The reborn prince can't be pushed down

Chapter 160 Disappointment
The footprints on the window sill are actually only half, which should be left by the thief when he fled in a hurry.

Jiang Nian looked at the imperial guard's rubbing seal, and looked at Xiao Jingtian thoughtfully, "Xiao Aiqing said that you came in after hearing the girl's exclamation, so did you see the thief?"

Xiao Jingtian shook his head, "When I came in, there was no one in the room, and I saw the woman lying on the ground, so I wanted to go over and see what was going on, no!" He paused, and gave the imperial guards a hard look, " I don’t want her to wake up suddenly, screaming, and these blind guards come in, and they will slander the general indiscriminately!”

The imperial guards stood behind Jiang Nian and stared back at Xiao Jingtian unabashedly.

Jiang Nian smiled, and raised his hand to signal them not to get excited, "The hall is empty, and there is a distance from the window where Miss Song is. According to General Xiao, all this happened in a very short time. You fled the moment you opened the door, not to mention how he escaped under the nose of your General Xiao, and you didn’t even see a piece of clothing, it’s unreasonable.”

Xiao Jingtian saw that Jiang Nian deliberately made things difficult for him, and his expression became even more ugly, "You are deliberately trying to pin this crime on the general!"

Otherwise, why would the imperial guards come in such a timely manner!
Why is Jiang Nian so small-minded? Didn't he suddenly use his internal strength last time, but he still has control over his strength, at most it makes his blood churn.Fortunately, he pretended to be weak and "sick" for a few days. He hated that he had won such a bad round, and he couldn't explain it!

At this time, Xiao Jingtian's subordinates had rushed over upon hearing the news, and the leader was Deputy General Luo Feng. He glanced coldly at the hall, "Who dares to wrong my general!"

"Who wronged him, is it still false if the forbidden army caught him on the spot?" Zuo Ming, the commander of the forbidden army who was patrolling the palace, had already heard the report from his subordinates, and the two sides met again.

At this moment, the footprints on the window sill had already been stamped, Zuo Ming raised his eyebrows and said, "Yes or no, the general will find out with his cooperation."

The guard spread the rubbing paper in front of Xiao Jingtian, "General, please cooperate!"

With a pale face, Xiao Jingtian put his feet on it, because he was born tall and big, and there are not many people with big feet like him in the imperial capital, so it is not easy for them all to appear in the palace by chance.So when he looked down, his face suddenly softened a little!
"It's so accurate!" The guard of the imperial guard said with a frown, "General, do you have anything else to say?"

Xiao Jing's weather was unstoppable. He retracted his feet and looked at Jiang Nian coldly, "It's ridiculous for you to think that this general did what you did based on these half footprints! How many people came to the Qushui Banquet today? Once you get it right, there must be more than one person matching this match!"

"It is true that there are many people attending the banquet today, but how many people like the general who have not shown their faces at the banquet suddenly appear in the side hall?" The guards of the Imperial Army did not show any weakness.

Luo Feng stood in front of Xiao Jingtian, pointed to the trampled rubbings on the ground, and said angrily: "You are afraid of the general, so you deliberately set up such a situation to put the general to death?"

When Luo Feng said this, Xiao Jingtian's subordinates present were all dissatisfied, and they all drew their swords and confronted the imperial army.

Seeing that the other party looked like he was about to attack, the imperial guards also drew their swords, but Jiang Nian raised his hand to stop him, "Don't act rashly."

Jiang Nian smiled, and continued unhurriedly: "But, according to General Xiao, the girl fainted when you came in, even if she screamed and quickly lost consciousness, you didn't see anyone Escape from the window, and the guards came in as soon as you came in, so this so-called thief who escaped from the window does not exist at all, and this footprint matches yours, what do you say?"

Xiao Jingtian walked out from behind Luo Feng, and stood opposite Jiang Nian, "If I really wanted to escape, why would I leave a footprint by the window and come back to catch you?"

This footprint seems to be ironclad evidence, but it is also the biggest flaw.

