The wife is the king of the palace

"You know?" Jin Qi sat up straight, holding the handle of the chair tightly with both hands, and looked at Lin Xu nervously. What did Lin Xu mean just now?

"Know what?" Lin Xu asked back.

Jin Qi stared nervously at Lin Xu's face, seeing something from it, but Lin Xu still had that expressionless face, making it impossible to understand what he was thinking at the moment.

"Then what do you mean by what you said just now?" Jin Qi's heart began to pound non-stop, and the crazy frequency made Jin Qi a little out of breath.

He had been hiding this matter from Lin Xu all the time, and he had been worried about it all the time, but he never thought that Lin Xu might have noticed it a long time ago.

That's right, Lin Xu is such a smart person, I'm afraid there is nothing in this world that can be hidden from him.The matter of Su Fanyi is proof, but he has already investigated it in just a few days.

"I just think that the talk about bloodlines is mature and nonsense, and any punishment from heaven can't be true." Lin Xudao.

"... When did you know?" Jin Qi's face was pale.

Lin Xu raised his eyes and glanced at Jin Qi, and the moment he lowered his head to look at the information on the table, he said softly, "I knew it a long time ago."

Getting the exact answer from Lin Xu's mouth, Jin Qi's slightly opened mouth felt a burst of interference, and even worked hard.

At the same time, his heart was beating even harder, and Lin Xu had already known it!

"How do you know?" Jin Qi couldn't help asking.

Jin Qi thought he had hidden this matter very well. At the beginning, Jin Qi had eliminated those who might know about it, but now the only ones who knew about it were him, Xu Lan and the person from the border.

Could it be that Xu Lan told Lin Xu?No, it's impossible. He knows Xu Lan's character and won't let it out.

"Is it strange that I don't know?" Lin Xu, who was looking at the materials, saw that Jin Qi wanted to talk about this matter, so he also put down the materials in his hand.

Regarding his identity, Jin Qi has been asking and making assumptions. Even if his previous questions about his identity were really just assumptions, the frequent frequency is too much for an emperor.

Jin Qi is already the emperor, there is no doubt about it, but even if he is already the emperor, he still always harbors uneasiness, which is already very suspicious.As long as you pay attention, it is not difficult to notice that something is wrong.

"What about that matter?" Jin Qi's face became paler, because of what Lin Xu said before, he could only sit there calmly at this moment, but this did not make him feel less uneasy in the slightest.

There are only a few of them who have heard about this matter, but once the face very similar to him under the mask of the Border Ghost General is exposed, it will not be difficult for that person to guess his identity.

No, the face of General Ghost Face is very similar to him, which can even be said to be enough to prove that he is not of extraordinary royal blood, but is very likely to be the bastard of someone in Concubine Li's family.

Once this matter is exposed, the world will be in chaos immediately.

"I only know what I should know." Lin Xu sorted out the information on the table, and didn't want to talk to Jin Qi any more.

"Then what should we know?" Jin Qi was slightly surprised. Since Lin Xu said that, he obviously already knew that General Ghost Face was the child born of his mother and concubine's adultery.

Lin Xu glanced at Jin Qi faintly. He was not interested in Jin Qi's life experience, and he knew it only because it was related to Jin Qi.

Besides, it doesn't matter to him whether Jin Qi is of royal blood or not, even if Jin Qi is just an ordinary person.

"The emperor has time to think about this, so why not think about what to do next. I still have something to do, so I will leave first." Lin Xu collected the information on the table and prepared to take it back to read again.

Since the matter involved the Ministry of Industry and the flood, it couldn't be more sloppy, especially if the matter involved the flood, it should be investigated more clearly.

After Jinqi ascended the throne, especially in the next few years, floods occurred frequently, and several important checkpoints collapsed every year.

The suffering people affected by the disaster in the past year are countless.

Lin Xu left, Jin Qi let out a long breath, and the next moment he collapsed in the chair as if he had run out of strength.

Jin Qi watched Lin Xu's back disappear outside the door, and he laughed out loud, with both relief and bitterness in his smile.It turned out that Lin Xu already knew what he had been hiding all this time, and it turned out that Lin Xu didn't care about what he had been worrying about.

After laughing enough, Jin Qi couldn't help but feel a little sore nose. He always thought that what he experienced brought him only suffering, but now it seems that this is not the case. At least because of these, he met Lin Xu.

This alone is enough to offset all those bad things, just because I can meet Lin Xu, everything seems to be bearable.

For a moment, Jin Qi even felt a little grateful. If it wasn't for those experiences back then, he wouldn't want to sit on the dragon chair.

If it weren't for him sitting on the dragon chair, he wouldn't have washed the court with blood. If it wasn't for this, even if Lin Xu won the number one scholar, he might not have been left to work in the court, but would have been sent far away.

Jin Qi laughed out loud, as if he wanted to laugh out the gloom in his heart, he laughed until the corners of his mouth were a little sour, so he stopped.

