sjar Chapter 401 Vomited
Chapter 401 Vomited
"I have no idea where the real prince is, or whether he's still alive. Because by the time they planned, the time had already come. However, I can roughly guess."
"Guessed it?" General Lu glanced at Jiang Xing, then subconsciously looked at Lu Xuan, "Is there any other information?"
Lu Xuan touched the golden hairpin on her head, and in the blink of an eye, a wisp of green smoke suddenly emerged from it.
"Master, I'm coming!"
Taking a deep breath of fresh air, Huai Ling spun several times in the air like a spinning top, looking quite happy. Only when he heard his giggle did Jiang Xing say, "Okay, your sect leader has something important to ask you."
He already had a rough idea of what Ah Xuan was going to ask. Although he had a vague guess in his mind, he was still reluctant to face it.
Ever since he knew that it was his brother who killed his sister-in-law, he had already regarded him as a vicious and evil person in his heart. He also realized that the man had evil intentions towards both his mother and him, and he wanted to cut him into pieces.
But at this moment, I suddenly realized that I had hated the wrong person!
The real emperor’s brother might have died long ago!
The anger on his face disappeared completely when he heard the first words Ah Xuan said after she cleared her mind.
Now, I can understand why she was speechless for a long time before.
If it weren't for Ah Xuan's mysterious power, they would never have discovered or noticed this piece of news, which was like thunder and lightning!
The green smoke that had turned into a faint afterimage in the air suddenly stopped. Huai Ling obediently leaned in front of Lu Xuan and said, "Master, what do you want to call me for?"
General Lu and Xu Shu also saw the green smoke, but they couldn't see clearly what it was.
Therefore, for a moment, both of them tensed up and took two steps back involuntarily.
Noticing their nervousness, Lu Xuan smiled sideways at them, "This is Huai Ling, just the consciousness of a tree. Don't worry, it won't hurt you. Its consciousness is like that of a child."
Hearing her say this, General Lu's face, which was as if he was facing a great enemy, finally relaxed a little. He took Xu Shu's arm and rubbed it twice, signaling him to relax.
Lu Xuan looked at Huai Ling and said, "I asked you to go to the East Palace to help me investigate the secret passage. You said there was a dead person under the secret passage. Did you see what the dead person looked like?"
Huai Ling squinted her eyes and thought for a moment, "What does he look like? I'm afraid I can't tell. I only know he's a man, and now only his skeleton is left."
Jiang Xing and Lu Xuan looked at each other.
If only a skeleton is left, it means that the person has been dead for at least many years.
The agarwood chips on the ground are not surprising. They should have been used to cover up the stench of the rotting corpse.
"Then how could you tell he was a man? Do you remember what he was wearing?"
Huai Ling nodded like a chick pecking at rice, the green smoke swaying back and forth, "The clothes he wears are quite nice, embroidered with four-clawed python patterns, and he wears a golden crown on his head. His boots are also excellent, with cloud dragon patterns embroidered with gold thread. They look very valuable!"
Jiang Xing's only remaining hope was shattered. He took two steps back in a daze, his knees went weak, and he quickly grabbed the edge of Lu Xuan's couch.
"That, is... is my royal brother!"
Lu Xuan stepped forward and gave him a light support, then nodded as if to confirm, with no one knowing what was going on in his mind.
She gestured for Huai Ling to return to the golden hairpin, and then told everyone what she had seen and heard in Ji Xiangli's consciousness.
Wow.
The wind was still blowing hard outside the window, and Lu Xuan's voice in the house harmonized with the sound of the wind. The atmosphere seemed to be infected by the low and damp breath outside the window, damp and stagnant.
One after another, earth-shattering news came out, and all the secrets were revealed one after another. It was like a string of tightly connected firecrackers, which exploded one by one after the hidden thread was lit.
Everyone listened in silence, their hearts pounding in their chests.
All the conspiracies and all the mysteries that have puzzled everyone have answers at this moment.
Xu Shu's body had become as soft as a puddle of mud without her knowing. She weakly held onto General Lu's arm, her face gradually turning pale with horror.
"So, my father's death, and the reason Jiang Shaozhao used a spell on me to harm my father, was because my father discovered their secret?! He knew that this emperor was a fake, and Jiang Shaozhao knew everything about him, so that's why Jiang Shaozhao wanted to kill me and used me to kill him?"
Lu Xuan nodded and looked at General Lu.
