Ming Ran said with a puzzled look on her face: "This is strange. If he hadn't been killed by the prince, how could she have stayed with him and been so angry with him?"
Hongshi smiled bitterly and said, "I really can't answer this question, Master. Anyway, thank you for your kindness." As he said that, he took out a five hundred tael banknote from his sleeve and said, "Master, it's really not easy for Master to come all the way from Luoyang to the capital for alms.
, it is fate that the king and the master can meet. These silvers should be regarded as the sesame oil money donated by the king to your temple, and I ask the master to accept it."
Ming Ran carefully looked at Hong Shi's face, clasped his hands together and said, "Good, good, your prince is so kind-hearted, and he will definitely be rewarded with good things in the future."
"Master's auspicious words." Then Hongshi asked him some more Buddhist principles. After answering them clearly, he drifted away. Behind him, the gentleness on Hongshi's face had disappeared and was replaced by coldness.
After Mingran left, he did not go back to the abandoned temple. Instead, he went to a place to change out of the monk's clothes and dress up. Then he went straight to the Forbidden City. When he came to the palace gate, he took out a token and placed it on the gatekeeper.
The guard flashed in front of him, and the latter immediately put away his sword and got out of the way. Because that token was unique to the secret agent, but the only one that could pass through the palace without hindrance was a token, owned by the leader of the secret agent.
The person who disguised himself and entered and exited Prince Ding's palace twice was the secret agent whose identity was secret.
In the Yangxin Hall, Yinzhen looked at the secret agent kneeling on the ground and said, "You said that the Xu family was not killed by Hong Shi?"
The head of the secret agent said respectfully: "When I return to the emperor, I visited Prince Ding's Mansion twice. Following the emperor's instructions, he lied to the second elder brother that an evil spirit was haunting him and wanted to take his life. The only way to do that was to get the bones and use Buddhism to resolve the hostility.
It can keep him safe.
But the second elder brother has always been very calm, saying that he has never killed anyone, and the people sent to guard Xu's bones did not find anything unusual. When the slave went to look for him today, he also gave the slave a five-dollar certificate.
One hundred taels of silver notes are used as sesame oil money."
Yinzhen put down the ink pen in his hand and said, "Hongshi didn't discover your identity?"
The spy leader said with certainty: "When I first came out of Prince Ding's Mansion, my second elder brother sent people to follow me, but I believed they didn't find anything unusual." He had already discovered it when he was followed.
Yes, he is just pretending not to know. As the head of a secret agent, if he is being followed without knowing it, it would be ridiculous.
Yinzhen ignored the spy leader and fell into a long silence. He did not kill Jiang Yue and Zirong, but replaced them with two death row prisoners. All this was done without anyone noticing, and then he deliberately let people kill the Xu family.
The bones were whipped and thrown into mass graves. Anyone who knew about it would think that he was angry with Mrs. Xu for having an affair, so he deliberately used the bones to vent his anger. But in fact, all he did was to test Hongshi.
.
The reason why Jiang Yue and Zirong were "killed" was to make Hongshi think that the matter was over and no longer be wary. Only when a person is completely relaxed can he test out his truest thoughts.
Later, he asked Sixi to call the spy leader, and asked him to shave his hair, put on a cassock, pretend to be a wandering monk, and go to Hongshi's house to say those words. As the saying goes, a thief has a guilty conscience. If Hongshi really killed the Xu family, listen.
When an unjust ghost threatens his life, he will definitely be afraid, so he will reveal his flaws, and even go to mass graves to steal the bones. But in the end, there is nothing, and Hongshi is not afraid at all. It seems that he is really paranoid. Hongshi is indeed
is innocent.
Thinking of this, Yinzhen felt relieved. No matter what, Hongshi was his son after all, and he did not want Hongshi to have an affair with Xu and kill Xu to silence him.
Since Hongshi is innocent, then Jiang Yue was the one who killed Xu, and Zirong was also talking nonsense, and neither of them should be alive anymore.
Yinzhen said expressionlessly: "Give me the order to kill Jiang Yue and Zi Rong."
"My slave obeys the order." The spy leader agreed and exited the Yangxin Hall. With his departure, the dust settled on this matter, and nothing could stir up a speck of dust.
July is gradually coming to an end, and the lush trees in the Imperial Garden begin to turn yellow, while the sweet-scented osmanthus blooms quietly during the change of summer and autumn, filling the air with the unique fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus.
Ling Ruo and Yinzhen walked side by side in the Imperial Garden. After walking to the Fubi Pavilion, Ling Ruo chuckled and said, "Why is the Emperor so leisurely and leisurely today that he comes to the Imperial Garden with his concubine?"
Yinzhen asked with a smile: "What's wrong? Isn't it good?" As the two of them sat down, someone from the palace immediately brought fresh fruits.
Ling Ruo took a grape, peeled off all the skin and handed it to Yinzhen's lips. She said with a smile: "I am naturally happy, but if the emperor misses state affairs because he is accompanying me, I am afraid that the official letter will be sent to me."
The concubine was drowned, and you don’t know that they have always had prejudices against my concubine.”
"With my protection, no one can overwhelm you." Yinzhen's seemingly casual words reveal an absolute authority. Perhaps in many matters, he has to be controlled by hundreds of officials. After all, monarchs and ministers have been doing this since ancient times.
It was a mutual check and balance to balance the situation of the government, but it was only relatively speaking. After all, he was the emperor who controlled the entire Qing Dynasty.
After spitting out the grape seeds, Yinzhen said with some emotion: "It's been a long time since I've walked out with you like this. These days, things have happened one after another in the harem, so I really don't have time to spare."
Ling Ruo said softly: "If the emperor wants to implement the New Deal, there will inevitably be more things. But fortunately, the New Deal has been implemented all over the country, and the results will be seen soon. As for the harem..." She knew that Yinzhen was referring to the Xu family.
thing, now it’s about
It had been some time since Yinzhen ordered Jiang Yue and Zirong to be executed. She had always felt that there was something more to Yinzhen's order, but after these days, she still didn't see any changes. It seemed that the incident had completely passed.
It made her quite strange.
"I know that you have always felt that Jiang Yue did not seem to be the person who had committed adultery with the Xu family, and that Hongshi was more suspicious." Yinzhen took the soft towel on the side and wiped the stain on Ling Ruo's fingertips from peeling the grapes.
Juice, his movements are a bit clumsy because this is not what he does.
Ling Ruo didn't say anything, but took the soft scarf from Yinzhen and said softly: "I'd better do it myself, the emperor's hand should hold the red pen."
Yinzhen stared at her and waved his hand to Sixi and others to exit the Fubi Pavilion, "It doesn't matter if I talk to you now. I did suspect Hongshi and felt that he was the one who had an affair with the Xu family."
Ling Ruo said in confusion: "Since the emperor had doubts, why did he give Jiang Yue two lives?"
"When that decree was issued, none of them died, only two death row prisoners died. Later, I sent people to test Hongshi many times, but the results did prove that Hongshi was innocent. It was not until confirmed that
I just really executed him
Jiang Yue two people." Then Yinzhen explained the matter in general, and said: "Although you have never said it explicitly, I know that you have always suspected Hongshi in your heart, especially when you saw me these past two days, you always hesitated to speak. I expected that