At dawn, there was a sea of people outside the palace. The imperial army had to build a human wall in front of the imperial list because there were so many people watching. Among the people, there was a nine-foot tall man dressed as a hunter carrying a big bow and shouting like a bell.
He said: "Girl, come and see, the emperor has released the results. The bones will be inspected outside the Zhengyang Palace at 3:00 noon. Our work is not in vain. If my brother is not released, we will go to the palace.
..." Xiang Xiaotian said to the pretty girl behind him as if there was no one else around.
Shangguan Yanran nodded with worry and withdrew from the crowd. She walked to a woman on the street who was about to give birth with a big belly and said: "Sister-in-law, the matter of Princess Roufu will be revealed to the world in three hours. Senior brother can finally
We're back. Sister-in-law, if you have any inconvenience, just wait for us at the inn."
Qi Ying smiled shyly and said: "The doctor said that I won't give birth in two or three days. Sister, when you get pregnant, you will feel like there is a big stone pressing on your chest all day long. You want me to be alone."
Aren’t you trying to suffocate me to death in the inn?”
Xiang Xiaotian said with a silly smile: "It's okay, girl. We went to eat early and then went to wait outside Zhengyang Gate. Let me see who dares to touch your sister-in-law..."
Princess Fu was awakened by a rapid knock on the door while she was still sleeping. Gao Shirong got up and put on his clothes, swore, opened his mouth and yawned, and went out and opened the door. Gao Shirong was about to curse but was interrupted by someone outside the door.
Gao Desheng pushed him into the room. Princess Fu, who was lying on her gums, kicked off the quilt and sat up and shouted: "What's the big deal? Why are you so panicked?"
"Something bad has happened. Just now, I asked the deacon and eunuch of the morning court. There will be a public bone examination outside the Zhengyang Gate at 3:00 noon. Now the East Palace compound is controlled by the imperial army. The princess does not wait for others, so it is better to make plans in advance.
Bar!"
Princess Fu's head suddenly exploded. She got dressed, got out of bed, took out a lot of precious jade from her dressing iron box, poured it into a silk handkerchief and wrapped it into a big ball. She said to Gao Desheng: "Cousin
This is the treasure that the imperial brother has given me over the years, and it is worth at least four to five hundred thousand taels of silver. I will go to the East Palace Internal Affairs Office to get the silver for you, and my cousin must hand it over to Chu Jiangfeng."
Gao Shirong rolled his eyes and said: "Princess, it is better to sit here and leave the money to me. In case the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor come, there will be suspicion if the princess is not seen in the palace." Fu Guo.
The eldest princess was stunned for a moment and thought about it. It made sense. She took off her personal jade charm and gave it to Gao Shirong. However, the eldest princess of Fuguo waited in Dongning Palace for half an hour but did not see the Gao Shirong brothers return. There was an ominous sign.
However, life...
The Ministry of Internal Affairs is the place where the palace withdraws silver and spends money. The reward money of each palace is controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the money can be withdrawn with tokens. Gao Shirong took out all the 800,000 taels of Princess Fuguo's money from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
With this money, Gao Shirong's heart began to get excited. He knew clearly that Princess Fu was a fake. He originally followed her for glory and wealth, but now the identity of the princess had been questioned by outsiders. Gao Desheng looked at
Gao Shirong's eyes turned green with the silver notes in his hands. The two of them wanted to walk out of the East Palace but were stopped by the Imperial Army. In fact, the two of them didn't want to give the jewelery and silver notes in their hands to Chu Jiangfeng at all, so they walked back tacitly.
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When passing by the East Palace Garden, Gao Desheng pointed to the rockery in the garden and said deliberately: "Huh? That rockery cave looks like the Princess of Fuguo. She is calling us over."
Gao Shirong was afraid that Princess Fu would come after him, so it would be better to give the banknote in his arms to anyone than to him. After hearing Gao Desheng say that Princess Fu called him over in the rockery, his plan to escape from the palace was revealed.
