Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 796
"Okay, I'll wait for you in the mansion, and you can tell me in detail when you come back." Xia Zijin gathered up his coat, folded it back into the room, took a cloak and tied it on him, "It's windy at night, don't you I caught a cold."

Xia Shengqing nodded and dived into the night.Xia Zijin stood at the bottom of the corridor, clasped his hands together, and watched him leave in a daze, his watery eyes were full of worry.

"Princess, don't worry, Nine Thousand Years will come back safely." Xin'er stepped forward to comfort her, "You are weak, go back and rest, you will feel uncomfortable when you look back."

Xia Zijin nodded and turned around to enter the room. She couldn't fall asleep for a while, leaned on the bed, took Xin'er's newly brewed tea and held it in her palm, without saying a word, just in a daze.

Xia Shengqing rode all the way to the prison gate. As soon as he arrived at the gate of the prison, he saw the Imperial Forest Army running in with buckets, pouring water desperately. Big.Xia Shengqing's expression was ugly. With such a big fire, it was difficult for him to get in.

Dali Siqing lowered his head and his face was full of panic. Now that Xia Shengqing's face was as cold as ice, he became even more frightened. His body trembled uncontrollably, for fear that he would get angry.Xia Shengqing caressed the jade wrench on his thumb, and smiled sinisterly, "He's really good at it."

It was really decisive to put Xia Qixuan in jail, and then a big fire broke out at night.The fire was gradually extinguished, Dali Temple Qing couldn't help wiping the sweat seeping from his forehead with his handkerchief, trembling with fear, if such a thing happened under his jurisdiction, if... if it was Xia Qixuan, he would be burned to death in prison like this , he really wanted to lose his life.

Xia Shengqing took a deep breath, walked in, and was surrounded by the smell of burning, as well as the wounded lying on the ground crying.Although these wounded and injured are all sinners, these people have already learned a lesson here, and how to deal with it is naturally determined by the laws of the country.

It's not like it is now, it looks like a tragedy on earth.Dali Siqing's legs were trembling uncontrollably. Looking at the scene in front of her, she swallowed and followed Xia Shengqing with a smile. If she didn't have some willpower, she would have fainted a long time ago.

Xia Shengqing walked halfway, and saw the jailer who came in to investigate hurriedly running over, "My lord, no, it's not good, the front..."

Ahead was the place where Xia Qixuan was being held. Seeing him flustered and incomplete, Xia Shengqing immediately knew that something was wrong, and pushed him away and walked straight in.

It was supposed to be a living person, but at this moment there was only a corpse left, which was burnt beyond recognition. Just looking at the jade ring and waist plate on his hand, Xia Shengqing closed his eyes, stepped forward to check, and his face gradually became serious. The characteristics of the person are exactly the same as Xia Qixuan.

Then, his expression changed drastically, he turned his head suddenly, and hurriedly walked towards the women's prison, and saw Xia Qixuan's wife, Mrs. Liu, lying on the haystack with her eyes wide open and her other hand slumped on the ground.Xia Shengqing slammed a fist on the cell door, "Open the cell door soon."

Dali Siqing hurriedly called the jailer to open the cell door and let Xia Shengqing in.He stepped forward quickly, and poked his finger between Liu's nose, as if he had been scalded, he retracted his finger suddenly, and stopped the doctor who came in with the medicine box, "Don't worry about it, he's already dead. "

"Your Majesty, please forgive me! Your Majesty, I really don't know why such a thing happened?" Dali Siqing didn't expect that she just fell asleep and the trouble came from her head, and she fell directly on his head. She is really dumb at this moment. , I can't tell the pain.

Now he has nothing else to do but beg for mercy, Xia Shengqing glanced at him lightly, "My lord, please, please investigate this matter thoroughly, if you can't find the cause of the matter, you don't need to continue wearing your black hat. "

"Yes, yes, I will investigate thoroughly and give you a satisfactory explanation." Dali Siqing nodded hurriedly, lowered his head, and sent him out respectfully.

Xia Shengqing clenched her fists tightly, feeling as if someone squeezed a ball of cotton and stuffed it into his chest today. She couldn't breathe out or swallow it, it was really uncomfortable.

Back in the mansion, the sky was already glowing with white light, but it was still gray, and the blue bricks and gray tiles added to the loneliness. He couldn't help sighing, seeing Xiner guarding the door, he subconsciously stepped lightly, " Has she rested?"

"Go back to the lord, the princess just lay down, so you should take it easy." Ever since Xia Shengqing left, Xia Zijin had been holding the teacup in a daze, not even noticing that the water in the cup was cold, and just lay down and fell asleep.

Xia Shengqing nodded, pushed open the door, and walked over on tiptoe, Xin'er closed the door quietly.Sitting on the small embroidered stool in front of the bed, he saw the figure who had turned his back to the outside move, grabbed him, and looked at him while lying on his side, "How is the situation in the prison?"

