Chapter 458 The Truth
Concubine Shu looked at the second prince without words.
"Why?"
The second prince spread his hands, "It's obvious, he is the prince, he will definitely compete with me for the throne."
Concubine Shu looked at the second prince with a kind expression that she rarely showed, "Concubine I ask you, if Shen Li fights with you, can you win?"
The second prince shook his head honestly, "We can't compete."
Concubine Shu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Good boy, the most important thing is to be self-aware, and you have already done this.
My mother-in-law will tell you one more thing: the most valuable thing about a person is to retreat when faced with difficulties. "
After Concubine Shu finished speaking, she walked towards the palace.
The second prince was stunned for a moment, then turned to catch up, "Mother, concubine, what do you mean! Haven't we been fighting with the prince these years?"
Concubine Shu walked away and said: "I fight with the prince because I don't want the prince to ascend the throne, but that doesn't mean I also want you to ascend the throne!
I didn’t have a choice before, but now.”
The second prince was caught off guard and stopped in his tracks.
Licking your mouth.
His eyes trembled as he stared blankly at Concubine Shu.
Concubine Shu felt a pang in her heart when she saw her silly son's reaction.
Although the son is stupid, he has been fighting on the front line to win the throne for so many years. He wants to ascend the throne from the bottom of his heart.
Telling him this suddenly now would be unbearable for him.
so.
"So, tomorrow I can sleep until midnight and wake up without studying or discussing matters. I can go to Shen Xin's little shop and listen to the scripts all morning?
Then have dinner at Deyuelou at noon. In the afternoon, you don’t have to listen to the staff analyzing the court situation. You can go horse racing in Xishan and roast rabbit in the evening?
Mother, you know, since I started fighting with the prince, I have nightmares almost every night.
I'm afraid to take the throne!
I don’t want to live like my father!
He gets up before the chickens get up every day, and he stays up before the dogs go to bed. He lives like this almost every day for more than 300 days a year, unable to take more than one bite of whatever he wants to eat.
Life is short, and I don’t want to live a limited life like this without any interest in life and devote myself to it.
The only thing I want to do in my life is to enjoy the glory and wealth. "
Concubine Shu
I deserve to be worried about you!
In this room, the emperor and the commander of the imperial army interrogated Qinghong.
That side, the shadow.
Zhou Qing inferred that the Queen Mother was afraid of Xu Feng because Xu Feng saw something he shouldn't have seen. After coming out of the palace, Shen Li immediately took Xu Feng to Shadow and participated in the interrogation together.
The appearance of Xu Feng was undoubtedly a heavy blow to Huang Chen's mother. Coupled with the failure of the palace to force her to marry, the last trace of resistance from Huang Chen's mother was completely stripped away.
Under torture, he quickly confessed, which was almost consistent with what Concubine Shu had found.
Shen Li sat there with a gloomy face, half raising his head to look at Huang Chen's mother who was hanging in the air by a rope.
"Why did you kill Marquis Rongyang?"
Huang Chen's mother's body was covered in blood and flesh, her head drooped, and she was as angry as a thread.
"Because he has a token in his hand that can command the three armies. That token is for his exclusive use. The Queen Mother does not want to cause trouble."
Shen Li frowned.
News has spread in the palace that the emperor personally asked Zhou Huaishan and found that there was no such token at all.
At the moment when Shen Li frowned, the shadow in charge of the execution whipped Huang Chen's mother. She was already tortured and could no longer scream loudly, and could only whimper.
Shen Li said coldly: "I want to hear the truth, and you have to know that Shadow's reputation as a terrifying person is not a false one.
As long as your confession is inconsistent with Qinghong's confession, I have plenty of ways to make your life worse than death. "
Huang Chen's mother trembled fiercely, "It's true, it's really because of that token."
"How do you know there is such a token?"
"Qinghong got the news from Nanzhao Kingdom. Nanzhao Kingdom has a detailed operation here. Qinghong. Qinghong knew about it but didn't catch them. It was because they knew Qinghong's secret for some reason.
I want to cooperate with Qinghong over there.
Qinghong had no choice.
It's news from Nanzhao Kingdom, there's no way it's false. "
Does Nanzhao know the secret that Qinghong is the fake queen mother?