Putting away the smile on his face, Jin Qi took another look. The door was already empty, and he couldn't help but want to complain. Lin Xu already knew about it, why didn't he tell him?Instead, it made him worry for so long...

Jin Qi felt resentful in his heart, but deep down in his heart he was really relieved, the secret had been pressed in his heart for too long, it had already made him breathless.

To put it bluntly now, he even has a feeling that his breathing has become smoother.

It was half a month later that I saw Lin Xu alone again.

Knowing that the matter involved the Ministry of Industry and the flood disaster, Lin Xu has been immersed in investigating the matter since then. He followed the investigation that Su Fanyi had said before, and he soon understood what Su Fanyi had said before.

In the imperial study room, Lin Xu put the materials he brought in front of Jin Qi. Jin Qi, who was still smiling, gradually froze after seeing the materials on the table.

Jin Qi refrained from all joking thoughts, and read the materials brought by Lin Xu seriously. After reading this time, his entire face was as black as coal.

The materials Lin Xu brought can be roughly divided into two types. One is the detailed records of the flood situation from the Ministry of Industry, and the other is the battle situation at the border in recent years.

It doesn't matter if the two documents are viewed separately, but when they are put together, even Jin Qi has to frown deeply.

"The friction between Xia Guo and Dayu has never stopped, so I never thought about it before." Lin Xu said.

Lin Xu was also investigating the flood situation, and unexpectedly found that the flood situation suddenly became serious, which was the same time that Xia Guo suddenly started to attack aggressively a few years ago.

Xia Guo and Dayu have always had constant friction, but a few years ago the situation was not as serious as it is now. At that time, there was only occasional friction, but now it has never stopped.

"Are you sure there is a connection?" Jin Qi asked.

"It's not sure yet. At present, I can only say that the timing is too coincidental." Lin Xu said.

After a pause, Lin Xu said again: "In addition, I have also carefully investigated the flood situation in recent years. The water level of the river has not risen in these years, and the water flow has not become more turbulent than in previous years."

"You mean the flood is man-made?" Jin Qi frowned.

"It's not clear yet." Lin Xu gave an uncertain answer.

After realizing this before, he immediately investigated the water conservancy projects in recent years, but as Su Fanyi said before, there were no cases of cutting corners in the few places where the situation was particularly serious.

It is incomprehensible that the dams were washed away by the floods without cutting corners, and the water flow did not increase in turbulence.

In addition, Jin Qi also had to start to have another headache. If the border gate was also involved in this matter, he had to be more careful. After all, the identity of the ghost-faced general guarding the border gate must never be exposed.

And to find out whether the two things are related, it seems imperative to close the investigation over there.

"What's your idea?" Jin Qi looked at Lin Xu after thinking for a while.

"The other party has obviously been planning for a long time, and the matter is likely to be related to Xia Guo. I don't suggest to startle the snake now." Lin Xudao.

Now they are the ones who know that the other party is in the dark. Once they startle the snake, they may no longer be able to investigate the person behind it.

"It seems that more attention should be paid to the selection of accountants." Jin Qi sighed.

No one at the border knew the identity of General Ghost Face. If he sent someone to investigate, judging from the current situation, the only ones he could trust were Lin Xu and Xu Lan, but it was obviously impossible for Lin Xu and Xu Lan to go to the border. .

"The minister has someone to choose." Lin Xu said.

"Oh, tell me." Jin Qi raised his eyebrows.

"As far as I know, there is another son in Xu Shangshu's family."

Jin Qi was dumbfounded, he knew there was another son in Xu Lan's family, if he remembered correctly, it should be called Xu Jun, Jin Qi had met him twice.That man was still young, and he had a simple temperament. He didn't seem to be a character suitable for a regent. Let him investigate. What did Lin Xu think?

"The emperor must not forget that he is the son of Xu Shangshu." Lin Xu reminded, when Xu Lan was mentioned, Lin Xu's dark eyes became a little more certain.

Xu Lan was Jin Qi's teacher when he was young, and he was also the one who designed and supported Jin Qi to ascend the throne. Although he only holds a post in the Ministry of Rites and spends his days idle on weekdays, behind his gentle and elegant smiling face is a completely different It is not an exaggeration to say that the different strategies are just smiling.

Xu Lan has two, the eldest son is almost the same as Jin Qi, and now he is the general of the local garrison, and he also has extraordinary talents and strategies in leading troops in battle.

He is so young that he is not well-known now, and Xu Lan doesn't seem to have the idea of ​​letting him enter the court, but Lin Xu feels that he is not as simple as he appears to be.

After all, Xu Lan was born, I am afraid nine out of ten are like Xu Lan, the face is cute and broken, but it is black.

Jin Qi didn't doubt Lin Xu, but he also had a headache, "I'm afraid Xu Lan won't agree to this..."

After Xu Lan gradually stopped caring about the affairs of the court, she focused more on her home, and she was so precious to his youngest son. If he asked him to borrow his son this time, I'm afraid Xu Lan would be in a hurry with him.