Xiao Qinghuan

What Xie Yongming left to Xie Jue was a copper private seal.

"I've seen this thing before, it's my father's." Xie Jue held the small copper seal and said puzzledly, "All correspondence is printed with this...Why did he give it to you?"

"It's for you." Jiang Xiaohan was pestered by Xie Jue to ask questions before he came back from Yushitai before he had time to catch his breath. Taking advantage of Xie Jue's attention being abducted by that little thing, he took a sip of tea , Corrected: "General Xie stuffed this thing into my hand and asked me to hand it over to you."

Jiang Xiaohan learned from Xie Jue verbatim what Xie Yongming said in prison, but intentionally or unintentionally omitted the part where Xie Yu went crazy.

Xie Jue was puzzled: "Choose a word? What word to choose at this juncture."

He is obviously only 16 years old this year, and he is still far away from being crowned.Xie Jue pinched the private seal in his hand, and suddenly a very bad premonition surged in his heart.

"What else did my father say?" Xie Jue asked hurriedly.

Jiang Xiaohan took the private seal from his hand, and looked at it carefully by the candlelight.When he was in prison, Xie Yongming once hinted that there was still a mechanism hidden in his private seal, which was not as simple as it appeared on the surface.Jiang Xiaohan searched carefully according to the hand feeling in memory, only to find that there is a seam at the bottom of the seal that is invisible to the naked eye. The seam has been wiped with wax, and at first glance, he thought it was a scratch left by the old seal. mark.

Jiang Xiaohan finally found the small mechanism on the side of the seal, and the bolt core was hidden in the corner of the seal. If he hadn't been prepared, he might not have discovered the mystery in it after reading it several times.

Xie Jue watched as Jiang Xiaohan flicked the locket lightly, and the copper seal made a crisp click, and it opened from bottom to top.

The copper seal was actually hollow, and there was a ball of silk cloth inside. From a faint look, there seemed to be brown writing marks on the silk cloth.

Jiang Xiaohan glanced at Xie Jue, and handed him the things in his hand.

"This is probably another thing that your father ordered to be handed over to you." Jiang Xiaohan said.

Xie Jue took the seal in a daze. He stretched out his hand to pinch the corner of the silk cloth, hesitating and not daring to pull it out.

The cloth was snow white and very soft, somewhat different from the silk cloth used for correspondence.Xie Jue has been in the capital all year round, so he is very familiar with these precious things, and he can tell that this is a high-quality brocade at the first touch.

Although Yunjin is expensive and hard to come by, the material is soft and comfortable, and wearing it under light armor can reduce the wear and tear on the joints of the armor.Your Majesty is benevolent, and there will always be a few pieces of brocade in the annual New Year's reward.

The piece of cloth in Xie Jue's hand was extremely soft, and the original texture of the cloth on it was a little fuzzy, and it seemed that it had been worn for a long time.Xie Jue knew very well that this was probably a piece of underwear that Xie Yongming tore off himself.

What is it that can make Xie Yongming tear off his coat to send a message regardless of decency, and even go through all kinds of twists and turns to hide this thing in his private seal and ask Jiang Xiaohan to bring it back.

With Xie Yao's letter in front of him, Xie Jue was holding the piece of cloth, but he didn't dare to open it for a while.

Jiang Xiaohan didn't urge him - not only Xie Jue, but even he felt that after meeting Xie Yongming tonight, the doubts in his heart not only did not ease, but intensified.Let's not talk about how Xie Yu got into that appearance inexplicably, even Xie Yongming's despondent meaning inside and outside the words is obvious.With the kindness of the Xie family, they would never be so restless if they were just being targeted by a prince who had never ascended the throne.

Jiang Xiaohan couldn't let go of his heart, so he could only secretly think about going to the palace tomorrow to meet the saint, and to test Ning Zongyuan's tone in the name of a job report.

Xie Jue unconsciously rubbed the copper seal, a thin layer of sweat formed on his palms.

Young people have no idea, usually when they have support behind them, they can still cry and make a scene proudly, but when they encounter something, they instinctively want to escape.

Xie Jue held the private seal that weighed a thousand jins in disbelief, he bit his lip and hesitated for a while, and then closed the seal again.

"Ming Yuan." Xie Jue's ending sound was soft and waxy, and it was a little elongated because of softness, which sounded pitiful: "...or you should take it and read it."

Before he finished speaking, Xie Jue tried to stuff things into Jiang Xiaohan's hands almost as if his hands were hot, as if as long as he didn't listen or look, he didn't have to face everything that might happen.

"Xie Jue." Jiang Xiaohan shook his head firmly, and pressed the thing back into Xie Jue's palm: "This is something from the Xie family. You don't have to look at it, but you can't hand it over to me."

His attitude was very firm, Xie Jue wanted to say something more, but Jiang Xiaohan blocked his words first.

Jiang Xiaohan smiled slightly, and said lightly, "Xie Jue, didn't you say you wanted to grow up?"

Mr. Jiang was usually very talkative, but once in a while he turned cold and bluffed, Xie Jue was so frightened that he subconsciously withdrew his hand and held the copper seal in his hand.

The copper seal would become warm after playing with it for a long time, and the hard edges and corners pressed against the young man's delicate palm, causing a dull pain.

In the middle of the night, the oil lamp that Jiang Xiaohan forgot to take had just run out of the last drop of oil, and the heavy prison was once again hidden in darkness.

The sound of iron chains dragging suddenly sounded suddenly, and the sound of iron chains colliding with each other sounded.The deliberately suppressed muffled hum sounded particularly obvious in the quiet late night, intermittent breathing, mixed with a few teeth-stinging metal friction sounds.