Shen Li and Gao Li looked at each other, and Gao Li said angrily: "If that's the case, then killing Rongyang Marquis alone has already made the token worthless, so why do we have to exterminate his entire family!"
Huang Chen's mother said sadly: "It wasn't Qing Hong who ordered the family to be exterminated."
Gao Li clenched his fists, "No? She was the one who asked Mother Chen to poison the well water at home. Don't forget, it was you who came to the door in person and took the jade mine title deed!"
Huang Chen's mother hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, that's right, but we were not the ones who did it that night."
"who is it?"
"I don't know, I really don't know."
Shen Li took Gao Li's words and said, "How did you convince Duke Cheng to attack Marquis Rongyang?"
".We have something against him.
At that time, the Duke of Xu's residence was convicted of treason by the late emperor, and the entire residence was executed. The person who sent the evidence to the late emperor was Duke Cheng. "
Before that, although Shen Li looked gloomy and murderous, he had always been calm.
Hearing these words, his breath trembled, and he rushed to Huang Chen's mother in almost a single step, and clamped her jaw with his eagle-like hands.
"What did you say?"
Gritting his teeth, he spoke every word.
Behind Shen Li, Xu Feng froze.
Xu Guogong Mansion.
The whole family was copied and beheaded.
Treason.
Gao Li was stunned for a moment, filled with anger, turned around and walked out with a gust of wind, heading straight to the cell where Duke Cheng was imprisoned.
Huang Chen's mother had whip wounds on her face. When she was pinched by Shen Li, she twitched in pain. Shen Li was like a devil crawling out of hell. He was full of murderous aura and people dared not even look at him.
Huang Chen's mother trembled and said, "It was Duke Cheng who reported to the late emperor that Duke Xu's mansion was plotting treason."
"Where did he get the evidence?"
"No, I don't know. I don't know. I only know that he doesn't want people to know that he submitted the evidence."
Of course he doesn't want people to know!
Once it is exposed, Zhou Huaishan can tear him apart with his hands with his protective nature!
As Huang Chen's mother finished speaking, Xu Feng, who had been standing silently behind Shen Li, spoke with trembling lips.
"Back then, something happened at Duke Xu's mansion, and the Zhou army and Nanzhao were in a stalemate on the battlefield. After the incident, the late emperor immediately ordered the old Rongyang Marquis, who led the troops at that time, to return to the capital.
In that battle, the Zhou army could have wiped out Nanzhao, but in the end they only defeated it and withdrew their troops.
After returning to the capital, the late emperor told the old Rongyang Marquis that there was a spy and military intelligence was sold out."
Shen Li was stunned and looked back at Xu Feng.
No wonder Xu Feng has been investigating the Rongyang Marquis's mansion case with Su Heng over the years, and has been working on the Chengguo mansion!
So, the evidence submitted by Chengguo Duke is most likely sent from Nanzhao?
Nanzhao again? !
The role played by Huang Chen's mother in the whole incident was just to replace Qinghong with Qinghong.
She was not aware of many things.
Even if she knew, she only knew a rough idea.
Gao Li quickly ended the interrogation of Chengguo Duke.
After putting the confession in Shen Li's hand, Gao Li cursed, "This old bastard, he still wants to fool me! Don't you see where this is! He still expects to get out after entering?
It was indeed him who secretly reported to the late emperor. All his so-called evidence was given to him by Huang Qihuan!"
Shen Li looked down at the confession in his hand, and when he heard Huang Qihuan's name, he looked up.
"It was Huang Qihuan who participated in the Queen Mother's substitution, and it was Huang Qihuan who instigated Duke Cheng to secretly report to Duke Xu's mansion. Now it is still Huang Qihuan who instigated the prince to rebel. This Mr. Huang is really amazing!"
Gao Li's voice was filled with gnashing anger and sarcasm.
Everyone could hear that Huang Qihuan must have a direct connection with the Nanzhao Kingdom.
"Is he awake?" Shen Li asked, pinching the confession.
At that time in the palace, Shunzi shot Huang Qihuan directly into a hedgehog, and Huang Qihuan was seriously injured and unconscious.
"You can make him wake up even if he is not awake!" Gao Li said angrily with a dark face.
After saying that, he turned around and walked towards Huang Qihuan's cell.
Shen Li looked at Xu Feng, "Do you want to listen or go back first?"