After taking a breath, he bravely walked to the rockery cave. In the dark cave, Gao Shirong softly called out several times: "Princess! Princess! Where are you?"
"She asked you to open a way for her in the underworld!" Gao Desheng picked up a big stone and threw it viciously at Gao Shirong's head. Gao Shirong felt the cold wind behind his head and subconsciously turned his head to avoid the big stone and hit it firmly.
on Gao Shirong's shoulders.
Gao Shirong shouted: "Cousin, what are you doing?"
"What to do? I want to find an explanation for the more than thirty years of being neither male nor female. If I kill you, it will be enough for me to leave the palace. Don't blame me for being ruthless. If I don't kill you today, you will come to kill you tomorrow.
Mine!" Gao Desheng chased Gao Shirong in the small cave with a rock in his hand. After a few chases, Gao Desheng clearly felt that he was unable to do what he wanted. Gao Shirong, who was beaten with blood, jumped back at Gao Desheng, and the two of them became
It became a close hand-to-hand fight. They grabbed each other's necks with both hands, and no one spoke. They were holding back their breath. Only who can breathe longer will get the huge wealth...
When Xiang Xiaotian took Qi Ying and Shangguan Yanran to have lunch and arrived outside Zhengyang Gate, there were already many people guarding the entrance of the palace. The imperial army was busy building a pergola.
Da escorted the two girls to the front row, took off the Overlord Bow and inserted it hard into the bluestone outside the palace gate, protecting Qi Ying from being bumped. When the people of Lin'an City saw Xiang Xiaotian's posture, who would dare to follow him?
He was serious and stepped aside one after another.
Near noon, dark clouds rolled over the city of Lin'an. The Imperial Guards placed two dragon chairs and some leather-covered chairs at Zhengyang Gate. The eunuchs in the palace walked outside Zhengyang Gate holding clean whips.
He shouted: "Officials, long live your welcome!" The officials headed by Shi Hao stood on both sides of Zhengyang Gate and waited for the emperor. The noisy people suddenly became quiet. Lin'an people came one after another.
The huge open space of Zhengyangmen is completely surrounded by water. It is estimated that tens of thousands of well-informed people in Lin'an have already arrived. Everyone's eyes are fixed on Gengxiang in front of the dragon chair and the long table, hoping that it will be almost three quarters of noon.
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"It's three quarters past noon. All the officials and the people are kneeling down to welcome the Emperor!" The sundial on the city finally reached three quarters past noon. The father-in-law who was in charge of the time shouted from the top of the city, and the imperial guards in the palace immediately came to the palace gate.
All the officials and thousands of people outside the palace knelt down and worshiped. It was always a big event for the emperor to leave the palace, which required the imperial army to line up with yellow umbrellas to cover the dragons, horses and phoenix chariots. But today, Song Xiaozong was the emperor's aunt.
The bones were examined and the case was investigated, so everything was kept simple. Only sixty-four imperial guards were used to stand in separate lanes at the bottom of the city. Emperor Gaozong Zhao Gou was the first to take the throne. Emperor Xiaozong and Queen Xia came out after a while.
Sitting on the dragon's chair and the tiger's stool...
"Report! The eldest princess Fu Guo, the Supreme Emperor, the emperor, the princes and princesses have all taken their seats. Please ask eldest princess Fu Guo to move to Zhengyang Gate." The summoner of the Imperial Army knelt outside the Dongning Palace, so that the palace eunuchs and eunuchs in the palace could call Fu Guo.
The eldest princess. At this time, the eldest princess of Fuguo was already wearing a formal dress and looking out the window, knowing that Gao Shirong and the others would not come back.
The maids asked Princess Fu to go out. Princess Fu smiled and said, "You guys wait outside the door first. I also need to wear a crested hairpin." Princess Fu went to the palace and took out a piece of brocade. The brocade box contains a golden hairpin and a dagger with four colors of cold light. The eldest princess of Fu State inserted the crested hairpin and held the dagger tightly, thinking that if something happened to Chu Jiangfeng today, what would happen outside the gate of Zhengyang Palace? Even if Song Xiaozong and Zhao Shen were to die, he would be killed no matter what to back him up...
