The emperor finally relaxed, leaned lazily on the Luohan couch, and looked at a book of poems from a famous calligrapher.

Qin Tianjian finally set the date of the prince's marriage.

There are so many days in a month, but I can't choose an auspicious day for the prince, so I have to settle for the next best thing and choose a July 12 - a day that is only suitable for marriage.

He directly asked the chamberlains around him to pass on the message to the queen, the East Palace, the yamen, and the Weiguo Mansion, telling them to prepare as soon as possible, and to keep everything simple, and not to allow extravagance and waste.

After hearing that Empress Cai and Duchess Weiguo knew the news, they were so angry that they almost fainted.

This is undoubtedly an insult to the crown prince and the second daughter of the Duke of Weiguo, but who asked this noble prince of the Great Zhou to do such an ugly thing and provoke the people of the capital?

Can't make up for anything else?

He believed that even if Empress Cai and Duchess Wei Guo had a thousand grievances, they could grit their teeth with bitterness and hold the wedding.

At the same time, it is also a beating on the Cai and Xue families, who have formed a good relationship between Qin and Jin, to let them know that this world belongs to the Puyang clan, and their life and death, honor and disgrace are in his hands, and they must not step on a certain bottom line.

Thinking of this, the emperor sneered, and when he picked up the tea bowl and was about to take a sip, he found that the tea was already cold, so he called the waiter to change it.

Geng Fang, the waiter who was waiting closely, walked close with his head down, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped, and accidentally bumped into the teapot when pouring tea, and the crisp sound attracted the emperor's attention.

"Something to say." He has always disliked the people around him hiding it.

Geng Fang sighed softly helplessly, and told the emperor the news that the spies outside had heard, "In the Digong Temple in Lantian County, where refugees were treated, someone poisoned and murdered refugees, intending to give the King of Chu the name of an 'ominous person', but fortunately he was found out. After this person was arrested, on the way to Jingzhao Mansion, he shouted loudly, saying that he was bribed by the wife of General Zhuo of the Long Wu Army, and because he couldn't swallow the breath of the prince's accident, he wanted to frame the king of Chu. ”

The emperor looked displeased, "I remember that Zhuo Shen, the general of the Long Wu Army, is not the second brother of the queen's eldest sister's husband?" ”

"The emperor is right." Geng Fang snorted.

The emperor's face was slightly gloomy, "Ridiculous! ”

Although it was just a family opinion, he knew that the Cai family could do such a thing.

A few days after the prince's accident, he humiliated the prince and beat the queen so much, but he didn't expect it to be useless.

"Geng Fang, you send someone to watch the villain, and then ask the relevant people to enter the palace, and I will personally interrogate."

Xue Jinyi and King Chu hurried back to the capital in a hurry, deliberately detoured back to Changxingfang, and entered the palace with the eldest princess who received the news.

Outside the Liangyi Palace, Second Lady Zhuo stood at the foot of the steps with an expressionless face, her eyes flickered when she saw the eldest princess, and then she saluted her in an emotionless tone.

The eldest princess already knew about the matter on the way here, but when she saw Second Lady Zhuo, she had a faint smile on her face, and her eyebrows were kind, "If there is such a thing, there must be some misunderstanding, let's go to the emperor and make it clear." ”

Her attitude made Second Lady Zhuo a little stunned.

Their every move was watched by the attendants outside the hall, and after a while, Geng Fang came out and invited them in.

The emperor sat behind the imperial case, looked at them indifferently and saluted, and asked the chamberlain to move a chair for the eldest princess.

Empress Cai took a secret breath and glanced at her sister.

Second Lady Zhuo made up her mind, but she just used a small trick on the unfavored King of Chu, and accidentally made a fuss in the capital, and the emperor should ask about it, as long as she insisted that she had nothing to do with herself, it would be difficult to find evidence anyway.

The emperor glanced at the crowd, "I have already heard about the Land Gong Temple, I want to hear what the King of Chu has to say first?" ”

The eldest princess spoke: "Jinyi told me that some of the new refugees from the Land Gong Temple did not look right, and they were afraid that the gangsters had mixed in, so they asked someone to watch carefully, and then asked me how to deal with it." ”

When Mrs. Zhuo heard this, her heart tightened, it turned out that they knew about it a few days ago?

Faintly, she didn't feel quite right.

The eldest princess continued, "I don't think the evidence is enough, so I shouldn't have startled the snake first, or wronged a good person, so I asked Xuan'er and Jinyi to wait first." However, just in case, I taught them how to lure the snake out of the hole, Xuan'er and Jinyi did it, and actually made the villain show his fierce appearance, he thought that after he succeeded, he escaped from the Land Gong Temple, Xuan'er sent someone to chase him, and he was lucky to arrest him, and wanted to interrogate clearly, why did he poison innocent refugees, who would have thought ......"

Her gaze glanced at Mrs. Zhuo Er, intentionally or unintentionally.

Second Lady Zhuo said coldly: "The eldest princess, the concubine is the wife of Zhuo Shen, the general of the Longwu Army, and the Longwu Army protects the safety of the royal family, how could she do such a dirty thing?!" ”

The eldest princess said with a smile: "Second Lady Zhuo, don't panic, don't you invite the emperor to come forward to administer justice for everyone?" ”

Second Lady Zhuo looked at Empress Cai.

Empress Cai helped, "Your Majesty, the concubine's family is a famous family, and her family education has been very strict since she was a child, where do you recognize such a villain, is it that someone deliberately framed him, or ......"

She looked at the eldest princess meaningfully, "a bitter meat plan" did not say, but everyone understood the meaning.

The eldest princess still smiled calmly, "Why didn't Queen Cai finish her words, or what?" ”

Empress Cai choked.

This aunt is really, do you have to let her say unpleasant things and lose face?

The emperor coughed lightly and told Empress Cai, who was just about to open her mouth, to shut up obediently.

He asked, "Did my aunt teach the eldest daughter of King Chu and Duke Weiguo?" Now it seems that they are doing a good job. ”

His eagle-like sharp and gloomy gaze fell on Xue Jinyi and King Chu, the two of them lowered their eyebrows and pleasing their eyes, standing silently as they should, looking very sensible and obedient, and very honest.

The eldest princess said: "To do such a thing, you don't have to be scheming and lay a few traps. Sometimes, a simple method that can be done well by a fool is the most effective, so why bother thinking about anything? ”

Jinyi said that she couldn't let the emperor know that the idea was made by her and the king of Chu, and the eldest princess also thought so-

The Cai clan is powerful, they are weak, and the king of Chu still needs to be obscure, and he can't let outsiders know about his talents.

Moreover, the emperor definitely doesn't like them to have so many calculations and scheming in this regard, and Empress Cai will also have more precautions and murders against them.

So it's better for her, the eldest princess who has participated in court politics, to come forward, so that these people don't think about it.

Then, she restrained her smile, her face was solemn, and she said sternly: "I am in charge of the resettlement of refugees, someone is plotting to kill refugees, ostensibly to frame the King of Chu, but I think it is actually aimed at me, the eldest princess!" ”