Chapter 23
Even though he felt guilty, Qi Xiao still refused to let Bai Ren leave.
"You have just happened to this, but I don't know who wants your life. How can you feel at ease when you go home now?" Qi Xiao comforted Bai Ren and slowly said, "I'm not scaring you. They can do anything about riding a horse and crashing in the downtown area. What else can't be done? Are you so relieved by the people in your house?"
Bai Renben was determined to leave, but after hearing this, hesitated. Qi Xiao continued, "The people in your house... I know a lot of people sent by the emperor to monitor you. The emperor is not so stupid to attack you, but how can you know that there are no Qi Hua among those people? The emperor has never been on guard against Qi Hua, and it is not difficult to let him get in with some people."
Bai Ren shook his head: "Don't worry about this. Although there are many people in the mansion, I have brought me from the south to the study, dormitory, and kitchen."
"You understand yourself, but these people are your confidants. What if one hundred secrets and one secrets make those malicious people take advantage of the loophole?" Qi Xiao advised warmly, "I have been stopping you from returning home in the palace before and worrying about this. Although I am not as good as yours here, I can at least protect you. When the Dali Temple settles the case and find out the behind-the-scenes instruction this time, I will definitely let you go back immediately, okay?"
In the dispute over verbal disputes, Bai Ren has always been unable to defeat Qi Xiao, so he nodded: "The prince has agreed to me. After the result of Dali Temple, I will let me go back to my house immediately."
Qi Xiao smiled in his heart, naturally, Cen Chaoge had already left at that time, and he would definitely not stop him again.
"When did I cheat you?" Qi Xiao lowered his head and kissed Bairen's forehead and said, "I'll go find someone to hand me something to the palace... I guess they already know it. Take a break and I'll ask them to make something you like to eat at noon."
Bai Ren nodded, and Qi Xiao turned around and left the warm pavilion.
In Zhaoyang Palace, Empress Feng brought a few confidant palace maids all the way into the bedroom. When the palace ladies in Zhaoyang Palace saw that Empress Feng was not good, they held their breath and did not hear any wind in the entire hall. Empress Feng glanced at everyone and said coldly: "Everyone retreat!"
The palace maid who knelt all over the ground was as if he had received a general amnesty and bowed down.
Qi Hua, who was still lying on the bed to recover from his injuries, was stunned and smiled dryly, "What's wrong with the mother? Are you going to teach your son again?
"Don't smile with me!" Queen Feng tried her best to suppress the anger in her heart, but she still felt angry as soon as she said it. "How did I tell you before?! No more trouble in this moment! No more trouble! How did you agree to me?! Okay, the second prince is really hard, and he doesn't even keep my words in mind. I promised it before, and there is another trick behind it!"
Qi Hua was almost stunned by Queen Feng, and after a while, he said, "What is the Queen Mother saying? What am I doing?"
"You dare to be stubborn!" Queen Feng's mother has been in the world for nearly twenty years. Although she is not from a high school, she has lived in a luxurious life in the palace for many years and has a little bit of the demeanor of the lord of the harem. She will easily lose her composure in front of others. Today, she can't help it. If Qi Hua hadn't had any injuries, she almost wanted to do it. Queen Feng took a deep breath, copied the note held by the harem maid behind her, raised her hand and threw it directly on Qi Hua's face, "You can see it yourself!"
Qi Hua frowned, opened the fold and looked at it, his face getting worse and worse. Finally, he said with a pale face: "My mother save me! I... I really didn't do this!"
"Who else can you be?" Queen Feng almost wanted to strangle Qi Hua to death and scolded sternly, "Do you want to hide it from me?! I told you all early, I'll find your uncle to find a solution soon!"
Qi Hua exclaimed wronged and hissed: "Am I crazy? Even if I want that kid's life, I won't use the people in my house! Am I stupid?"
Empress Feng was actually confused after hearing the news. Although Qi Hua was impulsive, she was not stupid enough. But now everyone has evidence and evidence, and she pointed directly at Qi Hua. Even if Empress Feng wanted to excuse him, she had no choice but to curse and swear. Qi Hua saw that Empress Feng didn't speak, and cursed and sweared, "Just Bai Ren's temperament, I don't know how many people have been offended in the past month when he came to the imperial city. How could it be that others wanted to kill him? Is it because I fought him once, and Bai Ren's lack of arms and legs will be counted on me in the future?! In the future, he will live to ninety-nine and return to the west, so others will blame me? And, and... He has made such a big deal this time, so how could he know that his uncle and grandfather are angry all the time..."
"Shut up!" Queen Feng lowered her voice and scolded fiercely, "You can't wash away this time. Do you still want to drag your uncle and the others into the water?! The news was transmitted by your uncle, otherwise I would still be blind and deaf! You... you actually suspect your uncle and the others. If they really do it, how could you use your servants in your house!"
Qi Hua pounded the bed and cried: "Mother! My uncle can't use the slaves in my house, can I use it? I can't have one less head than my uncle?!"
Queen Feng sighed and shook her head and said, "Don't worry... I was so angry that I deliberately aroused you. I didn't do it by you... Then I can't cover it up. I will ask your uncle to go around and ask Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate. It's best to find out if it can be found out... I must also put this matter on someone else's head! Huaer... You can't have any more trouble in this at the moment..."
Qi Hua naturally understood in his heart that the emperor was disappointed with him because of the previous incident. If he lost his heart after he fell into such a thing, then from now on... neither Qi Xiao nor any other prince succeeded to the throne, he would have no good fruits to eat!
Qi Hua has always felt that the position of crown prince is his own sooner or later, and he has offended many people with his willfulness. Now, he has finally woken up a lot after being frustrated and has become scared for a while.
