The hall fell silent, and no one spoke for a while. After a while, Yun Shang chuckled softly, grabbed the chess pieces in the chess jar, and held them loosely. The chess pieces fell into the chess jar one by one.
, making a crisp sound, "Young Master Jing has just confessed his crime, but I don't think there is anything wrong with how your father handled it. When you talk about Prince Jing..." Yun Shang slightly curved the corner of his mouth, "If Prime Minister Jing can find him,
Catch him and I will thank Prime Minister Jing here."
The flesh on Jing Kui's face trembled, and he could only turn his eyes away, unable to bear to see Jing Wenlan being taken away by the guards.
"Since you are committing murder, Prime Minister Jing should just stay at home and reflect. I will spare you the morning court visits these days. If nothing happens, Prime Minister Jing and your family will not have to go out." Emperor Ning glanced at Jing Kui lightly.
, waved his hand and said, "Step back."
Jing Kui turned around, his feet trembling slightly. After a while, he suppressed the turbulent emotions in his heart and slowly walked out of the Qinzheng Hall. The voices of Emperor Ning and Yun Shang were heard behind him.
"It's so late. I don't feel at ease if you go back to the palace alone. Your Qingxin Palace has been cleaned every day. Except for those who were brought to the palace by you, all the previous palace residents are still there. You can go there tonight.
Let's rest in Qingxin Hall." Emperor Ning's voice was a bit doting.
When Yun Shang heard this, she laughed and said, "Father, it's best. I'm a little sleepy too, so I'll leave now. Father was so shocked tonight, so he should go to bed early."
Emperor Ning shook his head, "It's almost time for the morning court. I'll go to the court first and then sleep."
Yun Chang responded and retreated. Qian Yin waited outside the palace. When she saw Yun Chang coming out, she quickly followed her, "Princess, shall we go back to the palace?"
"No, let's go back to Qingxin Palace. Let's sleep first before going back to the palace. I'm a little sleepy." After saying that, he took Qian Yin and walked towards Qingxin Palace together.
The Qingxin Palace was indeed as Ning Di said. It was cleaned every day, and it was no different from before Yun Shang got married. Perhaps the Qinzheng Palace had sent someone to inform the palace officials, and Yun Shang returned to the Qingxin Palace.
By the time she arrived, the palace servants had already prepared hot water, so Yun Shang hurriedly washed herself and fell asleep.
When he woke up, the palace attendant said that Jinxiu Palace had sent people to wait outside the palace, saying that the imperial concubine was waiting for the princess to have a meal with her.
Fortunately, Concubine Jin didn't ask anything, she just had a meal with Yun Shang and then let Yun Shang leave the palace.
As the carriage was walking on the road, Yun Shang heard someone faintly discussing something outside, and Jing Wenlan's name was mentioned again and again. Yun Shang thought for a while, in a place like the Prime Minister's Mansion, where people talk a lot, I'm afraid
Someone let it slip and it spread all over the city.
Yun Shang frowned when he heard those comments, and then closed the carriage curtain tightly, but frowned slightly, feeling a little unhappy.
His voice was so shallow that he was a little excited, "Looking at Jing Wenxi's virtue, I'm afraid his parents and brothers are not good people. Retribution comes so quickly. After suffering such a blow, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the Jing family to recover."
Yun Shang closed her eyes and pretended not to hear, but what she was thinking in her heart was that good things never go out and bad things go a thousand miles away. No matter how high and powerful you are, if you make the slightest mistake, messages will fly all over the place, and you want to pick up the good things before again.
Reputation, I'm afraid, is difficult. It's hard to guard against Youyou's words. Yun Shang frowned.
Back in the mansion, the housekeeper waited anxiously in the front hall. Seeing Yun Shang enter the door, he hurriedly greeted her and handed the envelope in his hand to Yun Shang, "This is the servant who was ordered by the princess's secret guard to go out to buy in the morning."
Items that must be handed over to the princess by hand. The servants who bought them could not enter the yard, and Miss Qianyin and the princess were not here, so they gave them to the old slave, and told the old slave to hand them over to the princess as soon as possible."
"Oh?" Yun Shang raised an eyebrow and opened the envelope. There was a pattern drawn inside. Yun Shang felt that the pattern was a bit familiar. There was the word "Jing" written in the middle of the pattern, but after thinking about it for a long time, she didn't remember what it was.
After thinking about it for a while, he handed it to the general pipe, "Is this something that belongs to the prince?"
The steward took it and looked at it, his expression changed, "Princess, this is the jade token that the prince carries with him."
Yun Shang frowned and suddenly remembered that when Prince Yelang died, he was reportedly holding the prince's jade plaque in his hand, so everyone thought that it was Prince Jing who killed Yelang.
Crown Prince.
Yun Shang said quickly, "Can you tell me where you found this?"
The housekeeper shook his head, "The servant who bought it only said that this letter is very important and needs to be handed over to the princess in person, but he didn't say anything else."
Yun Shang was silent for a moment, then suddenly tore open the envelope. Sure enough, she saw words the size of mosquitoes written on the side of the envelope. Yun Shang looked at it carefully and frowned, "Prince Cangjue Kangning is holding in his hand."
The jade plaque is fake."
