Chapter 94
Ren Bingyi is not someone who can lie.

After asking, Shen Qingling knew that the Seventh Prince Li Zhang was following Li Yu.

Li Zhang's mother was Shen Shuyi, who was loved by the officials, and Li Zhang was raised under the queen's lap since he was a child. If it wasn't for Li Yu, the fourth prince, who hadn't left the palace to build a mansion, Li Zhang would have been crowned king by now.

Think of Li Yu who admires the prince. Li Zhang has been at odds with the prince since he was a child. Every time he beats the prince in academic riding and archery, he will ask the queen for rewards to show off.

The officials dote on him, so they let him mess around like this.

It's just that Li Zhang used to mess around, and he was only in Bianjing, and rarely came out.The most important thing is that the government has always trusted Li Yu, why did they send another Li Zhang after sending Li Yu to Yangzhou?

"Liu Xiuwu is among the guards accompanying Li Zhang."

At the end of Ren Bingyi's reply, he also told Shen Qingling something that surprised her.

Seeing that Shen Qingling's face turned pale suddenly, Shao Cong couldn't help frowning and asked, "What happened? Why is your complexion so bad? Just now Ren Zhizhou told me not to look at it, but I didn't."

Liu Xiuwu was a candidate for the exam who disappeared, and Liu Xiuwen traveled around for several years just to find him, but why did he appear under Li Zhang's tent for no reason?
If it is said that Liu Xiuwu has long been Li Zhang's disciple, then did Liu Xiuwu's nonsense in Wudang Street in the past be inspired by Li Zhang?Li Zhang asked him to say those words?
If everything was really planned—

In other words, since the third year of Yuande, Li Zhang and his like have been preparing to seize the heir.

The more he thought about it, the more Shen Qingling felt chills down his spine, so that Xue Yu had been in the private room for a long time, but Shen Qingling could not recover.

"What's wrong?" Xue Yu asked with concern.

"I don't know." Shao Cong knew that Xue Yu was coming, so there was no accident. When he went out, he deliberately closed the door of the private room. , even if you call him Uncle Fu or Xiao Er, you're welcome."

Xue Yu waved his hand, "No need, thank you Shao Erlang."

Shen Qingling recovered from her thoughts, glanced at Xue Yu who was seated, and asked, "Why didn't you tell me that Li Zhang is here too."

Shen Qingling is probably the only one who dares to call the Seventh Prince by his name directly.

Probably because Shen Qingling's complexion was so bad, Xue Yu didn't even notice her address, but said with concern: "But what went wrong? The Seventh Prince is indeed here, it's not that you didn't ask, so I I didn't say..."

Indeed, Xue Yu always answered Shen Qingling's questions, but this time Shen Qingling didn't ask carefully, so he didn't reveal everything.

"The daughters of the Du family were not taken away." Shen Qingling pointed to the next door, "The son-in-law of the Du family is now drinking in the private room next door. I heard from him that his wife plans to go to Beijing to sue the imperial court."

"how come?!"

Xue Yu was also taken aback.

"Such a woman's benevolence will definitely leave disaster behind." Shen Qingling rubbed her forehead, and continued impatiently: "Judging from the style of the former fourth prince's handling of things, that's why I guess, there is a status with the fourth prince The same people make decisions in Yangzhou."

Li Zhang, this little bastard.

He was willing to intervene in anything that could trip the prince.

"Before the fourth prince left, he made it clear that he would take all the Du family to Bianjing... I never thought that the seventh prince would dare to speak out so openly." Xue Yu understood the seriousness of the fact that the female family members of the Du family were not taken away, and his face was livid. He stood up and said, "No, I'm going to take him away now."

Shen Qingling pulled him back, and said helplessly: "Wait until you go now, I'm afraid he would have already left. Just now when A Cong went out, he took someone to arrest him. Don't worry, no one in the Du family can run away."

Xue Yu didn't look like he was lying.

Although Shen Qingling didn't want to doubt Xue Yu, but people will change. He followed Li Yu before, but it doesn't mean he will follow now. There are some things that she has to confirm again and again.

Shen Qingling dared to continue talking only after she was sure that Xue Yu was not Li Zhang's person.

"I had a dream."

There was no winner in the witchcraft case in the previous life, if there was one, it could only be Li Zhang.

In the tenth year of Yuande, the third day of June.

It rained heavily for more than ten days in a row, and the rain washed the grounds of the palace to an extremely muddy state. Two young eunuchs found a wooden figure engraved with the official birth date in front of the jade steps of Fu'an Palace.

On that day, the entire palace was under martial law.

People come and go in the palace during the day, anyone who wants to bury something in front of Fu'an Palace will be seen, so the person who buried the wooden figure must have come at night.However, according to the official's own recollection, he only summoned Shou Wang to enter the palace at night, other than that, no one else could even get close to Fu'an Palace at night.

The suspicion immediately fell on Li Yu.

At first, in order to give Li Yu and Shen Qingling a chance, the officials specially entrusted Shen Zeng with the heavy task of investigating the case. Unexpectedly, as soon as Shen Zeng entered the game, his disciples made mistakes.

The situation in the court changed suddenly, and everyone was in danger for a while.

At that time, Ran Chongwen, the young superintendent of the Sitian Supervisor, reported to the officials that the wooden man was a voodoo technique whose purpose was to curse the emperor and shorten his life. .

The officials were furious and began to conduct a thorough investigation inside and outside the palace.

But among these people in Bianjing, who can really stand the investigation?There were as many as a dozen corruption cases involved in the witchcraft case, and many people were so frightened that they hanged themselves at home in order to protect their families.

Among the last few princes, the second and third were demoted to common people, the fourth was imprisoned, the fifth was sent to Lingnan, and the sixth committed suicide in front of Fu'an Palace in horror.

Those who survived were all young children.

Among them, Li Zhang was the only one who became king as an adult, but stayed in Bianjing.

However, Shen Qingling did not suspect Li Zhang, without him, the queen who raised Li Zhang was involved in the witchcraft case and was deposed, and had to touch the pillar to prove her innocence. Li Zhang's mother, Shen Shuyi, was also implicated. Under the fury of the family, he drank a glass of poisoned wine and died.

As for the Song family, the whole family was copied and executed.

Is Li Zhang the winner?

Big defeat.

He lost the queen who could protect him, and even lost his mother who enjoyed great favor and the mother clan who was enough to support him.

But if you want to say, what is left of Li Zhang, then I am afraid that after he came to his senses, he contacted his official family.If it wasn't for Shen Qingling's efforts to rehabilitate Li Yu later, then in the end, it must be Li Zhang who was crowned prince.

"In the dream, in front of the gate of Fu'an Palace, someone set up a trick to win the battle. Someone tried to use this to provoke the friendship between the officials and the princes." Shen Qingling's back was densely covered with cold sweat.

If she tells Xue Yu everything now, will future tragedies be avoided?

Maybe not.

But in the end, there is one more person to bear the heavy memory for her, and one more person to discuss countermeasures.

(End of this chapter)

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