"She came back soon after going out?" Lan Qi singled out Min Chang's words and asked her again, "Are you sure she didn't go far?"
Min Changzai nodded and said: "Xiaoyu came in and told me that Brother Eleven came here and wondered if he wanted to play with our princess. I asked her to take a look, and she saw noble Jue Chan leading Brother Eleven.
Brother went out again, but before Xiaoyu came to tell me, Guiren came back again, I guess he just sent Brother Eleven to the door."
Lan Qi asked: "Was there anyone else around Brother Eleven at that time?"
Min Chang shook his head: "Xiaoyu only saw the child. As for whether there was someone outside the door, she didn't know."
"If Brother Eleven is alone, why would Noble Master Juechan let him out alone at night? She should have sent him back to Yikun Palace properly. Even if she didn't want to see Concubine Yi, she should have been escorted by her subordinates.
." Lan Qi put her chin in one hand and thought, "She is still cautious. She was not the one who sent Ba Fu Jin back to Ningshou Palace. A little girl she doesn't recognize is like this, let alone Jin Gui's brothers."
Min Changzai said, "But maybe Brother Eleven doesn't want her to follow. Aren't they playing hide-and-seek? Besides, Brother Eleven knows the way, which is different from Ba Fujin at that time."
Lan Qi's mind was agitated, and she thought to herself that Brother Eleven was fine in Yanxi Palace that night. It was so far from Yanxi Palace to the place where he was killed. What happened to him all the way from Yanxi Palace?
?
He couldn't help but told Min Changzai in a deep tone: "Just pretend that nothing happened and take good care of Dun Ke. Wen Ke is doing well in Yikun Palace. I won't treat Thirteen badly when she is here. Maybe she will be in the harem."
There will be more strange things. What matters is the safety of ourselves and our children. It has nothing to do with us if other people break their heads and tear their faces."
Min Changzai smiled quietly: "I will listen to you."
Fortunately, Min Changzai often brought the princess to Yonghe Palace, and Lan Qi did not let Jue Chan think that Xing'er came here to tell her something. Now more and more people are involved, but she can't believe anyone. What on earth is the prince doing?
Whether he lied or not, and what exactly Jue Chan did, are all mysteries.
Huan Chun helped his master to inquire about various information, so Lan Qi naturally wanted to communicate with her. She mentioned that the last person who might have seen the healthy Brother Eleven that night was Noble Master Jue Chan. Huan Chun said: "Since Xiao Yu saw Noble Master Jue Chan
She came back soon, and at least what happened next should have nothing to do with her."
Lan Qi shook her head and said uneasily: "She can come back immediately, and she can also go out immediately, just so that Xiaoyu can see her, so what if she doesn't see her? There are so few people in Yanxi Palace, and the two of them agreed to live in the back.
It would be easy for her to hide herself from others, so she cannot be trusted."
There was a look of fear on Huan Chun's face, and he said in disbelief: "But why did Lord Jue Chan kill Brother Eleven?"
"It's just that I don't understand, that's why I find it scary. As for the prince, it's the same. They have no reason to kill the child. Now that Concubine Yi and Concubine Hui have divorced each other, she still treats her meanly from time to time. What else can tie her up? Killing someone should be done."
For what? Either to cover up something or to instigate something. I can’t think of any benefits that can be derived from this." Lan Qi rubbed her head, complaining that she was not smart enough, and said softly, "
I don’t want to hide it from the emperor and investigate on my own, in case I anger him later, or if I do it half-heartedly, I will make him even more angry."
Huan Chun said with a smile: "If the empress goes to find Long Live Lord, I will be relieved. No matter how powerful I am, I can't match the vast connections of Eunuch Liang. I will always be slow to investigate things."
Lan Qi asked Huan Chun to rub her shoulders, frowned and said, "What do you think the emperor is doing now? Except for a few words he said to me in Yikun Palace that day, we have never had a good conversation."
Huan Chun smiled and asked: "Your Majesty, do you want to be the emperor again?"
Lan Qi glared at her: "The Emperor is what I think about every day. It's best if he is by my side every day."
Huan Chun asked again: "Then have you made up your mind? Do you want to tell the emperor about this?"
Lan Qi leaned down softly and muttered: "It's because I have to involve my fourth brother that I can't let go. If it's something that has nothing to do with me, how can I care about it?" Her voice was muffled, but she finally did it.
He made a decision, "I will go see the emperor tomorrow."
As a result, early the next morning, the emperor suddenly took the prince and several elder brothers to Nanyuan. He suddenly decided that several adult elder brothers and those who were studying in the study followed him, saying that they would be back in two or three days. But if
I want to go somewhere again, just like in summer, who knows when I will get home.
Everyone in the palace said that the emperor left because of Concubine Yi's entanglement. Lan Qi herself was a little disappointed at first, but not long after the emperor set off that day, a young eunuch under Eunuch Liang secretly came to Yonghe Palace and spread the emperor's message.
, I want Concubine De to stay in Yonghe Palace these days and try not to go out. No matter what the reason is, don’t worry about outside affairs and take a good rest for a few days.
Lan Qi was very surprised, but the little eunuch who passed the message was indeed a trustworthy person under Eunuch Liang, and she recognized it herself, and the little eunuch chased after the emperor after passing the message, let alone making up lies. Moreover, if
Why did she not go out because of the lies that were harmful to her? Wasn't it because going out would cause "trouble"?
