Chapter 470: Chapter 471

“Last year, during the summer vacation at Cui Hua Mountain, smallpox was first discovered in the body of County Lord Chao Ping, and immediately spread throughout the entire Buyeon.” King Liang lowered his head and did not look at Emperor Duanhua, who was at the top, and said to himself, “At that time, the entire Cui Hua Mountain was in great fear, and even the second prince, my minister’s own nephew and His Majesty’s second son, died as a result!”

After he briefly reviewed the smallpox, the curve of his mouth hooked up even more, coldly laughing out, “This matter, His Majesty first sent me to investigate, I found out the concubine Lu Ning night, to check the Lu family, and then because of the two kings of the Su Xiang matter, for the Jin Imperial Aunt blocked after that, His Majesty sent Gu Shao and Wei Shangshu continued to After that, His Majesty sent Gu Shao and Minister Wei to continue the investigation, and these two soon found the socalled real culprits: Jian Ping Yu and his son!”

Emperor Duanhua frowned and didn’t say anything.

After a brief pause, King Liang continued, “In fact, this is just Gu Shao’s plan to kill people with a borrowed knife! The purpose is to use Your Majesty’s hand to eliminate Jian Pingyu!”

“Because he knows that since the late Emperor’s departure, the one person in the world who is most likely to recognize his true colors is Jian Ping Yu!”

Said here, heard the Dan Edward on the “bang” sound, is the Duanhua emperor to see him to the present still do not forget to denounce Gu Shao, once again beat the case the king of Liang is not alarmed, but once again laughed out cold, “Your Majesty does not believe it? Then I’ll tell you one more thing: this matter is actually the Queen’s most clear, but the Queen will definitely not disclose the slightest word to you!”

“That would be the Second Prince, my nephew, His Majesty’s only male heir besides the Crown Prince, and the reason why he contracted smallpox wasn’t spread at all by Hollow when he entered the palace! Rather, someone took advantage of that moment of panic and intentionally mixed something dipped in pox powder into his bedding!”

“That is to say, the second prince, is not blessed with a premature death, but died of murder!”

King Liang heatedly said, ”Otherwise the second prince’s birth mother, Consort Maiden Mao, who was the most gentle and cautious person during her lifetime, why would she be angry at the crown prince because of the second prince’s untimely death? After all, although Lady Consort Mao has been out of favor in recent years, the possibility of having another heir is relatively small. But His Majesty is still in his prime Consort Mao has a high position and is an old man who has served His Majesty since the Eastern Palace. Could it be that when His Majesty has a prosperous heir in the future, she will hold . Does she not have the decency to raise a child from a lowerranked palace concubine?”

“Why should Lady Mauve take the narrow path when she has the hope of an adopted son?”

“In the final analysis, it’s because she also discovered the Empress’s plot with Gu Shao, but because she had no evidence and knew she had no hope of retaliating against the Empress and redressing the Second Prince’s grievances, that’s why she turned to the Crown Prince to vent her anger!”

Emperor Duanhua was exasperated and laughed, “You speak brilliantly, but you don’t know what evidence you have?”

“The evidence in the palace exams, is it not something that I can bring out?” King Liang did not raise his head and said, “I don’t have the guts to pry into the palace exams but if Your Majesty is willing to trust me, why don’t you send the believers that the late Emperor relied on when he was here to thoroughly investigate the death of the second prince, as well as the Empress’ liaison with the Wei family and Gu Shao at that time?”

He smiled coldly, “If these people are found to be okay, I am willing to die!”

This sentence he said with a loud voice, Duanhua Emperor was not particularly strongminded, and hearing this, he could not help but be puzzled again.

After pondering for a long time, he didn’t ask any more questions, but only called his beloved chamberlain to come in, ordering him to put the King of Liang in jail first, “Keep an eye on him, don’t ask anyone else to see him, and don’t ask anything to happen to him!”

The chamberlain responded and reminded again, “This will be discussed throughout the imperial capital, not knowing exactly what His Highness King Liang has committed …”

In fact, it’s not a big deal to talk about it all over the imperial capital, but I’m afraid that people will think that Emperor Duanhua is finally going to follow Emperor Xianjia’s example and raise his sword to cut down his brother’s head the first one to be cut down will be his mother’s sibling, which Emperor Xianjia never cut down and then the two kings will be forced to rebel against each other. It’s the only thing that’s going to kill him!

