In Weiyang Palace, pots of blood were poured out, the night was swallowed up by the sky bit by bit, and the lights of thousands of families gradually returned to calm, but the palace fell into an unprecedented panic.
People came and went, looking tense, as if everyone knew that the weather in Kyoto was about to change.
Yin Wenzheng met Ling Yingchong outside Weiyang Palace.
"Does Your Highness know what's going on?" Ling Yingchong sat in a wheelchair, made a brotherly salute, raised his head, his brows were furrowed, as if he really didn't know anything.
Yin Wenzheng only glanced at him, before he could speak, the eunuch pushed the door open and said, "Your Majesty, please enter the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince."
Yin Wenzheng took a step forward and entered the Weiyang Palace first.
Ling Yingchong's leg injury was not healed, and he entered Weiyang Palace with the help of the maid, while Yin Wenzheng was already waiting in front of the bed.
Emperor Ling Yu was not seriously injured, at least not fatally. After bandaging, he was pale and even sat on the bed halfway, looking at the two with a gloomy expression.
When Ling Yingchong also came in, Emperor Ling Yu said with a sullen face: "Lan'er, you have seen the assassin, do you have any clues?"
Yin Wenzheng lowered his eyes, struggled on his face, and said after finishing the show, "Father, that man looks familiar... I have indeed seen it before."
Ling Yingchong raised his head and looked at Yin Wenzheng with complicated eyes: "Brother Huang, have you met?"
"Yes." Yin Wenzheng paused, looking as if he was debating whether to say it or not.
Emperor Ling Yu covered his wound, his face was gloomy, and he coughed uncontrollably. He seemed to have touched the wound, his face became paler, and his anger became even worse. He slapped the head of the bed and said coldly: " Say! Where have you seen it?"
"Return to Emperor Father," Yin Wenzheng folded his hands together, and said in a deep voice, "I have seen this man by the side of Third Emperor's Brother. His name is Qingdao, and he usually follows Third Emperor's Brother."
Ling Yingchong frowned calmly, and looked at Yin Wenzheng.
Emperor Ling Yu paused first, then raised his hand and waved, and he swept all the things on the table to the ground in an instant.
Emperor Ling Yu covered his chest and coughed violently. Yin Wenzheng rushed forward and sat beside him, raised his hand and gently patted his back, and said in a low voice, "Father, calm down."
Ling Yingchong sat there, his eyes pondering for a while, and then his eyes brightened, as if he understood everything, he raised his eyes to Yin Wenzheng.
Yin Wenzheng met his gaze, and then looked away without moving.
In the end Ling Yingchong didn't say anything.
Yin Wenzheng guessed that Ling Yingchong would not say anything at all—because the third prince was their common enemy.
If Ling Yingchong could use someone else's help to solve this trouble, why not do it
"Go and investigate!" Emperor Ling Yu slapped on the bed, his face flushed red with extreme anger, "Lan'er, you follow my order, go to the Third Prince's Mansion to investigate now! Chonger—" Emperor Ling Yu turned to Ling Yingchong Xiang Xiang said word by word, "I ordered you to find someone to follow the third child. How is his situation in Chuinan City?"
Ling Yingchong paused first, glanced at Yin Wenzheng, and then said: "Father, as you think, Brother Sanhuang is in Chuinan City, no, it is their Qin clan who indeed occupy land in Chuinan City , selling private salt for profit, causing the common people to live in poverty."
"Okay, what a prime minister, Qin!" Emperor Ling Yu clenched the jade wrench tightly in his hand, threw it on the ground after a while, and said word by word, "Hurry up to Chuinan City and take back the third child! In addition, pass on my oral message to let Lu Yanfeng return to Beijing quickly!"
"Squeak -" a sound.
The door of Weiyang Palace was closed.
Yin Wenzheng walked in the front.
Ling Yingchong was sitting in a wheelchair, and followed slowly. The two walked through a long corridor, and Ling Yingchong suddenly laughed, and said, "His Royal Highness has such a deep and exquisite heart."
