The night is shrouded in the backyard of the prime minister's mansion, and figures are flipping down from the wall.

Opposite to his sight, the light of the candle was lit in the study room. He pushed open the door and walked in. Cai Jing did not go to bed at this time. When he saw the other party coming in, he leaned forward and wanted to go forward, but then he continued to sit without a trace, his expression regaining calm.

"Success?"

Jin Duyi nodded, but the old man's subtle changes were seen in his eyes. The face behind the silk cloth and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised. As he moved, the ancient wooden box was taken out from his chest, "Cai Xiang wants this."

He stretched out his hand, but his feet didn't mean to move at all.

The old man's face darkened. While the candlelight was burning, a smile appeared on his face and nodded and stood up. "Things went smoothly. I am very happy. Just say whatever you want."

"What Cai Xiang should know." Jin Duyi bowed his hand and placed the wooden box lightly on the desk.

"I will consider it. After all, the Imperial Army generals are not under my jurisdiction, so I can only help you with activities." The old man took the wooden box and checked it carefully. After it was indeed the one he took out, he felt relieved.

"You have not taken anything until this matter, and I have not taken anything out. Do you know?"

Mars swayed on the candlestick, there was a peaceful conversation in the study, and the silhouettes of the two were on the window paper. People's hearts were different, their thoughts were different, and they were full of the taste of interests.

Behind the silk cloth, a festering face smiled and nodded, "This is natural."

Not long after, Jin Duyi left.

Cai Jing sat upright on the wooden chair and leaned back. An old servant came over and placed the small stove with charcoal fire at his feet. "Master, it's time to rest. The weather is wet in spring, which is not good for the master's legs and feet."

"Well, it's not that I don't want to rest. I'll tell you, you won't understand the inside story."

On the wooden chair, the old man leaned against the back of the chair and felt the warmth coming out of the charcoal furnace, but thought carefully about the wooden box and the sudden death of Emperor Zhao Ji. It was like a huge, dark tide that arose in his heart.

“What’s wrong?”

Ciming Palace, Cao Zhenchun came over with a stack of memorials. Now that the emperor's grand ceremony is over, the new emperor is still pending, among the comments, there are probably some things about the candidates for the new emperor, ascending the throne, etc., among which there are many generous comments on what will happen if the little prince succeeds to the throne, and make pre-judgment and determination.

The moment he pushed the door, he saw Yu Huatian wearing a white floral palace robe serving the table, and then a bunch of memorials he had brought before were overturned.

Wow

Drop it on the red blanket and spread it out.

"These civil officials are really enough!" The Empress Dowager Shang Yu trembled all over. "My son is alive, pretending to be loyal to the country, and sages are saints. Now, as soon as my son leaves, he changes his face to bully the orphans and widows. He is really a group of wolves and hearts."

The white figure next to the table walked to the steps, bowed and picked up the memorials on the ground one by one, while Cao Zhenchun came over with another pile of memorials and placed them gently on the table. Shang Yu didn't even look at it, and sat back on the carefully crafted wooden chair, "Take them away, I don't want to see it!"

Cao Zhenchun hesitated for a moment and finally chose not to speak. Some things were not something he could control. Besides, the plan had been decided, and it would be a bad thing to talk too much at this time. He picked up the memorial he had put down, sued him, turned around and wanted to leave.

"Leave all these things behind."

The door was suddenly opened, and Zheng Wan's figure was surrounded by her. She waved her hand, and the inner servant behind her retreated outside the door, and gave another command to Cao Zhenchun who was about to go out.

"Yes." The old eunuch lowered his head, went back and put the memorial on the table before leaving.

On the other side, the figure moved, shaking her skirt with lotus steps, and the ash on her hair shortened, and she bowed to the wife on the golden stairs, "Wan'er pays homage to her mother."

"Yi'er went to bed?"

The woman got up from the chair, walked over and helped the queen up, looking at each other with red eyes, "Today, it's really hard for you to say that. I know you have to do it. Now I think about it that night, didn't I just respond to Bai Ning's words? There was no loyal minister in the court, and they all thought about themselves."

In the orange-yellow sight, the queen lowered her head and looked at the flames. Her eyes reflected the reflection of the flames. There was no expression on her face. She was silent for a while, "My mother, what the words in the court were about Wan'er. Those people's faces had been seen enough. Whether Yi'er sat on the throne or not was the matter of my Zhao family. What a group of outsiders joined in the fun? Wan'er figured it out today. Why didn't they dare to provoke Bai Ning of the East Factory? She just grabbed our orphans and widows?"

After a moment of pause, she narrowed her eyes, "People like to bully the weak and fear the strong. They don't provoke Bai Ning because they are afraid that the other party will kill them with one knife."