Jiang Nian ignored his question, but walked to the window, pointed under the window, "The palace is usually vacant, so the grass on the lawn outside the window grows taller, and there is no trace of trampling on the grass right now. , how can it be said that the thief escaped by jumping out of the window?"

After finishing speaking, he moved away from the seat by the window, and everyone walked over to take a look, and sure enough there was no sign of anyone stepping on it.

Across this piece of lawn is a long corridor, connected to several palaces. If you want to escape, this is naturally the best location, but unless you can step on the grass without leaving a trace, who can escape without leaving a trace?

Zuo Ming snorted and said, "It seems that when General Xiao wanted to misbehave with that girl, he noticed that the guards were approaching, so he deliberately stepped on this footprint to confuse the public!"

Xiao Jingtian's face was pale, and he looked at Jiang Nian, "What exactly do you want?"

Jiang Qingnian sighed, "What can I say, that girl is lucky to be favored by General Xiao. It just so happens that the general hasn't married yet, right? Let His Majesty arrange a marriage for you in a while."

As Xiao Jingtian, even if he really did something to Song Yiyi, Jiang Nian and Ning Yuezhao couldn't really do anything to him, they could only propose marriage to him, which would be an explanation to the girl.

But in this way, the matter of Xiao Jingtian's involvement in the female prostitute was confirmed. This girl was from a common family, and Xiao Jingtian's prestige among soldiers from humble backgrounds would be greatly reduced.It turns out that the so-called "God of War" cannot escape the seven emotions and six desires of ordinary people.

Xiao Jingtian pointed at Jiang Nian, and said sinisterly: "I know that your husband and wife have always regarded me as a thorn in the side. I am afraid that this situation today was specially set up for me! If you have never done it, you have never done it, and you will not marry me. !"

At this moment, a clear female voice came from outside the hall, "Even if the general wants to marry, the civilian girl still doesn't want to marry!"

Everyone followed the prestige, and saw Ning Yuezhao walking, accompanied by a maid, and it was Song Yiyi who had changed into a new dress beside her who made the sound.

This girl looks so cute, but her brows exude an aura of refusal to admit defeat. She said lightly: "Although the folk girl is of humble origin, she still has backbone. The general is just a whim to the folk girl. If you really marry The meaning of the wife, how can she be so cruel to others! Anyway, the women of the people have not suffered any real disadvantages today, so naturally they will not marry the general by force."

Xiao Jingtian glanced at Song Yiyi suspiciously, thinking what his mother often said in his heart, women used to play hard-to-get tricks, if Jiang Nian and Ning Yuezhao did not design today's time, then this woman deliberately wanted to rely on him Oh, it makes no sense!

"No, this matter must be investigated! Xiao cannot be charged with such a crime for no reason!"

Ning Yuezhao and Jiang Nian stood together, and she said lightly, "I have just asked Miss Song that she wanted to change clothes during the banquet, so she went to the clean room as pointed out by the palace servants, but when she came out, After being knocked unconscious from behind, she felt in a daze that someone was undressing her, so she yelled loudly, and when she opened her eyes, she saw General Xiao."

Zuo Mingdao: "Your Majesty, I have just asked the palace guards on duty at each exit that the general left the table a little later than Miss Song."

Xiao Jing gritted his teeth, "I don't know her at all, why would I follow her!"

Zuo Ming asked coldly: "Then why does the general smell of alcohol? Obviously he drank a lot!"

This means that Xiao Jingtian lost his morals because of drinking!However, since everyone stepped into the hall, they have been smelling the faint smell of alcohol, obviously Xiao Jingtian drank a lot.

General Xiao snorted and said, "It's just that you think it's boring to drink in such a small cup, so I ordered someone to send a jar of wine to drink alone by the Qushui. This little wine will not make this general lose his virtue!"

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, didn't you just say at the table that Mr. Han is not here? Why can't he be the one who did the fighting?"

Unexpectedly, it was Yan Mo who spoke, and he was among the people who came with Luo Feng.

Yan Mo would speak for Xiao Jingtian, which was beyond Jiang Nian and Ning Yuezhao's expectations.

Jiang Nian and Yan Mo looked at each other, but seeing the other party looked at him solemnly, as if warning, Jiang Nian's mind sank, and he began to think about today's affairs again.