"That's right. And big brother, you proposed to investigate the cause of Sister Siyu's death, and then you were sent to the battlefield. You were hunted for fifteen years, and you found the answer here!"
General Lu was still puzzled, "But what does this have to do with me?"
Seeing that Lu Xuan was still talking, Jiang Xing calmed down, handed her a cup of tea, and answered the question for her.
"Of course they're closely related, because we discovered that cousin Siyu's death was caused by the emperor, and this emperor should be the current emperor, not the real emperor brother! Just now, Ah Xuan said that the emperor brother sent Niu San'er to the Ji Mansion to deliver a message, saying that he would never marry a concubine under any circumstances. But what is the truth?"
"We all know that not only did the emperor marry a concubine, but Sister Siyu also committed suicide on the day of the wedding. So it seems that Niu San'er had already replaced the emperor long before the wedding. So the person who took the concubine on that day was not the emperor, but Niu San'er!"
"I remember that Cousin Siyu asked me to take Yan'er back to the Duke's Mansion and told him not to stay in the Eastern Palace. I'm afraid that was when Sister Siyu discovered something was wrong and had a premonition of danger!"
"But before she could tell me the truth, she was taken back. I just thought she was jealous, so I didn't take it seriously. When she spoke to me, Niu San'er immediately noticed it and sent Old Master Song to hunt me down. I guess he thought I had learned the truth and wanted to kill me to silence me!"
"Fortunately, the next day, I received an imperial decree from my father, saying that I was unlearned and unskilled, and exiled me to Longchuan..."
Suddenly, Jiang Xing couldn't continue speaking.
The whole yard was silent, and six or seven pairs of eyes were wide open. In an instant, a thunderclap exploded in everyone's heart.
The late emperor!
The late emperor might have discovered it too!
Jiang Xing's gaze fell on the raindrops blown in by the wind outside the window. He frowned for a moment, but then shook his head.
"At that time, my father was critically ill, and I'm afraid he himself didn't know the details of what was going on. The Crown Prince had killed several of his brothers in an effort to eliminate other contenders for the throne, and then there was this substitute. My father probably couldn't tell whether the people around him were his true crown prince or not."
He thought for a moment, "However, he must have sensed that person's hostility towards me, so he quickly sent me away."
Lu Xuan moistened his throat and continued, "But Sister Siyu's death is now very clear. She was the Crown Prince's closest person, and must have been the first to discover something was wrong. The substitute must have threatened her, but she refused, so she allowed the prince to take the little grandson away. I'm afraid that by then, the real Crown Prince had already suffered!"
Jiang Xing nodded, his expression firm. "Yes, I have checked Jiang Shaozhao's case files. He entered the Eastern Palace in April of the 25th year of Xuanwu and became the Crown Prince's assistant. And he took a concubine in June! Now, it is exactly the 15th year of Daxing!"
The room was quiet for a moment, and the humid air made the study lifeless, as if it were a quagmire.
Ji Xiangli lay quietly in the prison car. General Lu looked at his slightly rising and falling chest and wished he could kill him with a single blow of his sword.
Three people make a tiger. They plotted to take over the world and included themselves, their sister, brother-in-law, younger brother, father, and even the late emperor!
Such a culprit deserves to be put to death eight or ten times, or even hung up and whipped!
Hatred surged in his eyes, and the blue veins on the back of General Lu's hand took a while to subside.
He gritted his teeth and then looked at Lu Xuan. "Isn't there still a lot of things we haven't seen yet? Tomorrow I'll send this dying old man to the execution ground. Ah Xuan, do you want to take another look at what secrets are in his mind?"
It would be faster to explore Ji Xiangli's mind than for them to piece together evidence and clues bit by bit.
Lu Xuan also had this idea.
After tomorrow, Ji Xiangli would be truly dead. A living dead like him would retain his state even after death, so it would be difficult to investigate his soul. Everything had to be clarified as soon as possible before he died.
With a "crackling" sound, the fire started and Lu Xuan lit another stick of incense.
Fortunately, her Xuanmen skills have greatly improved now, so she can use the Xuanli to enter people's consciousness so unscrupulously.
If it were in the past, who knows what kind of problems would have happened to her body!
As he was thinking this, Lu Xuan decided to concentrate.
Suddenly, she felt a chill in her chest. She couldn't help it, so she quickly got up and ran to the corner of the yard. With a "wow" sound, she vomited all over the place.