The death of the second prince really caused quite a stir. It is said that Concubine Shu has cried all night, but has not recovered yet. It is said that the emperor was furious and demanded a thorough investigation of who had done it. All the second prince's guards even included That night, all the people on duty at Suzaku Gate were beheaded, all the servants were interrogated over and over again, and even the prince, princess and concubines were questioned one by one.
For a while, the people in the palace panicked.
Knowing that the second prince had brought so many people to be buried with him, Gu Hong felt a little lost for a while.
I don't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me...
She did not expect that her actions would harm so many innocent people.
Seeing that she was a little unhappy, Lin Size comforted her: "This is the decree of the father, and it has nothing to do with you."
"Yeah, your heavenly family's life is worth more... We all have a cheap life. If you die, you will die. If you die, you have to pull so many people to die together. The second prince himself won't let those guards follow him. He died, but it was the fault of the guards."
Lin Size frowned: "What's wrong with you? It's been weird since that day. What a shameful life... Don't worry, if you have any troubles in the future, I will definitely let all the people you don't like go to bury you with you."
"Then you have to be the first to die!" Gu Hongjian snorted coldly.
Lin Si Ze couldn't help laughing and crying, and said, "What the hell is wrong with you? It's fine if you're unhappy, why are you always pissing me off?"
Gu Hongjian thought, she didn't get angry with Lin Size, but she was angry with Lin Size at all.
It's just that she didn't know how to start, her mind was confused, and finally she said, "What if... one day, Zuo Ningyan died?"
Lin Size's face changed slightly, and said, "How could she die so well?"
"Then why didn't you curse me to death just now when I was so good?!" Gu Hongjian was about to flip the table.
Lin Size said helplessly, "You... well, well, you won't die. I just wanted to make you happy."
No, not at all.
Gu Hongjian clenched his fists slightly.
Just because in Lin Size's heart, Gu Hongjian is the same as him, licking blood at the edge of a knife, crawling and rolling in the treacherous palace to survive, if he is not careful, he will surely die without a whole body, but Zuo Ningyan is different, she It is so far away from this filthy palace, so cold and clean, so it is "good", so it will not die.
Gu Hongjian finally couldn't help but said, "Lin Size... Do you... like Zuo Ningyan?"
Lin Si Ze was stunned for a while, then with a smile, he said, "I don't know. But there should be some."
He actually admitted it.
He actually admitted it so frankly without any awkwardness or shyness? !
Gu Hongjian was stunned, and after a while, she said uncertainly, "Really?"
Lin Size nodded again.
Gu Hongjian: "... well... what do you like about her, why do you like her? When did it start?"
"I've liked her for a long time...for ten years." Lin Size said.
Gu Hong saw the mess in the wind: "Ten years?! Weren't you only seven years old ten years ago?!"
"Um."
Gu Hongjian suddenly didn't know what to say.
She wanted to say something to ridicule Lin Size, but found that she didn't know what to say. She wanted Lin Size to give specific reasons why she liked Zuo Ningyan, but she felt that there was no need to ask - Zuo Ningyan is beautiful, beautiful, laughing She is so gentle when she wakes up, she speaks softly and nicely, and she is the daughter of the imperial envoy Zuo... Instead of asking him what he likes about her, it is better to ask her what is not worth liking
The most terrible thing is that she had thought that no matter what, she and Lin Size met first. According to the order of first come, last arrival, Zuo Ningyan would have to line up, but since Lin Size has liked people for ten years, it means that Zuo Ningyan Maybe she appeared in Lin Size's life earlier than her.
Lin Size said, "I didn't expect you to actually see it."
Gu Hong saw Liangliang and said, "It's hard not to see it."
"How is it possible, I'm not obvious." Lin Size said.
Yes, but I know you too well.
Gu Hongjian rolled his eyes noncommittally while thinking.
Lin Size said: "Actually, it has faded a lot now. When I was young, I really liked her very, very much. Now I don't like her that much, but it's really special."
Gu Hongjian: "Very special? How special... Is it the most special in your heart?"
Lin Si Ze thought about it and said, "Yes."
Gu Hong laughed.
She was a complete loser, and even the time she spent with her for nearly ten years was completely shattered by Lin Size's words "the most special Zuo Ningyan".
She wasn't the most special person, not in the whole ten years.
