Chapter 367 – Where did you get your information from?
Now what Huo Xiu and the Emperor said within the mansion before, Zhao Su has heard all of it, ten years ago the Emperor fell down the stone cave in the paddock, Huo Xiu watched from the beginning to the end from the shadows, that is to say, that one old woman who saved the Emperor, Huo Xiu also saw.
Zhao Su knows that this matter is the emperor’s heart robbery, did not expect now accidentally one more clue, of course, can not let go. However, her entire mind was focused on the cause of the death of the eldest princess, and she didn’t realize that the emperor’s mind was so agile that he had already thought about this matter.
Door over there came the light, stood for a moment’s effort, Han Jun and Huo Xiu has folded back. Here then immediately went into the palace to meet Empress Dowager Lu. The emperor still only let Zhao Su follow, and Zhao Sum and the others stayed outside the palace.
A group of people watched the emperor enter the palace until the palace gate closed, before Zhao Sum arched his hand with Marquis Jingnan: “Uncle Yu has also worked hard tonight.”
“Where are your words?” Marquis Jingnan waved his hand, “I’m just coincidental. I just came to invite Qinglian and ran into this. I hope the person is fine.” After he finished speaking, he added, “How could Qinglian be with His Majesty? Could it be that the Emperor has a message for tonight?”
“I’m not too sure about this, I met them by chance as well.” Zhao Sum responded vaguely, his gaze sweeping towards the hem of Marquis Jingnan’s garment, and smiled again, “Uncle Yu still has nighttime errands?”
Marquis Jingnan was wearing a gold embroidered brocade robe, revealing a small square of black trouser legs, although in the light under the light, but also can be seen tailored to fit, very sharp.
“Oh,” Marquis Jingnan pulls the slightly widened robe legs together, “I intend to go out of the city later to go to the Tun camp, to see how the defense of the various camps of the capital around the festival. It’s getting late, and I think the Emperor doesn’t need us, so why don’t you and I go back to our homes and wait for news.”
Zhao Yu arched his hand: “Uncle Yu is right, then my nephew will be here to see you off.”
Marquis Jingnan nodded, turned on his horse, looked at him and then turned his horse toward the street.
Su Tang went forward and pulled Zhao Sum’s horse: “Son, let’s go back to the house too?”
“No.” Zhao Yuan took his gaze back from the street, “We’ll go to the Huo family.”
“To the Huo family?”
“Yes. Let’s go see if Han Jun has anything to help.”
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It’s long past bedtime in the palace, but Ci Ning Palace is still bright at this time.
The emperor and his entourage arrived at Ci Ning Palace, signaling Huo Xiu and Zhao Su to stand outside the door first, he crossed the door and went in, calling out to Empress Dowager Lu, who was sitting cross-legged on the couch, “Empress Mother.”
“Where is Sister Yu?” Empress Dowager Lu stood up almost simultaneously.
“The person is still being looked for. Empress Mother, something else changed just now.”
The emperor sat down on the edge of the couch.
Empress Dowager Lu frowned: “What kind of change?”
“About imperial aunt.”
The curtains in the hall are hanging down, blocking part of the light and shadow, but also as if the sound is also blocked. This set off the hipped corridor is particularly silent. Zhao Su turned his head to look at Huo Xiu, the man who had just failed in his plot and then suffered the accident of his only relative, at the moment standing in front of him like a black tower, silent and withdrawn.
Zhao Su would like to say something to him, after all, there are also many words want to ask a question, but there are a lot of distractions, do not know which sentence to ask first, even if asked also do not know whether he will answer, then also follow the silence.
So this is not long, that hanging curtains raised a slight wave, Empress Dowager Lu was the first to come out from the inside, the head shook the clattering of the step.
“Peony brother, you come in.”
Huo Xiu nicknamed Hyun, heard the Empress Dowager Lu sent word, Huo Xiu reflexively opened his mouth, but finally did not say anything, lifted his step to cross in, saluted.
“His Majesty said, so many years, you think your mother is my death?”
Empress Lu’s voice is smooth and strong, but listen carefully, there is still a hint of trembling behind.
Huo Xiu looked at the emperor, and did not avoid, said: “this more than ten years, I have all kinds of evidence and clues, are pointing to the palace. Based on when my mother was in the Queen Dowager strongly persuaded to go to war, I can only think that she died, is with the Queen Dowager relationship is very big.”
“You this confused!” Empress Dowager Lu said offhandedly, “Who told you that I persuaded her to go on the expedition just to let her go to her death? Have you ever thought about it, if I am afraid of the merits, then your mother is the royal family, is a woman, holding the government to jeopardize the dynasty and so on, it is not her turn at all! She set up again, but also just a woman, there are countless people will keep the rituals do not allow her to enter the court as an official, not allow her to participate in politics, she a princess, there is no way that there will be the identity strength of the royal prince!
“In other words, if she has formed such a hidden trouble, then it shows that the world of women at that time was already very status, women’s contribution can already be recognized by the world! And since they have such a status, what need is there for me to create the Flower Moon Society? Even if I were to make a name for myself, why would I go toe-to-toe with so many worldly hard-liners for this?”
Empress Lu’s eyes were filled with incredulity.
Huo Xiu raised his head, “Then what exactly are you doing to persuade my mother to go on the expedition? If it was for the sake of the women of the world to set her up as a benchmark, then why didn’t you order a thorough investigation into her death after she died? By sending so many generals with her, you knew that the battle was a sure thing, or else your claim that she was going to earn her honor would have been untenable? So when my mother died like that, didn’t you feel something strange?”
Empress Dowager Lu slowly straightened her waist and looked deeply at him, “You know that I went to persuade your mother, you know how many people I sent, but you don’t know if I sent anyone to check afterward?”
Huo Xiu’s face tenses into an iron plate.
Empress Lu twisted her head, “Luo Yun go and bring out the dossier from back then when the people I sent finished checking on the Eldest Princess’s remains.”
Luo Yun behind her jawed and retreated behind the curtain.
Not long after, a not so thin dossier was fetched.
Empress Lu took it, sat down and continued to look at Huo Xiu: “Take a look, even if the content is fake, the ink stains on this paper will not be fake, you have read the book, I think you can also recognize that this book is really some years old, or I am looking for someone to fake it temporarily.”
This volume has not only yellowed, and has been less weighty than the new book, with the oxidation of the paper, at least half has been lighter.
Although it is a cross over big heroine, can open many hang-ups, in fact, it is impossible to all-round let her give a subversion. Forging paper documents and these things, Zhao Su believed that she did not have the energy to delve into.
Sure enough, Huo Xiu took it in his hands and flipped through a few pages before hesitation surfaced in his tangled eyes.
“If you don’t think this is fake, then look again at what’s written inside, does it match the facts you know?” Empress Lu gestured again.
Huo Xiu’s facial muscles quivered slightly as he flipped it open again to read the contents.
The more he read, the more ugly his face became.
Even turned over three times, one time slower than the other, in the end, he closed the book and raised his head, “How do I not know about this?”
“And where did you get the information you know from?”
“It is the people around mother!”