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"Stop Your Highness the Third Prince, be careful not to hurt Your Highness." Qiu Ying sneered, and waved his hands down to stop the Third Prince.

Although the third prince was cursing, he never expected that Qiu Ying would dare to break into the palace to search so boldly, and even confronted him honestly.The third prince yelled and cursed, but his heart felt faintly cold. He always felt that something bad had happened.

The guards that Qiu Ying brought were all his own people. As soon as those guards entered the mansion, they began to search in detail. Within an hour, someone presented some letters to Qiu Ying.

Qiu Ying opened the envelope and looked at it. Seeing the malice in the eyes of the third prince, he said: "Your Highness, don't you want to see His Majesty? Then let's go to see Your Majesty together and see how His Highness explains these letters to His Majesty." !"

letter?What letter?

The third prince became more and more terrified, but Xiaowei's sword was shining brightly in front of his eyes, he had no time to explain anything else, and he had no time to resist or react, so he was forced to follow Qiu Ying into the palace to face the saint.

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In Prince An's Mansion, Ye Liuyuan looked at Luo Chen in shock.

"What did you say? The third prince was granted death? Princess Jingping hanged herself? The son-in-law killed herself in fright? What's going on? You tell me everything in detail, what happened in the palace today?"

What happened, why suddenly, the third prince was deposed, and Princess Jingping and the son-in-law committed suicide?

"Return to Your Highness." Luo Chen said: "Today, Vice Commander Qiu led people to surround the Third Prince's Mansion, and forcibly broke into it to find out... and found out the letter from the Third Prince's private communication with Prince Jing. His Majesty was furious, and sent the Third Prince demoted to common people."

"The third prince refused to accept it. He said that it was revenge for the public, and he...informed His Majesty about Princess Jingping's affair with the family son in the Linlang Pavilion. Immediately afterwards, news came that Princess Jingping and the son-in-law had died. His Majesty sent Commander Xiaowei searched the princess mansion... but found evidence that the third prince had committed adultery with Princess Jingping."

Luo Chen broke out in a cold sweat while speaking.

After all, Concubine Shu is a concubine in the harem, so she is well-informed, but she doesn't even know the details of this kind of thing. These news...in fact, it was the crown prince who asked him to pass it on to Ye Liuyuan.Luo Chen wanted to ask Concubine Shu for instructions. He didn't know if he could tell Ye Liuyuan, but he was stopped by the prince's people... He had to tell Ye Liuyuan about these things.

But such private affairs, royal scandals, even the third prince was given to death, he is a little servant... Even if Ye Liuyuan let him go, what about the prince?

No matter how calm Luo Chen was, he was still terrified, and the more he thought about it, the more he panicked.

Ye Liuyuan leaned on the couch, in his opinion, this matter should cause trouble for the third prince, it must be public revenge.Qiu Ying thought that the third prince had an affair with Princess Jingping, and fought with the third prince on the Ginkgo Avenue in front of Linlang Pavilion, and was beaten with another [-] sticks. It was predictable that he would take revenge on the third prince after he recovered from his injuries.

But speaking of the private correspondence between the third prince and Prince Jing, Prince Jing is Emperor Ye's concubine brother, is the third prince really bold enough to have private contacts with the vassal prince?If the assassination incident is really related to the vassal king and the prince, it is a certain crime of treason. Is this a frame by Qiu Ying, or is it true?

Moreover, when the third prince was arguing, he thought that Qiu Ying wanted to take revenge not because he had an affair with Princess Jingping, but because he had broken Princess Jingping's affair with a family member, and Qiu Ying wanted to... kill her?

Ye Liuyuan soon realized that something was wrong, he asked: "Who is the son of the family that the third prince said he had an affair with Princess Jingping when he was arguing?"

"It's... the servant of the Minister of Rites." Qiu Ying replied.

Minister of Rites?

If Ye Liuyuan remembers correctly, the Minister of Rites belonged to the Zhao family in Jianling, that is, the right prime minister, the queen and the prince belonged to the same party.The Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites also came from a family, and the Shangshu of the Rites' family is a family friend with the Zhao family of Jianling. The current son of the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites had a baby relationship with Concubine Shu before she entered the palace.

The servant of the Minister of Rites is also the cousin of the legitimate son.

In the blink of an eye, the plots of all the Gongdou dramas he had read and written flooded Ye Liuyuan's mind. His first thought was - no way, could he not be Ye Di's son?

It is really possible, what Concubine Shu said, and the prince said that he knew a secret that day, the prince probably thought he was drunk and passed out, but he actually knew roughly what the prince said.

secret?

Concubine Shu had an affair with the legitimate son of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, so isn't he, the prince, actually a prince?

The matter between the third prince and Princess Jingping was very strange from beginning to end, Yeliu Garden was almost definitely designed by the prince.

To sum up all the information, it is probably that Princess Jingping had an affair with the concubine of the Ministry of Rites. It is very likely that the concubine revealed something to Princess Jingping that should not be disclosed, and then the crown prince found out.

The prince designed the matter of Linlang Pavilion, and when Princess Jingping had a tryst with another family member, he led the third prince who also came to drink to run into him.The mother concubine of the third prince had just been abolished, and Princess Jingping's mother concubine Su Defei was instead promoted to Su Guifei, replacing the position of the third prince's mother concubine.

After the third prince bumped into him, the strength of liquor and old and new grudges surged to his head, he rushed directly to grab Princess Jingping, probably wanting to catch the adulterer on the spot so that he could report to Emperor Ye.