The palace was messed up by the death of the second prince. Fortunately, the war with Qi Ruiguo outside the palace was under control. Probably the soldiers of Qi Ruiguo fought bloody battles all winter, and the spring warmed up, but they relaxed and felt homesick, so They were retreating steadily, but Tianmin Kingdom did not pursue the victory, after all, they did not have enough strength on their own side.
After everyone in the palace was checked, there were not too many results. There is no doubt that the third prince is still the most suspicious, and he has to be questioned every day. Because of what the dance girl had quarreled about, the second prince is now dead. Of course, the great sins are not sins, and what the third prince has to bear is double the blame.
The fourth prince, who had always been friends with the second prince, was even more grief-stricken. It is said that when he met the third prince in the palace, he left his servants chasing him and scolded him and spat, and accused him of being insane, even his brothers were not spared. .
The third prince is probably also very devastated. In order to prove his innocence, he took the initiative to take the responsibility of chasing the murderer, and intensified the investigation, and focused his attention on the only breakthrough, that is, the murder weapon.
The second prince was killed by a long-looking weapon, and the palace has strict control over such weapons. Each guard can only take the sword and saber when he is on duty. If it is not on duty, he must return it immediately. Going back, so the third prince first checked all the knives that were taken by the guards in the palace that day, but still had no clue.
Then the third prince remembered an old case from the previous dynasty. It was a cold palace concubine. Because of jealousy, he assassinated his favorite concubine in the middle of the night with the dagger given to him by the emperor, and then threw the dagger into a pool. , Unexpectedly, it happened to happen to change the water in the pond, and a dagger appeared, thinking of the death of the favorite concubine, and the emperor immediately knew who killed the person.
So the third prince immediately reported the idea. It happened that it was time to change the water in the spring. The emperor agreed with a dark face, and asked him to change the water one by one. In the end, he naturally found a dagger in Xia Hechi. However, what was surprising was that , the dagger is still wrapped around a waist pendant of the fourth prince.
The third prince was naturally overjoyed. When the waist pendant was about to be handed over, the emperor and Concubine Shu were in awe, while the fourth prince was extremely frightened. .
The emperor specially asked people to come here, and the conclusion is that this dagger is indeed likely to be the dagger that killed the second prince, and the dagger and the waist pendant that were taken out in front of everyone's eyes were firmly intertwined, and it was not the third prince who found the dagger. Waist wraps up.
So in any case, the fourth prince is also suspect.
The person who killed his second son would actually be one of the third son and the fourth son. In order to protect themselves, the two of them just splashed dirty water on each other. The emperor, who was not in good health, was so angry that he even went to court in the morning. No, but someone must take charge of the government on his behalf. The third prince and the fourth prince may both be murderers, and naturally they are not competent, so the emperor let the first prince who has always been forbidden to take office.
The first prince was not liked by the emperor almost as much as Lin Size, but Lin Size was born because of his birth, and the first prince was similar. His biological mother killed the woman that the emperor loved back then. Even if the first prince remained, he was still executed by the emperor. , Even the emperor hated this eldest prince who looked very much like his mother.
It's just that the eldest prince is the eldest son, and the treatment is still much better than that of Lin Size.
Probably because the emperor was really worried about the eldest prince, so he called Lin Size to help.
In such an unexpected way, the fifth prince, Lin Size, came into the public eye in a grand manner, and in one fell swoop, he went from being a neglected prince to one who could interfere in the affairs of the state—of course, the one who actually controls the affairs of the state is the emperor himself.
And although the emperor called Lin Size to save face, he actually didn't like him much. He just wanted to use him as an excuse to attack the other two sons who were ignorant of the sky and earth, and restrain the eldest prince by the way.
Only then did the third prince and the fourth prince notice this, the "younger brother" who was bullied by them since childhood and ignored by them when they grew up.
Is there such a hidden competitor
The third prince and the fourth prince felt a little danger for a while, but after observing for a while, they were also slightly relieved, because Lin Size looked as cowardly and incompetent as when he was a child, even if he was so close to power, he was still cautious. It looks like, no matter the big or the small, they report to the father in every detail, and have almost no idea of their own.
Whatever the first prince asked him to do, he would do it with sincerity and fear. In the words of the third prince, it was, "As expected of a servant, he is also a servant."
How can such a person do great things, how can he sit on the throne and govern the world