Golden branches around the East Palace

Chapter 469 Strange thing?

These days in the hospital bed, he really thought a lot, but no matter what he thought about, it was useless.

At this time, the emperor seemed to be no longer the emperor who used to be aloof, but just an old man in his twilight, thinking about what he had done in his life day and night.

An Xizheng sent Annan to investigate the matter between An Yihua and the monk. Unexpectedly, this investigation turned out to be a problem.

Yi'er came back and sent a message to An Xipin: "Annan said that he found out that Master Wuwang went out a few months ago. After he came back, he seemed to be a little weird. He occasionally inquired about what happened in Beijing. The four things are all empty. The former master Wuwang never cared about these things. But he still meditates every day, and no one finds anything wrong. Annan followed the clues to find the route of the monk that time, and he found something. A strange thing. Near a small village on the outskirts of the city, there was a ruined temple, but one day it suddenly caught fire. Later, after the villagers put out the fire, they found a charred corpse inside. According to the calculation of time, the fire At that time, Master Wuwang happened to pass by there. There were no other clues, so Annan suspected that the corpse might be the real Master Wuwang. But he had no evidence, just his intuition. It's a bit of a coincidence."

After hearing Yi'er's words, An Xizheng asked, "Did Annan say when Master Wuwang returned to Qingxin Temple after discovering the corpse? Has any villager seen Master Wuwang in the ruined temple, and other people?" stranger?"

Yi'er thought about it for a while, and then said: "Yes! On the day before the fire, some villagers saw a monk who seemed to be heading towards the ruined temple. Another villager said that when passing by the ruined temple that day, there was I saw a strange man riding a horse. Because I just glanced at it casually, I don’t know if there is anyone else. There are often beggars in ruined temples, so it is impossible to judge whose corpse it is. After all, time It’s been a long time, and there’s no way to do an autopsy.”

"Annan also said that Master Wuwang returned to Qingxin Temple on the third day after the ruined temple caught fire. Originally, he planned to go out for a few months, but he returned in less than half a month. Someone in the temple asked him why What happened, his answer was that he was sick and unwell, so he came back early. After that, he did suffer from illness for more than half a month." Yi'er added.

"This is really weird. Although I can't be sure, Annan's suspicion is indeed reasonable. If these things are connected, it is a bit of a coincidence. Tell Annan to go to Zuijun Tower again and ask Mama Su to see how many of these things are related. Have any strangers come to the capital in the past month or so?" Although there may not necessarily be a problem with this matter, at this time, any disturbance should not be let go.

"Yes." Yi'er responded.

In the evening, Yi'er came back and told her what An Xiying told her to do: "I have already asked Mama Su, and Mama Su said that there was a caravan from Yu Kingdom that stayed in Beijing for a while. I arrived in the capital again, but this time, I left very quickly. Because I didn't find any problem, I didn't come to report to the empress."

"Yu Kingdom, the caravan... When was the last time you came?" An Xizheng asked after pondering for a while.

(End of this chapter)