Two days later, I was holding the things that Chunlan had taken out.
Shen Tianshu's hands were trembling, and his heart was trembling.
She said to Chunlan: "This matter..."
Chunlan didn't wait for her to finish speaking and said quickly: "I don't know anything about this slave, and I have never removed any embroidery."
Shen Tianshu closed his eyes, calmed his mind and said, "Well, you can go down first."
When Chunlan went out, she staggered a little and almost tripped herself at the door.
Mingyu, who was standing at the door, gave her a hand without knowing why, and said with a smile: "Sister Chunlan, be careful."
Chunlan finally came back to her senses and looked at the time outside. She estimated that the prince would be coming back from the city soon.
When she thought about what she had dismantled, she felt cold sweat break out on her back.
Although he knew that Shen Tianshu was not a ruthless person, that matter was of great importance. Will the prince let him go?
The more Chunlan thought about it, the more frightened she became, and she left the main room in despair.
Mingyu looked at her leaving back and murmured strangely: "What happened? Did the girl scold you?"
Not long after Chunlan left, Li Zian came back from the city.
Naturally, Mingyu wouldn't stop him, and even stretched out his hand to open the door curtain for him.
"Why are you so dazed? I've already come here and you still haven't responded?"
When Li Zian walked in, he found Shen Tianshu sitting motionless on the couch. He thought she was deliberately playing tricks on him and wanted to wait for him to pass by so as to scare him.
Unexpectedly, when she walked up to her, she still remained motionless in the same posture, her eyes were unfocused, and she didn't know what she was thinking, but she was thinking so intently.
Li Zian's sudden words frightened Shen Tianshu.
She shivered all over, her face turned pale, and her heart suddenly beat very fast.
Even after discovering that the person coming was Li Zian, there was still a look of fear in his eyes that had not dissipated.
Li Zian didn't expect that she would be so frightened. He quickly reached out and rubbed her head and said, "What's going on? Why are you still so frightened?"
Seeing Li Zian, Shen Tianshu's expression immediately became tangled.
"What's wrong?" Li Zian came to his senses after asking, "Did the contents of the embroidered screen come out?"
"Yes." Shen Tianshu nodded with a troubled expression.
Li Zian was a little confused at this time. Shouldn't this be related to the murder of the Jiang family?
He could understand that Shen Tianshu was not feeling well, but why did he always feel that the way she looked at him was strange?
"What happened? Isn't it convenient for you to tell me?" Li Zian sat down opposite her and asked.
Shen Tianshu took a deep breath and said, "Chunlan took the thing apart and I'll show it to you now.
"But you promise me, you must be calm and don't get excited when watching it."
Li Zi'an felt nervous. Could it be that the murder of the Jiang family had anything to do with Prince Rui's palace?
It shouldn’t be!
Not to mention that if there was such a big move, it would be impossible to hide it from myself.
If it was really someone from Prince Rui's Mansion who had done this, Shen Tianshu shouldn't have had this attitude at this time.
He nodded and said: "I'm not a child who has not experienced hardships. I have been through such big things as my father back then. What else can scare me?"
Before he finished speaking, Shen Tianshu took out a roll of bright yellow cloth from his sleeve.
Li Zian's heart suddenly tightened.
He was very familiar with this color. It was a color that only the emperor, empress and empress dowager could use.
Even Princess Fengrong and Prince Rui do not have such qualifications.
As for such familiar materials and decorations, as far as he knew, the only ones he knew were imperial edicts...
Li Zian reached out and took the thing handed over by Shen Tianshu. Just now he kept saying that he was not afraid, but now he couldn't even muster the courage to unfold it.
He took a deep breath and then gently unfolded the small roll of fabric in his hand.
As he expected, this was indeed an imperial edict, but it was only a part of it.
But if the bits and pieces of this part cannot be connected together, it is already shocking enough.
Words like "bloodline", "civet cat for prince", "deposed crown prince" and other words made Li Zi'an terrified.
Li Zian's hand holding the imperial edict began to tremble uncontrollably.
"Is this, is this the late emperor's edict?"
Li Zian and Shen Tianshu reached out to each other at the same time and asked in unison: "Are you okay?"
Then he shook his head at the same time and said, "It's okay."
This sudden tacit understanding made the atmosphere in the room a little more relaxed.
Li Zian looked at Shen Tianshu worriedly. Although he had not seen the complete edict, according to the scattered information currently available, someone should have confused the royal bloodline and was discovered by the late emperor. He wanted to correct the chaos but had not yet made it public. Something happened.
Could it be that the entire Jiang family was wiped out because they were involved in something like this, where their homes were confiscated and wiped out?
I just don’t know what role Dr. Jiang played in it.
Did he help the civet cat exchange for the crown prince, or did he later learn the truth and report it to the late emperor?
Shen Tianshu looked at Li Zian with worry at this time, and even asked: "Are you okay?"
Li Zian was confused by her question: "What can I do?"
"If someone really confuses the royal bloodline and even makes the former emperor want to depose the crown prince, then this person must be the first queen mother!
