Chapter 214 The Death of Ruby
Thinking of all the things that happened in the palace today, Shen Qingyun had a bad feeling in her heart and asked softly: "What does the emperor want to do?"
The two sat down again, and Si Moli told her the emperor's thoughts, his voice a little heavy: "Based on my understanding of him, he will not change his thoughts and decisions easily."
To put it simply, the emperor hoped that Si Moli could inherit the throne, so he deliberately provoked a fight in the harem to arouse Si Moli's ambition to seize the throne. In order to pave the way for him, he hoped that he could marry someone who could help him. woman.
Shen Qingyun pondered for a moment, and the expression on his face gradually became calm.
In fact, objectively speaking, even if Si Moli was not the child of the emperor's favorite woman, he was far more capable and more powerful than the current princes.
If it weren't for Si Moli's reputation as a wife-suppressant and his tendency to stay away from women, he would have aroused more people's fear.
"The third prince has a wrong mind and colludes with the enemy. It would be a pity to die; the sixth prince is reckless, arrogant and arrogant. He is heard to belittle a poor student, so he is not a good prince; the seventh prince's mother's family is small and has no knowledge of government affairs. He just wants to be a prince." The idle prince; the eighth prince was smart when he was young, but rarely appeared in front of others after his leg was disabled; the second prince and the fourth prince died young when they were young, leaving only the twelfth prince, who is still young..."
Shen Qingyun slowly analyzed the information collected by Tingfeng Pavilion before. After a long time, she sighed softly: "Mo Li, I know you have no intention of becoming emperor, but..."
The emperor's persecution is certainly annoying, but besides him, who else can this country be entrusted to...
But once you become an emperor, you will only have to do more things that you have no control over. For example, those scenes about disbanding the harem are only in picture books.
Si Moli's expression was calm, with an aloof calmness, showing his usual composure that had weathered the storm: "Qingyun, I know your worries, give me some time, and I will solve these things. Recently, you Try to go out as little as possible, let alone have too much contact with the Sixth Prince and the Imperial Concubine."
"Okay." Shen Qingyun nodded solemnly.
If Si Moli openly tells the secret of his life experience and is sincere to her, she will firmly believe in him.
After thinking about it for so long, Si Moli has never disappointed or saddened her. He just stood behind her silently, never interfered with what she wanted to do, but always appeared to support her when necessary.
For a moment, she even hesitated, should she tell her about her rebirth frankly?
However, at this moment, there was a knock on the door, three long and one short, which was a special signal.
Si Moli glanced at Shen Qingyun, met her eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Come in."
The person who came was the secret guard sent by Si Moli before. He frowned and apologized: "Your Majesty, I have done something bad in my humble position. I failed to find Jiang Lin. Please punish me."
When Shen Qingyun heard Jiang Lin's name, he was stunned for a moment, but said nothing.
"What's going on?" Si Moli asked casually, and kept refilling Shen Qingyun's tea and bringing her snacks.
When the secret guard saw this scene, his eyes were shocked, and he lowered his head deeply and reported back: "Tell the prince, when Bei Zhi arrived, the exiled man had already disappeared from Jiang Lin. Bei Zhi made several inquiries and found that it was his former aunt Hongyu who took the opportunity. Let him escape and his current whereabouts are unknown."
Hearing this, Shen Qingyun became somewhat interested and asked carefully: "How did Hongyu do it?"
The secret guard thought about those dirty things and struggled a little whether to speak out directly. He glanced at Si Moli secretly, and after receiving a look of approval, he told everything he had heard.
The place of exile is a long way away, and it is still in late winter and early spring, and the weather is cold and gloomy. Many prisoners often cannot reach their destination and will die in exile due to hunger, illness, whipping and other pains.
Jiang Lin was already injured when he was being interrogated in prison. Before he was halfway through the journey, he felt hot all over and started to have a fever. However, the escorting officer didn't care about this and only waved his whip and hurried on: "Hurry up and leave!"
Once you walk too slowly, the whip will hit you.
Hongyu felt extremely distressed when she saw this, and gave herself to a few guards in exchange for a little food and water, all of which she gave to Jiang Lin.
One of the guards was a little surprised to see Hongyu like this, but he admired her sincerity and sincerity. He knew a little about herbal medicine, so he picked some herbs from the earth in the woods where he rested along the way and gave them to her.
Hong Yu also treated a dead horse as a living horse doctor and fed everything to Jiang Lin.
It is said that good people do not live long, but disasters last for thousands of years. Jiang Lin actually struggled to survive like this.
Later, when the weather got warmer, he actually found an opportunity to run away one night.
Naturally, the officers did not dare to publicize such a mistake, and no one looked for it. They all assumed that Jiang Lin was dead.
But Hong Yu was in trouble when she was caught while covering Jiang Lin's escape. The officers couldn't find Jiang Lin and blamed Hong Yu. Hong Yu suffered a lot of humiliation and eventually died. Only the one who Her herbal servants dug a hole for her so that her body would not be exposed in the wilderness like others.
After hearing this, Shen Qingyun fell silent and sighed: "I didn't expect that Hongyu would be the most sincere person towards Jiang Lin in the end."
It's just that Jiang Lin never sees the sincerity of others.
Si Moli frowned slightly: "In that case, send someone to investigate Jiang Lin's whereabouts to prevent him from waiting for an opportunity to retaliate."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Shen Qingyun asked again: "What about the others, Mrs. Jiang Hou, Shen Sisi, and Liu Mei? Do you know what the situation is now?"
The secret guard shook his head: "It was the mistake of Beizhi. I didn't pay attention to these people this time. However, the three of them are still alive. We will send people to continue to investigate."
"It doesn't matter." Shen Qingyun understood that since the secret guard was heading towards Jiang Lin, it was normal for him not to pay attention to others. But from this point of view, except Hong Yu, the other three people must not have paid much attention to Jiang Lin.
After withdrawing her thoughts, she looked at Si Moli again, not knowing that he had sent people to chase Jiang Lin.
The tips of Si Moli's ears were a little red. He signaled the secret guard to retreat, and then said: "I'm worried that he will continue to be unfavorable to you, so..."
Shen Qingyun smiled lowly: "No need to explain, I know, and now it seems that your worry is right."
"The place of exile is far away from Kyoto. He doesn't have any money on him, so he might die in the wild mountains. Qingyun, don't worry, I won't give him the chance to come back and hurt you."
Shen Qingyun nodded, and suddenly felt that there was someone standing firmly by your side, who was really stable.
Because it was already dark, the two said goodbye again, and Si Moli sent her back to the Duke's Mansion. This time, he directly put his arm around her waist and took her into Jianjia Courtyard, holding her between her brows. After a kiss, they left.
Shen Qingyun was left standing there, with clouds on her cheeks, looking at the night sky, and a trace of longing suddenly rose in her heart.
"It turns out that I really wanted to see you again just after I left..." Shen Qingyun murmured.
"Yes, miss, you've been out for so long, I miss you so much." Pearl stuck her head out and suddenly said something at the window behind her, then covered her mouth and laughed.
Shen Qingyun glared at her, blushed even more, and walked into the room to teach her a lesson.
Pearl begged for mercy again and again, and then said: "Miss, after you left, the concierge sent another letter."
Chapter completed!