However, what caught the eyes of Su Qi and his daughter was not the jade seal as expected, but Xia Huanyu's somewhat cold face. Behind Xia Huanyu, stood Luo Qingyan and Queen Hua.
and Ning Yunshang.
The expressions of Su Qi and Su Ruji suddenly changed. Su Qi took two steps back and shouted loudly: "Someone is coming! Someone is coming quickly!"
No one came, and no one answered. Su Ruji also took two steps back, looking a little ugly.
Luo Qingyan, who was next to Xia Huanyu, curled up his lips and smiled: "Su Taiwei thought that since we are already standing here, does anyone else come to save you?"
Xia Huanyu walked out from behind the wall and walked slowly in front of Su Qi and his daughter. Only then did Su Qi and his daughter realize that the dark passage illuminated by torches was as bright as day. Behind Xia Huanyu and the others,
There are countless people wearing armor, looking at their attire, they look like the Royal Guards.
Su Ruji was calmer than Su Qi. Knowing that she might have lost completely this time, she calmed down: "Aren't you celebrating the full moon of King Ming Jin in the Prince's Mansion? Why did you suddenly appear here?"
Xia Huanyu sneered. The imperial edict to designate Bao'er as King of Ming and Jin had just been issued, but Su Ruji already knew about Bao'er's title.
"You want to ask why we appeared here for no reason, but no one informed you and gave you a chance to escape, right?" Xia Huanyu's voice was full of indifference, and he looked at Su Ruji steadily, as if
It's like looking at a complete stranger.
Su Ruji smiled bitterly and said: "I forgot that when your Majesty was young, he was also a victorious general on the battlefield. These strategies will definitely not catch his eye."
Xia Huanyu didn't even want to talk to her anymore.
Su Ruji leaned on a pillar nearby, trying her best to hold herself up so that she wouldn't fall down, with a bit of a wry smile on her face: "Now that our situation is over, Your Majesty might as well tell me where I lost, even if I die.
, let me, my concubine, die and understand."
Xia Huanyu didn't say anything, and Luo Qingyan didn't say anything either. Empress Hua and Su Ruji didn't know each other at all, and they had nothing to say. Yun Shang looked at the three of them and couldn't help laughing: "I don't know, Madam
Are you waiting for news from General Su Ruhaisu?"
As soon as Yun Shang's words came out, Su Ruji's expression changed.
Yun Shang smiled and said: "Your Majesty wants to delay the time. Since Your Majesty didn't say anything, you might as well let me come and chat with you. I wonder what your Majesty wants to ask?"
"Do you want to ask why we knew that the empress would come from the palace and bring the jade seal to order the princes? Or do you want to ask why no one sent out a signal to report the news to the empress after we left the prince's mansion? Or do you want to ask why we knew
What did Su Ruhai do? Or maybe it’s to ask why we didn’t go to Su Mansion when there were so many casualties in the flood?"
When Su Ruji heard this, she knew that all their arrangements had been seen through by the people in front of them one by one, and they had no way out. Her eyes were red, but her expression became clearer and clearer.
"If the Crown Princess doesn't mind, you can tell me one by one. I have a lot of time now. If the Crown Princess says one more word, I might be able to live for a little while longer. Why not?
Not for?"
Yun Shang smiled and walked up to Su Ruji.
"In that case, let me start from the very beginning, about a month ago, when I saw General Su Ruhai and the Seventh Princess having a dispute on the street."
Yun Shang said, then smiled, walked straight to the steps and sat down, "The story is a bit long. I have just given birth and my body is not very neat, so I will sit down and tell it to the empress."
"It's a coincidence. I'm afraid General Su never thought that I would recognize General Su in the teahouse at that time. Although I don't know much about the important events in the court, I also heard that General Su intends to rebel.
, was imprisoned in the sky prison. At that time, my wife was a little confused, why did General Su, who was imprisoned in the sky prison, appear in the bustling city? So, my wife sent someone to investigate.
"Yun Shang raised her head and looked at Su Ruji.
"This investigation also revealed a lot of things. For example, the prison commander in the sky prison is a student of Taiwei Su. For example, Taiwei Su ordered people to quietly replace all the guards in the prison. For example,
The prisoners in the sky jail have been secretly refining weapons for the past two months."
Yun Shang smiled lightly and said: "The missing people who were refining weapons that we found in the palace after that were actually just a cover-up trick deliberately used by Su Taiwei and the empress to divert our attention. That day in the palace
The total number of weapons found in the search is less than a few hundred. If you want to use these weapons to plot rebellion, it will only be a fool's errand. It's just that we pretended to be deceived by the cover-up you set up, but we didn't expect that neither the empress nor the lieutenant would.
There is not the slightest doubt.”
"As for the fire in the Su Mansion today, His Majesty's indifference does not mean that His Majesty is really that indifferent, but because, some time ago, we received the news that all the prisoners in the sky prison have disappeared. Li Qianmo
After just one investigation, it was found out that most of the people burned to death in the Su Mansion were just the prisoners who disappeared in the prison."
"After we finish talking about this, let's talk about why we knew you would start from the palace, and start from this jade seal." Yun Shang looked at Su Ruji, still with a smile on her face.