When Zhao Gou, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, saw that everyone had arrived, he shouted in a deep voice: "Everyone is safe, where is Hu Gansi in Dali Temple?"
Hu Gansi stepped out of the queue and said, "I'm here, please let the Emperor know clearly."
"Today is the time to check the identity of my imperial sister. Has the Tao Zhongwang you mentioned arrived? When he comes, let him start checking. If he dares to tell nonsense and confuse the truth with the truth, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
"Tao Zhongwang, a grassroots citizen, has been waiting for a long time. Tao Zhongwang would not tell lies, so six members of his family were killed by his enemies. The Emperor can rest assured!" From the crowd, the Dali Temple Imperial Guards were guarding a gray-haired old man, and the people on both sides were shouting. After clearing a path, the old man strode up to the dragon chair ten feet away in good spirits and bowed three times and bowed nine times.
Zhao Gou nodded and said: "I am the chief judge today. Chu Jiangfeng has been asked to bring a niche and a box to see him."
The eunuch who summoned him shouted: "It is said that the imperial guard, the chief guard with swords in front of him, and the commander of the Imperial Army, will bring a niche and a box to appear before him..." After saying the words three times, Chu Jiangfeng held the niche in his hands and knelt in front of Zhao Gou.
Zhao Gou looked at Zhao Shen and said, "Okay, I won't say more. Tao Zhongwang, please start checking. Bo Cong, do you have anything to say?"
Zhao Shen, Emperor Xiaozong of the Song Dynasty, shook his head and said: "Today, the emperor's uncle is in charge of the trial, but it is up to the emperor's uncle to make the decision." Zhao Gou waved his hand and asked Tao Zhongwang to check.
Princess Fu Guo's hand has been holding the dagger in her sleeve. As long as the old man Tao Zhongwang finds out any flaw, the dagger will pierce Song Xiaozong, the man who ruined his wealth. Princess Fu Guo's forehead slowly oozed fine blood beads of sweat, and his eyes were fixed on Tao Zhongwang.
Tao Zhongwang didn't carry many tools like other workers. There was a small cloth bag in his armhole. Tao Zhongwang rolled up his sleeves and took out a pair of old gloves from the cloth bag. He took the niche box from Chu Jiangfeng's hand and put the niche box in his hand. The red silk outside was spread on the ground. When he opened the niche box, he frowned and said, "Your Majesty, this... this is clearly the skeleton of a man..."
"What? A man's bones!" Song Gaozong Zhao Gou and Song Xiaozong Zhao Shen shouted almost at the same time.
Tao Zhongwang pieced together the broken bones in the niche box on the red silk, pointed at the bones calmly and said: "Your Majesty, look at this skeleton. The shoulders are wider than the pelvis, and the femur is thicker than a woman's pubic bone. Look at the corrosion of the bones. It must have been buried for thirty or forty years, but it is indeed not a woman’s bones!”
"Okay! Come here, bring me the evil spirit in the iron prison. Slandering the reputation of the royal family is a serious crime against the nine clans. It is so unreasonable!" Princess Fuguo finally breathed a sigh of relief. , took out a silk handkerchief and pretended to wipe away tears, wiping away the cold sweat on his forehead.
Xiang Xiaotian, who was in the crowd, almost rushed forward, but Shangguan Yanran held him down and said: "There is something fishy about this matter, brother, please don't act rashly!"
Chen Mengsheng was scolded by the imperial guards and brought to Zhao Gou. Zhao Gou laughed and said: "Monster, you still dare to call me a foolish king, but you yourself brought a man's bones to the palace to deceive you! Come on, here. I chopped him up alive!"
"A man's bones?" Chen Mengsheng was confused and looked at the bones on the ground. He stared at them for a while and laughed: "Wait a minute! This bones are not the ones I brought into the palace.