Although Shang Yu, who was standing there, nodded, his eyes looked at the other person with some concern, as if he realized that the once gentle woman had become a little strange.

"Wan'er doesn't have to worry about them asking them to go. Bai Ning won't let Cai Jing's group succeed. Let's just sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight. After all, he is Yi'er's uncle."

"Uncle?" the queen sneered, "He was worried that Yi'er would not get the throne and others would use his East Factory to operate. How could such a mother think that he was kind?"

"Does Wan'er have any plans for the next thing?" Shang Yu smiled embarrassedly, with complex eyes and kindness.

"Now I can only rely on Bai Ning first. No matter what he wants, he is first of all, the eunuch and Yi'er's uncle. It is impossible to seize the throne. As long as Yi'er sits on the throne of the Nine Five Lords, everything can be done slowly and re-consider."

The study suddenly became quiet, and even Yu Huatian was sent away.

There were only two people, one of them was silent with his back to the other.

Soon, the two of them looked at each other. Zheng Wan put aside the topic and talked about family matters, then said goodbye and left. The night wind raged among the palaces, and the red lanterns under the eaves intertwined people's figures became the end.

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The next day, the palace was bowed.

The unresolved things yesterday were brought up again and were imminent.

"This palace still insists that Prince Zhao Yi is the new emperor. Whether you agree or not, he is the blood of His Majesty and the only heir to the throne."

On the left side of the pearl curtain, Shang Yu's voice was filled with unquestionable pressure.

"The Empress Dowager thinks twice!" The ministers all knelt down.

Cai Jing, the first civil minister, nodded to Tong Guan. On the other side, the figure sighed and stood up, and the military officials behind him followed one by one and knelt in the court.

"The Empress Dowager, I think what Cai Xiang said makes sense. The country is in danger and it is not easy to ascend the throne as a young emperor. The Wu Dynasty may be able to wait for a year or two, but it will not be more than ten years. Please think twice."

The figure on the right side of the bead curtain moved, trying to get up and argue, but then she sat back and smiled slightly raised her lips with rouge.

Outside, Xiaohuangmen shouted: "Admiral Bai from Dongchang asked for a visit"

"Noisy!" Zheng Wan took a deep breath, and her voice was spitting out with the air.

The open hall door was just when the morning light was rising outside. A ray of light came over and reflected the shadows of two figures, one big and one small, and walked into the hall. A slowly buoyed figure led a toddler and came out of the door.

"Hurry up, your Majesty." Bai Ning said this with his body holding the doll, then looked at the civil and military kneeling in the hall.

Walking to Cai Jing's kneeling body, he pointed at the old man and smiled at the ignorant Zhao Yi: "Your Majesty, look at this old guy is almost dead."

"Ahhhhhhh" The little man who couldn't speak raised his little face and looked at Bai Ning curiously, and then hugged Bai Ning's thighs with his small arms.

"You can't hold you now as the king of a country." Bai Ning smiled and raised the little guy from the ground, facing the hundred people lying there, his voice suddenly amplified: "Look at the faces of these guys clearly. They will make a living under your hands in the future. Remember to see clearly."

"Yi'er"

On the Longting, Zheng Wan rushed down quickly. Bai Ning glanced at her squintly, and finally put Zhao Yi down and handed it back to the queen. After a while, someone below said, "Bai Ning, don't be arrogant. Prince Yi is you, a eunuch, who is playing with it in your hands? What are you trying to do?"

"What do I want to do?"

Bai Ning waved his hand, and a wooden chair was brought over to Cai Jing. He sat down with his robe, put his palms on his knees and sat upright and looked at the other person with a cold voice: "Of course I am here to get you."

Below, everyone raised their heads in horror, and their eyes were concentrated on the two of them.

Cai Jing was so angry that he was kneeling. However, the other party was sitting in front of him, and it turned out that he was kneeling on the other party. After hearing the other party say this, he immediately stood up and pointed: "The eunuch dares to be so presumptuous!"

"I am not as arrogant as this governor is not as unpredictable as Cai Xiang." Bai Ning sneered and stood up, turned to face Longting and bowed, "I would like to ask the Queen Mother, the Queen, let us let a eunuch in the court behave easily."

Shang Yu looked at the woman behind the curtain without moving, nodded, and swept forward the golden sleeves, "It's right."

In fact, if you have to be sure, Bai Ning would say that, and doing this is actually just for people to see. He turned back and looked at Cai Jing: "According to this governor's understanding, on the night of the accident, I heard that he was convinced by the box of elixirs that Cai Xiang gave to the official family. I wonder if it is true?"

