Happy Little Scholar

Winter is a time when fires are easy to catch in Japan. The weather is cold. Poor families rely on shivers to resist the cold, while rich families use charcoal fires to keep warm. If you are not careful, it will cause disaster.

After Zeng’s Mansion, Prince Xin’s Mansion also caught fire last night.

In terms of scale, degree of damage, and impact, the former is far from the latter.

Not only was Prince Xin's palace burned, but the two neighbors of the palace were also affected. Several houses in the residences of two ministers of the court were burned. Fortunately, they were discovered in time and the damage caused was not great.

Prince Xin's palace was in a terrible state. The entire palace turned into ruins almost overnight.

As for King Xin himself, he was also embarrassed in the fire last night. Although his life was not in danger, his hair was burned. When he escaped from the house, he tripped over the threshold and broke a leg. He is still lying in the Imperial Medical Office. inside.

It is said that the fire in Prince Xin's Mansion was so intense last night that it dyed half of the sky in Kyoto red...

It is also said that when King Xin escaped from the room yesterday, he was not even wearing any clothes.

It is also said that there was a man who also had no clothes on and escaped from the room with King Xin last night...

…

Lao Fang came over with a resentful look on his face and complained: "Uncle, why didn't you tell me such a big thing..."

Li Yi held a copy of "Kyoto Entertainment" in his hand. The front page headline was that Prince Xin's mansion was burned down and Prince Xin was suspected of coming out. He looked up at Lao Fang and asked, "What's going on?"

"Burn Prince Xin's Mansion on fire!" Lao Fang sat down opposite him and said, "Uncle, you lied to me and said you would wait until he left Kyoto to do it. I didn't expect you couldn't even wait a day..."

"Did you really do the burning of Prince Xin's Mansion?"

Zeng Shichun hurriedly came in from the outside and looked at Li Yi, "You, you are too reckless. No matter what King Xin says, he is still a prince. You... you can just wait for him to leave Kyoto and do it secretly." , you will make things impossible to end!"

"not me."

Li Yi shook his head. He didn't know which hero had done a great thing. Although he was happy, it was really inexplicable that he took the blame.

He thought for a while and said, "Perhaps the people in Prince Xin's Mansion were not careful about keeping warm?"

"Do people in Prince Xin's Mansion use kerosene to keep warm?" Zeng Shichun's face turned dark: "A large amount of kerosene was poured around the room where King Xin lived. This was simply arson. If it hadn't been discovered early, King Xin would have been afraid He died in the fire last night."

"Think about it for a moment, and I know that I wouldn't have done this." Li Yi shook his head and said, "King Xin burned Zeng's house, and the court couldn't deal with him. I dealt with it myself, but Xin burned down just one day apart. Wang Fu, this is too obvious. As you said, I originally planned to wait until he left Kyoto before breaking both of his legs. Now that he has broken one leg, I can only break the other two..."

"Are you really planning to take action?" Zeng Shichun looked at him in shock, then shook his head and said solemnly: "But the people won't think so. They will only make the simplest guesses. People's words are terrible..."

Li Yi put down the limited edition of "Kingto Entertainment" in his hand, shook his head and said: "The people of Kyoto are not stupid people, they will give me justice."

"I hope..." Zeng Shichun sighed, "Liu Dayou is the one investigating this case. He is a careful person and should be able to find some clues..."

Li Xuan and Her Royal Highness the Princess came together again. Li Yi had already explained it just now. He didn't want to waste any more words. He looked at them and said helplessly: "If I say that I have nothing to do with this matter, do you believe it? "

…

"It's him, it must be him!"

Although King Xin no longer looked as dark as before, most of his hair was burned, and there were still bursts of pain in one leg. His face was ferocious, and he said loudly: "You are so bold, you are so bold. This is Kyoto, and he burned the palace." , He...he is going to rebel!"

In front of the bed, an official whispered: "Your Highness King Xin, the county government has already sent people to investigate the cause of the fire last night. Please be patient and recuperate..."

"What are you still investigating? What are you still investigating!" King Xin looked angry and wanted to get up from the bed. He accidentally touched the injury. He lay back down and said loudly: "What else is there to investigate? This is revenge. He is here." In retaliation for the king’s burning of the Zeng Mansion, he came to burn the king’s palace!”

"It turns out that the arson case at Zeng Mansion the night before was instigated by His Highness King Xin." Liu Dayou stood below, holding a small notebook in his hand, wrote a few lines on it, and said: "What His Highness King Xin said, next The official will submit it word for word."

"What Zeng Mansion? I can burn it if I want!" King Xin waved his hand and said disdainfully: "But he burned the royal palace. This is treason and the nine tribes should be punished!"

"After the palace was burned down last night, four servants disappeared from Prince Xin's palace." Liu Dayou looked at him and said: "According to the steward of the palace, these four people purchased a batch of spirits from outside yesterday and came back from the scene. Judging from the situation, what they purchased was not liquor, but kerosene, which was the same kerosene that burned the entire Prince Xin’s Mansion last night.”

King Xin's expression changed, and then he immediately said: "What servant of the prince's palace? He must have found someone to impersonate him, and he wants to kill me!"

"According to the steward of the palace and the other servants, the four people were brought here from the fiefdom by His Highness. Before that, they had been with His Highness for two years and had never been to Kyoto. Naturally, it was impossible for someone to pretend to be someone. of."

King Xin was startled and said angrily: "That's nonsense. How could a servant of my palace set a fire!"

"I have to ask His Highness King Xin." Liu Dayou looked at him and asked: "His Royal Highness King Xin might as well think carefully about whether His Highness had offended anyone before coming to Kyoto, such as ------ What kind of empress..."

"What empress!" King Xin suddenly patted the edge of the bed and said angrily: "The only one I offend is him, and it must be him!"

Liu Dayou looked at him and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, take a good rest. I will retire..."

When he walked to the door, he bowed again and saluted a figure who walked in, "I have met His Highness King Qi."

"Brother King Qi!" King Xin's eyes suddenly lit up when he saw King Qi walking in, and he said: "Brother King Qi, you have seen how arrogant and domineering he is. Unless this person is removed------ The court is in trouble!"

King Qi looked around, and the people in the room immediately retreated.

He walked to King Xin and whispered: "You just sent people to burn his house the day before yesterday, and he sent people to burn your palace yesterday. Do you think he is a fool, or do you think everyone in the world is doing it?" A fool?"

"Brother Prince Qi..." King Xin looked at him in disbelief: "You, even you..."

"Do you know what people outside are saying?" King Qi leaned down and said, "I heard that it was several of your servants who set the palace on fire last night------your cruel trick. , it’s too stupid to use!”

King Xin: "------"

…

Liu Dayou, who walked out of the Imperial Medical Office, unclenched his fists and his palms were covered with sweat.

King Xin is not scary, and King Qi is not scary either.

The scary thing is, that holy religion, that empress...

Before King Xin arrived in Beijing, there was an undercover agent of the Holy Cult in his residence. Who dares to say that there are no such people in other princes, officials and dignitaries in the court, and even in his own residence. ?

The power of this holy religion once again exceeded his expectations.

"For the sake of the queen..."

Liu Dayou looked complicated, murmured, and left quickly.