Leng Yi looked at the emperor's retreating back, as if he was taller than when he left. A man stood at the door and whispered: "In the rainy season when I was seventeen years old, when I recalled every bit of my childhood, I realized that I had grown up." Approach slowly"
At some point, Yin Jiu was already standing behind Leng Yi. Although he couldn't hear exactly what Leng Yi was humming, he knew that Leng Yi was lamenting the emperor's infatuation.
"My lord" Yin Jiu said.
Leng Yi couldn't help but startled when he heard someone talking behind him. He turned around with a frightened look. Yin Jiu couldn't help but snickered and said: "It's really a haunted place. It scared you, sir, in broad daylight." .¡±
Leng Yi also laughed and looked outside the door. He could no longer see the emperor's shadow, and then said: "You too, you didn't open the good door, and climbed in through the wall. I don't want you to be frightened." Well, what does it have to do with whether it is haunted or not?"
Yin Jiu pointed to a walnut tree next to the wall that was bigger than a millstone and said: "Just now when the young master saw the fruit hanging on it, he must have asked someone to pick it for him. I didn't know that you and the emperor were in the garden. After talking, I climbed up the tree and saw it, but I couldn¡¯t come down right away, so I had to wait for the emperor to leave.¡±
Leng Yi sighed, and Yin Jiu said: "I heard what the emperor just said. It seems that your previous preparations are still useful."
Leng Yi said calmly: "But God is blessing Jin Yan. In such hot weather, let alone twenty days, even if it is ten days, people will not be able to see clearly."
Yin Jiu said: "The Empress Dowager is also extremely cunning. She must have said that she wanted to see people alive and dead or corpses. She probably had the same idea as the Emperor."
Leng Yi smiled and said: "No one knows these two grandsons better than me. Let's go. It just so happens that the Empress Dowager has given me a holiday these two days. We have to do some things quickly." After that, he took the first step. After walking up the steps, Yin Jiu quickly followed, and the two of them left the Zhexiang Garden.
It¡¯s been a month since the Mid-Autumn Festival, but the weather still doesn¡¯t show any signs of getting cooler. This is the legendary autumn tiger.
It¡¯s another fifteenth night, and the moon is very round and big. Like a huge jade plate hanging in the quiet night sky, it was past midnight, except for the occasional sound of owls and dogs barking. The entire capital seemed like an empty city. There was no one on the streets, even the drunkards and beggars were sleeping.
The gate of Zhexiang Garden is closed tightly, with a large copper lock hanging on it. A lot of weeds have grown on the wall. Under the moonlight, the flowers, plants and pavilions in the garden were vaguely visible, and the door of the hall was closed. Suddenly, a black cat quickly crossed from the roof, jumped onto the walnut tree opposite, and disappeared with a miserable scream. into the darkness.
Just when everything was about to return to silence, a black shadow lightly crossed the wall and fell into the garden effortlessly like a dead leaf. Then the black shadow did not go to the hall where Fang Jinyan and the others were buried. . Instead, he turned around and walked towards Fang Jinyan's boudoir.
The door was just closed, not locked. Therefore, the black shadow just exerted a little force, and the door opened. The black shadow entered the door, and then carefully closed the door. After a while, there was light in the room. Through the bright light, I saw the shadow walking to the window and sitting down. He stayed still for a long time, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, until the sky turned slightly cold and the light in the room disappeared. This was the case for three consecutive nights. The rumors of the Leng Mansion being haunted became more and more serious in the capital.
"It is reported that Leng Yi has entered the palace!"
Leng Yi thought that he would have a good rest for a few days. He didn't have to get up before dawn, yawn and stretch to go to court. He was really comfortable. He spent the whole day talking with his wife and playing games with the children. This kind of joy was a blessing. , The feeling of family happiness is extremely comfortable.
The Empress Dowager was waiting for Leng Yi in the peony garden of the Imperial Garden. Although it was not the season for peonies to bloom, the garden was still green and green, and it was pleasing to the eye.
"Wei Chen has met the Empress Dowager."
The Empress Dowager turned her back to Leng Yi and turned around when she heard the voice. She first walked to a chair on the side and sat down, and then let Leng Yi sit down.
"You are quite happy. The Aijia asked you not to enter the palace, so why don't you just give yourself a holiday?"
Leng Yi smiled. His handsome face looked a little cold, but his eyes were completely clear. It could be seen that he had rested well these past few days.
"Wei Chen is wrong."
It was just four short words but it made the Empress Dowager laugh. Sun Qi took all the maids and eunuchs to the side.
"You are good at pleasing people. When the Aijia says you are wrong, you quickly say your fault." The Empress Dowager said with a smile.
Leng Yi did not smile, but said seriously: "The humble minister is at fault."
The Queen Mother saw Leng Yi looking like he was not smiling,He said: "Then you can tell me what's wrong with you?"
Leng Yi cupped his hands and said, "Wei Chen made three mistakes. First, we should not have brought Jin Yan's coffin back to the capital; second, we should not have watched the emperor being sad in Jin Yan's room every day and turned a deaf ear; third" At this point, Leng Yi deliberately gave it a try and lowered his head in silence.
