"What, what do you mean?" Yu Qianxi guessed something in his heart, but he was not sure, so he asked nervously.

Yi Cheng glanced at Yu Qianxi, took the two jade pendants in his hand, and said seriously: "The two jade pendants are a pair, and besides you and fourth brother Zhen Guogong, I also have other items mentioned in the script. There are no princes, this is too obvious, you and your fourth brother must have a more complicated relationship than half-brothers."

"But, this jade pendant was left to me by my mother and concubine. Yi Cheng, aren't we two of the same father and mother? Why did the other half be left to my half-brother Fourth Emperor?" Yu Qianxi asked suspiciously.

"Yes, that's what I mean, but I'm only two years older than you, and I didn't know what happened when my concubine gave birth to you." Yi Cheng said in a deep voice.

After the two finished speaking, Qi Qi fell into deep thought.

"Wait, there is a person who knows more about the previous court than us." Yu Qianxi suddenly looked up at Yi Cheng and said.

"Liu Muxian?"

Thinking of this, the two took two jade pendants and prepared to go to Liu Muxian.

As soon as he stepped out of the hall, Yu Qianxi thought of something, grabbed Yi Cheng and said, "Let me find you a robe and put it on."

Yi Cheng looked down and remembered that his robe had been taken off by the corpse just now, so he smiled and said, "Okay!"

Yu Qianxi turned around and found a uniform robe and handed it to Yi Cheng. Yi Cheng looked at Yu Qianxi's results playfully.

"Qianqian, won't you help me wear it?" Yi Cheng asked with a smile.

Yu Qianxi glanced at Yi Cheng suspiciously, and realized that he was teasing him, passed Yi Cheng out of the palace door, and said as he walked, "You, you wear it yourself, I'll wait for you."

Yi Cheng watched Yu Qianxi go out with a smile, and put on his outer robe.

The two of them walked to Linwu Gate while talking, Liu Muxian was still here, he was squatting beside the corpse, observing carefully, but Liu Yirou didn't know why she went there.

"What is the prime minister looking at?" Yi Cheng walked over and asked loudly.

Startled by the shout, Liu Muxian trembled a little, hurriedly got up and turned around, and saw Yi Cheng and Yu Qianxi coming back.

"I, I'll take a look at the condition of the corpse." Liu Mu swallowed the book first, answering Yi Cheng's question with erratic eyes. "Why is the Emperor Cheng Wang looking for a minister?" Prime Minister Liu was a man of color, and he knew that Yi Cheng and Yu Qianxi must have something to do with him.

"The prime minister is very thoughtful." Yi Cheng smiled and praised Liu Muxian, then took out the two jade pendants in his hand, and continued: "The emperor and I just found another similar jade pendant, and the two jade pendants can be stitched together seamlessly." One, it's a bit surprising."

Seeing Yi Cheng stop, Yu Qianxi went on to say: "My concubine mother left me this jade pendant when I was a child, but concubine mother left me a few days after I was born, and later my father left this jade pendant to me , and told that it is the relic of the mother and concubine, but the father never mentioned that there is another jade pendant that is a pair with it."

After finishing speaking, Yu Qianxi slowly lowered her head, not knowing what to write.

"So, prime minister, you have gone through two dynasties, and you are also the powerful minister of the father and the emperor. I wonder if you know about these old things in the palace?" Yi Cheng stared at Liu Muxian and asked.

After Yu Qianxi and Yi Cheng finished talking just now, Liu Muxian frowned and fell into deep thought. The fourth prince Zhen Guogong and the emperor were not born of the same mother, so why did they each have one of a pair of jade pendants?

Thinking about this, Liu Muxian slowly said what he knew back then: "Back then, the emperor was born to Concubine Shu of the late emperor. Outside the palace, a well-known Wen Po was invited to look after you in the palace. Perhaps it was due to the emperor's good luck that Concubine Shu gave birth to you after a day and a night. But..."

He said something and stopped.

"Prime Minister, King Cheng and I know what you said just now, but what?" Yu Qianxi thought about Liu Muxian's words, and these were not different from what he had heard from his adoptive mother, Concubine Liang, since he was a child.

Liu Muxian took a deep look at Yu Qianxi with his old eyes, and continued: "But later there were many rumors in the palace, saying that Empress Concubine Shu gave birth to not only the emperor yourself, but also a prince... "

As soon as these words came out, Yi Cheng and Yu Qianxi looked at each other, and they both had an intuition.

"These are all reported by the servants, besides, the emperor's twin brother has not appeared so far." Liu Muxian sighed and continued.

"Qianqian, we still have a brother?" Yi Cheng couldn't figure it out now.

Yu Qianxi didn't answer Yi Cheng's words immediately, he needed to sort out what Liu Mu said first.

After a while, Yu Qianxi raised his head, his eyes brightened, his pupils dilated, he understood something, and said, "Maybe it's not a rumor, it's true."

Liu Mu first frowned at Yu Qianxi and continued to listen to his analysis.

"Back then, the mother and concubine were probably pregnant with twins, so the day of delivery was extremely dangerous, but when the prince came out, it was found that there were two, and it is a taboo for the royal family to give birth to twins, so the father is very likely to dispose of the other prince. It's gone." Yu Qianxi slowly explained that when he was in high school, his history teacher had taught about twins being tabooed by ancient emperors, but he didn't expect it to come in handy here.

After listening to Yi Cheng, he suddenly realized. He glanced at the corpse on the ground and said, "So, the fourth brother is probably the same mother and concubine as us, and he is the other twin of that year."