Over there, Xiao Jingtian's eyes lit up, "Didn't the emperor just say that only this general was absent? Why is there one more person absent now?"

Luo Feng also said: "Ming Han left the table earlier than my general, he must have deliberately ambushed in the dark so as to attack Miss Song, my general just happened to run through that villain's behavior, but he just happened to run fast. "

Zuo Ming sneered and said, "But you just saw that the lawn outside the window was not trampled on, so why are you saying that the gangster escaped through the window?"

Luo Feng argued strongly, "The lawn is only about ten feet away from the corridor. Using strength from the window sill, you can leap over ten feet without leaving a trace. It's not difficult for someone with a certain amount of lightness kung fu."

"Ha, well said!" But hearing a deep male voice outside the hall, he smiled heartily, "But Ming doesn't know martial arts!"

Everyone followed the prestige and saw a young man in a white brocade robe standing outside the main hall. He was about twenty years old, with a handsome face and wild eyes. He was fanning a folding fan in his hand one after another. elegant.

It's just the beginning of spring now, obviously there's no need for a fan, it would be a little pretentious for a man who is holding back to act like this, but the man in front of him doesn't seem to violate harmony.

"Caomin Minghan, see the emperor, the emperor's wife!"

Ming Han walked up to Jiang Nian and Ning Yuezhao, and bowed in a dignified way.

Jiang Nian sized him up. In his previous life, he heard about Ming Han, it was the time when he forced Ning Yuezhao to go to court on her behalf.At that time, there was no Enke, and Ming Han was not in the limelight because Qiu Wei had won the top spot, but because he wrote a paragraph on the test paper about the method of forming an army that had been lost for a hundred years.At that time, the situation between Daxing and Beiqi was even more tense than it is now. Minghan was reused by virtue of his peerless military skills, and Xiao Jingtian made him his military adviser.

It's a pity that Jiang Nian didn't live long enough for the two countries to go to war. I don't know why Ning Yuezhao was captured by Beiqi and the throne was taken by King Kangyu with a strategist like Minghan.

In this life, because he lived again, many things are different, for example, he and Ning Yuezhao achieved a positive result earlier, and An Chen couldn't make trouble in advance because of provocation.

The biggest trump card in the prophet's previous life can now be relied on less and less for Jiang Nian, and he has to spend more time planning for the future.

From the current point of view, Ming Han is not suitable to be the scapegoat.

As for Xiao Jingtian, Jiang Nian really wanted to take the opportunity to beat him up just now, so now he will just sit and watch from the sidelines, just to see how well Minghan can resolve the situation in front of him.

Ning Yuezhao felt that Jiang Nian suddenly held her hand, and couldn't help but look sideways at him, only to see a slight smile in his eyes.She instantly understood what Jiang Nian meant, and she thought so too, so she nodded, "Get flat."

Ming Han just stood up straight, Xiao Jingtian's figure flashed, grabbed his wrist, and locked his veins tightly.

"You really don't know martial arts." After a long time, Xiao Jingtian let go of his wrist and returned to the original place.

Ming Han rubbed his wrists. Xiao Jingtian was so powerful just now that his wrists were bruised, but he didn't even frown. He still smiled like a spring breeze, "How would Ming dare to lie in front of His Majesty."

Xiao Jingtian tried it himself, and if Minghan didn't know martial arts, it would definitely be impossible for him to step on the grass without a trace. The focus of suspicion returned to Xiao Jingtian.

But seeing Ming Han walked to the window, carefully studied the footprints for a while, then looked out of the window, turned around and said with a smile, "Everyone misunderstood General Xiao."

"Oh?" Ning Yuezhao raised her eyebrows with great interest, signaling Minghan to continue.

Ming Han said, "Don't you think there is something strange about this footprint?"

Hearing this, everyone rushed to the window one after another, unable to see why.

Jiang Nian stood still, and Ning Yuezhao didn't go forward. He just looked sideways at Jiang Nian, and Jiang Nian blinked at her.

Ming Han looked at Xiao Jingtian, "General Xiao please step on the side, and everyone will know right away."

