In the first year of Yanxi, on the third day of the eighth lunar month, Princess Changning left the capital secretly in her belly, and went to Mount Li with her soldiers.
The autumn leaves fall, the spring breeze blows the buds, time passes by like a white horse, and October flies by.
On the night of giving birth, she cried in pain and hoarse her throat, but when she saw the crying child with her own eyes, it was absurd, and she never regretted it.
She used bricks and bricks to build a world for the two children who the world will never forgive.
Although there are no carved beams and painted buildings or jade bead curtains, there are wind chimes under the eaves and fish swimming in the pond. She just watched her four little feet, stumbling on the moss and snow on the stone steps, and gradually grew up...
She spent three full years in Lishan Bieyuan, both complete and regrettable.
Now, this side of the world has been burnt to ruins.
In the crowded crowd, I don't know who spoke first, "Those two children, are the children of the eldest princess?"
"I just heard them call A-Niang."
"It looks like he's three years old. If it was four years ago, it must have been Su..."
"You dare to say this, you are crazy!"
"If not, why hide the child here..."
There were whispers all around.
Qin Jie raised her eyes to look at the morning light that was about to break through the clouds, squatted down, hugged the little princess' shoulders, and whispered: "The queen mother's people will be here soon, I'll go to your majesty, and you'll do everything first. Don't say it, Changning, I promise everything will be fine."
Xiao Lianyu looked at her with red eyes, "Thank you."
As soon as Qin Jie left, Eunuch Zhang stepped forward and said, "Princess, the Queen Mother has a request."
Xiao Lianyu pulled a child up and said softly, "Youlin, Lingyi, go with A-Niang."
Half an hour ago—
The Ministry of Punishment tried Guanglu Siqing and others all night long, and it had long been a mess.
Xue Xiangyang raised his hand and drank a cup of tea, and said to the officer, "How is it?"
The officer said, "The testimony doesn't match."
"Then pull out all the nails first." Xue Xiangyang said coldly: "Within today, be sure to torture all the names of the ledger and other fine works in Beijing, and just leave your breath."
The officer bowed and said, "Yes!"
After all, Xue Xiangyang pinched the tip of his nose with his hand.
Xu Ji, the most sophisticated criminal of the Ministry of Punishment, is doing an autopsy.
Xue Xiangyang walked over, looked at the corpse's face, and said to Su Huaian, "This person is not a court official, how did Mr. Huai find out?"
Su Huaian said coldly, "I saw him being sneaky, so I followed. I didn't expect to see him kill the soldiers in front of the Governor's tent with his own eyes."
Xue Xiangyang nodded, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I didn't expect that Lord Huai still has such skills, but unfortunately he didn't leave a breath."
Zuzuo raised his head and said, "It's useless to keep it."
Xue Xiangyang said: "Why?"
"Beijing found a poison that could kill him in an instant from the back teeth of this man. Even if he left it alive, the adults couldn't judge him." Zuo Zuo said, "This may be the dead man of Qi."
Su Huai'an pondered for a while, then said, "Please, Sir Xu, carefully measure this person's height, shoulder width, and soles again."
Zuo Zuo nodded and said, "Okay."
Just then, someone stumbled in and ran in, "Report—"
Xue Xiangyang said angrily: "What's the matter."
The clerk said: "Sir, there is a fire outside..."
Xue Xiangyang interrupted him: "Didn't I tell you! Tell them to go to the governor of Yuzhou to ask for troops, and the punishment department doesn't have any extra staff."
The officer said: "It's not that there is no shortage of people..."
"Why is that?"
The officer looked at Su Huaian hesitantly, and Xue Xiangyang said, "If you have something to say, just say it, say a word, swallow a half sentence, what's wrong!"
The officer nodded and said, "Sir, the fire in Beishan... burnt out two children."
Xue Xiangyang took two steps and frowned: "What child? Without a head and a tail, what are you talking about!"
Su Huai'an continued to look at the corpse, and had a low-pitched conversation with Wu.
The officer said: "It's the eldest princess. The eldest princess hid two children in Beiyuan Mountain, one boy and one girl, about three years old. I heard that it may be, yes..."
child, three years old.
