After Ling Ruo and Yunxiang read the excerpt respectively, they both understood the meaning of Yinzhen's words. The spies sent by Yinzhen inspected the cemetery carefully and finally found a large pit where many people were buried in another place.
After counting, it was found that there were 1,089 corpses, because the corpses had
After decay, their identities cannot be identified, but based on their respective clothing, it can be seen that they are ordinary people. If they died of famine, so many people would not be buried at once. Therefore, there is only one possibility: they survived.
But the people of Lianjiang County disappeared again.
Someone killed them, buried them here, and then deliberately pretended to be them, attracted the two Hongli brothers here, and attacked them.
However, Mi Zhezhong pointed out that all the clues stopped here, and no matter how careful they were, it would be difficult to find any more useful clues.
Yunxiang muttered: "This matter has been carefully planned from the beginning. It is definitely not simple to be able to set up this situation and be so ruthless. However, my brother is more curious now. Who is this person?
When did you start setting up the trap?"
"Cruel and ruthless..." Ling Ruo muttered and repeated these four words, and then suddenly said: "I heard from the emperor that the reason why there was such a big famine in Fuzhou was because two batches of grain transport ships sank in the nearby waters.
?”
After Yinzhen nodded, she walked a few steps: "Since the planner is ruthless and can kill thousands or hundreds of people at any time, it shouldn't be impossible for him to sink the grain transport ship and cause a large-scale famine in Fuzhou.
matter."
Yunxiang and Yinzhen looked at each other, with deep surprise on their faces. They knew best that the reason why Yinzhen sent Hongli and the others to Fuzhou was because he suspected that someone was responsible for the sinking of the grain ship.
It was intentional, so the two of them were used as bait to lead the behind-the-scenes person to reveal his true face, but what happened next made Yinzhen regret his life. Unexpectedly, Ling Ruo's idea coincided with theirs.
After suppressing his surprise, Yunxiang said: "Sister-in-law, do you think someone started planning the famine in Fuzhou?"
"Yes, although this idea is a bit unbelievable, the fact that two batches of grain transport ships sank one after another is a matter of doubt." At this point, she looked at Yinzhen and said, "I don't know why the emperor didn't suspect this.
, go to Fuzhou via Hongli."
"Actually..." Yunxiang hesitated and did not continue, because he thought that what he said later might make Ling Ruo misunderstand Yinzhen even more, and this was obviously not what he wanted to see.
Just when Ling Ruo was wondering why he hesitated to speak, Yinzhen suddenly said: "Old Thirteen, tell me everything you know. There is no need to hide it from me anymore."
Seeing what he said, Yun Xiangfang continued: "Actually, the emperor had already suspected it at the time, but many ministers strongly recommended the crown prince, and the emperor wanted to find out the real culprit who caused this incident, so he pretended to fall into the trap and let him
The prince and second elder brother are serving as imperial envoys." Before Ling Ruo could say anything, he continued
He added hurriedly: "But I can guarantee that the emperor was fully prepared at that time. In addition to a thousand sergeants, he also transferred 4,000 sergeants from the Fengtai camp plus spies to secretly protect the prince. If not
The other party cunningly broke the bridge, and the prince was not in danger at all.
Ling Ruo didn't hear what Yunxiang was saying at all. She just kept repeating the previous words in her mind. The hatred that had subsided was inflamed again because of these words, and her whole body was trembling lightly, "You
Knowing that there might be danger, you still asked Hongli to go to Fuzhou and used him as bait?"
"Yes." Yinzhen sighed and said: "I could have asked Yunxiang to hide this from you and keep you in the dark forever, but I don't want to, I don't want to hide anything from you anymore. So.
From this moment on, no matter good or bad, I will tell you the truth."
Ling Ruo stared at him blankly, and said painfully through the tears that suddenly fell: "I always thought that you didn't mean to send Hongli to die, but now it seems that I was too naive. From the beginning, you had the intention.
, intending to kill Hongli!" After speaking, she could no longer contain her voice, which was as sharp as a steel needle, poking the ears of Yinzhen and Yunxiang.
"That person has used the entire Fuzhou Prefecture and tens of thousands of Fuzhou people as pawns. How can I ignore it? If I don't catch him, more innocent people will be harmed. I..." Before Yinzhen could say anything,
At the end, a sharper voice than before came from Lingruo's mouth, "So you can sacrifice Hongli and hope for my only son?"
Her words made Yinzhen's eyes reveal deep sadness, "I thought I could control everything and allow Hongli and his brothers to return safely, but it turned out not to be the case. I overestimated myself and underestimated the other party, which made the two of them
One death and one injury, Ruo'er..."
"That's enough, I don't want to hear it anymore!" Ling Ruo covered her ears hard and cried loudly with tears flying: "I don't want to hear it, I don't want to hear it anymore!"
Following these words, Ling Ruo stumbled out of the Yangxin Hall. Yunxiang wanted to chase her, but was stopped by Yinzhen, "Let her go. At this time, she won't listen to anything you say.
"
Yunxiang hesitated and said, "Actually, there is no need to let my sister-in-law know about that matter."
"I know, but as I just said, I don't want to hide anything from her anymore."
Yunxiang said worriedly: "But this will make the misunderstanding between the emperor and his sister-in-law deeper and deeper, and may even become impossible to resolve."
"The best way to solve this misunderstanding is to catch the murderer who killed Hongli!" After gritting his teeth and saying this, Yinzhen said: "Now the clues in Fuzhou are almost broken. Do you have
Is there any way we can continue to investigate?"
Yunxiang pondered for a long time and said: "Since the clues in Fuzhou have been broken, the emperor might as well try to trace it from another angle." Without waiting for Yinzhen to ask, he explained: "The reason why the prince was appointed as the imperial envoy in the first place was that
Most of the reason is because of the recommendations of the ministers. If Fuzhou is really a riot and the purpose is to lure the prince to Fuzhou, then the recommendations of the ministers must be under the instigation of others."
Yunxiang's words were like peeling off a cocoon, peeling off the shell of disguise, leaving only the really key things, "My brother believes that as long as we investigate them carefully, we will definitely discover the connection between them, and thus find out what the emperor wants to know.
something.”
Yinzhen said nothing, but took a large pile of files from the imperial case and handed them to Yunxiang, "These are the files of all the ministers who recommended Hongli. I have read them all and found no connection between them.