Although Xiao Jingtian felt suspicious, he followed his instructions and quickly stepped on the window sill.

After a comparison, it was immediately discovered that Xiao Jingtian's impression was more lenient.

Minghan continued: "Think about it, everyone. If you want to step on a certain place, do you concentrate on the forefoot? But this footprint is the arch of the foot, which is totally unreasonable."

It turns out that the reason why Xiao Jingtian's footprints are larger is because he landed on the soles of his feet, and the reason why the previous footprints were smaller was because of the arches of his feet, so shoes of the same size will appear smaller.

"There is only one explanation for why this footprint is due to the strength of the arch. That is, he deliberately put on shoes that are bigger than his own feet. He wanted to deceive people, but he didn't want to leave this flaw."

A gleam of joy flashed across Xiao Jingtian's face, and he praised Ming Han a little more, "I always thought that literati were too weak, but now it seems that's not always the case. You are a good guy."

Ming Han cupped his hands modestly, "The general praises you."

Xiao Jingtian turned around and looked at Jiang Nian provocatively, "Your Highness, what do you say now?"

Jiang Nian said indifferently: "Master Ming is as careful as a hair, cleared the suspicion for General Xiao, Gu is very pleased and rewarded."

Xiao Jingtian said in a cold voice: "I have cleared the suspicion of the general, but the murderer is still hiding in the dark?"

Luo Feng held the sword tightly, and said coldly to Zuo Ming and the others: "What a imperial guard guarding the royal family, now he doesn't even know that outsiders are mixed up in the palace!"

Zuo Ming said solemnly: "How did Deputy General Luo know that someone outside did it? Could it be that you know who the murderer is?"

Luo Feng said angrily: "How do I know, but since it wasn't done by the people who went to the banquet today, then someone from outside got in."

"Now it's just proof that it's not General Xiao and Young Master Ming, how do you know it's someone else?" Zuo Ming confronted.

Seeing that the two sides were about to be at war, Ning Yuezhao waved his hands and said, "Stop arguing! Since this matter happened in the palace, the imperial army has the responsibility to investigate this matter. Zuo Ming, I appointed you as the commander of the imperial army, not to ask you to come Talking about it."

Hearing this, Zuo Ming restrained his expression, "Yes, Your Majesty, my subordinates will investigate right away!"

"Go on, after half an hour, I want to see the result."

Most of the imperial army quickly withdrew from the palace, leaving only a few to protect the empress and the emperor's husband.

Ning Yuezhao glanced coldly at Xiao Jingtian's subordinates, "What is the meaning of General Xiao's subordinates holding swords against me?"

Xiao Jingtian waved his hand, Luo Feng put away his sword reluctantly, and the rest of them also put away their weapons one after another.

"Your subordinates are shameless and have offended His Majesty." Xiao Jingtian bowed to her, then turned to the group and said, "Go back and each of you will receive twenty army sticks as a punishment."

Luo Feng and the others looked at Xiao Jingtian in disbelief, but seeing his resolute expression, they didn't dare to argue anymore, and they all lowered their heads.

"Yes, General."

Xiao Jingtian turned to look at Ning Yuezhao, with a calm tone, "Is Your Majesty satisfied with this humble minister's treatment?"

Ning Yuezhao was also a little surprised, but still nodded lightly, "The general really has clear rewards and punishments."

Then she turned to Song Yiyi, "Miss Song, I will definitely explain this to you."

Song Yiyi looked calm, she nodded, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Seeing that she is also a free and easy person, Ning Yuezhao stopped talking, but said to the remaining imperial guards: "Protect the scene, and the rest go back to the main hall."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Soon, everyone withdrew from the side hall.

Jiang Nian was still standing where she was, and Ning Yuezhao was also accompanying her. He Zhuyun, who was following behind her, knew that the two of them must have a private conversation, so they retreated silently outside the hall and waited.

Ning Yuezhao withdrew the hand she had been holding tightly with Jiang Nian, and said coldly, "I am very disappointed by your actions today."

　I caught a cold yesterday, so I couldn't code. I'm really sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)