"Third Prince, with all due respect, I want to ask the prince a question." Gu Qingcheng stood up.
After Qin finished listening, it was time to talk about business.
"Say, I can answer any question as long as it is helpful to the investigation." Ximen Yin was not ambiguous and answered simply.
Gu Qingcheng looked at Ximen Yin intently. Ever since the first time she saw him, he had always been so weak and sickly. However, in the tranquility of his seclusion in Cuizhu Pavilion, where he did not hear about court affairs, he could still see that he had the world in his mind and his heart.
Due to the background of the people, it is no wonder that the emperor often shows a look of regret when facing him. Even if everything is good, the look he shows is completely different from that of the prince Ximen Che.
If he is in good health, he will definitely be the most suitable candidate to be the crown prince. But...
"Third Prince, what I want to ask is, if - I'm just making an analogy." Gu Qingcheng stressed.
Ximen Yin nodded, indicating that he understood that if and definitely were fundamentally different.
"If the third prince's illness is related to some people in the palace, and was caused intentionally by some people, then -" Gu Qingcheng said, paused, and looked at Ximen Yin.
Ximen Yin seemed to be listening intently to Gu Qingcheng's words and remained unmoved.
"Then will the third prince report his situation to the Emperor Ming, or will he keep his suffering in his heart and keep it secret?" Gu Qingcheng asked.
Ximen Yin's hand was holding the tea cup. If his strength was enough, the tea cup would break into pieces.
What Gu Qingcheng asked was exactly what he had experienced personally. He was poisoned by Jiang Ziyin, but in order to survive in this deep palace, he pretended not to know and tried his best to escape from the sight of Jiang Ziyin, the Crown Prince and Prince Xuan.
Obviously, his answer was to choose the latter. Sometimes, the emperor is not omnipotent and may not be able to guarantee your safety. More often, you still need to make your own considerations, in order not to involve yourself in the public eye.
Whirlpool, he chose to endure.
Gu Qingcheng asked, did he find something?
In just two days, can he really find out? If he is so promising...
Ximen Yin looked at Gu Qingcheng calmly, and he said that if he did, he would not move at all.
"Qingcheng, you must know the dangers of the royal family in the palace." Ximen Yin said, walking towards the screen, where the tombs of Ximen Jingyu and his wife were still placed, with cigarette smoke lingering.
"Just like the fourth uncle who died five days ago, no one in the Ximen family cared about his life or death except for me to offer him incense sticks. My father didn't mention it at all. It must have been related to the tragedy eight years ago.
To this day, I hate Uncle Four Emperors so much that I will turn a cold eye to his death. Uncle Four Emperors died suddenly, but he soon became quiet, as if he had never been in this world, or maybe he was in this world.
He left with the second and third emperor uncles eight years ago."
"Lack of brotherhood seems to be the norm in the royal family." Ximen Yin said, "I am just a blade of grass that was born in the palace by accident. I don't have the ambitions of the fourth uncle, or I look down on power disputes, so they don't
If they wish me to have a healthy body, I will obey their wishes and get out of trouble."
"I understand." Gu Qingcheng nodded, "But I still have a question."
"Speak." Ximen Yin turned around and said calmly, not dissatisfied at all because Gu Qingcheng added an extra question.
"If Imperial Physician Chen also knew the true cause of the Third Prince's illness, trouble might have arisen. Instead of it being the case that Imperial Physician Chen was killed just because he was able to cure the Third Prince's illness, as it seems at the moment, what would the Third Prince do in such a situation?
?Let Doctor Chen make the secret public and reveal the secret that someone framed the third prince, or——"
"Or should I kill Doctor Chen myself and use his life to keep the overall situation stable while I continue to stay out of it?" Ximen Yin took over Gu Qingcheng's words and said.
Gu Qingcheng kept her mouth shut and nodded, looking at Ximen Yin, waiting for his answer.
"I don't know." After thinking for a long time, Ximen Yin shook his head.
"Do you not know or don't want to tell?" Gu Qingcheng did not stop asking this question, even with an aggressive tone. Now Ximen Yin in front of him has changed from a friend who played the piano and drank tea to someone who he wants to handle cases and pass trials.
Man, although this is still in Cuizhu Pavilion, the change of role only depends on the state of mind.
"Just think that I don't want to answer." Ximen Yin walked to the piano and sat down. He moved his fingers lightly and picked up a bunch of messy notes.
"I understand." Gu Qingcheng cupped his hands and said, "It's late today, so I won't disturb the third prince's rest. I'll talk to him again someday when I have time."
Ximen Yin nodded silently, touched the piano with his slender and slightly white fingertips, moved slightly, and a piece of piano music flew out of the Cuizhu Pavilion again.
"he's gone?"
Not long after Gu Qingcheng left, a young eunuch walked into the room. Hearing Ximen Yin's question, he replied, "Yes, the third prince."
Ximen Yin stopped playing the piano and sat silently, thinking about Gu Qingcheng's question.
His question was just based on his speculations, and he just wanted to find clues to solve the case from various reasonings, or had he already discovered something and was deliberately testing it here?
It can be said that Gu Qingcheng has a close friendship with him, but he is honest, impartial and independent in handling cases, and does not use others for selfish reasons. This is his advantage, but in his eyes there is only right and wrong, and everything is wrong.
Even if it is straight, such people are also dangerous.
Ximen Yin's eyes narrowed as he looked forward, his face turned an abnormal bluish-white color, and there seemed to be something foreign in his throat, and he couldn't help but cough.
The toxins in his body had been tormenting him for nine years. She said she wanted to watch him grow up sickly, and her wish came true.
Jiang Ziyin and his mother-in-law almost married the then-Prince Ximen Jinglie, and gave birth to Ximen Che and him one after another. At that time, they were both concubines of the Crown Prince, with no distinction between them. This was different from being a maid to the Crown Prince.
The second prince Ximen Hen is different.
The two concubines were bound to go through some competition. Jiang Ziyin's timing started to improve after she raised Ximen Jingxuan, and was later named the Crown Princess. After Ximen Jinglie became the emperor, she naturally became the queen.
These are the general circumstances of that year based on a few words from his mother and concubine and rumors in the palace.
But something unexpected happened, Jiang Ziyin did not give up after becoming the queen, and even poisoned him when he was sick, trapping the son of her former enemy, trapping her son's rival, and clearing the way for her son.
At that time, Ximen Yin's mother-in-law had been neglected by Ximen Jinglie for a long time, and she even gave up her intention to fight for him. She took him to live in Cuizhu Pavilion, but he still couldn't escape the murderous hands. Because of his frailty and illness, his mother-in-law and concubine hid in hiding.
He died after the palace turmoil eight years ago, leaving him to live carefully in the palace and carefully deal with the calamity Jiang Ziyin left on him.