"What does the emperor want to do?" Huan Chun didn't understand.
"He always has his intentions." Lan Qi seemed to understand, but also didn't seem to understand, as if many things were spinning in her mind, but she couldn't grasp the most important point.
But since Xuan Ye knew what was going to happen in the palace these days and told her not to go out in advance, it was obvious that he was doing something in the palace or waiting for others to do something. It was probably for Brother Eleven.
's death.
However, for a few days that she thought she would be awakened, nothing strange happened in the palace. Lan Qi was inexplicably locked up in Yonghe Palace for a few days. Later, the concubine of Yuqing Palace gave birth.
Concubine Lin successfully gave birth to a younger brother for the prince, and the heirs were prosperous in the Yuqing Palace. The good news spread outside the palace, and the emperor returned to Luan with his sons.
Lan Qi learned from Thirty-Four that Huang Ama took them to ride horses and shoot arrows in Nanyuan, and they were together every day. They were very happy. The two little guys didn't even think about going home, and they were very unhappy when they came back.
Lan Qi knew that Shi Shi was impatient and would get into trouble if she asked him some questions, so she asked the gentle Yin Xiang alone later on who among the brothers played with whom when they were in Nanyuan. Brother Thirteen proudly said
Said: "I have been with my fourth brother."
Lan Qi smiled and said, "Eniang knows that you and fourth brother are close, but where is fourth brother?"
Yinxiang said: "The fourteenth brother is also with us." From his words, Lan Qi knew that her three sons and the third elder brother were always together, while the eighth elder brother, the ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother
The three elder brothers were together. The fifth elder brother, the seventh elder brother and the twelfth elder brother were together, and the prince and the eldest elder brother were with the emperor.
"Brother Ninth and Brother Ten follow Brother Eight every day. When we were in the study, we took Brother Eleven and they were together almost all the time. As long as you see one of them, you will definitely see the others." Yinxiang was very happy.
He told Lan Qi carefully and said with some sadness, "It's a pity that Brother Eleven is gone."
Lan Qi touched his head. Little Thirteenth was a kind-hearted child. He cried several times in the days after Brother Eleven was gone. He obviously didn’t have much contact with each other. In the study room, the brothers had already gathered together.
They were together, but because of their brothers, he was very sad.
"Mom, Brother Ninth is so pitiful. Ever since Brother Eleven passed away, he seems to have become a different person. He used to be easy-going in the study, but now he is so fierce that he doesn't even smile at us."
Lan Qi comforted the child and said: "Brothers are naturally more serious as they grow up. Yinxiang is also an older brother. In the future, when the fifteen and sixteen younger brothers in Qixiang Palace grow up, you have to help Huang Ama teach them."
Brother Thirteen seriously promised his mother: "I will be a good brother like Brother Four." As the child spoke, he turned around and suddenly saw his father standing in front of the door. Neither mother nor son knew when he came. Thirteen
Brother quickly came over to salute Ama, Lan Qi followed, Xuan Ye raised his hand to signal her to excuse herself.
When his son got up, Xuan Ye sat down and asked his son to stand in front of him, and said to him in a slightly serious tone: "This time when we go to Nanyuan, you and the fourteenth brother are the youngest, and your riding and shooting skills are not that good. I don't blame you, but in the future
Fifteen or sixteen, when you grow up, if you don't see your brother's heroic appearance, who will convince you?"
Yinxiang couldn't help but lowered his head, and his father continued: "Sixteen is younger than you, and his strength in drawing a bow and setting an arrow is stronger than you. You are so weak and inexperienced. It is now October, and I will come back before the twelfth lunar month.
I'll test your archery skills. If you're still that bad, go get the bat yourself."
There was fear on Yinxiang's face, so Lan Qi came over and hugged the child, comforting him: "Yinxiang will make progress if he studies hard, even if it's just a little bit of progress, step by step will last long, let's take our time."
Xuan Ye glanced at Lan Qi, but Lan Qi took Yin Xiang away and sent him to the door to ask him to go to Ningshou Palace to pay respects to the Queen Mother. When he turned around again, the emperor was already lying down crookedly.
"Are you bumping while riding?" Lan Qi came up and asked, but Xuan Ye said lazily, "It's not hurt, just tired."
Lan Qi hummed and was about to ask him if he wanted tea or if he was hungry, but Xuan Ye asked her instead: "You haven't left the palace these days, have you?"
After saying this, it turned out that the emperor did not allow her to go out. Lan Qi agreed and asked casually: "What does the emperor want to investigate? But there is nothing happening in the palace these days."
Xuan Ye frowned and said displeasedly: "It's true that nothing happened. I originally thought that someone would destroy evidence or create evidence when I and the prince were not around. In the end, there was no movement, or someone killed someone."
The murderer had enough restraint, or Yinxu really died in an accident."
Listening to these words, Lan Qi was convinced. Sure enough, Xuan Ye was investigating, and she planned to tell the emperor everything on her mind. But thinking about what Xuan Ye had just said, he mentioned destroying evidence or creating evidence. Could it be that the emperor already knew about the prince?
Or is someone else involved?
Xuan Ye said in a deep tone: "I would rather believe that Yin Huang died in an accident. The brothers went crazy that night, and he ran there to hide. From where he fell, there was something on the stone pier.
The blood stains were probably left when he hit his head when he fell."