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In May of the ninth year of Jinghe, Prince Zhao Yan only married Xie Xiang, the daughter of the Xie family, as the prince and concubine, pardoning the world.

Xie Xiangnian is eight years old.Prime Minister Xie had a son when he was old, and love was like a jewel in his palm. Marrying Zhao Yanzhi was really painful in private, but it was such an honor for the emperor to ask for his beloved son himself. Prime Minister Xie had no choice but to knock out his teeth and swallow his blood, and accept his fate to offer it to him.So far, Zhao Jing finally succeeded in labeling the Xie family as Zhao Yanzhi.

As for marrying a young girl back home, Zhao Yanzhi had no choice but to smile happily. Before having children, he could probably use his wife to practice his skills, and first find out what it feels like to be a father.

On the night of Zhao Yanzhi's big wedding, he slept with his little wife.His little wife was quiet and well-behaved when she fell asleep, but Zhao Yanzhi was never used to having someone by his side and stayed up all night.

After that, Zhao Yanzhi never slept with his wife again.Originally, after marrying such a young child, after much deliberation, he felt that the word "beast" was quite suitable for him.

Zhao Jing was quite satisfied with the marriage he had carefully selected. The fly in the ointment was that Xie Xiang would definitely not be able to have a child, so His Majesty the Emperor, who was anxious to embrace his grandson, quickly married his son a good concubine and three children. Hui sent another ten beauties, and asked Zhao Yanzhi to arrange them by himself.

Zhao Yanzhi was very speechless about his father's behavior, but he didn't disagree at all, he took what he gave, and took it back to be honest and happy. Anyway, he never kept anyone overnight, and he didn't feel that his life was disturbed too much.

Zhao Yanzhi often complained in private about his father's behavior of stuffing him with beautiful women like a chicken blood, and Gu Shenxing smirked every time, "King Wen of Zhou was born in Boyi at the age of 13, so you should hurry up." go back.He really felt that the husband at this time was a little, um, disrespectful.He can't say whether he likes those beauties, and he has no feelings for them. He is still ignorant at this age, so that he does all this to show his filial piety—without him, Zhao Jing's health is really getting worse day by day.

The crown prince, Zhao Yanzhi, has a lot of acquaintances, and he knows how to be courteous and corporal at a young age, and he has a lot of legacy from the ancestors.When people of insight or those who claim to be insightful voters come to vote, he warmly welcomes them all, with a gesture of shaking their hair three times.Pingan often jumped in anger because he ran away after eating half of the meal.In this way, Zhao Yanzhi soon gathered a group of children from aristocratic families, new nobles and close officials, who can be called talented people.

Among these people, there are Xu Changling and Zhuang Xian who will become a generation of famous ministers who will shine in the annals of history;

The crown prince's position became more stable day by day.By midsummer, Zhao Jing's condition seemed to have improved.When Zhao Jing was in good spirits, he often summoned Gu Shenxing to have secret talks, but no one knew what they were talking about, and no one knew how they had so much to say.

It would be great if it could go on like this forever, but some people couldn't hold back.

In August, one of Zhao Yanzhi's palace servants, Mrs. Han, was pregnant. Zhao Yanzhi himself didn't react much, but it didn't hinder Zhao Jinglong's joy.However, he hadn't been happy for long, Zhao Yanzhi was still in a state of astonishment at all, and the palace man died before his mother and songui could get a formal title.

So Zhao Jing's joy turned into fury.His Majesty the Emperor personally intervened, this matter bypassed Zongzheng, and Ting Wei Gu Yan directly intervened.

When Gu Yan rushed to the crown prince's womb, he saw the emperor sitting in the front seat with a gloomy face, the surrounding air pressure was obviously much lower; the prince Zhao Yanzhi's face was clearly worried and sad.He secretly exchanged glances with his father Gu Shenxing, not daring to delay any longer, and went to the residence of the palace servant Han.

Han's body has not yet been coffined, surrounded by a group of mournful waiters.As soon as Gu Yan saw the corpse, he was sure that the Han family was probably poisoned to death. As for what kind of poison was used, he had to wait for the medical officer's autopsy.

Although the trembling palace people didn't speak very clearly, Gu Yan understood it anyway.After Han was diagnosed as pregnant, she was immediately protected as a rare animal, and she was allowed to enjoy delicious food, and even a medical girl was on call at any time.Today, Han's appetite is not good, so he drank more ginseng soup before the meal.Unexpectedly, not long after drinking the ginseng soup, she was shivering all over, unable to speak, and the doctor's daughter couldn't help her. When the imperial doctor arrived, Mrs. Han was already dead.

Gu Yan frowned. This kind of poison is very strong. Although it is not easy to get it, it is not difficult for dignitaries with good eyesight.Gu Yan asked all the palace people who had touched that soup, but found nothing, so he turned to check the ginseng.

After Han's pregnancy, the price of gold has more than doubled, and people have sent people to send things everywhere, and there are countless people who have sent medicines and ginseng; originally such gifts should be recorded, but Han was originally a palace man, so expensive After a while, the people serving around him were all temporarily dispatched, and it was very chaotic.There is no registration gift.But this ginseng, Ling Wang Chun, the eunuch next to Zhao Jing, is very familiar with it.