The smooth nails were embedded in the gaps of the iron chain, and the protruding blue veins covered the entire back of the hand ferociously. The blood oozing from the cracked nails slid down the cold chain and soaked deeply into the chain.

After a while, the silent struggle finally quieted down, and a barely audible sigh sounded in the darkness.

——It was Xie Yongming.

The shadowy silhouette in the prison swayed slightly, something lightly hit the ground, and thin pieces of broken porcelain splashed out, one of which splashed onto Xie Yongming's wrist, making a shallow cut in the flesh.

Wisps of blood seeped down the skin, but stopped by itself.

There was no sound in the heavy prison.

In the hot spring village outside the city, Ning Yu was having a good dream.The people trained by Concubine Wen were really good in everything, and Ning Yu felt comfortable being served, thinking about getting a concubine into the mansion after returning to Beijing.

When the sky was twilight, Hot Spring Zhuangzi suddenly sent an urgent message.The guards of Yushitai rushed forward and hurriedly knocked on the door of the hot spring village.

The mansion guard held Fan Rong's warrant, knelt at the door and said loudly: "I have something important to see His Highness the Fourth Highness."

Ning Yu was woken up from his sleep, and before he had time to get angry, the visitor knelt down in front of him with a plop: "Your Highness, something happened in the heavy prison!"

The Fuwei didn't know if he was frightened or not, and he spoke upside down, it took Ning Yu a while to digest.

"Dead?" Ning Yu said in disbelief, "Why did he die suddenly!"

"It's absolutely true. Xie Yongming personally strangled Xie Yu with an iron chain, and then committed suicide by taking poison. Wu Zuo has experienced it. He took the red crest of a crane, and died in a short time... Xie Yu was even more miserable , Xie Yongming did not know how to attack his own parents and children so viciously, the iron chain went straight into the flesh, half of the neck was strangled." Fu Wei seemed to remember that scene, his face paled for a while, and he was half panting. His face was flushed with suffocation, as if he would suffocate to death due to shortness of breath in the next second: "Master Fan hastily suppressed the news, and just asked us to ask His Highness first."

Mei Ji, who was sleeping beside him, was awakened by the sound, heard the words, and exclaimed in shock, her pretty face was pale, and she only leaned on Ning Zheng.

Ning Zheng waved her away impatiently, walked around the screen and walked out.

Xie Yongming died in prison, and even committed suicide.

Even if he is a dignified first-rank protector of the country, even if he is charged with the iron-clad crime of resisting the imperial decree, as long as he has not passed the court trial and the imperial decree has not been dealt with, his status is still valuable.Ning Yu was shocked and angry, he knew that Fan Rong would never dare to train Xie Yongming in prison without his instruction.It's just that Xie Yongming's death was so strange, if he didn't have a policy to deal with it, I'm afraid that when the news spreads, Ning Zheng and others will catch him.

That old fellow Shu Chuan was full of words, and Jiang Xiaohan——

Ning Yu suddenly felt that something was wrong, and quickly asked, "Before Xie Yongming committed suicide, were there any signs or abnormalities?"

Fan Rong obviously asked this question specifically, and the guard answered quickly: "Except that the Prime Minister Zuo went to see Xie Yongming with His Highness's handwriting, there is nothing else."

Sure enough, Ning Yu secretly gritted his teeth and scolded himself for making a mistake in his heart—he thought that Jiang Xiaohan had an old friend with the Xie family anyway, and for Xie Liuyi's sake, he would try to protect Xie Yongming, but Master Jiang was cruel Hei, like a shark that smells fishy, ​​actually dared to attack Xie's family.

Ning Yu consciously sent him to the door and was put on by someone. Holding back his anger and not wanting to lose his composure in front of his subordinates, he reluctantly held his posture and waved his hand: "Go out and prepare the car. I'll go back to the city later."

The serving Meiji heard that there was no sound outside, so she got out of bed tremblingly in her gauze.She didn't have a good face with Ning Yu just now, and now she doesn't dare to be presumptuous, and obediently took the clothes and accessories to serve Ning Yu to dress and wash.

No matter how much Ning Yu thought about it, he couldn't figure out why Jiang Xiaohan wanted to attack Xie's family.Jiang Xiaohan is a civil servant, and Xie's family is a military commander. Even if a new dynasty rises in the future, Xie Yongming will definitely not be able to block Jiang Xiaohan's way.unless……

Ning Yu's complexion suddenly became very ugly - unless Jiang Xiaohan already had the heart to choose Ning Zheng as the main one.

The more Ning Yu thought about it, the more he felt it was possible. Jiang Xiaohan killed Wen Zui and then killed He Liuyun in Pingjiang Mansion. He was probably trying to find a way out for himself—the officials closest to him and Ning Zheng were gone. Jiang Xiaohan No matter which one you choose, you will be under the iron and nail... Just like Wen Zui to him, He Liuyun is an important minister to Ning Zheng, but you really have to calculate it carefully. Losing one He Liuyun is nothing, seven or eight A He Liuyun is not worth as much as a Jiang Xiaohan.

The battle for the position has reached this point, and Jiang Xiaohan is the only extra weight in the balance.So no matter whether Xie Yongming is Jiang Xiaohan's favor to Ning Zheng or not, Ning Yu can't take this risk.

He seemed to have made up his mind and called out, "Sun Lie."

The door of the dormitory was pushed open, and a solid-eyed guard came in, saluted without looking sideways: "Your Highness."

Ning Yu had already sorted out his thoughts, and ordered with a normal expression: "Go, please invite Mr. Jiang to the palace to gather."

The author says:

Thanks to Cyclic for feeding the fish food~Thank you very much~