Yin Wenzheng stopped and said without looking back, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Ling Yingchong pushed the wheelchair to his side, looked up at this person whose face was mostly in darkness, and felt for the first time that they all underestimated him.
Ling Yingchong smiled softly, and said in a low voice, "Ling Tinglan, although you are not Ling's parent and child, you have a heart that is more ruthless than hers."
The indifference on Yin Wenzheng's face was gone, he lowered his head, looked at Ling Yingchong, and said word by word: "I don't want to hear that woman's name."
"I'm curious now," Ling Yingchong closed his eyes, passed him, and walked out of the palace, "What other tricks did you bury?"
At noon of the same day, a statement of indictment listing the crimes of the third prince Ling Xunqin was sent to Weiyang Palace.
The rebellious letters between Ling Xunqin and Wenjiange, the large amount of gold and silver hoarded by Ling Xunqin because he occupied the fields and sold private salt, and the soldiers and horses he bought in Chuinan City with gold and silver... one pile after another is all Evidence that Ling Xunqin wants to rebel.
Wenjian Pavilion was discovered and brought under the command of the third prince long ago, and he has done all kinds of bad things for him in the past few years.
At the same time, Qing Dao, who entered the prison, was tortured and tortured. He pressed a bright red fingerprint on the indictment, and then hit the wall to die.
After Emperor Ling Yu threw all the things that could be broken with the naked eye in Weiyang Palace, he finally couldn't hold on and fell to the ground.
In Jingren Palace, the Empress Qin, who was still worshiping Buddha, was suddenly surrounded by a large number of imperial forest troops who broke in. Amidst the screams of the maids, her hair was torn to messy, and she was pressed to the clan's mansion.
Outside the prime minister's mansion, Ling Yingchong's soldiers and horses surrounded the mansion, killing every one who came out.
Kyoto turned upside down in one day.
This night was extremely long.
Jiang Tangzhou stayed up all night.
He had been sitting by the losing game thinking how he should break the game, only to realize that it was an unsolvable game.
"Master, it's going to be dawn." Yan Qing reminded, "Master's health is not good. If you don't rest, the slaves are worried that your health will not be able to bear it."
Ting Yu yawned and said: "That's right, Lord, it was the Third Prince who had the accident, not us, why do you have to suffer together?"
Just as Jiang Tangzhou was about to speak, he heard noises coming from outside the courtyard. He vaguely heard someone say that the crown prince had returned, so he stood up all of a sudden. His wide sleeves were disheveled.
Ting Yu hurriedly put a cloak on him, Jiang Tangzhou wrapped in a thick coat and pushed open the door. At this time, Yin Wenzheng had already made strides and came to his yard immediately.
The two looked at each other from a distance across the yard.
Yin Wenzheng saw Jiang Tangzhou standing there. Although his face was expressionless and his gray pupils were hollow, for some reason, his body, which had been tense for two days and two nights, suddenly relaxed.
It seems that after walking for a long time, I suddenly found a harbor where I can dock.
He took a step forward and called out his name: "A Tang, I'm back."
Jiang Tangzhou also looked in his direction.
Yin Wenzheng raised his hand, wanting to hold the other's cold hand, but Jiang Tangzhou suddenly said, "Wenjian Pavilion is a sharp blade that you have long buried."
He spoke extremely firmly, frowning slightly, as if he was complaining about something.
Yin Wenzheng raised his hand and lowered it silently. He stood there without going any further.
The two stood tall and tall, and stood in this courtyard for a long, long time, until something cold fell on the tip of their noses, and when they touched it lightly, they realized that it was snowing.
Yin Wenzheng finally took the other party's cold hand and said, "Let's go in and talk."
The stove was burning in the room, and Yin Wenzheng rubbed Jiang Tangzhou's palm, finally making his palm a little warmer.
"What do you want to ask me?" Yin Wenzheng pulled Jiang Tangzhou to sit beside the desk, and said, "I will answer you."
Jiang Tangzhou was silent for a moment, but raised his hand to pour a cup of tea for Yin Wenzheng, pushed in his direction, and said, "Are you tired?"