"Your Majesty is absurd and healthy person. How could the old minister do such a thing that is unnecessary?" Cai Jing shook his long sleeves, turned his body sideways, and said proudly.

"I know, you'll say that."

Bai Ning clapped his hands, and the old eunuch bent over with a wooden plate, covered with red silk. It was not difficult to see through the shape of the cover. Cai Jing shook all over and recovered quickly, and snorted coldly: "What's the point of being guilty of being punished? Just find a wooden box and say that I poisoned Your Majesty to death? It's ridiculous."

"Tae Xiang, don't panic"

The black and gold figure sat back on the wooden chair. He raised his eyes back, as if he was looking at something, which attracted everyone around him to look back. Two figures walked in the morning light, came from afar, and then knelt down outside the hall.

When Cai Jing saw the person holding something, his pupils suddenly shrank, his hands trembled violently, and he pointed, "You dare, you?"

The figure around Cao Shaoqing was the old servant whom he often accompanied. The old man was trembling all over, "Master, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for you." Tears suddenly flowed out of his eyes. The wooden box held in his hands was the one that Cai Jing gave him to destroy that night.

"Seeing that the certified physical evidence is there, Cai Xiang has nothing to say." Bai Ning walked to the position on the same shoulder with Cai Jing and stared at the other party with his eyes squinted.

The old man who has been an official for the rest of his life closed his eyes and took a deep breath, but it would not be so easy to admit defeat. "Admiral Bai spoke too early. What if the old servant was bribed by someone to frame me? Wouldn't I beg me to suffer this great crime of regicide?"

Bai Ning, who had silver silk, stood there and smiled, hooked his fingers, and asked Cao Zhenchun to lift the wooden box he had taken out before to his face. He opened it and took out one, "Then Cai Xiang might as well eat one, how about proving his innocence?"

At the same time, the red painted wooden box containing elixirs appeared, which was obviously the other party was prepared.

eat?

Cai Jing looked at the pills spread in the palm of his hand, cold sweat flowed down his cheeks, and hesitated. Bai Ning rolled up his fingers and held the pills in his palm, "I know you don't dare, because you know the poisonous one in it is right."

Behind the pearl curtain, the Empress Dowager and Zheng Wan stood up almost at the same time and looked at the gray-haired old man, "Cai Xiang, what Admiral Bai said is true? No wonder you are so anxious to choose a new emperor. It turns out that it was really yours?" The words to take advantage of the situation were said from Zheng Wan. Although she knew that all this was quite loophole, she still said so.

The double suppression of "this" came over, and it was open and dark, and suddenly attacked, which made Cai Jing completely confused at this time in a hurry.

"I'm wronged, please let the Empress Dowager see!" The old man knelt down and bowed his head.

Bai Ning turned in front of his head, and suddenly walked up to the curtain of Longting, the prince Zheng Wan was holding and asked, "What do you think about Your Majesty?"

"Ahhhhh." The baby was speaking in a daze.

Bai Ning, who bent through the curtain, stood up and looked at the old man below the steps, "Your Majesty said that Cai Jing had ulterior motives and was guilty of assassinating the late emperor. He was extremely evil. He removed all his official positions and handed over to the East Factory to commit suicide."

On the steps, the palace robe waved: "Take off the hat and take it down"

"What?" Tong Guan and others were shocked. In amazement, some guards had already come over to remove the figure from the other side and dragged it up.

While struggling, Cai Jing, who was dragged away, shouted: "The Queen Mother and the Eunuch, called the deer as a horse. He was wrongly accusing the old minister! I am not convinced!"

The sound went away and finally disappeared outside the hall.

"The certification of all the evidence is there, who is not convinced?" Bai Ning looked at the civil and military officials over there with a feminine face, and shook his fingers, "If you don't agree, you can come to our family to argue, but it's not possible today. That's to discuss the enthronement of the new emperor."

Then, Bai Ning bowed to Longting, "I have arrested the real murderer of your Majesty, so I want to go back to the East Factory for interrogation immediately to see if there are any accomplices, so I will say goodbye."

Behind the curtain, Zheng Wan raised her chin and "retreat."

"Yes!" Bai Ning looked at the other party and turned around and left.

In the hall, the silence spread for a moment, and the queen walked out of the pearl curtain.

"The new emperor is imminent, do you still have any objections?"

"I'm going to discuss it."

"Well, Keri will hold the new emperor ascend the throne and then hold the funeral of the late emperor. This is the decision!" Zheng Wan said with a decisive note, and then left with Empress Dowager Shang Yu.

Cao Zhenchun looked like a smile, glanced at the figures kneeling in the hall, and said loudly: "Retreat the court"
Chapter completed!