The smile as bright as a summer flower on the face of the Empress Dowager also disappeared, and she could only be heard saying in a deep voice: "What are those three?"
Leng Yi stood up from the chair, bowed and said: "The third thing is that the emperor has grown up now, and Wei Chen should not put everything first. A lot of things have happened around Wei Chen recently. Wei Chen is exhausted physically and mentally. Please ¡¡±
"ImpossibleOkay, don't go on. It's just a matter of the emperor going to Zhexiang Garden in the middle of the night. Why are you talking about going further and further? The Ai family won't agree." The Empress Dowager didn't allow Leng Yi to finish. Leng Yi's words were interrupted.
Leng Yi did not raise his head to look at the Empress Dowager, but said: "The Empress Dowager please listen to Wei Chen's words."
The Empress Dowager sighed softly and said: "The Ai family has no other meaning. It is just that Heng'er's thoughts are completely on Fang Jinyan now. If we don't find something for him to do, won't he be even more desperate?" Have you? Besides, the Aijia also sees your feelings for Fang Jinyan. Since you came back, there have been many trivial matters in the court, and you have no time to rest. With such an opportunity, the Aijia will naturally let you If you get rid of trivial matters, it means that the Ai family feels sorry for you." When she said the last sentence, the Empress Dowager's tone seemed to be so soft that it was dripping with water.
Leng Yi sneered in his heart, you old fox, you say all the good things, what do you mean by feeling sorry for me? Since the emperor succeeded to the throne, I have been working so hard for so long, but I have never seen you give me half a day off. , now I don¡¯t want to let myself take over all the power, so I found some reasons to fool me that I don¡¯t even believe. Do you think I, Leng Yi, grew up a vegetarian?
"Weichen, I would like to thank the Empress Dowager for your hard work, but today is the third period of Jinyan's death. The emperor mentioned to Weichen early in the morning that he did not believe in Jinyan's death, and he must open the coffin for an autopsy today, so Weichen, for a moment I still have to accompany the emperor to Xiangguo Temple, so I¡¯ll take my leave first.¡±
"What? What do you think the emperor wants to do?" The Empress Dowager obviously didn't know that her grandson was involved in such an incident. She thought she was just going to the Leng Mansion every night, so she pretended not to know and just sent someone from a distance. It was just a matter of protecting him so that nothing would happen, but he didn¡¯t expect that he would even open the coffin and conduct an autopsy. If the people in the world knew about this, wouldn¡¯t it be the biggest joke!
"Didn't Wei Chen just say that it was Wei Chen's fault? He shouldn't have insisted on transporting Jin Yan's coffin back. Then" Leng Yi looked at the Empress Dowager with a very embarrassed look.
"You are his uncle, and you don't try to persuade him. If this makes, wouldn't it beconfused? You are really too confused!" The Empress Dowager stood up angrily and walked to Leng Yi in anger. said.
"Grandma, there is no need to blame my uncle, it was all my grandson's idea."
I saw the emperor looking at the plain clothes, wearing a jade crown on his head, a jade belt around his waist, and a sachet hanging on it. He was dressed in the most ordinary way, just like an ordinary prince, but so handsome. There was no life at all on his face, but fortunately he had shaved off his beard, so he didn't look so decadent.
The Empress Dowager almost rushed in front of the emperor. The Empress Dowager, who had always been calm and steady as a mountain, was no longer stable at this moment, Leng Yi thought on the side.
"Heng'er, what are you going to do? Jinyan is already dead, so let the deceased rest in peace. Why are you still going through all this?"
The emperor smiled coldly, spread out a paper fan to cover half of his face, looked at the Empress Dowager, and said: "If you insist on not letting me go, it means that the coffin is not Jinyan at all. Jinyan I just asked you to hide them. How can there be such a coincidence? Wang Zhixuan is dead, Fang Jinyan is dead, Fang Jinyan¡¯s mother Brother He is also dead, and even Ziyuan Yuzhu and Yun Duo are also dead. They agreed to escape together. Come on, hum, don¡¯t lie to me!¡±
The Queen Mother was annoyed, but she said as calmly as possible: "When Jin Yan asked Lord Leng to bring him back, the Ai family saw it with their own eyes and they were really dead. As for the others, Zhixuan asked the Wang family to take them away. Now, you can ask, will their own son still see it wrong? The Ai family told you that Situ Duruo and her son fell from the carriage into a cliff and died. As for what else you said? They are probably all maids, do the Ai family have to verify their identities one by one?"
The emperor said: "Since the emperor's grandmother is not worried, she asked my uncle to transport Jinyan's coffin all the way back to the capital. Now that it has been transported back, it is useless for me to persuade anyone today. I must see it!"
The Empress Dowager was really angry this time and shouted loudly,??: "Come here, escort the emperor back to his palace. No one is allowed to be released to the Ai family without the permission of the Ai family. Anyone who violates the rules will be killed!"
The guards on the side heard the order from the Empress Dowager. Although they did not dare to capture the emperor immediately, they quickly surrounded him. (To be continued)