Xue Xiangyang's expression changed: "Come on!"
The officer said, "It's from Su Huaian."
As soon as he finished speaking, the surroundings were silent. Su Huai'an's back seemed to be struck by lightning, and he turned back stiffly.
Xue Xiangyang said: "Is this true?"
"Many people have seen it. It is said that the boy was very similar to the eldest prince, and was indeed born to the eldest princess."
Su Huai'an's Adam's apple moved slightly, only to hear Xue Xiangyang muttering in a sudden realization: "No wonder, no wonder the eldest princess has not been down the mountain for so many years, so she is not sick..."
Su Huai'an's breathing became rapid, and his body couldn't help shaking.
Xue Xiangyang supported him, with three-point sympathy and seven-point understanding in his eyes, after thinking for a while, he still whispered to persuade: "Sibo, you are from a scholar's background, and your future career is magnanimous. What kind of woman do you want in the future? Otherwise, take advantage of this. Opportunity, quit this marriage."
As if Su Huaian had never heard of it, he lifted the coat of the officer and said, "Where's her!"
The officer was frightened by the appearance of the quasi-consort who wanted to eat people, so he staggered backwards, "In Chonghua Hall... The cabinet and the Ministry of Rites have also passed."
When such a thing happened, the Ministry of Rites and the Cabinet could not pretend to be blind, and the emperor was seriously ill, so they went to the Queen Mother.
In the Chonghua Hall, the Queen Mother asked loudly, "Aijia asks you, whose children are these two!"
"This is what you said about recuperating in Lishan! Recuperate and raise two children?"
"Are you going to go against the sky!"
The cups shattered one after another, and the Empress Dowager Chu said sharply, "How many troubles are you going to make!"
No matter what the Empress Dowager Chu said, Xiao Lianyu just lowered her eyes and said nothing.
The Minister of Rites stepped forward and said, "Reporting to the Empress Dowager, what the eldest princess has done this time is really unlawful and unreasonable, and the crime cannot be tolerated. The minister would like to ask, how will the eldest princess explain this to the world!"
After a while, Huangmen shouted loudly: "Your Majesty is here—"
The queen mother frowned and looked out.
The emperor slowly descended, only to see Qin Zhaoyi supporting Xiao Yu and walking slowly.
The emperor's face was pale and his steps were slow, and at a glance he knew that he was indeed injured.
The hall instantly knelt down, "I wait, see Your Majesty."
Xiao Yu entered the hall and sat down, "Be flat."
The empress dowager squinted at Qin Zhaoyi, and then said to the emperor, "Is the emperor's holy bow okay?"
"I'm worried about my mother, my son is fine." Xiao Yu coughed a few times, and Qin Jie stroked his back for him.
Xiao Yu looked at the Minister of Rites and said, "Go on, I'll listen."
These important officials in the hall have long since cultivated to become human beings. Why would the emperor come here regardless of the dragon body? They all have a steel scale in their hearts.
Royal people are not afraid of making mistakes, they are afraid that no one will protect you.
The Minister of Rites looked at each other with the elders, and his tone couldn't help softening a bit, "Your Majesty, the old minister has sealed this matter for the time being. Speaking of which, it is fortunate that this matter is in Bieyuan today. To spread all over the world…”
While talking here, suddenly another voice said from outside: "Your Majesty, Xue Xiangyang, Minister of Punishment, and Huaijing, Minister of Punishment, ask to see you."
Xiao Yu turned the wrench in his hand, "Xuan."
As soon as Su Huai'an entered the hall, he looked at Xiao Lianyu and the two children beside her. His blood surged for a while, and his whole body seemed to be shaking, almost unable to stand.
Several cabinet scholars have cast sympathetic glances at him.
In this way, the concubine is obviously going to faint.
Also, this is not yet married, but the eldest princess has children with others. No matter how much you endure, it will be more useless than a tortoise!
When Wen Ge saw that his concubine was like this, he felt that the time had come, and he said bluntly: "As the saying goes, if people are rude, they will not live, if things are rude, they will not succeed. If the country is rude, it will be restless. Your Majesty, please let the old minister bluntly say that these two remnants of the Su clan are already in the ranks of the three barbarians, and they must not be kept."
