Chapter 473: Daye's Biggest Troublemaker
Xiao Jinxuan lowered his eyes, feeling very depressed, "My mother was poisoned to death."
Exactly the same as what the mysterious man in the palace told him.
Even when she was buried, she was covered with thick powder, but it was difficult to hide the obvious stains of the poison.
Xie Zhuoning couldn't understand. Since Xiao Jinxuan's mother was poisoned to death, why didn't the late emperor investigate and find the murderer?
At that time, Concubine Jing was the most favored concubine in the harem. After her death, she was buried in a crystal coffin and elixir of immortality that were only used for the empress. This shows that the late emperor had feelings for Concubine Jing.
However, Concubine Jing died so strangely and quietly that the late emperor did not investigate the matter thoroughly. He was afraid that the murderer's identity was very unusual.
Under the circumstances at the time, there were only three people who dared to poison Concubine Jing and yet the late emperor was unable to deal with them.
The Empress Dowager at that time, Empress Dowager Yin, and Emperor Shunde himself.
Emperor Shunde had passed away long ago, but at least Empress Dowager Yin and the Grand Empress Dowager were still alive.
If you want to know the real cause of Concubine Jing's death, you probably have to start with these two.
"Xiao Jinxuan..."
As soon as she opened her mouth, she heard Xiao Jinxuan say, "Tomorrow I will go to Fu'an Temple to meet Queen Mother Yin."
It was obvious that the two of them were thinking alike.
"But Queen Mother Yin may not tell you." Xie Zhuoning said.
"It doesn't matter." Xiao Jinxuan's eyes were dim, "I will find a way to make her speak."
Seeing that he knew what was going on, Xie Zhuoning said nothing more and just put his clothes aside. "Take a shower quickly, the water is getting cold."
Xiao Jinxuan took off all his clothes. You couldn't notice it when he was still wearing clothes, but once he took them off, his muscles were smooth and elastic, and he looked so beautiful.
He went down into the water and let the heat wash over him.
Xie Zhuoning stood behind him and rubbed his head. "How is Yi Ziyan? Did he really commit suicide for the Prince of Yong?"
"Yes." Xiao Jinxuan closed his eyes and nodded gently, "I found a place with mountains and water for them. I hope they can be an ordinary couple in the next life."
He could understand Yi Ziyan's decision.
After all, when he thought Aning was dead, he actually felt that this world was so boring.
Fortunately, she is still here.
Xie Zhuoning's hand was suddenly grabbed. She was startled and reached out to pat him, "Stop making trouble."
"Let's take a shower together." Xiao Jinxuan opened his eyes, dark clouds gathered in his eyes, full of lust.
Before Xie Zhuoning could object, she was pulled into the bathtub, splashing a huge amount of water.
The skin sticks to each other, and the burning breath lingers.
The two of them made noises all the way from the bathtub to the bed, and in the end Xie Zhuoning couldn't even lift a finger, so Xiao Jinxuan had to fetch water to clean her body.
By the time the two of them lay side by side in bed, it was already late at night, but Xie Zhuoning saw that Xiao Jinxuan was in high spirits, with a wolf-like look, and it seemed that he was not sleepy at all.
Xie Zhuoning: "..."
He doesn't want to sleep, right? Well, then don't sleep at all.
She immediately started talking, "Xiao Jinxuan, a lot of things happened in the capital during the time you were away."
Cheating in the Spring Examination, Shen Xiang and Murong Yan were imprisoned, Xie Zhiqing was murdered, and the third place winner He Mingyang turned out to be Xie Heng's illegitimate son...
"I saved He Mingyang and his son, and it was Xie Heng who spoke up and told me the real owner of Qianjinlou. You will never guess who it is."
Xiao Jinxuan propped his head with one hand and looked at her without blinking, "It's Princess Jing'an."
"Huh?" Xie Zhuoning was a little surprised, "You knew?"
Xiao Jinxuan's eyes were deep, "Why do you think I went to find you without even changing my clothes after I returned to the capital and heard that you went to Princess Jing'an's mansion?"
In fact, their family had already shown signs of being in trouble very early on.
When he was being hunted down and was found by Xie Zhuoning in a Buddhist temple, everyone thought that he was being hunted down by the King of Yong because he stole the job of receiving the Western Chu envoys. But in fact, after investigation, he found that those assassins were not from the hands of the King of Yong.
As he continued his investigation, a woman who looked very similar to Xie Zhuoning was assigned to him, intending to imitate Xie Zhuoning to seduce him and divert his attention. However, he and Xie Zhuoning were in private contact at the time, and the only person who knew about their relationship was Jiang Yao.
Later, Princess Jing'an took the initiative to help the prince design to get Aning, in order to make Aning and Marquis Zhenyang completely resent the prince because of this matter and become estranged from the prince.
Later, when Qianjinlou was searched, Yan Hongyue took the initiative to reveal her identity and eliminated all of Prince Yong's trump cards, even including the blood letter identifying the Minister of War Huo Wei at the time. This should have been the evidence that Yan Hongyue deliberately pretended not to have seen and left to them.
In fact, up to this point, he had never thought about Princess Jing'an.
It's not that I don't have it, it's that I don't want to doubt her.
Princess Jing'an often went to Yuntai Mountain to worship Buddha, and sometimes she would stay with the Empress Dowager for a while. She was especially caring towards her younger brother.
It is said that an elder sister is like a mother. He is not much older than Jiang Yao, so Princess Jing'an often treats them both as her own sons.
That was one of the few times he could feel his mother's love.
But sometimes, he can't escape even if he doesn't want to.
When he captured Yi Ziyan, he met Jiang Yao on the way. He said that he sneaked to Chuncheng to buy a white jade Guanyin as a birthday gift for his mother. He didn't even bring a servant with him and he had no money. If he hadn't met me by chance, he might not have been able to return to the capital.
He called out "Uncle" with a smile on his face, and tried to find out who he had captured. However, when they set out on their journey, what awaited them was an assassination attempt that had been planned for a long time.
Every move was murderous and went straight to Yi Ziyan.
It was not for any other reason, but because Yi Ziyan had the list of Qianjinlou's other halves, and he wanted to wipe out the roots.
Xiao Jinxuan laughed at himself, his expression somewhat sad, "He thought the excuse he made up was perfect, but since he went to Chuncheng to buy the White Jade Guanyin, how could he know that you had promoted me to be a concubine in the capital?"
But he didn't want to make a fuss, so he didn't expose him.
From then on, he asked people to pay special attention to the actions of the Princess Mansion and the Duke's Mansion. Unexpectedly, he found that the Princess Mansion and the Duke's Mansion had been absorbing the descendants of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty for their own use over the years.
On the one hand, they played tricks on the Crown Prince and Prince Yong and led them to fight among themselves, while on the other hand, they continued to strengthen themselves in secret and absorb the troops they had cultivated.
Today, it has become a force that cannot be ignored.
His sister is the biggest troublemaker and traitor in Daye.
His most beloved nephew stabbed him in the back countless times.
Even his best father and grandmother might be the murderer of his mother.
His life was a joke.
Xie Zhuoning stretched out his hand and rubbed his brow, his eyes filled with heartache, and he couldn't help but hug him tightly, "Xiao Jinxuan, you still have me, and we still have each other."