was different from the day before yesterday. But you didn't realize that today's Miss Huo is different from that day?"

Cao An said with a flattering look on his face, but the silly prince didn't look at it.

When Cao An said these words, the silly prince's eyes flickered, as if they were brighter.Just didn't speak.

Who is Cao An? He knows how to read words and expressions best. The crown prince has a happy expression, so he continued to say: "If you say that Miss Huo already has someone in her heart, but she won't get along with the crown prince indifferently like this, Xiao Anzi Look, even when Miss Huo is talking with the Ninth Prince, she still looks like this."

Cao An was not sure what he said, it was all Cao An's own speculation, but it could make the prince who was depressed at the moment recover, so Cao An didn't have any worries if he said nothing.

The silly prince was silent, but the expression on his face was not so tense. After a long time, the silly prince sighed and said: "Let's pass on the meal, I'm hungry."

It seemed that everyone had supper, but Situ Tiannan, who was floating on the river, did not have such a good life. Ever since he drank the bowl of Mabosan, he was exhausted and fell into a coma for a while.When I woke up again, it was completely dark.

His stomach was growling, and his eyes were staring with hunger.

"Hey, do you have anything to eat? Give me some, I'm starving to death." Situ Tiannan yelled at the two men.

Although he was still blindfolded, he knew that those two people were in that direction.Sure enough, a voice came from over there saying: "Be patient, we are hungry too, there is nothing to eat on the boat."

When Situ Tiannan heard this, the tone of these two people was still kind, so he said: "Who are you, why are you arresting me, and where are you arresting me? Do you know who I am? If my family members know that you will arrest me If you are arrested, even taking your lives to make amends is not enough."

"We don't know who you are, we only know that we have collected the money and we want to send you to the other side of the river. We do things with money, so you don't have to trouble us, we will send you to the other side of the river smoothly , I will let you go." The man's tone was calm and unhurried, but he didn't look like an ordinary farmer.

"Daniu, don't talk so much nonsense with him."

When Situ Tiannan heard that these people were only doing things with money, in this case, he used money to hire them to do things, so he said: "How much money they pay you to send me away, I will pay ten times the price. Let you take me back."

"Daniu, did you hear that, we took five taels of silver from others, if it can be ten times more, it will be 50 taels, and we are going to get rich." Another man got up happily over there, Situ Tiannan remembered, this time People should be called Ergou.

So Situ Tiannan took the heat to hit the railway: "That's right, it's 50 taels. If you return now, I'll give you another ten taels of silver."

"it is good."

"Ergou, have you forgotten that we promised him earlier that we would send him to the other side of the river?" That big cow was obviously a straight-hearted person, but he was unwilling.

"I don't care. Anyway, I want to earn the 50 taels. If you don't earn it, don't block my way." The second dog's temper is obviously not as good as Daniel's, and his temper is much more greedy than Daniel's.

Daniel's voice was obviously also angry: "What are you going to do to me? How did you promise when you came out? Now for 50 taels, you are going to do something bad to your brother?"

"You two, stop arguing, but I didn't say anything. I must return to the 50 taels now to count. You send me to the river and then send me back. It's only two days. It’s just a matter of time, but for me, it’s okay, as long as you can safely send me back to Shangjing in two days, the 50 taels I promised will be given to you.”

Situ Tiannan heard the two of them quarreling, he was afraid that such a quarrel would lead to a fight, this is a boat, if the fight sinks, he will not follow to the end.So he hurriedly opened his mouth to persuade the two men.

"That's it! Daniel, so you have nothing to say no to, right?" Er Gou was obviously very happy, and the excitement in that tone couldn't be concealed.

As it turned out, the two of them sent Situ Tiannan to the opposite side of the river, and then sent Situ Tiannan back to Shangjing. Situ Tiannan paid the two of them 50 taels of silver as a reward.

In this way, Situ Tiannan was not worried at all, but the imperial examination was not so fast. No matter how bad he was, he would return to Shangjing in about five days, so the imperial examination would not be delayed at all.

After relaxing in this way, Situ Tiannan fell into a deep sleep.

In a daze, Situ Tiannan heard bustling noises, men and women, Situ Tiannan tried hard to open his eyes, but his eyelids seemed to weigh a thousand catties.

After finally opening it, it was surrounded by people holding torches.

Situ Tiannan was full of doubts, he looked around, and found that he had landed ashore at some time, and was lying in a room full of firewood at the moment.It should be the woodshed.

The question is not whether the firewood house is a firewood house or not, but how did I get here, and where did those two men go?What does it mean that these people are staring at him fiercely one by one?
"you?"