"In this way, if this imperial edict can be made known to the world early, wouldn't Prince Rui have a great chance of ascending to the throne?
"In that case you must already be the prince."
Li Zian did not expect that what worried Shen Tianshu was not the Jiang family's murder, but his reaction after seeing the edict.
"Are you stupid?" He stretched out his hand to rub Shen Tianshu's head again, "Why don't you think about it, the culprit who caused the Jiang family to be wiped out is probably the current emperor. How are you going to avenge the Jiang family?"
"You've messed up your hair." Shen Tianshu leaned back to avoid his hand, but his eyes still fell on his face.
Li Zian didn't say anything and looked back at her quietly.
When two people see the same thing, the first thing they think of is not themselves, but the other person.
Shen Tianshu thought he had a lot to ask before, but now he realized that it was no longer important.
"What good would it be if my father really became emperor back then? If I hadn't come to Huguang, I wouldn't have known you."
Shen Tianshu thought to himself, if your father had become the emperor back then, he might not have become the Shen Tianshu he is today. The two of them might have met in other identities a long time ago.
But in that case, it is indeed impossible for two people with too big a gap in age and status to develop into what they are today.
However, while Shen Tianshu was still thinking about all this, Li Zian already felt that something fishy was going on.
"This is wrong. If the late Queen Mother really confused the royal bloodline and even made the late emperor think about abolishing the throne, why didn't she burn the edict and actually divided it into several pieces and hid it? How about having someone take him out of the palace? Could this edict be fake?"
Shen Tianshu thought for a while and guessed: "Doesn't the Queen Mother have a younger son?"
"You mean, she hopes that Prince Ren can ascend the throne?"
Li Zian fell into deep thought.
Back then, the Queen Mother and Concubine Fengrong were found to be pregnant almost at the same time. Concubine Fengrong was favored at that time, and she gave birth to the second son of the emperor, who is now Prince Rui.
It would indeed make sense to say that the Queen Mother arranged a civet cat exchange for the prince in order to stabilize her position.
At that time, the main palace had two sons, and the eldest son was the current sage, Li Weiheng.
Li Weiheng studied hard since he was a child, and became an outstanding scholar. He was also mature and cautious, and was deeply loved by the late emperor and other ministers.
The youngest son Li Weisheng, now Prince Ren, was exactly the opposite of his elder brother. He had been naughty since he was a child, and after he had a little knowledge of human affairs, he began to live in debauchery.
Therefore, the only ones competing for the throne back then were Li Weiheng and Li Weitao, the current Prince of Rui. Li Weisheng was not at all considered by the late emperor and other ministers.
Later, Li Weiheng successfully secured the throne by virtue of his status as the legitimate son and the support of the Queen Mother's natal family.
When outsiders look at what happened back then, they basically think this way.
But in fact, Li Zian knew that from Princess Fengrong to Prince Rui, the two mothers had no intention of competing for the heir apparent.
The reason why they appear to be fighting for reserves is that they are advancing at the expense of retreating and seeking to protect themselves.
The better Prince Rui performed and the more outstanding he was, the more the Queen Mother became more and more cautious and did not dare to take action at will, so as not to taint Li Weiheng's originally smooth path to becoming the heir apparent.
Secondly, it was actually to gain more leverage to negotiate terms with the late emperor.
Therefore, after the late emperor gave Huguang to Li Weitao as a fief and named him Prince Rui, Li Weitao had no nostalgia for the power and life in the capital. As soon as the palace was built here, he immediately rushed to the fief with his wife and children.
In these years, except for returning to Beijing for the funeral when the late emperor passed away, and taking Princess Fengrong back to Huguang to support her, Li Weitao never returned to the capital at all.
However, in this way, the hostility of the Emperor and the other two princes towards Prince Rui's Palace in recent years seems to have a more reasonable explanation.
Now the late emperor has passed away many years ago, and the queen mother also traveled to Hexi a few years ago.
If someone really digs up old stories and proves that the emperor is not a bloodline of the late emperor, then the identity of Prince Ren Li Weisheng will definitely be questioned at the same time.
In this way, compared with Prince Li Weixiang, whose biological mother was of humble origin and herself weak and incompetent, Prince Rui, who had been working hard to manage the fiefdom in an orderly manner, was more likely to gain the support and support of the ministers.
But no matter what, this is not a trivial matter. Li Zian actually didn't know very much about many things that happened back then.
As for whether the fragments of this edict are true or false, and what the complete content is, they still need to be further explored and found.
Thinking of this, Li Zian couldn't sit still and stood up and said: "This matter is not trivial. I have to go back to the palace quickly and inform my grandmother and father about it."
After hearing this, Shen Tianshu turned to look at the clock in the corner, estimated the time in his mind, and nodded: "Go ahead, wear thicker clothes. If you don't delay on the way, you should be able to get in before the city gate closes."
Seeing that she didn't say anything about her health at this time, Li Zian couldn't help but leaned over and kissed her hard on the lips.
Then he grabbed the fragments of the imperial edict, put it in his arms, and left in a hurry.