Princess Jin's face was so pale that it seemed as if she had been coated with a thick layer of white serum, her fingers were trembling and her fingertips were numb.
She actually understood that the smell of blood had always been there, and she had smelled it before entering the palace. The richness at this time was more of an illusion of her state of mind.
Because of fear.
No matter how courageous he must be, his instinct cannot completely resist him.
It was as if the blood in her body was gushing out along her fingertips, covering the chest of the body, leaving her only with the coldness and numbness caused by excessive blood loss.
Princess Jin bit the tip of her tongue hard.
The pain cheered her up, and she used her fingers to pull out all the materials that were stuck to her skin due to blood stains.
"Your Majesty, there is a mole on his left waist." Princess Jin said in a trembling voice, pushing the body sideways.
Xu Jian stepped forward and helped her.
"This is it." Princess Jin said, staring closely at the small black dot on the skin.
Xu Jian also saw it.
This person actually has one on his body?
Princess Jin frowned and rubbed the top with her fingertips vigorously. When she saw that there was no change, she used her nails to pick it off again.
The Holy Emperor asked Xu Jian with his eyes.
Xu Jian thought for a while, asked the waiter next to him to get an oil lamp, and took a closer look.
The mole was only half the size of a grain of rice and felt slightly rough.
Xu Jian saw that Mingtang was coming, and asked Eunuch Cao: "It looks like green tea to me, what do you think, Eunuch Cao?"
Eunuch Cao also came forward, looked at it for a while, touched it with his hand, turned to the saint and said, "It is indeed Dianqing."
Greening is not a rare thing.
Prisoners who are sentenced to tattooing will have their faces tattooed using this technique.
In addition to prisoners, in ancient times there were also people who wanted to be unique and tattooed flowers on their bodies for decoration.
But the King of Jin shouldn't touch Qing.
Even if he really has a personal hobby, it should be tattooed in a pattern, not just a little bit.
"Fake mole?" Princess Jin said, "So, this person is not the prince. The mole on the prince's body is a fake one."
"If the King of Jin has already made up his mind to 'Li Dai Tao Jian', then he will definitely pay attention to the details of the substitute," Lin Yunyan said, "The moles, wounds and other things on the skin can be seen and imitated.
I have thought about it and prepared it. Does the princess have any other clues? No one else knows the prince better than you at the moment."
Princess Jin's breath tightened.
yes.
She knows best.
The princess was telling her why she was left behind.
From the beginning to the end, rather than saying that the prince had never thought of caring about her life or death, it was better to say that she was just a pawn that would be left behind.
How much can others know about these moles and old scars?
She was the only one who could answer.
And why did she remember it clearly? Because once, the prince pointed it out to her after taking a bath and told her an interesting story related to it.
She used to think that the couple were harmonious.
Thinking back on it now, it really felt like a sharp knife piercing my heart.
Where is the harmony? Just to make her remember.
In order to one day rely on these specially fabricated "evidences" to show her, let her prove to the Holy Emperor and the courtiers that the person who died was the King of Jin himself!
But why?
The rebellion had already affected her enough, but fortunately the empress dowager was kind enough to accommodate her for the time being. Although she was detained in solitary confinement, she still retained some dignity and did not let her be thrown into prison with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes.
But the prince’s plot against her was more than that!
If the Holy One had never been suspicious of the prince's death, she would not have thought too much about it and nodded after confirming it once.
Then what will become of her when the prince comes back from the dead and stirs up trouble outside and raises the flag of rebellion?
She has become a complete accomplice!
Her testimony allowed the prince to escape and abscond!
Too cruel!
Princess Jin stared at the fake body, her shoulders were shaking with excitement.
She cannot be an accomplice, she wants to clean herself and her family.
As for the method, the princess has already "told" her.
Either it wasn't on the surface, or the prince didn't know about it and didn't have time to prepare.
Is there such a thing?
Princess Jin couldn't think of it, but she could talk nonsense.
"Yes," her throat rolled, she lowered her head and glanced at her fingers, her nails were trimmed to slender lengths, "I scratched the back of my neck in the middle of the night.
The prince didn't sleep well last night and kept tossing and turning at first. I woke up in the middle of the night and found that he was pressing my hair, so I pushed it.
When I went to bed early in the morning, I changed his clothes and realized that my nails must have been too sharp and I accidentally scratched him.
I wanted to tell him, but he was too distracted to mention it."
Eunuch Cao and Xu Jian worked together to turn the body over completely, lifting up the hair and exposing the neck.
The blood stains were also wiped away, and it was clean without any traces.
Princess Jin pointed to a seat: "It's almost right here. If this person doesn't have it, he must not be the prince!"