"Didn't you already fall asleep, why did you wake up again?" Xia Shengqing frowned, "How can your body bear it if you don't sleep all night?"

"Sheng Qing, I can't sleep." Xia Zijin sighed, "How can I sleep when something like this happened? Is Xia Qixuan dead already?"

"Yeah." Xia Shengqing was silent for a moment, then nodded in her burning gaze, and sighed helplessly, "Zijin, don't worry about this matter, my husband will find out."

The implication is that this matter is tricky, Xia Zijin looked at him firmly, smiled and nodded for a while.She moved her mouth up and down a few times, but she didn't make a sound. She is just getting better now, if she insists on interfering in these matters, Xia Shengqing will probably get angry.

Seeing that she was willing to come down, Xia Shengqing was relieved, and fell down on the bed with her arms around her. As for this morning, with such a big event happening, Xia Shengqing couldn't sleep much, and got up again after lying down for half an hour. Xia Zijin helped him get dressed, and entered the palace full of sleepiness.

The blaze was amazing yesterday, and the one who was woken up was the Yushi Mansion not far from Dali Temple, so this matter was written and handed over early in the morning.Xia Shengqing glanced at it twice, with a painful expression on his face, "What do you all think is going on at this time?"

The centipede is dead but not stiff. Even though Xia Qixuan has been burned to charcoal now, there is still a minister who speaks for him, "I am nine thousand years old, and I think it was deliberately set on fire by someone to kill people."

"You will say? Who wants to kill him to silence him? Xia Qixuan was deprived of his status as a prince and sent to death row. Such a tragic way." Xia Shengqing reprimanded mercilessly, and the minister who just spoke bluntly turned pale.

Seeing that he was blocked by himself, Xia Shengqing snorted coldly, and glanced at the courtiers standing below one by one, remembering their expressions in his eyes.

"Master Dali, have you got the autopsy results yet?" Xia Shengqing lazily leaned back on the chair, knocked on the table, signaled the waiter standing beside him to add tea, and then called the minister of Dali who stood trembling among the courtiers.

"My lord, the result has come out. There is no trace of struggle at the scene. Wu Zuo found that the wound of the corpse was cut by a long sword. It seems to have committed suicide, and it was burnt by fire afterwards." Dali Siqing hesitated before proposing his own Guess, "Weichen thinks that it is very likely that Xia Qixuan set the fire himself, and then committed suicide. When the fire spread, his body was engulfed by the flames, giving people the illusion that he was burned to death."

"Suicide?" Xia Shengqing rubbed his fingers on the table twice, asked in confusion, and then seemed to accept the statement, "With his previous status, it's not surprising that he ended up in this situation, he committed suicide, maybe it's an apology, But it’s strange that such a whole body refuses to stay.”

"Did Liu also commit suicide?" Xia Shengqing didn't continue to dwell on this topic, but asked another person.

Dali Siqing turned to hold a box, and the servant came to Xia Shengqing.

After Xia Shengqing opened it, she saw two gold rings inside, squinted her eyes, "Suicide by swallowing gold?"

"That's true." Dali Siqing sighed a little, thinking that Mrs. Liu was pregnant, and it was surprising that she could kill herself so neatly.

"This matter needs to be investigated again, Dali Siqing, Xia Qixuan was imprisoned that day, but he never brought a sword, and where did the fire come from?" Xia Shengqing pursed her lips, with a mocking smile in her eyes.

Immediately, a jailer was brought up, covered in blood, it was horrible to look at, Xia Shengqing narrowed his eyes, brushed his chin with his finger, "What's the matter with this man?"

"My lord, I have already found out yesterday that he is the jailer in charge of guarding Xia Qixuan." Dali Temple Qing cupped his hands with hatred in his eyes, "He was the one who lent Xia Qixuan his sword and helped him burn the prison."

If he hadn't left this person to tell the truth by himself, he should have killed him if he caught him last night, Dali Siqing clenched his fists tightly, his fingers turned bluish white, and his face was ferocious.His official career was going well, but he was ruined by this jailer. He really deserves death!
The jailer was beaten bloody, and when he came in, he lay on the ground like a dead dog, gasped and looked up at Xia Shengqing, and suddenly laughed, "I am a traitor, I humiliate the royal family's children, I was favored by the prince, I should send him away with dignity Even the dead body cannot be sent to the hands of treacherous people to be humiliated."

After saying that, he spat out a mouthful of blood, the prince in his mouth was naturally Xia Qixuan, and he had already explained the matter clearly in a few words, he was a favored person, and he came here specially to repay his favor.

All the civil and military officials facing upwards lowered their heads, looked at their noses, noses, noses, and hearts, pretending not to hear what he said. Although most of them were dissatisfied with Xia Shengqing's control of the government, they dared not speak out.The jailer accused him in front of his face, he was really desperate
But looking at his miserable appearance, they can understand to some extent, it doesn't mean that they don't want to die, it means that if they survive, they are also useless.

(End of this chapter)