After that, Elder Wen Ge glanced at Su Huaian again, as if to say: What are you waiting for!
Xiao Lianyu sneered coldly, "Changning knew that he did a lot of ridiculous things four years ago and made a joke in Beijing, but why does Elder Ge judge that my child is the remnant of the Su clan?"
Wen Ge said: "These two children look like they are three years old, and they are born like this... The old minister is not blind!"
"Oh, Mr. Wen Ge is not blind, then I'm a fool!" Xiao Lianyu put the two children behind him, and started to scold: "He Su Huaian is just a thief of a country! Why should I, why should I risk the world? It's too big to give birth to his child?!"
She continued: "Two eyes, an ordinary man with a nose and a mouth, really think he has tricked me!"
The ordinary man on the side looked at her motionlessly, his eyes suddenly red.
Xue Xiangyang pushed him and reminded in a low voice, "Sir Huai." Hold back.
Elder Wen Ge didn't expect the eldest princess to be so quibble, and said: "Then these two children, what is the eldest princess' explanation?"
Xiao Lianyu knelt on the ground, looked at Xiao Yu and said, "Changning lied to His Majesty, and he felt guilty, but His Majesty Rong Changning explained once that these two children were accidentally poisoned by Changning four years ago. Servant Fu…”
Before she finished editing, Su Huaian couldn't listen anymore, stepped forward, knelt beside her, "I have something to play here."
Xiao Lianyu glared at him fiercely, and gritted her teeth in a volume that two people could hear: "Is there a place for you to speak?"
Xiao Yu looked at Su Huaian with a smile that no one could understand, "Speak."
Su Huaian said: "This minister is re-presenting his confession today for the case of the Su family's treason in the first year of Yanxi."
This sentence, like a fire, instantly ignited the hall.
Qin Yan suddenly clenched her fist, her fingernails seemed to sink into the palm of her hand, Xiao Yu gently held it.
It's not the best time, but it's the best time.
Xue Xiangyang thought he was confused by Lu, so he couldn't help kicking his shoes, secretly said: "What nonsense are you talking about! Come back!"
"This minister sneaked into the state of Qi for two years, and learned that the state of Qi had been plotting against our dynasty for a long time. His emperor's teacher Tantai Yi used the secret techniques of the rivers and lakes to transform himself into the prince of the state, Su Jingbei, and hid in the Great Zhou for thirteen years. "
Su Huaian straightened his back and said word by word: "And the general of the Duke of Zhen Guo died as early as the 28th year of Yongchang in the battle of crossing the river."
"The Su family is loyal and fierce, never collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country."
"Master Huai knows what he is talking about!" Wen Ge said: "The Su family is treasonous, the evidence is there, and the Yi Rong technique? Master Huai really thinks us old people are blind! No one will find out about Yi Rong's thirteen years. ? If you are going to coax a three-year-old child in the market, no one will believe it!"
The Minister of Rites bluntly sarcastic, "Sir Huai's words are worth thousands of dollars."
Su Huai'an looked at them and said, "If Su Huai'an was here, if he dared to ask the ministers, would he recognize him?"
Elder Wen Ge: "Master Huai Shi Lang is playing tricks here."
Su Huai'an asked again, "I only asked the adults to deny it."
Wen Ge thought for a moment and said, "If the Su clan's remnant is here, even if I don't recognize it, Master Xue and the officials of Dali Temple will recognize it."
Su Huaian took out alum sand from his sleeve and wiped it on his forehead. Immediately, a human-skin mask fell to the ground.
The sound of breathing in the hall stopped.
Xue Xiangyang took three steps back.
Wen Ge looked at his face, and his whole hand was shaking, "You, you... how come you have the face to come back, and those, those two children... "
"mine."
Su Huai'an used his own voice, and his words were eloquent.
Xiao Lianyu looked at the ordinary man of peerless elegance in front of him, and couldn't even kneel, and fell directly to the ground, the bead hairpin on his head swayed and swayed.