you got on my tail

The early morning in the Palace of Compassion and Ning was mild and quiet. The maid carried the golden birdcage and entered the door. The Empress Dowager was combing her hair in a bun in front of the mirror.

The Empress Dowager's brows are light, very similar to the handsome Yu Wang, but completely different from the young emperor's sharp brows.

A maid gently knocked on the door and said in a low voice: "Queen Mother, Lord Bai of Dali Temple is asking to see you."

The queen mother was inserting the last thin pearl hairpin into the cloud temple, she glanced at the maidservant behind her who was focusing on feeding the birds, and frowned softly: "What is he here for?"

"He..." The maid thought about it, and said in a low voice: "A few days ago, our young master provoked him, and the emperor is not around recently, so he wouldn't ask the teacher to ask the crime?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Another maid put down her work, frowned and said: "What is he, dare to ask our Xu family's crime!"

"Okay, stop arguing." The Queen Mother put down and closed the makeup box, and said softly, "Let him come to Yufang Garden to see me."

In Yufang Garden, Bai Xuehe was already kneeling at the gate of the flower pavilion and waiting. He was not wearing an official uniform, but was wearing a homely white satin dress. His long hair was tied up in a bun. It was the first time the Empress Dowager saw him at such a close distance. Bai Xuehe, he thought Xu Lingxiao had offended some kind of fairy-like person, but he didn't expect Bai Xuehe to raise his head, revealing a frail young face.

Bai Xuehe said softly: "See the Queen Mother."

The maid left knowingly, and there were only the two of them left in the huge flower pavilion. Although the queen mother was not as good as the emperor, she had many cronies inside and outside the palace. She knew that Bai Xuehe had investigated Xu Lingxiao. Datian is just some small mistakes and omissions, and it is not worthy of being the hall of Dali Temple.

The Queen Mother came back to her senses and said, "Get up."

Bai Xuehe got up slowly, took out a case file from his sleeve and put it in front of the Empress Dowager. There was a seal on the case file, and the red seal of Dali Temple Minister was printed on the joint between the seal and the case file. Put it on the teacup by the table, then raised the teacup and said softly: "The Ai family is a woman and doesn't know how to deal with politics. If you have something to say, Mr. Bai, please speak up."

"Yes." Bai Xuehe nodded, "I shouldn't have come to find the Queen Mother, but the matter is so important that if I don't report it in advance, I will always feel bad."

The queen mother became nervous just now, she finally reached out to open the case file, her hand began to tremble a little as her eyes swept over the paper, and finally knocked over the teacup violently, and whispered: "Presumptuous!"

Bai Xuehe knelt down hastily, and the Queen Mother's voice was even sharper and trembling: "You mean, Ling Xiao was responsible for some monster murder case in the capital?! How is this possible!"

It is stated in the case file that Xu Lingxiao likes Su Yan, a young lady in Tanchun Building in Yangchunfang, but Su Yan is arrogant, and after being forced by Xu Lingxiao, she was locked up in Xu's house, but she always wanted to escape.

Xu Lingxiao likes to raise ferocious and vicious dogs. In addition to two or three at home, he also specially built a manor in the capital. Su Yan escaped from the room while Xu Lingxiao was away, but happened to be hit by a mad dog. Xu Lingxiao's dogs were expensive and expensive. With a fierce temperament, the servants of the Xu family did not dare to rescue him, so Su Yan was bitten to death by a dog while alive.

After Xu Lingxiao returned home, he found that he asked someone to quickly carry the body away, but he happened to meet the beater. The beater saw everything and wanted to threaten him, and said that he had told the truth to others, so the Xu family used the same method. After taking care of him, and destroying the faces of the two, he released rumors of what the monster did, making the case impossible to investigate.

The queen mother was very worried, and so was Bai Xuehe. Although he knew that Xu Lingxiao was related to the dead Su Yan, he didn't understand the identity of the other corpse. up.

The queen mother calmed down for a long time before asking tremblingly, "What evidence do you have?"

"Su Yan is missing. Mr. Xu likes Su Yan. This is all checked by Master Wei, the commander of Jinyiwei. When the dog goes crazy and bites, Su Yan is the first, and the minister is the second. I read the veterinary classics and know that the dog is sick. Five days at most, Mr. Xu's dog happened to attack the minister and died that day, I figured it would probably be less than five days." Bai Xuehe said with a low eyebrow: "During that time I was injured and basically stayed at home, Mr. Wei He is the emperor's confidant, so there should be no fakes."

The queen mother was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "Master Bai has the evidence, why didn't he just go and arrest him, but ran to Ai's house instead."

Xu Lingxiao is the only son of the Xu family, and he is indeed arrogant and domineering. He doesn't pay attention to the court's laws in everything, but his character is timid and fearful. He said that he forced the young lady to death. Fuzzy, the Queen Mother still couldn't believe it.

Seeing that Bai Xuehe was silent, the queen mother thought that he was guilty, so she said: "Ling Xiao has always been arrogant, and it's because Aijia and General Xu are not strict in discipline. If Lord Bai has any dissatisfaction, Aijia will make the decision. You don't have to take advantage of the emperor's absence. Things have gotten to such a dire state.”