Qi Hua was still young and was afraid to hold Queen Feng's hand and cried. Queen Feng rubbed her eyebrows tiredly, and gently stroked Qi Hua's back and said slowly: "This is someone else who sees that our current status is unstable. If you want to take advantage of it, don't worry... Fortunately, the coachman is not dead yet. If he doesn't ask, then let the Dali Temple Minister examine it over and over again. The Dali Temple's torture instruments are not placed to look at... After a few times, his mouth can be pried open for him even if it is made of iron."
Although Queen Feng comforted Qi Hua so much, she understood very well. Even if she found out that it was instructed by someone else, they were determined to be muddy water. How could they clean up the previous things?
I remembered that the coachman came to Queen Feng and felt more and more trouble. After Qi Hua established the mansion, he was afraid that he would let those messy people out of the house and was also in case others were inserted into the house. The people sent by Queen Feng were personally selected by Queen Feng when he was founded. They were either palace servants who had served Queen Feng for many years or from Queen Feng’s parents’ house. The coachman and his mother were all managers in Feng’s house, and they were not outsiders who bought them. Their family gave birth to children in their mansion, so they even let others bribe them...
Queen Feng comforted Qi Hua for a few more words and went there. The most important thing now is to send letters to her parents' home, and... to confirm the emperor's attitude.
In the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the emperor looked at the clerk sent by the Dali Temple Minister and laughed furiously: "Okay, the bright world is at the foot of the imperial city, in the downtown area! Someone dared to murder the prince of the Lingnan King! Bai Ren was just injured in the palace! How much effort did I take to suppress this matter? It's better now, haha... I just want Bai Ren's life! Fortunately, it's okay... If something happens, what will I explain to the King of Lingnan?!"
Several ministers in the hall knelt down and persuaded the emperor to calm down. The emperor took a sip of tea and suppressed the fire, and said in a deep voice: "Zhen Bonan, tell me again with the words of the prisoner, and those entourages."
Zhen Bonan, the minister of Dali Temple, read the thoughts and said the previous incident: "The words of the followers, the evidence and physical evidence are there. You can believe that the prisoner... the prisoner was drunk when he was brought. The minister ordered someone to pour cold water on him and also used needles to punish him. However, because he drank too much and could not be fully awake, he asked reluctantly. He only said that it was said by the person in charge, and asked him to send this cart of stone inkstone to the Academy Hutong. After that... no matter how much he tortured, he could not say anything else."
"There is another thing that needs to be like the emperor's report. I found out after checking the case of this person. The coachman Li Yuanbao also ran into a car last year. It is said that he was shocked by the naughty boy on the street at that time. Li Yuanbao could not control himself... He killed a seven-year-old child. Because there was a reason for the incident, there was no heavy sentence." Zhen Bonan pondered the emperor's thoughts and paused and said, "After that, Li Yuanbao never picked up his master again. He just asked him to deliver goods occasionally when he was short of a mansion. From this point of view, Li Yuanbao was a reckless person himself. This incident was purely accidental and it was unknown. Moreover... Although he was a slave in the Second Prince's mansion, it would be too reasonable to convict the Second Prince. Who would instruct his own people to do such a thing in broad daylight?"
The emperor sneered in his heart, it doesn't make sense? It's obvious that this matter was not done by Qi Hua, but what did he say? The spearheads pointed directly at Qi Hua, can he say it's not?
The first thing the emperor doubted was actually Bai Jie.
The emperor still remembers the last time the incident in the side hall. Bai Ren is also a master who will not suffer any loss. It is better to say that Qi Hua hurt him than to tempt Qi Hua to jump into the pit. That time, Qi Hua's words were not false, but Bai Ren is not a good person.
He beat Qi Hua himself, but who knew that Bai Ren had completely relieved his anger? Could it be that he had been planning and waiting for the day he left the palace to come again?
Moreover, after hearing the words of the follower, Bai Ren said that he had heard that there were a few good calligraphy and painting shops in the Academy Hutong, and wanted to go and see them... Why was it so happening? It happened that he wanted to go and see them at that time, and that was when he was not in the car, and it happened that Qi Hua's slave drove over...
But such a careful plan doesn’t seem to be something Bai Ren can do. He just thought it out, but can he reach his hand to Qi Hua’s mansion just after just a few days in the imperial city?
But who else can it be except him? Is Qi Xiao? The emperor shook his head, it was not right... This was not Qi Xiao's technique.
On this day, the palace was in chaos, but the prince's mansion was very comfortable. Qi Xiao was busy outside for a day and returned to the bedroom in the evening. Qi Xiao looked at Bai Ren sitting alone under the lamp and smiled: "If you really want to read a book, just light a few more lamps, it will take too much eye-catching."
Bai Ren put down the miscellaneous notes in his hand and looked up at Qi Xiao: "Crown Prince, I have been thinking about it for a day. What happened this morning... was actually the prince's plan, right?"
Bai Ren's gentle words aroused the huge waves in Qi Xiao's heart. Qi Xiao's smile froze on his face. Just as he was about to say something, Bai Ren said lightly: "But I can't figure it out at all. The prince wants to take advantage of this great opportunity to completely overwhelm the second prince and never allow them to turn over. Then he shouldn't stop me halfway... As long as I die, in order to appease my father, the emperor will definitely give Lingnan an explanation with heavy responsibility. Isn't this better?"
Bai Ren frowned slightly: "This is not painful or itchy, it doesn't look like the prince's technique..."
Qi Xiao closed his eyes and knew that he could hide it from others, but he was afraid that he could not hide it from Bai Ren.
Now that things have come to this, Qi Xiao doesn't want to cover up anything anymore: "Yes, at the beginning, I really wanted the carriage to hit you to death."
Chapter completed!