It's a pity that Chou Ying, who was led here, bumped into him, thinking that the third prince had an affair with Princess Jingping, and the prince had an affair with the princess, so where would he put the son-in-law?The brawl on Gingko Avenue was caused by Qiu Ying's rage. Immediately afterwards, Qiu Ying avenged his personal revenge and searched the third prince's mansion in the name of investigating an assassin, finding out evidence of the third prince's contacts with the feudal lord.

Qiu Ying didn't tell Emperor Ye about what he thought the third prince had had an affair with Princess Jingping, in order to save the face of the son-in-law.Who would have thought that when Princess Jingping saw the third prince being brought into the palace by Qiu Ying, she thought that the third prince would report on her affair with a family member, and hanged herself to death.

Princess Jingping hanged herself inexplicably in the princess mansion. The son-in-law probably frightened to death when he saw the princess's body.

Ye Liuyuan thought about it back and forth, and then she roughly understood how deep and deep the prince is.

There are three biggest doubts in this matter: one is why Qiu Ying saw the third prince pulling Princess Jingping, and thought they were having an affair, and they were extremely firm; The letter, whether Qiu Ying framed the third prince, or the prince did it; the third is the evidence of the third prince's affair with the princess found in the princess mansion...

Among these three points, there must be the handwriting of the prince.

Anyway, in the current situation, the third prince was bestowed with death, and there was one less person who could threaten the prince. It is not clear whether he was responsible for the shock of the original body, and it can be regarded as revenge for Ye Liuyuan.And Princess Jingping is dead, the dead will not tell the truth.As for the servant, the prince does not need to take action, and the son of the Minister of Rites will not let him go.

Moreover, the son-in-law was implicated in committing suicide, which also separated the relationship between Qiu Ying and Zuo Xiang.

Concubine Su's daughter, Princess Jingping, had an affair with the prince, brother and sister, it is a big scandal, this matter will definitely implicate Concubine Su and Prime Minister Zuo, Emperor Ye will not be angry for the time being, just don't want to attract too much attention from the former court and the harem , After that, the real storm will never stop.

Just such a thing, counting birds with one stone, not only killed the person the prince wanted to kill, but also hit the former power that the prince wanted to attack, and also kept the secret that the prince wanted to keep.

"Did the crown prince ask you to tell me these things?" Ye Liuyuan suddenly realized, and stared at Luo Chen fiercely.

Luo Chen immediately fell to his knees and said, "Yes, Your Highness, forgive me..."

"No need, get up." Ye Liuyuan waved his hand in a disinterested manner, interrupting Luo Chen's words.

The prince played with everything in his palm, he was like a butterfly trapped in a spider web, the more he struggled, the deeper he got trapped, even Luo Chen, a servant, couldn't resist.

Ye Liuyuan asked: "Did the prince ask you to bring anything else?"

"His Royal Highness... said that when he is free, he will go to Linlang Pavilion with His Highness." Luo Chen bowed his head.

Still going to Linlang Pavilion?

There was a smile in Ye Liuyuan's eyes, and the prince told his servants to tell these details in detail, knowing that Ye Liuyuan would guess that this game was arranged by him, but he wanted to invite him to Linlang Pavilion.

Why, aren't you afraid that he will cast a shadow on the prince and Linlang Pavilion, and don't want to go anymore?

"Okay, I will go to the appointment." Ye Liuyuan said.

It was said that they would make another appointment at Linlang Pavilion on another day, but the matter of the third prince and Princess Jingping had too much impact on the previous dynasty, the prince was busy with various matters, and it was not until half a month later that he found time to go to Linlang Pavilion with Ye Liuyuan.

This time, Ye Liuyuan and the prince did not hurry to drink in the pavilion, but walked slowly along the ginkgo avenue in front of Linlang Pavilion.

When I first came here, the ginkgo leaves hung on the tree in a brilliant golden color. Now half a month has passed, the ginkgo leaves have basically fallen, and the ground is covered with a layer.The sun shone on the golden leaves like a sea of ​​light.

"Isn't the Street Secretary actually coming to clean up?" Ye Liuyuan stepped on the thick ginkgo leaves and kicked them twice, the sea of ​​golden leaves set off small waves.

The prince looked at his childish behavior, and said: "In the past, the sub-district secretary swept away the fallen leaves, and the ginkgo leaves had to be swept away. The guests in Linlang Pavilion who came to drink and enjoy themselves were quite dissatisfied. For the sake of business, Linlang Pavilion later discussed with the sub-district department. The street department no longer cares about this piece of fallen leaves, and handed over the cleaning of this street to Linlang Pavilion."

"That's not bad, the street department saves trouble, and since Linlang Pavilion wants to attract business through this scene, it should also be responsible for cleaning."

As the two of them walked under a tree, Ye Liuyuan frowned and said, "What... is this smell, why is it a little... stinky!"

Ye Liuyuan's nose was wrinkled, not because of anything else, but because there was a vague stench under the ginkgo tree, and it was almost suffocating when it was close.

Originally the prince was considerate of Ye Liuyuan's legs, the two of them walked slowly, Ye Liuyuan couldn't stand it anymore, and pulled the prince forward quickly, away from the smelly ginkgo tree.

The prince's eyes fell on Ye Liuyuan's hand holding his sleeve, and said, "Probably...it's the rotten smell of the fallen ginkgo fruit."

"No matter how brilliant and beautiful the leaves are, they cannot hide the stench of rotten fruit."