"If only Su Yan dies, then of course it's nothing. It's just that the emperor intends to lead the matter to Ruan Jianghe." Bai Xuehe raised his head and said bluntly: "The emperor intends to punish Ruan Jianghe, so he asked the minister to lead the murderer to Ruan Jianghe." Regarding Jiang He, if this matter is done by ordinary people, the minister will naturally act according to the order, but this matter was done by Mr. Xu, Lord Wei will investigate it himself, even if I don't tell you, the emperor will be suspicious."

The queen mother frowned: "What do you mean? The emperor wanted King Yan's life a long time ago, and Ruan Jianghe even abolished the old minister of the prince. Even if the emperor is cruel...why can the emperor move them?"

The queen mother was kind, and she never said that Fu Jiying was cruel and cold. She was not the mother of the abolished prince, but she was not Fu Jiying's biological mother either.

"I heard that general Xu is also involved in getting rid of Ruan Jianghe through this matter. Although Ruan Jianghe is an old minister of the abolished prince, the abolished prince is dead, and he doesn't know where the rumored child is. It doesn't matter to the emperor. Threat, even the king of Yan has already been put under house arrest in the capital, and his wings have been lost..." Bai Xuehe's voice was extremely low, "But the Queen Mother, the emperor's brothers, only King Yu is left."

The queen mother was silent. She adopted Fu Jiying whose mother died young. She really never thought that he would become emperor one day, let alone that she would become queen mother. She just wanted to keep her two children growing up safely.

What Bai Xuehe said is indeed reasonable. There has been no clear evidence of King Yan's rebellion. Fu Jiying wanted to get rid of Ruan Jianghe, and her younger brother who was eager for quick success did have this proposal. It was their Xu family's intention.

The emperor has always been suspicious, if King Yu is involved...

When the queen mother was silent, Bai Xuehe continued: "The queen mother has always kept a secret, but nothing can be hidden from your eyes. At that time, Zhou Jing's confession was also very suspicious. Zhou Jing sent his wife and family out of the city, carrying the coffin Entering the Imperial Prison, it is clear that death is the home, but an unknown concubine is left in the capital."

Bai Xuehe said truthfully: "Everyone understands this situation. He is ready to confess and knows that he will be safe and sound. If it is said that General Xu got rid of Ruan Jianghe to please the emperor, he can do so much. Arranged to please the emperor, the emperor doesn't know if he will appreciate it."

The Empress Dowager didn't ask any more, she already understood what she meant, she raised her head and said, "Then what do you want Aijia to do?"

"Mr. Xu surrendered himself. The minister will say that Su Yan committed suicide. As for the mad dog's illness, it cannot be controlled by human beings. Mr. Xu has no knowledge of it, so it's over." Zhou Jing forcibly confessed in order to get rid of the crime, and once Zhou Jing died, there would be no proof."

The Queen Mother nodded, and said in a low voice: "You allow Ai to think about it."

"When I come here today, the emperor's cronies will definitely report in secret." Bai Xuehe raised his head, "The empress dowager can think twice, but as soon as possible."

……

It was already noon when Bai Xuehe came out from the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and Bai Xuehe realized that his clothes were already soaked. In fact, there were many doubts about this matter, including General Xu's proposal to the emperor to get rid of Ruan Jianghe.

In fact, General Xu was not the only one who proposed to the emperor to get rid of Ruan Jianghe, but the queen mother is old and the emperor is cold-hearted, even if King Yu is innocent, he will not be immune.

After another day and night, Fu Jiying continued to head towards Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing, without any intention of returning to Beijing.

The Queen Mother turned the beads three times in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and finally called her cronies into the palace. Xu Lingxiao wept bitterly in Dali Temple, and only said that Su Yan was bitten to death by a dog by accident, and he had no knowledge of it.

After Zhou Jing was released from prison, he did stay at his concubine's house. At night, the wind was strong by the river, and he accidentally fell into the river while walking, and he lost his news so far.

Regardless of whether it is true or false, a case must have a conclusion. As long as the cause and effect can be connected, no one will ask about the details.

When Zhou Jing died, all his confessions were overturned by Dali Temple, but Nanjing, which had been calm all along, sent an imperial decree to acquit Ruan Jianghe.

Bai Xuehe just wanted to delay Ruan Jianghe's death, but he didn't expect Fu Jiying to have such a will. On the day Ruan Jianghe was released from prison, he stood in front of the prison gate in official uniform to prepare a car. In the middle of the night, Ruan Jianghe, who had been tortured countless times, He still straightened his spine and kept his gaze fixed, as if he had never met him before.

Bai Xuehe still paid tribute to this person who was kind to him in the past. Fu Jiying would allow him to save Ruan Jianghe, but he would never let King Yan go. No matter how true the rumors were, he could only do so much.

Bai Xuehe has been very busy these past few days. Almost every time he comes home it is late at night. His bedroom is still full of all kinds of sundries, but there is an extra stupid boy on the bed. Heidan still doesn't like to wear clothes. Every day, this guy will carefully hide the Xitong ointment. Although Bai Xuehe saw that the wooden box was in the closet or under the flowerpot, his body and heart seemed to be in harmony with each other. Pain ointment is no longer so dependent, Bai Xuehe heard people say that if you don't touch it for a year or two, you can quit this thing.

Squeezing Heidan's fleshy face, Bai Xuehe felt for the first time that he still lived like a human being.