Wishful Things

"Come here, send King Xiang back to the palace. Before the truth is found out, without my permission, you must not leave the residence for half a step."

Two guards responded and came to King Xiang: "His Royal Highness, please."

The King of Xiang sighed, hesitated to speak, finally just nodded, and raised his hand to salute Emperor Qingming: "I believe that the emperor will find out the real culprit, and return my innocence, and I will retire."

In the darkness, Emperor Qingming nodded slightly, with no expression on his face.

After the king of Xiang was taken away, the emperor then said to the officials: "There are many doubts about this matter, and the truth has not been found out yet. Then I will order people to guard the mausoleum strictly, and no one is allowed to enter or leave the mausoleum. Please come back to the palace with me."

Everyone raised their hands in response to "yes".

Seeing the emperor getting on the sedan chair accompanied by Han Yan and leaving, the officials saluting and sending them off couldn't help talking in a low voice.

A few people came to Xia Tingzhen's side, and asked a few words about the situation in the meditation room just now while walking.

Naturally, Ji Xiu couldn't make it up.

But he was also really curious.

Could it be that the King of Xiang ordered Concubine Sun to do this?

But with the appearance of the emperor just now, it seems that things are not that simple.

At least for now, the king of Xiang has not admitted it.

While Ji Xiu was thinking, he saw Zhan Yunzhu coming, so he coughed lightly—just now the surname Zhan also followed in. I have to say that this person is a bit like a dog, but he does have the ability to coax the emperor to be like this value.

Hearing the coughing sound, Zhan Yunzhu walked over knowingly, and saluted Ji Xiu with the same respectful tone as before: "My lord."

"What's your majesty's attitude now?" Ji Xiu asked him.

As the two walked, Zhan Yunzhu said in a slow voice: "Concubine Sun refuses to admit it to death, and the police have not yet found other evidence. It is difficult for His Majesty to make a conclusion easily on such a big matter. Think about it, it still depends on how the follow-up progress will be." .”

Ji Xiu nodded slightly.

It was not much different from what he expected.

The two left the monastery together, whispering a few words occasionally, and walking in silence when they met others.

Zhan Yunzhu's voice was faintly heard, but Xu Mingyi, who was following Princess Yufeng, didn't look up.

But Zhan Yunzhu seemed to have noticed something, turned his head slightly, and looked in her direction.

But he met a pair of eyes full of candid scrutiny——

Princess Yufeng looked at the young Zhongshusheren from head to toe, and after looking at it, she seemed not very satisfied, as if a sentence was conveyed in her slightly raised eyes - that's all.

Zhan Yunzhu was not annoyed either, and after silently raising his hand to salute, he calmly withdrew his gaze and continued walking forward with Ji Xiu.

"I'll go back as soon as I go..."

Xu Mingyi said something softly behind Princess Yufeng, taking advantage of the darkness of the night and no one paying attention to this side for a while, he quickly walked to the shadow on the side.

This shadow is cast by several tall banana trees.

And behind these few clumps of plantains, someone was waiting for her.

Seeing her walking over with her skirt in hand, Wu Chao said, "I saw you walking all the way without raising your head. I thought you didn't notice that I was behind you, let alone that I was waiting for you here."

"I was watching you secretly."

Xu Shi successfully settled the empress dowager's matter, the girl felt at ease at this moment, her brows and eyes were relaxed, and her tone was very relaxed.

Seeing this, Wu Chao relaxed unconsciously. It was supposed to be a serious topic, but now it came out of his mouth, and it became very casual: "It seems that the emperor is planning to start acting--Han Yan It looks like that, most likely I found something and was eager to present it to the emperor."

But just now the emperor didn't mention anything else, only said that the truth has yet to be ascertained.

And the demeanor of King Xiang is also worthy of careful observation.

Xu Mingyi nodded: "When Han Yan entered the Zen room, Xia Tingzhen should have seen the clues, so he went in to ask for an interview. And Zhan Yunzhu—these two people, maybe they took the opportunity to blow some wind in the emperor's ears, and they were conspiring with the emperor. What's the matter?"

"Well, but there's no need to worry." Wu Chao said, "Let's wait and see what happens."

Xu Mingyi nodded in agreement.

The most important thing—the danger hanging over the empress dowager, has been resolved.

After she goes back tonight, she can finally sleep well.

Wu Chao looked at her and said, "Zhao Zhao, it's fortunate that you are here for what happened tonight. If not, the consequences would be disastrous."

"Why, do you want to thank me again?" Xu Mingyi had a smile in his eyes: "That's unnecessary, the Empress Dowager has already thanked me personally—"

The empress dowager thanked you personally?

"In the meditation room?" Wu Chao asked casually.

When Xu Mingyi nodded, he raised his left hand and rolled up his sleeve, revealing half of his wrist: "Look."

Wu Chao looked over subconsciously, and saw a white and delicate wrist in front of him. The two of them were already very close to cover their bodies for the convenience of conversation. Just now, following her movement of rolling up her sleeves, there seemed to be a very faint scent of diamonds. into his nose.

Isn't she pretending to be a maid now? The clothes she wears are not her own, and it is impossible to burn incense, so why is the familiar fragrance still there?

The boy's thoughts were uncontrollable for a moment, and he asked in a trance, "What are you looking at?"

The girl's wrist shook in front of him: "Bracelet."

bracelet?

Wu Chao came back to his senses, saw the white jade bracelet hanging on her slender wrist, and couldn't help being stunned for a moment—it turned out that there was still a bracelet, but he hadn't seen it just now.

"It's beautiful." He praised in time.

She looks good in anything.

"I'm not asking if you look good or not." Looking at the young man who seemed to be thinking a little slowly, Xu Mingyi said: "The empress dowager gave it to me, and she said it was as a thank you. There were so many people at that time, I was afraid that I would be recognized." , and didn’t dare to say no.”

As soon as she let go of Concubine Sun, the queen mother called her to her and held her hand. Before she could react and see what was going on, the bracelet that was originally on the old man's wrist ran to her On the wrist——she was thinking at the time, isn't this some unknown and mysterious method?

Wu Chao smiled when he heard the words: "Since the old man expressed his wish, there is no need to refuse."

"I thought so too." Xu Mingyi put his hand down and said, "But just now I heard from Jiaojiao that this is the dowry gift of the empress dowager, and it has been worn on her body for so many years and has never been taken off."

She couldn't help feeling that it was a little too expensive.

Hearing that it was a dowry gift, Wu Chao couldn't help being a little surprised.

At that time, the empress dowager wanted to express her gratitude, but she didn't have anything else on her body, so she gave this bracelet out without thinking carefully, or did she... want to take this opportunity to make this daughter-in-law for him?

He once heard from his mother that some dowry items were left as family heirlooms for future daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law.

Thinking of this, the young man coughed lightly, with a faint smile in his eyes: "Since it has already been collected, there is no reason to return it, so let's take it."