Emperor Duanhua knew the meaning of the chamberlain’s words, and after pondering for a while, he said, “Tell the public that King Liang was taken to prison because of his connection to the death of the imperial aunt of Dai Guo!”

For one thing, this matter does have something to do with the King of Liang; for another, the death of the Dai Guo Grand Princess Couple has made the side of the two Kings of Su Xiang very tense, and now Emperor Duanhua has stated that, in order to return justice to the Dai Guo Grand Princess Couple, I’ve arrested my own only compatriot brother, so what is it that you still don’t trust me for?

Even if the two kings of Su Xiang wanted to take advantage of this incident to cause trouble, they could not stand on the name of righteousness.

Sending off the chamberlain with King Liang, Emperor Duanhua hesitated for a while, and ordered someone to go outside the Qingxi Palace to find out the news, “A Xu entered the palace today, can he leave now? If he is still in the palace, tell him to come see me!”

The palace man went in time at this time the palace gate was close to lowering the key, and Jane Void White had already bid farewell to the Dowager Empress to leave the palace and return to her home.

It was almost near the palace gates before they were stopped.

Hearing that Emperor Duanhua wanted him to go over, Jian Xu Bai knew that there must be something important, and not caring about the upcoming curfew, he followed the palace staff towards Xuanming Palace while asking, “Do you know what His Majesty has called me for?”

Palace people know that the Empress Dowager and Duanhua Emperor both attach great importance to this Duke of Yan, do not dare to be neglected, but also because Duanhua Emperor spoke with the King of Liang cleared the scene, really can not provide any inside information, can only tell him what he knows, “… Chief Zhu to bring the King of Liang Palace to go down to the Imperial Prison, His Majesty did not take a long time, he summoned the slave girl to find you!”

Although everyone now knows that King Liang is going to be a tragedy, but as long as Emperor Duanhua has not issued an edict to abolish King Liang’s royal title, the palace people still do not dare to make a mistake in their address.

“So?” Jian Xu Bai’s mind turned, knowing that Emperor Duanhua was looking for himself now, most likely because he had something to do with King Liang.

Sure enough, he stepped into the Xuanming Palace after a long time draped in the color of starlight and lamps, and when the emperor saw him, he busily said, “A Xu you’re finally hereand sit down and talk!”

When the palace people made tea, and ordered to clear the field.

Then he sighed, “This day I first met with Minister Gu, and then detained King Liang for questioning. I don’t want to know who to trust now! Thinking about A Xu you happen to be in the palace, why don’t you listen to what they have to say and give me an idea?”

“Your Majesty is so wise and powerful, why would I need to make a fool of myself for such a trivial matter?” Jian Xu Bai hurriedly said, “If Your Majesty doesn’t give up, I’m all ears!”

Duanhua emperor now do not have the heart to pay attention to these sets of words, frowning will Gu Shao and Liang Wang’s rhetoric roughly speak down, “Now Gu said Liang Wang plot usurpation of the throne, Liang Wang is accused of Gu Shao and the Queen are illintentioned to say the evidence, naturally, is the hands of the evidence of the Gu phase is conclusive, and the Liang Wang is empty words! But I look at the appearance of the King of Liang, may not be all lie to me …”

When he came to the last sentence, Emperor Duanhua seemed to feel that as an emperor, it would be very humiliating to say such soft words, and subconsciously stopped speaking, casting an expectant gaze at Jian Xu Bai.

Jane Void White stared deep in thought.

A moment later, he slowly spoke, “I’m young, and getting along with Minister Gu has only been a matter of a few years, and as for His Highness, the King of Liang, he is also my cousin, but before that, I wasn’t in the Imperial Capital for six years, so I didn’t really have frequent dealings with him. Now that Your Majesty wants me to say who is more trustworthy between these two, I really don’t know how to speak?”

At those words, Emperor Duanhua couldn’t help but show a look of disappointment on his face.

