"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you and wish you the best!" Jiang Bairen knelt down and saluted Zhong Zhiheng.
"Okay, get up," Zhong Zhiheng said slowly, picking up the chess pieces on the chessboard and asking Jiang Bairen slowly, "Did Prince Hui leave the capital smoothly?"
"Your Majesty, everything went smoothly for Prince Hui to leave Beijing, but..." Jiang Bairen paused, raised his head carefully to look at Zhong Zhiheng's face, and then whispered, "It's just that Prince Rong saw Prince Hui off at Shili Pavilion."
"Oh? How did you send it?" Zhong Zhiheng was obviously a little surprised. He held a black piece in his fingers and looked at the chessboard again and again, while looking at Jiang Bairen leisurely, "Tell me about it."
"Yes," Jiang Bairen bowed and said, "Prince Rong was waiting at the Shili Pavilion early in the morning. He prepared a banquet in the pavilion, waiting for Prince Hui and his party. When Prince Hui and his party arrived at the Shili Pavilion, Prince Rong sent someone to invite Prince Hui to the mountain. Then the two of them sat alone in the pavilion for half an hour, and then the two said goodbye. Prince Hui went down the mountain, the motorcade continued to move forward, and Prince Rong also returned to the capital."
"So what did they talk about?" Zhong Zhiheng asked slowly, "Aren't they always on edge? How could they talk calmly for such a long time?"
"Please forgive me, Your Majesty. Shili Pavilion is deserted and is located halfway up the mountain. There is no place to hide, so the Royal Guards could not eavesdrop on the conversation between Prince Hui and Prince Rong at close range," Jiang Bairen said. Seeing Zhong Zhiheng frown, he hurriedly added, "But the Royal Guards who were sent to follow Prince Hui reported that Prince Hui and Prince Rong had a very pleasant conversation. In the end, Prince Hui personally poured wine for Prince Rong. After the two drank together, Prince Hui went down the mountain. The two remained calm and there was no conflict."
"This is a strange thing," Zhong Zhiheng said calmly, while putting the chess pieces into the Go jar, he said slowly, "But it's easy to understand. After so many years of fighting openly and secretly, one of them suddenly lost. The winner must feel lonely, and the loser must leave a way out for himself. This makes the two of them feel sympathy for each other."
Jiang Bairen didn't understand what Zhong Zhiheng meant. He just vaguely realized that Zhong Zhiheng's attitude towards Prince Hui and Prince Rong was lukewarm. This made him feel very puzzled. The Emperor had driven Prince Hui out of the capital, so didn't he want to make Prince Rong the crown prince?
"By the way, how is the investigation going at the Qin Mansion?" Zhong Zhiheng suddenly asked again, "Did Qin Lu's only son, Qin Chong, really die in Southern Xinjiang?"
"Your Majesty, there has been no news from Southern Xinjiang, but in my opinion, Qin Chong must have died in a foreign land," Jiang Bairen said with certainty. "Among the letters found in the Qin Mansion that night, there was a suicide note Qin Chong sent back to the capital. In the letter, he described the abuse and humiliation he had suffered from the Xu family over the years, as well as the torture of being poisoned. He was living a life worse than death. He had originally wanted to come to the capital to see his parents for the last time, but because of the demise of the Xu family, he has been away for more than a month. "Unable to get the slow-release antidote, the pain was too much to bear, so he chose to commit suicide and sent a suicide note back to the capital," Jiang Bairen said, and suddenly remembered something, and then said, "It was around the time that this suicide note was sent to the capital that Qin Lu and Madam Qin began to become weaker than before. Qin Lu's hair turned white almost overnight, and Madam Qin cried all day and couldn't get out of bed. At that time, I was wondering what happened in the Qin Mansion, until I saw this suicide note, and then I suddenly realized it."
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