They have been married for more than ten years, and Li Du wants to use her to fake her own death so that she can never say anything in the future, so don't blame her for attacking him in return.
Make it up and make it real!
"Sister-in-law, are you sure?" the saint asked.
"I'm sure, my own husband, I won't admit my mistake. This man is a fake," Princess Jin looked at the Holy Lord and said sincerely, "I know that husband and wife are one. The prince poisoned his brother with evil intentions and even wanted to usurp the throne.
, as a wife, I cannot get away from it.
But my parents were innocent, they knew nothing from the beginning to the end.
I hope the Holy One will understand clearly."
The Holy Master nodded slightly and said, "I can tell the difference myself. My sister-in-law has worked hard on this trip."
Princess Jin shook her head, bowed and left.
When I walked out of the main hall, the wind blew, making me feel chilly and giving me goose bumps.
Princess Jin involuntarily crossed her arms.
The breath she was holding relaxed, fear and anxiety enveloped her again, and tears flowed out uncontrollably.
While wiping her face with her hands, she muttered to comfort and encourage herself: "I didn't do anything wrong, I wasn't wrong at all! It was him who was wrong, it was all him!"
The sky turned white as fish belly vomited.
Counting the hours, it's not far from going to court.
The Holy Emperor was about to go back and change into his dragon robe, so he said to Xu Jian, "You will also go to court today."
Xu Jian glanced at the blood-stained clothes on his body and said, "I will go back to my house to change my clothes first."
Lin Yunyan walked up to him and said, "I brought the court clothes and put them on the carriage. The carriage was parked outside the East Palace Gate."
Xu Jian responded.
Lin Yunyan said: "I will go to Cining Palace to see the Queen Mother."
Seeing that the Holy Master had left first with Eunuch Cao and others, leaving only a group of guards to guard the place, Xu Jian asked her in a low voice: "Do you think King Jin has left the palace?"
"Nine times out of ten," Lin Yunyan said, "it is possible that he had already escaped before we arrived at Nangong Gate."
Escape sounds difficult, but it is also difficult to do, and the risks are not small.
But for Lin Yunyan and Xu Jian, who had sufficient experience in escaping and had shaken off waves of pursuers, it was not impossible to leave the palace quietly.
Before the palace gate is strictly enforced, you can hide in barrels, boxes, cages, etc., arrange the internal and external coordination, and even ask the guards to open the door and transport it out on a cart.
This is also the reason why Lin Yunyan previously thought of observing the faces of Yu Lin who left the palace one by one.
Although, to be fair, she thought it was unlikely that Li Du would dress up as Yu Lin.
If he were more cautious, Li Du could still take the waterway.
There are several large and small pools in the front and back palaces filled with running water, and canals are dug underneath to connect to the moat outside the palace.
It was too difficult to hold my breath the whole time, but I could breathe through reeds, empty water bladders, etc. Once I got out of the palace wall and into the moat, I escaped.
"It's still too late," Lin Yunyan said mockingly, "it's still too late."
Xu Jian glanced at her, took her hand and walked towards the East Palace Gate: "This is trial and error."
In the past, he had stepped on many pitfalls and made countless mistakes.
It's not that I haven't thought about taking a different approach and giving it a try if I can start over, or just being idle and seeing who can have the last laugh, but unfortunately I didn't succeed.
His time is too chaotic.
Tomorrow is not necessarily tomorrow, and yesterday is not necessarily yesterday.
Every day when I open my eyes, I have no idea which day of the year I am on.
It was "with great difficulty" that he was able to live a ten-year-old and two-year-old life step by step. He just got used to it, and then he fell into chaos again.
After going through this process over and over again, he even experienced "chaos".
Can't tell what happened and what didn't happen.
In the chaos, it became common for him to miss some things. He was annoyed at the beginning but eventually became accustomed to it.
Just trial and error.
As he told Lin Yunyan before, if you make enough mistakes, you will find the right ones and you will have "good luck".
He is used to it, but it seems that the little princess is not used to it.
"Once the King of Jin disappears, the enemy will be in darkness and we will be in the dark. It will be difficult to catch him, and it will be difficult to guard against him," Xu Jian said in a calm tone, "He found the opportunity this time because we didn't know that he had prepared a substitute. We are waiting for guessing."
By then it's already too late. At the very least, I won't make this mistake again next time."
Lin Yunyan chuckled.
next time.
She certainly knew what Xu Jian was referring to.
She also knew that Xu Jian wanted to comfort her by saying this.
After all, her luck has not been bad in the past two years, and this is the first time she has failed.