"The female officer next to Your Majesty, Wang Wanzhi, was recommended by the Empress. Because she performed extremely well in serving the pen and ink beside Your Majesty, even after the Empress was deposed, she was not affected at all. She has always been reused by Your Majesty, including many imperial edicts.
and memorials were all approved and written by her."
When Su Ruji heard her talking about Wang Wanzhi, she frowned, "Your Majesty suspected Wang Wanzhi early in the morning? But that's not right. There are also people from this palace in the Taiji Palace. If Your Majesty suspected Wang Wanzhi, they should also hear about it.
There are some rumors."
Yun Shang smiled and said, "That's not the case. His Majesty has no doubts about Wang Yuanzhi. We will know. Madam, you asked Wang Yuanzhi to secretly inquire about the whereabouts of the jade seal, and secretly tell you where the jade seal is hidden and how to open the mechanism.
This thing is just because Wang Wanzhi is a servant of his wife from the beginning to the end."
Su Ruji's expression suddenly changed, and after a while, she laughed, with a bit of self-mockery in her smile: "Okay, okay, I know you are very smart, and I have been observing you since you arrived in Jincheng.
But I never thought that you would keep playing with me. Then Wang Wanzhi was ordered by you to get close to me from the beginning, right?"
Yun Shang smiled and nodded gently: "Your Majesty is wise."
"In fact, if the empress ordered Wang Wanzhi to investigate the hiding place of the jade seal, I would never have guessed that the empress and the Taiwei wanted to directly attack the palace and seize the jade seal and also order the princes to do so. I
The woman would think of this just because the Duke’s wife told the wife that she had seen the queen on the street. In addition, there was a person who looked like the queen who pretended to be an actor and wanted to assassinate the wife, but she accidentally killed her.
Already."
"Your Majesty is too careful. Your Majesty deliberately let the Duke's wife see your Majesty in the city. You just want to tell your wife that you want to take advantage of Bao'er's full moon banquet and make people look like your Majesty.
You became an actor and came to assassinate my wife. You just want us to think that you are anxious to assassinate my wife and deliberately lower our vigilance." Yun Shang raised her head until her neck hurt, so she raised her hand and rubbed her neck gently.
.
"After I learned that the Duke's wife had met the empress, I thought that if I were the empress and wanted to assassinate her at the full moon banquet, I would definitely try to hide her whereabouts and never appear on the street.
It was seen by someone who was interested. Since the empress did this, she must have had an agenda. When we think about the fact that the empress ordered Wang Wanzhi to find out where the jade seal was hidden, many things became clear."
"As for the flag-waving and shouting outside the Prince's Mansion, everyone thought that Su Taiwei wanted to attack the Prince's Mansion. The 1,000 or 800 troops composed of Su Mansion's thug guards and prisoners in the prison disrupted the participation in the Prince's Mansion.
The minds of the people at the Full Moon Banquet just gave us the opportunity."
"His Majesty pretended that he wanted to go to the highest and most conspicuous place in the prince's palace, so we took the opportunity to change our clothes when we went to Fengbo Pavilion. Fengbo Pavilion was still some distance away from the garden. From a distance, the guests could only see Fengbo.
The figure on the pavilion has no appearance."
"The Queen should know that I had difficulty giving birth because I was trapped in the ice cellar, but the Queen may not know how I got to the ice cellar. There is a tunnel in the palace that leads directly to Princess Tai'an Palace, and Princess Tai'an Palace
There is a tunnel to the Prince's Mansion. We first ordered the imperial guards to wait in Princess Tai'an's Mansion, and then went through the tunnel to the palace. Then, we secretly disposed of all the people who brought the empress and the prince into the palace."
"My Majesty ordered General Su to secretly transfer people from the Imperial Guard Camp, but I forgot that even if Su Taiwei managed to control the Imperial Guard Camp, there are so many soldiers in the Imperial Guard Camp, and there is no guarantee that no one will discover it.
Your conspiracy."
Yun Shang smiled and stood up, "I have said almost everything I need to say. Is there anything else you want to know?"
Su Ruji's face had lost all color, but she still twitched her lips and smiled, "No. How could it be? If you want me to die, I have to die. I am just a member of your majesty's harem, even as a queen, see
Even if you are Your Majesty, you have to call yourself your concubine. It has been twenty-eight years, and my concubine has been by Your Majesty’s side for twenty-eight years. Accompanying him day and night for twenty-eight years, in the end, Shang could only end up like this.
What else can I say, my concubine?"
"Oh." Su Ruji turned her head and glanced at Queen Hua, who had a calm expression and remained silent, and smiled: "You are lucky. You have been cherished by the king of a country for more than 20 years, but what if you love him again now?
Maybe it will end in a bleak way in the end? I am your role model, Hua Ling, so take care of yourself."
As soon as the words fell, Yun Shang noticed something was wrong, and stepped forward. Before she could reach Su Ruji, she saw black blood oozing out of the corner of her mouth. She suddenly fell to the side, but she was still smiling:
"Take care of yourself..."
Then his head tilted and he stopped breathing. (To be continued)