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"What do you think about this?"

Kangxi looked at the other people in the room, asking for their thoughts and also testing them.

Naturally, the prince would not miss this opportunity to weaken Prince Zhi's faction, so he knelt down immediately and expressed his thoughts.

"Father, I think the stolen goods are here. I won't allow Old Eight to argue. If this thing is not his, why did it appear in his house?"

Kangxi didn't react to this and turned to look at others.

Prince Zhi knelt down, feeling somewhat uneasy, and secretly guessed what the emperor was thinking, "Father, I cannot directly determine whether the eighth brother is innocent based on this thing. It is better to send someone to continue investigating."

"Old Four, you go ahead."

Kangxi directly mentioned Yinzhen's name.

Yinzhen walked forward neither humbly nor arrogantly and knelt on the ground side by side with the other three.

"Father, I think that regardless of whether this thing was made by Old Eighth or not, and whether it was his subjective intention, the result is that you have been injured and should be punished. As for the other things, we need to investigate them carefully."

"But as far as I know, the Eighth Master traveled a long way from the west to find a Buddhist shrine some time ago. I wonder if it has any connection with this evil object."

The leader who had just come back with the gift confirmed his idea, "Your Majesty, there is only this one shrine in the residence of the Eighth Prince. As for whether it is the one that the Eighth Prince had traveled thousands of miles to find, I don't know."

Kangxi asked around, and except for the ninth prince, no one thought that Yinsi was completely innocent in this matter.

"Old Eight, you said that the matter of the Buddhist shrine was such a coincidence. I want to hear your explanation."

Yinsi opened his mouth again and again, wanting to say something but unable to explain. The shrine held other secrets that could not withstand scrutiny, but if he was to accept the punishment, he would not be willing...

His fingers turned white from the effort he put on the ground, and a chill ran down his back for no reason. "I would like to ask Commander Zhang, who is going to investigate, where is the evil object in the Buddhist shrine?"

Commander Zhang glanced at Kangxi's expression and only spoke after seeing him nod, "It was in the secret compartment of the shrine. It was a coincidence. If a wild cat hadn't suddenly appeared and kept hissing and scratching at that place, I might not have found it."

Yinsi's face turned even paler because of his words, his lips were bleeding from being bitten, his shoulders slumped slightly, and he seemed to have become hopeless in an instant.

"Father, I may have made a serious mistake."

He knelt and took a few steps forward, knocked his head on the ground, and when he raised his head again, tears were streaming down his face. "I think what Fourth Brother said makes sense. Maybe I really did it unintentionally. It has only been a few days since I brought back the shrine, and I have not personally checked it. Maybe the evil thing has been hidden in it all along, and it is not impossible that it was brought back by my men--"

"Now, I can't explain the origin of this thing, and Your Majesty's health has been damaged by it. I am guilty and willing to accept the punishment. I only ask Your Majesty to give me a chance to atone for my sins and let me stay by your side to take care of you until you are healthy again."

Every word he spoke was sincere, and his tone was contradictory, self-blaming, and uneasy.

Tears dripped down his chin and soon gathered into a small puddle on the ground in front of him.

After waiting for a whole day, Kangxi was also tired. He looked listless and didn't want to waste any more energy on this matter. "You ordered people to find the shrine, and the item also appeared in your house. In this case, I will deprive you of your job in the Ministry of Works for not handling things properly. You will serve me every day until I recover. I will also fine you 20 strokes of the cane and confine you to your house—"

Kangxi suddenly stopped and realized that the eighth brother was about to marry Tong Jia Qingtang, and it would not be appropriate to delay the wedding date rashly.

He glanced at Tong Guowei who was kneeling behind the princes and asked about the Imperial Observatory. It was Tong Guowei who brought it up. His granddaughter was about to marry the eighth prince, so the two were basically in the same boat.

If it was really done by Lao Ba, there was no reason for him to come out and expose it, but if he said it was a complete coincidence... a sneer appeared at the corner of his lips hidden under his beard.

He didn't believe it.

"Considering that you are about to get married, you will be temporarily confined to your home for a month."

After saying that, he lay back on the bed with the help of Liang Jiugong, looking exhausted.

"Thank you, Father Royal, for giving me the opportunity to make amends."

Yinsi spoke in a low voice, suppressed the sobs in his throat, and kowtowed heavily in the direction of the dragon bed.

Liang Jiugong stood in front of the window, slightly bent over, "Gentlemen, please go back."

"I, your son, will take my leave."

Everyone left, only Yinsi stayed. Yin'er glanced at him and tacitly received the key message in his eyes, and sent people out of the palace overnight.

As it was getting dark, Xiyu began to feel restless in the Cining Palace, but the empress dowager refused to let her go.

"It's getting dark now. It's not safe for you to go back now with your big belly. I'll have someone clean up a room for you. You can stay here tonight and come back tomorrow."

"If you can't sleep well, I'll ask Xiaoqi to accompany you."

Xi Yu looked embarrassed, "Madam, this is against the rules."

The Queen Mother did not tell her that it was Yinzhen who felt unsafe. "It's okay. I sent someone to tell the Emperor that he already knows about this."

Xiyu had no choice but to send someone back to tell Yinzhen.

Yinzhen knew early on that Xiyu would stay in the palace today. He was not surprised to see that there was no one in the room and accepted it naturally.

In Tingyu Pavilion, Li had quietly packed up the valuable jewelry she had accumulated for a long time, and poured wax on the bed curtains.

While waiting for Shen Yu to pick her up, the two of them knocked Jiao Bai unconscious, changed her clothes, and then set the bed curtains on fire, using a cat to replace the prince.

At this time, Jiaobai was standing beside her, carrying a bag on his back, and he must have thought that the three of them would go together.

joke!

Even though Jiaobai had followed her for a long time and was loyal to her, how could she possibly leave with the person who stole her man?

Li had his back to her, his face full of sarcasm and a fierce look in his eyes.

But her palms were sweaty and her heart was beating wildly, not as calm as she appeared to be.

When she heard that the team that entered the palace didn't find anything, she knew she was most likely exposed.

She had no choice but to implement her plan ahead of time before the Fourth Master came back, and create a scene in which Jiaobai robbed her of her property, murdered her, and then destroyed her body, so that she could escape from here.

But why hasn't Shen Yu come yet?

Li drank the cold tea on the table and tried his best to suppress the uneasiness in his heart.

Wait another quarter of an hour. If Shen Yu doesn't come, she will have to do it herself.

As she thought about this, murderous intent gradually emerged in her eyes.

The next moment, there was a knock on the door with a unique rhythm.

Li couldn't hide the joy on her face. She quickly got up to open the door, not noticing the mysterious look on the fair face behind her.

However, when she opened the door and saw the scene at the door, the smile in her eyes froze instantly.