"It's him, sir, it's him. He came to our Yichun Tower for dinner, wine and meat, and then he took Xiaohong out, but Xiaohong found her body by the river." A man dressed like an old bustard stood The crowd came out and said to a man holding a torch.

Only now did Situ Tiannan realize that the person holding the torch was actually wearing an official uniform.

"Ah, he is holding a dagger in his hand, and there are bloodstains, it must be the dagger that killed Xiaohong. Officer, arrest him quickly." The crowd suddenly became commotion.

Only then did Situ Tiannan realize that he was indeed holding a bloody dagger in his hand.He was startled, and the dagger fell to the ground.

The next moment, Situ Tiannan was put under arrest.

"What are you doing? I didn't kill anyone?" Situ Tiannan can already imagine that this is the highlight of the kidnapper this time. If he is really slandered and becomes a murderer, let alone his imperial examination, he won't have to think about it. It is impossible for the Situ family to enter the palace as an official.

This Lin family is so vicious.

Thinking of this, it is impossible for Situ Tiannan to sit still, he forced himself to calm down, and said to the official next to him: "Brother, I am the son of the Situ family, there must be some misunderstanding, I don't know what that is Xiaohong, I was tied up here. By the way, what is this place?"

The officer and soldier looked at him like he was looking at a fool: "Is it a misunderstanding? Did you have any grievances, but you didn't tell me. I was just responsible for arresting you. It is the prefect's business to try the case. What misunderstanding do you have? What grievances, tell the magistrate."

Situ Tiannan wanted to scour his pockets for money to buy this officer and soldier, but he didn't expect that when he touched it, his body was empty, not even a tael of money.He immediately thought that the money might be taken away by those two men.

At this moment, he hated those two men so much that they actually backtracked.

In the end, Situ Tiannan was thrown into a cell.The cell was smelly and wet, making Situ Tiannan, who had always been pampered, uncomfortable.

He hadn't eaten for a long time, and with such a burst of stench, his stomach began to roll.At this moment, he wished that the person who attacked him this time would be cut into pieces.

Moreover, he really wanted to know who would dare to attack him fearlessly. Didn't he know that if he escaped successfully, the revenge he would bring would also be terrible?
He didn't expect that the culprit was Huo Mingzhu, who looked unparalleled in beauty and innocent in appearance.

Situ Tiannan's guess was indeed right, Huo Mingzhu's purpose was just to feel that Situ Tiannan was in the way, if she wanted to deal with him, she would have to prevent him from taking the imperial examination, so she had to send Situ Tiannan away before the imperial examination.Fang Tieyi's ability to handle affairs is very satisfactory. She only used the Ye Mingzhu, the family heirloom of Situ's family, to trick Situ Tiannan out, and then sent him out of Shangjing.

Situ Tiannan wanted to get out of trouble this time, but it was not so easy. It involved human life. Even if he could clear up his grievances in the end, by then, the imperial examination would have started long ago.

Thinking of being able to cut off one of Baili Zonglu's arms, Huo Mingzhu laughed even when she was sleeping.

Su Ling waited on the side, seeing the happy look on Huo Mingzhu's face, thinking about going out with the prince today, going out with the prince can make the lady so happy?Are you happier than going out with the Ninth Prince?

Thinking of this, Su Hao became a little unhappy. Although the prince is also very honorable, he is far inferior to the Ninth Prince. The young lady is only suitable for a hero like the Ninth Prince. The prince sees It sounds silly, it's no wonder the lady isn't suffocated.

Thinking of this, Su Yu said: "Miss, why didn't the Ninth Prince come to see you today?"

Unexpectedly, Su Hui mentioned Baili Zonglu at this time, and she insisted on extinguishing Huo Mingzhu's good mood. She restrained her smile and said: "You girl, you are not ashamed, and you miss your hero all day long. Lord Nine."

When Su Yu heard this, she called Qu directly: "Miss, don't talk nonsense, why is this my hero, the Ninth Prince, it's true that the Ninth Prince is a hero, but that's Miss's Ninth Prince!"

The phrase "Miss's Nine Princes", Su Yu said in a low voice, obviously because she was afraid that the words would not spread well, but Huo Mingzhu didn't know whether to praise or blame.

So he said: "Aren't you tired from playing today? I'm tired." So, she walked to the bed by herself and was about to go to bed. Su Hao just wanted to say something more. Seeing Huo Mingzhu like this, it's hard to say, and serve Huo Mingzhu obediently Mingzhu got on the bed.

(End of this chapter)