But Lin Yunyan knew better that Xu Jian didn't want a next time.
Xu Jian once said that this was his best start. He could smash it himself, but he didn't want her to smash it too.
At this beginning, the two of them lived steadily every day together.
"It's just a mistake, not a failure," Lin Yunyan laughed, "Now the King of Jin is the lost dog, and the court is also dissatisfied with His Highness, so he should continue to beat the lost dog."
Xu Jian looked at her and couldn't help but smile.
It is a pity that Li Du was not allowed to die here, but there are not no clues about Li Du's future plans.
In addition to searching, they should turn their attention to Gu Yue and pay attention to Su Yi.
Xu Jian curled her lips: "Ayan is right."
Outside the Nangong Gate, the courtiers gradually arrived.
Xu Jian changed into court clothes on the carriage and came here.
Although he accompanied His Highness to the Ministry of Justice these days to observe government affairs, and often went in and out of the imperial study, he had not attended the morning court for a long time.
When he first appeared, he attracted a lot of attention.
Lin Yu came over, looked down, and asked, "Are you ready to go to court?"
Without waiting for Xu Jian to answer, he lowered his voice and said, "The palace gates are more strictly inspected than before, and the streets are also patrolling. In addition to the guard yamen patrolling, the imperial forest is also patrolling the streets. What happened?"
Xu Jian said softly: "The King of Jin left a substitute in the middle of the night, and the golden cicada escaped from his shell."
Lin Yu's face darkened.
After hearing Xu Jian briefly explain the process, Lin Yu thought for a while.
"He is really planning everything. He even prepared a substitute," Lin Yu sighed. "If he just wants to save his life, he will remain anonymous from now on and not make trouble..."
In the middle of speaking, Lin Yu stopped himself and snorted, with a hint of ridicule.
Prince Jin had already gone so far, how could he stop just now?
It was almost time, and the officials entered the palace one by one, preparing to go to court.
Xu Jian and Lin Yu stopped talking for the time being.
After everyone was seated in the Jinluan Hall, with the Holy Master sitting on the dragon throne, Eunuch Cao announced the news of Li Du's escape.
For a moment, the whole hall was in an uproar.
Yesterday, King Jin was imprisoned, which shocked many people.
When some news came out from the Third Division, he was even more stunned when he found out that King Jin had confessed to killing his brother, his mother and his concubine.
They thought that the matter between Baoping Town and Dingguo Temple many years ago could be settled and settled, but they didn't expect that there would be even more shocking news waiting for them today.
The Holy Emperor signaled Xu Jian to explain the specific ins and outs.
Xu Jian narrates the story from the beginning, from guessing about the possibility of prison robbery and substitution and rushing outside the palace gate, to the final confirmation by Princess Jin.
"Is the person who died really a substitute? Not King Jin himself?"
"Princess Jin has admitted it, she can't be wrong."
"If King Jin can escape, there must be an insider in the prison. Your Majesty must investigate clearly!"
"Where is Prince Jin now? Has he really left the palace?"
"Reports from several city gates showed that there was nothing unusual in the middle of the night, and they definitely did not let anyone out of the palace."
"I think that since the King of Jin is so ambitious, in addition to these dead men, he may also have private soldiers. We need to investigate the money transactions and assets of the palace."
"I have ordered all city gates to be more vigilant, and everyone entering and leaving must be checked."
The initial chaos passed, the courtiers gradually calmed down, and each yamen took their orders.
There are many involvements in this matter. We should pursue what should be pursued, investigate what should be investigated, and jointly advance it.
Xu Jian kept listening, and only answered a few questions when he was asked, without saying much else.
Gu Yue’s matter must be brought up privately to the Holy Spirit.
I wonder if there are any remnants of Li Du's party in the Jinluan Palace.
Li Shao stood in front of Xu Jian, turning his head to look at him.
Unable to restrain his curiosity, Li Shao asked Xu Jian in a low voice: "How did you think that my uncle would escape from his shell? Where would a substitute usually go?"
Seeing Xu Jian looking at him but not answering, Li Shao asked again: "Speaking of which, you seem to be able to predict the future every time. Do you have any sources of information that you are hiding from my father and me?"
Xu Jian raised his eyelids, then his expression relaxed, and a faint smile appeared in his eyes.
Li Shao saw this and became more and more curious.
"It's not exactly what I thought of," Xu Jian smiled again, "It's the princess. She often reads miscellaneous story books. There are weird stories in them, such as a younger sister who looks almost exactly the same is getting married for her older sister.
The lady who was obviously dead appeared again, and Li Daitao's stiff substitutes appeared one after another, and the princess watched with great interest."
