The assassination ended with the fourth prince's token being found on the assassin's body.
The emperor was furious and ordered the four princes to be imprisoned immediately.
It will be dealt with separately after the investigation is completed.
After all this trouble, when the ban was lifted and people could leave the palace, a ring of gold had already spread over the palace. The sky was breaking, and the wind was carrying the gradually brightening light. There were half-melted snowdrifts beside the long corridor of the palace wall. Under the light,
They are tiny crystals.
The rising sun dispelled the darkness, and the officials and their families walked out of the palace in silence.
The new year has arrived——
Su Dai left the palace in a carriage, but was stopped outside the palace.
The man was riding a horse and looking at her from the car window.
For a moment, both of them felt that this scene was extremely familiar, except that the person on the horse was replaced by Shen Qingjue.
Su Dai couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips, but when she remembered something, she immediately lowered them.
Seeing this, Shen Qingjue asked, "Your Highness is angry again?"
"again?"
Su Dai repeated this word emphatically, half smiling.
Judging from this expression, it’s probably——
Shen Qingjue sighed lightly. He didn't know where he had offended this aunt again. His tone unconsciously contained a hint of coaxing, "His Royal Highness said at the palace banquet that he wanted your uncle to analyze it for you. Do you want to hear it now?"
Tsk——
A sultry man, if you want to coax her, just say so.
Su Dai's eyes flickered and she stared at him for a moment with a wooden face.
Opening lips: "Get in the car."
Shen Qingjue smiled, "Thank you, Your Highness."
Yun Song held the abandoned horse and watched helplessly as his master "thrown himself into a trap" and got into the cage that the woman had set for him.
In the silence, I inexplicably felt that there was a bit of joy in the master's back.
But when Shen Qingjue got on the bus, he immediately saw the beauty from the Western Region sitting at Su Dai's feet and beating her legs.
His Adam's apple rolled twice, and he said coldly: "Get out."
The beauty was startled, and when she saw the person clearly, she immediately lowered her head.
Su Dai said neither salty nor bland, "Shen Qingjue, you scared my beauty."
her--
Shen Qingjue's eyes flashed and his tone softened, "There are some things that are not convenient for him to hear. Let him go to the car behind."
Hearing this, Su Dai patted the beauty's face and said, "Go."
The beauty from the Western Region nodded quickly, and when she passed by Shen Qingjue, he heard the man's warning with murderous intent.
"Pay attention to your identity."
A chill ran down the beauty's spine, her head buried even lower, and she walked away quickly as if she was running away.
Shen Qingjue then stroked his sleeves, straightened his composure and bent down to get into the carriage.
The carriage walked quietly on the official road, and there was a tacit understanding between them not to mention the incident just now.
Both of them had stayed up all night. The man's skin was already fair, but now he had a sickly air.
Su Dai pursed her lips and put a cup of hot tea into his hand.
"Say it."
Looking at a man with a hard mouth and a soft heart, Shen Qingjue couldn't help but rub his fingers on the edge of the cup. The warm temperature seemed to flow through the palm of his hand and flow into his blood.
He laughed, "What did you say?"
"Are you kidding me?!" Su Dai glared at him, opened her mouth and said, "Stop the car!"
I'm going to drive him off.
"Don't--"
Shen Qingjue was helpless, simply afraid of her resolute personality.
"Uncle Huang is getting old. How about you wait until Uncle Emperor calms down before talking?"
Su Dai folded her arms, looked him up and down, and then said softly, "Heh."
The mocking sound reached his ears, and Shen Qingjue's temples jumped.
He looked at Su Dai's pair of fox eyes that were always raised with a hint of arrogance, and vaguely understood her unspoken sarcasm.
This girl——
Shen Qingjue took a sip of tea, and the tea went into his throat, soothing his sore throat.
He asked: "Didn't His Highness see anything?"
As the carriage swayed, Su Dai lazily closed her eyes and said, "Uncle Emperor, it's so funny. I'm a fool that everyone in the imperial capital knows. What can you tell?"
Straw bag?
Shen Qingjue smiled meaningfully, but he didn't think so.
But since Su Dai insisted on continuing to pretend, he would not expose it, "Then in your opinion, who gained the most from this premeditated assassination at the palace banquet?"
Naturally, he is still lying in the palace, not knowing whether he is alive or dead, and has regained the emperor's trust——
"Qin Jingzhou."
Not a question, but an affirmation.
Shen Qingjue knew that she had a bright mirror in her heart. He nodded and said, "Your Highness is extremely smart and can understand everything at a glance."
Regarding his flattering behavior, Su Dai lazily raised her eyelashes and gave him a perfunctory look.
Shen Qingjue smiled helplessly. He didn't realize that there was a bit of endearment in his voice, "In fact, he benefited more than everyone thought. Did you find out? The minister died in this palace banquet."
Qin Jingzhou was also willing to take risks. This group of dead soldiers had been trained for an unknown period of time. They were all highly skilled in martial arts, but they were all killed at the banquet.
He sacrificed a group of carefully trained dead soldiers and gambled his own life.
Fortunately, he made a comeback and regained the emperor's trust!
Shen Qingjue said: "Of the ministers who died, there were some who could not deal with him, and some who had already joined the camps of the major princes. Only one of them escaped intact."
Su Dai responded with a nasal sound of ‘hmm’ twice.
When Shen Qingjue looked at her laziness, his hands felt itchy and he wanted to touch her head.
After a pause, he said with concern: "He set up this situation and gained the emperor's trust. If you want to deal with him again in the future -"
"Tsk, why should I deal with him?"
Hearing this, Su Dai seemed to have regained some energy, but her body was tilted as if she had no bones. "Uncle Huang is right, but he is also wrong." She nodded her red lips and smiled incomprehensibly, "
You forgot to consider the superior's heart."
As soon as the words fell, their eyes met across the distance.
Shen Qingjue's heart skipped a beat again, and the corners of his lips slowly opened into a smile of sincere approval.
"Your Highness is really smart."
There is no need to say it clearly, just one look and everything is self-explanatory.
The journey seemed very long, and as the conversation ended, the carriage became quiet.
After staying up all night, Su Dai couldn't hold on any longer. She leaned on the carriage covered with soft cushions, her eyelashes flickered a few times, then slowly, slowly lowered her head, and fell asleep...
At this time, the carriage suddenly bumped, and the woman's body leaning on one side swayed, and she fell straight towards an unprotected place.
Shen Qingjue was startled. When he realized what he was doing, Su Dai's head was quickly held up with his big palm. He also sat over and gently let her lean on his arm.
The aura that belongs to Su Dai spreads in the luxuriously decorated carriage. The hand hooked on the woman's waist is as long as jade and has clear joints. It was originally a weak support, but as time went by, it gradually became solid.
When she was sleeping, Su Dai was very quiet, her breathing was gentle, and she was so well-behaved that it made people feel heart-warming.
After finding Su Dai cute, Shen Qingjue felt that she could also be very well-behaved——
Realizing that his thoughts were going astray, Shen Qingjue laughed to himself. Even though his body was very tired and his chest ached when he breathed, he still sat upright with a calm look on his face.