This ginseng has taken human form and is very precious.Last year when the Jiangdu king came to the court, he brought two of them, one was kept by Zhao Jing, and the other was given to Mrs. Zhou.

It's really hard to find a place to go.Thanks to the criminal's stupidity and rich money, Gu Yan was lucky enough to not disgrace his life, and found an important direction to solve the case in only two hours.

When the eunuch ordered Wang Chun to invite Mrs. Zhou's mother and son, Mrs. Zhou didn't know what happened; therefore, when she was brought before His Majesty the Emperor, Mrs. Zhou was extraordinarily confident.

Zhao Jing has always had a good temper, and he usually doesn't care if the concubine is rude.Therefore, the righteous Mrs. Zhou was really frightened by the angry emperor's roar after a hasty salute.

"You have been in the court for more than twenty years, but now you don't even understand the basic etiquette! Zongzheng is in vain!"

Mrs. Zhou had never seen an emperor who was so angry because of such a trivial matter, and was so frightened that he hurriedly took off his hairpin and waited for the crime.But she was unexpectedly calm in her heart. It seems that the tiger who has not shown its power for a long time is really easy to be regarded as a sick cat. It is said that the emperor lay down millions of corpses in a rage, but Mrs. Zhou still has the leisure to defend Zongzheng Zhao who was angered for no reason. Shuo mourned silently.

Immediately afterwards, the half-formed old ginseng was thrown in front of Mrs. Zhou, and Mrs. Zhou finally began to think about her own affairs suspiciously.That ginseng is really special, and she knows it, but to be honest, she hasn't taken it out since Zhao Jing gave it to her; she has no interest in asking about accounts, so she always thought that this ginseng was still in her warehouse Throw it in.Looking at the emperor's posture of asking questions, she is probably convinced that this thing is hers.

But, why did it appear in the womb of the Tai Tai?Still less than half.

Mrs. Zhou was not stupid enough to publicly accuse His Majesty's most beloved son of stealing her things, she just asked Zhao Jing suspiciously: "What do you mean, Your Majesty?"

"Tingwei!" Seeing that Zhao Jing couldn't suppress his anger, he didn't want to say a word.

"No." Gu Yan's tone was flat and no emotion could be heard.He saluted Mrs. Zhou and Zhao Shichang before asking, "Madam, do you know this thing?"

Madam Zhou was so angry.She recognized that this thing was hers, but so what, she still wanted to ask why this thing appeared at Zhao Yanzhi's place; and if she took a step back, even if she was wrong, Zongzheng should come forward and use Tingwei to calculate what happened?Do you really regard yourself as a rebellious sinner?She was born noble, how could she have been so angry, and her self-cultivation is not as good as Zhao Jing, so she looks a little more angry than Zhao Jing.

Seeing that she kept silent and didn't bother to talk to him, Gu Yan was a little embarrassed.He is far less experienced than his father, and he has never dealt with concubines. At this time, seeing that no one has the idea of ​​helping him, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue.

"This ginseng has been processed by someone, Madam, please take a look." Gu Yan said while carefully picking up the ginseng, and asked Mrs. Zhou to look at the central part of the cross section. "If you look closely, you can see that there is a trace in the middle. It is left behind by injecting poison in this way."

Mrs. Zhou was horrified when she heard the words, she couldn't care less about whether she would be angry or not, and hurriedly asked: "What does Tingwei mean?"

"Ma'am, please be quiet." Gu Yan's tone was still horribly stable, "The ginseng processed by this method looks the same as others on the surface, and it is okay to touch, but if it is used for decoction, the poison inside will be destroyed. Slowly dissolve into the soup. Judging from the remaining soup, the dose of poison in this ginseng is not small, and it would take more than a day's work."

The implication is that Mrs. Han has not been pregnant for a long time, since Mrs. Zhou couldn't just give such a valuable thing to an unknown palace man, the poison can only be poured into Mrs. Zhou's hands.

Mrs. Zhou suddenly understood that she had a lot to do with Han's unknown death.

No wonder, the emperor would use Ting Wei in his anger.

It's just that you are too biased.The one who died was Zhao Yanzhi's child, but isn't Shichang your child?

When Mrs. Zhou spoke, her tone was cold. She passed Gu Yan and said directly to Zhao Jing: "Your Majesty, it is true that the concubine is responsible for the things. But there are so many people around the concubine, why does your majesty think that the concubine did it?"

If there is no other evidence, Mrs. Zhou just refuses to admit it, and no one else can do anything to her.But Zhao Jing didn't think so, he was determined to investigate the matter to the bottom.

Zhao Jing sneered: "Madam has a vicious heart, I have always known it. But A Yuan's child is not even born, so what can he do to you! How can you bear it! One dead body and two lives!"

This time Mrs. Zhou really complained, she thought to herself, even if she really had the heart, she definitely wouldn't use such an easy-to-see through method of killing.

But Zhao Jing obviously didn't think so. At this moment, he had no patience or energy to spend with Mrs. Zhou: "Does Qing really think that I really don't know about you poisoning Chen Jieyu?"