However, Jian Xu Bai continued, “However, Your Majesty’s question reminds me of something that happened when I was in Wuhuan!”

Emperor Duanhua casually asked with little interest, “Oh? What is it?”

“When I was in Wuhuan, they have a kind of local fruit, which is very different from the fruits we have here.” Jian Xu Bai said, “The sweet ones are extremely tasty, but if you don’t know how to pick them and pick the unripe ones, they are sour and astringent, making them hard to swallow!”

“I’m one of those who can’t pick, which is why I had to take my chances when the attendants over there initially came up with the fruit.”

“It was Xue Pei who quickly discovered how to pick good fruit.”

“And the minister followed and thought of a method, that is, after Xue Pei had picked it out, I saw that he was not paying attention and secretly took it away.”

“In this way, I can also eat delicious fruit.”

Emperor Duanhua patiently . Hearing this, he was feeling bored, and suddenly his mind moved and muttered, “If you don’t know how to pick, take the one who does and pick the good one?”

Gu Shao and King Liang attacked each other, and it sounds like everyone has a point. But, Gu Shao was the person that Emperor Xianjia had specifically picked out to assist the new king!

Emperor Xianjia, is he not the one who will pick the fruit?

So does it matter if Emperor Duanhua wants to listen to King Liang’s empty words and suspect Gu Shao?

“A Xu’s words are very true!” Emperor Duanhua’s heart, which had already been touched by the Liang King, suddenly calmed down in front of the three words “Emperor Xianjia”, and said with some emotion, “I was almost fooled by that indisputable thing!”

Jian Xu Bai comforted, “Your Majesty is being magnanimous and kind.”

In fact, the emperor did not know that Jian Xubai casually made up a story about picking fruit, but also harboring selfishness.

Because Gu Shao and Empress Wei, due to the Crown Prince, had become a faction.

The revelation of Song Lu’s two days ago had already resulted in Empress Wei being grounded, and if Gu Shao had a second chance, the situation of the Empress’s mother and son would surely be even more dire.

And if Empress Wei were to fall, it would be hard to bypass this matter of Cui Mirei.

Then when the time comes Song Yixiao will inevitably be dragged into the water …

Jane Void White had to help Gu Shao in order to preserve his wife as well.

This meeting with Emperor Duanhua had already gone along with the direction he wished to consider, Jian Xubai secretly relieved, and then spoke a few words of scene, see Emperor Duanhua has no other commands, and only then he retired.

It was getting late by this time, but with the warrant given by Emperor Duanhua, he still managed to get out of the palace and back to the Duke of Yan’s residence.

At this time Song Yi smile waiting for him has waited for a little heart anxiety, see her husband finally returned, but also not as long as he went to freshen up and change clothes, directly dismissed the subordinates, pulling him on the couch to sit down, and open the door to ask, “In the end this day what happened in the palace, how the King of Liang was sentenced to imprisonment?”

“His Majesty has been training him as his right hand man, but he is plotting against him, how can His Majesty not be angry?” Jian Xubai said, “This matter has involved us a little bit originally I was able to come back before the curfew, however, after His Majesty summoned the King of Liang alone, he was actually moved by his words, and was a little bit skeptical about Gu Xiang. In the end, he stopped me in front of the palace gate and asked me to go to the Xuanming Palace to tell him who is trustworthy between the King of Liang and Mr. Gu.”

Song Yixiao was busy asking, “Then how did you answer?”

“I naturally said Gu Xiang.” Jian Xu Bai looked at his wife as he spoke, “After all, behind Song Lu is the King of Liang, he wants to drag you down, how can I not give him a ride?”

About Song Lu’s and Yuan Xue Pei, a lot of things husband and wife are in fact unspoken, their hearts clear, but did not speak with each other at this moment, Jian Xubai so a talk a look, Song Yixiao heart suddenly jumped chaotic for a moment, fixed his mind before saying, “so this day in the palace happened so many things, I I said, almost evening, the imperial capital up and down this chaotic, before you came back, there are actually more than a dozen families to our residence to inquire about the news!”

After a pause, “However, I did pass a post to Marquis Yuan under your banner after noon this morning, inviting him to come over for a reminder, and spoke with him quite a bit in the small flower hall!”