"Fake?" Both the steward and Qianyin were a little surprised. The steward frowned and said, "That shouldn't be the case. The emperor personally gave the jade plaque to the prince. After Cangjue Kangning died that time, it was said that the jade plaque was
It was presented to the emperor. If it was fake, how could the emperor not recognize it?"
Yun Shang smiled coldly, "The real culprit spent a lot of money. This jade plaque was forged by the famous cost-making master Li Qian. It is not much different from the real one. Last night, when did Master Li Qian die?"
Inside the ruined temple next to the small village ten miles away."
"Kill and silence?" Qianyin frowned.
Yun Shang shook his head, "If he killed someone and silenced him, the murderer couldn't have left this blueprint on Li Qian and waited for my secret guards to pick it up. Moreover, the person who killed Li Qian seemed to have intended for me to get this blueprint.
, originally the secret guards could not find Li Qian at all, but someone hired a little beggar to inform my secret guards of the matter."
"Could it be a scam?" Qianyin frowned tightly.
Yun Shang shook her head, "The reason why I know that Li Qian is a master of forgery is because my grandfather was also deceived by him. He is very good at forgery, but he has a habit of leaving traces on his fake things.
Leave his own traces." Yun Shang pointed to the drawing, and there was a faint trace leaking out from a line, as if the pen had not evenly dipped the ink and left a gap. Just take a closer look and you can see it.
That seems to be the character Li.
"I just came back from the palace. If I enter the palace again, I'm afraid it will arouse suspicion. I will go back to the palace tomorrow and go to my father to get the jade plaque to see if it is really made by Li Qian." Yun Shang said calmly.
Put the drawings away.
In addition to the jade tablet, what everyone thought was the evidence that King Jing killed Cangjue Kangning was the sound. Everyone who was eating in Yumanlou at that time heard that Cangjue Kangning had a quarrel with King Jing, and the jade tablet was fake.
Yes, the voice must also be fake.
"Who else but myself can imitate the prince's voice so well?" Yun Shang frowned and murmured softly.
Qianyin behind him thought for a while before saying, "When I was a child, there was a ventriloquist in the village. He could imitate the sounds of various animals, and the imitations were very similar."
Ventriloquist? Yun Shang was suddenly startled, turned around and said to Qianyin, "Instruct us to go down and keep an eye on all the ventriloquists in the imperial city. Check Li Qian's recent whereabouts and see who he has met.
Check everything out."
Qianyin responded quickly, and Yun Shang was silent for a moment, but it was a little strange. Cang Juekang Ning was in Yuman Tower. Many people saw him coming downstairs. If it was a ventriloquist who deceived the people downstairs,
, Cangjue Kangning had been arguing with Prince Jing for so long, it was impossible that he was just deceived by a ventriloquist.
A faint doubt arose in her heart, and Yun Shang frowned, but there was no other way. Now that Cang Juekang Ning was dead, she would not let Cang Juekang Ning tell her whether he had seen Prince Jing with his own eyes?
One question after another almost made Yun Shang dizzy. Yun Shang sighed and said softly, "My head hurts a little. I'll go to the pavilion to get some fresh air. You don't have to wait around. Just go do something."
Walk towards the pavilion by the lake.
He walked to the pavilion and sat down, but his mind was still dizzy with all kinds of things. His eyes fell on the corridor opposite. There seemed to be servants cleaning the corridor. Yun Shang looked at the servant
As if he was lazy, he waved the broom casually and sat down on the corridor. Yun Shang frowned and saw another man dressed as a servant coming from the other side of the corridor. He walked next to the person who was cleaning before.
It seemed that the two of them said something, then got up and left without even taking the broom away.
Yun Shang sighed. She never liked to take care of the affairs of the palace. She was afraid that the servants in the palace often relied on Prince Jing to go out to fight all year round, and were very perfunctory about errands. Although the housekeeper was considered a capable person, he was
After all, her energy was limited. Yun Shang thought for a while and thought that after the matter was over, she would let Qianyin assist the housekeeper. But she also thought that if the matter was over, Prince Jing would have to follow Xia Huanyu.
Let’s go to Xia Kingdom...
The chaotic thoughts just now were interrupted by the lazy servant, and Yun Shang felt a lot more relaxed. However, the spring wind was warm and very comfortable, and Yun Shang felt a little sleepy again, and she yawned.
, then walked to the yard and got ready to sleep.
Stepping into the house, before Qian Yin came back, Yun Shang took a thin quilt and placed it on the soft couch. She also spread her clothes and loosened her bun. As soon as she lay down on it and was about to take a nap, she
Seeing Qian Yin rushing in furiously, "Princess, Princess, the eyes outside the mansion seem to be preparing to leave. The slave had previously asked the secret guards to monitor the eyes outside the mansion, and just now the secret guards came to report that there were originally two
There were more than a dozen people staring at it, but suddenly there were almost an average number of people missing."
"The other ten people are still staring at the palace?" Yun Shang looked at Qianyin and asked.
Qianyin nodded, "But, what are the other ten people who are preparing to leave going to do?"
Yun Shang was silent for a moment and then said, "Send a signal to the hidden stakes outside the house and ask them to keep an eye on the ten people who have evacuated. Send more people and be sure to keep an eye on them." (To be continued)