Yin Wenzheng's hands froze slightly, then he raised his head and stared at him closely: "You don't blame me?"
"What should I blame you for?" Jiang Tangzhou frowned slightly, as if he was a little puzzled.
Yin Wenzheng laughed, raised his hand and drank the cup of tea in one gulp, let out a long breath, and then continued: "You guessed right, Wenjian Pavilion is actually mine."
Only then did Jiang Tangzhou feel that the moon was shining through the clouds and mists, and he shook his head and said, "You buried this move very deeply."
Yin Wenzheng smiled.
Jiang Tangzhou continued: "Wen Jiange belongs to you, but Ling Xunqin thought that he bought them with money, so he has been using Wen Jiange to do things for so long, so you have evidence for many things in his hands. And this This time, you even borrowed the Jiange to fake the fact that they rebelled."
"It's not a forgery." Yin Wenzheng said lightly, "The Qin family has already been preparing soldiers and horses. Even if they don't rebel now, they will rebel in the future. I just used some methods to advance things."
Jiang Tangzhou nodded: "I can't figure out one thing. Is Qing Dao yours or Ling Xunqin's?"
Yin Wenzheng paused, lowered his eyes, and said, "It was originally Ling Xunqin's confidant, but later... he can barely be counted as my person."
Jiang Tangzhou frowned: "So he betrayed Ling Xunqin?"
"I promised to take care of his family," Yin Wenzheng lowered his eyes and said, "I will definitely do it."
"I have another question," Jiang Tangzhou asked, "You also recruited the refugees from Chuinan City?"
"No." Yin Wenzheng shook his head, "I was just playing tricks. Those people couldn't survive, so they found Jingdu. I was the only one in this matter, and I was afraid of future worries, so I just brought Ling Yingchong in together. He will naturally spare no effort to deal with his powerful competitor Ling Xunqin."
Jiang Tangzhou lowered his eyes, stroked the teacup lightly with his fingers, and said, "The people in Fengfeng courtyard are all people from Wenjian Pavilion?"
Yin Wenzheng was stunned for a moment visible to the naked eye, and then said: "How do you know?"
"The people in Wenjian Pavilion all have a very faint sandalwood scent," Jiang Tangzhou said, "I smelled it when I was surrounded by people from Wenjian Pavilion in the inn, and I smelled it on you later, although both There are differences, but there are also subtle similarities. On that day, I saw the man in red in Pingfeng courtyard, and I also smelled this very faint sandalwood fragrance on him, so I guessed it like this. Unexpectedly, I made a guess. allow."
"It's not all people from Wenjian Pavilion," Yin Wenzheng said, "That place... There are actually quite a few people under my command, but they don't usually stay there, they only come here occasionally when they need a place to stay. For convenience, So he said to the outside world that it was where I entertained me...cough," Yin Wenzheng paused, coughed twice, "the place where the guests enter the curtain."
Yin Wenzheng knocked on the table with his jade flute, his eyes wandered for a moment, as if to change the subject, he said again: "Actually, Mingfeng Tower is also mine, and it's a place I use to collect information."
Yin Wenzheng thought that Jiang Tangzhou might be curious about where he got so many subordinates, but he didn't expect Jiang Tangzhou to suddenly ask after a moment of silence: "So those people are not your guests at all?"
"..." Yin Wenzheng blushed subtly, and then said firmly, "No."
Jiang Tangzhou was also in a daze for a while.
On the one hand, he suddenly knew so many secrets of Yin Wenzheng, and on the other hand...I thought that Yin Wenzheng was a prodigal son among thousands of flowers, but he didn't expect that the other party was just using this to cover up his own feelings. secret.
In other words, all his melancholy and bewilderment before were all a cocoon.
But when Yin Wenzheng faced him, he was always half-truth and half-false, both true and false.
The author has something to say: The first volume is coming to an end. After the first volume is over, Ah Tang will become brave hahahaha fall in love! fall in love! fall in love! ! !