After a long time, Li Lin put on his own clothes and said, "I would like to reiterate again, I am not the one who killed the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy!"
Liu Qingran lay naked on the bed as if she had lost her soul.
He stared at the ceiling blankly, not hearing what Li Lin said.
Only tears kept falling from the corners of his eyes.
Suddenly, a black shadow jumped in from the window. Looking at the blood on Li Lin's body, he immediately knelt on the ground with a guilty look on his face, "My lord, are you injured? This subordinate failed to protect him well and deserves death!"
"I don't blame you." Li Lin wiped the blood from his face and waved his hand.
This group of shadow guards was formed when he was crowned King of Qin, and each member is a top martial arts master.
The most important thing is that they are all orphans without fathers and mothers. They grew up with King Qin and are loyal to King Qin.
He is both a guard and a dead soldier!
"Did something happen?" Li Lin asked.
Under normal circumstances, shadow guards are responsible for guarding in the dark.
It's no big deal, and I basically won't show up on my own initiative.
"Back to His Highness King Qin, Concubine Dong and the deputy commander of the Forbidden Army came towards the palace with two hundred Forbidden Army soldiers."
"In addition, the prince and Lieutenant Huben led people to Yangxin Hall!"
Heiying pointed out the information concisely and concisely.
Li Lin was secretly surprised.
The Huben Army and the Forbidden Army are the only two armies in the imperial city. Whoever controls these two armies is equivalent to controlling the entire imperial city.
However, these two armies directly obeyed the emperor's orders and did not accept the control of other agencies such as the Ministry of War.
I really didn’t expect that the master behind the prince could actually do this!
In the past, Liu Qingran drugged and assassinated, and later Concubine Dong Guifei came to the Qin Palace with the imperial army. The purpose is self-evident.
But the Yangxin Hall is the residence of the emperor, and the prince went there with the Tiger Army in an upright manner. Could it be that he was plotting rebellion?
However, the emperor's health is deteriorating and he has been lying in bed unable to move recently.
As long as he endures, the throne will be his sooner or later, so why be so impatient?
The black shadow seemed to see through Li Lin's doubts, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, when my subordinates came back from the palace, they heard from the eunuchs in the palace that the commander of the Jin Yiwei secretly submitted a memorial last night, which may have something to do with this.
It’s related to something.”
"Commander of the Jinyi Guards?" Li Lin raised the corners of his mouth, revealing an expectant smile.
The Jinyiwei is an organization independent of the Six Ministries. Its main responsibility is to supervise all officials, and it has the power to kill first and report later.
The commander risked falling out with the prince, risking offending the future emperor, and still had to perform secretly all night long. This is enough to show that the two have irreconcilable conflicts!
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
It’s time to make friends with this commander of the Imperial Guard!
Tap tap tap tap!
At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside the palace.
More than a hundred well-trained Imperial Guards surrounded the Prince of Qin's Mansion, and no one was allowed to enter or exit.
Immediately afterwards, Concubine Dong Guifei and the deputy commander of the Forbidden Army entered the Qin Palace with dozens of remaining Forbidden Army soldiers.
As soon as she stepped into the threshold, she saw Concubine Dong holding the imperial edict high in her right hand and loudly shouted: "King Li Lin of Qin! Insulting the Crown Princess! It is a heinous crime! By His Majesty's decree! Kill on the spot! Everyone in the house is guilty of the same crime!"
"Kill!" the deputy commander of the Forbidden Army shouted in tacit cooperation, and then he drew his sword and started killing.
In fact, the two of them knew very well that there was no such imperial edict at all.
But a teacher can’t be unknown, even if he is given a label, it must be justified.
Anyway, as long as the prince ascends the throne, there will naturally be decades or hundreds of years to rewrite history.
At that time, Li Lin's suppression by the prince will become a historical fact!
As the Forbidden Army carried out the massacre, the palace of Prince Qin wailed and screamed endlessly.
Concubine Dong Guifei and the deputy commander came straight to Li Lin's residence. When they saw him standing there indifferently, there was not much surprise on their faces, "I guessed that the girl couldn't succeed, and I had to do it myself in the end!"
Li Lin smiled and looked at Concubine Dong Gui up and down.
Although he is nearly forty years old, he still looks very young.
Coupled with that stunning appearance, it’s no wonder that the old emperor was so fascinated that he almost made her his queen!
"I really don't understand what the Commander of the Jinyiwei told His Majesty that could make you jump over the wall in such a hurry?" Li Lin didn't feel nervous about being surrounded at all, but asked the question in an unusually free and easy manner.
Concubine Dong Gui turned to look at the deputy commander and saw him nodding. After confirming that there were no ambushes around, the last trace of worry in her heart dissipated, "Humph! The commander of the Jin Yiwei is a mad dog that can bite people at any time!"
"But he was also very lucky. He actually found out the case of the death of the former prince ten years ago, the case of the empress falling into the lake, and also solved the case of the Hanlin Academy scholar, etc."
"But he never thought that all the cronies around the old emperor would be replaced by my own, and that the secret message would not fall into the hands of the old emperor at all!"
Li Lin suddenly stood up, staring at Concubine Dong Guifei with burning eyes, and his fists clenched loudly!
The former prince was the eldest son of the old emperor, but he died unexpectedly when he was twelve years old. Not long after, the queen also fell into the lake.
These two things were investigated for a long time, but no results were found, and they were finally defined as accidents.
The commander of the Jinyi Guards was the adopted son of the queen, and the queen was very kind to him.
From then on, the second-eldest prince succeeded to the throne and was the son of Concubine Dong.
"You killed the prince and the queen for the sake of ascending to the throne, but what about the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy? He has never done any substantial harm to you, right?" Li Lin's voice was deliberately louder, just to make Liu Qingran on the bed listen.
clear.
"That stubborn old man exposes the Crown Prince every now and then. He wants to let everyone in the world know that the Crown Prince is not worthy of his role. How can I tolerate him?" Concubine Dong Gui seemed to be telling an ordinary thing.
She planned that incident herself, and she originally planned to blame Li Lin, and all the evidence was ready.
As long as it is exposed, it is irrefutable evidence and cannot be washed away no matter what.
But the master behind them did not advise them to do that, because the prince and the queen had just passed away, and if they did too much and were eager for quick success, they would easily be suspected.
Therefore, the case of Hanlin Academy's bachelor has become an unsolved case.
Tick!
Tick!
Liu Qingran knelt naked on the bed, tears pouring down her cheeks uncontrollably.
She covered her face with both hands and cried bitterly but did not make a sound.
What is more painful than missing the opportunity for revenge is that I have been played like a fool for the past seven years.
It turns out that the so-called enemies are actually the prince and concubine whom he has always respected!
If she hadn't heard Concubine Dong say these words with her own ears, she would never have believed them!
Concubine Dong Gui raised her head and saw Liu Qingran under the curtains. There was no pity on her face, but only a joking look on her face. Then she changed the subject and said, "Having said so much, you can go on your way!"