Chapter 365: If you have the guts ……
“Are you sure it’s the guards?”
Zhao Su immediately asked when she heard him say that.
If the guards were involved, this was a very serious issue. As the people closest to the Emperor, the guards should each be the Emperor’s inner circle. When Zhao Su had stayed in the forbidden guards department for a short period of time, but she had dealt with almost everyone and knew that they were all people who knew their roots, and in modern terms, they were rooted in the right place. With the stability of the court, the chances of these people having problems should be none.
“Rather, I’m not sure yet.” The emperor said, “Han Jun and your father have been investigating together for a long time and haven’t found any guards to be problematic, I’m just saying that those who acted on that day, if they were guards then they have the conditions to commit the crime. But in addition, it is not to say that there is no person who can act, for example, you know that I am not particularly strict on the rules of courtiers into the palace on weekdays, basically there is something to look for me, as long as I’m not particularly busy, that almost all can see. Entering the palace in the daytime, the generals under the palace gates recognize the identity of the courtiers, and will not be overly obstructive.”
Because the emperor ascended to the throne only three years, the harem and not yet have concubines, the palace of the noble family in total to Lu dowager one, and Lu dowager also have a special place to meet with foreign ministers, so when the courtiers knocking to see the emperor on weekdays is not as difficult as other dynasties so much trouble.
Then the clues come: “So you can put the day into the palace courtiers, all out of the list to check once, so you can circle the suspect object!”
She knew that each palace gate would have made a detailed record of the people who entered and left the palace gate that day.
“What you said is very right, but coincidentally, the book that recorded the list for those days, is missing.”
“Where did it go?”
“Lost. The general who lost it was Ding Yuan General Fu Yong. He is still locked up in the Heavenly Prison.”
“Did he confess?”
The emperor shook his head, “He always said that he only dozed off during his duty and the book hanging on the wall disappeared.”
That book every day to remember, a year down I do not know how many books to write off, the original is not very important things, but to this point, it has become a more critical evidence. And it is lost, this can say there is nothing fishy?
The more he said, the more reliable the emperor’s speculation became, there was someone hiding behind this, perhaps he was the one who created Huo Xiu’s hatred towards Empress Lu! More than likely, he was also the one who killed the Eldest Princess with his own hands!
“Your Majesty!”
The carriage that had driven smoothly into the city gates suddenly slowed down, and Liang Ying at the front of the carriage was reporting in a low voice, “Marquis Jingnan has come over.”
The emperor was disturbed and slightly upset: “How does he know I’m here?” Thinking that it was impossible for Liang Ying to know, he waved his hand, “Send him over.”
Liang Ying said yes. Not long after that, there was the sound of clear footsteps traveling to the front, and under the window came the steady voice of Marquis Jingnan: “I refer to Your Majesty!”
Zhao Su looked through the window of his side of the car, the city gates are still standing by, his father, Marquis Qingyun, and the previous generals are still present to patrol the city, and those people who were detained and dispersed in shock have all returned to squatting in the same place, everything has returned to its original state.
“What?”
Hearing the Emperor raise his voice with these two words, Zhao Su twisted his head to look their way. I don’t know what Marquis Jingnan had said, but the emperor’s expression became grave again, and he even got up and got off the carriage, “When did this happen? Was no one present at that time?”
Zhao Su hurriedly followed down to the ground, “What happened?”
Marquis Jingnan glanced at her and then said, “County Lord Yanping was taken away just now, and the Wei Yuan Marquis’ residence is in chaos! On the contrary, Qinglian doesn’t know where she went-”
“What happened to Sister Yu?!”
Huo Xiu rushed out from the carriage that was following closely behind him, and under the moonlight, his face, which hadn’t changed throughout the night, had abruptly turned white.
“Alas, where on earth did you go? Sister Yu is gone!” Marquis Jingnan anxiously repeats, “The Huo family is now in chaos, waiting for you to go back to get ideas, can’t find you, I just came to invite you to the Yu family tomorrow night to enjoy the moon, heard the news and immediately brought people out to look for it! When I came here and said you were out of town, I was about to send someone to find you!”
Huo Xiu’s face instantly turned greenish gray again, “Who did this?” After saying this, he immediately opened his eyes angrily to look at the emperor.
The emperor glared at the people around him, forcing them to take several steps back, and then without saying a word, he grabbed Huo Xiu’s wrist and returned to his own carriage, pulling the curtains back and saying in a pressurized voice: “Are you playing a trick on us tonight?”
“Of course not! What good is it to me and to what I’m about to do for me to rob Sister Yu!” Huo Xiu was also struggling with a low growl, “I want to go back, I want to save her!”
The emperor dragged him back, gritting his teeth and saying word for word, “Since you’re not the one who’s playing a trick, where are you going to save her now? Do you know where she is?!”
Huo Xiu was in a rage and didn’t utter a word.
The emperor said, “You want to rush into the palace to find my mother, don’t you? You think she did it, don’t you? But if she wanted to hold Sister Yu hostage, did she need to go through all this trouble?
“Keep your eyes open and see clearly, this must be someone’s secret work! This person did the backstabbing during the sword fight between you and me, and then took Sister Yu’s child away at a time like tonight, don’t you understand what he’s doing? He’s the scariest of all. He’s been doing all these tricks to confuse you. He wants you to lose your mind! Because he knows that Sister Yu’er is already your only family, how important kinship is to you! The hatred you’ve been holding back for years will drive you to do something again!”
Huo Xiu clenched his fists, his whole body tensing into a bow as if looking down at the ground.
The emperor gritted his teeth, “What did he do those hooks for? What does he wish to see now? It’s for you and I to deepen our misunderstandings, so deep that it’s unresolvable! It’s best to make you provoke me and kill you in a fit of rage! If you die, there will be no one left in the Huo family to uncover the cause of your mother’s death, and I’ll be accused of killing all the loyalists, just as you said you would! At that time, Sister Yu will be alone in the world, she will hate us to death, and she will not accept our concern, she is a family member of a guilty official, no matter what, no one will dare to take her in, no matter what kind of end she falls into, it will be a living proof that I am thin-skinned and unsympathetic!”
Huo Xiu’s voice is hoarse: “Even if you don’t kill me, I don’t think you’ll forgive my so-called ‘crimes’!”
“I will indeed not forgive you!”
The emperor suddenly let go of his hand and pushed him, his eyes as cold as ice, “But I will not discuss the crime right now. If you have the guts, if you truly only want to find out the truth about your mother’s death, then give me a stagger! If you have the guts, if you really want to find out the truth about your mother’s death, then get up, and honestly work with me to get to the bottom of this matter,” he said!
“If you don’t have the guts, get out of the car right now and go do what you think is right for you and what you think is right for you! The most I can do is to fight to carry this reputation of being thin-skinned and unsympathetic!”