"Well, I'm not sure, after all, we don't look exactly alike." Yu Qianxi shook his head lightly.

After the voice fell, several people fell into silence. It is really impossible to verify the past, and the former emperor is likely to silence all the insiders.

"This doesn't seem to have much to do with Duke Zhen being killed?" Liu Mu asked first, breaking the silence.

"No, it still has something to do with it. Brother Four Emperors was already dissatisfied with my sitting on the throne, and now he holds the military power of frontier officers and soldiers, which is a great threat to the imperial power." Yu Qianxi said softly.

Liu Muxian fell into doubts, so the emperor would point the finger of the murderer at himself.

"Qianqian, did you kill him?" Yi Cheng asked half-jokingly.

Yu Qianxi looked at Yi Cheng pretending to be angry, pouted, and said, "Am I a cruel person? No, I won't do anything to my brother..."

Liu Muxian turned his eyes, looked at the corpse on the ground, and let out a soft breath.

He looked at the two of them again and asked: "Your Majesty, you have been on the throne for three years. Two years ago, you transferred Lord Zhen Guo to the frontier and made him Lord Zhen Guo. Maybe it is because Lord Zhen Guo has provoked some enemies outside in the past two years?"

Yu Qianxi raised his hand and loosened the neckline. The ancient clothes are really stuffy. After listening to Liu Muxian's words, Yu Qianxi thought for a moment and said, "It's not very likely. Brother Four Emperors has won the support of many soldiers in the frontier in the past two years. , The army is well managed, and all kinds of news from the town are frequently handed over to the capital, besides, although Brother Sihuang has a bit of a temper, but his mind is simple, and he doesn't seem to have provoked anyone."

"Hmm..." Liu Muxian also felt that his deduction had gone wrong, he secretly glanced at Yu Qianxi, and sighed.

"This fourth younger brother is a person who loves and hates clearly, Qianqian, we still have to figure out the fourth younger brother's interpersonal network first, and peel it off." Yi Cheng said.

"Well, Prime Minister, please tell me what you know first." Yu Qianxi was tired of talking just now, and asked Liu Mu to speak first, and what he knew was from the time of the first emperor, which is more clear.

After listening to it first, Liu Mu nodded and began to say: "The concubine Zhen Guo was born half a month later than you, the emperor. She was born to the late emperor's nobleman, who was a woman from Miaojiang. She was accepted because she was the daughter of an official from Miaojiang. So, the former emperor didn't like noble people, and he didn't even like Duke Zhen, so you must know this, Your Majesty and King Cheng."

Yi Cheng and Yu Qianxi nodded.

The fourth prince, Xiao Jingyun, was never seen by the late emperor since he was a child, but they were very popular with his father, perhaps because of his mother and concubine.

"Back then, the eldest prince and the second prince were the descendants of the Empress of the Central Palace, and they were the candidates for the crown prince that the late emperor thought. However, the two princes were weak and died before they reached adulthood. Because of your status." Liu Muxian looked at the two of them and said.

"Prime Minister Liu, I heard that when the second prince died, the imperial physician once said that the second prince's weakness was caused by poisoning, but is it true?" Yi Cheng suddenly remembered what he had heard before, and asked Liu Muxian.

Liu Mu started pacing slowly with his hands behind his back, and said as he walked, "Well, the imperial physician back then was only inferring the pulse, but after checking the medicine residues and food, there was no sign of poisoning, so the late emperor just let it go."

"However..." Liu Muxian continued: "But there are indeed rumors from the court ladies that the poison was poisoned by the gentlemen, but who would believe a little court lady's words?"

"Wenguiren?" Yu Qianxi chewed on these words, and finally, he continued to ask: "Can Prime Minister Liu tell you about Wenguiren's life experience in detail?"

Liu Mu raised his eyes to look at Yu Qianxi first, and praised with a smile: "Is the emperor doubting Mr. Wen's Miao Jiang status?"

"Miaojiang women are good at using poison, so I have to be suspicious." After Yi Cheng said this, Yu Qianxi nodded.

"It's strange to say that Wengui is good at using poison, but she also died of poisoning back then." Liu Muxian continued.

"Master Wengui died of poisoning? What kind of poison was in it?" Yu Qianxi and Yi Cheng had never heard of such a thing, so they became interested.

Liu Muxian sighed, and said: "I have some friendship with the imperial physician who treated Wengui. I heard that after Wengui was pregnant with the fourth prince, his health has been bad. Everywhere on his body, especially his mouth, there are often ulcers, which have continued for a long time. After more than two years, the reason could not be found out, and later, the imperial physician studied the utensils used by gentlemen, and found that they had been smeared with "Zhu medicine"!"

"Zhu Yao?" Yi Cheng was puzzled.

"I seem to have heard that this medicine is red in color, and it can relieve pain in a small amount, but it can cause toxicity in excess. It is solid at room temperature and will dissolve when heated." Yu Qianxi said.

"That's right, this kind of medicine was put on the utensils commonly used by the nobles, with vermilion patterns on it, and the person who poisoned it smeared on the vermilion patterns, and no one found it for two years. The other imperial physician is puzzled." Liu Mu said after taking a breath.

"What?" Yu Qianxi and Yi Cheng said in unison.

"Mr. Wengui has been poisoned a long time ago. Why is there nothing wrong with the fourth prince who was born, but she has festering disease all over her body?" Liu Muxian finished speaking and looked at the fourth prince on the ground.

Yi Cheng and Yu Qianxi glanced at each other, and it seemed that they were talking about the real identity of the fourth prince.

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